Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/10 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Bench Archer? Trade Junis? Add Pearce?

Episode Date: April 10, 2018

Dylan Bundy and Jake Junis were great again last night (1:40). How much are we buying these two? Should you look to sell? Is it time to buy Steve Pearce (5:45) after his third straight game with a HR? And which bullpen developments caught our eye yesterday (7:16)? ... Xander Bogaerts replacements (17:15), last night's dominant aces (24:35) including a rising Zack Godley, and another debate about starting Chris Archer on the road (26:33) ... Dropometer (36:30) for Yoan Moncada, Jason Kipnis, Kyle Schwarber and more. Worryometer (42:48) for Jon Gray, Jose Ramirez, Alex Bregman and more. Plus Team Name Tuesday (47:10), more SP talk and a look at today's games (57:05) ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Right, Jake June, it's Bill and Bundy. Awesome stuff. Steve Pierce is home for the three straight games. I have a new segment called sarcastic advice of the day. And guys, I would say we've got a very, very strong crop of Team Name Tuesdays. Welcome to the show on Team Name Tuesday, April 10th, Adam Heath. And working from home today with his dog in the background and a very long beard. Chris Towers, hello, Chris.

To be clear, the dog doesn't have a long beard. That's right. I have a long beard. Why are you both, like, rocking these big stupid beards? What is happening? I'm just trying to see how long I can go until somebody tells me to shave, either somebody at work higher up than me or my wife. Frank. I will have you know I just had my beard trimmed.

It is not a big stupid beard. It is a well-shaped beard. I have not trimmed my beard since Christmas, probably. Oh, well, that's, yeah. It doesn't look bad. You look a little like Brian Wilson. So baseball reference right there. All right, let's get to the standouts.

I still want to clean up a little bit of what we missed yesterday with some of the weekend starting pitching performances. And maybe we'll get some shortstop replacements for Sandra Bogartes, who's out 10 to 14 days, kind of dodged a bullet there. All right, so Dylan Bundy and Jake Junis, both went seven innings, gave up a combined two runs. Junis was scoreless, had a no-hitter into the seventh. Bundy struck out 10.

Junis struck out three. Bundy had 19 swinging strikes. Junis had six swinging strikes. Look, they're a different caliber right now, but both off to great starts. And kind of interesting that they don't really throw that hard for a right-handed pitcher this day and age. Heath, let's start with you. How much are you buying Dylan Bundy? How much are you buying Jake Junis?

I'm buying both at a certain level. I don't think the cost is still anywhere close to the same for, between the two. So I'm buying Bundy in so much that he probably deserves to be into my top 40 starting pitchers now. I'm buying Junis to the extent that I think that until something goes wrong, you need to start him. Chris, your thoughts?

I guess the question for me is going to be, is there a reason to think Dylan Bundy won't keep throwing his slider 25% of the time? He threw it 27 times on 101 pitches last night and got 12 swinging swingings. strikes. That's been the case for him. When he was throwing it a lot early last season, he was really good. When he was throwing it a lot late last season, he was really good. For some reason, there was about a three-month stretch in the middle of last season where he just stopped throwing his slider much, and he was bad. So it's probably as simple as that for me. If there's any reason to think he won't keep throwing it, I'm going to be worried. But for now,

I really like what he's doing. Would you take either of these guys over Johnny Quato? No. I don't think I would, but Dylan Bundy's getting close. I think you can make an optimistic case to take Bundy over Quato in a roto format. I don't think there's any chance I could in points. Are you going to be looking to sell Bundy or Junis? I feel like Junis is going to be getting a lot of hype in the next few days in the fantasy baseball world, and I think it's a good opportunity to sell high.

not getting strikeouts. He's not getting swinging strikes. I actually don't think his stuff is that bad. His breaking ball is pretty good. But right now, it's just, it seems like we're getting a lot of luck from him. And if people start thinking that he's like a top 50, top 40 starting pitcher, I would look to move him. See, I think 50's fair. And he's trying to go a difficult route. We were hoping in spring that we were going to see a lot more strikeouts.

And there were strikeout titles were okay in the first game. I think top 50 is completely fair. Okay. If you get into the top 40 range, then yes, sell quickly. There are just, there are pictures with similar skill sets on better teams, is my way of looking at it. Yeah, the Royals are terrible, right? Well, that's the one thing that benefits, Junis. They are terrible.

I think they're going to lose 90 games. You're not trying to argue that they're good. The one thing they've been good at so far this season, and it was kind of a question mark with Lorenzo Kane leaving, is the defense for Kansas City is still elite. They have caught the highest percentage of fly balls and line drives this season. If Junis gets to pitch half of his games in that park in front of a good defense, he's probably going to be top 50. Okay. Well, we got a good Jake Junice team name coming up.

Other standouts from Monday. What do you got for me, Heath? Who stood out to you? Well, I was most excited to talk about Jake Junice. You just kind of stole my thunder. You can steal some of mine. I put some standouts right there in the notes for it. You can just copy off my paper.

Just copy off your paper. I think I have to move Zach Godley up again. Scott was extremely excited about him coming into the year, and he has been – now it was at San Francisco, so that helps a little bit, but he's been awesome. Yeah, another righty who doesn't throw all that hard, but I guess it doesn't always matter. But breaking the mold a little bit. Zach Godley was among the aces who were just unbelievable yesterday, seven scoreless innings, 20 swinging strikes, nine strikeouts at the Giants.

Can we talk about Steve Pierce, 3% owned? He is homered in three straight games. Chris, how own should Steve Pierce, Blue Jays outfielder, Steve Pierce be? 22%. That's way too high. If he was playing every day, I actually, I think Steve Pierce is a good hitter. And he's got, is he just outfield eligible right now? Yeah, I want to see him play second base, but he's not.

He's been second base in the past, and that would be pretty helpful. But the question for me is just playing time. He doesn't really have it consistently right now. I think it's an easy path for him to get it. Gritchick off to a terrible start. He snapped at 0 for 26th streak. Granderson's actually off to a good start, but he'll probably sit against lefties. And then I don't know if they would play him at second base, but I suppose they could.

But I feel like if you believe in Steve Pierce to the point where he should be 22% owned, okay, like not completely buying in, there should be room for playing time there. And he's been hitting at the top of the order for the Blue Jays. Yeah, he hit fourth yesterday. And to add some context to this discussion, Devin Travis has a 289 OPS. And Aledmus Diaz has a 519 slugging, but he's hitting 222 with zero walks.

I just don't, I mean, I think part of the reason that Pierce has been elevated a little bit as a majority of his played appearances, like teams put him in good spots against lefties. Against righties, he's been a below-average hitter for his career. Okay. So I don't know how excited I would get even if he got the everyday playing. time. I just don't think it's going to last. Chris, how about you? Do you have a standout for us?

You know what? He blew a save last night, but I think Matt Albers is currently the Brewers Closer. He got the save opportunity. And it wasn't, he didn't pitch poorly. I was watching the game. There was a line drive off his glove that went for a hit. There was a Colton Wong's Sacrifice Bunt that ended up just dying right in that no man's land between the pitcher and third base. so the bases were loaded there.

He would have gotten out of the inning if either of those two things, if either of those two balls had turned into outs. And then they left him in in the 10th inning to get the win, to close out the game. So I think that's the guy to own for now. I wrote about that in the way of where I call him today. I mean, it's kind of funny because, you know, I was trying to make the case that Jacob Barnes didn't pitch that badly

when he blew the save on Saturday because he gave up two infield singles, and there was an error behind him. And that's exactly what happened to Albers, no error, but two infield singles. And he did blow the save. But it was weird because on Saturday, yeah, Barnes got the save chance. Albers had pitched the day before. Today, or yesterday, rather, Barnes got two outs in the eighth, and Albers came in for the save in the ninth. So we'll see what happens.

And I do think it was, like Chris said, encouraging that they let him go out and pitch the 10th after they took the lead off Greg Holland. And he threw a scoreless 10th, got the win. So he got a blown save and a win in the same game. Albers is 16% owned, Barnes is 26% own. Chris says that Albers is the guy to own Heath. Who would you rather own, Albers or Barnes? And it does appear that it is not Hater, who was awesome, but he pitched before those two. He's just kind of like what we talked about with the Astros yesterday.

Those guys are just two valuable teams. The smart teams have figured out to move into the closer role. I'm going to go with Albers. I do think his performance, while they both had a blown save, his wasn't near as much his own doing. But two infield singles and an error. I understand, but he also had two walks and zero strikeouts. It's one intentional walk. I agree with you.

I'm just kind of busting your... Speaking of that game, we should just mention Greg Holland. Yes. Looked like he hadn't pitched yet this year. Which is weird. Four walks. He issued four walks. Again, one intentional.

But four walks then blew the game. He took the loss. The base is loaded. Walked in the tying, or the, yeah, the tying run for that one. No, go ahead. He came in in a 4-4 game in the 10th inning. You're right. You're right.

All right. So, you know what? Let's jump ahead to the bullpen here since we're on the subject. Holland, terrible. Albers, we talked about. Ken Giles. They brought him in for one out. Chris Dvinsky got the first two outs of the ninth in a one-run game.

Two-nothing game. And they kept Dvinsky in because Dvinsky is great against lefties, even though he's a right-easy. So they had him face the lefties. Giles comes in with, I think, a runner on third, nearly gives up a two-run home, or ball goes just foul off Byron Buckson's bat. Then Giles gets the save. He gets a ground out. Alex Colome struggled again, but he got his save.

I don't know who they'd replace him with. Soria pitched in a non-save situation, probably just getting some work-hand pitched in four days. Blake Parker did throw a scoreless eighth inning, but he pitched a scoreless eighth inning in a five-run game, up by five. so that was not a save chance for Blake Parker. And then I don't think anything here, Andrew Miller and Archie Bradley got saves. Probably Cody Allen not available. I don't know why Brad Boxberger wouldn't have been available, though.

He pitched on Sunday, but that was his only appearance over his last three days. So that was a little strange. But I think a lot of interesting developments in the bullpen, we already talked about the Cardinals and Brewer. So first of all, should the Greg Holland owner be like, oh, maybe I should pick up Gregerson? Anything else? No.

Okay. Well, anything else that you guys see with Giles, with Colomay, with Soria, with Parker, with Miller, or with the Indians, and with the Diamondbacks? I'm not sure what's going on with Ken Giles. His velocity isn't down. He just hasn't been very effective early on, but he's gone through stretches like this,

so I'm not ready to worry about that yet. And speaking of the raise, I think, I think if Colomé was to lose the job, maybe Jose Alvarado would be the guy. He throws really hard. Lefty, so there's some concern there, but that'd be the guy I'm targeting in their bullpen. Yeah, when I did my rankings update yesterday, I did drop Giles a few spots. It's not out of that range of closers that I feel pretty decent about, but he was too close to the top.

Yeah, I look for Brad Peacock. Brad Peacock, unfortunately, is owned every, you know, in many, many leagues. So I'm not sure you can get the handcuffed to Giles, and Peacock got the save on Sunday. But I think the Blake Parker thing is interesting. Maybe they're just trying to get him going a little bit. He has been scoreless in three of his last four appearances, but guys, if Keenan Middleton is out there, how much do you want to pick him up? I'm not super enthused about it.

Why? I think he might be the closer. He might be the closer. I don't, I haven't lost enough closers this year to where I'm just out there looking on guys that might turn into the closer. Here's a thing. I do find that closers have the most overinflated value of any position. So if you play in a league where saves are scarce and you can get a guy that becomes a closer,

you can trade him or you can trade one of your other closers. And yeah, sometimes you don't want to waste your time dropping a good player for an excess closer. I get that. But I don't think it's a bad idea to stock up. Yeah, for me, it's just I'm at that point in the season where there's too many guys that I still want to stash to see if they can turn it around. Like you mentioned Randall Gritchick's been off to a bad start. I still want to give him a chance. And I wouldn't necessarily drop him to speculate.

on someone who might become the closer who, you know, like, Middleton, he looks okay, but he's certainly not someone that I expect to be lights out. Like the strikeout rate's pretty good, but he's giving up a ton of home runs in his career. So I'm not ready to speculate on those guys yet. I just don't think there's that much value in it. All right, we have to have a very important intervention in about a minute. But right now we have to tell you about something else that's very important. It's the Seat Geek app.

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Good for you. Good for you. I'm sure it will get you the best price. Now let's have an intervention. Heath, this is scary stuff. It is Tuesday, April 10th. It was about 905. A.m. Chris Towers was

eating breakfast. He was having a chocolate chip cookie and what, like a what were you having a Capri Sun? A Kool-Aid Jammer's fruit juice box. I mean, he's a death wish.

It's time for an intervention here. Yeah, I mean, just glad to hear there was no Diet Coke involved. We were, so my explanation is we were babysitting this weekend and we had a bunch of juices, and then I made cookies last night. And, like, really, is a chocolate chip cookie that much different than most breakfasts? Like, is that really worse than a pancake drizzled with syrup and butter?

No. No. I'm really worried about the doughnut. Have an energy board. I'm worried about the juice. I have lots of energy. The juice box is the bad one. There's a lot of sugar in there.

Oh, it's better than the Diet Coke. I don't know about that. No, I think these things are healthy. They're for kids. You can't make unhealthy things for kids. Okay, yeah, I stay corrected. It's got fruit right on the cover. Oh, oh, okay.

Well, I'm worried about you, so just, you know. But yeah, the Diet Coke's probably best to wean yourself off of that. Here is your sarcastic advice of the day. Everybody pick up Felipe Vasquez. Right? L-O-L. L-O-L? What's the joke?

Felipe Rivera changed his last name to Felipe Vasquez. What? Yeah. For real? This kind of thing happens. This is for real? I didn't hear about that. Felipe Rivera, I'm going to double check.

Yep, change his name to Felipe Vasquez. That's happened. Like, Fausto Carmono became Roberto Hernandez, right? Well, that was like a fake name. Right? Didn't John Carlos Stanton used to be Mike Stanton? Yep, yep. And there was one more.

More I'm trying to think of. Oh, God, I just had it. Yommer Sanchez. Was any Carlos Sanchez? He was, he was Carlos. Yeah, there have been a few of those. I don't know what's going to happen on CBSports.com, but if you're looking at your team and you see you have Felipe Vasquez instead of Felipe Rivera,

don't freak out. You have the same talented lefty. All right, the big news. Let's take a look at some short-term Xander Bogart's replacements. He is out 10 to 14 days with a small fracture in his ankle. Do any short stops come to mind for you, fellas? I mean, the first name I thought about this. Go ahead.

That was awesome. It's really good to be able to, yeah. The first name that came to my head was Tim Anderson, but he's, everybody bought in. I think he was 80% owned when I checked yesterday. So that's only going to be available in the most shallow of leagues. And I'm not even sure that I'd want Tim Anderson starting for me in the most shallow of leagues. So, yes, but I did write about this yesterday.

as Drew Bull Cabrera and Ahmed Rosario are both under-owned. Both had a pretty decent game last night. Rosario still has a ton of potential, and Cabrera has just been overlooked for like two and a half years now. Yes, yes, I agree. I tried to get Scott to draft as Drubal Cabrera in the 16-team league. He was not interested. I've said it so many times he has second base, third base,

and shortstop eligibility. And he bats clean up or he bats leadoff. He bets. You know, Rosario unfortunately bats ninth for the Mets. but as Drewbles right there in the mix of it, he's 45% owned. He's less owned than Dansby Swanson. I know Swanson's off to a good start, but he has one walk, seven strikeouts, probably. That was actually the name I was going to bring up.

Okay. You know, before the season, he was someone that I did actually draft in a few leagues, just because he was the number one prospect in baseball not that long ago. He's had, you know, he was bad last season, but he was pretty good in his major league debut in 2016. I just, let's not give up on that talent quite so quick. And now that he's off to a good start, yeah, he's someone I want to add. All right, well, who would you rather have? Could Cabrera or Dansby Swanson?

I would probably rather have Dansby Swanson right now. Heath? I would definitely rather have Cabrera. Mostly, and this is maybe a wrong way of looking at it, but Santer Bogart's going to be back in two or three weeks. I'm not going to play two short stops. I think Cabrera is going to be better in the short term, so I, that's what I'm banking on. Okay, yeah, that makes sense, too.

Also, got Nick Ahmed on the list. You want to look deeper. Nick Ahmed, 20%, Dixon Machado, 7%. Eduardo Escobar, 34% owned. Shortstop eligible now. Franklin Barreto. I don't think I've talked about that, but they called up Barreto. He could play in the outfield a little bit.

Any interest in Franklin Barreto, guys? I think we should be, yeah. I mean, he was bad last season when he got the call, but a pretty good prospect, Scott, I think, still had him in the top 40 fantasy prospects coming into the season. Is he going to play every day? That's the question. And let's keep it on him.

I don't think he's someone you want to add as your Xander Bogart's replacement. He's someone you want to add maybe in a deeper league where you're looking for some upside. All righty. That is Oakland shortstop, potentially outfielder. Franklin Barreto. More news. Lorenzo Kane kicked Jose Martinez's foot. in a very awkward play was an accident.

Martinez has a bruised Achilles, and Cain has a sore quad, and Martinez's injuries seemed a little more serious. Do we have any updates on them, and how long this might be for Martinez and Kane? I haven't seen anything. Yeah, it could move Carpenter to first base and sort of temporarily ruin his chances of gaining second base eligibility. So keep that in mind. Anthony Rizzo's on the DL.

He is eligible to return in six days. I want to point one thing out about the Anthony Arrizzo injury is Victor Caratini has played third base three times this season started. He's a catcher. He's going to play pretty regularly moving forward, at least for the next week or so, and has around an 800 OPS in the minor leagues. I think if Wellington Castillo wasn't around, he'd probably be somebody that we could talk about as a starting caliber catcher.

At least for the next week or so, he could be useful. Yeah, I think you said Caratini is playing third base. first base dummy for the Cubs. No, I said first. Heath? I heard absolutely 100% that he was playing third base. Yeah, you said third. Interventors have another intervention.

Victor Kerci is playing first base guys. Okay, so he will not be third base eligible. Yeah, right, exactly. Rue D'Adnor, it looks like he is probably going to go on the deal with a hamstring strain, which is interesting. Jerks and ProFar did replace him yesterday, but I think even more interesting, Joey Gallo had been moved down in the order. He'd been batting second, but the last three games, Gallo's been fifth or sixth, and O'Dore had been batting second.

Maybe this gets Gallo up toward the top of the order more. They're trying so hard to find something to not start like this, I think, with O'Dore. I'm still interested in jerks and ProFar. Really? He is still only 25 years old, even though he made his major league debut 47 years ago. ProFar or Barreto? Who's a better Hailmare? Perretto. Yeah, yeah.

All right. The Angels, so their next three starters, beginning on Wednesday for the Angels, could be Jaime Barria, Nick Troppiano, and Andrew Heaney. Do you want to pick up any of these guys? I think Andrew Heaney's still pretty good if he's healthy. And we haven't seen a lot of that, but this was the top left-handed prospect in the game before he had Tommy John surgery. I want to see what he looks like. I actually did draft him in a handful of leagues very long. late.

So if he has a good start, I'm really interested. I think my problem is just figuring out who that's on your roster you might drop for Andrew Heaney because I don't have any problem speculating on him. And if he were to get healthy, he could be a valuable guy depending on matchup. But I have a hard time thinking of pitchers I'm rostering that I would drop for Heaney. Okay, well, maybe deep leagues. You take a look at Andrew Heaney. Alex Cobb is going to start for Baltimore at Boston on Saturday.

I don't suggest you start him there. Joey Votto did not want a Philadelphia Phillies fan to get a foul ball. It was pretty funny. You can look it up. I won't get it to do it. But Votto likes to play tricks. Because he's thrown the ball out of Wrigley Field a few times rather than give the foul ball to the fans. So I'm interested in what he did this time.

So last year he faked it to the Eagles fans or to the Phillies fans. He faked throwing it into the stands. This time there was a slow rolling ball up the first baseline, foul territory, heading toward the stands, and instead of letting it get to the stands where a fan could reach over the wall and pick it up, Vado hauls ass, runs out after the ball, picks it up himself, and keeps it and does not let the fan get it, and that he was smiling afterwards. Yeah, I think twice last year he just hurled the ball out of Wrigley Field. Yeah, he's awesome. And J.T. Ray Almuto was close to beginning a rehab assignment. Team name Tuesday from me keeping it Ray Almuto.

All right, fine. Fine. Fine. Coming up, Aces last night. Max Scherzer. Complete game shutout, 10 strikeouts. And he stole a base. Corey Klober. Eight scoreless innings, 13 strikeouts.

And he did not steal a base. Justin Verlander, seven scoreless innings, nine strikeouts. It's like we knew we had these aces going last night. Who would be the best one? I don't know. Scher, Klober, Verlander, they were all incredible. Cindergard was good. But he hasn't been quite great yet, even though, you know, four walks, 22 strikeouts, and 16 innings.

But Cindergarde has not thrown more than 92 pitches yet. He has not thrown more than six innings yet. And Cindergarde was pitching with two blisters on his hand. And then we have Zach Godley, seven score listings, nine strikeouts, 20 swinging strikes, has already mentioned. Scher, Klobber, Verlander, Cindergarde, and Godley were the five aces. And putting Godley in this group is, you know, is it deserved? I mean, look, I know he's not Scherzer and Klueber or whatever, but you kind of get the point. Is he close?

What's your take overall on these five complete studs last night? How about this? Zach Godley is better than Dallas Kichael. How about that take? In fantasy or in real life? In fantasy. I was going to go with his teammates. Robbie Ray.

I'm moving Zach Godley up and trying to decide if he goes ahead of Robbie Ray. and I might put him right behind Robbie Ray and see see how the next start goes but at least he doesn't walk five batters prouting. Yeah, I mean last year what we saw from him was a lot of a decent number of strikeouts, not necessarily elite but pretty good. More than a batter per inning, a lot of swinging strikes, a lot of ground balls, the development of that curveball has been really important for him minutes. It's both a swing and miss and a ground ball pitch. It's really good.

Well, yeah. So, okay, so Godley right there. Okay, I'll tell you what? I'll take Godley over Archer right now. Yeah, I will. No, just because Archer still has that elite strikeout rate in the giant, the big innings totals. I can feel a little bit of tension building on the Chris Archer situation. I think we're building towards about three weeks from now. He has a 4-4-ERA. and he's just had another six-running, three-run outing, and we're going to get another ERA matters. ERA does matter because this two years in a row where his ERA hasn't been good. And additionally, I want to give a hat tip to Steve. Steve from Toronto sent an email.

And he, you know, I brought up the issue of could you consider sitting Chris Archer in road games? And I would specify road games in small ballparks. And because over the last two years, in about 200 innings, 2016 and 17, Chris Archer has given up 37 home runs on the road. If you just look at his road starts. So Steve in Toronto broke it down. And he said in 2017, Chris Archer averaged 18.7 fantasy points per game at home and 13.5 fantasy points per game on the road. Five fewer fantasy points per game. And in 2016, he averaged 13.4 fantasy points per game on the road.

So 13.5 and 13.4 fantasy points per game on the road. That's not that good. Can I? Yeah. Well, I'll just finish up by saying, especially in a points league, like, he's not going to get a lot of wins. They're awful. He hasn't even gotten a quality start yet, although his first start against Boston was very good. A little more passion.

A little more passion. Well, I'm just saying, like, I just think Chris Archer, he's a little overrated, and I think you can sit in small ballpark. I would like to, you're welcome, Chris Archer fans and owners. We needed to have a little bit of a Chris Archer is overrated. Chris Archer is not a top 20 starting pitcher, and now he's going to catch on fire. A little overrated, and he's borderline top 20. Just to actually engage with the substance of what Adam's saying instead of just trolling. I'm not trolling.

I was trying to get Adam to go off on Chris Archer. Somebody's got to take some, give some. There we go. Okay. 13.5 fantasy points per start over 32 starts is 432 fantasy points. I'm pretty sure that would have made him a top 25 starting pitcher last year. That's fine. I am absolutely saying he's a top 25 starting pitcher. Absolutely. No, but that's just on the road. Yeah, right. He's a must start at home. On the road, like, I'm not, I don't think that it's an obvious start at Yankee Stadium against that lineup. I don't think it's an obvious start in Fenway Park against that lineup.

He's just, honestly, he gives up too many home runs, and his ERA has been high two straight years. His fantasy points on the road last year were comparable to the full season totals of U. Darvish, Trevor Bauer, Jose Cantana, and Lance Lynn last season. All guys who had had disappointing seasons and did not perform like plus starts. But that's him at his, that's him at the bad point. Those are guys you start. I know. I'm just saying I don't think that

at home, yes, he's an automatic start. And if you need strikeouts, then he's an automatic strike. But I'm only talking about it on the road. I am talking about that. Why can't we just accept that? You know, that maybe you sit him, he's homer prone. He gives up too many homers, and that hurts his numbers. I don't, why are you ignoring that?

Well, then sit him in categories leagues. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe, because he might screw up your area. But that's the only thing he's going to hurt you in, even if he does pour that. No, he's still going to get a strikeout. Archer's not a good whip guy. I think that we've given him a little bit of a free pass for the last two years. Because we know how talented he is.

I think you're also overstating the case. Let me tell you what he was. Okay, I'll tell you what he was last year, Chris Archer. I think it might surprise you how low he finished. Do do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. This is my whole music. It's the odd couple theme song for some reason. All right.

Chris Archer was number 30. He was a number 38 pitcher in fantasy last year. I mean, like... In Roto? Yeah, and both. He had a 402 ERA. He had a 1.2-4 wit. And he was 9 and 19.

That's bad. But honestly, I don't know that is one loss records. These are 2016 numbers. Yeah, what have been, yeah. No, I have him in... Oh, really? Yeah. He was 9 and 19 in 2016.

Last year he was 10 and 12. He had similar ratios, so it may not be a lot different because he didn't lose 19 games, which we shouldn't expect him to lose 19 games. He was the number 17 starting pitcher in points in 2017. All right, well, that's basically what I see him as, but Godly, I think, could be better than that. And more reliable. And honestly, like, I don't think that's sitting him on the road is such a bad thing. That means that you get the best of Chris Archer without the frustrating Chris Archer.

Well, but you may... It's not just sitting him, because you can't just take zero points. So you're going to be streaming his spot in the rotation, whenever he's on the road? No, not whatever. I don't think you're going to... Not whenever. And maybe you will. Some weeks, you can average 13, 14 fantasy points per game from your streaming starting pitcher.

It's not an unrealistic goal. But I don't think you can do it all season long consistently. Okay. Fair enough. Just wanted to get that out there. All right, I got a sneaky by low candidate for you. I want to know if you agree. But draft.

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com. Sneaky by low. Agree or disagree. Garrett Richards. That's all. Garrett Richards. Yeah, I thought you were going to give a case for buying him low. I think one could be made. I was considering it. Would you like me to? My problem with Garrett Richards remains the same. I was unconvinced at the beginning of the year that he was going to pitch deep into games regularly or at all. and he's only going to pitch once a week because of the six-man rotation. And I think that gives you a really small margin for error as a starting pitcher that's not a top 20 or top 25 guy. I think he's got top 10 talent for sure. I mean, what he showed in 2014 and 15, the problem is he's thrown 70 innings over the last two seasons,

or 60 innings over the last two seasons. And now he doesn't look right. and toss that in with the fact that he's only pitching once a week. And I just, I don't know how low you're going to be buying. If someone drops him, I'll definitely pick him up. I think the upside's there. But how low are we? I guess I'd rather have him than Jake Junis.

Yeah, well, I think you could easily make that trade right now if that's what you want. Oh, for sure. Yeah, I have Junice about six spots ahead of him, but they're in the same tierish range. Yeah, I don't consider Gary Richards a top 20 pitcher. But, you know, he's got, as of now, through three starts, He's got, what he says, a mechanical problem, his arm is dragging. And the walks are the issue right now. But one of the best ground ball rates of his career and a career high-swinging strike rate.

So if he can fix his mechanics and get the walks under control, he has 12 walks and 15 innings. You know, you look at his career and the walks per nine after his first two seasons, usually pretty solid, maybe around three, not a terrible walks guy. So I think he can get that fixed. That's my case, that I guess you look at the peripherals, which are a little. little, you know, after three starts, peripherals can be deceiving. But so far, the peripherals are good for Richard. She's just walking everybody, and I don't really think he's a walk guy. So that was my case for him as a by-low. But yeah, not as a top 30 guy. Definitely not.

And, like, a lot of his peripherals do look impressive. He's got a 5-7-pip, though. Why do you think that is? Because of all the walks? 12 walks and 15 innings. Which is terrible. Right. And that's just my point, is that I think that he says, mechanical. If he fixes it, then I think, you know, could be... Well, and also, not just the walks, even. He's been pretty fortunate on balls in play and in terms of sequence. He's got an 86% strand rate, 257 bad-up against.

All right. Let's get... All right, who is what we're going to do? We got 20 minutes left or so, 25 minutes. Got team name Tuesday to get to. We're going to look at some potential steel sources. Talk about the weekend stuff, like I mentioned, just some fringy starting pitchers. try to preview today's games, and I do want to read some emails. But first I got the drop-o-meter and the Wariometer, pronounced differently for some reason. The drop-o-meter, let's get 0 to 10. Are these guys drops?

93% owned, Yohan Moncada, who I will point out has not even attempted to steal and only stole three bases in 54 games last year. Yohan Moncada, where is he on the drop-o-meter? Zero. Two. Okay. How about on the steals o meter? Where is Yoam Mokada?

Zero so far. It's so weird. He was a guy who attempted like 70 steals per 150 games in the miners. And now he's just not going to run at all. I have a hard time buying that. So we'll see. I mean, it could be a philosophical thing with the team, but that doesn't make any sense because Tim Anderson came out and said they told me to run.

Right, right. It's also a situation where, I mean, he's got four singles all year long. He's got seven walks, so it's been on first base 11 times. Who knows how many times there was somebody on second? That's a lot of times that not have an attempt. And it's also last year, 54 games, five stolen base attempts, three steals. I agree that you can't drop Mokad. I mean, I want him in a Roto League.

There's no way I'm dropping him. But if he doesn't steal, then it's very disappointing. And it's concerning. Yes. All right, dropometer on Jason Kipness, 70% own. Nine? So I guess there's no... Confirmation bias?

I guess there's no carryover effect from spring training. Between Jason Kipness and Shohayotani, can we just kill spring training carryover effect ever? You can't kill it. You can certainly downplay it. But sometimes there is. But look, everybody on the Indians is struggling right now. So should that matter? You know, Lindor?

It's been really cold everywhere they've played so far, so that probably matters. So it's zero to ten. Zero to ten on Kipness. Five. Eight. I think at this point if you're holding on a Kipness, it's because you think there's upside, right? And I don't know that there's that much. I would like to know how much more is he owned than has Drupal Kibrera?

About, it was dribble's 45% and Kipness is 70. Yeah, I think all those people should probably drop Kipis for Kibbara. Ryan Zimmerman, 90% owned. The guy who basically skipped spring training. Did not take any Cactus league? No. Grapefruit League? Grapefruit.

At bat. Did he take like two at bats or something? He worked off on fields by himself, whatever. Ryan Zimmerman is off to a terrible star. He's batting 0-9-7. Dropometer. It's weird. Seven?

Yeah. I don't know. I don't know what's going. Nothing about him makes sense. The spring or this. And last year. Yeah. I mean, last year, at least we had the, like, oh, he changed his swing.

He was finally healthy. This year, like, he wasn't playing in spring games, but he was healthy. It just, nothing really added up there. Hey, had a 1382 OPS in his first 30 games and an 813 OPS in his last 114 games, Ryan Zimmerman, who plays a very deep position. So what was the number for Zimmerman on the job? Seven. Chris?

All right, Kyle Schwurber, 0 to 10 on the dropometer. One. I'm not dropping him. All right, let's keep an eye on if he plays against lefties. So far, he is one for eight with a double and three strikeouts, but he has played against two of three lefties, I believe. Luckily for him, everyone on the Cubs, most everyone in the Cubs has been awful. I think Cubs Indians was my World Series pick, and neither they can't hit.

Bold you! Cole Calhoun is 78% own 0 to 10. Four. Four? Yeah, five. Ten. Who the hell do you need Cole Calhoun for? Well, maybe because you have Kyle Schwerber on your bench and you're just waiting for him to do something.

And you're starting a guy who's batting 217 with one home run? It's 11 games. He's not that good. He's over-owned. We've got to look at, like, nobody owns. Nobody owns Cole Calhoun in a 10-team league. So we can't let that affect it. You'd drop him for chew, wouldn't you?

Yes, currently I would. All right. I think maybe people are hoping to see the home runs go up since they lowered the wall on right field. So if you want to wait a little and see if that happens, sure, for Cole Calhoun. Tyler Glass now, 27% owns, zero to ten. Eight? Yeah.

Yeah, I still believe. I want to see him get a rotation spot, but he doesn't have one. if you need to go add somebody, he's an easy drop. Do you think he's going to get... They have such a bad rotation. I think he'll get a shot at some point, but I also feel like the longer this goes with him just pitching a couple innings at a time,

the longer it's going to take to get him stretched out. Sure. Right. Yeah, they'll probably have to put him in the minors or something for a few weeks. All righty. Eduardo Nunez, zero to ten for Nunez. Zero. The home run was bogus. It was bogus.

It was not even a real deal. What? You remember it, Heath? That's 100% true. It was a very nice one run. Heath has no recollection of the home run. I tell you what. Most of the guys on this list don't score on that ball, but he's so fast that he did.

Eduardo Nudius, I don't even know if it was a single. I think it should have been it out. Actually, that I might be misremembering. But, yeah, he has a home run. It was an inside-the-park home run. It was stupid. He's off so bad start. Podreta.

Bogarts and Padreier are both out right now. They could be back within three weeks. I'm not dropping him. All right, he's a zero. That's fine. I was an easy one. Let's go to the Worryometer now. I don't think we need to put Chris Archer on here anymore.

So let's start. A hundred! Zero. Let's start with John Gray. John Gray with a bad start at Corse Field against the Padres. And last year he was a run better at home and he was on the road. If you look at ERA. Worryometer on John Gray.

Zero. Yeah, one. Okay. So, Bylow? I don't think you can. after a course start, but sure, if you could, I would buy low on him. I'd rather have John Gray than Jake Junis. It would rely on the person who owns John Gray not knowing who John Gray is.

You know, like that. I'm not sure that's a safe bet. Worryometer on Joey Votto. Negative 700.0. Worryometer on Francisco Lindor. Negative 700, zero. I'll just play devil's advocate. Good.

I'm not worried. about Lindor, I am worried that he's going to be able to hit as well as he hit last year, because it was really a 40-game streak where he had 10-57 OPS. He actually was disappointing for the first 119 games, 7-72 OPS, only eight steals. It is nice that Lindor already has three steals and four attempts. But I'm a little worried, and I was a little worried about this coming into the season. He's not going to live up to last year's numbers. I think there's some reason to be concerned about that.

On the other hand, he was weirdly unlucky in the first half last year. I think his babbip was really low. He was hitting a bunch of home runs, which wasn't really expected. And then in the second half, he ended up doing both. And that's why I'm kind of not worried about it. I do think Lindor is just a great player. He'll be awesome one way or the other. It'll be fine.

Yep. Jose Ramirez's Woriometer. Zero. I guess I'll say two just because he doesn't have the track record of some of the other guys last year was such an outlier for him. One thing Ramirez does have eight walks of two strikeouts, that's always a good sign when a player is struggling. And similar, Andrew Benintendi,

batting 161, nine walks, four strikeouts, but he's 0 for seven with three walks against lefties. Warriorometer on Benintendi. Zero, zero, zero. He has twice as many walks he does strikeouts, and he has a 185 babb. Okay. Depends.

Did I draft him 40th overall? Then I'm pretty worried. But I was worried that he was going to return value on that before. So this start hasn't really changed that for me. Alex Bregman, zero to ten. I mean, he got a walk off hit the other day. I don't know what we're worried about. I thought Chris was just going to say same.

No, I like Bregman more than Ben Intendee. So I'm less worried about him. That makes sense. I like the transparency. I could almost say same because he's got an 18% walking. rate 10% strikeout rate and a 200-bav-bav-b. Well, the big difference between Ben-intendi and Bregman for me is I think Bregman's a little faster and he doesn't have the lefty issues.

Andrew Ben-intendi, I think at this point, he has to prove he can hit lefties for me to believe it. Yeah, I think that could hold him back from being, you know, a true big-time breakout. He could still be really good if he just does what he normally does against Ritey's a little bit better. But, yeah, the lefty thing is interesting for Ben-inty. So for seven. People were drafting him ahead of Christian Yelich last season.

And I think you're hoping he develops into Christian Yalich. And then that's the thing for me. Is Christian Yelich has already proven he can do that against lefties? Ben Intendi hasn't. Okay, guys, I hope everybody is watching CBS Sports HQ. It is really proud of the guys and the girls, everybody, that put this together in the Fort Lauderdale office. CBS Sports HQ is 24-7 live streaming. sports information. Okay, it is news, scores, and highlights. It's all sports. Okay, it's very

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They came out swinging. They gave me a lot. Here we go. Anytime I say you, by the way, it's always a U-Darvish team name. This is a very grim one. You hap to nuke them. Very hawkish. All right, next one.

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Pretty good. Good batch. Good batch, everybody. No, there's solid work, everyone. I had just been Googling because of how old I am, but now I'm shocked in you, Azer. What, the 6-0-1? Yeah. I think it's okay.

I think it's acceptable. Look, most people didn't even know what it meant. Yeah. Two-thirds of the podcast, for sure. Did you think we've got some unlikely steel sources here? Dede Gagorius, two steals and three attempts. He stole three and four attempts last year. Noor and Aradado, one steal and two attempts.

Reese Hoskins, two steals. in three attempts. Dede, Aeronado Hossens. Do you think maybe we can get 10 to 15 for many of these guys? I doubt it. All right, I'm interested in Didi. Seems like he's picking up his game. Dude, he's got nine walks of three strikeouts.

Best player on the Yankees, just like we all said. It might be like a huge breakout. Or maybe just kind of backing up what he did last year. Okay, anyway, Craig Gentry had two steals on Sunday against the Yankees. He has three this year. Nick Goodrum for the Tigers. I don't think he's going to play much, but he has three steals. Rajay Davis, 8% old.

He started yesterday. He stole his second base. If you want steals, get Roger Davis. That's pretty much all I got there. Oh, don't leave the last one off. It's the one I'll agree with. Yeah, but it's obvious. Tim Anderson, he's got five steals.

How about one more who stole two bases last night? Who that? Malick Smith. If he gets an everyday job or something close to it, he's going to steal a lot of bases. He's got, I think, around 30 and about 500 plate appearances in his major league career. So there is legitimate stolen base upside there. He had four hits and two steals yesterday, huh?

Yeah. Yeah. We don't know if he can hit in the majors yet. He's a career 250 hitter. He strikes out too much for not having any power whatsoever. But if he can hit like 270, that'll play. Okay, fringey starting pitchers. Tell me who you like on this list, and let's speed it up.

These guys are owned in 65 to 79% of leagues. Kevin Gosman, Marco Estrada, Lance Lynn. Nice start yesterday. He did walk four, but five scoreless innings, nine strikeouts against the Astros, Lance Lynn. Gosman Estrada, Lynn, Julio Taran, surprisingly solid yesterday. Jake Faria. Ugh. Zach Davies, Michael Waka, Stephen Mats.

Who stands out? Definitely Lance Lynn, because he looked like a disaster. start of the season and the four walks in five innings is still going to catch up to him eventually Houston does have a lot of hitters that swing and miss but this is still really encouraging he's your favorite you rather have him over strad over gosman yeah oh wow lance lynn over kevin gossman huh i have not i've been pretty down on gosman most of the year i think okay so the astros have the second highest strike rate in baseball so far after having the lowest last year and after being, I think, the highest the year before.

I think they went worse to first, and now they're going back to worst. So do the Astros have a lot of players that strike out a lot? My question before the season, and I never really got an answer, was whether team-wide strikeout improvements to that extent tend to stick. Because we saw not just new players coming in, like Carlos Beltron and Josh Redick, who didn't strike out much, but also Carlos Correa, George Springer, guys like that really impressive. their strikeout rates. It's going to be interesting to see whether they can improve from

where they are right now or not. I hope Kevin Gosman can kind of break out this year. I know he was a trendy sleeper pick, but I just will caution. First of all, he was fine against the Yankees on Friday. Only struck out three, but didn't get crushed. Two runs in five innings. So bad in April. So be patient there. And Faria is 67 percent owned. He's off to a terrible start. I didn't mean to start him in one of my leagues, but I left him in my lineup. I hope maybe the commissioner will let me remove all of his stats, but probably not. The Tampa Bay Times said this about Jake Faria. Quote, there has been concerns since spring training.

Some implied, some whispered, that Faria 24 came in too casual, too cool, to something after the success he had after his June 2017 debut. End quote. Would you like to know something surprising about Kevin Gosman? Yeah. He was pretty good on Friday. He was all right. And he threw his splitter a bunch. Oh, good.

Funny how that works. Yeah. Remember, I stayed for 12 innings of that game out of 14. All right. I think I'm pretty much done with the pitchers. What do you think about Liriano and Urania? Liriano and Iranian. I like Liriano more because he's a spark.

And that's the only way I would use him. Before we get into today's games, let's read some emails. I haven't done a good enough job getting the emails in. We're getting a ton of them. So I hope you're all our patient listening till the end. This is an email from Trip. Grade the trade. Give Rizzo and Darvish.

Hates the Cubs. Give Rizzo and Darvish. Get Yelich, Sino, and Carlos Martinez. I like it. B plus. Thank you. I don't think you really know how to play the games that I put on here. Chris Towers.

So Rizzo and Darvich. Rizzo and Darvich for Sano, Yelich, and Carlos Martinez. I think Martinez and Darvish is pretty much a wash. I don't think I would trade... I don't think I'd trade Rizzo for Yelich and Sano. So no. I'll say C-minus. Email from Matthew.

Where would you rank Mike Minor in your starting pitcher ranks? Um, let's scroll down. Oh, he's not, he's not starting pitcher eligible. That's why. Right. I'm just, ah, 69. Okay. Nice.

Sixth O'Bidnight. And that's, that's, that's right at the Matt Harvey line. Yeah, I'd rather have him than that Harvey. Chris would probably rather have anybody than Matt Harvey. Can't say I blame you right now. Uh, I want to, okay, this is Mike from Hope Mills, North Carolina. I want to like Tyler Chavis. But the walks worry me.

Should I drop Tyler Chatwood for Sean Newcomb? Hey. Yes. John from Cincinnati. Hey, real quick, who would you rather own rest of season? Ozzy Albies or Ronald Acuna? Acuna. I don't know.

Acuna, I guess. I mean, like, Albies is doing it in the majors. Acuna probably has more upside. but like what's what's the context are you dropping osi albis no just a question who would you rather have a conundice has somebody offered you osi albies for ronaldivina i'm not as i'm supposed to answer that yeah i don't know i don't know all right uh this is why need a second baseman this is from rosenda uh i feel like this is an obvious question but should i look into dropping felix hernandez is it worth a shot hoping he can at least give me a three-something er a i think he can give you a

three-something ERA, but if there's somebody out there on waivers who you hope can do more like Sean Newcomb, I'd rather have him. Agreed. All right, listen, emailers. I'm going to try to take some time this afternoon to reply to a bunch of them. I do apologize for not reading more on the air. Let's get to today's games. Today's games is a hit segment.

More day games. We got Blake Snell at Carson Fulmer. Start either one of these guys? Snell at Fulmer? Start Snell. Yeah, I'm starting to Snell for sure. Yvonne Nova. Tyler Chatwood.

I'll start Chatwood. Yep. All right. Matt Boyd at Josh Tomlin. I will pass on both. Yep. Tomlin, sneaky? No?

I mean, he could have a fine start, but I don't see why you have to start him right now. He was available in a couple of different leagues, and he's a two-star pitcher this week, and I didn't even pick him up in that format. Reds at Philly is Homer Bailey at Aaron Nola. Start Aaron Nola. Okay. Mike Fultenevich at Steven Strasbourg.

Start Strauss? I don't think I'm starting Fulte. I know Fulte's had a nice start to the season, but he's still not getting a lot of swinging strikes, so I'm not buying it yet. All right, he did pitch very well against the Nationals last time out, but it is risque. No, just risky, not risque. Blue Jays Orioles, Aaron Sanchez at Andrew Cashner. I will start Sanchez. Big grudgingly. I mean, are you guys excited? excited for Yankees Red Sox, Severino, Chris Sale.

Are you excited for that? No. Like, if you're not excited. I'm excited to root for the Red Sox. If you're not excited about that, it's because you hate either the Yankees or the Red Sox or both. But as a baseball fan, yes.

As a baseball fan, how are you not excited for this game? I mean, it'll be fun to watch. Is this it, it's not at home for the Yankees? Stan will still get booed. Oh, yeah. Stanton's going to catch. There will be signs that say something about five strikeouts, I'm sure. I'm not overly excited about it, though. All right.

And I do hate the Yankees, so I think your hypothesis is correct. Jacob de Grom at Carson Smith. Grom, yes, Smith, though. Tyler Skaggs at Martine Perez. Skaggs, yes, Perez, no. Staggs, probably, yeah. All right, I'm sorry, I guess I jumped the gun. We're weirdly way bought in on Tyler Skaggs on this podcast,

and I'm not sure I'm on board. I feel like the Tyler Skaggs bandwagon has picked up a little bit too much momentum. And I just want to note that I'm not quite jumping on. I feel that. I like Tyler Skaggs, but I don't fully trust him. I don't know that it's a tough matchup, though. You know, a lefty going against the Rangers. Noodore, but kind of reduces Gallo a little bit.

Beltrae hasn't been hitting. I don't know. I have starting him, but to start with him. week. Dallas, Kyko, and Jake Oteresee. Caico, guess what about Oterreasy against the Stroes? Nope. Brent, Souter, Carlos Martinez. Start Suter? No.

More like Sitter. Yeah, I don't, it's not as bad a spot as he was in last week, because that's a good ballpark for the type of pitcher that he is, but probably not. Felix Hernandez, Eric Scoglund, or Scoglund? Yep. I don't mind starting Felix here. I know I'm very much in the minority on that one, but it's a good matchup. Yeah, it's a good matchup in terms of win potential.

It's a good matchup in terms of probably ratios. You probably won't get a lot of strikeouts, yeah. Nope. And Joey Lucchasey at Tyler Anderson, we're going to sit these guys at Cores. Sean Minaya at Junjin Ryu, interesting matchup here, guys. I'm starting Minaya. Yeah, I'll start Manaya. Diamondbacks and Giants.

Patrick Corbyn, Johnny Quato. Start him on board. Start them both. All right. Can't wait to talk about selling high on Quato after another good home start. That'll be three home starts for Quato after tonight. I'm actually trying to sell him before this game in case it goes horrible. I'm going to make it an offer very shortly.

Please do. For Chris and Heath, I'm Adam. Talk to you Wednesday. Great to trade.