Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/11 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Lucchesi Makes it Look Easy; Grade the Trade

Episode Date: April 11, 2018

Joey Lucchesi needs to be added (2:44)! What about Hyun-Jin Ryu? We discuss last night's standouts including Aaron Sanchez (7:35) and Scott Kingery (10:00) ... Plenty to discuss today: Should you add Nick Senzel (19:50)? Do we buy Hanley Ramirez (26:20)? Who should deep league owners be looking at (28:24)? ... Worryometer Wednesday (36:50) puts Dallas Keuchel, Miguel Cabrera, Joey Gallo, Adam Duvall and a few others on the Worryometer. We're also talking Double Dongs (47:05), Blake Snell's walks (48:24) and Patrick Corbin's strikeouts before we grade your trades (52:25) and preview today's games! ... 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

Scott's bummed about the humidor and pick your milk for breakfast cereal. Mount Rushmore. They'll be there for a chance. Happy Huff Day, everybody. Apparently it is team name Wednesday because Scott White is coming at you with a big time team name in about 20 seconds. I am Adam Azer with Chris Towers, but we don't care because Scott White has irrelevant team name, doesn't he, Scott? You built it up too much. This was just...

It's the best team... It's honestly the best team name I've ever heard. Lucchie at the back. Lucchie at the bat. Yes. Mic drop. I know what that noise was. For Scott White.

Welcome everybody. Adam Scott and Chris. Chris again from home with his dog. Your dog doesn't bark in the background. It's nice. I'm worried he might at some point because there's construction going on next door. And if he hears something that's something that's... sounds like a door, he's definitely going to bark.

So just, just be warned. It looks like a dog with like an ear piercing bark too. Yeah, you know. He's got a big, he doesn't bark often, but when he does, he barks big. We should have a little bet here. Like, if he barks, if he barks, I win. If he doesn't bark, Scott wins. We have to figure out what the terms are.

So, uh, okay. Yeah. Gentlemen's bet. Why, why do I have a, uh, like, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't. I didn't choose the side here. You're just assigning it to me. I'll let you choose. Bark or no bark.

Bark. All right. All right. That dog better shut up then because Scott is taking bark. So Lucasey and Junj and Ryu both about 30% own, both coming off eight strikeout over six innings starts with no earn runs. Lucasey two unurned runs. We'll talk about them. Aaron Sanchez, Florida with a no hitter.

We got to talk about Scott Kingery. We got to talk about the first baseman that leads all first basemen in steals. It's not Paul Goldschmidt. Deep League stuff. bullpen stuff and grade the trade a lot more than the O'O Worryometer Wednesday with Keiko, Mickie, Edwin Incarnacio, George Springer, etc. But grade the trade later on in the show

at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Grade the trade is a Wednesday staple, and I have decided to do a new teacher-themed theme song for every grade the trade. I will be trying to do that for the rest of the season. So that's 25 more, which could be tough. But I got one ready to go for today. All right, let's go to the stand.

out. So I think it's an easy question, but they are both owned in 30% of leagues. Who would you rather have? Joey, Lucchasey at the bat or Hyun Jin Ryu from Street Fighter? Lucchase is an easy call. If not just for the fact that he's young and more exciting and has a little bit of prospect hype behind him and Hyunji has been around forever. Also, what they did last night. Lukasey was more impressive. He did that. He went into course field through six shutout,

six good innings, no earned runs on 82 pitches with what, 16 swinging strikes. Yeah, 16. And he did that in course field, and he did that primarily as a fastball curveball guy. That's really impressive. For whatever reason, he is just hard to pick up.

Yeah, and that's a weird pitch. That curveball, it's like, I've heard it described as like a cherv. because it's like a change-up curve. Okay. Yeah, I mean, his minor league numbers were phenomenal last year. You could see why he didn't get a lot of prospect height because he doesn't throw especially hard,

but I am fully on board now. After dominating the Rockies and back-to-back outings, most recently, Coorsfields, he is must-at. I guess the only thing I can find negative to say about Lucasey is that he hasn't thrown more than 84 pitches in any start, and that's with pitching well each of the last two starts. but I don't care. That could obviously change.

So where is he with the other pitchers that we've added so far? Where's Lou Casey with Tyler Skaggs with Mike Fultenevich? They both pitched last night. Ahead of those two for me. Yeah? Yeah, ahead of them. I'd rather have Jake Junice. Because I liked Jake Junice a lot coming into the year,

and he's obviously done nothing to shatter that trust. But they're on about the same. same level. All right. I agree with that, yeah. Interesting. Well, I'd rather have, I think Sean Newcomb's probably a tier ahead of him

in terms of the guys that we've been talking about lately, but I think he's right in the next tier. Would you drop Faria for Lucchasey? Sure. Because, like, Faria's was the guy doing Luckecy things last year, right?

I think, you know, if that was what it took to get Luke Hacy on my roster, I think I'd do it. I'm not anxious to drop for Ria, though, just to be clear. Okay. And how about Riu, guys? He's 30% owned. Oh, yeah, you want to hear Team Scam Infighting? This edition of Team Scam Infighting, I picked up Yonjin Ryu.

We had a free roster spot, so I picked up Riu in the 16-team League, and, you know, whatever, no big deal. I don't know why he was on waivers. Well, I guess I do know. But he's not that great. And then there was somebody that we wanted to pick up that got dropped. I think it was Barnes, who we're not interested in picking up anymore. And Scott wanted to drop Ryu. Why are we not interested in picking up Jacob Barnes?

Dude, he's blown. He blew another save yesterday. What's the point? He didn't allow it. I'm not dropping Ryu for him. Come on. Look at the starters we have. When is Ryu ever going to break our line up?

When there's an injury. 16 team league can't be letting a guy like Junjury. Juni is reliable. So Scott would rather keep Jamer Candelario And I would rather keep Junjin Rio Yeah, it's an OBP league Kandallari is a good OPP guy I would probably rather have Ryu

Than Barnes I mean Barnes Could very well be the Brewers Closer For the next two months You know? Like There's every Albers blew the save yesterday Or two days ago, right?

But he said Barnes has now had two opportunities And he blew both of them Yeah. And Albers probably wasn't available yesterday. Like it was an inherited runner that scored, right? That was the blown save. I believe so. He walked two. He walked two and two-thirds of an inning, though. Yeah. And like that, he just hasn't shown it in the role yet. But somebody has to close. Scott, go pick them up, but don't drop Ryu. Do not even think about dropping Ryu.

Rue is our worst player. No, Candelario's our worst player. I mean Ryu had a 474. This is riveting, fellas. Okay, very few in-fitting. Team scammed infighting. Rews had a, whatever. Ryu's 30% only had a great start against the A's. I guess nobody's all that excited to pick him up.

And the A's are not, they weren't good against lefties last year. They had the six lowest OPS against lefties, and they so far have the second lowest OPS against lefties, probably down from where it was yesterday before the start. But maybe it was just a good matchup for Ryu. Aaron Sanchez, eight innings. one run, five walks and four strikeouts. So that's not good.

11 walks, 13 strikeouts on the season. What do you think about Aaron Sanchez right now? Would you be putting out some trade offers to get rid of him? As in so high? Yeah, I mean, I think about it. I don't feel like we've seen, we haven't seen Aaron Sanchez from two years ago yet. What I mean by that isn't just results-wise.

I mean, like, he's not pitching like he did two years ago. He threw like 50% changeups in this start, and that was a pitch he hardly featured two years ago. Like, if he has that much confident in the changeup, it's ultimately a positive development. It's, you know, he throws hard, he has a great sinker. At his best, he's one of the best ground ball pitchers in baseball, but he didn't get a lot of ground balls yesterday.

And obviously the walks were high in a way. that we don't necessarily expect going forward either. So I don't know exactly what to make of this. I mean, it is an opportunity to sell high, I guess, but I still see him as like a top 50 pitcher at worst. Yeah, the ground bar rate over the course of the three starts is still 55%. So that's still where you want it to be. The interesting thing for me when I look at him is throwing a change up more

should lead to more swings and misses, but he might not have to sacrifice too much ground. ball percentage by doing that just because the changeup tends to be a pitch that you can get grounders with. And so that that's an interesting development if he can continue throwing it for strikes. His swinging strike rate is up as well. Okay, so that's Aaron Sanchez. Who would you rather have, Aaron Sanchez or Joey Lucasey? Sanchez. Just checking. Oh.

I don't know. I don't know about that. Like, I wouldn't drop Sanchez. No. No. Well, okay, go ahead. I'll say Sanchez for now. We've seen Sanchez do a full-season Dallas-Kichael impersonation. Yeah, we had three ERA two years ago. We have. I know Heath would say Lucchasey.

So just to represent Heath here. Let's me know that Joey Lucasey is a higher swinging strike rate than Blake Snell and Robbie Ray so far. And Snell's interesting. We'll talk about him. Last guy I want to talk about. I'll turn it over to you guys is Scott Kingery, 83% owned. 42% started, grand slam and two strikeouts yesterday.

So far, 258, two home runs. Numbers look a lot better after two recent homers, but so far, so good for Scott Kingery. And again, 83% owned. Should it be closer to 100% for Kingery? You know, I actually dropped him as the guy who's highest on Kingery on this podcast. I actually dropped him in the podcast league. That's the 12th team, head-to-head points league.

So, you know, among the shallower leagues I play in. And it was just a roster crunch thing. Eduardo Rodriguez came off the DL, and I felt like having more capable starting pitchers was a bigger priority in this format. I wish I could still have Kingery because he's about to be triple eligible. He's a great guy to have on your bench in leagues like that

where your bench, you want it to be primarily pitchers. So you could just slot, you know, him in its second, third shortstop is needed. And maybe at some point he'll gain outfield, too. But power speed-wise, he's basically on pace for what I thought he was going to do OPS near 900, strikeout rate

not concerning in any way. He's doing about what I expected him to do. Okay, great. Scott Kingery. Good stuff. All right, who else, guys? Who else stood out to you? Chris Towers, big standout from yesterday's games. So we'll talk about that Blake Snell start, but the thing

that it reminded me of is Yon Mankata cannot hit lefties yet. And it's weird because he's a switch hitter, but it's been a massive problem for him in the majors. He has like a 38% strikeout rate against lefties. And that's going to hold him back. I mean, he's, he's been fine against right-handed pitchers, 794 OPS,

but he's a 592 against lefties. And that trend was not as stark in the miners, but he was still worse against, lefties. And it was on full to spite yesterday. He looked bad against Blake Snow. Oh, boy. He's very he's very, he's, Munkata's frustrated. I mean, what are he supposed to do? I don't think you can drop him yet, right? You just got to wait it out. No, I mean, we talked about it yesterday. He's not stealing any bases. In terms of fantasy potential, like, there's not that much difference between what we think Ronald Rukuner could be and what we think Yon Mankata could be. Like, the upside is that

high. He's just a tough player to figure out. One of them keeps failing. And he's not stealing. Sure. Yeah, no, that's, I'm not saying I would not, I would drop Munkata for Ocuna if I had to.

Right. It's just that that's the upside based on what we've seen, the prospect profile, what he was in the minors, but it's just for whatever reason he can't put it together, or he hasn't been able to put it together yet. And the sample size is still relatively small. 300 plate appearances total in the majors,

but that just stuck out to me and I had to look it up again because I looked it up before the season his splits going back to the minors and then in the majors and it's just he looks bad against lefties. I would contrast him with Acuna in the sense that Acuna kept getting better as he moved up the latter last year and Moncada kind of faded as he moved up to the point that I mean, faded to a certain extent. The last year before his call-up, the minor league number, were just for a top prospect like that,

they were just kind of so-so. Okay. Well, Scott, you got to stand out from Tuesday's games? So I want to talk about the two pitchers you mentioned earlier, who I said I prefer Lucasey to both of them, but Tyler Skaggs and Mike Fultenevich. One, I thought, was more or less encouraging yesterday, the other not so much.

Part of what got me excited about Fultenevich, after that second start was him throwing a change up 20% of the time and having good success with it. He's a pitcher who I felt for a while now is a change up away. Well, in his most recent start, very same matchup, he only threw a change up 11.5% of the time. And it's not like he got crushed or anything, but it wasn't a particularly impressive start.

So he's still kind of fringy, I think, in mixed leagues. But Tyler Skaggs, he's been in a fish. the last two starts. This start was the first one where he struggled with walks, but a lot of pitches in the last two, but a lot of swinging strikes in all three of his starts. And just seems like stuff-wise, he's arrived. And while there may be some frustrations with innings and wins,

I feel like he's too talented to leave on the Waverwire. And there's a good chance he fully breaks through this year and does start throwing more strikes and pitching more innings. is one of the biggest breakout pitchers this year. I at least see the potential for that. So he'd be the one I prioritized of those two right now, Skaggs over Fultenevich,

even though I'm putting him behind Lucch. Okay, so Tyler Skaggs over Fultenevich for Scott right now. They're both owned in 78% of leagues. That feels too high for Fultonavich. Two starts, I think. Right? Yeah, velocity is fun, but I can't help but feel like he's just like

Andrew Cashner, where we keep waiting for him to put it all together and it just never actually happens. Yeah. By the way, is it happening for Cashner? No. I don't think so. Like there was some talk about him working, I think, with Dylan Bundy actually, on a slider. Pitchie's been missing since the days where he got a decent number of strikeouts.

But he hasn't really thrown it that much. And even though the strikeouts have been up, he hasn't been getting a lot of swinging strikes. It just, it looks like a fantasy fake out to me. You know, as a Skaggs owner in like three leagues, I picked him up after his first start. And really nobody else did. It might have been a night start. Like, Lucchie, if he had pitched in the day, I feel like his ownership would be higher. And it'll probably be higher tomorrow.

But, you know, I was able to sneak in Lucchese in two leagues last night and pick him up. And Skaggs, I picked up after his first start of the season. I like him. I love the stuff. I've been watching his starts. His curve ball is really good. And his curve ball isn't at peak performance yet because it's been very hard to hit over the last two seasons. seasons. Yesterday they showed a stat on the broadcast that opponents were hitting really well off the

curve ball. That might be down now after last night's start. But I guess he just hasn't really had it yet. It will get better. But this was a good matchup for him. I think the Rangers are going to struggle against lefties, at least until Adrian Beltray snaps out of it. They didn't have Odor, obviously, though he's not so great. He's also faced Cleveland. And they are the worst hitting team in baseball right now, believe it or not. So I think with Skaggs is like, I'm not looking, look, if he has that huge breakout, great. Even if he doesn't, he's still going to be worth the roster ad, you know? He's going to be worth owning.

And I think with a lot of these fringy starting pitchers, like, they're going to have bad starts. I don't want to be adding them, dropping them, adding them, dropping them, just shuttling them in and out of my, on my roster all year. Like, I don't want to go crazy. So I'm buying into Skaggs, at least in terms of, you know, let's see where I'm not going to drop him if he has a bad start next time. But Fultenevich, yeah, like Scott, he's just been too. He's just been too inconsistent throughout his career, and he just fooled us too many times. So I needed to see more before I bought in.

Yeah, as Chris said, the ownership just seemed way too high on Fultenevich at 78. I mean, but part of that is, like, if that was the breakthrough for Fultenevich, if he did develop this changeup that was going to round his arsenal out finally, like, if you didn't pick him up, then you were going to miss out on that. And it's like, it's fine. And like, I don't know. I don't mind the, all right, let's pick them up and see where this goes next time out. I didn't like where it went.

Let's see who else is out there. Oh, Lucchese. Let's swap him out for Luccape. Like, I don't mind that if it's. Right, but there's an opportunity cost when you're picking up a guy with 400 career innings in the majors. Because you think that might be the breakout. You might have missed Tyler Skaggs. You might have missed Sean Newcomb.

You might have missed Joey Lacasey. Yeah, well, whatever. I think they've held on to Fultenevich over any of those guys at the time is the thing. Like, I don't know. I feel like there's usually Rotsis to play with. But he's 80% owned. There has to be, like, that's something that happened to somebody. Well, I think he's a two-star pitcher this week, right, Fultenevich?

He was, I can't remember. He may have been one that changed on Sunday. Also, his minor league numbers are bad. Get him out of here. Let's stop talking about Mike Fulton. Yeah, let's stop. talking about him. This isn't talking chop. Let's get to the big news.

Nick Senzel could be called up in two days without the Reds losing a year of control. Wait, last thing on Fultenevich. As Scott mentioned, it really wasn't that bad of his start yesterday. Like maybe I'm being a little bit too harsh on him. He faced the Nationals for the second time this year, and he only gave up two or runs in five in five-ittings. I know the strikeouts weren't there, but he has a 293-ERA, five-walks, 18 strikeouts of 15 and a third. Maybe I'm overreacting a little bit. He is a former CBS law procedural.

What? Am I getting the details on that right? He's a jag. That was a show, right? Yeah, it was a show. That was a show, yeah. Just the guy. He's a jag. All right. I don't think that's what it stood for on the show.

Nick Senzel of the Reds can be called up in a couple of days without the Reds losing a year of control. How interested are you in picking up Nick Senzel? He played third base in the AAA game, I believe, yesterday. So that seems to be a good sign for his chances to be the Aohaneo Suarez replacement. I'm very excited. He had been the second basement prior to that. So that was C. Trent Rosencran's, one of the Reds beatwriters, was speculating that min.

Just like saying that name. Yeah, but I think he said that. Well, I know. I actually know him. I think he said it wrong. He used to be a CBS baseball rights. Well, you mess his name up, Scott. You know him an apology. What did I say?

C-Trent. What did you say? Well, what is it? I don't want to say it again. Rosecrans. There's no N in there. See Trent Rose Grants. Yes, he's a good guy.

I didn't put an end in there. I said Rosa Kranz. Oh, okay. Okay, by that. I guess it's wrong. It's just Rose Grans. Yeah, it is. Yeah, Senzel is 48% owned.

Mustad? If he gets called up, which probably will. That's a little strong. I mean, he hasn't, he didn't have a great string. If Scott Kingery was a mustad, Nick Senzel is a mustad. Well, but was Scott Kingery a mustad? Because I just dropped him in a league.

I think he was very much viewed as a must ad when we found out he was being called up. Yeah. Well. Yeah. I, in our Memorial Magazine League, which is 360 players rostered, I couldn't figure out who to draw.

drop for Senzel. Like, it would be somebody like Cole Calhoun, or Jesse Winker, or either of the Brewers guys, I kind of want to try and corner that situation, because I'm short on saves. Oh, it's Albers, Injir? So I've just had to leave him out there.

In a league, that's fairly deep for a mixed league. So I can't, if I couldn't add him even in that league, I don't know how I could call him must add. Now, obviously, very exciting prospect. but you know didn't have a very good spring

isn't off to a good start in the miners it would be a short-term stay unless he just you know is awesome so obviously there's no downside to picking up somebody of that talent level it could be a Cody Bellinger situation where we thought it was going to be a short stay for him last year

and look what happens but well so it might not it's like four to six weeks for Suarez right yeah and then at that point anything can happen. Of course. Yep.

And we've already seen Senzel can play. Second Bay, shortstop. So. All right, Nick Senzel. It would be exciting. 48% owned. Johnny Quato's on the deal with an ankle injury. Could just be the minimum stay there for him.

Charlie Blackman was scratched with quad tightness. So now Blackman has back and quad issues. And Noah Cinderguard, I think I briefly mentioned this yesterday, but probably should have mentioned it more for a guy who's always injured. He had two blisters on his hand. and Monday's start. So between Blackman with the quad and back issues and Cinderguard with two blisters on his hand on Monday, and he downplayed it, said it was no big deal, but we know blisters can be a big deal.

Are you concerned right now with Blackman or Cinderguard? No, I'm not concerned right now. Okay, moving on. Joanna Cespitus has been battling illness. He was in a one-for-21 slump with 13 strikeouts, but it's starting to feel better. get well soon. We wish you would get well, whatever they say. Shohei Otani is going to DH today against a lefty.

That'll be the first time. He starts against a lefty, and he will pitch on Sunday. So they gave him a full week off. He'll pitch on Sunday after starting. That brilliant start was on Sunday. Adam Eaton has a bone bruise in his ankle, is likely to go on the DL and sink all of my teams this week because I started him.

It could be a minimum stay for Adam Eaton, but rough start for him. Brian Goodwin should get more playing. time this week. Will Myers will not come off the D.L. when he's first eligible. It shouldn't be much longer for Myers, but won't be back when first eligible. Ruknet O'Dores expected to miss three weeks.

Jurekson ProFar batted second for the Rangers. Are you adding ProFar anywhere? No. A.L. only. But I want to watch him. I want to see if something can happen there. Drew Pomerant's going to be back next week

for Boston. Ian Kinsler expected to turn tomorrow. Irvin Santana has been cleared to throw. And Washington outfield prospect Victor Robles, a great prospect, has a hyper-extended elbow and will be re-evaluated next week. So he's got to be less

stashable now, right? Scott, Victor Robles? Doesn't seem like he'll be up as soon to replace Michael Taylor as hoped with this news, yes. So Michael Taylor is certainly doing his part, not hitting a lick. Yeah, I actually did drop him

in the, in that Memorial Magazine league just because I needed to pick someone up. Nick Senzel? Robles. I dropped Victor Robles to pick up Danzy Swanson.

You should have picked up Nick Senzel. Senzel. You know what? Yeah, you should have. I'm going to do it. Somebody needs to do it. I'm going to do it right now.

I got some crap on my team. Senzel. You will be mine. Oh, yes. Sounds like you said Denzel. Senzel Washington. What kind of bad thing is? What kind of fab are you looking to put in, Scott or Adam?

I mean, what am I supposed to tell you? Yes, that's the point. That's supposed to be helpful to our audience. That seems counterproductive. I think you should give our audience an idea of what kind of fad bid this guy's work. Okay, fine. I will. I will say that out of $100 budget, I have like $83 left, $82.

I'm only going to bid $0. So I think you're fine to just, you're fine to just bid one and you'll get them at one. All right. That's just a joke. I mean, if nobody picked him up last night, you could maybe get away with you. I know, I should have thought. Then again, he's probably going to be the lead of the prospects report today. So, if I have any pull in a way people manage their rosters, maybe not.

Okay, well, we will... I'm going to wrap it up, B. Yeah, let's move on. Wrap it up, B. Stad of the day. Handley Ramirez leads all first baseman with three steals. He stole another one. He's 85% own.

Hanley is the number four first baseman of points, number one in Roto. Do you buy Hanley Ramirez, who last year was hot garbage, but the year before was the number nine first baseman in fantasy with a 286 batting average and 30 homers in 147 games? I mean, he said back in February he wanted to be a 30-30 player this year, and as I've said before, many times, stolen bases are largely a matter of desire, how willing you are to actually run.

So he's following through on it, which is great news. I mean, I think he needs to be owned if he's doing, certainly in any categories league. It would kind of start he's off to, both as a hitter and a base runner. Yeah, yeah. Well, he is owned.

Hanley's 85% owned, so it's, I guess, the matter of, who would you rather have? He was hardly dressed. I wasn't sure. Yeah, no, he's been picked up. Hanley or just. than smoke. Smoke.

I mean, smoke's off to a good start, too. So, yeah, I got to stick with smoke there. Hanley or Eric Thames? Hanley. Hanley or Matt Olson. Matt Olson. Yeah, Olson, but he's got to start hitting. Hanley or Jose Martinez.

Hanley. I will take Jose Martinez. It's a little risky to buy into Hanley, isn't it? I mean, he is 34, and he's had... You're 34. I will be soon. I mean, the main thing with Hanley is just like... Can he maintain this level of focus and this level of health for a full six months?

And I have my doubts about that. But he certainly looks like good Hanley right now. Yeah, I mean, he's 34, but he's healthy right now. He's playing first base. He's batting third for the... Red Sox. He was definitely one of my favorite sleepers coming into the season. All right. I'm going to take a look at deep leagues here. I'm going to give you some names that you tell me if you're interested in picking any of them up. They are owned in less than 20% of

leagues. Three hitters. Joe Maur, Malick Smith, and Curtis Granderson. Joe Mauer, Malick Smith, and Curtis Granderson. Keep in mind with Malick Smith. I don't know if this matters, but Kevin Kiermeyer expected to play today. Mauer should probably be owned in on-base percentage leagues. Malick Smith should probably be owned in Roto leagues and Granderson is fine I own him in one 15 team league where I needed to fill

an outfield spot late and he was there The thing about Mauer Like if it's a Roto on base percentage league Where you got corner infield first base You tell you know the bigger lineups Maybe But like if it's a standard points league There's just there's not

You're not going to be able to get far enough down at first base to own him as good as he is as a Walker. Yeah. Mauer was the number 22 first baseman of points last year, number 29 in Roto. He played 141 games and batted 305, but only seven home runs. How about the pitchers that are owned in less than 20% of leagues?

Andrew Cashner. Another really good start. Seven scoreless innings against the Blue Jays with six strikeouts. 250 ERA so far. Homer Bailey had a good start at Philadelphia. Very good. Matt Boyd was pretty good at Cleveland.

Tyler Anderson really good at home against the project. Josh Tomlin, five scoreless against Detroit. Brent Suter was okay against the Cardinals. Caleb Smith struck out seven Mets. He has 19 strikeouts, but also 10 walks and 13 in a third. So a lot of names. Andrew Cashner, Homer Bailey, Matt Boyd, Tyler Anderson, Josh Tomlin, Brent Suter, Caleb Smith.

Who are your two or three favorites there? Like, I'd probably rank them maybe exactly as you have the top four here, Cashner, Bailey, Boyd Anderson. Those are really the only ones I'm interested in. But the interest is mild. Like I just poo-poohed Cashner earlier, and he's the one I ranked first of those four.

Like Bailey, Bailey in particular, is off to a really weird start because two of his first three starts have been great, not getting any swinging strikes, and his velocity is actually down like three miles per hour. So I don't, like, you know, a guy with two no-hitters on his run. me obviously has upside. Is he really showing us that upside just because he's pitched well? I have my doubts about that. Boyd is probably number one for me just because he's young.

It's not a ringing endorsement. But we don't have any the next Joey Lucases in this group. I would guess not. Right. Caleb Smith might be the Marlins best starter. You think he's going to strike out 100 guys, Chris? Your bold prediction was that he wouldn't have any. I mean, he's well on his way. Yeah, yeah. How about that? Bullpen, I'll give you a name.

You give me your reaction. Jacob Barnes, Blue a save. We already talked about this. We still don't know. Chris and I kind of think it's Albers. Scott's kind of hedging. I mean, if you play in a league where there are no saves on the waiver,

you've got to hold on to him. I'll say this. Albers will get the next save opportunity. We'll see what happens there. You got to hold on to Albers, too. Okay. And Kenley Jansen, got a save. Two out save yesterday.

Quick reaction. Seems fine. seems fine, it works for me. Brad Ziegler gave up a run, took a loss in a non-save situation. So I'd be worried about losing his job, but Kyle Bearclaw was terrible to ending before

even worse than Ziegler was in the ninth. So I don't know that there's, like Drew Steckin-Riders there too and is off to a decent start. I feel like it's a situation. Marlon's obviously not going to win a lot of games. They don't have a great closing option. Like, this is,

there are probably some set-up men I'd rather have been Ziegler. Right, because his ratio's already been good. Hunter Strickland gave up a run, first blown save of the season. Whatever. It's fine. Alex Colome, ew. He's just been terrible. He's an 11-25 ERA.

He got the save, but he gave up a home run. He's got three saves and five chances. Four walks, one strikeout and four innings for Alex Colome. Yeah, only one strikeout, like you said. after a year where the strikeouts evaporated on him, averaged less than 8 per 9 as a closer in today's game that never happens. It's a little scary. It's a little scary.

And it's hard to make sense of because his velocity is still what it was two years ago when he had the really good season. But he's, I don't know. It looks like he's not thrown his fastball enough to me. This is what happens with relievers. Like, sometimes they just lose it. Sometimes one year is just a mirage. that this is the risk when we invest heavily in relievers after one good season.

I'm going to tell you why this is actually a good thing for Alex Colomé, that he's been so bad. Tell me. Tell me. He's killing his trade value. Ah, that's a good point. That's some galactic brain stuff. I mean, he was one of the most likely players, most likely closers to get traded. As you know, they're tanking. What are they going to get for him at this point?

He might stay the closer. Can't lose your closer's job if you pitch too poorly to get. get traded. And here's the other thing. Like, who would replace him? Sergio Romo, maybe? Like, they don't have... There's not like this obvious guy in waiting. There's a guy who throws hard. I said his name on yesterday's podcast. Now I can't remember it.

Okay. And Ryan Madsen got the save yesterday instead of Sean Doolittle. It was a four-run game in the ninth. Sammy Sola started it for the Nationals. He gave up a run. Madsen came in and got the final outs. Doolittle had pitched Saturday and Sunday, but not. Monday. Maybe they're just being cautious with him. You've had arm issues in the past. What do you make of that? Chris, Ryan Madsen with the two-out save. I don't think there's anything there.

Sean Doolittle's probably not someone who's going to work like three times and four days too often. So I would guess it's just a workload management thing. And Roberto Osuna is the youngest player ever to reach 100 saves. He's 23 years old. And Edwin Diaz, my goodness. Only three saves hadn't pitched in a while. But four innings, he has not given up a hit or a walk. He has hit at least one batter.

Remember how rough he was on the first. I think he had two batters in the first outing. Yep. Yeah, I think so. But four scoreless innings, no walks, 11 strikeouts so far for Edwin Diaz. You're not going to be putting Edwin Diaz in your draft lineups, but you are going to have a hell of a lot of fun on the draft app, as I am having every single day, multiple contests a day for me.

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construction workers leave. Am I going to win this competition? I'm worried because they have to come paint my room. Oh, yeah. I'm worried that they're going to knock. I don't know if my wife told them to wait until 10.30. Let's go in the next half hour. I hope she didn't.

Okay, now it's time for Worryometer Wednesday. Zero to 10 on the Worryometer. Dallas Kichel has walked nine batters in 15 innings, and the twins had the perfect blueprint against him yesterday. They just were laying off. all those pitches down in the zone and he wasn't getting the calls and they were not strikes. So Kikele, Wariometer, it's got a 420 ERA, nine walks, 13 strikeouts, and 15 innings. Like a two for me.

He doesn't throw the ball in the zone. That's kind of his thing. So I think these kind of starts are going to happen eventually, but the track record of not working is pretty limited. So I'm going to say one. For Dallas Kikle. How about Miguel Cabrera? He does not have an extra base hit in his last. seven games. He is four for his last 23 and is now batting 243 with a home run on the season.

Wariometer on Miguel Cabrera. I was looking at the stat cast leaderboard yesterday. He is second in the majors in average exit velocity. Surprise. Tigers. Well, no, it's good. I don't know. Is it still messed up? I don't know. Just messing around. Okay, so the thing there was, it never really seemed like there was anything wrong with the stack cast data it was always the the fan graphs data i think i can't remember who they get theirs from but that was where the the hard hit data was where it seemed to be really wonky oh that's different than the exit velocity yes oh okay okay so scott i'm sorry give me a number on miguel cabrera i will say i will say four five i just want to i think he's been in a lot of really cold weather.

They've really cooled off. Tigers have played in a lot of cool weather. So look, four walks, eight strikeouts. Not like he's got terrible. Clay discipline. Okay, so we're moderately concerned about Miggi. How about Edwin Encarnacion? Three walks, 12 strikeouts, and a 158 batting average in 11 games.

Is it April 2017 all over again? Yeah. Or April 2016 or 2015? You can't get worried about Edwin and Carnacione. I said this before the season. You can't get worried about Edwin and Carnacian probably until the end of May. And there's a chance that he's just lost it and you won't know. And he might just sink your season.

That was always the risk with Edwin and Carnacian. But you can't, what are you going to do? You can't jump ship. You can't trade him. You just have to let him ride it out like last season. Okay. So we're going to put him very low on the Wariometer. We don't even need a number.

Gary Sanchez is batting 0.56. Six in nine games with no walks and six strikeouts. Wariometer on Gary Sanchez. Zero. Wariometer on George Springer. He is batting 188 with a home run. No steals, five walks, 15 strikeouts, three doubles in 12 games. George Springer, worryabeter.

Zero. One. Marcel Ozuna has no walks and 15 strikeouts, and he's batting over 300. With no walks and 15 strikeouts and 11 games for Marcelo Zuna, a worryometer on Marcelo Zuna. I think clearly we undervalued the Marlins hitting coach last season. Between him and Giancarlo Stan, these guys are just done. And Borr, Justin Boer.

Or did they have the same hitting coach this year? Do they have a new one? I have no idea. Bore hit a home run, though, yesterday. He's fine. Two home runs. Who was the Marlins hitting coach last year? It was Bonds two years ago, right?

I have no idea. If you don't know what the Marlins' Dan. That's a... I mean, I had worried about Marlins. Ozuna coming in, so I'm not going to say zero, but my worries haven't grown. I think he's actually first the guy ahead of Miguel Cabrera on average exit velocity. So I'll say two. Okay.

So no big concerns yet. And how about Joseph Gallo? Gallo went 0 for four yesterday. He's batted fifth, fifth, sixth, and seventh in his last four games against two righties and two lefties. Gallo's batting 208 with three home runs, three walks, and 13 strikeouts. I'm a little worried about the batting order thing, but he's not getting sat, so I'll say a one. Like, Joey Gallo is going to be streaky.

He's still hitting for power. I'm fine with it. Mike Packley-Rulow. The hitting coach? Is the Marlins hitting coach? Yes. I think that's the point with Gallo is that, you know, either you believe in him or you don't right now,

but he's going to be streaky. Right. And he's got like a sub-200 babbip right now, he's always going to be a low babb-up guy, but he's actually not striking out very much relative to him. So I just... It just needs to go on a homer binge. Yeah, I have trouble getting worried about it

when he's actually showing some improved skills. Okay, how about this last one, 93% owned? We haven't talked about him. I don't think we've mentioned him much at all. Adam Duvall. Adam Duval is 93% own, then he is batting 111. And he's been, you know, like a top 25 outfield

or each of the last two seasons. With terrible second halfs. He's usually a hot starter. But Adam Duvall, Worryometer here. I don't think there's much reason to own him in a points league. I think if you drafted him for power to roto league, though, he's still going to come around with that.

I mean, he has a very streaky profile also. Just a two true outcomes guy, basically. Yeah. Because he doesn't walk at all. And that's going to make it. That's going to make it hurt even more when he's slumping like he is now. Yeah, three or four. I guess there's a little extra worry in that outfield.

If anyone goes on an extended slump, they could just lose playing time. Maybe tomorrow I'll ask you who you're actually worried about since it is so early. And we can dismiss so much of it. I wrote a bit about that yesterday, Adam. Oh, okay, good. We'll check that out then. CBS.ports.com slash fantasy. Also, check out the Jonah Carey podcast.

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or just search for the Jonah Carey podcast anywhere you get your podcasts. Let's read a few relevant emails. We still have grade the trade coming up. This is from Sam. Jacob Junis is available. Should I drop Tanner Roark for Junice? I'm fine with that. Yeah, it's close enough that, yeah.

I think if you're in a league where Jake Junis is still available, you could probably sneak Roark through and if he heats up you can maybe make a move for him later. Curtis from Calgary, if you could discuss James Paxton and his slow start to the season, that'd be great. The second start was good.

Yeah, it was good. He got attacked by an eagle. Leave the man alone. It's true. I think we're fine with Paxton, right? Yeah, I'm not worried about it. It's just such a small sample. Like, his first start was bad, his second start was good. I don't know.

what more you wanted to see from that second start. Can you guys hear him? He's barking? Dog? He's barking? He's making some noise. He hasn't let out a full bark yet. Oh,

that was a big yawn. That was a yawn? Yeah, it was a big yawn. So he's the type of mix that he is, half of him is a boxer, and half of him is another dog that doesn't bark, they yodel. So he has weird vocalization things. Yeah.

All right, here's an email from Chris in Salt River Fields. On yesterday's podcast, you said you didn't know why Bradley got the save instead of Boxburger. That's because Terry Lavello deploys Bradley versus the other team's heart of the order whenever they come up in the seventh, eighth. So two nights ago, Godley pitched seven innings. Levello likes to use Harano versus the bottom of the order. So Harano pitched the eighth. And then the top of the order came up in the ninth, and he went with Bradley. You will be seeing this all year long.

Bradley will be facing the other team's most dangerous hitters. So it's a little Andrew Miller. On Andrew Miller got a save yesterday too. No, two days ago, I believe, right? And Alan got it yesterday. Right? Yeah, that's what I meant, two days ago. The same day Bradley got his save.

Yeah, except I think Alan was unavailable. Like, this is, I think this is more, more... I saw it as a situation where the ninth inning came and they hadn't used their best reliever yet, so let's use them. Okay, well, this seems like... To me, it seems like the Diamondbacks could be giving more saves to Bradley than, I don't think it's a big deal either way, than the Indians would give to Miller. But I guess we'll see.

Jeff from Iowa, how should I view Mike El Franco? Has he finally come around, or is he just on a hot streak? I would say hot streak. It doesn't help that he's losing playing time every third or fourth game to Kingery. I'm not getting excited about him, personally. And now checking, just to go back to the closer thing. Yeah, you're probably right. I don't think Cody Allen had a workload issue at all when Miller got to save

because he pitched the day before, but that was it. You can pitch back to back. All right, and from AJ. Hey, Michael, Job, Buster, and George. I know that. Sounds like Arrested Development. Sure does. Who would you rather stash, Austin Hayes or Willie Calhoun?

Probably Hayes. Yeah. I mean, a week ago, I had Calhoun in the top five prospect. to stash the, you know, the debut of the prospects report for this year, had Calhoun and not Hayes. But we're so far into this to Shields injury now, and there have been no rumblings about Calhoun getting the call. I don't think it's going to happen. I'm going to lean Hayes. Let's look at the double dongs from yesterday. Javi Baez, Justin Boer, and Azruble Cabrera.

Baez, 88% own. Boer, 62% own. Asdrubal Cabrera, 49% own. Scott White, what stood out to you with the double dongers? Uh, I would say, first of all, as Jruble Cabrera was in the top 10 sleeper hitters for this week. So, who, yeah, you're welcome. He's off to a pretty good start. He's always been kind of undervalued. Yeah, triple eligible, made a lot of contact even before this two homer game. So I think, I think he's pretty solid.

Like, the problem is there's so much depth at all of those infield spots where he's eligible. that, like, he's never going to be like a universally owned guy. I think Boer, I think people were a little too down on Boer the first couple weeks. He was actually available in one of my 15-te-te-te-te-te-te-leagues last week. Actually, Tout War, my Tout-Wars League. He was available in that. And so I put in a big, big form. I'm not sure if I won him or not.

But it was ridiculous. I thought in the format that deep, somebody would drop Justin Boer. Hopefully this is the start of him getting hot. Okay, rotation stuff. Severino, bad. Noah, good. Snell, both. Five walks, ten strikeouts.

Actually, Snell's walks have got to be discussed here. Ten walks and 15 innings? Yeah, yeah, I mean, it wasn't really an issue until this start. And really, I think it was only an issue late in that start. I think he had like one or two walks going into the last inning. I'd have to disagree, though. He had three walks in three and a third at the Yankees. That's, but that's one where, like, if he goes, like, the issue there was he was getting hit hard by a team that hits the ball hard.

The issue was he walked three and three and a third. I mean, come on. It's an issue. Sure. But if he had pitched two more innings. And he probably would have to walk more batters. Right. But that's the thing is that, like, it was such a short start that it's hard to take anything out of that.

You can go three innings, walk three guys, and then I'm to end up with three walks over six innings. He had the opposite of that this start. That's true. that many early. And actually, if he had only thrown four more innings in this start and thrown a complete game, he would have only walked five. Well, I think what Chris is saying, like, it's hard to tell how walks are going to be distributed over a start.

And if it was, and three is such a small number, it's just hard to know how exactly it would have turned out. Right. Like, if it was five in three and a third innings, I would think that's bad. All right, but if we just look at 10 walks and 15 innings for a guy who had major, major control issues, I think it's a red flag for Snell. Yeah, I think Chris's point is a valid one, but I think your point is a valid one too, Adam. I agree. Both, yes, valid.

Yeah, he showed improved control after returning from the miners last year. That hasn't carried over into this season. And it's a little concerning. At the same time, he's pretty close to unhittable. Yeah, his stuff looks absolutely filthy right now. And that's why I'm not that concerned about it, because it's like he can't keep walking 10 batters every 15 innings.

I don't think he will. And as long as the stuff looks as good as it does, I think he's the before this start, I know he was the biggest velocity gainer from last April in the entire majors among all starting pitchers. I just, he looks too good for me to be worried right now. Maybe that's a little confirmation bias because I liked him as a breakout candidate coming into the season.

But I just, I've come away so impressed by him, even if the results haven't necessarily been great. All right, that's Snell. And Corbyn didn't have his best start, but it still had a pretty darn good start with 16 swinging strikes and 5 in 30. At 5 scoreless innings, then ran into trouble in the 6th.

So Corbyn, Snell, Sean Mania, how do you rank them? Snell, Corbyn Menaia, but all three should be owned everywhere. Snell, Corbyn Menaia. I think Corbyn might be close to passing Snell for me. Okay. Like, I'm really,

I'm all about that, Corbyn. Yeah, four walks, 29 strikeouts, and 18 and a third for Corbyn. And Scott, is there any reason why Tyler Chattwood and Felix Hernandez should be owned in 90 and 87% of leagues? I was distracted by the squeaky gait noise that Chris's dog was making. That was pretty distracting. So I didn't hear what you said. Tyler Chatwood is 90% owned. Felix Fernandez is 87% owned.

Should they be that owned? Definitely not especially Felix. All right. Time to grade some trades. I'll run through the rest of the notes. Aaron Hicks should be back tomorrow. Kevin Kiermeyer today. Tim Anderson stole his sixth base.

Alex Gordon's on the deal with a hip injury. Kendris Morales on the deal with a hamstring strain expected to miss just 10 days. Wellington Castillo day-to-day with knee-sorness. Doug Fister expected to miss two to three weeks for the Rangers. Lorenzo Kane is day-to-day and Jose Martinez's day-to-day. And Jorge Alfaro left after being. hit by a pitch on the elbow. Let's get those pencils and papers out.

Let's grade some trades. Class is in session. This is such a great song, isn't it? It's an oldie. It's a great song. Oldie buddy goody. I hope you guys can name that movie. No.

Food fight scene? Oh, is that a... Animal House? It is Animal House. Youngens. Probably not the only movie that song was used in. It's the only movie that counts. Scott, you've seen it.

SWIW. Scott, are you older than I am? I always forget. I am a couple months older than you are, yes. Oh, that's right. You just turned 34. Senior citizens. Chris is like 26 or something.

And he's the CEO of the company. All right, grade the trade. Chris from Nashville gives up Lester and Clevenger. gets Darvish. That seems like a C to me. Really? Yeah. Okay.

Lester and Clevenger for Darvish, I would give that a C-minus. Ooh, I was going to go to C-plus. I'd rather have the stud. No, yeah. He's getting the stuff. This is unbelievable. Scott White never knows. Dang it.

F. He never did it! Dang it! All right, so you give up Lester and Clevenger for Darvish. Scott says C-plus. I say C-plus, Chris says C. You know what? I'm going to give it a B.

Okay. Because there's more wiggle room on the right side of C. Aaron from Green Bay, Wisconsin. Give up Shohei Otani. Ooh. In a dynasty points league. Get Rizzo and Kintana. Give up Otani, get Rizzo and Kintana.

That feels like an A plus to me. Yeah. I think it would be an A. I'll dock it. I'll dock it that plus since it's a dynasty. and, you know, those two players are older, but yeah, really good trait. From John, give up Luis Castillo, get Clevenger and Snell. Give up Luis Castillo, get Clevenger and Snell.

I think that's a B. No. It's a B minus. B. Yeah, I mean, you're losing the better player, but not by much. And Ryan in Oklahoma is in a 10-team, Roto-Keeper League. OBP and quality starts. I would give up Aaron Nola, a 16th round pick

next year, for Shohei Otani, a sixth round pick next year. And he can use Otani both as a hitter and a pitcher. So give up Nola for Otani, but much better value for Nola. 16th round keeper compared to Otani as a sixth round keeper. Yeah, I think

that's probably like a C-minus. The fact that it's daily league, so you can use Otani and both Ups his value, but I don't think he's that much better than Nola as a pitcher to give up 10 rounds. By the way, Nola win eight innings yesterday. Yeah. Over 100 pitchers.

The third time. Gabe Kapler is softening. Yeah, you figured he would, at least with Nola. He's scared. He's the biggest idiot in the world. Hey, this is what's what everybody in baseball is saying. Oh, you're really fantastic. You're being scared.

From Thomas, grade the trade. Give up. Give up A.J. Pollock and Verland. This is a tough one. I could not figure out if I like this one or not. Give up A.J. Pollock, who's having a great start. And Verlander. Get J.D. Martinez and Madison Bumgarner.

It's a keeper league. I think Bumgarner is better than Verlander, especially in a keeper league. And I think J.D. Martinez is better than A.J. Pollock. So it's pretty easy for me. Bob Garner's not going to pitch for a month and a half. How is he better than Verlinder. It's a keeper lead. All right, but for this year, it's tough.

Yeah. Yeah, it's a little tough. I'd still do it. Yeah, I mean, I guess if you're thinking long term, you have to do it. I don't know exactly how many players are being kept there, though. If it's like three or four players being kept, I'm not... Five. With fact, it's a keeper.

Okay, five. Still a lot of turnover in that league. I'm not sure you should use keeper considerations that... That should be driving your decision here. So I'm going to prefer the Verlander's side. I'm going to give it a... Wait, is that... That's who he was giving up.

C-minus. I remembered. I remembered. I'm like visualized. I'm doing these hand motions to help me visualize it as you're saying it. It's helping you are. This is from Bobby. Gray the Trade, Scam, Kreathe, Kratum and Screeh.

Six-by-six-six-two-keeper League. Give up Tanaka and Paxton. Give up Tanaka and Paxton. Get Kenley Jansen and Garrett Richards. Tanaka and Paxson for Jansen and Richardson. That is a bad one. D. That is a bad one.

D. Dirty D. Ryan from Cleveland. Categories League. Give up Dansby, Swanson, and Burrios. For Lorenzo, Cain, and Gossman. Give up Swanson and Burrios. Get Lorenzo Cain and Kevin Gossman.

It's worth it for Cain. Like, I'll give it a B plus. Yeah, I think Dansby and Burrios for Kane would be fine. So, B. Josh from Fresno, grade the trade. 12 team roto. I own Correa. I gave up Lindor for Gerrit Cole and Jaris Familia.

Gave up Lindor for Cole and Familia. C-minus. He's looking for contextual extra credit by mentioning he has Correa. You know what? I'm high enough on Garrett Cole that I'll give that contextual extra credit. I'll give him a B-minus. How does that sound? That is a good round of Gray of the Trade.

I'm just going to run through some questions. Starder here. Tell me real quick, starter. Sit. Brandon McCarthy at the Nationals. Sit. Sit. Kyle Gibson against the Astros. Sit. Shit. Yanni Chorinos at the White Sox. Hey, Chris, is your dog sitting? He's lying down. Not very obedient. Not obedient at all.

Yonitriino. Was he going to stand up and then sit just because I'm saying sit in the room? An obedient dog would. He's a very good point. Raid House, we got to go. Sorry, guys. Yanni Torinos No, Redis. No, Sid. No. Danny Duffie. Danny Duffy at home against the Mariners. No. I might start him, but I'd rather not.

His velocity's down like two miles per hour right now. It's bad. Luis Castillo and Nick Povetta. Reds at Phillies. Luis Castillo and Povetta. Yes to Povetta. I mean, sorry, yes to Castillo. I want to see more from Pivotta. I'm not ready to trust him yet. Agreed. Estrada at Gossman. I'll start Estrada.

Yeah. want to see more from Gosman when things go bad for him and he didn't use the splitter much in the first starts. Start or sit, start or sit, start or sit. Tanaka and David Price. Start both. Yeah. Price's terrible history against the Yankees.

Wheeler and Jaime Garcia. Oh, no, Jarlane Garcia, my bad. Sit. Yeah, both. Stephen Brault and John Lester. Start Lester. Sure. Angels rookie Jaime Barreale.

at Matt Moore. Sit both. Daniel Mengdon at Alex Wood. Start Wooden. That's going to do it. For today's show, we... Come on, Doug. Scott White.

Mark. Good try. No, he's a good boy. Thank you for listening, everybody. We know much about fantasy baseball, and I know this much. We'll talk to you tomorrow on a Fantasy Baseball Today podcast.