Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/16 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Weekend Roundup

Episode Date: April 16, 2018

Joey Lucchesi is the headliner (2:24) but there is so much to get to including new saves sources (6:51) and players we added (11:30) such as Tyson Ross, Francisco Cervelli, Ben Zobrist, Bartolo Colon, Franchy Cordero and more before we take a look at the Most Added list (22:00) ... Is it time to buy low on some struggling SPs (33:33) like Chris Archer, Marcus Stroman and Yu Darvish? And are we buying the hitters who are off to great starts (39:15) such as Yadier Molina, Mitch Haniger, Jed Lowrie and more? We also tell you which SPs you should be picking up (50:00) before looking at today's matchups (56:10) ... 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

I care about statistical scarcity more than positional scarcity. Have I killed fun? Yes. Podcast is going off the rails already. They're pop-ups. They're not infield fly balls. These guys told you look at Bip, not E-R-A. So wait for Glover's sale, but pass on Robbie Remedore.

And pick your milk for breakfast cereal, Mount Rushmore. Big show for you today as we are into the fourth week of the fan. fantasy season. It is Monday, April 16. Joey Lucchase is dominating. Keenan Middleton is getting a bunch of saves. But Nora, same exact thing. We got a lot to talk about, including the most added ad list, who we added and dropped. And a happy, happy belated birthday to Heath Cummings. Thank you, Adam. I really appreciate that. I had yesterday one of the best days I can remember in a long time. And I just, I would like to encourage all of you listeners, once you get to be hour age. On your birthday, tell

your family that you don't want any presents. You just want a day where you kind of get to do what you want, and just eat and drink like a king. That's what I did. I had steak, I had ribs, I had shrimp, I had like several different craft beers. It was

phenomenal day. At a restaurant? I don't eat any presents. No, no, all home. I smoked the ribs Saturday night. I grilled some steak on Sunday and boiled some fresh Florida shrimp. It was a remarkable day. Did you hit 40? Is this 40?

No, no. That will be next year. Oh, all right. Happy 30 night. Who knows what I'll do next year. Hey, Scott, happy very belated birthday to you. It's been like a month. Yeah.

Yeah, and my birthday wasn't fun when I had it. I guess I didn't go about it right. Nope. Well, now you know. I see the moment. I should have grilled stuff. I know. I got trivia question to start the show.

What do the three of us and Joey Vaugh? have in common? We don't have any extra base hits? Correct! We all have zero extra base hits. Scott White, dominating trivia so far. We will talk about Joey Vado. We will talk about Yadier Molina and DJ LaMahue and Jed Lowry. And, of course, a lot of pitchers, including the under-owned alert.

Joey Lucasey is 66% owned. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Yes. Great. Yeah. I was shocked how many leagues I myself was able to get him in just yesterday when, you know, I probably should have done it sooner. Well, obviously you need to pick up Joey Lucasey.

And is it safe to say that he is at the top of the undrafted pitchers list, all the guys that we've been picking up since the start of the season? Yes. Yeah, he is, like, you go to look at his peripherals. He ranks seventh in fifth. 15th in Sierra K to walk percentage 14th it's real so far

and the thing is like this is who he was in the minors last year like it's not like it's just so it's just too easy to justify you know like the minor league number like he dominated in the minors

and then it's carried over to the majors and I mean I don't you know he's not going to be this good all season I think it's fair to say that he'll go through his rough patches like anyone else, especially any rookie, but it's not like there's not upside here. Yep. So Joey Lucasey, six scoreless innings with nine strike.

No, sorry, one run. Nine strikeouts against the Giants on Sunday. He's also been great twice against Colorado, once in Coors Field. He has four walks, 25 strikeouts, and a 166 ERA. And Lucchese, like I said, is only 66% owned. Should you be, if you own Lucchese and you wanted to try to sell him, what would be the the minimum that you'd want back if you were looking to get rid of Joey Lucasey right now? Well, that's a good question.

I think I would trade him for like the Charlie Morton, Dylan Bundy class of pitchers. Those guys who we knew had a lot of upside coming in and have, you know, obviously lived up to it in the early going as well. It's just I don't know why those owners would do that because they've been, those pitchers have been just as good with Casey, you know? Right. So it might be more of a package deal thing, but if you could, and you might be able to, in a points league, offer Lucchasey for Marcus Stroman. Like, I would do that.

I would give up Lucchasey for Stroman in a points league. Would you guys? I don't know that I would. No. I don't know that I was. I think Strowman's, look, he said it himself, and I'm not surprised he's having a bad start to the season. And I'm not going to start him this week.

One started the Yankees. But he didn't really have a spring training. So this is kind of spring training for him. That's what he said. That's kind of what I was hoping he would say. So I'm confident in him. But, hey, if you think Lucchese's going to be that good, that you're not willing to do it, I get that too. Yeah, I didn't necessarily mean it as a referendum on Marcus Stroman.

Just that Marcus Stroman at his best, I don't think is as good as Lucchia at his best. See, that's the thing. I don't want to get carried away with Lucchase. Could he be Luis Severino from last year? Could he be unbelievable? Or could he just be like, like, I was pumped up about Amir Garrett at the beginning of last year. He wasn't close to this good. But these rookie pitchers who have never done it before, you know, I don't want to give up Marcus

Stroman. Marcus Stroman could be a top 30-30 pitcher. He had like a 30-R-A last year. It could be a top-30 pitcher. It's just that I don't, I think L' Casey could be more than that. And I came in expecting about 200 innings of a mid-3s-ZRA and I don't know, 180 strikeouts from Stroman. Like my expectations just aren't that high. And now there's more risk. It's a weird comparison because I still think it's more likely than not Stroman with as many innings as he throws, and Lucchesey being a rookie. Stroman is probably going to outscore Lucchasey this year, but will the impact from week to week, if we're talking a head-to-head scenario, be as great from Stroman as it's already been for

Lucasey and could be going forward? I don't know. I guess maybe Lucasey is something like... Something like Rich Hill has been the last couple years, except I think he can do more innings than Rich Hill has done the last couple years because Rich Hill's had the injuries. But it's, you know, it's kind of that weird comparison, the dominant guy inning per inning versus the innings eater. Sure.

All right, let's go to the bullpen here. There's a lot going on. Who is the Astros closer? Nope. It sounds like Ken Giles is the Astros closer. That just doesn't mean what it does. on a lot of other teams maybe. Right.

Yeah, that's probably, that's a good way of putting it. I'm trying to think of exactly exactly how AJ Hinch put it, but basically, like he figures Giles is going to lead the Astros and saves, but he's not,

he's just going to play it day to day what do you think is best for the team, basically. And that will probably mean Giles leads the Astros and saves, but it will not mean that Giles is automatically,

and when there's a lead of three-runs, or fewer, heading into the ninth inning. Chris Davensky is 31% owned. He's been used in the role. Brad Peacock, excuse me, he's been used in the role, and he is 45% owned. Who would you rather have rest of the season? Ken Giles or Keenan Middleton? Giles. Yeah, Giles, but they are much, much closer.

Like, they've gotten pretty close. Who is the closer for the St. Louis Cardinals? they are easing Holland in Is that what they said or is that what like we think No that's what they've said Yeah I picked up But Norris in a league where we don't have It's our for the people league

Yeah I think he may get a save or two this week Yeah it sounds like And that's the thing like I don't think it's They're easing him in oh he's closing tomorrow What the way their MLB B-Wit Rider put it based on his conversation with Mathini

was there's kind of like a checklist of things they want to see Holland do, they want to see him do a clean inning, they want to see him do back-to-back days, I guess with clean innings. So he's at least a couple appearances away from getting back in the role, I think. Who is the closer for the Milwaukee Brewers?

Workerable. My guess it would be Matt Albers if they had an opportunity today, but that's I mean, that's why I've said I don't, I don't, I don't, what happened this weekend is why I've said, I don't feel like you can drop Jacob Barnes yet. How about the raise?

I mean, it's Colomé, but do you feel any need to pick up maybe Sergio Romo or Jose Alvarado? I haven't done that, but what I did do in a couple of those leagues where not every safe source is owned, so the head-to-head points format, I drafted Colomé in a couple of them, and I dropped them. I think in both instances for Keone Kila.

I just... I think Colomé is going to remain the raise closer. I think he'll probably be fine, but in those leagues where the only closers I own, I'm starting, and I'm banking losses along the way, I don't feel like I can trust Colomé enough to start him in those formats. That means I don't want to own them either. All right. Brad Ziegler was bad again.

Is there anyone in the Marlins bullpen, Heath, that you'd be thinking about adding in the Marlins bullpen? I think there's several guys in the Marlins' bullpen, but I don't know for sure which one it would be, and I don't know that they take this roll away from Ziegler. They need him to get going good sometime this first half so they can trade him. And I don't think – I think it diminishes his value too much if he drops back into a 7th or 8th inning roll.

I think they're going to ride this out for a while. All right, and then I don't think we care that Sean Doolittle. It blew a save, or actually I think he took a loss in a tie game. And Jake Deekman got a save for the Rangers. Keone Keough pitched the ninth inning and threw a scoreless inning. And then they scored in the 10th, and Deegman came in for the save. But Keel is still their closer. On baseball tonight last night, they kept calling him Kila.

So I'm going forward with that, yeah. You know, I've heard a lot of bad pronunciations on those national broadcasts. I go with the local guys. That best version? You don't trust them? I trust him. Adam says, what are you doing to me? The game or baseball tonight? The broadcast of the actual game or on baseball tonight?

The actual game. All right, all right. Keelah. Now I'm angry. All right, who did we add and dropping? This is going to be an interesting segment because I think a lot of – this was a busy weekend for me. I thought there were a lot of guys worth adding. Of course, Joey Lucasey would have been number one, but he was owned in my leagues.

But Heath, how about you? some interesting players that our fantasy owners should be looking to put on their teams? I think we've buried the lead long enough. I picked up Big Sexy in two different leagues, Bartolo Cologne. Yeah, that's going to backfire. That is going to backfire. One of them is the AL-only league? Okay, that's not going to backfire this.

One of them was our 16-team categories league. Backfire. Maybe it will, but what he's done early in the year is not totally without merit. and it's not totally without like, yeah, he might be able to do this. The elite control is back. He's walked just two guys in 18 innings. And we've seen that from him in long stretches before. The swinging strike rate still isn't very good, but it's also the highest of his career.

I don't say, I'm not saying you should pick him up in a 12 team head-to-head league. You probably shouldn't, unless he has two starts. But I'm buying in a little bit. This Bartolo Colon. I'm not sure if we said his actual name other than Big Sexy. Bartolo Colon had a perfect game into the eighth inning last night. Houston, a pretty solid lineup to be doing that. Some other deep league pitchers that you might be interested in.

Bartol, like really deep leagues. Dylan Peters, Brandon Finnegan, Trevor Richards, Annabal Sanchez. Would Cologne be at the top of that list along with Sanchez, Peters, Finnegan, and Trevor Richards? It depends on what I need. I think he probably would be. I mean, other than last year, if you look at the last four years, last year's kind of the outlier in terms of how bad he was. Now, he's not that good either, but he's kind of,

kind of in that, I guess kind of in the Mike Leak class of pretty much somebody you consider every time he's making two starts, but you don't ever consider him a regular part of your lineup either. You could put those two on at Fantasy Team. have a great team name. Would it be a great team name? Not bad. Not a bad team name. A Cologne League?

That's a pretty good team name. Yeah, it's not bad. It's a good one. All right, anything else, Heath? You said you had, before the show, you teased, you said you had names, good names for this. Well, you went to the bullpen first, so I thought that picking up Bud Norris in a league where saves are really scarce, especially a weekly type league, I think that's a very good move for this week, and he's still like

16% owned? Yes. And Ben Zobrist. Yes, I picked him up too. I added in one league where I actually have Ian Hap, and I didn't drop Hap yet, but I would much rather start Zobrist than Hap right now. He's playing

more, and he's hitting better, and he's walking more than he's striking out. And they're at Corse Field for three games this week, so Zobrist I picked up in a couple of leagues. Yeah, good stuff. I dropped Tyler Malley for him. That was in a daily head-to-head categories. It's better to have Zobriss in a daily league

because you don't know if he's going to play every day. But if you can just start him when he's starting, that's very nice. Is that it, Heath? That's it. Scott, big ad drops for you? Well, I got Lucchasey in a couple leagues, so that was exciting. In shallower leagues, fortunately, I only had to replace Elvis Andrews in shallower leagues, and Jan Harris-Selarte happened to be available in both.

The timing of that Donaldson injury worked out nicely. there. I picked up, yeah, I feel like my biggest pickups were all in shallow league. So I got Corey Dickerson as a fillin outfielder. He has a nice hitting streak going. Two-starred options. I put in a claim for Povetta, but I don't think I got him. Rinaldo Lopez has ended up being a surprise two-star sleeper,

and I think he's available in the third of leagues. I picked up Keenan Middleton. I picked up Kila as a replacement for Colomé in a couple leagues, as I made. mentioned. So that's about it. Okay. And then I picked up Tyson Ross. Tyson Ross is 18% own right now. He's pitching pretty well. The only thing is you might want to be patient with him. He's got one start against the Dodgers this week, Tyson Ross. And then next week he should be a two-star pitcher, but one of them will be at Colorado.

So I'm not sure you're going to want to use him immediately. But I think for a guy who's less and 20% own used to be a must-start guy, basically, or at least a must-own. Not a bad time to take a shot on Tyson Ross. I added them in one league, too. I dropped Matt Harvey. I think Matt Harvey has a chance to lose his rotation spot to Zach Wheeler, guys. What do you think? Well, I mean, there's room for both.

I don't know how interested they are in keeping, like, forcing Seth Lugo back in. Well, they have Vargas coming off the D.L. Oh, Vargas. That's the one. That's the one. Okay, maybe. Yeah, I mean, I dropped Harvey. I think Harvey was who I dropped to get Luke Casey in one of the leagues where I did that.

So he's not beyond dropping, I don't think. And Tyson Ross, he was in my, like, you know, my priority list of weight. Like, I put in claims for Ross, and it just didn't get far enough down priority for those claims to go through. So I hear what you're saying. Yeah. I don't know that I would have dropped Harvey for him, but they're in about the same range for me, the two thoracic outlet guys. I had a junior gara for the two starts this week. That's going to be dicey, but it's my best option.

He's got the Reds and the Marlins. Francisco Zervali, I read about in Scott's sleeper hitter column, and he's hit well right now. He's apparently changed his launch angle, Scott, from Survelli? Yeah, he was a guy who consciously changed his launch angle joining the Flyball Revolution. It's played out. The already two home runs this season,

and he's always been a good plate discipline guy. I'm glad you brought it up because in a points league, where obviously I don't necessarily need Sorvelli to have a big home run total. I just need volume and good play discipline for him to be a serviceable starter. I actually dropped Brian McCann for him because McCann's only been playing two out of every three games. And just the fact that he's likely to hit 20 home runs isn't as meaningful in that format. Oh, how about that? So that's Francisco Sorvelli.

I did drop Kevin Kiermeyer, who looks like he's ready for an extended absence, which is a real shame. I want to get your thoughts on this guy, 18% own Franchi Cordero, added him in a 12-team Roto League. Hoping, you know, Will Myers should be back pretty soon, hoping Cordero stays as the Padres Center Fielder, not that Myers plays center field, but just stays in the lineup. He's got some power, he's got some speed. He had great minor league numbers.

It wasn't very good last year in a cameo, but what do you think about Franchi Cordero, guys? He did put up a nice batting average and OPS in the minors last year. He did it with horrendous play. discipline. I'm not really a franchi guy. I know there are a lot of people throughout the industry that are. I know Al Melchior is a big franchi guy. So, you know, I'd like to find out exactly what he sees in him, but I don't see it. Yeah, I'm with Scott on this one. They're just, they have so many guys for those three outfield positions. And I, I like almost all of them more than

branchy. So I know Margot's off to a terrible start Renfro's got some question marks, but I'd rather have Porella, I'd rather have Margo I'd rather have Renfro. Well, yeah, Porella is actually, like, I didn't pick him up, and Margot's on the DL right now, but, um, so it might

just be a short-term thing with Cordero, but Porella, do you guys have any interest in him? I mean, this is another bad plate discipline, but a lot of hits right now, Josei Pirella. I have a lot of shares of Porella actually because they're pretty much all in deeper leagues like 15 team roto or you know al nL specific or i guess that be nl

nl specific leagues um but he was a priority for me in those formats based on the way he ended last season and the role he looked like he'd have going into this season obviously i can't say i'm disappointed there but at the same time i'm not sure he's done enough to graduate to that 12 team mixed threshold because there aren't any home runs yet uh the plate discipline's been bad in the early going. He's been striking out a lot. I'm just like, he's been hot, sure, but beyond that, I don't know that he's elevated his stock. All right, so that's Jose Porella, and the last guy added Justin Bohr, 14-team Head Head Points League. Again, Reed Scott's Sleeper Hitter column, very, very helpful.

Boar has two games at Yankee Stadium. Now those are against Severino and Tanaka, but four games after that at Miller Park, so six good ballparks, six good games, ballpark-wise, for Justin Borr, this. week. He's not a bad player, right? And he got hot after I wrote it. So he's the hot handplay, too. Four home runs in his last six games, I think.

Cool. I didn't even realize that. All right. So some names, Bartolo Colon, Cologne, all those closers, Cologne and Deep Leagues, all those closer candidates, Lucasi, obviously, Ben Zobrist, Francisco Cervelli, and, yeah, Justin Bore. Those are some names to know. Now, here's something else to know.

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And again, use the promo code fantasy. Download the Seekek app and use the promo code fantasy to get 20 bucks off your first Seekkeek purchase. All right, so let's take a look now at the most added players in CBSports.com leagues. And see, you know, we told you who we're adding. I hope that is helpful for you. Let's see who the people are adding right now. Joey Lucasee, number one, he's now 68% owns.

That's climbing. Nick Povetta is 78% owned and he is a two-start pitcher this week. Definitely some split opinions on this podcast on Nick Povetta at Atlanta and home against Pittsburgh this week will be a bit of a test for him. We shall see. Sure, but I'd start him. Yeah, we have split opinions on this podcast about Povetta, but I don't think there's any split opinions that 78% on a two-start week is maybe even low. Yeah. Okay.

Zach Wheeler, 50% owned. I mean, that seems like kind of a boom or bust sort of. Well, he is a two-star pitcher this week, right? He is a two-star pitcher, yes. He, uh, yeah, I put in a claim where he was available. Again, sometimes it was too far down priority to go through, but I did get him in a couple weeks, too. Okay, as Drobo Cabrera, 82% owned, Francisco Cervelli, 68. Jed Lowry.

We're going to come back to him a little bit later. We're going to talk about him and, uh, DJ LeMayhew, the two of the top three second baseman in fantasy, along with Ozzy Albies. What about Trevor Williams, guys? Trevor Williams is 61% owned. There's not the upside there of a Pivotta or even a Zach Wheeler, but he's kind of in that Cologne League class I talked about, too, where among the more available options that is making two starts this week,

he seems like one of the more reliable ones. So I wouldn't say he's must add with two starts Because you have to consider who you'd be dropping to add him, obviously. But he's usable. Yeah, I think he's bad. He may still work in a two-star week. It may work out okay, but there is a lot of risk there. He's not striking anyone out.

He's never really been very good in the past. You're hoping he's just okay. He was good last year, right? I mean, good in the context, I think. talked about. We're a good streamer type pitcher. This is Trevor Williams we're talking about, by the way. So he's on the most added list. So is Junjin Ryu. And honestly, this is most added list is often just the two-star pitchers.

But other guys, Keenan Middleton, obviously, he's 59% owned. Dansby Swanson is 75% owned. People obviously need shortstop replacements. Corey Dickerson is on this list. Again, somebody we plan on talking about. We've actually discussed a lot of them. Aladmus Diaz is 29% owned. How do you feel about him as a shortstop replacement? placement. Aledmus Diaz. He's up to four home runs now, right? Yeah, if not, yeah, four.

And still doesn't strike out much. Didn't strike out much last year. It's just the power he showed two years ago evaporated on him. I didn't end up adding him anywhere, but I thought about it. Yeah, I own him in two leagues, and I think he's under-owned. Aledmus Diaz, we're talking. Last guy here on the most added list, I want to talk about it. talk to you about is Yulee Guriel.

65% owned Yuli Guriel. What do you think about that ownership percentage for Guriel? Last year hit 299 with 18 homers in 139 games. I think he needs to be up. And he needs to keep going up from there. Justin Boer or Guriel?

Let's go with Boer for now. He's higher among those top 10 sleeper hitters for this week. Both are on the list. Yeah, I expect Gerell is going to score more fantasy points than Bore the rest of the year. But I would say Bore because at that level I'm more interested in who's going to be better this week. Would you drop Yonder Alonzo for just for Gerell or Bore? Let me take a peek at what Alonzo is doing at him. You know, I like them a lot coming out of spring training.

But he's on the Indians, and none of them are doing much. And they're going to Puerto Rico this week. That's a good hitters park, I believe. The weather's going to be better for them. I mean, they have dealt with the Indians and the Tigers have really dealt with just terrible. terrible weather so far. I mean, I don't think I would. If it was a situation

where like, if I keep Beyonder, he's in my lineup, then maybe I would. But if it's just for a bench spot, probably not. I think I'd pick four up. Okay. So, let's see what's next here. We've got to get into the news.

Nolan Aronado has am I three games remaining on his suspension? Aronado, do we know? I'm pretty sure. that is true. I believe that's accurate, but I would not want to wager on it. Are we, well, let me find out for sure.

All right, so he, yeah, he missed Saturday and Sunday. Okay, there you got three games left. They have a six-game week, and he will have three games against the Cubs at home later this week. Start or sit, No one Aronado. Probably sort him. Oh, really? I was thinking probably sit him for half a week.

If I could justify having another third basement on my roster, which is an important consideration. Yeah, yeah. Okay, Josh Donaldson is on the D.L. You will not be starting him. Shoulder inflammation for Donaldson. This is related to those, you know, the dead army had at the beginning of the year. Weird.

Really weird. I haven't mentioned Teasca Hernandez. So let me ask you about him first. Are you interested in Teoska Hernandez? I think maybe it would have to be like a five outfielder rodeo league. Okay. Because even when he's up, I'm not sure the playing time is going to be consistent. It's not like they lost an outfield or they lost a third basement, you know?

Right. So what's your thought on Donaldson now? Is he sort of toxic for you? I think it'll, like he was hitting fine. I looked at one point last week and he was the number of one third basement. So, you know, worst case scenario, he doesn't get his arm right and he comes back and D.H. full time. But I don't even think that's going to happen.

I think with the throwing program they have him on, he'll be back probably minimal stay. and I doubt we'll talk about it again. I hope so. Jonathan's scope on the DL with a grade one oblique strain. There are some rumblings that the Yankees could be calling up Glaber Torres soon to play some third base. Torres is 63% own. He is shortstop eligible. David Price is set to start on Tuesday.

Drew Pomeranz is set to come off the DL. Maybe as early as Thursday, although rainouts are going to kind of mess with the Red Sox schedule. They're already rained out today. But Pomerans should be back this week. Kevin Kiermeier, you know, he got off such a bad start. Turned out he was playing through an illness, but now he hurt his thumb. He's going to be out for a while, likely headed to the DL very soon. Taiwan Walker's on the DL with forearm tightness.

And let's do some start or sit for this week. Anthony Rizzo, start or sit? Probably. Yeah, probably. Even though I started him last week because it looked good at this time then, too, and got a big goose egg from him. I would have to have a really good backup first basement to sit him. Ryan Braun dealing with back tightness, start or sit?

He pinch hit yesterday, if that helps. Sit, Braun? I mean, maybe five outfielder leave you start him, but not three outfielder. Johnny Quato, set for two starts this week, both on the road, one's at Arizona. I don't remember the other, but starter sit quato. He is among my two-star, in my two-star pitcher rankings season, the start threshold. Yeah, I think this is one of the advantages of I don't believe there's any day baseball today. So lineups will not lock until like 6.30 tonight or 7 p.m. Eastern tonight.

I will be Googling for Johnny Quato News about 6 p.m. Is today Patriots Day? Yeah, it's rained out, though. Yeah, the game got postponed. Yeah, so it was going to be the earliest lineup deadline of the year. Right, exactly. Yeah, Quato, so I'm leaning against Quato because we have to really look at the Angels as among the toughest matchups in baseball.

They don't strike out, and they're incredible right now. So he's at Arizona and at the Angels. I mean, I get it. That's personal. You know, I don't love Quato. But I forget it. You should start him. A points league, I think you have to start him.

Yeah, I haven't been righto. The innings accumulation. Anthony Rendon, day to day with a toe injury. J.T. Rayamuto could be back today. Start or sit Rendon, start or sit Rayamuto. I'd probably start both. Yep. Yeah. Buster Posey is expected to return tomorrow, considering it's catcher.

You're probably going to want to start him. Sounded really confident, didn't I. Well, it's tough. It's tough, cool. I mean, it depends who your options are. There's a chance I'll go in my league where I have Rendon, and, like, Mike Mustakis will be on my bench or something. And it's like, okay, well, let's play it safe and start Mustakis, because he's pretty good.

Will Myers should be back this week. Start or sit? Sit. I would, and maybe with the big roto light up, start him, but otherwise sit. Mike Zanino should be back by the weekend. I think you got to sit him. I'm sitting him for Cervale. Sit Zunino.

Eric Thames, day-to-day with a leg issue. Not sure there. If he's got lefties on the schedule and he's already day-to-day, you might want to avoid him, but that's a tough one. I'll see how many lefties are on the schedule right now. All right. And Eric Hosmer does expect to return today. So maybe you can get a little Haas action in your lineup as we wait for the Eric Thames update.

The Brewers are facing two left-handers in seven games. Sit. Sit? Okay. There's not many left-handers. But, yeah, he's not healthy. Well, if he's in the lineup today, unless they're-infeld. My Val-Fielder leagues probably started. Okay.

Is that just what I'm going to keep saying? I guess so. Hey, also, you might not want to use Eric Thames in your draft lineup tonight. But I hope you all are playing draft. Have you signed up yet? What are you waiting for? All of you play fantasy baseball. I realize a lot of you are signing up because I think I have over 2,000 followers on the draft app now,

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By low or heck no Chris Archer By low By low Oh really By low Adam He's an ace He is doing everything

Like he's always done it He's just not getting the same results So That'll come Okay but He is a 4 ERA guy in each of his last two seasons Do you think that's what he is? No

Even if he is, like, you still wanted to draft him top 15 starting pitcher, right? Let's just go through this. He has a career 297 babbip against. This year, it's 379. That won't last. He has a career 72% strand rate. This year, it's 55.9%. That will not last.

Chris Archer is going to be just fine. And just one more, he's got a career 12% home run to fly ball rate. It's 18.2% so far this year. Not worried. By low. But here's my thing. I understand he's a buy low. Even I think he's a buy low.

By low. Chris Archer has a 784 ERA. Obviously, he's a by low. What are you buying, though? Are you buying a 330 guy like he used to be? Are you buying a four ERA guy? Are you buying somewhere in between? I am buying ACE numbers except for the ERA, which will be kind of high.

And the whip. And the whip. You know what Chris Archer will have a lower ERA than Marcus Stroman from this point forward I will take that bet I will definitely take that bet

Last year Winner Winter gets the better pitcher Chris Archer was 17th in points last year and 27th in Roto So you know I'm just saying I don't know that he's the

That is pretty good But it's not great. The points, you know, 17th and points, that's not far off from how he was being drafted. I agree. 27th and Roto, okay. But at the same time, how many 240 strikeout pitchers are you going to find? Like, it's a unique skill set. It is, it is.

All right. I'm tired of the Chris Archer free pass. I'm sick and tired of it. He's a one category specialist, and he's great at it. Perfect. This is perfect. This is what happened right before Corey Kluber. I tried to do this last week.

the world. I tried to do this last week. Adam Adam was out about how we kept giving him a pass. You did give Corey Kluber a pass, but this is two years now. I can't believe we did that. This is two years now of Archer being a 4ERA guy. He's Homer prone. He's Homer prone.

I just don't mind that he's a 4. Like me, like I understand, you know, you look at the Phipps and, you know, maybe he's just underperform. But my thing is, like, I don't mind that he's a 4ERA guy, even if that's what he is. Like, I knew what I was getting into. All right, I understand.

Marcus Stroman, buy low or heck no? Heck no. I mean, he's technically a buy low, but it's not with as much enthusiasm as Archer. You're not also selling high on a Lucchase. If you're buying low, you're doing it with, you know, somebody boring. I'm just going to say this, and there's no, just me saying something. So that's the disclaimer on this. Okay.

But Josh Donaldson had a shoulder issue in spring training, and it was no big deal, and they weren't worried about it at all. and he's going on the disabled list. Marcus Stroman had a shoulder issue in spring training, and he sucked. Yeah, that's true. But he's just been wild, right? That's been the big problem for him. It's not like his stuff's been diminished.

Yeah, he just has no command at all. Which could be a sudden. He's spring. He's still getting a ton of ground balls. I mean, after his Friday start, I haven't checked his updated standings, but after the Friday start, which was terrible for Stroman, he led baseball and ground ball rate by a wide margin. And he's getting strikeouts.

And his velocity is down a little over, like, almost a mile and a half from last year. All right. Bilo or heck and no on you, Darvish, who's got, I think he's at Colorado this week, by the way. Bilo. Bilo. He's sitting Darvish. Bilo. All right, but we're going to sit him at Colorado?

Not automatically. Probably. But somebody suggested sitting him for Luckees. And I said, you should probably do that. Yeah. Yeah, I would sit him for the Casey. I think... Just for this matchup.

The only way I'm starting him is if I did a bad job on Waverich yesterday, and I can't pick anyone up today. But I probably have a pitcher that's going to be better than he is. I feel like... Yeah, go ahead. I mean, I feel like we've gotten burned. And, you know, it's just a matter of time, I understand. But this pitcher's starting at Cores, oh, he can't start him,

and then he has a great start. Like, I feel like that's happened several times already this year. And it's like, if you believe Darvish is one of the best 10 pitchers in baseball, trust the process, Scott. You should, you should, exactly. That's what I'm saying. Just not the course field process, but the good pitcher process. Jose Cantana, buy low or heck no?

I would buy low. I would also buy low. It's a boring segment. Cantana pitched, well, no, are you kidding? The Archer and Stroman thing was great. Kintana pitched in awful conditions on Saturday. Awful. They were.

Joe Madden said it was like among the worst he's ever. ever seen, I think. He was terrible last April, too. He's been really, really bad. But he's already got a win. Okay, so we got the... That's good. One in one with an 816 ERA.

All right, so we got these hitters that we should probably talk about. I'm wondering if we should save them for tomorrow. Nah, whatever. Let's do it. All right, these hitters are off to great starts. I want to know who you're buying. Yadier Molina, number one catcher in fantasy. Five homers.

Mitch Hanager, 16th in points, 15th in Roto. Corey Dickerson, 14th of points, 12th in Roto. Jed Lowry and DJ LaMayhew, they are both top three second baseman. LaMahue has five home runs this year. He's never hit more than 11. All five of DJ Lemayhew's home runs have come on the road. What? Hmm.

So, Yadi, Hanager, Dickerson, Lowry, LaMahue, who are you buying? Right now, obviously we're not buying any of them as like top three at their position or whatever. but who are you just in general buy it? Well, we probably should have talked about Jed Lowry during Waver Wire, and he was in the Waverwire call him today. He's still less than 70% owned. He was really good last year. So the way I look at it with Lowry

is because of the depth you need at middle infield, he's got to be owned in all Roto leagues. And because of his good batting average combined with a lot of walks, I think he probably should be owned in points leagues. I mean, the thing about Laudair is, Yeah, he was really good last year. If you bought that, if you bought how good he was,

then this start really shouldn't surprise you, but nobody did. I think he was only 13% owned at the start of the season. And I just happened to remember because I thought it was amazing how little he was owned for how good he was last year. But it was kind of an issue where he just got squeezed out by all these Yohan Mukata, Ian Hap, like exciting young second baseman just kept pushing the old guy

who gets injured half the time down the list. And here we are. I think maybe the attrition already early this season has made him usable for a lot of people. He wasn't really that good last year. He was good in points. Jed Lowry was number 10 in points at second base.

He was number 21 in Roto. He had the second most doubles in baseball last year. So he kind of became a points league special. list. He doesn't really homer that much, although he has four so far, and he doesn't steal any basis. He had zero steals in 153 games last year. So he was better than we thought, and he finally stayed healthy. He's only had three seasons in his career with more than 97 games played. I will say, now, he was legitimately very good in points, number 10 second baseman last year, with 49 doubles.

But in a categories league, you know, not a lot of homers, no steals. Right, yeah. The point is most of those categories. leagues, you have to start a middle infielder. But at least the rhodo ones you do. Right. Yeah, but what does he give you? Categories where you don't need a middle infielder, that's the format where he shouldn't be on.

No, I mean, I don't know that 62% owned, it needs to go up much from there, maybe max of 70. I don't, I think it would be, I mean, how many of 10 teams least we have? Cesar Hernandez is less than 70% owned. He's off to a very good start, too. And he's better than Jed Lowry. So, I mean, that's kind of, it's kind of a statement on how deep second base is, which, you know, even though we've had some injuries, some disappointments,

than they're really going. I don't think either of those guys is must own. What's Kipness at? I don't know. I just picked up Kipness yesterday. I think I'd rather have Lauer than Kipness. That's fair. Yeah.

I mean, I still expect Kivness to be better, but I don't think you need to hold them on your roster and wait for him to get better in a league where either Hernandez or Lauerie's available. What about Kipis is 61% of it? It's basically the exact same ownership. What about Moncada? Would you drop Moncada for Jed Lowry? In a points league, I might.

Right? Just to get the hot hands. Like, I don't feel like... I don't feel like Moncada is at the threshold of hitter that you just wait out how ever long it takes for him to get good in a format where there's so few hitter spots to fill. All right, how about the other guys? Melina, Hanager, Dickerson, and LeMayhew.

Actually, Hanigur is probably the one I'm most excited about because the plate discipline was part of the reason I loved him so much going into last year and while it was a successful rookie season for him that aspect of his performance didn't translate so well from the minors but this year it's been there and the power's been there and we may not have seen the best of Mitch Hanigar yet. Corey Dickerson is on fire. He was really good last year.

year. His ownership, though, was finally caught up, so. 93%. Dickerson, was he good last year? I mean, he was great for the first half. I think he had a bad second half. He hit 282 with 27 homers and 84 runs. That's...

I think, yeah, how many steals did he have? He has two already this year. Yeah, so he needs to be really good. Look, it's interesting, Dickerson, but Hanigers got eight walks, eight strikeouts. Dickerson is two-walk, seven strikeouts. He does have seven doubles. Hanager only has one, although Hanigar has more homers. I only bring them up because they're basically back-to-back in the standings

and they're owned in about the same amount of leagues. Who would you rather have, Hanager or Dickerson? I'd rather have Hanigur, yeah. But I'd like to have either. We should really look into, maybe we'll, you know, look into the DJ LaMayu thing. Is he changing anything? Somebody emailed us last week.

Is he changing his launch angle? He's pulling the ball more. He has a higher hard contact rate. which may be confusing a cause and effect thing. Like, you know, he has five home runs. So, of course, he has a harder, hard contact rate, right? But he also has a much higher fly ball rate than we've seen in the past. I don't know if that's a conscious effort or if it's just happenstance.

Yeah, it's really weird. I would be suspicious of that because his ground ball rate is still extremely high and basically unchanged. He's a career, 54.6% ground ball rate, and he's 54.4 this year. the fly ball rate has gone way up to 31%, which is still pretty low, but it's all come out at the expense of a line drive rate. I don't know that the difference between those two is going to be very stable. So he's hitting basically the same number of balls in the air.

It's just more of them are fly balls instead of line drives. All right, and another hitter to point, that's DJ the Mayhew, we're talking about. Another hitter to point out is Aaron Hicks, who is 73% owned. He had a two-homer game. It wasn't inside the park home run, one of them. But he crushed the ball. On Friday, they haven't played since. But he's in Scott Sliper hitters column, and Aaron Hicks has Caleb Smith, Jarlene Garcia,

Ostrata, Mastrata, Marcus Stroman, Jaime Garcia, and J.Hap all at Yankee Stadium this week. So shallower leagues, you might be able to plug him in. As far as stolen bases go, Tommy Pham stole two bases. That was, he's playing well now. Reese Hoskins has three steals and four attempts, guys. Do you think that's a significant thing? I mean, it's not insignificant. Like, he's a stud without that, but you add that to everything else, and he might be a first-round caliber hitter.

It's pretty nice. Reese Hoskinson. Ian Kinsler's back, and he stole two bases on Friday. Okay. Just so we don't get Harleen Garcia's family emailing us. Harleen? It's Harleen. I tried to confirm this Keelah thing, too, because I'm not sure I actually heard Matt Viscersion say it.

I heard Alex Rodriguez say it. Jessica Mendoza saying. Well, then that's a different story, Scott. I'm not sure. I may have heard Vasquez, and I wasn't keeping notes or something while I was watching, but I definitely heard those other two say. All right. Actually, watch the...

Maybe, like, you know, you know. You know the baseball reference says Kella. I'm almost positive. The baseball reference has been wrong before. Baseball reference also says Arena instead of Irania. I'm almost positive it's Kella. I really feel strongly that it's Kella. All right.

Yeah, we're definitely going to have to figure this. I mean, it could be a situation. where Alex just dropped to Kila mid-broadcast and it's like, oh, that must be what it is. You know, like that internal monologue. Like, oh, I guess I had it wrong. So I'm going to start saying Kila, too. And that's how misinformation gets spread. That is.

That's how rumors get spread, for sure. Yeah. I did watch a little bit of NBA basketball this weekend. That was fun. I watched some baseball. I took a little break and watched some basketball last night. I'm sure you did as well, Heath, for your brother. Oh, it was fantastic Celtics game.

Brad Stevens is amazing I will take your word for that I only saw the highlights Well only the back-to-back three-pointer thing Okay anyway more news and notes Harado Parra suspended four games He has not started serving So if you start Herardo Parra this week

You could be missing him for four games Denelson Lamet's going to have Tommy John surgery Apparently the Padres could call up Eric Lauer Eric Lauer He's kind of interesting Wait did I mention Glaber Torres We just didn't talk about it. You did mention Glaber Torres.

During the Yankees hour. Yeah. Mookie Betz has a bruised foot. He's day to day. He should be fine. Logan Forsyth on the D.L. Brandon McCarthy set to start on Wednesday. Josh Harrison left after being hit by a pitch on the hand.

That could be bad for Harrison. Parker Bridwell is likely going to join a six-man Angels rotation. And the Yankees are considering calling Glaber Torres up, it seems. What? Letting everybody know. What? How concrete is that? The buzzing.

about Glaibre Torres. Not that concrete, but I think in two days, if he stays down in the minors, two more days, then they get the extra year of service time. Unlike Acuna and Senzel, Senzel. Senzel. Senzel, Washington. He's been hitting well down there.

Yeah, and they have a black hole at third base right now. Just nobody's hitting. And I think he's been playing third. So anyway. Can we talk about how good Josh Hader is? Yeah. Should we? He's not a hater for Hater.

I am not a hater. I think there's still a pretty good chance with the way they're using him that in the second half we get R.P. eligible Josh Hater, and he's awesome. What, you mean in the rotation? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, there's a chance. He struck out 22 batters in 9 and 2 thirds innings this year.

Like the Brewer's obvious weakness is starting rotation, right? Oh, yeah. So they think... The plan can't be for him to be a middle. reliever forever. I don't think it is. All right, guys, here's what we're going to do to end the show. We're going to save some of our pitching talk for tomorrow. Talk about guys like Sean Mania, Cole Hamels, Felix Hernandez,

Rich Hill, guys like that. But right now, let's take a look at some players that are available in 20% of leagues or more. We'll start with the shallower leagues and work our way down to the deep leagues. Then we'll do today's matchups, and then we'll read some emails and end the show. Fringy starting pitchers. Part one. Who do you like at this group? Stephen Mats, Yvonne Nova, Alex Cobb, Sean Newcomb. Nukum the most, for sure.

Despite another bad control start from them this weekend? Despite another bad control start from him this weekend. I'm trying to find this list to make sure I got all the names right. Okay, Matt's Nova, Cobb, Nukum. Yeah. I agree, Nukum. And I'd probably go Matt's second. I do want to point this out for Nova, though.

You know how much I love the swinging strikes? in this start, 14 in the previous start. The most he had in any start last year was 12. That's pretty nice. Yeah. Now, I know the Cubs strike out a ton, that was two starts ago. I'm assuming the Marlin strike out a ton. I'll tell you right now.

Strikeouts per game. He said he's, and it was responsible for the most swinging strikes. He said he's putting some work on his curveball, and he feels really confident with where it is now. Maybe that's just because he was facing two teams that strike out a lot and got a lot to swings and misses. He wasn't. It wasn't, it turns out.

The Marlins are middle of the pack. They're 14th. So, you know, I'm not rushing to pick out up Nova based on this information. I still have a pretty good idea. Nova's not a strikeout pitcher. I'm just saying. It was two games. His season's 11% strikeout, right?

It's, well, it's pretty good. It's fine. But it's, you know, it's early. Yeah, let's just see. Let's just see where it goes. But it's worth pointing out. Let me say one thing about Sean Nucoman is four walks and five in a third. The conditions really probably did play a factor.

I mean, it was apparently just very difficult to throw strikes that day. Kintana was awful. That was the same game. So the fact that Katana was that bad, and Nukum was actually five and a third, three runs, two earned at the Cubs. Not, you know, the control wasn't great, but the conditions were so bad. That was the 10-2 comeback from the Cubs. Yeah. Were you pissed off about that, Scott?

I actually, that was the second game my three-year-old watched this season. And, you know, he didn't. I thought he was halfway rooting for the Cubs. I don't know. He doesn't really know what he's watching. But he watches it very attentively, which is surprising. You didn't answer the question. Were you angry?

Eight run an inning there. They blew the game. I was sad for him. Oh, for him. I mean, it's just a game. And I didn't get invested until it was later. But I thought he was rooting for the Cubs. I started watching a 10-5.

So it wasn't as... No, I didn't get angry. Okay. Well, I would have been very angry. Yeah. Maybe if I'd have been invested for him. from the beginning, I would have, but I wasn't. Fringy starting pitchers part D.

60% percent, 50 to 64% own. We got Eduardo Rodriguez, Miles Michaelis, Jake Ferria, and Mike Leak. Eduardo Rodriguez, Miles Michaelis, Jake Ferreya, and Mike Leak. Yeah, for me, it's E. I think I might like him more than most of the guys in the first group. I think I like Rodriguez, Michaelis, and Ferreya all more than anybody in the first group. The first group being Nukum, Mats, etc. Yes.

Yeah, it's an interesting group. I mean, I read that quote about Faria after his terrible start against, I think, the Red Sox from the Tampa Bay Times that said, like, he came in. There's been rumblings that he was very cocky coming into the off season, coming into spring training. But he bounced back with a nice start against the Phillies. Like, this has happened now twice in spring training and regular season, where awful starts where he's working. walking everybody and then suddenly turns it around with an awesome outing like he had this weekend. Like I think in spring training it was like six no-hit innings he had after that stretch where he was walking everybody in sight. So like whatever the problem is, there's a clear

solution for it. It's just maintaining that from start to start. Man, there really are a lot of pitchers I want to own. It's just not enough room for him. Yeah, there really is. Part three. And here's a guy that I, I'm considering dropping him in a Roto league, but I don't really want to, but I might have to. Mike Minor. I don't really care that he was terrible against the Astros. A lot of pitchers, other than Bartolo Cologne, are terrible against the Astros. Minor is 49% owned. Tyler Malley, yeah, I'm okay dropping him.

I did drop him in two leagues. Andrew Triggs has a 287 ERA and more than a strikeout per inning. He's 42% owned. Vince Velasquez was great at the raise. He has been okay so far this year. Vince Velasquez and Jose Arania was okay against the Pirate. So we got minor, Mali, Triggs, Velazquez, and Arania. I think Velasquez, the fact he's only 39% owned and I haven't bothered to add him anywhere myself.

It speaks to what you're saying. There are just too many starting pitchers to own. And a guy who, you know, you said he's been okay so far. He had one terrible start and his two really good ones since then. But he's faked us out in the past and still is such a fastball-heavy arsenal. I don't have as much room for optimism there, even though there is room for optimism. I mean, for sure, I'd rather own him than anyone on this list in a Roto League.

Velasquez. Miner's spark eligibility makes him more valuable in a points league, but I'd rather have Velasquez than minor in a Roto League. See, I feel like the strikeout potential is pretty similar for those two. So I'd rather have minor anywhere. Okay. And then in deep leagues, Tyson Ross, Homer Bailey, Andrew Heaney. Jason Hamill, and then you got the group I mentioned earlier, Cologne, Peters, Anabal Sanchez, Finnegan, and Richards.

But Tyson Ross, Homer Bailey, Andrew Heaney, and Jason Hamill are owned in 22% of leagues or less. Ross is the best, right? That's the most upside for sure. Yeah. Yeah, he's in a standard 12-team mixed league, if it's not for playing the match-up situation. Ross is the only one I would even give a thought to. Okay. Then let's take a look at today's games, who you give him a thought to today.

Caleb Smith at Luis Severino, Sitting Smith, starting Severino, right? Yep. We got Adam Wainwright at Tyler Chatwood. Who do you guys like there? I'll start Chatwood. Fine. Armand Marquez at Stephen Brault.

I'm thinking neither here. That's the way I feel as well. Royals at Blue Jays, Eric Skogland, and Jaime Garcia. Nah. Nah. I'd prefer not. Bahamas, like maybe, a strong maybe. Okay.

Jeremy Hallexen at Jacob de Grom, Nats at Metz. Obviously, DeGromm and obviously not, Helixson. Rangers at Rays, Martine Perez at Blake Snell. I will start Snell. Yep. Aaron Nola at Julio Tehran. Start Nola. And that's it.

Yes, it's at Tehran. Okay. Luis Castillo at Brent Souter. I'd start Castillo. And I might consider Suter. Yeah, if you were going to... If you were going to gamble, Suter or Jaime Garcia, who would you gamble on?

I will go with Garcia, because I think he has a better chance of getting... They're both going to get wins. Yeah. I think Garcia has the least disaster potential there, so if you're just trying to shoehorn in another start, like, I would lean toward highest floor. I mean, honestly, Martin Perez could have a good start today against the raise. God, the rays are so bad.

Their lineup is so bad. White Sox at A, but I'm not starting my Tepress. White Sox at A's. Raynaldo Lopez at Daniel Mengden. Start Lopez? Yep. And sit Mengden. Though it's not automatic.

Bad pitchers against bad teams today. Yeah. Heem. Jun-Riu at Robbie Erlund. Start Hyun-Riu. Yep. Erlen against a bad team. No.

Dodgers are five and nine. Ah, man. Astro, okay, it's starting both Paxson and Kikle. There's your marquee matchup of the night. Astros at Mariners at 10, 10 p.m. Eastern. All right, let me read a couple of emails here, and we'll skedaddle from Robert. Dear Matt, Matt, Matt, and Matt, rank these mats. Matt Chapman, Matt Olson, Matt Olson.

Matt Chapman, Matt Davidson. Yeah, I'll stick with that order for now as well. Walker from Edmonton. Hey, Jay, Aaron, Marcus, and Marco. That sounds like the Blue Jays rotation? It sure is. I have Robbie Ray. I'm quite frustrated.

I really like Jose Berrios. Would it be crazy of me to offer Robbie Ray for Burrios in a categories, 10-team categories, Keeper League? I feel like he's trolling us. No, no, no. I think I have these guys like three spots apart in my rankings. Yeah. But you can get more.

Offer Robbie Ray for Jose Burrios and something. Maybe you can give more. But if you couldn't give them, hypothetically, they're both young, so I'm not sure that matters. The keeper aspect. I still like Raymore. If it was a points league, I might just take Burios. All right, here's a grade the trade from Shy Cub Chris. Dear non-zero chance, grade, six by six OBP League, give Joey Votto.

Get Upton and Kimball. Give Votto get Upton and Kimbrel. Do it. Yeah. I'll be minus. I'll give it a C plus unless it's a 10-team league. From Randy, Adam Eaton or Gregory Polanco in a head-to-head league with walks. Eaton or Polanco?

Polanco. I would say Eaton. Okay. No, I mean, he's injured, so. Gosh. I would still say Eden. if I had replacements. Okay, then, we're done here.

Thank you guys. Thank you all for listening, and we'll come back tomorrow, and tomorrow we'll talk about Joey Votto and his lack of extra base hits. Of course, I'll hit two home bruns tonight. See you later.