Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/17 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Early Trends, Mon. Recap

Episode Date: April 17, 2018

Has Reynaldo Lopez become a must-start (1:40)? Are we buying Hyun-Jin Ryu (8:33)? Is Christian Villanueva legit (9:50)? And what about Asdrubal Cabrera (11:20)? ... Our thoughts on Trea Turner's slow start (14:30) and some prospects to stash before we get into the trends we've noticed thus far including fly ball rates (20:00), the value of closers (22:40), players who are hitting the ball very hard (24:20) and if the Super Aces have gained value since draft day ... "Hey, Real Quick" debates Aaron Judge vs. Joey Votto (36:42), Didi Gregorius vs. Alex Bregman (38:10) and Bryce Harper vs. The World (40:22). We've also got Grade the Trade (53:45) and a preview of today's games (58:10) ... 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

All right, you have a fun show for you today. We are going to take a look at some early season themes. I want to talk about the Superaces, and who might be joining that group of four. And we'll find out what Heath and Chris want to talk about. I really have no idea. I have no idea where they're going to go with this. Hey, Kreef, what's up?

Hello. Hi, Adam. Oh, hey, guys. All right, great. So let's just do this show, Monotone. Bernardo Lopez was pretty good last night. What did you guys think of... I think we should do it as a...

an NPR. Yeah, okay. Rinaldo Lopez pitched very well last night, 106 pitches, 11 swinging strikes, but he was out-duled by Daniel Mengden of the Oakland Athletics. Hey, did you happen to get a look at the mustache that Daniel Magnin is sporting?

I have not, but I am a connoisseur of all things mustache and beard-related. All right, I'm going to end. It was fun. That was good stuff. That was fun. Pete Schweedy, everybody, Pete Schweddy. All right, yeah, so we will talk about

Ronaldo Lopez and Daniel Magnin, and as Druma Cabrera is the number two shortstop in fantasy. Who's the number one shortstop in fantasy right now, guys? Me. Not you. Not Pete Gregory. Didi Gregorius is the correct answer. We have some hey real quick with Didi Grigorous and others coming up.

Who stood out to you guys yesterday, big standouts from Monday's games? Well, it was definitely Renaldo Lopez. I think, and part of it, I was just giving Chris a hard time because we had a tradeoffer of Raynaldo Lopez for Jack Flaherty. So, of course, now I'm going to watch it closer because we didn't take that deal. But listen, the first start was good. The second start was suspicious. Only five strikeouts, five walks against the Tigers.

Yeah, it was seven shit out innings. But this was a little bit more convincing. The walks still a little bit of a concern. I would not put Lopez yet on like, like, top 30 consideration, but I'm starting to believe it. Yeah, I like it. It's pretty good stuff, right? Six innings, two runs, four walks, but ten strikeouts at the A's,

and right now 11 walks and 21 innings. I'm trying to figure out, because you and I have talked about him, Lopez versus Sean Nukum and who's got the track record. I'm trying to figure out, you know, based on his minor league numbers, it seems like he's a little bit of little inconsistent with the walks and his major league numbers. You know, like 2017, 49 walks and 121 innings, that's kind of a lot. But the year before that, 10 walks in 33 innings at one stop, 25 walks, 76 inning.

So that's not that much. So I don't know. I don't really know what to expect in terms of control for Lopez, but obviously 71% owned. He's a little underowned as well. He's a little underowned, yes. He's not just been inconsistent with his walks. He's been inconsistent with almost everything. I mean, you see ERAs in the fours, you see strikeout rates in the sevens, and then you see years like he had in 2016 where he struck out like 12 batters per nine and walked less than three.

So the upside is absolutely there. He does look like a guy that struggles with consistency. What's interesting about Reinalda Lopez, and this fits in with the white socks, is he's throwing a cutter now. And it doesn't appear to be a classification error. He's thrown it 10.5% of the time, according to pitch effects, and I'm reading a story now where he was working on that. In spring training as a weapon to get lefties out, that could be big. I mean, anytime you see a pitcher throwing a new pitch,

and he's apparently traded in his curveball for a slider as well. But, you know, Don Cooper, I think, is pretty well known for the development of that cutter. I think that's actually part of why Jeff Samar just struggled theirs. he couldn't get the cutter to work. But when it does work, it can be an effective pitch. And it's interesting to watch Rinaldo Lopez changing his arsenal. And since I'm on the podcast with Chris, I need to be consistent and just say that Rinaldo Lopez has allowed a 150 Babbat and has a 93% strand rate.

He's going to have to stop walking people or it's going to catch up with him. Yeah, you mentioned Sean Nucum versus Rinaldo Lopez. I would be more interested in Sean Nucum at this point. But what Rinaldo Lopez is doing is very. I mean, I'm definitely interested in, I'm definitely more interested in Joey Lucasey. I'm sure we all are. I think when I have a lot of these guys, like I have one team, which is in Dead Last, actually tied for Chris, tied with Chris for Dead Last.

Oh, yeah. I'm in that league. We are tied, yes, Heathier and first. With my 595 Team ERA. I don't get it. I don't get it. We made a trade yesterday in that league. We did.

You gave away Johnny Quito. I gave away Quato for Adam Eaton. So I assume you have really solid starting pitching. This is my starting pitch. This is what I want to talk about. Okay, in this league, yes, I have Dallas Keiko, I have Carlos Carrasco, I have Rich Hill kind of anchoring the rotate. I have Blake Snell. So I think I have pretty good pitching.

I also have Tyler Skaggs, Rinaldo Lopez, Zach Wheeler, Jake Faria, Stephen Mats, Mike Minor. So I have a lot of guys. I don't know that I trust any of those other guys on, you know, on it, like, start them all the time. think I'm there yet. It's a matchups thing. And what I would say right now is that what I'm trying to do unsuccessfully because nobody freaking trades in this league is package two of them, Skaggs and Lopez, for someone more reliable that might be a by-low. You could maybe try to trade for a guy like a Johnny Quedo. I don't want Johnny Quedo. I think all these guys are going to strike out more batters

than Johnny Quato. And I don't want to be the, you know, I don't want to talk too much about Quato because if I'm wrong, then it's going to make our podcast look bad. I'm obviously just taking a very strong stance. I think he's going to be good at home. I think he's not going to be worth using on the road for the most part. But anyway, I don't know, of all these streaming pitchers that have come about, including Rinaldo Lopez, to me, Lucchese is the only one that I have, like, very high hopes for. I don't know how you guys feel about that. Like, the other ones are going to be streamers. You know, they're going to be worth owning, but not necessarily must-starts. Yeah, I kind of feel the opposite. I feel like Joe Lucchase is the kind of pitcher who could

do really, really well the first 15 starts, and then as the scatting report catches up to him, he starts to lose it a bit because he's not working with overwhelming stuff. He doesn't have what we would generally consider to be big swing and miss stuff. He's getting a lot of swings and misses right now. But those guys who rely on deceptiveness, it can be a really fine line. All right, that's fair. But then who would you say, if anyone?

Looks like a must start to you. Clayton Kershaw. Yeah, exactly. But I mean, like, in that same league, I think my pitching staff isn't that bad, but everybody has been bad. I don't think I'm actually worried about Jose Cantana or Lance McCona or Lance McCona. No, no, no, Chris. I'm talking about the waiver wire guys. Yeah.

Do any of them look like must starts to you? And that's fine if they don't. They don't have to. You don't usually go from waiver wire to must start directly. Right. But I was just looking because I've got a mass start. massive rankings update to do today. I'm trying to do it once a week,

so I don't spend quite as much of my time moving guys three spots in the 60s, the pitcher. But as of last week, I had him ranked Nukem, Lopez, Lucchese. Lucchese's moving up, and he wasn't actually on their tier last week, but I'm still not sure he's passing Newcomb. Wow. All right, good.

I like your Doug in. You're the Sean Newcomb guy. I think my point is, like, if you can trade two of them for one real really good pitcher, you should do it. I don't, yeah, it has to be a really good pitcher. I'm not trading two of them for, like, the Sunny Gray Kyle Hendricks group. But you'd do it for Kentana.

I would. Yeah, it's realistic. I think you could try to, I'm not going to work in this league, but you could try to do it in your league out there. It might work. All right, I'm sorry. That took a long time. Jun Ryu is 61% own. He had another really good start, two in a row.

two straight starts of six innings and eight or nine strikeouts against Oakland at the Padres. Hyun Jun Ryu at 61%. What do you think about that ownership? It's low. It should be higher. I'll write about him in Waverwire today, but he's certainly less excited. I wouldn't drop any of the aforementioned WaverWire guys for him. So I think the one thing I would run into is, like, I have Brandon McCarthy in a couple of leagues.

I guess I would drop Henry or Brandon McCarthy for Hun Jun Ryu but it doesn't feel like a slam dunk either way I think those are two very similar guys I kind of expect him to be added and dropped and added and dropped like McCarthy multiple times

this year he has got off to a very good start but listen it's the Padres Oakland who's been better than I expected so far this year and then kind of a bad start in the humidor environment. So I agree with Chris.

I'd put him below Lucchase, below Lopez, below Newcomb. He's going to be a matchup dependent. I don't know that I'm even looking at him, depending on who he has next week. Okay, that is Chunjuru, who is in the middle of a two-start week, which is why he's 61% owned. Chris, talk to me about Christian Villanueva. 42% owned, and he's got a home run in three straight games.

You might remember 10 games ago, Villanueva, he had a three-homer game. In between the three-homer game and this three-straight homer stretch, whatever, three straight games with a homer stretch, he batted 214 with no home runs when walking 12 strikeouts. So he's 42% owned, Vianueva's got some pop. What do you think? The plate discipline is, it looks like that's going to be a problem.

It wasn't necessarily a problem in the minors, but... And he did show some pop in the minor. It's too, like it's been 70 major. like played appearances. Sure. But that is a 16% swing and strike rate. And that's something that,

you know, 70 plate appearances, that's probably like, it's 300 pitches. That's a bigger sample size and a 16% swinging strike rate. That's a problem. He swings at pitches outside of the zone

pretty frequently. So, you know, in your head to head points league, that's probably a concern. But I think he's probably someone who needs to be added in all rota league. Would you drop Michael Franco for Vianueva?

Nope. No, probably not. Okay. Any third baseman you could think of that you might consider dropping for him? I would flip a coin on Matt Davidson. Okay, there you go. All right, and Heath talked to me about as Drewba Cabrera, the number two shortstop in fantasy. He is one of those guys.

We've written a lot about, I think, already this year. I think he's made an appearance in the waiver wire column a couple of different times already this season. And he's somebody I think Chris talked about before the year that had been very, very solid. Now, so far this year, he's been a lot more than solid. I would expect he's going to be more like the player we've seen over the last two years and less like what we've seen the first two weeks of this season. But he's still someone that was underowned for most of the season. I don't know what his ownership is now.

85%. He's no longer underowned. That's probably about right. Very useful player should have been owned more. This is something that tends to happen in fantasy. I think it's true in every sport is. Before the season, a guy who's 32 years old and hit is coming off a decent season, but nothing spectacular. We're just like, who cares?

There's exciting guys. As Drewball Cabrera is pretty good, though. You're never going to be excited about having him. in your lineup, but you're never going to have the lows either. You're never going to feel like as Drobo Cabrera is ruining your team. He's owned right around where he should be, especially with the triple eligibility. Yeah, would you rather have as Drubal Cabrera or Paul DeYoung? DeYoung.

DeYoung still. Okay. I do love that triple eligibility, though, for Cabrera. Very, very useful in deep leagues. And Chris, I didn't let you talk about a standout. Was there anyone you wanted to discuss? We should talk about a guy who has multiple four-hit games. this season and stole a whole bunch of bases in the minors.

Malick Smith, he's going to be starting, I would guess, pretty much every day, I think, is what Kevin, Kevin Cash, Kevin Long. Kevin Cash is his name. Kevin Cash. Basically said with Kevin Kerrmeyer out for, what, six to eight weeks? No, like eight to 13 weeks. Eight to 13 weeks, even better. Malik Smith is going to be the everyday center fielder in Tampa Bay.

He's showing improved plate discipline. He's actually, you know, you look at his major league career now. He's 264 hitter, 330 on base, 34 steals, and 542 plate appearances. That's a little worse than what we were hoping for from Delano to Shields, but it's not that much worse. Yeah, he bats ninth, or right now, that could change. He bets low in the order. This is Malik Smith we're talking about. I think Smith is 31% owned, and, yes, he did have a four-hit game yesterday.

He's off to a bit of a slow start, two out of five steals, but he's better than that. He stole 16 bases and 21 attempts in half a season last year, so yeah, you need steals. Yeah. Per 150 games in the minors, he averaged 84 stolen bases. Wow. Yeah, I imagine that 81 games last year, I imagine some of those were just like pinch-running appearances. Yeah, I think it was more like 100 plate appearance or 200 plate appearances or something. Okay.

282. So there you go. So less than half a season. All right. Steel source out there on the waiver wire, Malik Smith, 31% percent. own. Let's do some news and notes. I got a lot of stuff on today's show, guys. In addition to the early themes, it is team name Tuesday. And we are grading trades. What is today's grade the trade song? Well, will it load? We're going to grade some trades. I'm the teacher. Great music video. Yeah. Great song.

Pretty good. Just let it rides. All right, that's all. We just need to hear. hear him stay hot for teacher. Yeah, so we'll grade some trades a little bit later. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com is our email address. Trey Turner stole his seventh base yesterday, and then he was reprimanded for it. Do you know why? Because it was runner on first, I believe, with two outs, and he stole, and what do they do?

They walked Bryce Harper and took the bat out of Bryce Harper's hands for the very, very cold, Ryan Zimmerman, who was retired to end the inning. How about you reprimand Ryan Zimmerman for sucking? How about there are some interesting early trends with Ryan Zimmerman that we'll talk about shortly? Oh, okay. And Gary Cohn on the Mets broadcast, the broadcaster, he said, why not just walk Harper originally? Like, if Turner's going to steal the base and then you walk him, why not just walk him and put Turner at second if that's what you want to do? It's a good point.

But Turner, look, are you worried at all about his steals? He's been leading off. That may not be the case when, what's his name, Eaton? Oh, the guy that I own in every league. Adam Eaton comes back on Friday. But still, he's got seven steals and seven attempts. I think he was still stealing when he was hitting in the middle of the order. What would we be worried about you leads baseball on steals, right?

He's walking a ton. Anthony Rendon might go on the DL. Are you worried at all about Trent Turner? No, zero. Zero on the Worryometer. 14 walks. 14 strikeouts is a lot, but I will remind you. No, it's not.

It's a 17% strike. It's exactly what it was last year with a strikeout rate. Oh, all right. And it's much lower than the average. Well, much lower than current average. 14 strikeouts? That's, I guess it's a lot of it bad. He's gotten a lot of play to parents.

That will lead into one of my trends when we get to it. Yeah, and Turner got off to a very slow start. He had a 665 OPS in his first 33 games last year and still was great after that. There is no timetable for Ronald Ocuna's call-up. You should be hoping for a Preston Tucker slump, but it shouldn't be too, too long for Acuna. Hit list again yesterday around on Acuna. Come on. Josh Harrison out six weeks with a broken hand.

J.T. Rayamuto could be back today. Anthony Rizzo will be back today. Will Myers and Adam Eaton could be back on Friday. Christian Yelich is, we'll be back very shortly a couple of days. Jurexon pro far, another injured ranger. He left with a possible concussion. Willie Calhoun is crushing in the minors and complaining. I was going to get to that.

So hopefully he's up soon. Yes. Yes, you might want to stash Willie Calhoun. Eric Thames sat yesterday's day-to-day, same with Ryan Braun. Ben Gamble is nearing a return for Seattle. Do you think he gets playing time for AL-only owners out there, Ben Gamble? Where? I mean, for Ichero?

Yeah, yeah, sure. I forgot Echero's playing every day. That'll stop, yeah. And some noteworthy items. Aaron Judge became the fastest player to hit 60 home runs. He did it in 100. 97 games. Mark McGuire, the previous record holder, 202 games. Three Angels fans at Kaufman Stadium when the Angels were in Kansas City, they were asked

not to cheer so loudly when Shohei Otani comes to bat. And the Angels themselves made this request. He doesn't like a lot of noise when he bats. Be quiet. Well, we should probably spread that word because I'm sure there's no way that other fans of other teams would want to influence him. Exactly. Ryan Madsen got a save yesterday for the nationals.

Huge win for the nationals coming back from a 6-1 deficit in the 8th. But Sean Doolittle had pitched Saturday and Sunday, so I think that's all that was. Yeah, he's never going to pitch three days in a row. I don't think. Yeah, I don't think he did it at all last year either. Yoan Moncada, stowe's first base. Congratulations. Ooh!

Atlanta became the first team or the last team to record a save this season. George Springer has three lead-off homers, like home runs to start a game this year. No other team has more than one, so that's cool. Yes, Willie Calhoun is complaining and starting to get hot in AAA, and Glaber Torres left yesterday's game with back stiffness. Seems like no big deal. So those are two prospects that you should have your eye on.

Calhoun and Torres. In fact, we have an email about Glaber Torres. Where are you, Glaver Torres email? I don't know who sent it, but it did say, where would you rank Glaver Torres among short stops? 15. 15. Okay, who is in that, like, Asdraba Cabrera or Glabertoris?

You would rather have Glaboros than Asdrubal Carrera, and that kind of, and I know that goes against what I was saying earlier, but that's the thing with a guy like Azruble Cabrera. And, you know, you can think of Evan Longoria is another example, a third base where like, he's probably going to put up good numbers at the end of the season, and you're probably going to be more excited about 10 different guys. But it won't hurt you if you don't find, if you don't get them. those guys. I would rather have D.D. I'd rather have Cozart, but he's right behind that group. Okay, so you're way too low on Dedy, which we're going to talk. Like, so way too low on Dedy Gagorius. I can't wait. I'm very excited to talk about that. But let's talk about some early

season trends, guys. What have you noticed Heath Cummings? I've got a couple of just smaller things. You mean you just go through all of mine real quick? Yeah, sure. The fly ball revolution is still happening. We're seeing less ground balls than ever. But home run to fly ball rate is down to 2015 levels. And some of that could be the weather. There was a speculation and a piece in the athletic that maybe the ball had been changed. Chris read that and did not seem moved.

But it is something to keep an eye on. Infield fly ball rate is way up and there's been some talk that pitchers are combating the fly ball revolution by throwing more pitches up in the zone, which is leading to more pop flies. Just something to keep an eye on. Aaron Judge is not striking out 23.9% now. If that continues, he's the best hit around baseball. It's crazy what's happening right now.

He's in Hey, real quick, coming up. Well, I think the answer there is clearly that him and Giancarlo Stanton have to strike out about 30% of the time combined. Right. And, you know, Stanton's getting the strikeouts right now. Two more real quick. 49 pitchers already have a save. I think that just, like, part of that is we had a ton of closers. lose their job early in the year, which we kind of expected.

We talked about that a lot in the preseason. Another part of that is we have several teams like the Astros that are going to have multiple players get multiple saves. And I do think, like, there's a trend with starters not pitching as long, with managers trying to be smarter about how they use their bullpins. It's making closer even more difficult. And then probably the biggest one and maybe even the most actionable, the weather. all of these postponements have not been spread equally. I think it makes it almost pointless to talk about where somebody ranks in fantasy points to this point in the season. The Twins have played 11 games this year for this season.

The White Sox have played 12. Royals, Mariners, Tigers have played 13. Ten teams have already played 16 games. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. That's why I've been trying to look at like strikeouts per game for 10. teams rather than total strikeouts and like which teams are striking out the most strikeout percentage just go trade for all the twins for games for teams not for players yeah strikeout percentage

for teams why can i just do per game per game is so much more relatable to the to the listeners sir you got to give me that because better offenses will strike out more well that's still but that's fine i mean that's still going to affect the pitchers that face them i'm not saying that they're bad those pitchers are going to be bad because they're going to give up a bunch of runs because they're better offense. I think the closer stuff is really interesting, and I was sort of thinking about this. We are in the era of tanking, certainly in the NBA,

and maybe, and super teams in baseball, and the fact that what you just said about the way teams are using their bullpen, it might make the super closers even more valuable than we thought. Yeah, I think that's true. The problem is that a couple of the guys, like, who are the super closers? Because on a lot of ADP lists and a lot of rankings list, guys like Ken Giles and Corey Knable were right there in the top five. Sure. So I think the top three are still, even though Chapman is what, like two saves, the top three are still guys who are going to get just about every same chance for their team and should be very good, assuming health.

And then Knable, I mean, we can't really fall at him. He got hurt. I don't know. Is Edwin Diaz a super closer? That team looks really good. He's pitching great. You know we should have put in that list that I take the blame for because for two years I had to defend my ranking of this guy. Who?

Wade Davis. He got a big deal. He had no questions about job security. We should have put Wade Davis up there. And then I'll say it again, the guy that I kind of came around on late in the spring. Ricello Iglesias. But they're awful. Is he going to get 30 saves?

Yes. All right. Are they going to win 30 games? Yes. All right, Chris, your early season trends. Okay. So, one I want to mention is the Houston Astros are striking out more.

I think they are like 18th in strikeout rate this season. And that's something I wanted to keep an eye on because last season, obviously, they were the least strikeout prone team in baseball. That may not have stuck. So something to keep in mind as we move forward with the Houston Astros, it probably doesn't mean you're starting any pictures against them. But let's look at some stat cast data.

There are a lot of really, really obvious names within the top 10 in average exit velocity. Guys like J.D. Martinez, Joey Gallo, John Carlos Stanton, Aaron Judge, and Ryan Zimmerman, guys that we expect to be at the top of the list. Do you say Ryan Zimmerman? I did say Ryan Zimmerman. would you like to know where Ryan Zimmerman ranks in average exit velocity in the year of our Lord 2018? I mean, has he made contact with four balls?

Is that why? He has put 38 balls into play, which is four fewer than Jose Abraeu. In like eight more games. I don't think that's true. Look it up. Look it up. Would you like to know where Ryan Zimmerman ranks?

I would love to hear this by Cousin Vinny. Number one. In hard contact, right? An average exit velocity per the stat-cast system via MLB.com. All right, that's interesting. It might mean nothing that he's hitting the crap out of the ball. Given the health concerns or the, I don't even know. Would we classify them as health concerns what happened to him in spring training?

No. It was weird. They weren't letting him play in games. I don't think he wanted to, right? Yeah. I don't know. I'm not giving up on Ryan Zimmerman yet. Well, that's interesting because I did have him on the dropometer,

and Zimmerman is 90, 80% owned, 80% owed. So you wouldn't drop him for, like, Justin Bore? I think that's probably pretty close, but Justin Bore actually, that's a good one. He is 175th out of 1,000. 194 players in average launch angle, which basically just means he's hitting a bunch of ground balls right now. The sample, and we had this talk about hard contact rate

and how small the sample size is and how it may not mean much yet. Like, a couple of balls not hit very hard at all could really have a big impact on your average exit velocity right now. Sure. A couple of balls just pounded directly into the ground could have a big difference on your average launch angle. I mean, the thing with that, though, is that the ranges are relatively small. You know, like, Justin Boar's probably not hitting, he's probably not hitting any balls

with like a negative 90 degree launch angle. So, yes, a few could really drastically change that, but the fact that he's so low and he's supposed to be a guy that we think of as a power hitter, it's a concern. But it's a concern in as much as he's not swinging the bat right now, not a concern as in like Justin Boar is trying to be D. Gordon now, you know? Right, right. He's a slumping, right? But I think he's coming out of it a little bit. Things are getting better for Boer.

And he was a sleeper hitter this week. So hopefully, you know, four games at Miller Park, two at Yankee Stadium. He was okay yesterday. All right, give me another thing that you wanted to talk about, Chris. Let's talk about the darling of the early season breakouts. Jose Martinez. He actually ranks four spots below Justin Boer in average launch angle and does not really hit the ball all that hard. He's not bad, but he's 80th out of 194 players, which is slightly above average, but not exactly something that you're running out and screaming about.

And so you've got a guy who hits the ball on the ground, doesn't hit the ball particularly hard, And yet has been, what, one of the five best hitters in baseball so far? So what I'm hearing is you should try to trade Jose Martinez for Ryan Zimmerman. I would not be surprised if Ryan Zimmerman was better than Jose Martinez for the rest of the season. And, you know, Jose Martinez, according to the metrics, is one of the worst defensive players in baseball. Yeah, they have issues there. It's going to be really interesting to see what happens when Jed Jerko gets back. He didn't hit right.

He's last year very well at all. He's back. I'm pretty sure. I think he's coming off the D.L. today or very evidently. It's going to be really interesting to see if Jose Martinez is an everyday player. Right now, he had, I would assume he leads baseball in RBI with 15. I think if you could trade him, and I'm not saying he's bad.

I just think he's probably more like Yerli Guerriel than anything else. Okay. He does not lead base. He's close. Baseball's RBI leader is. Two men tied with 17. Take a guess? Bryce Harper. And?

American League West. Someone on the Rangers, Mariners, Mariner's, Astros, or whoever the other team is. Yeah, you keep going. The A's. It's Jed Lowry. Oh, of course. Jed Lowry with 17 RBIs. All right. Thank you, Chris.

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And what really spurred me to discuss this was I own Chris Sale in a 13-team Roto League. I don't know if any of the people in this league are listening. I hope you are. And if you are, just please, you know, skip ahead. Kind of offered a, not straight up, but the main parts of the trade would be my Chris-Says. for his trade Turner. And, like, I had the third overall pick I took Aeronado was considering Turner. I took sale, like, 22nd or something.

It's almost like, how do I not trade sale for Turner? But the two guys that I share the team with don't want to do it. And I get it. I get it. Like, right now those super aces feel so valuable that it seems like Mike Trout or Bryce Harper is the only player that you'd be like, no chance. I wouldn't give them up for Kershaw, Klob or Sail or Scherzer. And, you know, I'm not saying that they are top five picks, but they feel that way.

They've been great and they feel more valuable. Nothing's really changed there, though. No, but, you know, sometimes it's like it doesn't take long to re-evaluate how important that player is to your team. The argument against them being those top five guys is just that pitching's harder to predict. and pitchers are more likely to get injuries. I don't think either of those things have changed. These guys are awesome. Nobody doubts that.

There was about a start and a half where people were like, oh, I don't know, Clinton Kirchall's velocities down, but it's Clinton Kirchall. They're really good. I know. I'm sorry I'm not providing more high-level analysis. They feel more valuable. Maybe it's because I don't know that many,

maybe people are just struggling with pitching right now and not hitting, and they're desperate to get one of those aces. They feel more valuable now than they did even on draft day. I mean, yeah, I would always have loved to have one. I have three in one league, and I'm one and two. How do you like your team? It's the highest scoring team in the league, so I like it pretty well. There you go. There you go.

All right, you got an email of the day from Pete and Brooklyn, and he says, hey, Joey, Paul, Anthony, and Jose. Who is that? I don't know. I know it was against the Marlins, but I don't know. I know it's against the Marlins, but I think it's pretty realistic to think that after this season, we'll be talking about Luis Severino as a super race. His stuff is electric, and he seems to only be getting better.

What are your thoughts? Willis Severino? Is he a super race? No. He is in the group of pitchers that are attempting to join the super races. And I think he has the ability to possibly join the super races. But he is, I will not declare that before the All-Star break. I think Garrett Cole.

could join the Superaces. And he's taking a bigger step than Severino so far. Justin Verlander also could. Has been. And, yeah, sure. Right? I mean, I know he's not younger or anything, but the way he's been pitching. No, it's undergarde.

Cindergarde, yeah. I want to bring something about Chris Sale, by the way, just to see how you guys feel because I've gotten some questions about it. He is not pitching deep into games. He has not thrown more than 93 pitches in any start. He has not thrown more than six in any start. And there was talk and legit talk that they are going to do what they can to keep him fresh. Because Chris Sales career ERA by month, career.

March slash April, 274. May, 257. June, 266. July, 266. Unbelievable. First four months of the year, 274 ERA are better. August, 32, September slash October, 378. That's regular season, not including postseason.

So, look, 322 is really good. 378's okay. but he does wear down a little bit as the year goes on. Do you think that we will not get the innings that we expected from Chris Sale because they are trying to preserve him? No. I think he's going to throw 200 innings. Yeah.

Okay. Don't worry about it then. Hey, real quick. Let's do some hey real quick. Then we got some team name Tuesday. I also want to talk about DeGrom and two guys who had, much better starts than their final numbers, and their final numbers were very good. DeGrom and Luis Castillo.

Actually, Castillo's final numbers weren't that good. It was a real shame because he had six scoreless innings. That was stupid. That was so stupid. He was lights out. Yeah. So good yesterday. He started the seventh with like 93 pitches, I think, and allowed two runs before he was pulled, and then gave up two more on inherited runners.

And DeGrom had seven innings of one run, ended up seven and a third of three runs, but 24 swinging strikes. Remember that guy who said he wasn't electric? Yeah, don't listen to him ever. He looks great right now, Jacob Graham, six walks, 30 strikeouts, and 25 innings. And he's got great numbers in his career against Washington. At least he did last year, he was great against Washington. All right, hey, real quick.

Aaron Judge or Joey Votto, rest of season. Joey Votto. There we go. But neither of our answers have changed. Well, come on, you've got to be a little bit wary of Joey Votto, right? Right? One extra base hit. Why? Why? One extra base hit?

Why? One extra? Why would I be worried about this? I mean, this is a really bad start. Like, three walks and 15 games? I guess I would be worried about this if I had like a short-term memory issue. Or if like history started this year. But he did this two years ago.

He did. Okay, yes, he did. In his first 16 games, two years. years ago, Votto had a 499 OPS. Rest of season, he had a 1040. He didn't have a 700 OPS until May 30th. Yeah, he got off to a very slow start. What's weird, and I haven't dug in deep enough to see why, but he's not walked yet. Or I mean, he has walked, but he's not walking like Joey Votto.

Right. Three walks. And sometimes he, like, he has been open about the fact that sometimes he tries things for entire months just to set things up for later in the year. It's really a strange way to look at things, but I guess when you play for a team that doesn't have anything to play for, it doesn't matter as much. He is swinging more than he ever has, or since 2010.

And he did that early last... I think he wasn't walking much early last season as well. Okay. All right, so we're split on Judge v. Votto. Hey, real quick, D.D.Gregorius or Alex Bregman? Bregman. D.D. I mean, yeah, Bragman. But we should talk about D.D. Gregorius, and we shouldn't be quite so dismissive as I think Mr. Heath is going to be.

I have not being dismissive at all. Sounds like you're being pretty dismissive. Not even a little bit. I would like to congratulate. You have a like 13th of short stuff. I would like, you know, I haven't made my rankings update for this week. I would like to congratulate D.D. Gregorius on posting a hard contact rate over 25%.

You got to get over the hard contact rate. No, he's making hard contact. Okay, okay, good. So that's like, but. No, if it's 24% again this year, he's not going to be as good as he was last year. I'll just say it. Yeah, I don't, I don't know. Like, he's in a perfect park for a guy who doesn't swing that hard.

Like, he's walked three times as often as he's struck out so far. That's big. He's not striking out at all. And that continues good plate discipline that improved in the second half of last year and the playoffs for Gagorius. Not this good. But he did, believe it or not. Eddie Grogent, Alex Bregman was the number four shortstop in fantasy last year. Gregorius averaged more fantasy points per game than Bregman.

Now, Bregman, it seems like, is a slow starter. This is his first year when he got called up, he was a terribly slow starter. Last year, he was the best by-low candidate, basically, because he went on pretty big tear the last, like, four months. And he's got 10 walks and nine strikeouts. But D.D., really, he has erased my doubts. Put it that way. He has not erased mine.

but he has made some improvements, and he will get a slight bump up in the rankings. It just won't beat Alex Gregman territory. All right. If D.D. had three home runs so far this year, would you feel exactly the same? Was he walking three times as often as this? The only thing it changes he goes from five to three home runs.

Yeah, I would, honestly. I would. Okay. Okay, and you got to move him, like, ahead of Paul D. Young? He'll be right in the Paul D. Young range. Okay. And hey, real quick, Bryce Harper or anyone else in baseball? I must have, I would have assumed I would have gotten some kind of notification that Mike Trout retired.

But that seems like big new. Are you breaking that? No, but he has been better than Trout. But Bryce Harper or anyone not named Mike Trout? I'll say, I think Harper. We've never seen Bryce Harper. start well and then slow down. Hey, look, obviously I'm taking Trout over him,

but would you take anyone else over Harper other than Troub? I mean, you might have to consider Aaron Judge. I'd take Al-TUveh over him, too. I would probably take Bryce Harper over anyone else at this point, but like, I don't know, it's 16, 17 games. I still think Al-Tu-Vi. He has done this two years in a row, Bryce Harper. Like, incredible starts to the season.

No, April's his best month by far. I think he has like a career OPS over 1,000 in April. Let's do a quick round of team name Tuesday Exoter Easy That's a good one, but we've had it Ungodly Snells Sure Albi's there for you

Yes, we've had that one before Super Ben Nintendo Yeah Benny and Junis The Big Gossman Oh like Bossman We've had Benintendi in the Betts, right? Benintini and the Betts many times

Dawn of the Desmond I'm just kind of going through my email here. That's what Cichick. I like that. That's what Cichick. Very good. Super Benintendent Chalmers? Yes, very good.

De Jong and the Reislist. Let's see. I should have put these in the notes. Also, I'm banning Acuna Moncada and Acuna Machado. They are overused. What about a steamed hands? Yeah. I love the Simpsons references.

Steved hands. Let's see. I'm sorry, guys. I'm doing this very sloppily. Are you making fun of me because this is so bad? No. Yeah. This is really one of your low points.

Here's what happened. I overslept this morning. And I didn't get to put this stuff in the notes. I'm just going through my emails. Snellya later. Mejia later. I think that's enough, really. Better call Salta Labakia.

That's pretty good. That's pretty good, yeah. Is he playing baseball? I don't think so. We better call him. And I'll do one more here Or one more email It's not your Brault

Sure And with like That was one more That's fine And if you're doing that one The team logo is The Goodwill hunting Like the guy

Robin Williams hugging him Right Yes that's actually what he put Goodwill hunting in parentheses All right We've got like 14 emails That I think we can fly through Are you ready?

I can't go any worse Brad from upstate New York, dear Zach Slater, screech and belting, 10 team, head head categories league with OBP. Paul DeYoung or Scott Kingery? The Young. The Young. Really? All right. Okay.

All right. This is from Eric, a sushi lover in Orange County. And we're still going to read your email, even though you love sushi. Stephen Sousa, Adam Eaton, Mitch Hanigur. Who do I drop? Points League. Steven Souser. Yep.

Okay. This is from Thomas in a Midwest College town. Madison, Wisconsin. Yes. Dear Brad Chad and Thad. Who are they? No idea. Is it too early to drop Evan Gaddis in a 10-team Roto League?

Yep. Yeah. Yeah. I would like... I would really like for him to not do anything to lose that DH job. So please start hitting Evan Gattis. Nick from a small New Jersey town south of Trenton. Should I drop Tanner Roark?

Jake Junis. or Eduardo Rodriguez for Joey Lucasey in a 10-team league. Can I make my answer no dependent on the answer to the next question that he wants to ask? The same different guy, though? No. Oh, I'm sorry. And would you trade David Price plus any of the three guys I currently have for Chris Archer? Yes, I would trade David Price for any of those three guys and then add Joey Lucasey.

But if I can't, I would be fine dropping honestly any of those guys for Joey Lucasie. Yeah, I think the one, I'd probably drop Junis. So, wait, you would trade Price and, let's say, Junis for Archer and then use your roster spot to pick up Lucasey. Yep. Right, that makes sense. From Paul, should I drop Fulmer or Clevenger for Lucchese? Fulmer. From Will, Renaldo Lopez, or Lucchase?

I believe we already answered this question. Yeah, I have not answered this question. I have not answered it in my own head yet. Oh. Chris, you're saying Lucchase? I think I said Rinaldo Lopes. He did say Lopez. I apologize.

Might be. Alex from Rapid City. Johann Camargo is available in my league. Would you pick up Camargo and drop Alonzo, Kipnis, Dietrich, or Faria? No. I'm not really... I'm not really a Camargo guy. Yeah, I don't really see much there.

From Taylor. At what point do you give up on Ian Hap? Porella is sitting on the waiver wire, leading the league, and hits while I continue to see Hap, not even in the starting lineup. When do you give up on HAP for Perala? You can give up on HAP whenever you like. I am not giving up on HAP until May 1st. I think if you're like, if you end this week 3 and O or 4-0, whatever,

Ian Hap might not be a bad guy to trade for. What's going to happen on April 30th? I do not believe, like Chris does, that months are artificial constructs. They matter. No, I'm just, that's, I've set an arbitrary deadline that I'm going to wait and see what happens for the first. first month of the season. Josiah from Elizabeth Town, Pennsylvania.

What does Shohei Otani's value in a 12-team daily lineups league with a DH roster spot? You can use him as both a hitter and a pitcher in this format. Am I aiming too high trying to trade Otani for Aaron Judge? And would he be a first-round draft pick in this format? This is 12-team's daily lineups where you can use Otani as both a hitter and a pitcher. Yeah, I think he'd be a first-round pick right now. I think he would probably be a first-round pick right now. I don't think he would be worth a first round pick.

And Adam, I think only you could answer the am I aiming too high question, because that's kind of your area of expertise. Yes, you're aiming too high trying to trade him for Judge because Judge is off to a great start. What was the trade? What was the trade that Jamie was telling us Adam was trying to make? Jamie was telling us about multiple trades that Adam was trying to make in a league that they share, Jamie Eisenberg. And how embarrassing it is to be a part of a team that's making those off.

He's so long. Yeah, I got a pretty embarrassing offer from Adam. You did not. You need a closer. You offered me Keenan Middleton and Reinaldo Lopez for Jose Contana. Not insulting at all. Two guys that you added on waivers. There are no, no, I drafted, I drafted Renaldo Lopez.

Oh, congratulations. And that's a deep, deep, deep, deep league, and there are no closers. It's a 12 team. It's a 30-man roster league. It's a 12-team league. There's no closers. Not insulting. It's insulting.

I don't think it's crazy to offer Otani for Votto in that format. No. I don't even know who I'd rather have. I'd rather have Votto. Votto. All right. Let's skip around. Last one.

And then we'll do 10 more minutes of team name Tuesday. Trevor in Nashville, please rank these fill-in guys at their worth once my regular start to come back. So basically, like, who's the most dropable? It's basically what he's asking. Who's the most dropable? Desmond Chu, Yonder Alonzo, Dickerson, or as Droble Cabrera. This is a Categorys League.

Desmond, Chou, Alonzo, Dickerson as Droble. Alonzo and Chu. Yeah, that's probably the case. Although, Desmond, he's got four home runs, I think, but he has hit like seven fly balls this season. He is just, he is one. I think he's the most extreme grabball hitter in baseball right now. I'll actually read a couple more. Brett in a city near Sacramento, is it time to drop Matt Olson in a 10-team league?

Guriel and Alonzo are on waivers. No, do you remember the Ryan Zimmerman thing that I said? I hope you do. I do. It was not that long ago. Oh, no. Matt Olson was like seventh in average eggs of velocity. He's still hitting the ball hard.

I'm not that worried about Mattles. He homered off a lefty yesterday. I will say I get a little bit of a feeling. No, he homer up or righty. I'm sorry. Homer for it. From when I used to play poker, that if I was sitting there with a hand and I folded it and then the flop came and, oh, I should have played that hand.

It's like, there goes a chance to win. This is not going to be a good day. And kind of feel like these guys that are hitting the ball hard and making outs. They're just going to have a bad year. That's what you think? It's the feeling that I get. Okay. It's a feeling.

It's not what I think. When you look to the West. And from Brian, should I sell high on Ozzy Albies? Sure. How high can you sell? Oh, well, you can clearly get Jose Altuve for him, right? I mean, like... L.O.L. L.O.L.

you would try. Probably someone in the... third to fourth round range is what I would aim for. Would you trade him for D. Gordon in a Roto League? Yeah. 100%. You could get that done pretty easily. Yeah, I would definitely do that.

But yeah, he's not this good. He's good. But the Ozzy Albies that we were hoping to see was not an all or nothing power hitter. And so there's going to be some kind of regression. And it's a question of whether the power regresses before he starts, like drawing walks and, you know, making more consistent contact. Yeah, and the other thing about the power, he is hitting a lot of doubles, especially lately. Some of the power, a good chunk of it came at Corse Field.

But even since leaving Corse Field, I think his last five games, 12 for 23 with two homers and five doubles. And I want to be clear. I think he's really good. Right. I did ask Scott that he then, Sky. I think Scott was the one who answered, like, should I sell high on the answer? or am I going to risk giving up one of the true breakout players? I think both could be true.

Yeah, yeah, I think that's basically what we included. Because he was going around 100, maybe 120 in drafts, maybe a little higher towards the end. But, you know, I think he's probably more of like a fifth or sixth round pick. All right, guys, we've got about eight minutes left. Give me your quick thoughts here as we go through the rotation. Jacob de Grom, he has a 2-0 record, 324 ERA, 6. six walks, 30 strikeouts in 25 innings.

Jacob de Grom. He's good. Electric. Woogy, wooge, wooge. Agreed. DeGrom or Severino? Severino. Severino.

All right. Luis Castillo, 675 ERA right now. He's very good. I'm not worried. I am, oh, I'm a little worried. He is good. I'm a little worried. Nah.

Who would you rather have Castillo or this next guy, Blake Snell, had a great start against the Rangers. I would still rather have Luis Castillo, but both of those guys are excellent. Yeah, I think I'd still rather have Castillo, but they have definitely converged. Aaron Nola, 222 ERA, but only 15 strikeouts in 24 and a third so far, and he has not had a double-digit swinging strike game yet.

Aaron Nola. Well, he's had some murderers for our lineups that he's faced. Atlanta, the Mets, the Reds, and the Braves. I mean, you can't expect much against those lines. He has turned back into Aaron Nola. And I thought three years ago, Aaron Nola could be a very good starting pitcher without being one of the top strikeout guys.

I like his floor a lot. His velocity does, no. No, it's fine. It hasn't gone down. So, I don't know, because that, That was the big thing for me. He started getting more swinging strikes last season. He started throwing harder.

It made it easier to buy him as a high strikeout guy. I haven't really changed my opinion on that yet. James Paxon and Dallas Kiko were both very good last night. Who would you rather own? Oh, James Paxston, easily. Paxton. Okay. Frenchie starting pitchers.

Do these ownership percentages sound okay to you? Julio Tiran, 78 percent own. He found his slider last night. and it was outstanding. Brent Suter, 21% owned, Daniel Mangdon, 16% owned, Erman Marquez, 25% owned. So it's Tehran at 78% owned, and then Suter, Marquez, and Mangon, 25% owned or less.

I assume all of these guys are two start pitchers this week. Yes, they should be. That's the only way Tehran should be 78% owned. Okay. And then do you have any desire to pick up Suter, Mengden, or Marquez? No. No. Okay.

Are you ready to grade some trades? Yes. Are you ready to hear of Van Halen? Yes. Okay. All right, let's grade some trades. Here we go. A C is average.

And, yeah, rock on. Here we go. Okay, thank you, Van Halen. From Michael, give up Jacob de Grom and Trey Mancini. Get J.D. Martinez and Kyle Henning. Dagram and Mancini. Give up, DeGrom and Mancini, get J.D. Martinez and Kyle Hendricks. A minus.

I think that's an A. Okay. Good job. Next trade is from Samir, head-to-head points league. Give up Michael Fulmer and Michael Conforto. Get Garrett Cole. Fulmer and Conforto for Cole. B.

B plus. Okay, B plus. So far. good. From A. Mitchell. Give up Severino. This is an interesting one here. Give up Severino. Get Andrew Benintendi and Blake Snell. B. B minus. Yeah. Benintendi, does he feel like someone who's much better in points than Roto again?

Not much, but better. That doesn't seem unfair. Yeah, I just... I understand why you would say that because he may not be a big power guy and he may not be a big power guy and he may not be a big steals guy. But I still think he's going to hit for a good average. I still think he's going to score a ton of runs. So I think he'll be good in both.

Okay. Also, I think it's like a plate discipline thing and sort of like an extra base hits doubles, triple sort of thing. All right. From Tyler, dear non-zero chance, grade the trade. It's a 12-team Keeper League head-to-head categories. Giveaway Tanaka for Lorenzo Kane. Seems like a C.

Seems perfectly fair for both sides. Did you say whether it was ROTOR points? It is categories. C-minus. All right. Chad from Lawrence, Kansas. Hey, Albert Manny and Kenny. Those are Cleveland idiots. Yes.

Old ones. 12-team standard 5-by-5 Roto. Give up Stanton and Godly. Stanton and Godly gone. Getting back. Corey Seeger. Andrew Ben and Tendi. Ian Hap and the Pitchie.

show hey otani so let's read it again stanton and godly you're getting back show hey otani the pitcher and these three hitters corey seger andrew benintendi and ian hap damn that is it's not an a but it's a good trade see i think otani's better than godly okay then i'm not cori seger andrew ben intendi guy but and hap is kind of a throw in at this point uh but but benna bennap is kind of a throwing at this point. But Benintendi Seeger and Hap for Stanton that's not bad value. I'm calling Godlin Otani

a wash. Segar, Benintendi, yeah, I'm going to give it a B minus. All right, this is a no name on here. Dynasty League. Give up Marcel Ozuna, get J.D. Martinez. A. Dynasty. Dynasty. A.

All right. Yeah. A minus. Drew from Chicago, last one. Dear Hater, Harrison, Reddick, and Donaldson. Josh's. Josh's. How is your name not Josh if we're going to send that email? Ten Team Dynasty League again with OBP and Quality Starts. I think he was joshing us.

Maybe. Give up Blake Snell and Victor Robles. Ooh, young talent. Snell and Robles. Get Granky and a third round pick for Snell and Robles. Granky and a third round pick. So a third round pick is not super valuable in Dynasty. Right.

How long until we think Blake smells better than Zach Rank? Not this year. 2020. That's a while. It's like a C. It seems okay, but yeah, I don't like it. I would prefer to get the impact, the for sure impact guy now. It really depends.

If you make that move, you better think that you're in really good position to win a title this year. All right, guys. It could be as soon as next year. Let's do today's matchups real quick. Start or sit. Danny Duffy at Joe Beijini. I don't think I want to start Duffy there.

I'm sitting both. Yarlene Garcia or Harleen Garcia at Masahiro Tanaka, whatever. Start Janaka. How about Andrew Cashner or Francisco Laryano? I don't think Lariana is the worst start. Is Cashner the worst start? He's been good. I would prefer Lariano to Cashner.

Chad Bettis at Trevor Williams. No, I wouldn't start either. By the way, Charlie Blackman has five home runs this season, and zero of them have been at course field. Same with DJ the Mayhew. There you go. Matt Moore and Yanni Chorinos. Yanni?

I'm okay starting Yonni Chirinos, yeah. All right. Heath, feel free to jump in. Gio Gonzalez and Zach Wheeler. Geo. I forgot to mention Zach Wheeler. I really want to see what he does tonight. This is a guy if he can get the walks down could really, really emerge as close to a must start. Maybe I'm overreacting.

I don't want to start him right. No, I would not start him tonight. Wait and see. Pick him up. Pick him up now, I'd say, if you have a roster spot. Yeah, he's Matt Moore until further notice, so we'll see. We'll see if he actually starts to actually do it. It's 56% owned.

Corey Klooper, yes. Jake Oteresee against the Indians. No. Nick Povetta at Mike Fultenevich. Yes. Both? Yes. I'm probably starting Povetta.

I'd like to know how bad the wind is in Atlanta. That is not a good place to pitch when the wind's blowing out. Sal Romano and Junior Gera. No. No. Adam Wainwright? Actually, Junior Gera is not the worst felon option. Adam Wainwright and Tyler Chatwood

No Start Chatwood Johnny Quato and Patrick Corbyn Yes Sort of both Miguel Gonzalez And Trevor Cahill No

David Price yes Joe Hayotani yes Alex Wood And Brian Mitchell Alex Wood yes Brian Mitchell No And Lance McCullors yes And Ariel Miranda no

Right against the Astros Yes Correct Thank you guys Good show informative stuff Thank you for your time And we are I'm scrambling.

Bye.