Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/17 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Weekend Roundup

Episode Date: April 17, 2017

Is Eric Thames a legit starting option at 1B? Is James Paxton a legit Top 20 SP? Is it time to cut Devon Travis in all leagues? We're recapping the weekend and talking add/drops on today's show ... A lot of bullpen news and players to grab if you want to speculate on saves ... So much more from the weekend including Cesar Hernandez, Eugenio Suarez, Ervin Santana and Michael Pineda ... 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

The scam is 3, 15, and 2 in the 4-The People Categories League. Why are you listening to Fantasy Baseball today? Consumer loyalty, thank you very much. Welcome to the show. How does this make you feel? Because Scott's winning every other league that he's a part of? Not exactly. This is once again shaping up to be far and away my worst league, though.

I don't know what it is. It's not my only head-to-head categories league. I'm in first place in the other. Is the other one an on-based quality start league? It is a 9-by-9 league, so those are probably among the 18 categories that are included. Yes, maybe not. Maybe that's the issue. It's just the lineups are too small and the focus is too narrow.

Teeth's fault. Set up a terrible league. Well, I set up a league with the purpose of making Scott not win, and so far I'm two-for-two. Well, thank you for putting me on his team. I really appreciate that. Hey, we got a lot of bullpen news. Zach Britton's on the DL. Ken Giles did not get the save over the weekend.

I ended up not being a save situation, but A.J. Hinge says Giles is still going to finish most of the games. Sam Dyson did not allow a ball to leave the infield that he still managed to blow a save on Sunday. Blake Chironin has been bad. So we'll talk about bullpens. We'll talk about ads and drops. I've got something for all baseball fans that they're going to be very interested in. First of all, happy belated Easter.

It was – Easter was very fun for me. I hope you guys had a great holiday. I trust it was good. Absolutely. Got to spend a wonderful weekend in Orlando. Yeah, so Heath is the guy who takes his kid to Orlando and doesn't take him to Disney. That's cruel. Did not even consider going to Disney because, you know, you go to Orlando and you spend $100 on tolls just to drive anywhere.

That's true. Spent another $200 to get into a basketball tournament that you've already paid for the kid to be on the team. So, great weekend. I can understand that then. Let's start with the closers, okay? And then other players we're going to talk about today include Eric Thames, Cesar Hernandez, who are number one at their respective positions in fantasy, James Paxton, who, oh, this is just a cool stat.

So James Paxton is the 10th pitcher since 1900 to start a season with three straight starts of at least six scoreless innings. You guys know who the last one to do it was? Six scoreless in three straight starts. Who did it last? Greg Maddox, I don't know. Oral Hersheiser. Jordan Zimmerman last year.

And before that, it was Woody Williams of the Cardinals. Oh, yeah. Woody Williams struck out Buzz Light here. And neither of those guys went on to have good years. Williams had a 106 ERA plus, so he was slightly better than league average was like 380. But we're hoping for better than that from Paxson. We'll talk about him. We'll talk about Paneda, Daniel Norris, Hector Santiago, Irvin Santana,

Mitch Morland, you know how we do it, and we'll read your emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Which closer in waiting should you be adding right now? I think Matt Bush is at the very top of my list, because I don't see, and I think I've said this two meltdowns in a row, but I don't see how the Rangers can go to Sam Dyson again. Four of his six appearances have, at least the end result has been awful.

And Matt Bush, you know, after having that injection in a show, shoulder over the weekend came back Sunday and struck out the side in his one inning. So there are a lot of options there, but there's also the clearest opening. And I do think he is the one who is most likely to inherit the role. Yeah, you asked the question differently before the podcast, and it was which potential closer would you be most excited about? And for me, that would probably be Luke Gregerson, but I would agree that if you're going to add one, it would have to be Bush right now, because Sam Dyson in a vacuum sucks. Yeah, Dyson, again,

the vacuum joke. There was a Bunt single, there was an infield single, there was an intentional walk, there was an unintentional walk in the ninth inning, but it's obviously it's a problem, and people think there's going to be a change. I guess the problem with Bush

is the shoulder injury and how willing they'd be to really ride him as a regular closer, but Bush is 35% own and definitely needs to be owned. Jeremy Jeffress, they've been using very differently. He's been getting,

I think he's made eight appearances, maybe even more. And he's typically throwing one or two outs. He's not throwing full innings. And then there's the clerk. I think everybody would agree Bush would be the guy there. You said Gregerson. I may have overreacted. I picked up Gregerson in our Roto League.

My goal is to get a fourth closer in our 12-team Roto League. And I encourage people to look into this and then try to trade a closer because I only want three. It's not a head-to-head categories league. It's not a daily line-ups league. It's a season-long roto league. I want three closers. I want to get four. So I picked up Blake Trian.

I picked up Cota Glover because Trinan's been struggling. And I picked up Luke Gregerson because Hinch, like I said, he said Giles is going to finish most of the games. But Giles is struggling. So my goal is to have one of them turn into a closer kind of soon and then try to make a trade and get help somewhere else because people need closers and they're kind of willing to overpay for them. Yeah, if you do that right. way, though, you might be the one who needs a closer. If you pick up a guy who is just entering the

role and isn't established in it. It's not a bad long-term view, but, you know, just a word of caution there. Yeah, well, I mean, I have three closers. I know, but you can't just assume that the new guy to the role is going to keep the job the rest of the season.

I think he wants to trade the new guy as soon as he gets the role. Oh, that's, well, that's not the one you're going to get the best return on. You're going to get the best return on one of the other three proven ones. That's true. You obviously have to play it by ear and you'll see what happens, but it wouldn't be a bad idea to try to flip Gregerson to the Giles owner if there's some type of competition there. I'm just saying it. That's a little premature at this point, but it is a situation to monitor. We haven't mentioned Brad Brock yet. And obviously, I think he's, like, I don't know that he has a chance really of claiming the job for the long run. But right now, as the presumed Orioles, closer with Zach Britton going on the DL. He basically must own in leagues where saves matter. Right. And like going on the DL with forearms soreness does not always mean a short DL stay.

There's been a lot of injuries early in the year where we just speculated well, it's a 10-day DL thing. When I hear forearm soreness, I don't think, oh, he'll be back next week. It's no big deal. No, they said that Britain might come off the DL when he's ready. And I think the most important thing right now is that as of now, as of Monday morning, they have not. scheduled an MRI that we know of for Zach Britton. So that is good news. But yeah, and it's not clear that Brock would get all of the save chances, right? There's still Michael Givens and Darren O'Day that could be in the mix? I've seen beat reporters drop Brock's name. I don't know that I've seen them drop any other name, but there are a lot of beat reporters out there, so maybe I missed a report.

Okay. I feel like we should put together a database of all of the forearm soreness injuries in April and how those guys do for the rest of the year. Because I don't really want my picture having forearm soreness in the first two weeks. Wait a second. Aren't you Mr. Wade Davis is the number one closer in fantasy? He's fine. He got traded. They clearly looked at his medical than he was fine.

And he got traded for pennies on the dollar. Forearm soreness doesn't seem to be the death knell that it used to be. What's not a death knell? In my opinion. It used to be like a guy got forearm sorrness who were like, oh, he's about to have Tommy John. I think maybe that's because guys didn't report forearm soreness

until it got more serious in the past It's possible So we don't know about Britain And Brock Brock is the guy Or Bach or Brock? Brock Okay sorry He's the guy to get

And he's... I'm sorry Brad Bach Bach, okay yeah Brad Bach It's Brock Brad Brad Brock? Brad Brock?

No, it's Bach Something doesn't sound right here It's Brad Brock. It's Brock? This is one of many auto-corrects in the notes today. There are a lot of... Eliterations sounded weird to me. Maybe I've never actually said his name before.

I have never said his name until now. And I just finally said it right. But Brad Brock, by the way, has tremendous numbers. I mean, last year, 205 ERA at 92 strikeouts and 79 innings. Already six scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts, only one hit allowed. So very good picture here. Brilliant. Brilliant Brad Brock.

Billiant, Bad Bach. some would say. Edwin Diaz has been struggling. Joaquin Ben-Wa gave up a walk-off three-run Homer to Bryce Harper. Fernando Rodney's terrible. And Blake Trinen. Yeah, I mean, Blake Trinan has been struggling. Yeah, I don't think Cota Glover is the one to pick up.

I think is Sean Kelly. Sean Kelly bailed him out of this appearance Sunday when he gave up the tie. Yeah, but Glover pitched the eighth. That's why I went with Glover. Right, but Sean Kelly has been consistently setting him up and I'm trying to remember

I read somewhere that some beat writer or something basically said Sean Kelly's the backup option for saves. Oh really? It was like last week at some point and I read so many things I forget exactly how they worded it.

But it made it pretty clear to me that Kelly's the guy down home. We generally, when speculating on Washington, just to say who is the oldest guy, that guy's the most likely to get the first chance, right? Why? Because of Dusty Baker? It's just the way that things have worked since he's been there. All right.

Well, I will drop Cota Glover for Sean Kelly, or at least I will try to. Hopefully nobody does that before me. All right, guys, anything else? Are we wrapping up closers here? We're not worried about Edwin-Diaz or Benoit at this point. No, I mean, obviously Benoit, keep an eye on that situation because there's probably a more talented reliever in the bullpen, but I think he gets a longer leash than this,

and he has pretty good track record himself. Okay, dokey. So any major ad drops this weekend for you guys? I picked up, since I'm the two-start guy, I picked up two-start Tom in two-or three different leagues. Start Tom Kohler. He's got two starts, one of them at San Diego or against San Diego. Not big ad drops over the weekend, though. All the big ad drops I got.

I had a very frustrating morning at him, because, All the, all the player, the big bids I thought I was going to win last night. I didn't. Heath, another two-star option. Actually, my favorite two-star sleeper for this week, Mike Leak, Heath bid the exact same amount as me in one league, but he won in terms of having the priority. So who were the guys that you really wanted other than Leak that you didn't get?

Well, I don't know how applicable they are. out there because it was a lot of weekly waiver runs like Francisco Liriano in 15-te-Wor somebody dropped him and I bid like a quarter of my remaining budget on him. How do you drop Liriano after one start in a 15-te-te-team

league? Do you remember how bad that start was? Yeah, but Francisco Liriano's been around a long time. These are Tout War's experts here. Who drops him in a 15-te-team league? Come on now. Yeah, that's pretty bad. Chris actually in the Memorial Magazine

League. I thought I made a pretty big bid on Brad Brock. 25 bucks, Chris Towers. Yeah, he bid a quarter of his budget on Brad Brock, who may only be a two-week villain. Maybe, or he may be a rest of the season. I mean, it's, it was worth

a fairly hefty bid, I think, in a league where saves are scarce, but he, uh, he went above and beyond that. I picked up Andrew Triggs in a Roto League for a two start week, both starts at home. He's still only 49% owned. I wrote about him in Waverwire.

If you're in a points league and you can start him as a reliever, I don't understand how he's not owned in all points leagues. In that same league, Chris Albin me for Eugenio Suarez, who I don't think is probably going to be a big deal. Obviously, he's off to a great start. His third home run Sunday. But, you know, just looking at what he did last year, guy who could hit 20 home runs but pretty much nothing else is how I pegged him coming into the year but

he is only 25 very favorable home park the number one third basements of war in fantasy right I am betting against him sustaining that but at the same time it was clear in a number of my leagues that he was the only player um who was even worth considering like just just the fact that he was the only player out there who has performed well so far and who you could at least conceive becoming a little more than we perceived him to be. So I was putting in claims for him and I don't think I got him anywhere. Okay, well that's Ehio Hino-Swaris. Would you rather have Suarez or Mike Mustakis, who's about 60, about 70% owned and has five home runs hidden one? I'd rather have Muce. Yeah, I think I would too. A lot more proven there.

Would you drop the slumping Ryan Healy for Eugenio Suarez? I thought about it. I thought about it in the podcast Listeners League where third base is a gaping hole for me. I almost made that exact move, which would mean Suarez would be my only third baseman going forward until I picked up another. I opted against it because, A, I think Healy's better than Suarez in the long run still. and B, the athletics have some of the best matchups of any team this week. So I'd hate for to make this move now, Healy blows up, and then I can't get him back later. I dropped Devin Travis, and I dropped them in one league.

I kept him in another. I dropped him for Neil Walker in our points league, kind of shallow. Everybody pretty much has just one second baseman. He's just been terrible. He's sat each of the last two games. I guess I expect him back in the lineup. They don't really have a great replacement for Devin Travis. And I know he's better than this, but I'm just hoping I don't regret dropping Devin Travis,

but I really, I don't want to take a zero. And he's basically a zero right now. I think I tried to solve your second base dilemma in that league by making you a very fair trade, and you just never even responded, so I had to withdraw it. Different leagues, so, no. Or you have a second base problem in a different league. Yeah. I have three Devin Travis leagues.

I have Devin Travis is my starting second base, but in three leagues. Oh, and that was such a joke of an offer. What was that offer? I offered you Ben Zobrist for Marcus Stroman. Get out of here. Ben Zobrist for Marcus Stroman. Get out of here. Not happening.

Keep starting Devin Travis. Enjoy it. I tried to add Brandon McCarthy for two starts this week. I tried to drop Jason Hamill, but I did not have a successful waiver claim there. McCarthy. He has two starts, too. I don't know that you lost anything there. Yeah, I wasn't sure.

That's why I put a $0 bid in because I didn't really care. But if McCarthy has good starts against the diamond backs, you're going to lose your chance to pick them up. Oh, on the two-star pitchers and getting screwed on the fab run last night, I put in a bid after Mike, after prioritizing Mike Leak in that league where Heath beat me out for him, I put in a slightly lesser bid for Joe Musgrove, who was my second favorite two-star sleeper. But because of the rain out yesterday, he's not a two-star pitcher. Charlie Morton is, who I actually even like more than Musgrove.

So I guess that becomes a new two-star sleeper. But it's kind of late for me in that league to make a move for him. Sounds like somebody really just peed on your rug this morning. Is that an inside joke I don't get? Somebody did literally pee on my rug this morning. But we don't need to go anymore into that. Oh, that's right. You have a bad morning.

Bad morning. Good job. It all started with checking to see who I won on waivers last. night and it's just gone downhill from there. Well, let's take a look at the most added players. Mike Leak is number one. These are not the most owned players on the most added list. They are the players who have had the biggest rise in ownership.

Mike Leak, E. Johanio Suarez, Brandon McCarthy, Jason Vargas. Vargas is a two-star pitcher, I believe. No, I think he is next week, right? Oh, next week? Okay, I'm sorry. He's been strange, though. He's always just been kind of a mediocre, fine, stream him two-star Tom's sort of pitcher. but he's getting a ton of whiffs with his change-up in his first two starts.

Struck out more batters than he's pitched. Worth of speculation. All right, that's Vargas. He's 46% owned. That's more than speculation at this point. Amir Garrett is 82% owned. He is the fifth most added player in our leagues. I'm going to have a tough decision on Amir Garrett.

Two starts, but bad matchups, if I recall, unless you, I think he's the Cardinals and the Cubs. But I don't know how much I fear the Cardinals right now. That's a good point. I wasn't making him because the matchups, they just appeared so bad to me that I didn't want him. He was pretty low in my two-star pitcher ranking. But I do want to own Amir Garrett, Scott. Yes, he needs to be on the most added.

I'm just not sure how he needs to be started. Eric Thames is now 85% own. I'm mad at myself for not even looking to see if Thames was available in our podcast league. He was. He was added over the weekend. And, man, Thames, guys, amazing start. He's the number one first baseman in, I think both points in Roto. he's 85% owned, five home runs in his last four games.

I need to walk back. Some of the things I said about Thames at the end of last week, because I was pretty dismissive of him. Okay. Since I suspected he was going to sit against left-handed pitchers. If he keeps this up, and by the way, two of his six home runs this year are against left-handers, I think, in like four at bats. Five, yeah, two for five.

He's not going to be sitting against left-handers for long, so. How much are we buying this? Is this just a hot star? And obviously, Eric Thames needs to be owned. How confident are you that you're going to have a guy worth starting all year? I'm more confident in him than Suarez. I'll say that much. I mean, this guy was legendary in Korea, like cult following because of the crazy numbers he put up there.

And he gets to play half his games at Miller Park. Yeah, I don't forget that. There's that, too. But you're not yet at the point where we're saying, all right, I have Carlin. Carlos Santana, I just picked up Thames. I'm fine trading Santana because Thames is going to be my starting first basement rest of season. No.

Right. And while I want to just flatly call Thames to sell high candidate, like I'd swap him for Edwin and Carnacione, I'd swap him for Miguel Cabrera, who has the back issue now that might have his owner freaking out. Like, I'd still do that kind of stuff. Would you swap him for Carlos Santana? In a points league. Roto, maybe not.

Yeah. All right. More on the most added list after fame, Jordan Montgomery, who is a two-star pitcher this week, am I right? I believe. Yes. Yes. He's got the white socks at home and at the pirates. So that's interesting there. It might be worth a gamble. And sorry, just looking at the most added list and getting lost. Travis Darno is 73% owned. He was in Scott's Sleeper Hitters column. Jimmy Nelson is 42% home. Would you rather own Jimmy Nelson or Jason Vargas? Jordan Montgomery. They're all about owned in the same amount of leagues. This week, Montgomery. Long term?

Judy Nelson's a two-star pitcher, too, although also with bad matchups. I'd still... I mean, I'm not as willing to take a flyer on Vargas as Heath is because he's so old and he still throws high 80s, and his career high, K-per-9 is 6.5. So I just think the other two have a little more upside and I'd lean Nelson between them. Okay. And that's probably going to do it for the most added list. Avi Garcia's on there, though.

We could talk about him. Garcia hit a home run. He's got two on the year now. He's batting like 400 or something crazy like that. He's 35-ish-percent-owned. No, no, it's up to 40% now. And he's batting 465 with two home runs, three walks, 10 strikeouts. Anybody buying into Avi Garcia?

No. No. I mean, I'm tempted to, but I feel like I should know better. because it's mostly singles. Yeah. Well, okay, that's Avi Garcia. Let's leave him on waivers for now. Would you rather have Michael Conforto who barely plays or Avi Garcia?

Well, if it's for a bench spot, then Comforto. Yeah. But I'd be starting Garcia over him right now. All right. Let me tell you guys about something that you definitely want to be invested in. New show on TV, the new unofficial spot. But it's about baseball. Brock Meyer is so funny.

I've seen only two episodes so far, but I was cracking up. This is Hank Azaria playing a baseball broadcaster. Brockmire? Brockmeier, it's called. Brad Brock? Yeah, right, exactly. It's so funny. I'm pretty confident that people will enjoy Brockmeyer.

And don't spoil it if you're ahead of me. Not that it's one of those types of shows, but... Where can we see Brockmire? It's on IFC, but you can watch it online. IFC.com, assuming you have IFC through your cable provider. Very funny stuff. So I recommend it. And I was a little, I'm not going to lie, I was a little disappointed in the series finale of girls last night.

But, you know, I could talk about that some other time. A lot of injuries, a lot of injuries. How many of these guys are we starting this week? Real quick. Trey Turner, he's eligible tomorrow. Trey Turner, start or sit? He's eligible Wednesday. Wednesday?

that. And they're not speculated that he's definitely going back because he's eligible, right? It's just kind of a question mark? It is a question mark. So, I mean, and maybe not in a deeper league, but 12 teams are shallow. Yeah, that's it.

Yeah. He's by the way, he's yeah Turner in my phone. My auto-correct. Buster Posey, start or sit? Start. Start. Matt Kemp. He's coming back Tuesday.

He's coming back early. I think it's okay to start him. Obviously, three outfielder leagues you may not have to. Right. Start him in a five outfielder. You should be fine with Noah Cinderguard, even though he's had these weird finger injuries. Logan Forsyth, I think, is expected back today or whenever their first game is. Heronauto Paro's been on paternity leave.

That's why he's been out for a while. They have a five-game week, so you probably don't want to start now. Yeah, five games and one of those games against Kershaw. Gregory Polanco, he sat on Saturday and Sunday, but I think he pinch hit yesterday. Are we starting Polanco, Scott? Ooh, I hadn't seen any pinch hit. That might change things for me. I'd picked up Lonnie Chisholnhal to start instead, so I'd rather start Polanco if there's a hunch he's not going on to DL, but you know how it is with the 10-day DL.

Yes. How many games does Chisandall have this week? Do you need, what, two Polanco games to feel better about starting him over, Chisandall? I thought he pinched. I think I'm wrong, Scott. I don't think you did. Okay. Yeah, if you didn't pinch hit, then...

See, I actually wrote a piece about this at the end of last week, how I'm approaching players who have day-to-day injuries with the invention of the 10-1. day DL and how we've seen teams use it so far. If a player pinch hits after that first or second game he sits out, then that resets. Obviously, they can't backdate it those two days. Like, it's so convenient with the 10-day DL, the guy's already sat out two days. It's basically he's just missing a week, so might as well put him on the DL. But a pinch-hit appearance resetting that clock, I think makes it safe. Since Falunco didn't pinch hit, I think we should sit him.

All right, look, I'm going to, you guys just have to. look at your own injuries. This stuff could be outdated by the time you hear this podcast. There's also an 11 a.m. game today, 11 a.m. Eastern. But you'll have to check on Carlos Correa. Martin Prado should be back today. Gene Seguro should be back later in the week. You should sit him.

Rich Hill may need to go on the deal with a blister issue. So is anybody interested in picking up Alex Wood? Yeah, a little. You know, I'd rather have like Amir Garrett or like one of those two start options we mentioned earlier, Mike Leak or whatever. But I don't think it's just going to be a 10-day stint for Rich Hill this time. They need to figure out a more permanent solution to that problem.

Yeah, it's crazy. Donaldson's on the DL. They're talking like it could be short-term, but calf injuries, you never know. So it sucks about Donaldson, but not unexpected. Aaron Sanchez is on the DL. Jay Happy, which my phone says, left with elbow pain. He's going to have an MRI today. That could be bad.

Could be nothing. We'll see. John Gray is going to be out at least a month with a broken foot Brandon Finnegan is going to be out at least a month with a strange shoulder I would love to see Robert Stevenson replace him. He came in and pitched great. He looked nasty. Now, I only did it in three innings.

Can he do it second time to the order? Who knows? But he struck out five Brewers, gave up one run. Is Stevenson going to be the guy for the Reds? Probably him or Cody Reed. Maybe even piggyback the two for a couple of starts because neither one of them are probably ready to throw six innings. And it may be, it may be a while.

that they're without Finnegan. I mean, that kind of injury doesn't have a clear timetable. And he seemed to be impacted by it. Yeah, you would think. Marcus Selfies, Oakland shortstop. Marcus Selfies is on the D.L. with a wrist injury.

Of course, that's Marcus Simeon, and Jake O'Dorizzi's on the DL with hamstring tightness. And here's some cool stuff about eligibility. Jose Reyes actually has made three appearances at shortstop, so he needs two more to gain eligibility. Logan Forsyth, two away from third base eligibility. Ryan Healy, one appearance away from first base.

Kenjus Morales, two appearances away from first base. That's nice. Ryan Braun might get traded to the Dodgers, and they're going to try to do it before May 24th. That's when he becomes a 10-5 player, 10 years in the league, five with one team. He can veto any trade, so that's May 24th. And Boston outfielder, Moon is Betts,

has not struck out in 119 plate appearances, the longest streak since Juan Pierre in 2014. Moon is Betts. Yeah, one of my favorites. And you know, guys, I came very, very close to using Seat Geek yesterday. I didn't get a chance to go to the Yankees game, but I was trying and I was looking on Seatgeek. The only place I looked for tickets, very cheap seats, and that was on my Seekek app. And you can get $20 off tickets on Seekek with our promo code Fantasy.

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Download that Seek app. Enter the promo code fantasy, all caps, fantasy. That's promo code fantasy for $20 off your first Seekk purchase. All right, so who were some of the standouts for you other than Eric Thames this weekend? Well, do we just talk about Paxton? Yeah. We already talked enough about him. No, talk about Paxton.

I mean, how far is he moving up in your rankings so far? No runs in three starts, and he's just dominating. Yeah, I had moved him up before this most recent start. I don't know how much farther I can move him up the rankings, but he's a borderline top 20 guy. Would you rather have Paxton or Hamels? I'm staying with Hamels. Yeah, but that is a close call.

It's such a frustrating thing since I didn't end up with Paxton in any league. It might be the call I was rightest about, and I don't even benefit from it. So annoying. I think Paxton McCullors is an interesting debate. I feel better about Paxton's durability. And maybe that's unfair, but considering McCullors just had a sprained elbow last year. I've moved him ahead of the Garrick Cole, Danny Salazar, Masahiro Tanaka, still behind Carlos Martinez, Carlos Carrasco, Chris Archer.

Yeah. That makes sense. This is looking pretty legit for James Paxton Right now he's 2-0 with four walks to 22 strikeouts He's faced Houston twice in Texas It's not like he's faced the A's three times, you know I mean there's a lot of whiffs In those two Houston matchups

So that Like it's not a good matchup But it is a good matchup for a strikeout pitcher He had over 20 spring strikes Paxson against Texas Over the weekend on Saturday Looks great You say that so casually How many were Joey Gallup?

Gallo actually doubled off of him, I think. Good for Gallo. G-A-L-L-O. Speaking of players we liked coming in, I had another situation going through my waiver claims yesterday. I didn't catch that Musgrove had been downgraded to one star, but I did have a chance to abort all the moves I put in to drop Greg Bird in a 10th team league where I drafted him because he let out some frustration last night

against Adam Wainwright and the Cardinals going three for three with his first home run and a double and a walk. And a walk. No strikeouts, which he'd been doing in about half his plate appearances to that point. Yeah, let's give him a longer leash. Yeah, he's still 85% own Greg Bird, but he did have a good night. And, you know, I think the plan was to sit him today. against a lefty Greg Holland, and now it's not so clear.

But if you are a Greg Bird owner and you're still a little hesitant about starting or sitting him, just take a look at the match and see how many lefties they have. And I don't know. Is he already back to only play against Ritey's? No, no, but I just, he's going to be better against Ritey's. So I'm not sure that we feel so confident after one game to throw Greg Bird back in our lineup. I would leave him on the bench. I just wouldn't drop him.

Right. Yeah, don't drop him. Don't drop them. Yankees are amazing, by the way, seven wins in a row. So also, Michael Paneda, Heath, you've got to be feeling pretty good about Michael Panetta. Yankees are amazing seven wins in a row. And two good starts in a row, both seven or more innings, and a combined three runs against Tampa Bay and St. Louis last week. Very beautiful two-star week for Panetta.

Yeah, I think you have no reason to doubt him anymore. He's obviously proven that he's figured things out. He's no longer giving up a 340 BAPIP. He's getting people out when he has runners on base. Still not living up to his peripherals. No, it's encouraging. I hope you started him for the two-star week. Who does he have this week?

Pittsburgh on the road. You're starting him. Pittsburgh on the road, you're starting him. Let me just say that last night, Paneda apparently, I caught most of the game, but I missed the beginning. Because of Easter festivities, he apparently did not have a good slider at the beginning of the game, and he threw his change-up until he got his good slider, and then he got it in, like, the third inning.

And that's just not something I would have expected from Panetta to be able to be missing his best pitch for two innings and to only give up one run, then to gain his best pitch. You know, be able to use the change-up to sort of get along in the start, you know, move it along. And it's just, it's progress that I wasn't expecting him to make. So is Panetta still the best sell high candidate in baseball, Scott? Um, yeah.

I can't think of a better one. I'd still call him that. Obviously, you know, anytime we talk about this, the emphasis is on the word high, not on the word sell. If you're selling him at face value, then you're not doing it right and you're better off just hanging on to the upside. Okay. Would you sell Panetta for?

I think I asked this last week, but Garrett Cole. Yes. Yeah. Okay. I still would. Julio Tehran. Yes. Yep.

All right. We'll stop there. I think that's kind of the range. That and higher you want to aim for if you're selling Panetta. How about that crazy start from Carlos Martinez on Saturday? Five and a third. Gave up three runs, two earn, four hits. Eight walks, 11 strikeouts.

I don't even know what to say. Yeah, I'd be concerned if he had any kind of walk issues the first couple starts, but he didn't. So just one of those fluky things, I guess. Tell me if you think the following players are underowned starting pitchers. Daniel Norris, 53% owned. No. That seems about right. Hector San Diego, 17% owned. Maybe a little, but don't take that as an endorsement of him.

It's just 17% is awfully small for a guy taking regular turns. Would you rather have Daniel Norris or Brandon McCarthy? I would rather have Norris. See, I'm pretty intrigued by Norris right now. What's weird is that he's not striking anybody out. and last year that wasn't an issue, he had 71 strikeouts and 69 and a third. But I, you know, maybe I like him because Jonah, for many reasons, but Jonah Carey had him as a breakout. I respect Jonah Carey's opinion.

It wasn't necessarily a fantasy column, but it was a guy that Jonah Carey likes. We know Joan is a big fantasy guy. He's one of our baseball writers, by the way. And there's pedigree there. I don't know. I feel like 53% owned Derek Norris. Might be missing your, Daniel Norris might be missing your chance here. No?

Um, I don't think any of your points is invalid. I just think there are bigger priorities right now because he hasn't had a start that really knocks you over. All right. Well, he doesn't throw, I guess he doesn't throw inside enough. You know, get it? Knocks you over. I get it. Thank you.

Very good. Thank you very much. Who's getting intrigued by Mitch Morland? Mitch Morland is batting 356 with a home run and 17, 50 doubles at this point? Was he have eight doubles? He's on pace for 112. I made that number up. It's probably low.

Yeah, probably. I don't know how excited I can get. Like, as a corner infielder, he's fine. But the problem is the types of leagues where you use a quarter infielder or also probably the types of leagues where Mitch Morland is the least valuable. Because these doubles aren't rewarded. Right. And it's worth pointing out the Red Sox have faced only one left-handed starter.

Morland did start in that game, but it was pretty early in the season when everybody was sick. So, you know, there's a good chance they'd go with, like, Brock Holt or something there, I guess, in the future. Okay. And I'm going to give you some more hitters. You tell me if you think they're underowned. Cesar Hernandez, 57% owned, Brandon Phillips, 35% owned. I wrote about Cesar Hernandez twice in the first two weeks on the waiver wire, just because he was like 30% owned last week.

60% sounds like I think right now as hot as he is, it could be a little bit higher, but I don't know for the season he's going to be a whole lot higher than 60 to 65%. You've got to start running more than he is to be. It's not power that's going to sustain. him. Would you drop Devin Travis for Brandon Phillips? For Phillips? Yeah. In a road? No, no,

I probably wouldn't. I drop him for Cesar. But Phillips does have four steals, and that is something, obviously, we've seen him do. And the recent past two years ago, he had right around 25 steals, right? Yeah, I think he had 14 or 15 last year. So if he's going to

be that aggressive on the base paths with his Braves team, I would say he's under owned at 35%. Okay. Even if Phillips is more worth, I mean, even if Travis is more worth owning. Brandon Phillips, he's kind of like Yadir Malina, where he just seems to be better in fantasy than people would expect. He's somewhat ageless. I will say that watching the Cardinals this weekend, they look terrible right now.

They're playing terrible. Yadir Malina, that had have been one of the worst weekend. I know he homered yesterday, but defensively he was awful. They never rest him. He looks old and tired. He played in the world baseball classic. That is the guy that I'm a little concerned about right now. It's the second week of the season.

He already looks worn down. He made some really bad plays you wouldn't expect from Molina. How about Trey Mancini? Anybody interested in him? He has four homers in his last three games. I've got him on my AL-only roster. I'm pretty excited about that. But I can't be motivated to add him in any type of mixed league unless it's really deep.

Not yet, but I do think there's, I mean, two of his last three starts. He's homered twice. So, Hjnsu Kim in left field is not anything the Orioles need to be committed to. So there's a chance that he could get more playing time going forward. Sure. Like, would you drop a guy like Guriel for Trey Mancini? No, no. What's Mancini's ownership right now?

Do you have it? Let's guess. Let's guess. I'm going to say 12th. It's got to be like 10% or something, ridiculous. My guess is 12%. So, I mean, he's more of a deeper- 19-19?

He's more of a deeper league guy right now, and, like, you don't have to go as high as the guerrilles to make a spot form in those formats. Okay, yeah, I've just, Guriel's, you know, been pretty awful. Yeah, he is. Yeah, all right. Obviously, if Buck Showalter announces today,

Trey Mancini's my starting left-fielder, that changes. But here's the thing, like, you might have to, like, this is your chance to get him, before that happens is speculating and just like how long

like it would have to happen pretty soon or else you're just not going to be able to commit to them long a roster spot to him long term if you're committed to a guy like Yuleeski Gurriel or Josh Bell two guys that I have on one of my Roto teams

neither of them is doing anything neither of them is worth starting both of them I see long term potential in I mean Josh Bell goes either of them could go four for five with a double and a homer tonight, and you're like, man, why did I pick up Mancini, who's not even going to play? Not after one game. I don't think you need to be that ahead of the news.

All right. Well, look, it's a name to know. Trey Mancini is a name to know. You out there based on your league depth, decide how aggressive you want to be on a potential start, you know, potential sort of everyday player for the Orioles. Potential. We have no idea. All right, let's go to pitchers.

We're done with this guy. You try to qualify things so many times you end up talking in circles. Yeah. Good pitchers over the weekend. Studs being studs. Dallas Kikles off to a great start. 0.86 ERA in three starts.

Felix Hernandez has not walked a batter. No walks, 15 strikeouts, and 18 in a third. Last year he had a career high, 3.8 walks per 9. Jacob de Grom had 13 strikeouts on Saturday at Miami. That was great. And Matt Harvey continues to gain velocity. continues to be just very solid. He's 2-0 with a 245 ERA, goes about six innings every time out, and 15 strikeouts at 18 and a third.

Keiko, Felix, DeGrom, Harvey, did I say anyone there that is changing things for you in fantasy? I don't know that, and obviously I've been the high one on Harvey, so, you know, it probably goes without saying I'm encouraged by him. I don't know that Felix Hernandez isn't among the top two or three players on my sell high list. I just don't trust him. I mean, it's not just theoretical anymore. He has changed the way he pitches to try and compensate for the reduced velocity. He's throwing his foreseamer a lot more because it's the pitch he can command the best.

And that's worked for him so far. I just wonder if that scouting report gets out. I would imagine his fastball is more hitable than a lot of his off-speed pitches too. So the fact that he doesn't have a great strikeout rate so far, I'm just, I'm worried about the sustainability of this start for Hernandez. He's become a thinking man's pitcher. Would you trade Felix for Danny Selzer? I would. Wow. Yeah. That's the ultimate test. Why don't you rank those four pitchers? I'm going to guess it's DeGrom, Keiko, Harvey Felix, or Felix Harvey? I had it the, I have it the way. I have it the way.

way you have it degram kikele harvey felix i have it de grom felix keikl harvey felix hernandez over dowis keikel i do wow they're both kind of similar now they either one of them strikes anybody out they are not similar this is you know neither here nor there i just think it's crazy eight hits keikl is allowed this season and three starts i didn't even realize that wow yeah that's impressive i'm i'm very Unsustainable Heath, you don't have to point it out. I won't. I will not mention anything about the fact that a 113 Babbip is not sustainable. And neither is a 0.86 ERA. Like, we know that it's going to get worse, but I still think you should be very encouraged by Dallas Kichel. Well, okay, here, but that, okay, this is my only problem with that.

Dallas Kichel has struck out 6.4 batters per nine and has a 3.6 FIPP. Okay, that sounds a whole lot like what Felix Hernandez is, done, but Felix Hernandez is the ultimate sell high. Except Kikel has a history of succeeding with this kind of stuff in the way he's using. And Felix is brand- this is brand-do. This is uncharted

waters. Excuse me, Felix actually has struck out 7.4 batters per nine and has a 358-fib. So I just feel like they, I've got them ranked very similarly. I know I'm higher on Felix and lower on Kichel, but I don't know that we can be

so excited by Kichel's start. say Felix's isn't real. No, I, you know, arguing about Felix is one thing. I just want to be excited about Keikl. Okay. Then get excited about Felix. Get excited. Not that excited about Felix.

If Felix got as many ground balls as Dallas Keikl, you know, it would be another thing. I want to see the ground ball percentage and see if that's back up. But I'll look that up. His ground ball percentage is not back up. He's at 45%. What was it last year? 50. Okay.

All right. Well, that's interesting. Studs being studs, a little bit more. Part two, these guys are owned in more than 80% of leagues. They're pitching. Pitched pretty well over the weekend. Aaron Nola only went five innings, but one run, no walk, six strikeouts. I guess good stuff in his last two starts.

Jared Icoff's having a solid start to the year. Taiwan Walker. No quality starts, but, yeah, I don't know. He wasn't that good, but he wasn't bad. He hasn't been terrible yet, Taiwan Walker. That's the good news. Gio Gonzalez off to a really nice start. 133 E.R.A.

Ian Kennedy struck out 10 angels and eight scoreless endings. He dominated on Sunday. And Irvin Santana, dude, Irvin Santana's 3-0 with a 0.41 ERA. Five walks, 15 strikeouts, and 22 innings, but he threw a complete game shutout against the White Sox. You were impressed by those eight hits and three starts for Keikl. It's five hits in three starts for Irvin Santana. Yeah, he has faced the Royals and the White Sox twice. now. So three easy opponents.

But still, very good. I mean, if you could trade him, like, if you could, if he had any value in the trade market in your league, I'd call him a sell high too. But considering he was widely undrafted and still isn't universally owned, I don't know. Like, I'm just, I'm just happy to have him right now, basically, because I know I couldn't really get that much for him in a trade. That's Irvin Santana. Go ahead. You mentioned Taiwan Walker in this section. and I read something this morning

that kind of affects Walker, will affect Corbyn. You know, they've talked about the humidor and using that in Chase Field, and I guess they're constructing it or whatever and expect to do it within the next month. And there is a piece on Hardball Times this morning

talking about the study they did before they instituted the humidor at Coors and the effect that it had. And it was basically one less, almost one less home run per game. and that the percentage impact at Chase Field could actually be larger because the relative humidity in Arizona is so much lower that putting these balls in a humidore could actually have a bigger effect,

not necessarily more than a home run less per game, but percentage-wise. So that could be big for Robbie Ray, it could be big for Taiwan Walker. Chase Field may not be that much of a hitter's park anymore. I mean, should we be selling Paul Goldsmith now? I don't know, but I would think it would be. probably affect somebody like Jake Lamb or Yizmani Tomas more than it would Goldschmidt. Yeah. Wow, that's very interesting.

Would you rather have Irvin Santana or Taiwan Walker? Taiwan Walker. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, this was an encouraging start for Walker, considering he wasn't even healthy coming in. Would you rather have Irvin Santana or Gio Gonzalez? Geo. I'd rather have Irvin, but, you know, their upside's probably similar.

Gio's just waiting for you to buy back in before he blows up. No, not going to happen. I mean, he got only three strikeouts. He did manage to exceed seven innings, but he had only three strikeouts. So what's, what kind of trade-off is that? Studs being duds over the weekend. Cole Hamill's struggle, he gave up three earn runs, two walks, two strikeouts, and five innings. Corey Kluber and Justin Verlander had bad starts against each other.

Klubber gave up six runs. Verlander gave up nine runs on 11 hits in four innings. He was terrible. Jose Cantana, mostly in the first. the first inning, but he got ripped up by the twins, gave up five runs all in the first inning, and then he was okay after that. But, yeah, he's off to a bad start, Jose Cantana. Rick Porcelo, changed that C to an S in Porcelo.

Zach Granky? Too late now. No, sell him now. Zach Granky struggled at the Dodgers. He gave up 10 hits. Eight of them were singles, for what it's worth. And Jake Areata had just a meh start against the pirates with a very stiff. win blowing out.

So a generous win for the hitters in that game. Anybody here really worrying you? Kluber, Verlander, Hamels, Kintana, Porcelo, Granky, Areietta. There are two. One is Granky, who we've talked about before, just not having the same stuff and not really understanding what we're wrong from last year. But, yes, the other one, as much stock as I have in him, is Rick Porcelo,

for me, for all the obvious reasons. I mean, this start independently wouldn't mean that much to me if he hadn't allowed 11 hits in his last start. I think it's fair to say he's going to be better than this in the long run, but it's not a good sign for his overall appeal if he's already looking this hitable, considering there were some hitability concerns coming in. I'm a little concerned about Jose Cantana. that's two out of three pretty terrible starts for him and he's made two starts against the twins

They've been very good the twins for what is... And it's just that it's not even so much that I think he's going to be bad It's just he's he was a really good pitcher Because he was so reliable But not because he did anything really spectacular So I do feel like just one little thing goes wrong And Cantonically could be bad

All right, let's see. Let's go back to Porcelo real quick. Paxton or Porcelo? Paxton. Porcelo or Stroman? Strowman. I'll stick with Porcelo there. Stroman has his own hitability concerns.

I would definitely take Dallas Kike over Rick Porcelo. Would you? Yep. Yeah. You would? I would too. Okay. And I think Hamels is a little concerning.

He hasn't had a great start yet. You know, he walked four, I think, in his previous outing. Yeah. I've lowered him a little from where I had him to start the season, but mostly it's because guys have pitched their way ahead of him. I have this standing offer, sorry, Heath, in the auction league. It's probably somebody forgot he made the offer,

so I wouldn't accept it without asking, are you still okay with this? But he offered me Danny Duffy for Cole Hamels. And I kind of feel like Duffy's a better pitcher now, but it's hard to get away from seven straight, seasons with 200 or more innings and 194 or more strikeouts for Cole Hamels, you know? And there have been, how long have we been podcasting together, Adam? Seven years, something like that?

Seven or eight years, yeah. And how many, how often, so basically the whole span of Hamill's time doing this. Right. We've had this conversation about Hamels a lot during that time, and he's always managed to get it together. Right. So, yeah. Are you any, are you concerned at all about the following play?

who are almost universally owned. Lance McCullors got roughed up at Oakland. Kenta Maida, bad start. 707 ERA. Hasn't thrown more than 83 pitches in any star yet. And Matt Moore, who's, you know, his last star was actually great, but a little up and now. He's about more.

He's got a little bit of Michael Paneda in him, I guess. So what are we to answer? Like, Kintamaeda, I guess, is concerning to me because he hasn't had a good start yet. And he's not throwing his slider as much this year, which was probably the source of a lot of his strikeouts. It's usually a swing and miss pitch, especially for somebody who leans on it as heavily as he does. So I don't know what's up with that. You know, my innings concerns coming in, obviously he's struggled, so it's not surprising he hasn't gone six yet, but it is worth pointing out. We need to see a good start from him before the end of April

Or there's going to be some real panic for his owners, I think Okay, Maida, struggling there Look, you know how this show works I always put too many guys in the notes We don't get to anyone, so take a quick glance through the notes And tell me if there's a take, a buy low, a sell high, A must add, a must drop I think it's crazy that Tyler Glass now is 61% owned

That's way too high in my opinion Yeah, probably Yeah, I don't know if we've given people Enough time to react To that second Second bad start It was so encouraging after the first start I think Kendall Graveman is somebody

That I'm really going to be watching In the next start It was okay But no strikeouts against the Astros Yeah, that was a little weird I mean, if he's going to take this step forward it's going to be by missing more bats than he used to. Sean Manaya walked five in a no-hit effort otherwise.

Lasted five innings, but he's been striking out so many hitters. That seems kind of fluky from a pitcher who had no control issues as a rookie last year. Alex Cobb struck out nobody in his five innings, but he apparently didn't have his split change working, and that's his best pitch. Shoemaker finally had a good start, so I did drop him in a 10-team league, but I might hold on to him in any leagues where I hadn't dropped him yet. Might give him a little more of a chance. Are we going to react to James Shields having a third straight start with only one run giving up?

I don't know how to react to it other than I guess he's relevant again. I mean, he's not somebody I'm adding in mixed leagues, but... He has 10 walks issued by Shields in 16 and 2 thirds. Like, there's no way I'm touching... Oh, really? The walks have been that high? Effectively wild. There's no way I'm touching James Shields. Okay, fair enough.

I'll double check on that. I didn't notice the walk stat. But he did walk three in his last start. And he's giving up three home runs in 16 and a third two. So, yeah, he's 35% owned. Antonio Sinsatella is 40% own. Any interest in him? I think you have to have some interest in him.

I don't have to. No, it's a Rocky pitcher who doesn't miss bats. That's going to come crashing down, I think. He's a 22-year-old with very good control, who's had three good starts to start the year. I don't want to underreact to him. Okay. You don't have to. I'd rather own Tyler Skaggs. He had nine strikeouts and seven shutout in a Texas City last night.

And I, it wasn't just a high strikeout total. I think he had like 17 swings and misses. He was legitimately baffling them. And we've seen flashes from him in the past. Some guys who are widely available include Willie Peralta, Matt Boyd, Nathan Carnes, Alec Asher, Dylan Covey, Wade Miley and Martin Perez. Yuck. I would be most interested in Boyd on that list. That's not such a yuck list, okay?

Like, if you want to talk about like 12 team mixed leagues, maybe a little bit, but Peralta's not bad. Matt Boyd, yeah, I think there's potential there's 25% on. And Carnes, like, Carnes could have a solid year. I'd put Peralta second, and I think Peralta and Boyd are just illustrate the two different needs. If you're looking for a pitcher that could have some upside to turn into it, somebody you actually want to start every week, I would rather have void if you're looking for in a deeper league,

just a steady Eddie at the back of your bench, Peralta could be that guy. Okay. Yeah, Peralta might get too much attention right now just because he's 3 and 0. But, I mean, obviously he needs a better walk to strikeout ratio than he had in this last start, but there's been a lot of good sides dating back to the All-Star break last year.

I think, of all the pitchers on this list, Karns included, highly included, Martin Perez included, of all of them. Boyd and Peralta are the only two who I give any chance of being relevant in standard mixed leagues over the full season. Okay. So you want to know who my favorite sell high candidate is right now? This is why I'm hoping either Gregerson or Glover, which I guess was not a smart move,

ends up getting a closer job. I really want to sell enough Tali Feliz. He's been really good. He's throwing really hard, right? throwing like 102 or something. He's not going to get saves. They're going to be terrible. It's only a matter of time.

I think they were 5 and 5 last year, two, the Brewers. Their pitching isn't as bad. They suck. They are going to be so, they're going to be bad. Their hitting's really good. I don't see it. I think they're going to be bad. I'm going to take the opposite stance.

I think the Brewers might challenge the Pirates and Cardinals for, you know, second, third place. Not second. What if they're trading Ryan Braun in the next month? If they trade Ryan Braun in the next month... That's what they're talking about doing. It would be tough to do that. I don't think... But just the team as it's constructed right now,

it doesn't look like one of the worst teams in baseball to me. I don't really buy their pitching. Okay. I guess if Junior Guerra comes back, it could be better, but... Yeah, I don't know, man. Like Peralto, Zach Davies, Jimmy Nelson doesn't do it. All right, well, that's...

I'm trying to trade in Fetliis, because he's got four, saves in four chances and a 193 ERA and yeah, I don't know. Maybe they can trade Braun for your Rias, then bring Brinson up to play for Braun. Then they'd be even better. They're not going to trade prawn for your Rias.

Stop with the fantasy games. All right, let's read some emails to finish the show. This is from Kerry in South Korea. Dear fruity, multi-grain, and frosted. Sound like different Cheerios, right? Mini-weets, I don't know. Cheerios. There are

They all exist in Cheerio for them. Really? At least assure you that much. All right. Six by six league. Which of the following are by low candidates? We'll go one by one, say yes or no. Jose Cantana.

Yes. Yeah. Maserrata. Yes. Sure. Felix Hernandez. Just the opposite. You can't buy them low.

Not low. Edwin Encarnation. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. J. Hap.

No. Not going to do it until his injury checks out. At least he was having a good start. He was. I think the Blue Jays, by the way, the lowest scoring team in baseball. So, like Eduardo Rodriguez, I believe, faces them tonight. I am starting him. Sam from Chicagoland.

Dear, man in arms, Stratos and Zodak. Zodak? That's, um, is that He-Man? It feels He-Man-y, but I don't know. Oh, it is He-Man. Good at you. Good for you. Masters of the Universe.

Heath was a kid once. CJ Crone, Tommy Joseph, and Devin Travis are all riding the pine in fantasy and in life. Avi Garcia and Chase Headley are on the waiver wire and I need help. Are any of these guys going at playing time? Who would you drop? Would you drop Crone, Tommy Joseph, or Devin Travis

for Avi Garcia or Chase Headley? I'd drop Crow. I'd rank the three he owns the top of these five rest of season, But just like, I don't have enough of an attachment to Crone that if I wanted to take a flyer on Garcia as a hot hands guy, I mean, he's still mid-20s. It's possible there's some upside. I could see doing that. Greg in Massachusetts says, hey, Tony, Sam, and Crackle. Yeah, I don't know. Actually, his question is going to require a lot of time.

So let's do a couple. That's a rankings question we can try to talk about tomorrow. Let's do a couple of starts sits here. Ryan B. I like it when you read the name of the person that emailed us and their intro and then just skip their email. I'm sure that person that's listening really enjoys it as well. Well, I said we can talk about it tomorrow. It's a tease. A really strong tease for that one person.

I think Tony Sam and Crackle are serial characters. Oh, yeah. We could have answered this question by now, by now, by the way. Paneda against Pittsburgh or Granky at San Diego is from Ryan. and B. Oh, really? Yes. You say that easily.

It's easy. If Granky was phasing anybody but San Diego, I might go the other way. But I'll agree Grinky. Great the trade from Mike. Give up 10-team head to head points league, by the way. Give up Bregman and Tyone. Breggman and Tyone. Get Trey Turner.

A-minus. Sure. A-minus works for me. All right. That's it for the show today. Thank you all for listening. We'll come back tomorrow. Talk a little rankings review.

guess I have already decided that. Thanks to Greg in Massachusetts for that question and that inspiration. See you later.