Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/19 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Trade Talk, Buy or Sell

Episode Date: April 19, 2018

We start with Buy or Sell (1:50) with Rick Porcello, J.A. Happ and his strikeouts, the MIL bullpen and Jose Berrios! Is Berrios an ace (8:51)? We've also got Freddie Freeman replacements for you (11:46) in case he goes on the DL ... Discussing yesterday's standouts including Ryan Zimmerman (21:10) and Yoan Moncada (23:21) before getting into some of the standout infielders and who we're buying (27:50) such as Dansby Swanson, Yangervis Solarte and Jed Lowrie ... Trade talk! Buy low (35:31), sell high (37:20), buy high (41:16) and players we are actually worried about (44:40). We also talk about yesterday's noteworthy SP performances (50:00) ... 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, welcome to the Thursday show, everybody. This is Fantasy Baseball today, and you can send us your emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com, and we will try to read them. We've got some trade talk today. One by low, one sell high, one by high, and one player that we're actually worried about. Maybe that'll be a fairly regular Thursday segment. I am Adam Azer. Here is Heath Cummings. Hello, Heath.

What's going on, Adam? You kind of lounging in your chair over there. You miss the cue to talk. No, I don't think I missed the cue. It was a comfortable pause. I was fashionably late. And I'm just in a relaxed kind of mood, you know. Well, when one of your sleepers, Jose Burrios, is Aeson out there.

You should be relaxing. You should be kicking your feet up and enjoying it. And we have Scott White in the house today. Scott White. Hey, Adam. There he is. Yeah. All right.

So. Miss the last couple podcasts. I missed you. What the hell? Almost miss this one. Almost. But he's here. All right, let's start with some buyer cell.

We'll talk about some bullpen stuff. We'll talk about Kenley Jansen. Some more on him. Freddie Freeman, if you need some replacements, we don't know what the deal is there, but he left after being hit by a pitch. Actually, a lot of injuries. Gonna ask for a prospects report.

And really, there are a lot of infielders who have just been amazing so far. Danesby Swanson, Jed Lowry on Hervis Solarte, Yo-a-Mongata's heating up, so we'll talk about those guys. Let's start with buy or sell. Buy or sell, Rick Porcelo is back, baby. I'm buying that Rick Porcelo is back. Talked about this after his last start,

but obviously with every good start he puts together, it becomes only more convincing. Basically, he didn't have his two-seamer last year. He talked about it in spring training, talked about how it felt like it was back again, and the usage, not to mention, mentioned the results. The usage seems to confirm that's true. He's back to featuring

it as prominently as he did during his Cy Young season. It's going quite well for him. I think he's back. I will buy this as much as I ever bought Rick Porcello's first run like this. So could he continue it for an entire year? Not at this level. But yeah, you could be a low 3SERA guy. I don't

expect he'll win 22 games again. I doubt he gets to 223 innings again. But he is back in the that he's doing the things that he can control. And so far, the Babib gods have shined well on him as well. Got a 140 ERA, one walk, 23 strikeouts, and 25 and 2 thirds. Porcelo 8 scoreless at the Angels.

Very good lineup yesterday. And two starts to go was seven scoreless against the Yankees. So, you know, the first two starts were against the raise. It was easy to be skeptical, but Yankees and Angels and 15 scoreless endings with 12 strikeouts and those starts. Buy or sell, J.Hap's incredible K-rate makes him a groovy by low candidate, baby.

It's a lot of Ks. I'm not really sure. I haven't gotten to the bottom of what he's doing differently, if anything. But I felt like he was kind of underrated to begin with. Obviously, if he keeps up this K rate, it's going to be super underrated.

I'm just, I'm not there yet with it. No, thanks. No, Heath, not interested. So, J.Hap right now has a 450 ERA, but seven walks, 31 strikeouts, and the 450 ERA is, I guess, why I would say, by low. And the fact that some people just don't believe in J.Hap, like Heath, apparently. Well, Jayhap has had three, I guess you would say good starts in a row for strikeouts against the White Sox, the Orioles, and the Royals. And there was a time early in the year when we said, you know, this Royals team isn't really striking out. very much. It's not really quite as true anymore.

And they do still have, like, they're the worst team in baseball right now. They are, and the Orioles and the White Sox strike out the most in baseball. But, you know, Hap had a 318 ERA two years ago, 3.53 last year. All right, whatever. I think we've exhausted that. Porcelo or Hap, rest of season? Porcelo. Okay. Hap or, Hap or, Hap or, Lucchase. Lucchese.

All right. Buy or sell, the Milwaukee bullpen is the most annoying thing since... Now, I couldn't come up with anything that was really annoying. You could have just phrased the statement differently. Literally, Scott, one of the reasons that we had not fully started before you got here is because we spent about 10 minutes trying to come up with what it should be the most annoying thing since. It's true. Since Scott White strolled in 15 minutes late to that podcast.

But that was just yesterday. No, I wasn't here yesterday. Yeah, he wasn't here yesterday. Okay, sorry. As annoying as the Chris Tower so long. I thought we shouldn't do a christing. We could have done it. Yeah, that's good.

Let's not. I went to BuzzFeed to find annoying things, and I found an article from February 18, 2016. 23 annoying things that will happen for the rest of your life. So the Milwaukee Bullpen is the most annoying thing since your scarf getting caught in your zipper. Right? So annoying. No milk after you're... Grews my shoulders.

Yeah. I've never worn a scarf. Yeah, I've worn them like once. No milk after you pour a bowl of cereal. Terrible. That is annoying. Yeah, I can relate to that. You're out of Nutella when you really, really need Nutella.

Nutella is gross. Whatever. And you will not, I'll just read this one. You will not remember whether your lamp needs a bayonet or a screw-in bulb. I mean, so annoying. I just... That is the worst article on the internet. It's so bad.

BuzzFeed. This should be on the top 20 worst BuzzFeed articles ever. Anyway, the Milwaukee Bullpen is very annoying by herself. Yeah, it's annoying. Yeah, very annoying. As somebody who oddly has a couple of different leagues where I don't have good closers at all, I kind of enjoy it. It's an opportunity to grab somebody and steal a save one week.

Right, but what do you even do at this point? So two days ago it was a two-out save for Hayter. And yesterday, a two-out save for Barnes. Hayter got consecutive multi-inning saves, right? Yeah. And then yesterday Barnes got the two-inning save. I keep saying two-out. I keep saying two-out.

I meant to say two-inning. Much more impressive two-innings than two-outs. My bad. Keep saying that. Albers did get a two-out save one. I think you could make an argument for owning all three of those guys. but Hater is the one that's really interesting because I expect he's going to throw four to six innings per week just in like three, two innings spurts,

maybe three, one really bad week. He's going to give you a ton of K's good ratios and if he just gives you one save or win a week, he's startable in all formats. Yeah, prior to yesterday I think he was top 12 in strikeouts even though he's a relief pitcher. So there's no excuse not to own Hater in a category. categories league now, but

like if he's not getting consistent saves, he's just not that valuable in points. Sure. You need a full-time closer to matter there. Let's just say hypothetically he's throwing five innings a week and striking out seven batters. And on most weeks, he has good ratios. I mean, ratios don't matter as much, but he's not giving up a lot of hits and

walks. If he gets one save or win a week, I think he's going to be top 20 amongst relievers in points. That's a big if. And eventually, Net Kinebel's going to be back, so That's also true. Yes. It's not a long-term answer, but I think he's startable in points right now. Oh, man.

I would want to have to start a guy who I didn't know he was going to get saved. So obviously, Hater is your favorite. Are Albers and Barnes dropable? It depends. It depends what the waiver wire looks like in your league. Yeah, I guess so. If there are no saves to be found on waivers, then neither of them are dropable. But, you know, if you can find a closer every...

week then yeah let him go you're not they're not they're not going to narrow this down anytime soon i don't think all right buy or sell jose barrios is an ace baby buy it baby he is doing so far pretty much everything that i would hope he would do and more he's been a little bit fortunate he's not going to be quite this good all year long obviously that that goes without saying probably but he's getting enough swinging strikes he's throwing his curveball more he's pitching most importantly pitching deep into games. This looks like a 200 inning plus starting pitcher. Yeah. He's been great. Sorry. Burrios, 29 strikeouts and 27 and two-thirds with only one walk and a 0.50 whip. And I know the swinging strikes are a little inconsistent for him, but more than a strikeout per inning.

So what do you think, Scott? Is Jose Burrios an ace? Buy or sell? I mean, I sell that he's an ace. My worst fears obviously haven't been realized here, and I'm pretty confident they won't be. But yeah, I'd still like to see more swinging strikes to buy that strikeout rate fully. Jose Brrios or Robbie Ray in a points league rest of season.

Still going to take Ray. Still like Ray more. I'm going to Brios. Would you rather have Brios or U. Darvish? I'm not giving up on you. I'm not giving up on you either, Heath. I appreciate that.

All right then. That's our by herself for today. I have not checked the results of my draft on the draft app. Let's see how I did. Going to assume I lost because that's just kind of what I do these days. First of all, only one out of five wins. I lost. Let's see where I came.

I came in fifth out of five. I had Robbie Ray, Freddie Freeman, Trey Turner, who gave me a big zero. Mookie Betts and Bryce Harper. On most days, Freddie Freeman, Trey Turner, Mookie Betts, and Bryce Harper would be pretty good. But I drafted them, so they didn't do that well. And I'm still coming back for more today. So get ready, baby, because I'm coming for you on the draft app. And the draft app is awesome.

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You've got to do a little bit of research. You don't have to. The projections are there for you. But it helps to do a little bit of research, which isn't hard. You can listen to the Sportsline DFS podcast, by the last. way for some help. And again, download the draft app and use that promo code FB today. All right, we got a lot of news and notes. Frederick Freeman was hit on the hand. He broke his hand last year and missed a lot of time. They don't seem as concerned this time, but we will wait

and see what the diagnosis is. You see what I'm wearing today, Adam? No, I can't see. He was a Freeman shirtsy? Oh, yeah, it's a Freeman shirtsy. It sure is. That's what it is. It's either in mourning or support. I have a feeling by the time most people listen to this podcast will know either way. I think it's going to be fine, though. They just signed Jose Batista. So if he misses some time, they've got another elite hitter ready to come play first base. Yeah, that elite hitter they signed to a minor league deal.

Yeah, that's how it works. Don't go rushing to pick up Jose Batista. They hope to bring him up to play third base. But all right, let's just say you need a Freeman replacement. And by the way, if he misses a significant chunk, this would be three out of four years where he's playing like less than 120 games. Yeah. But that's, we're getting ahead of ourselves.

Okay, we've got, let's start in shallower leagues. Justin Bohr, Albert Pujols, Yuli Guriel, those three are owned in about 70% of leagues. Boer Pujols-Guriel, who's your favorite? Well, not Poo-Huls. Yeah. Boar's probably my favorite, unless you specifically need batting average help, which you may, Freeman's the one you're.

lost. And that would be Gariel for the batting average. Yeah. All right, Heath, let's take a look at the next group. A board also. Heath,

50% owned to like 40% own. Brandon Belt, Chris Davis, Logan Morrison, Colin Moran. Yuck. Belt, Davis,

Morrison Moran. Really a gross group of hitters. I guess I'll say belt. I don't feel great about it and I'm hoping

I need a different option that's definitely belt in the points league he's kind of underrated there I actually think Colin Moran might surprise some people this year he makes such frequent contact

like he could be basically Yuleiguriel I think okay and a little bit deeper that's Colin Moran Scott was talking about there a little bit deeper in the first base first base group Less than 30% O'Neill Walker, Joe Mower,

Luis Val Buena, Lucas Duda, Tyler Austin, Brendan McKay, Dan Vogelbach, ew, ew, gross, gross, gross. Oh, Ryan McMahon, too. In a deeper league, I'd be pretty okay with Mauer or Duda as my replacement. What about Walker? Yeah, I was thinking about him. And I know he talked about how Yankee Stadium would be good for him.

obviously that hasn't manifested yet, but he's still getting the playing time. So there's still some hope there. That would probably be my first choice in Roto. Maur would be my first choice in points of that group. I just want to point out, Mike Mastock is having a pretty good year. Very good. Yeah, very good. He's basically, off top my head, I think the only one I can think of that missed a big chunk of spring training and is doing well.

But Greg Holland is not. Neil Walker is not. Logan Morrison is not And not only are they not doing well I mean they're doing horribly And then Jake Arietta I think probably the jury's still out But am I forgetting anybody

The guys who got late starts The spring training are really struggling Alex Cobb Oh yeah terrible So you know Maybe you cut a guy like Neil Walker Who we were a little excited about As a middle infield option

Maybe you cut them some slack You know just saying Just throwing that out there How many plays for the Yankees He plays for the Yankees in Yankee Stadium You call him a sleeper before the season started. Yeah, he's still sleeping. Yeah.

All right, Dave Roberts said he's sticking with Kenley Jansen. He says that Janssen's cutter isn't doing what it typically does. Cutting? Yeah, basically. Those pitches are pretty straight right now. Matt Snyder wrote an article about it, and he mentioned that Jansen had a very unusual spring training. For one thing, he had a hamstring injury. And two, the Dodgers limited his workload because he was coming off that big world series run.

So spring training, sometimes it matters. just in terms of getting a routine down, and that could be affecting Jansen. Ryan Braun sat with a calf injury. So Braun has went on the DL twice with a calf injury last year. Would this make you think twice about dropping Domingo? Santana. Ooh, I want to not drop you.

Yeah. Other than the power, he's kind of back on track, right? Still striking out a lot, I guess, but it's been walking a lot. Batting average looks decent. I don't know. I don't think there's anything to be worried about with Santana other than his playing time,

but I never did. And I believe, let me verify this. Yes, this is correct. Domingo Santana leads, brewers, outfielders, and plate appearances. Well, yeah, I mean, that's a little deceiving. Because he has more plate appearances than all. They've all been hurt.

They've all been hurt throughout their career. Not Yelich, not Yelich. Right. But I agree. Like, that's why I didn't think... He was going a little high, you know, in dress, but not super high, because I didn't think that Cain or Braun would be able to stay healthy. And Braun, you know, he really has it.

Well, he sort of has, but this... He's got a calf injury now. Okay. Carlos Gonzalez left with a hamstring injury. When you look at the Rockies, and I know David Dahl had been dealing with an illness in the minors, is everything going right for David Dahl to get called up and get playing time? Well, other than the illness, I think yesterday was his second day back.

Not even sure if they had a game then, but Wednesday was his first game. Tuesday was his first game back. So that was after like a week and a half off, and he needed to regain weight because it was a bad stomach bug. So I don't think I'd be surprised if it happened right now. I mean, they could just stick Ian Desmond in the outfield and start playing Ryan McMahon. That's a weird idea. They could bring doll up and sit him on the bench in McMahon spot. I didn't mean right now.

I just meant that nobody, Parra, Desmond, McMahon, like nobody's doing that well. And they haven't played that many home games yet. Keep that in mind. But, you know, Dahl is stash. From the first prospects report this year, David Dahl's been in my top five minor leaguers to stash. And the last edition, I think he was fourth of that group.

So, yeah. Yeah, I mean, he's somebody, five outfielder roto leagues, he shouldn't be available. He needs to be on a roster somewhere. Okay, moving on. Josh Donaldson will not return on Saturday when he's first eligible. Rich Hill's on the D.L. With third-digit inflammation, that would be his middle finger.

It is bruised. Hopefully not too long for Rich Hill. That's such your middle finger. It's not your third finger. Your third digit. That's an interesting way to put it. That's what they said. That's what they's not me.

Do you think I would be like, oh, it's third-digit inflammation? Shohei Otani is expected to make his next start. Taiwan Walker will have Tommy John surgery. Matt Cook. Yes, that's how it's pronounced. K-O-C-H. Matt Cook will replace him in the Arizona rotation. Any interest in Matt Cook?

No. Okay. Atlanta signed Jose Batista. Is there any league that you're in that you'd consider adding Jose Battista? N-L-only. For sure. I tried to.

I don't think he's in the database yet. Byron Buxton is on the D-L with Migrant. Well, he got picked up in our 16 team for the People League. Yes, he wouldn't be in the NL-only, because he hasn't played in the NL. Right. NL-only is only national league players? Yeah, and you have to be on a National League team to be in the NL-only. I don't know if you've ever played in one, Adam.

We've always turned us down for the NL-only auction. That will continue going forward. Yeah, I don't think I wouldn't advise you to change your path. Yeah. Byron Bucon's on the D.L. with migraines. Jeff Samarger could return on Friday. Delano De Shields is set for a rehab assignment. Daniel Murphy played an extended spring training game.

Anabal Sanchez is on the DL with a hamstring strain. Starling Marte has 11 walks of 13 strikeouts. Just thought I'd mention that. He is blowing away his career pace. His career high is 33 walks in a season. Marte already has 11. He did walk 20 times in 77 games last year, so he was on pace for like 42 or something.

But nice encouraging plate discipline start for Marte. he's never had that. Nope. It'd be a game changer if it keeps it up. Still early. And a couple of stolen base notes. Malick Smith, 35% owned. He stole his fourth base.

I mentioned yesterday that he had been caught stealing twice or three times. I was told by an emailer or a tweeter. Two of those times were attempting to steal home. So that is interesting. Malick Smith, 35% owned. And Andrew McCutcheon stole his third base in three attempts. That's nice to see. He has not stolen more than 11 bases in three.

straight seasons. Here's a fun note about Malick Smith. Last three starts were all against left-handed pitchers. Oh, nice. Clearly looks like an everyday player with Giermeier out. All right, guys, who stood out to you on Wednesday? Heath Cummings. Besides Jose Barrios?

Besides Jose Barrios? I think because Chris isn't here, it should only be fair that I pick Ryan Zimmerman, because I know he would want to make sure that we mentioned that batted ball data matters. Ryan Zimmerman continued hitting the ball hard on Wednesday and got better results this time with a double dong. So put Chris in first place in our dong chasers challenge. And Scott didn't play yesterday, but his results remained the same. Okay. Let's talk about dong chasers real quick.

It's something I never thought I'd say on a podcast. Ryan Zimmer, by the way, hitting 161 with three homers now in 19 games. Dong Chasers is a contest that we do every day for the Sportsline DFS podcast. which is fun. You should listen to it. Basically, we pick a player to hit a home run every day, and based on his DFS pricing, you get more points for the lower pricing, you know, so the worst player, basically. Mike McClure is our DFS Daily Fantasy Sports expert, and he picked Ryan Zimmerman yesterday as his dongacer, and he doubledonged, and you get a bonus for that. So that's huge. Yes, actually Chris Towers picked him.

Oh, Chris did? Yes. Who did he? Okay, I'm sorry. Mike picked David Peralta. You picked J.D. Martinez and caught a dog. last night. I donned yesterday.

Scott has not gotten one right yet. It is really funny. And he has played every day except for yesterday, and he is over. It's hilarious. I think Bryce Harper every day he does in Homer, basically. Yeah, that's how we're. So please, that's a fun game, and listen to the Sportsline DFS podcast. But Ryan Zimmerman is 80% owned.

What do you think about that ownership? It's too high. It's too high. And it's mostly because of playing time. He's a part-time player at this stage of his. career. I guess maybe it shouldn't have been surprising when they signed Matt Adams to four million or whatever, but Zimmerman only plays two-thirds of the time. So performance becomes secondary at that point, and performance has been slow. I think it'll be get better,

but it doesn't seem like they want them to be an everyday player. All right, Scott, give me a standout from yesterday's games, and then we'll do some trade talk, and then we'll talk about these awesome infielders who have been the toast of fantasy baseball. Standout So my notes I so diligently put together every morning Or not with me for some reason He does not have the piece of paper No I can come up with a standout still

And my standout is going to be Yoan Mukata who for the second strike game Homerton stole a base Now it's He's hitting the ball really well But he's not hitting it very often Has a 40% strikeout rate So what's something's

going to give there. I'm thinking it's more likely than not the strikeout rate because 40% is ridiculous. Like 30% is really high, one of the worst in the league. So if he keeps making this quality

of contact, when he makes contact, and the fact that he's running more than he's shown us in the majors before, which is something we hoped for when he was in the minors, that he'd be a base stealer. This could still end really well for Moncada. Yeah.

In Roto Leagues, he needs to be owned, head-to-head. Probably not just because there are a lot of second base options, but need to be keeping an eye on him. Moncada's 87% owned. He has now stolen a base in three straight games, which is beautiful. That's more on than I thought he was, frankly. Yeah, he had none before that. But reading on our website, his Wobah, his weighted on base,

or no, no, his expected Wobah, I think, is, okay, so whatever. Wobah's like, it's an important stat. It's kind of like a tell-all of how a hitter's hitting. His expected woba is what? That was exactly a very good description of what. Okay, thank you. His expected woba is much higher than his actual woba. Now, look, I mean, make of that what you will.

But based on the way he has been hitting the ball, Yoamankata should have better results. Expected woba is more of an indication based on the batted ball data of how you should be performing. Woba is how your performance has actually been. Right. So he's underachieved based on his batted ball data, based on the way he's hitting the ball. Yoamon Munkata thus far. And he's having a nice little week.

It just needs to make contact more often. I guess so. I guess so. Yeah. All right, guys, last night, how was your dinner last night? How was your dinner? Awful. Awful.

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Some awesome infielders. We talked about Yoha Mancata, Scott Segment Steeler. But let's talk about these other guys. Tell me who you're buying. Dansby Swanson. He's batting 358 with two home runs. Jed Lowry, he is the number one second baseman in fantasy. Jed Lowry leads baseball with 21 RBIs after three more last night.

Yoam Moncada. Tim Anderson, number 11 short stopping points, number four in Roto. Tim Anderson has two extra base hits since opening day. That's not good. He's batting 182 in his last nine games. That's not good. He has eight steals and eight attempts. That's good.

Javier Baez has been amazing. He didn't play yesterday, but he homered the day before. And he's batting 235, which is low for him. And, or for most people, too. Five homers for Baez. Jan Hurvis Salarte. Woo! He's been very good lately.

And DJ LaMayhew has five home runs all on the road, and he's batting 308. A lot of names. Swanson, Lowry. We can separate. Let's cut it into two little portions here. Portion number one. Swanson, Lowry, Moncada, Tim Anderson.

Who do you buy? Swanson portion sounds like what Heath had for dinner last night, right? I wish. Yeah, I wish. I microwaved them. Oh, gosh. That's even worse.

Mushy breadcrumbs. Okay, so Swanson, Lowry, and who was the third one? They were four. Mercada? And Anderson. I pay attention to Adam. Thank you. So the ones I'm buying Leicester, Swanson, and Lowry.

And particularly Lowry, I buy that they're going to be better than we gave them credit for on draft day. But nothing, not enough has changed in either of those players bat at ball profile to back up what they're doing now. Lowry's actually hitting fewer fly balls. So the fact that he has six home runs already is super strange. Would you like to hear of Jet Lowry's home run to fly ball ratio? Sure. It is 24%. last year it was

or his previous career high is 11.4%. Last year it was like 6% or something. Yeah, yes. So that sums it up. Yeah, I mean, and look, he was he was top 12 technically and headed points last year, right, because of all the doubles. He was 11th in points. He was like 21 in Roto.

Yeah. 10th in points, 21 Roto. You know, so, yeah, he was a borderline player in both of those formats last year, considering you're starting more hitters in Roto. And we just didn't give him the time of day on draft day. He deserved better than that.

I agree with that completely. I think Jed Lowry is going to be better than Danby Swanson, so I wouldn't say that I buy Swanson more than I buy Lowry. Lowry is at least hitting the ball really hard. It's got a 41% hard contact rate. Swanson's still at 25%. I don't see anything in what Danesby Swanson's doing to tell me that he's really that much different than last year. Okay, so Swanson, Lowry, how about this? Swanson, Lowry, Moncada, Tim Anderson. Who's got the best chance? It's clearly going to be Mokkaat, I guess.

Who do you think is going to be the best rest of season between Swanson, Lowry, Munkata, and Anderson? I think Tim Anderson is basically must start in Roto now, despite some of the issues with the bat there just because those elite steel guys are so scarce. And, I mean, he has enough of a track record as a hitter, providing some power, you know, hitting 250, 260. that I don't, like, I don't really worry about the bat.

There's limited upside to the bat, but with the, as aggressive as he's been on the bases, he's must start. He has definitely must start in Roto. I think, like, Jed Lowry has the highest floor and points out of this group. Moncotta clearly has the highest ceiling. Right.

Yeah. Okay, next group of infielers here. Hobby Baez, Janherva Salarte, and DJ LeMayhu. Baez, Salarte, LeMayhew. You can't really pay. pick these guys up, maybe Solarte is 84% owned. But, Heath, what are you thinking about these three? I don't buy the five home runs on the road from DJ LaMahue in the sense that he's

going to hit 30 this year or something. But I definitely buy him as a 300 hitter. I definitely buy him as a top 10 second baseman. He's, in my opinion, in a different class than the other two in this group. Do you buy DJ LaMahue as a 20 home run guy? He's never hit more than 11. No. I mean, he's the fourth of the way there.

so it's going to be easier. Yeah, but he's still got to hit his career high rest of the way. I'll say 15 is my guess. I mean, look, Andrews did it last year, right? This is the home run era, and he hasn't over it at home yet. Yeah, I don't know. Scott, go ahead. I'm just making the case.

I'm not saying I think he will, but... I'm going to make a case for both. Well, I mean, Salarte, if he's playing, if he has a job, which he does now with Josh Donaldson on the DL, He needs to be universally owned and probably started. It makes consistent contact, draws walks, and has more power than I think people realize he's doing great and needs to keep starting. But Javier Baez, only 25 years old. There are some signs this may be a legitimate breakout for Javi Baez.

Fly ball rate is highest it's ever been. Line drive rate is up to. Hard contact rate is up. Strikeout rate is down, walk rate is up. Like everything that you could get excited about for a hitter we're seeing for Hobby Baez, a guy who once had a 37 homer season in the minors. Yeah, right. And I think he seems like he's playing all the time, Baez.

I'll double check on that. If he hasn't been, he should be. And I think they'll eventually realize that if this is a true breakout. Yeah, he's played 15 games. Cubs have probably played, what, 17? Yeah, well, no, they've played 15. They get rained out all the time. They get rained out every day.

They've played 15. He has only been out of the starting lineup twice. Yeah, that's pretty good. And he started seven straight games? Six straight games. All right, Javi Baez, looking good there. Somebody traded for Solarte in one of my leagues yesterday. Didn't really get a great return, but I want to say sell high.

Depending on what you can get, but this guy, was a victim of Petco, you know? Salarte, he's in a much better park now. He usually had better road numbers when he was with San Diego. I know Heath's been pretty high on him in the past. He had seemed to always get better. Last year was a bad year for Solarte,

but it's just a much better situation. Yeah, I would like to get excited about him again, but I don't really think that I can. I think there are too many concerns about if everybody's healthy and Diego is bad for a week. Does he have a job? and there's not really like

the bad at ball data doesn't look very good at all his average exit velocity this year is under 86 miles per hour the major league average is 88.9 his hard contact rate is lower than normal so I'm just not I have a hard time getting excited I still think when he's playing every day he should generally be started in a points league but yeah triple eligibility helps a lot too especially obviously shortstop Well, as Drubal Cabrero or are you on Herbis Salarte then? As salarte. As salarthe.

Okay. All right, let's do some trade talk here. Give me one of each. A buy low. A sell high. A buy high. And someone you're actually worried about. Heath, give me a by low.

Can I, like, I feel like it's cheating a little bit to give the guy that I gave last week. It is cheating. As a by low. But he is still a buy low. He is. So I just want to say that. You should still buy low on Jose Ramirez. That's not who you gave last week.

I thought you gave Carlos Santana last week. Well, fair. Yeah. There we go then. You gave too many. Yeah, I think I talked about Jose Ramirez as well, but this can't last. He's got a 151 bad app. He's walked three times as often as he's struck out.

Jose Ramirez is good. He's doing good things right now. It's going to get better results. Okay. Scott, Bylow? One of mine's a repeat from last week, but not this one. Danny Duffy is my by-low because I don't feel like, I don't feel like the results have been loud enough

to convince his owner that, oh, he's back. But what I've seen from Danny Duffy is Velocities gone up a little every start. The results have gotten better every start. He avoided in this most recent start Tuesday the first inning issues that are really what was the cause of all his problems, the first three starts, just did not have any control in the first inning. Seemed to get over that hurdle this last start. and I think he's still an asset.

Supporting cast is going to hurt him, but I think he'll at least perform like a number three, number four pitcher in fantasy apart from win-loss record, and it's worth fine. All right, Jose Ramirez and Danny Duffy. Would you guys want to buy low on Corey Seeger, or are you concerned at all about Seeger? Some people are getting a little nervous about him.

I'd definitely buy low on Corey Seeger. I still think he's going to be a top five shortstop. Yep. Sell high, Heath Cummings. Who is selling high on? I'm going to say Sean Minaya. He is a pitcher that I feel like we've always prescribed more upside to than he's really given us reason for. And he's off to a very good start this season in terms of ERA.

But he's not striking anybody out. The control's been a lot better. That's great. There's not very much sustainable at all in what he's doing. He's got a 4.08 Bip. His bad Bip against his 169, and he's yet to allow a runner that got on base to score against him, 100% strand rate.

Wow, okay. Shaw Mania is he's so high. Scott White, so high. Sorry, this is the repeat, but it's topical. Eric Thames. Yes, two home runs in two straight games, right? Yep, and he has 95 OPS, seven home runs already. doing the same sort of stunt we saw in April last year

when we all got excited and bought high on him and then he pulled the rug out from under us. But here's the thing. His BABIP is 167, which you may view as a good thing, except his line drive rate, like it makes sense when you look at the other bad of ball stats. Line drive rate of 13.5.

poll percentage of 65%, so he's very easy to defend against. But the biggest problem for me, other than the track breaker for Thames, other than some of the underlying batted ball issues, he's starting, he's getting the Zimmerman treatment. He's starting two of every three games, and it's not a lefty-righty thing.

They're just not starting them, a third of the time. And obviously there's that logjam with Santana and Braun and Auxa, and pretty soon Yelich is going to be back. Yelich is back. I don't know that that's Yelich is back. Yeah. I don't know that that's going to change. Yeah, well, I mean, I'm surprised it's not just a lefty, right, but I don't expect many at bats against lefties, and I don't expect them to be very good against lefties, Eric Thames.

Also, I want to read something that the Associated Press wrote yesterday, which was surprising. I read the Associated Press recap of every game every day, and I've never, I don't recall seeing this word. The headline is, Yelich makes snazzy grab in, return from DL. And then it says, Christian Yell, it's quickly made an impact, and it's returned from the disabled list. The Milwaukee Center fielder made a snazzy sliding catch.

It was very, I'm surprised. Yeah, I don't usually see that. Snazzy. So, good job, AP. Way to make it interesting. Sean Mania. Yeah, I'm sorry. An SEO word.

SEO? Do people really search for snazzy? I don't think so. I said I can't imagine. Oh, right, yeah. Sean Minia and Eric Thames are sell high. Jose Ramirez and Danny Duffy are by low. Also, we'll buy low.

I love on Corey Seeger. I didn't really do anything to participate in this exercise, but I'm wondering how you feel about Shohei Otani. Is he a buy? Is he a sell? Is he a hold? What do you think? I think he's a buy.

I don't. I mean, this is a good time to buy him, actually. What has he given you on a week-to-week basis? A really good start. He gave you, the first week, he gave you one start, was a quality start, three-way runs, six innings. A lot of strikeouts. The second week, he gave you a phenomenal start, one of the best pitchers in baseball.

The third week he gave you a zero because it got rained out and his start got pushed back one day. The next week he gave you a terrible performance because of a blister. And now he has a blister. And the perception of him is still sky high. I would sell. Okay. All right, so different takes there. And he's not going to pitch more than once a week.

for the most part. Who are you buying high on? Legit performance so far, you'll buy it. Scott, you can go first. Okay. I'm trying to remember who I had here. I had a name. Maybe Heath should go first.

Heath, I want to you go first. Jose Brrios. And it's just totally confirmation bias and making me feel good about myself. But he's doing everything I hoped you would. You know who you should sell high on, Heath? Is Johnny Quedo. I thought you might say that.

I'm just glad that I didn't sell a high on him quite yet. I got that, because now he looks like a strikeout pitch or two. It looks like maybe he's just an ace again. I would feel really nervous if I had sold on Quedo before this most recent start. Hey, you're going to feel that way when you see Adam Eaton come off to DL tomorrow. You know, I sat Johnny Quo in a 15 team league this week. I started him in a 10 team league, but I sat him in a 15 team league. Wow.

I know what that says about that. You know what it was? Like, I didn't want to drop anybody, and so I could in that particular league. So I was just like, I'll keep them on the DL another week and hope I don't miss out on anything too great. And obviously I did. So Scott, who you're buying high? I'm buying high on Patrick Corvin. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, he's good. He is slid-orific, swinging strike central. And he looks like he could be a top 20 pitcher, maybe top 15 this year. Maybe, remember my bold prediction from the preseason? three Diamondbacks pitchers finish in the top five in El Sae Young voting. Did not peg Corbyn as one of the pitchers,

but it may well happen. You know, I think Chris ranked three pitchers yesterday. I think he went Tanaka Corbyn Quato. I think that's what he went. I hope I got that right because I don't want to misquote him. How would you guys rank Tanaka Corbyn Quato? I think I'd go Corbyn number one. I would go Quedo number one.

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advantage of it. Our listeners, keep on doing it. It's good stuff. Let me know when you do. If you forget the promo code, you can always tweet me. Finally, guys, someone you're actually worried about. Here's somebody I'm actually worried about, Adam Azor. Scott, why don't you go first? Oh, I'm trying to remember. No way. Really?

Oh, I got it. I got it. I remember. Megalito. Miguel Cabrera. Oh, yeah? Genuine concern for Miguel Cabrera because all of those exceptional batted ball tendencies we saw last year that made us say, you know, maybe he wasn't really so bad last year.

Maybe he just had a lot of bad luck or whatever. They're still there, and so are the results. So I am, you know, he's still making exceptionally hard contact even harder than last year. Line drive rate even higher than last year. He's not getting many fly balls, so that hurts the power production. But the batting average isn't there either. So I'm concerned about it.

I think we may have seen legitimate decline last year, and I'm not looking to buy on him. Yeah, and he did Homer yesterday, Miguel Cabrera. So we'll see what happens. I really think the tigers are very interesting. They've had a lot of rainouts and a lot of cold weather or snowouts and a lot of cold weather games. I don't know, snowouts, rainouts, whatever. A lot of postponements and a lot of cold weather games. They've had batting practice disrupted.

I was listening on one of the broadcasts. They just haven't had a very normal routine. and pretty much all of them are struggling. Candelario's heating up a little bit. Cabrero homered yesterday. So I want to give a little longer release. I'm not to say I'm not worried. And I'm sure we all want to give a little bit longer release.

They've only played 15 games. Yeah, it's not a drop situation. Right, right. So, you know, we shall see. We'll keep an eye on Detroit. Heath, who you actually worried about? This is not all the way to concern yet, but I am actually a little bit worried about Luis Castillo.

Not in the sense that I think he might be a drop or that I think that he might be bad this year. But I had him ranked as a top 30 starting pitcher for sure, and I think as a top 25 starting pitcher, and I am very concerned that he's going to be that. The Reds are just awful. He has not, at this point, been quite as good in a swinging strike way. He did have a lot of those and put two of its four starts.

So that's great. Three of the four. Three of the four. Yeah. But I'm concerned that he's more of a up-and-down number, 3 slash 4 starter than a number 2 slash 3. All right. So let's recap. Buy low, Jose Ramirez and Danny Duffy and Corey Seeger.

Sell hi. Sean Maniah, Eric Thames. And we're split on Shohei Otani by or sell. Buy high, Jose Barrios and Patrick Corbyn. And we're worried about Miguel Cabrera and Luis Castillo. Now, there might not be consensus on all those guys, but those are the names that we gave you. I'm going to run through some deep league players here. They're owning 25% of leagues or less.

Should they be owned in more leagues? Teosker Hernandez, Jamer Candelario, Ryan Flaherty, Max Muncie, and Chad Kool. I will say that Teosker Hernandez maybe deserves to be owned a little more than 24, Candelario more than 23. But not like none of those guys, I'm talking standard 12-team mixed league. It'd have to be a five outfielder league for Teoska Hernandez because you're still hoping. It's just a hope that he sticks around once everybody's healthy again.

Right. He certainly deserves to with his production so far. A ton of extra base heads. Yeah, and he finished strong last year too. It came up in September, Teosca Hernandez. Yeah, and has been a power speed guy in the minors? Condolario, I feel like, needs to be owned anywhere Where on-base percentage is, like in leagues where you use on-based percentage instead of batting average, he needs to be owned.

And he's probably appropriately owned. There's not that many of those. Most roto leagues, he's not going to be owned in points leagues. They're not deep enough. Most roto leagues, most are average. Sure. So, Tay Oscar's the one guy that I would say is under-owned on this list, and it's not hugely under-owned. Okay.

and then the other guys are Flaherty, Muncie, and Cool. Yeah, whatever. Muncie played third base for the Dodgers and Homer yesterday. I wanted to do a prospects report, but maybe that's something you guys can say for tomorrow. There aren't that many games on the schedule tonight, but still no concrete timetable for Ronald O'Cunia. We know that Willie Calhoun is angry, wants to get called up. Oh, Tyler O'Neill?

I cannot believe it. I am very sorry. Tyler O'Neill, I should have mentioned this much, much earlier. Cardinals are expected to call up. O'Neill, Tommy Pham injured his groin. They don't know the severity there. How urgent is adding Tyler O'Neill? I mean, obviously, FAM has to go on the DL for him to have any value because that

outfield is, they have three fixtures out there. But if FAM does go on the DL, there's a lot of raw power here. And, you know, I think it would have to be a five outfielder league if it's going to be a mixed league at all. I think it could be similar to like what we hope to see from Randall Gritchick that obviously hasn't panned out this year. But that's kind of what I feel like the comp is for O'Neill. When you asked how urgent I was thinking in terms of fab, and I'm not spending in a standard league, even if it's five outfielers. I'm not spending hardly anything to add them because I think it's a short-term thing and it's still a big maybe whether he even

has any value. All right. Tyler O'Neill and now I feel less bad about not bringing him up earlier. Six-man rotation here. Tell me who stood out. Cole Hamels. Was pitching pretty well. Five scoreless innings, and then he ended up with six and a third four runs at Tampa Bay. But he has gotten the walks under control, only two walks, I think, over his last three starts, something like that. Of course, you know, four walks in his last three starts. Yeah, he would kind of up and down with that last year. Kenta Maeda struck out ten Padres and five and two-thirds. Carlos Carrasco, seven scoreless, with seven strikeouts at Minnesota.

He's been really good since a bad opening start. Carlos Carrasco. Garrett Cole, only five strikeouts. What a bum, but another great outing with no earn runs in seven innings. One unerun run. He's got a .96 ERA. Robbie Ray, pretty solid. Two runs, three walks, nine strikeouts, and six innings.

And Tanner Roark was good at the Mets. Seven innings, two runs, three walks, six strikeouts. Hamels, Maeda, Carasco, Cole, Ray, Roark. Obviously, they're not all in the same tier, but they are all owned in 92% of leagues or more. Anything that really jumped out of you guys? The demise of Carlos Carrasco as an ace was greatly exaggerated. Still doesn't seem like he's throwing all that hard.

Did anybody check? He's not. This most recent start wasn't any better than he has been. So we're talking, he's down more than a mile per hour from last year. And though three of his starts have been awesome, strikeouts are way down. So I'm still a little concerned about Carlos Carrasco, to be honest. I don't know, just given the scarcity of pitchers who can be as good as Carlos Carasco is presumed to be,

I don't know in what scenario I'm trading him, really. It would have to be, like, I would have to get another pitcher that I believed was of that caliber, like maybe a U. Darvish and something else back for Carlos Carasco. You could probably trade him for Corbyn. Yeah, but I don't, like, that's, yeah, that's, That's too much of a leap on, Gordon, I think, to go ahead and make that swap. I wonder if Carrasco's velocity down, because he's pitching from the stretch. Right?

Then he scrapped the wind-up? Yeah. I don't know. I didn't see that. I didn't see that, but I would be really surprised if that's it. Okay, I thought he did. I was watching the game last night, and I saw, oh, he's in the stretch. Well, we can look that up.

Okay, fringy starting pitchers. Who are your faves? Kevin Gossman, 75% own. Gosman. I never know if it's Gossman. G-Mas, Kevin G-Man, Zach Davies, Stephen Matts, Jake Ferrea, 51-per-O-N-Jake Ferrea, Vince Velasquez, Tyler Skaggs, Ian Kennedy, Mike Leak, Chris Stratt. A lot of pictures yesterday that are worth talking about. Chris Stratt, Tyler, Malley, Brandon McCarthy. Let's cut this into two segments. All right, so the more-owned fringy starting pitchers, Gossman, Davies, Farrie, and Kennedy. Who do you like there? You really cut that down. I'm glad we don't have to think of so many names at once.

I like Gosman, Faria, and Skaggs in that order. And I don't really care for any of the others in that range. Gossaman could still stand to use his split or more. He hasn't gotten a lot of swinging strikes, but he's using it at least a decent amount, and the results are okay. I think it's going to get better. I feel bad that so many people jump ship on Faria early because it seemed like it,

It was bad. I get that, but it seemed like a correctable thing that has now been corrected. Yeah, I would put Velasquez in that same group, but I'm not excited. I don't think any of these starting pitchers make my top 50. And I'm not sure. Like, Gosman is right around 60 probably. He's still probably the best. The Faria thing, I think we're going to be really careful with performances against the Texas Rangers over the next few weeks.

Their lineup is, like, I am fairly certain that most people can't know. name more than six hitters in their lineup. I'm not sure, Adam, that you can name more than six hitters in their lineup last night. I can't pronounce their shortstop's name. Yeah, so that would make it difficult. But I think I can, but I won't. I mean, I would name six players. Is Faria a flyball pitcher? Because I think he really benefited from his ballpark yesterday, and he's at Boston and at Baltimore next week. And two-star week, I'm not sure I can trust Faria, even after two really good starts. I want to own him. I don't know that I want to start him. What was wrong for Faria at the beginning was he was just walking everybody. And now he's walking. And now he's

nobody and good for real walks nobody so I don't like I'm not as worried about just him getting hit hard as maybe it sounds like you guys seem to be I'm worried about anybody getting hit hard against Boston well right now he's 50% flyball rate but last which is like crazy hype but last year 40% so maybe that I'm normally he's he's on the fly ball side either way yeah so I'm a little nervous about him at Baltimore and at Boston like I said I really want to own, but don't know that I want to start in a two-star week in a Roto league at least. Tyler Skaggs, I was not the least bit surprised that Skaggs was bad yesterday. Didn't start him in any of the leagues I own him.

I'm not starting him next week. Tyler Skaggs is at Houston and home against the Yankees. So you should wait for somebody to drop Tyler Skaggs if he struggles next week, and then you might want to pick him up. I just don't think he's the kind of guy that we're starting against the best offenses in baseball, and he is going to start three times in a row against arguably the first. best offenses in baseball. Skaggs, Boston last night, at Houston, then the Yankees. So, you know, these are mostly matchup guys. In fact, probably exclusively matchup guys. Yeah, Skaggs isn't an end of the rotation. They're mostly into the rotation, hopefully,

if you have a good starting pitching rotation. Right. And then Mike Leak, Tyler Malley, Vince Velasquez, Chris Stratton, Brandon McCarthy. Who do you like? Yeah, Velas is my favorite, and I'd put Mike Leak up towards the top as well. Yeah, I mean, I know there are a lot of Chris Stratton believers out there. I'm not among them. I don't know where, when he does have a good strike out performance like he had last night, where it comes from. Because it doesn't seem like he has a swing and miss pitch.

Brandon McCarthy, I feel like, is just kind of all around solid when he's healthy. And has been for a few years. He's just so rarely been healthy. So he would probably be, I think I'd put him second on my list behind Belasquez. Yeah, McCarthy had a 287 ERA and his first 12-star. last year. Then he went on the DL for briefly with a blister. Oh, I don't know what he went on the DL with the first time. And then two more starts very good. And then he started struggling.

Then he went on the DL again. And then he came back as a reliever. He did have a blister at some point last year, Brandon McCarthy. But he's 34% when I thought about picking him up. I was going to drop. I was thinking about dropping Mike Miner for him. I decided not to. Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Yeah. Yeah. I recently had to drop McCarthy in a 15-team league.

actually in my TOW Wars League. But I wish I didn't have to. I'd like to have him in that format still. Let's finish with some emails. From Michael. Is it crazy to think that D.D. Gregorius is the best left-handed hitter in the American League? There aren't many good lefties in the A.L. Canoe, Moose, Gallo, Olson.

Not much. Wow. Are we forgetting anyone? This is where we've gotten to. We're asking if D.D. Grigorious is the best left-handed hit. in the American League. Name a better left-handed hitter. I can't think of one.

Yeah, this is a high-pressure exercise here, trying to do it off the top of the head. Yeah, I will do it definitely before the end of the show. Is Mike Mustakis a better hitter than D.D. Gugorius? Yeah. I think they're pretty close. He might be, D.D.

Gorgias might be the best left-handed hitter. Robinson is still a better hitter. Is he? He might be. I'm going to say no to that. Raphael Devers is a better hitter. Hypothetically. There's definitely an argument to make for D.D.

Andrew Ben and Tindy's a better hitter. Again, maybe. I don't know that he hasn't been a better hitter. These things are all established facts. Absolutely not. They're not. Talk about Bai Hai. Dieter Giorius is by high.

John and St. Louis. Oh, wow. This is a good question. Why don't you guys use this one tomorrow? This is a question about young shortstop, short-term, and dynasty. I'm not in tomorrow, so you guys are going to read that. Kevin wants to know, Ronaldo, Lopez, or Tyler Skaggs? I will go Ronaldo.

Yeah, Lopez. Yeah. Mark says, hey, Riggins, smash, Saracen, and QB1. That's Friday Night Lights. Oh, okay. 10-team 30-player Dynasty League. Cole Hamels was dropped. 10-team 30-player Dynasty League.

Is he a must-own in this format? Cole Hamils. Yeah, 300 players rostered. Since its dynasty, it's hard to know how many of those are prospects. Must own might be a little strong, but I imagine somebody in your league has a worst player on his roster than Cole Hamils. That's the thing. He's not necessarily a must-own for every team.

There's not necessarily a must-ad. But somebody needs him. Tony in Denver says, Dear Gwynne, Clark and Pena, oh, he likes Tony's. I don't think any one in my league, listens to your show, if they did, they probably wouldn't make such ridiculous moves all the time. I think an ultimate Azer trade just took place on the buy, low, sell, high scale. Can you grade, grade this trade, or rank this trade on your trade chart?

You Darvish for Hanley Ramirez. Is that so outlandish, guys? Is that an Azer trade? That is an A. And an F. Yeah, all right, it's an Azer trade. Hanley for you. So that means Hanley Ramirez.

I heard you've been trying to acquire Mike Trout. In one of your leagues. What did I offer? I offered Springer, like Springer and Darvish or something for Trout in a 13-Team Roto League. That was not what I heard that you offered it. Jamie is such a damn liar. Like, Jamie is out there sullying my good name. It is ridiculous.

Springer-Darvish sounds like a pretty good offer for Trout. Yeah, I don't think. I mean, maybe it wasn't. You know what? We're going to. Just give me one second, and I will tell you exactly what I offered. And I was told, no, cannot trade Trout. I offered, definitely not Springer at Darnage.

What was it? Chris Sale and either Will Myers or Michael Conforto. Also, not that bad. Yeah, it's not going to get it done, though. Okay, but that's really like... It's a reasonable. Yeah, in a Roto League. It's like another first round player plus, you know, a top seven round player.

Damn you, Jamie. Jamie, it's a name-sullier. All right, we're out of here. Talk to you tomorrow. Actually, I'll talk to you on Monday. It'll be Heath, Chris, and Scott tomorrow. Rocking your. fantasy baseball world. See you.