Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/24 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Fantasy Regulators, Mon. Recap

Episode Date: April 24, 2018

Today is Walker Buehler's day off, do you need to add him now or let someone else deal with the uncertainty (1:50)? And we're putting two middle infielders on breakout alert (4:15)! ... Recapping yesterday's action including Carlos Carrasco's great start (14:55), Tyler Skaggs and Kevin Gausman and the rest of the fringe SPs (17:51), plus deep league options (23:25) like Franchy Cordero and Trevor Cahill ... Time for a new segment: It's April 24th and Wouldn't Ya Know (26:40)! We touch on Dylan Bundy's dominance, Billy Hamilton's steals, Mitch Haniger's power, Joey Votto's lack thereof, Paul Goldschmidt's interesting start and more. We've also got early-season surprises (42:24), Team Name Tuesday (48:20) and we become Fantasy Regulators (49:30) as we solve league problems for our listeners ... 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

struggling today. This is my third intro. Let's see if the third time to charm. Welcome to fantasy baseball today. The best episode ever. It's Tuesday, April 24th. I'm Adam with Heath and Chris. And the first two times I just went on talking a little bit too much and I ran into trouble. So I'm going to stop talking now and turn it over to Team Creth. Hi, Team. Adam, you're doing amazing, sweetie. Wait, are we going to stick with this one? We're sticking with it. That one was good? That one was good. Well, it's better. It's better. Good is a relative term here on Fantasy Baseball today. I thought it was great at him. Thank you, sweetie.

Let me tell the listeners what's coming up. Of course, we will talk about Walker Bueller. How much fab you should use on Walker Bueller if he's available. He's 58% owned. We've got a couple of middle infielders who are they breaking out? I will ask you, and you will tell me. Kevin Gossman pitched an immaculate inning. I'll tell you what that's all about.

Yeah, we'll go over yesterday. Tyler Skaggs. Most people sat him, including me, in three leagues. Oops. Some deep league targets. And a segment called. It's April 24th, and wouldn't you know? And then I'll tell you some interesting things.

Also, Heath and Chris and the listeners are going to tell us what they have been surprised by thus far in the season. And we are going to be fantasy. Regulators today. Regulators. You regulate any stealing. Oh, hey, come on. It's supposed to be the instrumental. What happened here?

Well, anyway, that was messed up. Yeah, we are going to mount up later. Are we starting over again? No, we're not. We're good. And, yeah, so we've got some shenanigans going on in some leagues, and we are going to regulate. Let's start with Walker Bueller's Day Off yesterday he pitched.

So today is Walker Bueller's Day Off, and he's 58% owned. And something tells me that Chris Towers was not super impressed yesterday. I don't want to, like, I don't want to besmirch the guy. He was fine. I just, you expect more from a top prospect with that kind of stuff against a team like the Marlins. He wasn't bad. He just, he didn't blow me away. That was his first start of his major league career.

And he didn't give up any runs. Right. He was pretty good. Five innings, four hits, no runs, three walks, and five strikeouts. One thing I forgot to look up, did he have two of the walks in the first inning? Or just one. Do you remember? I was watching, but I can't remember.

He had a base runner in the first inning. Now, I think he gave up two hits, actually, in the first two innings. But, to be clear, it doesn't really. We're talking about Fab for Walker Bueller, and the answer is probably just no. I think he pitches on Saturday and a double header, maybe, hopefully, and then we don't see him again for a while. So I hope that you picked him up and used him as a two-start pitcher this week. I think he will be one now. It went great for in terms of great success, but it's not meaningful.

Okay, so what do you think about the ownership then? 58%. And, okay, I understand Bueller's going to be sent down, but this is also a, a rotation that has Rich Hill in it. He's already hurt. He's coming back, but he's already hurt. Clayton Kirshall in it, unfortunately, he's gotten hurt consecutive years. And you know how the Dodgers use their D.L.

And use their starting pitcher. So it's not like Bueller's not coming back this year. Oh, he'll make appearances, and we'll pick him up for those starts. It's not a guy, I don't think, that has really much of any chance of throwing 100 in the major leagues this year. He threw 97 innings at all levels last year, and I believe that's the most he's doing. Oh, yeah. He threw like five the year before.

Yeah, he barely pitched in 2016. So that was something that did hold me back a little bit from Bueller. He does walk a lot of batters, and there will be an innings restriction for sure. And I think when you combine the two, you might get a guy who doesn't go that deep into games. I don't believe he's ever at any level top 90 pitches or six innings. So 58%. Too high, too low, or is that porridge just right? It's fine for this week.

Yeah. You're going to drop them probably on Sunday. All right, it's time for the breakout alert. Tell me if you think these guys are breaking out. It is really early to be saying it, but we're seeing some good signs. Yohan Moncada, who's batting 3.48 with three homers and three steals in his last six games, also two doubles and a triple. And Miguel And Duhar, 66% owned.

And he had, in his previous six games, he was 13 for 24. with two homers and seven doubles. And Duhar doubled and homered last night against twins. So now he is the third Yankee, according to the Elias Sports Bureau, to ever have seven straight games with an extra base hit before turning 24 years old. The other two were Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio. So Miguel And Duhar is now the third best Yankee of all time. Are we seeing breakouts from Munkata and And Duhar?

Yes for Munkata, but I think we're probably just going to have to live with him being a low batting average guy. He's probably, the weird things he doesn't swing and miss all that often, but that's because he doesn't swing all that often. He actually has good plate discipline. He walks a lot. He doesn't swing a pitches out of the strike zone.

He just doesn't make contact on pitches in the strike zone very often. But when he does, he hits the ball hard and it goes a long way. So you're probably just going to have to live with a bad batting average and, you know, take the potential for 30-30. Like, he could be, like, a superstar version of Marcus Simeon, which sounds sort of like a backhand compliment, but I don't mean it to be. Yeah, and I don't, like, Miguel Anduhar, And Dohar. And Dohar has, what, just, what are you doing?

And Dohar. And Dohar. Say the guy's name. It's a, you got to say the do. Yeah, that's his name. Duar. Just say his name. And Duhor. Andrew.

I don't, like, we don't have to live with a low-beying average from him. He has never had any strikeout problems at all at any level in the minor leagues. He's not striking out early on in the majors, and maybe that gets a little bit worse, but he's making excellent contact. And I know there's the whole Brandon Drury, Greg Bird, Neil Walker, whoever else you want to throw in the mix problem. It doesn't matter if he's hitting the ball like this. It probably doesn't. He's not good defensively.

Seems to be getting a little bit better, but that is something to keep it. I with And Duhar, which might keep him out of the order. I don't know, like one out of five games or something. But, yeah, 66% own. So now comes to the point of, like, which third baseman are you willing to drop for And Duhar? Would you drop Salarte for And Duhar? Sure.

Yeah. Would you rather have Beltrae or Antuhaar? Beltrade. Davidson or And Duhar. I'll drop Davidson for him. Yeah, I will too. Michael Franco. Yep.

Yeah, that's hard for me That's really hard for me I don't think he's done anything outside of that Marlins No, he really hasn't He really hasn't Built a lot of his value on On two games basically One game we hit a Grand Slam

That's Franco we're talking about Finally, Kyle Seeger Or Miguel and Dohar Kyle Seeger Okay You know Seeger is one of those guys That I really never have any idea What he's doing

he just flies so far under the radar. You know who I was having that thought about yesterday? Me? Have we mentioned the name Nolan Aronado this season? Yeah, when he punched someone. Okay, beyond that. Yeah, Kelsey doesn't have anything this year, but he's good. You know what, Chris?

You know who I was having that thought about was Cody Bellinger? We, like, basically... Well, but that, like, Cody Bellingeruner's not having a good season so far. I know. Nolan Aronado is basically doing Nolan Aronado things, and we... And because it's so early in the season, we tend to just focus on the guys who are doing really, really well.

And I was just kind of like, just rolling along. Yeah, I sort of mentioned it last week, and it still holds true. The first round hitters have been great. I can't think of one that hasn't been great. Stanton. I'm not up-up-uped my rankings. In a roto league, I might drop Seeger for Andrew Hart.

All right. It's pretty big. It's pretty big, because, you know, Seeker's probably going to hit 27 home runs or so. You don't have a good year. Yeah, my thing with Miguel, and Duhar is just looking at the minor league track record. He's hit for some power early on this season, but I think he's probably more like a Yuleigurial type,

and I'd rather have Kyle Seeger. Yeah, I don't know. He had 54 extra base hits last year, and there are at least two of the parks within the Yankees system that are not very hitter-friendly. How much does minor league track record matter when it comes to home runs? Because, you know, it's a good... MLB is a good home-run environment.

But also these minor leaguers, they're young. You know, they're 20 years old or whatever. They're growing into their bodies. Don't you expect them to hit for more power when they get to the big leagues if they're good? Sure. Yeah. But they're all, like, yes, they're young. Yes, they're growing into their bodies.

They're also facing pitchers who are growing into their bodies. So, like, those, it's not like they're growing into their bodies and facing, you know, major league pitching. So I think that stuff tends to balance out. there's no perfect translation from the minors to the majors, but generally speaking, skills that you show in the minors are the ones that you show in the majors, you can develop some. But like, okay, Miguel and Duhar had 54 extra base hits last season in AAA. Kyle Seeger had 61 in the majors.

Yeah. And O'Huhr only played 125 games. Right, so he might have gotten there with 155 or whatever. Probably would have. Okay. Miguel and Duhar or Seatkeek? Seed Geek for sure. You want to take that, Chris?

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Adam, can I share two things with you? Is it about who just called you? Yes. Okay, yes. So my sister-in-law is about to give birth. She's scheduled for a C-section tomorrow. So, you know, my wife called me. I figured that might be what it is.

so I text her back. Podcasting. Everything okay. Yeah, I just ran into a hedge while walking and needed to tell someone. That is my wife. And also, you might be disappointed in me. I'm skipping the Food Fighters concert on Thursday night in South Florida. No.

Because I'm going to see The Avengers. That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. That is the stupidest, you idiot. Go to the Food Fighters concert. They are incredible. I know. They're really good. You want to say a real rock star.

No, they're very good. Yeah, go. The Avengers? Sorry. The movie The Avengers? The Infinity War. Do you mean the thing that you can see like any night in theaters? Well, yeah, but spoilers, man.

Oh, my God. That's a terrible call. I'm going to the IMAX. Oh, no way. Okay, well, justified. So, news and notes. Kevin Gosman pitched an Immaculate inning. That means three strikeouts on nine pitches.

That is the 90th Immaculate inning in MLB history. Congratulations, Kevin Gossman, who might be underone. We will talk about him. Byron Buxton expected back this weekend. Avi Garcia left with hamstring tightness. Christian Villanueva sat with hamstring tightness. Trey Mancini pinch hit.

Joey Gallo and Scott Kingery have recently acquired Outfield eligibility, Gallo and Kingery. Jose Battista is expected to be called up soon to play third base for Atlanta. You guys are just looking at deep leagues for Batista, right? Oh, I'll keep an eye on him. Okay. Cleveland signed Outfield. Melki Cabrera, minor league deal.

Eugenio Suarez is coming back soon. He's beginning of rehab, Simon. He's crushing his timetable, Eugenio Suarez. Oh, also I want to talk about D.L. Stashes a little bit later if we have time. A couple closer notes. Not that there's any doubt that he's the closer, but Keenan Middleton is really pitching very well. He struggled a bit yesterday to get the first two on, but got out of the jam with two

strikeouts and then a good play by his catcher to throw out Guerrielle at third. But he pitched in three straight games. So he has solidified him. Kina Middleton is 72% own. And Josh Fields got a save for the Dodgers, assuming Kenley Jansom is just unavailable. I think he pitched Saturday and Sunday. So I think, you know, maybe that gives a little clarity if there is anything wrong with Kenley Jansen.

If you're deciding between Fields and Baez, maybe this is a hint. But right now it doesn't look like there's anything wrong with Jansen. Just to tell you how quickly things can change in fantasy this early in the season. Jose Abraeu entered yesterday as the number 13 first baseman in points league. and number 15 in Roto. He is now fifth in points and fourth in Roto because he had two home runs, three RBIs, and three runs yesterday. That's how it happens.

Delano de Shields, as of the last check, he was like 61% owned. He stole two bases yesterday. NL only, Martin Prado is starting a rehab assignment. Who would you be more interested in Prado or Bautista? Bautista. Yeah, Bautista. Okay, Brian Anderson has really cooled off,

so I assume Prado. Would you assume Prado becomes their regular thing? We've played Anderson in the outfield, too. They've got plenty of places for everyone to play. Not a roster crunch here. And congratulations. Jenny Kavanaugh, play-by-play for the San Diego Colorado game. It's been a long time since we've had a female play-by-play announcer on a baseball game on TV.

Jenny Kavnar, well done. Well done. All right, let's look at yesterday and then sort of get into some of the themes of the season. But the three-man rotation, good starts from Masahiro Tanaka, 6 and 2 thirds, 1-1, 1-1. run, five strikeouts against the twins after two terrible starts in a row. Tanaka. Carlos Carrasco, maybe he doesn't need the velocity. He's been really good.

Four and O with a 231 ERA, but 28 strikeouts and 35 innings for Carasco. And Garrett Cole, he has gone exactly seven innings in all five starts, and he leads baseball with 49 strikeouts. And he sucked yesterday. He gave up two freaking runs against the Angels in seven innings and took the loss, I think. Yes. There goes my Cy Young pick. about it. Tanaka, Carrasco, Garrett Cole, anything to say, guys?

Tanaka's good. Carrasco is very good. Last two starts, he has 14 strikeouts and 14 in a third. So he did struggle with the strikeouts a little bit early in the year. I'm not worried at all about him. And I think his velocity is pretty much where it was last season on the whole. Is it? I thought it was still down. Is he throwing fewer fastballs this year? And by the way, he has not been pitching. Last year, or last episode that we talked about Carasco last week, I said, oh, maybe his velocity's down because he's pitching only from the stretch.

And he's been doing that for years, apparently, or at least two. And I just never noticed. So my apologies. No, he's throwing his fastball about as often, and the velocity seems to be where it was, at least last April. Okay. All right, good. So he looks great.

Yeah, Tanaka is good. That was a dynamite drop-in Monty from Chris. I mean, like, there are a lot of people who are worried that Masa-Hara-Tanaka is not good. I saw him dropped. What? Someone said that he was dropped in one of their leagues. Don't do that. Yeah, like, he's, we haven't learned anything new about Masa-Hara-Tanaka.

When it comes to April, especially, you should only react if you learned something new. I saw Joey Gallo dropped in one of my leagues. We didn't learn anything new about Joey Gallo with his start to the season. and we haven't learned anything new about Masahira Tanaka. He's going to go through stretches where he gives up home runs. That's just going to be true. But he's going to get strikeouts. He's going to get wins on that team.

He's going to be fine. Yeah. He is still in my top 20 starting pitchers. Ooh. So I think the only question with Tanaka is, is he going to be a guy that just has a bunch of terrible starts like he did last year? And if that's true, he's probably not going to be top 20. He's probably going to be someone who's more useful than his end of season ranking.

rankings indicates. And that makes sense. I will still submit that I don't think he's going to have as many terrible starts to last year. No, he'll be better than he was last. He was unlucky. And he's continued to be a little bit unlucky this year, but it's coming around. No, I was going to say, if he doesn't have those terrible starts as frequently,

then he probably will be top 20, Tanaka. All right, fringy starting pitchers, even though Fultenevich is 85% owned. All the guys that pitch on Monday, their ownerships are usually a little higher than they We'll be next week because they're two-star pitchers. So I think the ownership rates here are out of whack. You guys tell me if you agree. Fultenevich is 85% owned. He's only had one quality start and five starts, but still has a 270 R.A.

Jake Oteresey is just, come on, he's over-owned people. 79%. No. Kevin Gosman is 76% owned, and he apparently changed his delivery, picked up some velocity. This was like last week he changed his velocity. Delivery. Tyler Skaggs, 68% own, 37% started. As I said, on my bench in three leagues.

Seven scoreless innings against the Astros. Only three strikeouts, but whatever. And he threw a career high, I believe, 21 changeups and was working for him yesterday. Tyler Skaggs. Chris Stratton is off to a nice start this year. He's 60% owned. And then you have Harlan Garcia, 38% owned, and Mike Leak, 51% owned. I put those out of order, sorry.

Most of these guys, like they're all two start pitchers this week. Right? And so I have a hard time saying they're over-owned when they're a two-star pitcher, but Fulton Havitch especially, I think he should probably be, like, definitely below the top three in this list. He's just not that good. Well, Oda Reasy. I don't get the Oterrezi thing. 79%. And he's been, like, kind of high-owned all year. Yeah, there was some evidence, I think, early in the year that maybe he was going to get a little bit better against right-handed betters. and that doesn't really look to be bearing out. There's just so many pitchers out there with upside that I don't know that.

Zach Wheeler's out there, even Walker Bueller. I don't know. Would you drop O'Dar Easy for Walker Bueller? Well, no, because Walker Bueller's not going to be the major leagues next week. Yeah, but it's a stash. Yeah, I don't have, I might be able to do that with one roster spot, but most of my leagues I already have one guy that I'm doing that with, and I'd rather do it with them than Walker Bueller.

Is Kevin Gossman a guy who's, should be owned in like 90% of leagues. No. I'm trying to figure out what the release point thing was because maybe his velocity was down. I think he was the biggest velocity loser

from this year to last year last April at least. So, you know, he was down like two and a half miles per hour. So if he can get some of that back and his velocity was back up to about 94, 95 miles per hour last night, you know, I'll be more interested in him.

He still has the same issues he always has, but it's easier to overcome some of those issues if you're throwing 95. Right. And he did, right, he put his hands up higher and it helped him. He threw a splitter 30% of the time last night. That's a good sign. I'm not going to say that Kevin Gosman can't take a step to become something really good. But right now, what he looks like to me is exactly the type of pitcher that goes on and off of rosters, depending on who he's facing and how many starts to get that week.

Yeah, but I would rather have him than any of the game. guys on this list. What about Skaggs? What do you make of him? He's got a 296 ERA. The reason I didn't start him is that he had not been throwing more than five innings. And he'd been throwing a ton of pitches. Like three straight starts before yesterday, 98 to 114 pitches in all three starts and no more than five innings. So extremely inefficient, I just figured at the, at Houston and home against the Yankees, this was not going to be a good week for Skaggs. But this was, yeah, the low pitch count, because he got, he didn't get a lot of strikeouts yesterday. It worked to his benefit. But what do you make of Skaggs at 68% own?

Trust the process. You made the right decision. I am going to start Skaggs on semi-regular basis, but not when he has two starts against the Astros and Yankees. Yeah. So is he under-owned at 68%? Probably for a two-start week, even if it's a... Yeah, he probably is.

I would put him in the same range as Gosman. I think Gosman maybe has a little more upside in points because I still don't think Skaggs throws a ton of innings. but I think Skaggs has a little more upside to Murdo. It's weird because if I saw either Gosman or Skaggs on waivers in any of my leagues, it's excluding a 10-team league. I am absolutely picking them up. It doesn't sound like you guys are there with them.

They sound like streamers to you. Yeah. Okay. Chris Stratton, Harlan Garcia, Mike Leak. Are we seeing anything really interesting here with them? Mike Leak has long been a dependable guy. He will probably be a decent pitcher this season, but he's off to an awful start.

He's not really doing anything right. Stratton, I think he's got one of the highest fly ball rates in baseball. Yes, and somehow has not given up a home run. I mean, he pitches in San Francisco, so he might be one of those guys that you can just use at home, but I wouldn't trust him on the road. And Harlan? I don't think there's anything there.

Okay. Why can't we call him Harleen? Because that's not how you say. And Dohar and Harlan are very bad at you, Heath. Harleen is what it says on baseball reference. Baseball reference is dumb. No, baseball reference is a great website, but I don't, I really don't think that's how you say it. I've heard it.

I watched the game last night. They were saying Harlan. That was the road announcers. Yeah, the road announcers just did what you did and looked at it. That looks like Harlan. No, they would have said Jarlin, if that were the case. I've heard it as Harlan two games in a row. Yeah, nobody would say Jarlin.

I think I said Jarlin once. Deep leagues. Deep leagues. Do you want any of these guys? Franchie Cordero, Mac Williamson, Trevor Cahill, Sal Romano, all owned in 25% of leagues or less.

Franchie Cordero, Mac Williamson, Trevor Cahill, Sal Romano. Max Williamson's ownership needs to go up. And I'm not even certain that he's going to stick or he's going to have a great year, but there's too much power potential there for him to be 18% out. I feel the same way about

Franchi Cordero, even though last night I tweeted that he's more fun than good right now. You hated on him last night. He hits the crap out of the ball. He is a super athletic dude, and sometimes you just want to bet on that guy, you know? In Roto. Yeah, I mean, in points, his plate discipline is so bad, and I think he's going to sit at least occasionally against lefties. But in a Categories League, I mean, I own Franchi in our five outfield of Roto League. I guess I don't know what happens when everybody's healthy in the outfield when Margot is back.

One of them will slump and be sitting. And it could vary. Like Franchie's profile, just like Jose Perela, just like Manuel Margo. I mean, they all kind of lend themselves to that. So I don't think they'll have a hard time finding a guy to sit. Yeah, I'm sorry. Marco is back. I meant when Renfro comes back.

Toss him right in that list. It fits with them all. They've got an approach. Ryan Schiff led them all and left. Trevor Cahill is sort of interesting. He was really good with the athletic last year. I think it was with the athletics, right? No, I think he was off.

When he was with the podrons. He was awful in Kansas. He was getting a ton of strikeouts, getting a lot of swinging strikes, and he's doing the same thing so far this season. So, yeah, I'm kind of interested in him. I want to see where it goes from here. All right.

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We've talked a lot about Patrick Corby. We've talked about Dylan Bundy, but he did it again over the weekend against Cleveland with nine strikeouts and six innings. Is Dylan Bundy approaching Ace Hood? You know what's funny is we were spending so much time around this time last year and in the spring, paying very close attention to Dylan Bundy's velocity,

and it has continued to tick down this season, and we just don't care. And we probably shouldn't because he doesn't really throw his fastball very much anymore. And those secondary pitches, you know, the changeup as a rookie was a real swing and miss pitch. The slider last year was as well. But the change up took a step back. He's throwing three secondary pitches and he seems to be throwing them all well. I think that's a very good sign.

I moved him up my ranking yesterday to 30th at starting pitcher. He's probably another couple of weeks. away from getting into that top 20-8th discussion. But he's right there in the range with guys that are moving that direction. I'm not trying to start a debate here, but would you rather have Quedo or Bundy? I would rather have Quedo. You are kind of trying to start a debate. No, I'm not.

I'm done with that. Yeah, probably Quato, but I do want to look up. Dylan Bundy has had massive splits when he's pitching on four days' rest, versus five. So I'm trying to look that up and stalling while I do it, and it's not working, so let's just move on. Okay, the other thing about Bundy, he has faced Minnesota at Houston, Toronto, at Boston, and Cleveland.

So he has not had an easy schedule. Hey, it's April 24th, and wouldn't you know, Garrett Cole, Patrick Corbyn, and Max Scherzer lead baseball with 49, 48, and 47 strikeouts, respectively. All three, Cole, Corbin, and Scherzer have sub-2 ERAs and a 1,000. whip of 0.77 or lower. I'm actually not 100% sure we need to go in depth on this, but wouldn't you know it? Cole, Corbyn and Scherzer have been the best pitchers in baseball. I move Corbynett up right with Bundy.

They're right in that same range, waiting to prove that there aces. It sounds like Garikol is going to win the A.L. Sionai Young, based on what you're telling me. That was your bold prediction. No, that was just my pick. Oh, right. No, it's pretty bold. So, Heath, you have Garicol 10th.

So does Scott. What's it going to take for him to become top? Five or six? He could get to top five or... Honestly, my mood. Like that range of pitchers, Strasbourg, Cindergarde, Carasco, Grinky, Severino, Cole, Grom, Verlander. I do think it's okay to acknowledge that when you're talking rest of season rankings

with pitchers that are that good and that close, that how I feel might just be the difference. All right, yeah, so they're all the same, basically. It's April 24th, and wouldn't you know... Billy Hamilton has five steals. He's on pace for 39 steals in 162 games, which he's not going to play, which would be great for most players, but not good at all for Billy Hamilton, who's having an interesting year.

He's scoring a ton of runs. He's actually walking a lot, also striking out a lot. But, you know, this actually was a more impactful one before he stole a base last night, because originally he had four steals and was on pace for 30. Now he has five, and he's on pace for 39. But he's been pretty much a disappointment for his owners, Billy Hamilton. He's been a mess. A complete disaster.

Yeah. And one thing that really concerned me was if they batted him eighth or ninth, would he be able to score runs? Because it didn't really happen last year, but in 2016, Hamilton batted seventh, eighth or ninth, 38 times, and he scored only 18 runs. It's not good. But this year, he's got 15 runs in 21 games.

He's got 10 walks. He's having a bit of a weird year. It hasn't been entirely a disaster, but mostly bad. What do you think going forward for Hamilton? If I'm looking at this right, he averaged 4.5 played appearances per game last year, which is really pretty high. Yeah, he's battingly off all.

And I know he's come into at least one game as a sub so far this year, but he's averaging 3.6. Yeah. If he averages 4.5 at his on-base percentage, you're thinking he's getting on base maybe twice a game, but once for sure. Yeah. 3.6, the odds are he's nuts. Yeah, it's just a bad playing time situation.

He's a better hitter than this. He's not going to keep hitting 175 or whatever, but he's not going to live up to the price that you probably paid for him as a steal specialist. And he could steal two bases tonight and be on pace for a ton. You know, it could happen. All right, hey, it's April 24th, and wouldn't you know, D.D. Gugorius is the number two hitter in fantasy behind Mike. Trout and Didi leads MLB in RBI's.

He has 24. He hit his seventh home run of the season, and all seven have come at home. However, last year, Gagorius was much better on the road than he was at home, believe it or not. But right now, Didi Gagorius is the number two hitter behind Mike Trout and leads baseball with 24 RBI's. Wait, did he do long again last night? Yeah, he grants slammed.

I did a thing. He was going to be my big... I get it. I get it. Very good. He was going to be my biggest surprise because he's actually hitting the ball hard. Would you like to hear something delightful? Yes.

His average home run distance is 376 feet. That is so disgusting. That's bad, right? Most, yes. Let's see, 202 players have a longer average home run distance than him. How many have a lower? About 70. Well, no.

No. But we do know. About 18 because a bunch of guys haven't hit home runs yet. But we do know if you're a left-handed hitter. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It might not matter for him. They count all the same. Like that 345-foot home run that he hit early in the season, that's four points.

A doll. It's a doll. Six points, I guess. All right, so is he, I think on a per game basis, he probably was a top five shortstop last year. Is D.D. Gorgias a top five shortstop? I moved him up in my ranking yesterday to number eight. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, that's Machado, Correa, Turner, Lindor.

This is points. I'm sure Turner's number one for you in Roto. Seeger, Bregman, Seguerah, Dede. These are really good players. And then after that, Paul DeYoung, Zander Bogarts. Short stuff's not so bad. Yeah, I might take Zander Bogartz over him when healthy. given the changes that he made to his approach this offseason and the impacts they were having.

But that's not a knock on D.D. Gregor. Yes. In honesty, I didn't actually move him up. I just dropped Andrews. Oh, okay. But, yeah, he's number eight. He's very good. All right, hey, it's April 24th, and wouldn't you know, Joey Votto has one extra base hit. It's a double. It does have 10 walks in his last eight games, though. Is anybody getting concerned yet about Joey Votto? This is where you talk.

You're the Joy Vada guy, Chris. Oh, are we supposed to respond to that question? Yes, you're supposed to respond to that question. Is my response not telling the story about how I feel? A better question might be, and I don't know what his average exit velocity is. I'm sure Chris could tell us that very shortly. He has a 27% hard contact rate early in the year, which can be unreliable this early in year.

His exit velocity is. Joey Votto currently has an expected batting average of 331. That was not... And an expected slugging percentage of 517. Expected. Based on stat-cast data. I'm just going to say, like,

I'm not worried about Votto either. When the last time we talked about it, he wasn't walking. The fact that he's drawn 10 walks in his last eight games is great. But I will also say he's, what, 34? And weren't we basically saying the same exact thing about Miguel Cabrera last year? Yep. Sure. And look, Joey Votto may ruin your season, but he's the kind of guy.

I would rather have him ruin my season than trade him too early. Agreed. Yeah. But do you want to actively try to acquire Votto now? Yes. Okay. Hey, it's April 24th, and wouldn't you know, Mitch Hanager is tied for second in baseball and home runs. Look at the leaders.

Mike Trout is number one, and then number two, a four-way tie between Manny Bichotto, Charlie Blackman, and Bryce Harper, and Mitch Hanigar. He is in that class, and right now, Hanigur is batting 324 with eight homers, and his first 21 games of 2017, he had a 1055 OPS. He batted 342 with four homers, and then he heard his oblique, and he wasn't the same. What do you think about Mitch Hanigur, one of the best surprises thus far? He is 22nd in the league in average exit velocity. He is 18th in the league in barrels. He's top 20 in batted balls hit at least 95 miles per hour. Is this legit or is this an obvious sell-high?

I think it's legit. And if you want to measure what the public opinion is, I did a lot of Twitter polls yesterday, this guy or this guy, rest of season. And I did Mitch Hanigur and Ronald Acuna, Would you rather have on your roster in a points league? Hanager got 49% of the vote. Acuna or Hanager?

Is that we said? Yes. Interesting. Who would you rather have? I would rather have Hanager. I think Chris would rather have Akunya. Yeah, I think like 50-50's pretty good. I think that's a good call because we expect Acuna up at some point any day now.

Do your thing. What? Ronald Okunia could be anything. Well, no. He could even be 22nd in baseball and... He could, you would expect him to be as good or as talented as Mitch Hanigar has looked to be this season. But this isn't the only time we've ever seen Mitch Hanigar either. Hey, it's April 24th, and wouldn't you know that Mike Zanino, who just came off the D.L, has as many home runs as Evan Gattis.

Gattis is batting 205 with one home run. I'm sad about Evan Gattis. Me too. Evan Saddus. You know what? I'm not so worried about him performing. I'm worried about him losing his everyday D.H. Well, he is, I think he's D.Hing basically every single day.

And he's just been terrible. He's been awful. Until they bench him, I'm probably not benching him because he's a catcher. Sure. No, I think he scored like 16 fantasy points last week. It doesn't take much. It's one home run. He's going to have a good week for a catcher.

16 fantasy points will be bad for every position other than catcher. So, yeah, you've got to be patient. but I guess they don't have like such obvious replacements for him, right? Marwin, like Reddick's probably going to sit against lefties, so that helps. They've got a lot of dudes who aren't hitting either. It's true, yeah, they haven't, yeah. Like Marwin's not hitting at all so far, right?

No. And I think Gaddis is still a top 12 catcher. Let me just check. Yeah, but I'm ranked 19th of catcher. He is 11th. He's playing mostly every day, not every day. All righty. Hey, wouldn't you know, we've got two more.

It's April 24th and wouldn't you know. Nomar Mazar, Adrian Beltray, and Joey Gallo, the heart of the ranger's order. Mazzara, Beltra, and Gallo. They all have an OPS under 800. Two of those guys are disappointing. And the other is who? Nomar Mazar.

We were hoping for the breakout, but this was the most likely outcome. He hasn't been very good so far in his career. he continues to hit the ball relatively hard right into the dirt just behind home or just in front of home plate and just until that changes until he finds a way to elevate the ball he's going to continue to be disappointing he's going to continue to look like he should be a lot better than he is joie gallo has a 222 babb i'm not worried about him at all i will buy all of the chairs of joey gallo that what is his bad of going to be isn't he going to be a low bad at guy 260 yeah i mean it was 250

last year, his career is 256. I would guess it's probably in the 260, 270-70 range. Which would be extremely low for a major league player. Here's the most amazing thing. Joey Gallo right now is the number four first baseman in points leagues and number five in Roto.

And I'm thinking first base has just been a little disappointing. But also, I think that he is so interesting because, like, I'm just very curious to see what a 220 hitter with a ton of home runs

ends up as, you know, in the rankings in fantasy. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. If he plays all year, he will be a top 10. Yeah, I mean, he's looking like a, I would say he's probably looking more like a 230, 240 hitter with 45 homers, 200 combined runs in RBI and probably 10 steals.

He's really good. I'm not worried about Joey Gallo. Now the fantasy ranking is a little inflated because the Rangers are the only team in baseball, seemingly, who have not had like eight games rained out. So he's played 24 games, all right. Ah, okay, okay. All right, guys, one more here, and then I want to get to your surprises. It's April 24th, and wouldn't you know, Paul Goldschmidt has not attempted a stolen base.

And Goldschmidt is the number three first baseman in points leagues, but number eight in Roto. He's batting just 278. He has a good walk-to-strikeout ratio, great walk-strikeout. ratio, 17 walks, 25Ks, but no steals, and all four of his home runs have come on the road. He has been bad in Humidorville in Arizona. So what do you make of Paul Goldschmidt? No steals and bad at home so far. What does that mean to you?

He sucks. Well, obviously he doesn't. He's fine. But is he a first round pick if we drafted today? Because he was like, you know, 10th, 12. No. No? I had him exactly.

I think I had 12th or 13, but it said no. So he's a little lower? It's hard to say, like, he probably didn't get a lot slower in the offseason. If you were sitting there with the number 12 pick, and Paul Goldschmidt and Aaron Judge are both available, who are you taking? I would probably take Judge, but... And that's a change. I think I'd take Machado, too. Yep.

Yeah, one thing about Goldschmidt is that he stole, I think, 18 bases last year, and he stole six of them in the final four months. So he stopped running, but that also happened in 2015. He stole five bases after the All-Star break, and then he stole 32 bases in 2016. So I didn't think, I didn't make much of it. But maybe it's a continuation. It's early. Steals can come in bunches. Surprise, surprise.

Give me one hitter and one pitcher who have surprised you thus far this year. Chris, why don't you start it off? Give me a hitter. How about A.J. Pollock turning into an all-or-nothing power hitter through the first three weeks of the season? That's pretty surprising. He was, I believe, a swing change guy. and, you know, we might be, we might be seeing those changes taking place.

He's hitting the ball hard, he's hitting the ball in the air more often, and, you know, it's come at the expense of some of his plate discipline. His swing strike rate is almost double what it's been for most of his career, and that might just be the tradeoff we have to live with, is that he's not quite a contact guy anymore, but, you know, the results overall are still pretty good. So we're talking about AJ Pollock, as pointed out by one of our tweeters, Josh, the only player that has at least five home runs and five steals this year.

That is, well, that's not true anymore. Mike Trout stole two bases last night, so he's on that list. And so is Trevor Story, who stole his fifth. Okay, so in fairness to Josh, he tweeted this before Trevor Story and Mike Trout joined the club. But how about that? Three players have five, at least five, and five. They are Mike Trout, A.J. Pollock, and Trevor Story.

That is, that's pretty interesting. Actually, Trevor Story, I was looking at the Stackass leaderboards for Sprint Speed, and he, I think, was like third at shortstop in terms of maximum sprint speed, which is surprising. Wow. For a lot of reasons. Let me tell you something about Trevor Story. I brought this up. Let me tell you a little.

Trevor Stewart. I brought this up before the year, right before the year. I love the idea of owning two shortstop. in a daily league, it's got to be the right too, okay? And sitting Trevor Story on the road and starting him at home. It is happening all over again. He has been incredible at home, and he has been terrible on the road, much like he was in 2016, which was his breakout year.

We had 235 on the road and 313 at home, which was his rookie year. I'm going to do that as often as I can. To put a number to the AJ Pollock thing, his average launch angle last year was about 8 degrees, which was about 25th percentile in the majors, and this season it is 15 degrees, which is about the 70th percentile. So he has increased his launch angle a lot. All right, Heath, give me a surprise hitter.

I'll go with Mike Mastakis, and I did not have a lot of hope for him. He was one of those guys that signed late and did not get paid. And there's been some talk that he's been pretty motivated by that. You talk about this stat cast speed leaderboard. I think he's one of the biggest speed gainers, which last year he's coming off an injury. That makes sense.

But also, he's never been a guy that was in, I don't know what the best shape of Mike Musa's life is. He's a big, beefy boy. The best shape of his life might have been like 12, but it might be this year. And he is hitting the ever-living crap out of the baseball. Ever-living or ever-loving? Ever-living.

No, it's ever-loving. You got that wrong. It wouldn't, the, the ball wouldn't be ever-living after he hits it. So he's hitting it out of it. You're just like, but that's not a thing. Ever-living is not a thing. Ever-living is a thing. You're not from the Midwest.

You don't know, Adam. Mustakis is fourth. You don't know about those K-C idioms. He's fourth in points. He's third in Roto. Would you rather have Mustacas or Devers? I'll still take Devers. Okay.

Mustakis or Donaldson? I would rather have Donaldson, but I get the question. Mustakis or Beltray? Moose. All right, all right. You got to move them up in your rankings. By the way, if you check the rankings, everybody, Scott and Heath do not have the opportunity to change them every day.

So there's always a note on when it's updated. Just keep that in mind. All right, Heath, how about a surprising pitcher? A surprising. We've talked about so many of the guys that I had. lined up to talk about. Dylan Bundy has completely shocked me with what he's done. Patrick Corbin has been incredible.

But I'll say Jose Berrios, because I had high hopes for Jose Burrios coming into the year. I still do. I didn't have hopes that were quite this high. He has, his control has been incredible. The strikeouts are good enough. And he's pitching so, deep into games. Three of his four

starts have gone at least seven innings. Like 200 innings might be selling him short. Yeah, Barrios off to a great start. All right, so Barrios is a surprise, Ethan. Chris, real quick, give me a surprising pitcher. Nick Pavetta, guy that I liked, but the depth of his improvements with the breaking pitches, there was a really good piece in the

athletic yesterday about the development of his curveball. He also started throwing a change-up on, I think Saturday was when he made his last start, got a couple of whiffs on Gregory Polanco with that. He looks like a nude pitcher, and when you can throw 95, 98 miles an hour, anything that can make the hitters have to think for a half a second gives you a big advantage.

He throws the ever-living crap out of the ball. He does throw the ever-living crap out of the ball. The ball continues to live after he releases it because Mike Mastakis hasn't faced him yet. We're going to finish the show with, I wanted to get the listener surprises in there, but we're running out of time. I want to be fantasy regulators. We have to be fantasy regulators.

We also have to do Team Name Tuesday. Here we go. Despagne West. That's good. It is good. Slide into your DLs. Yes. Dahl the Warrior King.

I don't get that one. I don't get that one either. Cool story, bro. Like, Chad cool? Yeah, that's good. And Trevor Story, I guess. Oh, okay, yeah.

Here's one that has to be sung. I don't know if I could hit these notes right now. Near far, Miguel and DuHard. That's very good. Yokintana Taco Bell. Return of the back. Like William said, I guess. Oh, okay, yeah.

Do little too late. I like that one. I'm bringing Sevee back. Sure. You know? The Ichero and Scratchy Show. I like that one. Very good.

Walk Delino. Very good. Maris Bueller. Excellent. And Panic at the Descalso. We've probably had that one, but that is good. All right. So thank you for a wonderful round of team name Tuesday.

fellas You know We get some emails sometimes Stuff going down in leagues Is there a cursing of this is there? Yep there is I typed in the karaoke version man And fantasy baseball at CBSI

Come on you're supposed to be karaoke All right anyway Fantasy baseball on CBSI.com is our email address Let's read a couple of emails and let's regulate. Michael from Omaha. I have a league member trying to vote against the trade purely because he wants one of the players in the trade and doesn't want me to get him. I've heard it said on the podcast that voting against trades for such a reason is bad for him.

I'm having a difficult time explaining why it is bad. I've told him that the voting is to avoid collusion and cheating, not because you think somebody won the trade. If you could give me a good explanation I could give my league mate, that would be awesome. No, there is no good explanation, Michael. What you have heard from me is that voting on trades is bad form, not voting for a specific reason. And when you have voting on trades, you lose the authority to tell someone why or what they're voting for. I'm sorry, Michael.

What? Are you kidding me right now? The regulation here needs to be that by next year, don't have this stupid voting on trades in your league. I'm so angry with you right now. We are trying to help Michael out, and you really hurt him. And because of your terrible answer, Heath, you might let a fantasy baseball Travis thee happen in this league. So I'm going to set the record straight right now. Michael, your leaguemate is a cry baby.

He is a loser. He is a whiny little cry baby. He cannot vote against the trade because it doesn't work for him and because it works better for you. Michael, tell your league mate to empty his gigantic poopy diaper. You know what? People suck. And letting people vote on trade sucks. Don't do it.

Fine. But they are allowed to vote on trades. You need to be responsible with that vote. Then stop trying to act like everyone's under some moral authority to vote for only one reason. I wasn't necessarily expecting Heath to make an explicit endorsement of fascism on today's podcast. But I can't say I'm surprised either. No voting. From Eric, he has a DL roster question.

A team in my league has Jeff Samarja. He didn't activate Samarja when he came off to DL. last Friday. Now it's Monday, and he still has not activated Samarja, holding this healthy player on his disabled list spot. In my opinion, this is an illegal roster. This team is rostering an extra healthy player. A player should need to be dropped from his team and put in the waiver pool. Instead, this team is hoarding an extra player who would be owned by another team if made available. Everyone in my league seems to think this is a strategy. I disagree. What do you think? I always struggle with these, like, strategy questions. It's the same thing. It's kind of the same thing.

I got a question yesterday and we get it every once in a while. Should I just not start a catcher? If it's not explicitly against the rules, I guess you can do it. But he's off the deal. It's cheap. Okay, here's the thing. But we see this all the time in the actual majors where a guy, like a starting pitcher, gets held off the DL until his turn in the rotation.

But he's already made his turn in the rotation. This is another example of bad commissionering. I don't know who the commissioner of your league is, Eric, but there is a setting. You're not regulated. On CBS Sports that requires that someone be moved off the DL once they are no longer on the DL. That setting is clearly not being used. I don't think he's in a CBS. I actually responded to Eric and I said, you can't do this in CBS.

Yeah. Well, you can. No, we have leagues where you can. I have a player sitting on a deal in a league right now. That's not the deal. That's cheap. I'm regulating right now. This is terrible.

The answer to Eric's question is just use a CBSSports.com. that you can change the... If the league allows... I'm trying so hard to get this music to work. Look, I'm going to regulate. I'm going to say, this is ridiculous. Samarja is off the DL. He has already made a start.

A new scoring period has begun. This is inexcusable and unacceptable. You get Samarja off the DL. You drop a player. You poopy diapered whiny baby. I am regulating today. Eric, I don't think it's nice to call Eric a whiny baby just because he's whining about some of what he's doing with the fantasy baseball.

The Samarja owner. Well, he's the only one of the... whined to us. He's not whining. He's asking a question. I'm the one who's whining. All right now, we finish with emails. Azer's diaper is for right now. A look at today's matchups. Michael and Charlotte says trial and error is fantastic. Thank you for the recommendation. You're very welcome. And I think Brockmeier is on like tomorrow or something. But Chris, you'll like trial and error. It's the best show I've seen in years.

What's up with Matt Carpenter and Nick Castiano? Should I be concerned? I thought Castiano's actually doing sort of well. I think he's kind of doing the same thing he did last year. I think he's Nick Castellanos. Man, Detroit had the worst weather, I think, of any team in baseball, and they are all starting to come out of it now.

Carpenter is terrible. Yeah, I mean, he's hitting 309, but with a 375 Babb. He only has one home run, so the power hasn't been there. Hard hit numbers look great again, but... But they're not real. Who knows? I'm significantly less than... worried about Matt Carpenter. I will buy

any Matt Carpenter shares that you want to give up on. He has a 213 Babbip. Even last year when he had the worst babbip of his career, it was 274. And he hit 241. Once that normalizes, he's going to be fine. But he had 241.

I'm sorry, Heath, but... Look, I tend to agree, Chris. I just... I do wonder if we have given too many excuses to Matt Carpenter. He was really good last year. He wasn't. He batted He had 835 OPS. Yeah.

But it's so much of it is on base percentage, which is like the most useless thing when you're looking at OPS. I mean, he's not homering. He doesn't steal any bases. He's not, like, I like Matt Carpenter a lot, but I do wonder if we're giving him too much of a leash, especially in a points league, no. Absolutely by low. In a categories league, he might be overriding him. Okay. So last year, he hit 241.

Yes, that happened. But he had a 274 Babbup, and part of that was the result of a swing change where he was trying to elevate the ball too much, probably got under the ball too much. But still, 274 Bavip is too low. He probably should have hit probably 270 last year. If he hits 270 with 23 homers and 91 runs and you could probably toss on a few extra RBI from the 69 he had, but even if he just had 69, that's a fairly nice stat line. It's not that. 69 RBIs for a first baseman? That's going to be one of the worst.

91 runs, 23 home runs, 270. Like, that's a starting caliber player. 23 home runs for our first basement? I don't even know if that's top 20 last year. I actually like to find out. Again, like, I'm not talking about each. I don't want to buy low on a guy who is top 20. I don't think last year was the best version of Matt Carpenter that we could possibly see either.

Yeah, I know. I just, I'm starting to wonder if we're just being too nice to Matt Carpenter. He's got an 8% soft contact rate so far this year. He has increased his line drive rate and lowered his fly ball rate like he said he was going to. There's really no reason for his Babbat to be this bad. I have no concerns. Any player you have Matt Carpenter, send Chris an offer and send me an offer, and then we will send you a counter that's an actual real offer.

Yeah, I think we got a really bad Matt Carpenter offer yesterday, actually. Somebody sent us an Azer offer. Well, listen, I have no concerns about Matt Carpenter either. I just wonder if how good Matt Carpenter's... How good Matt Carpenter is in Categories leagues. That's where I go. He's certainly better in OBP. But that's, I think, where I'm coming from.

We had him ranked as a really high-end corner infielder or a really low-end first baseman in Roto. And so that's what I think he is. Heath, did you see the terrible tradeoffer we got to? Wait, I'm sorry, I have got to move the show along. This is from Taylor, because we're almost out of time. Rank these guys rest of season. Moncada, Daniel Murphy, Glaver Torres, Javier Baez,

and number one, Machado. So Machado won. Moncada, Murphy, Glaver Torres, Hobby, Baez. Murphy? And then Murphy, Moncada, Baez Torres.

Sure. Yeah, Torres has got to go there. From ABA banter, rank these Yanks in a 12-te-to-head categories league. Hicks and Duhar, Torres, and then last place, Tyler Austin. Hicks and Duhar Torres.

How would you rank? Really servicing Yankee only leagues now. This is your chance. No. Torres and Duhar Hicks, Austin. And yeah. And yeah, like only, but for me,

only because Torres is a short stop. If you're just saying who's going to be a better hit of the rest of the year, I go And Duhar, Torres, Hicks, Austin. Would you drop a Kunia Mankata? I actually don't know who he means. I would assume both. Or Kingery. Or Kingery.

Oh, I thought that was a team name. There's no comma. There's no comma. Yeah, Acuna comma, Moncott. He had to put a comma. Or Kingery. You know what? Forget.

This is too long. I'm sorry. No. I would not drop any of those guys for any of the Yankees guys. Curtis wants to know if you're worried about Matt Olson. A little bit. Yeah, more worried about him than I end Carpenter. I'd rather have Matt Carpenter, Curtis.

Yeah, that was part of this question, too. And Matt from Annapolis, would you drop Michael Franco for Christian Vianueva in a dynasty league? Sure. Stop trying to make Michael Franco happen. I'm not going to ever give up why he's my girl. That was a mean girl's reference? Yes. All right, we're going to do the matchup super, super quickly.

Would you start Marco Gonzalez or Chris Volstad? No. Chris Volstad? I'm not terribly worried about Marco Gonzalez. all against the White Sox, so I might start him there. Did you see what they just did to Mike Leak? Tyler Chatwood at Josh Tomlin. No.

I'll start Chatwood. Burios, yes. Brios, yes, I mean, right? At Sabathia. Would you start either one? Yeah, you're starting Burrios, but it's going to be fascinating. It's scary. We're going to start a dialogue after tonight's start.

It's really, really scary. If he's good tonight, I might come in to Jose Brio's Shurzee tomorrow. You're not on the show tomorrow. Well, I'm still going to come to the office. I do things here besides this podcast. I'm not in the office tomorrow, so it's fine if he does well. Brandon McCarthy at Tyler Malley. Yes, start McCarthy.

I'd probably start McCarthy. Jordan Zimmerman at Chad Coor. No, no, no. Robbie Ray at Vince Velasquez. Start both. Yep, yep, yep. Jake Faria at Alex Cobb. Start Ferrea.

Yeah, I. I'd rather start McCarthy than Faria, but I'll start Faria, probably. All right, Rick Porcelo at Jay Hap. I would start Porcelo. Yeah, yeah, I would start Hap points. Yeah. It's probably a two-star pitcher. I think I'd start Hap over Faria.

Okay. Really? Okay. Andrew Triggs and Cole Hamels. I would start Hamels. Yeah, me too. Are you starting both Shohei Otani and Charlie Morton? Yes.

Yeah. Zach Weaver at Luke Weaver. Zach Wheeler at Luke Weaver? I'll start both. Both. Zach Davies, Ian Kennedy. I'd prefer to not start either. Nope.

Oh, what is wrong with me? I did not mention Eric Lauer is pitching tonight. He's pitching at Colorado. But do we need to pick up Eric Lauer? I think it's just a spot start. But he could, I mean, clearly. Continue filling time, please. I mean, Eric Lauer is a good prospect for the Padres.

Yes, first round pick in 2016 as a career three. Yeah, I don't know all that much about Eric Lauer, but he does look like a good prospect. I probably wouldn't start him in his major league debut. No, but I do think it's worth adding him. I have been searching to see if there's anything about what he's at. Oh, he's at cores, no. Right, don't start.

But it's worth adding him. I don't see anything where it says this is just one start. And they really only have one good pitcher, Joey Lucasey, and he's made five starts in his career. So there's room. If you show signs of life on that team, you've got a chance. Dylan Peters, no, Kent and I'm I. Edith, yes. Tanner Roark at Ty Block.

Roark, yes, Block, no? Yep, yep. Okay, goodbye, everybody. We will talk to you tomorrow on Fantasy Baseball today.