Fantasy Baseball Today - 04/24 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Weekend Roundup

Episode Date: April 24, 2017

Who should you trade for Madison Bumgarner? Should you be rushing to add Joey Gallo, Aaron Altherr, Jason Heyward and Michael Conforto? What's going on in the Nationals bullpen? ... All the important stuff from the weekend including Dan Straily's strikeouts, changes in the Dodgers rotation, Dylan Bundy's velocity and more ... A look at the Most Added list, plus who we've been adding and dropping and which early performances we are buying and selling ... 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, recapping Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as we finish up week three and head on into week four. Good news, everybody. Team scammed and not get crushed. We just barely lost, so we are making progress. That's what we're celebrating now. A near win. If you were wondering, Team Greth had a big win over the weekend, almost back to 500 now. All right, all right.

So things are looking up for the podcasters. So this is the only league we're going to talk about all year, the league where we're no good? No, no. In fact, there are only two, three and no teams. in the podcast points league, and Scott White is one of them, along with Jake and KC. So congratulations. I had a really cheap win this week, but still feels good to be three and now. Got to bank those wins whenever you can.

I got my first win in the podcast listeners league. Thankfully, I got to play Adams team. Yes, congratulations. You did beat me in that league. I did beat you in a different league, so we'll call it even. And do any of us – All right, how many Madison Bumgarner shares do you guys have? I tweeted out on Friday, I believe, that I have relieved Bum, not Mad Bum, because I have none.

Yeah, I feel like between him and Marte, I've been walking through a minefield here and have managed to escape unscathed so far because I have zero shares in Bum Garner as well. Yeah, same. Same. Wow, we have gotten lucky, but not everybody else has, that's for sure. Bum Garner could miss more than two months with injured ribs and more importantly the sprained AC joint. that's a shoulder injury. He fell off his dirt bike. And it stinks. It's just bad luck. So we're going to talk about trade scenarios, what you would or would not give up for Madison Bumgarner.

Obviously, who we are adding and dropping, who you should be adding and dropping, and who you are adding and dropping as we take a look at the most added list. Any updates to two-start pitchers. Yeah, you know how it works. Then we'll talk about Jose Cantana struggling. Danny Sauer is struggling. There's something I really want to talk about regarding Dylan Bundy. Brandon McCarthy had a great week. Joey Gallo is a top eight-third baseman right now.

You know, you know, stuff like that. But with Bumgarner, so again, he could miss more than two months. We don't have a concrete timetable yet. I don't really like trading for injured players. What would you guys give up to get Madison Bumgarner right now? I would start by making a low-ball offer. Maybe somebody that's off to a good start that we didn't think was actually that good. somebody like Gio Gonzalez

or an Irvin Santana. Ian Kennedy. Yeah? Yeah, right in that range. Yeah, I think that makes sense. I may, since it sounds like this timetable is getting less optimistic by the day,

I may drop Bumgarner even more of my rankings. I had him behind Paxton and Carlos Martinez just ahead of Forcelo, Granky, Kentana, Tanaka, McCullors. I may drop him behind that group, maybe even further, behind Harvey and Salas. and then you start to get into the Tehran, Strowman, Fulmer.

Even that I'm kind of hedging on. It would depend on the way the rest of my picture is out. I don't think I'd give up those guys. I have a feeling if I have Tehran and Fulmer, like I'm relying on them. I need them to be good for me in order for my team to be good. But there's, you know, there's leagues where Tehran is like one of four number three starters for you, basically. And there's leagues where he's your number two.

two-starter. It just depends on the depth of the league and how expendable he is. And I think a big part of it, too, is I would expect the timetable is going to change over the next seven days. I feel like we're in a gray area right now where Baumgartner could be back anywhere from six weeks from now to, oh, crap, he's not coming back this year. And he's also going to be coming back from a shoulder injury, which is a little scary. So I guess my basic rule is I'm fine not getting him. And if I'm going to trade for him, it's probably going to be one of my good teams, right? Like, I don't want to, you know, you have to have a good team.

And I am going to give up somebody that I just don't need. That if this guy gets hurt tomorrow, it's not going to really affect my team that much. I think that's probably how you want to approach it. So, yeah, like someone like Gio Gonzalez, you've gotten great production from someone like Irvin Santana. But if you didn't have them to begin with, you know, maybe your team would be just fine. I think you start from there. Marco Estrada. Would you trade Marco Estrada? Nope. And a heartbeat. I would not.

If I were, if I were 3 and O, maybe. I guess I'm just thinking about my one Marco Estrada league and I couldn't afford to do that because my team's not that good right now. Yeah. But I think context absolutely matters in this situation. You're taking what could be a huge, could be a windfall for you. It just can you survive what you're sacrificing in the meantime. How do you feel about Estrada, Scott? Would you trade Marco Strata for Bumgarner? I've got to rank Bumgarner ahead of Estrada, yeah.

So I think, you know, I tend to think of my rankings from the 12-team mixed league perspective. And I think in that more cases than not, Estrada is expendable enough that I'd be willing to do that. But, you know, it depends on the way the rest of my pitching staff looks. All right. Okay. So that's bumgarner for you. I'm sorry that that happened.

That stinks. You expect injuries to pitchers. You don't expect them on their off days when they're riding dirt bikes. Who are your favorite ads and drops? Heath Cummings. Why don't we talk about Joey Gallo? Because you just picked him up and we just had an email come in. Should I drop Greg Bird for Joey Gallo?

Gallo is the number eight third baseman in points leagues, number six in Roto. Tell me who you'd be dropping for Gallo. I did pick up Gallo in a points league, but it was a 14-team points league. I agree with what Scott said off the air that I would primarily like to add him in Rodo. And judging by his ownership percentage, he's probably owned in most Roto leagues. But I was impressed, of course, they played the Royals this weekend, so I got to see a little bit of Joey Gallo. And the opposite field home run was very impressive. but I was more impressed by the way he played in the field,

looking at his defensive numbers on fan graphs, and it's way too early to make a lot out of that, but he has been a net positive defensively. I am just starting to wonder, as they keep being less and less optimistic about Adrian Beltray's calf, would they like to bring Beltray back as a DH? Is Gallo going to play third base for most of the year? Interesting.

And, okay, he's only hitting like 216 or something, right? Gallo, but he has six home runs. Yeah, he's not that much different than Chris Carter, I guess. Well, if he can sustain this is the thing. I mean, because right now he has an OPS over 900, but he's also on, you know, what

kind of home run pace is this, like a 50 homer pace, basically. Right. And, you know, he slows that pace at all. It's going to be harder to justify. And Beltrae is so good defensively that, like, I mean, as much time as they're giving him, I think they want it back at 100 percent. I don't know that it's

I think Gallo has improved his chances of sticking around with his performance so far. I think that's fair to say, and obviously he can move to left field. They haven't figured out that situation. But, you know, I don't know that the Beltray scenario is going to play out like you're thinking. And what's our over under on when Beltrade comes back, June 1st? Ooh, that seems late. Yeah, I don't know. The most recent thing I saw was they did not expect him to play any baseball games

until May at the earliest, which is only 10 days away, nine days away. Yeah. So, I mean, it could still be much earlier than June 1st. Well, it can't be that much earlier if he doesn't start a minor league rehab assignment until sometime in May. Well, look, if they want to keep Gallo in the lineup, they can do it. June is the next month. Could be May 2nd. They can do it in left field.

They can do it at DH, you know? So if he's hitting this well, he's worth a flyer right now. Would you drop Greg Byrd for Joey Gallo? No. I might. All right. Maybe it depends on league depth. I don't think it does.

I just think that bird's better. I think he's sticking around. Okay. Any big... All right, well, we can talk. Who else were you guys excited to add this weekend? Scott Heath, hit me with it. I added Steven Sousa in one of the last leagues where he was still available.

I added Jason Vargas for his two-start week, and that one was... He was added in most leagues earlier in the week, but this was a league where we had to wait until Sunday night for our waivers. You burned through your fad. in the head-to-head auction league, which is weekly fab. So, you know, Monday is, of course, a bidding war for everybody. You burn through it, man. Well, Joe Ross was a free agent, and so that was my biggest ad. And then I added Sousa, and I added Vargas.

You also burned through a lot of your fab in the Roto League that we have. I don't know, you have $21 out of $100 budget on Kevin Gossman, who got dropped on Saturday, and then I put in a claim for him for $10. Because I know Chris loves him, but Chris has already spent a lot of money. So I said, all right, I'll put in 10. Then he gives up four runs in the first inning against Boston.

I said, you know what? I think I'm only going to put in seven or eight for Kevin Gossman. And, yeah, he blew it out of the water with a $21 bid. I think maybe giving up a little bit early on Kevin Gossman. But he did have another bad start. He did. But there would... You know, unless the pitch FX data has changed since then,

and we've had to watch out for that this year. An encouraging sign for Gosman in that start where he got rocked was he threw 31 splitters. And I think that mostly came after he got rocked. I was looking at, and it was the live data, but he wasn't really throwing the splitter early, and he got rocked, and then he just started throwing it. And it was kind of a, he got rocked in a different way. He gave him three home runs when I think he'd only give him one in his first three starts.

So hopefully he doesn't lose confidence in the splitter based on this performance. But he had only once exceeded 15 splitters in a game before throwing the 31 yesterday. And that's his best pitch. So if he continues that, then I think you can bet on a turnaround of sorts. Right. So that's a good by-low candidate, Kevin Gosman, or someone that you might be able to pick up off waivers. That's why I brought him up. Scott, how about you?

Who were your big ad drops? Well, I was indecisive about what to do at third base in the podcast League, where I'm three-no. And switched to Chase Headley for about two days and then went back to Ryan Healy, who I had originally dropped. So it's nice to have him. I like the A's matchups this week. He's hot, all of that. Matt Bush is who I ended up with after Heath beat me out for the two-star Jason Fargus and everybody else in the head-to-head auction league. where he's down to one-third of his budget remaining.

I got Mashbush for a zero dollar a bit. He got his first save this weekend, and I still think, like, I'd rather have him than either of the Nationals choices, either the Phillies choices. So that's good. I did end up with Wade Miley in one really deep league.

You know, leagues were like 320 to 360 players are rostered. That's where I was willing to take a flyer on. on Miley, who is in line for two starts. Obviously off to a good start with the strikeouts, and I don't have a lot of confidence in him, but in leagues that deep, he needs to be owned, and I was able to claim him in one 24-team league where I spent like a tenth of my budget on it.

I was a little bit surprised that I didn't see, and maybe it's just because he's owned in our leagues and only 40% owned in the rest of the leagues, that I didn't see more action on Patrick Corbyn. for a he's 52% own now two starts spark and I believe one of those starts is against the Padres

it is in Colorado as well but they're both at home yeah Corbin it's hard to trust but that Padres start I mean Dan Straitly struck out 14 Padres this weekend so yes he did did I say something wrong

and it definitely looked like you know one of those I'm facing the Padres so I'm going to have an outlier performance type outings. Heath, did I say something wrong? You're looking at me like I messed up? Not at all.

Okay, okay, good. I thought maybe I messed up Patrick Corbyn's matchups, because I was just looking at him in one of our leagues. Yeah, all right, I'm going to tell you guys who I think fantasy owners should be excited to go out and add, and you tell me if you agree or disagree. Michael Conforto, 48% owned. I could have justified in any of my leagues, but I wanted to. I wanted to find that spot for him.

Yes, I would put him as a seven and a half on the excitometer. There you go. Here's the deal. Cespitis pinch hit yesterday. He expects to play tomorrow. And Conforto's over three against lefties this year. But the Mets are struggling. I think they got to keep him in the lineup.

And 48% own. It might be more of a long-term play. Well, Jay Bruce is playing first base because dude is out. So I don't know that Cessbitus even matters in that scenario. I don't think he does. And I believe, assuming all the matchups that I look at are right, they don't play, they don't face a lefty this week. Outstanding.

I go Conforto, 48% owned. He's batting 361 with four homers. Mitch Morland, 50% owned. I'm not that excited, but I feel like we have to stop ignoring it. He's batting 315 right now with 11 doubles, two homers. Morland. I don't disagree with his name being on this list. I did put him in the waiver wire column today.

I don't think we should act like Mitch Morland has just always sucked. And where is this coming from? Two years ago, he had a nice year. He had 12 OPS two years ago. Yeah, but at first base from presumably a part-time guy in the long run when Brock Holded everybody else's back. He's, you know, he was never really, like if you were starting in the mixed leagues, you were looking for an upgrade, for sure. Right. But first base ain't what it used to be.

This is, you're Mr. Scott White Hot, trust the hot streak. Right him right now. In DFS. This is a different animal, sir. This is long-term view. I would, like, if you're choosing between Ryan Zimmerman or Mitch Morland, I would absolutely take Zimmerman. That's not a choice anywhere. But Zimmerman's not available in the way we're right.

Zimmerman is almost universally owned at this point. He homered again yesterday. Okay, he wasn't as a Friday. He's like 87%. No, that's all right. I mean, you're right to say that. You've got to go Zimmerman. But Moreland, like, if you have Greg Bird, you might have to make that switch.

It just people could need a win right now. It's early. Yeah, keep playing Greg Bird. Yeah, you can at this point. I mean, look, it's really dependent on your league, but Devin Mazzaraco is 24% owned. He should be back pretty soon. If you need a catcher, you could look into that. Yes, I did get him as my – I replaced Chris Ionet as my number two catcher in Towers with Devin Mazzaraco.

Oh, my gosh. I was excited about that. Of the century. Well, if Mazzaraco plays more than twice a week. Still an upgrade. And Yulee Gereal may be coming around a little bit. still needs to hit for some more power, but he's 31% owed. I'm just, I'm glad I didn't drop Gariel.

I was close to doing so. So maybe check for him. And Austin Hedges, 56% O. Now there's a catcher who's got us excited, right? He homered Friday and Saturday. He said he's made a small adjustment with his hands, kind of syncing them up with his legs. He was out of whack mechanically, and Hedges is hitting really well right now.

So we'll see where that goes, guys. Austin Hedges. He's still, for me, in that gray area that, I mean, he's, I assume that he's owned and started in every two-catcher league, and I've got no place for him in a one-catcher league. Yeah, all right, but at this point, like, would you drop, I think I asked you this last week, but would you drop Russell Martin for Austin Hedges? I don't think.

I'm getting closer. Yeah. I mean, Hedges still isn't hitting 200, right? No, I don't think so. But he was like 0 for 24 or something crazy. He's turned it around. It just puts in perspective how. as somebody who owns Russell Martin

in a one catcher league where Hedges is available I could say was not looking to do this though I like Hedges but I like Martin too and I liked Martin more to begin with and Hedges will have to be have to do some things other than hit home runs which are of course unpredictable and sporadic in nature

for me to buy into the idea that he's really better than Martin All right, Julio Rius could make a start this week He'll be up with the Dodgers very soon. He's 79% owned. I think we'd all agree we should look for Julio Reyes, try to add him. Yeah. Scott is not excited about anybody. Get excited, Scott White.

He's on Team Skama. You just asked me who I was picking up in my leagues, and it was none of these players are naming. Well, they weren't available. I'm having to put myself in somebody else's position who doesn't have the rosters I do and decide if in a vacuum this player's worth adding. Would you drop Kevin Gossman for Julio Arreus?

Nope. I wouldn't either. I wouldn't either. Would you rather have Wade Miley or Julio Reus? Aureus for sure. Yes. Not close. Yeah.

And I just throw this guy out there. I have not been motivated to add him, but maybe we should. You tell me, Hector Santiago. Hector Santiago so far has a career high strike percentage, is in amount of strikes he's throwing. And swinging strike percentage. A lot of that was in one start against. the Royals. But look, Hector Santiago's got a 219 ERA, four walk, 17 strikeouts in 24 and

two-thirds. And two years ago, he was great for a half a season and then it fell apart. I don't consider that good news, though. He's faked me out a couple times. I think last year he had, you know, was getting a lot of swinging strikes on his fastball early. And I thought maybe there was something there. But there's never anything there with Hector Santiago. And it's not like the strikeout rate is good to be. begin the year, you know? It's not like he's overwhelming us and we have to make a move like with Wade Miley in certain leagues.

Hector Santiago isn't even lower tier than that. All right, so basically I gave you Michael Conforto. Good stuff. I liked your list. Come on. Arreus. I thought it was a very nice list. Yeah, no, I actually think there's, right, so that my list was Conforto, Morland, Mesoraco,

Gurriel. Oh, I forgot Aaron Altair. Aronelter is 10% own. It's batting 364. I tried to win him in a couple roto leagues. I think I got outbid in both. That Philly's lineup is really coming together. Zazar Hernandez, Oduble Herrera.

Just asked Jim Johnson. Yeah, so Altair, if you need an outfielder, Scott and I were debating between Altair and Brett Gardner, and we went with Brett Gardner. I almost, I kind of wanted to not get Brett Gardner and get Altair, but we'll see what I. happens. Well, can we still get Altaire? No, we can't. No, he's gone. 16 team league. All right, well, how about we look at the most added list and see who the people out there are adding?

Wade Miley is number one. He is 61% own. He has the two-star week. Sean Kelly is number two. I know Heath, you're writing about the Nationals Closer situation in your waiver wire column. and Kelly got three saves in four games or pitched three times in four games. Did he get saved? Three saves in four games. Right. And then Glover got a save on Saturday, which just seemed like Kelly was unavailable. But then Glover got a save on Sunday as the Nationals swept the Mets.

So, you know, I was just reading about it. Sean Kelly was told he got promoted to the job. He won the job, basically. He was told by Dusty Baker. But he was also told he wouldn't be used. all the time. It was a little strange to see Glover get the save yesterday. So what is your take right now on the Nationals bullpen?

I would still rather have Sean Kelly. I think this is kind of a strange situation where the Nationals have won, what, seven games in a row, and five of them have been save opportunities. You don't generally have five save opportunities in a six-day stretch. So there have been talk about them having concerns over Kelly's durability, and that's one of the reasons they did not want to make him the closer. The best explanation that I can think of is if he goes three out of four days, he's not going to pitch.

He's going to get a couple days off. That's fine. I think it probably made a difference, too, that Sunday's game was a three-run lead. So, you know, your backup closer should be able to convert to hold on to a three-run lead in one inning of work. This was, but the Sunday Glover thing, Like that was the first time this situation, something happened that I didn't see coming. So it does get me questioning Kelly a little, even though I do think he's, you know, still the preferred option.

They're still the one I'd want to own. Yeah. It's another reason why I'd rather own Matt Bush, though, who I think is in a position to just claim that job with no real contenders. And I just want to say Glover is pitching really well right now. And so is Kelly. But I, you know, I was thinking about dropping Coda Glover until last night. night. I'm not quite ready to do that yet in a league where there are really no saves on the waiver wire. Jason Vargas is your number three, most added player. Austin Hedges is number four. He's now 57% own.

Miguel Gonzalez is two starts. He's number five. Stephen Sousa is up to 81% owned. He had another good weekend. Scott, are you getting ready to come around on Stephen Sousa? And there's a lot of strikeouts still. You know, five outfield release, I mean, he's 81% owned. So it's not like, I guess I would call him a trade high candidate. That would be the actionable advice I could give here because. That sounds like a firm no from Scott on, are you buying into Steven Susan? Well, like, literally would I own him at this point?

Yeah, I think you have to. I don't have a lot of belief in him, though. No, not as much as he's striking out. Okay, but let's just say he has a 26% strikeout rate. It's a 25.6% right now. That's not too many strikeouts for Steven Susan. He can be a good fantasy option. Yeah, if he can do that.

But obviously, I mean, he had, what, two strikeouts through his first? Yeah, he's not going to be that good. What I'm saying is that rate is skewed. More recently, he has struck out like we expect Stevenson. This seems like an Adam Azer, we're going to take out the time when he was at his best and just say, look how much he's striking out when he's not at his best. Why is that Adam Azer thing? Who did you do that with last year?

You like the arbitrary sample sizes. I don't like arbitrary sample sizes. Like, if you're talking about the Stroman thing with the Astros? Yes. But I think I'm kind of right about that. I don't really like Stroman that much. You know that. But he was good yesterday, right?

Well, I love Stroman. I just don't expect him to be a strikeout guy. He threw a complete game yesterday. His second complete game of the season. Yeah, he is a season high of five strikeouts. Stroman does. Yeah, I think he's going to be a seven-per-nine guy. And I took out the Astro starts last year when he was,

striking out a batter per inning, and he was back to about seven per nine without the start against the assores. That was my, you know, selective sample size thing. And look, maybe I'm not going to be right every time. I kind of feel like that one proved to be right. So it was two strikeouts in his first seven games for Sousa and 20 strikeouts in his last 13 games, so 51 at bats, 20 strikeouts. That's a lot. That's a lot more than 25%. All right, we'll see how that one plays out. Most added this is kind of boring. We've talked about a lot of these guys, so let me give you two more and tell me if you think they should be on the most added list. Chase Headley is 64% owned, Taylor Motter, keeps mashing, is 31% owned.

Yeah, they're talking about playing Modder at first base down when Segura comes back. Oh, really? Yep. Need a shortstop, anyone? Taylor Motter. And that would give them three first baseman with Vogelbach up and Valencia. who's been terrible. Yeah, that's true. Vogelbach did come up, so maybe it wouldn't be

an everyday situation for modder. I think what I read was he could play some first base and they're just looking to keep him in the lineup anywhere they can. What I would say is in two weeks, Taylor is not going to mutter. Wow.

No faith. Okay. Hey, I have a question for you guys. Scott Heath, do you want $20? Yes, yeah. Yeah, okay, good. I think we all want $20. Everybody wants that.

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Go to a baseball game, people, and use Seatkeek to get there. promo code is fantasy. All right, here's some big news for you. Starter Sid George Springer. and his hamstring injury, they say he might play sometime during the first series of the week. What do you think? Start or sit? I would sit.

I'm going to lean towards sitting as well. Yeah. All right. Here's what you can do at Springer. His first game is tomorrow. Luckily, there are a lot of players whose first games are tomorrow so you can check the lineup. If you play in one of those leagues where, you know, you can wait through the team's first pitch. You know what I'm saying.

Miguel Cabrera is on the deal with a groin strain. seems to think that Cabrera may only need 10 days. We shall see. I've heard that one before. The angel said that about Garrett Richards, I think. And now he's on the 60-day D-L. Yeah. Dustin Bidroia hurt his knee at Baltimore.

I think we've all seen and heard about it now. Manny Machado with the slide. And Padraea is going to have an MRI. Marco Hernandez has been starting at second base for Boston. I'm pretty sure they're off today. So we'll see. Zach Britton had an MRI on his arm, MRI. It looked good.

That's nice. And coolest thing I saw this weekend was the bandwagon cam at Miller Park. Did you guys see this? Did not. I think I know what you're talking about, but I'm not – Did it really happen at Miller Park? Oh, was it in Cincinnati? It was.

It was in Cincinnati. Okay, great American ballpark. Thank you. We just love Miller Park on this show. So they had the Cubs in town And a lot of Cubs fans there And I guess we're all familiar with like Kiss Cam Right?

They put two people up on the Kiss Cam They're supposed to kiss. Yeah, sure. This was Bandwagon Cam. They put these Cubs fans on the bandwagon cam And then they would put a caption like Lifelong Cubs fan since 2016 Or never actually been to Chicago.

It was very funny. It was very funny. I've seen some similar type things in the NBA and I'm glad to see that MLB teams are having some fun with that type of thing, too. Yeah, it's good stuff. I want to talk about who stood out over the weekend. NBA sucks, by the way. You knew what?

Yes, I know. You had a terrible, terrible string of tweets. You should have just apologized and been done with it. NBA does not suck. I like the NBA. But when I learned yesterday about Twitter, and I guess I knew this before, but reinforced, Twitter is the place you can go to have any opinion you want and then be told by so many people that you're not allowed to have that opinion.

Everybody piled on you, rightly so. Not everybody. One of the things I think that Scott White does not like about Twitter is what happened to you yesterday, but in this instance, you completely deserved it. I disagree, and not everybody did. I would say 20% of the responders agreed with my take. Scott, how would you feel about Yankees fan not liking the fact that in the NBA, all the good players go play on one team and win championships?

Probably the – of all the things that were said to me yesterday, of my tweet was, I'm just going to read it what I exactly said. This is exactly what people tune in to the fantasy baseball podcast to hear. This is the most, this was like the most responses I ever got. The most I've ever gotten. I said that. NBA hot takes seem to play well on social media in general. Well, and Chris and I were both quote tweeting him with his bad takes, so it spread quickly.

I'm not the kind of person who thinks everything was better when I grew up, but the NBA was much better when I grew up. Product kind of sucks. That's what I said. And then it devolved these stupid arguments. Like, people, the dumbest thing was, don't watch then. Okay. I'm going to watch. Like, I'm still, I'm going to, I'm allowed to watch.

And the Yankees thing was crazy because, like, do you think Yankees fans, you think we like the fact that the Yankees just went out and bought everybody? Like, no, we don't like. That's not what you like about the Yankees. You're a Yankees fan. They do that. And you root for them because you're a fan. It's not like, oh, we love.

being the big market bully. No, that's not how it works. So that was really a ridiculous argument. And I'm going to stop this conversation. So weekend standouts. I need to talk about Dylan Bundy because, man, he's off to a great start. He's a 1370 RA. I can't imagine how he's doing it with this velocity. I'm concerned about the velocity. It's a lot. It's down a lot. and it's decreased a little bit every start this year. I put in a trade offer, actually, in the podcast league. If this owner is listening, it's probably not going to work. I don't know.

I offered Bundy straight up for Kenley Jansen in a points league where they're both RP eligible. And we'll see what happens. But I am concerned. He is not throwing hard. He's throwing like low 90s. I want to know if that's a concern for anybody else. It's not something I had noticed. I had been more encouraged by the way

how effective his cutter slash slider, the pitch he reintroduced to his arsenal this year after it was a major part of it when he was the top prospect, how effective it's been in terms of getting swings and misses. So, I mean, that's always... I would think that's a better indication of dominance than just pure velocity, though, of course, velocity is something we keep a close eye on.

The only thing I would say, and he's down like one and a half miles per hour from last year. And I guess the thing that might add a little bit to what you're saying is the fact that he didn't throw this pitch for a while because of injury concerns. And now he's throwing it and his velocity on his fast balls down. and there may be no correlation there. But there's a, I could see, like if you could trade him for Kenley Jansen, I think it's a great idea. I like doing Bundy a lot. And I think I have some concerns about his durability and whether or not he can do this for a full season. Also, if you look at the strikeouts, only 20 strikeouts in like 26 innings for Bundy,

but he's faced Boston twice and they don't strike out a lot. Yeah. So I don't know. The whiff rate on that slider slash cutter is over. over 30%, which is ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, that's great. But like Jeremy Helixen had one of the best pitches in baseball last year, right, with with rate?

Yeah, the change of had a very high whiff rate. His swinging strike rate is up over 12% after being at 10.5% last year. So the fact that his strikeouts have gone down seems a little bit unlucky, or like it's not probably going to last if he continues to get a whiff rate like that? No, I think, yeah, I think it's a little bit matchup dependent because he's faced the Red Sox twice. I'm not saying I'm panicking about Bundy. If this trade offer Bundy for Jansen gets rejected, I'm not going to be upset about it. But I wanted to bring it up.

And the other thing is Bundy has Tampa Bay this week. It should be a good start. And then since he pitched Friday, he's probably a two-star pitcher in week five. So maybe you want to wait. I don't know. Maybe you don't want to do anything with Dylan Bundy. I thought I'd bring it up. Who stood out to you guys, big weekend performers?

Well, there's a lot. I think we should probably talk about Dan Strayley because that was the biggest 14 strikeouts. Not what you expect to see from him. I touched on it a little bit. It kind of reminded me of, like, last year, Jaime Garcia. You mentioned it on the podcast last week, Adam. Jaime Garcia had this random 13 strikeout outing against the Brewers.

I think it was early last year. It was right almost maybe the same day that Vince Malasquez had his 16 strikeout complete game against these same Padres. And I think Tanner Roark had a start like that early last year, too. I don't know what the matchup was. But I bring both of them up because they're very similar pitchers. They're pitchers who rely more on weak contact than missing a lot of bats, and they just happened to seize on this great matchup.

I think the number of swinging strikes, the number of whiffs, in other words, Straitly got in this start was 16. which is a fine number on its own, but relative to 14 strikeouts, you'd expect a lot more swings and misses than that. Yeah, you would. You certainly would. Did you see how many swings – I'm sorry to detour, but do you see how many swings and misses Jacob de Grom got this weekend?

I did not. He had – I'll find it. I think it was like – maybe it's someone else. Maybe I've completely butchered this, but I think he had like 24 or something. But, all right, yeah. It was a 10 strikeout game. I know that. Yeah, and like six walks.

Anyway, with Dan Strelie, are you motivated to add Strelie? He is owned in 50% of leagues. I think that's probably about what he should be. Maybe bordering on 60, but not universally owned. Okay. 27 swinging strikes. The last two stars for Jacob de Grom,

22 and 27 swinging strikes. Freaky ridiculous. Jacob de Grom is really good. Yeah, it did not have a good start, but it was impressive nonetheless. But like when your bad starts or 10 strikes, strikeout still. You've got to feel good about that. The Nationals, by the way, are just a brutal matchup right now. They are awesome at the moment. Heath, stand out for you. Well, I think we touched on a lot of the guys. I was pleased to see Carlos Correa hit his second home run. Maybe he'll

start breaking out of his slump. Anthony Rizzo had a very nice weekend. Cesar Hernandez hit his fourth home run yesterday. Scott, are you buying into Cesar Hernandez yet? We got some tweets about how you still have him ranked 30 at the second base. People very upset with you. Yeah. Well, I need to move him up from there for sure. I'm going to spend a lot of time on the rankings today, I think. He's on pace for like 200 strikeouts himself, which is very un-Hernandez, like, the home runs are very un-Hernandez, like, I, you know, I don't know.

I think I'd rather have, like, Starlin Castro is off to a great star, Brandon Phillips is off to a great star. Brandon Phillips is off to a great start. Devin Travis, which rather have Devin Travis. None of these guys are off to as good as start as Hernandez. No, but I had a lot more confidence in them in the first place. And Hernandez, the ways Hernandez is succeeding are not ways I expect Hernandez to succeed, you know? Yeah, like, I guess because he's hitting 338,

and I expected him to have a good average, and because he's scoring a run every game, and I expected him to produce quite a few runs, and he's on pace for, what, 25 steals, The home runs are weird, and that's not going to last, and he's not going to be the number one second baseman overall. But he's also still doing pretty much everything I expected him to do, except he's striking out more, and that hasn't hurt him yet. Right. I just don't know that 20 steals in a batting.

Like, that's basically the Elvis Andrews of second baseman, right? Which is easily a top 20-second basement. Okay, but is the top 20-second basement that big of a deal? In a lot of leagues it is. It's a lot bigger deal than a number 30-second basement. I'm struggling at second base in the podcast points league. I've gone from Devin Travis to Neil Walker, now to Joe Panic. And I would take panic over Cesar Hernandez.

And I have like four second baseman, and I've tried to make a deal with you and you just won't make it. No, I don't think so. In the long run, I think all three of those second basemen are going to be better than Hernandez. I could understand playing Hernandez as the hot handplay. I actually have them in my top ten sleeper hitters for this week. So, you know, I get to understand doing that, but I don't, like, I don't buy him as a power hitter. I don't buy him as a power hitter. To buy him as a hitter overall, he needs to stop striking out so much,

which his track record says he will, but it concerns me a little that he's not. You know, somebody who's off to a hot start who I like more than him, Eugenio Suarez. Yeah, he's killing it. I think he's the number one third baseman of fantasy right now. Yeah, he had a couple walks yesterday, I think a couple home runs on Saturday.

He's a player who's strikeouts, you know, he wasn't terrible with the strikeouts last year, and he seems like he's gotten better here early. But the main thing is just, like, I feel like I made the mistake in my preseason rankings with Suarez, just assuming I knew who Suarez was, and it was the player he was last year, which was useful in deeper leagues because he could hit 20 homers,

but not really anything beyond that. He's 25 years old and plays in one of the best parks in baseball. I don't know that we really have a great concept for who he can be. Well, he's unfortunately very owned. He's like 87% owned, Ehayno Suarez. Is he, I mean, look, if you can sell high on Suarez and get a stud who's struggling, okay, sure. But is he like an Eric Thames where you're kind of buying it and you don't need to sell? I mean, not to that extent.

Let's not compare him to Eric Thames. Well, I mean, he's honestly not having that much worse of a year than Eric Thames. He's batting 3-7. He's the number one third baseman in fantasy right now. He has more fantasy points than Aronado. In fact, Thames has 91 fantasy points, Suarez has 80. Right, but he's not Eric Thames. He's not, but he's not that far.

Well, I mean, he has nearly as many points as Eric Thames, but he's not Eric Thames. But we don't know who, Eric Thames... What do you mean because of Eric Thames's track record? Come on. Like, okay. Swares was at least a major league baseball player the last two years. I mean, Eric Thames was... he was the king of

Korean baseball. Yeah, I mean, and look what he's doing now. Like, I don't think, like, if, again, I'm going to, if Eric Thames is in the MVP conversation at the end of the year, it's, I'm not saying that will happen, but I'm not going to fall out on my chair. I will keep in an open mind with Swarres, but he's, he's not an MVP caliber. I will push you out of your chair if Eric Thames is in the MVP conversation. Well, in the MVP, if he's top, if he's top five, I'll push you out of your chair. share. So we all have something to root for now because we'll actually put it on video and everything. I would enjoy that and I would extend it to top 10. All right. Suarez, yeah. Let me throw another name out there. Brandon McCarthy, 75% own. He had a two-star week and they were both against the diamond backs. And he came out of it, you know, looking pretty good.

And right now Brandon McCarthy is 3-0 with a 225 ERA. I understand he's 75% own. He's not widely available. But are you buying Brandon McCarthy? He's throwing as hard as he ever has And no more than two earn runs in any of his four starts Uh, yeah, I want to own him. I want to. Cool. Hmm, other guys, let's see, we got Sem 1-0, three saves over the weekend. That was very nice to see.

Yep, looks like his velocity concerns are behind him too, So you can let go of Trevor Rosenthal. And should we be? picking up one of the Wilson's in Detroit? Team Kreeh picked up Justin Wilson over the weekend

just because our entire team is built on the closer strategy and we are injury riddled right now. So we picked him up. I think there's a decent chance that you're dropping him again but he's worth speculative in that type of situation. Team scam

which owns Francisco Rodriguez and doesn't have a lot of confidence. and San Francisco Rodriguez going forward was not picking up a tiger's reliever this weekend because I don't know who it would be who would replace him. Joe Jimenez has been widely talked about

as the closer of the future and he's on the major league roster right now. Obviously not as much experience as either Wilson. But by the time the tigers eventually do pull the plug on Krod and unless he starts throwing harder I think that will happen at some point. I don't know who's going to

of them taking the lead there as the replacement. Is there anybody you want in the Angels bullpen with Cambridrojan on the DL with a groin strain? No. I heard, I just know. It might be 10 days. It really might just be 10 days this time. Or might not be. Who knows.

But just, you know, to cover all our bases in case there's leagues worth no closers available. I've heard Blake Parker mentioned a couple times as a potential. potential fill-in for him. Bud Norris. Good strike in the early going. Bud Norris got to save for them on Saturday against the worst team of baseball, the Toronto Blue Jays.

I'm just going to start throwing stuff out there. Here we go. Ready? I think you might want to sell high on some Pirates pitchers. I think their defense is going to be unbelievably terrible without Starling Marte. And Nova, in particular, I don't know how Nova can keep this up.

I applaud what he's doing. He throws strike. After strike, after strike, after strike, after strike. But he's going to have to rely on good defense. And they were a bumbling mess this weekend. Their outfield, I mean, look, if they put McCutcheon in center and John Jassel in right field with any regularity, that's just an awful idea. It's just awful.

McCutcheon is a really bad center fielder at this point. So I think we didn't talk about that with the Starling Marte suspension. But that is a consequence that could have a big impact on them, in my opinion. Okay. I don't necessarily dislike that. I don't know how, like, I don't think you can sell high on Garrett Cole right now. You need him to have a little better stretch than this. Yeah.

And if he's going to strike out guys, then maybe it doesn't matter all that much. But it should be said that I'm not sure there's a more realistic downgrade in baseball, going from Starling Marte to Andrew McCutcheon. Because you're going from one of the best fielders in baseball to a guy who statistically, cost him like 22 runs last year in center. I'll tell you one. The Royal sat Lorenzo Cane yesterday and played Jorge Bonafacio in centerfield.

Okay. That is a bigger downgrade right there. Well, I wouldn't have known that. I didn't know we had a Royals update coming, but... He also hit his first home run. He did. Dongafacio? Is that what you call them? Jorge Dongafacio. Should we overstayed it, though, because McCutcheon was their center fielder last year?

Well, they also had Marte in right or left, I think? So that helps Yeah, left And yeah, their pitching was disappointing Last year Yeah Okay

McEchin had a very bad year Defensively last year Right And he... No, and there's no questioning that And he's not a good center fielder Yeah I just, you know

I might be overreacting The stretch too I might be overreacting And I think You just wanted a chance To say something bad about Andrew McCutche No, I think Nova Nova, you know

He's putting a lot There are a lot of balls in play for Nova. Yeah. No, there are. And he's such a weird pitcher. But if he's Bartolo Cologne throwing five miles per hour harder, yeah. And that's kind of statistically what he's looked like.

Then I don't think that that'll be a bad thing. Would you trade Nova for Bumgarner? No. You wouldn't trade? I mean, yes. Yes. I heard that. I heard that backwards.

Sorry. All right. We have a lot to get to. Let's see here. Steven Strasberg. He's going to miss a start. but he probably will pitch this weekend. He's on paternity leave.

There's still talk about Rich Hill returning to the bullpen when he comes off to DL. I think that's probably up in the air. I do want you to know that my phone put the Giants outfielder with the shoulder sprain as senses spam instead of Dynard Span. I realized looking at the notes that I screwed something up that we skipped over. Okay. Because I didn't realize he was still this under-owned. Jason Hayward is still just 65% owned. I picked him up in our podcast league.

I don't really think he's doing anything that special. He looks a lot like Jason Hayward again. Yeah. I'm struggling at outfield there, man. I can't believe how bad my... Carlos Gomez done. Yeah, well, like, Carlos Gomez was probably more owned than Jason. in Hayward for a while.

He probably still is. Hayward's like 60s 5% owned. Yeah. Like I picked up Hayward and Conforto. Who would you start this week? Or maybe I bench Renfro and start both of them. I'd rather have Conforto than Hayward. But, I mean, Hayward has been improved.

He hasn't had that, like, monster week that makes him one of the trendy ads in fantasy baseball. Right. if he just holds what he's doing and consistently does it over a full season. That is old Jason Hayward, basically, and probably a top 30 outfielder. Yeah. One thing about Conforto this week is he is facing Tehran, Scher, Strasberg, and Joe Ross. But I don't know.

I'm not sure you should shy away from him. All right, anyway, that's enough about Conforto. Let's do some pictures. Let's talk about some pictures here. Who are you buying from this group? Studs being studs. They're studs because they're owned in 84% or more of leagues. Gio Gonzalez, who apparently is throwing more inside pitches against Ritey's setting up his change-up.

And Lance Lynn had a great start again at Milwaukee and Yvonne Nova. Gonzalez, Lynn, Nova, anybody that you're buying now more than you were at the start of the season. I was already buying Gonzalez and Lynn, and so my confirmation bias will continue to keep me buying them. And I agree with you that I would probably try to sell high on Nova. I think I like Lynn a little more than I did coming in just because I think there's a consistency factor I overlooked with him. The kind of pitcher he is not giving up. You know, he doesn't have a lot of like starts that are going to carry you in a given week,

but he seems to avoid the disaster starts too. It's just the way his pitching profile works out. It's nice to plug him in as your number of four starter and just not have to change it. Right. Just leaving there. Exactly. Yeah, that's a good point. All right.

How about Studs being Duds? Any concerns about the following? Verlander, Areeta, Cuedo, DeGrom, Kentana, Salazar. Same concerns I've always had with Salazar. I mean, nine strikeouts is great, but if it has you only go in five innings. I think he's twice gone six in his four starts. Only one of them have been really good. strikeout rate's great, but I just, I don't know if there's going to be enough there to make him a real standout in fantasy.

The others I'm pretty much okay with. Yeah, like, Kentana, I want to make the same point of Kintana that I made on Tanaka. You know, Kintana's one of his big issues right now. He's walked 12 guys in 23 and a third. He's pitched 200 innings four years in a row and never walked more than 56 batters. He's on pace for more than 100 walks in 200 innings. So that's why I liked Tanaka as a by-low because I thought there's no way he's going to have control problems. And it's kind of, I don't really love Kintana.

You know, he's kind of steady-eddy. But I still think- He's not been very steady so far. No, but it's the thing, like if he's walking guys, I feel like that's something that Jose Kintana can fix. But I guess my counter argument to that would be, it's really easy for us to look at guys that are giving up a 400 BABIP or exceptionally low strand rate or something that might not be under their control. The things that Jose Cantana is doing bad, he's just doing bad.

He's not pitching well. He's got four years of showing us that he doesn't walk guys, though, and he's walking guys. So I kind of feel like he'll get that fixed. Yeah. It would be nice if he did, but I'm definitely moving him down again. Pitcher slump, like hitters do. I don't, just because he's, I mean, when he has a track record showing this is not the type of pitcher he is, unless there's reason to believe he's hurt or...

you know, a major velocity decline or something, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's still that pitcher and will come out of it. But you can't rank him, I don't think, like, you... I don't know if you might... You had to have been factoring this in, but the White Sox are so bad that it wouldn't surprise me if he won like seven games this year.

They're so bad. He'll get traded. Like, he will get traded. And I am looking at it just to see, because sometimes guys have walk problems, but they're throwing a pretty normal amount. of pitches in the strike zone. He's been 65 to 69% on first strike percentage for his career. He's down to 61 this year. His swinging strike rate is down to 6%. He's always been a 7, 8, 9% guy,

and he's throwing 42% of his pitches in the strike zone, which is also a career low. But it's a chicken and egg thing. Is he struggling because of that, or is that why he's struggling? Is he struggling because of that, or is the fact he's struggling leading to those bad ratios. Well, this is Jose Cantana we're talking about. Would you rather have Gio Gonzalez or Jose Cantana? Cantana. Yeah.

Lance Lynn or Cantana? Still Cantana, but they are, if they continue on their current trajectories for another couple of weeks, Lynn will pass them. Studs being duds, part two, are any of these guys dropable, in your opinion? Kenta Maeda, John Lackey, Kevin Gossman, Gosman, Robbie Ray, Jameson, Taiono, Taiwan Walker. You just decide that he's not,

nobody's dropping. Come on, the pirate's center fielder. Their defense is going to be terrible. You're going to trade him. It is like, but he's not dropping. Nobody's dropping him after one bad start. He's got 2.13 a yard.

Taiwan Walker is beyond dropable. I can't drop. Well, I can't believe he's still 88% owns. Some of the, the pitchers we've been touting on waiver wire over the last week. And Taiwan Walker is sitting there

at 88% ownership. What has he done to deserve that historically or this year? So he's two and one with a four, five, seven, era, right? Yeah. And he's walked seven and struck out 22. John Lackey's one and three with a four eight-eight-e-e-a. He's walked eight and struck out 26.

Again, what has Walker done historically and this year? But does it look like Walker? I mean, I guess you could always say this with him, that he's on the precipice of a sustained breakout. Because his starts aren't that bad. Like, he's close. Three starts out of four with one walk and either six or six. He's been bad at home.

So almost all of Walker's earn runs have come in his two home starts, and he's been good and two road starts. I'm just waiting for them to install the humidor and everything will be fine. It might help. It almost certainly will help. Is Maeda dropable? Maita? I would not drop him yet, no, but he's must sit.

right now. And it seems like the Dodgers are thinking about skipping him for a start or whatever, too. I think they're going to push him back to get out of Arias in there. Yeah. Yeah. He likes that sixth day of rest, right? Yes, he would. Yeah, that's the whole thing with him. It looked like, I want to remind people, Maeda in the first half last year, had a 295 ERA and a strikeout per inning, and he only allowed 10 home runs in 103 and 2 thirds. He's already allowed seven home runs in 19 innings. and the question really was how can he adapt to pitching every five days instead of every six days.

So, we'll see. So far, so bad. And it was terrible in the second half last year. I want to just get more names in there. Looking at Fringy starting pitchers. Alex Cobb is now 66% owned. I saw Chris dropped Alex Cobb in a league. I actually dropped Alex Cobb in a league.

I don't know that we should because he struggled against Boston. It's Boston. And he gave up four runs in six innings against the Astros. is another one of the best lineups in baseball. In a daily league that I own Cobb in, because I had him in two leagues, or three leagues. I don't trust him against tough teams yet. But I think against a lot of teams,

Alex Cobb could be just fine. Yeah, I mean, I'm not down on Alex Cobb. He's just, it's basically been what, four runs every outing, and you have to make room for other players. And so he was the cut. Let me see who I added him, added for him in the league where I dropped him.

Yeah, I added Matt Shoemaker, who I dropped last week for the same reason and was happy to pick him up after consecutive seven strikeout efforts. All right. Eduardo Rodriguez, 54% owned. He did walk five Orioles, but he gave up just one hit and six scoreless innings. He has a 312 ERA. He's 54% owned as Eduardo Rodriguez underowned. I feel like he's about where you would expect him to be.

Okay. I mean, I like the upside probably more than a lot of pitchers ahead of him, and he's showing the strikeouts. But the walks have been really bad. I rank these three pitchers, sorry, Scott. Rank these three. Eduardo Rodriguez, oh, actually ranked these four. Antonio Sensitella.

Tyler Skaggs and Tyne, not Glass now. Jordan Montgomery. Eduardo Rodriguez, Sensatella, Skaggs, Montgomery. I would go Rodriguez, Skaggs, Montgomery, Sensatela. What does Antonio Sensatella have to do? Strike somebody out, please. Yeah, you can't do that at Corres Field. They expect to get away with it often.

Chase Anderson, how about him? Is he better than any of the names than Rodriguez, Skaggs, Montgomery, or Sensitella? Anderson has a 113-E-R-A. No, no. What does Chase Anderson have to do? Yeah, Heath. He's like, no. Okay.

Okay. You say no. It's fine. I'm not going to Chase Anderson. There you go. Good idea. Any interest in Tim Adelman, 1% owned? He deserves to be more than 1% owned.

Maybe like 9% owned, 11% owned. 13? Sure. Yeah. Too high. I'm just giving out some names. And Hector Nerris has been struggling a little bit, but he's getting some saves. Or, well, he pitched in a non-save situation.

This is where Adam goes. through a whole bunch of notes. That was what, Friday? Ancient History now. Yeah, but he also struggled Sunday in a four-run game. Scott, are you going to try to get us on the Mike Fultenevich bandwagon? It'll take more than this one start. It was encouraging beyond just the nine strikeouts

because he had, I think, 17 swinging strikes. But his high before that was seven, and it came in a relief appearance. So love the stuff, but there needs to be more swinging strikes, because stuff alone doesn't... Stuff alone makes you Anthony... Antonio Sinsatella. Okay.

Kellis from Kentucky has an email for us. He says, Dear Logan, Jean Valjean, Charlie Kenton, and Roddy. Well, Jean Valjean is Le Miserables. And who's Logan? Wolverine. So these are Hugh Jackman. You got it. Well, good.

Who do you like better, de Grom or Kluber? I'm sticking with Clover. Yes. All right. Here's a rebound start for him. Grade the trade from Ash in England. Dear, insert four names that Adam has to Google. Give up Mitch Hanager and Marcel OZuna.

Get Trevor Story and Charlie Blackman. That is double sell high. Yeah. Yeah, that's a... I'll give it an A. Sure. That's an A. Now, look, Blackman's obviously the best player in this deal,

giving up Hanager and Ozuna for Story and Blackman. But do you think maybe Hanager and Ozuna could be better than Story? They could be, but it's going to be because story is a huge disappointment. Yeah, well, partially. But, I mean, just Hanigur and Ozuna for Blackman is a good deal in itself, you know? And Story is almost like a throw-in, which is ridiculous. Yeah. From Ian in Philadelphia, Dear Yasmani, Money, Tomas, and Problems.

Outstanding. I am a commissioner, 10-te-to-head categories league. I wanted to buy low on Encarnazion and Kyle Hendricks. So I offered that owner, Ryan Zimmerman and Gio, for Encarnacion and Hendrix. Azer trade. I expected a counter, but instead the trade was quickly accepted. Another owner has cried shenanigans. Am I wrong as the commissioner for standing by my trade of giving up Zimmerman and Geo for Encarnacion and Hendricks?

That's a clear Azer offer, and that's why people make Azer offers, because I'm Sometimes they get accepted. Thank you. Thank you. You're the commissioner. It depends on what are the league rules. Are you supposed to have a vote? Are you the only person that decides if trades go through?

Like when I commission a league, there is no process for disputing trades. I don't get to say as the commissioner and the league doesn't get to vote. If that's the case in this league, then it stands. Yeah. I'd love to know. I don't know that this is vetoable, but I would be pretty pissed off. You'd be pissed off because you didn't beat the guy to it. No, I'd be pissed off.

You'd try to make the same deal. I wouldn't even expect to make the same deal. I mean, I would make it because I'm me. It's not reasonable to accept this. Like, if the idea that you could have, you wish you'd beaten the guy to it, like, if you're canvassing the league with offers like this, you have a lot of time to waste because they're going to get rejected. You may tear up some friendships in the process.

Like, it's a ridiculous trade. Is it vetoable? That opens a new can of worms that really compromises the long-term security of the league if people can't feel like they have the freedom to make trades. So, you know, if you could trust it be a one-and-done veto thing, that's one thing. But if every trade made in the league goes under the microscope because you decided to veto this one trade, it's probably not worth it. If it becomes a recurring pattern for this owner of taking these low ball offers,

then you have to think about maybe doing something with that owner in particular. Yeah. Rulers slap him, I would say. It's like... More than that, if it becomes a recurring pattern. Push him out of his chair at the end of the year. All right, we're done here. I have to fix the podcast league divisions.

It's my commission show. Well, you've got some other commission shows. going on right now as well. Those people are wrong. Those people are wrong. What do you think about a guy that takes waivers off every Monday, which I think is a good idea? But it's just at a random time, and whenever he does it,

he then adds the number one player he wants. That is not. So, this is what happened to me on Twitter yesterday. You just misrepresenting everything that I do and say. It's not fair. It's not fair. We're going to turn waivers back off for the day.

I gave people 15 minutes to make their move. and then I pick someone up. What do you want me to say? I want you to say that maybe there should be a set time. There should be. There should be. Well, here's what you can do. Right before you go to bed Sunday night, you turn it on, and then you wake up and make a move.

Wait. I'm confused. I have to go. We have to go. See you later. I have to think about that one.