Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/01 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Seager Replacements; Mon. Recap

Episode Date: May 1, 2018

With Corey Seager out for the season we are starting today's show with replacement options on the Waiver Wire and via trade. Then we talk about much better news including A.J. Pollock's power (10:00), Josh Hader's strikeouts (14:30) and the amazing HOU rotation (18:05) ... Is Jake Arrieta fading (22:31)? Are there any prospects to pick up (26:20)? Is Ozzie Albies elite (31:00)? And what's going on with some of the early underachievers (38:01) like Evan Gattis, Edwin Encarnacion, Kris Bryant and more? ... Reviewing yesterday's most important pitching performances (49:50), plus Team Name Tuesday (52:50), Fantasy Regulators (54:50) today's matchups (56:40) and does Adam sound like cartoon hero Doug Funnie (59:30)? ... 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

Hey, real quick, Scott's bombed about the humidor. And take your milk for breakfast cereal. Mount Rushmore. They'll be there for a chain. Three home runs from A.J. Pollack. Eight strikeouts from Josh Hater's. Gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. And welcome to the show, everybody.

Fantasy baseball today. Of course, the big news, the Corey Seeger injury, and some shortstop replacements for you. But Heath and Chris, Kreeh, I think. I've got a challenge for you. I have some fun stuff planned for today. And it's up to you to make sure that we get to them. By keeping a good pace, it's not in my hands anymore.

It's completely up to you. It sounds like what you want to do is make sure that we don't have any fun during the show so we can get to the fun stuff you want to do. But we'll all have fun with the fun stuff. Okay. Yeah, how's that sound? I'm trying to be fast. Hi, Chris. Yeah, hi and bye.

Right, Chris, great. Hello. All right. I think we should start with Corey Seeger, guys. How much Corey Seeger do you guys own? You know this. I have zero Corey Seeger. I know that I don't have any Corey Seeger in Categories leagues.

I was basically on board with what Chris was saying in the preseason in Categories leagues. I do believe I have him in one points league? I might have – do I have him in the podcast league? Oh, I hope so because I think we're playing each other this week, buddy. That's mean. Yeah, yeah, you have money, money, Tomas, problems. Do I have him? You do.

You have the worst team name and the worst shortstop. Rest of season. Congratulations. Thank you. All right, so what are you going to do? Probably cry. You are looking at my roster, and I am not looking at my roster. I'm trying to look at my roster, but this is not going as fast as you like.

I'm hoping this is one of the many teams where I have Paul DeYoung kind of influx. All right, well, what should fantasy owners do? The first thing, actually, I want to start with with Corey Seeger is, you know, he needs Tommy John. He's out for the season. but this is a lingering elbow injury. Is it possible that this has kind of hurt his production and his best, that he's going to come back better than ever from this Tommy John surgery?

I mean, I would not say that I think this is, like, I think there is a chance that this impacted his production last year at the end of the year. And you can just look at the splits and see a point of the year where he was pretty much almost Carlos Correa, and then everything fell apart. Yeah. And he hasn't been good at the start of this year.

So I wouldn't want to rule it out. I also don't think that should be the expectation because it's also a lingering elbow issue that could continue to linger. Well, okay, so I thought he had a back injury last year that hurt him. And I thought the elbow injury was like a spring training injury last year. He's had it for a while. Maybe I'm wrong. No, no, the elbow injury was last year.

That was what kept him out of the way. No, I thought it was last spring training. He had a back injury in the second half and the postseason. I thought he played basically with the elbow injury all last year, and now it's just gotten too much. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they've said that they considered Tommy John surgery as an option at the end of last season and opted against it. So this has been an issue going back. Okay. So let's talk about replacements then.

Here are the guys that just looking at ownership percentage that could be available in shallow leagues. Marcus Simian, Simeon, Scott Kingery, Zach Cozart, Dansby Swanson, Tim Anderson, both have been sort of struggling lately. Simeon, Kingery, Cozart, Swanson, Anderson. Who do you like there? Probably, I would say Cozart. Just what he did last year, I think, that that's probably the best case scenario for any of these guys. and so I'd rather chase the guy who's done it, even with the change in park and the fact that he hasn't been quite as good this season. I would go for that.

Yeah, I don't know that I see a big difference between Cozart and Simeon. In a roto league, I'd probably still take a chance on Anderson. Yeah, I'm kind of assuming Anderson's not available in any roto leagues. Most of these guys aren't available. I mean, these guys are all 75-plus owned.

Right. Okay, so that's your shallow league options. Medium leagues, that's a thing. Jose Parraza's been hitting pretty well lately, 321 batting average in the last three weeks. And he's been a lot better than guys like Addison Russell and Orlando Arcia and Ahmed Rosario and Catel Marte. But Eduardo Escobar's had a nice year, Daniel Robertson, Chris Owings. So Paraza, Russell, Escobar, Robertson, Arcia, Ahmed Rosario, Cotel Marte, Chris Owings.

Anybody stand out there? Russell, I think, is the safest and definitely has the highest floor. I like the possibilities for both Marte and Paraza, but I'd rather have Paraza. I don't want to overlook Orlando Arcia either. He was really quite good in the second half last season. It hasn't been nearly as good so far this season. But I think there's power. There's 15-home or 20 steel potential.

Deep Leagues, J.P. Crawford, Aledmus Diaz, Lorda Scuriel, Jurexon Profar, Enrique Herndez. Nick Ahmed, who's got great slash lines so far. J.P. Crawford, on the D.L. Eladmus Diaz, Lordis, Gureel, Jurekson, Profar, Enrique, Henandez, Nick Ahmed. Anybody jump out in Deep Leagues? In Points League, there's a guy you skipped over. I don't know if it was intentionally or not, but Brandon Crawford, I think, is probably going to be better than all those guys in a Points League. I don't think it was intentional, but I do think, I know he sat yesterday. I'm not sure he's starting against lefties at this point.

I'm not sure he has to start against lefties. He's better than these guys in points leagues? Okay. Yeah, Enrique Hernandez should get a little more playing time in light of this news in center field, so he might be the one in Roto just because he does have some pop. And I'm interested in Lordus Gueriel. I don't know if he's any good, but I'm interested.

Hey, Yuleiguriel says Lordus Goreel is even better than Yulia's. Well, there you go. Yeah. I mean, it's a nice older brother for you. All right, so it's not pretty. Maybe the best thing to do, guys, is try to buy low on a shortstop. What do you think? Probably.

That's what Scott White wrote last night in reaction to this, is that there are a lot of buy low shortstops that you can target. You know, the shortstop position is not as shallow as it used to be. And so that means that there are opportunities to find buy low candidates. Well, who would they be? Who would you want to buy low on right now? So here are the ones that Scott mentions. Alex Bregman, Francisco Lindorz, Zander Bogartz, although I don't know if that actually counts anymore. He came back and hit another home run yesterday.

He's a monster. Elvis Andrews, because he's on the D.L. Marwin Gonzalez, Glaber Torres, Jan Harris-Silarte, Zach Cozard, and Angleton Simmons. Yeah, so I think, you know, Bregman, he's been really bad so far, but this is the third year in a row

in which he's gotten off to a bad start, and I think Bregman has more walks than strike. He has 20 walks, 16 strikeouts, at eight doubles. It's actually the number 13 shortstop in points number 23 in Roto right now. So I'm going to assume everybody thinks Breggman's going to turn it around,

have a good year, and it's definitely a by-low. Yep, yep. Marwin's more interesting. You know, you're desperate right now as the Corey Seeger owner, but gosh, last year was such an outlier from Marwin Gonzalez, and he is back to being a bad hitter right now. Do you guys think Marvin Gonzalez is a buy-low? I would be very hesitant to buy low because you may just be buying as is.

Well, I think it has to be really low, like one of the last two players on your roster probably. And then Elvis Andrews, I think, is a good one. He could be out. He could be out another month or so. It was a six to eight-week injury. But, yeah, I mean, you're going to get a great player, hopefully, when he comes back. What were the other names, Chris?

Andrewton Simmons, Francisco Lindor, who's also off to a disappointing start, Glaber Torres, Yanhevis Salarte, Zach Kozart. Is there anybody on that list that you would specifically be targeting, the best one to get right now? I would say Angleton Simmons is probably just underrated at this point. And I don't think the guy who owns him is probably too married to the idea of continuing to start him. He's probably got someone that he drafted higher than Angleton Simmons at shortstop. So I think that's a very good target. Heath, anything for you?

Yeah, I agree. Okay. By the way, a couple things to clarify. Brandon Crawford does not always sit against lefties occasionally. he sits against lefties. And Corey Seeger had the elbow injury. I don't think it was spring training last year. It was basically the second half of last year.

And he couldn't, which is basically what he'd said. And he couldn't really throw the ball. So it stinks, and I'm sorry. And that is a big piece of injury news. Corey Seger out for the year. Let's move on. There's a lot of good stuff from yesterday, including A.J. Pollock's three home runs. So I'm coming, I try to come up with a segment title in the spirit of team name Tuesday.

and I've got the following options. You can tell me what you like. We have AJ Day. Just a quick little rhyme there. Hooray for AJ, an A for AJ, or Pollock Dinner. Just to clarify, is this the part of the podcast where we're having fun or we're trying to go quick so we can't have fun later? I've got a better one. Adam, you're a Green Day fan, right?

I like doing an impression of the guy's voice. Oh, okay. So you're not a Green Day fan? No, not really. I'm a quasi. This is a deep cut. Hero 4A.J. Yeah.

I like it. Yeah. All of mine were better, including Pollock dinner. No. No, yours were all worse. You should feel bad. AJ Pollock is the number seven hitter in points leagues, number three in Roto. He's batting 2.91 with nine home runs.

He's a different hitter. Chris talked about this, I think, last week. He's a different hitter, a lot more fly balls. Career high, hard contact rate, 42.3%. and he changed his swing this offseason. Is A.J. Pollack a stud? So let's put some numbers to it. This season he ranks 63rd out of 210 batters in average launch angle.

Last season he was 340th out of 459th. So he has nearly doubled his average launch angle. And I was skeptical that this was going to work. given what seemed to be his sort of middling raw power and the, obviously the humidor, which has had an effect. I think we're starting to see MLB.com had something yesterday about the effects of the humidor. And it has suppressed offense to a pretty big degree so far. But not his. Not his.

And I mean, the 25% home run to fly ball rate, as with any. anyone who has, what, nine home runs at this point in the season? Yeah. That's not sustainable. But, you know, if he continues hitting just his career average of 12% of his flyballs over the fence, yeah, you're probably looking at a 25-25-hommer guy if he keeps this up. Well, Heath, you've got A.J. Pollock outside your top 20. Are you going to be moving him up ahead of guys like Cespitus, Ozuna, McCutcheon, Conforto?

I will be moving him up. I've got a rankings update to do either today or tomorrow. He won't get ahead of someone like Lorenzo Kane, who is also off to a great start, and I think probably in a better offense. But he's going to be moving up into the top 20. Would you rather have Christian Y. E.J. Pollock? I'll still take Yelich, but that one's closer. Chris?

I think you just have to go with Yelich because of the injury. very risk for Pollock. Okay. We haven't mentioned the steals, by the way. He does have six steals and eight attempts. Just a weird thing for him is really bad walk to strikeout race. It's not terrible, but it's not good.

26 strikeouts and 27 games, but I guess that's the tradeoff. I'm going to get more power. And he's the only person running in Arizona right now. Is that right? Yeah, I guess so. I mean, it may be Jared Dyson,

but in terms of the guys, Paul Goldschman, has he attempted this deal yet? Yeah, he has two. in two attempts, I think. They came in back-to-back games. Yeah, all right, AJ Pollack, awesome start for him. So who do you guys want to talk about as Monday stand as? Let me just preview what's coming up on today's show.

A lot of your emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. I don't often give out our Twitter handles, but I've got a lot of your tweets. Chris is at C-Towers, CBS. Heath is at Heathcoming Senior at Heathcoming SR. Scott is at CPS Scott White, and I am at Adam Azer, A-I-Z-E-R, and I've got your tweets and emails coming up. This is, of course, the Chris Tower Show. So I'm going to read a tweet that he put out yesterday about Astros pitchers.

And I'm going to talk about his very interesting article about Ozzy Albies. We are celebrating Chris Towers today. I wish I wrote things on the Internet. If they were as interesting as what Chris writes, then believe me, they'd be a... But nothing is. I understand. Nothing is. It's been a while.

And later, we're going to be fantasy regulators. And I actually have the instrumental version of this stuff. time, so this will go a little bit better. Okay, that's coming up later. All right, Monday standouts. Heath Cummings. Who do you got? I think we have to talk about Josh Hader.

I'd gotten a tweet before yesterday's day's game saying, why hasn't Josh Hader pitched in forever? If he's not going to get saves, am I still holding him? Yes, you are. Because sometimes he's going to get saves, and sometimes he's going to get the greatest save in arguably the history of baseball. It's true.

Eight strikeouts and two and two. two-thirds innings. Do you know what his K-per-9 is now for the year? 19.5. Yeah, I'm going to, I have some Josh Hater fun fact. Would you like to hear them? Yep. Go right ahead, Chris. Maybe you could write about him and then Adam can reference them. So this season, Luis Castillo, has retired 63.4% of all opposing batters. Oh, but that's his strikeout rate, isn't it? That's Hater's strikeout. Josh Hater's strikeout rate is 62.9%. So I did some digging. He has 39th strikeouts in 62 played appearances so far this season. The best stretch of Earl does Chapman's career is 37 strikeouts in 65 played appearances.

The best stretch of Craig Kimball's career is 38 strikeouts in 64 played appearances. Billy Wagner never came close. Carter Capps never came close. As far as I can tell, this is the most dominant strikeout run in the history of baseball. Wow. All right. So with Josh Hater, by the way, we had an email of the day about Josh Hader. It's from Jake in West Bend, Wisconsin. He says, hey, Marco, Michael, and Mario. I don't know. Godfather, maybe? No. Oh, race cars.

He wants to point out the Brewers are 11 and O when the Hater Aid pitches. And just to be clear, those are race car drivers, not race cars. Yeah. Whatever. It's the same thing. He wants Josh Hader to be an MVP candidate. Josh Hader is 78% owned. I got to be honest, I think when Corey Canable comes back, he's useless in points leagues. I don't. How could he be good if he doesn't get wins or saves? Do you remember the year that Chris Devensky was good in points leagues?

Didn't he make some starts, though? I think he may have, like, the point in time when he was useful in points league, that's not why. It was because he was twice a week throwing three innings. Or if Josh Hater. throws five innings a week, I think he's going to be a top 25 reliever. Well, right now he's number five in points and number three in Roto amongst relievers. Is Josh Hader the best non-closer to own of the Andrew Miller's of the world? I know he's on the D.L.

But that group, is Josh Hader far in a way the best one? I mean, I think he probably has to be. He is, and it's not just because of how dominant he's been to start the year. He was someone that had some appeal at the beginning of the first. year because I don't think it's unreasonable to think he could still make starts in the second half. Sure. I think there is still a very decent chance that Brewers, and maybe it doesn't work, but at some

point you have to see, can Josh Hater be an ace? He looks amazing. Obviously, guys, their stuff plays up better in the bullpen than the rotation, but my God, as soon as I see him go in, I changed the channel. Billy Hamilton, by the way, struck out bunting yesterday, so that doesn't really count for Josh Hater. Did he bunt out? Or did he?

Okay. He bunted on two strikes, and it was foul, and he's out. Hayters got four say he did get the save. He got a two-and-two-third inning save last night. He has the last two saves for Milwaukee, and he's 78% of him. All right, Chris Towers, stand out, please. Um, okay, well, let's just talk about the tweet you wanted to talk about. Sure.

Okay, first of all, what is Animal Collective? Am I supposed to know what that is? My Twitter display names this year are all indie fantasy baseball team names, and there is a band called Animal Collective. My previous one was Neutral Milk Dothel. Don't know what that is either. Neutral Milk Hotel and Octavio Dotel. Octavio Dotel, I got that one. Yeah.

All right, let's read your tweet. Hot take for Adam Azer. the Astros have four top 20 starting pitchers and none of them are named after the third largest city in the state of Texas. Which of course would be Dallas. Okay, a hot take for Chris Towers. Is it a hot take?

You are correct. I think you are right on that. And I think the Astros have five top 25 starting pitchers. Top 35. I like type of code. It's going to be difficult for Lance McCullors, I think, to be a top. 20 starting pitcher in points leagues this year,

just because I don't know that the innings will be there. So my question. Who's going to talk now? He can get to 170 innings. He could. The problem, yes. I'm not saying he doesn't have the ceiling of a top 20 pitcher. What I think it is, we come into the year, most top 20 pitchers,

the ceiling is 190 or higher. And we expect, you know, they might miss a start or two because of something little. Maybe they throw 180. with McCullors, like $170's the ceiling. I still think I'd take Kikel over McCullors, actually, now that Heath brings that up. In a points league, and I don't know that I would take Kikl over McCullors. What I'm saying is at the end of the year,

I think Kikl's going to have more fantasy points than McCullors. Probably, but then, you know, once you account for, you know, replacement level starts, I think it probably gets pretty close. I just, in terms of who's better, I don't think it's close. No, I think he's a much better pitcher. I don't think we're going to get the end year. Pitcher. Much better pitcher? Yeah.

Oh, you guys love strikeouts, man. I mean, he's... Maybe he's better. I don't know that anybody's much better than Dallas Keichael. Well, Clayton Gershaw is much better than Dallas Keikle. I mean, Dallas Keikles had a sub-3 ERA, three of his last four seasons. ERA matters. Anyway, Charlie Morton, though, is awesome.

172 ERA, 13 walks, 45 strikeouts, and 36 and two-thirds. Completely dominated the Yankees yesterday. He's a 0.98 whip. So rank the Astro's starting pitchers. What format? Half PPR. Half PPR. Yeah.

Okay. Garrette Cole could probably get some touchdowns. He's pretty tall, right? Yeah, it's Garrett Cole and then Justin Verlander. In points, I might take Burlander. It's, I think it's Cole and Verlander. It's really interesting between Morton and McCuller, because I think they both have the same strengths,

and I think they both have the same weaknesses. We've never seen a full season from either of them. Sure. We've never seen a full season from this version of Charlie Morton, especially, the one that's, you know, got the fifth highest average fastball velocity in baseball. But he is, I think, just as unhittable as Justin Verlander and Garretel on their best days. So I will say in a points league, I'm going Verlander, Cole, Keikle, Morton, McCullers. In a roto league, I'm going Cole Verlander

McCullors, Morton, Keikle. It wouldn't surprise me if Charlie Morton was the best of them on a perny basis. I know that you like the top two, Cole and Verlander, better. How many of the other three, Morton, McCullors, Keikle, do you like better than Chris Archer? Probably McCullors and Morton. Again, I come back to the points thing and the innings thing. Sure.

I think Archer is a lot better than this. So in a points league, I don't like those guys better than Archer. Okay. All right. My standout is Jake Areetta, guys. 98% 0, 94% started. Terrible start at the Marlins. We must remember he did not have a full spring training.

But the strikeouts, the swinging strikes, starting to get a little worrisome. So Areeta has a 349 ERA. There's nothing wrong with that. But 10 walks, 20 strikeouts, and 28 in a third. He has three starts out of five with two or fewer strikeouts. No more than five strikeouts in any start, except for one. And it's kind of a continuation of what we saw at the end of last year. Just not a lot of swinging strikes.

And yeah, the swinging strike rate has disappeared. It's what, five starts for him? He's a 6.3% swinging strike rate, which would be one of the lowest marks. baseball if he sustained it. More concerning, I think, is the contact percentage, which is the percent of the contact divided by swings, basically. And that's gone from 76.3% in 2015, 77, 76.8 in 2016. And then 80% last year, 85% this year. That's a really concerning sign. Even when he's inducing swings, even on pitches out of the strike zone, he's not getting swinging strikers.

I barely had Arieta in my top 40 coming into the year. I think I was the lowest on him and got fooled by this. Fooled you. And had moved him up just to 27. He never got into my top 25, but he's going right back where he was. I think he belongs in that Kyle Hendricks Luke Weaver range. Okay.

He doesn't throw that much harder than Kyle Hundreds anymore. That's not true. It was quite a bit harder. I just, last thing on Areietta, should we, should we give him a little bit of leash just because he was a late signing? Sure. Okay. Maybe. I mean, he, he is pitching as if he was trying to get more contact.

Like, he's throwing his fastball 68% of the time. I just, I don't know how much I like that version of him. Okay, that's Jake Areeta. So Heath's going to move him around 40th overall in his rankings. You have a number four pitcher with Jake Arenda. Let me do the news and notes, some bullpen notes, and then I'd like to talk about some underachievers like Alex Bregman, when we kind of talked about him.

Evan Gaddis, Edward Encarnacion. I think Chris Bryant is an underachiever so far. I want to talk about that. I want to read your emails and tweets. It is May 1st, so I'd like to take a look at the top five at each position if we have time. I'm not sure we will. Of course, it is team named Tuesday. We have a strong batch of team name Tuesday.

I hope I didn't leave them in the notes for you guys. I usually try to delete them so you can't see them ahead of time. I hope you didn't leave them in the notes either. I would be really disappointed. Don't look. Not mad. Just disappointed. Right, I better than that.

News and notes. DJ Lemayhew's on the D.O. with a hamstring injury. Pat Velika and Ryan McMahon could play second base in the absence of LaMahue. Valika got the start yesterday. And Carlos Gonzalez is back. So David Dahl did sit yesterday, but I don't think Cargo played actually, but Dahl sat against the lefty. That was kind of annoying. We have some David Dahl questions.

Scooter Jeanette sat with a sore shoulder, which has apparently been bothering him since spring training. Scooter Jeanette. Mike Mustakis and David Peralta were both hit by pitches and both are fine. Their day-to-day X-rays were negative. Looks like Miguel Sineau is probably headed to the DL. He's still day-to-day, but could go on the DL. Mookie Betts, unlike Sano, looks like he's on his way back. He was available to pinch hit yesterday.

Martine Perez is on the deal with an elbow injury. Here are some prospects to know. Minnesota's starting pitcher, Fernando Rivera, is going to start tomorrow with Phil Hughes going to the bullpen. Nick Kingham is going to make another start for the pirates. Not surprising. Eric Lauer gave up three runs in the first inning. They ended up having, you know, an encouraging start at San Francisco for the Padres. and Alex Verdugo is going to start for the Dodgers.

He's an outfielder while Yasil Pugge is out. So we have Minnesota's, three pitchers and a hitter. Minnesota's Fernando Rivera, Pittsburgh's Nick Kingham, San Diego's Eric Lauer, and Dodgers outfielder Alex Verdugo. Do you guys have interest in these minor leaguers, now major leaguers? Verdugo is probably the most interesting of the bunch. This is a prospect who hasn't hit for a ton of power in the minors, but, you know, as we've seen, that can go a couple of different ways.

You can go the Ozzy Albi's route where the hit tool plays up and you start just seeing a few more balls go over the fence. It can go the Miguel Anduhar role, or it can go the Jesse Winker way where he hasn't hit for any power, but has still been a pretty good hitter nonetheless. I think he's the most interesting, especially with the Seeger injury, it could open up an opportunity for him in the outfield. I did pick up Fernando Romero in...

Oh, it's Romero. Okay, no wonder I couldn't find. It's, because I said Rivera. Yeah. Is it Romero? Yes. Fernando Romero. My apologies.

Fernando Romero is the guy on my roster. Okay. It's scheduled to make his twins debut on Wednesday. I believe you. Is that the guy we're looking for? That's him. Yep. I pick it up an AL only.

I could understand picking him up in a deeper mixed league just to see what they have here. the twins need another starting pitcher pretty badly. He was okay in the minor leagues. Yeah, he has 140 strikeouts in 146 innings between 26 starts at AA and AAA. So probably not a huge strikeout guy, but that's something that maybe could play up in the majors. That's something we see sometimes with pitchers like that. And we have it like Nick Kingham, not feeling it.

I mean, he's pretty owned. Fairly owned. I am... So Scott White writes at night now. And I have a Nick Kingham piece by him to edit this morning after the podcast. So I will let you know how I feel about Nick Kingham after I read that. Okay. Well, Nick Kingham...

I'd rather have Kingham than Romero. Nick Kingham is 45% owned. And Eric Lauer is 5% owned. All right, those are your prospects. today. Justin Borepinch hit. Dustin Bidroia says he expects to be back on May 25th, very specific. He's recovering from knee surgery, Padroia. The Red Sox have six grand slams. They did not hit one grand slam last year. They already have six that tied for the most ever before May. Detroit's starting pitcher Daniel Norris is out eight to 12 weeks with a groin injury. Kyle Schwabers sat against a leftie.

Stephen Mats is having today's start pushback, perhaps through the weekend due to a back issue. Randall Gritchick is on the D.L. And Wilson Ramos sat again. With leg tightness. As far as the bullpen yesterday, there really wasn't much. You had, yesterday was the day where all the regular closers weren't available. So Steve Seishak, Jose Avarado, and Brandon Kinsler got saves instead of Brandon Marrow, Alex Colomey and Sean Doolittle. But nothing to see there. Ken Giles struck out the side for the Astros.

He got the save. That was encouraging if you're a Giles owner. I think he's fine. Yeah. I think that's six straight scoreless appearances for him. Yeah, he's looking good. Brad Ziegler got to save. No, he didn't get to say, but he pitched the ninth in a four-run game.

Four-run win for the Marlins. Carl Bearclaw pitched the seventh. Shane Green struggled again. They have a bad bullpen. And Brad Hand struggled, but he's been great this year. Okay, back to the show. Chris, it's the Chris Tower Show. Chris, interesting story on Ozzy Albies.

One of the most interesting stories I've read in a long time on CBSports.com. Discuss how you feel about Ozzy Albies. Should we sell high? Chris just took a picture of my arm. Heath's arm To illustrate that there was a problem with it It wasn't a problem It just

There was a line in his arm And the way I don't know I guess it was from resting On the edge of your computer No, it's from an injury I had about 65 stitches in my arm I was wondering

I was just pointing out my pictures Of my imperfections I just wondering what was I just didn't want to interrupt the podcast Like what if I took a picture of someone And said hey what's wrong with you It wasn't what's wrong with you. I was just wondering what was going on.

Sorry, my body's not perfect, Chris. Your body's perfect. You're shaming him. That's really bad. Please mark the tape. Chris, I am regulating right now, Chris. You will not take pictures of Chris's body again. Okay, fine.

All right, talk about Ozzy Albies. So, Ozzy Albies is a tough player to figure out because it's kind of the Francisco Lindor thing all over again from a couple years ago, where he, He didn't really hit all that well in the minor, but he was super young. He comes up to the majors, and all of a sudden he looks like a borderline elite hitter. I don't think we've ever seen a version of Francisco Lindorf that's been as good as the month we just saw from Ozzy Albies. But that's the natural comp I would go with. And basically where I come down with Ozzy Albies in this piece is, you know, I look into his, he's not going to keep hitting for this much power, but nobody should.

But he's hitting a lot of balls in the air. he makes pretty good contact. He's got good speed. You put it all together, and it's pretty clear after 85 games or whatever in his major league career, that Ozzy Albies is good. The question is whether he's a second round type of good hitter or a fifth round type of good hitter. If somebody in your league thinks that he's a second round hitter, you should probably trade him. Like I had somebody on Twitter tell me yesterday that they would trade Chris Sale for Ozzie Albies or Louis Severi.

Oh my gosh. You do either of those trades in a second, and you don't worry about how good Ozzy Albies. You trade Albies for a Severino or sale in a second. Yes. Yes. Yes. And my thought is basically anybody who we were drafting in the top three rounds, except for Corey Seeger probably, you should trade Ozzy Albies for. Once you get into the fourth or fifth round range, and talking to this guy yesterday, I think he also agrees that that's probably where Ozzy Albies goes right now.

that's where it gets a little more questionable. Do you trade Alex Bregman for Ozzy Albies? I probably would, but it's not a guarantee. I would probably trade... I would probably trade Albies for Tommy Pham. But again, not necessarily a guarantee. I'll tell you what third rounder I would not trade Albies for, see what you think.

And I could regret this, Josh Donaldson. That's what I was thinking, just because of the injury and the question marks around that, although he should be back this week, right? Yeah, this weekend. I just wonder if he's back to stay or if there's more D. Elston's coming. The one thing that I think you need to know about Ozzy Albies

is he is closer to the bottom of the league in both average exit velocity and hard hit rate. And actually, we can throw an average exit velocity on just line drives and home runs. So there's not a ton of evidence. He looks like an average power hitter. Okay. I think he's leading the league in doubles

tied with Miguel And Duhar. He's up there. He was like one or two extra base hits away from tying the Major League record for extra base hits in the month of April. Yeah, amazing start for Albies, the number one second baseman in fantasy. Here's one other thing to know about him,

and then I'd like to know what he thinks about Albies. He has him fourth in his rankings. Ozzy Albies is not great against Ritees. He destroys lefties, But going back to last year and now the early part of this year, he's got an 804 OPS against Ritey's that's not bad, but he's batting 239. He has a 1708 OPS against Lefties so far. The A Braves have the fourth fewest that bats against Lefties so far,

and that's Obie's strength. So if they get more of bats against lefties, and maybe they're just going to be toward the bottom all year. But the more bats against lefties you get from Albies, the more production are going to get. And they have the fourth fewest thus far. Heath, where would you draft Ozzy Albies if you were drafting right now? I think you'd probably be looking to take him somewhere around the fourth or fifth round.

Somewhere in the range, like not quite up in the range of the Brian Dozier where he was going. But right around after that maybe, there are things that he's doing right now, as Chris talked about, that are not going to last. and it mostly doesn't matter because I think he's going to hit somewhere around 290 to 300 and man if he is at the top of the Braves lineup ahead of Akunia

and Freeman who just score a lot of runs. It is worth noting when talking about the batting average his plate discipline has gotten worse this season. Yeah it's gone from 14% last year to 18% in one month I don't know that his

I mean he only had two months last Right. And he was like 19, 20% in AAA as well. The second year, the first year he was 15.8. So I think he's going to strike out between 14 and 17, 18%. Yeah, there's a strikeout rates we're talking about. All right, so the rest of the show, light speed is too slow. Prepare the ship for ludicrous speed.

And here we go. We got some underachievers to talk about. I want to talk about Evan Gaddis. I want to talk about Edwin Encarnacion. I specifically want to talk about me. and how bad I usually am on the draft app. So today here's the segment. Adam looks up how he did on draft last night.

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All right, Evan Gattis is an underachiever. Who's worried about a guy who's hitting 200 and has started only two of his last six games? Evan Gattis. Oh, I'm terrified. I have quite a bit of Evan Gattis. I'm fortunate that I made the Wilson-Ramos discovery about halfway through the preseason because that limited my exposure a little bit. I didn't think Ramos was a better value on draft day.

there's not a lot that I can see in the profile to get you excited about him. There's not any forthcoming regression. Now, I want to say that. I don't necessarily think Evan Gattis is just done. Like, his power is just gone and he's just going to suck forever. But there's no data that I can find that would support Evan Gattis should be better than this, other than the fact that it's one month and he's always been better. And he's had a month this bad.

Didn't he get demoted two years ago? Two years ago, Evan Gaddis, in his first 20 games, he batted at 203 with one home run. Then I think he got sent down. He came back a couple weeks later, and he had an 869 OPS in his final 108 games with 31 homers. So the one thing I will point out with Evan Gattis is this is continuing a trend for him that started last season where he is becoming, I don't know if it's a conscious decision or what, but more of a contact hitter. Contact rate has gone from 75% in 2016 to 79.6% last year to 85.3% so far this season. Now, that's early, but swing strike rates way down.

Swing rate in general is way down. He's becoming more of a selective hitter. And that all sounds great, except that you didn't draft Evan Gaddis because he might walk 9% of the time. You drafted Evan Gaddis because you wanted him to hit 35% of the time. home runs and you don't care how he gets there. Looking at the exit velocity, I'm going to give you a list of players that will make you feel really, really bad about owning Evan Gattis. This is the ranking from 319 to 323 in average exit velocity on home runs or on line drives

and fly balls. Evan Gattis, Gerard, Dyson, Jose Parraza, Eric Sogarde and Manny Pena. So three fast guys. a catcher and Evan Gattas. He's hitting like crap, okay, and he's sitting. Is Evan Gattis a by-low? Or stay away, or heck no?

He might be like two days away from being a buy-free in most of your leagues. Yeah, he's definitely been dropped in some leagues. People have dropped him for Francisco Zarevelli, who wasn't drafted in most leagues. And I couldn't argue with that right now, especially in a points league. If he was on the waiver wire

and I didn't have one of the top three or four catchers, I would be adding him. Who are you concerned? I'll just go faster here. Who are you actually concerned about, if anyone? Edwin Encarnacion, his third straight, pretty bad April. Nope. Okay, also, how about this stat I heard on the broadcast yesterday?

Cleveland's game temperature through basically all of April, compared to April last year, 20 degrees lower than it was this time a year ago. So, you know, they've had a tough hitting environment. They're supposed to be record highs on the East Coast this week, so hopefully he gets some of that. It's rock and roll. John Carlo Stanton, Alex Bregman, Raphael Devers, Chris Bryant. Raphael Devers, I think, is a little concerning. Just because he doesn't have the track record, he's young, he's still figuring himself out,

and we drafted him as if he was more of a sure thing than he probably should have been. Now that the profile projected to be something of a sure thing, because he's a high- high contact guy. He's super talented. And if you make the majors at 20, chances are you're going to be pretty good. But this is the risk when investing a lot in a young player, is that he just didn't have the track record to back it up. I am not worried about John Carlos Stanton being a bad player. I'm not worried about John Carlos Stanton being someone that is actively hurting your team.

But I think there is certainly concern for somebody that drafted John Carlos Stanton in the first round. His strikeout rate, 33%, is probably still going to come down a little bit. It's the highest of his career. But last year, he'd gotten all the way down to 23.6%. With a 12% walk rate, which was higher than any year since 2014. Now, the walk rate's down, the strikeout rate's up. The swinging strike rate is also up, I believe, a career high in swinging strike rate as well.

If he strikes out this much, it's going to be really difficult for him. him to justify first round value. It's the lowest contact rate he's ever had. He's swinging at, basically, outside of the zone, he's swinging as often as he did in 2016. That was a big area of improvement last year. Can he close his stance anymore? I think he might have his back to the pitcher if he does. I mean, if you want to be the narrative guy, it wouldn't be hard to believe that he's pressing in New York.

He did get booed in his first home game by apparently the worst fans in baseball. Objectively. Get out of here. Worst fans of baseball. When they show up. You boo John Carlos Stanton in his first home game. You earned that marker. They boo.

He went over five with five strikeouts. They're irrational and mean to everyone. He makes them the worst. I'm not in the same sort of vein. I'm not worried that Chris Bryant's going to be a bad player. I am worried that he's going to be a lot better in points than he is in Roto, specifically a batting average Roto League. And it basically just comes down to home runs.

He's become. I'm a guy who walks as much as he strikes out, which is great. But 29 home runs last year, and he's got two so far in 22 games. Is he going to hit 39 like he did the year before when he won the MVP in 2016? Or is he a 29 – if he's a 29 home run hitter, I don't know that Chris Bryant's going to be worthy of a top 15 pick in rotissory leagues. No, and he's gone the opposite way of a lot of the guys that we talk about in terms of his batted ball profile. In 2016, he had 31% of his batting balls were hit on the ground. Last year it was 38.

This year, it's 41. Chris Bryant was, like, one of the models of the fly ball revolution. He wasn't someone who changed his swing. He was someone who just had an ideal swing. And I don't know, maybe he's gone the other way. So is there anybody on this list, Encarnassion, Stanton, Breggman, Devers, Bryant, that you would draft lower, than you drafted four weeks ago, whatever, five weeks ago.

No, but there are guys on this list that I just never drafted. Would you still take Stanton in the first round? Yeah. I don't think he would. He's got 20 runs. So he's kind of got that sort of baked in, like 15 RBIs, 20 runs in how many, in 28 games. You know, so even struggling he's going to help him. Kind of like what you said about Aaron Judge, you know.

He should get 100 runs, 100 RBIs. Unless it's just terrible. You would think so. Okay. Emails and tweets real quick here. Alexander. Someone dropped Eduardo Nunez in a 12-te-to-head league. Would you drop Scott Kingery for Nunez?

I wouldn't. Points is Nunez's worst format anyway, and we do have Dustin Padra, coming back. I might be dropping Scott Kingery for someone else, but in a points league, Nunez isn't that guy. Jeff wants to know, is it too soon to drop Matt Carpenter in a 12-te-to-head points league? Yes. Yes, it is. especially that format.

I'm working on a little something on Matt Carpenter right now for DFS purposes, but like it doesn't, and I know I said last year didn't make any sense. He has a 6.7% soft contact rate. He's also fixed the things that were wrong last year. Yeah. Like all of the concerns about, well, his launch angle was too high. He was hitting too many fly balls, and that's why his batting average and Babap were so low, and they had to stay low.

And, yeah, he's not. hitting as many fly balls. He's not hitting as many infield fly balls. I'm going to keep betting on Matt Carpenter over and over and over again. As Chris has said about a couple of other players, if you want to sell Matt Carpenter, give me your Matt Carpenter. Yeah, I'm going to bet on Carpenter in a points league in a Roto League. It's still a by-low. I just, I'm not sure he's a standout there, even at his best. Well, he's not, I don't think he was ever rated as a starting first baseman or third baseman in a Roto league, but almost all of our Roto leagues have corner infielders, and he is

Or utility. Absolutely a stable. Like a head-to-head categories league that doesn't have that. I have Matt Carpenter in that format, and I'm just not sure how good he is in that format. He's certainly ownable. I just don't know that he's a must-start there. But in a points league, he's basically going to be so much better than you realize. The second part of this question is for Chris from Jeff.

How many times is too many times to see Infinity Wars? I've only seen it once, but I've been trying... This is a bad week because I'm going out of town, but I've been trying to carve out some time. to go see it again. You're a weirdo. From Dami, is Sunny Gray worth dropping in a 10-team points league? I think that's fine. He had an encouraging start yesterday.

Now is not the time I would be dropping Sunny Gray. I could understand if you dropped him before last night's start. Yeah. But I'd be holding on probably, maybe even seeing if I could make a trade. Look, Sunny Gray's fixed. Do you want him? I tried trading Rinaldo Lopez for, Gray before yesterday's start, it was rejected.

I thought it was realistic. Maybe if there is an Adam Eden owner out there that's frustrated by how long he's been on the disabled list, try to trade Sunny Gray for Adam Eaton. All right, from Mike, what does Wilson Contreras's data look like? It's been a minute since he gave me any counting stats. Wilson Contreras is actually the number eight catcher in points leagues because he has the third most of bats, but he's number 18 in Roto. Before the season, I said he was someone who could stand to hit the ball in the air a little

bit more and he's hitting the ball in the air quite a bit more his fly ball percentage is up to 40 but it's not doing anything for him right now he's not hitting the ball very hard i just i think he'll be fine i think that's actually a good sign it makes me more confident that we're going to get a very good uh run out of wilson contraris i think it's just mostly fluky okay from thomas uh chris archer has had as many swinging strikes on his change up as his slider I think that's what he was trying to say in his last start. It's happening, maybe. I think this is important.

We sort of briefly mentioned it. But if he is going to use his change up more, Chris Archer, is going to be a lot better. It's really important, as a guy who always dumps on Chris Archer. That would be a big development. Let's continue to track that. From Jake, is Ian Desmond dropable? Yeah. Yeah.

I would not drop him in a five outfielder league. Dave in LA wants to know if you would drop David Dahl for Franchi Cordero And Alex from Rapid City wants to know if you would drop David Dahl for Jesse Winker I would drop him for Winker for sure I think I would drop him for Cordero Okay thank you And that will do it for our emails here Let's see what we got

I think as much as I want to have fun We should probably talk about pitchers from yesterday's games So I'm going to read a pitcher's name, and you give me a few sentences on how you feel about him. Trevor Bauer. That's so much fun. Trevor Bauer. I think he's pretty good.

He added a slider this year, and it seems to be working. I'm pretty sold on Trevor Bauer, guys. I like his durability. He throws a ton of pitches. He throws 100 pitches every start. He's thrown 111 or more in three straight starts. Just keep them away from drones. The problem is, like, you know, you like his durability,

but when I hear I like his durability, I'm thinking he's going to throw a bunch of innings. And he never really has. He's doing well this year, right? He's got 40 and a third so far. Yes, so far. So good. Cole Hamels.

He is throwing a slider. I don't know if we've talked about it on the podcast, but there was some confusion about whether he was because it wasn't showing up in the pitch data. He does have a slider that's a little bit slow. and has a little bit more break than the cutter. I'm pretty impressed by what he's done so far. I kind of think you could make a case that Cole Hamils is going to be better than Jake Erie.

I don't think it's crazy. I wouldn't say it. I already did. But I don't think it's crazy. I rank these three pitchers. Cole Hamels, Jeff Samarja, John Lester. Lester Samarja Hamels. I agree with that.

I don't think they are closer now than they were at the start of the year, though. Rank these four pitchers. Jamison Tyone, Tanner Roark, Aaron Sanchez, Eduardo Rodriguez. Jameson, Tano Roark, Aaron Sanchez, Eduardo Rodriguez. Tyone Roark, Sanchez, Rodriguez. I think I agree with that. Okay. Is Jake Ferreya underowned at 62%.

Yes. Yeah, I would drop Sunny Gray for him. I don't know that I would go that far, but yeah, I think he's a little underwent. I'm seeing a trend with Faria. I want to see if it continues to play out, but I am treating him as a ballpark guy. I will start him most of the time at home. He's had – Faria's had two terrible starts this year. They were at Boston and at Baltimore.

So, and next week is at Baltimore. If you pick up Faria and you don't believe that he's going to be good on the road, you might not want to start him next week at Baltimore. But this week he's a two-star pitcher. He was great at Detroit yesterday, eight scoreless innings with six strikeouts, and he's got Toronto at home this weekend. I'll probably start him in that start. And then if he has another good one, it's going to be tough for me to sit about Baltimore.

But we'll see. It's a trend I'm tracking with Ferria. Yeah, the bad thing is that, what, a fifth of his home starts are going to come against the Red Sox or Yankees. I'm not going to start him at home against those guys. Yeah, I know. It's tough to be a raised pitcher. Okay, let's see. Let's do Team Name Tuesday.

We get a lot of submissions, so here we go. Chris from Fort Lauderdale, one of the worst I've ever seen. Parmesan Carlo-crusted Stanton. I guess like salmon? Yeah, like parmesan-crusted salmon. No, mine are better. I don't know. Yeah, mine are always better.

Chris also wants us to know, Chris from Fort Lauderdale, that he was on Doubledair 2000 as a kid with his family. He lost to the other team and did not get to participate, to participate in the Slopstical course. That's unfortunate. I'm sorry, Chris. Yeah, I'm sorry, Chris. This is, okay, some more.

Mint Junis, Kentucky Derby theme. Very nice. Peanut, damn it. Peanut, damn it. Peanut Benintendi time. Sure. I don't know what you just did. It's peanut butter jelly time, no. And then like the banana tammes?

But Ben and Tendi doesn't sound anything like butter jelly. Well, I mean, it does. It kind of does. Yeah, it does. The syllables. You guys won't get this. Oh, we need Scott to rule in on the syllables. You won't get this one because you don't watch Game of Thrones.

Gabriel E. Noah, nothing, John Snow. Sure. Sure, I know that. North Korea? Sure. I was cracking up when I read North Korea last night. I think it's great. Confirmation bias?

Sure. Very nice. Lucchese, I am your Padre? Okay, yeah, I get it. Cool hand, Lucchasey? Sure. Yeah. Chad cool pun here

Cool whip Sure Cool whip And while my VR Gently weeps Okay Okay that's terrific There's gotta be a better one

With There's got to be a better Guitar pun we can make VR hero No no no Like sticking with the song But finding a different Way to do the

I'm not saying it's bad It's not bad It's great All right, it's time for some regulation. So you have a league dispute. You need us to regulate. We've got your back. This is from Andrew Davis.

Someone just traded Mookie Betts for D.D. Gregorius in my 20-team Roto League. As commish, I got rid of vetoes, so all trades go through me. Should I allow this or is a potential collusion? Mookie bets for D.D.Gorgias. Do you want to kick them out of the league? If the answer is no, then you should. pass it on. Okay, so you're cool with it?

Yep, yep. Okay. Next up, we've got... I mean, I want to clarify. It's a bad trick. It's awful trade. Yeah, it's a bad trade. It's not a good trade.

Next up, this is from... Oh, I don't have a name here, but he says, Dear Fantasy Mount Rushmore, regulate for me. I am the commissioner of a head-to-head points, 10-team league. I gave up a trade. Kenley Jansen and Raphael Devers for Mani Machado. Kenley Jansetton and Devers from Mani Machado. A couple of my league mates are screaming for a voting system. Is this warranting of voting system?

Kenley Janssen and Rafael Devers from Manny Machado? It's another one that's not a good trade, but no, you shouldn't. No, you shouldn't have a vote. Nothing warrants a voting system. No. Democracy is terrible. Yeah, I disagree with you guys. But that has been today's segment of fantasy regulators.

Okay, and that'll do it. Let's do today's matchups. And then if you stay tuned to the end. Are we all most of the part where we have, fun? We're not having fun? Oh. Are you not entertained?

I'm having fun. You really hurt my feelings. That was really neat. All right. Doug Fister and take a picture of one of your body parts and ask what was wrong with it. I would never do something like that. Doug Fister at Mike Clevenger. Could have been worse.

Start Clevenger. Yeah. Chad Cool, at Max Scherzerz. Sit cool, start, Cherzer. Yeah. Chase Anderson and Homer Bailey. I guess you can start Chase Anderson. It's a good matchup, but it's in a bad park,

and there is some wild regression coming for Chase Anderson. And the Reds offense has woken up just a little bit. It's an okay matchup. I don't feel comfortable starting Chase Anderson. I understand why some of you may. Sean Nukum and Noah Sindregard. I think I'd start both. Start of both.

Jake Junis at Chris Sale. I would start Chris Sale. I would start Sale. I would start Chase Anderson over Jake Junus, but again, I could understand in a points league while you're starting to us. Zach Eflin slash Ephron at Jaime Garcia. No, at Harlan Garcia. Harley.

I would not start either. No, don't start them. Chris Archer at Matt Boyd. I would start Chris Archer. Chris Archer is going to be good today. John Gray at Kyle Hendricks. I would start both. We had one last night where it didn't really matter,

but the wind in Chicago, you know, that's, they call it the windy city because they have a lot of wind there. It's because of the politicians. And the wind is howling out to left today. So just factor that into your decision. I would probably start both as well, but factor that in. I will point out the Rockies lineup is not good. No, no, they're hitting like 220 or something.

No, and they were a bad offense last year. Like Coorsfield covered it up, but on the road, that's not a team that you should be worried about at all. Marco Estrada at Kyle Gibson. Kyle Gibson Just start or sit Sorry I know I know

Start both Read what Chris wrote about Kyle Gibson Jordan Montgomery At Justin Verlander Start Verlander That's it James Shields at Michael Waka

Start Waka Yeah Clayton Kershaw at Matt Cook Start Kershaw Oh Cook could be an interesting Points League streamer He is a good

control guy and the Dodgers line up right now with no Pueg and no Seeger is chad yeah no Turner no seger no plague it's yeah they're struggling uh Alex cog at cog at Nick Tropiano pass start tropiano the Orioles have the third highest strikeout rate against righties uh I'd start tropiano Andrew Triggs and Felix Hernandez uh I would prefer not to start either of them I would prefer that as well Tyson Ross at Andrew Suarez I would be okay starting Tyson Ross. I agree with it. All right. We're going to do a brief skit to end the show. Keith wants me to do a voice comparison between me and Doug funny. He thinks I sound like

Doug funny. Um, so he says, keep it by. This is not an insult. Doug is the man, perhaps the goat of Nick Toons. So I forgot what I was supposed to say. I was supposed to say something. Yeah, you're supposed to say, hey Doug, hurry or we'll miss the show. Oh, I am I playing Skeeter Valentino? No, you're playing Patty Mayan's. Oh, okay. So I'm going to say, She was like, hurry, dog, or we'll miss the show. That wasn't Patty. Hey, Doug. Hurry or we'll miss the show is the line.

And you're going to say it after I say, it's not a date four times, okay? Can we get to have fun after this? Yes. All right, so here we go. It's not a date. It's not a date. It's not a date. It's not a date.

Hey, Doug. Hurry or we'll miss the show. Hey, Patty. She's dressed up. Okay, it's a date. And now here we go. It's not a date. It's not a date.

It's not a date. It's not a date. Hey, Doug. Hurry or we'll miss the show. Hey, Patty. She's dressed up. Okay. It's a date.

Well, I can't hear my own voice. Do I sound like Doug funny? If you, like, held your nose, I think you might. I think if you just took the modulation off. You probably would sound just like that. Chris, you have to work on your Patty Baydays. And tomorrow we'll be back to grades of trades on the Fantasy Baseball today's podcast.