Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/02 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: More Trade Talk, Double Dongs, Mon. Recap

Episode Date: May 2, 2017

Are we still confident in Chris Davis, Edwin Encarnacion, Gregory Polanco and a few other slumping sluggers? Should you buy low? Is it time to sell high on Michael Conforto? ... Jedd Gyorko is a Top 8 second baseman and a Top 6 Shortstop right now. Amir Garrett gets hit pretty hard even if the numbers don't show it ... More from Monday including a number of SPs who are trying to prove themselves as must-starts ... 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

Welcome to the Tuesday show. It is, of course, team name Tuesday, and the Brewers played. So we'll have a Thames Watch for you. Those are the segments who can bank on. Welcome. I'm Adam Azer. We got the full gang here. We are non-zero chance.

I forgot about our band name. We are non-zero chance. Heath Cummings, Chris Tower, Scott White. Good morning. Everybody. How are we today? So good, Adam. Oh, really?

So good. Yes. I'm fine. He's not that great. Why? Oh, Heath, what's wrong? I'm just a little bit irritable. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

Tough times being a fan of the worst team in baseball. Hmm. Yeah, well. Don't just ask Scott for help with that. He's, you know, he's got experience. So, oh. Yeah. You know, during this rebuild, they've never been the worst team in baseball. I just want to point out.

Well, except for like three-fourths of last year. Okay. Yeah. But no, they didn't end up with that first overall. Heaths. Full season stats are more predictive. That's true. That's true.

That's right. So we love buy low-sell high, especially early in the year. And I'm going to give some players. and you tell me buy low or heck no and sell high or keep this guy because I like to rhyme on on team name Tuesday. That's just come out just now, that rhyme? No, it's in the notes. It's in the notes.

Okay, all right, fair enough. Prepared rhyme. I would have liked it better off the cuff. I'm not quite capable of that. And neither am I. You dirty rat. So we've got Josh Harrison and Jed Jerko double-donging and Noah Cindergarde out several months and Aaron Sanchez on the deal a lot more.

Let's start with Monday standouts. Happy Heath Cummings. Why don't you nominate a standout from Monday's action? Well, should I choose Cesar Hernandez or Travis Shaw? Oh, it's toot your own whore on Tuesday. I did. Toot your own two horn Tuesday. No, I was glad.

I was worried about the hand injuries for both Stephen Sousa and Travis Shaw. Susa didn't do anything to make me feel better about it, but Travis Shaw's three run Dong certainly did. Can I, did you see my Stephen Susan note from last night on Twitter? He has yet to hit a baseball more than 373 feet this season, even though he has four home runs. Okay. He has the lowest home run, average home run distance in baseball. Five different pitchers have hit a ball further than Stephen Sousa's furthest hit ball.

Has Jock Peterson? What? I was asking if Jock Peterson hit a ball farther. Yes. Okay. What is that? What is that? Wow, ordering. Don't have to take everything so personally.

Are you sure Jack Peters and has? Are you just assuming? I'm 100% certain, John. The Royals won yesterday. I'm sure he's right. I don't get that. All right, so I forgot who is. Travis Shaw, sure. That was good. Back in the lineup, hitting a home run. Scott, who's your Monday standout? I am starting to get genuinely excited about Jed Jerko, and not just because he's hot. he is hot he's batting 500 in his last good looking guy uh his last nine games with four home runs

six home runs now overall two home runs last night of course but he has always been a player for we think of him as this all or nothing power hitter because the batting average is always low and he doesn't walk much but he he never has struck out all that much either he's always had a low strikeout rate for a hitter of his profile uh and this year you know i've noticed it kind of inspired me to check because he hit a 414-foot home run to right center yesterday. He's going opposite field 33% of the time. Between left center and right, his hits have been evenly distributed when in the past he's pretty much been a dead pull hitter. So if that works in conjunction with the fairly low strikeout rate, I could see him becoming a decent source of batting average all

of a sudden. And with triple eligibility, second, third, and shortstop, and, you know, we obviously know the power potential he possesses. I think it's time to add him pretty much everywhere. Oh, okay. So Jerko is 69% own. He went four for five with two home runs. He is the number eight second baseman in points, number six second baseman in Roto. Number six shortstop in points, number four in Roto. I didn't look up where Jerko ranked at third base. But I do know that last year he had, man, I'm trying to look it up now, so I'll get back to it, but Jerko had one unbelievably hot stretch, and he's never hit more better than 249. I know you just addressed it, but yeah. Yeah, he's always been a streaky hitter. I just think, I'm seeing a change here

in the kind of hitter he is, potentially. I mean, it's a small sample size for what direction he's hitting the ball, like everything else, but you would think, you would think that. You would think that aspect wouldn't be as streaky as other aspects of a player's profile. He had basically, I don't know, he was only bad for one month last season, really. He wasn't any good in June. He had a 471 OPS, but he had a 765 OPS or better in every month. He became an everyday player starting in July pretty much, and he hit 23 home runs in the final three months of the season. Well, he's got some pop. And actually, I was surprised at only six home runs now for

Jerko. I only had four going into the game, but two homers. All right, so Devin Travis or Jed Jerko? Only six. That's what? A 36 homer base? I was surprised that he only had four going in. Well, he hasn't played every day, right? Probably not. He only has 72 played up here. Yeah, they've been, yeah, that's... Well, the reason I kind of scoffed at it is because I'm not really sure how to gauge what a good home run total is this time of year. Because if you have four right now, you're basically on a 25 homer pace, but that seems like, like nothing compared to how many players have much more than four, you know?

Yeah, I mean, 25 homers would be great for any shortstop eligible player. Sure, sure. Which Jerko is. It's probably still too early to talk about pace. Like one home run changes your pace dramatically. Let's, Devin Travis or Jed Jerko. Jerko. Jerko. Jerko. Nah, Ernan Perez or Jed Jerko.

Perez. I say Jerko. Peres did not play yesterday. I was very disappointed. I just picked him up. He sat him. Ron wasn't playing. That's sad.

Yeah, yeah, right, even worse. Chris, Monday standout. I will go, I guess we have to talk about Dylan Bundy again. He's had such a weird start to the season. And perhaps the weirdest thing is that he's somehow faced the Red Sox three times in his first six games. And has had good results against them every time, even though I think he's got like, seven strikeouts in 18 innings or something against them. So it's kind of tough to know what to make of him right now.

Yeah, I agree. He's got, Dylan Bundy has a 182 ERA, 10 walks, 25 strikeouts in 39 and 2 thirds. If you really break down the strikeouts, he's, as Chris mentioned, he's faced the Red Sox three times. He's faced Toronto and Tampa Bay, the other three games that he started. and those two teams were top six in strikeouts. Tampa Bay is number one. So he did very well against Toronto, 14 strikeouts and 13 innings. One start against the raise, only three strikeouts.

He had a very bad fastball in that game. That was his previous start before last night. But Bundy was throwing harder last night, 92, I think, pretty consistently. And I saw him get up to like 94, I think. And that's why I was surprised that he only struck out two Red Sox. I think this early in the year, I think you could make two equally valid arguments that Bundy just got through the Red Sox three times. The opponents faced for the rest of the year is likely to be much easier than it's been to this point in the year. He'll probably pitch better.

His results won't be as good, but you should kind of wipe your brow because you got through a really good lineup three times. All right. Did he, though, because they have the fifth fewest run scored in baseball? Right. Yes, but part of that is the fact that he's only allowed five runs and three starts. And maybe part of that is because Dylan Bundy faced them three times. The other side of that equation, I would say, is that peripherally, he looks a lot like what Dylan Bundy has looked like in his career. He's got a 436 career Sierra. He's got a 4-6-5 this year. Well, see, he doesn't look all that much like himself, though.

He has really had a career. Well, yeah, but he's a fly balls. But he's a very different pitcher than he was last year. Because last year he was... And he's not walking as men. He's been a very different picture. The batted ball profile looks very similar with almost no ground balls, a ton of balls hit in the air, hard contact, really pretty similar. And again, whether he's getting it with more strikeouts and more walks or less strikeouts and less walks, a very middling Sierra.

Well, let's talk about value for Dylan Bundy because I did have him in the sell high or keep this. guy category. First of all, what would you be looking to do? Would you sell high on Dylan Bundy or would you keep this guy? I think if someone views him as like a number two starter, I would definitely sell him because I don't think he's that good. But I think you're in a weird spot with him because I don't like I don't know who Dylan Bundy is. Like we're we're a fifth of the way through his season probably and I really don't know what to make of Dylan Bundy right now. Yeah, maybe the Spark relief pitcher eligibility and points leaves could allow you to sell high. Like you kind of did at him getting Zach Britton for him, although Britain has his own concerns.

Yeah, I think that was a good trade. Yeah, we'll be back today. Right, right. I think part of the issue is, yeah, we don't have a good grasp on who Dylan Bundy is, but how many pitchers do we have a good grasp on who they are? 25, 30, something like that? There's a lot of guys that we know are bad. Or at least not very.

But like we know who Jake Oter is. But like six starts in, do we know who the guy that Dylan Bundy faced last night, Rick Porcelo is? Because he's looked like a very different pitcher than he was last year. And last year, he looked like a way different guy than he'd been throughout his whole career. I think for I would trade Dylan Bundy for Rick Porcelo. Yeah, I would really like Porcelo that much, but I would take Porcelo for Bundy. Yeah. Okay.

Who would you rather have rest of season? Here's my standout from yesterday. Julio Turan or Dylan Bundy? Turan still. but I'm not particularly pleased with what he's doing right now. No. 18 walks to 27 strikeouts in 35 and a third. And two years ago when he had a bad 2015, the walks were up.

3.3 walks per 9. He's usually around 2, 2.1, 2.2. Last year he got it back down and he had a nice year. If I remember correctly, it was really like two months where Tehran was good. And he wasn't good for a lot of the year last year. Which is why I sort of stayed away. I was offered Tehran for Kyle Schwerber in our podcast. league. I said no, even though Schwerber's got his own issues right now.

So I guess I kind of felt better about it yesterday. I saw he hit with the bad start, six runs on six hits and six innings against the Mets. And right now a 433 ERA. How much do you trust Julio Toron, Scott White? I mean, it is a pretty steady track record. So from that perspective, from that perspective, I feel like he's more trustworthy than most pitchers you'd put in like that number three spot of your rotation, but if he keeps walking guys at this rate, that's going to blow everything up. We need to see a turnaround with those. He leaves the NL and walks right now, which is completely out character.

Okay, so that's Julio Taran. Julio Taran or Michael Fulmer rest of season? Deroon. I go Fulmer. Let's go Fulmer. Let's go do our quote of the day. Our quote of the day is from Mike Napoli, who was involved in a bit of a dust-up. The bench has cleared in the Astros Rangers game.

He said, so here's what happened. Lance McCullors gave up a home run to Napoli earlier in the game. Then a couple of Astros were hit by the Rangers, Andrew Cashner. Didn't seem intentional. So then McCullors throws behind Mike Napoli, behind him with a fastball. And Napoli says, I've been in the game a long time. I understand how things work. Two of their guys get hit.

But all he has to do is put it in my hip and I run down to first base. No one likes 95 miles per hour behind their back. All right, so, like, how much did he miss his hip by? Because, like, Lance McCullors doesn't exactly have pinpoint control. It's entirely possible. He tried to hit him on the hip. It didn't see how high the pitch was. It wasn't that high.

It wasn't that. This is what I understand. You'd rather get hit in the hip than missed behind the back? Makes no sense. I think behind the back makes more sense if it was behind his butt, then I don't think he has any argument. The whole thing is close to the head. He missed. It is dumb.

It is dumb. dumb, but he missed. I'd rather I'd rather miss. Don't hit me with 95 in the hip. It's going to hurt like hell. The other double donger yesterday, other than Jed Jerko, was Josh Harrison. Josh Harrison, two for four with two homers. He is now the number 13 second baseman in both points in Roto batting 313 with four home runs. And Josh Harrison has already equaled his 2015 and 2016 home run output.

He hit four in those two seasons. Any interest in Harrison, he's 43 percent owned. I think Josh Harrison's a fine little player. But not because he's going to hit home runs. I want to see him steal more bases. He only has two and four attempts so far. That's what I'd like to see go up. If anybody wants to buy high on Josh Harrison, come to Team Creth.

He is for sale. Oh, we haven't discussed this? He's for sale. I don't know. He can give you a little batting average. He's going to bat better than 280 every year in seems, but he really doesn't do anything else, Josh Harrison. It's time now for the Thames watch.

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Oh, really? sure. Dr. Alderson. They do both connect to the shoulder. The Mets has a strong track record that I think we have to take them at their word here. Is there anyone in there that's going to join the rotation that you're interested in picking up? No. I will keep an eye on Raphael Montero, but I will not add him.

I was really struggling because I am updating my rankings this morning, and I don't think I'm dropping Cindergarde low enough. Why not? First off, I don't like the term several months. I'm hoping that Adam just used that. Yeah, there's no timetable. If it's two months feels like a good scenario, right? Well, Stephen Matt's had the same sort of injury two years ago, and he missed almost exactly two months.

I do think it's worth noting Clayton Kershaw had a lat injury. I don't know that it was quite as bad as this one. He came back. This was in 2014. Remember, they took that trip to Australia. for a late March game and there was the long flight back. And he ended up missing about six weeks after doing that. That was the year he won both the Cy Young and the MVP.

And Sunny Gray is coming back after about six weeks, right? Yes. Now, I don't know that either Kerchels or Greys were classified as a tear. I mean, the strain is basically a small tear. It all depends on what the, like the Mets, I know they don't like to refer to hamstring strains, they never knew. They always call it a pull when a player hurts their hamstring. It was cesspit as when he left the game the other day,

he said he had a hamstring pull. So it might just be a terminology thing. Yeah. Because a strain is a tear. Right. And we got Chris to say the word pull, which is always fun. Always good. I didn't even say anything this time.

But here's the thing. Actually, I'll let you talk, Heath. Sorry. Go ahead. Well, because I dropped Cindergarde down to 33rd. How can you not drop him? What's the argument for not dropping Madison Bumgarner lower than Noah Cindergarde? Madison Bermgarner's injury happened first.

I heard about a two-month timeline on Madison Bumgarten. It's after the all-star break for Bumgarner. So it's more than two months from now. It's going to be about three months when it's all said to done. You can agree that a shoulder is connected to the shoulder. It's not the joint, though. The joint is where it's a grade two strain. tear of a of a shoulder muscle muscle the back shoulder the back shoulder and i did i guess the other

thing would be i one medicine bumgarner doesn't pitch for the meds that doesn't matter at all like you just roll your eyes at that like you don't think there's a chance that they bring cinder guard back a week too early it matters a little yeah there's a chance we can't make fun of the metts all week but but i don't think like two the meds are any more desperate to do that than the giants might be oh i think they definitely are. The Giants could be pretty desperate. Giants could be out of contention by then. They're not good.

The Mets have... But they could turn it around. I mean, they could. And the other thing is, I had, and I think everybody had at least small injury concerns with Sendergarde, more than we did with Bumgarner coming into the year. And Bumgarner's wasn't a pitching injury either. But here's the thing. I was very close to trading for Bumgarner yesterday. I was going to give up Carass.

Whatever. It doesn't matter. Doja was in the trade too. So I was good, I almost did, but then I just thought to myself, like, I don't, I don't know that I just expect Bumgarner to come off the DL and be one of the best pitchers in baseball. From a, from a shoulder injury. Yeah. And I don't know, I don't know what to expect. Like, you have to lower them in your rankings based on the time they're going to miss.

But the hardest part is, what are they going to be when they come back? And I don't know. I can't answer that. I would say I'm more worried about Bumgarner's injury than Sindergards in terms of that, in terms of coming back and being yourself. Yeah, I agree. Based on the little bit we've seen, like the two most recent examples, Matt's and Kirsch. I don't know that the most recent examples, but the most notable examples, they were both pretty much back to normal. And Sonny Gray was reportedly hitting 94, 95 and his minor league rehab assignment coming back.

So I just, I think a lad injury is just, it's necessarily less serious than a shoulder. Like, there's a chance that Madembourg comes back and isn't Madison. I wasn't even trying to compare Cindergarde to Bungarner so much as I was. Like the guys that I still have behind Cindergarde, one of them two spots behind is Dylan Bundy. If I'm giving Dylan Bundy a two-month head start, like maybe if I'm on a three-in-one, four-and-one team, four-and-one team, then I feel okay holding on to Thor for that long. Yeah, that's the thing. That's rough.

You've got to have a good team, I think, if you're going to trade for either of those two players. And I think my philosophy has been this. I'm only going to give up a player that if he's out for the year starting tomorrow, I'm not going to miss him that much. I think that's fair. And that it's going to be really hard to trade for either of those guys or move either of them. Yeah, probably. And I think it's more likely to be a hitter that I'm giving up. I keep finding myself going, I don't want to give up my pitching depth as well.

You know how I feel about pitching. But anyway, you guys do what you want. Everybody out there, do what you want with Cindergarten. Do whatever you want. That's the theme of our podcast. No, I think we stated our opinion well enough. That was just an awkward transition. Aaron Sanchez is on the DL.

Ryan Braun, day-to-day with trap tightness. Stephen Wright's on the DL with a knee injury. Any interesting replacements there? No. David Price. No? It would, yeah, it's just hoping David Price gets back pretty soon. Yeah, it'd probably be like Brian Johnson or somebody filling in, right?

Yeah, I think it will be Johnson. Miguel Cabrera should be back today from a groin injury. Tyler Skaggs out 10 to 12 weeks with an oblique strain. Yikes. Brandon Crawford could be back Friday. Jorge Soler is having a good rehab assignment. He's hitting the ball well. Should we go pick up Jorge Soler before it's too late?

Have we ever seen Jorge Soler and Jorge Bonafacio in the same? place at the same time. There are a lot of similarities except that Jorge Bonifacio doesn't strike out that much. So there's 33% owned. What's that? He's 33% owned so there. I think he's worth going out and adding. Yeah, the last thing I saw, and it was a couple days ago, was the Royals were in no rush

to bring him back. And I would assume that's because Bonafacio is hitting the ball really well right now, and they just want to let him hit for a while. But you've got to think if either of those guys can hit, they're going to get in the lineup somewhere with how bad that team's thing. They should, yeah, Brandon Moss probably needs to have an disabled list trip. You can play first base. Like San Bernard's.

What's that? Is that a threat? No, I just. I'm very, like a mafia move. It's a Nancy Kerrigan situation. He's like 38 years old. Probably 32 or something, but can't hit worth anything right. This is tremendous.

This is tremendous Heath Cummings Royals frustration on today's podcast. Evan Longoria dealing with foot soreness. It could be Planner Festhious. and that's bad. Hands off, Evan Longoria? Like, not drop, but don't acquire. He played through Planner fasciitis in 2014, I think. Yeah, and I don't think it was that good, right?

It's a lingering... It was his worst season. It's a lingering condition, but it's one that, like, players often play through and often with no ill effects. So it's just... I think the severity, there's a wide range of potential outcomes with that. All right, Avi Garcia sat with groin tightness.

He should be back today. Wellington Castillo, day-to-day with the neck spasms. Hanley Ramirez is dealing with a shoulder injury. It might only be a throwing injury like they're talking about him next week at Milwaukee. Can he play first base? Not sure it's affecting his hitting. Junjun Rews on the deal with a hip contusion. Thank you to the Dodgers for sorting that out.

And interesting stuff on the ESPN broadcast last night from Tim Kirchen. He was talking about what he's learned from Buck Showalter. Buck Showalter has guidelines when you're drafting a player. He says, don't draft a guy with bright blue eyes because he can't see well during day games. Buck Showalter likes players with square heads, not a lot of facial hair. He doesn't want an 18-year-old with a lot of facial hair because that means he won't be able to grow into his body more. And he likes a high butt, whatever that means. Disagree.

Disagree on the high butt. High butt's a bad sign. Really? Basketball. I have a very strong high butt bias in basketball. I don't know. I don't know if it works in baseball either. You want a low center of gravity in baseball.

You want a strong core, and a high butt doesn't give you a strong core. I want a Kirby Puckett body in baseball. I'm going to take Buck Showholder's opinion on this one. I want someone shaped like a bowling ball. It was really interesting. And apparently Josh Hamilton confirmed to Tim Kirchin that he had trouble seeing during day games with his eyes. So that's interesting stuff. also interesting

How was his butt? I'm not sure. You know the guys are really high butt? Really? Michael Pened. Andrew Miller has the highest butt I've ever seen. He just has extremely... Andrew Miller's butt is six feet off the floor.

Long legs. Well, this was an unexpected detour. So, um, lineup stuff. The line out of shields let off again. He doubled. He did strike out twice, but they did not hit well yesterday. Cody Bellinger had two of the Dodgers six hits, including a double off Johnny Quato.

Aaron Altair, 18% owned. He batted seven. second, he doubled twice at the Cubs, and hadn't been playing quite every day, but he's in there yesterday. And Zander Bogartz led off again. Looks like he's their lead off hitter for now. Petroia has been horrible this year. Scott, I talked about the Shields, Bellinger, Altair, Bogarts, anything really jump out of you? I just, I'm still skeptical that they're really going to end up sending Bellinger down. He brings so much energy to that lineup, and has been great.

I mean, even in terms of strikeouts, five strikeouts and 25 at bats, it's, Obviously not much of a sample there But he's the kind of talent And so far it's played out Where you see him Improve upon reaching the majors And I just Just bench Adrian Gonzalez

Adrian Gonzalez Or Cody Bellinger play first Or Andrew Tolls I mean Sure they've got bad hitters all throughout the outfield And first base They can find room for him Yeah And the Shields and Altaire are

I don't know, around 20% owned. Who would you rather have? Pick one. De Shields. To Shields. But I like Altaire. Yeah. I guess DeShields, but...

Now pro far's down, so it's like, Ryan Rua, is that going to threaten DeShields playing time? No, I just wonder if DeShield is going to threaten De Shields playing time. Well, I mean, is Altaire really so much more proven, and promising than De Shields? Not proven. I don't know. Neither one of them are proven.

We've seen DeShields fail more. And succeed more. We haven't really seen DeShields fail that much. I mean, look, both of them. Last year, 2016. The Shields and out there were both very disappointing. Both need to hit, okay?

But you've got opportunities here. And they're pretty under-owned. So we were trying to get people to jump on. Look, Michael Conforto is up to 85% own now. Yeah, wow. And like, during the course of yesterday, Scott Shebler went from 12% to 52%. Wow. Like, I thought more leagues used fab and would make that possible.

Wow, that's crazy. Yeah. So let me go to Conforto real quick. Well, before we do Buy Low or Heck No, let's do Sell High in there. We already did Bundy. Michael Conforto is 85% owned. Sell high or keep this guy. And the reason why I'm curious,

about selling high here is he's only one for eight against lefties. Only eight at bats against lefties. And he did Homer. That was his one hit. But this guy really has not shown he can hit left-handed pitching. So buy or sell high or keep this guy, Michael Conforto. I'm going to keep him. I don't.

The lefty thing is a concern. He's kind of someone that's making me change my view on fantasy baseball in general. I think we should just assume that the first. guy off the bench is going to get his chance at some point with every team. Because it's just nothing ever goes right enough where they don't, right? Yeah, I mean, Jerko for the Cardinals. Yeah, like, it just, it seems like at some point you're going to get your chance if you're in that situation.

And you're talented. What do I get to count as a sell high on Conforto? Because I, I'm in on him. Yeah, I do that. I do that. I would take over. Yeah, me too. No, I get what you're saying.

I mean, the concept of Conforto, yeah, he's 85% owned now. A couple days ago, he was like 55% owned. And it's like, how likely are you ever to sell high on a player you just picked up? I think it's pretty unlikely that the rest of the league would go for that. So I'm kind of content to let this play out. I think Conforto has the upside that could make it worthwhile. I think he's going to stick. I think he has top 25 outfielder upside.

Okay. Conforto or Bellinger. Conforto. Easily. Yep. All right. The other sell high or keep this guy is Jason Vargas. Only one strikeout, but another good start.

The White Sox actually been hitting the ball pretty well lately. So now Vargas with one run and six innings has a 142 ERA. Sell high or keep this guy, Jason Vargas. You can't sell high, but if you could, you should. Yeah. Like, I don't want to be fantastic. This was his true colors yesterday. There's a pretty good chance that you're dropping him in two weeks.

Yeah. So if you could get anything for him, that's awesome. I will think that you're not dropping in two weeks. This was the second time seeing the White Sox in a week. So it's encouraging that he didn't hit him toward. No Avi Garcia, though. Keep looking for any silver lining he can find. Yeah.

If you could sell him for any of the top 50 pitchers, do it. I'd sell him for Avi Sal Garcia. Yeah, I'm not doing that. Well, if you're planning on dropping Vargas in two weeks, you know, or at least considering it, why wouldn't you trade him for Avi Garcia? I think there's just as good a chance that I'm dropping Avicel Garcia. I don't know. I guess the only thing is that, like, a starting pitcher can have one bad start that makes you drop him,

whereas, like, Avicel Garcia could be, like, the frog in the boiling pot of water where you don't realize you need to drop him until three weeks too late. All right. So we'll do buy low or heck no in a second. Heath, before I forget, you before the show started were telling me you were moving Senuano down in your rankings after he gave up, I think, three unearned runs yesterday. Now, to be clear, I, two things. I don't, I feel kind of weird about the whole unearned runs when it comes on a dong.

But they were unearned runs. They did not hurt a ZRA. The reason I say that is I don't think the manager looks at that and says, well, that home run you gave up, that was unearned because you should have been out of the inning. There's a little bit of reason to still be concerned, and I had not updated my reliever rankings during his recent success. So I wasn't just overreacting to this one outing, I guess. Okay. Okay. I don't feel like he's, like I've got him in the Roberto Osuna range.

Do you have him, who do you have, like Tony Watson or Senwano? Oh, oh, for sure. Like, we've talked about that whole tier of relievers that we thought could be elite number ones. He is at the very bottom of that for me now, but I didn't move him out of that tier. It would take a lot for somebody not in that tier to jump into it. He's been pitching really well. though. He had turned things around. Rosenthal also got roughed up, I think, in his last outing, or maybe his two outings

ago, whatever it was. I thought it was interesting. But okay. But he's still in the elite tier. Still in the elite tier. It could be elite tier. What'd you say? It could be elite tier, right.

He's not up there with Wade Davis or anything. Now, Bailo or heck no in just a second, but, you know, I want to talk a little bit about daily fantasy right now. What is the best part about fantasy sports? It's got to be the draft. So why don't you do more draft? And let me tell you about my favorite daily fantasy game. I have been playing it myself.

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Be sure to enter the promo code FB today. When you download, you're going to get a 100% bonus on up to $600 when you deposit. Search Draft in the App Store and use the promo code. FB today, as in fantasy baseball today. Buy low or heck no. After this, we're going to read some emails. I got a lot that I want to get to. We haven't been getting to too many, so here we go.

Edwin Encarnacion, who now has 37 strikeouts in 25 games. Man, buy low or heck no on Edwin Encarnacion? Buy low. I'll buy low. Okay. Ventorious slow starter. The strikeouts, you know.

A little concerning, I guess, but I don't want to read too much into it yet. By low on Eben Enconacion. Chris Davis, he was the number 17 first basement in points, number 16 in Roto last year, and he is once again struggling. I will say that in 2015, Chris Davis was batting 250 in his first 26 games, and then he hit 41 home runs in his next 134, and he was awesome. So by low or heck no on, Chris Davis, with a C, of the Orioles. I buy low, but I buy low with the understanding.

There's a wide range of potential outcomes for him. And so I really want to make sure it's low that I'm buying him. Would Hanley Ramirez be low? Yeah, I think that's low, but I don't have nearly... I'm not coming from the starting point for Hanley Ramirez that you are. Would you trade Michael Conforto for? Chris Davis? Yes.

Yeah. Would you trade Dylan Bundy for Chris Davis? Yeah. If I was in a situation where I needed that and had excess pitching, sure. Yeah, I would definitely do it. All right. Next up, another streaky guy. Jackie Bradley, 196 batting average with one home run, five walks, 12 strikeouts, and 13 games.

Jackie Bradley, buy low or heck no? More like Jackie badly. I'd buy low on him too I mean it's only He missed all that time So it's such a tiny sample Relative to everyone else I don't know that it's

But I don't even know that it's fair to take his numbers Is his knee healthy I can't guarantee it I imagine he wouldn't be playing if he wasn't It's a It's a variable that you have to consider When you're talking about trading for him Yeah

For Bradley He is You know He's not that far ahead of like conformo for me to put it in perspective of what bylo means like you know somebody off to a hot start who i don't think is that good like uh yesmani tomas he's off to a pretty good start right yesmani tomas for jackie bradley deal something like that yeah all right jackie bradley by though i'm gonna say heck no oh heck no heck no he says and it's not because i really like

i just think if that's the level i've got i've got him ranked right around to I'd probably just rather stick with Tomas because of the risk that Bradley really is just badly this year. All right. Well, how about Gregory Nolonko of the Pirates? Gregory Polanco has not homered yet. 22 games. He does have seven doubles. Good walk to strikeout ratio.

Nine walks, 15Ks, five steals. But Polanco's batting 235 with no home runs. Buy low on Gregory Polanco or heck no? I've been trying to trade him. actually. And I'm not selling low on him. Maybe that's why I haven't succeeded in trading him. But I'm trying to trade him like he's a fifth or sixth round pick.

Because I don't have a lot of confidence in him. I didn't coming in. Like I felt like a lot of his draft value was dependent on him taking a step forward that so far he hasn't taken yet. Strikeout rate is encouraging. The fact he's running is encouraging. and that's why I don't want to sell low on him. I think there's still plenty of upside there, but I don't have a lot of confidence in Polanco now.

Buy low. I'm going to make you some offers today, Scott. Yeah, I would not buy low on him. But I'm not selling low, just to be clear. You can't buy low for me. You can buy Facebook. I'm going to offer you players that you like more than me. Okay.

And then I'll just take Polanco. All right, we'll see. Gregory Polanco. Do you think Marcus Stroman for Gregory Polanco is a fair deal? Yes. Sure. Yeah. And I'd probably lean to the Polanco side on that.

I'd rather have Polanco. All right. Chris, you picked Stroman to win the Say-Yong? Yeah. So you sure you'd do that? I mean, it was a bold prediction. Yeah, it was. It wasn't a prediction.

It was bold. Okay. I don't know if it was bold. I mean, it's in the Syong picks. You picked Marcus Stroman. It wasn't part of our bold prediction section? No. There's no.

There's no. Any any Sye Young pick in the American League is a bold prediction It's no It's a Dallas

Kiko is the safe prediction As we established Yesterday Other than Chris Sale They're kind of The same person Um

Christian Yelich Okay so I put Christian Yelich In the Bailoh Or heck no And then I saw He's actually been better Than I thought Like it didn't strike me

As Yelich was having a good season He's batting 280 With four home runs And three steals 20 runs And 17 RBIs Though

It's really helping Yelich To be the number 21 outfielder in points, number 17 in Roto, still hitting a ton of ground balls, but the home run to fly ball ratio is actually about the same as it was last year when he hit a career high, 21 home runs and 38 doubles. So I don't even know if Yelich is in this category, but by low, heck no, you know, like, I don't know, talk about Yelich.

He is what he is. I wouldn't expect 20 home runs again, but I think he'll get pretty close. I think he's going to put up really good run in RBI numbers. He's on like a 25-homer pace though, right? Yeah, but if he had one fewer home run, he'd be on a 15-homer pace. Yeah. Well, yeah, but it's just weird, like, I see four home runs, and I think, man, this guy is not keeping up with the power hitters,

but you play it out like that, and, oh, well, maybe he is. Maybe just some of the hot starters have totals that are way too high and unsustainable, which is no doubt true. But what's weird about Christian Yellich is four home runs versus one double, and I feel like I've seen this from a lot of players. Like, I'm not even sure how to look it up, but are doubles way down this year? It would make sense if everybody's putting the ball in the air more and selling up for a home run. Well, we just talked about Gregory Polanco having seven doubles, no home runs.

Yeah. Well, I think Yelich really is not having that good of a year. It's 20 runs and 17 steals, 17 RBIs. Like, unless I put the wrong stats, like those counting stats are crazy. Those are correct. I'll buy low. I still think he's going to be a top 24 outfielder. Heath getting us back on task.

Thank you, Heath. And by low or heck no on Michael Franco. Bilo. Bilo for sure, 100%. Really? All right. He's hitting the ball very hard. He's not striking out, as usual.

And walking, and he's always got RBI opportunity, just like we thought he would. All right, Michael Bronco. And by low or heck no on. Kendris Morales. Bylo. Byloe, I did yesterday. I'd technically call him a by-low, but I don't think the ceiling is so high that it's a major priority. I actually dropped him in a 21-man roster league, 12-team league, for Conforto, I think.

Yeah, you might be able to pick him up. Right, that's why he's a by-low, because you don't have to give up hardly anything for him. Well, Kenchris Morales hit 30 home runs. last year, 17 of them came in in 40 games. Like, he was, the point is, Kenjus Morales was mostly awful for much of the season last year. More than two-thirds. Right.

I don't think he's been as bad this year as his number suggests. So, yeah, I'm not, I'm not really worried about him. I still think he's going to get 30 home runs this year. All right. Listen, people, you've been emailing us a lot. lot. Fantasy baseball at CBSI.com. Fantasy baseball at CBSI.com. Much of it has been grade to trade. So we'll save some of those for Wednesday. But for now, it's time for emails, followed by a team name Tuesday. And then we should probably talk about like Amir Garrett.

Always Severino. Yeah, Severino had no command yesterday. Did any pitcher that pitched yesterday changed your mind? Severino, Garrett, Odarezi, Velazquez, Gazelman, Daniel Norris. I'm totally fine. I've been okay with dropping Robert Gisleman. It's 100% okay. Yeah. Just go ahead and do it.

Yeah, I was so mad at myself for... Same with trusting him in him in a two-start week. After just dropping him in one league last week, I was like, oh, two-starts. Same with Trevor Bauer. I feel exactly the same way. Here's something I noticed with Amir Garrett, who it looks like, rebound start from his one bad start. It was a really bad start. but apart from that one 12 strikeout effort

strikeouts have been consistently low you know only 4Ks in this start but the only damage was a couple solo home runs those are the only two hits he allowed but I was reading the recap of the start on the Reds official website and they mentioned in there that when batters make contact they're hitting the ball very hard he has the second highest average exit velocity among all pitchers and that seems like a problem for a guy who's not missing bats apart from that one 12 strikeout game

and he's not getting a lot of swinging strikes overall and actually i i'm doing uh i'm doing research for a for a piece and i'm looking at the pitches that have the lowest swinging strike rates he has the lowest swinging strike rate with his four-scene fastball in baseball ameer garrett yeah so i've been watching i mean obviously i'm not dropping i based on this he's must own but he might be somebody, I think about sneaking into a deal. I had the same thought. I was very encouraged by Daniel Norris's start.

I can't figure him out. This is two good starts against Cleveland this year. Basically, his only two, like, really good starts. And he walked four yesterday. But I still think there's a lot of potential with Daniel Norris. He's 49% owned. I don't know. I can't figure a lot of these guys out.

I had the same thought about Garrett. I like him, but I think he's just so inexperienced. that you could see a point where he just really struggles and gets dropped, and now might be the time to throw him into a deal, which I almost did yesterday, Scott. I felt the same exact way. Yeah. I think it's worth mentioning, too, since we kind of glossed over it.

My opinion of Severino hasn't changed. Yeah, based on the bad start. I mean, he's allowed one bad start and four. What did you, I guess when you say that, because mine didn't really either, but I don't feel like I'd moved him up quite as quickly. I think he is the biggest, riser among starting pitchers this year.

Like the one guy who I can say went widely undrafted, but now I can't imagine I can't even imagine how to happen. Severino, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, what's interesting is his three hardest thrown balls came on his 59th, 60th, and

61st fastballs of its start. It was weird. It was 100 pitches in. He threw 100 miles per hour. Yeah. He just had no command. Couldn't locate that. I think that's actually a really good sign. Oh, I said that last time.

I mean, his velocity seems to be increasing as the games go on. His velocity's been great. His change-up, I think the difference between him and Paneda, I think Severino's change-up is better than Panadas. Panadas is almost just like, look, I have a change-up. I think Severino can actually be effective with it. And we don't have years and years of Michael Panetta being frustrating. Yeah.

A high butt, though. He does. Let's do e-mails. here. This is from Oh, come on. The first email, I already forgot to, I didn't put the guy's name in. That's pathetic. This is from egg in my kitchen. Dear Fantasy poached, scrambled,

fried, and boiled. I'll make this... I'll make this quick and easy. Twelve-team categories league. Weekly or daily lineups, go. Weekly. Weekly. Daily. I like daily.

Oh, man. They're split. Six-six of the league. They needed us to break the tie, and we go two-two. Well, Azer and Heath's opinions don't matter. I will say, and maybe this can be the tiebreaker, if there is any format where I'm not so down on daily, it's head-to-head categories. I think that's the one that makes the most sense

because you get to mix in those relievers in between your starts, which is fun. Maybe just compromise and go weekly transactions. daily lineups. How about daily with daily with a transaction's limit or an innings limit? You definitely have to have an innings and play to parents is limited. And I would say an innings

minimum too. Yep. Yeah. I don't like any of those things. This is, make fantasy baseball more like fantasy football wherever you can, I think. Well, that would mean head-to-head points is the format. But you don't have to do that. You can still, you just as a way

but if you prefer head-to-head categories, you can still do that without fundamentally changing your league. Josh and Iowa. Hey, Ricky, Cal, Walker, and Texas Ranger. That is the...

It's Ricky Bobby. Yeah. The Bobby family. Yeah. With, well, no, Cal is... Oh, that was, yeah, that was a friend. John C. Riley? They're family. They marry his ex-wife? Yes.

With Gary Sanchez coming off the D.L., who do I drop? Yvonne Nova, Bud Norris, Julio Arias, Michael Conforto, or Michael Franco. Ours. Nova, Bud Norris, Arias, Conforto, Franco. Bud. Norris clearly has the lowest long-term value. Norris.

Okay. Ryan and St. Louis. Dear Blue Springs, Lees, Summit, and Liberty. Those are suburbs of Kansas City. This question is to the resident Kansas City in on the staff. If Calvin Herrera is traded, who takes over his closer? Soria, assuming he's not traded as well. Okay, Taylor in Canada, who's better going forward?

Elvis Andrews or Aledmus Diaz? Diaz. Aladmus, and I think he probably has less trade value right now. Oh, that's sad. Definite buy-low scenario for Diaz then, who is doing exactly what you want in terms of the low strikeout rate and hitting home runs. It's just batting average is going to correct itself. Babbup's really low and he's not walking. Yeah.

From Glenn, sell James Paxson high, or could he be a lot? Sy Young candidate. One of my bold prediction was top three Tsai Young finisher in the AL. The answer to both questions could be yes. I would not sell high unless you own him and Chris is in your league or Scott. I mean, if you could get

a top 12 pitcher for him, I think he's right near that range. I don't think he's quite there, but like I'm not 100% sure Cole Hamill's better than him. No, I would take Paxton. I would take Paxton. But would everybody take Paxton over Hamels? I would take Haxon.

Hamels. I would still take Hamels, but the way Chris phrased that was, I'm not 100% sure. I would not, I would not trade, if I had James Paxson, I would not trade him for Colehammed. I would not trade Cole Hamils for James Paxon. Yeah, I don't, I don't think I, I think I'd probably stick with whichever one I had because it's too fine of a line for me to want to. You're flipping a coin there. For me to want to shoot myself in the foot. Okay. Two or false from James in Boston. Jonathan Lukroy will justify his draft position this year. I think you kind of have to go with false

Really? Well, he's got a 523 OPS on May 2nd. He's got a lot of work to make up. You see where he batted yesterday? We see players have bad months all the time. You see where Jonathan Lucreux batted yesterday? Bet it's 9th. It's like his third game batting 9th.

They just keep moving him down. He'll get hot at something. Get him a little protection on the order. He's a 31-year-old catcher, guys. I would call him a by-low candidate as well. I would call him a by-low. I don't think he'll probably do it. justify his draft position.

Well, he's destroying my podcast league team, by the way. How are we doing on the poll in the podcast league? Are people voting? I did not see a poll, so I didn't vote. Chris saw it, right? I did vote. I don't remember what I voted for. Oh, we have nine votes, which means two of the people who haven't voted are on this podcast.

Out of the three you haven't voted, and it looks like I am the only one who voted for option one. So I screwed up and made a 12-team league into a division of five and a division of seven instead of two divisions of six. Unfortunately, there is no way to correct that without screwing up the standings and the schedule. So I said, we have two options. Either I can put Scott White in the Mountain Dew Division and take them out of the Peeps Division. I guess we decided to name the divisions after the two grossest things on Earth. You came up with those names, didn't it? It must have been last year, honestly.

I didn't change them. Oh, okay. Or no divisions, and the top six teams make the playoffs. And no divisions is winning 9 to 1. And I know I voted. This is 10 to 1 now? I voted to make it 9. Oh, you voted to make it 9.

Why are you volunteering me to move to a division? This isn't a riveting podcasting, guys. I got to say, I am on the edge of my seat along with everyone listening. Because, Scott, you were, because I want two analysts in each division, and I was going to take the two first place team. in the Peeps Division and move one. Anyway, it's not going to happen. Divisions are stupid. I agree.

That's what's going to happen. No divisions. All right. From Anthony from Nevada. Or Nevada. I was wondering what you thought of Raphael Baltista of the Nationals. Dude stole 200 plus bags in the minors. I don't see Michael Taylor keeping the job.

Do you think Rafael Batista is worth a shot in a deep roto league? That is not the guy to pick up. If you want to speculate, I would say the guy to pick up is Andrew Stevenson, who just got moved up to AAA. Syracuse. He was hitting 350 at AA. He's one of their top 10 prospects, at least on baseball prospectus. And he's got a lot of stolen base potential.

It has 63 and 208 minor league games. Batista was one of their top 10 prospects, too, I think. Not on the list I was looking at. Okay, maybe that was last year he was. I can have really deep roto league. You've got guys that are not on major league rosters on your team, and he's on a major league roster, and he's got huge stolen base potential. I don't hate adding him.

All right. emails for some team name Tuesday and then we'll finish up with more emails. Kevin from Pennsylvania, the wrath of Conley. Yes. Oh yeah. Very good. Uh, Wes from Arizona has two. You be the judge with a couple of guys there. And Sano White and his seven dongs. I do like turning Sanoe into snow. That's not something I would have thought of on my own. So like informer by Sano. Yes. Yes. You not get that one? No.

Oh, come on. Everybody knows the words of that. Informer. You know, say, Ruegasadeo. I get to sing again. I still don't get it. Sorry.

Rusty says, this is the all-D-L team name. Cinder Garden of Eaton, baby. That's good. That's pretty good. We're having two players. Have we done? Have we done song?

Song 1-0, it's magic. No. No, that's good. And Alfred says, word to your mater. Word to yours, Alfred, very good. Okay, back to emails. From Brady. Would it be smart to offer Ryan Zimmerman for Carlos Martinez in a points league?

Very smart. I don't think you'll get it, but yeah, it would be brilliant. You might get it. I mean, Zimmerman's been the best player in fantasy, right? I can't bring myself to offer him for anyone, because I just don't know if anybody buys it. There's a way to find out. Yeah, you could offer him.

I just keep hoping I can find the guy in my league who doesn't really watch baseball anymore, but we're not going to find him in the baseball six years ago. You can't find him without offering. Well, Ryan Zimmerman, I'm actually going to look up some actual trades involving Ryan Zimmerman in a moment. This is Kevin and Sokol?

Sokol. SoCal. I die. Yeah, I'm just kidding. Dear Jim, Michael, Andy, and Dwight. I'm sure they film that in Sokol. Ten team five-by-five standard. Would you drop Gregory Polanco or Eric Hosmer for Josh Bell or Delino to Shields?

Not that down on Polanco. Yeah, not Polanco. I think it's fine to drop Eric Hosmer. Is it worth it for either of those two, though? I'm not. And I kind of like both Bell and DeShields. I don't think. I think it's just kind of like...

Somebody's going to pick up Hosmer and start him most of the year if you drop him. Maybe. Okay. He did it at home run yesterday. He did. He did. She's back. Hit it the other way.

And the last one here. Dear Billy Happy and Sandy Wexler. Oh, this is from Jeremy. I meant to tell you, I started watching Sandy Wexler because I wanted to watch the worst movie ever made. I don't know what that is. Is it the worst movie ever made? No, grownups is worse. And grownups, too, is probably even worse than that.

And I never saw Jack and Jill. But so far, about halfway through Sandy Wexler, which is a made-for-netflix, Adam Sandler movie. Yeah, it's as bad as I thought it was going to be. Did he's released like five movies on Netflix in like a year? Yeah, they signed some big deal with them a while back. Did Adam Sandler legitimately get worse, or did his fan base just grow up? I think his style of comedy doesn't fit with one. what people like anymore.

Oh, no, no, no, no. Like, he legitimately got worse. But the style of comedy has changed. Like, what's popular in comedy is very different than it was in the 90s. Yeah. The kind of, like, dopey, dumb guy isn't really, like, working anymore. Yeah, but... The Judd-Appatow version of comedy has kind of taken over.

No, he's got worse. Pretty great. He got, he got, he got family-friendly. Or neighbors? That's not an Adam Sandler movie. No, but it was the same type of humor. But no, it's the best Adam Sandler movie. I think it's Billy Madison.

But 51st Dates is up there, right? It's like maybe fifth or sixth. I don't know that going family-friendly was his issue. I even kind of like bedtime stories. I like just go with it for some reason. I kind of like Click, actually. Click? I cry hysterically.

Hysterical tears from the movie Click. The most unnecessary. sad movie. There's like a 10-minute sequence. Big Daddy was pretty great. Yeah, Big Daddy was when he was good. I just kind of liked them. The last movie, I would say, is good by him. That's like 18 years ago. Yeah, maybe. Well, I don't know. I didn't really like funny people that much. I thought funny people was okay. The first two-thirds of that movie are great, and then it just

devolves into a disaster. You know, it seems like Heath is the most welcoming of Adam Sandler movies. Well, funny people, People's like the least Adam Sandler movie of the Adam Sandler movies. And look how grown up Heath is. I'm trying to see what the last Adam Sandler movie I actually saw was, though. Probably funny people. So here's the thing. I don't really.

I am not looking forward to all the hate tweets that I'm going to get for this very long Adam Sandler conversation. So I'm going to get back to baseball. The only thing I'm going to say is like if you listen to his CDs, Adam Sandler's CDs from back in the day, like what they all happen to me, he was so funny. And that stuff is a lot of it. is still very funny. He just became family-friendly.

So here's the question. It's in a keeper league, and it's about dropping Greg Bird. Should Jeremy drop Greg Bird? In a keeper league, probably. I don't know how many you get to keep, but you'd have to keep a lot before I'd really be worried about dropping. He said rookies are quite valuable. It's all he said.

Is he a rookie? He's not technically a rookie, but it might be a situation where rookies have a low starting value and then grow from there. So he'd still be early on that. I mean, we're kind of trying to decipher the format based on little information. I think him stressing that would lead me to believe that he should probably hang on to Byrd. Look, the strikeout rates way up, which is a concern, but he is still hitting the ball pretty hard. I think the power can still come.

It's probably just a really bad month. You know when you see a guy who's slumping and every time he gets up to the plate, He just looks like he has no clue what he wants to do. He doesn't know if he should he swing early. He'll take a pitch. It's always a strike. He's always behind the count. Like it just happens.

I don't know what the future holds. But right now that is Greg Bird. The guy is just completely lost. And, you know, I don't know. In like a deep league where nobody's dropping him, I still think he's going to be valuable. But there's no, I mean, nobody's hanging on to him in any league with flexibility on the roster. But in a keeper league, yeah, I'd keep bird. I still haven't dropped him.

Right. But what league? It's a 12 team. It's a keeper league, but he's not looking like a person that I'm going to keep right now. It's just I haven't needed the roster spot. I've been able to drop other guys. I drop Byron Buxden ahead of him. So I'm just, I'm hanging on and hoping.

Hold on for one more day. Okay, we're done. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Chris, for joining me and singing. That was very fun. and go watch Sandy Wexler. Let me know what you think. Happy Gilmour is the best Adam Sandler movie, right?

Yeah. I said Billy Madison, but it's a toss-up. They're kind of a show movie. The question is which one is third? So you let us know. What's the third best Adam Sandler movie? We'll talk to you tomorrow.