Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/05 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: New Pitching Landscape? Fill in the Blank

Episode Date: May 5, 2017

Scott is fired up about the state of starting pitching, and it's making him rethink the position. Find out what Scott thinks, if Heath agrees, and what you Fantasy owners should do about it ... We play a fun round of Fill in the Blank and discuss players to add, trade and drop ... Thoughts on Marwin Gonzalez, Keon Broxton, Tim Beckham, Matt Andriese, Derek Holland and more. Plus two-start pitchers for Fantasy Week 6 ... 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

It's a cola, rookie, strikers, number geekers, bunch of podcast, wisdom seekers, been in a week 10 times a day. It's Friday, yeah, getting ready for the weekend. And going to help you set your lineup for Fantasy Week 6, tell you which two-star pitchers to pick up. But we got a lot to talk about from Thursday. And a fun round of fill in the blank is coming up. I'm Adam Azer, at Adam Azer on Twitter, A-I-Z-E-R. I'm here with Scott White at CBS Scott White and at Heath Cummings Senior, Heath Cummings, SR on Twitter. I could just DM you or I could say it here.

Good morning, guys, and how are we today? Good morning. I'm fine. I'm good. I'm trying to decide if any pitching is worth owning ever what the standard exactly is for a mixed league caliber pitcher and fantasy because whatever the standard is, it's pretty low. Right. You were just saying, Scott, who you're putting in your waiver wire column, that you can read on CBSports.com.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, and I actually wrote about the whole pitching situation last night that is already up on the site. And it was kind of an impassioned column on the state of pitching right now in fantasy, and what you should do as a result of it. I think we are seeing a huge dynamic shift. Really? Yeah.

All right, I got to read this while we're on the air. Heath's a huge dynamic shift, and you know Underreactor Heath. But I don't know what the huge dynamic shift is. I haven't read it yet. So I don't know. Is this the Mia Colpus saying Chris Towers was right? I think Chris Towers' approach worked for him. I think my approach worked for me.

No, what's the shift? The shift is that, well, to sum it up in people who play fantasy football, which most people do, I would assume, can relate to this analogy. feel like starting pitcher has become kind of like running back has become in fantasy football, where the very few standouts are a dying breed, you know, something that's completely fading from existence, the ability for pitchers to go six or seven innings consistently. And that makes them more valuable than ever as a result. And that makes everyone else at the position pretty much interchangeable and expendable.

and any time you have a pitcher who hasn't ascended to that top group, you know, the true aces, the Jake Garietta, Justin Verlander types, anytime you have a pitcher who's doing something, who's stringing together productive starts, but clearly hasn't ascended to that group, you should trade them away for whatever you can get because it's not going to last and somebody new like that is going to emerge out the waiver wire.

The only pitchers really worth prioritizing are the aces, and you want as many of them as you can get, and you don't really care about pitchers otherwise. So you're saying a guy like Yvonne Nova, for example, who I know he took a little bit of a step back yesterday, but it wasn't that bad. It was four runs and six innings, I think. You're saying a guy like him is just sort of someone you should trade and expect the next Yvonne Nova to come up and be on your lineup at some point? That's kind of what I'm saying, yeah, use him and lose them.

Avon Nova might be on the higher end of that group. He might be a little more hesitant to give him away, but somebody like Irvin Santana or Andrew Triggs. We've got a longer history, though, of Santana being good than Nova, don't we? Let me read this email here. Nova's doing something no pitcher does, which is like he has more complete games than walk since joining the Pirates. And it's really innings that are what are at a premium right now for starting pitchers, kind of like carries for running backs in fantasy football.

I guess you guys can't hear me that well today. So Mark in Maple Grove, Minnesota, says, let's review Irvin Santana, 5-0.6-ERA, 0.70 whip. And who does that? Not Bob Gibson in 1968, not Gator in 1978. And his ERA over his last 24 starts is 193. So Mark is making fun of you guys for not buying into Irvin Santana. But we're not, you're just,

not there yet. I don't, I mean, no, I guess, and I can't imagine I will be there because I think I know how this is going to play out. He's going to have a mid-3-ZRA, maybe a low 3-ZRA in a best-case scenario, but obviously you've gotten the best you're going to get from him to this point. I'm going to buy in a little more than what Scott just did, and not because, like, I think Scott's reasoning is right. It's just that he is a fifth of the way through his season now with the 0-66-ZRA. there's a non-zero chance he's got a sub 3ERA

I think that's the best case scenario and I would expect he's going to have a 3-2 3 and a quarter ERA at the worst So Heath what do you think Is the starting pitcher landscape changing as much as Scott thinks Um

No I don't I agree with what Scott's saying I was thinking earlier Like does this mean that you should have taken Kershaw in the first round and Saylor-Shirzer in the second, but that's just selective reasoning,

because what if you'd taken Kershaw in the first and Bumgarner in the second? Well, here's the... I was actually thinking about that this morning, after I had already written that piece, maybe if there's a long-term application to this. And, you know, obviously we have to see the way this full season plays out,

but I kind of envision a strategy, a viable strategy that I wouldn't have entertained in the past, going forward where, okay, my first round pick, I'll go ahead and spend it on a hitter because those hitters are, you know, stand out by so much from the rest. But then second, third, fourth, fifth round, I might go all pitchers and just... That would have put you in a bad spot this year. No, not, no, if you... Because you lost Bumgarner, you'd have four other aces,

and there's such a small number of them to begin with that you'd still have a huge advantage in that area over your competition, even if one went down. Like, the fact that some of this very select group of pitchers is getting hurt only adds to the need to have a higher number of them. It doesn't mean, oh, just forget it. I mean, you can probably win just forgetting it. There's probably a strategy that works there, but I don't think it's the strategy that works for me. I guess that's the reason that I don't think it's changed is because both sides of this debate can take what's happened so far as proof that they were right. I don't even care about that.

I don't have to be right or wrong. No, I'm not saying right or wrong. I'm saying as proof that what they thought previously is the way to do it. Because you can very easily say, see, I told you shouldn't use early-round picks on pitchers because so many of them get hurt. You can also say, see, with these pitchers getting hurt, there's even fewer good pitchers. You need to have them. Yeah, I'm trying to come up with the strategy specifically. That's the lowest risk and the lowest maintenance.

And I feel like that is... I think those are two different things. The best combination of the two. Well, I think the other half of this equation is how interchangeable the hitters are, you know, where you're drafting. So, like, last week I said, if I were drafting again, I would prioritize pitchers more. And since then, Cindergards out roughly three months. Hamels is out roughly two months. Klupor's on the D.L.

Strowman says he's going to make his next start. but I felt like I looked stupid for saying that, but I actually really like what Scott just said. The fact that these guys got injured means that you have to have more of them. I agree with that. I know Chris would disagree. I think Heath has given us both viewpoints, which I also like and appreciate. I would agree with you, Scott.

You know, I don't, I'm reading your column now, just sort of perused it. I don't know that I feel. Not reading it very carefully. I couldn't. You know, I don't know that I could, that I go quite as far. as you, but I do agree, and I think I want more aces. Even though I know how injury-prone they are, I'm going to try to do my best to pick the ones that I think are less injury-prone.

Like, I avoided Noah Cindergarde, and I don't really consider... Bumgarner was just bad luck. Let's face it here. It fell off as... Hamels, too. Hamils has been over 30 starts for like eight straight years. Yeah, yeah, right. And 200 innings, right, every year. So, but I mean, with Bumgarner, it was not even a baseball injury.

That's what I meant. Well, and you know, I agree. I agree. To look at the other side that you were saying with hitting. I mean, we've talked before, I think we can really clearly identify one breakout starting pitcher, one who's graduated that high tier this year, and that's James Paxton. Severino, Louis Severino showing some signs. You know, Robbie Ray and Michael Paneda haven't completely collapsed yet, but there still seems to be some danger there with the two of them.

It's really just Paxton and maybe Severino, and you look at the other end, hitters who were scarcely drafted or not drafted at all. You have Judge and Cofordo and Zimmerman and Thames, and the list goes on and on. So, like, if you were just aggressive on the waiver wire with hitters, you didn't need to necessarily even, you could have a great lineup without necessarily drafting a great lineup,

which just seems like a complete change from where we were in Fantasy 5 plus years ago. It could also be that we're making more. a lot of proclamations based on five weeks of basically. It's been an ongoing trend, though. I actually put a table in the column, you know, the idea, but if a pitcher averages six innings over 32 starts,

he ends up with 192 innings during the season. And you look at the breakdown of pitchers who've pitched at least 192 innings year by year, and it's like, you know, 2012, 13, and 14, it was about 50 in each of them. The last two years it's dropped to 35 and then 20. So they are a dying breed. Well, to wrap this up and to make this fantasy relevant now,

because obviously nobody's drafting again this year, I have said it many times, and I'm still okay with it. Even with the injury risk, I'm still okay with it, overpaying, at least what's perceived to be overpaying in a trade, to get pitching. And that's why my Garrett Cole for Robinson Canoe trade that I made, that I would have to take 10 times out of 10, still doesn't feel like a total win for me

just because of how tough it is for me to feel good about getting five starting pitchers in my lineup. But I am okay overpaying with a hitter to get a pitcher now, and I think fantasy owner should be as well, especially in shallower leagues. I don't disagree. I think Cole, I may not have the same level of confidence for that pitcher specifically that you do, but I get the concept of what you're saying, and I pretty much agree with it. Yeah, I don't really agree, and I think you know why, but that's okay, too.

Yeah, absolutely. Now, our email address is Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. I did not allot 11 minutes for this debate, so I'm going to ask you guys to, which is great. It was good stuff. Off the cuff. Yes. Let's go a little bit faster than we usually do so we can get to the two-star pitchers and read some emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com.

I also want to encourage people to please give us a five-stop. star rating, leave us a comment. I know we are an established podcast, but we still would appreciate it. It would be really helpful, and hopefully you've been enjoying what you've been hearing. So go ahead and leave us a comment in iTunes or wherever, and a five-star rating would be really appreciated. Thank you. Hey, real quick, who would you rather add? Marvin Gonzalez or Tim Beckham? Marwin.

I would rather have Marwin, too. Gonzalez, 28% owned. He has six homers in his last six games and a homer in four straight. Beckham is 19% own in his last 17 games. Tim Beckham is batting 3.38, which also six home runs like Gonzalez has in six games. But four walks, 21 strikeouts. You're terrible. Yeah, you'd say you'd rather have Gonzalez than Beckham. They're both middle infield eligible.

Gonzalez is not shortstop eligible, but Beckham is. And actually... Marwin is currently first base, outfield, and third base, so triple eligible. But he's also middle infield eligible. Yeah, and he's started games in second base. So he's going to get more. He's going to become at least quadruple eligible. Not going to play every day, but he's showing enough power that I think he's kind of what you probably draft Javier Bayez,

hoping you were getting. But he even said, I'm not a power hitter, Marvin Gonzalez. So he's been surprised. Double-digit home runs each of the last two years. But that's like 12 or 13, right? Yeah, and less than full-time at bats. Okay. Well, I mean, how eager are you to be picking these guys up?

Not. It would have to be like a... large roster, like the standard Roto League. I could see having Marwin-Gonzalez in as somebody you mix in from time to time. Didi Gagorius or Marwin-Gonzalez? D-D-D-D-D. Oh, I feel like it takes a lot to get Heath to say D-D. Okay, thank you.

Let's do some fill in the blank. My favorite buy-low candidate is blank. Matt Harvey, which probably isn't a surprise. I'm trying to acquire him wherever I can. And for all the negative talk around him right now, you know, the kind of offers people are rejecting from me. I feel like it's just a lot of hot air, and most people still put a high priority on Harvey.

Or maybe it's an example of what we're just saying earlier with people really being defensive of any pitching who they perceive to have a legitimate upside. I'll say Rognette O'Dore. He did hit a home run yesterday. So that's going to make it a little bit more difficult, three hits in his last two games. There's just not any reason when you look at his peripherals for him to have a batting average below 200 for his power to be down this much.

His hard hit rate is actually up. He's hitting more balls in the air. If he has a 37% hard contact rate and a 50% fly ball rate this year, he's going to hit more home runs that he did in 2016. Okay, my favorite. So we get Bilo, Matt Harvey, and Rudnet, Adore. My favorite sell high candidate is blank. Irvin Santana. That was quick.

Okay. I mean, we kind of discussed it already. Yeah, I'll go with Dallas Keichel, and it's just because, like, I've moved him up, and he's in my top 20 now, but I was talking the other day, somebody was trying to trade Thames, turn Thames and Danny Duffy into an ace. And I said, yeah, if you can go get a legitimate fantasy ace, I would do that. They said, what about Dallas Keiko? I would not do that. So if people are looking at Kikele like a top eight starting pitcher, then I'm going to cash in on that.

I feel like he, I feel like maybe a week ago when Sindergarde was healthy and, well, not, and Klobber, would you take Klobber or Kikl right now? I would take Kluber. It seems like a short-term thing. All right. Mr. Strikeout. All right.

My favorite buy high. Heath, I'll start with you. Favorite buy high. I'll go with a guy. This is Heath admitting he was wrong in the offseason. I'm going to say Jose Ramirez. He is just his peripherals look so much better than they did with what he did last year. And I'm totally buying it.

He's a top top eight second baseman. Okay. Scott, favorite buy high. I put down James Paxton because I suspect there may be some of his owners out there who are less. than 100% sure, given that he hasn't been an ace until now. But he might be the one ace level trustworthy pitcher who you don't have to overpay for. Although, based on what he's just said about Dallas Keikl, I could have just as easily put Kikell here, probably.

Yeah, yeah, I would buy high on Kikl. Okay, Pax and Jose Ramirez, these are buy high guys. fill in the blank jelly jam or preserves I'm not totally clear what the difference is I don't I like them all I don't need preserves are the one that have the actual fruit in them right

I think so yeah you're sitting there you're at the grocery store you're looking at all three what are you going to get probably jam same the easiest to spread right I go jam yeah preserves I mean you kind of get sometimes it's kind of nice having the fruit in there

Sometimes it's kind of unappetizing because it's all mushy and like... Okay, you put this in two different ways, so I'm going to answer the question two different ways. If I am getting ready to eat a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, I want the preserves because I want the fruit in there. If I'm at the store, I've got three kids, two of them are teenagers and a grocery budget that is outrageous. I'm probably buying the jelly because I can just get it in a little squeezable bottle and it's like $1.50 and move on. Very thorough. Thank you. All right, back to Banda C, Bay. baseball. I'm about ready to drop blank.

I'm about ready to drop. Oh, I'm ready. Eduardo Nunez. Really? I am very concerned that everybody gets healthy in San Francisco, and Eduardo Nunez is not a full-time player. He has seven stolen bases on the year. That's great. His last stolen base was April 25th.

He's got one since April 21st and two since April 11th. So who is that? said. Eduardo Nunez. Okay. He has started hitting the ball a little bit here recently, but I'm not particularly encouraged. Just no pop at all. Not even a top 20 shortstop, Eduardo Nunez. Who do you rank ahead? Chris Owings or Nunez, rest of season? Owing's pretty easily. Oh, okay. Would you rather have Renan Perez or Eduardo Nunez? Perez, barely. If Ryan Braun goes on the D.L., Perez becomes a lot more interesting. That might guarantee him every day at bats.

Or are they going to call up Lewis Brinson? I don't think they'd call up Brinson, but, you know, I didn't think the Dodgers were going to call up Cody Bellinger either. We get another month until they call up Brinson, right? Presumably. All right, Scott, who are you ready to drop? Well, the first name that came to mind was Jose Parraza, because I actually have dropped him in a points league.

I don't think I could drop him in a row to leave. I mean, just too much steals potential there and too much of a need for steals. It might be actually the same kind of situation for, like, it may be the same deal as Eduardo Nunez for me. So I'm going to go with another pitcher here. I'm going to go with Taiwan Walker, who has very little to hang his hat on this year and has seemed to revert back to the habits that made him not so special in Seattle, as in not a varied enough pitch arsenal.

All right. Blank is underowned. Blank is underowned. If you need some time, I can give you a few names. I don't need some time. I did my homework this time. Cesar Hernandez is still just 83% owned. That's pretty owned.

It's May. He's a top three or four shortstop. He should be owned everywhere. He's not... Not shortstop. Second to basement. Second basement. He...

Listen, he's got a 422 babbip. That's not going to continue. but he's got a 358 career rabbit. It's not going to fall that much. And he's just doing exactly what I hoped he would do. Yes, we talked about early in the season, those four home runs weren't sustainable. He hasn't hit one since, and it hasn't really mattered. He's got 25 runs because he's getting on base at a 380 clip.

I don't – he's going to score 100 runs. He's going to hit 300. He's going to steal 20 bases. Striking out at like 175 strikeout pace, though. That's coming down. It's kind of like the Steven-Souza thing. He was at 27% earlier. Now it's down to 23%.

He's a career 19% guy. I don't know why we would expect that these 124 plate appearances really changes that. Well, why would you expect the babbip he has to... Well, I just didn't I start by saying he had the 420? The exact thing I just said. All right, sorry, I wasn't listening, I guess.

Come on, Adam. Scott's thinking about pitchers. Well, who's under-owned? Derek Holland is probably under-owned. I don't know that he's the most under-owned player because, look, he's one of those use-em-and-lose-em guys, but he's clearly on the use-im end of that right now having yet to allow more than two earned runs in a start, and he's less than 50-per-owned. And he has actually a history of being a fantasy asset.

Derek Holland. Yeah, just from his time, you know, before all the injuries came up with the Rangers, he was a 200- inning pitcher, mid-3 ZRA, unimpressive. strikeout rate, but the hole was greater than the sum, and I think we're seeing him get back to that this year. All right, so he says Cesar Hernandez should be owned in more than 83% of leagues. Scott says Derek Holland, you can read about Holland in the waiver wire. I also picked up Matt Andres after last night's start. He's got two starts next week. One of them is against the Royals. The other ones at Boston. Two bad lineups, as it turns out, but one is, you know, not bad, and that'd be

Boston. But right now they're struggling. I had three other guys that I thought might be underowned. there are many, but three that from yesterday, San Diego Casilla is 35% owned. I think he's going to get most, very close to all. Maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but the vast majority of saves. No, I think you're right. Pretty close to all, I think, is accurate.

It always reverts to this, and now that Sean Doolittle's on the DL, I don't know why it wouldn't be Cassia. But no, I wouldn't drop Kelvin Herrera for him, even though Herrera has three saves this year. I think Byron Buxton at 48% might be underowned. Might be. I think you've got to take that chance because we know how high the upside is.

Kenne Barxton kind of on the same level there. He's less than 60% owned and is hot. Yeah, he's in the notes later too with our streaking hitters with, we're going streaking. Keon Broxton is batting 371 in his last 11 games with four walks, 12 strikeouts, but four doubles and three homers. No, one homer, sorry. Is that right?

Only one homer? He had a second yesterday. Okay. Okay, there we go. Anyway, yeah, Kenny Vargas. Kenny Vargas is like 16% owned, underowned? Not yet, but if he starts to play more consistently, yes. I think he was underowned two days ago when he was 5%.

But he's come up to 16. That's probably good for him right now. All right, the next couple of fill in the blanks are fun and interesting. Here we go. The other ones have been boring and terrible. Bryce Harper leads baseball. in steals. No, in walks, in walks.

Blank is second in walks. Second in walks. Brad Miller. How did you get that? I couldn't believe that. Brad Miller has 25 walks. We were just talking about this yesterday. Oh, okay.

Actually, Scott brought this back to my attention, and then I recalled it quicker. I couldn't believe it. And he's number 16 second baseman in Pointsley. He stakes. He, well, he hasn't hit any home runs. He has technically hit one or two. One. Batting 204.

Not near what you expected based on what he did last year. It's pretty close to what I expected. This is halfway to his career high and walks. It's weird. We've seen so many different versions of Brad Miller over the years, and this seems like another one. He's like on-based machine Brad Miller now. I don't know.

I think because he's shortstop eligible. he's probably going to wind up being a useful fantasy player in the end, but I don't know how he's going to wind up there. Would you rather have Brad Miller or Marvin Gonzalez? Brad Miller. We've seen Badmiller, we've seen Radmiller, and now we've got Brad Miller, but we'd have to spell it with two Bs. Perfect.

Brad Miller. Yeah, but Brad Miller. There you go. Billy Hamilton leads baseball in steals. Blank is second. Is it Gerard Dyson? No. No, sorry, Royal.

He's got nine. How many does this guy have? 11. AJ Pollock. A.J. Pollock. It looks like he's just replicating his 2015 season when he hit 20 home runs with 39 steals in bed at 315. Is that fair?

Is A.J. Pollock back to being that? Yeah. Yep. Yeah, he's very good. Well, they should tell the humidor goes in. Yeah, but I mean, but, okay, and you know what? You say that, and, um, I wanted to give some Jake Lamb numbers.

Jake Lamb, just so you know, on the road so far, entering yesterday. He homered yesterday. He had a 991 OPS on the road. Now it's even higher than that at 200 points higher than his home OPS. But last year, in a much bigger sample size, 746 Road OPS, 934 home OPS for Jake Lamb. That's why Heath and I have been trying to trade him. But, I mean, it is worth... Like, he is good.

He is good. Yes, I'm not trying to say he's bad. he's a borderline top 12 third basement. And we had an email, if I can find who it was from. I know the gist of it. The gist of it was should I sell high on Paul Goldschmidt because of the humidor? I don't think so. And that was from, oh, that was from Dan and Lincoln, who says,

Dear Hot Dog, Euro, and Casidia. Sandwiches. Not sandwiches. That's specifically not sandwiches. Those are all sandwiches. All right, so you don't have to sell high on Goldschmidt. He's so good, and home runs don't make him. Like last year he hit, what, 26 home runs or something, and he was one of the best hitters in fantasy.

Yeah, I feel like A.J. Pollock is such a good hitter that you don't need to worry about it so much with him either. Those are the only two Diamondbacks hitters that I'm confident saying that about, though. Yeah, I don't think I'd worry as much about it with Owings. Liam and Tomas would be the two I'm most concerned about. Okay. Okay, Goldschmidt, by the way, hit 24 home runs last year. I gave them too many. So we have a couple of other podcasts that are new, that are great, that you should listen to.

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Ryan Braun, not making progress, could very well end up on the DL with the trap injury. And Mike Trout is day-to-day with hamstring tightness. It looks like Harper and Trout are really okay. But the Cardinals, Dexter Fowler and Stephen Piscotti both left. Fowler's going to have a shoulder MRI. Piscotti left with a hamstring injury. It's very possible that both Piscotti and Fowler end up on the DL?

I think they've already ruled Piscotti out for the weekend. He's not making the trip to Atlanta. Well, you see the weather last night? Who would want to go to Atlanta right now? Well, yeah. But yeah, so Jose Martinez? Yeah, I actually thought about putting him in Waverwire, but there's also Matt Adams there,

and it could end of a platoon, or maybe they are able to play both. If Fowler is out for an extended period as well, Gritchick could obviously move to center field. That's primarily what he played last year. Tommy Pham is on his way up from the minor, so he could factor into that mix as well. I don't think there's a clear enough front runner here for me to make a move for anyone except in L-only leagues.

Martinez was the spring training superstar who did pretty well as a pinch hitter, but looking at the game logs hasn't been very good lately. I think he only has one home run this year. Carlos Gonzalez left with a calf cramp. He's being called day-to-day. So between Bryce Harper and Carlos Gonzalez, you've got two extremely injury-brown players who apparently just suffered minor injuries and should be fine. But you never know.

You never know. Gary Sanchez expected to come off the DL today. Byron Buxton, he left after running into the outfield wall but does not have a concussion. If you've been wondering, hey, why aren't they using Sean Kelly? He's been sick. He's still there closer, but he's been sick lately, Sean Kelly. Like Chris Towers. Like Chris Towers of the Nationals bullpen.

They're right. Arizona's starting pitcher Braden Shipley, except Sean Kelly hasn't been tweeting me about how wrong I am about starting pitching. Braden Shipley was bad, so if you think Archie Bradley's got a chance to make the rotation, that certainly was a good development for him. Stephen Wright will have season-ending knee surgery. Meanwhile, David Price had a good rehab outing, a simulated game yesterday. He threw 93 to 95, so they're encouraged there. Other stuff.

Mets, Braves postponed, none of the stats counted. Terry Collins seems concerned about Travis Darno's wrist. Rich Hill had a terrible rehab outing. He didn't even pitch a full inning. Wilson Ramos has been cleared for limited catching duties as he recovers from a torn ACL. Todd Frazier was scratched with back tightness. Detroit does not think Ian Kinsler's going to be out long. Marcus Stroman says he'll make his next start and grade the hamstring strain for Ian Kennedy.

It's a grade one hamstring stream. We give it a one. But, you know, that sucked too. Another pitcher who got hurt, Ian Kennedy. And he had a bad start. All right. What do we need to know with prospects, Scott White? Who are the ones that are coming up soon?

Who do we need to stash? I don't think anybody's coming up soon. I actually put Joe Ross in the top five to stash just because he's a true minor leagueer now. I obviously understand it's not what you traditionally think of as a prospect. Have some integrity, Scott. Joe Ross. Well, the same was true for Julio Urius, and I kept putting him in there. But anyway.

Yeah, and that's largely because he's still probably one of the, the closest to getting called up just because none of the really high-end prospects seem like there's any buzz around them getting a promotion anytime soon. But, Yohan Monkata is still high on that list. Louis Brinson, Franklin,

Barreto, and Jose Barrios. Same five as last week, are the same five I am looking to stash this week if I'm looking to stash anybody. Though Ahmed Rosario of the Mets is quickly

quickly entering that discussion. It's batting about 400 at AAA. If Jose Reyes hadn't turned things around in the last week or two, we might start hearing that buzz about Rosario now. But as Rubel Cabreras in the last year of his contract had not off to a great start, Neil Walker's injury prone, Ahmed Rosario is a Francisco Lindor-type prospect and deserves to be on the radar.

They had moved him to third base. I remember about a month ago, maybe. maybe, reading that the Mets moved Rosario to third base, speculating that he was going to get called up and replace Reyes. It obviously has not happened. I don't know how much third base he's been playing. I don't know if you know. It was only one game. It was only one game?

Okay. Yeah. All right. And he's so good defensively. Like, his future is clearly at shortstop. Okay. So, you know, keep an eye on Ahmed Rosario. Amato had a prospect question.

Who do you think will be the first shortstop to get called up and provide value this year? Rosario, Beretto, Glyber Torres, and Ozzy Albies. Who's just second base on our site, Albies. But Barreto would still be, my guess, obviously, he was in my top five to stash, and Rosario wasn't. I don't really see Glabortez coming up this year, except maybe very late. He is killing it at AA, though,

and in the discussion probably to be the number one prospect overall next year. So let's talk about some streaking hitters. then we'll get out the dropometer and we'll look at two start pitchers and more from yesterday as well. I do want to talk about Yvonne Nova if we have time. Jarrell Cotten. Jarrell Cotten. And let's go streaking. Nelson Cruz is on a 13-game hitting streak right now.

And in that 13-game hitting streak, Cruz is batting 4-58 with five homers, 19 RBIs, and five doubles. Jose O'Brayo has turned things around in his last 10 games. He's batting 400 with four homers. runs in three doubles. Anything to say about Cruiser-A-Breou? No, not really. I mean, Jose Abraeu, I'm still on the fence about just how valuable he is, but he's must-own and looking like must-start right now. All right, we talked about Keon-Brockson. He's 52% own. He's been good lately. Marvin Gonzalez, Tim Beckham. Would you rather own Broxton or Buxton?

I think right now I would rather own Broxton. And he's, I feel like he got to a point where he's just about playing for his job, and it's a good thing that he kind of caught fire when he did. He's still, like we've talked a lot about Byron Buxton's strikeout problems. Broxton struck out 36% of the time last year, and he's at about 39% this year. So he's got to get that under control quickly, but I still have, I mean, at least he plays half his game. at Miller Park. Margo or Broxton?

I think I'm still I'm still feeling pretty good about Margo. Obviously, it's been kind of cold since those first couple weeks, but I just like the peripherals for him more. Yeah, I mean, he's a

safer bit. I feel like there's a lot more upside with Broxton. All righty. Colton Wong. Colton Wong, 22% owned. 3 for 4 with a double, an RBI, a run, and a steal yesterday. He's now batting 303. How about this stat?

Because we know Wong struggles against lefties. The Cardinals have faced 16 consecutive right-handed pitching starters. Right-handed starters. So it's not even clear Wong's an everyday player, even though he's been playing every day. But nine-game hitting streak 4-67. And he's crushing lefties this year. 429 average. With 10-bats?

What for what? Three for seven. one-to-one strike-out to walk race you have five doubles during the nine-game hitting streak and two steals i mean he still has he's still like i could see him being a poor man's jose ramirez the cross-the-board skills there give him that kind of upside so if you need a second baseman as deep as it is you probably don't but maybe in deeper leagues now's a good time to to see if he's available i mean his Spatted ball profile is still not great.

In terms of what, ground balls versus line? He's got a hard contact rate below 28%. He's got a 57% ground ball rate. I don't know that he's ever going to be a guy who has a high, hard contact rate. And Jose Ramirez isn't either, right? Well, this year he is. Okay. Well, he wasn't last year.

He's aiming to be what Jose Ramirez was last year. That is a tough needle to thread. Okay, then. And Eduardo Escobar, 8% own. Anybody care about him? He's got a 14-game hitting. streak, Eduardo Escobar. No.

I mean, I'm in, he's my shortstop in Scott's Silly Dynasty League, so it's not silly. It's a great, I have a silly team. So I'm excited about that, but no, I'm not adding him anywhere else. You should trade for D.D. Gregorius, By-Lo. Drop-O-meter, zero to ten on the drop-o-meter. Okay, so tell me how likely you are to drop this guy. Zero is no way, and 10 is, I already dropped him. Thanks for asking.

Ryan Healy, 70% owned. he homered yesterday, but he was four for 33 in his previous eight games. What is? I already dropped him, but he hit a home run yesterday, so I'm wondering if I shouldn't have. That's an 11. That's an 11. Okay, I'll put an 11 on Healy. He is, um, I didn't really understand where the, the big power potential for Ryan Healy came from.

But I kind of, I didn't, I wouldn't say I blindly bought him. into it, but I ended up with him on a couple of teams, and it just, he looked dreadful for a while. That home run yesterday was encouraging. I just don't know, I don't know what there's enough there. Well, it's really only home runs that he's providing. Well, he's giving us four. Yeah. He gives you one.

Every time you want to drop him, Healy has a game where it's like, oh, should I... He waited a little bit too long for me. So that's why I'm not really... His minor league numbers made him out to be more like a Billy Butler type hitter. Right. But whatever. I mean, I don't care to own them in a head-to-head league, but in a roto league, the roster size is being big.

I don't know that there'll be anything better out there. So I'll call that in eight. Okay. Next up on the dropometer is Wilson Contreras. Wilson Contreras, 98% owned. Only is he not playing well. He's playing about three out of every five games. Wilson Contreras.

Still like a zero for me. I mean, how are you going to find an upgraded catcher from Wilson Ramirez? If he gets hot, he'll play more than every three, every five games. Yeah, I can't. If there were other catchers that were not terrible, sure, but zero. And Heath did pick up Wilson, or excuse me, Miguel Montero, who's been very good, but really hasn't been good for like five years. Right, no, I picked him up at a two-catcher league where I lost Wellington Castillo.

And I don't think he's a bad guy to have as a second catcher. I mean, he's not a good one, but whatever. Dropometer for Kevin Kiermeier, who's 69% own. I almost put him on my guys I'm starting to think about dropping list. I don't know exactly what's wrong with him, but it's been a dreadful start to the year. Well, he's 69% own, so I don't know that it'd be crazy for you to think about dropping him. Like, it's another one of those situation, five outfield or roto leagues. It might be hard to swing, but I'm not so.

protective of him that like if I like something on waivers oh I can't drop kiermeyer I'll go with eight for him too he does have some similarities to sazar Hernandez and that like one of the only things right now he was an 18% strikeout guy for two years in a row and for some reason this year he's striking out 26% of the time I don't know that I'd necessarily expect that to continue but the little power bump we saw in 2016 hasn't continued and we thought he can't be that low of a bad-bip guy, and he is once again. So it's hard to be encouraged by Keirmeier. And it's just like, if you're in a three-offielder league especially, I just dropped

Corey Dickerson for, yeah. I mean, this is unbelievable to me. I dropped Corey Dickerson for Matt Andries, and that is going back to what Scott said. Like, it's just the state of fantasy baseball right now is I can find a Corey Dickerson. So I don't need a Kevin Keirmeier now in a deeper league. You know, you're just the steal, he's still stealing some bases. He's not this bad of a hitter. You know, so I understand hanging on to Kiermeyer,

but if you're in a league with anything on the waiver wire, I don't know why you'd have to hang on to him, and you can stream two-star pitchers, which might be more valuable to you. So anyway. Yeah, no. Format makes such a big difference with this exercise. Mark Reynolds started against the Ritey,

and Newsflash last year and so far this year, he's better against Ritees. But we know there's a bit of a log jam. So Mark Reynolds on the dropometer. 10 in a standard points league and three in a Roto League? I don't think, with the news that David Dolls a ways away, I don't think Reynolds is going to lose a ton of playing time. I'll go 10 and 6.

He'll lose some playing time, and I still don't. Like, his fly ball percentage is down this year, after already falling quite a bit last year and disappointing us all with the home run total. So I don't think he can sustain his current pace. Great. Good stuff. That's a dropometer. Let's go to some guys you might want to add. Anybody interested in Seth Smith or Ben Gamble? I put in a claim for Gamble in a 24 team league.

A, he wasn't already owned in a 24 team league, and B, it took a 24 team league for me to put in a claim for him. But Seth Smith was owned in that league. You're still more interested in Seth Smith than you are Ben Gamble. No, because Gamble plays every day. Until Hanigrat comes back. Yeah. That's a short-term thing, though. Yeah. Seth Smith, who cares? He doesn't play enough.

He has less than 50 at bat so far. Oh, he was injured, though. He has two at bats against the left-hander, I think. So it's not going to be many of bats. Yeah, you're not adding Seth Smith in a points league at all. He leads off with the Orioles, Seths. he's having a great year, at least the slash line. 286, 386, 397, 510 is a slash line, but he's not this good.

You know the last time I said, who cares? He's never going to play against lefties. You know who it was about? Eric Thames. Yeah. No, but Seth Smith has a track record, Scott. But, like, no, he's not this good, but he's been relatively decent in Seattle years, and he's in a much better park.

He's always been a pretty good O.B.P. guy, but just not with enough power to. And the power is going to be helped by the fact. he's playing a Camden Yobats. He's playing Colorado. Well, that was half a decade ago. Seth Smith's average, I hate saying Seth Smith's name, and he sells seashells by the seashore.

His average OPS in five seasons since playing in Colorado is 765, for what that's worth. Yvonne Nova had an interesting, well, he had a pretty bad start. Six innings, 10 hits, four runs, no walks, five strikeouts. of the damage coming in one inning. But right now he's got a 213 ERA. He had a 306 ERA with Pittsburgh last year. He's still a big-time strike thrower.

He has one walk in 42 innings, but not throwing as many strikes as he did last year with the Pirates. He had a 224 Babbup entering yesterday's start. It was 309 with Pittsburgh last year. I had said after the complete game shutout, I think, that he was a – I think it was after. I hope it wasn't before that he was a sell-high candidate just because there are so many balls in play, and I think their defense stinks. Chris pointed out that their infield defense was good last year. I don't know how it is this year,

but their outfield defense is an embarrassment. And I don't know, like at one point, at one hand, I do think Nova's a cell high. On the other hand, I feel like he's going to throw a lot of innings, and he pitches for Ray Searidge and should be pretty solid. So what do you think? I've got him right in the same range as Irvin Santana. Oh, really?

Interesting. Nova and Santana. Okay. I'd rather have No. but yeah, I hear you. I'm going to give you a whole bunch of fringy starting pitchers who pitched yesterday. You tell me long term who you'd be interested in picking up, and then we will look at two-star pitchers for Fantasy Week 6.

Adam Wainwright, Chase Anderson, Jarrell Cotton, Derek Holland, Joe Musgrove, Matt Andrees, Arielle Miranda, A.J. Griffin, Zach Eflin-Effron, Kyle Freebird, Freeland. Cotton and Wayne Wright for me. Cotton, I think if we're thinking long-term, he's the one with the best chance of becoming a, you know, somebody you want on your roster all season long, but I think there's so few pitchers that are actually going to do that

that I think I'd rather own Derek Holland right now just for the short-term payoff and the potential to turn him into trade bait very soon. It looks like Joaquin Benoit was being used as the setup man. run, but they did not use Hector Neris yesterday. I think they were waiting for a save chance, and they lost in 13 innings at the Cubs. So if you own Nerris, that was a good thing to see. Any hitting advice for Fantasy Week 6?

Let's move on to the pitchers. I would just say, like, I was ready to drop Jason Hayward, and the Cubs have three games at Colorado. And it's not because I hate Jason Hayward, but it's because, like, the reason I dropped Corey Dickerson. It's three out here of the league. I need a two-star pitcher. I think, because, you know, I'm Mr.

Philly with all the Phillies on my roster. They only have five games next week. They do. It's going to make it difficult to start a lot of your borderline Phillies. Braves also have only five games next week, though in the Braves case, it's a lot of bad pitchers they're facing. Well, and they're a little, I feel like they're a little bit more defined. Like you can't sit Freddie Freeman, you can't sit Matt Kemp.

But, yeah, Ender and Ciarte is probably the main one who's going to be in and out of your lineup. I would lean, well, three lefties. I don't know what his exact splits are, but I'd probably lean towards sitting in Enciarte. You call yourself a Braves fan, call yourself a Braves fan, and you can't name Ender NCRte's exact splits off the top of your head. I mean, come on, Scott White. You know Aaron Judges? Of course. What are they? Well, like, give me a stat. What do you want to know? What's he batting against left-handers? I'll just give you his OPS against lefties. It's 1148. Heath, am I right?

I will say no. You are wrong. Do you know the answer? No, but you're wrong. I'm probably wrong. Okay, two star pitchers for Fantasy Week 6. We've got Jake Areetta at Colorado and at St. Louis. Start or sit?

Jake Areeta? Yeah, at Colorado and at St. Louis. Yeah, it's still start him. Okay. I always ask if there's an at Colorado. All right. I'm taking Justin, not Joseph Rolander, facing Joseph Rolander's Robbie Ray.

Robbie Ray, Detroit and Pittsburgh, both at home. Mustard. Yeah. Okay. Ian Kennedy is supposed to be a two-star pitcher. You have to keep an eye on that one. We've got Drew Pomerant's at Milwaukee, home against Tampa Bay.

You feel good about Pomeran's? At Milwaukee, home against Tampa Bay. Yes. He's been better than I expected him to be this year. And I like those matchups at Milwaukee. Walkie's dangerous, of course, but they strike out a lot. Yeah, I'm sorting him. He's the lowest guy on his list so far, but I'm starting him.

Well, I don't know, Scott. We have him. Team Scam has Julio Arias, and I'm just not sure. Pittsburgh and at Colorado, I think I'm sitting Julio Arras. Yeah, we did just lose Cole Hamels, so in that 16-teamble, I don't know that we have many choices, but I would lean in most cases towards sitting Arias as well. Yep, sit your ears down.

Do you trust Kendall Graveman against the Angels and at Texas? Yeah. No. To get the extra start in there, I'd do it. It's not my favorite by any means. Do you trust Jeff Samarja at the Mets and home against the Cincinnati Reds? Here's one I regret dropping. I dropped him for Josh Bell in a couple leagues this weekend,

and then, of course, he turns in his best start. You'll feel better about it in a couple weeks. Probably. Yeah. I don't expect him to become Mr. Relo. all of a sudden, but coming off that great start with two good matchups, yeah. I would other start with Samarja than Graveman. Me too.

All right, let's talk about some guys you might be able to pick up. And by the way, let's say you're in a shallow league and you've got Samarja, Matt Moore and Jared Eichoff, all two start pitchers. Shallow leads, they're 80% to 84% owned. Samarja, Matt Moore, Jared Eichoff. Who would you pick up? Who does Icoff have? Seattle at home, Washington on the road. Terrible matchups, but I think I'd still choose him.

Okay. We got Senzatella, two home stars against the Cubs and the Dodgers. Nope. Get him out of there. Are you going to drop Senzatella? I never wanted him in the first place. He's used him or lose him, guy. It's time to lose him already.

He did a great. 4.6 strikeouts per 9. Colorado Ivan Cove. But you did a great job, Heath, because you said pick him up for this week at San Diego, and it worked out well. It worked out well. I'm not dropping him. No.

I'm going to hold on to him and start him next week when he's on the road. Trade him. Trade him. Well, yeah, if you could get somebody to trade for him. He's technically top 20 so far. I'll put that in the notes my trade offer. Charlie Morton, home against Atlanta and at the Yankees. Yeah, you get the Braves.

Don't even worry about the second start. Let me group some guys together. Charlie Morton against Atlanta and the Yankees, at the Yankees. At the Yankees, by the way, is pretty scary. Alex Wood, Pittsburgh, and at Colorado. Scarier than at the Yankees. Hesashi Yuakuma at Philadelphia and at Toronto. That's pretty interesting.

and Hector Santiago at the White Sox and at Cleveland. We got Morton, Alex Wood, Iwakuma, and Santiago. What were the names again? I'm sorry. Charlie Morton, Alex Wood, Iwakuma, Hector Santiago. Yeah, the only one I trust is Morton. I think I'm okay with, I think I'd start Iwakuma against those matchups. He's been so bad.

He's got a 3.30A. 10 strikeouts? Oh, wait, no, is that his last three? Yeah, it's his last three. How are you feeling as a Yankees fan right now? Because they've gotten nothing from the hitters that we thought were their best two coming into the season, Gary Sanchez and Greg Bird. They've gotten not a Tanaka-like performance from Tanaka. And yet, their record is amazing.

I feel like they're going to miss the playoffs. They're in first place. I feel like they'll miss the playoffs, but I feel good. I mean, I'm pretty encouraged. 17 and 9. I feel like they're going to finish third in the division. We knew they were going to have an easy schedule at the beginning of the season. But they haven't even gotten from their best players anything yet.

They've gotten nothing. Yeah, I know. It's crazy. I think they'll probably finish third too, but, man, I could totally see it. I don't know that they're worse than the Orioles. I can totally see them making the playoffs. I didn't look at that division as a three. I feel like I picked three teams coming out of the West or two in the Central maybe to make the playoffs.

I don't think I picked two coming out of the east. But anyway, yeah, I think somebody wrote us an email. Do you sit players, your pitchers against the Yankees? There are some pitchers that you don't sit no matter where they are. Maybe Colorado, you know. But against the Yankees at Yankee Stadium, I think, is one of the toughest matchups in baseball right now. Yankees on the road, maybe a different story.

Other, like at Boston, obviously used to be a like almost must sit, but they're just not hitting. Is at Boston a must sit for you guys? No. No, it's not a must sit, but I still view it as a tough matchup. Sure. Washington is really the one that is gone from like, yeah, we thought this might be a tough matchup to like,

don't you crazy to start this fringy pitcher against the nationals. Like Kevin Gosman, who has the Nationals at home and at Kansas City, he's just been so bad. No, yeah, there hasn't been anything redeeming about his performance right now. I'm not saying you can't have him on your roster, but you have to bench him until he does something to force his way back in your lineup. All right, so please look at the starting pitchers,

the two-star pitchers here, because I can't keep reading all the matchups. Blake Snell, Willie Peralta, Matt Andres, who I have added Matt Andres. I'm not sure if I'm going to start him. It will depend on how the rest of my pitching staff is looking in two leagues. Kyle Freeland, Adam Conley, Ricky Nalasco, A.J. Griffin, Nate Carnes, Luis Pardombo, Nick Martinez, Jared Weaver, Alex Meyer, Rookie Davis, Mike Pelfrey. No chance. Who are we picking up this week for two-star pitchers?

I mean, Andres was a good call by you, especially in a points league where he has the relief pitcher eligibility. He has four quality starts and his six starts, which doesn't sound impressive. But it is because quality starts have not been frequent this year. I wanted to look up real quick how many pitchers have as many as four. While I'm doing that, though, the only other pitcher on this list of the names you just rattled off, who I might even just think about is A.J. Griffin, and only because he's been... Okay, so good, and he's at San Diego and versus Oakland. down a lot from my Blake Snell love. But

when he's a two-start pitcher and A.J. Griffin is a two-start pitcher. I think you have to you can't say you would consider A.J. Griffin and not even think about Blake Snell. I would. Because Snell, like, I don't trust them to give me a quality start. I don't trust him to pitch more than five things. You trust A. J. Griffin to give you a

quality start? At San Diego and home against Oakland, I think there will be at least one in there. I was stretching. Well, Snell gets the royals. I was stretching my standards because I didn't want to just say nobody. I wanted to give those desperate for a two-star pitcher somebody else they could look at. I feel like Griffin has some sleeper appeal this week, but he throws high 80s and serves up a lot of fly balls. Is that start at Oakland?

No, it's home. That's the only place he pitches will. At San Diego and home against the athletics. All right. It's not the most inspiring week for two-star pitchers, so good luck. Let's read some emails from Paul in Toronto. Christina, Brittany, Mandy, and Jessica. Those are like 90s pop stars, right?

Yeah, what are their last names? Aguilera, Spears, Moore, and Simpson. Yeah, I didn't know if you'd get Mandy. But I did like that song Candy by Mandy Moore. I think it was because she's so hot in that video. I think of her more, like, she went into acting, right? Also, I'm kind of worried that she was like a teenager in that video, and I just did something very creepy unintentionally.

Yeah, see, I just try to judge female artists by their music and not by their looks. I do, too. I don't like any of their music. Oh, no, that's wrong. They all have some good music. These four girls, I'm not saying female artists. I don't like pop stars. I don't like 98 degrees in the back street boys and in sync either.

Something to do with gender. You're trying to bury Adam here. No, I'm doing a good enough job myself. So, the Paul with the pop stars, says, we have some chaos in my least. right now. A veteran owner just traded a first-time owner. Reynolds and Gallo for Altovae and Lamb. It's been causing some hostile discussions. I would think so, yeah.

Vito? You don't veto. Yes, you veto. Reynolds and Gallo for Altova and Lamba? That's vetoable, in my opinion. Okay, you can kick him out of the league. No, that's such an extreme. No, that's my belief. It's a first-time owner.

It's a mistake. Yeah, I mean, everybody knows it's a bad deal, but, like, if this is an owner that you want to invest in and you think he's going to be a... Like, you have to let him take his lumps and learn his lessons, you know? I understand it stinks for everybody else because this experienced owner's team got drastically better for very little. But, yeah, I mean, you can't... Also, it depends on what the league settings are set at before the season. If there's a precedent in this league of commissioners vetoing trades, this is vetoable. But you don't, like that's not a precedent I like to set because it can get out of control.

And the whole league ends up collapsing upon itself because nobody feels like they can make a trade anymore. Any league that I'm commissioner of or a part of, the setting I believe it should be for trades is as soon as a person says accept, the trade is official. There should be no review of process. I generally agree with that. I think in a case like this, this potentially completely threw off the balance of the league. Somebody else should have been trying to pick on the rookie? No, that is unrealistic.

King of Ager Trade is over here saying, don't think. I would never make that trade offer. That is bad even by my standards. Reynolds and Gallo for Altuve and Lamb, I would never make that offer. It's ridiculous. From Doug, the best combo name requires Drew Hutchison being called up. Turner and Hutch. that would be pretty good.

And finally, we've got... Let's see if we have a time for two more here. This is from Jim. Who should... Oh, which outfielder should I drop? 15 team points league. Tomas, Yelich, Pueg, Dickerson, Conforto, Soler. Well, Soler...

Well, Soler's in his DL spot. That's not going to help. Pueg, Tomas, Yelich, Dickerson, Conforto. Since it's a points league, Tomas, he never walks. I'll go with Pueg, for sure. For sure. I would have said Dickerson. I think Dickerson's going to be like a 270 hitter.

He's hitting like 3-10 or something. He's got such a high batting average against lefties that I know he's going to start struggling with batting average. And also he's batting leadoff and has 10 RBIs this year, I think. So he's not going to give you that. They don't score a lot of runs. So Dickerson, to me, is a good sell high. What's the difference in fantasy points for you is Bonnie Tomas and Yalziel Pueg this year? I assume Puegs outscored him.

let me check yeah i don't know were you thinking i think puig has 76 and so moss has 75 okay they've been the same yeah but that's not the question weeak with twice as many walks they have an equal number

of home runs puke i've obviously better base dealer i go puke i'd rather have puke if they're tied i'll take the guy that was better last year and i go bye bye because it is time for the weekend got a big dinner tonight i'll tell you about it on my

Monday. Big, big, big, lot of steak tonight at dinner. Get excited for the story on Monday. For Heath Cummings. You're getting engaged? Oh, that already happened. Getting married in a little over two months. Oh, I'd know that if I was invited. Okay.

Awkward. Bye.