Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/10 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Jake Scare-ietta, Rankings Risers, Grade the Trade

Episode Date: May 10, 2017

Jake Arrieta owners are FREAKING OUT right now, and this could be a great time to take advantage of that (2:00). The velocity is down and Arrieta should be downgraded, but he's still a buy low candidate ... So much more from yesterday including the fringey SPs you can add (24:06), Mark Reynolds and Yonder Alonso continuing their hot starts (17:40), Keon Broxton and more hitters you can find on Waivers (38:10) ... Scott and Chris give some rankings risers (29:00), and we're grading your trades! ... 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

Pescus bowl, my Okay, Jake Arieta owners, you are freaking out. And we are here to calm me down a little bit. Welcome to Wednesday show, Grade the Trade today. Also, we should be committed to this every day, I think. We're going to look at today's pitching matchups and tell you who to start, who to sit. Like, obviously, if we had done that yesterday, we would have said, no way, you don't start John Lackey at Corus Field.

What are you crazy? Yeah. Yeah, so why are we going to do this? We're going to harm people's teams. Is that what you want to do? We can name this segment that harming your team, but I think hopefully we'll be that way. We got a lot of emails, fantasy baseball, TBSA.com. They're mostly great the trade and Jake Arieta freak out emails.

We have Matt Harvey liking Cinco de Mayo. Is he still a by low? Scott, well, you can answer that later. Mark Reynolds homered again. He's a top five first baseman. Yonder Alonzo is a top 10 first baseman. He homered twice. AJ Griffin, complete game shutout. Rankings, risers, and rancers.

rankings followers. And guess what? I asked Scott and Chris yesterday, hey, can you give me two rankings risers and two rankings followers? And Scott White emailed me this morning and gave me his two. And Chris Towers has kept me in the dark and still has not provided that information. Isn't that right, Chris? Yeah, well, you emailed, you tweeted me or texted you. Texted. There's so many ways of communication. You texted me while I was at a Marlins game. And so, you know, I was busy. That's fine. Did you stay for the whole game? I did stay for the whole game. It was great.

They blew a late lead. The Super Bullpen lost the game for them. Do you get angry when the Marlins lose? No. Oh. That would be ridiculous. You're lucky man. What kind of person would do that?

All right. Let's talk about Jake Arrieta. I promised the people on Twitter, we were going to have a segment called More Like Scarietta. And here it is. More like Scarietta. Why is everybody freaking out?

He was at Colorado for God. sake. He's got a 535 BRA though, 1.47 whip. And the walks have been fine. 12 walks and 38 and 2 thirds, 44 strikeouts, but velocities down for Arieta, and opponents are now hitting 290 against him, whereas the last two years they hit 194 and 185, even last year, 194 batting average against and 185 in 2015. I think people are saying, look, he struggled, especially with his control after the

All-Star break last year. 16 starts 444 ERA, now start of 2017, 17, right? Yeah, 535 ERA. So where are you guys on Jake Areeta? Chris and I were kind of tag teaming yesterday, all the Jake Areeta haters who came at us because we dared express some level of caution? Yeah. Like, you know, it's just Course Field, like you said. It's like we always give pitchers a pass for coursefield because it's a wacky environment.

Pitches don't move like normal. You can't expect a pitcher to be normal. I'm going to walk back my dog. I'm not having trouble thinking of course. I'm trying to help. I'm going to walk back my enthusiasm a little bit today. because, and look, strikeout rate is up from last year, walk rate is down, swinging strike rate, pretty normal. There isn't, I don't think, like, it's probably not going to be a problem, but Jake Arrieta's velocity is down,

kind of like I was saying with John Lester last week, except even more so, it's down a couple miles per hour from just last year. So that in conjunction with him having getting hit harder or having a higher ERA, you know, you could just dismiss it as bad bit luck especially since some of the bat missing stats are exactly what you want them to be. But it's a little concerning. I am dropping a little in my rankings, but the idea that, oh, well, he's just clearly not an ace anymore. I mean, with how few pitchers are capable of delivering what he's capable of delivering over six and seven innings, you know, the whole changing landscape, the idea that we're not really seeing anybody emerge as an ace anymore, you're just not going to find, like, if you gave away that. I think you are tiptoeing around. I need you to tell me right now where he is in your rankings. and like I get it.

You can't like drop Jake Arriette or anything like that. In fact, somebody did in one of our emailers leagues. I'll get to that. But what are we doing here with him? That specific question yesterday. What do we do with Jake Arriette? Buy low, by low, by low. No, no, no.

I'm specifically talking about the rankings. And I can't really justify moving him out of the four spot, which is where I've had him since the start of the preseason. Really? Yeah, he's been bad. Very high. I didn't have him. four in the first place. Well, I didn't have him at four in the first place either, but Bumgarner and

Price and Cindergarde have all dropped below him. I think he was six or seven. And then I look at everyone behind him and who the heck am I going to move ahead of him? Well, not going to move John Lester. Well, that's kind of what I was saying. You're taking it to another level in that he's still an ace among aces. I was saying you can only drop him so far because there's so few pitchers who are keeping capable of touching his upside. Nobody's past him for me. Maybe Jacob de Grom. But nobody in that next tier,

I don't trust any of those guys to move them ahead of him. So what about Carlos Carrasco, who's just off to a dynamite start? Yeah, this might be the best we've ever seen Carasco because he's gone seven innings or more in four of his seven starts. I'm going to have Carasco ahead of very,

when I get the next chance to update my rankings. Arietta will be outside my top 10. But the idea he's not top 15, or one tweeter said he's not a top 25 pitcher. He's not going to be a top 25 pitcher from here forward. And like, no way. I mean, I can't even imagine 25 pitchers who, even if Jake Arieta is just who he was in the second half last year

with like a mid-3s-ERA and a 107 whip about a strikeout per. I mean, disappointing by Jake Garietta standards, but still with a lot of endings for a great team. Even if he's just that version from today forward, I can't imagine 25 pitchers I'd want over him. Well, I had him as a 444 ERA in his last 16 starts last year. Yeah, I was just doing strictly All-Star break, but it depends where you cut it off how that number is going to look.

All right, so bottom line is, we, Scott and I, together in Team Scam, separately have made a lot of by-low offers on Jake Garietta, just to see if the owners in our leagues are freaking out the way the owners on Twitter are freaking out. I offered Travis Shaw and Alex Wood for Jake Arietta, and that got kind of laughed at. Yeah, that's too low. Well, we also, you know, we offered Julio Arias, who had a great start last night, and Patrick Corbyn, which I also thought was too low, and it was, and it got rejected. So I would be, you know, It was one of these teams where the offer or the Shaw offer I made where I couldn't really find like a logical trades.

I either have great pitchers or terrible pitchers and nothing in between. But, yeah, I would trade Tanaka. As much as I like Tanaka, I want to buy low on him. I would rather have Areeta. I mean, we all still believe in Areeta right now, even with the velocity down. We all still believe in him, right? Bottom line? I don't view him in the same tier as. I think there are three pitchers who are.

clearly ahead of everyone, Scherzer Sale and Kershaw. I don't view him in that tier, but like I said earlier, I have a really hard time moving anyone else really ahead of him. Okay. Now, just to do worst-case scenario here, are we seeing the effects of two straight post-season runs and a deep post-season run, obviously last year, on Jake Arietta and John Lester, and maybe even Kyle Hendricks, all of their velocities are down? The reason why I wasn't that concern coming into the years because I thought Joe Madden did a pretty good job managing their innings, specifically in the regular season. Like, Areietta, if you look at regular season versus regular season in the last two years,

he threw like 25 fewer innings or something like that from 2015 to 16. So it didn't really concern me. Lester a little bit, because I thought they pushed him kind of hard in the postseason. But is that what we're seeing right now? Are they getting like, this is the Giants rotation and Matt Cain all over again with Lester and Areetta. I mean, it's possible, yes. It's possible that Jake Garietta has some kind of unrevealed injury.

I mean, all these are possibilities. I do think it's worth mentioning on the subject of velocity. I think I remember reading the Cubs were kind of going easy on their pitchers in spring training. So it's possible they're not quite in mid-season form yet, even now. And his two starts prior to this one, Harriet's Velocelior. it was the highest spin all season. So there is kind of an upward trend we're seeing already with his velocity. So like I said at the beginning, it's worth pointing out it does raise some concern in me,

but it might end up being not a big deal. What I would point out that might be a bigger concern is the fact that the Cubs had, by defensive runs saves, they had the best defense in baseball last season by a massive margin. They saved 82 runs last season with their defense. the second place was 51 runs saved. This season, they're about middle of the pack. And, you know, that partially that's just Swarber. I mean, yesterday, Chris Bryant was out in right field.

Schwerber was out in left field. The outfield defense was really bad for the Cubs. And it cost Jake Ariad if you were watching the game. But part of that's also, I think, just a little random. Like, we're probably just seeing the two extremes of the Cubs right now. And if the extreme is a middle-of-the-road defense, I think they'll be fine in the long run. Okay, so anyway, to finish this up, Scott, we just got offered just now. We just got offered Jake Arrieta for Gene Seguera.

Oh, let's think about that. I don't want to, I don't want to, we're going to have to think about that. Because this is a 16-team league where it's not like there are a lot of great hitter options available if we get rid of our only shortstop. So we'll need to think about that, I think. We got an email from Ben, who's in a 10-team league, where he was going to give Gene Sigurra for Jake Garietta, and I told him that was a fair trade.

It is a fair trade. Yeah, so it really depends on your team. Just have to decide if we want to do it. I was going to do a lot more Jake Arietta emails like Rupert from Scotland, who just offered us the deal in the podcast for the People League, said he wants to give up on Jake Arietta. Thought I was drafting Pink Floyd, only to find out I got bleeping Aerosmith,

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We've got a lot of bullpen stuff. Matt Harvey, though, loves himself some Cinco to Mayo. And things are just getting a little hairy, Scott White. You still feel good about buying low on Matt Harvey? I still feel very good about it. I liked I liked one of Terry Collins' comments about

what he said to Matt Harvey and I don't have it right here in front of me but it seemed like the kind of thing that might kind of wake him up the idea that... You love him. What?

You love him. You just love him. Everything that has happened has been spun. as a positive on this podcast by you, I will point out. Okay, this is what Column said. I told him he needs to make baseball number one. When he did that, he was on top of the world, which is true. And I don't think Harvey likes where he's at right now.

I'm kind of skeptical that Matt Harvey is all of a sudden, like, completely a different person, and that's why he's struggling to pitch. I think we're focusing on all this stuff because he's pitching poor. I don't think he's pitching that poorly, though. He is pitching poorly. Well, he didn't show up for a game. That's not common practice. Sure. But I'm sure it's not the first time either.

He has showed up late once before. That we know of. What I can't stand about this whole thing is that nobody seems to just want to remove that horrible start he had when he shouldn't have been pitching. His numbers would be a lot better. They wouldn't be great, but they'd be a lot better if not for that start. Everybody's making out like he's having the worst season ever. And I just think if you look at the game log, it's absolutely not the case of Matt Harvey. I mean, that game's not the reason he has a strikeout per nine, a 5.14.

No. That game's not the reason he has a strikeout to walk ratio of less than 2 to 1. But he was getting really lucky in his early starts when his numbers looked okay. He had like a Babbitt below 200. He was getting a lot of batted ball luck. He passed the eyeball test, at least if you wanted to be optimistic about him. His stuff looks pretty good and it's just not there yet. Let's just pretend like Harvey's season starts today because his velocity was only back

in his last start. It was never meant like my stance on Harvey was never he's going to be an ace from the get-go. I was surprised how well he did that first month and I thought, yeah, I mean, if the strikeouts don't pick up, it's going to be a problem. But the velocity he has picked up. Everybody

who got a microphone in front of them after his last start said this is the best Harvey's looked, even though the results weren't great. He still needs to figure out the command. But he's on the right track from a procedure with a very good track record,

and this should theoretically make him more affordable because everybody's down on Harvey now. I love that. I haven't actually been able to pull off a by low trade, which makes me think people deep down inside believe in him as well, but they're saying they don't. Okay. Yeah, I don't know.

The guy's got five strikeouts in his last 17 innings of work. It doesn't matter. People should be down on him. It's not about what he's done. It's about what he's going to do. Justin Wilson is the new Detroit closer. Zach Britton could miss six to eight weeks. Sean Kelly could be back on Friday,

not a moment too soon for the Nationals. They blew a save yesterday. Mark Malanson is on the D.L. with an elbow injury. Have you picked up Derek Law? No. I did. I would if I had big enough need for saves in one of my leagues.

I don't think it's a save opportunities. I would guess it's going to be short-term. I mean, seeing that, Zach Britton wound back up on the DL with a forearm strain again. After coming back quickly, I mean, there's no guarantees there. But the plan is for it to just be the minimum stay. Okay, yeah. I picked up law only where I had Malanson in one league.

Robinson Canoe left with a quad strain. He's day-to-day. Mike Trout sat again. Dexter Fowler sat again, but he broke Chris's heart last night with a pinch-hit game-winning single at the Marlins. White Sox GM, Rick Hahn, indicated that Yoan Moncata is not going to be called up anytime too soon. Doesn't mean you shouldn't stash him, but don't expect it to be imminent for Moncada.

Jose Bautista, this was an interesting stat. He snapped an 0 for 21 slump. And in 2015, he had an 0 for 25 slump in late June. And that year he hit 250 with 40 home runs and 114 RBIs. So I guess there's a little bit of a ray of sunshine there. The only difference is in that 0.25 slump in 2015, not the only difference, but a big difference. Only four strikeouts, maybe five.

and Bautista's obviously been striking out a ton. He's been terrible. He's interesting. I know people were dropping him. I picked him up. Doesn't mean I wouldn't drop him in some cases, but yeah, that's Bautista. Okay. Aaron Sanchez could start on Sunday.

Kendris Morales left with hamstring tightness. And Ryan Brain, Milwaukee Outfield of Ryan Brain, is back in the lineup. Tuesday standouts. Woo! Okay. Mark Reynolds keeps on hitting. Four home runs in his last four games. Joey Gallo homered.

He's batting 205, but he is the number six third baseman in points leagues. And remember, Gallo's got 14 strikesouts to 151 strikeout, 51. And number three in Roto for Gallo at third base. And Yonder Alonzo is now a top 10 first baseman, two more home runs. He has started against the last two lefty starting pitchers that the A's have faced. Good job, Adam. and Alonzo has already set a career high for home run. So we've got Mark Reynolds, Joey Gallo, Yonder Alonzo.

Are you buying into any of them on a season-long basis? Well, Yonder Alonzo, yes. He is the one I'm most optimistic about. Actually, even though he's the most available, only 59% owns still. And I know that was down to like 20 as of this past weekend, so it's risen a lot. But it needs to rise more one of the most vocal, obvious cases of success with this whole fly ball revolution

tapping into power that he was thought to have a long time ago in the Reds organization but never delivered in the majors and yeah I think he's pretty close to must start I wish he was more versatile than just first base it'd be easier to say then but I like him a lot the Joey Gallo thing, being a top six third baseman, despite hitting 205, that's in Roto. That has to be a lot of the fact that he has 46 combined runs in RBI. There's something weird going on with Texas where they are fifth in the American League and runs scored and 11th in OPS. And that feels unsustainable one way or the other.

The team-wide OPS has to turn around. you've got guys slumping up and down the lineup. But if it doesn't, the RBI opportunities aren't going to be there for him. Well, what do you do with Gallow and Reynolds? Okay. I can't imagine Corsefield is just going to turn Mark Reynolds into a great hitter. He just, he hasn't been, he hasn't really been a power hitter for the last six seasons. Basically, he's averaged 23 home runs per 162 games.

I know only one of those seasons, that was in his last five years. Only one of those seasons was a Colorado season. But, I mean, Mark Reynolds is batting 336 with 12 home runs. And the other thing is, like, I know course field is going to help your batting average, but it's turning him into one of the best hitters in baseball, and he hasn't been anywhere close to that. So if you own Gallo or Reynolds, are you more likely to just write it out and see where this goes or try to make a trade?

I'm going to sell high, but I am starting to give Reynolds a little more confidence. With every home run he hits. Because it's true that while his fly ball percentage has declined every year, it seemed like that is really what robbed him of home runs even playing at course field last year. And it's taken another step that direction this year. His strikeout rate has fallen even more impressively, I think. It's down to 21.2 this year. When, you know, during his prime of his career with the Diamondbacks, his best year,

when he was basically the hitter Joey Gallo is now. He was striking out 33% at the time. So that's a big difference. And if you're playing half your games at Coors Field making that much contact, it's going to lead to good things. Will he be able to be a 30-homer guy? Well, you know, he's off to such a hot start

that I think there's a good chance of that as long as he keeps playing. Yeah, he's had a 44% home run to fly ball ratio. he hasn't been above 18% since 2012. I just, I look at him and I see someone who's just been outrageously lucky. He's not hitting the ball especially hard, 88 mile per hour average exit velocity. I just, I can't get excited about Mark Reynolds at all. I'll ride it while it's happening, but the moment things start to turn, I'm 100% ready to drive.

Now, it's interesting you say he's not hitting the ball hard because He does have a 38% hard contact rate. It's high best of his career. I think that, I would say that number at this point in the season is less reliable than the exit velocity numbers. Now, to be clear, because it sounded like Chris and I were giving contrasting opinions, I am totally on board with selling high on Mark Reynolds. It's just, before I was completely dismissing him and now it's like, yeah, you kind of have to start him. What about Reynolds or Alonzo?

So I guess Scott's going Alonzo. Chris, how about you? I would rather have Alonzo for sure. Hosmer or Alonzo? I'd rather have Alonzo. I'd rather have Hosmer, but they're very close in my rankings right now. And if it becomes 100% clear Alonzo is playing every day and not staying against lefties, I think he started against the last two or three.

Two. Yeah. So then that might change with that. in a couple weeks. Okay, AJ Gryffindor, 63% owned, complete game, four hitters, shutout at the Padres, and four strikeouts. And Griffin has a 245 ERA, six walks, 27 strikeouts, and 29 and a third. Are we missing the boat here on A.J. Griffin, only 63% owned?

No, I think... I can't make sense of what he's doing. Mm-hmm. Like, it's just, there's no reason for me to buy into it. it except that it happened. 88 mile per hour fastball with an extremely high flyball tendency. It's just... Yeah,

Homer prone pitcher for sure. Yeah. He gave up 28 home runs in 119 innings last year, Griffin. And I think he got off to a pretty good start last year, too, if I recall. Not quite this good, but yeah, he was... There were people picking him up when they shouldn't have.

Yeah, 64 home runs combined in his previous two seasons. Now, we're not that jazzed about AJ Griffin, Let's transition to pitching here because who from last night of the players owned in less than 80% of leagues, if any, were you jazzed about? Charlie Morton is so interesting to me. I was watching a lot of that start. It was noted on the broadcast that Charlie Morton is top five in the American League in whiff percentage on his curveball. On curve balls, not of all curve balls in the American League.

He's top five in whiff percentage. He got a little unlucky in the sixth inning. there was an error by Carlos Correa that changed the inning, and two of his runs that he gave up were unearned. But he also got a little lucky in that Chris Devinsky came in and got out of a basis-loaded jam with a strikeout and stranded three runners for Charlie Morton. And I just can't understand why he is faltering third time through the order. When you look at opponent's batting average, third time through the order, and it's still pretty low. So, like Morton, Morton, Icoff, Hector Santiago, has got 276 ERA, but he's starting to walk everybody. Kyle Freeland, Jarrell Cotton was terrible.

Matt Andres, he was having a great start before. He just gave up a two-run homer in the sixth. Couldn't get out of the sixth and ended up with an average start, but he's striking out a lot of batters. Wayne Wright's terrible. Dan Straeli had a good start. Chris saw it. AJ Griffin, Antonio Sends Attella somehow is doing this.

Tim Adelman. I don't know. Anybody out there that you think needs to be picked up is underowned? These guys are all available in some too many leagues, depending on, you know, league size. I think Morton's definitely underowned. 79% I would go out and add him. I did that this week with two starts on the way,

and I'm surprised it's that low with two starts. Well, he only has two quality starts all year for Borden. And I just feel like I'm flip-lopping on him. Like originally I was like, yeah, I'm not buying in. I feel like there are some good things happening with Charlie Morton. Yeah, sure there are. I mean, the two starts before this,

where he had big strikeout totals in each, I think were the most eye-opening. I'd hoped for better against the Braves. In a league with small roster sizes, I could see him getting squeezed. But I think Morton, there's even better to come from Morton. He's kind of learning to pitch all over again because it's the Astros that revealed to him how effective his curveball could be. And he's working it into his arsenal more, kind of changing what he's been used to throughout his career. So it kind of makes sense there's some ups and downs.

Okay. And then Icoff, Morton and Icoff are the ones who, I think a really need to be owned in just about every league. Icoff's last three starts have been awful, but after this one, he said he went and watched video and discovered a mechanical issue with his lower half that he thinks he'll be able to correct next time out. And particularly in terms of the walks,

this start was just completely out of character for him. So I think he's going to turn things around pretty quickly here. And Morton is a completely different pitcher than the guy he was before. And so this is a situation where he's added three miles per hour to his fastball. It's not like you can just look at it and say, well, he's got this long track record. He's a different guy. His strikeout rate is 25%. It was in the small sample size last season.

So I think there are reasons to believe in Charlie Moore. Still to come on today's show, we'll talk about Ivanova, Julio Arreis. Some other guys who are owned in more than 90% of leagues and if they should be, like Jeff Samarja. And we'll do rankings, risers, and followers, and grade your trade. right now, it's time to tell you about Seat Geek, which I've done a lot, and more and more of you are downloading the Seatkeek app, and using our promo code, Fantasy, to get a $10 rebate off your first ticket purchase. The promo code is fantasy. I am trying to get to a Yankees game this weekend. We've got the Astros coming into town. We'd be very excited to see that, and I can assure you I'll be using Seat Geek if I go. We all know the best way to find the best price. For anything is to do price comparison. But instead of you going out and searching a bunch of websites and doing the comparison, yourself, let Seek geek do it for you. Search for an event on Seat Geek searches multiple tickets sites, finds the best values. Every purchase is fully guaranteed so you can shop for tickets

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I have had time. All right. We're going to start with Scott, though, since you're in trouble. No, that's fine. Wow. Yeah. You're going to the Chokey. Well, Matilda joke there.

You heard that? Going to the Chokey? I don't know Matilda, no. I know Matilda. I don't remember that. I don't know it well enough to get references. It's the only thing I remember from that weird movie. So, Scott's got two rankings risers,

talk about. They are both outfielders. They have about the same amount of fantasy points, about half a point separated. And in Roto, Aaron Altaire is much better than Matt Holiday, but in points, they're both about 40th at outfield, Altaire better in Roto. Anyway, Matt Holiday, 58% own.

Aaron Altair, 33% own. Altair Homer again yesterday and is batting 3.43. Go ahead, Scott. Take it away. Well, I've been kind of a downer on Altaire because I felt like he was just filling in with Howie Kendrick on the DL and was such a disappointment for me last year. I actually had him as a sleeper going into last year

and then he fractured his wrist or whatever it was and missed a lot of time. It was never very good when he came back. But obviously he's been great during the stint filling in OPS over 1,000, hit a three-run homer last night. And he did some work this spring I read to short. in his swing in a way that's helped him maximize his power potential. I still think, like, I wish he was striking out a little less, but I don't think he's striking

out at a prohibitive rate if, you know, if he is taking, making the most of the tools he displayed in the minor leagues. So I'm kind of viewing him kind of how I viewed Michael Conforto when he first entered as an injury replacement. If he hits well enough, knowing that he's the one with the upside, the Phillies are going to allow him to stick. Tell me where you're moving, Aaron Altair, who you're moving him ahead of that type of thing. Okay. So I am moving him ahead of, he's up to 56th for me now in my outfield rankings. He's ahead of David Peralta, Brandon Drury, David Dahl. He's ahead of the Gardner-Elzbury duo. He's behind

like Cole Calhoun, Yasmani Tomas, Odu, Bel Herrera. So he's not, in three outfielder leagues, I don't classify him as a must own player, but he's must own in five outfielder leagues and is on the fringes everywhere. Okay, that's Aaron Altair.

Do you like Matt Holiday, the other guy in your rankings rising section? Or Aaron Altair, who do you prefer? I like Holiday more compared to Alter's 56th. I have Holiday 4th. Um, he actually has gotten burned a little in terms of the bats because the Yankees, I think, have already played three series in NL Parks.

Yes. And until the last two or three games, he had just sat those. You know, they've come to appreciate his bat so much that they've started playing him at first base during those interleague games. But he's actually a little behind pace in terms of it bats. When he plays, he bats third or fourth. It's been every day in A.L. Parks. walking a ton

um you know batting in the heart of that lineup I said it yesterday I think he's not only must own he's must start and um you know hopefully 44th gets him about there I have Cody Bellinger 41st

so that's kind of the range okay Matt Hollidays 58% owned Holiday or Keon Broxton who is just tearing it up lately Holiday Chris Yeah, I like holiday more

Okay, we all like holidays Chris, who are some of your Rankings risers too? All right, so one Got a Really? From Scott and Heath yesterday when I told them

And that was, Julio Ruiz is my number 30 starting pitch Really? That was before last night. I figure if he's going to be in the rotation the rest of the season And that's the assumption that I'm working under

I don't see why he shouldn't be in that range. He's got limitless potential. He's been good already in his major league career when we've seen him. I just, given how few pitchers anybody actually likes,

I think there's a lot to like about Julio Reyes. Let me go classic rock on you for a second here. For Julio Arreus. Ooh, Blake Snell! Because he's Blake's Blake's Snell. He did have his best start last day. That's a song.

But he's not Blake's snow. No. But I mean, look, is he that much different? Like I said, I brought this up the first time he made a start. He doesn't give you quality starts. Last night, notwithstanding. He doesn't pitch deep into games. He walks everybody.

No, he doesn't have nearly the walk history that's... That's an extreme overreaction to the first five starts of this season. He walked like 44 batters last year. He had a 9.2 walk rate. That's a little above average. He had a 9.2%. And look at it. And look at it like, Snow walked guys throughout his mind.

early career Arias didn't. I don't think they're the same. The reason I can't move Arias that high is because I know, like, he probably is going to peak at six innings this year, and most of his starts will be less than that. Yeah, he might be a little lower in head-to-head. Maybe I'm making too much of that because it's a year where it looks like nobody pitches with six-innings that consistently. But for now, just knowing that puts a clear limit on his upside, I have him quite a bit

lower than 30th. Okay. Maybe he's a little lower in head to head, but like you said, is there anybody that you feel all that confident in going six innings consistently? Well, I just don't know that I feel confident in him going six innings consistently, but he did walk 3.6 per 9 last year and had a 1-4-55 whip. So I was wrong. He had 31 walks and 77 innings, and so far 10-1.

Where are the strikeouts for Arias, by the way? Is that a concern for you? Ten walks, 10-Ks, and 17 innings? It's three starts. I can't be, 17 innings. I can't be concerned about anything. Yeah, I like Arias. I just 30 kind of surprised me.

You know, I'm going to bank on upside. It makes more sense in Rodo. I think the Rodo versus points thing is pretty significant. Okay, who else? Rankings riser. Marcelo Zuna. We've talked about him a little bit, but I don't know if we've given him the kind of credit he deserves.

We talk about everybody who comes on. on the scene and has a great stretch, you know, Eric Thames, Cody Ballinger, all these guys. And, you know, Marcelo Zuna, I've moved him up to 29th. I have him one spot ahead of Aaron Judge. And I know Aaron Judge has been a little bit better this season, but it feels like, you know, so many other players suck all the air out of the room and Marcelo Zuna just gets kind of overlooked. Yeah. So Judge, by the way, is nursing like these knee injuries and icing his knees for, I don't know, over a week now. And I might be starting to show a little bit effect of that, but he was off Monday and off today.

It is worth noting that, like, Aaron Judge was a consistent mid-800s OPS bat in the minors while being pretty old for every stop. Yeah. So, like, this thing where we're buying into Aaron Judge potentially as this elite hitter, I think I'd rather have Marcelo Zuna. Is anybody really buying into Judge as an elite hitter? Oh, yeah. Yeah, I am. I have him top 20 outfielder now, so it's pretty close. He had a stretch like this in AAA in June last year.

It's not like he's this brand new person. Yeah, I just, you know, power numbers are rarely very high in the miners. So I don't think that means much. They are for guys who hit for power. No, they're really not. I mean, Joey Gallo hit for a lot of power down there, but that's kind of what made him such a standout. Yeah.

Like most, like a 20-holmer season in the minors is almost. like a 30 homer season in majors. But we're assuming Aaron Judge is a special power. Yeah, he is. But that's the assumption, despite him never having consistently shown that in games. It's not just the home run total that shows us that, though. It's exit velocity, it's home run distance, it's scouting reports. But those things also are prone to hot and cold streaks as well.

I'm reluctant to put Ozuna on the same level as Judge just because I did last year and I got burned. And yeah, he had a wrist injury, so maybe that influenced it. I've never liked the plate discipline profile for Rosuna. He's a guy who strikes out a lot more than he walks, and that's... I'm always going to bet against that until it's proven that I'm wrong. So we were going to do followers, but I'm going to skip that for today. I want to grade some trades and get into the rest of yesterday. And, of course, do the Thames watch.

Eric Thames went two for five with the home run, and he homered off a leftie, drew Pomerance, and Eric Thames is now batting 3.79. with a 417 on base and a 966 slugging percentage against lefties. It's only like 26 at that, but yeah, it's... Five homers! He's holding his own at the very least. Holding his own. He's got 1,400 OPS against lefties.

Yeah, no, it's just, it's all good stuff. Should we be adding these hitters? Keon Broxton, 53% own. Logan Morrison, 26% own. Ben Gamble, 10%, Kenny Vargas. 8%. Tommy FAM, 8%. James McCann, 17%. And Mets infielder, T.J. Rivera, 5%.

Broxton, Lomo, Gamal, Vargas, Fam, McCann, Rivera. Should we be adding them? If you could guarantee me that Tommy Fam was going to play every day, I think he'd be someone that I'm definitely looking to add. But it's just like, all he does is hit when he gets the opportunity. He hits the ball really hard. He had, what, two doubles last night? But it's just, it's so crowded in St. Louis that it's, is he going to play when Stephen Piscotti comes back from the DL?

I would doubt it. Yeah, I mean, maybe Gritchick could. Yeah, Gritchick sat yesterday. Yeah, maybe Gritchick could be the one who vacates when everybody's healthy if fam stays this hot. Yeah, they had Gritchick and Matt Adams on the bench yesterday with Stephen Piscotti on the DL. And it's just like, they just have too many guys. think you could make the same thing, you could say the same for Vargas. And Broxton.

Broxton is interesting. I mean, Broxton had such a great second half last year. Right. I don't know why Broxton's in with his group. He's twice as owned as any of these other players. Well, I mean, it's all... He didn't get anywhere out. He's clearly the number one on the list.

Yes. Broxton is must own in five outfields leagues. Probably must own in categories leagues. Strikes out too much, but we're seeing... We're seeing the upside to key on Broxton now with that power speed combo. Broxton or Buxton? Broxton. Buxton's been really good.

It's really interesting how he might just need to go through a stretch where he's the worst player in baseball history before he figures things out every year. Because over the last 11 games, he has seven walks, seven strikeouts. He's hitting 333. He seems to have figured things out, but I'll probably still go with Broxton. I own Buxton in three of five teams right now, and I am hoping for a conformo-like please insert noun here

because I can't think of it but a fact. Season. Okay, yeah, sure. Thank you. Yeah, on my team. So I am encouraged. I thought about dropping bucks them,

but luckily I did not when he got hurt over the weekend. Let's hope this goes somewhere. Okay. Skip around on the notes here. Let's do some grade the trade. The people have been waiting. We'll do grade the trade part one.

and finish the show with part two. Jimmy Deeger is in a 10-team points league. Should I trade Danny Salazar for Noah Cindergarde and Carlos Santana in a points league? Would you give up Salazar to get Cindergarde and Santana? No. I think it would. I'm not sure Salazar straight up for Santana is such a bad deal. So Cindergarde is the throw-in.

Yeah, I think I'll do that. Yeah, I just, in a 10-team league, are you really using Carlos San-A-San? Montana, like, you're using him as a utility, I guess. Yeah, you're probably using him. Yeah, he could be your first baseman. Let's see, he's... Because it's a points league, too. I mean, that's his...

Huge difference. It makes a huge difference to his value what format you're talking. It's his stronger format, but he's still not a top 10 first base. He's hardly hit this year, and I think he is. No, he's 14th. I just checked. 14th? Okay, but he has hardly hit this year, and he's been surprisingly productive.

So, uh, when he gets hot, yeah, I'll, I'll give it a C-plus. I think it's a C minus. Great the trade from Sam. Hey, Rudolph, Yukon, and Hermie. Okay. That's Rudolph the Red Nose, reindeer. Is it? Yes.

Who the heck are you? Connelius and Hermie was the guy, the elf who wanted to be a dentist. Oh, okay. Give up George Springer, get Carlos Correa. I think it's a C-plus. It's not a great trade, but it's... Yeah. I'd rather have Correa.

Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I dig it. C-plus, give up Springer. for Correa. Next up we have M. Sheridan from Every city in Boston is not in Massachusetts is not pronounced the way it should be pronounced. So is this

Winchester or is this Winchester? Because I've screwed up Worcester before, which is Worcester. Do we know how to pronounce Winchester, Mass? I'm going to say Winchre. Winter, okay. Grade the trade, Charlie, Deshawn, Taj, and Steve. Is that Auburn quarterbacks? No

Those are quarterbacks Wasn't Taj Boyd Auburn? No he was Clemson, right? No, I get Clemson. This is Charlie Whitehurst Deshawn Watson,

Taj Boyd and Steve Francis I don't know Steve's some quarterback for Clemson Yeah, I was offered Jake Lamb, Edwin Incarnassion, and Thameswise

Watch. Jake Lamb, Encanaccio, and Thames. Damn, son. A lot of power there. For Carlos Martinez and Josh Donaldson. Keeper League, by the way. I think that's a B. Donaldson should be back pretty soon, right? Yeah, but there's still not like a clear,

like he should be back within a week or two, but not a defined timetable. So I'm not as enthusiastic about Chris's, but just because of the injury risk to Donaldson, I think the other side, the Incarnacion theme side comes out ahead. I'll give it a B-minus. Steve Fuller is a Clemson quarterback from the 70s. Okay, you stung me.

I was right. I meant Clemson. Oh, is that what you're bad, okay. Tiger. Tiger's wearing orange and blue. That's very easy thing to get confused about. There are a lot of tigers. I think you're lying, but.

It's a plausible explanation. And finally, Scott from a city in NorCal, grade the trade, Rick, Morty, Jerry, and Summer. Great show. Is it? Oh, it's so good. I watched 10 minutes and I didn't like it. Do I need to give Rick and Morty another shot? It's a weird show, but the last couple of weeks when I've been sick, I have spent my whole

days watching Rick and it's fantastic. You need to watch Brock Meyer. I do. Yeah, you got to get a guy. I haven't gotten to it. I'll watch Rick and Board. You watch Brock Beyer. All right.

Scott. Compare notes. Yeah, you, Scott, you could watch. You watch a better call Saul because I like that one too. All right. Give up Jacob de Grom. Get Mike Stanton. Still calls him Mike.

Interesting. Give Jacob de Grom, get Mike Stanton. Yeah, I don't see much upside in getting a retired lefty reliever for Jacob deGrom. I think that for John Carlos Stanton would probably be a C, just kind of depends on team need. It does kind of depend on team need, but I think this is a perfect, like, trade that would have looked worse coming into the year

than with what I perceive to be the landscape change. I think there's enough, man, Outfield. Remember how Outfields seem weak coming into the year? It's like the deepest position in baseball now. There have been so many emerging bats there. I like the DeGrom side, I think, seven times out of ten. and so I'll give it a B-minus. Or actually, he's the one giving Jacob de Grom,

so I'll give it a D-plus. Anything to say about, thank you for grade the trade, by the way. We'll do more a little bit later. Anything to say about Justin Verlander, who is walking a lot of guys, 20 walks and 42 and a third, career high, 4.3 walks per 9 right now for Verlander.

I haven't seen anything to be particularly concerned about with him. I haven't done like a deep, dive, but nothing has stood out to me. Velocity's higher than it's been in a while. He was off to a much worse start last year. I just, I think he's going to be fine. He's, he's throwing just as many pitches inside the strike zone as he has in the past. He just isn't getting as many swings on pitches outside of the strike zone.

That could be a sign of diminishing stuff, but like Scott said, the fastball velocity is there. So, I don't know. I'm not, I'm not particularly. concerned about it. I'm going to say this. I was about I was about Ariaa. I was going to mention at the start of the show, I think I'd take Verlander over Arietta. I still have Aurember ranked higher. Yeah, it would be tough to make that kind of trade. I think if you're trading for Jake Aureeta, like I'm all about buying low on Jake Garrietta. I don't feel like Justin Verlander's buying low. I think it's buying face value.

No, I'm saying. Pitcher trade when you're picking from two guys in a very similar tier, you're leaving yourself up to a coin flip. I'm just saying that I think there's no reason not to at this point because Verlander was better than Arietta last year. Yeah, I don't see a reason why that you couldn't. You could go either way. I just don't see there's a reason why you couldn't have Verlander ranked ahead. I have total faith in Verlander right now, despite some ugly numbers. It's kind of like the group we talked about yesterday, the Tanaka, Carlos Martinez, Jacob de Grom.

And Stroman, we kind of left out of that. But you could throw Verlander in there. Verlinder's got a 425 ERA and a career high walk rate, and I still, personally, I'm not concerned. I don't have any more or less concern about Arietta than him. Velocity would be the only thing that would tilt the scales toward Verlander the rest of season. Adam, can I point out one player that I want to trade for in about a week? Yeah. Hanley Ramirez.

I know I'm the Hanley guy, so that shouldn't be a surprise, but the Red Sox, I believe starting yesterday, five of their next eight games are in NL Parks. He is not yet ready to play in the field. So the Hanley-Ramere's owner in your league is probably going to be really, really, really upset with him in about seven days. Okay. Perfect opportunity to trade. Yeah, all right. I'm in on that.

So over-owned, are these starting pitchers over-owned? They are all owned in 90% or more of leagues. John Lackey, I don't know what the hell happened yesterday, but he struck out 10 Rockies and seven scoreless innings at Coorsfield. Jeff Samarja and his 544 ERA. Robbie Ray, five walks against Detroit, and career high walk rate right now, five walks per nine. Yvonne Nova, not a lot of strikeouts, but good production.

And Julio Arias, who probably not. Oh, and Drew Pomerantz as well. So we're not saying Arias is over-owned. But all these guys are owned in more than 90% of leagues. That's pretty good territory there. Lackie, Samarja, Robbie Ray, Ivanova, Julio Reis, Drew Pomerans. Are they over-owned? I don't feel like we can be too critical of pitchers who've given the best versions of themselves.

Like, the best starts for each of these pitchers, I would guess nobody on waivers has given anything like that. You know, that may not be technically true because I know like Scott Feldman, who's highly available, has thrown a complete game shutout. But you understand what I'm saying. Even if the overall numbers look kind of crooked, there's just not enough upside available at starting pitcher on the waiver wire for you to make that exchange. So I don't know, I can't make the case that any of these pitchers is overowned. Even Jeff Samarja, who I'm having such a hard time with him.

I actually dropped him in a couple leagues and have regretted it since. I mean, he had the one great start immediately after I did at 10 strikeouts in eight innings. This one wasn't that. But, you know, he's this one, all the underlying dominance numbers for Jeff Samarja, even though it hasn't translated to ERA. It looks better than it has in years. 55 strikeouts to 10 walks this year. And a big thing with that, he has abandoned his cutter, which has never been a good pitch for him. No, which had been a pitch that he's relied on a ton over the last few years.

Yeah. And he's using his slider a lot more. The slider's always been a better swing and miss pitch. But it's also always been a better pitch at avoiding extra base hits, at avoiding hits in general. And yet he goes out and I added him in one league this week for the two starts. And of course he goes out in the last six runs and seven innings. But his last two starts. And it was four runs in the first.

And then he really settled down and actually pitched really well for the next six innings. Okay, okay, there you go. And the last two starts, including this one that wasn't so great yesterday. 20 strikeouts to zero walks. I gave you the 55 to 10 number for the year. You know, the swinging strike rate and all of that. It supports that great ratio. We're very optimistic about this pitcher with a 544 year.

And a bad career. Give me a break. I just feel like what's really screwing Samarja. Is Samarja. He stinks. Is home runs. And he plays in the most home run suppressing ballpark in the major. I think it's going to even out.

I think he's a good by low opportunity. I think it'll be good at home. I think there's a bit of Michael Paneda and him, too. I think he'll be good at home like he was last year. His ERA was a half a run lower in San Francisco, as Jeff Samarja we're talking about. And this is the thing about Samarja. Like last year, there are six months in a baseball season. He had a sub-3 ERA in three of them.

So he's going to pitch well at some point, and then you're going to start him, and he's going to let you down. Like I said, there's a lot of Michael Panayton. Yeah, yeah. But if he abandoned the cutter, I mean, the one year where Jeff Samarja was legitimately high-end was that year he split between the Cubs and the athletics, He went to the White Sox the very next year picked up the Cooper cutter because Don Cooper loves that cutter and sometimes it's great, sometimes it's awful.

It was awful for Samarja. And he hasn't been the same since that year with that half year with the athletics. So if that's gone, then... Yeah, he's completely ditched it. He threw it about 20% of the time. It's under 1%. I would guess that's just a categorization error.

Yeah. So that could be a game changer. It's... I'm even more encouraged after this conversation. Oh, well, that's good. So we've got a lot of day games today. All right, we can go through them here. Let's look at today's matchups.

Gallardo Eflin. Just tell me if you are interested in taking a flyer, or if any of these guys are starts. We've got some crappy pitchers going early. Gallardo and Eflin, Mariners, and Phillies. Eflin? Nope. No?

No, I don't want either of them. Matt Cain, Tommy Malone. Nope. Jaime Garcia and Joe Musgrove. Nope. I'm telling you, man, they are just some dreadful pitchers today. Musgrove's the one I like best so far, the six-week-names. Kyle Hendrix at Colorado.

Not at Colorado. No. Against Marquez. He's going to strike out nine and go to no rounds. Jesse Chavez, Andrew Triggs. Triggs is worth owning, but it feels like a little. smoke and mirrors. If I did own him, though, I think I would start him for this matter. Oh, yeah, the Angels. Yeah. No Trout here, so probably. And it's a home start. Yeah, and I have more

to say about Triggs. They don't really have a lot of good lefties in the Angels lineup. Think about Triggs. If you've watched him pitch, he's basically one of those like side army right-handed relievers who you think would be terrible against lefties. But he hasn't been. He's been very good against lefties. I'm going to go ahead and say that is not going to last. Lefties eventually are going to destroy tricks. But he could be really tough on Ritey's, and I think this would end up being a good matchup for him based on that. So, you could take a flyer.

Wade Miley. This is an interesting one. He's a two-star pitcher next week. He's somewhat available, and he's facing Steven Strasberg, who we're going to start. But start or sit Miley at the Nationals, 64% owned, by the way. I'm sitting. I'm also sitting. Yeah, look, it's a brutal matchup.

They're the best lineup in baseball by far right now. And he's coming off an injury, right? He left... Well, he got hit by comebackers. Yeah, and last two-thirds of an inning because of it. So that adds a variable that makes me even more uncomfortable. But with all the walks and just his track record against the nationals, I wouldn't want to risk it anyway.

He's 64% own. Miley has Detroit on the road and Toronto at home next week. So you could do worse, I think. Now we've got Sousar. We're going to start. Liriano, start or sit against Cleveland. I am going to start Salazar for sure. Kind of on the fence about Liriano.

I was forced to start him in a couple weekly leagues just because he was still on my roster and the matchups for the other pitchers to gobble. I think I'd lean against it. I'm sitting in the Daily League that I own him in. Lance Lynn, we're starting. Start or sit Tom Kohler. Sit.

Sit. Jason Hamill at Tampa Bay. Start. I'd lean toward... Like if you own him, I guess you could start him, but I'm not going out of my way to get him. Luis Perdomo for the Padres at Texas. No.

Sit. Yeah, sit. Kyle Kendrick and Chase Anderson starting either of these guys as the Red Sox who are heating up face the Brewers. Kendrick and Anderson. Nope. There should be a lot of runs scored in that game.

Phil Hughes, Derek Holland. Sid Hughes, start Holland? Give me Holland, yep. I'll start him. Matt Boyd, Zach Godley, as the tigers are at the Diamondbacks. Matt Boyd and Zach Godley. There really are not any good pitchers tonight. Crap.

Just crap. Sit. Yeah, I don't want either. Chad Kool. Cool. And Kenta Maida. I'll throw a maid out there. Who is the starting catcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers today?

Tell me that before I make my decision on Kenta, He has like a 9 ERA throwing to Austin Barnes and a 3 ERA throwing to Yosmani Granda. Interesting. Ismani Grandal is one of the best pitchframing catchers in all of baseball. It seems to make a huge difference for him. How about that? That's good stuff. This is the year of the hurricane.

Yosmani Grandal, Danny Valencia, heating up. Yonder Alonzo. Ryan Braun. Ryan, we are the best. And the Yankees. Oh, what a baseball year for Atomazzo. Have you any pitchers? No, no, we don't.

So we've got more trades to grade. And by the way, all this talk about the Yankees. Let's give the Baltimore Orioles some credit. Best record in baseball. First place in the ALE East. Good for the Baltimore Orioles. A big win for them yesterday. Finishing up with more trades.

Where are you in my notes? Here you are. From Sam. This is an 11-team Roto League. give Bundy and Mazara. Bundy and Mazara get Severino and Jose Abrau. Oh, I like this one a lot. Yeah, that.

That's a B plus. I think that's an A. Mazar might be droppable. Not in a five outfielder league, but... I don't know. Who do you like better, Bundy or Severino? I like Severino better, which is also influencing the grade. Yeah, that's probably true.

This is from Sean. Dear Jerry, Cosmo, George, and Newman. What could that be? Never heard of him. Do you know who George Newman is, though? TV character, or movie character, George Newman. No. And Michael Richards is in this movie with him, oddly enough.

George Newman is Weird Al Yankovitch's character from UHF. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. Love that movie. I haven't seen it in a long time. Oh, love it. Give up Al Tuve and Lance Lynn.

Oltuve and Lance Lynn Get back Kershaw and LeMayhew So you downgrade from Altuve to LeMayhew, you upgrade from Lance Lynn to Kershaw. This is a Roto League, grade the trade. I think that's a B-minus. Yeah, I like it too,

which I would have drafted Al-Tube ahead of Kershaw, but I think reliable high-end starting pitching is worth paying up for at this point. So I give it a Yeah, B-minus sense. And DJ LaMahue is going to figure it out and he's going to be fine.

Yeah, I think there's a smaller gap between him and Al Tuvei than Kirshan land. John in Boston, grade the trade, 12-te-to-head categories league with quality starts. Give up Dallas Kyko and Dylan Bundy. Get Max Scherzer. Kiko and Bundy for Scherzer and then it's got a roster spot to pick up Rich Hill or Kevin Gosman. Okay, so you're basically trading Kikl and Bundy for Scher and Gosman. Or Hill. Shurzer and Gossman.

I'll say Hill. Shurzer and Gosman, so I think that's a B-minus. I'm surprised you went that low because... Actually, yeah, it should be higher. I'm the Kikell lover here, and I think it's a great trade. Right, and I'm more with you on Kikl than with Heath and Chris, Adam, because it's scam versus a creep. Yeah, we're team scam on that.

But, yeah, I'll give it a B, because Scherzer is better, of course. Last trade from Dave, grade the trade. Give Carlos Santana get Matt Harvey. F. No, I think that's probably a D, though. I really don't like that. Not a point. I don't think it's a buy low on Harvey.

This is not a trade I'd be willing to make. I don't think it was, I think that would have been a bad trade before the season. Yeah. I will go deep. I'm telling you, I shouldn't have waited an hour to say it, but it didn't occur to me until just now. I'll say it again tomorrow. Carlos Santana, Heath and I broke it down. He is so bad in April and May.

He is so good after that. He's going to get better by low on Carlos Santana. Once it's a hot one, he is so smooth. Did you guys see that there's a Creece Avenue in Jonesboro, Arkansas, by the way? No. I bet people try to cross it and you guys are just like, oh, no, that's not. Somebody sent us a picture of the road crossing. If that person, if that street sign should fall down someday and you want to grab it and send it to me, that's fine.

Good stuff. Goodbye, everybody. Talk to you tomorrow.