Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/15 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Weekend Roundup

Episode Date: May 15, 2017

Plenty of players to pick up as we discuss Ian Happ (2:50), Jose Berrios, Joe Biagini, Amed Rosario, bullpen changes and the Most Added list (13:15) ... Our thoughts on these struggling SPs (36:00): Masahiro Tanaka, Jake Arrieta, Jon Lester, Jacob deGrom, Justin Verlander, Jose Quintana, Carlos Martinez ... Hitters to add (44:40), SPs with some long term potential and a look at today's matchups at the very end of the show. Also Cody Bellinger team names! ... Email us at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Monday show as we get ready for Fantasy Week 7. It is May 15th, Adam Azer and Heath Cummings, and Scott White, with your emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. I think we'll get to your emails. We'll certainly do our best, but man, what an active weekend. I was adding and dropping like a guy who plays a lot of fantasy baseball. Anyway, good morning, guys, and how was Mother's Day? What did you guys do for Mother's Day? I went to a basketball tournament, my 15-year-old.

No, no, we took her out to eat Saturday night, and then Sunday morning, the seven-year-old and I went to the store and got stuff for breakfast and mimosa's. Oh, right. Seven-year-old had mimosa? Yes. Clearly mother was not in charge this day. And then we went to a basketball tournament like we do every weekend. Okay. All right, good.

Always good time for a basketball tournament. Scott White, how about you? Yeah, we had a nice breakfast with mom. I worked on a little craft with Everett for her that she seemed to enjoy. So it was a pleasant day. This was the first year that I did not have to go shopping for my wife for Mother's Day. Why? I have a 17-year-old daughter.

You're just phoning it in now, Heath? I gave her the money, and she went and did the shopping. Ah, there you. That's perfect. I don't think I'll ever have to buy a Mother's Day present for my wife again. Oh, wow. Congratulations. Big day for you.

I'm pretty excited. And, you know, for me, Mother's Day was great because of baseball. I had a really nice time, but you don't care about that. What you care about is that in fantasy baseball, you don't get that many weeks that come down to Sunday night. But I've had that two weeks in a row in the podcast league, and they have been exhilarating. And yesterday, I, George Springered my way to a big old victory over Scott White. We were the two highest scores in the podcast league. Scott was already 4-1.

He was a good shape. I was 2 and 3. I needed it. So thank you, Scott, for letting me win yesterday. Oh, yeah, I was... I just took a dive. You had a huge week. But, man, it was really...

It was crazy. If your favorite team is going to get pumbled, might as well be helping your fantasy team win. So that's what did me in was the second George Springer home run? There was more. There was Brett Gardner, like doubling and scoring, And, yeah, but Springer, you can blame him. Yeah, I'd say that's accurate.

No home run since April 18th, and he hits two that day. He was due. Springer, he has it out for me. The thing is, man, there was a lot. Look, we got closer shakeup as Neftali Fleeze is out in Milwaukee. Washington might make a change. Famili is out for a while. Chapman's on the D.L.

We have prospects coming up and impressing like Ian Hap. and Eddie Butler and Jose Barrios. I thought it was a very interesting and active weekend for me. Did you feel the same way? And who were some of the players that you were making sure you were looking at in every league? Well, Jose Barrios was one who obviously needed to be owned after that first start. So I got him in a league or two. Yeah, I think I got them in two as well.

I think the half one is maybe the most interesting. And I wrote about him in WaverWire today. Scott tweeted out once it was announced that he was called up, that he's basically a deep league ad only, and this should be, in theory, a short-term ad. And I agree 100% with that, except for the fact that he just had two really good games in a row. Ben Zobrist is like 36 years old and banged up

and about every way a guy could be banged up and hasn't hit this year. And I just kind of wonder if this is going to be one of those Adrian Gonzalez go to the DL for a while type of deals with Zobrist, and they give Hap a couple weeks to see if he can hit. Let's not forget the Cups are under 500 right now. That's true. There's a little urgency there, and their pitchers are struggling. And I just think whoever the worst hitter is on your roster,

with all the depth we have, they're almost certainly replaceable. I don't know that HAP's potential upside is replaceable. Yeah. So half is 45% owed. Go ahead, Scott. Yeah, I mean, I do think, I mean, it's over's bang up. They could easily put them on the D.L. I don't think it's as, like Adrian Gonzalez's situation, it seems like Adrian Gonzalez maybe doesn't deserve to be a starter in the majors anymore. I mean, Zobrist is still, other than the batting average, she's still been pretty good this year walking at a high rate like usual. So, I mean, when everybody's healthy on the Cubs, they have nine hitters for eight spots as it is. Do they, though?

So, like, Hobby Bias, we loosely consider a hitter at this point. Like, I know they're not going to completely give up on him, but if Hap hits, he can stay in the lineup. You know, they'll find a way. And he's his second base eligible, but he played in the outfield twice this weekend, by the way. I mean, we don't like Javier Bias for fantasy purposes, but he's still considered a good real-life player, right? I guess. I think he's made a bunch of errors this year. I know he's a great deal. I'll be trying to do those no-look catches.

I think, you know, look, he might just be tired. He played in the world baseball class or whatever. There's some struggles there. I know Buster only wrote about that over the weekend. I don't think they're cutting Javier's. Not cutting him, but. I think Bias is best served in that utility play defense role. Like, I feel like Hap could just be the Cubs' best second baseman.

Well, let's talk. I mean, in what leagues are you adding Ian Hap right now? Because obviously he's more than just deep league speculation at this point. I think it might be a shorter list to say in what leagues would you not want to add Ian Hap. Standard heads of head points. I think it's too shallow. I don't know.

I agree with why you're saying that. But also, there's so many hitters on the WaiverWire that can give you replacement level production at any point. There's a ton of guys on the WaiverWire that you'd think, man, I'd kind of like to pick him up. Starlin Castro is in the WaiverWire. wire in almost all of our head-to-head points leaks. Sure. Well, no, I doubt. That's true. Well, who would you rather have?

Starlin Castro and Happ? I would... I think I'd drop Castro to pick up Hep. What do you... Like, let's... Okay. Crazy scenario. Ben Zobras, you know, tears his UCL. It's out for the year.

How good do you see Haap being? Is he top 12-second basement? I think he'd be a top 12-second basement. He could be, but I bet against it, right? I mean, yes. I would also bet against Starland Kestroving in top 12. Even if that happened, he would still split time with Javier by, as you think, and the number of other players. So why would you prioritize him over Ahmed Rosario, which I know you did over the weekend, because I picked up Ahmed Rosario. Let's talk about some more players here. We can't spend the whole show on Ian Hap.

So, like, who did you really want to pick up? I picked up Ian Hap. I picked up Ahmed Rizario. I picked up Matt Albers. Obviously, if Dellen Patanzas is available, you need to get him, but that's only going to be in points. leagues. There were really a lot of guys that impressed this weekend, be a genie and whatnot. But yeah, go ahead. So let's talk about those two prospects, Rosario and Hap, and then let's expand the conversation and who we want to be adding right now. Okay, so, I mean, the three priorities for me, let's say five priorities. And, you know, obviously, in some leagues these guys may have already been owned, but just the biggest names, the The players I was adding, regardless of format, were Aaron Altair, Jose Berrios,

Addison Reed, Delin Batanzas, and then Hap would probably be that fifth guy. Now, if you have to go deeper than that, Joe Villagini was a guy I was absolutely looking to add two good starts. And moving out of the bullpen, they were obviously short starts. Zero walks between the two, though. and an okay number of strikeouts. Reason to think that maybe in a year where pitching is so hard to find, he could be halfway useful option.

Nate Carnes, a second straight double-digit strikeout effort, and breakout seems unlikely, given his track record in the majors, given his pedigree. But getting a lot of swings and misses on his slider, is on a slider, I think it is. All right, this is Carnes.

Carnes is 50% own. Be Agenie is 19% owned. Herbal. Who would you rather own? A Ned Yost's quote was, what a curveball. I would rather own Carnes. Yeah, I know their own Carnes, too. He's got 29Ks in his last three starts over 17 and a third.

He got up to a terrible start to the year, but three really good starts in a row. Would you drop Kevin Gosman for either Gossman for either Carnes or Bea Jeannie? I'm not there yet. I would drop him for Carnes. I don't know why. I mean, I guess I kind of know, but Gosman getting so much favoritism over Robert Gazellman,

Gosman does have a little more of a track record, but his track record is mostly as a kind of fringy guy. Well, a fringy guy in the old environment, but if he could be what he was in the old environment now, he would be much more than a fringy guy. Does anybody other than me sing to

himself or herself out there Joe be a genie tonight. No. You should. You should. Well, you should because I've been singing

in my head all weekend. And I love it. There you go. Team name Monday. Oh, we have Cody Bellinger team names coming up. All right. So those are some players

that you probably want to be looking at picking up Carnes, Be a Genie, Burios, and then those closers, Addison Reed, and Dellen Bantanis. And Batances, look, Chapman's out

for at least the month. month. It's rotator cuff inflammation, I believe, no structural damage, but a month of Patanus could be really, really good. And Matt Albers, I know he got the save last night in the second game of the doubleheader. I don't think that either Glover or Kelly were available. But boy, Dusty Baker's quite frustrated with his bullpen. It's really been terrible. And he said, they asked him about that. And he said, yeah, look, nobody's trading right now. You know, he acknowledged that pretty without saying it that they want to make a trade, but nobody's trading right now. So it could just be a short-term thing.

But Albers has been, I don't know, arguably their best reliever has been very good this year. I think Glover's been better than Kelly. Kelly's got like a 7-ERA. So is Albers somebody worth picking up? Is Glover worth picking up? What's your read on the Nationals bullpen? It's pretty messy. I think I would prioritize it even behind somebody like Bud.

Norris right now. Like, if Matt Albers gets the first, like, if he gets the next save chance, just because Dusty Baker's tired of playing the game with all the others, I don't feel like he has a lot of long-term sustainability in that role, 34-year-old without much of a track record of being a dominant reliever, less than a strikeout per inning even this year. Right. Every year, except for, like, 2011. Yeah, so I want to be thrilled even if that, if there was, you know, that.

that monicum of clarity. But would you prefer him to Cota Glover? I mean, right now, I think he's more likely to get the next save chance. So from the short-term perspective, yes, but I would be more excited about Glover if we learned Glover was named the closer or whatever. Okay. All right then. Other guys, I added Erman Marquez, one start at Minnesota this week.

You know, I'm not sure I'm there yet, but I feel like he's going to be a guy we want start on the road. You picked up Marquez and dropped Daniel Norris. I picked up Sinsettella and dropped Daniel Norris, who's also a one-start, but at Cincinnati. Right. Okay. And Marquez at Minnesota, I like that matchup. Better than at Cincinnati, but the point is taken, like, Rocky's pitchers on the road, not a bad idea. If you want to look into streaming one-start guys, which is something I didn't really do before this year. But, you know, but it is pitching this year after all. But you shouldn't have to because you drafted all those pitchers early.

No, I don't overstate it. I didn't draft all those pitchers early. I prioritize pitchers a little bit more, but they still suck. And we're going to spend some time talking about these stud pitchers who have really struggled, like two Cubs pitchers over the weekend, Masahiro Tanaka with his worst start of his career. I think even look at Jacob de Grom, and the ERA is high, and the walks are high. Justin Verlander walking career high walk rate for him.

But here's the most added list. It's Aaron Altair. Zach Godley, who's R.P. eligible, has two starts. This is a terrible idea. Zach Godley being the second most added player at 49% own now? Awful. He is awful, and you are awful for adding him, whoever you are. Just in case, well, all right, the Mets at home and at San Diego.

Mets at home and at San Diego. Maybe I overreacted, but it still seems pretty crazy to me. I'm just like, I would understand it if he was the most added because he was 0%, and now he was 20%, and there were 20% of people in head-to-head leagues that were going to start him as a spark with two starts. But 49%. That's low. I mean, like, let's 49% still low, right? Did we see him added in any of our 12-te-head leagues? I didn't.

Well, not ours, no. But he was, like, I don't think you can be 49% owned without being added in 12. he was added in some, but not many, is my point. He made a bit. Two good matchups. He's coming off a good start last time. I mean, look, I don't think Zach Godley is a long-term solution either, but. And he was beyond the threshold where I read in my two-star pitcher rankings this weekend.

He was beyond the threshold of me recommending. And you recognized a lot of bad pitchers in that piece this week, right? Like, you were going through a lot of guys that were kind of borderline. Yeah. Well, here's the bottom line. I need Doc Ghaly to get lit up because of what I just said on this podcast. So I am really rooting against him. More on the most added list, Addison Reed 3, Justin Wilson, 4.

Corey Canable. So he got the save yesterday. He's the guy, right? Yeah. Should I mentioned him earlier. No, I definitely take him over any of the nationals. Okay. He's been dominant this season in a setup role.

So unless there's a complete departure. from what he's already been doing. I think he solidifies that job for the brewers. Yeah, okay. So, Cory Canable, your Brewer's closer. Yonder Alonzo, now 81% owned. Jose Burrio, 69%. Delon Betanus, 76% owned.

And now the reason Batances is 76% owned in CBSSports.com leagues is because we have a lot of points leagues, and he's not really that valuable, but now he is. But he wasn't before, but now Batanzas certainly is. Derek Law, 26% own. He had a nice weekend. Ian Hap, 45% on. So we've talked about a lot of these guys. How about Ben Gamble, 27% own?

Has that sound to you? It's about right. I understand why people are excited, and he's had some nice production. I don't think he's going to have a job a month from now. You don't, Ben Gamal. With Leonis Martine out. Well, I guess that's just presuming they're going to bench Dyson.

Well, no. Dyson can play center. Well, and you have Gamble and left and Hanager and right. Okay. Yeah, no. Who am I missing that's also playing in the outfield right now

that I'm just forgetting about? Taylor Motter. Occasionally. That guy's name I always forget. Heredia? He's always up and down. Diarmo Haredia? Yeah.

Yeah, Yermo Haradio. Got one right. Good for me. Yeah, no, I think Gamble's a top, when everybody's healthy, he's a top three outfes. fielder for them, I don't think he's going to be enough of a power hitter to factor in fantasy. And, you know, the batting average is built on a high babbip and probably, probably not mixed

league material. So, yeah, I agree with the ownership being about right. Who do you prefer, which pitcher? Joe be a genie or Eddie Butler did it. Be a genie. Yeah, sure. Okay, all right. He's such a bad bat misser, man.

Yeah, but he's a ground ball pitcher. They should have a good defense. I'm some lowering my standards. Unless you're Dallas Kichel, I'm still... Yeah, not enough of a ground ball pitcher to get me excited. Okay. And Alex Wood is 89% on, so you're probably not adding him. But what do you think Alex Wood's future in the rotation is, of course, on my bench,

for six scoreless innings with 10 strikeouts at Colorado on Saturday? I don't think that the Dodgers have 17 starting pitchers, and they've got like three that can stay healthy, I think his future will be determined by how well he pitches. I don't think he can lose his job without blowing up or getting hurt. Yeah, there's some talk. Like if Rich Hill doesn't dominate Tuesday, they're bringing up the thought of moving him to the bullpen again.

Wow, which way would be unfortunate for Rich Hill, but obviously it makes fitting all these parts in a little easier. But yeah, I would say Woods ahead of like Brandon McCarthy in the pecking order now, the head of Young Jen Ryu. I think he's pretty solid. Now that's not to say they won't put him on the deal with a phantom injury when they want to skip him a turn. Or that someone else a turn. Like we've got a history also of Alex Wood having a month, maybe even two months worth of really good starts and then just not being that good again.

So it's not to say he couldn't pitch his way out of the rotation. Yeah, I think it's pretty exciting, though. Velocity is. I mean, I've always liked Alex Wood. This was actually the most strikeouts he's had during a two-star stretch for all the, all the fakeouts from before. And remember last year before he got hurt, there was an issue

where he seemed like, you know, it had been a while since we seen him dominate, and suddenly he was dominating again, and he said he figured out his release point. He got his release point back, so it's consistent with all the different pitches. I noticed after this start,

he said his release point is right now as good as it's ever been. Okay, so that's Alex Wood we're talking about. Who do you think it's a better chance of having a massive year? Alex Wood or Luis Severus? I'll still say Severino. Yeah, I don't know that there's as much separation between them as we thought a week ago, though.

When you guys hear Luis Severino, do you in your mind go, Haidelio, Severino? Not at all. Your mind works in mysterious ways that. Yeah, sure does. There's constantly a Simpsons quote just brewing in there. We got an email from Brian who says, drop Lance Lynn for Jose Barrios? No.

I probably wouldn't. but I don't think it's that far off. Let's not forget, Berrios had an 8-something ERA last year. What has Lance Lynn done to become, you know, waiver fodder now? Well, like nobody ever got that excited about Lance Lynn, and he gave up what, six runs in his last start. I've still got Lynn ahead of him. He's been, like, in a year where you can't trust any pitchers,

he's been remarkably consistent. I mean, Jose Barrios, I was very encouraged by this performance. I think he has a ton of upside. should probably be owned in all leagues. Yep. You know, except when I hear about scenarios where he's unowned in the best pitcher, you can drop as Lance Lynn. Or Dylan Bundy.

That was the other one. I don't think I'd do that either. He struck out four in this star, four and seven innings. So it wasn't like it was, you know, the dream scenario. Right. I did watch this start, and I watched a lot of Murillo last year, and he is, his stuff is undeniable. And, I mean, there was one sequence, I think, to Carlos Santana, where he goes, like, change up, curveball, fastball, and it just looks really good.

You see he's got an arsenal. He's not just a two-pitch pitcher. I don't know what the issue was last year, but he was one of the worst. I gave a stat in the preseason this year that no pitcher who had ever had as bad of a debut season as Jose Burrios went on to have a good career. So he'd be the first, but, look, it doesn't, there haven't been that many. It doesn't mean he can't do it, but he was so bad. I don't remember who I dropped for him, but I saw that start. I watched him pitch.

He looks great. Very encouraging. Let's just say that. There's no reason not to take a shot. I think maybe the biggest thing, and I agree with Scott about the strikeouts. Maybe the biggest thing is we know he's got the stuff. We know he's got the talent. I was glad to see him get a confidence builder in the major leagues.

I kind of feel like he just needs to have a little bit of success, and he's going to be a good pitcher in the major. Yeah, and considering all the issues with his command of his pitches last year, That's what the twins felt like brought him down. Last year, it was funny, a quote, Edwin Incarnacion had about Jose Burrios. He faced him on Saturday. Yes. Yeah, and obviously he's Edwin Encarnacion.

He just remarked on how good the command was in the zone. That was really a defining characteristic of Burrios for Incarnacion, which was a complete departure from everything we've heard before. And, you know, sometimes it's just a line hitters drop because they're asked about a pitcher. They just basically dominated them, and it's an easy thing to say. So maybe it means nothing, but raised my eyebrow. Okay. Also, you know, Evan and Carnacion couldn't hit me right now.

Right. We did say he's Edwin-Karnsino. He may be. He used to. He's on team scam. That's all you need to know. He used to be Mel Clark. You used to be Mel Clark?

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And that's what I did on Friday. I did a 23-person dream team contest. I went with Quato, Corbin, Goldschmidt, Trout, and Pollock. I only played for a dollar. I won $2. So I was in the money. I finished fifth out of 23.

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I would trade Berrios for Harvey today. I still have Harvey. I tried to update the two of them this morning, so I could, I've got him in a very similar range. I've dropped Harvey down to 48th. I've got Barrios 52nd. Do you see a reason to add Ahmed Rosario as we transition to another prospect here? Sure. I'd like to add him.

The only league I was in where he wasn't. That wasn't so deep he was already on, but was of the perfect depth, I think, to add him, was our 12-team Roto League, 30-man roster. So 360 players rostered. I put in a claim from this weekend, and I think you outbid me in that league, Adam. I did. I put an acclaim for Hap and Rosario. You outbid me for Hap.

I outbid you for Rosario. Yeah, and I also own Reese Hoskins in that league. So it's a league where it's deep enough that several players who aren't the majors yet are owned. And any league like that, Ahmed Rosario, needs to be owned. And I got to say, I have seen in that league, that one in particular, 12-team Roto with seven bench spots, right? Eight bench spots? Seven bench spots. Okay.

I have seen Scott run away with the league two years in a row, and a lot of it has been prospects that he has stashed. And, yeah, I mean, two years ago, it was Swarber and maybe one other guy. I don't remember who it was. Probably Turner. I probably had Turner in that league last year. And it has made such a difference. And that's that league. I was doing really badly.

And now I'm in, like, sixth place. You guys are in first and second. He's in first. Chris is in third or fourth. But Bellinger. I have Bellinger. And he's turning things around for me. And these hitters are coming up and having such big impacts now.

We know the landscape of baseball. And it's just, it's such an advantage. So if you've got enough bench spots where you can stash a prospect, this can change your league. Yeah. I think in a league like that, sorry, a league like that more so because you're playing the full season out. It's full season roto. There are no playoffs or anything, so you've got more time to make up. But it's just, it's so important.

Take advantage of us. Read the prospect report from Scott and listen to what we say and stash some big time hitters. It's easier in that league, too, because, well, A, the roster sizes are bigger so you know you go deep enough that you don't feel like you're giving up a valuable major league or to use a roster spot on them but beyond that the lineups are

so deep this is five man outfielder corner infield spot middle infield spot I don't care how team you're good is how good your team is there is a spot where you can have a better you can squeeze a better hitter in you know there's there's pretty much always a place to find

there's pretty much always a spot you can find to start these players if they do make an immediate splash in the majors. And more and more, it seems like hitters are doing that. The pitcher is not so much. I'm not as motivated to stash pitchers in general. But hitters, you can't even be completely sure who it is who's going to do it. Like Gary Sanchez, I don't think anyone saw him coming up and doing exactly what he did.

But just knowing he was the top prospect who was getting a chance to play every day. And the majors made him worth hopping aboard. So, you know, I kind of talked down Ian Hap relative to Heath, but yeah, I put in a $10 bid for Ian Hap in that league. I wish, obviously, I had him stashed ahead of time. But it could absolutely be a situation where he's just so good that he ends up being one of the Cubs' best eight starters and plays every day from here forward. Yep. So Lewis Brinson, Reese Hoskins, Ian Hap, obviously. Who else?

Zimmer for Cleveland. The guy you mentioned on the A's, the short stuff for the A's, what's his name? Franklin Barreto. Franklin Barreto. Yep. And Ahmed Rosario, who could be very close for the Mets. The Drew Bacrera hurt his thumb. John Heyman reported that Rosario is close.

I think he said that he seems ready. So it's just up to them. They're in free fall. Make that change already. Make that change. Right? Make that change. And you know, a reason why.

there in free fall is because Jacob de Grom is their only fairly reliable pitcher, and he's got a 407 ERA, so we should probably talk about these struggling studs. Anything else in the bullpen? Brandon Mauer, he struggled again on Sunday. Ryan Bukter's been better than him. We know Carter Caps is still down to the minors. Edwin Dia, Edwin Diaz is not having a great year. 420 ERA, 113 whip, four home runs allowed, three in his last six games. You see any change? We talked about San Diego last week. Do you think Bukter is worth stashing?

You think Caps is worth stashing? And then do you think there's anything going on in Seattle? Like where I've got room, I still have caps on the DL in a couple of Roto leagues where I have five DL spots and I just don't need it. I wouldn't have caps stashed in a league where I didn't have that DL spot just because he's not shown. I know it takes a while for pitchers to get their delivery back. and I wonder because his is so unique and complex if he's just having a hard time finding what it was he had before. I mean, it's kind of wonky.

Cheating, it's cheating, yeah. I wouldn't call it cheating, but nobody else does it. Like, who's going to help Carter Capps figure out how to time what he's doing when no one else does it? Barry Bonds, someone who's good at cheating, I'd say. Okay. Fair. I'm just kidding.

I always joke about it. It's not cheating. I always joke about his delivery because I find it so, I find it so absurd. I'm not doing anything wrong. I'm not particularly moved to to stash anybody else, though, because I still think that Capps has the potential to be the best. I don't think Mowers particularly good. So I think you'll get a chance eventually. We've got Brad Hand on our team in the For the People League.

Yeah, I was going to mention him. He's the Padre's best reliever right by now. Okay. And has been for two years. Well, since the start of last year. How about Seattle? Worried at all about Edwin Diaz? I am worried that he's not going to live up to the hype that we gave him in the preseason,

but I don't have any concerns about him losing his job. All righty, big news real quick here. Altuve limped off on Sunday. These are just some injuries you're going to have to check on. He came out late in the game, they're going to blowout. San Francisco is aiming for an early August return for Bumgarner. I got a bold prediction right. One of my bold predictions was Blake Snell would get demoted before the All-Star break.

There you go. Has happened. My other two. You're the boldest of bold. My other two were Greg Bird would be better than Hanley Ramirez. That's not looking good. And this one, like, they're doing everything to make this one come true, and he's just not pulling his weight. I said Gregory Polanco would be the best Pirates outfielder.

So, you know, I got that Marte break. Yeah, he might still be. It might. It's not over. The Nationals signed Bryce Harper to a one-year $21.65 million dollar deal for next year. He'll be a free agent after 2018. Robinson Canoe missed the weekend series with a quad injury, and I think a lot of it could have just been the turf in Toronto.

Yeah, that's what it sounds like. I don't think he's going on the DL. AJ Pollock, on the other hand, could very well go on the DL with a groin injury. I read he was despondent after the game, having dealt with this at the end of last year, and a little bit in spring training, too, groin injury. David Peralta left Sunday's game with glute tightness, which is something that I'd like to have.

Just saying. Milwaukee expects Ryan Brain to have a short stay on the DL. Sean Minaya is coming off the DL today. He's got two starts at Seattle and home against Boston. Start Sean Binaia or leave him on your DL in one of those, you know. Look, I mean, as many people are going after Zach Godley right now, I think you have to start Sean Minaya. They should all start Sean Minaya. I would prefer to see these two starts, but it's not a week where you have that luxury.

I'm probably starting Rich Hill, too, and that's not even for sure that he's making a second start. You know what decision I'm going to have to make two-starred Sean Minaya at Seattle and Boston at home, or a two-start Joe Musgrove at Miami, and then the other one might be Boston, actually. No, I'll go Mania. I'll go Mania there. I mean, Musgrove. Musgrove is just not that good. It's at Miami at home against Cleveland. He's been Zach Godley.

Yeah, I think Musgrove's better than Zach Godley. I think Mania is better than Musgrove. But I'd be very tempted to start Musgrove with one of those being an L-start. Mania, he could very easily throw two innings. I don't know about two. Throw like four. Well, if he re-injures himself, it could be. I don't really like starting pitchers in their first time back.

Yeah, same, same. J.D. Martinez said his foot is going to hurt him all year. So that's wonderful. Certainly seemed to be hurting him when he homered twice Sunday. Yeah. Max Scherzer dealing with a blister, and he took a line drive off his knee and Sunday start. He's fine. Aaron Sanchez's finger was bleeding during the game.

Okay. He said it was no big deal, but I would disagree. It's been on a DL twice, Aaron Sanchez. Seems like a bad thing. Yeah. It was not removed because of him. No, no. I would still.

I move Sanchez up with him coming back, and I've got him a half. had a hurry out. Okay, Aaron Sanchez is back. Red Sox pitcher Drew Pomerania. I don't know why I didn't just go to Pomerania in, but Drew Pomerania left with triceps tightness. Pomeranz expects to make his next start. John Farrell said he didn't think it would be a long-term thing.

I'm going to just a guess. You never know, but he's Pomeran. So David Price should be back soon. Travis Shaw left Sunday's game with a finger injury. Polanco left with a hamstring injury. Gregory Polanco said it was precautionary. Carlos Gomez left with a hamstring strain, which I like because it keeps the shields in the lineup, I would think. And Brandon McCarthy is pitching today.

Rich Hill is pitching Tuesday. They both have two starts. Good matchups at San Francisco and home against Miami. It's not clear. Even if Hill's great Tuesday, the Dodgers still have six pitchers. So, I mean, I guess they could skip for you or something, but I'm... I would put it as unlikely he'll makes two starts, but not. impossible. Okay. Well, if you want to go see those starts from Rich Hill, you want to get

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And yesterday, Gerardi said he didn't have a splitter or a slider. So, and now it's really low. Like peripherally, when you're talking about strikeout rate and walk rate, that does not look, doesn't help your case at all. Well, walk rate's been fine. His swinging strike rate is higher than it's been since 2014. He's throwing more pitches in the strike zone. than he's thrown ever in his career.

I just, I don't see anything that screams to me, Masahiro Tanaka, I think you always have the concern is his arm just finally done. But there's nothing that screams to me, oh, no, this is it. So I'd probably agree, and I think you buy him dirt cheap right now. Yep, I'll put out some Tanaka offers.

I'm trying to buy him in the podcast league. It's so far gone, unaccepted. Okay. Just sitting there, the offer, which usually means no, and I'm just too lazy to actually log in and reject it. So what about this one? John Lester, Jake Areetta, these two Cubs pitchers, who, you know, Lester at least had his best velocity of the season on Saturday, but he stunk, gave up three earned runs, four or

total, in five and two thirds with four walks, the highest walk rate since his second year in baseball, and Arietta didn't walk a lot of bad. He only walked one, but he still gave up two homers and four runs at St. Louis, and he's still just very hitable this year. Lester and Areetta. It was one of his best Velocity games of the year, too, Arieta.

And look, I mean, the strikeout rate was solid for six innings. The walk rate was solid. He just barely missed a quality start. I would consider both Lester and Arieta by low still. I know both Arieta and Joe Matten were very encouraged by this start.

I got a couple of commenters on Twitter who were not so encouraged by this start. But I think it was no reason to change anyone's opinion, my opinion on Aureeta anyway. Yeah, I was really stubborn early in the year and basically just left him in my top five starting pitchers. And I've gone away from that. But when you look at the peripherals, the velocities coming back, the strikeout percent. strikeout percentage is not that far off what it was in 2014 and 15. The main concern we had with Aariata coming into this year was his walks last year,

and that's not a problem anymore. You can't keep telling people that you have no reason to be worried about Jake Erietta, but there's nothing you can do about it. You need to start him. I feel like, and I should probably go back and check the spring game logs to see if this is true, but I feel like just kind of tangentially I remember reading something this spring about how the Cubs were being careful because of their deep playoff run with all their starting pitchers. I wonder if Lester Arieta and Hendricks all three just didn't get enough of a spring training.

Well, I guess I got to disagree with you guys on one thing about Arieta. Like his velocity was, if it was better, it was incrementally better. It was better on his sinker, but worse on his foreseamer, according to Brooks baseball. He doesn't throw, like pretty much all of his fastballs are that sinker. that Brooks baseball classifies it at. It's still way down, though, you know, or probably about two miles per hour down. Yeah, for the year.

It's about two miles per hour down. But this was one of... Yeah, I don't want to say that because I don't want to give the... I don't want to give the impression that his velocity is coming back. I don't think that's... I don't know that that's wrong with Arietta. I just don't think we can say that right now. And I don't want Fiannaissance owners to be thinking that personally.

Fair enough. So, look, we're all saying by low on Tanaka, Lester and Arieta, but who of those three are you most concerned about? Tanaka. Yep. I'm going to say Arrieta. Like, while I think that Areietta, concern relative to what we expected, you know, like, I'm not saying that Tanaka's better than Areeta, but I'd say I'm more concerned.

Like, Ariad had a terrible second half last year. It wasn't, it was terrible by his standards. It was bad. He had a 360 ERA and a 107 whip or something like that. I mean, that's still basically a must-start pitcher. That's if you use, like, your good stretch. If you go back a little bit further, it was over four. Okay.

But I guess... But class, look at Areeta's numbers. Remove the Colorado start and look at his numbers this year. That's probably a must-start pitcher, too. Like, I feel like the worst-case scenario for Areeta is still, you know, obviously not a Cy Young contender, but still somebody you're starting basically every week. And you can, like I just said, you can look at Tanaka and looking his peripherals, and it kind of just looks like he's been bad.

Until you dig a little deeper. With Arietta, it's pretty obvious. I mean, he's a career 270 Babbup guy that's given up a 355 Babbap. He's a career 72% strand rate guy that's got a 60% strand rate. He's a career 10% home run to fly ball rate guy that's got a 16% home run to fly ball rate. Okay. Like, I just, there's so many things that point to Ariad is going to be fun. Let's talk about two pitchers who are walking a lot of batterers,

Jacob de Grom and Justin Verlander. And DeGrom has 20 walks in 48 and two thirds. and Verlander has 25 walks in 48 and one-third, and he walked five yesterday. Man! So, yeah, DeGrom and Verlander. Same thing, just they're fine, by low, or concerns here? They're fine.

Maybe the bigger problem isn't that I think, or maybe it's not so much that I think all these guys are going to be fine. It's just that they aren't falling enough to where the next tier of pitchers would overtake them anyway. I mean, DeGroms actually moved up. in my rankings as the year's gone on because as discouraging as the logs have been, the strikeouts have been pointing to ASTM, and there are more

pitchers falling out of that group than joining it. I had Verlander as a number two starter coming into this year. I would be concerned if he was my number one, because I didn't expect him to deliver that type of production anyway, and he's not been anywhere close to as good as he was last year, and I don't expect him to eat.

But Verlander has a two straight year track record now of starting just like this and then being like the best pitcher in the American League for the rest of the season. When is he going to start doing that? I mean, next start. Yeah. I mean, it could. The guy that I would compare it to is Cluber last year. Cluber first eight starts, which actually ended on May 14th yesterday, you know, same year anniversary. Cluber had a 430 ERA.

The difference, I'd say, between Kluber and DeGrom and Verlander is the walks. He didn't have an issue with control. Those two guys do. Yeah, go ahead. You're comparing him to Kluber. I mean, couldn't you just compare him to Berlander last year? I feel like Verlander was even worse than Klobber was. Berlander had a 649 ERA in his first six starts last year.

And then he turned it on a little bit earlier than where we're at at this point of the season. But he was also much worse. It was a more drastic turnaround than it would have to be now. How about Jose Cantana and Carlos Martinez? Two other guys who are really struggling with command as well. I mean, Cantana is basically just like de Grom and Verlander. He got 23 walks and 49 and a third. Carlos Martinez with four walks against the Cubs on Saturday.

He's got a 1295 whip, 21 walks, and 48 and two thirds. DeGrom, Verlander, Cantana, and Martinez all have thrown about 49 innings and all have between 20 and 25 walks issued. What do you think? Kintana and Carmart. Every single one of these pitchers you named, Tanaka, Lester, Arietta, DeGrom, Verlander, Kintana, Carlos Martinez. I think every single one of them I made a tradeoff for this weekend.

Okay. For me, the one I would be the most concerned about would be Kintana, because he does not have the stuff to make up for that type of walk rate. Like, he can't be good if this is just a year where his control isn't as good as it's been in the past. We have spent a lot of time talking about pitchers. Let's talk about some hitters. Who are some hitters that you want to add? Kevin Pilar is hitting well right now.

Jason Kipnis, I don't know if he's available, but he batted leadoff on Sunday and he went crazy. Logan Morrison and Justin Bohr are about 30 percent owned, the two of them, and they're hitting very well. Logan Morrison, Homeroff, Chris Sale. That was impressive. Any hitters that you think need to be picked up right now? Matt Holiday is still not 60% owned. So he is by far the leader in the club. I think it was 55%, 56% this morning when I looked.

I understand questioning whether Matt Holliday is going to hit the midway point in the season and get injured or just not be as good. It doesn't matter. You add him now and figure that out later. Yeah. Enjoy the ride. I think he's better in the short term than somebody like Altaire, even though Altaire maybe deserves to be more owned. Not that much. Josh Reddick is another guy that I think is just people kind of forget about him

because he wasn't that exciting coming into the year. And people were worried about his playing time. He's got 135 plate appearances. He's got some against lefties. He's got almost a 300 average with over 800 OPS. I think Reddick should be much higher than the 30% own that he is. Okay. You brought up Pilar who kind of caught my attention this morning,

so I haven't added him anywhere. but he has been I was looking at him in a points league and very consistently right around 20 points week after week you project his numbers out it's very

I mean he's doing his best AJ Pollock impression this year Kevin Polaris a guy who I always kind of liked because the strikeout rate was low and you know he has some combination of power and speed. It seemed like more speed than power, but he's showing a little power this year.

For as well as he's performing, his 341 Babbup isn't ridiculous. So I think maybe he does deserve to be owned. I'd still rather have like Altaire Holiday, but just behind them. Pilar is 66% owned. Oh, okay. I don't think Pilar needs to be 100% owned. No, he needs to be more owned than he is. Okay.

I think Pilar was about a top 30 outfield or two years ago. Yeah, and it was mostly because of steals, at least in points of leagues, the low strikeout rate, but it looks like he's adding some more to his game than that. He's also a lead-off hitter, Kevin Pilar, so that is nice. Okay, so Justin Bore, Logan Morrison, any interest here? Not particularly. Okay. Thompson Smoke kind of fits into that category, too.

He's hitting a lot of home runs, and once upon a time he was considered a good prospect, but it's like how the threshold for a replacement level hitter is so high now that they're kind of on the fringes for me. Deep leagues. How about these players? Lori Garcia, leading off and hitting pretty well for the White Sox. Tommy Fam, only 12% owned still. And then I got one more name to throw out, but why don't you talk about those two guys and if there's anyone else? deep leagues. I don't think Garcia is a bad idea. I worry about fam and how regular or consistent

the playing time is going to be. The White Sox don't have any good players, so they might as well just play the guy that's hitting. But I don't think he's very good, Garcia. Fam I could see having some power potential, but it's Stephen Piscotti's about to come back. I'd pick up Justin Smoke, who I just talked down. I'd pick him up over either of these two, Garcia or Pham. Couldn't you see FAM just replacing Randall Gritchick? Maybe. He's got three steals, by the way.

Yeah, I just... I guess that's a possibility. I can't imagine they just give up on Randall Gritchie, though. Also, Ben Revere. I think you've got to be in a pretty deep league for this, but Cameron Mabin is hitting 180, and Revere gets in there every now and then anyway, for Calhoun or for Mabin,

and I know that Trout has been de-hching. coming back from the injury and homering in three straight games, by the way, he's incredible. Yeah, you know, Ben Revere, going into last year was an absolute must draft, like a mid-round pick. So, again, the problem is,

because I think Ben Revere, with what Maven has done, had the opportunity to just take the job, except he's not been any good either. No, but he's been better than Maven. I think the one thing that would determine... David did have three walks and three stolen bases yesterday. He did, he's got a 580 OPS.

I think you're hoping Ben Revere is kind of what Mabin has been. No. With 9 for 9 in steals. Maybe it's been terrible. Like his on-base percentage. His on-base percentage is 122 points higher than his batting average. Because of yesterday. He just needs to have a little better batted ball luck, and he'll be solid roto-blay.

All right, he stinks. So. They both do. They both do. But, again, I'm trying to go. I'm trying to get some deep league help here. Let's do some Cody Bellinger team names here We got some Cody Bellinger team names from the listeners

I'm just going to read them I won't say any of the listener names It'll just slow us down Don't ask, don't Bellinger All as well that ends Bellinger Don't tell Mom the Bellinger's dead Those are all one person I got a great one on Twitter

That was too perfect And I'll have to open it up and find it I think it's the one that like 74 different people sent it saved by the Bellinger Yeah, there it is. Because it makes perfect sense. Yeah. He saved your season, right?

Winner. It's too perfect. Winner. Saved by the Bellinger. Almost to the point where it was like, how did I not come up with that? Right. I can't think of it even now. I had to open Twitter.

Bellinger of the ball. Bellinger Biv DeVoe. That's a good one. I like that one. Bellingerant, but you've got to say it angrily. Bellingerent. We want a pitcher, not a belly injure. Belinger onmo.

Belinger, Amio. Belinger, Amiah was a bullfrog. Belingeroo, the Damaja, I don't know what that is. What is going on here? It's so bad. Okay. Cody, Cody Bollinger. I don't know that all these had to make the gut.

You know what? What about Kid Cody? Kid Cody? Oh, there's no way. People were like, oh, Scott was mispronouncing this rapper's name. There's no way that Scott was mispronouncing the rapper's name. I mean, maybe I heard the name just, you know, and like I couldn't have told you that's who it was, even if you'd given me hints.

But maybe I had just heard that name at some point in my past and thought they were saying Kid Cody. Maybe. What was his name? What's his real name, Heath, the rapper? I think it's Kid Cuddy, but no, I'd never heard of him either. This is not in my wheelhouse. Yeah, C-U-D-I, Cuddy or Cudy? Lots of people know who it is.

I said Cudy at my desk, and Chris laughed so hard. Chris is so, Chris is so, Chris. is so hip compared to us, right? He's so hip. Whatever. He's a hipster. Okay. Let's read some more names of pitchers here.

Fringy starting pitchers, 65 to 80% owned. I put Charlie Morton and Sunny Gray in here. Usually 79% is the cutoff, but they're 80% owned. Morton, first nine batters, 150 ERA, second nine, 113, A, 3rd 9, 1227 ERA. Opponents are now hitting 326 and more walks as the game goes on. But still, I just feel like there's so much potential there, Charlie Morton. Sunny Gray, Kevin Gosman, Kendall Graveman, Matt Moore.

Let's stop there. Morton, Gray, Gosman, Graveman, Matt Moore, best long-term potential in that group. Morton and I'm going to lean more over. Gosman. And Gray. I mean, Gray's part of that discussion, too, I think. Yeah, I would probably, if I had to pick one, go with Gosman, and I might go Gray second.

Over Morton. Yeah. Like, I'm not trying to say that Morton shouldn't be 80% owned, but I'm also, like, I haven't decided that he's a must-start pitcher either. There's plenty of things to be questioning. You know, there's someone in the next group of names who I like more than all of these pictures.

Trevor Cahill. Yeah, Trevor Letter Cahill. I like that. Trevor Cahill, Matt Shoemaker, Patrick Corbyn, Adam Wainwright, Hector Santiago, Cobb. Cahill, Shoemaker, Corbyn, Wainwright, Santiago Cobb. He's so close that Trevor Cahill to, I think, just graduating to must-start status here.

It was nice to see. I think he had only one walk in this weekend start, because walks had been kind of an issue for him. Had some bad bad bit luck giving up eight hits and six innings, but still had the seven strikeouts still doing what has me so excited, missing all those bats emphasis on the slider. And I am excited about Cahill's prospects going forward. I think it was good to see Matt Shoemaker get back on track. I still see him as a guy that should be owned. pretty much everywhere because I still am going to start him most every week What's weird about Shoemaker I noticed when I was on the verge of dropping him in a league

Like the walk rate is unusually high for him for the year Which might factor into that He has only two quality starts so he's been getting pulled early But the strikeout rate's very good If the walk rate just returns to normal for him Maybe we're on to something And then Corbyn would be my third favorite out of this group Yeah

You were going to drop Shoemaker for Burrios, Scott. Did you do that? Would you still do that? Yeah, I mean, if I had to do that, if Shoemaker was my low pitcher. I'd do that to get Burrios. I'd do it, but I wouldn't feel good about it. I've got worse pitchers than that on my roster. By the way, with Cahill, he's got a 548 road ERA and a .49 home eRA.

Not a lot of starts. But he pitches for the Padres. So, Cahill, he's got a home start this week. It's against Milwaukee. It's not going to be easy. but I guess I'm at the point where I would start Cahill at home. After being just completely dismissive of him, I think that's stupid at this point. He's such an extreme groundball hitter.

And Pekko is kind of a good home run part or a decent home run park these days anyway. So I don't know that there's really anything to those home and away splits. I don't really get scared of the brewers without Ryan Braun outside of Miller Park. All right. Well, that's a good point. Ryan Brain, by the way. French starting pitchers part two, 50 to 64% own. Tillman, Andres, Montgomery. All right, Chris Tillman, Matt Andrews, Jordan Montgomery,

Nate Carnes, Miguel Gonzalez. Carnes is the one I'm most excited about because he's the guy that's going the best right now and has this ridiculous strikeout run that's kind of out of nowhere, but we saw it a little bit when he's pitching out of the bullpen last year. And then it's just these guys are totally and completely dependent on matchup for me. Tillman's the one I would bet on having the most good starts the rest of the way, but I'm swapping them in and out depending on who they're facing that week. And then Matt and Andres, if you picked him up for a two-start week,

or he completely delivered for you, especially if it's a points league where he's really pitcher eligible. I'd have a hard time dropping him now. I don't have a lot of confidence in him, but... I had no problems. No problems dropping him. Maybe I should have, but I started him as an RP. I dropped him.

Like, he's not pitch five innings, two runs, four walks at Boston. Well, this was, the five innings was unusual for him. He's actually been one of the more consistent quality start generators that you'll find on waivers this year. I mean, as unreliable as most pitchers have been. Yeah. And I mean, the K rate's okay. The walk rate's okay. Like, I could see him being okay enough to stay on rosters.

Okay, I agree with that. I had him in two leagues. I dropped Andres in one league. I did not drop him in the other. I don't remember who I dropped him. It really depends on who's available. If the league where Brio's is out there, you clearly drop him for Brioz quickly. But there was also a league where I took the Atomazer advice and picked up C.C.

Sabathia for a two-star week. And I would not have been dropping Andres for Sabathia. Oh, well, one of those starts is against the Royals, Eith. So you're going to have to root for him. But here's the problem is that the Royals are really good again because they all see these Escobars leading off. Red Hot. Playing well. My new benching Calvin Herrera was going to be a mistake.

All right, Fringy starting pitchers part three, Jesse Hahn, Daniel Norris, Ariel Miranda, Mike Fultenevich. Han, Norris, Miranda Fultenevich. Who would you gamble on? Fulti. Fulte. Yeah, probably Fulte. Norris is the one I'm most likely to take a shot on, but you could make an argument for any of these guys.

Actually, Han. I overlooked Han. He's had a pretty good career other than one terrible year, but I just don't know who he is. Like, he used to be this big ground ball guy, got away from that last year. Said he was going to get back to that this year and has had success, but the ground ball rate really hasn't followed. And if you're not getting strikeouts either, I'm just betting against you. I like Fulte the most. He's had one disastrous start, had a couple good strikeout starts, and mostly good starts overall.

I think he's shown the most of this group this year. And we've got Feldman and Deep League. Scott Feldman. I won't sing it this time. Joe Biagini. Tonight. Josh Tomlin. That's what Aladdin told Jafar, and that's how he put him to bed.

I said, Beijini, they have the most power. What are you talking? What was trapped in the lamp? What do you reference him? He outsmarted him. What movie is that? What? Who's Jafar?

I said, Aladdin, that's what Aladdin told Jafar. Who is Aladdin? Aladdin? Aladdin? The movie? You don't like the way I said it? No, no, I'm just kidding. Josh Tomlin, I look at this list and I think, God, the Marlins have a bad rotation.

Jose Arena, Edinson Volquez, Justin Nicolino, they're all on here. You got Lisa Alberto Bonilla, Andrew Casher. I should throw in Matt Garza. Matt Garza, like, it might not be that bad. He's trying to throw more off-speed pitches. Maybe you'll have a bit of a bounce back ear.

I don't know. For a deep league, yeah, I could see, like, if you're in a situation where these are the types of pitchers you're choosing from, I could see Garza being a quality option. Yeah. Okay. And that's going to do it for today's show. We could stay a little bit late and go through today's matchups real quick. Oh, there are, I think, eight games on the schedule. They begin at 6.10 p.m. Eastern.

Tell me starts and sits. We got Archer and Carasco. We'll start them both. We got Cologne at the Blue Jays facing Bowlinger. Start either Cologne or Bullsinger? No. I'd prefer not to if I had to choose one, it would be Bowlinger. Are you starting Jose Batista this week?

Boy, they have some nice matchups. Yes. Joe Musgrove and Dan Straeli, Astros at Marlins. I would rather start Musgrove. Yeah. Yeah, I'd lean yes if I already owned him. Yeah. Zach Wheeler at Zach Godley tonight.

Wheeler. Wheeler. Mike Pelfrey and Jesse Chavez, the White White Sox are at the Angels. Neither. Yeah, Chavez if I had to, but I don't want her either. Brewers at Padres, Chase Anderson, Luis Perdomo. No.

Yeah, I don't love it. Anderson's a sleeper, maybe Daily Fantasy Sleeper at the poders? He will, though, on my two-star pitchers list also. In fact, he may have been behind Godley. He will be used heavily in DFS tonight because he's facing the Padres. A's and Mariners, Sean Minaya, Yvani Gaiardo. I'd really like to see one Mania start first. I'll start Mania and not Gallardo.

Would you start Brandon McCarthy or Matt Cain tonight? I would choose McCarthy, but I'd like not to start either. Okay, have a wonderful day. Yeah. To you and to everyone out there. To you and yours. Thank you for letting me sing and reference the Simpsons. And I'm going to go watch Aladdin.

Bye, everyone.