Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/21: Weekend Roundup - So Many Players to Add (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 21, 2018

We begin with Juan Soto and the rest of the prospects (2:24) and continue with the hitters (12:00) you need to add right now. John Hicks, Jesus Aguilar and Ian Happ are among the batters who have caught our eye recently. Then it's on to SPs (18:00) and RPs (21:05). Is Ross Stripling worth using? Who is getting saves for PHI? Is Blake Parker back? ... Steals sources (24:20) and a look at the Most Added list (25:32) ... A thorough look at SPs who stood out over the weekend beginning with the best of the best (35:40), why Jon Lester is a sell high candidate (37:55) and if Yu Darvish and Sonny Gray (38:40) have figured something out. Then we give you many more SPs to add (41:30) such as Jordan Lyles, Fernando Romero and Andrew Heaney ... Your emails at [e-mail] This episode is sponsored by www.ZipRecruiter.com 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 Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. One, one pitch, basketball, bold, and fast. Out of fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy! Now, here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris. Well, I got to say, this has been one fun fantasy baseball season so far.

Welcome to the show. It'll be one fun show on Monday, the 21st of May. I am Adam Azer with Scott White and Heath Cummings. And guys, I am almost overwhelmed by the amount of players that I want to add this week. Heath Cummings, do you agree? Do you share that? There are a lot of players. I didn't feel overwhelmed.

I was perfectly capable of handling this responsibility. And I think I handled it very well. It was a lot. There's a lot, right? It was a lot. It was more than the last couple weeks, I'm sure. There were some leagues where I put, like, you know, 30-plus claims. in and it was

it was a time consuming affair yeah I think the best part about it is like we are all going to come into this with different guys that we want to talk about there's not like one or two guys that's yeah it's a lot of different things is Juan Soto the

guy he is for at least one of us definitely well yeah for Scott but he already owned him everywhere yeah he's number one on the list for sure is he okay good so what we're going to do today is a little bit different. We're going to give you one or more players to add at every single position. So that's John Hicks, among others, at Catcher, Jesus Aguilar at first base.

Maybe you want to add Ian Hap or Josh Harrison at second base. We'll go on down the line. I am going to, not only did I add, I am going to start Ross Stripling at the Padres this week. Yeah, what do you think about that? I think your pitching staff is probably in trouble. Yeah, Richel's going on the DL. Come on. Ross Stripling's been really good. It's not terrible. I'm just saying that if you are starting Ross Stripling this week because of one start at the Padres, your pitching staff was probably in trouble.

It's a fairly deep league, I'd say. Troubles, yeah, it's a little bit of that. Okay. Well, anyway, okay, here we go. Let's start with the prospects and start with Juan Soto, who the Nationals called up as Howie Kendrick is out for the year with an Achilles injury. Now, Soto is left-handed. He sat against a lefty yesterday. I think they have lefties on the schedule Monday and Tuesday.

Scott White would probably know better than I would. But let's talk about Wantsoto and how eager we are to add the 19-year-old, youngest player in baseball right now for the Nationals. Scott White. Yeah, this was definitely stop the press's type news on Saturday night. We talked about Wantsoto a couple times last week and just how ridiculous he's been in the minors and how it probably gives him a chance of breaking through in the majors this year. Did not expect it to happen the very next week,

but that's obviously an indication of just how excited the nationals are to bring him in and how ready they think he is for this opportunity. From what I read, they are going to ease him in against tougher leptanders, but the way the MLB Beat writer put it was they brought him up to play and to play every day. So I'm not worried about playing time in the long run. Obviously, he has to perform, but consistently throughout his minor league career, more walks than strikeouts and was, like, just prodigious power. I think he was leading all my – well, I know he was leading all minor leaguers in OPS,

and he was right there one or two in home runs as well. So very excited to add this player. I had him in a couple deep leagues already. I spent $235 of my $1,000 budget in Tout Wars to get him. And others, since there's five Tout Wars leagues, others spent more in the other leagues. I was lucky to get him for that amount. Juan Soto, and he is owned in 73% of leagues now.

So there are three lefties on the schedule this week for Soto. They are not very good. They are Robbie Erlin, Eric Lauer, and Wei and Chen. The other pitchers are Tyson Ross, Jose Arrania, and Eliezer Hernandez. So the nationals of good matchups this week. I don't know. Are we starting Soto this week, or do we want to wait and see? Let's keep in mind he is extremely young.

Not just extremely young. And I am extremely, I don't want to cast any sourness on. on this one Soto excitement. It's very exciting. He has 35 plate appearances at AA. Yeah. Everything else below that is A ball or rookie or low A. And most of that is low A and rookie.

So this isn't a one level jump or really even a two level jump. This is an enormous jump. He only played 32 games last year because of injury. So like, you're not wrong about that. He has 513 minor league plate appearances, which is a lot if it was just like higher levels. This is an enormous. This is really, really, really rare to see a player make this type of jump this quick. And that's probably a good sign.

The teams are not stupid. They're not trying to stunt his development. They obviously have a ton of confidence that this kid has the right makeup. I would have a real difficult time starting in the very first week. I think it'd be a five outfielder, three outfielder thing for me. Right. Like five outfielder leagues. Probably going to find a spot form, three outfielder leagues.

I probably have three outfielers. I have enough confidence in that I don't need to go there yet. So would you rather have Soto or Vladimir Guerrero? I mean, is that an easy question now that Soto's up? A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush, right? Yeah, yeah. All right, we'll take the bird in the hand. Luis Gohara is going to start on Wednesday,

but there are some other circumstances, Heath, that we need to know about here with Gohara for the Braves. Is Gohara a must add? I wrote about Gohara last week before they announced they were adding him. I do think he is a mustad. It's hard to find. I was more excited before the year, and I'm still more excited about his long-term potential and even 2018 potential than I am Soroka. So I do think he should be on your roster.

I wouldn't even have that big of a problem with saying, man, I'm really desperate. I'd rather start him than someone like Ross Thripling this week. But... Yeah, I would do that. Right. But I do also think you need to understand that he may not... This is not a situation where he's being moved into the rotation permanently, at least not yet. It sounds like he has some family, a sickness in his family.

His mom is really sick and is still in Brazil. And he is staying. He was actually planning on going back this weekend. He's staying through Wednesday to make the start. And then the plan as of like Saturday was he's going back to Brazil because they think that they won't need him in the rotation because Soroka should be back. All right. That's Luis Gohara. He's 40% on.

I don't know that I'd start him against the Phillies this week. That's not the easiest matchup. But, all right. So that's somebody at least has some long term potential there, Luis Gohara. And we hope everything gets better for him with his personal life. Nick Kingham was sent down. Joe Musgrove is going to come off to D.L. this week. Scott, can we drop Nick King?

Yeah, I dropped them, I think, pretty much everywhere I have him. If it's a deeper league scenario, like 15 plus teams, maybe you hold on to him, hoping another opportunity arises. But, like, even before I knew for sure he was getting sent down, the fact he wasn't throwing a lot of his slider, wasn't getting the same big swing and miss total he did with it in that initial start was enough to tell me I could probably do better. Joe Musgrove is 20% home. Would you rather own Gohara or Musgrove? Gohara. Gohara.

Derek Fisher is on the D.L. Houston called up J.D. Davis, who was leading the whatever league he was in in AAA in hitting, batting average. Do we care about J.D. Davis for the Astros? I'm not sure there's going to be an opportunity for him to play much. I'm surprised how much Tony Kemp has played. It seems to have been at the expense of Marwin Gonzalez, but I don't see how they fit a second guy.

like that in there. Okay, so not a big mover there, J.D. Davis. Alex Reyes had another great rehab start, and then Jack Flaherty had another great actual start. Reyes had the minor league start, Flaherty, the major league start. They were sensational this weekend. What the heck in the Cardinals rotation, Heath? If they ever start Adam Wainwright again, everyone involved in that decision should be fired. No, they were.

He's on the 60-Dady. He's gone for a while. Yeah, he's, forget about him. Carlos Martinez could be out another week or two, but are they going to be able to? would have fit both Reyes and Flaherty. Luke Weaver needs to keep pitching well, I think. Yeah. I mean, something's

going to give here. I don't know that it's going to be as soon as Reyes is ready to go. It seems like I still think it's possible they move him into like Josh Hader role just waiting for that opening. But unlike Hater, once the opening

comes, I think he'll seize it. If we're ranking these three pitchers, Scott, like what we think they are if they're in the rotation. I think it's Reyes Flaherty Weaver, right? I think they're all good, but yes. I think in terms of upside, that's how I'd rank them. And Johnny Field is someone I didn't anticipate talking about.

We could maybe just cross them off the list. But Tampa Bay Outfield or Johnny Field, he's batting 308 with four home runs. He's a rookie. Do we care about him? He hasn't been an everyday player either. And maybe he becomes, I mean, it's the Ray's lineup. So maybe there's an opportunity to become that, but I don't see a lot of outside. There's another guy that we don't think is an everyday player that was awesome this weekend, that's not on this list, that I'm more excited about.

Oh, who? Tyler O'Neill. Okay. He hit a dong on Saturday, hit a dong on Sunday. And I don't really think the Cardinals have any place for him either. But Dexter Fowler has been just absolutely awful so far this year. One of the worst hitters in all of baseball. you can't trust O'Neill as like a starter,

but I added him as a specular ad in a couple of five outfieler leagues. Okay, yeah, 17% owned Tyler O'Neill. And Austin Meadows might be a little over-owned because he's 41% owned, and Starling Marte says he'll be back soon. So Austin Meadows will keep it on. He's playing well. He's got a home run and a steal. He hasn't struck out or walked in three games,

batting 4-55 right now. It's Pirates Outfield or Austin Meadows. Might just be a temporary thing filling in for Starling Marte. Let's talk about who to add at each position and go with catcher. So coming up, let me just talk about what's coming up on today's show. I hope we have time to talk about all this stuff, but Sunny Gray had a very good start. A lot of bullpen stuff. We will talk about that.

Let's see, the Angels bullpen, the Brewers' bullpen, the Marlins bullpen. U. Darvish had a great fastball on Sunday and had a very good start after a 40-pitched first inning. Brandon Crawford has been tearing it up a little bit. Aaron Hicks has two inside the park home runs this year. Matt Carpenter looks like he's, you know, 10 for his last 20. That's good. Michael Conforto is playing better, and we got some steals guys for you. So we'll get to all that.

Who to add at each position, starting with catcher. All right, we've got to talk about John Hicks. John Hicks in his last 21 days. That's kind of like when he, you know, started becoming a regular. I don't know exactly how long Miguel Cabrera has been out. But the last 21 days, number two catcher and points, number one in Roto. and he had a respectable slash line last year for a guy who's catcher eligible, 266, 326, 439, and 60 games. John Hicks is 44%-0.

What do you guys think about the first basement currently for the Tigers, but catcher eligible? I think 44% is about appropriate, because I'd guess that's pretty close to how many two catcher leagues we have. I'd have a hard time unless you could have a catcher that went on the DL, and he was the best option in the one catcher league. but he's mostly two-catcher material, and I think he should be started in pretty much all two-catcher leagues until Miggie's back. I don't even know that it has to be two-catcher leagues, though,

because there are a number of catchers starting in one-catcher leagues who are fully replaceable. And I think John Hicks is basically must start at that position until Miguel Cabrera comes back. I mean, just the fact that he plays every day, before you even factor in, he's hitting well and hitting for, power. That gives him a leg up on all catchers. And if you look at his point total the last

three weeks, I mean, it's studly at the position. So it's obviously a weird situation, but the fact that that catcher is so lacking in high and talent makes it reasonable to kind of stream this guy until Cabrera's back and taking the job away. What happens when he's back? Is Hicks just done? Just the bench player? He's back to backing up James Mechanic catcher. Now, maybe he's earned like a 40-60 share there. Maybe he's earned the V-Mart role, and he's the DH.

It would surprise me. It'd surprise me. But it's possible. All right, how about a couple other, like, real deeply guys? Nick Hunley and Luke Maley. Miley's playing a little bit more lately. He's kind of 50-50 with Russell Martin. Any interest in those guys?

Like, Maley, and who is the other one? Nick Hunley. I don't think Hunley's going to play enough, but Maly's fine in a two-catcher league. I actually have him in a single catcher 24 team league. He's actually my starting catcher, because he is playing more. All right. Heath, let's talk about Hesu Sagarlar as we look at first base now.

He's 39% owned. He hit four home runs over the weekend, and he's crushing it. Scott said off the air that he's excited to start Hesu Sagelar in our crappy 16-te-to-head categories team, team scam. How do you feel about Aguilar? I think he's a very good ad in a 16-team categories league. He should be owned in all leagues where you need a corner infielder as well, and may probably even start it.

I don't think he's going to get to the point. And maybe he will. I don't know that I believe in him being a top-12-ish or top-18-ish, if you want to count utility option in a points league. He is hitting Ritey's just about as well as he's hitting lefties. He kind of has a reputation as a lefty masher. Actually, he had an OPS over 800 against Ritey's last year as well. But I think it's another injury fill-in situation, another hot hand situation,

but you won't find many hotter right now than Aguilar, who has good matchups this week. Would you rather have Aguilar or Trey Mancini, who also has good matchups, Scott, as I noted in your hitters column? I know I have Mancini higher and that hitter's. column, so I'm going to be consistent in say Mancini. But it's closer than maybe a rank list would indicate. Hesu Sagarlar or Matt Carpenter? Carpenter.

Carpenter. All right, let's move on to second base. You guys have interest in picking up Ian Hap, who's 69% owned, six for 15 with how many walks? Nine walks in his last five games. Ian Hap. And only five strikeouts. He's only striking out once a game now. Wow.

And Josh Harrison is back. three-hit game in his return from the DL. He's 44% owned. Do you guys want Ian Happer, Josh Harrison? I think Harrison is definitely underowned at 44%. He's going to be leading off. He might get hurt again, but while he's healthy, I expect him to be a pretty easy option in most formats.

Hap, the encouraging thing for me, you talked about it last week, Adam, Joe Madden, saying we've got to play him more. He started each of the last five games. Yeah, and won at third base. Right. With Chris Bryant getting a little bit of a breather. All right, so 69% owned.

What do you think about that ownership, perhaps? Too low. I don't know that I'd call it too low, but probably the standard rhodo lineup with the middle-in-field spot, the five outfielder spots. He probably needs to be owned in those formats. All right, how about third base? I don't know how that have anyone great here for third base.

Jed Jerko, maybe? 23% own? Yeah. Let me pull up the list here. see if I can find somebody good Josh Harrison is third base Oh okay So who would you rather have

Josh Harrison or Paul DeYoung I mean or Jed Jerko I'll take Harrison I Yeah I'm not sure how much Jerko Like he got two starts at shortstop And it was his first appearance at the position Since 2016

And then he didn't start their Sunday So I don't know how much they trust his defense there if they do play them on an everyday basis, I'd rather have him. But, I mean, like, if you go just a little higher in ownership, like Matt Chapman, 72, Matt Davidson, 72. That's a lot higher, though. We're talking 23%.

That's 50%. Well, even, like, Christian be in a wave is 59. You'd rather have... I'd rather have all of them than either of those two. I'd rather have Harrison than be in a waiva. All right. I don't like this segment. The segment's boring.

It's not working. Let's talk about some pictures you guys want to add from over the weekend, other than Ross Stripling, obviously. Who kind of stood out to you? I was happy to see Raynolo Lopez give us a start like the one he gave us, eight strikeouts over eight shutout innings against the Rangers. I think it's easy to forget that he's still just 24 years old because we've been waiting for him to show us his potential since 2016.

And he has a lot of times with young pitchers, especially ones that are going to develop into good starters. You'll see the signs over... limited starts, but they don't have the consistency, and that's what Lopez looks like right now. So he's still under 60% owned. I wouldn't necessarily feel comfortable starting him this week, but I'm trying to make a spot for him. I think you look at Jordan Lyle's start, and it's a lot better than the final numbers indicate. Five and two-thirds, seven hits four runs at Pittsburgh.

Four strikeouts. Pittsburgh doesn't strikeout. They are one of the lowest strikeout teams in baseball. Liles allowed one-earned run through five innings, and then he gave up a walk and two homers in the sixth. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the fact that he was great through five innings. This is coming off two awesome starts in a row against St. Louis and Colorado. Jordan Lyles is at the Dodgers this week, and he's 42% owned. Would you rather own Lyles or Renaldo Lopez?

Lopez. I'd rather own Liles, and I understand it probably sounds goofy since Lopez's stat line, base stat line looks good, but I still like, it's a bad strikeout rate, it's a bad walk rate, it's a bad flyball rate. I'm glad he had a good start yesterday, but I need to see more. I talked about, I think I sent you notes on Lyle's last week at him. There are encouraging things about what he's done so far this year, and I'm not saying that, like, I added him in a league. I just think the upside's a lot higher with Lopez. Okay, yeah, I think I'm going to go pick up Lopez in a 14-team league.

speak. Anyway, Andrew Heaney is 60% owned. What do you think about that, Scott? He was a big priority for me this week. I think he was only available in one of my leagues. But yeah, he's somebody I'm excited to add. I'm to the point where I'm taking a closer look at Kyle Freeland after kind of, I guess everybody who started Tyler Anderson, probably overwhelmed by what he delivered in that two-star week. But Kyle Freeland's been doing some of the things

got me excited about Anderson even better than Anderson has. I did put in some claims for Freddie Peralta this weekend. Obviously, that start Saturday didn't go great. The walks became an issue. And with Chase Anderson returning from the DL, it's not clear he's going to stick around. So that's probably, we can probably move on from him, at least in the standard 12-team league.

Okay, for Freddie Peralta. In leagues where I needed saves, I put in some Dan Winkler claims. I certainly put in some Sir Anthony Dominguez claims. He got a two-inning save on Saturday and hasn't allowed a hit yet in, what, six appearances? Yeah. Yeah, this is a Philly's pitcher. Sorry, Sir Anthony Dominguez that is now owned in 32% of leagues. And, yeah, their bullpens a little bit fluid, but Dominguez has been awesome for them.

It looks like they've got a little bit of a gem there. And it's S-E-R-Anthony, Sir Anthony Dominguez. That's a very cool name. That's a good one for Team Name Tuesday, everybody. Heath, go ahead. Yeah, I also picked. I think Dominguez should be the closer in Philadelphia. I think that's going to remain a fluid situation,

but he's the one that will help you the most in ratios out of all those relievers. I added Nate Jones in a league where saves are very scarce. I don't know who's going to get saves for the White Sox in a game-to-game basis, but if I had to bet on one to get a save this week, he'd be the most likely. He got a couple in a row, right? And then Jace Frye, who has some good numbers, by the way, but Jace Frye got one on Sunday. I think that was mostly because Aunt Jones had worked three of the previous four days. I think, yeah, it was that and the fact, I think Fry's a lefty, and they had both Gallo and Mazzara coming up that inning.

Yeah. Blake Parker got a save yesterday. Yeah, Blake Parker is maybe back. He has been great lately, Blake Parker. I did want to pick him up and was unable to do so. Now, you can't really think along with Mike Sosha when it comes to a bullpen, so it's dangerous to make a heavy investment in Parker, but he's the most deserving based on the way everybody's pitched lately.

His numbers suddenly look pretty good again. Yeah, they really do. And, you know, guys like Jim Johnson had a meltdown on Thursday. Justin Anderson, his numbers, he didn't get a save Friday, I think it was, but his numbers don't look very good. The camera bed, Rosin's numbers are awful. I think clearly

Blake Parker makes the most sense. We'll see if Socha does, thinks that too. All right, we'll take a look at the most added list in just a second. That was kind of your bullpen update there. People, are you hiring? Every business needs great people

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That is ZipRecruiter.com slash strike. ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. All righty. Let's see. The most added list in just a second. I had to draw Dyson in a league. wanted to mention that he's 8 or 9% owned. He's not a good hitter, but he's going to steal bases.

He stole 2 on Saturday. Travis Jankowski, though. Maybe we should talk about him. He's 26-owned guys. He's got a 359 batting average and seven steals in seven attempts in 19 games. He sits against lefties. They have at least two lefties on the schedule, the Padres. But Jankowski at 26% owned,

Gerard Dyson at 8% owned. Who's a better source for steals? I think it's Jankowski. Actually, I was a little worried that he might be the one who would suffer from Framiel Reyes getting the call, but race has done nothing. I'm not sure how much longer that's going to last. Jankowski's obviously doing great at the top of the order. The batip is ridiculously high, but so is the batting average. It's not like he's striking out a lot.

He's getting a lot of infield hits, which in his case, you could see is sustainable. I think he's, I think he's a pretty good steel source. All right, Travis Jankowski, keep an eye out for him. So here's the most added list. Juan Soto is number one, and Soto is 73% owned. Jordan Liles is number two. Let me just see who Liles has this week. And you can tell me, Starters, Sit, Padres pitcher, Jordan Louser,

which, by the way, is RP eligible. Okay, Jordan Liles, where the heck are you? There you are. And you have the Dodgers on the road this week. That could have been so much easier. If I just clicked on his name on the most, added list, I could have easily looked that up. That's how I did it, yeah.

Yeah, see? You're still a man. No, I mean, he's not the kind of, like, unless it's a situation in a points league where you really need to fill that second reliever spot. He's not the kind of pitcher you start in a one-star week yet. All right, Sir Anthony Dominguez, third on the list. He's not 35% owned. What you say it makes it sound like he's been knighted. That's his name.

That's how I heard. I heard it as Sir on the broadcast. Okay. All right. Sir Anthony. because Jesus Aguilar is 4.41% own now. Austin Meadows is 5. Do you guys agree with me on Austin Meadows that he's, you know, potentially?

I mean, I wrote him off when he got called up. The headline of the article Thursday was actually Austin Meadows is here, but Juan Soto is still the better stash in fantasy. So obviously that paid immediate dividends. But Meadows has been, in the brief time he's played, he's been better than I thought he would be. and it's just, like, no matter how good he is, where are they going to play him when Starly Marte is back?

We've got C.J. Cron on the most added list. Would you rather have Cron or Aguilar? Agar. I know I have Cron higher this week in the sleeper column, so I'm going to say Cron. Okay. Kyle Freeland is on the most added list. I'm going to click on his name and find his matchup. He is at the Dodgers.

All the Rockies are at the Dodgers. I'd rather not start him But I'd be more likely to start a minute and one-star week than Liles, I think Jordan Liles is on the Padres, he's thoroughly confused me Bartola Cologne's a two-star pitcher with some tough matchups I know Scott says he's getting hit really hard so buyer beware Bartola Cologne is up 21% he is 34% owned How about Brandon Crawford guys 47% own this is what Brandon Crawford has done

In the month of May I don't know why I threw in my girl just there. Brandon Crawford in May is batting 444 with two home runs and a 508 Babbip. What do you think? That's a high Babbip.

Yes, it is. I mean, he's hot. He's hot, and if you have a needed shortstop, it doesn't hurt to play the hot hands. You do not want to start him this week at all. He has five games against Garrett Cole, Justin Verlander,

Jose Cantana, U. Darvish, and Kyle Hendricks. Oh, that's true. Yeah, the Giants have the worst matchups. Good call, Heath. Hey, would you start Jordan Hicks over Buster Posey this week? No. What? You just told me. Jordan Hicks is John Hicks. John Hicks.

John Hicks over Buster Posey. No. I wouldn't be able to do that. Are we really starting Brandon Belt, Scott? Sounds like you are. Well, in a league like that where there's not an abundance of alternative. I mean, he's red-hot, so I don't think there's, I don't think anyone's wrong to start Brandon Bell.

But I could foresee in a shallower league, you may be shy away from Bell just based on those matchups. And that would be the only reason. Yeah, bad week to have Giants. All right, then. Let's see. I think we've pretty much covered the bullpen. Unless you guys want to speculate on a Marlins reliever, Kyle Bearclaw. Not Drew Steckinrider, the way he's pitched lately.

It's a shame because Ziegler was on a really nice run, and I was beginning to get to where I trusted. him at least in the short term, but now he's back in the dog house. You know, the problem, Scott, was so the Brave scored six runs to win the game yesterday in the ninth inning. It wasn't a save situation. You can't start it.

You can't put a closer in there in a non-save situation. It was a five-run game. He hasn't blown... Brad Ziegler has not blown a save this year. I bet you're surprised to know that. He's eight for eight. That's interesting. Right?

It's an interesting stat. Yeah. No, look, he's not that good. But I'm being sarcastic. didn't blow a save. He is eight for eight. I think Bearclaw, I mean, I think Bearclaw's probably going to get traded. Bearclaw is going to go to the Red Sox, that's my guess. They're all getting traded.

Jeter's not trading somebody to the Red Sox? Right. He'll go to the Yankees for Ronald Torres. News and notes. Texas is open to trading Cole Hamels, according to Ken Rosenthal. Hamels is going to start Tuesday against the Yankees, start or sit Hamels this week. I'd like to sit in, please. Yeah, I'd prefer to sit him, but I'd start him over any of the Freelands or the Lileses of the world.

Oh, I don't think I didn't read the big news. All right, we'll combine the big news and the small news. Rich Hill is on the DL. Alex Wood left with leg cramps, but he should be able to pitch. Greg Byrd could be back this week. Miguel Snow could be back this week. The bird situation is pretty interesting. I don't know.

I don't know that Greg Byrd is going to be a regular. At least not right away. Tyler Austin's been money against lefties. And why not ease him in it, you know? Yeah, I agree. Coming back from surgery. Clayton Kershaw could be back next week, which would be nice. Nelson Cruz sat on Sunday.

He should be back today. Cleveland purchased Malki Cabrera's contract. Atlanta released Jose Bautista. Adam Jones left Sunday's game with a stomach issue. I was working on this horrible joke. Adam Jones had something that he never does when he's on first base. The runs. Oh, gosh.

The runs. Nothing like a little. little bathroom humor on a Monday morning. I don't know what the stubbing issue was, but he doesn't steal bases. Maybe he had sushi. Maybe. Right? That would cause it.

And Matt Moore is on the DL, and Ariel Harado will replace him in the Rangers' rotation. And here are some fun MLB notes. Aaron Hicks is the first Yankee with two inside the park homers in the same season since Mickey Mantle in 1958. Corey Kluber set a Cleveland record. People, you want somebody in a quality starts league? Kluber has 22 straight starts of three or fewer runs. That's a Cleveland record. Max Scherzer became the fastest starting pitcher in baseball history to reach 100 strikeouts in a season.

Jordan Hicks for the Cardinals, he threw 105 miles per hour yesterday, and Odubo Herrera's on base streak ended at 45 games. You know what the most fun thing about the Odubo Herrera thing is? What? He got on base in that game. What do you mean? In his last plate appearance, he reached base on either a fielder's choice or an error or something, but it didn't count for his on-base streak.

Really? I thought it did count. I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I want to hear something fun related to Jordan Hicks and his 105-mile-per-hour fastball? Yeah. In 22 innings this year, he has a K-per-9 of 3.7. I know.

It's so weird. That is some ineffective velocity. We got a lot to get to, a lot of pitchers to talk about. First, I got to read an email from Roger from Land-Card. Castor, Pennsylvania. This is a real email. Got it this morning or last night. I saw it this morning.

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they're both 79% owned, what are you doing? Carpenter. I'm picking up Carpenter, and I'm probably at least trying to figure out if there's a way I can roster Conforto. But Carpenter's the one I have the most faith, and it's a pretty loud turnaround here. 10 for 20, you said, with I think five doubles. Yep. And just like, I want to give this a little bit longer, because I know it's the second year in a row. He's let us down with these kind of percentages, but he's hitting the ball so hard.

he's hitting so many line drives, it just doesn't make sense that he'd have this batting average. Yeah, and I think with Carpenter, I mean, this is the other thing that I keep saying about him is, even in this hot streak, I mean, this is the example

of a points league specialist. He has six doubles, two walks, two strikeouts. He has no home runs, and he has no steals. So, look, I own Carpenter in a Categories league, and a Roto league.

Actually, I don't own him in any points league. So I start him, but I'm just saying, even at his best, he's just better in that format, in that points format, or like a total basis format or something. And Conforto is still batting 167 this year against lefties, but with Juan Lagaris out for the year, Conforto's probably going to play more, which is nice.

Studs being studs. Let's talk about the pitchers from over the weekend. Studs being Studs Part 1. Lance McCullors. He has now gone seven innings and four of his last seven starts. And man, was he incredible yesterday? Remember McCuller said he hadn't found his curve. ball. He found it last night against the Indians, and he destroyed them.

James Paxton, his second complete game, one of them a no-hitter in his last three starts. Shohei Otani. Ooh, man, is he good? Seven and two-thirds, two runs, nine strikeouts against the race. By the way, the raised lineup is not that... Well, it hasn't been that bad. Yeah, that's a good way of phrasing it. It's still bad.

It's been good. I think they're middle in the pack, middle of the pack, basically, and runs score this year. You know who's been underappreciated in that lineup, who I think is mostly legit? It's just a matter of him staying healthy, and that's DeNard Span, getting on base a lot like he always has with just enough power and speed to be relevant. How about ranking those three pitchers? And I thank you for that aside. That is relevant. I'm not trying to pivot from it.

But McCullors, Paxon, and Otani. How would you rank, though? I think you did. McCullors, Paxton, Otani I would go No, that's not how I'd rank them at all I'd go I'd go Paxton Otani and then McCullors

Ooh, why last guy Why fur's teeth for McCullors? I Go ahead. The only thing, like I think McCullors and Paxton are basically back to back so I don't have any argument with that

it's the Otani McCullors thing like McCuller's concern is innings and I expect he's going to throw 30 or 40 more of them this year than Otani. I don't expect that. I think it'll be similar and I just think Otani's going to be more dominant inning for inning. But like, you know, obviously they're all dominant pitchers. So it's, it mostly comes down to personal preference

and I think the fact that I think Otani just is a slightly more talented pitcher than McCullors. John Lester, if you look at the batted ball data, the peripherals, there has never been a sell-high-year pitcher, other than maybe Jake Arrieta, what Scott said last week. Good call on that. John Lester, career low ground ball rate, career high fly ball rate, career high hard contact rate, and it's not even close. Career low, soft contact rate. Babbitt very low, strand rate very high. It doesn't seem like John Lester should have a 252 ERA right now. Is he in the Jake Arenda class of get something while you can for John Lester? Yeah, I mean, yes, he is.

Now is the time. Yes. For Lester. Okay, to sell high on Lester. Guys, what did you think of three pitchers who have had kind of rough years, who had great starts over the weekend against good company? I'm sorry. I've offended you?

Yes. Go ahead. Okay, Kentana has not been as bad as Darvish and Greyheath, but Kentana, after seven scoreless innings, has a 447 ERA and 25 walks and 48 and a third. He has not had a good year. That's not what I'm objecting to. Oh, uh, Sunny Gray?

Sunny Gray. What about what are you objecting to? What did I say? He had great starts. He did throw eight innings and give up one run, and that is good. That's very, very good. You're worried about the strikeouts against a 10? team that strikes out the fewest times in baseball?

Give him a brain. He had nine swinging strikes, which is tied for his highest mark since his first start of the season. He's eight innings, four hits, one run at the Royals. The other pitcher, by the way, is you Darvish. That's a great Mabit. It was a good start. He gave up four hits. Okay, yes, it was a good start.

I have no problem with saying it's a good start. I have a problem with putting him in the Studs being Studs category. No, Studs being Studs is an ownership percentage thing. You should know that by now. if you're owned in more than 80% of leagues I consider you a stud he's he's in a and I ranked I ranked gray I think right there with Kintana coming into the year but he's definitively in a lower grade now because he hasn't you know the width gains we saw from him last year just haven't carried over to this year but the one I'm most excited about

about these three is Darvish because it seems like what went wrong for him he is corrected and that was his fastball had gotten flat, his arm angle had dropped, and you saw it reflected in the batting average against the four-seamer, and the swinging strike rate on the four-seamer was like cut in half. Well, these last two starts, he's been racking up the swinging strikes on the four-seamer and has good numbers to go along with it. So I think Darvish is back. I agree with Scott completely.

His fastball looked outstanding. I made a point to watch almost all of his start yesterday, you Darvish. Yeah, it was the Reds, but first inning was terrible. Three 40 pitches, and he was wild. I still like to see those walks come down. He walked three in this game, including Tyler Malley, which was annoying. But then he basically pitched to the pitcher again. He got Billy Hamilton to pop out.

So Darvish has San Francisco this week. Kintana has San Francisco this week. Sunny Gray is back home against the Angels. No chance. Yeah. Yeah. Now, he did make an adjustment, Sunny Gray. He changed his hand placement.

keeping his something, something, I don't know, some mechanical doesn't matter. Something that made you feel a little better. He had eight days off, or he pitched on like seven or eight days' rest, and he found a mechanical flaw. I just think it's something to monitor for Sunny Gray. I'd start Ross Stripling over him this week. Yeah, maybe.

You know what, like, come on. Ross Stripling is owned in like 8% of leagues. You look at his numbers last year and this year. Now, most of it's been in relieving. but this is a strikeout per inning guy with a good ERA. He struck out nine nationals in six innings. Now, he had a generous strike zone, the article I read referenced that. I don't know why, like, what's with all the crapping on Ross Striplett?

I just said I'd start him over Sunday green this week. Yeah, but you're crapping. You're crapping on him, though. It's, well, you're kind of, I think, taking it back to a conversation we were having before the show started, where he was very dismissive of your. Ross stripling pickup. Right, right. And I'd be fairly dismissive, too.

I mean, it's a high K-per-9, but with a low-swinging strike rate, and a lot of what he's succeeding on is the soft contact rate, which he also had last year. But that's the flimsyest of indicators, I feel like. I would like to say that I think we are maybe getting to the point where swinging strikes are just becoming a little bit too much. I think we might go a little bit overboard with swinging strikes

instead of just strikeouts, especially on a start-by-start basis. You know, like, Walker Bueller, five swinging strikes in his first start, what were we supposed to do? Ah, forget him, he's not good. And then all of a sudden, you know what I mean? It's just like, ah, I'm a start-by-starboard.

He has a track record of dominance in the minors. Like, I've been giving Walker Bueller a pass for the low swinging strikes, but for the, like, swinging strikes and K-per-9 often go hand-in-hand. and I think the pure indicator of ability and stuff is the swinging strikes rather than the cape or nine. I don't know.

And I would also like to know who you were quoting with the off, forget about him, he's no good. Well, I just remember, I think Chris was very underwhelmed by his first start. And I was, too, he didn't really pitch all that great. I mean, I'm not saying stripling's a bad pickup, but, like, I'm not saying he's a good pickup either. I'll take that.

I will take that. I will take that. I will think that. More studs being studs. Tanner Roark. We're getting good Tanner Roark this year. He's got a 3.39 ERA. Seven or more innings and four of his last six starts for Tanner Roar.

Michael Fulmer, strikeouts are up. He's still not like a huge K guy, 46 and 51 and two thirds. What about the swinging strikes? They are up. They are up. Career high for Michael Fulmer. Michael Waka keeps on getting her done. And he has either can't.

Kansas City or at Pittsburgh this week. It's a big difference. Tomato Tomato. Yeah, it's a big difference. Well, see, the guys who pitch on Friday are often lined up for the last start of a series. And so if they get bumped for whatever reason, then they get the next team on the, you know, on the slate. So I never know exactly who the Friday night pitchers are going to get next week. It should be Kansas City for Waka.

And then Shaw Newcomb. He's got a point 360 R.A. in his last four starts. against pretty easy teams. Sean Newcomb has been great. Are you going to start him Heath at Boston this week? You know, I own Sean Newcomb in probably a higher percentage of my leagues than any other player. And I have had a terrible time. I was hoping that you guys were going to make a compelling argument for or against starting Sean Newcomb this week

because I am having a terrible time deciding. How about this? You like this stuff in DFS, I know. It's a homecoming for Sean Newcomb. Went to Middleboro High School and Middleboro, Massachusetts. Well, that's one thing in his favor. One of the decisions I have to make is Reynaldo Lopez against the Tigers or Sean Newcomb against the Red Sox.

Oh, I'd rather go to Newcomb. Yeah. I always side with pitcher over matchup. I know you do. I feel really nauseous about the idea of Nukem at Finway. Yeah, it's pretty scary. I mean, the Red Sox really feasted on some bad pitching. Dylan Bundy had a nice start.

You gave up four runs. He gave up a few home runs, which is bad. I don't know how you avoid giving it. You're just hoping they don't hit a home run. I don't think you can go into Fenway against that lineup and be good enough to just avoid giving up a home run. Well, if you're a newcomer, you just walk everybody, and then you won't give up any home runs.

Would you sell high on Michael Fulmer or Michael Waka? I would on Fulmer. I'd sell high on Waka. I like... You hate Waka, though. I don't. do hate Waka. Well, I mean, other than the fact

he has, like, the things that we normally decide makes a picture good are not really present for Waka, right? For the most part. Swinging strikes? What? Swinging strikes? Yeah, among them.

Sure. Strikeouts, he doesn't really, you know, he doesn't have good control. It's kind of a low babb. He has very high line drive rate. He doesn't have that control. I thought he was on the verge of losing his job coming into this season. Now he's not, obviously.

I wish he was worse because then that would solve the whole Alex Reyes issue. But obviously, he's not on the verge of losing his job now. I just think he has performed over his head. Yeah, Waka has a 131 whip and a 3080RA, so, you know, beware. That's a pretty high whip. Studs being duds. Who stands out? Dallas Keikle, Patrick Corbyn.

Ding, ding, ding, ding. Jake Areeta. John Gray, Sean Mania, Julio Taran. Keiko Corbin. Huio Taran is not good. Gray Mania, Julio Taran. Julio Taran is just not good. I will not start him at Boston this week.

But that's interesting, Heath, six starts before, you know, he had kind of a rough outing last time out, but six starts before that, he had a 154 ERA. He's just not that good. Not that I disagree, but go ahead, talk about Tarant's. As Scott would say about Michael Waka, all the things that. we like to value in a good starting pitcher. Julio Toron does not have them. And he's worse than Michael Waka. This is a peek into Michael Waka's future.

He's got a 4-170 RA, and he's been really lucky. So, yeah, he's, I don't think that Julio Turan should be owned in even 65% of leagues, much less 95%. The improvements he made from a year ago are gone. They're featuring his slider and change it more, and then being, you know, getting more swings and misses. He's basically just been a two-pitch pitcher his last couple outings. And I think that's because he was facing the Marlins,

and he just felt like, ah, I don't need the other pitches. I don't know. I'm kidding. It's a joke. I value him on about the same level as Waka. I don't know that the ownership is necessarily too high, not significantly anyway. But he's not super reliable, not somebody you're going to start every week. There's got to be a reason why Patrick Corbyn's,

velocity is down. But now it's, you know, now we finally see some bad results. Five and a third innings, four hits, two runs, four walks, six strikeouts at the Mets. Previous start was four runs and six innings against the Brewers, which isn't terrible. He had eight strikeouts. Well, neither of them were terrible. I mean, the Bain problem yesterday was the walks, or Saturday was the walks.

But the velocity is down. I didn't watch Saturday start, but two starts ago, he just, his slider was so good, but he really operating without a fast. ball, it can't get away with it for much longer. I'm not totally unconcerned. I still think it's a little soon to raise the red flag when I can't find any concern from a beat writer being raised. Like it's just basically number crunchers looking into the data and saying, hey, what

happened to his velocity of these last four outings? And if you go back and look at the last couple months of last year, which was among his better stretch of the season, the Velocion is two-s-sue. Seamer was similar. I think it's also a unique situation where the fastball isn't his primary pitch. So, you know, normally when you're talking about losing velocity on the fastball, it's the pitch he's throwing most often. And that's not the case here. And again, I don't know that four starts necessarily means this is the new normal. So if, like, his value is lower than it was four starts ago. But I don't know that we're verging on disaster here. I think it's too soon to say

that. I think if maybe his owner's freaking out, it's a good buy low opportunity. No, the guy that's verging on disaster is Sean Minaya. You've got one more week where you can tell the other owner he's got an ERA under three and try to trade him. Yeah, I mean, the thing, he has had really tough matchups all year.

The schedule's got to get a little bit easier for Mania. I mean, you've got Astros twice, I think. At Boston, does have a pretty tough division. Arizona's been so horrible, so that's Benaya's opponent this week. Even as shaky as he's been the last few outings, it's 208 bat-biff on the year.

Like, that's just not sustainable. Yeah, yeah, all right. Let's do fringy starting pitchers and see if we can read some email. I woke up today more than 100 emails. Actually, they are probably about 70 fantasy baseball emails just from yesterday. So I'm sorry. We are just not able to get to all of those. I would try to respond to some offline, but off the podcast.

The podcast is only an hour long. What do you do the rest of the day? Fringy starting pitchers part one. This particular show took a long time to prep for it. Jack Flaherty is 78% owned. Fernando Romero, 79. Drew Pomeranz, 75. Tyson Ross, 75.

Freddie Peralta, 73. Jago Derezi, having a nice year. 79% owned. C.C. Sabathia, 71%. I know. Flaherty, Romero, Pomeran's, Tyson Ross, Freddie Peralta, Jake Oterese, C.C. Sabathia. Heath, who are your favorite three? Flaherty is the class of this class, for sure. I would say Romero and Ross are the next two that I really want to own,

and the rest of the group is just kind of... Peralta's different, because I do think there's upside there. I just don't know if he's going to be in the rotation. but Pomerant and Oterese are just more like who are they facing this week still for me. The thing about Oteresey is, you ready for this, Adam? Oh yeah, swinging strikes. Swinging strike rate is through the roof this year. It's elite. And that would probably move him ahead of Fernando Romero from me.

So I go Flaherty, Ross, Oterese. Oterese is still an extreme fly ball pitcher and there's a lot of danger to that. but if he misses bats in an elite rate, I think the net result is going to be positive. I could be wrong about Oteresey. I'm not saying for sure that he's largely still the same pitcher, but even with the increase in swinging strikes, he's been just so, so lucky.

His peripherals all still look terrible. So we are avoiding Drew Pomeranz and C.C. Sabathia, that's the bottom line. Fringy starting pitchers part two. Andrew Heaney, 60%. This is a kind of cruddy group, I think. Heaney, 60%, Kyle Gibson, 52, Raynauda Lopez 58.

Kyle Freeland, 53%. Danny Duffy and Nick Kingham, and Kingham, you can drop because he got sent down. Heaney, Gibson, Lopez, Freeland, Duffy. Scott, who are your three favorites? I will go Heaney, and then I will go Freeland, and I'll go out.

ahead and move Lopez ahead of Gibson after a couple of shaky outings from Gibson here. I'll go Lopez-Henie-Freland. This next group is probably more interesting. 30 to 49% own. Junior Gera, Zach Eflin, Tyler Anderson, Jordan Lyles,

Tyler Malley, Mike Minor, who I dropped in a points league where he's RP eligible. Marco Estrada and Lucas Gialito. Junior Gera, Zach Eflin, Tyler Anderson, Jordan Liles, Tyler Malley, Mike Minor, Marco Estrada, Lucas Golito. Heath, who are your favorites?

I think it was a mistake for you to drop Mike Minor in a points league for his RPL. He's not good. Yep, I've already put in the claim for it. Good, good. And he'll be good this week against Kansas City. Am I supposed to get excited about five innings, three runs at the White Sox, at the worst team in the world? I guess not if you have the swinging strikes at him.

Oh, who cares about the swingings? Closers, maybe not. I have Bud Norris and Ken Giles. I trust them. much more than Mike Minor. Yeah. He had a two-star week, and he got me, like, one fantasy point. Yeah.

No, he's been, he's been underwhelming, and, you know, for a while, it seemed like he was trying to make the wrong way. I still wish he'd throw a slider more often, because even yesterday when he got more swings and misses, that pitch wasn't back. Like, it's right to be concerned about minor, and I don't even think it was crazy to drop him, but I'd still probably slot him. him first of this group. Yeah, I definitely put him first in where you can use him as a relief pitcher. I would probably

put Liles first otherwise. Well, Liles is a relief pitcher Elisville. Oh, yeah, he is. So I'll put Lylez first. I'll go minor one, then Lillis. So you're taking minor over, let's say, Tyler Malley, Zach Eflin? Yeah. Yep. Malley'd be third for me. Eflin is throwing pretty hard. Well, I was watching the start. Like, I saw

some 95, 96, but really, I think mostly like 93. Not that hard. And then in Deep Leagues, other than Ross Stripling. There's Dan Straeli. There's Daniel Mengden. There's Clayton Richard who's doing some crazy things. Wade LeBlanc, Ryan Yarbrough, Matt Whistler, Brett Suter, and Sam, what the gavillio in Deep League. Do we have to talk about the Yarbrough and whoever starting the rest of the games for the race?

How fun was that? I like it. I think it's good for them, but in a quality start league, it really hurts. Oh, right. So quality start league, I mean, if he goes six innings and gives up three runs, but their innings two through seven, is that not a quality start? I don't think so. What's the justification for it?

Because I don't know, like, why do you like it exactly? The justification for it is you're having a good, in theory, a good relief pitcher. start the game against the best part of the order, and then your starter starts against lesser hitters. Your starting pitcher Ryan Yarbrough, in this case, for the race. So they started Sergio Romo Saturday and Sunday, and Ryan Yarbrough on Saturday took over in the second inning, and they want Romo in to face the best hitters in the lineup,

and then bring their, quote-unquote, starter in in the second inning to give YARO gave six in a third inning, he gave up one run. I don't know if it was a quality start. It's a really good question. Probably not. It can't be. It can't be. It's not.

It's not. And obviously, it's going to mess with, like, eligibility stuff as well. Now, it's only the race and their pitchers, you know, are they going to do this with, like, Chris Archer? No. No. Yeah, I didn't think so. They should, though. Well, I don't know.

I don't know that I love it strategically, frankly, because you're limiting your maneuverability in game. If you're already burning a reliever when you don't know what kind of scenarios are going to come up later in the game. But you're not burning him if you get three out. against the best hitters. Yeah, but when your starter is fresh, if you trust your starter at all, like you should expect him to have a scoreless first inning, too. Yeah, they have two of those guys,

and then they don't have any others. They have one of those guys. Yeah, I don't know, this is this segment, whatever. Just give me a name of a guy that's in deal with. Yarborough is my favorite. Mengdon's my favorite. You know what name I didn't say? I did not say Francisco Luriano's name.

He got deleted. He should be. and the fringingy starting pitchers part three group, like with Mike Minor and Zach Leffield and Jordan Liles. Where's Luriano for you? Good choice to delete him. Okay. He's mostly thriving on soft contact, too.

Not getting strikeouts like he did in his younger days, not even getting ground balls like he did in his younger days. But, you know, I like him of these deep league options, he would be second for me. I'd go Mengton, then Liriano, then probably, Oh, stripling's in this group? No, stripling's 8% owned. So he's not in this group?

No. But you can, hey, you can give him some love. I don't mind. I think I'd go stripling tops of this group before including him. Stripling, then Mengden, then Liriano, then, I don't know, it would be a while before I got to Yarbrough.

I might go Dan Strayley over Yarborough. Let me see if I can put a dent in the inbox here. Would you rather have Miguel Sino or Michael Conforto rest of season? I'd rather. have Seno. Yep. From Husto.

Who would you start this week at D.H? Jose Martinez, Teoscar Hernandez, as Droble Cabrera, the only one with seven games. Or Ryan Healy. Jose Martinez, Teasca Hernandez,

as Drubal Cabrera, or Ryan Healy. Martinez. Yeah, I'll start, Martinez. All right. Now, I'm sorry for the, this isn't really going so smoothly. I'm just kind of going through some emails in the inbox to help some people out. Here's a grade that trade from Daniel.

I traded mookie bets and Chris Taylor. Mookie bets and Chris Taylor. For Francisco Lindoror and Noah Cinderguard. I'd rather have mooky bets. But it's like a... Yeah, it's... I don't know. It's verging on a sea.

David in Chicago wants to trade Matt Carpenter for Matt Olson. Would you do it? I'd rather have carpenter and points league Olson and Roto. So it would depend on the format. John Wood wants to know if he should drop Wilson Ramos for John Hicks. I wouldn't. I wouldn't have a problem with it. But obviously Ramos has more longevity.

And he's one of the few catchers who I might hesitate to drop for a one or two-week player like Hicks. He's having a pretty easy year. Finally, Brian says Flaherty or Tio in the rest of the season? Flaherty. Lurdy. Goodbye, everybody. Thank you for listening to this Monday show. We'll come back on Tuesday and, you know, have a podcast.

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