Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/25: Reyes Rankings, Fantasy Math, Week 10 Help (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 25, 2018

Who are our favorite two-start pitchers for next week (4:00)? Could Alex Reyes be part of that group? Speaking of Reyes, let's talk about where we are ranking him (8:22) and what his value is in seasonal and keeper leagues ... Our takes on Dylan Bundy (13:40), the Sophomore Slump (15:51), Rick Porcello (22:00), Austin Meadows (26:22) and more. We play a new game called "Fantasy Math" which is a lot more fun than it sounds (29:50) and look at a few speedy OFs you might want to add (38:21) ... Most Added list (42:20), our thoughts on yesterday's report about why MLB baseballs are traveling farther (45:30), two-start pitchers for Week 10 (52:10) and previewing today's matchups (56:50) ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A lot of Alex Reyes talk today. Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast. Happy Kokomo Friday. Happy Alex Reyes, well, not quite, but Alex Reyes will be back. Joining the rotation in just a few days. Adam Azer with Scott White and Chris Towers. Good morning. Happy Friday, guys.

Hello. Happy Friday to you, Adam. Thank you. I think we have a fun show. We got a new segment today. It is called Fantasy Math. And I will ask you, which is greater? and then I will give you two stats from different players.

I won't give you the actual stats. You'll have to guess what the actual stats are. But it'll be fun, I think. We'll have a nice time with it. We will get you ready for Fantasy Week 10 with two-star pitchers. We'll talk about yesterday's standouts. It was like crazy to be adding Danny Duffy. We'll find out.

Let's start with the stat of the day. The Colorado Rockies have played the fewest home games in Major League Baseball. They have played 18 home games. They are about to start a nine-game home stand, which should correct that. Is there anything, as we like to say, actionable for today's stat of the day, with Colorado having the fewest home games as of right now in Major League Baseball? It kind of puts into perspective just how bad so many of their hitters have been. It's basically been one-third of their games at home, right?

And a lot of that was in freezing temperatures. True. So there may be some correction coming for the – really all their hitters because Charlie Blackman doesn't have the high babb if he normally does at this point of the season, not that anyone's really doubting him. I'm not sure what to make of it for like Tyler Anderson and Kyle Freeland who've both been kind of on the fringes of being mixed league relevant. But historically have been better at home, but Corsefield is obviously a terrible place

to pitch. So does this mean things are about to get worse for them or better? I would lean worse, but the track record says otherwise. And I think for me, if there's one hitter that I might want to just buy low on, if I can, right now, just today before this homestand starts or early in the homestand, it's Trevor's story. I do believe that he is going to be much, much better at home. And so far he has been. He is slugging 898 at home and slugging 290 on the road. So, you know, I don't know if it's enough to buy low because there's so much of the season left.

there still are going to be a lot of road games, but you're going to get some good production from Trevor's story coming up. And he's been like a must-start shortstop anyway. So are you going to pry away somebody's one-and-only shortstop probably? It's possible, I guess, but unlike. Who would you rather have rest of the season, Glaver Torres or Trevor's story? Gleber Torres. I have Torres in my top 12 at the position, but I do think I have story ahead of him.

Well, Scott, you should have traded for Trevor's tall. Trevor Story yesterday, then. Yeah. Dynasty situation is different. That's where I acquired Torres from Chris last night. That was a reference to. Yeah, by the way, we'll talk Alex Reyes and his keeper, his long-term value. We also have an update on what the Cardinals might do with their rotation from an unlikely

podcast. I'll tell you more about that. Who is your favorite two-start pitcher? Looks like there are some good options for next week. Louise Gohara, you might see him listed as a two-star pitcher. He will not be a two-star pitcher. And you will not see Alex Reyes, but there is a chance he will be a two-star pitcher. He's 85% owned.

But of the guys who are available, let's say less than 70% owned, who is or who are one or two of your favorite two-star pitchers? Caleb Smith. That's the obvious answer. He's got at San Diego, at Arizona. And it's been an up and down couple of weeks for Caleb Smith. Sometimes he's striking out everyone. Sometimes he's walking everyone.

But you got to love those matchups. He's 58% owned. Yeah. And below 70% because you have Vince Velasquez who's 73, and he's pretty good, obviously. At the Dodgers, at the Giants. Yeah. Below that.

Oh, there's a couple good ones. I like Kyle Gibson. Yeah, that's what. At KC. versus Cleveland's a tough matchup, but he's slowed down lately, but there are still interesting signs from him going back to last year. Well, here's the thing. This is the busiest week so far, I believe,

because every team's playing Monday since it's a holiday. Only eight teams have six games this week, which, you know, with more off days built into the schedule, it seems like there's been a lot fewer seven games a week since normal. 22 teams play seven or more games to actually play eight. So there are going to be a lot of two-star pitchers, and it looks like a lot, especially on the high end, above this threshold. So it may be a week where you don't have to turn to the waiver wire for two-star sleepers just because you have so many two-start options on your roster already. That's true.

But Marco Gonzalez, we do need to talk about again. Just in this segment here, he's 32% owned. He has the Rangers and the Rays at home, and I think he'll be a popular one. Yeah. Yeah, Caleb Smith, Kyle Gibson, Marco Gonzalez might be the headliners. Later on, we'll talk about Stephen Matt's. Maybe take a shot on... I don't know if I want to take a shot on Lance Lynn.

We probably shouldn't talk about Stephen Matt's. Well, we should, just to say that we probably shouldn't, if you know what I mean. He's been talked about. Let's go to the big news. The raise sent Willie Adamas to AAA. Not a surprise. Hopefully he's back soon. I will be stashing him in a 13-team Roto League, for sure.

Roberto Ozuna could face a significant suspension, according to John Hayman. He is denying the allegations, not Hayman. Ozuna is denying the allegations and, you know, how dropable is he in an AL-only league? Somebody asked me if they should drop Ozuna in an AL-only league. I had trouble with that one. What do you guys think? No, you can't.

Not in an AL-only league where there's only 15 people in that role at any one time. I don't. I mean, we'll have to see how the legal situation shakes out, obviously, but I suspect we'll see him again this year. And when he's on the field, the top 10 closer. So I would think even in some deeper mixed roto leagues, he's probably worth stashing. Okay.

Roberto Bozuna. The Royals are letting teams know that they will be sellers, according to John Heyman. It might not be true or false. Might not be a bad idea to sell Kelvin Herrera while you've still got him as a closer. Yeah, I'm going to have to start looking into that because I've got a lot of Calvin Herrera right now. Boy, I hope he doesn't lose his job. And Shohay Otani's next start is being pushed back. which is a real shame, you know Major League Baseball is not happy about this.

I'm not happy about that. Us weekly league owners aren't happy about that. It seems like because obviously they're going every six turns for Otani, every sixth turn as opposed to every fifth like most pitchers. So he's been stuck on this Sunday track all season, which means any time they decide to hold them back, you get zero starts from this week. Yeah, it's been the third time? I think so. I think it's been the third time where you've probably started him

and gotten no starts. But now what's going to happen? Well, they haven't even announced the date for his next start. But what I was saying is baseball is going to be upset because it was supposed to be Otani versus Tanaka, which would have been a really big deal in Japan. And that was going to be on Sunday. But instead, Otani will not be pitching in that game against the Yankees. He might be hitting in that game.

They haven't announced his next start. I guess we'll update you on Monday. Well, no, we won't have a show on Monday. You'll have to make – you'll know. You'll know whether or not to start him next week. but they're just trying to manage his workload. And yeah, I mean, this is going to be one of the hazards of owning Otani in a weekly league. He's much more valuable in a daily league.

All right, let's talk about the man of the hour Alex Reyes, getting a lot of emails. Hey, I want to trade for Alex Reyes. Or, hey, I have Alex Reyes, and I've been getting so many offers. Scott, where do you rank Reyes this year among starting pitchers? 45th, which, I mean, is a pretty big vote of confidence, considering he's coming back from Tommy John surgery, he's made five career major league starts. But this, I mean, it's the most impressive rehab assignment I've ever seen. Three consecutive starts in which he allowed just one hit and had 12 or more strikeouts.

And obviously, prior to the Tommy John surgery, he was considered the best pitching prospect in baseball. So I have him 45th to start out. I would have no hesitations about starting him this upcoming week, even though we're unsure. whether it'll actually be two starts or not. And very excited. I should mention this. So Will Brinson, who hosts our Pick Six podcast, he had Will Leach on his show, and this is a football podcast, but the very end they talk baseball.

Will Leach is the co-host of the Seeing Red podcast, which is a St. Louis Cardinals podcast. And he asked him what's going to happen in the rotation. And Leach said that the Ranger, or the Ranger, the Rangers. The Cardinals could use a four-on-six-man rotation. I think that's what he called it. He said that Carlos Martinez, when he's healthy, Miles Michaelis, and Michael Waka would pitch in their regular rotation turn. Alex Reyes, Jack Flaher, and Luke Weaver could go two out of every three turns.

That was his speculation. I think he said it was based on what maybe his co-host, the beat writer for the Cardinals thought. that's all we've got right now that's all i got right now that's interesting i mean it'd be a good way to limit the innings for the young pitchers other than just like shutting them down for a month at a time and obviously it's only going to apply when everybody's healthy which won't be the case this upcoming week and that's the way i look at is like that might be their plan but there's no real plans with pitchers yeah the plan again just in case you missed it was that michaelist

Waka and Carlos Martinez pitch regularly, make all their turns in the rotation, and the three younger ones, Flaherty, Reyes, and Weaver, two out of every three turns, they sort of all turn. Yeah. It would be frustrating for like

lineup setting purposes. We'd be getting into this, you know, kind of the same issue we're dealing with, with Otani for what's actually the three most exciting pitchers the Cardinals have. I don't know, maybe, well, Carlos Martinez is the best.

Never mind. Not the three most exciting they have, but three exciting pitchers. All right, so I think it's interesting, Scott, that you have John Lester and Jake Arieta ranked ahead of Alex Reyes. Yeah. Not wrong, just interesting. Yeah, I mean, that's kind of where the discomfort is, because obviously I don't like those two, and I very much like Reyes.

But that's me putting on my sensible I'm a ranker hat versus I am going to gamble on upside hat. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I mean, we don't know what the inning situation is going to be for him. What do you think the ERA, if you had a guess an ERA for Alex Reyes? 3.62.

I was going to go like 3.46. Okay. Wow. So I'll just take like 3.5. A lot of helium. 3.54 right in the middle. And what about in Dynasty leagues? is he a top 20 starting pitcher in a long-term league?

Probably not, but he might just barely be squeezed outside that group. There's a lot of exciting young pitchers, and even like, you know, the Scherzer Sale. Well, sales is not that old. He's exciting as any pitcher could be. Yeah. In this, like, pitchers shouldn't be that valuable in Dynasty just because they're so unpredictable. You know, Alex Reyes two years ago was supposed to be the guy to carry your rotation. And well, he's still likely going to get him.

But it's been, it's taken two years, you know. Yeah. Like we were excited about him in the 2016 preseason. All right. Is this a stupid question to ask? Would you rather have Clayton Kershaw or Alex Reyes in a dynasty league? You'd rather have Kershaw. It's not stupid to ask, though, about a week or two.

two ago, I did a kind of a dynasty check-in at the quarter point of the season, and in that was the five players who've lost the most value in dynasty leagues, and Clayton Kershaw was number five on that list, because the health concerns are expanding, and there does seem to be this season and last season. There does seem to be an effect on his performance, you know, I'll be a slight one. Alrighty guys, let's get into yesterday a little bit. Email the day number one, Nate from Philly, dear Ben, Rob, Owen, and Blythe? Are those acts?

That's the cast of Meet the Parents. Who's Blythe? Blythe Danner. That's the girl? No. Who's Blythe Danna? That's the mom. Oh, okay.

Sorry. She's a famous actress. Okay, according to you. Are we putting Dylan Bundy back in the circle? of trust. I mean, can you really trust another human being, Greg? Can you milk Dylan Bundy? See, my reaction was, oh, Dylan, you kidder. Those three awful starts. You had us all running scared, and here you go again.

Like, mine was, he should have never left the circle of trust. And mine is like, my circle of trust, I like to have like a 93 mile per hour fastball cut off and he doesn't he doesn't get there. It scares me a little, but I mean, this is, all right, complete game, three runs at the White Sox, 14 strikeouts. And, you know, he's been better lately for sure. Yeah, three good starts in a row after the three disasters. Except the only thing is, two starts ago at Boston, he did give up three home runs.

I don't care about the four runs. He gave up three home runs, and that's 14 on the year, I think he has. That's forgivable, I think, at Boston. It was a start that. I look at the line and I think, okay, this is the start of a good picture. And I was watching that game, and it was rainy, I'm pretty sure, like, throughout the entire game. It was just, it was kind of a weird start. And watching it, I didn't think he pitched that poorly.

Yeah, it's pretty good stuff from Dylan Bundy. And do you like him better than Reyes? I do. Sure, yeah. I do. Upside for Reyes is probably a little higher, but there's a lot of, a lot more unanswered questions there. Would you take Shamanai or Dylan Bundy? Bundy.

I take Reyes over Manias. Chrisipu? I was hoping we'd just move on. All right, let's move on. We're back to trusting Dylan Bundy. That's the bottom line. Email of the day number two from Richie from Hollywood. Can we discuss sophomore slumps?

It's always been a back and forth about how real this theory is, but off the top of my head, on the higher end, I'm thinking about Bellinger, Hoskins, Devers, Olson, and Hap. All bees seem to be the only one who has taken strides forward, although they are huge strides. although he did write Hugh Strides. I don't know if that was a typo, or if there's a guy named Hugh Strides,

and this is a joke, I don't know. But can we discuss the sophomore slump? Richie wants us to discuss it. It has been quite real this year, guys. Well, I mean, it's not like I'm not expecting Bellinger and Hoskins to bounce back in a big way. Something I feel like Chris likes to point out every time we have this discussions is usually,

usually the sophomore slump. It's a case like Hoskins last year where what they did as a rookie was clearly unsustainable. Now obviously he's gone further and the corrections gone much further than we feared. But like I said, the underlying numbers suggest there's

a bounce back around the corner too, so it's too early to bang the gavel on that one. Right, but the sophomore slump isn't about the stats not being as good. The sophomore slump is about like this player is just not playing well. And see, like, in Raphael Devers' case,

like the walk rates about what it was last year. The strikeout rate's a little bit higher, but not really. Like 24% to 25.5%. That's... The ISO is basically the same. The big difference is 342 Babit last year, 276 this year. That's most of the difference. I mean, a lot of the Devers' excitement early in the season

was anticipating improvement, and he's just kind of stagnated. Yeah. A sophomore slump, I mean, It exists. It happens. I think I do wonder if you know, you took like guys going into their seventh year, how many of them would have, would be worse than their sixth year? Well, but that's, that gets into like guys in their seventh year are going to be more predictable. Guys in there, I think it's not so much a sophomore slump as it's just like guys with only one year, they have a high degree of variability. And that goes for guys who struggle in their first year and are better in their second year. We don't know who they are yet.

You know, we can look at a full season of Coding Ballinger or 60 games from Reese Hoskins and say, well, we look at these stats and we look at these underlying skill-based metrics and we think we know who they are. But even those skill-based metrics, hard hit rate or swinging strike rate or contact rate or launch angle, like those things are also prone to variability. They're prone to slumps. They're prone to peaks and valleys in the same way that any of the more traditional stats are. And so I think one thing we run into with young players is we assume we know more than we actually do. And that's probably more what it is. Well, yeah, and I think I'm hesitant to have too many of those guys on my team. But also, let's throw one more name out there because Albies has been great.

But technically, Aaron Judge is a sophomore. And that's when it always gets complicated. It's like how much playing time, how much playing time qualified? Because Judge is in his third year, but he only played 27 games. He had 84 at Bats in 2016, and then, you know, I think it was second MVP last year. There are no hard and fast rules. That's the thing. No, it's not.

Like, there are plenty of sophomores who just keep it going, too. It's not something, like you can't say, oh, this guy's a sophomore, so he's going to be worse. It's not as simple as that. I am inclined, having gotten burned by sophomores, a number of times in the past, to downgrade them from what my initial instinct tells me they should be. I mean, that's what happened with Reese Hoskins. And being a fourth or fifth round pick, like, he looked more like a second or third round pick based on how he performed last year. So, you know, I don't think we were too aggressive with him. baseball is hard and it's not just sophomores you know like Ronald Ocuna the best prospect of the last

eight years is struggling and he's not a sophomore so we don't it doesn't fit neatly into the narrative but we get really excited about young guys because there's always this world of potential and just as there's the world of potential there's also the the struggling that that you have to take into a but but you're kind of wrong about something because if Ronald Ocunio were in college right now, he probably would be a sophomore. He might be a junior. He's 20. All right, I'm wrong.

I apologize. All right, let's move on. That's the sophomore slump. Thanks for the email. Much more importantly, it is Memorial Day weekend. It is a great time to go to a baseball game. I would love to get myself to the Yankees Astros game on Monday. And if I do go, I can promise you I will be using the Sikh geek app to get there.

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I feel like Heath wasn't really in. well he's always been Chris you know Heath better than Heath knows Heath I don't remember I think Chris

Heath was saying like Ah forget it He keeps rankings and has Porcelo about as high as I do Okay That matters So Porcelo's ZRA is up to 374

His FIP is still 290 He's still doing a good job getting ground balls with the two seamer that wasn't really at his disposal last year. He's still one of the elite control pitchers in baseball. His strikeout rate is actually better than we usually give him credit for.

It's close to one per nine or one per inning. Like, I'm not panicking about Rick Porcelo. Okay. Would you rather have Alex Reyes or Rick Porcello? I would rather have Alex Reyes. See, I was wrong earlier when I said I'd rather have Reyes. than Mania, because I do have Manaya head still. I think sensible ranker me is going to say Porcelo.

Would you rather have Michael Waka or Rick Porcelo? I think I'd rather have Michael Waka. All right, sounds like Scott is looking to buy low on Rick Porcelo. I mean, the thing is, like, even in a bad scenario, let's say he's a four ERA pitcher. He's still a guy who goes at seven and eight innings frequently for arguably the best offense in baseball. Yeah. Like compare that to somebody like Waka who may struggle to get 180

innings based on historical precedent. I don't think it's close. Chris, who's a standout for you? Luis Castillo. He's back. Yeah, he's a must start, right? Yeah, I mean, there have still been some control issues lately, specifically the five-walk outing against the Chicago Cubs two starts to go.

but actually other than that, his last six starts, it's been two, one, or zero walks. He's been, you know, I think above a strikeout per inning, basically since the start at Minnesota when he gave up five runs in two in one inning. The velocity's down a little bit, but he still throws pretty much harder than all but five people in baseball. He's getting a lot of swinging strikes and he's getting a lot of strikeouts. I think Luis Castillo is fine. I'll tell you what, let's do some. He had some stuff to figure out early. Yeah, let's do some rankings of the five-man rotation from yesterday, the guys who are owned basically universally and started in most leagues.

Castillo is the exception. He's actually only 85% earned. He was only started in 50% of leagues. I know, it's weird. Charlie Morton's going to be won. I'll just spoiler alert. Morton won. Now, how would you rank the following four?

Luis Castillo, Mike Clevenger, strikeout rate is way down, walk rate down as well. and according to the Akron Beacon Journal, he's just had a lot of trouble avoiding the big inning this year. But yet he still is a 332 ERA. So Luis Castillo, Mike Clevenger, Blake Snell, and Rick Porcelo. How would you rank those four? Castillo, Clevenger, Snell, Poncello.

Snell, Clevenger, I'm sorry, Snell, Castillo, Clevenger, and Porcelo. Yes, that is the correct objective answer. And Charlie Morton is the number seven starting pitch. which are in points number six in Roto right now. He has a 204 ERA, which isn't even the best on the Astros. And 75 strikeouts in 61 and 2 thirds. And the only thing about Charlie Morton is just health.

Like he's had trouble staying healthy. If he stays healthy, I think he's a stud. I'm going to go through some other standouts real quick. Austin Meadows is 52% owned. He is batting 440 with three homers and a steel in six games. No walks, but only one strikeout. Can they keep him up? Or is this just a short-term thing for Austin Meadows, Pirates outfielder?

So Meadows is like, he struck out once. Did you mention that? Yeah, yeah, one strike. No walks and one strike out. Three home runs already. Like, this is, they can't keep them up. Like, there's just not an avenue there. They're going to teach somebody to play first base.

That would mean bumping Josh Belt. Like, there's no opening. Corey Dickerson. But, well, that. Not yet. They're not close to me at that booth yet. But it's possible it can happen at some point this season. Right, yeah.

But yeah, I think this is the latest and one of the strongest signals yet, even acknowledging it's a small sample size, but it's just been so far beyond my expectations. I really feel like with prospect scouting reports count for a lot more than minor league production. We've seen so many examples of it over the years. Glamoura Taurus himself. being another one here recently. Well, Claiboriz did hit really well last year.

But not with this kind of power. Sure, but the issue there was he got hurt. He was having a breakout season. And to be clear, like, I was expecting the sort of, okay, I'm going to be better in the majors than I ever was in the minors from Torres.

But it looks like Meadows, could be another example of that as well. Because the scouting reports, like the prospect rankings, they never really let up despite some unappetizing productions in the minors. And we should talk about the report that came out yesterday, released by MLB, about the baseballs and how they, 10 experts studied baseballs. And they've concluded that that ball is traveling farther,

but it's not because of the uppercut swings. It's because of the drag on the ball. They can't quite figure out why. I'm sure Chris has tons to say about this. I will let you get to that in a little bit, Chris, I promise. Danny Duffy, 46% owned. Do you think we should pick him up after a good start at Texas? Seven and two-thirds, one run, five strike guys.

Now, something I want to say on the Sportsline DFS podcast yesterday, Heath was talking about how there was an article about Danny Duffy mentioning how bad his slider has been. Yesterday, after his start, he said his slider felt great. So that could be an encouraging development. Do you have interest in adding Danny Duffy? Not after just one start like this, especially with a pretty low strikeout total. The walks and home runs have just buried him this year.

But something I did notice in looking at all the data surrounding this start is he's actually throwing harder now than he did at any point last year. So that issue is behind him. I wonder if it's affecting his command, though. Yeah, so for me, I picked up Duffy in two leagues. I dropped Jake Ferrea and I dropped Freddie Peralta. Those are easy moves. Right. I'm not starting him next week by any means, but maybe he turns things around and I already got him.

And Jared Hughes got a save for the Reds. He could be the short-term answer. Again, this is a biceps injury for Ryssel Iglesias that's in his non-throwing arm. But it was Jared Hughes if you just need something in the short term. Maybe that's probably the guy. All right. So let's do some fantasy math. News segment alert. Let's have fun with it.

Which number is greater? Billy Hamilton steals or Nelson Cruz's home runs? Like you're asking us to guess? Yes. Billy Hamilton steals. Yes. Hamilton steals. You guys are correct. Do you want to guess by the margin? Two.

Hamilton has nine steals. Billy Hamilton has eight steals. Nelson Cruz has seven home runs. Which number is more worrisome to you? Billy Hamilton steals. by far. Yeah. Would you look to buy low on Nelson Cruz? He's only batting 222 this year.

Yeah. Yeah, he's old enough that there's a chance he's just done, but I don't think he is. All right, which number is greater? Mani Machado's home runs or Buster Posey's RBI's.B.I. I'm going to say Machado's home runs. This is, like, it's such an outlandish comparison that I'm going to assume it's Machado's home runs, just so this is an interesting exercise? It is not.

Buster Posey has one more RBI, 16 RBI. But it's close enough to make it interesting. Compared to 15-0 runs from Machado. Yeah. Oh, man, I just, I don't know that there's much analysis there, but it's fun. I mean, like, we didn't talk about this yesterday, Scott, when we were debating with Heath, Gary Sanchez versus Buster Posey in points leagues. I'm sure Heath will eventually move at Sanchez ahead.

Was that a debate? How far ahead is Sanchez? I didn't listen to it. He's so far ahead of Posey. As of yesterday, he was 20 points ahead of the number two catcher who was not Buster Posey. And he was better on a per game basis last year. He's running away at the position, and that's with like a 220 bad hit. And that's what everybody except for Heath expected to happen.

But I think I'd rather have. I don't want to, I don't want to bury Heath. The logic was sound Buster Posey has a safer track record, the skill. But like, he just doesn't hit for power anymore. No, and I think what I was going to say is I think I'd rather. I have Wilson Contreras than Posey. Not in Roto, because the batting average is so valuable. But if there's more than five categories,

like if we're talking like total bases or something like that, or slugging percentage, I think I'd rather have Contreras, guys. And there are reasons to believe the better times are ahead for Buster Posey. It is worth saying. He's still hitting the ball pretty hard. His home run-rown-of-fly ball rate has been cut in half. That won't continue. And the Giants' offense isn't an embarrassment anymore.

It's right behind Milwaukee. It's 21st in baseball, but considering it's an NL team and it's right behind St. Louis and Milwaukee. It's not an embarrassment. He hasn't been bad either. He has not been bad. Yeah. Okay. Which is greater?

Mike Trouts, home runs plus steals, plus walks, or Joey Gallo's strikeouts? Combining the home runs, steals, and walks of Mike Trout. Trout probably has around 60 home runs, steals and walks, right? I don't know. Just, yeah, I'm right. I'm going to go with Joey Gallo. Wait a second. When you say around, how close to the number 60 do you have to be for you to be right?

I would say five one way or the other. Okay. So you think Joey Gallo has more home runs, more strikeouts than Trout has home or steals. Oh, God, I was way off. Yeah, you are. So. 73? Scott.

It's Trout. Chris, I didn't look up Gallows yet. All right, fine. All right. Scott, wait, time out, time out. I was going to say Trout. Mike Trout has 73 home runs plus steals plus walks. How many strikeouts do you think Joey Gallo has?

Okay, so we're almost to a third of the way through the season, and he's on pace for over. So he probably is right around 70. Probably a little less. I'll go 68. All right. Gallo is 72 strikeouts. Mike Trout has. 73 home runs plus steals plus walks.

And Chris destroyed fantasy math. Last one. Which is greater? Freddie Freeman's on base percentage or Brian Dozier's slugging percentage? Freeman. Yep. Freeman. 424 to 416.

Freddie Freeman. Did you guys talk about the ridiculous Brian Dozier double the other day? It got stuck in the wall. Yes. It's amazing. We did pretty well with this. Yeah, you guys did well. I mean, they were all pretty close.

Like, they were all within wall. I think you telegraphed it a little too much. Oh, we got the Machado thing wrong. Exactly. On the subject of correcting things we got wrong, Heath has Porcelo 20 spots behind me, so I was wrong about that. Okay, there we go.

All right, real quick on this one here. Are we sure there's nothing wrong with Jose Al-Tuvae? Yes. Yeah. Well, I mean, the one thing I'm worried about with Altouvae is, has he just stopped running? because that's always a fear with middle of the order hitters who make stolen bases a big part of their game

is it just may become unnecessary at some point to expose them and their team to that risk and it being considering he's getting on base at about the same rate he always does and that numbers way down, I am a little worried about that. But I do think the lack of home runs to this point is just the capricious nature of home runs over the course of the season.

All his bat-a-ball tendencies are more or less exactly what they were a year ago. And I think those are going to come around. And for Altovae, he has two steals in his last four games, which is nice. He has four on the season. Now, those can come in bunches too, as we've seen from Tim Anderson and Whitmeryfield this year. Charlie Blackman, are we sure there's nothing wrong here? Adam, I don't know if you know this, but the Rockies, have played the fewest home games in Major League Baseball.

Only 18 of their 50 games so far have been in the friendly confines of course field. Yeah, actually, this research on Charlie Blackman is what inspired the stat of the day. The funny thing is Blackman's been bad at home this year, and he's got 11 home runs on the road, and at home he's batting 232 with one homer in 15 games. So that's weird. 15 games. Yes, I am sure there's nothing wrong with Charlie Blackman. And this guy's not quite the same tier, but are we sure there's nothing wrong with Michael Conforto?

Man, I feel like I certainly thought, all right, he's snapping out of it. He went 11 for 31 in an eight-game stretch with three homers very recently, and since then he's three for 19 with no extra base hits. I mean, of course we're not sure. He's coming back from a severe injury. This may be something that takes all year to get over. This may be something that he's never over. but, you know, he's still so talented that I'm not dropping him. Okay.

That's Michael Conforto. Yeah, like everything Chris has had is true, and yes, I'm worried. He's not even in my top 40 outfielders, but at the same time, like, he could have an 1,000 OPS in June, and that's not, would that wouldn't be shocking either. All right, well, if he does have an 1,000 OPS in June, I will want Michael Conforto on all of my daily fantasy leagues, and I'm going to play Daily Fantasy on the Draft app. This is Daily Fantasy, but it's not like the other guys. And it's not just baseball either. They have a variety of sports on the draft app.

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Supplies are limited, guys. Should we pick up the following players? Dustin Fowler, 31% owned. He's running. He's got three steals and five attempts in 13 games, and he started one for 10. Since then, he's been much better. Dinarz Spann, 39% owned. He's been running a little bit, too.

Stole base last night, and he had a dad. double, three runs, and two walk. Great O. B.P. for Dynard Span. And Brandon Nimmo. Brandon Nimmo is making some improvements. I mean, you look at the plate discipline, 19 walks, 26 strikeouts. As a leadoff hitter, he has scored 15 runs in 19 games, and Brandon Nimmo is only 8% own, and yes, it is pronounced Nimmo.

Not Nemo, sorry. Yep, been doing that wrong for years. No, he's an interesting player. I guess you could say you found Nemo. On the waiver wire. So it's Dustin Fowler, DeNard Span, and Brandon Nimmo. Nimmo the most available, but should we act now before it's too late?

I'm not sure Nimmo isn't the most interesting. Now, his relevance is going to hinge on how long the Mets are at less than full health. But he has been their best outfielder this year. He's terrible against left-handers, kind of like Enforto. But this is another example of a player whose prospect pedigree exceeded his production and seems to be playing out that way in the majors. But he wasn't very good before this, right, with Nemo? In the majors.

Well, he was also just breaking into the majors. Like, he's definitively a high-on-based guy, and I think some of the power gains we've seen from him this year are legitimate. So I would like to see more from Nemo. Now, like, Dinarz-SPAN is probably the most useful just because he's the one who's going to come closest to playing every day, particularly if this Tyler O'Neill madness continues in St. Louis, I think Fowler's going to be the one who suffers the most from that.

Oh, Dustin Fowler. Dustin Fowler. Not Dexter. Oh, Dustin Fowler. Excuse me. He's the best base dealer, Dustin, of the group. And he's been playing more regularly than I thought he would actually, but he hasn't hit well. Chris Davis on the DL.

Yeah. That's been helpful. Also, he's 0 for 1 against lefties, so I think maybe they just haven't faced many lately. Dustin Fowler? Well, he, yeah, he hadn't played against the left. FD at all until Chris Davis went on the DL. I'm not sure if they faced one since. But, yeah, that, like, he hadn't started a single game against them.

But this is a top prospect, a, you know, not a tippy top prospect, but a top 50 prospect. Did you like tippy top 100? And, you know, was putting up, like, 25, 25 kind of numbers at AAA. Sure. Yeah, as Scott said, Span has the most playing time. He's probably the least exciting. He's the least exciting, but he's really, like, particularly in a points league, because he's good plate discipline, good extra base hitter.

He's always been undervalued in that format, and especially so. That's the problem we always run into. He might be undervalued. Is he one of the top 40 in points? Probably not. Yeah, because they're usually smaller lineups. It's more like a five outfield or OBP. I would never be ashamed to start Dinarz fan in a points league.

Oh, you should be. If I needed a fill in or something. You absolutely should be. Okay. I would point and laugh. By the way, Dustin Fowler did not start against a lefty two games ago. That was the only lefty they'd faced since Chris Davis went on the DEL, which was only a few days ago. All righty.

Should we take a look at the most added list? We usually cover the most added list organically, which means we're doing the right thing, but we should look at it anyway. So here is the most added list. Oh, I'm sorry, we still haven't gotten to the baseball thing. Okay, after this, Chris. I know you're champing at the bit.

Juan Soto, Hesus Aguilar. We're still excited about him. He's 60% owned. Hesus Aguilar? Yeah, he's had a good week, right? Yeah. I think so. Yeah, he's supposed to.

He hasn't played much this week. I think he sat. What? He's only played two games. Come on, Brewers. He's played three games, I'm sorry. He's not having that good of a week, but he has three RBIs in three games. He had a big game.

I remember that. He did. Sir Anthony Dominguez hasn't gotten a save since joining the most added list. But he's probably good enough just to be a middle reliever if you want some ratios. Well, I mean, Hector Narras got to save. Yeah, I mean, he is. He is. I actually, yesterday I had a column.

the top 12 most useful non-closing relievers. And it was actually like 14 because I lump three aster's together. But Sir Anthony Dominguez was in the honorable mentions. And I have a feeling he probably would have cracked the top 12 if there were a little more in a few more

innings to his name. It just seemed a little early to elevate him quite that high. But yeah, he was, he got a mention in there. Well, you've already knighted him. How much higher can you elevate? No, no. Sir Anthony Dominguez All right Scott

Tyler O'Neill and Austin Meadows Are back to back on the most added list They are fourth and fifth Who would you rather have Tyler O'Neill or Austin Meadows? I mean we're fairly sure Unless life finds a way And somebody else gets hurt That Meadows is going back down

So just for that reason The potential O'Neill stays part of like a four-man Outfield rotation for the Cardinals I'd say O'Neil And Tyler O'Neill's probably better I don't know His profile

based on the scouting reports as well as the minor league numbers. And even if you want to give more weight to the scanning report, he also produced. And he's produced in the majors. He has hit a lot of home runs in the minor. And he's stolen bases.

Like this is, in AAA, he's played like around 160 games and he's been like a 45 home or 15 steel guy. Even with concerns about whether he makes contact and whether he has a place to play, I think he's a more interesting profile for fantasy than Austin Meadows is. I think he's a more interesting profile than Dustin Fowler. I'm all, like, I don't know.

I don't expect him to run much in the majors, because, I mean, everybody steals 15 bases in the minors. I didn't. I feel like, I'm not sure what he brings to the table other than power. And in today's environment, especially, I'm not sure that is that special. You know, I mean, just look at how disposable Matt Adams has become. I feel like it's a similar offensive profile of that.

Well, when Adams is... Okay, okay, you're saying just home runs and nothing else. Yeah. Yeah, I got you. All right, Scott and Chris, let's move on. Chris, let's talk about the baseballs. Here's what's coming up for the rest of the show for the next 15 minutes of your life.

Baseballs, yeah, well, you know, they're traveling far. Two-star pitchers and a bunch of your emails and look at today's matchups. So, a group of researchers, study the baseballs, did not come to any decisive conclusions on why they are traveling farther, but I did think that they sort of ruled out the launch angle thing. That was interesting. What was your take on it, Chris? I found the whole thing sort of underwhelming and disappointing. I think it's always interesting

and useful and instructive when we do these kind of research things. When we can rule things out, even if we don't have the answer. And so in that way, it is interesting that they don't think it's the, you know, the ball's bouncing more, it's denser, any of those things. The one thing I always come to, though, is MLB, whenever they talk about this and whenever there's like an officially sanctioned thing, they always talk about, well, the ball is within these limits. And that's true. It's just, that's never been the argument.

Like, the argument has never been that the balls are, like, being tampered with in some way that would be obvious to the eye. I think the, the argument has always just been that these slight differences tend to to add up over the course of a 400-foot batted ball, and it can turn a 395-foot one into a 405-foot one. But they weren't really sure that they could pinpoint what the difference was, right? Like they said that Rawlings actually doing a really good job. Yeah.

With the uniformity of the specs of the baseball. Yeah, and the hypothesis that I saw that were pretty interesting were maybe the ball's a little smoother, and so that's creating less drag, and that's part of it. or maybe Rawlings has gotten so good at making the baseballs that they are more closer, more, more spherical, I think, was one of the ideas, was that they, the balls maybe are less inconsistent and more of them are, are more close to a perfect sphere,

and that would help the ball travel farther. There have been a number of studies on the ball already, right? What, like, This is just a larger one. In what way does this supersede those? No, this was just a larger one that was officially sanctioned by MLB. Yeah, but it doesn't have MLB people in it. They used outside people.

Yeah, it's a bunch of outside experts. I thought it was interesting. I mean, I thought it was good that they were like, look, something's going on. We know something's going on. We're trying to figure it out. And the scary thing was that the word humidore popped up, as in, are they going to start, you know, using humidor's in other parks? We already know they're trying to kind of find a way to have everybody store the baseball is in a very similar sense, right? But what I don't want, I don't want more Arizona's out there.

Yeah, and that's, that's, I've gone, I've done this rant before, but I think it would be very bad for baseball if there were fewer home runs right now, given all the other trends around the game. You know, given the advent of more shifting and more creative shifting and more productive shifting, given how much harder everyone's throwing and how much of that's, led to more strikeouts. You know, we were talking about a potential deadball era in 2014 in the first half of 2015. Well, we, at least I, and I think a lot of people, want more in-game action. Yeah. Which would mean fewer home runs, but it would mean fewer other things, too.

Like, just a drop in home runs is not going to solve the problem. A drop in home runs is going to make it worse. Yeah. I would like to see them eliminate extreme shifts as a way to get more action. Well, I know this is an unpopular opinion, and we've talked about it before, but I am with you. I think they should, I think they should make a rule that there needs to be two infielers on. And there was an interesting, there was an interesting bit of research from baseball prospectus this week about the, the kind of ancillary benefits and side effects of shifting. And they've actually found that, like, pitchers walk more batters when the shift is on.

And that has actually kind of, in terms of overall production, it's kind of negated the, the gains. I'm paraphrasing. But that was, from what I gathered, I didn't read the whole thing, so sorry. But from what I gathered, that was part of the results of that, and I thought that was interesting. Okay, going to wrap up the news and notes. Miguel Sino is back. The race are going to start three relievers, a reliever in all three games against Baltimore this weekend. Wellington Castillo is, in fact, suspended for 80 games.

Dustin Bidroyo is going to be back today, or Eduardo Nunez will be in a utility role. George Stringer stole two bases yesterday. He now has three steals in his last six games and three steals for the year. Mark Trumbo could need an MRI on his knee. If you are desperate for steals and you don't want a good hitter, just somebody who's going to steal. Craig Gentry does have six, seven steals this year? Seven and eight attempts.

Jay Bruce, Scott, is, you know, you mentioned him as a by-low and then somebody tweeted us or emailed us and said he's got planner facetis. And does he? I know he had it earlier this year. think he's playing hurt and would that mean you wouldn't want to buy low on j bruce from what i understand that's not scott talking about i know you ask scott no go ahead chris i just wanted to clarify since people mix up our voices from what i understand plantophositis is one of those things that you're kind of always playing through like it it's not something it heals itself

by not being on it. And if you have to... Albert Pol is a great example. He's just kind of been playing through plantar fasciitis for like eight years now. And then there's not really a surgical intervention. Like you can get... I would assume you can get like an injection to make the pain better, but it's...

It kind of just has to heal itself and it's hard to do that with you. Yeah, he did... He was... He was... He did take some time off. it in April. I know that much. I mean, the bottom line is, I just don't know. Because, like, if it's not bothering him, then no, that's not it. There's an article here from the New York Post on May 19th. That kind of rules that out. I don't... I'm not reading the whole thing, like, Chris. I'm just skimming

through it. All right. All right. I'm speeding up here. Francisco Cervely was available to pinch it. He's day-to-day with a hand injury. Joe Musgrove is going to start today. He's RP eligible. Carlos Rodan left a minor league start after being hit in the forehead by a line drive. I think he dodged a bullet. I don't think he got a real serious injury, but we hope for the best for... No, he tried to keep pitching through it. I was watching some highlights of it. Yes, I knew that. All right, I think we should do two-star pitchers and finish with emails and matchups. So we've already highlighted the best ones, and they would be Caleb Smith and Marco Gonzalez and maybe Kyle Gibson. Okay, so looking at the studs, going to scroll for some

at Colorado's. At Colorado's. We're going to start Chris Archer with two roadstarts at Oakland and at Seattle, I assume? Yep. We're going to start Michael Waka at Milwaukee and home against Pittsburgh. Yep. Is it too risky to start Luke Weaver? Because he might not be a two-star pitcher. Yeah.

I mean... Start him in a one-star week? He's at Milwaukee or versus Pittsburgh. I'm pretty confident he's going... Since he's lined up for Monday, Waka's... I'm actually less confident in Waka because he'd be the one pushed back if Reis came in Tuesday. So I feel pretty good about Weaver.

Kent and Maeda, Philadelphia and at Colorado. Yeah, probably not in a weekly league. Kenta Maeda, you said? Yeah. Philadelphia and at Colorado? I think I would. I think I would. All right.

His last two starts were dominant. Julio Taran, Mets, and Nationals at home. Yeah. I'm more hesitant with him. I'd rather start him than Maeda. He's been awful lately in SunTrust Park. Felix Hernandez, Texas and Tampa Bay at home. I guess I'd rather have

start him than Maeda I want it I think I'd rather I mean Hernandez hasn't been good this year right ERA over five no I'm just going to say no just say no to Felix Hernandez Vince Velasquez I would much rather start him than any of those three

you got to sit Sabhafia against Houston and at Baltimore right yep you got to sit Tyler Chatwood at Pittsburgh at the Mets Got to trade Tyler Chattwood. What are you doing? Drop Tyler Chattwood. Yeah, maybe. All right, we like Caleb Smith. What about Chad Bettis with two home starts?

No. No. Aaron Sanchez, no. No, no. Jeremy Helixen at Baltimore and at Atlanta, assuming he's healthy enough to be. No? No. Not in this week.

Okay, moving down the list. Yvonne Nova, Cubs and Cardinals. At the Cardinals. Nope. Kyle Gibson, at Kansas City and home against Cleveland. We've said we're okay with that. We've said that already, yeah. Yes, I know.

Matt Cook, Cincinnati, and the Marlins. Good matchups for Matt Coe. Matchups don't get much better than that, but he'd be way down the list of acceptable. Like, he might be an acceptable two-star pitcher this week, but he'd be way down the list. We got Chad Kuhl against the Cubs and at the Cardinals. No. I like him better than some of the guys who are owned in more leagues than him, but I just, I don't think this is the week.

You really need to dig that deep. Matthew Boyd, Angels and Blue Jays. Yeah, he's kind of in the cool class for me. And he left with the oblique spasms. I was never in the class. I was always in the cool class. I was in the nerdy class. Yeah, I was always in the nerd class.

Well, it was the nerdy class until I got into the class that became the cool class. Oh, my goodness. Stephen Matt's at Atlanta, home against the Cubs. No. Nope. Dan Strailer. Here's an interesting one. Dan Strailey at San Diego and at Arizona.

At Arizona is a great place to pitch. He's had such a weird start to the season since coming back from the forearm injury because he's getting a decent amount of strikeouts. He's also walking everyone, which is not. Sorry, I just want to get a yes or no on Dan Straeli. I think it's a little bit of a sleeper. I like him more than like Cool and Boyd. Okay.

Boyd sounds like a great like cop show. Marco Gonzalez, yes. And then there's Brandon McCarthy, Domingo Raman, Alex Cobb, Lance Lynn, Adam Plutko, etc. Is there anyone you like? No, not enough to start. I mean, I know Eric Lauer's been a disaster so far, but he's versus Miami and versus Cincinnati. There's pedigree there. Probably not, though.

I think his last start was brilliant. It was good. Remember those commercials? Brilliant? Yeah, of course. I don't. What? Are you serious, you little 29-year-old?

I'm just being disagreeable. I watched a lot of PTI in college, and that was like their premier sponsor. Don't drink all 12 beers at the same time, brilliant. Whatever it was. All right, I'm going to do the matchups now. Stick around for the emails, if you so choose. Here are today's matchups. We've got the Giants and the Cubs.

Derek Holland at Kyle Hendricks. Kyle Hendricks. Yep. John Gantz at Joe Musgrove. Gant's last stand? No. I'm going to say no either. Is that a thing?

Well, it's his last stand. It's not like... No to either. Like, anytime somebody says John Gant, I think of Ron Gant, by the way. Of course. Sam, what the Gavillo? Or Zach Ephron, Eflin?

Nope. Okay, I got my eyes on Eflin. You would. Andrew Heaney at Luis Severino. Luis Severino. Haney's been good. I like him moving forward, but... Is it in New York?

At Yankee Stadium is like the worst possible outcome. Rinaldo Lopez at Mike Fires. I would prefer to not start Rinaldo Lopez. I prefer not to, too, but I could see doing it if I need an extra start. one cracks me up. David Hess and Sergio Romo. No, we'll sit them. Julio Tehran at Eduardo Rodriguez. Oh, so Julio Taran's not going to be a two-star pitcher

next week. I'll start Eduardo Rodriguez. Braves have been striking out a lot lately. Yeah. So what happens, teams have double-headers. Sometimes it screws up the projections for two-star pitchers, and that's happening with the Braves. Yep. Max Scherzer, yes. Jose Arena, no.

Dallas Keiko and Klobren. Yes. Eric Skowland, no. Mike Minor, against the Royals? Sure. Okay. Noah Cindergarde. No, he doesn't. Noah Cindergarde at Junior Gera.

Noah Cindergarde. Yeah. And not Gera. Even though he's been pretty good lately, I don't buy it. Would you start John Gray at home against the Reds? Yes. Yep. Patrick Corbin at Shawmaniah.

Yes. To both. Fernando Romero at James Paxton. Yes. Yep. Clayton Richard at Ross Stripling. No. Maybe Stripling is okay.

You know I'm starting stripling. I'd rather start stripling than Reinaldo Lopez. All right. Sorry for making everybody wait so long. I hope you still care about the emails. This is a couple of Paul Goldschmidt trade questions from Travis. Give up Paxton and Acuna get Paul Goldschmidt. Grade the trade. Give up Paxton and Acuna for Goldschmidt.

I think it's a C-minus. Yeah. Okay. From John H. I dealt Goldschmidt for Michael Brantley and Jose Martinez. Did I get enough? No. No. No, no. I like it better than the Paxton deal. I'd call that a C-trade. I think you got enough.

Really? Brantley and Jose Martinez for Gold-Smartinez? Oh, you know what? I was seeing it from the other perspective. Yeah, no. One guy got Goldsmith and one guy gave Goldsmith. I do that sometimes. New listeners, I do that sometimes. I hear it backwards. I apologize.

Sometimes. Sometimes is an understandingment. This is from Nick. Should he drop any of these slumping hitters? Hanley, Corey Dickerson, or Reese Hoskins for Nimmo, ProFar, Rojas, Desmond, Healy, Marwin, Spann, Trumbo, Paraza, Beltray. Okay, that's a lot. There's a lot going on here. I would drop Hanley for Beltray with just an eye on the future.

And I think Hanley's still pretty good, but I'd rather have Adrian Belcher. Oh, it's a great email that I wish I had read earlier from David S. Can Tyler Glass Now become 80% version of Josh Hater? And Glass Now in his last five appearances, one earn run, 12 strikeouts to one walk in nine and a third. I would really rather he get a chance to start. I don't know if it's going to happen. But, yeah, he can be. He can be overpowering in stretches.

You know who else is doing this is Amir Garrett. he's also had an incredible run recently as a reliever. But he was on that top 12 list I talked about. Garrett was. The only problem is there just aren't that many teams who are willing to do that in fantasy. And you reach a point of diminishing returns with those guys. From Isaac, Trevor Bauer is kind of reminding me of Max Scherzer in terms of a slow-building career. Yeah, unfair comparison, but not.

In terms of the heights, he's not going to be Max Scherzer, but he's pretty good. Gray, the trade from David. Give up Zach Granky, get Cody Bellinger and Raphael Devers. Give up Granky, get Bellinger and Devers. It's a fair trade. I'd rather have the ace. Yeah. So we'll give it a C-minus.

And from Kenny, Raphael Devers was dropped in my points league. I have the number two waiver-wire priority. Should I go for Raphael Devers? It would be just for a utility. I would be dropping Tyler O'Neill. Sure. Yeah, that's fine. Okay.

Thank you guys. Everybody have a great weekend. We will come back on Tuesday with another episode of fantasy baseball today for Scott and Chris. I'm Adam. Talk to you Tuesday.