Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/30 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Trout is Out, Price is Back, Harper is Angry

Episode Date: May 30, 2017

So much happened over the holiday weekend! Of course we start the show discussing Mike Trout and who you could pick up or trade for in order to replace the best hitter in baseball. Then it's on to David Price (19:15) and the rest of Monday's standouts ... Talking Brad Peacock (22:40), a new Pirates RP to own (32:00), Jimmy Nelson (42:20), Adam Duvall (52:00) and so many more ... A look at important changes in MLB lineups (35:45), the Most Added list (44:00), plenty more from Monday and tonight's matchups at the end of the show ... Email us at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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What a weekend. It was awful. It was eventful. I mean, the Trout things stinks, yeah, that's bad. Well, it's not just the Trout thing. Like, I had to come together. Try to find some way to only do 30 or 40 player videos this morning over the last four days of things that happened.

And basically, I could have just done an entire set of player updates just on entries. And a looming suspension. And a looming suspension. Don't forget about that. But why don't we... All right, so here's what we're going to do. We're going to do most added. I think it's very important right now because we've been away since Friday.

I hope everybody got something out of it. of the mailback show on Monday. Let's see if we have time for emails and team name Tuesday at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. We'll talk about Bryce Harper going crazy. Danny Duffy's out six to eight weeks. I mean, that would be, you know, big-time news most days. Adrian Beltrae's back. We'll talk about where we have him ranked.

Dustin Padroya is getting an MRI. So, yeah, we'll update you on all the injuries. Obviously give you some outfield replacements. And I know I could have done a better job than this. Like, I should have thought of more clever lyrics, but Trout. Trout Let it all out For two months

You will do without Come on I mean it's like come on Yeah, I could have Yeah, that's fine All right thanks All right so he could miss two months With a torn ligament in his thumb

They called up Eric Young Jr Who started in left field last night Cameron Mabin Stayed in the lead off spot He went over three with a walk in a steel I think maybe I think Mabin's going to be hurt from this right I mean let's see how it plays out

but it was helped to be hitting in front of Mike Trout. Is this the worst lineup in baseball now? Yeah, right? It's so bad. I mean, the Royals still exist. No, this is terrible this lineup. Yeah. Yeah, I think this is probably going to be a team that you are going to target a lot

and two-star pitching weeks, match-up weeks, etc. Because no Mike Trout, their best hitters probably, Cole Cahoon. They just made Julio Toronto look good. CJ Crone? Did they? Tehran gave a three solo homers. But that was it. Let's start with this.

Scott, do you think Mike Trout comes back as Mike Trout after missing up to eight weeks with a torn ligament in his thumb? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I don't have any reason to worry about that. That's why he's having surgery and missing all that time. Yeah. Then let's go to this. Outfield replacements.

What the heck should we do, guys? Who would you be looking at? Well, I think you could also look at utility replacements. So you can move some players around. I mean, this was something I wrote about last night, and, like, I, you know, it's obviously never good to lose Mike Trout. That's the worst player you could possibly lose. But there is no position better equipped to handle the loss of a player than outfield. Because I don't know if anyone, any of you out there have tried trading an outfielder this year.

You don't get much in the way of offers because people, particularly in three outfielder leagues, they are just overloaded with outfielders. Like in the podcast league, a typical 12 team three outfielder league. I'm debating every week dropping Gregory Polanco or Avisail Garcia. You know, not that you have to go after one of them, Palanco is banged up again. But that's the kind of position a lot of owners are in right now where players whose production seems way too good to be on the waiver wire or whose names seem way too good to be on the waiver wire are just sitting there collecting dust on the bench. So you should be able to solve this, resolve this issue with the trade and don't even necessarily have to look to the waiver wire. Yeah, and you can play the hot hand, too.

You can just figure, like, you don't have to necessarily think who's going to be the best over the next two months. How about who's just going to help you right now? Like Melki Cabrera is red hot right now. Don't know how long Aaron Hicks has left, but he's 61% owned. We'll start kind of shallower. Look at guys that were owned in about half of our leagues. Melkeke Cabrera, Hunter Renfro, Aaron Hicks, Cameron Mabin, Adam Frazier, Max Kepler,

Scott Shevler is 75% owned, he might be the best there. Steven Sousas, 50% owned. Did I say a name that jumps out at you is maybe someone who could help your team a lot for the next two weeks, two months? Scott, is that your computer? Yeah, that's the loudest computer. You threw me off.

I said a bunch of names. Anybody jump out at you guys? I mean, Shebler, if he's available, I think, is the biggest difference maker. It's on a 50 Homer Pace now. We talked about Max Kepler the other day. I like him. I like the skill set he's showing.

You like it better than Renfro? I think, yeah, I think I do. Bradley Zimmer, 53% own. He's a part-time player with strikeout issues, so it's hard to get excited about him. I guess Hicks would probably be the guy that I want to look at. over Santana. Domingo, Santana.

I have such a hard time with all these brewers guys because it's just like, if I pick them up, I'm not sure if they're going to play it. No bra, though, for a while, you think. He's going to play for six weeks probably. Santana's done nice little poor man's Freddie Freeman impression, striking out a lot, but the line drive rate is so high. He has like a 375 on base percentage with some power.

Now he has three home runs, Domingo Santana, in his last six games and he's 40% owned. I do want to give Hunter Renfro a little more love. Last 18 games for Renfro, batting 317 with five home runs, 14 RBIs, 12 walks to 15 strikeouts, and seven doubles in 18 games. But seven of the 12 walks came in the first five games of the 18 game stretch.

Yeah. So there is that. Matt Holliday is only 64% owned. I don't know if you mentioned him. I did not. He's on the higher sign of own, but about there with Aaron Hicks. and if you

I mean there's so many good options even on waivers like even Cameron Maybin I mean I understand it hurts a little losing trout but you know he was even batting in the lower half of the order

he was doing some good things that made it seem like he was on the verge of if you can exploding and he's outscored like Justin Upton and well it says this much about what Upton's done so far this year

No no no he's outscored a lot of good out fielders. He's outscored Christian Yellis, Justin Upton, Matt Kemp, Trey Turner, Andrew McCutcheon this year, just to name a few. So, that brings me to a new segment here. We'll talk about Bailos. But also

with Mabin, he's, I think the only one we mentioned Oh, Zimmer, that's going to give you some steals. If you need to replace that with Trout, too. So I think Mavin has 12 steals now. Tommy Pham's the starter for the Cardinals now? Because Randall Gritchick got sent down, he's only 11% of it? All he's done in the majors is

rake. Yeah. So yeah, that's actually a good one. Bonifacio is 15% owned, I think. If you aren't, if you're just looking for a player and don't need to worry about position, Tommy Joseph's still 49% owned, Justin Boar's 74, Josh Bell is 68. Okay, so looking at those two deeper league guys, when you've got Jorge Bonafacio, 12% owned, Tommy Fam 11% owned, who do you prefer? I prefer FAM Because I feel like Bonifacio

If he doesn't Homer he's not doing anything for you Fam could steal a base And he's been He's been walking too In about two-thirds of a major league season He's got 440 career plate appearances He's hitting 261 with 19 homers and eight steals

Over a full season That's a 25 homer 12 steel pace Remember that article I sent you guys about Tommy family apparently has some eye condition that's affected him makes him less good but I think maybe it's been a while, it's been like a month since I saw it

but I think they maybe had done things to fix that eye issue. Yeah, no they have they have so he's for how little owned he is he's an exciting option and I don't think we talked about did we talk about Stephen Suzy yet he was somebody who I came in this morning excited for Adam and I to pick up in the 16-team league.

But while we were talking about whether we should do it, Heath, underhanded Heath, he went in and picked him up instead. The app is a great tool. I have trouble getting excited about Steven Sears. I know within the context of this discussion, we're talking about a bunch of flawed players, but, you know, he didn't strike out a lot in April. I think it was like 24%, and now he's back up to like 35% and 32% in May. And so it's just like...

But it's kind of gone down again. It's been up and down with the strikeout rate. And he's kind of doing a good Freddie Freeman impression, too. His line drive rate is 27.2. He did have a hand injury at the very end of April that he went through a terrible cold streak. I pretty much gave up on him. Everybody else did. Now he's been red-hot for a week.

I mean, he's somebody... I think he belongs in that same category. Nobody's saying that he's a must-star outfielder. But he should probably be a little higher than 50% owned. Now, you mentioned Andrew McCormick. McCutcheon, I will not even opine on Andrew McCutche. I will let you guys do all of the opining. We're looking for by-low outfielder's here or by-low players to replace Mike Trout.

McCutcheon got a little bit of a break. I think he got two games off. I think he's five for 14 with a couple home runs, something like that since he had a walk-off Homer yesterday. I know Chris is a little optimistic about it. Is Andrew McCutcheon a buy-low candidate? 100%. Yeah.

Yeah, I think you look at the skill set, the strikeout rates down from last season, the ISO's up from last season. He's on a 25 homer pace. The only issue is he's got like a 227 Babbat. Even if you don't believe in him, Adam. I know you don't. No, I said he's going to get hot, but... You look at the skill set. He's probably a 280 hitter at worst moving

forward. And he might be a 300 hitter. Remember when I brought up the mechanical issue? He seemed like he'd have found at the end of last week. He's gone 6 for 16 with two home runs since. But here's the thing. Yeah, he's a good by-low. I don't even know that you have to resort to a by-low.

if you're looking to trade him. I don't know that you have to target a specific player. I think you look at all the, you open up the roster grid page, you look at the teams with the most outfielder with R in parentheses by their name are certainly the most high profile outfielders with R. That would be reserved.

Yeah. And you make that owner an offer. But we just talked about, I guess my only question to that would be, we just talked about like 16 outfielders that are on the waiver wire that we kind of like for a variety of different reasons.

Yeah. If you trade for somebody, you're having to give up something off your roster. The replacement level at outfield is really high. You're replacing Mike Trout. Let me just look. Well, you're not. You can get an actual stud. Yeah.

All right. So I just want to finish it up because we've helped a lot of people that play in leagues where all those guys are available. And we gave Fam and Bonafasio. Are there any other like Lewis Brinson is he worth stashing 32%? Chris Taylor's 33%. But I'm looking for even deeper than that. Is there anybody that comes to mind for you guys that the deep league owners could look at here? Any hitters?

I just don't know if we're going to see Brinson before where he's E Trout again. Yeah. All right, well, think about it. I can't even see a list here. It's the most own list only goes down to Nick Marcakechus at 26%. Maybe it's not an outfielder, but Lucas Duda was hitting pretty well lately. He's 31%. So that might be a little higher than you're looking for.

Michael Taylor is 15% owned. He's been all right lately. But six walks, 45 strikeouts. Yeah, Michael Taylor's kind of a poor man, Stephen Sousa. Okay, so I hope that helped. Let's get on with the show. The big news. Bryce Harper is not a fan of Hunter Strickland or participation trophies.

But that participation trophy thing, if you missed it, it doesn't even matter anymore, because Bryce Harper went crazy last night and got hit in the hip by Hunter Strickland through his helmet. But I'm happy that he's like, no, I'm not going to throw it directly at Hunter Strickland. I feel like... What slip? I think he missed. I don't. I think he thought better of it.

I think he deliberately threw it off to the side. But what do you think? A week suspension, or is that too much? No, three games. Probably five for Strickland. Who was the Red Sox guy that suspended for like five days for throwing at behind Manny Machado? Oh, Barnes? Yeah.

You're not going to get much more than. O'Dore got, I think, eight games last year. It may have been reduced to seven. Yeah, and he was penalized for being... He punched him in the face, and that's exactly what Bryce Harper did. Yeah, but he was penalized for being a better puncher. You're hurting someone, the degree to which you hit them does impact your suspension. And I, listen, it was dumb.

Not impressed by Bryce Harper. I'm taking over three games. I got a question, though, because you're the leader of this podcast. Yeah. So the four of us are all out at an establishment having drinks, and Scott gets a little too rowdy. and throws a drink at somebody. Okay? Does he throw it at him or does he throw it off to the side?

No, he throws a drink at the guy, hits the guy with the drink. Okay. The guy's mad and coming at Scott. Am I Buster Posey? Do you just stand there and watch? Yes. Or do you, hey, come on. Let's try to talk this over.

No, I'm going to run as hard as I can, as fast as I can into Chris, who's also running his fast. I'm going to go Samarja and just get knocked right over. I think as the leader, you've got a responsibility to try to diffuse the situation. Yeah, no, if you missed, I would. If you missed it, of course, I'd be. the one getting my bucket because I like to make my I like to let my friends learn from their mistakes Scott's being a jerk he's gonna and like it's pretty clear hunter strickland is not as likable a

character as uh as scott white probably not and buster posey just just stood there at home play and did nothing about it so they knew hunter strickland did not do the right thing um but anyway Danny duffy out six to eight weeks with an oblique strain oh anything to say about this there's no such thing as a pitcher uh we've got a uh There's no such thing as a stud outfielder. How many Mike Trout leagues? Just, yeah, just one. I had zero trout and I think Zero Duffy.

Yeah, I have a lot of Duffy. I have zero Trophy. No, there's, I guess, Royal's prospect. Is it Eric Skoglin making his debut today? Six foot seven. Is he a real prospect? As far as Royals go, he is. I think he was their number three prospect coming into the year.

I did not. Seem much to get excited about in the minor league track record. They had like a 40 to 10 K-to-walk ratio and 43 innings so far this year. All right, so we also will talk about Brad Peacock, by the way, and Jose Dalyo, and that's coming up. This just wanted to read a quote from Johnny Quato, who threw six innings of one-run ball with eight strikeouts against the Braves on Sunday. He said, about his blisters. They're not bothering me like they were before. I'm just getting used to it, but I have to continue pitching until they get better.

That's Quato. So he still has the blisters, but it seems to be getting better. Adrian Beltray is back. He played third base. Joey Gallo played first base. Mike Napoli sat. Maybe he could have dhed if Jonathan Lucroy were not deaching, but he was with Chorino's catching. Delano DeShields is set, two straight games. I guess they're not taking Gallo out of the lineup, it seems. That's good. I don't know. I mean, some days I think they'll have to because you have, what do you have? You have Belchre at third. DeShields had left. Well, I think they'll play him at left.

a DH and Napoli at first. But like, sit him against lefties? Gallo's the best hitter among that group right now. Yeah, 16 home runs, I think. I mean, but it's not a runaway. He's got a 60 OPS. He's been awesome this season. He's been really, really good.

I think it is a runaway when you compare him to the shields, unfortunately. They're all going to sit. Like, and I don't think Gallo is going to be the one who sits or anything. I think Jeff Bannister said he'll play some of all of those spots. But you have to assume that some days he will be the guy, taking a seat. Who would you rather have rest of season? Sorry, Heath.

Jake Lamb or Adrian Beltray? Oh, Lamb. Belchrey was the number six-third basement in fantasy last year. He hit like 300 with 32 home runs. I've definitely rather have Beltrae in a points league because he, so, you know, the peripherals are always so good for him. It's just, it's difficult to say. Did this calf injury start the decline that we've been hoping Adrian Belchre could continue

to put off? It's possible. it's possible he gets hurt again. I think Adrian Beltray is a lot riskier than Jake Lamb at this point. And the biggest thing in Adrian Beltray's favor over the last couple of years is just how safe he is. Beltray or Travis Shaw? Beltray. Beltray.

Beltray? Yeah. Okay. All right. I'm satisfied. Moving on. That's what we're here to do, Adam. It's satisfied you.

Dustin Bedroy is having an MRI on his wrist. Alex Woods on the DL with shoulder inflammation. He might only miss one start. It was his turn. Gregory Polanco was carded off after injuring his ankle. Jose Osuna replaced him. Polanco may only miss a few games. Edwin Encarnacione has an eight-game hitting streak.

He homered against the A's yesterday. And over the weekend, we had the worst strikeout ever. Did you see the worst strikeout ever in the minor league game? How would you even describe it? The pitcher just like lost control the ball. Yeah, threw it into the ground. Rolls toward home plate and the hitter just wants to take a practice swing. So he just swings and the umpire rings him up.

I think that's the right call. That was correct. I feel like Dante Bichette used to come very close to that line a lot of times himself. Like he'd be so clear he was taking the pitch that it'd get called the ball, but he kind of did this little like, you know, flip of the bat through the strike zone as it was crossing home plate. Really? I don't remember. You have a much better memory of that stuff than I do for sure. I don't think I have any specific memories of Dante Bichette.

Yeah, that's true. And Stephen Sousa had the diving catch attempt, which was equally awesome. Yes. And he even laughed about it. I go to, uh... Yeah, was that him trying to, like, deak out a runner? I think he said he lost it in the lights. Okay.

And he just don't... Which is stupid. If you lose it in the lights, like, cover your face, don't just die. Our former colleague Ryan Bass, go to his Twitter page at Rye underscore Bass. He's got a great, uh, a great, uh, a great, segment from his nightly newscast about it. Oh, cool. He's in Tampa, right?

Yes. Yeah. All right, Monday standouts. Hey, almost 20 minutes into the show. Let's talk about David Price. Five innings, two hits, a three-run homer given up to Melki Cabrera, two walks and four strikeouts at the White Sox. Give me one word to describe David Price, his performance yesterday.

How would you describe it, Scott White? Gratifying. Fine. Healthy. I'll say encouraging. I almost went with encouraging. But I wanted to step it up a little. It wasn't really great.

As someone that has David Price all over the place, it wasn't really gratifying. You didn't even get it win. His average fastball velocity, according to Brooks baseball, was higher than in any start last year. Right, but I get gratification in fantasy points. That's more encouraging the gratifying. As somebody who drafted and rostered David Price in a couple leagues myself. I am feeling validated today. The one thing that I had sort of forgotten until reading it recently was that if David Price were younger, he's 32.

Sure. If he were younger, the doctors who looked at him, the best doctors in sports, would have advised him to get Tommy John surgery. So you do have to keep that in mind when you evaluate David Price. So do you have any advice right now for Price owners? I would hold for now. If he had had a really good first start, I might have been shopping. I don't think this was good enough to get the full David Price value. How about Price or Tanaka, rest of season?

Price. Tanaka. Price, but I mean, it's pretty close. That was a redemptive start for. Gratify. A lot of people were talking about the Austin Rowe Mine versus Gary Sanchez thing. with this okay this like i don't know i don't know how true it is he had like a 1.9 er a with gary with gary sanchise last year so i just and what was his era with romayne before friday start

it was it was like his eri with sances is like seven or something this season so but if it wasn't an issue last season i just don't see any reason to think it would be an issue there's i think there's very few catchers who are like a legitimate difference maker in that way i think a lot of that's just noise but he's gonna throw to romayne next time Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It'll happen. I don't know that it really matters. I think Romine's locked in as his catcher for at least the immediate future.

It's a 224 ERA with Romine and 1227 with Sanchez. Okay, anybody else? So I undersold it at 8. Anybody else want to give a standout from yesterday? Sure. Let's talk about Brad Peacock. Can we start there? Yeah, let's talk about it.

I'll tell everybody the line. So he's 54% Owen, Peacock joining the Astros Rotator. They now have fires on the DL, right? Or Fires once in the bullpen and... Well, Morton's on the D.O. Charlie Morton's on the D.O. And now fires is back in the rotation, but he was supposed to go to the bullpen anyway. Peacock through four and two-thirds, gave up four runs, but all of them came in the fifth inning.

He struck out eight twins. His previous start, he gave up one, no runs on one hit in four-and-one-third with another eight strikeouts against Detroit. So that's nine innings and 16 strikeouts in two starts. It's like a 16 strikeouts per nine. I take your word for that. It's pretty good for Brad Peacock. And look, he's obviously he's been a reliever this year.

He's been a bad starter in the past, so maybe he can't get through the lineup three times. But pretty interesting stuff. What do you think about Peacock? Yeah, this start actually made me want to pick him up even more, even though the ERA was high. The fact he allowed fewer base runners than innings. And it's not like he gave up a home run even. You know, they just, all the hits happen to be in that one inning. But the strikeout rate has been off the charts, and I think there aren't too many other pitchers this available who bring out that level of excitement in me.

Yeah, I'm sticking with my original take, Poppycock. And he's, it's mostly he's interesting because he's an RP eligible guy, right? Well, no, the strikeouts are interesting. His arsenal has been different this year. It hasn't just been the innings have been, you know, the stints have been shorter, so he's been able to air it out. I mean, his slider has really been getting a lot of swings and misses. He had been walking, the reason why I didn't pick up Peacock is he had been walking so many guys as a reliever. And now he's not walking anybody as a starter in these two starts.

Yeah, but it's just two starts. You're right. It's interesting because he's one of these guys who has sustained his velocity in the move from the rotation to the bullpen, but I think there are real reasons to be concerned about whether he can keep sustaining that when he's throwing 100 pitches because he hasn't thrown more than 78 yet. And like you said, whether he can get through the order multiple times. You know, you usually need like a really good third pitch in order to get through the lineup and usually see pitchers use their fastball less as they work through an order. And it's just he throws his change up like 6% of the time, I think. And it's just I'm not sure he's got the stuff to be a full-time stuff.

I kind of feel like if everything goes right for him, he could be Danny Salazar. This team, this is Bradwickock we're talking about. I mean, he's still a guy who's getting bumped to the bullpen? Yeah, yes. So you think he could be bad Danny Salazar? I think he could be Danny Salazar, a high walk, high strikeout guy that can't apparently get through more than five innings. Salazar, by the way, they're not hoping to keep him in the bullpen. They want him to write the ship, but how dropable is Danny Salazar?

It reminds me a lot of the Edwin Diaz. I mean, obviously it's a starter versus a closer. I'm not dropping Danny Salazar. I'm picking up for somebody else does. Okay. I think he's... Like, I know a lot of people were on the fence about dropping him even before this happens. So, like, this is a good excuse to drop him, I think.

If you want to. Yeah. I mean, you know if you play in a league with Heath that you can't get away with it, but I think in most leagues you can't. I just, who are you picking up for him? Brad Peacock. No. Potentially.

You would drop Danny Salazar for Brad Peacock? In most leagues, yeah, I would. I think there is more. more heat on Peacock right now. Pappycock. I love that I got offered Tanaka for Salazar last week. I didn't get the Tanaka start, but that just... Yeah!

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Anything else, guys? I got a lot of stuff in the notes. I can lead the way. Lead the way. All right. Well, Justin Smoke. Can we talk about Justin Smoke? Sure.

Let's play the name that first baseman that you want to talk about today because he's been homering a lot game. Sometimes it's Justin Borr, sometimes it's Justin Smoke, Logan Morrison. Well, Justin Boar's ownership's getting up there. He's approaching 80% finally. Stud turd. Yeah. Yeah, and I do like him more than Smoke. But Smoke kind of lost a little momentum there for a while, some inner league games where he had

to sit a couple times, but big game yesterday. He was actually my number one sleeper hitter heading into this week because of the matchups. And, you know, I was obviously off to a good start, three hits a home run. I think it was four RBI yesterday. They had 23 hits yesterday. Do not start pitchers against the Blue Jays unless they're great. And, I mean, look, I've talked about why I think this could legitimately be a breakout for him to approach the way he's changed. approach at the plate, enabling him to not fall victim to breaking ball so much, attack the fastball.

That's a situation where if you, like, he might be a better Mike Trout replacement than a lot of the outfielders we named if you can afford, if you have some flexibility in your lineup and can get an extra first basement in instead. I just, like, there's just so many first baseman. I can't, I've moved him up a few times, but I can't get. get him into my top 30 first baseman. I don't know that he's really even a top 35 first baseman. And so I think that explains why his ownership is still so low. It's like where are you going to 62%. That's higher than I expected it was. I honestly, you're going to play him at utility. Justin Smoke. Well, if they get 35 first baseman ahead of him, you could probably start one of those guys at utility. I just, I, I don't know what the change in approach is here. He swings earlier in the count so

that he's looking for fastballs early in attacking them as opposed to working the count and trying to play the high-on-base game. Well, his swing rate hasn't really gone up. It's gone down. Pitches per a bat, I know, is way down. His on-base is way up. Well, again, this is another situation where if you play in a shallow enough league, you can play the hot hand. Like, get just a smoke on your team. Whether or not he has the breakout that Scott is hoping for. It doesn't necessarily matter because if he's struggling, there's going to be someone you can replace him with. It's unbelievable how good their first base is.

I just think how long do you play the hot hand? So it dries up. So it's not hot anymore. If he's just bad this week, do you play him next week? You don't have to. It obviously depends on league size. There's a lot of first baseman that I think are better than the 30-year-old who's having his first good year. Well, look, I was doing this with Josh Bell, right?

I was starting Josh Bell a lot. He's cooled off. I stopped starting him. Yeah, I think smoke's shown a lot more than Josh Bell. I'd rather own him than Bell. Yeah, I would too. And that probably, so that probably gets him in the top 25 first basement for me. Would you rather have pool holes or smoke?

Smoke, definitely. Pool holes, smoke, Chris? Pool holes, yeah. All right. But you could see that, I mean, you could see a scenario where either one is better, right? Like, we don't know. Yeah, I mean, just in. has such a long track record of not being good at all.

And then he has a month and a half that's good. Well, what about Yonder Alonzo? You could say the same thing for him. But Yonder Alonzo's made a change, yeah. Yeah, I just, I feel like that's... Right, but I just feel like that change is more sustainable than just... Oh, he's just swinging. Yeah, but if I feel this change is more sustainable, then I could say...

I mean, I could say the exact same thing. I'm telling you why I'm not adding him. Okay. Let me give you guys a few words. Well, I'm not adding... I actually like Yonder Alonzo, too, but you could easily make the same case. Oh, he's been useless forever. Let me give you a few more names, just to kind of go off subject here.

As I'm looking at the most added first baseman. Three players who are owned in less than 20% of leagues that if you're in a deeper league. Reese Hoskins, who we talked about a lot, Philly's first base prospect. Patrick Leonard, Ray's first base prospect, who's now 1% own. Dominic Smith, Mets' first base prospect. Any interest in these guys? Hoskins, yes. Well, the problem is, like, Lucas Duda is hitting good.

Tommy Joseph is hitting again. I don't know that any of these guys are going to be coming up anytime soon. And they're not in situations where they can just come up and play DH or something. I think Hoskins, they'll figure something out. They'll stick somebody in left field. Okay. Tommy Joseph? Yeah.

Why not? They tried it with Ryan Howard when Jim Tomey was still there. And I think they were about to try it with John Singleton, too, when Ryan Howard was at first base. All right, to the bullpen. Addison Reed got a save yesterday. It's good to see he hasn't lost his role. He'd been struggling. Edwin Diaz got his ninth save yesterday.

He's clearly back. Cody Allen's been struggling a bit, but Terry Francona was like he's awesome. He's fine. Tony Watson's been struggling a bit. He had his third blown save of the season yesterday. And in May, Tony Watson has given up 20 hits and nine runs in 13 innings with a 623 ERA. Felipe Rivera, anyone? 21% owned.

Yeah, I had a, he, I lead waiver. wire with him and I had us pick him up in the 16 team league. He is the Pirates best reliever and he's left-handed which is normally hard, you know, it's normally hard for a team to justify moving their left-handed setup guy into the closer role, but Tony Watson's left-handed too and certainly has a good track record as a setup man. It's speculative and, you know, and leagues where you're still deciding whether or not you should pick up Coda Glover.

P.S. you should. You don't need to even bother with it. But in leagues where you have to be a step ahead, Rivera, looks like a good option. It's Felipe Rivera of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Justin Wilson and Coda Glover are both 68% own. They both got to save yesterday. But Wilson's been scuffling a bit. Meanwhile, Cota Glover in May, 7 and 2 thirds, scoreless innings, five hits, one walk, nine strikeouts.

They're definitely going to make a move in their bullpen. Right. But is it going to be closer, or is it going to be set up there? I think it just depends on how long it takes for them to make that move. I think Cota Glover a month from now could have done it. Like if he just, like I said last week. But then... He has a just ridiculously good month.

Is that given this team's track record, is there any reason to believe that would actually keep him in the closers role? Drew Storan had an awesome season two years ago. And they still traded for Jonathan Papabon. Who was, like, by any measure, and objectively worse pitcher than Drew Storn at that point? That didn't work out very well, right? I don't see this World Series contender going with a rookie closer.

I just, like, yeah. Like they're talking about, they were rumored to be interested in Brad Hand, too. They're obviously not, I don't think they're bringing in Brad Hand to be a closer. No, no, probably not. Robertson has got to be the clubhouse leader, right? David Robertson. Oh, yeah, for sure. There's enough of a question, particularly with all the hand smoke.

They're sending smoke signals. Yeah, with all the Brad Hand smoke. There's reason to think maybe it doesn't happen. But the point, I think, is just. The way Glover will look this weekend, three perfect save chances, and the Nationals being a first division ball club, he's worth picking up just because he must start right now. All right, we have a lot more to get to. This show's been necessary because so much happened. But let's have some fun.

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What is like Keon-Broxton batting lead-off is a questionable decision. I'm the only one who followed instructions here. Thank you, Scott. Scott gave like a, ooh. Okay. Uh-huh. Thank you. You can't drop the art. He's too valuable at the position.

You definitely can't drop him in Roto. I don't know about points. If he's your short stop, you can't. I'm pretty sure he's top ten still. Yeah. But I assume if Bats had something to do with that. By the way, I've been thinking about it. Well, he also walks a lot.

I don't think I dropped Salazar for Peacock. Of course you would. It'd have to be a really... Ridiculous thing to do. I can think about it in a really shallow league. You should bleep out that entire section. Bleep it or just cut it? Bleep it.

Okay, like he's like, what cares what he's. saying. Okay, yeah, all right. Thank you, Scott. Yeah, I just wanted to clear. Ooh, would you drop Danny Salazar for Denelson Lamett? No.

Okay. Thank you for shutting that down. Next lineup stuff thing. Kyle Schwerber might sit against lefties. Mm-hmm. That's fine. We don't eat all three. That's fine.

How dropable is Schwerber? I mean, look. By the way, Jonathan V.R. is 15th. He's 15th now. He was top 10 last week. Was like the third most plate of here. Yeah, he was top ten last week, so it changes. I bet he's within like eight points of 12 or 10, right?

Has Jordy Mercer passed him? No, Jed Jerko and Eduardo Nunez have, and Jose Reyes is just four and a half points behind him. Yeah. So anyway, Schwabber, I mean, look, I understand sitting against lefties, but come on, he's batting 180 against Ritees, so you've got to keep him in the lineup. No, but he's got all righties this week, and he's off to a bad start. How dropable is Kyle Schwerber? Or is he a, like, tremendous by-low candidate? I think he is a very good by-low candidate.

No, no, no. We already did swore, but this is not the time for the one-word reaction. Yeah. I think he's a very good by-low candidate, but not at the value that someone, like, you shouldn't expect him to be the guy many people expected coming into the season. There's just, there's too many risks in his game. And too many cooks in the kitchen. Like, they could easily sit Schwerber. I'm not dropping Schwerber, but if he's not good this week, I'm benching him next week.

I already benched him. I benched him for Jed Lowry this week. Would you drop him for Jed Lowry? It would be really hard to mention. Would you drop him for Brad Peacock? I don't think so. I don't think so, but there's a case to be made just because of the depth of outfield and the shallowness of starting pitcher.

Yeah. I mean, I've gotten exposed to a couple new formats this year that make me kind of like, it's hard to give one side. one size fits all add drop advice always. Of course. Oh, yeah, of course. All right, last lineup stuff. Andrew Benintendi sat against a lefty,

and he's batting 258 with a 290 slugging percentage against lefties. Benintendi. I'm not worried about that being a full-time thing. I've been intending to drop him in my rankings for a while, and I just keep having a hard time figuring out who I should put him below. Settle. Settle Ventendi pun there. Now, somebody, as an owner who was doing well trading for Mike Trout,

he asked me if offering Ben Intendi and Tray Turner for Trout was enough. That's too much. And I was like, if I was the Trout owner, I'd be thrilled to get that. So, I mean, Ben Intendi is still a top 2530 outfielder in my mind. Would you rather have? That's like he is. I don't disagree with, like, the perception of what he is. But there's not a lot of evidence thus far.

No, there's not. You guys, Chris and Scott in particular, are very mean to me, like, abusive to me when I said that, I said, what is Benetennie's value? Is he just going to be a points league specialist because he might not hit the home runs or have the steals? And you guys are like, shut up, Adam. He's on pace for a 1520 season. Yeah. That's okay. Probably, like, he's only hitting 272 this season, but I would say the two.

290 Babbit probably has room to grow. So I think he's probably closer to a 290 true talent hitter. He's going to end up with close to 90 runs in RBI. But to be, he just really hasn't done that much. And I mean, he's on a 15-homeer 20 steel pace at the end of a cold streak, you know? Like two weeks ago, that was a better-looking pace. And he's going to get hot again. And I still has a 34% hard hit rate.

I just, I still think there's a lot to like about the talent. All right, Andrew Ben and Tendi. They still like you. New starting pitchers to join the fray. Okay, shallow leagues. You need to look for two pitchers right now. Stephen Mats, he's 87% own, so I know very shallow. He'll need at least one more rehab start.

And James and Tyone, awesome. 78% own, made a rehab start on Sunday. Very good news. And, yeah, somebody definitely worth owning. Jose de Leon, guys. So he got called up. He pitched in relief. He pitched poorly.

He got sent down. You get the win, though. He did get the win. Oh, gosh. Is there any reason to own Jose de Leon? He's not among my top five prospects to stash. Okay. And Seth Lugo is going to join the Mets rotation soon.

In what type of league would you be interested in Seth Lugo? One where I had Robert Gisleman. He's not that bad. I'm not going to get strikeouts, but he's not so bad, Seth Lugo. Yeah, I'm not sure he's better than Gisleman. I'm not going to own him a standard league. I'm disappointed. That was that comment was my disappointment that Gazellman when he's showing signs of potential again is the one getting bumped for Seth Lugo. The reason is they think Lugo's elbow will hold up better as a starter than in the bullpen.

Oh, poppycock. The Mets don't really know anything about that stuff. So their rotation is going to be Harvey Lugo. Now Harvey's good now. DeGrom. Matt. Wheeler and Matt. A wheeler for another month.

Yeah. Probably. That's still a good rotation. It's not, you know. You can do worse. Like, they have an ace. Their bullpen is probably... Jacob Grom is very good.

I don't know if it's a bigger issue. They got some issues. The pitchers never go deep into games. Their bullpens think so. They'll need multiple pitchers at some point in the season. Let's guess... Let me talk about Jimmy Nelson, by the way. How do you guys feel about Jimmy Nelson?

Before we get into most added. I can't really see an underlying... reason for why three of his last four games have been really high with the strikeouts. I mean, yeah, I'm just not feeling it. Okay. He's, I had not have it in the notes somewhere. There was talk of him in the offseason throwing more changeups. He's throwing slightly more changeups, but not really to a point where it's like an explanation.

Like, I understand Chase Anderson getting, he got 11 strikeouts this week. but he had his highest recorded fastball velocity ever. For some reason, he picked up like two miles per hour. And it was he got more than twice as many swinging strikes on that fastball because of it than he normally gets. So that made sense. I don't know if it's sustainable, but I at least made sense in that one start. I'm probably not going to chase Anderson or Nelson. So, well, look, I mean, the thing is you could sit here and say,

I don't really want to chase Jimmy Nelson, but I still went and I looked at almost. all of my leagues to see if he was available, and he actually wasn't. Jimmy Nelson's, I think, 43% owned right now, and he's made, his last four starts have been pretty good, except one, decent one. A little below average one against the Blue Jays, but he's faced the Padres, the Red Sox, the Blue Jays, and the Diamondbacks in there as well. So I don't know. I guess I'd like to have him on my bench, see where this goes, but I couldn't, but you can. So here's the most added list. Brad, Poppycock, Denelson, LeMette, Tyler, Ames, Anderson.

Those are your top three. Do you like any of them better than Jimmy Nelson? I like all of them better than Jimmy Nelson. Yeah. I think I do too. Yeah. All right. Adam Frazier's number four.

I didn't really mention him with the, like, he's got the same ownership as Hunter Renfro, Steven Souza. Should Frazier be with those guys and Melkiel? He's like the exact opposite player of those guys. Because he's a batting average guy. I think he's going to have a good batting average, and I wouldn't be surprised if he scores from runs. But there's not any pop there. Erasmus Ramirez had a rough start yesterday.

He got a save on Sunday, and then he started on Monday. So dumb. I think the race should not let the Mets make their rotation decisions any longer. But he struggled. He's 35% owned. Coda Glover, 68%. Justin Boar, 74. Joe Ross, 69%.

He's like the eighth most added player. Wow, he was terrible on Sunday. Yep. What do you think? I was starting him this week against the athletics. There's something weird going on with him losing steam. Yeah. His velocity plummeted in the middle innings again like it did in his first start,

and he wasn't able to overcome it. He lost like five miles per hour on his fastball between the first inning and the fourth inning. And, I mean, that, I don't know why. There's, there's been no explanation offered as to why, but that, like, he's not going to succeed if that keeps happening. Okay, Joe Ross. Thank you for inspiring the next segment of Fooled You. Brad Hand, no, I'm not there yet, but he could be.

I fooled you, Joe Ross. Brad Hand, 28%. Devin Travis has 18 doubles. I think all of them this month in May? I don't know. Probably most of them. Most, if not all. He's 68% owned.

And I wonder, how good is Devin Travis? This is obviously his hot streak, but does he have breakout potential or he could be like a top six or seven second basement? Let's go back to Jonathan VR for a second. And at points league, I do not think it's far-fetched at all to think Devin Travis could be better than VR the rest of the season. But he can't play shortstop. I mean, Travis is kind of gone. He's kind of done like a Jonathan's scope thing where he just hasn't walked much at all, which does cap the ceiling. I mean, I think there's even more correction coming in batting average.

I think he'll hit for a high average. It may be, he may be a Starlin Castro type player if he doesn't start walking more, which, you know, is still a borderline starter in mixed leagues. But he's never walked. I mean, he had the 62 games in 2015 where he had a 7.6 walk rate. But last season was 4.6%. He still hit 300, still had a high 700s on. or OPS. Right.

And Castro, I mean, that sounds very Castro-like, though, doesn't it? Would you rather have Devin Travis or someone who's just behind him on the most added list? Jed Lowry. Travis, for sure. Travis. All right. Yeah. Mike Clevenger, he could be the last guy we talk about.

Clevenger in the rotation right now for the Indians. He's 48% owned. Compare him with Peacock, Lemette, Tyler Anderson. He's probably behind those guys for me. I don't think he's going to stay in the rotation. Clevenger, okay. And Tyson Ross is also on the most out of list. He's 33% owned.

He had a terrible rehab start. I think it was yesterday. But Jeff Bannister said he's fine physically. And I don't think you should really put much into rehab start results. Yeah, I think he's 33% owned before he makes his debut is probably fine. I think Matt Harvey's a very good test case. There have been times when he's looked okay, but it's been a bumpy road. And I think it's probably going to be a bumpy road for Tyson Ross.

But on the off chance it isn't, it's worth stashing. Now, typically we would do Teen Name Tuesday. This is a little bit of a different show because we're not just recapping Monday. We're not trying to catch you up on four days' worth of action. Do you guys have good Memorial Day weekends? I know it's Chris and Heath had great weekends. I just got partied. Yeah.

I went to the beach and partied, went to the pool and partied. Wow. All weekend. Party animals. Yeah, barbecue. I learned a lot before. where the show started. Chris is going to get his hair cut soon, and he thinks it's too long. It always looks the same to me. It's just I want a different style.

All right. Scott, how was your? I was, I was home alone all weekend, which was nice. So that was a nice change of pace for me. The wife and son were visiting family elsewhere. So, uh, sat around in my underwear a lot. And played video games, right? I did for the first time in months and months and months. Scott gained 35 pounds over the weekend. Congratulations, Scott White. He is still the skinniest person, at least among the non-hosts on the show. And since you guys are just awful jerks, I had a great weekend, too.

Thank you for asking. No one asked. Moving on. We had the two, I would say, most pleasant surprise pitchers of the year pitch yesterday, unless I'm forgetting someone. Mike Leek and Irvin Santana. I'm not counting Dallas Keikl. But Leak and Santana pitched, well, I mean, this is a lot of it. was like the worst start of the year for Mike Leak. It was his first non-quality start, and it was four

runs in seven innings against a red-hot Dodgers team with one walk and six strikeouts. And Irvin Santana, two really good ones in a row, I think after a stinker not too long ago. But seven innings, one run, six strikeouts against the Astros. Santana's the number one starting pitcher in points, number three in Roto. I'm not sure where a leak is, but he's obviously had a great year. Anybody buying in a little bit more to the legitimacy of these guys? I still like Santana more than Leak. I expect. week's season to look more like this start than what it had before this start.

Yeah, I think they're both fine. They're definitely obviously both worth owning, but I don't expect them to be much better than 3-5 ERA guys moving forward. Anyone want to guess what opposing batters Babbip is against Urban Santana? 127.

It's probably gone up, I think it was 136 going into last start, so I'm going to say it's 149 now. 143. I don't even get to guess. Like, you guys are just awful to me. Let me guess.

No. How was your memorial that week now? It was amazing. Did you eat any watermelon? No, I don't like watermelon, but I had a lot of really good things. I don't like watermelon. I didn't have a lot of candies. I do like watermelon.

Yeah. I mean, it's like my 17th favorite fruit, but I also, I still like it. I also didn't have a burger, which is kind of disappointing. You didn't have any burgers? No, I had a lot of, like, a town. I had a lot of really good food. I had duck one night. That was good.

But, uh, fancy. Yeah, we had a great time. I had burgers last night. I had burgers last night, too. I had burgers last night. I had a watermelon. I didn't have any watermelon. I wish I had a burger.

I might have to do that. Maybe tomorrow. Okay. Thank you guys for inspiring me. Man, so much to talk about. Marvin Gonzalez, we look at three up. Marvin Gonzalez went three for five with a double. He's hot again.

Last eight games, Gonzalez is hitting 433 with two home runs, five doubles. He was cold before that, but he was batting 286 in the 11 games before that, but he did not have an extra base hit. So there's Marble Gonzalez. There's Adam Duval, who is a top seven outfielder right now. Number two in the majors in RBI. Behind. Scott, do you know?

Who leads in RBI? Who leads the majors in RBI? He's a lead-off hitter. What? Yeah. For a National League team. Yeah. Which makes it even more crazy.

It'd take me too long to guess. He plays in the second best ballpark at baseball behind SunTrust Park. Behind Miller. Third Mass. Yeah. Charlie Blackman. Okay. Charlie Blackman.

Okay. Yeah. Adam Duval, anyway. Let me ask you this about Duval. I just talked about Marvin Gonzalez. I guess we're not going to talk about him. But Duval, first half of last year, he batted 249 with 23 home runs and 20 doubles. Second half, he batted 231 with only 10 home runs and 11 doubles, but five triples.

Because his plate discipline isn't very good, do you think Duval will have a lot of a similar type of season where he will really fall off. Thing is, his play discipline's not, like, he doesn't walk much, but his strikeout rates about average this season, which is really all you can ask for from a slugger like him. Yeah, he'll have hot and cold streaks, but I don't expect him to fall off, no. I would love to say, is Adam Duval is so high, but I don't know that anybody's going to value him as a top ten outfielder.

And you do expect him to fall off. Like, you don't think he's going to be a top ten outfielder. No, no, but I think a lot of that's the 45 RBI. Like if he had 37 RBI, he probably wouldn't be a top 10 outfielder. But I think he's in the top 20 to 25 mix at outfield. I believe in the skill set here. Is he Chris Davis? Is there a big difference?

I was going to compare his season to the one Mark Trumbo had last year. And it's a 45 Homer Pace he's on and Trumbo hit 47 last year. But there looks like a lot of similarities there. Now, there may be more outfielders who perform up to that level so that it kind of drowns out that Mark Trumbo-like production. But my only question is, like this 22% strikeout rate he's got this year, is this the new normal for Duval? Because if that's the case, then I think Chris is right. He's the top 25 outfielder. If it creeps back into the high 20s, then you're probably looking at more like a number three slash number four.

By the way, you want to buy low? Mark Trumbo. Yeah. His strikeout rate is downright favorable. 18.8. It's improved dramatically. And his fly ball percentage is about the same as it was last year. So he just, I don't know what's wrong with the home run pace, but... But that's kind of like, those...

And a lower home run rate and a lower strikeout rate can go together. He's... Like, it's not necessarily... It's not necessarily that they will. But, like, Joey Votto is a good example this season of some. somebody who his exit velocity and hard hit rate has gone down, and he's talked about how he's trying to hit for more contact. He's choking up on the bat, and I don't know if Mark Trumbo's trying to, or if that's just what we're seeing, but his 31.6% hard contact rate is not a great

sign. So would you rather have Duval or Trumbo rest of season? Duvall. Trumbo. Trumbo. Operation Trumbo drop. All right, with Barbman Gonzalez and Ryan Healy, who is the other guy in three up, and he's 62% own and he's hot right now. Are you seeing anything from Marvin Gonzalez and Healy that makes you think this is going to last a while?

It's not just a street. I don't... Gonzalez is never going to be more than a role player in fantasy, so I don't want to nitpick too much. I mean... Yeah, he does not play every day. Right, but pretty close, and he's eligible in a million positions, so whatever. He's usable.

It's just like... His line drive rate is so low, and he doesn't make a lot of hard contact either. It doesn't totally make sense that he's this productive on a per-app bat basis. I think there's going to be some regression that makes semi-h hesitant to buy into him. Chris, I'm going to look at the rotation here. Six-man rotation. Is there anyone you want to talk about? Dylan Bundy, Carlos Carrasco, Julio Turan, Rich Hill, Kyle Hendrix, Tanner Roark.

I mean, the Dylan Bundy thing's just weird. He continues to pitch well. despite striking nobody out. And, yeah, I would love to sell Dylan Bundy if I get the opportunity. I don't understand why he doesn't strike people out. Like, he's got nasty stuff, and he is not throwing soft. Like, the velocity appears to be better. Yeah, I mean, he's a round league average in velocity, but his pitches move.

His breaking pitches are so nice. His breaking pitches, his slider especially has a ton of drop. Yeah, I don't know. I don't get it. And his fastball moves a lot. Would you trade Bundy for me? Burrios? In a Rotter League.

I feel like I've one Brillo's start away from that. What do you guys think? I don't know. I just, I... It might be a bit of Ruffalo. I don't believe in Bundy's performance at all this season. And I don't see any... And I don't think that's, like, unfair.

He's not walking anyone, which is a good sign. But the strikeout rate is well below league average, 17.8% or something. And he gives up a... ton of fly balls. Now, he hasn't given up a ton of home runs yet, but... But I don't feel like that's... Like, I'm fine selling high on Bundy. I don't feel like trading him for Barrios is at all selling high.

It's buying high on Barrios. Would you trade him for Matt Harvey? No. No, I wouldn't. I'd much rather have... I'd just... I'd rather have... I'd get to talk about Harvey. I would rather have Bundy than Harvey, but if they were very similar pitchers moving forward, it wouldn't surprise me, and that's...

You guys know how I feel about Matt Harvey. Well, it's not going to surprise me if Harvey is better from today forward, but there's just no reason to make that trade, like, unless you're playing against the computer, you know. Do you see any under-ownage here from Matt Moore, who's 76% owned, Jimmy Nelson, 43, Jordan Montgomery, 66, Erasmus, 35%, Jeremy Hellickson, 69%, Matt Garza, 40%, Randallel, 5%, Robert Gazellman, 31%, 1% Delgado and Gazelman might be out of the rotation soon. Yeah.

You know who I'd rather, well, at least than Delgado, Gazelman. And probably more than Gazelman, too. Buck Farmer, I think we probably should mention on the show. Even though he got sent back down after his start, 11 strikeouts against the White Sox, 22 swinging strikes. And we were talking about the movement with Bundy. Farmer's pitches were nasty in that start. It makes you wonder why he doesn't have a more impressive minor league track record.

And the strikeout rate is okay in the minors. I mean, it's not like it's a bad minor league track record. But, I mean, he looked like his stat line in that start. And considering the Tigers have Daniel Norris and Matt Boyd in their rotation, I think we'll see Farmer again really soon. I think Matt Moore is probably somebody that should be closer to 100% owned. I don't even love Matt Moore, but start him at home. It's just like his five good starts in a row now or acceptable starts in a row now.

His ERA still looks terrible, but that's mostly because he gave up nine runs against the Dodgers in one start. I think in a current environment, he probably needs to be mostly on. I'm going to finish up the show. I think I'd rather have Jordan Montgomery than him. Carter Capp scheduled the face hitters this week. I suppose he's still a dark horse there if they trade Brad Hand. Minnesota sent Kenneth Vargas down to the minors, Kenny Vargas down to the minors. They didn't really want to.

They just needed some bullpen relief, and he had options. Randall Gritchick got sent to high-class A to get things sorted out. Greg Byrd's going to start a rehab assignment Thursday. Francisco Liriano could start against the Yankees this weekend. Miguel Sineau homered yesterday. He snapped a one-for-18 slump with 13 strikeouts. James Paxton will start tomorrow. He gets the Rockies at home, not in Corse Field.

The Cubs drew 10 walks and scored two runs yesterday. They are really struggling. And today's matchups, I'll just throw out some people that – some pictures that people might be a little questionable on. You start in Sunny Gray at Oakland? At Cleveland? Yep. Trevor Bauer in that game? Nope.

Kenta Maeda at the Cardinals. Yes. Yes. Robbie Ray at the Pirates. Yes. Chris Tillman against the Yankees. No. No.

Zach Davies at the Mets. No, no. You don't even have to confer on these. Vince Velasquez at the Marlins. Yes. I benched him, but he's startable. Okay. Yeah, I don't know that one in a daily league.

Bad injuries at the Rangers. No. I'd lean against it as well. Scogland against the Royals guy. Eric Scoglund. Six foot seven. Tall, really tall. Who's Bridwell?

He's a Nordic. For the Angels. Bridwell? Yeah. I don't more like birdwell Eddie Butler De Nelson Lamette tonight I'm going to start Butler at the Padres

I'd be more likely to start Oh I'd start Lemette too I would like to keep you on my bench But I have Butler I don't have Lamette I'm not starting a lot of it I'm very interested to see what Lamett does today Yeah I'd rather hit on the road

I'd rather just watch him And Gio Gonzalez at Jeff Samarja Sorry both I'm a little uncomfortable starting Jeff Somerja against the nationals. I'd do it. Especially if I'd start Joe Gonzalez. Bryce Harper's probably not going to get suspended before the game, right?

Who's getting hit tonight? I don't think it'll be posy because he didn't. It might be Samarja. Oh. Right? I mean, he's at that scrub. Yeah, ran in there like it was a, like there was a loose ball on the ground or something. Is he going to hit somebody?

Maybe. That's a good call. He bite. All right, thanks for listening, everybody. It's been fantasy baseball today. Very sorry we didn't get to your e-mails. Lots to catch up on. So we'll read some tomorrow.

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