Fantasy Baseball Today - 05/30: Worryometer, Addometer, All Kinds of "Meters" (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 30, 2018

We're starting the show with the Addometer which quickly becomes the Ownometer, but regardless of the title it'll help you figure out who to add to your team (1:00). We're excited about Austin Meadows and Danny Duffy to some degree. What about Brandon Nimmo? Ronald Guzman? Max Muncy? And which SPs should you add (7:41)? ... Zack Godley's good start (12:00), two SPs you can sell high (14:12), Grade the Trade (22:04), "Hey, Real Quick" (28:00) with two elite OFs, Alex Bregman vs. Michael Brantley and more ... Bullpens (31:00) and Worryometer Wednesday (33:02)! How concerned are we about Trea Turner, Michael Fulmer, Luis Castillo and a couple of others? We also talk Double Dongs (42:15), Carlos Rodon (44:35), yesterday's SPs and Fantasy Regulators (53:06) ... 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

I don't know about you guys, but I got waiver-wire fever. I should get that checked out. Brief? Yeah, no, that sounds bad. You should go to the doctor. Is this something that you got at the wedding? First shot of whiskey, I get waiver-wire fever. You know, we did the show yesterday, and I was like,

I don't know that there was that much that we missed him over the weekend, that guys we really needed to pick up. We weren't that active on waiver wars. I feel very different now. And I'm sure Heath, you wrote the Waverower column this morning. It must have been a ball of fun. It wasn't at all, actually. Why?

It's not the word I would use. I don't necessarily feel the same way that you do. There are some guys, I think, need to be added. I just don't necessarily feel excited about what I'm going to do with them once they're on my roster. It's a couple of guys that are more, okay, we've got to just go ahead and add him so nobody else does. And then there are a couple of guys with the same first name that are kind of interesting. Oh, let's see. Brandon Nimmo and Brandon Ingram?

No. Oh, okay. So Austin Meadows and Austin, no. Texas. Mad Max's. Austin Bebens Dirtz. Max Muncie and Max Scherzer. Yeah, who do you like better?

No, you can't add Max Scherzer. He's already owned. I think you could. Oh, Max Stassie. Yes. Ah, yes, Brian McCann on the D.L. Okay. Okay.

Well, let's get... Hey, don't show too much excitement over the guys that I want to add, Adam. Those are deeply guys. Hey, I'm... Max Dasty needs to be added in any two-catcher league. Does he, though? Crushing the ball. Okay.

I honestly don't even think I noticed that. He's got over a 500 slugging percentage, 40% hard contact rate. He's been better than Brian McHan this year. Should we just start with the addometer? Whatever, just because he wanted to say Atometer. You're an atometer. The adometer. Austin Meadows said as Tim Meadows by...

What's his name? Don Pardo or something? The SNL guy? Yeah. Austin Meadows is 71%. Oh, this was the guy who was super pumped to add. I couldn't believe he was available in so many of my leagues. And I picked him up in two leagues.

And he batted second against the lefty. Corey Dickerson and Gregory Polanco both sat against the lefty. But Meadows is... their second best hitting outfielder right now. Well, I guess technically he's their best, but we, you know, you know what I'm saying. 71% own, should it be closer to 100, Austin Meadows? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it's, I still don't entirely trust the skill set.

We talked about it yesterday, so I don't need to belabor the point, but the production for three years at AAA was so mediocre that it's just, it's hard for me to buy it. Maybe that's my own issue. Maybe I need to get over it. But put that on a list. What? Excuse me? Okay, so I do think he should be owned in more than 71% of leagues.

I'm not sure it should be closer to 100 than 71, because that would mean he should be more than 86% owned, and that seems a little high. All right, I'll give you names, and you give me 0 to 10 on the addometer, which is I see this guy on waivers. This is how excited I am to pick him up. Why don't we just recalibrate it so that each number is a percent?

What? Sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. So a 10 would be 100-0-0-0. Yes, I thought that was pretty honest. 9 would be 90-0-owned. So it's not how much we want to add him.

It's how owned he should be. Yes. So it should be like the on-o-meter. Yeah, the on-o-meter. The onometer. Okay, Ben Zobrist, 24% owned. Five. Four.

Okay, so he should be 40 to 50%. percent owned. Jamer Candelario is 55 percent owned. He homered again. Seven. Six. Brandon Nimmo, 34 percent owned. He stole two bases and doubled, and he keeps on scoring runs. Five, six. All right, so Candelario and Nimmo in the 50 to 70 percent range. That's where they should be. Nimmo's only owned in 34 percent of leagues. How about a guy, a big-time prospect? Well, recently, anyway.

Not really. Yeah, recently, just this year. who has struggled a bit, but now he's homered in two straight games. He's Fron Mill Reyes. He's 24% owned. Two. Three. Really?

We're not getting that excited about Reyes. Not yet. Yeah, I just, I'm not sure the skills are there. Like, there are interesting tools, but I'm not sure the playing time is there, and I'm not sure that the skills are there. Okay, that's Frommel Reyes. Max Muncie, 10% owned for the Dodgers. He led off yesterday.

He is first base, third base, and outfield eligible. They might give him some time at second base. Max Muncie, 10% owned. Five. Ooh. Go on. What he is doing, first off, there's opportunity in Los Angeles. Like, they've played him in a lot of different places.

There's plenty of places to play him. They do not have a ton of great hitters in their lineup. And right now, it may not last a long time, but he is one of their best. the hard contact is elite, the soft contact is almost non-existent. It may not last a long time, but for a guy that's first, third, and outfield eligible, I have a hard time believing that there isn't one of the 12 teams in your standard Roto League that could start Max Muncie next week. Again, 10% Owen Muncie, and he let off yesterday.

He has batted second in two of the previous three games. So he's been basically at the top of the order for... I think basically because they completely swap their order around depending on right or left-handed pitchers. I believe he is going to be a top of the order hitter against righties. Against lefties, though, he's been in the lineup a couple of times when they've taken their other left-handed hitters out. Okay, you know, I am looking, though. He has sat against each of the last two lefties. They haven't faced some.

He's been out against lefties, Max Buncey. That's not going to keep in mind, but he's 10% owned. And he thinks he should be closer to 50% own. All right. Mark Reynolds. Mark, Mark Reynolds, 417 with six home runs in 12 games for the Nationals. Two. Two.

Ronald Guzman for the Rangers. Two, two. Daniel Polka for the White Sox. One? Yeah. Okay. So Muncie, Nimmo. They're moving the needle.

I don't think Zobris. is a good weekly lineup guy, but when he plays, it usually leads off for the Cubs. And I've got him in a couple of – well, I've dropped him in one. But I've got – I had him in a couple of daily lineup leagues. I don't mind Zobris there, especially if it's an OBP league. I mean, the guy's got 19-walk, 17 strikeouts. So Zobras 24% O. All.

How about some pitchers? Daniel Duffy. Two, I guess, encouraging starts in a row. One for sure. Last night, four walks, four strikeouts, whatever. Danny Duffy, 52% on two-star pitcher next week. I'm going to kind of make the Scott White argument, and I did it a little bit in today's waiver wire column. Danny Duffy's last two starts doesn't really look like he's figured things out,

but he's giving you 13 and two-thirds innings with two earned runs. He's a guy that was universally drafted and has like a 3-5 ERA over the last four years. So I think it's probably an eight. A lot of that is name value, but after two starts like that, I don't think he's got. going to be available much longer. Plus, with the two starts coming up this week, you can afford at him, start him next week. If he turns back into a pumpkin or his results do, then you can let him go.

But he needs to be owned right now. Yeah, I'm just worried about Duffy. I was trying to watch the game last night to see if he had his slider. And I saw mostly fastballs. He didn't grow. Yeah, he's last two starts. And I didn't look specifically at last night the numbers yet, but I did watch some of it. And the start before especially, he's gone more fastball heavy.

I think he's just trying to figure the slide. or out right now, and so he's staying away from her a little bit. Yeah, I mean, in a points league, I think Duffy could be an easy start next week at the Angels and at Oakland. In a Roto League, if he turns into a pumpkin once, he might turn into a pumpkin twice or remain a pumpkin. And I'd be a little nervous, but I think I'm probably going to start him next week. So he's all about adding Daniel Duffy. I don't know why I keep calling him that. Kyle Gibson.

Chris, this has been a guy that you were not like super high on, but you always, yeah, he's not bad. He's not bad. And, yeah, he was very good last night. seven scoreless innings with eight strikeouts, 15 swinging strikes at the Royals. 44% owned. Where is Kyle Gibson on the ad o meter? I would rather have him than Danny Duffy. So I will say eight.

I will put him in an eight with Duffy as well. Okay. He's a one-star pitcher next week. He'll have the Angels at home. Two-star pitcher this week. I'm surprised that Gibson is only 44% owned, given that he's a two-start pitcher this week. Like people prefer to Adam Plutko. More ownership for him.

than Gibson. Yeah, I mean, that's entirely just like Plutko had the high profile one, the no-hitter bid, right? And he's like a new thing. Yeah, he is six, well, I don't know if it's a no hitter, but six scoreless innings last week at the Cubs. He actually had two pretty good starts. Yeah, I think he had no hits through five or something in that one. Okay. And then how about, yeah, I mean, you go back to the last seven starts, Kyle Gibson's been really good,

but going back to the all-star break last season. and it's, you know, a 3, like, 6-5 ERA with about a strikeout per inning. He's been good. I think what I struggle with with Gibson is I was happy to pick him up for the two starts. He has this great start against the Royals, which isn't surprising at all. Is he a guy we keep? Or are you okay dumping him for the next flavor of the week? I'll probably try to keep him.

Yeah. Okay. Nick Kingham, 41% own, 5 and 2 thirds, 8 hits. Three runs, two walks, four strikeouts. Not a great start, not a terrible start, against the Cubs. Nick Kingham on the Atometer. It's a question of whether he stays in the rotation. If he does, I think it's an eight.

Right. So I'd go ahead and Adam. He is starting because Yvonne Nova is on the DL. And that could be a minimum thing, but. And by the way, let me go... Add one more here. How about Tyler Glass now? Is he Josh Hader Light? He's looked like it lately, but...

He's been greatly. I don't think it can be more than a three or a four on the onometer. Onometer, right, yeah. Yeah, I think it's probably not a bad thing to call him as Josh Hater Light, because that doesn't mean he's as good as Josh Hater. It means he's like Light Beer. Right, which I'm sure is not as good. Exactly.

As Daddy Walker Black. All right, that's good stuff. Thank you for your Onometer reports there. Let's get into Tuesday standouts. Who stood out to you, Heath? Huh. What is this segment? This is where Heath turns into Scott White.

This is Tuesday standouts. Who stood out to you? Well, we already talked about Danny Duffy. So I'll say Zach Godley with a nice bounceback performance. against the Cincinnati Reds. Got off to a little bit of a rough start, gave up a run in the first, but settled down after that.

And this isn't a great lineup, but it was a step in the right direction. Yeah, nice start for him. Seven strikeouts over six innings, two runs for Godley on my bench. Two starts next week for Godley at San Francisco at Colorado. Dun, dun, dun, done. How you feeling about Godley next week?

I probably wouldn't start him at Colorado. That'd be hard to do. But it's one of two starts. It's at San Fran and at Colorado. I would still prefer not to. I wouldn't mind in a points league. I think he can pull off a zero at Colorado, and so he's just one start at San Francisco.

That's fine. I mean, that's the thing is that the question's always different in points league, and the answer is usually start a two-star guy in a points league. Do we have to look at Colorado and whether or not it's, you know, how pitchers are doing in Colorado? I haven't really dug into it that much, but I do know their lineup. It's not very good, as we've outlined.

No, but I think they're still scoring runs in Colorado. I don't think that's the issue for them. I can look it up, though. I'm sure they are. I know stories have been amazing, and last night they went off. Okay, Chris, do you have a standout from Tuesday's games? Should we just talk about all the injuries? How about injuries as a standout?

There were like four starting pitchers who left games with injuries yesterday. And one of them who... That's probably another segment. Was Noah Cinderguard? That's fine. Yeah, okay. You know what? We will get into injuries, news and notes in a second.

You're talking about Cinderguard, Maeda, Samarja, and Stephen Mats. Lriano's on the DL. So, yeah, kind of a bummer. Although good news for Carlos Rodon. Irvin Santana's making progress. Madison Bumgarner will be back next week. Let me ask you this. Two pitchers yesterday had very good starts.

Are they still sell high candidates? Jake Arieta and John Lester. Areietta and Lester, are they still sell high candidates? I think, yes. I think they probably are. I agree. In fact, you can sell higher now. What would you want for them?

And what do you expect from Arenda and Lester going forward? I think they will both probably be something like high 3 ZRA guys. So they won't be useless. I'm not saying sell them for anything. But I think they have name value. They have pretty ERAs right now. If I could move them for a legit top 20 guy, I would do that. Who do you like better, Areietta or Lester?

Areietta. By the way, I tried to trade Lester for McCutcheon last week after last week's podcast. I could not get it done. Yeah, I just, is that really what you want to get for Lester? I mean, he's got a 271 ERA. Do you think McCutcheon is that good? We don't, nobody thinks that Lester's a 271 ERA pitcher. I don't know about that.

nobody on this podcast does. Well, nobody that I tried to trade him for McCutcheon for either. And that was not somebody on this podcast. Yes, I think McCutcheon's going to be a top 25 outfielder. He is everything that I look at with McCutcheon says that he is good. So I'm not going to worry about a little bit of bad luck for him, and I'm not going to let good luck from Lester. Like, that's what I wrote about last week.

Aim high with John Lester, but once you realize that nobody else is going to to give you top 20 starting pitcher value, I think you should probably accept anything inside a top 35. Okay. Adam. Yes, sir. I have another standout if you want. Ooh, yes, please.

And it's not a good one. I'm sorry. Tommy fan. Yes. I think it's, I don't know if we've talked much about it, but I do think it's time to get worried. He went hitless again with two strikeouts yesterday. That gives him 27 strike.

strikeouts in his last 15 starts. And now... This is like right after I was just completely sure that Tommy fan was really good. Because before this slump, he was playing great. Right. And I don't believe his physical abilities have diminished. He's still, you know, hitting the ball pretty hard. I think it's just the concern with him is always going to be whether those vision

issues come back. And I haven't seen anything on it. But he struck out 40% of the time over a few. 15-game stretch now, I think it has to be a concern. It's going to be, it's going to be tough to trust him, given that we know those issues. And I don't, I don't know what, whether that's the answer. I want to be clear. Like, we just don't know. But it's always going to be in the back of my mind when he goes through a stretch like this. This is more than just a slump. This is, you know, 40% strike our rate. That's, that's a sign that a hitter's lost.

Okay, so let's, yeah, that's like, that's Stanton-esque, even worse. Let's talk about what's coming up on today's show. It is Wednesday, so we've got the Wuriometer with one of Tommy Fam's teammates on there. It is Wednesday, so we've got to grade the trade. And I'm reusing Teach Me How to Dougie because I had a malfunction last week with the iPad. So he says teach here. See? See, that's why we use it. Okay, so there's that.

Did you guys ever learn how to Dougie? No. No. I think it was played at the way. That was just after the point in my life when I may have spent any amount of time learning how to do any kind of coordinated dance. And then coming up later in the show in what I promise will not just be a trade veto segment. The regulators are coming back. We got some good stuff today.

We got a lot of fantasy regulators. If you want your league dispute regulated, just send an email to fantasy baseball at cbsi.com and put fantasy regulators in the subject line. Fantasy regulators has to be in the subject line. That is the most important thing in the world right now. Fantasy regulators in the subject line. News and notes. Noah Cindergarde is on the D.L.

With a strained index finger. It might be short term. But it's Noah Cindergarde and it's the Mets. And tough day for the Mets. Really tough day for the Mets. Shouldn't have lost that game. Kenta Maeda left with a hip strain. He said it was bothering him in his previous start.

Not sure how serious this is. It doesn't seem too serious, but Maida left. Stephen Matt's left with finger discomfort. And again, don't know the severity there. Francisco Liriano on the deal with a hamstring injury. Shohei Otani's going to start today at Detroit. Madison Bumgarner expected to return on Tuesday. Jeff Samarja left with shoulder tightness.

I mentioned this earlier, but Corey Dickerson and Gregory Polanco were both out of the lineup against the lefty. with Austin Meadows and Sean Rodriguez in the lineup. Will Myers has continued baseball activity. Chris Davis will be back on Thursday. D. Gordon should be back on Thursday. Adrian Beltray is getting close to a return. Hey, Adam Eaton's making progress.

Right? Are I the only one who had forgotten Will Myers was a thing? He's just been, like, he played, like, one game this season? No, he played more than that. I traded him a day before he got injured, so that always feels good. It just, it feels like, it feels like we've gotten no, it feels like we've gotten no updates before this. That's true. Like, he, yeah, okay, he played 10 games.

Yeah, see, that's what I know. So, yeah, Adam Eaton's making progress and whatever. Miguel Cabrera is close to return. It could be within the next few days. Josh Donaldson is still day to day. Zach Britton is going to begin a rehab assignment soon. How much confidence do you have in Zach Britton to pitch well? One.

Four. Oh, okay. Brian McCann's on the deal with knee sortness, we know that. Cleveland is denying a story that says Jose Ramirez is going to be suspended 80 games for violating the drug policy, the PED policy. And of course he went out and hit a home run on the first step out of the game. Yep. So he's fine.

And Mookie Betz is expected to miss today's game. But he should be back pretty soon with the oblique or the side. I shouldn't say he should be back pretty soon. All I'm saying is they seem to be downplaying Mookiee Betz's injury. And they don't need him. So the Jose Ramirez thing is there, do we need to say anything about it? Do we need to give the host? Okay.

No, it doesn't seem like the Indians' GM came out and said he spoke with Major League Baseball and there's no truth to it. Right. By the way, Zach Britton is 57% owned. Seems a little high. Yeah, Nate Jones is like 30? Yeah, the last time Jones pitched, it was not in a save situation. I believe. Can we confirm that, anybody? Was the last time that Britain pitched in a safe situation?

Probably. I think he'd lost the job before he got hurt, right? Well, he was hurt. I don't remember, honestly. Well, you just use that excuse, Chris, whenever we want to. So I'm looking at Zach Britton's game log. He got two saves in his last three appearances. A year and a half ago?

A year ago. September. Who can't? All right, let's move on. Let's move on here. Where do we got? I think we can grade some trades. Grade the trade part one.

We also have some hey real quick coming up. And actually, fun show today, I think. So let's, let's doggie. And let's grade some trades. And here we go from John. John is in a dynasty league. Grade the trade. Hey.

Give up Noah Cindergarde. He's on a three-year contract. Get David Price on a two-year contract, Jack Flaherty on a one-year contract, and Javier Baez as many years as I want on a contract. So, indefinite hobby bias. So you give up C-Mindergard for Price, Flaherty, and Baez with some contract details there. C-minus. Yeah, I think it's fine. What is the outlook for Flaherty? Like, how good do you think he could be?

Not as good as Cindergarde. No, not at all. But I'm not sure David Price has much value in this format. Avi Baez, I think, is a fine player, but I think we're saying that the breakout that we saw in April may not have been a result of a giant increase in skill set. I think Jack Flaredity's pretty good. Could Jack Flaredity be as good as Carlos Martinez?

No, probably not. Okay. He could, but it's unlikely. This is from Eric from Union, Illinois, grade, Vince Turtle, and E. No, I just don't like that show. 12-te-to-head categories league. 12 categories. Give up Blake Snell, get Nelson Cruz.

C-minus. Yeah. Okay. From West in Chico, California, grade the trade, 10-team head-to-head categories league. Give up Glaber Torres and Matt Adams. Get Paul Goldschmidt. Glaver Torres and Matt Adams, who's actually been all right lately. B.

B. B. Okay. From Jared. We went to Jared. Grade the trade. Give up. Ronald Acuna and Sean Newcomb, Braveshater.

Give up Acuna and Newcomb. Get Severino. C plus. B minus. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is Gray the Trade. Do we have. Yeah. Go ahead.

Sorry, I was dugging. You were not dug. We have two minutes. Two minutes for the most fun game in the history of the podcast. Absolutely. A special Will Myers edition. All of these players have more played appearances than Will and Will Myers this year. Let's see if Adam knows who they are and who they play for.

Okay. Just Adam? Or we can have Chris can guess as well. Let's go with Renato Nunes, the Marlins. Yeah, the Marlins. That's incorrect. He plays for the Rangers. He has a home run this year.

Okay. Ryan Lamar, the Marlins. No, Ryan Lamar is on the Rangers. Ryan Lamar is a Minnesota twin, has 42 plate appearances this year. How many of these are you going to do? I predict that we'll get one out of every five. One out of every five. These guys have all played, all have at least 40 played appearances this year.

Yadiel Rivera, the Marlins. Oh, no, Yadiel Rivera is on the Rangers, I believe. He's actually on the Marlins. It's on the Marlins. So Chris has one. Andrew Rowan. Oh, he's on Detroit. Pirates.

Detroit. He used to play for Detroit. He is now on the Mariners. Oh, come on. This is the most fun game ever. All right. Yiro Munias. Will I get, who?

Y, A, I guess. Moon, Munoz. Pronounced Yero, Yero, Munoz. He's on the Tigers. Marlins. He is on the St. Louis Cardinals. O for five, Adam. All right, all right.

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Push. That's not an answer, Chris. Oh, yeah, it's definitely. an answer. No, that's a terrible answer. I think it's, like, I think they're two of the best hitters in baseball. I guess J.D. Martinez has more batting average floor. They play in similar lineup.

So, sure, I could be talking to J.D. Martinez. Well, you know, the thing about Martinez, last year, he hit 40, what did he hit last year? 45 home runs. He hit 119 games. And obviously, you know, we didn't expect him to hit 60. but he's on pace for 50 home runs right now. And, yeah, he's batting 323, which is high for him, but he's 300 hitter. Stanton is the number 29 outfielder in points number 25 in Roto right now.

He's just very frustrating. He's three for his last 24, but did have an 872 OPS before that. This hasn't really been real quick, but interesting stuff here from Stanton and J.D. Martinez. All right, different positions here. By the way, I recommend you read the column that Heath wrote Chris Propherson. Proof-Retit, which is the only reason why I'm mentioning it. It was about his early season breakouts and the guys who haven't quite broken out yet. Bregman was on that list.

Alex Bregman or Michael Brantley, real quick. I'll take Bregman, but I love both. Bregman. Okay. Brantley, man. Since coming off the D.L. on April 6th, these are the number six outfielder in both points and Roto. But, Heath, you still think that it has basically the breakout has started for Bregman, right? Yes, and I said in the article that I probably should have just expected he was going to be awful for the first month of the year, and then he was going to break out.

That would have seemed really smart if I would have predicted that. Yeah, but you didn't. Now, how about this? Hey, real quick, E. Eugenio Suarez, who homered yesterday and is batting 294 with 10 home runs. A. E. Hennio Suarez or Mike Mousakis. That's pretty close to a push, but I'll take Mous. I'll take Suarez. All right.

Moose is cold lately. Last month or so, let's see how Moose has done in May. April was Bonanza for him, 296 with eight home runs. May for Mike Mustakas, 247 with three home runs. Just a little bit of a slump here? Yeah, and I think like when he gets traded to the Yankees because they can't suffer through what Dedi is doing to them, I need to play Torres at short.

I think he'll get a little power boost there. I think you're going to say Mostakis at short. Yeah, so Torres plays short. Who plays second? Neil Walker and then And Du Harsitz? This is the scenario? Yes. Or Mastakis can play second.

He's very fleet of foot. Not happening. They don't have a first baseman either. He can play there. You shift a lot. They don't have a first baseman. I love it. Greg Byrd's played four games in a row.

Bad at third yesterday. Doubled. Struck out three times, whatever. One was a bad call. All right, bullpen news. So Ken Giles was probably unavailable. This would have been three days in a row. So Chris Devensky came in and he blew

save in very Yankee Stadium fashion. Brett Gardner with a pretty pathetic home run, but a home run nonetheless. But Davensky's had a great year. Giles did start warming up in extra innings, but I think they were just trying to avoid him. Yeah, I mean, I think Peacock pitched after Davensky came out of the game, right? Yes, yes. They probably wanted a little bit of length, that was extra innings. Peacock took the loss in the 10th.

Hector Nerris pitched in the 8th and did not pitch well. thoughts on the Phillies bullpen I don't think I Trenaris is really very good Yeah who's the guy to own I mean so far the best has still been Sir Anthony Correct I don't know He's been the best pitcher but has he been the best fantasy pitcher

He doesn't get any saves No but I guess the idea would be that he will If he's the best pitcher in the bullpen But I don't know if that's necessarily true That's just what we hope will happen Yeah Dominguez He looks like he looks like He could be one of those guys that is so versatile that they won't limit him to one inning.

That's fine, but you could do what the brewers have done with Josh Hader, and he's still getting saves twice a week. I don't know if that's true anymore. How many saves this Hater have since Canable came back? That would also be like 56 saves over the course of a season. It would be really good. Yes. Every time you have a lead after the seventh inning, you put in Sir Anthony Dominguez. Yeah, I think there's probably no reliever to own in Philly right now.

Okay. Sergio Romo got a save, made it difficult. He gave up two runs on two hits in one inning and got to save at Oakland. Well, it's just hard to put a starter in that situation. Yeah, I know. And Felipe Vasquez pitched yesterday. He did not record a strikeout, but he had four swinging strikes on 11 pitches. So welcome back, Felipe Vasquez.

It is Worryometer Wednesday. Zero to 10. How worried are you about? the number six shortstop and points, number eight in Roto, but the first one off the board on draft day. Trey Turner, despite a nine-game hitting streak, in that nine-game hitting streak, only batting 23.

He does have four doubles, one-walk eight strikeouts in those nine games. Trey Turner, Worryometer. I don't like, I feel stupid for taking him as early as I did, and I've moved Manny Machado ahead of everyone at shortstop, but I'm not worried about Trey Turner. he's on a worse pace

than what we anticipated I expect he will be fine I'm not worried I just I'm worried in as much as I don't think he's going to steal 50 bases and that was a big part of like it wasn't just

we expected him to steal 50 base we thought he might steal 70 bases and he's on pace for what 38 so he's a little behind pace yeah I mean I'm starting to wonder if Turner's better format might be points this year.

And the thing is, he's been cold lately. He's slumping Trey Turner. But he's hitting the cover off the ball. And he hits a lot of ground balls, so I don't know how the home runs will be. But he's going to get a ton of plate appearances, because he's been leading off, and I don't know what happens when Aadabine gets back. But I just, for some reason, I don't see them putting him fifth or six in the order again, Trey Turner.

I feel like, I don't know that anybody's selling him. But I feel like better times are ahead for Turner, who also got off to a slow start last year. I think it's also, I have a hard time. We've seen kind of three different versions of Trey Turner. He's not probably going to be a 388 Babbip guy like he was as a rookie, but with his speed and batted ball profile, I have a hard time believing he's a 311 Babb Bap guy also. So I'm not like, if he's a 270 hitter, then yeah, I think he's definitely better in points.

I still think he's probably going to be a 290 hitter. Yeah. I think he's going to be great in both, you know. Yeah. Machado over Turner. Yes. What about Correa? In points.

I'll still take Turner stolen bases in Roto. Worryometer Wednesday for one of the more frustrating pitchers in fantasy. Michael Fulmer, who got lit up, gave up five runs in three and a third against the Angels yesterday. Michael Fulmer, Wuriometer. Ten. Yeah, I don't think he's very good. Is he dropable? He's 88% owned.

Yeah, yeah. All right. So a lot of guys to pick up. You can drop Michael Fulmer if you need to. Wariometer on Marcel Ozuna. Three. I still think he's very good. He's not going to be as good as it was last year.

I don't think he's this bad. Two. Got a career high, 44.5% hard contact rate, but only a 29% fly ball rate for Ozuna. And I remember last time I brought up the hard contact rate, Chris, you mentioned that Ozuna was hitting his ground balls very hard, but not necessarily his fly balls. right? Yeah, let me see. He is 18th in average exit velocity on ground balls and a hundredth on

fly balls. That's improved. For a while, he was, you know, in like the 25th percentile in average exit velocity for flyball. So he's starting to show some better signs. Now, that is someone, Marcelo Zuna, that I do think you could realistically get at a pretty nice discount right now. Yeah. How about Luis Castillo, bad start yesterday at a Arizona. Worryometer. One. I'm going to say four

because I kind of feel like we treated him as someone that was like what he's doing. Long term, I don't really have concerns about Luis Castillo. I still think he's a very good pitcher. But we've talked about this with some other young pitchers as well, the inconsistency

and how maddening that can be. And that's just where it feels like he is right now. He can do the great things that we expected from him on a semi-regular basis. but he's still having these just terrible starts. Well, this has been a while, though, right? I mean, Castillo had been on a pretty nice run, no?

He was really bad in April. He had a 283 IRA with more than a strikeout per inning and good peripherals in May before this start. So I think it's probably, like, there was some thought that Luis Castillo might take the Luis Severino turn this year. That's not going to happen. But I think he's going to be, like, the leagues where I have Luis Castillo in,

there's no, even during the bad times, I don't think I might have benched him one week. But I just, I have confidence that he's going to be good moving forward. Whether that's a mid-3 ZRA and a strikeout per inning as opposed to a low two, or a high two ZRA with 10 strikeouts per nine. You know, he's going to be startable. I will say he's been much, much, much better in May, but this wasn't the only questionable start. He had a very fortunate start against the Cubs two outings ago where he walked five batters in five innings. and somehow only give up one run. Okay.

All right, that's Luis Castillo. And finally, Worryometer Wednesday, really probably should be dropometer Wednesday. For Marwin Gonzalez, who is 84% owned. He does have back-to-back games with two hits and a double, but he's just having a terrible season, Marwin Gonzalez. I don't understand how he's still 84%. I don't either.

I looked and I was trying to see just how bad Ian Hap had been when I was writing that breakouts that haven't called him. And as of yesterday, Ian Hap had scored more fantasy points. points than Marlon Gonzalez this year. I think this is something that happens a lot, and I'll use this example with like, oh my God, I can't think of the guy's name. That's going to be a bad example. First basement for the Cardinals.

Jose Martinez versus Jesus Aguilar. You go back to the start of last season, they've been pretty much the same hitter. You look at this season. They've been very similar. I think Aguilar has actually been better. but Jose Martinez is he came into the season with more hype and he had a better April. And so a lot of the narratives that we talk about in fantasy baseball kind of cement themselves very early on. It takes a while.

So, you know, Marlon Gonzalez is someone that a lot of people bought into as someone that you can just slon to one of, what, five lineup spots and just never have to worry about them all season. I think that's probably why the ownership is still so high, even though maybe it shouldn't have been coming into the season. And, you know, the thing with Gonzalez is you look at Marwin's batted ball data guys, it looks almost identical to last years, except the home run to fly ball ratio is way down. But, I mean, like, the hard contact, soft contact, it looks very similar. Does that mean that he's going to turn it around? I just never wanted Marvin Gonzalez because he had one good year in a pretty bad hitting career. I just, I don't tend to not buy into those players. Yeah. Yeah, if I was looking at his batted ball data, I would not say that what he did last year is what I would expect from a player with that badded ball data.

So I don't expect 226 either, but it's going to probably be somewhere in the middle. And the one thing that has changed this year, he was striking at 19% of the time last year. It's over 25% this year. Yeah, I think the easier answer is just he's probably going to be what he was before last year. And that is not a player worth owning. All righty Double Dongs yesterday Oh oh question

So let me promote the Sportsline DFS podcast Oh this is going to be fantastic One of the greatest things in Dong Chasers history Yeah so I'm going to guess the answers no But so Dong Chasers is a contest that we do every day Where we pick a guy who's going to Homer And based on his price in daily fantasy We get points if he does Homer

If he double dongs we get more points If you triple dongs forget it And if you get If you get a homer run like four days? What's a don't train? Three days in a row. I'm going for a dong train tonight because I did catch a dong from Matt Carpenter last night. People all over the world. Yeah, exactly. Did I catch a dong last night, Heath? Oh, Adam. The dong that got away. Adam, last week, Chris, you can help me make the ruling on this. Last week, he, I don't remember who he

picked. Jerks and ProFar. Yeah, I picked ProFar. ProFar wasn't in the lineup. We didn't tell him until after the games had started. He didn't get a don't. in that day. Then you can get an opportunity to dong. Sure. So yesterday, he sends that he would like David Dole, but he'd like Nolan Aeronado as a backup in case Dull's not in the lineup. So, David Dahl was

not in the lineup. I think that counts. Nolan Aeronado did not dong. Okay, then no. What's the controversy? David Dahl pinch hit and dong later. Oh, no, that doesn't count. Not at all. No, no Dahl for Aeros. Even I agree with that. Yeah. But I will say to you, Chris Towers, if you

just give me one second, I will say to you, Thank you for regulating. You're welcome. More to come with regulation. All right, Brett Gardner double-donged last night, and he is the number 33 outfielder and points number 38 in Roto, buoyed by his, how many runs? 37 runs and 47 games, and he has three homers in his last four games.

Brett Gardner. Evan Longoria really has not had a great year, but he homered twice yesterday at Colorado. He's now the number 13 third baseman in fantasy. Third base not so great this year. Luis Val Bueno homer twice, we don't care. As Drubal Cabrera, he homered twice, and he is the 10th best shortstopping points, seventh in Roto. You know, he's been, he had cooled off, but not like super cold.

And it continues, as Drubel continues to have a good season. Do you have anything to say about Gardner, Longoria, Luis Val Bueno, or is Drubal Cabrera? As Drubel is good. He is good. Evan Longoria is having an Evan Longoria season. I feel like... He's on the pace for, like, 27 home roberra. and 160 combined runs in RBI while hitting 260.

He's going to finish as a top 12 third baseman. He'll probably never be a top 12 third baseman. He is not going to finish as a top 12th third baseman. I don't know. If he plays 150 games. Right. Like, he tends to stay healthy. He's 13th right now.

Right, and someone ahead of him is going to get hurt, and Evan Longoria never gets hurt. But he's going to be like the least, like, it's going to be one of those situations where he's a top 12 third baseman, but nobody ever actually considers him a top 12 third baseman at any point in the season. He's Adam Jones, if Adam Jones. He's played third base. Sure.

Okay. And as Trouble Cabrera is somebody I definitely want to sell. You guys don't agree? He's not this good. For what? I don't know off the top of my head. Like, I can't think of what I would sell. Like, do you think that, not in our leagues, but in a league that's not fantasy experts,

I could get Luis Castillo for his Jubrera? No. No. No, I don't. Do you think I could get Zach Godley? No, I don't. I think so, actually, yeah. There was, like, we got a ton of emails and tweets last week.

Oh, I think you could have yesterday. Of, like, Zach Godley's terrible. He's a bum. I think, I think you could. Zach Goddly still, his overall numbers are still pretty mediocre. I think you absolutely could. I think maybe you could get, like, Carlos Rodon. I would not want Carlos Rodney.

Let's talk about Carlos Rodon. Yeah, let's do it. You know, I understand the stashing him and all that, and I know you're very high on him. I'm very skeptical that he's going to come back from a serious shoulder injury? Yes. That would help my argument if I knew. A serious shoulder injury and be anything more than like a he's got great matchup, streamer kind of guy.

He's not going to get wins. He walks everybody. I don't know how many quality stars Carlos Rodon is going to get. Like, I'm not, I'm not all in on Carlos Rodon. Yeah, I question that he walks everybody. He had a season with 2.9 walk per 9. He's got a terrible history of being wild. Only two walks in 12 and 2 thirds innings on his rehab assignment.

He has a career 3.8, which is too high, but he has an extremely good strikeout stuff. And I don't know that this was a serious shoulder injury. He had surgery to relieve Bursitis. Like, it's not like he had thoracic outlets in room or something. Yeah. There's no such thing as a minor shoulder surgery. Well, that it doesn't have to be major.

All shoulder injuries are major? No. Relatively, like, there are levels, sure, but there is no level at which somebody coming back from a shoulder injury should not be a concern. I was very excited about Rodon going into last year, Heath, and I know you were too. So basically, it's just you got really excited, and now you are not going to get burned again. A little bit, because the walks came back, and now he's coming off a shoulder injury. He wasn't healthy last year. He is still 25 years old.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He has elite strikeout stuff. I put in a bid for him yesterday, and I didn't get him because I put in a higher bid for Marco Gonzalez, and I did get him. But look, I am interested in owning Rodon. I'm just, I kind of am not convinced. What I need to see, and I think I wrote about him yesterday in the waiver where I column, I think he should be added. He's someone who should be owned in probably anything deeper than a 12th.

team league, especially if you have to be out of 12 teams. But what I need to see is when he comes back, how does the change up look? That's always going to be the question for us. We know he can get lefties out. There's no question about that. The question for him is whether he can become even average against right-handed batters. And if he can, he can be a very good pitcher.

The problem for him in the past is he just hasn't had the ability. to get swings and misses against righties. And the change-up has always been the pitch that he needed to develop the sliders, one of the best pitches in baseball. If he can do that, Carlos Rodon has the potential to make a Blake-Snell-type jump. Right, and Snell is a guy who had terrible control issues. He was Blake Snell before Blake Snell. Yeah.

Okay, let's finish up here from yesterday and get into Great the Trade and regulators in today's matchups. It's Alex Reyes night, by the way, unless that's a day game. Whatever it is, I'll be watching. So, seven-man rotation. Give me a quick thought. Give me a couple sentences on each of the following. Charlie Morton, 10 strikeouts, two homers, but 10 strikeouts at the Yankees last night. He's really good. He's incredible. Mike Clevenger, only 61 strikeouts and, sorry, Heath, my bad. Only 61 strikeouts in 71 and 2 thirds, but having a nice year, Mike Clevenger.

He's quite good, not as good as Charlie Morton. Very good. Must start. Mike Klevenger? Yes. Dylan Bundy gave up 11 hits, but only three runs against Washington. Gave up two homers. That gives him 16 home runs allowed this year. Dylan Bundy.

He's fine. He's pretty good. Not as good as Clevenger. No. Michael Waka, guys. 271 ERA. He was very fortunate. He was fortunate yesterday, but the peripherals said that he was a good pitcher last year.

He had, you know, good FIP, good Sierra, not good, but good enough that he should have been someone that you could rely on in fantasy, and he has continued to have those peripherals this season. All of a sudden, the results back it up. He's not as good as Bundy, who's not as good as Clevenger, who's not as good as Morton, but he should be owned as much as he is. He's worth starting. This is what Mike Maffini said about Michael Waka. He's not relying on just the fastball change up. He has altered his mechanics to be able to make the high pitch and to get right back to being in the bottom of the zone. when he wants to.

It's a lot harder than it sounds. Rick Porcelo, two run runs in six and two-thirds against Toronto without Josh Donaldson. Rick Porcelo. I think it's like a Russian nesting doll. And so we're just going down the list. That's about to get blown up. Rick Porcelo is not as good as Mike Walker. He's probably about as good as Michael Walker.

I'll put Porcelo above Waka below the rest of the guys. And I think there's a lot of similarities between Porcelo and Waka. Okay, Adam's just going to Google Russian nesting doll right now. Seriously? Don't know what you're talking about. It's the little dolls that they're inside of a doll, and then you open the one up, and there's another one inside of it. Oh, okay. You never had those?

No, I never had a Russian... The coolest Marlins giveaway they ever did was a Mike Lowell Russian nesting doll of all of his Miami uniforms. Oh, that is cool. His Miami Christian, his FIU, and then his Miami Marlins. That was very cool. God, you never stopped talking about FIU on this podcast. You're just the worst. Blake's.

Go Panthers. Did they make the tournament? I have no idea. Oh, you're the worst. Blake Snell, guys, five and two-thirds, one under and run, seven strikeouts at Oakland. He's awesome. Is he better than Clevenger? Yes.

Okay. Is he better than Morton? No. He's not better than Morton, but he's right in that age. He's more likely to stay healthy than Charlie Morton. Is Blake Snell, ready? Better than Archer? I'm going to say no.

Maybe. Tyson Ross struggled yesterday. Three runs. What happened? Were you watching that game, Chris? No. Because he was, I think you only have one run through five innings and then just could not get through the sixth. Yeah, that's a bummer.

So no big deal, right, for Ross? I'm not worried about him. Maybe somebody will drop him because of the start and I can pick him up. Fringy starting pitchers. How would you rank these guys? Oh, wait, let me go back real quick. Would you start Rick Porcelo at Houston this weekend? No.

No. All right, now, fringy starting pitchers. Kyle Freeland, better at home than on the road. He's got two starts next week at Cincinnati, home against Arizona. Dan Straeli struggled at the Padres. Nick Troppiano and Jeremy Hellixon. I don't have a lot of interest in any of these guys. Freeland at Cincinnati, home versus Arizona next week,

that might be fine for starting, but I think he's probably overowned at 71%. Yeah, I watch. quite a bit of Freeland last night. A couple of things, and I hadn't noticed this about him before. I don't know how his delivery is legal, but he does that thing where he gets to the top of his windup, and then he just stops and stays in the whatever yoga pose that is, and then throws the baseball.

Two, he throws one of my favorite pitchers, pitches in baseball. The Rockies announcers were talking about how good his cutter has been this year, comparing him to Mariano Rivera. Ah, yes. That's probably unfair. Yes. and it turns out that MLB and some of the other systems classify it as a slider, which is just the best pitch.

That happens all the time. I was like, I mean, I was pretty sure that David Price was throwing sliders, but Jerry Remy kept calling it a cutter. He probably knows, but it certainly looked like a slider. I mean, there's... They're pretty similar for a lot of pitchers. There's, like, Cole Hamels technically throws both a slider and a cutter. There's very little difference between the two of them,

but they are two distinct pitches. that happens all the time. And I guess it just depends on what the pitcher wants to call it. One other bad starting pitcher that was terrible last night that I thought could sneak by the Rangers, I'm not going to tell you that Felix can do it against a bad match, good matchup anymore. I'm not even putting him in the notes.

Just drop him already. He had three miles per hour of separation between his fastball and his change-up. Yeah, no, it's ridiculous. That's not good. All right, guys. Let's regulate. Yes. This is my favorite part of the podcast.

Now, listen, Heath, you are not allowed to just say, get rid of vetoes, okay? We know how everybody feels about vetoes. Like, how? Why are you still sending us emails saying these guys vetoed my trade when you know what the response to them? No, we have to give different responses. All right, Alex and D.C. I mean, this is the best groove ever. Dear Uncle Leo, Newman, and Bob Sacramento.

I actually don't know the Bob Sacramento or whatever reference in Seinfeld. Commissioner of a 12-team head-dead points league And a team in my league tied Two weeks in a row On stat corrections The next morning for both weeks He messaged me angry And I told him

It's not like I planned it What are the chances of this And should I do anything as a commissioner P.S, I cannot picture Heath without white hair There's no question here The only question of here Is why do you picture Heath with white hair? Yeah

I've been pretty good with white hair You're starting to go Gray Only in the beard Yeah No gray hairs on the top of my head Um Two weeks in a row

He gets a stack correction And he ends up tying Yeah I don't think there's any issue here Yeah I don't know Sorry Don't do the stupid tie breakers Ties are better than those stupid Binch tiebreakers

Yeah And consider that one Regulated I meant I did not mean to come in At that point of the song I meant to come in right here All right, this is from somebody from the Great White North.

Ten team head-to-head league creator has employed the two-star starting pitcher strategy since week one, and he as a result remained undefeated. So he just streams two-star pitchers. My issue with this is that minutes after the game start, he drops three or four pitchers just to pick up the next two-star pitchers. In my opinion, this infringes on team dropping and is an unfair tactic to the rest of the of the players in this league. There's no rule against doing it,

but I feel it is an unfair way of playing in head-to-head leagues, and it limits all the other teams in the process. Do you guys feel this is an ethical way of playing fantasy baseball? Let's go back. Check the tape. Actually, we can just read the question, then the answer. Do you guys feel this is an ethical way of playing fantasy baseball? Answered by there is no rule against doing this.

I mean, hold on, hold on. Whether there's a rule against something does not mean that that thing is... You know what my ethics are in fantasy baseball? What are the rules? That's not the way it works. Something can be legal. There are legal. There can be legal.

Not in fantasy baseball. Yeah. Oh, sure there can. Maybe in real life. Sure there are. There are ethical things that are illegal and there are unethical things. In fantasy baseball? Yes.

I can't think of any. This strikes like, this is cheap. No, you should change the rule. Like, it's cheap. I had to just refrain myself. Yeah, yeah. This is what happens when you get people that don't want to try as hard as they can. This is not rewarding.

Let's just hold everyone else back so I don't have to try any hard. This is not rewarding. Cudos to the guy. It's rewarding hard work. This is not rewarding the person who puts together the best roster. This is rewarding the person who is most willing to try. Bend the rules. No, it's not bending the rules.

It's against the spirit of the rules. It may be against the spirit of the legal. you like to play in. You don't have to play in leagues like this. I understand some people don't like leagues like this. Let me recap. Let me recap what he's doing, just in case people have forgotten.

He picks up two-star pitchers. The second line-ups lock, he drops them. He picks up next week's two-star pitchers. And it's really starting to... I don't think it's next weeks. I think it's next days. I think this is a day-

Monday and Tuesday thing. I don't know. That's how I read. That says the next two-start starting pitcher. Well, it doesn't matter. Look, honestly, if you don't want him to do it, Do it yourself. Or change the rule.

Do it yourself. Well, he is the commissioner, the guy that's doing it. Right. He doesn't wields supreme executive authority. He's not the commissioner. He's not the commissioner. I never said that. Oh, he is the league creator.

Yeah. That doesn't mean he's the commissioner. Yeah, it doesn't be anything. George Washington isn't the president? Bottom line. Know your rules. Yeah, I'm fine with it, honestly. And I'm surprised it's been so effective,

but it is a 10-team league. So I would make a rule about it in the offseason, but in the meantime, just do it better than he does. Okay, this is from Brett. I'm in a 20-year 12-team points league with a lot of pride and history. Recently, some teams have decided when they don't like a trade offer they've received. They will screenshot the trade offer and text it around to the league to point out how bad the offer is. One of these was a so-called horrible trade was receiving Altuvae. for Chris Sale. It's not bad.

The commissioner has no way of stopping it and appears to not want to prevent it even if he did. I think this is an embarrassment to fantasy baseball. Should you agree, I would like you to publicly admonish this league by name in front of the whole fantasy baseball community. I would like to publicly congratulate this league. You've made it 20 years

with a group of whether your friends or not playing fantasy baseball. I would hope you're all making fun of each other all the time. Yeah. Yeah, but there is somewhat of like a strategy thing like going out and revealing someone else's trade offers is a little sketchy i tend to so the the fantasy football league i'm in with all my college buddies we we talk a lot of crap we have

a fantasy we have a we have a facebook group where we talk and i usually will make fun of trade offers i will name the person who makes a trade offer that's bad but i won't oh don't don't say it post the don't say it what you have literally tweeted oh we don't offers that we have received for the People League. In my defense. Two thousands of people. In my defense, that person stopped sending bad offers. It worked.

All right, that's it for regulation. Let's finish up with today's matchups. Sam Gavillo and Wada Rodriguez. I'll start Errod. Alex Reyes at Junior Guerra. Let's start Alex Reyes. Let's do it. Yay.

That's a 1 o'clock start, by the way. Yeah, no Gera today. That's fun to watch. And I believe it is a. Facebook game. Oh, that's gross. Oh, are you serious? You're right, it is a Facebook game.

Yeah, Facebook games. Alex Reyes, yes, but no Junior Gera? No, no. Rinaldo Lopez at Corey Clubber. Corey Clever. Yep. Sao Romano and Patrick Corbin. Corbin. Dallas Cuchel at Luis Severino.

Sorry, both. Both. I'll just be mispronouncing names. Kyle Hendricks at Joe Musgrove. That's one to watch. Yeah, I'll start them both. Yeah, I'm very interested to see what Joe Mosgrove does in his second start. Start Max Scherzerz at David Hess.

Shohei Otani at Mike Fires. Start Shoahe Otani. Yep. Jason Vargas at Julio Teheran. Start to run. I know. No Teheran? No, he's terrible.

Fernando Romero at Brad Teller. This is a matchup of the night. Look at those ERAs. Yeah. You know, Romero, start Romero. Take a look at Keller, though. He was very good in relief. They're stretching him out.

I don't expect he'll pitch long, but I'm curious to see how the four innings are so go. Derek Holland at John Gray. Gray. I think I'd start Gray. Nate E.Ovaldi at Sean Menea. Mania. I am very interested to see what Eivaldi does.

We haven't seen him pitch since 2016. but I've stashed him in a couple of spots. Jose Arania and Clayton Richard. No, thank you. Yeah, probably not. I don't, Josea Urania is not the worst streaming option in the world, but. Although, Adam, fun fact about Clayton Richard since you brought him up. Yeah.

Do you know what Clayton Richard has in common with Doug Fister? They're bad. And Jason Hamill. They're bad. Two syllable last names. This is an easy game. Since the start of 2016, they all three have a better ERA than Sunny Gray. Matt Moore and James Paxston.

Shut up. Start Paxston. Yeah. And Zach Eflin at Ross Stripling. I will start stripling. Please don't. Don't start stripling? Just move on.

Okay. I don't know what happened. And I don't want. I don't know. And that is it for today's show. Thanks for listening, everybody. We'll come back tomorrow with some buy or sell. See you later.