Fantasy Baseball Today - 06/01: Best of May; Week 11 Help (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 1, 2018

We start the show with our thoughts on how to use Ryan Yarbrough (1:40), what to do with a few injured or demoted SPs (5:55) and how to deal with RPs who could get traded (9:41) ... Recapping yesterday's standouts including Brandon Nimmo (14:52) and Daniel Mengden (16:35). Are Harrison Bader, Jordan Lyles and Wade LeBlanc worth adding (19:50)? ... We discuss the best player each at position over the last month (25:10). Do you realize how incredible Jose Ramirez is? Is he a Top 5 pick at this point? Also are some streaking sluggers (38:05) like Paul Goldschmidt and Edwin Encarnacion back to normal? Are we worried about slumping hitters (41:52) like Odubel Herrera and Mitch Haniger? Plus prospects (47:05) Buy or Sell, two-start pitchers for Week 11 (55:20) and more ... 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

Everybody on Kokomo Friday to Brandon Nimmo today. The guy that we have to talk about every single episode now. Now listen, I'm a little concerned about today's show because just before we went on the air, Chris and Scott were having an in-depth conversation about Brussels sprouts. I can't not imagine a more boring thing to talk about. Brussels sprouts, ladies and gentlemen. Brussels sprouts are great. You got to get with the sprout crowd, man.

Boring. Scott's back. Hey, Scott. Hey, yeah, I'm going to raise the interest level here on this podcast. That's what I'm good at, right? Yeah, I think so, yes. Yeah, okay. Good.

Yeah, let's say that. Let's just say that. Yeah, I'm saying that. We got big news. We got Alex Reyes news. We got Clayton Kershaw news. We got Beber News. We got Bear Claws.

We got funny tweets. We got players to add. We got two star pitchers. What's next week? Week 11? No. It is week 11. Week 11. It's true. Week 10 for normal people.

Week 11 for the weirdos. Only five weeks left in the season, guys. Can you believe it? All right. Hey, I got to start. I don't want to start with the downer stuff. Let's start with the tweet of the day from the real Mike life. Question for the fantasy regulators. I will spare everybody the music today. My league has a seven-start maximum each week. I have scooped up the raise pitchers who come.

come in after the openers, since it doesn't qualify as a start. People are complaining, am I a jerk or a genius? I think there's something in the middle here between those two extremes. I don't think you're a jerk. I think if the race were to continue down this path, and certainly if other teams were to adopt it, you would have to revisit the way you classify a start in that league, but you're not going to change it mid-season.

I don't know how viable strategy it is for the race still, and I don't know how viable of a strategy it is for you just because of the opportunity cost of filling a lineup spot with maybe not such a good pitcher. I mean, they're not doing it with their best pitchers. I know Ryan Yarbrough's been pitching well of late. I'm skeptical of how long that's going to last, and who's the other guy they're doing it with?

Austin Pruitt. Like, that's, like, it's, like, It's like starting a bad two-start pitcher. You're getting an extra start in there, but at the expense of a better pitcher in all likelihood, there's a point where it becomes not worth it. Well, I don't know. So I think it depends on the format. Is this a daily league?

Is this a weekly league? Because I totally agree with you, Scott. In a weekly league, you're not doing it. But in a daily league, I'm thinking about my daily head-to-head categories league. And actually, yeah, like using Ryan Yarbrough, if he's going to pitch like this, yesterday five and two-thirds, five hits, three runs, three walks, nine strikeouts. I mean, that's good enough. That's helpful.

Yeah, sure, that is. If he's that. And that's the only pitcher. Like, he talked about picking up multiple race pitchers. Yeah, that's where, I mean. Jerker genius, Chris. Yeah, neither. I say genius.

I'm cool with it. I'm cool with it. Like, is Evaldi going to get this treatment? He didn't in his first outing, right? He actually started that game. Yeah, because, like, Like, the logic makes sense. Just avoid the best hitters in lineup with your bad pitchers.

Yeah, but here's the thing. Like, for years, all the Sabremetrics guys have been screaming, oh, keep your closer versatile. Don't reserve him for this one point in the game. Make sure it's a high-leverage situation. And what you're doing, what the Rays are doing is they're burning one of their high-leverage pitchers in what's, you know, a pretty tame situation. In fairness.

And they're limiting their manager's options later in the game. It's just Sergio Romo. But Robo actually might be their closer now. We shall see. It's that other guy, too. Who started yesterday? Who started for the raves yesterday? That's always going to be a fun game.

Oh, Ryan Stannock. Yeah, that guy. We can play that almost every day. It hasn't gone very well lately, right? They keep giving up two runs in the first inning. Yeah. Okay, well, I think you're a genius, and I hope it continues to work for you. You are bro is probably the only one that would have a chance of really making it work.

So this is fantasy baseball today, and we do have a ton to talk about, and we are welcoming Scott White back. But let's also, oh, why were we talking about Brussels sprouts earlier? Because Chris is going to purchase the Omaha Steaks package, which we talked about on Monday or Tuesday, Tuesday, I guess. This is amazing. This is $49.99 for, like, the most food I've ever seen. Two filets, two sirloins, two porloins. two pork chops, four burgers, four fried steaks, chicken fried steaks, 12 ounces of meatballs, four frankfurters, you got four fries that serve for people, you got dessert, you got seasoning,

and you got an extra four count of Omaha Steak burgers for $49.99. Go to Omaha Steaks.com, and there's no promo code per se. You type an FBT in the search bar. FBT in the search bar at Omaha stakes.com. It's good stuff. Yeah, I'm going to tear into that. I'm looking forward to it. All right, so Alex Reyes is on the D.L.

With a significant lat strain, this will solve the rotation problems temporarily. But is he definitely worth holding on to Alex Reyes? Because he could be out a while. So I was looking back at some other lat strains. Like Carlos Martinez is going to end up missing about three weeks with his latch strain, maybe a little more. But when that injury happened, GM for the Cardinals, whose name

I can't remember, Grish? Moseilac. No, it was another guy. It wasn't Moseilac's president of baseball ops. It was the other guy. I think it's Grish or something like that. When Martinez went on the DL, it was like, well, we think he might miss a starter too. This, he said, you know, it's a significant

injury, and Roy Halliday missed six to eight weeks, I think six weeks exactly with a lat strain a couple of, like 2012. Cindergards last year was a pectoral not, no, his was a lat and he obviously missed three months. Chris, I do apologize. I've prepared a very ambitious show that there's no way I'm going to get to everything. So I will be speeding everybody up today. You can't go through the whole history of lat strains.

Oh, I'm sorry. No, I was interesting stuff. Ordinarily, I'd be quoted it. Okay, the average lat strain has cost a pitcher 100 days. Wow. That was, yeah, St. Louis radio guy retweeted that yesterday. And they say it's a significant one. You know, we got so excited as it built up to his return that you'd certainly like to hold on to him if you have a DL spot.

But, you know, if there's a crunch there, you may not be able to. Sorry, Scott, we have to move on. We do have to move on because that's not even the most significant injury. Clayton Kershaw is going to have an MRI on his back, and he could go back on the D. back on the DL. He thinks that this back injury is more similar to last years than 2016's, which was very severe. Last year, he missed about 40 days with a back injury.

So there's not much you can do about Clayton Kershaw. He ended up as the number four starting pitcher. Last year is only 170 innings. Not sure he's going to get to 170 innings, or it was 175 innings. I'm not sure he's getting there this year. He could be out for a few more weeks. I mean, I hope his back was hurting pretty badly. because he was throwing five miles per hour less on average than last year,

three miles per hour less than before the injury this year. Either way, that's a big drop. And he still pitched pretty well. He did. He did. He did. For Kershaw. Okay.

Shane Bieber was sent to the miners. I really thought the conversation about Bieber was going to be a lot different because he was cruising through four innings. He did not allow a run. It looks like they kind of caught up to his stuff. But, you know, better stuff. than I thought he would.

He did, you know, I was wondering when they were going to start jumping on early pitches. And I think they started doing that in the sixth inning. I know Rosario's home run was on the first pitch. Because he just throws strike after strike after strike. And I know a couple batters before that, Miguel Snowe crushed a pitch on the first pitch of the abat. It did go foul. Anyway, he goes to the minors. Has a decent start.

Eight hits, four runs in five and two thirds with six strikeouts to one walk. He gave up two homers. Bieber's 28 percent owned. Is that porridge too high, too lower just right? I'd hang on just because of how bad Josh Tomlin has been this season. Okay. But not like a must-own guy, right? No, he needed to show better than this.

But, you know, I don't, like, he was very basketball-heavy in this outing, and I think that would change as it gets more chances. Okay. And Kyle Bearclaw is the new closer for the Miami Marlins and Al Melchior. friend of the podcast tweeted. Oh, wait, did he tweet this? Or did he retweet Clark Spencer? Oh.

I think, no, I think Al quote tweeted Clark, because this is such an Al joke. Based on Maddenley's comments from last night, it looks like it's time to pick up a bear claw and maybe grab a latte. That's just, that's Al for you. There you go. Yeah. There you go. And it's about time.

Yeah, right? I think how many times can Ziegler give up three runs in the ninth inning before? before they pull the plug. I will just say I'm not super enthused about the Cowber Claw era. He's a lot less interesting than he looked like he was two years ago.

Yeah, no, that's true. Like the league seems to have caught up. Seems to caught up. He's giving up three hits and 15 appearances. His last 15 appearances three hits. And without that insane strikeout rate, we saw two years ago, it's a good strikeout rate. Like, he could be fine.

But, like, I think a Rodeus Fiskei, he knows a better pitcher, talked several times about how he's not necessarily good enough to close. I would put him in the Rodas Viscayino, Hector Naris kind of conversation of guys that are like, should be good enough to keep their jobs, but probably not like a great pitcher. And I would put him more in the Kelvin Herrera, perhaps Keone Keller conversation, as in guys who are going to get traded. And honestly, I mean, that's not really a.

laughing matter, you're going to start losing closers. We already lost Alex Colombe. You know, I'm sure the Marlins want to flip Bearclaw. I don't know about Kella. That one seems no. No, just because he doesn't have a lot of service time. Right, yeah. But I think Herrera could easily be shipped out.

And we didn't mention that. I meant to mention it yesterday on the buy low, sell high segment. Be aware, closers on bad teams. You knew the risk, you know, you knew what you were getting yourself into. You knew it. But there's always a chance that they get traded to a team like Atlanta or Philadelphia where... Calvian Herrera could still end up the closer. All right.

Let's... Give me your favorite two-star pitcher for next week that's owned in less than 70% of leagues. It's another week where it's like there are some fine options, but the matchups aren't great. My favorite is probably... Probably, hang on, let me pull up the email. I sent last last. I'll say, I'll say Joe Mosgrove. Yeah, that's what it is.

Now that I got the. The matchups are not good. Like versus the Dodgers is not terrible, but then at the Cubs, that's rough. But in that group, he's probably the best option. He did just base the Cubs, so it pitched very well. And there's like it with, and that's barely less than 80% own too. And Fernando Romero falls in that group. He gets the white socks the first time out.

But then I think the Angels, right, the next turn. actually. How about this one? Scott, I know you've been interested in this guy. I mentioned him yesterday as someone who's pitching better than he gets credit for. Sure. Jose Orania kind of has interesting matchups next week. He's at St. Louis and then versus San Diego.

At St. Louis, that's a not great matchup, but it's not a terrible one. And then versus San Diego, obviously one of the best matchups in baseball. Josea Rainia, he is pitching pretty well this year. Right. I was not a Jose Urania fan, but he has a thing. 399 FIP. He has a 389 X-FIP. He has a He has like a 350 DRA

which is baseball baseball prospectus's version. DRA? DRA. Are you kidding? Defensive. Well, you know who pitches something? His pitched well lately is Clayton Richard and he gets Atlanta first turn, okay, at Miami second turn. So like I feel like either one of those

if you have a roster spot to play with you could fit them in but I would prefer, like I usually prefer the two-star pick-up who I have a chance of keeping beyond the week. And I think Nathan Avaldi falls in that category at Washington versus Seattle, only 28% owned, but, you know, six no-hit innings in his first start. And had a good spring before needing that arthroscopic procedure on his elbow and throws 100 miles per hour. And, you know, that's, isn't Nathan Avaldi just the OG Jose Orania?

The OG. O.G. I don't know sure what you mean by that. He was Jose Aurena before Jose Arania. He threw hard, but he was What does that O.G mean? OG stands for

Original gangster. Original gangster. There you go. Thank you for helping me out with that out. You got it, Scott White. All right. We're going to come back to two-star pitchers later, but Joe Musgrove would be our favorite.

We haven't even mentioned Danny Duffy. I will probably be starting him, and I will be going the entire time. So that's, that's, That's my nervous voice. And I'm definitely going to start Fernando Romero, but if he doesn't do well next week, then it might be drop time. Thursday's standouts.

We are going to be finding Nimmo on the waiver wire less and less frequently because he is now 52% owned. He has now scored 22 runs in 26 games as a lead off hitter. He homered. He doubled. He did strikeout twice, but 21 walks to 32 strikeouts this year. I asked Scott off the air. I will ask him on the air now. Scott, who would you rather have Brandon Nimmo or Austin Meadows?

That's a really tough call. I feel like the Mets need Nemmo more than the Pirates need Meadows. But I feel like a dope for being so dismissive of the Meadows when he came up because he is totally lived up to the pedigree as opposed to the minor league production. And the pirates obviously found a way to get him in. They're going with the four-man rotation in the outfield there, obviously. and he seems to be a big part of that.

I guess if everybody's healthy, like between the two outfields, Corey Dickerson is probably the weak link, and so that would favor Meadows. But, like, Nemo's been such a good lead-off hitter for the Mets. I feel like there's always going to be, they're always going to be finding excuses to start him. Right, we can't forget that they do have Cespitus.

Well, look, they say that Cespitus has a somewhat, chronic hip injury. So I don't know what he's coming back. Yeah, they're frustrated with Cespitus. But Nimmo, it's Cespitus, Conforto Bruce. I guess they could try Bruce at first base. Just keep it in mind that neither Nimmo nor Meadows has a 100% clear path to everyday playing time.

But they are both batting either first or second typically in the order. I know Meadows sat yesterday, and they're both playing great. So, yeah, Nimmo's 52% own. Chris, you mentioned Daniel Mengden. and this being the year of the Daniel Mengden-like pitcher yesterday, and he comes out and goes eight innings, gives up three runs against the raise, strikes out five. I went back and looked at the last five starts he made last year,

Daniel Mengden, and this was either, I'm guessing he was called up in September. Maybe he was on the D.L. I think he was just called up because he pitched earlier in the year. But last five starts after coming up in September, he had a 154 ERA, six walks, 26 strikeouts, in 35 innings, and a good amount of, of innings, too, 35 and 5 starts.

So this is continuing for Mengden, who is 78% owned and has a 291 ERA and just a very low strikeout rate. Do you buy it? Yeah, I mean, you know, we talk about strikeout rate a lot, and that is important. It's not something to be dismissive of, but it's important also within the context of strikeout to walk ratio, and that's where he looks like a really good pitcher, 4.5K to walk going back to the start of 2017. 299 ERA, but 359 FIP going back to the start of 2017.

I think Daniel Mengden's going to be useful. He's got a good offense behind him and a very good defense, actually. I think he needs to be owned. Okay, so is he going to... Are you worried about the Trevor Williams scenario where it seemed like Trevor Williams kind of needed to be owned?

And he's been pretty bad his last five starts or so. and this is a guy who has 47 strikeouts in 68 innings, and Mangdon has 48 strikeouts in 74 in a third inning, so similar rate there. The difference is... Trevor Williams doesn't have any standout skills. Trevor Williams is below average in walk rate and strikeout rate and ground ball rate.

Daniel Mangdon gives up a lot of fly balls, yeah, but he is below average and striker rate, but he has an elite walk rate. It's 2.5% right now. So I think there's less, look, there's always a slim margin for error for this kind of pitcher. It's the same thing with Miles Michaelis. But Michaelis has a little bit of a different case just because he does get a lot of ground balls. Yeah. It's a little harder.

But it's the same, because you work so much in the strike zone, you're going to, they're going to be blow. But I just think we've seen from Daniel Mangdon 120 innings going back to last season where he's been good and not in a totally fluky way. Yeah, and I mean, he has a great minor league tracker. I just, I think there's some correction coming here, specifically with home runs and BAPIP, which is not like insanely low, but he gives up a ton of line drives. So I think he may be useful. I still think Trevor Williams is useful, but is he like on the fringes of must own? I don't think he's in order either of them or anywhere close to that. All right.

I think it is worth noting that Mengdon has a very cool mustache. Yes, he does. that's also blurring my opinion. Right. I mean, if that means something to you, if that's important, then go for it. You know, add Daniel Magnet and his super cool mustache. Are these players worth an ad? Harrison Bader is 8% owned. Yes or no, Harrison Bader?

Did we talk about this on the podcast or was it after? Because I definitely said something stupid about the Cardinals outfield yesterday, and I cannot remember if it was recorded or not. Well, you didn't know Tyler O'Neill was being sent out. Right, but, like, I think you asked us Harrison Bader or Tyler O'Neill, and I can't remember if it was on the podcast. I hope it wasn't because I definitely said Harrison Bader if it wasn't. Well, but still, I mean, Ozuna's day-to-day, he's still the fourth outfielder unless they just sit Fowler.

Yeah, he's the fourth outfielder, but he seems to have adapted what they were doing with Tyler O'Neill, which is, you know, what the pirates are doing with Austin Meadows, what the Mets are doing with Brandon Nemo. Bader has more experience in Center. That's, I think, the big difference between him and O'Neill. Is he worth an ad? He's 8% owned, Harrison Bader. He should be more than 8% owned. But of those three less than full-time, but coming with a prospect pedigree, outfielders,

he'd be third on the list. Because I think, I mean, Dexter Fowler, I guess, is worse than even Cory Dickerson. You know, even Cory Dickerson, like, Cory Dickerson's bad. But you know what I'm saying? If all three outfielders are Outfields are completely healthy, Dexter Fowler is the low guy, but he's making

so much money that it would be hard for them to just turn him into a bench player. So I think Barnes has the hardest chance of breaking the lineup on a full-time base. Bader. Sorry. Harrison Barnes. Yeah, that's why I always call

Not the first time I prefer to him is Harrison Barnes. All right, is this guy worth Add, he's 26% own. He's Jordan Liles, and he threw seven innings, two runs, seven strikeouts against the Marlins. Previous two starts were kind of rocky. Home against Atlanta next week. Jordan Lyle is 26% owned. I mean, I wish he didn't do this because now there's this flirtation that's going to begin all over again. I think the fact that only one of his starts, he exceeded 10 swinging strikes, is enough for me to cool it on Jordan Liles, even though he pitched well this time.

It was, you know, obviously the marmots. Yeah. They're just such a good matchup. Is Wade LeBlanc worth an ad? 260 ERA, nine walks, 35 strikeouts at Kansas on the year. No, excuse me, he's at Houston next week. No. Okay, no Wade LeBlanc.

And, you know, Chris is somebody you said you were interested to see a guy pitching on two days' rest through 60 pitches, four scoreless innings against the Cubs. Seth Lugo. not necessarily ticketed for the rotation, but maybe a long-term RP-eligible guy, Seth Lugo? Is he RP eligible? I don't know, actually. I believe he is. This wasn't a terribly impressive start.

I know it is under difficult circumstances. He only threw his curveball nine times, so that's supposed to be the bread and butter pitch. So I'll give him an incompletion. complete for this one. I wouldn't say he's worth adding outside of deeper leagues right now. Okay, yeah, that's Seth Lugo, and again, I mean, they have a full rotation, but if he pitches...

And, you know, I was talking to my Mets fan friend, I said, you think Lugo can make the rotation? He made a good point. He's so valuable for them in middle relief that they might want to keep them there. All right, the big news, part two. Noah Sindergarde expects to miss one to two starts. Reese Hoskins expected to miss several weeks with a broken jaw and the Phillies called up,

I listened to the pronunciation this morning, I already forgot. I think it's cousins. Still in Cousins. Yeah, I'm pretty confident in that. He's a bat you have to worry about. You could call him La Cousins Dangerow. Not sure I get that.

In fact, I'm sure I don't get that. Arrested Development. Oh, the new Arrested Development? No, no. This is OG. I don't remember that. So, Cousins, do we want to, add Dylan Cousins.

He was, he and Reese Hoskins were like the Bash brothers of AA Redding a couple years ago, but Cousins' strikeout rate has really gotten the better of him the last couple years. I think he was hitting like 220 at AAA. Tons of power.

But like if he's not making that kind of, if he's getting buried and batting average at AAA, I don't expect a big performance. 269 strikeouts in 185 games at AAA. Yeah. That's a lot. He's not a pitcher, so.

Okay, so we can ignore cousins. Alex Cora expects Mookie Betts back this weekend. Carlos Martinez is expected to return Tuesday, and Max Scherzor watched the hockey game during his start. He was D-Hing, so in between innings, when they were hitting, he would go into the locker room and watch the Capitals hockey game. That's a dedicated Capitals fan. And Alex Wood, by the way, had his upcoming star pushback one day.

partially because of lingering calf cramps. So I think he is set to go tomorrow. It wasn't a sushi thing? He didn't eat sushi? No, I don't think so. Okay, thank goodness. I wanted to do the May All-Stars. Yeah, let's do it.

Just for the month of May? Yeah. It's the best that each position during the month of May. So I'm going to have you guess. You will guess incorrectly on almost all of them, I'm sure. Come on. Give us some credit. Who was the best cat?

Well, all right, put your money where you mouth. Who was the best catcher in the month of May? Gary Sanchez. I'm going to say, Francis Gosevelli. You're both wrong. It was by a mile. By what, 20, no, by 16 points, which is a lot. Salvador Perez.

He hit eight home runs. Eight home runs. He only batted at 232. Is this kind of eyeballing the numbers and you're picking out who's best? Oh, no, no. Fantasy points. Yeah, it's based on fantasy points. Cool feature if you play on CBSports.com.

You can do a custom report with the date. rate range. You can choose different categories and whatnot. So I just did a custom report for the month of May. Perez is number one. Then Wilson Contreras, John Hicks, Evan Gaddis, Ray Almuto, Gary Sanchez. Got to go a long way to get to our guesses. I know. That's a good start.

Ev Cervelli's like 10th. Yeah. Covelli did miss some time. He had a three-run homer yesterday. All right. So you can give Vanuelsis if you see fit or we can go on to first base. Let's move on. Who's your number one?

first baseman in points leagues. I doubt he was in Roto, but in points, number one, first baseman. Brandon Bell. Good guess, but incorrect. Freddie Freeman. Number two, it is Anthony Rizzo. Really? Really? Yeah, it's a hell of a month.

293, seven home runs, 28 RBIs, which is tops at least at the position. 18 walks of 10 strikeouts. That's why I said yes in points, maybe not in Roto. Yeah. And I had, like, every time I got the question, what's wrong with Anthony Rizzo on Twitter, I didn't like nothing. But I'm surprised I still get that question if he was the best first baseman in May. Freddie Freeman's number two.

Freeman hit five home runs this month. That's pretty good. But for the year, I think he has, what, nine? Like, his ISO is pretty low. His batting average, super high. Is there anything other, you think that'll even out? You know, I think that's, like, I don't. I don't think he's a lock for 30 homers, and I think he's going to hit over 300.

I think it's kind of just who he is. His career high is 34. He was probably going to break that last year, but not by much. No? I hit 28 homers in 117 games. Yeah, he was the pace he was on before the injury, and he said he felt like he was swinging newspaper at the end of the season, so yeah, I guess. I think it's more likely he gets better than worse, but I think this is kind of a variant of who he is.

All right. You better get this right. Top second baseman of May. I better get it right. Yeah, he's out. Oh, Jose Romeroz. Jose Ramirez, 51.5 fantasy points better than number two,

Scooter Jeanette. Wow, what a month for Jose Ramirez. 336 batting average, 11 homers, 25 RBIs, more walks than strikeouts, 12 doubles, five steals, and 26 runs. Have we talked about his last 365 days? Let's talk about that. 322 batting average.

40 home runs. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 61 doubles. 98 RBI, 119 runs, 19 steals, 63 walks, 64 strikeouts. 40 homers and 60 doubles. And four triples.

He has 105 extra base hits over the last 365 days. That's 155 games. That's amazing. He keeps getting better. He shouldn't have been as good as he was two years ago, when he hit 11 home runs, right, with a high batting average? And he just keeps getting better on that. Now he's tied for the Major League leading home run.

There was a really good piece in the athletic yesterday talking about how the Indians, organizationally, their organizational philosophy is not to put ceilings on young players. But having said that, they had no idea he was this good. So if you're drafting today, where are you taking Jose Ramirez? Who's also third base eligible, by the way. He has to be a first round pick at this point.

Yep. And I actually did that exercise last week, what the first two rounds would look like today. He was a first rounder. Where in the first round? I mean, is he ahead of Stanton at this point? Yeah, yeah, he's ahead of Stanton was actually a late second rounder. So he's...

How far from Altuve is he at this point? Like, he's not going to hit for the same batting average. But he's not going to be far. Like, if you talk about, like, just pure batting average talent in as far as we can measure that, he's top three or four in the majors. Yeah, so I'm trying to pull up the art. cool here. Here it is. And it's possible he'd be even higher after, you know, what was an insane weekend.

But when I did this exercise that looks like it was republished without the photos, so that's fun. It was, oh, now we got the autoplay video popping up. CBS Sports, fun site to visit. Okay, so he was ninth. Oh, nice, okay. Nice, yes. He was behind Scherzer. He was ahead of Trey Turner. So with Ramirez, Turner stole two bases yesterday, or with Stanton, I mean, like, if we believe in Giancarlo Stanton, he might have this type of month in June.

You know? I mean, John Carlos Stanton, when he gets hot, get hotter than just about anyone in baseball. I would obviously take Jose Ramirez ahead of him. Just like, why not at this point? But late second round pick for John Carlos Stanton, that's kind of a hot take. I think that's where he's had him before the season. Okay. He was 23rd, John Carlos Stan, just ahead of Joey Vado, and just behind Gary Sanchez.

Guess who the number one third baseman was last week, last month? The number one third baseman last month. Jose Ramirez. I'm going to... Jose Ramirez. All right, who is number two? That makes sense. Mike Mustakis.

No. Okay. No? I'm going to go with... Mani Machado. Good guess, but no. It's Nolan Aronado. And number three was Ehuyaheos.

Badded 296 with eight ding-dongs. Amazing. He came back from a fractured wrist and has missed no time. Who's the number one shortstop in May? 42 points better than number two, Gene Segura. Mani Machado. No. Okay.

Idios. Francisco Lindor. Yeah. Lindor. Lindor, batted 373. With 10 home runs. Only one steal. How many steals does he have on the year?

He had 13 doubles. He's got six steals this year. Man, you don't want to face the Indians right now. Those two guys are just crushing, and so is Encarnazion. Who was the number one outfielder in the month of May? The number one outfielder in May was without question. I mean, it wasn't trout? It was.

Okay. Then it was Betz. Who was number three? Wait, Betts isn't number one? No, because he's missed the last four games or something. Yeah, that's true. That hasn't helped. Number three, hmm.

Was it J.D. Martinez? No, he's five. Okay. George Springer. Michael Brantley. And how about the Red Sox have three outfielers in the top five in May? Ben and Nantini's had an awesome May. He's got nine steals, Benintendi.

So the strength of the Indians is their pitching staff, right? and yet they had the number one second baseman, the number one third base, granted was the same player, the number one shortstop and the number three outfielder. Yes. They're not many games over 500, but they're as much of a World Series contender as the Astros, Yankees, or Red Sox. Well, they had, as of last week,

the worst bullpenny RA in baseball, and Miller's back on the DL. but if they get that fixed, I think they can. They can get that fixed. That's something you can... I pick them to win the World Series. Yeah. Yeah, they've had the best pitcher

and the best hitter in baseball over the last calendar year by a pretty healthy margin. You think has he been better than Trout? I guess he has. Yeah, because Trout missed like four games. That's the only reason. Who has been the number one starting pitcher

in the month of May? It's not Scherzer. Okay. Is it Scherzer's teammate? No. It's not Scherzer. So is it somebody who's won a lot of games? In the month of May, he's 3-0.

Yeah. I am going to say, you said it's not Scherzer's team? Is it Justin Verlander? It's Verlander, right? He's third. It is James Paxton. 670 RA, 51 strikeouts to nine walks and 43. It's not Jeremy Haleckson?

No, but Daniel Mengden is fifth. Check out this group. Paxson, Scherzer, Verlander, Severino, Mengden, Nola, Kluber, Nukum, Sail, Cole, Stripling, Strasberg, Morden. It's like all the best pitchers plus Mangdon, Newcomb,

great star yesterday, two strikeouts, but still a good star yesterday. Stripling, a fun month for those guys. And who's the number one relief pitcher in the month of May? Edwin Diaz? No, no. Is it in the notes?

No, it's not. Okay. It's actually, you'll never get it. It's Blake Trinonon. Okay. Ten, six. his numbers look really good, actually. And it seems to be in a good situation for saves.

Can we talk about nuke him a little? Because I'm a little... Like, obviously, he's having a great year. Yeah, hang on just one second. I just want to mention that. Honorable mention to Fernando Rodney. I do have to eat peeps because I lost the bet. Fernando Rodney's still the closer.

I was going to go get peeps yesterday. You cannot... Oh, you're not going to be able to... We're going to have to do this bet. No, I ordered that about Amazon. They're out of their way. Oh, that's... What's wrong with that?

Scott, as I said on the fantasy football today podcast yesterday, Scott White and four-year-old children are the only people who like peeps. That's not true. The moment when you dunked your, when you were using peeps to sweeten your tea is on, like, that's a super villain origin story. It really is. I felt like the guy from who framed Roger Rabbit to make another. That is, that is something that, like, Mr. Glass from Unbreakable does.

in like a deleted scene. Yeah. But it's a good way to sweeten tea. I'm thinking about buying peeps just for that purpose, because I haven't really liked... I don't like tea, first of all, but sometimes you need that little jolt of caffeine. I'm not a coffee drinkers.

You're a monster. I'm a monster. I want to do it repeatedly. All right, Scott. I'll send you the ones that I don't eat. Yeah, let's talk about Sean Newcomb here. Let's get back to Thursday's action. Newcomb had a rough first inning, turned it around.

I think he gets seven innings, two runs, two strikeouts, but 12 swinging strikes, and he still has more than a strikeout per inning. Go for it. I'm a little worried about recent trends with Sean Newcomb. That's what I was going to say. Early in the season. That's Chris saying this now, by the way. Chris, you totally stole Scott's spot.

Yeah, Scott was like, let me talk about Sean Newcomb. I was like, Scott, tell me about Sean Newcomb. And then you got Chris. You got towers. I'm just going to walk out of the room. You guys are both worried about Nukk, I didn't expect that. Last four starts, 22 innings, only 16 strikeouts versus 12 walks. That is bad.

If he started that season that way, despite having a 245 ERA during that stretch, we would say there is a major regression coming for Sean Nukum and buyer beware and all of that stuff. And I'm not really sure that we shouldn't feel that way now. Now, one thing I did notice is he had gotten away at the start of the story. stretch from throwing his curveball, which was his best pitch in the minors. It was why he often earned comparisons to John Lester. And for some reason, he was just going fastball change up, I guess, because it was working

for him. But he actually did start throwing the curveball again in this most recent start. It didn't help in the result, obviously. But I see it as an encouraging sign. Obviously, I'm not really doing anything with Newcomb based on this news now, but it's something to monitor, like, I'm monitoring his. curveball usage and I'm monitoring what happens with the walks and strikeouts going forward because if that doesn't improve, then he's going to get worse.

Okay. Let's look at some guys who are hitting well and hitting poorly right now. Tell me if you think they are back to normal or if it's just a little streak. Paul Goldschmidt, seven for 24 with two home runs, two walks, seven strikeouts, a double and a triple in his last six games. Paul Goldschmidt. I think it's the start of the turnaround. I do.

Okay. I would like to see that walk-strikeout ratio be better. Two-walk-seven strikeouts. But, I mean, it's only a matter of time, right? Edwin and Carnacione, he's batting 4-14 with three home runs, two walks, six strikeouts, three doubles in his last seven games. So similarly to Goldschmidt, coming out of it a little bit, even better than Goldschmidt, but still a lot of strikeouts. Is this the start of something? Is this the start of the, you know, back-to-normal for Edwin-Encarnacion?

Yeah, I think with Edward and Carnacian, it's just, it's a great. confirmation that he's not washed up. Which is all you wanted to see. Sorry, Chris. Miguel Seno, he's seven for 25 in his last five games. No walks, nine strikeouts. Two home runs, two doubles. Hitting a little bit better than broadcasters yesterday said.

They're seeing some signs that he's starting to hit the ball better. But Miguel Sineau, what do you think? I don't, well, let me phrase this carefully. I don't feel like our expected positive outcome for Miguel Sano is anywhere close to those other two. So with that context in mind, I think this is a good sign. I think we're seeing that this isn't going to be a lost season for him. He's going to hit for power and be useful. Yeah, I hate the plate discipline, though.

Yeah, but that's always a problem. But usually he gets you a lot of walks. I mean, the strikeout is always a problem. He does normally walk a lot, but it's a small sample, and it's hard to criticize the walk rate over that sample too much. I just think he's probably a poor man's Joey Gallo. That's fine. Nelson Cruz.

Nelson Cruz is... Yeah, he's back. No concerns. Okay. Lowest walk rates since 2006. That's fine. Lowest K rates since 2010. That seems good.

That's good. All right, is this... Do you know what I was just referencing there? No. Scott, do you? A very goofy movie? Say it again? That's good.

Oh, wait. That's good. That's bad. It's a famous Simpsons scene where he buys the Krusty doll. That's amazing. I don't remember that Simpson's scene. All right, fine. I'm going to tell you a quick story, Scott.

I don't think I said this on the air. If I did, I'm sorry for repeating it. I'm walking in New York City two or three weeks ago. I see a guy, and you're probably not even going to get this because, you know, your Simpsons knowledge is just not measuring up. I see a guy with a Kirk Van Houghton T-shirt, Millhouse's dad. He has headphones on. I wait for him to cross the street.

I approach him. I say, excuse me, excuse me, he takes off his headphones. I go, can I borrow a feeling? Yeah. You don't get it? Can I borrow a feeling? Yeah, no, I get it. And he was like, he was very.

Can you lend me your jar of love? Thank you. Yeah, that's my impression of him saying. That was good. I thought it was a very funny story. He didn't get it? He did. He loved it.

Made his day. Yes. All right. That story is as troubling as Scott putting peeps in his teeth. You walked up to a person. with headphones on and ask them to, you put headphones on for the express purpose of not having Yahoo walk up to you on the street. You put a Kirk Van Houghton T-shirt on for the express purpose of having Sixthens fans.

You want people to comment on your show. You don't want people to be inside the joke. You do not talk to people who have headphones on. Touch my hand with your glove of love. That is my nightmare. All right, is this just a slump or is it something more? Mitch Hanager entering yesterday's game when he went 0 for 4 with a strikeout was batting 2.42 with one stinking home run and a 683 OPS in May.

It's even lower than that now. Just a slump or something much worse for Mitch Hanigar. What was his injury? I'm just wondering if maybe there's some... Because he was on the DL, right? No. Was he? I thought he missed some time.

He was having a wrist. He did miss some time with a bruised. wrist. That's my concern when you mean obviously we've talked about Ayahuas it hasn't impacted him but wrist injuries can linger longer than the actual injury. But that was only for the final week of May. It's I mean it doesn't you know it doesn't totally wash out your point but at the same time like that doesn't explain the whole month. I mean he still has a 303 bat tip on the year so um part of this was just, you know, he was performing over his head before.

Yeah, his overall numbers looked like last years. But, like, he's still, his hard contact percentage for this year is still high. The fly ball rate is still in the area you want to see for a power hitter. Like, I think he's still good in, like, a top 20 outfielder. Mitch Hanigar. All right, how about Oduble Herrera? Oduble Herrera went 0 for 4 with a strikeout yesterday. He's now outside the top 20.

He's still a top 24 outfielder. Before yesterday, he had a 224. batting average, a 602 OPS in his last 15 games. And look, he doesn't have great play discipline. This is kind of always what I have been saying. Odubo Herrera got on base every single game, and you would have thought he'd be like a top eight outfielder at that point. He wasn't.

He was like 13th or something. So I just, I'm just never been a big Odubo Herrera guy, and I felt really stupid. Now I feel less stupid. But still a little stupid. Like, here's the thing. ISO last year 171, this year 172, Babbit last year 345, this year 357. He's basically the same guy he was last year,

but with a much higher walk rate and a much lower strikeout rate, and I think that's sustainable. So, like, I feel like the full, like, yeah, obviously he got hot there for a while and he's not hot now, but I feel like the full season numbers look basically legit. Okay, well, full season numbers, he's top 24 outfielder, Is that what you think of Oduble Herrera?

If he's not in my top 24, he's not far outside it. Okay. All right, then. Let's go to Jed Lowry. Jed Lowry has a 721 OPS in May. 255 batting average. Yeah, crummy month. Is it just a slump?

No, I think that was a return to Earth for Jed Lowry, who even as that hot streak was going on, you looked at the batted ball profile and his history. you knew it couldn't last. And it hasn't. And you can, like, I don't know, I don't know how dropable he is, maybe in like the standard head-to-head lineup, but not in leagues with middle infield spots.

How about Yoam Mokata, Chris? He has, he's had a terrible month. Munkata is really slow. He was actually hurt. He was. He was. He was on the DL, right? Yes, he was.

Yes, he was. And he was playing pretty well before that. Yeah, I mean, I just think he's probably not going to hit for a high average, and you're just going to have to live with that. But like we've said with the number of these guys, his overall numbers or the season, he's on about a 20 homer, 15 pace, 15 steel pace, a little more.

240, that's probably about what he's going to hit. Like, everything overall looks like what I expect it to look like, and I think it probably makes him a little Rugnett-Odory, but useful. I don't want him hit 240. That stinks. And is this just a slump or something more for Justin Upton? He's been really streaky. First 29 games he batted 228 with four home runs.

Next 13 games he batted 340 with seven home runs. The next 12 games, Upton batted 150 with one extra base hit. So honestly, you look at his entire season, he has had one good 13-game stretch. It's basically what it comes down to. And he's 26th and points, 21st in Roto, at outfield, Justin Upton. So I don't know if you get did you guys watch the basketball game last night?

J.R. Smith. Right. So LeBron was asked about J.R. Smith and there was very much a like, there was a point where LeBron says like, well, I just need to do a better job of telling J.R. Smith what the game situation is. And you can tell like it's like, this is what you have to live with when J.R. Smith is on your team and you're LeBron James. This is what you have to live with with Justin Upton. Like, what are you going to go outside on a sunny day and. complain that it's too bright. Like, you knew what you were getting into with Justin Upton. He's streaky. He's not going to be consistent. He never has been. He never will be. But there's nothing actionable about Justin Upton not playing well for a little while. All right. And I wanted to... Scott, can you, like, really, really quickly tell us who the next couple prospects are coming up might be? Eloy Jimenez, is he a thing right now?

He was... Obviously, I was out all week, so I didn't do the prospects report. But And the last one I did, yes, he joined my top five prospects to stash. I think he will be up this summer. He is one of the best bats in the minors, and that was known even before coming, even before the start of this season. So he's somebody who's interesting to stash. Willie Adama's would still be on that list after getting his feet wet for the race. Obviously, Vladimir Guerrero would probably be at the very top of the list.

Okay. Let's do some buy-ers-sell from the listeners that I didn't get to yesterday. Buy-o-sell from Caleb. Austin Meadows stays up all season and gets regular at bats. Bye. I would say, I would classify them as semi-regular bats. But yes, at this point I'm buying, he's up rest of season. Shane Gully, buy-ers-sell.

Josh Donaldson is Waver-wire fodder and finishes outside the top 15th. Come on. Sell. Okay. Buy low on Josh Donaldson. From Chris, Ross Stripling is this year's Alex Wood As a starting pitcher with relief pitcher eligibility He won't be as good, but buy

Well, then sell You can't be like, it's not true, but I buy He will be a very good spark Buy, he will be exactly as good as Alex Wood was last year, sell All right, fine From Keith, Trey Turner, bats first or second In the National's Order when Eaton and Murphy come back Bye

Yeah, okay, I'll buy it. Sure. From Alexander Eli, Paul Goldschman hits 25 home runs, buy or sell. Bye. Oh, boy. By or sell, I am going to be able to hold this sneeze in. Sell. Bye.

Yeah, I'm buying it. I did it. I got it. From Gabe, buy or sell. Gene Seguro finishes as a top five shortstop. Bye. Sell. Sell.

Sell it. Yeah. That's going to be tough to do because you guys. That's true. the position is ridiculous right now. You got Machado, Lendor, Correa, Turner. He's number three right now. And who am I missing?

Obviously, Seeger's out. Bogart's is there. Yeah, that... And I would put D.D. Gregorius still in that conversation. Javier Baez. I mean, there's a chance he's in the top five, but I would set the odds against it. All right.

From Joe, by herself. Madison Bumgarner is top 20, starting pitcher rest of season. Bye. He comes back Tuesday? Yeah. Bye. Yeah.

I mean, why not top 10? I'd probably put him outside the top 10, but top 20 for sure. Yeah, I mean, I could probably buy top 10. From Mike. Buy or sell the field beats Max Scherzer for N.L. Syong voting for N.L. Syong. He's going to trip? Sell, sell, sell.

That'll be his fourth Scyon. Like bad sod? That seems about the only thing that's going to stop him. Yeah. All right, news and notes. St. Louis sent Tyler O'Neill to AAA. Byron Bucston will be re-evaluated in five days. D. Gordon's back. Beltre's back. Chris Davis is back.

Miguel Cabrera could be back today. Joey Lucasey's nearing a rehab assignment. Dustin Bidroyo sat with knee sore and his hobbyar bias walk for the first time in 183 played appearances. And Jung Ho Gong will begin playing minor league games today. I did really want to hear from the people. Also, I don't think we're going to get to this, so I just want to say two things. One, even with this bad stuff. I think Andrew Hini is underowned at 71%.

He's got the Royals next week. I agree with that. But I have had this week in our Roto League where Fernando Romero was awful at the Royals. And Andrew Hini was awful at the Tigers. And those looked like layups to me. And was there one more? No.

Hey, I'm not in last place in that league anymore. That's pretty much it. And I'm just getting really frustrated with these pitchers who I buy into, and then they just suck. And I don't know what to say about this. It's almost, when there's a guy like Fernando Romero who comes up and does really well for like four starts or whatever, or take a guy like Ross Stripling, I will do everything in my power to try to sell them for a more established pitcher. But, like, but Adam, you know, one bad start. I know.

You're not expecting it. It doesn't mean the guy's bad. No, I know. It's just kind of the way baseball is. I feel, I feel, yeah. I'm not really articulating this well. But I still feel like pitching has been surprisingly abundant this year. Like, there have been a lot of guys to pick up.

The rookies have been great. You know, Tyler Skaggs is also on this team. I'm looking at it. There's been a lot of, like, good options. It still are not that many pitchers that I trust. all the time every time out. Yeah. Whatever you can do to get as many of those guys as possible, do it.

Yeah. No, that's okay. No, I actually wrote something along those same lines last year, and I still believe it. But there are, how many pitchers fit that category, maybe a couple dozen? Right, right. That everybody, yeah, if you can get your hands on one, it's probably the best asset and fantasy. And a bunch of those guys have been not reliable so far.

And the other thing I want to say is in this Roto League, like, I went to pick someone up last night. He's already owned by Scott. I wish I had him, Sir Anthony Dominguez. Sir Anthony Dominguez is not giving up a run. Has he given up – he's given up, like, what, one hit this year? Two hits. Two hits.

He's given up two-based runners total. In 13 and two-thirds innings. He's a 0.15 whip and has not given up an earn run. Unbelievable. And he got to say a two-inning save yesterday. Yeah, after Hector Neris had been pretty shaky, his previous three outings. I mean, if there's any team I feel like wouldn't settle on a closer all season,

it's the Phillies, the way Gabe Capler's done things there. But, like, I think he believes Sir Anthony Dominguez at this point is their best reliever, and I think he'll see more save opportunities like this. Two notes. One, the Phillies have not used a pinch runner at all this season. Wow. Which is amazing. Yeah.

And while we're talking about bullpens in the state of Pennsylvania, we have to talk about Felipe Vasquez, right? Yes, he pitched three days in a row after coming back from an arm injury. And you give him a little benefit of the doubt there, but that is four blown saves now. I think that's four out of his last five save opportunities have been blown saves. Now he hasn't allowed a run into them. I think he came on with runners on.

but he has allowed 12 hits in his last six appearances, including seven runs. He has two walks. But those seven runs, isn't that two appearances? Yes, but he's also allowed inherited runners to score in two of those. Okay, so are you picking up with Crick? Is that who you picked up? I picked up Kyle Crick in the For the People League.

I think he's been used as the eighth inning guy there. I think he's a former top pitching process. And he's pitched really well this season. Like part of it is it isn't totally clear who would replace Vasquez. If something were to happen. Edgar Santana, I've seen people pick up him. I actually think Richard Rodriguez is the Pirates best reliever, including Vasquez at his best.

But he hasn't been consistently used in that setup role. So who knows? I mean, I guess Crick is probably the odds on favorite, but it's not like a clear guy in waiting. It's been Michael Fulies and Kyle Crick in the eighth inning for the most part. Edgar Santana has been their best pitcher reliever this year. Richard Rodriguez, I would say. Oh, okay.

Well, Edgar Santana has been a second thing for Richard Rodriguez. All right. All right, enough. Enough out of you guys. Kyle Crick. Two-star pitchers. We're going to go along today and read the emails because I just feel like I've been neglecting the emailers. Are you going to start or sit Zach Godley next week at San Francisco and at Colorado?

Probably sit him. Maybe not in a points league, but certainly in a categories league. How about Luis Castillo, Colorado, and St. Louis at home? I'm starting him. Yep. Julio Taran at San Diego at the Dodgers. Points League only. Yeah.

Sean Maniah at Texas, home against Kansas City. I'll start him. Yeah, I'm fine with that. All right. So I'm going to go with Fernando Romero, White Sox and Angels at home. Yeah. What about Odarezi after a terrible start yesterday, White Sox? at Angels at home.

I don't think so. In points, fine, but this was coming. Kyle Freeland at Cincinnati, home against the Diamondbacks. I'm not excited about it. It's definitely not something I'm necessarily looking to do. But among those owned in less than 80% of the leagues, he's probably one of the more usable option. We like Duffy.

We like Musgrove for sure. Danny Duffy at the Angels at Oakland I would rather not I'd rather not too but again among those less than 80% owned he's one of the more usable options Rinaldo Lopez at Minnesota and at Boston no no way

no all right we talked about these other guys so there's Clayton Richard Zach Eflin we didn't talk about Jose Arania Marco Estrada Nathan or Nate Evaldi and there that's the only way you're not going to touch anyone else Brad Keller at the Angels and at Oakland

Probably not But like we talked about I think yesterday He's worth watching So between Richard Eflin, Arania and Avaldi Who would you go with?

I would go with Arania I'd go with Avaldi All right Let's read emails People I appreciate all the emails I gotta do a better job responding to them

And trying to read them on the air I wish we could do A two hour show You probably don't but I wish we could. Andrew says, Dear Brandon, Zoe, Coos, and Julius?

Yes, Coos. Cus? Cus. You guys have no idea, right? That is the Lakers Young Corps. Oh. Ingram Ball, Coosma, Randall. I don't think I know Cusma.

Kyle Cusma? Kyle Cusma. Do he come over from the Cavs? I remember Kevin Cusmanoff. Was he part of the trade, or did they draft him? I believe they drafted him as a result of a trade.

All right. Then I'm right. Should I be targeting Cody Bellinger as a by-low? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah, as best is yet to come. Josh from California. By or sell, Jose Abraeu will finish as a top three first basement.

So. I sell. I mean, it won't be far outside. Yeah, it's kind of interesting, though. Like, the elite first basement, summer struggling. Abraio is number three right now in points. Probably up there in Roto, too. Okay.

This is from Chad. Dear George Kramer, Newman, and Elaine. Who? Yes. What happened to Jerry? Yeah, right. Oh, my God. Did you guys see Jerry Seinfeld and Dave Letterman talking about Joey Votto?

No. On Dave Letterman's show yesterday, look it up. It's awesome. And then Joey Vado had some great quotes about it yesterday. Okay. Check it out. It's really cool. Who do you like better?

Gattis or Contreras? Contreras. Yep. Would you drop Gattis or NCR? to make room for Adam Eaton. If you already had Contreras, I would drop Gattis. Okay, yeah, it is a Categories League. From Chris, who's the pitcher to own between Mangdon, Caleb Smith, or Joe Musgrove in a points league?

How are your relievers? I don't know. His name's Chris. You should answer that. Two of them are Sparves, Smith and Musgrove. Yeah, so that would be... I mean, either way, for me, it's Smith. Like, he's the most...

He's the pitcher with the highest ceiling of these things. three, I feel like. Mosker has been really interesting. He's throwing like three miles per hour harder, Scott? Yeah, but he's not missing bats as a result. You're not missing bats. I really question that three miles per hour harder thing. At the very least, I question how much he's throwing it.

Because I feel like he's usually throwing his two seamer, and he's usually thrown like 92, 93 throughout the game. All I can say is whether the various pitching trackers agree with each other, they agree with themselves. He is throwing harder. Yeah, all right. From Eric, dear Schmidt, Nick, and Winston. I finished season five yesterday of New Girl.

Good stuff. Someone in my league dropped U. Darvish. How much of my $78 at a hundred originally am I spending to get you Darvish? 28. That's it? 40. 40. Okay.

48. Yeah, I'd go up to 48. I mean, it kind of depends. if it's daily or weekly fab, if it's daily fab, there's no reason you have to save those dollars. Nobody's that on top of the waiver wire every day. Here's Walker from Edmonton. I need some advice on pitcher ads.

Five by five categories. Who should I pick up? Duffy, Marco Gonzalez, Matt Boyd, Evaldi, or Musgrove. Duffy, Marco Gonzalez, Boyd, Evaldi, Musgrove. Gonzalez, unless you have a relief pitcher spot, in which case it would be Musgrove. All right. Ryan is browsing around fan graphs and notice that Andrew Suarez has a 349 Sierra.

He's got a very high home run to fly ball rate despite pitching in AT&T. And a good walk-to-strikeout ratio. Is there anything here? Remember, we got a similar question about Marco Gonzalez a couple weeks ago. Is there anything here with Andrew Suarez and his 349 Sierra? What kind of league do you play in that you have to dig as deep as Andrew Suarez? like even if there were good signs he's not a high demand player anywhere close to it

like I mean I guess if it's in an L only if it's a league with 20 teams or more and you're just if you have to dig that deep for upside there's some upside there but I don't think it's particularly relevant information for most players right now

last one is from Will buy or sell Aaron Nola and Blake's Snell both finish with 190 to 200 innings and top five in their respective Salyong voting. I will sell. It would be very hard to accurately predict within a 10-inning mark how many will they finish. I don't see Snell throwing 190 innings. I don't see any reason why he would be held back.

I don't see any reason why either one of them would be held back at this point in their careers. Yeah, Snell through. Just the fact so few pitchers did last year, I guess. Well, Snell threw 173 innings last year. There's no reason he physically can't do it. He threw 150 something the year before. All it would take is one DL stint, I guess, to throw him off.

And that's, yeah, that's the issue with Nola in particular. He does have a history of that. Snell, I don't think he's really gotten hurt the last three or four years. It's feasible. I'm going to sell it just because it's, you know, it's tough to thread that needle. Snell is on pace for 211 innings, so maybe I should shut up and revile. Yeah, they said. that before the season. They said him and Archer are the only ones that they're just going to,

they're going to let them pitch as much as they can. And I have let you speak as much as you can. And I've enjoyed it thoroughly. It's good to have Scott White back. And we will talk to you all on Monday. Have yourselves a merry little weekend. And that's it. Still don't know how to outro. Eight years on the job. See ya.