Fantasy Baseball Today - 06/07: Keuchel, Bauer, Kepler, Most Added and More (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 7, 2019

Busy day in MLB as Dallas Keuchel joins ATL, Peter Lambert (4:00) dazzles in his debut and Trevor Bauer struggles again (5:34). Where are we on Bauer now? Is he the same guy he was before breaking out...? Also we look ahead to next week with our favorite two-start pitchers (12:54), plus weekend streamers (19:30) to help you win this weekend ... News and notes (22:30) including some bullpen items and Mookie Betts' ownership of Danny Duffy. Then we discuss Max Kepler (25:45), Robinson Chirinos and the rest of Thursday's standouts before getting into struggling SPs (30:00) Patrick Corbin, Caleb Smith and Mike Foltynewicz ... Most Added list (36:50), Buy or Sell (42:00) for Michael Brantley, Joey Votto, Trey Mancini and more, recapping more of Thursday's games (48:00) and a thorough look at two-start pitchers (53:40) ... Your emails at fantasybaseball@cbsi.com To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:02 Domingo Santana. Happy Friday, everybody. Happy Kokomo Friday. Welcome to Fantasy Baseball today. Pretty excited for today's show. Try to read your emails later at Fantasy Baseball at Cbsi.com. We've got Delano to Shields email. You know I was talking about Delano to Shields.
Starting point is 00:00:44 But Dallas Keikl was in Atlanta. How you feeling, Scott? Why aren't you wearing your Brave shirt? They just got Dallas Keikle. Got a former Cy Young Award winner for nothing. Yeah, they did. Last time they signed a former Cy Young winner, It was R.A. Dickey. And Bartolo Colone also the same offseason. That went swimmingly.
Starting point is 00:01:02 But yeah, no, this is exciting. This is exciting. Sure, this is probably, uh, probably their second best pitcher, third best, depending on how you feel about Fultenevich. Who's out? Who's out of the rotation? Probably, I mean, they don't have to decide today. That's true. Assuming Keiko passes his physical, he'll go to triple-eguenette to start Saturday. And I assume they'll assess his readiness from there. But I'm expecting. expecting it'll be it'll be a few weeks until we actually see him. Yeah, I was trying to rank
Starting point is 00:01:33 the Braves pitchers now. I move Kikele up, I think, to number 60 in my starting pitcher rankings. I would definitely have Seroca and still Max Fried ahead of him. I think he'd be third for me, then Fulte, then Taron,
Starting point is 00:01:49 then Gossman. Okay. Gossman's probably going to be the one out unless he turns things around. And judging by, peripherals he could you know it could suddenly click for him and he has a couple great starts and then then I guess maybe they have a dilemma on their hands but but Kiko will definitely not be the odd man out
Starting point is 00:02:06 once he's ready to go he'll be ready to go and uh you know he said he moved him up to 60 if now that's about where I moved him to when he's back though I'm not sure he's going to be much higher than 50 for me just because there are you know there are there are enough there are enough more exciting option. Like, Kikel is not an exciting option anymore. He's a stable option, but he's not an exciting one. 50 would still mean must own, obviously, but it wouldn't he's not going to be
Starting point is 00:02:35 probably not going to be your ace in the hole. I think Marcus Strowman's right between 40 and 50, and that's kind of what I would expect from Kikl if he's good. I think the expectation should probably be for a pitcher that hasn't thrown yet this year, that he's going to be bad when he starts.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Well, he needs to be better than he was last year. I think the Stroman comparison is pretty good because last year it was high 3 ZRA, low strikeout rate, and unfortunately a high whip, 131 whip. Yeah. I do think the upside is higher than Stroman, but it's most likely expectations are probably something similar, yeah. Yeah, Heath, I was going to welcome you to the show by saying something about the Royals. I couldn't think of anything, so I just did a news search for Royals. Look at these horrible words.
Starting point is 00:03:22 Stranded runners and doomed seventh cost royals. Royals Skid hits six games. Royals blanked at home by Reds. It's very, it's very gloomy stuff. This season is going exactly the way every Royals fan should want it to. They found a couple of future stars, and they're losing all the games so they get a number one pick, and they got Bobby Witt. I can't imagine things going any better. Look at the way he spun that out of him.
Starting point is 00:03:49 You can't troll the master troll. You tried. No, I wasn't. Maybe I was a little. Okay, so we're going to do two-star pitchers, weekend streamers. I have to apologize, sincere apology for something that I did, just an awful thing I did on the show yesterday. But first, who would you rather have?
Starting point is 00:04:06 Dallas Keikle, who's 86% owned, or Colorado starting pitcher Peter Lambert, who's 12% owned? I'm not feeling Peter Lambert, so definitely go Keikle there. Although Peter Lambert is a two-star pitcher this week, or at least line next week is lined up to be anyway. Yeah, he was very good in his first start, but looking at those minor league numbers and ratios, no, thank you. Yeah, it's crazy. Not a good strikeout pitcher down there.
Starting point is 00:04:34 ERA over five at AAA. He is genuinely, it was their number three prospect, according to baseball America coming into the year, but you read the actual scouting report, and it sounds a lot like Kyle Freeland, where Peter Lambert is, you know, like four pitches and he knows how to use him. but his upsides like a three or four starter. And so it's like, well, why is their number three prospect? I don't get it. But, yeah, one thing that did stand out to me in this start, other than the fact, you know, the numbers were good,
Starting point is 00:05:05 average exit velocity on bat at balls 94.5 miles per hour, which would be if it was the season mark of the third highest among all pitchers. So they were making some pretty good contact off of them. Interesting. All right. So Lambert went seven innings. He did strike out nine Cubs, four hits, one run, one walk. Very surprising, and he does have two starts next week,
Starting point is 00:05:25 but they're both going to be at Corres Field against the Cubs and the Padres who have, apparently their lead-off hitter back. Fernando Tatis led off yesterday. Who would you rather have? Trevor Bauer or Kahlia? Bauer or Hendricks? I'll still take Trevor Bauer, for sure.
Starting point is 00:05:43 Yeah. Yeah. A lot of interesting quotes after last night's game, but I'll read them in a second. Go ahead and talk about Trevor Bauer, who gave up five runs. He basically, he just pitched against Max Kepler. Everybody else he did well against, but Kepler homered off him three times and drove him.
Starting point is 00:05:58 He's Trevor Bauer again. He's no longer Cy Bauer. He's Trevor Bauer again. No, I don't know. It's a bad narrative. Yeah, because I think it underestimates just how bad Trevor Bauer used to be, because this would still be his second best ERA ever. But this is by far all of his worst peripherals.
Starting point is 00:06:19 No, look at his, I mean, look at his whip. his whip is only 1.1.6. That's a good. He actually has a good whip. Fip and Sierra are all much worse than they were when he was allegedly about to. The walk rate is on the high side and the home runs have been on the high side. I think both of those are correctable. The point is the stuff is there.
Starting point is 00:06:40 The swinging strike rate, which spiked last year, is still the same as last year. And, you know, he did, one of the comments he did mention Adam, I'll go ahead and put this out there, is that he's banged up. Yes. And he's tried to pitch through it. So I don't know what to make of that. I know what to make of that. The numbers haven't worked recently.
Starting point is 00:06:57 Frankona. What the hell is the matter with Terry Francona? Like, he pitches. Trevor Bauer is averaging like 113 pitches per game. And yesterday, and there are so many games where you could easily just take him out after like five innings where he's struggling, including yesterday. And he got hit by a comebacker on the foot yesterday. And Terry Francona.
Starting point is 00:07:18 This was just such a perfect time to use the fooled you sound drop. for Trevor Bauer. He fooled you last year. You thought he was a legitimate ace. Okay, so listen. He's not that bad. Wait. He hasn't even been that bad.
Starting point is 00:07:30 I mean, sub 4ERA. Low whip. You know, the whip, it's weird that he has a low whip, considering his walk rate is way up, and he's giving up a lot of... Well, it probably helps that he has a 239 babbip against. That's the only reason he has a sub-4ERA. He's been very lucky.
Starting point is 00:07:45 Well, what was his babbip against last year? I imagine it was also very... $2.97, 60 points higher. I don't think he's pitched that well. I mean, let's be, because he's also giving up a lot of unerun runs too, and that doesn't show up in the ERA, but he's, I mean, he's struggling. He hasn't been great recently, but his season-long numbers are actually, like he's on pace for more than 220 innings on pace for more than 260 strikeouts.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Yeah, he's thrown on a little bit of Chris Archer. What your definition of good is, but those those are numbers. that would never be leaving my lineup. Yeah, I don't think he would probably be on pace for 220 innings if hitters had a normal babbip against him. Well, okay, but Heath, to call you out here, if you're calling on Trevor Bauer, then how are you not taking Kyle Hendrix ahead of him?
Starting point is 00:08:41 Like, obviously, you don't believe that this is the Trevor Bauer of the past because the Trevor Bauer of the past is not a rosterable player. I don't know that he wasn't a roosterable player. rosterable player. Well, he ain't Kyle Hendricks. Kyle Hendricks was a fringy player last year. If you think Trevor
Starting point is 00:08:58 Bauer is the old Trevor Bauer, then you need to plummet him in your rankings. I have dropped him in my rankings. Keep going. Because you don't, see, that's the thing. I know you don't believe that he's the old. I'm struggling. Like somebody tweeted at me earlier this week
Starting point is 00:09:13 and said they traded Bauer for Beaver, and they got crushed in the comment. obviously because Bauer was much more highly rated. I am now struggling with Bauer versus Biber in my rank. That's a reasonable struggle. I don't think Bauer versus Hendry.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Well, Bauer versus Beper, yeah. I mean, I think if Bauer just maintains the pace he's on, that's a little worse than Bieber. But I do think Bauer has a better chance of, you know, just
Starting point is 00:09:46 and the guy he pitched against last night. Bauer versus Bres. I mean, Look what happened with Chris Sale. When he started expressing the most frustration vocally, like how quickly he turned it around after that and just started, like, rang up, had a streak of like a dozen starts every time out. Like, I could see Bauer doing that. We do have a decade of Chris Sail being an ace, though,
Starting point is 00:10:09 and three quarters of one year of Trevor Bauer being an ace. But like I said, a lot of the underlying numbers for Bauer, mainly the dominant numbers still look really. really good. We have a year and a half of Trevor Bauer being an ace, a year and a half when he changed his arsenal and became an ace. Look, I just got to say, like, I own Trevor Bauer in a couple of leagues, and it hasn't been, it's been bad. You have been really angry, disappointed at what he's been giving you lately, even though the innings and the strikeouts are there. And I honestly wish the innings weren't there, because I am worried that Terry Francona is going
Starting point is 00:10:47 to ruin him. So here are some of the things that Trevor Bauer said. I executed really well all night. It just seems like anything that can go wrong will go wrong for me right now. I get gun-shy every time a ball goes in the air because it seems like everything gets hit in the air is a homer. That's one thing. Second quote, I feel like I need to strike more people out, but I can't get swing and miss when I throw pitches in locations that should create swing and miss. It's been frustrating for sure.
Starting point is 00:11:10 Third quote, right now I'm just trying to feel good for my next start physically. My body is pretty banged up. That's really where my focus has been to get ready physically. I've executed really well my last three starts and I've lost three of them. All right, so I guess it seems to me like you guys are in the Bieber range with Trevor Bauer, which is still a top 20 pitcher,
Starting point is 00:11:29 but not top 10 right now. I've dropped into 19th. Okay. All right. I still think that, you know, if you don't really love your team and you want to take a swing for the fences, I'm not sure anybody would be surprised if Bauer is a top five pitcher going forward.
Starting point is 00:11:49 I don't think it's the most likely outcome, but the skills are still there. It's not like he's not throwing hard or something like that. It's not getting the whiffs, as Scott mentioned. Sure. There's some encouraging. I don't mind buying low on him. All right.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Time for me to apologize. So, so sorry. Scott, you know what this is, right? Yeah. I cut Scott off. I know, I cut off the butchery impression yesterday. I, you know, I felt it was going a little log. I was wrong.
Starting point is 00:12:17 But it was none too kind. By the way, it wasn't even that long. I looked at the counter afterward. I went back and watched it. How long was it? It's not like I went on for five minutes. It had to be close to two minutes. I thought it was getting a little long.
Starting point is 00:12:35 Well, I apologize to all the people who told me. As much nerve as it takes me to do that, Adam, because I'm terrified every time I do it. Really? You're very good. You cut me off like that. I never want to do that. I'm so sorry.
Starting point is 00:12:46 You've lost it. It's gone. I once do a bad name, K. First name Lorenzo, only spelled differently. That's the one. That's differently is good. All right. So that's my apology.
Starting point is 00:12:57 Who are a couple of your favorite two-star pitchers for next week that are owned in 70% of leagues or less? I like a couple of kids. The best one we mentioned yesterday, Spencer Turnbull. The matchups are great. I think it's Cleveland and Toronto. That's pretty obvious one. But then beyond that, the kids, the kids,
Starting point is 00:13:16 they're both owned in less than 25% of the league. and I'm talking about John DuPlanteré and call a Cal Quantrell, who I don't think shows up on the CBS list. I don't think they're ready to commit the fact that he has another turn, but he most definitely has one, and I think he'll have two. The second of them is at Colorado, but the first of them is a really good matchup, so I don't have too many issues starting him, certainly not in points leagues. They're both widely, widely available and coming off to,
Starting point is 00:13:47 two encouraging start each of them. I've never felt worse that I can recall about the two-start pitcher list. You're lying. It's not that bad. What's wrong with you? Okay, let's forget about the kids for just a second. Because I have concerns about Calquantral. Mostly because he's made five starts in the major leagues and has a 485 ERA, and he was mostly
Starting point is 00:14:17 not good in the minors. Yeah, I'm kind of with Heath. I'm a little uneasy, Scott, especially if one of those is at Colorado. At San Francisco and at Colorado. San Francisco is the other one. And, like, he was good in every way his last two starts. And we're talking former first round pick,
Starting point is 00:14:34 top prospect pedigree. Guy whose pedigree, like prospect ranking didn't really suffer because he wasn't pitching well, which is always interesting. Scott, I'm going to, I'm going to kill you if you start him in our scam league. Oh, that's a categories league, which is... But forgetting those guys for just a moment, because I think you could reasonably argue about whether those are good pitchers
Starting point is 00:14:56 and we don't know who's going to be right yet. Looking at the guys that I considered for two-start, you've got Jared Eikoff, Spencer Turnbull, John Means, Mike Leak, and the peripheral I generally use to decide how well I think a pitcher is going to pitch in the future is Sierra. 4.45, 4.41, 4.53, 4.6.8.
Starting point is 00:15:21 They are all, have all been below average. Only league has averaged better than 5.5 innings per start. Like, these are, by the way we generally measure pitchers, they've all been bad. And Icoff has been the best of the group so far, but doesn't have very good matchups. So I think I'm just... Yeah, you mostly listed bad pitch up there. I agree. What's that? Yeah, mostly listed bad pitchers.
Starting point is 00:15:44 I agree. You missed my... two favorite other than probably that's what i said that's what i was going to say is i'm just going to lean on adamazer uh-huh and go with a guy that i know he's going to like for my favorite two-start pitcher uh-huh he's pitched well in his last two starts he gets a matchup against the white socks i'll take annibal yeah i like anabal sanchus the other matchups against arizona and i have to look but i think arizona like i know they're not winning a lot of games i think they're starting to struggle a little bit now they got david pera at the back that helps
Starting point is 00:16:13 but i don't think arizona's that tough of a matchup anymore so i like Annabal Sanchez at 33% owner. And I like Dakota Hudson, who's getting a ton of ground balls. He's not going to strike a lot of guys out. So it's probably a points league thing because the whip is pretty high. But Dakota Hudson, his last seven starts, he has a 280 ERA, and he gets at Miami and at the Mets. And he's RP eligible.
Starting point is 00:16:33 So, you know, the thing is, a lot of times I feel like we've had pictures that I'm kind of interested in that have bad matchups. This week, it seems like we have pictures that I don't really love so much, but they have really good matchups. So, I just know that pretty much every time, because I've generally for the two-star pitchers just looked at the matchups and chosen some below-average pitchers, and they've gotten killed this year. It's been a very, it's been a bad season for bad pitchers against bad often. Well, that's, I mean, the, the line between a worthwhile two-star pitcher and one who's not is, is like, it's a very sharp line. You do not go below that line.
Starting point is 00:17:11 It's a literal line when I rank the two-star pitchers and just don't do. it because I'm just not sure any of these guys should be above that line. What about Turnbull? You don't feel that way about Turnbull, Heath? I've not been as encouraged as Scott has. I mean, he's okay. And I think he has potential. But again, so far, he has been bad definitively.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Let me bring up, let me bring up the point you were making about Sierra because it's, it's something I've noticed this year and it's worth bringing up. You're kind of using four as the mark of whether or not it's a good picture. 4.2. Okay. Okay. I was going to say that among the 85 qualifying pitchers this year, the number with a Sierra below 375 is 18. So, you know, it's hard to have a good Sierra in this environment. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:06 That's interesting. I'll look right now. I would guess league average is about 4.2. And I'm okay with starting an average pitcher against in a 2. two-star week. Spencer Turnbull, by the way. Spencer Turnbull's had a good year. I mean, he's got a 301 ERA, just under a strikeout per inning.
Starting point is 00:18:23 He's got a 128 whip. He hasn't been as good lately, for sure, but he hasn't really been, like, terrible. And his match-ups are actually up to 4.3 now. His matchups are Kansas City. So maybe 4.4 is only slightly worse than the average. All right, favorite week. But I don't care. You're talking about Spencer Turnbull-Cierra?
Starting point is 00:18:42 Or ex-fip. What about his ER? What about what he's actually done? I understand. I don't get any credit for what he's actually done. What I'm telling you is, statistically, you can't say he's been bad.
Starting point is 00:18:54 Sierra and Exfip are more predictive of what they're going to do going forward than ERA is. All right, that's fine. Like, I will, this is a non-fantasy discussion then? Like, you cannot say that Spencer Trouble has been bad. No, it's not a non-fanty discussion.
Starting point is 00:19:06 What they are going to do moving forward is what their fantasy value is. Fine. Like, I understand that if you want to guess going forward, that you, if you want to use the peripherals of the Sierra, That's great.
Starting point is 00:19:15 But don't say Spencer Turnbull has been bad because the Sierra is high when his ZRA is a run lower. Or even more than a run lower. Okay. He has not allowed very many runs. Yeah, which is the point of pitching. So he's done well. Give the best run.
Starting point is 00:19:28 Any weekend streamers, I don't love the weekend streamers, by the way. I do think that if Andrew Heaney is available, you need to get him. He's 79% owned. He's the best one. He's the most owned. I think maybe Framber Valdez against Baltimore could work. He's 15% of. You know, Nick Povetta against Cincinnati.
Starting point is 00:19:48 C.C. Sabathia at Cleveland could work. Jose Orania, maybe against Atlanta. That one scares me a little bit. I like Zach, Plizac, but I'm sitting him against the Yankees. Tyler Malley at Philadelphia is kind of iffy for me, guys. What do you think? I'd rather not. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:08 Pablo Lopens against... Sabatia sounded fine to me. Sabathia sounded fine. Right. Not great. Yeah, I'm not really expecting for Emperor Valdez to give you enough innings to be worth it against the Orioles. Sure. What about Arainia or Pablo Lopez against the Braves?
Starting point is 00:20:33 Be more likely to do Lopez than Arainia, I think. But neither one strikes me as a great choice. Yeah, and I think, I think Framber's thrown three or four inning. in his last couple of outings, right? I think he could get to five. He could probably get to five, yeah. Yeah, I think it wins, but I think I'd rather, I'd rather do Frambron than Urania.
Starting point is 00:20:56 Cool. All right, we got news and notes, most added list. A lot of stuff from yesterday. Max Kepler, Homer, three times, haven't really talked about that. Patrick Corbyn's been struggling a bit. Mike Fultenevich, Scott told you he was a by-low. He had the same problem last night.
Starting point is 00:21:09 See if Scott still feels that way, if he does, and now's not a bad time to make an offer on Mike Fultenevich. And I'll try to read some email. It was a quality start, Adam. Yeah, it was. It was not great, though. But it wasn't bad.
Starting point is 00:21:23 Certainly wasn't bad for Fultenevich. I don't know how fantasy owners feel about it. Probably kind of meh. So we'll come right back after this break and talk about some big news to know about right after this. Your news and notes today, Craig Kimbril could be ready in about three weeks. Jose LaClorque is about to regain his closer's role, it seems.
Starting point is 00:21:42 and Wade Davis will be back very soon. And J.D. Martinez left with back spasms. I believe he had that issue last week as well. We'll keep an eye on J.D. Hanniger left after fouling a ball off somewhere in his mid to lower body. Shinsu Chu's day to day. Didi Gugorius is coming back today. Glaiboriz might sit. He sat yesterday with a sore shoulder.
Starting point is 00:22:03 He might sit again. But as Scott mentioned, Didi's going to sit once a series, at least at the outset. We don't know how long that will last. Fernando Tattis is back. Matt Carpenter left with the. an injury, doesn't seem serious. Dwight Smith Jr. is in the concussion protocol. Willie Calhoun expected to begin a rehab assignment next week. Charlie Blackman should be back today. Will Smith was sent to AAA, so much for Wally Pitt. And then just so you know,
Starting point is 00:22:29 Brandon Belt is 32% owned. He homered off Zach Wheeler yesterday. He came into yesterday's game, Brandon Belt, with a 524 slugging percentage, a 380 on base percentage. So that's a 9.04 OPS against Ritey's. It's probably even better now. He had an 822 OPS against Ritey's last season. I feel like that could be helpful for some of you out there. Brandon Bell is really good against Ritees. Some other lineup notes and tidbits for you. DJ LaMahue leads baseball with a 491 batting average with runners in scoring position. Thank you, Associated Press. I feel like DJ LeMayhew's a sell high candidate. What do you guys think? I didn't think it was going to go as well for him in New York as it has. I thought his success was largely a
Starting point is 00:23:13 product of course feel, but it turns out he's such a good line drive hitter that I think he profiles as a high Babbib guy anywhere. So I don't I don't really see him as a sell high candidate. Okay. Yeah, I don't know what you could sell him for.
Starting point is 00:23:30 I guess it would be my problem. I guess the one we always use, I would certainly trade him for Jose Ramirez. Okay. Chris Davis is batting 247 right now. That would be the fifth straight season. and he only has 12 home runs, so he needs to get that going.
Starting point is 00:23:46 Daniel Murphy and Ryan McMahon sat against a lefty yesterday. Interesting weekend for Murphy, because he got really hot. He sat yesterday. Now he's going to face the Mets, and he faces DeGrom, Cinderguard, and a lefty. Well, he'll start two of the games, for sure. He'll start two of the games. I don't know if he'll get any hits. Dylan Moore has started seven games at shortstop for Seattle.
Starting point is 00:24:11 He has two steals in his last. last four games. Should be cautious though because J.P. Crawford will probably reclaim that job soon. And Mookie Betts is 7 for 11 with five home runs against Danny Duffy. Hashtag, BVP, batter versus pitcher. Those stats never lie, especially in these sample sizes. But, wow, seven for 11 with five home runs against Danny Duffy. That's amazing.
Starting point is 00:24:35 Are you trying to troll the master troll? Now I'm trolling Heath. Yes, BVP. Yeah, okay. Not the Royals thing. Very subtle. but BVP. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:43 Okay, Thursday standout. Somebody talk about Max Kepler. He is the number 14 outfielder in points, number 12 in Roto. Before yesterday, he was 18th in both formats, but he scored 21 fantasy points yesterday. Talk about Max Kepler. I really thought that we were done with the Max Kepler thing. Like, I had just adjusted to the point to where I'd move Kepler up into starting range at Outfield. And then he went on an ice cold O for 21 streak, and I thought, okay, he's actually
Starting point is 00:25:12 not that good, but this will make you reconsider that. I think he's a starter, but maybe not one you'll be excited about rest of year. I love the time. Yeah, so it's he, he, his fly ball rate, he upped it significantly last year. This year it's about the same as that. So why it's been twice as effective this year, he's on pace for 40 home runs after setting a career high with 20 last year. Why it's been twice as effective this year is. is hard to figure out.
Starting point is 00:25:45 But I will point out that his ex-Woba this year is only 15 points higher than it was last year, which makes me think he's probably performing a little over his head. That said, his actual Wobah 345 versus the X Woba 337 suggests, you know, maybe it was more...
Starting point is 00:26:05 I don't know, it's weird. Like, I don't know. I don't know. It was a bad luck last year, you're saying? Because that's not even true It was only five points difference Between the ex-WOBA and Wobah last year I just you know obviously there are other things than home runs
Starting point is 00:26:19 That go into a Wobah Yeah So I He's probably performing a little over his head But he probably did Underachieve a little last year too And the true Max Kepler Probably going to be
Starting point is 00:26:37 You know like a top 40 outfielder maybe top 30. Yeah, I mean, there are some. Like, his barrel rate is up a couple of points, and his exit velocity is more than a mile per hour. His average edge velocity is higher. So he's hitting the ball harder. Yeah, and Kepler's also leading off for the twins,
Starting point is 00:26:58 and they're the best lineup in baseball, and he has 80 runs slash RBIs. Now, actually, the RBIs really surprised me. As a lead off hitter to have 40 RBIs, that's very impressive. But they have a deep lineup, and he's benefiting. from that. Okay, Taylor Rogers got a save yesterday, a two-winning save.
Starting point is 00:27:15 If there's one reliever that you'd want to own in Minnesota, is it Taylor Rogers? Yeah, yeah, Blake Parker's been awful. His peripherals are much worse. Roger says two saves in a row. Hopefully, hopefully he's going to settle in here. I feel like they will acquire someone at some point. But we got like two months. I mean, they were in the Kimberle Mick, mostly.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Right. We got two months before the trade deadline. but Rogers is 26% owned. Somebody talk about Robinson Chorinos. He's the number five catcher in points, number six in Roto. His last four games, he is five for 15 with four home runs and five walks, including four yesterday. But Chorinos has legit power, and it's showing this year he has 10 home runs already in 48 games. Yeah, when we talk about impact catchers, I feel like we leave him out because he is definitely among the group that you never pay a thought to sitting.
Starting point is 00:28:10 And that's pretty much all there is to that. Yeah, I think he's right there with Narvaez, like in that just outside the top five group. But like Scott said, you just don't even have to think about him. He's in your lineup, and you hope he doesn't get hurt. Would you rather have Trinos or Garver? Trinos. I think Torinos is safer.
Starting point is 00:28:34 Yeah, I'll say Trinos. Any other Thursday standouts we need to talk about? Okay. Probably. Yeah, I got more. All right, let's go to more struggling starters. Trevor Bauer is not the only one. Patrick Corbin's been a little rough lately.
Starting point is 00:28:51 Three of his last four starts have been bad. The other was a complete game shutout against the Marlins. But Corbin's been struggling lately. Caleb Smith has been struggling lately. It's eight straight starts allowing a homer and five straight starts of five and a third, or fewer for Caleb Smith. And Mike Fultenevich gave up two home runs.
Starting point is 00:29:11 That's been the problem. But six innings, six hits. three runs, a walk five strikeouts and two home runs at Pittsburgh. So who concerns you the most? Corbin, Caleb Smith, or Mike Fultenevich? Well, this is coming from a standpoint where Corbyn and Smith are far ahead of Fultenevich to begin with. I would say Smith concerns me the most because he already has a hard enough time
Starting point is 00:29:37 winning games with the Marlins lineup backing him. If he's not allowed to go six innings, then that's going to be an issue. And I think it is more of what he's allowed to do situation than what he deserves to have done because the pitch counts have been on the lower side for this five-start stretch with less than six innings. And three of those starts have been just fine in terms of production, obviously just limited over the small number of innings. This start yesterday wasn't so great. And his velocity was down. Not sure what to make of that.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Could just be a one-off thing. But that's another reason for concern. Corbin, it sounds like, is dealing with a bit of a mechanical issue, but he was kind of falling off with his delivery, and so he wasn't able to locate his fastball yesterday, and they were just taking the slider. That's obviously so effective for him. But it sounds like they have a good read on that.
Starting point is 00:30:28 I think he's probably going to figure that out sooner than later. And I still think Fultenev is trending up. It's trending up. It was a quality start in which he allowed just one more base runner than he had innings pitched, 15 swinging strikes after a start with 18 swinging strikes. For a guy who one of the biggest concerns about him coming into the year before he got injured is, how did he get so many strikeouts with such a swinging, low swinging strike rate?
Starting point is 00:30:51 If he was getting this kind of, the kind of swinging strikes last year that he's gotten over his past two starts, I don't think anybody would have been terribly concerned about him coming into the year. So I think he's on the right track, and I would still consider him a buy low. You know, the fact he has a one and five record could probably help you with that. well the fact that he has a six ERA yeah but his last three starts two of them have been good and the other one was 18 swinging strike
Starting point is 00:31:18 yeah I have no idea really I was very skeptical of Fultenevish coming into the year as I always am with guys that have been bad for four or five years and then are really good for one I don't think we know yet I don't think there's really hardly any chance at all he's as good as he was last year
Starting point is 00:31:37 could he be a mid-3 ZRA guy? I think that's still within the range of possibilities, but I'd probably expect him to be more the mid-forge guy. Going back to Caleb Smith, rank three breakouts. Lucas Gialito, Matt Boyd-Colib, Caleb Smith. Boyd-Gilito. Yeah, Boyd-Jolito Smith. Okay, we got other podcasts that you should be listening to,
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Starting point is 00:33:15 Welcome back, everybody. So I already apologize for cutting Scott off. Now I have to apologize again. When an emailer writes an email and says, I've written 12 emails and never had one read on the show, now I feel bad. So, first of all, now you all know how to lie your way to getting on the show.
Starting point is 00:33:33 I was just say, don't encourage this. Yeah, yeah, I know. What you should apologize for is telling people that he said that and then catering to his whining. Write better emails. We'll read them. It's a good email. It's just a quick grade the train. It's from Nate in Pittsburgh.
Starting point is 00:33:48 We're just a grade this for date because he's 0 for 12 getting his question right on the air. Now he's 1 for 12. 10 team points league grade. Give Luis Castillo and Austin Meadows get Max Scherzer in a 10 team points league. A minus. That's a lot to give up. The fact that it's a shallower league makes it even more, makes it an even higher priority you get the best player, which you did.
Starting point is 00:34:15 But you paid handsomely. I'll go B-minus. Can we talk about the emotional side of this trade? Like how, I assume Nate from Pittsburgh is a pirates fan. How hard would it be to trade Austin Meadows in fantasy after watching the pirates straight him and Tyler Glass Now away. It might be easy.
Starting point is 00:34:36 It might be easy. Every time you look at your scoreboard page, you don't have that pained feeling of, oh, what did we give up? Every time you see Austin Meadows on SportsCenter, you think, man, he's not helping my pirates, and now he's not helping my fantasy team. Heath, what sports center?
Starting point is 00:34:50 Yeah, HQ, you mean. Whatever. Also, at least he didn't trade him for Chris Archer. That would have been a bad trade. All right, let's look at the most added list now, ladies and gentlemen. Chase Anderson is number one on the most added list. He's in the middle of a two-start week, and it didn't go well.
Starting point is 00:35:07 Four innings, four runs against the Mighty Marlins. His next start will be against Pittsburgh, and then you can probably drop Chase Anderson. Am I looking at the wrong list here? Okay, we have Jay Bruce one. I had Jay Bruce two. They're tied. Jay Bruce and Chase Anderson are tied with 28% ownership spike.
Starting point is 00:35:27 So, yeah, I actually think that Jay Bruce at, 61% feels okay to me, guys. What do you think? Yeah, I'm very interested in seeing what he does in a smaller park. His home way splits with Seattle, which isn't a great place to hit, we're so extreme that maybe a lot of his fly balls that weren't carrying over the fence there would carry over in Philadelphia. It's unclear if he's going to play much against left-hand of pitchers. This upcoming week, they only face one of those, so he's among my top 10 sleeper hitters. and could have a resurgence here with the Philly.
Starting point is 00:36:04 Okay, Jay Bruce. Devin Smelzer and Zach Plezac, 47 and 34% owned. Pleaszac over Smelzer, right? Yeah, Devin Smelter should not be owned in more leagues in Zex Pleasac. You should reverse those and then add some to Pleasac. Renato Nunez has had a bad week. Do you still want to be patient with him? Renato Nunez, he's 62% of him.
Starting point is 00:36:27 I think the time to use him is when the Orioles are facing a bunch of lefties because his numbers against lefties are terrific. Against right, he's not so much. Didn't they face a bunch of lefties this week? Yeah, I'm going to guess they're still terrific against lefties, though. But it hasn't gone so well. I mean, there's still the weekend, and he could obviously rebound, but it hasn't gone so well so far.
Starting point is 00:36:53 Brian Reynolds, Dakota Hudson, David Fletcher. David Fletcher letting me down. this week. I think Jorge Alfaro should be closer to 100% owned. He's a top 12 catcher. It's true. Yeah. Gary Cooper, 19% owned.
Starting point is 00:37:08 Chris talked about him some interesting changes. Gary Cooper's making is not terrible. Alex Reyes is 62% around. I mean, that has a chance. We go farther down on the list here. Alex Reyes, that has a chance to be a boon for your fantasy team, right? Yeah. He might, they have an opening on
Starting point is 00:37:28 on Monday. And I haven't seen how the starts line up, but there's no probable pitcher set it. He could be a two-star pitcher next week. Not that you'd want to use him. He was bad last time out. I didn't realize that. Reyes got rocked last time out at AAA.
Starting point is 00:37:46 But still, we know there's a ton of potential there. We have Anibal Sanchez, Nick Povetta. I'm sorry. Just potential. Just potential. All right. So Alex Reyes, Annabal Sanchez, Nick Povetta, Framber Valdez,
Starting point is 00:37:57 all on the most added list. Who are the top two in that group? Reyes, Anabal Sanchez, Nick Povetta, Framber Valdez. I would go Povetta 1, Reyes 2, and I think those are the only two I care about. Yeah, I think I'd go Povetta and Framber. Okay. All right, cool.
Starting point is 00:38:19 So let's do some buyer sell. Oh, the guy I wanted to talk about that, Dominic Smith. He's 6% owned. He's batting 373, 468, 612. and 67 at bats. It's not much from Dominic Smith. But remember, what did he have, corrective eye surgery or something like that?
Starting point is 00:38:38 He had something hindering him. Sleep apnea. Sleep apnea. Okay, thank you. Yeah. Which would mess up your eyes, I guess, right? But if you're not getting enough sleep. So Dominic Smith, he's got that fixed.
Starting point is 00:38:50 Again, I don't know where they're going to play him. If everybody's back in healthy, Kenneal and Todd Frazier's hitting well and all that. But everybody is back in healthy. Not really because Conno was out. He was out of the lineup, but he's back off the I. He is back off the IL, so I don't know what happens. Did Jeff McNeil play second base? I'm guessing he did.
Starting point is 00:39:12 Jeff McNeil was out of the lineup yesterday, and Canoe, I guess, was too. Okay. Yeah, I mean, they need to get Frazier out of there, the main thing. And we'll see if they do. Dominic Smith missed a few games with a minor injury. But he has been batting second, and he's been doing very well for them. He does sit against lefties, and they face a lot of them. So, look, it's a deep league thing.
Starting point is 00:39:39 But I don't know. I just feel like if you, I'm in a five outfielder league with a corner infield spot, I picked up Smith. If he's got a lot of righties on the schedule, I might roll with him. And he's only 6% on. Okay. By yourself. Michael Brantley should not be among your top 12 outfielders.
Starting point is 00:39:56 Bill. That's a kind of reverse wording thing here. If you think about this, should not be among your top. Well, I sell that, but it's borderline. Okay, he is top 12 so far, but the power has gone away. He has one home run in his last 28 days.
Starting point is 00:40:17 So there's that. Buy or sell. There's like four strikeouts. Yeah, you're going to hit for average. It's perfectly fine to drop Derek Dietrich, buy or sell. I buy, I mean, it depends on the depth of your league. a sell in every roto league with the deep lineup, but
Starting point is 00:40:36 a head to head league with the small lineup. Sure, it's fine to do that. Yeah, it's a buy unless you have a middle end field, corner infield, or five outfielders in your league. He does continue to sit against lefties. The only time he didn't was when Joey Votto sat out. Speaking of which, by or sell, it's perfectly fine to drop Joey Votto.
Starting point is 00:40:58 Sell. Yeah, I buy it. I did go back and look at, at his pre-all-star break numbers in 2015 and 16. And obviously they weren't anywhere near as bad as they are now. But what was interesting was that he did strike out quite a bit pre-all-star break, especially 2016. He had more than a strikeout per game.
Starting point is 00:41:20 And then in 2016, after the All-Star break, Joey Votto had a, geez, 1158 OPS and 32 strikeouts in 72 games. He was the best hitter ever, basically. He has one home run since April 26th. Well, this is what... I feel like a slumping Joe Evato is exactly what bench bots are for. You could drop him.
Starting point is 00:41:50 I don't know if anybody picks him up. Oh, somebody would pick him up. I need to look at my... What's his ownership right now? I'm guessing it's still in the 90s. I'll check for it. I dropped him in that... Obviously, it's higher in CPS than anywhere else.
Starting point is 00:42:06 In the Yahoo League, the O'My Only Yahoo League. It's a 10 team, and it's a Categories League. And I want to see if anyone's picked him up. He's 93% owned. He is still a free agent, and he is 87% owned in that format. And one thing I do, like, I don't usually give probably enough thought to the daily lineup league, where you probably are. incorporating your bench more than a weekly lineup league,
Starting point is 00:42:34 which is mostly what I play in. And that would make it, you know, that's probably more of a Yahoo thing too and might impact. I would guess his ownership is quite a bit lower than 90% in Yaw's league. Yeah, to me, the biggest skill change for Joey Vado over the last two seasons, why he's not as good of a hitter anymore, is he is awful against lefties.
Starting point is 00:42:55 He has two extra base hits and 60 at bats against lefties this year. And last year, he wasn't quite as bad, but he slugged 376 against lefties. All right, buy or sell. Hunter Renfro and his 18 homers should be universally owned. He's 68% owned. Hunter Renfro. Buy herself. Awesome.
Starting point is 00:43:15 Yeah, that's a pretty easy sell. I mean, the one thing he's good at is something that's plentiful. It probably should be a little higher than 68. He's in my top 10 sleeper hitters for this upcoming week. Has four games at Colorado. Ooh. So, yeah, I mean, he's a good. sleeper for this upcoming week, but universally owned is a very high standard.
Starting point is 00:43:37 That's Hunter Renfro. Buy herself, it's time to buy Tommy Lestella. It's time to buy Tommy Lestella. I'm mostly by him. What's interesting is as he's started to pile up multi-hit games and get that Babbitt back up where it needs to be, the fly ball rate has come back down to normal. But it's still like 36%. So I don't think it's prohibitive of power.
Starting point is 00:44:02 like he's I think I think he's like a more powerful version of Fletcher David Fletcher right is the first name yeah
Starting point is 00:44:19 who is proven to be a useful fantasy option himself but like Lestella is kind of a more exciting version of that that's kind of where I am with it I'm going to sell it maybe a But I will say If he gets to 320 plate appearances,
Starting point is 00:44:38 I'll buy it. Maybe LeMayhew's the better comparison because LeMayhew's obviously more established in fantasy. That's a good comparison. You know, a guy never strikes out Tommy Lestell. He has 16 walk, 16 strikeouts this year. But his last 21 games, he's batting 3.30,
Starting point is 00:44:56 slugging 420. So the power has gone. gone, but also in that stretch, they faced eight lefties in three weeks. That's kind of a lot. And he's got two extra base hits all year against lefties. So, you know, we don't expect him hit for power against lefties. But, you know, worth noting the trend, because I didn't really notice it, but it's just been a lot of singles lately for the Stella. Okay, final buyer sell. Trey Mancini is a legit top 12 first baseman. And currently he's 11th and points ninth in Roto, batting 306 with 13 home runs. By herself, Mancini.
Starting point is 00:45:29 legit top 12 first baseman. Sell, but if he plays every game the rest of the way, he might finish there. Yeah, yeah. Like, there are more exciting options that push him down. But talked about Lestela's fly ball rate normalizing Mancini still hasn't. So I do think he's better than in years past. He's not going to regress to that version. All right.
Starting point is 00:45:53 More from yesterday, and then we'll finish off with hopefully some emails. the rest of the two-star pitchers and some weekend streamers. Mike Mustakis is the number two second baseman in fantasy. Buy, sell, or hold Mike Mustakis? I don't think he's really the second best second baseman in fantasy when all sudden done, but I don't really feel like he's going to go, you know, he's performing that much over his head. I'd probably just be happy with him and hold.
Starting point is 00:46:29 I think he's got like a legit shot at 45 home runs. Yeah, he does. He's got 18 so far, Mike Mustakas. Rotation. Anything interesting to say about? Jose Barrios. Six innings, two runs, one earned, six strikeouts at Cleveland. Zach Wheeler, mostly a good start.
Starting point is 00:46:49 Three runs, two homers in seven innings. He's been better than his ERA. I think people know that, though. Jay Hap, his ERA, by the way, Wheeler's ERA is 4661. Jayhap, maybe turning things around. Three, you know, solid starts in a row. Jose Cantana, I don't think I'm going to start him next week at Colorado and at the Dodgers.
Starting point is 00:47:12 But, you know, he's been fine. He's actually been kind of mad lately, Cantana. Chris Archer had a really good start, though, against the Braves. And from the video, it looked like he was throwing a little harder. I don't know if you guys know anything about Archer's velocity from yesterday, but watched the highlights and saw some 95s in there. look good. I think we should start with him, actually.
Starting point is 00:47:32 Probably the most interesting guy on the list. I'm not going to say anything because I don't want to fight. But Chris Archer, great, good start. It's just nice. Yeah, it's nice to see him get back to the pitcher he's been for the last five years. Just a very good, reliable fantasy starting picture. Why did I say? I wasn't going to talk. Now I can't respond to that.
Starting point is 00:47:47 Yeah. No, he has made a change his past two starts where, at least according to the narrative. I'm not really sure how to check to see if the numbers back up what they're saying. but apparently he's been emphasizing his fastball a lot more early in games so that the slider is more effective later in games and so far that strategy seems to be paying off for him. So yeah, he's on the right track.
Starting point is 00:48:14 He's a two-star pitcher next week and I actually list him as must-start. Really? Oh, Archer. I was looking at Kintana's matchup. Sorry, I got confused. All right, so then let's rank these guys. Brios is obviously number one.
Starting point is 00:48:29 I think Wheeler's number two, right? Yeah. I want to talk about Wheeler a little if I can. Yeah. Because I think he's the poster child of kind of what's going on and how we evaluate starting pitchers as a whole. Kind of what I was saying about Sierra earlier, what I was saying about Bauer,
Starting point is 00:48:48 even what I was saying about Carasco yesterday, is I'm not sure if in today's environment, ERA is the greatest indicator of what makes a good starting pitcher. because you look at Wheeler's past 10 starts, eight of his past 10 starts have been seven or more innings with three earn runs or fewer. Eight of 10, great strikeout rate. I mean, that's a really good run, right?
Starting point is 00:49:12 Like none of those starts you're looking at and saying, wow, that's a disappointing start from Zach Wheeler. They're all ones you'd want to have in your life. Seven innings or more, three run runs or less. His ERA during that stretch is just over four. And if you take the one really bad start out of that 10 start stretch, it's just under three. So, like, I think, like, obviously that's probably hurting a roto team's ERA, a high threes ERA. But except all but a select few starting pitchers, I think you just kind of have to expect a starting pitcher is going to hurt your ERA.
Starting point is 00:49:53 and it's worth putting up with to help you in wins and strikeouts. You can't really compete in those categories if you don't have enough starting pitchers in your lineup. But there are very few starting pitchers that you can reasonably expect to help your team's ERA. Well, and Wheeler is a guy that, like, because what we were talking about earlier was with Sierra and how that's elevated. But he's also a pitcher, a couple things. One, he's mostly just been bad against the Nats and he's been an ace against everyone else. two, his FIP, X-FIP, Sierra are all below four and well above average and all suggest that the R.A. is just a little bit unlucky. But they're high threes, right? It's high three. It's still calling high three.
Starting point is 00:50:34 Yeah, mid to high threes. And I think he's probably a mid-to-high-3s ERA pitcher, which is fine. Yeah, if you get some, if you get a lot of strikeouts out of it, sure. He's got more of the strike-up rating. I think we probably just have to, unless you're a guy that only pitches five innings to start, if your ERA's 3-7-5 or better, you're good. Yeah, yeah, sure. Hopefully the whip is good too. 1.23 whip for Wheeler, but I imagine it's probably better than that in his recent stretch. Yeah, all right.
Starting point is 00:51:08 I'm going to have to skip some of the other stuff here. Josh Hader got his 14 save. He has 14 of the Brewers 18 saves. Jordan Hicks got back on track with a save. Matt Barnes got a save. That was his first save in a month. And the Red Sox had recorded four saves in between Barnes' last save. So let's go through the two-star pitcher list and see what we're thinking here.
Starting point is 00:51:30 I am going to save time for emails. So be prepared. All right. Chris Sale, Charlie Morton, Junjun Rieu, Trevor Bauer, we're going to start, right? Cincinnati and at Detroit. Yep. All right. How about Armand Marquez, home starts against the Cubs and the Padres?
Starting point is 00:51:49 I call them a start. Yeah, even though it's two home starts. Okay. James Paxton, Mets in White Sox, Mets at Home, White Sox on the road? Yes, for me. Yeah, I'm starting them in points. I'm a little worried in Roto. Chris Paddock at San Francisco and at Colorado.
Starting point is 00:52:11 I don't want to. Yeah, I'd start them. I'm happy that I own Chris Paddock in a daily league because I will definitely start him at San Francisco. You know what? I don't think he's actually going to make two starts. I thought he was starting on Sunday. Yeah, I think that's going to be Calquantral instead.
Starting point is 00:52:29 Okay. I don't want to start either of them, so we can just rule them both. But I want to start Paddock if his next start is at San Francisco. Just one start at San Francisco? Probably, yeah. I don't think it is. I think you're right that he's starting this weekend. Okay.
Starting point is 00:52:44 so then let's just play the Chris Paddock game. That would be Washington at home. I probably would start him. Yeah, I think I would too. All right. Jose Cantana, for me it's an avoid, guys, at Colorado and at the Dodgers. Avoid.
Starting point is 00:53:06 He is not in the must-start section, but he is in the next section where, you know, it's a toss-up. What about Fultenevich and Griffin-Canning? Fultenevich has Pittsburgh in Philadelphia. Canning has the Dodd-Rexam. Rogers and at the raise. I'm good with Fultenevich. I think Canning.
Starting point is 00:53:27 I thought Canning was supposed to be this week. Yeah, I don't have Canning as a two-star pitcher for this upcoming week. Okay. I do not want to start Fultonovitch. You don't want to start Fultonovitch. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia? Okay, interesting. All right.
Starting point is 00:53:45 Scott says yes. He says no. Lance Lynn at Boston and at Cincinnati. Yeah, I think that's a pretty easy call. No, you know what? He's not a two-star pitcher either. Really? I don't think we have the same lists.
Starting point is 00:54:02 Yeah. Well, a lot of the guys are. Like, I have the Turnbull, Dakota Hudson, Annabal Sanchez, but I also have Martine Perez, who even though he's got good matchups, I'm not dropping, not just sitting, I'm dropping Marzine Perez. Got Chris Archer on there at Atlanta and at Miami. No way am I starting U. Darvish at Colorado. and at the Dodgers.
Starting point is 00:54:25 Joe Musgrove might be a tough call at Atlanta and at Miami. Yes, yes. I agree he is a two-star pitcher, and it is a tough call. But one I would probably roll with him. I don't really want to start him, but I think I would rather start him than Fulton of it. All right, so then we got the waiver wire guys.
Starting point is 00:54:47 Spencer Turnbull, Dakota Hudson, John Means, Jared Eichoff, Kevin Gossman, Anabal Sanchez, Jake Junis, Mike Leak, Sandy Ocantara. Ariel Harado actually been pitching pretty well. He's at Boston and at Cincinnati, Texas starting pitcher. John DuPontier, other guys, you're not going to start. So this is just a rehash of what we said earlier. Spencer Turnbull would be Scott's favorite. I think Dakota Hudson in a points league could work for you. I'm interested in Annabal Sanchez. Scott likes John Duplanteer. Calquantra who's not listed here. Heath likes nobody. I would, Annibald is my favorite and I cough would be my second favorite.
Starting point is 00:55:31 Okay. All right. Then let me read your emails. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. This comes from Jack. Hey, Adrian, Elvis, and Joey. Those are Rangers. Ranger. Delano to Shields has been awesome since he's been recalled. Do you think Delano to Shields is worthy of a speculative ad in a 10-te-to-head categories league with three out fielders, would you drop David Fletcher for the Shields? I would not. Yeah, I was a strong no on that question until it got to, would you drop David Fletcher for to Shields?
Starting point is 00:56:06 And I do think in a 10-te-to-head categories league, I might. Okay. I don't think I probably would have been rostering Fletcher in a 10-te-to-head Categories league, but in that format, I think I might rather have to shield. from Joel Hey Nick Schmidt and Winston Scott and I know that Heath who are Nick Schmidt and Winston
Starting point is 00:56:29 New Girl Hey Yeah How'd you know that? I've never watched that show I only know because of you guys Oh They could have gone
Starting point is 00:56:37 Nick Winston and Winston Spoiler alert Nick Winston and Winston Schmidt Schmidt's first name turns out to be Winston Really? Yeah
Starting point is 00:56:47 We never knew his first name The entire time Thanks for ruining The show for me Scott Now I'll never watch it. I threw my pad. Ten team points league. Why aren't we more concerned about Blake Snell's production?
Starting point is 00:56:59 He's 39th in points behind Peacock, John Gray, Zach Davies. How is he going to turn his season around and end up a top five starting pitcher? I feel Snell is a Snell high. I didn't give a good enough explanation of this. And it can't be a Snell high because he's pitching worse than he was. So it would be a Snell low. And I never want a Snell low. But I didn't give a good enough explanation of this earlier in the week.
Starting point is 00:57:22 I'm glad he brought it up as to why I'm not concerned with Blake Snell. He had a not very good start his first start of the year against the Astros. Then he was awesome. Then he got hurt, missed a start, and had a couple of bad outings against the Royals where he couldn't even go four innings while he was still hurt. Then he was awesome. Then he had one bad outing. I think it's very easy to explain why he's so low in a points league.
Starting point is 00:57:48 And I still think he's going to be a top five starting pitcher the rest of the way. I don't know about top five at six innings per start. That's my only concern. I think he's going to be great. It just, he, you know, especially in a point. Was he top five last year? Because he had the same kind of situation with the inning. No, not at first.
Starting point is 00:58:07 That's the thing. He didn't have that at first, and then he got hurt. Then he had his shoulder issue or elbow, I think it was shoulder. Not a huge issue, but he went on the IL or DL back then, came back. And since coming back from the brief IL stint, very conservative, Blake Snell's innings. I will just say I'm relatively certain, and I'm not doing the math right now, but I'm relatively certain if you take out those two royal starts when he was hurt,
Starting point is 00:58:30 he's averaging more than six innings per start. But he's not averaging seven. How many times has he gone seven? Once all year? I honestly don't know, but I think it's been that. Can we get a list of the number of pitchers at averaging? I don't think there's five starting pitchers averaging seven innings per start. I just.
Starting point is 00:58:45 Averaging, no way. Yeah. That would be a really high average. I don't know if there's one He doesn't pitch deep into games That's my point But if you average more than six innings per start You're pitching deep enough into games
Starting point is 00:58:58 I don't know that he's averaging more than six innings per start He is if you take out the royal start Because those were six innings for two starts combined You sure? I'm going to do the math now Okay You don't have time for this I think you're wrong
Starting point is 00:59:14 I think you're wrong Scott let's fly through some grade the trades From Carl points league give up Paddock, Austin Riley, and Carpenter. Paddock, Austin Riley, and Matt Carpenter. Get Vlad Jr. and Noah Cindergard. He is averaging exactly six innings per start. Oh my gosh, I didn't realize we went way over time, and I am sorry.
Starting point is 00:59:34 We have to go. Exactly six innings? Exactly. I'm going to give this grade a B minus. A. Okay, and A? Great. Thank you very much. I'm sorry to the video crew for going over. is they have to get ready for the Canel and Bell podcast.
Starting point is 00:59:51 And we'll talk to you next week. Have a great weekend. We're on CBS Sports HQ Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. Eastern. Check it out. Until then, I'm Adam. He's Scott. He's Heath. Have a great weekend, everybody.
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