Fantasy Baseball Today - 06/12 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Weekend Roundup

Episode Date: June 12, 2017

Covering everything you need to know from the weekend including Cameron Maybin and Mallex Smith running wild (2:15), two stud prospects getting called up (5:00), the Most Added list (16:00) and our thoughts on a dominant Robbie Ray (28:55) ... We'll help out with some tough lineup decisions (33:00) and take a look at hitters who are crushing it (41:30) ... Dedicating the final 15 minutes of the show to pitching, we discuss struggling studs and who you need to add to your roster ... 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

11, everybody. This is fantasy baseball today. I'm Adam Azer. Hello, everyone. And hello, Scott White. Who cares about Scott White. Chris Towers is back. Hey, great. How's it going, everybody? I'm sorry, Scott. I do care that you. Hi, Scott. Yeah. And, oh, Adam, how was your weekend? Thank you. Oh, what a nice thing to say. That's so nice. I went to my first Broadway show and saw some book. Book of Mormon. Okay. How was it? It was amazing. It was so funny. And it was so South Parkian.

Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen it? No, I've only seen, I saw one Broadway musical. I saw Spam a lot. You saw it on Broadway or? Yes, on Broadway. Yeah, it was cool.

Clay Aiken was in the show. It's just kind of cool to go to a Broadway show and think the people that I'm watching right now are, you know, the premier people in their field. I guess part of the appeal. And they were outstanding and the show was really funny. And while I'm not a Broadway guy, this was, you know,

it's just I'm not a huge theater guy. This one was definitely, this sort of could get anyone into that, into theater. So, so great stuff and good job, Cass. Okay, anyway, I need to tell you something.

I went on the air last week. I bragged about it being 18 and O, as you recall. I remember, yeah. Yeah, and I was playing Heath and, you know, I scored the, The fourth fewest points in the league.

Played two teams, so if you're going to score the fourth-thruest points in a 14-team league, you better play two lousy opponents, and that's what I did. 20-0. 20-0. It's really, it's troubling, is what it is. Unjinksable. Better to be lucky than good. I guess so. All right, let's get to fantasy baseball, guys.

Any interesting ad drops for you guys or trades or transactions or Chris, how the hell are you? Welcome back. Tell us your fantasy baseball moves from over the weekend. Well, I'm looking to add Malick Smith in a couple of places. If I can, I actually tried to add him in the podcast People's League, and somebody's already got Malik Smith for some reason. But I'm very excited about Malik Smith. Well, that was this morning. Malik Smith, are you excited for anything other than Steels?

That was this morning when he got picked up in our league. Malick Smith is 26% owned. He homered. He stole three bases on Friday. He stole a base on Saturday. He is now, for two months, going to be the regular center fielder for Tampa Bay, I guess at least two months,

as Kevin Kiermeyer's out with a hip injury. And, yeah, like I said, 26% owned and rising. Is there anything Malik Smith is going to give you other than steals? I think he can be a decent source of batting average with his speed. He's not a great contact guy, but I think he's a, he's not like he probably treads the line between like where Jose Parraza is and where we hoped he would be like he doesn't avoid strikeouts quite as well but he's also probably just a better

hitter than like a Jose Parraza so I think he can be a pretty good batting average guy how would you feel about him versus a hitter with a similar profile who just came back from the DL and went five for eight with six steals and seven runs. Scott loves Cameron Mabit. He loves Cameron. I don't understand what's happening to Cameron Mabin. He is taking a turn for the better here.

Better base stealing than, well, it's really just more aggressive base stealing than we've ever seen from. He's only been caught once. Right, 19 for 20. So, and I don't know what his percentage was earlier in his career. I was just, I'm not sure he had the green light as much as he's getting from the Angels. And the strikeout to walk ratio is one to one. He has been on fire since moving to the leadoff spot and the removal of Mike Trout from that situation hasn't changed it. He's 41% owned versus Malick Smith's 27% owned.

But I added Cameron Maibon in one of my shallowest leagues, a points league where, you know, the strikeout, the fact that he walks as much as he. he strikes out is a big deal. But that's like a three outfielder. Yeah, we've treated him like just a roto specialist guy for steals. But, you know, if he's going to strike out, you know, 17% of the time, which has actually been pretty much where he's been the last few years and he's going to walk this much and he's going to steal this much, he's a useful points option too. Well, right now, for sure, I actually put in two claims over the weekend for one spot.

I had Lewis Brinson one, Cameron Maybin, too. Both as sort of bench players, but both in three outfielder leagues, you know, shallow leagues where we talk about it all the time. This is like, is Avi Garcia even worth owning in a league like this? You know, there's just good options. And I thought it was time to finally, I don't know if it's buying into Maven because he just hasn't been a very good hitter throughout his career and recently. But it's at least buying in for the short term. And he was my second choice behind Lewis Brinson, who's 43% owned and got called up yesterday. and started and let off with Jonathan VR on the DL,

had a 900 OPS in the minors. So I'm looking at those guys as, let's see what happens, at least with Brinson. Let's see what happens this week. I'm not going to start him. Yeah, I had a hard time getting enthusiastic about Brinson just because of the crunch, the Lansk, the Lanskap. Right, right, the outfield landscape.

And there's never a problem taking a flyer on a top prospect. Like, that's never a bad idea. But in a league, you know, one of these three outfielder points, points leagues, I was discarding Gregory Polanco, basically. I ended up trading him for somebody I dropped the next day, but I was basically going to drop Polanco, and that's why I traded him. And I don't know why Brinson deserves more benefit of the doubt than Gregory Palanco. Now, he had a good first game, two walks, stole a base, but batted leadoff for the Brewers.

So, you know, the arrows continuing to point up, but he still has a long way to go to break into that mixed league threshold, I feel like. For me, the bigger issue with him is just how does he play every day? Does he even stay up? Yeah. Like, if Ryan Braun's back in a week or two, all of a sudden that opening might be gone for him. And I wrote this in the Waverware last night. I basically just said, like, we've seen with Ian Hap and Cody Bellinger, if you hit, plans can change.

If you're a top prospect and you come up and you just force their hand and you send you hit so well that they can't possibly send you down. That changes things. But right now it's hard to see a path short of him hitting to the point where he's must own anyway. But look how long that lasted with Ian Hav. Yeah. He's not really even that widely owned in fantasy because, you know, he started slumping.

It's, you know, I kind of equate the Brinson situation to Bradley Zimmer, who I wasn't that enthusiastic to pick up when he got called up either. and he really hasn't given us reason to change that, even though he's stuck around, performed okay. His playing times concerns are different because he's a left-handed hitter. Brinson's a better prospect, right? They're, you know, maybe technically, but we're talking margins. Well, the only thing I'd say is I know, I think Keon-Brockson homered yesterday,

but he's really been pretty bad for an extended period of time. So I could see him becoming Keon-Brockston if they're not married to Brunz. Yeah, just replacing their centerfielder. Ryan Braun, it sounds like he's gearing up to return. So, you know, there are other players on the roster who could play centerfield. But there's a chance. Like, certainly a five outfielder league, you know, I'd want to stash Brinson away on my bench to see what happens. It's just, it's harder to justify it in a three outfielder league.

Sure. Okay, so that's Lewis Brinson. Let's go to another prospect that got called up and made a really nice start this week. Sean Newcomb, 41% owned, six and a third, four hits, one run. It was unearned. two walks and seven strikeouts against the Mets on Saturday. He threw 96 pitches. He threw 70 strikes and 12 swinging strikes for Sean Newcomb.

I got him for a $6 bid in a 12-team league, $12-team road a $100 budget. And I was surprised I got him, to be honest. I later found out that Scott had bid $5 on Newcomb. You know, one of the reasons I didn't really break the bank for Newcomb was because I'm tired of buying into these pitchers. and having them have like one or two good starts and then get crushed. John the Nelson-Lamette route? Yes, exactly, and he's not the only one. We'll talk about that.

So I realize a young pitcher, there are going to be some speed bumps, and even though he had a great start in his debut, and I know Scott you watched it, I was following you on Twitter, I watched it, he looked good. I still wasn't willing to break the bank, but I thought a $6 bid out of 100 was very reasonable for him. What do you guys think? What kind of league would you be owning Braves pitcher Sean Newcomb?

And by the way, is he staying up? Oh, I'd pick him up everywhere. Yeah, I think he must have. Which, I mean, it doesn't, you know, I'm not disregarding your point about how he had major control issues in the miners. Just this year, like five and a half walks per nine before getting called up. Didn't it show any signs of that in this first start. But there's reason, like, you could certainly foresee it playing out in a way that ends up with him back in the minors in short order. But for now he's staying up.

He's getting another turn. I just think this shows the differing landscapes between outfield and pitcher, where we know Sean Newcomb has a ton of upside. He's been a prospect since he was drafted, I think, 14th overall, 16th overall by the Angels. 15th. 15th. It was right around it. And he's gotten comparisons to John Lester all the way up the ladder.

John Lester, who, by the way, had major control issues in the miners. So there's reason for optimism here. And he looked great in this first start. curveball, you know, the Mets couldn't do anything with it. And just the way he used it was so impressive to me. I think I saw him throw it to a batter like three or four times in a row at one point. And then that 94 mile per hour fastball was just looked a lot faster because of that. So you have to take a chance on any potential you see its starting pitcher just in case it's the breakthrough you're desperate for in a way that you're not having to do in the outfield.

Do we know if Jacob Faria is going to replace Matt Andris in the Reyes rotation? We don't know, but I would guess. Okay, so Faria and Nukem are fairly exciting options for you. Who would you guys prefer? Newcomb. Yeah. But I'd like to own both. Do you feel okay?

Starting Nukem, Chris Towers, this week, one start against Miami, which has the eighth best OPS in baseball against left-handed pitching. And we're thinking should have John Carlos Stanton back because he did pinch hit yesterday. Yeah, we've got him on Team Kreeh, and we are not starting him this week. Sean Newcomb? Yes. Okay. All right, anything else?

I traded Cota Glover. I wanted to really talk about this. I traded Cota Glover on Friday for Rougnet O'Dore in a 14-Team Points League. And I'm going to say, you should trade Cota Glover now. I know he's been really good, but there's just no chance that the nationals are going to stick with a rookie closer when they could seriously win the world. World Series this year. He's on the DL now, right? It might be too late to trade him.

Exactly. Like, I was all prepared to have this great, awesome moment where I was going to give great fantasy advice, and then he slips in the shower, hurts his back, doesn't tell anyone, and he's on the DL. So who the hell is going to close for the Nationals this week? Probably Matt Albers. He's been their best reliever, kind of inexplicably. He has a couple saves already.

I would guess he's the one. And Chris, they said Felipe Rivera and Juan Naccio We're going to share closing duties for Pittsburgh, but it's been Rivera two in a row. Well, that was a really interesting because Rivera came in in the eighth inning in both. Yeah, both four-out saves, yeah. Well, he bailed out Naccio in the first one, I think. Naccio gave up a couple of hits, recorded two outs in the eighth inning. And then the second time on Sunday, Naccio pitched in the seventh.

But it seems to me, Chris, like Rivera is their guy. Yeah, I would think so. And, you know, it's interesting he got two four-out saves in two days, but he only threw, I think, 26 pitches between the two. What? Oh, wow. He's been... He's one and he had three strikeouts, I think.

He's been just absurd this season. And we haven't seen that... We haven't seen him pitched this well. And something that we're seeing, I think, from, you know, someone like Edwin Diaz, who looked like an elite pitcher over 50 or so innings last year is. Even for relievers, 50 innings isn't enough to say this is who this person is. is now. So I'm still a little skeptical about Felipe Rivera as this suddenly elite pitcher,

but I think he's got to be the number one reliever to add right now just because he's got the job. Okay. And look, Matt Albers is not a bad ad because yesterday they had a non-sage save situation, and I think they threw Sean Kelly, and Albers has been good, and you're just getting so many save chances from one of the best teams in baseball at the Nationals. So there are some options there. Do you see any other bullpens that look like they could be in flux right now? I know Justin Wilson pitched in a non-same situation yesterday.

I think he walked two batters, Senwon-Oh, got roughed up a little bit, but I don't know that there's anything imminent. What do you guys think? Well, Pat Nishik. Or is it Neshik. Neshik. Yeah, he's the closer now for the Phillies. Supposedly, but he worked the seventh inning of a game.

I think it was just yesterday. So I'm still confused as to what's going on there. It was when the Phillies were trailing, too. And I think Hector Nerris came in the following inning. And, of course, gave up a run, because that's what he does. Yeah, it was just yesterday. Nishik pitched the seventh. Nairus pitched the eighth in a losing game.

But last we heard, Nishik was supposed to be getting the next save for the Phillies. So that's still very much. up in the air, I think. Well, like, in the long run, we think Hector Nairus gets that job back, right? Yeah, they've talked about the things that they want him to work on getting that splitter back, and once

he does that, you have to imagine he gets back in that role. Yeah, it seemed like in Edwin-Diaz situation, and part of the uncertainty is a reflection of how few save opportunities the Phillies have gotten. But it didn't look like he had his splitter back yesterday,

at least just judging from the line. All right, guys, we're going to take a look at the most added players now in CBSSports.com leagues. Later on in the show, we will definitely talk about Robbie Ray. We will give you some injury updates. We'll talk about some tough calls you have to make. Do you start Jeff Samarja at Colorado? Do you start Joe Ross in a two-star week? Michael Conforto's got some tough matchups and some lefties on the schedule.

Do you start Giancarlo Stanton? Do you start Mitch Haniger? You start Masahiro Tanaka. Which pitchers can we buy into? Who should you add off the waiver wire? Your emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. All right, here is the most added list. And here we go.

Buck Farmer is number one, and Buck Farmer is a two-star pitcher this week. He has Arizona and Tampa Bay at home. Who's starting Buck Farmer? I think you should. I think the Arizona matchup could be tough, but Tampa Bay could be one where he really shines, and I like the stuff that we've seen from him.

Okay. I don't think it's a must in Roto because the lack of swinging strikes in the last start has me nervous about Buck Farmer. And then the problem in points leagues, those are usually split,

you know, SP spots and RP spots and Farmer is only RP eligible as of right now. Oh. So you might have to sit a closer or something to get him in your lineup. And that makes me a little nervous there, too.

I think he's owned in all of my leagues because I don't think there's a league where I would have let him go unowned. But I'm still... My enthusiasm for him is less than somebody like Sean Newcomb. All right, well, Buck Farmer is the most added player. Sean Newcomb is the second most outed player. And one thing real quick, Chris,

like, we might have to change our tune on the raise. They strike out a ton. I'm almost positive they lead. baseball, but they have the eighth most run scored in baseball and second most home runs, the raise. So he's got the raise in the diamond backs. That's two top eight offenses. We'll see.

Big week for Buck Farmer. This is a test for him. We'll see how legit Buck Farmer is this week. All right, Sean Newcomb, number two at 41 percent owned. Jeff Hoffman, guys. Jeff Hoffman is number three at 61 percent owned. Rocky's pitcher has been. Really good this year with a 0.7-4 whip and three walks, 34 strikeouts in five starts.

Hoffman is a one-start pitcher at home against San Francisco. Start or sit, Jeff Hoffman. And should we be adding him? Should we be more than 61% own? I have such a hard time saying any Rocky's pitcher, except for John Gray, should be more than 61% owned. Because I just don't know if I can still trust Jeff Hoffman. or at least, you know, in roughly half of his starts, but I don't know, how many pitchers are there that you feel confident

you can trust more than half the time anyway? Yeah, I couldn't bring myself to Adam anywhere. Not that I didn't look at it. There were just pitchers. I wanted, it's kind of a busy time for pitchers on the waiver right now. He ranked lower because of that home venue is such a big hurdle that really only, one pitcher, I feel like, is ever clear.

John Gray's not even totally there yet. I'm thinking back to Baldoh Jimenez's days there. So any other team, and I'd be as excited about Hoffman as some of these other guys, but he ranks behind them for me. If Jeff Hoffman pitched for the Braves, I think we'd all be excited at him. Yeah, even pitching half his game where you can trust the ball is going to hit the sun. Now, let me just say this about Jeff Hoffman. He is now 61% owned.

First of all, would you rather have Newcomb or Hoffman? Newcomb. Hoffman's only made one home start. So he's made five starts this year, four of them and been on the road. At home, he gave up three runs on six hits in five and a third against the Dodgers, not terrible, with two walks and eight strikeouts. So he will have his second home start this week against San Francisco. More on the most out of list. Felipe Rivera is four.

He's 50% owned. C.C. Zabathia is five. He's 85% owned. with very good matchups, though. The Angels actually had a great weekend. They hit the heck out of the ball, but at the Angels and at the A's for Sabathia. Edinson Volquez is number six.

He's 49% owned. So would you rather have Hoffman or Edinson Volquez? I would rather have Hoffman. I actually did pick up Volquez in at least one league. That's who I dropped the player I traded Polanco for, which was Denelson Lemmet. So I tried a Polanco because I was going to drop him for Denelson-Lamette, and then after Lament's last star, I dropped him for Volquez.

I don't think Hoffman was a choice in that league because I want to right now say Hoffman. Hoffman. Okay. Yep. I'm looking. What did you say, Chris? Who did you pick? Hoffman over Volquez.

Okay. Yeah. All right. Joe Ross is 73% own. Chris, Joe Ross is a two-star pitch. It's a tough, tough call this week. Joe Ross has Washington and Atlanta. I think.

No, Atlanta and at the Mets, so not nearly as bad. Yeah, that's not bad. Start or sit. I'm starting him in my 10-te-to-head categories league, but I obviously don't feel super great about it, given how he's just, he's been so impossible to figure out, good or bad. Okay. Like you said, this is really a lot of pitchers on this waiver wire,

and they're not all just two-star pitchers necessarily. Alex Meyer, he is. Kyle Freeland, he probably is too. Yeah, you have to go all the way down to Malick Smith at like number eight on the most added to get a non-pitcher. Yeah, Tyler Chatwood. We have three Colorado starting pitchers in the top 12 on the most added list. That is crazy. One softman and the other two-star pitchers, right?

Chatwood and Freeland, are they two-star guys? Yeah. Okay. Jimmy Nelson, Pat Neeshik, Domingo, Santana, Santana, or Brinson guys? Santana Yeah Ariel Miranda 75% owned

Do you like that? It feels high to me Yeah a little high I was kind of I was getting enthusiastic About picking him up Until there was this wave of pitchers Being called up

That kind of pushed him down My cue for pitchers to add He is on a nice run right now But Both the walks and strikeouts Have been kind of all over the place place, so it's not, still not sure I know what kind of pitcher Miranda is. All right.

And finally, Angelton Simmons is now 57% owned. I'm going to give you two more short stops, and you tell me who you'd rather have. Andrewton Simmons or Ernan Perez or Tim Beckham. Angelton Simmons, Perez, Beckham. Simmons. And that's not particularly close. It's, like, Simmons has always been a low BABIP guy, and it's still low this year. year and yet he's been one of the most productive shortstuffs in fantasy, in part because

the home run rate up is up, in part because the steals rate is up. But both of those, I think, are feasible. He was a 17 homer guy in the past. He has been, Andrewton Simmons has been such a terrible hitter. Like, how can you say it's not close? Ornon Perez? I can say, I can say it's not close because, who are the others again? Ornan Perez and Tim Beckham? Yeah, I mean. Yeah, I just, like, Tim Becker's got some pop, but the strikeout rate is just way too high. Yeah, no, it's crazy how much Tim Beckham strikes out.

But, like, Arnaud Perez is the number seven shortstop in fantasy over the last 14 days. He has four homers in that stretch. I think I'd rather have Hernan Perez, but I'm just, it's another situation with the Brewers where I'm just not 100% confident how much he's going to play. Well, no VR. I mean, he's been playing regularly anyway, so I feel like he's going to be in there, because VR is on the DL. And look, I have to replace VR,

so I'm going to actually have to make this type of decision. Yeah, I would go with Perez. Like, I think, because Perez, we counted on him for steals, and now he's not doing that at all. Yeah. He's just, just power. And, like, I don't know that it's,

that he doesn't give me as much hope as Andrews of himself. And I know. What, four more steals than him? Well, I just, It's really more like how could Angelton Simmons be a runaway winner in any hitting contest? Well, okay, I guess that's fair. I spent – I added him in a couple leagues. One, I dropped to Ledmas Diaz for him, and it's a shallow league where I'm not really worried about Diaz getting picked up.

But I do like the Angels matchups this week. And so just from a short-term perspective, I'm willing to see if Anderson Simmons has another good week. because with every good week he has, it becomes more believable. I'm just saying the underlying numbers for Simmons I don't think make his performance just immediately dismissable. All righty, friends. Let's get into some news. Taiwan Walker should be back on Wednesday. He will replace either Randall Delgado or Zach Godley in the rotation. So I don't know what to do here.

I want to start Zach Godley in a one-star week. He's been very good. He's been better than Delgado. Yeah. But I don't know why that's. I don't know why they're so committed to Delgado and the rotation that they'd have to send that guy, Zach Godley down, who's been their third best pitcher, right?

Ray Grinke and him? Probably, yeah. I mean, what does he have to do? Elite ground ball percentage. Could it just be Randallegado's out of options and they don't want to lose him? He is out of option, but why couldn't they just throw him back in the bullpen? Well, so do you think it's too risky to start Zach Godley this week? Yeah.

Damn it. Ben Zobrist has made three appearances at shortstop, and I think he's first base eligible now, too. Tyson Ross had a terrible rehab start. He could rejoin the rotation this week. Rehab starts don't always mean it. Like, David Price had bad rehab starts, so it doesn't matter much,

but the numbers have been pretty ugly for Tyson Ross. But he might be back in that Rangers' rotation this week. Yuenes Cestepidus cannot run 100%. What he can do is hit a grand slam and take 30 seconds to get around the bases. What's that, Chris? He can jog. He can jog. Justin Verlander said his groin injury forced him to make adjustments,

and he was trying not to overdo it while he was pitching, and he didn't pitch well. Again, so do you think you would sit Verlander this week? I believe he is one start at the Astros. It's... I don't think it's a crazy idea in a shallower league. I own Justin Verlander in a couple leagues myself, and I don't think I could dream of it in those.

It's against Tampa Bay, for what it's worth. Oh, okay. That makes a little bit of a difference. Well, yeah, better. Right. But, yeah, I mean, most people listening are probably going to have to start him, and I think that's fine. I'm not benching him. I have some interesting options on the bench, Mania or Matt Shoemaker, but they've both got tough matchups, too.

Felix Hernandez is one rehab start away from returning. Why don't you guys guess Felix Hernandez's ownership percentage? 93%. 86. 94. I'm a little surprised. A little surprise that he was stashed in so many leagues. He hasn't pitched since April 25th.

Mitch Hanager, never dropped below 90. I don't think. And that's outfield versus SP and difference in track records, too. So that's people are sticking with these injured guys. All right. They're flogging up their benches. Travis Shaw is on family medical emergency leave due to the health of his newborn daughter. So we obviously wish the best for Travis.

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That's promo code fantasy for $20 off your first Seekkeek purchase. Well, I was going to ask you for some weekend standouts, but we've pretty much done many of them. But we haven't talked about Robbie Ray. We've gotten some emails, some tweets about Robbie Ray. So my whole thing with Ray was he had three awesome starts in a row on the road. And then he came home to face the Padres. And all four of those starts were just dominant. And then it's like, all right, now he's got the Brewers at home.

Let's see what the man can do. Six and two-thirds, scoreless, three hits, four walks. I think two of them where his last two batters, 12 strikeouts, and Robbie Ray now has a 262 ERA, 35 walks, 107Ks, and 82 and a third. Three straight starts with double-digit strikeouts. How legit is Robbie Ray? I tweeted yesterday, Robbie Ray is what we hoped Michael Panetta would be. Okay, what does that mean?

opinion, right? Well, what some people hoped Michael Panetta would be, not me. Michael Panay's had a great year. He's been okay. He's been pretty darn good. He's got like a 370 RA since that big strikeout start and his second start.

I got receipts. I know what's up. I have receipts. Robbie Ray's better. No doubt. Robbie Ray is, I mean, the four walks, that was kind of like reverting to some, you know, not so pleasant times for Robbie Ray.

Still Robbie Ray. But even so, I mean, six and two, third, three at innings 12Ks. Like, it's like I can take some walks every now and then the way he's missing that. And the big thing with Robbie Ray is, unlike Michael Panetta, where he just kind of looks like the same guy. Like, he's throwing pretty much the same pitch mix. He's not throwing any harder. Robbie Ray has introduced a completely new pitch into his repertoire, and it's been his curveball has been extremely valuable for him uh 16.8% whiff rate with that pitch which

is above average for a curveball but he's allowing a 163 batting average and only one extra base hit on 49 at bats that have ended with the curveball and that's this is a guy who's had trouble keeping the ball in the yard curve balls can be really useful at limiting extra base hits it's not necessarily the best swing and miss pitch, but a lot of guys can use that to supplement a two seamer or sinker and get those ground balls and limit extra base hits, and that's what he's doing with it. I think he's, like, to sum up his value, he's right there, you know, technically, you know, just a little behind him, but right there with James Paxton and Lance McCullors in terms of

breakout dominant pitchers this year. Yeah, I've definitely got him behind those, and I'm going to have to do a serious rankings overall. I haven't touched that in the week I missed, but he's, I would guess he's going to be very close to my top 20. Okay, so you're going to put Robbie Ray ahead of Tanaka? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I'm thinking him or Louis Severino. Oh. Yeah. And I think I would go Severino still. Yeah, I definitely like it. I do still like the pitching profile of Severino more, but then he has the potential innings concern coming up.

Not as great as it is for some pitcher, but it is there. He threw 150 innings last year. Yeah, but they're probably going to the playoffs, right? Hope so. Severino, seven innings, one run on two hits, eight strikeouts, two walks against Baltimore. Severino's got a 275 ERA, 18 walks, 84 strikeouts in 75, and a third. So, yeah, he and Robbie Ray were absolutely standouts this weekend. Okay, so it sounds like you guys are totally buying in.

to Robbie Ray must-star pitcher don't want to necessarily sell high on Robbie Ray. Okay, great. Any, we'll get to it. We'll get to it. We've got a lot of stuff here. Let's do real quick, tough lineup decisions. I already asked Chris about Joe Ross. He says he's starting him in a two-star week, but not thrilled about it.

Jeff Samarja at Colorado. Jeff Samarja at Colorado, start or sit? Probably sit. Yeah, I'm sitting here. It's so tough because he actually doesn't have a bad track record in Colorado. We looked it up before the show. he's doing such a good job of limiting balls in play because of a strikeout rate that you would think that gives you an advantage in Colorado, but it's still Colorado. You can pitch well and still have a 6ERA.

And he did pitch poorly there earlier this year, but prior to that, yeah, Samarja had weird, oddly good numbers in Colorado, but we're going to say Sidham. Jameson-Tayone starting today. He's got Colorado at home and the Cubs at home. Welcome back. That's tough. Starter Sid-Sid Tion. Activate him right away. I mean, two-star week, immediately back. And the thing, like, coming back from testicular cancer, he's not, like, it's not like he's going to re-injure himself. You know, it's not like that fear with most pitchers coming back from the DL.

So he looked good in his rehab assignment. I'd be fine starting tie-out. Michael Conforto, he has John Lester and Mike Montgomery and Gio Gonzalez, three lefties in seven games. He also has Max Scho. Scherzer and Steven Strasbourg on the schedule. So it's a seven-game week for the Mets and three left-handed starters. And Conforto's cooled off a little bit.

Starters sit Michael Conforto. He's still holding his own against lefties this season. Strikeout rate's not bad. He's walking, hitting for a decent power. It's a small sample size. But I'm not sitting him where I own him. Okay. Me neither.

Me neither. Rick Porcelo, one start at Houston. That's who it was at Houston, not Verlander. Rick Porcelo at Houston. I'm pretty much okay sitting Rick Porcelo whenever you feel like you have better options. I mean, he's below the you never sit this guy threshold for me among starting pitchers.

I don't think he's ever really must sit either. It just depends on your options. I wouldn't be afraid to sit him with this matchup especially. I know, Scott, that we are sitting Jeff Somerville. Marja for Joe Biagini, Biagini has the White Sox at home. Would you have sat Porcelo for Biagini? I think so. I think I would.

I think Biagini is a higher priority for us in that league right now than Porcellos, which is, we haven't even mentioned Beagini. He's hardly owned at all, right? So first of all, I apologize, because I've got Porcelo here as a two-star pitcher. So that's my... Oh, you're right, actually. Yes. I should have known that being the one who ranks two-star pitchers every week.

And one of them is Philadelphia. So you're going to start Rick Porcell. Yeah, you're starting. Biagini is weird. Yeah, I don't understand why Beajini is only 25% owned. I will say I don't really buy him. I don't think his stuff is starter stuff. However, like, how can you deny the results so far?

And he's got the white socks at home this week. So Joe Beijini feels a little under-owned at 25%. Yeah. I mean, it's just bad timing for him, I guess, since there's so many other pitchers were enthusiastic about adding and how much can you turn over your roster in one week, you know? Yeah. But that being a 16 team league where we already owned Vijini, then yeah, I'm happy to start it. All right, guys, start or sit. Ryan Zimmerman, he's missed three of the last four with a back issue.

Well, he's been such a model of health in his career that, I mean, you just figure he gets past this really easily and it doesn't linger and ruin what's been a big, breakout season for. Okay, so was that sarcasm? I wasn't sure there. Me? Was that sarcasm? No.

I'm offended. I don't know. It's risky with Ryan Zimmerman. Yeah. I think we probably still have to start him. He's just been too good. I was actually going to lean the other way. I think I'd rather not take the chance, even if it's just a half week.

I think at that position, you know, I have, I have. Other good options to use. Mani Machado. Miss the weekend series could return today. Start, sit, Machado? Yep, sounds like he's going to be back. John Carlos Stanton, start or sit? I think I probably have to sit him.

He's just not a notoriously quick heat. But he pinch hit yesterday. Yeah. You know what? Hopefully they make it easy on us and we see some lineups tonight and can make that call. Well, there is a 2 o'clock game today. No. Is there?

I believe so. I think you're lying, Chris Towers. Are you being sarcastic again? It's entirely possible online. Chris, if you're wrong about... If you're wrong about this, you're off the podcast for the rest of the week. He's wrong. He's wrong.

You want to get out now or you want to stick around for the other show? The MLB app lied to me this morning. I can use good old CBS Sports.com. What a jerk. Mitch Hanager, guys, has four games at Minnesota, three at Texas. Are you comfortable putting Mitch Hanigar? Pretty good matchups this week. Back in your lineup?

Yeah, I don't expect him to play all seven coming right back from the DL. Maybe he sits a day or two, but yeah, I'm starting Mitch Hanninger. I don't think you have to, just because of how many outfielders are out there. Like, that's the thing about Hanigur. Like, I loved him at the beginning. He did great. I still love him. But he's almost kind of like my mascot now, you know?

Like, I don't have outfield troubles anywhere, except maybe some five outfielder leagues. Okay. So I don't know. And finally, we have superheroes. Tanaka starting tonight. Two starts for Masahiro Tanaka at the Angels and at Oakland. Start or sit?

I'm starting him. I like those matchups. I know he's been bad, but there are no like there are no like obvious reasons for me to believe that Masahir Tanaka is just terrible now. Like the velocity's not down. He's still getting a good amount of swinging strikes. His secondary pitches

have worked pretty well. Hey, Scott, remember last time when he faced the A's? Well, what was that, Adam? Remember what happened last time you faced the A's? Well, I was just remembering last week. Like, I made basically the same argument Chris did for Tanaka in what should have been two starts last week. And I feel like I was given a reprieve here because that week was shaping up to be most unpleasant. Obviously, the first start was a disaster.

At the Angels and at the A's, those are two such good matchups in really good parks to pitch in. I think this is the week. Here it is. He's back on the podcast. I'm playing my flag. Chris Towers. I don't want to. Right now.

Chris, I'm going to roll the dice too, but it's because I don't really have a great option. But, yeah, I mean, certainly not having to face Baltimore on Sunday and getting two starts at the Angels in Oakland was a nice gift for Tanaka owners. All right. More stuff here from around baseball. Here we go. I guess I could do the news and notes, but they're kind of boring. so I'll pick and choose. Kent and Maeda made a really good outing in the bullpen.

Four innings, one run, six strikeouts in relief of Rich Hill. Is Maeda still worth hanging on to, guys? He's 87% owned. I'd be okay dropping him because it doesn't sound like, and we've seen the way the Dodgers managed their pitching staff. He probably will get back in the rotation at some point, but it doesn't sound like Dave Roberts is angling for that. he wants him in kind of this piggyback role where he bails out a starter who doesn't go very long.

When you've got Rich Hill, Brandon McCarthy, and Hingen Ryu in your rotation, you probably want a guy who can step in at a moment's notice and fill in. Yeah. So that's probably too high ownership at this point. I'm not saying he needs to be dropped across the board. He probably will get another chance at some point. But talking about some of these pitchers we're looking to add, I don't think my aid to prevent me from adding another. Okay, he might not prevent you from adding another.

That's good. Yeah. And Jacoby Ellsbury will not be back this week, so you can start Aaron Hicks confidently, and you probably can when Ellsbury returns. And a role as Chapman could return this week, but if so, it would be in the weekend series, so you don't want to start him. And that brings me to hitters now. I'm fully buying into Aaron Hicks, guys.

I'm in batting 317 with a 429 on base, 584 slugging percentage. He might be an all-star this year. They had a huge week to Yankees, and I know they're going to be better at Holman on the road. Then on the road, they got seven road games, but I just, I think it's Ellsbury that's going to lose the most playing time. And Hicks is like 80% own, but I think if you picked them up, I think you're going to have a good player. I really struggle with it. Like, we've got 1,140 played appearances before this season where he just wasn't any good. Yeah, and Hicks was a first-round draft pick, and I think he had, I think the mental part of the game was a big,

every time I read about him, it was something like that. It wasn't about his tools or his skills. I mean, sure, but they're going to say that one at any time a big-time prospect bus. But it wasn't even their prospect, you know, so I don't know. We're seeing all, like Scott mentioned on Friday, I think, we're seeing all these delayed breakout. and Hicks has been compared to Jackie Bradley, who was a delayed breakout. But Jackie Bradley was 24, 25 when he broke out.

I mean, Chris is 28. Chris is being consistent here. Smoke delayed breakout. I don't think he's gone for that. Really, the only one he's gone for is Yonder Alonzo, and that's part of the fly ball revolution as well. And for me, it's just when a player makes a conscious change to their game, it's a lot easier for me to buy than just, like sometimes two good months happen.

Well, he did shorten his swing in the off season, if that matter to you. We don't know that there wasn't a conscious change. I mean, that sounds like conscious change, too. But there's also no conscious, there's no apparent change in his game beyond the strikeout to walk ratio, which I don't, like, we see that fluctuate too. Like, that's something that we think is like, that's a conscious decision that you're making. You're walking more. You know what? A Monday show is not the time for this conversation.

I should not have brought it up because, you know, obviously we've got to get to who to add and drop. So I'm going to list off some hitters, but we'll get back to Aaron Hicks later in the week. I'll list some hitters and pitchers here. And you tell me who you want to add and drop. We talked about Mabin and Malik Smith. Eric Young, 7% owned? No. No.

Okay. Nick Castellanos. Bring it up every show, Adam. Nick Castellano is 53% owned. Chris, this must excite you. He's barreling. You know, I love me some Nick Castellanos. I actually had to start him last week in place of Justin Bohr.

Oh, that worked out. Yeah. Well, 53% owned. Do you think that's underowned for Castellanos, who's red hot lately? 10-game hitting streak? I think it's probably a little low, but third base is so deep. It's kind of like outfield where, like, you have to be exceptional just to get on the board. And we've got, we talked about Ernan Perez and Tim Beckham.

Anybody interested in Jose Porella at 6%? I think he probably needs to be owned in more than 6%. He is kind of a guy who kept getting passed over, even though he hit well in the minors consistently, and is like a winter league legend because of how productive he is there year after year. And has come up, he was 11 for 18 in his last five games, playing every day for the Padres. He's somebody I have my eye on,

but he's just not, like, he can't break the mixed league threshold yet. So this is Jose Porella. Would you rather have Porella or Wilmer Flores? I would rather have Porella. This might not be a bad week for Flores, actually, because he's got three left-handed starters,

one of them being John Lester with the other Gio-Gonzalez of Mike Montgomery, but still he just kills lefties. Yeah, I wouldn't. Right, he does kill lefties. But he's been playing every day regardless, bouncing between third and first base. Oh, he's just going against lefties, I mean. And he does have that triple eligibility that maybe does make him more irasurable than Perela now that I think about it.

He's my Seizar Hernandez's replacement this week. Okay. All right, there we go. All right, is it, can we drop, should we drop Alex of I'm so annoyed. James McCann has come back and started three straight games. And should we drop Ian Hap, who only started three of seven games last week? Um Yeah, I think half is dropable

Yeah Yeah You know A Vila never quite gotten to my Top 12 catchers But I still think Like at that position At bats aren't the biggest

Determinant of how valuable a player is But aren't you upset that he's not going to start over James McCann Evidence for now Yeah, and that could change They've talked about it like it's going to be like close to a platoon right I'm not sure I thought that's what I saw And he'll probably work into DH

He'll probably work into first base at times A Vila will So You know If he's If he's starting Three or four games a week I think he'll

In two catcher leagues Or in leagues Or in leagues that are deeper than 12 teams I think he'll still be good enough to start This is a fly ball revolution guy too Yep Oh really So that's a Vila you're talking about

Yes, he's up to his fly ball rate to 45% from 33% for his career and has a 59.7% hard hit rate. He has been, I believe he leads baseball and baseball savants expected Wobah, which is nuts. Alex Avila, all righty. And finally, you know what, we're 47 minutes into the show. Should we talk about pitchers? Yeah, I probably should have done that earlier. Sorry about that. Let's talk about some pitchers.

Okay, Carlos Martinez, complete game shutout. with 11 strikeouts. Irvin Santana complete game shutout with five strikeouts. And we talked about Severino and Robbie Ray. Stephen Mats came off the DL and had a good start. Only 2Ks, but seven innings one run at Atlanta. So that was nice to see. I think Irvin Santana is the story here, guys.

It seems like he's had some blips lately. He's had three starts in his last seven allowing five or more runs, and he's followed all three of them with seven or more shutout innings. And Irvin Santana has 220 ERA and, only 63 strikeouts in 90 innings. So is he a top 30 starting pitcher? Not quite. No.

Not quite for me. He's a little outside of it. He must start. I don't see, yeah, I don't see how you sit him at this point. But he can't keep this up. And it's just a question of how far he falls down. And if he's a 3-5 ERA pitcher for the rest of the season, there's not going to be many times when you don't start him.

So are you still looking to trade Irvin Santana? If there's someone in my league that doesn't know what FIP is, yes. All right, I did a little bit of research here. I hope it's helpful. I'm not sure it is, but we're going to try. So I looked at the last two seasons. Pitchers who finished in the top 30 in ERA in the last two seasons with less than eight strikeouts per nine. And there were 10 top 30 starting pitchers in 2015 with less than eight strikeouts per nine.

in 2015 with less than eight strikeouts per nine. And there were nine in 2016. However, if you go to less than seven per nine, that's pretty rare to be a top 30 ERA pitcher with less than seven strikeouts per nine. There were two in 2015 and only one in 2016. So less than seven strikeouts per nine and a great ERA, it's hard to do. And Irvin Santana right now is accomplishing that. Not to say the strikeouts can't go up.

Good job of inducing weak contact. It's just, and that started last season, but I just, like you said, you've got to be really special at everything else to be that good with a low strikeout rate. I'm going to give you some studs who were duds. Tell me who you're worried about, if anyone. James Paxton, two straight disappointing starts. Jake Areeta, 468 ERA. and he had been pretty good for his last five starts, but certainly not great, but he struggled against the Rockies, Jake Arieta.

Jose Cantana, even with some improvements, still not really getting there. Antonio Senzatella is 88% owned, and Drew Pomeranz is 89% owned. We can do them separately, but Paxton, Areeta, Kentana, concerns? Not really any new ones. Paxton, actually dating back to the start before he went on the DL, three of his last four now, the walks have been unusually high. And that's, I mean, part of what got us excited about him coming into the year was he was like an elite control pitcher last year. So hopefully he's not taking a Jake Arenda turn as far as that goes.

But it's, you know, it's three starts and I'm not really freaking out. And especially because there was a DL stint there that, you know, hopefully you just kind of have to get past that. But how long before we look at Lester and Arieta? and the curse of the World Series pitchers and say, something's going on here. They're not just Lesteran Areetta anymore. Well, like Areietta started, started to go downhill in the second half last year.

Yeah, I don't know. It's in my mind with them. It's a consideration. I don't think it's necessarily, the answer and I'm not I'm not saying they're just doomed and you know this is as good as it gets for them

yeah no I mean I agree with that I just and I'm not really doing anything about it I'm just less confident when I start those guys yeah okay we've got Chris Archer yeah whatever Jose Berrios I just in order to save time you tell me we should mention Antonio sends a tell it being 88% Seno seems outrageously high.

I'd rather have Sean Newcomb than him. Yeah, four earned runs now and four of six for Sensitella. So there's beginning to be some correction there. Never more than four earned runs, which really isn't that bad in this day and age. But it's not good either. Okay, thank you for bringing that up. And then Drew Pomeranz, would you rather have him or Sean Newcomb? Pomerans.

Yeah, I don't love Pomerans, but the highs are too high. You're kind of hoping Sean Newcomb is Drew Pomerans. this season, right? I hope he's more consistent to Pomeranz, but yeah, I hope the upside's similar. Let's do some more waiver-wiring stuff here. Tell me of these pitchers who are all owned in more than 80% of leagues, if any of them, actually I'm only going to give you two here. If any of these are droppable, either of these.

Adam Wainwright, I shouldn't call them these, they're people. Adam Wainwright or Aaron Nola, are you okay dropping them? Wainwright, with a decent bounce back start against Philadelphia and had been pitching well, before a dreadful start, two starts ago. And then Aaron Nola, just 440 ERA, I mean, come on already. Nola and Wainwright, they're both more than 80% owned. Are they dropable? Even when Wainwright was pitching, quote, unquote, well, yeah, 034 ERA over four starts.

He only had 21 strikeouts to 10 walks. I think Adam Wainwright's been dropable for months. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. He shouldn't have been owned as much as he was coming into the season because he was terrible last year. An emailer, some emailer was giving me grief for being so dismissive of Adam Wainwright at the end of last week. I just haven't even like, honestly, I haven't really thought about Adam Wainwright as a fantasy relevant pitcher since last season. I didn't see any reason to consider him one. I don't think I had him in my top 60 coming into the season.

Next group of fringy starting pitchers, I want you to tell me if anyone in this group needs to be owned. Like you would not drop them. They're just, they're too good. Too good. Dan Straley, Ariel Miranda, Brad Peacock, Junior Garah, Alex Cobb, Jordan Montgomery. Dan Strelie, Ariel Miranda, Brad Peacock, Junior Garra, Alex Cobb, and Jordan Montgomery. The two who I really don't care to own are Garra and Cobb. You don't want to own Alex Cobb?

No, because he still hasn't... They're just kind of... He still doesn't have the change up back. That's the secret to his success, and he doesn't have it. Until he gets it back, I'm not convinced he's going to be more than a marginal pitcher. Jordan Montgomery is my favorite of this group. I've been the Jordan Montgomery guy, even more than the Yankees fan on the podcast, and the fact that he's the lowest of the group seems ridiculous to me, frankly.

This is really good start this weekend. Best start of his career. They did not have Manny Machado for what that's worth. The high swinging strike rate all year, so I'm joining that bandwagon. Yep. And Montgomery, I think what I like most about him is he's got, I would say, four reliable pitches, which is rare for a rookie. Next group of fringe starting pitchers, Denelson Lamett, you jerk, you've made us believe.

Matt Moore is 64% owned. Jaime Garcia's been pitching great lately. Zach Godley, 51% owned and Jeff Hoffman, 61%. So we got Lamet, Matt Moore, Jaime Garcia, Zach Godley, Jeff Hoffman. I'd say Godley deserved to be in the previous group, if not for the threat of him getting sent to the minors. You know what, Scott? Let's just go ahead and make the prediction.

He's going to stay up. It's going to happen. He's in the rotation, Zach Godley. To be honest with you, even though we have no idea, I think that right now as of Monday morning, we should think that he is going to stay there, going to do the smart thing, move Delgado back to the bullpen

and keep Godly in the rotation. I mean, the Diamondbacks beatwriter for their official team side, I can't think of the guy's name, but he seemed to be leaning the other way. What does he know? I don't like, what does he know? I'm just kidding.

More about the goings-on of the Diamondbacks than we do. That me? I'm not sure about that. All right, fine. Can we just, like, stop this Matt Moore thing? I'd finally cut him loose in the podcast league. Like, he's useful when he's at home, but he's not a good pitcher. Yeah.

Well, who is a good pitcher here? I get suckered in every year. Lipps. Lament, Matt Moore, Hymai, Godly, Hoffman. Who's a good pitcher, Chris Towers? Who do you want? I'd rather have Hoffman or Godley than him in this group. But not Lema.

Maybe Hime, too. Maybe. Yeah, I just, like. He's at least elite ground ball specialists. Matt Moore's about to turn 28. He had one good-ish season when he had a 329 ERA and 150 innings back in 2013. And even then, his peripherals were pretty bad, and his whip was high. We're still treating him like he has this untapped potential, and it's just like, yeah, he was a prospect seven years ago.

Okay, finally, Denelson Lemette, you cool dropping him? Yes. Is there anyone from this group that you want? We might have to change our theme song soon, by the way, because Mike Fires has been great. Ian Kennedy, these are all less than 50% own. Ian Kennedy, ugh, Jordan Zimmerman, Mike Fires, 3-0 with a 196 ERA in his last three.

Armand Marquez, Hyun Jin Ryu, and am I forgetting anyone? Robert Gazellman staying in the rotation. Yeah. He looks good. I've liked the stuff all year with Gasselman, and the command was just awful early on, especially at the first inning of every start. It seemed like he was just getting pounded. But the stuff was still really impressive to me. And I think he's a little underowned. I would rather have him than Matt Moore. I would rather take a chance on him figuring something out than trying to chase this Matt Moore ghost. I had put in that exact claim before I made the, before I made the Pallon. for Nelson trade and that kind of changed things around. I opted for Volquez.

He was over Gazelman. I prioritized Volquez over Gazelman. But, yeah, there's something there again for Gazelman. I wish the strikeouts were higher during this turnaround. That's my biggest hesitance. What about Mike Fires? No, let's not do this. Let's be adults.

What about Jun-Riu? I know this was not a good start. I still have a little bit of faith in Junjun Ryu at 31%. Nobody? Okay. Yeah, I'll stream him against the right matchup, but I would hope we see Kenta Maeda and the rotation above him, among other people, before long.

What about Joe Biagini and Seth Lugo? They're both kind of interesting. Very available. I like them both more than fires. I like them both more than Ian Kennedy at this point, certainly Jordan Zimmerman. So they probably don't deserve to be tiered below them. But I haven't, in a standard 12-team mixed league, I haven't made a move for either Beijini or Lugo. Seth Lugo was impressive last season with the 26 ERA and the 109 whip, but the strikeouts weren't there.

And then you watch him pitch, and it's like, how does this guy not get just a ton of strikeouts? the stuff, the breaking pitches are really good. Yeah, careful. If he can turn that stuff into consistent strikeouts, he had six and seven innings last night, even if he just gets to that, not even a strikeout training. I think he's got a chance to be really good. Are you ready to do five listener emails in less than a minute?

Yes. You're on the clock. Here we go. Reggie from Charlotte. He needs to pick up a closer. Ramos, Matt Bush, San Diego Casilla, or Brandon Mauer? Matt Bush. This is from Carlos in Australia.

you, should he drop Michael Franco or a Ledmus Diaz to pick up Ernan Perez? Neither. I think I'd be okay dropping Diaz. From Perrette's, two-start Tyone or Justin Verlander for one start? Tyone or Verlander? Tyone. Miles in Los Angeles. I traded Kyle Seeger and Bellinger for Daniel Murphy.

Was that a good move? Yeah. B-minis. Yeah, I like it. Who do you like rest of the season, Benintendi or Yelich? Yelich. Okay. I have been in time, be higher.

And finally, Josh from St. Louis. Travis Shaw was dropped in a 12-team Roto League. Would you drop Garrett Cole to pick up Travis Shaw? Nope. Nor would I. We did it. Five emails in a minute. Yeah.

Oh. Do you think the Arizona Beat Rider could do that, Scott? Goodbye, everybody. We'll talk to you on Tuesday. Hooray for baseball.