Fantasy Baseball Today - 06/14: Rankings! Rankings! Rankings! And Fantasy Regulators! (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 14, 2018

A lot of rankings on today's show, but first let's tell you about an awesome and mostly anonymous RP you can add (1:15) and how we're feeling about Dylan Covey (2:24). Then we're ranking rookies (8:26) in seasonal and dynasty formats, ranking aces (14:55) and ranking RPs (18:00) ... Adam is forced to have another Greg Bird argument (27:12) as we talk about some lineup notes from around MLB, then we tell you which hitters (34:15) and pitchers (36:41) are overowned. Rafael Devers? Jake Lamb? Nick Pivetta? Sonny Gray?... Scott and Heath give us some rankings risers (39:12) such as Ross Stripling and John Hicks and rankings fallers (43:45) including Josh Donaldson. We also react to yesterday's SP performances (48:40) and then the Fantasy Regulators (54:15) are back to lay down the law ... Your emails at [e-mail] This episode is sponsored by www.ZipRecruiter.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

Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS Sports. One, one pitch, basketball, all the, and fast. Out of the league. Got a fantasy question? Email fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy! Now, here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris.

Well, let's just take a little peek through the rundown here. We've got awesome rookies, amazing aces, bullpen stuff. We got a whole bunch of rankings to get to. We got Dylan Covey. Apparently we're going to talk about Greg Bird, which was not my idea. I swear it. Weird. I swear.

We have got one heck of a show for you today. So make sure you stay tuned for the entire thing. Because you know who's going to make an appearance at the end of the show, guys? You don't know? Play the music, please. The fantasy. I do you'd like that. So here's what's going to happen.

Since I don't really know where to start, like I also have this. This segment about specialists, steel specialists, and whether or not we should roster them. They are not good at anything else. I don't know where to start, so I'm going to let you start. But actually, that's a lie. I'm actually going to start with something that I never thought I was going to start with. I want to talk about a middle reliever who's 5% owned. What?

Do you know who I'm talking about? He has not given up a run. He has 21 strikeouts to no walks. Two hits in 10 and two thirds. Oh, I think I know. I think I know. It's Justin Miller, right? Justin Miller for the Nationals is 5% owned, and he right now is kind of like the best reliever in baseball in 10 and 2 thirds for what that's worth.

Amazing. It has been amazing. It's because he's 31 years old. He's been in the majors before, and nobody wanted much of anything to do with them. And now 17 strikeouts, one hit, no walks, and nine innings. Oh, no, you're behind. You're behind today. Oh, yeah, that's true.

Baseball reference isn't updated yet. It's true. No walks, 21 strikeouts, and 10 and 2 thirds, only two hits allowed for Justin Miller. 5% 0. Oh, he gave up another hit. He ruined it. He did, yeah. And look, he's a middle reliever.

He's got four wins. He's 4-0. So I think we all know what to do. If you need help with ratios, keep an eye on Justin Miller. Now we can move on to some juicier stuff. Scott White, who do you want to lead the show with? I want to lead the show with Dylan Kobe, I think. Woo.

Yeah. Let's do it. I picked him up in two leagues. Did you? And he's up to 32% ownership, which frankly surprises me, given his, the fact he's Dylan Kobe. And we've always, like the instances when he's pitched in the patch, we've passed, we've just completely ignored him. But obviously off to a good start. ERA of 229, it's won three games for the White Sox in, what, five starts, I think,

is. 35 and a third inning, so yeah, probably. Six starts. And, like, I don't think, I don't think it's the total fluke because Dylan Kobe has done one thing this year better than any pitcher in baseball. And that's get ground balls. He has the highest ground ball rate, at least if he had the innings to qualify. There may be some other non-qualifier to have a higher rate, but I doubt it.

Covey's number one on that list. I just think, like, he's like, he's like, He's so bad at, and I know the strikeout rate actually looks decent, but the swinging strike rate is so low. Like, that doesn't look like it's going to be part of his skill set. And I feel like, I feel like it's a very similar profile to Clayton Richard, who can be a useful streaming option, but isn't some kind of fantasy mainstay. So I'm not rushing to add Kobe anywhere, but I'm not, like, totally dismissing him either. Heath, where are you on Dylan Covey? As Scott said, he's 32% owed.

He gave up two runs on 10 hits. They were all singles against Cleveland over seven innings yesterday, and three and one with the 229 ERA. Dylan Covey. Defuddled is where I am. I said yesterday on the Sportsline DFS podcast that he was a bad pitcher. After this start doesn't look very smart, and after his 35 innings this year doesn't look very smart.

I really wish right now that we had a little more access to advance data from the minor leagues. I just like to know if there's anything he's doing different. There is. There is. There is. What is it? Well, this is what I heard.

Overheard on the broadcast last night. Outstanding movement on his fastball, changing speeds, working faster, and a lot more confident. Dylan Kobe was nibbling last year, but now he wants to challenge hitters. I watched a pretty good chunk of it. I picked him up because he's got two starts next week. One of them is at Cleveland. He's already faced Cleveland twice, and he just did well against. them. He did well against Boston without mooky bets, but the start before. He did well against

Milwaukee to start before that. So he's hot right now. So it's two starts next week. Both points leagues. That's where I'm looking to add him because, yeah, I don't know about the strikeouts. I don't know about the whip. But if I just want some innings and maybe a quality start or something like that, I think that's where you're looking at Kobe. He's just a different picture because I think his mindset is different. And yeah, that's a nice sinker he's got. He's got some really good movement on that as evidenced by all the ground balls. So that was what I heard on the broadcast heathen. I'm not going crazy picking up Kobe, but two points leagues.

I plan on starting him next week, even with Cleveland on the schedule. Well, my standout wasn't actually necessarily a standout last night, but was a standout because of something that I noticed for next week. He did pitch last night, and it's somebody I'd rather start than Dylan Kobe. I know who it is. Andrew Suarez. It's Andrew Suarez. I have a segment here called Look at Those Matchups.

Yes. And he was not bad last night. Five innings gave up two runs. Struck out three. It's pretty Andrew Suarez type outing. He's had a few more strikeouts than that. He's got a decent, he has decent peripherals. Fips 3-8-5, his ERA's pretty inflated.

Next week he has two home starts against the Marlins and the Padres. Pretty good. Andrew Suarez is the two-start pitcher that I want to think I think of that. Well, Yolisha Sien is on that list as well. I put in a claim for him. I saw someone else picked him up. So, yeah, I don't know if it's going to be such another terrible week of streaming two-star pitchers. But today is – yeah, go ahead.

You just change the words around. It's a week of streaming terrible two-star pitchers. You know, the funny thing about Suarez is I thought he would have a good start against the Marlins because it was a homecoming game. And he's not that bad, you know, five innings, two runs, three strikeouts at Miami. And he actually said he couldn't really grip the ball that well because it was so humid in Miami. It's like, come on, man. you're from. Wait, isn't it air conditioned in that stadium?

I don't know. They let the roof open maybe. In June? I hope not. That's what he said. You're the problem with Marlins Park, Scott. No. No, you didn't go to a game down here before there was a roof heap.

I've sat at plenty of games in 90 degree weather with my shirt off in the outfield bleachers. It's less the heat than the humidity. We have plenty of humidity in Kansas City. No. No, no. We've trademarked that at South Florida. All right, but it is a ranking show. So Heath and Scott are going to debate some pitcher rankings.

The people want to know why Scott has Gene Seguerra so low in his second base rankings, or shortstop rankings, rather. Only short stuff. That's where he's eligible. Eighth behind Javier bias. The people want to know Scott White. Behind Javier bias? I know, right? It's just wild.

Wait a second. He wasn't he. I thought he was, I thought Javier Baez had outscored him. I guess until very recently, I don't know, but is that the only basis for your rankings? No, but I mean, Objitigur has like a 400 Babbat. I know. Like he's performing over his head, not to an insane degree, but like he's not this good. All right, here are three ranking segments.

Let's have fun with it. Rank these rookies. Double Dong, Wang Soto, the youngest player to hit two home runs in a game since Andrew Jones. Juan Soto. Ronald Acuna. Glaber Torres. Mike Soroka. And Willie Adamas.

So let me read it again. Soto, Acuna, Torres, Soroka, Adamus. Rank them. Well, there are different tiers here, and there are two in the top tier. I just yesterday moved Juan Soto one spot ahead of Ronald Acuna. So I'll take Soto and then Acuna and then a drop. And then probably Soroka, then Torres, and then Adames. Okay, so Soto, Acuna, Soroka, Torres Adamas for Heath.

Scott? That's interesting because I would have, I might actually have, I mean, it's, Taurus would be in the top of. he would be ahead of the drop, especially since he's the shortstop eligible one. Well, he's, Adama's too, but obviously Torres's done a lot more to this point. I could see Soto ahead of Acuna now.

I think that's fair. I think I still have him three spots behind Acuna, but, you know, it's not a gap to quibble over. And he's obviously done some great things. One of those homeruns yesterday was a cheapie, but nonetheless, more walks than strikeouts and great power. So, yeah, I'm fine with that.

Soto, Akunia still edges out Torres for me, and then Soroka and Adams. Okay, so what was your, yours was... Soto, Akuna Tora, Soroka, Adamas. Yeah, Heath, I'm a little surprised you of Soroka ahead of Torres. I just, again, it comes back to the number nine hitter, and I don't know... Shortstop isn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.

So I don't know that I can see getting Torres into my top eight shortstop. So he's a low, low starter. And Soroka had an outstanding start yesterday. I'm more excited about a number four starting pitcher than I am a number nine or ten shortstop. Glaber Torres is since being called up number eight. He's actually better at second base to shortstop because shortstop's been better than second base. He's the number eight second baseman in points, number four in Roto. Number 11, shortstop in points, number seven in Roto.

And he doesn't have much to fall back on aside from the home runs. Because he hasn't really stolen. He's got two steals, he's got pretty bad plate discipline. He has only five doubles, but 12 home runs and a 296 batting average for Glaver Torres. Would you guys rather have Glaver Torres or Javier Baez? I'd rather have bias. But, like, they're both must start in my eyes. I have Torres one spot ahead by us.

I'm wondering if I should make some offers for Soroka. I don't know. What do you guys think of Soroka? I'm not sure I buy him as a must-start guy. I'm not sure what to think of Soroka yet. Part of me thinks developmentally, like he's going to be the best pitcher that comes out of this Braves rebuild. but he's kind of having to thread the needle with that

because he's not, he doesn't have the raw bat missing ability of some of the others. Like I think he profiles as a Zach Grinky type, and you just don't see a lot of that phenotype in today's game. So, I mean, yeah, it was a good start yesterday. Obviously, one hit in six and a third innings. There's nothing to complain about there. But it was only five swinging strikes. He threw 74 pitches in six and a third innings.

Wow, that's great efficiency. but I just like it's there's not a lot of pitchers you see succeed like that in the majors today I think it's possible like he could just be this amazing strike throw thrower and maybe eventually he takes an Aranola type turn where he goes from being just a guy who gets a lot of strikes to becoming a guy who gets a lot of swings and misses but it's again you don't see a lot of that so it's hard to yeah it's hard to just try to in that forecast. Right.

I'm feeling the same way. How about you, Heath, about Soroka? Yeah, I think there's not, I don't have a lot to quote with it. What Scott said, I do think, like, he's not a terrible bad mistake. He's got an 11% swinging strike rate so far this year. He did not get a ton of strikeouts in AA in 2017. He didn't get a lot in 2016 in high A. But I think it's probably, like, we see hitters, and we've kind of accepted now,

that a lot of hitters will come up and have more home runs than they did in the minor leagues. I don't know that we should rule out that happening with pitchers and strikeouts as well with this current environment. Yeah. I mean, one thing to consider, too, is he's 20. So, like, obviously he's not his best, the best he's going to be physically. But it's, you know, if we're just talking about a fantasy context, we're just talking about this year, you know, I don't know that he's going to become that. Or you continue to be, like if he just continues to do what he's doing.

Then that would be a, that would certainly be a worthy option in fantasy. 62% owned, Mike Soroka. At the very least we could say he's underowned, you know. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I was saying, I guess it was just yesterday when he was coming off the DL, that he needs to be picked up. Most anywhere he's available. And he face the team.

And that still sounds like a lot of league. Yeah, Soroka faced a team in the Mets who've scored 10 runs in their last 87 innings. So just quick three-word answer, guys. Rank these three in Dynasty Leagues. Soto Acuna Torres. You did. Yeah, I guess so. Like, it's hard for me to already say Acuna is not first on that list.

Because part of my... No, three-word answer. Nope, we're moving on. Rank these aces. We're doing more rankings now. Rank these aces. By the way, we'll hear some rankings, risers, and fallers for Scott and Heath in a little bit.

There were some big-time aces out yesterday. Jacob de Grom. He is four and two, despite having a 155 ERA and a 101 whip. De Grom. Zach Granky struggled yesterday. Zach Ranky did not get a strike call on a two-strike pitch, and it was a strike in the second inning. And everything spiraled after that.

He gave him four runs in the inning. It was very strange. Chris Sale, Jose Barrios, Trevor Bauer, and Garrett Cole. So rank those six aces. de Grom, Granky, Sale, Barrios, Bauer, and Cole. Heath, you can start. I'll go, Sale, DeGrom, Grinky.

No, I'm sorry. Sale, Cole, de Grom, Grinkey, Burrios Bauer. I had overlooked Cole there, too. The only change I'd make is I'd take Bauer over Burios, but they're in the same range of five pitchers. No. Like, they're in five pitcher stretch in my round.

Why not put Bauer ahead of Granky at this point? I have to correct myself. I did move Bauer ahead of Berrios yesterday. So this is really boring, but I think we have the exact same way. It's not boring. Sale, Cole, DeGrom, Granky, Bauer, Berrios. It's interesting. DeGrom's so good, but third on this list, which is, I mean, understandable, behind

Sale and Cole. But Bauer, look, I take Bauer over Carlos Carrasco. I said at the end of yesterday's show, I stick by it. I wouldn't do that. Why? He's so good. And I have Granky ahead of Carasco, too. Bauer's so good. And oh my gosh.

And I'm sure this is the same for, hold on, let me just make this one last point. I'm sure this is the same for Carasco. I looked at the probable schedule rest of season for Trevor Bauer, because he's had a pretty easy schedule. And that's mostly because the Tigers, White Sox, and twins stink. Now the twins could turn things around. Oh, and the Royals. Like pitching in the AL Central is such an awesome thing. So that's something to keep in mind for Bauer.

Why not Bauer over Carlos Carrasco? I think Bauer has the fourth or fifth most strikeouts in baseball right now. I mean, by saying Bauer's so good, you're making it sound like by ranking him behind those guys, I don't think he's so good. Which I don't think is totally fair. Those are really good pitchers. That's fine. Just Carasco, though. Why Carasco over Bauer?

I mean, Carasco's been really good, too. And he's been really good for, what, the last five years? Okay. Heath, you agree. I don't like... We start off with this expectation for the season that Carlos Carrasco is a borderline ace, and Trevor Bauer is a number three or number four starter, and Bauer has jumped way up in the rankings from there. He's my top 20 now.

But Carasco hasn't really done anything for me to lower him. So it's just that I think track record's still factoring into it. I think Trevor Bauer is just this good now, but he's still got a pretty considerable. track record of not being. Okay. All right then, let's rank these relief pitchers. Blake Parker pitched in the seventh and eighth innings yesterday and gave up a home run.

Corey Canable got a save, and he has now five saves since May 21st. Josh Hader has no saves since May 11th, FYI. Hater pitched an inning in the eighth. So Parker, Canable, Felipe Vasquez, who's been struggling. Mark Balanson, Hunter Strickland, two Giants. and Soria, Wachim Soria has six saves in his last eight or nine days. Parker, Canable, Felipe Vasquez, Malanson, Strickland, Soria. How do you rank them?

You know, it's really interesting what's happened at Relief Pitcher this year because there have been so many with a very tenuous grip on the roll. And, like, I feel like two-thirds of all closers have a tenuous grip on the role right now. So for me it's Kenebel And And then kind of a big drop To the rest of them Because Kinebel's inside that group

All these others are outside of that But I do think Vasquez has a little more job security than Parker Even though he's obviously been worse this year So I'll rank them that way Kinebel Vasquez Parker Followed by Strickland's And I'm going to put Malanson ahead of Zoria just because I think

I don't trust the I don't trust Rich Rodriguez Rick Renteria to stick with any one guy and Dwight sucks aren't going to win a lot of games anyway Okay so you go Canable Vasquez Parker

Strickland Melanson and then Soria Heath I'm just checking Soria got another save last night right He did yes Now Nate Jones is on the DL by the way Sorry has six saves in the last nine days.

And he hasn't given up a run. I just said that. I am regulating. You know what, Heath? Wait, I got to get the music. Go ahead. Forget it. I already blew my chance.

You know, you give me these eight names to rank reliever. And so I'm trying to put that together in my head while you guys are talking and come up with interesting things to say about the guys that I'm going to be different about. I understand. And you expect me to be listening to you? Not really. Go ahead. Okay.

So I agree. Canable is he's the only one of these guys in my top 12 reliever. I've got him 12th. There's a little bit of a drop to Vasquez, a little bit of a drop to Hunter Strickland. I'll take Parker next, then Soria, and then in a distant last, Melanson. I think Strickland's going to hold on to this job.

Yeah, we might be not too far away from Strickland having a grasp on that job, but it's certainly not a certainty right now. Yeah, I mean, his strikeout and walk rates aren't really what you want from a closer. Melanson's really never have been, ever. Well, but Melanson's also been, consistently a sub 2ERA guy.

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He's really bad. His numbers are quite bad. Zach Cozart left with a shoulder injury. So David Fletcher, who went three for four with the four. the triple and two RBI's yesterday at Seattle. David Fletcher maybe gets more playing time. Routre has four walks in his last five games. That gives him 12 and 42 games,

and that is like Joey Votto-like for Rue Net Odor. So that's cool. Now get some hits. Francisco Sorelli returned. Brandon Belt could be back on Monday. Yasmani Grandal was robbed of a home run. Kevin Brown apprehended male thieves. Did you read that story?

No. No. So Kevin Brown, the old like Padres, Marlins, Yankees, right? Pitcher. Dodgers. Rangers. Was he on all? He was on the Marlins and the Padres, right?

It's interesting that you said Padres first because I think he was with them for one year. Oh, okay. But it was during the prime of his career. It was a really good year. Yeah, apparently he like apprehended these male, these people, these kids who were stealing mail. And what I read in the ESPN article was that he did it, he held them up at gunpoint to make sure before the cops got there. How is that legal? What do you mean?

What do you mean? You can't just put a gun at people. He's not a cop? If somebody's on your property, you can. I don't think he was, I don't know if it was on his property. Okay, that's actually something I should investigate. And, you know, we've been getting a lot of questions about Freddie Peralta. Do we need a stash Freddie Peralta?

He's a good stash candidate. He leads the minors and strikeouts. I just don't know when he gets to start again. Okay. Brown hit in a neighbor's yard and waited for the alleged thieves to swipe some mail. When they tried, Brown caught them, holding them at gunpoint until police arrived. No, you cannot do that. You cannot do that.

He should have been arrested. It wasn't even in his yard. Well, they were in his yard. No, they were. He was hiding out in a different place. Oh, maybe. Maybe. When they came on his property, he then surprised it.

That's unclear. That's unclear. It's inferred. line up stuff Max Muncie sat against a lefty which has not been the norm I think it was just a day off and he's been amazing against lefties

Joe Madden is like criminally insane he used two but I mean that in a good way he's like it's pretty cool he used two relievers in left field so I believe it was Steve Seishik and Brian Duncey

like yes right yeah he he would to maximize handedness and not have to burn one of the relievers completely. He could swap back and forth. Yeah, that's what he did.

And I mean, obviously, you're taking a risk that the ball isn't hit to left field or that it's a very routine lie if it is. But it's definitely, uh, definitely egregious, egregious use of the rules. I think, though, that is something that happened more. Like, I remember that happening in the 80s.

Yeah. I think that was something teams used. to do a little bit more and then everybody stopped doing it. Okay. I don't even know what a greet just use of the rules is. That was a bad word. I'm still stuck on this Kevin Brown thing.

Because I'm wondering like, because I've never really thought about the legality of holding. Certainly, Adam, if, if you thought these criminals, like, threatened his safety in some way. They were stealing mail. I understand that. But, like, that seems like,

a tricky line legally. I felt threatened by them, so I was allowed to hold them. Think how much Kevin Brown's identity is probably worth. If you could steal his identity. I think really the key is whose yard he was in

when he held them up at gunpoint. Also, he played for the Orioles as well. We missed that. Okay. What if it's a public place and these people have, they have a weapon, they've been threatening people.

Let's think of this way. If you're on public street, someone's stealing your car, do you have to let them drive off with a car? car or can you hold them at gunpoint? I don't know, actually. It's a good question.

I believe you can. I don't know about that. I don't think that. You're not forced to let someone have your car when you have the ability to stop them. Okay. I'm not really a big fan of vigilantes. Chris Bryant sat. John Jay's been leading off for Arizona if you're in a deep league.

Greg Bird. All right, here we go. Greg Bird. He batted seventh yesterday, which I wasn't. I had a feeling they were going to move him down in the order. And I don't like that. But he homered and he doubled. And go ahead, Heath.

What do you want to say about Greg? This is a guy who was a better prospect than Aaron Judge or Gary Sanchez. Why do you scoff at that? Because if you say for you would be something, Opedigree. When I say it, it's a big joke to everybody. I can't stop laughing. I don't think

that's necessarily true, though. I know what Brian Cashman said. I love Greg Bird, but I don't think he was ever considered a top 100 prospect of those others to work. Well, okay. So it wasn't even factually true. That's what they said. I care more about how the Yankees evaluate their own players rather than how, like, Baseball

America does. So anyway, if you take away the first month of last year, and I wish Chris were on the show, wait, before you laugh, Greg Bird, listen, listen, listen, Greg Bird came up in 2015. He had about an 871 OPS. He got hurt. He missed all of 2016. He was the star of spring training in 2017. And with about two days left before the season started, the last couple of couple of days of spring training. He fouled the ball off his ankle. He played like 20 games or something like that, and he was terrible. And he went on the DL, and eventually he needed ankle surgery. He came back, and I think he had an 891 OPS. So we are now talking about a guy who, if you remove the 20 games in which he played clearly hurt, required surgery, had about an 880

OPS. If you saw the home run he hit yesterday, you would know why I like Greg Byrd, because he's a lefty in Yankee Stadium, and he hit a ball into the right field seats about five rows deep. That probably wasn't a home run in most other parks. So I'm applying to D.D. Gagorius logic. This was a guy who they wanted to bat third and was batting third in their order until yesterday when they moved him down to seventh. I really don't feel like I need to justify why I like Greg Byrd.

I think I just laid it out very, very clearly with excellent points. And I don't want to be questioned on it anymore because it's annoying. And Chris is, like, so wrong about looking at its career OPS because it is so heavily influenced by when he was playing through an ankle injury that required surgery. Period. I think the problem would be, it will be easier to make that argument once he has like an 880 OPS this year. Okay, but he had it twice.

Right now his OPS this year is lower than his career OPS. So the career OPS argument holds a little more weight. No, it doesn't because the career OPS is skewed. If you remove the stint last year when he was dealing with the injury, the numbers look a lot better, and that's probably the fairest way to assess it. but it's still a very small sample. Yeah, I know. I know.

So, like, he's so unproven, and every time he gets an extended look, he seems to let us down. Like, he only has one walk so far, and that's supposed to be a big part of his game. Yeah, but that's not, I don't think that's true every time he gets an extended look. This is the third time he's got an extended look, and twice he was good. So far, he's struggling. Yeah. I mean, look, I have him in one of my dynasty leagues, and, I consider him a big part of my team's future.

But at the same time, I'm also concerned that he's never going to, that he's going to let me down over the long haul. And I have this investment that's wasted. So he's definitely, like, I think there, particularly in that lineup, in that stadium, I agree there is a ton of upside. But he's 25 and keeps missing time with injuries. And I think eventually the opportunity is going to pass. and buy if he doesn't get it into gear here soon.

All right, some more quick lineup notes. Gary Sanchez sat again. They're giving him an extended rest. He'll be back today. Dansby Swanson has batted second six straight games for the Braves, Danesby Swanson. Max Stacey has started three or five games since Brian McCann returned. Tom Murphy started again for Colorado.

Who would you rather have Max Stacey or Tom Murphy? Stacey, but that was definitely an eye-opener that Murphy was doing that twice in a row. Because one, you just figure, okay, I know, I didn't need the day off. But two, maybe the Rockies are thinking transition here. Yeah, I think I need to move Murphy up because I actually read an article yesterday where they were talking about the benefit of having Chris Ionetis bat on the bench and being able to bring him against the lefty reliever. I think they may be making a transition here.

All right. And Derek Dietrich has sat three of the last four games, all of them against left-handed starting pitchers. Diedrich. Sitting against lefties. It was in my top ten sleeper hitters for this week. Yeah, I know, weird. And Adam Eaton was removed for a pinch runner, so he's still not all the way back.

But he has been starting and playing right field with Bryce Harper in center field. And that's what the possibility of them using a DH that they've been using Daniel Murphy for. So Eaton had three hits yesterday. You don't want to be a cowardly move if once they're out of the AL park and they don't have DH anymore, they put Murphy back on the DL. He can't really run. I mean, he looks like Miguel. Cabrera out there. It's hopefully gets better, but he's not right. Part of me wonders if they've been

planning, like if that was the whole plan. Let's just get him in for the D.H. And we'll give him 10 more days to keep rehabilitating. Well, I do want to get into the rankings, risers, and followers. I have one more segment before we do that. It is potentially overowned hitters and overowned pitchers. So let's talk about that. Let's also talk about the draft app. Heath, I know you're a big DFS guy. But you got to love draft because it's different, you know? You get to do snake drafts. That's fun.

I do. I love draft. The only thing that I don't like about draft is that I can never get into the contest that you post. Yes, because that's easy, buddy. I have been posting contests. If you follow me, Big Kane 2, or if you sign up and use the promo code FB today when you make your first deposit, you can win my money. And you can win a lot of money on the draft app.

You can play for cold hard cash and get paid out the next day. The draft started just one buck. So there's a draft out there for everyone. And it's just really fun. It's kind of like you don't have to pay too much attention to it. The drafts last for just one night. Once you're done, no trades, no waiver wire. Just set it and forget it.

And as I've told you, I think hitting really wins on the draft app. So I wouldn't prioritize pitching all that much. Make sure you take a look at the scoring. It's going to reward guys that get on base, as the other sites do. but maybe a little bit more so in draft. You take a look for yourselves and don't listen to me because I always lose. But I love it. It's so much fun.

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I'm going to post three drafts today. Oh, wow. Three drafts, CBS Heath. So you'll have to follow me first, and then I will send the invitations out, and yeah, we'll see anything to win my money. Beautiful. Are these hitters over-owned?

Two of them, I feel pretty comfortable that they are. One of them, I'm not so sure. Which ones which? Raphael Devers, 91-0. Is he over-owned? Yeah. I don't think so. He's not in my top 20thth basement anymore.

Ooh, Devers. So Heath, you think he's going to turn it around? I think he's going to turn it around And I think that the upside If he does turn it around is too high to let him go Would you rather have Beltray or Devers? Devers I think I have

It's close They're both right around that 20 spot for me I'd probably take Beltray in points leagues Because of the awesome plate discipline Would you rather have Jamer Candelario or Devers? Candelario is one I have ahead of of both of them, both Belcher and Devers. Yeah, I would definitely

rather have Candelario if I needed to start somebody right now. As a bench stash, I think I'd rather have Devers. Jake Lamb is 82% owned. Is he over-owned? Probably. Oh, yeah. Probably. He sits against Lefties. Has he been sitting against Lefties since coming back? Yep. Yeah.

Yes, he has. Jake Lamb, over-owned, 82%. Christian Villanueva, 61% owned. That seems okay. I mean, he's still one of the better home run sources at the position, particularly once you get outside of the really high-end types. I don't think he offers much beyond that.

And ideally, you'd play matchups with him in starting him in lefty-heavy weeks or obviously in daily leagues when they're facing a left-handed pitcher. Because that's what he does most of his damage against. But the power's, I think the power is pretty legit. Yeah, I'm really starting to question his playing time is not, been consistent. I don't think you want to start him in a week where he only has one lefty. And the plate discipline's awful.

I think he's over-owned. You know what? I am seeing now how much Spangenberg's been cutting into his playing time recently. And he's obviously been struggling being a way of a... Over-owned. I mean, it's just 61% is not very high. All right, let's move on. Let's move on. Let's wrap it up.

Over-owned pitchers. Are these guys over-owned? Sunny Gray, 90% owned. Oh, definitely. Yep, definitely. I realize he had a good stretch, but I don't feel like the pitching was really back good during that stretch. Well, what's his matchup next week?

Two starts on the road at Washington and at Tampa Bay. He's not overrunned. You'll keep him for next week, Sunny Gray? I mean, he's usable during that. We put 90% owned is so high. Like 60, like, that's what, with this exercise, that's what bothers me, because it sounds like I just said Christian Dana Way was better than Raphael Devers,

but it was relative to ownership. Of course. And this is the same thing with Sunny Gray. Like 90% owned is really high-end pitchers. Right. Yeah, he's so bad at home. 722 ERA at home. How about Luke Weaver?

86% owned. He's at Philadelphia and at Milwaukee next week is Luke Weaver over-owned. What was the percentage? 86% Maybe a little Maybe closer to 80 That's what he should be

All right And Heath Nick Povetta is 86% Owned as well Is Nick Povetta Overowned? He's been struggling lately I really don't think so

I still have And I may have to move him down A little bit after last night's start Because it's another bad start in a row But even after Just a pretty bad stretch He still has a 425 ERA With a 311 FIP

He's striking out 10 per 9. The control's not been an issue. He's kind of run into a stretch of bad luck. He's doing a good job of, for the most part, generating very, very little hard contact against him. I think Povetta is going to be a good starting pitcher and startable most weeks moving forward. And, Scott, you're a lot lower on Povetta. This is one of the rankings disputes we were going to have. Scott has Povetta 60th and Heath has Povetta 29th. So, do you, Scott, do you think Povetta's 86% ownership?

is too high. I'd put him probably in about the same category as Luke Weber, where I doubt he's available in any of my leagues. But I don't think he's like ascended to high end either.

Yeah. Like a good strikeout rate, but obviously some questions beyond him. All right. So with that said, let's take a look at who's moving up and down in the rankings. Some rankings risers. First we'll go to Scott. Scott, give me three rankings risers, please.

Okay, three rankings risers. I have Eduardo Escobar, who's another player who I moved ahead of that. Rafael Devers, Adrian Belcherigroup, and that's probably not even the position where he could use them, though. He's also shortstop eligible. I also have Ross Stripling, who talked about a lot, and Matt Kemp, who I finally

need to start giving some credit and stop having sour grapes about since he was obviously somebody, the Braves, wanted off their roster this offseason. All right, so we'll go one by one. Eduardo Escobar. Where have you? Okay, you have him 15th at shortstop?

That's what the rankings say. You still have him behind Yon-Hervest Salarte. Yeah. One spot behind. I do. I do. At least in points leagues I do. Do I have it that way in Roto 2?

I will check for you, sir. Salarte's play discipline. Obviously, is a big advantage in the points format. And I just think Salate is pretty good. But one of my favorite stats this year is that Escobar is on pace for more than 100 extra-based hits. And at least heading into last night's action, just to put this in perspective, Mike Trout's on pace for 99. So, like, how?

So, like, Escobar has been an extra base hit machine that is following a big jump and fly ball percentage last. year that's only gone further this year. Well, he also has an elite line drive rate this year. So he just, I don't know what it is exactly, but at age 29, he has seemed to, he's really figured out this hitting thing. And I think, I think deserves to be owned everywhere. And you both have stripling right around 50. And Scott has stripling 43rd.

Heath has stripling 48th. Both have Shawmaniah 47th, so stripling is just behind Shawmaniah. And I see Scott, you have raw stripling one. One spot ahead of Zach Godley. Wow. So you're buying it, huh? Yeah, it's been basically two months of an elite K per 9 and elite BB per 9, and certainly a good home run rate for this environment.

It's not like he gives up a lot of fly balls, so I think that's fluky or anything. Okay. I'm not sure what there is to doubt at this point. We're all stripling. The other riser is Matt Kemp. Let's go to Heath's Rizers. Heath, who do you got as fantasy rankings risers? Well, one of the names I'd sent in was Ross Stripling.

Also, John Hicks, with Miguel Guerrera out for the year, Hicks is going to play pretty much every day at first base, I expect. And that's huge with catcher eligibility. I went and looked at what his 150 game pace is since the start of last year. It's essentially Yadi Molina from last year, which is a top 10 catcher easily. Molina was fourth, I believe, in points in second and roto last year. He won't have the nine steals that Molina had. but I moved him up to number nine at Catcher,

and I kind of feel like I might be a little bit low. It's just it's hard to overstate how much more it matters if you're playing five or six games a week when everybody else's the position is playing four or five, and he's been a pretty good hitter. I also finally move Scooter's Net into my top 10 second baseman. He's up at number eight. It's just too hard to doubt.

Okay, but with Hicks, like you have to do something right now. You have to move Evan Gattis ahead of John Hicks. You have to. I have Evan Gaddis ahead of John Hicks in Roto. Okay, you have to do it in points, too. I'm not sure. He plays every day. He has been playing every day, yes.

He will play every day. They don't have enough hitters for him to not play every day. They've got a lot of hitters that we thought were very good. They are good. Some of them haven't been good. Gaddis is good. Gaddis is number one catcher in fantasy. He's number three in points, number one in Roto.

Oh, that was the other rankings related. I was going to make Gary Sanchez my riser up. number one in points, but for like the fourth consecutive week, I looked and the gap that just shrunk. I think, did Posey pass him last night? He may have. I don't know. But, Heath, you were right about Evangattis.

This was your guy for so long. Why does this turn into the Evangattus thing? This is the John Hicks thing. Celebrate must own in all formats, John Hicks. Okay, fine. I'll leave it at that. Scooter Jeanette, your number eight second baseman. Okay, so it looks like we're buying into Ross Stripping.

We're buying into Scooter Jeanette. and John Hicks, just the playing time is going to be huge. Heath, who are your rankings fallers? So flustered. Josh Donaldson is down to my number 10 third baseman. Ken Giles has fallen to relief pitcher 23, and Gregory Polanco outside of my top 60 outfielder. He's 62nd.

All right, Josh Donaldson, your number 10 third baseman. Scott, what do you think about that? I also have a down arrow next to Josh Donaldson. He's nine for me. It looks like Matt Carpenter is the one who he ranks ahead, at least in points like that, I doubt he does that in Roto, right? No, I have Donaldson ahead of Carpenter in Roto. Yeah, so the guys who are ahead of Donaldson,

you know, okay, Jose Ramirez, Aaronado, Machado, Brian, Bregman Rendon, Shaw. Oh, you know what, he has Turner ahead of Donaldson, too, which I don't. Yeah, but you have Mustachian. We're going to be a little scary for you guys, knowing what Donaldson did last year in the second half, right? Ranking is not for the week, Adam. You have to make some scary choices. Yeah, I can totally see Donaldson being a first-round caliber hitter the rest of the way.

But there have been enough hurdles, particularly after a year where he also had us feeling uneasy for half the year. and he's getting up there at age. So I just feel a lot more confident with like a shawl or a moustach at this point. And guys like Carpenter and Turner, I mean, the biggest thing for me right now is they're healthy. And they have started to show, like started to show some signs of turn it around. We've just got nothing from Donaldson. Yeah. Donaldson could be activated today, right?

Yeah. He could be. I thought he's going to make a, okay, if not today very soon, he could be. be back, but that's what they said about last Friday, too. And it is recurring calf issues for Donaldson. I still think that if you have a team that you know has no chance to win, Donaldson is a guy that has the chance to change your team's fortunes. Oh, yeah.

I'm comfortable both moving him down in my rankings, and by the way, Heath and I both still have him in the top 10, so we consider him a starter in any format when he is healthy. And even when he's not healthy, we still think he's top 10. But I'm comfortable both moving him down and calling him a buy low. Yeah. Because I feel like there are probably a lot of Donaldson owners out there now who value him is even less than top 10, you know? Yep, yep. And Ken Giles down to number 23 at RP, Gregory Polanco to number 62.

I think we've talked a lot about them. So, Scott, give me your three fallers and then pick one that you'd like to expand on. Dallas Kikele, Luke Weaver, and Ryan Braun are all fallers for me. All right, let's talk Kiko. I'll pick for you. Okay, Kikl. And I feel like I brought it up the last couple of times he pitched, but his swinging strike rate is his lowest since his rookie season.

And if you remember the development of Dallas Kikle, back in his rookie season, we didn't even think he was a good pitcher. Like, we didn't know he had the chance to become everything he became. So it's not good. And then also his ground ball rate, while still one of the best in the majors, hasn't been the otherworldly, far and away best in the league mark that we've seen from him during his best season. So, like, the struggles recently, the underlying numbers support the struggles. I do think there is still hope for him.

I think there could be command issues here, location issues here, particularly if you look on the heat maps, unlike fan graphs, you'll see he is missing just below the strike zone and up in the strike zone in a way, like more than he did last year. He's in those two areas more,

and neither of those areas is a good thing for him. But it's been going on long enough now that I can't just say, I can't just stick with him as being this ace. caliber pitcher anymore. I have to move him behind the Bowers, the snows. Even like Mike Clevenger, I think I have him behind now.

Yeah, I'm actually a little surprised that he's 29th for Scott and 24th for Heath. That Kikl's not even lower. But I moved him behind Michaelis, who himself is an elite ground ball pitcher. Like, Michaelis has been what we think of good Kikl be. Yeah. I have him behind Dylan Bundy now with the way Bundy's pitched recently. Okay.

All right. And I thought we'd have for rankings disputes, but we don't, I apologize. So let me skip around and go to, because I want to get to the regulators. Okay, rotation from yesterday. Who stood out to you? Jamison Tyone, working that slider. Seven innings, two runs. Really should have been seven innings, no runs.

Because Austin Meadows dropped a fly ball into the first row of the stands for a home run in the first inning. Tyone, J. Hap, Cole Hamils, Kentimae, Maita, Mark. Marco Gonzalez. Tyone, J. Hap, Cole Hamels, Maeda, Marco Gonzalez. You know what I think is a pretty interesting question? Who's your favorite in that group? Heath Cummings. Tyone, Hap, Hamels, Maeda, Marco Gonzalez.

You know, you started with who stood out to you, and so I went to talk about Marco Gonzalez, and now we may have to accept that he's good, but he's certainly not my favorite, so we won't talk about him. I would say that it's probably Kenta Maeda. And this was not a great start against the Rangers. but for his first start back from the disabled list and he stayed healthy, I think he has the most upside of these guys.

He may be back on the 10-day disabled list in another month, but when he's pitching, I have a confidence he'll be good. Scott, who's your favor from this group? Tyone, Hap, Hamils, Maeda, Marco Gonzalez. So excluding Gonzalez, who I think we would both agree is the low guy, these pitchers range from 41st to 64th of my rankings, which seems like a pretty big range. but I feel like they're all two starts away from completely swapping around.

Like that's just the range of pitchers we're talking about here. I actually have Cole Hamill's rank the highest, and I have Hap just behind him. They're both right outside my top 40. So Hap has single-digit swinging strikes in six of his, I think seven of his last nine starts now. Yep. So it's something, he's now in those starts, he still has a strikeout printing.

but he's not getting the swinging strikes like he was in his first five starts when Hap had a 14% swinging strike rate. I'm sort of encouraged by Tyone. Does he have, you know, could he be a second half ace, James and Tyone? I don't want to attach the ace label to Tyone. Too high. I don't think he's shown any reason to believe he can be bad. Okay. And I believe he could be like a number three.

I think he could be a second half top 25 starter. That's the absolute upside. And Heath, you were encouraged by this Marco Gonzalez start? It's just another, like, yes, seven strikeouts, five innings. He gave up three runs. It's going up against a very good team that has absolute lefty masters on it. Here's the problem with Marco Gonzalez. At the Yankees and at the Red Sox next week.

Yeah, you're not starting him. After that. Maybe he had a points league, but otherwise, no. After that, you can, you know, be happier. Who are your favorites here from the fringy starting pitchers? Caleb Smith, Yolice Chasine, Mike Montgomery, Matt Boyd, and I'll throw Dylan Kobe back in there. Caleb Smith, Yolish Chesin, Mike Montgomery, Matt Boyd, Dylan Covey.

Man, do I hate that? You hate who? You hate who? I'm sorry. Matt Boyd. I just hate it. No, I get it. Matt Boyd has the fifth lowest babette.

and the second lowest home run to fly ball ratio in baseball. Like that seems like massive correction is coming. Yeah, one of these days. Yes, okay. Stay away from Matt Boyd. Caleb Smith that I think is an ownership percentage reflect this. I think he's far and away the best of this group. I had got a little concerned when I looked at the game log yesterday

because the swinging strikes total start by start. There hasn't been a lot of double digits lately, and that's, you know, that's usually the difference between. If the guy's consistently getting double digits to those, he's a good swing of his pitcher, and if he's not, he's not so much. But it's largely because they don't leave him in for many pitches. Yeah. Like, he is frequently removed sub-90 pitches.

His swinging strike, the actual rate is still very high. So, I mean, that being said, obviously, if he's not getting many pitches, he's not going as deep into the games as he should, and that's not a good thing either. But I still think the potential is there for him to be a pretty regular part of your fantasy staff. Caleb Smith, 71% owned at San Francisco and at Colorado next week. That'll be an interesting one. And then Yolish Jasein is at Pittsburgh and home against St. Louis,

and somehow he is having a nice year with a 332 ERA. It just doesn't really make sense. And Chasine's been great at home. He had a 279 ERA at home before 6 shutout inning is against the Cubs yesterday. And this is a guy who was only good in San Diego last year. Chasin has had a terrible start at San Diego and a good start at Colorado this year. Nothing makes sense for him. But I'm sure he'll be an attractive pickup for a two-star week.

Do you feel the same way about Chasine as you do about Boyd? That correction is coming? Yes. Yeah. It's a – like, I can't say it with as much conviction because it never came last year. but obviously a different pitching environment this year. And if nothing else, I expect there to be more home runs than it's future. What time is it, guys?

What time is it? Yeah, what time is it? Regulate fantasy regulator time. You're damn right it is, Guy. Yeah. All right, we got two issues to regulate. I'm going to try to stay away from the trade veto emails unless they're very interesting. But you know how we feel about vetoes.

All right, let's start with Matt from Ottawa. Matt from Ottawa is the commissioner of an ale-only head-to-head league. Not everyone in the league follows baseball extensively. Some of the owners who drafted guys who are in danger of being traded at the deadline, like Machado and maybe Donaldson, are just realizing now that they could lose them in the next few weeks if they go to an NL team. The owners are a bit upset and are demanding that they receive compensation of some sort in the event that they lose their best players.

I passed on Machado in the draft because I knew that it was possible that he might not be in the AL all season. What is the best way to be fair about this problem? Should I compensate or should I just tell them that they should have known the risk when they drafted a high-end player in their contract year? I would definitely lean toward the latter. Like, I don't think you should be penalized

for paying more attention. That seems wrong. What maybe should have happened, and obviously this is a hindsight 2020 situation, is to make it clear going into the draft, like abundantly clear. reminders everywhere that this is a possibility. And then like if they're not willing to research it to find out who's at risk of that, then that's on them.

Yeah. Go ahead, Scott. I just don't believe in compensation in these situations. No, it's, I wouldn't mind if there was a league at the beginning of the year had a rule about compensation, but not now. This email after two sentences, you knew there was going to be a huge problem. I'm the commissioner of an ale only league. Not everyone in the league follows baseball extensively. If you do not follow baseball very closely, the solution to this problem is playing a mixed league mixture.

Right. Why would you dip your toe into an AL-only league? So these people didn't know that if the guy gets traded to the NL, they lose the player. I'm sorry, I think you're kind of out of luck on that one. Consider that regulated Matt from Ottawa. Now, Heath is especially like this one. This is from Alex B and NYC. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'm just screwing it right now.

I've been accused of collusion, and I think it's baseless. All right, I've been accused of collusion, and I think it is a wild, baseless, defamatory remark that would result in a duel if this were only 200 years ago. Woo-hoo! I'm in first place, my team is stacked. A few weeks ago, I needed to cut a player to make room for Jack Flaherty coming off my N-A slot. I tried like hell to trade with everyone in the league to make room. I sent out dozens and dozens of offers. I was flat out told by more than one member of the league that they would not trade with me

because they did not want to help my team. So again, he needs to clear a spot to get Jack Flaherty from his NA list, and nobody wanted to trade with him. Ultimately, I ran out of time and needed to lose a player. I determined that the player I wanted to lose was Tyler Skaggs, but I didn't want to cut him. I didn't want the managers I'm duking it out with to pick up Skaggs and use him against me. What did I do? I traded Skaggs to the last-place team for Matt Duffy, whom I promptly cut to make room for Flaherty.

Since then, the 8th-place team in our 12-team league has accused me of collusion to my face and repeatedly called me a cheater behind my back. I explained that I was simply making a roster move to create space on my team. Skaggs was a player on my team I can do what I please with him. The 8th place manager still, to this day, insist that I colluded and cheated.

What say you, regulators, who is in the wrong and what justice would you recommend? Alex is a fantasy genius. It's a great move. This is how you play the game. There's no collusion here. He's not trying to help. He's not like, ooh, I want to help out the eighth place team.

No. The eighth place team is not like, oh, I want to help him out. No, he wants Tyler Skaggs. He traded Skaggs in the last place team. I don't think it's collusion. I don't know that that's the right word. But I am made a little uneasy by somebody who's making. making trades, not with the idea of improving their own roster.

He was. He was making a trade to approve Jack Liberty. Not with improving his own roster. He wanted to not benefit somebody else's roster. Well done, Alex. I think it's fine. And honestly, I think that the team should be able to make trades. I actually would like to institute a rule in all leagues.

That once you're mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, unless it's a keeper league, you can no longer make trades. But other than, and nobody's, disputing that the last place team is able to make a trade here, I'm just saying. But I think it's interesting, and I always, I often look at standings because when I make a trade, I don't want to help a team that I'd rather trade with a bad team. Now, I think that part of it is a little bit of a loser mentality. Well, it's just a preference.

It's not a set and school rule. No, I think that makes sense. In theory, all trades should help both teams involved, right? Why would you want to help somebody you're competing with? Sure. That just seems like a competitive move. But, like, I assume, who was it he traded before Matt Duffy? I assume Matt Duffy was the worst player on this team's roster.

So you're trading a player who you know everybody's going to be interested in picking up if you drop them for a team's worst player. That, like, just assessing that deal on face value, we would all say, I mean, in a league where there is vetoable trades, I know we all don't want that. but that kind of seems like the kind of trade that would get vetoed, right? That's why there shouldn't be vetoed trades. I mean, it's a good point, Scott makes, but it's almost like a salary dump in another sport, you know? Very good point. Right?

It's like you give up the better player just to get rid of salary, and then call up somebody else. Because the salary dump is made with the interest of improving your roster, giving it more flexibility. That's what he did. He needed to get flattery up. No, he was trying to not, he was trying to make sure that, the worst roster benefited in this league as opposed to a roster he's actually competing against.

He was trying to make room for Jack Flaherty. He chose the wisest way to do so. He actively chose to make somebody else's roster better while making his own roster worse. He made his roster better. He had a Jack Flaherty. Well, at least keeping his roster insane. It has been regulated. Two to one vote.

We are cool with this. Stop whining about it, eighth place team. You big whiny, collusion baby. The first place team is the team that benefited. They're not whining. It's the rest of the league. No, you're wrong about this, Heath. The last place team benefited.

The eighth place team is the one whining about it. I was wrong. You were right, Adam. Thank you. And now you have been regulated. Okay, we're done here. Thank you, everybody, for listening. I'm Adam.

That's Scott. That's Heath. We'll talk to you tomorrow on fantasy baseball today.