Fantasy Baseball Today - 06/21: Trade Talk, Arrieta, Albies and More (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 21, 2018

It's a Thursday trade show as we help you buy low and sell high. First, our Wednesday standouts are a bit unusual as we discuss Frankie Montas (3:05) and Michael Fulmer (5:45) before getting into the CHC bullpen without Brandon Morrow (12:00) ... A couple of fun Twitter polls (13:40) leading into our trade talk. Buy low candidates (18:50) including the obvious Brian Dozier, sell high candidates (22:55) including Gleyber Torres and players we're actually concerned about (26:22) which features two players recently off the DL. Scott will also tell us if he's worried or optimistic (28:02) about Cody Bellinger, Justin Turner, Edwin Encarnacion and Anthony Rendon ... Recapping yesterday's action with a look at Yadier Molina (35:25), Ozzie Albies (38:21), plenty of SPs (42:15) like Charlie Morton, Jake Arrieta and Jake Junis. Plus a look at today's matchups at the end of the show ... 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

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. We're fantasy. Now here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris. Back at it here on Thursday, June 21st. Fantasy baseball today, here we go.

Yesterday we talked about a whole bunch of players who were underachieving, and they all achieve not all. but many of them achieved yesterday. So we are the reverse jinx. I am Adam Azer, and he is Scott White. Hey, Scott. Hey, Adam, how's it going? You know, it's going well.

It's crunch time. It's time to make some trades. So I'm going to throw out a bunch of names, buy, low, sell high, that kind of stuff. Some players were concerned about, and you're going to tell me if you agree or disagree. Got some obvious ones, but also some non-obvious ones to help the listeners out. I want to start with an email. Email of the day is from Mark. at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com.

Dear Jake, Rick, Roger, and Willie. Those are a bunch of common names, right? No, they're very obvious. Jake, Rick, Roger and Willie. Roger and Willie. Okay, one of them is a pitcher, one's a catcher,

one is a center fielder, and one is a third baseman. They played for the Cleveland Indians. Oh, they're... Oh, okay. Major League. That's for Major League. Those are the Cleveland idiots.

I was listening to yesterday's podcast, found it weird that the last three underachievers that you discussed were the last three National League MVPs. Bryce Harper, Chris Bryant, and John Carlos Stanton. By this trend, should we avoid the NL MVP when drafting next year or trade the top candidates in Keeper Leagues right now? Okay. Well, the NL MVP is going to be. Who's it going to be? Is it going to be Freddie Freeman? I don't know. That's what's so interesting. I don't know who the NLVP is going to be.

Oh, no. Aronado is always up there. First of all, I would still love to have these three players on my fantasy team. They're all in my top 20, top 25 at least. So no, I don't think you should expect that to become a truck. Yeah, so Stanton walk off home run last night. Brian and Harper, Harper got rained. No, Harper did not get down. He just didn't do much. He had a rain delay. And Bryant, I think he had an okay game. But Al-Tuvei hit two home runs yesterday.

It was a good day for the underachievers, especially Jose Al-Tuve. And that's kind of the risk of doing those types of segments. It only takes one day or one hot streak to change everything. So, hooray for Jose Al-Tuve. Scott, let's forget about yesterday's show and get into today's show and talk about our standouts. Who do you want to talk about as a standout from Wednesday's action? Let's talk about Frankie Montas

because I thought this start was the most impressive one, clearly. It was at San Diego, so we have to keep that in mind. But rebounding from a start against the Astros that seemed to be his comeuppance, they really did some damage against him, and we weren't really sure if those first three starts were sustainable.

Well, he bounced her back with a good start and did some different things in this start. He didn't go so fastball heavy. He featured his slider more through it about a third of the time. It was a really good slider. Seven of his 12 swinging strikes, his season high 12 swinging strikes came on the slider. So there's at least some reason for optimism there. I'm not rushing out to Adam everywhere, but this was his best start, I think. All right, that's Frankie Montas. He is 44%-0 and he struck out six Padres and six and two-thirds. one run, five hits, three walks. He has just 21 strikeouts in 33 and two-thirds.

Now, there are some pretty interesting two-star pitchers next week. And he's one of them, Frankie Montas. He's at Detroit. He's also, unfortunately, home against Cleveland. You maybe can roll the dice. You know, he's got the same ownership as Freddie Peralta. Who would you rather own, Montas or Peralta? I'd rather own Peralta unless I really needed a spark specifically.

Okay. And I would just tell you right now, the two-star pitcher that I'm kind of looking at, I know we usually save this for Friday, but Stephen Mats, Pittsburgh, and at Miami next week. Kind of interested in Stevie Mats. Yeah, I mean, he's been okay recently. I really don't. I think Mats, without the slider, he threw as a rookie, is still just not a good pitcher. Well, he's probably going to get pommel tonight at Colorado.

So just relax. So maybe that'll change your mind. No, it's not going to change my mind at all. Not even close. In fact, Mickey Calloway said something like, when our guy's pitcher I'm just going to tell him, just forget about it. It doesn't matter.

And that's how I approach Coorsfield stars for fantasy purposes. It doesn't matter what this guy does, unless he does well. Yeah, if you like Matt's and he gets crushed tonight, you don't necessarily have to drop him. He's got two starts next week, Pittsburgh and at Miami. All right, so, you know, you let off with Frankie Montas, and I thought that was kind of a strange place to, like, was he really the standout of yesterday? But it was that kind of day, and that was like, I had a pretty head-scratching standout.

I want to talk about Michael Fulmer. We don't talk about him much. He's got this problem. Michael Fulmer has an ERA over eight in the sixth inning. Third time through the order, opponents have a 10-11 OPS. They have an OPS just over a thousand. against Fulmer third time through the order. But I looked at his game logs last year and this year.

I looked at when he's been good. I looked at the Brooks baseball data. And it seems like there's a bit of a correlation between when Michael Fulmer throws his four-seam fastball a lot and when he's good. And this was a really good start for a while. He threw five and two-thirds scoreless endings. Then he gave up back-to-back home runs and ended up striking out nine, which tied a season high, I believe.

but giving up three runs in five and two thirds. And again, ran into trouble in the sixth inning. He's got two starts. Oakland and home and at Toronto next week. Now, Fulmer's 83% owned. I don't know what to do with Michael Fulmer, though, Scott. And he throws like 98 miles per hour, 97, 98 on the fastball. He should be better than what he's been.

Where are you on him on Fulmer? I don't know that he's going to be better than he's been. And he's been this pitcher since he broke in two years ago where he's fine. You feel like there's the potential for more, but I just don't think he has a good enough. His secondary stuff is quite good enough to help him take that leave. Now, you said when he throws his four-seamer more as opposed to his two-seamer, he's better? Yeah, I think so. Yeah, it's kind of like a Jameson-Tyone thing there.

Right. And I think that's a pretty good comparison in terms of how we use them in fantasy. I think Fulmer's pretty close to must-own as this percentage reflects. So that was my question. Do you or would you be okay dropping him for your favorite two-star streamer in a given week? Or like Jerksson ProFar if you need a shortstop or something like that? I wouldn't say he's undropable, but I do think 83% is close to right. And obviously with two starts coming up this week, those don't sound like sort of,

the matchups that would prevent me from starting Fulmer. I think he certainly hold on to him for right now. All right. We got a lot more to get to today. We got a lot of news. Pitcher news. When are some of these injured pitchers going to be coming back? I would like to tell you, though, about CBS Sports HQ.

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Very easy to get subscribed. CBSports.com slash FBT Daily. And you don't have to pay. It's free stuff here. All right, the big news, Scott. Noah Sindegaard could throw a bullpen session this weekend. Johnny Quato could begin a rehab assignment this weekend. U. Darvish, according to Joe Madden, looked outstanding in a

simulated game. So let's hope we get all three of those guys, Cindergarde, Quedo, and Darbish back in the next few weeks. Michael Waka left with an oblique strain. Is there anyone that would theoretically fill in for him? That would be interesting for St. Louis? Well, you know, Jack Flaherty, oh, wait, he's already been up for a while. Oh, Alex Reyes, right? Yeah. Oh, no, he's hurt. Suddenly, this surplus is, yeah, I'm not, I'm not counting on anyone making a big impact in place of Waka. They asked Ned Yose who was closing, and he said everyone is closing for the Kansas City Royals.

Sounds about right. Yeah, so that means as of right now, nobody we like. Everyone and no one. That's right. Somebody sent us an email that said, actually, I'll look it up, it was funny. It's like, I've got this genius strategy. I'm just going to stream late inning relievers. Oh, here we go.

So this is from Kyle Thinking of a new strategy in head-to-head categories leagues I'm thinking of streaming the best setup man On teams that play the Royals going forward Hoping for a few cheap wins late in games Because the Royals bullpen is so terrible I don't think that's going to work But if it did, that is the most genius thing I've ever heard

The coolest thing I've ever heard is this Austin Beban's Dirk's Was the pitcher last night for the Rangers Isaiah Kiner Filetha was the catcher his first started catcher. That is the first hyphenated pitcher catcher combo in MLB history.

You know what I've wondered? What's going to happen when the hyphenated name kids marry and decide to hyphenate their names? Are we suddenly going to go from two hyphenated names to four hyphenated names?

You know what? I never thought about that. And now you've blown my mind. I have no idea what's going to be... There's going to have to have to have to be a limit on it, right? Like, our names can't get like 8, 16, like it would double every time. It would be like an exponent. Odubo Herrera has homered now in four straight games. So he continues to be hot. We talked about him yesterday. And Brandon Morrow is on the D.L. with back spasms that he suffered

while taking his pants off. That is true. Joe Madden said he will use matchups in the ninth inning. So what do you think? Is there somebody to pick up in the in the Cubs bullpen? I actually picked up Sergio Romo as a Morrow owner instead of looking at a Cubs reliever. Because I don't know how long this is going to be first of all. And I do think it's going to be pretty match-upy. What do you think? First of all, is this injury more or less embarrassing than John Smoltz going on the DL because he tried ironing his shirt while wearing? That happened? I didn't know.

Oh, yeah, that happened. That's the worst. That's the worst thing I've ever heard. Yeah. But this is, you know, run-of-the-mill daily. Put your pants on, take them off, do it every day. Somehow you hurt your back. I don't know.

It's got to be a committee. And, I mean, Madden has said as much. And considering we're looking at potentially a minimum D.L. Stay, it's hard to get excited about it. I would guess Pedro Strope plays the lead role because he's been effective for a long time and has been the designated eighth inning guy with Carl Edwards out and throws right-handed, but also Justin Wilson and Steve Seashak

who both have closing experience themselves. They're also going to be in that mix. Yeah. I mean, the Cubs might, they might not get a safe chance while Morrow's out. So you'd have to be in a pretty desperate situation, I think, to really make a play for these guys. And then I did a Twitter poll actually sort of

in the vein of what Scott said, which injury is more embarrassing? Brandon Morrow goes on the D.L. with back spasms, which he suffered while taking his pants off. Or Hunter Strickland goes on the DL for breaking his hand while punching a wall. Hunter Strickland is currently leading 51% to 49%. So that's a close. I guess, but that's happened several times just in recent history.

Guy breaks his hand thrown a tantrum, basically. That happens. Braun James. I've never heard of this happening before. No, I would have voted for Marl. Maybe players are reticent to admit it. I also did a Twitter poll that really surprised me. Settle a debate between me and my wife.

Which fruit is better? Mango or pineapple. What would you? Oh, pineapple. Yeah, you know, I'm far in a way. I agree. But I thought Mango is going to win because people are really snooty. Mango is the best.

And I'm like, mango is fine. But pineapple crushed it. 2,600 votes. Pineapple had two-thirds of the vote. So I was very pleased by that. Pineapple, like, mango is like a muted peach. Like, there's just not enough flavor there. And I found out recently, I was taking a tour somewhere,

and the tour guide said it's related to poison ivy. And for some reason, that kind of ruined the experience for me. I imagine eating poison ivy, which just, of course, seems like a miserable experience. Yeah, I wouldn't do that. Yeah. I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't iron my shirt while it's on me.

And let's look at the bullpen. Sam Dyson got crushed yesterday. He gave up four hits and two runs and two thirds of an inning. So that wasn't very good. He's 20% owned. Ryan Tepera is 26% owned. Is there any doubt that you would rather have Tepara who got his fifth save yesterday over Sam Dyson?

Yeah, there's doubt. Okay. There'd be less doubt if Sam Dyson didn't nearly blow the save yesterday, gave up two runs on four hits, and got bailed out by... Reyes, Montoy, Reyes, something. Ray, I have it in my notes here, but I can't read it, so that was very useful. Me too.

I have it in my notes, and I'm wondering if I spelled it wrong, because it seems like an unusual last name. Reyes Moronta. Oh, I did have, oh, I had Mortona. Yeah, I knew I spelled it wrong. Moronta. Well, who would you rather have, Tepera or Dyson? I think today, Taperra. I could change tomorrow.

Like, Tepera, I don't think he's good, but I don't think anyone in the Blue Jay's bullet pit is good. And I don't think, I mean, it's pretty obvious that Roberto Azuna isn't coming back anytime soon. So it seems like a more permanent situation if Tepera can just hang on. All right. Would you rather have Tepara or Zach Britton? Britain's 64% own.

He walked three in his first appearance. Since then, he's been really good, hasn't given up a run, one hit and four and a third, five strikeouts. He's not the closer yet. He pitched the eighth, and Brad Brock got two outs on the ninth. But would you rather have Britain? He's going to be the closer soon enough. I would much rather have Britain, even though his supporting cast is going to limit his upside. Greg Holland, keep an eye on him. They signed him

to be the closer since coming off the DL. Two innings, scoreless, no hits, no walks, four strikeouts. It's probably got a ways to go, but keep an eye on Greg Holland. Sir Anthony Dominguez, he had pitched three of the previous four days. He did not pitch yesterday in a save situation. Adam Morgan got the save with two outs. He came into face a lefty. Victor Orano started the inning, gave up a hit, got one out. Philly's bullpenu, whatever. And Ken Giles pitched the ninth with a 5-1 lead, so a non-save situation, but he pitched a scoreless ninth, gave up a hit and a walk.

Also a strikeout. All right, it's time for some trade talk after I read this email from Taylor. Taylor said, Adam, I just want to thank you for getting great sponsors for the show. I got tickets to see the Pirates game tonight for $7 using your promo code today. And that is about Seeking. And that is a real email. I'd never, obviously, I never make those things up. So unfortunately for Taylor, the game got rained out.

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Now, he's on the D.L, so that's a little scary. But I think he's going to get traded. Now, here's why I'm on the fence. He's been so much better at home than on the road. So getting traded probably is not a good thing. But he's also been terrible at, this is three straight years now, at Yankee Stadium, at Camden Yards, at Fenway Park. Really, really bad.

I would really love for Chris Archer to leave the ALE East. I would love for him to go to a team with a better win probability. I'm going to call him a by-low, but if he goes to a hitter's park, I think he could be in some trouble. Yeah. Yeah, so it's a shame the Giants aren't really in contention. Maybe the Dodgers. Mariners would be fine.

Yeah, I mean, like, he's a by-low anyway, just because he is on the DL and because he wasn't pitching up to his usual standards before going out of the DL, but started, seemed to be beginning to turn things around. Yeah, I think he's a by-low anyway. And then I have two obvious guys, but I think it's worth mentioning again. Carlos Santana and Brian Dozier. Now, I told you about this with Santana, like a month ago or so. I said, by law on Santana, but wait until, you know, around this time, late June or so,

because he usually is bad for three months. And then he went on this tear, and I look like an idiot. But since then, he has cooled off again. But Carlos Santana has the six lowest babb in baseball. He has his highest walk rate since 2014. He has his lowest career K rate. Santana's going to be good. Second half he always is.

And Brian Dozier's the other guy. And the thing with Dozier is that you really have a chance of getting like a top five hitter. If he does what he seemingly always does and just goes bananas in the second half. Certainly have in the last two years. So I would, yeah, I've been reluctant to downgrade him in any way, even though it's been disappointing so far. Yeah. We'd like to see him get back to the lead off spot. But, right, but, you know, we'll take baby steps with Dozier.

Did you mention that Carlos Santana, just as he is, is the fourth, number four, first baseman in points leagues? I didn't. It's a big difference between his value in head-to-head and roto, and that's true even when he's hitting for like a normal batting average. But already in points leagues, I did a recent trade chart. My last trade chart was for that format, and I was surprised how high. I ended up having to slot him just because, I mean, he scored a lot of points. And 55th overall is where I put him in points leads. Has he scored a lot of points or has everyone else just scored a few points?

Because I look at his game log or his weekly. If you go to a player page, either on the fantasy site or on the media site, it's like CBSports.com slash MLB slash players, it's a really cool feature that helps me out a lot, actually. You just look at their weekly point totals, and Santana has had like two or three weeks with 20 fantasy points. So I'm just wondering. But it's consistently high, which is what I love about those walk guys. Just among all hitters, he's 32nd in points league this year. Yeah, and that's crazy.

I mean, that's, that's, wow. It's not really, like, honestly, it's not that consistently high. 13, 15, 13, 14, 11, 18, 42, 12, 19, 12, 19, 12, 21, 14, 14. and he has 13 fantasy points this week. Well, the 42 is nice. Forty-two is pretty nice. Walk guys versus non-walk guys. What was the lowest of those?

12? Like, you don't see those... You don't see those four to six-point weeks you see for the non-walk guys that'll just kill you. So let's talk about sell-high candidates. A little bit more interesting, I think. Scott, I think Glaber Torres is a sell-high candidate.

You know, the one thing that gives me A little bit of hesitation is that he has hit fifth and sixth in his last two games. When he was batting ninth, it was an easier call to say sell high on Glaver Torres. But look at what he's done. He really just homers. And his walk-to-strikeout ratio is bad. 13 walks, 50 strikeouts. He's had six doubles in 51 games, only two steals.

He doesn't really do anything but Homer. And if those go away, 25.5% home run-to-fly ball rate, I don't know what you got with Glabert-Torres. And quite frankly, because he's been batting low in the order, he hasn't been as good in fantasy as he has been in real life. He has a 900 OPS. I'd be sending out some offers. I don't own any Glabre Torres, but I'd be looking to make a move. If you're legitimately selling high, I don't have a problem with that.

Particularly the plate discipline, I would like to see better from him. But just getting him off the waiver wire was such a huge victory for your team that whatever trade you make with him, you'd really need to cement those. gains or else you're forfeiting that victory just out of fear. Like, he has an elite line drive rate. So I don't think it's a case where he stops homering. He's going to be hitting 240 all of a sudden, you know? Like, he should be a high Babbip guy.

Okay. Brandon Crawford, sell high on him. He is hitting very well against lefties this year, 8.52 OPS. His OPS against lefties the previous three seasons, 716, 713, 661. Brandon Crawford reminds me of Corey Dickerson from last year who was doing really well against lefties for a while and then he had a terrible second half. I think I mentioned the 370 Babbap.

So he's super high for Brandon Crawford. I'm sorry. I just don't buy it with him. He hits too many ground balls for me to buy him as a home run hitter. I think he's going to be dropped fairly soon. So get what you can now for Crawford. Yeah, I think that's fair. Even as good as he's been, it's surprising he's not.

not higher in the shortstop rankings. Okay. All right. So goodbye, Brandon Crawford. And then this is the last one that I struggle with this one. Because I could see him as a buy high. He basically has the same exact slash line he had two seasons ago. Evan Gaddis.

Yeah. Number one catcher in fantasy. Two years ago, he was the number two catcher in fantasy. And like I said, he basically has the same slash line. So what do you think? Would you try to sell high on Evan Gattis or just hang on to him? I mean, here's the thing. you trade Evan Gaddis who's your catcher after that.

It's almost certainly going to be much worse than Evan Gaddis, even if you think Gaddis's numbers have... Like, he's been so hot they've gotten to a point where he obviously can't live up to them. And I don't think he's going to be the number one catcher. I have him in my top five. But the power's legit. Like you said, the slash line is only now what it was last year because he was off to such an awful start.

So I don't think there's going to be a huge correction. and he plays close to every day since he's more of a DH than a catcher. I'm not even sure he's played a single game at catcher this year. But obviously that playing time advantage at that position, we've talked about it with John Hicks. It's huge. Evan Gattis has it, and he's a more productive hitter than Hicks. So a top five seems fair to me.

Okay. And I don't have any buy highs, so forget them. But I do have a few players that I'm actually. concerned about. And they're similar. Daniel Murphy and Madison Bumgarner. You know, Murphy just kind of feels like Adam Eaton right now. He came back at the start of the season and he wasn't 100% and he went back on the DEL for a while. Murphy's not 100%. He's not really hitting. You know, I wouldn't trade for him. Put it that way. And then Bumgarner, the stuff's getting better. He said the velocity is going to keep creeping up. I just look

at what he did after the shoulder injury last year, and it was good, but it wasn't great. And also, I think he could get traded and lose that home field advantage. Not that that's been a huge, you know, huge deal, but it's not a bad thing to pitch in San Francisco. Yeah, Bumgarner, I'm thinking maybe is a number two starting pitch of rest of season. I'm not ready to commit to that, but it seems, it certainly seems possible to me. Yeah, I agree. He wasn't the Bumgarner we've been used to seeing.

after returning from the injury last year. It wasn't a strikeout per inning guy. The Giants, they're not a great team, which also hurts him. But at the same time, once he gets his legs under him, you know he's going to pitch a ton of innings. And that is so valuable in this current landscape that I don't think he has to be exactly who he was two, three years ago to still be close to a number one.

Tell me if you're more concerned about these players going forward or optimistic. Cody Bellinger. I'm optimistic. He's still, it's the ball hard, he still elevates it. And it's not like his strikeout rate has gone crazy here. I think it's actually, it's almost the same as it was last year. I'm optimistic. Justin Turner.

I think the biggest concern. concern for Justin Turner is Max Muncie. Max Muncie's been bouncing around all over it, but he's been the Dodgers best hitter this year. They're making a point to keep him in the lineup, and it's happening at Turner's expense still the most often. I feel like in terms of production, Turner, there's not really any red flags being raised here. He's still, I think he's walked more than he struck out. The bat of ball profile still looks very good. It's just he hasn't, the home runs haven't shown up yet.

So that makes it easier to keep him out of the lineup. And how about Edwin and Carnaccio? I can throw him as a player I'm a little concerned about. He hasn't, he had a nice stretch. He went crazy, he hit three home runs in five games, had a bunch of multi-hit games. This was late in May. In June, and even into early June,

I mean, three home runs in the first three games of June. But overall in June, Edwin and Carnacian is batting 2.14 with three homers. He hasn't homeward since June 3rd. Seven walks, 12 strikeouts. I guess that's good, but strikeouts going down a little bit. But Ebwin-onaciano, are you more concerned or more optimistic? I guess maybe I'm more concerned. He's 35.

Since he became a good player, far and away his, I mean, even before that, far and away his worst strikeout rate, which is often tied to age. It's bad walk rate, too, by his standards. It is a 253 Babbitt. So I don't think he's just going to be a 230 hitter all year. But I'm a little concerned that the age decline is beginning. Is that a low Babbat for Encarnazio? Because he's usually like a 250 hitter.

Yeah, I don't know. That's 270. That's a good point. It is a little low. It's not as low as, yeah. I mean, his career BAP is 272, which is low. So that puts that 253 mark in perspective. Okay.

And then the last guy, I actually think we could throw him on the by-low list. So you tell me what you think. Anthony Rendon. He's really coming out of it. It's just not homering. So we'll put him on Underachievers Day, and he'll hit two home runs today if they play. But what do you think about Rendon? More optimistic or more concerned about Rendon?

So I had, in points leagues, I had Carlos Santana 53. fifth overall, and Rendon, that's his better format, too. I have him 48th overall still. So I've moved him down a little, but clearly I think there's better days to come also. Yeah, he's going to be a solid player. You'd like to see him hit more home runs. He had 20 home runs two years ago. He hit 25 home runs last year in 147 games.

If he's a 20 home run hitter, this is a concern I brought up going into the season is what's he going to do in categories leagues, Anthony Rendon? Because he's probably not going to thrive in anything. Maybe the runs plus RBIs, you know, just the counting stats would be really good. But he's not a base deal or he's not going to hit 300 or anything. So one of these solid all-around players. But yeah, we still think better things are to come for Anthony Rendon. And in points leagues, you know, definitely buy low because the plate discipline is so good.

and he'll thrive there. All right, some news and notes. Scott Franklin Barreto has started three straight games for the A's, and he homered at San Diego yesterday. Do you have any interest in Franklin Barreto? No, he's only up while Matt Chapman is out. They have Jed Lowry playing third. And he just, I mean, his numbers at AAA the last couple of years,

just haven't gone the way you want them to go. Ryan Braun having cryotherapy on his thumb, but he may not miss much time. He's had this procedure several times. Chris Taylor left with a hamstring injury, expects to be back in the lineup this weekend. Ruegnet Odor was back in the Rangers lineup, and he homered. Jurekson ProFar played third base, Adrian Beltray DH'd. And Trey-Turner batted sixth once again.

I would guess that the Rangers' normal alignment with Elvis Andrews back, because ProFar had been playing shortstop, and you wondered, are they going to bump Rugnet Odore? I don't think they need to because they seem more than willing to play Beltray at DH to keep them healthy. And they seem okay with playing Shinsutu and the outfield now too. Scott, let me tell you something, buddy. I knew when I completed my draft last night, I knew I was going to win. And not only that I win, I destroyed everyone.

You have to understand your slate when you're playing on the draft app. And last night's slate was interesting. It was a seven-game slate, but you had a game in course field. and you also had the Yankees, Red Sox, Astros, and Nationals on the schedule. So you had a ton of offense that you didn't have were a lot of reliable pitchers. So usually I wait on hitting. I took Aeronado, I think, with my first pick, and I took Charlie Morton with my second pick. And I still ended up with Jose Altuve, Brandon Nimmo, and George Springer.

Altuve, Aeronado, and Springer combined for four home runs. I destroyed the competition. And you might say, Adam, you don't win that often on draft. But here's the sweet thing, right? I play in five-person contests for a dollar each, and if you win, you win $4.50. If you win one out of five contests, you're doing fine. You're up 50 cents. So, you know, obviously you want to be up more than that.

You can play for more money. You can play for a buck if you want, but you can play for a lot more money if you'd like. And it's really, really fun, especially when you win. It's such a great feeling to know that you just nailed it. And I just, I had that feeling yesterday. It's like, I'm going to win draft today. And I did 97 points second place at 56 points. So you want to get in on the fun.

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That was interesting. Another bad start for Jake Areetta. I'm just going to say this now and let Scott react later. Jake Areeta is dropable. Let Scott react later to that. See how he feels about it. Jake Junis is kind of interesting. Felix Hernandez.

It's done very well against the Red Sox and Yankees in his last two stars. But let's start with three up. Yadda here Molina, Jed Lowry, and Jason Kipnis are three-up. Molina homered yesterday, twice, excuse me, two-for-three with two homers. And his numbers look really good right now. He's got 478 slugging percentage. Molina was a top-five catcher last year with a 4-39 slugging percentage. This year, he has the same batting averages last year, nearly identical OBP,

but he is slugging 49 points higher. Jet Lowry maybe coming out of his funk. He's been terrible for about 40 games, but last five games, nine for 23 with two homers and two doubles. No walks, one strikeout. And Jason Kipnis has two home runs at his last three games. Scott, Molina, Lowry, and Kipnis, three up. Melita's the only one who I value that much, to be honest.

I mean, he's a catcher. He obviously has a very consistent track record. I think he's must start Jed Lowry, you talked about it in terms of a funk He still has a 33-Babbat On the year That would be

Looks like a career high for him So like he had He was due so much correction And it kind of all happened at once But I don't think I don't think he were going to see him Bounce back to the level he was early in the year The level that had him

Being a must-own player And league's not to hold to have a middle infield spot. He probably doesn't deserve to be owned. Jed Lowry actually got dropped in our Roto League, which has a middle infield spot and has 30-man rosters. And he got dropped before this scoring period, so I'm sure the owner who dropped Jed Lowry is pretty angry right now. But don't worry. I don't think you made a mistake, owner. He's 86% owned.

Jed Lowry is very over-owned. And I'm not picking him up. I mean, I could have picked him up, but I'm just not doing it. He's bad in category. He's not a stand-out in any category. Right. Right. Yeah, Points League is a better format, but those lineups just aren't generally deep enough for you to need somebody like him.

Right. That's that predicament again. And it's funny because, yeah, 86, he might be the most over-owned player. He probably entered the season as the most under-owned player. I think he was drafted in 11% of leagues, which seemed crazy then. But we just can't seem to get it right for Lowry. Would you rather have Yadir Malina or Yasimani-Grandall? I would rather have...

Grandal It's close, though. They're in the same tier. Would you rather have Jed Lowry or Jason Kipnis? Lowry. Kipnis, forget him. Yes.

How about Lowry or Ketel Marte? Lowry. Really? Okay. Yeah, no, I don't know why I'm so surprised. All right. Three down.

Ozzie Albys. Three down. Entering yesterday. since May 1st. Albies is batting 223 with seven home runs and three steals. But no steals since May 15th. And May was okay for Albi's. June has been terrible for him.

He's batting below 150, I believe, or right around there. With two walks, 12 strikeouts in June. Kyle Schwaber. Why is Kyle Schwaburber in three down? He's had a nice year. Well, despite him having a pretty nice year, 243 with 14 home runs and good plate discipline, Kyle Schwerber is the number 41 outfielder in points, number 43 in Roto.

And he's 94% owned. He's another guy that's probably over owned unless you think things will get better for him. And Mitch Morland is going all Mitch Morland on us. We knew this wouldn't last. He's been really bad in June, batting 237 with two home runs. Seven walks, 16 strikeouts, one double. Mitch Morland's 65% own. So Scott, Albies, Schwerber, and Morland are three down.

I am a little concerned about Albies. I think you have to be. I mean, he has a 293 OBP for the year now, which is bad. Anyway, you slice it. It's kind of been like Labor Torres. All he's done is hit home runs. I'm heartened when I look at Francisco Lindor's month-to-month breakdown last year because I think it was a very similar situation where power last year for Lindor, I'm talking.

The home run power was so much better than we ever anticipated it would be. and yet it seemed to be at the expense of everything else. And those middle months were pretty disastrous for Lendor. He had 2.14 with a 600 OPS in June. He had a 763 OPS in May. But then he bounced back strong. So, like, Alby still isn't striking out much. I have to imagine the BABIP is low.

It'd be weird to call him a by-low, because I still think he's probably what the second or third highest scoring second basement to date. Third and points, fifth in Roto. But if his owner's panicking, yeah, it's only a 258 Bavitt. If his owner's panicking, it might be something you can capitalize on. All right, that's Ozzy Albee's. Schwerber, do you think he's over-owned at 94%?

Yeah, I do. They just don't play him enough to justify that ownership. And if somebody dropped Mitch Moreland in one of my leagues, I think only the deepest formats I'd be looking to pick him up. Yeah, I mean, he was a guy who looked at all the batted ball data, and it wasn't so obvious that he was overachieving when things were going well. It's just knowing his track record. Yeah, that's what it is.

Yeah, like even now, Babib's fine. The ISO's just so much higher than usual. Yeah, he's 32 years old, so that seems. unlikely to continue. Oh, man, I just saw another thing about Albies that is concerning to me. Gosh, Albies is really good against lefties. So I looked at his latest stretch, like, how have they just not face a lot of lefties? They face three in a row.

They've faced four out of five. And from May 25th through May 30th, I guess they had a double header in there. They face six left-handed starting pitchers in seven games. So it's not even like, well, Obby's just needs to face more lefties. No, he's just cold. It doesn't really change what Scott said, but just wanted to throw that in there. All right, rotation time. Six-man rotation from yesterday.

I'm going to save time for emails, by the way, so stay tuned for that. Charlie Morton. So look, no runs, no earn runs, one unearned, two hits, four strikeouts and six innings. Four walks. That gives him his highest walk rate since 2011. Then it gives him 14 walks to 17 strikeouts in 15 and 2 thirds over his last three starts. So you said you were a little concerned about it after his last start with Charlie Morton. How do you feel now after this four-walk start against the race?

Charlie Morton? I mean, he's still in, what, two of those three starts, the last two, it was still a good line overall. Still missing a lot of bats, still throwing hard. I'd worry about injury if those other things were going wrong. for him too. I don't really know what's been up with the walks, and he hasn't offered a good explanation as if yet. So I'm, it makes me not easy, but I don't know what you can really do about it either. Yeah, I mean, he's not, it's not like Blake Snow who has a history of control problems. I mean, that's not really a big issue for, for Morton. Well, we don't want to get into

history for Charlie Morton. Yeah, it's true. Would you rather have Morton or Snell? I'd rather have Morton still. Okay. Mortner, Bumgarner. Bumgarner. Jay Hap. Gave up four runs, but he only gave up two through eight innings. They put a couple men on base and departed in the ninth inning,

and Ryan Tepera allowed them to score. So eight and a third, four runs. You know, as we've kind of outlined with Hap, the swinging strikes have been way down since the first month of the season. This was 13 swinging strikes on 113 pitches, which is fine. But in his previous nine starts in 8% swinging strike rate. Jay Hap's probably going to get traded. He's also at Houston and home against Detroit next week.

What are your overall thoughts on Hap? I think it's been a little concerning how the swinging strikes have fallen. This start was fine. It was only his third start in the past 10, though, with double-digit swinging strikes, which I said before on the podcast is kind of my cutoff for a good swinging strike game versus a bad swinging strike game. double digits.

But the results have still been fine. He's kind of in that same class with, like, Cole Hamill's Tanner Rowark for me, where things have been going fine, and there aren't a lot of pitchers who can give you that kind of length. So you're mostly happy, but you're a little concerned that other shoe's going to drop at some point. For Jay Hap. So let's move on to Jake Arenda, and now you can react. Scott,

Jake Arieta is dropable. What do you think? I mean, you know I've been down on Jake Garietta all year. I'm not sure he's a good pitcher anymore. Strikeouts are down, swinging strikes way down after that started to happen last year. It's gotten another step this year.

But that's taking things too far, maybe in a 10-team league. I mean, he still has a 342 ERA on the year for a good team. This was a quality start. had. It was a quality start where he gave him two home runs and had only six swinging strikes, so I'm not clicking my heels over it, but it was a quality start after three not so great starts, but only one of them was a real disaster. I think he still has too much value in the broader sense

to drop him. I would, first of all, coming off quality start, I think it's probably okay to shop him now. Yeah, because look at his... If you're not getting... Next week is the Yankees and the Nationals. So, like, he could get crushed twice, and then his trade value's gone. Yeah, that's...

Yeah, you might want to shop him pretty hard right now. If you really can't get anything but the kind of players you'd see on waivers, then hold on to him and cross your fingers and hope he has a good start against one of those good offenses and shop him then. But I think just dropping him now is premature. Yeah, I mean,

I could see it in a 10-team league where there's like someone really good out there. But I agree. I mean, I wouldn't drop area. I was just kind of being. I don't think it's crazy in a month that we're saying he's definitely dropable. But as of right now, it's a little premature. Rank these next three pitchers. Ross Stripling, John Lester, David Price.

I wanted to come in here and give you this awesome insight on John Lester because he really did not have a good start yesterday. Seven scoreless innings, three walks, one strikeout. He got hit hard. Basically, the ball lived on the warning track. The wind was kind of blowing in, as the broadcasters were mentioning, or at least it wasn't blowing out, let's say that. So it was favorable for Lester. It was not a good start despite seven scoreless innings.

But Lester himself came out and was like, yeah, I didn't have anything today. So we can just give him an excuse. He really didn't have his best stuff, and he's still mad at seven scoreless innings. John Lester has a 210 ERA and a 1.09 whip. Ross Stripling had his worst start yesterday, six innings, eight hits, three runs, no walk, seven strikeouts. That was his worst start. He was a $199 ERA.

And David Price gave up two home runs, only struck out three twins. He still managed a quality start. How would you rank stripling, Lester, and Price? Price, Lester, and Stripling, though Lester's not far off from how I feel about Aureeta. Like, you're not going to drop a player with Lester's track record who is consistently giving seven innings for a contending team and has a 210 ERA. he were almost halfway through the season. You're not doing that. But it's been a big drop in strikeout rate and swinging strike rate for him this year, too.

Not as extreme as Areietta, but big enough that you should have some concerns. So I think he's an easier guy to sell high with, and I'd be trying to do that now. Stripling is very interesting. You know, a lot of pitchers have good fastballs, and you worry about their secondary stuff. Stripling, I worry about his fastball. But I just, you know, I can't sit here and pretend I'm super concerned. It wasn't a great start for him yesterday. I made a point to watch this game.

But he's just been so good that I think, you know, you give him a pass. And no walk, seven strikeouts and six innings. So that's a bad start for stripling. So keep it going, Ross Tripling. All right, let's look at the fringies. Tell me who you want. Jake Junis. These are all two-star pitchers next week, I believe.

Jake Junis, Felix Hernandez, Rinaldo Lopez, Jonathan Loisaga. Not 100% convinced he makes it second start. Lance Lynn, Frankie Montas, Nate Avaldi. Jake Junice, Felix Hernandez, Rinaldo Lopez, Loisaga, Lynn, Montas, and Evaldi. Junis is my favorite by a considerable margin. And I know his ERA has gotten skewed of late. One home run in this start after allowing three in each of the previous two. But there's still a lot to like about them.

There's a lot of strikes, pitches deep into game. I wish the Royals weren't going to be a disaster, but he should still be okay. Rinaldo Lopez, this was the kind of start I was waiting for. Yeah. Like, we need to see more of this from him, and then it'll be more befitting of the way he's actually pitched this year. He's not number two for you. So Junis is one. Who'd be number two?

For me, it's Lance Lynn. It probably technically was Renaldo Lopez, even though there was a big gap between him and Junis. but Lance Lends in that same range He's been Obviously Lowering his ERA Seven run runs in his past six starts But this was his second five walk start

During that stretch So it's still I don't know that he's totally out of the woods yet I think the five walks were against the I know one was against the Red Sox last night I think the other was against the Indians Is that right? Not sure

Yeah I get it You're not good enough to beat those teams Just walk them You know, I had somebody bring up an interesting point on Twitter related to Blake Snell, who of course had, what was it, seven walks in his last start, and that was two bad walk starts in a row. He pointed out that those two bagged walk starts were against the Yankees and Astros. Yeah.

And that maybe it was semi-intentional and that he was just being understandably careful with those hitters. which, you know, is not something, not an angle I'd really consider. So maybe there's something to that. Do you get any intrigue with Felix Hernandez after his last two starts? Red Sox and Yankees, two very good ones? I wouldn't say there's no intrigue, particularly in this start. He had 17 swinging strikes. You know, previous high was 12, but he did that and that other good start.

So maybe he's starting to figure out how to make do with lesser stuff the way we've seen C.C. Sabathia do. But he still has a long way to go to regain my trust. Yeah, he's got no fastball. I didn't see too much of him last night, but I did watch his start against the Red Sox. And his curveball and his changeup were outstanding. But he's going to need that every time out because the fastball is. just lacking. All right, deep leagues.

Tyler Malley is 28% owned. He's at Atlanta and home against Milwaukee next week. Real quick, Scott, any interest in adding Tyler Malley at 28%. Yeah, he's back below four,

but not really. He's so fastball heavy, and I think he took advantage of a favorable matchup against the Tigers. If you were going to take a flyer on Nico Goodrum or Jason Hayward, who apparently has made some

mechanical adjustment, and he's batting second lately of Jason Hayward, and he's been all right. Who would you prefer? Goodrum or Hayward? Hayward, but there's been a lot of Hayward hype that I don't entirely understand. I've had multiple people ask me on Twitter, is this for real for Jason Hayward? Can we trust him again?

And I look at the numbers and I'm like, what is it you're excited about? He's been getting a lot of singles lately, I guess. I don't understand why so many people have been so eager to buy into him again. Yeah, I could score a lot of runs if he's batting second. Yeah, but he's not really hitting with much authority. Some doubles. Five doubles in his last 16 games for Jason Hay. Six doubles, 16 games.

Shelby Miller, Jung Ho Gong, Adelberto Mondesi, Garrett Cooper. Shelby Miller, Jung Hogg, Adelbele Montesee, whatever, I just said there. And Garrett Cooper, are any of those guys mixed league material? So Matt Cook got sent down to AAA, so it sounds like Miller's going to start Monday. which would line him up for two stars right off the bat. You start him, you have nerves of steel coming off Tommy John surgery, but that'll definitely be a good chance to test what he has now. I mean, he still has a killer fastball,

and he wasn't must-own prior to this procedure, but you had to wonder how much if there was health contributing to that in some way. I still think there's enough upside there that I could see taking a flyer on him. He's probably my favorite of this group. Scott, let's read some emails. Eight emails in four minutes. You're on the clock. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com.

This is from Matt. Dear Messi, Rinaldo and Namar. There's soccer players, right? Yes, they are. I have Kendris Morales in a deep mixed road of league and I'm struggling for offense. I heard on MLB Network that Kendris Morales started wearing glasses in spring training this year, then ditch them in May. He is hitting 317 with an 813 OPS over the last calendar month, the 19th of the 19th.

He also gained first base eligibility. Could you see Kendris Morales becoming a top 15 first baseman? I think he homered yesterday, too. Why would you get worse with glasses and better without them? I can't see him becoming top 15. There's just too many, too much competition there. And since Randall Gritchick's returned, the bats have mostly come at Morales' expense. This is Billy from Huntington Beach

Hey Sean, Gus, Juliet, and Lassie That is psych, psych. Started out as a pretty good show. Got pretty bad. Better long-term keeper in a points league. Chris Bryant for 21 bucks or Aaron Judge for 10 bucks? Long-term. Bryant for 21 or Judge for 10?

I mean, the price difference, price is pretty good for both. But I think you've got to go judge. From Brian, Areietta or Rich Hill rest of season? Arieta. From T.J. With Rich Hill coming back, who do I drop? Rodon, Stripling, Alex Wood, or Luis Castillo?

Or Rich Hill, I guess. Rodon, stripling, Alex Wood, Castillo. Hmm. If you need more immediate help, I guess Rodon. I trust Rich Hill more in the short term. But what would surprise me at all if he makes two or three starts and winds up right back on the DL. so I don't think that's like an obvious move to make. From Elliot and Berkeley, dear Richie, Chaz, Margo, and Royal.

No idea. I have been driven crazy by my streaky outfielders. Good stretches, bad stretches from Blackman, Fam, Hanager, McCutcheon. I also have Muncie, Rosario, and Springer, so two of these guys need to be benched every night, and it kills me. I'm trying to ride the hot streaks and waiting for the right time to sell high on them. What should I do? Sell high in Rosario.

So high on McCutcheon. Wait for Hanager or fam to get hot again and sell them. Can I bench Blackman? Yeah. No, I wouldn't do that. Actually, I have a very similar team, Elliot. I traded Mitch Hanigar. For Josh Donaldson, people thought I lost that trade.

That's fine. But I'm not all in on Hanigar like everyone else is. He hasn't been very good since May 1st. He's been fine. So that was the guy that I targeted because I think a lot of people really like Hanneger and I think you can get a lot for him. And you should. He's not, I'm not saying he's bad, but you can get a lot from, I don't know, yeah, what

would you do, Scott, if you had Blackman, Fam, Hanager, McCutcheon, Muncie, Rosario, and Springer? First of all, Richie Chasmargo and Royal are Royal Tenant Bombs. Oh. Which I guess Royal should have been the giveaway there. But secondly, I would try to meet some other need with one of these guys. And I wouldn't stress so much about which one should I give up. I'd give up the one that got me the best return. Because I more or less have confidence in all of them.

But not Blackmun or Springer. Well, I don't think that's an – Like if you get an ace for one of them. If you can get an ace for one of them, sure. Depends if you have a good hit. You obviously have the depth to handle that. Yeah. You know what?

Okay, that's true. I would be more likely to sell Blackmun or Hanniger for a great hitter at another – Blackmun or Springer. Because I don't know what your lineup is, but I don't know that you have a good enough outfield, to be quite honest. You have a lot of solid players, but if you give up Blackman, all right, you know what? Fine. You can sell one of those guys for a stud somewhere else. That might help you.

Dear Scott, Scott and Scott, can you justify dropping Jonathan Scope or Jesus Aguilar for Domingo or Mon in a head-to-head league? and his name is Scott, by the way. I could just try dropping either for Dvengo Hermann in that format. And I think I might actually be more likely to drop Scope if you already have second base taking care of. It looks like he has Brian Dozier and D. Gordon. So, yeah, I'd be okay with that. I mean, Scope has better days ahead,

but I don't think he's the standout many assumed he was coming into the year. Dear, Durand, Duran, Duran, Wet, Wet, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, and Everything, Everything. I've only heard of two of those bands. This is Brandon from Florida. Would you acquire either Carmart or Mad Bum, given their struggles, or are you worried about the injury? And who's better rest of season in points leagues? Carmart or Mad Bum? I have more faith than Bum Garner at this point.

I don't know why Carlos Martinez is... I don't know why he said he's throwing softer because he's worried about getting injured again, and the Cardinals are somehow okay with that. Yeah, he's still throwing pretty hard, though, I think. still that doesn't seem like a good situation honestly that was two starts ago I'm not sure if it's still the same but you're right it is

why the walks have been there so I don't know something's something's been up and lastly I don't think we're going to get to this one Andrew you want us to discuss Juan Soto more in depth and I think we should and I think we'll save it for tomorrow let's finish the show with a look at today's baseball matchups there are 10 games on the schedule and I believe there are three day games

and I am unfortunately going to be on the air for Luis Severino against James Paxton but you will start both of them Here are the matchups in the other games Red Sox at Twins Rick Porcelo at Kyle Gibson I will start Just Porcelo

If the matchup was better I'd start Gibson too but it's not Stephen Matt's at Kyle Freeland We're sitting him Yeah well you know what Freeland's Yeah, at Colorado, yeah, I guess we said them. Diamondbacks at Pirates, Zach Godley at Chad Kool.

I'm fine with both of those, actually. Kevin Gosman and Max Scherzer. Both is fine. What? Gossman? Yeah, I'd be okay with Gosman. Like, it's kind of in a Chad Kool way. It's not like he's must start, but, you know, two pretty good, coming off two pretty good starts.

Yeah, I know. But I still think he's... start before that was against a good team. He's not good against good teams. Six runs at the Red Sox, five runs against the Yankees. His two good starts were at Toronto and home against Miami. But against Cleveland back on April 23rd. Cleveland could not hit back then.

It was like 30 degrees. Cleveland was bad that month. Don't start them if you don't want to. I want to be afraid to, though. Three leagues I have Gosman. I'm not starting him in any. Kyle Hendrix at Matt Harvey. I would start Hendrix.

Absolutely not Harvey. Carlos Martinez at Brent Suter. I don't think you can trust. I don't think you can start Martinez right now. Chris Bassett at Lucas Gialito. Nope. And Aaron Sanchez at Tyler Skaggs. I'll start Skaggs.

Tyson Ross at Madison Bubgarter. Boatsis. All right. That is Scott White. Thank you for listening, everybody. We're back tomorrow. We'll help you get your lineup set for the upcoming scoring period. I don't know what it is up the top of my head, so I would just say upcoming.

14. 14. There you go. Thank you, Scott, and we'll talk to tomorrow.