Fantasy Baseball Today - 06/22: Buy or Sell, Week 14 Help (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 22, 2018

Leading off the show with Kyle Gibson talk, a Mike Trout discussion and how we rank Wil Myers (7:00) now that he has returned from injury. Then Scott and Heath tell you their favorite two-start pitchers for Week 14 (9:05) before we play Buy or Sell (15:10). Are Madison Bumgarner, Billy Hamilton and Zack Godley back? Is now the time to buy low on Carlos Martinez (17:40)? Is Ketel Marte legit? ... We discuss Kyle Hendricks' recent struggles (25:25), if any SPs have innings limits (29:23), bullpen news (31:30), the Most Added list (37:15) and prospects to add (40:40) ... A closer look at next week's two-start pitchers (48:30), then it's on to Grade the Trade (54:03), Fantasy Regulators (55:40) and weekend streamers to end 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

Is Madison Bumpgarner back? Is Billy Hamilton back? Is Zach Godley back? Is Heath Cummings back? One of those I know is true. Hefe Cummings is back. I am back and I really miss both of you so much. It's great to be here.

Most of all I miss the listeners. Brother. Oh, brother. I believe that last part. Where were you? Where the heck were you, buddy? I was in Minneapolis at FSTA. Beautiful.

I had been to Minneapolis as a kid, but I didn't really remember it, and it's obviously a lot different now. Beautiful, beautiful downtown. Spent one day in the Vikings facility, walked down and saw Target Field and the Target Center, drank a few beers. It was a great time. Very cool. Met some wonderful people. Did you do anything, any fantasy baseball transactions or thoughts from the last few days that you'd like to give? Not a lot of fantasy baseball transactions or thoughts

I did write waiver wire this morning And there were a couple of things that stood out to me And one of them was from last night And it was Kyle Gibson Yeah He's like 50 something percent own Kyle Gibson Last night was his ninth quality start Five of his last six have been quality starts

And the one that wasn't He went five and two-thirds innings and gave up two runs and struck out seven. It's been a month since he gave up more than two runs in his start. Kyle Gibson, 53% owned and his last four starts, he has a 245 ERA against Cleveland twice, the Angels, and the Red Sox. So I just remember looking over the weekend, I'll look again now. It seemed like there were a lot of indicators in Kyle Gibson's profile that the luck was potentially going to run out. For sure. His bad BIP is still against us still too low. His strand rate is still too high. But the thing is, like, when you normalize those things, you look at his FIP and his ex-FIP, they're both still at like 3-8-39. Yeah, this is still definitely the best version of Kyle Gibson we've ever seen. He is almost a strikeout for inning.

It's probably a little too good to be true, but it's not like he's going to go. I don't think he's going to go back to the Kyle Gibson of old. And the schedule gets a little bit easier for Kyle Gibson. Next week he has at the White Sox. And then he'll have a two-star week at Milwaukee and home against Baltimore. So two of the next three are good-looking matchups for Kyle Gibson. All right. So we'll get to more standouts from yesterday. We got a lot of buy or sell on today's show.

We got your emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. I do want to grade some trades. And because Heath is back, I thought I'd give him a little bit of a present. Later on in the show, come on. There it is. Yes. We're regulating. Do you know how much trouble I have? I have these fat fingers, and I cannot press the play button on the iPad. Just so bad at it. But we've got the fantasy regulators coming up. Later on.

I could not be more excited. Yeah, I actually, yeah, me neither. All right, let's just start with the big news. Then we'll get into our favorite two-star pitchers for next week. We'll take a longer look at it toward the end of the show. But Mike Trout is de-hching due to a sprained finger. By the way, he has reached base safely in 31 of his last 47 plate appearances. 31 of his last 47 plate appearances. Scott, are you concerned about Mike Trout's sprained finger?

I mean, I'd rather he not have a sprained finger. I don't know. Is he going to miss time? I don't think so. I don't know if it's affecting him because he hasn't really played through it that much. But, yeah, he's de-hing. It might affect his throwing more than his hitting. But, all right, I don't think anybody's downgrading.

him to keep it in mind. He is D-Hing. Albert Pujols could play some first base, and, yeah, Trout will continue to D-H for the time being, I guess. The Phillies are interested in Adrian Beltray, according to MLB.com, is John Morosi. Is that big news to you guys? Well, I mean, it would be, it would be, I mean, obviously it would crush Michael Franco's value, whatever's left at that. I think it would be good news for Beltrae, because right now, with Jurexen ProFar

expected to get a lot of time at third base Belchre is kind of dependent on the Rangers keeping everyone else off DH and if the Phillies acquired him I think it would be to play every day so it's I mean it's not gonna make a huge difference to his value

but I think it would be an upgrade for him I just wonder because I don't know how much of Belchre not playing every day is like planned maintenance because they think, and he thinks at 39 years old with his injury issues over the last couple of years, that's the best plan. The Phillies have a lot of guys. I don't know that it really changed things much for him.

I wouldn't, like, if I don't think the Phillies are going to play him six days a week. Yeah, well, that's right. I'd rather him be able to DH to stay healthy personally. No. Scott. Phillies have a lot more writing on their season, too. Important correction from yesterday. John Smoltz did not burn himself with an iron with his shirt on, as you had suggested.

That's the way I always heard the story. No. Someone sent us an article. I'll let you know who that someone was. It was, I'll tell you, I don't have it. We'll find out. He said that John Smolz, I read the article. What happened was he was steaming a shirt and he did not have a shirt on and he put the steamer down and water sprouted out of the steamer and burned his chest. My version is a lot funnier. It is a lot funnier.

I think more plausible. A lot of funner. Do people still use irons? I do people still use irons? How do you get your shirts unwrinkled? I moved to South Florida three and a half years ago, and my family did not bring an iron with us, and we have not acquired one since we got here. Well, I do use a steamer sometimes instead, or I'll throw something in the dryer.

Yeah, if you need a steamer, you just hang it up in the bathroom. Yeah. Take a hot shower with the door closed and voila. My bathroom, it doesn't really do the job. I try that, but it doesn't really work. Ronald O'Cunia is going to begin a rehab assignment today, and Will Myers is back. Welcome back. Will Myers, who went over three with a walk and two strikeouts leading off against Madison Bumgarner and the San Francisco Giants.

Last year, Myers was the number 14 first baseman in points, number 12 in Roto. Um, he was a little bit low in points because his runs plus RBIs plummeted last year as San Diego was the worst lineup in baseball. But this year they're not the worst lineup. They're bad, but they're like the eighth worst or something. Is Will Myers a top 15 first baseman for you guys? Yeah, I think easily in Roto. He might be top 12 in Roto because of his stolen base potential at a position where you're not normally going to get much. Uh, but I'd even put him there in points in the top 15.

Okay. Yeah, I'm just trying to look. I agree with the Roto assessment. I'm not sure in points. I'd like to see him. I expected that a little rust to knock off. Yeah? I mean, I'd give obviously how he performs this weekend.

It might impact whether or not out of it. I started him in a points league. But I would take him over guys like Matt Olson. Joey Gallo in a points league. I'd rather have Myers. Carpenter, the way he's heated up lately, he may be ahead of Myers now in that format, but that's obviously a format geared more for Carpenter.

Do you like Myers or Hosmer more in Points League? Hosmer. Well, who do you like better in a Roto League, Myers or Carpenter? I'll still take Carpenter. In a Roto League, I'll take Myers. Okay. So it sounds like you guys are valuing Myers fairly similar. These Scott, similar to where you were evaluating,

evaluating him and valuing him at the beginning of the season. Yeah, I don't see why there's any reason to downgrade him. He's gotten, what, 20, 30 at bat so far, so there's not really anything we can take from his actual performance. And if he's actually healthy, I imagine he'll be more or less the same player. All right, quickly, guys, give me your favorite few, one or two or three, two-star pitchers for next week. There's actually a lot of work.

are the two-start options who are owned in less than 80% of CBS sports leagues, which is generally the cutoff we go with. But among them, some of the ones that I think are clearer sleepers and that I could see them most clearly exceeding our expectations are Felix Hernandez, who's had coming off two great starts and Baltimore KC coming up this week. And Freddie Peralta, who was back to missing bats in his third major league start, and he has KC. Cincinnati this week. So a couple guys are going to pick on the Royals. I think they're both worthy starters, if you can find the roster space for them.

I picked one up last night, actually, because while I was out of town, I didn't really see my fantasy baseball teams very much, so I came back, saw my family for a minute, and then went and spent some time with my fantasy baseball teams. and I was a little bit surprised, and I think he's a two-star pitcher. I may get corrected here, but Loisica. 50% own was available in our Roto League,

and I picked him up. Jonathan Loisaga is listed as a two-star pitcher at Philadelphia on Monday and Boston on Sunday. I'm basing this on nothing, but I'm going to guess that they have an off day on Thursday and that they skip or bump back Loisaga. and have Severino pitch the Sunday game against Boston. I don't think they want Loisica pitching that Sunday night game against the Red Sox.

And honestly, Heath, I would rather Loisca have a one-star week at Philadelphia than a two-star week at Philadelphia and home against Boston. So you're projecting a negative score if he faces the Red Sox. Look, he's walking a lot of batters because nobody's chasing, so I'm not super convinced I'm to begin with. But yeah, yeah, I think I am. If I'm not convincing picking a negative score, I'm certainly picking a bad line for Roto leagues.

I mean, that Philadelphia matchup isn't great either. I feel like they haven't been really... No, they've come alive with Herrera. I mean, the first start, Loisaga definitely looked electric. And I think the upside is pretty good for him, 17 swinging strikes in that game. But he didn't show as much as last time out, and he's obviously just holding on until Tanaka gets back. But Tanaka is not coming back next week.

Um, no, he's not. I don't think he is. Probably not. But I could see them skipping him like Adam was saying, like off days, lineups as such. It seems plausible. I'm wondering if Stephen Mats, who's a guy that I, like I said yesterday before the start, I'll say now I don't care about what he did yesterday. In fact, he gave up five runs in the first two innings, and then was able to get through

like five and a third at Colorado. Pittsburgh at home and at Miami. I just hope he makes that second start next week because they, also have an off day. There's Cinderguard who they could bring back, I guess. I'm surprised that Mats is listed as a two-star pitcher because it's a Tuesday-Sunday thing and they haven't a six-day

week. So I have him. Yeah, that would mean assuming they're going to skip somebody else. Yeah, Seth Lugo, I would assume. Yeah. I mean, the bottom line is I don't think Matt's is good. Matchups are not.

I want to trust him. All right. I trust them a little bit, especially with that second start being at Miami. But all right, so Felix Hernandez. Oh, Lance Lynn. All right, we'll get into it a little bit later. Heath, that there were one.

Scott said Felix Hernandez and Freddie Peralta. Freddie Peralta, yeah. I have a third one, too, but she said only two. Ah, give me a third. Give me a third. I would also say Frankie Montas after unveiling that he has a swing and miss slider last time out. Granted, it was against the Padres,

but his first matchup this upcoming week is the Tigers, who've been giving up tons of swinging strikes to every pitcher that you wouldn't expect them to get a lot of swinging strikes. So I think at the very least, that start will be good. Then he faces the Indians the second timeout. A little more concerned about that one, but I still think that with the Tigers start first, it's worth the try if you can find there.

roster space for him. And that's a key caveat because it's not like he's a pitcher who I expect you to hold on to forever and ever. Okay. So Heath, did you want to give like your one favorite guy? I'm assuming it's not Loisaga. The thing is, like, I think I'd rather start Loisca than I would Felix Hernandez. Okay. All right, then it's Lewis. I think I'd rather start him than I would Montas. So it might be. work fine fine well I was going to do some buy or sell I know you all are football players too fantasy football players we've launched our product

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I don't know that what we saw from him yesterday is reason to buy it. I still have a lot of confidence in Madison Bumgarner, but only eight swinging strikes in this start against San Diego. And this was a guy who two years ago and before then when he was, obviously one of the clear aces in fantasy. You got swinging strike, double-digit swinging strikes basically every time out. It still doesn't seem like his stuff has quite the same bite on it. 7% swinging strike rate so far for Bumgarner.

I will say sell simply because when I hear it is back, I'm thinking 2013 through 2016 Madison Bumgarner, and he's not that pitcher yet. Billy Hamilton is back, Byer's Sell. Eight for 14 with seven runs, three steals in his last four games. Well, that doesn't sound like old Billy Hamilton at all. I'm going to sell it. I need to see a whole lot more.

Agreed Heath? Yeah, sell. Zach Godley is back, buy or sell? I mean, it was a step back this last start compared to the previous two when his curveball again looked like an elite swing and miss pitch. This one, he had seven swinging strikes. Six came on the curve, so that's a good sign. But the walks, you know, they've been, they've remained high.

I'm not willing to buy that he's back, though there are some good signs. I will say that he's back. Buy it. Is Godley, man, at this point, I feel like he's back to being sort of trustworthy, and he's got the Marlins and Giants next week and a two-star week. Oh, it's my start. Yeah. Yeah, I would like.

I'm not sure I think Godley's ever going to get back to the stats he showed last year and the breakout potential we thought. I'm not, I'm not banging. I never say never, but I agree he's not there yet. Put it this way. I own him in two leagues, I think, out of six. I'm definitely not looking at my team going like, well, Godley's going to be awesome second half, so I'm fine there. I think he's going to be usable, you know?

I think he can definitely get back to a mid-3s ERA type pitcher. That doesn't. That seems very reasonable. And I think that's kind of what he is right now. He's had one bad start in his last four. Yeah, just so many walks. That's the weird thing. even three walks last night.

All right, buy or sell. Now is the time to buy low on Carlos Martinez. Bye. Yeah. With the understanding, you're buying him and probably planting him on your bench until he turns things around because there's no way you should be starting him right now.

It has been a complete disaster since coming off the DL. And I'm not convinced he's healthy. But, I mean, I was getting questions on Twitter last night. Should I drop Carlos Martinez, which is ridiculous. So that suggests to me you might be able to get him for pretty darn cheap, really cheap. Yeah.

And the offer of the update that I read on our website said that his velocity was back about 95-mile-per-hour fastballs, which really is not really. Well, it's fairly consistent. It's certainly better than when he first came off the DL. It's getting up. You know what? His velocity is average fast-ball velocity looks like what it did earlier this season before he went on the D.S. Yeah, I mean, I guess it's kind of been down all season. It has been down all season.

Before going on the DL, Martinez, he had a 162 ERA. Cleveland next week, no way you're starting it. But okay, buy super low on Carlos Martinez. Buy or sell, Juan Soto is a top 50 pick if we were drafting today. Juan Soto. Am I, let me clarify the buyer sell here. Am I saying that I would draft Juan Soto in the top? 50 picks or he would be drafted in the top 50 picks by someone else.

For you, he's a top 50 pick. I don't believe I would say he's a top 50 pick. He's not that far outside of it. But he's more, I would say he's probably a couple rounds behind that. I actually, in my latest trade chart just this week, this was for the points format, I alternate points and roto. I have him 105th. So to me, he's not. I'm somewhere in between those.

He's not particularly close yet, and I don't mean that as a knock on him. I just, you know, it might have been closer in Roto where you have five outfielders and the starting pitchers aren't as concentrated at the top. But some hitters I have him behind include, like Brandon Belt, Jose Martinez. Pretty good ones. Okay. By or sell, John Jay should be added for batting. average and runs, John Jay.

Should be at it is too strong. I like him as a sleeper this week. Diamondbacks have some of the best matchups, and I was looking, I had, for a column I was writing the other day, I had sorted May 9th and beyond because I think that's when somebody, Brandon Nimmo or somebody entered the starting lineup.

And I was surprised how high John Jay was during that stretch. She was like, I'm just totally remembering off the top of my head, but I want to say it was like a top 30 or 40 hitter in points leagues during that stretch. So he's, I don't think he's good in the long run. There's not enough power or speed there, but he's hot, and Diamond Vex have good matchups. So if you have a big hole in your lineup and not a lot of options on waivers,

I'd be fine using. Yeah, I will sell. He has a 457 BABIP since arriving in Arizona. I just don't, I guess that's clearly not going to last, and it's going to drop by 100 points. Right. But Jay is a 291 career hitter, and he has scored 15 runs in 13 games for the Diamondbacks, and he's leading off. And the Diamondbacks aren't that bad anymore as a hitting team. I mean, they've been so bad for a while.

You know, just for a respectable batting average and a lot of runs from a lead-off hitter, I could see some value there, but I'm not like, you could. I'm just not saying you should. I'm glad you mentioned the Babbat 457 with Arizona. Buy herself. Cotel Marte, 52% owned. Cotel Marte has staying power. I'm going to buy. He, and I wrote about him today in Waverwire.

This year, he's got like a 35% hard contact rate. His swinging strike rate is below 6%. He's one of only 11 hitters to meet those two qualifications this season. and it was kind of overshadowed by the fact that he was hitting so many ground balls early in the year. In June, the ground ball rates cut down to 44%, which isn't great, but it's better than where he was

earlier in the year, and he has an 1,100 OPS. Five of his six home runs have come in June since doing whatever he did to start elevating the ball more. I'm not ready to buy it, but there is certainly a path to it. Would you guys rather have

Catelle Marte or Tim Anderson I'll take Marte in points Yeah, in points, I'll take Marte Tim Anderson You know, steals are so rare And we at least know he's capable of that So I think I'd probably rather have him to Roto

Cotel Marte or Willie Adamas Marte Yeah I agree And finally, by Orsel Hesus Aguilar will play his way into must-start status. He's got a 9-44 OPS, but Aguilar has sat three of eight games since Eric Thames returned.

By herself, Aguilar will play his way into must-start status. First, he has to do it for the Brewers. I think he will. Because he's been their best hitter this year. And it's crazy to keep that guy out of your lineup. He's done it against left, he's right, he's been awesome. If he does it for the Brewers, I'm, yeah, I mean, I think the chances are pretty good he'll be that in fantasy too so i buy that i will sell i he may end up in that position anyway

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He's just been so good, but lately he's been struggling. Kyle Hendrix has a 540 ERA in his last four starts. Just a little blip for him, or anything to be concerned about? I see it as a blip. He's been basically the same pitcher for three years now. I have a hard time getting concerned about him. All right. Yeah, I mean, he's a number three starter. Randall Gritchick is another standout to me. Randall Gritchick. is since June 1st, since he came off the DL, batting 316 with six home runs. And he's got power. The question is, will he kill you in batting average?

Randall Gritchick is 20% owned. How about this? I'll throw Gritchick on there. I'll throw Jason Hayward on there. You've got two outfielers that are about same ownership percentage around 20% owned. Who do you prefer? Well, I mean, Hayward hasn't been showing much power. It's been low-iso.

He's been hot, but in like a low-iso sort of way. I think Gritchick has the potential to be more impactful in fantasy, though I would expect Hayward to hit for a higher average. I think both guys are under-owned at this point. I do kind of buy a little bit of this bounce back from Jason Hayward. His hard contact rate is as high as it's been since 2012. He's cut the ground balls down. He's never struck out, but he's striking out even less.

So I would expect Hayward's going to be pretty considerably better than Gritchick in points leagues. But like Scott said, there's not a lot of power there and he doesn't run anymore, so Gritchick might be better than Roto. Lots to cover today. Bullpen notes, Mark Malanson and Justin Anderson got saves. We'll talk about that. We'll look at the most added list.

We'll talk about prospects. I want to see if we have time to talk about Tommy Fan, which has been awful lately. His last 29 games, fam is a 527 OPS. Of course, we have to get you ready for next week and with some weekend streamers. I did want to read some emails at Fantasy Baseball at cbsi.com. Before I do that,

did I leave out any major standouts that you guys want to talk about from yesterday's games? We pretty much covered mine at the top. Kyle Gibson, Cotel Marte, Jason Hayward, so I'm good. I think maybe we should talk about Matt Harvey,

if only in the context of don't buy it. Okay. I saw some favorable tweets about Harvey yesterday, how his velocities up since the start of the season. He's one of the biggest velocity gainers over the course of the season. But you have to see, look at that from the perspective of how down his velocity was early

on. His velocity is back to where it was most of last season and a lot of good that did him, right? This was only his second quality start yesterday. It was only a second and eight with the reds and still only eight swinging strikes. His season high is nine. He's never gotten to that double digit like I talk about. That's, that's my cup. cut off for is it a good swinging strike start is a bad swinging strike start he hasn't gotten to it all year just doesn't have anything to go with that 97 mile per hour fastball so i am i am not at all encouraged by what he did yesterday yeah the only thing that really bothered me about that harvey start was that in dfs god it was so it was so easy and obvious to stack the cubs and they

really didn't come through except for jason heyward um one more standout from yesterday that we don't really have to get into, but Luis Val Buena hit two home runs. He doesn't play much. He had a big game. And he helped me win back-to-back contests on the draft app. What? I got a zero. No, not a zero. I got 13 points from Mike Trout. I got 30 points from Luis Valbuea. Celebrate. All right, email of the day, number one, fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. Patrick said, last year I had to drop one of my best starting pitchers before the playoffs in Luis Castillo. Are there any fantasy relevant starting pitchers who are in danger of being shut down by September for innings limits? Can we adjust accordingly?

Any innings limits that our fantasy owners need to know about? I mean, so many of the pitchers who, the pitchers you worry about are ones, obviously, at the beginning of their career, and so many of those, their innings are limited from start to start these days anyway. Like, I'd worry about Walker Bueller, but he's on the D.L now, and so he'll probably, be, I think it's premature to worry about him. I could see it becoming an issue for Domingo Hermon if he sticks around and continues to pitch up to his potential. But again, we've only gotten to the point where we're picking him up in fantasy, so it seems premature to worry about innings. Off the top of my head, I don't see any obvious candidates that you should be concerned

about. Okay, good. I like that. Email of the day number two. is from Matt. Dear smart people. I have no idea. I have to Google that. After having the great fortune of having Mike Trout in my Keeper League since his career began, due to the league maximum years on keepers, this is my last year with Trout, and I have to trade him.

If you had to trade Trout, who is the one player that you would be targeting in return, assuming you could keep any player at the same cost for the next five to seven years? I guess it's the same as asking who would you take number two in a startup dynasty league. Harper, Bet, Aeronado, one of the shortstop, someone else. Who is the next Mike Trout, I guess? Probably Jose Ramirez, for me. Al-Tubez still very much in that discussion. I think those are the three.

I'd throw at Moody Betts. Betts. Yeah. I'm sorry. I overlook Betts. I think Betts might be my answer. Yep. Yeah, Betts is number two.

You're right. Okay. Mooky Betts it is. Thank you for the emails. Patrick and Matt. More emails later. Mark Malanson, 46% own, got the same. Sam Dyson had pitched three straight games.

Tony Watson pitched on Wednesday. He had thrown, I think, Sunday, Monday and Wednesday, so three of the last four. What do you think about this? Mark Malanson getting the save, Heath. I think that, like, talking about the availability of Dyson and maybe even Watson is important because we don't want to give the indication that Mark Mlanson is the Giants Closer. I don't think Mark Malanson is yet the Giants Closer. But what's maybe more important is that because of these situation, he did get an opportunity

in the ninth inning, and he did convert that opportunity without giving up a run for a save. There's still a ways to go, I think, until we see Melanson pitching on back-to-back days and then pitching successfully on back-to-back days. But this is a step. Yeah. All right, yeah, he has not pitched back-to-back days yet. You're 100% right. All right, so Malanson 46% on Justin Anderson, 4% owned.

Scott, what did you make of Justin Anderson getting the save? His third of the season. He has a one six three whip. Yikes. Yeah, that's mostly control issues. He throws hard, he gets a lot of strikeouts, but he needs to throw more strikes. I think for me to feel really good that he's going to wrestle this job away. I don't think it was just a case of them resting Blake Parker.

He had allowed five earned runs in his previous three appearances. He actually converted a save in the last one, but also served up a two-run homer to ball Goldschmidt, I believe. And Mike Sosha doesn't need much of an excuse to start messing around in the ninth inning again. I think I'd be a little worried if I made an investment in Parker. Yeah, worried about Parker. I don't know, not necessarily willing to pick up Andrew. It's just going to be messy, potentially, right? I think those are the only two.

Well, there's some he hasn't even tried at all yet. Like, what's the lefty's name? but like Jim Johnson's on the DL so obviously he's not going to factor into this mix and Cam Bedrosin just hasn't been that good so I think it would be only between those two but I yeah I like I said Soja has a history of experimenting in the ninth and I think the doors open again for him to do that Jose Alvarez was the lefty I was thinking of he probably has the best numbers of any

angels reliever, but they haven't been tempted to try him in that role yet. I'm telling you, I really think if there's one closer that people don't, that under-owned, I'd say. I think it's Tepera. I think he's got the highest percentage of his team saves coming for him of these guys that we talk about every day. Yeah, I mean, unless they want to try Clippert again, I don't know who else they'd go with. Maybe Son Juan O gets hot again. He kind of fell off. But, yeah, Tepara seems like he's in the driver's seat there, especially with –

there's no reason to think Roberto Azuna. I mean, there's a good chance he misses the rest of the season. All right, news and notes. Tyler Skaggs was scratched with hamstring tightness. There's a chance Skaggs could pitch on Sunday. Johnny Quato is going to make a rehab start on Saturday. Michael Waka's on the D.L. Can we get an update on the Johnny Quato, Adam Eaton, trade?

and who is currently winning that trade? I think I'm winning that trade. I was, well, I'm looking. You have zero stats. On April 15th, Adam Eaton has 38 plate appearances. He has a 3-14 average, scored five runs,

three RBI, and one extra base hit since the trade. Johnny Quato's thrown 19 innings, got a pair of wins, gave up two runs, and struck out 21. You had a couple starts with, yeah, Quato's numbers sound more

Yeah, you are still winning. Yeah, you are still winning. still winning. Of course, if you hadn't been winning, there's no chance you would have ever brought that up on the show, as we all know. Michael Walker's on the deal with an oblique strained. Lorenzo Kane left with a hamstring cramp. Hymey Garcia could go to the bullpen when Stroman returns. Eddie Rosario's day-to-day. Matt Carpenter's homered off two lefties, I think this week, whenever he faced Lester he homered. It might have been late last week, and Brent Suter he homered against yesterday. John Carlos Stanton was robbed of a home run. It would have been three games in a row for

Stanton, Mitch Hanager took a home run away from him. Eddie Rosario sat with a sore shoulder. I think I already said that one. Sorry, he's day-to-day. Clint Frazier could stay up for the Yankees. It doesn't seem like there's really a path to regular abats, but he's hitting well and he could stay up. I mean, I think he's better than Aaron Hicks. He might be, but I don't think regular bats are coming.

I feel like every time I see Yankees fans talk about Clint Frazier, they just talk about his trade potential. Like, Brett Gardner's old. Aaron Hicks has always been pretty mediocre. Old and currently banged up. Yeah. Like, there's, I think he's underowned at 17%. I don't. I just don't see him playing that much because I think Gardner's back this weekend.

Well, and I'm not hurrying to pick him up in mixed leagues. I'm just saying, like, he could absolutely be a guy who bursts onto the fantasy scene in the second half. Clint Frazier. As Drewba Cabrera day today, San Diego sent Fran Mill Reyes to AAA. Aaron Sanchez left with a bruise finger. Glaver Torres batted fifth. Brian Dozier batted second. Good signs for those two.

Remember I said that Torres might be a cell high. If he keeps batting fifth, and it might have been just because of the lefty on the mound, that's going to really boost his value rather than batting ninth. All right, I think it's time to take a look at the most added players in CBSports.com leagues, and it's going to be a lot of two-start pitchers for next week, but that also is the case on Monday when we look at the most added list.

more so on Monday. So here are the two, no, here are the most added players in our leagues. Domingo Armand, 77%-0. Freddie Peralta, Jonathan Loisaga. Armand Peralta Loisaga, their top three. Is that how you'd rank

them? Armand Paralta Loisaga? That is how I would rank them. And for me, Hermann would be a distant first. Hermon's definitely first. I don't know what between Peralta and Loisica. Okay. Sam Dyson, 26% own.

He's fourth on the list. Brent Suter, we haven't talked about him yet. Brent Suter's pitching well. 43% own now. And Suter had a good start against the Cardinals yesterday, seven innings, two runs. He's only made two starts all season of more than five and two-thirds. They are each of his last two starts. And he gets the Royals in a one-start week next week.

So Suter for one start could work, Heath. It could work. I would definitely not disagree with that. It's not something I would want to do. I don't... I think he's a pretty good option on a two-start week, but I'm not particularly interested in what start. He's a good control pitcher,

and he's had double-digit swinging strikes in five of his past six, I think after having none before that. I don't know what's changed to make him more effective like that. Yeah, and he's just got eight strikeouts in his last 14 innings. So it's like those swinging strikes aren't necessarily translating either. But it's note worthy.

Keep an eye on Brent Suter. Tell me if there's anyone you want to talk about here. Mike Montgomery, John Hicks, John J., Yolisholene, and Ian Desmond. Mike Montgomery, John Hicks, John J., Yolishish, who's at Cincinnati next week, and Ian Desmond. No. Ian Desmond is having the weirdest season, Because his fantasy production, he has been a high point score in fantasy.

He probably deserves to be owned beyond this week where he was in my top 10 sleeper hitters. And yet he's barely hitting over 200. His ground ball rate is still through the roof. Trivia question. Trivia. How many walks does Ian Desmond have in his last two games? In his last two games? Four. It's got to be a high number for you to be asking.

Yeah, let's say five. Six losers. Oh. Six walks in his last two games. Tom Murphy, Wade LeBlanc, Brian Anderson, Jan Goames, David Peralta. Tom Murphy, Wade LeBlanc, Brian Anderson, Jan Gomes, David Peralta. Your thoughts on that group, Heath? Murphy's 25% owned.

It's kind of gross. I mean, he is by far, to me, the most interesting. And a lot of that has to do with his catcher eligibility. Did his – and again, I've been out of pocket for the last. three or four days, but as long as he's playing five days a week and playing for the Rockies, I think he's going to be a top definitely should be owned in all the two Gedgeer leagues. Tom Murphy, yeah. Okay, and I think he's mostly playing.

I could double check on that. Scott, any prospects on your radar right now? Give me the quick prospect rundown. So my top five to Stash this week, and the latest prospect report is going up on the site today. may already be up. I still got Vladimir Guerrero at the top, even though he's out with a knee injury. Loi Jimenez just got moved up to AAA.

Yeah, yeah. So he is one step closer to getting to the majors. And it sounds like they just want to make sure he can hit off speed stuff because there's a lot more of that thrown at AAA than double A. And I think there's a good chance we see him by the All-Star Break. There's a chance we may see.

see Kyle Tucker even sooner than that because he has been on fire over the last week and a half hitting close to 500. That's often a precursor for a promotion for a guy who people are talking in spring training like you already deserve to be up. And the Astros' most glaring need is in left field. So it just makes too much sense. I also think we're to the point now where we may need to, at least in deeper leagues, you may need to think about picking up Forrest Whitley.

whose three starts into his return from the suspension. Each of them has only been four innings, so he's still building up his workload. But he's the best pitching prospect of baseball, and has shown it since coming back. Strikeouts galore. I don't know how he gets in that Astros rotation, but, you know, life finds a way.

And the other one is Nick Senzel, who has also been on fire, got his batting average up over 300 after a really sluggish start. And he made his first start at shortstop this past weekend. I feel better if he was playing that more because I think that's how he's going to have to break through into the majors, but he's doing what he needs to do with the bat to get the call. So Vlad, Eloy Jimenez, Kyle Tucker, Nick Senzel, Forrest Whitley.

Yep. And to check on Murphy, Tom Murphy, he sat each two of the last three games, but that's because they were facing lefties, and Ionet is good against lefties. So that might be the case. It might be a righty lefty thing, which would be a good thing. which would be a good thing for Tom Murphy. All right.

Let's see what we want to talk about here before we get to the two-start pitchers. First thing I want to talk about is my success on the draft app. A little two-game winning streak here. I had Tyson Ross, Solarte, who gave me zero. Val Buena, Mike Trout, and Justin Upton. This was a short slate. I played only the night slate.

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Three or four drafts today as well. The drafts, they don't take long at all. And they're snake drafts, which are the best part of fantasy. You wait months and months and months for your snake draft. Now you have to wait like hours, hours and hours, because you can do them all the time. So get on the draft app and use that promo code FB today. Dropometer. Jonathan's scope, 91% own, zero to 10.

Where is he on the dropometer? 10. What does that mean? You don't want him anywhere? he should not be on any rosters. And I just dropped my phone as I said that for a point of emphasis. It would have been better if this was on video. Jonathan's scope is one of three hitters in all of baseball

that has a swinging strike rate over 14% and a hard contact rate below 30%. That's a really terrible combination. It's not a 10, it's an 8. It's an 8. Okay, I think that's more properly calibrated. I'd go like 7. Eric Thames, which might sound crazy, he's hitting very well, but he doesn't play every day and he's batting 182 against lefties.

Eric Thames is 84% owned. Hold on, the context of the drop-a-meter, I guess, is like you want to stream a two-star pitcher or Patel Marte or like one of the most added players is on waivers. And Thames might very well be the last guy on your bench, you know? Or like, you know, it might be somebody you picked up in free agency or drafted really late. Where is Thames? If Scope isn't eight, Thames is what? Well, I go one higher for Thames.

I had Scope is a seven, so I go eight for Thames. He's playing less than Aguilar. He deserves to play less than Aguilar. But he's been so good. He's good against Ritey's. I mean, it's... He's like a worst Kyle Schwerber, and we were just talking on yesterday's show

about how Kyle Schwaber is over-owned. Okay. I mean, he's played five days in the last week and let off three of those. They faced a lot of Rites. I don't, yeah, I'm going to go below Jonathan's scope. I still think there's a chance that he has more played appearance as rest of the season than Aguilar does.

He's shot it. I will say five. Justin Smoke, 88% own batting 172, 300 on base, 310 slugging in June. Justin Smoke. Nine? I'll go... Five.

Austin Meadows, 68% owned. That's appropriately owned. I mean, he's not an everyday player, but he's good when he plays. 68% seems fine. I mean, are we taking into account what the ownership percentage already is or no? No, five. Not really. Okay, then I'll say six.

He hasn't really been that good lately. That's the problem. Like that amazing walk-to-strikeout ratio with two walks, 13 strikeouts in June for Meadows. Greg Bird, 66% own. Eight. Let's see. Trying to figure out how I calibrated everything. Yeah, I'd put him about where I had Thames, so I'll say eight.

Let's say you own Scope, Thames, Smoke, Meadows, and Bird. Who are the first two that you're dropping? Let's be clear. If you own Smoke, Thames, wait, are those all A-L-only players? I'm trying to think of how you could do that and still be paying attention. Scope, Thames, Smoke, Meadows, and Bird. I think he could be. They're all more than two-thirds owned.

I would say... But they're all awful. Not all. Eric Thames has pretty good numbers this year. And Smoke was good until the start of June. It was fine. I would say the first two-ed-dropper, Burden Thames. I think it'd probably be Burden Scope.

All right. Burden Smoke. Yeah, you got way too many first basemen. Yeah, that's the problem. My two first basemen in the podcast, like, worst year I've... ever had in the podcast league are Bird and Smoke. So I'm probably going to have to drop one, and it's probably going to be

Greg Bird, who looks like a guy who missed two months. I guess the fringy starting pitchers. Kyle Freeland, Brent Suter, Kevin Gosman, Stephen Mats, Kyle Gibson. Who's your favorite? Kyle Freeland, Brent Suter, Kevin

Gossman, Stephen Mats, Kyle Gibson. And Chad Kuh. I'd say Gosman and Gibson. Yeah, those are the only two I want in Standard mixed leagues beyond just a streaming situation. Well, in order to get to grade the trade and some emails and the regulators, let's get to the two-start pitchers here. And do you have any hesitation starting David Price with a two-start week, home against

the Angels, and at the Yankees? This guy is awful against the Yankees so frequently. Any issues starting price? I probably don't. I'm going to start him. How about J.Hap at Houston and home against Detroit? Sounds good to me. Start him.

How about Jake Arietta against the Yankees and Nationals? No chance. I'll still start him, but I would certainly start him in a points league, but I might be scared off in categories. It's not just like that he won't get you negative points necessarily. It's that you might have an option on your bench that's going to get you more positive points than Jake Arieta. Yeah, well

I mean, I want to cut to some of those other less than 80% own guys And if you don't mind Because I think it's a good comparison for Arieta Fine, but last one, do you trust Kent and Maeda Against the Cubs and Rockies at home? I don't He's at home with the Rockies are at home He is at home for two starts.

Yeah, I trust him He was so, it's been so bad since coming off the DL I think I'd only do it in points, Lee. All right, then. Let's talk about the other guys, Scott. Go ahead. So the four I wanted to talk about, now, when we were talking about this earlier, I framed it as Felix Hernandez, Freddie Peralta, Frankie Montas. I see them as the true sleepers in that I could see them drastically outperforming our expectations for them.

I don't know that I'd start them all over this four, which includes Mike Soroka, Vince Velasquez, Jake Junis, Kevin Gosman. They're all the kind of pitchers who I feel like up to this point, I've automatically started them whenever they were making two starts. But Gosman has Seattle and the Angels. Junis has Seattle and the Angels and obviously has been bad recently. Velasquez has the Yankees and the Nationals. Soroka at least has the Reds, but the Cardinals also, and he hasn't been very good.

His last really since coming back from the DL. If you consider what he's been doing with swinging strikes and everything, not just that he had one hit outing. I know, but I wasn't particularly impressed by it. So I have concerns about these four, particularly when you factor in the matchups. And yet I think they're of such a stature that I'd have a hard time sitting them still when they're making two starts. Points leagues, I can't imagine sitting any of them. Categories leagues, you know, you're going to have to consider how much ERA and WIP matters to you this week versus wins and strikeouts.

Scott is talking about... I think they're all still pretty startable for being less than 80% owned. Scott's talking about Soroka, Velasquez, Gausman, and Junis. So what about Lance Lynn, 59% own at the White Sox at the Cubs? Let's start him. I really wish he didn't walk five last time. If he didn't walk five last time, I'd think it'd be an easy start. But he did, so I'm hedging.

Think points league only. Rinaldo Lopez, Minnesota and at Texas. I'd start him in points. Yeah, just points. Seth Lugo, Pittsburgh, and at Miami. Well, I don't, how is he a two-star? Yeah, I'm confused if the Mets, maybe, do they have a double-heder or something like that? I thought they were playing six games.

No double-headers this week, unless our data's wrong. Are they playing seven games or six games? That would be an easy question to answer if I had it right in front. They're playing six games, so I don't know how Lugo and Mats are both two-star pitchers. This is what I was talking about. Yeah, I don't know who's getting skipped if it's not Lugo, because could it be Jason Vargas? I don't know.

Maybe. Bottom line is I don't think you should expect Lugo or Mats to make two starts because it seems like a lot of things could go wrong with that plan. Tyler Malley at Atlanta and home against Milwaukee. No, thank you. Chad Bettis, two road starts. Rather not. Thank you.

Joey Lucchase, Jose Arrana, Nate Avaldi, anyone else? What are Lucchase's matchups and where are they? Lucchasey is at Texas and home against Pittsburgh, and he basically could be pitching batting practice against San Diego twice, and I wouldn't start him after what he did coming off the DL. I still think Shelby Miller's worth mentioning in a nerves of steel sort of way, if you're a real gambler. slash rehab start was good.

At Miami and home against San Francisco. I mean, I wouldn't do it, to be clear. But those are two good matchups, and some people like to do nutty things. I just want to invite you to do that if you're so inclined. In the deepest of leagues, Felix Pena for the Angels is scheduled to make two starts at Kansas City and at Baltimore. We wait three months for the Angels to start having two-start. pitchers and now we get one from Felix Pena. Yes, great point.

Okay, that will bring us to grade the trade and then regulate. Oh, man. All right, let's do this quickly. Grade the trade from Matthew. Give up Hoskins, get Domingo Armand and Will Myers in a points league. D. Yeah, bad. Yes, C-minus.

And he says, C-Kek is awesome. Thank you for the promo code. You're very welcome. Promote is Fantasy or today. We're 20 bucks off or 10 bucks off, depending on if you've already used fantasy. Josiah, give away Freeman, Flaherty, and Rendon. Get Trout and Sindregard. Freeman, Flaherty, and Rendon, get Trout and Cinderguard.

I mean, any time you're getting trout. B plus. Yeah, that's good. B plus. I agree. From Joe, give J.D. Martinez and Tyson Ross. This is a Dynasty League. J.D. Martinez and Tyson Ross get DeGrom.

Velazquez and Devers. And he's trying to rebuild. He's team stinks, I guess, building for the future. Give up JD Martinez and Tyson Ross get DeGrom, Velazquez, and Devers. Yeah, it seems fine to me even if you were rebuilding. I might even say you won the trade even if you weren't rebuilding. But given the context, I think that's another, at least a B. B.

Okay. And from Miguel traded Harper, Donaldson, and Granky. Ooh, better get a lot here. Harper, Donaldson, and Granky for one player. No one Aronado. Oh, come on. No. This is somebody who's selling low on Bryce Harper.

Yeah, that's bad. Yeah, this is F. Yeah, it might be an F. I don't hand out those extremes easily, but that's bad. You flunked fantasy baseball. Let's regulate. From Connie. Regulator question.

Oh, yeah. I play in a 5-by-5 head-to-head categories league with daily transactions. How many innings would you suggest as a weekly minimum? We currently have it set at seven innings. But we have an owner who tries to slide by without starting any pitchers and just getting a stats from relievers. How many innings would you make the minimum for a week? What are you trying to accomplish? I guess that's the way you have to think about it.

I don't think there is a right answer to this, but are you trying to make somebody start one starter every week? Are you trying to make somebody start three-star? That's the problem I have with these rules is, like, whatever you want is fine. But clearly seven is not okay with you guys, because they're not starting any starting pitchers. Yeah, I mean, if the issue is they're not starting any starting pitchers, I think you should address the issue more directly. You could set up a lineup to have two required starting pitchers and then the rest are flexible or whatever.

Or you could set a minimum start limit. 20 innings. That seems stickier. 20 innings. That's fine. I don't like these types of rules where we're telling people how they have to build their roster. Well, they're asking. I know.

I'm just explaining to Connie that I have a difficult time regulating. This is not my area of expertise because I'm not really this type of judge. All right, 20 innings. Yeah, that's going to require you to get some starters in there. Each pitcher would have to average three innings. Yeah, you'd need to. Yeah, okay. I'm a bigger fan of freedom.

I mean, I'm okay with freedom. CK needs regulation. Who's against freedom? A lot of people are against. Such an unfair way to frame an argument. Clearly against freedom. I don't like people. I don't even care what they're saying.

No, I mean, like, if you want to be totally free, make every player eligible everywhere. That's freedom. Well, they don't actually play those positions. That's ridiculous. Okay. So, you're not for freedom. I'm not even listening to you guys. It's just grooving.

All right. CK needs regulation, 14 team head-to-head category league. Yesterday morning, I listened to Uncle Adam, and I made an offer for Trevor Bauer. I listened to Scott, and I made it a priority. to offer some a couple of closers who may not keep their job all year. Boxburger and Strickland. I think we feel pretty good about Boxburger, by the way. I was happily surprised when the trade was accepted this morning, Boxburger and Strickland for Bauer.

Then late last night, we learned that Strickland has anger management issues. I guess this happened right before he punched the wall. The other owner would either like me to rescind the trade or instead of Strickland, he wants Hater and Boxburger for Bauer. Am I obligated to do anything or is it just bad luck for him? Just bad luck for him? you are under no obligation if the trade was finalized, it's over. I agree. It is bad luck for him.

No takebacks. And we have successfully regulated. Love it. All right. Let's do weekend streamers to end the show. I'm just going to go through the scoreboard here, so bear with me. Chris Bassett at the White Sox. No.

No. Yvonne Nova against the Diamondbacks. No. No. If I was doing this show with Chris, Chris, he'd say yes because he likes Nova for some reason. Well, with a bagel and some smear, I love it. Zach Eflin at the Nationals?

No. No. Wade LeBlanc or Stephen Wright tonight? Mariners at Red Sox. No. I would do Stephen Wright. Yeah, man. He's 71% of the yes.

The first yes, and it's only a half yes. All right, I'm going to write down Stephen Wright. Half yes. Joseigantana, Luis Castillo against the Cubs. Yes. No. Yeah, I'm fine. Starting him?

Yeah, I mean, it's not with a lot of confidence, but the upside, like, when he's been bad lately, it hasn't been horrible. The dude has a 577 ERA, and he's facing the Cubs. Yeah, just saying. I mean, it's three run runs in five in a third innings or whatever he had last time. Is that a horrible start? With two strikeouts? Look, Matt Harvey just did this team. Yes, it is a horrible star.

It's an ERA over five, but is it really a horrible start? Because it's also a terrible whip that he had. And he's a 144 whip. I don't think it's so bad that you should be scared off. Like you should totally forfeit the upside. I mean, look, if you were facing a middle of the pack team. But I don't know if I try. All right, fine.

So Castillo, I'm going to put him down. Alex Wood, a Zach Wheeler against the Dodgers. I got my eye on this start. Wheeler's a picture better lately. Like at this point in the week, assuming we're talking about categories league. There's so much that goes into what do you need. Wheeler's right on that line of

I'm probably starting him. Mike fires at Shane Bieber. I don't want either. I'll start the Bebs. Yeah, that's a really good matchup. I feel like the Tigers might be the best matchup right now, honestly. C.C. Sabathia at the raise. I am

starting him, actually, tonight. Yeah, that's fine. I do that. Danny Duffy at the Astros, no. No. Mike Minor at Fernando Romero. I'd be more likely to start Romero, I think. Yeah, I think I'd roll him out there. Junior Gary against the Cardinals.

No, thank you. I mean, he's been so reliable, but in a way I don't trust. I'll lean yes. Would you start John Gray at home against the Marlins tonight? Yeah. Not comfortably, but yes. Marco Estrada at the Angels. No.

Clayton Richard at the Giants. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, definitely. I probably would, but I'd have a little gross feeling about it. So it looks like you guys like Castillo, Sabathia, maybe Bieber tonight. There's also Stephen Wright, Clayton Richard, and Zach Wheeler under consideration. Jake O'Reilly against the Rangers. As bad as he's been, I'd rather not.

Daniel Mengden at Dylan Covey. Be more likely to start Kobe, but I'm not sure I want to start either. Tyler Anderson at home against the Marlins. No. Yeah, not... I'd say no. Eric Fetty against the Phillies. No, no.

Jordan Lyles or Andrew Suarez, Padres of Giants. I could see a situation where I started both. I can see a situation where I started neither It's kind of in the Zach Wheeler range of what do you need most I guess If you're looking to spare ERA and WIP, probably not Sunny Gray at the Rays Yeah Yeah that's fine

Anthony DeSkofani against the Cubs No Chase Anderson against the Cardinals I don't think so I'd rather start Like I don't If it's between him and Gera I don't think there's any choice who I go with.

Yep. Mike Leak at the Red Sox. No. No. Marcus Stroman at Jaime Berea. Not fresh off the D.L. No, you can't do that. I may run Berea out there.

Marco Gonzalez at the Red Sox. No. I started him for the two starts. Obviously, that's gone poorly so far. But I think if you're just talking a one-by-one basis, I don't start him. against the Red Sox. Mike Montgomery at the Reds.

I'm okay with that. I'd do that. Matt Boyd at the Indians. No. Jason Vargas against Dodgers, no way. Domingo Ramon is at the raise. He's pretty own, though. How about Clay Buckholtz or Trevor Williams,

Diamondbacks at Pirates? I'm going to say no to both. Agreed. Paul Blackburn at Carlos Rodon. Are the A's bad against? lefties, is that a thing? They're good on the road, I know that. Carlos Rodon hasn't done anything to deserve starting yet, so I'd probably start him.

I'd probably want it. I think you're being a little hard on Rodon, considering he's had a very difficult schedule. Well, he's been giving you those Louise Castillo starts, you hate so much. He has a 122 whip, not a 144 whip. Yeah, I need to see him flash some upside before I start him. It's not like he's been getting a ton of swinging strikes, a ton of strikeouts. Like he's just been holding his own. He's got.

He hates Carlos Rodon. I think one of the biggest fights we ever had on this podcast may have been over for those Rodon. Really? I don't remember it. All right, guys. I'm sorry. We got to end this show.

Luke Weaver at Milwaukee. Are you Luke Weaver or your least just seen? I don't want to. Not at Milwaukee. Did you see they're giving away chances to slide on the slide? Ooh, fun. Sorry. With that sneeze.

Wonderful. That's that shit in the pod. That might have been your best clothes ever. Thank you. I'm just going to leave it to that. Bye. Have a great weekend. Talk to you Monday.