Fantasy Baseball Today - 07/06: Turner, Cueto, Most Added, Week 16 Help (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 6, 2018

Is this the start of a huge second half for Trea Turner (5:55), and which other All-Star could carry your team to a Fantasy title? Who are our favorite two-start pitchers for Fantasy Week 16 (8:00)? We've got all that and more on today's show ... Johnny Cueto (12:10) struggled and Marco Gonzales thrived (14:30) last night as we discuss the standouts. Heath also provides some good humidor research (17:55) and we play "Hey, Real Quick" (24:00) with John Hicks vs. Salvador Perez, Eduardo Escobar vs. Jurickson Profar and more ... Most Added players (30:20), Dee Gordon's struggles and why things could improve (36:00), overowned OFs (39:50), yesterday's fringy SPs (47:21), a deeper look into two-start pitchers (50:45) and weekend streamers (55:50) ... Your email 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

Domingo Santan. It's Cocoa Friday, everybody. Sit back, relax. Listen to some fantasy baseball knowledge. Wait, you're looking at me, Heath, like you hated that intro. What was that sound you made before you told everyone it was Cocoa Friday? Hey, everybody. I don't know.

Relax sound. Yeah, I guess so. That's what I do. When I go to an island, I just look at people and I go, hey. And they all know what I'm talking about. Then they get me like a pinia collada, but with no alcohol. You are like a modern-day, not cool, not tough, fauns. Well, it's the shame I don't have the...

Oh, no, he's not in Happy Days. What show is he on? He is in Happy Days. Oh, no, he's not in Happy Days are yours and not. I'm going to sing a clip from the Happy Days theme song every podcast I'm on from now. Okay, I get Happy Days and Welcome Back, Cotter confused. He's not on Welcome Back Cotter. Jeff Samarja is on Welcome Back, Carter.

He's coming back this weekend. In fact, he's somebody that might be in the waiver, our column. It's not one of those days where it's so obvious who we should be picking up, but Samarja's 40% owned. He's been terrible so far this year. Who wants to pick up Jeff Samarja before it's too late? Yeah. Right. Maybe. I feel. I think at 44% there are certainly leagues where someone should go at him. Now, those owners that should go at him may have already quit playing for the year, but there are definitely pitchers rostered more than 44% that should be dropped for Jeff Samarja. Yeah, and I can agree with that. It's too.

He's probably like between 80th and 90th in my starting pitcher rankings. So, you know, a lot of leagues there are more, there are a higher number of pitchers than that own. But I like to think on my own teams, I have, you know, I have a better, I have more on the higher end of that than on, you know, I'm not having to scrape around for that range of pitchers because I've been playing so hard all this time. There you go. By the way, what do Greg Holland and Derek Holland have in common? The last name Holland They're both terrible

They're both in the bullpen That has been one of the moves that the Giants have made Are they keeping both of their rookies In the rotation Rodriguez and Suarez Looks like it seems like they should Yeah

All right We still haven't heard anything official about Chris Stratton, right? No, I haven't Because he would be the one that could disrupt that Yeah Didn't he get moved to the bullpen a while back? But he had started recently but no that makes sense

He hasn't been Oh he's been awful Yeah I don't I'm pretty sure And this is the way this show is going to go I left my laptop at home Because that's The downside to working off a laptop

Sometimes you do that It's not the downside for everyone Well I'm sure it happens to most people From time to time I left it at home And I also left my handwritten notes That I bring to every podcast at home

Because I put it in my laptop bag So I wouldn't forget my notes. So I am flying totally blind. So I'm going just, you know, I think Chris Stratton spent some time in the bullpen this year. No, he hasn't. He has made 18 appearances. They've all been stars.

You're going to have to keep me honest then. All right, well, I have no problem with that. If you can count on anybody to do that, it's adamant. No, it's Heath coming. He's just constantly sharing information with us. I get emails from him telling me about important articles I need to read just yesterday. I had a screenshot sent to me. This does not have to be brought up on the air.

He sends me a screen shot. And all I see is under the screenshot is Joel Sherman. Joel Sherman is the writer for the New York Post. He's on MLB Network. It's one of the most respected baseball voices. Yeah, I would say he is known by 95% of Yankees fans. He's on MLB Network. He's a national, bruh.

I know. I would say he's probably known by 20 to 25% of non-Yankees fans. Okay. I know. Yeah, you should. It's kind of your job. And I wanted to do a Twitter poll, like, who was this piece of content about Greg Bird or literally anyone else? It was about Greg Bird.

And the thing I appreciated the most, the very first words of, like, this is not some piece. Usually when you share something with us, it's like, hey, look at this interesting statistic or this data. This player is going to be better. I continue to believe in Bird. He is young. I can't dismiss that during the ALCS last year, Astros personnel kept pointing to Bird as their most worrisome at bat.

That doesn't mean anything to you? He's the same age as Aaron, Judge, and Gary Sanchez. But like, my point is... Are you ghostwriting for Joel Sherman? My point is, if we had Joel Sherman on the show and he said, I believe in Greg Bird, the Astros personnel kept pointing to Bird as their most worrisome at bat,

you might put some stock into that. But when I say it, Nobody cares. That's why I sent you the screen chat. I'm saying if you shared every single puff piece like this about every below-average major league baseball player, I would get almost as many texts from that as I do from your Twitter notifications when you're flying the whole of it. The Astros personnel pointed to Greg Byrd as their most worrisome about that means something. That is how he was evaluated.

All right. I didn't want to bring that up. I've got a new segment. Okay. It's called I Got a Feeling. And I'm coining that. I got a feeling. And I'm probably going to write a song with those.

lyrics, so just, you know, let me have that. I got a feeling that Trey Turner and John Carlos Stanton are going to own the second half of the baseball season. Trey Turner and John Carlos Stanton, they are going to own second half of the baseball season. Okay, I mean, Trey Turner owned yesterday. He sure did. Right?

That's right. Eight RBI. I think I read a stat from, I can only think this. I don't know it. Your stat is correct. Yeah, Jason Stark pointed out he is only the... Scott, I'll help you out. Let me help you out.

He had eight RBI as a lead off hitter. He's tied for the record for the most RBIs is a little bit off hitter. Trey Turner, yeah, he had a big game. He's still only the number six shortstop in points, number five in Roto. John Carlos Stanton, his stats, today is July 6th. His stats through like July 4th are almost identical last year to this year. Even his stats through July 6th, they're pretty identical.

But on July 4th last year he had an 870 OPS. Right now he has an 853 OPS. He finished the season Stanton in his final 76 games. He had an 1127 OPS. He had 36 homers in those 76 games. No, I don't think he's going to do that. But I look at these two guys as big, big second half players, like top five fantasy players.

So there you go. They both have that kind of potential. They are not in most. If I was ranking players for the rest of the season, I wouldn't put either in my top 20, maybe Turner. 20? Maybe Turner in it. I'd put Turner in a roto league. I'd put him in the top 20 because of the steals and how scarce that is.

But no, I'd put 20 players ahead of both. Oh, but I do rank for the rest of the season basically every week in trade charts, so I know this. 20. I'm not just speaking off the top of my head. Yeah, I think that's probably right. I have Stanton's seventh in the outfield right. now. I would definitely have five starting pitchers ahead of him, probably four shortstop ahead of him. So yeah, I think just outside the top 20s probably a good spot for him. I would have

Turner higher than that. I think you guys might regret that. Favorite two-star pitcher for Fantasy Week 16. Favorite two-star pitcher for Fantasy Week 16. Scott, are you going to be able to participate in this exercise? Yeah, I do remember the two-star pitchers I sent for the video I'm going to shoot today to go at the top of the weekly planner pieces. Zach Wheeler is one of them. He actually is going to make two starts this week, unlike last week, and he's been pitching quite well of late. Seems to be getting more out of his secondary arsenal,

which has helped his fastball get more swinging misses too. He looks like a fine start with two. two starts. I also, because I send in two for the video, it was kind of a stretch for the second one, but I am going with Tyler Anderson. He is, I think only like 43% owned. He's had back-to-back dominant eight-inning starts. Both of his starts are at home, but I want to say, one of them is Seattle, right? Arizona and Seattle. Arizona and Seattle. Both of them are at home, but he's one of like like most of the good Rockies pitchers he's not like getting pounded at home his numbers were actually better at home last year they're worse this year but not like in a

completely different stratistry one of those eight innings starts his last two times was also at home uh so yeah i wouldn't start him if he was making only one start but with two i think he's good enough that you could justify putting him in your lineup yeah i would go with a different Anderson, Chase Anderson. And I've still got some concerns about him rest of season, but he's pitched better as of late, and he gets the Marlins and the Pirates next week. Now, to be fair to Scott, Chase Anderson is 83% owned.

So I think that's my Scott. That's above the cutoff. Did not have him. Sorry. If you are looking at pitchers who are owned in less than 80% of leagues, it is not a good week for two-star pitchers. Because like Mike Leak and a two-star week, okay, I might go with him at the Angels.

Sure, great. The other one's at Colorado. Danny Duffy's hard to trust right now, although, you know, he's been better before that Astro start. Danny Duffy's at Minnesota and at the White Sox. Yeah, I'd rather start Danny Duffy at Minnesota and at the White Sox than Tyler Anderson. Fair enough. Zach Wheeler himself has Philadelphia and Washington. We'll see, you know, these aren't the best matchups. Washington's been so bad offensively, but maybe they woke up yesterday.

I don't know. All right, so we'll dive in a little bit deeper. It's not going to be – last week was pretty exciting, I think, pretty good for two-star pitchers. I'm not sure this upcoming week. I guess I should say this current week was exciting. The upcoming week, week 16, right? Week 16 is upcoming, yes. Yeah, it doesn't look great for streamers.

And like we usually talk about Mike Minor as just to spark. I think his matchups are good enough to start him as a starting pitcher this week. At Boston. Boston's bad, but then at Baltimore, that's, that's good. It's huge. Yeah, I want to say he's like four or five quality starts in a row. So he's okay. I think, like, he's in a similar category to Tyler Anderson.

I just trust Anderson a little more. All right. We'll see if we have anything more to say a little bit later on in the show. We've got standouts to talk about. We've got some hay real quick. We've got some humadork data. So he did some dorky investigation into the humidor. We've got news and notes.

Most added list. A category called, you know, it's been kind of disappointing. There's only one person in it. A couple of over-owned outfielders. There's your emails at Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. I want to talk about Carlos Rodan. And who, by the way, I looked at all of his game log for his entire career and the amount of times that Carlos Rodan has walked five or six batters.

And I only found one case where he had a bad start in terms of earned runs. It's very strange. Effectively wild. I heard them mention it on the broadcast last night, but I couldn't remember exactly what the stat was. All right, Thursday standout. Scott, you're up, buddy. Who's your standout? Well, I am going to go with Johnny Quato, who's starting.

good out in more of a negative way, I think. First start back from the DL. He gets a pass for that. But he did not look like the pitcher we saw early this season with the great ERA. And in fact, his velocity was down significantly. He averaged 88 on his fastball when earlier this year he was more like 91. Maybe time will help correct that, but early returns are, are a little discouraging.

Not saying you drop Quato, you've stashed them all this time. I don't think you ever drop a low 90% ownership, but this wasn't the return you wanted to see. No, it was not. Obviously, I watched the game. I have a lot invested in Johnny Quato being bad. Would really help me out quite a bit. Yeah, you know, I was watching the Cardinals broadcasters

did such a terrible job. They should really, like, dude, look it up. Because they're like, he has never thrown this up before. They acted like he's been throwing 95 miles per hour. Okay, his velocity was down a little bit. But this kind of reminded me of his first start of the season when I watched him and I was like, oh, man, he's going to be really bad. And then, of course, he was really good after that. So even I, the guy who doesn't believe in Johnny Quato, not going to panic for this start.

However, it can be a little hesitant to start Johnny Quato next week against the Cubs. Heath, you're going to start Quato next week against the Cubs? It's a home start. I probably will. I also think the way this went down. I mean, he got four of those five runs in the first inning. He gave up a solo home run in the second to Matt Carpenter. And then he wasn't overpowering by any means, but he then somehow got through the fifth inning without giving up another run.

Yeah. I mean, you do say his velocity was a little down. It was, on average, two to three miles per hour down from what he was this year, which was already down. What was it in his first start if you have that? Do you have that? I don't have that. Oh, that's right. You don't have that.

But that's important because I feel like the first time I watch it. Watch Quato pitch this year, he was throwing like high 80s. And then as it got, as it got, you know, a little bit deeper into the season, build up the arm strength a bit. He was more like 91-92, and maybe he can survive at that. But, all right, well, we'll monitor Johnny Quato. Marco Gonzalez. Sorry, I'll give you a standout next. He was my standout.

He said stardom. I said I wasn't sure. In my daily league, I sat Marco Gonzalez. I looked at his previous two starts against the Angels, and I saw 13 hits in, or no, 16 hits in 11 inning. seven runs in 11 innings. I just didn't think he was going to be able to do it. He had a great start against the Angels, six innings, five hits, one run, two walk, seven strikeouts, and he was on my bench.

And guess what? Marco Gonzalez is at the Angels next week. Is this going to be a situation where I say, all right, now I trust him, and he gets beat up next week? Or are we feeling better about Marco Gonzalez? It might be. But I think, like we talked about it yesterday, and at the very end of the show discovered, Show Hay Otani's numbers against lefties so far this year. And then I dug in a little deeper after the show,

and the Angels have just not been good against left-handed pitchers. Yeah, and then I almost started him. When I looked that up before the start, I almost said, all right, well, let's start him. And then I saw, no, he just hasn't been that good against him. And I'm not trying to sell him short. This was a very good start. I think he is, I'm coming around to the idea that he is just a good pitcher.

I don't think there's really any upside for great, but he's the type of starting pitcher I'm going to start against most teams. And no chance against the best teams. And I don't think the Angels are one of the best teams against lefties. Okay. So Marco Gonzalez, that's him. He's 84% of him. Looking at Quato's velocity.

No, it was not bad. It was actually 91.6. In that first start? In the first start of the season. Last night it was 89. You got a standout, Heath? Yeah, it was Marco Gonzalez. So thanks for that.

And then I was going to talk about Trey Turner, but you covered that as well. Jonathan Scope had a double dong I was going to take more than that for me I thought well yeah I can write about people should add scope I'm sure everyone's dropped him as terrible as he's been this year

he's 84% owned so there's no re-adding him I'm not like I assume he's on your bench and I'd probably leave him there unless this turns into the starts of a hot streak sorry for the sound by the way I don't know why that happens sometimes

But I will point out, if Scope is on your bench, justifiably, because he's been awful, if he is on your bench, provided he doesn't take an O for this weekend, might be somebody worth activating for this upcoming week because the Orioles have eight games this week. They're one of six teams playing eight games this week, and the week we're going to call Doubleheader Palooza. Are we calling it?

at that? I'm calling it that. Doubleheader Palooza. Okay. I am calling it doubleheader Paloza. Here are the six teams, I think. Orioles, Yankees, Mets, pirates, Brewers, and there's a sixth team too. This one I have no idea how I would

even look it up. You're actually, I think you are a co-owner in the league where I used to look this up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you can find it. Okay. We will look it up. I'll get back to that. Let's get some humidork data, Heath. Tell us about the humidor. Well, we talked yesterday about how much of an impact it's had, and we didn't really know. So I did a little bit of research, and it's been considerable. You look at last year, the Diamondbacks

at home, had a 355 Wobah, an 842 OPS, and a 17% home run to flyball ratio. On the road, they were pretty close to average. 304 Wobah, 706 OPS, 14% home run to flyball ratio. ratio. This year, those numbers have remained pretty constant. They have a 14% home run to flyball ratio on the road. 300 Wobha, much like last year, 698 OPS, a little bit worse. At home, they've been even worse. 12% home run to flyball ratio, 703 OPS, 305 WOBA. I went also and looked at Park Factors 4 this year by ESPN's calculation. Last year, Chase Field was the fourth best park, home runs, the third best park for runs scored in a game. This year, they are 14th and 18th.

So it has not been as bad as we feared it could be. Chase Field has essentially become a league average park. And Paul Goldschmidt, you know, last year he hit a, he hit what tied a career high, 36 home runs. This year he's on pace for probably 37 home runs, but he's got 19 of them. and I'll look up the home road splits. But I thought that was pretty interesting. He's got a 905 OPS.

He's not really running. But now that I've killed enough time, at home... Yeah, I think you could say the human war concerns were both overblown and understated. But actually, now that I'm looking at it, he's got a 728 OPS at home and a 1081 OPS on the road. He's at 13 of his 19 home runs on the road, Paul Goldschmidt. Only six homers at home. Interesting. He's batting $219 at home.

Does that mean anything to you? I wouldn't expect him to hit that bad because we just said that everything looks like it's about a league average park. But I would expect him to possibly be a little bit better on the road than home. Yeah. That's a change from earlier, right? As there have been like a better stretch here in the summer months? Because early on it looked like... Well, that's the thing.

The last time I remember seeing anything, the only article I could find on it was in May. Yeah. So nobody, I think we just hadn't looked for long enough, and that was such a small sample size. Yeah, I mean, yeah. I could see how things would change over, you know, basically the same doubling the length of time. So news and notes for you. Mike Zanino's on the deal with a bruised ankle. Mitch Hanigar sat with a bruised knee. The Mets are expected to keep Noah Cindergarde and Jacob de Grom. They're expected to avoid trading Cindergarde and de Grom, at least until the end of the season. according to SNY.

Shohei Otani sat against a lefty. Travis Shaw sat. U. Darvish has no timetable to resume throwing. Yish. Francisco Cervelli began a rehab assignment. Stephen Strasbourg could be back right after the All-Star break. Ryan Zimmerman could begin a rehab assignment this weekend. Jeff Samarja will start tomorrow, as we mentioned.

Tim Anderson left after being hit by a pitch. Stephen Sousa is back. Gerard Dyson sat. And does anybody care that Freddie Freeman is batting 162 with a 500 OPS in his last 17 games? I do not care. But I want to mention one of the names you brought up, Ryan Zimmerman. They're apparently not just going to stash him away somewhere, which is unfortunate. Because Matt Adams came off the DL yesterday and was part of the Nationals' epic comeback win against the Marlins.

He had four hits. and at this point I think I'd rather keep seeing more of Matt Adams than bring back Ryan Zimmerman personally. Do you think that'll be a platoon? I don't know. I don't know. I mean,

Ryan Zimmerman is making a lot of money. This could definitely have a small impact on Adam Eaton as well. If all those guys are healthy, it's less likely that he's playing six days a week. I don't really, I think five is probably the max now anyway. Oh, man, I hope that. But I do want to tell you all about the best thing that I was able to enjoy yesterday.

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All righty. Hey, real quick. John Hicks or Salvador Perez rest of season? I would rather have Salvador Perez. The way you set that up, I thought you were going to say John Hicks. Yeah, sorry. I think Salvi's fine. I mean, I know his numbers aren't fine, but I think he's fine.

I don't see any reason to be concerned that he's not going to be his usual self. I know he has a tendency to wear it down in the second half, and we're usually like, oh, look, the first half's over, got to sell Salvi. But he missed so much time this year. I don't think it's going to be the same sort of thing. Salvi's one of the guys that I left ahead of Hicks in my rankings because I felt like he played enough. And I do think he's probably going to be better than Hicks on a per game basis. But I don't know.

I feel really iffy about this in a points league. I think there's a good, like they're right in the same tier. I'll lean Salvi just because of his history, but I won't be surprised at all if Hicks scores more fantasy points the rest of the year. Yeah, like, President was really bad recently. Since Miguel Cabrera's injury, they have about the same amount of plate appearances, like nearly identical, which surprised me. And Hicks just doesn't really hit for power. I mean, you know, he's just got to, he just gets a lot of played appearances.

But Perez has really been struggling. A lot of people want to know about him. He's batting 180 in his last 35 games. But we still value him ahead of John Hicks. Hey, real quick, Bryce Harper or Madison Bumgarner? Bryce Harper. Bryce Harper. Okay.

quick. Johnny Quedo or Adam Eaton? Johnny Quedo. You just wanted us to rehash the trade again. I really don't know what I do at this point. That was a really alarming start yesterday. He was terrible. Yeah. It was a bad start. He gave up four runs in the first inning. Yeah, but he didn't cruise by any means after that. Like Ozuna doubled off the wall, Harrison Bader doubled. I will say this about the first inning. A normal third baseman may have been able to turn a double play,

but instead Pablo Sandoval couldn't and that led to four runs on a ground ball like it would probably take it a very good play but he didn't get any help for Pablo Sanable we were very close to saying Johnny Quodo wasn't very good last night but he got by like he has for a lot of the seasons

yeah I feel like I got to say quato here just because he's the pitcher and there's always a need on it any fantasy team for another decent pitcher right I want to be surprised particularly in my shallower leagues, like fewer than 300 players rostered.

I want to be surprised if in my inbox there was a notification that somebody dropped either of these two. Like, I don't think, I don't think it's, I don't think we're beyond the point where that's feasible. I would just say, I wouldn't drop Quato personally. In a points league for sure, if both of these guys were dropped, Quato is the one I'd be trying to make sure I found this spot for. Yep.

Uh-huh. Me too. Uh, hey, real quick, Eduardo Escobar or Jerkson Profar? Eddie I'm looking at the numbers now it's really nice that you put these notes together for us and I'm surprised that jerks and ProFar has outscored Edward O'Escobar on points leagues

It's stunning to me He doesn't strike out much He's gotten a lot of doubles himself And I like I said earlier on the show I traded for ProFAR yesterday It was in a 24 team dynasty league I traded Donaldson straight up for him which, you know, it's obviously surprising at its face,

but there's a big price difference in terms of how they're kept. ProFar is much cheaper. That played into it as well. But a big reason why I was motivated to do it is because ProFar's done fine in a points league contest already, and that's with them hitting about 240, and that's with a BABIP that's low in a way that doesn't make sense for it to be low. He should not have a low batting average. He should have a solid batting average.

He's on like a 15 home or 15 steel pace. Like there's just, he's one of those guys who, like, the hole is greater than the sum of the parts, I feel like. And particularly if there's some batting average correction, I could see him becoming like a top 10 player at everywhere he's eligible. I guess more like top 25 in the outfield. But you know what I mean? Sure. All right. So a couple things.

Number one, a few things. Number one, Scott, I don't think you mentioned the pro far trade on the air. I think you mentioned that off the air. So Scott traded for ProFar. He traded Donaldson for ProFar in a Dynasty League. ProFar is better than Escobar in Points League. He's the number 10th third baseman. Escobar's 14th.

In Roto, Escobar is 13th and ProFar's 17th. But ProFar, it's kind of sneaky. He has eight steals in eight attempts. Escobar has one steal in four attempts. Also, ProFar is scoring a lot of runs, and Escobar isn't. I mean, it's only an eight-run difference, but over the course of a season, that's a 15-run difference. actually kind of a big deal.

And that doesn't really make much sense to me. I feel like ProFar's been a little bit lucky with the runs. He does seem to score a lot. 47 runs and 79 games, and he usually, like, lately he's been batting 6th. And then Escobar, man, this guy is so streaky. First 14 games, 768 OPS. Next 15 games, 1,200 OPS. Next 19 games, 450 OPS.

Next 18 games, 1378 OPS. next 15 games, which takes us through yesterday, 436 OPS. So he alternates between amazing and dreadful. That's part of the calculation, too, is we're kind of catching him his ranking at his worst point, right? Yes. How many doubles does he have? Do you have that available? 34 doubles.

Yeah, he's still on pace for like 70 doubles, which is insane. Like, he's having a really good year, and I think the upside. certainly when you talk about like a roto context. I feel like the upside's greater for Escobar. All right. So now let's see who's on the most added list. The first guy on the most added list might be on the most drop list. Max Fried.

And I don't think he's a two-star pitcher next week. I think, yeah, in fact. Maybe a zero-star pitcher next week. He might be. Yeah, it's not clear what they're going to do with them. It was a bad start, first of all, against the Brewers. Didn't. I was worried about the consistency

because the curveball scouts have raved about it was obviously great and that started against the Cardinals but the minor league numbers have been inconsistent he didn't have great numbers to AAA this year but apparently he also was dealing with the blister

issue in this game and that could potentially send him to the DL okay so you don't have to be too glued to Max Fried he 35% owned this is not the best most added list Avi Garcia 60% we spent a lot of time on him

this week. Then we have Nate Avaldi and Derek Rodriguez and they're owned in much different amount of leagues. Nate Avaldi is 71%. Remember he's in the middle of a week of great two-star matchups. Mets and Marlins, I think. And

Derek Rodriguez, 32% owned. Who would you rather own Avaldi or Rodriguez? I'd rather own Avaldi. I think I would have said Avaldi before it was announced that Holland was going to the bullpen and now I might have more interest in Rodriguez. guess. Enrique Hernandez is on the most added list. Do we buy him in a long-term context?

No. I really want to. I think he is a pretty good player. I don't think it's anywhere close to likely that he ends up as an everyday player this year. Yeah. And they've, I mean, they've kind of freed up the log jam a little by Dave Roberts saying Max Muncie's going to be their second baseman going forward. They were just kind of flirting with him in that spot before and finding places for him elsewhere. But even so, you have an outfield of Kemp, Peterson, and Pueg. You have Chris Taylor at shortstop. I mean, Hernandez is going probably to start against left-handers sitting with Peterson sitting, but otherwise there needs to be another injury.

Back to the most added list. That's Enrique Hernandez we're talking about. Robinson Sherinos, 50% owned. That one may be flying under the radar a little bit. Is he doing well? I guess he's doing it. Yeah, he's been hot. Yeah, he's been hot.

And there's some guys that needed Zanino replacements. Yep, and Sanchez replacements maybe. He's actually outscored Hicks this year. I know Hicks hasn't been a full-time player the whole time, but it's technically true. Cherinos has outscored John Hicks. So, Chorinos or Max Stasi? Chorinos.

Chorinos. Zach Eflin is on the most out of this. He's 86% owned. Zach Wheeler, we talked about. Jose Parraza, 78% owned. Tyler Anderson. Matt Harvey, who will be pitching this weekend. He is, is he in a two-start week currently?

I don't think so. He might be pitching tonight. Jason Hayward, 37% owned. Is Jason Hayward someone you guys want to add? I haven't been motivated to. He has definitely been hitting the best he's hit during his time with the Cubs, but it's manifested more as like doubles than home runs. He doesn't strike out much.

So, like, I feel like he'd be worthwhile in points league, except points leagues are the one where you're starting only three outfielders. Yeah, I have looked at him a couple of times and just not been able to pull the trigger. So it's borderline, but I can't find a spot for him. Jason Hayward. Tyler Clipper, 25% owned, appears to be the closer for the Blue Jays in the short term. Mike Minor, we talked about. He's 43% owned. Will Smith is still 16% owned.

and we haven't seen any indication that he's not the closer. I guess we haven't really seen much that he is the closer. Well, this is the fact he recorded the last two saves. And as I broke down the last time we talked about him, every other reliever in that bullpen who you would consider a closer candidate has definitively not been used as a closer during the time that Will Smith has gotten two saves. And he's a lefty, but Tony Watson is a lefty who, you know,

they could keep. in that situational role instead. So I think Will Smith is probably going to get the next save chance, but I don't really know. He could be great if he does because he's been awesome this year. All right. A lot of closers on this list. Hector Rondone's 45% owned.

Sir Anthony Dominguez is 71% owned. Lut Trevino is 16% owned. He's definitely not the closer, but there's a chance he could be the closer after the trade deadline for the Oakland A's Lut Trevino. Just a couple quick things to tell you about before we get a little bit deeper into Thursday's games. Podcastawards.com.

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Very, very cool stuff. Delivered right to your inbox. It's free. It's easy to sign up. CBSports.com slash FBT Daily for the Fantasy Baseball Today newsletter. All right, guys. You know who's been kind of disappointing? Do you know?

Scott, do you know? Because Heath's got the note. Scott doesn't. You know what's been kind of disappointing? Let me give you hints. Okay. High-end player. Better Roto than points.

Okay. Probably a third round pick in Roto. Starling Marte. No, infielder. Hmm. I can't believe you haven't got that yet. It's so obvious. You said Starling Marte.

Now put Starling Marte on the infield, and who does he become? He's all. Also an outfielder. Oh, he was an outfielder. Now he's the second base. Dee Gordon. Okay, there you go. Okay.

Dee Gordon, he had, I believe, a quick D.L stint. He's only played 78 games. But number 20, second basement in points, number 15 in Roto. Fantasy points per game last five years. 3.02, 3.23. 2.70, kind of a down year, that suspension year. 3.07 last year and 2.56 this year. So he is having his worst year in the last five seasons.

He is also stealing, he just has 22 steals in 78 games. This is a guy who can steal 60 bases. He's done that 58 or more three of the last five years. And 30 in 79 games when he got suspended. He's currently on pace for around 40 steals. So, you know, 40, well, because he missed a little bit of time. He'd be on pace for like 45 steals if he played 162 games. So everything's a little bit down for D. Gore.

Gordon, is he a little bit worse than we thought he would be, or is it just kind of a little slump, but he'll be back to normal? I mean, the thing about him, and part of the reason I was reluctant to draft him in the third round, even in Roto, is that there's a clear limit to his upside since he's, there's no power. Like, for him to, he needs to be, like, a 300 hitter.

He needs to score runs at a rate, you'd expect a higher OBP guy than him to do because he doesn't walk much either. He needs to be closer to a 60 steel guy than a 40 steel guy, as we're seeing. That being said, I feel like if you own him in that format, like a traditional 5x5 or another categories format, he's still like 44 steals is still one of the best totals you're going to get from any singular player. So, like, I feel like he's too, too, like, carefully woven into your lineup for you to really do anything about it. And there's always a chance it gets hot and, you know, it's like a 360 hit or the rest of the way.

Yeah, I think, and you don't normally say that a guy with a 326, Babip has a little bit of positive regression coming. But just looking at what, like, for his career, he's at 343. He's striking out less than his career average. his hard contact while just miserable at 18% is two full points higher than his career average. He's hitting the same number of line drives. I would expect he's going to hit pretty close to 300 the rest of the year. I would expect he's going to score more runs. He should be scoring more than a run every game,

especially considering he hits leadoff. Yeah, that's the weird part because the Mariners, I mean, obviously the Mariners have been good. Right. They have a pretty good middle of the order. I think he'll be good in stolen bases. he'll be good in runs, he'll be good in batting average. So far, he's only really been good in one of those. He's just been kind of good in two of them.

I'm fine with Dee Gordon. Yeah, D. Gordon, in 78 games, has 39 runs. And last year he scored 114 runs for the Marlins. So that is a big area where you're right, Heath and Scott. He can definitely have some positive regression. All right, I'm going to have a new category here. Tell me if these two outfielders are either over-owned, unbelievably over-owned, Or am I crazy?

Adam Jones is 91% owned and Ryan Braun is 87% owned. Are they overowned? Are they unbelievably overowned or am I crazy? They're both overowned. They're not unbelievably overowned. Adam Jones has been kind of just continuing the gradual descent that we've seen over the last few years is still probably must start in like a five outfielder league.

but hard to start in a three outfielder league, particularly a points league, where he's not walking at all. But they're both kind of legacy players where they're just such big names that... I don't know that Ryan Braun needs to be started anywhere, but he's Ryan Braun, so I can totally understand why people have been reluctant to drop him. I think Adam Jones is going to hit a few more home runs in the second half. Yeah, it seems like he's traded doubles for home runs for doubles, rather. Right, and his batted ball data looks pretty similar. Okay. So I wouldn't necessarily expect that to continue.

Here's a quick round of emails. This one's from Josh. Four guys won 18 games last year. Ten guys already have 10 or more wins this season. What's going on? I thought starting pitching was supposed to be on the down swing with starters going fewer innings. This maybe deserves more time.

I didn't really have a chance to look into it. I wanted to, but have you noticed anything with innings pitched among high? end starters? Well, the high-end starters were, like, that's part of the reason why I pivoted over the last two or three years to, you know, I used to always avoid starting pitchers in the early rounds, and now I made them kind of a priority because the gap between what those 200-inning guys can do for you and what the 160 inning guys can do for you is so big. But, no, I mean, I haven't looked into overall trends innings-wise.

It doesn't surprise me that at the halfway point there would be more on pace to do something than we expect ultimately will because things are going to happen in the second half that throws off a lot of those paces. I know Max Scherzer's somebody who's on pace for 20 wins, but A, he's Max Scherzer and B. I think he's like 0 in 5 recently here,

so it's amazing he still is on pace for that. But that's just one, example of how things can, how weird things can happen to throw off a pace. Here's something pretty interesting, though. There are 25 pitchers, or 24 pitchers with 105 or more innings so far. So, you know, we are a little bit, that's why I didn't do 100, because we're a little bit past the halfway point. 24 on pace for what?

Well, there's 24 pitchers with 105 or more innings thus far. Okay, so I'm on pace for more than 200. And I would guess you're going to see a third of those guys get one. the DL in the second half for at least two couple of starts and miss out. So maybe we get 16 to 18. Well, how many did we have last year? Because 16 to 18 sounds like how many had 180 innings last year. Yeah, I think last year we had like 10 or something that had, I'll tell you right now. Last year we had Sale, Urban Santana, really, Jeff Samarja, Verlander, Carlos Martinez, Kluber, Porcelo, Cole, Granke de Grom, Archer, Gio, Strowman. All right, there were more than I thought.

Carasco Scherzer. Sounds like 16 to 18. 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 16, 200, any guys. Yeah, okay. Right now we're on pace for more. But that would make sense because half of the injuries haven't happened yet. Yeah, exactly.

That's more succinct way of putting it than I was. But nobody had more than 214 and a third, which I think was the lowest in modern baseball history or something like that, other than strike short in seasons. All right, more emails. Rupert from Scotland. Dear Harry, Marcus, Kieran, and Eric. I don't know. Are those soccer players on the England's national team? Maybe.

I know one of them is. I see the Mariners have a series at Cores next week. Do you think they'll find a way to get Nelson Cruz in the lineup? Can we plan on starting Cruz with confidence next week? I don't think Cruz has played a single inning in the outfield this year. That doesn't mean he won't. but it's not a good sign. I don't think I could say,

unless I see a report saying he's going to start every game in NL. I wouldn't feel confident. I would imagine they've probably played some games in NL parks this year already, haven't they? Probably. I'm trying to confirm Scott's, air quotes, fact.

I thought Nelson Cruz not playing a single inning in the outfield, and I cannot find he has not played a single inning in the outfield. Boom! God is right. Yeah. Nice work. This is from Greg.

Please grade the trade. Give Max Muncie. Get Johnny Quato, 12-team categories league. Oh, this is an F. This is an F. Before I traded for Jurekson Pro Far, I threw the world at this guy for Max Munzi, and he turned me down. I'll say D. So you guys like Muncie better than Quato?

I love Muncie. I love Muncie. love them beyond even what my rankings show because I feel like I have to be extra conservative with my rankings. Like Muncie may be, Muncie might be a top five second baseman. Wow. And that's, that's one of four positions where he's eligible. Uh, next email is from Peter. Dear DeAndre, Marvin, Luca, and Jaron. Uh, those I believe are Dallas Mavericks. Probably. And, you know, Heath, you were right about, uh, the soccer stuff. So, uh, The Heath is on on the baseball podcast.

Way to go. Here's the question. 12-team roto league. I need steals. Should I trade Bryce Harper for D. Gordon and Anthony Rendon? I need steals. Give up Harper, get D. Gordon and Anthony Rendon. You know what?

I mean, if you feel like the steals are going to put you over the top, I think it's okay. I don't know that I get great at higher than C, and it might even be C-minus. but like obviously Harper hasn't given you his best to this point and if you still if your team's still done well and you just need those steals to put you over the top I think it's fine Rendon hasn't done his best yet either I screwed up did you I did those are not I don't think that was Dallas Mavericks I believe that was NBA rookies oh well you know what I don't have I don't have it's better than I could do do I have a uh like a a a a boo sound effects? I don't have anything for you being bad. It was definitely the top four picks in the draft, DeAndre Aiton, Marvin Bagley, Luca Donkich, and Jaron Jackson. Okay, there you go. Last email's from Tom and Chicago.

Adam, you mentioned you watch a lot of White Sox games and then like a champ, you called Daniel Polka, David Polka. That's not my gripe. My gripe is you're azering my team, the White Sox, and they're rebuilt. Watch more Royals games and keep Heath miserable. I would watch more Royals games if they had fantasy relevant players like Carlos Rodan, but they don't. So let's talk about Carlos Rodan and the fringy starting pitchers who pitched yesterday. Luke Weaver was outstanding and he's at the White Sox. He might even match up against Carlos Rodon next week. He probably will.

Weaver and Rodon are 69 and 63% owned. Yolishas Sheen is 62% owned. Who are your favorites next week? And I don't know why Chasine is not listed as a two-star pitcher. He should be a... I don't get it. He should have the Marlins and the Pirates next week, but he's only listed as a one-star pitcher at Miami.

We're going to have to look into that because they're not on a six-man rotation. Yeah, they're one of the teams playing eight games this week, too, I think. Have you found those teams yet? Yes, I have. Baltimore, Milwaukee, the Yankees, the Mets, the Phillies, and the Pirates. I'm going to say Chasine's making two-star. Sometimes double-headers screw that list.

list up. Yeah, they do. So he actually becomes pretty interesting. I can, I'll know for sure when the column comes out this afternoon and, of course, it'll get updated on Sunday as well. So, you know, visit cbsports dot com and don't just rely on this podcast. Yes. I would

I'd much rather have Rodon or Weaver than Chessie. Okay, but who would rather have Rodon or Weaver? Well, I mean, I'm not starting either of those two next week and I might start Shasine, so, and I recently dropped Weaver in several leagues because you got mad at him over a bad start. Well, no.

It wasn't just a bad start. A bad start. He just had his first quality start and seven starts. Exactly. His last three starts have been good starts. Except he didn't go six in one of them, so it didn't even give you a quality start. And I'm not sure, like, other than the result,

which is obviously great in this start, I'm not sure what he was doing differently. I'm not sure, like, it's not like the swinging strike rate was way. Like, there's not, other than, hey, look, he had a good start. There's not anything I'm getting excited about here. So Luke Weaver is shaping up. Remember how much I loved Luke Weaver last year?

I am starting to hate Luke Weaver just because he's that guy who we're enticed by his potential, and every time we think we're ready to pull the plug, he does something like this. He's keeping us on the hook. We're on the hook with Luke Weaver. He's not turning

us loose, and it's annoying. Okay. So we're sitting them in One Star Weeks, Weaver. I may end up starting with Weaver. You're going to start him at the White Sox? I'm not scared of the White Sox one bit. Sometimes, Adam, you have to start these types of pictures against good matchups with one start. Sometimes you don't.

Sometimes you do. It's like a Mounds commercial. Anybody interested in Jaime Baria or Shelby Miller? Miller is at Colorado next week, FYI. Not Shelby Miller. He has been, like, he's lucky his name Shelby Miller, or you don't get another start. That's kind of the story of his career, though. Yeah.

But, no, I'm not really interested in either. Anybody interested in Andrew Castor or Aaron Sleggers? No. All right. Bullpen, not much. Joaquin Soria. Blue a save. His third blown save.

He had gone 15 straight, scoreless appearances, 18 straight without an earned run. And Dan Jennings got a two-out save for the Brewers. Corey Canable had pitched three straight days. And that was a two-innings. I keep... Two innings. Not two outs.

You big schmuck. All right. Two-star pitchers. I'm not sure there's much more to go through here, but we can look at the high-end guys and see if there are any question marks. Pretty much never are. Patrick Corbyn at Colorado, at Atlanta. I'm starting, Corbs. Start him.

Shawmaniah at Houston and at San Francisco. Gosh, I hate Sean Mania. Do you hate Shamaniah more or less than you hate Louie? Less. But that start against the Padres. It was on July 4th, right? One strikeout in seven dominant innings. Like his FIP is so high.

His BAPIP is so low. Like, it just seems like disaster is imminent. But the way he's been pitching, I can't sit a minute two-star week. Jake Garietta, you could say the same stuff. Well, not really, because he hasn't been pitching that well. Jake Garietta is at the Mets and the Marlins. Mustard.

Mustard. if he does not do well this week, I'm done. Yeah, that's probably fair. I mean, I should hope people sold high back when he looked like, you know, Greg Maddox or whatever. I don't even know, like, guys who get the strike as he does aren't good ever. So I don't even know what a fair comparison to make. Maybe Miles Michaelis, I don't know. But he looked great, quote unquote, with the ERA and everything early,

and he just knew this was going to happen. So that's be that a lesson to be that a lesson. Let that be a lesson to Sean Mania owners. And, you know, I hate myself right now because I said I'm done if he's bad this week. I don't know. I don't know if that's true. I don't own any Jake Arelletta. But like I said, the only reason people are hanging on to Jake Arelletta is because his name is Jake Arelletta.

You have to be an established pitcher to have his profile and still be owned in 95. percent of leagues. All right, anyway, Kyle Hendricks at San Francisco and at San Diego. Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Chase Anderson at Miami and at Pittsburgh? Yeah. You got to have to be careful with Rich Hill. We have no idea what's going to happen there, but he's at San Diego and home against the Angels.

All right, how about this one? C.C. Sabathia at the Orioles and at the Indians. Yeah, that was the one I look closely at. I'm okay with him. I would put him below Chase Anderson, but ahead of Tyler Anderson. Sabathia is 79% owned. Nick Povetta at the Mets and at the Marlins. I'm starting him.

Yep. All right, a little bit lower ownership. Scott talked about Zach Wheeler. That's going to be a headliner for him in terms of available two-star pitchers. Got to avoid Mike Leak with one of his two starts being at Colorado. Danny Duffy Heath at Minnesota and at the White Sox. I would put him in the... that Chase Anderson range. I'm probably sorting him.

Are we going to be good with Dylan Bundy against the Yankees and the Rangers coming off the DL? Are we sure that's when he's coming back? That's what listed on the page. I mean, yeah, I think Dylan Bundy must start. And, you know, maybe if it was just a one-start week

fresh off the DL, I'd start him. Yeah, but I'm going to start him if it's... I think you're right. He is not making two starts next week. Again, double-heder screw this up. Don't store him. Dylan Bundy is starting tonight. Dylan's the buddy starting today. Yeah, that makes, that's what I thought.

So maybe start him. We'll see how he does. Exactly. And if he has a good start today, then he's the kind of pitcher he's started even when he's making one start. And even if it's against the Yankees. Yes. Yvonne Nova has Washington and Milwaukee. No.

Garrett Richards. He's 85% only not started in that many leagues right now. But yeah, we'll start Garrett Richards in a two-star week. That's not a question. Mike Minor, we talked about it. You can go with him at Boston and at Baltimore. I like Jeremy Hallexon's matchups. He got crushed yesterday.

Apparently he was ill, but we can't trust Jeremy Helixen, right? No. He's at Pittsburgh and at the Mets. I don't know if I said that. Tyler Anderson, we talked about. All right, anyone else? Anthony DiScliffeani, Marco Estrada, Andrew Suarez, and then a bunch of crap.

Is Swares at home for both of his? Yeah, Cubs and Ais. I don't really want to, but I would start him over some of our one-start streaming options that we like so much at them. Would you start a two-start Andrew Suarez or a one-start Carlos Rodon against the Cardinals?

Swaris. Okay. And the last thing about Suarez, just keep in mind, we've said it like a million times. We don't know what's going to happen with Chris Stratton. I guess it's not a 100% certainty

that Suarez makes two starts. Scott's pretty much, Scott has visited the future and came back to tell us they sent Chris Stratton down. I am not. I am not the good I'm not the Chris Stratton guy here

I didn't know that he hadn't appeared in the bullpen yet Yeah it just feels like he should right Yeah And then our final segment today Weekend Streamers All right so if you need to start over the weekend Here are some options for you On Friday today

Tyler Malley at the Cubs I don't hate it I don't love it You know what Instead of going one by one Let's go four at a time Okay. Tyler Malley at the Cubs,

Thai Montgomery against the Reds, Trevor Williams against Philadelphia, Bartolo Colon at Detroit. Is there that you're like, oh yeah, let's start him? Mally's the best one. Yeah, I would agree. All right, I'm going to put Mally in bold.

Jordan Zimmerman against Texas. Nope. Rinaldo Lopez at Houston. No. Lance Lynn against Baltimore. Yeah. Erman Marquez at Seattle. No.

Yes, maybe. He's great on the road. He's great on the road. No Hanigar. Okay, Lynn and Marcus. Maybe no Hanigar. John Gantt at San Francisco, Derek Rodriguez against St. Louis. I thought you were doing groups of four.

Well, you didn't really let me because you kept saying yes or no. Yeah, it's harder for me to process four at once, to be honest. Just look at the notes. Yeah. I didn't put these in the notes. John Gant, Derek Rodriguez. I mean, I don't like, I feel like I could use Gant. I could use Rodriguez.

I would hope I don't have to. I would be most likely to use Rodriguez. I'm taking, like, when we're talking weekend streamers, it's the end of a week where you set your lineup daily. I'm assuming that you need to go accumulate some pitching stats. So the bar is a little lower for me. Okay, yeah, but I just think of it this way. Who do you think is going to have a good start?

So the names on Friday that we're considering appear to be Tyler Malley at the Cubs, Lance Lynn against Baltimore, Erman Marquez at Seattle. They could all have good starts. Do you have a favorite? I would be most inclined to start Mally. I think I'd be most inclined to start Lynn, and I don't really like Lynn. All right. Kevin Gossman on Saturday at Minnesota. Kyle Gibson, same game.

Gossman and Gibson. Matt Harvey at the Cubs, Jeff Samarja against St. Louis. Gosman, Gibson, Harvey, Samarja. Gibson and Gosman are probably the top two of all the names we've listed so far. I would agree with that. Kyle Freeland at Seattle, Edwin Jackson at Cleveland, Annabal Sanchez, at Milwaukee, Brent Suter, Kyle Freeland, Edwin Jackson, Annabal Sanchez, Brent Suter. No thank you for me.

I'm fine with Freeland. I'd probably start him over somebody like Lynn. Stephen Mats against Tampa Bay, Brad Keller against Boston. Nah, no. No? No, no Mats? Okay. Who is it? He's facing Tampa Bay? Yeah.

It's not terrible, but I have so little faith in Mats. I feel like... I know he's pitched well recently, but things can go really wrong for him. All right, so on Saturday, we like Kyle Gibson. We like Kyle Gibson and Kevin Gausman better than anyone so far. Scott has Kyle Freeland. He's okay with him. And then Sunday, the problem is I don't have the Sunday starts yet, but I will.

Domingo O'Amon and Ryan Baruchy are squaring off in Toronto. Nate Avaldi is at the Mets. That might be a good one. Frankie Montas is at the Indians. Nick Kingham has the Phillies. Anyone jump out so far, Kingham? Evaldi. Evaldi.

And there was one other one you mentioned. Domingo Hermon. Domingo Hermon. Domingo Armand. At Toronto. I actually don't know what his ownership percentage is. Junior Gera has the Braves. We've got Jake Junis against the Red Sox.

Luis Castillo is still streamable in some leagues. He's at the Cubs. So would I castillo, guys? He's my favorite of that group, for sure. Castillo or Avaldi? Who would you rather stream? I'd rather stream Avaldi. I'd rather not have to start Castillo.

it's he's out of the circle of trust as they say Wade LeBlanc home against the Rockies Clayton Richard at the Diamondbacks and that's it Avaldi Castillo look for them on Sunday Domingo Armand All righty

And I still want to I'm really interested to see what Armand Marquez does One start streamer Let's do it All right guys thank you very much Scott and Heath Have a great weekend everybody

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