Fantasy Baseball Today - 07/09: Weekend Roundup - Tucker Time! (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 9, 2018

Kyle Tucker is up, but he's not the only player we're adding. We start with two hitters (2:26) and two SPs to add (5:30) as Jake Bauers and Jordan Zimmermann stand out. Then it's on to Tucker (11:30) and a couple of other prospects to look at ... Are Ryan Borucki and Anibal Sanchezi legit (16:45)? Which one-start streamers could help you this week (21:21)? We also look at the Most Added list (31:10) and bullpen notes (34:35) with a lot of saves available on the waiver wire ...Hitters (37:20) and SPs (41:10) that stood out over the weekend. So much SP talk for you, plus a look at today's matchups (57:12) ... Email us at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. We're fantasy. Now here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris. We are telling you who to add and drop as we get you ready for Fantasy Week 16. Monday, July 9th.

Welcome back from your awesome weekend. It's Fantasy Baseball today. No Heath today. So Chris Towers is filling in. Hello, He, uh, hello Chris. You're not Heath. Hello, Chris. So was that, was that a legitimate mistake? Yes. Are you doing a thing? No, legitimate. I love it. Okay. I'm great. I had a nice week. I took Friday off. Did not ask. Did not ask at all how you were doing? I thought you did. I don't think so. I wasn't listening. Yeah. Well, thanks, Heath.

I'm going to eat. Scott. Roll back the date. Hey, Scott's still here. He's normal. I, I, I, I, I, I. I am here, yes. I am fine. Adam, how are you? How are you? That's what everybody really wants to know. Great. Maybe later I'll tell you guys about my smelly car, which is a big mystery in my life right now. But we had a great week. It was my anniversary weekend. First, one year, baby, one year in the books. Wow. One year, baby. Congratulations. Thank you. That's a big one. You know who had a very disappointing. Did you eat the cake? No. So what happened with the cakes. Oh, it's so gross. happened with the cake. We had strawberry short cake at our wedding, and our freezer broke like the day before our wedding. And then we went on our honeymoon the day after our wedding.

So we never got to store our cake. We never got to eat it because it, you know, it went bad. And we had to throw it out when we got back from the honeymoon. So did not eat the cake. Who had a bad weekend, Scott? We want to know part of that ourselves. We had one fork each. One fork full. Okay. It's disgusting. Blake Snell had a disappointing weekend, Adam. He is among what I think are five of the more absurd all-star snubs I can remember in recent memory. There are plenty of snubs to go around, but there are five in particular that are just outrageous to me, and he's the leader of that group. All right, we will get to that in a little bit.

Let's start with some fantasy baseball advice. One hitter to add, whose name is not Kyle Tucker, and one pitcher to add. Chris, why don't you go first? Give me a hitter to add. Yeah, I wrote about two hitters in the Waverwire column that was published on CBSSports.com last night, and one of them I think you should definitely add, and that's Jake Bowers. The numbers don't pop off the page. You did go two for three with a pair of walks yesterday and a home run,

but he's only hitting 240. However, he has an 832 OPS despite a 240 average, and that's with a 27.5% line drive rate. and a 46.4% hard hit rate. I think Jake Bowers is better than the numbers have been, and the numbers aren't bad so far. So I like Jake Bowers. I like what he's doing. We're seeing some really good signs from him.

Okay. Jake Bowers is 38% of it. Would you drop Justin Boer for Jake Bowers? It depends on the format. I think in a points league I might, but in a roto league, Justin Boer has more over-the-fense power. All right. Scott, do you have a hitter for us to add? Jake Bowers was for Chris Scott White.

Yeah. I mean, Boer walks a lot, too. I don't know that I'd... I think I'd prefer him at either format. But anyway, my hitter is Josh Reddick, who is coming off a 29-point week where he flashed a little power that we haven't seen all year. Strikeout rate is lowest.

It's been for him the past couple years. He's been starting left, he's right. He's hasn't mattered. And the Astros have really good matchups this week. against the athletics and tigers seven games. So he looks like somebody, even if it's just a one week thing, maybe pick him up,

and he has such a good week that you want to keep him around. But Josh Reddick is less than 50% owned. Interesting. I'll call him a hitter to add. All righty. Jake Bowers, Josh Reddick. I think that...

He's not the most exciting Astros hitter to add, but you didn't let me mention that guy. No, you can't mention Kyle Tucker. He's 80% owned. We're going to talk about him in just a second. But actually, it wasn't a weekend where I was looking at a lot of hitters to add, a lot of pitchers. Avi Garcia is still 69% own, and he's hot. He had five home runs last week.

Still two walks, 34 strikeouts. Problem with Garcia is that he is currently day-to-day, and the White Sox are only playing five games. And a lot of teams are playing eight games this week. So I have Garcia. I dropped Greg Byrd for Avi Garcia in a league, but I don't, yeah, I know. But I don't think I'm going to start Garcia this week. I think I'm going to start. I don't think you can.

Just the five games made it tough to do in like a three outfielder league. And this day-to-day injury is hamstring. Yeah, exactly. The same thing that kept him out for two months. Yep, and it was a Sunday injury, so we don't really know. And we're not going to know if he's in the lineup today. So your lineups are going to lock. I'm not saying you shouldn't pick up Garcia, but if you do,

I don't know that you should plan on starting him. All right, pitchers to add, there were more interesting pitchers this week. One pitcher to add, Scott White. My pitcher to add is Nate Avaldi, who is showing new and exciting signs. He's always had the big fastball, of course, but didn't get much out of it. Yesterday, he had seven one-hit innings with nine strikeouts. That gives him 23 strikeouts to three walks to just 10 hits, because this was his second one-hit outing in the last three in 19 innings over the last three stars.

23 strikeouts, three walks, 10 hits, and 19 innings. And he's getting swinging strikes, too. Those last three starts, the swinging strikes have been up. He has emphasized a pitch that he hasn't really prior to this year, a cutter. He's kind of replaced his breaking ball as his secondary pitch. He's basically been going fastball cutter. And while the cutter hasn't been getting a lot of swinging strikes itself, it seems to be allowing the fastball, the big fastball to play out,

because the difference in velocity between those two is smaller, which seems to be, like it seems to be fooling hitters better. So, I mean, it's obviously a small stretch, but it's a small stretch where, like, everything points to him being actually this good. So I'm willing to take a chance on. We really don't even have to break it down into the smaller sample. If you just look at his season overall,

It's one of those ones where K-per-9 is 8.19, which doesn't look great. But his strikeout percentage is 24.3%, which would be by far career highest. Career rate is 17.4%. And his walk rate is less than half of what it usually is. So we are seeing this season, at least, the best version of Natea Waldi we've ever seen. Natea Aldi is 71% own. And he was, we thought kind of a risky two-star pitcher, but we love the matchups, Marlins and Mets. He took advantage of them.

But before that, he had a good start against the Astros. He had a pretty good start. I think it was the Astros. He had a pretty good start against the Yankees, even though the final line wasn't great. Maybe it was a start against the Nationals, not the Astros. But of all these at Minnesota this week, and he's 71% owned, and he is Scott's pitcher to add. Would you drop Tanner Roark for Nate Avaldi?

Yes. Yes, I would. Tanner Roark, I think, is far from undropable. I'm not saying we've heard the last of them. It's kind of like Jake Junice for me. Like, I think we're going to see a good version of both of those players again, but I don't think the upside is so high that we have to wait around for it. I just got to say, like, Nadevaldi has not been a good fantasy pitcher, basically ever.

And one thing about him, his Babbitt going into Sunday's game was 2-11, and he's still a ground ball pitcher. So the whip is always high, and right now it's 0.88. I got to think there's some good batted ball luck here for Naderball. there's a ton of batted ball luck right now. He's got a 198 Babbat overall, but he's also walked 3% of

batters he's faced, which would be the best mark in baseball, if he sustained it. So, he's been lucky, but he's also been good. And he's saying ground ball pitcher like it's a bad thing. No, it's not. It's not. It's not. It

does tend to lead to a high whip if you're not also a bat misser. If he's the bat misser, he's been the last three starts, or Chris was saying the trend's even longer than that, then the ground ball, being a ground ball pitcher is a good thing. Yeah, no, I was just making the point that with the Babbitt being so low, 188, I think Chris said, that's very unusual for a ground ball pitcher. Chris, do you have a pitcher you want to add?

Yeah, I'm actually really interested in what Jordan Zimmerman is doing, and that's not just because he had 11 strikeouts in his most recent start, although that certainly helps. He's pulling the old pitcher trick, which is just not really throwing his fastball anymore. He's kind of, he's not quite Patrick Corbyn levels, but he's not far off. He's throwing his slider 35% of the time. And Adam, I know it's in the notes. I saw it before this, so I'm just going to take credit for this quote where he said that the last few games have been good and I feel good. The slider is the best it's ever been.

Fastball has been down a few miles per hour, but I still have other weapons I can go to. What about the other thing he said? I knew you weren't going to care about the other thing he said. It's about feeling good, really. Health is the big thing. When I'm feeling good, I usually pitch like this most of the time, which I don't know if that's true. Jordan Zimmerman says he feels healthy, which is kind of like reminding me of Ryan Zimmerman last year. But, no, look, I almost spite-dropped Sunny Gray for Jordan Zimmerman.

and I mean I don't really want either of them but maybe Zimmerman is worth a look I certainly don't want gray but I dropped I dropped gray in a 15 team league yeah actually Tout Wars yesterday for for a reliever like Colin McHugh or Tyler Kirby Yates or somebody like that

it's just tough with Zimmerman because you know how bad he's been but but I mean 11 strikeouts eight innings against Texas previous start was seven innings one run six strikeouts He has just three quality starts this season, rather, but he has a 1.05 whip. So it's pretty interesting. You guys also destroyed my Dave Matthews segment.

Is this real or am I dreaming? Real fans just calling Dave. I had Nate of Aldi and Jordan Zimmerman in there. All right, wrapping up this discussion here, would you drop Tanner Roark for Jordan Zimmerman in it? Yeah. Yeah, I would. All right.

I'm a little less enthused about Zimmerman than Valdi. But, like, I'm not, like, if you were excited about Zimmerman, go ahead. I don't think Roark somebody really have to protect. Let's talk about some guys who are getting the call. They are. They're moving on up to the big leagues. Kyle Tucker. Welcome, Kyle Tucker.

You're in the big leagues. And you have started each of the last two games. And the Astros intend to play Kyle Tucker in left field or right field every day. He is now 80% own. He went one for seven with an RBI. a run, scored, a walk, and three strikeouts. He is in two games. He's a lefty, but Tucker was better against lefties than righties and the minors both last year and this year.

So Kyle Tucker's up, Scott. Yeah. You dropped Shohei Otani, the hitter for him. Well, I mean, it was on CBS, so if Otani makes it back as a pitcher, I dropped him, too. That's absolutely true. Yeah, I am. I am excited about the potential here. I think it's the most exciting call-up since Juan, so.

and he looks like somebody who could be a five-category contributor. It was red-hot over the past month at AAA, 14 home runs, 14 steals for the season down there. I think the phenotype is a lot like Will Myers. It wouldn't surprise me if he ended up hitting for a higher average than Myers does. Obviously, it wouldn't surprise me either if he struggles and has to get sent back down in two weeks. But this is a prospect who baseball America had in a...

top 20 overall each of the last two seasons. He was a fifth overall pick, and so far everything has played out for him exactly the way it was supposed to. So it's exciting. I think you have to take a chance on the upside. And we heard Scott talk about Josh Reddick and his great matchups. So Kyle Tucker probably has the same matchups as Josh Redick, I would think. Probably.

Yeah, I think so one would assume. Yeah, so maybe you could start Kyle Tucker this week. Would you rather have Brandon Nimmo or Kyle Tucker? I'd actually rather have Nimmo still. Yeah, that's one where. Like, even if I might rather have Tucker, it's not one where I can suggest dropping Nimmo for him. Would you rather have... Tucker's now more owned than Nimmo.

So that's, like, people have been running away from Nimmo. I know he's been cold lately, but he's still the 14th best outfielder in Points League since he got the job. And I think there's still a lot to like there. Would you rather have Aaron Hicks or Kyle Tucker? I'll take Tucker. That's a tough one. That's another one where I wouldn't drop Hicks for him. Okay, I got you.

Also getting called up, Stephen Dugger for the Giants. He's 4% owned. He's an outfielder. He started. He led off yesterday, went two for six with a double and a run scored. Stephen Dugger is 4% owned. Chris Towers, are you interested in Stephen Dugger? I don't know.

Maybe. It just the minor league numbers aren't super impressive. The pedigree isn't amazing. He's played 91 games at AAA. He has six homers and 14 steals. That's not super enticing. It's possible that he outperforms that and maybe taps into a little extra power, although his home park is not the kind of place that you would expect that.

So, you know, I look at it and it's like it looks kind of poor man's Dustin Fowler to me, which Dustin Fowler has hardly been fantasy relevant this season. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. They did trade Austin Jackson, so it seems like they're giving a chance to be their regular everyday leadoff hitter. But he really has to outperform his minor league numbers to be mixed league relevant. I hope that's how you pronounce it because I want to call him Hacksaw Stephen Dugger.

And let's talk about Enel de Los Santos. We need pitching prospects. So I was just reading about the Phillies. I think I was trying to read about Nick Povetta. And I stumbled upon an article that said the headline was something like, Daniel de Los Santos could be up soon or whatever. And then the next thing I read was you have reached your monthly limit on Philly.com. So I couldn't read the article.

But Enel de Los Santos is going to be in the futures game. Is he a pitching prospect? We need to know about Scott White. I mean, if he is on the verge of being, if he's like the next man up, then yeah, he's somebody we need to be aware of. He's not a guy who got a lot of attention coming into the season, but 189 ERA and 16 starts a AAA, less than a strikeout per inning. But it's, yeah, he's worth keeping an aisle.

Okay. Coming up on today's show, we'll take a look at the most added list. We'll wonder if we're done with not just Tanner Roark, but Cole Hamils, J.Hap and Gio Gonzalez. We'll talk about Billy Hamilton and his base stealing. We got some other hitters to know about. Max Kepler's been hitting well. Harrison Bader may be able to help you out in deeper leagues. Dallas Keiko got 17 ground balls to two fly balls.

I believe those are the outs he recorded against the White Sox on Sunday. That was encouraging. Zach Godley had a good start. David Price, Robbie Ray, they were terrible. Sean Newcomb. We got a lot to get to here. So I had this segment that's pretty much been destroyed. Is this real or am I dreaming?

And we've talked about Nate Baldy and Jordan Zimmerman. What about Annabal Sanchez? Is this real or am I dreaming? Anabal Sanchez has been quite good. He's got a 272 ERA and a 1.04 whip, and he's got the Diamondbacks this week. Just had a really nice week against the Yankees and the Brewers on the road. So is Annabal Sanchez 32% own? Is this real or am I dreaming?

Oh, it's real that he's 32% owns. He's doing... I mean, I've just kind of been ignoring it and waiting for him to go away. But I mean the numbers aren't terrible Like even The numbers are really good obviously But the underlying numbers aren't terrible 272 ERA versus a 388 FIP

Okay It's probably not going to have a 272 ERA But a 38 FIPP isn't bad Like Obviously a good offense backing him Um Well 32% owned is about That's probably every single

NL only league And probably most leagues that use a SPARP And that's probably the extent of Annable Sanchez's stardiness. Yeah, I just don't want to have to trust him. There's not much difference between him and Jordan Zimmerman. And they're not much difference in their ownership percentage. Zimmerman 42, Sanchez 32%.

Would be... Yeah, I think Zimmerman's showing better signs. But I've been using Sanchez as a spark this year. Okay. And Ryan Baruchy. 8% owed, he's also RP eligible. And he, you know, I picked him up after the start against the Tigers, which was seven innings, two runs, no walks, eight strikeouts.

And then I picked him up but sat him against the Yankees on Sunday, but that was seven innings, seven hits, one run, two walks, five strikeouts. Now he's at Boston this week. I will once again be sitting Ryan Buraki, but I do still own him, and I now own him in two leagues out of six. And Baraki is 8% owned and RP eligible. Is this real or am I dreaming about Ryan Baruchy? He needs to be more than 8% owned.

I don't think there's a ton of upside, but between AAA and double A in his career, he has a 305 ERA with about 112, 110 strikeouts, and 230 innings. So, like, not a huge strikeout guy, pretty good control, but you know, you're probably looking at like best case scenario is like the middling Alex Wood's worst case scenario is what we've seen from Joey Lucasey since like his second start. I don't feel like in today's MLB you could be a low strikeout guy and not be exceptional with either controller or ground balls

and be like you have to be Miles Michaelis. I feel like to succeed with the kind of strikeout rates, Burrucky had in the minors. Now, the strikeouts have been okay in the majors so far, but it's three starts. Yeah. We'll see. All right. All right.

Well, we got Scott's favorite segment coming up, one-start streamers. But before that, Scott's favorite ticket app, and that's legit, is the Seekek app. And I love the Seekek app. It's also my favorite ticket app. I got it on my phone. Or sometimes I go to Seatgeek.com. I was actually looking for tickets just yesterday on Seatkekeek. I was talking about going to a football game in October, and it's pretty darn expensive,

but I'm going. And I'm going to use Seekkeek to go there. Miami, Florida State, man. Like, we don't miss Miami, Florida State. But anyway, I unfortunately cannot use the promo code fantasy on the Seek app because I've already used it. But if you've never used Seekek, use the code fantasy to get $20 off your first Seatkeek purchase.

And if you have used that code, you're still going to save time and money on the Seekek gap because Seekkekekekeke goes out and searches multiple ticket sites and finds the best deals. And I want to read an email that we got yesterday from Murray. and he said, the subject was my Seekkeek purchases. And he said, Murray said, I want to let you know. I live in Saskatoon, Canada. I'm currently on a baseball trip in California. I drove 26 hours starting Friday morning, getting to L.A. the next day.

Just in time for the Angels Dodgers. I use Seat Geek with the promo code fantasy, and I got my 20 bucks off. And Murray continued to use Seat Geek for his baseball trip. I thought it was awesome. Murray, thank you for sharing that. Be like Murray, everybody. Use the Seek app. Use the promo code fantasy for $20 off your first purchase.

Save some money. Go to games. Go to concerts. Go to theater. Go to comedy. And every purchase is fully guaranteed. One start streamers. Also, fully guaranteed to win you a week, just like Armand Marquez at Seattle last week.

Just like Mike Leak the week before at Baltimore, even though I didn't start him because I thought he was going to be facing the Royals at home instead of at Baltimore. But that's okay. I'm going to consider it two for two at one-star dreamers. I got two for you. I got Lance Lynn and IRL in real life. I'm starting Lance Lynn this week in the podcast league against the Royals at home. And I got Kyle Gibson against the raise at home.

Lynn is 48% owned and Kyle Gibson is 61% own. What do you think about my one-starred streamers, Scott? I don't like one-star streamers, Adam. I understand why you choose these two. And the thing is, I can't even get upset about Kyle Gibson because he's, he's, just on your own. He's just good. Yeah, he's just good. He's somebody who

should be universally owned and treated as any other pitcher who is universally owned. But the Lance Lynn one is basically just, well, there's a pitcher going against the Royals, right? Ding, ding, ding. Yeah, and he's been... He did well against the Royals last time out. I think it's going to be a win. Royals are just

dreadful. Yeah, I'd want to know who you're benching for him. We've mentioned a lot of pitchers who I would rather have than Lance Lynn even against the Royal. So who am I benching for him? I dropped Tyson Ross for him. Yeah, that's fine. It's fine to drop Tyson Ross, too.

Yeah. I am benching. I am going to bench. Well, I have somewhat... Oh, Zach Godley at Colorado for Lance Lynn. I would rather start Jordan Zimmerman at Tampa Bay. That's totally cool. That's another good one-start streamer.

I mean, I don't know that I would. Like, I don't know that I co-signed to that. I'm just really skeptical of Jordan Zimmerman. is the thing. Right, but Lance Lynn. But Lance Lynn's had mostly quality starts recently. I got another one for you. I got another.

I got another one. That's a real low bar. One start streamer. This one, this one, another guy I picked up. And boy, it's dicey because matchups haven't really mattered for him. Luke Weaver at the White Sox. That is dicey. That's very dicey.

Quite dicey. I would. I'm on board with Kyle Gibson. I understand why you wouldn't, want to start Tyson Ross anymore or Godley at Colorado. But I would rather have- I don't love these moves. I would rather have Luke Weaver and Lance Lynn, even if I'm not starting him.

I got to tell you. But I think I'd rather start him against the White Sox. I have a dreadful pitching staff. Oh my goodness. What a bad pitching staff. You should have invested more in pitching him. I did. I traded Jacob de Grom for Paul Goldschmidt, so now I have a terrible pitching staff.

But anyway, plus Zach Godley's been Zach Godley. The big news, the big news, Ryan Braun's on the DL. Let's go through the news now. Jake Junis is on the DL with back tightness. Yasil Pueig likely headed to the DL with an oblique injury, so you are going to see more starts from Juck Peterson, which might not be a good thing because he's so bad against lefties, but he will play more. A roll of this Chapman's dealing with knee tendonitis.

It does not seem to be a huge deal, but he didn't pitch yesterday in an extra inning game. So it's a little scary. Sunny Gray might be pitching for his spot in the rotation, which is interesting because Domingo Oman just had a good start. We will not get Jonathan Loisaga today in the doubleheader. He's got a sore shoulder. Luis Sessa will start for the Yankees.

Brent Suter is on the deal with left forearm tightness, which can't be bad news for Freddie Peralta. Joe Paddock is on the deal with a groin strain, and Alan Hanson is now going to probably play close to every day. Hanson is 22% owned. So Hanson is a switch hitter who is terrible against lefties so far this year. He has a 216 slugging percentage, and he faces four lefties this week. So maybe not this week for Alan Hanson. I think you got to let Alan Hanson. Well, look, NL only league is a guy who plays every day.

That's really value there. Yeah. Okay. Nol only league, sure. Big decisions this week. Chris Archer, two starts. Detroit and at Minnesota. We start in them?

Yeah. Yes, absolutely. Okay. And I am going to start Archer in my daily league tonight, even though he'll be on a pitch count. but he probably only needs 50 pitches to throw a complete game shut out against the trip. Actually, I don't know what his pitch count is, but more than 50. Hopefully. Chris Bryant, are we going to start him this week?

No. I think he's still going to be rehabbing most of the week. It's been slow going for him. Yeah, I started him last week. Oops. Tyler Skaggs could start this week against Seattle on Thursday. That'll be a tough call. No.

I guess not. Don't do it. Not if you have to lock your line. Not in a weekly league. Right. James Paxson at Colorado, start or sit? Start. Yeah.

Nelson Cruz at Colorado without the DH. Yeah. I saw that Scott's service said over the week, it's probably not going to happen that he's going to play outfield during that series. He hasn't played it all season. So you're only getting half a week from Cruz. Maybe a couple pinch hit appearances.

I probably said him. Okay. Not going to play outfield, most like. likely. Joe Musgrove expects to start against Washington tomorrow. Doesn't seem like a great situation. Vince Velasquez will likely start at the Mets on Wednesday. Rich Hill is expected to start tomorrow, and Walker Bueller is expected to start this weekend against the Angels. And Noah Cindergarde has a chance to start against the Nationals this weekend, but we just don't know, so probably want to err on the side of caution there. Other quick news items, Jose

Bautista hit his first walk-off home run of his career. That's amazing. amazing. Right? There's a grand slam. You could tell, you could tell after he hit it. Like, he held on the bat for a little while. He was thinking bat flip, but he thought better of it. He just dropped it.

Look, when you are the author of the greatest bat flip in major history. Yeah, that's true. You kind of can't, you can't dilute it, you know? I love that bat flip. I don't love every bat flip, but that with that moment deserved it. It's one of the greatest moments in the last 20 years in baseball. I mean, it's, I don't know. know about that, but it's pretty great. It was a great moment.

It really was. Avicarcia mentioned he has the hamstring tightness. They probably want to sit them five-day week. Yadier, or Molina's missed two straight games with shoulder-sornness, and Tommy Pham has a bone bruise in his foot. Do we know about their status, Molina or Fam? No? I don't. I would definitely err on the side of caution with

FAM because he wasn't looking start-worthy of late anyway. I would sit him. Mike Mustakis has made four appearances at first base, which is interesting because he might get traded. and become a maybe like there's rumors that he could be the Yankees' first basement. But he also gaining first place eligibility would be nice.

Also would be nice if he would start hitting. That's Moustaches. The dream could still come true. Mustacas and Yankees Stadium. He'd be the second best first baseman on the team. Pablo Sandoval sprained his thumb. Tyler Wade? Sannevall's actually been okay from an NL-only perspective, but he does have a sprained thumb.

And the All-Stars were announced. I got to be honest, I really did not look heavily. but apparently Blake Snell did not make the All-Star team. Okay, so... That's amazing, right? Yeah. Yeah. Blake's arguably the two best pitchers in the American League this year were technically not originally selected for the All-Star game because Trevor Bauer is only on the roster replacing Justin Verlander.

That's crazy. Oh, really? Oh, really? I didn't notice that the AL had one more name listed there than the NL. But so basically, here what I thought were the insane snubs. Obviously, I didn't count Bauer because we know he's... on it. Blake Snell, Charlie Morton, James Paxton, Andrew Benintendi, and Eddie Rosario. It blows my mind that they're not all-stars. Now, there are plenty of other snubs we could talk

about like Gene Seguera, Jet Lowry, Trey Turner, Max Muncie, Hesus Aguilar. A lot of those guys are in the final vote. I'm not sure if you're aware of that. So you get to vote. Yeah, I mean, Benintendi is, Trey Turner, Aguilar are. Muncie is, yeah, but none of the pictures are. Like, Snell and Morton and Paxton, they are not in the final vote. They'll be on. Somebody will get it. Let's vote.

Who are we voting for in the runoff? Where's the list? I'm voting for Benintendi and Munchy. I'm going to vote for Munchy, too. I like that he's played a whole bunch of positions. Based on my mentions, Jesus Aguilar is going to win in a runaway, and I'm fine with that. I mean, he has the best OPS in the National League. I think. So, like, he's an all-star. He should be an all-star. He probably should have been over Joey

Votto, but didn't play out that way. I'm going to vote for Angleton Simmons. I can't believe that. Why am I doing that? Why the hell am I doing that? And Max Muncie. Actually, Max Muncie has a higher OPS to Aguilar. Yeah, I think I would go with... Depending on the bat threshold there. But I'm voting for Muncie because he's a huge on-base guy and he's so versatile and I love him. Yeah, for me it's Muncie and Benintendi. But, You know, they're all-stars in my book. Stanton, Tamish, is not an all-star.

Benintendi, Rosario, Seguera, Simmons, and Stanton. Are you five in the AAL? Ben-intendi, Rosario, Segarra, Simmons, and Stanton. And Brandon, also not an all-star. I missed too much time. Aguilar, Belt, Carpenter, Muncie, and Turner. And I'd say Carpenter, not an all-star either. Agilar, Belt, Carpenter, Muncie, and Trey Turner.

Yeah, they're not all-stars, Chris. You're too nice today. No, they're all-stars. They're all every single baseball player. Every single major league baseball player is an all star in my book. How about we look at the most added players in CBS Sports.com leagues? I know that, you know, Kyle Tucker is on there. I think he's second.

So who's first? Let's find out in three, two, one. Tyler Anderson is first. He's got two starts this week. Kyle Tucker, two, Jordan Zimmerman, three. Andrew Suarez is now 45% home. Would you rather have Jordan Zimmerman or Andrew Suarez? Jordan Zimmerman.

I'd rather have Swares. Coming straight out of West Philadelphia, born and raised. Will Smith is the number six most added player. He is 28% owned. He might be the Giants Closer, people. Yep. I think he has another save over the weekend. That's three in a row.

and they keep using the other relievers, not at all like closers. So I think he is. Chase Anderson is 91% own. Interesting year for him. What do we think about that ownership? He's at Miami and at Pittsburgh this week. I mean, you like the two-star matchups.

And I think his velocity has been trending back up recently closer to where it was a year ago. So that, yeah, his velocity has actually gone up every single month this year. And his one start in July, he averaged 94.1 miles per hour with his basketball, which is pretty much exactly where he was last year. Aaron Sleggers is a two-start pitcher. Do we have any interest in him?

He's got a great matchup. Sleggers has the Royals and the Rays this week. Excuse me who? Sleggers. No, buddy, I will. Okay. I feel like, did I pronounce it wrong? Maybe.

I don't know. I didn't. Elias Diaz is on this list, but Francisco Cervale is back, so don't want to have. I think that's just he started like 15 games in a row with Cervali on the DL. We got Sabathia, we got Matt Harvey, we got Mike Minor, Derek Rodriguez, Jose Arainia. Do you see anybody here with long-term potential? Jose Arania is pretty good, and it's weird, and he's never going to win any games. but he's like not a bad pitcher anymore.

It's really bizarre. I'm not sure how it happened. What is he like 1 in 10 this year or something? He's 2 and 9. Show some respect. But he has a 361 FIP and a 383 Sierra. He is an above average major league pitcher. It's just given the fact that he doesn't get a ton of strikeouts and he plays for the Marlins,

it's hard for him to be fantasy relevant, but he's I think he's pretty good. I think Arania and Derek Rodriguez both are, they are kind of like Julio Taran, except without the name value. Like, Julio Taran's probably overrated, but these guys are underrated by comparison. Victor Arrano is also on here. He's the Phillies reliever. He's gotten a few saves. He's gotten the last two saves for them, and one of them was with Sir Anthony Dominguez pitching the eighth inning. Yeah, yeah, sure was.

Now, that was with Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco up in the 8th, so it's possible that that was just a match-ups thing, but he could be the closer. Let's transition actually into the bullpen because I picked up A.J. Minter. I saw A.J. Minter pitched the 9th, and Viscayano pitched the 8th. It was a 5-1 game at Milwaukee. Yeah, but they added three runs in the 8th, so it looked like it was going to be a safe situation for Menter. Right, right. And Brian Snitker said he just liked the matches for Viscayino more in the 8th,

more in the eight, there's a good chance that Viscayana would come right back and get the safe the next day. Obviously, there wasn't a chance for that to play out. But Menter's been really good lately. Struck out the side in this one. He seems to like amp it up a little in the ninth inning roll. So I think this guy, you know, if things go poorly for him, he's still at risk of losing a job. Hasn't happened yet, though. There are a lot of players who are, like, widely available that are getting safe.

Dave's right now. Joe Jimenez, Will Smith, Victor Orano, Justin Anderson got a save on Sunday, but I feel like Parker's the closer. He had pitched Friday and Saturday. Yeah, he was unavailable. Tyler Clippert's 26% owned. I guess I can't really say Minter. But about 50% on, we have Hector Rondone. Yeah. He's 48% owned. And he needs to be owned way more than he is. Ken Jals has one save since June 1st. I think Rondone has seven of the last nine saves and one of those was Brad Peacock working two innings, and a blowout.

So I think Hector Rondone right now is the closer. Okay. You'd still rather have Saranthaniot amygos than Arano, I'm guessing? I don't know. He's a better pitcher. That one concerns me the most. Because it looked like Sir Anthony was finally We don't even care what his last name is

Sir Anthony was finally getting the chance To be that traditional closer And then Arano You know obviously he worked the ninth And Dominguez worked the eighth In the most recent game Arano got two saves this weekend I think the previous one was just like a two-inning save

So it wasn't Sir Anthony Dominguez wasn't even in that game So it's just one outing where Arana has been used as a closer. And Dominguez set him up. Which, I mean, you know, maybe it's just the Phillies. The top of the matchups were in the 8th. Yeah, that's what it was.

It was Starling Marte and Gregory Polanco. The 3 and 4 hitters were up at, I think that's 3 and 4 hitters, up at the top of the 8th. So that could be why. Gabe Kapler doesn't really say anything about that. All right, fellas. So I guess let's knock out the hitters real quick. And we got to mention Mark Reynolds.

Well, Will Myers had a three-homer game, and then he homered again on Sunday. And still two bases on Sunday. He's looking like Will Myers right now. And he's striking out a lot less than past years. Oh, okay. That's good. Will Myers. Haytusagler had a two-homer game.

Mark Reynolds, Mark Reynolds had 10 RBIs on Saturday. He went five for five with two homers and 10 RBIs. And then he pitched on Sunday. So that was fun. Does anybody want Mark Reynolds? To quote myself in the waiver, our column, it was a remarkable performance,

and we have remarked on it. Okay. And that's it. Ryan Zimmerman's going to start his rehab assignment, possibly this week. He's not playing every day while Ryan Zimmerman's out, so there's no reason to think he's going to play every day when Ryan Zimmerman's back.

Starly Marteer stole three bases on Friday. Billy Hamilton stole five bases in his last two games. He's 57% owned. He now is just two steals behind the MLB leaders, Michael Taylor and Ender NCRte. So Hamilton, I hope you had him in your lineups this weekend. I thought it was interesting that Shohei Otani, who's currently a little banged up, he had a pinch hit home run yesterday. Otani stole a base against the Dodgers on Friday, and Mike Socher was talking about how he's one of the fastest players on the team. Yeah.

So I figured if Otani was pitching, there's pretty much no way he was going to steal bases. It would be way too risky. But if he's not pitching, maybe he's a steals threat. I don't know. He does have elite speed. Yeah, so does Zach Granky, because Zach Granky's got three steals this year. Still his third base on Sunday. Which is like, it's like the most for a pitcher in a lot of years.

I don't have the specific answer. Dynamite drop in, Monty. And other hitters, Jet Lowry is tearing it up. He's the number five second baseman in fantasy over the last 21 days, which actually surprises me that it's that low. No second base eligible player has hit more home runs in the last 21 days than Jed Lowry. he's got seven tied for the lead.

How about these guys? Max Kepler, Stephen Piscotti, Daniel Polka, Harrison Bader. All somewhat deep league kind of guys, but Kepler's 31%,

Piscotti's 28%. And then Pauca's 3%. And he sits sometimes against lefties, and Harrison Bader is 13%. Do you think any of these guys are underowned? Actually, we probably do need to talk about

Harrison Bader, but less because what it means for Harrison Bader and more what it means for Jose Martinez. Because Jose Martinez is not an everyday player right now. And I think it's because they want to keep Harrison Bader's glove in the lineup. Interesting. I thought it was coming at the expense of Dexter Fowler. I think it's been both, but yeah, he's...

Well, Jerko's been the one who's really been stealing time from Jose Martinez, because... I mean, Martinez doesn't play. layout field anymore at all. He's just first base, and so Jerko's been in the lineup more, and Carpenter shifted over to first base. That's what's happened there. Ah, I see. A lot going out. A lot of moving parts. Yeah.

That's interesting. All right, well, I guess we're not that interested in the hitters, but again, like Stephen Piscotti, I don't know if I mentioned this on the air. He has an 898 OPS in his last 36 games. Yeah, I think it's like 901 since the start of June, if you want to go with a more natural cutoff date. He's been good,

and this is a guy who you know, has above-average contact abilities and has shown above-average power, and those two put together can go a long way in making for an above-average fantasy player. And I'm very interested. I think he's under-owned at 28%. I think he should be owned in all five outfielder leagues. Stephen Piscotti. All right, let's talk about the pitchers.

The studs being studs. Last 20 minutes will be dedicated to pitchers and hopefully today's matchups and maybe some of your emails. Studs being studs, who really jumps out of you? Dallas Keikle with a good start against the White Sacks. He's had some easy matchups lately and he's taken advantage of them. He's got Detroit this week, so that could be good too. Ross Stripling just keeps on crushing it. You know, he had a bit of a rough stretch.

He had a three-start stretch where he gave him 24 hits and eight runs in 17 innings. You know, not terrible, but it's not great for stripling. Probably should have been an all-star. Yeah, yeah. Jake Areeta had one of his best starts. He had eight strikeouts at Pittsburgh on Saturday. And that's a team that does not strike out much. Second few is strikeouts per game in baseball.

Jake Arieta against the Pirates. Carlos Martinez, looks like he's back. Lance McCullors, another amazing start. 12 strikeouts, one run, and seven innings. Zach Godley was good against the Padres. And he'll be at the Rockies this week. And Michael Fulmer and Freddie Peralto, we can save them. call them part two but these other guys who are just you know highly owned kichel stripling

arietta carlos martinez mccullers godly scott who stood out to you from that list you can nominate more than one well i mean we talked about how this this was a two start week from erietta i think right um we were saying you know if he doesn't come through then that's probably the time to consider dropping him well he came through and i don't you should drop him, but there wasn't really anything that made me think this was some kind of permanent development for him either. 11 swinging strikes, that's good for what he's been this year, but it's not really that great.

And in this start, he had fewer ground balls than fly balls, so it's not like he kind of went away from the heavy ground ball approach to get those extra whiffs, which I don't know is necessarily a good development either. There's still a lot of concerns here for Arieta. 11 swinging strikes, according to baseball refits 13, according to ESPN, and 13, according to the MLB.com article I wrote. Oh, I read. I didn't write it. I read it. Whoa. Yeah, sorry, I'm moonlighting in your spare time.

Yeah. Moonlighting. Yeah, you know it. Arieta says his delivery is close to where he wants it to be, and he's got a good matchup this week at Baltimore. What do we think about Dallas Keikle with some good starts lately? Four of his last five starts have been very good, but good matchups. Really good matchups and all of them, yeah. I don't know what to think of Dallas Keikle. He's not quite, you know, I'm not moving him up in my rankings based on this.

He's outside my top 30 starting pitchers, so obviously still must own, but not who we drafted him to be. Okay, I'm going to read names and you tell me if you'd rather have them over Dallas Keikle. Ross Stripling. Yeah, yes. Jake Areeta. No. No. Carlos Martinez.

Yes. Yes. Lance McCullors. Yes. Zach Godley. No. Michael Fulmer. No.

No. Freddie Peralta. No. Do you think now is the time to sell Freddie Peralta or do you buy him? He threw his four-seem fastball 82% of the time in this start against the Braves. So that is a big red flag for me. However, the numbers are great so far. I mean, that's who he is.

That's who he was in the minors. It's who he's been in the majors, and it's been wildly successful for him. Maybe the, you know, once he starts seeing teams a second time, they'll start to catch up. But, like, this is a successful approach for him. And I'm not sure it makes a ton of sense to be so skeptical given, you know, a fairly decent track record of good production. I see him as a guy who's too bad starts away from getting dropped. Like, he's still fringy. I want him, obviously, the way he's performed,

and I think there's some upside there, but he gets slack two times in a row. He's probably getting dropped. So if you could trade him for somebody who's more than that, it's a good time to trade him. But if you're just swapping out another pitcher who could fit that same description, I don't know. Just stick with the upside, see where it goes.

That's Freddie Peralta. Studs being duds. Dylan Bundy was a dud, and he gets the Yankees this week. He was a dud at Minnesota. Robbie Ray was a dud again, and he's at Atlanta this week. Robbie Ray. David Price, yeah, I was willing to throw out that Yankees start because he was so good before that. He's always bad at the Yankees, but he was bad at Kansas City.

Ew. Jack Flaherty was... Yeah, it did have nine strikeouts. I think the Royals are striking out more lately. I've got to look into that. Well, you know, the Royals are the Yankees of the Midwest. of the greater Kansas City region. Jack Flaherty had a bad start, and he's been a little rough lately, a little bit.

Jack Flaherty. Zach Granky had a bad start, and he's at Atlanta this week. And Sean Newcomb. Yeah, terrible start at Milwaukee. Two terrible starts in a row. We thought Annabal Sanchez was going to struggle at the Yankees and at the Brewers. He didn't, but Sean Newcomb sure did. Who are you really worried about?

Dylan Bundy, Robbie Ray, David Price, Jack Flaherty, Zach Ranky, Sean Newcomb. I'm worried about Sean Newcomb. I think he may not be that good. I'm not sure if that's a hot take. It's pretty hot. No, there were some concerning signs leading up to this. He had kind of stopped featuring his curveball.

The swinging strikes had gone away. The walks have been high all year, obviously, really high the last two starts. And, like, watching those games, he, like, was just all over the place. clearly wasn't right. But at the same time, he was due some correction also, I think. His overall numbers look kind of like last years. And he wasn't that good last year.

And, you know, we thought that he was making some changes early on, but I think he's probably a high threes to low fours-e-r-a-goy-guy right now. Sean Newcomb. All right, anyone else were worried about here? The one who worries me the most in terms of He may be nowhere close to what people were ranking him as Robbie Ray, Robbie Ray, there he is Yep

Yeah, I mean Walks The home runs They're both such big issues for him Hell, velocity's been very inconsistent this year Start him this week, Robbie Ray at Atlanta If you're not No

Probably not No. Start David Price against Toronto? Yeah. We'll probably do that. All right. Let me read you some names. Tell me if you're ready to drop these guys.

If I can find it. Oh, yeah. Tanner Roark. Yeah. Okay, we already talked about him. But he is at the Mets this week, but it hasn't really matter. He just been terrible lately. Cole Hamels.

Would you drop him? You're not as dropable as Roarck, but I don't think he's out of the realm of possibility. Ham's... Thimph is really high. His, like, his ERA has obviously been bad recently, but the FIP has risen along with it. It's still like a run higher than the ERA.

It's over five. And it's not going to get better in Yankee Stadium. Yeah. And same thing with the next guy. Jay Hap. One of those guys will probably be on the Yankees. Like, I can't start J.Hap at Boston. His ERA is over four now.

Yeah, 444? Him and Tyson Ross. Like, the swinging strikes were really high early on. We got excited. Oh, look, it's better than we've ever seen this guy. and then it kind of went the same way for both. First, the swinging strikes disappeared, and then very recently here, the ERAs have blown up.

So I don't think that's unrelated. No, I think the thing with Hap, though, is that he's been pretty good the last two seasons, you know? It's been okay. I still think he's okay. But he looked like he was, you know, in the Cy Young discussion. I'm not dropping.

Yeah, I'm not dropping him. I like him more than Rorak or Hamils. but he's not an ace either. I mean, nobody drafted him to be an ace. Jay Hap, I don't think we're starting him at Boston this week. Gio Gonzalez, let's see, first 12 starts, 227 ERA, last six starts, 814 ERA, 19 walks, 18 strikeouts in 24 to 3rd, 372, Babette. Gio Gonzalez, is he dropable?

And when I say dropable, I mean, it just, there's a two, Two-star pitcher you like on waivers or Kyle Tucker happens to be there. You know, somebody you're excited about. Is Joe Gonzalez someone you're not going to miss? I think I like Gio more than Roark or Hamels less than half. That sounds right. Yeah, I probably wouldn't drop Gio. Let's see who you guys want to pick up from the Fringies.

Fringies Part 1, 65 to 79% owned. Andrew Heaney. Looking pretty damn good. I don't know why he's not universal. He's just good. Yeah, he is. I don't get it. Nick Povetta.

Back seven in a 10 strikeout efforts. Nick Povetta, 79% owned. Was this like a rain out start? No. He just, he was just bad. Yeah, um, I, I saw something with him. He's using his fastball a lot more lately, and that is to me a bad sign. because as fast as that ball is,

he still needs secondary pitches, and that was what he was doing early on in the season, was relying more on that slider and curveball combination. I think he probably needs to get back to that. I'd rather have him than Roark and upside tire. Sure, 100%. But we'd rather have Heaney than Povetta. So a problem is, like, Povetta is facing the Mets this week.

God, they're so bad, but when a guy's getting that poorly... He's going to strike out 13. Yeah, but when a guy's pitching that poorly, it's hard. And if you'll feel dumb, But you're still going to send him. Luis Castillo, Junior Gera, Domingo, Armand. Luis Castillo, Jr. Gara, Domingo, Armand. You want these guys?

Definitely, Hermon. I mean, this is, what, four out of six starts that were just brilliant? Brilliant. But he's Povetta-like, because he has some terrible ones in it. He's at Cleveland this week. But I think the skill sets even better than Povetta personally. And, like, Loisica's shoulder injury gives him some job security. Right.

All right. Castillo and Gera? I'm still holding on Castillo. Yeah, I guess so. I think he's still going to be good someday. I'm just getting tired of... I mean, he has more upside than anybody we've mentioned here. Does he have more than Heaney? Yeah, he does. He's also the least usable of any of him.

Right now, yeah. He might be more usable Castillo than Tyson Ross, who I dropped. Yeah. Fair. Kevin Gosman is whatever. I dropped him as well in a league. Stephen Mats. I'm kind of interested in Mats.

I know the swinging strikes aren't great, and the strikeouts aren't great. So it's probably fools gold, but I don't know. He's got the Redskins. He's got the Nationals this week. Stephen Mats. Yeah. I feel like he's had some good home run luck. It's helped keep the ERA down.

All right. So it looks like he, It would be number one with a bullet. Armand, Castillo, if you want to stash. The other guys are streamable. Matt does appear to be using a slider lately. I hadn't noticed that. It's not the old slider.

It's not the old slider from the old days. Well, it's 88 miles per hour, which is, yeah, that's about what it was before. Is it getting the whiffs, though? I don't know. All right, more, more, more, more, more, more, more, more. More Fringies. Kyle Gibson, Jake Oterese, Mike Montgomery, Joey Lucasee. Gibson, Oterese, Montgomery, Lucasee.

I think after Heaney, Gibson's second of all these pitchers. Oh, okay. Fringies Part 3, 30 to 49% owned. Clayton Richard, looks like he's been bad. Odd thing for Richard. Each of his last six starts have been on the road. He will come back home this week to face the Cubs. Wade LeBlanc.

Yeah, you don't want him. He's at Colorado this week. Nick Kingham had a nice start. He's got Milwaukee. this week. Jeff Samarja. I guess encouraging, considering how bad he had been.

Five innings, three runs on seven hits, three strikeouts. But, you know, Sumerja's 44%-0, and he's got Oakland this week. Matt Harvey, Tyler Malley. He's pitching pretty well lately. Derek Rodriguez, Lance Lynn. Richard, LeBlanc, Kingdom, Samarja, Harvey, Malley. Derek Rodriguez, Lance Lind. Does I say anyone's name it?

jumps off the page. Mallee's been so good lately. and probably deserves to be the most owned of this group. And he's tied for most owned. Well, no, Lance Lens most own. He deserves to be more owned than Lance Lenn. I still have concerns about him making it that third time through the order since he's so fastball heavy and the numbers,

I mean, bear out that he struggles the third time through, but he did it successfully over the weekend. Tyler Marely is not even the most owned Cincinnati Red on this list. Matt Harvey. Yeah. Oh, that's stupid. Who, like, Matt Harvey looks fine now. Like, he looks like he's not the worst pitcher in baseball.

Yeah. But he also doesn't look much more than an average pitcher, and there's really no reason for him to be 48% owned. So would you rather take a shot on Mali or Samarja? Samarja's been so awful. I've been dropping him, and I drafted him in a lot of places. I just don't think he's healthy. This was his first start off of D.L.

Maybe it's like you need someone now, you go Malley, even though he has the Indians this week. And you need someone to stash, you go some margin of it. But Malley, last seven starts, he has a 204 ERA. But as we kind of alluded to, he has only three quality starts in those seven starts. In deeper leagues, Dan Straeli, Brad Keller, Armine, Marquez, John Gant, Mike Fires, Bartolo Colon, Ryan Burrucky, Felix Pena. Baraki might be the best. but I'll say Marquez really might be worth stashing

just to start him on the road because he's so good on the road. Yeah, another great start at Seattle over the weekend and his ERA is like 250 on the road versus like eight at home or something. 793 at home, 262 on the road for Armand Marquette. I just always worry, like, I feel like he has to be,

he has to accept being eight ERA guy at home. or whatever it is. He has to accept being that bad at home and saying, this is just how my stuff plays here. If he starts tweaking things, then it's going to carry over to the road. I just feel like it's a difficult thing to sustain for somebody who wants to be good, obviously. Sure. Like, if he starts changing things, it's going to translate to the road and potentially mess them up there. So it's, I have a difficult time trusting it, even though I see at base value how there's value to that approach.

Sure. Yeah, Marquez is at home against the Diamondbacks this week, and then I didn't really go any further into the future because All-Star Break, that reset the rotation, you never know. Let's take a look at today's games. Sabathia at Yacobonis, bag of donuts. Excuse me? The Orioles.

Yeah, I'll go to Sabathia there. I like that. Not Jimmy Yacobonis. Pretty cool name. Zach Eflin at Zach Wheeler. Zach Attack. Yeah. Both of them?

Yeah, I think both are doing very interesting things lately. We've got Jeffrey Rodriguez at Yvonne Nova. No, thank you, sir. Double-header Palooza this week. Francisco Luriano at Chris Archer will start Archer. Mike Minor at... Will we start Luriano, I should probably ask? No.

Mike Miner at Eduardo Rodriguez. I will start a garage. Yeah. Chase Andrews. at Jose Urania. I'll start Anderson. Yep. Anthony Desclafani at Mike Clevenger.

I will start Clevenger, and I want to see how Desclavani goes. Luis Sessa at Jeffrey Ramirez. No, thank you, sir. Wow. Aaron Nola at Chris Oswalt. Corey. Corey. Roy Oswald.

Definitely Nola. Aaron Nola at Roy Oswald. All right, start Nola. Danny Duffy. at Jose Barrios. Jose Barrios. Although he's kind of struggling lately, isn't he?

I thought he got back down a little bit. But we don't care. He's an all-star. He's good. Legitimately. I don't know if he should be He's not really struggling. We don't care about.

He had heat exhaustion at the coast. He should be an all-star. Blake Snell's not an all-star, sir. He shouldn't be over Blake Snell, but that doesn't mean he shouldn't be. Danny Duffy. Look, Joe Jimenez is an all-star. And obviously, the Tiger's lone representative,

but you could do better for the Tigers Loan representative. Who's the Royals representative? The Royals representative is Salvador Perez, which is another one people are complaining about because his OBP is like 250. Shouldn't like Whitmerfield be it? Yeah, W hit Maryfield. Frankie Mottox, Garrett Cole.

Just Cole. Cole's obviously good. Just Kirshah, no perdomo. And how about Kyle Hendrix at Andrew Suarez? I'm fine with both of them. Hendricks has actually been the worst of the two. too lately, but I'm fine with that. And by the way, we got sidetrack talking about Rios,

but I would start Danny Duffy against the Twins. Oh, okay. There you go. And that's it for today's show. Thank you very much for listening, everybody. For Scott White, for Chris Towers. I'm Adam Azer. We'll talk to you on Tuesday, on team name Tuesday.