Fantasy Baseball Today - 07/17 Fantasy Baseball Podcast: Weekend Roundup

Episode Date: July 17, 2017

Who will close for Washington? How about for Texas? We begin the show with some bullpen talk, and then it's on to who to add and drop (7:41) ... Is now the time to sell high on SPs who aren't striking guys out (18:44)? We talk Sonny Gray, Cole Hamels and a few others. Plus a look at the Most Added list (29:15) and underowned pitchers (33:20) ... Standout hitters from the weekend (41:00) and the struggles of Justin Verlander, Jose Berrios and Jon Gray (55:00) ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Closing for the Nationals. Well, so do we. Welcome to fantasy baseball today. We'll do our best to answer your questions and sort out some bullpens and tell you about Buffalo Wild Wings. Sports trades are scary. One person can be replaced by another exchange for money, given away for a hypothetical future person. And once they leave your team, you can't like them anymore, even if you have their jersey and you can't wear that anymore. Except at B-dubs, they won't judge, but others might. Buffalo Wild Wings, wings, beer. Azer, I'm back. Welcome back, Adam. Thank you. Adam, the married man now. How do you feel different? It is slightly different. It's the same.

I know, we've been living together for a few years and nothing has actually changed, but for some reason, there is something intangible that just feels a little bit different right now. Yeah. Well, I think you're already more responsible. You were ready on time today. That is true. I did a lot of work on my honeyboots. You guys should be, well, just for one or two days.

You guys should be happy about that. We got a good show. We got a good show for you today. Not going to be one of the best ever, but informative. This is a fun time at fantasy baseball. Guys will get traded. Fantasy values change. And we really need to start with the Nationals bullpen.

So let's just get into that real quick. Did you just say this wasn't going to be one of our best? Best shows ever at the top of the show. You know how I like to say that I'm going to bring it, and if you guys bring it, this is going to be our best show of the year. Like, it's not going to be. It's not going to be one of those, like, really fun. Everybody jokes about it after and, like, tells their friends, you got to hear FBT. No, this is an informative show.

Starting with Nationals Bullpen. Like, it's not sexy. All right, go ahead. Sorry. Now, who's your favorite Nationals reliever right now? I wrote about both these guys Ryan Madsen and Sean Doolittle in Waverwire this morning. I really think in a roto league or a head-to-head categories league, I would like to add both of them. I believe Ryan Madsen probably has a slight edge just because he throws with his right hand, but Sean Doolittle is better than Ryan Madsen.

And we may not know for two weeks who the quote unquote closer in Washington is because they may both get chances. And I don't, I think there's still an argument to be made. He's not on the roster. I mean, that's possible. The nationals need to try and get somewhere in the playoffs this year. They've, you know, they've been among the best teams in baseball for several years in a row now. And I don't think, I mean, both of these guys have some closing experience, but it's not like we've regarded them as locked down closers. I think there's still a good chance the nationals pursue that.

But I am surprised, like, considering Santiago Casillo was closing at Oakland, you know, I haven't thought that much about Madsen and Doolittle in a long time. I'm surprised the numbers they've both put up this year, both with whips below one, below 0.9 even. Yeah, no, they're having great years. I mean, Madsen, it has a 206 ERA, six walks, 39 strikeouts, and 39 and a third. Doolittle has a 3.3080 RA, two walks, 31 strikeouts, and 21 and a third. And I was surprised at how easy it was for me to get these guys. They're both owned in about 28% of leagues, Doolittle 27%. Mads in 28%.

I've already picked up Madsen in three leagues. One of them for a $2 bid, and two of them, like this morning in our 16 team head-to-head categories league, I picked up Ryan Madsen. I couldn't believe it. Scott didn't answer his phone because he was ignoring me. So I tried to get the clearance from him, but we dropped Luke Voight. for Ryan Madsen. And I don't know, like this is a really good trade for the Nationals.

If these guys are as good as they have been pitching this year, whether or not they end up his closers, it's really going to help the Nationals. Yeah, but it's that uncertainty. I think that's why people aren't pouncing on. And I've gotten a lot of people asking who it is. I mean, Dusty Baker even said he could go, you know, he could use some of both.

So there's still no clarity here. There are better options, but there's still no clarity in the Nationals bullpen. And can we probably, eliminate a guy like Matt Grace who got two saves over the weekend? Yes, I would say so. All right. How about Texas? I also picked up Alex Claudio in a 12-team Roto League, and Heath you picked him up in the 16-teamor.

He got two saves over the weekend. He pitched in all three games. He is also a lefty, and every single time he came in this weekend, he faced Eric Hosmer and then Salvador Perez, then Mike Mastakas. Well, it wasn't, you know, Hosmer was the first batter he faced. Perez didn't play one of the games. But he came in for lefties, but he got two saves. And then Sunday he pitched the eighth, right?

And Grilly lost it in the ninth. Grilly lost it in the night. But it was a tie game when both of them entered. So nobody was really going for the save. But that kind of, I was of the mind going into Sunday. Oh, it looks like Alex Claudio is the Rangers closer. And now I'm still unsure. I don't think he deserves to be.

I think he might be their fourth or fifth best reliever. Well, they don't have good relievers. Everybody's hurt or bad? And so I picked him up just because, like, if you were starting this week and you're in a league where you need saves, I think your chance he picks up a couple. I don't think he's a long-term answer at the position. Well, Keone Kellis should be back pretty soon, and maybe he's their best reliever. Yeah, he may be. He just has to be healthy first.

Yeah. So that's a guy you could look at if you need a close or. Keone Kele, a 27% own. Enough about closer. Well, more about closers, I guess. Is there anything else in bullpens, guys? Senuano blew another save. Brett Cecil got a save.

Oh, he actually didn't blow a save. He took a loss in a non-save situation. Then Brett Cecil got a save chance on Sunday, and he blew it. Yeah. And it was actually reported that Mike Mathini had been considering Cecil as a closer option for a while, even before that outing where he blew the save. I don't know. Cecil's still in consideration.

He had been pitching well up to that. point. The overall number is kind of shaky, but it's been on a nice run. So I do think maybe in deeper leagues, as unreliable as O has been, Cecil is somebody who, like in L only, he needs to be owned. Okay. Would you pick up Alex Claudio or Brett Cecil? Claudia.

Yeah, I'd pick up Claudio. All righty. Enough about bullpens. Anybody make interesting ad drops over the weekend? Because a lot of people are playing. on 10-day weeks, so they didn't have to make ad drops for Monday. I think that was why I was kind of dormant on the waiver wire other than the closers. Yeah.

Anything for you guys? Even if it was, you know, the CBS standard, you divided the weeks, you divided the 10th day stretched into two weeks. I mean, it had only been three days of action. So I wasn't, I didn't do my normal process that I do on Sunday afternoons of really, like, you know, reviewing who's on every waiver wire. in every league and making this myriad of moves. I pretty much stood, Pat.

Yeah, I wrote WaverWire this morning so I can give you some names, even though I didn't add them yesterday. Hit me with it. Trevor Cahill has 20 strikeouts and 16 innings since coming back from the disabled list. He's still just 64% owned. Oh, man, that does need to change. He does a good start Sunday. He needs to go up.

He's had one that didn't really count as a start because it was just four innings, and he was just coming back, then a bad start and a good start. but I think he probably needs to be closer to 80% of it. A lot of swinging strikes even in the bad start, if I recall. Tommy Fam, I think with Gritchick and Piscotti both going back on the disabled list and the fact that Tommy Fam is better than both of them anyway, Tommy Fam probably needs to be closer to 80% on and he's about 50% so far. Brandon Phillips had one of the hottest weekends I've ever seen seven hits six for extra bases.

If you're into the hot hand approach, I think Phillips is a good middle infield. option. Would you go with Phillips or the guy who did this a week ago, Paul DeYoung? Phillips. Okay. So the first time you gave was Taylor. Obviously. And I'd go with Whitmeryfield over Phillips, too.

But very. And Maryfield's more highly owned. Maryfield, every day does something. I mean, I can't believe it. He's having a great year. A good year. Well, when you're fast and you strike out 13% of the time, it's hard not to do some things.

Speaking of fast, anybody interested in Magnera Sierra for the Cardinals? He is fast. He had three infield hits yesterday, I think. And a stolen base, right? I'm not sure, but makes sense. He can steal bases. I mean, maybe in

NNL only Rotter League, I'd look at him. But there's not a clear opportunity for him there, right? It's... Well, with Piscati and Gritchick both out, there might be. I don't know who else would play in the outfield with fam. fam and um oh hozay martinez yeah jose martinez i guess who's there other start oh phallar phallar oh right back he's healthy but okay so there i don't think it'd be an everyday thing for sierra but

if that does become the case then then maybe it's it's something to think about even in mixed roto leagues see i told you this wasn't going to be like we're talking about bagnara sierra you know we got spice it up a little bit. How was your week, guys? Did you have fun without me? Did you listen to the shows? Were you listening to the podcasts on the honeymoon, subjecting your new wife to pointless baseball talk? She's had enough of that with the regard to engagement. No, I did not listen to the podcasts. I probably should have, at least on the plane ride home. I heard they were very good. Fun. I got to host a show with Al, just the two of us. What? Yeah. That's awesome. How did it go? It was awesome.

You're united. I'm not sure that Adam was supposed to find out this way, that went down. But his reaction sounded a little, what? Yeah, I didn't know. Like you're upset, you missed out? Well, no, I was either going to say, like, how dare you? You shouldn't have done that, or that's awesome. How did it go?

And I went with, that's awesome. How did it go? But you were thinking, how dare you? That's the All-Star Break. Who gives a crap, right? How about Aaron Judge in the home run derby? That was fun. I'm just really sad that it ruined him.

It did. I telling you. He's been terrible. One hit in like 22 plate appearances? I'm telling you, it's bad. Also, did you see the home run that was stolen away from him last night? You know, I was actually at Marlins Park yesterday for Marlins Dodgers. Oh, cool.

And there were a couple, you know, high pop-ups hit at the plate, foul balls that went straight up, basically. and you'd wonder as they went up, are they going to touch the roof? And they didn't because the roof is obviously very, very high. And then you think about him hitting the roof from the complete opposite side of the field. Yeah. You know, where the outfield fences, it's just unbelievable to think about, especially being there and being able to, you know, to put it in perspective just a few days later. Yeah, it was pretty cool.

I did get to see some of the home run derby. That was awesome. And for Aaron Judge owners, you know, it was a bad, bad weekend. But he did have a two-run homer completely stolen from him by Jackie Bradley. A great catch that Jackie Bradley made in a deep, deep part of, you know, that little triangle in Fenway Park. So I guess you could take a little solace in that. Let's move on, guys. The big news in Major League Baseball, Johnny Quato is on the DL with blisters.

Is he a by-low candidate or is he someone you're avoiding right now? I think he's by low. These blister issues popped up, I think, in May we first heard about him. And he was just like, oh, whatever, I'm going to pitch through them. And we see the way that's gone for him. And I still, lately it's been pretty bad with the walks and everything. But I still think the disaster starts have been less than you'd expect, given his overall numbers. I think he's done a halfway respectable job of fighting through it.

But I'm glad he's finally sitting out. And assuming it's just two or three weeks, you'll be happy. You made an investment in him now, I think. Okay, that's Johnny Quato. Pretty interesting. Ryan Braun is, they say, day-to-day for the rest of the season. He's going to be evaluated on a daily basis for the rest of the season due to his previous calf injury. Heath, how would you approach Ryan Braun based on that information?

Well, if he wasn't hitting so well right now, right after coming back, I mean, it's a difficult situation because if he plays six games a week, then he is a top 12 outfielder. and you probably expect him to play an average of more like four and a half games a week. I still think he's must start in just about every format. Did you guys lower Ryan Braun in your rankings? Well, I moved Ryan Braun back up in my rankings, because I thought when he got hurt before the All-Star break, we were going to see another disabled list stint. And the fact that he came back right after the All-Star break and started hitting again,

I moved him up. Now, that was before this day-to-day for the rest of the season, but this also just kind of sounds like them saying something. Has it Ryan Brun been day-to-day for most of the past two years? Yeah, and last year he played like 145 games or something like that, and he was great on a per-game basis. I think he was around 12th overall. Yeah, that's about where I have him ranked right now,

around 12th at outfield. Okay. So would you rather have Andrew McCutcheon or Ryan Braun? I have McCutcheon ahead. I think I have Braun more like the 16-17 range, and McCutcheon is just about back in my top 12. It's been so long that he's just looked like retro Andrew McCutcheon. Now, look at this.

Look at this. I know it's hard to update your rankings all the time. I get that. So there are a lot of things that are a little out of whack. But look at that guy in head-to-head points leagues that Scott White has one spot ahead of Ryan Broad. Look at that. Look at that guy. Who is it?

Carlos Santana. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Carlos Santana's been pretty good in points league. He has? He has. And I still think the best is yet to come. I agree with that.

I am not ashamed of my placement of Carlos Santana in a points league where walks are rewarded a full point. Do you have him ahead of Thames? I know I dropped Thames in my last update. I think one spot behind. Thames 15, Santana 16, Braun 17. Points league specifically. But I mean, Thames has scored 274. points this year to Carlos Santana's 261. And I'm telling you, the best is yet to come for Santana.

He's performed so far below our expectations, and he's 13 points behind Eric Thames for the year. I don't think that's ridiculous to have him ahead of Thames at all. I wish Santana were still leading off. He's batting at like six or seventh now, but... Well, he would be if he'd hit it. I know. It's weird. That's that. Maybe he says a lot about Eric Thames. I mean, he's outscored Buster Posey this year. I know Posey, we play him a catcher. He's outscored Will Myers by a lot more than,

a pretty good bit more than than Thames has outscored Santana. All right, well, look, I think we all probably agree the best is yet to come for Carlos Santana. So that is optimistic right there. Joe Ross will have Tommy John surgery. Michael Paneda will likely have Tommy John surgery. That sucks.

Starling Marte is coming back on Tuesday. People want to know, do I? Starling Marte this week. Yep. I do. Yeah. I don't see why not. Maybe if it's a three outfielder league and you just,

it's already a loaded position for you, you can't justify it. You play the rust card and sit him, but that'd be the only situation. And finally. Would you start Starling Marte or Carlos Santana? And it appoints league Santana. Like, that's a standout in one format versus a guy who kind of lags in that format. But, you know, any Categories League, then certainly you go with Marte and the batting average potential, the Steele's potential. There we go.

Okay. Format-specific there with Marte v. Santana. And finally, Danny Salazar, 77% owned. Had a great rehab start yesterday. However, he is still walking batters. Nine walks to 23 strikeouts in 16 innings in four minor league starts. Salazar, like I said, is 77% owned. I don't know exactly when he will be back, but it seems pretty soon.

And you would think, is it guaranteed that Salazar is going to be in the rotation? I think that's the plan. I don't know that it's guaranteed. He needs to be owned until we see him in the majors and see what he does again, just because the upside's too great and starting pitcher is too bad. Well, would you pick up Trevor Cahill or Danny Salazar? I'd pick up Cahill, but I'm really high on Cahill. Yeah, I would pick up Salazar. Does Cahill's home road splits do that?

matter to you because at home he is a 0.72 ERA on the road 501. I hadn't noticed that before and we've talked before about Ulees Chasin's drastic home away splits. I think it's interesting just because Petco Park since they moved in the fences a few years ago, it's been a pretty

fair park. It hasn't been this pitcher's haven it was when it first opened up. I wonder if they went back to using the old balls in San Diego. Only there. They installed a humidor. San Diego needed one. one of those. Yeah, I mean, he, look, he hasn't had that many road starts.

Cahill hasn't made that many starts, period. But it is interesting, and I just want to see who Cahill has this week. If you bear with me, 64% only actually was going to headline an under-owned pitcher's segment. Trevor Cahill is at San Francisco this week. You're starting there. Yeah, that's a good start. And he will miss at Colorado. All right.

So look, ad drops, maybe not. But trades, I think this is like, not. Not only is the MLB trade deadline coming up, but fantasy trade deadlines are coming up as well. So now is the time to make some trades. And there's a group of players that I find very interesting that are having success, either all season long or lately, as starting pitchers, starting pitchers, having success without a lot of strikeouts. And Stephen Matt's, you know, Stephen Matt's just got slaughtered by the Rockies, nine hits and seven runs in one inning yesterday. and his previous start, five runs in four and a third at St. Louis. And this is a guy who said, I'm going to try to pitch to contact and pitch deeper into games.

And the strikeout numbers have been horrible. But he had a 212 ERA in his first six starts, after which Chris Towers said Stephen Mats is an amazing sell-high candidate. And so far, he's been right about that. So with Matt sort of, as a, I don't know, as a reference here, I'm looking at these pitchers, and I'm seeing these low K rates, and I'm wondering if we should be selling them. You tell me. Michael Fulmer, who has a 306 ERA, but 6.3 strikeouts per nine. It was 7.5 last year.

Michael Fulmer. Cole Hamels, who seems to have turned things around his last three starts have been really good, but they've come against the White Sox, the Angels, and then on Saturday against the Royals, who have a good lineup. But again, strikeouts are very low. 33 strikeouts in 59 innings this year. Danny Duffy, 351 ERA. He finally had a good start.

He was struggling before a good start on Saturday against Texas, but Duffy has 71 strikeouts at 89 and 2 thirds, and then I'll just say the other name. Sunny Gray, Alex Cobb, and Garrett Cole, who's been kind of up and down. But none of these guys are striking batters out, especially in today's game. Fulmer, Hamels, Duffy, Gray, Cobb, Cole.

Are you looking to try to trade these guys? some of them maybe but not so much the high-end ones like fulmer michael fulmer i his strikeout rate dropped to about this level in the second half last year his rookie year and it was a big reason why he was on my bus list coming into the year but now i think you know you got more than a full season of this kind of performance from fulmer i just i feel like it's i feel like it's i feel like it's silly to to just dismiss it as some kind of statistical, you know, correction on, some correction is needed here and that he's going to regress in a way that will, that will ruin your fantasy team. I think he's beyond that now.

Cole Hamill's. Sorry, Scott. I just held in a sneeze. Oh, okay. All right. So Scott says don't sell high on Michael Fulmer. Let's move to Cole Hamill. Keith, you want to jump in?

I'm with Scott on former Hamels and Duffy. Those are the three that I'm not looking to trade unless we just talked about a guy that was a good, buy, low candidate, a guy like Johnny Quato. If I was in a position to where I felt like I'm pretty much locked up a playoff spot, I would be, I would gladly trade one of those three guys for Quato. Okay, well, first of all, you put words in Scott's mouth because he never said anything about Hamels and who was the third one? Well, he said the high-end guys. I assumed that Hamels and Duffy were the other two high-end guys. You know, I wouldn't trade any of them for Quato. I mean, that's getting...

Like, I'm all about buying low on Quedo. That's certainly not buying low. No, Hamils... Well, these are top 25-thirty-pitchers. I'm fine with Hamils because his biggest concern was walks. And during this three-start stretch, two total walks, he seems to have slayed that dragon. So I'm fine with him. Danny Duffy does give me some concern because there's a strikeout drop,

accompanied by a velocity drop and the whip is high on the year. I'm just not sure he's the same pitcher he was last year, the one who got the big contract from the Royals, the one who made us think he was a top 20 fantasy option. So I have some concern there.

But Sonny Gray is actually the third one that I feel good about. So Fulmer, Hamils, and Sunny Gray, just because, okay, the swinging strike grade is low on the year, but during this turnaround, his swinging strike totals have been much closer to where they were two years ago than where they were last year. And I think he's gotten his groove back.

Yeah, I'm a little worried because just look at Greg. Chicago, the White Sox twice, the Braves, and a very good start against the Indians. But I don't know, man. Well, it's not just that, but he's on the trade block, allegedly. And he has been very good in Oakland this year, a 3-1-1-E-RA, closer to five on the road. But hasn't your argument with Sunny Gray always been the left side of the athletics infields terrible defensively?

If he gets traded to a team in a big park with a good defense, then yes, he could be a top 25. I don't think he needs a big park because he's such a good ball pitcher. He's not a guy who gets burned by home runs when he's who he's supposed to be. Well, he's been really, really good at home this year. Okay. All right, it's Sunny Gray. Hamils. Gosh, I don't know.

Like, really, if people think he's old Cole Hamels, like, I don't know. I feel like I'd like to trade. If you think he's just, you know, the way you valued him at the beginning of the season, I'm not saying you do. But if you're looking at Hamels and, all right, he's top 20 pitcher like I thought, 33 strikeouts and 59 innings? That's a major red flag. I don't have him in the top 20.

I don't have, I don't believe I have any of these guys in the top 20. They're all at low-end number two, high-end number three type guys. It is a pretty impressive run, though, from Hamels Because the strikeouts are up in these last three outings, But they are against the White Sox, the Angels, and now the Royals. I don't know, like, what the hell am I going to do? I'm probably just going to hang on to Cole Hamels and hope he turned around. Because in the league I own him in, I'm in fifth place in a Roto League.

And I just, I kind of need my guys to just catch fire. And I guess Hamils probably has a good chance of anyone I'd realistically be able to trade him for. So. All right, Hamels. What about Alex Cobb? All right, let's trade Alex Cobb. Are we cool with that? Yes.

Yeah, I mean, he's not going to get near the return of these other ones. But, yeah, I'm not convinced he has a split back, and that's his split change. It's not a split fastball like we normally think of split. But I'm not convinced he has it back. And, yeah, this looks like a mirage to me. 5.9 strikeouts per nine inning for Alex Cobb. that's scary low.

And anything you guys want to say about Garrett Cole, Heath, he had six innings of two-run ball with four strikeouts against the Cardinals on Friday. I'm not as moved to move Cole. I put him in the same range as Duffy. He's maybe a high-end number three, low-end number two. I don't believe you're going to get much more value than that for him. Okay, dokey. Moving on.

I've got to tell you about podcast awards. Oh, my gosh. Help us win an award. So let's talk this out, right? We got two shows that are nominated in the sports category on podcast awards.com, fantasy baseball today and fantasy football today. Have you ever been a fan of a team where two of their players are finalists for the Heisman Trophy? And you know they're not going to win because the voters are going to split the votes between the two of them. Like, should we encourage everybody just to vote for one show?

No, let's take first and second. Wait a second. I do have to ask. I've had this thought. Is there any chance if it's a first? fan vote, is there any chance a fantasy baseball podcast can beat a fantasy football podcast? No, no. No.

So, like, it would make more sense for all of you fantasy baseball listeners to help us out and vote for the fantasy football podcast. So there's only one sports category. Yeah. I want to make sure I understand that correctly. Uh-huh. And fantasy baseball is going up against fantasy football. And many other podcasts, yes. Okay.

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I do not understand. I have been so confused every step of the way with podcast awards. So we're not behind the eight ball. Voting has not started. Are you still nominate us? So we can be final. Please do nominate us. Yes, there we go.

Thank you, Heath. Most added players. You might be a little surprised by the most added player in CBSports.com leagues. Brent Suter, Brewer's pitcher, is 42% owned. Anyone interested in him? Not really. The minor league numbers weren't particularly good. He throws like an 88 mile per hour fastball.

There does seem to be some deception there. He's had a couple good starts, but I need to see a lot more of him, a lot more of that, given his profile. All right, that's Brent Suter, who's 42% owned. Number three on the list is Chance Adams, Yankees pitching prospect, who has a much clearer path now, Paneda out for the year. Would you rather have Souter or Chance Adams? Adams. Souter or Yolice Chasin, who's number four on the most added list?

Chasine has a two... No, he was the guy who started over the weekend. He does not a two-star pitcher this week, so that doesn't explain that. I do think up to a point now where I'm willing to use Chasine in home starts, unless it's against a really good offense. But I'd still go for the upside of Adam. I'm looking, by the way, slightly different list.

Brent Suter is the number one most added player. Chance Adams, I think, is actually number six. Chasine is a little bit lower on the list. So if we look at the actual list here, Paul DeYoung is the number two most added player. He's eligible at second, third, and short. And obviously, corner infield, the middle infield. And he had that amazing weekend, Paul DeYoung,

against the Mets with like a million extra base hits, 54% owned. Anyone care? Oh, I think at shortstop, there's enough need there that he's somebody you can mix in. Certainly, if it's a standard rhodo lineup where you need an extra middle infielder,

he might be close to must-own at this point. But I don't have... I don't have a lot of confidence in this skill set. 42 strikeouts to four walks on the year, so it's entirely dependent on him continuing to hit for... power like he has so far. If he wasn't shortstop eligible, I'd probably say move on.

Would you rather have Jonathan V.R. or Paul DeYoung? VR. VR. I hope I'm pronouncing that, right? DeYoung? I don't know. We did an entire segment last week where Chris called him Chase DeJong. Nah.

That might be Chase DeYoung. So we did miss you, Adam. Okay, thank you. Well, look, I haven't. Chase DeYoung and Paul DeJong? Or Chase De Jong and Paul DeYoung. DeYoung. Oh, I'm sorry.

De Jong is how baseball reference says to pronounce it. All right, De Jong, it is then. You didn't need me after all. Mike Clevenger, number four, on the most added list. 74% own. How does that ownership sound for Clevenger? I don't think he needs to be added any more than that. Okay.

Yeah, the ERA is a little... It's low. It's impressive. And, you know, he's not a bad strikeout pitcher, but there's some reason to think regression is coming with the ERA. Would you rather have Mike Clevenger, who is 74% owned, or a 57% owned, Sean Newcomb? I'd probably still go Newcomb just for the hope that he's got some more upside left in him. Listen, bad starts against the Astros and the Nationals, they don't count.

For me, they don't count. Honestly, I don't care what you do against the Astros and the Nationals, and those were Newcomb's last two starts, and he gave up 11 runs and said. seven and a third. I care more than you do. If they weren't consecutive, maybe not. If it was just this odd bad start against a good offense, I could write it off. It depends on what level of pitcher you're talking about. I want my top 25 slash top 30 starting pitcher to be able to get through those starts without blowing up. But anybody below that? No, I agree with you. All righty. Let's get off the most added list because it's a lot of

guys we've talked about. And my awesome list of underowned pitchers, it's actually with a question mark you tell me are these pitchers underowned you understand how the game works are these pitchers under owned so like a buy or sell type thing mike fires is 75% owned he has been great for nine starts now and he struck out 11 twins in seven innings on sunday um mike fire 75% owned is he underowned i would put him at a four on the underowned omitored uh he does not understand the game. Slightly underowned.

Yeah, I think he's slightly under-owned as well. I'd be happy to make use of him as a hot hand play. He did have a couple not-so-great starts before this one, but it was with walks, which are not really something he usually struggles with. I think his curveball is spinning, and he's going to keep winning. Ian Kennedy, 66% owned. Is Ian Kennedy, who has now had six pretty good starts in a row under-owned, Ian Kennedy, 66%. I would put him about a six and a half on the under-ownedometer.

The nice thing is the last couple of starts, Kennedy's got the strikeouts back as well. So, yeah, I think he and fires should be similarly owned. Maybe Kennedy is slightly higher. Yeah, maybe both closer to like 80. Scott? Kennedy's been streaky before. I think he's on, I think he used him when he's on a run like this. Scott, who would you rather, I guess, because he took Kennedy slightly over fires.

Who would you rather have? Hmm, Kennedy Interesting Trevor Cahill's 62% owned He already discussed him He is underowned He's a nine and a half on the underownedometer So would you take Cahill over fires and Kennedy?

Yes You know, I think you need to recalibrate this meter You made up because you gave fires a four And said he was slightly underowned Wouldn't anything less than five be overowned? No, it's the underownedometer Overeone would be a zero Yeah, no totally agree with Heath on this one

Very clear Also fires is the most owned It's like a lot of zero a lot of potential for zeros. Maybe. Luis Castillo, 59% owned. Zero.

You're a pretty good start against the nationals. Yeah, I'm going to, I think he's about appropriately owned. I'll give him a zero on the ender-owned domitor. I do not think he's over-owned, though. Wait, wait. I feel like every time we talked about Luis Castillo for the last week.

That's Chris. That's Chris. That's Chris. No, I... Okay. Then I guess I'm closer to Chris on this than I am to Heath. The only... The only...

The only thing he has done wrong in the majors so far with a lot of right to go with it is walks. And walks were something he hardly ever had in the minors, particularly this year. Where would I have him among these four pitchers? I would have him behind Cahill, and that's probably it. Oh, okay. All right, that's Luis Castillo. And let me just say this about Castillo. Look at this freaking schedule at Washington, Milwaukee, at Colorado, at Arizona,

at Arizona, home against Washington. Brutal! Yeah. I'm glad you pointed it out, because I picked him up in the podcast league, the 12-team points league, like basically as soon as he was called up, and I haven't been able to start him yet

because the matchups have been so bad, but he's performed respectively. He's getting a lot of swings and misses with that fastball, that high-90s fastball, and the control should be a lot better than this. I think when he faces some worse lineups, we'll see that.

Yeah, and he does, and Castillo, with Washington twice at Colorado, Milwaukee, and at Arizona, has a 341 ERA, 36 strikeouts in 29 innings. And this week, he's got the 27 Yankees this week. You have to sit him. This week he has Miami, so at home. Or, wait, when did he pitch? He pitched on Saturday. Let's see, one, two, two, one, two, three. No, he's got Arizona at home.

Arizona. This guy can't catch a break. The trend continues. Eventually, he'll start facing some pirates and some... Who else is in that division? The Reds can't face them. Coors. That's not really a great matchup.

Cubs is an awesome. Cardinals is okay. Cardinals, yeah. No, actually, I'm going to start Castillo, one start against Cincinnati. Arizona, Arizona. And then his next start is at the Yankees. Man, how unlucky does this guy get? Jeez. Okay.

Is Patrick Corbyn underowned? 55%. What percentage of our leagues are points leagues where you can use them as a part? Probably a little less than 55%. Then he's probably appropriately owned. Yeah. Yeah, I'd agree. It's about right.

It's a nice run, but I still don't have a lot of faith in him. Is R.A. Dickey underowned, 31% owned? His last five starts. Dickie has a 109 ERA. No homers allowed in 33 innings. Nope. Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Maybe a little.

I mean, he shouldn't be his own as Corbyn. He shouldn't be his own as anyone on this list. The random number generator? Well, no, it's not random. It's turned around with Tyler Flowers taking over. Kurt Suzuki had been his go-to catcher all year. Tyler Flowers is, I think, the best pitchframer by a considerable margin this year. his pitch framing statistics are up there.

And, you know, with a knuckleball, it's not the easiest pitch to spot. So I do think that's not just a coincidence. I would argue that even when the roulette will turns up black five times in a row, it's still random. Well, the problem with Dickie always, other than when he was like, you know, Sayong, he has really bad starts. When his knuckle ball's not working, he gets crushed. So it's hard to trust. Right. There's just no way to predict it, I don't think.

It's hard to trust him. But he's on a good run. And also right before he went on this good run, or actually maybe like the first game, he said, I told you I was close. And, man, he's been on fire. By the way, I thought, you know, we're talking about pitch framing and all that stuff. I was reading this article this morning in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette about what happens to Adam Frazier when Starling Marte comes back. And the article is written by Bill Brink.

And he says, according to baseball info solutions calculation of defensive runs saved, got all that. Adam Frazier has been six runs better than average defensively, tops on the team. That's with him in left field. So what did Clint Hurdle say? Oh, oh. So Frazier is the best defender on the team according to metrics. Clint Hurdle replied, yeah, that's the interesting thing about metrics. How do you interpret that that he's like, that's BS?

Who knows? That he's not going to keep starting out of Frazier. Certainly not in left field. playing a little bit at second base, but yeah, not in the left field. All right then. Buffalo Wildlings, guys. Delicious place and it's sports season right now at Buffalo Wild Wings. And whoever invented summer was obviously a sports fan.

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But Curtis Grannerson sat Friday and Saturday, and then Granderson played on Sunday with Cespittus out. But it was good to see Conforto back, let off twice, bad at the third. third on Sunday. I think that's a good sign. I sat Conforto because I was worried about the playing time with Jay Bruce, Cespittus, and Granderson there, but hooray, right? Hooray. Yeah.

Not back to starting them yet. Not in a three-out fielder league. Oh, you're not, okay. Well, you know, we got this long week, so hopefully we can have more confidence in Conforto next week. Yep. Cody Bellinger hit for the cycle on Saturday. Who needs that?

Who needs that? Yeah, you don't need it. No. The cycle. Yeah, useless. Scooter Jeanette is 71% owned, and he's hit four home runs in his last eight games, and since Jeanette's four homer game, not even including that, 28 games since, he has a 1032 OPS with nine home runs, a 324 batting average, five doubles.

Home run to fly ball ratio is off the charts right now for Jeanette. But my goodness, 71%. the guy just won't stop hitting. No, he won't. And it's, uh, he's been playing pretty regularly too, right? Against right-handers anyway? That's far as I know, yes. Yes, he has.

So cutting into Parazza's playing time. Maybe a little bit into E.U. You know, it hasn't been a consistent left-you-righty thing. It's him and Paraza have been splitting playing time about fitty-fitty. Who? Jeanette? Yeah. So that kind of keeps them out of the mixed league realm as good as the percentages are, you know, maybe some roto leagues.

But the thing is, like, it's not like you can trust him to keep doing this even. Like, I'm not ruling out that he's, you know, in this era with all these, you know, with the ball traveling so much farther it seems like, and even these middle infielder's emerging as decent power threats. I'm not ruling him out continuing this performance, but if he's not playing every day, the rest of the totals just aren't going to be there for you. Okay, that is Scooter Jeanette we're talking about here, 71% own, and Odubo Herrera was another, there weren't a lot of hitters that really stood out over the weekend other than, you know, like all the nationals. Herrera, 49% own, he's six for 16. In his last four games with three home runs and three doubles. Heath, you love him.

I do. This is exactly what I expected. I do want to mention something I noticed over the weekend related to hitters. Carlos Gonzalez seems to be the Rockies' fourth outfielder now. Yeah. Harardo Parr has been being prioritized over him, and he's been hitting great. Rymel Tapia seems to be getting some starts. At least it looks like Topi is the one getting the starts against left-handed pitchers. And then beyond that, there's a report that the Rockies are interested in acquiring J.D. Martinez.

So I don't know what's going on with Carlos Gonzalez, but I think this is the lowest of lows for him right now. I'm not sure, certainly in three outfielder leagues, I'm not sure he's beyond dropping. Right. You think that they just want him to come out of the funk and, and be their everyday player. They kind of need them that they are really struggling right now. Both the Rockies and the Diamondbacks have been bad. Nice cushions, though, in the wildcard race. But the thing is, I mean, I mentioned Tapia, I mentioned Par.

Even with one of those disappears, let's say Parra with his 340 batting average stays in the lineup, Charlie Blackman. If you want Mark Reynolds in the lineup, that puts Ian Desmond in the outfield. And so even without Tapia, Carlos Gonzalez has phased out. And what happens if they actually do acquire J.D. Martinez? Why are they interested in him? I don't understand. Yeah.

That was one of the trade rumors that I wanted to talk about. Also, Atlanta, very open to trading Julio Tehran, according to Buster Only. He's struggled at home this year, so that might not be a bad thing. And Todd Frazier to Boston is inevitable, according to Ken Rosenthal. Strong word. Yeah. From a respected reporter, who was probably reporting on Facebook because he has no platform to write on right now. Really?

Poor Kim Rosenthal. He, really? Yeah. His employer doesn't do written words anymore. He was part of that? Yeah. Well, his employer is no longer employed. The guy who put all those wheels into motion.

Pretty crazy stuff going on in our industry, which, you know, probably isn't that interesting to people listening. Dallas Keiko is going to begin a rehab assignment today. Ian Desmond's back. Cespittus expected back. today. Kyle Hendricks is going to make a rehab start. As far as the Mets outfield goes, like either Cessonis is just going to get hurt again and go on the DL or that seems like he gets dinged up every game or J.

Bruce or Granderson will get traded, it seems like. So you got to think just real quick, the long-term outlook for Conforto playing every day is good, right? Or close to it. It should be. Yeah. It should be. I still would not, like, if you ask me to set the over-under on the percentage of games, Conforto plays against lefty starters the rest of the year. I think I'd probably still take under 50.

Okay. Let's see. Kyle Hendricks rehab start this week. John Lackey's going to start this week. Mitch Hanager's day-to-day with a finger injury. I had to drop him in a league. Just tired of it and I was dinged up. But he should be back pretty soon, Hanigar.

Wilson Ramos could be back today. Can you believe that Scott started Alex Avila over Wilson Ramos, Heath? From what I understand, Scott has Alex Avila ranked higher than Wilson Ramos. and I think that Scott thinks Alex Avila is a top five or six catcher the rest of the season. So it does not surprise me at all that Scott White would do that. Yeah. I think with the number of right-handers,

the tigers were lined up to face. I expect a Vila to play more than Wilson Ramos right now. Fair enough. Still building up Ramos's playing time. You got lucky Ramos getting injured. Nick Franklin and Cliff Pennington are going to put two in its second base for the Angels. Like I mentioned earlier, Keone Keller should be back soon.

Brandon Belt has a sore wrist, and Junior Gera is going to come off the DL and start tomorrow. We'll spend the rest of the show talking about some pitchers. And, well, all right, studs being studs. Let's do this quickly. Kintana, seven scoreless with 12Ks in his first start for the Cubs, and that was at Baltimore. So he's got... It's like an American League star. What the heck?

I know, right? Well, a AAA. Wow. The Orioles have some... hitters. They're not a good team, but they have some hitters. No, they're not a good team. They're making me a little concerned about Zach Britton, but they'll start winning some games eventually. They can't be this bad forever. You Darvish had a pretty good start. People were frustrated with you Darvish. He's not having that bad of a year. I don't...

No. Yeah. People are weird. David Price has a 191 ERA and a strikeout per inning and only five walks and 33 innings in his last five starts. He's really turned it on. James Paxton, looks like he's gotten back on track. He's had some very good matchups lately. I mean, James Paxson's last four starts, 273 R.A, Phillies, Angels, A's, and White Sox. That's a good run. Yeah. So... Yeah, I'm still not totally back on board for Paxon. I wasn't even considering that aspect of it. He's not throwing quite as hard as he did last year, average velocity. And prior to this start, the walks had still been kind of high. The strikeouts have gotten back, the run prevention

They've gotten back with the walks. It's still been kind of high. And part of what had us so excited as the beginning is this, he was this guy who could touch 100 and hardly walked anybody, kind of like a left-hand to know his Cinderguard. So he hasn't been that. Obviously, he's must-start again. Right.

Our expectation's probably just got a little out of control for a while with James Paxton, and he's a very nice number two or number three starter. Very nice guy. And can Gio Gonzalez start struggling already? Like, we've been calling for it. But another great start. Yeah, I've stopped calling for it. You have?

I'm just fine starting Gio Gonzalez every week. Hope it continues. How far have we come this season from Scott? I think he actually got the DTM in April. Yeah. It may have even been later than April. I said I will never own Gio Gonzalez again. Well, I can give you some.

I mean, look, Joe Gonzalez is a 266 ERA. Right. He has basically his lowest babbip of his career, 259. The only season that was lower was 2008, which was his first season in the Biggs. And with the career low babbip, he's allowing more hard contact this year than any of the five good seasons that Gio Gonzalez had. He had a really good five-year run. But he's allowing less relative to the league average, I think. Oh, okay.

And also less soft contact. Because the league average is up to 33% hard contact now. So that's just average now. All right, all right. Well, that's interesting. It's a good trait. I mean, if he's walking fewer batters like he's been doing the past 10-plus starts, right? And, you know, fewer pitches overall, pitching deeper into games like that. I'll take a little more hard contact with that. Okay.

That's Chio Gonzalez. Good for him. Studs being studs part two, Masahiro Tanaka had a pretty good start. He did give up three runs, but pretty good start at Boston. And how about this for Tanaka? 14 or more swinging strikes in seven straight games. He just has to avoid the long ball. Aaron Nola has been very good lately. Last five starts, 178 ERA and a ton of case.

Rick Porcelo has, I believe, the longest active streak in baseball of pitching six innings. He pitches six innings every time out, and he's been better lately. Aaron Sanchez had a good start on Friday at Detroit. His previous start was terrible, but it was against Houston, so it doesn't count. and Lance Lynn Lance Lynn's gotten back on track Tanaka, Nola, Porcelo, Sanchez,

Lynn, Aaron Sanchez. Anybody have anything to say about these guys? It's a chance to talk about Nola without Chris here. He always dominates the Nola conversation. We want to talk about Nola? We should always talk about Nola. I think he's good.

I think he's good too. The problem with Nola is that he relies more on called strikes and swinging strikes those are more difficult to maintain, but I've been encouraged by this recent stretch. Oh, he sounds just like Chris. No, Chris is just flat out mean. I'm not, I don't just like Noah.

I like him a lot. He does have a very real flaw that it seems like here recently, he may be starting to overcome a little bit. Yeah, okay, fair enough. All right. Rick Porcelo has given up 10% more hits than anyone else in Base. baseball. 156 hits he's allowed already this year. Second place is Clayton Richard at 142. Nobody else over 135. Well, Porcelo is still 93% owed.

So would you drop him for Luis Castillo? Would you drop him for Trevor Cahill? No. I'm to the point now where I'm pretty much sitting one-star of Porcelo. And I have a lot of shares in him. I haven't been able to drop him anywhere. But I felt like he was being assessed too harshly this spring. Maybe I was wrong.

I have a lot of shares in Porcelo. but it pretty much takes a two-star week for me to start them now. And in Roto Leagues, maybe even two-star weeks, I sit-up sometimes. Well, that sounds like somebody who should be dropped, you know? If you're not starting him in a two-start week, he's dropable. You didn't think about it in a Roto league, I guess. If you're not starting him in a one-start week ever, then just generally speaking, if you view a pitcher who you're not starting ever in a one-star week, that means he's a streamer.

Well, Ever is a little strong. And, I mean, there is still some hope for improvement from Porcelo. I know he gives up a lot of hard contact, but the BAPIP is awfully high. Yeah. All right. So there has been some signs of improvement lately. It's just not enough improvement for me to say he's back and I want him starting again. I don't know.

I kind of wish I could drop him, I guess, is what I'm saying. But I don't feel like I can. And y'all play scared right now. I'm just kidding. I feel the same way about guys that you invested in. You just don't want to drop him. Who's that guy for me, I guess? Well, I guess...

Gregory Polanco? Yeah, I don't own any Polanco, but I probably wouldn't have had the guts to drop him, even though he deserved it. You guys owned him in the scam league. Oh, we do own him. Yeah, it's a 16 team league, not dropping him there. I'm actually starting him again.

I did drop him in the 12-team points league, though, a couple months ago. And I have not regret it. What was that he? I think I might have picked him up. that league. Yeah, maybe. Yeah. I think I'm at the moment crushing you in that league.

Let's hope that continues. Or no, no, you're not, you're, what's your stupid name? Oh, Yasmani, Money, Tomas Problems, yeah. The greatest team name in fantasy baseball. I'm facing Chris, who's two Yasmani cooks, which is funny. Terrible name. Yasmani, money, Tomas Problems. Outstanding name.

Let's finish with Studs being Duds, and tell me if you're worried about, about these three guys. Justin Verlander, who apparently is on the trade block, John Gray, who got crushed on Friday at the Mets, and Jose Berrios, who's been a little off lately. Of course, this last star was against Houston, so it doesn't count. But Verlander, Gray, and Burrios. City Field played like Corse Field this weekend.

One pitcher in each of those games got completely throttled. Matt's Gray and Tyler Chattwood. Jetwood's hurt, right? I mean, I'll give Gray a pass for this. I just, it'd be nice if you could trust him at home. I am not particularly, like, worried about any of these three, as long as you're valuing them as number three or number four starters. Verlander, Gray, and Burios.

Yeah, I think, like, Verlander and Brios are a little bit ahead of gray for me, just because they don't ever have to pitch a course. None of these guys are top 30, though. Scott, have you given up? What was that? Have you given up hope on Verlander just having a huge run? No, no, I haven't. I haven't.

Like, it just, I don't really understand what his problem is. Oh, control. I don't think, okay, yeah, but why is he had, why does he suddenly have bad control? And he was, I mean, his numbers in the second half last year were like Sandy Kofak's numbers, you know? And he still throws hard. It's not like he's just gotten old. I don't, I don't really understand what's up with. him. I'm to the point now where I'm not really caring to start him in a Categories league,

just because the whip has been so high, but I still hold that hope he could just turn on a dime like he did. It was earlier than this last year, but it did happen at some point last year he went from, man, what's wrong with Justin Verlander to, oh my gosh, he's the best pitcher in the American League. Would you give up Sunny Gray for Justin Verlander? Yeah, I would. But I'm lower on both of these. guys than Scott is, so it's a different kind of question for him. I think on principle, I don't think I could. Like, I feel like I should be able to get Justin Verlander for cheaper than that.

I think I haven't ranked ahead of Gray. And I'm still going to do that, but I don't know. Would you give up Alex Cobb for Justin Verlander? Oh, of course. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's obvious to me. It's obvious to you. I don't know that'd be obvious to everyone.

So try to make it happen. In fact, I'm going to make it happen. I'm going to offer that. You know what? I'd give up Gio Gonzalez for Justin Verlander. Oh, okay. How'd you feel about that? I like it. I like emails as well.

We can get to the weekend leftovers tomorrow, but let's finish with emails. Jason from West Virginia. Can you discuss Cameron Maven? Is it time to drop him? Would you drop Maven and pick up Horado Parra this week in a head-to-head Categories League? Not in a Categories League. Maidon's one of the few elite base dealers in baseball this year. And I still think the hit skills are good enough that you'll actually be able to take advantage of that in that format.

Well, Mabin he is, if he can get on base ever. He's been terrible. I did drop him. It's not because I think he's, you know, destined to be useless. Just outfield logjam had to drop someone, and I dropped Mabon. But, all right, I guess we've said, looking at this stretch here. Let's see, Cameron Mabin last. You get two hits in July?

Three four hits. Last 10 games, he is batting, oh, 59. He is two for 34. But only 11 strikeouts is actually a lot. And one stolen base since June 26th. He's not getting on base. From Sam, what do you think of my shortstop strategy? Ten team five-by-five category league with six keepers.

I have Lindor, Bogartz, and Corey Seeger. You could say I'm Bogarting the shortstop position. My thought is I have no problem keeping one of them in my utility spot. lot, but because of how weak the position is, maybe one of these, maybe somebody will overpay for one of my short stops. What are your thoughts on owning Lindor, Bogarts, and Seeger? I don't like owning a player that that high quality that I can't start. Yeah, trade one.

Yes, you could definitely get a big haul for these guys. I traded Bellinger straight up for Lindor a couple weeks ago, and I'm still satisfied with that deal, even with Bellinger hitting for the cycle the other day. I hope that he can get something that he could actually use. I don't know why you'd trade for Cody Bellinger. You don't even need him. Oh, man. Patrick Murphy.

I need to drop Cobb or Ian Kennedy to make room for Eduardo Rodriguez. Who would you guys drop? Cobb. Cobb or who? Kennedy. I would drop Cobb, yes. And Neil in Hawaii wants to know if you're worried about Jeff Samarja. Should we be treating him like a low four ERA guy?

Jeff Samarja. It really kind of stinks for him because he was pitching so well earlier in the year, and he did not get the numbers that he deserved. And now he's not pitching as well, and so his numbers just aren't going to normalize, I guess. But he's still getting strikeout at a high rate. He's still not walking anybody, right? I don't really understand the Samarja hate. If you look at his season, it's two starts at Corr's field, I think one at Arizona,

have just ballooned his ERA to 486. I mean, the ERA is going to be kind of on the high side, but I think in this pitching environment, as many innings as he's giving you, as many strikeouts as he's giving you, he still basically must start unless you just have a lot of pitching options. I mean, in the three starts before this one,

you had 15 strikeouts in 20 innings? 15 strikeouts to one walk in 20 innings. And two of them were qualified. starts and one and the one that wasn't four earn runs and seven i mean that's still a start you're going to benefit from in this pitching environment so yeah i'm fine with i'll take an under four era rest of season from samarja um i i don't know if i would or not i think i think four is a good place to set the over under okay uh hopefully it doesn't have any more starts with course field.

So other than course field, I'll take under four. So for Scott and Heath, I'm Adam, and we will talk to you tomorrow on fantasy baseball today.