Fantasy Baseball Today - 08/14: Worryometer! Plus Quintana, Double Dongs and More (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 14, 2019

We talk Chris Sale and his lousy record, Jose Quintana and his crazy Ks, Ivan Nova and this ridiculous run he's been on and much more ... We update you on some bullpens as Sean Doolittle is fatigued and Jose Alvarado is back in TB. And it's Worryometer time for a couple of young White Sox, Matthew Boyd, Nick Senzel and more ... Double and triple dongs, rotation and fringy SPs. Jack Flaherty continues his run while Mike Clevinger struggled and the fringy SPs are uninspiring ... Young SPs Zac Gallen, Dustin May and Joe Ross and young hitters we're tracking ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS sports. One, one pitch, basketball pulled and cast. Alvarez and toward the corner. Got a fantasy question? Email fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy. Now here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris.

All right, welcome in. This is fantasy baseball today. Woreometer Wednesday. Who are we worried about? Matt Boyd, maybe. Eloy Jimenez. Possibly. Dylan Cease? Probably. I'm Chris Welsh, as always, apparently. I am with Adam Azer and Mr. Scott White. We did learn a couple things in the last episode, fellas, by the way. Al Tuve is back when I brought up the great question, the amazing question of Altuve versus Jose Ramirez.

He hit his 21st on Tuesday, and he's got an RBI in five straight games plus three homers down in the last five. We found out that I cannot say center hit percentage without stuttering 400 times. And we also learned that. that Adam Azor and Scott White have never seen the jerk, and that is mind-boggling, fellas. That was a pretty good intro. He's like, what do I do for my intro? How do I do my nail? He absolutely crushed that intro. Much better than Adam's intro. Much better. He gave all the takes already. I mean, I understand it was in tease form, but whatever. You basically summed it up. We don't need to talk about boy. Show's over. Good night, everybody. Good night, everybody. Good thing. We did the four hours of prep. Good night, everybody. Welcome in.

I am Chris Welsh. Yes, you are hearing things correctly. I assume you have been dialed in every single episode. We would always assume that. But if not, Chris Welsh here to help assist you through with the wonderful Scott White. And of course, Adam Azer and people are still probably a little bit jolted. But everybody was very kind on the internet. And I want to thank everybody about that. Let's get right into the show then.

Chris Sale at the top on Tuesday, guys, went six and two thirds. He struck out 12. And I got this great stat from our buddy, Ryan. and Spader at the Acese Spader. Chris Sale strikes out the 6,527th batter he's ever faced for his 2000 career strikeout. That is the fewest batters faced in baseball history to reach 2,000 strikeouts. Do we still love Chris Sale as a top, top, top, top pitcher for 2020? I still do.

I mean, the most recent, I usually, like, quarterly project the first two rounds for the next season. and so the most recent of those was around the All-Star break, and I actually had him as a first rounder since then. That was before his most recent stumble. But, you know, now he has 25 strikeouts in his past two starts. One of them was awesome. This one was, I think, awesome in most of the traditional ways we look at it. He did allow five runs, two of them unearned.

but even so, it helped prevent him from getting a win, which has been part of what fantasy owners have been. Part of the reason why they've been dissatisfied. Like, I feel like if Chris Sale's numbers were exactly the same, but his win-loss record was inverse, there would be far fewer complaints about the way he's performed this year. No. I mean, his ERA is what?

It was 440 coming into the start? it's 440 now yeah he's got too many bad starts too many bad starts but this is what happens when a guy gives up 109 whip

if he had an 11 and 6 record to go along with it nobody but he wouldn't have an 11 and 6 record when you have a 440 ERA this is what I was talking about with Chris Archer you know it was like he doesn't have bad win loss record luck he doesn't have bad record luck he has a bad ERA

that's contributing to a bad record. That's what's happening with Chris Sale. He's not unlucky. You're throwing up my hypothetical scenario at it. Yeah, but for 2020, yeah, like, there's a lot of really encouraging science for Chris Sale. But this has been kind of a hellish year for him. And fantasy owner should be frustrated.

This start was good, not great. I think five runs sucks. Three earned runs. It was still a quality start. Two walks, 12 strike guys. Can't really complain. I was a little surprised. Two home runs.

But just overall, like, yeah, I mean, I'm pretty optimistic about him. And Scott and I say it all the time. We defend him all the time because when Chris Sale is good, he's like six to eight shutout innings with 13 strikeouts. He's amazing. But I can't run away from a 440 ERA. And the fact that he has six wins.

It's pretty bad. Consistency has been a big problem. He gets destroyed second time through the order. I think it's like a six plus ERA where the first and third time through he tends to rock. What if I paired you against this? This is some other big news, big-ish news. But Garrett Cole was scratch from his start on Tuesday before it even starts. I think he was out on the mound.

He walked back into the dugout, and then Chris Devinsky came in, and it was due to a hamstring issue. I don't know necessarily what you take, you know, too much forward with Garrett Cole unless you get some horrible news, which we're going to have to find out here shortly. But Garrett Cole versus Chris Sale in 2020 is the gap close? Is one so much further? I mean, Chris Sale was obviously the guy coming into this season, but I know he's paired down a little bit. What do you think, Adam? Cole, I'll take, but it's close. I really do like Chris Sale.

interested to see how he finishes the season because he's always been a little worse in August and September. Those are his worst months. And, you know, not necessarily bad, but by his standards, they're disappointing. But they went through this whole trouble in spring training to keep him fresh for the end of the year. So I'm interested to see how Sale finishes. If he doesn't finish strong, everyone's going to take Eric Cole over Chris Sale. And I think they might do it anyway. But it won't be super close if Sale.

struggles toward the end. But as of now, I would take, I would take coal for sale. What say you, Scott? I would too. My top three would probably be Scher, Cole, and sale. Yeah. And then I guess DeGrom would be fourth, and probably Shane Beaver would factor into the mix soon after that.

Burlander would probably fall just because of age. Okay. All right. He's going to be, what, 38 next year? I mean, you're obviously playing with five. every time you draft them from now on. And that's it. That's it.

That's making sure. If that's the main problem, then we now know. Performance of the night I've got for you. But Adam, who are we sponsored by today? Seekek is sponsoring us today. Seekkeek sponsors us quite often, and we appreciate Seek. If you want $10 off your first Seekkeek purchase,

you need to go to a game, concert, comedy. What's the next event you're going to the Welsh? I have two children. The last event I went to, I'm pretty sure was Disney on Ice five years ago. Well, you could have gotten tickets on Seatgeek. You think so? Disney on Ice would be on Seatgeek,

and you could use the promo code Fantasy for $10 off your first Seekkeek purchase, and you'll hear more about them later. Okay. As long as I got like a live Paw Patrol event, like I'm in. I'm in. Have you dug into Paw Patrol, Azer? Rubble on the double from my nephew when he was younger,

but no, no TV yet for the one-year-old. No screen time. There's a great tweet going out right now that everyone should look for. There's this guy who broke down all the assignments of the Paw Patrol characters, and he was able to discover the two just brutally unutilized Paw Patrol characters that are being out there, and he's making his agenda for this to get fixed, because, spoiler alert, Chase is clearly the number one used. And you know that, right, Scott?

You're a big popular one. Well, yeah, and I assume Marshall. I actually would have assumed Marshall was the number one used, but I'm going to guess Rubble and Zuma are underused. No, no, Zuma No, yes, I'm sorry, Zuma was the least used. That's my son's favorite. Like, whose favorite is Zuma? Well, your sons, I don't know.

I don't know who else, but maybe it's Jose Kintana because that was the performance of the night where I was going. Maybe Jose Kintana is a Zuma stand. 14 strikeouts and six innings. Mr. Scott White, is Jose Kintana back, or is it just simply, hey, this is a great performance for Jose Kintana because I think the last couple have been decent. Well, yeah, he has three quality starts in a row.

And the previous one was seven innings two hits, seven strikeouts. I have 14 strikeouts from Jose Cantana. That's not back. Like, even in his glory years, Kintana was less than a K per. So I'm not, yeah, I'm not, I feel like that's completely out of nowhere. He had this 11 strikeout game back in April also, and then nothing came. of that. That's just kind of random noise

and I can't really find any meaning there. I mean, he's an okay pitcher for a good team and that makes him usable more often than not, but he's not going to be the reason you win your league. He's going to have

a horrible start here sooner than later because that's what happens to all these pitchers who aren't elite bat messers and even sometimes those too in his environment. So I wouldn't get to comfortable just, you know, locking them into your lineup. Adam, next start out against Pittsburgh. He is 93% owned in CBS right now.

Any other notes on Kintana? Yeah, at Pittsburgh, you're going to start him. 93% owned probably was pretty close to that before this week, but this is a two-star week for him. The following week against Washington, yeah, I think he's an okay start in a one-star week. I think Jose Kintana is a, man, he fits this category. that's just like,

kind of like Joe Musgrovee, I forgot who else Scott said this about, you don't know what to expect from start to start. They're too good to drop. They're not must starts in a one-start week, but you're just like, if Jose Cantano were on waivers, I'd pick him up. You know, since he got rocked like eight starts ago,

gave up, I think, eight runs. Since then, going into tonight, his last seven starts, he had a 367 ERA. I think that's probably like a good, not necessarily best case, but a good case scenario for Cantana, 370-ish ERA. And, you know, hopefully some quality starts and some wins. He's solid. Just falls short of must-start in a one-start week.

But so he's must-own, yeah. Okay. Burn it through, Juan Soto is back. If anybody was concerned, he also hit Homer, 25th Homer of the year. That is a very big positive. Here's a couple closer notes I want to get on you guys, and I think these are both very important. Jose Alvarado, who is only 25% owned in CBS,

return from the IEL. His last save was July 1st. Emilio Pagan, who I know you guys were talking about last week. He's got eight saves since Alvarado went on the IL, including three straight. Pagon is 57% owned right now. Scott White, Alvarado or Paghan, because Alvarado may be put back in some of those high-leveraged situations. Who would you put your bet on? I would put my bet on Pagon, but I would put my bet on committee, ultimately, because that

That's how the way the Reyes have wanted to do things. I'm hoping Pagan has earned a little more trust than he had previously. And the fact that the only other lefty in the Ray's bullpen is, is Colin Poshay, Poshay. Cullen Poshay. Yeah, who's, you know, he has some skills, but, you know, he's also had some horrible innings in terms of giving up home runs. And I don't think is super trustworthy.

So I'm hopeful that also helps Pagan's case. But I'm worried that falls back into a committee lefty-righty thing there between those two. Adam, did you go Alvarado? I would know. I would go Paghan, but I think the different question now is Paghan or a guy like Jose LeClerc. And if Scott really thinks it's going to be a committee, then you got to go with a guy like Jose LeClerc or Scott Oberg, guys who are not in committees.

I'm not 100% convinced because it's been a long layoff for Jose Alvarado. So I think he's got to prove. it first. I seriously doubt he's going to get the first crack in a save, but I certainly see, you know, if I had a lot writing on Emilio Paghan, I'd be a little nervous right now. Yeah. I mean, I think it comes down to, like, if you're in a league where you have, you can make that choice. Like, it's not so deep that all the guys who are in line for saves or at least part of a shared situation there aren't already owned. Then I feel like, I feel like Pagons, the higher upside choice.

He's the better team. The ratios have certainly been better than LeClerks this year. So I would stick with him over, as opposed to picking up LeClerc. But I was hoping one of you were going to say Alvarado, but I can do my song here where it's, Alvarado, why don't you get some safe chances? Nice. Nice.

It's been outblowing saves. Pretty high pitch there, Scott. He really went for it. I was trying. He could sing. It wasn't the best. He can sing. I have most song references.

I have no idea what he's doing. Oh, Desperado by the Eagles. Come on, Scott. You're just doing a bit now. No. No, it's not sad. I am a music illiterate. Desperat.

All right. All right, we got to move on here. Sean Doolittle, he has been feeling some fatigue. Daniel Hudson got the save. Only thing I'm curious about, this was on Tuesday, Daniel Hudson got the save. The only thing I'm curious about is, is the Sean Doolittle fatigue enough for you guys to be worried to be out chasing. I was doing Alvarado song.

They're out chase and saves. Would you go out and try to chase some saves? Just hear fab throws at just anything because you might miss out on some opportunities. I know it's kind of a broad-based question. Are you worried enough about Sean Doolittle that you might need to take some preemptive action, Scott? In terms of him losing his job, I'm not really, no.

I don't think, even with some of the moves they made at the trade deadline to bolster their bullpen. There's not really another closer caliber pitcher there. And I mean, in the spectrum of all relievers getting saves right now, I feel like Doolittle still in the upper half. Like there's basically 12 good closers in baseball right now, and that's counting two that aren't healthy right now, Kimbril and Ken Giles.

So, yeah, it's, it's not like, it's not like do little is bad when you really break it down. And it's not a cut thing. It's just about like, you know, are you worried, man, you're going to start missing out. Maybe there's one or two less opportunities that come every week or two.

Adam, I mean, is there any, you know, we're talking about LeClerc, obviously if you can go make a pickup. Are you just a little bit more, maybe apprehensive about your saved position

and maybe spend a little bit more or go a little bit higher on the waiver wire on any possible closer out there? Or is this, hey, don't worry, give them a couple weeks and do little to be okay. I mean,

I think it would be just given him another day and he could be fine. It's not like they're putting him on the IL. Just he had pitched a lot recently and he said he's running out of gas. Remember, this is a guy who's an extensive injury history and doesn't, you know, hasn't had like a big workload. So I guess I'd be a little nervous about it. I mean, I wouldn't mind picking up Brandon Workman. I know he blew a save today. Mark Balanson did get the save for the Braves. He pitched an inning. He struck out two against the Mets. And those are some options. The seventh and part of the seven gave up the run. Yeah, non-save situation. Bull.

How about some standouts? You guys got any other standouts? Wait, you know what? The Welsh, actually, before we get to the standouts, there's a segment that I forgot to tell you about, the welcome back segment that we should do it now because it's a fun segment. And yeah, I got to teach you how the welcome back segment goes.

Although my... Is there a song? Is it like the welcome back? That's exactly what it is. Yeah. But I've got to fix my internet. So let's actually do standouts first and then we'll do welcome back. So I apologize for that.

Okay. So we're not going to go to welcome back. Not yet. We'll go to the standards. Okay, well, I'm going to ask you then. Even though I know you're working on that, you got to stand out or two for us, Adam? Well, other than Kentana, yeah, like,

we got to look at the in-progress games, right? We start recording around 1115, 1130 Eastern, but one of the in-progress games, I'm just extremely disappointed in Brendan McKay. Now, it looks like he may have rebounded a little bit. He gave up four runs in the first inning, and three scoreless since that. then with seven strikeouts, but six walks.

I'm really disappointed. Yeah, so right now his line at the end of four innings is four innings, five hits, four runs, six walks and seven strikeouts. I am encouraged. I think the strikeouts have been out been pretty good, two games in a row. I mean, the Padres strikeouts, it's actually three games in a row against the Red Sox, Blue Jays, and Padres. The walks are crazy.

He had walked three guys in his first six appearances. So that's just weird. I don't know. Four runs in the first inning. Sometimes a guy has a terrible winning. He rebounds and you can become away kind of encouraged. Maybe that'll happen when his night is said and done. I don't know how long he's going to go.

But I just like, you have not been rewarded for starting Brendan McKay really since his third start. Yeah, no, his first start, he almost threw a, like a perfect game going through six. Yeah. His third start, five scoreless seven strikeouts against the Orioles. But that's it. four starts in a row, you really haven't been rewarded for starting McKay. So I'm disappointed. Yeah, I buy that one.

Scott, what about you? Any standouts? I actually would like to know for both of you how you feel about McKay. And because you, Chris, have seen a lot of him in the minors. And if we should hang on to him right now or if he's droppable. Yeah, I mean, for me, he was a guy that I had actually picked. Actually, when I did a hit for you guys over on HQ, I had picked Brennan McKay as a second half guy because the team was committed.

And that was a big important thing to me. He's always been a strikeout guy. I've never been overly impressed with the full combination of his stuff. Sometimes to me, like some people pick on Casey Mize. Like, Casey Mize might be a guy that he's got some advanced stuff that's just absolutely fooling minor leaguers right now. But when he gets to the major league level, it may level out. That's kind of how I feel about Brennan McKay.

But I was excited that they might use the same minor league schedule where he, you know, has an off day pitches, off day, and then starts to hit. That never happened. I like the combination of all of it. Usually with a guy like Brendan McKay, I would have straight away from if I wasn't getting maybe potential hitting stats. I like the strikeouts.

I think he's going to be volatile. So if volatility is not your bag, I would probably move on from Brennan McKay because there's probably other options. Anything you disagree with there, Scott? Well, I just wanted to point out. I wrote an article last night, really the 15 pitchers

of everybody who I feel like have innings concerns. and, you know, we've made a big deal of Chris Paddock all year, but the guy who has, is most, has set a career high innings this year by the most so far is actually Brendan McKay. So I would be worried just from a shutdown perspective. And then beyond that, I mean, the fact he's never going six innings, I don't think he's going to be a great asset for you rest of season. that says nothing about his long-term value.

That's obviously a different discussion. But I'm not really counting on him for much. Are you counting on anybody else after Tuesday? Anything stand out? Yeah, I was scanning the notes to see who we aren't going to talk about. Talk about everybody. I want to point out,

Nicholas Castellanos seems to be fixed now. The change of scenery, which so rarely actually amounts to anything, seems to have worked out in his case, in part because Joe Madden has extended him the courtesy of batting him second in front of Chris Bryant and Anthony Rizzo. So in 12 games since joining the Cubs, he now has 13 runs scored,

and runs was a category that was really suffering for him with the Tigers compared to previous years. He hit his fifth home run in 12 games with the Cubs as compared to 11 in 2 thirds of a season with the Tigers. And the underlying numbers said he was mostly the same player. He had been the previous two years despite the underwhelming number. So I think he's fine now. I think he's going to be a fixture on lineups again.

I think that's a really good one. All right, Mr. Azer, we've got to go to break. But what do people need to be prepped for before we hit that break? Oh, well, welcome back. There's that. There's hitters who are still hot. Like, who was it today that were, who's hot? Who's not?

Oh, Gritual hot. Gritchick, Teosker Hernandez. Scott was like, I'm going to look through the notes and see who we're not going to talk about and then he picked Nick Castellanos, you know,

who we were going to talk about. Literally who's on the list. Mitch Garver started three straight games. Jack Flaherty is on a ridiculous run. And then we have the Worryometer as well. Okay. So let's hit the break then and we'll be back and we'll hit all of that,

especially that Worryometer. All right, Worryometer Wednesday. I think it's a thing that people get most excited about. You guys know, I have a lot of crossover. Very, very nice people have been hitting me up. They're like, I only listen to ITL and CBS. We've always had a lot of crossover and let me tell you, people love the Woriometer. So Adam, no matter what happens, no matter who would be in this seat, the Worryometer could never go away. That is your staple. It's the legacy of the podcast. I was demoning how Adam was like coaching you on the Wuriometer before we started recording.

It's a main step. We have to take all of Adam's stupid meters with us. We can drop a couple meters, but ultimately we don't want to melt down. So we've got to keep one. So that's why we keep the worryometer. Scott, where would you put the worryometer on the stupid o meter? It's a six. Solid six. All right.

I submit this one to you guys. Dylan Cease, who is 50% owned in CBS leagues, went six, walked five. Only struck out two on Tuesday. Zero quality starts in his last seven. I found this great tweet from a buddy of mine, Lance Brosdowski, you guys can find on Twitter at Lance Brazz. He says, is there something wrong with Dylan C's fastball? 90th percentile average fastball velocity among qualified starting pitchers. Yes, very good, but pitch has below average vertical and horizontal movement for his velocity.

Bottom 20% fancraft's pitch value, below average whiff and swing, and a 433 Wobah. Is it too straight? Even Buddy Eno kind of chimed in that that's something that's been known. So the stuff is off right now. Dylan Seas is a bit off. A lot of walk, strikeouts aren't there. How worried are we about Dylan Seas, Scott White? This year, I don't think he's going to have much value.

I mean, we're talking now he's at more than a walk every other inning. And that's, he's also, as innings concern, he's one of the 15 pitchers who show up in that column is, you know, he's going to run into a workload issue here eventually. But I don't know that he's going to provide much value even between now and then. As far as whether or not his fastball is good enough for him to make it in the majors, I think it's too early to answer that. He was obviously a great strikeout pitcher in the minors. but I'm not seeing a lot here to keep him on my roster in a redraft league. It kind of has a Patrick Corbynness to him

where we need him to develop a third pitch and we need there to be a little bit more stuff going on that because he has a too big high pitcher. We just need more variety. He's only reached seven strikeouts once, by the way, which is not great for this type of a picture. It's not great. And that happens a lot.

A pitcher gets called up and he's really leaning heavily on two pitchers, pitches. Hey, I just... I just had an amazing drop. For God's sakes, give me the damn number. This is the worryometer. Give me a damn number. He's a 15 on the worryometer.

Just get rid of Dylan's cease already. 15. Of course. Adam is over the top. You got to be strong. Got to give hot takes. People like hot overreaction takes. He's the hottest takers here.

No, I'm serious. I would drop him. He's 50% owned. I don't really see a reason to keep him. First time giving a worryometer. grade and it's 15. My goodness. Mitch Keller or Dylan Sees. Keller on the Kipometer.

Yeah. Yeah. Mystery box. The Adometer for you, Adam, is Keller overseas? The Adam meter? Yeah, I'd go Keller. Yeah. Adometer. All right. Number two, Woreometer. Eloi Jimenez. One for four with a double and an RBI with a strikeout against Houston. 28 game stretch before going on the IL in July.

He was hitting 265, 10 homers. Got some doubles in there, a 948 OPS, but 14 games since coming off of the IL, hitting 207, 20 strikeouts with two walks, one double, a 561 OPS. Adam Azer, where are you at on the Worryometer with Elohimeter? Worryometer. Worryometer, what I say?

Worryometer, it's the Worryometer. Five for Elohim. Because of the stretch that you mentioned, with a 948 OPS in 28 games before going on the IL, it just seemed like he was turning it around. It's mostly power. I think he has 19 home runs in 82 games. So as bad of a year as he's having,

he's on pace for almost 40 homers. Look, he's been terrible since coming off the IL, but this happens. This happens with a lot of players. So, I mean, I can understand you're in your playoff drive. You need to make the playoffs or something like that. You can't afford to waste another week on Eloy Amenez. I get it.

You probably have to sit them in a shallower league. You may have to drop him. But there was too much good. He was finally starting to erupt. And we're seeing what Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is doing now. I don't want to give up on Eloy yet. So I'm going to say a five on the Wariometer. What about you, Scott?

I feel like there were some stronger indications that there was a way Vladimir Guerrero could redeem his rookie season than there is with Hamanas. I really don't care about Jimenez in a. a three outfielder league. It's, you know, we're talking like a nine on the worryometer. And like the way he started his career reminds me an awful lot of Jorge Saler, where if you remember, Jorge Saler's numbers in the minors, they were better than Chris Bryant when they were coming up at about the same time. Strikeout rate was really low.

This guy's going to be a stud. And it took him five years to become a semi-stud, I guess, is what he is this year. And I'm not saying it's going, Aloi Jimenez is going to go the same direction. I mean, look at how quickly things turned around for Rafael Devers this year. I'm just saying it's been a highly, highly disappointing season for what was probably the second most hype rookie for fantasy purposes coming in. I don't think a lot of people would have thought that Jorge Saler would be worlds better than Eloy Jimenez coming into this season. Yeah, it would have been a shock to many people. All right. Next up on the, I was about to say the, no, don't do it.

Woreometer, right? Yeah, no, no. It's the Woreometer. It's the one thing I'm keeping. See, now, see, now it's in my head. You're in my head now, Adam. Worryometer, like thermometer. Thermometer, yeah. Thermometer.

Matt Boyd gave up seven runs. Four homers allowed against Seattle. He's got a 438 ERA, 35 walks, 192 strikeouts, and 30 home runs allowed in 146 innings this year. Where are we at on Matt Boyd? Adam. Four and a half. That size sounded like a seven.

It's seven, oh, well, if you need a sigh, if you need a sigh, I can bring one of those up for you. But it's seven home runs in his last two starts, I think, now. Yeah, for Matt Boyd. And it's how many home runs on the year? 30. So many. Yeah, it's just, I feel like he's so, his stuff is so good.

His strikeout rate is incredible, but he's going to have some of these starts because of the home runs. So, four half. That's the thing. I mean, if you're baking that in to your assessment of Boyd, and just understanding. I mean, he has, among qualifying pitchers, he has the, I think,

the third worst home, ground ball to fly ball rate. So, like, he's going to give him home runs. At a time when everybody's giving up home runs, he's going to give up even more. But, I mean, how many times have we been in this position with a pitcher who we know is good?

And I still feel like, with the strikeout to walk ratio, we should know Boyd is good at this point. A couple bad starts, ERA suddenly in the mid-fours. It looks terrible. And then we quickly forget about it because he turns into who we know he could be again.

That's happened so many times for so many pictures this year, especially with kind of the random number generator effect that the home run explosion has created. And I think he's going to be fine in the long run. It's more, though. Tampa Bay and Minnesota coming up. What are you saying, Adam? Yeah, no, it's a deeper funk than that for Boyd.

I mean, that's the problem. since the beginning of June, the last 12 starts going into today. He had a 556 ERA with 19 homers and 68 innings. He had a pretty good stretch in there, but most of it's been bad, and he doesn't have any track record. It has a bad track record. So that's why I'm not quite as convinced that he's going to turn it around and be this year's Patrick Corbyn.

I feel like I know he's going to strike people out. I worry that he's going to have an ERA over four going forward. All right, Worryometer, Daniel Murphy, last six games entering Tuesday. He was two for 23, zero extra base hits, zero walk, seven strikeouts, previous 24 games since the All-Star break, 369. You got a bunch of doubles in there, an over 1,000 OPS, 400 Babbitt, though. So Scott White, Daniel Murphy, Worryometer, what number range do we hit? I'll put it at like a five, and the Worryometer comes in part, because I worry about how to handle it.

Obviously, second base, like every other infield spot, you got options, you know? You probably, probably Daniel Murphy's not the only startable second basement on your roster. And I guess maybe you could do the home away thing with him, like we do for so many Rockies. Because, yeah, I mean, he's got like a 900 OPS at home versus 700 on the, the road and maybe that solves it but

I don't know there has been a skills decline for Murphy it wasn't just a slow start and then he got hot and he's fine there there's the he's not hitting the ball with the same authorities before he's 34 years old and there's a chance that

like he's just even with the course effect he's not quite good enough in like a standard 12 team league to be one of those 12 starting second basement I don't want about you Yeah, it's disappointing. It's a big week for him

because nothing but home games and I don't think he's done much so far. So I don't really know exactly where I'm at with Daniel Murphy. It looked like after the all-star break looked like he had turned a season around and finally started becoming what we thought. And now he's in, what was it,

two for 23 with no extra base hit slump going into today. I, uh, look, I think one of our emailers pointed out the Rockies have nothing but full home or full road weeks going forward. It's either a week where all their games are at home or all their games are on the road.

So it's very handy. Yeah, no, it is. In those weekly line up leagues, Chris. Are we calling you the Welsh? Adam keeps calling you the Welsh. Please call me whatever. Yeah. I feel like the Welsh, everyone's going to be like,

what are you, like the edge? Like, what are you trying to be here? It's just a little too hit. Yeah. The Welshometer. The Welshometer is what we should call you. Welshometer. There you go to.

I can say that better than better than the other one. All right. Last one. Nick Sinsel. He's hitting 200 in August with a 217 OBP and a 289 slugging. I don't think there's going to be any claim to Vertico causing this. It's just not good play. Scott White.

Oriometer, Nick Sinsel. I'll put him at about a 5 also. He's not, he hasn't really done anything. during this first taste of the big leagues to suggest he's a fixture in anybody's lineup, where he should be, you know, the multi-eligibility makes it. So he's a fine starter, you know, he's not a zero for stolen bases. I'm not sure how those have been going recently, but he's not a zero for that. And, you know, he's a fine, fill-in option if you don't have anybody better.

But, like, I'm not counting on a late-season surge or like I was for Vladimir Guerrero, I think. I think, you know, I think he's just kind of a boring option right now. Adam, as he is boring to you as he is to Scott? Ditto. It's, yeah, he's pretty replaceable. Not, like, not terrible. If you have to start Dick Senzel, there are worse things. But if there's somebody you really like on waivers and Senzel is one of the guys you're kind of wavering on keeping him, I think you can drop him.

All right. I want to get to some news and injury when we come back from the break. But before we go to the break, Adam, you were teasing. Welcome back so hard. We've got to do the welcome back here. Otherwise, we'll never get to it. Do we have it? Yeah, but can you like...

Welcome back. Wait, where... No, I don't have it. How do I not have it? Oh, wait, here we go. So yeah, a few guys, the Welsh. You know, what are we going to say to Griffin Canning today? We're going to say, oh, went too far.

Damn it, I screwed it up. Your host timing is off. So that. So off. Okay, yeah, welcome back. Who are you welcoming back? Yadier Malina. I have a good note on Yaddaer Malina.

What are you got? Jose Alvarado and Griffin Canning, by the way. Those are our welcome back codders for all of them. Do you have a stat? Griffin Canning is like Nick sends out of me. Oh, the worse. I don't really have much interest in Griffin Canning. He did not have a good start tonight.

Yadir Malina, absolutely pathetic slash line of 265, 294, 397. in his first, like through May 28th, that was when he first went on the IL. 265 slugged 397. That is, let's see, with the OBP, that's a 691 OPS, pathetic. He was fifth in points, ath in Roto and catcher,

because he led all catchers in at bats. He was right at the top in plate appearances. He was there with like Rayamuto and Grandal. And he had forced deals for what that's worth. So Molina is 76% owned. His raw numbers, like his slash line would say he doesn't deserve to be. But the fact that they play him all the time makes him always more valuable in fantasy than he should be. So keep an eye on Yadde or Molina if he's owned in your shallow leagues.

I'm surprised the Cardinals haven't even committed to Andrew Knisner either. So he's always a good bat in the minor leagues. I kind of dig him. All right. Let's go to break and we'll come back and we've got a ton more to cover. We'll be right back on fantasy baseball today. News, injury, and everything else in between. Craig Kimbril through a bullpen session on Tuesday.

The plan is, again, to go on Thursday. Then it could be activated this weekend, so get excited. I thought this is interesting. A source told Royals Farm report that the Kansas City Royals had been working out a deal to send Ian Kennedy to Atlanta before the deadline, but the Royals ownership declined to pick up enough of Kennedy's contract. That would have been, I mean, I imagine they would be. in heaven right now if they had Ian Kennedy and not the garbage that they're dealing with.

Oh, yeah. I'm sure he wouldn't be blowing saves himself. There's no way. It's Ian Kennedy. What are you talking about, Scott? This is an interesting one. Hazardos is going to make his next appearance Thursday with AAA Las Vegas. I know Adam hates prospects, so I can't ask this, but are you a believer that Lazardo could be a September ad for people that he could be up in the majors for a couple starts? Are you asking me or Adam? I'm sorry, I'm asking you, Scott. Okay. I am. Yeah. The fact that they're kind of saying, okay, rehab assignment over, you're now assigned to AAA. He might only be a starter

or two away from being ready. He just struck out seven and three innings in the last rehab start, right? It seems like he's progressing quicker than after that first injury, and it was only a month where he was sidelined with the lad issue. So, yeah, I think

he might be a fixture for all of September in the A's rotation. People want to monitor and maybe do a pickup. Austin Riley, he paid a visit to Dr. James Andrews after being diagnosed last week with a partially torn LCL in his right knee, but return in September is now likely. I'm not sure if anybody cares at this point with how his performance was, but it's still out there.

Ramon Laryano's been taking some swings. He's not yet been cleared for running. He's been out since July 31st, probably a couple weeks away, so that actually would be, do you guys have interest in Ramon Laryano if everybody kind of cut bait on him if he comes back September? Absolutely. With the way he was hitting, yeah, that was a great call by Heath. one of the best calls Heath made this year,

telling us to pick him up when I was kind of skeptical, and I don't think Heath envisioned Luriano being this good, but yep, worth a stash. Yeah, and I think it's no question, like, if he's back, he's going to be great. It's just a question, will he get back in time to help everybody out? For all of us that play in playoff leagues, there's going to be a big benefit.

Maybe some of the else juice worth the squeeze, not so sure. Raise manager, Kevin Cash, said that Tommy Fam could return to the starting lineup on Wednesday. He's been trying to avoid the IEL. This is a bit of good news, Kluber's rehab outing he had on Tuesday for AA Akron. He went four innings through 60 pitches. He allowed a run on six hits. And he struck out six.

Scott, a happyometer, Scott, on Corey Klobors rehab outing. I mean, that's like my whole in-season strategy this year has been tried to get another ace. So if you can do that just by stashing a guy,

uh, you know, he wasn't, he wasn't good in April, but a lot of aces weren't. I don't think there's any reason to assume Kluber is not, longer an ace based on that. And I think you should be very excited that he's coming back.

By the way, the fam issue, the latest today is that he actually has a broken bone in that hand, and he's kind of being a madman and trying to play through it. I'm not confident that's going to work out for him. Apparently baseball players are the toughest athletes on the planet because they're rupturing things in their body, they're breaking bones in their playing. They've become hockey players. They're no longer are they the guys that drop tile on their feet in their feet. the shower and miss half of a season.

They're amazing now. A couple other notes here. Clayton Kershaw, it was pushed to tomorrow. His start, Dustin May started as we're recording this on Tuesday. Philly hired Charlie Manuel to be their heading coach. We'll see what that does. John Gray was scratch with ankle soreness. This one hit home for me as an Arizona diamondback fan. Toro Lavello on Archie Bradley being the Arizona closer says, quote, I don't want to put

an extra title on him. He's going to get the ball at the back end. he's in a good spot. I had Archie Bradley on every one of my teams this year. My teams essentially did what he was doing in his pants, which is famous for now, but now he's a closer. Adam, do you have,

how confident are you in Archie Bradley for the rest of this year? Pretty confident. You know, he's finally pitching pretty well. Like Toro Lavella wouldn't say he's the closer, but he's definitely the closer. It was a weird, quote. Yeah, I always thought Yon Lopez would be the guy. Brandon Lowe is going to begin a rehab assignment on Thursday,

and Nathan Yovaldi is likely to return to the Boston rotation, but he pitched him relief today. And that would be a good sign. We want the Yvaldi back. Nah, he was going to start. Valdi was going to start tomorrow, Wednesday. He was going to start today as you listen to this, but he did get used in the bullpen.

So he'll be a starter at some point. He had, I think, like, a 6-ERA as a starter earlier this year, but coming off a good year last year, wasn't right earlier this season. I don't know. Scott, I have minimal interest in Ivaldi. Yeah, I mean, he's got to get stretched out on the fly, which is going to be an issue in terms of his relevance,

and the upside is only so high anyway. So I kind of agree with you. Double dongs. We had multiple double dongs on Tuesday. Thank you. Will Smith, catcher with the Dodgers, hit his eighth and ninth. Tom Murphy, a bunch of catchers in here,

where the Mariners hit his 11th and 12th, and Kyle Seeger hit his 13th and 14th. and we had multiple Seeger bombs as Corey Seeger also hit one. Will Smith, Tom Murphy. Kyle Seger had three home runs, right? Oh, did he hit a third? Yeah, he ended up with three. Triple Dongs.

Triple Dong to double Dangers of all people. What a gift, the gift that keeps on giving. Will Smith, Tom Murphy, Kyle Seeger. If you had to pick your biggest interest, Scott, oh, I feel like you're going to say Will Smith, even though there's triple donks from Seeger. Clearly, Will Smith. Yeah, yeah.

Little interest in Seeger, even though he's been on kind of a power bench here. How many Will Smith's songs have been thrown at you that you haven't gotten? All of them? I think I know all the reference to Will Smith songs. I think. There's probably some. So you don't know Desperado, but you know Will Smith songs. I mean...

He knows Wild Wild West, but not Desperado. I've obviously heard of Desperado, okay? Oh, have you? I'm not convinced. It didn't ring a bell for me. Oh, yeah. It was the Welsh's fault. Yeah.

It was. I mean, when I was like, Alvarado. I mean, I thought I had the tone there. I just didn't have the words, clearly. Adam, we were talking about Tom Murphy off air, that he's starting to get some, he's starting to play some games.

You know, I think he's got three straight as a catcher out there. You got interest in Tom Murphy? So I got to tell you, this is one that I really needed to look into. He has started four of the last five games now at catcher, but they're lefties. Did they face a lefty today? Just, yeah, they faced Matt Boyd. Oh, right.

the ones hitting all those home runs off map boys. So that's what it is. It's still going to be a lefty-righty split. And yeah, I mean, you have to look at that if you're worried about Narvaez, because if they have a week with a lot of lefties, Narvaez isn't going to do much for you, it seems. I wanted to mention, because I didn't get around to completing the point, 29 home runs now for Will Smith between the majors and minors this year. If any catcher had 29 home runs, we would be losing our minds. Oh, look, one does.

You know, obviously, most of it came in the minor. But, like, I think he's in series contention for, you know, joining the true elites at that position before, you know, by the time we're drafting next year, we could be talking about him alongside Real Mudo and Wilson Contreras. Like, serious upside here. He's wild, too, because there's, I mean, there's a couple other guys, like Sam Huff, who's been a catcher, first basement with the Texas Rangers, is dropping a whole bunch of bombs as a catcher. We're seeing, we're seeing this catcher resurgence actually going on in the minor leagues right now. and Will Smith surpass Kiebert Ruiz, who Kierbert Ruiz was the big guy that everybody was excited about. And I saw Will Smith a couple years ago in the Arizona Fall League, and I never would have guessed this nice compact swing. But the Dodgers, they just do the things on all of them.

Hey, staying hot. Randall Gritchick, two hits on Tuesday. It is 22nd homer. He was three for five yesterday with a home run. Teosker Hernandez has four homers in his last five. Hit one today. Fran Mill Reyes, my guy, we were talking about him. Hits in four of his last five.

five games, second straight game with a homer. He had his 29th. He already talked about Castellanos. I think we also talked about Mitch Garver, who hit his 22nd, three straight starts at catcher. Maybe that's what I was referring to earlier. And Avon Nova, Ivan Nova, went six.

He gave up three hits. He did not walk or strike out anybody. He's also given, he's giving up only two earned run in his last four games prior. Of that list, Gritchick, Teosker Hernandez, Frammell Reyes, let's go Garver and Noah. I got to interject here because this is this is looking like an issue as we tried to do this podcast with games still going on. Nova threw a complete game. Wow.

Yeah, he is like crazy hot. So he faced the Astros today. Did he throw a complete game shutout? No, he won unearned run for Nova in those nine innings. Oh, man. I could not care less. I'm sorry. I could not care.

He has been such a bad pitcher for so long. He strikes out nobody. He struck out three Astros and nine innings. He, yeah, he is really on like an incredible run right now and I just, I have zero leagues. We have a 16 team league that Scott and I are in. I wouldn't even consider him there.

No way. Really? No way. Von Nova or Dallas Keikle. Dallas Keikle. There we go. I'm with you totally, Adam. Like this just seems.

Great. He's put together an awesome five-start stretch in which he's averaged probably four strikeouts to start. Like, when you get around to starting him, he's going to crush you. It's all going to fall apart. And he's going to be a ratio killer when that time comes. Yeah. The rotation, Jack Flaherty, we talked about him earlier, went seven, three hits, walked one, seven strikeouts. Adam, Jack Flaherty is on something. I mean, if you want to talk about guys that are improving.

their 2020 value on where we're going to be drafting him. Flaherty was kind of a hot option this year coming into drafts. He should be even hotter next. Honestly, if we're drafting again today just for the rest of the season, I'm not sure that he's not a top 10 pitcher. I mean, six starts before this today. What was his line today for Flaherty? He went seven, three hits, walked one, struck out seven.

A hooty face? Who did he face? Let me look here. He faced the Royals. I'll give you the numbers, Adam. Last seven starts for Flaherty, five of them seven innings or more. A 0.79 ERA with 11.1 Ks per 9. He's been amazing.

You know, Chris had him as a second half breakout. And yeah, I mean, it's been consistently seven innings with zero or one run, basically. Chris Towers. Chris Towers. Yeah, Chris Towers. there's a lot of Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris emails that are out there. No, clearly, not me. Zach Rankine.

Well, just to finish up, I'm sorry. This is not a Navonovus situation, obviously. This is really encouraging stuff. Yeah, and I think a debate in the near future of a Jack Flaherty versus we can pick a few other guys would be a really good one because people should understand the elite level that he's at now. It's not like it was earlier on. Zach Rankie went six, gave up seven hits. he walked two, struck out six. This was following his last start where he gave up five,

only had a couple strikeouts in that game. There's a positive. How about a concern? Maybe a little worryometer here. Four and two thirds, 11 hits, two walks, gave up four and only struck out six. That's Mike Clevenger, Mr. Scott White.

Yay or nay on any form of worry with Clevenger? Nay. I mean, nay. Okay, that's easy enough. Nay, nay, nay. We're horses. Nay, nay, nay. You have got Zach Wheeler who went five, 12 hits, only struck out two, two walks, five earned.

No, Bueno there. And let's see, some fringy starting pitchers. Let me throw it to these guys and see where you guys are at. Alex Wood, 70% owned, struck out four, went five, gave up three. Jordania Mamato, 65% owned, went five, gave, had six strikeouts, or no, he had six straight games without a quality start, which could be a problem. Colorado and Philly coming up, by the way. Jason Vargas, who's only 46% owned, he went six, walk three gave up one, but he does have four out of his last six as quality starts. Two more, Martin Perez, or Martin Perez, 56% owned, walked four, went six, gave up six hits with three strikeouts, and Chase Anderson, 64% owned in CBS, five innings, three hits, three earned runs, three walks, four strikeouts.

and before today he had gone nine straight starts, giving up under three earned. Only one he went six innings. So Yamamoto, Wood, Vargas, Perez, Anderson. Who would be your pick of pick here on some fringy starting pitchers, Mr. Adam Azer? Well, so Perez went six scoreless today before walks three strikeouts.

To be honest with you, the only two that I think really have upside to make a big difference are Alex Wood and Jordan Yamamoto. Wood gave up three runs, I think, fairly early in this start at Washington, which is a real tough matchup. And he came through with at least he gave you five innings. It was not a very good start because he took the loss.

But he managed to kind of make something out of it. So, like, I don't think any of these guys are must-ones. Yamamoto, he's kind of flirting with good starts, but not quite getting there. Now it's seven straight non-quality starts, I think, for Yamamoto. And he's at Colorado this weekend, I believe. Philadelphia next week. So Yamamoto and Wood are the only ones I'd be looking at, but I don't think any of the fringy starting pitchers that went tonight that I can think of,

especially this list. Wood, Yamamoto, Vargas, Martine Perez, and Chase Anderson, none of them are, like, exciting, and certainly none are must own. Yeah, I'd pretty much just reduce it to Wood that I'm interested in. And it's, you know, it, what started off as an encouraging return is suddenly gone sour here at the past couple starts. and for some reason he's giving up a ton of home runs. I can't find the exact number now,

but it's a ton of home runs through these first six home runs and 19 in the third innings, which is horrible and not really his MO. He's a good ground ball pitcher. Like limiting walks and home runs are going to be his strengths. And I think they still can be. It's just hard to tell with this sample. I am curious, though, Chris, Yamamoto.

Where do you stand with him? Because he was never a highly regarded prospect. He had some really impressive statistical seasons. But like seeing him here in the main, like the most interesting thing I can say about him is he seems to have a lot of pitches. Yeah. I'm not sure that really is enough to set him apart at this level.

Yeah, I actually saw him pitch the AFL championship game. He was the winning pitcher in the NFL championship game. And he looked fantastic. Um, but he was able to use what I kind of deemed as like fringe stuff with decent command. He found his command a little bit. It's almost like Zach Allen to be honest of you. I was never a big Zach Allen guy and Yamamoto kind of, uh, he kind of exhibited some of those things. I think he's one of those guys that, you know, as the league sees his solid, but not elite stuff, he's going to get hit up more.

I've never thought he was more than like an SP4. And I mean, coming into this year, I'm, I actually probably would have had Yamamoto above Zach Gallen. That's how I thought about them. I don't know that Gallon, like, Gallen just kind of blew up this year, right? He did. He wasn't much of anything before this year. Yeah. Oh, his elite command.

Speaking of which, I've got a segment called the Utes, the Uts, I got three starting pitchers here. Zach Allen is one of them. He went four, gave up nine hits, walked one, three strikeouts. He went 90 pitches. He'd only given up two earned runs in his last three starts, and he went seven innings in both of those. Dustin May, who got the start for Clayton Kershaw today on Tuesday, five and two thirds.

He walked one, struck out five. Joe Ross had a really good game. As far as, I mean, I guess not on a strikeout perspective, but it looked good. Six and two thirds, five hits. He gave up two walks, three strikeouts. Zach Allen, Dustin May, Joe Ross. Let's start with you, Scott.

You have to pick one rest of season. It's Gallen. And he is among those 15 pitchers. that I mentioned, there are some innings concerns. In his case, I don't think it's so obvious he's going to get shut down. But if the Diamondbacks fall out of the wild card hunt,

they may just for prudent's sake. I'll pull the plug on him. No interest in Joe Ross whatsoever. Adam, do you like, and Ross a distant third. And you too like that? Yeah, well, May is pretty interesting. I mean, Dustin May at Miami,

five and two thirds, three hits one run. And he has had struggles in the sixth inning every single start. So I think this was the first time he gave up an earn run before the sixth inning. But, I mean, I'm just kind of interested to see where that goes, because so far, so good for Dustin May. I think he's kind of approaching Mustone territory. Like, I'd rather have Dustin May than any of Alex Wood or Yamamoto or Vargas or Perez

or Chase Anderson, right? Get a guy with some upside. I would rather have Galen. The fact that he gave up nine hits and two runs with three strikeouts, it was at Corse Field. So I never had any thoughts of startings at. Jack Allen in this start, and I don't care about the result at Corse Field. But May is interesting and encouraging, but can he get through the order three times?

Also, at the beginning of the game, he'd only made two starts going into this game at Miami. They mentioned on the broadcast that Lefties had been destroying Dustin May. So that's another thing we have to keep an eye on. So I would say if you have May and you've been happy, hang on to him, but do not look at him as a fixture in your rotation going forward, assume that because there are two issues. The lefty issue and the third time through the order issue that we have to see how those play out. I need to add, I need to add, well, we're going to get to the bullpen, right?

So I just need to add that kind of interesting Sergio Romo got a save today. Taylor Rogers probably should have been available. He pitched on, well, he threw, he got crushed on the 11th, and that was two days ago from, you know, from yesterday. So I just needed to throw that out there. Ken Giles got a save. He pitched that it was a good sign, but also Romo got one for the twins, which I thought was interesting.

That's going to happen on these night shows, you know, like the complete game thing for Nova. Like there's just going to be some things that we noticed during the show, and that was one thing I noticed. Yeah. I'd also add to Dustin May, not only the best stuff of all those guys, best nickname.

I've never heard you guys use it yet, but doesn't mean he haven't. Ginger Guard. The GingerGuard. And he is also so skinny. Yeah. I was watching him today that, like, I'm sorry to say, like, that's not an insult, but he just looks like Carrot Top.

Like, just like if Carrot Top were, and Carat Top's like ripped, but before Carat Top was ripped, I feel like just like a really skinny, lanky, very, very redhead. It looks like Caratop is pitching for the guy. But nobody likes the skinny guys who get big anymore. Like, who likes Dave Chappelle as much as they used to? Who, I mean, not that you ever liked Carat. What?

He's big, Dave Chappelle. Some people like Caratette. Yeah, obviously. Carrot Top is. His name is Caratop. Oh, no. All right. So I'm just,

I'm telling Ginger Gard to keep his size. A couple other U-Tier, and then I got one over-owned. I want to ask you guys, and then we'll do a quick few emails. Travis DeMert, two hits tonight, also got his third stolen base

on a seven-game hitting streak. Randy, what, how do we say, Azoreena? A Rosa Rana. A Roserana. Oh, yeah. Oh, Roser Rana. I did not start and they had a DH, but Josh Rojas with the Diamondbacks, he started again.

He was in right field this time, caught stealing. I'd have to go back and look, but a couple of those updates on the U-T. Travis DeMert or Josh Rojas, Scott, rest of the season. Rojas, I feel like Rojas has shown clearer potential in the miners and has fewer weaknesses. DeMert's always had big-time strikeout problems. Any strike getting out more than 30% of the time so far with the Tigers. That being said, I have a strange fondness for demerit. I think in part just because nobody's really gravitated toward him yet.

So we don't have to have like a sell high discussion with him. It's scarcely owned. But he's running, you know, obviously it's 12 games, but he's run some more than I expected. He's gotten extra base hits apart from the home runs. He's walked a lot. I'm kind of interested in him. I've been starting him in a 2014 points league, and I haven't regretted it so far.

And Rojas did get a hit on Tuesday night, so it's a hit in 429. Overowned. Lorenzo Kane, 85% owned on CBS. He doesn't have an extra base hit in August, went 0 for 5 on Tuesday. Adam Mazur, is Lorenzo Kane overowned? Extremely.

Yep. I dropped him in a 14 team, three outfielder league. I don't even remember who I dropped him for. I think I dropped him for Giovanni or Shella. It's winning time, people. Lorenzo Kane is not helping you win. He's overowned.

Scott, overowned? Yep. Yep. Okay. Overowned, O'Meter? All right, perfect. A couple emails. We're going to burn through.

You guys can email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. This one, I had mentioned in the last episode, about players owning other players. Lance Berkman owned the Reds in 174 games against him. He had a 314 average, 52 homers and 44 RBIs. I know. Another that's not bad,

Bill Hall always seemed to play better against the Reds. Nearly 15% of his career homers came against the Reds. That's Tony from Indy. That's a fun stat, though always when describing Bill Hall's career,

you're talking about like two years, right? It does feel like that. Is that true? Yeah, it feels like that. It's like two years stretched into what seems like five. Do you remember a different frame of me, differently?

for me he had the 35 homer season and that was basically, let me look it up. Yeah, well, I feel like he just kind of loomed around for a couple more years, but it was like two years of production. You're right. He technically got 11 seasons in the majors, so I'm totally wrong about that. 15% of his homers to the Reds. Look at that. There you go. Dear Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, Chris, and Scott and Adam. I like that. I'm curious what eligibility is going to look like next year, especially for a guy like Jordan Alvarez if he keeps only D-Hing. I have Otani and if Alvarez might be a D.H. only, it may be my best interest to trade him right now, even though I'm in second place. Any other guys have significant eligibility changes

coming in 2020? What are the actual rules? This is, he says thanks, Chris Scott. So I'll ask the non-Christ Scott real quick. Adam, what do you think about that? Yeah, he is going to be D.H. only, I think. You need 20 games at a position to get eligibility going into next season. You only need five games to get it in season, but to get it next season you need 20 games out of position. So Johnny Quato's only going to be oh well, is Quato coming back

as a starter? What's Quato's eligibility going to be next year? That should be a starting pitcher, shouldn't it? Unless he just comes back in the bullpen. It depends what he's coming back. Yeah, yeah. If you don't meet the minimum threshold, it's just whatever you did the most, the previous

season. Right, right. So he might be RP only if he pitches out of the ballpen. If he comes back as a reliever, yeah. Are you taking it? Otani or Alvarez? Because he also says, also for Otani, is CBS not going to let me start him as a pitcher at the beginning of 2020? I hope that's not true. They will. And that's why there's no...

Like, the way it works for Otani and CBS, like you elect whether to use him as a pitcher or a hitter heading into your scoring period, and you only get that version of the stats. And you'll most likely use him as a pitcher anyway just because quality pitching is so much scarcer. and he's proven he's that before needing Tommy John surgery I assume he will be again so I don't think you really have to make a choice here because as good as Otani is as a hitter

his highest value in fantasy is probably going to be as a pitcher and then Alvarez just looks like a monster who you don't mind clogging up your DH spot with don't mind at all and making the decision's tough dear George Christopher Brandon and Henry

I got no idea well you got it like you got to think about it That's how the emails work here. They give us a greeting, and then you got to think about it. And then if you can't get it, one of us has to Google it while you go ahead and read the email. I'll go ahead and Google it. Okay, perfect. How do you manage a situation where you know you have a better process than the other fantasy owners?

Yet they succeed in spite of it. For example, I have an outstanding pitching staff consisting of Kershaw, Flaherty, Caleb Smith, Wheeler, Keele, Keelew, Keele, Kopp, Patik, and Woodruff. Yet the third place team actually has a lower ERA than me and has been sporting, Fires, Chase Anderson, Miley, and Tehran all year. I cringe every time Fires has a good outing. It makes me so mad. Any tips on how to deal with this, Kyle? How about you, Scott?

To deal with it? I mean, you may have the last laugh yet, right? I'm not sure if this is a head-to-head league where playoffs or if, you know, only the team who's in first place counts at the end. Yeah, I think you trust. the process and this seems like a perfect combination of pitchers overachieving

that this one owner has like it's like the greatest hits of pitchers who seem due for a massive downturn so I wanted stress about it so much I mean your team is better take a deep breath

count your eggs at the end of the season that's not a saying but I'm making it count them in a basket at the end of the season I think those were the tutors What are the Tudors? Like the dynasty, the Tudor dynasty? The English dynasty. Well, you're assuming I'm like super educated.

Was that like a mini series recently? Oh, the Welsh, I would never assume that about you. Yeah, that was a, the Tudors was a mini-season. It was on TV. You should have known it. Oh, the HBO series, right? Well, that's why, like, it's, you know, kind of a cultural touchstone or whatever. I guess none of us watched it clearly.

I did. I get used most of my history from HBO and television, and I did not catch that. that one. Yeah, no, I was learning about like a second, I learned on HBO 2, like a second century history with those dragons and those white walkers and stuff. Really. Yeah. Yeah. Fascinating stuff. I wrote a thesis on it. Cultural thing in our lifetime, Adam. Well, Game of Thrones? Yeah, you got to realize. I mean, back in the day. I also learned that Deadwood was a real place. And part of the characters were not real, but most of them were. Most of them were. Yeah. That was interesting. Hey, listen, I didn't, we're going to end the show.

I didn't get a chance to say this yet. And it's an hour. five minutes in, so I don't know if anybody's listening, but people told me to watch Euphoria. I'm going to say this on the football podcast as well. Euphoria is the first episode, the pilot episode, was the biggest piece of crap. I hated every second of it. It was exploitative.

It was wrong. It was borderline offensive. It was terrible. It was garbage. It was childish. It was one of the worst episodes of any show I've ever seen. The worst episode of any show I've ever seen is Brian and Stewie trapped in a bank vault on

family guy. This was just worse than that. I absolutely hated everything about euphoria. And for all the people saying it's the best show on TV, I'm not even going to give it a second look because it was just dreadful that pilot episode. Okay, thank you. That's a great sell. I'm in.

I'm sold. I'll check it out as soon as you possibly can. I just know Mary Jane is in it or MJ from Spider-Man and she does a bunch of horrible thing. So haven't watched it. Don't want to be that depressed. That is the show. We got more emails.

We'll hit them back tomorrow. Thank you everybody for sending in those emails. And you can do it, Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Thank you guys for tuning in. Thank you both for having me on the episode. That is Adam Azer. You don't have to thank us. You're on the show.

Well, but I'm thanking you guys. Thank you for having me here to Adam Azer. And you're wonderful. Stop trying to ruin the outro again, Adam. He's doing fine. God, we're going to go. Goodbye, everybody.