Fantasy Baseball Today - 09/11: Yelich, Cueto and More from Tue. (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: September 11, 2019

Christian Yelich is OUT for the season. A brutal blow, but where do you go from here? Scott and Chris discuss guys like Gardner, Tucker, Santander and more as options to fill the void. Johnny Cueto returned to action and pitched a gem. Lux hit his first home run, and a few new prospects hit the scene in Nico Hoerner and Kyle Lewis. Who to add, who to stream and tons more! 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 fast, Alborated, toward the corner. Got a fantasy question? Email fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. Get ready to win your league. We're fantasy. Now, here's Adam, Scott Heath and Chris. This is fantasy baseball today.

I'm Chris Welsh. That is Scott White. We've got some, well, breaking news in our world. Maybe you're waking up to this on the East Coast. Brewers, Christian. Justin Yelich diagnosed with a fractured right kneecap, Dunzo for the 2019 season. It is so brutal.

329 average, 429 OBP, 44 homers, 97 RBIs, 30 stolen bases, and 100 runs. That's the final season total in 131 games. It opens up the MVP race conversation, and it's just an absolutely brutal blow right in the heart of the playoffs. It is. is and I'm not even really sure how to attack it from an analysis standpoint. I mean, obviously, it's a major bummer. He's been the best player in baseball this year. As you said, it looked like

he was going to be the NL MVP probably. Now that's, you know, that's in question. He's going to have a couple weeks to your stats and Acuna or Cody Ballinger's very much in that discussion as Well, absolutely. So it's obviously just a bummer. You know, the Brewers probably, they were looking like a long shot for the playoffs anyway now. You got to assume they're not in. And, you know, it even brings up the question of how does this impact Yelich's 2020 value? Because, you know, there were some people who were going to make the case.

He should go ahead of Mike Trout, maybe. Well, and they've been mixed together. Over an ITL, we're doing an early mock. I've been doing the early mocks of Justin Mason. and I've seen Acuna go one, I've seen Trout go one. I haven't seen Yelich yet, but deservedly so, he's right there and he's the mix. But like you said, this could ultimately have a little bit of a stain or a question mark on him at least vying for the one or two spot. He's a lockdown top three, though.

I would assume so. I mean, Cody Bellinger's been awesome. And what I can't help but wonder is, you know, and I'm probably bad about this picking out the way. one example that happens to come top of mind and assuming that every situation that follows is going to be just like it. Jose Altufe stopped running after fracturing his kneecap. And obviously, steals have been a big part of Yelch's value the past couple years. Especially this year,

he became a big-time base stealer in the league context when, you know, in past years he was kind of a moderate base dealer. I can't have a wonder if that's going to impact, you know, if this injury just slows him down, first of all, makes it so he doesn't run as fast or makes him more reluctant to use his legs in that way. Especially with the hitter that he's become.

Like, you have such a dominant, big bopping hitter, you know, they might, even though it's funny that, I mean, it's not funny that it got hurt,

but the situation was him at the plate and he was hit on the knee. And it wasn't like him sliding. But to your point, you know, having that type of a bat in the lineup and he's the most important cog to them, you know, potentially running for, a penant that they could potentially run him a little bit less. I think it's a hard

speculative thing to attack because there's just nothing outside of the quantitative stuff like you just said, like with Jose Altuve, but it's something that's going to be in the back of everybody's mind. Right, exactly. What after an MVP winning season when he, you know, there was a lot of, a lot of skepticism surrounding it coming into this year. It's why he was a late first rounder at best in drafts this year. And I think he had finally won everybody over that there's nothing really to worry about this guy. I mean, he's a trout level contributor

and one of the absolute best players in fantasy, no concerns for regression beyond just, you know, he did something so crazy that he probably can't be quite that good again. And now there is a question. He ended the year with this injury that's not very common and that it's pretty significant. And how is that going to, what does that mean for 2020?

Nobody knows, but it's, it's, you know, it's, it makes, it brings feelings of insecurity with the yellage pick again. Of course,

we have to address, you know, what it means for the rest of 2019, few people who are listening, or maybe the only people who are listening, I don't know. Hopefully people just like us that they listen, even when they're not competing anymore.

You have to hope. I would guess that few people listening are still competing for something, and even fewer of them have yell at. And also a higher likelihood people are listening to this podcast after Adamazer dropped the worst take on the planet on Twitter on Tuesday night. If you like Adam, I suggest you not go look at his take, but maybe it's the reason people will stick around because they don't have to listen to that take. Yeah, I was so, I was so engrossed in that take. We don't have to talk about the Avengers. fall out of that, that I, you know, I was 10 minutes late to seeing this yellage news. But, yeah, anyway.

Like you said, what it did is it sparked the age old question. We were talking before we started up the show. Immediately people go, well, what do I do? Trent Grisham. Trent Grisham is the guy that came in. He's been, you know, he's very interesting prospect because he's kind of turned the tables of, you know, where his trajectory was going. High OBP guy. He's made some swing adjustments, making some contact, got a hit tonight in replacement of

Yelich. But that's where the age old question starts in. People are like, do I go to Grisham? Well, no, Grisham, first off, wouldn't be the place you would want to replace Yelich with. Second off, you can't replace Yelich. So what it does, and if you don't mind, Scott, I'm going to just throw in here some stuff. I don't want to take away any of your takes on Yelich and please throw it in. But what it does then is it says, well, what do I do?

How do I pivot? We can't predict how all of your leagues are. So let me throw a couple names at you in this conversation because Trink Grisham is not the guy, unless you're into crazy deep league, maybe an NL and Grisham were out there because he wasn't getting starts. Now, we had an incredibly big offensive night. We had seven players on Tuesday night. Go double dong. Seven players.

Just a couple. So far. Yeah, so far, exactly. And I should note, we're recording this pretty close to midnight on East Coast. And we've still got like five games that are going on. One is about to end with the raise and a couple others. We'll update you on as we go. But seven so far, names that aren't going to be options for you.

Dedy Gregorius went two for four, hit his 15th and 16th Homer. Corey Seeger hit his 15th and 16th with five RBIs, huge night. Matt Olson hit his 30th and 31st. George Springer hit his 32nd and 33rd. He had a couple RBIs. But I've got some hitter ads for you in the 50-ish percent range that I'm going to pit up. And two of them went double dong on Tuesday. Brett Gardner, who is 62 percent owned a little bit higher.

He hit his 22nd and 23rd. which he's now got five homers in September. Corey Dickerson, who I feel like I brought up Corey Dickerson a while back with the three of us when it was Adam, you and I, and we were dismissive of it, but I could be wrong. 59% owned hit his 11th and 12th homer.

He's now got a five-game hit streak and his second straight day with a homer. And then these guys didn't hit homers, but I just happened to have put them together in the 50% range because maybe we're trying to replace the value. Louisa Rise, who is 53% owned, was two for four.

He's now got hits in eight of his last. games, 407 coming into Tuesday through September, and Robbie Canoe, who was two for three on Tuesday with two runs, 47% own eight hits in the six games since returning. So I just threw out a whole bunch at you, but those are potentially the type of names that would be out there that you would be looking if you're replacing Yelich. What makes it difficult about this time of year, two and a half weeks to go, if your league counts the last week, which a lot don't. They shouldn't. But, yeah.

That's a different argument for another. It is, it is. You know, normally when a big player, high-end player, goes down like this, you can project some. You know, you could say, okay, this is a guy who's kind of flown under the radar, but I think he has a lot of potential. He could maybe be the big lottery ticket winner that you need to overcome this issue. And, you know, with this little time left,

there are no miracles on the wafer wire, at least none that you can expect to pay off as quickly as you need them to. So it's really just about taking it week by week. And, you know, I'm not, you know, I haven't done my matchups yet for the next week. And that would only carry us for a week anyway. But I imagine guys like, you know, Mike Yistrimski would be among the potential pickups. Anthony Santander. I mean, he's been so consistent.

I'm not even sure I care about matchups with him anymore. Brett Gardner, as you mentioned, I think is a good option. He might even chip in a couple steals potentially. you know, but I wouldn't be, if I was replacing Yelich off the waiver wire, as opposed to I have this great outfielder on my bench that I just couldn't fit in my lineup, oh, now I can't, that's obviously the ideal scenario. Sure. But if you're replacing them off the waiver wire, I think you go week by week. You don't get too attached to any one player, and you just try and piece it together, try to survive as best you can, just survive somehow. I feel like... I think Ed from the Walking Dead was fond of saying, that's very good reference. I like that. I'm very excited about. about that. I'm a walking dead guy. What about Brett

I feel like Brett Gardner is the guy that I look at is the ultimate replacement. But what if you pit him up against Anthony Santanderer? Because it seems like Dickerson who had two homers, a rise is a good contact guy, but he's really empty. I mean, I said he hit 407, but he had no RBIs, no homers.

I don't think he had an RBI, no stolen bases. No homers and stolen bases is important. More walks and strikeouts, but he's kind of a you know, a counting stateless type of a player. Robbie Canoe has been pretty solid, but it feels like it starts with Gardner versus like a Santander. And do you lean Santander over Gardner? I do lean Santander over Gardner.

You know, I think a righty heavy week. I think, you know, it's been a while since I checked. But I think Gardner, obviously a left-handed hitter. I think he's been much better against Ritey's this year. He tends to bat in the lower third of the Yankees lineup. And, you know, I think Santander is going to be a little more matchup proof. than Gardner, but they're pretty close. They're pretty close.

Certainly Gardner has the better supporting cast. Yeah, he's been terrible against Lefties. Gardner has sub-600 OPS, so I definitely want to pay attention to that going forward with him. Arise, I think, specifically, if you're not wanting to drop in batting efforts, like if that's the category you have to preserve, I could see going for him.

But I think in most scenarios, you're going to want to go with a more well-rounded hitter. you know, Kyle Tucker, if his playing time, it turns out to be pretty consistent. I can see him being a factor. Mark Cannes still only 61% owned. He has three hits today. He had three hits on that absolute route.

Yeah, that absolute proud of a game. 21 runs for the athletics against the Astros. It tasted their own medicine. I know. It should be flipped on its head. All right, so let's do this real quick. Let's take a quick break. And then I've got some deeper hitters.

We might potentially attack because we've also had a little version of Prospects a symbol, as I would say, that have come in here. There's a ton more. It is Worryometer Wednesday. I didn't even get to say it because of how worried we were about Christian Yelich at the top. So quick break right here, fantasy baseball today. Okay, so let's continue this Yelich thing here for just a moment. I know people are chomping at the bit for starting pitching.

I know you want your pitchers and believe me, we're going to get there. This is a big deal. Now, I put together some deep, deep hitters. A few of them, really actually, the majority of this, are relatively or our rookie hitters here. Now, starting at catcher, Sean Murphy was another one of those guys, one of the seven that had a double-dong night,

hit his second and third homer, three-for-four, four RBIs, now three homers in his first five games. And a little note, by the way, every single A's starter against the Astros tonight had a multi-hit game. I just thought that was interesting. Every single one of the starters were amazing,

and Sean Murphy was in there. By 11% owned, Harold Castro, 3% own. Just wanted to put him in because he was 3 for 5. Now 12 hits in his last 6 games, but a little bit more exciting here. Nick Solac, who we talk about a bunch, just continues to do work. He is the most owned here. 22% hit his third homer. Now 5 hits in his last three games with 5 RBIs, but the prospects assemble, My Guy Nico Horner for the Chicago Cubs was called up at, owned at 12%. He was 3 for 5 with 2 runs and 4 RBIs in his debut. He was hitting 8th, 3th, 3th, tonight and let me see if he has done anything. I do see your boy Thai Francis hit something.

Nico Horner, as I am currently seeing this as it's updating, was 0 for one. But then let me just give you the last one, Kyle Lewis with the Seattle Mariners, who was called up, 5% owned. It was starting in right field and hit his first home run. So these are all very low-owned guys, but do you think or whom do you think is somebody that is underowned that people could maybe start taking a look at, whether it's Yelich injury news or not? Harold Castro forget about him. He's of no interest to me. Murphy,

Sean Murphy, Nick Solac, Nico Horner, and Kyle Lewis are all prospects of some note. And while I'm not sure any are going to have enough time to win our trust outside of very deep leagues, this year, they're all fighting for something next year.

I think Sean Murphy with the two home runs tonight, you know, if he wasn't already the favorite to be the athletic starting catcher next year, this obviously puts him in a better position to be that. He's always made contact at a high rate in the minors, a great, great defender, and really has figured out how to hit for power the past couple of years. And I think, you know, I was just previewing my catcher rankings for 2020 in an article I was writing last night. I have him 13th, Sean Murphy next year. Obviously, that assumes he is the starter for Oakland.

Which is a pretty safe bet. I mean, he's a really interesting prospect. Another one of those guys I saw a couple years ago just makes consistent contact, has sneaky power. I mean, he's like a prototypical catcher. And with the A's, you know, he is a byproduct of their system. And I like that. I mean, I do think that feels aggressive, but he's one of those guys, if we don't want to get into a 2020 conversation, why I am a thousand percent quarterback, late quarterback, strategy on my catchers.

I'll just go at the very end, and I'm going to take a pedigreed guy or a Carson Kelly. We have a question. Sean Murphy or Carson Kelly next year, by the way. What do you think about that one? I have Kelly. Me too. I have Kelly a few spots higher.

I have Kelly. Maybe I have him higher than the consensus is going to be based on that comparison. I have Kelly, I believe, seven. I think that's about right. Okay. Yeah. But I don't think what people haven't done with catchers is I don't think people have a true concept once you get outside the obvious guys once you get away from um of course romuto you get

away from sanchez will smith mitch garver you get away from that range people start losing perspective of the value i think yeah i'm surprised how deep of a position it's come and i think you can take the approach uh you know the fact i have sean murphy 13th francisco mehii i have 14th he was somebody who was in my top 10 going into this year obviously that didn't work out with the playing time. But like there's, you don't have to, you don't have to reach so much to get a quality catcher next year. But back to, back to the rest of this group here. Yeah. Yeah. How would you sort them by the way? Because I feel like this is a conversation, well, you already eliminated Castro and you seem to be putting Murphy in the same conversation as Solac Horner and Lewis, though,

which is a positive for a catcher. Yeah, I mean, obviously I wouldn't play him anywhere but catcher. And I don't think there's any reason to take a flyer on him now outside of maybe a two Catcher League because playing time hasn't been consistent. They still, Josh Feigley, they're going with a lot there. I think the best bet to help you this year is Nick Solect just because he's been around long enough. He's shown he's not overmatched. He gets on base a lot.

He looks like somebody who can contribute for him for you. Not really a must start. I do wonder too. Like Nico Horner, Kyle Lewis, obviously they're both prospects. They're both former first round picks. I don't think either was impressive enough in the minors that you just expect them to, you know, like we were reacting to Gavin Lux, where we expect them to come up and immediate dividends. Yeah, they're not those pedigree of players. I mean, Kyle Lewis is in the same draft class as Corey Ray, and he was kind of sought in the same way.

And Kyle Lewis has had a really horrific injury coming into the draft, and he's had injury issues for multiple years. He's just getting it under himself. But I would say Horner and Lewis are very different prospects, because I think Horner is. is incredibly more polished than him. I've got him as a top 35 fantasy prospect if you're looking at the full scheme and thinking long term, he's got great bat speed,

good eye, make solid contact. I don't think he's impressively high as a power or a speed guy, so he might end up leveling out as like a solid major league regular. So he's not the caliber of Gavin Lux. But that makes really good contact and I think can be a game changer.

He's somebody, if I'm in the world of, looking at desperation for middle infield or just some extra stuff. Horner would be a guy outside of Solac. I would still take Solac over him, but I would be interested in Horner. It would have to be a desperate scenario. But what Horner really has going for him is that it looks like he's just going to be the everyday shorts now that Javier Baez is out with a with a fracture in his finger.

And Addison Russell got hit in the head, so he's out as well. I mean, Horner's a really, it's really, there was so much. Like, Horner was trending as hard as I've seen any baseball player trend on Twitter last night, which is crazy considering it's September. And he's, you know, wasn't exactly a household name as far as prospects go. Well, it was because of last year. Last year, one year ago, almost a year ago from here, out here in the Arizona Fall League, Horner broke on the scene because he was the first guy from the 18 class to come to the Fall League.

And then now he's the first guy from the 18 class to make it to the major leagues. His trajectory is crazy high. from where he came, I think he was in Stanford, from when he was drafted, to now stepping up in the majors and producing. I think that's where it all kind of leads to. But he has two home runs this year, across all levels.

Two home runs. Are you missed a lot of time? Yeah, well, he got, you know, 250-ish of bats. Fair. And I'm not saying he can't develop power. I know, you know, Saras in particular, likes to talk about how he thinks he has that kind of profile. But, you know, the hits he got last night, three of them, I'm sorry, Monday night, three of them.

There was a blooper to write. There was a ground ball down the left field line that turned into a triple. I didn't see what the third hit was, but these are not the kind of hits that we normally get excited about in 2019. So I just, I think I don't want to get ahead of ourselves with Horner. I really would be surprised if he's a mixed league contributor, a viable mixed league contributor here to close out this season, even though, you know, he's going to be. be interesting to watch because it's an interesting profile to begin with. So contact oriented, and we know he is going to play. And we know here now, as we've gone through this conversation, Brett Gardner, Anthony Santander, if you're digging deeper, Nick Solac, these are places,

whether you've lost Yelich or not, that you can kind of move to go with the hot hand. I think that's a really important thing that Scott said here is at this stage where we are in the playoffs, you guys should probably know this, but be less married to a lot of your players, especially the guys you've probably streamed in the recent. We've even got some of the Woriometer that is kind of bucked that trend a little bit with how he's become a household name. But I'm curious where you're at with that. So we're going to hit the Wuriometer here shortly. Let's take another quick break.

When we come back, I do want to talk about one of the guys who is in progress. So he has just been out of the game. Pretty interesting one because we talked a lot about him. We still got to hit some standouts and more Wuriameter Wednesday right here on Fantasy Baseball today. So we gave him plenty of conversation. Scott, plenty. We did it over the weekend.

It was Johnny Quedo. And Johnny Quedo, his start came down here on Tuesday. He was the guy that we were just like, how comfortable are we? How comfortable can we walk in? I think he was your top two start pitcher into this week. And as you had said, you know, is that good? Is that a good thing? Does that really kind of show what the two starts look like this week?

Well, Johnny Quato, he went five, gave up one hit, walked one, four strikeouts, 69 pitches, 49 for strikes. in what looks like a pretty phenomenal start coming off of this injury. And he is in line as we are recording this for the win. And he still got a start coming up on Sunday, it looks like, unless they move off of him from Monday. So thoughts on Johnny Quedo, and then I want to pit him up against a few players for you.

It was definitely, I think, a best case scenario. I was worried, and I tried to stress whenever I talked about it. This may not be the week to go streaming Tuesday, pitchers. It really hasn't been the season for streaming two-star pitchers. But a lot of people were taking me up on this idea. Would you believe I started him in both of my keeper league? The ones I told you guys that I was in first and eighth, I moved on. I had Quato in both of them, almost didn't activate him in either one.

And I said, you know what? I'm just going for it. And it would have looked really nasty if I would have looked at my bench and saw those five innings one hit and the win potentially for Quato had I not got it. I took a risk and it paid off. But like you said, not necessarily the year that it's been paying off. No, just too much potential for disaster in a record-setting environment for home runs.

And, you know, what makes this start even more of a relief is it looks like Logan Webb is the scheduled starter for tomorrow, so it's not even going to be a two-star week for Johnny Quato. Okay, so they moved it. Probably worth keeping around still, because if this week isn't,

I don't know whether they're playing six or seven games, but next week might be. And his velocity was as good as the last time we saw him healthy. You know, obviously he's been a must-start high-end type fantasy pitcher for most of his career in a good environment to pitch. I don't see why, given the need for pitching across all of fantasy, you would then drop him after this start, given his track record, and given how successfully it, how successful it was.

What if we put it up against? A couple guys that went here on Tuesday, Nathan I'vealdi, who I talked about before, you know, I mean, barely getting to the fifth. I think he's done it once and, you know, the entire season. Four and one-third, six hits, three earned runs, two walks and six strikeouts on Tuesday. He's 50% owned and he's got Philly up next versus a guy like Annable Sanchez,

who's 65% owned. He went seven, gave up two earned runs, five strikeouts, but he's got Atlanta up next. So, Eovaldi, Sanchez, Quedo, how would you sort them? I'd go Quoido number one. I think neither of those other two have given any reason to prioritize them

over the track record of Quedo if Quoido's looking healthy, which it appears he is. So yeah, he's definitely number one for me. I think Sanchez you could put in that boring class of pitchers, though I do think he's outperformed his peripherals and I'd be a little scared of using him. Avaldi hasn't shown me nearly enough.

and hasn't been pitching deep enough, I think, to merit consideration. Not like Quedo. We had a couple prospects. As I mentioned, we had the hitters on the pitching side, the other prospects that came up. We've got a definitive answer to because someone I could have potentially pitted up against these players, even though he would have been less owned, would have been our guy, Jesus Lazzardo. Justin Dunn with the Mariners was also called up. Both have not been given definitive answers to what their roles are going to be,

but more than likely both look like they're headed to relief. I feel like there's a little wiggle room given to Luzardo, not so much for Dunn. So Dunn is probably out of it if anybody was just rattling it around in their brain. But Luzardo is somebody that I think a lot of people are still owning out there in anticipation. They might get a start out of him because there's no innings. But it looks like, unfortunately, it's kind of a worst case scenario for us where it might be long relief. Yeah, I think if you're really hurting for a roster spot, you're probably okay, dropping Luzardo, because even if he does end up making a spot start down the stretch here,

I mean, how many innings is he going to go? How likely are you going to be to use him, actually? I think it's pretty low. Justin Dunn isn't a prospect of the same caliber, of course, but he did have some fantastic numbers at AAA, at AA, I should say, for the Mariners this year, particularly with the 10.8K per 9, respectable walk rate. somebody who's going to be on the radar next year if the Mariners are already willing to give him a major league look

and one of the less heralded prospects that was involved in the Jared Kellanick Robbie Cano trade. Kellanick obviously the guy everybody knows Justin Dunn was the other one from the Mets and Edwin Diaz too in that trade. Oh yeah, yeah, that guy. I've heard of him. Probably, hey, you know what, Edwin Diaz?

Maybe the worst player in that entire trade, at least how the season's been going. Little standouts from two. Tuesday. I've got one for you, and sad as a Diamondbacks fan, by the way, as the Dodgers clinching N.L. West title, we got Gavin Lux all over. It hit his first major league homer. He had been 0 for 11 in his previous four games, but went three for four on Tuesday night with his first major league homer and getting lots of at bats. And that is a very good sign for them to continue running him out. And that they've also clinched is another good sign for them to just let him keep going and

them feel a little bit less pressure. So I was pretty excited about that. Yeah, the fact that he's started every game since first entering the lineup. Now, I haven't faced a left yet, but still, they're willing to ride out this kind of mini slump to begin his career. And all of a sudden, he gets as many hits in this game as he had and all of his other major league games leading up to it. So, you know, and it's not like he's been striking out a ton or anything to really suggest

he's overmatched. Got to play the matchups because it does seem likely they'll sit them against lefties, but maybe not, maybe not. It's all a good sign. What about you? You got to stand out for us from the Tuesday slate. There's so much offense. There's a lot of things we still have to talk about so much on our plate here,

but anybody you want to highlight as a standout? I'm going to highlight there is so much. I'm not even sure where to start. Let's go in the most awful direction of highlighting Wade Miley. who did not record an out last time out. He recorded one out this time. So past two starts combined one third of an inning in which he's given up 12 earned runs.

He was responsible. You know, he kicked off that 21 run outburst for the athletics tonight. So what does that sound? Beop, beep, beep. It is Woreometer. You have hit the Woreometer button because he is first up on the Wariometer. You just jumped right to him, and it's perfect.

So I'm going to need a number as you attack him, because he was first up on the Woriometer. 94% owned. Hated that last start, Scott. We were holding a little bit of hope as we moved through. You said the spiel here, so I'm going to also need a Woreometer for him moving forward. Because I believe he has the Angels next. 10. I don't see how you use him.

This isn't like Trevor Bauer. This isn't even like Jose Burrios. I mean, there's not this well-established belief that he's this excellent pitcher who just hit a rough batch here. I mean, he's had a good year, but in a way that was hard to buy. I mean, I was giving him the benefit of the doubt because it's the Astros, and they do amazing things. But usually those amazing things involve greatly improving a pitcher strikeout potential, and that wasn't happening for Wade Miley. You know, as awful as these two starts were, they've only raised his ERA8 at 3754. his ex-fip is in the 450 range.

So, you know, the fact that I don't know if it's something going on mechanically or if it's just, you know, regression all hitting at once. But it's when you combine it with the fact I'm not sure he's that good in the first place, there's no way I'm turning to him now. And maybe an argument to say it's a zero because he doesn't need to be owned. The Wariometer is a zero because you can cut bait. I think a lot of the option, are you, would you feel comfortable with the majority of the pitching options we've already talked about as

pivots over a guy like Wade Milley. I mean, I can't imagine anyone is even going to put him out there. So it's almost a moot point here where you've given up 12 run runs and you've gotten one third of an inning in your last two starts. But I mean, guys like Eivaldi, Sanchez, I mean, I would probably dump Miley just to speculate on Lazzardo like we've talked about. Yeah, probably. I mean, Quedo, I think, is an easy call. Sure. Luzardo.

Probably. Okay. You know, I don't know how, you know, I can't say for sure because you may be in a league where anybody with a rotation spot, you know, that's hard to replace. And you bench Miley for now and maybe he bounces back next time and he gets in this Joe Musgrove purgatory where he never feel that comfortable starting him. But he also might be the best you have. I'd give Wade Miley a chance of getting back to that. But right now, there's no way I use him. Yeah, there's no reason to sit back and see if it happens the rest of this year.

That's where I would probably go. All right, let's hit the second Worryometer here. I've only got two for you today. And I love that we got an email that kind of sparked this one. So, you know, next week up. And a reminder to everybody, I didn't say this at the top, and I wasn't sure where to go with it. But you guys should know, as you probably have already figured out,

we are three episodes through the way through here. I'll remind us one more time at the end here. But we are Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays this week and next week. So if you do have any submitted Worryometers, you can do that at FantasyB Baseball at cbsi.com. and I will consider them because this one was sparked from an emailer. So Wuriometer Aristides Aquino hitting 156 in September coming into Tuesday. He had one homer.

Now, I will preface that he does have two hits on Tuesday night, three for two. But one of the reasons this came up was from our emailer, Justin, who said, with two weeks left in the league's fantasy playoffs, I'm thinking about dropping Aquino for Will Myers. Akeeno has been great, but he's been flat the last two weeks. And Will looks like he's going to be getting playing time while hot. What are your thoughts? You talked about it on Monday's podcast, but now we will see Will getting more of that playing time.

Thank you. And Will Myers, as I was looking, I should see if I can see an update on it. I'll look for it. He was one for two currently on Tuesday. There's probably been another at bat. But has a hit in every game in September, was hitting 520 coming into Tuesday. So Worryometer first on Aristides Aquino and then we can get to

Aquino versus Will Myers. Worryometer on Aquino I would put it at about a five. I've been lukewarm on him to begin with. I try to keep an open mind whatever somebody, a player is doing something as loudly as he was, especially since, you know, he had a great minor

league season two. But I wasn't totally buying into the skill set. He made me feel more confident when I saw he wasn't striking out all that much really for a power hitter. But, you know, a slump raises some concerns. Now, do I think to the point of dropping him? I mean, I think you're doing the Yelich owner a pretty big favor,

assuming the Yelich owner is still alive in your league. That's an interesting take, yeah. Aquino is somebody that you suddenly make available to him. But, you know, you're taking Will Myers away from him. and though I was pooh-pooing this hot stretch for Will Myers I guess just last week and now it looks like Hunter Renfro is going to be out

for a while is how the Padres put it which you know maybe for the year Myers is being flanked right now by Nick Martini and Josh Naylor so I mean he's clearly the best outfield of the Padres are using right now you know I don't think he's a bad pick

up. I'm not to the point where I drop or even sit Akino for him. But Myers is, I think, among that group of outfielders we were talking about earlier, Brett Gardner, Mike Yistrimpsky, where they're going to be showing up a lot in my top 10 sleeper hitters for the last couple weeks. You know, it just depends on what the matchups look like for them specifically. Myers is in that discussion now, yes. Yeah, I'm not sure I'm quite there. The September's been pretty brutal. A couple hits tonight is encouraging. You know, it didn't have to just be like, you know, one for four with a homer and three strikeouts, you know, getting a little bit more quality in there. So I'm not sure I'm quite there, but I got to be honest with you. I feel like my trigger finger would be very, very quick.

I don't need to sit around. And maybe you can find another option. So I would say my wariometer, I think it's about right. Five, five to six, just because of the strikeout guy that he could be. And maybe I've just been waiting for a little bit of a fail. I mean, his average, he's been in 300 pretty much the entire time he's up. He's now into the two 80s. But two hits to night is pretty good for September, or at least on Tuesday night, but I don't know if I would quite, quite make that hit there. The Reds have the Cubs and the Mets next week, so the matches are looking pretty tough. I think Aquino would need to have a hot end, a hot finish to this week for me to roll them out with those matchups. Or, I mean, you probably have to make

a preemptive move, though, because Will Myers are going to be sitting around for too long. Yeah. Let me see what the Padres. I'm trying to do the same thing. Everything just went completely slow for me. It looks like they have got... They have better matchups. Yeah, Milwaukee and Arizona. Yeah.

A couple of tough pitchers in there, but seven games and... You know what? I think I make the move. I mean, those are better matchups. I'd still be really reluctant to drop Aquino. You know, he could hit three home runs tomorrow. It could. And then you look like an idiot.

Yeah, well, I mean, egg on our face. But it is a playoffs. Redraft is a different conversation here, of course. But, you know, redraft a keeper. redraft. I think I can if you can live with the move, I can live with the move. And I think that's the important thing. Going with a hot bat,

it's not the worst thing in the world. All right. One more quick break right here on fantasy baseball today. Tons more to talk about a bunch of other news. We've got to hit a ton of pitching stuff and a few more of your questions. We'll be right back. What is going on around baseball? Remember that conversation we had about

Mike Trout versus Bryce Harper? Where we're like, you're great with Trout. You just put them out there. of what they say, you know, for the weekly. And Bryce Harper, we're a little bit more concerned about the gripped bat. Well, Mike Trout was not in the starting lineup on Monday or Tuesday. Trout underwent a minor procedure on Monday morning to address a neuroma in his right foot and potentially may miss the week.

Harper just hit his 31st homer two for four on Tuesday. So I'm not sure there's a Harper versus Trout take, but it's why you have got to be so locked into what you're doing. and really one of the criminally horrible things I think about weekly leagues. It's such a brutal feeling. I know it's easier on everybody because you don't have to go on a daily thing. But weekly leagues are so brutal. And this is the perfect example of it with Trout.

I don't know. It's never bothered me. I've always been a strict weekly league player. And see, I'm the opposite. I've grown up on daily transactions. So it's just a product of, I guess, what we've grown up with. Like weekly just hurts my soul a little bit more when I'm like, all right, I'm good to go.

And then all of a sudden, what turns into missing a game? It's like, now it's probably not going to play the whole week. It was a calculated risk. And, you know, we found out on Monday. So, you know, hopefully you had a chance to change your lineup still once you found out he had this procedure. But even if you didn't, a hypothetical scenario where it happens on Tuesday, you know. Yeah. It doesn't serve anything.

It's just a conversation, of course. But Bryce Harper back in, which is good. Carlos Correa potentially might play in a minor league rehab game. on Friday with AAA Round Rock, which I'm guessing would probably line him up for a full week, as long as there's no setbacks. He doesn't need a bunch of games, but I would say that's probably a good look for him the following week. Do you agree?

Yeah, probably, though I'd be more reluctant. If he's not coming back Sunday, I'd be more reluctant to play him than I was Trout this week. Okay. It's the same conversation. I mean, it's Mike Trout. That's part of what factored into that calculation is how to you're 100% right. Even if he plays half the week, it's Mike Trout.

Two or three games of Mike Trout, I'm taking over six of Nick Solac. It's just what it is. It is what it is. Craig Kimbril with his elbow, not expected to be activated from the IL when he's first eligible on Thursday. But according to the Cubs, recent throwing sessions went good and he's not too far off. So what does that mean? Maybe you get him into the weekend and maybe you can steal a save in there, but potentially good for next week. Keep monitoring it.

Some other injury stuff. Yankees placed Mike Talkman on the 10-day IL list with a left calf-string. calf strain. So, you know, he done. Playing accordingly, exactly. Justin Turner was scratched

from the Dodgers starting lineup on Tuesday. He was held out in Sunday series finale with an ankle injury, but it looked like he was good to go as he was walking around the locker room, absolutely showering everybody with champagne.

So I think he'll be fine as they won. I don't know if you saw the video. Someone was interviewing, I think it was like Gavin Lux or something, and Turner just went up to the reporter and was just spraying champagne in the reporter's face as he was trying to talk. At least they treated him like he was a part of the group, which I guess is nice.

He looks like torment, and that's some torment-like behavior there. Yeah. Ramon Laryano, he was out of the A's starting lineup again on Tuesday, and we've talked a decent amount about him. How, well, I guess you just need to see him, but there's really no take on. Ramon Laryano is one of those guys. You pray you had sitting on your bench when you go and lose a guy like Christian Yellich.

Because if you can get a guy like Luriano to fill back in, that's just a nice little added plus. He has to be playing. Yeah, if he's playing. I think it's still less than 70% owns. So yeah, that would be the ideal yellow yellow replacement. Luriano, that might be the miracle you're looking for. Maybe.

We don't know what's going on with him health-wise. Mike Mustakis, he was sidelined, but this was on Tuesday, but he was available to pinch it. And I believe he came into the game as well. I saw it early on. I have to go look. I hadn't had a chance to go back and look. But he did come into the game, which is a positive sign for probably

any of the future matchups, I have him in one of the league. So, let's see. He came in and he walked. So he did get in at bat, though he hadn't been starting. A couple other things here. Rae's manager, Kevin Cash, said that Tommy Fam, he's hopeful Tommy Fan will be able to return to full on Wednesday. Chris Bryant was back in the lineup and hit a homer here on Tuesday night. And then if you saw this, Kyle Crick, not that we care about Kyle Crick, but

Kyle Crick apparently needs surgery on his index finger of his right hand after getting into a clubhouse fight with Felipe Vasquez. Both are going to be fined, and I don't know if Felipe Vasquez is going to be suspended, but I don't remember the last time I heard about something like that, but Crick lost his season due to a fight with the other relief pitcher. Well, I think Vasquez got to save that same night, right? Was that yesterday when this happened?

Was that, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say use yesterday on a podcast. It would be like two days ago. Is that Monday when that happened? Um, you know, that is a great question. I thought that that was today, but a better host and Adam Azer would already know that. Let's see if I am clicking on the story here. If we can find exactly what it was. It was Monday night.

So presumably after the game. Yeah. So after the safe. Yeah, we'll see. I mean, we'll see. Yeah. And the pirates are playing tonight. They're not in a save situation.

We've already told you it was the Giants and the Pirates were up on it. And Pirates looks like they've scored a couple runs, but they're still down five to three. So probably nothing to take from that. I don't know if there's going to be any repercussions either way. Maybe monitor it, but, you know, clubhouse fight. That was getting a lot of note here. Rotation across baseball. Take it for what you will.

I'd love to get your notes on any of these guys real quick. But Walker Bueller went seven, struck out 11, no run. Second game now of his last three that he struck out 11. Zach Gallen looked good again, six innings, nine, nine, strikeouts, two earned runs. We had Zach Wheeler go seven with seven strikeouts, but an interesting one, our guy Jose Barrios, seven, two hits, no earn runs, one walk, and four strikeouts. It was his first start since July 31st, where he had less than three earned runs given up. We'd been kind of focusing on him as one of those guys where even though he's such a highly owned player, matchups

are starting to become important, but he went out and had a pretty good game. Yeah, good bounce back efforts from Barrios, Zach Wheeler, and also Lance Lynn, who went seven after going less than six and four of his previous five. Lynn had 18 swinging strikes. His effect, the effectiveness of his pitches didn't, didn't

wane during his rough patch. So I wasn't really that worried about Lynn, but Wheeler, Wheeler I was. He had, um, he had a six a six start stretch with no more than 11 swinging strikes. He had

17 today. So Wheeler looked back on track and hopefully he's somebody we can count on down the stretch. I think between Len Wheeler and Berrios, I feel like Berrios

is actually the worst pitcher even though he has the best reputation and, you know, before his rough patch, he was considered the best in fantasy at that time. But I'd still be,

I'm still a little little on edge about him. You're pretty anti-Hose-Brios. Yeah, yeah, which is okay. It's coming across, right? I mean, it's pretty loud. It's pretty loud. You don't have to conform.

He might be one of my bust pick next year. And meanwhile, Zach Gallen, I mean, if he continues to do this, like he's going to become too obvious to include on my breakouts less. The breakout might happen before I have a champion to declare him a breakout.

2020, Zach Gallin or Jose Burrios? Well, I can't imagine ranking Gallon below Berea. But I think it may be closer than most people realize. I love it. That one makes me happy. It makes me happy inside a little bit. Ryan Yarbril also went six and one third, three and runs, seven strikeouts.

Actually, he went seven, I think. Oh, did? I probably didn't update it. Okay. Five of his last six, by the way, he's had four. I'm sorry, five of the last six, he's had four quality starts in. So, been pretty solid. I mean, been a pretty solid guy.

Also, going tonight, I mean, he had issued his 15th walk of the season today, which is his main strength. He just walks nobody. But, you know, a decent ground ball pitcher. And has become a decent strikeout pitcher. He's just, he's just, well, I may be overstating a strikeup potential. But he's better than he gets credit for.

Another guy who has been a little bit rocky, He's going currently as we're recording. Zach Plesack, gone seven, three hits, no earned runs with two walks and three strikeouts, and the Indians are up in the top of the eighth, eight to nothing on the Angels. Leesack, I just wanted to go away. I don't believe in this,

but then he keeps bouncing back. I only pulls you right back in. By the way, you know, we didn't do a podcast on Tuesday morning in which we were reacting to Monday's results, but on Monday Mike Fires gave up nine runs Does that just make you happy? Waited all season for the collapse of Mike Fires

Just wanted to point it out You did Speaking of a couple other Not so great Bob, not great Bob Edwin Jackson He went two, gave up six He's got Chicago next, who cares I mean, I know I can't say his name right

And you wouldn't ask me if I could pronounce his name right, Scott But your guy, Ty Block, he got lit up two and one third with six or it runs. He's not my guy. Well, he's only your guy because you were going to remember your absolute insult to my face? Oh, I remember. Yeah. I remember too.

All right, good. At least we're on the same path here. It's personally. Yeah. It's all good. I mean, it's entertainment. So people probably got some good laughs out of it. Max Fried,

we spent a decent amount to talk about him, went five, gave up five, had five strikeouts. That was unfortunate. It looks like he's got San Francisco up next at home. But interestingly, in his last two roadstarts, he had given up 10 runs. You still comfortable with Max Reed? Yeah. Yeah, he's right there with Gallin

and my favorite breakout candidates for next year. He had four home runs in this start on Tuesday, which was as many as his previous nine starts combined. A great ground ball pitcher. It was just a fluky thing that happens sometimes to everybody in 2019. Tanner Rourke also went five and two-thirds, gave up five with three strikeouts. Scott, I think he's in line for a two-stop.

start next week. Kansas City and Texas. Comfortable with Rourke. Good matchups. Boring. Which I say in the most flattering way. He is. I'm comfortable. Who do you trust? I feel like we've aligned these two players, or at least in conversation, probably because of ownership, because they're within 2% of each other. I know one has been bleh to you, and the other has been a version of a streamer. Sadly, I started the one that did not have a good day on Tuesday. Avon Nova, 45% own, went 5 and 2 thirds gave up 3 earned runs with 5 strikeouts, no walks, six earns runs in his last start,

but he'd only given up a combined 8 earned runs in the previous, I believe, 6 before that. Seattle looks like he's got up next. And Jake Junice, who's 47% owned, he went 5, gave up 5, walk 3, struck out 7. He's now given up at least 4 earned runs in each of his last 4 starts, and he got Houston up next. So Nova or Junice? Yeah, this was the one Junis was supposed to handle if you picked him up as a two-start streamer.

Sorry about that. Nova is kind of Mike Fires Redux. Oh, yeah, you're just waiting for it to all implode. It kind of did last start. And I should note today, three runs, they came on three home runs. So, you know. So just wait for it. I think he got away with one.

super super, super deep guys. Your guy, Elizer Hernandez, 12% own, went five, gave up three earned runs with five strikeouts. One quality start in his last five,

though. I believe he has San Francisco up next. And this one was just, I mean, I can't get behind this. This is no different than like Melville, but Chi Chi Gonzalez, who's 1% own,

went six, gave up one run, four strikeouts in Colorado. His last start, he went six and one third, two earned runs with three strikeouts, says two straight quality starts, and he has San Diego,

but it is at home next. So I can't imagine there's much excitement, but you've kind of dug Hernandez a little bit this year. Yeah, I don't know. It's not really, you know, he has to get much better results than he's been getting to become a usable pitcher for the Marlins.

He just, he hasn't incorporated his third pitch the change up as much as he was doing before he got moved to the bullpen briefly. He just kind of abandoned it with that move to the bullpen, and he's been pretty shaky. So I'm, you know, I don't think there's much reason to talk up at Leisure Hernandez anymore. Okay, well, delete from the podcast for what is left for sure. Some bullpen notes here, you know, we had some saves you would expect.

Naris, Ken Giles got his 19th, but these two, I thought this is interesting. Jeff Wilson got his second save of the season. Lugo was unavailable, and Diaz had warmed up, but the team just decided not to go to him. Edwin Diaz, it gets worse. I mean, I think you said it in the last episode. You're comfortable cutting him, right? We're comfortable moving far on. I'm sorry, and I said, Jeff, I meant Justin Wilson.

I apologize. Justin Wilson got a second save. But Edwin Diaz not even getting the look after multiple blown saves. You don't need to do a 2020 conversation. But if someone was still holding on, there's just nothing to hold on to right now, right? No. No, no. I mean, unless it's a league where just,

it would probably have to be an NL only league where saves are nowhere to be found, and you hope Diaz gets a chance or two down the stretch, but he's not going to get the majority of them, and there's no reason to believe he's going to be successful with what he gets. So, yeah, that's time to move on.

Junior Garah blew his eighth save of the season, which is a phenomenal number. Drew Pomeranz came in for his first save, went one inning, two-st-strived, strikeouts, a couple hits. Not sure there's really anything to read from that, but it was interesting that Pomerant's came in for the save for the Brewers. Yeah, it seems like Josh Hader's kind of been stabilized again in that role.

He had gotten, looks like, each of the Brewers' previous four saves. So, yeah, I'm not, you know, Pomerant isn't anybody to pick up for saves. I think Hater was just getting, did he work earlier in that game? He did not. I didn't see him in the game. Yeah. I'm looking at a really fun save, by the way, Daniel Mingdon with the A's in their 21 to 7 route. I mean, it was a football game.

It was better than Monday night football. Daniel Mingden had a three-inning save. He gave up two and runs, one strikeout, but he ended up getting the save in that game. Come on. Give that to Lazzardo. That would have been fun. That would have been a great time to bring him in. But I believe they said they weren't going to consider letting him pitch until Wednesday.

So as you guys are listening to this, this is the first opportunity. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Emails. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. You guys send them in. We will answer them and you can have lots of different takes and we'll see what we can do. Matt from Tennessee writes, Canoe or Voight rest of season. I've got Muncie coming off the aisle this week as well.

Five by five, Roto Weekly categories. I can only make three ads a week during the playoffs, Scott. I don't really know what to think of Luke Voight right now. He's been playing just as really. regularly as ever since returning from, it was a sports hernia, right? I think that's what he had. He missed time with.

You sounded like a philosopher there, by the way. I just wanted to note, you sounded very philosopher. Like, I envisioned you like my uncle on the porch. You're like, well, don't know what to think about Voigt these days, but I do like some Mark Kno, Kiana. Is that what your uncle sounds like? He doesn't at all. My uncle is an absolute hippie, so no.

I don't think he's hit a home run since returning Voight. He actually was out of the line of today, but it's been rare. Yeah, I think I'd go Kana. And I think Voight over the long term, I would still give him the advantage, but we're not looking at the long term right now. We are not. Good morning team. This is, I don't know who this is from.

How could you, how would you prioritize these outfielders for this week in a Rhodo Dynasty, OBP and Homer's being the most needed categories? He's got Adam Eaton, our guy, Mark Kana, again, or waiver wire guys, this will be interesting, like Brett Gardner, Anthony Santander, or Kyle Tucker. Would you drop Lux to get any of them? Okay, so let's first prioritize those outfielders. Tucker, Santander, Gardner, Kana, Eaton.

What does that look like to you? I think I still go Eaton and Kana at the top, which would suggest standing pat. Okay. Between Gardner, Santander, and Tucker, Which one is the third ring here? I think Santander, just because I think he's the most usable in any scenario. Tugger, you've got to make sure he's in the lineup, Gardner, you want it to be a righty.

So, yeah, Santander. Would you drop Lux for Santander? Not if I didn't have to fill in outfields spot right away. If it was just for a bench spot, I don't think I would. Okay. Also asks, are you comfortable starting Dallas Keikle at the Phillies, Mike Soroka at the Nationals, over guys like Domingo, Hermann following Sabathia at the Blue Jays, Cole Hamels at the Padres, and Aaron Savali.

What do you think? I think Keikl and Soroka are both of the classification of pitcher where I just don't worry about the matchups that much. I think this environment this year has made that even truer just because so many pitchers are susceptible to getting blown out any given day because home runs are flying out everywhere. So, yeah, I think Kikl and Soroka, despite the inferior matchups, the one I'm hesitating on is Domingo Hermann,

who hasn't been as good lately, but for most of the year, he was a pretty stable starter, too, and he has the Blue Jays. I think I'd still stick with Kikl and Soroka, but that's a close call. I'm in agreement here. I think this is an interesting one, and I want to almost change it. Andrew asks, what's y'all's guess on who? reach is that he's on the porch again. What shall I guess? Yeah, see uncle. What shall I guess on who's going to reach those 50 homers this year, if anybody? I think the question should almost be,

when is Pete Alonzo going to hit 50 homers? And as I was asked on Twitter, will Mike Trout also hit homers on those days? I'm now getting trolled, which is okay. It's totally okay. But when do you think Pete Alonzo hits 50? Because he's clearly the one that will hit 50. Yeah, it's three away. He'll get it before the end of the week. Do you think, oh, do you think he will beat the rookie record held by Aaron Judge of 52 rookie homers? I forgot Aaron Judge broke that record. I was still thinking McGuire's 49. I mean, if Alonzo does get to 50 before the end of the week, I would, I think I'd bet on it.

Trout will also get to 50. Oh, and. Bellinger? I don't think so. I'm going to say Bellinger falls short. There's only one home run between them, is 45 to 44. right now. You know what would be the most...

That's my prediction. It would be so vindicating if Trout and Alonzo hit 50 together on the same day, then I win. And everybody else does not. I'm just being stupid.

There's nothing to respond there to, Scott, unless you're going to... No, it's fine. It's my... You do win. I am... You would get the last laugh there. The last laugh.

By the way. You know who's caught up to Bellinger and Yelich with 44 home runs? is Eugenio Suarez. Yes. I was about to say one of the craziest like 40 homer seasons because I felt like he was falling off in or falling out of favor for a lot of people based on like averages and just how the red

the red just didn't meet any expectations statistically or just across the board for most people. The high expectations of Pueig and Swares. Yeah, you're right about that. I mean, Solair was on a little run as well. Two quick ones. Dan says, Dear Wilson and Blaylock. Any idea?

Wilson and Blaylock. It's spelled like Mookie Blaylock, not Hank Blaylock. Yeah. But I don't know. I'm going to look at it. Wilson and Blaylock are, I don't know. I don't know who these people are. I just get a bunch of trial information, apparently court people.

Eighteen AL only auction keeper keep four. I have Mookie Betts locked in for a very low salary for the next two years. Should I try to make a preemptive trade following Dombrovsky's firing and the persistent rumors that bets may be moved in the off season? I have not heard these. Oh, they're Mookies. Mookie Wilson, Mookie Blaylock. I even said Mookie Blu-A-Law. All right, anyway.

Oh, they are mook. Okay, good. I mean, actually, it all makes sense now. We're done. How much should Real Baseball dysfunction? He, of course, mentions the Mets, dictate fantasy maneuvers. Thanks so much.

In line to win two of the three leagues this season, largely due to the great info and advice from this podcast. So, and do you think there's a preemptive movie? You had a lot of takes when Dombrowski was fired on the Twitters if people didn't see over on CBS Scott White on Twitter. on Twitter. But I mean, is that something you would do? I just don't, why would Mookie Betts be the, I just don't see why the Red Sox would make him the, the reaction to Dumbraowski getting fired and all of his weird stupid moves. I don't see that at all. He's

a face of the organization. Well, he's a free agent after next year and he's been hesitant to sign one of these, you know, find one of these long-term deals that more and more players have been siding. So I guess now fans just, assume it's going to happen. Well, also that's probably those friendly deals where teams are like, yeah, we'll buy out a couple more years. He's pretty far into things to sign a team friendly deal. I mean, it totally makes sense that he'd play it out until the end at this point.

And look, the Red Sox certainly have the means to offer him the biggest contract. So I think people, they're making a lot of assumptions based on what was very strange firing. I feel like things couldn't have gone better with Dombrowski, considering they had a historically dominant season last year. And things went wrong this year. That's just a very sudden about face to what seemed like a best case scenario. So you're going to go to more bets because of that in a keeper leave? Well, no, I think they're just thinking ahead.

Okay, so they must be firing Dombrowski because they want somebody in who can build up a farm system more. And so, you know, since the farm system is in the state, it's in now. Yeah. They're going to need some kind of spark to build it up. Mookie Betts seems like he doesn't want to be here because he hasn't signed a team-friendly deal yet. So I guess they're just going to, you know, it's assuming too much, I think.

And, you know, on top of it, you know, it's not like he's going to be some bum if he gets traded out of Boston. So no, I think you're, I think you're overthinking this one. Yeah, I think the, um, the only thing he's thinking is it's AL. So if Mookie were to go to an L team, that would be probably his concern. That is it for the emails that we are going to get. I do want to mention of note because we didn't get to it because the game is still going on. Trevor Bauer went six and one third, eight strikeouts, two earned runs, finally got a good game into him.

But would you believe, kind of outduled by Justice Sheffield, who went six, one earned run, three walks, four strikeouts. But Bauer, we had multiple questions about Bauer that couldn't get hit because people were asking, should I start him versus Seattle? I got tweets about it. Looks like it paid off. Moving forward, comfortability with Sheffield or Bauer. Does this like ease your Bauer concerns at least? Yeah, and like I said, I was starting him anyway because he was still the best hope of getting something good.

Yeah, this eases the concerns. Yeah, we didn't get to Azer's terrible Twitter take. No, it's just the worst thing on the plane. I was just about to say like, if there was ever a time for you guys to appreciate me, which I know not everybody's going to, it should be today. When Adam Azer goes on Twitter and says,

maybe this is a hot take but I don't like the Avengers and it's just it's ridiculous there's a lot more to it than that because I don't think there would be anything wrong with that he was watching he was watching the action sequence

at the end of the Avengers which he has no concept for because he hasn't seen the rest of the movie he's not invested in the franchise at all he just turns I guess he turns on the TV and catches 10 minutes of actions at the end and decides Here's his tweet.

He says, okay, it's time for everyone to get mad at me. I've never seen Avengers, the 2012 one. He says, I'm watching the end now on FX. It's really bad.

It's cliche machine. Close a portal. Are you serious? May as well be Transformers movie. I've seen this action sequence 15 times. I think he's also getting ratioed. He has 110 comments in two hours

and zero retweets. It's just getting ratioed on it. I quote tweeted him because it's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. It's such a character-driven story. Yeah, you can't watch 15 minutes of the movie and be like, ah, this is stupid. What are you talking about? What's important about the action sequence is what the characters are overcoming as it's going on and like the way they're coming together after fighting the rest of the movie.

Like, it's just, it's just such an awful. It's an uninformed take. So why should we even care? Why is he spouting off like he's an authority when he says in the Twitter? itself, I don't know what's going on. Wouldn't it be like seeing that Star Wars scene where Luke gets his hand cut off and it's kind of like, without context, it's kind of campy and be like, Star Wars is horrible.

What? This guy says, I'm your father and the guy loses his hand and he screams like a baby. It's, I know. I mean, people don't have to love Avengers and superhero movies, but it's ridiculous. It just, like, if you're, if you're commenting with that much gusto on on something you don't know anything about. You're just setting yourself up to look stupid. Like, why tweet that?

Why? You just wanted to be ratio. It's so good. I can appreciate that. All right, we got to get out of here. That is it for Fantasy Baseball today. You can find me on Twitter at Is It the Welsh. I will not tweet that I hate the Avengers,

but I might tweet other things you don't like. It's always possible. You can follow the very smart and fun Scott White at CBS Scott White. We will be back with you again for a Friday edition. We'll get you all prepped for the following week, two streamers and all that stuff. So make sure you don't go anywhere right here. Until then, we'll be back.