Fantasy Baseball Today - 09/23: Let's Win a Championship! (Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: September 23, 2019

Final Regular Season Episode! Garrett Hampson is the hottest hitter in baseball over the last week and its under 25% owned in CBS going into the final week of the season! Jose Ramirez is coming back, Javier Baez may be, and pitcher matchups are volatile. Two-Starts, streamers and 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 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.

Fantasy baseball today starts right now. I am Chris Welsh. That is Scott White. It is the last episode of the 2019 regular season, Scott? Oh, boy. We did it. My life is about to change in a profound way.

Tell me. I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I don't even know. Are you going to party? The possibilities are endless. It's wide open. What do you do with your nights now? You can't set any lineups. Spend them far away from you.

That's for sure. I mean, feelings mutual, my friend. I agree. No, Adam. Are you a little, I'm a little hurt that we didn't even get like, you know, like at the end of a season, maybe you get like one of those curtain calls. You get like a special guest or something. We didn't get like a Azer. Yeah, like Michael Scott showing up on the office finale. Totally.

It's all different. We didn't even get like a Heathcoming sigh clip or we didn't get Chris Tau. I mean, we just didn't get anything. It's just you and I. Though you are rocking. Abandoned. What color would you say that shirt you're wearing right now is? It's Texas Longhorns color, which isn't to say I'm, thank you.

Texas Longhorts fan. That's just what color it is. I don't know what to call it other than that. What an incredibly apt description of a color by using a college team. I really, I, you know, hats up to you because that's good. I was thinking, I was like, where am I going to get you to explain this color? You nailed it. You absolutely nailed it. Perfect. It is perfect. Perfect. So this is the final one for the regular season. Though I do want to tell you, I want you to tune in to the end of the episode because we might have some more treats for you in the very, very, very near future for more fantasy baseball today content. So make sure you're listening at the end of the episode so we can get you guys all hooked up with that. But today,

I was telling Scott right before we prep the show, I was like, this is kind of a weird show. Because, you know, I've been trained by the very talented Adam Azer on how you guys do stuff. There's a lot that goes into every single show. But there's no doubt the Monday show is a really big one because it has a lot of breakdowns of what's gone over the weekend but this is such a weird spot because there's no other weeks besides this one.

This is the only week that there is left. Yeah. So I figure. Yeah, that's true. So what actually happened this weekend that's still relevant to anyone? I don't know. What percentage of the audience is listening

that's still competing at this point? I mean, I got a lot of like, thank you. you tweets and emails over the weekend of people. Oh, your help, you know. Only one host of this podcast. I can tell you that is still vying for a championship. Yeah, they'll say your help won my league, which, yeah, that's always seems like giving too much credit because I was not managing your team for you. But it's, it's nice to, you know, hear some appreciation. I would say, I got a lot of those over the week. And I'd say take that because when you are going to get the hate for when you don't manage their team and something goes wrong,

you should also take the love when you're not managing their team and something goes right. Sure. That's how I take that. So this episode, obviously there's some conversation around what's gone on the weekend, but wanted to make a big focus on whatever nuggets we can throw at you guys for this last and final week. Some two start pitchers. We'll talk about just some of the other ads out there.

We've got some of your email questions for this week and we've got some 20-20 at the end here. But let me kick it off with this email. I thought this was a cool email that it can. came in after we recorded last week. And I didn't, I wasn't able to like put it in on the Friday recording. But it goes, this is from a Chris, which apparently I have just brought all the chrises out of the world to start emailing here. It goes, hey, Brian, Dennis, Carl, Mike, and Al. You know who that might?

I don't know who that is. I mean, they're the most generic men names from like 1950 to 1999. Dennis, Brian, Carl, Mike, and Al. It sounds like they probably, I could probably say home improvement. And I'll bet you there is a character with all of those names on that show. But he goes, I figured I'd share a feel-good story with you for this Kokomo Friday, which is now past. We've already lost the last one. He says, this past Saturday I got married and my now wife and I chose Kokomo for our first dance song.

We recognize it a bit unorthodox for a first dance song, but she liked it because it reminded her of some of her relaxing vacations we'd had on the beach. And I liked it because it reminded me of fantasy baseball. Yeah. Throughout our rehearsing. are dance and actually dancing in it, I was continually hearing the lyrics in my head as they played on the podcast. So I guess you could say that in a sense, Domingo Santana, Gio Soto, Adam Azer, and others all made an appearance at my wedding. Anyway, whatever it was, worked and we put together a pretty good rumba cha-cha routine. Thanks for making my wedding

great with your song. And that was from Chris. I thought that was a cool email to end the year. Brian Dennis, Carl, Carl, Mike, and Aller the Beach Boys. How did, I mean, I mean, Adam would have known. that. I know there's 12,000 people. Adam would have known that, not Welsh, yet you're absolutely right. Beach Boy is very good and very good reference and very uniquely funny story, which I do find anytime I've ever listened to podcasts and there's any type of like a mainstream song or even radio shows if you've ever done that, as soon as somebody locks into a main theme song, that is all I ever hear when that song comes on. So there's no shock that Kokomo is, you guys have

probably implanted more, you know, fantasy baseball today, Kokomos than the actual will Beach Boys have at this point. Yep, probably. I think our version is better. Again, not that that's something I can take credit for, but I think it elevated the song. Yeah, and the singer is very impressive. Did you guys know who that was?

Was any like a listener that sent that? Yeah, Doc Kroitzer is what he goes by. Very talented. Where is he? We should have had it into the season one. This is the end. Get on it. Get on, Doc.

My friend. Yeah, it gives little doors or something. All right. Well, let's get into everything that's going on on this final week plus your 2020s. And Scott, there is no hitter right now. That is hotter than Garrett Hampson. Rocky's Garrett Hampson was the most viewed player over the weekend.

And to my shock, because, you know, I was looking around. This was a kind of a complete package guy as of recent, especially on the stolen base mark. He did really good in the week of, if you were vying for a championship. He probably helped you. But I was shocked when I checked his name and noticed he was only 21% owned on CBS. 365 average, two homers, seven stolen bases with 19 hits. Boom.

And I had to think I believe is in the month of September. He was one for four on Sunday, hit his sixth homer of the year. Nobody hotter than Garrett Hampson. And if, you know, 21% own, there's got to be some leagues where he's sitting out there, not just dead leagues. He would be the absolute must-own-of-owned hitters if you could put one in right now. Or do you disagree? I added him to my top 10 sleeper hitters after the weekend.

And he's, yeah, I mean, five stolen bases in his last 10 games, three home runs. It's batting like almost 500 during that stretch. And, yeah, obviously it was a very popular sleeper on draft day. This is really the first usable stretch he's had all year. But it's at a good time because they got three games at home this week. Their other three, I believe, are against the giant starting rotation, which isn't the best. So that's, I think, a good time to use him. He was actually replacing in my top 10 sleeper hitters,

Nico Horner, because Javier Baez, it sounds like, is going to make his return this week, and I'm not sure how that affects Horner's playing time. Baez is pretty much only played shortstop this year, so I can't imagine it'll be good for Horner. How would you approach that, by the way, if you're in a weekly league? Are you comfortable enough where the Cubs are at that just because he probably would come back,

that you would slot Bayez in? Because I think I'm avoiding, unless I feel confident he's coming back early, early week. Even then, though, if it all comes down to this week, you're going to put that on Hobby Baez over Nico? I think given the nature of the injury, which is a fracture, right, in his hand, it seems like a pain tolerance thing,

and so I worry he wouldn't last the whole week. I worry about the effectiveness. and I kind of feel like Hoffier-Beyes, it's his thumb, actually. I kind of feel like he hasn't been that big of a standout this year. So, I mean, I think even versus somebody like Kevin Bigio, maybe even Hampson,

yeah, I probably avoid bias. Now, the other big returnee, if I can jump ahead in your notes, because I think it's a pretty big deal. Jose Ramirez, who was ruled out for the season at one point, is not out for the season. Turns out, or at least, you know,

that's the, that's what all the suggestions are right now, is that he'll be back in the line of Tuesday. Both guys coming back Tuesday, do you have, well, in theory, because on Saturday, Javi Baez was actually able to pinch hit, which would lead Credence to, if you wanted to take that risk, and he does actually come back on Tuesday. This is Baez, you know, there's some stability there at least because he's gotten in a game.

Jose Ramirez brought up, Do you feel any less more or equal confidence in Ramirez against Baez since they are both aligned for the same day? I do. I do. And I'm not saying Ramirez's must start. If you already have somebody you can't imagine benching at third base, there's no reason to take the chance on Ramirez.

But Ramirez at his best. Ramirez, once he got going this year, is better than Baez. And beyond that, I feel much better about the Indians' chances of making the playoffs. at least pushing it to the very end. Then I do the Cubs at this point. The Cubs are, they're about to be done, I think. And then there's not going to be much incentive

to play by as while Ramirez, whether the Indians are in or are pushing it to the end. I mean, they're going to want contributions from Ramirez. So, yeah, I feel better about that. But again, I want to go so far as to call a must-start. It's a definite risk, but one with potentially huge rewards. By the way, on the other end, and I don't think I'm skipping ahead here, Freddie Freeman is at most going to play three games this week.

He's not traveling to Kansas City. He has a bone spur in his elbow. So he's not traveling to Kansas City for a two-game series. The Braves have already clinched their division. They're probably locked in as the number two seed. Nothing to play for, really. So there's a chance he doesn't play much at all this week. I think you got to avoid Mr. Freeman.

I actually do have a segment in here called the potential shutdowns, and it is aligned a little bit more at pitchers, but this is a perfect spot whenever, you know, if we have any of these other hitters, I've been looking around trying to find those guys that whether it's we're talking, could lose two starts, could lose a start, or just get shut down in general, definitely something important that we'll continue to do throughout the show.

So you talked about your sleeper hitters. I just put together a few guys, a lot of guys we've been talking about Kyle Lewis, who, by the way, one for four on Sunday, five-game hit streak, two homers in that five-game span. He's been just murdering the ball. I believe he was the most viewed player over the last week. Kevin Bigio, who's more highly owned, has a six-game hit streak, eight RBIs in that span, one for four on Sunday.

But the reason I wanted to talk about a few of these guys that were kind of near the top of the list, was this guy, who we briefly mentioned last week, Shed Long, who was only 8% owned, was the second most. viewed player on Sunday over on CBS. 357 average, four homers, nine RBIs with 20 hits in September, seven of the nine of his last nine games coming into Sunday were multi-hit games.

Shed has been in the lead-off spot. He's been rocking the ball. So I set the stage for Lewis Bigio and Shed Long to ask you, do any of these guys sit in your sleeper, hitter column for the week? And is there anybody else that you would like to throw out everybody? Long doesn't appear in my sleeper's hitter, sleeper hitters column. I don't love

the Mariners matchups this week, but he has obviously been a productive player here down the stretch and in leagues deep enough that, you know, probably anybody who shows up in my top sleeper hitters for the week, they're probably owned anyway. I mean, long may not be.

Long may be on the deeper sleepers for this league. Yeah, 8% in CBS, so I mean, not really anywhere. Right. So, yeah, that's notable. But Hampson is, and who was the third one? Well, I had Bizio and Kyle Lewis were both on there. Kyle Lewis is just the most added viewed player across the board.

He's been the replacement level guy. But anybody else of note, at least on that sleeper list that you'd like to talk about? Let me think here. It's been Mark Kana every week. I imagine the reason his ownership percentage is stuck where it is because that's the number of people still paying attention at this point, I would guess. So let me. He had another huge week and obviously needs to be probably still. not only picked up but started for this last week.

Okay, let me twist it then. I put together this little tiny area because we've only got one week, it is so insulated in what people are looking for. This is very much like a tweet week of you being like, would you do this or this for this one day? Here's another very common one I see in the final weeks. We saw a lot this week because people did have championships ending,

but people play through the end of the season. What if you're stat chasing? What if you're chasing a specific stat? So along some of the names we've already, talked about. I put a couple categories together. I felt these are kind of usually the biggest this is what I'm chasing. I'm going to throw some names out. You please interject any others that you would like to be listed or if you want to jump on any of them. But if you were chasing homers, Kyle Lewis, who we've talked about, I believe he should be on that list. Shed Long, if you're

chasing homers. That could be one instead of making big preemptive ad. You can just try to play later in the week. Brett Gardner, who I know is highly owned, 66%. It's four homers in his last a couple games here, one for four and hit his 27th Homer on Sunday. Homers, let's stop there for a minute. Lewis, Gardner, Shed Long, any other if you're chasing homers for the week that you like.

Cana would be one, I suppose. Yeah, I mean, sure, he's been a good power hitter. That's a tough one. I'm not the best at this game. I will play, but I'm not the best at this game. Trying is all that matters, right? It's kind of the environment we're in, right?

where home runs can come from anywhere. Like, I wouldn't pick up Louise Arias for home runs, but beyond that. Randall Gritchick is another one, by the way. In the last 14 days, Gritchick has six homers. He has got four of those since September 15th, and he's been on a pretty good hit streak. I think in his last was one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 11, his last 12 games. He's got at least 11 hits in his last 12 games.

And, you know, his percentages across different leagues that you're playing in could be out. or, you know, he could be available. That's a home run average play right there with Gritchick, if that's what you were looking for. And he is in my top 10 sleeper hitters list, so I can certainly agree with that one. Let me see who else I could pick out. I mean, anybody who has good matchups, like Eric,

Eric Thames, it's another Ritey-loaded week. Two homers on Sunday, too. Yeah, and he just had two homers. I recommended him the past two weeks with Ritey-heavy weeks, and it hadn't gone well until... this Sunday, but he has great numbers against right-handed pitchers. He plays against right-handed pitchers. And powers the name of his game, certainly.

But, like, Kevin Bizio could stay hot and, you know, hit three more home runs this week. That's certainly possible. Really, anybody on this list, like, Trent Grisham is going to get a lot of it bats. I don't know that home runs would be the first thing I looked for with him, but he's going to bat lead off. It's a righty-loaded week, which helps him, too. He's always batting lead-off against the righties. and he has power.

I mean, he showed it over the weekend. He showed it between two stops in the minors this year. So he'd be somebody I'd look to. Okay. I mean, as you said, Homer's, you know, they can be a little bit easier, but playing matchups and playing the hot hand maybe the way to go. Stolen bases are a different marker. This is why Garrett Hampson sits obviously at the top of the list if you were chasing.

But Joshua Rojos, two stolen bases over his last six games of the Diamondbacks. I suspect he might get a little bit more this week. week and you've got John Bertie, who's got three stolen bases over his last two weeks, if you were really trying to chase those stolen bases, which, I mean, this is, you know, this is like the Moby Dick. This is the one where it's like, where can I go to, you know, try to get some of these? And it's like, well, you can go at guys like maybe Harrison Bader. He's got three over the last two weeks, but, you know, they were kind of clumped in pre-September 18th. Anybody else on stolen bases that you might be recommending on the last week if someone's chasing? I mean, you could

always turn to the guys who that's pretty much all they do so it's hard to find a spot for them. You know, they don't play the most consistently. That's Delino De Shields and Gerard Dyson. I mean, when they do play, they run a lot. But they don't play

all the time and they don't do anything else. So, you know, they're not highly owned. But beyond that, Tommy Edmund's a guy like a lot this week and he's stolen five bases in September. And a hot bat. Super hot bat right now. Right. I think he's hit five home runs and stolen four bases.

Either that or it's the other way around. But yeah, Edmund is somebody who's a pretty good base dealer. In a week's time, can you expect more than two from them? Probably not. But, you know, that's true for all but, like, what, a couple dozen players, two thirds of which are sure to be owned already.

Edmund, by the way, in his last 14 days coming into Sunday, three homers, three stolen bases. He stole a base on Sunday night, and he has got extra base hits in five of his last seven games. So, I mean, I'm sorry, double, multi-hits in five of its last seven games. So Edmund is a really, really good one.

Yeah, I mean, the obvious answer here is Hampton. Like, I think he's such a distant number one. And we've already talked about him, of course, but five steals in his past 10 games, and that's a big part of his profile. I'm sorry, five steals in his last seven games. So that's somebody who you trust him to play. It looks like he's going to be hitting well. And he can give you a lot of steals.

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Oh, no, I'm sorry. Spencer Turnbull is the one I was going for. Spencer Turnbull's 16 strikeouts in his last two starts. So there's a bigger thing we're going to tackle with two-start pitchers and whatnot. But if you were chasing some strikeouts from players where their matchups may be a little bit questionable, but you want those K's. Any recommendations? I think I'm not sure what his ownership is up to.

I just picked him up in a league this weekend. But Sean Manaya, who has had a great strikeout rate since returning and has stretched out and he goes against the Mariners, 73%. So he may be already owned. You mentioned Turnbull. a two-star guy. Lamet, I think, Denelson Lamet,

who had, of course, 14 strikeouts in his last start. I think he's going to be a two-star pitcher, though different sites suggest it might be somebody else instead. But, you know, he could give you a lot of strikeouts, so he would certainly fit the description here.

Let's see, who else did I. Lemette's interesting, too, because I don't know if I put this down here, but Lamett's got, he's got the Dodgers, and that's always kind of one of my, like, is it enough war? Yeah, it is on the wood you. Is it enough to pivot?

Obviously to what we were just saying with the categories, if you're just chasing strikeouts, I mean, there's no better play, I think, this week in a single matchup maybe than Den Ellison and Lemette. Maybe if you go over to Dylan Sees, he's got Cleveland on Thursday, though, you know, they're going to be playing hard on it. Sees and LeMette seem like the absolute top strikeout plays

if you can just quiet your brain about the potential whip and ERA ramifications. Which may not even be a big deal. I mean, the Dodgers are kind of cruising into the playoffs themselves, and every pitcher is capable of shutting down. Any pitcher is capable of shutting any lineup down any lineup on any given day. Obviously, the probability of that happening gets worse when it's a bad lineup. It gets much worse when it's a bad pitcher, but it's always possible.

That's the way baseball works. And so I wouldn't let that steer me away. If I didn't have great rotation options, I wouldn't necessarily let that steal me, steer me away from a potential two-start, Lamette. And two-starts are going to be coming up here in just one minute. But I did want to talk just a brief little look over at the weekend. And I'll obviously open it up. I'm not trying to put the standout in your mouth here.

I'm not trying to speak for you. But two guys I'm very curious about Sunday, George Springer went off. Three for four, three homers, four RBIs. I'll bet you he won a lot of leagues, a lot of leagues this weekend, especially on Sunday. It was his first career three homer game, which is kind of astonishing. I think I also saw where it was like multiple,

they've had multiple of these this year because Jordan Alvarez did it like a month ago. But also Luis Severino, who we briefly talked about, went five innings, three hits, nine strikeouts. And what is an absolute great call by you saying

this is what could happen. He went 80 pitches and he looks like he's got Texas next week. So I'm kind of throwing the standouts at you. I'd love to get your take on Springer and Severine. just in this final week. Maybe Springer's a 2020 take, and Severino's kind of a final end-of-the-season take. Yeah, I think you'd need a pretty deep pitching staff

to sit Severino for this final start based on the way the second to last one went. And look, the first one was great, too. He just didn't have the pitches ready to go beyond four innings. You know, now he got up to 80 this time. I don't know. He should be pretty close to full go for that Texas start, I would think. That's pretty good matchup.

Pretty good matchup. That's a choice if you need strikeouts to pursue. I mean, his ownership is high, but I imagine it's kind of wonky, too, in terms of where he's owned versus where he isn't, because a lot of the people who rostered him gave up on fantasy baseball months ago, probably. And he also could have been victim of, you know, streaming pitchers, you know, he wasn't back yet. He just kind of got back, wasn't going full innings. There could have been fear and doubt in there. I mean, I think he's a fantastic play, but he also probably did some incredible wonders. of bringing people at least closer to a roto title or bringing people maybe some championships on this final weekend by throwing a gym like that because there were some stinkers. Yeah, no, it was definitely... Look, he's an ace pitcher. He's an ace pitcher and he appears to be healthy.

I guess it's worth pointing out his velocity is down a little, like a mile per hour. He's only averaging 96 on his fastball instead of 97 and a half, you know? But missing plenty of bets with what he has there, and I'm not really concerned about it. What about Springer on the 2020? You know, you were saying, I remember you and I were talking about the two early mocks that were going on,

and we were kind of talking about how Springer still seems to be just disrespected. I know he, like, he quietly hits 35 plus homers. He quietly goes out there, does his job. And some of those guys like the Charlie Blackmonds, and maybe you throw in the same category, that George Springer's are just not, they're not. quite viewed in the same category that their statistics tell us. And George Springer's having a fantastic year. So, I mean, I believe that was his 38th Homer. The three that he hit, he got up to 38 here. So, I mean, any 20-20 thoughts on George Springer? Yeah, it's been odd to me because there

were six of those two early mock drafts done through the, uh, the group who plays in the, what is TGFBI? Yeah. That group, that multi-league group were like 300. something analyst play in it, right? Yep. Yeah, so Justin Mason got together six, two early mock drafts, and they drafted for the 15-team Roto League, and I don't think George Springer

was taken in the second round of any of them. He was not. I was in number one. I have him. I have him going early third, but that's a 12-team league versus this 15-team league. I'm pretty sure he went in the fourth. Yeah. And yours?

Yeah. Maybe. Well, I saw him going, he's going in the fifth at the one I'm looking at now, fifth round. That's crazy. And I mean, I was shocked to see the same thing for Charlie Blackman when Charlie Blackman had in some ways a bounceback year.

But it was more or less typical Charlie Blackman's season. And what makes it especially strange to me is that particularly since these are five outfielder leagues we're talking about, if there's any position that looks weak, it's outfield. Even beyond catcher, I think. because catchers gotten some pretty good depth here this year. Outfield in a five outfielder league is the position where there may not be enough players to go around. So if anything, I feel like it would get prioritized early. And I don't see how these guys are not top ten options there.

What's interesting about Springer specifically is I was kind of over him coming into this year, kind of ready to dismiss him is overrated. A guy who's almost 30 and he'd only put one 30-homer season together and didn't really have any other standout. Scored a lot of runs at the top of a deep lineup, but otherwise didn't really excel at anything. And then he put together this incredible MVP caliber season. Obviously not going to win MVP,

but, you know, it was a great season. So, you know, I'm pretty much fully on board with that. How much do you seem like everyone else's? How much do you view Springer to Charlie Blackman? Are they close to you? Because I'm going to tell you where they went in the tourly mock number one. That was the league I was in. Do you view them as close?

have them I probably have them consecutively. I feel like I self-mocked the first four rounds for a 12 team league and then I think

I deleted it which was dumb so I can't say I haven't done my outfield rankings yet. I think they're back to back

probably like seventh and eighth or something like that in my outfield rankings. Charlie Blackman went in the back and remember these are 15 man leagues

Charlie Blackman went in the back end of the third round and George Springer went in the middle of the fifth. And guys that went before Springer,

Victor Robles, John Carlos Stanton, Joey Gallo, Andrew Benintendi, Jordan Alvarez. I mean, some belong, maybe some don't.

Tommy Fam, chasing stolen bases, all before George Springer, who went. I mean, the next pick after Springer was Yossi O Pui. Just people have not,

I don't know if, I know people haven't caught up and I don't know if they're going to catch up again next year. Yeah, I have a lot of stolen base fatigue, to be honest. one thing if you're going after like a 40 steel guy like

you know how many of those even exist but if like for sure this guy is a prolific base stealer I want to lock up my steals early fine but if you're just if you're counting on 20 steals from anyone I think given the nature

of the game and given how low impact of that total is anyway I I think maybe you're expecting too much much. Like if the player doesn't deliver on those 20 steals, if he has just 12 steals, like, you know, it's not that big of a drop off and yet it feels like a huge drop off. And it's, I don't know, it's playing with fire. And like the thing is, because stolen bases are so

scarce these days, you don't need that many to be competitive in the category. I really don't think you need to base your draft strategy around it. But, you know, clearly a lot of people disagree. Yeah. Well, and format will sometimes dictate where people, want to, you know, what's the popular format that dominates and you start getting into roto or you're getting into, you know, non-trade transactional and FBC type of stuff, then, you know, the conversation changes a little bit where people become more desperate. And that's every single year, it's always a major piece of the conversation are where do you take stolen bases, where do you have to be aggressive or come off of homers? And then where does pitch and go?

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ZipRecruiter, the smartest way to hire. Two-start pitchers. Let's hire some two-start pitchers for the final week of the season. I've got a couple interesting names that may or may not be owned out there. Though if anyone's been listening to us for the last couple weeks, they know I champion this and they know that Scott White has jumped on board. Sandy Alcantra is locked in as a two-start pitcher for the final week. Mets and the Phillies.

We've got Zach Eflin, who's 53% own Washington and Miami, so that back in start looks real good. Brett Anderson looks like he's got the Angels and the Mariners. And then, I mean, if you believe it, Rich Hill could be locked in to San Diego and San Francisco. So talk to me about two-star pitchers. Talk to me about the names I threw out at you and then you tell me who else is at the top of your list.

realistically the only one I might be looking to start and even that's not a sure thing is Alcantara just because I feel confident that innings are going to be there and he's pitched he's pitched well the past month or so he's looked like a much more promising pitcher which is why I've come around I've come around to him the misses for somebody like Eflin

who's been fine recently but the misses are pretty big for him pretty big and ugly so that's that feels like a desperation play brett anderson i don't mind that one so much i feel like extreme ground baller it makes for a high floor but also a low ceiling but you know sometimes just to get that extra start in there particularly if it's like a two week scenario and you're chasing in something that makes sense rich hill's going to go like two winnings tops and his two starts which is a shame because they're good matchups but i i would not be looking to use him at all. So if Alcantra is the main play, at least on the list of the players I gave you, who do you

have? Who else do you have at the top of the list for people to look out if you were, if you were going to tackle? Or are there any other names? Because there's some deep names out there that I didn't throw on this because it's absolute desperation play. Yeah. And I guess if there's a time to get desperate, this is it. I don't know obviously what kind of injuries you're dealing with who you may have lost, how much of an underdog you feel like against whoever you're facing, what categories you're chasing in. Obviously, I can't speak to all of those individually. I would just say, my general take on this is to not get too cute just because it's the final week of the season. I think people have a tendency to do that, and it's usually self-destructive.

I feel like, you know, you should trust the guys you got there, that you should continue to play it like you did during the rest of the season where I don't care what just happened to this player. I know he's the most talented and I trust him to bounce back and trust him to bounce back. And if it doesn't work out, at least you know you went with your best guy, you know? Yeah, I'm definitely, like when I look at situations like this, like I don't want to press.

I would rather be defensive than I would. offensive in this final week. Unless Alcantra was the one that was out there, I particularly like his matchups on the back end of the year. Any other play, I'd rather avoid the beginning of the week because I'd rather reassess on, you know, Wednesday.

Wednesday morning I can reassess or Wednesday night. I can reassess to see where I'm out and what pivot plays I need to start making. Yeah, certainly if you have the luxury of, you know, setting a daily lineup, which is usually not what I'm speaking to, but a lot of people do have that. So I'm glad

you're brought it up. Alex Young, yeah, he's going to make two starts, right? Now I'm second guessing everything. Yeah, I just reviewed this list earlier today. Alex Young, two starts in the second against San Diego. That seems like an okay play.

Let's see here. Among those who might be available. We brought up Spencer Turn, both first against Minnesota, but second at White Sox is a good one. I think even, like Adam Wainwright, I obviously don't have a lot of confidence in him, but he has put together a lot of good seven-inning starts lately. And mostly relying on ground balls. He's kind of leaned into that more since he's obviously not a big bat misser anymore.

It is interesting you brought him up because where we're going to move next was the two starts to avoid. and I put a question mark and he was one of those twofold as you're saying he's got four straight quality starts he's given up one earn run in that time the teams he's faced in those last four starts San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee

and Washington now you figure out how much you think offensive powerhouses to any of those are this final week even though Wainwright has been really good he's got Arizona and Chicago and those seem like I mean those are the two worst matchups if you add in the other four, I would say.

Washington, you could, you know, you could be, you can make a question about it. But Arizona and Chicago are not great matchups here. So I know you're saying the pivot play is there. Do you think he's more of an avoid though, if at all cost? All of these pitchers I've been talking about are avoid from my perspective. I know the general avoid, but like put your mindset in like, I'm trying to make the decision this week. I've got to make the right choice.

I got to get a guy. I got to get an extra two starts here. Is Wainwright, quote, trustable enough because he's been good as of recent, or is this the type of thing that blows it all up? And I know it's very relative here. But in comparison to Eflin and Alcantra and Brett Anderson. He could be the pitcher who blows it up. He could be the kind of run he's on right now.

I know I had a couple years in a row. This is probably going back five or six years at this point. Where Bruce Chen, a not so good pitcher who was on a similar run at the end of the season. Was this Orioles Bruce Chen or Royals Bruce Chen? I think both years he was on the Royals. And he just happened to have a two-star week that last week. And I thought, what the heck, ran him out there. I won the championship both those years largely because of his contributions.

And it just, I don't know. Was I dumb to do that, maybe? you took a calculated risk. Yeah, exactly. A calculated risk. So, Wayne Wright is a calculated risk. Yeah. I don't know that Arizona is that bad of a matchup,

particularly without Catele. He's out for the year. Yep, Catell's been shut down. So, yeah, in agreement. I mean, I could see this final week being playing a lot more of the younger guys. Don't need to get the veterans out there, no need. Yeah.

So, you know, I don't want to start Adam Wainwright. but I may be in a position where I need to start Adam Wainwright and that I wouldn't necessarily be scared to do that. I wouldn't want to do that, you know, a lineup full of Adam Wainwrights. Hopefully you're not in that bad a position, but. Adrian Houser is that to me this week. No Adrian Houser. That's my do not start, Adrian Houser at Cincinnati and at Colorado.

I heard. Okay, then, would you? I've got some starters throughout the week. I've just sprinkled some in that might be available, might be questions. You've already said Den Ellison Lament is the strikeout play. Is it confidence enough just to throw him out even if you're not chasing? He's just a one good start, the last one against the Dodgers?

I would say I... Sorry, I was looking up and not at the mic. I don't know if that picked me up. But I would say I would rather not start Denelson Lomette for one start either. Okay. This is what this is. Would you? And you're saying no on him.

Perfect. Andrew Heaney scheduled Wednesday against the A's. He was also one of the most dropped pitchers over the last week. So people getting out on Haney. Yeah. Would you against the A's? Yeah, it seems too risky. Tough matchup.

He's been getting throttled lately. I want to clarify the Nelson Lamett position, though. Because since it does seem more likely than not, he's going to make two starts. You're talking about a weekly lineup. I do probably put him out there. I just hope for the best against the Dodgers. but yeah it's

it's not ideal I'm not saying that's a perfect scenario it's just something that I think most people who are setting their line is for the final week if they were given that option that they would need to do

their pitching staff probably isn't deep enough to pass that up yeah I don't know if I'm muddling this too much no you're fine um yeah did you give an answer on heaney yeah I said no okay just say no it's fine Dylan Cease, just looking at projectable starters,

looked like he would go on Thursday against Cleveland. Would you, Dylan Sees? I would not. No, good matchup last time out, and he delivered on it, but against Cleveland, no. Never have I ever, Reynaldo Lopez versus Detroit on Friday. No. Not the way he's been pitching lately.

That would take nerves of steel. My nerves are made of Teflon. And those are names that will peak everybody's their eyes will glaze up. They'll be like, ooh, Cease is out there. Should I? No, you shouldn't.

Those are risky plays this week. Guys that might be available out there. You got anybody else? Is there anybody else on even single starts this week that jump out to you? I know we're kind of moving out of the two-start pitcher conversation here. But are there any even streaming type of spots for one start that you would hit over guys like Haney, Lamet, C, or Rinaldo? Uh, one start, guys.

other than the ones we talked about already, there hasn't been a move I've made for anybody in particular. So no, I mean, I could maybe go through the game grid, the matchups grid here and pick out a few guys, but I don't know how long that would take. Yeah, and that's what I did.

I went through and I was looking at the daily grid to pick names that, you know, I think we'd jump out to people. There's obvious names out there that you're not going to want to start. I don't need to bring up Melville and stuff like that. So those were the most interesting starts this week on singles. And there's not a ton of confidence.

Lament might be near the top. But you know what you're getting into if you're going to play that. And all the matchups, I mean, Renato Lopez is a fantastic matchup, the best of all of them. But it's risky business. We got some emails about this week and some 2021s. Hey, guys, need some help for the final lineup of the year. I'm in a head-to-head points league and I'm going for the ship.

First, do I start Jose Ramirez or keep Johanio Suarez at third base? You gotta go, I would go with Suarez. Yeah, we're both in agreement here. Yeah, that's the kind of third basement I was talking about earlier where if you can't imagine sitting him, you don't roll the dice on Ramirez. Exactly.

And my pitching, which five would you suggest? My opposition has eight starts, so he needs five of Bueller, Flaherty, Morton, Castillo, Mania, Savali, Craig Smith, and then he's got two-two starters in Wainwright and Blake Snell. So you guys,

You got to start Buehler. You got to start Flaherty. You got to start Morton. Morton. You got to start Castillo. And then you got to, I mean, I'm taking Mania over Sneller Wainwright. Yeah, I agree. Naya against the Mariners.

Yep. Okay, there we go. We did it. Bueller, Flaherty, Morton, Castillo, Mania. Those are your two starts, or those are your five starts and skipping over those two starters. And that was from our friend Wheels off ballers. Thanks for the advice and the great podcast. swing position for Roto.

I have no need for K's or... Saves. Is that, okay. That just looks weird. Yeah, you saw that. Yeah. The way you wrote, it looks weird. It looks super weird.

No need for Kays or saves. I can gain or lose a point in ERA. I'm tied with two others in third with 81 wins. Second has 82 and first has 84. Overall standings, first is obtainable and no worries about three catching up. Tanaka at Tampa Bay or Will Harris at Seattle and the Angels or another reliever way wire like Odovino, Britain, other similars he's talking about in Deep Roto, or he could pick up Brett Anderson at the Angels. What do you think there? What do you think? Tanaka at Tampa Bay,

Will Harris, or Brett Anderson? What would be your play when he has known he's chasing wins, basically, right? Is that how I'm supposed to interpret this? He said he can gain an ERA. Oh, he can gain. Yeah, he said he can gain an ERA and then wins is super close to. Yeah, So he's tied in third place with 81. Second place is 82. So this seems like an easy starting pitch. I would say this is an easy Tanaka play. Unless you want Brett Anderson on the two,

but that could screw your ERA. I don't think it's going to screw your ERA that badly. His floor is so high. He doesn't, you know, get a lot of innings. He's not going to go seven innings that often. And Tanaka's been pitching pretty well of late, but I think... Yeah, I'm kind of leaning Brett Anderson in this scenario.

Just go for it all. Yeah, I just don't think the downside is that low. I watch him get throttled by the Angels or something. But look, it's the troutless angels and then the Mariners. So, yeah, I think that's pretty good. Yeah. Little news and notes around the baseball, the final update here. Mookie Betts returned on Saturday, went two for five in his return, did not play on Sunday.

What's a confidence level in a weekly this week of putting him out there? You have to suspect it's just going to be probably something. I mean, he's not going to play the full week. I mean, what do they have? If they've got six games, is he going to play three of them? I'm sorry. I missed who we were talking about. Mookie.

Mookie. Return on Saturday did not play on Sunday. Yeah, I think that was just a day game after a night game thing. I think it will play most of this week. So you're confident. I plan on starting them wherever I have them. Okay. That's all I was asking if you're confident on this final week here.

Adaberto Mondesi was lifted from Sunday's game against the twins after re-agravating, what looked like re-agravating his left shoulder. on a diving stop, which was brutal for me, because he got one stolen base on Sunday, then got taken out. Oh, that other stolen base, if he could have got out there, would have been mighty, mighty fine for me.

Robinson Canoe was lifted from Sunday's game against the Reds after being hit on the left big toe by a pitch. All right. And Max Muncie remained out of the Dodgers lineup Sunday. Muncie's now missed two straight games and after he was taken out with a tight quad on Friday. You got no interest in Canoe, but the Muncie one's been a little bit interesting.

maybe even helps those Den Ellison Lamett Dodger matchups. Yeah, as for Muncie himself, I don't think you can trust that. It's just too up in the air. Same thing for, I don't know how many of these names you have in a segment coming up, but Glaber Torres can't trust that. Max Kepler's talked about maybe returning this week, but I'm not counting on that. We talked about Javier Baez.

Probably not going to do that, even though he has a projected date to return. Like, with injuries, for the most part, I'm going to play really safe. this final week. And that's a good way to put it for everybody because there's a lot of those sitting out there. Colton Wong was diagnosed with a grade two left hamstring strain. So, so you. Who cares?

The rays activated Brandon Lowe, though, from the 60-day I-L. And he was, I'd have to actually go back and look. He did get a hit in his return. What was interesting, though, is they had kind of locked him in as like he was done for the year. And he had had some good production early on. And they also have the confusing Lowe and Lowe out there, hitting back to back. and I just saw Nate's brother two days ago, Josh Lowe.

So there's Josh Lowe, Nate Lowe, and Brandon Lowe all spelled the same in the same organization. Yeah, and originally Josh Lowe was supposed to be the best of them. Yeah, that's, I mean, maybe it'll still happen, but it sucks. Yeah, not quite what it once was. I've seen it over the last couple days. Probably not, Scott. Yeah. Yeah, I think there's too many options in the race in-field and outfield for a Lough,

for me to trust the playing time, especially, coming off an atypical rehabilitation scenario. Pete Alonzo hit his 50th Homer on Friday, so we got there. We were talking about that, which made him the, I thought this was really interesting, made him the first NL rookie to hit 50 homers,

which I didn't know. I had no idea. Yeah. But I mean, obviously 52 was a record with Aaron Judge. That's over in the AL. And before that it was 49 McGuire. So yeah, that makes sense.

The question is, did Mike Trout Homer? He didn't. He didn't. And the math doesn't work out anymore. So I swear, I'm going to, I'm going to hire, I'm going to hire a team in the offseason to just get me the numbers of players that hit homers on the same day. I'm going to prove everybody wrong. Even if I'm not back on here, I'm going to like send in a big memo. I'll send it into fantasy baseball at CBSI.com.

Chris Bryant was lifted from Sunday's game versus the cards with a right ankle injury. He, he heard it trying to beat out a double play. And then he was, you know, I think he, it was like wet there. So he was kind of favoring that. Turned his ankle when he landed. So be on the lookout for that. That's a little scary, especially if there's,

you got to pray that there's going to be some news early on Monday that's going to tell us which way he's going to go. But that could be another one of those reasons as those Cubs, you know, like I'm still kind of pro Nico Horner on the back end of this last week, just because I think there's enough injuries out there for him to find spots across the board. And then finally, any takes you have on these,

Padres fired manager, Andy Green, general manager, AJ Preller announced the move. And he was there for four years. And, you know, it was really rough on Andy Scott signing all those Will Myers contract, so he definitely should have gone, huh? Oh, he didn't do that. Yeah. No, he didn't do that.

No, no. Although, I mean, AJ Preller's got them positioned to be, you know, they look like the next team that's going to have, you know, just shoot to contention. The next Astros. Yeah, I mean, the Astros, what they've done in terms of being able to sustain it is kind of unprecedented. I guess the Dodgers have been doing the same thing and they never had to rebuild really.

But yeah, they got piles and piles of prospects in San Diego and it looked like they're about to be good. What's interesting is I saw, I think I saw Bruce Bochi was asked about the opening. And he didn't like straight up say no. He said like, ah, we're not talking about that or something like that. That's not a no, Bruce. No, no.

That would be interesting. would be interesting. Shut downs or skips. We talked about, you know, obviously the middle line guys. Everyone's very susceptible to this. I just threw on here, Garrett Cole, Max Scher, Patrick Corbyn.

We talked about that briefly last week. Do you have any insight, any takes, or any other people you want to mention that people should be on the lookout for, especially if they are going to be relying, especially on the top end of these guys for two starts, it might get pushed off.

Do you have any... Because at Garrett Cole, I feel like, is one you and I have been saying that two starts, does not seem likely for him this week. It doesn't, but I keep forgetting this. I just, you know, I've been obviously analyzing fantasy baseball for, I know, this is my 11th, 12th year of doing it. I keep forgetting how much the wild card play-in games have kind of changed the way the schedule works.

The first games of the wild card series, I'm sorry, the first games of that, NLDS, ALDS, the LDS series. It's not until Thursday. So a pitcher who goes on Sunday would be one day short of full rest on Thursday. So a pitcher who goes on Saturday, right on schedule to start Thursday. So I don't know.

Maybe I'm overthinking it. But regardless, you're not sitting coal. You're not sitting Max Scherzer. I think Patrick Corvin makes two starts either way. Mike Clevenger's just been introduced as a two-star pitcher, that one's probably going to go right down to the wire. So I imagine they'll need him to make that second start

just in the hopes of securing a wild card spot. Yeah, and I viewed this not as a like weekly don't start. I'm taking one start of Max Scherzer over any worldly two-starter you're going to find out there. It was, I think about it more in the head-to-head where people look, they see, okay, well, I got, you know, Scherzer, Saturday or Sunday, whatever it is, I'm good, this will be good, and then realizing they get pushed off and not make

making the proper pickups. Everyone should be there, but you should be on guard. But it's a great point about, you know, the playing game having that type of a role. How about a couple of these guys? Because you blew it. You blew it, Dakota Hudson, versus the Cubs on Saturday, went three, gave up three, walked four, only struck out two. And it looks like he's got the Cubs again.

Do you trust Dakota Hudson this week? I would probably not. He's not a great. five by five pitcher anyway because the whip is so high. And I know he kept having, he had this string of starts where he was given up like one, two, three hits and that obviously helped the whip. But I don't think that was sustainable for him. And yeah, that kind of came crashing down in his last start.

So I think of him as more of a points league option for a one start week. Probably not going to do it. Another guy that did not help you at all was Jose Quintana. You blew it against the Cardinals on Saturday, went three and one third, five earned runs, four strikeouts, just on. un-reeling on the end of the year. He's got the Cardinals again. Any trust?

Stay away. Stay away. All right. Here are five guys that you might hate for a long time because they may have absolutely ruined any shot you had at a championship. Like Ryan Yarborough, who went three in one-third, six earned runs with two strikeouts. Trevor Bauer, the always fun Trevor Bauer, didn't work out. Mets, went six, gave up five, did strikeout seven.

Jose Burrios, this one was a brutal one. What a matchup against the Royals. Went six, gave him. up five earned runs, struck out five. Plissac against Philly went four in one-third, four-end runs, and three strikeouts. And I would like the term to be coined, pulling a Wade Miley, giving up 1,200 earned runs in what maybe is two innings in the month of September. He went one inning, four earned runs, one strikeout.

None of the... Who is trustable here? He reeled you back in with that last start, where it looked like he'd gotten back on track. So brutal. Past four starts for Miley, 18 earned runs in seven and a third innings. That's rough.

I think the only one I sat him for in a deep league I'm in was the one good one, because that's the way it played out. So anybody you trust here coming into next week after this blow up? I mean, I'm, yeah, this is the two week guys that are rocking.

You got two weeks. You're like, oh my gosh, Wade Miley, Jose Brios one. That's the one I just looked at the matchup and I was like, really? We can't even get this one.

Boreos, so where's your trust? Probably with Bauer. I mean, what's good about Bauer is four of the five earn runs came in the first inning. So he dominated for the final five. It was a nice recovery. Could have been a lot worse. His previous two starts were awesome. I think I'm sticking with Bauer.

Probably sticking with Boreos, too. He's been a little more up and down here, but over Waver Guy X. Still got to feel like that's, that's better. Ryan Yarbrough, man, there hasn't been a lot of good lately. I hate that it's Toronto he's facing in this final one because that is a big temptation. I mean, that's who Luis Severino just shut down. And I still think the skills for Yarbrough were pretty good. He was pitching over his head.

He was. And now all of a sudden his ERA is almost exactly in line with his ex-PIP because he's ended the year so badly, just over four. Both of them are. Yeah, that's a. That's a tough call. That's almost a coin flip for me. Obviously, if you have great alternatives,

there's no need to bother with it. But if you don't, YARBrow against the Blue Jays, it might be tempting enough to just run them out there and hope for the best. And your last plays, if you're trying to get some saves, save some saves here. The two big guys that made movement as far as pickups go, or Keone Kele went from 4% to 12%, did not have a save chance coming into Sunday.

And I don't believe I need to look here. No Sunday, no Sunday, no nothing saves. But Hiro Diaz went from 11 to 18% owned. He got his fifth save on Saturday, which was five since September 10th. So he's been in line there. Diaz is probably the play if you're looking for saves, which I think actually, if you had them all even, everybody would have went and picked up Kella,

because Kella would have felt like the better play in Pittsburgh, but what do you know, Colorado getting the saves? I think it'd still go Kea. I think he's just more trustworthy if the save chances do come around. Are there any other save options? Anybody else? Joe Jimenez got his eighth save.

I mean, Tiger's saves are few and far between. He got his eighth save out there, get some white socks. If he were even available, that might be a play. Andrew Miller got his sixth save on Sunday night. That's an interesting one.

Yeah, but Carlos Martinez had worked four straight days, I think. So that doesn't really look like anything's changing there. there aren't really any emerging options, right, except in Pittsburgh, and that's not totally confirmed. Pittsburgh and Colorado, I think those are basically the only two. So it's a lot of the same guys. Yeah, you know.

It's going to be hard to chase saves. The guy I was playing against didn't even bother. He just didn't even bother trying to pick up any. I think he did get Keller. He ended up having zero saves against me in the week and still beat me. It's still brutal. How are you finishing out, by the way? How does it look in this final week for you?

I still got a shot in the five of the 11 fantasy leagues. Still right there. Heading into the final week with a lead in, I think, three of those five. But, you know, there's a chance I could pull it out in all five. And if I win nearly half my leagues for the year, that's going to be, that's going to be awesome. We've got to tweet about it. We're going to have to follow. Yeah, as it should.

And you should follow him on Twitter at CBS Scott White. Follow me on Twitter at Is It the Welsh. We can help you out in this final week because that is the final. regular season episode, but I did tease. So what is the deal? Well, I don't think you're going to have to listen or wait for too much longer. How about even like next week? Because we are going to be back with you and I'm going to be back with Scott and we're going to be doing some very early positional preview episodes. So you can be on the lookout for that in the coming week and we'll be dropping a couple of week going through the positions. I think you're going to have,

do you have like a schedule of how the rank articles are going to be dropping? In terms of what order the positions go? Yeah, like, are you going to be dropping like one a week through the offseason or how are you going to be doing all your positional ranks? Three of them are already up. I imagine they'll all be up by the end of next week, unless, you know, unless the people making those decisions decide to space them out more. But I'll have them ready to go by the end of next week, so we'll see what they do with them. Well, that three are already on the site. Then that'll be a perfect primer for us to take, and then we can put some podcast content out

there talking about what 2020 looks like positional stuff. I've been taking part in multiple mocks, a two early mocks. I've done one over it in this league. So I'm going to take that. We'll put some players up against each other. We'll talk about tears and we'll talk about what 2020 looks like. And if we can even squeeze them in, I mean, you guys just kept flooding us with emails.

We just, you know, too much content to talk about. We couldn't even get to all of them. So we'll see what questions we can answer for 2020 in those episodes. So you can keep the questions coming at FantasyBesball at cbsi.com. And then just after a little breakthrough, this week. The following week, we should be back with you, Scott White and myself for some 2020 CBS fantasy baseball today pods. Until then, though, congratulations to all the winners. We have to assume most of the people that are still listening are the big winners, right?

Yeah. I like to think so. Yeah. You're not going to call you a lot of people who are listening to us who dropped out too. You know, they just like us that much. They'd miss us. Eternal optimist. I appreciate that. Well, I also wanted to say as far as this regular season stuff goes, thank you guys for having me on. I've enjoyed all of my time talking with, I've enjoyed all my time talking fantasy baseball with you throughout the regular season. And it has been very, very fun. I'm looking forward to doing some offseason stuff too.

So I know you're very excited to get rid of me, but you won't be able to get rid of me like for too long. You get like a week and a half away. I mean, they could just not come back. But I'm not really suggesting that now. Not suggesting that at all. I could not come back. They could not come back, knowing you're going to be doing it stuff.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. If they don't like you. You know, one of my favorite things, too, has been the support that I've gotten from Scott White, the great support, the no passive aggressiveness at all on the job that I've been doing. Well, either way, we'll be back with you. He can't get rid of me whether he wants it or not. It's your choice if you want to be there for it. We'll have a good time. We'll talk about 2020.

Good luck at everything. You guys know where to find us. This is fantasy baseball today, and we are out of here.