Fantasy Baseball Today - 2023 Fantasy Awards! Most Improved, Fakeouts & More! (10/9 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Chris Welsh and Scott White are handing out all different types of awards for the 2023 Fantasy Baseball season! 0:00 Intro 4:15 Scott’s Season Awards process 6:30 Let’s give out some awards starting with the big ones - most valuable hitter and pitcher 23:30 Playoff Updates + News & Notes 36:15 This is where the award names get weird 47:00 Rapid fire awards to end the show Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." 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. And first pitch watching deep left field. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. Welcome into fantasy baseball today.

I'm not Frank Stamphill. Where in the world is Frank Stample? We do have Scott White. Of course, because today is a huge day, 2023 fantasy baseball awards. We have categories through the wazoo. I'm very excited about it. I will be hosting today.

I'm Chris Welsh. Scott, this is like old school. This is like three or four years ago. Frank is somewhere in, is Frank safe? He's like in like Poland. Is he in Poland? I think he's in Poland. Yeah, other side of the world.

That's safe, right? He's okay. He's not going to, we're going to get him back, right? Yes. I don't know travel. I have no idea with travel. I don't know what's going to happen with it. Yeah. No, this is like old old days. 20, 29, the fall of 2019. It was. Hmm. Yes. Like a distant memory. And Scott White coming together to podcast. And, uh, you know, and then Frank came aboard. And then we've invited you back as a guest, but now here you are hosting against this. Look at that. It's full circle. Yeah, the hosting. I was trying to think about this before, you know, as the host of the

fantasy baseball awards here. Frank is like a Billy Crystal and I'm probably, especially with the shirt I'm wearing, I'm probably more like a, oh God, what was the guy's name? I completely forgot the comedian, the no one trust. Is it Ricky Jervase? That's exactly it. I couldn't get it. I couldn't get it. I lost it. I'm like the Ricky Jervis. We keep inviting Frank back and we keep like running you off. That's exactly right. That's a good example. What was the awards that it was like Billy Crystal and Robin Williams?

What were those? Do you remember those? Whoopi Goldberg. They had the three. They were a part of the thing. I have no idea what you're talking about. It's too dated. It's way too dated.

But we've got the awards today. I'm very excited about a little bit of news and notes. We'll talk about the wild card. One thing we've got to figure out, though, the award names. Apparently, this is still not figured out. You have this massive, incredible article that's out there that people can check out over on CBS.

Go to Scott White's Twitter handle. You can see the article there as well. This is awesome awards with these names. I have a name of one of these awards. That is my all-time favorite. I'm very excited. You already guessed off air and you were wrong, so we'll get there. Yeah.

But we don't have an award name. And apparently last year, you guys threw around the bread. Sticks? You're going to have to explain that. Oh, okay. So you don't, you don't understand our podcast relationship to breadsticks. Well, you know, every every day during the season, we have the player of the night or the oh my goodness gracious player of the day. Yeah. Yeah. Choose one.

And Chris Towers came up with the nickname Olive Garden Breadstick for like the obvious choice. Oh, okay, okay, I got you. Yes. It's a little too meta. I think that's a little too meta. I can't even remember the explanation for it. but there's a good ex. It's, yeah, no, it's kind of convoluted, but it sounds similar to my host, Ricky Jervais thing.

Yeah. Like, we all remember it, but we didn't quite get to it. All right. Something about like nobody takes the last breadstick because, so they got free breadsticks, you know, but nobody take, because they're thinking like nobody takes the last breadstick because they don't want to be the rude one. So the best players don't want to be rude to the guy that was worse than them? Something like that.

Something like that. You know, you had to be there. You had to be there. Well, what else? You can't keep going on with this ruse of not having an overall name. The breadsticks is good. Frank, I agree with the Scotty's out there, but, no. I like the Scotty's better.

No, really? I do. I like the Scotty's. I think that, well, these are your awards, your names that you put together. I think these are the Scotty. Scotty Dubbs. I like Goddy Dub awards. Okay.

All right. Well, then we're going to have a bunch of breadsticks. Don't take the last one. That's what we're going to be getting into today. And you have, no joke, 30 of them. So we will be doing a little burning, a little turning, especially probably towards the end, but there are some phenomenal ones in here.

And this is going to be a good placeholder to understand the season. But last thing before we get into it, talk to us about the process of all of this, where there are guys that you wanted to make awards for, so you made sure you talked about them. Yes. Give us the award process here in how you did this. award process is I opened last week's awards article or last year's awards article excuse me and I

think I'm just going to fill in those categories again because you know they were they were good last year let's just do them again but then I kind of go through every player and make a list that's like I don't know 100 names long of players I'd like to give awards to and then I narrow it down to the 30 or so I actually do give awards to and I realize they don't quite fit in these categories let me come up with different names for the awards and so we end up with some kind of ridiculous ones but we highlight the right players which is the important thing is there one person that took the longest to try to get going was there like one person you were just like all right like trying to find the fit and you just right at the end found the fit or did these all were these all just

perfect pegged in well to not spoil anything I will say I really really wanted to give Corey Seeger an award given my history with Corey Seeger and him finally delivering on the upside I thought he had, but I did not. He's awardless. Just like he'll be in real life because of Shohay Otani. Well, there's your award. The award for the guy who didn't get an award for 2023 in the breadsticks. The last breadstick was Corey Seeger. That's the last breadstick award. There you go. I got it. All right. That missed out. Mr. Congeniality. So Mr. Breadstick is Corey Seeger for the year who had a pretty good game yesterday. So let's jump into this.

I don't have Frank's magic box with all the good music that can like drum roll and get us set up here. But we can at least jump right in the 2023 bread stickies. We've got all these awards. And Mr. Scott White, we are going to start with the most valuable hitter of 2023. Simple, straightforward, perhaps a little too obvious with the answer. It's Ronald de Kunya. Now, when I hand this award out normally, there is an emphasis on the word value because values, we have an easy concept for that in fantasy, what they gave you versus what you invested in them. And you invested a lot in Ronald de Kuna.

He was the first overall pick in some leagues, not all leagues. It should have been all leagues. But in some leagues, he was the first overall pick. My initial leaning here was, if I was going to put the emphasis on value, it was going to be Corbyn Carroll, actually, who I know was a centerpiece of, you know. was a centerpiece of all the champions championships i won but the reason why i felt like i had to go with ronald dcunia is because the numbers were just out of so so beyond what anybody could have anticipated coming in the year into the year it was it was perhaps the best rotisserie season ever uh so of course he was the first 40 homer 70 steel guy we talked about that a lot

But to give you some other numbers that puts it in perspective, he stole 27 more bases than any other 40 homer guy in history. He hit 13 more home runs than any other 70 steel guy in history. This is a number that hasn't gotten enough attention. His 149 runs, the second most for any player since 1949. and he did all this with a 337 batting average that would have led the majors three of the past five years. It was absurd.

If you drafted Ronald de Cunia, no matter where you drafted him, I don't know how you lost. You should feel incredible shame right now. Because it was just, it was a season for the ages. That's what I thought about when you did this work, because I did something similar like a week or two ago. And I did put more the emphasis. on the value perspective of it, of thinking, all right, what was the return I got relative to rounds?

And even picking Corbyn Carroll, some would have argued, oh, well, what about this guy who was a 20th rounder? But Ronald Acuna specifically, and especially, is the type of player that it doesn't matter really where you got him because it wasn't just returning first round or first overall value. It was destroying it. So you can take different perspectives on it. I did take that Corby and Carroll one, but this is still the first round. the right answer because if you want to talk about the most valuable how many times do first rounders not hit or you know i think it's like a 70% rate of like return on taking guys somewhere in the

first round and then returning like a 20% top two round actual value return he didn't just take his round he destroyed he added rounds to it the value of what he did with the first overall pick was like equivalent to having three first round pick so i buy this one most valuable player for 2023 is Ronald de Cunia. That takes us to, I think, a much harder award, 2023's most valuable pitcher. Good luck with this, but I think I know where you're going with it. It's Spencer Strider.

Again, it feels like, I went with the obvious answer. When I tried to figure out who really exceeded expectations, nobody stood out on their own. You could have gone like Zach Eflin or Kyle Bradish or somebody like that, but they were all pretty similar to each other, the ones who would fit that description. And sort of like Acuna, Strider was so far ahead of everybody else, at least in a couple of respects, the two most important, I would say.

Spencer Strider had 44 more strikeouts than any other pitcher, and he also had three more wins than any other pitcher. So by virtue of those stats alone, you could overlook the 386 E.R. He was incredibly valuable with Spencer Strider. And he was drafted early, but this season took him from being, you know, just one of, I don't know, 10 high end pitchers, one of 10 pitchers at the being drafted at the top to now he's number one. He'll be the number one pitcher for 2024. My only argument with this one, again, focusing on that value perspective was Blake Snow, because Blake Snow was a player.

was a player that was taken outside the top 100. Because Strider was still like a top five at best, I think, SP. Blake Snow was taken an overall outside the top 100, had a 225 ERA, 14 wins this year. Absurd strikeout numbers as well, 234. I mean, outside of WIP, he did everything. This would be my only argument to your most valuable pitcher. Yeah, that's a good point.

And I guess the reason I dismissed him pretty early in the process is because I knew I wanted him for some other award. And I try not to double up on awards. But now he would be a good candidate too. Okay. So you're just saying no one's going to walk out with like five awards. No. Image of all of them. Okay.

That's not how the breadsticks work. I almost called you Frank. That's not how the breadsticks work, the Welsh. I mean, if I've been to Olive Garden and I will take multiple breadstick. I'm just saying like, I guess you can go one at a time. Like you said, never take the last one. Never take the last one. That's right.

All right. Bobby Big Bat Award. This is a guy that I think very much likes breadstick. So they're going to be appreciative of this. The Bobby Big Bat Award winner for 2023 is who? You know nothing about his diet. I hope he eats a lot of meat, though, because it's Jake Burger. Jake Burger, the Bobby Big Bat Award.

And basically the Bobby Big Bat Award goes to an unexpected source of lots of power. And I would say Jake Berger was on basically nobody's radar coming into the season. It wasn't even clear he'd have any kind of role with the White Sox. And of course, he ended up with the Marlins before the year was done. And that's where he became most consistent with his playing time. Ended up hitting 34 home runs. And not only did he end up with a high home run total, but the exit velocities to match.

I believe he was in the top five for hard. hardest hit ball. I didn't write down the exact number. Really high barrel rate too. Yeah. I mean, the power's legit. And the way he cut down on his strikeouts after joining the Marlins, well, the average exit velocity dropped along with that. But in terms of his hardest hit balls of the year, more than half of his top 15 hardest hit balls came with the Marlins. So it didn't seem to cost him much power-wise. I think Jake Berger is a guy whose stock is on the rise. I don't think there's really an argument. not that we would argue any of these. Jorge Soler was one of those, but to your point,

like, Saler was a good value, but we kind of had had that expectation of big power. I don't think we had the expectation of regular playing time and 30 plus power with Jake Berger. It was so far off the beaten path. Maybe only one other would have been like a Torkelson, but Burger had more. Burger had more and was bigger hard hit. So I think this makes a lot of sense. This is a pretty unanimous for the Bobby Big Battle. What was the impetus to the name? Didn't we talk about this before? Just it does it just like it rolls off the time? I think there was, I had a friend in middle school and we talk about baseball a lot.

And this was some kind of like fictional character he made up, Bobby Big Bat. He was kind of inspired by, what was that game for Super Nintendo? Backyard baseball. No, Super Nintendo. I go back further than that. King Griffey Jr.'s baseball and they all had the players in that all had fake names. I don't know. Okay.

I don't know. It stuck with me. It stuck with me all these years. So. I think it rolls off the tongue. I have to think like John Dowd, like the fake Barry Bonds and whatever game that was, MVP or whatever. Yeah, that stands out to me. But Bobby Big Bat sounds.

Bobby Big Bat. Well, they were kind of silly names in King Griffey Jr.'s. Do you not know that one? Yeah. I just don't remember it. So, sorry. I mean, you're the video game historian here. All right.

So Fred McGriff in King Rofy Jr.'s baseball, for Super Nintendo is D-Crime. Okay. All right. So those are the kinds of names. They have the real character stats and attributes, but then they give them fake names because they didn't have the players association. Way to really hide the name on the crime dog.

Yeah. There are ones that are like teams that are named after like Victorian authors. Some of the teams have themes like that. Like Ninja Turtles? Like this is Michelangelo and this is Donatello. I don't know. The Athletic did an article about it a couple years ago. I suggest you go look that up. It kind of goes into every team. Okay. I like it. I just the Bobby Big Bat. I still think you win. We can do that. All right. Shout out to Andrew. The shout out to Andrew. The Freddie Fleet Foot Award. I'm going to guess there's a similar history of the fun names here. But the Freddie Fleet Foot Award for 2023 goes to whom?

Let me say the name right. Estuary Ruiz is the winner of the Freddie Fleetfoot Award. Not that anybody doubted he could steal bases, but he ended up with 67 of them. And it was all he contributed, really, but it was enough that if you drafted Freddie, if you draft, if you drafted Freddie Fleetfoot, if you drafted Estuary Ruiz, you know, he might have, he didn't single-handedly when you were. a category but he got you a long way there and uh so obviously he didn't lead the majors with those 67 steals ronald de cunia led the majors but the gap between acunia and ruis was smaller than the

gap between ruis and number three in stolen bases at ruiz was 13 ahead of the next guy so carol yeah yeah so ruiz is the winner of this one uh i think like you said the biggest question i had with Ruiz. Would he be able to hit enough to stay in the lineup to steal all these bases? Would he be moved out because he's struggling with his bat? It never really happened. He just kind of kept being out there. The power was interesting, and there's a couple players in the minor leagues that kind of look like him from a categorical standpoint. So this makes a lot of sense. Definitely not a league winner, but a category monster for sure. Next up on the awards, the ace up the sleeve awards. So tell you.

Tell us about the ace up the sleeve award. So this was somebody who did not appear to be an ace at first, but then became one during the point in the year when it mattered the most. And the winner is Freddie Peralta, is an example of that. So Freddie Peralta, his first 19 starts this year had a 472 ERA. his final 11 starts a 244 ERA 0.81 whip 13.2K per 9 and a swinging strike rate was 17% which would be good enough to lead everybody not named Jacob deGrom most years I guess Spencer Strider not not not Spencer Strider either but 17% swinging strike rate is elite elite elite and really it's the first time we've seen that kind of potential from Freddie Peralta since his breakout 2021 season good to know he still has

in him and he won a lot of people championships with that performance in the air the ace up the sleeve award and not alluding to him being a cheater because ace up the sleeve would technically be a term of cheating in poker there scott so he did this in the right way i was completely wrong about freddie proltz i had given up on freddie prong a lot of people did frustrated with it done with it and uh it all came together and i will be a little bit worried still this year buying into whatever high price happens because of of really that dominance that he showed in that second half is something that's going to carry over into his value.

And once you start putting him next to the similar names, I wonder if I'll be able to bite because I feel like I'm still going to get bit. So a little bit worried. I don't know about you. The biggest breakthrough. So I think we have a couple versions of this, but the biggest overall breakthrough for 2023 award goes to whom?

Kyle Braddish. Kyle Bradish. Now, there were several hitters who, went from being terrible to amazing. And maybe some of them will be highlighted in later awards. But I wanted somebody who hadn't really been any kind of entity in fantasy before. And so Kyle Bradish wins this one. He was more like Kyle Battish last year, 490, ERA 140 whip.

But, you know, if you listen to the nerds, guys like Enosaris out there with Stuff Plus, there was a lot to like for Kyle Bradish under the surface. And it came to fruition this year. ended up with a 283 ERA, and it was a 214 ERA over his final 16 starts. So he was kind of an ace up your sleeve, too. Who would you rather have in 2024 Freddie Peralta or Kyle Bradish? I mean, my gut knee-jerk reaction is going to be Peralta because he has more strikeout upside.

But I'll take a closer look at that later. Yeah, I'm getting, I'm throwing it at you. I kind of lean Braddish, but that's also my knee-jerkers. reaction as you know digging into the offseason stuff I think it's probably going to also the the differentiating factor is going to be like I still feel like I don't trust peralta where bradish took those big steps but that's me maybe me being not fair and maybe when you really look into it it's going to be hardcore on one side but I think those guys are going to be in a similar territory let's do one more before the break and we'll stick with the biggest breakouts the biggest

or the biggest breakthrough midseason edition so biggest break through so biggest break through. I hope I said that correctly on the last one now that I'm looking at that. Mid-season edition award goes to whom? It goes to C.J. Abrams. There were other candidates for this, Tristakas, Spencer Torkelson, who you mentioned earlier. But C.J. Abrams went from being a complete non-entity and fantasy, not worth bothering with, to he became basically must start. And he did it by making just one change. As a hitter, he didn't improve that much, but he went from stealing nine bases in the first three months, a continuation

from his rookie season, where are the steals? Nine stolen bases the first three months. 38 the final three. 38 steals in three months' time. You could not take him out of your line. He ended up with 47 to go along with 18 home runs. Poor on base skills. The batting average is lower than you'd like to, but if you're

going to run that much, particularly in a roto league, you are going to be a fixture in fantasy line. You know, I'd also throw out with Abrams. You said he didn't make a ton of changes. There were changes, but look at categorically what he did this year compared to where he was, and then just listen to these are changes, but like listen to just maybe not how big they are. Max EV 109 to 112. That's a pretty good change, but that's not earth-shattering. He tripled his barrel percentage, which sounds like an awesome thing I'm saying, except it went from 2.1 to 6.9, added 5% on the hard hit, but that's still only 35%.

And he kind of just maintained his XBA to his batting average, which both over the last two years have sat in the same general area. So to Scott's point, I think there are good overarching changes across the board, but none of them ended up becoming elite. And just by stealing bases, he became more and more of a problem. I love C.J. Abrams.

I love this award. I would have, I don't know, feel like there's even something else we should give him. I think this is one of those fantasy, like, MVP type. If you want to talk about value, it's a guy most people could have got off the wire after he was cut, and he ends up having an almost 2050 season. It's absolutely unreal. The awards roll on as well as a little bit of a playoff and news look. We got more coming up right after this break, right here on Fantasy Baseball today.

The wild cards are wild. It is fun. Playoffs in full throws. Last night, the Rangers, they've got a 2-0 lead after beating the Orioles 11 to 8. It's got your guy, Corey C. bigger five walks and a pair of runs in that win and the Rangers are rolling right now. Any thoughts? And also fantasy perspective.

I mean, Evan Carter continues to be such a monster. That's going to be one of those guys where you actually have an award that's dedicated to like the you haven't paid attention in the last, you know, month or two and you're going to miss out on this guy. He's kind of one of those. But I think a lot of us nerds are going to just shove. him up rank so much where we're going to be like, dang, we could have had value on Evan Carter because he's doing it in the playoffs. But any thoughts on Orioles Rangers?

Yeah. So, Grayson Rodriguez had a terrible outing here on Sunday, five run runs in one and two third innings. He's not alone in that regard. We're seeing a lot of pitchers just get, you know, it's the playoffs. And it's different stakes. sometimes you're surprised by how things have a tendency to snowball on pitchers that we regard as good. But I don't think this should change anything for Grayson Rodriguez heading into next season. Just to remind you, his 13 starts after being promoted from the minors, he had a 2508 ERA. It was very consistent. Less than a strikeout per inning.

But the strikeout rate got better as it went on. And the swinging strike rate was good the whole time, 13%. So a lot to like about Grayson Rodriguez, even though his playoff debut was a dud. Let me ask you, that's a, you bring up a good question. How much do you, are you willing to make adjustments off of what happens in the playoff? Guys get shellacked. Guys have a good run.

How much of that are you going to carry? And are you more willing to probably carry positives than negatives over into, you know, your draft rankings? So I don't think you should much. I don't think you should much. There are times when it's somebody who doesn't have much stature and fantasy at all is more or less a no name. Which was Randy or Rosarine a couple years ago. Yeah, that's a good example.

And then they kind of emerge in the postseason. And it's like, okay, we didn't, if this team didn't play in the postseason, we wouldn't think anything of this guy. but we just saw him dominate for three, four weeks. So does that change anything? And it forces us to take a closer look at him. It probably gives him a bigger role on his team the following season than it would have otherwise. And yeah, Randy a Rosarine is a great example of that.

I feel like Josh Beckett to go way back like 20 years ago at this point, for the Marlins, he was, you know, he wasn't a nobody, but he hadn't really broken through as a fantasy ace yet and became an Ails. for the Marlins that postseason and became a high-end fantasy option from that point forward. There was the 2020 season, obviously, which was so short 60 games that I feel like what happened in the postseason mattered more just because it gave us a bigger sample. And I know, like, Jose Al-Tuvae turned things around then after a bad 2020. But for the most part, when you end up elevating somebody because of his postseason performance

or downgrading him, it ends up coming back to bite. the next year. That is very, very true. The series all tied up with the twins and the Astros after Pablo Lopez went seven, struck out seven, no earn runs, just looked great. And, you know, coming off of this season, and Pablo Lopez was just such a value all year long. He had a couple moments of just kind of, you know, tailing coming back up and down. But he ended with a three, six, seven ERA, an expected ERA that was better. He was getting more strikeouts. His stuff looked phenomenal he had three pitches he used double digit percentage of the time that had over a 30% whiff rate and really he's just carrying this into a clutch spot which i think there's the possibility

that Pablo lopez could be one of those guys that everyone's like yeah he was good and he was fun but maybe the value isn't shoved up that i'm going to want some more Pablo lopez and i might have more shares i could be wrong about that but uh any takes you want to talk about Pablo twins astros So, yeah, Pablo Lopez was a victim of the glob like so many pitchers were because there were these extreme highs and lows throughout the season. And the final numbers ended up okay. They weren't that much better than last year when I think everybody kind of soured on him just because of the distribution of those stats. Remember, last year Pablo Lopez started out like a rocket and then had a very rough time as the season went on. But the final numbers ended up about the same.

just more hit and miss this year. Because of the strikeouts, he's going to be higher within that glob. He's going to be in the glob for me. He's still a glob for you? Yeah. Yeah. What was the final ERA?

367 with an expected of three, though. Mm-hmm. It's pretty good. 29.2% K percentage, 6% walk percentage. I guess the strikeout rate was up quite a bit from last year, 10.9 versus 8.7.

And 23.6% last year. The ERA and WIP were very similar. Yeah, I mean, at some point, he's going to be higher within the glob. And I still haven't decided exactly where that cutoff is. But I don't think of Pablo Lopez. Like, he's somebody in the glob who maybe has ace potential, but I don't think he's established himself as somebody all that reliable yet.

I mean, just based on the way his season went. Okay. I feel like we need a term for like the just outside the glob names. We can work on the office. because I feel like he's not a glob, but he's also not the ace. He's that he's somewhere in between and there's some name that we can come up on the fence he's I don't know we'll workshop workshop it yeah exactly we'll workshop it also they didn't play yesterday but a series Phillies and Diamondbacks both have a

1-0 lead over the two best teams in baseball which is a wild experiment that's going on the Diamondbacks absolutely trounce the Dodgers we had homers from Gabriel Moreno Corby Carol, of course. And Spencer Strider, as you talked about, took the loss. He did his part. It wasn't, the Phillies ambushed him in the playoffs last year. But he did his part.

The Braves got shut out by a combination. It was just something we've been seeing this postseason two is starting pitchers rolling along, you know, three innings, and then they pull them. And that's what happened to Ranger Suarez against the Braves. And it's like, okay, take him out. We'll, we're happy not to see him anymore. Um, but then, you know, they, they were able to, uh, line up enough relievers that they just continue to shut down the brays got got shut out at home, I believe for the first time all

season. So, um, that was disappointing. Hopefully they bounced back here on Monday. I think, uh, a guy that will be a leader of the glob and he's just not exciting to everybody, but Merrill Kelly, he struck out five, went six and one third. He's just an oldie, but goody. He just gets it done. And I think he's one of those guys that's, um, he's just not.

a backbone of a rotation, even though he will just never be drafted high. He was phenomenal in that. And he had a good season. He had a really good season for the Merle, the Merle Kelly's. A couple pieces on news and notes out there. We got news. This one stinks because I traded for him early in the year on the cheap in an Otno league. Sandy O'Contra is having Tommy John surgery going to miss all of 2024.

And Frank had even put on here. one interesting thing is going to be looking at a guy like Max Meyer. I love that guy and we've just, I kind of thought we might even see him in like the AFL. We didn't. But Alconra, there's really nothing to talk about because he's gone. And we kind of move on from that. But, you know, where else are they going to find it?

It doesn't look like six still. But maybe Meyer's going to be the guy. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure Meyer would have been heavily in the mix next year regardless. But there's a clear path for all the interesting Marlins pitchers now, Edward Cabrera being another. I've tried to acquire Max Meyer from you a couple times in the Scott White Dynasty League. You rebuff. I'm a love.

I love him. So that's not going to happen. I will say for Sandy Alcantra, he was having one of those kinds of seasons where he was underperforming and we were perplexed by it, given this guy's track record. We kept waiting for him to turn things around it. It just kept not happening. Was it the environment? What was going on?

A lot of times, we see guys like that having inexplicably bad seasons and we just can't find a reason for it and then this ends up happening. They have ligament damage. They end up having Tommy John surgery. So if you're looking for a silver lining

in that storm cloud, that's it. That we might have an explanation now for why Alcantro was struggling all season. Yeah, there's a part of me that's going to sit back and be like, was it the changes that he was trying to find and fix that then caused, him doing different things and got that injury or was that injury always kind of maybe a lingering

thing because i tended to think like his change up usage was so much different maybe he was uncomfortable doing that with the shift and i just felt like all of that was leading to this bad spot where he seemed he's a very smart pitcher tinkering with a lot of different things and maybe that tinkering is caused was what caused the injury because it doesn't really matter i guess at the end of the day but we don't know exactly when the timing was you're right about that but it is it is the sort of injury that a pitcher can pitch through for a while and it can get worse he can tear it more um so it can go undetected for a while is why it's why i bring it up we also found out that kyle wright is having Tommy john surgery he's going to be out for the no no no it's not oh is it's

worse it is what was it it is worse he has holes in his shoulder capsule and he's having surgery to repair those yes i am how do you get hold in your shoulder capsule. Well, you know, he's had the shoulder issue going back to spring training. And I don't know exactly when it was discovered. But yeah, and this, like, this is worrisome. This is, this is not, okay, Tommy John, he'll miss next year, but then he'll probably come back good as new.

I don't know that. I mean, hopefully Kyle Wright is able to make it back from this full strength. But I have serious doubts. And if he doesn't, that 21 win, 2020 season is going to go down as one of the all-time one-hit wonder seasons. I mean, you look at his career track record. It's like 6 ERA here, 5 ERA there, and he wins 21 games one year. I hope that doesn't happen for Kyle Wright, but I'm not at ease with the procedure he's having here.

I'm not at ease of having holes in your shoulder. I don't. Yeah. I think I get like comedic and I'm like pouring water and it's just like I don't understand how that happens. That's even worse than I wrote it down wrong. So okay, that's bad. He is out for all of 2024 though as part of that. That's the main thing.

And the good thing that that team has developed is that's probably even a little bit better of a push for AJ Smith Schaver. Not that, you know, maybe there was going to be an issue with him getting in that rotation, but it's just one more step in. They like Bryce Elder. So I kind of see that as an extra plus for. Smith Shavar going into next year and he might be a nice cheap option. Joy Votto might not be done. It says it might play another year, even if it is not with the Reds.

So it'll just go down as one of those weird things. We're going to see him in another uniform and it'll make us all feel uncomfortable. And it'll be like the Marlins or something and we'll all be kind of grossed out with it. And the Astros decided to dismiss their assistant GM Bill Furkus and farm director, Sarah Goodrum. So they are going to retool as the Astros need to retool. They do have a good kid out here Nairzona Fall League, Zach DeSenzo. Very, very nice bat, big bodied six foot four guy who's playing in the outfield. So maybe keep an eye on. They got a couple good guys. They got a couple good. A Kennedy Corona got hurt out there, but I hope to report back on him soon. Let's do a few more

awards and then we will go into maybe a little bit of a rapid fire. The awards move on to the 23 fake out of the year hitter edition. That would be, I'm sorry to say, Sean Murphy. Sean Murphy looked like the best catcher in fantasy, at least on a per game basis. He had Travis Darno interfering with his playing time, getting more than the typical backup catcher would. And so that was annoying.

but Sean Murphy slash 306, 400, 599 in the first half. Second half was a different story. Second half, Sean Murphy slashed 159, 310, 275. So the batting average was basically cut in half. The slugging percentage was more than cut in half. If you go to a stack cast page, it's still lit up in red. There's still a lot to like about Murphy. and I know there was a concussion at some point in the second half that he came back very quickly from.

And I wonder if it was kind of an Anthony Rizzo's situation where he came back too quickly from that. Hard to say. Not a doctor, obviously. But just trying to come up with some kind of explanation for why he fell off so hard. I mean, it could be as simple as he wasn't getting a bats consistently enough and just kind of wasn't able to work through that rough patch. But next year, I still think Sean Murphy deserves to be drafted in the top five because of the upside. You know, Travis Arnault is going to be a year older, I believe it's going to be 35 next year. It's going to be the older he gets, the less he's going to interfere with Sean Murphy's playing time.

And so I wouldn't lose hope in Sean Murphy, but he certainly was a fake out this year. 306 first half with 17 homers, 159 second half with four homers. That's a bit of a fake. We were cutting, and we were talking a lot about it every time I was on. We were talking about, I'm probably going to cut him for whatever hot, viable catchers out there. There was no need to hold on, which leads us to the fake out of the year pitcher edition. Who faked us out on the SPs? Got to be Andrew Abbott, right?

And we talked about him. Every start, he was let off. Every time he started, he basically kicked off the show. 190 ERA in his first 10 starts up from the miners. you know, considering he was putting up these ridiculous strikeout numbers in the miners, a lot of people were buying into that. Okay, 190 ERA. We found our new ace in the year of the glob, all these unreliable pitchers.

Andrew Abbott, he is the one. But we kept telling you, I don't know. I don't know. Those strikeout numbers aren't really translating. There's a lot in his profile that's not so appetizing. And over his final 11 starts, 640. 2ERA. Not great. Not great. Now, you know, he was entering uncharted waters with the innings and maybe that contributed to the decline. I don't think he's as bad as a 642ERA, but he's clearly not as good

as a 190 ERA either, and it was a big fake out. 2023's biggest underachiever. This is a fun award, and I think this is a very good answer. Blake's now. Oh, I'm sorry, you said underachiever. Underachiever. Underachiever. I'm not to say that is not. Oh, okay. Sorry. sorry, sorry, so let's do, that's your overachiever. Overachiever, yeah. Okay, let's start there. Yeah, I must not have copied that over.

It's Blake's now. And Blake's now was the award. I had him in mind for this award, which is why I didn't want him for a pitcher, most valuable pitcher award. So obviously he's going to be the NL. Sai Young. I don't think anybody disputes that at this point. 225 ERA is what it ended up being. Stackcast says his ERA should be three.

74. That's a big difference, a point and a half difference. In fact, it's the biggest difference for any qualifying pitcher between the actual ERA and the expected ERA. And a lot of that has to do with him issuing five walks per nine innings. I'm not sure we'll ever see a SIE young winner with five walks per nine innings again. That was ridiculous. Blake Snell's history should also give you doubts about his ability to carry over this 225 ERA. I would say, statistically speaking, he's the biggest overachiever this year. I think that's hard to argue. I think what do you have? He logged a total of like seven innings on the seventh inning or later this entire year. I mean, the guy lived into the six, couldn't go any further. It's going to be hard to repeat. This is going to be if you are, this will be the don't pay this year for last year's stats guy.

That's my award. Don't pay this year for last year's stats award winner. will be Blake's now when we go into 2024. Okay, so the actual underachiever, the biggest underachiever in 2023, I like this one, is whom? It's Vladimir Guerrero.

So he had a 374 ex-Woba, expected Woba. It was basically halfway between the incredible 2021, where he was the top player in fantasy in the 2022, where

he was still very good, but it was disappointing. this year it was the ex-woble was halfway in between and yet the numbers were a lot worse he was even more of a disappointment so he ended up with a 264 batting average and a 444 slug that's compared to a 291 expected badding average and a 494 expected slug i mean if if that's the year vladimir guerrero has then we're still talking about him as a first rounder but it wasn't should we assume that's a couple years now where the production's been well short of expectations. Do those underlying stat-cast numbers tell us that we should continue to treat Vladimir Guerrero as a stud bat in fantasy, or should we play it a little more cautiously?

After back-to-back years of this, and also considering that his incredible season wasn't, you know, a lot of it came in Buffalo, a lot of it came in Dunedin, in Florida, their spring training site um i don't know i'm i'm going to play it safe with vladimir guerrero probably make him like a third round target early third round and if he comes through with first round numbers great but it's it's kind of a fool me one shame on you fool me twice shame on me situation i think there's going to be a lot of should i really be taking vlad when christian

walker is still available a lot of comparisons and value no way i think there will between and you think Walker is going to be drafted that early? I'm not saying that Walker is going to be drafted ahead. I'm saying that people will look at Vlad and be like, why do I take Vlad here when I can get Christian Walker later to maybe outproducing? And I was doing that with Matt Olson this year. I stupidly did too. Oh, got it.

Any clip of that where I'm like, I don't need Matt Olson, get Jose a brave. All right. The Cizzle Real Award winner for 2023, is this the most excited? player award? Yeah, basically the player who is just a human highlight reel, but he's kind of all sizzle no stake. And that would be Ellie de la Cruz.

Second straight year, we've had a freakishly tall shortstop doing dazzling feats of athleticism, just breaking stat cast left and right. And yet the final production, it's not that it was not useful. I mean, L.A. De La Cruz, he had a ton of stolen bases. That made him useful. But he hit only 2.35. And, you know, the last couple months, it was much lower than that, even. But he hit the ball harder than all but two players. He threw the ball harder than any infielder in stat cast history. And he trailed only Bobby Witt in sprit speed. So clearly, this is a tooled-up player with a ton of upside. But will he actualize it next year?

He's going to get drafted for the upside, but it may, you know, because of the strikeouts, it may end up being a disappointment. It's at least a question whether you should take him as early as he's going to go, which I guess was probably going to be in round three as well. Would you rather have Ellie or O'Neill? Ellie. I mean, O'Neill Cruz is coming back from a significant injury

that cost most of the season. What if you get a round difference? What if Ellie's in the third and Cruz is in the fourth? I think I'd need two rounds. Okay. I don't know if I can give it to you. We'll see. Maybe I can.

I might drive me either. I don't know. Okay. Well, hey, have fun with it. I like this one. The one fantasy footballers won't see coming. I did this exact same thing. There's always that time where people dip out of fantasy baseball

and they're just not going to have the value quite put in. So this will be the last one before the break here. Fantasy footballers will not see who coming in 2024. They will not see Nolan. Jones coming. Nolan Jones was a league winner this year. In September, he hit 349 with seven home runs and 12 steals. It brought him to exactly 20 homers and 20 steals for the year, despite playing just 106 games. And as you'd expect for somebody playing half their games at Corse Field, good batting average, too, 297, even though the strikeout rate is high. Nolan Jones was fantasy relevant at the time fantasy

footballers tuned out. But he wasn't that. This is, maybe he should be drafted in round three as well. I think he's far less likely, too, than Vladimir Guerrero and Ellie De La Cruz. But that's the kind of upside Nolan Jones showed down the stretch. When we see the projections in the off season, we're going to ooh and awe. Ladies and gentlemen, half of the awards are out. We've got a whole other half to go, and it is going to be rapid fire as we go through. You're going to find out the one that no one saw coming.

Rebuilder's delight. Mr. Wait, who, and my favorite name of them all. We're going to do it right after this, right here in Fantasy Baseball today. All right, Scott, we have got half of the awards to go. We're going to do a rapid-ish fire. I will have less narrative to them, so I will let you speak on it as you will. But we're going to try to go quick. Who is the one that no one saw coming in 2023?

Chas McCormick, who I don't know about you, but I did not see him being anything more than a fourth outfielder type rest of his career. was already 28 years old. First couple years in the majors did nothing that exciting. But he ended up having a 22-Homer 19-19-steel season, and that was even with Dusty Baker sort of toying with his playing time. Over the final four months, he hit 290 with 18 homers, 15 steals, and a 87-O-PS.

So I would say Chas McCormick has termed himself, and too much more than a fourth outfielder type. and will probably be drafted among the top 30 outfielders next year, something like that. Sounds about right. In 2023, the person who Scott would not shut up about, or it is called the one I wouldn't shut up about,

is who? Cole Regans. And if you're a regular listener to this podcast, if you're listening now, you probably are. And you know, I want to shut up about Cole Regens from the time he was back in the big leagues at the start of August. All he did, and his final 11 starts,

was put together a 270 ERA, 106 whip, 11.6K per 9. And the impetus was this new slider he unfurled after returning from the miners seemed to bring the whole arsenal together. He hit 101 with his fastball at one point, so that was a weapon, too. It really had five pitches. Some control issues that reared their ugly head

in September, especially. But there's a lot to like about Cole Reagan. It's clearly a lot of upside here and somebody who I'm going to rank very high for next year. I completely agree. Brittany Spears' Instagram gives me anxiety and makes me sad. This player does not make me sad. The oops, I did it again award winner goes to who? Christian Walker. Let's go. Your guy. Yeah, he did it again. Everybody doubted him? Sort of. Sort of. We were just saying, We might have been willing to pass up on Matt Olson early to draft Christian Walker later. But that's because people weren't buying into the year Christian Walker had.

He was going much later than those numbers suggested. That year, 2022, he had 36 homers, drove in 94 runs. This year, he hit 33 homers and drove in 103 runs, even at 11 steals for good measure. Only weird thing about it, the only reason there still might be cause for skepticism with Christian Walker, who's 32 years old, I'll point out. The average exit velocity was only 23rd percentile this year compared to 69th percentile last year. So that was a little weird, but the peak exit velocities were still great, what you'd expect

from a power hitter. And ultimately, I think that matters more. I agree. A hip, a hop, a hibbit to the hip, hip, hip, hop. Is that where you were going with this with Rebuilder's Delight, not Rappers Delight, which is a great classic? That is where I was going. And the winner of Rebuilder's Delight is Lane Thomas.

Love. So the idea behind this is when you get a rebuilding club, you get opportunities for players who've been passed over by other organizations. You know, they've been around for a while. They kind of missed their opportunity with where they were previously, but a rebuilding team has to fill out its lineup. So somebody like Lane Thomas gets at bats, and occasionally they break through with big-time fantasy production.

as Lane Thomas did this year, 28 homers, 20 steals, 1001 run scored, 86 RBI, was a must-start player, finished high in the outfield rankings. Didn't it hit very well in the second half. The batting average was way down, and so that's reason to be concerned going into next year, but obviously we enjoyed what Lane Thomas gave us this year. A bang bang a boogie to up, jerk the boogie. It's classic. It's in my head now.

This might be the most prestigious award of all of them. If you listen to CBS all year long and you have listened to Scott White Talk, this might have the most meaning to everybody. We are about to crown Mr. Glob, 2023. This is like a pageant award. Here he is Mr. 2020, Mr. Glob. Winner is who? The globbiest of the Glob is Mitch Keller.

And yeah, he had a lot of competition for this award. But I think what makes Mitch Keller so representative of the glob is that he would have these disastrous starts amid these brilliant starts. I mean, so some starts for Mitch Keller this year include one and run and seven innings, seven Ks, two runs and six innings, ten Ks, seven shutout innings, 13Ks, a complete game shutout with eight Ks, seven innings two hits, one run, seven innings one hits, six eight hits, six, eight. innings 12Ks, eight shutout innings, another eight shutout innings for two hits and set, like amazing starts. But then amid them, he had four starts where he gave up seven earn runs or more. And so it brought his overall ERA to 421, yuck, right? If you take out those four starts where Mitch Keller gave up seven earned runs or more, that 421 ERA goes to 313, along with a 114 whip and 10.1K per nine. So he would have been an absolute stud in fantasy.

And I do think, like, there's two ways you could look at that heading into next year, obviously. I feel like Mitch Keller has made stride into the last few years. And because those good starts are the kind only accessible to true aces, I do feel like we could see Mitch Keller take another step toward becoming that next year. But in this environment where the shift ban and all the other changes have caused these bad outings to snowball in this way for so many pictures, you just wonder how many true Aces are going to get, obviously. I will point out to Austenola's game log, a lot like Mitch Keller with these extreme highs and lows. Aaron, but yeah.

Aaron, not Austinola. That would be very impressive if Austinola had Mitch Keller numbers. I would be very impressed. Aaron Nola had a game log very much like that. But we already considered him an ace, obviously, coming into the year. So Mitch Keller hasn't broken free from the glob yet. I think I mentioned it on here when I was with Corvin Carroll earlier this year in August, asked him who is the nastiest pitcher he to face?

And he said Mitch Keller. He singled out. He said Mitch Keller's stuff was so ridiculous, even though the results weren't there because you didn't know what was coming. It wasn't even just the pitches is he could pitch from behind you and you would have a hard time finding what was going. From Mr. Glob to Mr. Wait, who for 20203 is who? Christopher Sanchez, 26-year-old, no prospect pedigree, uninspiring minor league track record.

No reason to care about him, right? Well, in the time he was up, he ended up having what, if he had the innings to qualify, what would have been the second best ground ball rate among starting pitchers, what would have been the fourth best walk rate among starting pitchers. Marlins would love him. And also, he had a couple of 10 strikeout efforts in September. So he showed some strikeout ability there, particularly with the changeup. Complete no name for most of the year.

But he's a somebody going into next year is Christopher Sanchez. Mr. 2020s didn't really count award winner. Is who? It's Jose Barrios, who was, had a scary 2022, 523-ERA-142 whip, 7-2.000. point 8k per 9 we wondered is this guy done have we seen the last of Jose borrios as a fantasy asset bounce back this year with numbers basically like he was consistently putting up prior to that 2022 season so it seems like it didn't account for him well on the mr no but it actually did count award winner is who Lucas Gialito

who similar track record to burrios heading into last year and then had an inexplicably bad season with an ERA near five It was 490, I believe, is what it was. This year it was 488. And what's funny is Lucas Gialito looked like he was back on track for the first three or four months. Like, okay, Lucas Gialito, we can trust him again. It took a 714 ERA in the final two months to bring that ERA up to 488 and basically give him numbers exactly like he had in 2022. So not a lot of optimism for Lucas Gialito moving forward.

long live the D.H. Award winners? Uh-huh, three of them. So Marcel Ozuna, J.D. Martinez, those are two of them. They both appeared to be done as fantasy contributors. But then they were made full-time DHS this year. I think Martinez had been in that role primarily last year as well. But Ozuna had spent a lot of time in the outfield. They just stuck up at DH.

They just left him there and they bounced back. Revered years of decline became basically stud hitters. I mean, Ozuna got 40 homers 100 RBI, Martinez, 33, 103 in far fewer games than Ozuna, actually, because he missed some time with injury. They were studs. And then the third is Mitch Garver, who finally got the consistent playing time he needed to shine as a fantasy catcher. He just needed that time to come at D.H. And he had a big home run in the postseason already as well. Don't know if the Rangers resign him.

That's going to be a big question for Mitch Garver heading in the next season. But hopefully whoever does sign him just gives him the DH role and we can enjoy him as a fantasy catcher. This is my favorite award name because it's so out of pocket. I look at it and I just laughed when I saw it.

2023's biggest weirdo award. This has been one that's this has been a standby. I know. I love it. Isok Perides is the winner. of the Weirdo Award. I think Cal Quantrell was the two-time defending champ. But basically just numbers that are really difficult to explain.

They're just weird. Esoc Paredes hit 31 homers this year, and he did that even though when you look at his stack cast page, it's icy blue. The new bars that they have there, the new version of the sliders, they look like little icicles on his stack cast page. It doesn't hit the ball at heart at all,

but ends up with 30 plus homers. and had a lot of homers last year, too. It's because I think he's so good at pulling the ball in the air. It's a little trick, a neat little trick. But you don't want to be left holding the bag when it doesn't work out one of those years. And particularly with the rays, I mean, they could pull the plug on his playing time for the slightest offense. And so for now, Issoc Peridis is the biggest weirdo, but I'm not sure it's going to last. All right.

Rapid Fire with these last. We got six more here with very little time. Biggest about face of 2023. Ryan Pepio, we talked about it a lot. He basically went from walking everyone to walking no one this year. 4.4 walks per nine last year, 1.4 per 9 this year. Strongest skinny guy O'Fourne. This is a fun one.

Evan Carter. I doubted he would be able. He was physically developed enough to provide power when the Rangers called him up. but clearly that hasn't been an issue. You look at him play. He looks like Rick Moranis' character from space balls. The helmet is so big compared to the rest of his body. It doesn't matter.

Guys doing everything at the plate. Evan Carter. Dark helmet. That's an all-time great reference. I love that one. Everybody deserves someone sometimes award winner. I skipped it. I added to a little bit.

Oh, what did I skip? But that's okay. Everyone deserves some award is Zach Gelloff, who was just a breath of fresh air in that dark, dark situation in Oakland. And basically emerges a must start second basement with power and speed. And now I also see why. You're going to get mad that I was going to skip this. The Paralism Award winner goes to who?

The Parallelism Award is Michael Harris. He is the winner of that. As a rookie, he's slashed 297-339-514. as a sophomore Michael Harris slashed 293, 331, 477. Almost exactly the same. The stolen base total was exactly the same 20. The home run total was one off. He had 18 instead of 19.

He got about 100 more bats, I will point out. But really the slash line, the fact that it's almost identical, particularly after that dreadful starty at 174, the first two months. It's pretty impressive there for Michael Harris. Mr. Vinny Vindication of 2023, to a very popular 24 draft pick already. Royce Lewis,

former number one overall pick way back in the 2017 draft twice tore his ACL, missed a lot of this year with an oblique. Everybody was kind of over him. But then he homered 11 times his last 32 games,

four of them grand slams. It's having a big postseason already. Royce Lewis vindicated as a first overall pick and how high is he going to be drafted next year? We'll see. By the way, I consider Corey Seeger for this award. He was almost any vindication. Gave it to Royce Lewis instead. Royce deserved it. The Magic Weekling Award winner of 2023.

This is my favorite name. So it could have gone to Esauk Peretti's. It's kind of a similar thing. But if his stat cast page was icicles, T.J. Friedles, even smaller icicles. Hard hit rate was fifth percentile. Average exit velocity was tenth percentile. And yet T. J. Friedel hit 18 home runs. And he contributed in other ways, which made his, him, him a magical weakling, 27 stolen bases, got on base a lot, played against left-handers more than a lot of the Reds outfielder did. I think it's going to all that up to him being a top 25 outfielder next year, even though he's weak. He's so weak, apparently. Finally, the final award, the launch angle revolutionary is who? Frank would like this one. He talked about a lot. It's kid Brian Hayes,

who over the final two months, he had a 41.5% fly ball rate. That's compared to like a 30% fly ball rate for his career. He always hit the ball hard, just needed to elevate it better. With that elevated fly ball rate in the final two months, he had 10 home runs just in those two months, gave him 15 for the years a career high but 10 over two months time I mean what that that translates to like a 30 homer season if you can keep it up I doubt he could keep it up but hopefully he can at least

you know show some improvement for the full season maybe get to 20 homers next year I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility for keep Brian Hayes based on what he showed the final two months 30 players I tried to skip some apparently 30 awards all there

Scott you did a killer job you guys can go over to CBSports.com slash fantasy. Look out for the handing out awards for 2023 if you want to read the article that Scott put together. All the award winners are done. And as Scott said, Corey Seeger was probably Mr. Irrelevant that was just missed, but we gave him

the breadstick, you know, the last one. The breadstick of the breadsticks. Yes. Yep, the breadstick. He was the last breadstick that we took out. That is going to do it. We're going to wrap there. Thank you guys for hanging out with me. Thank you, Scott for your great work for Scott and myself the Welsh. Thanks as always for tuning into Fantasy Baseball today. Please

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