Fantasy Baseball Today - Alek Manoah Dazzles! Week 10 Sleepers & Fantasy Fun Facts (5/28 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 28, 2021

Oh man, THE MOUNTAIN Alek Manoah was awesome in his first start (2:05)! How much FAB should you spend on him? ... Buy-high on Dylan Cease before next week if you can (8:00)! What is Pablo Lopez doing differently? ... Let's talk about this wild Javier Baez play from Thursday (12:22). ... News and notes (20:08)! Shohei Ohtani was scratched from his pitching start due to a transportation issue, Trevor Story is day-to-day plus we have prospect updates. ... Which sleepers should you be targeting for Week 10 (26:04)? What about two-start pitchers? ... Fantasy Fun Facts (39:38)! Bo Bichette is on pace for what? Are we concerned with Stephen Strasburg's velocity? ... We wrap up the week with deeper waiver wire options, bullpen updates, streamers, and your apple podcast questions (50:09)! ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer 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

Happy Kokomo Friday and welcome in to fantasy baseball today presented by Lining Cougall's more on their great variety of beverages later on in the podcast. First and foremost, happy Memorial Day weekend as well. Just want to thank those men and women who have served and continue to serve this country. Our sincerest thank you from all of us here at CBS Sports, Frank Stanfield, joined by Scott White. and we'll get to the mountain, Alec Manoa, week 10 sleepers, two-star pitchers, fantasy fun facts, your Apple podcast review questions, and much, much more.

But first, what do we have here? That's right. TGIF, thank God it's Friday. I will be drinking a line in Cougal's summer shandy all podcast long, so Scott, feel free to take the reins today. This is your podcast. Okay. Way to throw it to me.

Totally unprepared. How are you doing, Scott? Scott is fired up because we were talking beforehand and he's ranting about stuff and he got the wheels turning. I think we have to come up with a new segment where we just have Scott's rant. I'll come up with a more creative name for it, obviously, hopefully.

But Scott's fired up and I like this. I like this side of Scott. Angry Scott. Let's go. Oh, I am just raging today, Frank. Just raging. No taking it easy on this Cocoa Friday. We haven't had the voice changer in a while,

which just earned us at least five emails over the weekend. This guy is not worthy of, oh my goodness gracious. He's better than, oh my goodness gracious. We're starting off with the mountain. That's right. I am dubbing Alec Manoa the Mountain. You've seen Game of Thrones. It doesn't matter.

Alec Manoa, the mountain looks up to Alec Manoa. This guy is a hulking human being, and he dazzled in his first professional start against the New York Yankees' debut in Yankee Stadium, six shutout, two hits, two walks, seven strikeouts, 13 swinging strikes on 88 pitches. Scott, what did you see from Alec Manoa? And is he, this roster rate has to be 100%, right? Because he's right around 73, 74%.

I think it needs to be 100%. Yeah, he looked really good. He looked really good. Yeah, he did. Yeah. He used all four of his pitches. The one he used the least, he still used 15% of his. time that shows a lot of polish for a guy just making his major league debut and after only nine

minor league starts in his entire minor league career the spin rate on his fastball was great his control he threw 68 percent of his pitches were strikes it's also very impressive to see from a guy in his major league debut only two hits allowed 13 swinging strikes on 88 pitches i mean you know that's fine that's a good number but i think with that four pitch arsenal and the fact that the fast ball itself is such a good swing and miss pitch. I mean, that's not going to be a problem for him. He's going to miss plenty of bats. He just looked so much movement on all the pitches.

He looked really, really good. And I can't, there's nothing negative I can say about him. I mean, this is how he looked in spring training. This is how he was looking at AAA. He just seems like he's ready to take off here. And his second major league start next week is going to be against Miami. So, you know, that seems like a good. It seems like you might want to go ahead and get him active right away.

In addition to picking him up wherever he's still available, you know, the only negative I can say about Manoa is that because of that lack of experience, are we going to see him go in six innings still in September? Like at what point are they going to have to do something about those innings? But not the time to worry about that. Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say.

We'll worry about it the closer we get to that point. If there comes a time in the season where we see a, a sell high window opportunity to trade Alec Manoa in redraft leagues in Keeper or Dynasty. I think you're going to want to hold on to this guy because he looks pretty damn good. His first two strikeouts came against Rootnet Odor, a changeup, which is supposed to be his third pitch. It looked like I don't want to overstate this or anything, but it looked like a really, really good change up.

Not like, okay, the best change of in the league, but it was a really good change up. And then his second strikeout came against Aaron Judge, where the ball was already in the glove before Aaron Judge even swung at it. So 94.9 miles per hour on the fastball for Alec Manoa. Plays up a little bit because he's got that extension. He's six foot six. Really liked what I saw there. Can't say anything bad about it.

Like you said, Scott. He only allowed two hard hit balls all day in the start against the Yankees. If you are playing in a league where he's still available and there is fab, in a 12-team league, Scott, what are we thinking? And then versus a 15-teamber because I play a, a few 15 team leagues where he's available. And I was talking to someone today, I think he's going to go for like over 30%

of fab budgets. I think people are just going to clear it out for him. Yeah, I would. I would, I'd probably go 35% if he was still available. I might go and just in case somebody, I, so like a league with a thousand dollar budget like, like, uh, like Tao Wars like

TGFBI I have. 367. It's going to be my bid. I always go $17 more when it's a big bid like that. Okay. Just to, you know, keep it rent. Okay. But so it's not random because it's the same thing every time and it's not random because I just told everybody But um yeah, that's what I'm thinking and uh shallower league. I mean there are a lot of other considerations here obviously is it is it daily fab is it zero dollars zero dollar bids or something or do you have to do you have to save a dollar for every transaction action you plan on making for the rest of the season because of minimum one dollar bit you know if it if it's weak

you end up having to bid more because everybody's tuned in that one day a week and they're all competing. So before this start, we were talking like 20% of the budget, right? Yeah. Do you go higher in shallower leagues than 15 team leagues or do you

go lower? I would assume lower than what you were just saying. I would be willing to spend that much in a deeper league. Like 15 teams are deeper or if you're playing some kind of AL only, you're going to be want to be really aggressive over 30% of your fab budget. But I think in a 12-team league, 20 to 25%, I think that's fair. Yeah.

The case for going even higher in a shallower league is there are going to be fewer pickups that literally everybody in the league is in on, just because they're, you know, 15 team leagues when somebody's legitimately good and emerges on waiver wire, like, you know, like moths to the flame the whole the whole league um so there's a definite bidding war there but there's going to be a bidding war for minoa no matter what league you're in but there are fewer bidding wars in general and shallower leagues because obviously there are more good players to go around so that would be the case for going like 40% or something if you had a lot of fab dollars left and uh you just really wanted to win him but you know i could see it both ways i could see going like

25% the man was awesome the man the myth the mountain Alec Manoa, but there was actually more games on Thursday outside of just the Yankees and Blue Jays. So let's get to it. Oh my goodness gracious. All right, Scott, where do you want to start? One of your other standouts from Thursday. Dylan Cease. Let's do it.

Yes. Yes. There's no stopping Dylan Cease. He had the start. I'd been waiting for him to see. You know, I'd been pointing out, the spin rate was way up on all of his pitches, fastball and slider especially, like the best spin rate in baseball, more or less on those two pitches. And he had two 20 swinging strike efforts where the final result wasn't that good.

But, I mean, 20 swing strikes. You don't see that very often except from like the Jacob de Grom class of starting pitchers. Well, today against the Orioles, I acknowledge it's the Orioles. But they're not as far down like, Team OPS, they're not as far down as you think. But anyway, against the Orioles. tutorials today. Dylan Sees struck out 10 and six innings allowed one run. 29 swinging strikes.

I don't know if that's like the highest single game total for anyone this season. I want to say somebody broke 30 at some point. But it equals Jacob de Grom's season high, 29 swinging strikes. And Dylan Sees just did it. And yeah, I mean, I said it a couple days ago when we're talking to dynasty context

by him now because he's about to take off. still looks like he's about to take off. Two starts next week for Dylan Cease at Cleveland versus Detroit. Oh my. That is tasty. There may be no looking back after those two starts for Cease.

Yeah, the ERA is down to 2.98, and you might still have a buying opportunity, which sounds weird considering the start that he just had because someone might look at the underlying number, Scott, and they'll say, oh, but he has a 4.04 X-FIP, which, okay, you can, we should mention that.

because he is a fly ball pitcher. He tends to lean towards fly balls when people make contact against him, which hasn't been often recently. And his home run to fly ball ratio was just 6.5% coming into this start. So you have to assume he's going to allow more home runs as the season goes along,

pitching in Chicago, which is more of a hitter's park, as the weather heats up. But you can't take away the fact that he is getting swings and misses at this phenomenal rate. Over his last five starts, entering this one, Scott. He had a 16.8% swinging strike rate,

which if that was the entire season, he would rank top five among qualified starting pitchers. So Dylan Cease is on another level right now. Spin rates are up as you have continuously talked about. Continuously. You can't stop me from saying it. Can't stop Scott now. I don't know the next words there, but yeah.

I don't know what you were even doing. That's from Sean of the Dead. Can't stop me now. That's great song. All right. So yeah, Dylan Seas, I mean, look, buy him, buy high if you can. if someone else in your league is not valuing him the same way that we are, which is inside of our top 50 starting pitchers now, Scott,

I believe we've all made that upgrade. So, yeah, Dillon Sees is awesome. For me, I wanted to highlight Pablo Lopez, who was up against the Phillies, and he allowed two runs with only five strikeouts over seven innings pitched, only nine swinging strikes on 92 pitches. However, he threw five different pitches at least 13% of the time in this start, and coming into the season,

he was talking about throwing more breaking pitches. He didn't really say which one, if it was his cutter or his curveball. But in this start, 20% cutters and 16% curveballs. Those were both season highs for Pablo Lopez, and he's coming off back-to-back seven-ennings starts. The ERA is down to 2.71.

He's got a 1.13 whip. It does come with a 3.69 X-FIP. So I'm not expecting Pablo Lopez to pitch to a sub-3 ERA for the rest of the season. But I thought it was encouraging, Scott, that he's giving you more length recently. He's giving you more volume in terms of innings. And he actually is throwing these breaking pitches more.

So I really like that from his Thursday start. Yeah, I mean, he feels Aaron Savali like to me, which I don't mean in a good way. But you can interpret it in a good way if you want to. You know, below average strikeout pitcher, but good enough in other areas that you're probably going to be glad you have him and are starting him. Before we get to everything else on this podcast today, Scott,

can we just talk about this Javier Baez play? Oh, yes. Should I page Chris Tower? Should I get them on the podcast? No, because we'll just fight. No, it was fine. We were arguing about it on Twitter earlier. It was wild.

Look, it was one of the dumbest plays that I've ever seen in my life. But it was also highly entertaining because a lot of things that Javier Baez does, and he's a part of, are entertaining. and they're very good for the game of baseball. I love the fact that obviously he gets, if anyone hasn't seen it, Javier Baez, normal routine ground out, I believe there's two outs in the inning.

Yes, that's an important detail. There are two outs in the inning. I'm not sure anybody who participated in the play knew there were two outs in the inning. But yes. He's running to first base. They throw it over to first base. He just starts running backwards

and he gets caught in a rundown between home and first, which I have never seen in my life in baseball. Of course you haven't. There was a runner on second. It was Wilson Contreras. While all this is happening, Wilson Contreras comes all the way around

and scores at home plate while this rundown is going on between home and first. He crossed home plate. He hadn't scored yet. Yeah. There's another, like, in order for that to count as something, Javier Baez has to get to first base.

He hasn't made it to first base yet. Okay. So he's crossed home plate. He hasn't scored yet, Wilson Contreras. But continue. Well, what else would you like to say about it? Because I feel like that's, like, Okay, Wilson Contreras crosses home plate,

and then they throw the ball to, it's Will Craig who's playing first base for the pirates. He throws the ball home, and then they try to tag Wilson Contreras out at the plate. Javier Baez is making a safe sign all the while, like he's playing umpire. Then he starts running the first base. Which again, he wasn't safe.

Like, it wasn't a run yet. And Javier Baez is just standing there, having not reached first base yet, making the safe call. And no one was covering first base. base at that point. So he runs the first. They throw it to first. It gets past first. And then he winds up on second base. So I don't know

if I did a good job breaking down the play. If you haven't seen it, please go out and watch it while we're talking about it here. But Scott, I will let you give your take on it. It is a play that will be replayed for a very long time. Because it was I don't think I'm exaggerating

when I'm saying this. It was the worst play I've ever seen. It was the first baseman for got there was a force out on first base at first base on a ground out. The guy playing first base forgot that on a ground ball on the infield, there is always a force out at first base. Like, the reason you've never seen a rundown between home plate and first base is because

there's always a force out at first base. I'm rewatching the play now. There's nothing to gain by retreating to home plate for Javier Baez, especially since, you know, Will Craig wasn't the one who fielded the grounder himself. It's not like he was way off first base. the throw was a little off, so he caught it standing right next to first base. He steps on it, the innings over.

Instead, he decides to chase Javier Baez back to home play, which, okay, maybe you know he did the moment. He just sees a moving target. He has to chase it. You can forgive the initial brain cramp. But still, considering there were two outs, all that matters is that Javier Baez doesn't get to first base. it doesn't matter what Wilson Contreras is doing.

As I stressed, the run will not count if Javier Baez never makes it to first base, which is why it was ridiculous that Javier Baez is standing there making the safe call when he hasn't gotten to first base yet. I'm rewatching the play now. It's hilarious. Will Craig... So Will Craig catches the ball right next to first base.

Javier Baez retreats for no good reason. But Craig decides to chase him for no good reason. reason. He chases them back to the plate, basically. At that point, Wilson Contreras is about to cross, and the catcher is signaling for Will Craig to throw him the ball. Again, it doesn't matter. You just can't let Javier Baez get to first base. But for some reason, Will Craig obliges, throws the catcher the ball. He tries to tag the runner. He can't. You know, runner crosses the plate. Javier Baez gives the safe sign. That's the best part of the point. But now, Javier Baez has a clear path to first base, and nobody's covering it. So the catcher throws the ball into right field, and of course, Javier Baez makes it to first base safely. He decides halfway down the baseline.

Oh, shoot, why am I chasing Javier Baez? There's a force out of first base. He could just sit down in the base path and wait for Javier Baez to... Javier Baez has to make his way back to first base event. Like, the only thing we'll crameter. can't do in that moment is throw away, it is throw the baseball. I think when you're caught in the heat of the moment though, Scott, which is something that we're not really taking into account, when you're playing a game and like the adrenaline's rushing, it's, it's hard to actually just

stop and think about what you're actually doing, right? So in that instance, everything that you're saying is correct. He could have just stopped and sat down. He could just stepped on the base, anything. But I can see why in the heat of the moment, and it was a great heads-up play by Javier Baez, because how often you've never seen someone stop running to first base and just run back the other way. No, that's my argument. It wasn't. You never see it because there's no point. It's a zero probability play.

But the throw to first base did pull Will Craig off the bag. He easily still could have gone back and stepped on it. I agree with that. You just has to step over. But usually when that happens, when they're pulled off the bag, they do try to go and just tag the runner. That's what they typically, you see that a lot. And I said, I'll grant the initial mistake of pursuing the moving target. Okay?

I can understand he had a brain cramp there. But this was such a slow developing play that at some point he has to realize, oh, this is stupid. I should just head back to first base. You're right about that. Or his teammate, the catcher should be pointing to, like everybody, bias himself thinking the runner is safe. it's like he forgot there were two outs too.

That is the best part of the play. I just rewatched it five times. Javier Baia is just standing there, like right next to home plate, making a safe signal. It was just, it was hilarious. But we've already spent way too much time

on this guy about five or six minutes here. But I do appreciate the rant. Is there anything else you got to get off your chest? There was, but now I forgot it. I guess we'll have to move on. There was another key issue I wanted to bring up. If I think of it,

I'll just interrupt and go back to it. All right, well, that is, that's fair. Before we get to news and notes, just wanted to let you know about what's going on at CBS Sports HQ. As always, CBS Sports HQ is the network to start your sports newsday at 8 a.m. Eastern with morning buzz, an hour of highlights,

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and check out HQ. And heck, tell us what you think about it on Twitter. Some news and notes from Thursday. Shohei Otani was scratched from his pitching start on Thursday, because he was delayed getting to the stadium. There was a transportation issue. He remained in the lineup as the DH and will be starting as the pitcher on Friday.

Trevor Story left Thursday with arm tightness. He's considered day to day. Trey Mancini was diagnosed with a bruised elbow after a hit by pitch. Noah Cinderguard mentioned yesterday that he left his most recent rehab start with elbow soreness. He is now shut down six weeks due to right elbow inflammation.

So really bad news there. for Cinderguard if you were stashing him. Scott, I don't know if you have your IL stash ranking coming out again soon, but I would have to imagine Noah Cindergarde moves pretty far down that list. Nobody who goes on the aisle comes off the IL frank. That's the way this goes. That's the way the season is going.

I have an interesting note on the IL too, which I will bring up in just a little bit. Austin Nola is going to the aisle with a knee sprain. Miguel Rojas was placed on the IL with a dislocated finger. Michael Copac was placed on the bereavement list. Stalling Marte could be activated for the Marlins' weekend series. Aaron Hicks is expected to miss the remainder of the season. Estevan Floriel was promoted. I don't know if I could bring it up because every time I do, Scott yells at me. Why are you bringing up Estevan Floriel? He did go one for three with a double, his first career hit in the majors. In game two of the double header. Yesterday we said Corey Klobber would be out at least

one month. It turns out he will be out at least two months with that shoulder strain. Tony Gonselin likely needs two more rehab starts at AAA. He fired three shutout in his first start. Taiwan Walker will return on Friday and start against the Braves. Tyler O'Neill was activated for the Cardinals.

Wade Miley will return Sunday and start against the Cubs. Danny Duffy remains in shutdown mode after being diagnosed with a left flexor strain a few weeks back. Tristan McKenzie was sent back down to AAA after Wednesday night's start. And I mentioned I have an IL note. If you were wondering just how much injuries are up this season, I saw a great tweet from Derek Rhodes from baseball prospectus. You can give him a follow

on Twitter at DRHOA3. He pointed out via a line graph. He does great work with injuries that IL placements are up 30% this season compared to this point back in 2019. So basically by the end of May, IEL placements are up 30% this year and that does not include COVID IL. So that is just a massive amount because when you actually factor in the COVID as well, I mean, we're probably Yeah, guys will go on that for a day sometimes. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Because of the vaccine and stuff. But it's, if you want an actual number, there it is. 30% injuries are up so far this season. Some prospect updates. I do want to mention on Corey Klover, the reason that changed from one month to two months. He's going to be re-evaluated in one month, but the second month is presuming a rehab stent.

Which makes sense? Yeah. And that would bring us to the end of July, early August. So maybe we can get the final two months out of Corey Klober, which he was pitching very well. So hopefully it happens. Some prospect updates. Nate Pearson's latest start. Not great. Three innings pitch, four earned runs, two walks, seven strikeouts. I was talking to Scott beforehand. And in his Dynasty League. I traded a $31 Julio Arias. This is a 24-team Hed Head-Head Points League. A $31 Julio Arreus for a $5

Nate Pearson earlier in the season. And I kind of hate myself for it. So there you go. Wander Franco is batting 277 with three homers and three steals with an 845 OPS. A couple of people have been asking us, Scott, about Wander Franco, and I think the rays are going to continue to be patient with him

until he really, really takes off. I don't think this is enough for them to say, okay, we have to promote Franco because they're okay numbers, but they're not like eye-popping or anything. Yeah, he's coming off a particularly, not exactly bad week. It's not like he's, you know,

he didn't really do anything, so the batting average dropped, the OPS dropped. And I agree, well, certainly since they just called up Taylor Walls, they're going to want to see what he can do first. But yeah, Franco kind of has to be, you know, to beep the door down, you know, and he's not, he's not doing that yet. I suspect he will at some point.

And I don't really think Taylor Walls is going to be the answer for the raise at shortstop either. So there's going to be kind of the combination of a need there and hopefully Franco getting hot. But yeah, I don't think his call, his promotion is imminent. as we've been saying for a while now, it seems likely that Vidal Bruhan, who's up to nine steals, I think, in addition to seven home runs, it seems likely he's going to beat Franco to the majors.

Yeah, I agree with that. I've pretty much shared that sentiment all along, Scott. Vidal Bruhan's already on the 40-man roster. Wander Franco is not, which they can easily manipulate that if they want Wander Franco up. But Vidal Bruhan is currently up to a 321 batting average with seven home runs, nine steals, and only one caught stealing. So if you play in a

five-by-five roto or a head-to-head categories league, you should already be stashing Vidal Bruhan. Some updates on some other pitching prospects. Twins pitcher, uh, Yuan Duran, four shotout with eight strikeouts on Thursday. And Rangers first round pick from 2018, Cole Wynn, he fired six shutout with six strikeouts on Thursday. He has a 2.08 ERA at double A. The week 10 pitcher and hitter planners presented by lining Cougals. How does the scheduling look for next week? Well, one team has eight games,

that is the Chicago White Sox. 15 teams have seven games, 13 teams have six games, and one team has five games. That is the Toronto Blue Jays. Let's get things started, Scott, with some two-start pitchers that you are looking at

that are rostered in 80% or less of CBS Leagues. So this is one of those weeks where I have to, you know, not necessarily two-star pitchers, but every week I have to come up with pitchers

rostered in less than 80% of leagues. So I'm giving myself a generous threshold. They're 80%. Less than 80% of leagues. Pitchers roster 10 of them that I would advise for the upcoming week. It's,

even with that generous threshold, it's a daunting number. There just isn't that many bad pitchers ever worth starting. But this is one of those weeks where, like there legitimately isn't 10.

There may not even be eight, but I have a list of 10 anyway because that's the rules I'm playing by. So it includes and in the 10, I'm including Rich Hill, who's 79% rostered. I'm sure by the time this podcast is over, he probably will

not be shy of the 80% threshold anymore, but whatever. I'm cheating. It's one of those weeks. Richel at the Yankees at the Rangers I mean yeah those matchups are fine I don't think it matters anymore he's making two starts he's been coming off his best

the best start of his career probably and an amazing six start stretch so obviously you're starting him Luis Garcia that seems kind of exciting right except he's facing the Red Sox and Blue Jays that's not so great now he's coming off

his best start of the season and it was against the Dodgers so I don't know maybe he's just you know he did it against them so maybe he could do it against these two teams but you know I would rather him have easier matchups

but fine that's probably one of the better two-star pitchers you can pick up regardless Luis Garcia James Caprillion okay coming off three really good starts right the last one was against Seattle and the first matchup is against Seattle

so that seems like a good thing thing. Same matchups at Colorado. At Coresfield. So I'm not saying you can't start James Caprillion because of that, but not excited to. I also have Mike Minor here. You know, the whiffs have been up in those last two starts. The results have still been kind of, you know, I don't know. One of the two matches against the pirates, other against twins. Merrill Kelly, seven straight starts, three earned runs or fewer for Merrill Kelly. the underlying numbers aren't great. I don't feel good about him.

But he is facing two bottom five offenses in terms of OPS, the Mets and the Brewers. The Mets and the Brewers. So, I mean, I'll call him a sleeper. I'm not excited about playing him, though. And then we have Garrett Richards and John Gant here, just because they're going to be in my 10 sleeper pitchers for this week, but I don't actually want to start either of them.

Garrett Richards and John Gantt. They're making two starts. but they're not for me. How dare you? How dare you be smirch the name of John Gant? If Chris was here, man, he would be coming for you, man. John Gant is his guy. Here's the thing.

Like, it's... No, we did like a whole thing about John Gant last night about how it's crazy how long he's out, how long he's pitched as well, considering his underlying numbers are brutal. He... Well, yeah, his whip is almost as high as ERA. It's crazy.

Yeah, it doesn't... It just doesn't add up. There will be a record. There will be a reconciliation between those two numbers soon enough. A high ground ball pitcher like him can have a high-ish whip and still a pretty good ERA, but 157 whip is absurd. It's very bad. Let me ask you about another very high ground ball pitcher,

and that's Adrian Houser, who pitched five shutout with four strikeouts on Thursday against the Padres. He is slated to face the Tigers and the Diamondbacks. next week. He's 20% rostered. So, any interest in Adrian Houser? Not really. I mean, if I was making the list, 12 pitchers deep, he might be in it, but I don't even

like the 10.5. All right, so not a ringing endorsement there for Adrian Houser. I think in deeper leagues, you can, with those matchups, Detroit and Arizona, I like that quite a bit. A 58% ground ball rate this year. Well, wait a second. Wait a second. I don't think he's actually making two starts. Sorry. I should have pointed that out.

There was a lot of tweaking going on with the... You know, I could be wrong. I could be wrong, but I think it's actually... They're inserting a sixth starter this weekend just for like a spot starts, so everybody's getting pushed back a day. So Corbin Burns is actually the Brewers' two-star pitcher next week. Okay.

So sorry. I was basing my opinion of Hauser on just assuming one start. That is good to know. Well, either way, if he faces Detroit or Arizona, that's a good start, but obviously not as enticing it as if he were facing both. Scott, some single start starting pitchers you like for next week. So, let me find that. Okay, here we go.

Got two monitor set up here. One star pitcher. Okay, Alec Manoa. He's already 73% rostered. So my second favorite is Dylan Bundy because he's going against the Mariners, so he might throw no hitter. But, yeah, we'll see how his start goes. this weekend because if he gets throttled again for the fourth straight start,

it's going to be tough to recommend him. But I was surprised to see he's only 70% rostered now. I feel like people gave up on him much quicker than similarly struggling pitchers. So he qualifies for this list now. And then my third favorite one-star pitcher is probably Brady Singer. But again, that's not that exciting. I mean, look what the raise did him today. He didn't even make it through three innings.

got throttled. He's going against Pittsburgh, though. You know, and I feel like he's been pretty reliable this year. I don't know. I'm not excited about it, but it's a name, Brady Singer. Yeah, he did not look great against Tampa Bay, but it is up against the Pittsburgh Pirates. A few single-start pitchers that stood out to me,

Adam Wainwright is going up against the Reds, who are seemingly cold now again, and he has a 2.41 ERA at home. He's been great there. J.T. Brubaker, who has slowed down a little bit, but he's going up against the Miami Marlins. I couldn't just on principle. It's burned us two turns in a row here. Yeah. Cody Potete is the other name, who is a starting pitcher for the Marlins. He is at the Pittsburgh Pirates this upcoming week. Scott, who are some sleeper hitters that you like

that are rostered in less than 75% of leagues? So I don't love my choices here either But it was kind of like there were too many options Because every week I pick the five best hitter matchups The teams with the five best hitter matchups The teams with the five worst hitter matchups There's really only two teams with bad hitter matchups Obviously because there's a bunch of bad pitchers starting

Right? They can't pick any good pitchers So Rockies are home all week I like CJ Cron What we've done? Do I not like C.J. Cron right? And he's only, it's been a while since he's actually had a good week. But I think this is the week. He comes, he comes back. Delivers numbers, big numbers. So the White Sox are playing eight games this week. They have a double header. The only team playing eight games. I think it's a fine time to start Andrew Vaughn.

I think Nick Madrigal is not actually such a bad choice either. I think he's very likely to start all eight of those games. Probably won't be the case for Vaughn. And just, you know, just get a bunch of hits because there's so many games. So many opportunities for hits, he's going to pile up some hits. That's the hope anyway. I like the twins matchups a lot. So I have Miguel Snowe on here. I have Rob Reff Snyder on here.

He's just been on fire. He's only 5% rostered. I thought about going Trevor Larnock instead. So he's, you know, he'd probably be the 11th player in my 10 sleeper hitters. But I have Rob Reff Snyder in here. You know, it didn't seem like he was going to be long for the role because it looked like Byron Buxton was on the road to returning, but he's had to kind of slow down his rehab. So it looks like Ruff Snyder snigging around for a while. Another kind of deep pickup that we, I don't think we've talked about yet, Brad Miller for the, Brad Miller's back in our lives, has suddenly been playing every day for the Phillies and he's been hot a few home runs here in recent days.

and he's a left-handed hitter. Philly's phase six right-handers or scheduled to face six right-handers this week. You know, Bryce Harper being out that allows Brad Miller in the lineup more and I think he's going to be someone who could contribute and is widely available this week.

I like Aviso Garcia. He's been hot. I like Evan Longoria. He's been hot. Actually, Evan Longoria just homered for the third time in six games today. I was watching. in that game and they shouted out that

his exit velocity is actually the third highest in baseball behind only Aaron Judge and John Carlo Stanton, which is very impressive. I'm glad you had that stat at the ready because yeah, it's stat cast making Longoria out to be a stud and the numbers haven't backed it up, but he's getting hot.

So, you know, up to seven home runs now for the season, I think it's a good time to get him in your lineup. Tommy fans getting hot and again another couple hits today and the Padres have pretty good matchups this week. Jack Peterson, a bunch of Rites on the schedule for the Cubs. I've given pretty much the whole list at this point, so I should probably stop.

Some people actually read the article. Yeah, Tommy Pham, we have talked a lot about recently. He has scored a run in seven straight games. He has eight hits during that span with three steals. He's 54% rostered. Probably better in a Category's league, although his plate discipline isn't bad either. So seven games this upcoming week.

I like Tommy Fam. He's getting hot. And another one where the underlying numbers on Stack has They're very good for Tommy fam. The five teams with the best hitter matchups, Scott has talked about them quite a bit already, but the White Sox, the Twins, the Rockies, the A's, and the Astros,

the five teams with the worst hitter matchups, the White Sox. Nope, did I send you the same list twice? You know what? You probably did not. No, here we go. I just copy and paste is the wrong thing. The Tigers, the Blue Jays, the Mets,

the Diamondbacks, and the Braves. Those are the worst hitter matchups. As I mentioned, only the Tigers. and the Blue Jays matchups are that bad. The Blue Jays are playing only five games. They're the one team with five games, just like the White Sucks are the one team with eight games. So I just want to point that out.

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But Chris Bassett, the fun fact is that he has now gone seven plus in four of his last five starts. And that includes a shutout that he just had, a complete game against the Angels. He allowed two hits, one walk, with nine strikeouts, only 10 swinging strikes on 114 pitches. The swinging strikes are up a little bit this year, Scott. I kind of feel like there's still some smoke and mirrors here with Chris Bassett. But he's giving you length. He's giving you volume. And I'm not going to take anything away from him.

the guy has been very good so far this season. So Chris Bassett. Yeah, you say the swinging strikes, the swinging strikes were very low early in the season. So in the seven starts leading up to this start, in which he had a 322 ERA, the swinging strike rate was about 13%, which is pretty good, pretty good.

Yeah, I think he's good. I think, I mean, just look at the numbers here. last 21, and 21 starts the last two years, Bassett has a 290A, a 113 whip, 8.7K per 9, and it seems like he's getting better of missing bats. So that's only going to improve the numbers overall. In 53 starts, 60 appearances, again, not counting today's, 53 starts, 60 appearances, dating back to 2018, Chris Bassett has a 336 ERA, a 118-8.6K per 9.

So, and again, I point out, he seems to be getting even better. Yeah. In terms of strikeouts, in terms of swinging strikes. I don't see much reason to doubt him anymore. Yeah, he's rock solid. I wouldn't even put him in the cell high discussion,

unless, again, it's on that high spectrum where you're getting a really good return for him. I don't think you'd just try and sell him because he's hot right now. I think he's kind of legit. So Chris Bassett, He's been really good now, dating back all the way to 2018.

Boba Chet, he's also very good. He had two dingers across the doubleheader against the Yankees, and the fun fact about him, his 150 game pace right now, Scott, is 33 home runs, 21 steals, 93 RBI, and 123 runs scored for Boba Chet, which is just awesome. Mm-hmm. It's great. And I tweeted that out, and a few Blue Jays fans actually responded and said that,

Boba Chet has come out and said he doesn't even feel right at the plate yet. So I don't know what's going to happen once he does. We've seen him hit for a higher average than he has so far. His OPS actually isn't that impressive so far. I don't know. I don't have anything negative to say about him. I pointed out last week if we were redrafting for the rest of the season, I'd take him in the second round,

which is not something I was doing coming into the season at the very beginning. So his stock has gone up in my eyes. Chris Bryant went two for five with his 11th home run, so just continues to keep it up. I looked at his May splits earlier to see. I don't have Chris Bryant anywhere, so I don't really, it's hard for me to track every day what he's doing. Outsiders just looking at box scores.

But he's having a fantastic May. Like, he's kept it up. He's followed up an awesome April with an awesome May. The fun fact about Chris Bryant is, if you play on CBS starting Friday and beyond, he will have first base eligibility. He's been filling in for Anthony, Rizzo the past couple of days who's dealing with a back injury.

So nice little triple eligibility now from Chris Bryant, first, third, and outfield for him. Did you know who was the innings leader this season coming into Thursday? Ennings leader coming into Thursday. Oh, man. I feel like I should be able to guess that, but I'm not, it's not like Shane Bieber, I'm sure. It's Shane Bieber now before his third.

as they start. Right. The way you phrased it. Yep. No, who's the... Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is it Kevin Gosman? It is not Kevin Gosman.

Okay. Who is it? It is Tyler Glashnow, coming into Thursday. You know, the thought came... The thought entered my mind, but I was like, no. No. It's just such an awesome turnaround, so I did want to highlight that someone that I, at least, had concerns about how many endings he was going to give us.

He has had some injury issues in the past. He's become way more efficient. He's not walking as many batterers, obviously. So Tyler Glass now had 70 innings pitch so far, coming into Thursday one out more than Trevor Bauer, who is number two on that list. But Shane Bieber is actually the player. I wanted to highlight ultimately here,

who got back on track at the Tigers, seven innings, one run, four walks, 12 strikeouts, 22 swinging strikes on 103 pitches. However, three plus walks in six of 11 starts. He did that only three times. in 12 starts last season. But what I really did like here, Scott,

19 first pitch strikes to 26 batters, which had been a very big issue for Shane Beaver. That's a 73% first pitch strike percentage on Thursday. Yeah, and you mentioned how many starts with three walks or more. This was his third start this year with four walks. It's a very high walk total. But only one hit. So, you know, obviously if he does this every time,

you're not going to complain about it. I wish the walks would come down. I think they will come down. It wouldn't surprise me if Shane Bieber has a stretch of eight starts later this year where he had, it's just one walk combined in the eight starts, you know. But clearly there's no reason to panic with Bieber. There never was reason to panic with him. He'd given up 30, how many hits was it?

It was a ton of hits. 38 hits in his previous, I don't know, seven starts or something. Okay, yeah, 38 hits in his previous five. starts. So, you know, more than seven hits a start. There's a couple nine hit efforts in there. That was, that was weird, but I don't think we were ever really worried and bounces back with a one hit effort. I'll be against the tigers. There's always going to be somebody out there with the smart aleck response. I know it was against the tigers. Okay. Scott's rants, let's get it. It wasn't the Lakeland Tigers, so I think it's okay. This is, this is, we're getting ready, man. We are

getting ready for Scottie Dubs, late night Scott just unloading on everybody because, come on, man, give Shane Bieber some credit.

And look, you're supposed to dominate against the bad teams, right? So are people going to use it against you when you actually do it? Like,

this is what he's supposed to do. He's just doing what we want him to. So don't take it anymore. And actually, like half the teams in baseball, I think, are at a place now

where if a pitcher has a good start, at least like a third of the teams in baseball. If a pitcher has a good start, people could say, yeah, but look who he was facing. It's like, okay. I mean, it's just what a lot of the league is like right now. I don't know what to tell you.

And I think you could say that about the Royals, because they have not looked great against Tampa Bay. We just saw Rich Hill go off against them, Tyler Glass now. And Shane McClanahan as well, five shutout with six strikeouts. He had 16 swinging strikes on 63 pitches. And the fun fact for him, he has a 16.9% swinging strike rate entering this start on Thursday, which would be tied for third best among qualified starting pitchers had he qualified. He doesn't. But it would be tied with Tyler Glassdowne and Carlos Rodon.

So it's frustrating. He's not going to give you Lane Scott. He has been held under 70 pitches in back-to-back starts. This is Shane McClanahan. He has not gone more than five and a third in any game this season. He's 62% rostered. I think in Roto or Categories leagues, you can roster him with the idea. He's probably not going to give you a lot of wins,

but he's going to give you really good ratios and good strikeouts. And obviously, he's a SPARP player in points leagues. So I think that is very helpful. This is another one Scott where, like Dylan sees, it's like a by-high situation, but one that I would be trying to do. Because Shane McClanahan, I'm really impressed with what I've seen from him. In Dynasty, or just in redraft?

In Dynasty. Yeah, a dynasty definitely Redraft, you know, I've seen him dropped in some leagues just because people are disappointed in the workload but it's three starts in a row five innings plus I understand the pitch counts are really low so, you know, maybe it wouldn't be five innings plus

if he didn't keep the pitches down but you know, I kind of wonder if they kind of extend them slowly and maybe by August or something, he is turning in more typical starts, particularly if it's clear he's one of their best pitchers. I just want, I'm not saying that's definitely going to happen. There's certainly reason why they might play carefully with him all season long,

but that would be nice if that happened. I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility. Yep, I'm about it. I would love to see that from Shane McClanahan. A few more here, Steven Schroisberg. He allowed three runs with five shots. strikeouts over five innings pitch. This isn't really a fun fact.

This is actually kind of a scary fact, but he averaged 91.8 miles per hour on his fastball. That was 93.9 miles per hour back in 2019. So Scott, the Worryometer on a Friday for Steven Schrosberg. I think probably like a six. You know, I'll be like he's he's somebody who you halfway expect to hear

about an injury after every start. so it's going to take a while to regain my trust and obviously he has to prove he can be effective still with that reduced velocity I wouldn't put it past him frankly you know I wouldn't I don't want to go that far I was thinking it might be an interesting

buy low opportunity but he did have to buy really low I think so you know there are no guarantees with Strasbourg obviously but his value is never been lower than right now either. I don't know. Just something something I might look into. The last one on the list,

Reese Hoskins has seven hits, including three home runs over his last six games. And fun fact, his walk rate is 12% in the month of May. His strikeout rate is 21%, which is exactly what we wanted to see after a weird April Scott, where he was striking out a lot

and he wasn't walking. So Reese Hoskins looks like he's back to being the player that he has always been in the month of May. He's hot. So he's back. Yep. Yep. And, you know, a few home runs here recently. So, yeah, he's looking good. Just want to remind everybody, again, that if you have Spotify, you can listen to all of your favorite CBS Sports Podcasts on there.

But, of course, Fantasy Baseball Today and FBT in 5. So make sure to follow both of those shows on Spotify. Even if you don't use Spotify as your main source of podcast consumption, follow us anyway. It helps. And we'll love you forever. some deeper waiver options got just tell me if you have any interest in any of these names uh willie adamas went four for five with a home run and four rbi i think it was a grand slam that would make sense he has seven hits over uh since coming over to the brewers 24 percent rostered jonathan scope went one for four with his fourth home run he has eight hits over his last six games odouble herrera had two more extra base hits he's now batting 289 in the month of may he's

17 percent rostered and harold vermires who is probably going to play more for Cleveland now that Fran Mulraeus is out for as long as he is. Harold Ramirez has eight hits over his last six games with a stolen base. So, Adomas, Scope, Herrera, Harold Ramirez. Anything there, Scott?

Deeper Leagues. Not anybody I'm getting excited about. I mean, obviously, if you get in a deep enough league, anybody is getting regular bats matters. But beyond that, yeah, I'm not especially moved by any of these players.

Fair enough. That's perfectly fine. Some bullpen updates from Thursday. The call to the pen for the Blue Jays. Jordan Romano got his second save of the season. Rafael Dolis has not pitched since May 23rd. So cross your fingers if you held on to Jordan Romano. Hopefully they are giving him the job. And he's been really good, so I don't see why they wouldn't.

Scott, rank these relievers for me. They are rostered between 40 and 60% on CBS. If you need saves. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. I don't see another, maybe even more notable than Romano's save in here. And that's Lucas Sims for the Reds. Got a very traditional save today. After getting a one-out save, I believe it was Tuesday, I think it was.

So Lucas Simms has gotten two saves in a row for the Reds. Tuesday was kind of a weird situation, but Thursday wasn't. It was a perfect inning. He struck out one. And those are the kinds of outings that build trust. Even if David Bell wasn't thinking along those lines initially, like Reds haven't known where to turn for the ninth inning for a long time now, basically like the second week of April.

I think Lucas Sims is the clear frontrunner now because it's been so long since there's been a frontrunner. I'm not saying you got to blow a, throw a ton of fab in him. I would certainly like Jordan Romano more. But Lucas Sims, it might be him. It might be him for the Reds. 15% rostered is Lucas Sims. Scott, what should that number be by Monday? Well, I mean, Vermeer Garrett gets to save tomorrow.

Then it changes everything. But as things currently stand, I would say by Monday, 40, 40%, All right, so get Lucas Sims on your team if you need saves. Obviously things could change because it's baseball, it's bullpens, but he looks like the frontrunner for the Cincinnati Reds. Scott, how would you rank these relievers that are rostered between 40 and 60% if you need saves? Lou Trevino, Jake Dekeman, Jordan Romano, Michael Fulmer, and Tyler Rogers for the Giants, not Taylor Rogers.

I would go, Lou Trevino, Jordan Ramon. know, Tyler Rogers, Jake Deekman, Michael Former. All right. For the Yankees, Chad Green picked up his second save of the season. Apparently, Eraldus Chapman, has been dealing with an illness the past couple of days. The Mets, Edwin Diaz, got his ninth. The Phillies, Hector Nerris, got his ninth. The Nationals, Brad Hand, got his eighth.

Believe Kenley Jansen just got a save for the Dodgers. Yes, he picked up his 12th. And Ryan Tepera picked up his first save of the season, with Craig Kimberl being used three of the previous four days. To stream or not to stream for the weekend. Scott, starting on Friday, Casey Mize up against the Yankees, Justice Sheffield versus the Rangers,

Adbert Alzelye versus the Reds, Randy Dobnack versus the Royals, Martine Perez versus the Marlins, and Cody Poteet at the Red Sox. Okay, well, Albert Alzalai, Casey Mies are my favorite pitchers here. Don't love either one's matchup, but I think I'll go with those two,

The Lion Miles, my third choice. Probably Sheffield against the Rangers. Yeah, I believe someone just pitched a great game against the Rangers. Chris Flexen, seven shutout with six strikeouts. So, I don't think he's, you know, not really a fantasy notable pitcher in Chris Flexen, but that's what the Rangers will do. They make not fantasy pitchers, fantasy viable pitchers very viable. On Saturday, we have Justin Dunn versus the Rangers,

Mike Fultenevich at the Mariners, David Peterson versus the Braves, Spencer Turnbull versus the Yankees, Ross Stripling at Cleveland, and J.T. Brubaker versus the Rockies. That game is in Pittsburgh. Not loving these choices for the weekend, Frank. Not great.

Not loving them. So you're forcing me to pick some guys here. I will pick... I'll pick Brubaker. Rocky's away from Cores. That's always so easy, even though Bruebakers let us down. I'll break Brubaker,

I'll pick Turnbull against the Yankees, and I'll pick stripling at Cleveland. And it's worth noting, again, that I am forcing Scott to, not like actually, forcing him, but I am forcing him to choose three of these pitchers. That doesn't mean you have to stream those.

This is just, if you are desperate for... He presents me with terrible options because he likes to make me look bad. These are all the... I only use pitchers that are rostered in less than 70% of leagues so these are the best ones available.

I'm sorry Scott. For Sunday, Quanghan Kim at the Diamondbacks, Matt Shoemaker versus the Royals, Terrick Scoobel versus the Yankees, Kyle Freeland at the Pirates, Brad Keller at the Twins, and Jake Arietta versus the Reds.

Scoobel. Keller. Kim. Let's wrap up the week with some Apple podcast review questions. And we'll start with Hammer and Hank, grade the trades. I gave Isaiah Kinerfilefa for Lordes-Guriel.

How would you grade that one, Scott? I moved to, I've moved Kinear-Flepha up a lot, actually. So I don't know. I think that's a C-minus for me. Ooh, all right. Second gave John Carlos Stanton for Kyle Tucker. Stanton for Tucker. I will give, is this a Categories League?

I feel like that makes a difference. But I'll give it a... B. A B. I like it. This next one's from Flash. 8668. 10 team points lead.

Grade the trade. I traded, oh no. Oh, no. This must have been from a while ago. Well, I'm sorry, Flash. You traded Chris Bassett and Emmanuel Class A for Marcel Ozuna. Had Marcel Ozonezuna still been healthy

in a points league, I probably still would rather have Ozuna. Yeah. But again, that's if Ozuna was healthy. So I'm sorry, This next was from C. Sargent 4141. Great to trade. Points League.

I sent Whitmerfield, John Carlo Stanton, Zach Granky, and Eric Hosmer. All right, so a lot of names there. Merrifield, Stanton, Granky, and Hosmer for Bryce Harper and Cody Bellinger. I assume this was before Bryce Harper went on the IL. Even so, I think you, on the better end of the deal, kind of depends how deep the league is,

but I'm assuming it's on the shaller side. I will give it a, B plus B A B This one's from Agro 1974 Grade the Trade

10 team head to head Points League I traded Trent Grisham and Zach Grinke For Mike Trout I have plenty of quality pitching And I'm currently in second place

And figure he could help me Down the stretch He would join Juan Soto and Whitmerryfield In my outfield I'll get 10 team Points League So you do want to

consolidate your talent, but you're also trading for someone who's out until probably the All-Star break. So that's a little tough. Yeah, it's just... But you do want different makers...

What a replacement level player is in a 10-team league is so high-end, you know? Like, Granky, I feel like, might actually be pretty fringy in a 10-team league. Yeah, that's fair. So I'm behind it.

I mean, if you feel like you can navigate without Grisham and Grinky in the short term. I think if you feel confident you're going to make it to the playoffs without him, I think you'll be glad you're traded for Trout. So the context of it, I'll give it another B.

This was from Drew Baca, 88. When is it time to move on from Matt Chapman, Kevin Bigio, and Mike Yosremski in a 12-team Roto League that has three outfielers, two utility bats, and no corner infielder, and no middle infieler. Best bats available are Gio Orshella,

Kyle Seeger, Kestin Heera, Garrett Cooper, and Colin Moran. Yuck. I need help in everything but stolen bases. I could also use pitching help looking at Taiwan Walker and Adbert Alzali. So drop Matt Chapman, Kevin Bissio, or Mike Yistramski. What do you think?

In a league with so few hitter spots, I don't think any of them are undropable, but you're not really dazzling me with your way for choices here. Like, I'd rather be starting Urchella than Chapman right now. But would I drop Chapman for Urchella? I think the easiest to drop

is Yistrimski probably. So I assume you have... I assume you don't need your pickup to directly replace you Strimski and outfield. In that case, I could drop you Strimski for O'Shella. That's probably the only move I'd make, though. Some of the most added hitters on CBS right now, who might be available.

in a league this shallow. Ian Hap, would you do, would you drop any of them for Ian Hap, Scott? I'd be fine with it. I got three outfielders are league, 12-2-3 outfields league. I'd almost go, unless I had a true stud, I'd almost go week to week with it. Yep. So, Jock Peterson could be available. He's only 40% rostered on CBS. Tommy Fam is only 52% rostered. So those are a few names, you know, they are in Scott's sleeper hitters. I refer to that list if you want to make some moves there. But, oh, I need help in everything, but stolen base is okay. Okay, yeah, so fan probably wouldn't be the most ideal,

but Jock Peterson's getting hot. He could provide you some power there, so maybe a name that you could look at. This last one's from Future Glory. Great the trade. Head-to-head keeper points league. I traded Christian Yelich straight up for J.D. Martinez. Everyone in the league laughed at me.

I also traded Joe Musgrove and John Means for Aaron Nolo. What do you think of these deals? Head-to-head points keeper league. Okay, so maybe they're thinking J.D. Martinez is old in a keeper league. It does make a difference to me whether it's 10 plus keepers or five minus keepers, you know? Yeah, they didn't say. Yeah. But I'm assuming, you know, most keeper leagues are just a handful of keepers.

And yeah, I don't think you should have to suffer through this year. Yelich because you know you're not married to him in a league where there's that much roster turnover I'm good with it Yelich for Martinez certainly in a redraft league a peer redraft league I'd be thrilled to do that at this point just I agree my hands of Yelich for an outfield stud like that musgrove means for Aaron Nola well the best keeper of the three is Nola feel pretty confident in that so from that standpoint for for just this year it's It's pretty pricey. I don't know that I'd do it in a redraft league,

but if you're consolidating to get, you know, two kind of fringy keepers for one great keeper, I understand that. That's what I'd say. End of analysis. Yeah. All right, future glory, go back to your league and you laugh at them

because Scott White likes the deals. No. Uh-oh. What are we getting here? I can't find the button. Uh-huh. Ha ha ha ha. Who's the... Who's the one laughing now?

You are. You realize that the voice changer isn't on, right, Scott? No, really? So you just did it in like a Scott mocking a voice changer voice, but it actually wasn't the voice changer. Is it working now? Yes, it is. Are we good now?

And that's scary? I'm not scary. You are not, but I appreciate it, man. That's it. Scott after dark, we got to wrap up. It's been a long week, as you can tell here on the podcast. For Scott, I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today.

Have a fantastic Memorial Day weekend. We'll be back on Monday. Bye-bye.