Fantasy Baseball Today - Are These Pitchers Breaking Out? (3/31 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 31, 2026

Jack Leiter did some very interesting things in his first start (2:30)! ... Michael Soroka had an immaculate inning in his Dbacks debut (6:43). ... Lance McCullers turning back to the clocks (13:04)? ... Let's rank a bunch of interesting pitchers including Parker Messick, Landen Roupp and Kyle Harrison (18:33). ... Luis Castillo racked up a bunch of whiffs on his fastball and Roki Sasaki looked OK (28:05)? ... News (34:30): Cody Ponce was carted off the field with a knee injury. ... Let's rank some corner infielders off to nice starts (42:14). ... How did these pitchers do in their debuts on new teams (46:10)? ... Anything to see with these pitching leftovers (53:00)? ... We wrap up with hitting leftovers, bullpens, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (1:04:28). Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sptfy.com/QiKv⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow our FBT team on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@FBTPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CPTowers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@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/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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. 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. If you wanted an interesting night of pitching, you got it.

Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, March 31st. I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White, and Chris Towers. Today on the show, are these pitchers breaking out? There's a lot to talk about. We'll break them all down. Plus, recap the rest of Monday night's action. Let's jump in.

My oh my, those pesky mariners just walked off my Yankees. But no one wants to hear about that. They want to hear about these pitchers. And so we will start. We're going to start with Jack Leiter. My player of the night here, he looked great. At the Orioles, six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts to one, walk, 21 swinging strikes on 92 pitches here, completely remade his pitch mix. He cut his

four-seem usage. More than half of what he used last season, he led with the change-up. He threw that pitch 27% of the time. He used more curveballs. He had a new cutter that he threw six times in this one. His secondary pitches were tremendous. His change-up and slider each had eight whiffs in this outing, and he threw 65% of his pitches for strikes. A lot of when Jack Leiter has got himself in trouble so far in his major league career, it's been being erratic, not throwing strikes, lots of walks, but obviously strike throwing here, secondary pitches looked really, really good. This isn't help anybody too much because he's already 88% rostered, but I thought it was a great first start for someone who has a lot of prospect

pedigree that we've been kind of waiting to break out and see something from. This was kind of that something, but only for one start. Yeah, I mean, he's always been a guy who throws really hard, but his fastballs have never actually been great pitches. And so I think it's a good sign for lighter that he went from, I want to say it was like 45% usage of his four seamer alone last season to just 27% of the four seamer and sinker combined. So he went from 51% combined for the four seamer and sinker combined. So he went from 51% combined for the four seamer and sinker last year to just 30 to 27% this season. And now, look, he throws hard.

It's always been 97, 98, 99 on the four seamer, but it's always been a pretty okay pitch, but not a great one. So I think tweaking the pitch mix, adding a cutter is somewhat interesting. It's a 94 mile an hour cutter that he got three whiffs with today. I think it's all very interesting for Jack Leiter.

The problem is he's 86% rostered. So like for tomorrow's news, I'm kind of writing about like three of the big pitching performances, McCullors, Lighter, and Soroka. And I'm kind of ranking them by how likely I am to react to this. And we'll get to McCullors, but I am not really reacting to it. For a lot of reasons, lighter I would be reacting, except he's 86% rostered or whatever it is. So it's like, there's not really any room to react. And then Soroka's so low rostered that I kind of think just like, yeah, let's see if this is for real because if it's 10 strikeouts in five innings, we'll get to him shortly as well and what changed.

But with lighter, the only problem is it's just what is there to react to, I guess, is my problem or my question. Yeah, there's a good reason he's that rostered. I don't I don't feel like we hammered this home much in draft prep season, just because. there's only so much time to get into so many players. Second half last year, Jack Leiter had a 328 ERA 119-lipp in 10K per 9. I mean, that alone is reason to be excited. Obviously, it's been broadening out his arsenal.

The change-up was the big development last year. Sounds like bringing in a cutter a bit here now, as so many pitchers are. and I would say if you invested in Jack Leiter on Draft Day, should be pretty excited right now because this was a good way to kick off the season. Yeah, I guess the only thing that we can react to or say about this is that for people who were excited

about a Jack Leiter breakout, and there were a lot of people that I saw out there who were, this is obviously a great first step. For those who play on Yahoo, Jack Leiter is only 45% roster, so a little bit more actionable there. shallower league context and things like that. But if he's available, I mean, he's, you know, one of the more interesting starting pitchers

that we've seen make a start so far this season. So I would react to that if you do play over on Yahoo. Chris, let's go over to you for your player of the night, the aforementioned Mike Soroka. Yeah, Mike Soroka. Michael Soroka, actually. He came out and threw five shutout innings with 10 strikeouts and one walk against the Tigers.

And the thing about Mike Soroka is he had a 542 or 452 ERA last season. His XERA was 353. I think a big part of why he was bad last year was the Nationals had arguably the worst defense in baseball or one of. And so, you know, he was a 25% strikeout rate guy. The walk rate was only 8%. That breaking ball is a really, really good swing and miss pitch. And I just think kind of going from the Nationals defense to just a competent defense, let alone, you know, Arizona's might be pretty good, especially on the infield. I think that alone is worth taking a look at Soroka just to see if he can take the good peripherals from last season, get a defensive upgrade behind him, and see if he can't be a very useful pitcher because I think he could be.

So what I saw from Soroka and this one, was, you know, of the 12 whiffs to get the 10 strikeouts, nine of them came on what, what Stackass is calling a slurve. Nine of them came on that breaking ball, the slurve, which he threw 48% of the time. Last year, that pitch had a 38% whiff rate. It was a very good whiff rate. A 118 batting average against.

It's a really good pitch. He was throwing in a, a lot last year. He wasn't throwing at 48% of the time though and I just wonder how much this dominant start had to do with simply emphasizing a good pitch more which was very much on trend five plus

years ago. A lot of the pitching strategy talk was just throw your best pitch more simplify and in more recent years it's been broaden your arsenal and so we've kind of gotten away from that just the whole

what's the word like just just the way pitchers are developed. We've gotten away from that. But there can still be value in it when there's a pitch that a single pitch you have in your arsenal that that that that's that good. So I was encouraged by that approach from Soroka. He also had a new cutter. He only threw it five times. It wasn't a huge difference maker, but it was there. Guys, we are bearing the lead.

He had an immaculate inning in this game, which is amazing. It was the fourth emaculate. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he threw the pitch. I mean, we've all seen the meme of like sister Jean throwing the. the way outside slider and Javier Bayez still swinging at it. There were a couple of those in there for Mike Soroka going up against Hobby Baez.

But yeah, fourth immaculate inning in DeBak's history there for Soroka. I just question, and I don't want to poo-poo this because it was a great start. But I just question if he has anything besides the slurve. I just, I really don't know. But if he's throwing it more, obviously, that is his best pitch. I just, I really don't know if he has anything else besides that pitch. So the reason that I'm interested is just, I think he pitched better than his results last year.

Yeah. And so I think just going from a really bad defense to a potentially pretty good one might just be enough to, you know, I mentioned the run difference between his ERA and XERA. Well, you know, maybe it's probably not going. I don't think he's a 3.5 ERA pitcher or anything, but could it be a 376, 3.8 with 10.5K per 9? I think that's within the realm of possibility for Mike Soroka. So I'm trying to be, I'm trying to strike the balance between nothing in one start should make you change your opinion about any player and being open minded to the possibility that maybe something might work out here. I'm just, as I said earlier, there are varying levels of that, I think. This is kind of broader, broader strategic talk for earlier.

season fantasy baseball play. And it's the sort of thing, obviously very analytically minded people, very disciplined stats people, gravitate toward playing fantasy baseball. But just from a strategic standpoint, you have to go against that instinct. Of course, it's not a big enough sample.

Of course, the track record isn't promising. But this is the time of year where the most unexpected, the highest number of unexpected breakouts are going to emerge, particularly on the pitching side. So really early season waiver wire play is mostly about wrangling as many of these guys.

We're just showing a glimmer of something new that. Hoping one of them hits. And hoping one of them hits. Yeah, because if you don't pick them up, somebody else is going to. And so, yes, it's like, oh, I haven't seen enough to know. Of course you haven't seen enough to know.

but you kind of just have to react. And of course, you have to do it in a disciplined way and not a reckless way. You can't drop who's a really good pitcher route. You can't drop Cole Reagan's or something for Mike Soroka. That's an extreme example that hopefully everyone listening to this show would know not to do. But obviously you have to be disciplined about it. You have a few roster spots to play with. And Soroka, I think, is somebody, Soroka.

Yeah. Jose Soriano the first time through. I throw a Rup in there. I'd throw, we'll talk about, you know, a couple of these other guys. But Kyle Harrison's more widely rostered. But I think, you know, if he's available in your league, you should definitely take a look at him. Parker Messick, same thing. I mean, he's like 63%.

I think that should have been 100% going into the season. But I'm, I just love, you know, I didn't realize Parker Messick, kind of stocky. He's like borderline big beefy baseball boy. He's not quite. But he's like a couple of grilled cheeses away. which, you know, I love that. Yes. And he's a fiery dude, man.

If you watch him, he's fun to way. He just love to watch him. He's really animated on the mouth. We'll talk about Messick in a second. But first, let's talk about Scott's player of the night. Who is it? Yeah, I'm going to talk about Lance McCullors. Lance McCullors is only 9% rostered on CBS sports leagues.

And you can understand why he missed both 2023 and 2024 due to injury. And when he came back last year, he pitched to a six. 51 ERA, had lost a lot of velocity from the last time we had seen and looked like he wasn't going to be of any more use at all. Had a really good start here, though, his first start of the season and did several things different. It was against the Red Sox, so, you know, not some Cupcake lineup. Seven innings, four hits, one earned run, one walk, nine strikeouts, 17 whiffs on 96 pitches, including multiple on five of the six pitches he threw. So that was one of the changes for McCullors.

It's just a much broader arsenal. And in particular, he's another one of those pitchers who started emphasizing a cutter that he really didn't throw before. Through 25% of the time in this one. And it's highlighting that pitch in particular because I think about the reduction of velocity for McCullors. Similar to what Brandon Woodruff went through coming off shoulder surgery, coming back from that last year, lost three miles per hour on his fastball.

But by introducing this cutter to his arsenal, it still played well. So McCullors has this cutter now. But not only that, his entire arsenal, less spin, less vertical break, you would think that would be a bad thing. But in McCuller's case, I almost wonder if he had too much. She always had those like jiff worthy breaking balls that, you know, look really pretty, but may not be as effective in a practical sense. And that kind of fits in with the theme of having this cutter in his arsenal,

just making your pitches look more similar so that you can actually coax swings on them. And obviously it worked in this start against Boston. It's a long shot that it's going to work in the long run. run, but, you know, only 9% rostered if you have a spot to play with. I don't think it's, I don't think it's a bad, a bad gamble to take. As long as you understand, like, okay, I mean, if, if nothing else, this guy's likely to get hurt at some point. And, you know, he had a 650 ERA last year. Like, it's, it's obviously a low probability play.

But it's like, I got a spot to play with. I don't see anything interesting out there. I'm seeing enough different here from McCullors coming off the dominant start that it's like, well, I'd like to have a spot for him at the very least. And maybe I don't, but if I do, I'd consider it. Yeah, the last time he was a fantasy relevant pitcher was I believe they still had Michael Brantley, Yuli Gouriel, and Martine Maldonado. And their starting nine and Alex Breggman, Kyle Tucker, and Carlos Correa, who played four seasons with, a different team and is now back for Houston. So I'm pretty skeptical

just because of that. And we had a few starts last year where he flashed, but then obviously lots of bad. I think early on when he came back too, yeah. He had a 12 strikeout start last year. But I will say that cutter, you know, generally speaking, something Scott talked about with

Sroka in that discussion and just kind of the modern pitching elements, you know, every single pitcher who comes up now has, it basically has the arsenal that they throw against righties and the arsenal that they throw against lefties. And that's a fairly new thing. Growing up, I feel like you just had your pitches and you tried to beat the guys who are out there with what you had.

And that's not to say there weren't platoon pitches, but McCullors threw his cutter 47% of the time against lefties today. And through his sinker 60% of the time against righties. Sinkers are generally the pitch you throw to get same-handed batters out. and four seamers or cutters are generally what you throw to get opposite-handed batters out. So that's what we're seeing from McCullors is more of a modern approach to his arsenal. Because if you remember when he first broke in and he was a really exciting pitcher, it was just fastballs up, curveballs down. That was all he was like 90% fastball curveball.

And now he's kind of had to evolve into a kitchen sink approach. I'm pretty skeptical it's going to prove sustainable, but I'm open to it. more open to Soroka because I think he was just better last year and I think the situation's pretty good, but I'm trying to be open to it with McCullers without committing to it, I guess, is the way I would put it. You know, I don't want to. You don't, I like, if you drop him after a next start, I would not be surprised that's the move. And that goes for all the pitchers who weren't drafted, really. It's, it's, it's not an all in approach you should be taking. It's, I'm keeping an open mind to this because I know my roster isn't full of studs.

I know I have some fringes on there. So let me hopefully secure a couple more studs that nobody saw coming. And you just have to be light on your feet with those guys. Let's throw up the other two pitchers in here, waiver wire options that could be out there from Monday's action. Parker Messick shut down the Dodgers, six shutout innings, five hits, zero walks, five strikeouts, ten whiffs on, 76 pitches. He was incredibly efficient through lots of strikes, change up slider. Both look good

here for Messick. He is 63% roster, which you guys mentioned earlier. So I might only be out there in some of the shallower formats. And the other name is Landon Rup, who looked great at the Padres. Six shutout inning, seven strikeouts for him, 13 whiffs on 88 pitches. And wasn't as reliant on that curveball, which, you know, for the past couple of years, has really been his out pitch, his best pitch is that curb ball, but he mixed in some more cutters. His sinker looked good as well as changeup looks solid. So just really had everything working here. Scott, what did you see from Parker Messick and Landon Aroop here on Monday?

Well, let me first say Messick, if he's out there in your league, he's top of the priority because we have plenty of evidence from last year that he's good too. He did this against the Dodgers, which is great. takes that kitchen sink approach, six pitches and all. Really good strike thrower, 66% rate for the time he was up. Last year, 67% in this start. I think those are all good signs for Messick. And I would be surprised if he's not at least useful in fantasy.

I don't know that he has even a number two type ceiling for fantasy purposes, but I think he could potentially be a number three and almost certainly will be useful. The comp I've made all offseason is 2025 Matthew Boyd. And it's an aesthetic comp, it's an approach comp, but it's also just, I think the results could be very similar.

I think Messick probably has a little more strikeout upside even. I think the whip could be higher for Messick too. His control and the miners was shaky, but... And he doesn't have that defense behind him. Right, right. So I think the whip could be higher than Boyd's at. but in terms of just like solid ERA and just below a strikeout per inning kind of like the guardians do good work with their with their pitching development here so I think that's totally fine did you guys have any thoughts on Land and Rup here first start yeah yeah so he's another one who brought in the cutter 19% usage and introducing that pitch basically cut his curveball usage in half now his curveball is his best pitch but it didn't work for him last year he started throwing it more at some point which We thought would be a positive development, and it just didn't go well.

So, you know, that's a pretty significant... And this is a significant arsenal change, and the immediate returns are good. 78 mile per hour average exit velocity, so gave up weak contact in addition to getting whiffs at a nice rate. I probably would prioritize him behind both Soroka and McCullors myself. Maybe you disagree, Chris? I'd go him ahead of Soroka, but I think they're very similar. Him ahead of McCullors, you mean? McCullors, yes, sorry, sorry.

So I would go Syroka, Rup, McCullors, but I think there's more distance between Soroka and the other two, I think. I think the thing with Rup, the reason I'm intrigued by him throwing the curveball less is just I think he has a really hard time commanding that pitch. It's a really, it's a great pitch, but it's a big, big slow looping curveball. And there just are not a lot of guys who throw a big slow looping curveball 40% of the time as starters.

Like Framber, it's kind of the only one. And he's an outlier in about a thousand ways. So it's just a really hard approach to make work, I think. So I'm intrigued by the change in Arsenal for Landon Rup. And you know, I forgot to mention Kyle Harrison, too. There were so many here on Monday. He looked good against the Tampa Bay race. Five innings, one run, eight strikeouts to one walk, 16 whiffs on 87 pitches,

14 of those on his fastball. We're still waiting to see if, you know, the other pitches in his arsenal can play up now that he's with the Brewers. I mean, he's had starts before where the fastball looks really good. And I feel like that was always supposed to be his best pitch. It is. It is. It's just is there enough that, you know, because if you only have one good pitch and it's a fastball,

especially if it's a fastball. Like hitters are going to figure that out pretty quickly. Yeah. And he's got this new kick change, which, you know, I think the theory here would just be, you know, I think he only threw it like 11 times or something like that. It wasn't a huge part of his arsenal. But I think the theory here would be Kyle Harrison is one of these guys who struggles to, we've done this before.

Pronate, suponate, whichever one you do to, like, he gets around. the ball better, which is why he throws a good breaking ball, which is why he has the good foreseamer, but he can't throw arm's side as well. And so, you know, the kick change is designed to help guys who don't throw traditional curveballs well, have a curveball. And maybe the idea is it just, just the threat of that makes the fastball play up. You know, it's harder to make that argument when he only throws it 11 times. But his fastball did also have more movement. and sat half a mile per hour up. And the last time we really saw Kyle Harrison

for an extended stretch was in 2024, and he was averaging 92.5 with the fastball. Now he's at 95. So it might just be that's enough. So I would put, I have Messick ahead of lighter, I'm pretty sure in my rankings, and I have going back to the preseason.

But I think Harrison is in the same range as lighter for me. So that is the next question. question. Let's just rank all five of these names. You can throw lighter in there if you want to make it six, but mostly because they're available, Messick, Soroka, Rup, McCullors, Harrison. Rank those five.

Messick Lighter Harrison, Soroka, Rup McCullors. Scott? I think I got them all. Yep. I'll go lighter. And then rare cases you can pick them out. Messick, Harrison,

Soroka McCullors, Rup. And where does Emerson Hancock land on that list? Because he was the big talking point from the weekend. He's in that, he's in the Soroka tier. I'd probably go, Soroka and then Hancock. Uh, yeah. Yeah, I would put, yeah, I think that's right for me also.

Soroka, Hancock, then McCullors, right? I had McCullors behind. Soroka, and then Root. Yeah. All right, let's take our first break. When we return, I have a couple of their interesting pitching performances to talk about. We'll get to the news, all that right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today, recapping Monday's action.

We went through all the potential waiver wire options here. I just wanted to shout out a few other names. Luis Castillo, he turned back the clocks. against the Yankees here, six shutout innings with seven strikeouts for him. 17 whiffs, 13 of them on the fastball. Pretty kind of interesting. So he did the simplify thing.

And in a way that made sense, he pretty much just threw the four seamer and the slider. And those pitches, looking at batting average against 203 and 230 last year, as other two pitches batting average against 306 and 294. So he ditched those guys, sinker and the changeup, really focused on the fastball slider. I don't know if that's going to be a approach that works for him long term,

but it kind of helps explain why he was so effective, at least this time, how. He also, you know, the velocity was right around where we expected to be 95, but it was 15 inches of induced vertical break on the four seamer as opposed to 12 last year. And now even when he had, remember, Luis Cristio, before the past couple years, he had one of the best fastballs in baseball. routinely like a 33% whiff rate with the foresemer, which is crazy high. Even then, he was more like a 13 IVB pitcher. And so I think that's pretty interesting that we're seeing a different movement profile here.

I don't know if, you know, he's always been a guy who gets more two-plane movement than just rise on the four-seamer, which we typically talk about force-seemers wanting the rise. I think you mostly just want it to be. just playing with my wedding ring. It's okay. I do that all the time. I thought your microphone was falling apart. I was like, Scott, please save this. But typically what you want, we usually talk about four seamers in terms of the rise that you get on them.

But really, you just want movement that's different than most four seamers. You know, that's really what matters. You want velocity and then weird movement. And so, you know, it remains to be seen. But I think this was a very promising start from a guy that I don't. think anybody was excited to draft in 2026. Two other names real quick. Interesting for different reasons. Chris Paddock got destroyed by the White Sox,

four innings, eight runs allowed, six strikeouts here, two homers allowed. Kind of some interesting stuff under the hood, but obviously it was a really bad start. 15 whiffs on 79 pitches and he changed up his pitch. Makes a lot too. I just wonder how long will the Marlins stick with, I mean, any of their pitchers who get destroyed that are named Chris Paddock or Jansen junk. How long do they stick with these guys before they give Robbie Snelling or Thomas White a chance?

So I just think we're going to be paying close attention to that pretty much all season until those guys get called up. And then Roki Sasaki, I actually thought was kind of decent here against the Guardians. Four innings one run, four strikeouts. He had nine whiffs on 78 pitches. Fastball velocity was up 1.5 miles per hour. Use that new cutter 22 times and it actually looked kind of good. So we're still, we need a lot more evidence from Roki Sasaki,

but I thought this was like a decent first start for him. Any quick thoughts on Sasaki and or Paddock? I basically had the same impression you did about Sasaki. I know I dropped him in one league before the season even started. I'm not rushing to pick him up. But I can at least see a path here for him where, oh, yeah, I mean, maybe. he still threw only 58% of his pitches for strikes, so that's part of it.

I mean, he was walking everybody this spring. And I'm not sure that Arsenault's good enough to get away with having control problems. But it looked like the stuff could be good enough if he can overcome those control problems. I'm going to be honest, I thought he was, I thought he looked awful watching the start. I thought he was terrible.

I thought he was so lucky to not have an awful start. He has, I don't know if there's a pitcher, a starting pitcher in baseball with worst command than Roki Sasaki right now. He just has no idea where any of his pitches are going. I thought Cleveland bailed him out, honestly. Like, I think against a tougher lineup, I think he would have gotten crushed. I was not at all impressed with Roki Sasaki. I'm not saying I would drop him if I had him for Mike Soroka. I would drop him for Parker Messick.

If Parker Messick was out there, I would absolutely do it. And for Kyle Harrison and to finish the thought, I would at least consider dropping Sasaki for any of those guys who look good. Yeah. No, I think Sasaki, I thought he was already expendable coming. Like I said, I dropped him in a league. I only had him in two, but one was in L only. And the other league I had him and I dropped him before the season even started.

So I think he's plenty expendable. But. Yeah, I don't know. I'm curious to see what comes next. It was less terrible than the spring, sure. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's a pretty low bar, but yeah. Oh, man, 30 minutes in, we haven't mentioned a hitter. I'll just give a tip of the cap. Oh, my goodness, gracious. Shout out to Jose Al-Tuve, man. Just the still got it.

He reached base five times, four for four, double dong, two homers, walk, four runs scored. just awesome game there for Jose Altuvei who still has something left in the tank there for those who drafted him in fantasy this season. Can I throw one more tip of the cap out there? Yeah. Matt Walner homered off Chris Bubich today. Lefty on lefty, yep.

He's playing against lefties. They're going to give him a real chance to play every day for I think the first time in his career. So I'm marginally more interested in Matt Walner than I was coming in. And good to see him hit a homer off a lefty too. All right. before we get to the news and notes, just a reminder to subscribe, sign up for the FBT newsletter.

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during the third inning of his return to the majors on Monday night due to right knee discomfort and he will go for an MRI. Doesn't sound great. I mean, I'm probably expecting an IELston here and it's just really unfortunate for someone who worked so hard to get back and, you know, we had pretty high expectations for this season. So we'll see what comes of it. But good news for the Blue Jays, Shane Bieber will throw off a mound on Saturday, his first time throwing off a mound this season.

And more good news, Trey is Savage will throw a simulated game on Friday. The plan is for him to get up to 45 pitches. So perhaps we could see a Savage back at some point in April. Spencer Strider will travel with the Braves on their road trip, but he remains without a timetable to begin a rehab assignment. He is currently out with that oblique injury. Speaking of the Braves, they option Didier Fuentes to AAA so that he could get stretched out as a starter. Obviously, Scott Fuentes, the talk of spring, looks awesome. How are you handling him in fantasy right now?

Because it's going to take him a little bit of time to get stretched out. We're not exactly sure that he'll just get thrown into the rotation once he is stretched out. So is he someone that you have to hold because of the perceived upside here? Well, first of all, I think the way they're putting it of stretching him out to start, I mean, he went four innings in his one appearance and was used to the start of the spring. So it's probably more realistically, it's probably they're going to pump the brakes a little bit so that he doesn't accumulate too many innings early. As for what to do with them in fantasy,

I think in leagues where your bench base is precious, where you pretty much make use of everybody who's on it. and you are trying to corral every possible starting pitcher breakout. Like a lot of the guys we talked about at the start of the show, you probably should be willing to let Fuentes go and hope you get another crack in them later. But in leagues where bench space is almost like a place to stash things of value, and you don't have as much use for those guys,

like a roto league, I think are often like that. then you could think about holding on to him. But I don't think it's a must in any scenario, except for the very deepest ones. Nick Ladolo will begin a rehab assignment at Singale on Thursday. So good news for him. Let's hope that he makes it out of it with no setbacks with that blister. Carlos S. Deves was unavailable Monday.

He still has a boot on his left foot, an I.L. Stint is possible. Turns out Lucas Erseg and Matt Schrom were also unavailable. It was John Schreiber who picked up the same. save. So very eventful start to the Royal's bullpen this season. Tanner Bybee has been cleared to start Tuesday against the Dodgers. He left on opening day with that shoulder injury. I would not start him. If you have the ability to bench Tanner Bybee, I would stay away there. Jorge Polanco has been dealing with a sore Achilles, but he feels good enough to play as the

team's DH. So him getting that first base eligibility is a little bit delayed for now. Pavin Smith was placed in the aisle with left elbow inflammation. The team promoted infield prospect Jose Fernandez. I dug into the minor league numbers. I didn't see too much there with Jose Fernandez. Sean Murphy could begin a rehab assignment at high A later this week. He's working his way back from hip surgery end. A name that should just be on your radar in two catcher leagues to see if he's available.

Because once he's back, I mean, him and Drake Baldwin could pretty much split, you know, D.H and catcher duties regularly. and just get a bunch of playing time. So it could be good for both of those guys. That was fast. Marlins option, Davis and De La Santos, back to the miners here on Monday.

The Brewer signed prospect Cooper Pratt to an eight-year extension worth more than $50 million. He's 21 years old. Last year at AA, the numbers were not very good. I'm like, am I missing something here? I don't get it.

Well, I can't recall a time. Obviously, we've seen minor leaguers prospects sign long-term deals, but usually that is in anticipation of, like, that is the decision that gets them called up because now we don't have to worry about service time. I can't recall. Scott Kingery, John Singleton, if you think back that far. You're naming some bad examples. There are something it's worked out well for for the team. Evan Longoria. I can't recall the time when.

A guy who's still far enough down the minor league ladder that we're not talking impending promotion. Yeah. Got a contract like this. There's really no comparable for this. Yeah. And I mean, all I could figure is, well, it's not that much money for eight years. And then they get two team options on top of that that I think is for, I think it's for 15 million. I mean, that far in the future, who knows what players are going to be making.

We're going to have flying cars and virtual. VR headsets and all that stuff. But, um, but I mean, obviously they have a lot of confidence in him long term. And I, I think,

uh, I think they're just thinking in the long run this is going to pay off financially for them. Um, they believed enough in him. They saw that he was willing to work on something like this to. I don't know. It was a weird one.

But I wonder if it's going to become a trend. Weird is the right word because contract. contractually, it's very similar, like said, on Raphaela's contract. I think he also signed eight years, 50 million with some options. But Raphaelah was one, a better hitter in the miners. Similar type of prospect, I think. But also, Raphael, when he signed his contract, it was like April 20th of 2024, I think, or 2020. Yeah, 2024.

He had already amassed like 45 days of service time. So the Red Sox were basically buying out one. free agent year on that contract. Pratt is, I think, like a week away from them having locked in seven years of club control. So they've only bought out one free agent here. It's just, it's a bizarre move. Like, they really like him. Some prospect people really like him a lot more than you'd think based on the numbers. He kind of feels like Carson, like, it would have been weird if the raise gave Carson Williams an eight-year $50 million contract extension. And I think he was considered a better prospect this time last year than Cooper Pratt is right now.

So it's just a weird, weird, weird move. Not bad, just weird. And I don't want to doubt what the brewers do because, I mean, typically they have a pretty good idea of what they're doing in the way that they run that franchise in particular where they're always kind of looking for ways to get out ahead and obviously, you know, squeeze every ounce of value out of play. as they can. So it's an interesting one for sure. Speaking of the Brewers, they acquired outfielder Luis Matos from the Giants who was recently DFAed. I do have some Yankee updates as well. Garrick Cole will toss a one-inning live BP in a couple of days. Carlos Rodon threw a 50-pitch batting practice on Sunday, and Anthony Volpe is expected to face live

pitching later in the week. He is working his way back from October labrum surgery in his shoulder. Let's talk about some hitters here. Ranking Corner infielders. Some guys that had either big games here, just off to nice starts. Miguel Vargas, massive game. Two for four with a grand slam. Six RBI. He has back-to-back multi-hit games.

Also had a steal on Sunday. He has first and third base eligibility. Jake Berger, man, he looks locked in to start the year. Two-for-four with a double, two RBI. He had two hard hits in this game. The double was 110.2 exit velocity. T.J. Rumfield, off to a nice start with the Rockies. Three for five with a double and two RBI.

Nolan Gorman, looking solid early on. Just hit his second home run, and he has second and third base eligibility. Chris, how would you rank those corner infielder? It's Miguel Vargas, Jake Berger, T.J. Rumfield, and Nolan Gorman. Burger, Rumfield, Vargas, Gorman, I think is how I would go. And I don't think any of these guys are particularly likely to be long-term. term fixtures. So the reason I'm prioritizing Berger is we know when he gets hot he's really useful. And it probably won't last all season. He's a very streaky player, but he's hot right now.

And I think he'll be useful in any roto league. He's always been pretty fringing points. So in those formats, it's harder to justify. Vargas, he's just been around enough that while there is some room, like he was somewhat similar to Michael Bush a couple years ago. And I remember, Michael Bush did have a big second year as a full-time player, so maybe something similar can happen to Miguel Vargas, but I don't expect that. So I'll go Rumfield ahead of him just for kind of the mystery box element plus the course field of it. Like he's off to a nice start. They haven't even played at course field yet. So maybe there will be something here with Rumfield. And then I'm just, I'm not going to fall for it with Nolan Gorman again, personally. I hear that. Scott, your boy

Cole Young. He looks pretty good so far. Three for four. four with a double and an RBI here. All three hits came off of lefties in this game. One of the hits, 11.3 mile per hour, exit velocity for Cole Young. He homered over the weekend as well, coming off that massive spring.

36% rostered. It feels a little bit low for Cole Young. Yeah, I think there's upside here, man. Yeah, I mean, if you're at the position most devoid of true standouts, and we know second base has supposed. some interesting players, some category specialists if you play in a format where that matters. But they don't have a lot of standouts. And, you know, the interesting ones are interesting because you hope they become standouts.

Young, I think, has a clearer path to that as a 22-year-old with a top prospect pedigree. And he's showing early indications of that. So I'm thinking, you know, obviously this shallower league comment. context. But even if you wanted to do something like drop Jorge Polanco for Cole Young in one of those leagues where it's you know, there aren't middle infield spots to fill. You're just looking to get the most impact you can

out of the second base spot. I don't think that's a crazy idea. Look, some names that are much more rostered than Cole Young right now, Ernie Clement, 68%. Like, Ernie Clement makes a lot of contact. If you're playing a Points League where you lose a full point for a strikeout. Sure, I get Ernie Clement in that context, but Cole Young, I think, has infinitely more upside than someone like Ernie Clement. Luis Garcia Jr. with the Nationals, he's got a little bit of power and speed, but he's not

going to play against lefties. I would be all right making that swap too. So just two names that stand out. They're more like Colt Keith is ahead of Cole Young. I would make that swap too. So very impressed so far with what Cole Young has done. Let's get back to the pitching side of things. pitching debuts on new teams here. Edward Cabrera, great outing. Six shutout innings, one hit, one walk, five strikeouts, had 15 whiffs on 80 pitches. Ryan Weathers, okay in his Yankees debut at the Mariners.

Four and a third, one run, seven strikeouts for him. And a rough one here for Ron Hare-Swarz with the Red Sox. He was at the Astros, four and a third, four runs allowed, two homers allowed in this one. and I believe his last spring outing was really, really bad too. I gave up like six or eight runs in that one. Velocity was up here, but just overall pretty rough debut there for Suarez. Chris, did anything stand out to you here for these debuts?

Edward Cabrera, Ryan Weathers, and Suarez? I didn't see anything. Well, Weathers looked very good. You know, the final results, you know, he got chased fairly early, ran into some trouble in that fifth inning. but the stuff was as expected, I think. It looks better than it has in the past. He generated a bunch of weak contact and a decent number of whiffs.

So I think we're feeling pretty good about Ryan Weathers. And then I haven't noticed anything with Ron Harris at all. I know he saw that he has allowed as many multi-homer games this season as he had all of last season. Interesting. I don't really think there's anything here. I know the spring outing. I think he had a World Baseball Classic outing that wasn't great too, but I don't see any reason to worry about it,

except that his margin for error has always been very slim. And when he loses hold of the rope, things tend to get pretty ugly. But I have faith that he'll figure it out, and I'm certainly not dropping him or anything. The Edward Cabrera, he threw the four seamer more in this one. It was his second most used pitch. He had started fading that one last year.

I think that's probably not a good credit. He has started fading yet. Like that was that was supposedly the key to the whole breakout. And we talked about it in spring, how he had mentioned, oh, I want to work it back in. It worked in this start, but I think it's probably a negative development overall, which I think is what you were gearing up to say too. Yeah.

So sorry to steal your thunder. No, it's okay. It's just, yeah, it's not what I wanted to see, but I'm not worrying about it yet. Yeah. And honestly, I know, you know, we talked about that sinker and kind of helping that pitch helping Edward Cabrera take that next step. But honestly, if you look at it, both of his fastballs were just bad last year. The sinker was not great either. I think it had an X-WO-B over 400.

The sinker allowed him to get ahead in the count better so that his true stand-out pitches could stand out. Yeah. All of his secondary stuff is amazing. It's just like the fastballs are bad, man. Yeah. Obviously, having that defense behind them with the Cubs, I think, will help quite a bit as well. So we'll see. Obviously, great, great first start here for Edward Cabrera,

but some question marks about that four-seem fastball usage. Two waiver-wire debuts here, guys, that could be out there. I don't think they're nearly as exciting as the names we mentioned earlier, but I could be wrong. Maybe you guys disagree. Nick Martinez, a quality start. in his raise debut at the Brewers. Six innings, two runs, three strikeouts here.

And he is a spark for those who play in points leagues. Foster Griffin looked good in his first start back from Japan. Now with the Nationals, he was at the Phillies, five innings, two runs, five strikeouts to zero walks. Also a reliever on CBS. So two potential, you know, sparse here for those in points leagues. Scott, I don't think they're as interesting, but what do you think about Nick Martinez and Foster?

or Griffin. No, no. There was basically only one time in Nick Martinez's career that I've been interested in him and it was going into last year and it was obviously very wrong of me to be interested in Nick Martinez. I thought he had done some interesting things down the stretch in 2024 that he could carry over, but that proof faults. He was horrible in spring training, by the way.

I don't know how much that matters, but it was horrible. So sure, with the right matchups, maybe you could stream them as a, Sparp in a points league. And I imagine Foster Griffin's going to fill that same role. He feels very much like the sort of pitchers, the Jake Irvings of the world that the Nationals have been running out there for the past few years. Fits right in with that group, not going to miss a lot of bats, not going to be exceptional at limiting hard contact, 92 mile per hour average exit velocity in this one.

So it probably just a matchup to play better left for points leagues. You mentioned the name Jake Irvin in there. I will just mention someone pointed out to me on Twitter earlier tonight that over the weekend Jake Irvin's stuff was up and his extension was like much longer or better than it has been in years past. Obviously the Nationals have a new front office, a completely new regime and they're embracing more analytical type things. So a name to watch.

Let's see where it goes with Jake Irvin, who had a nice first start over the weekend. Pitchers, we expect to be good. And they were in their first starts. Chase Burns against the Pirates, five shutout innings with seven strikeouts. He had 15 whiffs on 78 pitches. Chris Bubich picking up where he left off when he was healthy last year. Faced the twins in this one, six innings, one run, four strikeouts for him.

And Braxton Ashcraft, a quality start at the Reds, six innings, two runs. Four walks, three strikeouts. Obviously, has to do a better job throwing strikes here, but I believe there's pretty good stuff there with. Ashcraft. Chris, any thoughts here on these three? You know, we pretty much expect them to be good. Maybe not so much Ashcraft, like he's still kind of young, but Burns and Bubich, you know, we expected it and they look good. Yeah, Burns was great. I think all systems go moving forward, no concerns there. Boobich, I didn't think pitched all that well in watching this start.

I was actually surprised he ended up with final line as good as it was. His command just wasn't very good. He was leaving everything off the outside corner to right-handed batters. But it's one start. He was really good last year, so I'm not going to worry about it. On a day when I didn't think he actually pitched all that well, the results were still pretty good. I think that's probably a pretty good sign. And I think he got better as the day went on. Facing the twins can remedy that, Chris.

Yeah, I think that's part of it is, you know, I think there are a handful of lineups out there that are going to make a lot of mediocre pitchers look pretty good. but I think Chris Boobitch is probably better than mediocre based on what we saw last season. So I'm certainly not panicking about a good start where the eye test didn't look as good as the line. All right. Any interest in these other waiver wire pitchers?

Again, there was a lot happening here on Monday. Clay Holmes had a solid start. Simian Woods Richardson was okay. There just wasn't really any whiffs there. Had a strong end to last season. I'm still open-minded to like a sleeper type season here for Woods Richardson. but wasn't great.

And then Bryce Elder had a pretty good first start here against the Athletics, six shutout innings with five strikeouts. Scott, any lower level interest in these three names? Clay Holmes, Simeon Woods-Ritcherson, Bryce Elder? I did have Holmes as a streamer for this week, a two-star streamer on the lower into that group. So I guess he's useful as a streamer at times. But that's all I'm willing to say about this group.

right now. Elder out of the cutter, but I think he's very bad so I don't actually care about that. Yeah, Clay Holmes had a new curve ball, by the way. He threw it five times and got zero whiffs on that pitch.

It didn't look great, but everything else that he threw in the start actually looked pretty good outside of that curve ball. So it feels like more of a floor play with someone like Clay Holmes. I think the whip will be pretty bad too, but he pitches for a good team

and the ERA will probably wind up being okay there for Clay Holmes. Holmes. Jacob Lopez. Do we hold on to Jacob Lopez, Scott? Someone we like coming into the year, struggled big time with the walks here at the Braves. I mean, really his main three pitches that he goes to the four seam, the slider and the change up, had none of them working in this start. 62% rostered. Do you hold on to someone like Jacob Lopez who we think has upside or maybe drop him to take a shot on one of these other kind of waiver wire standouts from, from day's action.

Yeah, I think it depends on the size league you're in, and I think I have to make that distinction because some of the pictures we're talking about are so scarcely on, like, a Lance McCuller is only 9%. So if it's the sort of league where you drop Jacob Lopez, he's going to get scooped up right away,

you don't drop him. It's too early. But if it's a shallow league where he was borderline drafted in the first place, and, you know, it's coming off a terrible start, all these other pitchers emerging on the waiver wire.

You could go ahead and perform that switch just because the urgency is there to pick up a Mike Soroka, for instance, instead. I'm confused by this start for Lopez because it was basically the opposite in every possible way of what Lopez should be. Like, I'm not saying he's a slam dunk to be great by any means, but I figured he'd at least miss a lot of bats

and at least throw a lot of strikes. then just maybe get pummeled in a bad case scenario. And it was more, he only had four whiffs on 91 pitches. He just didn't have it at all. Yeah. Immediately. He threw 41 pitches in the first inning. And only eight of his 22 batters faced he got the first strike on.

Like, just the command was just not there today. And his velocity was down coming back from a flexor strain last year. And it collapsed after the first two innings, especially. actually. He averaged 90.6 in the first, 90.3 in the second. He was below 89 in both third and fourth inning. So I just think he didn't have it today, but a lot of red flags there for a guy that I think we all generally liked.

And I do have some concerns about just the way the second time through the league is going to go for a guy like Jacob Lopez who gets by on a funky delivery and weird arm angle and unusual pitch shapes. It's entirely possible that, you know, they got the, they got the trajectory machine batting cages set right for Jacob Lopez and he's just going to be terrible, because he doesn't have great stuff. I'm open to that possibility, too. Deep League waiver wire hitters.

We're talking 15-team, Roto Leagues or deeper here. Luis Anhele-Cunia had two steals. He has started three of four games. two at shortstop, two in the outfield. Someone that could provide versatility this year and some steals now that he has an opportunity with the White Sox. Liam Hicks is off to a nice start here with the Marlins. Two for four with his second home run, three RBI.

He has started two of four games and he has hit cleanup in both of them. And Joey Weimer making history. Two for four with a walk and two runs scored. He tied Carlos Delgado's record for most consecutive plate appearances to reach base safely to start a season at 10. He is 8 for 10 so far with two homers and got to start against a right-handed pitcher here, so I could see a little bit more playing time.

Scott, very deep league stuff here, but do any of them stand out? Luis Honhele Cunia, Liam Hicks, Joey Weamer. I don't think any of them have emerged from the deep league consideration. Like they haven't transcended that. They're still just in that discussion. And, you know, Akunia, we knew there could be cheap speed there if he played enough.

Hicks, I actually picked him up as my second catcher in a 15 team league. So I've enjoyed those two home runs so far. I think he's going to play a lot. So, yeah, I still think he makes sense in that role. But not beyond that. And then Weimer, I mean, this is, I suppose it could turn into more. after all, oh, who was that guy? There was somebody like that last year who, oh, I guess it was Geraldo Perdomo is who I'm thinking of,

where we just, like, nobody had any interest in him at all in fantasy. Like, ah, why is he blocking Jordan Lawler? That's annoying. And then he obviously turned into a stud. It's not the cleanest comparison because Weemers in what is fourth or fifth organization now. But, look, stranger things have happened is all I'm saying. I just think one four-game stretch, even if it happens to be at the beginning of the season, is not enough to completely change your view on a player like that who were, we weren't even sure.

I don't even, like before the season start, I didn't even know where Joey Weamer was, to be honest. No idea where Joey Weamer was playing. I do just want to point out two things. One, do you guys remember who was hitting cleanup for the Blue Jays to start last season? Oh. It was Andres Jimenez. Oh, gosh. Who, remember, hit three home runs in the first five games of the season.

And there was a lot of, well, maybe he had, I think, eight home runs the whole season or six, something like that. Seven. The likeliest outcome here is Joey Weamer has zero fantasy value, and this is the last time we mentioned him on the podcast. Yeah. I wanted to be open-minded about Lance McCullers and not write it off. I'm going to go ahead and plant the flag. Joey Weamer, not going to be a thing. Come on.

I picked them up in an NL only league. Come on, Chris. It's more of a pitcher. Sure. That entire strategy is more pitcher related than hitter related. Yeah. Yes. I'm much, but I also want to add, um, this is not, I did a piece about this a couple years ago where I did a bunch of research, but this is, I am not the first person to look this up. April does not have any more predictive value on rest of season performance than any other time of year.

It seems like it should. It seems like April should matter more. It seems like getting off to a good start in April matters more than a good two weeks in June. It does not. It has no more predictive value than any other stretch of the season. That is something you need to remember. Getting off to an especially bad or especially good start does not really matter. That is not to say that there is nothing we can learn or discuss right now, but, oh God, who was it?

Zach Allen. Remember he had a 14 or 15 strikeout game in his second start of the season against the Yankees last year? Yep. I think he was like, he was third in the league in strikeouts through the first two starts. Who was the other one? I looked it up. Oh, McKenzie Gore had 18 strikeouts in his first two starts. He had a couple of good months, but ended up being. the same McKenzie Gore as always.

You should be open-minded to guys being new versions of themselves in April because they had a whole off-season to work on themselves. But you should also remember that April does not have any more predictive value than any other part of the season. Literally any random five-game stretch in June will tell you just as much about what a player is likely to do moving forward as the first five games of the season. Keep that in mind. if you liked Luke Kishel five days ago, you should still like Luke Kishel a lot. That is, it is different for guys who are being drafted outside of the top 200. You can, those guys are generally expendable anyway. But your opinion about a player should not change based on what you've seen so far,

absent truly extenuating circumstances, and I don't know if there are any extenuating circumstances so far. Outside of Joey Weamer, of course, who is in. Outside, besides Joe, that doesn't count for him. Who is a great baseball story and worth mentioning. But yes, for fantasy, I think we need to see a lot more before we're talking about adding him in mixed leagues and things like that. Some hitting leftovers here, Sal Stewart, my boy.

Yoohoo! One for two with two walks here. He became the fourth red since 1900 to reach base safely three or more times in each of the team's first four games of a season. Pretty good stuff. Ronald Cunia, off and running. Also, often getting caught. Two for two with two walks and his first steal.

He also got picked off a different time that he was on base. Barely missed a home run on Sunday, unfortunately, for a Coonia there. Carson Benj, two for four with his second steel. He had three batted balls over 104 miles per hour. So very nice sign there from Carson Bench. Did you read that as three walks over 104 miles per hour as well? Because that was when I, you have it as three B. I think that's why I come up with a different abbreviation.

I think that's why I paused for a second. He had three walks over 104 exit velocity. That's kind of weird. Carson Benj, by the way, only 38% rostered on Yahoo. So that should change if you play on Yahoo. Ian Hap flashing the power early on. He hit his third home run. Last year did not hit his third homer until May 5th.

Contract year Ian Hap. Never know. Yurton Alvarez looks good early on. Two for five with his seven. second home run, two RBI. He had three batted balls, not three walks, over 108 miles per hour. Two of those over 110 miles per hour. Corbyn, no problem.

Two for four with a triple. And his first home run also had four RBI. Nico Horner has a steal in three straight games here. So he is off and running as well. Lots of names here. Anything that stands out to you guys? Your Honor's got two outfield starts or appearances. Let's go.

Good. It's good news. Let's go. Your Don Alvarez. Call to the bullpen here for the Royals. I mentioned this one earlier with Lucas Erseg and Matt Strom unavailable. John Schreiber got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. He allowed a hit but picked up his first save. Do not think this matters for fantasy.

For the Reds, this was a pretty consistent theme on Monday. Just lots of relievers unavailable. Emilio Pagan and Tony Santian were both unavailable. So Connor Phillips got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. He walked two, picked up his first save. For the Rangers, Robert Garcia and Chris Martin, both unavailable. Although apparently Martin was warming up in the bullpen, that would have been his third straight day of usage for a guy that last year,

I don't know that he ever went back-to-back appearances. So that would have been a weird one for Chris Martin. But lefty, Tyler Alexander picked up his second save. I don't think this really means anything. I still think it's mostly just like Garcia and Chris Martin. Do you guys disagree, Tyler Alexander, first two saves for the Rangers? I agree. Okay.

I mostly agree, but it might matter. Like, this is, this was a pretty wide open situation. It's, it's probable that he just ends up with two saves at the end of the season, though. Yeah. For the Brewers, Trevor McGill got the ninth inning with the game tied. He allowed a run on a walk and a hit and took his first loss. Feels like, look, I think there's going to be a leash there with McGill, but we know Abner Arebe is really, really talented as well. So one that we have to watch closely.

For the raise, the carousel goes round and round. Griffin Jacks was used in the seventh inning with the game tied, facing the bottom of the Brewers lineup. It was three up, three down. Garrett Clevenger got the eighth inning facing the top of the lineup. There were two lefties in there. He allowed two walks, but he got out of it. The ninth inning now with a one-run lead.

Ian Seymour came on for the save, hit by pitch, strikeout, fly out. That was three lefties in a row. so lefty on lefty makes sense. And then pinch hitter Blake Perkins comes in. And it was Kevin Kelly, who was called on to get the final out. And he did pick up the save. I assume Brian Baker was unavailable.

He pitched on both Saturday and Sunday. Have we learned anything about the raised bullpen? I don't know. One, this might have been like the most raised bullpen, raised bullpen situation of all time. Ian Seymour, ostensible starter? comes in in the ninth inning and then gets replaced.

I think they actually took him out before the pinch hitter was announced. I think Kevin Kelly replaced him and then they brought in Blake Perkins. The race don't have a closer. Just straight up do not have a closer. They have not used Griffin Jacks as if he's the closer so far.

I think this is going to be a nightmare all season. Yeah. Look, getting, once Osseto went down with injury, I was a little bit more confident that Jacks would maybe get us like 20 saves this year. And maybe it does wind up happening, but based on the usage, man, it, it doesn't look great for Griffin Jacks so far. It's really hard for a manager to sustain a true committee all season long. So pressure gets turned up when guys mess up in that situation.

Yeah, you have to, there's a lot more second guessing when things are push button. And, you know, they're going to be. stretches where a lot of these arms aren't available like they're hurt. And you just don't have as many good ones that you could mix a match that much. So I think there's a good chance somebody eventually emerges from this mess. I can't say with confidence it's going to be Griffin Jackson. That would still be my first bet on it. But I, you know, it could be Brian Baker, who was very good last year. It could be Edwin Hussaita still when he returns. Yep. It's possible. For the, or you know what, Osseta could kind of take over to Griffin Jacks' role now, where he's just kind of being

used in big spots. It's up in the air right now. It's, uh, it's even messier than we thought coming in. But when we had Ryan Bass on the FBT Express earlier when we were doing the, what are we calling it, the beat the, no, the, around the horn. On the beat. On the beat. That's what we were doing. I knew it was some kind of thing like that. Um, he compared this to the 2021 bullpen when they had 14 different guys get a save and MLB record. Oh, geez. It's sure shaping up that way so far. Ryan Bass will not lie

to you is the take one. For the Mets, Devin Williams got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. His first save opportunity in New York. Well, not in New York, I guess in Queens, even though they weren't in Queens. Clean inning struck out one for his first save. For the Braves, pretty

traditional usage as we expected. Robert Suarez was using the eighth inning with a three-run lead. Of course, the Braves tacked on a run. Reisel Iglesias came on in the ninth with a four-run lead, but he did close it out. For the Giants, Ryan Walker got the ninth inning with a three-run lead. He allowed a two-run homer to Jackson Merrill,

but picked up his first save. Keaton Win pitched in the eighth, and he struck out the side. So just a deep league name to know. Something to watch. And then for the devax, this happened late here on Monday night. Paul Seawald got the ninth inning with a three-run lead, picked up his first save.

and he is 42% rostered. And we heard right before the season, there was a quote from Tori Lavello where he said Seawald would get the first save opportunity, and he came through on that. So where would you guys put Seawald in that, you know, Jordan Romano and Lucas Erseg mix right now? I think I'd go behind Erseg but ahead of Romano.

I think I'd put Seawald behind both of them. Okay. To stream or not to stream on Tuesday, we have Zach Eflin against the Rangers Brandon Williamson against the Pirates Eric Fetty at the Marlins Jansen Junk against the White Sox, Max Scherzer against the Rockies,

Jose Soriano at the Cubs. Love Scherzer against the Rockies, even though they just had a huge performance on the road offensively. Not ostensibly, but offensively. I would still, yes, I would still start Scherzer against them. I think I said yesterday

when we looked ahead to Tuesday, I distance second and third, but junk and Brandon Williamson. Yeah, I don't. I could see a good Armand Marquez start. I could see a good, I mean, Brandon Fott has his four or five good starts every year. Maybe this will be one of them, but I'm not going to project that. So yeah, I don't love these options today. Yep.

I sure sure is the only one that I would use confidently. If you're, I mean, I don't know how you would be desperate like five or six games into the season, but if for some reason you are, Zach Eflin against the Rangers and Brandon Williamson against the Pirates, I think could work. Soriano, we're intrigued by, but at the Cubs, it's a tough matchup,

so more of a wait and see on Jose Soriano. Then on Wednesday, there's not much. Luis Severino at the Braves, Matthew Libertor against the Mets. Mike Burroughs, we like as a sleeper, but his first start was bad. He gets the Red Sox here.

Adrian Houser at the podcast. race. I think I'd still be most likely to start burrows. I'm not saying I'm eager to do it. But I have zero confidence in any of these others. I agree. I could see Hauser being fine. He's a ground ball pitcher.

I like the Giants defense behind him for the most part. So yeah. Okay. Going back to Tuesday, I don't know, I don't think I want to stream them. But Brian Bayo at Houston, He was catching my attention this spring, and I don't think I've ever had an opportunity to bring it up before. So let's just see what he does at Houston, and we can see if Brian Beow is somebody to talk about more. All right, let's wrap up with Team Name Tuesday.

If you have a fun team name you want to send in, of course, PG. Keep it PG. Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. That's the letter I. These are from Joseph. Beatty Call Sal. Beatty Call Sal. See, I...

When you're trying to try and... crammed two names in there unless it reads perfectly. I just feel like it makes it clunky. Scott, there are three names there. Brett Beatty. Alex Call. And Sal Stewart.

See, that's fine. Alex Call was fine because it didn't clunk it up. You could probably just go better call Sal. Yeah, I would prefer that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Kurtzun Call. That's fine. Yep.

And DeLauderday Saints. Yeah. Okay. Can I throw a couple in here? Yeah, what do you got? A couple of my team names this year. I've got Mizirowski business. That's an old oldie but a goodie.

Love it. Love that one. Lion or Richie voice, say you, say me. That's good. Yama Motorhead. I think that's it. I think that's it. I think that's the only ones I've got.

I have a team where I picked up Junghu Lee, my home league, points league. And I named them the who leagueans. I don't know if you guys have ever seen the fan section in San Francisco that they're all wearing like the flaming heads and they're called the hooligans, which is just hilarious. So yeah, I went with that. This one is from Stephen. Am I a good man? Okay. Is that like a Goodwill Hunt?

No, not Goodwill Hunting. The other Matt Damon movie. You know I haven't seen it. Frank, you've seen it. Yeah, of course. Why am I blanking on the World War II movie? Saving Private Row. Oh, yeah, I love that one.

That's obviously a classic. I don't think of that as a Matt Damon movie. He was Private Ryan, so. That's the guy who says that, right? Yeah, he's the one whose face, he's standing there and his face turns old because they skip ahead to the future. This one is from Dan, mcgonogologist. I get what they're going for. It's like right on the line.

Yeah, yep. From Patrick Big Swing and Amish. I mean, so far, yeah. Big Swing and Amish. Yeah. You know his nickname is actually the Big Amish? It's pretty cool for Nick Kurtz. And we got a bunch from Michael.

You say Kikuchi, I say a Suzuki. Yeah. You say tomato. I say Machado. Yep. Ben Rice and Cheese Burrito. Yep. These are South Park related.

Casas Bonita. That's really good. Hiura towel. That's a good one. Tegrity Farm System. I don't get that one. That might be a later season thing. Like, yeah, the Tegrity Farms with Randy Marsh.

So just working the farm system in there. The newer episodes have actually been really good. PCA principle. Yeah. Cartman gets... I don't read that one. Yeah. A lot of these, I just copy and paste and I don't really...

I got to do a better job of reading them beforehand. They took my Job. I took our germ That's good Mr. Granky the ex-Miss Pooh And one Ninja Turtle related one

Tawa Bunga All right All right I think it's time to wrap there For Scott and Chris I am Frank Thanks as always for tuning in to fantasy baseball today

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