Fantasy Baseball Today - Berrios Bounce Back, Waiver Wire Adds & What's Up With Buehler? (6/6 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 6, 2022

Luis Severino has been awesome (1:00)! Is he a top-20 starting pitcher in Fantasy? Should you look to sell-high after Jose Berrios big game? ... Why is Roansy Contreras not rostered in most leagues (11:25)? ... How much FAB were we spending on Edward Cabrera? Should you add Ezequiel Duran? ... Are Andres Gimenez and Jose Miranda worth adding (23:05)? ... News and notes (33:13): Clayton Kershaw should be back next weekend. ... Scott's Week 10 sleepers are already stepping up (38:38). ... What's up with Walker Buehler (41:25)? ... Shane Bieber might be back (44:40). ... Start or sit these pitchers (50:18)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpens and streamers (53:06). Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question, email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your lead. Where fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. What's up, and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Monday, June 6th. Frank Stample, joined by Scott White. Today on the show, some big pitcher performances this weekend.

prospects getting promoted or called back up, recall, I guess you would say. Waiverwire ads, drops, and of course, much more. But first, take it away, Susan. Oh, my goodness gracious. All right, Scott, it always makes me feel so much better when you choose a Yankee player, and I don't so that I don't get yelled at.

Ah, well, you shouldn't worry so much about faceless masses yelling at you, Frank. First of all. But yes, I am choosing. a Yankee. I'm choosing Luis Severino, who was amazing on Saturday. Seven one-hit innings with one walk, 10 strikeouts.

Now it was against the Tigers. Clearly the worst offense in baseball. But it was still very impressive. And he's been doing things close to this for a while now. His ERA is now 295 for the year. he's had no trouble pitching deep into games after all those injuries. Four starts in a row, six plus innings, two of the four, seven plus. And I think what stands out the most is, okay, so he got 20 swinging strikes.

Eight came on the slider, which he threw 26% of the time. It was the second most thrown pitch. Remember when he, at the start of the year, he seemed, he seemed, he seemed, he, He seemed to be fading that slider a bit. He didn't seem totally comfortable with it. And given all the trauma his elbow had gone through over the past couple years, I wondered if it was just going to be a longstanding issue, because that's a slider is a pitch that puts a strain on the elbow.

But he has begun to feature it more prominently in recent starts. And you've seen the swinging strikes skyrocket. And the thing is, even with him not using, the slider much early in the year. He still has a career high swinging strike rate, 14.4%. So Louis Severino is, like, I'm not sure what there is to knock him for at this point. I mean, obviously with all the years of just the injury, there's the risk of him getting injured again, but we're not seeing the time away from the game affect his performance or even affect how deep he's pitching into games. And like, he's just, he's just looking like an ace at this point.

I don't know how high I should move him on my rankings, but he deserves a big move up. Yeah, I agree with you. And I moved them up last week inside of my top 40 starting pitchers for the first time, and it seems like that's not high enough. I was on the In This League podcast last week with our buddy, the Welsh and Scott Bogman,

and we were doing some player debates, and they asked me Luis Severino or Julio Arias, rest of season. And without even kind of thinking about it, you just go, ah, Julio Arias, you know, he's drafted as a top 10 starting pitcher, you know, he was like a top 30 pick overall this past, you know, draft season. But I mean, they're really kind of moving in different directions in terms of like the underlying stats and stuff. So yeah. Yeah. So I'm pulling up the rankings

now. I feel like I have at the last update, I have Julio Arreus 23rd. And at that point, uh, where's Severino? Gosh, I got to scroll away. I had him 48th, probably a little higher on points league since he's RP eligible. But I had him. barely inside the top 50 and I had Arias up there at 23 you know looking who I have ahead of Arias Dylan Sees Max Freed's awfully good

and then you get into like Shohei Otani and Robbie Ray I'm not even sure I have those guys in the right order but I feel like that's the range Severino belongs and I feel like I can get him inside the top 20 now and no Arias has been okay I don't think he's been as good as we wanted him to be on Sunday.

He got a bunch of swinging strikes, but he had only four strikeouts in less than six innings. And, you know, overall the strikeout rate is down for Julio Arias. So, yeah, I mean, at this point, let's see,

who else do I have behind Arias? Kyle Wright, Zach Gallen, Chris Bassett. Yeah, those are all guys. I'd prefer Severina to all those guys. So I think he's the top 20 pitcher now. Yeah, I don't think there's much performance risks. Scott, I think the biggest, you know, obvious risk with Severino is just injuries and can he stay on the field.

But so far, he's looked great. He's looked like, you know, prime Severino from, I guess at this point it was like three or four years ago, right? 2018 was like the last time Severino was really awesome. So, yeah, I think. Yeah, it's the only time he was healthy, really. Yeah. For any length of time. 2018, it's a long time ago.

By the way, that slider. I looked up the swinging strike rate just for that pitch, 22% this. season on the slider. So if he starts throwing that more, I think there's a chance we'll see even more strikeouts for Severino. Speaking of strikeouts, Jose Brrios, he needed this one, Scott. He put up a career high, 13 strikeouts against his former team, the Minnesota Twins, where he goes seven innings, allows two runs, 13 strikeouts in this game, 19 swinging

strikes on 90 pitches, and he leaned on the curveball more in this start, Jose Brrios did 34% usage, and it's right around 30% on the season. So it's not like he went crazy with it, but he did use it more. And again, it's far and away his best pitched at Curve Bowl. 172 batting average against a 14% swinging strike rate on that pitch. Scott, what do you think about this start for Jose Burrios? Could it be a sign of things to come? Or would you maybe look to sell after this big start?

Maybe a little both. I mean, obviously, his season's been pretty bad up to this point. I will point out that this makes it three quality starts and four for him, though the one that wasn't a quality start last time out was just straight up awful. And there have been a lot of those awful starts. And I have pointed out that's kind of Jose Barrios's MO. So he goes through some stretches where he looks like Say Young,

and he goes through stretches where he looks, he's a dumpster fire, basically. But in the end, numbers are pretty much always the same. So, you know, hopefully he's pulling out of a dumpster fire stretch here and is about to go on a nice run for you. But it's always, we're shopping. I mean, I mean, there are pitchers I have more confidence in than him. Let's see. Gosh. Man, this is where it gets, I guess that 20 through 50 range is starting pitcher is really frustrating to rank because I, I,

I look at who I have Burrios behind and it's like, oh, I'd easily take him over that guy. Let's see. Maybe like a Udarvish. I feel like Udarvish is, I know Zeri's around 4, but he kind of feels like a cell high in a way because I just have, like, he's not doing anything that well.

But that's like I would rather have Berea's than him, so I don't know why I brought him up. We're talking about who you could trade Barrios for in a good way. Would you trade him for? Would you do it for Logan Webb, Scott? No. No. Logan Webb hasn't been very good himself.

No, he hasn't. But like Robbie Ray, I'd trade Barrios for Robbie Ray. Sure. How about Luis Castillo? Kind of, this is so frustrating, Scott, because he does something that works well in his previous start, Luis Castillo. He throws his four-seem fastball,

49% of the time and completely changed his pitch mix. And then here on Sunday, he goes back to throwing his sinker more, throwing his four seamless, and just doesn't really have a good start. up five runs against the Washington Nationals and it's just more of that inconsistency but I don't

know why he did that. Right. Well, that's what I was worried about because that's why I wasn't getting as excited about Luis Castillo after his last start because it's okay if you could tell me he's going to stick with this four seamer approach going forward but we got to see it more than one start and yeah he reverted

to his old pitch mix on Sunday and the results were okay but too many runs I mean it was a quality start, right? Did he go six innings? It was six in a third. I think technically it was three earned, but it was five total runs, yeah.

Okay. So that makes it a quality start. Yes. And he got, he got, you know, the swinging strikes were there and everything. But yeah, just, yeah. I would rather have Rios, I think, because I mean, if he is about to go

on a run, then like, that's obviously a must start player. I don't know. I don't know that Luis Castillo is must start at the moment, especially given the team he plays for. He's pretty close. Like it would take a lot for me to sit him, but I think I'd rather have Burrios.

All right. So you've got Burrios at SP42, your last rankings update. I have him just a little bit behind that. I have him behind Charlie Morton. I think I feel comfortable making that swap now. So we'll talk about, go ahead. So this is what, you know, I was talking about the,

the 20 through 50 range at starting pitcher, which kind of tells you how deep starting pitcher is, that that's basically the non-Ace, but very good tier, runs 30 spots in our pitcher rankings. I have Rios 40th. Well, I'm looking at the rhodo rankings. You might be looking at head-to-head.

I'm 40th right now, but, you know, I'm looking up to where Kyle Wright is at 24, where Eric Lauer, I have a 28, Eric Lauer, another not so promising start on Sunday. And it's like, I could easily take Burrios over those guys. But that's a jump 15, 16 spot in the rankings, you know? Yeah.

No, I do think that this range of starting pitcher, Scott, is very interchangeable right now until we start to see someone emerge with consistency. And I guess that's why Luis Severino could rank ahead of just ahead of that group now. Somebody in the podcast league offered me Joe Ryan and like kind of a fringe waiver guy for you Darvish

and I was just like eh I don't know he's like oh you have Joe Ryan rank four spots ahead and it's like yeah but that means it's basically the same when it's basically the same

I usually just stand pat all right let's move into some waiver wire pitchers got from the weekend and I've got five names here on the list Zach Ethlyn, another strong start, up against the Angels. He went eight shutout endings with six strikeouts. And over the past three starts, he's throwing that curveball more. He's 55% rostered.

Rwanzi Contreras has allowed just two earned runs in three starts since getting called back up by the Pirates. Only 45% rostered, which I found interesting for Contreras. I thought that number would be higher. Dane Dunning gets back on track. Seven innings, two runs, seven strikeouts against the Mariners. he's 27% rostered. Zach Plesack, I know it's Zach Plesack.

But his velocity was up a little bit in this start, and he's going up against the Oakland A's this week. So that's a good matchup. And then Jake Junis turns in probably his best start of the season so far, six innings, one run, eight strikeouts. He is 35% rostered. The problem is that he faces the Dodgers this week. Scott, are there, you know, a few names here,

maybe two or three that stand out to you more than the rest? Eflin, Contreras, Dunning, Plesack, Junis. Well, Contreras is the best. I think he's the best talent-wise, clearly. And I trust him to put up the best ratios. Will he get enough wins? Will he pitch deep enough into games to be worth your while in a standard 12-team league? I'm not sure about that.

I understand why he's still so available. But if you're picking up a guy for his rest of season prospects, I think Roanzi-Cont. is clearly the one from this group. If you're picking up a short-term, you know, one-start, what do we call them? Streamer. Maybe it's police act just because of that matchup, but man, it's, you know, I don't love one-star streamers in general, and that's why, because you're really putting a lot on a guy who's probably not very good.

Dane Dunning, though, has been doing some interesting things still. hasn't quite fallen off the face of the earth yet so Dane Dunning has four double-digit swinging strike efforts in a row he had 14 on 93 pitches in this most recent starts seven

two run innings three head innings against the Mariners with a strikeout per four of his last seven starts have been really good so he's been missing more bats lately he's been good more often than not. You know, the underlying numbers still aren't great for Dane Dunning, and it's not like, I'm eager to pick him up.

But if you want a second choice behind Contreras of this group, Dane Dunning would probably be the one. The swinging strike numbers overall for the season, I guess they're continuing to climb for Dane Dunning, as you mentioned. But, you know, his X-FIP is 3.31, his Sierra is 3.5-0. pretty good numbers for Dane Dunning. So his K-minus walk ratio is solid this year. He gets a lot of ground balls.

So I kind of like him too. I mean, he's got two secondaries. He doesn't throw very hard, but I agree. He's not a must-ad or anything, Dane-Dunning, but he is kind of interesting right now. Scott, I would assume, you know, Jeffrey Springs and maybe even Edward Cabrera are ahead of everyone I just mentioned. Yes.

Oh, right? And speaking of Edward Cabrera, Scott, Did you try to bid on Edward Cabrera in any of your leaks on Sunday night? I did. I did. So here we are early June a little more, or about a third of the way through the season. Of this third of the way through the season. And I don't have much money left in most of my leagues.

Me neither. Some aggressive bidding early in the year, kind of expecting others to bid more aggressive. than they did led to some, you know, ideally, I think I've said before, I want to spend half my fab dollars in the first quarter of the season, generally speaking, because that's when the waiver wire is most fruitful. That's when other people generally are bidding aggressive too. So there's, you know, it's kind of like, you know, if you're doing an auction and you're the last one left with a bunch of money, who cares, all the good players are gone,

you know, and you're bidding against yourself. Right. So it's kind of the same thought process, but the way it worked this year for me is that a third of the way through the season I spent like 80% of my fat. So realistic, yeah, I probably wasn't in on the Edward Cabrera bidding

realistically in most leagues. And I'm okay with that. I mean, he's still a lot. He needs to prove there, especially in terms of throwing strikes. But I think among the, the guys we haven't talked about and waiver wires in the past

in past weeks, he was probably the big bid for this week. Oh yeah. So I actually did, I wound up winning him in three different leagues on Sunday. I spent $173 on him in my Tout Wars League. It's a 12-team Head to Head Points League. That's out of a $1,000 budget, so 17%. And

it's a headset points league, but we use Roto-style lineup. So it is a little bit deeper, and starting pitchers don't really come around that often. So I was aggressive with Cabrera there. And then I also want him in 215 team leagues for $144 out of a $1,000 budget and $73, again, out of a $1,000 budget. So cross your fingers. I'm hoping Edward Cabrera is awesome because, yeah,

I actually wound up with him in quite a few places. But a few other prospects, Scott, that were either called up or recalled Joe Adele, Ezekiel Duran, who was with the Texas Rangers, and Jaron Duran. And I think the Red Sox are playing the Rangers this week. So there's a chance that we get like a Duran Duran matchup, which for obvious reasons is amazing.

But were you looking to add any of Joe Adele, Ezekiel Duran, Jaran, Jaron. Yes, on a lower level than like an Edward Cabrera. And I managed to add Jaron Duran in a couple leagues. Now, I think Adele especially, probably a short-year-old. term stay. In fact, Joe Madden actually said he wouldn't be up right now if Taylor Ward hadn't had to go on the IL. And oh, by the way, they think it's going to be a minimum stay for Taylor Ward. So how likely is Joe Adele to stick around, especially given that Joe Madden actually said that? Which I'm surprised he said that. Like, you know, way to instill confidence

in the guy, make him think he has a chance. But Joe Adele had been struggling at AAA. and obviously, you know, you could understand why now might not be his time. Doesn't mean he's not worth stashing, but I don't think he's going to be of much use right now. And Jaron Duran may not be either. Now, Jaron and Duran, got to specify since there's two Duran's, Jaron, Batted leadoff both Saturday and Sunday for the Red Sox. One start in Rayfield, one start at D.H. But he might only be up for Jackie Bradley being away on,

paternity believe. I believe that's what it is, right? Yeah. I said paternity believe, I believe. Paternity leave. Sometimes my brain is working faster than my mouth. Oh, you don't have to explain yourself, Scott. I mean, as the host of this podcast, it happens to me all the time.

Yeah, so so I think there's a better chance of Jared Durant sticking around than Joe Adele, you know, the likely or scenarios that he gets sent down in short order two. So Ezekiel Duran and I didn't order my bids this way and the ones that have already gone through. I wish I did

because Ezekiel Duran of the Rangers I think has the best chance of the three of sticking around because now he's the young guy taking over at third base because Josh Smith, who we were talking about last week, got put on the IA with the sprained shoulder. And although Ezekiel Duran

is making the jump from Della, I really like what he was doing at double a so he's another guy who came over in the joey gallo trade from with the yankees last year along with joey gallo or i'm sorry along with auto auto yep yeah and a couple others uh so ezekiel duran at double a was hitting 317 with seven homers seven steals 24 doubles a 936 OPS and only an 18% strikeout rate. That's the best strikeout rate he's ever had in the minors. And not only that, Frank,

but Ezekiel Durand's ground ball rate at AA was less than 30%. You hardly ever see a ground ball rate that low. And that, you know, it's not because the fly ball rate was exaggerated. And he's clearly not going to hit for average. There was a ton of line drives and a good number of fly balls. So that's like the perfect profile for maximizing batting average in power. And that's what he was doing at double A.

He was heading for average in power. Can it translate to the majors? Obviously, we've seen much higher in profiles than Ezekiel Duran flop in the past few years. So you bet against it. But in those deeper leagues, especially since he's going to be picking up third base eligibility, I think Duran might be worth a pickup. See where it goes. He started on Sunday and he hit a home run already.

He went two for four with a home run on Sunday here, and I wanted to look up his, I believe he only has shortstop eligibility to start. Second base. Second base on CBS to start, and then, of course, he will gain the third base eligibility. So he's 23 years old. That's Ezekiel Duran, Scott broke it down.

There's a lot to like in the profile. He's a legit, like top 75, top 80 prospect in the game right now. But yeah, he was aggressively called up, but I do like adding him for, you know, three to five percent, something like that. I picked him up in one league for $34, and let's see where it goes. Some power speed. He's a young, exciting player.

I did want to ask out about kind of jumping all over the place here, but some starting pitcher drop from the weekend. Marcus Strowman. Can we drop Marcus Strowman? His ERA jumps to 5.32. He gave up nine runs over four innings pitch, three homers allowed. The underlying numbers are

still okay, but what do you think about dropping Stroman? He's 77% rostered. Before this awful start, which was awful in every way, he had allowed a combined six earn runs in his previous five starts. Yep. So I think he's still a viable points league guy, obviously not must start. You know, if there's Jeffrey Springs out there, I'm not going to hesitate to drop Marcus Stroman for him.

But would I drop Marcus Stroman for, you know, Dane Dunning? No, I want it. How about Cabrera? Yeah, I mean, if it came to that, I'd rather go for the upside. Marcus Stroman isn't an upside play, but I think in the end, his numbers are going to be respectable. But given the choice, in a shallower league especially, you go for the upside. All right, let's move over to some Waverwire hitters.

Obviously, we talked about some of the prospects, but in shallower leagues, some names that stood out from the weekend. Andrew Vaughn had seven hits. He's now betting 298 overall. He's 71% rostered. Frank Schwindell, my man, Frankie two hits. He's making a return. He's got eight hits over his last four games.

That was entering Sunday night. I'll pull up Sunday night and see if he did anything there. But since returning to the majors, he had like that brief stint where he was sent down for, I don't know, like 12 hours, and then he came back. 275 batting average, six homers in 850 OPS for Frank Schwindell. He's 66% rostered. He also pitched on Friday.

Like, what can't this guy do? He's awesome. Alec Thomas had a double dong on Friday. Had been quiet recently. He's just hitting too many ground balls, but he is making a lot of contact. He's 60% rostered. And then Andres Jimenez,

two homers this weekend, and he's hot once again, his last seven games, batting 3.85, three homers, one steal. He's got seven home games this week. 63% rostered is Andres Jimenez. Scott, are you looking at any of these names

in some of your shallower leagues? Vaughn, Schwendell, Alec Thomas, Andres Jimenez. Yeah, I mean, not surprisingly, Vaughn being the most rostered is the most interesting to me and the White Sox

let me see here I thought they were among the teams of the best matchups, they're not but yeah I think Andrew Vaughn just for the upside in the way he's been playing more consistently, been producing his strikeout rates down this year he has that top prospect

pedigree that like a Schwendell does not. Alec Thomas same thing he's probably the most interesting just because of that. And other than the ground ball rate, I really like what I've seen from him since being called up.

Like he doesn't, it doesn't seem like he's overmatched in the majors the way a lot of these young guys have been. So those are the upside plays. I like Andres Jimenez, his numbers. I like his data. Yes. You know, the stack has data backs up what he's doing.

Yes. Completely. The XBA, I think is over 290, the X-SL. over 500, and the base number's looking better. The problem, before you get too excited, Frank, is for some reason the guardians have been sitting, Andres Jimenez, once, twice a week.

And so that makes a little hard to get fully behind him, especially when you're talking about a, you know, standard league context. If you're talking about roto lineups where you got the extra middle end field spot to fill and all of that, okay. But Andrew Sman is probably already rostered in those. He's 63% rostered. I need to see him play more consistently.

And maybe Owen Miller has dropped off enough that they'll begin to fade him more. Part of the problem is they just, somehow the Guardians ended up with more hitters than they could play because of, you know, guys like Stephen Kwan and Josh Naylor getting off to good starts, Owen Miller. but you know

there'll probably be injuries at some point and if Andres Amenez continues to hit while some of those other guys fall off Then presumably he'll start to get more playing time I feel like they sit him against lefties at times And if you look at his career splits He's actually better against lefties than he is against righties So that's kind of weird

And he's actually been better against lefties this season But it's just it's a really small sample size It's only 26 plate appearances so I think that would also kind of support him sitting against lefties. He just doesn't really have that many played appearances against him. Scott, how do you feel about dropping

some of these names? I keep getting questions about Wanya Pez has slowed down recently. Alec Boe-Bone with the Phillies, Connor Joe, my man, Connor Joe, and Joey Gallo. What do you think about dropping those four? Are they droppable in like a standard

12-team league? Yeah, I think any of them are dropable. I would prefer to drop some more than others. Let me see. Here's the list. Yeah, I would say, I would say in a categories league, you might want to keep Joey Gallo around,

just in case he goes on one of those home run binges. He probably will at some point. That's been his whole career. And Connor Joe is the one I'd be more hesitant to drop of the others since he bats high in the Rockies lineup, and he's always going to have that Coors Field advantage going for him. Don't love him this upcoming, because they're on the road

for all seven of their games. But, yeah, I think he's more rosterable than Juan Yuppez and Alec Bohm. Bome, the data, still looks great. He's still hitting the ball hard. His strikeout rate is still much better than last year. And he did have, I think he had three hits and a walk Sunday.

So maybe that's the start of something. But, yeah, it's been pretty bad recently. but third base being the position it is, you're unlikely to find a high-quality alternative. Like, that would be the reason to hold on to Bome. But it's not a must if third base has already settled for you. Well, maybe you want to drop Alec Bome for Jose Miranda, who is coming around recently.

He had a double dung on Friday, and over his last seven games, he's betting 3.46 with three home runs. He is 25% rostered. Some other names in Deeper League, Scott, that I was considering adding on Sunday night. Garrett Cooper has seven hits this weekend. He's batting 302 overall with an 835 OPS. John Birdie has been playing more. They've had a bunch of injuries.

I believe Brian Anderson is on the IL, but John Bertie, especially if you need steals, he's got three steals over his last six games. Bryson Stott hit his first two Major League home runs over the weekend, including a walk-off three-run homer on Sunday. and then Lane Thomas for three, a triple dong on Friday. He actually had seven hits this weekend, and he started each game, which has been key for him because playing time has been kind of hard for Lane Thomas to come by this season.

So what do you think about this group, Scott, in deeper leagues? And would you maybe make that swap, drop Alec Bohn for Jose Miranda? Yeah, you know, I like Miranda, and he has been coming around lately. I think you already laid out the stats with that two-homer game. So 361, three homers, four doubles over his past 11 games. It has struck out more than I like to see during that time because he is supposed to make a lot of contact. But still, you know, you'd rather see power than a lack of strikeouts, I think.

So, yeah, the Thomas case is interesting because I've started three games in a row, but he sat the three prior to that. So I still think, you know, Yadiel Hernandez has fallen off quite. a bit. So there's up, there's room for Lane Thomas

to regain an everyday role. I'm not sure he has yet. But if, you know, we obviously like him as a sleeper

coming in. He looked great over the last six weeks or so of last season. And he had this three homer game. So maybe that's

going to inspire more consistent playing time. I'm not sure I'm eager to add him yet. Certainly not as much as I am

Miranda. Bryson's Stott is another one, and really just those 15 team leagues, those leagues with the big lineups. I was putting in some claims for. I actually was prioritizing him over Ezekiel Duran, then I have some second guesses about that.

I guess maybe if it's an OBP league, you would prefer Stott. But Stott is the guy now, because Gene Seguero is out for months. So he's getting, like, he's entrusted with the job in a way he wasn't earlier this year when the playing time was kind of sporadic and everything. So hopefully we'll see him find more consistency.

And the two homers this weekend were a good sign that maybe that's beginning for Bryson's stop. All right. A few catchers in deeper leagues. If you play in those two catcher leagues, Jose Trevino hit his fourth home run this weekend. And Brian's servant, someone we continue to talk about, he went two for four, hit his third home run of the season on Sunday. So two names there for those who play in two catcher leagues. Before we hit the break, just a reminder to join our fantasy baseball today Facebook group,

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Again, that's Facebook.com slash groups slash fantasy baseball today. We'll take a quick break and be back right after this. The news and notes. Clayton Kershaw could be ready to start next Sunday's game in San Francisco. Some good news there. Chris Sale will throw another bullpen session Tuesday and then hopefully live batting practice later in the week on Friday. So batting practice, any needs a rehab stint,

maybe late June, early July, post-all-star break, something like that. I think I'll be back before the All-Star break. Okay. So somewhere in like... He's a gamer. Yeah, two to four week range probably for Chris Sale, something like that. Eloy Jimenez is still working on building his lower body strength at AAA and will not be activated yet for the White Sox. He, of course, is trying to return from a hamstring tear. It wasn't just a pull.

It was pretty legit. I actually think he had to have surgery on it, so it's a rough one. Lance Lynn will make another rehab start Wednesday and could join the White Sox rotation at the Detroit Tigers on June 13th, which... That's a Monday. You know, A, it would be a two-star week. Yep. Who wouldn't want to make their first start against the Detroit Tigers right now?

So... Hellen you. Yeah. It's rough. Those Mets, they just cannot stay out of trouble, Scott. First, we had Lindoror. He got his hand caught in a door last week in a hotel door. And now Max Scherzer got bit in the hand by one of his dogs.

What? When the dog bites. I actually think Steve Cohen had some kind of clever tweet once again, something about biting the hand that feeds you or something, but whatever. I don't know. Steve Cohen. Tweet's, I think probably just stay off Twitter, buddy. In his first rehab start, Tyler McGill gave up two runs over three and two-thirds innings.

He touched 98 miles per hour with his fastball. He's on the aisle with biceps tendonitis right now. Max Muncie started a rehab assignment at AAA on Saturday, and things actually open up for him to return because Edwin Rios was placed on the aisle with a right hamstring tear. So he's going to be out for quite some time as well. Willie Adamas will return to the Brewers on Tuesday, so get him back in your lineups.

Austin Meadows could return on Tuesday against the pirates. He's 82% rostered, so might be out there in some 10-team leagues. I don't know. Scott, are you excited about the return of Austin Meadows? I don't really know what to make of him at this point. No, I'm not. I don't think there's I don't, like I think there's a trade-off,

a clear trade-off between power and batting average for Austin Meadows. He either needs to sell out so hard for power that he hits 220 or what we saw earlier this year, he just didn't hit any home runs. A small sample of things could turn around, but based on the way last year went for him, and now that he's playing in an even worse park for him, he seems pretty fringy to me.

Oh, right. Steven Strasbourg tossed six scoreless innings at AAA on Friday, and he looked pretty awesome during his rehab assignment. I feel like every time we get an update, they're talking about how good Stephen Shrosberg looks right now. Well, have you seen anything about velocity coming back from thoracic outlet syndrome? I haven't. His first three starts, though, in the minors this year. 1.98 ERA, 13 strikeouts to 13 and 2 thirds innings.

The first two of those were in the lower minors. So he better be whooping down there. Now this first rehab started AAA, yes, six one hit innings. Seven whiffs on 83 pitches. Not great against AAA hitters. No. It's, you know, I'm nitpicking. Obviously, we just want to see Steven Strassberg back healthy.

But since I haven't seen Velocity readings, I wonder how he actually looks because you would expect Steven Strasberg to pitch well against minor leaguers. Not that every major league pitcher who goes on a rehab assignment pitch as well, but still. He is 77% rostered,

so it could be out there in some shallower leagues as well. Jonathan India will get an MRI on his hamstring on Monday. He's been out for quite some time with that injury. Rangers prospect, Josh Smith, who was recently called up, was placed in the aisle with a, left shoulder sprain, which Scott mentioned to you earlier. Orioles pitching prospect, Grayson Rodriguez, was officially diagnosed with a grade two

lat strain and might not return this season, which, look, if they're playing it's safe, he's, I don't know, one of the most prized prospects in the game right now. That probably makes sense. Yeah, if I'm invested in Grayson Rodriguez in the Dynasty League, and I am, I think I'm rooting for him just not to. pitch again this year. I agree with that. I just want a clean bill of health

going into next season more than anything else. I agree. Cubs outfield prospect Brennan Davis underwent back surgery on Thursday last week and they are unsure if he will return this season as well. I mentioned Edwin Rios on the I.L. Will Myers also went to the IL with right knee inflammation and

Alex Cobb is kind of questionable entering this week. He was scratched on Friday with a hamstring injury. He's at home versus the Rockies this week, Scott, would you chance it and leave Alex Cobb in your lineups? Probably not. Some of your week 10 sleepers are already coming through, Scott. Over the weekend, Josiah Gray had a strong start at the Reds, six innings, two runs.

He had nine strikeouts, 15 swinging strikes, 70% rostered. He's at the Marlins this week. Obviously, we love the matchup there. And then Tommy Fam had five hits this weekend, including his sixth homer and his third steal. He's 47% rostered. And then Alejandro Kirk, the power is coming. Scott. The power stroke is here.

Two more homers this weekend. And the people are listening to you because he's already up to 76% rostered. I don't know that they're listening to me. They probably just all need a catcher. And they saw that he put up 36 points this week. Wow. In standard CBA. He never strikes out if he's going to hit for power too.

Which is what I thought would happen. So yeah, past nine games, 469. Three home runs, four doubles. Only 2Ks for Alejandro Kirk. since he got his first extra base hit on May 3rd, span of 25 games, including that game. Alejandro Kirk has hit 358 with five homers, eight doubles, 11 walks versus six strikeouts.

So he, I think he's a stud. Slow start in April when nobody was hitting, but I think he's come around here and it's going to be, shoot, I think I need to move him ahead of the Osmani Grandal into my top five of catcher. I did drop Grandal form in one of my shallower leagues where I thought I could get away with dropping Groundall. Wow. Yeah, I think, I think Kirk, I trust more going forward.

Let's see. Were you asking me about somebody else? There's a few other names here, Tommy Fam and Josiah Gray, if you have anything on those. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They are on my sleeper hitters and pitchers list. You're right. Though it doesn't really work that way.

I don't get credit for it yet. Not yet. Because the week hasn't started. But it is nice that they're on a good run. So Josiah Gray in this start, he threw his slider about 40% of the time and got a total of 15 whiffs on 91 pitches. When he has emphasized that slider, he's been great. It's happened a couple times this year.

It's like his best starts. Usually throws the slider 25% of the time, but when it's his most used pitch about around 40% of the time, things go well. Also, when he keeps the ball in the park, things go well. And I'm hopeful that this week in Miami, Big Park, suspect lineup, that Josiah Gray will have another good start. And hopefully he can get to featuring this slider prominently with more consistency. I like it. Let's go. Josiah Gray at the Marlins this week. Let's get

into some recap from the rest of the weekend. And what is going on with Walker Bueller? He gives up five earned runs over two and a third against the New York Mets. over his last five starts total. He's got a 6.66 ERA and a 1.68 whip. Scott, what is up with Walker Bueller? And would you start him at the Giants this week? I probably would. Start Walker Bueller.

This isn't, this was a bad start. This was a very bad start. But he's more underwhelmed, I would say. It hadn't felt like a liability to start him the way it had. Jose Rios at times or Charlie Moore. coordinate times, you know, the ERA's, it's gone up. But, and look, the velocity is down slightly. It's been getting better.

It's only down slightly. The swinging strike rate is actually normal for Walker Bueller. The strikeout rate is noticeably down. And yet, even with it being down, Walker Bueller's ERA estimators aren't that far off from usual. and there have been times he's in his I guess his fifth full season there have been times

where you know because he's never been a guy who's had like a big swinging strike rate or anything and you know early on last year the strikeouts were down for Walker Bueller as well

although I don't think as long as deep into the season there are times when I've worried oh he's lost it and then he gets back on track and like breezes for months and ends up in the Sy Young conversation and I just feel like it's going to play out that same way again for Walker Bueller. He's clearly he's clearly searching right now but I don't like he doesn't look broken enough for me to worry. What stood out to me most is his

fastball is getting hit quite hard this year. A 386 batting average against 643 slug and the the spin is actually down quite a bit. Yeah, the spins down. Compared to last year, yeah, it's down about over 200 RPM on that fastball. Now, you know, I guess we could talk about, okay, so is he a victim of the sticky substance ban? That's not something we've talked about a lot this year.

No. But he was not somebody who was that afflicted by it, you know, once it was put in place last June. It was that, like, that he never came up in that conversation. and he was great over the final three months of the season, put him in the Siong conversation again. So I don't know. I don't.

His spin rates are down. His spin rates are down across the boards, I mean, it's not just the fastball. It's like on every one of his pitches, they're down. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm just, I don't know why, but I'm just not that worried about it. All right, yeah. Look, the swinging strike rate, I think,

is 11.5% which doesn't sound, very good, but it's actually right in line with Walker Bueller's career mark. Right. He's never been that big of a bat misser. I think I would bet. I mean, there's just so much pedigree there and track record. I would bet on Walker Bueller getting back on track as well. Studs being studs part one. Pitcher edition. Shane Bieber now has double digit strikeouts twice in his last four outings

and he was at the Orioles this weekend. Seven innings, two runs, 11 strikeouts to two walks. He had 23 swinging strikes. Garrett Cole now has nine plus strikeouts in three straight. He was up against the Tigers this weekend. Seven shutout with nine strikeouts. Shane McClanahan now has five straight

quality starts. So not only is he giving you the strikeouts and the ratios, he's giving you length pretty consistently as well. And then Logan Gilbert, four quality starts in a row for him. He goes six innings, gives up two runs, seven strikeouts to just one walk. It's got anything you'd like to add on

Bieber, Garrett Cole, Shane O. Mack and Logan, Gilbert. Logan Gilbert's velocity was up a mile per hour on both his fastball and slider, which is basically all he throws. Those are main two pitches by a long shot. He's had 14 or more swinging strikes and four of his last five starts. So I remember when he was having success early on, I'm like, yeah, but is he missing many

bats? Is he getting any strikeouts? It's gotten better. He's done the Walker Bueller trick, has Logan Gilbert. So I think I feel pretty confident this breakout is legit for him at this point. Shane Bieber was so dominant. It was against the Orioles, I know, but 11 strikeouts, 23 swinging strikes. He just, he just overwhelmed them with breaking balls.

He still doesn't have his old fastball velocity, but that slider and curveball, both are so effective that I think he's going to be okay. I mean, he's not top five, but top 15, certainly top 20. I think he can continue with that. Now, he did, he needed this 11 strikeout game to get over a strikeout for inning this year. He'd been under it for a while until then. But, you know, ERA and low three, pitching deep into games. I think Shane Bieber still, I think, I think, I,

think we're past the point where we need to be panicked about Shane Bieber. Let's take a look at some other starting pitcher studs from the weekend. Joe Musgrove, another awesome start. He was at the Brewers. Eight shutout endings, only allowed one hit, three walks, six strikeouts. Max Fried goes into Corse Field and he was amazing. Eight shutout endings, two hits, one walk, four strikeouts. And Zach Wheeler now has seven plus strikeouts in seven straight. He was up against the Angels. He went six endings, two runs, nine strike outstair. Scott, anything you'd like to add on Wheeler, Freed, and Musgrove. Could you train Bieber for Wheeler? Maybe.

Maybe. Should you? I guess you should. Because I just said Wheeler was clearly top five, and we need to stop second guessing ourselves. Right. Yes. No, I would rather have Zach Wheeler. Okay. I know, what'd you ask me? Is there anything you'd like to add on those three, Musgrove, Freed, Wheeler? No. Starting pitchers who might be studs, or maybe returning to studdom, if that's a word. Nathan Avaldi, since he got shellacked a couple of weeks ago, he has been great. A 1.66 ERA over his last three starts with a 15.9% swinging strike rate.

Tyler Anderson, three scoreless outings in a row. He shut down the Mets this weekend. Mackenzie Gore has allowed just one earned run over his last three starts. He was at the Brewers this weekend, six shutout with 10 strikeouts. He's awesome. And then Martin Perez, I don't think he's a stud, but he's still just kind of pitching like a stud. He's allowed just two earned runs or fewer in nine straight starts. That is Martine.

I know this is worst starting a long time. He gave up two runs and six innings. He gave up his first home run of the season, Scott. How about that? Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness gracious. Yeah. Man, McKenzie Gore is looking better and better, huh?

He might be, uh, has there been an NL rookie better than McKinsey, door. You're going to end up being rookie the year? At the top of my head, I can't think of anybody. Me neither, but I'm very happy for him, Scott. The way that, like, his career was playing out, and now he's just gotten back, and he's just living out his prospect potential. It's awesome to watch.

It is, and I'm excited for anybody who rosters him a fantasy. Now, at some point, he's going to run into an innings problem, probably. Yep. But I don't think we need to worry so much about that just yet. Yeah. And Tyler Anderson, again, looking like a dominant pitcher with the Dodgers. You got 10 of his 14 swinging strikes on that change-up, which is just emerged as this amazing pitch for him. And, you know, I think he's in that same discussion at this point with, like, the Kyle Wrights.

I mean, at this point, I'm not sure I wouldn't rather have him than Eric Lauer. Yeah. He's in that discussion. That swinging strike rate for Tyler Anderson, 14 and a half percent. That ranks seventh among qualified starting pitchers this season. Unbelievable. I never would have guessed Tyler Anderson would turn into a batmissor. Oh, man, it's the Dodgers.

They have like this devil magic. I don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something. About to get Andrew Heaney back. Yeah, yeah. Exciting times. Scott, starter, these starting pitchers that are either trending in the right direction and they were fringy or maybe they're going in the opposite direction. Nick Povetta now has six quality starts in a row. He's at the Angels this week, though.

Would you start him there? I would avoid it. It's not a blunt no, but I think most people could probably have alternatives. Dylan Cease has 11 walks over his last two starts and a 4.81 ERA over his last 4.8 over his last 4.4.4.4. would you start him at home against the Dodgers? Yeah, I think he's basically must start, even with, you know, sometimes his control gets away from him. All right. Patrick Sandoval, the walks are kind of piling up for him right now. He's got 18 walks over his last six starts. And the swinging strike rate is down quite a bit compared to last year. He's at home against the Mets this week.

I've been pretty disappointed with Patrick Sandoval. I don't think he's, I think he's, I think he's far. from automatic in a one-star week. So I would try to sit him against the Mets. Luis Castillo, we spoke about him earlier. Scott, he is at the Cardinals this week. I'd lean yes. Not a must, but I'd lean yes. All right, Scott, our favorite time of the podcast.

It's time to talk about Charlie Morton, who had another mixed bag at Corse Field on Sunday. Of course, pitching in Colorado is no easy task, but he gives up four runs over five innings, three more walks. He did have eight strikeouts, and he had 18 swinging strikes. So those are the good things.

Obviously, he was still hit hard in this game. Would you start him up against the pirates this week at home? Yes. I was very encouraged by this Charlie Morton start. Like, who would have imagined go to Coorsfield to get your curveball back on track? But that seemed to be what happened. His curveball got 10 swinging strikes. And there were the three walks.

That was really the problem. They all came in the first inning. Yeah. The three walks and three of the four run. came into first inning. And from that point forward, he cruised. And now he's going against the Pirates. So I know there was that start a few weeks back.

We were like, yeah, Charlie Morton's back. I don't know for sure that he's back. But like I feel like from the second inning on, this is what good Charlie Morton looks like. And so, yeah, I'd be willing to start him against the Pirates. I think I'm going to do the reverse jinks in this one, too, Scott. I think I'm going to watch every single pitch. for Charlie Morton and see if that helps him.

What do you think? I'm not superstitious, so go for it. I've been avoiding him, and he's done nothing. So I don't think that there is a curse anymore. I'm going to try and break it by watching every single pitch that Charlie Morton throws this week. Let's take a look at some hitting leftovers from the weekend, some double dongs.

Juan Soto trying to get back on track. He hit three home runs this weekend. Kyle Swarber hit a double don on Friday. He now has four homers over his last six games. Bryce Harper hit three home runs. himself this weekend, including a double dong on Friday, then a game-tying Grand Slam on Sunday. He hit that off of Rysel Iglesias.

Pete Alonzo hit three more homers this weekend. He's now up to 16 total. Colton Wong had a double dong on Sunday. He's now up to five homers, and he also has eight steals. Scott, would you try and use this opportunity to sell high on Bryce Harper while he's healthy and mashing? Look, we just did that redraft on Memorial Day for rest of season. and I think I was the most concerned about Bryce Harper of any of us,

his rest of season prospects. And I still had him 13th overall. So what does a sell high look like? I would trade him for Vladimir Guerrero, I guess, because that's somebody I had higher than 13, that, you know, you could see the person who rosters him being willing to part with him. But, you know, Guerrero started to come out of it. he's hit a bunch of home run since then.

So I think like three or four when I say a bunch. But yeah, I mean, it would be hard to saw high on Bryce Harper is what I'm saying. I agree. You might be able to get Juan Soto off of someone who, I don't know, thinks that he's struggling. I guess technically he is struggling, but yeah, we still have a ton of confidence in Juan Soto. And like it, it might be even with like Guerrero. It's, there's a greater need of now field than at first. base like you may be set at first base with a Josh Bell or whatever and we'd prefer to stick with

Harper and I could understand that. Aaron Judge hit two more home runs this weekend increasing his league lead to 21. Anthony Rizzo also added two homers and two steals. He's now to four steals for the season. He did have 10 back in 2017, which you know quite a quite a while ago but uh you know Rizzo's running a little bit. Actually the entire Yankee team is is running a lot this year. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit two home runs this weekend. He now had three over his last five games. Yordon Alvarez, seven hits this weekend, including two homers for himself.

He's now batting 295. Remember, it felt like two weeks ago, Scott, that Alvarez was betting like 230. And now he's batting 295. And he has 16 home runs total. That was a guy ranked ahead of Bryce Harper, FWIW. Interante. Julio Rodriguez, two more steals this weekend.

He's now up to 17, man. This guy, he's just running wild. It's awesome to why. watch. Signs of life for these three hitters. Salvador Perez back-to-back multi-hit games. He had a home run in each of them. Matt Chapman went three for four with a home run on Sunday. He's betting 360 over his last seven games. And Marcus Semyon, slow and steady, slow and steady. Four hits over his last four games, which doesn't sound that great, but he had two homers, two seals in those four games. And over his last 18, he's betting 267, three home runs, six seals.

Yeah, I want to get excited about Marcus Simeon turning it around because, oh yeah, he's hitting some homers. His, during this 18-game stretch where he's supposedly coming, roaring back, his OPS is like 750. I don't have the exact number, but it's not great. The steals are really saving him. So I don't, you know, I'm still, I'm not,

I'm not totally back on board with Marcus Simeon, though. It is, it's good to see him doing something because he was literally doing nothing for the first two months almost. And I want to mention Salvador Perez here because, so the back-to-back games with a home run and a double, the first was Saturday, on Friday, he looked like he couldn't hold a bat anymore. Like his thumb, they were talking about how his thumb is bothering him, but he's going to keep playing through it.

And he couldn't keep his, he couldn't keep both hands on the bat. And then he comes back and has these two games. And it's just like, anytime Salvador Perez, an injury is brought to our attention. It's like, that's just a sign he's going to go off, right? Because there was the blurred vision issue early this year. And same thing happened last year with the vision, I think. So I don't know. But it's nice to see from our number one catcher rest of season.

The call to the bullpen. Some bullpen updates here. For the nationals, Tanner Rainey had two saves this weekend. He's now up to seven total. And he is only 35% rostered, which seems low to me, Scott. I know the nationals aren't good, but he's just very clearly the closer for their team. So it seems like that number should be higher. For Tampa Bay, Colin Poshay recorded a one-out save on Friday,

but Andrew Kittridge returned on Sunday. I wouldn't be surprised if the race still kind of mix and match for the next week or so. Yeah, I think it'll be. Kittridge did work the ninth and a one run loss. Yeah. So I don't know. I think he's probably going to be their top leverage guy still.

For the Mariners, Paul Seawald picked up two saves this weekend. He is 28% rostered for... He has the Mariners last three saves. Yeah. And they, I think they DFA'd Drew Steckinrider too. So he's gone. Diego Castillo is still there. Andres Munoz, but yeah, it seems like they're leaning on Seawald more.

Now, remember, Seawald had this, like, amazing strikeout rate last year. It's only 8.4 per 9 this year. So he has not been, it hasn't looked like the same pitcher. So I don't, I don't know how excited I am, but. But yeah, three, he's got each of the Mariners' last three saves. Jorge Lopez recorded his... Go ahead, Scott. Sorry.

No, I thought I needed to correct myself, but I didn't. All right. Jorge Lopez picked up his seventh save this weekend. He's 53% rostered. Scott, how would you rank those three? Lopez, Seawald, Tanner Rainey, if you need saves. They're pretty widely available. I would say Lopez, Rainey, Seawald.

All right. And what about the Giants? Camillo Duval pitched in the sixth inning on Saturday with the game tied four to four. Now, that was two games in a row, basically, where he came in before the seventh inning to kind of pitch at a, just a weird kind of point in the game, I guess. He did face the heart of the Marlins lineup. The game was tied, but still just kind of weird. And then on Sunday, Camila Deval pitched a ninth inning with a four-run lead.

So more traditional usage there. Scott, do you have any idea? Have you seen anything about this? Like what's going on with Camila Duval? No, I haven't. I haven't. No. I just think it's Gabe Kapler being Gabe Kapler.

And let's see. So Deval has eight saves. Nobody else has more than two. Gosh, who would even be an alternative for saves? Jake McGeezy RA's over seven. I think he's missed some time with injury, right? Yeah. Hmm.

Dominique Leon has a save. But I still expect Oval's going to be the main choice. Yeah, I agree. He may be going more of the committee route again, which was Kapler's M.O. prior to last year. I know saves were spread out last year, but it was more because guys lost and regained.

gained their job and got hurt and whatnot. He seemed pretty... It was the strictest Kapler's ever been about bullpen rolls last year, and maybe he's going back to what he used to do. Dominic Leon for what it's worth, his numbers are pretty good. K-minus Walk rate is strong. He's got a 3-ERA, 2.71 X-Fibb, so... Yeah.

Just a name to watch for now. I do want to mention, because I've alluded to it a couple times, and I see we're not going to get to it. Eric Lauer on Sunday, one run in six innings, three runs total, but one earned, four strikeouts. He had nine swinging strikes on 100 pitches. His velocity was down 1.1 miles per hour from his season average. So pretty much back to normal with the fastball velocity after what was he calling it, the zoom ball early in the air? Not really zooming.

No. Four straight starts with single-digit swing. striking strikes. Ew. And the stretch where he was awesome was basically four starts also. So, I don't know, I'm kind of feeling like this is more

the real Eric Lauer than what we saw earlier in the season. So maybe a sell-high situation on Eric Lauer while the numbers still look pretty good. Look, I wouldn't put it past him to, you know, get back on track. Obviously, we saw it earlier this season,

but the way. that it's trending right now is not looking great for Eric Lauer. One other bullpen I wanted to mention for the Angels, Ryseliglesias. He gave up that game tying Grand Slam to Bryce Harper. The ERA is now 4.91. He just has not been as good or as locked down as we've seen in years past. So just something to watch with the Angels.

Too many fly balls. Yeah. To stream or not to stream, we'll start with Monday where we have a whopping six games on the schedule. So I think we're going to get a little creative on tomorrow's podcast. Scott. We've got John Gray at the Guardians. We've got Daniel Lynch versus the Blue Jays and Michael Waka at the Angels. I think John Gray is a good choice. All right. Tuesday we have Madison Bumgarner at the Reds, Graham Ashcraft versus the Diamondbacks, Dakota Hudson at the Rays,

Jeffrey Springs versus the Cardinals, Connor Pilkington versus the Rangers, and Taiwan Walker at the Padres. Jeffrey Springs is a good choice. The matchup isn't great, but the pitcher is. and if you need more Ashcraft against the Diamondbacks, Pilkington against the Rangers, I feel okay about them. I like them more in weekly formats with the two starts, but that could work as one start streamers too, I guess. All right.

I will point out, and you mentioned the matchup for Springs, but the Cardinals are very good against lefties. They have the second highest weighted on base average. So if Springs looks good against them, then I think that's... He's looked good against a lot of good lineups. He has. Yeah, that will be the last seal of approval that you need up against the St. Louis Cardinals.

All right, we're going to wrap there for Scott. I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching fantasy baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.