Fantasy Baseball Today - Cristopher Sanchez Struggles & Buy or Sell for 2027! (9/16 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: September 16, 2026

What's going on with Cristopher Sanchez (2:30)? ... Carrigg just had the best game of his young career (10:20). ... Caminero or Alvarez for AL MVP (17:25)? ... News (24:15): Luzardo was placed on the IL. ... Max Fried looks like he's back in form (33:00). ... Jo Adell has a great remaining schedule (38:20). ... Ryan Johnson continues to pitch well (51:40). ... Buy or Sell for 2027 (57:24). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpens and streamers (1:08:40).Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up for the newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters

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 league. Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. Hello, welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Wednesday, September 16th. I am Frank Sample joined by Chris Towers. Today on the show, we've got to fire up the Worryometer for just one name.

And that is Christopher Sanchez. What is going on with that man? I am irrationally excited about Bryce Eldridge for next year. We were just talking about that. Way too early by or sell for next season. And much more. Let's jump in. In a year that has been so improbable, the impact.

All right, Chris, let's get the bad out of the way here. And I want to talk about Christopher Sanchez, who had another rough outing this one at the Nationals. Granted, Nationals, great against left-handed pitch. pitching this season. They had no James Wood or CJ Abrams in the lineup, which was interesting. And Sanchez wasn't in the lineup either. Dale Lyle was not in the lineup. Yeah. So a lot of those lefty specialists in there. And Christopher Sanchez had a rough one, six and a third, eight hits, five runs, two walks, five strikeouts here. And he just didn't really have his

changeup working. He could not locate it at all. That pitch had just a 12% zone percentage and just a 35% strike percentage. And I think you could say this for almost any pitcher, even the best pitchers in the game. If you take away their best pitch, if they have a start where they just don't have that pitch working, it's probably not going to go well. So that I think was the case here for Sanchez.

But that's now 5 plus earn runs and back-to-back starts. And over his last five, he has a 501 ERA, a 125 whip. Just hasn't looked as sharp here down the stretch, especially in the second half. So Chris, I will throw in. Worryometer your way. 1 to 10

Woreometer on Christopher Sanchez. It's not really for this season. Like if you have Sanchez, you're just pitching him. But I guess heading into next season, does this kind of scuffling towards the end worry you at all? Well, let's, um,

it has to. And I think part of it is just the defense behind him is so bad. And I think that's really not helping. But like, he's still got an 18% K-minus walk ratio since July 1st. He has a 434 ERA in that span. The XERA is like 395. The FIP is like 340. The X-FIP is like 295. He's given up a ton of home run. He's got like

20% home run to fly ball ratio. That's a stupid high mark, even in a tough pitchers park. So I think there's probably some bad luck here. And I think there's probably some bad luck here. And I think there's probably some bad defense here. One aside, the Phillies have been a very scary postseason team the last couple years. Like even when they haven't looked especially good in the regular season, they're just a scary postseason team because they've got so much high-end talent. This could end up making me look stupid. Is there a team in the playoffs you're less afraid of than the Phillies right now?

They've got like two good hitters. they've got no Hazel Zazardo probably and they've got the the Lazzardo thing completely messes them up and they've got the worst defense of any playoff team

yeah I mean look anything you have in the playoffs but it's that is not an especially scary team like Zach Wheeler and Christopher Sanchez might be good enough that it doesn't matter

but Aaron Olas looked really good lately but yeah that's that's probably fair at least in the National League because I was going to say the Padres but their bullpen is a and obviously their offense has been awesome in the second half.

So, you know, their pitching is not anywhere near what the Phillies can offer. But, yeah, outside of Sanchez and Wheeler, which is a great one-to-punch, but, you know, Sanchez has looked vulnerable as we're. Wheeler has, yeah. Yeah, so. Wheeler's had some stretches. So, yeah, it's a tough spot. It kind of feels like we're getting to the end.

But I bring that up to say that I think the Phillies almost have to look pretty different next season. I don't know if it's going to be Trey Turner moving to second base and Aiden Miller if he's healthy playing shortstop. But I think that shortstop situation is just untenable defensively.

And they've got to find a way to upgrade multiple spots around the diamond. It's going to be tough with how much money they have. But I say that all that just to say, I think this defense has to be better than it has been this season, right? Like it just, it can't be as bad for a team that intends to contend

and they have to know that. So I would expect the defense to be better behind Christopher Sanchez next season. He's got like a 123 whip on the season now. That's really bad for a high-end pitcher. And that's how you have a guy who is probably going to strike out 225 batters this season and has a sub-3ERA. And entering this start, he was only the number 10 starting pitcher in fantasy because that whip is really harmful.

Yeah. And I think we've all just kind of penciled him in as a top five starting pitcher all season. And we're probably planning on doing that for 2027. But it's, you know, you start going through the names. You're definitely taking Jacob Mizirowski ahead of him. You're definitely taking Camp Slittler ahead of him. I think we're probably taking Yoshinobi Yamamoto ahead of him. I think so.

Taking Terrick Scoobel ahead of him. And so then it's like, I think Chris Sale's done enough to go ahead of Christopher Sanchez, although the volume's obviously going to be a big difference there. Sanchez's 40 innings ahead of him. And I know Sale has stayed healthy the past couple of years, but for any pitcher that old, you just worry about it. Yeah. But I think he's five at best.

Yeah. And I think you could talk yourself into Dylan Sees ahead of him. I don't know if anybody's going to, but you could talk yourself ahead of Hazers-Lissardo ahead of him if this shoulder injury ends up being relatively minor. So I'm not sure Sanchez, is the locked-in top-five starting pitcher that we expected him to be. I think he will be in a points league because of the volume that he provides.

In a Categories league, I do think that is more of a question because of the whip. And we talked about this for years with Logan Webb. It's everything else that you get from Sanchez. You're going to get volume, ERA, strikeouts, most likely wins because he goes deep and has a pretty good offensive. 17 wins. But that whip, I mean, that whip especially here,

it's because he does it over so much volume. So I guess the one good thing about taking Sanchez early is that you already know. You have in the back of your mind like, okay, I need to be conscious about WIP. Whip is not the easiest category to project year over year. So you might look at some pictures and say like, oh yeah, I'm going to draft Joe Ryan and he's going to help my whip. But I mean, you never know. What if Joe Ryan has a bad year and his whip is like 115, which I think is around where it is this year. That's not really the help that you need.

So you just really have to be conscious about that whip. If you do draft Christopher Sanchez. If I had to put a number on it for next season, the Wariometer, it's probably like a two or a three. I think most of it is bad luck. I think some of it is defense. I think some of it is just the feel for the change up in the second half. There have been starts where the drop on the change up has been less.

And I think it's just being up in the zone a little bit more. Even if it's just a little bit, I think that's where you can get in trouble and give up some home runs. And change up such a feel pitch, right? Yeah. So that that's fair. the point is he's really good. And when you're talking about this range of the draft, it's just you got to make,

you know, small differences can matter a lot. And so, you know, you set the over under at SP4.5, I'm taking the over. Yeah. You set it at 5.5. That becomes a more difficult question, I think. Yeah. And for this season, I get it's frustrating.

That's why we're talking about it because this is the most important time of the year. people who are playing in head to head playoffs, obviously it's like, you don't really have enough time to make this up with Christopher Sanchez. Obviously, in a roto league, he's done so much good to this point, like, you'd rather him not finish poorly, but you've already banked so many good stats from Sanchez that you could kind of afford to take some of the bad,

but yeah, I get it. In head head playoffs, this has been kind of a stinker here from Christopher Sanchez. All right, that's the bad, Chris. Let's talk about some good. Who's your player of the night? Cook Eric, who we talked about a little bit last night, and then he went out and had probably the best game of his major league career on Tuesday night against the Padres. He went four for five, two home runs, a double, two runs, five RBI.

He attempted to steal, got caught stealing. We'll take that as a positive because one of the complaints that we've had about Cole Carrig is he hasn't been as aggressive on the base paths as we'd like to see him be. and so I'm encouraged to see him running. I made a comp to Zach Netto yesterday, and I think, you know, in retrospect, Netto has more pop. I think that's a fair complaint to say. But that, like, I think there's 20 homer upside here.

Carrick now has 10 homers in 82 games. I don't think it's a stretch to say he could hit 20 plus homers next season. and given that he was like a 40 or 50 steel guy throughout the miners, I don't think it's a stretch to say he could be a 30 steel guy. He's only got nine right now, but I think that can go up. Obviously, Coorsfield is going to help a lot. You know, he's got a 330 Babbitt. Typically, you would think, well, that's probably unsustainable,

but at Coorsfield, maybe not. And it's worth remembering. It's his first taste of the majors. So this is a guy who needs two more appearances at shortstop to gain middle infield eligibility for next season. He's already got outfield. I think Cole Carrig should be a very popular breakout pick for next season. And I know betting on course field and betting on young Rockies players has been pretty bad decision. Really since like, has it really worked out since like Trevor's story?

I guess there was the one Ezekiel. There's been like pop-up seasons. Ezekiel Tovar, not Spencer Jones, Nolan Jones. I guess Hunter Goodman has worked out. But for the most part, there's been a lot of disappointment in Corse Field lately. I feel like the Rockies are starting to turn a corner. They're still bad. But they are not like...

Historically bad anymore. Yeah. And I think they've got, gosh, what's his name, Jonah Hill, Paul D. Potesta running the town. I actually saw Jonah Hill in Fort Green the other day. He introduced himself to someone as I'm Jonah Hill, which I thought

was a very weird thing for a person as famous as Jonah Hill to do. But that's a different topic. But Paul D. Podesta is not a he's not Dick Monfort's son. I think he's a little more qualified to run a baseball team.

maybe not a football team. But anyway, I just, I say this all to say that I think there's some forward momentum for the Rockies. It's very slow. You got to go uphill. Those mountains are very tall. But I think Cold Carrag is a player I'm going to be betting on for 2027. Yeah, I like it. You know, I've been trying to think of the comp that makes sense.

And I hear you on Netto. It's kind of like a netto with less power. What about Starling Marte? like early career Starling Marte, who I don't know if the batting average will get there for Carrig, although playing in Corse Field obviously helps. But I mean, you look at some of these early seasons from Marte, 280, 12 homers, 41 steals in his second season, 291, 13 homers, 30 steals, 287, 19 homers, 30 steals. Like, I could kind of see that as an outcome here for Cole Carrig.

And, you know, Starling Marte was a, I mean, routinely like top three or four round player early on in his career. I mean, how about like a Jaron Duran? Yeah. That might be a little more like I think Duran's a little more physical. Like he hits the ball a little harder. But his career high in homers is in the 20s, right? It's not like he's because I think Netto, you know, last year he was on like a 30 homer pace. He's not far off now.

I think that's, you know, what people get stuck on. But yeah, Duran's career high is 21 homers, 34 steals. That's a high end outcome. That's asking a lot to, you know, hit 285 and score 110. Like I don't think he's going to do that. But, you know, a poor man. Jaron Duran. Yeah.

I think that can be a very useful player. Yep. And for the rest of this week, obviously the Rockies are in Cours this entire week. So, I mean, for some crazy reason, if Carrig is out there in your shallow daily lineup league, obviously you're picking him up. You're using him.

He's 72% rostered. And then has a split week next week. So the first three games will be at home in Cores against the D-backs, and then the final three games of the season will be on the road. at the White So for at least the next eight games, I think you could be pretty excited to use Cole Carrick here down the stretch. I want to give a few shoutouts as well.

This Pete Alonzo thing, Chris, is just unreal. I mean, him coming back to City Field. And I understand why, like, he was a beloved New York Met and the Met season has gone downhill. The fans are chanting for him, and they're chanting to fire David Stearns because Stearns, you know, builds a team and he did not bring back Pete Alonzo.

but he homered his first series back in Cityfield in the ninth inning to tie the game off of Kodi Senga. It was also his 300th career home run. It's just like the sweet, sweet irony here. And then got a curtain call as a roadplay. I mean, just insanity all over the place here, Chris. I mean, it was a pretty wild scene there, Pete Alonzo back in Cityfield.

Yeah, I get the curtain. call and I think that was a nice moment. I think booing Joe, Jonah Tong yesterday was really weird. Yeah, I think like this. That's not cool. I think the celebrating Pete Alonzo, like,

cheering for the home run is weird. I, I, there's some like weird. His 300th career home run when he gets so many of them as a met. Like, I get it. I get it.

I get it. But like, the Mets have not been a disaster lately. Like, they've been kind of fun. Yeah, they've been good in the second half.

lately. Maybe not good. And I get that it's been a bad, frustrating season. And the decision to not resign Ptollanzo has been become like emblematic of why it's been a bad season. I don't really think if they had resigned Pitalonsa this season would be all that much better. Like, they'd still be bad. So I'm not really like, I get it.

And fandom is not rational and all that stuff. I think the whole thing's been kind of weird. It was a cool moment. But yeah, I think the reaction from the fans has. just been a little strange, I will say. So I think me, along with everybody else, probably assumed that the American League MVP race was over, and it was just, hey, let's hand this over to Yordon Alvarez.

But I don't know, man, Junior Camerreiro might be making this kind of close. Camerreiro. He hit yet another walk-off home run, his 41st homer of the year. 92 runs, 96 RBI, and 898 OPS here for Camerro. Yordon Alvarez also. homered here on Tuesday. His 39th home run. He has just four home runs in 38 games since the start of August. He recently sat out some games with ankle soreness. So there's a

chance he's just been playing through that for a while now. His season is still incredible, but I was surprised to see how similar the numbers have gotten here. Like, I mean, Alvarez still has a 100 plus point, you know, lead in OPS, but all the counting stats are pretty close. between the two. Yeah. Not to be

Jonah Hill in Moneyball, but like it's a 60 point gap in OBP. That's a lot. Yeah, like it's a 60 point gap in slugging percentage, actually.

Or, yeah, something like that. Close. 50 something. I just can't see it. I can't get, like, Camero is an awesome player. He's having a great season. He's had a bunch of big moments. And obviously, the race are a better team than the Astros, but if you're just going to give it to an offense, like a bat only guy, I can't see the argument for Camerro ahead of Yardon Alvarez. Yardin Alvarez has just been a much, much better hitter than Junior Camerra. And that is not a knock on Junior Camerro. That is just a reflection of how, like, Yordaun Arvarez is having

an Aaron judge level offensive season and Junior Commonero just isn't that kind of complete offensive player or at least that kind of complete hitter. He's really good. I think if you're going to go the non-Yordon Alvarez route, it should probably be, frankly, it should be Bobby Witt. He's actually been the best player in the AL, but I know the Royals are so bad

and his offensive numbers are not MVP caliber, so it's not going to happen. But Bobby Witt's probably been the best player in the AL. If you're not going to give it to Yordon Alvarez or Bobby Witt, I would go Cam Schlittler. Yeah. But that's to say that I think it should be Yordon, Witt, Schlittler, Cominero is how I would vote for it. Take that, Aaron, Judge. Yeah, I just can't exactly see the case for Commonero beyond, like, well, his team's in the playoffs and the Astros might not make the playoffs. I don't care.

I really, I don't care that Junior Kamenara has better teammates than Yorna Averas, you know? Yeah. The counting stats, too. The counting stats are close. I think that's like the main argument that you make and the raise being better.

But yeah, the gap in OPS, the gap in WRC plus. I mean, Yoron Alvarez 177 and it took Camerro's 145. If 145 is an awesome mark, by the way. Yeah. And look, if Camerro was even like average or slightly above average defensively, this is a different conversation, but even the updated F-war numbers, Alvarez is at six wins,

and Caminero is at 4.9. He also leads the majors and grounded into double plays for the second year in a row. Who does? There's actually a great piece on fan graphs. Is that Camerro or Alvarez who does? Camerro. Interesting. About, I think it was, it might have been on baseball, but one of those sites did a piece talking about how likely it is that Junior Kamenaro breaks the all-time record for grounded as a double play.

plays, it's more likely than you'd think, given how young he is, but he's off to a great start. Yeah. The problem with that is that he hits the ball so hard and he does have an elevated ground ball rate compared to other sluggers. And he's not very fast. Like, it's just a perfect. And he's going to, he plays every day and he's super young. Like, that's just like, I think the all time record is Albert Poole holes. I think Miguel Cabrera second. Those are two of the best hitters of our lifetime. So it's not a knock on him. I was just pointing it out. And you could see Caminero's, I mean, this is, we're projecting pretty far out, but you could see his body kind of aging similarly to Apuhliss and Miguel Cabrera later on in his career. He's nowhere near

that now, but yeah, look, both players are awesome, but yeah, I would agree. I think Alvarez still takes the AL MVP. Big thanks to everyone watching live. Make sure to hit that like button. We appreciate you being here late in the season. And if you are listening on audio, drop us a five-star rating in review. Wherever you listen, Apple or Spotify, we really do. Appreciate it. Let's take a break, and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back, Fantasy Baseball today. Let's hit the news and notes.

And the Phillies. We're hopeful that Jesus Lazzardo would pitch this week, but it turns out he is going on the 15-day I-L with that shoulder inflammation. He is eligible to return for the final game of the regular season, but it's not clear if he'll be able to do that or even pitch in the playoffs, which is, I mean, just brutal. It's a brutal run for the Phillies who they had a. similar thing happened last year, right? I mean, it was the same thing as Zach Wheeler, right? Like,

Zach Wheeler got hurt right before or in September, right? They found out he needed the thoracic outlet and just, you know, completely kind of derail things. Now, even if they don't have Lazardo, again, they have Sanchez, they have Wheeler, Noah's been pitching better. They have a top tier closer in Yon-Duran. I think, you know, the ladder leading up to Duran is pretty shaky there for the Phillies. And they have the names on offense, but they just really haven't performed. outside of Schwerber and Harper. So yeah, it really does kind of muddy the waters here for the Phillies playoff chances. And it's just a rough end to a true breakout season here for Jesus Lazzardo.

And we'll throw a wrench in things for his, you know, 2027 value unless we see him return in the playoffs and he just kind of looks like himself. But I would I would highly doubt that. If he does return, I would guess it's probably as like a reliever in the playoffs. Yeah, the quotes I saw were like, or the, the reports. reporting I saw, I guess, was that like, if it was earlier in the season, he'd definitely be back. But given the point in the season, it's just anytime you have to shut down, like, if you don't throw for three weeks, I mean, there's just not enough time, right? And I have no idea if that's what the timetable is. But yeah, it's a tough, tough spot.

Yeah. Rafael Devers underwent successful core surgery. Tony Vitello and Devers. Tony Vitello said that Devers will require three months to recover, which brings us to mid-December. And it kind of explains why they wanted to kind of rush this and get it out of the way, not wait until the off-season. Assuming no setbacks, I think it should be a pretty normal off-season for Devers, but again, the lockout starts on December 1st, and he will, you know, be able to return to some kind of activity in mid-December, but we won't really be able

to get any updates on Devers until after the lockout, whenever that might be. So it does definitely muddy the waters a little bit as well here for Devers heading into next season. It was previously reported that Aaron Judge would sit out Wednesday, but with the Yankees clinching the playoffs on Monday night, Judge was out of the lineup on Tuesday instead, and it didn't really matter because they crush the twins. Garrett Crochet threw a 30-pitch, two-inning bullpen on Tuesday. They will wait to see how he responds before determining his next steps.

The goal remains for him to return as a reliever in the post-season. season. Hunter Goodman was out of the lineup after leaving Monday early with right thumb soreness. Chris, every time we have a full week in Corse Field, there are some type of shenanigans that pop up with Hunter Goodman. And it's annoying. It is annoying. He's a very good player and it'd be nice to get more games at Corse Field. Does he still have the weird reverse splits? I haven't looked at that in a while, but he was, I have not either. There was a stretch right when he was starting to go really bonkers. His numbers at home were actually were.

Yeah, he's got 23 of his 38 homers away from home. He has an 869 OPS compared to an 807. That's wild. That's wild. It's like crazy to think if he was having a normal kind of huge Corse field season, what kind of year would Hunter Goodman be having, you know? Yeah, that one's always like I remember, gosh, I was I think in baseball behind the numbers by baseball prospectus.

a book that came out in like 2005 or something, that I think the year Larry Walker won MVP when he was playing at course field, he had better numbers on the road than at home or one of those years. And it was like, oh, look at that. And it's like, well, no, he still benefits. You know, you still get the course field bump in your home games. But yeah, the numbers could be even better if he was playing like he usually does. But I guess the argument would be that that would kind of even.

now, right? Like if he was having a normal course field season, it's just as likely that his numbers in the road would be worse. So I guess you could play both sides. Either way, an awesome season for Goodman. But it would be nice to have him healthy for these course field games. Let's wrap up the news here. Samuel Bessaya was out of

the lineup for a second straight game and has only started five of the past 12. He missed a month on the IL with right shoulder inflammation. And it seems like that injury could still be bothering him. Shane Baz left early after taking a 105 mile per hour line drive off of his right arm.

Nolan Aronado left early Tuesday due to right thumb inflammation. Roki Sasaki is scheduled to throw a simulated game on Wednesday. I guess depending how that goes, he could return as a starter this weekend, maybe as a bulk reliever or something like that. Shane McClanahan, who is on the aisle with left forearm tightness,

has resumed playing catch, but still has a long way to go before returning. That is according to his manager, Kevin Cash. Brandon Woodruff has extended his flat ground throwing to 105 feet. and his readiness for mound work will be re-evaluated at the end of September. There is still a slim chance that he can pitch in the postseason for the Brewers. Michael Garcia was reinstated from the IL.

He went 0 for 3. Both Royce Lewis and Cale and Coalpeper returned to the lineup for the twins. Chase DeLauder was out of the lineup with renewed wrist soreness. He has been battling that basically all September, so that's been kind of annoying for Jalotter. The Dodgers moved Hoseway to Paula up to leadoff on Tuesday, against the right-handed pitcher and Rhett Louder, and unfortunately he responded by going over five,

so that wasn't great. Trey Savage had a rough go and his rehab start at AAA. He gave up two runs. He needed 34 pitches. He could not get out of the first inning, and his fastball velocity was down one mile per hour. He's coming back from a shoulder injury. The Blue Jays are like two games out of a wildcard spot now,

and they're just running out of time. I just really think that they, let's play it safe with Treyi Savage for, maybe think about next season for you I did want to go back. Kael and Culpepper left that game. Oh yeah, with a hamstring, right? I think it was a leg injury. Yeah, I'm not sure exactly what, but yeah,

that, that worth noting. Max Meyer has been shut down from throwing and will not return the season due to that next train and his season ends with 20 starts. 268 ERA 114 whip over a K per inning. Chris, we saw real

growth here from Max Meyer, but he has had a hard time sustaining seasons. He gets off to these good starts. And honestly, to his credit, he was good for the entire time he was healthy. But he just, he hasn't been able to go.

I think his, this season was his career high, at least in the majors, at just 111 innings. So I just, I don't know. I still have questions about whether he can hold up for a full season.

I have questions about the skill, but the injuries are the bigger concern at this point. I had somebody asked me, you know, would you keep Max Meyer or Kate Anderson? and for all the skepticism rightly that Kate Anderson's debut has engendered, I think I'd have to go with Anderson. If it's the same cost,

I think I would go with Meyer, but that is a, let's see how Max Meyer is doing in the offseason. And if he shows up to spring training and everything is fine, then I think Meyer will probably get drafted ahead of Kate Anderson. But I could be wrong about that. I don't know, it's kind of a toss-up right now. Gage jump was placed in the aisle with a left shoulder impingement.

The Braves also placed Ronaldo Lopez on the aisle with right-shoulder inflammation. Jack Peterson has a small fracture in his left hand, and he will set out the next few games but hopes to play again in the season. Curtis Mead will begin hitting off a T on Wednesday. He's been out since late July with a fractured wrist. Carlos Correa will not return the season. It looked like he might make it back from ankle surgery, but it turns out that is not the case.

And the White Sox were called Noah Schultz from AAA. He was getting good results in five starts since getting sent back down, but no strikeouts. Only 10 strikeouts in 21 and 2 3rds innings. So we'll see how he looks in a relief role. He was a highly regarded prospect, but he looked terrible in the majors this season.

That is Noah Schultz. His counterpart, Hagen Smith, has looked much better at a bullpen so far this year. Before we get to some waiver wire names, Chris, I just wanted to highlight Max Fried and he looked like he was all the way back to form here at the Twins. Seven innings of one run ball, six strikeouts,

zero walks. He had 14 whiffs on 88 pitches. He actually doubled his sweeper usage in this start and it was really good. It had seven of his 14 whiffs. The velocity remained down on his fastballs. I was more nervous about him coming into this week.

To you and Scott's credit, you guys were still like let's just stick with Max Fried. And his pitch count has said jumped up. 63, 72, 80, and then 88 in this start. So it looks to be all the way back for the, I guess his final start will be next week. Yeah, I will say just looking ahead to 2027, though, it's going to be real tough to figure out what to do with him. Multiple IL stints with an elbow injury, velocity down coming back from the most recent one.

Look, we're going to get a postseason run. And so we probably got at least three more starts at a max freed. So we'll see what that looks like. He's been pretty terrible and it's a postseason career too. Yeah, but like he's got a 263 a right for the season. The peripherals all back it up. He's a really good pitcher.

He has a sub one whip. It's just, man, can you rank him as a top 24 starting pitcher with those kind of injury concerns? I don't think so. Like he just... And we've done this so many times in Max Fried's career. And he has been a reliable... I would say a reliably,

I was going to say a word, and now I can't think of it. Profitable, that's the word. He has been a reliably profitable pitcher because these little kind of nagging injuries have dropped him down draft boards and he's pitched like an ace more often than not. But man, it does feel like at some point,

just with any pitcher, at some point they're going to get hurt seriously. And with Max Fried, we've had multiple elbow scares over the past three or four years. So, yeah, it's just, I don't think we're going to be able to do him as a top 24 starting pitcher. And that might be really stupid passing on Max Fried. Yeah. No, it's a pretty unknowable situation right now. The way that I've kind of viewed this Yankee season is that all of these guys are just giving it one great effort, one full go, before their bodies just all fall apart.

I feel like that's the case for Max Fried. Rodon keeps coming back from these elbow injuries. Derek Cole coming back from Tommy John. I guess it's not really the same situation, but Judge coming back from the rib and stuff. So I just feel like, man, they're like, let's get through one postseason. Let's give it all we got.

Let's try and win it. If they win it, great. And then, you know, everyone's body just falls apart after that. But it's just, a lot of these guys are getting older, you know? So it's... Hey, our bodies are all going to fall apart at some point. That's true. That is fair. I'm still...

It's way too early to be thinking about next. season. I know we've been talking about it a lot, but I've already started in my head to, like, think about just pitching strategy for next year. And I just, I think that I'm going to be really, really judicious about the pitchers that I'm willing to take and when I will take them. And I think any pitcher that has like anything of an injury that has popped up this year or in just previous seasons, like, I'm going to stay far away unless there's a really, really big discount. Just because I, pitchers are going to get hurt. I'd rather not start with one or two that have a recent injury of being hurt.

And that might be dumb. Again, Max Fried might stay healthy next year and just be awesome. But there's just way too many pitcher injuries and I just don't want to start with them already on my team. But that's just like a, I don't know, way too early thought. Let's take our final break when we return. I've got a bunch of waiver wire names. We'll do some buyer sell for next season.

We'll do that right after this. Welcome back, Fantasy Baseball today. Let's run through some waiver wire hitters from Tuesday's action. I realize that there's only one week left in the season. But if you're playing daily lineup leagues, I'll mention some rest of week matchups and what things look like for next season as well. This is not really a waiver wire name, but I just wanted to mention Joe Adele. His matchups the rest of the way, there are a lot of lefties on the schedule, and he just crushes lefties. He has a 9-68 OPS against lefties this year, and he has had a downseason.

He somehow has 90 RBI. I was shocked to see that for Joe Adele, who has a sub-700 OPS and just 22 home runs on the year. But he has a matchups against the A's pitching staff this weekend, which is bad. He faces Jacob Lopez, who we think is a good pitcher. But again, Adele crushes lefties. And then he has four lefties on the schedule next week. So it looks like a really, really good setup for Joe Adele. Some other shallow league names.

Spencer Jones, speaking of crushing lefties, Chris, this one is just so weird. bizarre. He hit his 10th home run, and it was off of a lefty. And in 46 at Bats against lefties this season, which is, an incredibly small sample. I realize that. 435 batting average, 12.51 OPS.

And the expected stats kind of, like, not that, but his expected stats are really good against lefties too. And then against righties, he's hitting 214 with a 660, 6.60 oPS and a 38% K rate. So I don't really know what to make of that,

but he's playing every day and he's got power and speed, he's got some real juice. So even in a points league, I know the strikeouts are there. Like, he makes the big, impact. I think you can throw Spencer Jones out there in any type of league the rest of the way.

He somehow has like a 35% strikeout rate against, actually probably even higher than that. Yeah. 38% against righties. 38% strikeout rate against righties. And it's like 28% against lefties. Yep. That is, it's 51 plate appearances. So again, it probably isn't real, but it's weird. It's very weird. It's like not. at all what you would expect from a six foot seven lefty. He's been a very pleasant surprise. I have to say, I really did not think this was going to work.

And look, we have talked about Mutataka Murakami and things can go south for this kind of profile very quickly. But he's been very, very good so far. Moving on to Bryce Eldridge. I mentioned at the top, irrationally excited about him for next season. I am scared to do first base rankings

because I just, how high can I get Bryce Eldridge will be the question. And I'm sure everyone will love him like, everyone can see, everyone else can see what I see with Price Eldridge. I'm not, you know, some kind of first base whisperer here. But he hit his 17th home run. He destroyed it. 112.7 exit velocity, 4161 feet. His last 30 games, 327, 6 homers, 29 RBI and 30 games,

972 OPS, 94.3 average EV during that time. the strikeouts have been manageable. It's like a 26% rate this year. He's actually been better against lefties than he has been against righties. So I just love to see the even splits early on for a young player. He hits the ball hard.

The strikeouts are fine. He's 69% rostered. We've talked about this for a while. Like, it should just be higher. Although, like, he has two more series against the Dodgers coming up and their pitchers are, like, he's getting the meat of the Dodgers. So it's tough matchups the rest of the way.

but Chris I'm so excited about Bryce Eldgers next year you know I said there's no way it can be top 12 but then I'm I'm going through it and like first base and I would definitely take over him okay Ben Rice South Stewart Pete Alonzo Alex Berluson Mattel Vargas What's it? Matt Olson Matt Olson Raphael Devers Nick Kurtz

Nick Kurtz oh yeah How many is that eight that's eight There's got to be someone I'm forgetting But then you get into like Jake Bowers and Jonathan Aranda and Wilson Contreras and Jack Caglione. I think you take Jack Caglione ahead of him. Freddie Freeman.

And it's like there's gonna be... The Contreras one is tough because I really like his bat in Fenway and it just feels like a perfect match. And his stack cast stuff is still really good. So the Contreras one I think is really close. I think I'm probably going to still rank one Greer ahead of Bryce Eldridge. I know that's probably stupid, but...

I get it, though. Like, he has the track record. Yeah, like, I think drafting him in the second round last year, obviously a mistake. I think we could go too far in burying him. You know, talking about...

I think both Cags and Eldridge could kind of be at the back end of the top 12. I think, yeah, I think 12 to 15, for sure. Goldschmidt I don't know about gold Or not Gold Schmidt

Bellin Like wait who Probably isn't going to be First Base Elgin he's barely played first base right Who Bellinger Bellinger? I don't think he will

Luis Garcia will And I think that's a close call Yeah The counting stats since he got to the Yankees are awful Like he really regressed hard He's on like an 80 run 70 RBI pace Since he got to the Yankees Which is

He still hits in the middle of the lineup Yeah but he's only started, I think, 32 of 39 games or something. Like, he's just, he's not an everyday player. That's one of the ones I wrote about. Yeah, Ballinger won't have eligibility next season. So it's that 10 to 20 range is going to be, there's going to be a lot of guys in that range worth having that discussion about.

And we might get to the point where it's just, you know what, screw it. Bryce Eldridge, you're awesome. Let's put you in the top 12. Yep. And that, well, one thing that's going to frustrate it is like there are a couple of catchers. Certainly, you're going to have to rank Liam Hicks

around where a top 12 catcher would go, even if you're not or a first baseman, even if you're not actually going to use him as a first baseman. I know that we're supposed to leave those guys in our first base rankings. Yeah, it's... I still just take them out. I take them out. Like, because it's not helpful. Like, you should not use a catcher.

I get it. eligible guy at first base. I mean, part of the appeal is that, you know, he has first base eligibility because he plays more than the average catcher

and that's most useful at the catcher position. No, I get it, but the way we are supposed to do the rankings. Don't tell anybody I said that, by the way. Travis Bazana finishing strong

two for four with a double-dong, three RBI. One of those came off of a lefty. His last 10 games, 441, five homers, 15 RBI, more walks than strikeouts. For most of the second.

half. I mean, it has been really unplayable here for Travis Bazana. But, you know, what I said about Joe Adele obviously applies to Bazana, too. Lots of lefties still on the schedule the rest of the way. So, I can't really recommend him the rest of, you know, for the final

10 games of the season or whatever it is. But I think it's encouraging, Chris, that you know, he's struggled and now he's kind of bouncing back and finishing strong. His full season pays 20 homers, 27 steals. That's pretty cool. I don't if he's going to be an everyday player next year, but he's got a little juice for fantasy.

I don't think the guardians have the kind of depth to be taking him out of the lineup. But it's also a 574. Yes, he gets left. He's struggled, but I think he's young enough and important enough that they should give him the reps. I do want to ask, did you ever add? I remember back in when he got called up, I asked the audience to send in a drop of someone sang his name in the Minion's voice and someone did. Did you ever add it

to your list? You got to, we got to find it. Oh, yes. Look, someone Let me see. C.J. Pendergrast. Yeah, let's get that that guy's stuff in there. You know what? Great. I can, I haven't listened to it, so this is a little scary but I can, I can download

it and throw it in the... I remember it not being... It's not super loud or anything wrong with it, right? I don't think it was, I don't think there was anything wrong with it. Let's see. Let's see if I could throw it in here. here. Oh, no, it's not the right format. It's not the right file format. It's very good. I just listened to it. It's very good. You know what? I will try while Chris is talking to just like import it into a program and then export it and we'll see if I can get it going here.

But continuing on with some other waiver wire names, we left off with Bazaana. Some corner infielers I wanted to mention it was a big game for Spencer Torkelson. He had a sock in his shoe, his 24th home run. His first deal, we know he's not really going to run. But he has had himself a big September. He also has sat out five of the past nine games against Wrighties. So I don't think we can really recommend Torkelson, but it was a huge game. And then

the Orioles, the lefty masher's here. Kobe Mayo had an inside the park home run against the Mets in extra innings. The updated second half numbers, 274, 12 homers 902 OPS. And looking at the rest of the schedule, there's three

lefties this weekend. So I think both Mayo and CES are in play. If you play in a daily lineup league, again, Mayo and Encarnasse on Strand for this weekend. But it looks like there's only one lefty on the schedule for next week. So I like them for this weekend, but

probably not for next week, Chris. Yeah, I did see somebody tweet that Kobe Mayo hit a home run off of Rite and then when I went and checked, it was like, okay, no, you were being misleading. I mean, look, he cried, like, it was hit really hard off the bat. It was I think AJ Ewing

like got a glove on it and crashed into the wall in dead center and that was how he got the inside the park home run. But it was like, all right, it wasn't actually a homer off already. Let's, let's be fair. But he's been really good lately. And he does have, I think, three or four homers off of Ritey's in the past couple of weeks. So some signs of life there. He's got that OPEL.

The OPS was below 500 against Ritey's like two weeks ago. And now it's all the way up to 551. So, hey, that's, look, I mean, that's a big improvement. in a two-week span this late in the season. He probably isn't good against righties, but still, it's worth noting how good he has been, and it has not just been against lefties lately,

which has been a big thing that we've talked about with him. So kudos to Kobe Mayo, having a nice little season right now. All right, I think I've got this ready to go. That was great filibustering, Chris. Let's see. Drop it in there. If there's one thing I can do,

it's I can talk for, longer than I'm supposed to. It's very good. That is great. And again, that came in from CJ Pendergrass. Pendergast. So thank you for sending that in. I hope you're still listening at this point in this season and you just heard yourself make the show. Some deeper names, deeper waiver wire hitters.

Anthony Volpe went two for four with his 10th stolen base. Five games since returning. He has six hits, one homer, and three steals. Should be an ear everyday player with jazz out. Emmanuel Rodriguez, two for three with a double and RBI. He just missed a home run off of a lefty in Ryan Yarbrough late in that game. It was right down the line, but a hooked foul. He is 15% rostered. And then Andres Chaparro hit his 11th home run.

This one off of Christopher Sanchez. He has started just 7 of 12 September games. I wish the Nationals would play him every day just to see what he could do because, like, his splits are actually pretty even. He's actually better against Ritey's this year. And he's got some. juice in the bat, but some deeper names, Chris, any interest the rest of the way in Chaparro, Emmanuel Rodriguez, and Anthony Volpe. I think Rodriguez is a clear level beyond Volpe and Chaparro just from a talent standpoint.

He's only 15% of rostered, so. Yeah, it's early. And look, there's only so much that can improve at this point in the season. So I think he's probably not going to get above 25%. But this is a really talented young player who, has put up big numbers throughout his minor league career. The comp I made when he got called up was like Max Muncie with 20 Homer or 20 steel potential.

He's had a lot of trouble staying healthy. That's been the biggest knock on him. But I always say when you have guys, like I made this point with Chase the Latter a lot. When you have these guys who just can't stay healthy but they keep producing, I find that almost more impressive because these are the most important developmental years of their careers. And they're being totally derailed by injuries. and they're still producing.

That says a lot about the baseline talent level and work ethic of these guys. And it's worked out in Chase the Lodder's case. I mean, he has had his trouble staying healthy at the major league level, but he's been a very good hitter. And I think Amanda Rodriguez is going to be good as long as he stays healthy. Some waiver wire pitchers. Chris, can I interest you in any of these for the final week of the season? Michael Soroka looked good against the Marlins.

It was five innings, one run, six strikeouts. He is, looks like he's at the Rockies and at the Padres the final week. So he is a two-star pitcher, but one is in course field. Griffin Jacks shut down the A's, five shutout innings with seven strikeouts. He is a spark. He gets the Red Sox this weekend, and then he's at the Phillies in the final week. Davis Martin, I think Davis Martin is bad. Let me be very clear about this.

His final start is against the Rockies in Chicago. So do with that what you will. Sean Binaia, a solid outing against. against the Orioles, five and a third, two runs, six strikeouts to zero walks. And he is part of a six-man rotation, so he has this one start left. It looks like it will be at Texas next week. And the Rangers are actually good against lefties, but they're really bad against righties. And Ryan Johnson pitched well against the Mariners, six innings, one run, seven strikeouts.

He's been doing some good things. Last seven starts, 204, ERA 101 Whip. And he is home against the twins this weekend. And then his final start is at the Mariners, who he just dominated. in a good place to pitch in Seattle. So Chris, can I interest you in any of these five in the final week of the season? Soroka, it's just I don't like the matchups at Colorado and then. The Poppians are hot, you know.

Yeah, that's just a, it's a tough matchup right now. So he's the kind of pitcher who, when things go wrong, they tend to go really wrong. And so that's the scary thing. But I think he's a pretty good pitcher. It's just, I don't love the setup for him. I think the next most interesting is Griffin Jacks. don't love the matchups, Boston and Philly the last two,

but that's probably okay. You can use him there, especially, you know, he pitched five innings in this one, but it was only 67 pitches. That's the thing that I forgot about is they have not let him go over 70 pitches.

I would expect the same. Yeah, so that's a really thin margin for error because that's just one bad inning. It's a bad start, you know? It's really, the only one I really want to use for next week

that I have any interest is Ryan Johnson. I think, that's the most interesting one. He has completely changed his arsenal since they fired Mike Maddox. He was like the sinker changeup that he was leaning on before. No, sinker splitter. And now it's cutter sweeper. Like he is completely reversed. It's like 70% cutters and sweepers since the pitching coach change. I don't really think he's like a super talented pitcher. I know there are people, I think on the Rates and Barrels podcast they've talked about. They like, Brian Johnson and frankly they're smarter than me. So I'm open to being wrong on that one. I'm not terribly impressed by him, but this was a very good start. Obviously versus Minnesota at Seattle, the final two starts. Very good spot for streaming. So I think he's okay. It's risky, but I think it's okay. And then two deeper names Drew Anderson of the Tigers pitched well at the Blue Jays 5 shutout with four strikeouts. And in 10 starts this season, he has a 236 IRA, a 125 whip.

4.6 walks per 9. So the walks are untenable. I think there's some interesting stuff here under the hood. I don't want to use them against the pirates in the final week, but I think a very deep name just to remember for next year if the Tigers give them a shot to be in the rotation to start the season. And then Jack Perkins, I don't know where this came from at Tampa Bay, tough matchup, six and two thirds, one unearned run with eight strikeouts here.

I've always thought that there was like solid stuff here, Chris, and the ability to get strikeouts, but pitching in Sacramento as your home park, no way around it. I mean, he has an ERA over six, so it's been just bad all around. I kind of thought that there might be something there with Jack Perkins early in his career.

Yeah. Now I'm not so sure. I think he's an interesting pitcher, and I can almost guarantee that next season, when I write whatever deep sleepers for every team article that I do usually in March, Jack Perkins will definitely be one of the A's that I consider because I think, one, he's locked in SPARP eligibility for next season. He has made 20 appearances at RP, so he will be SPARP eligible in 2027.

I have him as a cheap keeper in the Scott White Dynasty League. That's a nice one. And I think he's got decent swing and miss stuff. It's just the control's been pretty bad all season. He's given up a lot of loud contact. He has to get better. But I think there's talent here. And so that is a name that I'm going to be keeping an eye on like offseason reports and what he does in spring training.

And I don't think it's guaranteed he's in the rotation next season. But I think it's because they've got another pitching prospect who's on the verge, I think. So that rotation will probably look different. Jamie Arnold, he was their first round pickman. Oh, yeah, yeah. He did. His season, I think, is over because he got, he was hospitalized last week. He got hit by a comebacker in the face.

So that was scary. But yeah, yeah, he's a very interesting. pitching prospect. I don't know if he'll be ready, but he could be in the discussion. But yeah, I think Jack Perkins is moderately interesting. Let's, let's say that. Yeah, I think that's fair. Jamie Arnold. Very, very moderately. Jamie Arnold, 22 years old, he, uh, he did get up to AAA. He got up to AAA this year, made two starts there. Uh, his 23 starts at double A. Jamie Arnold, 357 ERA 145 whip. So, okay. Walks are high. hits per 9, we're over 9.

Yeah, I mean, I think there's still some development to be had there with Jamie Arnold. Let's wrap up here some buy or sell. Way too early by yourself for next season. And I'll pull up some nice little graphics here for those watching on YouTube. That's why you've got to watch. YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. And this one, Chris, to Oscar Hernandez, stayed hot, hit another home run. His last 28 games, he's hitting 324 homers and OPS over 900.

buy or sell. Teasca Hernandez is not dead yet. You have never seen Monty Python on the Holy Grail, right? No. That is not a reference you would get. Okay, Scott, I think would. I think we've talked about that. Scott has seen it yet.

Very, very good movie. I, yeah, I, I don't know. I guess I buy it, but it depends because there's a chance he's not on the Dodgers next year. And we don't know where he'll go. You start to think like,

would the Mariners try to trade for him? If they lose a Rosarana and free agency, then I would definitely sell. Randy or Teoska Hernandez as a viable fantasy option for next year. But if he's back with the Dodgers, I'll buy it. The Red Sox tried to sign him a couple years ago, but there's just, there's nowhere on the Red Sox that makes sense either at this point.

So, yeah, well, we'll have to see. But, you know, maybe given the Dodgers something to think about, I know we all have, kind of assume that they will trade Teosker to open up a spot for DePaula to be an everyday player for next season. But I don't know. If Teosker finishes strong and looks good in the postseason, maybe they won't pull the plug just yet. So next we have Vinny Pasquantino. I'm seeing now that I, rushing to make these graphics, I have a, I have a little bit of a Vinny with two eyes at the end of his name.

Vinny. Vinny Pasquantino. That's when you have two Vinny Pasquantinos. Yes, the Vin I pass Guantino. and he had his 12th home run, 25 games since returning. 264, 6 homers, 888 OPS, hitting the ball really hard.

He looks like himself again since coming back. So buy or sell that you should buy the dip next season on Vinnie Pete. Baby! I mean, he, bye, but is he, he's not a top 15 first baseman next year?

I don't think so, but if I can get him as my corner, I would be interested in that. as a very cheap corner. A corner around pick 200. Yeah, I think that's... I'd be down. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

I think that Royal Science has got to be better next year. We'll say every year until it happens. Well, it happened two years ago. Yeah. All right. Three years ago at this point, yeah. Yeah, I don't know.

Next up we have Jeremy Pena who went three for four with a double don here on Tuesday night. He was struggling before this in September 13 games. 157, two extra base hits, zero homers, zero steals, a 33% K rate. So he was scuffling, but overall, it's been a good season. I think he's, I think he's kind of showed the last two years, like he's entered not superstar, but I think he's kind of a star at the position.

And if you just take his numbers and paste them out from this year, full season, 30 homerers, 117 runs, 14 steals. I mean, that's a really good player. So buy or sell, Jeremy Pena, top 10 shortstop in 80P next season. I think he's got to be. It's a tough position to break top 10, but... It is, but who has joined the top 10 who wasn't there this season? Kevin McGonagall.

Connor Griffin. Connor Griffin. Okay. Whether or not you agree with it, but yeah. No, I mean, I agree. Yeah. Otto Lopez? Rough second half, though.

Yeah, what do we do with that? maybe but I think Boba Shat is not going to be well yeah he played enough to to retain

short stuff he filled a lot for Lindor but I don't think we're drafting him as a top 10 shortstop Gunner Henderson

we will but I think it's an open question whether you'd rather have Gunner Henderson or Jerry Pena in 2027 I think those guys

should be close I think I might take Pena over turn or just straight up. Yeah, I think so. Geraldo Perdomo's definitely dropped out. Pena versus Netto. That's going to be close. Mookiee Betz is out of that conversation.

You definitely rather have Jeremy Payne. So yeah, I think he's got to be a top 10. I'm buying this one for sure. Yeah, yeah, I agree. I'm buying it as well. I think it's closer to top six than top 12. Like closer to top six than not in the top 10, I would guess. Yep. Next up, Dail and Lyle hit a pinch hit home run. His 21st homer, his 3 RBI.

He did not start against Christopher Sanchez. But last 35 games, 276, 7 homers, 29 RBI, four steals. His OPS is around 850s, lifting the ball a lot more during that span. 91 mile per hour average EV, 15% barrel rate. It's been a very productive season for Dale and Lyle. By or sell, there's another step coming for Dail and Lyle. I think I buy this one just because I think he's better than a 248 batting average. I think everything else is pretty close to what I'd expect.

20 homers, 15. Like I feel like he's a 20-20-ish player. 85. Like, he's very Brian Reynoldsy. Yeah. To me. That's fair. And he just hitting 248 this season, if he was hitting 270, which I think is reasonable,

I think you'd feel pretty good about that. So I'd buy this one, but it's, you know, it's not like I expect a huge step forward. Yeah. We'll see if he can maintain any of these late season games, just lifting the ball in the air and hitting it harder. If he improves even a little bit against lefties too and just fully plays every single day, it's a 600 OPS against lefties, so I get why he sits

against some tougher lefties. But yeah, I think there could be another step here. Just good all-around season for Dan Lyle, very profitable player. Carson Benj, hit his 18th home run. He has actually had a rough September, but he still has been

better in the second half than he was in the first half. 18 homers, 22 steals, 272 batting, average, very even splits against both lefties and righties. Buy or sell, Carson Benj, top 100 pick in ADP next season. That's a tough one because he is... And just for a little bit of a reference point, I know it's a sample of one, but in that two early meatball draft, Carson Benj went at pick 87.

Okay. So, I mean, the comp we've always made, and it kind of worked out perfectly is Brandon Nemo. Or even early season. Yellich, early career Yellich. Not MVP Yelich, but Marlins Yelich. The walk rate's a little lower than both of those guys,

but in the minors it was way better, so I do think that's a place you can expect him to take a step forward. I think the quality of contact has been a little bit disappointing. Agreed. He hit the ball a lot harder at the minor league level last season, so there's room for improvement there as well. So Brandon M.O.'s ADP last year was 139, but he's old.

He had a park downgrade. I think I'm going to sell it, but I think it's going to be real close. Yeah. Because top 100, I mean, that's a... That's tough. It's tough, but it's also like, you look at the guys who were just outside of the top 100, and it's pretty trashy. Jose Al-Tuvae, Luis Robert, Joe Adel, Teoscar, Vannez.

That was just the Lucchiechel. Saddam Raphael, I guess, has been the best pick there. But even that... Just inside the top 100, you had Sayas Suzuki. Yeah. His ADP dropped because he had the fractured hand right before the season. I think it was a fractured hand, right?

Or something like that. Or maybe it was a leg injury? I don't know. It was something in the WBC. Michael Harris was at 98. I don't know. That's kind of an interesting comp because, like, Michael Harris, you pretty much expect the 2020 270 season out of.

And, I mean, that's what Carson Benj is doing right now. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I think I think. That's a good number. A hundred is a good number. I think buy 100. Yeah, that

Noelvi Marte was 137 Yeah Yeah So are we buying or selling this one? I'm buying it I think he'll just get in there, yeah All right And the last name on the list here is

Gabriel Moreno who went two for three With two walks A sock and a shoe His 14th home run His sixth stolen base And he's hitting 304 With an 858 OPS Buy or sell

He is a top eight catcher in ADP next season know. Well, he's the number seven catcher in the fantasy and the Fangraph playerator. Despite, he had an I-Elston, right? He had a concussion, I want to say. I think he missed some time for something.

I don't remember. But he's kind of having the bounce back we hoped he would have, and it's been very quiet. You know, amid all that we've talked about at the catcher position, I feel like Gabby, this might be actually the first time we've mentioned his name all season. That's a joke, but not

not a huge one, right? He's really good in a way where he just flies under the radar Because he's not putting up like gaudy home run numbers Yeah, he doesn't have a ton of homers Yeah, but like He's been better than Yvonne Herrera And Carter Jensen And we've talked way more about those guys

Than uh than Gabrielle Moreno So I don't think it's top eight because you just Sir Rice is out Goodman Baldwin Contreras I think Dangler will be ahead of him I think Herrera will be ahead of him Jeffers Langalears will definitely be ahead of him

Jeffers is a tough one Adley, Basayo I don't know I don't think Adly Basayo maybe I don't think I'm going to be able to take Gabriel Moreno if Cowralli's on the board Maybe that's a personal failing of mine

But I'm gonna I was actually gonna make this buyer sell Gabriel Moreno over Cal Raleigh Yeah I think I'm gonna have to take Cow Raleigh I don't know man The skills are so interesting for Moreno. I don't know that there's massive upside for him

and he does have an injury history, but I really like the fact that he has maintained putting the ball in the air more this year. He started doing that last season. Yeah, and that batting average is really valuable from a catcher. A career high, 17% pulled air rate for Gabriel Moreno. Like, I still think there's another level here

where can he get to like 20 home runs while hitting 300? I think we could get like a William Contreras type season out of Gabriel Moreno. know, if everything clicks. Yeah. No, it's a really solid, well-rounded skill set. I'm buying it. Top eight, baby. Let's go. So we wound up buying everything. We wound up buying everything on the list.

You know, I noticed it as we were going, and I was like, I think I'm buying everything. You know what? I'm bad with money. That's, that's perfectly in fitting with my approach to life. I'm just spending all the time. Let's wrap up here with some leftovers. Kyle Swarver hit his 45th home. run of the year. He now has 45 or more home runs in four of the past five seasons. Ronald de Cunier remains hot since that mental day off. 18 games since that day off. 366, five homers, 13 runs, 14 RBI, two steals. Ozzie Albiz, two for four with a sock in a shoe, his 20 second home run, his fourth steal. And he really got off to a great start. And his OPS by month,

923, 594, 738, 736, 606, 551 in September. So. Yeah, and this is one, a testament to the value of getting off to a good start. Because you build a nice base and you set that storyline in our heads that, oh, he's having a good season. And he's not really having that great of a season. He's been okay. But 245, 22 homers. The counting stats are good. 83 runs. 71 RBI is okay, but the 22 homers, 83 runs for where he was going in drafts has been pretty valuable.

But only has been $2.45 batting average. Like, this is not a... Everything else is kind of blah. This is not a top 100 pick anymore, right? No, no. I was going to do a buyer sell like is Ozzy Albi's cooked. I kind of am leaning towards him being cooked, but... I don't think that's wrong.

I'm not saying he's like totally useless for fantasy, but he's the number 14 second baseman this season. I think part of what is affecting his overall line is that he does not crush lefties the way he used to. So he's been right around like a 750 OPS, like 750 to 800 OPS against lefties the past two years. And before he used to crush them, like 900 plus OPS against lefties.

And that's the difference between the Ozzy LBs who we used to get that would hit, you know, 260 or 270, and he would pop, you know, 25 homers. And he also just doesn't really run anymore. And the counting stats would just be better. But he's now just kind of like good against lefties, whereas he used to just completely crushed him. Yeah, the bat speed's gone down.

Yeah, it's, he's not that dude anymore, yeah. And he's, this is something I've pointed out with Austin Riley. He's like, he's 29 now. You know, like that's, it's not the eight. He's not so old that it's like, oh, he's completely washed up. But it's also like, you probably shouldn't expect things to get better from here. Yep. A couple of their names here.

Drake Baldwin hit his 24th home run and he hasn't been as good since coming back from injury. It's an OPS around 750. I wonder if it's just natural regression or did the oblique just kind of mess up this full-on breakout. Cody Bellinger hit his 16th home run. He's been very good since coming off the IL-326 with five home runs. Fernando Tatis hit another home run, his 23rd,

and the updated second half numbers, 307, 18 homers, 12 steals. OPS over 1,000. Anything else here, Chris, on Tatis, Bellinger, Baldwin, Acuna, Schwerber? Yeah, Baldwin didn't make my toughest catchers to rank list on Tuesday because, again, I was trying to limit myself,

but it's going to be interesting because I think you're making case for him as a top two or three catcher. But, I mean, he's going to have, he has such a playing time edge when he's healthy. But, yeah, the production, since coming off the IL has been a lot more pedestrian. It's going to be real interesting to see not so much where he ranks him on catchers

because I think he's definitely in that first tier. You know, maybe it's a top five. I'm blanking on it right now, but... I think him Languiliers and Goodman are kind of... Goodman, Contreras, probably a step below. I think at this point he's a little bit below those guys, yeah. Yeah, but it's more, how early is it actually worth taking him? Is he going to be like a third round pick or a fourth round pick?

That's going to be pretty scary then. That's a big price tag, yeah. Yeah, so I like Drake Baldwin for sure. I'm not sure if, you know, pushing him up to where, like, William Contreras has gone in the past or where JT. Rao Muto used to go, like that third or fourth round range, that feels a little scary for me. just because I'm not sure he's that huge difference maker. Some pitching leftovers, five aces that looked apart here on Tuesday.

We had Jacob Mizirowski, Yamamoto, Jacob de Grom, Hunter Brown, and Logan Gilbert. All had somewhere between good and great starts. A couple of numbers I'll just throw out here. Logan Gilbert, the whiffs have been massive over his last three starts. It's a 21% swinging strike rate over his last three. Jacob de Grom in his last four starts, 150 ERA, point. 0.46 whip, 35 case to two walks over 24 innings. And Yamamoto, the strikeouts have really come back as well.

Last five starts, he has a 17.8% swinging strike rate. Anything else on this group of five? Yeah, I mean, that was the only knock on Yamamoto. I guess volume, kind of, but he pitches so deep into games that it makes up for the six-man rotation. I think. He has a 0.87 whip. That's insane.

And I think he leads the majors in innings. per start. Maybe he's second behind Alcantra, but he's right there. So that's helped make up for the volume in a way that I thought was going to limit him. I was pretty skeptical of him as a top four starting pitcher, but he's absolutely been worth drafting as the number four starting pitcher. I think he will be a top five starting pitcher next season.

And then I do think it's worth mentioning Hunter Brown figuring it out is a very very good sign. He was pretty shaky when he first came back from the shoulder injury, but last three starts have been pretty good. Gosh, I wrote about him earlier. I think his August was better. So I think he's mostly figured it out and quieted some of the doubt that, yeah, it's 345 ERA, 54-4-strikeouts in the past 44.1 innings since the start of August.

So he's looking better, given that he missed almost three months with a shoulder injury and has been shaky this season. I don't think we're going to be drafting him as certainly not a top 12 starting pitcher again, maybe not a top 20 starting pitcher again. But I think a lot of the concerns can be sidestepped a little bit here with Hunter Brown with the way he's finishing the season. So that's promising. You are spot on, by the way, with Yamamoto. He does lead all Major League Baseball in innings pitch per start the season. Yeah, I thought that was what I saw you. The call to the bullpen for the White Sox.

Grant Taylor got the eighth inning with a one-run lead. It was a clean inning. Then he came back out for the ninth, and he gave up a single. Strikeout, walk, ground out. And finally, a two-run double to Brian Rokio. Just brutal, brutal loss there for the White Sox. And it feels like a lot of the blown saves that have happened for Grant Taylor have been multi-inning relief appearances.

Just about to say that. It feels like it always goes wrong in that second inning for him. Yeah. I think he's super talented. And I, if they. transition him into being a starter next year. I will be very interested. I think there will be some kind of innings cap for him,

but he looks like, I don't want to say Gary Crochet, but they, once upon a time, the White Sox did this. You know, like they turned a reliever into his starter, and it worked out very well. I don't know that Grant Taylor can do all that, but I think there's a lot of upside for Grant Taylor.

For the Nationals, left-handed pitcher, Eric Tolman got the ninth with a three-run lead. He picked up his third save, and he has three of the last four saves for the Nationals. pretty sure they don't have a closer. They never will ever again. But if I had to choose someone right now, it would be Eric Tolman.

For the athletics, Elvis Alvarado got the ninth inning with the game tied. He gave up a walk-off home run to Junior Camerero. And, you know, I was texting my little Yankees group chat that I have going on. And I'm like, oh, well, the rays are going into the bottom of the ninth inning tied. How are they going to win this one?

My buddy's like, oh, Camerro is going to hit a walk-off homer and then boom. Yeah, there is his second walk-off homeer in the last five days, I believe. Yeah, so he's really good. For the Mets, Kodai Senga got the ninth inning with a one-run lead, and he gave up a game-tying home run to Pete Alonzo. He took his first blown save.

The Mets would eventually lose an extra innings. For the Orioles, Rico Garcia got the ninth with the game tied. He allowed a hit and a walk. He recorded two outs. Later in the game, Andrew Kittridge came on to pick up his 10th save. He did that in the 11th inning. I still kind of lean towards Rico Garcia being their highest leverage reliever right now. For the Cubs, Jacob Webb got the seventh with a one-run lead.

He gave up a two-run homer, took his, I believe, league leading eighth-blown save and his fifth loss. It feels like the Cubs are moving towards a combination tandem of Ryan Rawlison and Ryan Zephyrjohn as they're closer right now. And it's not really a position you want to be in as the Chicago Cubs. It's not like Zephyon's been great since he got there. No. For the Braves, Rizzole-Leglase has picked up his 33rd save. For the Rangers, Jacob Latz picked up his 38. save. He retired the final five outs in that one. Josh Hader picked up his 26 save. I just want to

give a shout out to Josh Hater, man. We have not talked about him, but like, 0.85 ERA and 0.66 whip. 55 strikeouts of our 42 and a third innings. Like, he looks like prime Josh Hater. This might be the best version of Josh Hater we've ever seen. The ideal fantasy closer is the closer who never gets mentioned on a fantasy baseball podcast. Yeah, no, that's right. Like, we don't talk about Mason Miller, you know? Like, there's nothing to talk about. That guy's awesome.

And that's been the case with Josh Hader this season. And he had, was it a biceps injury? Yeah. Didn't pitch until like June. And I think it was a shoulder thing last year, too. And I was completely spooked off taking him this off season because I'm like, look, he's already kind of being slow rolled and spring training and like he was starting the season injured.

I wanted nothing to do with Josh Hater. And yeah, I mean, by XERA 174 is by far the best of his career. I mean, what is going on? Because he doesn't have like the 40% strikeout rates like he used to. And his age 32 season, man, like Matt. Shout out's Josh Hater. He has been, despite missing like the first two months of the season, he's been the ninth best reliever in fantasy.

And that includes, I guess no sparse are in there. They're all true relievers. But yeah, that's very impressive. And then for the Angels, Ben Joyce was unavailable. Ryan Watson picked up his third save of the year. To stream or not to stream, and I do apologize to anyone who used Andre Palante on Tuesday because he got absolutely crushed.

But I just had so much confidence against that Giants team. The one name we did bring up as a hitter in their lineup was Bryce Eldridge. And he hit a mammoth home run off of Andre Palante. On Wednesday, Zebby Matthews is home against the Yankees. Matthew Libertor, home against the Giants. Kair Montero at the Blue Jays. Max Schurzer home against the Tigers. Jared Jones, home against the Brewers.

Chris Bassett at the Mets, revenge game. J.R. Ritchie at the Cubs. Christian Javier, home against the Royals. Yusick Cucci, home against the Mariners. And Merrill Kelly, home against the Marlins. You bring up some of these revenge games, and I'm like, man, I do not remember. I guess he had the one year.

He was with the Mets for one year. I love a good obscure revenge game. Yeah, that was, yeah. One year, five years ago, I guess technically is a revenge game. It's a rough day. Well, the Giants should be the best matchup,

but they just teed off on a better pitcher. Matthew Liberator is so bad. I can't do it. I don't think I can either. I don't really have any faith in Max Scherzer. I don't. Cater Monterra, I guess the results have been pretty good this season,

but I don't have a lot of faith in that. It's a really tough matchup. I get it, but I would still put Jared Jones at the top of the list. I think it's got to be Jared Jones and Christian Javier at the top. And then Kikuchi, that's really risky, but

vibes in Seattle are real bad. I think all four of these are risky options, but I would rank them Jared Jones, Javier, Cacucci, and then Merrill Kelly. I agree with that. And I think those are the four best options. I don't love any of them. On Thursday, it is a shorter slate.

There's not much here. Dustin May at the Pirates, they crush Ritees, Brady Singer against the Dodgers. Oh my gosh. Jeffrey Springs at Tampa Bay, revenge game. Seth Lugo at the Astros and Walbert, Arania, home against the twins. I do remember Jeffrey Springs on the race. Yeah.

I like Arania here. I legitimately. Irania is the only one I like, yeah. If I had to choose two others, I would say Dustin May and... Yeah. Give me the revenge game, but it is... Those last May and Springs are also very, very risky, so I can...

Yeah. I can see that going very... sideways. I guess springs in Tropicana Field, I could see that going. They're not great against lefties either. Yeah, I could talk myself into that going okay. But I wouldn't want to. We are going to wrap there for Chris.

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