Fantasy Baseball Today - DeGrom/Lindor Replacements, Marsh Called Up, Weekend Waiver Moves (7/19 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 19, 2021

To nominate Fantasy Baseball Today for The People’s Choice podcast awards, go to podcastawards.com/app/signup/ and then toggle down the "Sports" category. It was a brutal weekend for the Mets as both Jacob deGrom and Francisco Lindor were placed on the IL (1:30). Who might you be able to add to soften the blow? ... Out of nowhere the Angels promoted outfield prospect Brandon Marsh on Sunday (6:55). ... Is it time to add AJ Pollock (11:28)? It was a wild weekend for the Padres' offense. ... News and notes (19:38)! Pablo Lopez went to the IL, the Brewers are going with a six-man rotation, and more. ... Josiah Gray is a candidate to start Tuesday and Bobby Witt was promoted to Triple-A (32:50). What's the latest on the Rays prospects? ... Can you drop any of these starting pitchers (44:41)? ... Which SP should you add from the weekend (48:51)? ... We hit some SP leftovers with Kenta Maeda and Zac Gallen (54:55). ... We wrap up with bullpen updates and streamers (58:38).  'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank 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

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Now here's Frank Scott, Chris and Adam. What's happening, everybody? Happy Monday and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on July 19th. Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White here to recap. another jam-packed weekend. Some grim Mets news coming out of New York. We'll start there. Brandon Marsh was promoted by the Angels.

We have waiver ads, the dropometer, and much more. Scotty to Hoddy. How's the weekend, bud? It was good. It was good. What about you? It was pretty good. Can't complain outside of the fact that the only Yankee game I went to

was the one that they didn't win. So that was, look, beggars can't be choosers. It was still fun to go to the game. and I did want to give a shout out to one of our listeners, Evan Malter, who actually invited me to the game. We had a great time to get a really good dude. We were sitting down on the field level, like four seats behind the dugout. So really, really thankful that he was able to come through and hook that up because I didn't know. We didn't know heading into Friday if there was even going to be a game. And then it wound up happening. But it was a lot of fun. So I was happy to do that. But let's get

started here, Scott. With that Mets news, because man, it was a rough one here for the Mets fans. Jacob de Grom placed on the IL retroactive to July 15th with tightness in his right forearm. Apparently, DeGrom felt this discomfort on Friday while throwing a bullpen session, and MRI hours later showed there was forearm tightness, but no structural damage. Manager Luis Rojas said on Sunday that DeGrom will not throw again until the discomfort goes away. DeGrom had this to say as well. Quote, I'm frustrated. I don't know what else to say. I guess it's good news whenever structurally everything looks good, but the level of frustration now is really high. Kind of has just been the case all season long with Jacob deGroms.

Obviously, people just get them out of their lineups. And now we wait. I don't think there's anything else we can say or do. Yeah, I mean, there's really no way to speculate how long the absence is going to be. you'd expect to be on the shorter side, given that there is no structural damage, at least not that the MRI turned up. And that's usually what we go on. You know, occasionally you hear of instances where nothing turns up

and then later something does turn up. So that's kind of in the back of my mind. But, you know, no reason to panic. We hoped he'd be back and ready to go at the start of the second half. I think we kind of assume that since there was no structural damage and since he has a tendency to bounce back quickly from these things.

But as you say, I think you just got to wait it out. It doesn't do you much good to sell him, really. I think he risks selling low. I don't know. Maybe he just misses one more turn. I don't know. It's really hard to say. Yeah, this has been just the season for Jacob B'Brien.

When he pitches, he is a historically amazing pitcher, but we just kind of have to navigate through these forearm, back, oblique injuries, shoulder injuries for Jacob de Grom as well. It's been tough, but hold on. Don't try and sell low. I kind of talked about doing that the first time that he got hurt, and then he just comes back and looks awesome. So don't listen to what I've said in the past.

Just hold Jacob de Grom and hope everything turns out are right here. The other big news was Francisco Lindor who went to the I.O. with a grade two oblique strain, and they haven't given any timeline, but obliques obviously are very tough. This could be anywhere from four to six weeks, which is like your standard injury. timeline, I guess, but especially more so for obliques. So I do have some possible replacements here, Scott. Let's start off in a shallower league. These are names that are

rostered in 60 to 75% of CBS leagues. Willie Adamas, David Fletcher, Luis Arias, how which ranked those three options? I think you ranked them appropriately here. Adamas, Fletcher, and Arias, obviously, Adamus, we've talked about it a lot, just how much getting out of Tropicana field where apparently he didn't like the batter's eye there and over his entire career, his splits at home in Tampa were awful. So getting him out of there, we've seen him, we've seen him come alive with the brewer still striking out, you know, a little too much for my liking with the brewers.

25%. It's not as bad as I thought. And he's been hot since the start of the second half. So he would be number one because he gives you that power element. But David Fletcher's been hitting like 450 since about, mid-June. That's pretty much all he provides. No power, no speed, really.

But he's been batting lead off for the Angels. That's, of course, helps get the most out of that batting average. And, you know, it might actually be a pretty close call in points league specifically since Fletcher's strikeout rate is so low. But those are clearly one and two. And Luis Reyes is a distant third. A little bit deeper, these are names that are rostered in less than 50% of CBS league's got.

Brendan Rogers, your boy, or Nico Horner, who's like, kind of your boy, but just not to the same level as Brendan Rogers. I like both of these guys a lot. But I'd rather go with the guy who has power, Brendan Rogers. And I think definitely the ceiling's higher for him, especially playing half his games at Coors Field. Frankly, I like Rogers and Horner both more than Luis Arias. No. Not to drag your guy. But it's the truth. It's the honest truth.

That is fair. All right, so we're going, Brendan Rogers over Nico Horner, and then in the deepest of leagues, these are names that are rostered in less than 20% of CBS leagues. If you play in a 15-team or anything deeper than that. Elvis Andrus, Liori Garcia, Orlando Arcia.

Again, deep names here, Scott. Anyone that stands out? Don't like these guys so much, but I would probably say Orlando Arcea, who looks like he is going to be playing regularly for the Braves still, even with Jack Peterson aboard. He's the one guy of these three that I hope,

just based on what he was doing a AAA prior to his promotion, him being only 26 years old still. I think there might be a next level for him that we haven't seen at the majors yet. Bet against it, of course. But we're having to dig pretty deep here at this point. Yeah, Orlando Arcea, 7% roster.

He's got outfield eligibility, shortstop eligibility there. again in a deeper league if you do need a replacement for Francisco Lindor. We had a big prospect call up on Sunday. It was really kind of came out of nowhere. The Angels promoting Brandon Marsh, who is known for his hit and speed tools. He does offer some pop as well. And throughout the AA and AAA in its career, 120 games.

He's at 10 homers and 20 steals during that time. Brendan Marsh was also hitting 382 with two doubles, two triples, two homers, and a stolen base in 12 July. game since returning from an injury that he had to his shoulders. So 13% rostered here, Scott, for Brandon Marsh. How excited are you about him? Is he a must add? Would you drop guys like Jeff McNeil, Kevin Biggio for Brandon Marsh? No, I want to drop either of them for Marsh. And I was surprised how little, a little enthusiasm there seemed to be for him in my Towed Wars League, which is a 15-team Roto League, so five outfielders, 15 teams. Pretty deep. I won him with a

$27 bid that's out of a thousand. So 2.7% of my budget. I won Brandon Marshall. Only one other person even bothered to bid on him. And I think it was the first place, the guy in first place currently. So, yeah, yeah. Kind of a weird prospect, kind of a weird prospect,

because he was basically top 50 for everybody coming into the year. But a lot of that was built on his kind of just like pure athleticism, his ability to play defense. in terms of what he brings to the table fantasy-wise. I think there's a wide range of outcomes here because he rarely showed big in-game power in the miners. And that's kind of been the biggest question surrounding Brandon Marshall for a couple.

Brandon Marshall, Brandon Marshall was a wide receiver for the Broncos. And the Jets. Don't forget about my Jets, Scott. And he's not Randy Marsh either. he's Brandon Marsh, Brandon Marsh of the Los Angeles Angels. And yeah, the power development. That's been a big question that surrounded him for a while now.

I think the hit tool is pretty good. I think the speed is there, but again, he didn't demonstrate much of it in-game, never had like a 20 steel season in the minors and usually stolen bases go down in the major. So I'm not sure we're going to see a lot of that from him. in some ways it kind of reminds me of when Jesse Winker first got called up because, okay, he looks like a pretty good hitter, but where's the power?

And eventually that did come around for Winker. And I think it's an easy skill to cultivate in the majors. But, you know, Brandon Marsh doesn't have quite those contact skills. So, I don't know. As with every prospect call up, my expectations have come down this year, where, you know, unless it's tip top of the scale, I'm kind of kind of take a wait and see approach. So I guess long story short,

maybe in a five outfielder league, you'd be putting a small bid on Brandon Marsh, but otherwise I'm going to wait and see. I've got a nickname for him, Scott. You ready? Yeah. Lord Marsh. Not sure I get it.

Not sure I follow you. So you brought up Randy Marsh, right? And one of my favorite episodes of South Park is when he makes front of Lord, I am Lord, yeah, yeah. Okay. So now. I haven't seen that one.

There are a lot of South Park episodes. There are a lot. Actually, it's funny. My fiance just watched all of them, and she watched them in reverse order. So I don't know why she did that. Hmm. Well, she watched the seasons in reverse order. She watched like each season from the beginning of that season to the end of the season,

but she just watched them in reverse. I don't know why, but yeah, anyway, Lord of Marsh, that's what we're going to go with. We're marrying together, Brandon Marsh and Randy Marsh from South Park there. I tweeted out earlier today. I think he was a must add in all five. outfielder leagues, those are more so rhodo category leagues, and he does offer some speed, or at least I think that's a part of his skill set that he can offer at the major league level.

You said you want him for $27 in Tout Wars out of a $1,000 budget? Yeah. Well, guess what's got? I also want him for $27 in a $1,000 budget in Tout Wars. Were you copying off of me? I was not. I was using my cover sheet. But that's a little bit different.

That's a head-to-ed points league. It's a 12-tead Points League, but we start. five outfielder, middle infielder, corner, utility. So it's a little bit deeper rosters there. So I took a shot on him there. $27 out of a $1,000 budget for Brandon Marsh. All right, that was a lot to talk about before we even got to, oh my goodness gracious. But let's do it.

Oh, my goodness gracious. All right, Scott. Did you settle on one, oh, my goodness gracious player? Because you kind of threw like five players at me before we started. So where you going? I did. No, I settled on AJ Pollock. Okay.

who had another two-hit game Sunday, but even beyond that, six home runs in his past seven games, and just having a monstrous July, is A.J. Pollock. And, you know, that's, oh, my goodness, gracious. And I thought, oh, my goodness gracious, look at those stats from A.J. Pollack.

But the most, the big, the thing that really gets the, oh, my goodness gracious out of me is that he's only 52% roster. in CBS sports leagues, which seems like a problem when you're producing that much. And, you know, obviously this is a guy whose name's been out there in fantasy

for a number of years now. So I'm a little surprised people haven't caught on yet to AJ Pollock. Hasn't been playing quite every day for the Dodgers. So maybe that has helped drive down that roster rate. But at this point, I mean, he's got 13 home runs.

He's got an OPS. approaching 900. And that was after missing some time, right, with injury at one point. So, you know, how long did he miss? He missed most of May. Missed most of May with injury. So, yeah, A.J. Pollock is still a thing. Obviously, in a really good lineup.

I would go after him before I went after Brandon Marsh. That's for sure. All right. Yeah, A.J. Pollock. He's actually started nine of the last 10 games for the Dodgers as well, Scott. So I know we do have some concerns. Cern, you know, when everyone's healthy for the Dodgers and playing well, he's probably not going to play every day. But it seems like he's playing. That's a recent development probably because he's been so hot for. Yeah.

It looks like for the rest of June. He was sitting like every fourth or fifth game. Yeah. In July. Or July. Yeah. And yeah. In July. July is really picked up. Yeah. You mentioned that he's been crushing in July. 378 batting average, seven homers 1384 OPS. That's in 13 July games there for A.J. Pollock. And what did you say the roster rate was, Scott? 52%. 52%. All right. Good to know there. Well, how does he stack up against some of these other outfield waiver options, Scott, who did something notable over the weekend.

J.D. Davis went three for four with a double dung on Saturday. He's 49% rostered. Jock Peterson started his first two games with the Braves, one against a righty, one against a lefty. He had four hits and a home run in those two starts. Dom Smith went three for five on Sunday. He's betting 300 with three homers in July. Akele-Badu went two for four.

with his 14th steel on Sunday. Adam Duval, two for three with his 20th home run. So I just throw a bunch of names your way. JD Davis, Jack Peterson, Dom Smith, Badu, Duval, and Pollock. Give me your two favorites from that group. J.D. Davis is definitely number one. I'm sorry.

I didn't know Pollock was included. I'll go Pollock number one. And then J.D. Davis. That makes for an easy top two, I guess. Yeah, J.D. Davis hasn't played much at all this year. I think he's right around 60 plate appearances or something. But caught fire toward the end of his rehab assignment, hit those two home runs Saturday.

And for the little bit he's played this year, the numbers are insane. 388 batting average 1177 OPS. Guy liked a lot heading into last year. You know, seemed like he had a breakout two years ago. But really had a problem elevating last year. He's elevating better in the little bit. we've seen of him so far this year. The strikeout rate is

way of the strikeout's kind of concerning, but you know, small sample all the way around, not really sure what to make of it. I just think J.D. Davis based on what he did Saturday night alone, and I think he got to give him a chance. You got to see what he can do

just knowing how much enthusiasm there's been for him in the past. Yeah, and Davis is crushing the ball this season too. 94 mile per hour average exit velocity. You mentioned he's lifting the ball more. 14.7 degree average launch angle for J.D. Davis.

That would represent a career high if he stays there. So it's a matter of him continuing to lift the ball as much as he has this season. Super small sample. It's only been 30 batted balls this year again, which you mentioned. But look, players are motivated by different things. And the Mets, all we keep hearing about, oh, is they're looking into Chris Brian and Josh Johnson. They want to upgrade third base.

J.D. Davis is trying to keep his job here. guy has something to play for. And as of now, it's only been a couple of games since he's returned, but he is playing very well. So again, that is J.D. Davis. I mentioned Akil Badu, who just continues to run. He has 14 steals on the season. He has four steals already in the month of July. And he has at least four steals in each of the past three months. So if you do need stolen bases in any type of categories league, Akil Badu, 51% rostered. Oh my goodness gracious for me, this isn't really going to change anything. It's not, there's not much actionable here for fantasy, but just wanted to give a shout out to the Padres, man, and what they did this weekend.

41 runs they put up, did wind up losing the game on Sunday. 41 runs in three games against the Washington Nationals, including 24 runs on Friday alone, which included Jake Croninworth, hitting for the third cycle in Padres history. And we did our all breakout teams for the first half last week, Scott, and Jake Croninworth was my breakout second baseman. And looks like he's picking up right where he left off to close the first half of the season, because he was red-hot and he has been so far

this season, this weekend as well. And then Will Myers had a double dong on Friday, including a grand slam. So hopefully that could be a sign of things to come for Will Myers. But yeah, Jake Cronowth has been awesome this entire season. And I just wanted to give a shout-out

to Mike Fultenevich, man, at the Blue Jays. Oh my goodness. On Sunday. Wow. Hope you didn't start this guy anywhere. You might have had to in a deeper league, but in inning in two-thirds, eight hits 10 runs.

That is a 54.0 ERA and a 6.00 whip for... Four home runs. Mike Fulte. I think I heard... I was just watching MLB Network before. He's allowed 28 home runs this season, which is seven more than the next closest starting pitcher in baseball.

Anytime he's had, like, a decent start, it's felt lucky. Yes. Are you good? He's just toast. Yes. There's nothing to see with Mike Fultenevich. I saw some people tweeting out that he was started and, like, more than half of main event leagues for the NFBC.

Not on my team. And I had him all my team, but I chose not to start him. Well, A, why do you have them on your team? I mean, there's been a lot of injuries, man. So it's tough out there. I know, but it's tough. That's desperate times, I guess. Yeah.

You're really desist. I guess I can't relate to that level of desperation at starting pitcher on most of my leagues. Yeah, you're trying to figure out why we're doing to stream or not to stream every day. I mean, it's people like me who have Mike Foltenevich on their team. We don't really have a choice, man. I think I picked up Eric Fetty, who faces the Marquis. this week. That's how desperate I am. So it's tough. It's tough out there in those 15 team leagues.

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All of these names were placed on the IL, and we'll start with probably the biggest news outside of DeGrom and Lindor was Pablo Lopez, who went to the IL with a right rotator cuff strain, which is a very big blow of the way that he was pitching this year. I had him ranked inside my top 25 starting pitchers, no timetable right now for Pablo Lopez, but I doubt this is a short stay for him. Braxton Garrett started on Sunday, but Scott, I think this might actually, I don't know if they're going to want to rush, Cabrera, but this might move the timeline up a little bit for him getting to the bakes. He's been dominant since returning from injury and has a lot of endings left in the tank. I've talked about Edward Cabrera's a potential replacement when what seems like the inevitable

to me, the shutting down of Trevor Rogers comes to pass, though that might still be six weeks away. So, yeah, I mean, this could get Cabrera up sooner. If they're planning to call him up anyway, maybe why waste those bullets in the miners? I think as of now they don't have five rotation spots accounted for, do they? I know they added Braxton Garrett. He started on

Sunday and was not very good. But they had an opening even before adding him. Let's see, it looks like baseball reference is showing Ross Detweiler. He hasn't been making starts as he. He started the other day and I believe it was Jordan Holloway

who came in as the follower. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, he did. and he got sent down. It looks like Braxton Garrick got sent down after Sunday's game. So I don't know what they're doing. But yeah, Nick, we could see Nick knee dirt again. I don't know. Yeah, I mean, they're kind of running out of options here.

I think Edward Cabrera might be close to getting the call. Yeah, 13% rostered. So if you do play in some of those deeper leagues, and only I think now is the time to stash Edward Cabrera. A few other names who hit the I.L. Luke Voight with a bone bruise in his knee. It's been just an awful season for Luke Boy with all the injuries he's gone through. Devin Williams with elbow discomfort.

Tim LaCastro tore his ACL. Jake Fraley went to the aisle with an illness. Michael Lorenzen back on the aisle this time with a hamstring. Nico Goodrum with a calf and Jose Urania with a groin strain. Mike Trout is close to a full recovery, but the outfielder doesn't have a rehab assignment scheduled. However, I did see that he tweeted some airplane emojis and he wrote Oakland. So I don't know if that means he's getting ready to return or something like that. I saw a beat rider confirmed that he is traveling with the team to Oakland,

but it doesn't necessarily mean he's being activated. Maybe it does. Good to know. I added that last part, but maybe it does. Okay. So yeah, they start a series with the Oakland A's on Monday. So that would be a very welcome surprise if we do get Mike Trout returning for Monday's game. Some Cleveland pitcher update.

Shane Bieber has done work with heavy balls, but has yet to resume to resume normal throwing. Come on, Frank, grow up. He remains without a clear timeline. Aaron Savale is throwing from 105 feet. Savale has been on the IL since June 24th with a sprained right middle finger.

He was slated to miss four to five weeks, so he figures to still be a week or two away from being able to go on a rehab assignment. Again, that is Aaron Savali. The White Sox gave Lance Lynn a two-year $38 million extension, which is well-deserved, good for Lance Lynn. Anthony Rendon recently suffered a setback with his hamstring and won't return for several weeks. Much like Luke Void, it's been a nightmare season for Anthony Rendon.

Corey Seeger won't return from the IL on Monday, but will participate in another simulated game. So that sounds like he is getting closer and closer to returning. Clayton Kershaw said on Saturday that he could resume playing catch next week. He's on the IL with that forearm injury. Kevin Gosman could return and start on Monday. He was scratched Friday to deal with a family emergency. Freddie Peralta won't make his first start of the second half until next week. The brewers are planning to go with a six-man rotation for now.

And Scott, maybe this is part of, well, obviously it is. This is part of their plan to limit Freddie Peralta and Corbyn Burns. But maybe by having a six-man rotation, that means that they won't necessarily limit those pitchers as much in-game, you know, in terms of number of pitches and how deep they go into games because they have a six-man rotation. So that's kind of my glass half full take on it. Well, what's interesting is we've seen a lot of teams go with six-man rotation for stretches this year. That seems to be kind of the – that's become kind of the primary way to keep the innings counts down for individual pitchers after the unprecedentedly short 2020 season. And we were worried how that would impact certain pitchers' workloads, especially the young guys. We just haven't seen great measures taken to curtail the innings.

The biggest one has been stretching the rotation to six pitchers for a while. I'm not sure it's enough. I'm not sure it's enough. Now, in the Brewer's case, they're in first place. They're in first place by seven games. They're very much thinking playoffs. So, I mean, they need Peralta and Burns. Their pitching staff is what's getting them to the playoffs, right?

They need those guys. And they need them in the playoffs too, so that's especially noteworthy. But look, if they continue to build a massive lead, then September, maybe they just don't need those guys, right? As much as they would have if they were, you know, closer playoffs. That's what I'm saying. I don't know. Would there be a phantom I.L. stent in September?

Maybe. Just to save those bullets again, to use the same metaphor. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know how the contenders handle it, but I do think we're going to see from the non-contenders like the Marlins, which is why I keep citing Trevor Rogers. Not picking on him or anything,

but he's a rookie who has yet to skip a turn even, and the Marlins aren't going anywhere. It doesn't appear. I don't think they're quite ready to pack it in yet, but it's the longest of long shots of the Marlins do anything this year. So, yeah, by September, I just have a hard time believing they're going to stick with Rogers all the way through. but the brewers kind of have to with Peralta and Burns.

So I don't know how they're going to handle it. Speaking of those Marlins, they are no longer discussing a contract extension with Starling Marte, which I guess means that he will be dealt. I saw on Sunday the Yankees, the Astros could be interested. I guess the Atlanta Braves,

if they want to add another outfielder there, even after they acquired Jock Peterson, so that's a possibility. Buster Posey is set to return from the aisle on Monday so you can get him back In your lineups, we had a few subpar updates for Nationals pitchers. Steven Schrosberg didn't feel right after a simulated game, his simulated game last weekend, so he'll back off from mound work for now.

Joe Ross threw on Friday, but still felt some discomfort in his elbow, so he will remain on the IEL. Mark Hanna returned from the IL on Saturday. Padre's catcher, Austin Nola is nearing his return. Nick Zenzel is expected to return sometime in early August. The Tigers are expected to call Matt Manning up to start Wednesday's game. against the Rangers. Gavin Lux is dealing with a mild hamstring train. After leaving Sunday's game, Kyle Muller is on track to be recalled and start Monday for the Braves,

which sets him up as a two-star pitcher against the Padres and the Phillies. He is 44% rostered. Scott, any interest in Kyle Mueller for those matchups, Padres and Phillies this week. Yeah, sure. He's among my sleeper pitchers for this week. We saw a lot of strikeout potential from him in the majors. and he kept the walks down and his two starts back in the miners, you know, leading up to this presumed call-up. So, yeah, I mean, there's upside here. Obviously, there's risk too. It just depends on how big the need is.

I do want to, since we mentioned Burns earlier, really encouraging start from Corbyn Burns Sunday, who was somebody we've expressed concerns about the crackdown on the foreign substances, the spin rate falling significantly on his cutter. his main pitch. And it was still down in this start, but only down 109 RPM. Got 19 whiffs. Strike out 12 and 8 in a third innings.

His previous four starts, 26Ks and 24 in a third inning, like a little more than one per. That was way down from what we were seeing from Burns in April and May. So Burns and Garakull both had to start this weekend that looked much like what we had come to expect from them before the foreign substance crackdown. And in the case of both, spend rate was still down,

but not nearly as much as we were seeing before. I don't know what that means in terms of their approach, what's changed, but that combined with the great results, I think, is hopefully means we don't have to worry so much about them going forward.

Yeah, I just think that there was probably an adjustment period for both of those starting pitchers and whoever else had, you know, there was, It was reported before the season that 90% of pitchers were using some kind of substance.

There's an article from Enosaris in the athletics. So, look, it's not just these two guys, but obviously they're two of the best pitchers in baseball. So we continuously talk about them. But yeah, I think... They're two of the ones that we saw their performance suffer. It seems like in correlation to a drop and spin rate. So, yeah, they were... If you were going to worry about anybody, it would be them.

But, you know, this weekend, they hopefully relieved some of those concerns. Garrett Cole's last two starts, which came against two of the best lineups in baseball, the Astros and the Red Sox. 15 innings pitched, one earned run, 23 strikeouts there for Garrett Cole. So definitely, if you held on to him, I hope you did, of course. Your confidence is growing again in Garrett Cole. We spoke about Kyle Mueller. Tuki Tucson is scheduled to start Tuesday's game for the Braves.

He has 18 strikeouts over his last two starts at AAA, 6% rostered. So only in the deepest of leagues, but you heard the name Tuki Tucson for a long time now. Hasn't really come to fruition yet. So I guess just a name to throw on the scout team. The Blue Jays are returning to Toronto, July 30th. So look, no matter where they've been, they've had great hitter venues so far this season.

That's not going to change in Rogers Center. It's a great ballpark to hit in as well. So shout out to the Blue Jays, headed back to Toronto. And just like these aren't fantasy-related stories, but what happened outside of the podcast, and Nationals game Saturday, which was obviously noteworthy. I mean, there was apparently a shooting that went on outside the stadium,

and it halted play, and they stopped the game, and they picked it back up on Sunday, but they were packing fans inside the dugouts and the clubhouse and stuff. So it was definitely a scary scene there with the Padres and Nationals. And then going from one non-fantasy story to another, this one is a little bit more lighthearted, obviously. But Yankees fans, can we just stop, like, with the throwing stuff on the field and throwing the baseballs?

And apparently a fan threw a baseball, on the field and it hit Alex Verdugo and it started like this whole controversy and Verdugo's yelling at fans and stuff. I never understood it, Scott. I never caught a baseball my life at a game. If I caught a home run ball, no matter who hit it, I'm not throwing it back on the field. I'm keeping it. Like, what is wrong with people, man? I don't know. You know, I imagine it's a lot of pressure from the crowd. You get caught up in the moment. Not thinking straight. Nope, not me. No, it's hard to resist.

You know, when multitudes around you are telling you to do a thing, it's hard to be like, no, I'm not going to do that thing. I'm pretty good at it, personally. But, you know, that's because I'm weird. It's not like it's easy to do. All right, we're going to hit a quick break, but when we return,

we do have some prospect updates and more. We'll do that next here on Fantasy Baseball today. Let's hit some of those. Prospect updates and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said on Sunday that Josiah Gray is, quote, in the mix to receive a call-up and start Tuesday's game against the Giants. Josiah Gray has a 2.87 ERA over four games, which include three starts at AAA this season. He's 22% rostered. Scott, how interested are you in Josiah Gray? Pretty interested. If he actually gets called up, you know, I think there's, I think in general there's a bigger need for starting pitchers than, for outfielders, I'd say.

So it'd be a pretty close call whether, if I'm deciding between Josiah Gray and Brandon Marsh, which when I pick up, I'd pick up, expecting both to fail in their first and in the majors, but if one of them doesn't, you know, obviously I'd pivot to the one who's not failing. Gray, you know, he hasn't been healthy much this year. I don't think he's gotten up to five innings yet

since returning in the minors, but the stuff has looked good, shown a lot of strikeout potential in the past. Pretty exciting pitching prospect. And obviously we'll have all the benefits of pitching for the Dodgers. I do wonder if it would be like if they'd handle them like we've seen with Tony Gonsolin, where it's just a very slow buildup to the kind of workload that makes him usable, even if he is good.

So, you know, expectations low for Josiah Gray, but the skills are good enough that he could certainly exceed those expectations. Both Bobby Witt and Nick Prado were promoted to AAA within the Royals organization on Sunday. Bobby Witt, someone we spoke a lot about last week, he's 49% rostered and pretty much a mustache at this point, right? Scott, if you can afford to hold... Well, no, this is a mustache, but it's a must space stash.

Yeah, I don't... I'd like Bobby Witt more if he had a mustache, but, no, I mean, there's a lot to like to begin with. Yeah, I think in terms of... In terms of the prospects that are going to excite us immediately, like everybody drop what you're doing and pick him up anywhere he's available if they get called up. In terms of those prospects,

I think Bobby Witt might be the last one left, who could realistically get called up. And I don't think it's 100% he gets called up because obviously the Royals aren't competing for anything. He's been moved up the system aggressively, still only 21. They might just wait until next year for Bobby Witt, but if he continues to destroy it at AAA like he was at AA, they're an organization that in the past has shown a willingness

to let the player dictate his own timetable, kind of going against the grain there. The Royals do. So definitely could understand stashing Witt, and I think he's already rostered in roughly 50% of CBS Sports Leagues. Yeah, 49%. So he's right there around that mark. And someone who, someone else who's right around 50% is Vidal Bruhan.

He's 53% roster. We haven't checked in on the race prospects in a while. But Vidal Bruhan has started just three of eight games since being called up by the raise. And he is just one for 15 in those games. And it was, he actually got that only hit was his first plate appearance in the major. So he's gone 0 for 14 since. And then Wanda Franco went one for three with his third home run on Sunday. All three of his home runs this season have come against.

left-handed pitching. He's batting 324 against lefties. He is batting just 125 against righties and he's a switch hitter. So it's kind of weird. I don't really think there's much to see there. I looked into his splits in the minors. Didn't really have any crazy issues one way or the other for Wander Franco. So I think it's just kind of like a weird sample size thing for him. But Scott Vidal Bruhan, I mean, this is about as bad as the first couple of weeks could have gone if you have them on your team. Yeah. You know, a lot of times you hear that An organization is waiting for a prospect to get hot before calling him up.

And, you know, streaks are obviously a pretty fickle thing. And we try not to change our entire assessment of a player based on whether he's hot or cold. So in a way, it seems like you kind of want to rail against that. Teams doing that. And whatever, the player's the player. Who cares if he's hot or cold? Just call him up. But this is a good example as to why, because, I mean,

you don't want to so much stacked against the player in his first stint in the majors. It's already such a difficult transition he's making. You at least want him to feel like you see in the ball well has a swinging in line. And Bruhan was going through a pretty rough stretch at AAA before getting called up, basically the entire month of June.

So I don't know that explains why he struggled on the majors, but certainly it hasn't helped. Jaron, the Red Sox outfield prospect, who we spoke about last week when he first got called up, He didn't start on Friday against lefty Jordan Montgomery. So I do wonder if that's the plan moving forward is that he's going to be a platoon bat, at least against right-handed pitching to start. He did go one for six in the two games that he played with a run scored between Saturday and Sunday.

And Scott, I spent $158 on Jaron of Fab in my NFBC main event league, which is a 15-team 5-5-Roto. The next closest bid was 102. What do you think? 158 out of a thousand-dollar budget. Does that seem fair? Yeah, in a league that deep, it makes sense. I think Duran is a higher priority than like Brandon Marsh.

I would have picked him up in any five outfielder league. I think he was already rostered in all my 15 teamers, so it wasn't even a chance to make a play for him. I can't compare your bid to mind. But that sounds like what you need to pay to get him in a league that deep. Nice. Again, Jaron Duran, Outfield Prospect for the Red Sox. Very excited about Duran, and we're also very excited about Express,

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He's 1% rostered. John Nogowski, who? That's right. First baseman for the Pittsburgh Pirates got into a shouting match with Marcus Stroman actually on Friday. He has 19 hits over his last nine games. He's 3% rostered. Wilmer DeFo, who is on the Pirates,

has eight hits over his last four games, including two home runs. Ramon Arias with the Baltimore Orioles went two for five on Sunday. He has seven multi-hit games in the month of July. He's batting 27. He has a 297 career batting average

in the minors again. That is Ramon Arias and then Bradley Zimmer this weekend with Cleveland five hits including two homers and a steal. All of these names

are rostered in less than 5% of CBS League, Scott. So very deep. Jankowski, Nogowski, Wilmer Defoe, Ramone Arias and Bradley Zimmer.

Any interest in any? To be honest, if you gave me this list of names, The only one I could have told you for sure what team he was on was Bradley Zimmer. If you came to meet this list of names. That sounds about right. In no context.

So I don't have a lot of opinions about them. Travis Jankowski is obviously very fast, but it's not like he's ever stuck before. So I don't really expect him to this time either. All right. Some other hitting standouts from the weekend. Big names just doing what they're supposed to. Juan Soto, seven hits including three homers. Remember in the home run derby?

You know, sometimes the home run derby messes up people swing. Not for me. It's going to help me unlock my power again. So, so far, so good for Juan Soto. Vlad Jr. hit three more homers this weekend. He now has 31. He trails only Shohei Otani, who hit his 34th home run on Sunday. Max Muncie had four hits this weekend.

Actually, no, just on Saturday. Four hits with a double dong. That game came in Colorado. Big weekend for Freddie Freeman. He had six hits, two homers. All of a sudden, Scott. He's batting 282. 21 homers, 893 OPS.

Very rough first two months for Freddie Freeman, but he's bounced back in a big way. And then some players that are bouncing back-ish, showing us signs of life. Christian Yelich, it's baby steps, but back-to-back multi-hit games for him. Four hits in that stretch. One homer, one steel, three runs, three RBI.

The last two games for Yelich, for the Dodgers, Will Smith. Shouldn't really expect this often, but a sock and a shoe. His 11th homer and his second steal of the season came on Sunday for Will Smith. Mike Yistremski had a double dong on Friday. Since he's returned from the IL on June 12th,

Yistremski, 257 batting average, eight homers, 880 OPS. Sounds a lot like Mike Yistremski that we've seen the past couple of seasons. Jonathan's scope is heating back up, 12 hits over his last eight games, including a home run on Sunday. Eric Hosmer played two games this weekend.

He had four hits, a homer, and a steal, and Glaber Torres has, homered in back-to-back games. Saturday was a real Yankee Stadium special. It looked like a pop-up to the right field and somehow got out, Scott. So I throw a bunch of names your way. Is there anything that you would like to elaborate on here, Scott, between Labor, Hosmer, Yistremski, who's really bounced back in a big way.

Some big games here for Christian Yelich as well. Yistrinsky, I think, could maybe continue to up his level of production in a way I don't really expect the others to. Well, I don't know how long the list are we'd. Obviously, Freddie Freeman is going to keep going and get his numbers. His numbers are probably going to stay on the rise too. But like Yistrimski, he struck out so much in April. His strikeout rate was bloated beyond belief.

And it's been less than 20% since then. So a big turnaround for Yistrinsky with the strikeouts. Very encouraging to see. and I think there are good days ahead for him. The others, you know, I think it's just continued rising and falling. All right, yeah, for Yistremski, since he's returned on June 12th, which is the date that I gave you earlier, 16.5% strikeout rate. So that is a great mark.

He's putting the ball in the air a ton, a 52% fly ball rate during that time. So lots of power, some OBP and making more contact now for Mike Yistremski. Let's take a look at some of the pitcher standouts. from this weekend. And the standouts in a bad way. So I've got to fire up the drop o meter for this group here, Scott. And we'll start with Chris Paddock,

who was at the Nationals, five innings, four runs, two strikeouts on Friday. His last five starts for Chris Paddock. He's got a 10.31 ERA and a 7.5% swinging strike rate. What is the drop o meter on Chris Paddock? I will put it at about a...

7. Let's say? 7. You know, what's weird is his spin rates, you know, obviously he was very low early in the season. It got to be decent on the fastball. He saw some success. And so you would assume, okay, the spin rate must have dropped during this rough stretch for him, this very rough stretch. And that hasn't really happened.

He hasn't seen his spin rate regress. It's still not like a great spin rate for a fastball, but it was closer to what he put up in 2019 when he had, obviously, a very impressive. rookie season. Yeah, not seeing a lot of reason for hope here for Paddock, but I know just a month ago we were seeing reason for hope. So that's why it's only a seven as opposed to a nine or ten. Well, how about for his teammate, Blake Snell, who made his return also against the nationals, four innings, six hits, four runs, four walks, just more of the same

disappointing Blake Snell that we've seen basically all season. And in that start, his slider was down almost two miles. per hour. He's now up to a 5.21 ERA. Blake Snell is 93% rostered, Scott, the dropometer. Yeah, I mean, I obviously don't have a lot of faith in Snell anymore. He actually, I actually did see him get dropped in a 12-team points league. And I put in a bid for him.

It wasn't a huge bid. I got outbid for him. So he got scooped up right away. But it's probably like a six on the drop-a-meter. Not to the point that I, would do it probably in a standard-sized league, but yeah, I mean, my faith is obviously diminished. I don't consider him a must-start pitcher anymore. Patrick Corbyn was on the opposite side for one of those

starts at least. He was up against the Padres, five and a third, ten hits, six earned runs, four walks. Corbin's capable of decent starts here or there, but overall, he sells a 5.66 ERA this season and a 9.5% K-minus walk percentage, which is the fourth lowest among qualified starting pitchers this season. 85% rostered is Patrick Corbyn, the dropometer. I'll go nine on Corbyn, not seeing a lot that's going to compel me to hang on to him. All right.

How about Rich Hill, Scott? At the Braves, four innings, six hits, three runs, only nine swinging strikes. He's not known for his velocity, but it was down even more. Fastball Velo down one and a half miles per hour in the start. Curveball down two miles per hour. Rich Hill is still 80% rostered, Scott, the dropometer. Yeah, I'll probably go like eight on him. I know he's gone nine starts without a quality start,

so that seems like a problem. And yet having said that is overall ERA and Wipper's still decent. So that's why it's only an eight. But I just don't see a lot of impact happening here from Corby. All right. One more Southpaw. Danny Duffy versus the Orioles this weekend, four innings, one run, three strikeouts.

He did leave early in this game because he got hit in the knee with a comebacker, but his velocity has been down a little bit. His fastball Velo pre-injury was 93.7 miles per hour. In this start, he averaged as 92.2 miles per hour. So what do you think, Scott? Danny Duffy, the dropometer. Yeah, I'm going to go as low as I did for Snell, actually, a six, which means I'm probably not dropping Danny Duffy. I was discouraged when I saw he only went four innings

until I saw the reason for it removed from being hit by a comebacker. He threw 77 pitches in his previous start and seemed like he was building back up to his starter's workload. It's been a slow buildup like with Tony Gonsolin, but I think at the end of it, you're going to be pretty happy you held on Danny Duffy. All right. So you have some names to drop. Who can you add? This SP waivers part one. Jameson Tion up against the Red Sox on Sunday, 5 and a third shutout over his last three starts.

He's allowed just three earned runs. That is a 1.49 ERA. He's 75% rostered. Chris Flexon at the Angels this weekend, seven innings, one run, only two strikeouts. John Gray at home against the Dodgers in Cores Field, seven innings, two runs, seven strikeouts, 15 swinging strikes. He's 70% rostered. And then Kwong Kim was up against the Giants, six shutout, only one strikeout.

Only one strikeout. I don't know how he does it. His underlying numbers are awful, but Kim has a 0.38 ERA over his last four starts. So Tyone, Flexin, John Gray, Kim. Who's your favorite of that group, Scott? I think it's John Gray at this point. I don't know what's gotten into him, but in five starts since returning from the IL,

he's looked like a different pitcher. He's looked downright dominant with the swinging strikes. All five of the starts have been good, and two of them have come at home, including this one. So I don't know how long he can sustain it. I guess it's possible he gets traded, right? before the deadline and that would be great news he should but it's also the rocky

so yeah yeah I guess he's my favorite Tyone would be second and flex in a distant third I'm with you on Kim like there must be something I'm missing with Kim I'm willing to grant that but I just I can't

I'm not willing to suspend my process for Kim as long as even as as he's defied it and it's not like you know it's not like he's that useful because he doesn't pitch deep into games consistently. So yeah, yeah, I think I can continue to ignore Kim for that reason. Every now and then, there are going to be starting pitchers

that just defy the underlying numbers because for some, again, unforeseen reason. But for Kim, it could be deception, you know, quality of contact. He does suppress a lot of hard contact. So I think you kind of couple those things together. And that's how he's made himself. as valuable as he is. Starting pitcher waivers part two. Alex Cobb this weekend up against the Seattle Mariners, six and two-thirds, one run, six strikeouts, where's Chris when we need him. Madison Bumgarner made his return to the mound. He was up against the Cubs. Six endings, two runs, six strikeouts. Zach Thompson first starts since July 4th, only four endings, two runs, zero earned, and two strikeouts. Tyler McGill at the Pirates, six

shutout with two strikeouts, and then Willie Peralta up against the Minnesota Twins on Sunday. Who is this guy? Seven shutout, four hits, four walks, four strikeouts, a 1.64 ERA peralta through four starts this season. Cobb, Bumgarner, Thompson, McGill, Peralta. This is like a loaded group, Scott. Who do you like most? Well, definitely Zach Thompson.

He got pulled because of rain, right? That's the reason he went four innings. That I will look into, but that definitely could be the case. So, yeah, I mean, I just, still really like what I've seen from him. Alex Cobb might be number two on the list. Four of his past five starts have been great. You know,

we've been pointing out, especially, Chris, that the X-FIP, the X-E-R-A, they're low. You know, he's getting strikeouts and he's getting round balls. And that's normally,

normally what I look to when finding pitchers to pursue. So I, I understand he's struggled a lot in spite of that, but he may be starting to turn it around here finally. He may be living up to the peripherals finally. So that would be one and two.

Tyler McGill's probably third for me. I don't have a lot of interest in Bumgarner. I know he had a successful stretch earlier in the year, but yeah, the velocity. When he was succeeding earlier in the year, he got that fastball velocity back up to 91, and it was down below 90. on average in this first start back.

So I'm skeptical of him still. And Willie Peralta, really good ground ball rate. Close to 60% is the ground ball rate. It's higher than it's ever been for him. But I still think it's not enough of a sample to change your thinking on a 32-year-old who's already been around the block

and would never amounted to much of anything in fantasy. So, yeah, I'm not ready to put much faith in Willie Peralta either. Yeah, I mentioned Peralta has that 1.64 ERA that comes with a 4.45 X-FIP. So has been lucky to this point. Point does get a lot of ground balls. But if you're just looking for a streamer this week, at Kansas City, it's a pretty good matchup for Willie Peralta.

So I will just throw that out there. For MadBum, the velocity on the fastball was down 1.6 miles per hour in this one. and the spin rates on each of his cutter, four seam, and curveball were all down over 300 RPM for Madison Bumgunner. So I thought that was noticeable, notable as well. Starting pitcher waivers part three, these are very deep league options, but Vince Velasquez was up against the Marlins, five shutout, four strikeouts.

I told you on Friday, stream him. He's really good against the Marlins. He's not good against anybody else. Kyle Freeland was up against the Dodgers, six innings, three runs, four strikeouts, another quality start. Last five starts for Kyle Freeland. He's got a 2.25 ERA. And then Chad Cool was up against the Mets,

five innings, one run, five walks, three strikeouts. Pretty weird line, but his last five starts, a 1.98 ERA. Anything here, Scott, Velazquez, Freeland, cool. Deeper leagues. I don't think so.

I think they're more likely to do harm than good. I would just go with a reliever. All right. If I had to. These starting pitchers have been struggling recently, Scott. So I'll just throw a bunch of names your way and if there's anything you want to add on any of them or if you think any, all of these guys

should be on your bench right now, let us know. Sandy Alcantara, his last four starts. He's got a 4.91 ERA. Stroman, his last four starts. He's got a 5.0 ERA. Tyler Malley, his last seven starts, has a 4.93 ERA. You say Kikuchi over his last two,

the spin rates and the velocity both way down. He's given up 12 earned runs during that span. Framber Valdez has a 6. 56 ERA over his last three starts, and Joe Musgrove has a 7.46 ERA over his last four starts. So obviously, I'm cherry picking small sample sizes here, but these guys have been struggling recently. Alcantara, Stroman, Mali, Kikuchi, Valdez, and Musgrove. Yeah, in like a 12-team league, I've been treating Tyler Malley like a matchups play, basically, from the start. And so I don't really think there's a reason to change that approach.

I think just Joe Musgrove is there too I think it's like four straight less than six innings for him I think that's right and really his numbers have gotten worse every month Joe Musgroves so I'm not really sure why and he'll bounce back with pretty good stretches

that make him worth holding on to but I think we're to the point where it's time to treat him like a match-ups play I got to say I hadn't noticed that with you say Kukuchi's velocity. Let me double check here. Yeah, it is down a couple miles per hour.

Yeah, that's concerning. And the fact that two really ugly starts from him in a row. ERA was low threes. Now it's high threes again, just like that. So I think I'm worried enough about Kikuchi that if you have alternatives, I want to see him get back on track. the other's Alcantara, Stroman,

Valdez, there aren't really any tangible concerns there for me. Yeah, I think I'd write it out through the rough patches. I mean, Valdez, Valdez especially, he still has, as good as he was last year,

still a higher ground ball rate than last year, which didn't even seem possible because he was a disdain number one last year, and a higher swinging strike rate than last year, higher than it's ever been. So I want to worry about Framber Valdez too much, even though the last three starts have been shaky. These were not studly performances,

but were definitely notable. Kentimae at the Tigers, five innings, three runs, eight strikeouts, three starts in July. He's got a 1.69 ERA with 25 strikeouts over 16 innings pitched. Frankie Montas against Cleveland, six innings, two runs, and seven strikeouts. And then Zach Allen's return versus the Cubs,

five and two thirds, one run, seven strikeouts. Scott. So Maida, Montas, Galen. Pretty interesting stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I think Maeda really, he looks like he may be fixed. Now, we want to see him go deeper than five innings to start because it's going to be hard for him to make an impact if that's all he's doing. But at least in Roto leagues, I feel pretty confident putting him in the lineup again

because he's just been getting a ton of whiff since returning. The splitter looks good again. I feel better about what Zach's actually. Gallen did in his return because obviously the line was fine, but I don't like seeing that velocity down with the forearm issues he's had. The call to the pens and bullpen updates from the weekend for the Phillies on Friday, Ranger Suarez got his third save and then he took the blown save on Saturday. He gave up a two-run homer to Hazers Aguilar, and then on Sunday, Suarez was unavailable. You guessed it. Hector Narris back in, picked up his 12th save of the season.

season for Tampa Bay this weekend. Pete Fairbanks picked up two more saves, his fourth and his fifth. Diego Castillo, nowhere to be found. Did I miss something? I'm pretty sure he's on the race roster still, and these have been close games. He didn't pitch at all, so I don't really know what the situation is with Diego Castillo for the Mariners. On Friday, Kendall Graveman came in with a 6 to 2 lead. He gave up three hits and three runs. Paul Seawald recorded the final out for his third save of the season. He's 17% roster. for those in deeper leagues. But then he did struggle on Sunday.

Seawald did. I think he gave up a two or three run Homer is what I saw. So I think it's still Graemein for now, but Seawald has really, really good numbers on the season. For Cleveland, James Carincheck on Friday, pitched in the eighth in a one-run game. A manual Class A came in and gave up a walk-off

two-run homer to Jed Lowry. On Saturday, those rolls were reversed. Class A pitched in the eighth. Karen check came in a ninth. Did give up a run, but still earned his 10th save of the season. And then on Sunday, both of them were unavailable. Brian Shaw got his second save of the season. For the Tigers on Saturday, Gregory Soto got his eighth save.

For the Twins on Saturday, Taylor Rogers allowed two runs, took its fourth blown save and its fourth loss of the season. For the Diamondbacks, Joachim Sorria, is their closer. He's not great. The team is not great. We know that. On Saturday, he gave up three runs, took the loss, and then on Sunday, bounced back, got his fourth save.

of the season. For the Marlins on Saturday, Yimi Garcia gave up a walk-off two-run homer to J.T. Realimuto. And I think we're getting closer to Anthony Bender, just getting another shot to be the Marlins closer. So we'll see what happens there.

For the Mets on Saturday, Edwin Diaz gave up a walk-off grand slam to Jacob Stallings. And then on Sunday for the Pirates, Richard Rodriguez, gave up a two-run homer to Michael Conforto in the ninth, and he took a loss. Scott, that was a lot of information

about a lot of bullpens. Is there anything that you would like to touch on before we talk about some streamers quick. I would be surprised if Joe Girardi pulled the plug on Suarez after that one blow save, even with Hector Nerris,

getting it done easily on Sunday. It would surprise me if he had an about face that quickly. So I would stick with Suarez. All right, to stream or not to stream for Monday, Ross Tripling versus the Red Sox, Latimer Gutierrez versus the Mets, Ryan Yarbrough versus the Orioles,

Kyle Muller versus the Padres, Chase De Yon, at the Diamondbacks and Caleb Smith versus the Pirates. Let's go with Kyle Muller and Ross Stripling. Yeah, I don't

I don't love any of these. Probably Mueller. Yarbrow is kind of hit or miss. The Orioles are good against lefties too. Yeah. Yeah. Caleb Smith against the pirates might go okay, but I just don't trust him.

Yeah, I think Mueller is the one and then maybe if you're desperate, Yarbrough or stripling, but we don't really love those ones. For Tuesday, Tyler Anderson at the Diamondback, Stain Dunning at the Tigers, Shane McClanahan versus the Orioles, Mike Minor at the Brewers, Eric Lauer versus the Royals, and Jose Suarez at the A's. Again, there's only one that I can give a full-throated endorsement of, and that Shane McClainahan against the Orioles.

I don't care how good they are against lefties. He's a special lefty. All right. No one else. I don't want to. Yeah, me neither. Tyler Anderson is like, eh, you know, if you're in a deeper league, you just want to take a shot, I guess. Tyler Anderson at Arizona, but don't love that one either. All right.

Well, that was about as much as we could get to in a good amount of time here. So we're going to wrap up for Scott. I'm Frank. Thank you for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.