Fantasy Baseball Today - Drop Alek Manoah? Flaherty or Wacha? Cardinals Waking Up (5/16 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 16, 2023

Is it time to drop Alek Manoah (1:55)? ... Who is this Jack Flaherty (8:53)? ... Michael Wacha took a no-hitter into the eighth inning (13:30). ... The Cardinals are finally waking up (19:46). ... Add Lane Thomas, Joey Meneses or Marcell Ozuna (25:35)? ... Drop Grayson Rodriguez and Jameson Taillon (32:45)? ... News (38:10): Manny Machado left after getting hit on his hand. ... Freddy Peralta and Pablo Lopez have struggled recently (44:52). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (53:08). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. It's it time to drop Alec Manoa. Who is this Michael Walker?

Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday. May 16th. I am Frank Sandville, joined by Scott White and Chris. Chris Towers. Today on the show, we're gonna recap all of Monday's action. Time to fire up the dropometer. Team name Tuesday and much more. Before we get started, please like this video and subscribe on YouTube if you haven't already. And if you're listening on the audio side, download, follow, and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify.

Chris, I know you got to see Taylor Swift this weekend. How was it, buddy? Magnificent. Just in crime. I mean, if you get a chance, and you have way too much money burning a hole in your pocket. I highly recommend going to see these shows. That's all. That's all. But that was a heck of a show. I just knew that you would be like pretty animated about it.

I don't. I couldn't name five Taylor Swift songs, but I did spend way too much money on Metallica tickets coming in August. I mean, look, we all got our vices. We all do. We all do. Anyway, let's get into it. And let's start off with Scotty.

Who is your player of the night? Me? Yeah. Well, I don't think this is the Olive Garden breadstick. Chris claimed that for himself. So I will go with Alec Manoa, who at this point, like, you see a line like he put up today. You don't even say, oh, my goodness gracious anymore, because it just keeps happening, right? but it was bad.

It was real bad for Alec Manoa. He gave up five earn runs and four innings, two home runs, seven walks. That gives him now, of his nine starts this year, six have had four walks or more. If you remember, that started out as the issue for Alec Manoa. Everything else looked pretty okay. But the walks were too high. He'll figure that out. But now, like, the swingy strike rate has cracked.

He's getting knocked around every start. Like in addition to not being able to locate his pitches, his slider seems to have lost all his bite. And there's just, you look under, looking under the hood at Alec Manoa there, there's nothing reassuring there at all. So what do we do about this? Obviously, he was a big investment for you.

He was probably one of the top two starting pitchers you drafted. in most cases. And for good reason. I mean, he had been, since he first arrived in the big leagues in 2021, he had been basically a must-start pitcher. And there was no reason to believe, you know,

maybe he wouldn't repeat a 220 ERA again, but there was no reason to believe this was coming. And so what do we do with them? Like, I think, just like I said after his last start, I think you just plan him on your bench and you hope things turn around, because I think you're too invested to drop him. I think baseball and part of the difficulty

in forecasting baseball numbers is that the slightest little adjustments can make a huge difference. And a lot of times what changed even goes unreported. We never find out exactly what it was, but suddenly the pitcher just as quickly as he was broken, he was fixed. And if that happens with Alec Mnanoa,

you'll feel like a freaking idiot for dropping him. And you should because a discalibur of player just deserves more patience is the bottom line. So I would recommend holding on to him. There will come a point where if this continues, I'll stop recommending that. But I don't think we're there yet. The overall numbers so far for Alec Minow, a 5.40 ERA, a 1.80 whip, almost as many strikeouts as walks, 35 strikeouts of 32 walks so far this season. and even the underlying numbers.

The FIP is 6.45. The X-FIP is 6.11. I had Alec Manoa as part of the drop-o-meter for later. It sounds like Scott has him virtually a zero, a one on a drop-o-meter. Chris? I want to go that far. All right, well,

well, then where would you put them, Scott? 10 is a player you could drop in any league and, you know, one is someone you need to hold on to. I'll go four for Menoa. Okay. Chris, same question, drop-a-meter on Alec Menoa. Do you want an honest answer? Yeah.

Yeah, usually. I got nothing. I just, I have nothing to say about Alec Manoa. Like, we have a not overwhelmingly long track record, but a decent one. We're talking, what, 55 starts, 51 starts before this season with a 27 career ERA. I generally tend to default to the large. or sample size being more indicative and predictive of what a player's going to do moving forward than whatever small sample size, even the most recent one.

I don't think the nine most recent performances by any player are necessarily the most indicative thing of what they're going to do moving forward. But like Scott said, there is nothing I can point to and say, yeah, this feels good. Here's something Alec Minow is doing well. There's absolutely nothing. I guess he's not getting hit that hard. You know, his average exe velocities allowed is only 89.1 miles per hour this season, which is about average. So there's something positive to be said about Alec Manoa.

He's average at one thing so far. I don't know. If you want to drop him, I can't tell you not to. That's a decision that you have to make. All I can tell you is what I will do, which is thankfully not have. Alex Manoa on any of my teams because I don't, but I would not be able to drop him if I did. If you can't stand the sight of him on your roster anymore, you should drop him. I think the likeliest outcome is that will end up being listed.

I think the likelihoodest outcome is Alec Mano will figure something out and become an effective pitcher again. But, you know, I'm looking at like last year's leaderboards through the first eight or so starts and there's not a lot of the worst pitchers who ended up turning things around. I think the most optimistic one would probably be Tyler Malley, who had a 589 ERA through his first eight starts and ended up with like a mid-3s ERA for his next 15 or so before the injuries. But, you know, Robbie Ray sort of figured it out.

It kind of feels a little like that last year, right? But it also feels kind of like Jose Brrios last year. and he never really figured it out. You know, he was kind of mediocre to bad for the rest of the season. He's looked better this year, but I can't tell you not to drop him. I can't give you an affirmative case for why you should not drop Alec Manoa beyond just these nine most recent starts are not the entirety of his career. They are not the only information we have access to. And generally speaking, a 51 start sample size should be more predictive than a nine start one.

that's all I got. Chris, did you have a number on the dropometer, by the way? It was like two minutes for not having anything. Two. For the amount of minutes. All right. Fair enough.

I'll split the difference. I'll say a three. I think deep release, you got a whole. Now I'm the one who's most likely to do. Wow. Scott. What did Alec Minow do to you?

Look, in 10 team leagues, if he's absolutely the worst pitcher on your team, and you're just, you're never going to use him and no one else is going to pick him up. Sure. That's like, yeah, you could drop him there. But I think in standard 12-sized leagues, 12 team leagues with like five bench spots, just plant him and wait.

And I pretty much agree with what you had to say there, Scott. Oh my goodness gracious, Chris will move over to you, a player of the night. Yeah, the olive garden bread stick is pretty obviously Jack Flaherty, who if you had asked me the drop a meter on him after his last start, I probably would have said an eight or a nine. And so that's... I think I said 10. You probably would hear, but...

So that's kind of a case for Alec. Although, I'm going to be honest, I don't necessarily believe that Jack Flaherty's just fixed now. But a lot of positive signs in this one, 93.7 mile per hour, average fastball velocity second highest of his season. Got at least four whiffs on the curveball, the slider, and the four-seam fastball.

first double-digit strikeout game since September of 2020. Longest outing in almost exactly two years. I think it was May 7th, 2021. The last time he went seven full innings. It was an extremely impressive performance from Jack Flaherty, and it came completely out of nowhere. I don't know, like, yeah, he was pitching mad, maybe after not liking the questions he was receiving about his velocity last time.

maybe Wilson Contreras is now Yadier Malina after a week of awkward conversations in the Cardinals dugout. I have no idea what to make of this performance by Jack Flaherty, except to say that it's the kind of performance we needed to see from him because I think all of us were probably

just about ready to give up on him for good after the way this season started. I had dropped him in an FPC, or I'm sorry, in TGFBI, 15-Team Roto League just this last week. I was out. I was done. just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in. If nothing else, this is the kind of performance that,

if Jack Flaherty was dropped in your league, it makes them worth picking up again. In every way, it could be good. It was good. And, you know, I was trying to figure out why, what happened here. As best I could tell, you know, the velocity was up a little bit. You mentioned that, Chris.

And just from watching. He averaged right around what he did in his second start of the season when he had decent results, but didn't actually pitch well. It wasn't, yeah, it wasn't like unfamiliar levels for Jack Flick. It was just a little up from a season average. Watching the highlights, it seemed like he did a good job of changing the eye level of the hitter with both the breaking balls and the fastball. And so maybe like, you know, maybe a lot of it is just he needed a better plan for attack and he fast. it. I think part of that too is he threw two-thirds of his pitches for strikes in this one when his season average coming in was 58.1, just dreadful. So, you know, you can, you could do things like

set up hitters better when you're throwing strikes. That's hard to do when you're not. But it was, you know, part of it too was first three, like he loaded the batter. He loaded the bases in the first inning, I believe, with a hit in two walks. So, like, that got all the base runners out of the way right then, and maybe from that point he was pitching angry. I don't know, but this is, and Chris already made this connection, this is part of what gets to what I was saying with Alec Mnoy. The frustration of predicting performances in baseball is that it can be like the flip

of a switch. For a player that you know has talent, and certainly we've seen that before, from Flaherty, certainly we've seen it before from Manoa. Something can change that just locks everything into place and suddenly they're fixed. I can't say for sure that that's happened with Flaherty. I'm a little skeptical given the way this year's gone so far, but it could be. Yeah, okay, that's fair, but it could be. And that's why you hold on to Manoa and that's why you take the chance on Flaherty

if he happens to be out there now. Well, based on what you just said, Scott, Let's say Alec Manoa is the worst pitcher on your team. Do you drop them for Jack Flared? No. No. No. I mean, I wouldn't do it either, but.

Yeah. Yeah. No. One thing I noticed for Jack Flaherty in this start was the curveball usage. It was up. And entering this start, that curve ball had a 50% whiff rate entering Monday. And it was really great in this start as well. Seven whiffs, 38% CSW.

So perhaps that's something that Jack Flaherty can build on. Throw strikes. limit walks, use that curve ball. Again, the velocity being up did help once again. Oh my goodness gracious for me is Michael Waka, who took a no-hitter into the eighth inning up against the Kansas City Royals. He did wind up giving up a hit to the first batter he faced, but winds up seven shutout, one hit, one walk, 11 strikeouts, which is a new career high for Michael Waka, 18 swinging strikes on 103 pitches, 10 of those coming on the change up, which was an awesome pitch for him,

and frankly has been his best pitch for the past couple of years or so. When he did allow contact, he did allow a lot of hard contact in this one, 94.6 miles per hour off the bat. But his previous two starts, he did a great job of limiting hard contact. And overall this season,

that's something that Michael Waka has done well. He's allowed just one earned run over his last three starts. So it seems to be locked in and doing something right. Michael Waka is up to 64% rostered. I assume most people probably picked him up because they think he has a two-start week.

On CBS, it doesn't show him having two starts because Ryan Weathers got called up, but I think Michael Waka actually is going to have two starts this week. Yeah, Weather's got sent down, so I think so. Yeah, you mentioned one-er-run run combined in his last three starts, also just six hits combined in 19 innings. So he has been close to unidable during a three-start stretch. Now, this was the first of those three starts where I was actually like,

wow, look what he did, 11 strikeouts, 18 whiffs. We have a long track record of Michael Waka being mediocre at best. He did have a 332 ERA last year in what was basically two thirds of a season, 23 starts. But we were all pretty skeptical of that then. I don't think we ever fully bought in.

And I'd need to see more of this from Waka. think to buy in now. I need to see more 15 plus swinging strikes, more than a strikeout per inning before I'm on board with him as a fantasy asset. Yeah, I mean, you said unhittable, but there's a semantic thing

there because he was quite hitable. He had seven strikeouts and 12 in the previous two starts. He was un-get-a-hit a hit against a bull perhaps, which is a different thing, and there's some skill to that, but

I think generally speaking, we don't think there's all that much skill to it. And yeah, like you said, I think this is probably the second impressive outing of Michael Walker season. You know, he had a 10 strikeout one walk game back on April 8th against the Braves. You could argue that's actually more impressive than 11 strikeouts against the Royals. He followed that one up with, let's see, 15 earn runs in 13 in a third innings over his next three starts. So, yeah, I think. skepticism is the order of the day for Michael Waka at this point. I believe I did start Grayson Rodriguez over him in a two-start week for Rodriguez in, I want to say Tau Wars. So

feeling kind of dumb about that one, but even so, I don't see much to get excited about with Waka. More on Grays and Rodriguez in just a little bit. But when it comes to Waka, who would you other have if you could just add one, Jack Flaherty or Michael Waka? Flaherty. Chris? Yes. And like in a deep enough

scenario, I'm okay adding Waka. I think I started saying Walker, but I was trying to say Waka. I'm okay adding Waka, like I don't know if you're dropping who's somebody pretty scrubby, that might be rostered.

We would have said Jack Flaherty before today. Exactly. No, I mean, like Here's one. Like Sean Manaya. If you got Sean Manaya on your roster for summaries, okay, take a flyer on Waka. If you got If you don't have an IL spot, would you drop Nicodolo? No. No, I'd hold on to Nick Ladolo. I mean, I think so. You don't have an I L spot.

He's out for a quarter of the rest of the season, basically. How about Martin Perez? How about Martin Perez? I know he's been like Martin Perez. He's 80% Rossin Perez is pretty scrubby. You say Kukuchi, who's kind of come back down to Earth a little bit. Tyler Anderson. Take a fly on Waka over him. How about Reed Detmer's, who's been pretty

underwhelming? You know, that was actually the first name that came to me when I was trying to think of somebody I'd be willing to drop, but I decided I'd still rather have him than Waka. I'd stick some Dachmers. Yeah, I think so too. The most added starting pitchers on CBS after Sunday night's waiver period, which obviously there's a lot of fab and waivers running over the weekend. Yuri Perez, Dane Dunning, James Paxton,

J.P. France, and Louis Varland. I think the only names that I would take Waka over are Dane Dunning and J.P. France of that group. Yeah, and it's actually a close call with Dunning for me. Yeah. Was Dunning supposed to start today? The Rangers didn't play today, Scott. No, they played. Did the Rangers play today? They played against the Braves. Oh.

Yeah. Lost 12-0-0. Yeah. That's why I... So they played, but they didn't necessarily show up. They didn't actually play, yeah. That's why I didn't remember them play. And who took the...

I mean, I had Dane Dunning as a two-star pitcher this week. I picked them up in a couple leagues because of it. Right. But the guy who started for them today was a left- Cody Bradford. Cody Bradford, yeah. And so, yeah, I guess that. Okay, so Dane Dunning's scheduled to start tomorrow.

So he will not be making two starts this week. And that's a shame. And they've only got six games this week, too. Yeah, so that's... So we will make two starts next week, presumably. And so that's why I think it's a close call between him and Waka. But I would rather have Waka than France, for sure. Okay.

Let's take our first break. And when we return, we'll take a look at the Cardinals who are surging all of a sudden. We'll do that here on Fantasy Baseball today. Welcome back and let's talk about those Cardinals who have finally woken up and they have won seven of their last eight games. They beat the Brewers 18 to one on Monday. We already spoke about Jack Flaherty, but what about the bats? Lars Neupar went two for four with two walks, four runs and is now batting 310 within 894 OPS. So as you really turned it on over the past couple of weeks, Nolan Gorman had a monster game, went three for five with his 10th Homer, added five RBI.

283 with an 879 OPS. Haven't given Gorman enough love this season, but he's been tremendous. The plate discipline has improved both the walk rate and the strikeout rate, and he's crushing the ball. You look at the average eggs of velocity and the barrel rate. Both are great right now for Nolan Gorman. Gorman has a Cardinals management problem, unfortunately. I was going to say a Wilson Contreras problem, but really it's not his fault.

It's not his fault that the Cardinals decided to confine their big free agent signing to DH, leaving Gorman with nothing to play but second base. And so this was only a second start in five games. Yeah, it's true. That's a problem. That's a problem. It seems like at the very least he's going to sit against all lefties.

It turns out, Wilson Contreras only needed a week away from catching to solve all of his issues. What a weird... Who the heck knows? What a weird situation? I've been following this, but I haven't been on the podcast since the Cardinals announced this, but

baffling. Every, every aspect of this is just like completely Bush League and Contreras did start today and apparently Jack Flaherty was one of the, the leadership group for the team who sat contraris down and talked to him about the still as yet publicly undefined issues that they were having with him as a catcher. But this performance, I would assume makes it more likely Contreras will be remain a catcher moving forward. Oh, so maybe it's not such a problem for Gorman. Well, I didn't even notice. Contreras was back behind the plate today.

Yeah, they announced that I think yesterday. Um, yeah, and had their best game of the season. So it's all everything's fixed. Yeah, Chris. I mean, clearly it works because the Cardinals are seven and one in their last eight games. So boom. Hilariously, their pitching, their starting pitching has still been a disaster outside of Flaherty.

Yeah. Uh, in that stretch. I think they still had like a five ERA. So whatever. God bless St. Louis. I hope you figure that out because Gorman really has a ceiling problem, right? Like even if Contreras is a catcher moving forward, Gorman's still not going to play against lefties.

He's got 10 played appearances against lefties and he had 24 last season. So it's how good can you be if you just destroy lefties? You can be righties. You can be really good. but and none of this has to say that Gorman shouldn't be rostered in all fantasy leagues. You should. It's just, you know,

if you're thinking about trying to trade for him, I think it's difficult to figure out how to value a guy who just, as far as we know, isn't going to play against lefties. Yeah, that's a good point because it, it didn't feel like that early in the year. I was,

you know, attributing the contraris move, DH not being available to Gorman sitting more against lefties. But really, The issue was the Cardinals faced five left-handed starting pitchers for all of April. So they had a good run there of avoiding lefties that allowed Gorman to play more than he's probably going to play normally. A few other names that went off in this game. Tommy Edmund went four for five with his sixth home run.

He added four runs and two RBI. Just a few batted ball things that I think have limited Edmund this year. His line drive rate is down to just 12%. His hard hit rate is down about seven percentage. points still is super fast, 88th percentile in sprint speed. So I would expect more steals to come soon for Tommy Edmund. And Nolan Aronado is picking it up in a big way. He has homered in four straight games and in the month of May, now batting 320 with five

homers and a 1044 OPS. We spoke about him a couple of weeks ago and I brought up how during the WBC he got hit by a pitch, I think either on his hand or his wrist and maybe he just wasn't right to start the season and that's why he slumped in April. all is forgiven because Nolan Aronado looks like himself here so far in May. Agree guys who are going to make the

Hall of Fame. Let's just agree to not worry about them in April. Let's all, next April, let's take a collective vow. We'll all do like a ceremony. We'll take drinks. It'll be great. And we'll just all agree that like the 12 guys that we are fairly

certain are going to the Hall of Fame. We just won't talk about them in April. No matter what the underlying numbers look like, those guys are going to figure it out. Well, that's contingent on the audience, not talking about them, whether we talk about them. Well, that's what I mean.

I mean, the audience. You're all invited to participate in this, in this ceremony. We'll get some oils and incense, and it'll be really nice. I promise. There's still people freaking out

about Manny Machado, who has, you know, is on a Hall of Fame trajectory, I would say. But anyway, back to Aeronado. I did see an article this morning

from The Athletic that he was working through what he termed dead hands, which is not a phrase I had heard before. I've heard dead arm, but he had dead hands, which maybe it was related to that. That's a plot point in the new Legend of Zelda game. I don't know how to respond to that.

I haven't played that game yet. I don't know if I ever will. It looks very intimidating. Let's get into some waiver wire hitters, and I've got some outfielders here up top. Not the most exciting group. They're names that I brought up before, but I mean, they just keep hitting. Lane Thomas went three for four with two doubles and three runs scored.

Over his last 12 games, he's batting 3.47 with three homers and two steals, 95th percentile in sprint speed for Lane Thomas. Joey Menesis, his teammate, went four for five with three doubles, four RBI. He has the batting average up to 300. The problem is that he only has two home runs and a 394 slugging percentage. Marcel O'Suna went one for five with his eighth home run, and the batting average overall still looks dreadful, but in the month of May,

Ozuna is batting 300 with six homers and 1166 Ops, crushing the ball, hitting it hard, putting it in the air, lots of barrels. Scott, is there anyone that stands out to you here from this group? Ozuna, Manessus, and Lane Thomas. Well, I find it interesting the shape that Meneses' season has taken. that he's batting over 300 now, but with zero power,

and obviously in a bad lineup, that's not going to amount too much. So I'm not particularly encouraged by what he's doing. Ozuna has playing time issues. So until that changes, it's, you know, the way to change that is by doing what he's doing now, but the Braves have a lot of options they like between left field and DH, especially with Darno back and Kevin Pilar heating up as well.

I think the most interesting for fantasy purposes is probably Lane Thomas, because we've seen him get hot for long enough stretches that he's the the buzzy pickup and, you know, provide some power, provide some speed, does a few different things we care about. That he's doing it in May, I don't know. I mean, I don't know that we've seen Lane Thomas have his career season yet, and I'm not saying this is definitely it, but I'm saying there's enough of a chance

than in five outfielder leagues, he probably needs to be picked up if he isn't already. Lane Thomas is 28% rostered and has led off nine straight games for the Washington Nationals. Speaking of the Nationals, I have some middle infielder's here, and CJ Abrams went two for four with a sock and a shoe, his fourth home run, his fifth steal of the season,

and also in the month of May for him, 13 games played. He's batting 326, two homers, two steals, and hitting the ball a lot harder. 90.3 average exit velocity during that time for C.J. Abrams. Orlando Arceo went two for two with two walks and hit his third home run. He's batting 333 in seven games since returning from the IL. And a name we haven't talked much about,

he's hitting 3.41 on the season. It's Geraldo Pardomo with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He went two for three with a walk, hit his third home run. He also has four steals and a 971 OPS. Chris, I think these are more. more so for roto leagues with a middle infield spot, but how would you rank C.J. Abrams, Orlando Arcia and Heraldo Perdomo. And I think all these three guys are probably more like 15 team league guys. Maybe I could see a 12 team or. Yeah, maybe Rcia, I think would be the one in a shallower league that I could see

being interested in just because, you know, over the past season or two, he has shown some more pop at the plate. Obviously, this season, he's been very good. Um, So, yeah, I think RSI is probably the most interesting of this three, but I'm not super enthused about any of them. Abrams, we're going to need to see the quality of contact metrics remain strong for a little while longer before I really buy in. But look, if you've got a roster spot to play with, Abrams is obviously a very recent, very highly regarded prospect who was promoted very, very aggressively through the miners. He's still only, what, 22? That sounds right. So, yeah, like, I think there's a chance

C.J. Abrams is starting to figure out, but it's too early to stay with any degree of confidence. Yep, 22. Right now, all of a sudden, C.J. Abrams is on, like, a 15-home or 20-steel pace. I mean, that's kind of fun with small samples, even a quarter of the season, which is about the point we're at, the quarterway point.

Even that is still a pretty small sample. And a hot streak like that can change it. But technically it's true. He's on like a 15 homer 20 steel pace with a batting average up to, what is it up to do now? 258. Yeah. So not that great, but like it puts him in the conversation for like a roto league where you have a bunch of line-up spots to fill. I'm sure you guys have biases like this as well, though.

It's just I'm rooting for Abrams. I want him to be good. So I get excited whenever he does something like this. And I'm like, yeah, I hope it continues. and we start to see some of that upside that we thought he had. I have nothing against the guy. One thing I wanted to see him improve upon this year was the chase rate last year.

His O swing percentage was 43.8%, which is really, really bad. So far it's 41.5%. So it's still really, really high. So I think he needs to become more selective, but even with that, the strikeout rate is not bad for C.J. Abrams. One thing I'll point out with Pardomo, If you're playing like a deeper daily lineup league, I think he should be rostered in something like that

because he doesn't play against lefties, but when he plays against righties, again, Perdomo has been really, really good. In deeper leagues, Brenton Doyle, an outfielder with the Rockies, had a huge game when three for four with a double dong. He had three runs and three RBI as well. Of course, this game helps the overall numbers tremendously.

He's now betting 250 with four homers, six deals, and an 836 OPS. had a big game on Sunday as well a sock and a shoe in that one and Chad Wallach if you don't know who it is I don't blame you he is a catcher for the Angels he went over Marlin

3 for 5 with his third home run he's betting 314 he's got a 933 OPS he's hitting the ball really hard he's got a 17% barrel rate that was entering Monday's action as well so you know deeper two catcher leagues

got anything here with Chad Wallach and Brenton Doyle I'm not terribly optimistic about either. I think between the two, Doyle would deserve a little more attention because anybody who plays for the Rockies does, and he has 98th percentile sprint speed in addition to whatever advantages he's going to get from that home park. But he strikes out a ton, or at least he has been, and doesn't seem to have a lot of raw power despite the home run output recently. So I'd

still bet against them. There are other options that I think the Rockies should be playing, more than Brenton Doyle. And I'll leave it at that. I know. I know the way I said his name made it sound like I was going to say more, but I decided not to say more. All right. Nothing else there on Brendan Doyle. Let's get into the dropometer.

We already talked about Alec Minowah earlier. Grayson Rodriguez destroyed by the Angels. He went three and a third. Nine hits. Eight earned runs allowed. Two more homers allowed. And just giving up a ton of hard

contact right now. The control has not been great. The ERA is 6.57. The whip is 1.73. The walks per nine up over four so far the season for Grayson Rodriguez. Chris, he's still 86% rostered. Where do you put the dropometer on Grayson Rodriguez? It's higher than Alec Manoa because we don't have the track record to fall back on. It's funny. Someone asked me if they should drop Grayson Rodriguez for Brandon Fott. and I said you should keep Grayson Rodriguez and then Brandon Fott had his best start and Grayson Rodriguez got destroyed.

I still feel confident in Grayson Rodriguez ahead of Brandon Fott, but obviously the timing on that one, not ideal. I'll say a five. My preference would be to not, so we'll say a four. My preference would be to not drop Grayson Rodriguez.

So I will be below the median point on the scale. I'll go like a six or seven. I mean, obviously it depends on the depth of the league and that some leagues you're just there's not going to be any pitcher worthwhile and Rodriguez could figure it out but I haven't seen any I have not felt motivated for instance our 24 team dynasty league very deep league and you're nobody ever has enough pitching I have not been the least bit tempted to promote him from a minor league spot there hasn't been he hasn't even gone six in a star yet right but more to the point

point. Like, he just, it just seems like he doesn't know how to pitch yet. You know, like, it's clear the stuff is impressive. And he breezed through the minor leagues, dominated every stop. And I think it's just, you know, he has this wide array of pitching, and they're all capable of getting whiffs. But he just doesn't, hasn't really had to learn the finer points of, like, sequencing and stuff. And I've seen some reports along these lines, too.

Once he does figure that out, and he eventually will, he could take off. But there's no reason to believe that's going to happen imminently. It could also be like maybe he's trying to do too much. Like maybe being a 23-year-old with fairly limited minor league experience, maybe throwing five pitches is just too much to ask. And maybe he would benefit from like his cutter hasn't been a bit particularly good pitch for him. The curveball's been fine, but it hasn't been

overwhelming. The changeup and slider have clearly been his best pitches so far. It might be a situation where he might benefit from limiting his pitch selection a little more and focusing on what's working. Again, that is Grayson Rodriguez.

I saw a quote earlier too after the game where their manager Brandon Hyde. He said something like, yeah, we're going to give him another start. And it's just like the way it was phrased, I wonder if they're kind of thinking like one more bad start and maybe they'll demote Grace and Rodriguez and kind of have him figure things out in the minor leagues.

It would not surprise me at this point. Yeah. And as we talked about yesterday with the Welsh, how close were they to doing that with Gunner Henderson too? Orioles have a lot to play for. They're not used to being in this position and they can't afford to let the young guys take their lumps. And Dio Hall, by the way, his last two starts and the minors have been pretty good.

He's got eight plus strikeouts in either. So it's just a name to watch. It wouldn't surprise me if maybe they make some kind of swap like that or they just call up Dio Hall in general to have him on their roster. We got a few questions on Twitter about James and Tyone earlier. And another rough outing for him. He gave up four earned runs over four and two thirds at the Houston Astros. Give up nine hard hits in this one. He's got a 6.66 ERA.

the underlying numbers are actually much better. He's got a 375 fit, but even with that, Scott, the dropometer for James and Tyone. I don't have great affection for him. I'll go eight. It's like the way you phrased that. Chris, where is your affection level on James and Tyone?

Affection level? Five. I always, six. I root for him more than I root for most players. but as far as the dropometer, probably an eight. Okay. So basically for any of those most added starting pitchers, the twins,

would you drop James and Tyone from Michael Waka? Sure. Yeah, that one feels a little Spider-Man Mimi, but Waka's getting good results so far. I don't know, that might, the sentence I just said might have gone over like 70% of the audiences. I get it. The one where they're pointing at each other.

Yeah, yeah, the Spider-Man point. Who's the real Spider-Man? Who's the real Waka slash Tyone? Yeah. I just like the way that you use the word Mimi. Yeah, we're creating, we're creating new words here. All right, let's get into some news and notes. Mani Machado, who we mentioned earlier.

He did exit Monday's game after getting hit by a pitch on his hand. We don't have any test results yet, but obviously wishing for the best. Cody Bellinger also left with a leg injury that he suffered while making a leaping catch. Initial tests have ruled out a serious. injury for him, thankfully. Christian Yellich. And also on Machado X-rays are negative. Okay. Good. Good to hear.

Christian Yelich was removed due to back tightness, which is worrisome given his injury history. That one Craig Counsel did basically say he's been sore the last couple of days and also we were losing 8-0. Yeah. I thought it was mostly that, but then I saw the report about the back injury

after the fact. Look, it hasn't affected his production because he just had a monster weekend. So, uh, fingers crossed there on Christian. The Brewer's kind of punted on that game once they fell behind. Gus Varland, their rule five pick was left in for two thirds of an inning where he gave up nine earned runs. So, uh, yeah. Big yikes. Jose Altuve will move his rehab assignment to double a for the next few games.

He's two for 13 in his, uh, in the beginning of his rehab assignment. Nico Horner remains on track for activation when first eligible on Friday. spoke about this yesterday. I think they'll find a way to get Christopher Morel in the lineup. They don't really have a choice. The way that he's hitting

right now, another home run on Monday. He's got homers in four of his first six games. So if you picked up Morel, I wouldn't worry yet. I think, again, they'll find a way.

He had another home run Monday, but he also had four strikeouts. He sure did. The yin and the yang. Yeah. It was an impressive home run, too.

It was off for Amber Valdez. I was watching it. 02 pitch, a cutter that just kind of floated in there, and Christopher Marell absolutely destroyed it. Brandon Woodruff was transferred to the 60-day IL as he continues to recover from a sub-scapular strain in his right shoulder. The Brewers have a tentative goal of Woodruff returning before the end of June. Corey Seeger is expected to return in the next couple days. He's been out since April 12th with a left hamstring strain. The raise reinstated Pete Fairbanks. Jason Adam has been awesome in Fairbanks's absence, picking up five saves over the past couple of weeks.

Would it surprise me if they share the role moving forward, which I'm not sure that's great for anybody's fantasy value, but I feel like Jason Adam has at least earned that. Ray's going to Ray. Yeah. CJ Crone was placed on the aisle with back spasms. Mike Mustakis started at first base and was batting cleanup on Monday. Believe you hit a home run in that game, actually. Michael Tolia was also recalled, and in 37 games in the minors this year, Tolia was

hitting 257 with eight homers in 857 OPS and just a reminder that he hit 30 home runs in the minors last year so maybe in like more in the majors what's up and several more a couple more in the majors so 32 between the majors and minors yeah he's an all or nothing guy and uh maybe more of a three true outcomes guy he walks a fair amount too but I would bet against him becoming a big fantasy asset but there is a lot of power there and Coorsfield can do some special things. So keep an eye on him. Again, the name there is Michael Tolia. Luis Severino may be activated to start this Sunday in Cincinnati. He'll make another rehab

start on Tuesday. Wilson Contrera started a catcher, which we spoke about earlier. The Cardinals decided 11 days was enough and there you go. He's back. Tyler O'Neill is scheduled to begin a rehab assignment on Thursday. He's missed the past few weeks with a lower backstream. Twins prospect Royce Lewis has moved his rehab up to AAA, and he's 27% roster. If you have an IL spot available, please go add Royce Lewis. Anthony Rendon was placed in the aisle with a left groin train. Gio Urchella started at third base on Monday.

The Braves transferred Kyle Wright to the 60-day IL. Jose Alvarado is expected to begin a throwing program in the early part of this week. So perhaps the Craig Kimbril and Gregory Soto fantasy value, you know, maybe it won't be around for too long. We'll see. Hayden Wisnski was optioned back to AAA. Kyle Hendricks could potentially take that spot, that rotation spot later this week. Chris,

it's been a while since we've seen a fantasy relevant Kyle Hendrix. Do you have any interest? No, he would have to, this is probably a situation where we need to see two or three starts at least before getting interested. He's been pretty awful. Doc Peterson was placed in the aisle with a right-hand contusion while Mike Yosemski was reinstated by the Giants.

T.J. Friedel was placed on the aisle with a left oblique strain. Jake Fraley, Stuart Fairchild, and Will Myers started in the outfield on Monday. Jared Schuster will be recalled from AAA to start Tuesday against the Rangers. Scott, any interest in Schuster? He's 20% rostered. He's been walking guys in the minors just like he was in the majors, and they seem to avoid this for as long as they possibly could, going with bullpen games and such. So no, I would say Jared Schuster has a lot to play.

proved before we consider him in fantasy. Joe Evato was transferred to the 60-day IL, which freed up a roster spot for Matt McLean on the 40 men. Heungin Ryu has been throwing bullpen sessions at the Blue Jays spring training complex. He's aiming to return sometime around the All-Star break. And last time we saw him, he wasn't very good either. So I think we just, you know, we've got to see multiple really good starts from Ryu before we think about him. Luke Voight was placed in the IL with a strain now. Darren Ruff has been signed to replace him on the roster.

Dylan Carlson underwent imaging on his left ankle on Monday. Alec Berluson started in left field with Brendan Donovan in right. Brad Boxberger went to the IL with a strained forearm, and it appears Mark Leiter Jr. And Albert Alzli are the leaders in the Cubs bullpen for now. And Brandon Williamson will make his Reds debut Tuesday in Coorsfield. He did have some prospect pedigree a couple years ago, but a 6.62 ERA at AAA this season.

Don't think that's going to cut it. Let's take our final break when we return. A couple other pitchers who struggled here on Monday. We'll break those down right after this. This weekend, CBS heads to a major tournament when the world's best golfers descend on the legendary Oak Hill Country Club with the winner taking home the coveted Wana Maker Trophy at the PGA Championship.

Live coverage on Saturday and Sunday begins at 1 Eastern, the PGA Championship this weekend on CBN. Let's take a look at some pitchers who struggled on Monday. We'll start with Freddie Peralta, who was knocked around at the Cardinals, five and a third, six earned runs, five walks to four strikeouts for him. The ERA is up to 4.11. The whip is 1.30. Chris, any actual concern here with Freddie Peralta? The numbers are starting to rise here a little bit for him.

Yeah, it's been a tough stretch. And now that the underlying numbers, you know, are largely in that like four ERA range, I think it's worth acknowledging but not necessarily panicking. He's still doing a good job suppressing hard contact. He's still doing a good job, you know, with the like expected Babbup is still pretty low, not necessarily as low as it's been throughout his career. But, you know, he he still mostly looks pretty good. He doesn't look like the dominant version of him that he was that. Peralta was in 2021, but, you know, a mid-3s ERA, a bunch of strikeouts. I think he can still be that guy.

Three stars before this one were pretty good. We're pointing out 23 strikeouts in 18 innings, 250 IRA, all three quality starts. Seven, or I'm sorry, five of seven quality starts this year prior to this start. So now, five of eight. Yeah. Let's move over to Framber Valdez, who had a disappointing start up against the Cubs. He allowed four runs over four innings pitched. Still did have eight strikeouts, but lots of hard contact.

97.1 mile per hour average exit velocity against. And Scott, I think that's the one thing that maybe we omitted when we were talking so gracefully about Framber Valdez last week, is he does pitch to contact more than other aces. and he is allowing a lot of hard contact so far this year. Yeah, but he also has a career best strikeout rate. I mean, I don't know. I can't, in the world of pitching that we're living in now, I can't bring it, I can't bring myself to complain about Framber Valdez of all pitches.

The thing I would say about him is he has gone from very, very good in terms of quality of contact allowed to pretty bad. So far. However, quality of contact allowed for pitchers is a skill that takes a long time to stabilize. And we've got several seasons of Frambervaldez being very, very good in that regard. And we've got nine starts of him being pretty not so good. We give the larger sample size, the edge here and assume that for Ambervaldez will figure that out and remain a very, very high-end pitcher. Hunter Green, unfortunately, did not survive Cores Field. He gave up six runs over four innings pitched. Two homers allowed.

Did have eight strikeouts to just one walk, but the ERA now stands at 4.60. The whip is 1.58. Lots of strikeouts, lots of walks, a good amount of hard contact, a 398 bad of against so far this year. Chris, any thoughts on Hunter Green? I kind of feel like this is the Hunter Green experience.

Yes. Yeah, I think like there may and I would bet will come a time when he figures it out and, you know, it clicks and he looks like an ace. But yeah, I think more more often than not, it's going to be a frustrating experience because that fastball still gets hit really hard and it's one of two pitches that he has basically. I wanted to see, you know, there was talk in the offseason about him throwing the change up more and he's throwing it less often so far. I don't think you worry because he got hit hard in course field. That's what happens in course field. But, you know, 95 mile per hour average X velocity on 10 balls in play with the fastball today. Like that's a thing that happens with Hunter Green. And I just think he was a good dice roll at the price that you were paying for him.

But I'm pretty sure I had him as both a breakout and a bust this preseason for this exact reason. because when the switch flips, he's going to look awesome. But it was never a certainty at all. It was always an upside play. And I don't think you're dropping Hunter Green, but you're not necessarily starting him with a ton of confidence every time out. Yeah. Look, again, it's Corr's Field. So it's a tough place to pitch.

You mentioned the change up. And he used it 14% of the time in this start. That was a season high. And it looked pretty good. I had four whiffs, 31% CSW. So, uh, glass. half full. That's one nice takeaway there for Hunter Green. Pablo Lopez has had a few clunkers recently. He was at the Dodgers, four and two

thirds, five runs allowed, three home runs allowed, two of them coming to Max Muncie, allowed some hard contact in this one. Over the last five starts, Pablo Lopez has a 611 ERA, a 132 whip. Scott, I don't want to say that it's the same as last year, but I'm kind of getting vibes from last year where Pablo Lopez got off to that awesome start, and then just really kind of faltered from there on out. Would you look to sell Pablo Lopez right now, or do you still have a lot of confidence in him? Well, if you were going to do a sell high,

I kind of feel like you've missed your window to do that. His numbers look closer to expectations now, what people's expectations were coming into the season. I don't think he's about to, like, collapse, and so you need to get out before that happens. I think he's just, He's not, you know, even with the new sweeper this year, even with the velocity bump he was seeing early,

he's still more like a mid-tier pitcher than a high-end pitcher. And so he's going to have, he's going to have times when he struggles like this. But he's still, you know, he's still a quality option to have on your roster. Probably more of like an SP3 than, you know, one of the top two starting pitchers on your roster. Shohei Otani has been doomed by the long ball recently. he was at the Orioles, seven innings, five runs, three home runs allowed in this one, and over his last four starts, a 6.12 ERA, a 1.0 whip on the nose over a strike upper ending,

but eight home runs allowed over his last four starts. Apparently reported that he was battling some neck stiffness in this outing as well. Chris, a couple of weeks ago, I talked about using Otani as a pitcher rather than a hitter, and I feel like that's completely flipped. He's really turned it on as a hitter, and he's kind of faltered. a little bit as a pitcher. Yeah, I don't know. He's awesome at both.

That is true. I think you probably, like, this is the problem with trying to play the hot hand thing, right? With like, Shohi Otani, if you think he's just a better pitcher than he is a hitter, then use him as a pitcher. But like the, oh, well, he's not really hitting right now. So I'm going to use him as a pitcher is like, yeah, you do that. And then you might miss out on a four home run week. And so that's always going to be the thing with a player like him.

That's frustrating. but I think the good thing is you're going to get good production no matter where you start him. It's, you know. Well, this was a week where it totally made sense to use him as a pitcher because a rare week where he was lined up for two starts. And that happened earlier in the year and he didn't end up getting those two starts. I don't remember why.

Rain out or something. I don't know. I hope his neck stiffness isn't. Yeah. And he's into push him back a day for the angels and deny us that coveted. The two-star week for Otani. But I will say

I'm not concerned. Not about him. Yeah. Speaking of Otani as the hitter, by the way, four for five with a walk and his ninth home run finished a double short of the cycle in a game that he was the starting pitcher. His home run 114.6 exit velocity,

456 feet. Did you see the Orioles fans were booing him when he got a single on his last at bat instead of the double for the cycle? Love it. I did not see that put. That is tremendous. A few other pitching standouts. George Kirby turns in yet another quality start at the Red Sox. Six and two-thirds, one run, six strikeouts in that one. Charlie Morton with his first double-digit strikeout start of the season.

Six and two-thirds shutout, ten strikeouts to one walk, 23 swinging strikes on 10 six pitches. The trend continues in years that I don't draft Morton. He's awesome. In the years that I do, he stinks. I literally just wrote about selling high on him. So there you go. Merrill Kelly had one of his best starts of the season at the Oakland A's, seven innings, two runs, nine strikeouts to one walk, 17 swinging strikes in that one for Kelly. Scott, anything you'd like to add on Kirby, Morton, and Merrill Kelly. I've been really impressed with Kelly here. It seems like he's the one of the Mount Rushmore that has followed up on his surprisingly good season. I'd hope two of them would. It was unlikely they all four were going to. It looks like it's only one and it's Merrill Kelly And in fact, Merrill Kelly Might be even better than last year

As ERA is down to 292 now His whip is down to 109 His swinging strike rate Even before this 17-whiff game Is by far the best of his career And His change-up Which was always his best pitch

Seems to be playing even better And he just seems to keep He just seems to keep getting better and better I'm not saying you should value him the same as like Mitch Keller. I don't think he's taking that kind of leap as Merrill Kelly, but you can feel confident starting him more weeks than not. I know this sounds gross, but I'll just ask, get it out of the way. Patrick Corbyn has a quality start in five of his last six outings. And during that span, his last six starts, a 349 ERA, a 1.16 whip, keeping the walks down,

still giving up some hard contact. Chris, anything to see here with Patrick Corbyn? No. No, 15% strikeout rate. 5.61 expected ERA. Oh gosh. I don't think there's anything here. I think sometimes good things happen to bad pitchers. All right. A few hitting leftovers.

Cow Raleigh went three for four with a double dung. One from each side of the plate. He had three batted balls over 107 exit velocity. Anthony Santander went two for four with his sixth home run. And in the month of May, he's batting 353 with four homers and a 1080. OPS. Aaron Judge went two for two with three walks and a double dung of his own. He's got multiple homers in two of his last three games, making up for lost time.

Now up to 10 home runs total on the season. Ronald de Cunia went one for four with a walk and his ninth home run. 116 exit velocity, 454 feet. He's been amazing, the best player in baseball, best player in fantasy baseball. Hopefully signs of coming around for Jose Abraeu. He went two for three with a walk, a double, and two RBI. Max Muncie, I wrote down here that he had a double dung,

but I want to check this game just to make sure. I don't think he homered again. I saw at some point he was three for three. So three for five now with, yeah, it's still two home runs, three RBI. That game's actually still going. They're headed into the 11th inning there. So some extra inning baseball for them.

Christopher Morel, we spoke about him earlier. He hit his fourth home run in six games. And in Matt McLean's debut, he hit a double in which he really flashed the speed. The broadcast said his time from home to second base was in the 95th percentile on that double hit. And then he scored on a hard hit single in the next play too. I did not realize he was so itty-bitty.

Yeah, he's small, five foot eight. I say that, right? Like, I'm five foot nine. We're almost the same height. He's just a lot better at baseball than I am. Kind of an insane gamble on that double, I will point out. That's, you know, big outfield, big outfield there in Corsefield, Scottie. He was, Matt McLean was billed as a baseball rat.

You know, I talked on the last podcast about how the Baseball America scouting report described it is he doesn't have a lot of functional strength. So he makes up for it with a go-getter attitude. And we saw that on that hustle double. All right. A few bullpen updates for the Yankees, Michael King. I told you eventually, but no. Wondie Peralta had the two saves over the week.

but Michael King recorded the final four outs for his third save. I think it's still pretty messy. I think we're going to get some Michael King, some Peralta, maybe Clay Holmes mixes back in. I think it's pretty messy right now. For the Astros, Ryan Presley was unavailable. Hector Nerris picked up his second save of the season. For the Diamondbacks, Andrew Chaffin pitched a clean ninth for his sixth save.

The ERA has crept up to 3.94. For the Rockies, Pierce Johnson entered the ninth with a two-run lead. He gave up one run but picked up his seventh save, and his ERA is all the way up to 5.5.1. For the Giants, Camillo DeVall pitched the final four outs for his ninth save of the season. And Evan Phillips blew a save for the Dodgers tonight. Yes. Worth noting. And I mean, the usage there has been a little confusing too.

Like Gratterol has missed in, mixed in a little bit. Lately, it seems like they've been pretty set. with Phillips. Yeah. I know Caleb Ferguson picked up a save over the weekend too, so it's a little messy. Well, I mean, it doesn't help. Every time Phillips blows the save, it gets a little messier, I guess. But I feel pretty comfortable with Phillips there more so than anything the Yankees have

going on. And do got to wonder, I mean, Pierce Johnson has not looked good. And while Daniel Bard's velocity has been way down since he returned, he hasn't had any issues. So I don't know. Maybe maybe a change is still yet to come there. For what it's worth, when Ferguson got the save, it was, I think he got one out in that one, Gratterol. Yeah, he did. Yeah, so Gratterol got an opportunity with Phillips presumably available. He only turned 13 pitches. I think the previous three days combined or something. So presumably was available. So yeah, it's not entirely Phillips. And this problem makes it

slightly less likely that it will be entirely Phillips moving forward. Yep. To stream or not to stream, let's start with Tuesday. And yesterday we mentioned Bailey Ober, who was at the Dodgers. Obviously, it's not a great matchup, but he is the best in terms of talent on this list here. Scrolling around. We mentioned Michael Lorenzen yesterday. Obviously, don't trust him much, but the pirates are, you know, kind of falling apart recently. And I think on the other side,

Luis Ortiz at the Tigers, like, I don't know that I trust him from a talent perspective, but I certainly don't trust the Tigers either, so. Realistically, Ober is the only one I'd do from Tuesday. Okay.

If I would, if I had to stretch it for a second one, it would be Lorenzen. All right. I'm not totally disinterested in Chase Silsith at Baltimore, but I probably wouldn't start him. Okay.

On Wednesday, scrolling up and down the list, here. I think gosh. Brian Beio. I really like what I saw last time out.

The Mariners' offense has been inconsistent. I think I could get behind that one. I could see either side of the Peyton Batten Field Mike Clevenger game having a good start.

That's mostly the result of the offenses that they're playing, but it wouldn't surprise me if either one was good, but obviously not a wholehearted endorsement there. Anyone

Gonna go for Edward Cabrera against the national? I can't. I want to... I want to keep them on my bench. Team name Tuesday will wrap up with this, and I genuinely... Look, I'm happy whenever you're here, Chris, but especially when we have team name Tuesday

because you are much better at this than Scott and I am. These are from Robert, and they are music-themed. Hey, you, Kirill off of my cloud. Yeah. That's pretty good, right? That's one. I don't know. I don't get that one at all

So yes it was a good I think maybe it might be better like sing it in the like Hey, Keir Ralafa my cloud like that you know Sing yeah I think that might be not helping The Rolling Stone song Somewhere Tovar the Rainbow You know that one I do know that one I know that one I know most of them come on

Like maybe one or two out of ten I don't know I mean there's a bunch that I don't usually get So I will openly admit that. These are all pretty obvious ones. These so far, yes. I can't get no Gattisfaction. Yeah. So there's a whole.

We're sticking like with the classics, the oldies here. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, a two point seven. Light Fems here. And this last one is, I'm Stott for Teacher.

Yeah. Yeah. You guys, don't know that one? No, yeah. Hot for Teacher. That's hot for teacher, I guess. I don't know the.

Oh, man. I don't know. Doag do. Do go do go do go do go. Yeah, okay. You know that one. Sure. All right.

Van Halen. Van Halen. Come on, guys. I knew it was like a classic artist, but I didn't want to say the wrong one. So I just, I know. Go listen to it. That was a perfect recreation of the drum fell in the intro. No, it really is because I actually, I had the guitar hero Van Halen back in the day.

So I played that song a bunch. Uh, this one from Bill, throw me a bone. Yep. From Matt. Jolks on you. Sure. The Czech's in the Malley. Yeah.

Ish. Let's set the bar low. Absolutely. Lemon, lime, graderol. Is that supposed to be like Gatorade? No, that's something. I just don't know what it is. I'm sorry.

It's a thing. It has the cadence of a joke in the words of Perth happily, but I don't quite get it. We fought like Kelsey. That's a good one. That's good. Yeah, because fought. is, you know, the pitcher. Yes.

Ask for me tomorrow and you shall find me a graveman. Again, that sounds like a thing. I'm sure it is. Right. Yeah. Oh, it's a, uh, Romeo and Juliet, I think. Yeah.

That's where Mercutio's from, right? Hmm. That was, that was who John Leguizamo played in that movie. Uh, from Sheldon. How much Wald could Wald a Chuck, Chuck, if Walduch could Chuck Wald?

That's, that's, That's incredible. That's really good. From Michael. I debated whether or not to leave this one in here, but whatever. We're already here. From Michael, Uri Nation. I didn't pick it up reading it.

Yeah, you had to say it out loud. Yeah, yep. From Tim Ward Wide Web. Yep. From Nick. I don't know how to say this one. Like, I don't know. Oh, Blah day.

Oh, blood. Johan Moncada. I knew it was something. We know they're all something. Yes. Shoohorning Johann Moncada's name in there, I don't think really works. That's my objection to it. But I like the use of Bladet's name.

Scott's a tough critic. From Eddie, who says that Chris, Chris will appreciate these. Hits from DeGrom. So I, again, it sounds like something. I'm not picking it up right now. 19th Mervis Breakdown. This one I know. That's three Rolling Stones references in one team named Tuesday section.

So that's pretty good. And this last one's from Wesley, Bryce, Bryce Bybee. That's pretty good. Very good. We're going to wrap there for Scott and Chris. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning in to fantasy baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify.

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