Fantasy Baseball Today - Four Pitcher Questions, Marcell Ozuna for MVP & Danny Jansen Crushing! (5/21 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 21, 2024

Pablo Lopez got crushed on Monday (2:40). ... Marcell Ozuna might be the Fantasy MVP thus far (7:57). ... News (14:41): Gerrit Cole will throw to batters on Tuesday. ... We have questions regarding Chris Sale, Framber Valdez and Taj Bradley (19:58). ... Should Danny Jansen be rostered in a one-catcher league (29:35)? Luis Rengifo and Jacob Young are providing big speed. ... Any interest in names like Michael Wacha and Ryan Weathers (44:15)? ... Is it time to drop Reid Detmers (48:42)? ... Colt Keith, Masyn Winn and Nolan Schanuel are slowly coming around (50:40). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (52:29). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: https://sptfy.com/QiKv 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/ You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your lead. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. We're nearly two months into the season, and Marcel O'Suna might be the fantasy MVP to this point. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, May 21st.

I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White. Today on the show, I've got four pitcher questions. It's time to take a deeper look at Danny Jansen, who has been awesome, three rookie hitters who are slowly coming around and much more. But let's jump in. Is this happening? It is. Well, you know what's happening, Scott? Pablo Lopez getting crushed.

That's what's happening. Yeah, I know. It's such an enthusiastic clip there for a bad pitching performance here for Pablo Lopez against the Nationals. he was bad. Gave up seven runs in five innings, two home runs allowed. And, you know, there was a lot of anger over this performance. A lot of people were unhappy with it, shall we say?

I will point out that, you know, you may be feeling right now like Pablo Lopez has been a big bummer for your fantasy team, but he does have a 112 whip, which is pretty good. In fact, it would be a career best. That's after this start. Pablo Lopez has a 112 whip. He has 10.3K per 9, which is exactly what you wanted from him. Definitely in line with the past couple years. It's just that that ERA is 472, which is high.

There's no way around it. It's a high ERA. But it's not the only stat that matters. I feel like there tends to be outsized focus on ERA, possibly, because of the impact that it can have on wins and losses, which matters so much in head-to-head leagues especially. But even if you look at wins and losses, Pablo Lopez currently on pace for a career high in wins.

So really, it's just the ERA. That's the only way he's let you down to this point. And a lot of it happened in this start. But it was on the high side, even prior to this start, for Pablo Lopez. And a big reason why that's happening is the home runs. Two more today gives him nine on the season. in a year when home runs aren't being hit as often, if you're one of the few pitchers who's allowing some,

it's going to hurt all the more. And so I think that's mainly what we're seeing here with Pablo Lopez and the ERA. As to why he's allowing so many home runs, I don't know. I kind of feel like he's shied away from the change up too much, throwing the fastball a little more, maybe become a little too predictable.

I'm not a pitching coach. and I'm sure the twins have somebody better qualified to straighten Pablo Lopez out than I am. But I don't think he's like broken or his talent has all evaporated and you should sell, sell, sell before he wrecks your team. I think he's going to be a top 10 pitcher the rest of the way. And again, apart from ERA, he already has been. Yes, for all the reasons that you,

mentioned, I noticed that Pablo Lopez is allowing more fly balls this year, and I think that's part of what's contributed to the home run rate being up. It's 1.5 home runs per nine after this start. Last year, it was 1.1 home runs per nine for Pablo Lopez. So that's part of the problem. I think also, psychologically, when you play fantasy and you take a pitcher as early as you do with Pablo Lopez, the opportunity cost of maybe you passed up on a Terrick Scouble or a Yoshinobu Yombo Yamamoto, who just had another great start, just knowing that you took Pablo Lopez maybe over some of those names,

it just makes it sting a little bit more, Scott. I think that's, I think, part of it for why people might get so frustrated for where they drafted Pablo Lopez. He was one of the four pitchers that I had questions about later on, so let's just get to it now. Doesn't it feel like these starts happen

more often for Pablo Lopez, though, than other aces? And I don't have numbers to back that up, but just based on his ERA being, on the little bit of a higher side last year. The underlying numbers now have been much better than his actual ERA the past two years now with the Minnesota Twins.

It just feels like when Pablo's off, he just gets hit hard. Kind of in the same way that like an Aeronola, like when things go bad for Pablo, they just tend to go pretty damn bad. What do you think about that? Doesn't it feel like this kind of happens more often for him than it does other quote unquote fantasy aces,

I guess you could say? Yes. Yeah. that's fair. And so if you're hanging on every start, it's liable to be frustrating having Pablo Lopez on your fantasy team. But I don't think that's the best way to play fantasy to hang on every start. I think you got to take a 30,000 foot view of it and understand that as long as he's, as long as all the underlying indicators are where they should be, then in the long run, the outcome is probably going to be good. And, you know, no pitcher makes it through a season

unscathed. So I think that's, I think that's the best way to play for fantasy in general. And certainly if you're going to invest in somebody like Pablo Lopez. Yeah. And speaking of those underlying numbers, they are still fantastic. Let me get that out of the way for for him. I mean, the K-minus walk rate, it's a 353-fip, a 306x FIP after this start for Lopez. So I think he's had some bad luck with the home run so far, and obviously that was amplified in this one start. I do think better days are coming ahead. But yeah, I understand the frustration for someone you probably took in like the third or fourth round of fantasy drafts. That is Pablo Lopez. I want to talk about Marcel Ozone Scott, who has been ridiculous again this year. He went

three for seven with two more home runs across the double header. He's now batting 327 with 14 home runs, 43 RBI, which is the league lead at this point, a 1047 OPS. He entered Monday as the 16th overall player in Roto, the 16th best hitter in Head Ted points leagues. And when you consider where he was drafted, the preseason ADP 134.6 for Marcel O'Suna, he has been one of, if not the most valuable player in fantasy baseball this season, even with the fact that he's util only and doesn't really offer much flexibility. what he is giving you from where you drafted him

is nothing short of amazing. And the underlying numbers back it all up. He's crushing the ball. It was a 16.5% barrel rate entering Monday's action. That's probably only going to go up. The expected numbers, ridiculous. 332 expected batting average, 674 expected slug. Scott, I'd like to make the case that Ozuna has been

the fantasy MVP to this point. Yeah, I mean, given the state of offense around the league, He's one of the few pulling his weight, and you got him at a great discount. It's my biggest regret from draft season. When we first started with the mock drafts, I was getting Marcelo Zuna everywhere. I'm sure we talked about it on his podcast more than once. And then I kind of just stopped drafting him, and it wasn't because I changed my mind about him. It was because, you know, in that round 13 range where he tended to go, there were a lot of pitchers I liked.

and I talked myself into Eloi Jimenez, J.D. Martinez, and even Byron Buxton to an extent being a good value also. You can only draft one player for your DH spot. And so I took the pitcher

and waited to take those guys instead. And, yeah, that stinks because Marcelo Zuna's been great and those guys haven't. And I'm sure he's been more impactful than any pitcher I took there, even if it was like Nick Povetta, who's been very good.

And it's a shame. It's a shame I made that decision. And like it's understandable why he was going that late. It seemed like a great value, of course, a 40-Homer 100 RBI guy from the year before going in round 13. But obviously he hasn't had the most consistent track record. No. Multi-year downstretches where he just, his swing just,

it just gets a little off. He gets like this slice in his swing and it's waste too much hard contact to right center. And it turns into outs instead of production. And I don't know that anybody could have felt totally confident he was going to carry over his approach from last year. But it seems like he has. And he's been carrying the Braves and he's been carrying a lot of fantasy teams teams as well. So put that inconsistency in perspective, 2021 through 22, 172 games sample for Marcelo Zuna. he had a 222 batting average with a 675 OPS.

I mean, he has completely transformed himself the past two seasons, I guess one and a half seasons so far, since the start of 2023. And it was a really bad April last year, and then he obviously picked things up from May on. A couple of other names I think you can make the case for. I was just trying to figure out, well, is Ozuna actually the fantasy MVP?

L.A. Dela Cruz, everything he's done with the steals. I think you can make the argument. Alec Bone, 24th overall in Roto so far. Bryce Terang undrafted in a lot of leagues, 29th overall in Roto, and Jordan Westberg, who was likely undrafted in a lot of leagues 41st overall as well. But as I mentioned, Marcelo Zuna,

a top 20 player to this point, and he would be my pick, but there's still lots of baseball to play this season. I want to give an honorable mention to Rafael Devers. What he is doing lately, he is homered in sixth rate. He actually set the Red Sox franchise record for most home runs. in consecutive games.

It was his 10th home run of the season. He's batting 284, 947 OPS, dealt with some injuries early on, but boom, Devers, right back on track. Quick reminder that you can listen to FBT and FBT and 5 on Spotify. If you're watching us on YouTube, you can scan that QR code

that will take you right to the Fantasy Baseball Today Spotify page, or if you have the app on your phone, it'll take you to the app. And thanks to everyone for watching us live. Make sure to hit that like button and subscribe to the YouTube channel if you haven't already. Let's take our first break and when we return, we'll hit the news and notes right after this. Welcome back in the news and notes. Another day, another update on Garrett Cole.

He is scheduled to face live hitters on Tuesday the first time he's done that in his rehab process. Everything remains the same. The timeline looks like mid to late June, assuming no setbacks there with Garrett Cole. Zach Eflin was placed in the aisle with lower back inflammation and is expected to miss two to four weeks. Apparently, he felt a little tweak in his back in his last start. So I don't know if we can use that as the excuse for why he's pitched so poorly so far this season. But now, I don't know, maybe. No.

No. I mean, like I've said before with Zach Eflin, everything looks more like pre-Tampa Bay, Zach Eflin than 2023, Zach Eflin. There's one year with Tampa Bay and it's one year. pitching like more than a fringy pitcher in fantasy. And everything, everything looks more like 2022 Zach Eflin. So maybe that year was just an outlier. That's kind of how I'm leaning now.

Not that I'm all the way there and it dropped Zach Eflin out of my top 80. I don't know. Maybe I have to now that he's going to miss a couple weeks. And given how hard it is to get all the good starting pitchers in my top 80. But that's my leaning on Zach Efflin. F. Zander Bogartz exited game one of their double header with a left shoulder injury. Preliminary imaging came back negative, but they are awaiting results on additional tests.

Again, that was for Zander Bogarts. It sounds like Luis Robert will play in some rehab games later this week. There was some hope that he'd playing games last week, but the White Sox decided not to push Luis Robert. Bobby Miller is expected to throw a simulated game Tuesday. He's been on the IL since April 13th due to right shoulder inflammation. Kodi Senga did not throw his scheduled bullpen Sunday due to right triceps tightness. The hope is that he'll be ready to throw off a mound later this week. Hopefully, I don't love that there's just been like hiccups here and there on Kodai Senga.

Seems a little scary. I don't know what's going on with that, but it's as somebody, I think Kodai Zanga was my most drafted player. Obviously, it was for cheap, but I have a lot. a lot of investment in him. I'm patiently stashing him away and the timeline just keeps getting pushed further and further back for different injuries.

Yeah. annoying. I have him in an NFBC league where there are no I L spots and it is getting tough to hold on to some of those injured players, man. So... I have him in one too. Yep. Yep. Waiting on Kodaisenga. Rees Olson left his start early after being struck by a

line drive in his right hip. It's been diagnosed as a bruise and he seems to have escaped with just a minor injury. Evan Phillips, who's on the IL with a right hamstring strain, is expected to make two to three rehab appearances before being activated. Lane Thomas will begin a rehab assignment at AA on Tuesday, and if all goes well, could be ready to rejoin the Nationals on Friday. Joey Ortiz got hit by a pitch on his right foot.

Thankfully, X-rays came back negative. The Brewers will reevaluate Ortiz on Tuesday morning. Aaron Boone said DJ LaMahue will be the Yankees' primary thing, third baseman when he returns. That could happen, I think as soon as this week, not a priority ad by any means. Cade Cavali has been assigned to the Florida Complex League to begin a rehab assignment. Former top pitching prospect with the Nationals is working his way back from Tommy John surgery. He's 9% rostered. Scott, I think you wrote injury stash rankings last week. Was Kate Cavali on that list by any chance? No, not even close. Not even close. Not even that way.

There are too many good injured players to put Kate Cavali there. Fair enough. Joe Ross exited his start due to back tightness and is expected to land on the IL. Garrett Whitlock, who was on the IL with a left oblique strain now has right elbow damage and will likely need surgery. And Bryce Elder was optioned back to AAA. Darius Vines was recalled and Vines has struggled at AAA this year. A 458 ERA a 125 whip. He's only 2% rostered.

Does this matter, Scott? Marys Vines in the deepest of leagues? I imagine in pretty deep leagues like Ryan Weathers is still out there, right? What's his roster rate up to? He just had another great start. I think 24%. Yeah, okay. It's getting up there a little bit, but I don't know.

I don't think Vines is going to be a contributor for long. There's always a chance he goes on a run with a mid-3 ZRA that earns him a decent number of wins with the Braves. But I wouldn't consider it a high priority. What is the AJ Smith-Shava up to, Scott? Have you heard anything about AJ Smith-Shava recently? I mean, last I checked, the numbers weren't good in the minors. Oof. 6-10 ERA 152 whip.

Right. Ugh. Right. I did hear mention, I saw a tweet about it, and I didn't investigate much further, but Ray Kerr, a left-handed believer that they've used for multiple innings recently, there's been talk of stretching him out to start. So that's another name. All right.

Let's get into some of those pitcher questions. We already spoke about Pablo Lopez. Chris Sale has been so awesome. That is three straight scoreless outings for him. He was up against the Padres. He threw seven shutout, five hits, zero walks, nine strikeouts, 18 more swinging strikes. Seven of those on the fastball.

Seven on the slider. Four on the change up. He actually used the slider a little bit less in this start. Use the fastball and the change up more. Sale has been awesome. He's allowed a total of two earned runs over his last five starts. He has 42 strikeouts to just two walks over that five-star stretch. And overall, it's a 222 ERA and a 0.86 we're up.

I know the rankings updates are coming, Scott. And we continue to push Chris Sale up there. But I am here to ask you, how many starting pitchers would you realistically take over a Chris Sale right now? It's a good question. It's a difficult question. I mean, there can't be. any performance concern with sale anymore.

It's just is he is the same thing going to happen to him that's happened four years in a row and some kind of fluky thing happens, freaky thing happens. And he winds up on the IL for two months, if only two months. And yeah, I can't predict that. It's a possibility with any pitcher. There are occupational hazards there that are kind of just baked in. for all of them. So is it even worth worrying about at this point? You know, I have Tyler Glass now in my top five and Glass now. He's even more fragile than Sale. I think most people would

agree. So why shouldn't Sale be? Realistically, would I take Pablo Lopez over him at this point? I just said Pablo Lopez top 10 rest of season. I'd have a hard time pulling the trigger on that if somebody offered me Lopez for sale straight up. So I guess sale needs to be top 10, but that means somebody good is being pushed out. Yeah. I don't know. I'll wrestle with this probably two days from now.

I will mention 20% change-ups using this one. He's really up the usage of that in his last three starts, and his strikeouts have been 10-9-9. So he was like striking out six and seven earlier this season, and then he's brought in that chance. changeup and it's been more like 10 and 9 strikeouts. And that's, he might be, he might have, he might be reaching another level by incorporating that into his arsenal.

It certainly hasn't held him back in any way. Yeah. So that's even more reason to be excited about sale. 10 and 11 in my starting pitcher ranks are Cole Regens and Dylan C's. Cole Regens, having a fine season, not proven, has injury risk as well. Dylan Seas having a fine season. Had a rough start here against the Braves on Monday, but he has an inconsistent track record.

I mean, there is a real, real debate for Chris Sale to be top 10, maybe even top eight starting pitcher right now, just the way that he is going right now. Yeah. Yeah, it's probably time. I saw Vlad Sedler, a good fantasy writer and player. had him third.

He had Sale third in his rest of season pitcher rankings. I believe he had him ahead of Tarek Scoubel. Which I can't get behind that, but it's not crazy to talk about him in the top 10. Yep. Again, that was Chris Sale. Let's talk about Framber Valdez, who got crushed by the Angels. He gave up eight earned runs over five innings.

He allowed 10 hits. Three of those being home runs in this start, and he allowed 10 more hard hits. He's up to a 432 ERA, 132 whip. obviously the home runs kind of doomed him in this start. What's wrong with him so far the season, Valdez? And look, it's not like he was terrible entering the start. The numbers were pretty much fine,

but he's giving up more hard contact. Valdez is someone who typically gives up a lot of hard contact. I mean, it's even higher this year. And the BABIP is up potentially as a result of that. The strikeout rate is down. So you're not getting strikeouts, and the ball is getting put in play more, and you're giving up hard contact when it's in play.

I mean, yeah, bad things. are probably going to happen for Framber Valdez. The question of here, Scott, buy low or heck no, on Framber Valdez? I'm going to play a hunch here and say that you could buy pretty low on him right now. And part of the reason I'm saying that is the sort of reactions I'm seeing online anytime a good pitcher has a bad start. It's like the sky is falling and why did I invest in this guy? and just totally over-the-top reactions.

And on the one hand, okay, on the Internet you're going to see over-the-top reactions all the time. But I think it's easier to blow bad starts from good pitchers out of proportion in this environment that is so skewed toward pitching right now. Like any missed out, unlike last year when it's like every other start, every pitcher was going to be. getting blown up. This year it's very different.

These blow-up starts seem more isolated and more damning, I guess. And so I think because of that, particularly less sophisticated fantasy players are going to be more likely to bail prematurely, particularly in a trade context. I'm not saying you're going to see Framber Valdez wind up on waivers in a lot of leagues. But, you know, he's had more not so useful starts than useful starts this year. And he had an elbow injury. So that might be lingering in the back of people's minds, too. I think he's good.

I think he's going to throw a lot of innings. I think he, his ground ball rate is 65%. So the weirdest thing about this start is he gave up three home runs, more than doubled his season total in one start here as an extreme ground ball pitcher. So we're not going to see that happen much, Framber Valdez, in this home run environment especially. giving up that many. Yeah, I think he's a good buy low.

It'll be interesting adjusting him in the rankings. I feel like I remake my pitching rankings one through 80 every week because it's such a, it doesn't take much to drop a guy when everybody's pitching so well. Like there's so little margin for error to hold your place in the pitching rankings, which is kind of what I was saying in terms of the trade market. And I don't, you know, you're trying to think rest of season outlook here. But, you know, even even what seemed like obvious regression cases like Ranger Suarez and Seth Lugo are performing so well, so ridiculously well that you're reluctant to rank them

too low because it just looks stupid. It just looks stupid if you got Seth Lugo outside of your top 80 now. but somebody has to be. Yep, no, I get that. I saw this tweet from Chandler Rome, who covers the Astros for the Athletic after the game, said, Joe Espada, Framber Valdez,

and Yiner Diaz all said that Valdez went away from the game plan in the seven-run fifth inning, quote. Yiner did a really good job calling pitches. I was the one that decided to try and change the game plan. I had to deal with the consequences, and that was a direct quote from Framber Valdez. Something went very wrong that inning, that's for sure.

Yeah. Let's talk about Tage Bradley. You had a mixed start up against the Red Sox. Seven innings, five runs, zero walks, 10 strikeouts, two homers allowed, but 22 swinging strikes. So it's like one good thing, one bad thing, one good thing, one bad thing. I love that he only has three walks total in his first three starts because walks were a huge problem for Tage Bradley last year. Obviously the 22 swinging strikes phenomenal in this start. But, I mean, the five earned runs, you know, you can't kind of ignore that that. happen here. Obviously, the question on Taj Bradley, Scott, is, will the hard contact continue to

hold Taj Bradley back? Because that was a big problem for him last year. And it's been a really big problem for him so far this season as well. Yeah, I just feel like the stuff looks so much better this year. I talked about how he's throwing the cutter harder and it just seems to help his entire arsenal play up. Of those 22 swinging strikes for Taj Bradley, eight were on the fastball, nine were on the cutter, five were on the splitters. So all three pitches were playing up spectacularly. He did give up five earned runs. He gave up two home runs.

Four of the five runs were on the two home runs. He gave up six base runners total. I don't know if he had a hit by pitch, but six hits and no walks in seven innings and five earned runs. So it was kind of an issue of the hits all happening in the same inning. and then poorly timed home runs and that sort of thing. I would say, even though it was the worst DRA, the most runs he had given up in his three starts,

this was the most impressive start. Tage Bradley's had in terms of sizing him up for the long term. And if you picked him up for the two starts, I'd be excited about holding on to him. All right, let's slide over to some Waverwire hitters, and let's have a deeper look at Danny Jansen, and someone we haven't talked much about. He has been crushing since he came off the IL with the Blue Jays,

three for five with his fifth home run, added five RBI in this game. He's pretty much taken over as the team's main catcher there. He's batting 333. He's got an OPS over a thousand at this point. He's cut the strikeout rate. It's 11.5% percent. 20% for his career. He's barreling the ball up.

He's hitting lots of fly balls. And the expected stats look great. 305XBA 561 XLug for Danny Jansen. 35% rostered, Scott, is there an argument for Danny Jansen to now be rostered in one catcher leagues as well as he's playing and how often that he's playing for the Blue Jays? Yeah, I mean, I still wish she was playing a little more often. Alejandro Kirk looks like he gets about a 40% share there behind the plate. So that's, you know, Jansen's the primary guy, but it's not like he's a true everyday catcher for the Blue Jays. You have to factor that in.

But think about some of the catchers that have eliminated themselves from one catcher league consideration, at least for the time being Bo Naler, and Gabriel Moreno, King of Ruiz. Injuries, too. Wilson Gattreras and Francisco Alvarez. Yeah, I think Danny Jansen belongs in that discussion. And I don't know that it's just, oh, he's really hot right now. His ground ball rate this year is 18%. That is, I mean, 25% is an amazingly low ground ball rate. And Danny Janses is 18%.

All of his contact is maximum damage. His strikeout rate is 11.5%. He's basically halved both his ground ball rate and his strikeout rate, which we're both pretty good to begin with. But now they're amazing. Yeah, he's just looking. he's looking really good. He's looking really good.

And catcher hasn't been quite as deep as we hope to be. He's put himself in the discussion. Would you take Danny Jansen over somebody like Luis Campusano or Logan O'Hoppy in a one catch-a-league? I wouldn't necessarily have a problem with it. I don't think I'd do it personally just because those guys play. Let me double check on Camposano, but I think they play more regularly. Camposano not quite as much as O'Hopi. Yeah, I think I got to rank Janssen behind them.

But I, you know, if you want to go, particularly if it's a 10-team one-catcher league and you just want to play the hot hand, I wouldn't have a problem with that. All right, let's talk about two players. If you have a need for speed, Scott. Luis Renhifo, quietly running wild this season.

Two for five with two more steals. He's betting 312. He's got 12 steals total on the season. He's up to 69% around. and has four different position eligibility, second, third, shortstop, and outfield. And Jacob Young with the Nationals continues to run as well. Two for four with two runs, two RBI, and his 15 stolen base. He doesn't really offer you, I shouldn't say that.

He doesn't offer you any power, that's for sure. But he's hitting 270, he's got 23 runs scored, he's got 15 steel. I mean, Jacob Young is doing something, Scott. Would you add either of those if you need speed? Well, Renhifo, yeah, I think pretty easily. The problem with Renhifo, he's already 69%. So he's probably just not rostered in points leagues, I would imagine. But he might need to be as versatile as he is.

How many of positions is he eligible at? Four. Four, yep. And he doesn't strike out much, which obviously helps his points league appeal. If he's got to steal this many bases and he's not going to strike out much, he's got to be worth starting in points leagues even. So I think 69% that could. stand to go up.

Jacob Young, I have less confidence that he's going to be somebody the nationals will want starting every day all season long. But he, as expected, batting averages 269, that's actually better than I was expecting. He has a low fly ball rate, which for somebody who doesn't hit the ball very hard. like he's not going to be a power guy. That's good. You want ground balls. You want line drives. He's doing that.

He's opposite field focused. He is sold out for batting average. And that might be enough to keep his batting average, at least in the respectable range. That's kind of where I've landed with the Brewers Terang, Bryce Terang. That's kind of where I've landed with him, too, is he's kind of optimized for batting. average, lowering the fly ball rate, going the opposite way more. And so it's working. It probably works better in a post-shift league than it did prior to that.

And these speedsters are coming in and taking advantage. And we may have dismissed them in the past in fantasy because, like, you got to have a certain amount of pop to make it. Maybe that's not true anymore, particularly if you're going to steal the absurd number of bases that they are, Jacob Young and Bryce Durang. I do wonder with Lane Thomas coming back, will Jacob Young continue to get as much playing time? That's a good point.

I think he should because, I mean, the Nationals routinely play guys like Joey Menaceus and Joey Gallo. Look, you could put Eddie Rosario at DH if you want and, you know, just get Lane Thomas back in the outfit. Look, if Jacob Young continues to do this, I think he's going to continue to play. Do either of these two hitters need to be rostered in more leagues, than they currently are.

Kerry Carpenter is having a solid season. The problem, he just doesn't play enough. He went two for three, hit his sixth home run. He's batting 285. He's got an 893 OPS. I mean, on paper, those numbers are fantastic, but just doesn't play against lefties. He's 74% rostered.

And Luis Garcia has a similar problem. Two for four with his fourth home run, added three RBI. He's batting 281. He's got seven steals as well. He missed three games recently with a heel injury. but before that, it looks like Luis Garcia was starting to play more consistently. He is 47% rostered Scott. Do you think either of those need to be higher?

Kerry Carpenter, Luis Garcia. No. And in fact, I'm kind of surprised Carrie Carpenter is as high as he is. I mean, I love the profile. But presumably if he keeps hitting like this, the Tigers will have to start playing him against lefties because look at their lineup. But it hasn't happened yet. and the kind of shallow three outfielder leagues where he's available.

I don't think you need to wait for that to happen and pick up Kerry Carpenter. I don't think that needs to be something on your mind. As for Luis Garcia, I think they expected stats have kind of returned to Earth for him. They're still good 269XBA 466X-slug, but those, they don't jump out like they did earlier in the season, I guess. Right, right. It's more of a pale. red on the stat cast page than a dark red.

And he's striking out a lot more than last. Not that it's a bad strikeout rate, but it was an amazing strikeout rate last year. So he's kind of traded some. There's been a bit of a trade off there. Yeah, I think about 50% for Luis Garcia is fine. Two names in five outfielder leagues. Jesse Winker has homered in back-to-back games. He's only betting 2.32, but he has six homers and five steals on the season.

And Eddie Rosario over his last 14 games is, batting 348 with five homers, 13 runs, 14 RBI, and five steals. He's been amazing. Are you looking to add either of those in five outfieler league, Scott? Jesse Winker, Eddie Rosario. You know, I was to the, I picked up Jesse Winker in a lot of five Elfielder leagues early on, and I was on the verge of dropping him prior to this game. So that's more where I am with him.

I guess the fact he's 33% rostered, a lot of people already have dropped him. but I think he's fine. I think he's right on the fringes in five outfielder leagues. The top 60 type outfielder is Jesse Winker, and I could see him climbing 20 spots from there. I could see him dropping 20 spots from there. It's a little unclear what path he's going to take here after a few awful seasons.

But, you know, he was a fantasy standout prior to that and had some injuries that possibly brought him down during his time in Seattle and Milwaukee. Eddie Rosario, it's kind of looking like Marcel Lozuna last year where he was so bad in April that it just took forever to get his season year-to-date stats up, even though he's been hot for a long time. He's been hot for the all of May, Eddie Rosario,

and is still batting 190. So I don't think there's great urgency to pick him up just because who's going to pick up the guy batting 190. But we've seen it be a useful fantasy player in the past. It wouldn't be surprising if he did again. I would prioritize Winker over Rosario, but they're both worth keeping an aisle. And did want to quickly pull up the Nationals team stolen base total because they are just running. They have the green light.

Anytime those guys are on, yeah, they're second in baseball and steel 77, right behind the Cincinnati Reds who have 79. So for all these guys, Jacob Young, once Lane Thomas is back, Rosario, Winkar, these guys are running. And it has been great for their fantasy. values. Two names in deeper leagues, middle infielders. Paul DeYoung had himself a game, three for four with a sock in the shoe, his seventh home run, his second stolen base. And Michael Massey is doing some nice things with the Royals. Three for four with his fifth home run. He's batting 284, has his OPS up over 800. Expected stats look okay for Michael Massey. You looking at either of those players, Scott, in, you know, 12 or 15 team leagues with

the middle infield spot? Well, not so much. much DeYoung because DeYoung, even though the stats look decent, his K-rates the worst it's ever been, 35%. His expected batting average is 194, which is third percentile. And I think it's pretty fake, Paul DeYoung. Michael Massey, though, that was a big Massey guy going into last year. My deep sleeper at middle infield and didn't work out. I'm kind of on the fly here. I'm wondering if my approach in fantasy, moving forward, particularly in those deeper 15 team leagues, skip the rookies.

Skip, skip the guy. They may not technically be rookies, but they're going into their first full season. Just skip them. Just skip them. And they'll stink as rookies. and the next year you come in, when everybody's written them off because they stunk as rookies.

And obviously, you have to factor in what they're going for. Jordan Walker didn't go for that much of a discount this year, and he's been bad, so it was a waste of pick all over again. But Michael Massey was a complete afterthought. And there are other players like that who were not very good as rookies, and we're seeing some results from them now.

Michael Bush comes to mind. There are a few others. Jordan Westberg, Colton Couser. Oh, yeah, yeah, definitely. And, you know, maybe that's the way to go here because I've talked for a few years now about how rookie hitters are not setting the world on fire anymore by and large. And I think maybe it has to do with just more breaking balls than ever. That's something you hear cited. I haven't looked into it how many more breaking balls are being thrown now than used to be.

And they don't see as many of those in the miners. And so maybe that's because there are more and more breaking balls being thrown in the majors, That is making for a more difficult adjustment period for rookie hitters, and they just need a year to get it all figured out. Michael Massey seems like another example of that. Strikeout rates down to 13%. You mentioned that the expected batting average isn't great, but it doesn't really take into account spray angle.

Fly ball rate is good for Michael Massey. Pull rate is terrific for Michael Massey. He is swinging for power and delivering on it with a low strikeout rate. So maybe a delayed breakout here. I'm not saying Michael Massey's a huge priority, except in those really deep roto leagues, but somebody to keep an eye on. Two names in the deepest of leagues.

Michael Siani, who plays for the Cardinals, had himself a game. Two for four with a sock and a shoe, his first home run, his fifth stolen base. And Nick Gordon, who is now at the Marlins, has been hitting well in the month of May, betting 327 with two homers, two steals, in 833 OPS.

This is probably like NL only stuff. Scott, any interest in either of those two? I spent so long talking about Michael Massey, then I'm just going to say no to Michael Siani and Nick Gordon. So we can move on to other things. Let's take our final break, and after that, we will do just that. We will move on to other things right after this.

Welcome back in. Let's talk WaverWire pitchers from Monday's action. Not the most exciting group of pitchers, but we'll quickly run through some of the names. Michael Waka turned in a strong start against the Tigers, seven innings, two runs, three strikeouts. He's turned in three straight quality starts after a pretty rough stretch that he had before that. Tyler McGill was solid in his return from the I.L.

At the Guardians, five innings, three runs, only two of those earned. Had seven strikeouts, 13 swinging strikes, and the fastball velocity was up to 96 miles per hour in this start for McGill. Ben lively pitched well against the Mets, five and two thirds, one run aloud, seven strikeouts. Mitchell Parker turned in a quality start against the twins. Six innings, three runs, seven strikeouts with 13 swinging strikes for him. And Ryan Weathers has pitched very well recently. He was up against the Brewers. Seven innings, only two hits, two runs, eight strikeouts with 14 swinging strikes in that one.

Four straight quality starts for Weathers. He has gone seven plus innings in back-to-back outings. Scott, how would you not rank this group, but I don't know. Do you have a favorite or two? Are you actually interested in adding any of these names? I mean, it's a pretty interesting group. I think in a 12-team context, it's going to be harder to bring myself to add them

just because there are so many quality pictures. Like, these guys aren't breaking into the top 80, you know? But they're interesting, and I could see them becoming good. Michael Walker, of course, was good the past couple years. I don't think in this environment he gets any benefit of the doubt as a non-strikeout guy who's had some inconsistency. Fine as a streamer. He was among my 10 sleeper pitchers for this week in line for two starts.

And I'm obviously for that exercise having to pick through the leftovers to find the hidden gyms. So I think Michael Walker needs to stay there, though. It was somebody you could potentially stream. Tyler McGill, I really like the splitter he has going that he kind of honed with the help of Kodi Senga. It looks really nasty. He doesn't throw it enough. He doesn't throw, like he has a few interesting secondaries, but he's throwing his fastball 50% of the time,

and I think it's holding him back. Hopefully that change is going forward. Not that this was a bad start, but it wasn't good enough to really move the needle for Tyler McGill. Ben Lively has been good, but he's probably the least interesting of this group. He's very high fly ball rate, gives up hard contact, doesn't get a lot of Wives.

I think Ben Lively's not going to last long. Mitchell Parker, I like, he's introduced the splitter to his arsenal this year, and, you know, he's got a 332 ERA, and the ERA estimators are pretty much in line with it. Really good control, a high enough ground ball rate that he's good at home run preventions. Not a ton of strikeouts for Mitchell Parker, but I think he'll be like Michael Waka, and he'll remain streamable for the time being. if there is one pitcher here who I think is most likely to take that next step and become somebody worth rostering in 12 team leagues. Not that he's there yet, but could he?

And I think it's Ryan Weathers who has a 55% whiff rate on his sweeper, a 36% whiff rate on his change. A very high whiff rates on those pitches that combined, he throws, he throws, he, He throws them more than half the time. So why does he not have more strikeouts? Why is his swinging strike rate low? It doesn't make a lot of sense. I think it's just kind of a sequencing issue. He struggled to put hitters away.

But clearly the pieces are there for Ryan Weathers to be a good bat miss. And he was, at least in this start, with the eight strikeouts and seven innings with the 15 swinging strikes. But has he put it all together yet? I wouldn't say that with confidence. And obviously he has the Marlins lineup backing him, which is going to hold him back further. So Ryan Weathers isn't there yet, but he's worth keeping an eye on.

Would you take any of the pitchers we just mentioned over either Chris Paddock or Alec Manoa, who we spoke about yesterday? No. All right. Is it time? I think it might be time, Scott. Reid Detmer's crushed again.

He was at the Astros, obviously a tough mess. a very tough lineup to navigate, but he allowed six earned runs over four innings. He allowed two more homers and over his last six starts, a 919 ERA, a 176 whip, more earned runs allowed than innings pitched during that time. He is still 72% rostered. I know we spoke about him last week and we tried to keep the fate Scott and the underlying numbers. They still look interesting and he gets whiffs and he's, you know, the swinging strikes are there for redembers, but this is just...

This is too bad. I think this is too bad right now. Would you drop him for any of the pitchers we just talked about? No, not for the ones we just talked about. For Alec Manoa, if that were, Dettmers was clearly the choice to drop, then okay, I could go along with that. I'd like to hold on to him because it does still seem like a ton of upside

with as many whiffs as he gets. It's just whiffs aren't as big of a differentiator in a league context where contact isn't doing as much damage. And the contact redembers is allowing is doing a lot of damage because nine home runs during the six-start span where his ERA has gone from 119 to 580. That's, yeah, that'll do it. That's a problem.

Obviously, you cannot start him. It's a shame he was making two starts this week. And in points leagues, I even said, okay, you probably have to start him. Not anymore. That's out the window until he shows signs of turning things around. I think the fact that his slider was up 1.4 miles per hour in this start is a step in the wrong direction. It kind of tells me that he's really searching and probably in the wrong places.

I'm not opposed to dropping him if there's somebody good out there. But I do think there will come a point again this season where Deppmers is worth picking up. Three rookie hitters who are slowly coming around and I would just say maybe throw them on your scout team. And let's see where this goes. Colt Keith is someone who we did like as a borderline sleeper, I guess, coming into the season. He put up some great numbers in the minor leagues. Over his last 10 games, he's batting 406 with two doubles. Just not seeing any power yet.

He does not have a home run on the season. The expected numbers look better than what he's done overall so far. So I think better days are coming. Maybe once the weather heats up a little bit in Detroit, better days will come for Colt Keith. Mason Wynn is picking things up for the Cardinals. He went two for four with two RBI over. his last 12 games. He is batting 341 with one homer and two

steals and Nolan Shaniel of the Angels has quietly been pretty solid since the middle of April. He is batting 287 with four homers, 10 runs, 13 RBI since April 17. So that is a 29 game stretch.

Scott, any thoughts on these players? I don't think we're looking at, but I would say let's just follow and see where they go from here. And Mason wins another example of a player who looked like he was totally inept at the play last year. He still retained his rookie status, so I don't know if he qualifies as somebody who's worth buying in post-hype.

But he's probably the most useful of these three just because he steals bases. I am invested in Colkeith in a couple of 15 teamers. In fact, I've picked him up in Tout Wars, where he was dropped. just in case, just in case it heats up and he gets going. I think there's a lot of upside there still. One three-hit game isn't enough to really move the needle, though. Some pitching leftovers, and the first group includes Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who turned in another quality start, six and a third innings, two runs loud, had eight strikeouts,

14 swinging strikes on 100 pitches. That was the first time he's thrown 100 pitches. in a start this season, so I thought that was notable for Yamamoto. Jose Barrios turned in a quality start against the White Sox, six innings, three runs allowed, six strikeouts there. Tanner Halk pitched pretty damn good game against Tampa Bay, seven shutout with five strikeouts, and Ronaldo Lopez turned in another quality start.

He was facing the Padres, six in a third, two runs allowed, four strikeouts for him. He's allowed two earned runs or less in seven of eight starts. That is Ronaldo Lopez. Has Scott, anything to add on him, Halk, Jose Burrios, and Yamamoto? Yeah, I still think some regression is going to come here for Lopez. I mean, he has 154 ERA. So obviously, I imagine home runs are how it's going to happen

when the weather heats up and the ball's carrying a little better. Because he's been a little too good at home run prevention, I would say. Tanner Hauk is interesting to me because it does seem like he's been, been a little less sharp here in May. He's not getting whiffs like he used to. And the whiff rate on his slider and splitter is actually down considerably on both from a year ago. But he's so good at home run prevention and so good at throwing strikes. Like he's an outlier in both of those areas.

I don't know where the strike throwing came from because that was not something we would have imagined for Tanner Howe coming into the season. But it's true. He's so good at those two that I'm not sure we really need him to get that many strikeouts. So maybe it's no big deal. I do worry about the strike throwing with Tanner Halk and how great he's been at limiting walks so far this season. That's been a big problem for Halk in the past. And maybe he just has more confidence and he's filling up the strike zone, whatever it might be. But it's not even just the walks. He's throwing 68% of his pitches for strikes, which could also regress.

but usually if those two numbers aren't in line, that would be more worrisome. Would you consider how to sell high right now? The underlying number is still great. Like a 223 FIP and a 287XFIT. Right, because the ground balls and blocks are so good. Yeah. I mean, more than some pitchers, more than some,

if there's a pitcher out there who's not doing everything right, then you could make the Casey's to sell high because there are so many other pitchers to fall back on. right? So like if I'm if I'm negotiating a trade for a stud bat and somebody's like, no, I really need Tanner Howkin this deal. I'm not going to let that keep me for making the trade probably. Would you trade him for Framber Valdez if you could do it? Trade up? I mean, I'm sure I'm going to rank Valdez higher. That wouldn't be a trade I'd make with a ton of confidence, but I think it is a trade I'd still have to make today. Pitching leftovers part two. Logan Gilbert turned in a not so, quality start, but yes, it was a quality start at the Yankees, six innings, three runs allowed, one walk, one strikeout, and he's just looked a little bit more vulnerable over his last restarts. Marcus Schroman had his best start with the Yankees versus the Mariners, seven and a third,

one run allowed, six strikeouts, and he did tweak the pitch mix in this one. He faded his sinker a little bit. He threw more splitters, slurs, and cutters, and throwing that splitter more, Seems like a pretty good idea for Marcus Stroman. Sunny Gray had himself a solid start against the Orioles. Five and two thirds, three runs allowed. Only one of those earned with six strikeouts. And Dylan Seas had himself a rough outing at the Atlanta Braves. Four innings, five runs, three walks, five strikeouts, two home runs allowed.

And I did just want to point out with the home runs. Dylan Sees is allowing a lot more fly balls this year. 51% fly balls and a lot more barrels. So I guess we shouldn't be surprised. that he gave up some home runs here, and there probably still is going to be a little bit more home run regression coming for Dillan C's moving forward.

Anything else to add on that group, Scott? Not, I don't know. Not really. Not really. I understand being a little frustrated with Logan Gilbert and Sunny Gray lately. I think both were due for regression, and they haven't been so horrible that I think anyone's close to

abandoning ship here. Strowman's pretty fringy. despite this good start. He's somebody who's not in my top 80 and not really threatening to be. Yeah. He had 15 walks in his previous four starts, only had one walk in this outing. So,

obviously that's a huge part of it. It's, you know, if he can limit the walks, he's not really someone that gets a lot of strikeouts. So he's got to walk that fine line, Marcus Stroman does. But he did a good job of it here on Monday. Some hitting leftovers. Bo Bouchet is hitting a little bit better

in the month of May, four for four with three doubles. And so far in the month, batting 263, but only one homer, one steel, 709 OPS. Maybe he should be picking the brain of Danny Jansen to learn how to raise the ball and elevate a little bit more. I know. You know, I actually looked up, did Danny Jansen go to drive line this offseason? Because that would make me feel even better about what he's doing. Like, it was reinforced to him. This is what you need to do.

Yeah, Bobichette could use a dose of that. I think he was over 20. You mentioned his May numbers, but I think he was prior to this 4-4 performance. He was 0 for 11 in his previous three games. So it's hard to say he's trending the right direction. Okay. Salvador Perez continues his great season. Two-for-four with his ninth home run.

He's batting 3-41 with 38 RBI and a 9-69 OPS. Crushing the ball. Expected stats look awesome for Salvador Perez. Gunner Henderson has now homered in four straight games. He went one for three with his league leading 16. home run of the season and Kyle Tucker continues his great season one for three with two walks and two steals he is batting 288 with 15 homers nine steals and a 1039 OPS god bless Kyle Tucker in a world of Julio Rodriguez is and Corbin carols yeah be a Kyle Tucker

yeah that's the guy I mean entering next year top three pick top four pick I mean I mean, it's way too early to say to commit to that. But sure, he's been, who's been better than Kyle Tucker this year? Mookie Betts, Shohei Otani. L.A. Dela Cruz. Yeah. Yeah, it's fair to say. I'm not trading, I'm not trading Ronald de Cunier for Kyle Tucker.

So quit asking. A couple bullpen updates for the Guardians, Emmanuel Class A pitched a clean ninth for his 14th save. He's currently the league leader in that department. For the Brewers, Trevor McGill got the ninth with a one-run lead. He gave up a run on two hits and took his first blown save. For the Padres in game one, Robert Suarez pitched a clean ninth for his 13th save. For the Braves in game two, Rieseliglacius struck out one for his 11th save.

For the Yankees, it turns out Clay Holmes is human. After all, he entered this outing, not allowing a single earned run. He got the ninth with a three-run lead. He gave up four runs on two walks and four hits. I watched this game. It was lots of slow grounders and blue pits. I mean, I can't imagine if I was Clay Holmes in the mound. It was just, I'm not making any excuses.

Things happened, but it was his second blown save and first loss of the season for Clay Holmes. For the Mariners, Andres Munoz struck out two for his ninth save for the Royals. Chris Stratton entered with two outs in the eighth. The bases were loaded with a five-run lead, and he got Spencer Torkelson to ground out. Stratton then stayed out there for the ninth

and picked up his third save of the season. season. For the Cardinals, Ryan Helsley walked one but picked up his 14th save for the Angels. Carlos Estevez got the ninth with a three-run lead. He gave up one run on a walk and two hits, but converted his seventh save. And then Daniel Hudson got the ninth inning with a two-run lead and picked up his third save. I think pretty clearly the fill-in closer while Evan Phillips is on the IL here. To stream or not to stream on Tuesday? And who did we say yesterday? I think I liked Casey Mize at the Royals, Alec Marsh at home against the Tigers,

and Robert Gasser at the Marlins. And I liked Zach Lattel against the Red Sox. On Wednesday, this is not that creative list. I mean, Jake Irvin against the nationals. I mean, the nationals are, I mean, the twins. The twins are pretty cold right now,

so maybe you could do that. Kyle Gibson. That's probably the best one. It's... Kyle Gibson gets a revenge game against Orioles. Austin Gomber at the Oakland A's. He's been pitching well lately, but he has, and he's on the road.

He's also Austin Gomber. You don't want to get gombard. That's the last thing you want. Remember a couple of years ago, Scott, I don't know. Some people picked up Austin Gombor for a two-star week, and I think he gave up like 10 runs in his first start of the week. It was, and then the term being Gombered kind of was...

I mean, the first week of this season, Kyle Freeland, was in line for two road starts against what were thought to be weak offenses, right? I remember that. You started them in an NL-only league, right? And an NL-only, yeah. And Chris said I will not win ERA and WIP this year in that league. Well, I'm here to tell you, Chris, wherever you are, I'm currently fifth in ERA and ninth and wet.

I was really hoping that you would look it up and you'd say, I'm last in both. That would have been pretty good. Let's wrap up with Team Name Tuesday. Big thanks to everybody for sending these in. We have a lot of submissions. So apologies if we don't read yours this week. We'll try to get to them on a future episode.

These are from John, and they are happy Madison edition. So right up my alley. Shooter McGavin Stone. Sure. Newty Magazine Day. I guess like Newt bar, Newty Matt magazine. Yeah, I think you need to pronounce that a little different.

Today, Jr. Camerra. I like that one. Maybe I shun it, but I do. Stop looking at me, Kwan. Hmm. What is that? I can't quite place that, but it sounds familiar.

I think it's Billy Madison. Stop looking at it. Stop looking at me, Swan. Swan? Okay. I think so. I think that's where it's from. High quality H2.O. Tani.

Oh, I see. I see. These are all. They're all, yeah. Happy Madison. Okay. Yeah. It's a little slow here.

Sorry. All good. The wedding Brady Singer. That is the best Adam. Sandler movie, IMHO. That is... Oh, you didn't like that.

You didn't like that. That's kind of a take. That's, uh, I might have to hit up Adam Azer and then send him Scott White's takes here. Mm. Wedding singer is good. That scene where he's singing that angry song and, and like the range of emotions Drew Barrymore's character goes through as he's

singing that song. It's just, it's just, it was just fantastic acting to me. I love that. It's a great movie. There's no doubt. Uh, this next one,

B. Doyle rules. Brenton Doyle. B. Doyle rules. Okay. And I'm glad I called that Fry. I had to look up where this was exactly. You had to look it up.

This is in Billy Madison when Steve Bouchemey comes later on. Yeah, I don't want to go through the whole scene, but yeah, Adam Saylor's like, I'm happy I called that guy. I'm glad I called that guy. David Frye, by the way, underrated second catcher.

in deep two catcher leagues. Yeah, I was going to bring him up today, and then I felt like he wasn't playing enough. But he's doing some things. He plays positions other than catchers, so I think there's room for the playing time to improve. This next one from Steven, Shota, you mouth.

Mm-hmm. Okay. That's pretty good. From Scott, not Scott White. DeYoung and de Restless. Sure. And head for the Mount Castle. Bush.

Yeah. Okay. From Mark, the Incredible Halk. I like it, elegant. Scoobble diving. Oh, yeah, that works. Grayson us with your presence.

Ooh, that's real clever. Mark and I are on the same wavelength there. Oh, you're going to love this one, Scott. Adolus Garcia Later Eleigator. No. No. That's, you get that second one in there. to be seamless.

Okay. If you get multiple names in there, it can work, but it's got to be seamless. If you got, if you have to like slow down as you read it, not worth doing. Not worth getting that second name in there. I enjoy the ones that are over the top because A, I know you hate them. And P, they're so bad. They're good. So, uh, these next two are from Tom.

Shake, shake, shake. Shake your boot. Hmm. Sure. Burger and Assad of fries. spelled F-R-Y So that's three names Yeah

And it's not bad It's not bad as a three-nameer From Tony Dunning up that hill Sure If you ain't Kachitin You ain't Kibbrien Mm-hmm

A bird in the hand Is worth woo in the bush Yeah Yeah Two names in there Four, wait four names If you include Hand

It's like a throwback To Greg Bird And Brad Hand It's guy says there's four names in there. I think Jake Bird is a reliever on the Rockies. I think. Yoshita's Island. Sure.

Dude, you're getting Adele. I feel like that was popular a few years ago, but it's not, it's, it's solid. From Kevin, Joe, Joe, and Joey. A la Ed, Ed, Ed, and Eddie. Joe Adel, Connor Joe, Joey Loperfito. You're not kind of a deep cut, but... Yeah, I like it. I feel it. And these last few are from Jake. Go Off My Lawn.

Sure. Jake and the Fatman. I don't know why I said Mon. Jake and the Fott to make it. To give it the assonance of Fought. Yes. Yeah. If you have to pronounce fat wrong for that,

or seem like I just did. You have to pronounce Fought wrong for that to work. Morel relativism. All right. Bohm again Christian. Sure. Computer Halker. Yep.

Terang test. Don't know that I get that one. You get that one? I looked it up. There's some Turing test is like a thing. I don't know what it is. The Turing test originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing. Is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligence behavior.

I don't know. Okay. I get it. It goes pretty deep there. I was pre-laphing at the next one. This next one is Robostat. Should we just end the podcast with Robo Scott up here? Hey, hey, look at that.

Another show without Robo Stott. Whoever you are a guy on Twitter who told me to increase my temporary internet file space, you are a legend and you've earned the responsibility of me coming to you with all my computer problems in the future, just sliding into your DMs. Hey, how do you fix this? because, you know, you've fixed the unfixable, apparently, apparently. And last but not least, I can't believe it's not cutter. There you go.

There you go. We're going to wrap there for Scott. 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. And we will be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.