Fantasy Baseball Today - Gerrit Cole Concern!? Weekend Recap & Most Added/Dropped (6/28 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 28, 2021

Tarik Skubal is breaking out (3:37)! Plus, Luis Castillo looks to be back while Gerrit Cole is headed in the opposite direction. ... Corbin Burnes, Tyler Mahle, and Max Scherzer saw the biggest loss of spin rate this weekend (16:42). ... News and notes (21:44)! Who are the closers for the Phillies, Tigers, and Reds? Mark Canha went to the IL, Corey Seager suffered a setback and more. ... Who were the most added and dropped hitters from this weekend (37:21)? How about the most added/dropped pitchers (42:30)? Can you drop Mike Minor and Domingo German? ... We have more waiver wire starting pitchers (48:18). What do you need to know about Zach Thompson and Kyle Muller? ... We wrap up with this weekend's leftovers and streamers for Monday and Tuesday (55:!5). ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  CBS Sports and Westinghouse are teaming up to give away a 55" TV, portable power station and air purifier over the next month. Go to cbssports.com/homerun to enter. Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now here's Frank, Scott, Chris, and Adam. Happy Monday to everybody listening and watching out there, unless, of course, you have Garrett Cole on your fantasy team. Time to answer some questions. Welcome in to fantasy baseball today on Monday, June 28th. Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Lots to go over from the weekend. Most added and most dropped players. I have a Worryometer, a potential sell-high starting pitcher, and much more.

How is the weekend, guys? Chris, Chris getting tatted. Chris is getting tatted up. I got my third tattoo in eight months. I didn't have any for the first roughly 32 and a half years of my life. So, you know, I'm making. up for lost time, I guess you could say. What's the experience like, Chris, because I've thought about it.

You can't really see it. It's an awkward place to try to hold up. But a little blinkie from Pac-Man, a little cherry from Pac-Man. It's a reference to a Wilco song. The experience, you sit in a chair and you get poked with a needle, like 3,000 times. While you're kind of being poisoned, I think, would be like, I think you could accurately describe it because like once you have a tattoo, what you'll notice is like I took the bandage off this morning and there is a perfect imprint of the tattoo on the bandage because your body is trying to reject the ink that has been put into your into your skin. So, you know, it's not as bad as that sounds.

It's actually kind of fun in a very unfavorable light. It's actually pretty fun. This one hurt. I will say the first two, not so bad on the bicep. That was fine. This one on the inner arm, that's a much more sensitive part of your skin. Yeah.

Got to say. I will say this offseason, I think, I came to the realization that even if you include Adam for as rarely as he's on the show, like our group of four, including Adam, none of us had tattoos. And like, what a, what a strange thing that was in the year 2021, that you could get these four random 2030-somethings together. So what you're saying is I have tattoos. And what you're saying is I have to get another one so that we all have one on average.

On average. So that means, that means one for each of us. Scott and myself get to choose your next tattoo. We can collaborate on it. I think it should be all of our faces. I think it probably should be. Yeah, Mount Rushmore with me, Scott, Adam Azer, and I don't know, you could choose the fourth person, whoever you want.

Me? Yeah, I have to get my own face. Yeah, let's do that. Scott, I'm assuming you didn't get any tattoos this weekend. Fun fact, my dad has like over 30 tattoos and I don't have any yet, so I don't know. Yeah. Yeah, well, I think that's when I came to the realization because I think you brought it up and I had seen your dad before, so I just kind of assume like father-like son, Frank's

Frank must have some tattoos under those t-shirts he wears, but apparently not. Not yet, not yet. Let's talk a little bit of baseball. How about we do that? Oh, my goodness gracious. All right. Oh, my goodness gracious. Scott, where would you like to start from the weekend?

I would like to start with Terek Scuba. Terrick Scuba, our friend Mr. Scuba, who I think had his breakthrough start. If he hadn't had it already, I think he had it this week. specifically Sunday against the Astro. Against the Astros of all teams, they're batting like 500 in June. I'm exaggerating.

Only Michael Brantley is, but the rest of them are pretty hot too. And Terrick Scouble allowed one hit in seven innings to them. But not only that, he struck out nine. But not only that, he had 21 swinging strikes,

but not only that. This is the breakdown of his 21 swinging strikes. You ready? Six on the four seamer. six on the slider, four on the two seamer, three on the change up, two on the curve ball. The knock on this guy coming into the season was that he didn't have a diverse enough arsenal. I think he does now.

I think he does. This seems like a big step for him. And we've been hyping him a lot lately. It's been a little more up and down over the past couple weeks. But I think he's about to surge here, Terrick Scuba. Watch out. Yeah, this truly was a breakout performance. The 21 swinging strikes on 102 pitches by itself against the Houston Astros,

this is a team that has an 8.3% swinging strike rate on the season, which is by far the best in baseball. So not only are they just an amazing offense that puts the ball in play, they hit for power, they do everything. They do not strike out a lot. And Terax Goebbled to do what he did over seven innings, nine strikeouts. It truly was an amazing performance against that. offense. However, he still gave up 10 hard hit balls, but I think this is kind of just who he is

at this point, right? Like, you're going to get a lot of whiffs. You're going to get strikeouts. He's going to give up a lot of hard contact. We've seen that with a lot of, I guess, swing and miss strikeout specialist starting pitchers in the past. Does that actually worry you, Chris? Yeah, I think you have to be a little bit worried. And it's reflected in his ERA. He's, you know, is a 433 ERA, which is actually slightly better than his 532 XER. XERA. And, you know, the The issue is just his fastball gets hit really, really hard. It's actually not been a problem with any of his other pitches. His ex-Woba on his slider curveball and change-up are all 234 or below.

That's excellent. He's got pretty good whiff rates on all of them. The curveball lagging a little bit, but the issue is just his fastball gets crushed. He's got a 416 woba and a 438 X-Waba allowed with the fastball. He's actually been a little bit lucky to have a 416 woba. And that would be just for reference, that would be one of the better marks in baseball for a hitter. So, you know, that's a pitch. He throws 50% of the time roughly.

And when that's the case, there's always going to be, I think, some ups and downs. But hopefully he's developing enough of a secondary arsenal that he doesn't have to rely on the fastball so much, which should make the fastball more. effective in theory. Yes. You would think so. It is a low spin fastball. So, you know, that's, that's something to keep in mind. Spin rate, as I'm sure you all know by now, if you're baseball fans at this point,

spin rate is very important for fastballs. And the higher your spin rate is, generally speaking, the more whiffs you get with your fastball. He actually does get a decent amount of whiffs with the fastball, despite being a low spin rate pitch. but it's kind of Andrew Heaney-esque, where it seems to be like he's getting the whiffs, but it comes at the cost of getting hit really hard when it does get contact.

I hope that's not like a long-term comp for him, but it makes sense of my mind now that you bring it up, Andrew Heaney, I just, I hope he's better than me. He's got a deeper arson. Yeah, he definitely does. Heaney's definitely just like a fastball slider change-up guy. Chris, your, oh my goodness gracious from the weekend. There were a couple of big name pitch.

who have been struggling this season, who had really good starts. I think Aranola might have actually been the most impressive of them, tying the Major League record for strikeouts in a row with 10. But I'm going to go with Luis Castillo, who had another, you know, it wasn't a dominant start. It was a pretty good start. It was, I believe, six shutout innings with six strikeouts. Seven shutout.

Yeah, he's been one of the best pitchers in baseball during the month of June. it's been quite a turnaround for a guy who had, I believe, an 8 ERA coming into June, but he hasn't allowed more than three earned runs in any start. Since the start of June, he's allowed six earned runs and 31 and two-thirds innings, 32 strikeouts. Luis Castillo looks like Luis Castillo again. You know, maybe the walks 12 and 31 and two-thirds innings. Maybe it's a little high, but, you know, that's always been kind of an issue for him.

He looks like himself for the most part. You know, the one strikeout per inning, not necessarily what you're looking for, but, you know, 25.6% strikeout rate, that's pretty much right in the range you're looking for from Luis Castillo. So my concerns aren't completely gone, but I definitely feel, you know, pretty vindicated about, you know, having had some faith in him still despite the struggles. I would like to see one more really big strikeout game for him, though. Yeah, he hasn't had a double-digit strikeout game since that May 18th starting against the Giants. Yeah, that's where I'm at too. I mean, his last five starts have still been very good. 1.71 ERA, 0.98 whip, 32 strikeouts over 31 and a third inning's pitch. So it's good. It's just over a strikeout per inning. But that's usually not what we're used to from Luis Castillo.

It's usually some huge like 12, 11K per 9 kind of number for Luis Castillo. And this year he's right around a strikeout per inning. During that stretch, he still has a 58% ground ball rate. 13.9% swinging strike rate. So he's nearly back. I feel comfortable saying that for Luis Castillo. Scott, anything that you would like to add on him? He's facing the Padres at home this week. That's actually not a bad matchup,

even though the Padres are good overall. Yeah, I feel much more confident starting Luis Castillo these days. I, of course, wish the strikeouts were higher in June, as well as everything else is gone for him. But given that the swinging strike rate is so high, I think it's just a matter of time. All right, Luis Castillo.

Hope you bought low when you could. Should you buy low on Gary Cole? I don't know. Well, he was at the Red Sox on Sunday. Five innings, eight hits, six runs. Five of those were earned. He gave up three home runs, one of them on the first pitch of the game

against Kike Hernandez. He still had 15 swinging strikes on 89 pitches. So I guess that's the positive. He gave up seven hard hit balls. The spin rates actually weren't down, which I thought was probably the most interesting part of this is like, Okay, we've seen other starting pitchers, and I have some names here that I'll go through from the weekend that were down 100, 200 RPM again on their pitches.

That wasn't the case for Garrett Cole here yet. He was still really bad against the Boston Red Sox. Mind you, one of the best lineups in baseball. His last eight starts now for Cole is a 4.04 ERA during that span. 51 strikeouts over 49 innings pitched. I don't know. I assume a lot of the damage was coming from this start with that ERA. but yeah, that was interesting with the spin rates

because, of course, we've seen them dropping since early June, and last start they just totally collapsed. So to see them back up, like the RPM on his fastball from a Steven average was only down 76 on average. And obviously his average RPM has been dropping since the start of June, but it hasn't dropped enough. It's going to take a while to pull the season. long average down to a point where it no longer makes sense to compare the start to the season average.

But how did that happen? They checked them after the first inning. They inspected him, and I saw a lot of reactions on Twitter. I think it's safe to say he's not using anything, but maybe they noticed that the spin rates were not down as much as they had been the rest of the month, and it raised suspicions. I wonder if he was compensating in some way for not having that spin, and I don't mean by using a substance necessarily,

but maybe he was overthrowing or something. I'm not even sure how you could fabricate a higher spin rate. But I wonder just because it was notably much higher, and he struggled if he was compensating in some way that affected his command. The velocity was up for his pitches a little bit, so there's a chance that he was overthrowing. The slider up, one and a half miles per hour, the fastball up almost an entire mile per hour.

So I know we mentioned that last week, Chris, with Trevor Bauer, where his spin rates were down, but he kind of compensated by throwing harder. Maybe that's what Gary Cole was trying to do here, but it didn't work. Yeah, I think Cole and Bauer are actually, you know, in a lot of ways, they're not that similar. And I think if either of them heard you saying that they were similar pitchers, they might try to fight you given their rivalry. But in certain ways, I think they're very.

similar pitchers because I think they're good command mediocre good control mediocre command pitchers if that makes sense you know that that dichotomy between control which is throwing in the strike zone command which is throwing it in the strike zone where you want to where hitters can't do damage with it and I think you saw a really good example of that dichotomy on the bomb he gave up to rap Rafael Devers in this start which hey man if you're aiming for the middle of the strike zone, that was a great pitch, but you shouldn't be aiming for the middle of the strike zone. He threw a 99 mile an hour pitch just right over the heart of the plane. Rafael Devers, one of the best hitters in baseball crushed it. You can't make those

mistakes. And I think the biggest thing for both Bauer and Cole is, you know, if they do have to compensate for their pitches being less effective, which is essentially what we're talking about with the spin rate is that, you know, the fastball that goes right down the middle when you're throwing at 98 miles an hour with a 2,600 RPM spin rate, you know, that might get under the, or might get over the barrel. The hitter might swing under it. Whereas the lower the spin rate, it doesn't rise as much. That's on the barrel. What we might be seeing is that it, whether they have to try to throw harder or whether they just throw the same, but they're the same kind of, you know, good control middling command pitchers.

is that the margin for error is slimmer. It doesn't mean they're bad. It just means that they may be more prone to giving up home runs. And these are two pitchers who give up a lot of fly balls already. And relatively speaking, give up a decent amount of home runs for how good they are. It's just in Bauer's case, he's improved his control so much. His walk rate has plummeted over the last couple of seasons. And in Cole's case, he's just been.

so hard to make contact with in general. But that hasn't been the case in either case over the last, you know, since the start of June. It's been a lot of Garikull strikeout rates lower. Trevor Bowers walk rate is up. And that's just going to make it a little bit harder for them to be, you know, dominant pitchers. I don't think it's, I actually wrote about this.

It'll be on CBSports.com slash fantasy on Monday morning. I don't think Bauer is suddenly a bad pitcher. I think he's just more like a top 12 pitcher than a top five pitcher like we talked about on Friday. And I think Cole is more like a part of the pack now rather than pushing Jacob de Grau for the best pitcher in baseball, which I think is where he's been since the preseason for me. Yeah. And I think that's well said. I mean, there's not really anything else actionable with Garrett Cole. I mean, it's not the time to shop him, obviously,

because he's coming off one of his worst starts of the season. The ERA over four over his last eight starts, three of those starts, he has allowed five earned runs. So, you know, a lot of it did come in this start, Scott, but it's, you know, it's been three starts now where he's allowed five earned runs. It's like, we're just not used to seeing this from Garrett Cole. So, yeah, I think he's probably just one of that group now from two to 12

because Jacob de Grom, once again, stands alone. Some other spinny stuff that I noticed from the weekend. Corbyn Burns on Friday against the Rockies. Still had an okay start, six endings, one run, seven strikeouts. His cutter was down 258 RPM, and I noticed his first 11 starts. He had an 18% swinging strike rate. His last two starts, that is down at 10% for Corbyn. Tyler Malley against the brave six-ennings, four runs, seven strikeouts.

Spin rates were down again for him. I remember last time out, we noticed that with Tyler Malley. 240 RPM on the fastball, 156 on the slider. What did you say, Chris? So he has the sixth largest drop in spin rate from, this is part of what I wrote for the site. I looked at the pitchers with the biggest change in spin rate from June 3rd and earlier since. And Bauer had the highest 258 RPM on average. He's one of two pitchers above 200 RPM drop.

Tyler Anderson is one of the others. Garrett Cole's fourth and Tyler Malley is, actually he's seventh. Dylan Bundy, Walker, Bueller, and Tyler Malley are five, six, and seven on that list. So, you know, it's interesting. Were you just looking at fastball? Yeah, yeah, I'm just looking at fastball. Because the spin, you know, Corbyn's primary pitch is a cutter.

Yeah, he actually didn't qualify for the leaderboards that I pulled. So because it was a cutter or because the, the change wasn't He hadn't thrown enough for seamers. Okay, yeah. Because I think the three pitchers who have stood out the most in terms of not just the spin rates dropped,

but it appears to be changing their effectiveness. The three who stand out most for me are Bauer, Cole, and Corbyn Burns actually, whose walks have been up and his strikeouts have been down recently. And, you know, it's not conclusive, me saying that. And part of the reason why it's so noticeable is because they were so, so dominant

before those drops and spin rate. But nonetheless, I'm noticing a difference with those three. That's the thing that's hard about all of this is we're dealing with small sample sizes from just the first two months of the season. We're dealing with small sample sizes from the 2020 season. And we're dealing with small sample sizes, whether you define it as since the memo

or since the crackdown. I think they are separate things, but obviously there have been some pretty, significant changes before the crackdown officially started. Yeah. It's only been a week of the crackdown. Yeah. And like it's hard to tell.

Like is Corbyn Burns just having some natural regression? That wouldn't necessarily be surprising in terms of the results. Right. Yeah. He had like four walks in his first eight starts or something. That was, he wasn't going to walk 12 people all season. Mm-hmm. But figuring out this is the thing that makes this fantasy season even more

frustrating than it had been already is just new baseball, record high amount of injuries. And now this pitcher crackdown that just injects more uncertainty. And, you know, specifically with Burns, Cole and Bauer, I think the way to view it is it's not they're going to be worse. It's there is less certainty that they are going to be great. Yes. And there were two other pitchers that I noticed from Sunday. They were up against each other. Max Scherzer. and Sandy Alcansara. Scherzer's fastbowl was down 166 RPM. His slider and curve were down right around 240,

so it's a pretty big drop. He still had 21 swinging strikes. Yeah, it was still awesome. He was still great. Yeah. Sandy Alcansara, not as much. I mean, five and a third, six hits, five runs, four of those were earned,

four walks, three strikeouts. So one of Sandy Alcantara's worst starts of the season. He was under the weather for this one, from what I was reading. He was dealing with an illness. And his velocity was down. So I think the drop in raw spin rate, you know, this is where the idea of the Bauer units comes in, which is just RPM divided by fastball velocity. And it's a way, it's kind of like a context neutral spin rate, I guess, given the positive relationship with spin rate and velocity.

Oh, right. So Sandy Alconcer, good to know there. Hopefully he will bounce back in his next start. before we get to news and notes, just want to remind everyone that we will have a live stream Q&A on Monday on our YouTube channel.

That's YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. We'll be live from 7 to 8 p.m. Eastern time. Chris will be there for the first half of it and then Scott will join us from 7.30 on. So come hang out. Come ask your questions, fantasy, baseball,

real life, tattoos. You could ask Chris, anything that you want. Same thing with Scott. He's got some new couches. If you want to ask, how are those couches feeling, Scott? And we will find out. They're getting a lot of comments, the couches.

Everybody loves the couches. Everybody loves the couches. All right, news and notes. We don't love Joe Girardi because he's a liar. We had a bunch of bullpen happenings this weekend. And Gerardi came out on Friday and said, Jose Alvarado will get the next chance to be the Phillies closer. All right?

Well, since then, let's give you a little bit of timeline of a bunch of things that happened. Friday, they had a double header. Game one, Jose Alvarado had a safe chance. He allowed the game-tying run to score. So, okay, messed up there. Game two, Hector Neris, clean, ninth inning for his 11th save of the season. Awkward. On Saturday, Jose Alvarado had pitched three of four days, so he went back to Hectoraneris in a one-run game.

He gave up two runs, took a six blown of the season. Again, awkward. For Sunday, Jose Alvarado used in the eighth inning in a four-zero game. He gave up a run, and then Archie Bradley got his first save of the season. He also gave up a run. Phillies, bullpins, Gerardi, talk amongst yourselves. So of those six blown saves for Neras, I think five have come in June, right? At least four.

That sounds right. A horrible month. Horrible month. So you can understand why Gerardy's losing faith in Hector Naras. I don't know why he backed down from his Alvarez stance so quickly. Alvarado. Sorry, Alvarado stands so quickly. Probably maybe it had something to do with him blowing the save in that first.

first game. I don't know that I'd be investing so much in Archie Bradley. I mean, he has an ERA over four, and I don't think he's been that good of a pitcher for a few years now. I think Alvarado is definitely better. If I had to pick one Phillies reliever to roster,

I think I'd give Alvarado a slight edge to Nairis, actually. Because if Alvarado doesn't claim it quickly, then I could see them just going back to Nairus. Ineris is a powerful force. And like you said, if Alvarado doesn't run away with it, Naris has just kind of kept coming back to the role. Right.

Over like the last four years, really. What a mess. I picked him up in one of our 12-team Roto leagues. I spent $6 out of a $100 budget. Scott, I saw in your Dynasty League, you picked up Alvarado for $6. That's a $150 budget. in my main event. He went for, this is a 15-team Roto League. Jose Alvarado went for $71 out of a $1,000 budget.

So all kind of in that like 6 to 7% range if you play in a deeper league and you're chasing saves. Not that Alvarado's the guy, but I guess we'll see. Michael Former was placed on the aisle for the Tigers with a cervical spine strain in his neck. Jose Cisnero picked up his third save on Saturday. And then on Sunday, Gregory Soto pitched the 9th and the 10th and wound up with the win. Chris, the...

Says narrow work the eighth, for what it's worth. Cisnero the eighth, and then Soto the ninth and tenth. Chris, who gets the next Tiger save? Jose Sisnero or Gregory Soto? I don't have a strong opinion on it one way or the other. It's a bad team. Neither of those is an especially good pitcher. I really want it to be Sisnero.

I think he's actually good. I think he is good. His numbers... his numbers in 2020 were good, and the 2021 is basically caught up to them after a rough start. So like an ERA around three, a whip around one. Yeah,

I just think you can flip a very boring coin and hope you get five saves out of whichever one comes up. I think I agree with Scott. This is a scenario is probably better, but I don't have a strong opinion on it. Gregory Osoto has settled down a little bit. He's got a 2.25 ERA. The whip is still high at one point.

just over a strikeout per inning. It could just be whoever's coming up in the ninth inning, which leads us to the Cincinnati Reds. T.J. Anton went back on the aisle with that same right forearm strain over the weekend that previously sidelined him. Brad Brock got the save on Thursday. We spoke about that at the time. And then Amir Garrett got the save on Saturday

with Brock pitching in the 8th. Reds, saves. I might invest in the Orioles closer situation before I've invested in the Reds right now. I would go with Alvarado or Cisnero or Sissnero or Soto or for the Orioles. I'd probably guess Paul Frye before I tried picking out anybody in the Reds bullpen to fill in for Lucas Sims and we don't know how long he'll be out. Yeah, it was reported back on Thursday three to four weeks with an elbow sprain. So again, I think it's probably going to be matching.

up base, you know, if there are a lot of righties coming up, maybe they have Brad Brock available, and it's dependent on their usage earlier in the game, too. But with Anton going down now, it's, that bullpen's getting really limited. So we'll see what happens there with the Reds, but definitely definitely a frustrating situation.

Man, setting waivers on Sunday is always like a lot to do, but especially this Sunday with trying to figure out bullpens. Oh my God, it was a mess. Jesse Winker exited Saturday's game with a hip contusion, but manager David Bell confirmed Winker will be good to go for the Reds on Monday, so keep him in your lineups. Mark Kana was placed on the aisle on Friday with left hip tendonitis. Tony Kemp

started each game this weekend and is 17% rostered. He has second base and outfield eligibility on an appearance on Chris Rose's rotation podcast, Tyler Glassnow, expressed that he was quote, pretty optimistic about being able to come back sooner than later based on how his arm is currently feeling. Some good news for Tyler Glassnow. Seeger no longer has a timetable for a return after lingering soreness has emerged in his right hand. And we were talking before this, Scott, and you said, basically everyone who goes on a rehab assignment finds a way to get hurt again. That's been what's, how it's happened this year, Tommy Lestella, another one over the weekend, rehabilitating, what was it, a hamstring or something?

Yeah. Broke his thumb, completely unrelated. Like, and that's, like, it wouldn't be so surprising if they suffered a setback with the same injury, but multiple, instances of completely unrelated injury happening on the rehab assignment. Seriously. Mike Soroka suffered a complete retair of his Achilles tendon. Apparently it happened when he was just like walking around the clubhouse or something. That happened last week, over the weekend, technically, but it will require season ending surgery again for Mike Sorroco. Do we know anybody who has made it back from two Achilles tears? Terrell Suggs, I believe. I want to say that's right.

I know, I think Ryan Howard had one. Ryan Howard had one. Adam Wainwright had one. Those are the two high profile ones in baseball that I can think of. I know Steve Smith and football had one, right? It wasn't two. I don't know if he ever tore his Achilles. Steve Smith?

I thought he did. Yeah. All right. Yeah, I can't imagine it's too many people who are two. I mean, Soroka's still very young, and he doesn't play a jumping sport, which probably helps. but man, this really sucks. Yeah, everyone knows.

RELSuggs tore both Achilles. So not even a re-repture. They were like separate times, but. Yikes. So no, I can't think of a professional athlete who's torn both Achilles or the same Achilles twice. That's, yeah, it's really tough.

I'm not going to speculate on a timeline, but I would imagine he misses most of next season as well, if not all of it. Zach Plesack will make a rehab start at AA on Tuesday. He'll likely need a, few of those. De Nelson Lemette was placed on the IL with right forearm inflammation. He left his start over the weekend. If you don't have an IL spot, Denelson Lamet could be dropped, right? Yeah, I would say so. All right. Hector Santiago, who is now on the Mariners,

guys been around forever, was the first pitcher to be ejected because of foreign substances on his glove. Apparently, both he and his manager said that it was just rosin and sweat that kind of formed this sticky substance. But he's the first picture. Which, that is what you would say. Sure. If you were caught using something that wasn't sweat and rosin, you would say, I was using the legal thing. That's not to say he wasn't. You know, it is kind of interesting that like the first player to get booted from a game for this was so relatively low profile, given that I kind of feel like the changes or.

or lack thereof that we've seen so far have been relatively low profile. It really has not been a dramatic change in the way the game has played yet. Obviously, we're only dealing with one turn plus through the rotation, but at the population level, at least, pitchers have not been dramatically less effective

in the month of June than they were before, which I find interesting. You can also read about that on CBSSports.com. Go read Chris's article, read all about it. There's a lot of news here, so let's just, let's get it over with. Chris Sale will throw a two-ending live batting practice session on Wednesday. Eric Fetty was placed on the IL with an oblique strain.

Willie Calhoun was placed on the IL with a fracture in his forearm. Eli White, Jason Martin, and Joey Gallo were in the outfield for the Rangers on Sunday. Freddie Galvis was placed on the I.O. with a right quad train. Maybe we'll see Jemai Jones at some point as a result of this injury. Mike Mustakis is still dealing with pain from his injured heel, and I've seen him drop in some of my 15-team leagues. So if you need your IL spots, I think you can probably drop Mike Mustakas.

Josh Naylor was diagnosed with a leg fracture after a nasty collision in the outfield on Sunday. Corey Kluber is not expected back until July or August. Stephen Mats will return and start on Wednesday. Nico Horner began a rehab assignment Sunday at AAA. He's 38% rostered for those who have a middle infield spot in their leagues. Josh Fleming was placed on the IL over the weekend which means it might be time to stash Luis Patino,

who has delivered three straight five shutout inning performances in a row at AAA. His most recent start, he had 11 strikeouts. Any interest stashing Luis Patino? Yeah, I mean, if they're stretching them out like that, he pitched well in short stents, short outings with the raise earlier this year. And of course, he has a top prospect pedigree. So, yeah, I would say that's They made him need some innings from him

As the summer wears on So you would assume he's ahead of Like Shane Baz And yeah Brent Honeywell's healthy, right? Brent Honeywell's just been Yeah, he's been reaching in relief Yeah, even in the minors

So I wouldn't count on him And I would think Joe Ryan would get the call before Shane Baz Just because Shane Baz is I think he started out at high A this year. Double A. Double A? Okay. Yeah. He's been amazing this season, though.

But yeah, I would assume Petino gets the next crack. He's already been up this year. He was up last year with the Padres. So, yeah, I would assume, ma'am. Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk started a rehab assignment Saturday for those in two catcher leagues. Victor Robles left Sunday's game. X-rays were negative.

Jonathan Fior was placed on the IL on Friday, but we'll begin a rehab assignment this week. J.D. Davis will also start. his rehab on Wednesday. The biggest news of the weekend. How did I wait this long to get here? John Gant has been moved to the Cardinals bullpen. Wade LeBlanc will start on Monday.

Hence... Yeah, you've faked me out. You got me. We'll have to wait for the next Gant from John Gant. That's right. We're going to have to wait quite a bit. Start or sit. Some of these players who are currently banged up. Max Fried will return on Wednesday against the Mets.

He was dealing with a blister. Would you get freed in your lineup? Yeah. Oh, right. Jose Ibrahim was diagnosed with a bruised left knee after x-rays came back negative following his exit from Sunday's game. He got hit right on the side of the leg

with a fastball. Starter sit. That one was kind of ugly looking. Yeah, he was rolling around there for a while in pain. I would think sit. It sounds similar to the Hanager injury and he didn't miss that much time. I think I'd lean start unless it was a shallow league

where he had like a great backup first baseman. Yeah. It doesn't have. help that Jose Abrae was just been really bad this month too. So maybe give him a couple of days to yeah, give him a couple of days to get back on track. Kattel Marte returned on Saturday and then left early again because of that hamstring injury. He was out of the lineup Sunday. He's going to go for more tests on Monday. Start or sit? Would prefer to sit if I can, but I'm not sure I can. And I'm thinking of one league specifically where I don't have anybody I can start over him. So yeah,

it's probably going to have to be him. I would say. I would say. I would say, I'm thinking of one league specifically, I would sit Marte if possible. I suspect he's going on the I. Anthony Rizzo was removed from Sunday's game due to lower back tightness, and this is something he's dealt with off and on all season. Yeah.

Probably, probably, and similar to the Bray's situation. Last one, Wanderfranco is not hurt, but he only plays five games this week, and he is three for 22 with five strikeouts. So, great first game, Wander Franco, and then not so great. Yeah, I mean... I will say, you know, 18.5% strikeout rate, 18.5% walk rate.

He hasn't... There's been some Jared Kellanick comps that I've seen in the emails and comments on Facebook, and don't think that's quite fair. I feel like he's... Well, Kelnick started out with the low strikeout rate, too. First 13 games, 16.4%. And then it blew up after that. So, you know, but...

My assumption... with Kelnick as he started pressing, and I don't know that that's going to happen with Franco. I can't really predict the future with Franco. I'm not even going to try. The way rookies have gone recently, like maybe he needs to go back to the minors, maybe he doesn't. Considering the raise of the only team with five games next week, probably try to sit them, but not everybody's carrying a backup shortstop. We're going to take a quick break, but when we return, we're going to hit the most added and most dropped from the weekend here on Fantasy Baseball today. So the most added hitters will start with this group of five. Abraham Toro Hernandez. He's up to 30% rostered, Wanderfranco up at 95%.

I'm happy that people are adding the Wanderfranco from Tampa Bay and not the one from San Francisco. Please stop doing that. Kyle Swarber is up to 94% rostered. Adam Duval at 55%. Jonathan's scope at 86%. We talked a lot about these players recently. I guess Abraham Toro is the one that stands out more than the others for deeper leagues. Seven games this week for the Astros. Really, really good matchups. Anything to add on these five? I mean, Abraham Toro's best trait is that he puts the bat on the ball and he just struck out three times Sunday

and struck out six times over the weekend. So, I don't know. Astros have really good matchups this upcoming week. But, yeah, I'm not sure. I'm thrilled to start Abraham Toro. The biggest thing I struggle with with him is like the minor league numbers are pretty good. But he just like has to be.

It hasn't shown any pop in the majors, really. Seven home runs in 72 games. Exit velocities are all mediocre to bad. And so it's a question of whether he can figure that out because the play discipline is good. I just haven't seen it yet. This next group of five, most added hitters from the weekend, Stephen Dugger for the Giants.

He's up to 24%. He's still batting 326 with six homers and six steals, albeit with a very high strikeout rate. CJ Crone up to 53%. Akeel Badu, 35% Miles Straw up to 31%. And Straw went two for four with a walk and his 11th stolen base

on Sundays, 31% rostered, which I just mentioned. Jonathan India is up to 68%. Come on. Get that up. Get Jonathan India up for this group. CJ Crone, look, the Rockies play seven games. He's Scott's number one sleeper among his sleeper hitters. So

we've talked a lot about CJ Cron, but even in shaller leagues, I would say, go out there and get him. Straw, I've mentioned a lot recently. Stephen Dugger is one that, like, we just kind of keep mentioned in passing, but he keeps playing well. Well, the thing is, like, I kept waiting for his numbers to catch up to his strikeout rate, which you've pointed out, is awful. But what's actually happened is the strikeout rates caught up to his numbers. He struck out just three times in his – well, heading into Sunday, he had struck out three times

in his past 12 games, three times in his past 39 players. appearances, played appearances, which I don't know why his season long strikeout rate is so high considering, because that is a ton of contact being made. I mean, it's not like he's turned into Abraham Toro in terms of putting the bat on the ball, but if he's not going to strike out 30% of the time, suddenly my mind is open to maybe him being a relevant fantasy contributor. I don't know who the Giants hitting coach is, but like, that dude deserves a race, because it seems like everybody that they've gotten or everybody who's come up for them has just like transformed into a much better hitter than they really had any right to be yeah well that's kind

of true of the pitchers too yeah they're the best team in baseball right now i think the giants they have the first thing to 50 wins yeah it's it really kind of coincides with when farhan zaiiti took over the team right because that must have happened yeah yeah i mean they've been pretty competitive since. So shout-outs to the Giants. I think they have the best record, like the 30th best record for any team since the Giants, like in the time frame since the Giants moved to San Francisco. This is the 30th best record that a team has had at this point in the season, which is like 60 years now. Something like that. Yeah, it's kind of wild. That's crazy. Some of the most dropped hitters from the weekend. Patrick Wisdom, Carson Kelly,

Yermine Mercedes, Miguel and Pavan Smith. Those three at the bottom there. Your mean Mercedes, I currently have bids to drop him in a 15 team league. How about in a league where he's catcher eligible? Would you still hold Mercedes there? He's been so awful.

Probably not a 12 teamer, even with the catcher eligibility. I contributed to dropping Wisdom Mercedes and Paven Smith this weekend and would have liked to on Andehar too. I just it was a 15 team room. There was nothing out there. So I had to hold on to Anduhar. Yeah. He, Anduhar, after playing a ton of games in a row, he's now, he played over the weekend, but he has set three of the last nine games for the Yankees. So some of the other most dropped hitters.

Eric Haas, Jake Fraley, Anthony Santander, Jonathan V.R. Mike Mustakis. Santander is batting a cool 233 with a 642 OPS this year after having a breakout 2020. Chris, you're right, dropping Santander. across the board? Yeah, I mean, a 5 team or a 12 team 5 outfit or leagues, you know, I think it's borderline and whether you should drop him. I think it's fine to hang on to him.

But anything shallower than that is fine. The most added pitchers from this weekend, Chris Flexen, Jake Oteresey, Ross Stripling, Patrick Sandoval who had another 15 swinging strikes this weekend. Strikeouts have been up from him. He faces the Orioles this week. And then Joe Ross,

who also has two starts. Flexen, O'Dorese. stripling Sandoval, Joe Ross, most added pitchers. Yeah, so four of the five of these are on my 10 sleeper pitchers for this upcoming week. The one who isn't is actually Sandoval. But you mentioned he had another big swinging strike performance over the weekend. And the majority of them trying to find the exact number. But the majority of them came on his slider, which was interesting, because we knew he had a good change up.

So, yeah, nine of the 15 came on the slider. And this was after nine strikeouts last time out. Really, all of his starts have been decent so far. The biggest problem is he's on a team that uses a six-man rotation. Yeah. So you never get that two-start week. You might be tempted to activate him. And for Sandoval, I mentioned he's going up against the Orioles this week.

The Orioles are actually great against left-handed pitching. So just keep that in mind. They're fourth in, weighted on base average against Southpaws this season. The next group of most added starting pitchers, Caleb Smith, Wade Miley, finally up to 84%. That number should be close to 100. James Caprillion up to 82%. Jameson Tioni's got two starts this week.

Danny Duffy, up to 82%. This is an interesting one because he pitched in relief on Friday for one inning, and then the Royals came out afterwards and said that Danny Duffy is set to fill multiple roles for the Royals moving forward. So I'm not sure exactly what that means, but he's been really good this year, Danny Duffy has. I'm not sure what that means either. I hope they didn't learn their lesson with Jake Junis,

Jacob Junis, because that didn't go so well when they started jerking him around. Yeah, I don't know. I think he's still lined up to start Monday's game. Duffy is, right? I believe he is. So that, in theory,

he's lined up for two starts. I don't know that he's going to go that deep into either. Yeah, as of now. I think that those comments make you feel a little worse about the prospect of starting him. I don't think I would. Yeah. Yeah. And the start on Monday, it's against the Red Sox, too. So that does not help things either. Speaking of the Royals, I have a few names here that I want to throw on the drop-o meter and see where we're at. Mike Miner is one of those. He got destroyed this weekend. He allowed nine-earned runs, 11 hits. He's got a 6.03 ERA over his last five starts, the dropometer on Mike Minor. Nine? Yeah.

He's going to say six. All right. So we'll go with seven and a half. How about Domingo Hermann, who at the Red Sox on Friday, four innings, five hits, four runs, three of those were earned. He has a 10.22 ERA over his last three starts. And I knew regression was due for him at some point because he had the stretch where he was facing a lot of really good matchups in a row.

But I didn't think it was going to be this bad. but yeah last three for Domingo Hermann ERA over 10 drop home meter nine six I knew that was gonna happen I don't really get the appeal of Domingo Armand at this point like he had one season with a 403 ERA and won 18 games and like cool he won 18 games Yankees aren't that good right now so chasing wins with Domingo Armand isn't that valuable his, I'm just looking at how good his numbers were three starts ago, and I'm trying to not overreact to three starts. Yeah, I just, that's basically it.

His FIP is 453. His FIP in 2019 was 472. I just, I don't think he's good. Yeah, I kind of see both sides because there's some stuff in the underlying numbers, like 12.7% swinging strike rate, that's pretty good. A 37% chase rate, that's also pretty good. He doesn't really walk many guys. He doesn't walk many guys.

Yeah, so like, There is some stuff, but, yeah, I mean, ultimately, at some point, you kind of are what your numbers say you are, right? So, like, most of his bad starts have been home run afflicted, which, you know, give up a lot of home runs. You're going to have problems, but when you don't, he's usually pretty good. So, I don't know. I don't think there's enough for me to conclude one way or another, whether Domingo Herman is good. So, I think he's just a guy. Even if so, I'm giving him a six.

I'm saying you're free to drop them if you can find something better. I just know in a lot of leagues I can't. And you know who is better than him? Shane McClanahan. I don't know what more we have to do. Not that he had a great start over the weekend, but a quality start. Six innings, three runs, seven strikeouts, 10 swinging strikes on 87 pitches.

He has a 3.18 ERA over his last three starts, and he's averaging over 87 pitches per game during that span. He's 66% rostered. This is a lot like Jonathan India, where both of the roster rates for India and Shane McClanahan just need to be higher. And I guess we'll just keep bringing them up until that happens because I would be okay. I would drop Hermann. I would drop minor from McClanahan. I have no problem. Sure. Yeah, the issue is just the overall numbers don't look that great.

I think that's the thing that's holding him back. Like the 409 ERA, a lot of strikeouts, but only 50 innings. I can see why his rate isn't higher, but it should be. Yeah, I think people need to realize that since Glassdown has gone down, they've kind of taken off the kids' gloves from McClanahan. They're letting him go out there. He gets a ton of whiffs. I like him a lot, but you don't need me to tell you that. I tell you all the time.

A few other waiver wire starting pitchers. Part one that I wanted to mention. David Peterson over the weekend, six endings, one run, five strikeouts. He's 29% rostered. John Gray returned at the Brewers. Five shutout with 10 strikeouts. 17 swinging strikes on 83 pitches. He's 44% roster.

at home against the pirates this week. Drew Smiley, six innings, one run, only three strikeouts. He's got a 1.62 ERA over his last three starts. Johnny Quato up against the A's. Seven shutout, six strikeouts. He's 53% rostered. Last name on this list, Merrill Kelly, who was at the Padres, six shutout.

He has back-to-back. Quality starts. He's 26% rostered. Peterson, John Gray, Smiley, Quato, Merrill Kelly. Interested in any of these guys? gray probably the most but still not that much Kelly's been kind of good for like two months now

he's been inconsistent he has stars where he gets blown up and then out of nowhere at the Padres he gives you a quality start yeah but since April 27 so almost exactly two months he's got a 384 ERA with 69 strikeouts and 70 in a third inning that's pretty good he's averaging over six innings per star right around six innings per star. I think that's just under. He might be Domingo Hermon.

He might be. In a good way. Yes. Or a bad way for Domingo Armand. Or a bad way for Domingo Herman. But I'm saying, like, if your choice is dropping Domingo Hermon for one of these guys, I think I'd do it for Gray. I probably won it.

And, you know, because I think the bad outcome for Herman is something like Meryl Kelly. All right. Weaver Wire starting pitchers part two. Shame on me took way too long to get to Zach Thompson, admittedly here. I know that I wanted him to be my oh my goodness gracious because Zach Thompson of the Marlins. There's so much to get to from the weekends. But we're here. We're here now. We're talking about Zach Thompson who had six innings, two runs with 11 strikeouts. Hey, look, that's why I got to listen to the podcast all the way through. So if you're still here, I appreciate it. Six innings, two runs,

11 strikeouts, 16 swinging strikes this weekend for Zach Thompson, who's on the Marlins, if you didn't know. He's 18% rostered. Kyle Mueller, who was at the Reds on Sunday, five shutout with nine strikeouts, 16 swinging strikes in that start. And then a few other names here, Eric Lauer, six shutout. Okay. Max Kranick, kind of interesting. He was at the Cardinals, five perfect innings with three strikeouts. He is a prospect-ish for the pirates.

And then Jordan Lyles, up against the Mariners, seven innings, one run, four strikeouts. All right, so there's really two people I want to talk about here. Okay. Zach Thompson and Kyle Mueller But Thompson especially Because these 11 strikeouts in six innings Like I've been very dismissive of Thompson so far He's 27 years old

You look at his minor league numbers It was almost At least in recent years Almost entirely a reliever At AAA this year he had an ERA over six I believe it was Yeah 660 and eight relief appearances At AAA this year

2019 523 ERA 143 whip 10K per 9 But still like these are these are obviously not good numbers from a guy who was in the minors into his late 20s. Not a prospect, right? He looks so good. He looks not only in this start,

his previous start, four one hit innings with seven strikeouts. So the strikeout was way high again and only one hit allowed. The breakdown of the pitches cutter, four seamer curveball, he has a change up two. The four seamer

high spin rate on that, so it's good swinging misses. And I just watched the highlights of the start against the Nationals over the weekend and the number of uncomfortable swings that were being taken on his pitches. Like, they did not have a good read on him at all. They were

not taking confident swings at him while he was finding up these wits. Yeah. That's one of the things that he is six foot seven has kind of an overhand delivery. A lot of drop on that curve ball. Like I said,

high spin on the fastball. The cutter, I think, is really deceptive playing it off the fastball, too. That cutter might be the key because I'm looking at like scouting reports. This was like, he's in the Marlin system. He was a minor league free agent that they signed. Apparently he was like a high priority for them in the minor league free agent market. But he was not someone I'd ever heard of before he got the call. And I'm looking at a scouting report from January of 2020 when he was with the White Sox.

And it's mentioning no cutter. It was two fastballs, curveball. like a show me change. So the cutter does appear to be a new pitch for him. Well, I wonder if since he was used in relief, he didn't get a chance to unveil his full arsenal. Like one of those guys, you don't often see the reliever get better

when moved to the starting role, but usually it's because they're able to use more of their pitches. And I was reading about prior to his call-up, even though he was being used as a reliever at AAA, like the Marlins identified him as somebody who could start. if they needed an extra starter. And I don't know if there's an organization that has a better read on pitching right now than the Marlins

because they keep unearthing these guys. I think it might be legitimate. It would be one of the unlikelyest breakouts I've ever seen, but Zach Thompson might be legit. There's no such thing as a pitching prospect. That's true. That's what I said. That is what is said.

For Thompson, would you put them ahead of all those pitchers we mentioned in the first group, Peterson, Gray, Smiley, Quedo, Kelly? Yeah. I don't think it's anything close to a guarantee that he's better, but we know, like, the other guys are known quantities for the most part. Yeah, he could be anything. He could even be Merrill Kelly. A lot of Merrill Kelly references on this podcast today.

Would you guys drop Mike Minor or Domingo Hermann for Zach Thompson? I would drop minor. I might drop her mom. Shallower league, drop her mom. Take a shout on the upside. Anything you guys wanted to add on Kyle Mueller, who looked really good on Sunday,

four seam slider curve, you average 94 miles per hour on his fastball, nine strikeouts against the Reds? Yeah, so four of his 16 whiffs came on the fastball, six on the slider, five on the curve ball. Very impressive to see that kind of distribution for a rookie. Somebody's hardly pitched in the majors at all.

He only allowed one hit in four innings in his previous start. Too many walks in the minors. So that could rear its ugly head at some point, but the stuff certainly looks good. A lot of spin on the fastball. Kyle Mueller. I like Thompson more, I think, but Kyle Mueller's interesting, too. All right, I'm just going to bounce around from here and out

for the next five minutes to try and get to as many things that happened this weekend as possible. Kestin Hira had four hits this weekend, including two home runs. He did have five strikeouts during that three. game stretch. He's 37% rostered. Scott, I know you really like the Brewers matchups this upcoming week, but Chris, Keston here, I'm making some noise here. Would you be looking to add him in deeper leagues, shallower leagues, anywhere? What do you think? Sure. Yeah, I added him in Tout Wars. And what is that? That's a 12-team Roto League? 12-team, 12-team Rota, yeah. It's an OVP

league, so it's not necessarily. I mean, I guess there's not much of a difference to OBP and average for him at this point. They're both bad. But yeah, I picked him up just to like see if there's a spark. You know, maybe he's the kind of pitch hitter who, you know, he's specifically struggled with high fastballs. That's been a real problem for him. He hasn't been able to hit fastballs at all this season, but especially the high ones. You know, if there's a little less spin on the baseball, maybe the pitches appear to rise a little bit less. Maybe I think his home run today was off a high fastball.

I think I saw somebody tweet that out. Maybe that's the kind of thing where small things can make a big impact for individual players, even if we don't see a huge change on the population level. Scott, what do you think we can get for Casey Mize right now in a trade? If we were looking to shop him in a redraft league, he was great this weekend against the Astros, six innings, one run, five strikeouts. He has a 3.46 ERA, but 10% swinging strike rate, 4.23 XIP, an expected ERA over five.

We know that the innings are going to be a concern. at some point for Casey Meis. What do you think you can get for him in a trade? Like a 12 team or less, my assumption is not that much because a low strikeout guy with an ERA on the wrong side of 350. I just don't think that has a lot of trade value,

but he's been so consistent, three-run runs or fewer in every start since April that maybe you could get like a number two outfielder for him. It doesn't hurt to check. I do think he's more likely to get worse than better from here. So it doesn't hurt to check. Oh, right? Yeah, his velocity has been dropping as the season's gone on,

and it's basically back where it was last season now. So that's not a great sign either. Well, it doesn't hurt to try. Try and shop Casey Myers, see what you can get. Oh, yes. Get what you can't. Do it is what I would say. We had a bunch of studly pitching performances this weekend, but I'll just throw out a few,

and if there's anything you guys would like to add. Kyle Gibson against the Royal's seven shutout with 10 strikeouts. Julio O'Reas, five and a third, two runs, 12 strikeouts against the Cubs. Cole Irvin had eight shutout on Sunday against the Giants with eight strikeouts. Clayton Kershaw against the Cubs, Sunday night baseball,

eight innings, one run, 13 strikeouts, 26 swinging strikes on 101 pitches. 22 of those swinging strikes came on his slider. Kershaw, Irvin... The second start of the season with 20 plus swinging strikes on the slider.

That's amazing. That's wild. Kershaw, Irvin, Arias, Gibson. Anything you guys would like to add? I think it's amazing we're halfway through the season now basically and Kyle Gibson has a two ERA. That is his ERA 2. It's crazy.

Yeah, I mean X-FIP 389, that's not so good. XERA 326, that is good. Strikeouts aren't really there and he's Kyle Gibson, 33-year-old who's never been a fantasy asset really, so I still am skeptical

that he anybody's excited to trade for Kyle Gibson unless you're playing with a bunch of novices. But if someone is, if you can deal Kyle Gibson like he's a number two for fantasy teams, then I think that's a good sell-high situation. Otherwise, just ride it out.

It's really interesting that he's added this cutter this season. It's been his worst pitch, and he's pitching so well. It's actually been a pretty good swing and miss pitch, but it's getting crushed when guys do make contact with it. Pitching's weird. I think it's helped everything else, play up, I guess, if that makes sense.

But yeah, that does seem to be, yeah. Yeah. Start or sit real quick for this week, Tony Gonslin coming off his, I guess, best start of the season. It was still good. It was all right. Sure. Short. He's still building up, but it was good.

Four and eightes. And four innings, one run, seven strikeouts. He is up against the nationals this week. Start or sit, Tony Gonsland. I'd lean towards sitting, but you could do worse. Yeah, start him in a 15 team or sit in anything, shower, I think. I would also sit, Adam Wayne, Though I wanted to highlight, the guy has been awesome.

He's delivered five straight quality starts. He's got a 2.45 ERA during that span, but he is at the Rockies this week. So he's also been great at home. 2.55 ERA and 10 home starts in ERA over 6 on the road. Please sit Adam Wainwright this weekend. Just a few hitting leftovers, Shohei Otani. Went three for four on Sunday with a double, a triple, a sock and a shoe. 25th home run 11th steel of the season.

The guy is just ridiculous. Ronald de Cunio went two for four with his 21st home run of the year. DJ LaMayhew has a 10-game hitting streak and is batting 2.97 in June, so he's coming around. Raphael Devers, as we mentioned earlier, hit an absolute moon rocket off, Garikov, Garikov, 451 feet. That was his 19th homer of the season.

He's up to 64 RBI. Trevor Story had a sock and a shoe on Saturday. He's now up to nine homers and 14 steals. Christian Yelich has been better-ish his last 15 games, 286 batting average, two homers, one steal, and Joey Gallo.

That's the wrong one, man. It's like the wrong... Breaking out fantasy regulators. Justice. You're falling. Joey Gallo, he's coming around. He's got three homers over his last two games. He now has 16 home runs

with a 994 OPS. Not all 16 of his home runs have come in June, but he has a 994 OPS in June. but he has a 9-94 OPS in June. So he has been much better. We're going to wrap up with some streamers from the weekend. And we'll start with, well, actually for the next coming days. Monday to stream or not stream.

Dylan Bundy at the Yankees. Garrett Richards versus the Royals. Matt Manning at Cleveland. Eli Morgan versus the Tigers. Spencer Howard at the Reds and Tyler Anderson, Revenge game at the Colorado Rockies. It's very bad. Don't make me pick any of these, Frank.

All right, Scott, just give me one. Garrett Richards. I think it might be Bundy for me. Which I don't love. Yeah, I mean, he might be the one pitcher that can actually get the Yankees lineup back on track. So I don't know if I... Oh, man, he's been so bad.

I think I would go with Matt Manning at Cleveland, but yeah, it's not great. Tuesday, to stream or not to stream, Jameson-Tione versus the Angels, Andrew Heaney at the Yankees, Caleb Smith, at the Cardinals. Davies at the Brewers, Tony Santion versus the Padres and Chris Flexson at the Blue Jays. A little bit better.

Yeah, I could see doing Heaney. I could see doing Caleb Smith. I could see doing Davies. Probably not. Look, I'm not thrilled about any of them to be clear, but I could see doing them. By the way, just to go back to the previous one, Gary Richards has actually had the biggest drop in spin rate. He's just only made two starts.

But his spin rate is down over 300 RPM over his last two starts. Cheater. It's been wild. I don't hate James and Tyone on Tuesday. Coming off his best start of the year, and he's got a 3.29 ERA at home this season. So I'll throw two.

Tony's going to clock him. He might. Man, I really want to go to one of these games this week, but I don't know that I'm going to have time. Chris, yeah. I was going to say like Thursday at 1 o'clock, we might be able to make it happen, but... Oh, man, no, I have a flight at 7.

I don't know if I can make that one. Oh, I want to see Otani play. All right, I'll see what we can do. For Scott and Chris, I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye!