Fantasy Baseball Today - Is Yusei Kikuchi Back? Struggling Hitters & The Bullpen Report (5/17 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 17, 2022

Willson Contreras has been awesome this season (1:20)! Freddy Peralta looks to be back on track. ... Is Yusei Kikuchi back (9:51)? ... What do we do with Johnny Cueto, Wade Miley and Alex Faedo (13:15)? ... Rank Avisail Garcia, Ian Happ and Anthony Santander (17:05). ... What's going on with Javier Baez, Yasmani Grandal and other struggling hitters (21:40)? ... News and notes (32:24): Ronald Acuña is hoping to return on Tuesday. ... Let's take a closer look at saves and rank a bunch of relievers (39:35)! ... We wrap up with leftovers, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (55:30). Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. What's up and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today. On Tuesday, May 17, Frank Sample joined by Scottie Dubbs. Scott White today on the show.

We've got the Bullpen Report. Spend some more time on relievers. rank a few. We'll talk about waiver wire. Normally, we just save it for the end of the podcast. We recap what's going on. But I thought it made sense to take a closer look. Of course, Scott has his Bullpen Report article coming out on Tuesday. Make sure to check that out.

Johnny Quato is back with a vengeance. And I have to apologize because I said multiple times on this podcast that Hansel Robles would never get another save. And he snagged one on Monday. Yes. Unfortunately, I do have him in a lineup. It's tough out. It is tough to find saves.

But anyway, let's jump right in. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, my goodness gracious, Scott. Who do you have from Monday night? Well, I want to talk about a player that we might not get much of a chance to talk about normally just because the end-season podcast tends to focus on players who are somewhat available, if not widely available. And this guy isn't.

This guy has been a fantasy mainstay for years. But he's been better than ever this year. year, and that is Wilson Contreras. I forgot the name for a second. Wilson Contreras, the Cubs catcher, had a big game on Monday, hit his fifth home run, hit his seventh double, drove in four runs. And this performance is enough to move him to the top of the catcher heap for this year, at least in points leagues.

He's moved ahead of Dalton Varshow with this performance. and just having a really good year. And what I think is most notable about it is, as you'd expect, for the kind of production he's had, the hard hit rate, the average eggs of velocity, they're all up. They're higher than we've ever seen from Wilson Contreras before. The strikeout rate is also the lowest we've seen from him. and I think most notable of all,

the barrel rate is pretty normal for him. In fact, it's actually lower than last year. So he's managed to elevate his exit velocity and hard hit rate by as much as he has, while still not making like the most premium form of contact any more often than years past. So like his weaker forms of contact have caught up with his best forms of contact. which I think is interesting. Like, he's just not hitting the ball weekly ever. And I wonder, I wonder if there's some kind of underlying change.

Like, in terms of how much he's elevating the ball, that hasn't really changed. So I don't, you know, as far as I can tell in terms of that, you know, no signs of a swing change for Wilson Contreras. But I believe he's doing something different because, yeah, I mean, like I said, eggs of velocity, way up, barrel rate not. That is interesting. And looking at his batted ball distribution,

his infield fly ball rate is a career high, 15.4%. It's 8% for his career. This is Wilson Contreras we're talking about. So as he, hopefully, if he starts to hit more line drives and fly balls, it could turn into even better production based on how hard he is hitting the ball.

So I would expect that, that number to come down, the pop-ups to come down, because that's just basically who he's been in his career. And something else I've noticed recently, Scott, is he's DH six times this year. And in his career, he's been great as a DH. And that has also been the case this season. He's batting 409 with two homers, a 1253 OPS in those six games as a D.H. So I think that's...

Maybe there's something... A mental thing going on there is just clear head, able to hit better. Yeah. I think it's something that's helped him. I know he's in a contract year as well, so if you subscribe to that theory, obviously playing for money, playing for a contract, literally. So going out there and putting his best foot forward, and Wilson Contreras has been awesome.

So yeah, I have quite a few shares and happy that he is one of the only catchers that's hitting right now, along with Dalton Varsho, of course. Oh my goodness gracious for me. Not really much to add, but Freddie Peralta, I guess there's not really much to take away outside of, it's good to see that he's finally coming around. A pitcher's duel in Milwaukee between the Braves and the Brewers on Monday night. Seven shutout endings for Freddie Peralta. He allows just three base runners and had 10 strikeouts to one walk, 16 swinging strikes on 102 pitches. And it was good to see that the slider was working for

him because that's something that was not working as well earlier on in the season for Freddie Peralta. And all of a sudden, Scott, he's got 48 strikeouts over 35 and 2,30. third's innings pitch. So that sounds a lot like the Freddie Paralta from last year, slowly lowering that ERA. It's down to 3.53. All the underlying numbers still look really, really good for Freddie Peralta. What did you see on Monday night? Yeah, that's five good starts in a row from him. Actually, only the second quality start during that stretch just because he hasn't been pitching deep into games very consistently. But really, it was just a rough first two outings that kind of gave him a crooked line. And as you said, the numbers, that that line's starting

to correct itself. And I think it'll continue. I think Freddie Peralta, there's not much reason to worry about him. All right. Bonafide top 20 starting pitchers. There's a few pitchers in that mix that, you know, we do have some concerns about. We talk about Shane Bieber all the time. Robbie Ray, hopefully getting back on track. Same thing with Freddie Peralta in this start. On the other side, Scott, someone we really don't talk about much, but Ian Anderson has allowed three earned runs or fewer in five straight starts. And in this one, six innings, one run, only three strikeouts, two walks is actually a welcome site for Ian Anderson. I just think that his lack of control, Scott, just really limits the upside for Ian Anderson.

Four and a half walks per nine this season, three point nine walks per nine for his career. And it's not like he has this crazy strikeout stuff where he could overcome those walks, someone like a Robbie Ray, for example. So I don't want to say that this is just who Ian Anderson is because he's still pretty young. you know, maybe the control gets better, but it seems like that's what's holding him back right now. Yeah, he's been in our consciousness for a few years now, but he's only 24, so that is worth noting from a long-term perspective.

But here's the thing. You mentioned the walks, 4.5 per 9, obviously a bad rate. The strikeouts, 6.3 per 9. I mean, that's not far off from a 1-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio from Ian Anderson. Both of those rates individually are bad. And historically, if you're going to raise the red flag for a pitcher like that, that is like the easiest reason to do that.

Just neither the walks nor the strikeouts are where you'd expect them to be for the, for where the ERA is. And he is a good ground ball pitcher, Anderson. But yeah, I mean, X-FIP takes that into account. His ex-fips only 461. I think he should see some positive regression on the strikeouts, though, Scott,

because he had a 13.3% swinging strike rate entering today, which would represent a career high for him. So it seems kind of fluky that he's getting swings and misses, but the strikeouts haven't necessarily been there. Yeah, that is a good point. The whiff rate looks good, independent of the strikeouts. But if the strikeouts don't come around, then it's going to be a problem.

For sure. I think that's why I believe we all have Ian Anderson ranked outside of our top 50 starting pitchers. Yeah, you have him down at 70. I have him at 62. So, yeah, even outside of our top 60 starting pitchers. For those reasons that we mentioned, a bonus, oh my goodness gracious. Noah Cinderguard, getting hit with all the regression in one start on Monday. Does not escape the first inning.

He only records two outs. He gives up six runs, four of those earned, two walks, one strikeout. did not have any of his secondary pitches in this start. You could tell by his CSW called strike plus whiffs, only 24% in this start. Yeah, just not a good one for Cindergarde, Scott. And we were talking beforehand, you were thanking your lucky stars,

or rather just thanking Chase Silsef, because if he wasn't in the rotation, you probably would have started Noah Cinegard. Yeah, them keeping him around after that first good start, and then, okay, they must be going six-man for this week, which means Noah Cindergarde won't be a two-star pitcher. And fortunately, I mentioned on the podcast yesterday that I had removed him from my two-star pitcher rankings.

So hopefully, others like me, benched Cinderguard for that reason. I noticed the two little ball indicators remained next to his name on the set lineup page of CBS. But hopefully he ignored that and listened to me instead. And it's Adam because I did, and I'm glad. All right, let's talk about another two-star pitcher who looks like he's back on track. You say Kikuchi in the Roald.

revenge game against the Seattle Mariners. Now three strong starts in a row. He goes six shutout innings, one hit, three walks, six strikeouts in this one, 11 swinging strikes on 90 pitches. And that's now two starts in a row where he has not thrown his cutter. Now that's according to baseball Savant, and I also looked at Brooks baseball, just kind of comparing his pitch usage by start. And Chris speculated last week that Kikuchi is now throwing a slider cutter hybrid

because the velocity has been up based on it being labeled a slider so far. So that could be the case. Either way, it's working for Kikuchi right now. Three straight starts with six plus walks. Scott, do you think you say Kikuchi is back? You know, I think it's actually three starts in a row without a cutter for Kikuchi, which Bait lines up exactly with this turnaround that he's experienced over his last three starts.

Let's find the exact numbers here because they're pretty impressive. over, oops, I went the wrong direction here on my notes. All right, over his last three starts, Kikuchi has allowed three earned runs, only six hits in 15 and a third innings. And I looked at the numbers on both the cutter and slider for the season. Slider he's still throwing, but as you said, it might be a slightly different version of a slider now.

And those are the pitches he was getting crushed on early on. The cutter specifically, which is the one we know he's eliminated, batting average about 300, slugging about 600 against it. So it, you know, it stands to reason. He's doing better without that pitch.

Now, we have seen extreme swings in production from Kukuchi before. It's funny, easy to forget, I should say, that he was an all-star last year. That's how good his first half was.

And then by season's end, the Mariners were, how did he end up, How did he end up leaving the Mariners? They declined his option, right? I think so. Either they declined it or it might have been a player option that he declined. You're right.

It might have been a player option. I'll double check that. But yeah, it wasn't looking good by season's end. Yeah. Now he's hopefully on the right track again. Yeah, no, I think it's a really good point that you bring up. Obviously, you could try to sell Kukuchi because, again, there's these rapid swings in production. I don't think you're going to get anything for him.

In fact, I would rather just look to add Kikuchi based on what he's. doing. He's 69% rostered. Still might be out there in some shallower leagues. Last year, just a reminder, he had a 3.48 ERA and was an All-Star. And then in the second half of the season,

I think he had maybe the highest qualified ERA. It was one of the worst in baseball. That went up to 5.98 in the second half last year for Kikuchi. But right now, pitching well. So Kukuchi declined his own option. Yeah. Which surprised

which surprised me because after the way he finished last year, I was thinking, can he be sure he's going to get $13 million out there? But he bet on himself and the Blue Jays bet on him and at least over the last three starts, it's working out for everybody. All right, what do we do with these three starting pitchers? Are we adding them?

It's a very interesting list of names here. Johnny Quato made his season debut for the Chicago White Sox. And he was great. He was like vintage Johnny Quato in the start. Six shot out innings, two hits, two walks, seven strikeouts. He only had eight swinging strikes. But he was back at it doing all his theatrics on the mound. He was changing up his delivery and how fast he's pitching and rocking.

That wiggle thing. Rocking back and forth. Yeah, it's awesome. I love watching Johnny Quato. He is just amazing. But he threw his slider in the start. I realized 40% of the time. And according to Brooks baseball, that is the most he's thrown it in a start since

2017. So last year, it was just 23%. And it worked for Johnny Quato. So he's 6% rostered. The other names here, Scott Wade Miley, an awesome start against the pirates. Yes, it's the Pirates, but you can only pitch who's on the schedule. And he was great. Seven shutout, one hit, six strikeouts in that one. And then Alex Faieto, another solid start, Scott. Now three in a row, two and runs are fewer. And he gives up one run over five and two thirds with four strikeouts. Scott, what do we do with these three? Fyato, Wade Miley, Johnny Quedo. Well, the most exciting is Fayetteau, as I mentioned after his last start. In that one, he had 17 swinging strikes, 10 of them on the slider that's earned such high marks for him in the minors.

In this one, Faiado, gosh, okay, there is. Having trouble navigating my notes today. Sorry. In this one, Faiado had 14 swinging strikes, eight on the slide. So it was, again, a very effective pitch for him. And he did against the raise this time. Last time it was against the A's, this time against the raise. So opposite ends of the spectrum there in terms of quality of the opponent.

And he continued to pitch well. So I hope he sticks around. I have more confidence in Faieto at this point than either Casey Mize or Matt Manning, who are the two working their way back from injury. We'll see if the tigers feel the same. But that would be the only reason I'm reluctant to pick him up. I would pick Faieto up, I think, even over Kikuchi, if not. Like, if he was guaranteed a rotation spot, I think I would.

I'm pretty excited about him. And why wouldn't he, right? So, Ross, the Resource has four pitchers in the rotation right now for the Tigers. There's a chance that Matt Manning returns later this week. I know he's been on a rehab assignment. Casey Meiss has been the opposite. They actually slowed down his rehab. So even if Matt Manning returns, like, Bo Briskey is in the rotation right now for the Tigers.

True. Why can't Alex Fayetteau stick around? He's been really good so far. I mean, they sent him down after that last start, but hopefully they won't this time. Yeah, Wade Miley's pretty interesting, too. I mean, Wade Miley had 12 wins and a 337 ERA last year. It was, you know, he kind of collapsed down the stretch, but he sustained mixed league viability for a long time. It's a good ground ball pitcher.

It's been in the league a long time and managed to be good enough to keep his job anyway. I did add him to my 10 sleeper pitchers for this week once it became on Sunday when he gained two-start status and Martin Perez lost it. I switched those two. Didn't mention it on the podcast. But hopefully you checked the article when I updated it Sunday because Wade Miley was on there. And he delivered five walks in his first start back. Looked pretty shaky, but 7-1 hit innings in this start looked more like the guy we saw last year.

Limited upside. But he's going to be a streamable option for as long as he's healthy, I think. All right, fair enough. Let's move over to some hitters. I saw YouTube comments got yesterday that someone yelled at us because all we do is talk about pitching, which admittedly we do talk a lot about pitching

because I feel like there's just so many details to look at one night to the next and looking at pitch mix and velocity and all this fun stuff. But you're right. We could talk about pitchers, hitters more. And let's do that. Let's take a look at some waiver wire hitters from Monday night who stood out. Avicale Garcia is heating up.

He went two for four, hit his third home run over his last seven games. He's betting 370, two homers, one steel, 57% rostered. A few other names, Ian Hap went three for three with a walk, two runs. An RBI, he's now betting 282 overall. Anthony Santander had a double dong, one from Eighty-Ewen, each side of the plate. Also hit one of those off of Aroldus Chapman. The problem, he's batting just 233.

So the batting average is kind of plummeting here for Santander. Scott, any interest in these three? Avicel, Garcia, Ian Hap, Santander. I'm interested in Hap. He is having one of his best seasons. And I'm surprised his roster rate isn't higher. I feel like I'm always putting him in the top 10 sleeper hitters, including for this week.

and career best strikeout rate, so that's a good sign. He runs a little bit. Good power hitters. Long track record of hitting for power at this point. And yeah, I think he deserves to be rostered. The other two, you know, Avi Sal Garcia, I didn't think Miami was going to be a good venue for him.

He doesn't put the ball in the air that much. His ground ball rate is actually higher even than usual this year. So, you know, good in his last seven games, but I just don't think there's enough upside in his environment where he is right now. A little more interested in Santander. He has shown good power in the past. He puts the ball in the air a lot. He was walking a ton earlier in the year.

And that was notable because he, like, the biggest blemish on his track record, other than I guess health, is that he never walks at all. And so he went from this low OBP guy to this high OBP guy in April. But things have turned around predictably in May. Three walks so far in May for Anthony Santander.

That's more like what we're used to seeing from him. And I think he's going to remain pretty fringy at the end of the day, if he manages to stay healthy. I noticed the same thing, Scott. I mean, the plate discipline has been awesome for Ian Hap. I think he's making a conscious effort to make more contact. And as a result, we've seen a lot of ground balls. So maybe not kind of like selling out for power and trying to lift the ball.

But I think that would be the next progression, as if Ian Hap can find a way to make contact, but also put it in the air so we can get a little bit more power out of him. He's only got two home runs so far on the season. A few hitters for specific categories for speed. I mentioned the name yesterday. Eli White, Two for five with two RBI added his eight stolen base on Monday.

He's now batting 256. He strikes out quite a bit. I notice he also has a 16% walk rate so far this season. So he's got a 373 on base percentage. And he is fast. According to Statcast, 100th percentile in sprint speed for Eli White. The Rangers are very aggressive on the base paths. He's let off three straight games.

So 5% rostered for those in deeper leagues. If you need steals, Eli White is the name. And then if you need batting average, Jonathan Dazza, nine-game hitting streak, including three straight multi-hit games. He's batting 31. It's kind of empty batting average. He's got all these games in course field this week,

so it's got any interest there. Deeper leagues, you know, if you need this specific category, but Eli White and Yonathan Dazza. A little more in white, just because steel specialists, I think, are a little easier to work into a roto lineup. But in general, I don't like using category specialists. That's more of a fallback play than something you aim to do from the beginning.

Of course, it's not the beginning anymore. It's mid-season. So if you do need those deals, Eli White, sure, you could look into using him. Just a name to watch for now, Willie Castro with the Tigers. He went two for four. He's now betting 353. His strikeout rate is way down. He's hitting a bunch of line drives.

His XBA is 380. Just the deepest of leagues. But name to watch there, Willie Castro. It's got some struggling hitters in May. Let's bounce around a little bit here. We have not talked about Javier Baez seemingly all season. He went 0 for three. He's betting 2.10 overall, 576 OPS.

He was okay in April, but now he's really cratered. And I noticed the ground ball rate is way up. Home runs a fly ball ratio is way down. Do you have faith in Javier Baez getting back on track, his first year in Detroit? Yeah, I remember he missed a lot of time with injuries, He's almost two weeks in April. So he's only played 26 games.

I guess this was number 27 today. And, you know, obviously anyone with his track record deserves more time than that to get his numbers on track. So, yeah, there's a lot underneath there not to like. I just don't even think it's worth looking into yet. I think just you know who Javier Bayez is. more likely than not he's going to get back to being that. Do you think he's dropable in a points league's cut? Maybe.

I mean, I don't know how well, what kind of second baseman or shortstop you can pick up. It's not like the waiver wire is abounding and exciting hitters. You know, they've been much harder to find than pitchers, at least so far this year. I guess, you know, who were we talking about yesterday? Brandon Rogers.

Yeah, would you do that? No, I don't think I would. I don't think it. Because Brendan Rogers, as much as I like him, he's not a big walks guy. And that's why bias suffers in points leagues because he's not a big walks guy either. Yeah. So I think I'd just stick with bias. All right.

I noticed in our podcast Points League, Gene Seguro was a free agent. And I spent, I think, $8 out of our $100 budget, which is aggressive, but we need hitters right now. So I picked up Gene Segar. I threw him in my utility spot just because he is crushing it right now. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't mind if, I think he's over 80% rostered as Segura. Yeah. But if he happens to be rostered in your league, I wouldn't mind picking him up and starting him over, Bias, till Bias gets going.

But in the long run, I still think Bias is going to be better. Sure. Wander Franco, really scuffling here in May, he's betting 228, zero homers, zero steals, a 496 OPS. I noticed a strikeout to walk rate is fine. What stood out most, Scott, is the pop. up rate. Infield flyball, 21% in May for Wanderfranco, 5% in April. So it seems like that's something that can crater Babbup within one month, which is obviously a very small sample size. I don't see much to worry about for Franco. The hard contact is down. It was 48% in April. It's

only 33% for Wander Franco. It's his first full season, so we're probably still going to see some ups and downs. Obviously, April was awesome. Four homers, three steals, and obviously zero in both of category so far here in May, but I think we both still have a ton of confidence there. Yasmani Grandal, Scott, two for five, hit his sixth second home run. I wish he had six home runs right now. A second home run for Grandal on Monday, and he's batting just 176. The quality of contact is down compared to last year, just because Grandal crushed the ball last season, one of the best hitters in terms of impacting the ball. But it's in line with what he did in 2020 and 2019.

So what are you seeing here, Scott? Do you have faith in Grandaul getting back on track? He's a little bit older now. I do. I do just because, I mean, there was a time early last year when it looked like it was time to give up on him. He was batting under 200 when he had the knee surgery. And obviously ended up with his best numbers ever once he came back.

So I just think it's too early. And I know we cite that. things like exit velocity and hard hit rate and quality of contact and all that stuff, whether it's up or down because it gives us a little more to bite into. But, you know, if a player is underperforming, generally speaking, those numbers are going to be down. And I don't think it necessarily means that that's the new normal. I just think it means he's due to heat up. And hopefully this home run for Grundahl on Monday

is enough to get him going. I don't know if this will make you feel better, but just for reference, on May 17th last year, Yasmani Grandal was betting 132. Yep. Sounds right. Yeah, he's a streaky hitter.

It's colder in the early months, especially in Chicago. Go ahead, Scott. Let me see if I can, because you're talking about struggling hitters at May. Offense is up in May. Offense is up in May. And remember when we talked about it just a week ago, you were saying it wasn't up in May.

And now it's up in May. So it was a good last week for offense. In fact, you tweeted this out earlier today. The home run to fly ball rate just in the past week was 12%. That's compared to 10% in April. And I wasn't expecting the home run to fly ball rate to change as much as things like BABIP and batting average as we got into the warmer months. But that's pretty big change, 10 to 12%. 12% isn't as good as we saw during the juice ball era,

and I'm going to include last year with that. But it's better than we saw prior to the juice ball era. So, you know, I don't think we're in this like historically deadball time. You know, it's deader than we're used to, those of us who've gotten used to the past, five years, five, six years. But it's, historically speaking, it's not looking that way. Yeah, it's all about perspective, Scott, really,

because again, and I know you've cited this before, offense this year looks a lot like just before the juice ball. So it's just that we have that in our head, and that's what we're used to. Yeah, well, and hitters kind of geared their swings for the juice ball. Remember the whole fly ball revolution thing? That's what it was all about. and now fly balls aren't going to be as lucrative,

so they're going to have to kind of adjust back to that. Plus, strikeouts are higher than they were pre-juced ball because strikeouts have been going up for a while now, though they're down this year from previous years. So there's reasons offense is struggling beyond just the home runs directly. But the point is it's getting better. And some examples, some individual examples of it getting better, Josh Donaldson hasn't been that productive this year.

Three home runs in his last five games. For the month of May, he's batting 311 with a 960 OPS. Bo Bichette had a big game today, three hits in a home run, but bad numbers overall. In May, he's batting 304 with an 861 OPS. I thought I had a couple other examples here. Let's see. I have a few, Scott, that are also performing well in May. Gene Seguerra wrote down, has seen a huge jump compared to April.

Trey Mancini has been much. better. Brennan Rogers, we talk a lot about. Colton Wong is having a huge month so far. Cedric Mullins back on track. He's betting. He was betting over 300 in May entering today. And John Carlos Stanton having a big month as well. So just an example of some hitters there, the ones you mentioned. And hopefully it catches on with the rest of the league. So we can get more offense in general. Okay. So this isn't May, but Jorge Saler was the other one I had jotted down here. Past nine games, 303 with four home runs. You love to see it.

What you don't love to see is what's going on with Sayas Suzuki right now, Scott. This is the last one I'll ask you about struggling hitters for this month. And so far in May, he's batting 2-11, zero homers, zero steals. In fact, two caught stealing. Strikeout rate is 33%. I think we were kind of spoiled, Scott, and especially it was under a microscope because, again, no one was hitting in April except for Sayas Suzuki, and now it's kind of been the reverse.

So, you know, there's going to be a transition period here, I think. He's also been dealing with injuries, so I still like the player overall, say, Suzuki. Yeah, it was interesting how they, because you'd expect them to struggle at first, not just because the entire league was struggling, because it's a difficult transition. And he didn't even get a full spring training. And, uh, yeah, he clearly hit the ground running and I think we're all pretty excited. But yeah, I think it'll eventually come around. I wouldn't, I want to drop him or anything like that.

Yes. And do not drop or think about, I guess, benching Trevor's story because if you bench Trevor Story when he's cold, then you miss out on what he did on Monday night. One for three with a sock in the shoe, his second home run, his fourth stolen base. It was actually his first homer in Fenway. So again, he's the first year out of course field. It's taking more time than we would like, but hopefully this is a sign of things to come for Trevor's story. Keep him in your lineups. Before we take a break, I want to remind you to join our Facebook group. Facebook.com slash groups slash fantasy baseball today. Really fun community.

Lots of questions being asked, waiver wire, trade questions, grade to trade, dynasty keeper. So lots of fun. And if you want to interact with other listeners to the podcast, then you can join our Facebook group. Again, Facebook.com slash groups slash fantasy baseball today. We'll take a quick break and be back right after this. The news and notes. Ronald Acuna was out of the lineup again on Monday with that groin issue but is likely to play

on Tuesday. So hopefully that is the case. and hopefully you kept him in your lineups. Brandon Lau was placed on the aisle with a lower back issue, which really came out of nowhere. Maybe it's the reason for his struggles. Vidal Bruhan started at second base and is a name to watch. Obviously, big prospect hasn't performed yet,

but getting an opportunity to play now. Jordan Romano was not available to pitch on Monday because of a non-COVID illness. He is day-to-day. Adam Simber recorded the final two outs for his second save of the season. Lucas G. could return from the COVID IL and pitch either Tuesday or Wednesday.

I tried to get Gialito in after I saw this guy and the White Sox game had already started. So unfortunately, I will miss out on a Gialito start this week. Chris Bryant is expected to return from the IL on Friday. Willie Adamas was out of the lineup Monday with that ankle sprain and could require a trip to the injured list. Carlos Correa should return during this season, hopefully during this season. during the series against the Oakland A's. And Scott, I don't know. I think Royce Lewis might have heard

because he had a pretty good game on Monday, if I saw correctly. One for three with a walk, two runs scored. Solid game, a double. So he wants to stick around. They had Nick Gordon in left field. Someone named Celestino in Rightfield. Gilberto Celestino.

So come on. let's get Royce Lewis out there, play a corner outfield spot, and Carlos Correa at shortstop, and all as well. Everyone's happy. Let's make it happen. Chris Dale resumed playing catch on Monday. He's eligible to return from the 60-day IL in early June, but it's not yet known if he will be ready when he's first eligible to return.

Jeremy Pena was out of the lineup for a fourth trade game on Monday with a sore right knee. He went through on-field workouts before the game but was not cleared for action. The Reds are hopeful that Joey Votto will be able to return this Friday. Mitch Garver is starting a rehab assignment on Tuesday. He's on the IL with a right flexor sprain. Drew Steckenrider was placed on the restricted list Monday as the Mariners play in Toronto. So it sounds like a vaccination issue there.

Sheldon Noisy has missed two straight games with groin tightness. Jorge Mateo out of the lineup Monday, but could return Tuesday or Wednesday. Jake Oteroizi, scary sight on Monday. He's been pitching really well too. He left to start. He had to be stretchered off the field, some kind of leg injury. I haven't seen any details yet on it,

but does not look good for Jake Oteresee. Yeah, it was a little reminiscent of Mike Soroka, to be honest. So I fear that's a season ender for Oterizi. The upside for fantasy is that Christian Javier would presumably have a full-time rotation spot at that point. I know his last start was awful, but his track record is good. And I would call a must-add if Odirzi is out for an extended period of time. Yeah, I like Javier too.

I know he got roughed up in his most recent start, but for the most part, he's been really good when he pitches and gets the run support of the Houston Astros. Again, the name there, Christian Javier, let's pay attention. Nick Martinez will move to the bullpen with Blake Snell returning. I also read that Mackenzie Gore will be skipped. this week and will likely be used out of the bullpen to be kept fresh. And this is part of the issue, Scott, and why I thought McKenzie Gore was maybe a sell high a couple of weeks ago.

I think they're going to be really cautious with McKenzie Gore's workload this season. How are you handling this? Yeah. Well, he might be in the Aaron Ashby role now where he's, you know, if they want everybody to start every sixth day, basically, he'll be in the rotation. as days off allows, but if the day's off lineup, so people get six days off even without that sixth starter, then he'll work out of the bullpen.

So I'll be in this kind of swing man role, is my guess. I like to hear that he's ahead of Nick Martinez in the pecking order, because, of course, all it takes is one other injury in the Padres rotation, and then McKenzie Gore is back to having a full-time rotation spot. So I wouldn't be looking to drop. them or anything. But yeah, you're going to have to pay attention to when his starts actually line up at this point. Andrew Heaney could begin throwing bullpen sessions this week.

He's on the IL with shoulder inflammation, 72% rostered. I think he's someone that you should continue to stash if you have IL spots. Giants outfielder Luis Gonzalez was optioned to AAA to make room for Tommy Lestella, who was activated and in the lineup on Monday. Scott, I don't know why the giant, the Giants keep doing this, I think that this is their latest, we're smarter than everybody else

kind of thing that they're doing. But Lestella started the game. He went 0 for 1, and then Darren Ruff pinch hit for him again like they've been doing with Darren Ruff, and Ruff got two hits with two runs scored. It's just weird because you don't know when Darren Ruff's going to play,

but he's been playing, he's just not starting. It's such a weird thing. This is the latest, Gabe Kappler hates us. Yes, I think so. The Giants are doing, I would say. And, you know, I mean,

a lot of people are probably like, who cares about Darren Rough? He's only 10 to 15% rostered. And fair enough, but he was great in a part-time role last year. He seems to be heating up this year. He was getting regular bats earlier in the year. And he's sort of getting regular bats now, just not regular starts.

So it's hard to know what to make of that. Yeah, they only have a four-man bench. So I don't know. Like, they're stretching, they're making themselves vulnerable to injuries or having to play like a pitcher in the field, you know, by replacing their starters so early. It's very odd. But for the month of May, I know you mentioned,

yeah, who cares about Darren Ruff? But in May, he's hitting 361, one homer, one steel, 977 OPS. So he's hitting. It's just we don't know when he's going to be hitting. and rough. And any days, Kofani was transferred to the 60-day IL with that right ankle injury. Sixtho Sanchez was cleared Monday to increase his throwing distance off flat ground to 90 feet. He is dealing with that shoulder injury for the past two seasons.

Do we need to stash Sixtho Sanchez? No. No. And you probably don't need to stash, but worth noting, Michael Conforto will look to sign a contract after the 2022 MLB draft and could potentially return as a hitter in September. remember, he had shoulder surgery back in April. The Bullpen Report.

What is going on with saves so far this season? Well, there's been 274 total saves that's entering Monday's action. 92 different relievers with a save thus far. Three with double digit saves. And at about the same point last season, there were 262 total saves, so actually more saves so far this season.

87 different relievers. So there's more relievers with a save this year. Great, fun. More committees. And four with double-digit saves at this point last year. So that's about the same so far. But let's take a look at ranking Scott. I'm going to try and tear some of these relievers

and hopefully help people figure out because I've been getting a lot of reliever questions recently. We all have the same top 11 right now in our rankings. Me, you and Chris. Top two, no surprise. Josh Hader, Liam Hendrix. but have you had any concerns with Hendricks, Scott? We haven't talked about him recently.

4.70 ERA, 1.43 whip. Anything there to worry about? I keep expecting him to just go on a run, put his early season struggles behind him and just the numbers to very quickly correct themselves. But he keeps having these blips that keep his ZRA high. And he looks great next time out. Like he struck out the side for the save in tonight's game,

I believe. So, you know, and a lot of the underlying numbers look fine. I haven't been motivated to drop him out of that top two. But it is frustrating. It is frustrating that the lack of consistency from him so far. All right. So again, top two, Hater and Hendricks. The next five in some order, Rysseliglesias, Edwin Diaz,

Jordan Romano, Emmanuel Class A, Kenley Jansen. I think that all makes a ton of sense. These are pitchers who are established. they have the role, and so far they've been pretty good. Or even for Romano, he's been awesome. Rounding out that top 11, we have Craig Kimbril, Aroldus Chapman, Taylor Rogers, and Ryan Presley. Some interesting names here, Scott.

Kimbril only has five saves. He's actually in for a save right now as we are recording this and just gave up a two-run homer to David Peralta in a three-run game. So he still could get the save, but it's been kind of frustrating for Kimbril. Ryan Presley, the fastball velocity, has been down all season. And Chapman, Arulis Chapman, he's a name to watch too. The strikeouts are down.

Obviously, the walks are always an issue. And there are some good pitchers in that Yankee bullpen. Clay Holmes has been great so far this year. Scott, anything you'd like to add on, Kimbril, Ryan Presley, and Arolus Chapman? I wouldn't worry about Kimbril. He's hardly gotten to pitch. I think the Dodgers are just winning by two months. much when they win.

But that's not going to be the sort of thing that that happened. Like June and July could be very different. Like I expect Kimbril to at some point have a two-week stretch where he gets like seven saves, you know? Because that's just, that's how all these counting stats work. They're not evenly distributed from week to week to weeks. They can come in bunches. and there can be droughts. And I think it's just been a drought for Kimbril so far.

But we've seen, you know, Kenley Jansen has had no trouble, during his time with the Dodgers, during his recent years with the Dodgers, he had no trouble accumulating a big saves total. And I expect that'll be the same for Kimbril, provided he pitches well, which, you know,

hasn't been a sure thing with him the past couple years. I am worried about Presley. I'm worried enough about Presley, with the velocity being down, that in some of those leagues, like those 15-team Roto leagues we talk about all the time, where saves are especially scarce, I would like to stash away Raphael Montero, who was filling in for Presley when he was on the IL and did a fine job. And I think he would be in line to claim Presley's safe chances if Presley were to stumble. the next tier, and this is all kind of subjective, we could talk it out, Scott.

Maybe there's someone in a later tier that should be moved up, but let's talk it out. Corey Kinebel, Andrew Kittridge, Daniel Bard, Camilo DeVal, and Giovanni Gallegos. Camila DeVall actually picked up his sixth save of the season on Monday night, but he had just one save since April 26th before that, so just not really a lot of opportunities. Jake McGee is on the I.L. DeVall is the guy. Giovanni Gallegos has the last two saves for the Cardinals. He has six total compared to just one for Ryan Helsley. Tampa Bay, they're kind of doing some Tampa Bay things right now, Scott. I mean, Kittridge has been, he's been solid.

He's got five saves. He gave up a solo home run in a tie game on Monday. He wound up taking the loss in that game. But Brooks Raley has been involved. Jason Adam is someone I noticed has really, really good numbers in that bullpen. What do you think about, Canabel, Kittridge, Bard, Doval Giovanni Gallegos.

Yeah, so this is the stretch of closers who we feel pretty confident or in the role, but we obviously don't have the same level of trust in them as the previous group. And I think I think they all belong here. You didn't mention Melanchin, right?

He's got his own issues that I'm sure we'll talk about. Oh, we will. Yeah, Kittridge, he's the most he's the one we're most unsure about and yeah the Rays are doing grace things where each of their last three saves have gone to three different relievers

the ones you mentioned Kittridge, Raley and Jason Adam. I think Kittridge is still like the top guy for Kevin Cash, the leverage guy and usually he's going to be worth using in the ninth inning but there are times when

Cash would rather use him earlier for whatever reason and so that's we see Brooks Raley with three saves, one less than Kittridge. And could Jason Adam get in the mix there? Yeah, it could. The number is specifically 117 ERA.52 whip, 11.7K per nine from a guy without much of a track record of dominance. So who knows if it'll last, but the Rays do have a tendency to, you know,

find these hidden reliever gems and turn them into dominant. I mean, Kittridge himself fits into that category, right? So, yeah, I think Kedra's is still the guy to have here, but I don't know that you can count on him even having 20 saves. You know, the way you can for some of these other guys ranked around him. All right. Let's move over to the next tier, which includes David Robertson, who is still the Cubs closer, but he's been on the COVID-I-L for the past week or so.

David Bednar has been fantastic, has the last six saves for the Pirates. Gregory Soto has not been fantastic. He's walking almost seven batters per nine innings pitched. And then we have the two Barlow's here. Joe Barlow, who's actually pitched well for the Rangers. And then Scott Barlow, who seems like he's kind of settling into that role for the Royals. Scott, I would argue that David Bednar could be in the previous tier and maybe even at the front of that tier with how well he's pitched. Yeah.

Yeah, I'll be moving him up for sure. I think he has... I think he and Scott Barlow both. Remember, they were in what seemed like closing tandems at the start of the year. Josh Stamond actually got the Royal's first two saves before Barlow even got one. But Barlow's gotten all of them since, or at least Stomont hasn't gotten any, and Barlow's gotten four. Bednar, you know, was the same sort of thing with Stratton.

Strang got two of the first three saves for the pirates, but Bennar's gotten all of them since. And I think in terms of the other stats that these two have, have distanced themselves from their competition too, especially Bednar. I mean, Bednar looks like a top flight closer. He's on a bad team, but 12.5K per 9, he has a 1ERA, a 0.61 whip. Yeah. And he's been a top 10 reliever in fantasy so far, even losing those two saves to

Stratton early and even pitching for a bad team. So he's available in about a third of CBS Sports League still, and that has to change. Bednar stock is definitely on the rise here. All right, let's move on. This next group are 60% rostered or less in CBS. So now I'm just ranking them in terms of their roster rate, which this group is pretty dicey. So you got Jorge Lopez with the Orioles,

Mark Melanson, which apparently his role is being evaluated by the Diamondbacks right now, and rightfully so, he has more walks than strikeouts on the season. Danny Jimenez with the Oakland A's, Yuan Duran, who's 50% rostered, and then Ryan Helds. Scott, this is such an interesting group because you have closers-ish. You have guys who I would not label as closers,

but have really good ratios and strikeouts in Tehran and Heelsley. So it's an interesting group. What do we do with this? Yeah, it is kind of a mish-mash here. Melanson, look, the Diamondbacks obviously still want him to close. It's been a really rough May. he's in the first year of a multi-year deal so they want him to close

they're going to give him a mental break was what's was reported today with the idea of moving him back into the role gosh I never know how to say his name Tori Lavulo Yeah the Diamondbacks manager Tori Lavolo He thinks maybe he asked too much of Melanson coming back from a stint with COVID

because remember he had an ERA just over one before he went on the COVID IL. And after that is when he's gotten crushed. So I wouldn't be dropping the Lanssen unless it's a shallow league where there are closers on waivers all the time. I think he's still the long term the guy to have for the Diamondbacks. Soto, we mentioned Will Vest on yesterday's show. He got that two-out save on Friday. I believe it was and has been the tiger's best reliever this year.

Soto has now gotten two saves since then. So it doesn't look like his job's on the rocks yet, but he has control issues, and I don't think it would take much, as long as Will Fest keeps pitching well. I think Vest is at least Leapfrog Michael Fulmer as the backup closer. Fulmer's velocity's been down all year. So just like I was saying,

Rafael Montero might be a reliever stash, where saves are scarce. Will Vest might be as well. as hopefully the air apparent to Soto let's see, who else did you mention? Oh, Helsley, Halsley, gosh, he got that save two weeks ago at this point.

You know how many games he's pitched in since he got that save? Two. Yeah, I was going to say one or two. In two weeks. I don't know. I haven't seen anything to say he was unavailable. Meanwhile, during that time,

Giovanni Gallegos has gotten two saves. So I think, yeah, I don't. don't know, I don't know how usable Healsley is in fantasy as good as his numbers are. Yeah, I think he's someone you want in those deeper 15 team leagues, just because the ratios and the strikeouts are awesome too. And a 12-teamer, I wouldn't want to drop them, but I don't know how many saves Ryan Helsley is going to get. Scott, how would you rank this next group, if you need saves? Emilio Pagan, 39% rostered Tanner Rainey, 37%, Anthony Bender, 36%, and Dylan Floro, 35%. So we've got two

Marlins relievers in here. And frankly, Anthony Bass has been the best reliever for them this season. And then you've got Tanner Rainey and Pagan. How would you rank those four? I think I would go Tanner Rainey

one. His numbers are actually fantastic this year. He only has three saves because the national stink. Right. And that's the hesitation. But like Emilio Paghan seems like the easy answer because he has five saves and appears to be the favorite for saves. But he has about a walk per inning. He historically, he gave him 16 home runs last year as a reliever. He's had

problems keeping the ball in the park. I just don't know how long he's going to last in this role, especially when they got Yohan Duran, who, you know, is hitting like 103 and his numbers are fantastic. He's clearly the best reliever in the twins' bullpen, and I think Pagan needs to be looking over his shoulder at him. So I think I'd give that to Rainey. I don't know how many saves he's going to get, and I don't really trust him completely either.

But there isn't an obvious replacement there, like there is with the twins. Who else did you mention? The Marlins. Yeah, the Marlins. I don't know what the Marlins are going to do. Dillian, they haven't Floral has looked terrible since he's returned.

Right, and his velocity's down. Bender hasn't looked great. Obviously, his two blown saves three losses already. The Marlins, first of all, the Marlins only have gotten one save chance in all of May, so that's part of the reason we don't know what's going on. And it went to Bender,

he blew it on May 4th. So they don't have a save, like a converted save the whole month. Since then, Bender has worked the seventh inning once, he's worth the sixth inning once. They're not, they haven't, they're not necessarily using him in a way that suggests, oh yeah, he's still our closer.

But it doesn't look like Floro deserves that shot. They have some pretty good relieves as otherwise. You mentioned Bass, Cole Sulcer, Tanner, Scott has been kind of shaky, but he's got a lot of strikeouts. So they have options. I don't, like Don Mattingly has never been, the sort to use the committee. And so, like, it wouldn't surprise me

if he just sticks with Bender, but Bender's usage has been weird lately. These are the teams that I have kind of up in the air right now, Scott. The Cincinnati Reds, the Marlins, as we just talked about, the Red Sox on Monday, Hansel Robles picked up the save.

Matt Strom recorded the five outs before that, and he looked great. I think he had two or three strikeouts. The Mariners, you know, it's Paul Seawald, and it's Steckenrider when he's there and Diego Castillo. And the race too, which we mentioned

they've kind of been mixing and matching. I think some spec ads right now in deeper leagues Alexis Diaz with the Cincinnati Red Scott. I mentioned the numbers are awesome. You told me he's Edwin Diaz's brother so let's go. That would be awesome. Brooks Raleigh with Tampa Bay Will Vest, Ian Kennedy with

the Diamondbacks and the aforementioned Anthony Bass with the Miami Marlins. If you need holds These are the holds leaders so far. Ryan Deppara, Devin Williams, Drew Smith with the New York Mets, Kendall Graveman, Brad Boxberger, Jake Deekman, and Jose Ruiz. If you need big strikeouts and holds a few names that stood out.

A.J. Mentor, Zach Jackson and Eric Swanson. Pitching leftover, as I wanted to mention a few names, Scott, get your thoughts here. Corey Kluber, a nice bounce back after he got crushed in his most recent start. He went six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts, Sandy Alcantara, two strivener, two straight starts of at least seven innings. He went eight in this one. He gave up one run, only five strikeouts. He actually had a rough first inning and then bounced back, so that was nice to see. Louis Severino turns in his first quality start of the season, six innings, one hit, one run, seven strikeouts. And then Tony Gonsolin with a strong start at home

against the Diamondback, six innings, two runs, seven strikeouts. Good to see some length there from Gonson. He typically doesn't go very deep into his starts. What do you think, Scott? Gonsolin, Severino, Alcantra, Corey Klobber. Corey Klobber's more roster than he probably think he is. I couldn't put him on my sleeper pitchers list for this week. He wasn't lying. He's another guy who picked up a second start with rotations shifting around over the weekend.

So that's another reason to check back Sunday for those two-star pitcher rankings because Glover was pretty high on it. And he did have a nice bounce-back start here. And yeah, he's pitched well except for the one awful start. I think he deserves to be his rostered as he is. The others, of course, are widely rostered.

Gonsland, this was only his second six-inning start of the year, so he's pitched well. His ERA is, gosh, it's 136. But this is only his second six-inning start. Now, he does have a 398 ex-fip, but he has consistently had high X-Fips in his career and performed well in spite of them. So I think that's, you know, he's not going to have a one-fibb. 136 ERA forever, of course, but I do think he's going to remain a solid option for you. All right. Again, that is Tony Gonsolin. Let's wrap up to stream or not to stream. We'll start with Tuesday. Adrian Houser versus the Braves, Chad Kool versus the Giants, James Caprillion versus

the Twins, Tyler Anderson versus the Diamondbacks, Cody Potit versus the Nationals, Tucker Davidson at the Brewers and Reed Detmer's at the Rangers. So it was reported that it was going to be Spencer Strider making that start instead of Tucker Davidson, but Tyler Matzick went on the IL Monday night, so Strider was needed in relief, so we continued away for Strider to join the rotation, but it's nice that they were thinking about him anyway. Getting back to the subject at hand,

I notice you didn't put Josh Weinder on this list. Isn't he starting Tuesday? Because he would be the one. Let's see what MLB.com has to say because if he was on the list then I probably should have put him but let's see. Yeah.

The twins No, Dylan Bundy is returning tomorrow and he will pitch. Okay. So I forgot that then. I guess Reed Detmer's against the Rangers is the one to have here. Though I don't think he's a must

coming off the no-hitter. team name Tuesday coming up in just a second here but I do remember one from last year that we got Cody potit yourself which for the parks and rec fans out there it's it's pretty good one I like that Wednesday to stream or not to stream Nick Pavetta versus the Astros Marco Gonzalez at the Blue Jays Jordan Hicks at the Mets Drew Smiley versus the Pirates Dane Dunning versus the Angels Jordan Hicks at the Mets is okay but is he going to go enough to give you the win and you know the Mets are a pretty good team this year. So not a must, but that's my favorite of this group.

Yeah, it's not the best. I think we're going to stay away on Wednesday. Let's wrap up, Scott. Team name Tuesday. Feel free to leave a five-star rating on Apple and drop a team name in the review. We'll read it here every Monday night, Tuesday morning. And of course, you could email in some fantasy baseball at cbsi.com.

These are from our Apple podcast reviews. Kirby Enthusiasm. That's an interesting use of Kirby because, you know, obviously you think of the video game character Kirby. That's where I first go. Or maybe if you're a Twins fan, Kirby Pocket, something like that. But to turn it into Curbior, that's an interesting twist on it. I like it. I haven't watched Curbier enthusiasm, but I've heard great things. These are, look, Scott, you and I, we're lost here. We're not getting these. I'll tell you that right now. Lil Uzi Vert themed. So someone out there might get it. these and I hope you enjoy them if you do. Real Baby Muto and Paddock on my wrist. Okay. All right. These are from our emails from Andrew Babib Roberts. Okay. Like Bip Roberts. Yes. You know Bip Roberts? I don't, but it's funny because I have a friend, a very close friend. His nickname is Bip. So I was like... Name after the baseball player, Bip Roberts? No, he's definitely

not named after the baseball player, but... Former All-Star Bip Roberts, 192. Hit 323 with 44 steals. That's pretty good. Yeah. This one's from Thurgood. Ward, I'm worried about the Bieber. That's from the show, leave it to Bieber, I believe.

The wife's name is Ward or something like that. He explained it in the email. These are from Dylan, the big gosman. The big boss man, maybe? Wrestler. Oh, Snellm, though. Okay. Witt happens.

Yep. This one's. But know what I'm saying. You know the Royals have two wits now? Yeah, it's kind of confusing, right? Yeah. Because I'm sure we've seen that team name with the other WIT. Oh, yeah.

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you've probably noticed I got some clown paint on my face now. He's a wrestler, Danhausen. If you want to go down a rabbit hole, it's very easy. Just YouTube him and you'll see a lot. One winged angle. That's also wrestling related.

And our last one from our buddy Cole, he's one of our moderators on the Facebook group, Kyle Bad-ish. All righty. Who was quite bad on Monday. Hopefully you were not. brave enough to put them in your lineup like I told you to because I didn't really do it though did you I started him in Tower

Scott no boy no all right there for Scott I am frank thank you all for listening and watching fantasy baseball today we'll be back to get tomorrow bye bye