Fantasy Baseball Today - James Wood's Debut, June Leaders & Name That Player! (7/2 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 2, 2024

Brenton Doyle continued his breakout season (3:00)! ... Hunter Brown turned in yet another quality start (5:56). ... James Wood looked pretty good in his debut (8:47). ... News (13:45): Vlad Jr. was out of the lineup on Monday. ... Do we have any interest in adding David Peterson or Yariel Rodriguez (19:58)? ... MacKenzie Gore just had another great start and Alex Bregman has turned things around (25:27). ... Who were the June leaders in each 5x5 category (36:53)? ... Let's play Name That Player (42;58)! ... We answer some of your mailbag questions (57:53). ... Let's wrap up with bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (1:03:20). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: https://sptfy.com/QiKv Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question, email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Welcome to the bigs, James Wood, and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday. July 2nd. I am Frank Stamfield, joined by Scott White. Today on the show, only had three games on the schedule.

So we have ourselves a bit of a fantasy smorgas board planned for you today. James Wood did make his debut. We'll talk about June leaders. I have a game. Name that player. We're going to put you to the test, Scott. And some mailbag questions. Let's jump in.

Go crazy, folks. Go crazy. All right, Scott, you're up. Player of the night. I'm going to go with Brenton Doyle, Frank. Brenton Doyle had a huge game for the Rockies back at Cors Field for the start of their full week at Coorsfield, Brenton Doyle, Homer twice. He also doubled.

He also stole a base. This was coming off a poor June in which he hit 223, but has maintained the lower strikeout rate, 25.5% compared to 35% last year. And obviously, he's multi-talented player with power and speed, still among the stolen base leaders. That stolen base was his 20th. that's kind of a good news, bad news situation for me because I did have Brent and Doyle as one of my sleeper hitters for this week.

And in fact, considering only three games were played here on Monday, I feel like there are already a lot of wins among the sleeper hitters. But Brent Doyle's the biggest. This was a 19-point game for him. And that's the bad news for me because in the Scott White Dynasty League. I'm facing Brenton Doyle. And a 19-point day for an opposing hitter in a 24-team league. is it's not insurmountable, but it's not what you want to see.

Yeah, that's... But anyway, good for Brenton Doyle. Off to a great start in July now after a bat June. Yeah, I noticed the same thing about June, specifically his previous 10 games heading into this one. He was batting 125 with a 356 OPS, so was slowing up recently, but a breakout season overall for Brenton Doyle, one that has seen him hit 260 with nine homers, 48 runs. scored and 20 steals so far this season. He has cut down the strikeout rate tremendously compared to last year.

25 and a half percent K rate versus 35 percent last year. He entered Monday as the 20th best outfielder in Roto, the 31st in head-to-head points. And that's only going to go up based on this massive game. 19 of them. Yeah, this massive game that Brenton Doyle had. He might jump 10 spots one day in those head-to-head points. rankings. Anything else on him?

He's not like a cell high. I think he's just, he's fine. He, you know, really great speed and, you know, a little bit of power, right? Yeah. I mean, obviously, you prefer to start him at home rather than on the road, which is generally true for every Rocky's hitter. Let me see what the exact splits are here. Since we have the time, really going to stretch things out today.

Yeah, 318 batting average at home, $199 on the road. and that was prior to this big game. Yep. Updated 331 with a 925 OPS at home, 199 batting average with a 561 OPS on the road. So yeah. Maybe look to mostly start him at home whenever you could. Again, that's Brenton Doyle.

Let's talk about my player tonight. Hunter Brown continues to dominate this time. He was at the Blue Jays. He threw six shutout innings, two hits, three walks, five strikeouts. He did luck out. little bit here because there was no Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in the lineup, but you can only face who's in front of you, and that's what Hunter Brown did. He was really good. Once again,

he only allowed three hard hits in this game. He really leaned on that sinker, which he's used a lot more over this, you know, past six weeks, two-month stretch for Hunter Brown. It was his most used pitch in this start. Did a great job, inducing soft contact with that sinker. And last eight starts now for Hunter Brown. It's a 129 ERA, a 0.88 whip. 53 strikeouts over 49 innings. His ERA on May 5th was 889. It is now 407. Anything you'd like to add on Hunter Brown, Scott,

who is on quite the role right now? Yeah, I'm not really, I'm not quite sure what to make of his pitch usage in the last two starts, because it seems like he climbed out of that hole he was in with the ERA over 8 by fading the foreseamer. and mixing in a lot more secondary offerings. And that caused the four-seamer to itself get better.

It had a really good width rate in June. And now in his last couple starts, he's gone back to throwing that four-seamer about 40% of the time. And with as much as he increased his sinker usage in this one, between the two fastballs there, he threw them a combined 76% at the time. So there really wasn't that pitch mix, that when Hunter Brown was at his most dominant.

He only got eight swinging strikes on his 99 pitches in this one. It was facing a bad offense, Toronto. So I don't know. It worked for him. It's hard to complain when it works. But I don't know that this is the approach we want to see from Brown. So I'll just keep an eye on it, see if he continues to throw the fastball, get back to throwing it 40% of the time,

the four seamer specifically, 40% of the time. if we see the whiffs decrease and him start to run into another bumpy patch because of that. Yeah, I guess that would be possible. One thing I noticed when just looking into his overall pitch mix this season, some of his secondary pitches are really good. I mean, I think the approach should be, you know,

sinker, change up curveball. The change up and curve on paper, they look like really good pitches. It's great, expected Wobah, good whiff rates on those pitches. So I think the formula is there for Hunter Brown. I think maybe he just didn't need them today based on how he was pitching. He just kind of went with what was working and obviously just continues to dominate. That is Hunter Brown.

Let's make a quick mention here of James Wood making his Major League debut up against the New York Mets. And he went one for four with a walk. And I noticed the first time he was on base, he was off and running. He was attempting a steal. But the ball was put in play. So we'll never know if he had. actually would have stole the base or not. He can run, man. I mean, I know he had some steals in the minors and stuff, but he's got those long legs, long strides. So, yeah, I saw a few

plays where he had to, like, run the bases. And man, the speed actually looked pretty impressive there from James Wood. The other notable two hard hits in this debut, his single 106.7 exit velocity. Any takeaways here? I mean, nothing major, obviously. It's a sample of one. Yeah. Yeah, got the single, got a walk, got a strikeout. The single was hit hard as we would want it to be, as we would expect it to be from James Wood, who remember his average exit velocity at AAA was topped by only three major leaguers.

Only three major leaguers had a higher exit velocity, and two of them were Aaron Judge and Shohay Otani. So what's capable of hitting the ball extremely hard, just because it kind of exemplifies the one, area of concern for Wood. I will point out that he had only one batted ball in this game with a positive launch angle, and it was only five degrees. That was the single. So, you know, a couple outs that he basically beat straight into the ground and had a very low fly ball rate, very high ground ball rate at AAA. So hopefully that doesn't undermine his performance here as a rookie. But

overall, very excited about the potential. Happy he was in. the lineup. A little disappointed Jesse Winker was out of the lineup against the left-hander. Now, Eddie Rosario

did get designated for assignment to add James Wood to the roster. So I don't know that it's going to

be a consistent issue where Jesse Winkers out of the lineup. It was against the left-hander, obviously they started Harold Ramirez

instead at D.H. But does make me wonder. Winker did come off the bench. He got a walk. He got a double. he scored two runs. He looked,

you know, you were talking about how James Wood looked running. This was the first time I've really watched a Nationals game that closely this year. And Jesse Winker

looked good, rounded the bases. 17th percentile sprint speed. But he looked a lot faster than that to me. I don't know. He was motoring around there on,

what was it that happened? Oh, ball got past the left fielder and he scored from first base on what should have been a single. He was glad. lighting. I can see how he has those stolen bases. I mean, it sounds silly to say when his sprint speed is what it is, but I don't know. He looked pretty fast to me. Again, that was Jesse Winker.

James Wood, by the way, kind of getting thrown right into the fire. I didn't realize three lefties on the schedule this week. Three of his first four major league games are going to come against left-handed pitching. So his splits, his numbers against lefties were actually really good in the minors, but that will be put to the test right away here with James Wood in his first week of action. Thanks to everybody for watching live. Make sure to hit that like button and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. And if you enjoy the audio podcast, you can leave us a five-star rating and review on both Apple and Spotify.

We really do appreciate it. Let's take our first break. And when we return, some news and notes right after this. Welcome back in the News and Notes. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was. scratched from the lineup Monday due to that hit by pitch that he suffered on Sunday. Apparently his fourth and fifth fingers on his right hand remained swollen. He was not available to pinch hit either.

We will see if he is in the lineup here on Tuesday. Corey Seeger had an MRI and X-rays came back negative on his left wrist. He was also hit by a pitch on Saturday. He was out of the lineup on Sunday. He's another one. We'll wait and see if he is in the lineup Tuesday. Brandon Nimmo was out of the lineup due to a fourth. Forehead laceration, he suffered when he slipped and fell in his hotel room.

Now, we're all human. Anything can happen. But Scott, I feel like baseball players suffer the weirdest injuries that you ever read about. Yeah, that's a weird one. Who did you say suffered that one? Brandon Nimmo. Brandon Nemo. Yeah.

I think about, didn't Sammy Sosa go on the IL for coughing? Was he the one? John Smolz tried ironing his shirt when it was on. He was wearing it. That put him on the IL. What? Yeah. We don't need to get into that Zach Plesack one.

Remember that? Oh, gosh. Yeah. Yep, not great either. I think Jabba Chamberlain broke his ankle on a trampoline one time too. Just crazy injuries, man. Crazy stuff. Kodai Sengel will begin a rehab assignment at High A on West.

Wednesday, he slated to throw about 40 pitches in his first game of the season. And, you know, different injuries, but judging by Garrick Cole, he had three rehab starts, you know, maybe Senga three or four, and we could see him at some point right after the All-Star break. Speaking of the Mets, Christian Scott will be recalled to start Wednesday against the Nationals. He is 53% rostered. What kind of priority would you place on Christian Scott? I know we were kind of speculating yesterday that he's going to get called up. Now we have the actual news.

Do you still prefer someone like Gavin Williams ahead of Christian Scott? I mean, that's the discussion we had yesterday, Frank, and Reese Olson. I did move them up in my rankings today. And I've been logged out of the site. So it'll take me a second to pull it up. See exactly where I have him ranked. I want to say it's inside the top 80. Christian Scott, 76th.

76th. So I have him behind his teammate Luis Severino. head of Jordan Montgomery and John Gray and Kyle Gibson. So, you know, rosterable in most leagues. Okay, again, that was Christian Scott. He'll make his start on Wednesday. Merrill Kelly recently increased his throwing distance off flat ground to 120 feet. He is not expected back until mid to late August.

Isaiah Kiner Folefa was also a late scratch on Monday after feeling something in his left knee while stretching. He underwent an MRI and we are awaiting results. Yimi Garcia, or, you know, someone called me out for this. I think he prefers to be called Jimmy Garcia now. And we've heard that for years now, but I've actually heard that on the Blue Jays broadcast too. So Jimmy Garcia threw a bullpen session on Sunday. He's currently out with a nerve issue in his right elbow. If he could return, sounds like he would probably take over the closing duties once again,

considering Jordan Romano is out. Brewer's manager, Pat Murphy, said that using Sal Freelich at third base is a possibility following the return of Garrett Mitchell. Chris Taylor will have more of a runway to play third base for the Dodgers moving forward. We already spoke about with James Wood being promoted. Eddie Rosario was designated for assignment and some trade rumors.

The trade deadline is approaching late July. Ken Rosenthal said Tanner Scott is a popular name on the trade market and the Marlins are virtually certain to trade him at the deadline. And according to Bob Nightingale, so maybe take this with a grain of salt. The White Sox intend to try to trade. trade Garer Crochet by the trade deadline.

Conversely, rival team execs believe it's more likely that Petalanza will not be traded at the deadline. I've said this recently, Scott, I think if Garretre Crochet is traded to a contender that's probably better for his value, just not being shut down or not being limited at any point. I mean, I guess they still could, but I think it would be kind of weird. Less likely to happen. Less likely for him to be limited if he was traded. because they're going to give up a haul for them. So unless they'd have to be in such a good position for the playoffs that it was really just about acquiring them for the playoffs.

So I imagine that, yeah, him being traded to a contender would make it even less likely. His innings are curtailed in a significant way. Plus, obviously better run support. Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine Garrett Crochet's value ever getting higher than it is right now, and the White Sox are not going to be contenders by the time he hits free agency, which is still a couple years away, but only a couple years away. And it makes sense.

It makes sense that they would trade him, I think. If the Marlins trade Tanner Scott, not that this matters that much, but in deeper leagues where you're desperate for saves, do you think it would be Andrew Nardy, A.J. Puck, as the next man up for saves? You know, a couple weeks ago, I did a review of every team's bullpen. I can't remember who I picked

as next in line for the Marlins. It's not like they have an obvious pitcher in waiting. I imagine they'd kind of mix a match for a while until somebody really seized the job. Maybe AJ Puck is one to speculate on, just because he's held the role before. And obviously, they've given up on him as a starter.

So that's a lot of talent to have confined to a middle relief role. But we'll see. Some waiver wire options from Monday. On the pitching side, David Peterson turned in a quality start at the Nationals. Six and a third, two runs allowed, had two strikeouts. And the ERA is down to 351. That also comes with a 144 whip. and Jarrell Rodriguez, who pitches for the Blue Jays,

turned in the first quality start of his career, up against the Astros, six and two-thirds innings. One run, six strikeouts, 13 whiffs on 83 pitches. Velocity was up in the start, and it was his first time throwing more than four innings in a game in his Major League career. Only 10% rostered. Any interest got David Peterson or Yariol Rodriguez?

Not sincere interest. know there was some talk that maybe David Peterson could get optioned after this start to keep the Mets stocked with bullpen depth because they could delay filling that starting pitcher spot until the next turn came up obviously and fill it with Jose Budo instead, which is kind of what they did calling up Christian Scott to take, or they will eventually call up Christian Scott to take Tyler McGill's place. So they're kind of going with seven starters, but just freeing up a roster spot in between turns. You know, a five-man rotation using seven starters and freeing.

Hopefully you're following what I'm saying here. So we'll see if that happens with David Peterson. But yeah, this is not enough to convince me. He's an asset for fantasy. Yario Rodriguez, this was a more impressive start than Peterson's. and we've seen evidence of him having good stuff. I like that he had more of a four-pitch mix this time when previously he's been mostly just fastball slider.

I was able to mix him more curveballs and sinkers this time. I got a good result against a pretty good lineup there in Houston. But it's still just a one-off at this point. And I need to see a lot more than that from Yario Rodriguez, who was ranked second to last among my two-star pitchers going into this week. So, yeah, he's got a long way to go to win my trust. We had one hitter who stood out from the waiver wire. Harrison Bader continues to play well, two-for-four with two steals and two runs scored.

Last seven games, he's betting 360 with two homers and four steals. Harrison Bader, 30% rostered. Scott, do you think that number needs to be higher, Harrison Bader? How much did you say 40%? 30%. 30%. I mean, five outfielder leagues, if you need stolen base help, I could see him filling that need,

but I don't think you'll miss them if you don't have that need. So I think it's about right. Maybe it could be closer to 40, but it doesn't need to be any higher than that. Yeah, I think any five outfielder leagues, someone who's batting 270, on a like 25 steel pace. I would say a decently useful player. And he's doing some things differently this year,

hitting more line drives. He expected batting average looks a little bit better than previous years. So I'm not saying Harrison Bader is, you know, a league winner or elite by any means. But yeah, five outfielder leagues. I think he's totally fine. Reminer. I'll tell you what.

If things continue to trend up for the Mets lineup as a whole, then it could become one of those lineups that elevates everybody. stock. Because of course you have the stars between Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonzo. It sounds like they won't be trading. As you said a minute ago, Brandon Nimmo heating up, living up to the potential that the underlying numbers said he had all along. Mark Vientos cutting down on the strikeouts delivering big power numbers.

Francisco Alvarez had a huge game here with a double and a triple. he's batting I'm giving away all your notes here he's batting 462 with three home runs in his last 11 games and he has a strikeout rate around 20% J.D. Martinez coming around

we know what kind of potential he has he hit a homer here on Monday last 16 games 310 batting average with five home runs I mean that's that's a deep lineup they're they're crushing it right now and in a way that's not totally unbelievable I mean, Viantos, Alvarez, obviously, those guys were thought to have upside.

And like I said, we've seen it before from Nemo Martinez. No, I think it's a good point. And we've seen this in previous years last year. Not that the Mets are on this level, but with what the Braves did last year, the counting stats were just awesome. The Texas Rangers lineup last year, Jonah Haim had something like 100 RBI as a catcher. So, yeah, I mean, it could have this ripple effect that just overall boosts everyone's value in the lineup.

and they might be one of those lineups. We'll see if the New York Mets can keep this up. Reminder that you should look to stream. Charlie Blackman and Brendan Rogers, whenever they are at home. I know that they were sleeper hitters for this week. Off to a good start. Charlie Blackman, two for five with his fourth homer. On his birthday, actually, too.

Happy birthday, Charlie Blackman. Brendan Rogers, two for three with two walks, a run, and an RBI. Rogers, an 861 OPS at home, Blackman, 959. So yes, whenever they are home, those two are in play. Pitching standouts, Hunter Brown. we already spoke about him. Mackenzie Gore pitched well up against that vaunted Mets lineup, five and two thirds innings, one run, eight strikeouts,

21 whiffs on 104 pitches. 13 of those came on the fastball. And, you know, McKenzie Gore is kind of a tough one to figure out because there's this volatility there. He has all the talent in the world, but we do see inconsistencies at times. Two young pitchers here, Scott, that we spoke about today. Who would you rather have? rest of season. Hunter Brown or Mackenzie Gore?

I think Brown. One issue I have with McKenzie Gore is, you know, even though he's looked good off and on and has had big strikeout numbers off and on, six of his last seven starts are less than six innings. It's hard to be particularly useful in fantasy, as I always say. If you can't consistently go six innings, he's consistently going less than six innings. But I do think there's upside here. It does seem like the days he performs best are when he has that fastball going, when he's

getting whiffs with his fastball. And I don't know if that's mostly a matter of him locating it better. Remember, it was a few turns ago. He had probably his best start of the season, seven inning, the one exception to him going less than six innings. The seven inning effort against the Marlins, where he had 25 swinging strikes, I believe it was, mostly on the fastball. and then he did it

that was the Marlins lineup he did something similar here against the Mets lineup that then went on to crush every reliever that the nationals brought into the game so it was impressive I wish he could have gotten

one more out so that the bullpen didn't immediately blow the lead for him so they could have gotten a quality start but I think if you're just looking at this start for McKinsey Gore from an evaluation standpoint standpoint, it was one to be excited about.

Let's slide over to the hitting standouts and just going to bounce around. I have a few different questions for some of these names. Alex Bregman has really picked things up two for four with a double and a run scored since May 28th. That means his last 29 games. He's betting 325 with five homers, 24 runs right around a 900 OPS. Scott, are you ready to say that Alex Bregman is just back? based on the way he's performed over the past month or so. Yeah, yeah, pretty much.

Yeah. He hasn't been like a fantasy stud for a long time. Obviously does better in points leagues because of the plate discipline. But you're never expecting much in the way of batting, much in the way of batting average from him. And 20 to 25 homers is the expectation there. So a lot of it is just run an RBI production. and staying in the lineup.

But I think based on what Bregman himself can control, he's doing, it's been doing basically what he's supposed to do in recent weeks. The overall numbers are still lagging behind, as you mentioned. We depend on Bregman for the counting stats, and again, those are a little bit behind. But if he has another month like this with like a 900 OPS, I think those numbers are going to be closer to what we were expecting

coming into the season. Yoran Alvarez, one for three with a walk and his 17th home run. It feels like it's been a bit of a letdown season. He's still mostly been fine. 2.94 batting average, 17 home runs. Expected stats are still awesome for Yordaun Alvarez. Jeremy Pena has really slowed down before this game, one for three with his sixth home run.

And it was his first homer since May 17th. In 36 games between homers, 2.16 batting average, four steals, a 5.30. 8 OPS, still 85% rostered. Do you think that needs to be the case, Scott? Or can we start to drop Jeremy Payne in some shallower leagues? Yeah, I dropped them in the podcast league, 12 team head to head points. So on the shallow run, but I dropped them a couple weeks ago.

I haven't looked back. And it's, you know, the strikeout rate is good. The strikeout rate's better than last year, which does help to boost Jeremy Peña a little bit in points leagues, but power production just really isn't there. You mentioned the home run drought he was in. His actual slug is 385. His expected slug is 383. So he's basically performing exactly as he should, according to stat cast, which is not

an encouraging sign for him picking things up. Again, that was Jeremy Payne. We mentioned J.D. Martinez. He popped another home run, his 10th of the season. He has an 853 OPS. His 17.6% barrel rate for J.D. Martinez ranks in the 98th percentile of the season. Finally up to 80% rostered. I think that number needs to continue climbing.

William. He was the top sleeper hitter for this week. And I suspect he won't be eligible as a sleeper hitter again the rest of the season. He should not be. I mean, he should be in your lineups. But yes, he just shouldn't be under the threshold to be added anymore. William Contreras had a big game in Coresfield 3 for 5 with a double in his 10th Homer

His previous 30 games before this He was batting 222 with a 530 OPS, lots of ground balls So the numbers have come down overall Counting stats are still ridiculous for William Contreras Christian Yelich, he continues to hit 2 for 5 with a triple His 19 steel two run scored Overall he's betting 323 with an 892 OPS He entered Monday's action

as the ninth best outfielder in Roto, averaging 3.7 fantasy points per game that was sixth best among outfielders in that format. Scott, have you given a thought to moving Yelich ahead of Julio Rodriguez or Corby and Carroll in the rankings? Well, it'd be easier to justify with Corbyn Carroll. I don't really know what to do with Corbyn Carroll than my rankings

because I don't really know what to even think about Corbyn Carroll. and I just, I'm just hoping if I'm invested in Corbyn Carroll, obviously he was my first round pick in virtually any league I might have him. And there's nothing to do but hope that he turns things around. There's really nothing to do. And so to sell him short, I don't know, would it be so wild to trade him for Christian Eilich at this point if somebody was willing to go for that? I guess not, but I've just kind of kept, I've just kind of kept Corbyn Carroll behind all the obvious. studs in the outfield, just kind of forming the dividing line between them and the next class of

outfielders, which is led off by Christian Yellich. So it's not a huge gap. Yeah, maybe I could be persuaded to do that. But just not sure what to do with Corby and Carroll. As for Julio Rodriguez, man, he's still, he's gotten that strikeout rate back to normal. He's still hitting the ball as hard as normal. Chris Towers actually had an interesting tweet earlier today. I guess Julio Rodriguez is the last home run. I don't know when it was sometime over the weekend, I

guess. Was his home run hit the most toward left field, like toward the left field foul line, the furthest left of his home runs, the most pulled of his home runs. And it was

basically straightaway left, kind of a little toward left center. So he clearly hasn't been pulling the ball. He's clearly been wasting some of that hard contact, which makes sense. But I think that's something that we're going to see change. And when it does,

the return to form could be extreme. And obviously, the way the ball is carrying now should help for all the balls that aren't hit to left field for Julio Rodriguez. So I'm expecting huge things for him still rest of season. In fact, I was just putting together popular column. I do this time of year redrafting the first two rounds for the rest of the season.

I still got Julio Rodriguez in round two if I'm redrafting. And I did not consider putting Christian Yelich in there. Fair enough. Yeah, we do have some mailbag questions later on, one of them about Julio Rodriguez. And I noticed that pull rate is way, way down the season as well. I think that's part of the reason we've seen this power outage from Julio. As we saw last year, I mean, he had a pretty massive July, August, September. So he is someone that can get hot and carry your fantasy team.

We've seen that before. Hopefully that will be the case again here in the second half with Julio Rodriguez. Let's take our final break. And when we return, we'll run through some of the June leaders. We'll talk about that right after this. Welcome back in. Let's take a look at the June leaders. And we'll go by the 5 by 5 category.

starting with the hitters and batting average. No surprise. We mentioned what Aaron Judge did. A 409 batting average for the month. Second in that category was Carlos Correa at 388, who also had a pretty massive June. Home runs, we had three players in double digits for the month. Anthony Santander had 13.

Shohei Otani had 12. Aaron Judge had 11. Run scored. Gunner Henderson, 31 runs in 30 days in the month. Continuing on. breakout season. I'll be very interested to see where you put Gunner Henderson in those top two rounds. Scott, RBI leader was... High. Very high. As he should be. Aaron Judge, 37 RBI for the month, again, in a month that only

has 30 days. And the Steels leaders, there were three in double digits. David Hamilton with 12, Christian Yellich with 10. Pete Crow Armstrong, also with 10. I've mentioned this before. I don't know if Pete Crow Armstrong can hit, but he can run. That guy is really, really fast. anything that stood out here, Scott, from the hitting June leaders. I mean, the most surprising was that Pete Crow Armstrong was one of just three with double-digit steals for the month. And let me see exactly. Yeah, he's been playing an awful lot. So I guess it stands to reason has not been getting on base much, been striking out a very high rate.

So I'm not sure it's worth pursuing them. steals for Pete Crowe Armstrong. But you're right. If you want to say something positive about him, it's good that he's taking advantage of the few times he does get on base. Let's see. Anything else to comment on here? We've talked about Anthony Santander rising into my top 24 outfielders.

Carlos Correa, we've talked about how good he's looked lately. it's really hard to arrange shortstop right now. That is clearly the deepest position in fantasy, I would say. You talked about dropping Jeremy Pena. I talked about dropping them in the podcast league, and part of the reason I dropped them is because I can't start three short stops in a head-to-head league. There are just too many good ones.

I already have Anthony Volpe and Trey Turner on my roster. So couldn't deal with Jeremy. Pena and yeah, Carlos Correa, you could certainly make an argument for him being top 12 rest of the season, but I probably have him more like 16th, just because that's how deep shortstop is. Same thing with another player who had an awesome June, Jackson Merrill. I'd like to get him higher in my shortstop rankings than I currently have him. I haven't ranked a shortstop not that differently than I haven't ranked in the outfield, which goes to show how disparate.

Those two positions are. Yeah. I noticed that you moved Jackson Merrill up to 17th in your shortstop rankings. I am at 21, which feels low. I probably got to move him up a little bit. But yeah, awesome month for Jackson Merrill. We're finally starting to see some of that power, which we didn't know if he was going to tap into that this early in his career,

but obviously had a pretty awesome June there for Jackson Merrill. The pitching leaders in June in the wins category, there were nine different pitchers who had. exactly four wins in the month. Corbyn Burns, Jake Irvin, Tobias Myers, Grayson Rodriguez, Hunter Brown, Nicola Dolo, Gavin Stone, Andrew Abbott, and Kevin Ginkle, a reliever on the list.

How about that? ERA leader was Hunter Brown with a 116 ERA in June, who picked up right where he left off here on July 1st. The whip leader, Logan Gilbert, a 0.62 whip. That is insane for an entire month. Wow, good for him. Strikeouts. Crochet, no surprise there, 56 strikeouts for the month.

And the saves leader, another, no surprise, but Ryan Helsley, who is up to 30 saves on the season, he had 12 in the month of June. Anything here on the pitching side? Not a lot of surprises. Good for Nick Lodolo, even though he spent the last week on the IL to be one of those pitchers with four wins. Tobias Myers, we talked about him yesterday. We don't expect him to keep that going. Let's see.

Andrew Abbott. Yeah, that's a good time to sell high on him. I think he's going to get crushed as the ball starts carrying better here in the summer months. Wait, Andrew Abbott, Scott? He can't keep getting away with it. And there you go. You got to play the full clip. He can't keep getting away with it.

There you go. He won't. He won't. Is that what Hank says? Yeah, he does. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know.

What more there is to add? The only thing I wanted to remind people of is Logan Gilbert has really up to slider usage in recent starts, and that is kind of what has helped him take this next step. And we've seen that with a few Mariners pitchers. George Kirby using his slider more.

And same thing with Logan Gilbert. It's kind of helped not turn both of their seasons around because Gilbert has been fine all throughout. Kirby had a more, of a rough stretch. But yeah, really upping that slider usage, and it has helped both guys with George Kirby and Logan Gilbert. I've now moved Logan Gilbert to the top of my Mariners pitching rankings.

Ooh, spicy. Yeah. It wouldn't take much for George Kirby or Luis Castillo to leap past him, but for now, Logan Gilbert is the highest. Yeah. Right now, I have 8, 9, and 10 in my pitcher ranks. Kirby, Logan Gilbert, Luis Castillo. How about that?

Castillo third of the trio. A bit of a rough stretch for him, but obviously those other two are performing quite well right now. All right, Scott, are you ready to play? Name that player. I love playing games, Frank. Let's do it. Well, you know, one thing I kind of stress myself out about it.

I know you're very big into games, as you just said. I don't know if I did. I kind of built a whole career around it, you know. I just don't know if I did a good enough job. I was just in my own head like, oh, is Scott going to like this game? I don't know if he's going to like this game. Like, whatever. But the way that this is going to work is that I'm just going to give out a bunch of clues.

And you can blurt out the answer, name that player all throughout. I think we played this before and it didn't go great. Maybe that's what I had in the back of my mind. I guess the only way you could lose, Scott, is if you get all the clues and you don't name that player, you lose. You know, I should have loaded up some game show music or something. here just just bad job by me i seem to remember you had a weird clue about gavin lux that didn't make any sense that's what i remember i didn't i don't have i don't think i have anything too clever for these but i guess we'll find out uh all right so first up player a preseason 80p was 380.3 wow deep sleeper

i am currently ranked as the 18th overall player in rhodo slash categories anything? Anything coming to mind? Yes, I have a thought. Bryce Terang? You are correct! He's wearing the Brewer shirt today. There you go. The other clues, I've improved my batting average from 218 last year to, I think he's up to 288. I didn't actually write that in, but that was the last I saw on Monday.

I've currently, nope, that's the next player. My 28 steals are second most in baseball, and I'm in middle-in-law. fielder in the National League Central. So that is Bryce Terrang. I just feel like he's flown under the radar. And I was going to build this as like four underrated players. Bryce Terrain has been so good. And we haven't talked about him.

So here's our chance to talk about Bryce Terrain. It's been a while. Yeah, it's been a while. We talked about him a lot in April. Right. But April was a long time ago at this point. And looking at the batted ball profile here, there are two things that really stand out for me.

Because, yeah, I mean, you could fixate on the stolen bases. We knew he was fast. We knew he could steal bases. He had to get on baseball is the main thing for Bryce to rank. Ground ball rate up significantly, which is what you want from a speedy guy who doesn't have a lot of raw power. You want him to put the ball on the ground more and just find his way on base that way. So it went from 42% last year to 52% this year. It's a big increase.

Also pull rate down. He's been hitting the ball the other way. more, which again, you want that from a non-power hitter because spreading the ball to all fields yields more hits. And so I think it's just been a solid, ideal, optimal change and approach here for Bryce to Rang. That's allowed his batting average to climb 70 points and help him get on base enough to make good on that speed. He is hitting the ball a little harder on average, striking out a little less, just made

enough little improvements across the board to have this breakout season. And while it's an atypical profile for the modern game, it's not like he's totally punchless. He does have six homers, so he's on pace for double digits. And I'm pretty much buying into it. I don't know that he won't drop off at all, but I don't think he'll drop off a ton.

I think you made this comp early in the season, and it kind of feels like it's just playing out that way. You said this year's Nico Horner. That's kind of what it feels like, and that's what Bryce Terang has done for the most part. One other thing I'll add is he doesn't play, or at least early on, he wasn't playing against every lefty. He's been okay against lefties this year, 264 batting average. So the OPS not as good against righties, but yeah, if he can just hit 260 against lefties, I think that'll be enough to keep him in the lineup as an everyday player.

Again, that is Bryce Terang. Let's move on to the next player, Scott. Are you ready? Yes. All right. preseason 80p was 230.4. Not as late.

Not as late, no. I'm currently ranked as the 64th overall player in Roto. Okay, that's not very helpful. I'm currently posting career highs in batting average, 270, and OPS 811. Hmm.

I might have just made that up. 269 and 805. Close enough. Close enough. Yeah. Close enough. So he played today. That was my next clue.

That might be the biggest 10 of all. I played on Monday night. I am on pace for a career high, 27 homers. No, he wasn't drafted that late. This last clue is going to basically give it away. Okay, so hang on. Let me think for a second. The fact there were only three games today,

he was drafted about 240th. So Jesse Winker was drafted way later than that. Way later. I don't know that this is a player that we have mentioned a single time this year. A single time this year. Wow. Ah, man. Is it, I don't know.

In the interest of keeping the show going. I'm going to give you the final clue. And if you don't get it, in one try, then you lose. My home games are played in the Mile High City. Okay. So it's a Rockies hitter. And narrows it down. Career high, 27 homers for Rocky's hitter.

I mean, is it Brent Doyle? It is not Brenton Doyle. I stumped Scott White. Stumped the Scott. Brian McMahon is the name we're looking for there. Yeah. Someone we haven't talked about. He just kind of goes about his business. He's chugging along.

I mean, the clue we hadn't talked about him all year. We just talked about Doyle today, doy. Yeah, but Ryan McMahon, I mean, the stat cast numbers look pretty good. The expected numbers are there. He's got 14 homers through 81 games. Last year, he hit 23 and 152, and counting stats are on pace for career highs as well. He's just kind of doing it. He's in a season where a lot of hitters are not doing it.

Ryan McMahon is doing it. Yeah, I feel like his strikeout rate was a lot lower earlier on the season. I may be remembering wrong. It's kind of normalized, though. it's up over 28%. Not good. But playing half his games at Coorsfield can make up for that. There's an awful lot of red on a stat-cast page.

It is his best average exit velocity, his best barrel rate, best a lot of things, hard-hit rate by a considerable margin. So he's just making more impactful contact on average. And I would still. still expect that to normalize to some degree, his batting average to drop closer to the 240 level we're used to saying. I know there have been some trade rumors surrounding him. Yankees fans really want them to acquire Ryan McMahon. Is that true?

Not sure it'll happen. Is that true? I saw some buzz, some podcast segments. Okay. Put a lefty in Yankee Stadium, but obviously it's not course field. Yeah, I mean, I'd still prefer course field for. Ryan McMahon, but I don't want to be the worst place for him to go if you were to leave. Yeah, I mean, I think the way you put it is pretty much spot on. He's, he's actually been producing.

So it makes him feel more valuable than he ever has before. Ryan McMahon, 96th percentile average exit velocity. That is massive. 93.5 miles per hour. So shout out to him. He's had a great season. We are up to our third player. Scott, are you ready? All right, my preseason 80P was 295.8. I am currently ranked as the 47th overall player in Roto. So a big breakout season. Big climb. Yep.

Big climber, this guy. Entering this season, I had 18 steals in 448 career games. This year, I have 21 steals in 67 games. Oh. Wait, what was, read that stat again? the first half of it. Entering this season, I had 18 steals in 448 career games.

A lot of games. This year, I have 21 in 67 games. 21 already. For this feller. I mean, there aren't that many players with 21 steals. Who has that many? Let's keep it moving.

I'm currently posting career highs in batting average 317 and OPS 810. What the heck? It should be easy. People are probably screaming it in the chat. Again, it's just an underrated player that we just don't talk about much. 317 and he's like one of the leaders and steals.

I play my home games in California. Do you now? Do you really? All right. Take it through the California teams. This last clue will absolutely give it away. One by one. Who's 21 steals on any of those darn teams?

I don't know. I should know it by now. Last clue. And you'll get one guess. I have four different positions on CBS. Luis Renhifo. Luis Renhifo is right. Better to get it on the last clue than never.

Yeah. Breakout season for Luis Renhifo, who has all that position eligibility, joining an Angels team this year with Ron Washington. They've been much more aggressive on the base paths and just allowing their guys to run crazy. And that is what he's done. 317 batting average, 6 homers, 36 runs, scored 21 steals,

an 810 OPS. How sustainable do you think this is, Scott, with Luis Renhifo? Well, as expected batting averages 269. However, it is a career best strikeout rate 13.4%. Career best by a long shot. I think the batting average is going to regress a fair amount. Maybe not all the way to the expected batting average, but it's going to drop below 300 rest of season, I would say.

But he's going to be running so much that I'm not sure we're going to care that much. I think of Luis Renhifo is pretty close to must start. What's crazy is his sprint speed 40th percentile, but sprint speed doesn't always matter. As we've seen with certain players, certain situations, Steels are a very weird stat, very finicky, very dependent on motivation. If you want to run, you're just going to go out there and do it. And that is what Luis Renhifo and the Angels have done so far this season.

Let's move on to our final player here, Scott. Are you ready for number four? Oh, I better be. Preseason ADP, 82.4. Okay, he's dropped a little higher. Much higher. I'm currently the SP 14 and Roto and SP2. 12 in head to head points.

Okay. I currently rank eighth in K-minus walk rate and ninth in expected ERA. Okay, so he's... Pretty good pitcher. Basically doing what he's supposed to do here. But, yeah, I'm not sure. I'm not sure there's a clear enough clue yet. My fastball velocity is up 1.7 miles per hour this season.

1.7, you say. Is it... And I throw it a lot. And you throw it a lot. Okay. I don't think it's who I was thinking. I was kind of thinking it's Sunny Gray, but I don't think that's it. All right.

This is the last clue. You got to get it. I have two first names. You do, do you? Two first names. I'm bad at this game, Frank. This is not my best game. Okay.

So like a pitcher basically is doing what he's supposed to do is fastballs up a little. he has two first names. You're going to punch yourself when I tell you. I probably am. Right in the face. In the face. Right in the kisser. All right.

You have a guess for me? Or you're throwing in the towel? I mean, I can't even come up with a pitcher who has two first names. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Joe Ryan. Joe Ryan is correct. You got it. There you go.

The last gas effort. Almost choked. For Joe Ryan. Joe Ryan, a 321 ERA, a 0.96 whip this year. Mentioned he's top 10 in both K-minus walk rate and expected ERA. I've just gradually, every time I update my rankings, I say, I'm going to move Joe Ryan up a few more spots, a few more spots, a few more spots. I have them up to SP-14, Scott.

And largely due to, you know, my rankings are heavily weighted on. I look at K-minus walk rate. I look at expected ERA. and Joe Ryan is really good in both of those categories. Look, maybe he just regresses like he did last season, but given the velocity being up and a better feel for those secondary pitches, yeah, I'm kind of buying Joe Ryan.

It's just like a top 15 starter rest of season. So my experience with him is different. I moved him way up early on when the velocity was up and when he had a different secondary profile. And I just kind of kept him there. He's 23rd for me. kind of, he kind of forms the line of demarcation between the, the ace level starting pitchers and the ones who are just a little lower than that.

And I'm still a little wary of him having a blow up, a mid-season blowup, as much of a fly ball pitcher as he is. But, you know, obviously my claims this preseason that he was the most obvious bust to have, that, that's been a bust. My bust pick has been a bust. You and I both, Scott. Yeah. It's just a really hard one to figure out

and keeps changing things every year. But now the strikeouts are pretty much always there and he's doing it again. Yep. So four underrated players, again, that was name that player, Bryce Terang, Ryan McMahon, Luis Renhifo, and Joe Ryan. Let's wrap up.

I've got a few mailbag questions. We'll breeze through some of these. From Paul, grade the trade. I traded Paul Skeins and David Frye and got Austin Riley and Zach Gallen. I give that a. A.

An A. Not A, A, and A. An A for Paul. Great trade. This one from Adam. Azer. No, I'm just kidding. Grade to Trade.

Ten team head-to-head categories league. Trade Logan Webb and Clayton Kershaw receive Luis Heel and Ronaldo Lopez. Well, that's an interesting one. That is interesting. I think in a shallower league like that, you need to sell out for the most impactful pitcher you can, which I actually think is still Logan Webb. I agree.

As good as Luis Heel and Renalda Lopez has been good in different ways, those two. But Louise Heel's already showing some signs of fading, perhaps. And it's possible that in the second half, the most valuable of all these pitchers is Clayton Kirshaw. I'm not saying you should treat him that way in a trade because there's a lot of ways it could go wrong, obviously, but we know how good Clayton Kirshaw can be when healthy. So I think Adam, you did wrong here, buddy.

Uh-oh. This is an Adam Azer trade. No, that actually has a different connotation. I'm going to give it a D-plus. D-plus. All right. We had a question about Julio. We already spoke about him, though.

We have two questions about Matt Olson. First, this one's from David. Apparently, Matt Olson changed his swing before the year, and now most of his numbers are close to career lows. His exit velocity, max exof velocity, barrel rate, launch angle, hard hit rate, walk rate, etc. Could this be a Cody Bellinger situation? Matt Olson at this point batting 242 with 12 homers, a 748 OPS.

He is on pace for just 24 homers, 74 runs, and 83 RBI. Your thoughts? Well, I'm not sure what swing change you're, referring to to be perfectly honest and obviously I follow the

Braves closer than any other team. I'll tell you he hasn't looked that different at the plate this

year. So I don't think it's as extensive as anything Cody Bellinger did. And I think

the Braves have one of the best hitting coaches in terms of ordering mechanics in Kevin Seitzer

who's been there for a long time and obviously has a track record of bringing out the best and hitters.

And so to whatever degree, Olson swing may be off, I trust they'll get it right before the season is over. I will tell you that for putting together my first two rounds

for the second half, drafting for the second half, I told you I had Julio Rodriguez still in there. I did not have Matt Olson still in there. I did have Austin Riley still in there. I did not have Matt Olson still there.

You did have Riley in there. I did have Riley in there. Interesting. But I did not have Matt Olson. The strikeout rate is the highest it's been, right? And the expected stats, unlike somebody like Austin Riley, the expected stats are suffering a bit. Having said all of that, it wouldn't surprise me if Matt Olson hit 20 plus home runs the rest of the way, hit 275 or better the rest of the way. That's to a certain degree, that's how things played out last year.

Remember, he caught fire. It was a little earlier than this, but if you just look at the first and second half splits, there was a big difference there for Matt Olson. And it's not going to have as good of years last year, but he should still hit a ton of home runs. I think when all is said and done. There was this article from MLB.com before this season on March 15th, MLB's reigning home run leader discusses swing tweaks and big goals and talked about how he's looking to refine and improve his swing.

Spent a lot of the offseason watching Chipper Jones and Ken Griffey Jr., but so far has not looked like either of those players, Matt Olson. The other question regarding Olson was from Wes. I drafted Olson in the second round and it looks like his current pace is roughly around 28 to 30 homers, less than 100 RBI. Do I hold and suffer through a possible down year

or sell him off at the All-Star break for someone like Ellie or an ace like Zach Wheeler? Well, not to give away the whole column, but I do have Ellie de la Cruz obviously and Zach Wheeler less obviously as players I'd draft in the first in a redraft in the first two rounds.

Yeah. And I don't have Olson. So I'm not sure who would take this trade. But if you can trade Olson for either of those two, then sure. I'd that'd be fine. I don't think that's selling low on Olson because those are two really valuable players.

Yeah, I agree completely. When I was reading that, it's maybe this person thinks they can get that trade done, but if you actually have talked to another manager and they want to do that trade, then yes, I would say it's totally fine to trade Matt Olson for either. I mean, even if Matt Olson bounces completely back the rest of the way, I don't think you're going to lose this trade necessarily.

Yep. A couple other things from Monday, some bullpen updates for the Astros. Josh Hader got the ninth with a three-run lead. He gave up a solo homer but picked up his 13th save. For the Mets, They scored six runs in the top of the 10th, so you're probably thinking there's no way this turns into a save situation. Wrong.

Tyler J started the bottom of the 10th. He gave up four runs, three of those were earned. Reed Garrett entered with two outs, two runners on. He allowed a single, but then struck out one for his fourth save. Reminder that Edwin Diaz is still out with that 10-game suspension. And for the Rockies, Tyler Kinley got the top of the 10th with the Manfred Man, the ghost runner, whatever you call it, on second base. zombie runner I heard today.

Oh, okay. He gave up a walk and no runs, and Tyler Kinley wound up with the win. He still has an ERA over eight, and I don't think that we should chase anybody in the Rockies bullpen. To stream or not to stream on Tuesday, who did we say yesterday?

I think Kyle Gibson at the Pirates, Sean Mania at the Nationals, and... If we must. Maybe one of... Zach LaTal at the Royals, Simian Woods-Richardson. versus the Tigers?

Yeah, I like a few guys more than Manaya here. So I think Kyle Gibson at Pittsburgh is the best. And then I would go Simene Woods Richardson against the Tigers, and then I'd go Jose Soriano at Oakland, and then it goes Zach Lattel at Kansas City. And then I'd go Sean Mania at Washington. Overall, it's not a bad day for streaming. On Wednesday, we have the return of Christian Scott.

He is at the Nationals. Mitchell Parker is opposing him going up against the Mets. We have David Festa against the Tigers, Michael Waka against Tampa, Davis Daniel at the A's. We have Brian Bayo at the Marlins. So some decent options. Yeah, I'd go Michael Waca against the Rays. That's a pretty easy call.

And then I think I'd prioritize Brian Bayo at the Marlins just because the matchup's so good. Don't really want to trust Mitchell Parker against the Mets as hot as they are. Christian Scott at Washington might be my third choice here behind Bayo. I'd put him ahead of Bayo, except I imagine. and it's going to be a shorter outing given that he was throwing shorter outings at AAA. Let's wrap up with Team Name Tuesday,

and these are from Sarah. Fought Patrol. Okay. Kind of a stretch, but... Is that supposed to be Paul Patrol? I think so. That's what I thought, yeah. Where's my Bichet?

I'm not sure I get what that's referencing. Me neither. Okay. Maida Mize. My demise. Okay. Okay. All right.

From Ryan, witty endeavors. Okay. Endeavis. We haven't seen Devers name used like that, so I can, I'll accept it. Make it witchew. Make it with you. What's that referencing? No idea.

I don't know that I want to know. They want me to sing this last one to the tune of Jolene. Oh, goodness. Noel, Noel, Noel. I don't know if I did a good job on that. I applaud you for trying. Thank you. You want to give it a shot, Scott?

Not really. All right. These are from Tom. I believe they are all songs. So yay, good luck on us. Buxton up your overcoat when the win is freed. Okay. I mean, that's not the worst for having four names in there.

You bait or you bet. Okay. All right. This one's from, from Dan, Gomez and Festa Adamas. Oh my gosh. That's a nice try.

Doesn't really work. No? No. I'm pretty sure the subject line for that one was Scott is going to hate this team. So there you go. These are from Moe.

Royale with cheese. Oh. I mean, you're just kind of using wit as with. which is not very creative, but all right, it's fine. It's fine, Mo. You don't mean many Moes, you know? No.

No. Yeah, I'd love to meet someone named Mo. I don't know that I have. With an E on the end. Yeah, a gallon of sweet tea. Okay. I love sweet tea. So good.

Oh, you do? New Yorker. Big fan of sweet tea. I'm a big fan of sweet tea too. Ah, all right, Scott. Barbecue? Yes. It's essential.

Let's do it. Burns Baby Burns. Classic. And Grandma's Crochet. Oh. Surprised we haven't seen that more. This one, these are from Chris Yamamoto Crosses. Okay.

Guerrero Fierrified Air. Yeah. It's not bad. It's different. Young Frankensteins. Using Josh Young. Yeah. Riley E. Coyotes.

Ryle E. Coyotes. I guess. I mean, it should just be Riley Coyotes. Yeah, Riley Coyotes, I guess. Yeah. Scoobble do be do's. Yep. Well?

Yeah. Yeah. Never mind. Go ahead. One hour Soto. It's simple. Yeah. Yeah.

Pasquessile question. with the first half of Pasquantino, it looks like. Okay. Okay. Hyde and Seegers. Uh-huh. And this last one's from Jamie on Twitter. Vientos, the Freshmaker.

That's a good one. That's the best one. Pretty good. We end on the strongest one there, Frank. All right. We are going to ride there for Scott. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning into fantasy baseball today.

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