Fantasy Baseball Today - Jose Soriano BREAKOUT! Jordan Walker vs. Cam Smith! (4/7 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 7, 2026

The Jose Soriano breakout is happening (2:30)! ... Who do we like more between Jordan Walker and Cam Smith (8:12)? ... Dalton Rushing had a huge game but there's nowhere for him to play (16:35). ... News (22:00): Juan Soto went on the IL with that calf strain. ... Who were the most dropped hitters on CBS this weekend (30:02)? ... What about the most dropped pitchers (36:05)? ... What is going on with these pitchers (43:37)? ... Should Chandler Simpson be rostered in H2H points leagues (54:48)? ... Anything to see with these boring waiver wire pitchers (1:01:06)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpens, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (1:05:38). Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sptfy.com/QiKv⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow our FBT team on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@FBTPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CPTowers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@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/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. What's up and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday. April 7th, I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White today on the show.

Jose Soriano is happening. We have a cage match set up between Jordan Walker and Camp Smith. Both guys look really, really good right now. And the most dropped players from the weekend. I'm going to try and work this in on Mondays because I realize we need to talk more about the players who are being dropped and whether or not we agree. And so we will do that, Scott. Let's jump in.

That was the sound of everybody who rostered Jose Soriano on Monday. night. Do you agree? I don't think I've rostered him anywhere, so I can't share. But, but I can still enjoy it vicariously because he was, well, it was the cover photo for the sleeper pitchers for this week, one of the, I would say he was the top sleeper pitcher for this week, but I think I moved Michael Walker ahead of him once he became a two-star pitcher because the matchups were better, but still, so Oriana was number two, and Michael Walker started off the week well.

So we're off to a good start with the sleeper pitchers for this week. Best start yet for Soriano. It seems like he keeps one-upping himself every time out. Eight innings. He went against the Braves. Eight innings. And no walks, which if there was one work from his first two starts, it was that, he's walking a few too many guys.

Zero walks in those eight innings struck out 10, 15 swinging strikes on 97 pitchers. pitches. So the increased whiffs from Soriano continue now for a third start. It's getting harder to deny that we could be witnessing a breakout season for a guy who

was already pretty useful in fantasy because he was one of the top ground ball pitchers. But now he's added some swing and missability to that with the introduction of this four seamer to the arsenal to offset the sinker create a little extra deception there.

I keep hitters guessing a little more. He actually got multiple whiffs on four different pitches, which is not something we're used to see from Soriano. Previously, he had basically been a two-pitch guy. He'd mix in that splitter from time to time, but it wasn't a huge part of his arsenal. It was mostly just sinker curveball. Now, he's got that four-seamer, worked in the splitter a little more in this one,

had a great start. I think things are looking good. I'd say pick him up, but at least in CBS Sports Leagues for the two-star week, that already happened so much that he's up to 88% roster now. But obviously, even if he has a bad start next time now, you know, he's not going to be flawless all season. Even if he has a best start to close out the week, a bad start to close out the week,

I think you stick with him because the first three starts consecutively have been so encouraging for Soriano. Yeah, through 71. percent of his pitches for strikes here, Scott, and the arsenal, diversifying the arsenal here, he's become more of a complete pitcher so far. Five different pitches between 11 and 33% usage for Soriano. That is just different from the pitcher that we've seen in the past, and he had all of them working too.

So, look, there will be starts where he can't command all of his pitches. You know, obviously, like, Splitter is a pretty tough pitch to command. Curveball, similar, like a lot of those wind up being thrown out of the zone. because there's just a lot of movement on that pitch. So he's not going to be flawless, but man, through three starts, Jose Soriano has looked pretty damn good. It's a 0.45 ERA, 0.65 whip, and that extreme ground ball rate from last year

has carried over so far, 65% ground ball rate through Jose Soriano's first three starts. He is 88% rostered on CBS. He's 81% on Yahoo. So don't really think he can be added anywhere, Scott. We'll update our rankings later this week. you and I both have him around SP75. My guess is he probably moves up closer like that.

I'm not saying inside the top 60, but probably pretty close to it. I think I'll be able to make that case when I look at it in the next day or two. Top 60. I mean, I have Andrew Painter 60th. Honestly, with all the pitchers getting hurt, like yeah, maybe we could,

because a lot of them are going to drop down. Yeah. I mean, I'd rather have him than Andrew Painter at this point. 61 is Shane McClanahan. That's a little dice here, but it's not crazy to think you'd take Soriano over him. 62 is Ryan Weathers, I think. I'd take Soriano over him at this point.

So yeah, probably. Right around that range. Probably moving him up about that high. Now, 58, 57, I got Jack Leiter, Kodai Senga there. That's where it's like, I think those guys probably have earned a little more. more of my trust than Soriano at this point. So very encouraged by what we're seeing from Soriano. And I'm sure there are some people out there wondering,

should I sell high on Jose Soriano? I mean, look, any time a pitcher gets off to this kind of start and has never really done anything like this before, yeah, I mean, you can make the case sell high if you can get, you know, a struggling top 30 starting pitcher. Like, yeah, that I think is pretty obvious. But I don't know, some of this feels kind of believable

for Jose Soriano, the fact that he's changed the pitch mix, and he's still getting all those ground balls and threw a lot more strikes than this start too. I think there's a lot to be encouraged about here for Soriano. I did hear, you know, some people talk about this before the season, the fact that he gets so many ground balls and his defense is typically really bad behind him. I mean, that is a way that things can, you know, unravel a little bit, right?

Like more hits just happening as you give up, you know, more ground balls, and it's not a great defense behind him. So I guess that's like one case that you can. can make against them, Scott, but I think it's pretty believable. And I wouldn't sell high just for the sake of like, hey, I got to catch in now on Jose Soriano. So that is him. And I think you should be pretty excited if you picked them up early on in the season. Let's continue on and get to this cage match, Scott. We're going to lower the cage. Two men enter. Only one man can win. Cam Smith versus Jordan Walker. The Battle of the Post-Hype prospects. And both of these

guys are just off to awesome starts, had big games here again on Monday night. We spoke about them yesterday. We got to talk about them again, Scott, because they are still available in some leagues out there. Jordan Walker, two for five with his third homer. He had three hard hits in this game. Actually, the hardest ball that he hit was a 115.2 miles per hour. It was actually a ground out, a force out in that game, but did hit another home run there for Jordan Walker. and Cam Smith enjoying his first game in Corr's field a double, a walk,

hit his third home run in this game, and over his last six games, it's nine hits, three homers, two steals. Talked a lot about these guys, Scott, so I will throw it your way. Who do you like more? Jordan Walker versus Cam Smith.

Yeah, it's getting harder to say because Cam Smith, his exit velocities have been trailing even they weren't very good last year as a rookie they've been even lower this year i think it was something like uh when i wrote about them in the wafer wire article yesterday it was something like eighth percentile average exit velocity but that's with one of the best bat speeds and all the baseball it was already good it's gotten better this year and you know you see him do things

like hit 400 50 4602 foot home runs at course field granted it probably we wouldn't have gone that far elsewhere. The furthest home run hit in baseball so far this year. Yeah. But still, I mean, it's obviously nothing to shake a stick at. And what I like most about Smith that Walker can't say, or at least isn't showing any signs of, is it looks like he's going to run a lot, three stolen bases already.

He actually had more stolen bases than home runs prior to this game. Now they're tied, three each. Three all. and that's with 93rd percentile sprint speed. So he should run a lot, Cam Smith. But, but I think, I mean, Jordan Walker's hitting the ball 98 miles per hour on average. He entered the day with the highest average exit velocity in all of baseball. And that's, that's an impressive leaderboard to be at the top of.

I also saw he took, I don't know, Jordan Walker wasn't. like some draft day prize this year. So we weren't paying that close attention to what was happening with the spring. He wasn't performing all that well. But he took three days off toward the end of spring training to go into the hitting lab and work on his swing to help see the ball out of the pitcher's hand better. And now we're seeing these results early in the year. We always knew he had the potential to impact the ball this way.

It's what made him such a good prospect in the first place. now we're seeing him do it more consistently, which is why that average exit velocity is so high. I want to say neither of them has been pulling the ball that much. Yeah, that's absolutely true of Smith, and it's true of Walker as well. So like you can find Ward Smith with the low exit velocity and both of them with the low pull-aird rate, pull-air rate, obviously neither of them have much of a track record of success,

but they're both showing a lot of encouraging signs too as former top prospects, still young enough, both 23, that it's easy to picture them taking a big step forward. And I think it's to the point now where they both have to be picked up just because the upside is so high. So, you know, it'll take time to sort out

what is noise and what isn't, is the low average exit velocity for Cam Smith noise, is the high average exit velocity for Jordan Walker noise. It'll take time to sort that out. but there's enough here to sink your teeth into that you should go ahead and do it. And so I didn't answer your question. I just kind of praise both of them. I will give Jordan Walker the slight edge.

I agree. I would give Jordan Walker the slight edge as well. The one thing that stood out to me when looking at Cam Smith, and I am really impressed with both of these guys, so I don't want to sound like I'm talking down on Cam Smith. But, you know, we have to nitpick. That's the point of having this conversation is some of the underlying plate discipline stuff for Cam Smith. it looks a little troublesome early on here.

He's chasing a lot. His zone contact is sub 80%. And his swinging strike rate is 16% so far. That is a really high number there for Cam Smith. It hasn't resulted in a big strikeout rate, only 24%. But if those things maintain, then the strikeouts will rise here for Cam Smith. And Jordan Walker has done the opposite. His swinging strike rate has dropped from 16.6% to 13.3.3.3.

So that actually is a pretty notable improvement so far for Jordan Walker. Everything is a small sample size so far. But again, if we're just nitpicking between these two, I would give a slight edge to Jordan Walker as well, Scott. I think they are approaching, you know, names like these other names that we were excited about the young guys like Dallotter and Carson Benj, who are, you know, probably borderline top 40 outfielders. I wouldn't put Jordan Walker or Cam Smith ahead of Dallotter, obviously. but, you know, once we get into, like, would you drop Noel V. Marte for either or both of these guys right now? Well, that's an easy call because Marte is not even playing that regularly. Yeah.

I think binge, Cars and Benj is harder. You know, at this point, where are Walker and Cam Smith in terms of roster rate? I know they were both. They're both still sub-70%, 67 for Walker, 62 for Cam Smith. They've gone up a lot just in one day. Yeah. And I would imagine the sort of deep leagues where you wouldn't dream of dropping Carson binge, you didn't have to, and it's already happened, the move's already been made.

So it's probably more leagues on the shallower end of the spectrum. And it's probably fine to drop binge just from the perspective of I need to give myself as many shots at a breakthrough player here. And binge, I might be able to sneak through for a while. Still tons of upside there, but you might have another chance at him. Well, here we are talking for 10 minutes about Jordan Walker and Cam Smith at the top of the show. They were both prominently featured in the Waver Wire article I wrote on the CBS Sports website. Like, they're getting plenty of attention right now. And if they do end up being big breakout players, you'll look back and this was your one and only shot at them.

So obviously not to Lauder because he's off to an incredible start as well. I'd hesitate to do like Jack Caglione either. But you're getting close to the right range where you could think about making the swap. Maybe like a, what about like a Jacob Marcy? That was the next question. Yeah. He's off to a terrible start. I think in a shallower league, I would be all right making that move.

you're obviously not dropping Jacob Marcy in a five outfielder league right there's just not enough outfielders to consider that and probably Cam Smith and Jordan Walker have already been picked up there but in case they have you're probably not dropping Marcy there you're probably someone else you can drop instead because the league is of such a depth but yeah three outfielder leagues I think that's probably fine for the same reason it's fine to do with Carson Bench yeah I mean I would make the same case for, you know, someone like Kerry Carpenter who's rostered in 87% of CBS

leagues like. That's easy. That's easy because he's a platoon player. Yeah. So there are names like that who just don't play every day that I would, if there are more rostered in a shallower league than either of those guys, I would go ahead and make that swap. So I declare Jordan Walker the winner for now, Jordan Walker versus Cam Smith. Before we hit our first break, did want to have a quick chat about Dalton rushing Scott. I know you were talking about him before, before we started here, it was bombs away for the Dodgers, man. They went into Toronto and hit a bunch of home runs. Otani hit his third.

Freeman hit his third to Oscar Hernandez, a sock in the shoe, his second home run, his first steal. But Dalton rushing, massive game, 4 for 4 with a double dong, has three homers in his past two games, has started just three games total this season. And if he were on almost any other team, Scott, I think we would have the same level of excitement for rushing that we do for, like, Carter Jensen, but he's a backup catcher for the Dodgers.

So it's hard to get too excited about it. Yeah, and if you'll remember back when he was called up, the expectation was, oh, well, they're obviously not just going to have him backup. Well, Smith, he got some exposure to left field in the minors. Like, they need to get their spat in the lineup, and they'll get creative to do that. And Dave Roberts, pretty early on, was like, no, he's here. He's only going to play catcher. And it's like you want to stunt this guy's development that way.

I mean, obviously he can't get a bat to DH. Shoya Otani's filling that spot. He's not going to play much if he's just catching. And that's still true. It is interesting that he started back-to-back games and Homer three times between them. Only a second third start and third starts of the year, but it was back-to-back.

apparently Dave Roberts said it's because he wanted Will Smith to catch Yamamoto and Otani the next two days. They just had Justin Rebleski going here on Monday. And so I guess Rebleski doesn't get the Will Smith treatment,

but those other guys, Roberts wanted him to get it. Yep. But what's curious about that to me is, okay, but Will Smith just had a day off. You're saying he can't catch three days in a row? that doesn't make sense. There might be a few like,

it might be like a day game after night game type situation. Maybe. Well, Wilson is not an old guy. I don't know. I just thought it was kind of strange. Like, is this a sign that rushing is going to cut into

Wilson's playing time more? For fantasy, it probably won't be enough. Probably. I don't know, maybe some of those 15-team two-catcher leagues, it might be. But not,

most leagues. If anything, I worry about Will Smith and how much time he's going to lose to rushing. I think that's fair. I do buy the explanation here from Dave Roberts. So the Dodgers face the Blue Jay's to-day Tuesday at 7 p.m. Eastern time and then Wednesday at 3 p.m. Eastern time. So normally you don't see a catcher start a day game after a night game. But again, for the reasons you mentioned, they want Will Smith to catch both Yamamoto and Otani. and I think that's why they gave him the extra day here. But look, if Dalton Russian keeps raking every time, you know, he plays, then they've got to find a way to get him some playing time.

But they also really love Will Smith. So ultimately, I don't think it will affect him much. But we'll see. Huge game here for Dalton Rushing. Let's take our first break. When we return, we'll get to the news and notes right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. Let's hit the news and notes.

and Juan Soda was officially placed on the IL with that calf strain and is expected to miss two to three weeks. Ronnie Maricio was recalled from the miners. And obviously, look, calf strains are tricky cats, as you reminded us yesterday, Scott. Cavs are tricky cats. Caves are tricky cats. Get the quote right.

You can't mess around. That's basically the point here. And I actually commend the Mets for doing the right thing and not trying to like play through this and mess it up even more. I mean, I wish they had told us a day earlier. I don't know how many people got stuck with Juan Soto in their lineup. I know that was a problem for me in one league.

It was one of those leagues where a lot of expert leagues are set up this way, but I don't know that the normal layman's league is usually set up this way, where you have Fab run the night before, and that's how players are picked up off the waiver wire, so you can't just add somebody before the lineup log. like you got to know the night before. And there was one league where I didn't pick up an extra outfielder, so I'm just stuck with Soto in my lineup all week.

And that kind of stinks. I also hope it's just two to three weeks, but calves are tricky cats. And there's a chance in a week and a half from two weeks from now, Soto's going on a rehab assignment and still bugging him. And that would be frustrating. Not much you can do about it now. Just hope for the best.

Well, if you need a soda replacement, Jordan Walker, Camp Smith, there you go, and in Chalera Leagues, check to see if they're out there. Another pitching injury out of nowhere. Matthew Boyd placed in the aisle with a left bicep strain. Craig Counsel said he expects Boyd back after the minimum time. Javier Assad will start Tuesday for the Cubs. And it has just been a brutal run of pitcher injuries here for the Cubs. First, Kate Horton, who sounds like he'll miss extended time. and then obviously Matthew Boyd. It's not a long-term injury here for Boyd,

but it's still annoying for the Cubs and their fans. Apparently, Jacob DeGrom had a minor right-knee issue before the game here on Monday, which is why he only went five innings. DeGrom said, all is fine now, and he could have kept on pitching, so they're playing it safe here. But look, man, Jacob deGroms getting a little bit older,

and we've already had like a neck pop-up, a knee pop-up for DeGrom. So I just hope it's not just, you know, one nagging thing after another for DeGrom. He pitched well, Scott. Velocity was down a little bit in the start, but I think that knee probably explains why the velocity was down a little bit here.

You were worried about Cole Regens. Kept telling you, Frank DeGrom. There's a lot of season. The Grom's the injury risk. A lot of season left, Scott. There's a lot of season left. And DeGrom's not as in actually, you know, he's not on the IL or anything.

He pitched well for having knee tenderness is how it was described. is tender. But, you know, hopefully that's all it is. And we don't hear something tomorrow about it. Mookie Betts said Monday that he already feels light years ahead of where he thought he was going to be, do not rush back from an oblique injury.

That would be a terrible decision for Mookie Betts. Mike Trout was not in the lineup Monday after getting hit by a pitch on his hand on Sunday. X-rays were negative, but I also read that they did not do any other testing, which, why not? Why not just be sure of everything being okay with Mike Trout? Maybe they still will. Who knows?

Nick Ladolo is apparently using a new resource to deal with his blister issue and is making some progress in his recovery. He played catch on Monday. Esoc Paredes was activated from the bereavement list, but not in the lineup. This is part of the problem, Scott. It's, you know, when everyone's going well for the Astros, Paratus not in there, especially in Cores Field.

Like, you know, that's when we want parades in there most, you know? Yeah. So this is, other than the three games he was away on bereavement, this is the second time he's been out of lineup. Correct. So, you know, I bet he'll be in tomorrow and someone else will have a day off. And that's usually how it goes with their super utility guy. he plays almost every day

and everyone he replaces plays almost every day but none of them play literally every day. Yeah. I guess one thing we need to pay attention to is I would be surprised if Yordon Alvarez played a lot of left field on the road this season just because left field in Houston

is they got the short porch there. There's less ground to cover obviously. I don't think that they're going to put Yorda Alvarez in left field in Corse field. I mean, there's so much space out there. So they'll have to find another way, like, you know, give Correa a day off or Christian Walker. But like both of those guys are off. He's an old guy.

Give him a day off. They're both off to good starts. That's the problem. Yeah. Well, yeah, we'll see. Alejandro Kirk will undergo surgery, thumb surgery here on Tuesday. And it sounds like they will have more of an idea for a timetable after the surgery is done. As expected, Pete Fairbanks was placed on the paternity list.

Addison Barger's ankle is trending in the right direction, but a stint on the IL has not been ruled out. Sal Freelich was back in action after sitting on Sunday with a left side injury. Austin Hayes left Monday night with a right hamstring strain and will go on the 10-day IL. Max Surzer left his start early due to right forearm tendonitis. Jordan Westberg will begin a throwing progression this week. He is on the 60-day IL with a partially torn UCL in his elbow. The race activated Taylor Walls from the IL and sent Carson Williams back to AAA.

The athletics option Luis Morales to AAA on Monday. No word yet on who will take his spot in the rotation. The Angels placed Ryan Johnson on the IL with a viral infection, which means George Cawson could get another start here with the Angels. And I'm not sure if this is a type... Shuddy. Shuddy. Probably not.

I'm not sure if this is a typo or not. I couldn't find it anywhere on Twitter. Scott, but I saw a player update for Marlins pitching prospect Noble Meyer. Apparently he has a shoulder strain, and this report said he will be out 12 to 16 weeks. I don't know if that's true or not, but... Usually you start talking months when it gets to be that many weeks. Right, yeah, that's kind of weird phrasing. You know what?

I write it as months, and that's why I was so taken back. 12 to 16 weeks actually isn't so bad. It's like three or four months for a shoulder strain. I mean, that could be fine. But most of the season. Yeah, I mean, that's true. I honestly, when I wrote it down, I thought it's a 12 to 16 months. And that's why I was like, whoa, this guy is out for like a year and a half with a shoulder

frame. So you mean, I just now clued you into the fact that it was weeks and months. Unless you wrote it down. Maybe the typo is yours. You know what? Honestly, now I need to look it up. But I'm pretty sure it said weeks, but my mind just read months. I don't know why.

It's like my kid is, is 48 weeks old. Like, who says that? Or my, you know, my, my kid is 60 months old. How old is he? Oh, he just turned 60 months. He's five. Right. At some point, referring to your kid as a certain number of weeks or months old makes

sense, but it ends. 12 to 16 weeks is what the, uh, the player update says on CBS. Yeah. Which is, you know, they could have just had three or four months. I think it would have been a little bit easier. A week's not exactly four weeks. Months, not exactly four weeks. A week is exactly seven days.

Yeah. I am just, this is killer content right here. I know. Let's talk about the most dropped players on CBS from this weekend. And we will start with the hitters here. And I will, I'll read off the first five, let's say. And then we'll get to the next five. But Nelvi-Marte dropped from 88% to 71%.

Addison Barger from 90,000. to 75. Caleb Durbin from 69% to 55%. Alejandro Kirk from 85% to 73%. Kyle Manzardo from 53% to 42%. Scott, are you in agreement with those players being dropped to those levels? Did you say you skipped over the injured players intentionally? I did not say that now.

You did not, but did you? No, no, I didn't. Because usually it's injured players at the top. So that's interesting that it's not. and obviously gives us more to talk about. Do I agree with these? Well, I guess Alejandro Kirk has entered, so that would be one. But he was over-roastered anyway at 85% given how stacked catcher is this year.

So he probably deserved to be dropped anyway to 73%. I'm not saying dropped everywhere. I'm saying, you know, there aren't 73% of leagues that are deep enough for Kirk to be rostered a more. Anyway, okay, so Noel V. Marte and Addison Barger, they're part-time players. The fact they're over 70% rostered still, while Cam Smith and Jordan Walker are not, I think they could keep going down. I would drop them both for either of those two. So, yes, I agree with that.

Caleb Durbin from 69% to 55. I don't know that there's, unless he's been sitting some for the Red Sucks, I haven't even looked. I presume he's just off to a cold start, so people are getting cold feet. He has set out just one game so far. Yeah. I think if you like Caleb Durbin going in, you should still like him. I saw some people maybe talking them up a little too much, but the initial 69% roster rate seems fine.

55. It's still fine, but it's, I imagine he's not going to get much lower than that this year without an injury or playing time change. and then Kyle Monsardo Let's see his playing time this year And they've only faced one lefty Them and the Rockies Guardians of Rockies only one lefty each

Monsardo started every game Except against the lefty So again if you like Monsardo coming in I don't know why you would change your mind now I think part of the problem for him Is that so many like corner infield players have emerged early on in the season. So I think people...

Name three. T.J. Rumfield. That's a good one. I don't know. I feel like every night I'm writing that corner infield got... Miguel Vargas. I'd still take Monsardo. Yeah, and Monzardo was a pretty streaky player last year, too.

I remember, like, he went through months where he was not usable, and then other months where he was really good. So I think, what about Ryan O'Hern? He's been striking out a lot. Yeah, O'Hern, that's a good one. Jake Berger? Colt Keith, who also has, his bat speed is up. He's hitting over 400.

He was only 53% rostered in the first place, Manzardo, and that, so you're getting into deeper leagues there, 42%. I guess it's fine. If you're picking him up for somebody in that range, like we just talked about, but in the long run, I think Monsardo is going to end up being what you drafted him to be.

So don't pull the plug just because he's striking out 34% of the time in the early going, pull the plug because there's somebody really exciting to pick up and Monzardo's your worst player. The next five most dropped hitters from the weekend, Nolan Aronado,

from 62% to 51, Kobe Mayo from 39 to 30, Moises by Astero's from 44 to 35, Jordan Beck from 43 to 34, and I don't think you'll like this one, Scott. Spencer Torkelson from 84% to 76%. No, you shouldn't give up on Torkelson that soon. It is just an 8% drop,

and O'Hern is less rostered than that, where Torkelson is currently Wilson Contreras, who had a big game here on Monday. I know he was off to a slow start himself, but I view him and Torkelson is about in the same. category roster-wise. Maybe some people picked up Rumfield instead of Torkelson, which I still want to do because I imagine Rumfield's going to be a platoon player that Rockies have faced only one left-hander

so far. They're facing no left-handers this week. The run of Riteys will have to end at some point. Rumfield sat against the one left-hander they faced. Maybe he'll stay so hot through this week that they'll just say, forget it. Next time a left-hander comes up, we want Rumfield. but I doubt it. I think playing time is going to be an issue for him eventually,

and it won't be for Torkelson. The name I wanted to bring up real quick is Jordan Beck. He has actually sat out three times already this season, so four times, excuse me, including on Monday. So if you have him in a five outfielder league, I think you could probably drop Jordan Beck. So there was some skepticism coming in, and now the playing time hasn't been great.

So, yeah, I think you could probably. He hasn't been great for a long time now. His second half, and I know I talked about this in the preseason, it seemed like Beck was being overdrafted. Second half last year he had a sub-700 OPS. A ton of strikeouts. Yeah, he got off to a hot start when he got called up last April, but there wasn't much after that.

The most dropped pitchers on CBS from this weekend includes Cody Ponce, injury, obviously there. Jacob Lopez from 63% to 44%, Chris Bassett from 70 to 52, McAbel from 57 to 40, Shane Smith from 82 to 65. The ones that stand out for me, Scott, are Lopez and Abel. We like the sleepers coming into the season, and people are kind of pulling the plug quickly. It's tough because there's a lot of pitchers that have kind of, you know,

emerge early on here, and you've got to make like snap decisions. So I understand it's tough. Yeah, that's what makes this conversation tough. It's tough for a couple of reasons. I think very few people listening have any frame of reference for what roster rate looks like on CBS. Because even if you've looked at roster rate on your own platform at times, well, roster rate is very different on NFBC versus Yahoo versus CBS versus ESPN. It's so tailored to the depth of the leagues that are usually played on that platform and the scoring system and et cetera. So I'm very familiar with the roster rate because I base a lot of content on it.

But people listening, these numbers don't mean anything to them. So that's part of the reason this conversation is difficult. Another reason why this conversation is difficult is because it's framed without the context of who you're picking up. And so it's easy for me to say, oh, I'm not ready to give up on Jacob Lopez. I talked about that the last time we talked about him. I'd be a little reluctant to give up on Mick Abel or even Shane Smith, who's been terrible through his first two starts. Like I think it's too early to say, yeah, they're going to have a bad season.

But if they were your only chance of picking up Jose Soriano, I get it. And we have talked about how, um, that's the game you have to play, particularly on the pitching in this time of year, because those, the players showing signs of a breakthrough on the waiver wire gets snapped up right away. Some of them are going to be legit.

Some of them are going to stick and be this year's biggest breakouts that nobody saw coming. And in order to give yourself the best chance of securing as many of those as possible, you just have to play the game of snapping them up. and so you've got to figure out who to drop, who makes sense, the late round flyers who are off to terrible starts.

You drop them, they're probably not getting picked up. And that's probably true for Jacob Lopez in most leagues, even though I think there's still a lot to like there. So it makes sense, the roster rate falling. I'm just saying, don't foreclose the idea of them still being breakouts too. I get it. I get you only have so much roster space

and protecting them is less important than protecting. Who's a good example? Not Jose Soriano because he's been picked up everywhere. Like Parker Messick. Yeah, sure. Parker Messick or I'm trying to think even lower end than that. Emerson Hancock?

Yeah, sure. Emerson Hancock. One of those guys. You get the idea. Protecting Parker Messick, Emerson Hancock is more important right now than protecting Jacob Lopez and Mick Abel. But there's still a long way to go. Keep your eye on what Lopez and Abel are doing.

The five other most dropped pitchers right now, Griffin Jacks from 65% to 49%, Christian Javier from 49 to 34, Justin Verlander from 33 to 22, Dustin May from 29 to 18, Tyler Malley from 65 to 54. I think the bottom four names there, that's totally fine. Like Tyler Malley, you could probably stream them in the right spots, but it's not a big deal. Griffin Jacks is the one that stands out, Scott.

And I think, you know, those could just be a lot of points leagues where people maybe thought Griffin Jacks was going to be the closer. I would still hold on in like 12-team roto leagues are deeper, but I understand why it's hard to hold on to Griffin-Jack when other, you know, save sources are emerging right now. Yeah, no, I think, In a world on a platform where Jordan Romano is only 55% rostered with his four saves already, it makes sense for Griffin Jacks to be rostered less than that.

So that's, again, trying to contextualize the rates that you're seeing just in a vacuum. Well, Jordan Romano is less than 60% rostered himself. Who would you rather have at this point? Romano. Who would you rather have between Griffin Jacks or Riley O'Brien, who's much less rostered than that? I think Riley O'Brien. And leagues where saves are scarce, where anyone emerging off the waiver wire as a possible save source,

Gregory Soto's fetching 10% of the fab dollars when we don't even know that he's a full-time closer. Obviously, you can't drop Griffin Jacks in a league such as that, but few people would play in a league such as that. As for Javier, Christian Javier, Justin Verlander, Dustin May, Tyler Malley. I'm kind of foreclosing the possibility that they could be breakouts this year.

It's probably fine to not just remove them from your roster, but remove them from your mind until they show something that gets us talking about them again. But I'm skeptical that's going to happen. All right, let's take our final break. When we return some confusing pitchers, man, bad starts. What is going on? We'll talk about it right after this.

Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. What is going on with these pitchers? And up first, Scott, your boy, Chris Sale, had a terrible outing here at the Angels, four innings, six runs allowed, two homers allowed in this one. What went wrong with Chris Sale? Yeah, I happened to be watching this while I was working on IL stash rankings.

And he had a really, weird inning, the fourth inning. Both of the walks came in that inning, and he hit two batters in that inning. So he walked in a run. He hit a batter to give up a run. There was a well-placed ground ball that was responsible for a run. It was kind of between shortstop and third base, and there was just no play. It was a weird inning.

He didn't give up the two home runs. there's no writing those off, but average exit velocity was 83 miles per hour in this one. So he wasn't giving up a lot of hard contact. He missed a ton of bats, seven strikeouts and four innings, 12 whiffs on 77 pitches.

The velocity was back up, like you said, after he was pitching with a stomach bug last time. It was way down. It was back up, normally where we're seeing it. So I think he's fine.

He just kind of had an inning where the command was off. That was the main issue here. He's still for the start. Still through 66% of his pitches were strikes. That's a good strike rate. But things just went awry in that inning. I'm not worried. I am watching a video of like parts of this fourth inning where, uh, man, like he let his emotions really get to him too. The catcher threw the ball back to him on a walk.

He tried to catch it with his bare hand, dropped it, picked it up, and then slammed it off of his own head. It's like, dude, what is going on, man? Like, I get, I know, look, we all know Chris Sails, a fiery dude going back to his days of, like, cutting up jerseys and the White Sox Clubhouse and all that. But, yeah, that is, that's kind of weird to see for, like my kids when they play baseball.

Yeah. Or me watching my players on my fantasy team, Scott. That was me all. That was me all Monday night. Like, why did I ever pick up Ryan Weiss? That was the worst thing I ever did in my life. And now I can't take it back. But oh well, let's talk about Bubba Chandler who struggled with control again, this time against the Padres.

Four and a third innings, three runs, four walks, four strikeouts, only through 58% of his pitches for strikes. We know what went wrong, Scott. The question is, how worried are you about Bubba Chandler in these first two starts? Long-term perspective, not worried at all. short-term perspective, like rest of 2026. Kind of worried. Not so worried him dropping him, but worried enough where I'd be reluctant to start him.

I mean, it was a two-star week this week, so he kind of had to. But now, you know, he got his strike percentage up to 58% in this start. It was way down at 53% the first one. 58% is still terrible. that's the joke there if you don't have a frame of reference for strike percentage. Yeah, and it was a problem all spring as well. It was a problem in the minors last year. We chalked it up to frustration with him, his promotion being delayed,

and maybe that contributed to it. We've seen him come out of it. He's a good control pitcher in the minors in 2024. He was good for his time in the majors last year through a ton of strikes. So not all hope is lost here, but it's been real bad so far, enough that, again, I think twice about starting Bubba Chandler. And if you started him in a two-star week, obviously you already locked in. He is at the Cubs this weekend. Bubba Chandler is a team that has really good play discipline,

the fourth highest walk rate against right-handed pitchers so far this season. So that will be your real test there for Bubba Chandler. next week home against the Tampa Bay raise. So I think if he doesn't show signs of improvement this weekend, you're most likely benching him next week against Tampa Bay. Let's talk about Shane O'Mac, Shane McClanahan, and up and down start here against the Cubs. Only lasted four innings, one hit, four walks,

two runs allowed in this one, only through 51% of his pitches for strikes. And he really just lost the feel in that second. inning. I was watching the start. He walked three in the second inning of this game. Outside of that, he looked alright, but it's, you know, velocity still remains down. Scott. What are you seeing here with Shane O'Mack? Well, it dropped more in this start from the first one. It was down another mile per hour, putting him two below, actually more like two and a half below for the fastball when we last saw Shane McLean-Han healthy. And that's a big, that's a big drop.

obviously he's not pitching very deep into starts either. I'm a little reluctant to drop him because he's Shane McClanahan. And we saw him have some success this spring working in other parts of his arsenal, not relying so much on the fastball. So I think there is a path to success here. And Shane McClanahan, just because of the name value, you drop him, there's a good chance he's getting scooped up and you never have another chance at him if he does turn it around.

but it's hoping against hope I feel like at this point and a little early to give up, but at the same time, if he's your only path to getting, I guess it's too late for Jose Soriano at this point, but I don't know, let's say, let's say that even though they're in Colorado, the next timeout, Mike Burroughs has a great start. And he's available in a lot of leagues still.

And obviously there was a lot of enthusiasm from coming in. Let's say he goes six-innings, strikes out 10. If Shane McClanahan's the bottom guy for you and you want to pick up Burroughs, I can understand it. I'd rather not, but I can understand it. Yeah, I would really,

try and not drop Shane McClanahan as well. I understand like that specific scenario would be a very tough one to be in. But, you know, he's still working his way back. He hasn't made starts in the regular season in a long time since 2023. So I still think there's a chance that he could build up and get better.

But obviously these first two have not been great here for Shane O. Mack. What about Brandon Woodruff? Not great at the Red Sox. Five and two-thirds inning, seven hits, five runs. three of those earned four strikeouts to two walks and his velocity was down even further in this one it was 46 degrees in Boston

so that does not seem great for Brandon Woodrow Scott where are you out on him? Yeah I think we give him a pass since it was so cold that's a big drop in velocity but you expect that when it's that cold and I think his pitch selection shows that he was struggling with that cold

in addition to the drop of velocity showing it the pitch selection does because he threw his change up about twice as often as usual it was responsible for seven of the ten whiffs let's let's not panic yet let's see him pitching again in normal baseball conditions he was pretty good in his first start

that's all I really had to say about Brandon Woodruff right now and two other names here who had good first starts and then pretty bad second ones. Andrew Painter, four innings, nine hits, four runs allowed, basically had nothing working in this start at all. And then Casey Mize, a big old stinker at the Twins, four and a third innings, five runs, three walks, four strikeouts,

and his velocity was way down across the board. It was 37 degrees in Minnesota here on Monday night. So what do you do with Andrew Painter, Casey Mize? Would you, do you hold both of these guys? K.C. Mize was pretty ordinary last year. I know he made the All-Star team, but it was, it kind of felt like he got away with something by doing that at the time. And then things took a turn for the worst in the second half. And strikeout rate wasn't that great, the swinging strike rate wasn't that great.

ERA and WIP were both kind of high, not terrible, but kind of high. just not really in the range of what you want in fantasy. So I know he had a good start first time. I got a ton of whiffs on the splitter. But nothing seemed to change there other than just the results. It's not like the stuff looked different or he was throwing harder. It looked like the same Casey Mize and I think just happened to have a good start. So that's why I'm not going to say, oh, it was cold, let's give him a pass.

We had much lower expectations for Casey Mize going in. We didn't see, again, other than the result, I didn't see anything in the first start that would lead me to believe he's new. He's something new this year. So I'd be fine dropping him for, you know, if there's another interesting starting pitcher to pursue on the waiver wire,

even a header, if that's more what you need. I'd be okay dropping Casey Meis. What about Painter, holding him? Painter, yeah, I think we hold him because he did look good in his first start and obviously a long-awaited prospect thought to have big upside. It's more complicated than that in his situation

because he struggled in the minors last year coming back for Tommy John's surgery and the improvement on his fastball that was promised this spring hasn't really shown up. I have noticed with him the pitch selection between start one and start two was very different. So I think he's

I think he's learning to take this kitchen sink approach Andrew Painter since he doesn't have that dominant fastball anymore He's up to seven pitches Added a A splitter In the second start that he didn't throw in his first So seven pitches and all And the selection was very different from start one

Where he got good results to start two where he didn't So I just think we need to see more from Painter because it's still a work in progress. All right, continuing on here. I wanted to run through some waiver wire hitters. And first up, some shallow league names here. Chandler Simpson, he continues his strong star, two for four with a run and two more steals.

He is batting 3.95 early on with four steals on the season. Look, if you play in a category league, he's rostered, I get that. Scott, do you think Chandler Simpson is a must roster even in a head-to-head points league? I want to go as far as to call a must roster yet because you go so, like you just don't go that deep into the outfield pool in a format like that. And there's only so much upside he has as somebody with zero power. I think if we get a good year from Chandler Simpson,

if he continues this, if he remains at everyday player, hitting about 300 and ranking among the league leaders in steals, at least in CBS sports leagues where steals are, with two points apiece. He will be startable. He will be top 36. But there's a clear limit to his ceiling. And I'd be more looking to pursue ceiling at this point in the year.

With Jordan Walker and Cam Smith still being as available as they are, I would stop short of calling Chandler Simpson must roster. Do not give up on Wilson Catarris just yet. He went three for three with the walk in his second home run. It was his first multi-hit game with the Red Sox, has two homers in his past four games. And just a reminder, this early in the season, things can flip very quickly.

So like we were talking about with Kyle Manzardo early on, if he goes out and hits a home run three day straight, you know, that can change his numbers very drastically this early on in the season. Scott, your boy, Carter Jensen, back in the lineup Monday, and hopefully we're past all of this discipline. Two for four with his second home run. he has looked pretty solid early on here and again if you need an Alejandro Kirk replacement

in a one catcher league I think Carter Jensen is among the best that you can get off the waiver wire in a league like that you know yeah I think he's probably under-rastered at this point I get why but yeah hopefully his probation period has ended just in time for me to remove him from the sleeper hitters

for this week I was concerned because the playing time they're getting funny with it, but, you know, hopefully it's passed. Some deeper waiver-wire hitters here. Brady House is off to a nice start, three-for-five with two doubles in his second home run. The Homer 110 exit velocity, 423 feet. T.J. Rumfield continues to rake two-for-four with a triple and two RBI. He is batting 364 early on.

And Troy Johnston, who is Troy Johnston? Well, he plays for the Rockies. He has started seven straight games, and he went three for five with his second home run, two runs, two RBI in this one. Had a huge season in the minors way back in 2023, but hasn't really done much since. So, Scott, how would you rank these just in terms of your deep league interest, Brady House, T.J. Rumfield, and Troy Johnston. I would go Rumfield, whose interest should be beyond deep leagues at this point. he was the top sleeper hitter for this week. I do think there are going to be

platoon concerns that haven't manifested yet, but for now, Rumpfield's looking good. And then I go Brady House 2 and Troy Johnston 3. I'm not disinterested in any of them. And I'm open to the idea that Brady House has a big breakthrough at third base this year. I will point out he has a 30% strikeout rate.

He also entered Monday with a zero percent pull air rate, which I, that seems crazy that that could be possible. So I don't like seeing those things in isolation, but I'm going to try not to make much of them yet when there are other things I'm seeing that I do like for Brady House. Obviously, had the big spring. I pointed out how in his minor league career, he often needed extra exposure at a level before. kind of finding his footing there, as was true for Michael Bush when he was coming up the minor league ladder as well.

You know, sometimes in the interest of finding, in the interest of finding interesting things to talk about, my hopes or feelings for a player get lost in, I don't know, he has a 30% strike out rate, zero pole air raid, like nitpicking. It's, of course, nitpicking this early in the year. My gut feeling for Brady House is this might be a breakout season. But it won't be if he has a 0% pulled air rate all year.

You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I mean, look, we want to see pulled fly balls for him, but also entering Monday 93 mile per hour average exit velocity and a 16% barrel rate. So those barrels weren't going to the pole side, but they're going somewhere. So he's doing something right, but he does have to pull the ball in the air a little bit more. Any quick thoughts here on Troy Johnston, who's getting some run here with Rockies?

Yeah, I liked him as a minor leaguer. He was a little like T.J. Rumfield in that the production was usually good, but the exit velocities were pretty bad. And I will note that his home run here on Monday hit 99.9 miles per hour. Somehow travels 407 feet. That's course field for you. I think because he's,

with the Rockies, I think because they're playing them a lot, started eight of their last nine games. He's somebody worth watching, but he, he is the true, he, at least right now, he feels like the true deep league option of these three, the other two being T.J. Rumfield and Brady House. Yeah, I did see in a lot of my 15 team five outfield, their leagues, I think Johnston was added in all of them this weekend. And that is the type of league that you should be looking to add and stream him. When he's home, when he's facing right-handed pitching. Again, that is Troy Johnson with the Rockies. Boring waiver wire pitchers, Scott.

We got good starts from Michael Waka, Jameson, Tion, Zach Lattel. Anything stand out with these guys? Or they're just boring. They're boring. They will be among the streamer pitchers often this year. Waka was the number one streamer pitcher. This matchup against Cleveland in the next one later this week is White Sox. Jameson Tion was number 10.

on the sleeper pitchers for this week. So they both came through. Lattel, I was a little worried since he signed in-spring training. A lot of times we see guys in that situation rush to build up, and then they get knocked around early on and sometimes never seem right all year. But he looks like Zach Lattel, who I will note had a 110 whip last year.

Not many strikeouts. ERA was in the high threes, but 1-10 whip. He could be a whip specialist in deeper rotisserie leagues. Yeah, he's 22% rostered, so it could be out there in some of those deeper formats. That is Zach Lattel. I think wins will be pretty hard to come by with the nationals, but yeah, could potentially give you some solid ratios there is Zach Lattel.

Scott, do any of these pitchers matter? Brandon Williamson, Jansen Junk, and Hermann Marquez. I actually have a couple other names here, but we'll start with those three. all pitched well on Monday. Do any of them matter for fantasy? I mean, Chris, Chris seemed hyped about Janssen Junk. He was texting us about him. That's the guy he texted us about tonight.

Jansen Junk. I don't know. I still think he's appropriately named. Junk, not Chris. Jansen Junk, by the way, I will point out in this one, his velocity was down across the board. and he also had a lot more movement on his breaking pitches. So I don't know if that was on purpose,

but that feels like maybe it would be correlated, the velocity being down and getting a lot more drop on his pitches here. And also in his first start, he had a 109 stuff plus rating. So look, man, in deeper leagues, I think it's named to watch there is Jansen Junk. He's quietly done some interesting things. Yeah, I think,

I could see him being Michael walk alike, which would be useful, certainly in deeper leagues and streamable at times. You know, we're in a world now where we're talking about Bryce Elder as a potential pickup. So I think it's fair to group Jansen Junkin with that. But I see, you know, big drop in velocity. I'm sure that the movement was higher, but big drop in velocity in this start, you know, average exit velocity over 89 miles per hour. So it's not like he was getting weak contact.

He was hit even harder than that in his first start. Not getting many strikeouts. I don't see a lot of reason for enthusiasm with junk. He was okay last year. He's been okay so far. I think he might be okay, but might be okay. Well, Michael Waka is okay. Yeah, yeah.

A couple of their names here, Justin Robleski, Brandon Young and Eric Fetty. So again, some deep league names, Scott. Any chance those three matter, any of them? Probably not. I mean, Robleski is with the Dodgers, so that he gets an asterisk for that. Great supporting cast. But I don't think he's going to pave his own way very often.

I was trying to focus on my camera. I wasn't saying talk to my hand or anything. Yeah, a previous group, I will say. keep an eye on Brandon Williamson. He has a very good change up that he didn't throw very much in his first start, and he did throw it a lot more in his second start, got nine whiffs on it, and obviously got good results in Miami. There may be something there with Brandon Williamson.

I don't think there's huge upside or anything, but it's possible he could become a useful option this year. Yeah. I think he's probably just in there while Ladolo is out, but his next two turns, Williamson, Angels this weekend at the Twins next week. So pretty good matchups there. So not too bad for Brandon Williamson. Some hitting leftovers here.

Sal Stewart, my boy, continues to make stuff happen. One for four with RBI and his second stolen base. James Wood had himself a huge game, two for three with two walks. And his third home run, the Homer 114.3 exit velocity. He has homered in back-to-back games. but we need to get that strikeout rate down for James Wood.

Christian Yelich is off to a great start, three for four with a double, a walk, a run, and an RBI. In this one, he is betting 395 early in the season. Luke Keishel is on the board, one for three with two walks, two runs, and his first home run of the year. I know that his bat speed is up, but his average EV entering this game was 85.9 miles per hour. So we need that bat speed.

speed to translate to exit velocity. Come on, Luke Keishel. Cal Raleigh, he is also on the board, hit his first home run, which was the result of a 12 pitch at bat with Jacob de Grom? It was just, it was an awesome battle, which Cal Raleigh ended up winning and hit the home run 418 feet against the Grom here. The one hit off to Grom. Yeah, that's it. One hit, one run, that's it against Cal Raleigh. Drake Baldwin continues to look like he is taking that next. Next step, he hit his fifth home run, which is tied for the league lead with Chase the Latter

and Shay Languiliers. Off Jose Soriano, the ultimate ground ball pitcher. He's human after all that Jose Soriano. Yeah, just tremendous start here for Drake Baldwin. Big game for Bryce Harper, who went three for four with two doubles, three RBI, just barely missed a home run. It was 112.5 exit velocity. It would have been out in five of 30 ballparks,

but, you know, playing in Oracle, as a left-handed hitter here. Unfortunately, did not go out there for Bryce Harper. Two lonely pitching leftovers. Logan Gilbert, a quality start at the Rangers, six innings, two runs, five strikeouts, zero walks. And Joe Ryan, he was okay against the Tigers. Five innings, three runs, two of those earned with seven strikeouts.

Scott, anything here on Logan Gilbert or Joe Ryan? Not really. I mean, it was nice to see Logan Gilbert bounce back, but I wasn't worried about him. Yeah. Nothing that interesting to say about those two. All right. Continuing on the call to the bullpen for Tampa Bay.

Brian Baker got the ninth inning with a three-run lead. He allowed a solo homer but closed it out for his first save. Griffin Jacks pitched on Sunday. He threw 30 pitches over two innings. I don't know if they would have used him in, you know, a safe situation either way. but Brian Baker he feels like the highest leverage reliever

early on Scott I feel like things can change every day for Tampa Bay but Brian Baker's only 10% roster feels a little bit low yeah yeah probably I mean for the leagues where Gregory Soto was demanding 10% of Fab

I think it's time to start looking into Brian Baker I think it's going to remain messy in Tampa Bay but he might be the top dollar For the Royals, Lucas Ursaig got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. He struck out one for his third save. He is 70% rostered. Scott, do you think Lucas Erseg is just a must-raster player?

Like, even in a points league as a, let's say, lockdown closer type. Yes-ish. Yes-ish. I mean, I would rather have Jordan Romano Romano. Romano. Sorry, Jordan Romano, not Romano. And like I said earlier, Romano, Romano. is 55%

rostered. So, you know, must roster. Everything is relative. But yeah, if saves, if all the closers are rostered in your league,

I mean, Erseg is far from the bottom of the barrel. For the Reds, Emilio Pagan got the ninth with a two-run lead. Pitch a clean inning for his fourth save. That is three scoreless outings in a row after a rough start. to the season for Pagan.

For the Cardinals, Ryan Static came on in the eighth inning with a three-run lead. He gave up three hits on three runs. He gave up three runs on three hits, excuse me. He was relieved by Matt Svanson, who also gave up three runs on three hits, took his first loss. Outside of Riley O'Brien and-R-R-Riley, that's what they needed.

Outside of Riley O'Brien and Dojo Romero, that bullpen is bad, man. Yeah. Stanik and Sponson have been awful so far. Yeah, I think O'Reilly O'Brien is, I think his job security is better than it's getting credit for. For the Nationals, Conell Perez came on with a three-run lead. He allowed a hit but closed out the game. He was actually credited for the win, which was kind of confusing, but I don't know.

They took the lead in the bottom of the eighth inning and the reliever that pitched before that was really bad. so I know at that point it's just kind of like at the discretion of the scorekeeper or something. So yeah, Cone L. Porez got the win, not the save. For the Brewers, Abner Arebe and Trevor McGill were unavailable. Anhele Serpa got the ninth inning with a three-run lead. He gave up a run on two hits but picked up his first save. For the Rangers, Scott, what year is it?

This name that I'm about to bring up to you, not Robert Garcia. He pitched the eighth inning with a one-run lead facing the bottom of the Mariners lineup, which featured two lefties. He retired them in order. Jacob Junis got the ninth inning. He hit a batter, but he ended the game with a double play.

He picked up the save. Chris Martin pitched on Sunday. It would have been his third appearance in four days. I don't know. Does Jacob Junis matter? I hope not. I mean, it's funny. If he hit another batter, I didn't notice that in the box score.

He has now. This year, Jacob Junus has more hit batters than hits and walks combined. Obviously, a tiny sample, but that's just kind of funny. And it makes sense why out of desperation, Skip Schumacher would turn to him. Out of desperation, I mean, anything is possible in this bullpen at this point. Even Jacob Junis becoming the closer, at least for a season. a season, not in the like baseball sense, but a season and like the, you know, for a season.

Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. I had to realize that he has pitched pretty well over the past couple of years as a reliever. He doesn't get many whiffs at all. But if you look at the past two years before this, 2024 and 2025 combined for Jacob Junus,

283 ERA 104 whip. It's also with like a 7.1K per 9, but that is over the course of 133 and 2 thirds innings. So it's a pretty decent sample size for a reliever. Anything is possible, Frank. I was talking up Cole win the other day. Anything is possible. Maybe it's going to be Junis.

Yeah, we'll see. Jacob. For the Orioles, Ryan Helsie got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. He allowed a run on a hit and two walks, but picked up his third. save. For the Rockies, Victor Vodnik was unavailable. Juan Mejia got the final five outs for his first save. For the Angels, Jordan Romano. Romano. Yeah. Came on with two outs in the ninth. Two runners on, a four-run lead. He got the final out for his fourth save, the easiest save he will ever get in his

life. Only needed one out. And for the Phillies, Yohan Duran got the ninth with a two-run lead, allowed a hit, but picked up his fourth save of the year. To stream or not to stream on Tuesday, Scott. top options here. Matthew Liberator at the Nationals, Cade Cavali against the Cardinals, Tos Bradley against the Tigers, Mike Burroughs at the Rockies, Rinaldo Lopez at the Angels.

Rinaldo Lopez, followed by Mike Burroughs, followed by, I think, Taj Bradley, though it's a distant third, and Cavali and Libertore wouldn't be terrible options either. All right, and then on Wednesday, Let's say, Will Warren against the athletics. We have Joey Cantillo against the Royals,

Grant Holmes at the Angels, Reed Detmer's against the Braves, Joe Boyle against the Cubs. Grant Holmes is the obvious standout here at the Angels. Very strikeout prone team. Joey Cantillo against the Royals would probably, no, let's say Will Warren against the athletics. It would be my second choice.

But again, Cantillo against the Royals, Demers against the Braves, and even Boyle against the Cubs. They are a patient team. Maybe not Boil against the Cubs. But Cantillo and Detmer's, I don't hate for Wednesday. Some decent streamers the next two days. Yep. Let's wrap up, Scott.

Team name Tuesday. This one is from Tucker. and he sent in Ava Tarang and think Avatar Ang from Nickelodeon's Avatar. I watched this kind of scarcely throughout my life. I was always interested in it. It seemed like a fun show, but I never actually

watched all of it. Have you watched Avatar, Scott? I did binge it like four years ago just because I kept popping up on social media and I was curious. Did you like it? You know, it's a kid's show, but it was solid for. a kid's show. I like anything that has any TV, not any TV show, but I like when TV shows have an ongoing storyline rather than being episodic, which seems like episodic thing might be coming back a little bit, but I think TV's at its best when it's not like that.

All right. From Brian, my Yoron Savior, Jesus Lazzardo. That's kind of like that. Judge End Yuri of Don Caglione. You know, that's cramming three names in there. But it kind of works. My Yordaun Savior is. That's good. I like that.

From Richard, Schlittler's List. Okay. And Framber Alert. All right. From Brad, Bryce Tarangasaurus Rex. We did get a few. dinosaur-related ones this week after Jurassic Park, so that was cool. This next one from Ryan, Therassic Park.

Yeah. Yeah, I've thought about that, too. Oh, man. That's a good one. From Sean Sasaki Bombers. All right. I guess you go with Sasaki Bombs, if you want to do that, the beverage. From Michael, Reagan's against the machine.

Okay. From Andrew, shirts and skeins. I kind of like that one. And Snell what the Rock is cooking. Okay. From Jacob. He has ones from last year and this year. So for this year,

welcome to the party, Sal. That makes sense on a couple levels. Yeah, that's pretty good. What's eating Logan Gilbert grape? Sure. And Acuna Feet. the love tonight. Yeah.

I mean, it, you're doing the Lion King thing when Acuna Matata is obviously the most obvious one there. You're using the same name. It's just, it just feels forced, Jacob.

No, I like that. I like that. I like that. I like it. How could you say that team name without singing it too? It just makes you want to sing it. I feel like you have to.

And these two are from last year, Kershaw Shank Redemption. Have we not had that one before? I'm saying that because I feel like we should have. Probably. But I don't remember it. Yeah. Because that's good.

Yep. And then heard it in a bird song, which is a reference to 70s Marshall Tucker Band. I got a bonus one for you here. I've been wanting to use this one, but like lambs to de lauder. Hmm. It's pretty good. I like it. You have it anywhere?

You have it anywhere? No, no. There's only Not all of my leagues Do people name their teams? You know? A lot of my leagues It's just your team is you.

And I don't have I don't Franks Stamffle I don't have DeLotter in any leagues Where people name their teams So that's a free one for anyone it does. All right. We are going to wrap there for Scott.

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