Fantasy Baseball Today - Juan Soto Struggles, Buy-Low Options & The Trade Chart (6/24 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 24, 2021

In a game where the Nationals scored 13 runs, Juan Soto went 0-4 (2:11). What's going on with him? Should you trust German Marquez next week after his great start Wednesday? ... Did spin rates affect Trevor Bauer (15:10)? They were also way down for Dylan Cease. ... News and notes (21:40)! Aaron Civale went to the IL, Marcus Stroman's MRI came back clean and more. ... Buy-low or no thanks, bro (29:15)? Should you be sending offers for Jose Abreu, Ke'Bryan Hayes or Mets hitters? ... Who were the biggest risers and fallers in Chris' trade chart (39:13)? What would it take to acquire George Springer? ... We have waiver wire shortstops and starting pitchers (44:24). What happened in that crazy Nats and Phillies game (48:31)? ... We wrap up with Wednesday's studs, bullpens and streamers (51:25). ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  CBS Sports and Westinghouse are teaming up to give away a 55" TV, portable power station and air purifier over the next month. Go to cbssports.com/homerun to enter. Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. I drive. Centerfield is magnificent. 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, Chris, and Adam.

By low, or no thanks, bro. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Thursday, June 24th. I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Chris Towers, a.k.a. your favorite host and your favorite substitute host. Substitute host. It would be helpful if I knew how to speak, right? I also, I think Scott's the favorite

substitute host. He got a lot more praise for his solo pod than I've ever gone for any of the literally hundreds of episodes I've guest hosted, maybe like dozens. All right. Well, how you doing, Chris? You feeling better? I am feeling better. I went to the gym

today for the first time. I'm trying to get a gym routine going before football season starts because if I don't start before football season starts, there's no way I'm ever going to actually go to the gym. So I'm good and sore, got, you know, these, whatever these guys are called in my chest, whatever, you know, the dorsimus pectoris, nice and sore, feeling good, got that lactic acid built up. Very nice.

You're going to brag about my one time going to the gym. I like it. I'm one of those like old people at heart where I just go to the nearest part. that has workout equipment that everyone can use. Just like do some dips or pull-ups or something. And it's not many of any of those things, but it's a for-effer, right? Well, I couldn't do many of those things.

Like, I don't think I could do one pull-up right now, which is embarrassing to admit. But I think we're all friends here, and I'm sure nobody will say anything mean about that. Well, the goal is by the end of the baseball season, Chris, you will be doing at least one. I think I can do one pull-up before the end of the baseball season. Let's make that happen.

Let's jump into Wednesday's action. Oh, my goodness gracious. I was about to say Thursday because I look up at my computer and it says Thursday already because, again, it's after midnight. By the way, on today's podcast, we're going to talk about some trade talk. We're going to have buy low or next. No thanks, bro. Chris updated his trade chart, which is live on the site now. So we'll look at some of the biggest risers and fallers.

We had a ridiculous game in Philadelphia, two socks and two shoes. for the Tigers and much more. Chris, where would you like to start? Let's start with a ridiculous game. I don't know where this one was actually played, but the Washington Nationals. That was the game in Philly. Oh, look, that's the game you were talking about.

Okay, yeah, 13 to 12, Washington Nationals won. And let's talk about Juan Soto. And in a game where there were 25 runs scored, 27 hits, Juan Soto did score one run. He did not have a hit. He went 0 for 4 with a walk. And the, weird power outage for Juan Soto continues. He's only got eight home runs for the season in his 61

games played and none in his last 13 games. He had four in the first eight games of the month of June. He has one extra base hit in his last 13 compared to three grounded into double plays. One reached on an error. He is still hitting. He's 11 for 40 for 43. So he's like 260. That's not bad with no home runs, you know, but the weird season continues for Juan Soto. It has not been the best hitter in baseball coronation that everyone expected. And on a day where everyone was hitting, it's especially disappointing. It's on the other hand, go ahead. There doesn't seem to be anything wrong.

You know, when you look at the underlying numbers, it's elite across the board. I mean, 90th percentile average X velocity. 94th percentile hard hit rate. 98th and ex-woba, 8-98th and XBA, 91st and X slugs, 68th in barrel percentage. That's the worst one he's got, is a 68th percentile in barrel percentage. So as disappointing as it has been, and I'm sure as frustrating as it has been for people who have Wonsetto on their teams, I don't think you can move him. I don't think you should try to sell him.

I don't think you should be downgrading him in the trade values, column, he's still, I believe, a top five player for me in head-to-head points leagues at least. Maybe that's too optimistic, but I think this is a situation where you've still got to believe that Juan Soto's underlying numbers matter and that they will lead to elite production moving forward. So you have Juan Soto as your fourth most valuable player in heads head points leagues, and you have him as your... Fifth in Roto. Fifth in Roto. And it's been disappointing that he hasn't run more this year,

which is something they were talking about before the season. So that's why you can't always buy into that coach speak, player speak, whatever. His sprint speed is up slightly. He's 55th percentile compared to 34th percentile last season. His stackass page is ridiculous. You mentioned it. It's a sea of red.

Everything looks great. There's nothing... He's fourth in baseball and expected Wobah. there's nothing that I can point to that has me actually worried about Juan Soto this year. I mean, his slugging percentage is down quite a bit this season compared to where it was last year. Actually, it's currently a career low. It's 431 last year. 695 slug, which was just absolutely ridiculous.

But even if you look at his 2019 numbers, 548, that's probably a realistic expectation for Juan Soto. So the power has been sat this year. he dealt with a shoulder injury earlier on in the season. So maybe that's still kind of lingering, but all-star break, maybe he rests up a little bit, gets healthy. I still think long term,

like Juan Soto's going to be fine. We got an email earlier today asking like, do a deep dive, what's wrong with Wonsoto? And everything you look at, there's nothing that says that he should be playing this poorly. So it kind of sounds like a cop out, but that's the honest truth.

Even like he's, he's getting shifted much more than he ever has been. He's being shifted on 57.2% of his plate appearances. He's actually been better against the shift so far this season. So even that, which would potentially be like if you're looking for reasons why a player would be underperforming their expected stats, you would look at the two key things for me would be,

are they easy to shift against? Do they get those, you know, would be singles and doubles stolen because of the shift? and is the player slow? Is the player especially losing foot speed? And in Soto's case, neither of them seems to be true. He sprays the ball to all fields.

So that can't be the issue. Again, it's been frustrating, but I don't see any reason to think that Juan Soto won't be one of the five best players in fantasy moving forward. And look at it this way. If you get an opportunity to trade for Juan Soto right now, you should do it even if you pay full price,

even if you pay top five player value for him, because what you're looking at is whatever you're giving up, if you think that player isn't as good as Wonsoto, which likely they will not be, you're getting that player's good production plus what Wonsetto is likely to do moving forward, which is, again, be a top five fantasy player, and someone in your league is saddled with,

you know, three months of Juan Soto being like a mediocre Joey Votto season during his peak, where he's not hitting for much power, but he's getting on base. And then they're going to get a lesser player moving forward. So I think this is still absolutely the right time to be trading for Juan Soto. Let me ask you, Chris. And for a lot of the trade questions that I'm going to bring up today, I'm going to offer up starting pitchers for hitters because I think the expectation is that moving forward, pitching is going to regress and hitters are going to get better.

And with that being said, would you trade Kevin Gosman away for Juan Soto if you could? Another start, seven innings, one run, nine strikeouts. He is the SP2 in both fantasy points per game and in Roto this year. Kevin Gosman is ridiculous. Yeah, I definitely would. And that's not a knock on Kevin Gosman. I just don't think he's a top five player. Yep.

In looking at the trade value chart, I probably need to move him. up because he's still more like SP 18 for me and that doesn't make much sense. I do think he needs to be higher than that. There are oversights when I'm putting together this trade chart. I'll admit. Occasionally I do have to make updates, ranking 300 plus players. You'll occasionally have some that you need a second look at. So that's one I'll do right now.

Yeah, no, that's, it's definitely a lot that you got going on there. but it's something if I could do, if anybody out there could do, and you have an abundance of pitching, Kevin Gosman for Juan Soto. Not sure how realistic, if you have to throw in your worst outfielder or something like that to make it happen,

then sure, I think that that is a fair trade to make. Scott has moved Kevin Gosman up to SP10. I have him inside of my top 12 at SP12. Oh my goodness gracious. I wanted to highlight Herban Marquez, who we were talking before, Chris. I mean, him and Andrew Heaney, we used the Spider-Man meme a lot on this podcast,

and I feel like they're the same guy. It's just you never know which version of those pitchers is going to show up. Andrew Heaney gets all these whiffs, gets a lot of strikeouts, but still gives up a ton of home runs. He's got like an ERA close to five now.

And Hermann Marquez, while he has been better than Andrew Heaney this year, admittedly, it's kind of the same thing where he can go out like he did on Wednesday, eight innings,

one run, zero walks, seven strikeouts, 12 swinging strikes on 98 pitches, or he can give up eight earned runs in a start, which is something he has done twice this year. So how do you feel about Hermann Marquez? I know that you liked him quite a bit

coming into the season, but there has been that inconsistency for him. Next week, he's in line for two starts as of now. Both are at home versus the Pirates versus the Cardinals. What do you think about Marquez, and would you be okay starting him in that spot? Pirates Cardinals, that's a tough one, because my sense would be as a two-start pitcher,

especially in a roto league, I would probably sit Hermann Marquez making two starts at home. But with decent matchups, I think I would still try to sit him. But here's what makes it hard. His last three starts at home, he got bombed by the Reds on June 12th, eight earn runs and five innings.

But then the Mets, one earned run and six innings. The Cardinals, one earned run in six innings. That makes it difficult. I would prefer to sit him in a roto league. In a points league, I think you might be able to get away with it because there's not the risk of him blowing up your ratios. But that being said, I think Armand Marquez is a fine pitcher to have around. I don't think he is a, he's certainly not a must-start guy,

and I don't think anybody would make that argument. But when he's on the road and when he's got the right matchups at home, I think you should feel pretty good about what you're going to, and get out of Hermann Marquez. And you look at the last nine starts, which is a bit of an arbitrary endpoint, because it's taking out his two earn, uh, eight earn runs and two thirds of an inning start.

Um, he's got a two, six, eight ERA in that stretch with almost a strikeout per inning. I think he's very good. I think the biggest thing holding him back is just his home park. Here's the next problem with Hermann, Marquez. Everything you said, Chris, I think is accurate. The problem for him this year, his splits at home, he's got a 3.56 ERA on the road, 5.74. So I have him in a league. I bench him this week because, you know, he has been a little bit

shaky recently. So I miss out on this great start. I'm going to try and get him back in my lineup next week when he's at home. And I'm going to look at the home road splits and say, oh, well, he's actually really good at home. And then watch it that be the time when her mom or kids gets blown up. So he's frustrating. I think the sample size is still, yeah, I think the sample size is still small enough that you can kind of throw that out and, you know, the home stats especially, I would imagine there's, uh, 10 starts is quite a bit, Chris. I was looking at it wrong. His two, his worst start of the last nine as I was actually on the road at Cincinnati. That, that's my bad. That makes sense. He's only had, yeah, he's had the one bad start on the road and even that was four earned in six innings with eight strikeouts against Cincinnati.

Yeah. I don't know, because I would guess that that two, that two innings, or two out, eight, earn, run start at home is really inflating the, or on the road is really inflating things. So I don't know. I still, I view him pretty much the same way I did coming into the season. Boom or busts, man. Yeah. Boom or bust, Hermann Marquez, start to start. It's frustrating, but given the way he's pitched at home this year, which I do think is weird, mid-3, ZRA against the Pirates against the Cardinals, I'm firing up Hermann Marquez next week. I think regardless of format and probably famous last words, but let's see how it goes. Let's see how it goes. We've got to do like a Wanderfranco update all week long, right? Like at least for the rest of the

month because he's Wanderfranco, duh. He went 0 for three with two walks and a run scored. He did have his first strikeout across his first two games here. He had a 107 mile per hour exit velocity on a lineout. So that was unfortunate, but nice to see the EV up early here. Chris, we didn't have you on yesterday for Wanda Franco's awesome game I don't know if there's anything you'd like to add through these first two he's awesome

he is awesome indeed don't really have much to add now that's perfectly fine I mean I'll just say what I said when he got called up you should still probably be trying to trade him if you can get an absolute haul

I still think there's there's so much hype that this is the right time yeah and we spoke about that yesterday Scott and myself and he still said he would do it for Corey Seeger. If you can make that happen, Seeger's probably a couple of weeks away. You know, maybe he returns just before the All-Star break,

just after the All-Star break, something like that. If you can get a top 20 starting pitcher, someone like a Musgrove who has turned in a quality start against Los Angeles Dodgers, something that you can look into doing. Let's talk about spin rates, because we have to do that every single day. And Trevor Bauer, you mentioned, is currently on the mound.

And it looks like he just got pulled. Just got pulled. After six and a third. So finishes six, I believe it's six plus here. Five hits, three runs, four walks, ten strikeouts. The three runs that he allowed all came on solo home runs. One to Croninworth, one to Machado, and just now one to Victor Carrotini. He still had 18 swinging strikes on 102 pitches, Trevor Bauer did.

However, his spin rates on the slider down 152 RPM, four seam, down 190. sinker down 196, although with a sinker, I think you wanted to have less spin rate. And then with a knuckle curve down 125 RPM. A lot of hard contacts here, Chris, but still had 10 strikeouts. Yeah, I mean, eight, uh, eight batted balls hit at least 100 miles an hour. And the thing to note, that's a lot, dude. That's a lot. Yeah, he actually, he had, he only had eight hard hit balls, which doesn't seem that bad.

you know, there have been certainly worse starts. Eight of them being 100 plus miles an hour, that is, that's rough. He got hit really hard today. He didn't have great command. But the thing to note is it's not just the 190 RPM drop in spin rate. It's also the fact that Bauer was throwing harder, 95.5 miles per hour with his fastball on average for the season, it's been 93.8. What's notable about that is fastball velocity is usually positively correlated with spin rate.

The harder a pitcher throws, generally speaking, the faster their spin rate is. And it's usually the throwing harder leads to the higher spin rate, which is why it has been so notable that the last couple of seasons, Bauer's velocity has been down from his peak while his spin rate has gone up. today we saw the opposite. His spin rate went down, lost fastball velocity went up. That's probably, I mean, obviously I'm not him, and I don't know,

you know, what he's going, what's going through his mind or what he's using or not using, but that seems like it would be reasonable to think that's a conscious decision to, you know, try to make up for what you may have lost

by throwing harder. If he wasn't throwing a full effort before, um, it's only one start. And we've seen, one really, really good start from Bauer since the memo was released. We've seen one pretty mess start and now today I think is more concerning than not. All in all, I think he's not in that, you know, he would have been right around SP3 through 5 with Shane Bieber going on the IL. I think

now what we've seen since these changes. He's looked a little more like the Trevor Bauer of old, which is huge strikeout potential every time he goes out on the mound, but the control has been iffy, the command has been iffy, and he gets hit hard. This is what, you know, the frustrating version of Trevor Bauer has looked like, a lot of walks and a lot of hard hit ball. I still think he can be very good. I still think he's probably a top 10 starting pitcher moving forward. You know, you're still going to get a lot of volume.

You're still going to get a lot of wins. but I don't necessarily expect elite results every time out from Trevor Bauer now. Yeah, I think I might drop him a little bit. I still have him at SP5. I might move him down to around 10 or 12. I'll move Zach Wheeler, Kevin Galsman ahead of him. I think that makes sense.

Scher, now that he's back off the I'll move him ahead of Bauer. So I think he'll kind of fall in somewhere in that like 10 to 12 range for Bauer. Ultimately, I'm still not all that worried about him because you need healthy arms. And same thing with Garrett Cole. Like, these guys are still going to be workhorses and they're going to give you endings in a season where like everybody's hurt now. So real quick, Chris, we keep getting questions like, do you try and sell Garrett Cole or Trevor Bauer?

Are you more likely to keep them or shop around a little bit just to see what you can get? I think in both cases there's so much buzz about spin rates and stick. substances and all this, that their perceived value has probably taken more of a hit than their actual value. So, no, I don't think this is the right time to try to trade them. But I could be, you know, if you're getting offers for Trevor Bauer that indicate that people still view him as an elite starting pitcher, then I think it's a more interesting question. But I think that he's more likely to be more valuable than what you can get for him in trade right now. The other starting pitcher that I noticed was down quite a bit in terms of spin rate. Dylan

Cease at the Pirates, 5 and 2 3rds, 7 hits, two runs, one walk to 7 strikeouts, 16 swinging strikes on 99 pitches against a team that does not swing and miss all that much. I know we have this perception that the pirates are terrible, but they actually have the sixth lowest swinging strike rate of all teams in baseball. So they do put the ball in play. So still a good amount of whiffs and strikeouts for Dylan Sees. His fastball was down 287 RPM, and Scott has been very vocal about the spin rates being up for Dylan Cs this year, and the fact that he's worked with their pitching coach,

and he wasn't worried about sticky substances for Dylan C's. So we get Scott's thoughts more on that tomorrow, but ultimately worth noting, but Dylan Cs was still pretty good in this start. Before we get to news and notes, just wanted to let you know what is on CBS Sports, H.Q. This week, as always, CBS Sports HQ is the network to start your sports news day at 8 a.m. Eastern with morning buzz, an hour of highlights, news, and all the days need to know, and come back or leave us on all day at 6 p.m. where we break down all the night's action and release dozens

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specifically for Cleveland just in general. Now they've lost Bieber, Savali, Plysec. It's a rough go. Marcus Stroman, a little bit more positive news here. His MRI on his hip came back clean. He has avoided the IL to this point. So let's see what happens there with Marcus Treman. Alex Bregman, who is on the IL with a quad injury,

is still two to three weeks away from returning and his replacement. Abraham Toro, and if you play on CBS, that's Abraham Toro Hernandez. Went two for four with his second home run on Wednesday,

including four RBI. He is 20% rostered. He's got seven games next week, three against Baltimore, and four against that banged up Cleveland pitching staff. So, you're playing deeper leagues

or you need a corner infielder in a roto league. I think Abraham Toro is kind of interesting. What do you think, Chris? Yeah, I think kind of interesting is the right way to put it. You know, obviously the fact that it's the Astros and they tend to get a lot out of guys

I think makes them slightly more interesting, but didn't play much in the high miners, especially at AAA, only 33 games in his career. 1097 OPS, that's great, but it's only 33 games. So, uh, AA, he had an 836 OPS, 18 home runs, 92 RBI, strikeout rate right around a little under 20%, maybe 19% eyeballing it.

So there are things to like here. I think he's certainly someone that if he didn't play, 4A team as stacked as the Astros probably would have had a starting job the last couple of seasons and we would have been able to see more of him. Yeah, I just, I really like the fact that

it's cheap exposure to probably the best lineup in baseball right now. So seven games next week, a lot of volume. Pretty interested in Abraham Toro in that spot. Ronald DeCunia was Scratch Wednesday with backsorness. Mookie Betz was held out due to an illness. Cotel Marte also missed Wednesday's game

with that left hamstring injury that we mentioned yesterday. He is currently day-to-day. Cody Bellinger, Kyle Tucker, and Michael Conforto were all activated for their respective teams. Conforto went two-for-four with two runs scored. Danny Duffy was activated

and started against the Yankees. He pitched two shutout innings with three walks and four strikeouts. He finished with only 42 pitches. so they're going to bring Danny Duffy along pretty slowly here. Jackson Cowar, who is one of their top pitching prospects, was optioned back to the miners. He was quite bad in his time with the Kansas City Royals.

Tony Gonsolin will make his next start on Friday. He dealt with shoulder soreness last weekend, but won't miss a turn in the rotation. Daniel Vogelbach suffered a significant hamstring injury. So, Chris, your boy, Kestin Hira, he's back. He was recalled, and Hira was betting 375 with 2. two home runs in June at AAA, but that also came with a 36% strikeout rate. Heera is currently 31% rostered.

Are you adding a mini-work, Chris, or just kind of monitoring this situation? I guess if you're looking for reasons for optimism, maybe the fact that pitchers aren't able to spin the ball as much might help with his primary issue, which so far this season has been the high fastball. he's just been so susceptible to that pitch. And one of the benefits of spin rate is that it increases your swinging strike rate on forcing fastballs. It creates more of that perceived rise and makes those pitches a little easier to handle. And his strikeout rate since going back to AAA was only 26%.

So if you're looking for small reasons for optimism, I mean, we know there's no question. that he's an incredibly talented player. And maybe this helps. I'm not super optimistic, I can't say, but the fact that he keeps hitting in AAA, maybe there's going to be a moment where the light goes off. It's weird because it's similar to Joe Adele where they're hitting for batting average

and for Adele even more power, but the strikeouts are still so prevalent, even in the minor leagues. So, yeah, like he's been better. but at the same time, he has a lot of the same issues that he's always had. So I would have liked to see them just leave him down longer and try to really get that strikeout rate down. Again, Kestenhero, we're talking about here.

31% rostered him. I don't think you need to add him anywhere yet, but I still think he has some upside. Just throw him on the scout team for now. Gio Rochella was out of the lineup on Wednesday due to a shin injury. X-rays came back negative. He is day-to-day.

Salvador Perez was removed Wednesday after getting hit in the mask by a pit. Brandon Belt left with a leg injury. The D-Backs designated Stefan Crichton for assignment. Chris, would you like to guess when the D-Backs last save was, and who picked it up? Was it Stefan Cretton? No cheating. See you typing away there.

Oh, no, I wasn't going to look it up. Was it Stefan Cretton? It was not Stefan Crayon. Would you like to guess when? It's got to be back in mid-May. It was May 30th. Yeah, okay. It was Riley Smith.

for an unconventional three-enning save. There you go. Their last conventional save. I was thinking Caleb Smith. I saw Smith in the box score for that game, and I thought it was Caleb Smith as well. It turned out to be Riley Smith. Their actual last conventional save

was back on May 10th by Stefan Kreit. I know the Diamondbacks have been losing a lot, but wow, that is... Yeah, that's rough. That's crazy. I assume that Joachim Sorio would get the next. save opportunity if one ever comes up. And last but not least, my boy,

DeMarcus Evans, on the Texas Rangers, has been brutal this year. I think he's got an ERA like over seven or something like that. He was optioned back to AAA. Not much to see there with DeMarcus Evans. We're going to take a quick break, but when we return,

buy low or no thanks, bro. We'll do it next here on Fantasy Baseball today. So let's take a look at some of these buy low options. And for a few of them, it's going to be relative because they're still playing well some of them, but maybe not up to the expectations

that we had coming into the season. And the first one is Tim Anderson, who did go two for five on Wednesday. He's batting 297, which is fine. But that comes with a 758 OPS. We know he doesn't walk much, but the power is also down quite a bit this year. His ground ball rate is a career high.

60%. Last year, that was 55%. As a result, his average launch angle is also a career low, 2.2 degrees. Chris, would you try and buy low on Tim Anderson or no thanks, bro? Yeah, I would. I think we've got a strong enough track record

here of him. One, outperforming his peripherals to a decent extent in a way that seems sustainable given his speed and given his skill set. But also, they're letting him run the way we've hoped they would for a long time. He's on pace for 33 stolen bases, which would be a career high by at least a few.

His career high previously is 26. He only had 22 between 2019 and 2020. So they are letting him run a lot more. 18 stolen base attempts in 60 games. That's really what it comes down to is just, if that's going to keep being true, then you're not really, if he has the 850 OPS like he has the last couple of seasons,

that's kind of a bonus. Like if he has an 850 OPS and he steals 30 bases, he might be a first round player in terms of the value he returns. If he is more of a mid-700s OPS, I think he's still really valuable. So I would definitely try to buy law on Tim Anderson if I got that opportunity.

Yeah, and you still have him ranked as a 26th on the trade chart, which is a lot like salary cap, value. So a $26 player, you have him basically the same value as J.D. Martinez, just ahead of Shane Bieber, Francisco Lindor, a few names there. So yeah, if you can, you don't have to give up a player of that caliber, but if you can give up someone lower in the trade chart to try and acquire Tim Anderson, I think it's something worth looking into. How about his teammate, Jose Ibrahim, who went 0 for 4 with a walk on Wednesday, three more strikeouts. He's batting only 242 with a 756 OPS. Strikeouts are up this year.

Ground balls are up this year. Babib seems like he's been unlucky. That's probably tied to ground balls because he's obviously a very slow player. This one's a little bit tougher. Chris, what do you think? Buy low or no thanks, bro. Jose Abrae.

Yeah, it has been a very rough month for Jose Abrae. He's hitting 189 with a 518 OPS in the month of June. Only 7 RBI. RBI have really slowed down since that. What was it? 4, 5. 10 in four games or 10 and five games stretch. He has 8 and 21 since then.

But I do think Jose Bray is someone who's worth buying low on. Yeah, he's old enough, I think 34 now, or is he 35? I believe he's 34 years old. And that's the age where, yeah, 34. The drop off could happen at any time. I mean, it could have already happened. But there's not really any good science. of it. The strikeout rate is slightly up, but the hard hit rate is still there. The expected

Wobah is still very good. Most of those numbers still look quite good, if not quite as good as they did last season. Like, he still looks pretty much like the guy he was in 2019. In 2019, I was down on him going into last season because he, you know, was like 14th among first baseman in OPS. He wasn't a great hitter overall, but huge RBI numbers. He still hit 30 home runs. I still think he's mostly that guy. If you can get

Jose Abraeu for a pitcher like Robbie Ray or you say Kikuchi, would you do that? Yeah, I would. I think that's, yeah, especially Kukuchi. How I do like quite a bit, but you know, I don't think he's

a player of Jose Abraeus caliber. All right. So try it out. See what happens. Cabrion Hayes went two-for-four with two RBI on Wednesday. Also picked up his first steal of the season. And in 17 games since returning from the IL, he's batting 277 with two homers, an 11% walk rate,

16% strikeout rate. So really, really like the plate discipline for Hayes. He's hitting the ball very hard. Ground balls, a little bit too high, 48%. This isn't really a by-low, but maybe someone is not pleased with what he's given them since returning from the IL, Chris. So buy low or no thanks, bro.

Buy medium or no thanks, bro, on Cabrian Hayes. I definitely think you should be trying to buy Cabrion Hayes because I think he's better than the production that we've seen so far from him. It does sort of depend on who has him on their roster. Like, if it's someone like Scott, our good friend, Scott White, who viewed Cabrion Hayes as a potential superstar this season, then I don't think. think you're going to have the opportunity to buy low. But if you are, if someone like Scott White Hat

doesn't have him on their team and they want to try to buy low, I think trying to go get Cabrion Hayes is a very good idea. I'm going to marry these two together, Chris. Brandon Lowe and Dylan Carlson, would you be looking to buy low on one, either, neither, both? What do you think? I was pretty skeptical of both of them and in Laos case I mean we're at a point now where he's been a thoroughly

underwhelming major league player outside of pretty limited sample sizes this is his worst season so far but you know sub 800 OPS in 2018 was a ton of strikeouts

850 OPS in 2019 which was awesome but 113 strikeouts and 80s and 82 games. I just think he's kind of a limited player. And I think there are real flaws in his game that are holding him back. And with Carlson, my concern for him, you know, when he made this giant jump up the prospect charts was that he, you know, had a pretty limited track record of very good performance at the minors.

It was really acknowledging that he was very young, you know, throughout his minor league career, which certainly makes the numbers look better. 2019 was really the only time he performed, you know, put up elite numbers on what we're seeing so far. And the majors overall, and especially in 2019, is just kind of very middling tools. You know, pretty good speed, but average exit velocity, hard hit rate, max exit velo. It's all just very average right now.

and you can get away with average physical tools if you've got a really good approach or, you know, something like that. But he doesn't seem to have that. You know, he doesn't have, I'm trying to think of a good comp, but, you know, maybe like, yeah, I don't know what the comp is. I was going to go with the Boba Shet pre-2020 one comp, but he's kind of taken a big step forward across the board. But yeah, it just, it's a skill set that could be very conducive

to fantasy for Dylan Carlson. It just hasn't, hasn't been there yet, and I'm worried that he might just be a little bit overhyped. Yeah, and I like Dylan Carlson as a breakout coming into the year, and he had a good April, but since the start of May, he's really slowed down, 256, which is three home runs, and a 699 OPS since then. That also comes with a 098 isolated power. ISO is slugging percentage minus batting average for those who wanted to know you can find it on fan graphs. The league average isolated power is 161.

So since the start of May, Dylan Carlson is way below that. So I'm right there with you. His hard contact is down. The tools, not really flashing much right now. He's still 87% rostered. I'm no thanks bro on both of these guys.

Brandon Lau and Dylan Carlson. I don't really want to get involved. Lowe. Strikeouts are up this year. Batting average just climbed over. over 200, which is, it's just, he's crushing you in that department. He's still hitting for power, but a 359 OPS against lefties, too, wouldn't surprise me if he, if he starts getting platoon there for the Tampa Bay raise.

Chris, would you actually consider dropping Dylan Carlson? He's 87% rostered. Yeah, I think he's in that conversation. You know, I think, I think in the trade values chart, he's like a three or four, uh, dollar player. So, yeah, $2 player in Roto, 5 and pole. So that's definitely in the drop range. You're talking about outside of the top 200 for the most part.

Last one I'll mention here, Chris, between these two for the Mets, returning players. I kind of like the idea of trying to acquire either Jeff McNeil or Michael Conforto right now, just as they return. Which one do you like better between the two? McNeil or Conforto? I think I've had Conforto ranked higher coming into the season and throughout. I think they were both in like the 70 to 100 range in the preseason rankings. and given that, you know, neither played a ton, I think the, you know, the preseason expectation still reigns.

All right. So let's just move over to your trade chart, some of the biggest risers and fallers. And I will include the link in the podcast description to this article so you can follow along here. But the biggest risers are Shohei Otani. The, is that, you put DH, but he's both on CBS. So I rank him. both. Okay. So that's the DH version of Shohei Otani has moved up. Yeah. More than the pitcher one. The pitcher one is still more like a $12 player, although that seems low too. Seriously. And we'll get into Otani the pitcher in just a little bit. But Shohei Otani has moved up $8. George Springer, Marcus

Semiun, Salvador Perez, Tommy Fam, Willie Adamas. Those are the biggest risers on Chris's trade chart. And I talked about Tommy Fam last week as someone that I'd be looking to buy high on. I don't know how high it's going to be, but I say buy high because he's performing really, really well this month. Actually, I think since the start of May, he's just been really, really good. And he's leading off for one of the better lineups in baseball with the San Diego Padres. So I would look into doing that. The one that really stands out to me here is George Springer and trying to figure out his value. And obviously he moves up because he's healthy now. He's betting fifth for the time being for the Toronto Blue Jays, Chris, what do you think it would take to acquire Springer now? And would you try?

Because we've seen a lot of guys who had tried to return from injury, get hurt again. Actually, he's already done it this year. Including George Springer. If he plays in the Blue Jays next game, that would be the most games in a row he's played all season because he played two games. But he was on the aisle to start the season, came back, played two games, went right back on the I. I.L. came back, played two games, went right back on the IL. So I think he would be even higher if it wasn't for the fact that he was hitting fifth. You know, the expectation coming in was he was going to bat lead off at the top of this lineup. And as we've seen with Marcus Simeon, that's an incredibly valuable role.

I would be trying to buy him just because, look, the injury risk is what it is. But if George Springer is on the field and if he's healthy, he's going to hit. and whether he bats first, whether he bats fifth, you know, that's a, it's not a nothing difference, but it's not a significant enough difference to change how I view him entirely. So, you know, I have him as a $20 player overall. So, you know, in a points league that's around Charlie Morton, Junjun Ryu, Kyle Hendrix. It's a little higher than someone like Nelson Cruz because he's utility only. if I'm trying to trade for him,

I'm probably aiming lower than that. I'm probably aiming for like the $15 tier, but George Springer is someone I would be looking to acquire. And somebody in that $15 tier would include Pablo Lopez, Julio Arias, Freddie Peralta. So again, those pitchers, we have some of endings concerns about

try and flip one of those for George Springer. Even Kyle Hendricks, who is on this amazing run, I think it's like eight or nine straight quality. he starts. He's been very good. If I could turn Kyle Hendricks into George Springer, I would feel pretty good about that. Yeah, I would feel good about that. Charlie Morton, a little bit more pause there because he's been awesome. His last two starts. Back-to-back seven-ending performances just put up 11 strikeouts on Tuesday. So there would be a little

bit more pause for there. Willie Adomas is one that really stands out here. We don't really have to talk about him, but we've mentioned before his splits in his career away from Tropicana Field now that he is with the Brewers. Very good ballpark to hit him. Better for left-handed power, but Willie Adamas has been very good since joining the Brewers. So you could probably get him for dirt cheap. You might even be a free agent in your league. Yeah, here's his 150 game pace since joining the Brewers. 280 average, 70 runs, 20 home runs, 90 RBI, 5 steals away from Tropicana for his career, 290, 86 runs, 24 homers, 68 RBI, 6 steals. So I don't know for sure that he's that guy moving forward,

but I think there's pretty good reason to think that. He's talked about how hard it was to see the ball at Tropicana Field for him sometimes. So, you know, those numbers are pretty stark. Willie Adomas is 41% rostered on CBS. He has shortstop eligibility. He should be more, he should be more rostered than that. I think any, any Roto League, he's a good option in middle infield right now. The biggest fallers in Chris's trade chart, Tyler Glassnow, Jack Flaherty, Jared Kellnick,

Byron Bucson, Shane Bieber, Hazelso, Lazardo. Those are all pretty obvious. Most are injury-related. And for Kelnick and Hazus Lazardo, they have been recently demoted back to AAA. And Jared Kellanick, I was just looking at to see what he's been doing recently. Not much. It's really not much. He's batting right around 200 in the month of June at AAA.

So I don't think we're going to see him. anytime soon unless he gets really hot. So we'll let you know if that happens. And speaking of Willie Adamas and potentially adding him, how would you rank these waiver wires starting short stops, Chris? David Fletcher went two for four on Wednesday. He's betting 368 in June. He's 56% rostered.

Brendan Rogers went one for four with his fourth home run and has started seven of the last eight games for the Rockies. 35% rostered with seven home games next week. J.P. Crawford continues to crush it. He's on a 10-game hitting streak. He has 16 hits during that span, batting 365 with a 987 OPS in June. 37% rostered there. So, Chris ranked these.

Fletcher, Brendan Rogers, J.B. Crawford, and Willie Adamas. I think it's got to be Rogers by a pretty decent margin. The course field of it all, if for no other reason than that makes him the best option, but also you look at what he's done this season. right guy rates right around 20%. He hasn't been running, which is disappointing, because he was talking before the season about wanting to be a 20-steel guy.

How much of that is just the injury that he missed most of the first two months with? But I think he's been, while he's been disappointing, there are reasons to be optimistic about him moving forward. And the seven home games next week, you could probably get away with starting him in your 12 team roto leagues next week.

Yeah, I mean, if you're really desperate for a shortstop, maybe even in a points league, seven games in Corr's field, that's prime time right there. So yeah, Brendan Rogers ranked above the rest there. How about these waiver-wire starting pitchers, Chris? Interested in any of them, Matt Manning, up against the Cardinals, five and two-thirds,

two earn runs, but only one strikeout. He only had four swinging strikes on 80 pitches. Caleb Smith against the Brewers, no yellow in the lineup, so worth noting there. But six innings, one run, four walks, six strikeouts. That's back-to-back quality starts for Caleb Smith. Looks like he is on pace for two starts next week as well against the Giants and at the Cardinals.

And then Mike Fultenevich, who turned in a quality start, six innings, two runs, five strikeouts to zero walks, 12 swinging strikes. He's 8% rostered. So Manning, Caleb Smith, Fulte. Any interest, Chris? I don't know what's going on with the Tigers and, you know, this trio of, you know, arguably, I think the most widely highly regarded starting pitching prospect trio and baseball, if not the most, you know, arguably one of with Casey Mize, Terrick Scouble, and Matt Manning.

And, you know, Mize and Scouble have shown some signs this season, although I think they've been disappointing on the whole. And Manning is kind of following the same script. All three of those guys came up and to the majors. and just didn't get very many swinging strikes, didn't get very many strikeouts. I want to be interested in Manning, but I think of this group, Caleb Smith, is probably the most interesting. I think the only team I have him on is my tout wars.

But, you know, we've seen Caleb Smith go on runs where he can get a decent number of strikeouts. And, you know, walks and home runs are always going to be an issue for him because of the type of pitcher he is. He doesn't have great command. and he gives up a lot of fly balls. But when he's right, he can pitch well enough to pitch around that.

And he's done that lately. All right. And Matt Manning is also on pace for two starts next week against the White Sox. And at Cleveland, what if I threw Chris Flexon in that mix, Chris? He had a really,

he's had two really good starts in a row now for the Mariners. And we spoke about him yesterday. He's right around, what is his roster rate? 39%. So it's kind of similar to these guys. Would he be at the top of the list?

No, I think he'd probably be behind Smith. I think he's more like Manning or, you know, higher than faulty, but I think I would still like Smith a little better. All right. Well, that crazy game that happened against the Phillies and Nationals, we already talked about Juan Soto, who did nothing, but 27 hits and 25 runs combined in that game.

Trey Turner went three for four, Josh Bell went two for four with a grand slam. Let's see, do I have this loaded up? Yes, I do. Josh Bell, he is kind of hot in June. 281 batting average with three home runs and an 876 OPS. So you have to know what his strikeout rate in June is because, you know, overall, his batted ball data is exceptional.

94th percent on average. Ixon velocity, 94th percent on hard hit rate. the problem overall for him this season has really just been that he's striking out too much, 26% strikeout rate. And it's not allowed him to take advantage of how well he's hitting the ball. It is 26% for June as well. Yeah, still a little too high. And what I mentioned earlier with Juan Soto, where you would look at the sprint speed,

you would look at the shifting. He has been susceptible to the shift this season. And he is quite slow. So it's possible that, you know, Josh Bell, despite how hard he hits the ball, could continue to disappoint. And, you know,

as good as the numbers are in June, only three home runs, you would hope for more from a guy who hits the ball that hard. Yeah, a lot of it is still on the ground, too, though he has a 26% line drive rate in June. So that is positive, and we're kind of moving in the right direction here with Josh Bell. Someone tweeted at me earlier.

I apologize. I don't have your name handy, but they said he should ditch switch hitting, which I agree with. I mean, he's awful as a right-handed batter against left-handed pitching. It's like, just take your chances as a left-handed batter against left-handed pitching. I think you're probably better off doing that, Josh Bell. Kyle Swarber went one for four with his 19th home running. He now has 10 home runs total this month for the Phillies. Bryce Harper has homered in back-to-back games,

so maybe getting healthy here. Alec Boehm went four for five with three runs scored. And Andrew McCutcheon went one for four with a grand slam, which came off of a right-handed pitcher, which is notable because he has destroyed lefties all season long and has been very bad against righties. I think it's a sub-700 OPS on the season. And that's been the case for him the last couple of seasons.

He's really hit lefties well, not so much righties. And McCutcheon, just for the month, is batting 315, with six home runs. So he's been really good. I haven't looked into their schedule to see if it's all against lefties, but McCutcheon coming around here, just need a little bit more consistency.

Let's take a look at the rest of the standouts from Wednesday. Studs being studs pitcher edition. Brandon Woodruff, at the Diamondback, seven innings, one run, nine strikeouts, sub two ERA, 0.76 whip. Guy just keeps chugging along.

We spoke about Kevin Galsman earlier. Shohei Otani, 55 minutes in. Good time to take. talk about him. Up against the Giants, six endings, one run, two walks, nine strikeouts, 21 swinging strikes on 105

pitches. Pitches had the whole arsenal working through four different pitches at least 16 times. Shohei Otani's last eight starts as a pitcher. 2.39 ERA, 59 strikeouts, over 45 and two-thirds innings pitched. The problem, Chris,

if you play on CBS or anywhere else where you have to pick and choose hitter or pitch Otani, you are getting none of this production. Yeah, that's the difficult thing about him. You know, there's also just

it's hard for me to shake sort of the omnipresent concern that at some point he might get hurt again. But he really is pitching very, very well right now. And as good as he is, as a

hitter, it's worth remembering. You know, I bring this up pretty regularly. Coming over as a prospect, he was considered a better pitcher than he was a hitter. So, you know, now I think it's the opposite is true. He is, you know, one of the best hitters slash position players slash whatever non-pitchers in baseball. He still might also be a top 15 starting pitcher on a per earning basis. It's not out of the question. Like, that's, that's, That is certainly how he's pitched this season. I'm going to anger some Blue Jays fans by saying this,

but Shohei Otani, that's your American League MVP right now. I mean, yeah, like it's the kind of thing. I was talking to someone on Twitter about this recently, and they were pointing out that Vladimir Guerrero has like a one win advantage in war if you add Otani's pitching and hitting.

But like, it doesn't work like that. You can't just add those together because you're talking about, one, he's getting a DH penalty. but he's not really a DH because he is playing a position. You know, he is a pitcher on your roster. And you're getting two different players from one roster spot.

That's, I think if he does what he's doing, if he finishes the season pitching and hitting as well as he currently is and stays healthy, I think Otani should not just be MVP. I think it should be unanimous. Yeah. I can't argue with that. Please, to stay healthy, Shohei Otani. Robbie Ray, the last one I wanted to mention

at the Marlin six endings, one run, six strikeouts. That is a quality start in four of his last five for Robbie Ray. The breakout, Renaissance, whatever you want to call it. I think it's more of a breakout because this is the best version of him that we've ever seen. The tight pants are

making all the difference. You know who else wears really tight pants, I realize? Jake Croninworth. I was watching that game, you hit a home run. Super tight pants, man. Walker Bueller might have the tightest pants and baseball, though. Robbie Ray on the season, 3.35 ERA with a 1.15 whip.

Look at some of the biggest hitter standouts from Wednesday. Jose Altuve, two for five with his 17th home run. 10th home run this month. He's averaging 3.8 fantasy points per game. And finally, all three of us unanimous. Jose Altuve, number one second baseman ranked

in points leagues. I haven't done it in Roto. Yeah, I haven't done it in Roto yet just because I still think Whitmerfield's going to steal more bases. I believe I still have him. I believe, yeah, it's Marryfield for me in Roto as well. Yeah, yeah, I noticed that.

And I might even have Ozzy Albi's ranked ahead of him in Roto, just because he's been running quite a bit as well. So, pull it up for you. Yeah, have Ozzy Albi second. I think it's kind of what you need, right? If you need power, the way that Altuvae is playing. Last year, total fluke.

Confidence saying that. Adelis Garcia put up a double dong. He now has 20 home runs on the season, only batting 253 in June, 33% strikeout rate, 59% ground bowl rate for Adolias Garcia this month. Those two things together, very bad for a power hitter. Starly Marte Parte on Wednesday, two for four with his fifth homer and his 11th stolen base.

He is batting 333 in 22 games since returning from the IL. Starling Marte, and I've talked about this before, he also has a 13% walk rate this year, and that's typically around 5 or 6% for him. So if he keeps that up, he is going to be a top 10, maybe even a top 5 outfielder in head-to-head points. He has been, I mean, it's not quite Nelson Cruz. But like the last three years of Starling Marte's career,

he has been like a money printing machine for fantasy. Yeah, as long as he's healthy because, you know, he's mistimed time this year as well. But averaging 4.0 fantasy points per game right now for Starling Marte, third best among outfielders. career year, contract year for him too. So I think he's trying to turn that into a little paycheck. Trevor Story had a double dong on the road. He's now up to eight home runs and 13 steals, but only batting 259.

I think that by low window may have closed for Trevor Story. Gary Sanchez went one for four with his 12th home run. It was a game tying homer in the ninth inning off of Greg Holland. So no surprise there. Gary Sanchez betting over 300 in the month of June. Austin Meadows went two for three with his 16th home run. he's still completely selling out for power, 54% fly ball rate in each month this season.

So it's weird, but it's kind of working for him. So, all right. Freddie Freeman went 4-4-4-with-a-walk. It was only his second four-hit game of the season. Boba-Shett went 2-4 with his 12th steal. He is batting 279 with 14 homers, 12 steals, 48 RBI, and 61 run scored on June 23rd. If Boba-Bchette keeps this up and stays healthy,

He is going to be a first round pick in Roto leagues next year. I don't think that's really up for debate. He is on pace for like a 260 combined run and RBI season. It's outrageous. It is crazy. And that's part of the reason why we're telling you to try and acquire George Springer because it doesn't matter where you're hitting that lineup, just how good that lineup has been this year.

And also, Marcus Simeon's been kind of not great in June, and he was not good in April, and so maybe he just had a random hot streak. He has still scored 16 runs in 18 games, despite only having like a 700 OPS, with a 290 on base percentage in June. But it wouldn't shock me if George Springer was batting first or second

for the Blue Jays in two weeks. This guy is not really a stud anymore, but we'll give him a shout out anyway. Francisco Lindorwin, two for four. I mean, maybe in terms of hair game. His hair is pretty cool. Francisco Lendor went two for four with his ninth home run. He's batting 2.92 with three homers over his last seven games.

So baby steps, I guess. It's been longer than that. His June is not good, Chris. It's still like 240 batting average with, I think, between a 700 and 800 OPS. Like, it's not great still. His pace before today's two for four with a home run. game since May 27th, which, you know, arbitrary endpoints, small sample sizes, whatever. You are, and this is actually like, this is like the most arbitrary endpoint I could possibly do

because this is literally from the second game of a double header. You're azer static in the heck out of this one. But his pace is 264 average. Okay, that's not great. 33 homers, 78 RBI, 11 runs. He's been mostly him. for like a month. He's fine.

All right. Well, as usual, my pacing was terrible. And I didn't leave myself enough time to talk about other things that I would like to. But I will point out that the Tigers had two players with a sock and a shoe. So that's socks and shoes. And one of them came from Jonathan Scope, who is just on fire, destroying baseballs. He has 15 home runs. It was his first deal of the season.

The other one just wanted to quickly mention came from Daz Cameron, son of former major leagueer Mike Cameron. And how about this? Both Mike Cameron and his son have now each stolen bases against Yadda or Molina in their respective careers, which is just awesome. Das Cameron has three homers and three steals in just nine games this year. So in a deeper roto league or in shallow leagues, throw them on the scout team. I think in a deeper roto league, you could actually add him. But three percent rostered is Das Cameron. Had some prospect pedigree. Strikes out quite a bit, but power speed combination is there. Again, the name, Daz Cameron.

The call to the pen, wrap up with some bullpen updates. For the Phillies, Hector Nearest has blown a save in three of his last five appearances. Joe Girardy said after the game, he'll take Thursday's scheduled day off to, quote, think about making a change at closer. So, Chris, would you be interested in adding Jose Alvarado or Sam Coonrod in deeper category leagues?

I feel like the close. closer situation has kind of settled down a lot over the last like three weeks or so to the point where I don't necessarily feel the need to chase a maybe and in this case since we there's a maybe we'll have a new closer and there's a maybe it'll be one of these two guys um so i yeah in a deeper league if you're desperate for saves but i'm not you know running to go add those guys yeah i In all of my 15 team, Roto leagues, I am desperate for saves. So I will take a shot on one of these. Maybe both of them.

I think probably Coonrod would be more likely. He's the righty. But Alvarado's had the better numbers this year. So I like Alvaradoes. I would lean towards him, but we'll see what happens. For the Tigers, it looks like Michael Fulmer is the guy there. He pitched in the ninth inning in a 6 to 2 game. And he has the Tigers last two saves.

He's 33% rostered. For the Rockies, Daniel Bard recorded a one-out save. It is his 10th of the season. He's 47% rostered. For the Royals, Greg Holland, picked up his fourth blown save. He only recorded one out. He allowed three hits and two earned runs

against the Yankees. And speaking of those Yankees, rolled as Chapman, gave up three hits, two walks, two earn runs. He has a 7.56 ERA in June. Spin rates were not an issue for him in this game, but I think Chapman

might be struggling with no sticky icky. in the Bronx. So, Garacol was his teammate. You never know. For the Blue Jays, Jordan Romano picked up his fifth save. For the Rangers,

Yoeli, Roderiguez, got his first save because Ian Kennedy was sick. For the Mets, Edwin Diaz is 16th. For the White Sox, Liam Hendrix,

his 19th. And for the Brewers, Josh Hader, picked up his 19th save of the season. So streamer, not to stream for Thursday. Brad Keller at the Yankees,

Jameson-Tiont versus the Royals, Colby Allard versus the A's, Carlos Martinez versus the Pirates Chad Kuhl at the Cardinals and Tony Santion versus the Braves What are you laughing about over there Chris? To not stream. Is that what I said?

Or just not stream? No, that is my response to this group. Allard is the most interesting I would prefer not to have to start any of them. I agree. James and Tion has been so bad but the Royals offense is pretty bad too. I guess if you wanted a second one.

For Friday, John Gray's return at the Brewers, Griffin Canning at Tampa Bay, John Lester at the Marlins, Kuanian Kim versus the Pirates, Johnny Quato versus the A's, and Vladimir Gutierrez versus the Braves. Yeah, I like Griffin, or John Gray and John Lester

most out of this group, and I think Canning or Kim can be useful as well. Yeah. The race swing and miss a lot, though, I guess with Warner Franco in the mix that might change their lineup construction

or just how we view them moving forward. Yeah, I would probably go with Kim over Griffin Canney. We're gonna wrap there for Chris. I'm Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow.

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