Fantasy Baseball Today - Mailbag! Tyler Glasnow's Keeper Value, Generating Trade Interest & More (2/10 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: February 10, 2022

Welcome to our latest mailbag podcast! We start it off with a keeper question from Anthony (2:41). ... How early should Shohei Ohtani be drafted in a daily lineup league (6:35)? ... What is Tyler Glsanow's value in keeper leagues (9:30)? ... Which MLB teams have the best active roster and prospects combined (12:10)? ... Which NL catchers see the biggest boost with the designated hitter (16:13)? ... What is our strategy in H2H categories leagues (19:15)? ... How can you create more trade interest in your Fantasy Baseball league (24:50)?  'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. I drive. Serafeas is magnificent. Got a fantasy question. Email fantasy baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. With fantasy. Now here's Frank, Scott, Chris, and Adam.

Welcome in to another fantasy baseball today mailbag this time on Thursday. February 10th. I am Frank Sample, joined by an ailing. Scott White, the poor guy, has not. Nearly lost his voice, but he's just too valuable. We need him. He is vital to the podcast and our success here, and thus we power on, Scotty.

We power on. What's going on, bud? Soldier on, I would say, yeah, I know. People who've been listening all week probably, probably aren't expecting it to continue getting worse. At some point, you have to think I'm going to be over the hump and start to get better. That day is not today.

So we soldier on. on. We soldier on, Frank. I will stick to the low notes. I will talk in a monotone even more than usual. And we'll answer some fantasy baseball questions here in the mailbag. Were you a big fan of the saw movies, Scott? You kind of got the jigsaw voice going on right now. What a play game. I really did like the first saw. Yeah. It was good. It was good. after that it kind of just became torture porn so I checked out I checked out after the third one but the first one was very clever movie and I recommend it yeah I think there's something like 10 of them now or didn't didn't Chris Rock direct the most latest one I don't know something

like that there's a lot of those movies going on I I I saw I think I saw at least three of maybe four, maybe four saw movies, which we'll surprise some people, surprise a part of our audience. Yes, I've seen some movies out there. Thanks again to everybody who continues to send in your emails. You want us to answer your question. You can send it in Fantasy Baseball at cbsi.com.

That's the letter I. So if you have a question, put mailbag in the subject line, and we're going to do one of these podcasts per week. They're usually a little bit shorter than our full-length podcast. Definitely shorter than our position previews. There's no doubt about that. But again, you want your question answered, email us, or you can leave a five-star Apple rating

and leave your question in the review. But let's jump right in, Scottie. And we're gonna start with Anthony in Minnesota, who I know is a dedicated listener. He often tweets at me as well. So shout out to Anthony in Minnesota. Hello, Brendan, Byron, and Sandy. I don't know if you're,

are you looking at the rundown, Scott? I have it pulled up now, yes. Ah, so then you probably know, you probably know who these players are. They are each one of our true loves, and we do have our Players We Love podcast coming up soon. So wait and see. We'll see if Scotty chooses Brenda Rogers,

if Chris goes with Byron Buxton, and if I go with Sandy Alcantra. So this is just his deduction, I guess, based on how often and how emphatically we discuss these players. It would make sense. I'm going to take it down an octave, Frank. That last one was a little too high. All right, bud.

Special guest star today. I'm totally fine. If you want to go with the voice changer, I know we tried to figure it out on the mock draft, but I always like the voice changer. I know other people were, they weren't about it. But if you could figure that out, Scott,

then let's do it. Is this it? No, it's not it. It's all right. And this isn't it? No, it's not it. We'll figure it out. Let's answer some questions.

I have a keeper dilemma. in a six-by-six roto league, with the extra categories being OPS for hitters and K-per-9 for pitchers. Keeper rules are you keep two in the round they were drafted and can only keep them for two years. Assuming there are two years of keeper eligibility left, here are my options.

Cotel Marte in round eight, Kevin Gosman in round 10, Jake Cronoworth in round 18, and Tyler Malley in round 19. I am leaning Marte since it's about a two-round discount unsure if it's good to keep Gosman and not have a pick for two of three rounds or take the bigger discount in Jake Cronoworth. What do you think, Scottie? Well, it would matter to me how deep, deep, how deep my voices, how deep this league is, because the deeper it is, I'm sorry, the shallower it is,

the more impactful you want your keepers to be. Like, that matters more than the extent of the discount. So, you know, assuming 12 teams or something shallower, Marte and Gosman. But if it's like, I don't know, 15 teams or more, maybe you think about keeping Cronin worth, I'd be more likely to keep them over Marte than Gosman. You know what? I don't even think it matters that much. Marte and Gosman. Yeah, I agree with you there. I think Gosman for sure, but I do agree with you. If if it's a deeper league, you know, getting Jay Cronworth in round 18, I think that's worthy of consideration, but in a vacuum, I would go with Catelle Marte and Kevin Gausman as well.

This one's from David. What's up? Larry, Darrell and Darrell. I'm terrible at these, so. Is this, uh, Harry Darrell and Darrell. Is this that old sitcom?

I know there's some character on some old sitcom. He always had introduced to, himself as brother Darrell and his other brother Darrell. It looks like it's something called Newhart. Does that sound right? There you go. Yep. I've never watched it. More our parents' generation, I think. Although

I watched a lot of Nick at Night growing up, so the older sitcoms, I mean, I'm usually well-versed. I've seen a good amount of them, but not this one. Newhart, I've never seen it. And for anyone who's wondering, if you're a newer listener to the podcast, when you send in your questions,

feel free to attach some kind of trio of names so we figure them out on the podcast and have some fun with those. So thank you, David, for sending that in. Here is your question. Is there any reason I shouldn't take Shohei Otani at number two overall in this format? It is a 13-team Roto League

with OBP, not average, and we can make daily moves. So that means he can get hitting stats every day. He isn't pitching. He is a nine-tool player. Why would I not do this? and take Turner, Soto, or Tatis, depending on who would fall to number two.

What do you think, Scotty? Roto, OBP, 13 teams, daily lineups. You can basically reap all of Otani's benefits. Well, there is inherent risk to Otani that he's taking on this incomparable workload over a very long season. And he managed to do it last year, but is that something he can sustain year after year?

year. He could spend a lot of time on the IL, or his performance could suffer, I think, especially on the hitting end, where he's most valuable. So that would be my hesitation. I agree it's probably worth the risk in this format. I think Fernando Tatis is the one player that I'd have a difficult time passing up for him, although he obviously has risks of his own with the shoulder. He's just he's just a monster offensively, you know, and if not for that risk of the shoulder, like, he'd be such an easy number one. It's a close call between those two for the first pick, I think, in this format, where you have the daily lineup moves.

Yeah, I tweeted this out earlier regarding Fernando Tatis. No kind of mind-boggling stat here, but he's played 273 career games, his 150 game pace and his first 273 is 44 homers and 28 steals. That is just outstanding for Fernando Tatis. However, given that this is OBP, Scott, I think that I would actually rank Juan Soto ahead of Fernando Tatis. Not that Tatis is bad in OBP,

but man, Juan Soto is such a standout. So I think it's close. I would go with Otani, number two overall in this format in the Daily Lineup League. This one's from Darren, dear Ivan, or Yvonne, Adrian, and Juan. Are those I don't know

There's one Gonzalez and Yvonne Rodriguez And maybe I don't know who Adrian would be Adrian. Adrian Gonzalez Oh Adrian Belchre Adrian Beltray Adrian Beltray All right

Just great Rangers hitters Yeah that could be it Maybe Yeah I am in a highly competitive 16 team We keep 10 regular players along with two freshmen and one sophomore.

The league is very deep and we have 20 minor league spots as well. Elite starting pitching is money in this league and I have a lot of it with Corbin Burns, Shane Bieber, Julio Arias, and Joe Musgrove as locked in keepers. My question for you guys is the following. My final keeper spot has come down to two players, Tyler Glassnow and you Darvish. Who would you take? With Glass Now, I know I'm getting a season of nothing followed by a season of TJ recovering. I've tried to trade Glass now, but all I'm getting is lowballed.

If I let Glass Now go, I can kiss him goodbye, as there is no way he will make it to me in this upcoming draft. My window of contention is now. So it's interesting, Scott, because he already has the four awesome pitchers in Burns, Beaver, Julio Reyes, and Joe Mosgrove. Do you choose to maybe take that red shirt year out of Tyler Glass now and know that he's younger than Darvish and could have a longer potential impact?

to Keeper League. Yeah, especially, I think, since there are concerns about Darvish's performance, if there weren't, I might not stress the age difference so much. It's really just about, we don't know if Darvish is going to be a high-end performer ever again. I think there's a pretty good chance. I rank him, I think, 29th at starting pitcher. But it's a reasonable doubt. and in a league where 160 players are kept, I think you can play the long game with your keepers, even not recognizing that you're looking to compete now. I mean, I think without Darvish,

you have a strong enough starting staff to do that. Yeah, and especially in a 16-team league, Scott. I mean, it's just so deep. So I think you're doing it the right way, keeping all these pitchers. And just a reminder on what Tyler Glassnow did last year before he unfortunately needed Tommy John surgery. 2.66 ERA, 0.93 whip,

123 strikeouts, and 88 innings pitched. I mean, this guy was really coming into his own as like a top five, top 10 starting pitcher for fantasy. And yeah, I think this is something just to remember as well for Keeper leagues. If you have an IEL on your team, and it's one of those leagues where you, can keep a player for late, like for their round value the following year or for their salary

cap value the following year, try to scoop up Tyler Glass now very late in your Keeper League or in a, you know, salary cap keeper league, you know, throw them out for a couple of bucks and see if you can get them, say you can keep them for cheaper next year in 2020. This one's from Charlton. I recently joined a 15 team league. All right, this is an interesting question. I read it beforehand. Some of these I didn't read before and so bear with me. But this one was interesting. A 15-team league, 30-man MLB roster, 25 minor league spots, where you draft two MLB teams

from which you pick 10 players each to start your team. They can be on MLB or minor league affiliates outside of the obvious teams, Braves, Dodgers, Yankees, Angels, White Sox, Astros. What are some under-the-radar teams that have a good balance of prospects and MLB players to choose from. So I'm going to filibuster a little bit here, Scott,

to give you some time to think about this one. Yeah, I don't even know why what makes these teams obvious. Like, I feel like the White Sox have the worst prospect situation right now, so I don't know why they'd be among the obvious ones. Oh, but you know what just came to mind, Scott, immediately. It's not just because of Julio Rodriguez. I think that they genuinely have a good roster now, but obviously the Mariners.

I think they're up and coming. I think that they're a team that could compete. and I think they have a lot of really good prospects on the way Julio Rodriguez, Jared Kellanick, obviously Logan Gilbert already on the roster, but they've got pitching prospects, George Kirby, Emerson Hancock, they have Matt Brash.

They're a really, really exciting teams. And they just got Robbie Ray. I'd be very interested in the Seattle Mariners. The Detroit Tigers are a team that, you know, in that same way. Maybe not as good, but I kind of like the Tigers. They have two great prospects, but not a lot going on at the major league level.

True. I am looking at the Blue Jays. For sure. And. Yeah, the Blue Jays are up and coming already, like with their entire roster, and then they have Jordan Groshen's coming on the way as well in their prospect system.

Yeah, I'm not sure I love any of the others, to be honest. The Pirates, have a lot of prospects, but not a lot going on at the major league level. How about the Padres? Yeah, I thought about them, but...

They have Abrams coming, they have Robert Hassel, McKenzie Gore. They're like a mid-tier pick, I think. Okay. I guess you did hit on a lot of the big ones here, but I would add the Blue Jays to the list.

Okay, yeah, I think Blue Jays for you, Mariners for me. Yeah, definitely Mariners. You're right, yeah. Cardinals. How about the Cardinals, Scott? They have some talent now. They have Nolan Gorman.

They have Jordan Walker coming as well. Yeah, they're okay. Another mid-tier pick. Matthew Libertor. Rays are probably a mid-tier pick just because they don't, they have a deep farm system, but they don't,

for being a good team, they don't have a lot of standouts on the Major League roster. All right, so I think those five teams right there that we just talked about, the Mariners, the Blue Jays, the Padres, we mentioned,

the Cardinals, and the raise. This next one's from Marco in Toronto. I was thinking Salvador Perez was a big advantage because he played basically every day filling in his DH on days off. Are there any national league catchers

that will get similar workloads this year with the NLDH spot? First and foremost, I don't think that there is a single national league catcher that will come close to the workload we saw from Salvador Perez last year. He played 161 games

and his plate appearance total was the most. that we saw in the MLB since Victor Martinez back in 2009. So that just lets you know, like, it's been a decade since we saw a catcher eligible player play that much. With that being said, Scott, you know, the ones that come to mind immediately, Will Smith will benefit, J.C. Real Muto will benefit. I think Wilson Contreras, especially, they signed Jan Goams in the offseason.

So I think that they did that knowingly that, you know, Gomes could play catcher. And then Wilson Contreras will either DH, you know, maybe play some time at first as well, those guys, and then maybe a little bit lower down, someone like Travis Darno. Yeah, it's really just, you look at the best hitting catchers. Oh, my gosh. Poor scy. The best hitting catchers are all likely to get more, they're likely to be the ones who the teams want to stay in the lineup at DH when they need a break from catching. I mentioned on the catcher preview that Luis Camposano prospect for the Padres, who's gotten a taste of the majors each of the last two years,

doesn't look like he has anything more to prove in the minors questionable defensively, but I really like the offensive profile. I could see him becoming kind of a backup catcher slash primary DH for them, but it may not happen from the get-go. All right, yeah. I agree with that. I think two other young players in that same regard. You know, Cabot Ruiz, obviously,

I believe that the Nationals value his bat. That's part of his appeal as a prospect. So he could be one of them. And then Tyler Stevenson, you know, while we don't like the draft cause for Tyler Stevenson, he should be the main catcher for the Reds. And he even played some first base last year. So I think that they really do like his bat in the lineup.

and as a result, probably see him get some days at DH as well. This next one's from Papa Torres. Dear Athos, Porthos, and Aramis. I believe those are the three musketeers. Really? I had no... I had no idea.

I did not know what their names were. Wow. Yeah, you're right. Good thing that you're here, Scott, because, geez, I would just, I would just embarrass myself over and over. Happy Fantasy Baseball 22. First, what now standing job?

You're all three, doing so, Thank you. Listen to every show this year. And Apple review will follow. Thank you. We really do appreciate. Could you please discuss the following approach when drafting for a head-to-head categories league?

Drafting two aces, then loading up on hitters for the next five to six rounds, when drafting at the bottom half of the draft. So rounds eight through 12, picks eight through 12, drafting two studs from the same position above, from the same position above, and then two to three. starting pitchers after it.

All right. So two aces early, Scott, and then load up on hitters, drafting two studs at the same position. Why do they have to be the same position? I'm confused. All right, let's just say drafting two stud hitters and then two to three starting pitchers after it.

What do you think? So pocket aces. Pocket aces. And then a bunch of hitters. In a categories league. Yeah. Head to head categories. The pocket, the pocket aces thing has always struck me as kind of gimmick-gy. I don't know who's going to listen to this whole podcast, frankly, this is pretty awful.

We just did a two-hour mock draft before this, if, you know, so I didn't have enough to do that. And we're going forward with us mailbag anyway. So apologies. I'm doing the best I can. The pocket ace's thing has always struck me as gimmicky because I don't know that that's, like, why do you necessarily have to use your first two picks on a pitcher? You know, maybe you want two good starting pitchers, but they could be in rounds two and four, you know? Like, I just don't know that you have to box yourself in like that. And I don't think you know.

necessarily need two anyway because there's such a good upper middle class at the position now you get one true ace maybe and then you get two of those guys from like the max freed pose a barrios tier you know and that would be potentially even stronger um so no i don't i don't really i mean this approach could work for you but i don't it doesn't it doesn't really have i don't see clear merits for it for doing something this specific. Yeah. I think, yeah, you don't have to be as rigid in your strategy here. I, you know, typically in this format, we did a head-toed category as mock draft recently.

You can go back and watch it on our YouTube channel. But yeah, I would probably, I'd like to get one starting pitcher, probably with my first two picks, and then probably another starting pitcher at the three, four. I'd like to have two aces that I could just always leave in my lineup in this format and then draft a bunch of relievers that help out with race. ratios and obviously, you know, get like two or three closers in there. And then I wait and then, you know, maybe pick up some upside pitchers later on. That's what I typically do.

And I like to punt steals. So players in that range that would fit that strategy, you know, Mike Trout, Freddie Freeman, even like, you know, Kyle Tucker, he'll probably give you like 12 to 15 or like a Bryce Harper or someone like that. So I would try to punt steals and maybe get like two pitchers in your first four picks. That's what I usually do in that format. This next was from Jake. I play in a 10-man 8-by-8 Roto League with daily lineup changes,

standard 5-5 categories plus hits, total bases, and OPS on the hitter side, plus holds K-per-9 and quality starts on the pitcher side. And I have to choose three keepers out of the following. Bright's Harper, Kyle Tucker, Luis Robert,

Raphael Devers, Walker, Shane Bieber, Max Scherzer. In a vacuum, I think I would pick Harper, Tucker, and Robert, but they all play at the deepest position and my league is only three outfielders. There are also two utility spots. Would you roll with the three outfielder's

or would you sub-devers for a starting pitcher for one? Or a starting pitcher for one. Oh, yeah. I would go, let's see here. So it's really a, yeah, eight by eight. I would go. Tough. Ten men.

Harper for sure, obviously. Yep. And then I think I go Bueller endeavors. I'm with you on Harper. I think I agree on Walker Bueller. I was going to say Max Scherzer just because I think he'll be better in K-per-9 and in quality starts. Oh, you know what?

I overlooked him. Yeah, Scherzer over Bueller. That's fine. But, Scott, the fact that it's a keeper league, you might want to lean with the youth of Walker Bueller. Yeah, that's true, too. I think that you can get back to Bueller. You can keep him for longer. So I would go Harper, Bueller, and I still think the overall impact in this format will be better from Kyle Tucker.

So I know you get two. Yeah, but you got the position scarcity thing with Devers. And the fact that it's 8 by 8, I think, levels the playing field a little between Tucker and Devers. Because Tucker's steals aren't as valuable. True. So I do think I'd lean Devers over Tucker, given that it's a third. three outfielder league and you're already keeping an outfielder. All right.

So, yeah. Scottie's going to go with Harper, Devers, and, Bueller. I think I would still go with Tucker, though. You did make a good point there, Scottie. This one's from Joel. Dear Hubey, sunny and happy. No idea here.

This seems like a... Yeah, I thought this might be Adam Sandler characters. Hubey Halloween has tons of references to old Adam Sandler movies Happy Gilmore Sunny Sunny Coffax Sonny from is that his name

and Big Daddy Think that might be it? Yep, it is Yeah, look at me Those Adam Sandler movies Finally paying off for you Yeah, Scott, you know man Like if there's any movies I've seen

It's the first three saw movies And a bunch of like goofy Adam Sandler movies growing up. Again, this one's from Joel. Question for you, gents. I love trading throughout the year, and I'm constantly trying to increase the amount of trades in my leagues. So would you guys happen to have any data that would support increasing trading? For example, do more bench spots or a certain number of roster and bench spots equal more trades on average? Would decreasing the fab available make owners look to trade more often? Is there a fab sweet spot? Not sure.

sure there is data out there for this, but I'd love to start the discussion. Yeah, I mean, look, we definitely don't have data, but I mean, Scott's been playing fantasy for a long time. You know, I've been playing fantasy for a long time. Not as long as Scott, but I know you played in all different kind of format, Scott. So is there anything that you know that maybe stands out that maybe entices people to trade more often in fantasy? Well, I think, I think the shallower of the league. Well, no, that's not necessarily true. I find it easier to trade

in points leagues than categories leagues because there's less collateral damage for things you give up. You know, it's just about overall production and you're not having to weigh the risk of sacrificing in one

category to add to another category. So I tend, you know, and some disagree over that when I brought it before they say well yes but pursuing particularly at certain times a year pursuing one category in particular opens up creates an incentive to trade that maybe doesn't exist in points leagues and maybe that's true i just that's not my personal experience uh i mean i i don't know exactly what the sweet spot is i think maybe too shallow makes out

hard to trade, but also too deep makes it hard to trade. There probably is a sweet spot in terms of depth where holes can be created on rosters. And yet it's not so deep that nobody's willing to consolidate two players for one players, you know? So I know I'm not offering you many specifics, but those are two observations I've made. I would say, adding the possibility of trading fab, I think maybe could increase trading as well. I mean, there's a few leagues that I played in where you could trade up, trade a percentage of your fab. Hey, Scott, I'm going to give you $50 of my fab budget. You give me Trent Grisham, whatever. But yeah, like I've seen that happen in different kind of leagues. And I think having more fab in that sense, playing with $1,000 to start rather than

100, that that probably increases the likelihood that people want to trade away their fab, just because they have more of it in general. So, yeah, I think that's something you could try, you know, upping the fab to a thousand. I mean, it's typically an increments of 10 anyway, so like 100,000, whatever it might be. So, yeah, I would try something like that and maybe adding in that possibility of trading fab for players or trading fab for other fab.

Like, you know, I've seen it happen in leagues before. Maybe adding an incentive to trading as well. I don't know what that would look like, but I don't know. I was thinking like having an award at the end of the year for like the best trade made or like the worst trade made and I don't know what I should add. What do you think? Dynasty. Yeah. When you when you have teams, different teams focused on the long term and the short term, that makes for a lot more trade possibilities.

Every team is always in play for a trade. And, you know, because I play in so many leagues every year, you know, I, I, you know, I, When I started playing fantasy, I was the guy who traded all the time. But I hardly ever trade in redraft leagues anymore because I'm so focused on getting deals done in those dynasty leagues that it just, you know, I just don't have the bandwidth for it anymore. So that's, you know, if you like trades, I mean, dynasties where you're going to see the most. Yeah, I think that makes sense too. And if you play in a dynasty league, then you could talk about the possibility of trading draft picks, trading rules. rookie picks and you can really kind of expand there. So I think the more things you have available

at trade, it opens it up. So trading fab, trading draft picks and dynasty. Those are a few suggestions. So hopefully we'll help you out there, Joel. This is the last one that we got here today. And it's from Caleb in Canada. Big fan of the show. I'm a new listener, but I haven't missed an episode since I started. Thank you, Caleb. We do appreciate it. I am in a head-to-head six-by-six categories league that allows for three keepers with no penalty. I do have a good number to choose from, but not a stud like some of the other managers. I have Garrett Cole, he's pretty good. Max Scherzer, he's pretty good.

I'm inclined to keep those two, but open to just keeping one. Should I keep them? I need one more keeper between Matt Olson, Eloy Jimenez, Austin Riley, Jose Abrae, Alex Bregman, and Corey Seeger. Should I keep the two pitchers

or try with a couple of batters? Who would you choose? Head to head, six by six. Does not say how deep the league is, though, Scottie. or what the extra category is. Correct. We appreciate you, Caleb, but next time you email in,

just add in the size of your league and maybe what those extra categories are. I think the chalk answer is Matt Olson. And so I don't think you can really go wrong keeping him. I'd be tempted to lock up third base, though, with Austin Riley. even if it's a little bit riskier. I think that would be my choice, actually.

We just didn't. A 12th team had to head points draft where I got left out at third base. It's really easy to do. It's the weakest position. And it's not fun. I don't like having that glaring, you know, that glaring shortcoming on your roster. And I'm not sure, Olson, as much as I like them for

what he brings to the table. I'm not sure it's quite enough to pass up the chance to go ahead and secure third base. Who knows if you'll get another chance, especially since it's a keeper league. Yep. And because it's a keeper league too, I mean, Austin Riley being younger than Matt Olson. And again, yeah. Not that much. Olson's younger than I think many people realize.

I think Olson is about to turn 28. I think that's right, yeah. Yeah, so he's not old by any means. I mean, he's in the prime of his career. Yeah, he turns 28 in late March, and I think Austin Riley. Austin Riley's probably older than people realize. Actually, no, he's 24 years old.

He turns 25 in early April, so. So they're like three years apart. Yeah, no, I mean, that helps. It's not like a super deep keeper league here, but yeah, I actually agree. I would go with Cole Scherzer and Austin Riley there. We're going to wrap up. Scotty, please go drink.

God. Go drink some tea. Put me out of my misery. Maybe like a throat loss in something. We'll figure it out, man. We'll, we're going to get Scottie back on track one way or another. For Scott, I'm Frank DeGel for listening and watching this Mailbag edition of Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow.

Bye-bye.