Fantasy Baseball Today - Martin Perez Keeps Rolling, Alejandro Kirk Double Dong & The Worry-O-Meter! (6/1 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 1, 2022

Martin Perez just keeps rolling right now (1:05)! Alejandro Kirk blasted a double dong. ... Luis Castillo did something different on Tuesday and he was awesome (13:05)! ... Let's fire up the June 1 edition for the Worry-O-Meter (17:00) for Salvador Perez, Marcus Semien and others. ... What do we do with Charlie Morton (30:35)? ... News and notes (37:28): Wander Franco landed on the IL and more. ... Andrew Vaughn or Christian Walker if you need a hitter (44:22)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates and streamers (49:45). Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question, email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your lead. Where fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Enough is enough. What's really wrong with Uncle Charlie Morton? Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today and welcome to June.

It's Wednesday, June 1st. Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the show, the official Wurriometer, two months in, kind of. You've got to talk about Salvador Perez, getting a lot of questions about him. Luis Castillo did something different, and it worked. And we've got some waiver wire hitters. But first, take it away, Susan. Oh, my goodness gracious.

All right, Chris, let's stick with you here. Who do you have? Oh, my goodness gracious from Tuesday. We got to talk about Martine Perez, who just continues to be awesome in spite of my very, significant skepticism publicly. Seven shutout innings, five strikeouts, three hits allowed against the Tampa Bay raised today.

Lowers his season ERA to 142. He's been awesome. He, I believe, had the lowest, the lowest ERA for a pitcher in a month with at least 40 innings pitched since Johann Santana.

In 2000, gosh, I wish I had the, between, front of me. I think it was 2012. But I actually don't know if that lines up with the time that Johan Santana was actually still good. But yeah, either way, Johann Santana, he hasn't been good in a while. So that tells you what a good month Martin Perez had, an ERA under 0.6 for the month. And I still don't buy it.

And I still don't see any reason to be excited about him. And I still don't see any reason to think that he's anything more than a league average pitcher. That's my story. and I'm sticking to it. So here is the, I believe, official stat you were looking for here, Chris. Finish May with a 4-0 record and a 0.64 ERA

and 6 starts, the lowest ERA in any month by an American League pitcher since Johan Santana did it back in September of 2004. 2004. Twins. There you go. Yeah. Martin Perez, I was looking more into him before

and trying to figure out, like, what is he doing differently? Obviously, the control is something that stands out big time for him. He's got two walks or fewer in eight of 10 starts. One point nine walks per nine this year, which is by far a career best. He's over three walks per nine for his career. So I don't know if that's something that he'll be able to keep up as the season goes along. But he's also getting a lot of ground balls. So limiting walks and getting ground balls. So when people actually reach base, those are turning into double plays. And so I think that's the driving force. He hasn't

allowed a single home run this year. That's going to change at some point for Martin Perez, even with all these ground balls that he's getting. We heard the skepticism from Chris. Scott, you've kind of been the, I don't know, the defense of Martine Perez. Not that, you know, we think he's going to do this, but he's obviously been very serviceable. Yes, well, more than serviceable.

I mean, he's been... Fantastic. What's the R.A. for the year now? 144. 142. And going deep into games. Don't sell him short. How dare you?

And you mentioned he's... Base runners are getting erased on double play. There have hardly been any base runners during this stretch for Martin Perez that precedes even May. So eight starts of a runner fewer, all quality starts, 5.4 hits per nine during that stretch. I mean, that probably is where the luck comes in because it's difficult to sustain that kind of hit rate when you're not, when you're allowing contact, which Martin Perez has continued to do. weak though the contact has been. I mean, if we're just talking, you know, are you betting he will be,

are you betting he will regress to being a league average pitcher or not? I would be in the same camp as Chris. That is the most likely way that this plays out. So if you can, if you can sell Martin Perez for somebody who's genuinely, confidently good, then I'd be fine with that. that. But if not, you know, I'm happy to enjoy it for however long it lasts. And there is that small percentage chance that it does last all season. Not that he's going to sustain a 142 ERA all

season, but that he's going to be a starting caliber fantasy pitcher all season. I'm at least open to that possible. Open enough that I'm not just going to toss him aside for some flavor of the week. Right. So I'm not saying that like he's not worth rostering. I'm just saying that like I put next to zero value on him as a trade asset if someone offered me someone that I was even remotely interested in even if that player wasn't particularly good right now

I would probably hit except for Martin Perez so like Jesse Winker Chris if someone offered you... Absolutely 100%. There's no question about that. I was thinking thinking like you say Kikuchi, I think I would rather have than Martin Perez, just because I think there's some semblance of upside. There's a path to him being a very good pitcher. Whereas I think like Martin Perez moving forward, I think being an average pitcher is like a pretty good outcome for him, despite the way he's pitched so far. We always talk about, we're not talking about what's happened so far. We're talking about what's likely to happen moving forward. And I just, I don't, see anything in Martin Perez's track record that suggests that a 1-99 walks per

9 is sustainable. I don't see anything in his track record to suggest that even with a high ground ball rate, he's going to be a very good pitcher. He's had high ground ball rates before. He had a 60% ground bar rate in 2015 with a 446 ERA. And that was in an offensive environment that's very similar to the one today in terms of how the ball is traveling. The difference, and that was with a 5% home run to fly ball rate. I don't know, man. I think Martine Perez, like, his career is the definition of just a guy. And good months can happen and start him next week.

That's fine. Actually, I don't know what his matchups are, so I wouldn't say blanket start him. Yeah, I wouldn't either. And so, like, that's the thing is if you're not willing to say blanket start a guy when he's got a 0.64 ERA over the last month. That kind of tells me that that guy's not particularly valuable. Well, I wouldn't be afraid of starting him with any matchup, I guess. I just, you know, he hasn't earned must-start status from me for this time he's pitching well.

So Seattle's his next matchup. I mean, Tampa Bay is obviously the team. He shut down this time. Pretty good team. To use the, to play off the Kikuchi example, I mean, the most likely scenario for Kukuchi, as with Perez is that he's going to be waiver fodder.

So, I mean, I'd rather stick with Perez because I feel like I'm getting something out of him right now in a way I'm less confident I will from Kikuchi. Sure, that's fair. But like, looking at another position, Marcelo Zuna has been a pretty big disappointment. I would absolutely trade Martine Perez

for Marcelo Zuna. I would trade Martin Perez for Andrew, for Andrew Vaughn. Yeah, there's a lot. also that that Martin Perez is SPARP eligible. So that is a wrinkle that does affect this conversation

in ways that are only really relevant to head-to-head points leagues where that matters. But even then, I feel like he's going to be pretty fringy outside of two-start weeks. And so you know, it's not that hard to find decent relievers in

a points league. Yeah. I mean, that's as much about my confidence or lack thereof that Marcel Ozuna is going to be a top 30 outfielder. But I would agree that Ozuna has more upside among outfielders than Perez does among pitchers. Yeah. And I mean, the example I used earlier, Jesse Winker, I have him and Ozuna ranked in a similar spot to like borderline top 35 or top 40 outfielders. So yeah, I think, you know, if you're trying to turn pitching into hitting and Perez is likely someone that you picked up or

drafted very, very late in your drafts, then I would be okay. Man, if you drafted Martin Perez. Kudos to you. AL only league, maybe. Weird 50-round draft you were in, I guess. All right, Scott. I'm not sure I would have drafted him in a 50-round draft. Scott, oh my goodness gracious for you from Tuesday.

Alejandro Kirk, man, has the catcher position taken a turn for the better here in the last couple weeks between William Contreras becoming more of a fixture in the Braves lineup and MJ Melendez now? He just made a second start at right. field since Salvador Perez returns. So it seems like the Royals are going to keep finding a bat's for him. And then Alejandro Kirk finally had that

that big game we've been waiting all year for. Two homer game. Three hits totals. Got a season batting average up to 304. He got a ton of hits in May. Only recently started getting hits of the extra base variety. And this was only his second and third home run of the season.

So, you know, the power has been lacking. but the contact skills have been playing up for a few weeks now. And he's continued to play about 60% of the time, maybe a little more between catcher and DH. So at least as much as the average catcher, and I think he has the potential for more than the average catcher since they seem willing to use him in the DH spot.

If he gets going well, I think the playing time would only improve for Kirk. Obviously, in points league, it's just his lack of strikeouts. He's striking out less than Luis Arias. So it's just because of that, he's a top 10 catcher, I think, pretty easily. Only 55% rostered, though. I would say that with Adley Rushman getting called up, with Kirk coming around, with Melendez and the second Contreras entering the fold,

between them and I'm going to throw Tyler Stevenson in there, just because his production so far has been good. I'm going to keep Yasmani Grandal in there, even though his production has been awful. And then there's an obvious top five. Like, that's 12. That's 12 catchers. That's enough to go around in 12 team one catcher leagues.

Everybody has, oh, Mitch Garver. Mitch Garver, I didn't mention him. I'm including him in there. Yeah, he's been hot lately. Yeah, yeah. And so, like, if you're in a one-catcher league, you shouldn't have to mess around with, like, Elias Diaz or Yadir Malina,

anybody like that. There's enough really interesting hitters at the position now that you shouldn't settle for anything less than that. I'm not even counting like Gary Sanchez, who's been powering up recently, or Caber Ruiz, who never strikes out. He's been useful in points leagues at least. I'm not even counting some of them.

So there's even a little bit of a cushion there. You might as well go for one of those upside plays if you play in a one catcher league. Yeah, I did want to talk about Gary Sanchez a little bit later on, but since you mentioned him, Chris, Scott. He went one for three with a three-run homer on Tuesday, and in May he hit 253, five homers, an 823 OPS. The strikeout rate is down for Gary Sanchez.

Average exit velocity for the month, 93.4 miles per hour with a 16% barrel rate. You like that for Sanchez. He's a top nine catcher in both Roto and head-to-head points and has played 17 of 38 games at DH this season and has been a much better hitter in those games. So I think that's something that's really helping him so far with the Minnesota Twins.

That is Gary Sanchez. Scott, how would you rank, let's go Mitch Garver, MJ Melendez, Alejandro Kirk. They're all rostered in less than 70% of CBS leagues. I would go Kirk Garver Melendez. Yep. All right. And you'd be, I know we kind of got duped by this William Contreras thing,

because of Michael Harris, just kind of threw everything upside down. So you would drop Contreras for any of those? Yeah, he's 12th of the 12, but he would still be in the 12. All right, let's do, oh my goodness gracious for me, and that is Luis Castillo, who posted his first double-digit strikeout performance of the season at the Boston Red Sox. He went six shutout, only one hit allowed, three walks. 10 strikeouts had 22 swinging strikes on 100 pitches for Castillo,

10 on the fastball, 8 on the changeup, 4 on the slider, and the velocity was up a little bit on the fastball, but definitely up on the slider, nearly 2 miles per hour. And a very noticeable change in his pitch mix in this start where he entered throwing his sinker just 35% of the time, and he threw it just 6% in this one. So he went really heavy with the 4-Seam fastball,

and it worked. Like he was throwing, the Red Sox hitters had no end. answer for the four-team fastball in this start. And it makes sense because if you look at the sinker the past couple of years, very high batting average against. And we know the change up and the slider has been very good for Luis Castillo. Chris, what do you think about this change for Castillo? And whether or not it can get him back to, you know,

I think the past couple of years we've overvalued him. But this change might be able to get him back inside the top 30, top 25 starting pitchers. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, he's been in like the 40-ish range for me. 45, I'm looking at it now. But yeah, as a general rule, I think, unless you've got a really, really good sinker, most pitchers probably should throw four seam fastballs up in the zone over sinkers down in the zone, especially when you throw as hard as Luis Castillo does, because you're trying to get whiffs.

You know, that's kind of the name of the game. And in his case, the sinker has been a pretty bad pitch over the past couple of years. especially relative to the four-seem fastball. And he's obviously gotten a lot more whiffs with the four-seem fastball, but even the quality of contact allowed on the sinker has generally been worse than the four-seem fastball. And so at that point, what are you getting out of the sinker? So I think it's a good switch.

You know, we know the slider and change-up, like you said, he can get a lot of whiffs with those. Getting whiffs with the four-seem fastball, that's just going to make his arsenal even better. So I'm all about this change. I had Castillo as a bus coming into the season, Scott. I know you've been pretty aggressive with moving Castillo down, but is this something that maybe gives you a little bit more confidence

in getting Castillo back up there? Yeah, I mean, it's just this one start right now that he's done this, right? Yeah. So got to see more of it. Hopefully he wants to keep doing this as successful as it was this time. But I remember Zach Eflin had that start where he went curve crazy against the Dodgers and got a ton of strikeouts and swinging strikes and then went right back to what he was doing before.

So, you know, we don't know what's going on in Luis Castillo's head, but it's at least a path for him to regain. Yeah, I mean, maybe something close to what he was. Let me see where I have him in my rankings right now. I have him, I'm 57th. So the top 60, it's really hard to... Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. The top 60 is strong.

So overall, the hate is strong. Yeah. Oh, man. After the start, it probably would have been an overreaction, but I've talked a lot about that, like, 25 to 36 range. And I kind of just felt like throwing Castillo near the top of that range just because I really don't have a lot of confidence in any of those pitchers. And we'll talk about Charlie Morton in a little bit. Obviously, you know, he's part of that mix or even down below it now. But, yeah, I think I'm going to move Castillo.

inside of my top 40 starting pitchers for the first time in a while, basically all season long. Let's do that official two month in Worryometer, right? And advice, I guess, for what to do with each of these, because it seems like every day, someone's asking me if they can drop Salvador Perez. So let's start right there. And he is betting 191, which is six home runs. I agree. I mean, technically, yes, in a lot of leagues, you can drop Salvador Perez. I don't know if your league uses one of those do not drop list things. But no. It is, You're saying it's legal to drop Salvador. It's legal. It is legal.

Except maybe in some Yahoo Public League. Like what Jock Peterson was doing, it is legal. Technically allowed. Uh-huh. But you should not do it. Well, Salvador Perez has dealt with some injuries and he's come back. He has really not done much. Scott, your official two-month-in Wuriometer on Salvador Perez.

And what to do with him in the meantime? I'll go worry on it. I'll go three. I wouldn't say I'm not worried at all, especially given that I did invest a lot in him, sometimes as early as round three in some leagues coming into the season. I haven't been worried enough to remove him from the top spot in my rest of season catcher rankings,

and I see none of us have. We all still have Salvador Perez as our top catcher rest of season. as bad as he's been he's still been as bad as he's been and having spit time on the IL he's still been the 14th best catcher in points leagues and that's the format

where he's going to suffer most from the lack of walks so like that that tells you a little something about how little it takes to be great at catcher and I you know you look at the average exit velocity

the hard hit rate there's still like 80th 85th percentile the strikeout rate is about what it last year, so there aren't obvious, like, plate discipline issues. I think he's just cold. You know, he had a couple two homer games early in the season and hasn't done a lot since.

And I think that's going to end sooner than later, obviously, because I have him as the top-ranked catcher rest of season. So you're going to lead the majors and home runs, RBI again? No. But he has, I think he still clearly has the most upside at the position. Maybe Dalton Varshow, because of the playing time, advantage in the stolen. But even then, he doesn't really have a playing time advantage on Perez. That's true. Yeah, that's true. Perez plays every day too. So Varsher's just got to be better than him.

Right. Yeah. And I mean, which he has so far, but it's again, a common theme is what's going to happen moving forward. And obviously, we don't know exactly, but based on what we've seen so far, we can make some predictions. And I'll point out that the Babbitt for Salvador Perez is 228, and that's been 286 for his career. There are some things working against him. His line drive rate is very low. His fly ball rate is very high, higher than usual. So those two things. Hitting more pop-ups as well. But I think like Scott said, like that that's what would show up when a hitter's not hitting well. Yeah. But that doesn't necessarily mean he will continue to hit poorly. Yes. And I agree. So leave Salvador Perez in your lineup. I know that he has not come through so far. Do not drop him for

Alejandro Kirk or any other catcher that's available. Chris, you get Jake Cronoworth. Lucky you. He's batting 2-10 with three home runs, zero steals. The strikeouts are up. The line drives are down. Kind of wondering if he's been a little bit more affected by this dead and ball humidor situation that's going on. What is your Worryometer level on Jake Cronoworth? Are you maybe looking to drop him anywhere?

Yeah, I mean, I guess the thing with like the dead and ball, like that's one where you would expect, like that's something you can point to and say, okay, well, this guy's hitting the ball like he did last year, but he's just not getting the same results. maybe that's, Jay Coroner is just not hitting the ball well. His expected Wobos 302 last year it was 3.48. So he's just been worse at pretty much everything.

He's hitting the ball hard less frequently, or he's hitting the ball on average, less hard. He's striking out more. So like, he just hasn't been as good. And I think it's fair to wonder if a guy like Coronerworth is fringy enough that, you know, a deadenball might impact him more, but it's also just that he's not playing well. And so it's hard to say whether that's because of the offensive environment. He's a very,

he's a frustrating player to rank because he's eligible at so many positions that like that has value in and of itself, except right now he's hurting you in a lot of different positions. So he's got the flexibility to hurt you anywhere, which is, you know, not super helpful. He doesn't have a super long track record and I'm generally not like super sold on Jake Cronoworth being an impact player.

So I would say I'm like a six on the Woriometer, but that's not the same thing as the drop o meter. So I would not necessarily drop him. He's a useful player to have around when he's going well and I think he'll be better than he has been so far. I feel like any league less than 300 players rostered, you can probably drop Croninworth. Okay, so like in your standard points league or just a... Yeah, point, that seems okay. Any kind of head-to-head league that's 12 teams are fewer, probably. Points are otherwise.

I think, like I have them outside my top 20th second base now behind guys like Brendan Rogers and Jeff McNeil and Nolan Gorman. So it's, you know, it's hard to roster that many second base eligible players in a league of that size. I mean, Scott, just kind of talking this through and hearing where you're kind of moving some players in the rankings, have you noticed yourself that we're, all right, past Memorial Day

and you're being a little bit more aggressive with moving players up and down at this point? Yeah, I finally, even though he's, even though he's heating up a little bit, only a little bit, I finally have Marcus Simeon outside my top 10 at both second base and shortstop.

Bad timing. No, no, I don't, I'm sticking with it. I updated my rankings today and sticking with it. All right. Well, let's talk about Marcus Semen. He's been better over his last 13 games, batting 308. Not really much power.

Just one home run during that stretch. Four steals, you like to see that. Overall, he's still batting at 199. Scott just referenced moving him outside of the top 10 in the rankings. But two months in, Scott, I mean, what is your worryometer level with him? And do you actually consider dropping Marcus Semyon anywhere? That'd be a lot harder to do. I mean, the guy was basically 40-20 last year, right?

And two of the last three years has been an MVP finalist in his league. The one year in between, he was not very useful at all. And for most of his career, he hasn't been very useful. So those are, I mean, we're just kind of rehashing the spring, our spring assessment of him by pointing that out. But yeah, I mean, I had a lot of doubts coming. coming in, the bigger ballpark, the worst supporting cast, and then the new deadened ball for a guy who already didn't impact the ball particularly hard,

and yet put it in the air a lot. And he does seem like the poster child for a player who would suffer from the deadened ball. And so I am afraid that's what's happening. So in Worryometer, I guess I'll go like seven on Simmy. but saying I moved him outside of my top 10 at both second base and shortstop rest of season that's really not dropable territory at all

I'd like to sit him if that's possible I mean that's probably still top 100 that's probably still a top 100 player right probably maybe not yeah I mean he's you know he's on the cusp there so yeah maybe not it's interesting like

do you have Tommy Edmund ahead of him at second base? I do. Because like this is the thing that's tough about the way the season trends play out is like if Tommy Edmund had hit 272 with a 719 OPS in the first 41 games of the season and then had three home runs in his last six, we'd probably be like, eh, I don't know about Tommy Edman. It's just a hot streak. But he had the three home runs in the first six games. and he's been kind of mediocre for the last 41.

That's what I was referring to. He's still stealing a lot of bases, and that makes that example kind of more difficult to make. But it's one of those ones where, like, when you have a good week, even at this point in the season, can still color how we perceive players. And so, like, and Tommy Edmund is someone that I,

just looking at my rankings now, thought, like, oh, maybe I should move him above Simeon. And then I decided to look into it. And it's like, maybe I'm just overweighing that first week. And he's just kind of been the same guy that he was coming into the season. So it's hard. Like I'm not saying it's right or wrong to rank him ahead of Simeon. And that's just one random player I happen to be looking at.

But it's a difficult, it's a difficult call. I'm still sticking with Simeon as like a top 75 player. He's a top, he's number seven at second base for me, probably the same at shortstop. But, yeah, it's... Yeah, the Edmund thing is difficult because, like, he's moved to the top of the lineup. He's picked up shortstop eligibility. Even in the past couple weeks, he's hit, like, 320. So, you know, he is producing in fantasy.

It's obviously not all about the home runs, which I'm skeptical of. I mean, I'm skeptical of most players' power potential in this environment. And, yeah, I mean, part of it is, like, I'm not that confident in Simeon. and if I keep Simeon ahead of Edmund in my rankings then I am telling people to trade Tommy Edferm for Marcus Simeon basically and I'm not I'm not comfortable telling people that at this point I'm comfortable with it in a points league I want more I want more for Edmund than that I'm comfortable with it in a points league and in a categories league just the

stolen bases alone make Edmund you know he's on like a 40 steel pace so like that's really hard to get away from but in a points league I still think simeon is definitely better and I think in a roto league I would still rank simian ahead the trade question comes down to team need I guess all right let's talk about another middle infielder Javier Baez overall in the season he's batting 197 he's got three homers zero steals and he kind of got off to like an okay start

with the tigers has really struggled since coming back from that thumb injury so I wonder if that's maybe something that's affecting him but since returning 177 batting out average 269 slugging. So there's just really been nothing there. Chris, the worryometer level for you on Javier Baez. Let's think of a weird analogy. Let's think of a classic weird analogy to make.

Let's say you spawned fully formed and sentient on a beach in the middle of the day, right? Like as who you are now with all your faculties, but you don't know anything. And you see the tide come in. and you're like, oh no, it's flooding. And then you see the tide go away. And you're like, oh, no, the water's disappearing forever.

And it's the first time that you've ever seen it. And so that would be really worrisome. But because you are a person who has lived in a world that understands how tides work and, you know, the gravitational pull of the moon on the earth and all that stuff, you understand that that's just a thing that happens. I think what we're seeing from Javier Bias is just a thing that happens with Javier Bias. sometimes is what I'm saying. Do you follow? Did that live up to your expectations? I know, Frank, I know you like my weird analogies.

Yeah, no, I really, I was wondering where you were going with that, but I think it worked out well. I'm not going to say very well, but I think it was alright. So, like, look, 2020 happened, right? 203 average, 599 OPS, 75 strikeouts and 59 games. He was horrendous. And then he comes back in 2021 and was pretty Javier Bayes like. and I would say 2020 he was pretty Javier Bias like

and I would say in 2022 he has been pretty Javier Bias like which is all to say that my Wariometer is not particularly high in Javier Bias if you draft Javier Bias you have to go into it knowing that a stretch like this is entirely possible and unless he's hurt or not playing 100% I think he's probably going to be fine yeah so you would hold him even in a points League? I would prefer not to drop him, but he's fringy in a points league, sure. All right. Yeah, look, there are peaks in valleys for someone like Javier Baez, and he spoke about Jorge Salary yesterday, and

there are just power hitters that go through streaks like this. I personally think, you know, he might be kind of playing through something. It's also his first season in a new location, on a new team, so all those things kind of factor in. I would not want to drop him myself, but definitely could bench him for now and until hopefully we see him get going and see that hot streak that we're used to out of Javier Bias. Let's wrap up this whole uh worryometer conversation with kind of the face of the worryometer right now and that is uncle Charlie Morton who has a 5.47 ERA through his first 10 starts of the season and on Tuesday he gave up four runs over five

innings with five strikeouts just five swinging strikes. He actually left to start with just allowing to earn runs, but they were runners on base, and I believe it was AJ Minter allowed those runners to score, so they get charged to Charlie Morton here in this spot. It was another start where he just, he had nothing with the fastball. 13%

CSW on his fastball. That is atrocious. League average, like 28%. Could not throw his fastball for strikes. His average exit velocity against the curveball in this one, over 97 miles per hour. The curveball has just not been as good this year. Higher batting

average against. The whiff rate on the curve, not nearly as good. All these things kind of converging, Scott, not being able to throw your fastball for strikes and coming back from a broken leg and curb ball not looking as good. They're all kind of converging at once. And I feel like that's how we're here with Charlie Morton. So what's your Worryometer level and, you know, how far we dropping them down the ranks? So it's not a good sign when my favorite hitter to draft and my favorite pitcher to draft are both on the Worryometer third of the way into the season. Charlie Morton is probably about a five now in my worryometer. I have him right at 40.

I just moved Luis Castillo ahead of both Charlie Morton and Jose Barrios, and we were talking about Barrios yesterday. I think the kinds of things Morton is suffering from him, we've said it all year. Velocity is fine, spin rates. The curveball is still 3,000 RPM. He's got the spinniest curveball and baseball, basically. So, like, the raw stuff is fine.

and so what he's suffering from, I think he can fix. But obviously he hasn't made a lot of progress along that line over a third of a season. And I did start him because he's in line for two starts this week. I did start him in some of my points leagues. But any kind of categories league and even in the points league, any time he has just one start,

you're probably just sitting him until he shows signs of coming around I wouldn't want to drop him I don't think you can drop him yeah I mean it's basically look we talked about this with Rios yesterday and I kept comparing it to Charlie Morton they're in the same boat

where I could see buying low from somebody else who's on the verge of dropping him it'd have to be pretty low but I wouldn't be interested in dropping and if somebody else dropped him I'd pick him up and I just stash him until he got on track because I still think he will. Yeah, there's just so much of a track record with both Charlie Morton and Jose Burrios. He just kind of have to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I understand Morton's older, you know, father time, undefeated. Maybe, you know, this is just him hitting a wall, but. It's not like it's not like it's those telltale signs of age. He averaged 96 miles an hour with his fastball today. His velocity was actually up significantly today. He just came, he can't command it. He can't command the fastball, Chris. It's bad.

The comp I've made is Luis Castillo last year. And through 10 starts last year, Luis Castillo had a 761 ERA. He was awful. But like we're talking about with Burrios and like we're talking about with Morton, a lot of the underlying signs were still, if not good. I mean, good's a relative term, but they looked like Luis Castillo. You know, the fastball velocity, spin rate, all that, like the release point, all that stuff.

Like there are things to be to take note of with. Morton his the movement profile on his pitches has changed he's getting a little less break on the curveball he's getting a little different movement with the fastball and so like he's not identical to who he was last season but like Luis Castillo last year I just I think it's worth betting on the track record and betting that whatever seemingly minute changes or differences can get figured out. And it just kind of shows that Major League Baseball is a really difficult thing to excel in.

And the margins for error are really, really small for most players. Even really good ones. If you play in a Daily League, well, obviously, Scott, you said, you know, keep him out of your lineups for now. But definitely make sure you get him out because his next start is at Colorado. Later this week, he's scheduled to start on Sunday. That's Charlie Morton. So in Coors Field, you definitely do not want to start him there,

which means he'll probably have like, 10 strikeouts. Yeah, seven shutout innings. It'll be awesome. Everyone has them on the bench. And if you're wondering, I didn't watch a single second of this start. I swear, I didn't accidentally click on anything.

MLB TV. It was not on. I did not see a single second. Obviously, I checked box scores because I have to. It's my job. He turned it on immediately when Charlie Morton got pulled from the game. That's why AJ Mentor allowed those inherited runners to score. I wish that was a truth.

I hope this cures you of your superstitions, Frank. I don't know. Probably not. Anyway, that's it. I'm Charlie Morton. I'm kind of sad because he's one of my most rostered players and it's, obviously, it's very sad. Anyway, before we hit the break,

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of the week. So again, that's cbsports.com slash newsletters. If you like Fantasy football. Make sure you sign up for Chris's FFT newsletter as well. We'll take a break and we'll return right after this. Let's jump into the news and notes. Wander Franco was placed on the IL with a strained right quad

but says that he will be back in two weeks. Taylor Walls should become the primary shortstop in his absence. And if you play in a deeper categories league, I think Taylor Walls is just a name to watch because he does run a little bit when he gets on base. The White Sox said they hope Tim Anderson will return from the IL

in about three weeks, he is dealing with a strained right groin. Luis Robert was reinstated from the COVID-I-L, but not yet in the lineup on Tuesday. Eloy Jimenez will resume his rehab assignment at AAA on Wednesday. He tweaked his surgically repaired hamstring over the weekend. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. returned to the lineup after missing Sunday's game with a sore left wrist. Jack Flaherty faced teammates in a two-enning live batting practice session on Tuesday. he threw somewhere between 40 and 50 pitches. The Cardinals have yet to announce the next step for Jack Flaherty,

but it sounds like rehab is coming soon. So we shall see. Gene Seguerra was diagnosed with a fractured right index finger after trying to bunt on Tuesday. He got hit on his finger. Sounds like good news for the Phillies pitching staff. Is he bad defensively? No.

No, that's actually good. I was actually good. Oh, oh, that's the old sarcasm there, huh? Joe Girardi apparently on the hot seat, huh? Is it really Joe Girardi's fault that they're bad? I don't know, but anyway, they've got their issues. Jarcollo Stanton took batting practice on Tuesday and also took part in a light running workout.

He's on the IL with right ankle inflammation. Tyler O'Neill has been slightly delayed but may be able to begin a rehab assignment Friday or Saturday of this week. Sunny Gray, not yet placed on the IL, but it's unclear whether he'll make his next start dealing with right pectoral soreness. Tyler McGill through live batting practice at City Field on Tuesday.

He's been on the aisle for two weeks with right biceps tendonitis. Kyle Lewis is dealing with concussion-like symptoms. He was hit by a pitch on his shoulder this weekend, which apparently ricocheted and hit him in the head. So that's why he's got these concussion symptoms. Brendan Nimmo has missed four straight with a right wrist brain. Nolan Gorman was unavailable Tuesday night due to lower back stiffness, aka they were facing a lefty.

No, I think he actually was dealing with back stiffness. Yeah, but he is 0 for 3 in terms of starting against lefties since being called up. Yeah, and Blake Snow was actually pretty good in that start. We'll talk about him in just a little bit. Tommy Pham was scratched due to left calf discomfort, which brings us to Chris. What's the latest in this Tommy Fam, Jock Peterson saga? So Mike Trout was the commissioner of this league.

I saw this. This league had a $10,000 entry fee. Wow. A quote from Tommy fam Trout did a terrible job man Trout's the worst commissioner in fancy sports because he allowed a lot of bleep to go on

and he could have solved it all nobody wanted to be commissioner I don't want to be the bleeping commissioner I've got other bleep to do he didn't want to do it we put it on him it was kind of our fault too because we made him commissioner

so one of my leagues has gotten around this by offering a 20% discount for the commissioner on their entry fee so next year take $2,000 off Mike Trout's entry fee so he can, you know, feel a little better about being commissioner. Who is saying that about Mike Trout?

That's Tommy Pham. Sorry. Okay. But this is the really excellent quote. Apparently, okay, so apparently Tommy Fam says that despite the league being played on ESPN and allowing players who are ruled out to be put on IR, they had established that it was not that kind of league. They were playing by the way the rules should be. which is that you can only put a player on IR if they are on IR.

The money quote though, at one point last year, FAM wrote in the text chain that the next time he saw Peterson, he would give him, quote, a pimp slap. C. Trent Rosencrantz and the Athletic, fam was good to his word. In left field at Great American Ballpark

during Red's batting practice Friday, he approached a shoeless Peterson. Quote, I said, I didn't forget about that bleep, fam said, and I walked to him, up to him, and I slapped him. him. That's it. End of story.

I'll tell you what. I don't think that Tommy fam is going to try and slap Mike Trout. Just unbelievable stuff. Geez. All right.

Well, I will also just a bow on this commissioner conversation. It's a thankless job. It's the worst. And I really don't think anyone likes doing it. Like maybe Scott kind of does

because Scott, do you like it? Yeah, Scott's kind of a weird thing. I don't plan any $10,000 buy-in leagues. And this is why I don't like playing money Because it just it just ratchets up the intensity To a level that's uncomfortable

And like people just My league with my football league with my college friends We've got like three lawyers And it's just a bunch of argumentative dudes And it being commissioner is the absolute worst Because everyone's like Picking through the league document To like oh but you didn't explicitly say

And it's just like That sounds terrible That's the league. where they offered the commissioner a discount. Yeah. That sounds terrible. Anyway, let's get through these news and notes. Darren Ruff was placed on the bereavement list

and we'll miss the next three to seven days. Kultowong out of the lineup with a calf injury. I missed this one yesterday, but Edward Cabrera set to join the Marlins this week was supposed to be called up on Tuesday, but that game was postponed. He's 23% rostered. Chris, are you looking to add

Edward Cabrera anywhere right now? Yeah, he was before the season, one of my favorite late-round stashes came up last year wasn't particularly good. His fastball got hammered. He hasn't been great in the minor so far this season, but he got off to a delayed start in spring training. I think there was either a visa issue or a COVID issue. But the strikeouts have been there at the last few starts.

So I think there's, he's still a very talented pitcher, still a top 75 to 50-ish prospect, depending on which source you go through. So not as exciting as Max Meyer, but I think worth a look, certainly in 15 team leagues. All right. Nate Pearson will move his rehab from single A to AAA.

The Blue Jay said they envisioned Pearson as a multi-ending relief option upon his return. Outfield prospect, Elliot Ramos, was recalled by the Giants, and he started, was batting 7,000. on Tuesday, just a name to watch in deeper leagues. And Dominic Smith, unfortunately, my guy. Option 2, AAA, he was batting just 186

with zero home runs this season. Let's take a look at some waiver wire hitters. Andrew Vaughn, he's up to 70% rostered, but could be out there in some shallow leagues, and he had a very impressive game on Tuesday going four for five would hit a sixth home run. Three of those hits, including the home run came off of Kevin Gosman. Scott, let me ask you this.

Would you rather have Vaughn or Christian Walker, who added three more hits himself. He hit his 13th home run. I was surprised to see he's just 58% rostered. And overall, he's batting like 205, but in May, that number is 255 with a 936 OPS. So I kind of like Christian Walker. What do you think? Him versus Andrew Vaughn. I mean, to some degree, it depends, do I need an outfielder or first baseman more? And the question, the answer to that's usually going to be outfielder. But all things being equal, if I'm fill in a utility spot or whatever. I think I'd

lean Walker just because they're not playing the playing time games with him that the White Sox are with Vaughn. It's been a little better for Vaughn lately. But... And I think all their injuries and underperformance probably helps him.

I'm trying to decide what I was so attracted to in Vaughn's profile at the start of the year because the That is kind of leveled off. His strikeout rates better this year. His strikeout rate's pretty good. It's really good, actually.

But I don't know that... I'm not that impressed by the quality of contact that he's making. That is, Andrew Vaughn. What I like so far from him, the splits. Last year, he crushed lefties, came into the year, didn't really know if he was going to play against Wrighties

or if he would even be good against them. And so far, he's got an 819 OPS against lefties, 857 against Ritey's, so I like that. I would take Vaughn Ober Walker for what it's worth. I think the overall upside, especially long term, like throughout the course of the season, probably

lies with Vaughn for obvious reasons. Big prospect pedigree, and it's a good park to hit in, good lineup to hit in. But right now, if you just kind of want to ride the hot hand, I do think Chris Walker is performing better right now. So, if I need to win for the lineup, I'll take a shot there. Eloy Jimenez seems like he'll be back

soon, so how does that affect the playing time for Andrew Vaughn. Hopefully it doesn't, but I can't really put it past the way. I never know. Let's take a look at Mark Kanna, who went 4 for 5 with two runs scored and 2 RBI. He is batting 307 on the season with a 376 OBP. Upside is not massive, but he's been solid so far this season. Markana, 46% rostered.

Jonathan's scope is heating up as well. He went 2 for 3, hit his fifth home run, and over his last 15 games, he's hitting 263, 3 homers, one steel. 27% rostered. Chris, are you interested in Mark Kana or Jonathan Scope in any leagues? Do you guys also sometimes forget that Jonathan Scope

still plays? The first month of the season, he was basically a ghost. I mean, he... Like, every time I see him in my rankings, I'm like, oh yeah, Jonathan's scope still here. Still like the 27th second basement or whatever. Yeah, I think he's fringy at best, 15-teamer, but

cana, cana just, always tough with him because him and Brennan Nimmo are kind of like the Spider-Man meme where they're both better in points leagues, but they're not generally so good in points leagues that they reach the top 36 outfielder threshold. But I think he's a reasonable fifth outfielder option if you've been getting nothing from some of your outfielders like a lot of us are. All right. In deeper leagues, I know we mentioned the name last week, but Oscar Gonzalez now has multiple hits in four of his first five games with the Guardians. His average exit velocity entering Tuesday was 96.5 miles per hour.

He also has zero walks. So we know that's going to be the case. So an OBP are points leagues. Yeah, already has a bad ball, I think, in his first game of 113 miles per hour. So max ex-velo in the 96th second percentile as well. That's who he is. Yeah, look, if you're struggling for outfielders and five outfielder leagues, even 12 teamers,

I could see just taking a shot on Gonzalez and seeing where it goes, he's 12% rostered. He could be a pretty good source of power. I'm trying to think of, I don't know, like Adam Duval comes to mind, but I don't know that it's going to be exactly like that,

just in terms of a power guy who doesn't walk much. I could see Oscar Gonzalez being useful in that way. It's probably a better comp out there than Duval because he's such an extreme player in so many ways. But for Gonzalez, as I'm, it's, you know, he's struck out only three times in his first 21 played appearances. That's obviously a small sample, but I'm encouraged by that. All right.

In deeper two catcher leagues, you know, I got to sneak in the Yankee Homer at some point here. Jose Trevino, he went three for four, hit his third home run, batting averages up to 263. Basically playing every other day right now, but this is deeper two catcher leagues. 15-team Roto, you need a second catcher. I added Brian Servin, the catcher for the Rocky. So if you're looking at catchers that bad, then Jose Trevino might be on your radar in a format like that. Let's wrap up with some leftovers here.

We had a pitcher's duel in St. Louis. Adam Wainwright went seven shutout with 10 strikeouts on the other side. Blake Snell posts his first quality start of the season, six innings, two runs, six strikeouts, and he kind of changed his pitch mix in this one as well. The slider went away. which is normally his best pitch. And he started using his curb ball,

his change-up more in the start, and it worked well. So, Chris, what did you see from Wayno and Blake Snow? Yeah, I think the one thing I would look at there is, I think the Padres only had, I want to say, two left-handed batters in the lineup, Grisham and Canoe, if I'm eyeballing that correctly. So that could explain going, you know,

with the pitch mix that he did, sorry, the Cardinals. I was looking at the wrong team there. That makes sense. Cardinals, do they have any left-handed batterers in their lineup? Maybe one. So that's the kind of thing where, like,

I don't know if Blake Snow was making a conscious decision to go away from his slider, or if it's just that's the way the matchups worked out. But he's, I feel like he's been better than his results. He was really good on his rehab assignment. I'm feeling somewhat optimistic about Snell, with the way he closed last season,

with the way he's pitched so far this year. I think there's a decent amount to like about him right now. This game was definitely not a pitcher's duel, but it was interesting nonetheless. Kevin Galsman and Lucas G. Lito combined for 22 hard hit balls against and also 32 swinging strikes. Lots of whiffs, but also lots of hard contact in this one. Gleito gives up six runs over four and two,

He had eight strikeouts. Kevin Gossman gave up three runs over five innings with five strikeouts. Scott, you see anything here that stands out or just kind of a night where they both gave up a lot of loud contact? Yeah, I don't see. I don't really have any strong takes about this performance for either one of them. Yeah, and Gialito, we've seen this before. I mean, he is prone to these kind of big blow-up starts. But so far this season, swinging strike rate is very good.

He's got a career high CSW percentage. And overall, I've been pretty encouraged by G-Lito myself. And Kevin Gossman, if you listen to our redraft of the first two rounds, you know, I have him as my third ranked starting pitcher. Some other leftovers from Tuesday's action. George Kirby back on track with the best start of his young career. Six shutout innings with eight strikeouts in this one. Jordan Montgomery, his first seven inning outing this season.

And then Eric Lauer, I guess, I don't know. Another mixed bag. three runs, over four innings, six strikeouts, three walks. Scott, what do you think there? Eric Lauer, Jordan Montgomery, George Kirby. Overall result wasn't great for Lauer, but the fastball played better than it's played in recent starts. There wasn't a continued decline in velocity, at least not a notable one, and I believe it got the majority of his whiffs. Yeah, seven of his 12 swinging strikes came on the fastball. So I don't know. I mean, obviously,

result wasn't good, so what does that really matter? I think overall, though, we should continue to think of Eric Lauer's pretty high-end, pretty high-end, close to must-start. And then for Kirby, so he has now had, in his last two starts, he has 17 strikeouts compared to just one walk in, I believe it's 11 innings. So you got to love that ratio The slider has been pretty bad As a bat missing pitch Which is supposed to be his best secondary pitch

So that's not what we want to see He got four of his 11 whiffs on it And it had a 29% whiff rate So about triple what it's been It's still not great for a slider But it was a step in the right direction Granted he was facing the Orioles this time And in that previous start

Where you got a lot of strike As he's facing the A's So I'm not I'm still not to the point where I'm super confident in Kirby But he's only 80% rostered which means in like Yahoo he's probably 40% rostered or something and that needs to change he deserves to be more rostered than that I think it will be after this start close Scotty 46% rostered for George Kirby over on Yahoo so he's available far off no you are not half it um and also Scott

awesome tweet about George Kirby. You were responding to me on Tuesday. Remind the listeners if they didn't get to see that. Yes, you tweeted a jiff of another famous Kirby doing what that famous Kirby does, consuming everything in sight. Throwing cutters? No. I said you might even say Baltimore is Kirby's dream land.

But I'm... Love it. Absolutely great. Great stuff there from Scotty. Chris, are you looking to drop either of these pitchers? Noah Cindergarde failed to escape the third inning in two of his last three starts now. The ERA climbs to 4.01. And Ranger Suarez, another subpar outing does not escape the fifth inning.

He's failed to go five in three straight. The ERA is up to 4.69. You're looking to drop either of the Cinderguard or Ranger Suarez. First, I'd like to apologize. for the fake news. Kirby 8's pitch was a splitter, not a cutter. That's my bad. I was wondering where you were going with that.

I think Noah Cindergarde is very droppable. I'm not saying he's a must-drop, but there's very little about what we've seen from Noah Cindergarde this season outside of the ERA through like seven starts that really suggests that he's a particularly good pitcher at this point. his fastball was always weirdly less effective than you would think given the velocity he threw it with and now he's throwing at 94 miles an hour instead of 97-98

so yeah I think cindergarde is just a guy at this point I think he's a name and and luxurious hair but if we're just judging him on his merits as a pitcher there's not very much to like about no cindigard right now Scott would you drop ranger swores I think he is dropable if there's something more interesting out there I haven't totally lost hope for him but it's my confidence is diminishing for sure

would you drop him for any of Ashby Jeffrey Springs Spencer Shrider Rwanzi Contreras I think I'd hold on to him over Ruanzi Contreras but the other three I'd be fine with dropping all right some hitting leftovers mention what Gary Sanchez has been up to Joey Votto hit two doubles on Tuesday and both were dangerously close to being home runs. One was 398 feet.

The other was 385. And since returning from the COVID-I-L, his average exit velocity is over 92 miles per hour. So, I think we're kind of close with Joey Vada. We're close to a breakthrough. I feel it. Something good is coming. A good sign for Tiaska Hernandez,

who went two-for-four with two doubles, had three batted balls over 100 miles per hour, and has a modest five-game hitting streak himself. And then a pair of Cubs had some nice games here. Ketraris 2 for 4 with his 8th homer. Patrick Wisdom, 2 for 4 with a sock and a shoe, his 11th home run, his second stolen

base, and he is up to 79% rostered and right. That's almost how many strikeouts he has. How many strikeouts does he actually have? Chris, you have that up? 67 entering today.

I don't know if he had one today or not. I don't know offhand, but... Leads the majors his strikeouts still. Yeah, that is not surprised. giving that strikeout rate. The call to the bullpen for Toronto. I wrote Kevin Gosman, but that's not true. Jordan Romano gave up two hits, but converted his 16th save for the Reds. Tony Santian gave up three hits and a run in a two-run game, but picked up his fourth save of the season. Santian has the last two saves for the Reds, but it's hard to trust anyone in that bullpen

for obvious reasons. He's 4% rostered. He's got a 4.67 ERA. I don't know. The deep of leagues, you'd have to be really, really desperate for saves, but even then, I probably don't want Tony Santian on my team. For the Rangers, Joe Barlow got his ninth save, eight of those coming in the month of May. For the Giants, Camillo DeVal, entered in the 10th inning of a one-run game, gave up an unearned run and took the blown save himself. For the Cardinals, Giovanni Gaiegos entered in the eighth inning with a two-run lead facing the bottom of the lineup, and he gave up a game tying home run. Ryan Helsley pitched the ninth,

a scoreless. He walked one. Scott, I'm getting questions about dropping Giovanni Gallegos. He's 87% rostered. What do you think? I would be hesitant in a league where saves are scarce. But I am

thinking the Cardinals are leaning more toward making Helsley the ninth than a guy. So it's not a sure thing. but for what it's worth Hellsley does not have much of a track record and the results lately have been slightly less incredible than they were early on

he didn't have a strikeout today he has multiple strikeouts in only one of his last eight appearances now so something keep in mind that as good as Ryan Hellsley was for a month. He did have

a 456 ERA last season so, you know, I'm not 100% certain that he's as good as he looked.

That's fair. But I guess something similar to be said for the usage patterns are what they are. Like if they're using him in the ninth

then he's going to be more valuable than Gallegos for as long as that remains the case. For the Cubs, David Robertson picked up his seventh save for the Astros.

Ryan Presley picked up his eighth. For the Braves, Kenley Jansson, gave up a run in the ninth takes his third blown save. And we've had some hiccups here for Kenley Jansen. So he's on watch. Let's see where he goes.

For the Pirates, Will Crow picked up his second save. David Bednar pitched two innings on Monday. So my guess is he was unavailable. To stream or not to stream, we'll start with Wednesday. Jose Cantana at the Dodgers. Mitch White versus the Pirates. Jeffrey Springs at the Rangers. Bailey Ober at the Tigers and Brad Keller at the Guardians.

Springs and Ober are the two most interesting here. And I think I think Springs is the most interesting. He should just be added, I think, in most leagues. All right. Let's take a look at Thursday. We've got Chris Archer at the Tigers. Alex Fayetteau versus the twins, Johnny Quato at the Blue Jays. That would be Graham Ashcraft of the Reds.

He's going up against the Nationals. And then we have Chris Flexen at the Orioles. Yeah, we talked about Ashcraft a little bit yesterday in the podcast. There's some interesting things about him, but I want to give him another start before I trust it, but he would be the closest to being someone I'm interested in. All right. Anyone else?

Fayetteau versus the twins is okay, especially Karea's on the COVID aisle now too, so lineup takes a bit there. I don't trust them. Yeah, I get it. Especially the slider didn't look good at the last start. Yeah. I don't.

I know Scott likes him, but I, unconvinced about Fayato. All right, we will wrap there. Didn't get the team name Wednesday. Pretty late here in the pod. But we have some good ones. I'll save those for next week.

We'll do an extended team name Tuesday next week. For Scott and Chris, I am Frank DeGil for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.