Fantasy Baseball Today - Max Meyer HAS ARRIVED! Buy, Sell or Hold? (4/22 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 22, 2025

Is Max Meyer this year's Garrett Crochet (2:30)? ... Can Hunter Brown perform like a borderline SP1 (9:51)? ... News (16:46): Spencer Strider is going back on the IL with a hamstring strain. ... Sean ...Murphy is still not rostered in enough leagues (26:33). Agustin Ramirez had a great debut for the Marlins. ... Buy, sell or hold Trevor Story, Walker Buehler, Tylor Megill and many others (40:00)? ... Let's get into Monday's leftovers, bullpens and streamers (55:26). ... We wrap up with Team Name Tuesday (1:06:06). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: https://sptfy.com/QiKv Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CPTowers @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Hello, welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, April 22nd. I definitely did not write March 22nd on my intro here. That would have been interesting.
Starting point is 00:00:34 I am Frank Stamphle, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the show, it's time to have a conversation about Max Meyer and Hunter Brown, because both of them have been amazing. Early look at league-wide trends. We'll do a little buy, sell, or hold, and much more. But let's jump in to players of the night. Can you believe it? Wow!
Starting point is 00:00:56 All right, Chris, can you believe how good Max Meyer has been? Yes, I will take the olive garden breadstick of the night. or since we're in little Havana for this one, maybe it's the La Caretta Tostone of the night or something like that. The croquetta of the night. That's what we'll go with. And that's Max Meyer who tied, no, sorry, tied the second best strikeout mark in Marlins history with 14.
Starting point is 00:01:26 I was hoping he would get a chance to go for the record, which is 16, but he did not get that opportunity. oh well only 14 strikeouts and six innings of work I think a little bit of this is yeah it's the reds and they're pretty bad especially away from great American ballpark they strike out a lot they've got like two good hitters but it's still a major league lineup and you don't see 24 swinging strikes on 48 swings very often including 16 swinging strikes on his slider on 21 swings So that is a 76% whiff rate.
Starting point is 00:02:04 That is absolutely bonkers stuff. And that pitch has just been one of the best pitches in baseball. This season, he entered this start with a 47% whiff rate on that pitch and a 214 expected Wobah allowed. That's going to go up. And I don't know. It kind of looks like the only thing Max Meyer has going against him at this point is, the 25 other guys on the Marlins roster. He did get a win today.
Starting point is 00:02:37 It's his second of the season, but I think we expect Max Meyer to struggle to get wins, but he's been incredibly impressive in the early going. And I'm wondering how high is too high to rank Max Meyer at this point. So it's not the only thing going against him, the poor supporting cast. The other thing going against Max Meyer is that his career high in innings as a professional's 111, and that was 2021.
Starting point is 00:03:06 The most he's thrown since 2021 and his season is 61. He threw a hundred, 115 total last year. Oh, okay. Sorry, I didn't do the quick math there between AAA and the majors. Okay. So it's not quite as bad, but there will come a point where they have to curtail his innings. And probably some of that is going to happen throughout the year.
Starting point is 00:03:27 So it's, you know, we were texting earlier the night, Frank, and you brought up maybe Max Myers this year's Garrett Crochet. And I think at the very least from the perspective of this guy is clearly a dominant pitcher, inning for inning, he's going to be amazing. But there might be a short shelf life and his supporting cast is terrible. I think that all fits for Max Meyer also. And so I think we're definitely in the enjoy it phase of that.
Starting point is 00:04:00 and there's a lot to enjoy. I mean, you mentioned the slider, Chris, with the 76% whiff rate it had in this game added to the 47% whiff rate season long. Like, is that going to bump it over 50? A pitch he throws 40% of the time is going to have better than a 50% whiff rate. I was just raving about how Landon Rup has the same thing.
Starting point is 00:04:22 This is verging on 60% the whiff rate on his curveball. You don't see that. A 40% whiff rate is amazing. Like a pitch with a 40% width rate, but usually it's a secondary pitch. These guys Rupin Meyer, their main pitch, a breaking ball in both cases.
Starting point is 00:04:39 And it feels relative to Rup, it feels a little more sustainable for Meyer just because a 90 mile an hour slider feels like it's going to be easier to command consistently than Rup's, his curveballs like 77 miles per hour, right? It's a big loopy thing. And so I feel like losing the feel for that could happen in a way that like he has
Starting point is 00:05:04 even last year even this year Rupert walks Meyer had Meyer wasn't great last year but he did throw that pitch 41% of the time with a 34% with rate he's taken it to another level this year he's expanded the arsenal this today he was barely throwing any fastballs. It was like what 23% combined sinker and fastball you change up. 21 times 18 of them to lefties, he's got four whiffs with that, which is not something we've really seen from Max Meyer. He got two whiffs with the sweeper.
Starting point is 00:05:38 His fastball velocity continues to sit up about a mile per hour from where it was last year today. Maybe more like, yeah, about a mile per hour today as well. And the thing with the crochet comp is, I don't think he's as good as Garrett Crochet. I don't think Max Meyer is that kind of talent. Like, Gary Crochet, a lefty throwing 97 with a 93 mile an hour cutter with 7.2 feet of extension or whatever it was last season. Like, that felt overwhelmingly dominant in a way.
Starting point is 00:06:11 I don't think Max Meyer is, although he was tonight. It was very fun to watch. But I think there is less workload concern here because like Frank pointed out, it was 150 innings last year. So they're not going to throw 180. 115, 115. He's not going to throw 180 innings, but 160, 165, that's pretty attainable, I would think, for Max Meyer. And so, yeah, there will be some early hooks, but I don't think it's going to be like a concerted effort like it was with crochet. You know, with Meyer, what we're more likely to see is like tonight where it was frustrating that he was pulled after six innings because he was only at 92 pitches. but you understand why they didn't want to push it. I get it. We saw something similar when he had the no-hit bid against the Mets two starts ago.
Starting point is 00:07:08 But yeah, he's gone six innings and four starts in a row. He's had more than a strike-up per inning in four out of five starts. It's been a very, very impressive start for Max Meyer. And I'll be honest, I really didn't think he had this in him. Like, I started to buy back in this spring when he was throwing hard. and had added the sinker and the sweeper and the change up. But like, I, I really did not think Max Meyer had this kind of upside anymore. And it's a really small sample like everything is right now.
Starting point is 00:07:42 It's only five starts. But everything under the hood looks ace like as well. It's a 210 ERA 107 whip, but a 240 FIP, 206XFIP, 12.3K per 9, 58% ground ball rate. So really doing everything that you can ask for, limiting walks, getting whiffs, getting ground balls, and everything kind of backs up what Max Meyer has done to this point. So maybe there's a conversation later in the season, like sell high if we have any concerns of a shutdown or anything. But if you drafted Meyer, I think you just kind of reap the rewards and you might have one of this season's biggest breakout pitchers on your hands. Scott, let's go over to you, your player of the night, Hunter Brown, who is now five for five in quality starts this season.
Starting point is 00:08:25 He's been great so far, Hunter Brown. Better control, much better control than we've seen from him in the past. It's come close to having his walk rate, halving his walk rate from a year ago, having, I guess that is a V, but it sounded like I was saying having, like having a baby. He is halving his walk rate from a year ago. And also missing a lot more bats. Also got the ground ball rate way up 58%. And it was a good ground ball pitcher to begin with, but 58%.
Starting point is 00:08:55 ground ball rate, that's verging on elite. So he's kind of just become better in every way. And he was already pretty good to begin with. I think there was a consistency concern with Hunter Brown. And you look at the month-by-month breakdown for him last year, particularly early on, was just terrible and then caught fire late. And because he's one of those pitchers who has a very full arsenal of pitches as opposed to having one dominant pitch like Max Meyer, you know, Meyer has a pretty full arsenal too, but it's really the slider. He has that bread and butter, that unhittable pitch.
Starting point is 00:09:32 And Hunter Brown doesn't really have that. And I feel like that profile is a little more difficult to predict. And then when you have control issues like we've seen Brown have at times in the past and, and normally high ground ball rate is a good thing, but it can, it can lead to just a lot of bad luck spamming all at once. and enough ground balls sneaking through that you could see the whip and the ERA blow up because of that. There may be some of that in Hunter Brown's future still.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Obviously, he's not going to sustain the current 1-16 ERA he has. But in all the ways he should be good, he seems to have gotten better. Yeah, I think that is a pretty fair way to sum it up. The one thing I notice is that he's relying more on his fastball and sinker this season, which at first you might not like for a starting pitcher, but he's throwing harder, and that four scene looks like it has pretty good shape.
Starting point is 00:10:31 I mean, 19 inches of induced vertical break in this start, which is a great mark. His fastball's averaging 97.2 miles per hour of the season. So, yeah, he's doing all the right things. I'm not sure this level of control will remain, but anything close to it. I think we might get like a borderline SP1 season out of Hunter Brown, which might be crazy to say.
Starting point is 00:10:52 maybe I'm jumping the gun a little bit, but like, you know, like a top 15 starting pitcher. I mean, I don't think it's crazy. Been pretty close. He's probably been a top 12 SP
Starting point is 00:11:04 over the last 11 calendar months, right? Because it was right around the end of May when he figured out was the end of April last year. I think it was sometime in May. So like, yeah, this is not just a flash in the pan. Now,
Starting point is 00:11:19 he is doing some different stuff this season, like you said, more fastballs and sinkers, throwing about a mile and a half per hour harder on those two pitches, which is really helping. The four seamer had excellent numbers last season. Remember, his breakout kind of came from throwing the four seamer less and throwing the sinker more,
Starting point is 00:11:43 which seemed to help both pitches play up. And so, yeah, it's been really, really impressive. I don't see a lot of reason to doubt it. You know, now that he's carried it over from last year, I think there was some question about whether he would carry it over. But once he did, and, you know, frankly, in some ways, looks even better. We haven't seen the strikeout rate jump quite yet. But, you know, if he's a 26% strikeout rate guy with the command that he's had, you know,
Starting point is 00:12:16 over the last 11 months, he looks really good. I don't know that we are going to see the strikeout rate jump. Obviously, he got nine and seven innings in this one. That was a good strikeout game. But 12 whiffs on 96 pitches. It's decent. It's not, it's not, doesn't make him look like a world-class batmiss or anything. I think the comp I'm imagining now for Hunter Brown,
Starting point is 00:12:39 and maybe this goes along with your prediction, Frank, is Max Fried. I think before I was concerned he would only be Mitch Keller. And now, particularly if these control gains, hold. The profile looks a lot like a right-handed Max Freed. Yeah, yeah, I could definitely see something like that working out here for Hunter Brown. My player of the night
Starting point is 00:13:00 was going to be Tyler McGill, but I'm going to save that for a little bit later on so we can keep things moving. I have buy, sell, or hold coming up, and Tyler McGill will be part of that. Before we take our first break, reminder to sign up for the FBT newsletter if you haven't already. If you're watching on YouTube, scan that QR code
Starting point is 00:13:15 that will take you right to the CBS website where you can sign up for the newsletter for free. And big thanks to those watching us live. Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Let's take a break and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. And before we get to the news and notes, obviously the big news of the day was that the A's are promoting their top prospect Nick Kurtz. We did an emergency podcast on that earlier. So make sure to check that out. It's in your podcast feed. It's also on YouTube. The other news and notes of the day and this one just feels like a cruel
Starting point is 00:13:50 joke and I realize we're like three weeks past April Fool's Day, but kind of wish this was an April Fool's Day joke because Spencer Shreder was placed in the aisle with a strained right hamstring, which he suffered while playing catch. No more, no more playing for pitchers, you know, just just pitching. We had Spencer Argettys injury like last week, just no more. Just keep them in bubble wrap. Yeah. I mean, what's the point of having those big old legs if you know you can't even keep them can't even keep them healthy what's going on more muscle you have there more there is to strain and the might be right here the tough thing here is like
Starting point is 00:14:28 it's a hamstring so obviously it's a best case scenario that it's not like an arm injury but yeah hamstring injuries are really tricky and they can be a minimum stay on the iL i think it was backdated to friday um so you know you're talking about 11 more days or 12 more days but it very easily could be just a month for a pretty normal hamstring strain. So it's super frustrating because we probably just won't know. And then the longer he's out, the more of a buildup he's going to need. So it's, you know, Justin Steele missed quite some time early last year with the hamstring. You don't know.
Starting point is 00:15:05 I don't say it was like six weeks, right? We don't know the severity of it yet. So I don't want to jump ahead. But man, it was it was like a gut punch seeing that because all the excitement, and Strider finally back, and then it's like... You waited all this time, right? Oh, never mind, his hamstring. And look, I know he's as frustrated for anyone.
Starting point is 00:15:28 He's very intense, but yeah, it stinks. And all you can do is continue to stash him. At least it's not an arm injury. Hopefully, it won't be out too long. The Padres placed Luis Arise on the seven-day concussion IEL after that scary collision on Sunday night. Gavin Sheets started at first, for the Padres here on Monday.
Starting point is 00:15:49 The Brewers have promoted reliever Craig Yoho, who we have mentioned on this podcast a few times. Last season in the minors, 0.94 ERA, 0.94 whip, 15.8K per 9, 10 saves, 5 holds. He looks like the closer of the future. I don't want to just push Trevor McGill out of that role just yet, but are you guys looking to add Craig Yoho anywhere? I think deep leagues where you...
Starting point is 00:16:16 The sort of leagues where you have to speculate on saves because any new closer option who emerges is going to go for like 20% of your fab budget. So not many people play in those types of leagues, but if you do, you know who you are. And I think Greg Yoho immediately becomes the fallback for Trevor McGill. Now, I say that, like if Trevor McGill lost his job tomorrow, I imagine somebody like Abner Eribe. would step in, they wouldn't turn it over to Craig Yoho right away. But I don't think Trevor McGill is losing his job tomorrow. And I think by the time that happens, if it ever happens, I'm imagining Craig Yoho will have solidified his place in the bullpen. He was ridiculous with the strikeouts this spring too.
Starting point is 00:17:05 I think he had like two per inning. That changeup is like Devin Williams-esque. Yeah. Yeah, it got compared to the airbender. Yeah. Now, notably, his strikeout rate at AAA this year hasn't been that impressive. It's a small sample. But I will put that out there just to put everything out there.
Starting point is 00:17:28 Unfortunately, the corresponding move was sending Logan Henderson back to AAA. He was great in his debut on Sunday. But Tobias Myers is returning later this week. If you picked up Logan Henderson anywhere, do you hold? Yeah, I think you hold most everywhere because that rotation has a lot of vulnerabilities in it. And I mean, Quinn Priester, it's not like he was amazing in this start. He struggled with control. He made it only four innings.
Starting point is 00:18:00 I think Logan Henderson's going to be back in short order, and you'd rather not have to push everybody out of the way for him again. And because starting pitcher is always in demand, and the waiver wire is pretty thin and interesting ones right now. I think that's all the more incentive to hold on to Henderson. The one thing I would say is because of the timing of this, Henderson being sent down on a Monday, assuming there's no injuries, he will have to be down for a minimum of 10 days. If you're in a weekly waiver wired league, I could see cutting him at the end of this week just because we won't know if he's coming back next week.
Starting point is 00:18:41 and then you're basically dealing with a dead roster spot for two weeks. But I wasn't on the show yesterday, but I really liked what Logan Henderson did. I thought it was very impressive. I agree with everything that you guys said. I think it looked really, really good. I do want to point out on Craig Yoho. This kind of highlights how weird that pitch is, the change-up.
Starting point is 00:19:06 The stack has thought it was a curveball. Oh, nice. So that'll be great to talk about whenever we see that stack cast data. They'll fix it and I'm sure Marr, it'll say change up because we know that's a change up. But based solely on the movement characteristics of the pitch, they branded it a curveball.
Starting point is 00:19:24 I always find that funny. Do you guys have any interest in Tobias Myers who will make his debut on Thursday? He's 36% rostered. Less than in Logan Anderson. Yeah, I know he was good last year, but I think he's just a guy. George Kirby is scheduled to throw a live batting practice this week.
Starting point is 00:19:42 He's on the aisle with right shoulder inflammation. Max Scher played catch on Monday. He said the session went okay, and this is the first time he's throwing since receiving a second cortisone injection in his right thumb last week. Mason Wynn is likely to be activated Tuesday against the Braves. Tyler Stevenson worked out at AAA this weekend and is expected to begin a rehab assignment on Tuesday.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Ben Rice has missed two straight with a left elbow. contusion, but is expected to return on Tuesday. Kerry Carpenter out of the lineup with right hamstring soreness, but is expected to avoid the IL. Lane Thomas has now sat out three games in a row, and all three pitchers he sat against were right-handed pitchers, and this could be related to the injury he had last week. He was dealing with a wrist injury, but he returned for three games,
Starting point is 00:20:30 and now he sat out three games, and kind of feels like they've liked what they've got from Angel Martinez, and, you know, they're trying to work him in more, well so like is is lane thomas just like on the outs right now i just that doesn't feel good he might just be a lefty option short side platoon versus versus lefties yeah because he's been uh they don't they don't do it on fan graphs i was hoping i could just look at what he's done since getting to cleveland but i know he's been very bad uh since the trade to cleveland and really all he did like he had like a six homer binge
Starting point is 00:21:08 at one stretch last year that kind of salvaged his numbers but yeah he's played 66 games with a sub-600 OPS since getting to Cleveland. That's rough. Yeah, I feel like anything shallower than a five outfielder league
Starting point is 00:21:24 you can probably drop Lane Thomas. He's 62% rostered so you know, head to head points or head to head categories with three outfielders like, yeah, I think you could probably just drop Lane Thomas. The White Sox plays Chase Mindoroff on the aisle with right thumb inflammation. The Tigers were called Jace Young from AAA, and he started at third base on Monday.
Starting point is 00:21:44 He was betting sixth in the lineup. Once upon time, a top prospect with big power potential, 12% rostered, deep league name and interest in Jace Young. I think he still is a prospect. He was coming into the year, and this is the first of bats he's gotten. So yeah, I mean, he was performing well at AAA. I don't know that his profile is going to work so well. at Comerica Park because it's a lot of it's a lot of elevating versus
Starting point is 00:22:16 hitting the ball, genuinely hitting the ball hard. And it's a big right center field area at that ballpark. So it may be a poor venue fit there for Jace Young. But I think there's, I think there's skill there. I think there's, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:22:32 like a Brandon Lau type ceiling for Jace Young. So worth keeping an eye on even if he's not somebody you're rushing out and adding yet. Nestor Cortez was transferred to the 60 day IL. He's out with a flexor train and the Blue Jays optioned Easton Lucas back to AAA on Monday. I believe he was 95% rostered in NFC main events this week. Just an all-time bad to start performance by Easton Lucas. And people gave him some fad to get him too.
Starting point is 00:23:06 I mean, it's the triple. Whammy. You give up, you give up like. You got none of the good stuff. Right. You got, you gave up like a tenth of your budget potentially or, yeah, probably about a 10th, five to 10% of your budget. You got two terrible starts.
Starting point is 00:23:22 And then you have no incentive to hold on to them. The cruelty of fantasy baseball. Oof, we saw it firsthand there with Easton Lucas. Let's quickly run through some waiver wire options from Monday. Some of these names we've talked a lot about, but they're still available. in like a third of CBS leagues. Sean Murphy woke up with another home run, one for four with his fifth homer.
Starting point is 00:23:43 He was one for 13 in his previous four games. Before this one, he is striking out 35% of the time, but he also has five home runs and an OPS over 900. So he's 64% rostered. We said this last week. That number still feels like it should be higher, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:59 It's one where I don't care so much about the strikeout rate because it's a small sample size and because he's a catcher. And unless you've got one of like eight guys, yeah, there's going to be some kind of gross flaw in whatever catcher you have, even in a one catcher league on the low end. So I'll take the guy with a track record who's performing right now. And he doesn't normally strike out this high. I think it's just a small sample thing for Sean Murphy. Definitely, yeah, he strikes out more like 20 to 25% of the time than 35.
Starting point is 00:24:32 So really enjoying what I've seen from him so far. Victor Scott had a nice game here as well, three for four with a double, two RBI, and his eighth stolen base of the season, but he was slowing down. Previous nine games before this hit 154 with a 368 OPS. 68% rostered. I think that's probably about right,
Starting point is 00:24:53 maybe a little bit too high. What do you guys think? I feel like Victor Scott doesn't need to be rostered in points leagues. Should be more highly rostered in Yahoo than CBS. I would guess he's not. Let's find that. I think Victor Scott is extremely fringy in points leagues. And I think he's pretty close to must roster in categories leagues.
Starting point is 00:25:14 33% rostered on Yahoo. So yeah, if you need steals in a head to head categories league or I'd imagine most Roto leagues he's already rostered. But yeah, that is Victor Scott. Kyle Manzardo is someone we've talked a lot about. Obviously, he is now homered in three straight. He hit his seventh home run of the season. He's walking a lot.
Starting point is 00:25:30 He's also hitting a ton of fly balls, which has contributed to that lower batting average. 59% rostered. He needs one more game to gain first base eligibility. It's just like we talk about every day. There's so many first baseman that have emerged. I don't know that we can tell people
Starting point is 00:25:47 to pick up Kyle Manzardo in more leagues than he's already rostered. I just don't know. And if you miss the emergency pod, Monsardo was one first baseman I'd be willing to give up for Nick Kurtz because I think there are some limits here. Look, it's good upside overall.
Starting point is 00:26:04 It's like in an ideal world, I'd like to own, I'd like to have Kyle Monsardo. I'd like to have as many of these as I can and let which ones of them are going to stick sort itself out. But Monsardo, I think, has some clear limitations than the others, even with him about to pick a first base eligibility. You mentioned the high fly ball rate. It is a very high fly ball rate. He is, there's a high walk rate. you mentioned that too. But it's almost too much of both.
Starting point is 00:26:39 He elevates a little too much. He's a little passive at the plate. And I think both are going to continue to work against his batting average. And the power, while it's plenty enough with that fly ball rate, it's not, like, he's never hit a ball 110 miles per hour in the majors. It's not like conventional slugger type power. for Kyle Monsardo. So yeah, he's good. You should roster him if you can,
Starting point is 00:27:08 but he's on the lower end for me of the emerging first basement. Zach McKinstree continues to impress three for four with a walk double and a triple. He has started 12 of the past 13 games for the Tigers. He's hitting 3.14 with a 424 on base percentage. Not really much power or speed to speak of here. Up to 43% rostered, third base shortstop,
Starting point is 00:27:29 and outfield eligible. Kind of just feels like a points. league, play him while he's hot kind of thing based on that OBP, but I don't know, what do you guys think? He is eligible in three places. I think that's the best thing Zach McIntyre has going for him, unfortunately. I don't really, I don't think there's much here at all. All right. Caleb Durbin is someone we've talked a lot about.
Starting point is 00:27:52 The Brewers promoted him late last week, and he is on the board with his first career home run, added to RBI, and he is 32% rostered. What size leagues do you think Caleb Durbin needs to be rostered in? Probably traditional roto and deeper. He should be rostered in as a middle of the infield option. He'll probably help in speed. He's, I don't imagine he's going to be a significant source of home runs. But, you know, maybe he could make from a five-by-five perspective
Starting point is 00:28:24 and Andres Jimenez type impact if everything goes well. He walks, at least in theory, he walks a lot more than Jimenez. so it's not like an apples to apples comparison, but I'm talking about strictly from a five-by-five perspective, what you can hope for from Durbin in those categories. I think there's probably a higher stolen base ceiling with his track record and playing on Milwaukee. I could see a 40-homer season for K.
Starting point is 00:28:56 Could you now? I would be shocked if we got a 40-homer career from Caleb Durbin. I could see a 40-homer. for Jesus, 40 steel season for Caleb Dermann. But it's going to be, I think, very limited power. Even the home run today under 100.1 mile per hour average or exit velocity. That's pretty, pretty low end. Four names in deeper leagues.
Starting point is 00:29:23 Noelvi Marte was getting another start after his huge game on Sunday. He went two for four with his second steel and has started three of the past four games. kind of looks like Jamer Candelario is legitimately losing playing time there, so maybe they will continue to play Marte. Eric Wagamon is someone who plays for the Marlins, and he might be a thing in deeper leagues, two for five with a sock and a shoe. Third home run, his first deal, he's 27 years old,
Starting point is 00:29:48 has put up some okay numbers in the minors, has started nine of the past 10 games. Augustin Ramirez had a fun debut, two for three, with a double, a walk, and his first career stolen base. The double 110.4 exit line. So all around, Chris, as a Marlins fan watching this game, Max Meyer 14 strikeouts and Augustin Ramirez, it's just, it provides a little bit of hope for the future, I think, which is pretty cool. I've got a group chat with all my friends from back home.
Starting point is 00:30:16 And like, anytime anyone expresses any excitement, it's always met immediately, like, they're going to trade everyone. And like, yeah, they're probably going to trade Sandy Alcounter. and at some point that will probably trade Max Meyer, but it's okay to be excited about things. You don't have to live years in the future in baseball, right? Like they're not going to win more than 75 games this season, but like there are some interesting things happening. The organization seems to be on the right path.
Starting point is 00:30:50 And yeah, Max Meyer looks like one of the biggest breakouts in the game. And Augustin Ramirez could be one of the most fun catchers in baseball. okay. It's okay to be excited. Most really high-end players eventually leave for a bigger contract elsewhere. That's just an inability, no matter what team has them. And so like, you're going to worry when the big prospect gets called up, oh, he's going to be gone in seven years. That's just kind of. It's cynicism for cynicism's sake. And, you know, probably to maximize his value, it'll actually be less It'll be like four. Four years.
Starting point is 00:31:28 I actually traded. But still, it's years from now. So it's not a good way to enjoy the sport, I would say. But I was really encouraged by this debut for Augustin Ramirez, A, because he stole a base. Good to see him do that right away. I was skeptical that would continue in the majors because there's not a lot of pure speed there from Ramirez. He's just been an opportunistic in the minors. And one game doesn't clear it up.
Starting point is 00:31:55 But it's encouraging to see. Also, we didn't bring it at this point, he was the one who caught the Marlins' best pitching performance of the season in his major league debut. And a big knock, probably the biggest knock on Augustin Ramirez as a prospect, is that he's not really a catcher. Yeah. And so if he can, like, one of my fears for him coming up is,
Starting point is 00:32:20 will they limit his playing time for defensive reasons? Well, if he establishes some trust with the pitching staff there, then that's going to happen less. Obviously, we're excited about Augustin Ramirez. He's only 18% rostered. Kind of feels like there's more than, you know, more than 18% of CBS leagues are two catcher leagues. Oh, any two catcher league, he should be rostered.
Starting point is 00:32:43 And I think he could very quickly play his way into one catcher league. In category leagues for sure. The upside is there. I mean, either way, categories or otherwise. Someone named Ronnie Simon started at DH for the Marlins today. So like, there will be playing time for Augustin Ramirez if he earns it. Who is that? I apologize.
Starting point is 00:33:08 I'm not trying to be mean. I have just never heard of the person who started at DH for the Marlins. I immediately thought of Randall Simon. All right. Seeing the name Ronnie Simon. Remember Randall Simon? I mean, he could. be probably not
Starting point is 00:33:25 Randall Simon's kid, but it's impossible. He had an RBI single in this game. I wasn't necessarily saying there was a relationship there. I'm just saying that's what the name reminded me of. The other deep league name I had here was Gavin Sheets, who continues to impress two for four with his third home run.
Starting point is 00:33:41 He is just hitting the crap out of the ball so far this season. The expected stats all look great as well. Do you guys have any deep league interest in Noel V. Marte, Eric Wagamon, and Gavin Sheets. They're all corner infielder. So, you know, like 15 team roto or, you know, leagues like that. Yeah, probably, it probably have to be deeper than that, at least for Wagamon and sheets.
Starting point is 00:34:03 I will point out Wagamon's expected stats are kind of nuts. 314 expected batting average 549 expected slug. The exit velocities are not bad. They're pretty middling and the strike rate is fairly low. But I still don't understand why those expected stats are so high. I don't really expect it to continue for a 27-year-old. who was merely okay in the miners. The one exception maybe to the, it would have to be a pretty deep league comment is, is no LV Marte.
Starting point is 00:34:31 If the playing time continues, then he keeps this going with the multi-hit games, with just being productive in general. Then we're going to need to take a second look at him because obviously there's big pedigree there. And there was a lot of excitement at the start of last year before he got hit with that 80 game suspension. I think Evan,
Starting point is 00:34:52 Sheets is really interesting right now. He forced his way out of the Padres roster this spring with a swing change. And he's been hitting the ball really well. So I think in certainly any 15 team league, he's viable. But I think even 12 team roto leagues with, you know, corner outfielder, corner infielder, and five outfield spots. I think Gavin Sheets could be an interesting fill in. All right. Let's take our final break. When we return, we'll do a little buy, sell, or hold. after this quick commercial break. Welcome back in Fantasy Baseball today. Buy, sell, or hold these 10 players,
Starting point is 00:35:30 and we got to keep this thing moving so we can get to Team Name Tuesday. We haven't done Team Name Tuesday in a while. I would like to do that. But it's a lame segment, Frank. Maybe it's for the best. Come on, Scott. I've got some gems in there for you today.
Starting point is 00:35:42 We know that you love the team names, especially the ones that have as many names as humanly possible inside of them. So we're going to do this from a more just traditional fantasy sense of are you, like, would you be looking to buy this player, trade for this player? Would you be looking to sell high on this player? Or are they just a hold? What do we do with them in fantasy?
Starting point is 00:36:01 Trevor's story three for four with a run in RBI. He's betting 337, five homers, six deals, eight 94 OPS early on this season. Chris, what do you think? Buy, sell, or hold on Trevor's story. This feels like one of the more obvious sell high candidates in recent years, frankly. he's actually been a useful rhodo player since getting to the Red Sox when healthy, but there have been so many injuries. The batting average has been consistently so low that I am inclined to not buy,
Starting point is 00:36:38 certainly the 337 batting average, but even the 290XBA. I would take the under with about 40 points. So, yeah, I think. you sell if you can. If not. And it just feels, feels like we're counting down. Yeah, the days till he gets hurt again. But if not, if you can't sell him, I think he's a perfectly useful middle infielder. It's just, I don't really think he's much more than that. All right, let's talk about Walker Bueller, who had his best start of the season. Of course, up against the White Sox, you should have your best start. Seven innings, one run, nine strikeouts,
Starting point is 00:37:14 11 whiffs on 100 pitches, two earned runs or less, three starts in a row. Scott, buy, sell, or hold Walker Bueller. This is one I can't realistically see you selling because even though obviously this start there was a good result in two of his last three starts, it's been a good result. Overall numbers are still pretty whatever.
Starting point is 00:37:37 423 ERA 119 whip, less than a strikeout per. And then the underlying data is even worse because the swinging strike rate I think it entered this start 7%. and it didn't go up that much. He had an 11% swinging strike rate in this start for having the nine strikeouts.
Starting point is 00:37:58 And I just don't see a lot there that's changed other than the top line results. And it was more than one start of that now, but with a pretty yucky start in between the two good ones. So I don't think there's a lot there, just kind of random variants. And if somebody wants to take Buehler, off your hands for something that I think is a little more interesting over the long haul
Starting point is 00:38:27 than I do it for sure. I just don't know. I just don't know that anybody's going to be eager to do that. Christian Campbell has kept things going strong. Two for three with a walk and two RBI. He is betting 316 with a 418 on base percentage has really showed a great eye at the plate. Expected stats look very good. Chris, buy, sell, or hold Christian Campbell.
Starting point is 00:38:51 I think it's a strong hold. There isn't really a lot of red flags in the profile. He's about to get outfield eligible. I think he needs one more appearance. That would be great for the team where I can't start him because I have Bobby Witt and Trey Turner and someone else really good who I can't remember. So I really love that.
Starting point is 00:39:17 The one thing if you are hunting for red flags in Christian Campbell's profile. It's a whiff rate near 40% on both breaking and off speed pitches, which hasn't held him back yet. The strikeout rate is manageable. He's been productive on breaking pitches. But that's one way I could see it going wrong, is just the strikeout rate starts to edge up a little bit
Starting point is 00:39:45 because he is a patient hitter. So you would think any swing and miss issue is going to, more directly lead to strikeouts because he's going to find himself in deep counts. But no, all in all, I think Christian Campbell's a star. Gavin Williams turned in his first quality start of the season up against the Yankees, six in the third innings,
Starting point is 00:40:05 two runs, two walks, eight strikeouts, 21 whiffs on 104 pitches. And this was the best of fastball has looked all season. Ten of those 21 wifts came on that pitch. It's got by, sell, or hold on Gavin Williams. I'm going to lean hold here just because
Starting point is 00:40:25 again, I don't think what you'd be selling him for would be enough to pull the trigger now. So I'm not confident that he's going to have this big breakthrough season, even though the fastball got a much better
Starting point is 00:40:39 result, 10 whiffs on the 57 pitches he through there. So a 29% whiff rate on the fastball. I think the 10 whiffs are partly just because he threw so many as opposed to it being amazing. 29% with right on a fastball is good. Don't get me wrong. But it's a little misleading.
Starting point is 00:40:57 And it only had 16 inches of vertical break. So it wasn't like the 18 induced vertical break, I should say. So it wasn't like the 18 we were seeing in spring training. So I don't really know if the way Gavin Williams was better here is something that marks the start of a turnaround. for him. The curveball and sweeper were both up one mile per hour. He also finally threw some cutters. Only five of them.
Starting point is 00:41:29 But at least we saw that appear on his stat cast page and got one whiff on the five. So it's nice to see him bringing that back. There are some good signs here for Gavin Williams. They're just small good signs that don't totally win me back over. So I think I'm just going to continue to hold and see how it plays out. Four Seamer Command was really good in this one, bringing back the cutter that he, I think we talked about it last week. He just stopped throwing it this season after it was really good for him last year.
Starting point is 00:42:01 If he can throw that pitch while keeping the sweeper and the forcing command, there's still plenty of upside with Kevin Williams. So absolutely a hold after this one. Jazz Chisholm is providing power and speed, but the batting average has been awful thus far. He's got seven homers, five steals. he's hitting 161. The strikeout rate is up to 32%. Kind of feels like he's just trying too hard to lift the ball.
Starting point is 00:42:26 Launch angle, fly balls way up the season. I don't know if it's, you know, he's got this torpedo bad. Now he thinks he's like a 40 home run hitter all of a sudden. But Chris, would you be looking to buy, sell, or hold on Jazz Chisholm? I think hold is the only way you can really go here because as good as the home runs and stolen bases have been, everything else has been really, really bad.
Starting point is 00:42:51 I think people are going to look at that 161 batting average and kind of freak out about it and his XBA is because I think batting average is probably still going to be a concern. But sure, yeah, that's fair. I guess I was thinking about it
Starting point is 00:43:08 from the perspective of... You already have, Jess. You already have him. But yes, if you don't have him, I think he is a decent buy. But it's not really, really like it would neither be a sell high nor a buy low because it's been such a weird start for him. I think the batting average will normalize, but like the XBA is 217. So it's not like
Starting point is 00:43:29 you can look at that and say, oh, this is just bad bad at pluck. Like he's earning the bad batting average right now. Yeah, but there's enough of a track record that I said something on the podcast the other day when you weren't on. If you're going to do single factor analysis this time of year, the factor you should be singularly analyzing is, what is this guy's track record, particularly if it's a multi-year thing like jazz jism. And so unless something seems like just totally broken with his ability-wise, I'm going to trust him to kind of normalize here with the strikeout raid and the launch angle and be fine. You also have a track. record of injuries, Scott.
Starting point is 00:44:17 So that's something else you have to worry about with Jackson. There is that, but you're buying low. So, you know, he was a second round pick coming into the year. If you can flip Tyler Soderstrom for him, it's kind of a cell high, a cell high, buy, low combo. But I do that. Another subpar outing for Aranola, who was at the Mets, six and a third inning seven hits, four runs allowed, six strikeouts in this one. He actually left with two earners.
Starting point is 00:44:46 runs and two runners on. The reliever came in, gave up a three-run homer, so a few of those get charged to Aaron Nola, who, look, we don't ever look at record for pitcher just because, like, it's not really indicative for fantasy, but he's, oh, he's 0 and five. Like he's has five losses to start the season here. Aaron Nola does, Scott, buy, sell, or hold on Nola. I think buy is what I'd be looking to do here. It makes me a little uncomfortable that the velocity is lagging and he's also had this bad start. But because the swinging strike rate looks totally normal, it's not like the pitches are just getting crushed.
Starting point is 00:45:29 Exit velocity readings look pretty normal for Aeronola. I think it's just a typical Aeronola rough patch that we've seen so many times over the years and everybody freaks out and the final numbers end up fine. Not ace-like anymore, but nobody really values. him that way to begin with. He wasn't being drafted like an ace coming into the year. So I think if somebody's freaking out, you should look to take advantage of that and trust in the track record here for Nola. Let's talk about Tyler McGill, who pitched very well on the other side
Starting point is 00:45:58 of that game. Five and a third shutout innings, one hit, four walks, 10 strikeouts, had 14 whiffs on 92 pitches here, only allowed one hard hit. And what I've noticed this season, he's just kind of cleaned up the pitch mix. He's got rid of some excess pitches. He's mostly focusing on the foreseem the sinker and the slider and so far it has worked or has it chris buy sell or hold on tyler mcgill the command is super iffy we saw it in this one we saw it in the marlin start where he also you have 10 strikeouts in that one as well maybe i'll look it up so the stuff has been really impressive and it's playing up i think there are inherent limitations that make it so that i wouldn't really be trying to give up much of value for McGill, but I do think he's going to be pretty
Starting point is 00:46:48 useful moving forward. The Mets pitching lab is very, very good. He had three strikeouts or three walks and seven strikeouts and four innings against the Marlins. So kind of an even more extreme version of this. Yeah, I think there are always going to be some limitations here that make it tough for me to view him as someone I want to give up value for. So I would say hold, maybe lean towards sell, but I don't think you're really going to get much for Tyler Miguel. Okay. One thing I will point out from a points league perspective, I'm not sure you're going to get much
Starting point is 00:47:22 length from McGill consistently or quality starts. Career third time through the order for Tyler McGill, 307 batting average against 513 slug, a 713 ERA. And it kind of feels like the Mets know that because they just don't let him go that deep into starts. So I think that's going to be pretty consistent with him. Kevin Gosman took a step back here at the Astros, kind of. Like, the overall line was a step back.
Starting point is 00:47:47 But some underlying things I kind of like here. Six innings, four runs, six strikeouts, the three walks, 14 whiffs on 96 pitches. Less fastballs here. But this was the best, the splitter and the slider have looked all season. Now the slider, we don't really expect much from that pitch from Gosman, but we've consistently been saying, we need the splitter to look better, we need that pitch to get on track.
Starting point is 00:48:09 and it was really good in this start. His velocity was also up in this one. So, Scott, I feel like we've kind of been like scatterbrain on Kevin Gosman this season. Where are you at now? Buy, sell or hold, Kevin Gosman. Even though the results weren't as good in this start, it was at first glance, like the most excited I've been about a Kevin Gosman start because he did get the eight whiffs on the slider. That's a 62% whiff rate on that pitch for the start.
Starting point is 00:48:35 But then you did even deeper. On the splitter. The splitter. Excuse me. Yeah, the splitter. But then you dig even deeper on that splitter. It didn't have its usual drop back. In fact, it had two less inches of drop than we had been seeing from the splitter this year.
Starting point is 00:48:51 So in terms of movement, it went the wrong direction. You mentioned the velocity was up for Gosman 1.4 on the fastball, 2 on that splitter. So I wonder if just a harder, straighter splitter, like it's becoming a different pitch, basically. and it might end up being effective in its own way. I mean, it's too small of a sample to really take anything away from it. In theory, this was a step in the right direction for Gosman, but it didn't come in the way I was expecting, which makes me a little distrustful of it.
Starting point is 00:49:33 I will say with the slider, you know, using it more, and getting good results with it today. He lost about four inches of drop with that pitch in this one. And, you know, it's very much like a gyro slider for Kevin Gosman. He gets very little horizontal movement. So whatever effect he's going to get from the slider is going to have to come from that drop that he gets. And he got a little more of it. He got, you know, three whiffs on seven swings with it as well today.
Starting point is 00:50:05 So maybe adding that. as something he can throw about 20% of the time could make the whole thing work out a little better, but I mostly agree that I just, I don't have a lot of confidence in the good Kevin Gosman starts this season. Now, to get back to the segment here, I think that makes him a pretty clear sell high because the results overall have been good.
Starting point is 00:50:34 Yeah. Even as we've kind of been wringing our hands over the way he's been doing it. I wouldn't want to sell him short, like I wouldn't want to be playing hot potato with them, just take them off my hands as quickly as you can. But I'd make some measured offers if I had Gosman and see what I could get for him. All right. Let's wrap up with some leftovers here.
Starting point is 00:50:57 And a quick conversation on Spencer Schwellenbach. Where are the strikeouts? He turned in a quality start up against the Cardinals, seven innings, eight hits, three runs, two of those earned, five strikeouts to zero walks, only nine whiffs on 92 pitches here. Interestingly, he gave up 10 hard hits in this game, but it was 84.7 average exit velocity against. So he also got a lot of soft contact, so interesting mix here. But it's been five strikeouts or fewer in four of five starts. The only one where he really went off was against the Marlins, which is a really good matchup. So what do you guys think? Where are the strikeouts for Schwellenbach?
Starting point is 00:51:35 Yeah, so the thing about Shwellenbach is the sample sizes are all small. The minor league sample size is small, the major league sample size is small, the sample size this season is small. So there is still a whiff of mystery box to him, or at least a whiff of every new trend could be something meaningful, just because we don't have the years and years of data to back it up. But regarding the lack of strikeouts in particular, while no one pitch has the like 40 plus percent whiff rates that the curve bond splitter had last year, everything kind of has a good whiff rate right now, except for the cutter. But entering this start, he had at least a 26% whiff rate on five different pitches. There is something to be said for lacking a true go-to putaway pitch. The slider has actually been his most used strikeout pitch despite not being a great swing and miss pitch.
Starting point is 00:52:42 So maybe it's just the slider plays up a little better. Maybe it's just throwing more splitters and curveballs in obvious swing and miss situations instead of the slider. But I'm not particularly concerned. And I say that as the person who was a little bit lower on Spencer Schwellenbach than certainly the consensus by the end of spring. I think he's really good. I'm not sure he's a top 12 pitcher, but he doesn't need to be a top 12 pitcher to be good. Yeah, and he also had a 14.6% swinging strike rate overall entering this start,
Starting point is 00:53:16 which will come down after this one, but I feel like he probably should have more than 7.7K per 9 so far. A lot of that was the Marlin start, to be fair. I agree, but when I look game by game, he was kind of in the like 11, 12% range for the other starts. Which isn't bad, but it's probably better than league average, but yeah. I think hold is the appropriate response here for Schwellenbach, but I'd come closer to buying than selling.
Starting point is 00:53:43 My hunch, and it's mostly just a hunch, is that this recent lack of whiffs is just going to be a blip. And he's still going to go on to be like one of the biggest breakout pitchers this year. Some hitting leftovers, studs being studs. Jose Ramirez had himself a big game. game two for five with his fifth home run and four RBI. Austin Riley has been a bit up and down so far, two for three with his sixth homer, but his last 13 games, he's hitting 364, five home runs in OPS over a thousand.
Starting point is 00:54:17 And Francisco Lindor is picking things up sooner than he normally does, which gives me hope. He went two for three with a double dong, four RBI. He's hitting 284, five homers, two steals, 840 OPS. These guys are all studs. Do you have anything you want to add? on them. No.
Starting point is 00:54:35 All right. Nope. The call to the bullpen for the Red Sox El Rolda Chapman entered in the eighth inning with a three-run lead facing the top of the White Sox lineup, which featured two lefties. He did give up a run. It was Justin Slayton who got the ninth inning
Starting point is 00:54:47 and picked up his third save. Do you guys think that Justin Slayton should be rostered in deeper roto leagues as an like ancillary kind of saves piece for fantasy? it was weird to see this usage today but that's the first time it's happened right there was another game where Chapman came in in the eighth against like Corey Seeger coming up
Starting point is 00:55:15 opening day yeah okay okay um so I think there will be if there's lefties coming up yeah we might see him using the eighth yeah but it would have to be just 15 team leagues and I think there are I might prefer speculating on Craig Yoho. All right. For the Guardians, Class A was unavailable.
Starting point is 00:55:34 Cade Smith got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. He gave up a hit, but picked up his first save. For the Marlins, Jesus Tinocho got the ninth inning with a three-run lead. He picked up his second save. He also got the save on Sunday as well. He did that in extra innings. It was Anthony Bender, who pitched the eighth, and Calvin Foshae, who pitched the ninth inning of that one.
Starting point is 00:55:55 Do you guys see any rhyme or reason here to the Marlins' bullpen usage? Are you interested in that? adding to noco at all? It seemed like Foshae was getting the highest leverage spot again for a while until this game. And so I think they're still working through it. And hopefully one guy emerges sooner than later. The pecking order right now for fantasy,
Starting point is 00:56:19 I would say is Foshae, Tonoco, then Bender. But there's not a lot of assurance there. All right, for the Tigers, Tommy Canley was unavailable. Will Vest got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. He struck out one for his second save for the Braves. I'll note, so this was the 21st. So on the 19th is when Vest got his first save. And then the 20th, Canley pitched two innings.
Starting point is 00:56:51 And then the 21st, Will Vest got his second save. So I don't know. I think Canley is still the, the Tigers closer, but Will Vest is at least emerging as a clear backup. And may, it may turn into something of a time share between the two of Vest continues to pitch well. Wasn't Vest first save? Canely had thrown like multiple days in a row before that or something. There was some detail like that. He had thrown two days in a row, yeah.
Starting point is 00:57:20 So Canley pitched three of four days before this. So I think he was just purely out of value. No, I'm not denying he wasn't available. I'm just saying two of the last three days now, Vest has gotten a safe, and he's pitched really well this year. Yeah, no, I mean, I think your point about him being the clear backup is fine. I don't, I could be wrong about this. I don't think, like, they're sharing save duty.
Starting point is 00:57:41 Like, if Canley is available, I think he most often will get the ninth inning. But if something happens, then, yeah, it could be Will Vest. It's, you know, AJ Hinch's M.O. He doesn't like to stick with one guy. For the Braves, and man, these non-save situations are just killing us. right now. Riceella Iglesias got the ninth inning with a four-run lead. He gave up three runs on a walk and three hits.
Starting point is 00:58:02 Finally closed it out. His ERA rose up to six after this outing, unfortunately. But we've just seen weird stuff from relievers to start the season. Another one. Edwin Diaz for the Mets. He entered the ninth inning with two runners on a four-run lead. So this was a save opportunity. He gave up
Starting point is 00:58:17 a three-run homer, eventually closed it out, picked up his sixth save. But it's a 559 ERA and a 134 whip for Edwin Dias. as well. So for those Class A and Devin Williams managers out there, you're not alone. A lot of high-end closers have been, you know, kind of annoying to start the season, we'll call it. For the Giants, Ryan Walker was unavailable. Camillo DeVal got the ninth inning with a three-run lead. He struck out one for his third save. Same question as Justin Slayton. Do you see any like
Starting point is 00:58:49 ancillary kind of saves here for Camillo DeVall in a deeper league? I really don't unless Walker continues to have outings like he had on Sunday. Yeah, I mean, he's only had two bad outings all year. But he also doesn't have a long track record. So it wouldn't surprise me if Ryan Walker loses the job. But I think Deval is just like there are plenty of leagues where non-closing relievers have value. And Deval I think is good. So in those leagues, fine.
Starting point is 00:59:21 but I'm not making him a huge priority unless there's like one more bad outing from Walker then maybe I can talk about it. To stream or not to stream on Tuesday. And who did we say yesterday? I don't think we like this day very much, but we have Will Warren at the Guardians, Nick Martinez at the Marlins,
Starting point is 00:59:42 Griffin Canning is home against the Phillies, Jose Cantana at the Giants, Jordan Hicks is home against the Brewers, Osvaldo Bido facing the Rangers. I'm going to say Nick Martinez at Miami, but I don't feel great about it. And then Bito against the Rangers, maybe Kentana against the Giants,
Starting point is 01:00:05 none of these feel like great choices. Cabrera against the Reds could be good, but yeah, I don't love any of these options. And then on Wednesday, we have Luis L. Ortiz is home against the Yankees. We have Reese Olsen, home against the Padres, David Peterson home against the Phillies,
Starting point is 01:00:23 Tomoyuki Sugano at the Nationals, Michael Lorenzen gets the Rockies in Kansas City, David Festa home against the White Sox, Andrew Hini at the Angels, Erod, home against the Rays, Kumar Rocker and J.P. Sears are facing each other. So I
Starting point is 01:00:39 think slightly better options here. Yeah, Erod, Eduardo Rodriguez, Kumar Rocker, David Festa. I think Festa is my favorite. It's the White Sox, but he hasn't gone five innings yet. And only two chances, to be fair. But that's, that might, if he doesn't give you five innings,
Starting point is 01:01:01 that's going to be a disappointment. Yeah, I think Festa for sure. Erod, I think it's fine. J.P. Sears is probably okay. Would not be surprised if Michael Lorenzen has a good starting in Syrackees in Kansas City. This is their first series away from Corse Field. So, you know, usually the bats are just lagging, and, man, their lineup is just so, so bad. So, yeah, could see that one working out.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Well, another week, we're not going to get to teaming Tuesday. Oh, come on, give us some. I have so many here. Don't let's stop bullying you. Let's do it. Rapid fire. We can speed through it. It's fine.
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Starting point is 01:03:13 Happy Chris Mayton a Kwanzica. So that's a, that's a, I, I watched the O. see. And that's what that would be. Yeah. Is that a thing? Chris. Yeah. Chris McQuana-Quanzica. Oh, okay. I think that was, that's his thing, right? That's what it says here in parentheses, but I've never heard it before. You say arise, I say Bayo.
Starting point is 01:03:39 There's got to be a better one than Arias there. Man, I'm not saying this in a Hermione Granger voice. If someone else wants to go for it, you can go for it. It's okay, no, this is pretty good. It's, it's enmundo Sosa, not Edmundo Sosa. That's, that's pretty good. And Scott will like this one. My boobich is, my boobiches, but at least it's not my bummer. Sure.
Starting point is 01:04:07 All right. From Felix in Panama, peanut butter and Ellie. Oh, I like, you know, I like food ones. I always like food ones. That's a good one. That's a good one. Senegesis. I like that. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:19 Wobfet. That's good. Only the good, Cy Young. That's great. I like that one. This is way to go, Felix. I don't know what this is. Lisa Loeb song. You say, I only hear what I want to.
Starting point is 01:04:32 One of my favorite songs of all time. Stay by Lisa Loeb. Do you want to sing it? You say, I only hear what I quant to. Yeah, that's good. That works. Chorio Speedwagon. Chorio Speedwagon.
Starting point is 01:04:47 Yeah, Churio Speedwagon. That works really well. That's good. Claucet Mistaminers. That's very good. I like that Snell's like Skeen's spirit
Starting point is 01:04:56 Yep that's good Calm like a bone Is that a That maybe a Rage Against a Machine Is that what that is? I don't know Head Tovar Heels
Starting point is 01:05:06 Yeah that's a rage against the machine song Calm like a bomb Way to go Yo Holmes Snell you late lighter That's very good I got 99 I don't know about that one
Starting point is 01:05:20 I don't know about that one I'm gonna stop there You know, I think he said those were PG-13. You lied to me, Felix. That last one was not PG-13. These last ones are from Glenn, hip-hop themed. I think Chris Boo-Bitch's name would go there too. F-W-I-W.
Starting point is 01:05:36 I don't know. I'm not saying they're good, but I hope you like some of them. Wu-Turan-Klan. That's good. It's good. Rice Cube. Yep. Rice T. I mean, yeah, pretty obvious, but yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:45 A bibi-called vest. There's a lot going on there. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Oh, and he capitalized a C, so, could be Alex Call, too. How about that? Young thug. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:56 Noddy by Hater. Yeah. Lil Baz X. Absolutely. Low thugs and Otani. I think Bome Thugs and Otani would probably work better. Yeah, I think so. Salt and Keller.
Starting point is 01:06:10 Yeah. Okay. I mean, yeah. Berrios Hill. Again, I think there's probably a better one out there. I don't have it right now, though. De La Solair. That's good. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Run PCA.
Starting point is 01:06:24 Yeah. And Beaver Boys. Yeah. I think Boyle Boys works better. I want to get a sound drop for whenever we talk about Landon Roup, and then I can just play the Shoup-Doo-Doo. I feel like that would work pretty well. All right, we are going to wrap there for Scott.
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