Fantasy Baseball Today - Mitch Keller Complete Game, Walker Buehler's Return & Buy-High Options! (5/7 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

Shohei Ohtani is one of those zones right now (2:50). ... Jonny DeLuca is off to a great start with the Rays (4:36). ... Mitch Keller tossed the second complete game of his career (8:38). ... News (14:32): Christian Yelich did some hitting on Monday. ... Walker Buehler made his first start in almost two years (22:54). ... Zack Wheeler is the SP1 (25:40)! ... We have six potential buy-high options including Riley Greene, Cole Ragans and others (27:58). ... Is Simeon Woods Richardson worth adding (44:51)? ... Zach Neto is heating up (49:05). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (52:33). 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, @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/ 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. Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. Hey there, welcome in to Fancy Baseball today on Tuesday, May 7th. I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Chris Towers. Today on the show, we have six potential buy-high options.

Big returns to the mound, Walker Bueller, and Justin Steele, another complete game, and much more. Let's jump in. Chris, did you hear that call tonight? That was the Hotani Tom Run. Yeah, that, I should have included the backcrack because it really did sound like a shotgun. There are, I think, like,

like I think Bryce Harper is the most aesthetically pleasing home run hitter in baseball. Just when he gets into one, it just doesn't, nobody looks like that. Otani, it doesn't, it doesn't, sound the same. Like it's one of those old baseball cliches, but like it sounds different when he hits it.

It really, really does. And Otani is just in one of those zones right now. On Monday night, two for three with a sock and two shoes. That's a home run and two steals. And he has four home runs in his past three games. He has four homers, four steals in his past four games. He is now up to 11 home runs, nine steals on the season. I do know that you moved them up into your top five in the trade chart and rightfully so I don't

utility or not. Otani is just looks like it's going to be one of those magical seasons once again but enough on him there's not really much to say. I mean I just I do want to add it. I saw somebody like somebody said something about like oh you know he's having this great season and we should have all seen it coming and

it was like I think we're underselling it though. He had major elbow surgery last off season. Brice Harper was screwed up for months. It was a different surgery but still, what he's doing is just, it's absolutely bonkers. He's ridiculous. Yeah, and we were talking beforehand.

I saw him in spring training. I think his first couple of games, he hit, like, popped a few home runs, and I was ready to move Otani into, like, the middle of the first round, and then all that stuff happened with his translator. And look, admittedly, there was a little bit of, a little bit of doubt, a sliver of doubt in the back of my mind. So that's on me. For anyone else who drafted Otani where you did,

you should just be thankful because he looks amazing once again. Chris, let's get into your player of the night. Who is it? Johnny DeLuca, you know, it's funny. All of the outfielders that we've gotten excited for, you know, top prospects getting the call up and Johnny DeLuca, I guess because he didn't get called up, it didn't have quite, and look, he wasn't a top 100 prospect or anything, but like there was really almost no discussion of Johnny DeLuca when. he got activated from the IL. And that was maybe a mistake because he's off to a really nice start so far. He homered for the first time on Monday.

He has started all four games since getting activated from the IL, including one against the lefty, three against righties. He is five for 15 with 10 home, or sorry, 10 RBI in his first four games with just two strikeouts. So I think Johnny DeLuca is someone who needs to be rostered in more than I think it's like 22% of leagues right now. 4%. There you go. I was overshooting it. Yeah, 4% is way too low because that probably means that there's some AL only.

Yeah, AL only leagues where Johnny DeL is available. And that doesn't make any sense. So go at him and those, I think any five outfield or league with 15 teams, he should definitely be rostered. I'd say even the five outfielder leagues with 12 teams, Johnny Deluca probably needs to be rostered just because one outfield's terrible. Terrible. And so like, I don't know, four games into his career, Johnny DeLuca might be like a top 50 outfielder already,

just because there are only like 20 outfielders I feel even decent about. And this is a guy who is not a top 100 prospect. He is an older prospect who has only played. to 104 games above high A. So there are reasons to be skeptical. But he was a big part of the Tyler Glassnow trade when the, when the race sent him over to LA. He's got 26 homers and 18 steals in those 104 games at double A and AAA.

960 OPS across those two levels. Like the quality of contact metrics at AAA weren't great. 96 or 86.4 mile per hour average exit velocity. That's not very good. It's a very sort of Essock Perrette's-esque approach, less extreme. But given pretty good plate discipline, given some athleticism, I do think Johnny DeLuca needs to be rostered way more than he is right now. I just picked him up in the Scott White Dynasty League last night.

That is a 2014. I can't believe he was available. I didn't even see that. I couldn't believe it either. I think I want him for a buck or two. So yeah, I mean, check out. some Dynasty leagues too to see if Johnny DeLuca is available. You mentioned some of the minor league numbers.

Just look at three years span from 2021 to 2023. Johnny DeLuca, 22 homers, 20 steals, 25 homers, 17 steals, and then 17 home runs, 12 steals. He did that last year in only 73 games in the minor. So there's a little bit of pop. There's some speed here. I think maybe I undersold him, or I didn't even mention that he got activated

because I just kind of assumed he would be a short side point. platoon player for Tampa Bay. But the fact that he started all four games and three of those against right-handed pitching are legitimately giving him every opportunity, at least to start his race career. Josh Lowe was back today. Yep. And it was still Johnny DeLuca in the corner outfield spot. So that's, uh, I think that's a very good sign.

I think it's bad news for Jose Siri. I think it's bad news for Richie Palacios as well. Not that Palacios has done anything wrong. He's actually hit pretty well. But I think the raise really do want to see what they have in this kid, Johnny, So again, it's not shallower leagues, 12-team leagues, maybe not, but any format with, you know, five outfielders or even dynasty leagues, I would say go out there and check and see if Johnny DeLuca is available. Let's slide over to Mitch Keller, who turned in the second complete game of his career. I believe it was the seventh complete game this season by all starting pitchers. And he was up against the Angels, obviously a very good lineup to stream against right now. He allowed only five hits, one run, one run, one.

walk, five strikeouts, with seven swinging strikes on 109 pitches. Still out nine hard hits in this game. I kind of wish Scott was here because I know Scott would be more excited to talk about Mitch Keller. He was the Mitch Keller optimist coming into the season. We were talking beforehand, Chris. There's not really much in this start. It is a fantastic start.

There's no doubt about it. Anytime you get a complete game. But only seven swinging strikes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, this is about as pitch to. contact as a complete game can get. And look, I think one of the reasons why you hang on to Mitch Keller is because when, gosh, I don't know,

Tristan McKenzie, to name a pitcher who pitched tonight, has a good start. He goes five innings, maybe six. Keller can go nine innings. Keller can pitch deep into his starts. That was one of the things that Scott really liked about him last year was he was consistently pitching deep into games. And when things are going well, he can give you a lot of volume. And I think especially in a points league, that can really matter for Mitch Keller. The problem this season is that the strikeout rate has really regressed.

Only five in this one. He's down to 21% for the season. Again, good start. It's just when we're trying to project moving forward and you see a 21% strikeout rate and even the quality of contact metrics are actually surprisingly mediocre right now. The walks are up too this year.

So it just, I think Mitch Keller is in that category of pitcher. I would throw Charlie Morton in there right now, who is getting good results overall. But it's just, I think the best case scenario is these guys are fine. And fine has uses, but it's not what you're aiming for, especially this early in the season. When we're still trying to figure out who guys are, we don't have a lot of certainty about who a lot of guys are. And you know, you see a Reese Olson who was still like 50% rostered yesterday.

I'd rather have Reese Olson than Mitch Keller, even if there's probably a lower C, floor with Rees Olson. That's a little spicy. All right. I'd rather have Christian Scott than Mitch Keller, even if the floor is probably lower for Christian Scott. And I think a big part of it is just, I don't know if you're going to miss Mitch Keller if you drop him, you know?

And maybe that's not fair, but that's just where I'm at on him. Yeah, I mean, that was part of my argument against him coming into the season, is that it was a really low swinging strike rate last year, despite the strikeout rate. It was a sub 10% swinging strike rate for Mitch Keller. he was just at 9.1% entering the start.

It's actually going to go down after this one, seven swinging strikes on 109 pitches. So he's probably someone who profiles better in a head to head points league for the reasons you mentioned. Like he's going to give you some innings. But, you know, pitching for the pirates, the wins could be hard to come by as well. Again, it's a great start.

I feel kind of bad that we're selling a short point. I know. I hate when this happens. It kind of just is what it is. Like I think Mitch Keller for me, I have met SP 62. I'm not going to feel all that in. to move him up that much after the start. I think he's probably just going to live in that like 50 to 70 range.

At least for me, obviously Scott does have in the same range for me. He's 62 as well for me in Roto. And look, there have been times. I don't know where Scott has him ranked specifically right now, but 48. Okay, there have been times where Scott has said he'd be okay dropping Mitch Keller this season. So I don't, you know, I don't want to say like Scott thinks Mitch Keller is an ace or anything. I don't think we're, I don't want to misrepresent his position either.

Yeah, I think he mentioned that he had Mitch Keller as one of his fallers in the rankings last week. So, you know, I don't think he's going to fall anymore after this start for Scott. But yeah, Mitch Keller, great start for him. Obviously, it's one that he needed. If you haven't dropped him by now, you're certainly not doing it now. No, no, you should not do that. Quick reminder to everyone who is listening to us that you can listen to this podcast and our five minute podcast, FBT and 5 on Spotify.

If you're watching live on YouTube, scan that QR code that will take. you to the Spotify website where again or Spotify app where you can listen to all of our podcast let's take our first break when we return we'll get into the news and notes right after this welcome back in let's talk news and notes christian yellage did some hitting on the field monday the first time since he went on the aisle with a lower back strain cody bellinger could be activated from the iL at some point during the team's current series against the padres my guess is Pete Crowe Armstrong will either be relegated to the bench or maybe sent back down. He hasn't played poorly. He's been fine, but

obviously it's Cody Bellinger. Freddie Peralta dropped his appeal of a five-game suspension and began serving the ban on Monday. My guess is he'll still start this weekend either on Saturday or Sunday. George Kirby has been cleared to start Wednesday against the twins. He left his previous start with right knee soreness. Blake Snell will throw a three-inning live batting practice on Tuesday. He's on the IL with an adductor train. Hazelizzo struck out six over five and two-thirds

scoreless innings in a rehab start at single A on Sunday. Velocity was fine there. He averaged right around like 95, 96 with his fastball. So that's a good sign. The rays activated Josh Lowe, as you mentioned, and they optioned Curtis Mead back to AAA. Low hit third in the lineup Monday and finished two for five with a double. The Guardians expect Stephen Kwan to miss approximately four

weeks after placing him on the IL with a left hamstring strain. I think they're going to give Kyle Manzardo every opportunity to be the team's DH. He did make his debut on Monday. Not so good. O for three with three strikeouts for Kyle Manzardo. In fairness, like Jack Flare he's just a really tough pitcher to pitch to face right now. Yeah. I think he's up to like a 12k per nine, something ridiculous like that. Nolan Jones did throwing and running drills on Saturday. The hope is that he'll be able to return by mid-May. T.J. Friedel could be activated as soon as Tuesday. He's missed the start of the season with a fractured right wrist. T.J. Friedel is 54% rostered. Do you think T.J. Friedel with as bad as outfield has been is a must roster, Chris, even in, let's say, three outfielder

leagues. It's hard to justify, I think, in a points league, but any non-points league, I think T. T.J. Friedel should be rostered. All right. Francisco Alvarez had the stitches from his surgically repaired left thumb removed on Monday. If all goes well, he should be back around the All-Star break. Brian Wu could be activated this weekend to face the A's. He's 77% rostered and absolutely

someone you should be trying to add if he's available in a shaller format. Braxton Garrett struck out 13 over 5 and 2 3rd scoreless in his rehab start Monday in the Florida Complex League. That is the lowest level of minor league competition, so I felt like I should point that out. But Braxton Garrett will likely be activated to start Saturday or Sunday against the Phillies.

Tosh Bradley has joined the raise in Tampa and is likely to make his season debut later this week. How do you rank those three? I was going to ask you that question. Okay. Well, that's, I guess that's your job. So I guess I should answer it. I would go woo, Bradley and Garrett.

Garrett probably has a higher floor than Bradley, but I think we know what the ceiling is for Braxton Garrett. And unless he's playing against the Florida Compact's league, strikeouts are not going to be a big part of his game. You're hoping for a high three ZRA and useful counting stats the rest of the way where Bradley, the floor is he's not part of the rotation. He gets sent back down. But the stuff is really good.

He's looked really good on his rehab assignment so far. So I remain pretty optimistic about him, but he would be behind Brian Wu, who in fairness probably has a lower floor even just because. because he's dealt with an elbow injury this season, whereas Todge Bradley's was a pectoral injury. So you figure there's less risk there, but I do think Wu with that really, really good fastball does have a higher ceiling.

I would rank it Wu, Garrett, and Tage Bradley, but if you were making the argument for just upside, then I totally get wanting to take Bradley over Garrett. I really like what we saw from Garrett last year. I know he's kind of like a Jack of All Traits type pitcher. I think he's actually kind of a lot like Mitch Keller, in that ways. Sure, yeah.

Less than a strikeout per inning. I think the control is a little bit better. Not going to get many wins on the Marlins. Doesn't pitch deep into games like Mitch Keller does. That's the biggest issue for Brax and Garrett. Yep. Jorge Saler has missed two straight with shoulder discomfort, which comes at an awful time because the Giants get seven games this week,

including three in Corris Field. So unfortunately, in the leagues where I have Jorge Saler, I took them out of the lineup just because I think there's a chance he could land on the IL. And they haven't said anything like that, but there is a chance. According to Buster Only, Tanner Scott could be on the move next with the Marlins.

Josh Bell could also interest some teams. He was a name that was mentioned. Chris, if Tanner Scott is traded, who do you think would step in for saves? It might not matter, honestly, but... If Tanner Scott was traded today, I think Anthony Maldonado would probably be the most likely. They've seemed to really like him.

They called him up and immediately threw him in high-levered situation. If Tanner Scott gets traded by July, I think there's a decent chance. It's AJ Puck, but obviously he has to get healthy and then pitch. Yeah, no, I think that's a good call out. AJ Puck, I believe made his second relief appearance either yesterday or over the weekend. And yeah, he's working as a reliever again. So that definitely could. I was going to throw a Wussuck Go's name in there just because they...

Sure. He was someone we thought would be the closer for the Padres before, you know, spring went really poorly for him. Yeah. So three potential options, but I do agree. I think if it happens very soon, it could be Anthony Maldonado next up for the Marlins. Paul Skeens' next start will come at AAA later this week. His start on Sunday wasn't as dominant.

He allowed two earned runs over four and a third innings. And it was also Skeens' first time working on regular rest. So again, my prediction has now been delayed two starts. I said, what, last week, that I thought his next start would be with the Pirates. Obviously, that didn't happen. And it's a good call by you because I remember. you express some skepticism that he needs to pitch on regular rest before they actually call him up. I will believe that it is imminent when he makes it to 90 pitches.

I just have a hard time seeing with the way they're handling him that they're going to call him up without having gotten to 90 pitches. I think his most recent, or his most pitches this season was 75. So I just, and look, that could happen in his next start, right? and then he could be on the way. I feel less certain that he's imminent than a lot of people in the fantasy industry, which I'm with you. I think it's dumb. I hate what the pirates are doing with Paul Skeens.

I think it's, I don't even know if it's short-sighted because I don't see how you can look at all these young pitchers getting hurt and say, aha, we figured it out how to keep Paul Skeens healthy. We just have him not throw a lot of pitches. It doesn't work. Nothing works. Just get them in the majors, whatever. Yeah, he's wasting his bullets down in the minors right now,

and he throws 100 miles per hour. So if we're thinking about it realistically, how many bullets does Paul Skeen's have over the next decade? I hope it's a ton, but, you know, it's just the track record, I guess, for pitchers that throw that hard. It hasn't been great, at least not recently. And the last and perhaps the most pivotal piece of news is that Chris's, this will be Chris's last FBT podcast for at least a few weeks.

He's off to travel the lands of Europe. Just a few weeks. I'm coming back. At least a few weeks. Hopefully you come back. If it's just, if it's more than a few weeks than something bad happened. So I am planning to return in 13 or 14 days.

We'll see how I feel. Maybe you just fall in love with Europe, Chris, and you never come back. Yeah. It's possible. But yeah, I, yeah, I'll be gone for a couple weeks.

I'm forcing Scott to do extra work by doing the newsletter for me. him and Dan Schre will be taking it on. And I don't love taking two weeks off in May, but that's when the plans happened. So we'll go. Yeah. Hey man. Enjoy yourself.

Have a good time. Let's talk about two big returns here on Monday. Walker Bueller made his first start with the Dodgers since June 10th of 2022. And he looked a little bit rusty. Going up against the Miami Marlins, I think that was expected. Four innings, six hits allowed, three runs, zero walks, four strikeouts, had eight swinging,

strikes on 77 pitches. That's a 10.4% swinging strike rate. Did a good job limiting hard contact. He leaned on his cutter. It was his most used pitch in this start. The velocity was actually solid. He averaged 95.9 miles per hour on that fastball. And it was a lot lower in his minor league rehab assignment. So I thought that was a really good sign. And I think the problem, at least in this one, Chris, none of his secondaries were working. He had just two swinging strikes on the curve, the slider, and the changeup combined. It's going to take some time. But overall, it makes results, I think still mostly encouraging. What do you think? Yeah, I think the velocity especially was was actually quite encouraging because the velocity

was down a couple miles per hour in that rehab stint, at least when we saw him. So the fact that he was up from the last time he pitched in the majors, I think is a good sign. It doesn't, it doesn't mean Walker Buehler is definitely going to be an ace moving forward. But my expectation has been, I've kept him in like the 30 to 40 range at starting pitcher. And I think that'll make him a must start pitcher. But I don't necessarily know I expect him to be an ace. But my expectations aren't any lower after this start, I will say. Justin Steele also made a return was not out nearly as long as Walker Buehler. He missed about a month of the season here. But But he was, I would say solid against the Padres, four and two third shutout innings,

three hits, one walk, two strikeouts, only four swinging strikes, but did a great job limiting hard contact, as Justin Steele always does. It was pretty much to Justin Steele experience, Chris. It was lots of fastballs. I know people argue that it's a cutter. It's not really a four-scene fastball. I think he kind of changes the shape on the fastball, like depending on counts in different situations. Oh, yeah.

But overall, I thought it was okay. Yeah, I mean, Justin's, steel is kind of a two pitch pitcher, but he's also kind of like a six pitch pitcher. Yeah. Because like depending on what part of the strike zone and which batter he's going against, he'll throw his fastball and his slider in very different ways. So, um, look, I think he made one rehab start after missing like a month and then came back. So it shouldn't be terribly surprising that he only threw four and two thirds innings and

68 pitches. But like Walker Peeler, I see no. reason to be lower on him after this start. Chris, I have one request for you before you leave to go to Europe. I'm going to need you to move Zach Wheeler up to your SP1 because he was awesome again. Seven innings, four hits, one earned run. 11 strikeouts was a season high, 19 swinging strikes on 102 pitches. 13 of those came on the fastball.

He was ridiculous. It was his third start the season with double digit strikeouts. He's down to a 164 ERA, a 0.80.8. the underlying numbers all look fantastic, a 48% ground ball rate. Is there any reason he shouldn't be ranked ahead of Corbyn Burns at this point? No, I can't point to anything specific, except that I had Burns number one and Wheeler number two coming into the season. And I may just be pigheaded enough to keep it that way. But yeah, this sure looks like the best version of Zach Wheeler we've ever seen, which is interesting because he's actually throwing less hard than maybe ever.

Is 94.5 miles per hour his lowest fastball velocity? I'll look at that. That sounds like it might be. Yeah, I don't think he's ever been this low. 2017, he was 94.7. If you remember, Zach Wheeler had a ton of injuries early in his career. So yeah, he's added that splitter, which we haven't really talked much about this season, but he barely needed it today,

but it's been an awesome pitch for him, generating a ton of weak contact, career high strikeout rate, walk rate, right around where it usually is, the quality of contacts better than it's ever been. Yeah, this sure looks like the best version of Zach Wheeler

we've ever seen. So sure, I will move him one spot in my rankings ahead of Corbyn Burns, who has looked great, but maybe slightly less dominant. Yeah, I was going to point out,

Corbyn Burns hasn't really done anything wrong. He has a 261 ERA and a 0.92 whip. Strikeout rate is just below a strikeout per inning. So he's just not... It's right around where it was last year, I think. Yeah, yeah, it's right around there. The walks have been much better, which obviously has helped Corbyn Burns. But yeah, Zach Wheeler just looks like he's on a new level right now,

especially with that, the incorporation of that splitter. And even with the diminished velocity, that fastball is playing up. And Zach Wheeler has been, in my opinion, the SP1. so far this season. Bye high or no thanks, Guy. And we're going to talk about six different players here that are performing well or performing well as of late and whether or not you should be looking to buy high. Exactly that.

Riley Green, Chris, your guy, one for five with his ninth home run. He had four hard hits in this game. Three over 106 miles per hour. He has four home runs in his past seven games. It's batting 266 overall with a 391 on base percentage. nine home runs, 27 runs, 939 OPS. He entered Monday's action as the 10th best outfielder and head-to-head points leagues.

The only thing that I will say about what he's done so far this year is that he's not running. And I don't know that we ever expected him to run all that much, but it would be nice if we can get like 10 to 15 steals out of Riley Green. Even with that, he has been awesome. And I think he's making the case to be ranked as like a top 25 out. outfielder. I think that's where you had him coming into the season, right? So, uh, would you like to know where I have Riley Green ranked right now? What do you have?

Uh, I have Riley Green. So you are higher than Scott on Riley Green. I have Riley green. I have Riley green 19 outfield spots ahead of you and 23 spots ahead of Scott. He is my outfielder 14. Oh, spicy. Yeah. Yeah. I am a, I am a, I am a, I am a, believer in Riley Green. My Twitter profile name since the spring has been Chris Towers is the Riley Green Preservation Society. Shouts to my fellow Kink's heads out there. And yeah, he's awesome. He's one of those guys where you look at the strikeout rate and you think he probably can't hit for batting average.

But the quality of contact is so consistently awesome for Riley Green that I, think he probably can keep hitting like 270. It's probably not going to be $290 like it was last year. The quality of contact hasn't been quite that good. The XBA is a little lower. But he is just crushing the ball right now. Expected Wobon contact is $4.84. Last year it was $477.

Expected Wobo overall, $3.94 because the plate discipline's been so much better. I think there are probably going to be stretches. And Riley Green might be just like the new left-handed version of Nick Castellanos, where the plate discipline will probably never be great. There's probably enough swing and miss in his game, especially, that there might be stretches where he looks kind of lost. But I think at the end of the day, Riley Green is going to be a very good power hitter, a very good run producer. I think given his lineup spot, maybe it tilts more towards runs than RBI right now. but overall, yeah, I'm buying Riley Green, and the question is,

when are you guys going to catch up? I'm looking at it now, and yeah, there's a real argument for him to be top 20. So I'm going to update the rankings on Wednesday like I always do. And, you know, my 14th ranks, 14 through 18 for me is Steer, Reynolds, Teasker Hernandez, Evan Carter, Jazz Chisholm.

Like, Riley Green absolutely should be in that room. Yes, absolutely. And then you've got like, Yelich who's injured, but hopefully we'll be back soon. Louise Robert injured. Hopefully we'll be back soon. The disappointing rookies.

So like, it's, it's partially a function of just, I just don't like Alfield that much. And I really like Riley Green. So I might as well throw them up there. But I do really, really like Riley Green as well.

Let's talk about Cole Reagan's, someone who obviously you and Scott were very excited about coming into the season. And I never really expressed all that much optimism, but maybe I should have because he has looked really good, turned in another quality start, six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts to two walks, 19 swinging strikes on 95 pitches. That changeup continues to be awesome for Cole Regens.

And he is now down to a 338 ERA. The whip is a little bit high. He does walk a good amount of batters, and his bathev is a little bit higher than you'd like it to be as well. but it's a 236 FIP. It's a 303 X-FIP. And Chris, I am making the case that he should be ranked inside the top 12 and treat it as an SP1.

And if someone in your league is not valuing him that way, then you should look to buy high. Yeah, I've got him at 14. So the guys who are right ahead of him are Logan Gilbert and Aaronola, who have been, I mean, Gilbert's been one of the best pitchers in baseball. And Nola has had the bounce back season we were hoping for for. the most part. So I don't know how inclined I am to move him ahead of those guys, but that's mostly just because of lingering questions about whether he can hold up as a

full-time starter for a full season, something he has never really done. In terms of production, I think Cole Reagan's is an ace. Yeah, I don't really have much skepticism. It's one bad start this season. He had that one star where he gave up seven earned runs in one and two-thirds innings. he hasn't given up more than three earned runs in any of his other starts. You know, the one that I'm going to wrestle with this week is Gosman. Do I move ahead of Gosman?

Because, you know, Gosman, he's been all right, but there are questions. Like the velocity hasn't been there for him. And obviously he had the shoulder coming into the season. So I think there are injury concerns with both of those guys. And right now, I like what I'm seeing from Cole Reagan's more than what I've seen from Kevin Gosman. So I think I will make that swap. I think I will move Reagan's ahead of Gosman later this week. Poo-phew! And let's move on to Brandon Nimmo, who went two for five with his fourth home run. He had three hard hits in this game, one of which one 10.9

exit velocity, the other? One 11.1. Cushing the ball lately is Brandon Nimmo. His last 11 games, he's betting 317 with two home runs, a 91.8 average exit velocity. And the overall numbers are still low enough, a 228 batting average, a 770 OPS, where I think you could take advantage and buy high on Brandon Nimmo. Chris, what do you think about doing that? Yeah, I mean, he's one of those guys who's just kind of consistently gotten better as his career has gone on, you know, especially when it comes to the quality of contact that he's making. Last season, he had career high hard hit rate, career high expected Wobon contact, all those things. And he's improved on those so far this season.

So on the one hand, I'm inclined to just say he's 31. We don't really need to buy into it. We know who Brandon Nemo is. On the other hand, it's possible that he's taking another step forward. I think the likelihood outcome is just he's had a good month in terms of hitting the ball hard and he'll probably regress. But he hit the ball really hard last year too. Yeah. No, it was the best quality of contact of his career.

So I think you can make the case that, like, he's outfielder 40 for me and Roto, but I look at it and like him versus Colton Couser the rest of the season. Okay, Colton Couser probably has more upside, but he's been pretty bad for a couple of weeks now. Brandon Nimmo versus Anthony Santander. Like, Santander is going to hit for better power. He's in that great lineup. So I think that. But like, so maybe I move him up to 32.

But then right ahead of that is Cody Bellinger and Nolan Jones. on the IL, and I don't know exactly how I feel about those guys. So, yeah, I think, I think Nimmo can can move up pretty, pretty quickly. The overall batting average is 228 for Nimmo. The expected batting average entering Monday was 2.92. So I think there are some better days coming for Brandon Nimmo. Obviously, just had a great game on Monday as well. So if anyone in your league is just not valuing him as like a top 40 or top 36 outfielder,

basically a third outfielder, then I would be looking to buy on Brandon Nimmo. Jack Flarrity, another one turned in his another quality start. He was at the Guardians, six innings, two runs, six strikeouts to one walk. He had 15 more swinging strikes in this one, and he threw more fastballs and changeups in this start. His fastball velocity was actually up to 94 miles per hour.

He hadn't averaged that in a season on his fastball since 2020, which obviously was a shortened season. But he's down to a 386 ERA, a 105 whip, And the reason I mentioned him here, Chris, is as recently as last week, he was still on waiver wires. I think so many people have been burned by Jack Flaherty in the past that they might not be valuing him the way that they should based on his K-to-walk ratio and his super high-swinging strike rate this year. I think he ranks top five in both K-minus walk rate and Sierra on the season. So I'm not saying he's going to keep that up, but when it's all said and done, I mean, if he continues to pitch like this, he, he might be. might be like an SP2, but by season's end.

So I'm not saying I value him like that, but I think there's still room to buy before he gets to that level. Yeah, he entered today's start number one in K-minus walk ratio for the season. Yeah, K-minus walk rate. Just ahead of Jared Jones. And I don't know. He was like one-tenth of a percentage point ahead. So it might, I don't know if he quite kept that lead.

number two to Jared Jones right now is not a bad place to be. The slider and knuckle curve have been outstanding for Jack Flaherty this season. The whiff rate on the knuckle curve, I believe coming in was like 50%. Slider was above 40% as well. And all of a sudden, his fastball looks really good. He had nine swinging strikes with the fastball on 22 swings today. That's going to put the fastball swing strike rate. right around 30%.

That's an elite mark for a four-seem fastball, the velocity. Like you mentioned, up to 94.4 miles per hour today. Not quite at the Cardinals revenge game, Mark that he was at last week, where I think he sat 95, but he hit 97.6.

This is a version of Jack Flaherty that we really haven't seen since 2021 at least and possibly 2019. His velocity's up higher than it's been since 2019. So, yeah, I was surprised to look at the rankings just now and see that Scott's actually a little bit lower than you and I on Flaherty, at least in the Roto rankings. He's got him 40. You've got him 34. I've got him 35. I think that's the right range for Flaherty. And it's mostly just, can he keep this fastball velocity up and keep being as effective with that pitch as he has been? And if he does, I could see him being a top 24 starting pitcher, yeah. Yeah. And the walks.

Can he keep the control and check? Because that has been an issue, a very big issue for Jack Flerty in years past. But when the Tigers signed him, they said that they had, they knew what they needed to do to fix him. And so far, they have completely backed that up. So, yes, if people are not buying in on Jack Flaherty, I think you should be. Let's take our final break. When we return, I've got two other names you might want to buy high on. We'll do that right after this.

Christopher Morel is in one of those zones right now. One for four with his eighth home run on Monday, three hard hits in this game all over 105 exit velocity. He has four homers in his past five games. He has five home runs in his past eight games. And as we mentioned, I believe last week, the plate discipline is much improved for Christopher Morel. He's down to a 21% strikeout rate.

Last year, that was 31%. The expected numbers all say that Christopher Morel has been unlucky so far. this is very much so like Brendan Nemo, Chris, where I do like Morel more in Roto. I like Brendan Moe more in points, but they're both going to be in that 30 to 40 outfield range and the numbers have not caught up to what the expected numbers say they should be. Yeah, I, Morrell's a player that I struggle with because I feel like I should like him more than I do. And more often than not, I think he ends up being just a collection of interesting

tools rather than a fully formed player. And he gets on these hot streaks and looks really, really good and then gets in these cold streaks and looks really, really bad. We were talking about one of those not too long ago. But yeah, he's a top 40 outfielder for me. I think he's probably a must-start player in any Roto league. I'm not quite ready to buy the improved plate discipline to say that he's a points league guy as well.

But given what, third now field eligibility, you've probably got a spot for Christopher Morel in your lineup somewhere. Yes, absolutely. Last name here is Michael Garcia, who went through a funk for quite some time, but he has bounced back nicely. He went one for two with two walks and two RBI here. And over his last 16 games, Mike Kelly Garcia is batting 323 with one homer, four steals,

91.9 average exit velocity, hitting lots of line drives. And just another one where the overall numbers just haven't caught up yet to where they should be. He's batting 236 overall, a 671 OPS. He started red hot, he got eyes cold, and now he's picking things back up. But based on how much contact he makes, how hard he hits the ball, the expected batting average is 269 for Mikel Garcia.

I don't know that he's going to be a stud or anything, Chris, but if you play in a roto league where you have a corner infield spot or just deeper lineup spots, I think he is someone that could be a fixture, and people might not value him like that yet. Yeah, I think this is another one that it's probably just for Roto leagues. I think points leagues, although the play discipline is not so bad that I can't see him being useful. But he's a better Roto League player for sure.

And right now he's on like a close to 20 homer 40 steel pace right now. Quality of contact is better than it was last season, even if I don't think it's necessarily suggest. that he's going to be a star, and he did underperform his expected stats last season in a way that, while it's not proof that he will continue to do it, it does raise the question of whether that's going to be a problem for him in some way. So, you know, we'll see. But yeah, on the whole, I think you have to be very pleased with what Mikele Garcia has done. And I think the production will be better moving forward than it has been. Let's slide over to the Waverwire pitchers from Monday's action and four names that pitched very well.

I'm not sure how much I'm buying it with any of them, but Sean Mania turned in a quality start at the Cardinals, six innings, three runs, one walk to one strikeout, just four swinging strikes, and he changed his pitch mix drastically in this start. He ditched his four-scene fastball, which he was throwing 20% of the time, and he led with his sinker,

48% usage, and that's part of the reason why he did not get many swinging strikes in this outing. Kyle Gibson was solid, six innings, three runs, two of those were earned, four strikeouts with 12 swinging strikes. He does have a swinging strike rate of at least 13% in three straight starts. That is Kyle Gibson. Simeon Woods Richardson was awesome against the Mariners, six shotout innings, one hit, one walk, eight strikeouts with 10 swinging strikes in that one.

And Andrew Heaney turned in a strong start at the Oakland A's. It was six innings, two runs. One of those was earned. Five strikeouts with 15 swinging strikes on 97 pitches. His velocity was up about a tick on all of his pitches. And obviously facing the Oakland A's helps quite a bit. But Chris, do you have any interest in Heaney, Simian Woods Richardson,

Kyle Gibson, and Sean Mania. Woods Richardson is the only one that I think I have any interest in as more than a streamer. Any of these guys can have good starts against the right matchups. And I think in all of these cases, they kind of had the right matchups.

Woods Richardson was at least a prospect of some renown. He was a top 100 guy before he got to the high minor really kind of fell apart once he got to double A and AAA and the ratios were much worse. But maybe it's a late bloomer kind of thing.

I don't really see too much in the profile to get excited about. It just kind of seems like a handful of decent pitches, but nothing that's really better than average-ish. So my expectations are not particularly high for Woodrow

But I would rather have him than any of the other guys mentioned. Yeah, I think the slider could actually be a plus pitch for Woods Richardson. But entering this start, his fastball and changeup had an expected Wobah over 460, which is just insane. So I don't know that he can survive with just having a really good slider if those other two pitches regress moving forward. But Simeon Woods Richardson is 23% rostered. The most added starting pitchers on CBS, no surprise. John Means, Christian Scott. those guys should be at the top, there's no doubt.

Then the next three on the list are Cole Irvin, Colin Ray, Andrew Heaney, likely because of two starts this week. I think if I'm just speculating, I would rather have Woods Richardson over any of those guys moving forward. Irvin. Yeah, those last three that you mentioned, yeah. But not Means and Scott, obviously. Not means of Scott, no. Those are a different class of quality.

Yep. Two names in deeper leagues. Do either of these guys matter? Alex Wood turned in a quality start against the Rangers, six shutout innings. with three strikeouts in that one. He still has a 5.30 ERA after this start. And Bryce Wilson has quietly pitched well for the Brewers. Shoutouts to you.

I know you started him in the Scott White Dynasty League. He was at the Royals, six shutout, one hit, three walks, six strikeouts with 11 swinging strikes. I mean, this is very deep league stuff. But anything to see here with Bryce Wilson and Alex Wood. I think Bryce Wilson's kind of interesting in a points league context because he is RP eligible. and he's actually making the switch from the from the bullpen to the rotation right now. He hasn't really ever succeeded as a member of the rotation

prior to his last couple of starts. And there's not a ton in his profile that suggests that he's going to be much more than even a league average pitcher. But a league average pitcher in a points league who has RP eligibility, that can be a useful player. He had two starts this week. That was why I picked him up and started him in the Dynasty League, and I'll keep him around at least until, you know,

Cody Bradford comes off the IL, and I have to make that choice. Let's slide over to the Waverwire hitters, and these are mostly deep league options. Zach Netto has been coming around recently, one for three with his third home run. And over his last 13 games, he's batting 356 with all three of his home runs, 91.2 average ex of velocity for a smaller middle infield type guy. He's packs a bit of a punch.

And he's 22% rostered. We lost Trey Turner over the weekend. You might be looking for a shortstop replacement. That could be Zach Netto. Tommy Fan went one for four with his second home run. He added two RBI. And through 10 games, he's betting 282 with the two home runs. Eight runs scored.

We mentioned Johnny DeLuca earlier. Harold Ramirez went four for four with a double three runs and his fourth stolen base of the season. He doesn't play every day. He's only started five of the past nine games for the Tampa Bay Rays. And Abraham Toro has multiple hits in five of his past six games. He went three for four with a double in this one. Again, it's mostly deep league stuff, but

do you have any confidence in any of these names? Neto, fam? We spoke about DeLuca, but also Harold Ramirez and Abraham Toro. So Toro has been decent enough for long enough this season that I do think we probably need to take him seriously.

As a 15-team corner outfielder type, like, I dropped him in an AL-only league, and I really regret that right now. I wish I still had him around. I started him in the Scott White Dynasty League. Those are my two deepest leagues. So that tells you the kind of context, but I think he's useful in deeper leagues. And then Netto, I think there's like, this may be damning with faint praise here, but like 2023 Anthony Volpe potential.

Like he could get, I think 2020 is probably close to the ceiling on both regards. Yeah. But I think he could get there. It's just bad lineup spot, bad lineup. Yeah. So neither of those things working for him. Probably not going to be a big source of batting average.

But I like him in a 15-team Roto context. Zach Nett, 70th percent, sprint speed. So yeah, 20 steals. And he's got like 10 steals in his career in like around 90 games if I'm if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah, I like what I've seen. I think it's I think Zach Netto could even be useful in a 12 team Roto League with a middle infield spot. It's just you know, we lost Tray Turner and yeah. Middle infield has been a little bit sketchy there in the back end. So yeah, I could see Zach Netto mattering. Who would you rather have in a five out of the league, Chris, Tommy Pham or Johnny DeLuca?

I think it probably would be DeLuca, but it's probably one of those. Fam has the higher floor, but I kind of want to see where DeLuca goes. Yeah, FAM's going to play. I mean, he's on a bad team. They obviously are going to play him because they don't really have many other options. And my guess is...

And he could go 2022. Yeah, there is a chance that he's probably going to get flipped some at the deadline and probably make his way into a better. lineup. So that would be good news for Tommy Fam. I agree. I think he's the higher floor option. If you need someone absolutely to play right now and plug in your lineup, I think I would go with Fam, but

DeLuca might have more upside just because he's the mystery box and we've seen Tommy Fan play for a very long time now at this point. Let's get into some of the leftovers and the pitching performances that stand out. Luis Castillo had a quality start at the twins, six and two-thirds innings, three

runs, seven strikeouts with 14 swinging strikes in that one. U. Darvish pitched well at the Cubs. It was five shutout innings, three hits, one walk, five strikeouts with 15 swinging strikes in two starts since returning from the IL. U. Darvish has emphasized his slider and has made it his most used pitch in both outings. And the fact that he had 15 swinging strikes in this start, I thought it was very encouraging because he had just a 10% swinging strike rate entering this start. Tristan McKenzie has allowed two earn runs or fewer in four straight. He was up against the Tigers.

five inings, one run, six strikeouts, only had nine swinging strikes. The problem, he's still walking so many batters. Three walks in this one, and he's had three plus walks in four of seven starts. In Tristan McKenzie's breakout 2022, he averaged 2.1 walks for nine. He's up at 5.6 right now.

So unless he gets that done, I don't get that down, I don't think he's going to matter in more than like a streamer sense. That is Tristan McKenzie. Anything else you want to add? on him, Darvish and Luis Castillo. Castillo, we're not, we're done talking about him.

He's an ace. We said that last time around. Darvish, it's weird that he didn't pitch deeper into this game. He threw, what, 83 pitches before getting pulled? Given his arsenal and his age, you would think he's a guy who doesn't need to be shielded the third time through the order and should be able to go deeper. I wrote it off after he only went. five in his last start because it was first one back from the IL,

but it's a little bit concerning that they're treating him this way. And I'd like to see him going deeper. And then I think the biggest thing for McKenzie is just he's given us reason not to drop him over the past four starts, 25 strikeouts over 21 innings, 2570 RA. He has yet to have a start this season. Let me make sure I have this stat correct. He's yet to have a start this season with more than five innings, and more than a strikeout per inning.

I think he's only gone more than five innings once. And so he's just been super inefficient. I don't really trust his arsenal. I think McKenzie's okay. There's high weekly strikeout potential with him. But he's definitely not a must start. And I'm not even sure he's a must roster player. It's interesting that you Darvish hasn't thrown more than 92 pitches

and a single start this season. Yeah. So I think in this one, maybe it's just he's still working back from the IL. His last starting at 70. All right, this one he builds up to, what, 83 pitches. So next time out, he's probably up to like 90, 95. But there is a chance that they're just kind of baby and garvish.

He dealt with something with his elbow last year, right? Yeah, I think it was bone spurs in his elbow, if I remember correctly. And he didn't get it cleaned up in the offseason here. So it might be part of the calculator. here with you. He had a stress reaction in his elbow last year that I think there was then

bone spurs as well. Some hitting leftovers. We've got three Phillies who did some interesting things here on Monday. All right. I just go ahead. The Phillies hitters are great.

The Giants handling a Mason Black today was baffling. This guy hadn't thrown more than 75 pitches. I believe in any of his minor league starts. his career high in pitches is 86 and they left him in to face the Phillies third time through the order and he threw 84 pitches.

I just, it's kind of a more extreme version of the Paul Skeen's thing where it's just like, I don't understand what this organization is doing as far as the development of this specific player. And maybe there was something in his stint in the minors that they had to limit his pitches. I don't know. but having him throw like 10 more pitches than he had thrown in any start this season again in his major league debut against a really good team that's just it was so baffling to watch as it happened I couldn't believe that they were doing it and predictably I believe it ended with or at least peaked with Bryce Harper hitting a home runoff of him in the third time he's faced him so yeah and Nick Castellanos ended his day with a double I believe it was just. it was dumb. I really hated watching that. They set this kid up to fail. And as somebody who started Tyler Black in NL Labor this week, I was watching it. And I was like, all right, four innings, one run. I'm pretty sure he's done. And boom, he comes out. And everything just spirals out of control in the fifth inning. So overall, watching him, I, I didn't think the stuff was that impression.

Yeah, I didn't, I didn't see anything to be too impressed with. It was mostly just, they didn't give him. him a chance to succeed. I really hate it. His season high in pitches was 71 before this one, by the way. Yeah. And then he goes hey, just go out and throw, you know, 85 pitches against the Phillies. Like, one of the best lineups in baseballs. Yeah, not great.

Some of those leftovers, by the way, Kyle Schwerber went two for four with his ninth home run. Bryce Harper, two for four with his eighth homer. He's now homered in back-to-back games. Nick Cassiano's two for two with a double and two walks over his last 16 games. He's betting 250 with two home runs, 13

runs and a stolen base. So slowly coming around. Jose Ramirez went one for four with his seventh home run. Is batting 2.30 early on in the season? The only things I really noticed, the quality of contact is down. The expected numbers are not buying anything from Jose Ramirez right now, but they never. He's always, he's one of the bigger overperformers over the last five years. So I, I'm not worried at all about Jose Ramirez. And a sign of, of life from Corey Seeger, who went one for four with his third home run. It was a three-run shot. He has a 229

batting average and a 614 OPS. The quality of contact is actually way down for Corey Seeger as well. The barrel rate is down. The line drives are down. Expecting numbers don't look good. I'm not going to say that I'm overly concerned, but the fact that he did have the sports hernia surgery,

it could at least explain part of why he is off to a slow start. I think it could explain why he's off to a slow star. And look, maybe he's just never right all season. But I just, Corey Seeger has a long enough track record that as long as he's healthy, I expect him to be a superstar. All right.

And let's wrap up with some bullpen updates for the Guardians. A manual class A struck out one for his 11th. He is now a save. He is now tied for the league lead. For the Royals, James MacArthur was unavailable. Chris Stratton got the ninth with a one-run lead. He walked two, but did. pick up his second save for the twins.

I hope this is not becoming a trend because Yohan Duran entered in the eighth inning with a two-run lead facing 9-1-2 in the Mariners lineup. Second in the Mariners lineup is Julio Rodriguez, so I get why they wanted him to face that part of the lineup. Duran struck out two, and then lefty Caleb Thielbar got the ninth. He struck out two for his third save. That's two games in a row now that Duran has worked the eighth inning. And that is not something that happened last year. There was no point last year where he worked the eighth inning in consecutive games.

Interesting. This is more like how he was used two years ago. Yeah. And I think on the broadcast, they said something about like Brock Stewart not being available, gives them a one fewer fireman. So they want to use Yon Duran more as a as a high leverage stopper than a traditional closer. It's not great for fantasy though. It's not great, but I think the one thing you have to keep in mind is, one, Brock Stewart presumably will be back at some point. And two, he got a save in each of his first two appearances of the season. And so while it might be the case that you can't count on Yon Duran to get 100% of the twin saves moving forward or 90% or whatever you would expect normally, I still expect the next one to be Yohan because the highest leverage situation is often the ninth.

of a three run or less game. So I do think there will be still the majority of save opportunities moving forward will be Yon-Dorans, even if it's not. Okay, maybe he doesn't have 40 save upside. I still think 25 to 30. I was going to say over under rest of season, 20 saves. Yeah, I would take the over still.

All right. For the Mets, Edwin Diaz struck out one for his fifth save for the Padres. Robert Suarez got the final five outs, three via the strikeout for his. His 11th save, he is now also tied for the league lead. I think there might be five or six different relievers that have 11 saves already,

so that'll be an interesting race by the end of the season to see who leads the league and saves. For the Texas Rangers, Kirby Yates got the ninth with a two-run lead. He walked one, but picked up his sixth save, and he is yet to allow an earned run. He has a 0.49 whip, and he has over a strikeout per inning.

Kirby Yates has been fantastic for that team. For the Dodgers, Blake Trining, got the eighth inning with a three-run lead facing two, three, and four in the Marlins lineup. He struck out one. And then it was Alex Vesia who got the ninth, two lefties two up in the ninth, and he converted the save in that one. Daniel Hudson last pitched on Friday, so I thought he would have been available. But as Scott said yesterday, Chris, it might just kind of be whoever Dave Roberts feels like

or whatever the matchups say, whoever the matchups say should be out there, you know. Yeah, I think this one specifically was a. matchups thing with two lefties coming up in the ninth inning. But yeah, that might just be the case moving forward where like Daniel Hudson is the most likely guy, but it might be a situation where he gets a plurality of the save opportunities instead of a majority. All right. Let's get into to stream or not to stream. And for Tuesday, who did we say yesterday? I think it was Jose.

Budo. You were going to call. Yeah, I'm struggling with that one. So it's one of those ones where I've read it. And then I can't get past how my brain reads it to say it the way. So I'm trying. I'm sorry. I'm going to spend the next two weeks wandering the capitals of Europe.

Just saying, Buto. Budo, Budo, Budo, Budo, Budo, rocking. All right. Budo at the Cardinals. That's what we'll go with. And then I, I think any of these three is okay. Maida at the Guardians, Logan Allen against the Tigers. and Patrick Sandoval at the Pirates.

Yeah, I could see Miles Michaelis against the Mets as well. I don't love any of those four, though. On Wednesday, you could go with Jose Soriano at the Pirates. There's Reese Olson at the Guardians. Martine Perez against that Angels lineup right now is just, there's nothing. Gavin Stone at home against the Marlins. And yeah, well, Chris Paddock against the Mariners.

So I threw five names out there, Chris. Who are your three favorites? Olson is number one for sure. And then if I'm streaming, I think it's Gavin Stone and Martin Perez. I really want to keep a close eye on Chris Paddock. The Mariners have been a pretty streamable matchup so far this season. And we talked about it yesterday, but Paddock threw his slider more than he ever had in his most recent start. And it was an effective pitch for him.

So that's an interesting aspect that I want to. keep an eye on, even if I'm not necessarily starting him outside of head-to-head points leagues where he is RP eligible. Let's wrap things up. Team name Tuesday. And this first one's from Forest. All B's Forever Young. Sure.

Yeah. From David Juan Soto shot first. Yeah. Yeah, I got that one. I do it all for the mookie. Yep. From Ryan, what's in the box? That's a good one, yeah.

Harris and the Henderson Sure Kirby your enthusiasm I like that one Harris Bueller's Day Off Sure Yolodolo or Yoladolo Yeah

It ain't over till it's over Is that Lenny Kravitz Is that what we're going with there? I'm disappointed You didn't include the one we got today Which one was that? The one you sent me Oh he said those are for your eyes only

I didn't know if there were something explicit. I couldn't read. No, I don't think it was necessarily explicit. I think he just wanted to make sure we saw it. Oh, all right. Well, I could pull them up. I got, I saw the email. We'll wrap up with that.

Let me just get through these and I'll pull up the email. From Ken, Colonel Xanders. Yeah, yeah. I like big bets and I cannot lie. Sure. For, Freddie and the bets. Yep. From Sean, Mom Spargetti.

SP Araggetti Yeah It's funny because my My points league Podcast Points League team name is Mom's Arogatee But maybe I like it

Is it better with the SP in the front? I don't know Mom's No, I think it works better without it Yep And from Tyler You're gonna pro far kid

I like that one That's a good one All right let me see I sent it to you earlier And I think there's one That you probably don't want to say All right well

If you have the email open, you could just read them then. Yeah. These are all, I think you should leave team names for Chris only from Jason. Bogart's dubbed over. Bozo dubbed over, obviously. We all know that one. The Dangerous Knights Cruise. Dane flashes.

The patterns on those shirts are crazy. Joey Bart Harley Jarvis. I actually understand. The most aggressive baby I've ever seen. I actually understand. that one. The baby of the year is one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. The Jones are their money.

The great one. And then calicocutlance.com. You got to give or else it goes dark. What a crop. There you go. And those again were from Jason. So shout out to him. We're going to wrap there for Chris. Enjoy your trip, buddy.

We'll miss you while you're gone. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning into fantasy baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a 5 star rating on Apple or Spotify. and we will be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.