Fantasy Baseball Today - Most Added/Dropped Players & Keeper League Strategy (8/9 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

Cole Irvin is on fire and Jose Suarez is pitching well (1:20). ... Rank Suarez, Jordan Lyles and Keegan Thompson (8:23). ... Josh Donaldson and Nelson Velazquez had big games Monday night (10:17). ... Who were the most added and dropped hitters from the weekend (16:35)? ... Why did we all add Yusei Kikuchi (23:00)!? ... News and notes (29:47): Julio Rodriguez still feels it in his wrist when swinging. ... What do you do when you're out of it in your league (36:50)? ... What is our keeper/dynasty trade strategy (39:50)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and LITTLE NICKY TALK (46:15)! Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question, email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Where fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. What's up and welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday. August 9th, Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White. Today on the show, we have the most added and dropped players on CBS from the weekend.

Lots of fab, lots of waiver wires running. So we will get you updated there. Got an Apple podcast question. It was supposed to be questions. One of them was about Matt Carpenter, who fractured his foot. So I guess we don't have to talk about Matt Carpenter anymore. Ever again. Nah.

It stinks too because he's having like this fairy tale season, Scott, back on track. It's been fun to watch. Yeah. It has been fun. Yeah. But the fun is over. The foot is broken. That is true.

Unfortunately. There is no more laughter. And then we have team named Tuesday, which is always a grand old time when it's just Scott and myself because it's a bunch of pop culture references that we most likely don't know. Without being said, let's jump in. Oh, my goodness gracious!

All right, Scott. There wasn't much offense here on Monday. In fact, there weren't many games in general. There was only seven games. So we both have pitchers for, oh my goodness gracious. Where would you like to start? I will start with Cole Irvin. Cole Irvin was fantastic.

Yet again, he allowed one and run in eight innings, struck out six against the Angels. It was the second straight start against the Angels. It's a very favorable matchup at this point, especially here on Monday. They had Shohei Otani out of the lineup, so even more favorable. And it was another home start for Cole Irvin. As I've pointed out before, his home numbers are especially good. It's a big park. He's a fly ball pitcher.

It helps explain why he has, at this point, a 292 ERA, a 103 whip for the year, home and away combined. But the home starts have been the especially good ones. He did allow a home run. It was only the second home run he's allowed all year at home, which underscores just how good of an environment it is for Cole Irvin. So if you picked him up, it was. was likely for the two-start week. I noticed his roster rate was up to 82%. And he was a late arrival to the two-start pitcher rankings.

I think when we did the Friday show, James Caprillian was in line for two-star for the A's, but that changed over the weekend. And I inserted Irvin to the top of the sleeper pitcher rankings on Sunday night. And yeah, I mean, he just keeps it going. I understand the skepticism. I understand why it's taken so long for him to get that roster rate over 80% in spite of the good numbers.

And I'd be careful about using him on the road. I think it would have to be a good matchup like his previous start against the Angels was on the road. And, you know, he pitched well. But I do think Cole Irvin deserves to stay rostered after this two-star week is done. And, you know, I'm not going to call a must start. but I think with the right matchups, he's well worth using. All right. Yeah, another fantastic start for Cole Irvin here on Monday. Seven straight quality starts and not a big velocity guy, obviously, Scott.

He, you know, hits his spots. He limits walks. That's kind of who Cole Irvin is, and he's helped out by pitching in Oakland, obviously. But the velocity was up in this start. So just something to pay attention to for his future starts as well. Fastball and curveball. So the home away split, since I only alluded. to them. 166 ERA at home,

458 on the road. Jeez. So, it's pretty massive. You know, there are, there are linos bad enough that you'd use him.

You'd still play Irvin when he's on the road, especially if it's like a big park, like I said, against the Angels last time. But yeah, mostly you're sticking, you're mostly leaving him

for the home starts. Yeah, for sure. Just wanted to mention again, the fastball and curbar velocity each up 1.3 miles per hour in this start for Cole Irvin and he's slated to go against the Houston Astros this weekend in Houston so that might kind of set off a light bulb of red light does that make sense?

Although I will point out that on this great run that he's been on there have been two road starts. One was the Angels in his previous start. The other was at Houston. He allowed one run run in six innings, three hits, four straight, four straight. strikeouts. It was a good start. They've all been good starts for him recently. Yeah, I'd be, you know, if it's a daily lineup league, I probably would still sit Cole Irvin, but, you know, that's part of the reason why I thought he was still plenty advisable in the two-star week is because

of how well things for him went for him at Houston last time. I'm starting him against the Houston Astros. In four starts against them this season, I don't know what it is about Cole, Cole Irvin, but they cannot figure him out. 2.19 ERA in four starts against the Houston Astros this season. I'm good with it. I think we're rolling with Cole Irvin this weekend against them.

On the other side in this start, oh my goodness gracious, for me was Jose Suarez, who makes the three scoreless starts in a row now at the Oakland A's seven shutout, two hits, two walks, eight strikeouts in this one, 13 swinging strikes on 97 pitches,

six of those on the changeup, four on the basketball three on the slider. And speaking of that slider, he has upped the usage of that pitch recently, really the past four starts, and he just started throwing that slider this season. It's not something that he used last year, and he started throwing it about mid-season,

but throwing it more now, around the same time that Reid Detmer's has started throwing his slider a lot more. So I wonder if it's just like a team philosophy thing that's going on, but obviously it's working out for Reid Detmer's, and lately it has worked out for, Jose Suarez as well. I will mention these past three starts, scoreless, again, each of them.

He's gone up against the Oakland A's twice and the Royals. So obviously great matchups there. I don't want to put too much stock into it, but he's 7% rostered. He's widely available. This is Jose Suarez. And we mentioned Scott recently, swinging strike rate's pretty good for him overall in the season, 12%. So, yeah, no, that's really good. Yeah. It's about the only thing that is good. Yeah. I like these changes recently, though. And I'm not saying, that he's a must add. Yeah, I definitely would look to add him in deeper leagues. And, you know, maybe 12-teamers just kind of watch him for now and see what happens.

But yeah, in deeper leagues, I definitely want to add him. Yeah, he deserves to be more than 7% roster. That's such a low number. I don't know, I don't know that I'd be eager to add him, you know, even in like, I don't know, some of my deeper leagues, like a 15-team Roto League. He belongs in the conversation, at least. But, yeah, all the ERA estimators are like mid-fours, including XERA, which measures primarily quality of contact.

You know, and he's putting the ball in the air a lot, and the quality of contact's not great. So, yeah, I mean, maybe this increased slider usage is something he can build off of. I will point out that his best pitch in this start was the change-up. He got six of the, six of his swinging strikes on, 23% changeups. But, you know, I need to see a lot more, you know, even in the previous two starts, which went well, it's not like he was, it's not like he was getting a lot of strikeouts.

The swinging strike totals were decent, but, you know, he wasn't even getting a strikeout per inning. This is kind of, this start is kind of an isolated incident as far as that goes for Jose Suarez. Let's compare him to a few other names here, waiver wire players, pitchers who could be available. with a quality start tease, five and two-thirds innings, two runs,

only one strikeout here against the Blue Jays. And his last eight starts now for Jordan Liles. He's got a 3.26 ERA, less than a strikeout for inning. There's not really anything that looks great for Jordan Liles during this stretch. Ground balls are down, less than a 9% swinging strike rate. But somehow he's pitching well. And then Kegan Thompson, he's been hit or miss recently,

but did turn in a quality start against the nationals. one run, three strikeouts to zero walks in this one. And his ERA is 3.36 for the season. Another one, Scott, where there's no redeeming quality. Just there's nowhere where Keegan Thompson excels really. It's, he doesn't get whiffs. He doesn't get ground balls. Control is middling.

Same thing with suppressing hard contact. So, I mean, they're pitching okay right now, both Thompson and Liles, but hard for me to get excited over either one. Yeah, long term, it's hard to believe in any of these guys. I would probably rank Keegan Thompson over Jose Suarez just because he's managed to keep it going for longer. But it's not a real endorsement for me, from me for Thompson.

It's more of like this is a guy you can stream with the right matchups because he's been going well. But I want to put a lot of trust in him or any of these three. I think I would take Jose Suarez just because I think there might be a little bit more upside there with the swinging strike rate with him but again this isn't really a list

that I'm excited about overall. Thompson I will just point out does have SPARP eligibility for those who play in points leagues. Let's just get all the waiver wire players out of the way early on in the show here Scotty. A few hitters here who had big games on Monday. Josh Donaldson finished a

well the game's still going I guess theoretically he could hit a triple to complete the cycle but I would bet against it for Josh Donaldson, but either way he did have a big game. Three hits, including a home run, and has been better over his last seven games. Really small sample size,

360 batting average, two homers during that time. But he is down to 72% rostered, rightfully so. And Ramon Arias went one for four with his 12th home run. It was a three-run shot off of our guy. You say Kikuchi, unfortunately. But Arias has slowed down recently as well. He's batting 170 over his last 50.

15 games. Is there anything to see with either of these, Scotty, Josh Donaldson, Ramona Reyes? I can't say that I'm eager to pick them up unless they just happen to meet a need of mine. Well, I did have Ramona Reyes and the 10 sleeper hitters for this week. I believe he was 10th. So, you know, that even that's not exactly a full-throated endorsement. Wasn't a great week for sleeper hitters. But, you know, I think he's triple eligible, Ramon Urius and has shown.

that he does have a little bit of power so he can be usable at times. Yes, I agree. There's definitely some pop there for him, despite playing in Camden, which is surprising. He's managed to hit more home runs this season. That is Ramona Ria's second base, third base,

shortstop eligible. Josh Donaldson, let's just watch and see where it goes. I think a lot of people have dropped him. Again, that's been warranted. He has not played well this year. He's still hitting the ball hard, but also striking out a lot more, and he's old, so, you know,

just wouldn't surprise me if he's just slowing down at this point in his career. A few names in deeper leagues. Jose Barrero, another solid game here. He went two for four with his first stolen base. Just two days after a double dong, he's 7% rostered. And Nelson Velazquez with the Cubs, he went three for four with his sixth home run. He has started four of their last five games. And I think down the stretch, the Cubs want to see what they have in Nelson Velasquez.

He's pretty young. He won, I think, AFL MVP, the Arizona Fall League, last season. So there's definitely some pop, little bit of speed, strikes out a lot. That's the biggest issue with Nelson Velasquez. Scott, what do you think about these two in deeper leagues, Barrero and Velasquez? Look, I'm going to say the same thing I said about Barrero yesterday. He was striking out 38%

of the time in the minors, hitting about 200. So it's going to take a lot for me to buy into him as somebody who can make an impact of majors, even if he does have that prospect pedigree. Yeah, Nelson Velasquez seems like he has power.

Average exit velocity around 90 miles per hour. He's striking out about 30% of the time, but you know, we've seen sluggers succeed in spite of that. Obviously, it creates certain shortcomings in batting average and whatever else.

He needs to start playing every day, I think before we can really get excited about Nelson Velasquez, but there does seem to be some ability there, and specifically in helping in the power categories. One hitter, potential waiver wire hitter, who I noticed you didn't include, maybe because you included him the last two days, and I was quick to dismiss him, is Luke Voigt, who homered again? He's 54% rostered. and I did want to point out with him. Now, Luke Voigt with another home run on Monday,

last 17 games batting 305 with five home runs. His strikeout rate during that 17 game stretches 25.7%. That's compared to 31.7% for the year. And that's been much higher than we were used to see from Luke Voight, and I think been a big reason for his struggles. Now, an approved strikeout rate over a 17 game stretch, I mean, that doesn't necessarily mean anything. But if he can sustain a strikeout rate about a quarter,

striking out about a quarter of the time rest of season, then I think Luke Void's numbers could end up being pretty good. So, yeah, I have a little more optimism for him right now than I could express the last couple days, though I wouldn't exactly say he's a high priority pickup still. Yeah, I mean, the problem is that first base is just so deep. So it's really hard to get excited about Who are you dropping for him?

Trey Mancini we're excited about Now that he's with the Astros Nate Lowe has been solid I mean this is kind of the range that I'm looking at You know Maybe Ryan Malkassel he's really slowed down Over the past month like I could see making that swap If you just want to rock up

He just homered on Monday too He did How rostered is Jared Walsh at this point Because he's been his batting averages down to 228 now That's brutal yeah I think he's last I checked around 70% rostered.

That's too much. Yes. I'd rather have Boyt than him. 74%. Yeah, I agree with that one. But yeah, you're right. It's a deep position.

You know, would I rather have Voit or Joey Votto who's looked good since the All-Star break? Probably Votto. Routy Tellez, I think, is somebody who's on the fringes there.

But he's been, you know, he tends to have these big games out of nowhere that make him, if you can, stick with him in a Roto League, that make it worthwhile. Right.

So yeah, Luke Void is kind of a, kind of part of a glob there for sure. Yeah, all right, but name to watch, playing much better. I never know,

Scott, like, if a player just keeps doing things every day, even though you dismiss them, should I just keep bringing them up? I don't know. I understand. But it is,

it is like we're at a stage of the season where, man, it just seems like every, every player you bring up, is like, oh, no, I don't want to pick them up. Yeah. I'm just not picking up many players at this point in the year.

Yeah. If you are, you're in trouble. Not really adding Jose Barrero everywhere, huh? I get it. Speaking of adding players and dropping them, let's talk about the most added and dropped from the weekend. The five most added hitters on CBS includes Jorge Mateo, Alec Thomas, Trey Mancini, Miguel Vargas, Womp, Womp, and Seth Brown,

who has been hot recently for the Oakland A's. The reason for the Womp-Womp, Miguel Vargas, was optioned back to AAA on Monday. It sounds like Justin Turner will return on Tuesday. Not really sure why the Dodgers called Miguel Vargas up in the first place, but of course I'm just a salty fantasy baseball player, so what do I know? Maybe the Dodgers have their reasons.

But anyway, I'm sure Miguel Vargas will now turn into one of the most dropped hitters as a result of being optioned back to the miners. Anyone to stand out here, Scott? I feel like Thomas was on your sleeper hitters, as was Trey Mancini. Was Mateo on that list? I know he's been really hot recently. He was.

Okay. So you write or talk and the people listen. That's good to know. It is. Yeah, I would say, I would say all of those deserve to be among the most added hitters. Jorge Mateo, I'm hopeful

I'm hopeful that he's going to be a must-start player in categories leagues, certainly roto leagues with the extra lineup spots. I'm hopeful he's going to be a must-start player for the rest of the season. Over the last, a little over a month, actually, he's been everything we hoped he could be, power speed, an OPS near 900. The batting average isn't great, but 250, 260, you'll take that from him

if he's contributing in the power and especially, and in the home run, especially the stolen base categories. And his strikeout rate is down during that stretch. I'm hoping he can continue it. I think his minor league track record suggests he can. I am, of this group, I'm the most excited about Mancini, of course,

with the move to a venue that's much more in line with his abilities, but he at this point is too rostered to pick up in most leagues, I would say. So you probably missed your chance there. And yeah, that's really disappointing news with Fargus being sent down. I mean, can't say we didn't see it coming. But I don't know why you bother to add him to the 40-man roster, the 26-man roster.

You know, why are you going to do that if you're not really going to give him a chance? And I don't know what more of a chance Justin Turner needs, you know, or even Max Muncie. I understand Max Muncie's been a little better lately, but, you know, that's a lot. not saying much. That's not saying much. A little bit better for him is like he's hit $2.50 over the last week.

Yeah. Maybe they just feel like they kind of owe it to their veterans and, you know, these guys were around for their World Series run and look, maybe going into next year Miguel Vargas has an everyday job, which... I would assume so because I think this is

Turner's last year under contract. I think he might have signed a two-year deal last year, but I could be wrong about that. So if this contract information is updated, there's a team option for next year. 16 million with a $2 million

buyout. I would think they'd buy him out if that still holds. And then Max Muncie, same thing. He's got a team option for next year. 13 million with a $1.5 million buyout. They'd probably buy him out too, but maybe not as maybe not for sure.

All right, Miguel Vargas, come on down. Let's go. 2023, let's make it happen. The most dropped hitters from the weekend. Fran Mill Reyes, I get it in a points league. He could be dropped. He just strikes out a tremendous amount, and he's been terrible this year,

to the point where he was de-fayed by the Guardians, but he was claimed off waivers by the Cubs. So, in deeper category leagues, just kind of want to see what happens with the Cubs there when it comes to Fran Moe Reyes. Other names dropped, Alex Kiroloff, Leodi Taver. Nolan Jones and Christopher Morel.

Scott, are people too quick to drop either Leodi Tavares or Christopher Marell here? Morel, by the way, had a big game on Monday night. He went two for four with his 10th homer, two run scored, two RBI. I would say no, they're not too quick. It might be a little, like if we're, if we're suggesting that dropping a player means giving up on him forever, then it might be too quick for Liottaveris, who's. out of bat 11 games. But that's not the way

Add drops work. I mean, you kind of just have to to ride the ebb and flow of player performances and, you know, go for the next guy when the last guy isn't really holding his stock. I think it's fine. He's still 54% rostered is Tavares,

which means he's rostered in the majority of leagues where stolen bases are, you know, are in high demand. So I think it's fine. Okay. In our head-to-head points listener league, I dropped Christopher Morel for Jorge Mateo, who, look, I get it.

He's not a good points league player, but I only have one hitter on my bench in that league, and I like it to be a hitter who has multiple position eligibility. So Morel had second base in outfield. Mateo has shortstop in outfield. So I wanted a player like that. And considering Mateo's hot and Morel's not, I made that swap.

Well, I mean, Morrell's not a good points league player either because the strikeout rate has ballooned much like it had much to where it about to where it was in the miners. And although, okay, I wanted to see if you picked up

third base eligibility by starting there today. He's still one game away from that is Christopher Morrell. So still just outfield and second base. All right. I mean, that would help his value if he does gain that third base.

eligibility, that is Christopher Morel. Leoti Tavares, I will mention his last 11 games. He's batting 175, zero extra base hits, zero steals with a 34% strikeout rate. So I do agree if we're just kind of riding the ebbs and flows right now, Leoti Tavaris

is pretty cold and I understand why you'd want to drop him. The most added and dropped pitchers from the weekend. We'll start with the most added. Felix Bautista up to 60% rostered. He picked up his, I want to say fourth save? Fifth save here on Monday.

He recorded the final four outs for the Orioles in that game. The other most added pitchers, Jose Cantana, 56%, which I totally understand. I just hope you didn't play him this week because he's at the Rockies. So I like adding Cantana, but leave him on your bench. Jonathan Hernandez, 35% rostered now. You say Cacucci, 54%. And Reed Detmer's up to 77%. That's good.

I mean, Detmer probably should be closer to 100%. He is a must add wherever he's available. You say Kikuchi, Scott. Fortune favors the brave. Not great at the Orioles here. I started him in one of my 15 team leagues. I was surprised to see that he was a free agent, frankly, in a league that deep.

But maybe he should have been because he goes five plus with five runs allowed, three homers allowed, in this start against the Orioles. And, man, it was not a good one. So, whatever. It's Kikuchi. Yep. you play the streaming game, sometimes you're going to get bit.

And Kukuchi is no stranger to biting the hand that feeds him. It's frustrating too because within that same game, he allowed less hard contact than his counterpart, Jordan Liles. But Kikuchi, if you've watched him, when he misses his spots, he misses bad. And opposing hitters just absolutely crush him whenever he misses those spots. So he's capable of strikeouts and whiffs. Kikuchi is. but yeah, also capable of getting rocked in any given start, as we saw on Monday.

The most dropped pitchers here. John Gray, who is probably out for the rest of the season, if not close to it, dealing with that oblique injury. Reisley Glacius, no longer a closer. He's with the Braves. Luis Severino, another one. He was transferred to the 60-day IL recently, which means he cannot return until mid-September.

Taylor Rogers, like Reisley-Glasis, probably not going to close many games. games, you know, maybe he picks up a few saves with the Brewers. And then Ian Anderson, who was demoted recently, Scott, I feel like these are all pretty self-explanatory. But does anything stand out here? John Gray, Iglesias, Severino, Taylor Rogers, Ian Anderson. Yeah, I agree. They're pretty self-explanatory.

I thought I saw an update over about Luis Robert over the weekend. Oh, you know what? He got placed on the 60-day aisle. So now the earliest he can come back is September 13th. Scotty, a few things here. You said Luis Robert. Luis Severino. And I just said that.

So just letting you know. Oh, my gosh. How dare you? I know. Terrible. Terrible listening skills. Yeah, the one I had maybe expressed a little caution on is Taylor Rogers because there was talk after the Brewers acquired.

him, said required, after the Brewers acquired him that he and Devin Williams could maybe split the closer roll, the lefty, righty there. And Devin Williams has pretty much gotten all the safe chances since then, though, you know, he's been a little shaky, actually. And I still think there's stud closer potential there. I'm still rooting for him to have the roll out right. But it it may be, there's at least a chance that Taylor Rogers is still a part-time contributor for saves with the Brewers. I think that's less the case for Reisel O'Glasius with the Braves. I believe Devin Williams has made three appearances since they traded Hater. One of them was a tie game where he gave up a walk-off homer to Brian Reynolds.

The other one, final two outs for the save, he got that done. and then he was in extra innings with the zombie runner. Apparently we're going with zombie runner. It's not ghost runner. So he allowed the zombie runner to score, I think two different runners to score, and he wound up with the loss there, but I believe they were both unearned runs.

So it's not really Devin Williams' fault, but I agree. It's just something to pay attention to with the Brewers. They are scuffling right now, and apparently the locker room is devastated that they traded Josh Hader. So it's not really going well in Milwaukee right now. Before we hit the break, you might be asking yourself,

where has Chris been recently? Well, he went to see Lady Gaga on Monday night where he heard one of his favorite songs live in concert. For those that have been around, I think it was last year? Was it last year that Chris made that song? I think that's a song from, I don't know. The movie that Lady Gaga was in with Bradley Cooper,

I don't even remember the name of it. A star is born. Yes, that one. Actually, I want to watch that movie. Have you seen it, Scott? I have. Is it good? Um, it's, yeah, I mean, it's pretty good.

I have no need to watch it again. It's not that good, but it, it wasn't bad. I want to check it out. I heard it was a solid flick. Anyway, Chris posted a video that Lady Gaga was playing that song, and he requested that I also play the song here on the podcast. So shout out to Chris. I believe he will be back tomorrow, hopefully.

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The news and notes, Julio Rodriguez's right wrist is still, quote, feeling a little bit on the vibration of when he is swinging the bat and the team isn't ruling out a return on Wednesday, but I remain skeptical. I don't think that they will rush him back until he's not really feeling,

anything and he's good to go. I know that they need him. They need to win their games, but come out. It's, this guy's really, really important to your team. I don't, I don't think you should rush him back. Jonathan India left Monday's game due to a right hamstring injury, the same hamstring he dealt with earlier in the season, but he's already said that he plans to be back on Tuesday. We'll see. With up, I already mentioned this, Miguel Vargas option back to AAA. Unfortunately, Justin Turner looks like he will be back on Tuesday. Jack Flaherty threw a bullpen session Monday and could go on a rehab assignment soon. He's 67% rostered. They've been sharing positive reports, Scott. Are you looking to stash Jack Flaherty wherever he might be available?

I mean, the issue with Jack Flaherty now is, you know, when he came back before, he was really bad. And it, you know, it's likely because he wasn't completely healthy. He went on the aisle soon afterward. But at what point are you going to be? able to trust him enough to start him is what I wonder, you know, even if he does make it back in time, how likely are you to use him? If you have an aisle spot to play with, obviously stick him there and see what happens. But I'm not optimistic. I'll be in a place where I feel comfortable starting flared, even if he does make it back. All right. As we mentioned earlier, Matt Carpenter left Monday after fouling a ball off of his foot. Turns out that he actually suffered a fracture. And thus, we lost out

on answering one of our Apple podcast review questions. Speaking of those Yankees, they are still playing here on the West Coast on a Monday night, and Aaron Judge just hit his 44th home run, a solo shot, and apparently has great numbers in Team Mobile Park, which I didn't know, but I heard it on the broadcast. Well, I was 99% sure that I read this report correct yesterday that Tyler Glassnow would not be returning this season, and then it turns out that that was a lie. When asked about a potential Glass Now return, pitching coach Kyle Snyder said, quote, the chance is not zero.

It's pretty remarkable just to see where he is. I believe he's around 30% rostered. I really doubt he can make much of an impact this year, Scott, but what do you think about class now? Yeah, I mean, kind of the same thinking with Flaherty. Like, if you have a free IEL spot, might as well use it. But I'm not confident either. Interesting that Kyle Snyder said the chance is not zero,

which I wish he had said there's a non-zero chance. Like that is the preferred phrasing, right? Sounds better to me. I think so. All right. Chris Bryant has been wearing a walking boot on his injured left foot since landing on the IL and is without a timetable for a return. I hope I'm wrong, but just the way this season has gone

and just everything we know about Chris Bryant and his history of injuries, this has a chance to be like a catastrophic contract for the Rockies over the next, I think it's six years. but it has been just a nightmare season for Chris Bryant. Anthony Rizzo has now missed four straight games due to lower back tightness, but he's apparently doing a lot better and could play on Tuesday. Jesse Winker left early with an apparent back injury. I saw he was running down some kind of ball in the outfield and kind of pulled up lame,

so he did leave early in that game. George Springer, who was on the aisle with elbow inflammation, could return when first eligible August 15th. Lance McCullors allowed five runs over five in his rehab start at AAA on Sunday. He was stretched out to 86 pitches and is tentatively lined up to pitch this weekend against the A's. And in case you're wondering, well, who's going to get the boot from the Astros rotation? It sounds like they're going to go six men. That's what I've read so far.

And yeah, I don't really like starting pitchers in their first start back, but against the A's, I might be right with it. I think I've seen that the velocity's been lagging a bit for Lance McCullors, too. Okay. So I'm not especially confident he's going to make a big impact down the stretch, but obviously there's more of a chance for him than somebody like Jack Flaherty at this point. Last but not least, Fran Mill Reyes was claimed off waivers by the Cubs on Monday, as I mentioned earlier. And if he winds up on the big league roster, he could play every day theoretically.

Although that would take playing time away from Nelson Velasquez, who we also mentioned. So, Scott, what do you think? Any interest here in Friend Mo Reyes latching on with the Cubs? Not until he starts doing something. I mean, if it's an NL only league, then sure. But it would have to be a really deep league like that. It's a really good point, though, because he is going from the AL to the NL. So we'll get added to the player pool in those formats.

And, you know, if you have any fab left after the trade deadline, you might want to speculate there on Friend Mel Reyes. Anna only. Some prospect promotions. Guardian's outfielder, George Valera, was promoted to AAA. Met's third base prospect, Brett Beatty also moved up to AAA, and then Red Sox shortstop, Marcelo Meyer, was bumped up to high A. Anything on those three, Scott? Valera, Brett Beatty, Marcelo Meyer. They're good prospects. All three were in my midseason top 30. and I think there's a chance we could see Valera or Beatty this season. I mean, the Guardians have already called up so many outfielders that I'd be a little surprised

if they called up Valera again. And in Beatty's case, there'd probably have to be an injury or two for him to get the call. But it's possible. Okay. Again there. George Valera is just a name to pay attention to with the Guardians. I've also seen some speculation about Francisco Alvarez. obviously we can't really talk about it until it happens,

but yeah, I'm sure the Mets could use another bat, especially from their catcher position. So maybe it happens, but just something to pay attention to there if Francisco Alvarez were to get the call. Not baseball related, but I didn't want to pay our respects to Olivia Newton-John, who famously played the role of Sandy in the movie Greece, who, you know, if you listen to the podcast here, I have the high-pitched Sandy going at times, Sandy.

And of course it comes from the movie Grease. So it's a little bummed out here on Monday. Rest in peace, here's a new soundbite that we will add whenever Sandy Alcantor does anything of note. There you go. All right, we do have an Apple podcast review question I wanted to answer Scott.

And we've been getting a few questions like this. Just kind of asking, you know, what to do this time of year if you play in a keeper or Dynasty League. And this one's from Ham Slides. Great name. I would love to hear about what to do when the season has gone completely wrong. For example, what's the best

best way to rebuild in a keeper league or what should your trade strategy be? I'll answer the first part of this guy and I'll let you kind of answer the keeper league dynasty aspect of this because I know you have a mindset that you like to follow kind of I guess retooling more than rebuilding but when your season goes completely wrong specifically in redraft leagues that's what I wanted to mention. I go back and look at my draft results all the time. It's I definitely would be more productive if I use my time doing other things. But when whenever I have a team that has not performed well, I look at the draft results and I just try to figure out,

like, what went wrong? What did I do wrong? Or, you know, what players did I draft and what has gone wrong with those players? And you just kind of try to refine your process. So obviously, once the season ends and all of the stats are, you know, cemented in the books in totality for the season, we'll go back and look at, you know, players who let us down and try and figure out, you know, what they did wrong and how we can improve our process. But that's something that, you know, let's just say I played in one league.

and it just went completely south, that's exactly what I would do. I would look back at the draft results and just try and figure out what I do right, what I do wrong, and maybe try and figure out which players let me down

and how can I avoid players like that moving forward? But we will talk more about that once the season ends, obviously. Well, and just to piggyback off that, if it is a redraft league and you're out of it, like I'm definitely in favor of and respect those who play out the string, you know,

spoiler. I can take solace in moral victories in fantasy. For instance, in the podcast league, the long standing 12th team points league, I'm not making the playoffs. My record is 6 and 10. But I

have, you know, had a good couple weeks in terms of scoring, and I just noticed that I think I have like the fourth most points in the league. So if it was just, if we were just scoring straight off points as opposed to win, lost record, oh, I would be. playoff position. And that

I don't know, that gives me a sense of accomplishment even though I'm not able to accomplish the main thing I set out to accomplish. And of course, the rest of the league appreciates it when you're not just a sitting duck for everyone you go up against and a free win. Obviously, I'm talking a head-to-head context, but it's important in roto too. 1,000%, Sky. And I know, look, specifically

in a roto league, if you're way down the standings this time of year, I understand the likelihood of coming back and winning is not very high. But I have had a few late season run, Scott, where, you know, I've tacked on 10, 15 points in the standings. And, you know, while I didn't end up winning the league, if, you know, you could come close like a third place finish or, you know, even if there's money on the line, right? And you want to kind of finish somewhere in the standings where you can either get your money back or something like that. It's, don't give up because, you know, Again, it looks grim in like a roto league. I get it.

But you can, specifically in those counting stack categories, you can make up ground quicker than you think. So just don't give up. And I like feeling like, oh, if I had this roster, like the ways I've improved my roster over the course of the season, like if I had this roster from the beginning, it'd be a great team. It just, you know, it just took me too long to get this roster.

Right. Now, let's talk about this from a Keeper League perspective, maybe a dynasty league aspect as well, Scott. I mean, the best ways to rebuild in this format, what should your trade strategy be? Do you have any advice for that? I mean, it's not especially complicated. I just think, you know,

obviously it's going to depend a lot on the parameters of your league, how many players can be kept, what the keeper cost is, you know, whether it's a certain amount of dollars, draft dollars that you're keeping them for, or draft picks or whatever, and just size up who you're, size up who you're not going to keep

and try trading them all for players you could. I mean, I don't know, like, that's almost, the advice is almost too simple, right? But I wouldn't, I wouldn't be bashful about it. I wouldn't be like, oh, man, are they going to get mad at me if I don't do this? Like, if the rules are not set up so that there's an incentive for you as the non-

uncontender to hold back anything, any talent for yourself to win now. For example, in the Scott White Dynasty League, there's a consolation bracket for all the non-playoff teams. And how you finish in the consolation bracket determines where you pick in the minor league draft the next year. And it's not a snaking draft. It's, you know, if you win the consolation bracket, you got the first pick in the first round, the first pick in the second round.

It's a pretty big deal. Yeah. And I think that that gives a little bit of incentive to hold back and not just dump everything you're not keeping for whatever they'll give you. But if your league's not set up that there's any kind of incentive like that, then you know, you've got to look out for Numero Uno and put yourself in the best position to win next year. As you point out, Frank, I'm generally not in favor of

full-scale rebuilds. But you have to be honest about what you already have on your team. If there's just no talent there to work with, then, you know, there does come a point where you kind of have to start over from scratch and maybe be bad for a few years and just get the best prospects you can. But like then once you get good, what I like to do is always play for next year. Even if I'm having a good year, even if I'm in contention, like what can I do to set up my roster the best for next year? If you're always in that mindset, then you pretty much always stay good because, you know, you build up enough of a backlog of talent that, you know, it's unlikely you're going to have a bad year. A lot of good points there, Scott. One that really stood out to me was being realistic with your team and your timeline, right?

So not that you want to completely tear it down, but, I mean, if you see the writing on the wall, your team is just straight up bad. trying to get as many assets for players that have some kind of value on your team. I don't think it's a bad idea. But again, it's like if your team is ready to compete the following season, then you can also take advantage of that fact. And try and buy low on middle-aged hitters or pitchers that are maybe having a down season that you could see bouncing back. Like Nick Castellanos is one that comes to mind immediately.

He's not completely old to the point where I think he's just done. I think there's probably a good chance that he could be. bounce back next year. Maybe not completely, but yeah, like someone like that or even a pitcher in that kind of mold where if you're ready to compete, try and buy low on those guys for the following season. So I do like that aspect. You really need to be honest with yourself. And I really like that the Scott White Dynasty League does have a consolation bracket

because I think it helps with not seeing too many fire sale trades at the deadline. Because for years in my home leagues, keeper leagues, we would see these. massive fire sale trade, Scott, where it's just someone gives up, let's say this season, Julio Rodriguez, is going to be a great keeper next year. The other team will give up their like five or six best players. It's this completely

lopsided trade that goes down. And then, you know, it obviously just makes that team a powerhouse for the rest of the league to try and handle in the playoffs. And, you know, I just, I don't really like that kind of happening year over year in a keeper league. So I like having a consolation bracket

where maybe people are playing full. or either first-year player draft status or even just regular draft picks for the following year. Hey, you win the consolation bracket? You have the first overall pick in the draft next year. Yeah. I like doing something like that. And I think it does help when it's not a snake draft

because it's going to hold every round that advantage that you get. But yeah, it's just a little extra leverage for the sellers because I find that in Keeper and Dynasty leagues, you know, the players who are playing for this year have all the leverage, basically, because of one of a player, if you're not going to keep them, what value is to you? What value is he to you? So you have to, as a commissioner, create a way that there is still value and holding on the players that a non-keeper, that a non-contender is not going to keep.

And, yeah, that's one. I'm not going to say there are no lopsided trades that ever happened in the Dynasty League because of it. But it is just a little bit of extra leverage for the sellers. Yeah, no, I think it's a really good point. So again, yeah, some Keeper Dynasty League strategy. If you have any other questions, feel free to email us in Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com or leave us a five-star review on Apple and drop a question in the review. Let's get into the rest of Monday night's action.

Some hitting leftovers. just want to show some appreciation to these three in particular. Starling Marte went two for four with a sock and a shoe, his 12th homer, his 14th steal. Over his last 32 games, he is batting 336 with five homers and six steals. Slow start this year, but Starling Marte has been great over the past month or so.

Matt Chapman, we talk a lot about him recently. He hit his 22nd home run here on Monday, and listening to the Blue Jays broadcast, they brought up that Matt Chapman, while compensating for some pain the past couple of years with that hip injury, he slipped into some bad habits to help manage that pain.

And the Blue Jays have him using his legs more, which really helped him tap into power in July. So it sounds like, obviously, they got into the lab here and they figured something out, and it really has helped Matt Chapman even longer than July. I mean, he's been really good since the start of June. So shout out to him.

He's been great. And Anthony Santander, Scott, who we really just don't talk about much. He went two for three, with his 20th home run. He's also batting 259. He's got 50 run scored, 60 RBI. Counting stats are there for him. He makes a lot of contact. Managed to stay healthy this year. He's been a really good player. He's the 24th outfielder in Roto, 86th overall player in that format, despite not really stealing bases. And his 2.8 fantasy points per game are better than

Randy Rosa Rana, Whitmerfield, and J.D. Martinez. So, I just wanted to show some love to Anthony Santander, Matt Chapman. and Staling Marte. Yeah, Anthony Santander's kind of snuck up on me. You say we haven't talked about him much. Remember, he was like walking completely out of character amount at the start of the year because he's always been so bad at getting on base. And he was walking a ton at the start of the year.

And then once that kind of fell off, I stopped paying attention to him. But he has stayed healthy, as you point out. He's continued to hit for power. He's had a season that kind of reminds me of like, in his prime Mike Moustakis, where, yeah, even though he doesn't strike out much, the batting average isn't great because he puts the ball in the air so much, but that's also why he hits the home runs that he does. So it just adds up to a profile that's not going to be studly,

but is certainly going to be starting caliber. And that's where Santander is right now. Okay, the rest of the hitter standouts from Monday, Mitch Hanager looks like he is healthy and good to go. having a pretty big game here. He went three for four with his fourth home run of the season. He now has a hit in each of the three games since returning to the Seattle Mariners. Ryan Malkassel went two for three with his 15th home run. That ended a 26 game home run drought for Ryan Malkassel, a 26 game stretch where he hit 170 with a 435 OPS.

Austin Hayes went two for four. I wonder if he's going to get to 20 home runs this year. I don't know, Scotty. Did someone call that? I don't know. I've got to say, like earlier in the season, Scott, it didn't look too good, but he has really slowed down. Ryan Moucassel has. Austin Hayes, another one who has slowed down.

He went two for four with his 13th home run, but he's been dealing with this oblique injury. His previous 26 games, he was batting 177 with a 499 OPS. Some pitching leftovers. Part one. Chris Bassett has now gone six plus in nine straight starts. He has gone seven plus in five of those.

And he went eight innings in this start, one unearned run, eight strikeouts to one walk. He lowers his ERA to 3.39 on the season. And then Zach Gallen shut down the pirates. He goes seven shutout with eight strikeouts, had 15 swinging strikes on 89 pitches, and really lean into his curveball in this start, Scott. 30% of the time he used that pitch.

That's just 19% for the season. but it is far and away his best pitch. 174 batting average against nearly a 30% whiff rate. I think we could see better things from Zach Gallen if he chose to throw that curve ball more moving forward. Anything you'd like to add on him and Chris Bassett. Well, Chris Bassett, it's worth reminding everybody. His ERA had climbed a 448 back on June 8th.

So now he's got it down to 339. Very good to see. He's having a good year. I don't expect it to change. You know, you say better days could be ahead for Zach Gallant. He's got a 312 ERA on the year. I understand some of the peripherals aren't great. The swinging strike rate is bad as like it was last year.

It's hard to imagine he could do much better than a 312 VRA, but maybe we could trust in the ERA a little more if he does use the curveball more and gets more swings and misses. All right. Apologies for those who might be watching or listening. Scott, you were breaking up a little bit there. I never know what these things, if it's your connection or my connection,

but I'm going to shut off the Yankee game for now, and hopefully that's not affecting any of our connection. Moving forward here, final 10 minutes or so. A couple other standouts, pitching standouts from Monday. Blake's now makes four strong starts in a row. He went five and two thirds, one run ball, eight strikeouts against the San Francisco Giants. He threw his fastball less and through more sliders and curb balls,

which is a great idea for him. If he can locate those secondary pitches, for Blake'snell. His batting average against and his whiff rate on both the slider and curb ball are ridiculous this year. So I think he could be really, really good if he could just locate those pitches. His last seven starts, he's got a 243 ERA, 57 strikeouts over 37 in the third innings pitched. That is Blake's now. Alex Wood gets back on track with a great start at the Padres, six and a third, one run, five strikeouts in this one.

His ERA still remains over four. but as we've said for most of the season the underlying numbers are much better for Alex Wood anything on those two Scott they were up against each other Snell versus Wood well I will point out that even though

his ERA is over four for the season Alex Wood in five July starts had a 165 ERA now his first start in August was pretty bad but then he bounced back with this one so you know six of the last seven starts have been good have been more in line with the with the X-FIP

that's been great all year. So I do think Alex Wood is in for a strong finish. And yeah, Blake Snell, I think the most encouraging stat of all is that combined five walks in his past four starts. It's a very good sign for him. Every time we write him off, or at least every time I write him off,

he reminds me that there's still a lot of ability there. Happened last year. Looks like it's happening again this year. What is it, Scott? The old Godfather scene. Just when I thought I was out, Blake Snell pulls me back in. Yep. Godfather 3.

Fun fact, I've never seen Godfather 3. Of course you happen. I watched the first two. Oh, you watched the first. I don't know why I stopped. I mean, I guess I just heard that Godfather 3 was so bad that I just didn't even, I didn't even give it a shot. Yeah. I watched them fairly recently, like within the past five, six years.

or so. Gosh, I'm at a point in life where six years is recent to me now. I didn't think three was so bad. I mean, it's not as good as one and two, but I think it gets a little too much flack. You're probably right. I definitely have to watch. There's no excuse for that. So, just add it to the list, I guess. Last one I wanted to mention, Logan Gilbert was hammered by the Yankees. That's now two starts in a row where he has given up 13 earned runs. both against the Yankees. His ERA jumps to 3.47, give up nine hard hit balls in this game, average eggs of velocity up over 92 miles per hour.

Might just be a matchup thing, Scott, where just can't pitch against the Yankees, struggles with them. But also at the same time, Logan Gilbert's been kind of a tough pitcher to analyze this season. What do you think? Yeah, he has been.

I mean, he has, we've seen it for a lot of pitchers. Like, we expect, the swinging strike rate to be at a certain level in order for them to have success and it's been down noticeably for a lot of pitchers

who've nonetheless performed really well. It's just, it seems like it's become a less critical part of the game than it's been in recent years. And I don't know exactly what to make of that. I don't know if that's the influence of the ball being slightly dead.

the crackdown on foreign substances creating less spin, less potential for swings and misses. But it makes it harder to analyze these guys at least until we've... At least until we land on a new... new baselines for all these numbers, new expectations. The call to the bullpen for the Orioles. Felix Bottista recorded the final four outs

for his fifth save. I mentioned earlier, one of the most... added pitchers this weekend. He's up to 60% rostered. For the Cubs, Rowan Wick gave up a hit, but struck out two for his fifth save, and he now makes it nine straight, scoreless outings.

That is Rowan Wick, he's 20% rostered. For the Angels, Ryan Tepera, who we thought would be the Angels closer, did pitch a clean ninth inning for his second save. The Angels have had three save opportunities since trading away Ryseliglasis. All three have been converted by different release, Levers.

Jose Quijada, Jimmy Hergit. That was in extra endings. Jesse Chavez actually came into the ninth inning in that game originally, but he blew it.

And then obviously Ryan Tepera here on Monday night. For the Giants, Camila Duval picked up his 15th save, and I got an update that he recorded the hardest thrown cutter

ever in Major League history, 103 miles per hour in that game, which I'm seeing now was a swinging strike against Josh Bell, I don't blame you, Josh Bell. That's pretty incredible.

103 mile per hour cutter for Camilla Duval. And then for the Diamondbacks, Ian Kennedy walked one but picked up his seventh save. He now has three saves in the month of August. They're going with a committee approach. Going to be Sama Lansing, probably a lot of Ian Kennedy moving forward. I picked up Joe Mantipline one deeper league, Scott, just hoping he lucks his way into a few saves down the stretch here. But he pitched the eighth inning of this game,

and I'm not sure how much he actually. is going to get. How would you rank these three though? Scott? Rowan Wick, Ryan to Perra, or I guess anybody in the Angels bullpen, and Ian Kennedy. I still like Kennedy a little more than Wick, but Wick has been better lately, as you point out. It's just, man, the width for the season is so high. I don't know if you got it below 1.7 with this outing, but it does concern me. So Kennedy, Wick, and then anybody, I would put Tepara first from the Angels bullpen, but he's a distant third. just because that looks like the messiest situation of the three.

All right. To stream or not to stream for Tuesday, we have Brax and Garrett at the Phillies, Marcus Stroman versus the Nationals, James Caprillion versus the Angels, and Brady Singer versus the White Sox. So I think I mentioned yesterday that I like all four of these options for Tuesday.

I would rank them Strowman first, followed by Singer, Garrett, and Caprillion. All right. On Wednesday, we do have a few options here as well. Jeffrey Springs at the Brewers, Justin Steele versus the Nationals, Jacob Junis at the Padres, Aaron Savali at the Tigers, Johnny Quato at the Royals, Chris Bubbage versus the White Sox, Mitch Keller at the Diamondbacks,

and Madison Bumgarner versus the Pirates. Chris Boobich against... No, I'm sorry. That's not who I meant to say. I meant to say his opponent, Johnny Quato at the Royals. That's the one I like here. And I'm not crazy about the others. Mitch Keller at the Diamondbacks could go okay, I guess. Jeffrey Springs at Milwaukee, maybe.

Even Justin's deal against Washington could be okay. But I definitely like Quedo the most of this group. Okay. I will just point out that Clay Holmes is pitching in the ninth inning for the Yankees. They had a 9 to 3 lead, and it's just another outing where he hasn't looked great, hit by pitch, strikeout, single, fly out. just gave up an RBI single. It doesn't matter that much,

but I think this is now three outings in a row where Clay Holmes has given up runs and I'll roll this Chapman pitch a scoreless eighth inning. So we could be moving closer to Chapman earning more save opportunities moving forward for the Yankees. But we'll see. Team name Tuesday, Scotty, let's go.

What do we got here? From Rosenberg, the Guns of Braxton. Ah, that's that that song by The Clash. Yes. The Guns of Brixton. The guns of Brickston. Yes, this was pretty good.

Here's me reading the notes that you included, Frank. Yeah, I mean, if I didn't put it there, then I wouldn't have remembered what it is either. So I'm happy you read them, but maybe you shouldn't have revealed it to everybody. This one's from Dale, Colum A Bad. Don't read the notes. Yeah, it's a good one. It's a good one. That's the R&B band, Color Me Bad.

And then... Baby got Vogelbach. Yeah. It's a good one. I think we've heard that one before, but it's good. I like it. These are from John. They are The Office themed.

Only two for you this time. I didn't remember where that was from, Scott. And I tried to Google it. I couldn't find an episode. So I apologize. Anyone who's listening? Well, and I don't know how it relates to fantasy baseball anyway.

Yeah, that's fair as well. John, email us in and let us know. What does that mean? Only two for you this. time. The next one up is Perezl Day. Okay. Yeah. It's a fine episode, Prezold Day. And then Bryson Stott Papirski Company. Why, where does the Papyrski come from? I guess it's paper company, but right, he's a catcher for the Reds. Oh, really? He hit his first career home run on Sunday. Okay. I'd never heard of

them. It's totally fine that you don't know who he is, because he's... It's always a little embarrassing. Not necessarily fantasy relevant, but... No. Yes. Bryce and Stott Papyrski Company. And just a few that I've used this season. Kirby Your Enthusiasm on a team where I had George Kirby.

I'm a fraud. I haven't watched Kirby Your Enthusiasm. Though I've heard it's good, and I would like to watch it. And the other one is Sayah Ain't So for our Weezer fans out there. Sayah Suzuki, you know, it's been an up and down season for him as well. But a few team names. there for me. All right. Scotty, let's wrap up with this because I kind of teased it on yesterday's podcast that, you know, I did have a bit of a film take, obviously a very

knowledgeable film take. You know me, big, big film critic. But as you know, I do know my Adam Sandler movies, or at least I like to think I do. And I was having a debate with some of my buddies on Saturday night about what is the funniest Adam Sandler movie? And I put out a poll and included Happy Gilmore and Billy Madison and Waterboy and Little Nicky. Okay? And I have no issue with Happy Gilmore running away with the poll.

Scott, I got crushed. I'm telling you from every different direction, every possible space on Twitter, I got crushed for including Little Nicky in this poll. And I get that that movie is not for everybody, but I also didn't realize that it was for nobody because people do not like that movie. Like, I did not know that movie was that hated.

So it's news to me. I thought it was hilarious. I thought it was hilarious. I've got to say, that movie was made apparently just for you. Yeah, I think so. I have always seen you as the Adam Sandler movie kind of sore, but now I am beginning to doubt your judgment.

Everybody knows that the best Adam Sandler movies, the four best Adam Sandler movies, all right? Like, I'm not talking, like, I'm not counting like uncut gems, you know, I'm talking like, which was a good movie. Happy Madison Productions. Sure. I don't know that they all officially are, but, you know, what people tend to think of with Adam Sandler. The four best, everybody knows, are happy Gilmore, anger management, 50 first dates, and, the wedding singer. Those are the best four.

I think that's a little spicy, Scott. I don't know. Fifty first dates and anger management. Everybody knows. Jack Nicholson, come on. I will say Big Daddy is also an amazing movie. I got to rewatch it. It's been a while. I thought Big Daddy was more wholesome than it was funny, though. You know, like, it's a great story. It tugs on the heartstrings, obviously. Yeah. I was a fraud because I hadn't seen Wedding Singer until this weekend. I did watch it.

It was very funny. But another one where I thought it was more. wholesome than it actually was funny. So I didn't include it in the poll, but whatever. Yeah. I felt how funny are any of them? Let's be honest. Oh, I mean. You know, you know, okay, so my little Mickey came out recently is pixels. I might be the only one on Earth who enjoyed the movie pixels. I haven't seen it. I love the Pac-Man seat with the mini Cooper's as the different ghosts. Like, I don't know. Maybe I just played all those like really old classic arcade games and like I played them enough that like I got the jokes associated. I don't know.

I'm not saying it was the greatest movie ever, but I don't feel like it deserved to be panned quite as hard as it did. I had a good time watching it, you know? All right. You know, I can appreciate that, Scott. Again, that's for you. Little Nicky is for me. I just felt like I needed to come on here

and defend the honor of the movie, which apparently does not have much honor. So there you go. We're going to wrap it up there. For Scott, I am Frank Nickyall for listening. and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye bye.