Fantasy Baseball Today - Ohtani Fantasy MVP!? Buy or Sell & Improving Hitters! (5/18 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 18, 2021

Is Shohei Ohtani the Fantasy MVP to this point (1:32)!? Is Adolis Garcia a top-30 outfielder? Add Willie Calhoun! ... We have news and lots of it (13:18). Mike Trout left Monday's game with a calf injury, Huascar Ynoa fractured his hand, Giancarlo Stanton was placed on the IL and a bunch of stuff happened with the Mets. ... Buy or Sell (23:55)! Tyler Naquin needs to be rostered in three-outfielder leagues. Josh Donaldson is a top-15 third baseman. Can Yermin Mercedes be dropped? ... Offense is up in May (39:35). What are hitters doing differently? ... Why are we so low on Nick Madrigal (51:20)? ... We wrap up with Monday leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (54:18)! ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. I drive. Centerfield. What is magnificent? Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality.

Now here's Frank Scott, Chris, and Adam. Fire Cell. Shohay Otani is the fantasy MVP so far this season. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today. Frank Stample joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the podcast, we have a bunch more

buy or sell items, hitters who are improving in the month of May. We'll recap all of Monday's action. We've got some team name Tuesdays. And more before we get to it, Scott, I know that you have broken your finger before because of the Braves.

Have you ever fractured your hand punching something because of them? Ah, no. Mine was a fall. It was not a punch. And that's the only fracture I have ever suffered. So I have punched inanimate objects in anger before.

but I don't think I've ever gone with enough force to break a bone in the hand. Usually you kind of slow down right before you impact it because you realize, oh, this is going to hurt, you know? At least that's my experience. Well, that wasn't Wascari Noah's experience, apparently, because he's out the next two months for he punched a bench in the dugout. So that sucks because he was pitching quite well. So hopefully you sold high while you could.

Let's talk about some of Monday standouts. Oh, my goodness gracious. Chris, why don't you get it started? Yeah, how about a game that's still in progress as we're talking, but I think it's worth talking about show Hey, Otani again. Again, one for two, two runs, three RBI, two walks, one strikeout. One of the most ridiculous home runs of the season so far. Hit a pitch that was right about eye level on the, I think it was outside, too.

But certainly on the outer half. And he pulled it like 420 feet. He's absolutely ridiculous. He's been one of the best hitters in baseball. Yeah, man, there's not a lot to say about Shohei Otani besides that he's just been absolutely incredible. We're seeing kind of the best case scenario across the board. And I guess the only question is, do you consider selling high? What do you think, Scott?

Well, I don't think so, actually. Okay. I was going to talk, if we were going to have the discussion, whether he's the fantasy MVP so far, I was going to point out that just today I was writing an article redrafting the first two rounds for the rest of 2021, so not counting any stats that have already been accumulated, but just, you know, from today forward, how would you draft the first two rounds in 2021? And I have Otani as a second round pick. and I don't think there's anybody drafted as later, later than him,

who has entered those first two rounds. You have others like J.D. Martinez who made almost as big a climb, but not as big as Otani. And I think that would probably be the argument for calling him the fantasy MVP, right? Yeah, I think that definition of value. Based on the way his last start went, I could foresee us actually wanting to use him as a pitcher from time to time too, even though we haven't been motivated to yet because, like,

he leaves the majors and home runs. And, oh, by the way, is on about a 20 steel pace too. Or more than that, 25 steel pace. Yeah, the batting average is not where we want it, I guess, 265. But, I mean, the batted ball data still says that he's been unlucky based on how hard he is impacting the ball. He's got a 931 OPS, leads the majors in home runs, 13, with six deals, 30 runs scored 32 RBI. So contributing across the board, the preseason ADP was 157.6. The other names that I had listed here as potential fantasy MVP to this point, John Means, Kevin Gosman, Mitch Haniguer, J.D. Martinez, just based on value where you got them before the season.

But Otani. Chris Brian, I think, is in that discussion as well with J.D. Martinez. Byron Buxton would have been before the injury, Jared Walsh. Ryan McMahon, I think. There's a handful of other hitters, but yeah, I think Otani and Martinez probably stand out above the crowd. Is he the fantasy MVP at this point? Yeah, I mean, John Means was being drafted outside the top 200 on average,

and he's a top five starting pitcher. So I think you can make a case for him as well, and he's really the only other one. I think you could make a case for. So I think it's probably Otani, yeah. Yeah. In the context of like, is he the real MVP? Is he the major league MVP?

How would you calculate his war? Because it's two separate wars, right? It's a hitting, it's, you get one war for hitters and one war for pitchers. And that wouldn't, that wouldn't even. It wouldn't even be a thing, right? Well, it wouldn't even, you could add them together, sure. But that wouldn't actually accurately capture. the value because you're getting

you know elite hitting production and elite pitching production from one roster spot not just from one player. Sure. But like I think there it's even more valuable than like according to Fangraps he's been worth 1.7 war so far which I don't think would be the highest. They're just giving them a single number

because baseball reference. No it's yeah it's adding hitting and pitching. Baseball reference gives them 1.2 for hitting in 1.1 for pitching. Yeah. So. Which wouldn't be the single most valuable player in baseball, according to those?

Just adding them up. Yeah, like Trouts at 2.4. I'm sure there's a pitcher who's, yeah, DeGarricole was at 2.7 before today. So I think you could probably, but again, that's not accounting for the fact that his team essentially has 27 players with 26 roster spots in a way that

no other team like can match at all. Scott, you were, oh my goodness gracious player from Monday. So there was a certain pitcher who entered Monday having, it should just three walks through eight starts. He had an ERA below one, I'm sorry, an ERA below two, an X fit below two, a fit below two, a Sierra below two, a Sierra below two. It was by far the best pitcher in baseball so far. And that pitcher was Eric Cole.

Now, Garrett Cole no longer has an ERA below two. He just had his worst start of the season against the Rangers of all teams. And a big reason for that was Willie Calhoun. Willie Calhoun homered off Garrett Cole. Willie Calhoun hit a double off Garrett Cole. Willie Calhoun is batting 287 now. He has an OPS around like 930. His strikeout rate is 90, 97.

second presentile strikeout rate below 15%. He's playing against lefties and righties. Willie Calhoun is getting it done. And he's available in nearly half of CBS Sports League still. It's a little ridiculous. Nobody wants Willie Calhoun. He's outfield eligible too.

So you can't even say, oh, I can't fit him in my DH spot. It's not an issue anymore. He's outfield eligible. So enough with this Willie Calhoun hate. Get him on your roster. He's good. I was so confused, Scott. When I saw his roster rate on CBS was only 55%.

I feel like we've been talking about Gary Cole, Gary Cole, Willie Calhoun. We should talk about Garrett Cole too. Add Gary Cole, guys. Yeah, if you can. But Willie Calhoun, man, we've been talking about him forever.

He's been awesome. So yeah, that number I think should be higher than 55% and get him on your team. He now played his 10th game in the outfield. So even if your league requires 10 games to have eligibility, Willie Calhoun should have that starting Tuesday and beyond.

By the way, Joe Hottani plus 400 at William Hill in their latest odds. But he was plus 6,000 preseason. Is he the, is he? Where does he bank? Second behind Mike Trout. Trout Otani, Vlad, Buxton, J.D. Martinez. And now Mike Trout is. So Trout Oton, Vlad, Buxton, Jani, Martinez, Jarn Carlos Stanton.

Three of the top six are on the aisle. 2021 MLB, folks. Let's go. Were you counting Trout? I mean, yeah, assuming he's... Okay. Yeah, we don't know yet. We'll talk about it in a bit, but Mike Trout left with a...

He is currently injured. Yeah. I want to talk about Adoli-S-Garcia in that same exact game. He went two-for-four with his 11th home run and his fourth stolen base of the season. So getting it done across the board as well. He's betting $2.96. He's got a 933 OPS. He was the 16th best outfielder in fantasy points per game entering Monday night.

He was the ninth best outfielder. outfielder in Roto. We have him much lower than that in our rankings. So that's got to change. Buy or sell Adoles Garcia, top 30 outfielder, rest of season. Scott doesn't like that. No, I don't really.

I think the plate discipline is so bad that the odds are against it. I mean, there's a reason he was stuck in the minors more or less until age 28. I think he's going to hit a good number of home runs. Like, he already has. I think that's part of his skill set,

and I think he'll pitch in enough steals that, in a categories league, it's going to be hard to take him out of your lineup. But I think top 30 is too high. I think more like, I don't know, I'd hesitate to have him in my top 40 even. I just figured because the position is so bad, you know, that it wouldn't really be hard to get them in there.

It has been so bad. Right? Fair. Yeah, but it's real hard for me to find reasons to be enthusiastic right now. I don't know. There was a quote last week, too, that really stood out to me regarding Adolias Garcia. And this was an update from CBS.

Garcia and the Rangers are preparing for opposing pitchers to alter how they pitch to him. And basically, they're acknowledging it, and he's working on his mechanics to adjust to off-speed pitches. So I like reading stuff like that. You know, the fact that he's struggled with swing and miss in the past, and he knows what's coming, and he's kind of prepping himself for it. You know, it sounds like he's a major league ball player,

and he's absolutely crushing it right now. So, yeah, top 30 is too high. I'm going to sell that, but I'm going to get him inside my top 40. To be fair, since I was docking him for his age. I mean, I do think, I do think that's still fair to do, but he didn't start his minor league career until age 24, because he was, he came over, he came over from, Cuba. But still, I mean, usually when you start your minor league career at age 24, the thinking

is you're going to have a short minor league career. Yeah. All right. Um, well, I actually had to buy herself for Willie Calhoun. I'd rather have Calhoun than Garcia rest of season. Buy herself that. Willie Calhoun instead of Adolice Garcia? Yeah, I'd rather have Calhoun. Yeah, I think that makes sense. Is it, is it a bad look if I go Adolice Garcia in, in Rodo and Willie Calhoun in points? I feel like that's the way to go here. No, we call that a heath. No, I mean, I think, I think Roto is Garcia's better format.

I think points to Calhoun's better format, but I would still take Calhoun in both because I expect Calhoun will be, I mean, the way this year's going, an asset and batting average, I think it's pretty safe to say he will be. Yeah, and it was just all that more impressive doing it off of Garrick Cole.

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but Mike Trout left Monday night's game with a right calf strain. He's no stranger to injury. not that this is related to anything else he's ever had, but he averaged 33 games missed per season from 2017 to 2019. And pure speculation, but my guess is this will require an IL stint. He was visibly upset when it happened. And I'm sure the next question everyone's going to have is, will we see Joe Adele or Brandon Marsh anytime soon if Mike Trout lands on the IL? And my answer is, no, I don't think they're ready.

What do you guys think? I mean, they're both striking out a ton early on. Joe Adele is at 42% through 10 games, 11 games now. It's bad. Marsh is at 35% through seven games. So there has been some chatter that the angels kind of maybe view Marsh as a better prospect now than Adele. But I don't really see it in their minor league track record. I think a lot of it comes from there was talk that Marsh had reworked his swing to unlock more power last year, but we never really got to see it.

so it could have been there in the alternate site. But my guess is Adela is still ahead of him, assuming that he can kind of pull out of this strikeout issue that he's currently dealing with because he is hitting the ball well. And I think he is super talented. And, you know, he was awful last season. But I think it's worth remembering that Adele is the top prospect since 2018. He's still only 22 years old.

He just turned 22 at the beginning of April. he's only played 234 games in the minors. There have been some injuries. Obviously, he lost last season. So, you know, he is still potentially more raw than his prospect pedigree may make you think. Yeah, I do wonder if, because they're already down to Taylor Ward filling an outfield spot. I do wonder if just by necessity, they'll have to, they'll have to call Adele up like they did last year. I mean, it should have been pretty clear he wasn't ready last year as bad as it was.

And yet they called him up anyway. So, you know, I look at those numbers and I agree, Frank. I wouldn't want to call them up if I were them, but I wonder how much choice they have. Adele is 40% rostered in CBS. And I just think it would be really bad for his development. He just, he needs more time. He's striking out so much. A lot of it, from what I'd read has been on off speed and breaking pitches.

And he's just going to get crushed by those in the major leagues. So long term, I just, I think it would be really bad for his development if they did that. But maybe out of necessity, I just, I would rather than wait back there on Adele if something were to happen here with Mike Trout. Wascar, you know it, we already mentioned it. Fractured his right hand punching a dugout bench. He will miss the next two months. Tucker Davidson, a top 10 prospect in the Braves organization, was recalled and we'll get the start on Tuesday against the Mets. he has a 2.78 ERA with a 1.30 whip in 395 in a third minor league. Ennings, Scott, scouting report on Tucker Davidson.

Does he need to be rostered anywhere? I don't think so. I don't think this is the prospect you pick up in roster ahead of time. Certainly if he performs well, then anytime somebody performs well on waivers, you think about picking him up. But, you know, he got a taste last year. It's pretty, went pretty bad. That was after, I think he was a standout in spring training too,

so he started to get a little bit of hype, but just one and two-thirds innings gave up seven runs, two earned. He has had back-to-back good starts of AAA this year. No one-earn run between them, both seven innings, 14 strikeouts and 14 innings. I assume that's why he's getting the call over somebody like Kyle Wright. But, yeah, I want to wait and see what he does before I make a move for him. Agreed. enough. Does today end in a why? Then that means John Carlos Stanton was placed on the IL with a left quad-strain retroactive to May 14th. Chris, do you have Bucson? I just like, I just want like,

what? Everyone is injured right now. I didn't even say anything yet. And we're going to talk John Carlos Stanton because he got hurt. Like, every single Major League Baseball player is currently injured and on the IL. And we're like, oh, John Carlson got hurt again. Are you kidding me? It's like, everyone's hurt. That doesn't make it all right though, Chris. I mean, he gets hurt every year. Okay. I was going to ask, do you have him and Buxden?

Do you have him and Buckson on any teams together? Yeah, of course I do. Do you regret it? I've also got Cite. I've got Corey Seeger. No, I don't regret it because those guys were awesome, and the guys I would have drafted instead probably would have been bad,

given the way hitters worked out this season. I don't know, I've got Corey Seeger, Katel Marte, I've got a ton of guys on the IL. It sucks that Byron Buxton, John Carlos Dan are also on the IL, but I don't know. If my season goes south, I'm not going to blame like the 120th pick that I spent on Byron Buxton or the 90th pick I spent on John Carlos Stanton, you know? More frustrated to me than the number of players getting hurt is that they're staying

hurt forever. I don't remember a time when every player pushed to the maximum extent of his timetable and beyond. It seems to be happening with everyone. Yeah. I could tell Marte's fine. finally gearing up for a rehab assignment, right? Seriously.

Cody Ballinger. Yeah, like Bellinger, we've had nothing on. He posted an Instagram video running sprints last week, and then the Dodgers came out the next day, and they're like, we still don't have a timetable, though. We don't know what's going on. Adelberto Mondesie, okay, it was like the day before the season. Oh, you know, this guy's going on the I.O.

We had absolutely nothing until just this week. He's getting ready to go on a rehab assignment. But gosh, it's been incredibly frustrating. Yeah, and I wasn't, you know, I'm not just saying it's just I just have to get ahead of it because everyone's like oh drink cruel thing go hurt again it's like it to me it's just more frustrating because it literally happens every single year with staying and the fact that this is a quad strain and it's seemingly always something like muscle related with him or whatever soft tissue but I don't know it's uh

it's frustrating Danny Duffy was another one placed on the aisle not that he's always hurt it's just another person hurt in general was placed on the aisle with a left forearm flexor strain. This one came out of nowhere. Chris Bubich will replace Duffy in the rotation. Bubich had some flashes last year. I think you should watch him in deeper leagues. You don't need to go at him, but he's the name to watch. Stephen Strasbourg will throw a 55 pitch extended bullpen on Tuesday, and if he responds well, he could start on Friday against the Baltimore Orioles. Alex Kirloff had hit off a pitching machine on Monday as he recovers from a wrist sprain, so hopefully he recovers well from that as well. We're supposed to learn like this week whether he's

going to have surgery, right? That was basically the thing with him was he's going to try to not have surgery and see how it feels for a couple of weeks. Yeah. So I think what I read is that like hopefully by Friday they'll make a decision on that. So we'll see. It was, it was basically two like very far paths apart. It was yeah, either he's going to be fine and he's going to play the rest of the season or he's going to have surgery. He's going to miss and he's out for the rest of the season. Some more injuries. Michael Conforto and Jeff McNeil were both placed on the aisle with hamstring trains, outfield prospects, Khalil Lee, and take it away, Chris.

How do you say this gentleman's name? I believe it's Joneshwy Fargus. Joneshwesh. Yeah. Tongue Swester there. We're both recalled. Kalil Lee is a former third round pick. He hit 264 with eight home runs and 53 steals in the minors back in 2019. And Fargus, he has some speed as well, lower batting average.

Any interest in either of these gentlemen? Only in deeper category-based leagues. I mean, if these moves had happened on Sunday afternoon, I probably would have put it in a bid in my 15 team, TGFBI leagues on Kalee. Just to see, he's one of those guys who, I mean, obviously has tools. It's just been a question of putting them together.

Yep. And another spot opened up in their outfield on Monday because Kevin Pilar got hit in the face with a pitch. So I hope everything is all right there with him. but, you know, could potentially miss some time there, and rightfully so. So some openings there for the Mets. More Mets news.

Noah Cindergarde. This is a little bit more positive. Not a little bit, a lot of it. We'll make his first rehab appearance with low A. St. Lucy on Wednesday as he recovers from last year's Tommy John surgery. Early to mid-June remains a realistic timetable for Cinderguard. Even more Mets news. Taiwan Walker was removed Monday with, after three scoreless endings,

due to left-side tightness. for Amber Valdez allowed five runs only one of those were earned over three in his first rehab start with AAA Sugar Land that sounds fun he finished with 47 pitches Raphael Dolis is expected to return

on Tuesday for the Blue Jays who gets their next save Scott Dolis Dolis over Jordan Romano yeah I mean Jordan Romano hasn't even gotten their most recent save has he I think he did

can't remember what something happened where like the next day they used him in a non-closer situation or something. Hang on, let me see if I can find it. Oh yeah, you're right. AJ Cole has the... AJ Cole.

They're most recent safe. Oh, gosh, what a mess. Jose Ibrayu will miss the series against the twins with left ankle inflammation but is expected to return on Friday. CJ Crone will be activated off the aisle on Tuesday. Eric Hosmer is expected back on Wednesday. Kent and Maeda dealing with a groin train

will throw on Tuesday as the twins try to determine if he'll be able to make his next scheduled start against Cleveland on Friday. David Price was activated for the Dodgers. Albert Pujols was batting cleanup and started at first base in his first game with the Dodgers. Charlie Blackman sat for the third straight game on Monday with a sore groin, though he was close to starting apparently. Willie Calhoun played his 10th game in the outfield. Nick Senzel played his third game at third base on Monday,

so getting closer to five games at third for Senzel. Mike Soroka's Achilles procedure apparently went well, but Bryant-Snitker hinted at Soroka not being back at all of this season, which we kind of speculated last week. Joey Gallo is a trade target for teams looking for an outfielder, and I don't know why. I just kind of feel like the Yankees are going to be in on him because that's the kind of player that they love.

Some buyer sell. We already talked about Otani and the Rangers outfielders. Let's talk about Tyler Naquin. Scott, your boy, Tyler Naquin, two more hits, including his ninth home run of the season. he is batting 265 with an 884 OPS. He is 66% rostered. Byer cell,

Naquin needs to be rostered in all three outfield formats. No, he doesn't need to be rostered in three outfield formats, no. No, but he's not going away that quickly. He keeps playing. His expected stats are still right in line with his actual stats.

And, you know, for as bad as I felt, dropping what like $150 fab dollars on him in a couple of 15 team leagues like no other hitter has emerged in leagues that deep that would be worth anywhere close to that kind of investment so I guess Horner came has come since then but he didn't require that much of an investment

because he hadn't really started hitting yet so yeah I mean hitters right yeah just talking hitters yeah I guess Adolice Garcia would have yeah I don't remember Garcia went for a good amount. His his fab was kind of like a slow burn. I feel like it was over a couple of weeks. He built really slowly.

Yeah. That was a carbon burns is longstanding five-day long record. 58 strikeouts between walks. So in my 15 team NFBC main event league, Adoles Garcia on April 25th, went for $225 at a thousand dollar budget. And he's been working. every penny so far. Next, buy or sell, Josh Jonathan, he went one for three with his fifth home run of the season on Monday. He is batting 274, but doing so with a 313

expected batting average and a 599 expected slug. Chris, buy or sell, Josh Johnleton is a top 15 third baseman? I think I would sell that, but why you think he's gonna get injured? I think that's the concern for sure, just that he won't play. Chris, don't, no, you can't do it. regularly. You can't do this. That's so against your brand there.

Yeah, that's your guy. I mean, I mean, he's already been hurt this season, and we're not talking about a 28-year-old Byron Buxton. We're talking about like a 34-year-old Josh Donaldson. I think there's, so it's an ageism thing.

I see. It's a little bit of both. You know, I think you can, I think you can be biased against players for all kinds of reasons. To be fair, Donaldson over the past two weeks or so has played every game.

Yeah, I mean, that would be my concern, would just be that he's not, even if he does stay healthy, he's not going to play every game, but if he does, I think he's going to be top 15 on a per game basis. He had right around an

850 OPS last season. It was 900 the year before. There have been signs of decline in his game, but he's aging really well when he's on the field. Chris, you actually have him ranked 15th. I just moved him up. Yeah. I just did. Yeah.

Okay. So you're buying it then. Yeah, push. Chris does that a lot. Like, while we're talking, I'm looking at his rankings. So I look at the rankings before and I make the rundown and I'm like, all right,

well, Chris has him 19th or 20th or whatever and then he moves them right up to 15 to sneakily. Yeah, yeah, I had him 15 the whole time. It's a, I never say I had them the whole time. It's just, you know,

it's a living, breathing document. And, you know, I reserve the right to change my opinion when presented with new information. Scott, what do you think? Because based on these underlying numbers for Donaldson and the fact that, you know, the weather's starting to heat up and in the north where he plays in Minnesota and stuff. I can, I can see moving him inside the top 15. You know, guys like Mustakis haven't been great. Swares is coming around a little bit, but Matt Chapman hasn't really done much. I could see Donaldson getting in the top 15 there. So what do you think? By herself. Yeah, I'm looking at him. I have him 19th right now, but I'm, I'm kind of with you. It's, it's got these, you got these hanger ons. Hangers on. You got these hangers on like, uh, Kevin Bigio.

It's like, do I really, do I really want Bizio more than Donaldson still? I know if I was setting my lineup right now and choosing between them, I know which one I'd start. That's Donaldson. But, yeah, that's tough. I think I would leave Donaldson

just outside my top 15, though. It's really just a matter of how much he's going to play, not really about the performance, like Chris was saying. Yeah, I'm going to buy it. I'm going to move him inside my top 15. I like what I'm seeing

the underlying numbers there from Donaldson. The caveat with, I guess, every player in baseball nowadays is that he has to stay healthy, but the past couple of weeks or so, he's looked good there. Would you guys, I don't know if there's a realistic trade, you guys let me know. Can you sell high on someone like Kyle Gibson

or Alex Wood for Josh Donaldson? And would you do that? I would definitely do that. Is it realistic? To me, it's, yeah, I think it's realistic. Like, it seems like a total needs-based trade to me. The guy you're trading with doesn't need Donaldson but needs a pitcher. And if you need Donaldson and don't need a pitcher, then I think those terms line up pretty well.

I'd be more likely to trade Gibson than would if I was making the choice. I think you'd probably be, I think that deal would be more likely to happen too for what it's worth. Yeah, may you happen. If you have a glut of pitchers and you're looking for a hitter, Josh Donaldson, someone you should be targeting. Sunny Gray has completed six endings just once in six tries the ERA up to 3.86 The whip is 1.45

Chris last week on one of our podcasts we talked about how he was moving up the rankings I think he had an awesome 11 strikeout game against the Dodgers and he had the one six inning game yeah and he's been just kind of mess since then so by yourself Sunny Gray is overrated

I never know what to do with over or underrated you know like people will say like, oh, the Beatles are the most overrated band, but like, we do have some Beatles team Tuesdays later on. They got like five like classic albums. How are you going to say they're overrated? You know, I think, I think Sunny Gray, like nobody's excited about Sunny Gray anymore, right? Nobody's like beating down the door to, to make an argument that Sunny Gray is some elite pitcher.

I think he's in that blob. I'm just going to refer to it as the Bloss. Blab, starting pitchers ranked, gosh, 17 through, let's call it 43. The blob at the starting pitcher. He's in there. Somewhere towards the middle.

That is a fact. I'll say he's overrated. Overrated. You're buying it. Yeah, I'm buying it. Overrated. Because Chris just rated him for us, and I think that's too high. You don't think he's a top 43 starting pitcher? No. Ooh.

All right. No, I don't. Like, he's not, obviously not getting the innings. His ground ball rate, which was the one consistency for him, it's down quite a bit this year. And like, I mean, it's six starts. Yeah, sure. But I would have said he was overrated coming into the season, too. So it's kind of can, I've got the confirmation bias going on here.

Let's move on to another hitter, the Yerminator. Haven't talked about him in a while. Your mean Mercedes, he went three for six with his sixth home run of the season. By the way, his sixth home run that he hit, it was on a 3048 mile per hour, Ephes pitch from Williams Asudio, who was pitching because the score was 15 to 4 at the time. So we'll see.

I think that was a misclassification. I think it was just a fastball. Yeah, I don't know if that's if he was intentionally throwing an Ephis. Yeah. I'm not exactly sure. You know, a lot of times when you got a new pitcher, it takes them a little while to, you know, get the spin rate classifications right.

So, you know. Apparently he threw, one pitch that was 75 miles per hour that was classified as this fastball I guess that was his change up yeah I think they were both fastballs it's just not a lot of consistency one's a two seamer one's a four seamer

you know I I do wonder if anyone's gonna get up in arms because your me Mercedes was swinging 3-0 when they're up 15 to 4 and last year when Fernando Tatee did it was like this big oh my god poor sportsmanship kind of thing that's stupid yeah yeah no I think it's fine I usually get both sides when there's those poor sportsmanship arguments.

Like, I'll, I'm generally against the bad form argument. I'm on the side of it's all fine. But I at least get where they're coming from. That Tatis thing made no sense. I mean, the thing, like, if you put a position player on the mound, you're giving up on the game and you have no right to gripe about anything, unless you are concerned about getting home earlier. That is the only reason you can complain.

and you know that's probably why a lot of baseball writers complain about it i've actually wondered that that's a hundred percent the reason they hate extra innings so much is because they're at the ballpark till four in the morning so that that's why they hate it but those of us are just i mean like a good baseball game for me it's like it used to be like a bit of a novelty like oh we're in the 15th inning and a position player has to pitch or like oh each ero has been like pushing his manager for like 15 years to let him pitch and he finally got to do it. And now it's like three times a week. We have to watch it.

And it's like, yeah, can we just make it so that a team can forfeit the rest of the game if we're going to do this? Like if a doubleheader can only be seven innings, let Tony Larissa forfeit. Tony Larissa would never forfeit a game, by the way. I don't,

there's no question he would ever do that. But maybe another manager who is more reason. reasonable, would rather do that than have their batters, their hitters throwing. I don't think Tony Laruso would have forfeited because they were winning 16 to 4, Chris. Right, you know what I mean. I know what you mean. Anyway, look, if you're up 10 runs after the seventh inning, mercy rule, whatever. Anyway, for your mean Mercedes, he was only batting 244 in May, thanks to an increase in

strikeouts and a 15% infield fly ball rate, pop-up rate, whatever you want to call it, in the month of May. So buy or sell, you can drop your mean Mercedes, even though he just had a great game in shallower leagues. No, come on. You can't drop them. Look at what his season long numbers look like still. Isn't he leading the majors and batting average? Yeah, I mean, a lot of that is just front-loaded from April, though.

This was his first home run of May. He was betting 244, so he was slowing down. No, I get that. And that batting average will probably continue to come down. But, like, still the full season stats count for more than just the last two. weeks. I mean, that's... The only thing I will say is like, I could see there being a situation where you drafted Fran Mill Reyes in a 12 team points league.

And I've seen Fran Mill Reyes on the wire in a bunch of my 12 team points leagues lately. I could see a situation where you have him and you've got to make a roster move. You've got both Mercedes and Fran Mill. And, you know, maybe you make that move. I could see that. I would rather have Fran Mill than Mercedes. How about this? Your mean Mercedes is available in my home league. It's a 12-team points league.

I also have Nelson Cruz. My outfit is bad. My outfit is bad. I'm thinking about trading away Nelson-Crues shopping him for an outfielder that can help my team and adding your mean Mercedes. I mean, if you get an outfielder that's legitimately as good as Cruz,

then I think that makes sense. But obviously, yeah, I mean, if you're just talking about, I want Cruz. in my utility spot and Mercedes is out there. I mean, it's kind of a silly hypothetical because what's Mercedes roster ship right now? It's got to be...

It's 81%. So it's not real. It's slower than I thought. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I did face that situation in a shallow points league like that. I already had Cruz and Mercedes was out there early in the season. And I just,

I was putting bids in for him in all my other leagues. And I just couldn't justify it in that league because bench spot did not allow me to carry a second utility, a second DH only guy, you know, benched based and allow for that. So I guess that's still in play, but it would be, it would be a situation where as soon as you dropped them, somebody else should

swoop in and pick them up. Yeah, because there are still, what, five highly relevant utility or DH-only players right now? I mean, Stanton's on IL, obviously, but, well, Martinez is outfield eligible now, right?

Martinez is outfield, Calhoun's outfield. So, Lair is outfield. Okay. Okay. So it's really, it's just Cruz. It's Yorda Alvarez. Stanton. Stanton. Stanton. Frandt. Fran Mill and your mean Mercedes. Yeah, those are basically the five. Last buyer sell. Logan Webb was at the Reds on Monday. Six shutout with four strikeouts. He has now delivered quality starts in four of his last five. He is 31% rostered by herself. Logan Webb needs to be added in 12 team leagues. So,

so he had 10 strikeouts last. time and that was really the first start where we saw the changeup come on the way they talked it up this spring and this start even though you know six shutout innings he only threw 13 changeups they were good for two of his nine whiffs and really it's just that one 10 strikeout start from webb that at all made me think he's going to be anything worthwhile this year all right so don't rush out there to get logan webb on your fantasy teams we are going to take a quick break. But first, just want to remind everyone, if you are watching us on YouTube, thank you for staying up late and hanging out with us. But you should subscribe if you are watching to our YouTube channel. Or if you haven't watched yet, just come watch and subscribe. Anyway, YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. Hit that little subscribe button and then tap the little bell. So you will get a notification every time we go live, which is usually right around midnight, eastern time each night. And you will also get a notification every time we drop a new

video. So Fantasy Baseball Today and Five, you will get those updates. So make sure to subscribe. We will take a quick break, but when we return, we have some hitters who have made some changes in May, players who are improving. Talk about them next, Fantasy Baseball Today. So let's jump into some of this action that is happening in May. I saw a tweet from you over the weekend, Scott, which kind of spurned this idea on me. And then Chris went out and wrote a great article, which you can find on the site right now, CBSports.com slash fantasy slash baseball. And offense is up in the month. of May. So if you compare it to April, 243 batting average in May, 232 in April, 320 OBP versus

309, 398 slug versus 389, strikeout rate has gotten a little bit better, 23% in May versus 24% in April. BABIP is up about 12 percentage points as well, which means the offense in May is very close to what it was overall last season. So we're getting closer, and I think that's a sign of the weather heating up and I think just overall hitters making adjustments to pitchers and they probably just got off to slow starts. So it's good to see. Sorry. No, go ahead. I think it is worth, you know, making the comparison. You know, I think you can compare it to 2020, but obviously you're dealing with July, August, September, comparing it to May and April. So, you know, I think it's worth comparing to May of 2019. And when you do that, batting average is still

down 11 points compared to May of 2019. strikeout rate is still up 0.7% among non-pitchers. 2019 was a historic year for offense. So I don't know that that's a fair comparison either. And I kind of, the tweet Frank's referring to, I was basically comparing April 2021 to May 2021 to all of 2020, those two plus months. And basically May, specifically for BABIP and strikeout rate,

that's where things went most. crazy in April of this year, Babbitt being way down, when that's very consistent from year to year, and K rate was way up. And now it's virtually identical. In May, it's virtually identical, both of those numbers to what it was in 2020.

So, you know, I was just kind of thinking from the standpoint of, okay, we're usually calibrating our expectations for league-wide trends based on the previous year. Yeah. And so, you know, May pretty much looks like the previous year.

Now, I really don't know, like, I'm not ready to draw conclusions based on that. It just has me second-guessing some of these conclusions I was coming to just a week ago when we were mostly looking at those April numbers. I think my conclusion at this point would be, it's not going to be 2019, obviously. I think it's more, in terms of batted balls, it's probably more like 2018, which was May you had a 297 Babbup you had a 13% home run to fly ball rate That's you know

The Babbup is a little higher than what we've seen so far in May of 2021 the home run to fly ball rate a little lower The home run rate does look a lot like 2018 2018 was the lowest So basically the juiced ball era Started second half of 2016 And 2018 was the worst year for home runs

During that stretch and that's kind of what we're looking at But if if we aren't going to see this this new even higher K rate. And if we're not going to see this never before seen low Babbat, so more balls being put in play than what was happening in April and more success on the balls that are being, more like normal success on the balls being put in play, then I think things are going to, you know,

things are going to get closer to normal. They're not going to be 2019, but 2019 wasn't normal anyway. They're going to be, it's going to be a situation where, you know, not all the mid-range hitters are batting 220 to 230 like we're seeing so far. Yeah, I mean, what I'm hoping. It's also, it's so hard to say because so many hitters are hurt right now. So many fantasy relevant hitters are hurt right now.

Yeah, so that's driving down the overall numbers as well. Yeah. But I think your point, Scott, the final point you just made is about so many of those mid-range hitters batting 220 to 2.2. I think we're already starting to see a lot of them bounce back. And those were a lot of names that we were talking about, you know, just last week, a couple of weeks ago, like the Paul Goldschmits and Anthony Rizzo's and those guys are coming around a little bit.

Same thing with Charlie Blackman. So we were pounding on the table about a bunch of those guys early on. And another one was Kyle Tucker, who now in May is batting 313 with four home runs. The walk rate is up. Oddly enough, he's done it with a ground ball rate, which is right around 47%. but he's pulling the ball more. His home run to fly ball ratio was up. He's come around.

I don't know if there's anything actionable. I feel like the by-low window for Kyle Tucker is closed, but it's good to see that he actually has gotten back on track like we hoped. Yeah. And that was kind of why I looked into it is because I was going through picking out hitters for the hitting planner for the upcoming week. And I kept seeing that a lot of hitters' numbers were way up in May. So I just, Jose Brayu comes to mind, Kyle Schwerber, he just homered today.

He's had a much better May than April. And, you know, just a bunch. I kept seeing that over and over again. And it looks like it's a league-wide trend. So we'll see if it continues. But that is a stark contrast from one month to the next. I was really surprised to see just how much all of those numbers had bounced back in May. Isaiah kind of Falafah batting 375 with an OPS over a thousand in May.

but his ground ball rate is still right around 60%. He's spraying the ball around a little bit more. His hard contact is up. Is this a so high opportunity with Isaiah Kine or Folefa? I think technically it is just from the sense that I don't think he can sustain this pace. But at the same time, show me the person who's in a position to trade Isaiah Kiner Falafa because it wouldn't be me. Yeah.

Or show me the person who's going to give you a lot for Isaiah Kina Folefa. That's the main point. If no one's going to give you anything, just hold on to him. And even when he slows down, like, you still reaped a lot of the benefits for where you drafted him anyway. So, and if you play on Yahoo, of course, he's catcher eligible. So I would imagine in a categories league there, he is probably one of, if not the best catchers in fantasy. If he's catcher eligible, obviously you don't sell him. Yep.

He might be a top three catcher. And if he's eligible there. Nolan Aronado batting 379 with five home runs in May. He only has three strikeouts in 15 games. Bad of All Data looks a lot better this month, and he's betting 300 overall, 915 LPS, on pace for 32 home runs. I'm not going to say he's

Nolan Aronado from the Rockies, but instead of being like 75 to 80%, which is I guess what we were expecting, he kind of looks like he's 90% Nolan Aronado. Is that fair to say? Yeah, I mean, it seems to change from week to week. So worth keeping in mind, even though we're a quarter of the way through the season,

season now. The samples are still small from a baseball context, but are we doing the sell high thing with him? Because I don't really see doing that. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't sell high. I would probably just hold on to him. No. Yeah, it depends on how like, he was hitting 273, four games ago,

five games ago. Right. I think he's probably more likely to hit 275 than 300 the rest of the way. But I think he's a solid. and starter. If somebody still views him as like a superstar caliber player, then yeah, I would move him. Paul Goldschmidt, we were telling you for a while that the underlying numbers looked a lot better. He's batting 315 with a 920 OPS in May. Line drive rate way up for him. Zander Bogart's batting 370 with five home runs. He is just pulling the ball like crazy. 62% pull rate.

A 42% home runs of fly ball ratio in the month of May. So I looked in to see how many of his games have been at home because maybe he's just taking advantage of the green monster. Nine of 15 games at home. So it seems like Xander Bogartz is just awesome and he's running really hot right now. I think he's also just like arguably the most undervalued or underrated player in fantasy baseball.

Yeah, he's amazing. I can't tell you that if we were redrafting today I'd be taking him late in the second round. Yeah, I mean, the thing about Xander Bogartz is for his career, he's outperformed his ex-Woba every single season in the stat cast era since 2015. overall it's about 33 points.

And this year he has a 396 X-Woba. So he's really good. He's not going to be this good forever, but he's one of the 2015-20 best hitters in fantasy. Robbie Grossman, we've talked a lot about recently, batting 3-14 with two homers and three steals in May. He has more walks than strikeouts this month. The fly ball rate is way up.

64% rostered. I don't know that that number needs to be much higher, but even in points leagues, I think you can stream him on a week-to-week basis if he's got a lot of games, so you can kind of play with the volume there with Robbie Grossman. Marcus Semyon, betting 361 with four homers, line drive rate way up.

34%. The homer and the flyball ratio is up. Scott, we spoke about Semiun a couple of weeks ago and we were kind of skeptical. We didn't know what to make of it. Are you more confident now in Semyon? Yeah, I would say so. Yeah, I think at the time his strikeout rate

was quite a bit higher than it is now. It's still high for him, but it's come down some. You know, the expected stats still look a lot worse than the actual stats, but not to the same extreme. Like, it's kind of like the underlying numbers are catching up to the actual ones. And, you know, just the fact that he's running as much as he is, it's easy to see the glass half full. Yeah, I'd like to see him keep running.

Only one stolen base attempt in May after 7 in June. It's a good point. Stolen bases don't... Stolen bases are not... It's hard to pace them out. Right. They don't maintain a steady pace. So it's possible he has seven now.

Maybe he finishes the year with 10. You know, I think he's probably so high. I think he's more likely to take a step back than maintain. But it's another situation. Like shortstop is... As anybody who just lost Corey Seeger knows, shortstop is... There's not a lot out there.

So when you have one that's... worth starting. It's hard to move on. It's hard to let him go. He is like a top 12 or 15 overall hitter in Roto leagues this season. Nine home runs and seven steals. I believe it. That'll do it. A few other names that I noticed making some changes in May.

Randy or Rosa Raina, strikeout rate, way down, walking more, hitting a lot less ground balls, which is exactly what we wanted to see. It hasn't really been reflected in the numbers yet, but I find it pretty promising for him. Joey Gallo hitting more fly balls in May. April, it was weird. He was hitting a ton of ground balls, but hitting the ball harder as well,

so you like to see that from Gallo. Kevin Bizio, making more contact and hitting a lot more line drive. So maybe a potential by-low situation here, and I'm talking about real low. Don't go out and spend anything of legitimate value for Kevin Bizio, but he has been better this month. Max Munchy seems like he's selling out for power a bit.

Strikeouts are up, but also hitting a lot of fly balls and making hard contact. He has five home. runs in the month of May. And Ehueheneos Suarez now has nine hits over his last eight games. His strikeout rate has gone from 38% in April to 25% in May. You still might be able to buy low on Suarez, something that I would look into doing. I do have a quick email that we got from Chris, not Chris Towers, and wanted to ask about Nick Madrigal and a little bit of a rankings

debate. Chris, you have him ranked 11th at second base. Scott, you have him 32nd. And apparently I have him 18th. I haven't changed that yet in the middle of this podcast. Maybe I'll change it afterwards. But he goes on to say, we'd love to hear your thoughts on him as well, whether or not I should drop him in favor of recently dropped to Garrett Hampson.

So what do you guys think on Nick Madrigal, who went three for five on Monday, hit his first career home run. He only has one home run and one steal on the season, which is just very weird. So talk about Madrigal and him versus Garrett Hampson. So I think he's kind of useless. I'm looking at it now because 32 did sound low,

but I'm looking at the names ahead of them, and they all seem more useful than he is. He has only one steel so far. Obviously, if he ran at a pace more like we saw on the miners where he could be like a 30 steel guy, it would change the equation, but there's virtually no power there. He did hit his first career home run tonight,

but it's not going to be a lot of those. He typically bats low in the order. Occasionally he bats second like he did today, but usually ninth. So not generating his own power, not running much, not in position to score a lot of runs or drive in a lot. Like, he's just, his batting average isn't even that great. I expect it to go up, but probably a hollow batting average guy.

And there's just, I have no interest in Nick Madrigal at this point. I think the biggest thing is the running. Like, I feel like he should hit 300. And if I were making the White Sox lineup, I would probably bat him pretty high. And I would let him run. They've only really done that with Tim Anderson so far. So, yeah, I don't know.

It's frustrating. I don't agree with the decision-making of the Chicago White Sox organization so far this season. But, yeah, 11's too high. I will move him down. But I would love to see him hit higher in the lineup more often. But since he's not, I will have to move him. down. I'm moving him down to 16.

He was batting second on Monday, Chris, so you'll be happy to know that. It was against a lefty in J-Hap and probably helped contribute to his massive game. I would rather have Garrett Hampson to answer your question, Chris, who emailed in, and if I were spending Fab on it, if it's any type of categories league, I could see

going like 8 to 10% on Garrett Hampson, maybe even more than that, but depends on the rest of your league. Hampson has... Well, if he's still available at this point, you probably can go zero percent. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, I mean, maybe put in like a $2 bid. Yeah.

He's got Garrett Hampson. It's five homers, eight steals, 28 runs scored. Only batting 250, but he's been very good so far for the Rocky. So I would rather have him than Nick Madrigal. Some leftovers from Monday. Mike Yistremski has three hits and two home runs over his last two games. So maybe he's finally getting healthy. Max Freed allowed one run over six innings with eight strikeouts against the Mets.

He has a 1.59 ERA in three starts. since returning from the IEL. Adbra Osslai was just kind of meh. They only let him throw 63 pitches. Thought that was interesting, his lowest pitch count of the season. He allowed three runs over five innings. Trey Turner hit his 10th home run. He is betting 329.

He has seven steals in 38 games. He is on a 39 home run, 27 steel pace over 150 games. So, Trey Turner is awesome. Josh Bell went two for three with a walk. He now has six hits over his last four games. Baby steps, Josh Bell. You got to learn how to crawl before. you can walk. I like what I see. Kyle Swarber went one for three with his sixth homer of the season,

and over his last seven, he is betting 333 with three home runs. He is now 74% rostered. So, okay, took some of our advice yesterday. Maybe got him in the lineup, seven games this week, all against righties. Dallas Kiko was fine, seven innings, three runs, six strikeouts. He threw his cutter, a season high 32% in this start. And that was a really productive pitch for him last season. So Maybe that's something that can help. Strikeouts was the most strikeouts. He's adding to start this year by two. Yeah. I think the cutter is big.

I think if he gets back to using that cutter, it could help him out quite a bit. Luke Voight hit his first home run of the season. I'm not going to talk about Jordan Lyles because why would I do that? Casey Mize actually had another really good start for the Detroit Tigers and kind of comes at a weird time because we got the update last week

that he's going to be kind of slow-rolled throughout the summer for the Tigers, but we're not in the... Is this his best start ever? It's certainly his longest. Might have been seven and two thirds, one earned, three walks, seven strikeouts. It's got to be a career high in strikeouts, I think.

The Seattle Mariners. And you know who closed out the game? Michael Fulmer. Yeah, Michael Fulmer. Who now has his third save. Gregory Soto was using the eighth. So I guess talk about both together. I kind of feel like Fulmer is the closer-ish.

He has their last two saves. Yeah, and then pretty quick succession, succession. Yeah, success with you. Yeah, second one came on Thursday last week, I believe. Yeah. So that's, yeah, maybe. The tiger so rarely get saved chances that it's hard to get a firm grasp on what's going on there. I wonder who's, because Soto just came in and got one out in the eighth.

I wonder if he wasn't needed for that one out if it would have been different. but it's at least, Fulmer's at least in the mix here. Mises 7K's equal to career high he had 7 and 1 start last year. You know, still not missing a lot of bats, but even runs off the board and going deep. So I don't know, pretty fringy probably,

especially given the innings limitations that have been forecasted for him. Yeah, if he was available in like a standard 12 team points or red a league, I'm not even sure I would go at him. Yep. Again, that's Casey Mize that we're talking about. He's 62% rostered on CBS, so that number doesn't need to be higher. Might even be a little too high.

Oh, okay. Some other bullpen updates outside of this Michael Former News, Michael former 19% rostered, by the way, so if you play in a Categories League, he is widely available, as is Tyler Rogers for the Giants, who now has saves in back-to-back days, and he has five total on the season. This comes after Jake McGee allowed a bunch of runs over the weekend. Scott, who would you rather have between Tyler Rogers and Michael Fulmer?

Oh, Rogers. Okay. Rogers. Opportunity is going to be scarce for Detroit. And he could have gone to McGee had a day off already, and Gabe Kapler chose not to go to him on Monday. So I think he's leaning Rogers now. Mm-hmm.

And Rogers, I think the roster percentage, 34% is too low. It's less than Giovanni Gallegos and Devin Williams, who are never going to get saves for their respective. team. So Tyler Rogers, go get him if he needs some saves. For the Mets, Edwin Diaz walked one but picked up his six save. Ian Kennedy got his 11th save for the Rangers, for my Texas Rangers, against the New York Yankees revenge game.

To stream or not to stream for Tuesday, Luis Petino at the Orioles John Gantt versus the Pirates, J.T. Brewbaker at the Cardinals, Andrew Heaney versus Cleveland, Justin Dunn versus Detroit, and Spencer Turnbull at the Mariners. Well, we said yesterday, Heaney and Brewbaker with obvious ones. I went Gant versus Pittsburgh. Chris went Turnbull at Seattle. Yes. I'll also add, I could see Justin Dunn having a very good start.

Nice memory there from Scott because you know what? I didn't remember it. To stream or not stream for Wednesday, Wade Miley versus the Giants, Garrett Richards at the Blue Jays. That's down in Dunedin. Brad Keller versus the Brewers. Terrick Scouble at the Mariners. Matt Shoemaker versus the White Sox,

Jake Arenda versus the Nationals. This is a terrible list of starting pitchers. Yeah. Scooples used his split change that was hyped up this spring. He's used it more's last two outings, and they've gone a little bit better. It's a good matchup, as we saw for Mice at Seattle. So I guess he'd be my first choice.

I think I'm hoping we get Grood to Keller today and not Brad Keller. so I'll go with him. Yeah. I'm regretting the scoobble thing. I'm going to take it back. Yeah, I think Keller, Keller, Richards, and Miley are probably the three I would go with if I have to go with three.

Yeah, I think so. I agree. Team name Tuesday will wrap up here. This one's from Omar. Bruhan, got you all in check. Bruhan. Got you old in check. You guys might be too young for that.

I have, what is it from, Chris? I have no idea. I think it's a true. called Quest song, but it's Buster Rhymes who says that. I like how Chris always says you guys might be too young for that when I've got

like, what, four years on him? Oh no, it's just a Buster Rhyme song. Yeah. Yeah, admittedly, like, if we're in the pop culture reference meter, just of life, like Adam Azer is like, you guys, if you're watching, he's like way up here somewhere. He knows probably everything there is to know. Chris is close. You know, Chris,

Chris is up there. You know, Scott, I would say, is below Chris. and then I'm just like somewhere like, I don't know. You guys can't see my desk right now, but just way, way, way below. This one's from Alex. There's some bows in this house, sir. Okay.

I'm not impressed, but I don't, yeah, I don't quite get it, I think. It's from a song from Cardi B, I believe. I'm sure you know the song, Chris. Yes, of course. Because I know the song, so you have to know the song. Whoa, look at you, Scott. You know what? I just gave us no credit, and then there you go.

You know what? You're too young for that one. Yeah, Sky, you might. You might, Chris. From cause, cease fires, wood burns means panic. Sure. Yeah. That's a full sentence.

It's just kind of a... Yeah. Seas fires. Craming a bunch of names together in a way that works. Okay. I can live with that. From Tony. Say it like you means it, Gilbert.

All right. Sure. Yeah. Apparently, by the way, it's actually a Sugar Hill Gang song that Buster Rhymes later sampled. Beastie Boys also sampled it in their classic song, Shake Your Rump. This next one's from industry friend Mike Curlin. We actually had him on the offseason.

Jean-Claude von Dong. It's very good. I like it. From Kevin, Show May the Moni. Sure. Is that like a name? That's a Heath one. Okay.

Yeah, I don't. Not like Heath came up with it. It was, but it's just not good. Yeah. Okay. I've tried to figure out if this second word is someone's name. I tried looking it up. I can...

Hamani. Yeah, I don't know. From Colin, these are all Beatles themed. You say goodbye. I say hello. Okay. We're so sorry. Uncle Adbert.

Yep. That's technically wings, but, you know, I think it still works. I want a hold. Brad Hand. I want a hold. All right. I want a hold Brad Hand. That works as a sentence, too.

That's good. I like that one. That's the winner tonight. And then eight... Gray's a week. Okay. Fair enough. Yep.

From Pat and Ohio. Oh, Lordas, Wong, you buy me a Mercedes Sims by Junis Gonsolin. Yep. Yep. I think that probably went too far with all the names. Yeah, that's a lot. From Robert, Mark Kanakorn.

Yeah, sure. That's a classic. Any updates from Kesson Hiera? That's just a question. I've got them on my dynasty roster. Well, apparently... I thought that was a teammate. He is batting 250 with four doubles and seven strikeouts in four games.

So not going so well so far for Kesten Hiura. This one's from Jack. I listened to the song before to try to remember how it goes. Chris, you wouldn't know it. Whoa. Framber is the color of your energy. Yeah, this is good. I like this.

This is good. That's very good. Right up your alley. I'll always laugh at a 3-11 reference. From Quincy. Boba Shett. Boba Shet. Where?

it's good I get it it's good from Greg Enoa I broke my hand yep from Ryan

magical mystery machine I think you could just go with a magical mystery tour and there's got to be a baseball player we could

like magical mystery bore if he was still playing would be good classic Miami Marlin I don't know if there's a good one who's actually playing in major league

baseball currently and last but at least Scoobo do, but do a brayu. Yep. I mean, they're both Scooby-Doo themed ones, right? Yes. But it wasn't the magical.

It was just the mystery machine, right? It was just the, yeah, I think it was just a mystery machine. Because the whole thing was it wasn't magic. There was no magic at all in the Scooby-Doo universe. I wasn't, I wasn't big into Scooby-Doo. It was always just old man Carter from the abandoned warehouse. Sure. Yeah.

It was, and they all had very convincing. apparently. I think it, I think Scooby-Doo went off the rails when they introduced like real ghosts. It just betrayed the spirit of the whole thing. Yeah, yeah. And also scrappy. Not a fan of ScrappyDue. Yeah, just got to go with the classic. Would have got away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids. For Scott and Chris, I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.