Fantasy Baseball Today - Opening Day Reactions, Taylor Rogers Traded & Week 2 Sleepers! (4/8 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 8, 2022

Oh my goodness gracious (1:32)! Spencer Strider, Shohei Ohtani and Tylor Megill all showed out on Opening Day. ... What do we make of Shane Bieber's velocity being down so much (9:37)? ... Woah there, Kyle Hendricks is striking batters out (14:40). ... What's the latest in the Cubs, Reds, and Marlins bullpens (16:35)? ... News and notes (27:15): Chris Paddack was traded for Taylor Rogers, Yoan Moncada went on the IL and more. ... How did the rookies do on Opening Day (40:17)? ... Where should these hitters be added (42:05)? ... Max Fried's velo was up while Tyler Mahle added a cutter (46:33). ... Yu Darvish threw six no-hit innings while Framber Valdez was dominant (50:15). ... We wrap up with Scott's Week 2 sleepers (52:12). '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 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 in to fantasy baseball today. On April 8th, Frank Stamphle, joined by Scott White. Opening day is in the books. We only had seven games, and it still feels like there is so much to talk about. So, today on the show, we're going to recap all the action that Chris Paddock for Taylor Rogers Trade actually went through, so we'll talk about that as well. Week 2 sleepers and much more. Scott, I tried.

I tried to get rid of the, oh my goodness gracious. But the people have spoken. The listeners spoke. They reached out, they emailed in, they tweeted at me, and they said, stick with it. They want to stick with, oh my goodness gracious. Now, I want to kind of create a little bit of a rotation here because I still feel like we overdo it. So if anyone has great baseball calls, something that you love throughout the years, send it over,

tweet it at me, email as fantasy baseball at cbsi.com. I want to make a little bit of a rotation that will start the podcast with every single day. And with that, take it away, Susan. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh my goodness gracious. Player of opening day. Scott, kick us off. Well, I'm not going to claim this is the most important thing that happened.

So I don't know that this needs to lead off the show, but this is when we're doing it. And it made me say, oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, my goodness gracious was what Spencer Strider did in two innings of relief for the Braves. Two perfect innings. Struck out five, had a whiff rate, a swinging strike rate of 33%,

eight swinging strikes on 24 pitches, which is just absurd. And this is the guy, I've hyped at every chance I could get because between four minor league stops last year, he had 21% swinging strike rate. That's like Jacob de Grom level, you know? And we saw him a little bit in relief

toward the end of last season. And, you know, we didn't, it was his first stint in the majors and, like, it didn't blow anybody away. So this was really the first, chance the first time we've seen him in the majors and you say wow i see where that swinging strike great came from that that fastball is just overpowering and a great slider to go with it and i like that he went two innings because obviously the only thing that makes him worth talking about

on a fantasy baseball context is the possibility of him entering the starting rotation at some point he moves so quickly through the miners last year that I'm not sure he has a full enough arsenal to make that leap yet and I'm not sure if he'll get a chance to develop it now that he's pitching out of the bullpen but maybe they send him down when the rosters go back to 26 players

and he gets stretched out and we see him again and he's an impact pitcher in fantasy I think we should have about the same level of optimism for Spencer Strider that we do for Aaron Ashby because I think they're on similar trajectories and I think they have similar upside. All right, Spencer Strider is 7% roster.

I guess, Scott, the question is, what do we do we do with Spencer Strider right now? Do we add him in deep leagues? Do we just put him on the watch list for now and hope that he gets an opportunity in the rotation eventually? What do we do with this amazing outing that he had? Yeah, so that's why it's awkward to lead the show with him because there's not much.

You add him to the scout team basically. keep an eye on him. In deeper leagues, if you have a roster spot to play with, sure. Stashing upside is never a problem. But in his current role, he's not going to be that usable. It's just speculating on the future for what's obviously an impressive pitching talent. Fair enough. Yeah, you mentioned two perfect endings, five strikeouts to zero walks,

fastball looked overpowering, eight swinging strikes on 24 pitches, 33% swinging strike rate in this outing. He looked amazing. And he's, I would say, I don't know, a couple of Kyle Wright blowups or Tucker Davidson not looking right opportunities from Spencer Shrider, you know, maybe getting a chance in a rotation. There's going to be an opening at some point. It's just the question of whether the Braves think he's ready to do that or if, or if he,

or if he, you know, makes himself too vital to the bullpen for them to even consider it. All right, Scott. Well, I will let you have a co. Oh, my goodness gracious. player of the night because I know the other player that you were debating talking about was also amazing. Yeah, I mean, I don't know that there's anything that actionable for him either because he's universally rostered and it's Shohei Otani. Because he did something so historic, something we haven't seen from a player arguably ever, certainly in the last century,

his success is a two-way player. I think there was some skepticism he could do it again. again. And of course, one day isn't the same as doing it over a season. But if, like, he looked even better as a pitcher in this first start. He was going against the majors best offense last year, the Astros, and just was awesome. He was awesome. He struck out nine and four and two-thirds innings. Okay. Four and two-thirds innings fine. Most pitchers were, had very short outings the first time out because spring training was so short. But nine strikeouts and four and two-thirds innings against the major's best offense last year. And beyond that, his velocity was way up across the board.

He averaged nearly 98 on his fastball. So, you know, as good as he is as a hitter, it makes me wonder if there's maybe another step for him to take as a pitcher here. And maybe it will be something of a debate, which role you use him in in those leagues where you have to pick and choose going into each scoring period because it was really impressive stuff from him. And, you know, part of it too is,

I wonder if he'll be able to take a more regular sixth term through the rotation this year, kind of last year, you know, they obviously had to limit his innings. It was his first year, first full year pitching after Tommy John. And they kind of just randomly, it felt random anyway, decided,

oh, okay, Shohayotani's going to start this day. And we had to scramble to get him in our lineups in the leagues where we could. But hopefully it's a more regular turn, and maybe we see even more of him in that role than we did last year. That's the hope anyway. There may be more upside here for Otani. Yeah, 17.5% swinging strike rate in the start against the Houston Astros, a team that

typically does not strike out very much. He struck out Jose Altuve three times. Altuve's strikeout rate last year was 13.4%. Otani was amazing. So if you play in a daily lineup league, where you can start him as a pitcher on the days that he pitches and as a hitter on the days that he is not pitching, then I hope you used your first overall pick on him

because it looks like it is going to be well worth it for Shohei Otani. For me, Scott, oh my goodness, gracious player, Tyler McGill, he looked very good against the Washington Nationals, five shutout endings here, three hits, zero walks, six strikeouts, kind of just thrust into this opening day start because of the injury to Jacob de Grom.

Max Scherzeer tweaked his hamstring, so they pushed Max Scherzer back until Friday. Scherzer will actually be making that start. 10 swinging strikes on 68 pitches, right around a 15% swinging strike rate. And the fastball Velo was up for him too. One and a half miles per hour. He averaged 96 miles per hour in this start.

And he's only 36% rostered. So I think this is actually a player that we can go out there and we can add right now. He's at the Phillies next week. I don't know if, you know, I'm necessarily going to throw him in my lineup right away. There were three names that stood out to me on CBS that are over 60% rostered,

Casey Mize, Hermann Marquez, Patrick Corbyn. I'd be okay dropping any of those for Tyler McGill. Yeah, I would too. That's a good call. That's actually an actionable pick. I was telling you before the show that I think, if we're excluding relievers, which I'm sure we'll get to them soon,

if we're excluding relievers, Tyler McGill stands out as the one player who is based on what he did opening day, somebody might consider picking up right away because yeah, that increase in velocity for him was impressive. He had a fastball. He hit 99.1 with one of his fastballs. Ten swinging strikes on 68 pitches.

That's obviously an incredible swinging strike rate. And I think it's opened my mind to what Tyler McGill's upside. You want to call him Tyler McGill, but it's actually Tyler McGill what his upside is. All right. We're in. Go ahead, Tyler McGill. Even if you have a roster spot available,

a bunch of players went on the IEL on Thursday. So you throw those players on the injured list. You have an open roster spot. Go out there and get Tyler McGill on your team if you can. It's got a near, oh my goodness gracious player for the wrong reasons. I feel like we got to talk about this pretty early. Shane Bieber limited to just 72 pitches in his first start, which I'm not really worried about that.

I think that makes sense. He had an abbreviated spring training. He allowed just one run on four and two thirds. It wound up being an earned run. but the player who scored was on second base because a Meder Rosario dropped a fly ball in left field.

I don't know why they keep trying to put a Meta Rosario in left field. He's not good there. Anyway, the bigger story for Shane Bieber is that he averaged just 90.6 miles per hour on his fastball. It is the lowest for any start in his Major League career.

Now, I know the weather was not good there. It was cold. It was rainy. It was windy. But this is down even further from where it was last year. 2.8 miles per hour. So I don't want to overreact, Scott, because there's going to be a bunch more starts,

and obviously, more data will come, and we could see what the Velo looks then. But I also feel like this is something worth talking about and paying attention to. Yeah, it is. It's a stressor that's been added for anyone who has Shane Beaver that wasn't there before. I mean, there were some concerns about how he'd bounce back

from an injury-plagued year, but I don't think anyone is expecting him to average. 90 miles per hour, closer to 91, right, on his fastball in the opener. A few things. You pointed one out. It was very cold. It was sleeting or something, he said, when he was warming up. I think it got up to high 40s, but not baseball weather, clearly.

And we saw in another game, but also in the Midwest, where it was in the 40s, we saw Corbin Burns velocity down. We saw Aaron Ashby's velocity down. So, you know, sometimes that affects pitchers more than others. Two, he's not fully stretched out yet. He threw 72 pitches. He, you know, that was true for a lot of pitchers, but it's worth considering that aspect of it also.

Three, he was effective. Was he Jacob de Grom level effective, like we saw in 2020? No, but I don't think anyone expects Shane Bieber to do that ever again. Was he effective enough that you could still see him being an ace if this remains his velocity all season long? I think so. It was the Royals lineup, so that's worth taking into consideration.

But we've seen various pitchers over the end. Chris Sale stands out. When they have that clear ace arsenal, their success isn't so tied to the velocity of their fastball. And with Bieber specifically, like his two breaking balls, the curveball and slider, are so dominant.

And the fastball is almost like a change of pace pitch from them. So I'd rather have him have more velocity than less. And I hope he regains it. And yeah, I think it's right to have some concern about what it looked like in this start. But I don't think it's time to panic. I wouldn't be looking to trade him for, you know, I mean, if you wanted to consider another hitter

who was going in that range, fine, like that's a lateral move. I don't, you just don't want that stressor. I can understand that, but I'm not trading down at starting pitcher with Shane Beeper right now. Like I'm not offering him up for Sandy Alcantara or Julio or Rias or one of those other pitchers that would have been in the tier below him on draft day. I don't think it's time to do that.

Yeah, I think the key words there that you said, Scott, don't panic. It's one day so far of baseball. And it's very easy to see velocity down and, oh, what do I do? Do I just go out and trade, chain beer? No, like, let's see how things unfold here. Don't panic. There's a lot of baseball to go. And I happen to see the scrum with the reporters after the game,

and one of them did ask him about his velocity if he was happy with where it was. It took a while to get to that question. Most were just asking about how good he looked, frankly. But then somebody asked about the velocity. And he kind of laughed it off and said, you guys asked me about this two years ago, too, or last year, I guess, referring to that start in Detroit when his velocity. was also down, not as much as you point out, Frank.

But it didn't seem like anybody involved in that conversation was particularly concerned about velocity. So worth mentioning that too. All right. I know you mentioned Corbyn Burns in there. Scott, I just wanted to quickly run through his line from the day. He was pretty meh. You know, I mean, in a start against the Cubs, I think coming off to NL.

Say Young, we were expecting more than this. Five innings, three runs. Three walks, four strikeouts. Only 11 swinging strikes on 83 pitches. velocity was fine, spin rate was down a little bit on the cutter, but nothing drastic. I think he was just off. Like the command didn't look very good in this start. I'm not overly concerned with Corbyn Burns either.

Yeah, no, I'm not either. Nothing seemed... The velocity was a little down, but otherwise everything seemed fine. Let's move over to the pitcher on the other side of that game, though. So a few of your pitching targets, Scott and draft season, they came through on opening day. Kyle Hendricks, Zach Rankie, Adam Wainwright, they all looked pretty good. We'll start with Kyle Hendricks here, five and a third, one run. Three walks, a hit by pitch.

So, like, the control was a little bit off here. Seven strikeouts, 17 swinging strikes on 83 pitches. Like, he basically pulled the Corbyn Burns against Corbyn Burns. He was awesome. 13 of those swinging strikes came on the changeup, which he used 40% of the time in this, this start here, Scott. Like, if the changeup is going to look like this good, it was gift-worthy, like, pitching ninja stuff, this changeup was amazing. If it's going to look that good, then I feel right about

the Kyle Hendricks bounce back. Yeah, I mean, I doubt it's going to look that good every start. But you can understand why he threw it 40% at the time. And it was it was the one early game today, the one pre-4 o'clock game because of some cancellations. So it was the one, I'm sure, the majority of baseball fans sat down and watched together. You know, everybody saw Kyle Hendricks and how that change-up was moving today. But yeah, I mean, clearly, he still has some skills he's working with there, and I don't think.

If you viewed last season as a collapse, I think this opening day start should relieve those concerns. Not saying he'll never have a bad start this year. He's always susceptible to that because he's not able to blow his fastball by-hitters, obviously. But I think overall, you'll be pretty happy with Kyle Hendricks. Oh, I've got the West Coast games on right now.

Anthony Rendon just missed a two-run homer down the line. It was just left of the foul pole. So if anything happens in these games, crazy, I'll let you know. You Darvish had a no-hitter through six innings. We'll get to that a little bit later on as well. Scott, after Kyle Hendricks came out of the game, this is where we start to get into some of that reliever talk that you mentioned at the top of the show,

because Rowan Wick came in pitching the eighth inning with a two-run lead. He gave up two hits and a run. Michael Givens then came in, relieved Row and Wick. He got the final out of the eighth. Then we're left wondering, okay, is Givens going to stay in for the ninth and try and get the save? No, it's David Robertson who comes in.

He allowed one hit, picked up its first save of the season, the first save of the baseball season. 25% rostered on CBS. How aggressive are we going to be with David Robertson? Because for at least one day, it looks like he is going to be the ninth-th-ean guy for the Cubs. Yeah, that's the trouble with chasing saves

in the year of our Lord 2022 is that. You can't feel that confident that what happens one day is going to happen the next day with any bullpen. But I started to get the feeling, and I put in a claim for him in Tauil Wars for the first run of Fab. But of course, I won my top seven players. So I think I probably had the highest bid on David Robertson, but it just didn't get far enough down in my pecking order. So now any leagues where he's out there and saves are precious, I'm sure he's going to. going to be in high demand.

There's nothing to indicate it's not conventional closer usage, right? Because they used the two clearest alternatives in the previous inning, as if they were just setting up for David Robertson. And David Robertson has the most closing experience in that bullpen. It's been a few years since he's done it because of health issues, mainly. But he used to be a great closer. So I could see how he could be the guy. and again, in leagues where saves are precious,

you can't afford to be too careful because everybody's going to get gobbled up right away. So I think I'd place a, if I really needed saves, I think I'd place a decent size bid on David Robertson, make him, I would say there are two, there's one reliever that I'd prioritize over Robertson. Who is that? Tony Santian.

You got to save for the Reds. You would prioritize him over David Robertson. Yes. I don't feel his confidence, Scott, because I feel like when Lucas Sims is ready to return, look, if Santian is pitching well, then they'll just leave him in the role. But I also think Lucas Sims is a pretty talented pitcher.

And as you just laid out, David Robertson has much more closing experience than someone like Tony Santian does with the Cincinnati Reds. I think I would still go Robertson over Santian, but if you need saves, you should probably target both of them, honestly. Yeah, yeah.

And if you don't, like I said, Tyler McGill is a fine target, too, as a starting pitcher. But if we're just talking about the saves pickups, you say Lucas Sims is a talented pitcher, and I don't disagree, but he wasn't able to secure that role for the Reds last year.

And Tony Santian's a talented pitcher, too. in his appearances as a reliever last year. And the overall numbers, they weren't bad, but when he moved to the bullpen is really where they took off. Let me see how many appearances that was. So he made 22 appearances as a reliever for the Reds last year.

Had a 236 ERA, a 101 whip, 12.2 strikeouts per nine innings. I mean, that's pretty awesome. Ace reliever numbers. And then he gets the first. chance here to close out a game and passes it with flying colors. So of course, with any, like every reliever's a bad week away from, every close there's a

bad week away from losing his job. And when you're less established like Santian is, it might just be a bad day from losing his job. So yeah, it may not work out, but I think it could work out too. I mean, Art Warren didn't pitch in this game. Art Warren was the one we were looking at as the potential, as the guy. guy who could potentially seize the role with Lucas Sims out. But he wasn't, he wasn't even asked to work the eighth, you know, with a,

and I guess it didn't become a safe situation till the ninth. Right. It was kind of weird in that way because it was a six one game and whoever was pitching at the time. It wasn't Art Warren. Luis Sessa actually even pitched before that. That gentleman gave up a two run homer, which made it a save opportunity in the eighth. So then after that, they get Tony Santian, weren't that. I think Santian had to start warming up early because of that.

So, you know, again, it's hard to feel too confident in anything that you've seen. But when you look at what he did in relief last year, and I remember explicitly they said they wanted him to be a high leverage reliever. And, you know, he was in consideration for a rotation spot early in spring training. But at one point, they said this is going to be a high leverage reliever for us. You see the numbers he had in relief last year. He gets the first shot. Maybe it wasn't by plan just because he happened to be warmed up already.

But he strikes out too in a perfect inning. That could be enough for him to get the next chance too. Yep. So, yeah, I mean, I hear what you're saying. But I'm not confident Robertson is good enough to keep the job. I feel more confident that Centian has the skills for the brawl than I do in Robertson having the skills for the brawl. So that's why I think, it took us a while to get there.

But that's why I think I prefer Zantian to Robertson if you're having to prioritize those two. Okay. But there may be even a better prospective saves pickup out there who didn't pitch today because his team didn't play today. Who is that? That is Anthony Bender. Oh, he is.

John Mattingly has said that he's their go-to option for the ninth inning, at least to begin the year, with Dylan Flore on available. but he's better than Dylan Floro. And we always worried he was going to be a threat to Flores role at some point. I just didn't expect to get something so definitive right away. From Mattingly, Bender's the guy? Okay.

Well, that counts for more than this guessing game we have going on with David Robertson and Tony Santian. So, you know, if he goes right to the top of the waiver claim list for me, if I'm looking for saves. I don't need saves, obviously. Who cares? But a lot of people out there do need saves. All right, Scott. So, I mean, let's just talk about relievers

that were dropping to pick these guys up. Someone asked me, as soon as Robertson got the save, should I drop Camilo Doval for David Robertson? And I was like, I think so. Like, Gabe Kaplanar said that Jake McGee is the closer. And even if he's not, I think that they can kind of split the role. So, yeah, I think I would do that. What do you say, Doval for Robbins?

Robertson, or I guess any of these relievers. I go back to, I'm just not sure Robertson's good enough. He may be the best reliever in that bullpen because they don't have great relievers, but I'm not confident in that. So, you know, I have, I'm a lot more skeptical that Jake McGee's really the Giants Closer. We've talked about this before.

So I am attached to Camila Doval in a way that you aren't. I don't think I'd do that. I don't think so. Now, somebody did ask me in a saves plus holds leagues if they would drop Robert Suarez, not Ranger Suarez, Robert Suarez, the Padres reliever who looked like he was in line

for saves until they went and acquired Taylor Rogers. And by the way, Bob Melvin, the Padres manager, confirmed that Taylor Rogers will be the Padres closer. So Robert Suarez isn't a closer anymore. But it's a saves plus hold league. And I told him he could drop Robert

Suarez for David Robertson in that particular format. Yeah. But it was a close call is the thing. Like I just feel like that's your one chance at David Robertson. Well, you may have future chances at Robert Suarez. Okay. So you're not dropping Deval for Robertson in a league which just saves. Would you drop Deval for any of Bender or Santian?

I would drop him for Bender. Okay. Would you drop? I mean, Bender's a confirmed closer as far as I'm concerned. Now, he may get rocked in his first outing and not be a confirmed closer anymore, but I think he's good and Manningly says he's the guy. So, yeah, I would prioritize him over somebody else who I think is good and hasn't been confirmed as the guy. Okay. Last two questions here.

Anyone from the Mariners' Rangers bullpen, those two bullpins, would you be comfortable dropping those names. I know it's a lot of names, but there's no confirmed closer for any of those. And here we have, you know, three that we feel pretty good about. Would you be all right making those swaps? Yes. Yes. I don't think I need to hold anyone in the mayor, because that's just such a mess. Yep. I would take any prospective closer, unless it's a saves plus holds league, because obviously Paul Seawalt has those amazing ratios. But any other Mariners reliever, even in a saves plus hold leagues, I would drop four. or any of the guys we've talked about,

Anthony Bender or Tony Sinty and or David Robertson. All right. I mentioned at the top of this, we started talking about Kyle Hendricks. Zach Granke was very serviceable in his return, five and two thirds, one run, only one strikeout. Adam Wainwright, surprise, surprise,

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Okay, trades. We had some trades on Thursday. Surprise. That's basically been the story of the offseason. Excuse me. The Padres and the twins actually went through with that reported trade from Wednesday night. Chris Paddock, Emilio Pagan, and a player to be named later to the Minnesota twins in exchange for Taylor Rogers and outfielder Brent Rooker.

And Scott, as you mentioned, Bob Nelvin already named Taylor Rogers as the team's closer. So good news there. However, there is a ripple effect. I would assume that in any type of saves league, we can drop Robert Soros. Yes, though he may get the save here on opening day because Taylor Rogers isn't available yet. Apparently, he's warming up to enter in the night. So that's going to be extra confusing for everybody. But yeah, I would say traditional fantasy leagues that only reward saves.

Robert Suarez, again, not Ranger Suarez, can be dropped. All right. And then remind the listeners how you would prioritize the twins relievers. I know we spoke about this speculatively on yesterday's podcast, but there's Tyler Duffy, Jorge Alcala, Yuan. I believe you pronounce his last name, Duran. That's what you said yesterday. And then now Emilio Pagan is in the mix as well. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I have no idea. Like, that's, that's going to take a few weeks for that situation to shake out, I think. You're forcing me to pick up somebody? I'm going to say on a hunch Jorge Alcala, who was, he seemed to overtake Tyler Duffy as the eighth inning guy late last year, and I think he's a better batmisser than Tyler Duffy. But it could be either one of them. and like Yohan Duran

like I feel like he's a dark horse to be just like this ace reliever type so I wouldn't I wouldn't forget about him either but Jorge Ocala is my guest for who gets the who is prioritized

in the ninth inning to start out all right the Padres by the way they have a two-run lead and they're in the top of the ninth so I guess we'll find out right away who's pitching the bottom of the ninth my guess would be Robert Suarez, he hasn't pitched yet in this game. Taylor Rogers, not yet ready to go for the Padres.

Apparently, the twins will go with a six-man rotation. Scott, do you have any interest in Chris Paddock? He's 24% rostered on CBS. No, but I do want to say, I do want to say, vindication for the Marlins, who at one point in time traded Chris Paddock to the Padres for Fernando Rodney. And for a while, there, it looked like it was going to be one of the all-time trade blunders. Funny the way things work out. Now it seems like the Padres traded Fernando Rodney for Taylor Rogers. I know that's not exactly right, but it's just kind of funny the way Chris Paddock's stock has changed over the past couple years.

Yeah, I remember his rookie season. We were talking about, I don't know. I don't know if you were, but I saw around the industry that, you know, he's like a top 10, top 15 starting pitcher for Dynasty, and that's boom. That's how quickly things can change with starting pitchers. It's just crazy. The other trade that went down on Thursday, much smaller trade. The Blue Jays acquired outfielder Bradley Zimmer from the Guardians for reliever Anthony Castro.

Good news for Brian Hayes is that he signed an eight-year $70 million contract extension, and that was to start Thursday. And then the bad news was that he exited Thursday's game in the first. First inning, very first inning. And he left with cramping in his left thumb and forearm. I was all nervous Scott because he's holding his wrist, the forearm area. And last year he missed all that time with his left wrist injury. And I think that's what many people attribute his just really bad season,

if we're being honest, you know, in terms of power. There was nothing there for Kibrian Hayes last year. So hopefully this isn't something that lingers again. But apparently he's good to go and he'll be back in the lineup by Saturday. something to watch there with Kibrian Hayes. From one third base injury to another, the White Sox place Juan Moncada on the IL with an oblique strain. He's expected to miss three weeks.

Leori Garcia and Jake Berger are expected to fill in. Scott, if you need a third base replacement, the names that stood out to me in shallower leagues, Jamer Candelario and A. E. E. E. E. E. E. Haneo Suarez. Who might you like? I like both of their matchups for this upcoming week, if we're thinking short term. Okay.

I actually have Jamer Candelario in the top 10 sleeper hitters for week two, so that's one place to look. If you're in a deeper league, like, Jake Berger's pretty interesting at his own right. He, um, the little bit we saw of him in the majors last year, he hit the ball very hard and had good power numbers in the minors too. All right. If you are in a deeper league and need a third baseman, Jonathan V.R., especially if you're in a categories league, he didn't start on Thursday against a right-handed pitcher.

So I thought that was curious. I think when he plays, he could provide some steals. And then Kevin Smith, who we spoke about on yesterday's podcast. Again, those are just for deeper leagues. They're both rostered in less than 20% of CBS leagues. CJ Abrams, good news. He officially made the Padres roster. Congrats.

You are on the bench on opening day against the lefty in Madison Bumgarner. And I mentioned this earlier in the week, Scott, where I heard a quote from Bob Melvin where he said he envisions this being a platoon situation where C. AJ Abrams will likely start a shortstop against right-handed pitching, and then Hassan Kim will start against right-handed pitching, and so far, I think he's going to stick with it. Yeah, I mean, it's one game. If CJ Abrams is as electrifying as he, we think he can be,

I mean, you can't inhibit his development by only playing him against right-handed pitchers. So I think he could certainly force himself into a true everyday role. And like managers tend to mix it up more at the start of the season with their lineups. They eventually settle into a groove. And I think that's going to be especially true, particularly this season, because spring training was so short. And I know like the Phillies have talked about part of the reason they kept Bryson Stott up is because they don't feel like any of their middle infielders or any of their infielders are ready to play every day yet. And maybe that's how a lot of teams feel. So I wouldn't freak out so much if a player you like is out of the lineup on occasion here the first couple weeks.

I think we're going to see a lot of that. In Abrams case specifically, maybe it'll be a true lefty-righty thing. But I'm not sure that's going to be a long-standing issue for him. I'm still very excited to roster him in any league. Boom! Alex Brighman and Yordaun Alvarez go back to back. home runs here in the eighth inning of that game. Nice to see some power from Alex Bregman early on. The Reds are still hopeful that Luis Castillo can return in April. Don Mattingly, we mentioned this

already, said that Anthony Bender likely to get the first save opportunity for the Marlins. He's 25% rostered. Alex Cora said that the Red Sox won't have a set closer to start the season. Scott, let's throw Matt Barnes in that mix. Would you drop Barnes for any of Santian, Bender, Robertson? Hmm. I think so. I hesitate because despite what Alex Corr says, I don't know who else would be the closer. I know Matt Barnes Velocity was down in spring training and they had some ideas for how they could fix it. Something was going on with his delivery and maybe they just, maybe he's saying that just because he wants to make sure Matt Barnes is okay before he commits to anything. But, yeah, I don't know. That's a tough one. definitely drop him for Bender,

but it's a closer call, Santian and Robertson. I think it kind of depends on how shallow your league is. You can get away with dropping Barnesmore in a shallower league, I would say. Robert Suarez, by the way, is indeed coming in for the ninth inning to secure a two-run lead,

trying to lock down the save for the Padres. Man, this sucks, too. For people who drafted late or you picked up Robert Torres and I think that there was a real opportunity for him, especially if he converts this one. Like, he could have been the guy,

but yeah, they traded for Taylor Rogers and now it's going to be him. And I thought I was speculating, like, are we sure Taylor Rogers is going to be the closer because he's the only, they have a bunch of high leverage righties

and he would be the only lefty. But Bob Melvin cleared it up, so fortunately we don't have to speculate. Yep. All right. Philly's outfielder, Mickey Moniac, another unfortunate one here,

diagnosed with a hairline, fracture in his right hand will miss the next six weeks and spoke about him recently and there was some hype growing. He was going to start in center field against right-handed pitching. That will not be the case. A few lineup notes from opening day, Dylan Carlson led off for the Cardinals. Tommy Edmund was batting ninth for the Braves. They were going up against a right-handed pitcher and Tyler Malley. Matt Olson hit second, Ozielby's hit fifth. Danesby Swanson was betting ninth. Michael Brantley still betting second for the Astros. Kyle Tucker was batting sixth. No Jake Freley against a left-handed pitcher in the Reds lineup.

Aristides Aquino was batting second for them. I mentioned no Jonathan VR for the Cubs. Medo Rosario started in left field for the Guardians. Andres Jimenez was at shortstop. J.D. Davis was the DH and batting second against left-handed pitcher Patrick Corby. No Dominic

Smith in that game. And then Joe Madden being Joe Madden. Matt Duffy was the cleanup hitter against left-handed pitcher Framber Valdez on opening day. A bunch of players... I do want to point something out with that Mets lineup arrangement though because okay it was a lefty so we saw jd mark we saw jd davis in there and we saw brandon nimmo not in there which i don't think is the two

that we were necessarily expecting to platoon in that lineup so what they did was they played jeff mcneal in left field they played robinson canoe the presumptive d h at second base and J.D. Davis was in the lineup at utilities. And by the way, Mark Kana was playing center field. So if they're willing to go with that defensive alignment here on opening day, they're willing to play Kana and center, they're willing to play Jeff McNeillan left, they're willing to play Robinson Kanoe at second base.

What that tells me is that there's room for both Kano and Dominic Smith in that lineup if they want there to be. Now, I have a hard time believing they're going to send Brandon M. against Rides, as good of an on-base guy as he is. But it just, I thought it was interesting. Yep. Worth mentioning Scott, Brendan Nimmo, not in the lineup. He's dealing with that neck injury too.

So I think that was like the main reason he was out. But yeah. I don't like him against Ritees anyway, though. I was watching that game. I mean, lefties. They don't like him against lefties. Yeah. Robinson Canoe brutal in the field. The guy's done.

They cannot play him at second base, which I don't know what that means for Dominic Smith, but he was bad, man. The range. He's nearly 40 years old, so it makes sense, but I don't know how long that experiment is going to last. Robinson Canoe at second base. A bunch of players officially placed in the IEL on Thursday.

Jacob de Grom, Lance Lynn, Shane Boz, Lance McCullors, Dylan Floro, Josh Rojas, Ken Giles, Mike Clevenger, Kyle Lewis, James Caprillion, and James Karencheck. Let's take a quick break. When we return, we'll take a look at some hitting performances from opening day here on Fantasy Baseball today. All right, Scott, I want to quickly run through some rookie debuts. I don't know that there's much

to take away from this, but we're talking about say a Suzuki, one for two, with two walks and a run scored. I was really impressed by his approach. The plate discipline, especially going up against Corbyn Burns. He just did not look intimidated at all. Bobby Witt, Jr. went one for four with the go-ahead

RBI double in the eighth inning of that game. I saw him trying to leg out a ground a ground ball to flying. The guy was flying down the line. The speed is legit. Bobby Witt is going to steal 20 plus bases if he stays healthy. I feel pretty confident in that. And then Stephen Kwan, he went one for two with two walks. One of those came against a very tough lefty in Jake Brent. He is only 13% rostered.

So I guess of all these three, Scott, the only one that you can add if you want to is Stephen Kwan. Yeah, I like that they kept him in to face that lefty. Because my biggest concern, you know, some on the Guardians beat were making it sound like he made the roster because they needed an extra outfielder and he had a good spring and not necessarily like he was going to be a cog in the Guardian's lineup that the organization viewed him that way. But he had very impressive numbers in the miners last year walked more than he struck out and showed power

for the first time. So I think in any leagues that penalize extra for strikeouts, like a minus one point for every hitter K, Kwan needs to be rostered. And in certain five outfielder leagues, Probably have to be 12-team league or more. Probably needs to be rostered in those formats, too.

Robert Suarez has walked the first two batters that he's faced, and the Padres are rapidly getting their bullpen up with other arms. So I'll keep you posted with what happens here. All right, Scott, a few hitter performances that are worth talking about in terms of waiver-wire availability. Where should these hitters be rostered, if anywhere? Andrew McCutcheon, we just spoke about yesterday. He went two-for-five with a double in RBI.

four hard hit balls. He's 36% rostered. Both of his hits came against a right-handed pitcher in Kyle Hendricks, and Andrew McCutcheon was brutal against right-handed pitchers last year. Where, if anywhere, should we be adding Andrew McCutcheon? Well, I like him as a sleeper in week, too. He's my number two sleeper hitter. And yeah, I like him in a general sense, too. It's always tough this time of year because the roster space is so limited and just because I don't think you know he's the old guy he's the old guy who appeared to be an obvious decline last year so I don't think after a two for five performance on opening day your league mates are rushing to add Andrew McCutcheon so I'd kind of play it cool for right now unless there's just somebody you're dying to drop but yeah

keep an eye on McCutcheon all right Ian Hap went three for four with two doubles two RBI zero strikeouts four hard hit balls. He is 47% rostered. Where, Scott, should we add Ian Hap? If anywhere. So he is among my top 10 sleeper hitters for next week, but he's a lower priority than McCutcheon. I know one of those doubles was pretty cheap. It should have been a flyout. Yelich just didn't get to it in time. And yeah, there's a lot of downside with Hap, even though there's some power too. Miles Straw went two for four with a walk and a stolen base. He is 45% Ron. We were talking before the show, Scott.

I said, this guy needs to be rostered in every categories league. The problem is there might only be 45% of CBS leagues are category leagues. So I don't know if he should be added anywhere else. I'm not even hurt that many. Yeah. Yeah. I certainly want to be viewing Miles Straw as a points league guy at this stage anyway. Yeah.

If he's available, again, though, head-dead categories, any type of Roto league, three outfielders, five outfielders, again, any category. Miles Straw should be rostered in your league. Maybe take this with a grain of salt because the Nationals pitching is awful. Patrick Corbyn was on the mound on Thursday, and I think that we're going to be targeting using hitters against the Nationals pitching staff all season.

But each of Mark Kanna, Robinson Kanoe, and Jeff McNeil had two hits on Thursday, Scott, and they are all under 50% rostered. Are you excited to add any of those? Kana, Kano, McNeil. Not really. My favorite is probably Kano. actually, but we'll see if he's, you know, he's in the lineup for a lefty on opening day,

obviously. We'll see if he's definitively an everyday player and go from there. But now, after one game, him getting two hits. That doesn't really mean much to me. All right. Stud hitters doing stud things. Just quick mention here, Austin Riley, three for four with his first homer, a very welcome sight for you, Scotty. Juan Soto crushed his first home run of the season. The Cardinals just had an absolute onslaught against the Pirates. They put up nine runs in that game, home runs for each of Tyler O'Neill,

Nolan Aronado, and Tommy Edmund. O'Neill went two for five with a homer, five RBI in that game. He was batting third. That's the case, lots of RBI opportunities for Tyler O'Neill. This season, Paul Goldschmidt went one for one with four walks

and his first steal. It was such an odd line to look at, but it was a great game for him. He was 12 for 12 in Seals last season, and I don't know. I mean, if he's running on opening day, maybe he can get double-digit steals again. I don't know.

It's something to watch for Goldie. Yeah, I mean, it's, it doesn't take many stolen bases to be relevant and stolen bases. And already he has one. So that's, that's notable, I would say. Also in that Pirates Cardinals game, we didn't mention it in the reliever talk. Chris Stratton worked the seventh inning of a game that was five nothing at the time. The pirates were trailing five nothing. It ended up being a 9-0-0-Came.

Stratton was used in the 7th. So that is a blow to his save prospects. And I would say you could drop him for any of those relievers we were discussing earlier. You could drop them for anyone you want, frankly, because I don't feel like he's going to be that useful based on that opening day usage. All right, Scott, two pitchers I want to mention in terms of a either pitch mix or velocity change that I noticed on opening day. Max Friede, he was. mediocre. Actually, you know, the final line ended up quite bad. Five earned runs over five and two thirds, five strikeouts. But his fastball velo was up 1.3 miles per hour in this start. And opposing him,

Tyler Malley, who routinely pitches very well on the road. He did that again here in Atlanta. Five innings, one run, seven strikeouts. But what caught my eyes, he used a cutter 15% of the time in the start, a pitch that he has not used since 2019. So if we're talking about, talking about a four pitch mix for Malley where he's using a four seam, a slider, a splitter, and a cutter. It might raise the overall upside for him. It might, but I'm not convinced the cutter's that good. So I wouldn't want him to use it that much. It might be useful as sort of a change up. I mean, it's the second hardest pitch, but, you know, maybe it looks more like the fastball than the other do out and can help keep hitter.

off balance, but I don't think he's going to miss a lot of bats with it. So I don't know what to make of it yet. But yeah, it was interesting that he brought it back after two years of not throwing it. All right. A few starters who were pitching in relief or I guess just pitchers, we don't really know what their role is yet, but Tristan McKenzie, he pitched in relief in this game. Three innings, two runs, two walks, one strikeout. The Guardians don't need a fifth starter until April 12th. I haven't seen anything, so I'm just going to assume Tristan McKenzie is still in their rotation. Yeah, I think so. I will point out he had one swinging strike on 47 pitches. He could not command his fastball at all either. I was watching that game. Yeah.

So not great for my guy Trista McKenzie. Aaron Ashby with the Brewers, a popular breakout sleeper candidate. One and two third, three hits, one run, one strikeout. Scott, they haven't really revealed if they're going with a six-man rotation yet or not. So I Yeah, I mean, I presume not since he Worked it was worked this hard on opening day I mean, I guess we point out

McKinsey is still able to make his next Turn if they want him to So I guess you could say the same for Ashby If it's a six-man rotation But I don't know And I will reiterate his velocity Was down a couple miles per close to a couple miles per hour In this first appearance

All right, would you drop Ashby for Tyler McGill Scott? I think so. Yeah, I think so. I mean, Ashby probably isn't going to be that usable right away anyway, and I really like the upside McGill showed. So hope to sneak Ashby through and maybe have a shot at him later. One other bullpen note, the Royals, Josh Stallman entered with two outs and the game tied in the seventh inning. And then Scott Barlow pitched in the eighth to face the heart of the lineup in a tie game. The Royals took the lead in the bottom of the inning. And then Scott Barlow came back out. out to pitch the night. So he pitched two innings. He wound up with the win. And he looked very dominant doing so. So I think some confidence there in Scott Barlow. Robert Suarez's update. He walked two and then hit another batter and he's out of the game. And now Craig Stammon is coming in with the bases loaded, no outs and a two run lead. So good luck, buddy. Stamond's an interesting choice. Yeah. Well, Pierce Johnson pitched before that and they used Tim Hill in the

seventh. I know he's a lefty specialist, so yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's, I want to quickly just talk about in this start, Scott, you Darvish, six no-hit innings, four walks to three strikeouts. And we're talking before, it's like kind of

a weird start because obviously, look, six no-hit endings are six no-hit endings. It's impressive, but his spin rates were way down. He didn't get a ton of swings and misses in this game. I don't know if he was actually good or the diamond backs were just bad. or I mean it's just I don't know that it has to be either I think there's some pretty good hitters in the diamondbacks lineup and maybe they just didn't happen to get hits today but yeah I think I'm more discouraged than encouraged by Darvish's performance the lack of strikeouts all the walks the spin rates being down he looked he looked pretty impressive in spring training and there was talk of how how he was dealing with a hip injury throughout the second

half last year that kind of impacted his lower body and maybe that was an explanation for his struggles. But I have I have further questions after this first start even though it was six no-hit innings. All right. Framber Valdez was awesome in his start against the Los Angeles Angels six and two-thirds shutout, two hits, one walk, six strikeouts. He had 11 swinging strikes on 84 pitches. The sinker Velo was actually up one mile per hour. So all around, a great performance for Framber Valdez. The Astros are up three to one in the eighth inning. And I...

Ooh, Seth Beer just hit a three-run ding-dong. Ooh. Our guy, Craig Stammon. Geez. Is that a... Oh, that's a walk-off, too. Yeah. Wow.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. He heard you say... Damn. He heard you say they're bad. He wanted to show you. Beer me. Seth Beer. Seth Beer.

Beard. Let's go. Ding-dong. All right. Yeah, Diamondbacks win in dramatic fashion. All right, Scott, let's wrap up. I think that's pretty much everything. We need to hit on for opening day,

and we'll get into your week two sleepers here again. We spoke about some of these names yesterday. I think there'll probably be some overlap, but for people who are playing in the short week one, just setting your lineup for this Thursday through Sunday, you're going to have to set your lineups again on Monday, April 11th through Sunday, April 17th. So there are two teams that have five guys,

games next week. That is the Diamondbacks and the Astros. There are 14 teams with seven games next week. And the Rockies, we're always watching to see where the Rockies are playing. They have six games. Four of those are coming at home next week. Scott, why don't you kick us off with some sleeper pitchers here in week two? Well, did you mention there are two games with five games? Yes, the D-backs and the Astros. Okay. Yeah. And I also want to to mention we're calling this week two. From this point forward, we're numbering the weeks according to leagues that went with the short week one, because that's the CBS default. I hate the short week, by the way. I should have mentioned that

yesterday's podcast. If you play in a head to head matchup, four days of baseball for some teams, three days, it's just not enough. So, I like to play the long week, but you can't be sure you're going to get a full lineup of starting pitchers. That's for sure. I think that's probably the biggest downside to it. But, But yeah, we're numbering the weeks based on the short week. So officially this is known as week two, even though your week two may not begin until the following Monday.

Anyway, sleeper pitchers for week two. So I initially sent you Tony Gonsolin at the top of this list, but the Dodgers have rearranged their rotation. So he's just a one-star pitcher against the Reds. I still think he qualifies as a sleeper pitcher, though. I like him this year. And this will be his second start in week two. So hopefully he'll be a stretched out a little.

little more than a lot of the guys we saw pitch here in the opener. I like Matt Brash. He's in line for two starts at the White Sox versus the Astros. Tough matchup, but I think the skills are enough that him being a two-start pitcher, I'd be willing to roll the dice on that unless I had a staff full of studs. Carlos Carrasco against the Diamondbacks, I'm hopeful in a rebound for him, and that's a good matchup. Jordan Montgomery at Baltimore, and the matchups don't get much better than that.

I think that's why you roster somebody like Montgomery for matchups like that. A couple more two-star guys, Nestor Cortez versus Toronto at Baltimore. Okay, that makes it worth using, I think. In leagues where you're looking to fill a pitching spot, not saying he's a must start or anything, but we're talking sleepers. We're just focusing on guys who are available. Dakota Hudson versus Pittsburgh at Milwaukee. Those are two pretty good matchups.

Obviously not going to give you a lot of strikeouts, but he's a good ground poll pitcher. Mitch Keller gets the Nationals and they're not so great lineup in his first start. Might be worth a roll of the dice. See how that new velocity plays in a regular season setting. Merrill Kelly at the Mets.

Zach Eflin at the Marlins. And one more two-start option here. Wascari Noah versus the Nationals at the Padres. Probably wouldn't recommend him if it was a one-star pitcher with either of those matchups, but for two,

at least in a points league, somebody to consider. Scott, you can't make this up. Apparently, Thursday, April 7th, when we're, technically we started recording this after midnight, but when the Diamondbacks game started, it was Thursday, April 7th, which is National Beer Day. Boom.

Wow. You cannot make that up. Seth Beer with the walk-off on National Beer Day. That is awesome. They already named the day after him. For sure. All right. get into some sleeper hitters here as well.

I don't see Seth Beer on this list. Who are some names you like, Scott? Seth Beer, oh no, not with the Diamond Blacks, playing five games. No. Okay, so the Rockies are at the Rangers against two bad pitchers

and then at home for four games. So I like Randall Gritchick. He's my number one sleeper hitter for this upcoming week. Andrew McCutcheon, as I mentioned earlier, he's number two. The Brewers have four less.

lefties on the schedule in seven games, and he crushed lefties to the tune of like a thousand OPS last year. And we think he's healthier this year. So like those two a lot. The Tigers have the third best matchups this upcoming week. And I like Robbie Grossman, who's available in nearly half of CBS Sports League. I like them for either format, frankly. A little further down the list here, Jonathan Scope, Jamer Candelari. the sort of borderline hitters you're going to see in this

recommended often just because of the roster, the range they're rostered in. So whenever they have good matchups, we're probably going to talk about them a lot. Adam Duvall, I don't, you know, the matchups aren't blow you away good, but I just think he's, the matchups are decent.

He's too good to be as available as he is. He's going to drive in a ton of runs this year, I think, again, and hit a ton of home runs. Ian Happy, mentioned earlier, I like the Cubs matchups. I actually like them most of all. So, you know, I don't know that I love Ian Hap as a hitter, but the matchups make him worth it. Connor Joe will see how much he plays, but he has the same favorable matchups as Gritchick, and he's highly available.

Lane Thomas is also highly available seven game week for the Nationals with a bunch of, with three lefties on the schedule, and he did most of his damage against lefties last year. And finally, Alejandro Kirk, I'm going to mention here, who is still available in a third of CBS Sports Leagues. The Blue Jays get seven games. I think if he starts four or five of those games, you'll be happy with that you used Kirk in your catcher spot, unless you have an obvious stud there, of course.

But if you're, you know, he's an upgrade over somebody like, I don't know, who's a fringe catcher, Gary Sanchez, somebody like that. Yeah. I definitely swap him out for Kirk. All right. Scott, of all the names on this list,

who do you think will be this year's C.J. Cron? Because I feel like you had C.J. Cron on the list of sleeper hitters every single week,

or at least when he was home. Well, until he became too rostered to be on the list, right? That eventually happened. Yeah. I think it's going to be

Randall Gritchick, Scott. I think he's going to be the... Well, I mean, yeah, you have the Colorado angle going on there. Yeah. But if I'm surprised he's only 57% rostered on CBS for as much as we were hyping him after the trade, as much as we moved him up in our rankings.

So it could be him. Yeah, I mean, as long as he's as available as he is, anytime the Rockies are home, I'm probably going to recommend him. But until I would say Adam DeVall has a chance to be too, until he gets that roster rate up. He's just, he could just do so much damage in a short period of time. All right. All right. Duval, name there for you. The teams with the best hitter matchups, again,

the Cubs, the Pirates, the Tigers, the Rockies, and the Brewers, the teams with the worst hitter matchups in week two. The Reds, the Phillies, the Diamondbacks, the Giants, and the Cleveland Guardians. And we are going to end the podcast with streamers for the weekend. And we're going to do this, we're going to end every podcast with this. To stream or not to stream is what we like to call this. And for those of you who play in daily lineup leagues,

we'll run through some pitchers. I'll ask Scott, you feel alright streaming this guy for the next day or the day after that? And yes or no? And we'll end the podcast with this. Scott, a lot of these names are ones that we've already talked about. These were a lot of your sleeper pitchers. But in case... Wait, wait, wait.

I thought you gave me the whole list and then I gave you one or two favorites from that list. Is that what we did last year? Yeah, because the yes or no thing was... It was just too much. A lot of no. Yeah. So I tried to cut out the players that I just knew that you automatically were going to say no. So I don't, maybe this will be a little bit more efficient.

But for Friday, if people are looking to stream in daily lineup leagues, Josiah Gray against the Mets, I'll just throw them all your way. And you tell me who you like. Josiah Gray against the Mets, Reed Detmerz against the Astros, Merrill Kelly against the Padres, Jake Oterese at the Angels. Yeah, the only one I might roll the dice on is Merrill Kelly against the Padres. I think that's the best matchup for the four pitchers. And I'm hopeful he found something this spring with that reworked

change up. All right. On Saturday, we have Drew Rasmussen against the Orioles. Mitch Keller at the Cardinals, Miles Michaelis

against the Pirates, and Kyle Gibson against the Oakland A's. I will say, I'm okay with streaming Rasmussen, Keller, or Michaelis. Probably in that order.

You know what? I'd probably do Mitch Keller first. I think this upside is the highest. I don't think Rasmussen, Musson, even with that matchup against the Orioles,

is going to go deep enough to make a big impact. But Keller might. So Keller, Rasmussen, and the Michaelis. I think I like Kyle Gibson the best. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, it's the best matchup. I don't know how, I don't think Kyle Gibson is that good, but Oakland is just really bad.

I will almost always prioritize the pitcher over the matchup. Fair enough. It's like a really close call. Okay. And I think Gibson's clearly the worst pitcher here. And then on Sunday, just two names here. A lot of pitchers for Sunday are either too highly rostered or they are just bad. So I did not include them.

We have Zach Eifflin against the Oakland A's and Bailey Ober against the Mariners. They're both fine. They're both fine streamers. All right. There you go, Scott. Opening day is in the books for Scott. I'm Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today.

We'll be back again on Monday. Bye-bye.