Fantasy Baseball Today - Ozzie Albies Replacements, Lance Lynn's Debut & Offense in June! (6/14 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 14, 2022

Before we get to Ozzie Albies, Yu Darvish is pitching well (1:15)! What happened to Lance Lynn in his debut? ... Is Lane Thomas good (10:00)? ... Ozzie Albies fractured his foot (15:20). How should you look to replace him in Fantasy? ... Adolis Garcia is quietly having a great season (20:20). How should you value him? ... News and notes (29:41): Juan Soto left early plus we have prospect updates. ... Is offense really up in June (37:15)? ... Which hitters are performing better (44:35)? ... Just when you think you're out on Mitch Keller, he pulls you back in (51:00). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (55:18). Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your lead. Where fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Offense is coming around. We'll tell you all about it.

Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, June 14th. Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White and Chris Towers today on the show. Another big injury this time at second base. We will take a look at offense hitters who are heating up, team name Tuesday, and much more. But let's jump right in. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, my goodness gracious. Player of the day.

And we will start with Chris. Well, first, an OMG tip of the cap to Sandy Alcantra, who had another awesome start. And whatever the opposite of a tip of the cap to the Marlins offense. for blowing another amazing Sandy Alcantra start. But my, oh my goodness, gracious player of the day is actually U. Darvish, who had eight, one run, inning, seven strikeouts. Yeah, against the Cubs,

not the toughest lineup in the world, although, you know, they're feisty. They got some guys, and, uh, yeah, Darvish is weird because he, he's been fine for the most part. It's been up and down, but he's giving you a ton of volume is the one thing you're especially getting from him.

Every start dating back to the start of May, with the exception of one, he's gone at least six and two-thirds innings. The one start where he didn't, he went five and two-thirds innings. Now he's had one start with five earned runs allowed, one start with five earned runs allowed, so two starts with five earned runs allowed.

But for the most part this season, he's been quite good. I know there have been some concerns, but it's really three bad starts. two genuinely awful starts or one genuinely awful start where he allowed nine earned runs and then two where he allowed five in five plus innings he's not the eudearvish of old although given the ups and downs of e udarvich's career i don't know what the eudarvish of old actually means because it feels like there's like a different e udarvish every half season of his

career but um yeah i feel pretty good about him right now yeah i think this season is a microcosma of you Darvish's career. Trying to figure this guy out on a year-to-year basis and now on a start-to-start basis, I'll admit it's been pretty confusing for me to try and do that. He allowed nine earned runs

in a start earlier this season and a few other blow-offs. If you just eliminate that start, he has a 2.34 ERA and his other 11 starts, but the strikeouts are down, the swinging strike rate is down. This start wasn't the case.

He had 17 swinging strikes over eight innings pitch. I don't know what adds to the weirdness is that the swinging strike rate, it's lower than usual for him, but it's still pretty good. It's still a pretty good swinging strike rate. What's weird is 7.3Ks per 9. He's never been less than 10 K per 9 in his career. In the year of our Lord 2022, I don't have much faith in anybody whose K per 9 is only 7.3, you know? So does Darvish get extra credit just because he's Darvish?

Because he has that decent swinging strike rate? Yes. I don't know. I mean, somebody offered me in one of the podcast leagues Joe Ryan and change for you, Darvish. And at the time, I think I actually had Joe Ryan ahead of you Darvish in my rest of season, Rangies. But I still couldn't bring myself to do it. Because, like, I guess it's more likely that the strikeouts pick. up than that, I guess I think it's more likely that the strike, give us to give in his

track record, that the strikeouts, it's more likely the strikeouts pick up for Darvish than that the rest of the numbers, you know, go to where his strikeout rate says they should be, a four, you know, a high, a high ERA. I guess that's, I guess that's how I feel about it, but yeah, it's been really hard to figure out. Yeah, it, it reminds me a little of Walker Bueller, in that the biggest culprit is just that the fastball has been a much less effective pitch for U. Darvish. Udarvish is one of those guys who really relies on his four-seem fastball to get a ton of whiffs. Whiff rate over the last three seasons entering this one, 28.4, 42.3, that was in that ridiculous 2020 season,

and then 34.5% last season. Entering tonight, it was 16.8%. That is a massive collapse. his whiff rate is more than half or less than half of what it was last season. But today he did have seven on 16 swings, 44% whiff rate. That's more what you're looking for from you, Darvish. And I think that's going to be the key moving forward. And he is someone who has seen a significant dip in his spin rate over the past couple of seasons,

especially from the second half of last season on, basically. and whatever the sticky substance ban, whatever that, whatever happened there, it seems to have made his fastball less effective, which is similar to what we had seen with Walker Bueller, obviously the flexor strain, you know,

may have played a part in that as well, but I just, I have faith in Udarvis's track record enough to buy, I don't know if low, but just by him being an above average starting pitcher moving forward, not an ace, but, you know, still a top 36 guy.

All right. Chris, if you have him on your team, do you look to capitalize, sell high, or just hold? I would hold. I would have to be, you know, I would have to get a pretty awesome offer. Like I said, I still view him as a top 36 at least starting pitcher. All right, fair enough. Scott. Oh, my goodness gracious, from Monday. Well, I'm going to go with a guy who made his 22-2.

debut, Lance Lynn. It was, oh my goodness gracious in a bad way because I was excited to start Lance Lynn, stashed them all this time. We found out yesterday it was going to be a two-start week, the first start against the worst offense in baseball, the Tigers. First pitch he throws, home run.

Very first pitch. He ends up giving up. so he ends up giving up a total of seven hits in the first two innings, 10 hits overall over four and a third. Not a pretty stat line, not a pretty stat line, especially those first two innings. He got knocked around a bit. The velocity on his fastball was down 1.4 miles per hour from last year,

which also isn't something we want to see. Whiff rate was okay. I don't know. I chalk it up, I think, mostly to rust to him, you know, getting back in the swing of things when everybody else is in mid-season form. He did have a multi-star rehab assignment. But I think it stands to reason he's not going to be maybe his best out of the gate. Worth reminding everybody he's coming back from a torn meniscus, so not an arm issue.

He is old. He's 35. So, you know, there's a. chance that he's just regressing, you know, irrespective of this injury. But I think, you know, one four and third inning start is, is not, uh, that's not the assumption I'm going to make. So, you know, disappointing, but sit tight with Lance Lynn. Yeah. And I suspect things are going to get better. He gave up some loud contact, but it actually wasn't that bad in that regard, 86.7 mile per hour. Average eggs of velocity on the batted balls he allowed. Seven hard hit

balls on I think 19 balls in play, which is a 38% rate, which isn't good, but it's not like shield your eyes bad. So I think there was probably some Babbip luck at play here. So I'm willing to give guys a Mulligan in the first start back from the aisle generally. I think that is all fair. I mean, worth pointing out his first three rehab starts were not great either. He had a nine ERA, something you guys mentioned last week. But overall, I think I'm still inclined to buy if someone in your league is overreacting to this first start. Though, I'll point out, like older.

It wouldn't surprise me if he just has some steep decline, like out of nowhere, Lance Lynn. I mean, it's possible. It's just a little too coincidental. I think, to assume that. And it's a one start. Somebody shared the stat on Twitter. It surprised me. He's only had one year in his career with an ERA over four,

which is what's surprising about that is we think he had this kind of late career breakout with the Rangers. And he did in terms of him becoming a strikeout pitcher, but he was a reliable pitch-to-contact type for the Cardinals for several years before that. So he's been a bankable fantasy asset for a long time. I could see him being a player who doesn't age particularly well because he's not like a huge swing and miss guy. He doesn't have this overwhelming arsenal of swing and miss pitches. He kind of just throws variants of a fastball over and over. But like Johnny Quato is a guy who had a fairly limited velocity band in which he threw and his decline was fairly steep. But I don't know if that's necessarily. That's just kind of me guessing on how a player like him would age. I don't know if that's actually

the way the age and curved work on that type of player. So, just throwing that out there. All right. Would you guys rather have Lance Lynn or are you, Darvish, rest of the season? I would rather have Darvish. Scott? I think I'd rather have Lynn. Ooh, it's close.

I'll be the tiebreaker. I've got Lance Lynn five spots ahead. I'm not saying it with much confidence, but I'll take Lance Lynn, I guess. Oh my goodness gracious for me. Lane Thomas. Let's get a hitter in here. He went two for four with his seventh home run. Scotty keeps crushing it with the sleeper hitters. And in the month of June, as I will point out with a bunch of hitters later on, Lane Thomas is crushing it. 395 batting average, four homers. Three of those came in one game. He also has three doubles in OPS over 1,200.

Small sample size, like 10 or 11 games. He's only 23% rostered. What is he doing differently so far this month? He's striking out less. He's hitting the ball hard. 52% hard. contact rate for the month so far. And I have a feeling it's only going to go up after this game on Monday. Widely available, 23% rostered. Some people picked them up for this week, but not enough. Which means we need to find some players to drop for Lane Thomas. And I mean, they still got like,

Cole Calhoun was a fun player. And, you know, I picked him on dropping Cole Cowhoun for him. Sure. Yeah. Well, Scott, I mean, do you not want? want to add Lane Thomas is that way you're a little like he was one of my sleeper hitters for this week as you mentioned I think he's fine

as a hot hand play what's he good at like what does he excel at he's not going to be a big power hitter he's fast enough to be a big base dealer he has one stolen base this year that's what you're hoping for I think is that he's like a

15 15 guy it's not an what reason do you believe like he's hot now yes and that's fine. But he's not going to have, he's not going to hit well over 300 for the rest of the season.

He's probably going to hit well under 300 for the rest of the season. So what are we picking him up for? I'm not saying you can't do it for Cole Calhoun. I mean, that's for any really fringy, low upside guy like that, I think it's fine. But, you know,

for the majority of the audience playing in their 12 team or 10 team three outfielder leagues, I just. He's not relevant in those. those formats he's like a top 75 outfielder maybe I think that he can be yeah he's probably not gonna be someone that excels anywhere but I mean a jack of all trades master of none it's still a pretty useful top of the lineup for what it's worth it's not a good lineup but you know he's going to get opportunities like he

could volume his way to a 15 15 85 run season I think he has a little bit more pop than that I mean it's not it's nothing crazy but can he get to 20 homers with eight to ten steals and a you know, solid batting average and OVP leading off for the nationals. Yeah, I think that's doable. And that's part of why I liked him coming into the season, but it was a very social shot. You're asking him to, to hit 11 home runs and steal nine bases for the rest of the way. And I think that's, it's possible.

He's not far off that pace power-wise. He's got seven homers here in mid-June. So, yeah, the speed is where he's been really disappointing. Sorry, I thought he just had four home runs overall. Okay. Fair enough. All right. Cole Calhoun is one name

that I wanted to bring up. I think he's perfectly fine to drop for him. Hunter Dozier, 43% rostered. That's fine, yeah. Brandon Marsh is 45%. I mean, I guess that's close, but we could do that.

Mark Kenna has actually sneakily been okay. Anyone else? Who else pops out here? Yeah. All right, well, those are the names. Those are names that I have for you. I don't know what obviously El Garcia's roster rate is,

but I think obviously El Garcia is fine to drop. for him. Yeah, he's 41% so he's right around there too. Tiga Hernandez would probably be another one. I don't know what his roster rate is, but again,

even like, Andrew Benintendi's been okay this season, as in he has a high batting average, but he's literally doing nothing else. So, like, I'd be fine dropping him. Enrique Hernandez is 45% rostered.

Yeah, like those, we're not talking about most leagues where he's relevant, but yeah I mean I just I just want to clarify because a lot of times when we talk about guy hitters emerging on the waiver wire like Luis Garcia in recent days or even like Bryson Stott we don't know what the upside is

so I think it's reasonable to take a flyer on them in any format basically I think Lane Thomas is uh I think there are some pretty clear limits to his upside all right well let's once again talk about Louise Garcia and Bryson's stop because you might need a second base replacement. Ozzie Albies suffered a fractured foot after fouling a ball off of it and I've seen some Twitter doctors say that this could be at least eight weeks for Ozzy Albies. I haven't seen an official timeline anywhere but that's some early speculation on what it could look like for

Ozzy Albies. Some names I thought of quickly just if you're looking to trade for a second baseman in your league. Jonathan India just activated on Monday. Of course, whoever has him has been waiting quite a while, so I don't know if they want to give up Jonathan, India. I like what I've seen from Brendan Rogers and Glaber Torres. I think those are some fine options. Javier Baez is like, I don't know that his value will ever be lower than it is right now. So if you want to take a shot on that, not sure how much confidence I have in him.

I think that makes perfect sense. Like I think it makes sense to be skeptical of Javier Baez ever turning it around this season. But like the only chance, like one of the few chances you're going to have to replace Ozzy Albiz kind of production would be if Javier Baezed her figure today. Like I mentioned last week when we talked about him, what he's done so far this season is not dissimilar from what he did in the short and 2020 season season. And he bounced back in 2021 and a very good season. Yeah. We're right there too. We're right at basically. Yeah, right around 60 games. 2020 season ended. Which is just a reminder of how weird that season was. And and and you know, because a lot of people didn't want to take anything from the 2020 season.

And so that's the kind of sample we're talking about that we've seen so far. Yeah, I agree, Javier Bay is if you can get him for dirt cheap. Like, that's, even if whether you lost all B's or not, I think that's not a bad idea. And like, I think Jorge Polanco is probably a pretty good by-low candidate. I know he's heating up lately, but still, the overall numbers are pretty bad. It's a good time to have lost a middle end fielder because of all the young guys emerging there lately. You mentioned Staten Garcia.

I like the upside of both quite a bit. Doesn't mean they're going to get the job done. But while they're popping, you take the shot on them and see where it goes. Christopher Morel, I would also put in that category for the Cubs. He could give you some speed, really, possibly even more speed than Allbies was going to give you to the honest. If you're in a roto league, and this might be a deeper one, John Birdie's stealing a lot of bases right now.

He's playing every day for the Marlins. So if you specifically need speed, consider him. I think that's a good one. He's 16% rostered, and I think I saw that he has, like, eight steals already. He might even have more than that. Nope. He's up to 11. 11.

Geez. 12. 12. 12. 12. 12. Yeah, you got another one today. Yeah.

Wow. And 11 of the 12. have come since May 27th. Yeah, he's been running wild lately. You know who I like as well? I might be alone in this one. Nico Horner. I like what Nico Horner has done this season.

The counting stats aren't great because he missed some time with injury, but three homers, six steals. He's hitting the ball well enough. His expected batting average is 95th percentile. He's not striking out at all. I think Nico Horner is, is sneaky, sneaky, sneaky useful moving forward.

I've got him in some of my 15 team leagues. Yeah, 27% rostered is Nico Horner. Also, Ezekiel Doran. We didn't mention him because he's playing third base, but he retains second base eligibility from last year. Yeah, he went two for four with a double on Monday and stole his first base. First career stolen base for him, 24% rostered.

Santiago Espinal, another name out there. Could be available on some shout. leagues, he's 63% rostered. I guess who is just your favorite of all the names we've mentioned? Scott, second base? Other than bias? Because that's... Yeah, someone, if you're looking to add.

Morrell, but he's the least available. So, of the others who are all widely available, uh, I think actually, I think actually Stott, but it's, it's really close between him, Garcia and Duran. All right. And Chris, it's... Garcia for you right Luis Garcia yeah probably although I'm struggling with Santiago Espinole he's not nearly as widely available as those guys but he is

you know fairly widely available and the underlying numbers are quite solid so you know worth a look at least and that Blue Jays lineup is heating up so I would take Espinall in a points league I'll take Duran in a Roto league but I'll admit there's a lot of interesting name we all have a different favorite yeah All done. Go with whoever you like most here on the podcast. Email of the day. This one's from Brian in Atlanta.

Okay, I know ranking players is hard and outfield is a blob from 20 through 50, but Adolice Garcia is now the number 33 player in Roto and the number nine outfielder. I just want to know if y'all think he is due for major regression or if this is somewhat real. Would Scott really rather have Alex Verdugo, Connor Joe, and Mike Yistremski more than Adolice Garcia. And since this email was sent, all Garcia has done is moved up. He is the seventh ranked outfielder in Roto League's 25th overall player, where he had entering Monday, 243 batting average, 12 homers, nine steals, 33 runs, 40 RBI. Those counting stats are massive for his value right now.

The batting average is probably not going to be great, but the counting stats are amazing. Not as good in points leagues, though might surprise you. 3.1 fantasy points per game is better than John Carlos Stanton, Julio Rodriguez, and Cedric Mullins. All right, enough of me talking. Scott, we'll start with you. What do you think about Adolius Garcia? How much of this is sustainable for him? Would you really rather have

Verdugo or Con or Joe over Garcia? Well, let me try to open my rankings here because in points leagues, yes. And points leagues is the default view when you go to the rankings page. So maybe he, maybe he's just looking at my points league's rankings, I don't know. Adoleses Garcia is terrible in terms of plate discipline.

And, you know, I think there are a couple of factors that are driving his high place in terms of actual performance so far, how high he ranks. One of them is just how bad outfield's been in general. And I think over the course of the season with offense improving, you know, a lot of that's happening in the outfield. I don't see much room for improvement for Garcia specifically, but I think it's not the names around him to improve, and that'll push him down some just by virtue of that.

Secondly, I think the counting stats are too high to believe. Pretty much across the board, but especially runs scored. He's on pace to like 100 runs scored in a so-so lineup with a 290 on base percentage. Like, that's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. So I think there is some regression. I don't think it's going to be steep regression, but some regression in those counting stats specifically runs.

And I think you can RBI because it's like 120 RBI pace. Scott, back up a little bit while you're talking because I think the mic is not catching you clearly and you're kind of cutting out a little bit. Okay. So. There you go. Yeah.

Yeah. So that's, it's a very low floor with, how bad his plate discipline is. And fortunately, it hasn't, like, he's gotten the best, we've gotten his best case scenario so far. And maybe that will continue to an extent. I don't think it can possibly continue to this extent. But maybe it will continue to extent.

Or maybe it'll go like last season where he fell off a cliff in the second half. I think that's a, that's a definite possibility for Garcia again. Chris, something we talked about recently when we were talking about our rankings process, is you don't get credit for things that have already happened. You have to kind of project forward and try and figure out what a player is going to do. Now, Martine Perez is obviously the famous example of trying to figure out what he will do moving forward.

And I have more confidence in Adoles Garcia as a hitter than I do Martine Perez as a pitcher. But there is no denying that last year, while the overall numbers for Adoles Garcia were very good, he was wildly inconsistent. He had a 981 OPS in May. He was sub-800 every other month, and he had two other months

where he was sub-700. So while he's hot now, I think we need to see more to know that he can have sustained success and consistent success. So that's kind of part of my worry with ranking Adoli's Garcia moving forward. Well, I think another way to put that

would be you want to see another cold streak from Garcia. You know, that might be a weird thing to say, but the season is all about ebbs and flows. You know, that's how it is for every player. Some players are more consistent. Some players are less consistent. But right now, we're seeing Adoles Garcia at the peak of an ebb, I think, would be the way to phrase that. He's got a 9.45 OPS in the month of June.

He's got four home runs and 49 plate appearances entering today. He already has two months, however, this season with a 6-76 OPS. in April and a 726 OPS in May, I think, you know, 726 sort of splits the difference between the two, and that's probably more representative of his true talent level, something like a 250 hitter with a load amid 700s OPS is where I would peg him. But four homers, two steals in that month. He's got at least four homers and two steals in every month so far. That's where I think it comes down to just what his skill set is,

which is he hits home runs and steals bases. The extent to which he will do either of those, I don't know if he's going to be a 30 homer guy again. But is there that much difference between him and Randy or Rosarena? In terms of their skill sets? It's a good question. Well, I think Garcia may actually have more power, but you're talking to maybe the biggest group of Rosarena haters.

But we all still have Randy or Roserana as top 30 outfielders. right? In Roto? Yeah, I mean, obviously he's more proven than Garcia. I would say is probably the biggest difference. But I have a role. I think maybe in terms of a Rosa Rana's most likely scenario and Garcia's best case scenario are probably pretty similar.

Garcia maybe with more power or Rosarana with maybe more batting average. Yeah, I have, I've moved Garcia up to 32 at Alfielder. that's as much a representation of how bad I think outfielder is right now and just how bad I feel about that range of outfielders. And a rosarayne is 28 for me, so they're pretty close. I think a rosarine is better, but there's similar skill sets. You know, perhaps Adoles Garcia is a more volatile version of that skill set, but, you know, I think it's a valuable one nonetheless. I think there's a legit argument to rank Adolias Garcia as a top 30, top 35 outfielder in Roto rest of season. A little bit lower.

Yeah, a little bit lower. The play discipline is just so bad in points leagues, as Scott mentioned. So, I mean, just keep that in mind. And I'm, I pulled up my Roto rankings finally, and I do have him behind those three outfielders in Roto two, Yistramski, Joe, and who was the other? Verdugo. Verdugo. Yeah. No, so I mean, I do need to move Garcia up some, but I maintain that in points leagues, in points

leagues, I would rather have each of those three who happen to be points league specialists. And, you know, Garcia is going to be an anti-points league specialist. All right, well, thank you, Brian. I think you convinced some of us to move Adolese Garcia up the rankings, and rightfully so, as long as he's playing this well. Before we hit the break, I want to remind everyone to sign up for our newsletter if you haven't already. CBSports.com slash newsletters is the website to visit, and then you click on the little fantasy baseball today logo there. You punch in your email, and then that's it. You sign up. It's free.

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here on Fantasy Baseball today. The news and notes, Juan Soto was pulled in the ninth inning as a precaution after bumping his knee on the bench. Well, I do this all the time, so I feel, I have a big bruise on my knee

from doing that on the coffee table the other day, so I feel you, Juan. All right. Well, if Chris Towers could live through it, I think Soto should be fine. I played today, so it played softball today, so I'm fine. All right. I mean, slowly, the nationals are kind of crumbling, which we'll get to as we go down this list.

Liam Hendricks played catch pregame Monday as he works through arm stiffness. It sounds like he was not available on Monday either. I think I saw that Kendall Graveman was pitching the ninth inning of that game where they had a full-run lead. Yes, he closed it out. So no Liam Hendricks. hope he's alright. I mean, arm stiffness. Feels like that could go a few different ways. Jonathan India was activated on Monday, though he was not in the Reds lineup.

Sounds like he'll be good to go here on Tuesday. Wanda Franco began agility work on Monday. He's on the aisle with a quad injury. And I mean, if he's just starting stuff up now, probably still a couple of weeks away for Wander Franco. Matt Chapman took part in batting practice Monday and is expected to return to the lineup on Tuesday. Josiah Gray was scratched from his start Monday. due to an extended rain delay.

The team started Arasmo Ramirez instead, and it didn't work very well. I'm sorry, Nationals. Michael Copac is feeling a lot better after getting fluid drained from behind his knee. He was cleared of structural damage, though we still don't know if he will make a start this weekend.

It would come against the Astros anyway, so I would say a void. Jorge Polanco was out of the lineup Monday as he manages backsorness. Jake Berger, crushing it. What happens? Hit in the hand with a pitch on Monday and he got removed from the game. Hopefully he's all right.

Joe Ryan will return and start on Tuesday against the Mariners. Yasmadi Grondal placed on the IL with lower back spasms. He was dealing with a hamstring injury over the weekend and then somehow that developed into back spasms. Hopefully some time off can help get him back on track. Hazer Lozardo threw a long toss off flat ground on Monday. That was his first time throwing a ball. since landing on the IL on May 15th. So about a month of doing nothing for Lazzardo.

Yeah, I would say this problem. I would be surprised if we saw him before the All-Star break. Yeah, I, yeah, that timeline makes sense. About a month and a week or so. Yeah, and the results were sporadic. So I mean, I wouldn't mind taking their time and being cautious with him. Obviously, he's still a young pitcher with a bunch of upside. So take your time there and hopefully he comes back strong.

Steven Strasberg was placed back on the aisle after experiencing discomfort following a bullpen session. They didn't really specify. Obviously, he's coming back from a major injury, but it sounds like it's related to that. And I don't know where this goes, but it does not look good for Steven Strasberg. Unfortunately. Josh Donaldson's suspension appeal was denied and he will serve the one game ban on Tuesday against the raise. Vesel Garcia's MRI on his left hand did not reveal any structural damage. he was scratched Sunday due to mild inflammation.

Jacob Junis is expected to be sidelined four to six weeks due to a grade two left hamstring strain. And Liotti Tavaris was recalled by the Rangers and he was batting at 294 with seven homers, seven steals in 49 AAA games this year. Scott, do you have any interest in Leoti Tavaris in deeper category leagues, those five outfielder leagues? Oh, we've seen him steal bases in both.

in the majors before and really not do anything else. See, I mean, the way he was hitting in the minors is better than he's hit in the minors before. So maybe he figured something out. Leoti Tavaris in his season debut went one for three with a walk and a run scored batting ninth for the Rangers. I mean, look, he's played 136 games at AAA in his career. He's still only 23. He has 24 homers and 20 steals.

I don't think he's going to do that, but I don't know if he can keep the strikeouts somewhat manageable. If he can keep him in the 25 to 27% range, there could be something there. Hey, there were some really smart people excited about him a couple of years ago, so we'll see. The name there is Leoti Tavares.

Some prospect news, Orioles prospect, Kyle Stowers made his debut on Monday. He was batting eighth in the lineup, and he replaced Anthony Santere, who was placed on the restricted list on Monday because they went to Toronto, unvaccinated. It sounds like it could be a short stay for Kyle Stowers. Pirates outfield prospect, Cannon Smith, Nizigba, was promoted, but not in the lineup on

Monday. He was betting 277 with one homer and eight steals in 52 games at AAA this season. Not sure if there's anything there outside of speed, but just a name to monitor for now. This one was kind of big, and we'll see in the next coming days. but according to Alex Stumpf of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports, O'Neill Cruz is two or three days away from being unable to accrue the necessary service time to reach Super 2 status.

So what that means is service time manipulation. Basically, this is all speculation, by the way. But in eight June games, O'Neill Cruz is playing much better. 333 batting average, two homers, one steal. OPS over a thousand. For a while. He was bad to start the season,

He's got a thousand, 37 OPS over the last 28 days. He's basically since the start of May. He's made a lot of errors, which people will bring up. But I don't know. He should be up. This is dumb. It's not. Well, I mean, his overall batting average of AAA is 236.

I'm a little irked at the, I feel like it's just a knee-jerk reaction. All of this is obviously service time manipulation. He only hit 176 in April. Yeah, he's been really good since then. He's been as good as he should have been all along for a month. Right. That's fine. I don't think it's 100% clear that he's mastered AAA.

So that's A. B, I don't think Alex Stumpf of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports could possibly know when the Super 2 cutoff is going to be. We don't know that for years after the fact. That he can nail it down to the precise day, I find laughable. frankly. I think it's like two or three days from when the assumption is, which, yeah. It's not the same thing.

Just call O'Neill Cruz up. Just do it. All right. Well, if he comes up in the next couple of days, I think it might have something to do with the Super 2, but if we don't know that date for a while, then whatever. He's 57% rostered, so he could be out there in some category leagues. John Hayman reports that the Mets could promote catcher prospect,

Francisco Alvarez to the majors this season. At some point, Alvarez is batting 275 with 13 home runs at AA. Would be quite the jump, but we've seen a few other prospects get that call this season. So we shall see. And there's been really no shortage of young exciting catcher prospects getting called up. So that would just add another one. Let's take a look at league offense in June. I wanted, you know, to get a couple of weeks in here and then take a look at what's going on. But overall, in the month of June. 249 batting average, 21.7% K rate, 731 OPS, 12.7% home run to flyball ratio. The batting average, the OPS, the home run to flyball ratio are all the highest they've been of any month thus far. And in fact, the 731 OPS is higher than the league OPS was last season.

So I think this is a good sign that offense is coming around. The home run to fly ball ratio is still below last year. And it's way below 2019. And I think that's the expectation. We're not going to come anywhere close to those 2019. 2019 is the high watermark for sure. And worth reiterating, every June is higher than the May and April that preceded it. But I do think the extent of the improvement is more significant this year than usual.

Yeah. And I think this might kind of sum it up. I wrote about this on Thursday last week. in games played in 50 degree or below weather so far this season the league-wide OPS was 654 and games played between 51 and 70 degrees it was 686 and games played 71 degrees and above it was 724 and that's a fairly wide range of temperatures for 71 and above as well and I think I'm starting to think that assuming we keep the

current ball, which, assuming we keep the current ball and the humidors, and I think we would, then what we might just have to deal with is just more extreme variation in offensive environment between colder and warmer environments based or humid environments or relative humid, like whatever. I think the simple way to think about it would probably be cold versus warm. and, you know, that's going to mean that offense could be really bad in April moving forward. And the side note I wanted to throw in there was one of the minor leagues was experimenting with, I don't know if you guys saw this, but one of the minor leagues was experimenting with a different ball that had like a tacky surface like they use in Japan.

And I think they backed off that experiment like two weeks in. So not a great sign for that experiment. But yeah, I think this might just be life now, at least under these circumstances, which these specific circumstances could change. Yes. At any point. But, yeah, I think we might just see these kind of extreme fluctuations between offense in April versus offense in June and July and August. And presumably, offense league-wide is going to be even greater. in July and August based on what we've seen.

Yeah, and that's what we were theorizing in April. So I guess, frustrating. Kudos to us. But yeah, no, if they don't make any tweaks with the humidor, and I feel like they should, because this can't be good for the product to have a different game in April versus June.

But yeah, we're just going to have to condition ourselves that April's going to suck and not to overreact to it. But the problem is it's going to implement. impact every player differently and it's going to make like it like let's put the the the the elephant in the room out there betting is a big part of me of professional sports bottom line right now and having a consistent predictable but not like not predictable in like the game to game outcomes but just predictable in like the environment that's really important of the game yeah yeah like that that matters because that's going and so I

Assuming the status quo that we've seen this season rains moving forward, we should expect more extreme variations from offensive environments in April, May, June, etc. I agree that they will probably try to find some way to fix this, whether that's further tweaks to the ball or tweaking the humidore so that it's about relative humidity rather than absolute humidity. I think they're all stored in the same temperature and humidity range, regardless of the atmospheric conditions around them. So it, I don't know. I don't know. I'm not smart enough to know all of this for sure. But it's annoying.

It's annoying. Yes. It definitely is. And especially when look, a lot of people early in the season are freaking out about their team's offense or lack thereof and trying to figure out what to do with, with hitters. I mean, it happened to us. It happened to people listening, and I get it. You know, maybe if this is the environment moving forward, we just draft a bunch of hitters early on.

And we roll out like Brad Keller and Madison Pumpgarner in April because those guys were awesome. And it just seems like streaming pitching will be a lot easier in early April than other months moving forward. But we've got like all-off season to figure that out. What does it mean moving forward for this season? Well, in theory, you're established struggling hitters. see some positive regression. And I think it also means that you're going to need more offense overall to compete in your category leagues, your roto leagues. And I also think it means that we're going to see some pitchers regress as well.

So maybe some flyball pitchers or just pitchers that pitch to contact in general. Yeah. I think we could see some of those pitchers regress even more moving forward throughout the season. All I know is my teams are doing a lot better. I drafted for how it's going now, not how it went in April. My issue with this is my issue with when we were talking about like what to expect in 2020 with like the short season and there are going to be groups or types of players who are more or less impacted by one offensive environment for versus the other and it might be possible to identify certain skill sets that will be more or less impacted but it's going to be really really hard because we're talking about

you know it's not just one aspect of the game that's changing it's several aspects that overlap with each other and I just I think trying to say this player and that player like this player is going to be affected but this player like that's really difficult no I look I look we don't I I'm theorizing on which players could be affected like you know pitchers who pitch to contact but I really don't know I mean it's just that's my that just makes sense because you would think if worse things are going to happen when there's balls in play players who give up pitchers who give up more balls and play are going to be more affected by it because there are more opportunities

for that to affect them you know like that i think that makes sense yeah it's a pretty basic hypothesis but yeah i mean in terms of like which specific hitter will turn around i can't tell you i can tell you that there are hitters that are turning it around and these four were the first four that stood out to me nelson cruz in the month of june 4005 batting average, three homers in OPS over 1100. Kyle Schwarber, the beef cake. He's coming around. Remember what he did in June last year or two?

I think he hit like 16 home runs. 318 batting average, five homers, four doubles, and 1150 OPS for Schwarbs. Brian Reynolds, we needed this because he's been quite bad. 395 batting average in June. Three homers, one steel in OPS over 1,000. And then Jose Abraeu just added a double dong on Monday. so far this month, 319 batting average, four homers, 1025 OPS.

These are all pretty established hitters, and I think it's a good sign that they are coming around. Yeah. Well, and to Chris's point, Nelson Cruz, Kyle Schwerber, and Jose Abrae, they're not the sort of hitters we would have pegged to have to suffer inordinately during that bad April. Ryan Reynolds, maybe. Yeah, you could see that. Marcus Simeon, who.

has also been coming around lately totally makes sense too that he would struggle with that April environment but but we're not going to be able like it's bad for every hitter and it's going to be it's going to affect ones we don't see coming if and here's the the especially hard thing and this is what I wrote about with Joey Votto on in Thursday's trade values column is like was his early season struggle just a cold streak was it the result of that tinkering that he did in the offseason, that weird hockey puck bat,

and was it the offensive environment? Probably some combination of all of those things. And the thing that makes this especially tough is like with Nelson Cruz or Joey Votto, both of them are very old for baseball players. If they were going to fall off a cliff, it would have looked like what it did in April and May for both of them.

They looked finished. Like they weren't doing anything well. And so that's exacerbated by the negative offensive environment they found themselves in. But it's also sometimes guys just struggle. Sometimes guys just don't have a good month. And there's not a reason for it, at least not a reason that we can point to and then explain from the outside. And so that's what makes this really hard. And the changing offensive environment makes it even harder.

and I think in the case of a Brayu, Schwerber, Cruz, Reynolds, like those are four guys who I don't want to speak for you to, but I pretty much never lost faith in them. Yeah. I never made a point to move any of them down in my rankings. Not Schwerber and not a brave for sure.

I wasn't actively looking to sell Cruz and Reynolds, but Cruz obviously had the age thing and Reynolds the fact that he doesn't impact the ball as hard on average as the rest of that group. So I was a little more concerned about the two of them. But generally speaking, yeah, I'd say, I'd say it was a buy on all of them. And Reynolds is another guy.

You know, his, he was bad in 2020, which is about the same sample size as what we have. So yeah, I, I still think as much of a sample size as we do have. And it's not to say that you should just ignore everything you've seen. But you should have a, a baseline and that baseline should be hard to move and especially so when i think we just have bad data right now i think that's just what it comes down to is that this the data that we have so far this season probably isn't going to tell us all that much about what's going to happen moving forward

relative to even other two-month sample sizes yeah no that's fair enough and outside of those four hitters, I found a quartet of teammates. The Toronto Blue Jays looking at OPS leaderboards for June. There was just a bunch of these guys that stood out. So Lordis Gariel, he had a three hit game on Monday. He's batting 425, only one homer, but three doubles. OPS over a thousand for the month. Teaska Hernandez, three for five. Power hasn't showed up yet, but he's hitting 370, OPS over a thousand as well. He's hitting the ball very hard once again. Bo Bichette, Bichette's been great since the start of May, but he's been even better in June. Two more hits on Monday.

3.20 batting average. Three home runs. He's striking out less. He's walking more. The fly balls are back up. 944 OPS for him. And then Vladimir Guerrero Jr. We're getting emails and tweets.

What's going wrong with Vladimir Guerrero? He looks pretty good. Three for five. He hit his 15th home run of the season. He's hitting 288. He's got six home runs in June. OPS over 1,000. crushing the ball.

96 mile per hour, average exit velocity. Still too many ground balls. His average launch angle is 2.1. So just imagine if he puts the ball in the air a little bit more while hitting it as well as he is. All of a sudden, he's not far off from last year's home run. He's on like a 45 homer pace, basically. Yeah. What is his home run to fly ball ratio right now?

26.5, it was 26.4% before today. So it's higher than last year now. Yeah. And that's what he's going to need to do if he's going to hit this many ground balls. He's going to have to maintain a very high home run to fly ball ratio, but... And he's going to. Yeah, considering how much he impacts the ball. I also thought this was a crazy stat, which I saw on Twitter.

Both Vlad Jr. and his father, Hall of Famer, Vladimir Guerrero, had a 364 on-base percentage and 87 home runs exactly through their first 403 career games. That's pretty crazy. That's pretty crazy. Almost as crazy as what, Prince Fielder. and his pops finishing with the same number of home runs, career home runs. Did they?

Yeah. Wow. Prince Fielder and Cecil Fielder. Each had a 50 homer year. 51 for Cecil. It's crazy stuff. But the point of this entire segment was to remind you that,

yes, offense is coming around, better days are coming for your struggling hitters, hopefully, and these names are all part of that group. That has already started coming around. A few waiver-wire pitchers that stood out from Monday. Deeper leagues.

I don't think that these are like must-add pitchers. I'm not running out to my waiver wire. But Justin Steele now has two seven-ending quality starts in a row. He went seven innings, one run, three strikeouts up against the Padres. And a new nickname, I'm going to work on this for Mitch Keller. The Godfather, because just when you think you're out, he pulls you back in. Mitch Keller has now allowed two earn runs or fewer in three straight starts on the back of that pitch-mix change where he's using a sinker

as one of his primary pitches, something he's really never done in the past. But yeah, he's looked much better over these last restarts. Chris, what do you think? You are the Mitch Keller guy. Don't put that evil on me. You're even wearing your Pirates yellow shirt, everything.

This is a drive-by-trucker shirt. Yeah, pirates. I do like the pirates, historically. I view it like I view Martine Perez. I can buy that there is a better version of Mitch Keller here, throwing more sinkers. I don't buy that this version of Mitch Keller is going to be fantasy relevant.

I just, that's fair. I don't think there's enough swing and miss in his game. I don't think he has good enough command. I think he can be, like, I could see Mitch Keller being an average major league pitcher with this approach, but I don't think he's going to be particularly useful for fantasy. He's got to keep those walks down. I mean, that's been one of the main issue. issues for him. Scott, I mean, Justin Steele kind of does some interesting things, almost a strikeout

per inning, 51% ground ball rate. But if we're talking about walks, I guess throw Justin Steele in that conversation because he just walks way too many. What do you think about these two Steele and the godfather, Mitch Keller? Well, and Steele, I mean, yeah, I know his overall strikeout rate is is fine, but last two starts, really good, combined four strikeouts in 14 innings. So it's hard to get excited about that. And as for Keller, I would say, if you're a Pirates pitcher right now,

you've got to be a big strikeout pitcher, probably to matter if you're on the Pirates. Brian Hayes leads Major League Baseball and outs above average, or whatever the baseball savant stat is. So

show some respect. Even so. The bad team. And, uh, yeah, it's, Yeah, Keller's not going to get any help from a supporting cast there, and I don't think he's good enough on his own to be more than a streamable type.

I agree with Chris. All right. Well, what about these two pitchers as potential drops? Ian Anderson just, he always reminds us why it's so hard to trust him. He gives up two runs over four running's pitched, but six more hits, four more walks. The whip is just unbearable for Ian Anderson, and he's still 94% rostered. His ERA is up to 4.66. And then Merrill Kelly, it's like, I think the experiment is over for Merrill Kelly.

Just wanted your guy's confirmation. Scott, what do you think about dropping Ian Anderson and or Merrill Kelly? Merrill Kelly is a streamable. We've been there for a while now with him. I don't have any problem with people picking him up for the two-start week, but that's all you're doing it for. And then you let him go after this week. Ian Anderson's frustrating because I feel like he should be better than he is.

his swinging strike rate has been virtually identical each of his three seasons in the majors, and yet the strikeout rate has fallen precipitously each year. And I don't know what's going on with that. Obviously, walking fewer guys would help. Hopefully, sometime in the next year or two, he takes a Kyle Wright-type leap because I think he's been better up to this point

than Wright was to begin his career. But yeah, it's for this year, I think he's over-roastered and is probably, you know, I like him more than like Kelly and Keller. But he's closer to that range of starting pitchers than probably other guys who are 94% rostered. Yeah, no, I think that's fair. Some other pitching leftovers, Aces being Aces, Arenola, another strong start, seven innings, two runs, six strikeouts to zero walks. Sandy Alcantara makes it seven straight starts of seven plus innings pitch. Just bonkers. Seven and two-thirds

innings for him. Two runs, five strikeouts to three walks. I thought they left him in there too long. I know he's a workhorse, but 98 pitches going into the eighth inning. He walked the first two batters. I felt like they left him in too long. Watching that game, I think he might have fought Don Mattingly if he tried to take him out before that. Well, I mean, he ends up leaving the game and they show him in the dug he's like screaming at himself for not being able to get out of that inning. I know, but it's if, all right, if you're going to leave him in that long,

I just let him face D.D. Gregorius, right? It's like, why are you taking him out for a lefty to face Dedy Gregorius, who then gives up the game tying run? It was annoying. And Alec Manoa makes it 11 for 12 on quality starts. It's just more of the same six shutout innings, one hit, one walk, seven strikeouts. The ERA is down to 1.67 for me.

Manoa. And I have a theory. I think he's just pitching the contact more because his quality of contact against is so poor, like, in a good way. He just does not give up a lot of hard contact. So if that allows him to be more efficient, why not pitch that way? That's just how I feel about Manoa. He's got a 325 career expected well-bond contact allowed. League average is 370.

That is exemplary. I was skeptical about him coming into the season, but I was pretty quiet about it. I didn't really like, it didn't really, I didn't bring it up a lot. I didn't really reflect it in the rankings. Like, he was still a top 30 starting pitcher for me, which was too low, clearly. But I wish I had actually drafted him. Some hitting leftovers worth mentioning, Paul Goldschmidt went three for four with his 13th home run. He is batting 335, which just blew my mind when I saw that number.

He is amazing. Dylan Carlson went two for four with his third home run. Tyler O'Neill in seven games since returning from the aisle, 10 hits, one homer, two steals, a 30% strikeout rate. It's pretty normal for him, but good to see he's hitting the ball again. Marcus Semyon went three for five with his 11th stolen base, and five more home runs for the Atlanta Braves, who are red-hot right now.

Marcel O'Suna hit his 11th. Danes v. Swanson hit his eighth. Travis Darno hit his seventh homer. Adam Duval hit his seventh, and he has five home runs over his last eight games, and Michael Harris got in on the fun. He hit his first career home run. 49% rostered is Harris.

36% is Adam Duval. I would take both over Lane Thomas, so I'll throw that out there, and I do like both players, especially Duval. I mean, when he gets hot, he could just carry your team, so keep that of mind.

Some bullpen updates for the Phillies. Corey Canable was unavailable. Sir Anthony Dominguez pitched in the ninth inning. It was a clean inning for him and he wound up with the win in that game. For the Cardinals, Giovanni Gallegos entered in the seventh inning with the game tied. The Cardinals then took the lead and Ryan Helsley came in in the ninth inning. He got his fifth save.

Someone tweeted at us, Scott, and they said, this is it. Ryan Helsley is the closer. Top 10 closer rest of season. Yeah, I was checking to see when's the last time Gallegos got a save because there have been, instances over the past couple weeks where Gallegos followed Helsley in the game but if we're just if we're talking strictly saves Helsley has four since Gaiagos got his last one

so maybe that's maybe that's the clearest indication yet I don't think Gaiagos has pitched in a save situation they haven't yeah since since May 20th they haven't had many I should say yeah yeah because he has one blown save but I believe he was in a tie game in that situation yeah he was um so yeah I think uh I don't know I wouldn't have been a time probably has been it would have been before the ninth right uh you can't blow a safe at a tie oh sorry sorry I was like at the wrong game yeah he got a win and but he pitched the ninth inning and yeah

yeah okay I yeah I think the days of saves might be gone for Giovanni Gallegos unfortunately for the Rangers Matt Moore picked up his first save. Joe Barlow worked Saturday and Sunday. The Padres, Taylor Rogers, struck out two for his 19th save and the twins. They just wrapped up a one-run victory where Yohan Duran pitched in the 8th and Emilio Pagan picked up his ninth save. So the stream or not to stream will start with Tuesday J.T. Brubaker at the Cardinals, Matthew Liberator versus the Pirates, Zach Eflin versus the Marlins, Trevor Rogers at the Phillies and Yusay Kucchi versus the Orioles.

Eflin. Yep. For sure. I still have faith in Trevor Rogers figuring out at some point. Not sure I'd want to start him. I agree. Wednesday, Kyle Gibson versus the Marlins. Alex Fayetteau versus the White Sox, Spencer Strider at the Nationals, Rich Hill versus the A's, Andre Palante versus the Pirates and Rwanzi Contreras at the Cardinals.

Definitely Strider. Yeah, I think he's a clear standout here. that should that's like basically a must spot on the board yeah Gibson against the Marlins is okay if I do against the white sucks is okay but Strider is the priority here for sure

Strider is still 67% rostered on CBS that's dumb could be available in your leagues only does have relief pitcher eligibility for now but yeah we must be yeah two more starts he'll get starting pitcher eligibility among pitchers with 30 innings. He has the highest K per 9. And I believe the fourth highest

swinging strike rate, but the highest K per 9. It's pretty awesome. Pretty awesome stuff. All right, team name Tuesday. We'll wrap up with some of these. Don't have too many here. From Michael, team name Tuesday for South Park fans. Heura towel. You're a towel. From saves Tuesday on Twitter for my wrestling fans out there. Young Lux Super Kirk party. I'll tell you guys later. From Jim Soto shot first. So the problem with this one, I like the idea, but it's typically phrased as Han shot first.

That's my only, that's my nerdy critique. Yeah, so why not Wan shot first? One shot first, yeah, that works. It works for me. This one's... Juan Soto, Han Solo. We got Juan Soto and Bo Bichet in the same room together

somebody's leaving in that what's that called? Carbonite, yeah. I got to step up to Star Wars game because I am way behind right now. This one's from Brad. Should I do this? Yeah, sure.

Should I do it, Chris? I thought about it. I don't know, I'll let you decide. Let's move on to Mark. All right, let's go on to Mark. These are big, beefy, baseball boy additions. Voight for Patriot. Yep.

Guerrero row your boat. I like it. Do you guys know how to pronounce this? It would be Tolle Miserab. That sounds right. I think that's how you pronounce it. Yeah, what Chris said. I'm bringing Vogel Bach.

I like it. And I don't know how this song goes. You don't know this song? No, come on. Jake Burger in Paradise. In Paradise. No, no. That's that's, that's.

an Eddie Money song. This is, I think this is a different song. No, the one I'm, I sang, it's Cheeseburger in Paradise is a, is a Jimmy Buffett song. All right. You're right about that. You're right about that. But I was singing it to the tune of two tickets in Paradise by Eddie Money. So I think maybe I threw you off.

Well, it's somewhat similar. Like the same number of letter, syllables, I guess. I kind of like that more. The name's burger. So it's obviously, it's obviously, it's obviously. the Jimmy Buffett song. No, no, I understand. Yeah. I just don't know how that song goes. So I'm going to sing Jake Burger in Paradise. Okay. And the Jimmy Buffett one is Jake Burger in Paradise. So it's very, it's similar. I never noticed how similar those are. Maybe there's some kind of crossover we don't

know about. Shout out Eddie Money, by the way. The ultimate, the ultimate crossover event. Eddie Money and Jimmy Buffett. All right. That seems like a great place to wrap up 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.