Fantasy Baseball Today - Pitcher Struggles, Jordan Walker's Playing Time & Strider Dominates (4/25 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 25, 2023

Chris Sale was bad again (3:05)! ... Why is Jordan Walker losing playing time (9:05)? ... Joey Gallo and Sonny Gray both got their revenge on the Yankees (16:20)! ... Spencer Strider was amazing Monday night (24:15)! ... Alex Cobb threw a shutout (30:40). ... What do we do with Nick Lodolo and Lance Lynn (32:30)? ... News (40:31): Yordan Alvarez is dealing with a neck injury. ... The Rays have collectively improved their launch angle this season (48:52). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (51:00). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ 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

Hello there, everybody. I'm going to do something different today, given the way certain twins players got their revenge against the Yankees on Monday night. I figured I would start today's podcast with the hit single Gallo, released by Chris Towers, featuring Chris Towers back in 2021. Please enjoy. Scouts of the deep end, join Chris and I have him. We lost that. But we trade out of this. Just draft your weekend. Just draft your weekend.

Welcome in to fantasy baseball today. I know you're supposed to laugh at your own jokes, but it just makes me laugh every time. Welcome in, everybody, to fantasy baseball today on Tuesday, April 25th. Frank Staple, joined by Scott White and the rock star himself, Chris Towers. Today on the show, we're going to recap all of Monday's action. Talk about some struggling pitchers. Spencer Shrider is amazing. Team name Tuesday and much more. Before we get started, please like this video and subscribe on YouTube if you haven't already. If you're listening on the audio side, download, follow and leave a five star rating. Thank you very much. Chris, with all that being said. Oh, boy. That was good. For anyone who just watched or listened to that and they have no idea what's going on, would you like to explain?

Yeah. Back in the off season of 2021, someone sent in full lyrics to a parody version of Shallow, the song from the major motion hit picture, a star is born. Starring Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga. And I decided to record it, both parts. And like, I can do the Bradley Cooper part pretty well. The Lady Gaga part a little bit out of my range. A little bit.

Like maybe three or four octaves to your falsetto voice was cracking there at one point. It's so good. It is so good, man. Someone either tweeted at me or emailed in and they said, dude, you got to play the Gallo song today. I was like, you're right. I'm going to lead the podcast with Gallo. I think what made me laugh this time was just where you started it. I had forgotten that I went that high. So thank you. Thank you for that. Yes, so for anyone who has just joined us recently and you heard that for the first time, you probably have no idea what's going on. Leave a five-star review. Yes, please do. It was amazing.

Anyway, let's get into Monday Night's action. I don't believe! That's right. Oh my goodness gracious, Players of the Night. Chris, let's start with you. Oh, we're going to start. We're going to go from something so beautiful to something so negative. We're going to talk about Chris Sale, who has just been.

an absolute disaster and I was leaving my softball game tonight and someone on my team asked me, are we dropping Chris Sale? I hadn't seen his box score line, but man, five earn runs, five innings, one walks, zero strikeouts. Has Chris Sale ever had a start with zero strikeouts and five innings? That's something worth looking up. I'd be surprised if he hadn't, because he's, made a lot of starts, but two swinging strikes on 83 pitches in this one.

I was looking at some quotes from Chris Sale and Alex Cora. You know, Alex Cora, it basically was like, well, the stuff looks okay. He's just, you know, he referenced one plate appearance where it was like, slider down and in, slider down and in, batter fouled off like three of them. And then he left a fastball over the heart of the plate and he got crushed. And it made me, it sounded a little. little like Kauram might have been hinting that he was tipping his pitches or something like that. Yeah, I saw a more direct insinuation.

Yeah, clearly he's not executing well right now. But Chris Sale, it reminds me a little bit of, gosh, this is probably 2018 or 2019 at this point. I think it's 2019, which was before he had Tommy John surgery. I'm not suggesting that it's like that, but it was when he had 440 ERA and 25 starts, and we kept talking about it. He's getting a ton of strikeouts,

which he's not doing right now. He was getting a ton of whiffs. He was. Yeah, I mean, he was before this start. He still has 30 strikeouts and 23 innings. But yeah, it reminds me a little of that where it's like there's not like an obvious culprit to explain why he's struggling.

He's just not as overpowering as he once was. and when you miss your spots when you're not as overpowering as you once were, you get hit hard. I don't know. I'm certainly worried about it. I'm certainly worried about the like nine fantasy teams I have that Chris Sails on.

But to answer your softball friend's question, no. It's not time to drop Chris. I probably wouldn't. Yeah. I mean, we only need to go back to his last start. to explain why not to drop him. He struck out 11.

He had 19 swinging strikes. His average exit velocity was very low, low 80s. We know the ability is still in there. He's just, like you said, having some trouble executing right now. I don't know. Maybe some pitch tipping thing was going on at this start. I don't know. But it's not like his velocity was just suddenly down three miles an hour,

and that's why he went from striking out everyone to striking out no one. So, like, I get it, the frustration. Like, I share the frustration. I'm most invested in. This is the pitcher who, heading into this year, I probably staked my reputation on the most. So I have a lot to lose with every bad Chris sale start. But I'm not ready to pull the plug.

I mean, a thing, and I was writing an article about this today, specifically with regard to the struggling rookies, it's April 25th we're not even at the end of the first month of a very long season pitchers have bad months and go on to have great seasons still so like if there are signs

that dominant Chris Sale is still in there and like I said we just saw it last start I think you have to write it out with them at least for another month to see if that version shows up again and doesn't mean you have to start him every time.

I get you probably start him this time. The good news, I guess it's good news, is that because Brian Beyo was sent down, I think they're back to a five-man rotation, which means if you started sale, you'll get another chance with them this week. I am... Chris, you're muted.

I am putting that as good news, which I think is telling. Chris was trying to make some impassioned response to Scott. Oh, I was just good. Good news. You get another Chris Sale start this week. Oh, great. The food was terrible and the portions were so small. I might have a much simpler explanation and the Baltimore Orioles might just have Chris Sales number. He has faced them three times dating back to spring training. So obviously they've seen him a lot.

Maybe they they know what to look for. Maybe he is tipping their pitches and only they've figured it out. Perhaps, yeah, because he has allowed 18 earned runs over 13 innings pitched against the Orioles. That's two regular season starts and one in spring training that he got rocked against them as well. So the Orioles clearly have his number right now. And to answer your earlier question, Chris, I looked up his career game log. It looked like there was a six-inning start with one strikeout, but I didn't see any starts where he only, where he had zero strikeouts through five innings. So this is something that Chris Sale has never done before.

And he's getting crushed. He's allowing a lot of hard contact. He allowed a lot of hard contact in this start as well. But again, I kind of just go back to the Orioles have seen him a lot so far this season. I agree, not dropping him. If you want to bench him and say, look, I need to see two to three starts in a row where Chris Sail at least looks serviceable before I get him back in my lineup. I don't have a problem with that, but I don't think that you should drop him,

even in shallower 10 or 12 team leagues. Scott, let's go over to you. Oh, my goodness gracious. Player, it's not really player the night. It's like a kind of a weird situation that's going on right now. Well, oh my goodness gracious is what I said when I saw that Jordan Walker was out of the lineup for the fourth time in nine games. So, you know, he began his major league career with a 12-game hit streak. Since then, he's gone five for 26, which isn't great.

But it does seem kind of odd that, well, we should start benching him now based on that. And I think part of the issue is just a concern I had when, you know, there was still some question whether Jordan Walker makes the roster is where they're going to play and they have a lot of other good outfield options. And I think given that Alec Berluson got off to a nice start while Lars Neupar was out and Lars Neupar is back now. The Cardinals are just part of it's they're just struggling to play everybody they want to play. And so Jordan Walker is bearing the brunt of that right now when he's, you know, kind of cooled off a bit. that's I think the simplest way of looking at it and you know we're getting

we're getting a lot of tweets right now like oh is it time to give up on Jordan Walker no and you know this is when I're where I'd also remind you as I was just saying with Chris Sale it's April 25th last April Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt combined for zero home runs combined for zero home runs last April they were both hitting, I believe, well below 200.

So no matter what you could say about Jordan Walker's start to this season, to start to his rookie season, it's going better than that. It's going better than that. And, you know, hopefully at this time last year, you weren't dropping Julio Rodriguez or Bobby Witt. I will add, and this was more directly what I was writing about tonight, is how many of this rookie class have, made a substantive impact and fantasy

and come anywhere close to making the impact we hope they'd make. It's basically Logan O'Hoppy who just got hurt. Corbyn't Carole's been fine. James Outman's been a godsend. But otherwise, all the rookies have kind of stumped. And as I was just saying, in comparing him to Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt, I don't think you give up on the ones you're most invested in, like Walker, like Henderson, those really, really high-end types.

You don't want to give up on them. You shun it. You're invested in now. It's too late. You've got to see it through. And like there's a good chance, guys, that high-end will figure it out. But, and this is a point I've been making basically since the pandemic shortened season, it does kind of feel like the high-end prospects aren't succeeding right away as often as they used to.

In fact, they're disappointing us probably more often than not. I mean, last year, two years in a row, I'm not even counting this year, two years in a row now, we've had three top 10 type prospects just completely bond in their first look at the majors. Last year it was Spencer Torkelson, Riley Green, C.J. Abrams. The year before, it was Jared Kelnick, Joe Adele, and Andrew Vaughn. like completely underwhelmed us as top 10 consensus top 10 prospects the guys who are supposed to be the most trustworthy of all and I can't help but wonder if you know I'm contributing to this too if we need to stop hyping those guys so much and we just need to let them develop instead of treating them like their huge assets right away

yeah I mean it's it's always tough with young prospects because you're all always playing the upside versus risk game with them. And it's possible that the pendulum has just swung a little bit back more to them being risks. But it's always been, you know, you take Jordan Walker 100th overall, not because you think he's going to be the 100th best player in fantasy. Well, you hope he's going to be better than that. Right. You draft him because 20% of the time he's one of the 25 best players in fantasy. and you just live with the fact that 45% of the time,

he's not very useful at all. And I think we've gotten a little spoiled by Ronald Acuna and Fernando Tatis and these guys. Because you also think of like, Vladimir Guerrero was okay, but he didn't make an impact for fantasy really until his third season. Elohimenez, his second season, I think, was the COVID-shortened season. And he was very good, but then he had injuries the next year and struggled.

And so, you know, there were still like not just superstars or busts. There were guys who were just decent for a while before figuring it out. But there was also like a much higher success rate on the mid-tier prospects, like the Edward, Julian, Michael Bush types getting called up. We're often becoming impact players right away, too. We just, we endured a very long period where it seemed like there was. a huge learning curve between the minors and the majors. And now it seems like there is a big learning curve again. And I don't know why.

Coming out of the pandemic, when I feel like it started, okay, you could make the argument, there was no minor league season in 2020. All these guys are rusty. But I think we're beyond that at this point. And it's still happening. And I do think it's just kind of a cyclical thing because you go back to when I first started doing this for CBS, you know, 15 years ago or whatever,

I was writing articles like, yeah, when these big rookies get called up, maybe don't go crazy investing on them, because a lot of times it takes them a while to round into form. That's an investment that's not going to pay off most of the time. And maybe we're back to that, and we need to recalibrate for these young guys,

because they're all letting us down. It also could be that maybe they don't need a full 162 games, that maybe the learning curve isn't that steep. Maybe they just need like six weeks and then they get the hang of it. Like we saw with Julio Rodriguez and Bobby Witt, which is why I'm saying, don't bail on them yet.

Ezekiel Tovar, okay, maybe. You know, even Miguel Vargas in like a 12-team at Roto League, I would probably want to hang on to. Tristan Casas, maybe. You could let him go playing a deep position.

But, But the more expensive types, the higher-end prospects, the Gunner-Henderson's and getting back to the original player, Jordan Walker's of the world. I think you, like I said, I think you have to let it play out and hopefully they get in the swing of things within a matter of weeks rather than a matter of months. Yes, indeed. Oh, my goodness gracious for me, I am just going to talk about all those twins who got their revenge. I mean, most notably, Joey Gallo, hitting a home run against him.

Yankees. I mean, that must feel so great for him. And then Sonny Gray, former Yankee too. I mean, what are you laughing at Chris? Just the way you said it. I can't. I mean, come on. Like, Joey Gallo had a terrible time in New York. Like, there's no hiding it. And he goes out his first game against the Yankees. I think his first game because they played them last week, but I think he was on the IL. And he hits a home run. So good for him. And he didn't just hit a home run. One 10.6 exit velocity, 432 feet. He's got three home runs in six games since returning. from the IL. He is striking out less. He's swinging and missing less. He is swinging at more pitches inside the strike zone than ever before in his career. His exit velocity, his average

exit velocity entering Monday night was 100.3 miles per hour with a 33% barrel rate. So I hope you listen to Scott and you picked up Joey Gallo for this week because I know he was on the sleeper hitters list. He's 54% rostered. Could still be out there. And look, if he can get back to 80, 85% of the player he was in his prime. I mean, we could get, you know, 30, 35 home runs out of him again. So, look, I was someone that completely, you know, wrote him off, but so far he's, he's made me look fool. His Joey Gallows looked very good. Sunny Gray has also looked very good. He kept it rolling up against the Yankees, seven shutout, eight strikeouts in this one, 18 swinging strikes on 107 pitches, nine on the curve, seven on the cutter. He limited the hard contact in this one as well.

And so far through his, I guess he's made five starts, 0.62 ERA, 1.07 whip over a strikeout per inning. He's looked really good. He's just looked rock solid. Sonny Gray has. I don't know if you guys have any thoughts. Scott will throw it your way. Sunny Gray continues to keep it wrong.

I guess you can call him a cell high, but we just don't have many pitchers that are performing this consistently. I think I would probably just hold on to Sunny Gray. it's hard to call any pitcher who's performing well for you and there have been few who performed better than Sunny Gray with his 0.62 ERA. It's hard to move on from those guys. I know I suggested that with Graham Ashcraft yesterday,

but Sonny Gray does have inconsistent though his track record may be. He's had like seasons that were, you know, putting him in the Cy Young discussion. So if he turned in one of those seasons this year, I don't think it would be the most shocking thing ever. And there's a key distinction between Sunny Gray and Graham Ashcraft. The results have been good for both. Sunny Gray is actually pitching, though.

I don't think Graham Ashcraft is pitching well right now, at least not in a way that is sustainable. Yeah. In terms of like getting whiffs and. Yeah, like what Sunny Gray is doing right now might not be sustainable. I want to be clear. Like we've seen a long enough track record here where we know he goes through fits and starts. But

the way he is performing right now suggests that what he is, the results he is getting are real. Or somewhat real. Crime Ashcraft is pitching over his head right now. In addition to you know, it's the difference

between like a hot streak and just getting lucky. Yep. And I recently moved Sunny Gray inside my top 50 starting pitchers. Scott, I know, usually hit you know, the rankings, update the rankings and midweek time. Do you Sunny Gray climbs inside the top 50? I'd have to pull it up and see, I mean, just off the top of my head, I would say, yeah, probably.

I think this rankings update I have coming up Tuesday is going to be the most extensive I've done so far this year, would be my guess. And yeah, I probably should be hitting it a little more often than I've had been hitting it. That's been one of my regret the early on. Just so busy writing content, it's hard to get to it. Would you rather have Sunny Gray or Chris Sayle rest of season? I'm going to still say Chris Sale I think so too Alright

But it feels You feel less stupid That's a toughie It feels really gross Would you rather have Sunny Gray or Dustin May Ooh I like the rhyming scheme We got going on here I would rather have

Dustin May But I can get Sunny Gray inside my top 50 Looking at it What about Sunny Gray or Grey Sun Rodriguez I will take Sunny Sunny Gray. Sunny Gray there, yeah. But I think Sunny Gray, Chris Sale, and Dustin May are all in a similar range.

It's like once you get outside the top 25 starting pitchers from 26 to, let's call it, you know, 45 or 48, that's just like one really big glob that, depending on how they perform over the next couple of weeks, they can really move up a lot or move down a lot. So it's very interchangeable to that group right now. Chris, you wrote the song, anything you'd like to add on Joey Gell? Yeah, let's not like, you know, let's not over or under react. Joey Gallo is what, like 50% rostered right now? 54. That's probably too low. Yeah.

But I don't think like all of a sudden, Joey Gallo is going to be a contributor in batting average. If he hits 235 the rest of the way, I think you're thrilled. So let's keep that in mind. But what he's doing so far, is very impressive. He's crushing the ball. We know there are maybe four players in baseball with raw power comparable

to Joey Gallows. And he's locked in right now. Let me ask you this. The comeback kids Joey Gallo, Cody Bellinger. Who are you taking there? I think I have more faith in Gallo. For one, just... That wasn't the question I

asked, exactly. Gallo. I like host Scott. He makes sure that he gets the answer. I mean, it's easier to buy that Gallo is what he's doing is sustainable, I think. But I'd rather have Bellinger. I think the overall upsides higher. The performance has been better so far overall.

I would rather have Bellinger as well. I think the overall skill set is better for fantasy as well. There's not as much variance involved, although, look, there have been lots of strikeouts and a very low batting average recently for Bellinger. But he's making more contact, much more contact than Gallo this year. A big part of it for me is just Bellinger's struggles have been going on longer. Gallo was basically, like, let's remember how good Joey Gallo was when the Yankees traded for him, which was at the 2021 trade deadline.

He had like a 900 OPS. Belanger hasn't been that good in like four years. Okay, you're talking about the difference between three years and four, two years and four. Two years. Yeah, but half as many years. But Bellinger's still in his prime. Bellinger's peak was better than Gallows, too. Look, we haven't seen that player in a long time.

I think it's a fair question. I would take Bellinger, though. Anywho, let's hit our first break, and when we get back, we'll talk about Spencer Strider. He was amazing. I don't know if there's much to add. Alex Cobb through a complete game. We'll get to both of those right after this.

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Scan the QR code in the top right corner if you're watching on YouTube or head to Paramountshop.com, Paramount Shop, Shop, where products are Paramount. Let's talk about Spencer Strider, who took a no-hitter into the eighth inning on Monday night up against the Marlins. He went eight shutout, two hits, zero walks, 13 swinging strikes with 31. Wait, what did I say? 13 strikeouts, not 31 swinging strikes. That's what he had. On 100 and one pitch is fantastic. 17 of those on the fastball, 14 on the slider. He leads baseball with 47 strikeouts. He has nine plus strikeouts in each start this season.

Scott, how many people? pitchers would you rather have than Spencer Shrider rest of season? Hmm. Well, prior to this start, I had four ranked ahead of him. After this start, maybe two. I'm in. I'm in, baby. Okay, so there's still the issue of can he sustain this over 180 innings?

Because we've never seen him do that before. but I think given the shortage of innings given the shortage of pitchers who are delivering consistent results on an inning by inning basis I don't know I think that's a standard that I'm about ready to move on from as well I've been pushing the the innings thing for a good number of years now at the expense of of you know overwhelming bat missing ability, the kind of thing that's going to be more eye-catching in fantasy. As, you know, perceiving it as a market inefficiency,

like everybody can look at Jeffrey Springs ratios and say, aha, breakout candidate. Look at all those strikeouts. But, you know, if everybody's doing that, then that drives up the cost. And it's, you've got to find inefficiency some other way. And so I was doing it with volume. but this year

I mean like I said it's only been a month and maybe things could change but it's I've been questioning that approach more than I have in a long time and just like take take the good pitching when you can get it and if it gets hurt at some point if it

if it slows down at some point okay worry about it then but there's no guarantee of that happening first of all and there's no guarantee that the durable guys are going to remain healthy so yeah third You said third. All right.

So, Garikol? Yep. You have him ahead of Spencer Shrider? Yep. And Corbyn Burns. That's it. I'm hedging there with like Sandy Alcantara. He's up there too.

So I guess refutes everything. I just said. Well, because I think there's another case. Yeah. Is Jacob de Grom worse on a per inning basis than Spencer Shrider? Well, I'm so confident that might just be, that might just be. that might just be the Spider-Man meme. You know?

But like it's also like I always struggle with it because like I agree with you, Jacob Grom seems very, very likely to get hurt and require missing time. But like if he doesn't, he's probably a better bet for 190 innings than Spencer Strider. He's done it before. Yeah.

So like that's why I struggle with. He doesn't get hurt. And he's just, he's never hurt. Then yes, the Rangers are. going to let him pitch enough to break like 180 190 innings sure i really struggle with i think strider over mcclanahan okay that makes sense at this point i mean mcclanahan that's close to mcclanahan is another example of my larger point where i i got scared off by him you know kind of slowing down in september and what would the innings look like and now i'm regretting that because

he's actually a really good pitcher he is really good he's awesome but you know similar innings concerns, probably less pronounced than Strider, but they're there. And Strider's at like a full calendar year of being basically a 40% strikeout rate guy, which is just absolutely bonkers. McClanahan's very, very good, but he's like seven percentage points behind that. Listen, Shane McClanahan yesterday got 32 swinging strikes. One more. Yeah.

Spencer Strach only had 31. Come on. Unless overall pitches. Come on, Chris. This swinging strike rate goes to 11. 17 swinging strikes from strider on the fastball. What was I just saying yesterday about Logan Allen? A pitcher you can get whiffs on his fastball.

I think Strider, McClanagan, DeGrom. I think like Cole Burns, I'm just going to put them in a different tier. I think there are, okay, there are reasons to be a little concerned about Burns because of the issue, the injury issue that he had, but I still believe. I think then there's a little tier. DeGrom and Strider and McClanahan are all like right there. And honestly, I mean, showy Atani might be there too. You're kicking Alcantara out of this discussion altogether.

I'm, I don't know yet. I think Sandy is behind those names the way that they're pitching. I mean, certainly on an inning for any basis. So it's like how much are we going to disregard the volume thing? He just, he might there are 60 more innings than those guys. Yeah. That's, that's in point. I think it's a points versus rot, I think.

potentially. We did have an email from someone named AB. He had a keeper question regarding Spencer Strider. 10 team heads head to categories. You keep eight players. He was receiving Julio Rodriguez, William Contreras, and Lance Lynn for Spencer Strider, Adley Ruchman, and Brandon Lough. Ten team headdeme categories. Can you repeat that one? Giving up, uh, giving up Strider, Adley Ruchman, and Brandon Lowe getting Julio Rodriguez, William Contreras, and Lance Lynn. I'd do it. I'd get Julio.

I think so, but that's really tough. Yeah. Because I think you're getting the best player and you're probably giving up the next three best players, both in redraft and head to and dynasty. You know, it makes it easier for me because it's a 10 team league. Sure. Yeah. No, it's a, it's a, it's not an easy call.

I get a like it's a C plus for me, the getting Julio Rodriguez. guess. The other pitching standout from Monday night, he did it in a very different way than Spencer Strider did. Alex Cobb threw a complete game shutout, six hits, one walk, four strikeouts with four swinging strikes on 109 pitches. He allowed 12 hard hits in this game, although his average exit velocity was still very low, so I guess gave up a lot of hard contact, but also induced a lot of soft contact. He's got a 191, ERA, a 127 whip. I don't really know how to explaining this start, Chris, but the fact of the matter is that the overall numbers for Alex Cobb have been good this year. They've been not great, but they've been good. Um, I, I think

you explain this start with bleep happens. Like, sometimes you just, you give up a bunch of hard contact and you don't get a lot of swings and misses and it doesn't really bother you. And, But I think overall what he's doing remains pretty decent. Like he's getting a decent amount of strikeouts, 26% strikeout rate, not walking anybody, giving up a lot of hard contact. That's kind of the Alex Cobb story. But like the splitter, the slider, and the curveball all getting whiffs overall. I don't think he's a superstar or anything. But like Cobb has had sleeper appeal for several seasons in a row and he's underperformed.

And maybe he's just getting a little. a little positive variance this time. Hey, we need serviceable pitchers any way we can get them. So if that's who Alex Cobb is, we'll certainly take it. The underlying number certainly like them to. 2.83 FIPP, 2.92XFIPs so far this season. So I think, look, just continue to roll

with him. As long as he's healthy too, that's another thing. You know, Cobb usually misses time. But as long as he's healthy pitching like this, you just continue to roll with him. Let's talk about some pitchers who were not good on Monday. And that'll take us to Nick Ladolo. I mean, between him and Chris Sale, for anyone out there who had both Chris Sale and Nicodolo in your lineup together, as you could...

In multiple leagues. Oh, my God. You've dropped to last plays in ERA. I had another one with Chris Sale and Edward Cabrera tonight. So, it's really my ERA in one league is up to 5.65. It's been awesome. I'm really enjoying myself. Well, let's talk about it.

Nicodolo has now gotten destroyed two starts in a row. He was up against the Rangers. at home in Great American Ballpark, four innings pitched, nine hits, six earned runs, two home runs allowed in this one. The average exit velocity was not terrible, but the two home runs that he gave up,

you only got to give up two that hard, right? 107 miles per hour off the bat. It's like when things spiral for Nicolodolo, they just really get out of control. His last two starts, he has given up 19 hits, 14 earned runs, five home runs total. The ERA has now ballooned to six.

point three one on the season Scott what are we doing with Nick Lodolo I think we are disappointed right now but two starts ago we were very happy we were thrilled with Chris with Nick Lodolo and I think it's important to keep that in mind I don't I don't see any like red flags here to make me think oh he's not gonna be good now I think it's just this is happening to most pitchers it hasn't necessarily been the last two turns for each of them but I mean remember how Chris Bassett's first start went he's been pretty solid since then but that first one was a disaster

and nobody is immune from that I'm looking up the home runs that Nicolodolo allowed to see if they were like Cincinnati no no Scott they're both they're both to Josh they were bombs yeah they're both to Josh Young and they're both bombs yep Yeah. Over a 900 expected batting average on each. So yeah, they're bombs. But as you pointed out, Frank, the average exit velocity, unlike his previous start, the average exit velocity on the whole for Lodolo was good in this start.

And I think he'll bounce back from it. I'm not concerned. I'm just disappointed. That's such a dad thing to say. For Lidolo, by the way, I don't want to wish this upon anyone. But Chris, I get a hint, a hint. of early career Robbie Ray vibes from Nicola Lodolo. Lots of whiffs, lots of strikeouts, hard contact, walks, home runs, bad ballpark.

Just saying, there's a hint of it there, a hint. Yeah, the control for Lidolo hasn't really been as much of an issue. But yeah, when he gets hit, he tends to get hit pretty hard. You know, 383 expected Wobon contact two years in a row. That's a little higher than league average. So it's not like, I don't know if that's like a silver bullet that I can point to and say, okay, yeah, this explains why he's underperforming. I think in this instance, it's probably just he made a couple of bad pitches over a couple of starts.

And we'll mostly be fine. But, you know, it's not the ace turn we were hoping for yet. But the expected ERA 355, a lot better than the 499 or 631 actual ERA. So I, I'm mostly agree. with Scott, not too concerned yet. I'll tell you what. He faces the Oakland A's this weekend in Oakland. If that goes bad, then I think we might be singing a different tune when it comes to Nick

Lodolo. Lance Lynn, another subpar outing. He was at the Blue Jays. Five innings, four runs, three walks, four strikeouts. Give up a three-run homer to Kevin Bigio, of all players, of all Blue Jays, Kevin Bishio. Kevin in the woods. Ah, gosh. The walks have been a big issue, Scott.

4.4 walks per 9 this season for Lanselin. When he went on that stretch last year in the second half, 13 or 14 starts, he averaged around one walk per nine. And I knew that wasn't sustainable. But to start this season, he's kind of gone all the way, the other way right now. Your thoughts on Lanslent?

Yeah, I'm just not that worried about him still. It's funny because on the days he's starting, someone or two will tweet at me, I guess it's time to drop Lance Lynn now, huh? And I'll be like, oh, shoot, what happened to Lance Lynn? Thinking he had some kind of Nicola Dolos start, you know, and it'll be like this. He gave him four run and five innings.

And by 2023 standards, I'm just kind of like, eh, you know, I can live with that. I understand the ERA still comes out high. But I don't know. I don't feel like I don't get the same feeling of dread looking at a Lance Lynn line as I do with some of the other pitchers. his swinging strikes have been great. He had 14 again in this start.

It's the second highest swinging strike rate of his career behind only last year. So I think he's going to be fine. Just kind of early season sluggishness. And he'll catch fire soon enough. Chris, how would you rank the main three pitchers that we've talked about today struggling in terms of the likelihood that you will buy them?

Try to buy low. Chris Sale, Nick Lodolo, Lanslund. Lodolo Sale Lynn I think is the order that I would go there Okay

I would be looking to buy any of them right now Again it has to be on the cheap You know you don't want to pay Draft Day value but I certainly would look to buy low On all three A couple other names that struggle Jose Orkitti

He gave up six earned runs Over two and two thirds At the Tampa Bay Rays I mean the rays are just a buzzsaw right now Edward Cabrera took a step back as well He was at the Braves. It's a really tough place to play. Obviously, tough lineup. Four and a third, four runs.

Four more walks for him. His walks per nine this season are eight, over eight. Yeah, eight. Almost nine. Yeah, he has 20 walks and 22 innings pitch. That is just I don't care how good your stuff is. It's just not going to work. Chris, what are you doing with these two? Jose or Keady, Edward

Cabrera? I would prefer not to drop them, especially Cabrera, but it's the kind of thing. we talk about it a lot, but if you have a two-star week and you can't start a guy in a two-star week, that's not a must-roster player. And so, like, Justin Steele was another two-start pitcher this week. I had more confidence in Justin Steele than Edward Cabrera.

I don't know if my rankings reflect Justin Steele ahead of Edward Cabrera because I do think there's still that untapped potential with Cabrera, but that's a change in my rankings I probably need to make if I'm at that point. So, yeah, I would rather not drop Cabrera. I still think there's a lot of upside there. But I don't know. It's so hard because it's just like just fix the one thing, right? It's easy. Throw strikes.

Just don't walk people. Just stop doing that. He threw like 50% changeups in this one last time out. And then he got back to his normal change abuse in this one about 33% of the time, which meant more fastballs, which is the pitch you can't throw for strikes. So like. So weird. He's shown.

the formula for success. He's shown he can deliver on it, Edward Cabrera, but, like, can you trust him? I mean, in this outing,

only 15% of his changeups were in the strike zone, which that's not necessarily just a, that's not the only thing that matters. You can get strikes while throwing out of the strike zone. Framer Valdez famously barely throws in the strike zone and doesn't walk a lot of guys. It's just Edward Cabrera hasn't proven he's that kind of guy yet. Let's take our final break.

And when we return, We'll get to some news and notes. I've got something about the rays that I want to point out to you guys, team name Tuesday, and much more right after this. Welcome back, let's hit the news and notes. Yor Don Alvarez is dealing with neck discomfort

and has been sent back to Houston for tests, which does not sound very good. The Astros had Corey Jolks in left field and Yainer Diaz at DH on Monday. Sandy Alcantara has officially been cleared to start Wednesday after at the Braves following a 25 pitch bullpen session. on Monday. Chris Bassett left his start due to lower back tightness and sounds like he'll be good to go his next time out.

Michael Harris has been cleared to start a rehab assignment and is expected to be activated this weekend against the Mets. Congrats to all the Dodgers players who are seemingly having babies at the exact same time. Max Muncie and Bruce Dar Gratterol were both placed on the paternity list on Monday, joining Evan Phillips, who is still on it. Sounds like Phillips is going to be back on Tuesday though. As a result, top prospect, Michael Boller. Bush was recalled for the Dodgers. He was batting 337 with two home runs in 21 games at AAA this season. He had 32 home runs in the minors last year.

Scott, obviously, this is a prospect that we like long term for fantasy, but I just don't know that he's going to stick around. Yes, I agree. Michael Bush is who we're talking about, right? Yep. Yeah, I've been waiting for this day for like three years. The Dodgers have really slow played Michael Bush. already 25.

But yeah, I would suspect because where's he going to play if once Max Muncie returns by the way, all these Dodgers going on going on a paternity leave at the same time. A lot of Dodgers getting busy during the All-Star break

let's see it last year. I'm just going to put it that way. He's not wrong. It was a fine homecoming for them. Um, yeah, back to Bush. I mean, back to Michael Bush. He, uh, one thing I've noticed about Michael Bush during his climb to the majors is that he'll, you look at the track record and the batting averages are kind of meh. A lot of walks, a lot of power.

He gets to a level and he really scuffles at first, but then he returns to that level. next year and he just goes bananas, which is happening this year for him at AAA too. And so that makes me wonder how that's going to play for him when he finally does get a decent run in the majors if it's going to be the same learning curve for him. So all that to say, I'm not really that interested in picking up Bush. He's an interesting player. And if he does stick around, obviously my interest will go up. But I think it's going to be maybe even a shorter stay than Edward Julian got.

All right. Lucas Gialito was placed on the bereavement list, but should make his next scheduled start Friday against the raise. Mitch Hanigar made his debut Monday night for the made his Giants debut Monday night, batting third in the lineup. Christian Walker has missed two straight due to a left forearm injury he suffered from a hit by pitch over the weekend. I think I did enter that game as a, I think a pinch runner. Or maybe a pinch hitter. I think it was a pinch hitter. It was in a pinch.

Yeah. For sure. For sure. Luis Severino threw two up and downs on Monday and we'll throw. again on Friday. Chris Bryant was back in the lineup Monday, batting third and playing right field. He missed two games with a lower body injury. The D-backs option, Dre Jameson to AAA on Monday. They'll eventually need a fifth starter, which could be Braden Fought. And speaking of which, Tommy Henry made his debut on Monday, made a start, and he was not very good. So, man, if Brandon

fought is just like, okay, people are going to roast us. And we have never talked about a As much as we've talked about Brandon fought the first three weeks of this. It's not just us. I think we've been more tempered in our approach to fought than most fantasy analysts out there. Chris, we need pitching, man. We need pitching any way we can get it. No, I get it. And like the bids for Tage Bradley and Mason Miller were crazy in these 15 team leagues that the experts like playing in.

But, no, I mean, to Chris's point, I like the, I like, I like, fought, I think you obviously have to grade his AAA double A numbers on a curve because of how hitter friendly those affiliates are for the Diamondbacks. And between him, Ryan Nelson and Dre Jamison last year at AAA Fad was by far the best. He had more strikeouts last year than any minor league pitcher has had since 2001, I believe. So I do think there is upside here. But what I was saying about rookies at the start of the show during the, oh my goodness gracious player, like it applies to pitchers too, and that we can't assume they're just going to hit the ground running when they reach the majors. It's probably,

it's more likely than not going to be a learning experience for them. And so you shouldn't put all your eggs in the fought basket at a really, during a really difficult time for pitching in general. All right. Kentimaida will make his next start Wednesday. against the Yankees. He left his last outing after getting hit by a comebacker. Jose Siri is likely to be activated on Tuesday. He missed some time with a hamstring strain. Luis Arise has missed two straight due to a left knee bruise.

Brian Beow was optioned back to AAA, which means that Tanner Hauks rotation spot is safe for now. The Blue Jays are called Nate Pearson from AAA, and he'll join the bullpen. He could provide some big strikeouts, so if you play in a deeper league and you're just desperate for some kind of ratio, or strikeouts.

Nate Pearson might make sense for you. The Rockies optioned Ellie Harris-Montaro to AAA. So Scott, I know you were looking for an excuse to drop him. There you go. You drop them. Matt Bush was, excuse me, placed on the IL with right rotator cuff tendonitis. Darren Ruff was placed on the aisle with right wrist inflammation. There goes my first baseman in NL labor.

Bailey Ober was optioned back to AAA following a solid start over the weekend. Logan O'Hoppy will undergo surgery on his torn labor. Tuesday. He's expected to miss four to six months. Luis Medina will be recalled and start Wednesday for the A's. He came over in the Frankie Montas trade. And Scott, you know, once was,

Medina once was a, you know, he had prospect pedigree, but walks are a big issue. Lots of strikeouts, but just really cannot can, it does not have very good control. Yeah, I'm not expecting much from him. Would much rather have Brandon fought. Yes, I think we all would.

Orioles top prospect, and Holiday has been promoted from low A to high A after playing just 13 games. What's the earliest we could see him? Late next year, if they're super aggressive. I don't know. Is that even possible? Yeah, it's possible. Yeah.

And the Reds promoted pitching prospect, Andrew Abbott from AA to AAA. And he's a name that should be on your radar because he has been, I know it's only been three starts, but in the minors this season, 1.15 ERA, 0.57 whip, 36 strikeouts over 15 and 2 thirds innings. That almost sounds impossible to do. I mean, it's, you know, if you missed down on Mason Miller, maybe Andrew Abbott's the next best thing.

It's different because Mason Miller has that big 102 mile per hour fastball. Abbott, when you watch him pitch, it's like, why is this guy missing so many bats? Like, he has the vertical approach angle that helps. optimize, like the modern fastball that rises in the zone. Like he does that to perfection and he pairs it with a good breaking ball and it's just eating minor league hitters alive. And now that he's up at AAA, I mean, Andrew Abbott, I think he's definitely in the discussion for a call-up at some point this season.

I don't know if it's to the point where you need to stash him already in a standard size league, but don't be surprised if we're talking about Andrew Abbott as a pick up at some point. Let's talk about the Tampa Bay raise who are off to an amazing star. 20 and 3, including 14 and 0 at home. I just wanted to point out, I think they very clearly focused on launch angle this offseason because we talked about it with Andy Diaz. We mentioned it the other day with Harold Ramirez.

But if you look at Wander Franco and Randy Rosarena, it's the same thing. Career low, 34% ground ball rate for Franco, career high, 46% fly ball rate for him. Randy Arosurana, career low, 44% ground ball rate, career high 38% fly ball rate. So, Chris, it's very clear to me, the race had a organizational philosophy this offseason to improve launch angle. You know, time will tell whether or not it sticks. But as of now, that that's kind of why they're off to the start that they are. Yeah, it's like we've talked about with Yandi Diaz. I think it's true of Wander Franco.

If he sustains this, I think the breakup. out is clearly real. It's just a question of whether he can sustain it. And I think every passing game makes us a little more certain. But what's happened so far is an imperfect predictor of what will happen in the future. And so I've moved both Franco and Diaz up in my rankings so far, but I'm not ranking them as if this is real yet. All right. Well, let's stick with the raise.

And just mentioned what Tage Bradley did in his third start, five innings, three runs. six strikeouts to zero walks. And he gave up two earned runs in the first inning, but seemed like he settled down after that, really leaned into his cutter in this one, 45% usage. Scott, it just felt like watching him that he didn't really have the four-scene fastball or the curveball in this one. And even with that, he was still able to come away with an okay start. Yes, it was interesting the way he upped his, the way he changed his pitch mix, leaning on the cutter a lot more. and even though the velocity was down on it. So we clearly didn't see the best Taj Bradley in this outing.

And yet, the result was decent enough. I'd still feel good about my investment in him. All right. Let's hit a few waiver wire hitters. Where do these need to be rostered, if anywhere? Josh Young went two for four with a double dung, and he's bet in 282. He's got five home runs so far in 824 OPS.

The strikeout rate is slowly creeping up every time I check it. It's up to 31% now. Chris, 70% rostered is Josh Young. Where does he need to be rostered? I think that's about right. You know, if you're, if you need a third baseman in a, in a shallower points league, you know, he, he did hit two home runs today. And like we talked about a lot last week with some player whose name I'm blanking on, we,

there's always the not just the is this player worth adding, but the opportunity cost of not adding them. And coming off a two home run game, you know, there's some opportunity cost. and not adding Josh Young now. So I think it's worth taking a flyer on him, but 70% sounds close to right. I remain highly skeptical of Josh Young as long as he's striking out 30% at the time because he just doesn't impact the ball hard enough,

I think, to get away with that. Few players do. But if I'm relying on Josh Young as my third baseman right now, I might be looking to swap him to another team, somebody I trust more, maybe even pairing him with somebody to upgrade. All right. A few other third baseman here.

Spencer Steer went two for four with a triple, two runs and two RBI. He had three hard hit balls all over 100 miles per hour, exit velocity in this game. And J.D. Davis went two for four with his fifth home run. He's batting just over 300. Scott, who do you prefer between those two Davis and Steer? And what size leagues do you think they need to be rostered in?

I prefer Davis at this point. I'm getting that 20-20 feeling all over again as far as liking J.D. Davis goes. I guess that's a weird thing to say. But yeah, I think they both need to be rostered in standard roto leagues where you have the extra line-up spots to fill, the extra corner and field spot to fill. And so they're both, you know, maybe a little under-roastered considering. You know, I would roster Josh Young over both.

But between him and Davis, it's closer for me. me than you might think. All right. A few outfielders here. And Mike Yistremski, two more hits. He's now betting 280. He's been, you know, pretty hot over the past week or so. Djerkson ProFar, he's trying to get going.

He went two for five with his third home run, striking out a little bit more of the season than we've seen in the past. And Brent Rooker, a double dong for the Oakland A's in that game. He's 32% rostered. Chris, how would you rank this group? These are clearly, you know, five outfielder league options. but Yostremski, ProFar, and Brent Rooker. I don't know how I rank them.

I haven't given that enough thought yet. Profar is my favorite in a points league. Rooker's really interesting, though. The quality of contact numbers are quite good. And then you look at the plate discipline and you see the, I think it's 72.1% contact rate on pitches inside of the strike zone, which is on swings on pitches inside of strike zone, which is really, really bad.

That is one of the, it would be one of the five worst, marks in baseball this season, just below Aaron Judge. So it's clearly not a killer. You can survive swinging and missing that much. Brent Rooker is not Aaron Judge, but his quality of contact metrics are quite impressive. Right now, he's, his AAA numbers. He has like, I think it's 61 home runs in 208 games.

There's legitimate pop here. So I don't know how much is here, but it's not zero interest in Bray. By the way, shout out to Jose Suarez, Jose Suarez alone, not the whole Angels pitching staff, but just that one pitcher gave up five home runs to the athletics lineup. Yeah, he gave up two to Brent Rooker, two to Jesus Aguilar, and I think one to Kevin Smith.

So it's pretty hard. It's pretty hard to accomplish that. Scott, does Matthew Boyd matter at all? He had his best start of the season at the Brewers, five innings pitch, two runs, eight strikeouts, two home runs allowed. It's like the classic Matthew Boyd start. 19 swinging strikes on 87 pitches. He only 38% rostered.

And he does have RP eligibility. What do you think? Yeah, I almost made him my OMG player. Obviously, he needs to go deeper than five innings at some point. But this was, it had been kind of a weird start to the season for him. There were some external factors that I think. we're holding him back. This was the first start where he showed

what he was showing this spring in terms of his bat missing ability. And he is throwing a change up a lot. He's throwing a much more effective change up now in terms of swing and missability. He's not throwing it a ton, but he's throwing it enough that I think it's helping his fastball to play up to.

He always had a good slider when we saw him get big strikeout totals in the past. I think he has a fuller arsenal now. So I'm very interested in Matthew Boyd. and I don't think he's must add or anything, but if I'm already invested in him, I'm not looking to drop him after this start. That's for sure.

All right, let's get into some bullpen updates for the Orioles with Felix Batista unavailable. Yaneer Canoe struck out two for his first save, and I've seen some pitching ninja gifts of this guy, and he is nasty. So just a name to know. We don't want anything to happen to Batista,

but if anything did, it probably would be that guy. For the Rangers, I think I know why they haven't been using Jose LaClerc, and it's because he stinks. He entered in the eighth inning. He entered in the eighth with the bases loaded, up two runs. He walked two, which tied the game. He then started the ninth inning.

He walked Jonathan India, and then Will Smith came in, and he allowed a walk-off single, walk-off RBI single, to T.J. Friedel. So that, I don't know. I still think Will Smith has been solid for most of the year, but I don't think that their bullpen is very good, the Texas Rangers. For the Tigers, Alex Lang pitched a clean ninth, struck out two for his second save.

And outside, I think he's had like one bad outing, but outside of that, he's looked really, really good. So 39% rostered if you do need saves, at Alex Lang. For the Diamondbacks, Andrew Chafin entered in the eighth inning. With a runner on first, he walked one, then gave up a game-tying RBI single. The Diamondbacks retook the lead in the bottom of the eighth.

Chaffin came out for the ninth, which he then closed it out. so he wound up with the win. I guess he's their highest leverage reliever, but he's been kind of shaky recently as well. And then for the Blue Jays, Jordan Romano pitched a clean ninth inning for his eighth save

that is tied for the league lead with David Bednar and Josh Hader. To stream anymore, not to stream, let's start with Tuesday. Peyton Batonfield versus the Rockies. Nope. Probably not. Kyle Braddish versus the Red Sox.

I'm okay with that one. I have a lot of confidence in Braddish. Yeah, it's fine. I think so too. Bailey Falter versus the Mariners. Nah. Josiah Gray at the Mets. Nope.

Eric Lauer versus the Tigers. Sure. Mason Miller at the Angels. In Roto. Yeah, in Roto. I mean, there's no harm in having them in your lineup. I just don't think it's going to be an especially hard to start. Nick Lodolo is here to remind you that there is some harm in

having any pitcher in your line. Right, but like if you're going, whatever. I think in a daily league if you have Mason Miller, you might as well use them. Probably regardless of the matchup. Not a single A's starting pitcher has recorded a win yet this season. And Ken Waldechuk had a seven to one lead at some point on Monday night. Did not get the win.

The A's got the win, but he did not get the win. So poor guy. Griffin Canning versus the Oakland A's. High risk, high reward. I'm pretty excited about it. it though. I think I'd do it. Yeah, I think so too. Ryan Nelson versus the Royals.

You could do worse. I don't love it. And Brady Singer at the Debex. Nope. Nope. On Wednesday, Domingo Hermann at the Twins. It's fine.

I don't love it, but I don't hate it. The twins do swing in this a lot. So it might work out for Hermann, but it's risky. Kentomite versus the Yankees. Nah, not coming off all the health stuff. Tyler Wells versus the Red Sox.

Nah. Not buying him. You say Kikuchi versus the White Sox. I could see myself doing it if I really wanted to maximize volume. Just don't think the White Sox lineup is that good. I don't have any confidence in you say Kikuchi one way or the other. Michael Kopeck at the Blue Jays. I would not.

Me neither. Rwandi Contreras versus the Dodgers. No. No. Marco Gonzalez at the Phillies. No. Taiwan. I am starting him in one league.

Oh, gosh. Taiwan Walker versus the Mariners. It's okay. Mackenzie Gore at the Mets. Nah. We would prefer not to. Michael Waka at the Cubs. No.

Drew Smiley versus the Padres. No. And Stephen Matt's at the Giants. No. Me. Team name Tuesday. This one's from Craig on Apple Podcasts. Reviews.

She turned me into a newt. That's a good. spelled like Noot Bar. A newt. The visual joke. I got better. From Riley. Nobody puts Escobar in the hot corner.

Gosh. Oh gosh. That's a Heath one. Too clunky. Yeah, I knew you'd hate that one, Scott. From Felix in Panama. All right. Shout out to Felix.

We appreciate you. Listen. Nobody puts Bibi in a corner. Yeah, it worked better if he didn't pronounce his name that way. Yeah. Nobody puts Bibi in a corner. Yeah. From Kevin, the softer side of J.P. Sears.

Oh, that's a new one. Yeah, I like that. That's good. From Joey, let Quigons be Quigons. I like this, but it's not a baseball thing. Yeah. I watched the Phantom Menace the other day, so I'm here for it. I didn't know if there was something I was missing here. I don't think, I mean, maybe there is.

Let us know in the comments or whatever. But yeah, I don't. I think that's just a Star Wars. one, which, hey, I'm here for it. Yeah. From Richard, was thirsty, glass now empty. That's solid. Yeah, that's solid. From Andrew, Otani's

Boys. I don't know. Oh, like, O'Hanee boy. The Pipes, the Pipes are calling. Yeah. We're just book ending with beautiful singing for me in today's episode. Much better at this than I am. A book of Boba Chet. Yep. Yeah.

From Scott, not Scott White. The Los Angeles Angels of Jonaheim. That does appeal to Scott, though. That's very clever. From David, more Jameson, Maeda, Puck. But there's like an E in parentheses. More Jameson, Maeda, Puk. It's, I...

Yeah, because, like, Jameson, the alcohol. Yes, yes. Oh, I guess I haven't heard of that one. From Jonah, live in Young, Wild, and Freed. Sure. It, yeah. You really need somebody whose name sounds like. I know I don't like cramming too many names to do a team name,

but if you're going to get young and freed in there, you need wild to be somebody too, I feel like. I am H.O. From Dana. Drew Waters broke. She's going into Glaber. Sure. I like that one a lot when I read it.

That's amazing. These last couple are all Brandon Fought themes. So here you go, Chris. I hope he's great. From Mike, let's play the Fought game. I don't know what that's from. I don't get. get that one. Let's play the

Fott game. Yeah, I don't know. From Patrick, Fott bottom Gurreellis. That one's good. That's a good. From Alfonso, drop it like it's fought. Yeah. This was the best team name Tuesday so far. Definitely. And the last job, guys. The last one is it's getting fought in here.

Yeah, I like those. Sir. Yeah. Hey, I hope it works out so we can continue to rock with these. Before we wrap up, Somebody left a four-star review on Apple, four, not five. Because they said my bye-bye at the end of the show is very, very annoying. So I guess we're going to have to retire it. Bye-bye! We're going to wrap there for Scott and Chris.

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