Fantasy Baseball Today - Prospect Promotions, Tarik Skubal Injury & Start or Sit Decisions! (9/15 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: September 15, 2025

Tanner Bibee had one of the best starts of his career (3:00)! ... George Kirby and Bryan Woo had ridiculous starts this weekend (8:45). ... News (18:43): Tarik Skubal left his start Friday with left side soreness. ... The Blue Jays are promoting Trey Yesavage and the Giants are promoting Bryce Eldridge (22:43). ... The Dog of the Week goes to Hurston Waldrep (38:22). ... Royce Lewis keeps on running (42:51). ... Noah Cameron had two great starts this past week (53:26). ... Start or sti these pitchers (1:01:15)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates and streamers (1:11:35). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sptfy.com/QiKv⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CPTowers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@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/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Here we are. Two weeks left.

Welcome into fantasy baseball today on Monday, September 15th. I am Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. today on the show. We have big injury news on Terrick Scoobel. The Blue Jays are promoting their top pitching prospect, Trey Yis Savage, starter sit decisions, and waiver ads for the final two weeks of the season. And much more.

Let's jump in. All right, a very eventful weekend. Players of the weekend, and Chris, we will start with you. Yeah, and my player of the weekend is Tanner Bybee, who had one of the best starts of any pitcher this season. He went, complete game shutout, 10 strikeouts.

I think he's the third player all season with a double-digit complete game shutout. And I don't know about you guys, but I don't care very much about that. It was nice to see in what has been a very frustrating and challenging season for Tanner Bybee. Some signs that he can still be an impact pitcher, because I think that was very, much an open question at this point he's been tinkering with his arsenal all season long he has had a lot of trouble missing bats he's had a lot of trouble generating strikeouts all season and he did here 14 wiffs um five on the cutter four on the change up both of those pitches were really good he did change his approach a little bit it was more four seamers and cutters a lot fewer sweepers

And that had to been his best pitch, which was weird. Yeah. So it pitched his best pitch. It's one of those ones where it was a good start from a pitcher who has been good. But I don't know if this is enough to like, sure, start Tanner Bybee this week. If you want, he gets the twins this week. And that's a great matchup. So I'm fine with that.

But in terms of looking ahead to 2026, I can't imagine ranking him as a top. 50 starting pitcher for next season based on what we've seen so far. Maybe another couple of big starts could change that, but he was more of a high floor pitcher coming into the season and that floor dropped out. So I'm viewing Tanner Bybee more next season as a just a late round flyer. Yeah. I don't know about you guys. I think I'll like the value in the late rounds, but I,

that probably is appropriate for where to draft him. Yeah, I think it's, yeah, like, it's just, we haven't seen a ton of upside from him at the major league level, right? He wasn't like a 30% strikeout rate guy. He wasn't really a guy with, like, exemplary skills in any one way. He was just kind of pretty good. And in fairness, I think in both of his seasons before this, there were highs and lows.

And I want to say in the second half of last season, he showed some upside. He got a lot better. but it's just when you're talking about trying to find those late-round sleepers, Tanner Bybee is not necessarily the type of talent you're looking for. He feels like more of a stabilizer, and now the stability's gone based on this. It was 9.7K per 9 last year, which is better than, I don't know, it was better than I remembered. Like you're getting close to 10, obviously, 9.7.

And 10 is very impressive. So former top prospect, obviously the ERA for his career had been great prior to this year. And he's always been a good control guy. So I think I'll like him as a bounceback candidate if the risk of that being wrong is basically nothing. And I think it will be. I mean, I'm not looking at the rankings, rest of season. rankings to the degree that even matters anymore because how do you do rest of season rankings for for two weeks? I mean, if you took that literally, your,

every pitcher who has three starts left is going to be at the top and every pitcher who has two starts left is going to be at the bottom. But the two of us, Chris, had him outside of our top 80s. So clearly we are our expectations for him. At least right now, you know, who knows what he does in the offseason comes in looking like next spring. but at least right now our expectations are low. It might just be as easy as this is a buy low opportunity. Not that he has tremendous upside, but again, he was being drafted as a top 30 starting pitcher entering this year.

And now we're talking about him being maybe outside the top 50 next year. I thought it was interesting looking at his expected ERA by Stackast for his first three seasons. Yeah. Almost identical, 368, 375, and 373. So perhaps this is just kind of an outlier bad season for Tanner Bybee here. Well, he has definitely become seemingly consciously much more of a pitch to contact guy this season. Yeah. And he has generated a lot weaker contact as a result.

354 expected Wobon contact is a below average mark or a better than average mark, I guess. Last year was 376. So, you know, it's not like it's been a totally lost tradeoff for him, but on the whole, you'd rather get those five percentage points of strikeout rate back. Anytime you can rely less on your defense and less on luck on balls and play, that's generally better. And Tanner Bobby, 76% rostered. Only 44% started.

He's at the Twins this week. And I think on paper, we all just kind of look at that and say, yeah, this Twins lineup is not great. Over the last two weeks, they're actually 11th in Wobah in all of baseball. So maybe they're just kind of pesky in that way. I know they can hit home runs and stuff, but I still think it's a fine start if you're in a deeper league and you've held on to Tanner Bybee this long. Scott, let's go over to you. You'll be talking about one of two mariners who had career starts this weekend. Thank you, Angels.

Yeah, this one was George Kirby. Though George Kirby actually has done this twice. Now, 14 strikeouts and zero walks. I can't remember what the exact stat is, but I think he's the only pitcher ever to do that twice. 14 strikeouts and zero walks. Maybe you could double check that while I'm talking because I didn't expect to bring it up. But anyway, George Kirby, again, 14 strikeouts, zero walks.

And it's been a frustrating couple, it's been a frustrating season, but especially a couple of frustrating. Oh, he had 14 strikeout zero walks just earlier this season. Wow. Frustrating season, extreme highs and lows for George Kirby. These two 14 strikeout zero walks. Efforts being indicative of that. His previous two starts were especially bad.

He gave a combined 10 earn runs in six innings with only three strikeouts between those two starts. So then he bounces back with this awesome start. And he threw his fastball 50% of the time, four-seem fastball. It's the most he's used it all year that's like double the season usage for George Kirby. And in a way, it kind of felt like retro George Kirby because his fastball is great. great. And he was one of several Mariners pitchers that came up with a great four seamer and then kind of built an arsenal around that. And, you know, I wonder maybe if he got away from it too much.

But at the same time, I'm not willing to conclude that's what happened here. Because, Frank, you mentioned the other Mariners pitcher who did that. Brian Wu had 13 strikeouts. Like the second career high strikeout game for Brian Wu in like last month, if I remember incorrectly? 20. I don't know about that, but let me just finish here. So 13 strikeouts for Brian Wu on Saturday,

half of his whiffs came on the fastball, the four seamer, which he also increased the usage of. And then the day before that, also against the Angels, Bryce Miller got 11 strikeouts, a ton of whiffs on his four-seamer, which he threw a lot more. And then you keep going back. Remember Tosh Bradley last week threw his four-seem fastball a lot more, got 18 whiffs in that start. It was against the Angels. So I think the Angels just can't hit four-seemers, and all these pitchers have figured out,

and they're spamming that pitch against them because it keeps happening day after day after day. So good for George Kirby for taking advantage of it. Clearly he is capable of this kind of start because for like the fourth time, we've seen him do exactly this before. But it's not like he's totally in the clear. It's, I'm a little confounded by him in the way this season has gone. And he's going to be a difficult one to approach next year too. I think the biggest thing that I have found with George Kirby,

is his arm slot has dropped significantly in 2025. He was always a very high arm angle guy for a while. And that has changed. He's down to a 29-degree launch arm angle. It's 37 degrees last season. And that is something that we're starting to see pitchers do more of, intentionally lower their arm angle. But you also sometimes see it.

when guys are dealing with injuries. And so remember. I was going to say, I feel like, I feel like things are starting to trend more the opposite direction. We're getting the really high arm angle, such as Trey Yee Savage who was going to talk about in a little bit. My understanding is you want one or the other. You want a high arm angle or a low arm angle, right? You don't want to be in the mushy middle. I feel like that's a lot of what pitching analysis and pitching development is moving towards is you want to do something.

that stands out. And, but the reason I bring that up with Kirby is because he basically just doesn't throw any off-speed pitches anymore. He was, had developed this really good splitter over the past couple of seasons. That's gone. I don't think he's throwing a splitter at all since like June, maybe. I guess he threw it a couple times in July. And he's tried to work in this.

change up. I don't think he threw one in this start. I don't, yeah, he didn't throw one at all. And that to me is the sign that George Kirby just hasn't been right. It's not that he's hurt or that he can't be good, but just he is a different pitcher than he was last season. He does not have a significant part of his arsenal. I think the, the splitter was like a 15 to 20 percent pitch for him last season. Very good whiff rate, very good results on balls and play. So, you know, losing that and not being able to find the feel for the change up, I sort of write this season off as a wash because of the shoulder injury. That's not to say I'm going to look back on or look ahead at 2026 and say, hey, he's a top seven pitcher again like he was before the injury last year. I do think you have to bake in some regression from there.

But I assume what we're going to see this offseason is a couple of stories about him trying to get that splitter back, trying to get the arm. my angle back. And if that works, like if we see him looks normal in spring training and throwing the splitter effectively, I'm going to be in on George Kirby as like a top 15 starting pitcher at least. I'm just now noticing that that other 14 strikeout zero walk effort came against the angel. The angel?

Yeah. This year. He did. George Kirby does have three separate nine strikeout efforts this year. So there have been plenty of highs. it's just the lows have been low enough and just often enough that the overall ERA is running high. So I think it's ultimately for me going to depend on what his cost is. Like I think there are enough misfires, like big misfires at starting pitcher this year,

between Kirby and Dylan Seas and Tanner Bybee and Spencer Strider and on and on and on, that if they're getting faded next year, Because of that, I think I'm going to want a lot of them because I think it's not just me, thinks this. It's kind of well understood. That starting pitcher is more of a little, less predictable from year to year. And I am going to want to lean into that rather than gambling on an unproven or somebody who I don't really believe has huge upside.

I would rather take the discount on a guy who I know has huge upside because I've seen it before. George Kirby for this upcoming week, he's still 80% rostered. You know, his previous two starts before this were very rough, but he is at the Astros this week, a huge series. Honestly, all week long, because I think the Mariners have to face the Rangers and Astros, so it's just a bunch of AOS stuff this week.

We got some playoff races all of a sudden. Oh, yeah. Like two weeks ago, it felt like this was over. It felt like I think there was a piece on fan graphs talking about like every single race was at like a 90% chance of the team that was in the lead winning. And now it's I think the Mets are only up one on the Reds. And yeah, it's fun. I'm glad we have a couple of races that matter down the stretch. Are you guys just confident using George Kirby this week at the Astros?

I wouldn't say I'm confident, but I'm probably going to do it. I would do it, yes. All right. My player of the night was going to be Gabriel Moreno but we're running a little bit long here on players of the night so I'll save that for a little bit later on.

I did just see some breaking news that the Giants are calling up top prospect Bryce Eldridge. So we'll talk about that a little bit here after the break as well. We've got a couple prospects to talk about Terik Scubel. Let's take a quick break

and when we return we'll get into all that right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. Let's start with the big news of the weekend. That was Terik Scubble. who left Friday start with left side soreness. Imaging came back clean, thankfully.

And the Tigers said they'll monitor his side over the next few days, but the expectation is that Scoobel will make his next start. Do you trust it? If you have Terrick Scoobel, do you... It's hard to say, because obviously he's the best pitcher in baseball, so you would just use him no matter what. But I guess there's a chance if maybe he doesn't bounce back the right way, they just kind of push him back or skip his start.

What do you guys do with Scoobel this week? I mean, I got bad feeling about it. Yeah. It doesn't sound like the sort of thing where you just don't miss your turn. Right. But they're saying they don't expect him to miss his turn and he's Terek Scoople. So I think it just got to cross your fingers and go with it. I haven't been found. I haven't taught wars. I haven't decided what I'm going to do yet.

It's I would hate to miss out on a, you know, six shutout innings, eight strikeouts, picks up the win type performance. It's Terik's Coupel. He could two better than that. Yeah, yeah. That's the mid-range outcome for Terrick Scoobble. I know, it is just... No, it's a really hard spot. It's a tough call.

He doesn't... They don't play until Tuesday. So I think the way to play it is if your lineups all lock when the first game starts on Monday, which some leagues do, really hope you get news by Monday. But in all those other leagues,

I think you just got to wait until Tuesday and hope that we get something, but have someone else who locks on Tuesday on the bench that just in case you can slot in. Yeah, there's a... This is where the daily leaguers all laugh at us. There's a nine-game slate on Monday, so we do have some teams that are off

and, you know, are pushed back to Tuesday as well. So I agree. If you're playing a league like that, just make sure you have somebody else on your bench so you can plug in for Scoobel if we do get some news that he's not starting just in case. Zach Wheeler is slay. to have thoracic outlet decompression surgery September 23rd.

He's expected to need six to eight months to recover, which means opening day is in question. We knew most of that, but now we're, you know, getting a definitive date on when he's going to have surgery. That's going to happen next week. And then we'll go from there, see what we learn in the off season. It's, uh, I believe this isn't the same exact thoracic outlet surgery

that all the other pitchers have had. But based on what I know about thoracic outlet is, it is a really, really hard injury to come back from. So right now, I have no expectation for exactly. I don't know what to expect for next season. That was the injury that ruined Matt Harvey, if I recall. Steven Strausberg had it as well. Josh Beckett-Layton his career.

It's had a tendency of ruining careers, yes. Now, I think the key distinction is this is a, It's not related to the nerve. It's related to the vein. That's what they believe that's what caused the blood clot that initially ended Zach Wheeler's season. And the more common version is the vein, the nerve, which causes weakness and numbness in the arm. I don't know. It might be less of a concern.

But yeah, I think you got to view Wheeler as anything. you get out of him in 2026 is a bonus. View him, I don't know, the way we viewed like Shane Bieber coming into the season or one of those guys. And it's hard because he was arguably the best pitcher in the world for the last eight years. And so if there's any hope that he gets back to that, even if it's from June on, then he's going to be well worth having. But it's not an injury with a great track record, especially for guys in their late 30s.

Better late than never. we have some prospect promotions here. The Blue Jays are calling up their top pitching prospect, Trey Yassavage, who this season in the minors had a 312 ERA, a 0.97 whip, 14.7K per 9. The walk's a little high here, but amazing swinging miss stuff here for Trey Yassavage. He is 14% rostered. He will debut Monday at Tampa Bay.

He could be a two-star pitcher. They kind of said they left it open-ended where, you know, depending on how he pitches, maybe he'll go to the bullpen after that. But it's an exciting pitcher. What do you guys think about Trey Yassavage? I mean, I don't think you can actually use him in fantasy, except in a desperation situation. He's a good prospect. So, like, let me just say that off the top.

I think Trey Yaseavid. Yeah, Savage has a bright future. You say better late than never with these promotions. For fantasy purposes, I'm not sure it makes a huge difference because it is so late that how can we have much trust in him. In Yee Savage case in particular, we don't know what's happening beyond this first start. Like he said, he had been pitching out of the bullpen pretty much since going to AAA where he made six appearances, kind of like two, three inning type appearances. So we don't even know if he's really considered fully stretched out, they have said that they're not putting an innings limit on him. So if they do like the look of Traye Y Savage as a starter, then that's not something that needs to be worried about.

But, you know, I'm saying you can't really use them the second to last week of season. So we're only talking about the final week of the season after that. And even then, it's a big question. Had a ton of strikeouts, 160 and 98 innings. I mentioned earlier in the show very, very, very high arm ankle. It looks like the ball is coming straight down on the hitter of the fastball. And yet he is an extreme fly ball pitcher, which comes with some risk in addition to the walk risk that you mentioned, Frank. So a ton of strikeout upside here, but some performance questions, I would say, since there are a couple of red flags there with the fly ball rate and the walk rate, and then on top of it, major usage questions down the stretch this year.

I think in the wide world of streamers, I'd put. probably put him above the median. You know, it's a nice soft landing spot. The Rays aren't a great lineup. He's backed up by a very good team. Like, it's a pretty decent spot. And when things have gone wrong for the rookie pitchers lately, it's mostly been after the first start.

The first start's been really good for a lot of these rookie pitchers. That's when the trouble starts. So I'm not saying he's a must add or a must start pitcher, but I'm certain when we get to the must to the start or stream or not stream. I say that right? I don't know. To stream or not to stream? He'll be more attractive than the names of us.

I would guess he's going to be better than I don't know, Martin Perez or whoever. But I don't think that strategy is good. So of course I won't like Trey A Savage doing that with him either. Sure. But if you're if you're chasing volume more than ratios in a Roto League, I, I, I see. certainly think there will be worse options than an incredibly talented 21-year-old with a good matchup. And if you're looking for Trae-A-Savage, the last name is a little interesting here. So it's Y-A-S-A-V-A-G-E. So the spelling there, if you're looking for Tray-A-Savage. I mentioned before

the break that we just got breaking news that another prospect is being promoted. The Giants are calling a first-based prospect Bryce Eldridge, who arguably has the best power in the entire minor leagues This season hit 260, 25 home runs, 84 RBI, 843 OPS. He did all of that in just 101 games. Strikeouts are high. It's a 30% strikeout rate, but his exit velocities 95.8 average, 114.6 max exit velocity. So I think this is more exciting for real-life purposes, and, you know, we get a little taste before next season. And, you know, maybe he'll be in the running for an opening day roster spot next year.

He's trying to, you know, they're clearly trying to go for it. The Giants, I think, are one game out of a wildcard spot right now. I don't know that you want to add him outside of like a deeper league, just, you know, trying for power here. But it is a very exciting prospect. I just don't know how much it'll matter for two weeks. Yes. I agree with all of that. And I think he's probably only up because the Giants find themselves in the race.

And they're starting Dominic Smith at first base. Wilma Flores and Dominic Smith. What do they have to lose? Is Smith, did Smith get hurt this weekend? Yeah, he went on the IEL. what it was. That might contribute as well. I was, because I'd been monitoring Eldridge as a potential stash for ever since he got promoted to AAA and things hadn't been going very well for him there. And it's not like they've been that great recently either. He's been striking out nearly

one-third at the time. Exit velocities are great. You can't ask for better exit velocities than that. But he's only 20 and, yeah, I don't know. I mean, we've, we've, We've seen it happen where these ridiculous strikeout rate guys come up to the majors, and it works just fine. I feel like to the point that I feel like I'm guessing whenever a prospect gets called up, and there's no rhyme or reason for which ones actually succeed and which ones don't immediately. Or maybe there is a rhyme or reason. I just haven't unlocked the secret. but my hunch is that Eldridge is going to have a hard time transitioning to the majors. There was very little separation before the season between Eldridge and Jack Haggleone and Nick Kurtz

in terms of how they were viewed by prospect people. And you can see how differently that's gone. I mean, maybe I'm just more biased against strikeouts than some prospect people, but I had Eldridge. as a clear third below those two because they didn't have strikeout problems and he clearly does. Yeah. Again, that's Bryce Eldridge's 23% rostered. Giants top first base prospect,

they're calling him up to make an impact here down the stretch. Kyle Tucker is unlikely to return when first eligible on Tuesday. He's on the aisle with a left calf strain. So I think we're just leaving him on the bench until maybe the final week of the season. Jose Altuvae left Saturday with right foot discomfort

and then sat out Sunday as well. start or sit Jose Altuve this week. Probably if you can find a decent alternative, you've got to play it safe with them. I feel like... If there's any doubt. I feel like last week or the week before, we had a bunch of these guys,

and I feel like I had the wrong sense on every single one of them, so I have no idea. I just don't know. Yeah, I mean, it's without information, we're just kind of taking a... Making an educated guess. There's a pretty good chance

you don't have a good show. second basement on your roster? What would I do? I have Al Tuve in a league where I might be playing for the championship game. I think it's it was really close

last time I checked. And I put in a claim for like Jorge Polanco and Bryson Stott. Obviously it's a shallower league and so the alternatives there are halfway decent. Brendan Donovan, I think,

is in the queue. And unless I hear something at the last minute, Altuve is fine, he's in the lineup. Then I'm probably going to start with just. the second baseman I get. Yeah, I always, I almost always tend to just play it safe because I hate

taking zeros in my lineup. Sometimes it does backfire, you know, star players will miss a game or two and come back and boom, they'll be great for the final three or four games of the week and then I miss out on stuff, but I just, I hate taking zeros. So I usually like to have a backup for situations like this. Trevor Rogers left Friday start with left toe discomfort. We haven't heard much about his status for this upcoming week, and that's unfortunate because he's been amazing. Dodgers Will Smith went on the IL with a sore right hand retroactive to September 10th. No shortage of catcher replacements. We'll talk about a few of those in a little bit.

Max Muncie of the Dodgers was out of the lineup Sunday after getting hit by a pitch in back-to-back games, once on his head, once on his forearm. So he's a little beat up here. But I don't think it's anything that will keep him out of the lineup too long. Sayas Suzuki has missed three straight with an illness and is not expected to play on Monday either. He's also just been really, really bad in the second half, so it might be an excuse there to get Suzuki out of your lineups. Zach Nettoe missed three straight with a hand injury.

He suffered on a swing on Thursday. So I'll throw it your way again. Start or sit, Zach Netto. I lean towards start, but it's kind of the opposite of Altuve, where there's a decent chance you had. Go add Ezekio Tovar, who's, I think, 49 or 50% roster right now, and has six games at Corsefield this week.

And he has a 360 hitter. Yeah, he's got a 950-something OPS at Corsefield and a 660-something OPS away. So just have him just in case. I don't know. Tyler Sotom has sat out all three games this weekend with groin tightness. And I feel like groin injuries are a little bit trickier here.

I don't know. You might need a replacement for Tyler Soderstrom this week. The same league where I have L2VA, I also have Soderstrom. And I think when you look at a team like the Angels or the A's, they have nothing to play for. They don't really need a roster spot right now. And what you'll see sometimes at this point in the season is guys who might have otherwise gone on the IL, they've already got the expanded rosters. They might.

The impetus is not there to put everyone on the IL for an injury because like they could just backdate them and they'd miss one more week, but there's only two weeks left. You know, it doesn't really. Rosters only expand to 28 now. They used to expand a four. Yeah, they have a couple extra guys. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm not, I'm not sure that's as true as it used to be.

But, um, but just the idea that would they, would they bother this late in the season to rush back a guy when they're playing for nothing? I think is. Yeah, very. It makes sense that they would not. Trevor McGill did not recover as well as anticipated after his most recent bullpen session. Anthony Volpe did not start any of the games this weekend after getting that cortisone shot in his shoulder back on Thursday. Jose Cabriero has started five straight and he has been playing well. He's got six hits with a homer and three steals during that span.

So if you are chasing steals, there is no better ad than Jose Caballero right now. So you're going to lead the league in steals? I think he does right now. He's at 46. Yeah, and that's as a part-time player. Yeah, he did not play all that much with Tampa Bay earlier in the season. Yeah, he's got six steel lead. Yep.

Next up, Ryan Pepio will start Tuesday against the Blue Jays after being scratched earlier in the week. Due to general fatigue, are you guys all right with Ryan Pepio this week? I try to avoid it. When did you say he's expected to start? Tuesday against the Blue Jays. Which will line him up for two starts. Yeah. Hmm.

And I have him in the advisable in most cases category of the two-star pitcher rankings, though. Obviously, if you're guarding ERA and WIP and our categories league volume isn't the biggest priority, then you'll have to, you'll have to weigh that. You'll have to weigh that. Blue Jays and Red Sox. That can go wrong, especially in George Steinbrenner Field for both starts. So just, yeah, I think kind of play it cautiously there with Ryan Pepio. Xavier Edwards has missed two straight with wrist discomfort.

He's not a must-star player by any means unless you need speed. Although, you know, he's kind of been a letdown in that department as well. So don't think you have to keep Xavier Edwards in the lineup. Nolan Aronado will be activated by the Cardinals on Monday. Jordan Westberg began a rehab assignment at AAA on Friday. Jose Cantano will undergo in, what do we got there, Scott? Is that a Xavier Edwards? Bobblehead.

Nice. I just got it at the Marlins game today. He thinks he's going to be ready, right, Xavier? Yes. But I agree. That's too risky. I heard from a little birdie that your kids were running as fast as Xavier Edwards around the bases after that. They were.

They ran the bases afterward. I was thinking they approached it wrong. They should have savored the moment, done a home run trot around the bases. But they just went for the full sprint. There you go. Probably didn't even know which way was up as they were running. Jose Katana will undergo an MRI on his left calf after leaving. Sunday start early. Roki Sasaki suffered a calf injury during his latest rehab start at AAA.

Just one day after being recalled from AAA, the Cubs placed Owen Casey on the seven-day concussion IL. Kevin Alcancor was recalled. Tyler Malley will return to the Rangers later this week. His last rehab start was four shutout innings. He got up to 52 pitches, so not entirely stretched out. I don't think that there's much interest in Tyler Malley. The Astros called up outfield prospect, Zach Cole on Friday. He made an immediate impact three for four with his first career homerhead, four RBI. Scott, wasn't this a name we just spoke about last week

as like a no-name prospect to add? No-name prospect. And now everybody knows his name because he homered in his first at bat, right? I think it's the first pitch that he saw. First pitch he saw, wow. And he started all three games. Yep.

Any deep league interest in Zach Cole? So much for picking him up as a, no name stash in your Deep Dynasty League. Now you might just want to pick them up in your... No, I picked them up in A-L-only. That's the only league I picked him up in. But I'll give the... The read on Zach Cole again is that big jump-and-exit velocity this year.

I saw baseball America in more than one place compare him to Spencer Jones. but that also comes with big strikeout numbers. And that was true for Zach Cole at AAA. You know, can steal some bases, can hit some big home runs. We'll see if he can keep the strikeouts under control. He's already 25. So not a lot of, you can improve at any age, but, you know, you'd like his chances of improving better if he was 20 like Bryce Eldruchess.

No surprise, but the Mets are moving Sean Mania into the bullpen. Blaze Alexander left Sunday after getting hit by a pitch on his left elbow and some other names who went on the IL this weekend Mason Wynn with a torn meniscus in his right knee Dom Smith with a right hamstring strain Chase Dolander with a Patelot tendon strain in his left knee Travis Darnow went to the seven-day concussion IL Lance McCullors with right hand soreness and Justin Topa with a left oblique strain with that Chris I'll throw it over to you for the dog of the week and the dog of the week this week is her in Waldrip who had that amazing run of four starts to open his career or his season and then had three kind of iffy starts where he mostly avoided the meltdown like he had the one with

no strikeouts and one walk he had four walks and one five walks in the next but it was only four earned runs across those three starts well it caught up to him this time eight earned runs in four and two third's innings over the weekend. The splitter was still good. It just kind of feels like everything else has backed up a little bit. The command hasn't been as good. The cutter got crushed in this start. And I just, I don't know where we're at on Waldrop.

Now that the command has taken a big step back, the past couple of starts, the strikeouts having been quite as good. And obviously, we don't have a super long track record here. But he was someone I know, you know, four starts ago, we were all very excited about. So what do you guys think about? Hurst to Waldrop. I think it's probably too risky to use them rest of season. I think he made big strides this year.

I think he's definitely going to be part of the rotation mix for the Braves next year. They'll be getting a lot of guys back from injury. So I don't think he'll be a shoe end for a rotation spot at the start. But it's a really great splitter. Got to throw more strikes than he has his last three outings. I believe it was just a 57% rate in this bad start over the weekend. And that's kind of the problem with splitters is that when you can command them well, they're really good pitches, but there's a reason most pitchers throw their splitter as just like Logan Gilbert.

Basically only throws his splitter in two strike counts because that's a pitch that is hard to throw for strikes and hard to get good results if you have to throw in the strike zone. And, you know, Waldrop added the cutter in the sinker this year. They seem to have really helped, but it's obviously been inconsistent. It's a at Washington, good matchup, but. Yeah. I don't think you can trust him. I might start him in tout based on the categories. I can, I have the most room to make up ground in.

Mm-hmm. And that's a 15-team Roto League, so deeper side for sure. but I wish I had better pitchers I could start instead. Yeah. And I think with Hirst and Waldrop here, and any pitcher, if you're not going to use him this second of last week or you could drop that pitcher.

So if you're looking to stream somebody else or just maybe you're just going for saves or something, if you're not going to use Waldrop, I think he's probably drovable. All right, let's take our final break when we return. I got some waiver ads from the weekend. We'll get into that right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today.

Waverwire hitters for the second to last week of the season. Reminder of Scott Sleeper Hitters for this week. Austin Hayes, John Carlos Stanton, Drake Baldwin, Brenton Doyle, Kyle Manzardo, Jake Berger, Wenzell Perez, Ezekiel Tovar, Otto Lopez, and Kyle Teal. And the best hitter matchups this week, the Reds, Braves, Rockies, Marlins, and D-backs. One name I wanted to ask about just based on the matchups, he's kind of been heating up a little bit. Sal Stewart, who had three hits on Saturday. He homered on Sunday.

He has three homers in his past seven games. He has started four of the past five. It seems like they're kind of using him in favor of Spencer Sear. 25% rostered. I think in deeper leagues or leagues with a corner or middle infield spot, I'm kind of interested in using Sal Stewart this week. Yeah. I think that makes sense.

I actually made a replacement from the Friday show. Andrew Vaughn was among the sleeper hitters in the Friday show, but he did not start a game over the weekend. He sat out four straight, so. Yeah. So I replaced him, and I considered Sal Stewart as his replacement, given the Reds having the most favorable matchup and South Stewart having a good weekend. Ultimately went with Kyle Teal instead.

But I think, I think Sal Stewart in deeper leagues where Teal and probably a lot of the hitters you just listed off are already rostered, then Sal Stewart makes sense as a pickup. Yeah. And if you held on to Andrew Vaughn this long, I think you go ahead and drop him. He's still 60% rostered. Again, first baseman on that list, Manzardo, Berger,

I think you can go with those guys instead of Andrew Vaughn this week. One name in Shilower Leagues, I keep bringing it up. He's just, you know, he keeps making things happen. Royce Lewis, he continues to run. That's what's really big

about his game right now. He had three more steals this weekend. Last 21 games, he's hitting 271 with six homers, nine steals, and OPS over 800. 72% rostered. You know, it's only a shallow league. play, but if you need a third baseman, which I feel like a lot of people might, Royce Lewis,

still out there in, I don't know, some leagues. It's fascinating because he hasn't stolen 10 bases in a season. I guess he did it in 2023 across both the majors and minors, but that was not a part of his game the past couple of seasons. And then the last three weeks or so, he's just running a ton, which the twins have nothing to play for right now. How much of that is just, it doesn't matter, just do what you want. Is this going to be sustainable for next season? I don't know.

But at least looking ahead to 2026, it's another pathway to value for a guy who looked like he had to mash to have value. And now, you know, when I look at Royce Lewis, I think his overall career line was a 256 batting average 7.73 OPS across nearly a thousand plate appearances. That's probably what I expect from him moving forward. and that's not a superstar. That's barely a must-start third baseman. But if he could steal 15 bases to go with the 25 to 30 home runs that he could hit over a full season,

that starts to look a lot more interesting. So it's nice that he has another way to contribute, at least. Two names in medium-sized leagues, Mickey Moniac, a huge game on Sunday, 4-4 with a pair of socks and shoes. two homers, two steals, same game. Moniac has had a solid season. 268, 21 homers, nine steals, 815 OPS.

Playing time is a little bit sporadic. He doesn't play against lefties, 39% rostered. They have the six home games this week, at least two lefties on the schedule. How much can I interest you in four games of Mickey Moniac against right-handed pitching this week? Not very much.

Yeah, I just wish he was playing more. it's that's why that's why even with the Rockies having a full week of home games and he did this on the road notably so he came through in a big way on the road but I just it would have to be it would have to be like in the fifth

outfield or spot of a 15 teamer I think to really even consider using Moniac is just not not in the lineup consistently enough my player of the night Gabriel Moreno he has been raking since his return. He went two for four with a sock in the shoe on Friday, two more hits on Saturday, and last 18 games, he's hitting 355 with four homers, 17 RBI, and OPS over 1,000.

And someone who typically hits way too many ground balls, his ground ball rate during this stretch is under 20%. So it's a lot of line drives, lots of fly balls. There are also a lot of catchers right now that we continue to talk about. But I think specifically in a one catcher league, if you just need a streamer or in some crazy way if he's out there in a two-catcher league, Gabriel Marino, I think, I've been very impressed with what he's doing, and they have great matchups this week.

Yeah, only 35% rostered, so there's probably some two-catcher leagues where he's available. Now, would I rather have him or Kyle Teal, who's been really hot for a long time now? Yeah, I think I'd rather have Teal. That's what I was going to ask, because I have two catchers on the sleeper hitters list for this week,

Drake Baldwin and Kyle Teal, which I, Rarely have catchers on that list. I actually try not to put catchers on that list because I know there's so little utility for them. But I don't have Gabriel Moreno on that list. The Diamondbacks do have the fifth best hitter matchups. So you could definitely make that case for him. I like Gabriel Moreno.

I always have. And the fact that he is elevating addressing really what's been his biggest issue so far is encouraging, all of which is to say, I understand. I understand why you may not be able to find a place for him in your lineup on your team. But he is absolutely part of this windfall that catcher has experienced this year. It's like a 950 OPS since he came back from that injury in like early August. Yeah, no, he's been lights out.

Again, that is Gabriel Moreno. A couple names here in deeper leagues. for Moises by Astero's. Two hits on Friday, first career homer on Saturday and then two more hits on Sunday. He started all three games. The Cubs have seven games this week, two lefties on the schedule. So I think he should probably play four or five times this week. That's Byesteros. Brandon Marsh stayed hot, two for four with his 10th home run on Saturday. Last 13 games, he's hitting over 400 with three home runs during that stretch. Huge weekend for Cody Clemens, who is now on the Twins. Four for four with a triple dong, five RBI. on Friday.

And over his last 19 games, he has six homers, two steals, an OPS over 850, and a gentleman named Carlos Cortez. He's an outfielder on the A's. He had a two homer game on Friday, and then another home run on Saturday. Actually put up some pretty big numbers in the minors this year, but he's kind of an older journeyman type player. Any thoughts, interest in these deep league names? Carlos Cortez, Cody Clemens, Brandon Marsh, Moises by Asteroz.

I have a couple of things on Byesteros. I think he's the most interesting. Unfortunately, he's only played D.H for the Cubs so far this season. And is Seyosuzziuky going to miss enough time for that to matter? Are they comfortable with him behind the plate? They have not been so far. Are they comfortable with Sea Suzuki in the outfield with Kyle Tucker out to keep Byostas bat in the lineup? I would hope so, but I don't have a ton of confidence in that either way.

I bring up that he's only played DH to also point out that next season, unfortunately, Moses by Asteroz, in theory, should be a really interesting sleeper. But he's going to be DH only. So it's going to really, we're going to have to see if they bring back Carson Kelly and Miguel Amaya for next season. They're both under contract. Yeah. So, right. So would they look to trade one of them?

I have no idea. I know they like both of them. So maybe they'll look to trade by Astero. Maybe it's it's a narrow path and then am I he hit the home run that Anthony Rizzo almost caught right? Yeah, see that. Yeah, I didn't see it actually. Unbelievable. Anthony Rizzo was sitting out in the in the outfield on his jersey where his retirement ceremony day.

He's wearing a jersey signed by all the players. Ian Hap came out and threw him a ball with like a $100 bill tape to it. That was very funny. and Moises by Estrus hits the ball literally directly at Anthony Rizzo It hit off of his hand I know he's got his phone in his hand So he can't catch it

He tries a one-handed catch right But that was a that was an amazing moment That was very cool He seemed to be having a grand all time Out there Baseball fan for life And he was doing the The what do they call it the snake

The wizard? I don't know My friends and I used to call it the wizard staff or you stack beer cans until they're taller than you. But I think in the outfield, I don't know what they call it. The snake, yeah. All right, yeah, he was doing, he was, he had the snake going with all the, the empty beer cups. Yeah. You saw a mouth after he missed it.

That's why I retired or that's why I'm retired or something like that. That was a fun moment. Yeah, it was. That is very cool. Any other thoughts on these other names here? I actually do like Carlos Cortez in theory. I believe he's shortstop eligible on CBS, even though he's been playing the outfield.

Obviously, he's not playing the shortstop over Jacob Wilson. His slash line at AAA this year, 322, 414, 603, 17 home runs in 71 games, 41 walks to 46 dragout zone near even ratio. He is a 28-year-old. down there at AAA. But, you know, then he comes up and starts mashing too. It's interesting.

I don't know what league context I'd consider using him. AL only. Yeah, that's probably nothing beyond that. But if Carlos Cortez becomes a name we care about next season, obviously on the lower and level still. But if it happens, then one, it surprised me. All right, waiver wire pitchers. Two names in shallower leagues.

We spoke about Tanner Bybee. Weren't that enthused about using him at the twins this week. What about Noah Cameron, who was great at the Phillies? Seven innings, two runs with seven strikeouts here, had 18 whiffs on 86 pitches through his curveball more than this one, and that seems like a pretty good idea. He is 76% rostered, 50% started, but he gets the Blue Jays this week. Yeah, I would not go out of my way to start him against the Blue Jays

if I could avoid it. They're really good against lefties. Yeah, and they just don't really strike out either. So great two-star week for Noah Cameron here. Last two starts, seven innings, two runs, seven plus strikeouts in each. But yeah, tough matchup against the Blue Jays. And I mean, it's really... It looked like he was kind of losing it in August.

I think he had like a 420 ERA or something. Yeah. And that's really all we're looking at at this point is just what are their matchups this week? So, you know, we can like a player for next season and long term, but if we don't like the matchup, we're probably just staying away. Three rookie pitchers who pitched well here. Bubba Chandler bounced back with a strong start at the Nationals. six innings of one-run ball with seven strikeouts, had 18 whiffs on 81 pitches.

I saw he maxed out at 101 miles per hour multiple times in this game. So pretty impressive stuff coming off a terrible outing last time out. He gets the athletics this week. I thought this was an interesting quote from Bubba Chandler because Perfect through 5 gave up a couple of hits and a run in the 6th, and that was it. But that second hit, the one that gave up a run, was kind of unlucky. And he said, kind of just some unlucky hits that I gave up,

kind of spiraled in the minor leagues with that. Happy that I didn't today finish that inning. So maybe some insight into why things went so wrong for him in the minors this year is... Minor league defense? The mental game. Oh, maybe minor league defense too. Yeah, that's a good point. But just he referred to not spiraling this time when he was having trouble.

with that in the minors. But yeah, I mean, the talent was evident. This guy is really impressive through 69% of his pitches for strikes, which with his stuff, that'll work. That'll definitely work. Changes been phenomenal too. Yeah. Yeah, so let's see more of that Bubba Chandler.

Two other rookies who pitched well this weekend, Parker Messick and Brandon Sproat. If we're just looking at the matchups coming up, Sproke gets the nationals. Parker Messick is at the Twins, and Bubba Chandler gets the athletics this week. Are you looking to use any or all of those names this week? I like all three. I think all three are fine with those matchups.

I might prefer Messick the most out of this group. He's in the sleeper pitchers. Yeah, the twins' best remaining pitchers besides Byron or headers besides Byron Bucksston are pretty much all lefties. Walner and Larnick. And frankly, Messick's changeup should help him at least somewhat neutralized Rydides. So I think he's good. I really like Parker Messick. I think Chandler, there's big upside against the A's, especially not in Sacramento.

And Sproats got a good match him against the Nationals. I think all three of them are fine. I think Sproote is third, though, just in probably in terms of talent. Well, I don't know. He might be more talented than Messick. I think Messick's just a better pitcher. But I would put Sprote third. A complete random story from the weekend.

I was playing MLB Road to the show. I'm currently a center fielder and the AA affiliate for the Giants. A lot of the times I don't know any of the names of the pitchers I'm facing, but I face Parker Messick and I hit two home runs off of them. Take that Parker Messick.

Changeup wasn't working. Unless you were a lefty, I don't know. No, switch. This is illuminating stuff. Yes, exactly what you wanted to hear, Scott. Some names in medium-sized leagues. Justin Verlander pitched well again. He's at the D-Backs this week.

Tough matchup. Slade Cicconi, a successful two-star week. He is at the Twins. And Tomoyuki Sugano had himself a nice start, but he gets the Yankees. So can I interest any of you in Cigano, Sikoni, or Verlander? Verlander, I don't love with the matchup, but he's been pitching well for long enough that he could have another good start.

I just, I don't think there's a high priority there. Even when he's pitched well, the whip's been pretty high. I will say, though, if you don't want to pick up Verlander, if you don't want to start Verlander at Arizona, I get it. I don't really either. But the final week of the season, if that matters in your league, let me double check here. He might not line up for two starts.

It might just line up for one. But there's a chance he gets St. Louis and the Rockies on the road. That's very good. Yeah. Keep that in mind. I mean, either way, if it's a one start, those matches are pretty good, too. Yeah, but the one start would just be the Cardinals if that happens. He wouldn't get the Rockies.

Well, you know what? They've been the worst offense in baseball in the second half. If they're still in it, maybe they force the issue and they give Verlander that second start. So it might be worth picking them up just in case that. Imagine their playoff hopes are on the shoulders of Justin Verlander, like the final day of the season. That would be pretty cool. One name in deeper leagues. Andrew Alvarez has looked pretty good here for the Nationals.

Six shot-out innings with five strikeouts, had 15 whiffs on 85 pitches. Great matchup against the Pirates. Problem for this week is that he's at the Mets, so I don't think we want to do that, but he's looked pretty good. Yeah, I don't have much interest. All right. Yeah, I think you probably missed on the best of Andrew Alvarez already. So it would be... Yeah, he gets the Mets this week.

I, yeah, it would, you know, you don't want to chase that performance. Can we drop these two pitchers? I don't think that we're going to use either one of them this week, but you guys tell me, Jonah Tong had a rough start. He couldn't even get out of the first inning. He does get the nationals this week, which is a nice matchup, but he just hasn't looked great so far. And Aaron Nola got rocked by the Royals of all teams, six runs over six innings.

And he's at the D-back, so I don't think we want to do that either. I mean, I know his last start before this one was good, but, I didn't see a ton in that Aeronola start that made me think that it was likely to continue and Tong, I still believe in the talent. I still have a lot of excitement in the long run but yeah, there's no reason to hang on to him right now.

He will be, he will absolutely be on my late round sleepers list for next season for sure. I can guarantee that now. Jonah Tong will be a sleeper for me in 2026, but I don't think you need to hang on to him right now. He got one with. on 40 pitches in this start against the Rangers. One whiff.

And that was, so he's made three starts now, right, or four? Only the very first one. Three starts. Only the very first one had a good line against the Marlins, one-earned run in five innings, no-walk, six strikeouts. I think it was like four or five runs, though. Yeah, there were three un-earned runs. But beyond that, just seven whiffs on nine.

97 pitches in that start. He threw his fastball 61% of the time and got two whiffs on it. So, like, he's throwing the fastball a ton, and it's just not missing bats like it did in the minors. And that is, that's concerning. I'm not saying he's not sleeper worthy for next year, but I am saying I see no reason to have faith in Jonah Tong right now. Start or sit these pitchers for this upcoming week. And first up, Sandy Alcantra. Sandy.

Tell me about it. Another great start. And last six outings, a 248 ERA, 0.78 whip over a strikeout per inning for Sandy Alcansara. But he's at the Rockies this week. So what do we do with Sandy? Yeah. If you want to sit him, I think that's fine. But like he looks like Sandy Alcantra right now.

He's got a 334 ERA and a 103 whip since the All-Star break. Even the bad starts have all been like six innings. I think he's had like since the start of July, I think it's three different starts of at least four run runs, but also at least six innings, which is like kind of the Sandy Alcantra thing. Like even when he's not going well, he's at least giving you depth. And he's been phenomenal, really, for the most part. So I think he's back. I think we're talking about him as a top 36 pitcher next year. If you want to sit him against the Rockies in Colorado, I think that's reasonable.

It's there's still, I think, top 12 in Wobah at home. It's not like it's a great matchup in Colorado, but I wouldn't be surprised if he pitched well in Colorado either. Luis He'll toss six no-hit innings at the Red Sox. He also had four walks and four strikeouts. Now has four plus walks in five of eight starts. 283 ERA with a 140 whip. So it doesn't exactly add up, but he's at the twins this week. Can I interest you in Luis Heel?

No. I mean, I could absolutely see a good start, but he's not pitching well right now. I know that the ERA is sub three, but less than 8K per nine, more than five and a half K walks per nine. Yeah. Like he limits hard contact, but you can't keep getting away with this. Yeah. He's had he's avoided home runs. Yeah, 3.5 home run to flat ball rate.

So let me see if I can. Yeah, two home runs all year. All year. two home runs for a big fly ball guy and a big home run park and then you got 27 strikeouts and 41 in a third innings I mean that's not they're it's not gonna last for Luis Heel next up Louise Castillo a strong start against the Angels no surprise the Angels he had 18 whiffs on 96 pitches in this one

has turned in back-to-back quality starts after a very rough four-start stretch and Luis Castillo is at the Royals this week so I think we get a A thumbs up for Luis Cascio. Yeah? Sure. With that matchup, sure. All right, next up, Ryan Nelson, who pitched well again at the twins, six shutout innings with four strikeouts.

I was surprised to see that, you know, he's only 79% rostered and 53% started. He's 17 starts in the rotation, a 276 ERA, and a 1.03 whip. He gets the Phillies this week, so it's not a great matchup, but he's just pitched really well. So you know how many you know what percentage he threw his fastball against the twins on Saturday? 70 60 60 percent exactly 60 it always works for Ryan Nelson when he does that but yeah it's his he's one of those guys whose roster rate has just gotten stuck there just south of 80 which is why I had to lower the threshold to 75 yeah do you guys think he's like a must start at this point use him against the Phillies I'm probably starting him, yeah. I would be okay with starting him against the Phillies, but a lot of those head-to-head leagues

where you're one of the best teams playing for a championship, you've probably got a deep rotation and you could maybe find somebody better to start. Jacob Mizziarowski took a step back against the Cardinals, which should be a good matchup, but he really only has had one usable start since returning from the IL in those six starts. It's a 641 ERA and a 134.

WIP for Mizirowski. He gets the Cardinals again this week. What are we doing with the Miz? I think he's a fringe to below average starter in a points league, and I'd probably still start him in Rota. Unless you're protecting WIP. Sure. All right, next up, Dylan C's had a strong start.

All he needed was the Rockies on the road. Six innings, one run with six strikeouts, had 18 whiffs on 100 nine pitches. And he is at the White Sox this week. week. So I've been starting him the whole time. I'm going to keep starting. I gave up like I gave up like a month ago. He's kind of broadened his arsenal his last couple turns and has found success with that. Not so reliant on fastball and slider has been introducing a sweeper. 13% this time, 17% last time. It had been 3% for the season. And it seems to be helping. So against the white, Sox revenge game Frank oh yes I think you do it start it is worth noting because I have seen people yell at us the white sox are not like a great matchup right now since the All-Star break I think they have had like a top 15 offense I still don't

think they're a matchup you are I mean top 15 since the All-Star break bottom five for the season they're 12th in this last 30 days yeah I like Like, I don't. There's seventh in the second half. Yeah, that's pretty good. Oh, that's pretty good. But there's still fifth from the bottom and runs for the season. And like, I don't know.

I don't know. What do you do, what do you want to put your faith in? Do you want to put your faith in recency? Or do you want to put your faith in longevity? Hey, man, if you want to trust the White Sox lineup, I have no problem benching Dillon C. So if that's what you want to use is the reason, go for it. Because he's. I mean, it works.

starting Parker Messick. And there was another one we started against the white sucks this week that worked out really well. Can't remember who. For Amber Valdez, over his last eight starts, has a 641 ERA and a 153 whip. He gets the Mariners this week in a very important series. I know most of the time Valdez is just a must-star pitcher, but man, he's going through it right now. I would still start him. I get it. I understand, but I just he is a guy who feel seems to be a big thing for him

he has to have the feel for the curveball especially and that's not been there as consistently as you'd like in the second half of the season and we have seen early last season he really struggled before turning it on so he is one of those guys that like trends do tend to matter but I think the track record of him being a great pitcher is long enough

that I'm not going to sit him. So, go ahead. It really depends how I came to the dance with. Like, I would not sleep him for any, sleep him. I would not start him for any of my sleeper pitchers this week. Bench him. Start over.

Oh, man. We are spiraling here the final two weeks of the season. I would not sit Framber Valdez For any of my sleeper pitchers this week, except maybe the top one, Kyle Braddish. But if you just have a lot of great starters, then I could see sitting. Yeah.

Sitting him. Last two names here on the starter sit discussion, Shane Bieber and Nolan McLean. They both pitch very well. Bieber gets the Royals this week. Nolan McLean gets the Nationals. So I'm not even going to ask. I'm just going to tell everyone,

use Shane Bieber and Nolan McLean this week. The Giants' decision to start their top pitchers on short rest did not go well against the Dodgers here. Logan Webb hit hard, four innings, 10 hits, six runs allowed, and Robbie Ray, four innings, five runs with six hits and four walks. Robbie Ray has had a rough second half here, 522 ERA and a 145 whip. The problem, most of these guys are just kind of auto starts.

I mean, these two in particular, they also get the Dodgers in L.A. again this week. So, man, is there any way you would bench a Logan Webb or Robbie Ray? Would you start them or start Framber Valdez? I'd start the Giants, guys. I agree. I would rank them probably Webb, Framber, Robbie Ray right now in terms of their useable. I think that's how I have them ranked. Yeah.

Overall, yeah. Yeah. I will say Webb's sweepers seem to be sweeping like normal again in this start and actually got a good whiff rate on. I actually threw it more than any other pitch. So he had been having to shy away from it recently. I know the result was terrible, so who cares about the sweeper, right? But maybe it's a good sign moving forward for Logan Webb.

I'll also point out with Ray, his velocity's been fluctuating a lot lately. It was up in this one. It had been down significantly a few starts ago. So it stabilized a couple starts ago, and the fact that it's not consistently down, I think, is a good sign. But that's just the one thing I've noticed, if you're looking at the... the rough second half as he probably just hasn't been, I don't know if it's mechanically quite right or whatever, but I think that's probably something there.

Yeah, it's always a risk to bench players of this caliber. I just, I really hate pitchers facing the same opponent two times in a row, and especially when it's the Dodgers too. It's just, uh, I think that's reasonable. It's just how many people, like, I don't know, are you doing it for Noah Cameron?

No, no, not against the, that's a tough matchup, but, For Kyle Braddish, I think I probably would. Okay, sure. Two-star Kyle Braddish, especially in the points league, that's fine. Ryan Nelson versus the Phillies? No. I think I'd rather start the Giants guys.

Jacob Mizirowski? No. I think I'd rather start the Giants guys. Yeah. So it's not impossible that you're sitting them, but I'd lean against it. Some other pitching leftovers here. We mentioned Brian Wu and George Kirby. Brian Wu said a new career high with 13 strikeouts.

We mentioned that up top. Also, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, spectacular at the Giants. Seven innings, one hit, one run, 10 strikeouts. Last three starts, he's gone seven plus innings in each. One earned run and 10, at least 10 strikeouts in each. So he has been amazing. And Jacob de Grom turned in a solid start in his return to city field. Seven innings, three runs.

Just two strikeouts here. And lots of hard contact, but the result turned out okay. Anything to add on DeGrom, Yamamoto, or the... the Baroners guys. He got more run support in this start than he ever had at Cityfield before. Is that true? That's 100% true. Yeah. I mean, the Ranger scored like eight runs. So it's not, it wasn't like they scored four and it was the most run support he's ever had. But, uh, yeah, I thought that was funny. Still. I mean, he probably made what? Oh, close to like a hundred and five starts. A hundred and five starts in City Field. That's crazy.

Oh my gosh. A couple of their pitching leftovers is Garrett Crochet, another big start. this time on Sunday night baseball against the Yankees six innings, three runs with 12 strikeouts, had 23 whiffs on 99 pitches. Tyler Glass now, a strong start at the Giants, six and two thirds, one run, four walks, obviously that's high, four strikeouts here, but that's three straight quality starts for him. And a rough start for Hunter Green, just wanted to mention at the athletics, two and a third innings, five runs, four walks, he struggled to throw strikes in this one, gets the Cubs this week. I think he's just a must-star pitcher,

but anything to add our Hunter Green, Glass Now, or Garrett Crochet? Keep shining. All right. Some hitting leftovers, Haraldo Pardomo, another big game on Friday. One for two with a sock into shoe. He's up to 19 homers and 26 steals.

Clearly, Mani Machado heard us call him the dog of the week last week because he homered on both Friday and Saturday, facing the Rockies helps, obviously. Nice weekend for Lawrence Butler, who homered on Friday and then had three steals on Saturday. That gets him up to 2020 for the season, but still a disappointing year. 240 batting average, 729 OPS.

Junior Kamenero. Caminero. Two more homers this weekend. He is now up to 44 on the year. You know, 45 also rhymes with drive. Oof. Should have said 45 instead of 35. Next time, Scott, you got to go even bolder.

I really do. Jazz Chisholm continues to rack up the power and speed. Two for four with two steals on Friday, then hit his 29th homer on Saturday. 162 games played with the Yankees. He has 40 homers and 48 steals. All right, so I want to, yeah, can I just stop on this one for a second?

Sure. Which of these players would you rather have next year? Or which of these players would you rather have? 257 batting average, 37 homers, 95 RBI, 127 runs 42 steals right 37 95 127 42 or 40 98 99 and 48 with the same batting average 254 I think you'd rather have the hundred and 27 that's the biggest but like I think the counting sets that's Corby and Carroll's last 160 games versus Jazz Chishol with the Yankees wow like I'm not saying

you need to take Jazz Chishol as high as Corby and Carol but jazz chis and might go 15 picks later than Corbyn Carroll next season and players in contract years tend to play more often they tend to play more games that's the biggest contract year effect so he has played like a borderline first rounder since getting to the Yankees is what I will say so per game basis yeah yeah and it's crazy I mean he's about to go 30 30 and he missed like a month of the season this year too so it's just yeah I credit to him Salvador Perez, two home runs on Saturday, another home run on Sunday.

Kyle Schwaber, two more homers this weekend as well. He's up to 52 for the season. And Nick Kurtz putting an exclamation point on his rookie year, hit a grand slam on Saturday that was 493 feet and then hit another home run on Sunday. Chris likes to say 500 foot home runs don't really exist. Nick Kurtz almost made one. I think they've happened three times in the stack cast. No, it is one of those things that like when I see.

saw that one, like that ball never landed. I don't know. It disappeared. It went over the giant batters eye in that minor league ballpark. 30 years ago, that's a 540 foot home run. 60 years ago, 60 years ago, that's like a 580 foot home run. And now it's like, oh, it was only 493. Yeah.

Well, nobody's saying it was only 4993. Stackcast has robbed us of something, I will say. The call to the bullpen for the Cubs on Friday, Brad Keller, pitched in the eighth inning with the two-run lead facing the top of the raised lineup. Andrew Kittridge got the ninth. He picked up his fourth save. Then on Saturday, Brad Keller pitched in the ninth with the game tied. He gave up a solo homer and took a loss.

And then on Sunday, Andrew Kittridge back in the ninth inning, he picked up his fifth save. So kind of just feels like Andrew Kittridge, and he's 15% rostered. Yeah. Sure seems that way. For the Yankees, David Beddard picked up two saves this weekend. It pretty clearly is his job, as long as he's been. performing. For the Rockies on Friday, Victor Vodnik got the ninth inning with a three-run lead.

He picked up his eighth save, and he pretty much has just been the Rockies closer as well. For the athletics on Friday, Sean Newcomb pitched in the ninth inning, struck out the side for his second save. And then on Sunday, he pitched in the seventh, and it was Michael Kelly who got the ninth with a three-run lead and picked up his first save. The athletics bullpen feels very fluid right now, right? Yeah. Yeah. Doesn't feel like there's a kind of clear choice. I guess it would be Newcomb, but I think they kind of mix a match. He's the best, so if I had to pick him somebody for fantasy, that's who I'd get. But, like, I'd also feel lucky if I got a single save from him the rest of the way.

Yeah, just go pick up Andrew Kitchard's instead. For the Dodgers on Friday, Tanner Scott entered the 10th with one out, gave up two walks, and then give up a walk-off grand slam to Patrick Bailey, of all people. Tanner Scott took his fourth loss there. For the Orioles on Saturday, Yanir Canoe entered with one out in the ninth, a runner on second, two-run lead. He allowed three runs, took his fifth-blown save and seventh loss. Orioles bullpen has kind of been a mess. Kegan Aiken is probably the best one there.

For the Rangers on Saturday, Sean Armstrong picked up his ninth save. For the Cardinals, pretty messy here. Romero got the eighth. He gave up runs. Riley O'Brien got the ninth. He gave up runs. Kyle Leahy got the 10th. He gave up runs and took the loss.

Then on Sunday, Riley O'Brien, bounce back for his fourth save. So I think Riley O'Brien just ahead of Romero right now for Cardinal saves. Does that make sense? It's pretty close. Yeah. And mostly just deep league names with those two.

And then for the Tigers on Sunday, Will Vest got the ninth with a two-run lead. He allowed two base runners, but picked up his 21st save. To stream or not to stream on Monday. All right, Chris, here we are. Trey is Savage in his MLB debut at the race. We got James and Tyone.

at the Pirates Revenge Game. Braxton Ashcraft against the Cubs, Jason Alexander against the Rangers, and Emmett Sheehan against the Phillies. Yeah, Yassavage is clearly second on this list. I would take Emmett Sheen over him, but I would go with Yash savage second. I would also take Jameson Tion over Yassavage.

I agree with that, yeah. I would go Sheehan, Tyone, and then Yassavage in that order. But drops to Sheehan that we're picking him even going against the Philly. that just shows you how... He's been filthy lately, man. I know some of it has been good matchups, but yeah, he's looked really good.

And working deep. Three of his last four, six innings or more. Two of them, seven. Yeah. And then on Tuesday, we have Zebby Matthews against the Yankees, Joey Cantillo at the Tigers, Jeffrey Springs at the Red Sox,

Shane Smith against the Orioles, Michael McGreevy against the Reds, and Eduardo Rodriguez against the Giants. I don't mind Shane Smith or Joey Cantillo. Yeah. but I don't love him either. Yeah. It would be Smith and Cantillo.

Yeah, Zebby Matthews, I still think there are skills there, but he's just been, he's been very erratic, and obviously the Yankees can do damage, so I would stay away there. We are going to wrap there for Scott and Chris. I am Frank.

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