Fantasy Baseball Today - Ranking Waiver Wire Outfielders, Circle of Trust & DROPOMETER! (8/11 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 11, 2021

Anthony Santander has been heating up lately (1:18)! Is it legit? How do we rank Santander, Rafael Ortega, and Lorenzo Cain? Also, is Matt Barnes broken and where did this Griffin Jax start come from? ... News and notes (12:47). Gerrit Cole could be back this weekend, Mookie Betts might go on the IL and more. ... Are Zac Gallen and Sonny Gray still part of the Circle of Trust (19:28)? ... Let's fire up the DROPOMETER for Gallen, Gray, Conforto, Mize, and others (31:56). ... Did you know ____ (40:40)? ... Is there anything to see with Triston McKenzie, JA Happ, and Drew Smyly (47:00). If you need outfielders in deep leagues, we've got you covered (50:26). We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, and streamers (52:08). ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank 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

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Now here's Frank, Scott, Chris, and Adam. From four games on Monday to 17 games on Tuesday. We've got a lot to talk about. Welcome in to Fantasy baseball today on August 11th. Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White. I kind of cheated there. There were 17 games on the schedule. One of them got rained out.

They only played an inning. Whatever. I cheated. How you doing, Scott? I'm good. Good to hear. Good to hear, Scott. It's a very late start here.

Lots of West Coast games as well. So apologies, but we needed the data. Let's do it. Let's talk about the games. Oh, my goodness gracious. I didn't even ask you who you wanted to do for, oh my goodness gracious before we started here, Scott. Something we usually do. I know.

I hate when you do. do that, Frank. I don't give it any thought until you ask me about it. So here's what we'll do. I'll get us started. You can think about who you want to talk about. I have actually multiple players, so I cheated a little bit. But I'll start with Anthony Santander who had a double dong on Tuesday. Now has three homers over his last two games. He's 47% rostered. And in August, super small sample size, seven games. He is betting 429. The strikeout rate is way down. The fly ball rate is way up. He's hitting the ball a lot harder as well. And we spoke about him the

other day and you compared him to Mike Mustakis last season. Anthony Santander kind of had this Mike Mustakis-esque profile where again, he was making lots of contact, he was putting the ball in the air. You do that in Camden Yards. Good things are going to happen.

Scott, your interest level in a 47% rostered Anthony Santander. Look, it's not there yet. He hasn't been doing Mike Mustak. like things. And what does that even mean anymore? I mean, who is Mike Mustakis to the people listening right now? I'm not even sure that comparison is going to get people excited anyway. But the things he was doing last year, that got me so excited, 15.2% strikeout rate. Very good. And putting the ball in the air a ton. Which, you know, to some degree that that works against the batting averages you're gaining, the batting average points you're gaining with the low. strikeout rate all those fly balls, but it of course helps you put balls over the fence, too, which is the most valuable thing of all. So, you know, strikeout rates significantly higher this year, and it's not like the home run output has been particularly, you know, particularly noteworthy.

So three home runs in two days, I'm just, I'm not sure that's really moving the needle for me. That's fair. Again, it's a super small sample size. I'm paying close attention to this to see if it carries on throughout August. Again, it's only been seven games. It's a small sample size. But throughout this month, the strikeout rate is way down again. And the fly balls were actually up in July as well. So if he keeps that up, I'm thinking good things are going to happen for Anthony Santander hitting in Camden Yards.

Let's rank Santander with a couple of other outfielders who had big games on Tuesday. Rafael Ortega went four for seven across two games with a stolen base. that had a double header on Tuesday. He's now batting over 400 in 25 second half games. He is 40% rostered. And then Lorenzo Kane went one for three in game one of that doubleheader with his fourth home run of the season. He is betting 3.41 with one homer, three steals,

in 11 games since coming off the aisle, 25% rostered. Scott ranked Santander, Ortega, and Lorenzo Kane. I would definitely go Kane, number one. Kane is doing his usual cane things, making contact at a high rate has been running since coming back from the IL2. I think he already has three stolen bases in about two weeks' time. And if he's going to do that at his age coming off a leg injury,

you know, I take that as a very good sign. I take that as a good sign. I think there's some batting average correction that's going to come in a good way. And he's playing virtually every day too. So I don't know why he's. he can't get back to being the Lorenzo Kane we've always known based on all the factors I'm seeing right now. So he's pretty easily number one.

Ortega versus Santander 2, 3. I'm just, I'm not convinced to the upside for Santander, which isn't to say I am for Ruega either, but I feel like he's a little more interesting right now because he might run a little bit. You know, it looks like he might be a better bet for batting average, too. Would you agree that all three of these should be rostered in five outfielder leagues?

should be, I think that's a little strong. I think that's a little strong. Even my favorite is highly available. I think Kane needs to be rostered in five outfielder leagues. I'm not saying you can't rostered Ortega or Santander in five outfieler leagues. But it wouldn't surprise me if I didn't have room for them either. All right. Oh, my goodness gracious for you, Scott.

Did you pick a name out yet? Yeah, I did. I did. You don't sound very excited. Well, I'm not sure what to say about Matt Barnes. He got, he had some trouble. He had some trouble in a tie game for the Red Sox against the race, gave up four earned runs, two hits, two walks.

And that was after a blown save in his previous outing, two earn runs and a third of an inning against the Blue Jays. And now in five appearances this month, he's given up a total of seven earned runs, which isn't great. Isn't a great time to be imploding here as a closer. You know, now that we're in the home stretch, his ERA has suddenly ballooned to 352.

I'm not sure anything's wrong with them. I'm looking at it now. Spin seems about the same velocity's fine. I'm not sure there's really anything wrong with him, but this is how it goes for closer sometimes where you can just have a rough patch and suddenly your jobs in jeopardy. Of course,

overall Barnes has had an amazing season in spite of what his ERA is now. His numbers have been fantastic up until very recently here. So, and I'm not saying the Red Sox are for sure going to make a change, but it wouldn't surprise me if they at least hesitate to go back to Matt Barnes. You know, somebody like Adamadovino, he's gotten, he's gotten eight saves just filling in for Barnes here and there.

So it seems like they're, they already have a comfort level with him in that role. I'd be a little worried right now if I had Matt Barnes. I'm not saying, like, drop him or anything. Because, I mean, we're talking like top five potential. That's what he's been for most of the season. But it's been really rocky lately. That is insane that Adamadovino has eight saves. season, even with Matt Barnes having 24.

Yeah. 32 total saves for the Red Sox this year. That is a massive amount. It's only August 11th, so that is, that's a pretty big amount there for the Boston Red Sox. Anyway, for Matt Barnes, yeah, I don't really see why he's struggling because the ways he usually struggles are with walks.

And that hasn't been an issue for him all season long. I mean, he's at 2.7 walks. He did have two walks today, so Right. Okay. But before this, his other struggles, it hasn't been walks. So even width today. 2.7, again, 2.7 walks per 9,

like, that's not bad for a reliever. So, and the strikeouts have still been really good for him. Yeah, it doesn't take much. You know, relievers don't pitch many innings just by the nature of the role. So it doesn't take much of a hiccup to really, for things to start, for the numbers to go askew. And, and that's why, that's why it's so volatile. That's why it's so volatile. I mean, I think Matt Barnes is still their best release.

you know, not knowing everything that's going on with them. I think they should probably just stick with them, but I'm not sure they're going to. Yeah. And Adam Adavino, for what it's worth, he is 16% rostered. He doesn't have great numbers this year, 3.7 ERA. He's got a whip over 1.3. Yeah, 1.33 whips. So it's not that, it's not like he's been great this season either.

But he has consistently been the eighth inning man and the fill-in for Matt Barnes whenever he can't go. I do want to give a quick, oh my goodness gracious shout out to Griffin Jacks. Where did this come from? Up against the White Sox on Tuesday, six innings, three runs, one walk, 10 strikeouts, 14 swinging strikes on 83 pitches. Nine of those came on the slider. His previous two starts got, he had a 4.4% swinging strike rate. So I really don't know where this came from with Griffin Jacks.

He's only 6% rostered. Anything to see here? Well, you only cited the previous two starts. go back one more start. And I know he got sent down to the miners for a start prior to the previous two. So, you know, that's probably why you broke it up that way. But three starts ago, Griffin Jacks had 16 swinging strikes.

So now two of his last four starts, he's had a lot of whiffs for some reason. Now, he didn't even have a strikeout per inning in the minors. The overall numbers, the ERA and WIP, they're pretty good, 332 and 118. But I don't know why he has these occasional starts where the whiffs just spike for him. And he gets a lot of strikeouts,

but that's now two and four that's happened. And, you know, after that one start, when he got sent back down right away, we said, this might be something to keep an eye on. So that's still where I am with Griffin Jacks. I mean, he's not a young guy. His minor league track record, you know, it's not like it makes your eyes bug out or anything.

So I don't suspect there's much here. But if next time out he does something similar, I might start to change my tune. Griffin Jacks, he is 26 years old, again, 6% rostered. Throw him on the scout team. That's what we say for guys like Griffin Jacks. If you play in a deeper league, 15-team Roto, AL-only, probably should already be rostering to AL-only,

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Anyway, news and notes. Both Garrett Cole and Jordan Montgomery could return from the COVID-IL and start this weekend against the Chicago White Sox would be a welcome site for both of those. guys, Mookie Betz is still dealing with his right hip issue and maybe placed on the IEL on Wednesday. So there was a stretch there where Mookiee Betz looked like he was coming around, went on the IL. You know what happened? They moved him back to the outfield. Things were going fine at second base.

Second base. He was making plays on the left field side of the bag and he was hitting great. And they put him there because they thought it would help keep the hip healthy. And then the first time he goes out to the outfield, suddenly he's being removed with more hip trouble. So, you know, one appearance short of picking up second base eligibility, and now many games short of being in your lineup. I don't know how long he's going to be out, but that's frustrating.

Very frustrating. Yeah, you're right. Four games at second base this season on CBS. You only need five games to pick up that eligibility. And speaking of which, yes, John Carlos Stanton played his fifth game in the outfield on Tuesday. So he now has outfield eligibility for, what it's worth. Not like he's been great. He's just over an 800 OPS on the season. Alex Bregman will rejoin AAA Sugar Land. My favorite AAA team name. That's awesome. To continue his rehab assignment

on Friday, he's expected back next week, assuming no setbacks. The year of the setback. He was expected back this week. Right. Year of the setback is right. Hashtag year of the setback. Can't anybody just get better? We need you. We need you, Alex Bregman. Uli Gureel is expected to be activated on Friday. Jared Walsh was not activated on Tuesday, as the Angels had hoped. Reese Hoskins went to the I.O. with a groin strain. Brad Miller started at first base on Tuesday. Travis Darno is set to rejoin the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday. He's 35% rostered and finished as a top five catcher in both formats last season, Roto, and in head-to-head points. And I could see dropping him right into my top 12, maybe even top 10 catchers, Scott. I mean, he was that good. And the Braves lineup,

Even without Ronald Le Cunia, is still a very good lineup, Scott. So what do you think about putting him back in that top 10, top 12 range right away? I moved him up to 13, but ahead of him, I still have Yizmani Grondal, who isn't healthy at the moment. So, practically speaking, yeah, Darno is back in my top 12. Now, he wasn't performing that well before getting hurt. And that injury was way back in April, right? So not only 23-game sample for Travis Darnow. So not really much to go on.

But, you know, there was some skepticism as to how legitimate that 2020 performance was. And I think there still should be. Having said that, it's catcher. You know, it's the catcher position. And if you already missed out on Max Stacey, Eric Haas, Mitch Garver, you know, when you had your shot at them, I think it's worth taking a chance on Travis Darno. I'd do it over, you know, I'd rather do that than continue languishing like a, like with a Christian Vasquez or Yadir Malina. Yeah, for sure. That makes sense. Even like a James McCann, a Sean Murphy, who you could have dropped a while ago. But with Jan Goams going there, the playing time has basically been split evenly between those two. Looking at the rankings, yeah, I think I'm probably going to drop him right into 12, just behind Omar Narvaez and Elias, who I moved way up, but he's just absolutely crushing the ball right now. for the Colorado Rockies.

Rymel Tapio was placed on the IL with a right big toe sprain. Connor Joe started in left field on Tuesday. Ross Stripling left Tuesday start with left abdominal discomfort. Markana left with eye irritation. Akele-Badu left after a pretty scary collision with center fielder Derek Hill, where they were basically running full speed trying to catch a ball in left center and just collided with each other. So I hope everything's all right with both of those guys.

Justin Turner is not expected back until Friday at the earliest. Javier Baez was out of the lineup due to lower back tightness. Jose Orkitti will begin a rehab assignment on Wednesday. Andrew McCutcheon could be activated off the IL on Wednesday. Alex Verdugo likely will not return from the paternity list until Thursday. Matthew Boyd will begin a rehab assignment at AAA on Thursday. He's 41% rostered, but Scott, I would imagine you don't have much interest in Boyd, because you don't really like him earlier in the season anyway.

You got it. I got it. Rendon Rogers was out for his second straight game with a hand contusion. Kwonghan Kim went to the IL on, who went to the IL on Monday does not have anything structurally wrong with his left elbow. Nick Anderson will rejoin AAA on Thursday. He is 16% rostered if you want to speculate on the raised bullpen,

which, it's pretty sketchy most of the time anyway. Rowan Wick was activated off the aisle on Tuesday. and I was just scrolling through there's so many box scores today, but I believe in a game that they lost 6 to 3, the Cubs pitched Rowan Wick in the ninth inning, so I don't know how much

that actually means, but it's something. He's 3% rostered for those in the deepest of leagues who need 6th. It would have been the 7th inning because it was part of a double header. You are correct. That was the final inning that they played, but it was the 7th.

Exactly. Yeah. We had a bunch of hitters return on Tuesday Josh Rojas for the Diamondbacks, Josh Donaldson started at DH. Michael Brantley was back for the Astros and Randy Rosarana returned from the COVID-IL. A few prospect updates. Nate Pearson was delayed by a non-COVID illness but should join AAA Buffalo for rehab work

by the end of this week. The Blue Jays have plans to use Pearson as a reliever for the rest of the season. And it's just baby steps, but Jaron Duran has back-to-back multi-hit games. So, as some, one who spent a lot of money on him in Fab in a 15 team league. I am rooting for

Jaron Duran as I hope everybody is. We want to see the prospects perform well. Yeah, I think I dropped him in a couple leagues this weekend. Not as deep as a 15 team Roto league. I can't blame you. Yeah, I mean, I think it's just one of those things where 15 team Roto, five outfielders, it's you need anything that you can get. So, Jared Duran, we're rooting for you, buddy. Scott, you have an article that went up on the site. By the way, I mean, we're about 20 minutes into the podcast. We are going to talk about the circle of trust.

A few names here in the circle of trust. Are they in or out? The drop o meter. Did you know I have some fun facts? Anything to see here? Some starting pictures that pitched on Tuesday.

But let's start with that circle of trust because you have a article that is on the site now and it was published before these pitchers made their starts on Tuesday. So it's interesting. But Zach Gallen was at the Giants.

Wait a second. Wait a second. Before we get into it. Okay. do you know what movie the circle of trust comes from? What movie that that term had a central part in? Well, I read your article, Scott, so I already know. But if you asked me this without me reading it,

I probably wouldn't have been able to tell you, although I have seen that movie. You've seen it at least. I just wouldn't have remembered that part of the movie. But yeah, it's from, is it Meet the Family or Meet the Fokkers? it's meet the parents meet the Falkers was the sequel to it

okay I feel like they made a third one meet the family I don't know if I'm probably just making that up but I think it was called little Falkers I actually I actually didn't see any of the sequel but Meet the Parents is a classic you probably don't need to I think that's the one where they spike the volleyball right and like

someone starts bleeding in the pool I don't know why of all the things that happened in that movie that's what stands out to me but in the movie if you get removed from the circle of trust, then you're out. So, let's, let's find out about some of these guys. Can, can they work their way back in? I don't know. Zach Gallen at the Giants, six-ennings, seven hits, five runs. He did have seven strikeouts in this start. Over his last five starts, he has a 5.98 ERA. Scott, the circle of trust for Zach Gallen. He's out of the circle of trust for me. At least he was

in the article. This, this was, this start was kind of interesting, though, because part of the reason he was out of the circle of trust for me. I mean, the biggest reason is that back in May, he sprained his elbow. It's, which is to say he suffered ligament damage in his elbow. There was some fear at the time.

He might have to be shut down for the season, maybe going for Tommy John surgery. These were, these were questions, these were possibilities that were being raised. And, uh, you know,

he came back. He's been back for a while. So, you know, we kind of, that's kind of been swept under the rug. but he just hasn't looked as crisp, you know? He was over 12% swinging strike rate last year, under 10 this year, which is bad.

Like, that's a really low swinging strike rate, right? He's had some starts where he's looked decent to earn runs or fewer. He's had some starts where he struck out more than a bad or per inning. But the consistency hasn't been there, the crispness hasn't been there. I've been scared he was just going to blow up at some point, that the things weren't quite right and he was just getting away with it. And, you know, you could argue how much he was getting away with it because the combined DRA still wasn't that great.

But he got 13 whiffs in this one, 13 swinging strikes, against the Giants. So that's saying something. And that's the highest swinging strike total he's gotten in a game since before the elbow issues. And I think this is back-to-back starts now with double-digit swinging strikes, which he hadn't done at all since coming back from that injury until these back-to-back starts. So, you know, I'm wondering if he started to feel a little. little healthier. It could just be a fluke, a coincidence, whatever. I would still say he's out of the circle of trust. And, you know, the way I framed it in the article, being out of the circle of

the trust doesn't necessarily mean you have to drop him, although I have mentioned that I have dropped Galen in some shallower leagues. It just means he's not somebody you should think of as like a fixture in your lineup. You're going to have to deploy him very cautiously, only with the right matchups only under the right circumstances. And so I would still say Gallin's out of the circle of trust. But unlike, unlike Jack, I forget his last name, Robert De Niro's character from Meet the Parents, when you're out of the circle of trust for me, you can get back in. It's not you're out for good.

So fear not, Zach Gallen. You could still find your way back in the circle of trust. All right. Jack Burns, I believe, is his name in the movie. There you go. All right. so you can work your way back in. This was an interesting start for Zach Gowland.

You're right about that. 13 swinging strikes. A 34% CSW again, that's caught. Now, you see now Chris mess me up. It's called strikes plus whiffs, and league average is 28%. So 34% for Gowland here is very good. And only one walk.

To me, that's the biggest key for Zach Gowan. I don't know what has gone so awry for him, but that year that he had in the minors where he was just amazing. his control was fantastic. And since then, I mean, he's been called up and maybe it's just him nibbling too much or not trusting in his stuff,

but his walks have been massive. This season, over four walks per nine, it's been a huge issue for Zach Gallen. Maybe the injuries have contributed to it. But Gallen currently outside of Scott's top 50 starting pitcher ranks and out of the circle of trust as well. Let's see if he could work his way back in. The other one, Sunny Gray.

And Sunny Gray is actually very similar to Zach Gallen and that they get a good amount of strikeouts. They don't go deep into their starts, but they just walk way too many guys. And Sunny Gray at the Braves on Tuesday, five innings, three hits, two runs, three more walks, did have eight strikeouts, only eight swinging strikes on 89 pitches. However, the velocity down between 1.1 miles per hour and 2.4 miles per hour on each of his four seam sinker, slider, and curb ball. Don't like to see that. The ERA is at 4.40. The circle of trust for Sunny Gray. You're picking all the bad ones. Sonny Gray's out of the circle of trust for me too.

He's out. He's out. Yeah. And then this is kind of an uncomfortable one because if he was a, if he qualified, he would be fifth in X-FIP. And, you know, if I'm going to cite any single stat as a predictor for, for what it, as a predictor for a pitcher going forward, it would be X-FIP. That would be the single stat.

If you were limiting me to just one, that would be the one I'd pick. So it's uncomfortable going against a pitcher whose ex-fip is that good. But, you know, these observations date back to last year for Sunny Gray, where even though the strikeout rate is good, even though the ground ball rate is good, and those are, of course, help explain why he has such low ex-fip. He's just not efficient enough. He walks too many guys.

He doesn't go deep enough into games to make a real impact. I do think the ERA over 4 the whip being over is it over 1.4? What's the whip for Santer? I believe it's 1.38 after this start. So very high whip, high ERA. You know, it does look like he may have had some bad, bad bit luck.

It does look like he may have had some bad home run luck that are contributing to those inflated ERA and whip. Nonetheless, even if he hadn't had that bad luck, I still don't think that the impact would be such that I'd consider him a must-star pitcher. Again, just because he's out of the circle of trust doesn't mean you have to drop Sunny Gray, never ever start him.

But, you know, you really got to choose your spots with him. I know that people aren't going to want to hear this, Scott, and I don't have a good reason for what I'm about to say. But I think that there are certain pitchers where you can kind of just look at the underlying numbers and you just don't agree with them for whatever reason, even though they're there and we use them, to help with our analysis day in and day out.

So usually that's what our process is, and that's what, you know, this process tells us that Sunny Gray should be better moving forward if he continues to pitch at this level. But there are still just things in his profile. First pitch strike percentage has consistently been lower than league average in his career.

Doesn't get a ton of swinging strikes right around 11% consistently. His chase rate is not very good. I mean, there's just things where if you watch Sunny Gray, He's very inconsistent. So I hear what you're saying. I don't know if that's like a good enough explanation,

but there are just a few players for me. No, I mean, if there was a perfect stat for predicting how good a pitcher could be, then, you know, this would be way easier that it is. And whoever invented that stat would be a millionaire. That is correct. If not more. So, yeah, I mean, Lance Lenn's a good example of the other direction.

His ex-fip this year is 383. His ex-PIP last year was 434. You know, and X-FIP is going to underestimate pitchers who are consistently good at suppressing hard contact. And, you know, part of the reason... So, for instance, Lance Lens X-ERAs look closer to his actual ERA than his X-FIP. But the reason I generally trust X-FIP over X-ERA is because I don't think many pitchers are good at repeating

that soft contact rate year after year. that soft contact rate that XERA so rewards. But Lance Lynn is. Yeah, look, it's not perfect. We're going to use all these different tools to try and help us figure things out and help you guys figure things out. But yeah, there's some things with Sunny Gray.

Other pictures that are out of the circle of trust, I'm not going to give away the whole article because I want some people to go, I want all people to go read it. But Taiwan Walker and Joe Ross, they're out. They're out of the circle of trust for now. Get out of it. Get out of here.

One pitcher that remained in the circle was Aaron Nola. And, man, I mean, if it wasn't for the rain, who knows what had happened in the start, but the game went into a rain delay. Aaron Nola at the time, four shutout, only one hit, zero walked, seven strikeouts against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He had 13 swinging strikes on 51 pitches. I don't know how the start would have ended, but it looked like it was trending towards being one of,

if not, Aranola's best start of the season. So, let's keep it up. Let's keep it up. He looked like he belonged in that circle of trust, which is just, where I left him. As we've said, the last few times, we've talked about Aeronola. Basically, everything looks as good as it ever has for Aaronola,

except the fly balls and the home runs. And he's talked about struggling to get his fastball down. That would certainly explain both of those numbers, somebody who's used to, whose success has come from pitching down in the zone. But the home runs have, his previous start wasn't that good, but he gave up only one home run.

it. And I think this is, if we include today's start abbreviated, though it was, I think that's four straight starts where the home runs have really not been an issue anymore. So I think he's getting back on track with that. And if that's the case, as good as he's been at missing bats and avoiding walks this year, Aaron Nola, you know, from today forward, it's not a stretch to say he could be a top five pitcher from today forward. It's not a stretch to say he could be the number one pitcher. That's obviously, you know, asking for a lot of things to go right. But he has that kind of ability, does Aaron Nola. The rain also cut short starts by Max Scherzer, who was pitching very well. Carlos Carrasco, who only pitched one inning. He allowed a three-run Homer

to Juan Soto. So maybe it was a good thing that that game got cut short for Carlos Carrasco. We're going to take a quick break. But when we return, we're going to fire up the dropometer here on fantasy baseball today. All right, let's quickly just start with those two starting pitchers who are out of the circle of trust now, Scott. You mentioned, just because they're out, doesn't mean you have to drop them, but first off for Zach Gallen, he's still 87% rostered. What is the dropometer for him?

I would say for Zach Allen, the dropometer is lower today than it was yesterday. I will put it at about a five. A five, so... Yeah, straight down the middle.

How helpful is that? Ten team leagues, maybe some 12 team points leagues? Yeah, I mean, anything where you got more than 300 players roster, I can't imagine you're going to be dropping Zach Allen. But in the 250 range, you know, you may have already been pressed into doing that. What about Sunny Gray? I hate to be boring, but I'm going to say five again.

Would you drop either for Logan Webb or Josiah Gray? Boy, I just moved both of those guys up. I can't remember where I move them in relation to. Gray and Gallin. I, you have Zach Gallin at SP 52, you have Logan Webb at 55,

just ahead of Sunny Gray. Okay, so here's how I rank them. Gallin, Logan Webb, Sunny Gray, Josiah Gray. That's how I ranked them. And you have... They're all very close. They're all within 10 spots,

eight spots. You have John Gray and Josiah Gray ranked back to back. It's definitely not confusing at all, Scott. Yeah, I abbreviate what I've, here's the thing. So, you know, Sunny Gray versus John Gray, I could always just in my notes here write J. Gray or S. Gray, right? Now that Josiah Gray's here, I can't just go with J. Gray.

And I can't go J.O. Gray either. That's right. I gotta either spell out John Gray or go with Joss Gray. And that's just, yeah, that's just a gray day for everyone. That's asking too much. All right, dropometer. I've got a few hitters here that are really struggling in the second half. which is right around 20 to 25 games. But Matt Chapman is batting 156 in the second half.

He's got a 42% strikeout rate. Earlier in the season, Scott, we said you could drop Matt Chapman. And then there was a couple of weeks stretch there where it looked like we were going to regret that decision. And then now he's been blah again. He's still 87% rostered as Matt Chapman. That seems high.

Third base has been a surprisingly difficult position to fill. For the second straight year, there have just been tons of play. there who haven't lived up to expectations. And I guess I can understand why Matt Chapman is so rostered still considering. But still a little high for me. I'm trying to look up the strikeout rate. Yeah, 35.1% July, 46.2 in August.

That's been way up all year. It doesn't seem to be getting better. I'm hopeful it's just because he was rushed back from hip surgery in the offseason. and hopefully he can get back on track next year. Still only 28. But I don't know. Not feeling it this year, though, for Matt Chapman. Where does he rank?

1 to 10. On the dropometer, I will go 8. 8. So would you drop him for Abraham Toro Hernandez? The shallower the league, the easier it is to say yes. but in a deep league, you probably have someone else you can drop for Toro anyway.

Would you do it for Thai France in a shallower league? Yeah, I think so. All right. Next up, we have Alex Wood. A little questionable on this one. I don't know where I stand still. I'm trying to figure out Alex Wood.

I went to the game last week on Thursday. Diamondbacks, Chase Field. I saw Alex Wood get ripped by the Diamondbacks, pitches against them again today. Go six innings, but he allows five runs, did have five strikeouts. Only five swinging. strikes on 82 pitches, his last five starts.

Alex Wood has a 6.10 ERA, the dropometer for Alex. I think it was one hitting the Diamondbacks through the first five innings, and then it all came apart in the sixth. Sure did. Let's say, let's say seven for Wood. The format that would be really hard to drop him in is a points league because he has relief pitcher eligibility and starting pitchers. You can put in that relief pitcher spot in that format can be very valuable.

there in line for two starts as he was this week. You know, he still mixes in some good starts, but it's been pretty uneven of late. And the previous four outings were all less than six innings. Next step, we have Max Kepler, who's batting 180 in the second half, another offer on Tuesday. He's 79% rostered.

I'm sorry, say that one more time, I got an auto-playing video here. Max Kepler. All right, Max Kepler. Yeah, he's probably, like, let's say seven for him too. Next up, Casey Mize. He was at the Orioles on Tuesday. Four and a third. Five hits, four runs.

Velocity down on all five of his pitches between 1.1 and 2.4 miles per hour. He's allowed four runs in three of his last four starts. Could be starting to wear down a little bit here, Scott. Casey Mize is still 86% rostered. Yeah, I kind of defended him after his last start, but, I'm not going to do that this time. I will give him on the dropometer an eight. Michael Conforto, in 43 games since returning back in June,

he is betting 175 with a 650 OPS. And we've been trying and trying and waiting and waiting. I don't know what's going on with Michael Conforto. He's in a contract year too. I thought at some point, you know, that might factor in and he just wakes up. I think he's better, obviously, than the player he's shown us thus far, but he's all the way down to 73% roster

should that continue to drop. I mean, I think so. If he's showing no signs of turning it around, the underlying numbers for him have looked pretty much like they've always looked. It's not like he's had big strikeout issues. You know, exit of velocity, the hard hit rate. They're not amazing, but they never were.

They weren't last year, you know? So the launch angle hasn't really changed. I don't know. It's very strange. but I've been talking about Conforto as a by-low candidate virtually all season, but we're in the middle of August now, you know? So I'll drop a meter, I'll give him a seven,

and the only reason it's as low as a seven is because I'm accounting for the five outfielder leagues. Yeah, I would only drop him somewhere where you have nobody else that you can drop, right? Like a shallower league, you just need someone to put in your outfield that can give you something. because right now Conforto is giving you nothing. But I'm looking at the Statcast page two, Scott.

I'm with you. I just, there's nothing there that says that he should be this bad. So I would try. I would try to hold on to him, but I get it if you need someone to actually give you some type of production. Last one here, Tommy Edmund. He did go one for four with a seventh home run of the season on Tuesday. He does have 19 steals, which is also very good. But since the beginning of June, 56 games, Tommy Edmund is batting 28, three homers,

nine steals during that span. I mean, he's basically just steals. He's not even giving you many runs scored. Batting averages down. He has a ton of eligibility. He has four different eligibility, Scott. Where is he on the dropometer? Well, part of the reason he's not scoring runs

is because for a guy who doesn't hit for much power, he doesn't get on base much either. And we've always known that for him, but his on-base percentages for the season is, or at least going into Tuesday's action, it was below 300. the on-based percentage. So dropometer for Tommy Edmund.

Let's go eight. Obviously, if you're playing in a league where, you know, like a standard roto league and steals are such a priority for you at this stage of the season that you're willing to take the hit in the other offensive categories, then, you know, I can see how Tommy Edmund is still a really useful player for you, but he's not somebody that really deserves to be protected right now. All right. So a good amount of players that you can drop. Usually we don't get that high on

the dropometer, but some high numbers for a lot of players here today. Did you know, I have some fantasy fun facts, some statistical tidbits for you. Salvador Perez had a double dung on Tuesday. He's now up to 29 home runs, which is a new career high. It's only August 10th. Did you know that Tuesday was the 10-year anniversary of his major league debut, Scott? I did not know that. That's right. Salvador Perez. It feels like just yesterday, right? He called up. But 10 years now in the Biggs and the power has been phenomenal for him. 29 homers. Again, he is the number one catcher by far this season in both formats. It doesn't matter that JT Real Muto is going to give you his 6, 7, 8 steals. Salvador Perez is crushing it. X slug, exit velocity, hard hit rate, all in the 91st percentile or better this season for Salvador Perez. He has a career, high, hard hit rate. He's been awesome. So shout out to Salvador Perez.

Eduardo Rodriguez went up against the raise, five and a third, two runs, eight strikeouts, 13 swinging strikes on 82 pitches. It has been a wildly inconsistent year for Eduardo Rodriguez. However, he has eight strikeouts in four of his last five

starts. And did you know, Scott, that over his last eight starts overall, Eduardo Rodriguez has a 3.64 ERA with a 13, percent swinging strike rate. I knew the underlying numbers were good. Yeah, I couldn't have quoted those exact ones to you.

331 X-FIP, too. So that would, I think that would make him fifth among qualifiers just like Sunny Gray. And, you know, missing a lot of bats, as you point out. Not the K-per-9 is great. The B-B-P-9 is very good. But he has an ERA over five. So he feels like,

a really hard luck pitcher this year, like one of the most hard luck cases. And, you know, the fact that he's now had two good starts in a row, 10 strikeouts and 2-5-hitting in five-two-hit innings last time. Hopefully, he's rounding into form here and starting to perform up to the peripherals. So, yeah, I'd rather have Eduardo Rodriguez than not have him based on all that.

Yeah, he's 85% rostered, so more likely than not, you're not going to be able to add him at this point. But if you held on, the fact that over the last eight starts, the numbers are finally kind of bearing out a little bit, I feel pretty confident in Eduardo Rodriguez.

It's pretty impressive that he's rostered in that many leagues, considering he has this 524 ERA, you know? I think people might actually be listening to us, Scott. Someone somewhere. Someone somewhere. Did you know, David Fletcher over his last seven games, he's betting 344 with five steals.

He is now up to a career high 10 stolen bases. So nice to see Fletcher running a little bit here. It enhances his value, obviously for category leagues. He's usually good for points leagues because he doesn't strike out. He makes a lot of contact and gives you a lot of volume as well. Dylan Carlson, this one's a little bit more interesting. Three more hits on Tuesday. He's still 85% rostered.

Did you know his last 19 games? Dylan Carlson's batting 303. five homers, one steal, fly balls, and hard contact way up. Only an 18% strikeout rate during that time. So people held on to Carlson here, Scott, and it seems like they might be rewarded down the stretch based on this recent 20-game stretch. Yeah.

If it is now going to be normal again, that top prospects breaking into the league are going to need a long adjustment period, as opposed to the almost zero adjustment period that most of them needed in recent years. If that's not just a temporary change owed to the loss of a minor league season last year, but for whatever reason these guys are going to have a tougher time breaking into the big leagues, then we're going to have to recalibrate for that in terms of our own patience level.

And maybe that's what Dylan Carlson's demonstrating now. Maybe he's finally putting it together after being up much of last year and, of course, all of this year and doing virtually nothing. Or maybe he's just hot and, you know, a week from now, we're going to forget all about him. I don't know. But it's possible. It's possible this is him breaking through. We, you know, obviously good pedigree. It's still very young.

We thought he had upside, and maybe he's delivering on it now. By the way, David Fletcher, you mentioned 344 batting average over his past seven games, and I know you're mostly pointing out the five steals he had during that stretch. But David Fletcher, going back to June 1st, is patting about 350. That's massive. 58 games. He has been, yeah, yeah, he has been money lately. That's why the steals are huge for him, because he's not just empty.

batting average now. He's leading off. He's giving you some run score. He's now giving you some speed. So nice to see David Fletcher enhancing his game, expanding his game rather, a little bit more. Last one here, did you know, Brandon Lowe did go three for four with his 25th home run on Tuesday. Over his last 54 games, he's betting 263, 16 homers, two steals, 27% strikeout rate, 50% fly ball rate. 263, 16 homers. So great for Brandon Lowe. I believe that since since, since, since, the beginning of June. This is who he is, right? The first two months, he was bad since June. He's been great. Scott, I moved him up adjusting the ranks. I'm still in the process, but I've got a lot to adjust. I moved him up inside my, I believe it's top 12 second basement now. Might be an overreaction,

but I moved him ahead of Cattel Marte. I don't know that I do that. No, I have Cotel Marte 6th. I have Brandon Lowe, 10th, though, so I agree with you that he belongs in the top 12 at second base. This kind of turnaround he's had, that's what we keep waiting to see from Michael Conforto. Yeah. It's happened for Brandon Lau.

It's been happening since the start of June. Where are you, Conforto? What are you doing? Where art thou? Michael Conforto. Brendan Lau has been awesome. Anything to see here,

starting pitcher edition. We'll run through a few pitchers who pitched on Tuesday. Jake Oteresee went up against the Rockies. Five shutout, three strikeouts. I did not realize how awful he has been recently. He's down to 58% rostered. Anything to see here?

I mean, this starts not moving the needle for me, not on its own. All right, well, how about Jhab? Good old Jhab at the Pirates, six endings, only one hit, one run, five strikeouts. His first two starts with the Cardinals, 11 innings pitched, three runs, nine strikeouts. Jhab. Yeah, it's going to take a lot more for him to perhaps to be back in the circle of trust. I don't know that he, when's the last time he was in the circle of trust? Right?

Along, probably the last time was when he was on the Pirates, right? The team that he faced on Tuesday. Oh, no, he was great with the Blue Jays too. He was. Even with the Yankees, he had some stretches where he was pretty hard to bench. I don't know, Scott. If he was good with the Yankees, I don't remember it because I remember a lot of bad from Jayhap. Yeah, I was wrestling with picking him up in a 15-team Roto League this week because the

matchups were so good and I just couldn't do it. I was like, Jayhap is so bad. And then he goes out and does this. and I'm just left kicking myself. Tristan McKenzie up against the A's, six innings, two runs, five strikeouts, had 14 swinging strikes on 86 pitches.

Pretty impressive. Oakland has the ninth lowest swinging strike rate this season. Tristan McKenzie has quality starts in four of his last six starts. However, the only two where he didn't, he allowed 11 earned runs. So he's still inconsistent, but you see a start like this

and it's pretty impressive. Well, two good starts in a row. He had been alternating good and bad starts. coming back for the miners. So, you know, you're probably getting all the bad starts and missing all the good starts. The control's definitely been a lot better for McKenzie since his return.

He was walking too many guys early in the season, seven walks between the five starts. And, you know, getting plenty of whiffs too. So Tristan McKenzie, I would say, you know, I've compared him to Tuki Toussaint in the past as high upside pitchers who just have trouble with consistency. And I'd say McKenzie, I'm more interested in rostering him than Toussaint at this point. Would you look to add McKenzie anywhere, 44% rostered?

I'm sure. You know, I wouldn't add him. He's not like at Josiah Gray level of needing to be added or Logan Webb level. But let's see, who would I drop for Tristan McKenzie? Would you drop Casey Mize for him? Yeah, I could see doing that. Okay. I'm not saying it's a must, but I could see doing it.

Okay. Last one here that I have was Drew Smiley. He was up against the red. Six innings, two runs, seven strikeouts, 19 swinging strikes on 92 pitches. Where did that come from? Anything to see here, Drew Smiley?

I don't think so. I mean, this looked more like the Drew Smiley, the Braves thought they were signing, the one who dominated for the Giants in a tiny sample last year. But yeah, I don't really see... It's not obvious to me that anything changed between this start and the last,

so I'm going to just chalk it up as a fluke for now. Let's rank some outfielders at a rostered in less than 10% of CBS leagues. Chas McCormick, over his last five games, he has nine hits with one homer and one steel. He's 7% rostered. Adam Engel hit his seventh home run. Last 15 games, 255 batting average, 375 OBP, two homers, four steals.

The problem is he hasn't been starting every game when he started recently. He's been batting second for the White Sox, so that's a pretty valuable spot to be in. 8% rostered is Adam Engel. Lewis Brinson, last 19 games since being recalled, he is batting 328 with three home runs. Strikeout rate 28%. Still high, a little bit more manageable. He's 7% rostered. And then Hoyt June Park hit his first home run of the season on Tuesday.

He's betting 321 over his first eight games with the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3% rostered. Scott, how would you rank those names? McCormick, Engel, Brenson, and Park. Deep Leagues, obviously. Yeah, McCormick Engel, Brentson Park. I don't know. I don't know. It's hard to care that much between them.

I would definitely have McCormick first because I, I think he plays the most regular. Well, I mean, Hoagin Park and Louis, Lewis Brinson, I guess they're going to be playing more now. I don't know. I think the most potential is Brinson, but we've been able to say that for years now. And it's interesting that he started to heat up,

but, you know, I'm not holding my breath. He's finally figured it out. Somewhere, Nando Defino is smiling about, about Lewis Brinson. Some leftovers from Tuesday. Freddie Peralta was at the Cubs, five and a third, two runs, eight strikeouts. He has now had, he's averaging 94 pitches over his last two starts. That'll definitely work for Freddie Peralta's value. So if he's going to do that, I've got to move him back up my rankings. I dropped him for a little bit because it looked like they were going to use some kind of piggyback situation with him, but the pitch count, back up for

Freddie Peralta. Sean Mania got knocked around by Cleveland. Cleveland's hot all of a sudden. 1.2 innings, 5 hits, 3 walks, 3 earned runs. That's two clunkers in a row for Sean Mania. I don't see anything drastic in the numbers. Luis Patino at the Red Sox, 6 innings, 4 runs, 7 strikeouts, one big blow. He gave up a 3-run homer to Hunter Renfro. You see anything here, Scott, worth holding on to Luis Patino?

He's 61% rostered, and it just kind of surprises me that it's that high. It's probably because he has a two-star week. Yeah. Yeah, you see big swings. and roster ship for starting pitchers because of two-star weeks. That's not so surprising. I mean, he's talented.

I think there's a good chance he develops into a good starting pitcher, but he's kind of in that Tristan McKenzie Tuki Toussaint group right now in that, you know, it's talent with occasional blips of production as opposed to something you can really rely on. And so, I mean, Chris nailed it

earlier this week talking about Patino, he's so fly ball oriented. It's going to be a struggle of keeping the ball in the yard. And I don't think right now he's missing enough bats to get away with it. Yeah, no, I think it's very well said. He has potentially just got to find a way

to put it all together. And right now, really just relying on two pitches that fastball and that slider. So he's got to expand a little bit. Stalling Marte picked up his 30th steal of the season. He now has eight steals in 10 games with the Oakland Aids. It's just a rapid pace for Starling Marte.

A modest seven-game hitting streak for Cody Bellinger. Baby steps, but moving into right direction. Corey Seeger put up three hits, including his fifth home run. He now has eight hits over his last five games. Very welcome sight. And then Daniel Lynch was not good against the Yankees, four and two-thirds, three runs, four walks, six strikeouts,

but 17 swinging strikes on 100 pitches for Daniel Lynch. I was a little surprised to see, Scott, that his roster rate is only 22% considering his previous three starts, which were all pretty good for Daniel Lynch. Well, yeah, that's true. They were pretty good in terms of result. But I think we were less convinced,

less than convinced, and I presume a lot of other people were too. But it is interesting that, what else? The swinging strikes, that's what I'm going to point out. way up in the last two starts. I know the result in this one wasn't good,

but 17 swinging strikes, and that was after getting... Let me see here, Lynch. This previous start, 16. So 16 and then 17 swinging strikes his last two starts. I mean, if he can keep that up, then, you know,

there's a pretty good chance he's going to be useful. So we'll see. We'll keep an eye on that. The call to the pen, some bullpen updates. And let's start with the Brewers. Devin Williams picked up his second save

of the season with Josh Hader currently on the COVID IEL. For the Angels, Reisel Eglacius picked up his 25th save. The Cardinals, Alex Reyes got his 26th save. For the Braves, Will Smith got his 23rd. For the twins, Alex Colomé now has four saves over the past seven days. Where was this earlier in the season, Colomé? I needed you, buddy. The first year, I actually invested in you.

You let me down. He's 30% rostered, Scott. I know he's bad, but... I think that number needs to be way higher considering what we know about Taylor Rogers and the Minnesota Twins. Well, what do we know about the Minnesota Twins? That Alex Colomé is their closer right now? Yeah. Well, the twins are bad.

You know, there are a lot of new closers on bad teams. Of course, after the trade deadline, Alex Colomé in Minnesota. Dylan Floreau in Miami. Spencer Patton in Texas, Tyler Clippert in Arizona. I've got a Spencer Patton update for you in just a second. Okay, I'm anxious to hear it. We don't know really who's emerged in Pittsburgh, but we hope it's David Bedner.

In terms of talent level, in terms of keeping runs off the board, I would put Columet near the bottom of that list. So, you know, it's nice that the twins have given him save chances here recently. Are the twins that much more likely? than any of those other teams to give their closer regular save chances?

I don't think so. Could be wrong. But I'm not that motivated to pick up Colomé, I guess, at least not relative to those others. Yeah, I mean, again, he's not good, but if you need saves, he's the one that's getting them right now, right? So him and Kyle Finnegan, right? I don't think either one.

Yeah, that's another one. I don't think either are good pitchers, but they are the de facto closers for their respective teams right now. If you need saves, would you actually drop Craig Kimberl for Alex Colomay in a Categories league, which just sounds so gross? No, no. I think the other categories, Kimbril's still going to be useful there.

I'd be more likely to do it in a points league, probably, because what do you care about reliever ratios in a points league? It makes a very small difference. Yeah. But in a points league, you can probably do better than Columet off the waiver wire, because it's rare that all closers are. fostered in a points leak. All right. Spencer Patton update.

What everybody was waiting for here. Came in in the bottom of the ninth in a one-run game. He walked Jake Bowers. He walked Jared Kelnick. He gave up a single to Cal Raleigh, which loaded the bases. He then walked Jake Fraley, tying the game.

Proceeded to strike out J.P. Crawford, strike out Mitch Hanigar, and then was relieved by Brett Martin, who got Kyle Seeger to fly out. So Spencer Patton blows the save, then does just enough to keep the game going and will not even get the win

if they find a way to hold on to this lead. So thanks a lot, Spencer Barlow, you know, Spencer Patton, 33 years old, no major league track record. It was kind of surprising he was doing what he was doing and it wasn't over a very big sample. So he does seem to like he's kind of falling apart here. Joe Barlow is like the new Spencer Patton.

He's come up even more recently. His numbers are awesome. he's only 25. So he's somebody I might keep an eye on if you want to speculate, if you have to speculate that deep for saves. Yeah, no, definitely a name to pay attention to Joe Barlow up over 12K per 9 at this point.

Only 12 and 2 thirds innings pitched, but has only given up one run so far this season. A few other... By the way, in that same game for the Mariners, Diego Castillo worked the eighth again. Paul Seawald worked the ninth and actually gave up the lead. He entered a tie game.

He allowed his solo home run. So I don't know. I would be interested. I would imagine that it was a tougher part of the lineup. It was, I think that's 9-1 and 2. Couldn't really tell you what the Rangers lineup is nowadays. Yeah, 9-1-2. So Diego Castillo faced that part of the lineup.

And then Paul Seewald came in and the ninth gave up that home run to who? Adolice Garcia, who we just spoke about earlier. A few other updates for Cleveland. James Carincheck allowed a game-tying run in the eighth inning. Emmanuel Class A pitched a scoreless nine. We've said before we think this is very clearly Class A's job for the time being. And then for the Giants, Jake McGee allowed two runs, took his third blown save of the season. In the ninth inning, Tyler Rogers pitched in the eighth.

Some streamers to stream or not to stream for Wednesday. First up, we have Ryan Weathers versus the Marlins, Matt Harvey versus the Tigers, who is the Dark Knight, he is not Harvey Dent. And I don't know what Chris was getting at yesterday. He's not Two-Face. Well, maybe he is now. But Calquantrol versus the A's. Joe Ross at the Mets, Merrill Kelly at the Giants,

Tyler Anderson versus the Rangers. Joe Ross at the Mets. That's definitely my favorite. I could see Tyler Anderson versus the Rangers going well. I could see Merrill Kelly at San Francisco going well just because he's on such a run right now. but by far the one I trust most is Joe Ross at the Mets. For Thursday, Logan Webb versus the Rockies,

which is, yes, automatic stream, add him, keep him on your team. He's more than a streamer, but he's less than 70% rostered, so I did include him here. Marco Gonzalez versus the Rangers, Eli Morgan versus the A's, Kyle Mueller versus the Reds, Vladimir Gutierrez at the Braves,

and our good friend, JT. Brewbaker versus the Cardinals. Oh, get him out of here. It's over. It's over for me. Brew Baker. We've broken up. It sounded better in my head. Marco Gonzalez versus the Rangers. I don't love it, but that's my second choice to the obvious Logan Webb one. Yeah, I'm trying to search for a third one here.

There's not really anything that stands out to me. Mueller's been a little inconsistent. Gutierras against the Braves. That sounds kind of scary. maybe Eli Morgan, but probably not. Let's go with Logan Webb and Marco Gonzalez. We're going to wrap there. For Scott, I am Frank, thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today.

We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.