Fantasy Baseball Today - Reid Detmers No-Hitter! Worryometer & Evaluating Justin Verlander (5/11 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: May 11, 2022

Reid Detmers threw a no-hitter (1:00)! Is he a must add? ... Justin Verlander took a no-hitter into the eighth inning (9:45). Why are his strikeouts down? ... Robbie Ray posted a season-high 10 strikeouts (14:50). Should you add Kyle Bradish or Alex Faedo? ... Let's fire up the Worryometer for some struggling hitters (24:30). ... News and notes (36:10): DeGrom could be out through the All-Star break. ... Is this Tarik Skubal breakout for real (45:55)? ... What happened to Kyle Wright, Joe Ryan and Jesus Luzardo on Tuesday (50:00)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates and streamers (55:11). Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. With fantasy! Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. What a ridiculously fun day of baseball will break it all down. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Wednesday, May 11th.

Frank Stamphill, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the show, we had a new. no hitter, a near no hitter, we'll fire up that worryometer, a few wake-up signs for some hitters, and much more. Move over, oh my goodness gracious, we need a crazier call for this one. Well, thank you, Hawk, Harrelson. This Angels game was just insane on Tuesday. 12 runs scored on 18 hits for the Angels.

Mike Trow goes three for four with a double dong. He's now up to nine homers. Anthony Rendon, his first played appearance ever as a lefty. He was going up against a position player in Brett Phillips. He hits a left-handed home run. That was awesome. Obviously, the story of the game, Reed Detmer's, who threw a no-hitter,

former first-round pick back in 2020, the 10th overall pick in that draft. He allowed just one base runner on a walk. He had just two strikeouts, 10 swinging strikes on 108 pitches. Chris, we haven't seen you in a couple days. What do you think of this performance by Reid Detmer's? He's 36% rostered, so he's out there if you need to add a pitcher.

Yeah, and that number is going to go up. maybe it should. It was an impressive performance. He had the raise hitters off balance pretty regularly in this game produced a lot of weak contact. That final inning, if you were watching it, I think it was just two weak ground

balls and a pop-up to the catcher. So, you know, it wasn't like it was just a fluke, but he had two strikeouts. He had 10 swinging strikes on 108 pitches. He's been pretty underwhelming so far. Redembers is someone I liked quite a bit

as a sleeper coming into the season and his strikeout right now is below 20%. I think it was below 20% coming into the game, so it's gotten even worse. I don't know, it's been a little disappointing. Obviously, you can only be so disappointing when you've thrown a no-hitter. But I expected more from Reid Detmer's overall.

I hate to do that. that feel can we start over? I know, it feels so weird. Can we recall the beginning of this podcast? I get it though, Chris. I mean, you look at his overall numbers even after this start. He's got 20 strikeouts to eight walks

over 31 innings pitched, a 3.77 ERA. His ex-fip is 4.29. This is Reid Detmer's that we're talking about. So it's kind of weird to start the show like this. It's an awesome moment for baseball. Obviously, happy for the guy. Former first round pick,

I hope he goes on to have a tremendous career. But overall, Scott, right now, the numbers are not fantastic. Yeah, I'm not going to make any apologies. I don't think he's going to hear what we say or care if he does hear it. So whatever, I don't think he's been very good, and I don't think this changes anything for me. It was obviously a great start with a great outcome. But, you know, if he's striking out two batters per nine, it's a problem.

And I mean, come on, you've got that Granky ranked higher than him. I do. I do. I do. So, I mean, the thing about Redetmer's is when he was, from the day he was drafted, which wasn't that long ago, throughout his time in the minors, which wasn't very long, the scouting reports always raved about his curveballs, this amazing pitch. Maybe he doesn't have much else to go with it, but this curveball's going to carry him. And the curveball especially has been underwhelming. Of his 10 swinging strikes five came on the change up.

and like the all year last year the little bit we saw him that curveball hasn't been doing much

statistically for him so if he doesn't have like if that pitch turns out to not be very special and it hasn't looked special so far and it wasn't special

in this game I'm not sure what Reed Detmer's has he throws a lot of strikes but I don't know I will be positive one

the fact that he threw his change up 24 times in this start and got five swings and misses. He had barely been throwing that pitch. He had thrown it 37 times total in his career in 10 starts leading up to this.

So that seems like a pretty good sign that he is more confident in that pitch. The results with that pitch have been pretty good so far. It's had a healthy swing and miss rate. The curveball has had very, very good results on batted balls. The swinging strike rate, with rate was 23% coming into today's start and he only had what three on eight swings so it didn't get too much better in this one but you know he's he's gotten a lot of weak contact with

the change up in curveball in particular that was also true today um so i don't want to say there's nothing here you know his issue last season really was his fastball and the fastball hasn't been getting great results this season it allowed some pretty hard contact today as well so So that remains a bit of a concern. But I don't know, we've seen signs from his curveball changeup and slider that they can all be pretty useful pitches. The swings and misses haven't quite been there. But, you know, maybe that's the kind of thing that can come with time as he gets more comfortable. And he's still a talented pitcher.

He's still got good control. And, you know, he's not going to throw no hitter again, most likely. but, you know, maybe I want to say there's still some potential and like I was close to dropping Redembers in a couple of leagues. I have him in a couple. I'm surprised you felt out this long. Yeah, I didn't drop him yet and now I won't.

I dropped Armand Marquez instead of him in one league this week, this week. And I think it's likelier that Armand Marquez is more useful. But I wanted to roll the dice on a little bit of the unknown there and you know, Demers was on my bench this week, so I didn't benefit from this one,

although I did start him in TGFBI, so that was nice. There you go. Nice. Yeah, so he's only, he's only 36% rostered in CBC. I don't think he should be, you should run out and add him.

Right. Yeah, no, I don't either. This is where I was going. Not, not, he will be added in a lot of leagues based on this start, but I just think they're, I don't know. I might even prefer somebody like,

well, certainly like Josh Winder. I don't know what his roster rate is up to now, but even somebody like Bruce Zimmerman, and I'm not that wild about Zimmerman. I feel like he's shown more than Demers has. Honestly, the part for this game, the part for this game I'm going to remember the most is the Anthony Rendonholm run.

That's crazy. Like, he had never batted, left-handed in a major league game before. And obviously he only did it because there was a position player on the mound. I mean, like, teams are allowed to carry,

teams are allowed to carry 14 pitchers right now. So if anyone complains at all about the angels running up the score on the raise with a position player on the mound, just go away forever. If you've got 14 pitchers on your roster and you're throwing out a position player, I want that dude to get bombed.

And look, Brett Phillips is a cool guy. he's got a sense of humor about himself. I'm sure he doesn't mind the fact that Mike Trout hit up. It was officially only 421 feet. I felt low. It's only at that left-handed. And you have the famous example from the All-Star game, Larry Walker, turning around and batting from the other side against Randy Johnson,

but that's an All-Star game. So, like, yeah, I mean, you can't blame the Angels for running up the score when their hitters aren't even taking it seriously. He happened to hit a home run. and like the swing was, I'm trying to remember what player it reminds me of, because he had this very, you know what it looked like? That was like kicking a dog door. You know what it looked like?

It looked like Kurt Gibson's famous home run. It did kind of look like off balance, yeah. That's not the stance. There's some left-handed batter that had that same leg kick that was just this very pronounced, like intentional, like just kick forward, you know, not even so much like an up-legged. Legs lift up, leg set down, leg kick, but just a little kick forward like you're, like I said, like you're getting adult. Mike Trout got a real home run in this game before that also. So he did.

That's worth mentioning. He's awesome. Yeah. He's now up to nine home runs. He's betting 3.37. So Reid Detmer is not a must add, but in leagues where you do need pitching, you can take a shot, see where it goes from here. I hope you didn't start Corey Klover on the other side of this game. He gave up eight earned runs on 11 hits over three innings of work.

That's a 24 ERA negative 14 fantasy points over on CBS. Not great, Bob. Another pitcher, Hall of Fame likely pitcher. Justin Verlander took a no-hitter deep into his start as well into the eighth inning. Finally gives up a hit to Gio Urchella, the final line, eight innings, one hit, two walks, five strikeouts, just seven swinging strikes on 89 pitches. Scott, I don't know that there's much more to add outside of Justin Verlander has been awesome. He's looked like Justin Verlander.

for the most part, outside of the fact that he's not really getting a ton of swings and misses and strikeouts this season. Does that worry you at all? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how much to care about that. It's the swinging strike rate is below 10%, which is awful. It's not just bad. It's not just out of character.

It's an awful swinging strike rate. But the velocity has been good. Obviously, the results have been great, and he's Justin Verlander. So it makes me uneasy, but does it worry me? I just feel like there are so many other things to worry about. I can't let something like that worry me. If he starts to struggle, it'll become an issue, obviously. Yeah, I mean, if you look at, if you compare it to the last time he pitched,

the biggest change is, I mean, his slider swing and miss rates down quite a bit, 39% to 28% coming into the start. But I think the bigger thing might be the fastball swing and miss rate down 31% to 16%. And, you know, the reason I point that out is because, you know, he hasn't pitched since the sticky stuff ban went into effect. And his spin rate is down 180 RPM while his velocity is basically the same. Velocity and spin rate tend to correlate with one another. Velocity tends to go up as – or spin rate tends to go up as velocity goes up and vice versa. So, you know, the fact that the spin rate is down would suggest that potentially there is some risk to the fastball becoming a liability for him.

He's always been someone who does give up a fair amount of fly balls, but he gets so many strikeouts and so much weak contact that you don't really worry too much about it. You know, for the most part, that's still true. but yeah I can't bring myself to be too worried about it like Scott said like there's there's a lot of other things to be worried about you know I I drive to Joey Gallo in a lot of leagues I'm preoccupied

right now that's not to say that there's nothing to be worried about with Justin Verlander and I think it's worth noting for posterity's sake yeah and maybe he's a bit of a sell high candidate like we I think we all probably did we all move him into like the top six at starting pitcher

yep yeah at least top Seven. Maybe that's too aggressive. Although there are probably more glaring warning signs with the two guys that I would imagine we all have ahead of him, who are Walker, Bueller, and Brandon Woodruff. You know, Woodruff, I don't know, Bueller's results have been really good as well, but his strikeout, right is way down. His swinging strike rate has collapsed.

Yeah, he's changed his pitch mix in the last couple of parts I noticed. He's really starting to emphasize the cutter that's earned a lot of praise. This year. So I think Walker Bueller is kind of in the middle of an evolution. And maybe the strikeouts catch up. He's not that. He's not a pitcher that's ever been that dependent on strikeouts. And he actually has a career high swinging strike rate right now does Walker Bueller, despite the low strikeout rate.

So I'm not that worried about Bueller. And like I said, I'm not that worried about Fulander. And like I said, yeah, I'm not that worried about Woodruff. But it's like compared to like Shane Bieber. Maybe Kevin Gosman should be ahead of Justin Verlander. I think you can make a case for that. Yeah, you can make a case. But, you know, it's...

Gosman, we saw get off to a really hot start last season and slow down. So, I don't know. You can make a case that Justin Verlander's a sell high candidate, but I don't know how strongly I believe in it. I have already moved Gosman ahead of Justin Verlander. I might move Rodan ahead of him as well just because of the swinging miss there, but... I did do that, yeah. I have Rodon 4th now. Yeah, it's hard to argue with that.

Just putting a bow on this Verlander conversation, 1.55 ERA. That's with a BABIP that's 168. His train rate is 93.5%. So just realize there will be some regression at some point for Justin Verlander. So like Chris said... His Babbab the last time we saw him was super low too, right? Yeah, I mean, he gives up a lot of fly balls,

so that's going to be conducive to a lower Babbab. But anyway, if you... drafted Verlander as your SP3 or I don't know maybe even SP4 if you drafted early in the offseason then you probably have an embarrassment of pitching and you know if you need a hitter look to maybe swap Verlander out for an elite hitter moving forward okay now the show officially starts 15 minutes in oh my goodness gracious let's talk about a few standouts from Tuesday's action and we will start with Chris who you got yeah we'll go with a game that's still ongoing so I don't know if he's officially the pitcher of record,

but Robbie Ray looked more like himself in this outing. Ten strikeouts and five and two-thirds innings. Velocity was up a little bit, not exactly where it was last year, 93.4 miles per hour, about a mile per hour down from where he was last year, but about a mile per hour up from where he had been. And he just decided to go super slider-heavy,

threw it 54% of the time, got 15 swings and misses on 30 swings in this game. So, you know, that's one way you can overcome having a slightly less effective fastball or, you know, potentially a much less effective fastball is his fastball usage rate entering this start was 60%. Today, it was 33 for, sorry, 42%. So whether that's a sustainable change moving forward for Robbie Ray remains to be seen. We saw Patrick Corbyn do that to very, very good results and then increasingly diminishing results when he went super slider heavy. But it worked today against the good Phillies team. And the velocity was up as well.

So I think you have to be more optimistic about Robbie Ray after this start than any other start this season, I would say. I think it was his first with even a strikeout per inning, right? Much less more than. I believe so. almost double a strikeout per inning this timeout. Yep. So I'm encouraged overall by the start. He had one with eight and five.

Eight strike cuts in five innings. I'm encouraged overall by the start for Robbie Ray, but again, we have to see how sustainable it is, him throwing the slider this much and how he builds off of this, but obviously a great start here on Tuesday against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Oh my goodness gracious for you, Scott. Who you got? Pitcher who's much lower end, opposite end of the spectrum. from Alex Fayetteau, who was making his second start for the Tigers and got sent down in between, but it looks like between injuries to Matt Manning and Casey Mize, they have a spot to keep him around. And he should stay around based on the way this performance went.

It was against the A's, so kind of a minor league lineup. But nonetheless, he allowed two runs in five innings with seven strikeouts, had 17 swinging strikes on just 83 pitches. including 10 on the 26 sliders that he threw. And I was reviewing the scouting report baseball America had. And yeah, the slider is the real deal, according to them. That is a pitch that has consistently wowed scouts, and it showed here in his second major league start.

The minor league production by and large wasn't very good, but he is a former first round pick. is Fayetteau. He hadn't pitched since 2019 because of Tommy John's surgery, so a career-altering event just happened to him. And when he came,

his minor league production this year, only in 15 and two-thirds innings, but 20 strikeouts versus three walks. So he was carving up hitters down there too and continued to do against the athletics. So, you know, the Tigers have had a bunch of high-end pitching prospects arrive and not do

much for fantasy purposes. Terrick Scouble seems to finally be coming around, but Mize and Manning not so much. And Fayette wasn't as high end as them, but this is an encouraging, encouraging effort here and only his second start and enough maybe to take a flyer on him. I think I'd actually pick him up over Reed-Dabmers, I gotta say. I wonder Scott if he's, if he's gonna, I don't know if it's happened already, I haven't seen it, but I imagine he gets down again after the start if he was just up for the double header yeah like I said who's their fifth starter it's not him well it's fair point Casey Mize is going out on a rehab assignment on Thursday but it's probably gonna take okay take some time and

I hadn't seen that I know that's a fair point Matt Manning made a rehab start recently I don't know how close he is but those guys are getting closer so okay yeah I didn't I didn't know either than were that close yeah I think back the Reed-Dedmer's comment but nonetheless you're not you're not you're not you're not not you're not on board with Bo Brisky? I hope they find a way to keep Fyido around. I'll just say that.

He is the name to watch for sure right now. So throw him on the scout team. 3% rostered is Alex Fido. Alex Fido, not Bo Brisky. No, no, no, no. Cool name though. Bo Brisky. I'm about it. But Faiado. I think that's how you pronounce it. Let's watch him for now. On the other side of that start,

Adrian Martinez is a I guess, semi-prospect, received by the Padres in that shamania trade and he was all right too. Five and a third shutout, four hits, zero walks, three strikeouts.

He had 11 swinging strikes on 79 pitches, so minor league track record not as great. Doesn't have as much prospect pedigree as someone is like Fayetteau, but just a name to watch. Adrian Martinez,

I'm sure he'll get another shot with the Oakland A's. Another pitcher, a prospect who was pretty awesome on Tuesday, Kyle Braddish, Amazing start at the St. Louis Cardinals. Seven innings, four hits, two runs,

11 strikeouts to zero walks. He had 14 swinging strikes on 90 pitches. Nine of those came on the slider, five on the fastball, and his velocity was up in this start to up one mile per hour on the fastball, up one mile per hour on the slider, and he was pretty good in AAA in his three starts this season.

Scott, what do you think about Kyle Brad is 6% rostered and this great start that he had Tuesday? He doesn't have like that one thing you can latch onto, like Faieto with the slider. That makes me think, okay, I could definitely see how this guy becomes the success in the majors. But he had been a good strikeout pitcher in the minors, as he pointed out. His whip last year was 1-36, and that was both because the walks and the hits were high. And of course, the Orioles track record of developing pitchers. I mean, wins the last good one they developed.

maybe John Means, but before then, obviously they drop the ball with guys like Jake Garietta. They don't have a track record of developing pitching, does that organization. So, you know, you can take a flyer on him. I don't think it's a bad idea. He's going to stay in the rotation, obviously. But I'm not ready to, you know, I'm not ready to, like, give him my stamp of approval yet.

All right. Again, that is Kyle Braddish. Chris, where does he rank among this group? I have four waiver-wire names from Tuesday night. You say Cacucci back-to-back solid starts. He had seven strikeouts over five and a third innings against the Yankees in this one. Martine Perez, he allowed four runs, but only one of them was earned.

He had 20 swinging strikes on 106 pitches against the Royals. Mad Bum, a quality start against the Marlins, six innings, two runs, five strikeouts, and then the aforementioned Kyle Bradish. Chris, how do you rank that group? Cacucci, Perez. Mad Bum, Bradish. I have almost no interest in Perez or Bum Garner,

so I would say Cuckoochee and then Bradish. You know, Bradish strike out rate in the high miners is pretty interesting. And the slider, he did get nine whiffs with that. So, you know, I don't want to ignore that completely. But Cicucci, I've always had a thing for. I've always thought there was potential there. And he has, he's, he's. been searching for an answer.

You know, like it's always felt like there was just like he was missing something. And what he's done over the last couple of starts has been tinkering with his slider and his cutter. He used to have two separate pitches in this one. It kind of looks like he just like morphed them into one pitch. I don't know if this is a classification thing. I don't think so because the velocity band was fairly narrow with what was called his slider today. it was 84 to 99, 90.9 miles per hour, averaged 88.5. That was up about 5 miles per hour from where his slider's been for most of the season.

It was down a little bit from where his cutter's been. So, you know, it could be a case where he's, you know, trying to find the right mix to go along with, you know, a fairly decent mid-90s fastball. And, you know, maybe splitting the difference between those two pitches, throwing something a little bit harder than the slider and a little bit with a little bit, with a little bit more movement than the cutter can kind of help it, I don't know, maximize it. Maybe it's like he goes from having two mediocre pitches to one pretty good one. The results today were pretty promising, only four swinging strikes on that one.

And he barely threw his change up. So that's something to keep an eye on. But I think Kukuchi has more appeal than Braddish. All right. Scott, how do you rank these three Waver Wire pitchers? Kukuchi, Reed Dettmers, and Kyle Bradish. I think the order you said them. Kikuchi, Dutmer, and Braddish.

Yeah. All right, fair enough. Let's move over to some Worryometer hitters. I put out a tweet asking, and these were the names that I received most often. We'll start with Max Muncie, who went one for three. He is batting 143 overall. Of course, had the partially torn UCL in the playoffs last year,

and we didn't know if he was going to start the season on time. He has, and he hasn't been great. He only has three home runs to this point, a 611 OPS. Scott will start with you, Worryometer on Max Muncie. Man, well, I mean, I guess the source of my worries would be less the production than does it have to do with the elbow? As I was saying yesterday, I'm kind of at a place right now where I don't feel like I can make a real assessment on any hitter.

because we're still figuring out how this environment's going to play and what attributes are most impacted by it. So I'm hesitant to overreact to any slow start. But because Muncie has the elbow issue that may be contributing to his early struggles, I'll go as high as 3.5 on him. What's interesting about Muncie, the fly ball rate is way up. So it seems like he's trying to sell out for power,

but his home run to fly ball ratio is down. So does not impact the ball as hard as he has in recent years? One thing I would say to that is his ground ball rate's about the same. So it's mostly traded, he's traded line drives for fly balls. And I don't know, early on, I don't know how much you can take away from that. Like being a change in approach or a change in swing, it could be just, you know, he's gotten under a few. You know, his, I don't know, I wrote a piece today kind of about Cotel Marte and then also about four other

buy low hitter candidates and Muncie could have very well been on that list but the case I made was basically like with guys who are that established, it probably makes sense to buy low even if the underlying numbers aren't all that impressive just because like sometimes weird stuff happens in a month, especially in a weird month. You know, like weird weather and shortened spring training. Like, it probably makes sense to just like, I think Catelle Marte is good. And so I'm going to buy low on him, even though his underlying numbers were trash.

And that's worked out really well over the last week. I keep reminding people of last April. I mean, I know we've kind of memory-holded at this point, but last April, every hitter was terrible, except like J.D. Martinez and your mean Mercedes and jazz chisholm and, you know, a couple others. But that was a month where it was cold and weird stuff happened. Now, this year is the offensive environment is worse, particularly for home runs. I'm not doubting that, but I don't think you should. Like I said, I don't feel like you can take any hitters numbers at face value yet.

The other thing would be with Muncie in particular, he's not hitting the ball as well as he did last season, even without the context of the ball not traveling as far. And he's got that elbow. And so that would be a reason like Cotel Marte or Joey Gallo. Like, I don't really have a reason to think that Joey Gallo is just a dramatically worse hitter than he was last year. Stinks. Maybe he is. Maybe he stinks because he's on the Yankees and he strikes out. So if you strike out and you're on the Yankees, you're just the worst player in the world.

That's not sure. But there's no actual reason to look at Joey Gallo and say, like, he's just done. There might be a reason to think that Max Munson is just a worst player now. So that would be the distinction I would draw there. Let's move over to Whitmerryfield then who went one for four on Tuesdays, batting 139, dropped to eighth in the Kansas City Royals lineup.

The OPS is down at 340. Chris, where are you at? Worryometer on Whitmeryfield. So, Maryfield is another one of those players who I did say to just buy low on. And I don't know, like, it's possible. He's 33 years old,

so it's possible that he's just hit a wall. But, like, I don't really think there's a lot of reason to think he has. His sprint speed is right where it's been in the past few years. His contact rate is a little bit worse than last year, but that's actually mostly just because his out-of-zone contact rate is down. His in-zone contact rate is basically identical to what it was last season. And so, like, I don't necessarily think there's a really good sign that he's just lost it. Like, right now, he's got a huge drop in his line drive rate. And that's a really

bad thing for a player who's basically he needs to hit for a high batting average or he has no appeal because he's not going to get on base otherwise. And that would be a really bad thing if Whitmeryfield had like a 17% line drive rate for the rest of the season or whatever it is. But line drive rate takes a really, really long time to stabilize. Way longer.

Like it's probably too early to make too much hay out of ground ball rate and fly ball rate and stuff like that. It's definitely too early to live. look at line drive rate. Like six weeks is just doesn't tell you very much about line drive rate at all. And so I do just kind of have to believe that Whitmeryfield's going to figure it out because his track record's long enough that I buy it. Maybe not the 290 hitter version of him, but the 265 version who steals a bunch of bases, I think is still there. It's possible that he's such a punch and Judy hitter that this new debtor ball just completely takes the wind out of his sales.

But I don't know, we thought that that was true of Jack McNeil last year. And that explained why he took such a downturn. And then he's been pretty solid this year. So I don't, I can't give up on Whitmerfield. I agree. His bad at right now is 152 for his career. It's 324. I understand fly balls, infield fly ball rate is up.

The line drives are down. Obviously, those things are conducive to a lower BABIP and lower batting average, but average exit velocity, the hard hit rate for Whitmeryfield is actually up so far this year. Still very bad. Yeah. But it's always been bad. Yeah, it's always been bad. So I would be looking to buy. I know if you have him, that's not what you want to hear.

Obviously, you want results. But I think that he is going to be much closer than the Whitmeryfield that we've seen that we've seen of old for the rest of the season. Brandon Lau is another one off to a slow star. 0 for 3. He is batting 200 at this point. Scott Worryometer on Brandon Lau. So Brandon Lau is about as low on the Worryometer as I can go. Low or Lau? A low got sent down.

Lowe is low on the Wuriameter. And let me use this a little. illustration for you. I mean, if there are any worries, if there are any worries about Lowe, it's that do we know how good he was in the first place? But obviously, he was very good last year, and we've seen him

be very good for stretches. Last April 11th, so today is April 11th, right? Last April 11th, Brandon Lowe is hitting 193 with the 672 OPS. What are his numbers now? Sorry. Yeah, last May 11th,

Brandon Lowe was hitting 193 with the 670s. He entered today 206 with a 688 OPS. So actually relative to the league average, he's actually been better so far. He's ahead of pace as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, no, he's been a streaky player, his whole career.

And yeah, you just got to ride it out. He was a disaster at this point last season. Like, remember, he had 41 strikeouts and 134 played appearances at this point last season. He was striking out a ton. He wasn't really... He was hitting for some power, I guess, but that was basically all he was doing. He had 23 hits, six of them were home runs.

He actually hasn't been as bad in terms of strikeout so far. So that's a reason to be optimistic. I guess the only thing would be with the raise. There's always a chance for a left-handed hitter who is struggling to not be an everyday player. But I don't know, they haven't seemed too inclined to do that. Yeah, I think the fact that Brennan Lau had a similar start last season and then ended up nearly hitting 40 home runs is a pretty good reason to be not worried about him. All right. The last hitter we're going to talk about here.

Marcel O'Suna, he went 0 for 2 with a walk. Actually stole a base on Tuesday. He is batting 210 overall. Chris, where are you at Worryometer on Marcel Ozuna? I'm pretty low. again, I think it's a similar situation to all these guys. And I know you guys are getting tired of us saying that and you want us to tell you to drop people. But I don't know, like, Ozone is not striking out a lot.

He's still hitting the ball well. His max exit velo is still high. His hard hit rate is still high. I just, I think he's going to be okay. He's another guy who's had stretches where he's really underperformed, our expectations and his underlying numbers. And so you can't say that he won't do that again. But yeah, no, I don't see much reason to be worried about Marcel O'Suna. So I would say three. I'll point out with Ozuna, obviously didn't play much last year. Only 48 games. He had the whole domestic violence situation

going on. And just year over year consistency has been a struggle for Marcelo Zuna. So I agree the the underlying numbers, the stat cast numbers. Obviously, we don't know what to make of these expected stats yet, but he's hitting 214 with a 359 slug. His XBA is 262. His ex-slug is 507. So based on his quality of contact, he deserves much better numbers to this point in the season.

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And when we return, we'll get to news and notes here on fantasy baseball today. The news and notes, Jacob de Grom was transferred to the 60-day I.L and is expected to remain out through the All-Star break. He is, of course, on the I.O. with a stress reaction of his right scapula. Carl's Correa was placed on the IL with a bruised finger, but hopes it will be a minimum length stay. So, for now, it seems like Royce Lewis will get some plate appearances here with the twins. Mitch Garver was placed on the IL with a flexor sprain in his right forearm. Jonah Heim went two for four on Tuesday,

and he's hit well when given an opportunity to play this season. He's 35% rostered if you need a replacement for Mitch Garver. Dodgers pitching prospect, I should I ask you this beforehand, Scott. remind me. This is Ryan Pepeo. Yeah, Pepio. Okay. It's a fun name to Sne. That is a fun name. He will be called up on Wednesday to start in Pittsburgh. It sounds like it's just a spot start, but so far at AAA this year, 205 ERA, 1.14 whip, 36 strikeouts over 26 and a third.

Endings pitched. Scott, are we just scouting this start for now? I assume we shouldn't add him, but what do you think? Yeah, I wouldn't add him. The one number you didn't mention, is the walk rate, which is not good and has never been good. The stuff is great. Great stuff. The change-up, Baseball America gives it an 80 grade. That's as good as it gets. And they don't hand out 80 grades easily.

But he has, and like the fastball, it's a good bat-missing high-velocity pitch. But he just has a lot of trouble locating it, which can lead to him giving a a lot of hits, a lot of walks. I could see this profile going either way. I could see him striking out a bunch of guys in his debut and becoming this exciting pickup if they are able to find a spot for him. Or, you know, I could see what happened in spring training

to him happening in this start. And what happened to Pepio in spring training was he gave up nine earn runs in six innings. Ooh, not great. All right. Well, I guess you cross your fingers and you hope that the Dodgers just do what they do, and everything they touch turns to gold. We'll see. Yeah, no, I mean, it's a good prospect either way, regardless of what happens in his debut. I just don't know that he's quite ready to debut.

But what do I know? Speaking, you know quite a bit, Scott. Speaking of prospects, Paul DeYoung was option 2 AAA on Tuesday, and my initial reaction was Nolan Gorman. He's going to get the call. Apparently it was his birthday on Tuesday. Someone tweeted that at me, so that would have been an awesome birthday gift, but it hasn't happened thus far. Brendan Donovan started at shortstop,

and apparently Edmundo Sosa could be activated from the COVID-I-L on Thursday. Remember when the race traded Willie Adamas to the Brewers last year, and everybody was like, this is it, Wander Franco, and then they called up Taylor Walls. That's what this feels like. And I did see that Tommy Edmund is going to be taking ground balls at shortstop in in field practice or whatever they call it

but that they have no intention of moving him there now yeah and I saw Edmundo Sosa is going to get every opportunity but like why how many how many opportunities is that going to tell well it just like I don't know from our perspective like he may be a better player in real life than in fantasy but I just like there's no reason for us to want Edmore Mundo Soussa to get an opportunity over Nolan Gorman. And look, it is worth noting.

Nolan Gorman is struggling out a ton of ton of triple A. I know he's hitting a ton of home runs also. But like with the way we've seen guys struggle with the transition from AAA to the majors, it's entirely possible that Nolan Gorman would get called up and just get overwhelmed. The same by Jared Kellanick and everyone, frankly, has been overwhelmed. And, you know, the guy with a 35% strikeout rate probably has been overwhelmed. strikeout rate probably has a better chance of being overwhelmed than most. So just call no.

Gorman played 76 games at AAA last year and only strike out 19.2% of the time. So like it doesn't have to strike out this much. And I'm I'm guessing the Cardinals are hopeful he'll cut it out. And then it'll be easier to justify calling them up. Yeah, he's got for context, he's got 37 home runs in 145 games between double A and triple A with 153 strikeouts. So like that's a lot of strikeouts, but it's not an especially alarming amount. So yeah, they're just calling Olin Garman out, you know. Look, if you have a roster spot available, I think Nolan Gorman will be here sooner rather than later. It is

unlike I would I would rank them behind only weeders and I guess Max Myers. Scott, do you know what you just did? Do you know what you just did? I know what I just did. I know what I just did. not Matt Weaters, but Adley Rushman, not Eric Codsmer, but Nick Grado. That was great.

Yeah, no, I mean, I, yeah, I guess I've been doing this too long. I don't know. But anyway, behind only Adley Rushman, and I guess Max Meyer, you know, depending on what your needs are,

I might put him ahead of Nolan too as far as the top prospects to stash go. But I think those are, that's the clear top three right now. All right. It is unlikely that Adam Wainwright will make a start this week as he is on the COVID aisle. Will Myers and Luke Voigt were activated and we're batting 5th and 6th respectively on Tuesday. Chris, are you looking to add either?

Luke Voight is 58% rostered. Will Myers is 30%. Man, Luke Voight struck out, what, 12 times and 18 plate appearances during his rehab assignment? So that's pretty alarming given how bad he was before. but I'm still excited about Luke Voigt and the possibility of him playing every day. He only struck out once in four-plate appearances so far today with a hard-hit ball. So progress. He walked twice. Yeah, no, I have snatched Luke Voight in several spots.

So, yeah, I still think he's worth keeping on your roster. I agree. I'm not ready to give up, but I understand why so many people are. All right. Man, sorry, I just got distracted, and I was looking at the box score. Eric Hosmer has hit balls 89, 97, 108, and 111 miles per hour today. So four hard hit balls. Launch angle negative 9, negative 10, negative 13, negative 18 degrees.

I'm sorry. I'm not going to apologize for continuing to not be excited about Eric Hosmer. And there's no amount of 450 BAB weeks that can change my mind. Come on. Say something nice about Eric Hosmer for once. Dodgers catcher, Will Smith, was held out of the lineup with a minor pectoral injury. Ray's prospect, Vidal Bruhan, was recalled and started in right field, batting eighth on Tuesday. He was batting 300 with six steals in the minors.

He's 20% rostered. Don't think you need to add him yet, but let's watch Vidal Bruhan, see what he does. Manny Margot, not in the lineup after leaving Monday with Wright-Hamstring discomfort. Brandon Belt returned to the Giants lineup, and he hit second in that lineup. Hyun Jin Ryu on track to return and start on Saturday against the raise. He's been on the aisle for nearly a month with left forearm inflammation. Andrew Vaughn will start a rehab assignment at AAA on Wednesday. The Padres shortstop prospect, CJ Abrams, was optioned back to AAA.

He was betting just 182 through 20 games. Scott, we can comfortably drop CJ Abrams, right? Yeah, I might hold on to him in some of those 15-team Roto leagues where obviously it's hard to find stolen bases off the waiver wire, but he did appear to be overmatched. Yeah, he was kind of rushed to the majors too. I didn't really think he had a chance to break camp with the team, but he did to his credit.

So I think it'll make sense for them to get every day at bats for him in the minors. Chris Paddock was placed on the IL Tuesday as he seeks a second opinion on his inflamed elbow. John Gray likely to make his next start after leaving Monday's game with knee-sorness. Mike Musacus returned from the COVID-I-L on Tuesday after being placed there on Monday. David Fletcher underwent surgery to repair the adductor muscles in both legs on Tuesday and is expected to be sidelined for a couple of months.

Just a name to watch, Andrew Velasquez in deeper category leagues. He's been starting consistently. I think he's up to like five or six steals, so he's been playing well for them. Max Dassey placed on the COVID-IL on Tuesday. Aaron Ashby won't start this week for the Brewers. I finally dropped him in the lone 15th.

team rotel league where I had him. So, I don't, look, it's different for everybody, but it's really hard to predict with Aaron Ashby. They don't tell you if he's starting until the week actually starts. It's pretty rough. Luis Heel, for the Yankees, will get a spot start on Thursday at the White Sox, but is not expected to stick around. Can I throw in one stat about Redemir's start that I just saw?

Sure. It's from Alex Spire, Boston Globe. he had never thrown more than six innings in professional baseball since being drafted, and going back to his college career at Louisville, Reid Dettmers had never thrown more than eight innings in a start. So, that's pretty impressive, his first ever nine innings start. Damn, good stuff for Reed Dettmers. Let's talk about Terrick Scouble and whether or not we're buying this breakout.

He lowers his ERA to 2.94 had his best start of the season up against the Oakland A's, so you take it with a grain of salt, but go seven shutout innings, three hits, three walks, five strikeouts. And what I've noticed, the four seam usage is down from last year. That was a pitch that was hit incredibly hard. He's throwing more sliders, more sinkers. The ground ball rate is way up this year. And he's also doing a great job of limiting walks.

Chris, are you buying what we've seen from Terrick Scuba? Six starts into the season? No. No, I don't think so. I mean, it's worth noting that a 294 ERA is like a month. qualifiers that would be like 25th out of 57 qualifiers or something it's kind of nuts like I think Sandy Alcantara is right below the median starter in ERA right now out of the 57 or 58 qualifiers and he has like a 303 ERA so that just kind of tells you the the

ridiculous standards that are being set right now but I don't know scoble just like continues to seem like a jack of seven pitches master of none kind of guy he's got like two different types of change-up slash splitter that he's worked on in his career he's still trying to figure out the fastball sinker mix and i just i don't i don't think there's enough swing and miss there for him to consistently be very good especially given how bad the results have been on balls and play throughout his career now he's maybe he's turning that around and maybe throwing the four seam or less you know that that could certainly help but i just I don't think his sinker's been good enough in his career

to make me think that that's going to be a big turnaround. So I'm, I remain pretty skeptical about Terrick's school. All right. He's still pretty young. He's 25 years old, so I think there's a real chance. Yeah,

I don't want to dismiss the talent. Yeah, there's a chance. It's possible he takes a leap. And like, I'm not saying drop him, but he would be someone that I would be looking to try to sell right now and try to move for one of those like, underperforming hitters

who we talked about earlier today I would move him for Joey Gallo Frank wouldn't because again he plays for the Yankees and he strikes out so he's a disaster what did you just say you would trade Terrick Scoobal

for Joey Gallo? I don't know that it has to be anyone as divisive as Gallo for what it's worth but no I mean I think I'm a little more hopeful than Chris but ultimately as far as actionable

advice advice goes it's pretty much the same Like, I could see it going either way, and I'd be more likely to call scuba a sell than a buy right now just because of how it's gone so far. But, you know, if I have to hold on to him, it's not. You would want him released. No, I mean, come on, man. Joey Gallo is just in his own stratosphere of just frustrating player, man. I'm not going to get into it. But, Scott, I'm with you.

I think I'm a little bit more optimistic on Terek Scuba. Look, like we say about a lot of pitchers right now, scuba was going incredibly late in your drafts. You know, if you can turn him around for a hitter who's struggling, sure, I'd say look to do it. But I'm buying this a little bit more. You know, the fact that he's getting ground balls and he's limiting walks, I've been really encouraged by what I've seen from Tartz,

for me, it's largely like, I don't, it's not that I'm not interested in him. There's just a lot more pitchers I'm interested in it. It's kind of like, Obviously, I think he's better than Reed Demers, but it's sort of like that where it's like, while I like Red Demers and I think there's potential there, it just like it doesn't feel like a high priority to me to add Red Demers. It doesn't feel like a high priority to me to go out and get Terrick Scoobal.

There aren't the obvious, like, clear-cut breakout signs that we've seen from pitchers like Eric Lauer and Kyle Wright, who wasn't very good today, but still. Or Joe Ryan. Also not very good. Talk about Joe Ryan and Kyle Wright. We had some speed bumps for these breakout hopefuls. Joe Ryan, now two subpar outings in a row.

He allowed four runs, five walks over four innings pitched against the Astros. Kyle Wright, his first real clunker of the season, he gave up six runs, four walks, over four and two-thirds against the Red Sox. Jesus Lazzardo could not escape the third inning at the Diamondbacks. Four earned runs, four walks. You see a theme here, lots of walks for these pitchers. And then even Garrett Whitlock, who's kind of been breaking out in his own right. He allowed three runs, four walks again on three innings pitch. Scott, what did you see from

these four? Anything that you're actually worried about? Joe Ryan, Kyle Wright, Garrett Whitlock, Jesus Lozardo. No, I don't think I have major concerns for any of them. Kyle Wright, all six of the runs came in the second inning, four on a grand slam to Raphael Devers. I was watching that game, and it just seemed like he lost the curveball that inning. He lost the feel for it. It wasn't doing what it normally does for him. And then he managed to stay in the game a few more shutout innings and ended up with a good swinging strike total,

six of them on the curveball. I just think it was a bad inning for him and he'll bounce back. I dare say there were promising signs from Hazel Zazzardo in this start where he didn't escape the third inning and gave up a bunch of runs. Because this is the first start

where he's really thrown his, his change up much. And he actually got really good results in it. He didn't allow a ball in play. He had a 40% called plus swinging strike rate with it, 10 whiffs on 30 pitches. You know, the fastball's been a big part of why he's broken out this season. Obviously, the curveball has been amazing as well.

But the fastball being, going from very, very bad to a pretty decent swing and miss pitch so far has been a big part of it. But, you know, if that change-up can be more of a weapon for him, and there have been signs of that in the past, you know, that that would be a really good sign for him. So that's a positive to take away from Hazel's Lazzardo start. And as for Joe Ryan, I just, I feel like I'm an outlier among us in that, like, I just feel like it's a gimmick. And I... We've talked about it before. And so I, like, every time.

something goes wrong, I'm more inclined to be like, aha. And I don't know if that's necessarily what happened here, but because I'm more skeptical, I'm less likely to just write it off, I think. It's, you know, I

kind of feel like Dantrell Willis was a gimmick with his leg kick delivery, and when it fell apart, it fell apart fast, but he won a Tsai Young before that happened. Blanking on the name, the pitcher who gets, the only the pitcher who gets referenced on this podcast and no other podcast.

Marco Estrada. Marco Estrada, who is the comp that I made for Joe Ryan in that he was not necessarily a hard thrower, not necessarily a strikeout guy, but, you know, generated a lot of infield fly balls, generated a lot of weak contact and kind of got by on that. And he, you know, it didn't go away. Like, he was pretty good for like five years. But it also, you know, he went from three, four, eight to a five ERA. pretty much one year to the next.

So, you know, I'm not even sure it's worth worrying about the sustainability of it, except maybe in a dynasty context for Joe Ryan. I think, you know, what really stands out about his line today is he walk five guys. And he walked four in his first start this year. But in the four starts in between those two, he walked to combine three. And like the two things that stood out for Ryan is how does he do it, not having particularly impressive stuff. And, oh my goodness, he doesn't walk anybody.

So, like, it was just totally out of character that he walked five guys in this start. And I don't put much into it at all. Yeah, Joe Ryan has now made 11 career starts in the majors. Eight of those, he's had one walk or less. So when he's on, you could tell that the control is obviously an asset for Joe Ryan. Let's move back over to some hitters, wake up calls. for these three on Tuesday. Corey Seeger had a double dong. He's now up to six home runs. Justin Turner

had four hits, including three doubles for RBI. Trevor's story went two for five with two RBI and a run scored. So a very welcome sight for those three. And hopefully some of those Wauriometer hitters can follow suit because definitely need it. Sorry, I want to correct myself. Donra Willis did not win a Cy Young. No, I wasn't sure if I heard you right. He finished second to Chris Carpenter. Second in 2005. 1-22 games that year. 2005, I think I was in 8th grade.

Just to date everything that's going on here. I was an 11th. I was in 15th grade. Look at this guy. Look at this guy. Anyway, stud-hitter is stealing bases. You love to see it. Ronald de Cunia would one for two.

His fifth steal in 10 games, so knee is fine. Looks good. Kyle Tucker went one for two with three walks and two steals. He's now up to seven steals in 30 games. That's a 37 steel pace over a full season. Cedric Mullins, four for five with a sock and a shoe. His fifth home run, his fifth stolen base.

The batting average is up to 262. A good example of how quickly things can turn around. Cedric Mullins looked like a pretty big bust like six days ago. Yeah, it's true, man. Like in one series, we're still. this early in the season where you can flip your numbers around dramatically if you just have a monster series. Same things with Roto standings too, by the way. Like if you're lower in Roto, I know it feels like you're buried. It's the end of the world, but you really can make up ground very

quickly in a week or two. Yeah. I mean, I've seen that happen with a number of my Roto teams. And like that, what you're saying with the hitters, I mean, it goes to show why you can't, the guys with these kinds of stable, studly track records who are underperforming. You just can't do anything with them. right now because I mean another example is willie adams well I was updating my rankings willie adomas is the number two shortstop and fantasy right now two weeks ago he had like a 575 OPS and everyone was wondering what's wrong with them yeah it really can flip so stay the course uh Cedric Mullins by the way him and Dalton varsho are probably the two hitters I've been most

wrong about and I will openly admit it Tim Anderson went three for four with his fifth steel in 25 games. That is a 32 steel pace, so a little bit more aggressive on the base paths so far for Tim Anderson. Same thing with Luis Robert, two for four, with his six steel in only 21 games. Bryce Harper also added his fifth stolen base

as well. A few leftovers I wanted to mention, Josh Naylor, another home run. His fifth, obviously his third home run in two nights. He's 42% rostered. I think that number can continue to climb. And for those in deeper leagues, Mike Mustakis went two for three. In 11 games,

returning, he's betting 3.71 with one homer, three doubles, five walks to six strikeouts. So deeper leagues, you need a corner infielder. Mike Mustakis is a name that is out there. Oh, we're just getting to it, by the way. 57 minutes. Aaron Judge. What a guy. I mean, league leading 10th home run, by the way, three run walkoff shot against Jordan Romano. 27.5% barrel rate for Aaron Judge thus far. That was entering Tuesday, by the way. That's the best in baseball. So the guy Of all the dramatic things I've ever seen. Well, thank you, Scott. Of all the dramatic

things I've ever seen. Aaron Judge, he's betting on himself. He was given what's up, Chris? Why are you laughing at me? It's the dumbest thing. It's the dumbest thing. It was just Roger Clemens standing

there. That's all it was. I love that that clip came out recently again. It was the anniversary. Roger Clemens and George's box. It's the most dramatic thing she's ever seen in her life. In her life, yeah. Aaron Judge, by the way, he turned down a monster contract extension before the season.

He's betting on himself. So far, he looks absolutely amazing. So I don't know what that contract is going to look like, but good for Aaron Judge. You love to see it. Didn't get to these names. Freddie Peralta, season high eight strikeouts. Tony Gonslin was solid once again.

Carlos Carrasco, back-to-back quality starts, providing a good amount of length in his starts this season. Gialito, seven endings, one run, his best start of the season. Fortune favors the brave. Hunter Green allowed two runs over five and a third with six strikeouts. So

kudos to you, Scott, or anyone else who was brave enough. Velocity was up a little bit today as well. It wasn't quite. He leaned all the way into the slider in this one. He got the slider, the slider, and it got all the whiffs and almost all the and the fastball still got crushed.

So, I don't know. Yeah. I wouldn't have advised anyone to actually start Hunter Green, but he was my very silly fortune favors the brave pick. So. Of all the dramatic things. Of all, of them.

The call to the bullpen for the bet, Edwin Diaz, picked up his seventh save, Jordan Romano, obviously blew his save opportunity to Aaron Judge. For the Brewers, Josh Hater, tied Romano,

for the league lead with 12 saves for the Red Sox. Hansel Robles will never get another save. I'm going to continue to tell you that. He pitched in the seventh inning with a three-run lead. He faced the top of the lineup. John Schreiber then pitched the eighth inning. Then the Red Sox extended their lead in the ninth, and Schreiber came back out for the night.

So he picks up his first save. He's not been very good so far in his major league career. I don't know if it's going to work for him. For the Orioles, Jorge Lopez is on the bereavement list. So Dylan Tate started the ninth. He gave up a run, and then Felix Batista came in and recorded the final out for his first save. Batista looks really good. He's got some nasty stuff, but...

He's thrown like 102 miles an hour. Yeah. I think the walk great... I think Lopez has actually looked really good this season, so I don't know if, you know, I'm worried about it, but... Just a name to keep in mind on the surprisingly competitive Orioles. Orioles pitching has been pretty good this year. Well, I guess that's what happens when you extend. your walls by 30 feet, right?

When you move left field back, 417 feet. Yeah. For the Rangers, Joe Barlow picked up his fifth save. For the White Sox, Kendall Graveman picked up his second save. Liam Hendricks has been used a ton recently.

I am just seeing now that Dylan Floreau made his season debut, and he got rocked. He pitched one inning. He gave up four hits, three runs, one walk. I saw a YouTube comment yesterday.

Someone asked about Anthony Bass. apparently he's pitched really well it's not crazy I mean we'll see Bass Col Solzer Yeah he went Let me look at his numbers Has he ever pitched really well

I don't know Yeah he's hasn't been fits really well actually I did see Yes I'm writing the waiver wire column today I wrote about Delin Flora Because he was called Or activated from the IL

You know before he got rocked in his first appearance The Marlins ERA in the ninth inning is like seven. I guess Floro didn't pitch in the eighth or in the ninth today. He pitched in the in the eighth but yeah the Marlins have like a sub three ERA in the first three innings

or something or the first eight innings and then a seven ERA in the ninth. So that's not good. Yeah. Anthony Bass looks like clearly the best pitcher in that bullpen right now. So maybe he will get a shot. And then for the Mariners, I saw that Paul Seawald

recorded the final four outs for his first save of the season. I feel like the Mariners have had no saves or even opportunities for saves. It's been very weird. To stream or not to stream, let's start with Wednesday, James and Tyone versus the Blue Jays, Adrian Houser at the Reds, Chad Kuhl at the Giants, Nick Martinez versus the Cubs, and Chris Archer versus the Astros. You know, I looked it up the other day and I was shocked to see that the Reds are like 24th

and run scored per game. That was like, that was stunning to me. I thought they were dead last. They'd be lower, yeah. I mean, I think Houser's fine. I think their pitching is like historically bad

right now. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they're losing by an average of like three rounds per game. So yeah, that is, that's rough. Nick Martinez, I think is okay up against the Cubs.

Tyone, I don't really love it. I was thinking about going to the Yankee game on Wednesday, 12.30 start time. It's a little too early for me. For Thursday, Luis Heel at the White Sox, Taiwan Walker at the Nationals.

James Caprillion at the Tigers. Josh Winder versus the Astros, and then Jordan Hicks versus the Orioles. I know it's a terrible matchup, but I just, I think Josh Winders actually good. And I don't know that these other pictures are. Jordan Hicks, if I trusted him to take on a full starter's workload against the Orioles, I could get behind that a little easier. But I think my number one choice here is Winder, even going against the Astros.

I think I agree with that, yeah. Righty. We're going to wrap there for Scott and Chris. Frank, thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.