Fantasy Baseball Today - Riley Greene & Oneil Cruz Promoted! Waiver Wire Adds Plus Start or Sit (6/20 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 20, 2022

Riley Greene was finally promoted while Alex Kirilloff was recalled by the Twins (3:30). ... Finally, Oneil Cruz is getting the call from the Pirates (9:30). Cruz or CJ Abrams? ... What's going on with MacKenzie Gore (17:20)? Charlie Morton looks like he's back. ... How is Taijuan Walker getting all of these strikeouts (22:35)? Is Mitch Keller worth adding again? ... News and notes (31:41): Mookie Betts was placed on the IL with a fractured rib. ... Should Christian Walker be universally rostered (38:49)? ... Let's fire up the Worry-O-Meter for Pablo Lopez and Lucas Giolito (43:20). ... Start or sit names like Andrew Heaney and Shane Baz (46:00)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates and streamers (51:45). Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. Got a fantasy question, email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your lead. Where fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. You wanted prospects? Well, we got them this weekend. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Monday, June 20th.

Frank Sample joined by Scott White. Hope you had a great weekend. Here's what we have for you. today on the show. A bunch of waiver wire talk, starter sit, Worryometer for three starting pitchers in particular. And of course, we will get to those prospects.

Happy Father's Day to you, Scotty, and to the rest of the great dads out there. How was bowling with the kiddos on Friday? It was good. It was good. They did better than I thought they'd do. I did worse than I thought I'd do. I missed my coach, Joe Polito,

who was with me the last two times. bold. He's not actually a bowling coach. He somebody works for CBS but he has coached to me how to do the curve role you know. Got you. Where you know you

come up right. The ball is approaching the gutter and you think it's going to go in but no it hangs the left and ideally strikes the pins close to the center but wasn't getting quite right.

wasn't getting it quite right until the very end until you know like the ninth frame of the second game and my kids were very disappointed at how poorly I was bowling because they're used to me winning everything um and frankly I was disappointed too so I'm sure if Joe was there he would have told me what I was doing wrong and it would have taken me less time than 19 frames to figure it out but hopefully I will know better for next time and not embarrass myself and front of my children again. Look, especially if you don't bowl that often, Scott, if you're just trying to pick it back up after years of not playing and you're trying to curve the ball and do all this crazy

stuff, it's definitely going to take some time. It's so fulfilling, though. Like, it's the second game I didn't want to, I scored like 46 points the first game. That's how bad it was. Oh, geez. But I was committed to getting it right, you know, so I was willing to take my lungs because I knew we were going to play a second game. But at some point, I was just like, you know, I can't embarrass myself.

I just was bowling. straight up, you know, just straight lines basically. I'm doing better. But it's just not as satisfying, you know? Oh, I know. It's just not the same. It's like one of those weird things, you know, people make YouTube videos about like oddly satisfying things, like bowling in curves as opposed to straight lines is one of

those oddly satisfying things that you don't know until you do it, how fulfilling it is. And I try to do it myself too, Scott Curve. of the ball. I don't think that I'm doing it correctly, but sometimes it works out okay and I can, I don't know, bowl like a mid-100s, which is like okay. It's nothing great, but it is very fulfilling. That's what I can get to. Yeah, at my best. If I had Joe watching, Joe, I miss you, Joe. Ah, we miss you, Joe. Anyway, let's get into the prospects. We're going to delay, oh my goodness, a little bit because the prospects are really the biggest story of the weekend. And I saw some people talking in the YouTube chat beforehand. They feel like this could be,

a season-changing waiver-wire weekend. And I don't really disagree based on some of these names that we're going to talk about. So let's start with the biggest one. I would say the Detroit Tigers, Riley Green made his debut on Saturday. He's 71% rostered. He went two-for-three with two walks,

two-run scored in that game. And last year in the minor leagues, he was awesome. 24 home runs, 16 steals, 301 batting average, a 9-21 OPS. But he was not the only outfield eligible prospect to get called up or recalled.

Alex Kirillov was the other one. He had two hits and two games this weekend, 53% rostered. Scott talked to me about Riley Green, Kirolov, and after that, we'll get to ranking some of these outfielders. Okay, so those two were not going to talk about the other two big call-ups? We'll get to them. We'll get to them. Okay, all right.

Riley Green and Kirloff, yes, yes. So I would imagine, well, I could say for a fact, Green is less available than Kirloff. However, if you've been following my prospect reports, I've been telling you to stash both of them for a couple weeks. We're going to be starting with a fresh slate in this week's prospects report, basically, because three of my five on the verge got called up and CJ Abrams, who was one of the next who I would have put in for them, you know?

Anyway. Yeah, so Riley Green, he's walked four times already, I believe, showing good plate discipline right of the way. I'd like to see that. He is a, like just from a straight up, this is what all the prospect rankings say. He's the highest ranked of all these prospects. Pretty much a consensus top five guy coming into the season.

You may remember he was going to make the opening day roster. It had already been reported. And then he broke his foot. I wasn't necessarily on board with this because his strikeout rate was higher at AAA, but most publications had him as a better prospect, even than Spencer Torkelson, who was the number one pick in the draft two years ago. So really, really good prospect, Riley Green.

Stands out most for the hit tool, but has power, has a little bit of speed, hopefully. And as we're seeing, he can get on base. Hopefully that continues. So I think he's the higher, I think he's the higher upside play of the two. But it's what may be influencing my thinking there is just that we've seen Kirillov

a fair amount in the majors already, and it's gone mostly poorly. But it's gone poorly because his wrist hasn't been right, really, since May of last year. And he was doing some pretty impressive things

before hurting that wrist, but he tried playing through it. It didn't go well. He eventually had season-ending surgery. Came back this year. It still wasn't feeling right. Had a cortisone shot, got sent to AAA to work on his swing. He'd gotten into some bad habits.

He was putting the ball on the ground way too much. And his numbers at AAA, it took a while to get it right, but once he got going, just insane production at AAA. 359 batting, average 10 home runs in 35 games, got on base at a 465 clip, which is something we hadn't seen from Kirloff in the majors or minors before. So I'm pretty excited about him, too. I think if push comes to shove, I'm picking up green first,

but it wouldn't surprise me if Kierloff actually ends up better. And he's also eligible at first base while Green is just outfield. Yeah, I do think Riley Green has more upside between the two, especially if you're talking about a Categories League. I think we could see some speed out of Riley Green. Hopefully this is like a shot in the arm for the Tigers lineup too because they've been so bad all season long. And I think their, his first game on Saturday, they go out and they put up,

what was it like 14 runs or something crazy like that? Yeah, 14 runs. So hopefully this is something that can, help rejuvenate the Tigers lineup because it's been very bad. Scott, I'm going to throw Michael Harris in that mix because I got this question earlier on Twitter, and I actually said I would take Michael Harris over Riley Green, and I think it's really close.

So how would you rank those three, Green, Kirillov, Michael Harris? Here's what I've told people who've asked me on Twitter. If this is just, I'm putting upside on my bench and hope of a big score, a big win, then I would rank them green first. And, oh, man, between Harris and Kirolov, I guess I'd go Harris ahead of Keralov. But what changes it is, like, if you're already,

if you already are relying on Harris, who's been good for a couple weeks now, you consider him one of your starting outfielders, then I wouldn't mess with that because as many prospects, I mean, Spencer Torkel said, as many prospects, high-end prospects as we've seen struggled to break in, I don't know that you need to mess with a good thing. So it's kind of how deep is your league thing.

I imagine, though, if you can give half a thought to dropping Harris, is probably a pretty shallow league, in which case, I'd go for Green. Yeah. My thinking with Harris versus Green is, look, obviously Green was the higher upside prospect on prospect lists in general, but Harris is performing well already. I know it's a small sample. And the Braves lineup is a lot better than the Detroit Tiger. So that's just something that's factoring into my mind. And so I think with that, I would take Harris over green, but it is very cool. He has been the ninth place hitter in that lineup for what that's worth. Now,

obviously that he could move up. That could change if he keeps hitting well, but it hasn't changed yet. All right. Let's move over to the shortstop. Other big prospect news from the weekend. O'Neill Cruz will be called up on Monday. He's 64% rostered, obviously with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Got off to a very rough start in April down in the miners. But since the start of May, he's been much better. He's got nine homers, 11 steals overall.

And then CJ Abrams is apparently being recalled by the San Diego Padres. Sounds like to help address the Mani Machado injury, which we will get to a little bit later on. And Abrams was on fire in the month of June. 371 batting average, three homers, five seals, 965 OPS, much more widely available. He's only 33% rostered. So, Scott, how are you breaking these two down? Who would you rather have, C.J. Abrams or O'Neill Cruz?

See, I kind of feel like we buried the lead here because O'Neill Cruz, I think, was the, I think was the biggest lightning strike of all of these. You know, he got so much hype in spring training. And a lot of people have stashed him away for a very long time, 61% rostered. I mean, people were stashing green too, but that was more injury related. So you could kind of, you know, you knew you were going to be waiting a while for him. But we didn't know how long we were going to be waiting for Cruz. And as we've talked about recently, he's picked up the pace quite a bit in the minors two over his past 25 games, 302 batting average, seven homers,

962 OPS. I know he wasn't ranked as highly. on most prospect list as Riley Green. But I think of all these players, he's the ceiling guy. You know, he got ranked a little lower because... That's O'Neill Cruz. O'Neill Cruz you're talking about.

Yeah. Cool. Got ranked a little lower because of downside risk, because of questions about where he'd wind up defensively. Sounds like he's going to be just the shortstop to start out. He got a little bit of time in left field

at AAA. But just in terms of tools, I remember baseball America published prior to the season the average exit velocity last year for all of their top 100 prospects. And Cruz was in a class of his own. He was like 94 miles per hour. It was basically another 6'7 guy who impacts the ball like Aaron Judge. Is he going to be disciplined enough with his mechanics? Is he going to be disciplined enough with the strike zone to, to take advantage of that, I can't say.

I mean, it could, I could see it going disastrously. That's certainly a plausible scenario, but it's also a plausible scenario that O'Neill Cruz is just a monster and potentially right away. And, you know, he's been a great base dealer in the miners too. And a lot of times with sluggers that they, they discard that skill once they get to the main.

majors, but, you know, there's a good chance he's, he's one of the best power hitters in the game and also is contributing like 15 to 20 steals, or at least that kind of pace. I'm skeptical a little B as a rookie this year, but it could happen. So I think he's the one guy, regardless of your circumstances, Cruz, you have to take a flyer on him. Last year, he had five batted ball events. He got called up late in the season. I think it was the final three games for the pirates.

And he had a batted ball of 118.2 miles per hour. This is O'Neill Cruz that we're talking about. And yeah, he impacts the ball incredibly, incredibly hard. So I guess if you're just comparing O'Neill Cruz versus Abrams, you're taking Cruz over C.J. Abrams, right? Yes. Yes, the one hesitation I might have is if, like, steals is the thing you need. But even then,

I mean, we saw Abrams in the majors for a while, didn't it seem like he was ready to make an impact. And I'm not, it's not clear even now with this second promotion that it's to be an everyday player necessarily. So, yeah, I would take Cruz. In an ideal world, though, C.J. Abrams is a, you know, an elite base dealer. All right.

Would you be okay dropping at the shortstop position, JP Crawford, Brandon Crawford, Tyro Estrada for either any of these short stops? Yeah. Okay. Because those guys are still,

those are rostered in over 70% of CBS leagues. Yeah, I know. But those are not. Pretty much, if this is the choice between lots of upside or little upside,

I'm going to go lots of upside. Sure. All right. So O'Neill Cruz and CJ Abrams two other big names this weekend. Short stops,

of course. Abrams got picked up in a few of my deeper league. so far. We had some fab run on Sunday night, and he went for $28 out of a $1,000 fab budget in one 15 team league, so around 3%, and then $23 out of $1,000 budget in another league. That actually was to me. So, yay, I got CJ Abrams. I hope he's awesome because that's great. Yeah, I already, so I'm in 315 team roto leagues. I already had him. I've stashed, I've kept

them stashed in two of them. I kept them stashed until last week. And, the other one and foolishly dropped it for a Red Sox reliever who wasn't even Tanner Halk. Matt Strum? Yeah. I'm sorry. Maybe. I mean, I picked him Strom in Robles. I could have been either one.

It was dumb, though. I regretted it immediately and then regretted it even more when I didn't win him back today. All right. A few others I wanted to mention. Leover Puguerregoe got called up by the pirates this weekend. but it seems like it was more out of a desperation. I think they had someone go on the COVID-I-L, and they just needed to replace.

Yeah, it was Tukipita, Marcano, went on the COVID-I-L, and then they called up Puigero because apparently he was the closest in terms of, like, geography in the minor league system. Basically, they needed help. But this is a pretty big prospect as well, Scott. The thing is, I don't know if he's going to stick around. Yeah, I would suspect not it was, it seemed like kind of

a desperation room move. I can't remember what Ben Sherrington, the the Pirates GM basically described it as in those terms. Like, we had a need to fill and he was in a spot to fill it. So I think with Cruz coming up, Pagero probably goes back down. Yeah, and he's only 21 years old. He got called up from AA. Just a name to watch to see if he gets recalled later on in the season. It does have a lot of speed. Also has some pop again. The name there, Leo Ver Paguerra.

and not as highly regarded, but Buddy Kennedy was promoted by the debacks this weekend. He hit a grand slam on Sunday, his first career home run. And he's kind of an interesting prospect. Last year in the minors, he hit 290, 22 homers, 16 steals. He's one-person rostered on CBS. So in the deepest of leagues, a name to look at there, Buddy Kennedy. Scott, do you have anything on him? I mean, it kind of reminds me that the minor league numbers of Brendan Donovan.

He's a guy we kind of poo-poohed when he came up, and he's turned into something halfway useful in fantasy. But I don't know that Kennedy, like, I don't know that lightning's going to strike twice in that regard. But similar in that he has good play discipline, a little bit of power. We'll see. All right.

Well, let's get into oh my goodness gracious players from the weekend. Oh, my goodness gracious. All right, Scott. Who do you got? I'm going to go with McKinsey Gore McKenzie Gore who made his second straight start against the Rockies both have gone very poorly this was Friday when he made that second start

and his ERA between those two starts okay so on Friday he allowed eight and runs in four innings nine hits three walks versus one strikeout. And that's two starts in a row now where he's had not just against the rock, he's not just bad, but more walks than strikeouts.

And that's worrisome because a guy couldn't find the zone at all last year. That was part of his problem in the miners, why he lost so much stock as a prospect. Those two starts so bad his ERA has gone from 150 to 364. So all those gains in rhodo leagues basically lost in the span of two starts. That is frustrating.

Now, this one was at Coors Field. The other one wasn't. But I will point out that five of the eight runs he gave up Friday, this is McKenzie Gore. Five of the eight runs came on hanging, breaking balls to C.J. Crohn and Randall Gritchick. Would those have been hangers under normal atmospheric conditions? It's reasonable to think they might not.

have been. That's the whole thing about course. That's not the whole thing about Coorsfield, but that's part of why it's such a difficult place to pitch is breaking balls don't break like you're used to. So independent of that first bad start, I'd be inclined to give him a pass for Coorsfield, but this is two awful starts against the lineup that theoretically isn't very good and with a high number of walks. So I'm a little worried. I'm a little worried about McKinsey Gore, not anywhere close to dropping him or anything, but I might consider sitting him this week.

Yeah, there were a few other things going on in this start. The fastball velocity was down 1.2 miles per hour. A couple other things just happening with him recently. Three plus walks in four straight. The swinging strikes have been down in two straight starts for McKenzie Gore. So, yes, we do have a decision to make. He's up against the Diamondbacks this week. They are 24th.

in weighted on base average against left-handed pitching. What do you think? Do you start McKenzie Gore against the Diamondbacks? I would have to... Good matchup, obviously, but I'd have to lean no. I'm not saying it's the... Under no circumstances, what I'd do it, but I'd lean no. All right, fair enough.

From one pitcher to another. A much older pitcher. Someone we've been waiting all season long to get back on track. Uncle Charlie Morton. Finally, his best start of the season at the Cubs, and he went seven shutout. He gave up three hits, zero walks, nine strikeouts, 21 swinging strikes on 94 pitches,

12 of those on the curve, six on the fastball. He had everything working in the start. 39% CSW overall. That's called strikes plus whiffs. 28% is about league average. So 39% is really, really an awesome mark there. It was his first start with zero walks this season,

and he has one walk or fewer in five of his last seven starts. So that was a good one. huge issue for him early on in the season. I mentioned the walks were up. First pitch strikes were not great, so he was falling behind in a lot of counts, and he couldn't finish any hitters off because the curveball wasn't working. He didn't have the fastballs. It was a mess early on in the season for Charlie Morton, but now 16 plus swinging strikes in three straight starts. And if you look at his last eight starts overall, the ERA is over four, but that comes with a 3.10 X-FIP, 11.8K per 9, 2.5 walks per 9.

I kind of feel like we're right there, Scott. And we're on the verge of now we're going to start to see this come to fruition and actually see it play out in great starts. And that's what we got from Morton this weekend. Oh, yeah. He's back. He's back. Charlie Morton's back.

I kind of had a feeling he was back already. You mentioned the swinging strikes. I have it as 18 or more in three straight. I'm not sure why different data feeds come up with different numbers for swinging strikes. It seems like a straightforward count. But anyway, it was a lot.

It was a lot. And he just had problems getting through the first inning in each of the previous two starts, so gave up a decent number of runs that maybe concealed the progress he was making. But I wrote about it last week. Hopefully you bought low when you could on Charlie Morton. Yep.

looks like the by-low window has been slammed shut. And it's about time because Charlie, we needed this. And what did you know this was the game? This was the start that ended the Braves 14 game winning street. Right, yeah, I think they wanted. Charlie Morton was awesome. Yeah. They lost that one late.

I think it was what, a one-zip loss or two-one, something like that. So unfortunate. Yeah, I think so. Let's stick with some pitchers and take a look at the waiver wire from the weekend. We'll start with this first group. These are names between 59. and 70% rostered. Michael Waka, another solid start against the Cardinals.

Five and a third innings pitch, one run. Five strikeouts, the ERA is down to 2.28, and he's going up against the Tigers this week, so a nice match up there. Taiwan Walker has 19 strikeouts over his last two starts. I don't know if I'm buying it. Maybe Scott is. We'll find out.

But he's going up, he went up against the Marlins this weekend, six and two thirds, one run, had those nine strikeouts, and his ERA is down to 2.88. at the Marlins again this week for Taiwan Walker. John Gray has now looked very strong in three of his last four outings. He was at the Tigers this weekend as well. Seven shutout with six strikeouts.

And in the month of June, four starts for John Gray. 2.5 to ERA, 31 strikeouts over 25 innings pitched. He is 59% rostered and going up against the nationals this week. Scott, what do you think of these three? Michael Waka, Taiwan Walker, and John Gray. I'd like John Gray more this week If I thought he was actually going against the nationals I think because the Rangers have a five game schedule

They're just going four man Which would put John Gray going against the Phillies this week Not as great Yeah you know and I've been I've been wrong when I've I've been wrong before So maybe he will go against the nationals Either way I think John Gray is the most

The most exciting of this group. You know, we like them a lot as a sleeper. When I say we, basically the entire fantasy analysis industry liked him as a sleeper coming into the year, getting out of course field. He was working on developing a sweepier slider too. I haven't actually seen it, so I don't know if that's the slider he's working with, but it has been getting its share of whiffs. So, yeah, pretty excited about the direction John Gray has taken, regardless of who he's facing this week. It wouldn't be a bad idea to pick him up if he's available.

Yeah, I'm not sure what's... The only thing I've noticed for Taiwan Walker, who's had good strikeout total last two starts, unusual for him, is that he's been throwing his slider a little more. Yeah. But it hasn't been... Hasn't been the sort of dramatic arsenal change

that would lead to dramatically... different results. So yeah, I'm pretty skeptical of what Taiwan Walker's been doing too. I noticed that the slider has been a good pitch for him to season in terms of just recording outs. It has a 188 batting average against. Let's check out that whiff rate. 25.8%. That's okay. Not great. So all right, we'll see what happens. I would say if I'm ranking them, I would go John Gray, Taiwan Walker, and then Michael Walker in that order. Scott, would you be okay dropping Graham Ashcraft for any or all of these. He's now given up 10 earned runs on 19 hits over his last two starts. I'm okay dropping Ashcraft just in a general sense, but I think of

these three, the only one I drop them for is John Gray. Okay, fair enough. Waverwire pitchers, part two. I don't really think any of these pitchers are good, but they do have strong matchups this upcoming week. Keegan Thompson had his best start up against the Braves, six shutout with nine strikeouts. Brad Keller. That was the one opposite Morton. Yes. Deacon Thompson. Yes, indeed.

Get the Braves in. Brad Keller was at the Oakland A's this weekend, seven shutout endings with six strikeouts. Cole Irvin was on the other side of that start. Six and a third, one run ball, six strikeouts there. Johnny Quato has now allowed three earned runs or fewer in five of his six starts. He went into Houston through seven shutout endings with five strikeouts. Pretty impressive there.

And then Dylan Bundy, I know. It's Dylan Bundy. It was an eight-enning one-run performance, so I'll just throw it on the rundown, then we could just laugh about it a little bit later on. But he was at the Diamondbacks, eight endings of one-run ball, seven strikeouts. All five of these names, Scott, have good matchups this week.

Are you interested in any? Not really. No. I don't blame him. Dylan Bundy has a 517 ERA. Quato's been impressive, but it's a 407 X-FIP, so it's going to get the rug pulled out from under him soon enough. Keegan Thompson, I did kind of like him until I started him last week. Not the week where he went against the Braves against Morton,

but the week before that, he had two starts against the Orioles and the Yankees and allowed a combined tenor and runs in three and two-thirds innings. That's my experience with Keegan Thompson, not so much what he just did to the Braves. And I've pointed out before the Braves give pitchers a lot of swinging strikes. So I choose not to be swayed

by this performance by Keegan Thompson for a couple reasons. Fair enough. Yes, the Atlanta Braves have the third highest strikeout rate against right-handed pitching this season. So that would explain Keegan Thompson getting a lot of swinging strikes in this one.

It was, yeah, it was by far his best swinging strike effort of the season, and even the other starts that were good. It wasn't so much because he was missing bats. All right. And he is at the Pirates this week. So a pretty good matchup there for Keegan Thompson.

Quato is the other one where, you know, if you really need a streamer, he's going up against the Orioles this week. They're not great against right-handed pitching. And, you know, Quato's been okay. So those are the two I would probably look at streaming. Waver Wire pitchers, part three. These are for deeper leagues.

Is there anything here? The Godfather. He's back. He's pulling you back in. Mitch Keller has now allowed two earn runs or fewer in four straight starts. On Sunday, six innings of two-run ball against the Giants, where he had four strikeouts. And over his last four starts, a 2.44 ERA.

Swinging strikes are way down. He's gone with this new sinker, and he's leaned all the way into it. Lots of ground balls, though, for Mitch Keller. He's widely available. Daniel Lynch is the other one. He had a career high 10 strikeouts at the Oakland A's this weekend with 23 swinging strikes. Scott, anything here in deeper leagues.

Mitch Keller, Daniel Lynch. I think Mitch Keller could be respectable, but I don't think he'll be anything more. And for the pirates, I'm just not sure, I'm just not sure respectable is going to be good enough to generate real fantasy interest. And it's a maybe anyway. So, yeah.

Daniel Lynch, I think, has more potential. His swinging strike rate is 12.9, which absent context probably doesn't mean anything to you, but that's a really good swinging strike rate. He gives up a ton of fly balls, so he's been vulnerable to the home run, but his home park's a big park. I could see how that,

I can see how Daniel Lynch could overcome that, and he was pretty high in prospect himself. So not saying you need to rush out and at him, but I think they're definitely, there are definite skills there for Lynch that, you know, maybe this is the start of them coming to fruition. All right. Before we hit the break,

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or comment and you can interact with everybody else. And we are going to take a break and we'll be back right after this. The news and notes, the big injury from the weekend, actually, I mean, I guess two of them, but Mookie Betts was placed on the aisle with a fractured right rib. Dave Roberts said he expects Betts to return in about two weeks, which sounds optimistic to me. Yeah, well, it was weird because he was in. and he was going to be in the lineup the next day because the x-rays were negative

and then he was scratched and I don't know. I guess it's a very small fracture. The x-rays didn't pick it up at first. I don't know. Yeah, well, the good news is if you lost mooky pets, there are some outfielders available. Michael Harris and Alex Kirillov and Riley Green, so go out and get one of those guys.

Mani Machado was diagnosed with a left ankle sprain after he exited in the first inning of Sunday's game against the Rockies. And x-rays came back negative, but it seems like he is going to miss some time. I don't know how much that will be, but it was scary enough for them to, A, take X-rays, and B, call up C.J. Abrams.

So, if you need a third base replacement, a couple of names I'm looking at Scott. Brendan and Donovan, John Birdie, Ezekiel Duran. Duran. I don't know why I'd just said it like that. That was weird. And Santiago Espinall. What do you think about those four? I think,

uh, it's not great. It's not a position where you want to lose a player. Especially Manny Machado, geez. Yeah. So I would say, seeing if I could find your list in the notes here. It's not in the notes, apparently.

Could you go over the names one more time? It is in the notes, Scott. Brendan Donovan, John Birdie, Ezekiel Duran, and Santiago Espinall. Okay. So, I think in a categories league Ezekiel Duran is who I'd go for first

I think in a points league because the walk to strikeout ratio is so good Brendan Donovan is who I'd go for first I think though if you're looking for if if steals is you know you need a ton of steals John Bertie you might look into him because he stole three bases

three more bases on Saturday alone that brings him to 16 stolen bases since May 27th. So he is running wild and the Marlins have the most favorable hitter matchups next week. So he should be on base plenty then

too. Yeah, I agree 100%. If you need speed, I mean 16 steals over his last 20 games as you mentioned. He has 18 total which is tied for the league lead. This is John Bertie, 36% rostered. He's got four different position eligibility on CBS.

Second base, third base, shortstop, outfield. So if you play in any roto league where it's deeper format, five outfielders, a middle, a corner, definitely want to make sure John Birdie is rostered in that league. Liam Hendricks is set to begin

a throwing program on Monday and is targeting July 1st for his return from the IL. Aaron Ashby has been cleared to make his next start on Tuesday against the Cardinals, and it looks like he's in line for two starts. One against the Cardinals,

one against the Blue Jays. Scott, would you fire Aaron Ashby up for those matchups? Yeah, I think so. I originally had, because remember I took him out Thursday night when we recorded, but the news of this injury originally had him in the must-start section of the two-start pitcher rankings. I have him a tier lower than that. So, you know, you have to exercise some caution. But so do the Brewers, and they're letting him make the start.

So I think he'll probably be okay and make the two starts. and I'd still want to use him in most cases. All right. Chris Sayle will begin a rehab assignment in the Florida Complex League on Monday. Brandon Woodruff struck out seven of the eight batters he retired in a rehab start on Saturday. He's expected to make one more rehab start before rejoining the Brewer's rotation.

Tim Anderson is expected to return Monday against the Blue Jays, so get him back in your lineups. Wanda Franco could rejoin the Reyes next weekend against the Pirates. Chris Bryant is hopeful that he'll be able to return next weekend as well. Nick Lidolo struck out six across two innings in his rehab start on Saturday. He's expected to make at least

one more rehab start. And he wasn't named, Scott, that I was looking at in my deeper 15 team Roto leagues, just to kind of beat everyone else to the punch, not waiting until Lodolo actually rejoins the team, but pick him up and stash him for now.

Yeah, that makes sense. I didn't see him out there in any of mine, but that makes sense. Colton Wong suffered a setback in his recovery and won't be activated for the Brewer's upcoming homestand. He's on the IL with a calf injury. Jesus Lazzardo started a throwing program this weekend. He's on the IL with that forearm injury. Eloy Jimenez will have a chance to resume his rehab assignment at AAA on Tuesday.

He had his recent rehab pause due to normal leg soreness, and he's been on the IL for a while now with that hamstring injury. So it's been a mess. As someone who advocates for drafting Elo Jimenez every year, it hasn't been great. Nathan Avaldi is progressing slower than expected and is unlikely to return from the IL when first eligible. He's out with lower back inflammation. Nate Pearson was removed from Sunday's rehab start at AAA due to right shoulder discomfort.

Another one just cannot get healthy, cannot stay healthy. Hasn't been a contributor in the majors yet. It's rough for Nate Pearson. Lorenzo Kane was designated for assignment by the Brewers on Saturday and Justin Upton made his first start with the Mariners Friday and left the game after getting hit in the head with a pitch, which obviously is pretty scary, but he also started Saturday and Sunday. So I think Justin Upton is just fine. Other players who went to the aisle this weekend, Tyler McGill with a strained right shoulder and will be shut down from throwing for four weeks before being

re-evaluated. And in leagues with no aisle spots, Scott, I was thinking about dropping Tyler McGill this most recent fad period on Sunday. Yeah, I think that's fair. I mean, his ERA's over five now as well. You presume health has something to do with that. But yeah, it's been a while since Tyler McGill's done any good for anybody's fantasy team. Anthony Rendon will miss the rest of the season as he needs wrist surgery. And it has been a real rough go the past couple of years for Anthony Rendon as well.

So third baseman starting to drop. It's really the worst position to lose a player at, but not that Rendon has been great anyway. Austin Meadows went to the COVID-I-L after testing positive. Jesus Sanchez and Jesus Aguilar also went to the COVID-I-L. I did not see whether or not they tested positive. Frank Mendel to the IL with a lower back strain and Reds relievers, Alexis Diaz with right biceps tendonitis,

and Tony Santian with a back injury. All right, let's get into some waiver wire hitters from the weekend outside of the prospects, of course. Christian Walker, I'm just so surprised, Scott, that he's still 70% rostered. I feel like, I know the batting average is bad, but the guy is up to 18 home runs. Another double dung on Sunday for Christian Walker. Luke Voigt. Wait, so you think 71 is too low for Walker or too high for Walker?

Too low. I think it needs to be rostered more leagues. I think he just needs to be universally rostered, basically. Okay. Maybe. It's a, it's a tough one because Chris. Christian Walker prior to this two-homer game Sunday had gone 0 for 15 in his previous four. His batting average has actually fallen in June.

So there's been no correction happening there like we hoped. Having said that, he's 14th among first baseman in total points. So he's relevant even in points leagues, which we tend to think is shallower or shallower. So, yeah, I mean, I don't know. 71 might be like about right. I always, I mean, we've referenced the expected numbers all season long for Christian Walker. So maybe it's just not going to happen for him. But his XBA is 277.

His ex-slug is 616. Those are, those are pretty awesome marks compared to where he actually is at. So, I mean, yeah, you know, could he be Ross? I think if, well, okay, let me think here. There are probably a couple of my own leagues that if he was out there, I wouldn't pick them out. So I think, you know, 71's not that low. I think it's about right. All right.

Would you rather have him or Luke Voigt, who hit another home run on Sunday, and he's having a strong June, 284 batting average, six homers, 947 OPS? For next week, specifically, Voight. and the shallower leagues where they wouldn't already be rostered. I think you can afford to go week by week with those two. All right, fair enough. Who else do we have here? AJ Pollock is having a strong June. He's batting 323.

Two homers, 11 RBI and 848 OPS. He's 39% rostered, and he is one of Scott's sleeper hitters for this upcoming week. Would you drop someone like Jesse Winker for AJ Pollock, Scott? Let's just say a shallower league. Yeah, I mean, in a shallower league, a three outfielder league, I don't see why

there's any reason to stick it out with Winker. You might as well. I'm not rolling out him getting hot at some point and becoming relevant to that format again, but I, you know, he's not the sort of play where if you drop them,

somebody else is going to come scoop him up, you know? So I think playing the hot hand there, going with the better matchup, and for AJ Pollock, I think that makes sense. In deeper leagues, five outfieler leagues,

Robbie Grossman had a big weekend back-to-back games with a home run on Saturday and Sunday, and maybe starting to heat up. He did go 20-20 last year, 20 homers, 20 steals. He's 19% rostered. Scott has the Tigers as the third best header matchups this week. And then Jack Swinsky, which I actually debated making my oh my goodness gracious player, three homers on Sunday, a triple dong. He's now up to 11 home runs, and his barrel rate is pretty impressive so far to the season.

So overall, he doesn't hit the ball consistently hard, but when he puts it in the air, it seems like, you know, Jack Swinsky actually hits it pretty well. So what do you think about these two, Scott, in five outfielo leagues, Robbie Grossman and Swinsky? Probably a little more interested in Swinski.

This weekend, those were basically the first signs of life we've seen from Grossman all season. Right. I'm not especially interested in Swinski, but his max exit velocity is high. Like, when he gets a hold of one, He seems like he can he can do damage with it.

It's just, I don't think that's going to happen very consistently. Fair enough. All right. So we're going Swinsky over Robbie Grossman. We've already talked about John Birdie. And just let's watch and see what happens. We've said this before, but Jaron Duran has, he did lead off four games in a row prior to Sunday when he got the day off. But he's only 19% rostered.

And I still think he's a very interesting player. So in deeper leagues, let's see what happens with Jaron Dore. ran. The worryometer for these starting pitchers. We already talked about Mackenzie Gore earlier. Pablo Lopez, another subpar outing at the Mets on Friday where he gave up seven runs. Six of those were earned. He also had 18 swinging strikes on 84 pitches. So kind of a mixed bag here, but the last six starts, Scott, not great for Pablo Lopez. 5.23 ERA, 1.41 whip.

He's home against the Rockies this week, so I think that's an okay matchup, but what do you think? Moriometer on Pablo Lopez? It's still low. It's probably like two. He's been missing a lot of bats still. Even with the rough stretches, the RA is only 285.

My concerns for Lopez are mainly durability, but I don't think he's showing signs of being unhealthy. So I think he's fine. All right. So you're fine starting him this week against the Rockies? Yep. All right. Lucas G. Alito is really struggling right now.

It was a tough matchup at the Astros on Friday, where he gave up eight runs over five innings pitched his last four starts. He's got an 8.71 ERA, 1.89 whip, seven homers allowed during that span, and over four walks per nine. It is a small sample size, but this is something we talk about with Hunter Green and Josiah Gray, where if you are allowing fly balls and allowing home runs

and walking a lot of people, that is just a recipe for disaster. So, Scott, what do you think about Lucas Gialito, the Wuriometer on him? I think it's a little higher than Lopez. I'll go four with Gialito. I mean, we really haven't seen him have a great start all year. His best, he had one where he gave up one and run in seven innings,

but it struck out only five. He had one where he gave up one and run in six innings, but walked four. So, you know, not. not really like a signature, okay, this is the borderline ace I drafted kind of start from Lucas G. Alito. But the stuff looks fine. The overall strikeout rate, overall swinging strike rate, they're still high.

The X-FIP 357, that's actually lower than last year. You know, even if the X-FIP wasn't that good, I'd still probably view Lucas G.olito as a by-low at this point. I don't know that he's must start right now, but I think he will be soon enough. He's going up against the Blue Jays this week, who are sixth in Wobah against right-handed pitching. Would you pass on that matchup? Yeah, I leaned toward benching G-Lito this week.

Fair enough. And we spoke about McKenzie Gore earlier. Let's get into some starter sit for some fringier starting pitchers. Shane Paz bounces back after a rough start. He was at the Orioles, six shutout innings with seven strikeouts. weekend. The problem he's going up against the Yankees this week who are first in weighted on base average against right-handed pitching. What do you think about that matchup? I could go either way with that. I'd be more likely to start Bonds than G. Alito.

All right. Eric Lauer over his last five starts. We've talked a lot about this. 5.81 ERA 1.59 whip, just 18 strikeouts to 14 walks over 26 in a third innings pitched. Swinging strike rate way down, velocity way down. Starters sit a against the Cardinals this weekend. They're very good against lefties. I said Lauer, and I'm pretty close to calling Lauer a drop, to be honest. I don't think it's not unthinkable to drop him in shallower leagues.

Yeah, the Zoom ball. It's not really working anymore, unfortunately. Josiah Gray has allowed just two earned runs over his last four starts. And this weekend, he went six shutout with four strikeouts against the Phillies. and he is now up to 80% rostered, and he's at the Rangers this week. I believe one of your sleepers, too, right, Scott? Yes, Josiah Gray.

Yes, he is. Yes, he's actually allowed... Oh, you already said it, combined two runs in his last four stars. Yeah, so it wasn't so much the case in his weekend start, but slider usage way up, and he gets more missed bats with that, and it seems like it's helped him to keep the ball in the park more. So hopefully that continues for Josiah, Greg, because I think if he can get over that home run issue, he has pretty good potential.

Blake Snell had another rough outing on Sunday. It was at Corus Field, four and two thirds, five runs allowed for those earned, four more walks, five strikeouts. He's up against the Phillies this week, who are fifth in Wobah against lefties. What do you think, Scott? Start or sit. I would sit him, and I don't think it's unthinkable to drop. Blake Snell either. Would you go, would you do it for like a John Gray

or would it have to be someone better than that? That's right about the line. Right about the line, I think. Where do you have Blake Snell ranked? That's a good question. Let's see. I have Snell SP 56 and you have him

65th. So, yeah, I mean. I have Josiah Gray. 77th, I have John Gray 81st. I mean, that's not far off. Yeah. And, you know,

I could probably stand to move both the gray's up a little after this weekend. Yeah, and probably move Snell down a little bit further, too. Yeah, I think that's right about the line. I've been off Blake Snell. I mean, the past couple of years, I just don't really want anything to do

with him. He's very inefficient. He walks too many. It's rough. Andrew Heaney made his return. to the mound on Sunday against the Cleveland Guardians. He went five innings, two runs, seven strikeouts. He is 79% rostered. Could be out there in some shallower leagues. The problem is he's at the Braves this week, Scott,

and they crush lefties. I do think Keeney's good, though. It was weird in this start. He, you know, the first two starts, he had broken out that sweeper, the slider that sweeps more and had a lot of success with it. going basically 50-50 with the fastball.

And this first start back, Heaney went 75 fastball, 25-25 slider. And the fastball was classified as a sinker by Stackass. So I don't know. I don't know if that if he literally, if he actually was throwing a sinker all of a sudden as his primary fastball, it was harder. Then the fastball he was throwing earlier in the season, it was up in velocity. So that kind of leads me to believe it was a different pitch. And I don't know.

I haven't heard anything about what went into that for Haney, if the Dodgers have been working on that with him behind the scenes. But I trust the Dodgers, if it is something that they didn't implement with him, that it's probably for the better. but I was pretty excited about Haney to begin with. Against the Braves, I wouldn't say he's an automatic set. Yeah, I don't know, man.

The Braves are obviously hot and crushing lefties right now. I mean, if they can't make contact off him, I'm less beholden to matchups than you are, I think, in general. All right. Well, I, you know, it depends on your options, but I wouldn't be afraid to start Andrew Heaney.

Michael Cole. I just threw my mind. pen while I was talking and it scared me. Michael Kopeck made his return to the mound on Sunday. He left his previous start with a knee injury. He gave up, uh, he allowed four runs over five innings pitched at the Astros. And his velocity was down like 1.5 miles per hour. He does go up against the Orioles this week.

So it's a good matchup, but I don't know. He's kind of iffy right now, Scotty. I'd steer clear of Kopeck. I'm not convinced he's right with, with the knee injury and everything, the velocity being down. need to see signs of a turnaround. All right, fair enough. Let's get to some leftovers. A few pitching standouts, part one.

Aranola has now gone seven plus in three straight. He was at the Nationals this weekend. Eight shutout with eight strikeouts there. The ERA is down to 3.11. Julio O'Reas looks to be back on track, turned in another quality start against the Cleveland Guardians. Six innings, one unearned run with six strikeouts. Over his last six starts,

He's got a 2.10-0-E-R-A and a 13% swinging strike rate. So that sounds pretty good for Julio Reyes. Carlos Rodon back-to-back, scoreless starts after a little rough patch. He was at the Pirates, eight shutout innings with eight strikeouts there. However, fastball velocity was down 1.4 miles per hour. Scott, what do you think about these three? Nola, Julio Reyes, Carlos Rodon. I got no complaints about any of them.

Glad to see Rodon get back on track. Rias start to get back on track. Nola has been pitching like an ace again. His swinging strike rate has actually been pretty ordinary this year, but it's it's kind of been inconsistent from start to start. Some games he misses a lot of bats. Some games he doesn't. I don't think it's anything to worry about. Pitching standouts part two. Robbie Ray with his best start of the season on Friday against the Angels seven innings of one-run ball with 10 strikeouts. He had 17 swinging strikes on 102 pitches. James and Tymo. gets back on track after two subpar outings at the Blue Jays five and two third shut out with eight strikeouts and then Patrick Sandoval has put together two quality starts in a row he was at the Mariners this weekend six innings one run five strikeouts there anything on these three Robbie Ray Tyone Sandoval still don't really have faith in Tyone and his previous two starts had been pretty bad Robbie Ray we've noticed recently

he started throwing a sinker instead of the foreseamer. It's kind of like what may be happening with Andrew Heaney. And normally I think of that as a step in the wrong direction. Sinkers generally aren't big bat missers. They're geared for contact. But Robbie Ray says he did it because it's helping. He did it to keep his walks down because, you know, A could get contact earlier in the case.

count with it. So it doesn't even get to a full count. I don't know if maybe he has, he just controls it better than the four seam or two. He had 17 swinging strikes and 10 strikeouts in this one. So it didn't seem to hamper his strikeout ability, throwing it as much as he did. So hopefully it is a step in the right direction for Robbie Ray,

even if it is a little counterintuitive. And then for Sandoval, yeah, I mean, the changeups, he finally started throwing his change up a little more. and his last start got a bunch of wists with it, like he always does, and then back to only 20% in this start. So it seems like Sandoval is trying to pitch with one hand behind his back, which I guess he could do, actually. He's trying to pitch with his eyes closed or something.

He's limiting his own potential by not throwing the change up more. Yeah, I don't really get that one either with Patrick Sandoval, but alas, the results have, they've been good. They've been okay. I mean, the whip is still high. 1.32 for Patrick Sandoval. Starting pitcher standouts part three from the weekend. Sandy Alcantra at the Mets, eight innings.

It's just crazy how consistently this guy goes deep into his starts. Eight innings of two-run ball with eight strikeouts. Ian Anderson got back on track at the Cubs. Six and two-thirds shutout with six strikeouts. And then Nick Povetta just continues this impressive run that he's on. He was up against the Cardinals, seven innings of one-run ball with 10 strikeouts. his last nine starts, Nick Povetta, 1.77 ERA, 61 strikeouts, 61 endings pitched. Not really sure how he's doing it, but he's doing it.

Scott, what do you think? Sandy, Ian Anderson, Nick Povetta. So, Ian Anderson, I still feel like he should be better than he's been. Maybe this is the start of it. Probably not. Sandy Alcantara, to put a number on it, you said amazing how DP pitches into the games. he's gone more than seven innings. Not seven or more. He's gone more than seven innings in six of his last seven starts.

That is a throwback for sure. I don't know if it's going to come back to bite him down the line health-wise, but it's enjoyable right now. And then the other one. Yeah, Nick Povetta, last nine starts, the 170-R-A. less than a base runner in inning,

just looking great, but without missing the kind of bats we want to see in this. So that makes me skeptical of it. He does have a heightened fly ball rate during the stretch, 47.1%, which is pretty high and higher than usual from him. So, you know, maybe he's leaning into that as a way of getting

keeping hits down will it result in home runs more going forward I would bet yes but it hasn't so far it's been more of a help than than a hurt to Povetta obviously all right I know we talked about

him recently and we called him a sell high candidate I still feel that way about Nick Povetta just make sure you're getting something of value don't just trade him for the sake of trading him but I would look to sell high if you can hitting leftovers from the weekend. Josh Bell hit three homers across the doubleheader on Friday. Nice to see Power get back on track for him.

Hunter Renfro hit a homer three days in a row. He's now up to 13. Anthony Rizzo has three homers in his last four games, now up to 18 home runs total. Big weekend for CJ Crone. He had seven hits, three homers, including a double dong on Friday. Glaver Torres had seven hits this weekend,

including his 13th home run on Sunday. Do you think Mike Trout likes facing the Seattle Mariners? He hit five home runs in a four-game series against them, and I saw that he tied, I think it was Raphael Palmero, for the most home runs against the Mariners ever. And he's done it in like 150 less played appearances than Raphael Palmero. So Mike Trout loves hitting against the Mariners. Adolese Garcia, five more hits this weekend,

including another home run and another steal. He's now batting 253. 13 homers, 11 steals for him. George Springer, a sock and a shoe on Sunday. That's now 13 homers. Sneakily, George Springer has five steals this season. Not bad. He's on pace for double digits.

Danesby Swanson, he already has double digit steals because he stole two more on Sunday. He's betting 294. Nine homers, 11 steals. Swanson has been amazing. The call to the bullpen, some bullpen updates. The Phillies, what's going on with them? Sir Anthony Dominguez pitched in the 8th,

inning with a two-run lead on Friday. He was facing the heart of the nationals lineup. Brad Hand pitched the ninth inning for his second save. And then on Saturday, Brad Han entered with a one-run lead, gave up a hit, a walk, and a run. Tie game. Tarantany Dominguez

came in in the 10th, picked up the save. How are you approaching this Phillies bullpen right now, Scott? I mean, I think it's still Dominguez is who we want, but I don't know. Brad Hand was the guy they went to this weekend. Or at least try too.

Yeah. Did that Saturday situation change things? Maybe. I want to ignore hand if it was like a 15-team Roto League, one of those leagues

where everybody with a shot at saves is rostered. But I think of the long run, Sir Anthony Dominguez is the one you want here. For the Giants, Camillo Doval, I know we had that weird stretch. He was pitching

in the sixth inning one time, seventh inning. Well, he had two more saves this weekend on Friday and Saturday, and he looks like the guy, the closer for the Giants. For the Red Sox, on Friday, Tanner Halk entered in the ninth with a four-run lead. Two outs, runners on first and third, he allowed two hits, three runs to score. He barely escaped, but he did get his third save.

And then on Sunday, he entered the ninth inning with two outs. In a six to four game, he gave up a hit, but recorded the final out for his fourth save. 64% rostered is Tanner Hauk. I assume, I don't know, maybe not. Do you want Tanner Halk over any of the Phillies guys right now, Scott? That's a good question. I think so.

Yeah, I mean, Sir Anthony Dominguez, if he had more assurance of saves, then he'd be the guy to pick up. But Hout just looks like the Red Sox closer at this point. Yes, he does. For Tampa Bay on Saturday, Colin Poshay picked up his fourth save. I think they're still going to mix and match,

but he's been pretty good for them. so if you play in deeper leagues, he is a name there. And then on Saturday for the Mariners, Diego Castillo entered in a tie game in the 10th, and he gave up a two-run homer to Mike Trout, of course. And Diego Castillo took the loss in that one. He had been really good recently for them, but yeah, it's... Not against Trout.

Not against Trout. Trout taking revenge on those mariners for all of fish kind. Yeah, that's, yeah, makes sense. Fair enough, Scotty. To stream or not to stream for Monday, we'll start there. David Peterson up against the Marlins, Trevor Rogers at the Mets, Caleb Killian at the Pirates,

J.T. Brubaker versus the Cubs, Alex Fayetteau at the Red Sox, and Zach Davies at the Padres. Ugh. Sounds about right. Brewbaker against the Cubs might be okay. Davies has been kind of hot, but I don't really want any of them.

in a streaming situation. Zach Davies could get the Padres without Manny Machado. In fact, I would say it's very likely that that happens soon. True. Maybe he's okay, but... I think if Davies changeup is not on, it doesn't matter who he's facing. Yeah, no, that's fair.

But it's been on lately. I probably should have mentioned this earlier, but if you're still listening at this point in the podcast, there is an early game on Monday, a 1 o'clock game between the Marlins and the Mets. So make sure to set your lineups. Tuesday we've got Ryan Feltoner at the Marlinsi Contreras versus the Cubs Eric Fetty at the Orioles rich Hill versus the Tigers and Reed Detmer's versus the

Royals I lied we have one more Marco Gonzalez at the A's mm-hmm not great either uh okay Roenzzi Contreras and Marco Gonzalez are okay yeah those would be the best two Between Monday and Tuesday, those are probably the best, too. That is the right answer. I agree with you. And we're going to wrap there. For Scott, I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watch Fantasy Baseball today.

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