Fantasy Baseball Today - Slow Starters, Week 6 Sleepers & Two-Start Pitchers! (4/25 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 25, 2025

Cade Povich had his best start of the season (4:03). ... Three homers for Jordan Beck (6:38)! ... News (10:46): Cole Ragans left his start with a groin injury. ... We have a new game called 'Scotty Doesn't Know' where we look at interesting stats early on (19:47). ... Vinnie Pasquantino is off to a slow start and Jacob deGrom doesn't look like himself (39:34). ... Rhys Hoskins has picked things up (42:48). ... Shane Smith picked up his first career win (49:43). ... Let's preview Week 6 (sorry I kept saying Week 5!), looking at the schedule, two-start pitchers, and sleeper hitters (55:19). ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpens and streamers (1:03:16). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: https://sptfy.com/QiKv Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CPTowers @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ 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

Kokomo Friday and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on April 25th. I am Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White. Today on the show, we will recap Thursday's action. We've got Week 5 Sleepers, Two Star Pitchers, and a new segment, a new game called Scotty Doesn't Know, an homage to the 2024 masterpiece known as Euro Trip. Ah, yes. It was, it was, you know, I only watched. that movie, I don't know, two or three years ago on your recommendation, Frank.

I'm sorry. I will say I prefer Chris's movie and TV recommendations to years on the whole. He's had some misses too. But it was amusing to finally see that song in its native form after having it sung to me. so many times over the years. And you gotta, like, it was the first time I heard it, having not seen the movie, you gotta imagine that was pretty disarming, right? Oh yeah, yes.

A little Matt Damon action in there too. So, yeah, that's an interesting way to finally hear the song after, I'm sure years of people just saying it to you or singing it to you. So, of course, you know, that was a lot of my movie watching growing up. are these just silly, goofy, wacky, raunchy comedies. So, Euro Trip and a lot of Adam Sandler movies. At what age were you watching this raunchy comedy? Oh, I don't know.

Probably in high school. Okay, fair enough. Yeah, it's probably all right. It's like growing up, so I was hoping you weren't watching it at age 10 or something. Yeah, I mean, I think you're still growing up when you're in high school, right? Yeah, sure. Fair enough. All right.

Let's get into Players of the Night here from Thursday. All right, Scott. over to you for your player of the night. So I'm going with Cade Povich, who had his best start so far. Six and two thirds innings, one run aloud, one walk, five strikeouts at the Nationals, eight whiffs on 87 pitches, so not a particularly good whiff rate there. Five of them came on the sweeper. And that pitch looked awfully different in this start.

He threw it about twice as often as usual, 31% instead of 18%. And it was up 1.6 miles per hour. So the sweeper was much harder. He threw it much more often and clearly it was much more effective because entering this start that sweeper Pofich had just a 10% whiff rate

which is an awful whiff rate for any pitch but especially a breaking ball like that. It's like why even bother to throw it if you're going to get a 10% whiff rate? but like I said, it got five of the eight whiffs in this one. So I wasn't able to find any quotes, any explanations after the game for what that was all about for Kade Povich. But if nothing else, it's something to watch for his next start. I don't think this is caused to rush out and add him or anything.

It was a pretty good start. It wasn't like an amazing eye-popping start. But with that change, with that change to that one pitch in particular, there's a change. Povich unlocked something. So we'll see what happens next time. Yeah, I think more of a scout team guy for now. Let's see where it goes. Obviously, there's prospect pedigree here. He pitches for a good team. Cade Povich does. Saw the same things you did on the sweeper. And entering this start, really his only good pitch was the changeup.

And granted, it looks like a really, really good pitch of 42% whiff rate on that changeup. So perhaps if he has two secondary pitches that he can go to that are plus pitches, it can maybe unlock something here for Kade Povich, who's only 12% rostered. CBS has him as a two-star pitcher, Scott, but based on the list that you sent me, it doesn't seem like you have him as a two-star

pitcher next week. Either way, I don't think we want to use him, but... Yeah, let me see what that's about. Yeah, I... So, it's unclear what the Orioles are doing with their fifth rotation spot, and I think the CBS

auto fill is presuming they're just going with a four-man rotation right now. He's not scheduled to go till Tuesday in a six-game week. So I would expect just one start for Povich next week. All right. Let's go over to my player of the night. And we've got to talk about Jordan Beck, who had the best day of his young career,

four for six with a triple dong across the double header. Three home runs here on Thursday. And overall, he's got three steals as well. The numbers look much better after a three-homeward game, obviously for Jordan Beck, who's all the way up to a, 897 OPS all of a sudden, but does have a 37% strikeout rate. Was hitting the ball hard entering this game, 90.9 average exit velocity.

Solid numbers in his minor league career, Scott. There's some power. There's some speed here. Back in 2023, we're going back two years now at this point, but 25 homers, 20 steals, 867 OPS. So I think there is a little bit of upside here in some of those deeper five outfieler leagues. And obviously, you know, this was a tremendous game. the Rockies have seven games next week, three of those in Corsfield.

Any deep league interest in Jordan Beck? I don't think right now. I mean, depends how deep you're talking. Obviously, you know, lonely. He has a pulse. So there's interest in Beck there. And there is upside. Just heading into last year, MLB.com had him as a top 100 prospect,

81st on the list. And I'm sure all the other major publications at least had Beck on the verge of top 100 status. But it's been pretty awful in the majors up to this point. Let's see. He played eight games at AAA this year in between the two big league stints and went five for 35. So there wasn't much doing down there either. It was a good day, no doubt about it. I think he's got to cut down on the strikeouts drastically.

That 37% rate just isn't going to work. We'll see if the springboards Jordan Beck and DeMore. there is untapped potential here, but again, sort of like Cade Povich, not ready to act on it yet. Yeah, especially to do it on the road too. Normally we'll see a performance like this from a Rockies player in Corse Field, but did it on the road in Kansas City. So pretty impressive stuff there from Jordan Beck. They sent down Zach Veen, so I assume Beck will just get free reign here to play every day

and let's see what he can do with the Colorado Rockies. Before we hit our first break, just a reminder to download and follow our 10-minute podcast, FBT Express, wherever you listen to podcasts. And big thanks to those watching us live. Make sure to hit the like button, subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Let's take a break, and we will back right after this. Welcome back in News and Notes. Got kind of a scary one here from Cole Riggins, who left his start early on Thursday due to groin tightness. So the fantasy community, me included, held our collective breaths because the velocity was down.

We saw that he left after just three innings and like 60 pitches, whatever it was. Turns out to be a groin injury. Obviously, it could have been much worse if it was an arm injury or something like that. The velocity was down between one and two miles per hour on basically all the pitches here for Cole Reagan. Scott, did you read here, see anything pertaining to this injury? Do you think he winds up on the aisle? What do you think? So I'm seeing they've filled in the quotes now in that recap.

Because the way it works for beat writers at the game, they write kind of a skeleton article without any comments from players or coaches in it yet, and then they go get those later and add them back in. So it always takes a while for those to show up. Yeah, I mean, it does seem like it's just a groin injury. Matt Quattrara was saying, he was having trouble pushing off with that groin. And obviously we've seen, just last year,

we saw some pretty big velocity fluctuations for, for Cole Reagan's bigger than this start, which was just like one mile per hour. So I don't think there's anything, any like long-term concern here. Is it possible this puts them on the IEL? I don't see any comments about the severity of the groin issue. So, yeah, he's going to have more testing Friday.

So we got to wait to see the severity for Reagan's, could be an I.L. stent, but I don't think it's, I don't think it's going to be the sort of injury that, like, wrecks the season or anything. And what a gut punch, too, right? You see Cole Regens on the schedule against the Rockies in Kansas City. You're, you know, licking your chops, wondering how many strikeouts you're going to get from Cole Regens, and then boom, an injury marred start, and obviously not a great one, but we're rooting for the best here on Cole Regens. Kutel Marte has begun a running program, still no word, on a rehab assignment. but he is working his way back from that hamstring injury.

C.J. Abrams was activated from the IL and he was leading off for the Nationals on Thursday. Royce Lewis will begin a rehab assignment at AAA Friday. He's missed the start of the season with a left hamstring strain. Camila Duval picked up the save again on Thursday, which isn't really newsworthy, but I just wanted to talk about Bob Melvin's comments here on Ryan Walker, who he said Walker would get the safe.

chance on Friday if the situation arose. They wanted to give Walker another day off after his struggles on Wednesday night. And it was Camillo DeValle's fifth save. And Ryan Walker also has five saves. So we're evened out here, Scott. Yeah. Doval 24% roster.

Do you think that number should be higher? We're at least to the point where if you have Walker, you also have to have DeVal because it's, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, like Walker, if that save chance does come up, Friday and he nails it down with like a perfect ending two strikeouts. I mean, that that would go a long way to, I think, uh, silencing this matter.

But if he doesn't, things could change very quickly because he has been shaky two outings in a row, like really shaky and, um, and Duval. You know, a lot of it's just been bad timing. Walker keeps having, he's unavailable. he keeps being unavailable on days where they have a save chance. So it's not so much that they keep looking to get Deval's save chances. It's that it's just a timing issue. But because of that, Deval has shown that he's perfectly capable of closing game still.

And so I think that puts the pressure on Walker to perform. Tyler Stevenson began a rehab assignment at AAA on Tuesday. He is 56% rostered. Scott, who would you rather have between the returning catcher of Stevenson or Francisco Alvin? is. Man, kind of opposite ends of the spectrum. I guess in two catcher leagues, they're probably both rostered, so there's probably not much point in, you know,

distinguishing between the formats. But I was going to say, like, the deeper you have to go into the catcher pool, the fewer options that are available on the waiver wire, the more you might take the safe approach for Tyler Stevenson. But I think in most cases where they're both available, you're just going to chase the upside of Alvarez first, see if he's able to pull it together this year. And in a one-catcher league,

would you take Augustin Ramirez over both of them right now? I would. Yeah, I think there's the most upside of all there. All right, the Cardinals will evaluate Yvonne Herrera's progress and timetable for a rehab assignment when they return home on Friday. Speaking of the Cardinals, Brendan Donovan is expected to return to the lineup on Friday.

He missed two games after he had a rib pop up. out of place. Tyler O'Neill was out of the lineup due to neck soreness. It's the same injury that kept him out of the lineup for two games last week, so hopefully it doesn't linger for too much longer. The twins placed Willie Castro on the IL with a right oblique strain. Kumar Rocker was placed in the IL with a right shoulder impingement, and it sounds like Jack Leiter could be back with the Rangers soon, Scott. So if he was dropped, would you look to re-ad Jack Leiter?

Yeah, it was looking good through first couple starts. and obviously there was some enthusiasm for him this spring, Fuller Arsenal. Control remains an issue, but it was fine through two starts. He had just one walk in 10 innings. So I definitely have interest in Jack Leiter. That's a lot more upside than you're going to find

on the waiver wire at starting pitcher otherwise. I thought it would have been dropped in more leagues. Still 81% rostered is Jack Leiter, so. I would guess that's a lot lower on like, Well, we can find that out pretty quickly here. Let's see what we've got. Jack Leiter, 56% rostered on Yahoo. So yeah, let's take a shot.

Pick them up if you have a spot. The Twins option, David Festa, back to AAA on Thursday. Pablo Lopez is expected to return this weekend, and it sounds like they do not want to use a six-man rotation. Part of the reason why they haven't called up Zebby Matthews yet, but I don't know. How much more do we have to see from Chris Paddock and or Simeon Woods Richardson before, like, let's go with the youth movement, man.

Let's try it out. I mean, of course, I would prefer that as somebody who wants pitchers, wants to roster good pitchers and fantasy. But Chris Paddock's last three starts have been decent enough that I think he's going to keep getting chances for now, including one here on Thursday. They're all on the shorter side, five-inning starts. But here on Thursday,

Paddock allowed two runs and five innings did walk four. This was against the White Sox. But he got seven whiffs on the change-up. That fastball still had a lot of induced vertical break, 20 inches in this start, which I think helped the change-up to play up. And I imagine that's going to buy Paddock at least a few more turns. Not that interested in picking him up in fantasy.

Still think that's too risky, but just looking at it. just looking at it through realist lenses. I hear you. You know, sometimes when I think about teams using relievers, like their best relievers

in the biggest spot in the game, I get why they do it from like just a baseball perspective, but it stinks for fantasy and I kind of feel that same way about this twins rotation right now as well. Tony Gonselin is likely to join the Dodgers next week and in his latest rehab outing

two earned runs over five innings, pitched 20% rostered, more of a deep league play for now, Scott, but any interest in maybe adding Tony Gonsolin? I mean, as much as we've talked about how thin the waiver wire, at least in CBS Sports Leagues, how thin it is at starting pitcher. If you're looking for pitching help, I don't know that I mind picking them up. We were talking about Lucas Gialito in that context yesterday. I think I'd prefer Gonson to Gialito.

Yeah, for me at least. my big concern is that he'll just have outings that are too short to be of much use, at least to start out. But, and we've seen it be good and work deep enough to be useful for fantasy in the past. So Gonsolin is a pitcher of interest, I'd say. Obviously, great supportive guest. And last been at least, the race placed Jake Mangum on the aisle with a left groin strain.

All right, Scott, let's play a little. Scotty doesn't know Scottie doesn't know Oh Scottie doesn't know This is a work in progress So I will just preface everything with that I don't know that I've made the rules Technically fair to you Scott

But I haven't heard the rules yet Nobody has heard the rules So basically I'm only going to give you One clue as to who this player is And you have to make one guess But the point of the game Is that you don't know who it is

So you're supposed to get it wrong, Scott. And when you get it wrong, then I can play the soundbite, and then we can talk about that player. So first up, I have the lowest qualified batting average in the American League. I will give you one other clue. This player was drafted in the top 100. Okay. Lowest qualifying batting average in the American League.

It's probably going to take me too long to think of a good guess. Whoever comes to mind, you know, American League, crappy start. Jordan Alvarez, I know he's off to a bad start. That's not a bad guess, but... Scottie doesn't know. Oh, Scottie doesn't know, oh. You are wrong, Scott. It is Luis Robert, who has been a disaster.

O for four with three strikeouts here on Thursday. He is down to a 138 batting average on the season. He does have two homers. He has seven seals, a 493. OPS, striking out a lot. The quality of contact is way down. Scott, what's going on here with Luis Robert? Well, this is a player I worried about a lot coming into the year.

And in fact, I released an article toward the end of draft season, players that I just not exactly bust, but I just find myself passing over them constantly in drafts. And Robert was on it, though I did finally draft him in the podcast league just because he fell so, so far. Yeah, you know what? Max XIVa velocity is 115.8. That's higher than the last two years.

Average X velocity is down, like you said. You kind of expect that when there's a low batting average. He's been walking a lot more than last year. He's been stealing bases at a good clip. I don't think there's much to say about it other than hold. I'm not confident he's going to be fine because obviously he's stuck in this. I'm not even going to call it a AAA lineup.

It's like a double A lineup. And he never got things going last year, albeit with the injuries. But there are enough positive signs there in terms of the high end exit velocities and the improved plate discipline and the base dealing that I think you just wait it out for now. I don't have to keep starting them if you have good alternatives,

but the upside is too much to cut them loose. How do you react to a player who typically hits the ball hard when their quality of contact is down so much this early in the season, Scott? Do you just chalk that up to they're just off to a slow start? Like they're just off their game right now. They're not squaring up the ball. Maybe they're just not seeing it great. I'm sure he's playing a lot of cold weather games as well,

AL Central this time of year. So might be contributing to it as well. Player struggle for all sorts of reasons. And it's not just bad luck. why they struggle. So if he was hitting the ball with the normal exit velocities and batting 140, then, okay,

it's bad luck. But no, it hasn't been bad luck. He is legitimately struggling. But that doesn't mean it's a permanent state. It's still, I know it's exhausting to hear it over and over again, but it's still way too small of a sample to know that he's just like ruined.

Or to even really suspect that. Last question on him, buy low or heck no? If it's really low. Okay. All right. Again, that was Luis Robert. Next up, I had a career high, average exit velocity, and barrel rate entering Thursday. Even with that, I am batting 194 with two home runs and a 658 OPS.

I'll give you one more clues, Scott. Top 50 pick in drafts this season. You can't say you're not. Ordon Alvarez again. I can't, okay. Although he would meet a lot of those qualifications. Barrel rate and average eggs of velocity are both a career high. I feel like I saw somebody like this recently, but can tell me what league he's in, at least, narrowed down that way.

American League, but still not Yurton Alvarez. It's too. Uh, um, Jonathan. No, top 50 pick. It wouldn't be him. I don't know. I'm going to take too long thinking of a good. answer. I don't know. Just give us a name.

Scottie doesn't know, Frank. Scottie doesn't know. Scottie doesn't know. Oh, Scottie doesn't know. The answer we're looking for is Raphael Devers, who is ice cold once again. O for four with two strikeouts. Over his last 13 games, he's batting

091 with a 28% strikeout rate, a sub 500 OPS during that time. But even with that entered this game with a I'm sure I wrote this down somewhere, didn't I? Frankie doesn't know. I didn't write it down, but I'll pull it up now. The point is, he's hitting the crap out of the ball, Rafael Devers,

but his plate discipline, he's striking out a lot more this season, 29% strikeout rate. The average exit velocity, 95.8 miles per hour. The barrel rate 21%. So the quality of contact is not the problem here. It's the strikeouts. Yeah, but even that hasn't been a problem since March. Because remember early in the season, first five games, three strikeouts, four strikeouts, three strikeouts, three strikeouts, two strikeouts, three strikeouts. He looked totally inept. In April, just a 20% strikeout rate. And actually has nearly as many walks at strikeouts, 17 to 19. And he's hitting the crap out of ball, as you said.

And once you said his name, I remembered, yes, this was exactly the page I was looking at because I was like, the other day, I was like, oh, no, is Raphael Devers falling apart again. but then you see those exit velocities and it's like, yeah, I think he's fine. And I do think he's fine. All right. On to the next one. I lead all qualified National League starting pitchers in K minus walk rate. A 31% K minus walk rate for this starting pitcher in the National League. Leads all pitchers.

All starting pitchers. Is it Jesus Lazzardo? Scottie doesn't know. Scottie doesn't know. Same division, Scott. The answer we were looking for was McKenzie Gore, who had another strong start here on Thursday. I thought the walks were up in a couple of those starts.

No, they actually haven't been so bad. I think it's only one start with three walks this season. Everything else has been two or less. And only one walk again in this one, it was six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts for McKenzie Gore, 14 whiffs on 99 pitches, through less fastballs in this one, more breaking pitches, curves, sliders, cutters.

The Orioles also had four left-handed batters in this game against him, and I think that was on purpose because they know the reverse splits. And I think as a result, McKenzie Gore kind of combated that by going to more breaking stuff here. But overall, Scott, I mean, he has been amazing. Are you buying it? What are your thoughts on McKenzie Gore? You know what, left-hander wasn't in the lineup with Jackson Holiday,

which is a little strange given Gore's history against left-hand. handers that that's the left-hander you'd sit holiday against. But yeah, I mean, Gors continues to look great. He has better than a 40% whiff rate on three different pitches. And so, you know, there have been starts where it's the slider that's dominated like this one. And then there's where it's the curveball. There's where it's the change up. But like, there's a lot of weapons there.

And he's throwing strikes at a good enough rate to get the most out of it. I do wonder if those old Charzard qualities will rear the, their ugly head at some point. I think he was the initial Charzard, McKenzie Gore, as likely to burn you as to totally eviscerate your competition. But so far, he's, he's just been a good,

he's been a good little Charzard so far, and I'm hopeful it'll continue. I have him just outside my top 30th starting pitcher now, so I'm ranking them pretty aggressively. It really just comes down to throwing strikes, and he has done that this season, only nine walks, 2.3 walks per nine, whereas in McKenzie Gore's career, 3.7 walks per 9.

Fastball does get hit a little hard, but man, as you mentioned, those secondary pitches are really, really awesome for McKenzie Gore. Let's go over to another hitter this time. I was the biggest underachiever in X-Woba entering Thursday. I will give out some other stats here, Scott. 185 batting average, 283XBA, 293 slug, 559x slug. for this hitter, who was also a top 100, a top 100 draft pick.

Sounds like he deserves better. Is it Jordan Alvarez? It is not. Scotty doesn't know. Oh, Scotty doesn't know. It is Salvador Perez, who actually had a nice double, nice double header here. Should I just think about players who played today?

Is that the trick here? Maybe. Salvador Perez, with a nice double header, had five hits across the two games. three runs, four RBI, got the batting average all the way up to 220 after those two games. But everything that I looked at, plate discipline still looks normal, hitting the ball hard, 16% barrel rate. Expected stats are awesome. This is another name, Scott, where the buy-low window is closing on Salvador Perez at now before he catches up to these expected stats.

I mean, it might be tough to buy after a five-hit day, but of course his overall stats are still lagging. Yeah, I mean, I don't really have much to add. My observations for Salvador Perez were the same as yours. I think he's fine. Just hasn't had the best of luck so far. Next up, I had an 830 OPS or higher three of the past four years entering 2025. Currently, my OPS is under 500. And this was a player, both you and Chris, a hitter that both you and Chris like to draft in head-to-head points.

Leaves. Vinnie P, baby? That is a good guess, but... Scottie doesn't know. Oh, Scottie doesn't know, oh. It is Carlos Correa, who went 0 for three with another strikeout here. He's batting 167 on the season, one homer, 496 OPS. Scott, what's going on here with Carlos Correa?

Would you be looking to buy low on him in a points league or maybe a roto league with middle infield spots? I mean, probably. I haven't looked at him yet. So I'm pulling him up right now. And he's not hitting the ball as hard as he normally does, but the strikeout rate is better than ever. I don't know if I'm repeating things. You just said, his performance has been up and down,

even leaving the injuries out of it, which is obviously the top line item for Correa. But even leaving them out, the performance has been a little up and down in recent years. Obviously, it was great last year, made the All-Star team, and then just dealt with planter fasciitis the rest of the way. I'd give him more time. It would sort of be like he was already such a late draft pick that if you're buying low, it should be like really low. Or just wait till someone drops him.

Or just wait. Yeah, and shallow enough leagues where that's viable. I don't think he's going to be dropped in any roto leagues, for instance, with that extra middle infield spot. And in that case, yeah, okay, I'd consider buying low on him. But it would have to be pretty low because I'm not totally sure he's going to bounce back, just given his recent history. And of course, there's still the injury risk there that you don't want to, you want to discount from where he was taken on draft day, which was already pretty discounted because of that injury risk,

that injury risk. All right. Last name on the list, Scott. I am a starting pitcher who had a 12.9% swinging. strike rate last year, but this season down to just 9%. And I was the top 10 starting pitcher drafted. So you might get this one, Scott. I think I know this one.

I think it's Corbyn Burns. Scott, he does no. Scott he does no. Yeah. I got one. So let's talk about Corbyn Burns, who was cruising in his start Thursday before a messy sixth inning, which included a couple of errors. One by his own doing.

five and a third innings, three hits, three runs. One of those earned eight strikeouts, which tied a season high, but still only 10 whiffs in this game on 89 pitches. What is going on? Scott, first year in the desert, not off to a great start. Yeah, I can't really figure out what's going on

because remember for much of last year, his cutter was messed up, and he managed to succeed in spite of it because the curveball was effective enough. Cutters being, very pitch. He leads with the cutter. It's basically his fastball, but it's a cutter. But it was messed up last year, and it finally caught up to him in August. He stopped spinning it so hard in September, got the old movement back more or less,

and had a dominant final month to close out the season. So everything seemed fine. Comes in this year, it's not like the cutter has regressed to where it was last year, where he was throwing it too hard and spinning it too much and wasn't getting good movement on it. The movement characteristics, the velocity on it, it looks like it did two years ago. And same thing with the curveball. The curveball seems to be the bigger issue, frankly. It's just not getting whiffs, but I don't see a difference there on velocity or movement profile. I don't really know what's going on with Corbyn Burns.

And I'm not totally at ease with it. I'm definitely for guys with for high-end players with long track records of success, I mostly say nothing I, nothing that happens in April could steer me away from them because it's just not enough time, the entire first month, just not enough time. And we've seen enough April fakeouts over the years, particularly recent years, that we should just know better. but because it's not just the top line production for Burns,

it's that the whiffs have completely evaporated. And again, looking at the pitch characteristics, I don't really understand why. It's got me kind of worried, not to the point that I want to sell them for 50 cents on the dollar or anything like that, but if somebody was looking to buy low on Corp and Burns and their idea of buying low was 90 cents on the dollar.

I'd at least have to entertain it. Like if I was getting a, I don't know, like a Michael King and something else pretty good, you know, it's something to think about. I don't want to overreact because I still think the likeliest scenario is Burns figures out and he's fine. but there is like a just enough of a sliver there of concern that I'd at least entertain a really strong offer for him. I hear you. It's been confusing so far for Corbyn Burns.

That cutter is just absolutely getting crushed right now. So I'm hoping that we learn more. And I mean, it's kind of just like a blind faith. He's done it for so long that you kind of expect them to get back on track. But there really isn't too much in the underlying numbers that say that it's definitely going to happen. It's not like he's just been an underachiever. he legitimately is just not getting as many whiffs this season

and is also getting hit pretty hard. So some scary times really in the season for Corbyn Burns. I will point out, and I don't remember the specifics exactly, but I think it was just a couple years ago, one of his last couple years in Milwaukee, he had a start to the season like this where the whiffs were just gone. And everybody was worried about him.

I think he was the top pitch. I think it was coming off the Cy Young season. So he was the top pitcher drafted. and it got better. So, you know, I'm worried that just because I said I'd entertain a strong offer for him, people are going to panic and sell him for weak offers. Don't do that. I'd rather you hold than undersell Gordon Burns.

But I'm not totally at ease with that one. That's all I'm saying. First seven starts of 2023, 7.3K per 9 for Corbyn Burns. and the swinging strike rate. The swinging strike rate was still 11.9%. So at least you can hang your hat on that a little bit. 9% right now. I mean, come on.

It's not very good. So we'll see. There's still time for Corbyn Burns to pick it up. All right. What do you think, Scott? First time. Scotty doesn't know. Oh, I liked it.

I think we're should. I almost want to miss it. Yeah. Yeah, I got to stop. I won't give you that second clue anymore. Just one clue and that'll be that. All right. Let's take our final break when we return.

We'll go over the rest of Thursday's action. We'll preview week five. We'll do all that right after this quick commercial break. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. Two other slow starter, Scott, I wanted to quickly mention. You did bring up Vinnie Pasquantino, Vinnie Pee! Baby! Who is off to a very slow start.

He went one for eight in the doubleheader. He's betting 181, 555 OPS this season. And Jacob de Grom, who clearly I'm judging on a scale here, because he has a 333 ERA. and a 106 whip, which by itself is not, is actually good. I think you'd take that from Jacob de Grom. Probably one better, but the strikeouts are down. He just hasn't really looked like Jacob de Grom so far.

What do you think on these two? Any concerns on a Vinnie Pass Quantino or Jacob de Grom? Some mild concerns, sure. I don't think Vinny Pass Quantino is a sure thing. I don't think he has the track record to suggest he is. But I would still be holding. I've been tempted to move him behind some of those early risers. And maybe I should at this point.

Like I've already moved him behind Soderstrom, so that's not an issue. But, you know, some of the others, the Ben Rice is the Jonathan Aranda, though Aranda has basically done nothing this week. So, you know, it's not like he's the sure thing either. I would be more concerned about Vinny Pass Guantino if he was, and the strikeout rate is up, but it's still below 20%, so it's not like up to a frightening level or anything. And the exit velocity readings look pretty normal.

He's probably okay. But I don't think we have a good understanding of what the baseline Pasquantino season is to begin with because of injuries and consistency. He's still kind of a mystery box. And then the other one, DeGrom, yeah, he's not the same. He might not be the same for, a couple reasons. I mean,

coming back from Tommy John surgery in his late 30s, right? Isn't he 37? Yeah. And intentionally taking some velocity off his fastball to a point where he was still

where it was when he was still winning Sy Young's, but that was a long time ago and he may just not know how to pitch as well without that velocity. He's pitching well enough. that I don't know that worry is really the right word for it, just a little underwhelmed by DeGrom's performance so far,

and you're already taking on so much injury risk there. That might be one where, what did the overall numbers look like for DeGrom now? I imagine they're... 333-ERA 106 Witt, 8.7K per 9. So the numbers are pretty good, and he is still he still has the name value of Jacob deGrom that might be one where I do try shopping him

just because I'm not totally confident I know how his performance is going to shake out going forward and he's healthy now so he can't shop him after he's hurt but of course you'd have to trade him like he's a top 15 pitcher if you can't get that kind of return for him it's not worth it.

All right let's quickly look at some waiver wire hitters. Reese Hoskins has hit well after a slow start. His last eight games, batting 462, three homers, eight RBI, an OPS over 1,400 during that stretch. He's 58% rostered. But the dilemma that we've had, Scott,

is that first base is stacked. So I don't think we're taking him over any of the recent names that we've talked about. I think him versus a Nate Lowe, I think that's like kind of a fair range to talk about. and both have been pretty good. What do you think about those two?

Who would you rather have? Hoskins or Nate Lowe? So I am encouraged by Hoskins production recently. What I'm discouraged about is the playing time. Jake Bowers is still a pest for Hoskins. It was true last year, and I kind of assumed it was because Hoskins was still on the recovery from that torn ACL. and he was, he talked about how his knee wasn't 100% last year, and I presumed he just needed those days off.

I mean, Jake Powers hit 199 with a 662 OPS. Like, why is he taking a bats from Reese Hoskins if Hoskins is fully healthy? But he is. And he has started five of the 21 games for the Brewers. And Hoskins has sat out, I think, every single one of those games. Yeah, he hasn't made an appearance of DH yet. So if Hoskins is only going to play 80% of the. time, particularly given how deep first base is looking, it's going to be hard for him to measure up,

even if he's fine. Now, time might sort this out if Hoskins continues to perform and Jake Bowers, you know, Jake Bowers has done fine so far, but we know who Jake Bowers is and it's nothing special. So performance might dictate this moving forward. But right now, that's, I think, the main reason for hesitation with Hoskins. Would you take him or Nate Lo? Hoskins, I think the upsides. higher. And we'll find out soon. He's in the sleeper hitters for this week. Oh, right.

Mike Yistremski continues his nice star two for four with a walk and his fourth home run. He is betting 282 with a 414 on base percentage. Scott, I know you like the plate discipline. 15 walks to 16 strikeouts, really good stuff here for Mike Yistremski, who is up to 62% rostered. That's pretty high.

What do you think? I'm skeptical because he's 34 and other than the COVID short in 2020 season has never remounted to much in fantasy. But he is walking a lot. His ground ball rate is microscopic. It's 29%. 36% last year, which is already low for a ground ball rate. But he's managed to lower it even more, has Mike Yistrimski. I think it's a hot start.

but it's a hot start you could take advantage of if you need a hot hand. And Hunter Goodman added another home run, his fourth of the season. The batting average is down to 237. He's still playing a lot, but quality of contact doesn't look great here. Still think he's totally fine in two catcher leagues, but in one catch league's got Hunter Goodman 56% rostered. Would you rank him behind Augustin Ramirez, Tyler Stevenson, Francisco Alvarez, the names we mentioned earlier?

Yeah, behind all three, but he would probably be, Goodman would probably be the very next name after, I forget who I have lower Stevenson or Alvarez. All right, let's take a look at some deeper league names here. We already spoke about. Jordan Beck had the three home run game. Drew Waters is off to a nice start here, only 12 games with the Royals,

but hitting 275, one homer, one double, one triple, one steel, 751 OPS, long ago had some prospect. pedigree and Tim Tawa has actually been pretty good here with the D-backs one for three with a walk and his fourth home run so far hitting 250 an OPS over a thousand he has a second base in outfield eligibility very deep league stuff here Scott like 15 team road over deeper but any interest in a Tim Tawa or drew waters not drew waters I was done with him before he was ever first promoted the strikeouts were just too high at every level. And they remain high now. I don't think there's, I don't think there's anything for him to build on. Tim Tawa, though, is pretty interesting. He first got called up and he was splitting at bats with, um, uh, I can't remember the guy's name. Garrett Hampson. Yeah, Garrett Hampson. And, uh, what wasn't doing well right out of the gate. So I, I kind of thought it was, I kind of thought we were done with Tim Tawa. Three home runs at his last five games.

all of which he started, so Hampson seems to be out of the picture now with the way Tawa's performed. The walk and strikeout rates are both great for Tim Tawa. He has a 291 expected batting average and a 570 expected slug. He's making quality contact too. Great play to spend quality contact.

Has he been stealing any bases? He has two steals. A couple of them, yeah. It'll, like obviously, he could tell Marte is the second basement when he gets back, and he might only be a week or so from returning. But Tim Tawa has played basically every position

but pitcher and catcher. So they could keep him around as a super utility guy, and I could see him emerging as somebody halfway useful. It will probably take another injury to get him full-time at bats. And of course, there's still Jordan Lawler lurking. He's been incredible at AAA. I don't know what's going to happen with him. I think the clearest path for Lawler at this point is

Eugenio Suarez slumping his way out of a starting job, which seems like we're away from that happening, as bad as it's been recently. But anyway, back to Tim Tawa. I like him. I hope they can figure out a way to get him playing time, and I think the versatility helps with that. Yeah, he does have, hmm, it looks like

a hundred career games in center field in the minors. So like Centerfield has kind of been this revolving door for the debacks and they're using Alec Thomas. He's been okay. They sent Jake McCarthy down. So I wonder if maybe Tim Tawa can kind of carve out a role there in center field, you know, once Cite is back. It might be a possibility. Alec Thomas brings so much defensive value. And I'm not sure, just because Tim Tawa has played it before, I'm not sure he's like a good center fielder.

So I don't know. It'd be nice for fantasy if that happened. Yeah. Let's take a look at some Waverwire pitchers and Shane Smith picked up his first win How about that? Even on the White Sox Five shutout innings, seven strikeouts, 12 whiffs on 82 pitches.

He's 29% rostered home against the Brewers next week. We spoke about Kate Povich already. Tobias Myers was just okay in his season debut at the Giants, four innings, two runs, four walks to two strikeouts. Looked pretty similar to last year through some more fastballs and sliders and sneak peek.

I know he's on your sleeper pitcher list, Scott. What about Shane Smith? You know, 29% rostered for a spark, that feels really low. Yeah, it does. I mean, particularly since he pitched well, he is on the White Sox. And I'm not sure,

I'm not sure he's actually as good as he's pitched. Like, I want to believe for Seth Smith, or Shane Smith, I always want to call him Seth Smith. I want to believe for Shane Smith because I know a lot of smart pitcher analysis, analysts, they're not called analysis, they're called analysts. I know a lot of smart ones, a lot of good ones, seem to believe in Shane Smith.

And in particular, they like the change-up. And, you know, every pitch has a low batting average against so far. But there's, you know, the quality of contact's pretty high. He's given up hard contact. Neutral batted ball profile. So it's not like he's a ground ball guy or a fly ball guy. or a fly ball guy who might limit hits. And the strikeouts apart from this start

haven't really been that high for Shane Smith. So I'm not sure you add that all on top of him pitching for the White Sox and generally being limited to how deep he works. And I don't know. I'm treating him as matchups type for now. I don't know that he needs to be widely rostered. Though what did you say, 29%

that does seem low for CBS Sports Leagues. Yeah. I mean, even in points leagues, you know, if you want to use them as a spark, as a relief pitcher, you know, some other names have ever emerged at that position as well. But, you know, the wins are going to be tough to come by, but he's pitched well, Shane Smith. I think I know the answer, Scott, but I'll ask anyway. Tyler Anderson, Michael Lorenzen, good starts on Thursday. Do we either matter? I don't think so. his change up has been great, better than a 40% whiff rate, although that's kind of normal for him, and usually it doesn't amount too much over the course of the season. He's already a fly ball guy.

It's been an extreme fly ball rate so far this year over 60%. So you can kind of understand 11 hits in 22 and 2 thirds innings over his last four starts. You haven't up that many fly balls. A lot of outs are going to result from that, but also a lot of home runs. And I think in the long run, those are going to bring Tyler Anderson.

down. But I don't know that he's in an entirely different category from Andrew Heaney. Not that I love Andrew Heaney, but I know, I know there's some enthusiasm for him right now. All right. And last two names. Do we hold on these two Landon Roup? Someone I know you like quite a bit. Scott had a rough outing. Three and two thirds. Five runs allowed. Four of those earned. More walks and strikeouts here. I saw some pretty rough. defense behind him in this start. He clearly wasn't good, but the defense wasn't good either. And Chase Dolander, a rough one at Kansas City, four and two thirds, five runs allowed, two walks, three strikeouts. It's just, if you can't get an okay start on the road against Kansas City,

it's just when can you really use Chase Dolander? I don't know. Yeah, I haven't seen enough from Dolander to continue to roster him in standard size leagues, especially given kind of the foundational drawbacks of him pitching for the Rockies. Even this spring, we weren't seeing great results from Dallander, so I'm just not sure he's there yet. Good talent and all of that. But I think that roster spot is better served some other way. And Rup is a bad star for Rup.

And not a lot of silver linings here because what makes him so interesting is that ridiculous whiff rate on his curveball, which he throws his primary pitch. And it had a 58% whiff rate coming in. Insane. How are you not going to be a strikeout guy if you're doing that with your primary pitch? Well, it just didn't miss that many bats in this start. It had only a 25% whiff rate in this particular start. And maybe 58% was unsustainable.

Even if it's like 40% is primary pitch. I think Rup is going to be worth. while in the long run. So I want to be dropping him, but obviously we're still trying to figure out what makes him tick. He's kind of new to us in fantasy. I will point out it was 54 degrees in San Francisco. So maybe that affected his grip on the pitch or whatever.

Although in San Francisco is kind of just cold like that. Yeah. So if so, he might need to get used to it. All right, but we're a hold on Lander Rupes, Scott? Yeah, I mean, ideally. Yeah, I think there are better starts ahead, but this one was bad. No doubt about it. All right, let's wrap up with our week five preview,

taking a look at the schedule for next week. Two teams with five games, the Padres and Mariners, 18 teams with six games next week, and 10 teams with seven games. The Reds, Guardians, Rockies, Tigers, twins, Mets, athletics, Cardinals, Rangers, and Nationals. As for the Rockies, they have seven games. Three of those are in Cores Field versus the Braves,

and four are on the road in San Francisco. Start or sit these two-star pitchers. Renel Blanco, up and down the season, I would say mostly down, but the matchups look pretty good. It's the Tigers and White Sox next week. Yeah, I was tempted to put him in the must-start category. His last start, his most recent start was good,

and those matchups are really good. I know the Tigers technically rank pretty high in run scored, but I see the personnel. They're not that good of an offense. So I consider them a good matchup. Blanco is at the very top of the advisable in most cases tier. Tanner Bybee enters a season as a must-star pitcher, but it's been mostly down for him as well,

home against the twins at the Blue Jays next week. Yeah, I think just because he's Tanner Bybee, you're probably going to start him in most cases, but it's not an automatic. Tosh Bradley, another kind of up and down, but, you know, quality starts have been there. He's home against the Royals and at the Yankees next week. I realize I have him in the advisable start category, but he has two. He's an extreme flyball pitcher, a guy who's vulnerable to home runs.

And both of his matchups this week are basically at Yankee Stadium, one, the true Yankee Stadium, one, Swamp Runner Field. I don't know that. I'm kind of rethinking my ranking here of Tage Bradley, because that seems pretty dangerous. But, you know, there is upside with the strikeout ability and all. Bout in France is home against the Red Sox and Guardians. We're probably going to start him. Okay.

Brady Singer, I think you have this one as he might not be a two-star pitcher. It's kind of in flux right now. He's home against the Cardinals and Nationals. So two in Great American Ballpark. Yeah, it's a seven-game week for the Reds, and he's scheduled for Tuesday, Sunday. So I'm trying to play it a little more cautiously with those. And the matchups aren't bad there for Singer, but outside of points leagues, I wouldn't risk it. What about Eduardo Rodriguez? He's at the Mets and at the Phillies.

Tough matchups, kind of an enigma of a pitcher. so probably not. Tomoyuki Sugano, home against the Yankees and Royals. Yeah, I don't think there's enough there. I'd pass on Sugano. I'm just going to ask for these next two because I'm sure someone out there is going to at least think about it.

Chase Dolander gets the Braves and at the Giants. No. And Will Warren at the Orioles, home against the Rays? No. Who are some two-star pitchers that you are looking to add and stream? These names look like they're all under 70,

percent rostered. Yeah, Rieselston, surprisingly, 68%. His last start was his best, but his last two starts were his two best. And the matchups aren't bad at Houston at the Angels. I think he's a pretty easy choice to start. I have him ranked ahead of Tanner, B, and Taj Bradley and Baldrenfrances for the week.

Griffin Canning has been kind of a mixed bag, but there's been enough good in there that I could see using him with two starts at Washington, at St. Louis. Those matchups aren't bad. Andrew Haney, here he is. We talked about how I'd be forced to do this. Matchups aren't great, Cubs and Padres,

but he has pitched well. I don't really buy it. But if you want streamer recommendations, sometimes that's going to include pitchers I don't really buy. And then Luis Ortiz. He's gotten a good amount of whiffs, especially recently. He gets the twins and the Blue Jays. That's probably just a points.

league play though. All right. What about over to the one-start streamers? It looks like these are all under 80% roster. Yes, they are. We got Jose Soriano against the Tigers. Again, I'm calling that a good matchup still. The last four or five spots in their lineup are pretty brutal.

Hayden West Nesky also against the Tigers. Tobias Myers looked decent enough in his return here Thursday. I don't think we've talked about him yet. But he was a short outing, but he basically looked like the same guys last year. And he gets the white socks. That's the main reason I'm recommending Tobias Myers. Oh, I missed JP Sears is a two-start option at Texas and at Miami. That one's not bad.

Two-start option there. Justin Verlander gets the Rockies. He just had his best start. I think he's starting to get over the weekend. So maybe his performance in that will eliminate him from this list. But I like that he's going against the Rockies in San Francisco. That seems like a good matchup for Verlander. And finally, Chad Patrick pitched pretty well.

for the Brewers, only 11% rostered. He is at the White Sox. Let's slide over to the hitters for next week and the best matchups, the Twins, Giants, Mets, Reds, and Brewers, the worst hitter matchups, White Sox, D-Backs, Padres, Angels, and Rays. At least, as if you needed another reason

to bench your White Sox hitters next week. The worst hitter matchups. How about that? Luis Robert. Whichever ones exist to bench. It's pretty much just Robert. Yeah, Luis Robert. And I don't know.

that you'd bench him in a five outfielder league. Probably not. Yep. But so I, so yeah, listing White Sox as the, that's the worst hitting matchup. What does it really do for anybody? I don't know. But they do have the worst hitting matchups. Anyway, some streamable hitters for this week.

Luke Keishel, let's get him in there. Number one with the twins having the very best hitter matchups. He's walked a ton. He's on a record stolen base pace. That'll have to slow down. But the point is he's doing good things. He has a good matchup. and he's widely available.

Luke Kishol. You mentioned the Brewers have the fifth best matchups, like Sal Freelich, like Reese Hoskins, who he talked about earlier. I think they're both good plays. The Reds have the fourth best matchups. They're one of the teams with seven games,

and they're all at home. So in that Homer-friendly ballpark, I think that's great news for Austin Hayes, T.J. Friedel and Noel V. Marte, who's looked really good of late. Hopefully he keeps playing every day, because I have him as a sleeper hitter for this upcoming week. Matt Mervis of the Marlins.

Their matchups are okay, but there's only one left-hander on the schedule. That's the main reason I like Mervis. He only starts against Ritey's, and he's hit for power so far. Scary strikeout rate, but yeah, we're just talking about sleeper hitters here, so he doesn't have to be perfect.

And Giants, you mentioned they have the second best-hitter matchups, Mike Yistremski, of course just homered again here on Thursday, Wilmer Flores, their everyday DH, who has been good so far. A couple of catchers who I didn't fit in the top 10 just because I don't really like to put catchers there. Catcher's not a position that I think of as being streamed very often.

But I do like Augustine Ramirez and Sean Murphy for this week. The Braves, by the way, are the team visiting Colorado this week. And that's also why I have Alex Verdugo here to round out the list. Only 8% rostered. He's their lead-off man most days. Maybe not against lefties, but there's only one of those on the schedule. And again, they have that series at Cores Field this week. All right, let's wrap up with some leftovers.

And on the pitching side, Brian Wu had a quality start at the Red Sox. Six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts with 16 whiffs on 91 pitches. He has a quality start in four out of five outings. so far this season, that is Brian Wu, and Garrett Crochet struggled to throw strikes against the Mariners here. Five innings, four runs, five walks, nine strikeouts, still had the 17 whiffs,

and 110 pitches, man. The Red Sox are really pushing Garry Crochet so far this season. They locked him up. He is their ace, and they are treating him like it so far. They're treating him like they haven't locked them up. Yeah, that's true.

Anything that stands out from these two, Brian Wu, Gary Crochet, up against each other. Wu was great. Good to see from him. And Crochet, I think was fine. He missed a lot of bats. He struggled with control. He said after the game that he just needs to get back into attack mode.

He was being a little too passive. So I think that's all that happened to crochet here. I think there was something else to point out with Wu. Double check my notes here. This pitch selection was slightly different, but I don't think anything that notable. He was good. And then on the hitter side,

Alex Bregman continues his strong start, two for three with his fifth home run. He's betting 320 with a 9.56 O'Neill Cruz did it again. Two for five with his seventh homer. He has five home runs in his last eight games. And Zach Netto, three for four, with his second home run of the season. He's looked pretty good so far.

Returned recently, but so far so good. Yeah, the home run was hit 110 miles per. hour, 109.7 technically. Nice. Which makes it, ooh, not quite. I thought maybe it'd be the hardest hit ball. He actually hit 10011 last year. But it was really hard contact is the point.

And that's good to see, particularly given the nature of his injury and the lengthy recovery. The double was 94.4. That's pretty good. Yeah. Everything looks good for Zach Netto, who, by the way, performed well on his rehab assignment. So I think we should treat him as if he's Zach Netto.

And the call to the bullpen for the Mariners, Andres Munoz walked one. He struck out two for his ninth save. For the Orioles, Felix Bautista allowed a hit, but struck out one for his third save. For the Royals in game one, Carlos Estevez, bounced back for his sixth save of the season. For the Angels, Kenley Jansen gave up a hit.

Shruck out one for his sixth save. For the raise, Pete Fairbanks, walked one, picked up his fourth save, and for the Rangers, Luke Jackson got the ninth inning with a one-run lead, gave up two runs, only one was earned, so some kind of defense involved there behind him, took his first blown save, second loss of the season there for Luke Jackson. Also blew the win for Jacob de Grom, unfortunately.

To stream or not to stream on Friday, we have Hayden Wesnesty at the Royals, Chad Patrick at the Cardinals, Matthew Liberator home against the Brewers, Andrew Abbott at the Rockies, and Luis Severino home against the White Sox. Severino feels like the safest one here. And I guess Hayden West Nesky

with that Royals matchup, probably the second best. I am interested in Patrick, Liberator, and Abbott. I just don't think I'm interested enough to start them yet. And that feels too risky. All right, on Saturday, There were not many names here, Scott. I am sorry.

Quinn Priester at the Cardinals, Ben Brown, home against the Phillies. Jeffrey Springs, home against the White Sox. Michael Waka, home against the Astros. I mean, Springer against the White Sox jumps out, but every time we've recommended him because of a good matchup, I'm sorry, did I call him Springer Springs, Jeffrey Springs. Every time we've recommended him with a good matchup, it hasn't gone well, including just the White Sox.

a couple turns ago. It wasn't such a great start. But who else are you going to recommend Waka? That might go okay. I think in the long run, Waka is going to be a quality start machine, but he hasn't been that so far. Yeah, I'm there with you. I think I'd probably go Springs, backup, pre-ser,

but really do not have much confidence in Saturday at all. And then on Sunday, we have Clark Schmidt up against the Blue Jays, Brian Bezos at the Guardians, Jose Cantana at the Cardinals, Eric Fetty home against the Brewers, Osvaldo Bito facing the White Sox, but he got destroyed his last time out. He did.

Zach Lattel at the Padres, Jameson, home against the Phillies. Wish Tyone wasn't facing the Phillies. Yeah. I don't think I could... He guys look pretty good, but tough match. Yeah. I guess maybe Cantana at the Cardinals is the best

choice here. I know Eric Fetty's been fine so far, but I don't really buy it. I don't know. Bito still seems okay to me. Like the fly ball, give it the fly ball, take it the way, and it took it the way in his last start four home runs against the Rangers. But he faced the White Sox two turns ago and one run a run in two thirds innings. So I'm not eager to start Bito, but if you're desperate for a streamer, I still think he's probably okay. All right, we're going to wrap for Scott. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning into fantasy baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five-star rating on Apple

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