Fantasy Baseball Today - Spring Winners & Losers; Late-Round Category Contributors (3/30 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: March 30, 2021

Link to Scott's winners and losers article: https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/news/fantasy-baseball-25-spring-training-winners-and-losers-including-shohei-ohtani-josh-rojas-logan-webb/ After a looooong offseason, we're finally done with all of our drafts! How did the H2H Points podcast listener draft go? ... Who was the biggest winner from spring training (5:19)? ... How about the biggest loser (10:05)? ... We have lots of news items (13:29), including Dustin May being named the fifth starter for the Dodgers, Sixto Sanchez starting in the Marlins alternate site, plus optimism for Carlos Carrasco and Mike Soroka. ... Who are the rest of the winners from spring training (20:56)? Do we have any concern for Josh Bell's playing time? How good can Domingo German be? ... Why are we so excited about Logan Webb and Carlos Rodon (34:52)? ... Pay attention to Akil Baddoo and Josh Fuentes in deeper leagues (37:16). ... Who are the rest of the losers from spring training (42:48)? ... We wrap up with the best late-round category contributors in the standard 5x5 (48:23)! ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday 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. I drive, center field, and swing. This is magnificent. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, Chris, and Adam.

Who are the biggest winners and losers from spring training? Let's find out. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today. Frank Stample joined by Scott White. No Chris Towers on the show today. Scott, we made it, man. No more drafts left. And as much as I love drafting,

I just, I overdid it this year, man. Like, I've been drafting since November. We've been mock drafting forever, it feels like. But, wow, just a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. How do you like your podcast points league team, Scott? Oh, Frank. My podcast points league team, I finally did what I want. wanted to do all along in the podcast points league.

And it's a good feeling. It's a good feeling. Oh, how exactly did it break down? I believe, I believe seven of my first eight picks were hitters. I believe. Pitchers. Pitchers, sorry. Seven of my first eight picks were pitchers.

Yes. That's right. I know the second hitter I drafted was Max Muncie. The first was Boba Chet in round four. was Bobauchette in round five. So I finally did what I wanted to do all along, and it's a good feeling. You know, I said when I had a points league,

I was coming around to the idea that in a points league, I would just keep drafting pitchers until all the good ones are gone. I basically did that, except when the value was just too outrageous to pass up like Bichette in round five. I knew shortstop might be a difficult position to fill if I did it on the cheap, and I felt lucky to get him at that point. So I feel really good about it. I feel like this is a way to go in a points league that's this shallow 12 teams,

only nine hitter spots to fill. I mean, there were outfielders like Dylan Carlson and Ian Hap going at the very end of the draft. And, you know, I've already got a lot of good hitters queued up that didn't even get drafted. So, and I'm sure there's going to be plenty over the course of six months that we didn't even see coming. and I'll be living it up with my mountain of pitching, which, so I've gotten off to, like when this league first started, 2010, this league started.

We've been doing the podcast listeners league for over 10 years now. I won four of the first six years, but now I'm in a five-year drought because the listeners got too smart. They kept taking all the guys I wanted in the drafts. I'd be frustrated every year. And I was worried they'd all take pitchers and I'd, you know,

I'd end up having to settle for like Zach Plyzac is my number three in a 12 team points league but it didn't happen. My pitchers were Bieber in the first round Luis Castillo in the second. Walker Bueller surprisingly in the third.

It was between him I ate era Woodruff. I went ahead and went with Bueller. Not sure about that, but... That's two drafts in a row now, Scott. You wound up with Walker Bueller. I know both of the podcast leagues I got Bueller. So they kind of, the listeners kind of still back me

into a corner with that. But, yeah, Bueller is my number three. My number four is... Kyle Hendricks. Kyle Hendricks. My number five, Dylan Bundy. My number six, Jesus Lazzardo, number seven. Mike Soroka.

I also have Framber Valdez waiting to go. And I also have Logan Webb, I took with my second to last pick. Yeah, more on Logan Webb a little bit later on. Of course, today, we're not just going to talk about our podcast league teams, but we are going to talk about the biggest winners and losers from spring training. We have a bunch of news to get you up to date with. Dustin May is the Dodgers fifth starter. We have a lot more there as well.

We have category contributors, late-round targets, specifically for roto or head-to-head categories leagues. And we got some team named Tuesday, so we'll hit on all of those. Adam and I shared a team in this podcast league, and I don't love it, so I'm just going to go out and blame Adam for that because, like, why not?

We had the eighth overall pick, didn't want to reach on a starting pitcher there. We wound up taking Ronald de Kuna. My first share of Ronald Kunae, this entire draft season, so I'm actually pretty pleased. We had the option of Acuna or Fernando Tatis, and I don't have either one.

So I was happy to take one of those guys because honestly, they're awesome. And yeah, I still think they're going to be really good in the Points League format. But man, it was really, really hoping, Scott, for one of Nola or Gialito to make it back to us in the second round, and they both went with the two picks

right before us in that second round. So we pulled Jack Flourty up the board and we wind up with a pitching staff of Flaherty, Tyler Glass now, Charlie Morton, Aaron Savale, Corey Klobber. So it's not the best. We have some upside on the bench. Brady Singer, Jordan Montgomery, Marcus Strowman, stashing Noah's center guard. So maybe we get him back late May, early June, to see what happens there.

But who knows? Maybe we're even trade candidates for each other at some point this season, Scott, because I have a feeling that I might need some pitching at some point. Let's get into those biggest winners and losers from spring training, Scott, and you wrote an article about this. include that article in our podcast description so that you can follow along with everything that we're talking about. But who is among all the winners, Scott, your biggest winner from spring training? Well, it might be kind of a boring answer because it's not like he's somebody you can

go pick up off the waiver wire. But I think the biggest winner is Shohei Okani. He's the guy who I moved up, who I became, my opinion changed the most heading into spring training and coming out of spring training where I basically didn't want to touch him. I thought he was shooting himself in the foot potentially by continuing with this two-way thing. And we weren't going to see the best of either, much less of both. But he was just absurd. He was the best hitter of spring training, 571 with five home runs, two steals, and only

28 at bats. The pitching stats aren't as good, but like he looked a lot better than he did. last year hitting triple digits on the radar gun. That splitter was diving all over the place. Definitely looks like he can get back to doing on the mound what he did in 2018 before needing Tommy John surgery. And, you know, the biggest thing of all is it sounds like Joe Madden is interested in playing Otani a lot more than the angels ever have before.

They had such strict rules for when they could have him in the lineup, not the day he pitched, not the day before, not the day after. He only end up in the lineup half the time. So no matter how good he was at the play, you didn't get to enjoy the full benefit of it, at least not in, at least not in weekly leagues, maybe in daily where you could move him in and out of the lineup. But that took a lot of attentiveness, obviously.

With that, I'm not so sure he's not most valuable as a hitter. If it plays out the way we hoped, I think twice the spring he actually was in the lineup on the day he pitched. I'm not sure if that's going to continue into the regular. regular season, but that that I think is a pretty strong indicator that Madden's serious about playing him, batting him a lot. So yeah, at least in Roto leagues, I imagine I'm going to end up using Otani more as a hitter, maybe in points league more as a pitcher, but it's nice to have the other version as a backup in case one of them goes wrong, you know? Yeah, for sure. And we're

recording this on Monday night, and Otani is actually pitching as we are recording against the Los Angeles Dodgers and batting second in the lineup. in the same game. So that's exactly what Scott's talking about. So far tonight, he's 0 for 1. But this spring, 16 for 29, five home runs and two steals for Shohei Otani. One of those home runs came off of Shane Bieber,

the reigning American League's Sall Young Award winner, straightaway center field over the batters eyes. So Otani is just... Yeah, they were bombs. They weren't... These weren't Cactus League home runs. They were... A few of them were lefty-on-left-office field.

Like, the guy is just legitimately talented. I will say so far his pitching line against the Dodgers four walks in an inning in a third. That's the biggest bugaboo for Otani as the pitcher is that sometimes, I mean, he has so much movement on his pitches that he can't command them. And he winds up walking a lot of guys, which it hamperes his ability to go deep into start. So we'll pay attention there. I personally think that he's going to be more valuable as a hitter than a pitcher, but it is pretty awesome to have that luxury.

Scott, what if I told you the ADP for Otani back in February? in NFBC drafts was 216, right? Oh, gosh. Where would you guess that it is over the last two weeks? For show, Haltony. He's been shooting up draft boards. I know in all our mocks and all our real drafts,

he goes really high, like inside the top 100. So I'll guess NFBC, you'd think he'd be even higher. I'll guess he's inside the top 100. No, he's not. Not that high, but still, I mean, the fact that he's moved up,

It's 143 over the past two weeks, but basically... Seems like a steal, man. From February, I mean, this guy's moved up 70 picks, so for sure. One of the biggest winners from spring training, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I took him in my main event. Did you get him in your main event too? Not in main event, no. I have the hitter version in Tout Wars.

I have... I think I have him the dual version in some other big league. You know what? I think it is main event, actually. I think I do have been a main event. Let's do it. Let's do it. Very excited about Shohei Otani.

He'll actually be pitching on Sunday night baseball the first weekend of the season. So that'll be a lot of fun to watch him in prime time there. All right, Scott, biggest winner. Now we've got to get your biggest loser from spring training. What do you think in there? Lhuzaher. I think, and it kind of became official today. I think the biggest loser is probably David Price.

David Price, we all presumed he would have a spot in the Dodgers rotation because he's been a long time since he's been kind of in that swing man role. I'm not sure he ever really was in the swing man roll. He originally came up as a reliever for the race to help with their World Series run in 2007. But pretty much a full-time starter in all the years since then. And that's not how he's beginning this year for the Dodgers. They announced actually that Dustin May is going to have the fifth spot in the rotation to begin the season.

I imagine to preserve all of their innings. They're going to kind of cycle through that spot and probably spell Julio Reyes at times. Who knows what kind of injuries will be suffered by the top three in the Dodgers rotation. So I kind of envision May, Price, and Gonsolin all making between 15 to 20 starts, maybe 12 to 20 starts.

And I want to be so quick to drop Price or Gonsolin, especially Gonselin in a 5-by-5 league especially where they can still be of some value for ratios since I do imagine they're going to be making starts at some point but right now if you could only choose one between the three Dust amaze obviously the one you want and I think the most dropable of the three is probably Price.

Yeah, what a fall from Grace, right? He was pretty good a couple of years back with the Boston Red Sox. He's yet to pitch with the Dodgers because David Price opted out last season due to COVID concerns, but he's back, and he will start the season in the bullpen for the Los Angeles Dodgers. And speaking of those Dodgers, Scott, your boy,

Corey Seeger, Red Hot. In Fuego, just hit his eighth home run of the spring off of Shohei Otani. So Otani getting rocked around a little bit by the Dodgers right now in his final spring training tune-up. Before we get to the rest of the news and notes from Monday, just want to remind everyone about fantasy baseball today in five. This is our other podcast that we do.

It's just five minutes. It's basically a SparkNotes version of this podcast. So a lot of what we're going to talk about in season is going to pertain to what's going on in the, for the games that night. So winners and losers, waiver wire, wariometer, buy low, sell high, pitchers to stream for the next day for the next week, so on and so forth. And we're going to do a lot of that on fantasy baseball today and five as well. So you can listen to it every weekday, Monday through Friday with Scott or Chris and

myself hitting those really big news items. and that'll be in your feed in the morning, again, every weekday. So make sure you download and follow wherever you listen to this podcast. Again, that is Fantasy Baseball today in five. Spark notes, huh? Spark notes. It's been a while, man. You know what spark notes there, opposed to Cliff Notes.

Were you a big spark notes guy back in high school or college? I played the fifth on that, Frank. I don't, played the fifth. I don't think any of your old teachers are watching, are they? Maybe. Probably not. Probably not. I am, I will,

well not gladly say, but I will openly say, yeah, I frequented both websites very often when I was back in high school. All right, so some news and notes we already spoke about a little bit.

Dustin May will be the Dodgers fifth starter. I don't know if there's anything else to add here. Scott said David Price is the most dropable of the three between Price, Gonsolin and Dustin May. The ADP for Dustin May is 204, according to Fantasy Pros,

Scott. So, I mean, with this news, would you push him ahead of some names just ahead of him? Andrew Heaney, Marcus Stroman. Would you rather have Dustin May than some of those pitchers? Heaney, yeah. I think it'll be an upset if Heaney is a steady contributor for you in fantasy. Stroman should be a steady contributor, though. You know, the whip will be kind of high. Certainly in a points league, I'd take Stroman over May. Probably the better cut. Probably the better format for both is a points league because neither's a big strikeout guy. But I'll slot May in between those two. Stromen 1, May 2, Heaney 3.

Let's look at the Marlins rotation. This was pretty big news from Monday as well. Sixto Sanchez was optioned to the Marlins' alternate training site. And hear me out here, Scott. But I think this might actually be a good thing for Sixtho Sanchez's fantasy value because he got a late start to spring training due to COVID protocols. And the Marlins don't need a fifth starter until the middle of April, right? So if Sixthos Sanchez, who we knew was going to be on an

inning's limit anyway, 150, 160, whatever it's going to be this year, if he comes up by the middle, maybe even the late April, he might not have any other workload concerns throughout the rest of the season. They might just let him go. Like, we won't have to worry about it in September, whatever it might be. They might just let Sixtho Sanchez pitch the rest of the season. So I'm kind of looking at this as a glass half full rather than glass half empty with Sixtho Sanchez.

What do you think? Yeah, I think that's the right way to look at it. some people are going to be like, why am I bothering with this bum and they're going to cut him loose for? And, you know, he might just sit in that league for two weeks or maybe, maybe a smart participant who listens to this podcast will go pick them up right away when that person drops him. Because I think you're right. I mean, they have four pitchers confirmed at their rotation right now. They just don't need a fifth starter until, let's see, I'm looking at their schedule for. for the first 11 days. They won't need a fifth starter through those first 11 days, but I imagine at some point in April, they're going to need that spot filled.

And like you said, they might not need to shut down or pull back on Sanchez again. So it stinks devoting a bench spot to a guy you know you're not going to use for a couple weeks, but it's two weeks out of 27. So keep that in mind.

Have patience. please, with Sixo Sanchez. If anyone saw this and they're freaking out, they drop them, they panic, drop them. Go ahead and add Sixo Sanchez to your fantasy team. Both Trent Grisham and Osse Nola will begin the season on the IL for the San Diego Padres. So we are expecting Tommy Fam, likely to man center field with jerks and pro far in left. Although Jorge Mateo is having a monster spring.

I don't know if they're actually going to give him playing time, but man, he's looked really good for the Padres in spring. Victor Caratini likely to start at Catcher for the Padres the first couple of weeks of the season. George Springer, of course, now with the Toronto Blue Jays. His status for opening day remains in question as he's dealing with a grade two oblique strain and we're getting close here, Springer,

so we should know within the next couple of days whether or not he's going to start on the IL. I'm starting to think that he actually is going to start on the IL again. That is George Springer. Scott, Mike Soroka, your boy, you just drafted him. Of course, from your hometown, Atlanta Braves. He is... Ninth round.

In the points league. He is returning from a ruptured Achilles and he will throw an inning or two in Tuesday's spring training debut. So we know that he's not going to start the season in the Braves rotation, but he could be someone that joins them in mid to late April. I actually got him last week. 15 team roto salary cap draft. I got him for four bucks.

So especially in a league that deep, I think I got him as my fifth or sixth starting pitcher. Wait a few weeks. I have no problem. We get them for less than five bucks. Definitely about that when it comes to Mike Soroka. Another Mike. Yeah.

By the way, I think we talked earlier when Kyle Wright got sent down that, oh, it looks like Bryce Wilson's the fifth starter. That is not confirmed. He's not going to be on the roster to begin the season. And the Braves are actually, they've already said they're going bullpen game the first time that fifth turn comes up. So, you know, obviously that's not a long-term plan. I'm thinking they're thinking, you know, it could be really soon.

Like, we might see Mike Soroka start a game even before we see Sixtho Sanchez start a game. Also, I don't know if this is your nose, but pretty favorable report for Carlos Carrasco today, too, where, you know, it looked like the initial timetable for the torn hamstring was going to be six to eight weeks. He's already throwing. He's already throwing, and they're really excited about his progress. So he might not miss as much time as original. expected either. I was trying to grab him as my eighth starter. It was a tough call between him and Soroka for number seven. But I went Syroka since it seems like it's going to be sooner.

Oh man, now that's a great note too. I probably should have picked him up for this team Fratum Fraser. That's what we called ourselves. But Carrasco went in round 10 of this draft that we just did just after Corey Kluber and just ahead of James Paxton. So if you're wondering where Carrasco went. You might want to pull him off the board a little bit more if you're feeling optimistic about this timeline. Mike Yistremski, he was hit by a pitch on his hand on Monday. X-rays were negative, so thank goodness there.

A points league specialist for sure or for anyone who plays in OBP leagues. Again, that's Mikey Yistramski with the San Francisco Giants. Aaron Judd is dealing with a non-COVID related illness and expects to be ready for opening day. Dansby Swanson was scratched from Monday's lineup with a tight calf. You hate to see it, especially with just two days to go before the sea.

season starts, so hopefully we get Danes v. Swanson back on the field. Jose LeClerc will undergo Tommy John surgery for the Texas Rangers, and it was reported last week that he was dealing with this elbow injury, and that's how we find ourselves adding the likes of Ian Kennedy and Matt Bush in deeper leagues for potential saves in the Rangers bullpen. Matt Barnes, speaking of saves, was clear to rejoin the Red Sox after his COVID test revealed a false positive. So we spoke about Adam Ottavino a little bit on yesterday's pod, but it seems like Matt Barnes is still the favorite for saves for the Red Sox. Time will tell there if they use that at Avino or not,

but I think it's going to be Barnes, at least to start. Rugnett O'Dore, old friend. Not really. I guess he was a friend for someone, but he will not make the Rangers opening day roster. And last but not least, David Bednar, who? He's a reliever for the pirates, and he has earned a spot in their bullpen and has been absolutely lights out this spring training. So I have speculated.

I think he could work his way into the mix for saves, but it's really not a great situation. The pirates are terrible, and it could be a committee approach. It could be Bednar, Richard Rodriguez. Kyle Crick has looked pretty good in the spring as well. So we'll see what happens there. But Bednar, he's looked really good thus far.

Who else has looked really good in the spring, Scott? You brought up Shohei Otani as your biggest winner, and Josh Bell. you also have is one of your winners here and he is leading the nationals this spring, well among their qualified hitters. Brian Zimmerman actually has a higher OPS. But Josh Bell, 1328 OPS this spring,

18 for 47, five doubles, six homers. The only problem here is I mentioned a name. Ryan Zimmerman has also been amazing. He's 13 for 27 with six home runs. Josh Bell's a winner. I agree with you. We needed to see him bounce back after last year. terrible season. But are you worried at all about Ryan Zimmerman eating into his playing time? A little. I mean, that's the only negative thing you could say about Josh Bell is that

Ryan Zimmerman's been even better. I think the worst that'll come of that is maybe Bell will sit against tougher lefties. He has not been as good against lefties in his career. And I don't think it'll be all lefties. I think it'll just be tougher lefties. And I think overall, overwhelmingly positive for Bell, I've been much more. enthusiastic about taking him as my starting first basement I did in this draft we did today. Yeah, I mean, he hit eight home runs last year and just look completely lost at the plate. He has six this spring and has been one of the most productive hitters of all spring training. Doesn't necessarily mean that hitting coach Kevin Long figured out what was wrong with this swing,

but they said they had a plan when they acquired him. and it's certainly easier to make the case when he's doing this than it would be if he was struggling still. Yeah, and I'm happy you brought up the name Kevin Long, too, because he has been regarded as one of the better hitting coaches in the MLB, and he's kind of helped some guys turn their career to rounds. So, yeah, they were talking about it being a mechanical adjustment or a timing issue for Josh Bell.

So so far, it looks like it's been working out for him. Hopefully, Ryan Zimmerman doesn't eat into that playing time too much. We actually got an email from Utah Tang earlier today, and he had a trade question regarding Josh Bell. He said, would you guys trade Fran Mill Reyes or Alex Verdugo away for Josh Bell? Did not say what league format, Scott. So would you do either of those, Reyes or Verdugo for Josh Bell? I do both. I do both. Which one would you rather give?

Honestly, I know you guys are big on Verdugo, but I don't... Unless batting average is a major concern for you, I'd get rid of him before I gave up friend mill. Or unless you felt like you had a crunch at that utility spot, since that's the only place Reyes is eligible. He tends to go later than Verdugo for that reason. But, you know, just looking at what I expect the stats to be, I'd rather have Reyes than Verdugo.

But I'd give up either for Bell. Another winner from Spring Training, Scott. We talk about this guy seemingly every day, but Andrew Vaughn, let's mention the name. one of the top prospects for the Chicago White Sox, former third overall pickback in 2019, and he is flying up the rankings. He's up to 120th for Chris, 154th for Scott as of now.

And it seems like he's going to be the starting left fielder, I guess, with Eloy Jimenez going down and expected to miss, you know, the next five or six months. So Vaughn, you know, with having not just first base eligibility, outfield eligibility, It seems like he's going to be on the opening day roster. So for all those reasons, he is one of your big winners got. Yeah, and apparently they did try him in left field.

I think it was at the alternate training site last year. So it wasn't, they didn't just throw them out there out of nowhere, which makes me feel a little better. Yeah, Chris has gone all in. Both of the podcast league drafts. I think he took them in round nine and both. One was a 16 team or so. Maybe even been earlier than round nine.

I don't know. But he pushed all his chips in on Vaughn here, the final week. He took him in round 12. in Monday night's draft. Okay, that was that. And for a 16 teamer, that's actually not so bad. But he took him in round 9 tonight, right? In a 12 teamer?

So he did it in round 12 in the 12 team league on Monday, and it might have been round 9 in the 16 team league. Okay. Yeah, all right, sorry. Yeah, but the point is earlier than I was even thinking about Vaughn. He had to have him. And that's, that's fine. I think he took Vaughn before I took Bell.

No, that might not. Never mind. I don't think that's true. But he took Vaughn pretty early. Yes, he did. He took him just before Yohan Moncada. He took him just before Gio Orchella, Alec Baum, Dominic Smith. So those were some of the hitters going in the same range as Vaughn. I did want to point out, speaking of Andrew Vaughn gaining outfield eligibility,

someone emailed in earlier today and asked about which hitters are going to gain position eligibility early in the season. and it seems like to me, the biggest names, Eugenio Suarez, will likely gain shortstop eligibility. Mike Mustakis, third base. Jonathan India will gain second base. So a lot of moving parts with the Reds.

Kest and Hero will become first base eligible. Marcus Semyon will gain second base eligibility. Jorge Polanco, second base eligibility as well. Ahmed Rosario will gain outfield eligibility. And potentially J.D. Martinez and Jorge Salare gaining outfield eligibility early in the season. As of now, they're only U-Till only on the CBS site. Scott, I know you didn't have Victor Robles as one of your biggest winners in the spring,

but I just wanted to give him some love because he's been hitting lead off every game, and obviously they want to make that a thing. And he's done nothing but impressed at this point. So there was a really good feature written in The Athletic about how he was trying to hit for too much power last year and trying to be a player that he just frankly isn't. So he's responded. 16 for 54 this spring, six doubles. three homers, five steals for Victor Robles.

And if he can keep that up throughout the course of the season and hit leadoff, just easy, easy profit for Victor Robles this season for anyone who's drafted him thus far. How about Domingo Hormand? He made his last start on Monday and his final spring line for the Yankees. 13 innings pitch, two earned runs, 17 strikeouts to just one walk. The ADP is up to 225 the last two weeks for Domingo Hermann. Scott, what do you think about that price tag? Is that a right?

I think he went in like the eighth round. round of this draft that we did on Monday, which is just a little too early. Somebody had to have them. The sixth round. The sixth round. Oh, my goodness. Wait, hold on a second.

Did you say, oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness gracious. That's Domingo Hermann in the sixth round for you. Yeah. No, I mean, that's one of those picks where, no matter how excited you are about a player, like, you see that and you're just like, all right.

Take them. but yeah now I'm excited about Domingo Hermann I I liked him as a pitcher before the suspension he was an 18 game winner

in 2019 and the main thing I liked about him is all three of his pitches the fastball the change up the curve ball they all had like a quality swinging strike rate each of them

and you just don't see that very often none was like an elite pitch on its own, but they were all good for swings and misses. And he's gotten plenty of swings and misses this spring. Certainly looks like he hasn't lost anything in his time away. And obviously has all the benefits of the Yankees supporting cast. It's a pretty big deal. So I like Domingo Hermann is like, you know,

in a league where I don't go seven starting pitchers with my first nine picks, I'm thinking Herman could be like my number seven, my number eight, something like that. That's what I like him. And I was watching the Yankee game all, and they announced the rotation for the season. You know, James and Tyone's going to start a little bit further in. But Domingo Hormon is going to be the third starter for this Yankees team. So, yeah, especially if you're playing just the first weekend,

he will actually get a start on Sunday because the Yankees only play three games this upcoming weekend. Josh Rojas with the Arizona Diamondbacks, he leads all hitters in plate appearances so far the spring. 70 thus far. I think it's actually at bat. 70 at bats, 24 hits with four home runs. And back in 2019, in the minor leagues, Josh Rojas hit 332 with 23 home runs and 33 steals. So I'm not saying he's going to come close to those numbers,

but Scott, there is serious power speed potential for Rojas who expects to be the starting second basement for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Yeah, my understanding is his inclusion, because he was in the Astros minor league system for most of those numbers. and his inclusion in the Zach Grinky deal

was what kind of made it happen. So Diamondbacks have been excited about Josh Rojas for a while. Did nothing his first two years of, you know, brief appearances in 2019 and 2020, but basically did nothing. Those numbers are high popping, though. And, you know, you recognize that it's the minor leagues and all of that.

And I think it was some hitter-friendly place. but he, you know, we were talking about when Cole Calhoun went down with an injury early on, that maybe it was an opportunity for Dalton Varsho to win its spot in the Diamondbacks outfield. But instead, it was Josh Rojas coming in and bumping Cotel Marte to the outfield, it seems like. Rojas himself going to be starting at second base. And we'll see. I mean, he made some changes to his swing. He made some changes to, like, his diet and his sleeping habits, too.

like really seemed committed to making the most of this baseball opportunity after kind of just rolling with the punches those first two years. He's looked really good this spring, so we'll see. Again, that is Josh Rojas with the Arizona Diamondbacks. Let's talk about another potential starting second baseman in the National League. Jonathan India, who has played pretty much third base his entire minor league career. And the Reds just ignored the short. stop position this offseason. Now they find themselves throwing

A. E. E. E. E. E. U. Hainio Suarez back at shortstop. He hasn't played there since I believe it was 2018, putting Mike Mustakis back at third base. And Jonathan India has been playing second base. Scott, do you expect him to remain there and actually start the season with the Reds on opening day? And if so, what are you expecting from him? Yeah, that's my expectation. I don't know that it would have made sense for them to commit to Suarez at shortstop. Otherwise, I suppose they could play the service time game with India, but it would probably be a pretty

naked example of it because we'd see India like pretty much as early for him to still secure that extra year of control. I like India a lot. I think he's I think he probably profiles better in real life or in like a Sim League, maybe even

like a points league. than he would as a roto player because I don't expect like a huge number of home runs or a huge number of steals. I think the main thing India does well is get on base. But could he break through as a 20 to 25 homer guy? I think it's possible.

Could he add 10 to 15 steals? I think it's possible. I think that's all within the realm of possibility. And obviously if he meets that kind of that best case scenario, he's going to be somebody you start in all leagues. So, you know, mostly I'm thinking deeper leagues that where I'm investing in India right now, but keeping an eye on him in all formats

because an interesting player. Well, I'm just looking at Otani's line because we were updating people earlier on it. Final line against the Dodgers, two and a third, four hits, seven earned five walks, three strikeouts, three home runs allowed for Shohei Otani. So awesome as a hitter,

and he's got, look, he's got talent as a pitcher. There's no, God, he throws nearly 100 miles per hour. He has all this movement and stuff, but, man, command can still be an issue for one, Shohei Otani. So, again, I'm just going to go back to it. I think more upside as a hitter than as a pitcher for Otani. Well, yeah, I mean, obviously you're, I don't want to write him off as a hitter,

especially based on spring training, you know, because this is, you don't, yeah. Gosh, why do I keep saying the reverse of what I mean? Yeah, as a pit, I don't want to write. write him off as a pitcher. And like, it's just, it's important to keep it in mind. We make,

we talk a lot about spring statistics because we need something to talk about. And certainly for players on the fringes, it makes sense. But like, I've done this long enough to know that somebody looks like he's totally stinking up the place in spring.

And then when the regular season started, it's just like it flips like a switch. And of course, nobody remembers the bad spring anymore. When he goes out, there and dominates. I understand Otani, the pitcher has questions to answer. So, you know, we're paying close attention to the spring stats. But like, don't be so quick to write him off as a pitcher just because this last start went so poorly. The stuff has looked really, really good.

Yeah, for sure. Yeah. And I didn't, I didn't mean to come off that way for him. But yeah, you're right. I mean, specifically for someone like Chris Paddock or Zach Plissac, who have just been not so great in the spring. I hope they could just flip that switch. But, yeah, O'Tani, he's got some rust to shake off here because obviously has not pitched in quite a while. And of course, we just put him under a microscope because he is a very polarizing player. Scott, let's pair these two starting pitchers together. And someone that I continuously see you drafting is Logan Webb, who has been named the Giants third starting pitcher in their rotation so far in the spring.

17 innings pitch, one earned run, 22 strikeouts. And Carlos Rodon, someone I'm pretty excited about is the fifth starter for the White Sox. and 13 and 2 3rd so far this spring, two earned runs. But the biggest, the biggest takeaway for Rodon, 16 strikeouts to one walk. That is just phenomenal to see for Rodon. So Scott, tell me about both Webb and Rodon

and which one do you like more? I like the both, obviously. I have them in my spring training winners here. But of all the pitchers who've kind of come on late and are likely available, on the waiver wire in leagues where I was drafting early on. The one I'm putting in the biggest bid for is Logan Webb. I've actually always kind of liked Logan Webb,

which I know sounds funny because he's like, it's such a nothing name. I imagine most people listening. I haven't even heard of Logan Webb before, but a little bit we've seen of him in the majors. The strikeouts were decent for somebody who got ground balls at the rate he did. But what's really put him over,

the top this spring is apparently the giant the giants hammered home to him this offseason. You know, you really need to work on your secondary stuff, locating your secondary stuff. And he shows up after working on that and his change up is just playing like this elite pitch. Kurt Casali, who's a catcher in Giants camp, not sure if he's going to be the backup catcher on at the start of the year. But, you know, formerly with the Reds, he's caught Louise Castillo before he compared it. he's compared that Logan Webb's change up this spring to Luis Castillo's change up. And Luis Castillo's change up is like the gold standard of changeups. So, you know, maybe he's talking up his teammate.

Maybe he's exaggerating a little bit. But he's not the only one who's been raving about Webb's change up. And obviously, you see the results this spring, kind of back it up. Yep. Again, Logan Webb with the Giants and Carlos Rodon with the Chicago White Sox for those in deeper leagues. Or even if you play in a points league and you're looking for an end of your bench kind of upside starting pitcher. I think either one of those fit that mold. It's got a few names in deeper leagues. Let's stick with it here.

Akeel Badoo. I hope I'm saying his name correctly. But outfielder for the Detroit Tigers has been mashing the spring. Five home runs, four steals, and he will be in the starting outfield for the Detroit Tigers. And you didn't have this gentleman on your list, but I looked him up earlier, and I think you put a few bids on him yesterday. You mentioned Josh Fuentes, with the Colorado of Rockies. He's 19 for 57 this spring, eight doubles, only one home run, but it seems like he made start at third base for the Rockies. And I mean, anyone who has a starting job in Coorsfield is kind of interesting. So what do you think about those two in just deeper leagues? Yeah. Yeah, I would say

in deeper leagues, Fuentes makes sense. I really don't think he profiles as a starter even at Coorsfield. I don't think he's going to be a big power source for a corner infielder, even at horse field, but you know, the BABIP inflation that happens there could make him useful for the time he's a starter.

But Badoo I'm more interested in and, you know, who knows what, where it goes from here, but he was the most productive hitter for the Tigers, one of the most productive hitters in all of spring training.

Power, speed, and he showed a lot on base ability in the miners, lower miners, granted, but that, That's continued to. 10 walks in his 47 plate appearance.

It's a 468 on base percentage compared to just 12 strikeouts. So, like, he looked really good all around. 22 years old. He's a Rule 5 pick from the twins. So he's only played in the lower minors and wasn't that good there. But, you know, a year away from the game, who knows what kind of strides he's made? He's obviously looked really good this spring. And I don't think it's clear he's going to be an everyday player.

They've only promised him a roster spot, but they say he's going to start some, and Tigers lineup, I mean, if Badoot continues to perform like he has this spring, then obviously that's an easy path to with Bats. So I've mostly just been picking him up in like 15 Team 5 outfieler leagues, but and not planning on starting him right away because I want to see what the playing time looks like. I want to see how this goes. But definitely some intriguing upside there.

Yeah, again, the names, Akeel Badoo of the Detroit Tigers. he's an outfielder, Josh Fuentes, could be the starting third basement for the Colorado Rockies. Before we get some losers, just want to thank everybody again who is watching us live on YouTube. Just a reminder to subscribe to our YouTube channel

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All right, so we already spoke about one Los Angeles Dodger being a loser. And that was David Price, Will Smith Scott. Catcher there. There was a report last week that he will hopefully start 90 games for the Los Angeles Dodgers. And, you know, maybe it's just coach speak. Maybe there's nothing to it at all. And maybe we look back on this report and say it was absolutely foolish to believe it. But as of now, given everything we know about the Dodgers, I think we kind of do have to believe it.

Well, it certainly seems like people are because he went from being at times the number two catcher drafted. I had him seventh all along because I had concerns about his playing time, but it seems like that's what everybody else has moved him down to as well. You know, you rarely see him go, at least in the drafts, I've. done since this was announced. I don't think I've seen him go as a top five catcher, much less top two. I don't know that I believe it's going to be as few as 90 starts for Will Smith myself. I saw,

that was a quote from Dave Roberts. I saw a different quote when I was reading into it more where he said 110. But either way, Will Smith is going to sit more often than the average starting catcher. And the Dodgers history would suggest that. Anyway, that's why I was a skeptic all along. So I think he's probably being drafted more appropriately now, but obviously the balloon has lost some helium.

The balloon has lost some helium for one. Will Smith, the catcher for the Dodgers, not the closer for the Atlanta Braves. Let's look at the last two weeks, ADP over at the NFBC, and Will Smith is still going and pick 105 as the third catcher off the board over the past two weeks.

Of course, the NFB does shoot for upside a little bit more, and we know Will Smith has a ton of that. Another player who has upside, someone we were pretty excited about Scott, was Alex Kirillov prospect for the Minnesota Twins, but he will start the season at their alternate site. He will not begin with the Twins on opening day. So are you expecting him to,

is this like a mid-April, late-April kind of thing, or are we just kind of playing it by ear based on how he performs at the alternate site? I think he's going to be up sooner than not. I think they wouldn't have not. The twins wouldn't have non-tendered. I suspect they wouldn't have non-tendered Eddie Rosario if they didn't think Alex Kirillov was ready.

Remember, they called Kirillov up for their playoff series last year, put him in the lineup for one of those games. So they think he's ready. He just happened to go four for 31 this spring, and how do you take that guy with you? You know, that's, it's always better to debut the guy when he's on a role, I feel like. So I think that's what they're waiting for.

for Kirloff. They want to see him, obviously in minor leagues aren't going to start for the first month. So it's going to be, I guess, alternate training site.

But I think it's kind of up to Kirloff when we see Kirloff. He is, at last check, and I haven't added since the last two drafts, both of the podcast league drafts. Obviously,

I didn't take Kirloff in those. I took Bieber as my first rounder in both of those. So I don't know, maybe Bieber is the player I most invested. in. But what I was going to say is, I think Kirillov is the single player I'm most invested in. And it's a lot of deeper leagues where I'm not inclined to drop him. But obviously, I have a lot riding on this. And I hope it ends up being sooner than later.

It's worth noting, again, we don't want to put too much stock into what's happening in the spring. But Alex Kiralov, while he was with the twins, just four for 31. One home run, that Homer came off of a lefty. I remember watching that live. but winds up batting just 129 with a 440 OPS in the spring for Alex. Kirolov. A few other names you have is losers. Scott, AJ Puck, who had an opportunity to be in the Oakland A starting rotation. It doesn't sound like that will be the case. I don't know that they've named Dalton Jeffries their fifth starter, but it seems like it's trending in that way. And the other name is Haseung Kim, the Korean player who came over,

Korean infielder slash outfielder. They're going to try to work them into the outfield, who was awesome in Korea. there was some hype around him, but now there's playing time issues there. So between Puck and Haseung Kim, what do you worry about? He hasn't gotten an extra base hit yet,

which it's not uncommon when players from Japan or Korea are coming over and, you know, pitchers tend to throw harder. The ball's a little bigger. A slow adjustment period. It's not uncommon, but like the Padres have so many alternatives. that I just don't see how

with him doing so little this spring, I just don't see how they're going to be able to justify putting him in the lineup that much is really my main concern. Now, for what it's worth, they're still saying they're confident and he still has a spot, they still plan to play him. We'll see. But, yeah, I have not wanted anything,

any part of Kim really based on the way his spring is gone. And again, a lot of it has to do with the alternatives they have in San Diego. Again, you can find all of Scott's winners and losers on the site. That's CBSports.com slash fantasy slash baseball. And the link to that article will be in the podcast description, as well as our YouTube description. Some late round category contributors,

I just wanted to run through some of these. And I posted an article a few months back. It's got to be now. Just highlighting players going outside the top 200, who can help you in each category. And some of them overlap into other categories as well. But, you know, if you are doing a roto or a headshead category draft and you've noticed,

okay, you know, I'm light on steals or I'm light on power later on in the draft and you're trying to find players that specifically fit those needs, then these are some of the guys that you can look at in your draft. So again, being drafted outside the top 280p, it's got to mean, if there's anyone that you want to talk about,

just feel free to jump in or attack, go, yell at me, stop me, do whatever you want. But specifically for batting average, I had David Fletcher, Ryan Mel Tapia, who might lead off for the Colorado Rockies, and Jorge Polanco. Those three names make sense for batting average, Scott?

They do make sense. I think those are three good picks. All right, all right. So far we're good. Home runs and RBI. These are players that can, I mean, typically these are tied together every time you hit a home run.

You do get a run scored in the RBI. as well. Christian Walker for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Austin Riley with the Braves, C.J. Crone with the Colorado Rockies. Jock Peterson now with the Cubs. Bobby Dalbeck with the Red Sox, who has just had a ton of home runs this spring. And Paul DeYoung with the St. Louis Cardinals expected to bat in the middle of their order. Fourth or fifth, he's going to be somewhere there for Paul DeYoung. Those are, if you need home runs in RBI. Run scored. Andrew McCutche. Wait, wait, I want to add a couple names to that list. My first is. I want to add a couple names to that list. favorite, very late target,

you know, probably a five outfield of the league. It would have to be for home runs as Hunter Renfro. I think he hits the ball in the air a lot. He pulls it a lot. And, you know, right-hand hitter at Fenway Park. I think that's a good combination. I think he's has a shot of being like a 40 homer guy if they play him enough. And Justin Upton, who's looked much healthier.

He's at a very productive spring after a couple of injury-plagued years and actually came on strong over the final 20. games last year as well. I don't think Justin Upton's done and I would consider him a good late target for home runs. Justin Upton this spring 14 for 41 with four home runs and four doubles for the and two stolen bases Los Angeles Angels. Yeah, two steals as well. I mean, he's going to hit in the middle presumably of a pretty strong lineup assuming everyone stays healthy with Otani and Trout, Rendon. I'd say strong lineup, yeah. And dude, actually fun fact, like, Justin Upton, when I first started getting into fantasy,

the first year I played was 2009, and that was my senior year of high school, so I'm showing my age a little bit here. That was just break out year. That was basically, yeah, so like I was breaking into fantasy the same year that Justin Upton was breaking out. And so it was just like really awesome to watch that happen. Same thing with McCutcheon. He was like coming up right around that time.

And yeah, so those two I've been closely tied together with my entire fantasy career. I've just loved watching them, you know, obviously mature now, but go from like late round picks to first rounders and then obviously now in the twilights of their career. So your fantasy playing career, like as a player, right? Somebody who plays fantasy. That was beginning right about the same time my fantasy writing career. It began.

It's pretty crazy, right? Yeah, that's funny. Run scored. Speaking of the devil, Andrew McCutcheon. He's not actually the devil, he's awesome. I love him. He is probably going to lead off for the Philadelphia Phillies, and obviously still has a very high walk rate, high OBP.

He's going to score a lot of runs in that Phillies lineup, assuming that he stays healthy. Colton Wong, someone who I believe can also give you 15 to 20 steals, potentially leading off for the Milwaukee Brewers. He's done so a lot so far the spring. Isaiah Kiner Folefa. No, he's not playing catcher anymore. Unless you play on Yahoo, he still has catcher eligibility.

there. But he is going to play, I believe it's shortstop, shortstop for the Texas Rangers. And he is leading off for them so far this spring. Another one that can give you 15 to 20 steals potentially there. Brandon Nimmo leading off for the Mets. He's going to score a lot of runs. High OBP guy. Caesar Hernandez, very boring. He's a very boring player. I realize that. But he's going to lead off for the Cleveland Indians, most likely. Was that runs you were doing just now? Not not steals, right? Yep, that was runs. Okay. Steels, speaking of which, already mentioned Colton Wong and Kynar Folefa.

Nick Senzel, I think, also going to give you some home runs. Maybe he gives you 15 to 20 of each home runs in steals. Leoti Tavaris, the Texas Rangers, they love to run. They are a lot like the San Diego Potters. Well, the Padres are a lot like the Rangers because Jace Tingler actually came from the Rangers coaching staff, but the Rangers lead all of baseball the past two seasons in stolen bases. So if Leotie Tavaris gets a shot to play every day, he is going.

going to run. Miles Straw with the Houston Astros and Christian Pache of the Atlanta Braves, who I think could steal maybe 15 bases for, again, the Atlanta Braves. On the pitch, you mentioned Miles Straw, right? Yep. Manuel Margo of the race. Margo is a good one to that list. Yep. You said Laudy Tavares, right? Sorry, I was having trouble keeping up. Yep, Leotty Tevers. John Bertie. Jum. Bertie is a good one, too. Yep. He doesn't have a job all to himself, but he'll play all over and like he will run whenever he's in the lineup.

His stolen base pace his stolen base rate, I guess is really high. Especially once Noah Cindergarde returns to Scott, I think there was one game where he stole like four bases. It was when Noah Cindergarde was on the mound. Cindergarde is so bad at holding people on. It's embarrassing.

Oh, and I would add Sam Hilliard to the mix. He has a job for the Rockies is going to start at least two thirds of the time I would bet and he didn't hit well this spring, but he did run. He did run and has a history of doing that in the minors. Awesome. Yeah, Sam Hilliard. If you play in five outfieler leagues, he's someone I've been, just in deeper formats, taking on my bench.

Just, I mean, anyone has a starting job with the Rockies in deeper leagues. You always want to have them on your radar. On the pitching side. Michael Taylor, he was one of my big risers of spring training too, and I think still has 20-20 potential rework to swing this year, cut down on the leg kick, should look much more composed at the plate for the Royals.

And the Royals are another team that also lets their guys run. Whitmeryfield and Adelbert Tomonesy, of course, have run a ton over the past couple of years. On the pitching side, Scott, it's really hard to predict wins,

of course, but we know that they are correlated with going deep into starts. And obviously on teams that have good run support, it helps and having a strong bullpen. But these were some names. They're very boring names,

but they are veteran-type pitchers who I believe are going to go pretty deep into their starts consistently. Adam Wainwright, Brad Keller and Mike Minor with the Royals, Zach Davies with the Cubs, and Taiwan Walker with the New York Mets. For ERA and WIP, and I think some of these swingman pitchers

that Chris has been talking about, I think, you know, these are some of the players that we're looking at here. Tony Gonsolin, David Price, could potentially, you know, if they have multi-enning relief appearances or even if they're used as a, a follower for someone like Dustin May, four innings of each,

whatever it might be. Gonsalind and Price. Alex Reyes with the St. Louis Cardinals. Freddie Peralta, who will be in the starting rotation, at least for the beginning of the season for the Milwaukee Brewers. T.J. Anton,

who will start in the bullpen for the Cincinnati Reds. He could be used for multiple innings. Yeah, I feel like this exercise is harder to do with starting pitchers because it's kind of just like, late round breakout candidates. Sure.

Probably going to break out across. the board, you know. Yep. So, you know, I would put Logan Webb in there as an ERA whip sleeper, Dalton Jeffreys, especially given his minor league walk rate. Brady Singer is someone that I've really gravitated towards this spring training, Scott. And I keep drafting him everywhere. So I really like what I've seen. And they've talked up him using his changeup more. I know last year down the stretch, he, uh, his final four starts, he was really good exclusively throwing his fastball and slider. So if he has a third pitch that he could lean on it in that change up, then, hopefully that can help someone like Brady Singer.

Two other relievers I wanted to mention that might be used in this swing man kind of role for the White Sox, Michael Kopeck and Garrett Crochet. Strikeouts, is a lot like what Scott was just saying about the other pitchers where if they're going to break out, they're likely going to be good at strikeouts, but specifically Domingo Hermann, Robbie Ray, Yusay, Cacucci, Trevor Rogers,

who we haven't talked much about. And Griffin Canning. So those were five that I, singled out in terms of strikeouts there. And saves. I mean, good luck, Scott. I mean, this is the end of your draft. The late round sleepers are taking

for saves anyway. It's Greg Holland, Matt Barnes, Daniel Bard, Joachim Soria, Anthony Bass, Tanner Scott potentially with the Orioles, Ian Kennedy or Matt Bush, whoever winds up being the closer for the Rangers. Whoever's a late round potential save source, Emilio Pagan,

another name there. David Bedner. We'll see, David Bednar. Mendeleg Bedner. And there's, yeah, might be Kyle Crick, but I don't think the Pirates are going to win many games anyway. Yeah, so I wanted to mention Trevor Rogers

had an awesome spring, and they're prioritizing him in their rotation. I would think they'd want to preserve his innings, too. But he's got the fourth spot. Well, we assume Sixth-O-Sangez has the fifth spot. 29 strikeouts and 19 innings this spring for Trevor Rogers. the fastball and change up both showed a high whiff rate last year and the seven starts we saw him make.

He was kind of hitable at times, kind of vulnerable to the long ball, and it wasn't like he was an elite prospect coming up, but if he figures out how to optimize those two pitches off of each other and maybe mixes in a decent breaker as well, I could see Trevor Rogers really just blubes. slowing away expectations. In a way you more often see among fringe pitcher prospects

than you do among fringe hitter prospects. And the thing he's probably been best at so far in his minor league career has been trycouts. 235 in 209 innings pitched for Trevor Rogers. Again, he is in the Marlins rotation. Let's wrap up with a little team name Tuesday, and these come from Brendan, whose sole goal is to get a reaction from you, Scott.

So. Okay. Yeah. I'm hard. I'm difficult to impress, which is why Adam didn't like my reaction to seeing saving private Ryan for the first time the other day. I was just like, that's good. I don't know that he needs to see it again.

Man, you're not going to let that go. Scott didn't know like that. Well, he got so offended and I didn't mean it as an, like I can understand why he took offense to that reaction, but I didn't mean it as offense. Like, I acknowledged it was good. It's very long. Life is short. You know, some parts were hard to sit through.

The, like, the stabbing scene, you know, that's going to stick with me forever. Just how slowly that played out. But, you know, it was a good movie. Of course, it was a good movie. Scott. What do you want me to say? I haven't even seen it. Look out for that stabbing scene.

All right. Well, spoiler alert. I mean, I'm only, I don't know how many years, 20, 25 years late. A lot of people die in it. So, you know. Sure. Spoiler alert. All right.

So these team name Tuesdays are from Brendan. First one. Vaughn me now our May apparel. Oh, I'm sorry. I couldn't follow it. How many names were in there? Vaughn Me Now Our May Apparel. So that looks like Andrew Vaughn and Dustin May.

Oh, just two? Yeah, that's from... It seems like you're going way out of your way for that. It's like a religious Christmas song, right? What is that? I forgot that is. Um, Arc the Hark the Herald.

Yeah, yeah, I think you're ready. No, no, no. No, no. It's not that. No. Okay. Well, if you figure it out, let me know. This next one is... It's deck the halls.

Deck the halls. There you go. Mitch don't will my myes. I don't know what that's a reference to. That is from hip-hop artist. Kendrick Lamar has a song which I cannot repeat the name of, but that's actually pretty good. I mean, that's kind of a reaction from Scott.

so that's not good. Lux be a Brady tonight. Okay. These are pretty good. I kind of like that. Yeah. Brady, I assume,

is singer. Yeah. I kind of like that. Maybe it's a hybrid, some Tom Brady love there. Mitch better have my Malley. This is another hip-hop song, Scott, that I cannot repeat.

I can kind of, yeah, I don't know the song, but I can kind of, see what some of those names are supposed to be. I'm going to write it in our private chat so you can read that and maybe react to it in real time. And his favorite, Vaughn in 60 seconds. Okay.

I like that. That works. All right. It's pretty good. Those are pretty good ones. You know, it's not often I like anywhere you force in multiple names, even just two names, just kind of really interrupts the flow of what you're going for. but I think that Vaughn in six to seconds

I think that works All right This last one's from James in Tallahassee He says I finally came up with a clever team name On my own one that satisfies My Old Man Need for Wordplay And slightly less obvious Simpsons references So Scott, if you are not a Simpsons guy

Neither of us are going to understand this I like Old Simpsons All right he says pretty sure this is a 12 out of 10 He says darno money down Adam would get the reference I'm sorry I emailed it to Adam I don't think he, yeah, he never responded to me.

So much for being a teammate, right? I mean, that's, that's no money down, as I assume the expression. I don't remember. Darno money down. Yeah, I don't remember what that's referring to with the Simpsons. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sure for our Simpsons listeners out there, watchers, viewers,

I'm sure you love that one. We're going to wrap there for Scott. I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching fantasy baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.