Fantasy Baseball Today - Struggling SPs, Hot Hitters & Dynasty Trade Strategy! (6/22 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 22, 2021

Jake Odorizzi threw five no-hit innings on Monday (2:57)! Is he a must-add SP? What do we make of the struggles of Frankie Montas, Tyler Mahle and Julio Urias? ... News and notes (18:06)! Jacob deGrom made a healthy start, Adalberto Mondesi is back on the IL, Byron Buxton and Aaron Civale both left on Monday. ... June offense is way up (24:56)! Which hitters have turned their seasons around since May started? Which should you buy-high on? ... What's wrong with Eugenio Suarez (40:25)? ... How should you handle shopping older starting pitchers in dynasty leagues (43:43)? Should you trade pitching prospects at their peak? ... We wrap up with Monday leftovers, bullpens, streamers, and Team Name Tuesday (52:09)! ... 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.  CBS Sports and Westinghouse are teaming up to give away a 55" TV, portable power station and air purifier over the next month. Go to cbssports.com/homerun to enter. Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now here's Frank Scott, Chris, and Adam. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, June 22nd, which will forever be known as Wander Franco Day. Frank Stamble joined by. Scott White and a very tan Chris Towers, who was bragging about it right before the podcast. Thanks for noticing. I had to show you some love. You didn't have to say anything. And speaking of showing you, I actually went outside this weekend. So, you know. Very nice. Thanks. CPT for holding down the host chair yesterday. I was a little beat up,

but job well done. And I like to think this is the first time we've been podcasting together, all three of us, in about a month. It's been amazing. It's been a minute. I almost, I'm not going to lie, I almost called out six today. I was back at work for one day and I needed, I needed a break. I don't believe you bad. It is, uh, it's a rough hosting the weekend podcast, but I do appreciate it. Today on the podcast, we are going to talk about some struggling starting pitchers. Offense remains up quite a bit in June compared to the first two months of the season. We have a little dynasty strategy talk, your team name Tuesday. And Jacob de Grom made it through a start healthy. And he was the, you know,

first person to be checked by umpires for foreign substances. Nothing crazy happened in that regard, right? On Monday night, I didn't see anybody caught with any substances, but nothing that I saw. Apparently they're enforcing this rule. Yeah. This is the first day. This is the first day that they're being proactive, checking pitchers gloves, their hats, their belts, which is, you know, kind of awkward. Taking your belt off in front of 30,000 people, I'm sure. Not something I can relate to, But who was it that took his pants off accidentally while getting the dirt out? Steve Lyons. Yeah, there you go.

Yeah. Everybody should have to do that. Just drop trow right in the mound to make sure you're not smuggling any, uh, any basically what it's what it looked like. Yeah. So I guess those are the places not to put the foreign substance. You know, now that they've kind of tipped their hand on that. Yeah, I mean, they're trying to find ways to make baseball more entertaining.

Why not, right? Hey, drop your britches on the mound and let's do this. All right. Anyway, let's talk about some of the standouts from Monday. Oh, my goodness gracious. Moron, oh my goodness gracious in a little bit. Man, gosh, people continue to hate it quite a bit. It's like a three second clip.

I don't think it's that big of a deal. Anyway, Chris, a standout from Monday. Who you got? You're going to talk about Jake Odarezi, who almost threw a, the first part of a no-hitter, I guess is the way you would put this. Five no hit innings, nine strikeouts. Is it five perfect innings for him?

No walk. No, he had to walk. He walked to one. It's a good start. The Astros allowed two hits ultimately, but the no hit bid was extended into the eighth, and not a very good start for him, and that's not something we've seen a ton of from him,

but the, you know, that's now, what, nine scoreless innings in a row, two hits allowed over that span, with 12 strikeouts. So, you know, maybe signs of Oterese starting to figure things out and be the guy that the Astros were hoping they would be getting. Yeah, I couldn't tell if this was Oteroizi being great or just the Orioles being the Orioles. But it's worth mentioning for sure. Five no-hit endings, nine strikeouts, 13 swinging strikes on 86 pitches.

So he wasn't terribly efficient. He needed 86 pitches to get through only five innings. He threw his four-scene fastball 69% of the time. really heavy on that pitch. And he averaged a season high, 93.4 miles per hour on that fastball, which is up from 92 that he was averaging on the season. He's 60% rostered. Scott, anything to see here with Jacob Dorese?

I mean, potentially. Yeah, I mean, his 2019 season was the best of his career. And not many pitchers can say that about 2019, 115 games with the 351 ERA, 10.1K per 9. and he did it mostly on the strength of his fastball, which you pointed out, Frankie, through 69% of the time in this one. So, also noteworthy, his spin rates were about what they've been this whole time. So at least no drop there.

It's good to see. Which you can't say for a few other starting pitchers that we'll get into. We saw some pretty big spin rate drops, which could make sense moving forward with starting pitchers. pitchers getting checked now by the umpires. But we will get into that. How does Jake Oterese compare to, I guess some of the other most added starting pitchers?

We've basically been comparing everyone to Shane McClanahan, or at least we did on the live Q&A, which was very successful. Thank you for everyone who showed up. There is no comparison to Shane McClanahan, Frank. So don't even start down that path. That's what I like to hear. Shane McClainan's only 63% rostered.

So I think that number should be much higher. Jake Oteroizi right behind him. they're at 60% rostered. How about Oterese versus somebody like Ross Stripling? 59%. I think I'd probably go Oteresee. Yeah. I've never been a huge Oterese guy even during that 2019 season,

but I don't see a lot that's really winning me over to stripling, other than his ERA of late. Maybe his start tomorrow changes my mind. Right? Right. Yeah. Yes. So it's not, I mean, I guess they got the two good headers.

They're in the driving in a lot of runs. They're in the same range probably as guys who have been interesting in the past and are starting to look kind of interesting now

but I think still have ways to go. Yeah and you know like other easy 351 ERA in 2019 he hasn't been good since then but we've only seen I think this makes 45 44 innings from him

over the last two seasons and you know there have been stretches of his career where he's been interesting. Yeah and I don't think he's ever going to give you a lot of volume in terms of innings because I know even back in 2019

when he was really good, they'd almost never let him go third time through the order. It was a lot of five-ennings starts. So I think that's probably what should be expected here with the Houston Astros. Scott, your oh my goodness gracious player from Monday. Frankie Montas, making me look like a fool Frankie is because he allowed eight earn runs in five and two-thirds innings

and his start against the Rangers. Oh, gosh, that makes it worse. I will point out, previous eight starts, a 311 ERA, 1-21 whip, 10.1K per 9, so he appeared to be on the right track. In his last couple starts especially, we saw the splitter play up while its RPM was dropping significantly,

over 200 RPM loss on the splitter, but that's a good thing for the splitter and it was starting to look as dominant as it did during Frankie Montas's breakout 2019 season. Well, the spin rate was again down on the splitter in this start, but the spin rate was also way down on everything else. It was down about 150 RPM on all of Montas's other pitches, which may not mean anything,

but it's interesting that it happened on the day MLB, decided to be proactive with its enforcement of the, you know, cracking down on pitches for the foreign substances. And, you know, it makes me wonder, and you've kind of already alluded to it, Frank. So basically, since it was first reported around the start of June, that this was coming, we've seen many pitchers, RPMs go down.

That's happened to a lot of pitchers. But now that it's being enforced, That's like another level, right? So are we going to see even more pitchers? Spin rates drop that we haven't seen any signs of yet. Certainly seems possible. I'm not saying for sure that's what happened with Montas. I think we need to see a few more starts to conclude that definitively.

And that goes for everyone. Whatever we do or don't see over the next couple of days, we probably want to wait, even with the guy. who, you know, the trend started before today, I, you want to wait a couple of weeks just because that does vary from start to start. Yes, yes. But it's interesting. It's interesting.

And, you know, it kind of makes me wonder why at the start of June, we, you know, there's reason to believe pitchers stopped using substances then. Why didn't they just wait until it was going to be enforced? I don't know if they didn't really know what was going to happen. They didn't really know if it was already being enforced or if they just wanted to get ahead of it and get used to life without it. I think that's probably more of it.

Yeah. I think they kind of wanted an adjustment period, right? So two, three starts, whatever it was of, I guess, pitching without substances. And Tyler Glass now said he basically went cold turkey the start before he got hurt. And that's why he was gripping the baseball tighter. and he thinks that's what led to his injury.

So I guess, you know, I wouldn't be surprised. We've seen, you know, Corbyn, Trevor Bauer, Garrett Cole, to name a few. There's a few other ones. Terrick Scuba, I know his spin rates have been down. But, you know, that's a handful of, I'm sure, a bunch that have probably, like, slipped past in terms of monitoring their spin rates. But definitely interesting for Frankie Montasas.

And would it really surprise us if he was using sticky stuff. I mean, the guy got popped for PEDs too, right? So it's not the most, uh, honest person, I guess. I mean, it shouldn't surprise us. It wouldn't surprise me if anybody did. Right. He without sin through the first stone.

Another pitcher with spinn rates down and only lasted four innings in his start. He wasn't terrible, but Tyler Malley at the twins, I noticed four innings, three runs, three walks, one hit by pitch, so control got away from him here. Maybe, couldn't grip the ball. But eight strikeouts, 16 swinging strikes on 93 pitches.

He allowed a lot of hard contact. in this one. The spin rate on his fastball was down 133 RPM. The spin rate on his slider, down 209 RPM. So quite a bit there for Tyler Malley. Still was able to rack up the whiffs and the strikeouts. And I'll just kind of marry him together here with Julio Reyes. The spin rates weren't down, but he just wasn't good against the Padres, four inning, six runs, four walks. He now has a 6.43 ERA over his last five starts. Julio Reus does. And it's basically been the lack of control during that time. In his first 10 starts, he allowed one walk or less in eight of those over his last five.

That span that I just mentioned, two plus walks in four of five of those starts, and he had four walks on Monday night. So Chris, between Tyler Malley and his spin rates, Julio Aureas, and control kind of getting away from him over his last five starts. How concerned are you over these two? I'm more concerned about Aureas because my expectations were higher. He is someone who I did at one point view as a top 30 starting pitcher. And the last handful of starts have been, I mean, it's not been all bad.

There's been two quality starts in there, one blow up, one where he was an out short of a quality start. So, you know, this is the first one, I think, where the walks have really been an issue. He hasn't had more than two walks in any start this season. Yes, three of the four, five times he's had, or four of the four. five, six times he's had two or more walks have come in his last five starts, but two walks over five innings, two walks over five and two, that's not really concerning. Tonight was the first time that it was really concerning, but, you know, obviously, I think because expectations are higher, that's a little more concerning. On the other hand, Malley does have some concrete explanations

for why he might have struggled with that spin rate being lower. And if he can't turn that around, you know, that could be a legitimate issue for him so far. moving forward where Arias may not have that same explanation. Scott, anything on Tyler Malley and Julio Aureas that you saw from Monday? I mean, as good as Malley's been recently, first three starts in June. You know, one, he gave up four runs, but everything else looked good. You know, other than the spin rate, I don't have any concerns there.

And even with the spin rate, encouraging to see him get five plus whiffs on all three of his pitches. So not too worried there. But Areas, you know, the fact he was going seven innings on occasion in April, in May, and now it's, you know, past five starts, one quality start, and usually because he's not going deep enough. And I just wonder if it's going to be kind of a downward trend there with the innings because they're going to have to save some for late,

especially with the losses they've already suffered. with their starting rotation. Yeah, I think it all goes back to the control for Julio Arias. The reason he was able to go as deep as he did earlier in the season was because he wasn't walking guys. He was keeping the pitch count down. And for the last five, as I mentioned, the control has been a little bit worse.

This was really, again, Chris mentioned it the first time where it was really bad for Julio Arias. Before we get to the news and notes, if you enjoyed the podcast and you haven't yet, please leave us a five-star rating with a question in the review and we will answer it on a future podcast. We do really appreciate that. We're closing in on,

I believe it's 2,500 Apple podcast reviews. So it's a nice little milestone for us there. With that being said, Amanda, with six A's, 125, 6, 7, 890. Even if you really hate the oh my goodness, gracious soundbite, but love everything else on the podcast.

Is that really a reason to leave us two stars? Come on, man. Like, uh, come on, Amanda. Amanda. I don't know.

It's like, for every one person that complains about it, there's been 10 people that say they love it. So, I don't know. I'm just, I'm in a weird spot here. Sounds like everything else in the world then.

You're not wrong. All right, let's answer a few of those APR questions here at the top. This one's from DePrez 14. Chicks dig the new couches, Scott. So, all right.

People are noticing. Let's go. Rank the following catchers, rest of season in a six by six league. The Yerminator. I assume this is an ESPN league where he has catcher eligibility. That's Yermine Mercedes, Max Stassie, and Carson Kelly. Sorry, this question was asked last week.

So Carson Kelly is now hurt. Who would you rather have Yermine Mercedes or Max Stassie? It might have actually gotten this same question last night, Scott. We might have asked that question at least. Or maybe on the YouTube show. But I said Stassie whenever that was. So I'll stick with that one. What do you think, Scott?

Yeah, this is a tough. I mean, obviously we're not used to talking about Mercedes with catcher eligibility because he doesn't have it on CBS or most other sites. And obviously, he hasn't been that productive since April, but man, he still plays a lot more than most catchers do. That's a good point. I think I would continue to roll with Mercedes.

To myself. As a catcher. Your me Mercedes has set three of the last. last eight games. None of those were in National League parks. So perhaps he's just starting to lose playing time because he's playing as poorly as he is. The batting average is down to

266 for your mean Mercedes. I'll break the tie. I would take Max Stassie. Rank these following starting pitchers in a quality start league. Zach Davies, Joe Ross, Patrick Corbyn, Advert Alzeli, Patrick Sandoval and Vladimir Gutierrez. I would rank them

Alzali, followed by Corby Corbyn. Followed by Sandoval. And I'm starting not to care at this point,

but I will say agreed. Ross Davies Gutierrez is the last three. All right. This one's from Steve Z. 31.

Great to trade in a points league. Give up Kent to Maida, Andrew Heaney, and Will Myers received Kavana Bissio

and Luis Castillo. Maeda, Heaney, Myers for Bizio and Luis Castillo. I think that's a B. Yeah, I mean, really just for Castillo,

I think he's the best player here. Will Myers did have a big weekend where something like he had three of his six hardest balls, three of his six hardest hit balls all season this weekend. So hopefully he's coming out of it, but that's not enough to hold up the trade for me. Yeah, I think you get two of the three best players in the trade. Yes, I would agree.

I think it's like a B minus B in that range for me. Will Myers had six hits over the weekend, including two homers, and four RBI. He is currently O for three on Monday night. News and notes, Jacob de Grom made it through a start healthy. So please continue to do this, Jacob de Grom. We need you. And he was up against the Braves, five shutout with one hit, two walks, and six strikeouts, 18 swinging strikes on 70 pitches.

The velocity was fine, Scott. He averaged 99.6 miles per hour. On the fastball, his scoreless streak is now at 30 innings pitched. His ERA is down to 0.50. One or zero earned runs in 12 straight starts. Guys, ridiculous. Stay healthy, Bubba. Just stay healthy, please, Jacob.

DeGote. Adelberto Monashy was placed on the aisle with a strained left oblique. It is June 22nd, and he has played 10 games. So one of the most frustrating players to own this season, Adelberto Monashy.

We kind of knew this was in his range of outcomes. He dealt with so many injuries so far in his career. When he's played, he's been really good, but again, it's only been 10 games. So I would say, especially in Roto League, continue to hold on to him.

Chalborder Points Leagues, you could probably drop him if you have no IL spots left, Scott. Yeah. Yeah, probably. He was not somebody we ranked especially high at that position coming into the season. I think I had him outside of my top 12 for points leagues. Yeah.

So that's fine. And I don't think he's necessarily close to a call-up, but it's worth mentioning with Monisey going on the IL, what Bobby Witt Jr. has been doing recently. Five straight multi-hit games going into Monday night. I didn't get to check what he did. That's at AA, where he is now batting 3-43 with a 405. OBP and a 672 slug in the month of June and has elevated his season long OPS to 913, Scott.

So, I don't think there's a chance that Bobby Witt gets called up from AA. I still think he's probably going to get some time at AAA. He's super young. What do you think? Yeah, I agree, though, I mean, just because the Royals flirted with the concept of having a begin this year in the majors back in spring training. it wouldn't be the most surprising thing in the world either if they sped him to the majors

particularly how well he's hit of late, particularly with Mondesi constantly being unavailable. It wouldn't shock me, but my expectation is he'll stop at AAA first. Chris, I swear I didn't plan this, but you are back just in time to be reminded that Byron Buxton left early on Monday

after getting hit by a pitch on his left hand and it's just, it's bad look, right? You can't foresee a hit by piece. pitch coming and he did stay in the game actually for an extra ending there and then he got removed a little bit later on so sucks because it comes earlier in the week if you play in a weekly league but hopefully everything is all right he's uh i assume going to go for some testing there that is byron buckson yeah he was having uh imaging taken during the game so hopefully we'll find out tomorrow uh aran savalee left monday start with an apparent finger injury he'll visit a hand specialist savale

had thrown four and two-thirds shut out with five strikeouts to that point in the game and Cleveland really, really cannot afford another injury to their pitching staff, given Shane Bieber and Zach Plesack, who are currently on the IL. So, man, like every team is dealing with attrition right now, but Cleveland, wow, they are just, they're getting blasted right now. Fernando Tatis, Jose Ramirez, and Nelson Cruz each returned to the lineup for their respective teams on Monday. Kyle Tucker did not return, and he will not return until the mid to late part of this week. Josh Donaldson has now set out four straight games, though I saw.

he was pinch hitting, I believe he was intentionally walked, and then while he was on first base, he was pinch run for by who? Miguel Sineau. So they really do not want Josh Donaldson running the bases right now. I'm surprised he hasn't gone on the IL yet. Max Muncie will return to the lineup on Tuesday for the Dodgers. Cody Bellinger will be back on Wednesday. Brett Anderson exited Monday start with right knee discomfort.

Eduardo Escobar was out of the lineup Monday and has been diagnosed with a slight strain of his right quad, aka they might be clear. to trading him. The White Sox are apparently one of the teams interested in Eduardo Escobar. Fran Mill Reyes will begin a rehab assignment this week. He was batting 257 with 11 home runs in 40 games before getting hurt. Friend Melraeus is 77% rostered. So if he's available in any shallower categories leagues, I think you could look at adding Fran Mill Reyes. Hazers Lozardo was optioned back to AAA. He currently has a 6.87 ERA with a 1.63 whip. He is 53% rostered.

We could drop Jesus Lozardo, right? Yeah, if you're talking about a standard-sized league, I might hesitate in something as deep as a 15-teammer. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The only one where I might hang on to him is a 15-teamer. Chris, are you right? Dynasty's a different animal all together. I say, Chris, are you all right?

So during my vacation, I got like a sinus cold and I'm still dealing with the ramifications of that. You weren't kidding when you said you almost No, yeah. It's been, it hit me over the last couple of hours, but I'm going to try to power through. I got a cough drop and just took some flonase, so we'll see. All right, man.

If you've got to go, we understand. I'm not saying. Hazers Lozardo, great time to go by and keep her in Dynasty leagues if anyone's freaking out there. Sixo Sanchez was cleared last week to extend his throwing distance off flat ground to 75 feet. I think optimistically, maybe by August, we could see.

Yeah, I think if everything went right. August 1st would be a best case scenario. We had a bunch of Mets news. Jeff McNeil returned from the aisle. He is 81% roster. Jonathan V.R. left Monday with right calf tightness. Joey Lucasey was diagnosed with a significant UCL tear in his left elbow,

likely going to need Tommy John surgery. Uri's Familia was placed in the aisle. Robert Gazellman will be out 6. to eight weeks with a torn lat, and some prospect updates the Angels' first round pick from last year. A pitching prospect, Reid Detmer's, struck out a career high 14 while allowing just two runs over six innings on Sunday at AA.

That included an immaculate inning, so it's pretty fun to see the 2020 draft picks showing up so far. Reid Detmer's, Kate Cavalli, we spoke about recently with the Nationals. Spencer Torkelson just hit his second home run since being promoted to AA, so that's fun. And Vidal Bruhan went two for five with a home run on Sunday.

Keep that up so we can see you soon as well and join your buddy, Wander Franco, here in the majors. Scott, you've got an article that is coming out on Tuesday talking about hitters who have turned their seasons around since the beginning of May. We know that April was a historically bad month

for offense, and I actually took it one step further and I looked specifically at just June and comparing that to April versus May. So the first two months of the season, Scott, a 236 batting average, 288 BABIP, 24% strikeout rate, 13.2% home run to fly ball ratio. In June, batting average way up, 11 percentage points, 247, BABB is up about 7 percentage points.

Strikeouts are down a little bit, 23.3%. And home run to flyball ratio, this is pretty significant across all of baseball in June. 14.6%. So up about 1.5 percentage points here, Scott. June, if this is a sign of things to come, I don't know if they've changed baseballs. I'm not going to speculate, whatever,

but obviously they're cracking down on foreign substances. But offense is up, and this is good. This is fun. Yeah, it's up. And, you know, it looks less extreme when you can combine April and May like that and compare it in June. Really, what's happened this year

is we've had basically a completely, completely different environment in each of the three months. We had... It's crazy. It's so weird. The worst environment and recent memory for hitters in April. In May, it was closer to typical, maybe something like 2018 in terms of offensive production. Batting average, still not quite what we wanted to be,

but the power was coming around. Strikeout rate was improving. And then June, it's been more like... more like 2019 or maybe 2017 is fairer to say, where, you know, home runs are just, the ball's just flying out of the park everywhere. And it's normal for offense to increase over the course of the season as it warms up, BAPIP goes up, home run rate goes up,

but what's happened this year isn't normal. And so I think between, you know, I don't know how much the dead in baseball, is to blame for what happened in April as much as just unseasonably cold temperatures pretty much around the league, especially seeing how closely that's tied to offense over the course of the season, just temperature.

I wonder if that had more to do with it than anything else because May, you know, May was more or less fine. It was, you know, the strikeout rate was still up, which caused batting average to be down, but in terms of home runs being hit and BABIP, it was probably what you would have expected. And then June,

I'm assuming because spin rates are down for so many big pitchers, we're seeing the typical June effect being like... Amplified. Yeah, yeah, it's an overdrive right now. So it's been really hard to manage from a fantasy baseball standpoint. And I suspect the ledger's going to favor offense even more going forward as this foreign substance's rule gets enforced.

So hold on to your hats, everybody. July could be even crazier. Yeah, yeah. And it's very welcome. Again, it took so long for offense to come around. But it's obviously very fun now to see so many home runs flying out of the park. And, Scott, you picked out so many hitters here and people could read about them on the, website. But I broke them down into

three categories. And we're going to start with the first one here. Which fringe hitter do you like most? These are players that are rostered between 78 and 86% of leagues. So they're probably rostered in most leagues where people play. But between

Jorge Palanco, these are players who have seen the biggest OPS increase from April to May 1st on. So Jorge Polanco, Jonathan Scope, Kyle Schwaber, Ryan Mount Castle, Andrew McCutcheon, who's actually only 71% rostered, Tommy FAM and Gavin Lux. Who is your one or two favorites from that list of fringe hitters?

Tommy FAM. Yeah, I'm right there with you with FAM. So, 902 OPS for FAM since the start of May and nine stolen bases during that same time. He had a 503 OPS in April, so about a 400 point difference there. and I basically thought he was done in April and I was very wrong so he's my favorite he gets on base a ton too

second favorite probably Schwurber I mean the thing is you know what's interesting about a lot of the players that we may mention on the podcast but certainly in the column is that as good as they've been since May 1st

their April during that historically bad April for offense their April production was so that their season long numbers still don't look that great. And so if you just discard April because it was crazy and assess them from May 1st on, they suddenly come away with a very different impression. What's interesting about Schwerber, so he had a 619 OPS in April, 929 OPS since then. But if you just look at his season long numbers, so you include April in there,

it's about what it was in 2019 when it was the best version of Schwerber we've ever seen. So you don't really have to play any magic tricks to see how much better Schwerber is. And if he just, if he just sustains his season stats, he'll be awfully useful going forward. He has been quite bad against left-handed pitching, which for most of his career has been the case. He's batting just 213 with a 659 OPS against lefties this year. That's 252 with a 9-10 OPS against right-handed pitching. But yeah, I'm there with you with Schorber. While he strikes out a lot, he walks quite a bit too,

so that kind of helps things in points leagues. It helps mitigate those strikeouts. So I do like Schwabber. It seems like he might be motivated to after being non-tendered by the Chicago Cubs in the off-season. Trying to get a payday here with someone after a one-year deal.

I think it's a one-year deal. It might be something with an option with the nationals. But yeah, for sure. Tommy Fam, right there with you, Scott, since May 1st on betting, 290, 6 homers, nine stolen bases, 29 runs scored in 46 games,

been leading off for one of the better lineups in baseball with the San Diego Padres. I would consider him a buy high. I don't know how high you're going to have to buy him, but whatever it would take to get Tommy Fam, I'd be pretty excited to try and get him. The one that I will kind of poo-poo here is Andrew McCutcheon since May 1st on.

He has a 903 OPS, which is very good, but his splits are still super drastic on the season. Versus left-handed pitching, a 301 batting average, a 1000 OPS on the nose against right-handed pitching 176 with a 627 OPS. It's just that kind of,

for me, it just kind of limits my excitement for Andrew McCutcheon. Yeah, I'm trying to see how that's changed from month to month. I don't think I'm going to be able to look that up very quickly. Yeah, I don't, that's one of the harder things to look up is splits versus...

Double splits, basically. Yeah, yeah, it's tough. So, yeah, no, I, I hear you. I hear you. But a 903 OPS overall, over close to two months, I have to imagine he hasn't been a total disaster against Reuters during that time

because it just seems like the math wouldn't work out. Yeah. No, I mean, that's a good point, and something looking into further, but still impressive. 903 OPS, May 1st on for Andrew McCutcheon. This next category that I have, where should you add these players that have seen huge increases? Jonathan India, it seems like we talk about the guy every single day.

He had another very solid game on Monday. He went three for five with a walk, picked up his fifth steal of the season. He also was caught stealing for the third time. He's 65% roster. Scott, at this point, is he just like a universal must add regardless of format, Jonathan India? Yeah, I would say so. It's a 400.

So not only is an 831 OPS since the start of May, but it's a 400 on base percent. And there's been some power, there's been some speed. And he's batting leadoff, which everybody loves. So dual eligible, you know, there's something there for points leagues. There's something there for categories leagues. Yeah, I'm pretty high on India moving forward. How about these for these two, Scott? Jack Peterson, who's 45% rostered and Cesar Hernandez, who is 52% rostered.

Caesar Hernandez, people might not have realized since May 1st, batting 240, which isn't great, but with 10 home runs. And his stat cast numbers for most of the season, his expected stats look pretty good. And he's just kind of coming around over these past two months. So anywhere, you have to add either of these, Jock Peterson or or Sesar Hernandez? I wouldn't say have to, but there's certainly no shame in adding either in any format. And for Hernandez, historically, batting average has been his most bankable category. So the fact that he's, the power sustained him mostly, and he's batting 240 overall. And, you know, he hasn't hit much better than that even eliminating April.

But the expected stats are similar to what they've always been in terms of expected batting average. And it's like around 260, which doesn't sound that great. but obviously he has a history of outperforming that. And the strikeout rate is similar. So I kind of wonder if the best is yet to come for Cesar Hernandez. But even as things stand, his OPS has gone from 527 in April, 784 since April. Yeah. So it's solid for a lead-off guy for Cleveland, but not a must add anywhere yet.

Deeper leagues, middle infielder, sure, Jock Peterson, five outfielder leagues. if you're desperate, you know what he's going to give. He's going to give you power. And I guess not really much else there with the Chicago Cubs. This final category, Scott, that I broke these guys down into, which one are you most likely to buy high on? Gary Sanchez, Brian Reynolds, Charlie Blackman, Paul Goldschmidt, Danesby Swanson, relative term, buy high.

Kevin Bigio, who's been much better, and Jose Altoove, who's just been otherworldly, specifically in the month of June, which one of those would you be most likely to buy high on? probably Altuve because as you know I recently made him my number one

second baseman for the rest of the season like rest of season ranking he's now number one he's my number one second baseman and obviously that's something I'd pay up for but I do want to point out

a couple other things here if I may Brian Reynolds since the start of May has a 999 OPS he has been he has been amazing and you know

in April his OPS was near 800 so it wasn't even that bad of an April but he looks as good as he did as a rookie in 2019 but now with even more power like his his BAPIP during this stretch that he has a 999

OPS is actually lower than the BAPE he had during his rookie season so I mean he looks he looks like a player for sure Brian Reynolds uh Danesby swanson also 583 OPS in April 8.05 since April 8.05 doesn't sound that high but it's it's almost exactly what it was last year and what we considered his breakout season in fact all of his numbers since since April ended all of Swanson's numbers look you know the stat line is almost identical to what he had during

his breakout season last year, including strikeout rate. It's, you know, since the start of May, it's dropped about what he had last year in terms of strikeouts. So he seems to be back on track. The season line still doesn't look that impressive because it's being weighed down so much by that April. But he's somebody who I think it might make sense to just discard April. Scott, if you were trying to buy high on Jose Altuve,

and you had one of Trevor Rogers or Freddie Peralta, who we talk a lot about the, winnings limits that could come up at some point this season for them. Do you think that's enough to offer one of those guys for Altuve? And if you had them, would you do that? Who are we talking about again? Would you give up your Trevor Rogers or Freddie Peralta to acquire Jose Altuva? Oh.

Yeah, I mean, I think that's fair. I don't know if you'll be able to do much better than that. You know, if pitching is a weak spot for you, obviously you might think twice about it. that maybe, maybe don't trade those guys without getting a pitcher in return. But I think that's fine. I think that makes sense that sort of deal. Brian Reynolds, just want to go back to him real quick, Scott.

You mentioned the Babbip, and I think it's probably not at where he was back in 2019, because a lot of his batting average and this OPS is driven by home runs. So those balls are going on over the fence, and I guess technically they're not being factored into Babbitt, but 10 home runs over that 43 game stretch, that's a 34 homer pace over 150 games. And if the ball continues to just fly out in July and August during these warm weather months, I don't know if that power pace

is technically going to slow down for Brian Reynolds. So I'm with you. Yeah, I mean, I would take the under, but it's at least feasible. Yes. That it could continue something close to that. Go out and send some trade offers for Brian Reynolds. If people don't realize just how good he has been,

we're going to take a quick break. But when we return, we're going to talk about one hitter who hasn't turned it around. in June, and we'll try and figure out what's going on. We'll do that next here. Fantasy baseball today. So A. E. Hennio Suarez, having a nice game on Monday, two for three with his 15th home run of the season.

He is still batting just 176 at this point, and that's with a babbip that is below 200. He's got a 301 babb for his career. And we got this email, received this email from Kevin, a longtime listener, first-time emailer. So welcome, Kev, to the email. What is wrong with Ehuehanyos Suarez? Should I drop him for Gene Seguerra, who just hit the IL and is now on waivers? I am struggling at second base with Jazz and Colton Wong.

I don't think your second base situation is all that bad. But basically, Scott, is A. E. E. Hennio Suarez just completely dropable? What has gone wrong with him this year? It's a 10-team points league, which maybe puts it in perspective. Chisholm. Jazz Chisholm, not as valuable in a points league, and of course, 10-team. league has a high threshold to meet for offense. So I understand where he's coming from with that.

As for Suarez, I'm losing faith. I'm losing faith quickly. Last week, I did a dynasty stockwatch that I tried to do a few times over the course of a season. And I have the five biggest risers, the five biggest fallers in terms of dynasty value. Suarez was among my five biggest fallers in the most recent version of that,

which means, um, obviously, uh, even, even from a long term perspective, I'm not, uh,

not feeling, feeling the same way about him that I did. And, uh, he was bad last year too. And everybody kind of gave him a pass because the power numbers were still great. And remember two years ago,

he had that 49 homer season. Seemed like in a dynasty context, he was going to be your answer at third base for a while. But, um, you combine last year's stats with this year's stats for Suarez over his past 125 games he's batting 184 29 home runs but

184 for and nearly full seasons three quarters of a season anyway worth of a batts so I mean I don't know that any more needs to be said than that really yeah and yeah I was looking particularly at his batted ball data to see what's going wrong this year. His line drive rate is a career low. It's right around 15%.

His ground ball rate is the highest it's been since 2015. Obviously, those two things are going in opposite directions, which you don't want to see from a power hitter. His hard contact is also way down this year, according to Staccass. So I think it might be related to that shoulder injury that he suffered. I think it was last January, Scott,

where I think something happened with him in a swimming pool, he had to have surgery on his shoulder, and he wasn't going to be. ready for the start of the 2020 season if it started on time in April, but things got delayed and he was able to get back for the shortened season in July. But, you know, we've seen shoulder surgeries, derail careers, sat people of power, maybe he'll get things back on track by next year. He's, A. Johaneo Suarez is still just 29 years old. So there's a chance, but I think he still might be feeling some of the effects of that shoulder injury that he suffered last

season. So pure speculation, but we've seen it happen before. I do want to talk about some dynasty trade strategy, Scott, because I posted a question in our Facebook group last week. Oh, for those wondering, yeah, Chris is gone. He's not feeling well. So please feel better, Chris. I wanted to address this like 15 minutes ago when he dropped off and then we just kept talking about stuff and I forgot about it. So feel better, Chris. He held it down yesterday and now we'll do the same for him. Some dynasty trade strategy discussion. And I asked our Facebook group for some tough questions. and we had some dynasty-related ones, so I wanted to pick your brain a little bit here, Scott,

and we spoke about this in the off-season, just dynasty strategy in general, and you've mentioned the term retooling rather than rebuilding. So you can hit on that a little bit more, but specific questions, and I'm interested in this myself. It's, what should you expect? Say your team that's out of contention,

you have someone like Max Scherzer on your team, maybe a Clayton Kershaw, just older starting pitchers in general. what are you trying to look for when you have those older players on your team and you're just not necessarily competing? Well, it certainly varies from Dynasty League to Dynasty League. The biggest distinction, there are two major distinctions with Dynasty Leagues. One is how deep is the league? Is it 12 teams?

Is it 24 teams? Is it something in between? Because that makes a big difference with trades. the other, and this is maybe the biggest of all, is are prospects kept on equal terms, on the same terms as major leaguers, or are they discounted in a significant way? Because if their keeper cost is discounted in a significant way, they become much more valuable, much closer to the value a prospect would hold in real life. I think a lot of times the people, the mistake people make in dynasty leagues is,

prospects, you know, they may play in a league where prospects aren't really discounted that much when they keep them, you know, more or less on similar terms to a major leaguer, and yet they'll value prospects the same way a real life major league team would. And that's not wise. You're overvaluing the prospects in that case. So you have to be aware of that. What this has to do with the question you actually asked me? well I mean in terms of what an old pitcher like Scherzer would get back would fetch in return probably the number of prospects you get if it's a dynasty league where prospects are genuinely hugely valuable because of how cheap they are to keep then you should only

really expect one top 50 type prospect in return but if it's if it's the other kind where prospects are pretty dispensable or they should be anyway then maybe you could get two or three there is an issue potentially where it is a format

where prospects are kept out of value similar to veterans so they should not be that valuable in trades in other words but the league just doesn't understand that so trading for prospects is always a challenge and then maybe you go

you go for major leaguers who obviously aren't studs right now, but show that kind of potential, or maybe they've underachieved a little this year, like a Dan Sampson, for instance, and get two or three of those guys. So there are a few different ways you could go. Shane McClanahan. I've been clamoring for it.

But he's been much better his last two starts, so it might be a little bit harder to get him now. And I do think it is a tough question, Scott. You did a good job articulating it there. And I think from Dynasty League to Dynasty League, it's going to be different. Like, just because I get a haul for Max Scherzer in my league doesn't mean that someone else could do the same thing.

So it's kind of similar to salary cap leagues in that way. When people ask for, well, how do you value this player? What should he go for? Every league is different. So it's really hard to say and put, like, an exact value on someone. What I would say is closer to your trade deadline, make your veteran starting pitchers, your veteran players available,

try and create bidding wars among teams that need starting pitching because while Max Scher is an older asset and obviously he's not very desirable in a Dynasty League, he's still a really, really good pitcher and should be able to help someone win this year if that's the missing piece that they need. So I would try and create that bidding war amongst multiple teams if you can. Pitchers who are performing, whether they're young or old, should be the easiest assets to trade because every single team needs another one of those. You know, it might be hard to find a team with an opening at third base for you to pawn off your excess there.

But starting pitcher, there's always a need for every single team. Another question that we receive, Scott, and it's really on the opposite end of the spectrum talking about going from veteran starting pitchers to pitching prospects. In a vacuum, do you look to cash in on top pitching prospects at their peak hype and trade them for a... establish veterans or hold and hope they realize their promise. And I think in particular, when we see what pitchers like Cade Cavali and Reed Detmer's

are doing in the minors, right? They're creating hype right now. And we've heard time and time again, there's no such thing as a pitching prospect. When you see them performing that way, does your mind automatically set off a little light bulb and say, well, let me just see. Let me see what I can get for these guys while they're dominating in the minors. So my general philosophy with regard to pitching versus hitting in dynasty specifically is to build your own hitting and buy your pitching

because the trajectory for pitching prospects is the most difficult to project in terms of who's going to be good, who's not going to be good. Like Shane Bieber wasn't that big of a prospect, you know, and somebody, I don't know, who's an awesome pitching. prospect who just hasn't panned out. I mean, there's so many. It's hard to even. Julio or Reyes until this year. I mean, we could do better than that. Jesus, Jesus Lazzardo, Scott. Yeah, sure. I mean, it's kind of early to say. But, you know, like there was a point in time where Alex Reyes was the biggest pitching prospect. Forrest Whitley

was the biggest pitching prospect. McKenzie Gore, look what's going on with him. He hasn't reached the majors yet. And there's plenty of guys who are great throughout their minor league career. and they reached the majors, and they just couldn't figure it out. So that happens all the time at starting pitcher and the opposite end where, you know, this guy doesn't look like that big of a prospect, but then he becomes a stud. That happens a lot, too.

Corbin Burns is a good example of that in addition to the ones I've already named. So I like to buy my pitching rather than build it with prospects. So if I do get a prospect who is lighting it up in the miners, look, it's really hard to bring yourself to trade that guy. I'd like to say I do it more often than I actually do, but it's probably a good idea. I know, so for instance, Matt Manning,

I traded him in a Dynasty League recently, but I already saw he was struggling at AAA and started to develop concerns about him. He was close to untouchable for me before that. Now he still happened to have a lot of dynasty value because it's a deep dynasty league and everybody could use starting pitchers so I don't feel like I got a bad return for him.

Mitch Hanager and Danny Duffy were both parts of the return I got for Matt Manning in that trade. But, you know, the other end of the spectrum, I tried dealing Ian Anderson when it was announced he was getting called up for the Brace in that same dynasty league. I tried to deal him. And nobody was willing to pay out the nose for him

like I wanted them to. So I ended up holding up holding up. on to him. And obviously that one's worked out great. So as a general rule, I would say it's a good idea to trade pitching prospects because their trajectory is very difficult to predict. But, you know, it's more of a guideline than a rule to quote Peter Vankman from Ghostbusters. Some really nice dynasty talk there. And let's get back into Monday's action. Some stud hitters doing studly things. Ronald Acuna hit his 20th home run of the season. Mani Machado went three for four. That game is actually still on. He's currently three for four.

with a sock and a shoe. Yeah. Put him on. The rerun home run off of Julio Arreus, that was Manny Machado's 11th homer of the season. He also added his eighth steel. So while the batting average in the OPS hasn't been great, he's still making things happen in terms of power and speed there for Machado.

And per Kevin ASE who covers the Padres for the San Diego Union Tribune, he tweeted this out after Machado hit his home run in the first inning, that Machado's OPS over his last 14 games, 55 plate appearances. 1063. So, very nice. Mani Machado coming around here. Muki Betts hit his ninth home run of the season,

and we could use it. We can use it, Moogie Betts. Let's keep it going. Yardin Alvarez, one for three with his 10th home run of the season. Lefty on Lefty. I love a nice lefty on lefty home run. Scott. Cotel Marte, two for three with a walk in RBI

and a run scored for Arizona. I think a name to watch around the MLB trade deadline and could be Catelle Marte. Some leftovers from Monday. Kyle Muller was at the Mets. He started the second game of the double header. Four innings, one run, two walks, three strikeouts.

Kind of interesting start here. He averaged 94.9 miles per hour on the fastball. He mixed in a slider and a curve. The minor league numbers, good ERA, high whip, walks a good amount of people, but lots of strikeouts for Kyle Muller. So 5% roster.

I don't think you need to do it. anything yet, but throw him on the scout team, Scott. He's interesting. If he can get the walks down, you know, high spin rate on the fastball, it looks like there's enough of a secondary arsenal there. He could amount to something. Definitely somebody to keep an eye on. Adbert Aalai made his return versus Cleveland, four in two thirds, three hits, three runs, two, that came on two home runs, one walk, five strikeouts, only five swinging strikes. The velocity on a slider was down about two miles per hour, so we will monitor

Adbert Alzalai, but I think this is his last two starts basically. The one right before he went on the IL and this one, pretty subpar for Alzai here. Bobby Bradley hit his fifth home run in 14 games. That is a 53 home run pace over 150 games, which I am not expecting from Bobby Bradley. The strikeouts have been on the rise recently too. It's now up to a 26% strikeout rate,

which is manageable, but if he gets closer to like that 30%, and he eclipses that where he has been in the past, that's really going to put a damper on Bobby Bradley. Ten strikeouts in his past six games. So it's been going up. Power and strikeouts. That's what he brings to the table. You just hope he can limit the latter enough to get to the former.

Scott, someone you wanted to talk about that you brought up right before we started was Tony Kemp, who went two for four with a walk and his fourth stolen base for the Oakland A's. He's only 11% rostered. Very surprising. He's betting 280 with an 853 OPS. where, if anywhere, should you add Tony Kemp? Well, the thing is, we talk about Jonathan India's performance since the end of April. Tony Kemp, not even including this game.

Tony Kemp since the end of April is batting 296 with a 395 on base percentage and a 520 slugging percentage. Actually, this was his first steal since April, so hasn't been doing a ton of that. But getting on base a ton, which was something he always did in the minors, I don't think he can honestly match Jonathan India home run for home run. And him being a left-handed hitter, he doesn't quite play every day for the athletics. But the fantasy point total during that time is very similar to India. So I don't think in a 12-team league, I'm probably going for Kemp. just yet, but

maybe like a roto league that uses OPP instead of batting average, he becomes pretty interesting and there's always a chance he starts to play more and becomes more impactful. The playing time is a big impediment to his production right now, but he's with those on-base skills, he's looking pretty

interesting. Wrap up with some bullpen updates to call to the pen. Edwin Diaz got his 15 save of the season. Then in the second game of the double-header, Will Smith got his 14th save of the season for Cleveland in a 4-0 game. Emmanuel Class A pitched in the eighth inning. Remember just last week, Scott? We were so convinced.

Manuel Class A is to close. I don't know what happened. He didn't, the Class A didn't do anything wrong. Yeah, he faced 9-1 and 2 in the order in the eighth inning. And then James Carrencheck pitched in the ninth to face the middle of the lineup. He did walk too, but came away unscathed. And James Carin-Chack got the save on Sunday as well with Class 8. pitching in the 8th.

So I don't know. It technically wasn't a save Monday. It was Sunday. It wasn't Monday because Cleveland scored another run in the 8th. But yeah, Karen Schack was being set up for the save, clearly. To stream or not to stream, we'll start with Tuesday. Bailey O'Bairr versus the Reds. Johan Oviedo at the Tigers.

Ross Tripling at the Marlins. Cole Irvin at the Rangers. Andrew Heaney versus the Giants. And Chris Flexen versus the Rockies. That game is in Seattle. I will go stripling at Miami. Flexen against the Rockies. Heaney against the Giants is going to be third for me

just because he's so hit or miss. But I actually don't mind Cole Irvin at Texas. I don't think that's a bad one. There are some decent ones for Tuesday. Yeah, well, tell that to Frankie Montau, Scott. Yeah, I know. To stream or not to stream for Wednesday, Garrett Richards at Tampa Bay.

Justice Sheffield versus the Rockies again in Seattle. Caleb Smith versus the Brewers, John Gant at the Tigers, Matt Manning versus the Cardinals, and Eric Fetty at the Phillies. Don't like this slate as much. Caleb Smith against the Brewers. This is definitely my favor here.

Really don't like any of the others, to be honest. I mean, John Gant at Detroit, that could work out okay, but he's been getting beat up recently. The reconciliation between the ERA and WIPP has happened. Eric Fetty at Philadelphia could have. work out okay, but it's too risky for me. Yeah, I picked up Fetty in one of my 15 team leagues. The ERA and WIP look fine. The underlying numbers, not nearly as good. Yeah, I don't, I don't love it.

Matt Manning versus the Cardinals, I guess, is not terrible. The Cardinals have struggled in June to have a 270 Wobo, which is 28th in baseball. So if I had to choose like a second or third one, I guess I'd go with Manning, but I'm with you. I don't really love it. Some team name Tuesday will wrap up here. from Derek Schmidt. Scoobel Steve. Who is, who, what is that? I don't know, get the reference. From Big Daddy, Scooba Steve. Okay. Do you remember it?

I haven't seen Big Daddy. Oh, sorry. That one, that one. Yeah, okay. That's a slap in the face, right? Not having seen Big Daddy. Yeah. Big Daddy. Have you watched Grandma's boy yet? No. Come on. The last, the last movie I watched at your best was Euro Trip. Oh, that's why you will never take.

any of my recommendations again. You're finding a common theme, right? It's a Pauly Shore, it's Euro Trip, it's like corny, cheesy comedy movies. Somebody in the comments here is saying, I don't watch movies. That is not true. I just try to watch good movies. I watch lots of movies. I'm pretty good with movies. Okay? Music is the thing that I don't follow so well. Oh, man. Yeah, Scott is sophisticated. He watched like Oscar-nominated movies. movies. I watch cheesy comedies. This next one's from... Yeah, you watch way more movies than me. There's no doubt about it.

This one's from Cause. Oh, I wonder, wonder who, but do, who, who wrote the book of love? Okay. I don't know if I did that any justice or not, but... Shout out to Wander Franco. It's Wander Franco day. We're getting loopy here. It's 1.30 a.m. on the east coast from Aaron. Chanho Park, your butt on Scott's new couch. Gosh. That's a throwback.

Naming fantasy teams after Chanho Park in 2021. 20 years late there. Yeah. Planteer Flowers in Day Jardine. Is that a player? Jardine? Something? That sounds familiar.

I think it's... I think so. But he's recalling Phil Planteer here. So what are we doing? That's even older than Chanhoe Park. Yeah. Do you know who Phil Planteer is, Frank? No idea.

I thought he was the guy who made peanuts. Great batting stance, Phil Planteer. And do hardly know her. Mm. All right. All right, that works. Scopee do, but scopi-doo-Badoo, but. Yeah, see, if you don't know how to pronounce scope,

which looks like scoop or chup, then you're going to have some bad team names. I don't know this one, so if you know it's got, let me know. I'm Sean Reed Foley, and I am a motivational speaker. Is that, does that name sound like Chris Farley's character from the Saturday Night Live? Sketch the living in a van down by the river guy? Is that, is that who's, is that supposed to be what that's referencing? That's my guess, but I don't know.

Way over my head. His name. Over my head, Scott. From Mike Wandervision. Shout out to Wanderfro. That's, that's a, be topical. I guess. Matt Foley was Chris Farley's character.

Okay. So that works. Sean Reed Foley. Yeah, that can work. These next ones are from Ben in a city that hasn't won a major championship in 30 years. I don't know if this is Cincinnati or Minnesota. I spent way too much time looking this up before we started to. Yeah.

In 30 years. So how long was 1990 was 30 years ago? Fun fact, the Minnesota Twins won the World Series the year that I was born, 1991. Yeah. Yeah, it could be Minnesota. Those are good guesses. Since Frank seems to like wrestling, some wrestling-themed team names. You could take this one off, Scott.

Garrett Cole, baby! Macho man, Randy Dobnack. Love it. The phenomenal A.J. Pollack. And Stroman Raines. Very good. Love them. And a couple others.

Through the Fire Ice and Flames. Do you know where that's from, Scott? I mean, it just sounds like a logical... No, I don't know where it's from. Through the Fire and the Flames, which is from Dragon Force. That's a callback to my guitar hero three days. It was a very popular song when I was in high school.

From Robert, The Office themed, Betts, Bears, Battlestar Galactica. Yep, yep. All right. For Scott, I am Bring, thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow to talk all about Wander Franco.

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