Fantasy Baseball Today - 🚨Trade Deadline Recap! All the Cubs are Gone! Winners & Losers (7/30 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: July 30, 2021

All the Cubs are gone! Let's start with Kris Bryant who was traded to the Giants (2:04). Does his value go down? ... Javier Baez and Trevor Williams were traded to the Mets (5:55). Where is Baez going to play when Lindor comes back? ... Craig Kimbrel was traded to the White Sox of all places (9:42)! Who closes between Kimbrel and Liam Hendriks? ... Kyle Gibson and Ian Kennedy were traded to the Phillies (15:46). Will Kennedy be the closer? ... Richard Rodriguez was traded from the Pirates to the Braves (20:11). Is Will Smith still the closer? ... Yan Gomes and Josh Harrison were traded to the A's (23:32)! ... Joakim Soria went to the Blue Jays (25:10). Let's figure out which relievers we want most for saves. ... Let's recap smaller moves like Andrew Heaney to the Yankees and Jorge Soler to the Braves (29:55). ... Who were the biggest winners and losers for Fantasy (39:18)? What are the Rockies thinking!? '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

Every team in baseball made a trade at this deadline. That's all you need to know. Welcome into a bonus Kokomo Friday edition of fantasy baseball today. On July 30th, the MLB trade deadline is over. Frank Stamphle joined by Chris Towers. Not Chris Towers. You're Scott White. Not Chris Towers.

Man, it's... Is it really over, Frank? No, it's never over. Because it seems like trades keep trickling in. I can't get caught up. I feel like I'm dressed. grounding. Are we sure it's over? It's never.

It's never over, Scott. And I was looking right at you while I was writing this introduction, and I still managed to write Chris Hauer. So that tells you exactly where I am at. We often make these hyperbolic claims, this is the craziest season ever. This is, oh, we've never seen this many injuries. I think this is actually the craziest trade deadline ever, Scott. I would agree. I mean, ever, I only have so much history to draw from. I can at least compare it to the 14 years I've been employed in this capacity.

And I would say, yes, yes, crazy. I texted Adam Azer a little bit earlier, and I said, you chose a great time to leave the baseball podcast, huh? And he was like, oh, good podcast fodder. That was it. All right, well, thanks, Adam. I hope you're enjoying your Friday. No, we're going to have a lot of fun here.

We're going to try and figure out everything that's going on. Let's start with all of the Cubs. They are gone. They are no longer on the Chicago Cubs. And we'll start with Chris Bryant, who winds up on the San Francisco Giants for outfielder Alexander Canario and right-handed pitcher Caleb Killian

on the season Chris Bryant's batting 267, 18 homers, four steals. He had an awful June, but has really bounced back in July, batting 290 with a 922 OPS. He is the 74th overall player in Roto this season. However, he does see a negative park shift here, going from Wrigley Field, which according to Stackast, is the ninth best in terms of park factors

to Oracle Park, which is 14. So it's not a huge downgrade, but it is a downgrade. Yeah, so I take it to Oracle Park has still been playing much better for hitters than it has in the past, because it used to be clearly the most pitcher-friendly park. Let's see here. So, Brian, I'm just going to check out my new favorite resource. here on on baseball savant the expected home runs by park let's see so brian actually has 18 and if you played all his games in san francisco it says he'd have 15 of course that's really just taking into account the trajectory of the ball and the size of the park it doesn't account for environmental conditions um so the course field numbers are always

very low for hitters because it's a huge part. But San Francisco has some environmental conditions too that I would say are working against it. So yeah, I mean, clearly a park downgrade in a way that, you know, I'm a little worried that Chris Bryant's production might drop by a tier going to San Francisco. I think that's a reasonable concern. We know he's going to play.

There's no playing time concerns. there are playing time concerns for others in San Francisco. Evan Longoria seems to be gearing up to return. I presume Bryant would move to the outfield once Longoria does return. And that could cut into the playing time, most probably for Alex Dickerson, who hasn't been nearly as productive as he was last year.

That's no great loss, if that's all it ends up being. but the Giants rarely put together the same lineup two nights in a row and it just, you know, I could see it impacting others too. Yeah, it could be Alex Dickerson. It could be Stephen Dugger, who's really falling off after a nice couple of months there with the Giants. Oh, you know what? Brandon Bell's also soon to return from the IL. So Lamont Jordan, who's been hitting well.

Lamont Wade. It seemed like he could take Alex Dickerson's spot. but now maybe Stephen Dugger would be the second one you know once Belt and Longoria are both back yeah yeah

we could lose somebody interesting from that lineup with Bryant coming aboard that's Lamont Wade by the way Scott you did say what did I say Lamont Jordan who I think is a former running back yeah that's right a former running back and the Raiders

and I think the University of Maryland or something. There you go. I don't know how you got football on the brain. Anyway, look, for Chris Bryant, I think the power could see a little bit of a down sick here, but overall, he is going from the Cubs who were 20th in runs per game, joining the San Francisco Giants who are currently eighth in baseball in runs per game. So they're a scrappy lineup. Buster Posey's had a great year. Brandon Crawford, all those players getting ready to return here. I think we could see some RBI run production increase for Chris Bryant potentially, but we could see the power take a little bit of a step back for him. Let's talk about Javier.

and Trevor Williams, who are headed to the New York Mets in exchange for outfield prospect, Pete Crow Armstrong, who was their first round pick from last season in 2020. He's 19 years old. He did undergo shoulder surgery this season. And for Javier Baez, he's having a really good year. 248 batting average, that's not great, but it's kind of expected. 22 home runs, 65 RBI, 13 steals for Javier Baez, 36% strikeout rate. We know the strikeouts are always high for him.

He has the 32nd overall player in Roto this season because of that combination of power and speed. This one is a little bit worse. According to Stackass Park Factors, again, Reilly Field 9th best, City Field is 28th. So I don't know how much that factors in. It sounds like he's going to play shortstop for now

while Francisco Lindor is on the IL. The ESPN broadcast said that Lindor is going to slide over to second base when he returns. I don't know if that's, I haven't seen that confirmed anywhere, but that's an early read on the situation. Yeah, because bias has actually played all over the infield before. So it just seemed like he'd be the one to move when Lendor returns,

but Lendor might not be back until mid-September, you know? Yeah. So we can worry about that later. I'm not sure those park factor numbers you're given are interesting. Just this year, because City Field has been a pretty neutral park historically. so I'm surprised I'm surprised that number's coming in so low let me put on the three year rolling average

for you Scott and we have that would put the Cubs at 19th Wrigley Field at 19th and City Field at 22nd so that home runs by Park

metric that statcast has would have would see by as have have 21 home runs now, that city field versus the 22 he actually has. All right. So not a big change. Yeah. I mean, to the extent that we can rely on that.

And it's, you know, people, people were kind of criticizing my, that I dare reference that my analysis for Anthony Rizzo because it's not that simple. No, of course it's not that simple. But it's nice to be able to put a specific number on it rather than just talking in vague terms. like, oh, you know, he's going to a pitcher of Renly Park now. Maybe he'll lose some number of home runs. Like, I know it's not gospel truth. Yes.

But it's also fun, though, Scott. Like, we've seen this before where when a player changes teams, we have this park overlay, and it's fun to imagine, oh, well, if he played in this park, look at all these outs that would have been home runs. And now we have something that quantifies that. So we're not. Right, exactly. Exactly.

Like, you know, it's not, like you said, gospel, but it gives you a point of reference. It gives a clear indication of what kind of difference it would make than just pure speculation. But yeah, it's not, it's obviously not an exact measure. But yeah, I really don't see Javier Bayes is production changing with this move. At some point, he could pick up eligibility somewhere else. At some point, maybe it sounds like Lindor could.

I would say J.D. Davis is certainly on notice because I suspect he would be bumped rather than Jeff McNeil. McNeil, of course, can obviously shift over to third base. So, you know, he may not have long as a viable fantasy option. But the fact is they have four to six weeks to sort that out. And somebody else could get hurt in the meantime. Let's talk about the next one up. Craig Kimbril. This one hurts, Scott, because I have a lot of Craig Kimbril.

and in one of my most important leagues, the NFBC main event, he is my top closer, and maybe closer no more. To the Chicago White Sox for second baseman, Nick Madrigal, who is out for the rest of this season. He has a torn hamstring and reliever Cody Hoyer. Higher? Hoyer. I think it's Hoyer.

What do you think happens here, Scott? Between the White Sox bullpen, according to Ken Rosenthal, he said the White Sox plan to give both Kimbril and Hendricks save opportunities. I don't know if that's going to fly for either reliever, both relievers. I just don't know. Yeah, we were talking about the prospect of Kimberl being moved on the podcast recently, and I said, I think the one place he could go and maybe not just assume the closer role

automatically is the White Sox because of how good Liam Hendricks has been the past couple years and the fact that the White Sox made a big financial investment in him in the off season. So of course, that's where Kimbril goes. That's wonderful. I mean, they're both righties. So it's not like there's, I'm not even sure what the justification would be

for having them share the closer role other than so-and-so pitch two days in a row, he needs a night off, you know? And just saying they plan to use both for saves that doesn't mean a 50-50 split necessarily. I think, you know, if you're in a league, a traditional scoring league that mostly just rewards saves for relievers and ones who aren't getting saves don't have much value, really.

You can't afford to drop you of these guys right now, obviously. My suspicion is Kimbril will come out ahead here. And I'm not, I'm not, I don't have much to go on. say that obviously. It's just he's never been anything but a closer really. Yeah. Except the past couple years, you know, when he struggled and fell out of the role. But that's really the only role he's ever known when Hendrix has spent most of his career as a set-up man. So that would seem like a more natural transition. Plus, Kimbril's numbers are better this year. But ultimately, it's not my decision to make. That's just, if I was managing the White Sox, that's how I'd think it through.

I do wonder if they would do something like Hendrix for one save, Kimbril for one save, Hendrix for one save, Kimbril for one save. Not that we've ever seen that before or like it would be very unorthodox. And obviously Tony Larusa is an old school manager. I think he wants to have one closer. But the truth is he has two of the top three, top five closers in all of baseball. So they have that luxury and they can do that. They can go with a mix and math.

approach if that's something that they want to do. Kimberl, obviously we know has been doing this for much longer than Hendricks, but Hendricks has been better more recently. Yeah, and I'm not even sure like the every other night scenario. Obviously, they're not going to be winning every night. Yeah. And to preserve a close win, I would imagine most days when they have a small lead, they would want both pitching, you know.

So, yeah, I'm not sure how it's going to play out. And yeah, Laruso is kind of a pioneer for bullpen rolls, as I understand it. And I know the 90s tradition of bullpen rolls. Larissa kind of pioneered that. So I don't know if he still, if that would make him more likely to choose one guy or not. It kind of makes me think he would. Yeah, I do wonder if this could lead to more wins potentially for one of them. I know Liam Hendricks, they've used more recently for multiple innings at a time.

So maybe he can, if he's not pitching the ninth, he pitches the seventh and eighth. Maybe he winds up with a few more wins, something like that. But overall, hold both for now. Let's see how this shakes out. Liam Hendricks and Craig Kimberl, both are still going to give you ridiculous ratios and a lot of strikeouts. Nick Madrigal, he's going over to the Cubs here, Scott. We know he's not going to play the rest of this season, but any thoughts on him joining the Chicago Cubs? I feel like the Cubs just clone Nico Horner.

Yeah, right. They have both. One. Yeah. I don't know. I mean, they're both kind of out of their time players being contact first guys who can steal a base, but not a lot of power. And so far, it hasn't translated to much fantasy production for either. So, I, you know, if I were the white socks, I wouldn't have hesitated to give up.

I'm generally a hold your prospect. guy, but I wouldn't have hesitated to give up Nick Madrigal for a year plus of Kimbril. All right, Scott. Who is your official Cubs Closer prediction as of now? Well, since they

acquired a reliever in that deal, and I haven't, let me double check his numbers. I can't imagine they're that dominant because why would the White Sox have given him up? No, he hasn't been that good this year. He's got a high swinging... Cody Hoyer hasn't been that good this year. He's got a high swinging strike rate.

but an ERA over five. He was great last year for what it's worth in 23 and two-thirds innings, 152 ERA, 0.89 whip. I would guess Dan Winkler gets the first chance, but I don't really think he'll have a chance to secure it outright.

And we talked recently about how Dylan Maples just went on the IL, but with only a blister. So I don't imagine that's going to be a long-term asset. I feel like absence. I feel like I feel like Maples is going to get a shot here when he gets back and has maybe the best chance of anyone in that bullpen of

actually becoming a closer. The Phillies made a decent size move and they acquired both Kyle Gibson and Ian Kennedy from the Texas Rangers in exchange for pitching prospect Spencer Howard. So let's start with Kyle Gibson who's having a very good season right now. 2.87 ERA, the underlying numbers say he's been a little bit lucky. 4.15 X-FIP, a 3.69 expected ERA. So his quality of contact allowed has actually been very, very good this season for Kyle Gibson. It's a negative park shift, but he also gets to face opposing pitchers now, Scott. What do you think this does for Kyle Gibson's value? Well, I think his stock was

trending down already. His last three starts have been not so great. He's been one of the biggest overachievers in X-FIP. He's over-his, he's been one of the pitchers who's over-achieved, outperformed his ex-fit by the most, as you pointed out. And I think it's been coming home to Roost. I think moving to a smaller park will only exacerbate that. He is a ground ball pitcher, so I don't know that the park issue. I don't know that the park changes as much the issue for Gibson as just natural regression. But I expect him to continue to lose value.

Not to the point that you need to think about dropping him or anything. but he has achieved so far this year, for sure. Ian Kennedy is currently 71% rostered on CBS. He's got a 2.51 ERA, 1.05 whip. It's been a great bounceback season for Ian Kennedy. Do you think that he will be the closer, Scott? I believe he has history with Joe Girardi. They were in the Yankee.

I think they were in the Yankees organization together. I'll look it up, but do you think he closes? Well, it really comes down to whether they decide to go with the former Ranger or the current Ranger being Ranger Suarez, who they've been using in that role. I think they're going to go with the former Ranger. I think they're going to go with Ian Kennedy.

They've struggled all year to find a reliable late-inning guy, and the Suarez has gotten the job done here recently. Kennedy's been doing it all season. I worry it's going to be like, who is it that they acquired last year from the Red Sox? Because he had been getting saved. Brandon Workman.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He didn't look that dominant, really. I'm afraid the same is going to happen with Kennedy, because Kennedy has gotten the job done, but he hasn't really, you know, it's not like he has a huge strikeout rate or anything. It does seem like it could fall apart. But I imagine they go with him at first

and go back to using Suarez as more like a multi-inning reliever. Ian Kennedy and Joe Girardi were together for two seasons, it looks like on the Yankees back in the day, 2008 and 2009. It's been a while, but they do have some familiarity there. All right, so I agree with you. I think it's going to be Ian Kennedy as the closer. Scott, what do you think this does for Spencer Howard,

who has great minor league numbers? It hasn't worked to this point in the major leagues. He's kind of been messed around with here with the Phillies. They only let him start two, three endings here. They don't give him a full workload. You have him in the Scott White Dynasty League, so... I do, and I traded for him earlier this year. What do you think this does for his dynasty value?

as somebody who was invested in him in a dynasty league I was happy to see Spencer Howard traded away from the Phillies because I just got the feeling they weren't quite sure what they wanted to do with him and yeah he had bounced between roles and his velocity had been unsteady

and and it just seemed like he was falling short of his potential remember two years ago in the minors he had amazing numbers like an ERA round two over 11K per 9 was one of the very best pitching prospects in baseball but I was

afraid the Phillies were taking them down the wrong path so now he goes to the Rangers who hopefully will handle him a little better for what it's worth Phillies fans you know you may think

why are we giving up such a big prospect for two guys who look like they may be overachievers this year you did also get a prospect a pitching prospect back in the deal. Hans Krause, who's not Spencer Howard's level,

but he's pretty good. All right, good to know there. Let's move on to, he's still got a lot more trades. Richard Rodriguez goes to your Atlanta Braves. The Braves, we were just talking about this yesterday that we didn't really hear anything

and then they came out here on Friday and they made not a blockbuster move, but they made a bunch of moves. So let's talk about it. Richard Rodriguez to Atlanta for Bryce Wilson and Ricky DeVito. We know that Richard Rodriguez will not be.

the closer so he can likely be dropped. Well, do we know he won't be the closer? Yeah, well, yeah, that was kind of, you know, I was thinking about it. He's been really good. Will Smith is a lefty. I guess we don't know for sure. We don't know for sure. I suspect it'll be Will Smith.

He's already, his salary's already fixed. Well, Richard Rodriguez is, I think he has a year left of arbitration. So that, I mean, that shouldn't be the primary reason, but, you know, it helps. And I think Will Smith is better. His ERA is worse, but everything else is better for Will Smith. And after kind of a bumpy road early on, he's settled down. I'd be surprised if they changed to Richard Rodriguez. But I wouldn't say it's unthinkable.

I think you have to wait and see how it plays out first. I suppose it's possible that they even go the lefty-righty route and play the match-up. That's the way like the A's have been doing with Lou Trevino and Jake Deekman. So Richard Rodriguez is arbitration eligible for the next two seasons, actually. So that could factor in. Oh, cool. Let's talk about the pirate side of things. We all just keep assuming that David Bednar is going to be the,

was the closer in waiting here for the pirates? And he's had a very good year, 2.70 ERA, 11.3K for 9, and has worked most consistently as the eighth inning reliever for the pirates. Chris Stratton is also there. Who do you think is the closer for the pirates? Yeah, I think Bednar, the only hesitation is that he's a rookie, and are they going to think ahead to how his salary arbitration will go down the line? Probably not.

He's been the eighth inning guy. He's been their best reliever. And I suspect he'll be the one who gets the shot to close. David Bednar is currently 10% rostered on CBS so if you do need some saves he is a name that you can look at next one up Jan Goams and Josh Harrison

to the Oakland A's for catcher Drew Milas right-hand pitcher Seth Schumann and right-hand pitcher Richard Gwash what do you think this does Scott I guess it sounds like Sean Murphy is going to lose playing time right

in Oakland and I know you gave me a heads up beforehand, everyone might flock and say, oh, well, the Nationals traded away Jan Goams. This means Caber Ruiz is automatically going to be the starter for the Nationals. Do you think that is going to be the case? Well, I saw a tweet really just minutes before we went on. Davy Martinez, I guess was talking to reporters. Davy Martinez is the Nationals manager and said,

Kibbert Ruiz and Josiah Gray are probably going to report to AAA first, that they're close and could be up in September. roster is only expand by two in September. So September call-ups is a term that's going to have different meaning now going forward. But that's the way Davy Martinez characterized it. So, you know, I was hopeful that the biggest outcome of this Jan Goams trade was that Ruiz would get a shot right away. Sounds like that's not the case, though. I mean, I don't know that Davey Martinez is the one making the final call on that.

And he did use the word probably. but still, that's a clear indication that we've gotten so far. Josh Harrison, do you think he's just a utility guy for them? Does he start at second base? I know Jed Lowry was technically their second baseman, but they also have Tony Kemp. I imagine Harrison's just a utility guy. All right.

Next up, Joaquin Soria, to the Toronto Blue Jays, not that the Diamondbacks are a great team. In fact, they're very bad. But if you need saves, Tyler Clippard, most recently got a save for the Diamondbacks, and it was his first save in three years. So if you're speculating, I would guess Tyler Clippard in Arizona.

Yeah. Yeah, he's been a great reliever deep into his 30s now. And a better reliever than Joachim Sorias, by far the best reliever in that bullpen. I actually wondered if he might get traded. So the fact they got a save the other day, I would say Clippert is the guy for the Diamondbacks, however infrequently they'll have a save chance.

1% rostered is Tyler Clippert. So for those in the deepest of leagues, I had waivers run on Thursday night, so I was up, I was already going to be up very late, but I was throwing some waiver wire bids in. I had my Kyle Finnegans and my Marlins relievers and all these kind of crazy. And this weekend is going to be even worse

because now we have even, we'll have a little bit more clarity, hopefully. So it's going to be a big weekend if you need saves in those deeper leagues. Hansel Robles traded to the Boston Red Sox, and we know that Taylor Rogers is currently on the IL with a finger sprain. Scott, do you think Tyler Duffy will be the closer for now for the twins? I mean, I don't know who else it would be. That's, I mean, and that's the only thing that makes this Hansel Robles trade relevant, obviously. Wasn't that good. It's going to a bullpen where they have alternatives. So who closes for

in Minnesota now, I would guess Duffy, I don't know how that exciting that is. His 2019 and 2020 seasons were great, but it just hasn't been missing bats this year. How can we forget? Alex Colome is on the team. He's been awful. He's got a 4.82 ERA

this season. So Duffy's whip is very high. The strikeouts are down, but he has been more effective than Alex Colome this season. So that would be my guess, though. Obviously, Colome has that experience. Tyler Duffy, first one up for me as well. This is a loaded question, Scott.

So just give me your three favorite from these names if you need saves in a Categories league. Kyle Finnegan with the Nationals. David Bednar with the Pirates. Tyler Clippard with the Diamondbacks. Dan Winkler with the Cubs. Anthony

Bender or Dylan Floro with the Marlins. Spencer Patton, who is with the Rangers. We didn't talk about him, but that's my pick. Tyler Duffy with the Twins and anybody on Tampa. So that is a lot of names. they are available in many CBS leagues. Who are your three favorites if you need saves?

I think Bedner is my favorite. Yeah, me too. Followed by Clippard, just because I think there's some, there's real clarity there. And third, I think Dylan Floreau is going to get the shot for the Marlins over Anthony Bender. Bedner and Binder, Bender.

So I would say Floro would be my third choice. Do you think Spencer Patton will get the first opportunity in Texas? It's possible. He hasn't been up for that long. The strikeout rate is good. He's been working in the eighth inning role. He's a 33-year-old, though, without much of a track record of success, clearly.

So I kind of think the Rangers are just going to be so bad. it's going to be a lot like the Royals bullpen or the Orioles bullpen where those opportunities are going to come up so infrequently and how often is how often is Chris Woodward going to go to the same guy

two times in a row? I'm not confident that'll happen. I agree with you that Spencer Patton's the most logical choice but I just I don't think there's a lot of value there. That's my guess. I'll give you a name to watch

in the Rangers bullpen and a name that I praying gets the job. But the first, the name to watch is Joe Barlow, who is 25 years old. He's only made nine appearances, but averaging 10.6K per nine, he's got a 14% swinging strike rate, 1.17 ERA. Demarcus Evans. I mean, come on. This is a match made in heaven. I've been talking about Evans for basically the last two years, and he's been quite bad whenever he's got an opportunity in the majors to this point. But awesome minor league numbers, lots of strikeouts, lots of wall. So he's a name.

He was a prospect for them. We'll see if he can work his way in there, but he's mostly been very bad. You know who else has been very bad? Andrew Heaney, who is now on the New York Yankees, which is, it just does not suit his skill set. You know, he's someone who has struggled with home runs in Angel Stadium, and now he's joining the Yankees in Yankee Stadium.

So I don't think there's anything to see here, Scott. What do you think? It goes from the best division for a home stadium. prone pitcher to the worst division for a homer prone pitcher in addition to the the park shift and I don't know that he has long in the Yankees rotation anyway obviously they could use them right now because Luis Severino hasn't come back Cory Kluber hasn't come back they're both working their way back and I suspect he would be the first one out especially since I think he's going to struggle I

guess Domingo Hermon could struggle again and lose the job but I I think it's going to be Hini. He's got an ERA over five this year with the Angels. Let's stick with the Yankees here. And their lineup is actually out for Friday. They're going up against the Marlins. They aren't in a National League park. Interesting.

Well, first of all, I'll just point out, DJ LaMayhew and Gio Orchella are not in the lineup because they're day-to-day with various ailments. But Claibor Torres is leading off. Joey Gallo batting second. Aaron Judge, batting third. Anthony Rizzo, fourth. John Carlo Stanton is in left field.

He's batting fifth. Ruegnet O'Dore, Gary Sanchez, Tyler Wade, and then Jameson Tion is pitching. The one I wanted to bring up, Scott, he wasn't moved at the deadline. Luke Voight. I had a few questions on Twitter. What happens with Luke Voight now? And I guess when he's healthy, by all accounts, it sounds like he's close. They could go with John Callow Stanton in left field, Joey Gallo and center,

Luke Void at DH, but that just exposes Stanton to so much injury risk. So what do you think happens with Luke Voight? I'm concerned about it. Yeah, there's certainly a path for all the bats playing. But, yeah, I think the Yankees were hoping they'd be able to trade Voight. I know that was something that some of their people on the Yankees beat brought up is maybe Voight becomes a candidate to trade. It didn't happen.

And I don't know why they just want to eliminate him. I understand he's had trouble staying healthy this year, but it still looks like. he's a quality bat, of course, one of their very best, in fact. A better bat, I would assume still, than Anthony Rizzo, even though we think Yankee Stadium's going to help Anthony Rizzo. So,

I would guess they go with the lineup that's going to maximize offense and just cross their fingers, everybody stays healthy. You can't, you can only predict that so much anyway. Yeah, that's the way that I'm leaning as of now. But if we're being honest, I mean, we kind of play injury roulette pretty often here with the Yankees.

So these things have a way of working themselves out. It wouldn't surprise me. Hopefully this doesn't happen. But if someone gets hurt, then Luke Voight, his playing time could be much easier to come across here. We had a few other smaller trades. Let's talk about Jorge Solerre. Went to your Atlanta Braves, which is kind of a curious move, considering they just traded for Adam Duval and Eddie Rosario and Jack Peterson.

They required four outfielders in the last two weeks. This is an NL team. What did they do? we talked about the other moves already on a separate emergency podcast where we also discussed the Jose Barrios trade in depth so if you haven't listened to that yet it's a separate download but you can figure it out um yeah Jorge Saler we've talked about him a lot recently he's been hot he seems like he's turning a season around he still makes very high quality contact like you'd expect from an elite power hitter like he did two years ago when he hit 48 home runs

and the strikeout rate is very similar to that 48 home run season two among the best Jorge Solair's ever had. So we were already thinking things we're looking up for Saler. Now he goes to a smaller part. I don't know that that is going to make the difference so much is just him, you know, apparently seeing the ball better than he was earlier in the season, squaring it up better. I'm not sure exactly how the playing time is going to shake out.

there is no natural center fielder among that group. Duval and Eddie Rosario and Jack Peterson have all played some centerfield. Of course, they wouldn't dare put Salar in centerfield. Eddie Rosario is not healthy right now, also worth bringing up. He's dealing an intercostal strain, I believe it is, and there's not a clear timetable for his return. So I don't know exactly how it shakes out. I feel like

Soler would be the highest priority bat of those they acquired. Peterson might end up being in a position where he sits against left-handers now. So keep that in mind. I feel like Salare would be the highest priority bat,

but that's... It might also depend on performance, just who's the hot hand at the moment of that group that can be... I mean, all of them can be streaky, right? I guess maybe Rosario doesn't fit into that category, but he's just underachieve this year to this point. Yeah, big time.

Let's move on to the next one. We had reliever Phil Maton go from Cleveland over to the Houston Astros in exchange for Miles Straw. So I think Miles Straw is still going to play every day for Cleveland. It's a much worse lineup. There's an opportunity for him to potentially lead off for this team. And Cleveland does like to run. So maybe even an uptick in value for Miles Straw,

but we kind of know who he is. He's just going to give you speed. And earlier I saw a quote from Astros GM James Click. He said he felt Chas McCormick did everything he could to earn more playing time. And it sounds like he's going to start in center field for the Astros. Last name I'll bring up, a lot of names I'm throwing your way. Jake Myers, who is with the Astros organization, he was at AAA, batting 343, 16 homers, 10 steals, a 10.06 OPS.

So all of it, Scott. Miles Straw, you think Chas McCormick's actually the starting center fielder? Does Jake Myers swoop in? What do you think? Well, do we know Myers is coming up? No, no. I haven't seen that confirmed at all. It's just he's been crushing at AAA,

so I guess it's a natural assumption. Okay. Yeah, well, since Click has cited Chas McCormick, and McCormick has basically been the only other player manned center field for the... Jake Kaplan did tweet an hour ago. The Astros are calling up center fielder Jake Myers from AAA. So he is on the way.

Yeah, that might complicate things. Now, McCormick is a right-handed hitter, so he'd been mostly playing against lefties, but his numbers are actually better against righties this year. Having said that, his numbers, the underlying numbers would suggest he's overachieve. The contacts have been high quality, a high hard hit rate, but a 32% strikeout rate. And his XBA is only 207. You know, he's pretty athletic. He's only stolen two bases.

So I could see with more playing time, maybe him running more and being like a really low batting average power speed threat. But I'm not sure. I'm not sure it's going to be truly an everyday situation with Jake Myers coming up. I would save McCormick for the deeper league still. Chas McCormick, 5% rostered. If you play in 15-team, Florida leagues, five outfielders, take a shot.

I mean, this is a really, really good lineup with the Astros, and it's cheap exposure to get in on that run production. But yeah, let's see what happens between Chas McCormick and Jake Myers. A few other small moves here, John Lester to the Cardinals. Mah. Nah. Mah. Michael Chavis to the Pirates for left-handed reliever, Austin Davis.

Maher. We sound like frogs. And, you know, look, how do I save the best for last? The biggest trade of the day, jihad to the Cardinals for left-handed pitcher Evan Sisk and John Gantz. How about that? There were people tweeting at me they wanted an emergency podcast from Chris Towers when John Cant was traded.

John Gant, that's an addition by subtraction right there. Sure is. I saw... The back end of the Cardinals' rotation was pretty miserable, so you can't even really say getting Lester Hap hurts somebody else that we cared about. It's pretty irrelevant move for our purposes. I think we covered most of what has happened to this point. Obviously, we've done a bunch of emergency podcasts talking about other trades that have happened

on Wednesday and Thursday, and we have another podcast where we talked about Jose Burrios, which Scott already referenced. But at this point, Scott, we kind of know. I think everything that has happened. So let's just wrap up with this. Give me a few of your biggest fantasy winners from this trade deadline. So I will be writing an article about this on the site. I will have thought it through a little more.

This is going kind of top of mind. But biggest winners, I would say, include Anthony Rizzo with the park shift. David Bedner, I think, is the clearest and most exciting reliever who's stepping into the closer role. Let's see. I saw that Reed Detmer's was scratched from his minor league start. I'll have to look into that more. But they obviously have a rotation opening now

with Andrew Heaney being traded to the Yankees. And we were talking about Detmer's as a potential call-up after a strong AAA debut last time out. But I'll need to get more clarity on that. He could end up being a winner. Let's see. I would say I would say Josiah Gray and Cabr Ruiz,

but of course it sounds like we won't be seeing them for a while still. Other winners, other winners. I've got one for you, Scott. The biggest winner of all. You ready? Yeah. Trevor Story.

Aha. That's a good one. I'll have to jot that name down. Trevor Story. He's in Colorado. So now I feel like you can invest. If your league's trade deadline hasn't passed, you can invest in him with more confidence because I think he's still as good as he always has been

and he's just for whatever reason underperformed a little this year. I wouldn't be surprised if over the next two months we see Trevor's story just take off. Right now that the trade deadline is behind him, these guys are human. This is something that they're playing through and he's hearing all the chatter, possibility of being traded away from Colorado, a team that the only team that he is known in his major league career. So some players are affected by that. And it wouldn't surprise me

if now that it's behind him, he just, all right, it's in the rear view mirror and he just takes off and he plays up to the level that we know that he can. So it's been a disappointing year specifically for batting average

and power for story. He's still running a lot. I think he gets back on track. The biggest losers, let's stick with the Rockies, man. This isn't just fantasy. What are you doing? What are you doing?

If you are the Rockies, they don't trade Story. They don't trade John Gray. and I get it, you can extend a qualifying offer and you'll get some compensatory picks, whatever, but you're telling me there's no one out there that was willing to give you a decent to really good prospect hall in return for Trevor Story,

when we just saw Jose Burrios get two of the top 75 prospects in baseball? Yeah, I saw some speculation on Twitter that politically, you know, lower-case, ACP politically, the Rockies couldn't afford to get a less than satisfactory return after the backlash for the Nolan Aronado trade, which is, if that's why they didn't trade story, that's weak sauce. I wonder if the whole team, the whole league kind of conspired and they're like, we're only going to lowball for Trevor Story because we've seen what the Rockies traded Nolan Aronado away for. They have data. They would have to be concerned about how Story's production would try. translate outside of course field. True.

And it would be a rental, right? So I predicted actually a week or so ago that Trevor's story wouldn't be moved at the deadline. Now, had I known it would be this wild of a deadline with this many players changing teams, I would have said, well, obviously, story will be among them. But, you know, he wasn't. It's pretty crazy. Crazy.

Crazy deadline indeed. And I did. I had a not so nice tweet about the Rockies. I just tweeted, imagine being the Rockies. And there was a really funny response that I wanted to share with you if I can find it in time here. Oh, from Billy, B-Coch 93 on Twitter.

I just imagine their front office has like two employees and a fax machine. That's it. All right, we've done enough bashing for Colorado. The actual fantasy loser, Scott, I'll give you a few of mine, and then you can expand or whoever you're thinking. But Jose Barrios, who we spoke about

on the emergency podcast. Just don't think that the ballpark in Rogers Center is going to be conducive to Jose Barrios and his pitching style. And then the two White Sox guys, it's just given what we know right now, they went from both being top five closers to maybe neither being a top 10 option,

a top 15 option if they're sharing it. So those are some losers for me. It's possible they're either both moderate losers or one of them's a really big loser. Yes. That still has yet to reveal itself. Some losers for you, Scott, outside of those, or you can expand? Yeah, some losers for me.

I think those two you mentioned are both big ones. I would add to the list. I mean, there are so many other closers who might be losers here. Obviously, like Yumi Garcia, clear loser. Bradhand potentially is a loser. Kendall Graveman, of course, is a loser. I mean, I'm going back to the beginning of the week. Yeah, some of these.

Romano could be a loser. Either of the Braves guys in Richard Rodriguez and Will Smith, one of those guys could be a big loser. Yeah, I'm not that worried, but it's possible Will Smith could be a loser there. Certainly Richard Rodriguez is if it's not Will Smith. Andrew Heaney. Ranger Suarez.

To whatever extent, he still had value. Chris Bryant, I think, is a, moderate loser. Well, that's not nice. Sounds unkind, right? A moderate loser. I've never heard that term before. He probably thinks I'm a loser.

That's probably the meanest thing that you could say to someone. You're a moderate loser. What? Ranger Suarez, right? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, there's a lot. There's more losers than winners.

All right, well, Scott's going to write all about it, and you can find that article on the site. Scott's Sleepers for next week, also going to be on the site at some point this weekend. So keep a lookout for that is two-star pitchers, sleeper, one-star streamers, and sleeper hitters as well. That's it.

I think we're done. For Scott, I am Frank, thank all for listening and watching this emergency trade deadline recap edition of fantasy baseball today. Scott and Chris will be back again on Monday. Bye-bye. Bye.