Fantasy Baseball Today - Trade Talk! Buy-High? Kenta Maeda Concern? (4/22 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 22, 2021

Popeyes spicy chicken sandwich for the win! Let's talk about how good Max Scherzer has been (1:50). What happened in that Twins-A's game!? Should we be worried about Kenta Maeda? ... News and notes (16:45)! Dinelson Lamet made his debut Wednesday and he's gone again. Time to stash MacKenzie Gore? ... What's a buy-high (21:41)? What would it take to acquire names like Trevor Rogers, Vlad Jr., Corbin Burnes or Javier Baez? ... Should you buy Charlie Blackmon and sell Nate Lowe (40:11)? Plus we hit a bunch of your trade questions! ... We recap the rest of Wednesday's action, get you bullpen updates, and 'To Stream or Not To Stream' for the next few days (47:13). ... Email us at [e-mail].  'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast from CBS Sports. I drive, center field, and swing. This is magnificent. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank Scott, Chris, and Adam.

What's up, everybody? Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today. Frank Stanfield joined by Chris Towers. and the other day we spoke about Chris Bryant as a buy high player, someone to trade for. But we'll talk about a few more of those today. Some players that you should be considering training for. And, you know, the guys that are just moving up the rankings and potentially buying high on these players before other people realize that they're the real deal and they are just awesome.

But before we get to, oh my goodness gracious, we got a lot going on today. Chris, you and I were talking beforehand. We can both agree that the Popeye's chicken. sandwich is the best fast food sandwich around, right? Like, best fast food sandwich around. Don't give me the chick-filly thing. I like it. It's fine.

But the Popeye's chicken sandwich is the best one. The spicy chicken sandwich. I don't like mine with pickles, but you can get yours with it. Chris. But yeah, that's the best. Did we just become best friends? No pickles?

No pickles. I like, I like pickles. No, just not on a fried chicken sandwich. I'm not here for that. No pickles. No, we're out on pickles.

It's especially if you put pickles on any type of, a sandwich. The bread becomes all like, get all the soggy pickle juice. For me, it depends on which type of pickle. You know, you need a good pickle. Everyone needs a good pickle, but yeah, I'm with you. No pickles there.

Popeyes, I just ate it for dinner. We're recording this late at night. I didn't just eat it, but I did have it. And it was great. So I just wanted to talk about that. Oh, my goodness gracious! Oh, my good goodness gracious! Get us started, Chris. Who you got? From Wednesday's action. Yeah, I was going to go,

with Josh Donaldson, but we're going to talk about him shortly as part of a larger conversation. So I will go with Max Scherzer, who had another incredibly good start today. Nine strikeouts, only one walk, four hits allowed in six innings pitched against the Cardinals. One hard hit ball, one ball hit over 95 miles an hour allowed. 16 swinging strikes on 109 pitches. It's not an elite swing and strike game. You'd like to see a little more efficiency in 109 pitches over six innings. But Scherzer has been awesome.

He has four home runs allowed on the season, and all of them came in the first two innings of his first start against the Braves, I believe. So been pretty good since then. And it's been very encouraging. I was actually encouraged even during that start against the Braves. You know, his velocity has been a little lower

than it was last year and certainly lower than it where it's been at his peak, but it's still been plenty good, 93.6 miles per hour with the fastball so far this season. He's getting a lot of swinging strikes. If you want to find a reason to be pessimistic, I guess you could say that, you know, Max Scherzer has a 15% ground ball rate, which is really low.

But, you know, his home run to fly ball rate is like 15% right now, which actually isn't that low, despite the four home runs, only giving up four home runs and the four starts. So he's getting a ton of strikeouts and not really walking anybody. And I think he generally looks pretty close to himself. Yeah, I did a big rankings update on Wednesday. And I moved him up to SP 11, which for some is going to be like,

all right, well, you didn't really move him up that much. I had him at SP 14 coming into the year. And I mentioned him as a bust. He was in my bus column. And it's still possible he can bust. I mean, the main thing that I was worried about was just the age and the injuries. That can obviously still happen,

but I acknowledge along the way that this can easily blow up on my face because if he stays healthy, he's probably going to be Max Scherzer, and thus far, that's exactly what he has been. You brought up the low ground ball rate. He had a 64% fly ball rate entering Wednesday's start.

You know, if he keeps that up with the weather warming up, you know, it's probably not going to mean good things, but I would bet against him having a 64% fly ball rate for the rest of the season. He'll be an extreme ground or extreme fly ball pitcher because that's what he's always been. Yeah. You know, Max Scher's typically in the 35 to 38% range when it comes to his ground ball rate. But, you know, the thing I would point out is his launch, his average launch angle allowed right now is 29.4 degrees for his career.

It's been 18.3 degrees. That is quite a bit higher, but it's not, you know, he's giving up a lot of weak. contact in the air. So it's not necessarily as bad as it seems. Obviously, I would rather him get the ground ball rate down, but I'm not terribly concerned about it right now. I would agree. Yeah, he's always pitched to fly ball, so I'm not really worried about it. And, you know, Scott's been crushing himself the past couple of days about all the things he's been wrong about. So far, I have been wrong about Max Scherzer. I have no problem coming on here and telling you the things that I have been wrong about.

Chris Bryant was another one that we spoke about the other day. So yes, so far Scher has made me look bad. The one thing I noticed in this start, fastball velocity down to 92.6 miles per hour. That was around 94 entering this start. So pay attention to that

for the next couple of times out for Scherzer, but so far he's been awesome. So I don't really have any issue with where Max Scher is at. Oh my goodness gracious. Let's just talk about this entire Twins and A's game combined for 31 hits, 25 runs. No, it was not a double header.

It was just a 10- inning game. Who were the starting pitchers? Kenta Maeda and Frankie Montas. Yes, oh my goodness gracious, indeed. Let's talk about Kentimaida. A lot of people were freaking out about him on Twitter. Received a few emails as well. These two pitchers combined for 17 hits allowed and 13 earned runs.

Kentamaieta has not gone more than four-and-a-third in... He's actually only done that, gone more than four in a third, in one of his four starts this season. But when I look under the hood, Chris, I mean, there was really nothing that stood out to me. Velocity, swinging strike rate looks fine for Kentimaieta. X-FIP was 3.65 entering the start. Expected ERA was 3.59. The one thing I noticed, he's allowing a lot of hard contact.

And he did allow eight more hard hits on Wednesday. So we're going to talk about trades a little bit more later on. but I know you're a little bit skeptical about Maeda coming into the season. Buy low or no thanks, bro? Yeah, I would buy low. I mean, I still have him 17th at starting pitcher. And I look at the guys behind him. And it's in this order, Lance Lynn, Zach Allen,

Junjun Mruz, Zach Granky, and Joe Musgrove. I could certainly move Joe Musgrove up. You know, I think that would be warranted. I'm not ready to do that quite yet, but it wouldn't surprise me. you know, 16 to like 25 is kind of a weird spot in my pitcher rankings. I don't know if it's the same thing for you, but starting with Blake Snell at 16 and Jose Bereas at 25. And even Zach Wheeler, like, it's a bunch of guys who have been a little up and down.

You know, you've got like I'm Ian Anderson who hasn't been great, Kyle Hendricks, but I'm not really ready to change my opinion on any of them. And for me, there was kind of that, like, there was a tier right around 26. And so I'm not quite ready to shake that up. Musgrove is one guy who has definitely broken into that tier. Charlie Morton and Sandy Alcantara are right about to. But I'm not quite ready to move like Zach Wheeler, Jose Barrios, Kyle Hendricks down below them yet. No, I think that's fair.

I think that they're, you know, I have Castillo at Estuary. SP 15, I have Jack Flaherty at 14. I move Castillo down. And I think really, you know, after the top 13, I mean, that ends with Scherzer, Kirchaw, and Bueller for me, I think it's kind of interchangeable right now. And, you know, depending on if Joe Musgrove continues to pitch the way that he has, I mean, he can continue to rocket up these rankings. Same thing with Trevor Rogers, who we're going to talk about in a little bit. Sandy Alcantara, I moved him up to SP 24. So I have him in this, it's really just one massive tier for me. So, I mean,

would you trade any of these guys that are, you know, moving up right now, Joe Musgrove, Sandy Alcantara, Trevor Rogers. Would you trade any of them, all of them, for Kentomaiata right now if you could? I don't think it would make any sense to trade. Joe,

like I have Musker of ranked a little behind Kentomayana, but I would not make that trade. I agree. If someone offered me Joe Musgrove for Kentomaiada, I would really struggle to say no. I think I would say no, but it would be very, very, very difficult for me to do that. So, you know, we'll see.

I think the thing with Kentomaiata is he's relying so heavily on his slider. It's a great pitch. But, you know, I guess one of the reasons why pitchers don't love to rely on a breaking ball as much as Kentomayeta currently is or as sometimes we would advocate for them to do is, you know, it's the kind of thing where if you miss,

it can get hit hard. And I think that's what's happening to him right now is his slider, which he had a 304 Wobha loud with the slider last season. It's 380. Or at least it was coming into this game. I think it actually went down or went up

because of how hard he got hit. So I think he's fine. I don't think there's like, he is a little older, so maybe you worry about that, but there's not really any velocity concerns here. I think he'll be fine. Yep, I'm with you there.

Even if he drops down a little bit, I still think Maida will get back on track, maybe probably not to the level that we saw last year, but when it's all said and done... The expectation. Yeah, when it's all said and done, can he be a mid-3s ERA? Sure, with a great whip, a strikeout per inning.

I think that's all doable for Kent Maeda. Do not freak out if you have him on your fantasy team. The other one that started in this game was Frankie Montas. The good news is that he is allowed just two walks over his last three starts, so the control has been much better. And he's actually getting more swinging strikes

this year than he did in his breakout 2019. The biggest issue I noticed for Montas is he hasn't been getting as many ground balls. So it seems like when the ball is put in play, some line drives, some fly balls. It's been two great starts and two terrible starts for Montas. I think this kind of just is who he is.

He's like a top 50th starting pitcher for me who he's an SP4, SP5, who I think is probably going to excel in really good matchups. And, you know, there's unfortunately going to be days where he gets hit hard. Is there anything else you'd like to add on Montas? I haven't been inspired to move him up or down yet so far this season. He's 48th for me, so I agree right in that range. Fair enough. Who did all that damage? Well, Josh Donaldson, four hits, including his first home run of the season.

And he's off to a great start. just needs to stay healthy. Chris, I know you wanted to highlight Donaldson. Yeah, I mean, he is, you know, crushing the ball. Three hard hit balls today. 1378 OPS. Obviously, we're dealing with a small sample size here. But, you know, one thing with Josh Donaldson is even, you know, with all the injuries over the years and even with him getting, you know, into his, you know, mid-30s now, mid-50s, Jesus, not that old. There hasn't really been like a real sign of any sense. skills decline.

You know, he's still had a, you know, a high hard hit rate over 50% in 2019 and 2020. Strikeout rate didn't really go up over the last couple years. I think he's probably still just good as long as he's on the field. And it's going to, you know, it might be hard to trust him for fantasy because he'll gate days off. It's kind of like Justin Turner. But, you know, as good as Justin Turner's been so far, I would imagine Josh Johnson will probably be a better version of him if they, play the same number of games. Potentially, I think it's a good comp.

I think they're probably just both going to be really good. Turner's batting average is probably going to be a little bit better. Donaldson's probably going to give you a little bit more pop. So I guess it depends what you need. But if they both stay healthy on a per game basis, they can be top 12-ish, third baseman. I moved Justin Turner inside my top 12 just on Wednesday. And Donaldson, I'd be willing to move up if he proves that he could stay healthy a little bit.

so we're rooting for you, Jossi. Just stay healthy. Nelson Cruz, double dong. I mean, what more to say about the guy? He's batting 353. He has six home runs. He's awesome. Byron Buxson, another one, Chris. Three for six with his sixth home run.

And I'm giving in, Chris. I moved Byron Buckson up to my outfielder 20 in Roto. Outfielder 23 and head-to-head points. He has earned it. I feel like you can say the same thing about this entire Minnesota Twins team. It's just, if he stays healthy, he's probably going to be awesome. This is far in a way the best that I have ever seen him look. You know, it's funny.

I haven't really moved him up that much. Yeah, because he were just ridiculous. It's the hot start of the season. I think I've moved him up two spots in the outfield rankings. Yeah, he had five batted balls hit at least 104 miles per hour today, which is just ridiculous. A hard hit ball. How Stadcast delineates a hard hit ball is 95. five miles per hour.

And even with exit velocities up this season, his is up to 96.5 miles per hour on average right now, 67.9% hard hit rate. He's just playing out of his mind right now. I don't really think there's all that much more to say. He's been really good the last couple of seasons. You know, he 2020 appeared to be something of a breakout for him in terms of his skills. and it's just a question of whether he stays healthy.

I don't know if you could hear that. That was me knocking on wood. He's knocking on wood. Very hard and very, very loudly. Speaking of staying healthy, the two that I have... I think I just heard my dog do a little bark. The two outfielers I have Bucksin just behind,

George Springer and Kittel Marte, who are currently hurt, but I think when they're back, you know, he's in that range. I don't want to move him ahead of those guys yet until I see them return, but I think this is probably where Buckson should be based on how he's performing. Jorge Polanco picked up four hits and his second steal of the season. On the A side of things, Matt Olson, huge game.

Three for five with a double dong. He's now up to six home runs, and he's batting three 16. So he was off to a bit of a slow start. Coming around, Matt Olson looks just fine. Mark Kana continues to run. Picked up his fourth steal, Elvis Andrews. Not really doing much, but he's running a little bit.

He has three steals now on the season. picked up that third one on Wednesday. Last player I wanted to highlight from this game, Seth Brown, he went three for four with a home run, two runs and two RBI. He is only 1% rostered, Chris. He did hit in 2019 in the PCL, AAA level.

He hit 297 with 37 home runs. Anything to see with Seth Brown? In AL-only leagues, anyone who's got a pulse probably deserves to be rostered. I wouldn't be looking at him outside of those. formats yet, but we'll keep an eye on it. Yeah, I think in deeper category leagues, if you need some pop, he hasn't been playing against

left-handed pitching, but that A's team is hot right now. So if you just want some cheap exposure, I think Seth Brown is a way to do it. What does a World Series winning executive do after running a Major League baseball team for 18 years? They start a podcast. David Samson hosts nothing personal with David Samson, a daily podcast dedicated to giving you the truth about sports, business, and entertainment. Step inside the front office and really get to know sports. Nothing personal with David Samson is available every weekday, wherever you listen to podcasts.

And remember, remember, it's just business. It's nothing personal. News and notes, Denelson Lament. Man, who could have saw this coming? He exited his debut start on Wednesday with forearm tightness. I think I have something for this. He gone. He gone.

He gone. And he gone. Unfortunately, We don't like to see anyone get hurt, but the writing was on the wall. I think we all had to Nelson Lament as a bus coming into the season here, Chris, and it's just, it's not looking good. I think McKenzie Gore has to be coming soon. No, I mean, given everything that's going on with that rotation right now,

Gore is 48% rostered, Chris. What should that number be? How imperative is it that you get McKenzie Gore on your team? The top pitching prospect in baseball. I think it should probably still be around 48%. I don't think there's really like, yeah, I would expect he'll get called up at some point, but it's going to depend on them, I think, losing faith in Chris Paddock more than anything because I think they came into the season expecting, you know, Denalston, the Matt was a long shot

to make a big contribution. The thing with Gore is, you know, we were saying the same things last year. Oh, at some point he's going to get the call. You know, they need someone. And it just hasn't happened yet. And so I just wonder if there's something that we haven't been able to see since he last pitched in games that has them soured on him a bit. I don't have any reason to believe that. It's just a guess.

But given the amount of injuries that are out there right now, you know, I wouldn't drop Sixto Sanchez to take a flyer on Gore. So I think I'm still, you know, mostly trying to wait there. Yeah, the biggest issue for Gore dating back to last year, everything we heard at their alternate training camp, and even during spring training, has been control. He had eight walks and 11 innings pitch, so that's just not going to get the job done. And obviously, the only people who know how he's looked thus far is, you know, people in the organization. We don't have any minor league baseball games started yet. But, you know, we'll see how Ryan Weathers fits in. He's going to be the fifth starter, I guess, for now, for the foreseeable future. But, you know, if they get really desperate, then I,

I do think we could see McKenzie Gore up. I can't really put an exact timetable on it, but within the next month, it wouldn't surprise me. Anthony Santander was placed on the 10-day IEL for the Orioles. With a sprained left ankle, he's expected to miss two to four weeks. Gene Seguro was placed on the IL due to a right quad strain. Jorge Al-Farro was placed on the IL due to a left hamstring strain. Ronald de Cunia could return for the Braves on Friday,

dealing with a mild abdominal strain. Anthony Rendon is apparently very close. to returning for the Angels. Send trade offers while you still can. If people haven't seen the update, I would love to have Anthony Rendon on my team. Nationals manager Dave Martinez said that Strasbourg felt okay after he threw on flat ground

from 75 feet. Strasbourg, of course, on... When was it? Sunday, Monday was placed on the IEL with shoulder inflammation. So hopefully Strasbourg will be okay. General Manager Kim Ang said that Sixtho Sanchez dealing with a shoulder injury is, quote, still a ways out from returning to game action.

Domingo Hermon will return for the Yankees and start on Thursday against Cleveland. Hermon is 59% rostered. Not that you need to go add him, but I think he has some strikeout upside. He really did not look great earlier in the season. The Astros will recall Christian Javier from their alternate training site to start Thursday against the Angels. Drew Smiley will return from the aisle this Saturday against the debacks. he was diagnosed with forearm inflammation last week.

So pretty quick time there on the IL4. Drew Smiley, Adbert Aalai, is scheduled to start Saturday against the Brewers. Lance McCullors is scheduled to start Sunday against the Angels. He was scratched earlier this week dealing with an illness. Max Fried is still day-to-day with his hamstring injury and remains on the IL. Christian Pache has no timetable for a return dealing with a groin injury. Scott Kingery was recalled by the Phillies. he's 5% rostered.

A name you can look at in deeper category leagues. He has some pop. He could run a little bit, but really seems like he's falling out of favor there in Philadelphia. He could be a 15-15 guy if he gets playing time. And obviously, you know, Seguro on the IL and in center field, they've really got some holes in line-up. So if he shows anything, he'll probably play regularly.

Yep, definitely. I aim to pay attention to. Renato Nunez was designated for a, assignment by the Detroit Tigers. Gio Urchella left Wednesday's game due to lower back tightness. Sucks because he was actually batting cleanups, so they finally moved him up in the order and then he got hurt. Justin Upton left his game with cramps.

Brandon Crawford left due to tightness in his right side. We got an email recently asking for buy highs. Apparently this was a segment that Adam Azer, former host, fantastic gentleman, used to do. And it's my thinking, we haven't really done it yet, but is, If people in your league are not buying into just how good these players have been, and you can buy them even while they are ascending, they're not to the level that we think that they can get to yet,

then you can still buy them on the way up, and you can still get a bit of value out of them. So I wanted to start with Trevor Rogers, who threw another gem on Wednesday. Seven shutout, it was against the Baltimore Orioles, eight strikeouts to just one walk, 17 whiffs on 82 pitches. He entered this start with an 18.

15.5% swinging strike rate. That was fifth among all starting pitchers in baseball. He's been ridiculous. He has 31 strikeouts over 22 innings pitch. Is this a buy high situation? Is it a sell high situation for Trevor Rogers? Someone who, kudos to you, I know that you were probably the most excited

about him coming into the season. I wonder if we're going to be on an inning's limit here at some point with Trevor Rogers, which is like my only hesitation with him. Yeah, I think that's probably the case. And I think you saw a little glimpse of that today where he was rolling, 82 pitches through seven innings and then they took him out. He probably could have pushed for the complete game.

But, you know, when you're dealing with a guy who has, I mean, he threw 136 innings in 2019. That was his first full season as a professional. It's not like he couldn't get to 150 innings, but I think they would probably prefer not to get him much more than that. and you know, maybe if he gets a couple of starts like this where he gets through seven innings really easily, maybe, you know, you can tip it up to 155. But yeah, they'll probably be very careful with his pitch count.

He hasn't thrown more than 95 pitches in a start so far. Two, I think three out of four so far with 82 or fewer pitches. He's been excellent and he looks like a really, really good pitcher. I think there's some sell high potential here, though. I do think he's awesome. I think Trevor Rogers is really, really good, but he's not going to keep pitching this well. And if someone's really excited about him and looking at him as a potential,

you know, number two or number three starting pitcher, I think I'd be okay trying to move him. But, you know, this is the thing with the sell high as you actually do have to sell high. I would rather have Trevor Rogers than Zach, please, I can Chris Paddock right now. so I'm not looking for necessarily like a sell low to go along with it unless maybe Jesus Lazzardo was one of the guys that someone was selling low on

yeah it's even that one so I updated my rankings on Wednesday and I I moved Trevor Rogers up to SP 32 which seems very aggressive but I think once you get into the 30s it's kind of, I think there's a lot of moving parts there. So just behind him, I have Zach Plesack, Hazers Lozardo, Max Fried, Pablo Lopez, Lance McCullors. Trevor Rogers has far and away been the best of that group. There's no arguing that. And just ahead of him, I have Ian Anderson, Kyle Hendricks, Sonny Gray. So I'm not going to move him ahead of those names yet. I think it's possible to do so if he continues to pitch this well. Would you do it for Kyle Hendricks? Yeah. that's just, yeah, I'm not really worried about Kyle Hendricks.

No, I agree. And it's a classic by-low situation right now. It's just, you're going to get so many more strikeouts from Trevor Rogers than you are, Connedricks. Sure. Yeah, that's, that's fair. Even if Rogers throws 140 innings and Hendricks, you'll probably still get 20 more strikeouts from Rogers than you would Hendricks. That's, it's a big difference. But, you know, obviously Hendricks has a long track record of being a three-ish ERA, very good whip guy. So I think I would live with the, the lack of strikeouts, especially strikeouts are easier to find than ever right now. Yeah, he's nasty. Someone else who's nasty. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. who went two for three on Wednesday with two walks, a run, and an RBI.

He's now batting 383. He is the number one first baseman in points leagues and in roto leagues. This one is a little bit tougher, Chris, because I don't think you're going to be able to pry him from anybody's hands right now. No, no. I think you'd probably have to pay second round value to get him.

And I don't know if I'd be, well, like, I moved him up to my number three first basement. I moved to him. He was, problem was he was number six coming into the season. So there wasn't, you know, I kept staring at it the last like week or so. And I kept looking like, Jose Abray, Pete Alonzo, DJ LaMahue, Jose Abrae, Pete Alonzo, DJ LaMahue. And I finally tonight, earlier today, I just said, screw it. Let me just move Vladimir Guerrero up. It's fine.

I still have Cody Ballinger ahead of him. You know, hopefully he can get healthy and, you know, be the guy that we hoped he could be. But I don't have a lot to criticize about Vladimir Guerrero right now. He's doing everything that we wanted him to do. You know, elite quality of contact numbers. The launch angle is up to 12 degrees on average. which is more than enough, given his plate discipline, how hard he hits the ball, all that stuff. You know, if Vladimir Guerrero was breaking out into the superstar caliber hitter, we hoped he would be, this is what it would look like.

Should have mentioned this earlier, but one of the reasons we're talking about potential trade candidates is Chris updates his trade charts every Wednesday. You can find those on the site, CBSports.com. And Vladimir Guerrero is one of the biggest risers. He's moved up. It's a point system, but I guess this is like 10 spots or whatever. Yeah, I mean, just kind of view it as like auction values. You know, I based it on auction values at first and have been moving from there. Okay.

So you have Vladimir Guerrero now as a $27 player basically in a $260 budget, which that would have equated to about a third round pick. So some of the players that also have a similar value or just above Kenta Maeda, Marcel Ozuna, Lance Lynn, Raphael Devers, Walker Bueller, and then you get into like Fernando Tatis and Alex Bregman. So those are some even higher end names. But if you're trying to acquire Vladimir Guerrero right now, that's probably what it's going to take if you're just trying to get an idea.

Another one, and just to get a sense of it, like I have him for the same value as Marcelo Zuna. If I had Ozuna and someone offered, or if I had Guerrero and someone offered me O'Zuna, there's no way I would do it. Exactly. It's not going to happen. I would have to overpay based on my trade values chart by quite a bit to make that kind of move. Okay, so as of now, we are buying into Vlad. Probably not going to remain the number one first basement all year, but crazier things have happened, right?

How about number one at the starting pitcher position? This is another one. I don't know that we need to spend too much time on it. It's probably going to cost you an arm and a leg if you wanted to try and acquire him. But Corbyn Burns, he's the number one starting pitcher in both head to head. headpoints and in Roto League's apologies yesterday, did not mention him on the podcast, even though he was amazing. That game was still going on while we were recording. But yeah, he is now up to, what is it? It is 40 strikeouts to zero walks. 40 strikeouts to zero walks.

I believe the MLB record to start a season is 57 strikeouts with zero at walks. Kenley Janssen did that one year. But this is the record for a starter. It's insane. I mean, I don't, I don't even know like what it would, what does a trade for Corbyn Burns look like, Chris? Do you try to sell him high? I mean, just King's Ransom right now. Yeah, I mean, where I have him, you know, he's, I moved him above Louise Castillo and Clayton Curshaw. Like, if someone offered me Trevor Story for Corbyn Burns and I had starting pitching depth because I, you know, took Corbyn Burns and he's been so much better than expected, I would do that. You know, somebody offered me like Corey Seeger and. And Patrick Corbin, I think I would probably do something like that, you know, that kind of pitcher.

You know, maybe a Zach, please, Zach, Corey Seeger kind of trade I would do. But I wouldn't feel great about trading Corbyn Burns right now. I mean, he looks like the best pitcher in baseball in a way that looks sustainable. Now, I don't think he can keep this control, you know, quite this elite. But like he will walk somebody at some point this season. But we think. His stuff looks just absolutely overpowering. And, you know, the changes that he's made over the last two seasons,

adding this cutter, relying on it at his primary pitch, it's just made him really, really tough both to square up and to make contact with. Yeah, Corbyn Burns has a 0.37 ERA, a 1.22 X-FIP, a 1.08 Sierra, that's skill interactive ERA. 19% swinging strike rate. It's just,

he's throwing his cutter 51% of the time, and it's 96 miles per hour. Yeah, like that's, that's the thing is it's just, it's such a dominant pitch to be able to use it as your go-to pitch. Like, he can put guys away, he can use it to get weak contact.

It's, it's a real advantage. Yeah. And the biggest concern for him coming into the season was, will he be on an ending's limit? I will, reiterate, it's if the brewers want to compete, there's just no way. There's, they're not going to be able to limit him. So I don't, I don't know what that looks like.

Maybe six man rotation at some point to try and space it out a little bit, but they can't. They just, they're not going to be able to. He looks like, I don't know, this year's version of, of a Shane Bieber. So he's inside Chris and my top 10 starting pitchers. He's at SP11 for Scott. How about Javier Baez, who is entering, uh, Wednesday. He was a, the fourth best shortstop in Roto, and he was the 13th best shortstop in points leagues. He went one for four with a grand slam, three runs scored.

He also batted lefty on Wednesday in the eighth inning when the game was out of hand, which it was... That's strange. All right, he had a fly ball to left field. I just thought it was interesting. But specifically in Roto, Chris, he's now up to five homers, five steals, and 16 RBI.

He's batting right around the Mendoza line, 200. He's 31 strikeouts in 6. 68 played appearances. That's a 46% strikeout rate. Yeah, that's bad. What do you make of Baez?

And would you try to buy high? I guess specifically in a roto league because I think he has top, let's say, seven or eight at the position upside just because it's a really great position. Yeah, I mean, the interesting thing is he's not really like

chasing balls out of the zone more than he historically has. he actually has his lowest chase rate since 2015. Problem is he just can't make contact with anything. He is whiffing, he is missing on more than half of his swings right now. He is a 52.2% whiff rate. Last season that was 37.8%. Historically, it's been about 35%.

My guess is that will regress and the strikeout rate will be 30% rather than, you know, 46%. and he'll probably hit 2.30 or 240. I wouldn't, I'll say I wouldn't view him as a sell high candidate. I think there's probably a perception that Javier Baez has been less valuable than he has been for fantasy so far and I don't think you would get fair value for him. That's, I think, how I would put it.

I don't know if people realize, Chris, how good Christian Vasquez has been. I was ready to move him up to my fourth-ranked catcher today just behind the big three. J.C. Relimuto, Salvador Perez, and Wilson Contreras. Christian Vasquez is a top six catcher in both head to head points and in Roto. I don't know if people realize how good he is, and he plays all the time.

He's just an Iron Man. So if other people in your league don't realize it, then, yeah, I would try to get him. I think people just kind of view him as boring, but he's really good. I don't see any reason to have Gary Sanchez ahead of him at this point. And I'm not sure there's any reason to have Travis Darneau ahead of him at this point. So, yeah, I think he probably does need to be number six. In head-to-head points, I still have Yosmani Grandaul ahead of him, and I think I'll keep it the same way in Roto.

But I think Vasquez at number six makes a lot of sense right now. We've talked a lot about Jazz Chisholm, but we'll just quickly highlight. He is the eighth-best second baseman in Roto, the 12th best second baseman in head-to-head points leagues. He was leading off on Wednesday. He went two-for-four with his fourth stolen base, And I think this probably fits the mold of a buy high more than anyone else, Chris, because if he goes on to have a, I think you comp him to Kevin Bigio, what Kevin Bigio has been the past couple of years. If he has a season like that for this entire year, whatever, 250, 2020, I don't really think that that's unfathomable. So before people realize how good he actually is, I think you can trade for him now while his value is actually on the rise. Yeah, I think that's fair. And, you know, in the, I'm trying to see where I have him in the trade values chart.

I think he can be a sell high if someone, you know, is willing to offer him as a, you know, right now top 12 second baseman. You know, I think I would still be willing to move him. But, you know, it's certainly not a must sell by any means. I'd be fine holding him. I'd be fine trying to go get him now, too. I think there's reasonable cases to be made for any of those. Last name I wanted to highlight Tyler Malley. Buy before he gets to what I think he can,

if he gets to what I think he can become, I mean, we might be talking about him as the next name moving inside that top 30 starting pitcher range. He was going against the Diamondbacks on Wednesday, 6 and 2 3rd shutout with nine strikeouts, 17 swinging strikes on 103 pitches. Velocity was down a little bit, but it was cold in Cincinnati.

I think it's happening for Tyler Malley, Chris. And I think he's someone that can be a high strikeout type. I, yeah, I would. He's really one of my top targets if I could still acquire him. Yeah, I'm moving up to him up to 41. And, man, it's really tough because the four guys I have ahead of him currently are four guys whose rankings I kind of don't feel good about at all. Chris Paddock, Zach Pleazac, Shohayotani, and Lance McCullors.

I could be talked into taking Malley over any of those guys right now. I was going to say, if someone in your league is still valuing the name Chris Paddock, and you have him, I offer him for Tyler Malley. If someone doesn't think that Malley is as good as he is, because I think he is as good. Yeah, I mean, we saw, we started to see signs. of this last season, there were, you know,

he's been someone who's been interesting for a while. His stuff has always rated out surprisingly well based on, you know, the various stuff-based metrics

that like, you know, Saris and Palm Amino have come up with. And it's playing up even more. I think the only concern really is just can he pitch consistently deep into games

and how many innings are you likely to be able to get from him? And, you know, regarding that one, he threw 138 in, 2019, he threw 141 in 2018, so I think you could get

150, 160 innings out of him. It's just a question, you know, 20 and 2 thirds innings and 4 starts, he'll need to be better than that. Some people have already emailed in asking about the, all right, well, which pitchers are going to get shut down? It's obviously, you know, harder to say it's a case-by-case basis, you know, what teams are

going to be in and out of it in the second half of the season. But I think for now, you just kind of want to acquire the best talent, the best starting pitcher talent that you can. And then if it turns out that things are trending that way later on in the season, then try to make a move and potentially sell high then. But I think for now, especially this early part of the season, you know, from April through June, July, just try and bank as many awesome starting pitchers and those starting pitchers

as you possibly can and then just kind of figure it out later. So that's kind of how I'm approaching that situation. We're going to take a quick break, but when we return, we're going to talk about other potential players that you might want to buy or sell right now. Have some great trade questions that we should answer, and the rest of Tuesday's action.

We'll talk Wednesday's action. We'll talk about it next on fantasy baseball today. Some other potential trade candidates, Chris Charlie Blackman, we've received a few emails about as well. Had another offer on Wednesday. He's betting 176, but 278 expected batting average.

He's walking more this year. He's striking out less. What I notice is the ground ball rate is up and the infield fly ball rate is way up. Based on the quality of hitter that Charlie Blackman is, I would bank, I would bet on those things, you know, kind of regressing to where they normally are. So people are freaking out,

I wouldn't mind throwing a real low bowl offer on Charlie Blackman right now. Yeah, the problem with all of the Rockies players, right now is I think they're in the middle of their second home stand of the season. And if, you know, once they get through this, I think they'll have played like, I want to say it's 12 of their 18 games at home or something like that. And it doesn't help that they're playing in the snow. Yeah, they'll have played by the end of this homestand, which ends on Sunday, they will have played 17, 15 out of 21 games so far at home,

which means they'll have, I don't know how to do math, but, 66 road games and 73 home games or 66 home games and 73 road games left, which, you know, given that Charlie Blackin may just be a marginal hitter at this point, that could be bad news. You know, you can't really afford a slow start with that kind of schedule. So you're not buying Charlie Blacker? It would, yeah, I mean, I think you could buy him incredibly low. And I haven't moved him down on my rankings too much yet. So, yeah, I think there's a buy.

opportunity there still. The last name I wanted to mention, Nate Lowe, who I actually was pretty excited about coming into the season. It's been a roller coaster of a season already, and it's been, what, 10% of the season? He went two for four with his fifth home run on Wednesday. The underlying metrics are pretty weird. 3.5 degree average launch angle,

so he's hitting a lot of ground balls. League average for that is right around 12 degrees. He has a 30% trikeout rate. This is Nate Lowe we're talking about. and a 509 OPS against lefties. So if you could sell high for a Dominic Smith, a Lordes Gariel, a Jeff McNeil, who are all more proven talents than Nate Lowe,

I would look into doing that. Dom Smith, by the way, entering Wednesday, 341XBA 638 X-Lug. It's been a really weird start for the Mets entire season, all these postponements, and spoke about that a little bit yesterday. I think Dom Smith is now. Now is the time to go get him because I think he's really good.

And I've mentioned that many times before. A few trade questions I wanted to get to here, Chris. From Sam on, from Apple Podcasts review, actually. Grade to Trade 10 team head to head categories with saves plus holds as one of the pitching categories. I give Anthony Rizzo, Jose Burrios, Craig Kimbril, I get Paul Goldschmidt, Walker, Bueller, and Jesus Lazardo. My initial reaction to that is that That's very good.

And I would give it a B plus. This next one's from Adam Cross. Grade to Trade 14 team head-to-head categories. Give up Nolan Aronado and Nick Castiano's. Get Anthony Rendon, Max Kepler, and Sean Murphy. Okay. You're getting the best player, but I don't love the trade. Murphy seems like a pretty marginal catcher.

Kepler, weirdly has like three stolen bases this season. right? Yes, he does. But he's a pretty marginal starting outfielder. I think you're giving up two very good starters for one. And then, you know, in a 14 team league, you're starting Murphy, you're starting Kepler. But actually, I'm not sure you're starting Kepler in a 14 team head to head categories

league if it's only three outfielders. So, yeah, I wouldn't do it. I think that's probably like a C-minus. From Duncan, dear Tony, Robbie and Roy. I want to say blue. Jay's pitchers, but I don't know who Tony would be. I was just thinking of Robbie Ray and Roy Halliday, but that doesn't make any sense. There's no reason why someone would group those two together, so I'm sure it's not that. Yeah, I don't know either. Great to trade in a 12 team

head-to-head points league. I get Christian Yelich and give up Kevin Gossman. Oh my gosh. Oh, yeah, a plus, plus plus plus. Wow, it's that point in the season already. People are making some crazy deals. From Ben, just traded Fernando Tatis for Freddie Freeman straight up in a head-to-head league. I think you'd rather have Freeman in a head-to-head points league. I would... Yeah, yeah, that's fair. I would probably give it a C-plus, B-minus.

Oh, you did ask me to grade it. Yeah, I have Freddie Freeman as 34. Tatis is 28 and a head-to-head points league. That's pretty good. Yeah, that's a solid B for me. This one's from Eric. I traded Carlos Rodon and Zach Plesack and got Charlie Morton and Sandy Alcantara.

A. You got the two best players in the deal. Very nice. Neil. From Tom and Illinois. 12 team Dynasty Roto League. Currently in second place, would you accept this trade? I give Kyle Tucker,

Byron Buxton, Brian Anderson, and Dylan Seas. A lot of names are Tucker, Buckson, Brian Anderson, Seas. I get Manny Machado, Will Myers, Nick Senzel,

and McKenzie Gore, Dynasty, Dynasty Roto. That's tough because Gore obviously has a lot of value in a Dynasty League, but you're in second place, and I think you're probably making your team, yeah, I think you're probably making your team a little bit worse right now,

but, you know, the potential for Gore to step into the rotation and make an impact, I think that's okay. I think it's like a C plus. I don't love it, though. Yeah, because you're getting, Getting a little bit older with Machado and Myers. Senzel is an upgrade from Brian Anderson, we think, in Dynasty.

And then, yeah, I mean, McKenzie Gore obviously has huge upside. Yeah, that's fair. C plus, B minus. Promote a few more things. If you haven't signed up for the Fantasy Baseball Today newsletter yet, please do. CBSports.com slash newsletters. You can find all of our newsletters there. Chris writes the Fantasy Football Today newsletter, and it is great.

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These are just in the deepest of leagues. Jose Cantana, five innings of one-run ball with eight strikeouts. He is 23% rostered, has SPARP eligibility, and he is at Texas and at Seattle next week. Pretty good matchups. Mike Fultenevich, your boy, Chris. He was at the Angel six innings of three-run ball with six strikeouts, only eight whiffs, so not really sure where the strikeouts are coming from,

but he is only 12% rostered also in line for a two-star week next week. Austin Gomber. Three straight quality starts. Not really sure how he's doing this, but against the Houston Astros in the snow, six endings of two-run ball with six strikeouts. He is 11% rostered. Mickey Moniac, he had a three-run dinger, former first-round pick for the Phillies. He's been playing recently. Spencer Turnbull made his return to the mound, five innings of one-run ball, six strikeouts. Adolise Garcia. We mentioned a name. The guy just continues to mash. Two-for-five with a three-run dinger on Wednesday. 6% rostered. He plays seven games next week. So any interest in these names in deeper leagues, Chris? Yeah, there are two things to see with Jose Cantana. He's a SPARP and he has two starts next week. So if you're in a points league, he should probably be added. Austin Gomber, like I want to say there might be something there, but he plays for Colorado and he's had pretty bad peripheral so far. so I'm pretty skeptical. I'm not sure I would start him even in a spart in a points league next week with two starts.

Moniac, there was some talk this spring that maybe he had turned a corner last season. He's been one of the bigger draft disappointments of the last couple of years. I would, I think I'd probably rather have Scott Kingery than him, assuming Kingery plays. Adoles Garcia is probably the most interesting one of this group. and that's not really saying a ton because he's striking out in a third of his at bats and isn't hitting the ball.

All that hard, but at least there's the potential for him to be something there. You know, as a cheap source of power, I'm keeping an eye on him for sure. The rest of Wednesday's action, Ryan Malkassel went 0 for 3, two more strikeouts.

He's striking out a tonne. He's betting 169. Chris, are you okay dropping Ryan Moutcastle? Yeah, that's fine. Michael Fulmer against the Pirates, a start that we were excited about, and then it came out right before that the Tigers wanted to limit his pitch count so that he can make another start on Sunday. He wasn't great. Four innings pitched, three earned runs, three strikeouts.

11 whiffs on 60 pitches. I think if I picked up Michael Fulmer, I would hold on to him. I'm still intrigued by what he's done thus far. Uly Gurriel, we haven't really talked much about him, but he's been awesome. He went one for four with his second home run of the season. Three RBI. He has a 52% hard contact rate thus far. His previous high was 43% in 2017. This also super interesting. He has 13 walks in 17 games. He had 12 walks in all of last season in 57 games. So he's walking more, he's hitting the ball hard. He's in a really good lineup. Are you excited about... Remember how good he was in 2019 and then he had two bad months last season. So, you know, it's not

entirely out of nowhere, but I would say given his age, given his track record, I would still be pretty skeptical that he's this new kind of player. That 2019 season was really just two good months. But, you know, he should be a pretty good source of batting average,

if nothing else. I just don't think he'll give you a ton of anything else. Between Joey Votto, Nate Lowe, Jared Walsh, and Yuley Guriel, the back end of the first base position has been pretty productive thus far. So yeah, if you have any of those guys, you feel pretty good about it.

Jose Irykiti was at the Rockies in the snow, five innings of four-run ball. He's been okay. The underlying numbers are actually pretty good. You're holding on to Jose Riccii, Chris? Yeah, yeah, I still have him actually inside my top 50. I'm pretty sure at starting pitcher. Okay, so you wouldn't drop him for Sean Mania and Danny Duffy

are two of the most added starting pitchers right now. They look good. I would, yeah, I know. I think both of those guys are interesting. Duffy, maybe a little more than Manai. I'm not sure if that's the consensus, but I would hope I have a pitcher I like less than Arcidi.

Mike Trout hit his sixth home run. He's betting 3.93 with a 1311 OPS, so just... He's pretty good. He's pretty good. No steals though, you know. Yeah. Omar Nervais keeps on, keep it on. Two for four,

with his third home run, betting 396, 63% rostered. Chris, yesterday I had Scott ranked these four catchers. Now you will do it. Yadir Molina, Buster Posey, Wilson Ramos,

Omar Nervaez. I have those four guys ranked 11th through 14th in my rankings right now. And the order is, oh, come on. Why am I getting a 502 bad gateway? Come on.

I think I have your rankings up here somewhere, Chris. Actually, yeah, I was looking at my head-to-head points. In points, it was Yadier-Malina, Wilson-Ramos, Buster-Posey, Armada, Navayas, in Roto. It is Buster-Posy, Wilson-Ramos, Yad-Malina. And I need to move Arm-Avias up because I hadn't, I must have overlooked him.

He is 13th in Roto now. Avicayel-Garcia, just, man, shout-out, you don't see this every day. 0-4-5 with a platinum sombrero. I started him in my homekeeper league, a head-ed-head points league. That's a solid negative-te-te-0. two and a half fantasy points. Trent Christian went two for five with an RBI,

his third steal of the season. He is batting 300. Chris, do you have any thoughts on Trent Christian? Yeah, he looks like one of those guys I was wrong about, but not even going to take an L on that one

because I said Byron Buxton was just as good as him, and I was wrong. Byron Buxton's way better. He is. No, Trent Christian looks really good. He is. Buckson has been better,

but Buxon's not really running much. He's obviously doing it like the power department and batting average. Trent Grisham is still running quite a bit and the Padres just love to run so I'm pretty sure Trent Grisham's just gonna be awesome.

Some signs of life on Wednesday. Austin Riley went two for two with two walks and his first home run of the season. It was... Yeah, it was a DJ LaMayhew home run. It was like 350 feet to right field. It was barely a home run. It was a home run in one out of 30 baseball parks

in MLB and of course they're playing in Yankee Stadium. Ian Anderson with his best start of the season. Looks like he's coming around at the Yankees. Six and two-thirds shutout. Four hits, four walks, and four strikeouts. Ten whiffs on 97 pitches. So, man, the Yankees are just lost right now. This was a really nice get-right game for Ian Anderson.

On the other side, Corey Kluber, four and two-thirds. Two earned runs, four walks. I know you mentioned that you could probably drop them last week, Chris. I assume that this started nothing to change that decision. No, I mean, I'm looking And I hadn't moved him down recently He was 55th in my starting pitcher rank And I'm just going through and like

I'd rather have Nathan Avaldi Rather have Jameson Tione I'd rather have Griffin Canning Danny Duffy Michael Paneda I think I'd rather just have Luis Severino Noah Cindergarde and Chris Sale Taking up space on my roster

Oh my gosh Uh yeah I'm moving Corey Kluber outside my top 75 I'm sorry. I hate to do it and if he turns it around, I will gladly eat crow on it because he's been one of my favorite pitchers in baseball over the last decade, but I just think he's done. I don't think there's any reason to hold on to him in a 12 team league. Francisco Lindor went three for four with his first home run of the season. See, guys, everything is going to be fine for Francisco Lindor. Brandon Lau has now hit two home runs in as many days. He's very streaky and it looks like he is, he's heating up a little bit. Joey Wendell, two more doubles,

three RBI on Wednesday, batting 365. He has 12 hits over his last six games. Maybe he hears those Wanderfranco rumors. He's got some speed. He's a good player. He's hit 300-ish, you know, last season. And in 2018, I've picked him up in a few leagues. He's like, because he's eligible. He's the David Fletcher. He's the David Fletcher that no one talks about. Although I guess no one really talks about

David Fletcher, but... Yeah, he's got shortstop, second base, and third base eligibility. And with Cotele Martin Anthony Rendon out, I've got a lot of teams with both those guys on them. So Joey Wendell's on three or four are my teams right now. Yeah,

and as he should. Ride him while he's hot right now. A solid guy to have around while he's hitting. Yeah. The call to the pen. Some bullpen updates for the Marlins. Yemi Garcia picked up his fourth save. The Pirates, Richard Rodriguez, picked up his second save. The Detroit Tigers in a seven-ending game.

Brian Garcia pitched in the sixth. Gregory Soto pitched in the seventh and picked up his second save for the twins. This is just a weird one. Alex Colomé, he blew a one-run save in the ninth. Byron Bucson hits the home run in the top of the 10th. Alex Colomé comes back out for the bottom of the 10th inning. Wines up throwing 49 pitches. I don't know why.

And he lost the game on back-to-back errors. So, I mean, he gets the loss, but he didn't really lose it. It was his defense, but whatever. Just weird. Washington Nationals, Brad Hand, picked up his third save, the Diamondbacks. Stefan Kreiton, his second save of the season. He is only 12% rostered. And there has to be more category leagues than that on CBS.

So if you need saves, you should probably add Stefan Creighton. For the Reds, Amir Garrett blew another save, man. He allowed a three-run, home run. I think it was like Josh Van Meter. it was a pinch hit home run. Lucas Sims, next man up? I would think Sims is the next man up, yeah. Give it to DJ Antone, man.

Sims was mentioned as the next, like the kind of, I guess, co-closer back in spring training. And, you know, Anton's been going like multiple innings at times too. So I would think Sims will be the guy if there is a guy who gets the next year. For the Toronto Blue Jays,

we assumed Rafael Dolis. He's going to get the saves, right? Well, Jordan Romano is hurt. Wrong. Delees used in the eighth. Tim Meza opened up the ninth inning. He got the first two outs. And then a gentleman named Anthony Castro

got the final out for the save. For the Blue Jays. I think this is just what the Blue Jays are going to do. They're just like, I believe Delees faced the top of the, the heart of the order in the eighth inning in a key situation. I think they're just going to,

like they'll have a closer. but that closer is not going to just get used in save situations. If there's a more important situation earlier than the ninth inning, they seem perfectly intent, content to use them there. So I think that's probably working at what we're going to see. I would bet on Rafael DeLis getting the next save for the Blue Jays, but it doesn't seem like a situation where one guy is going to get 75% or 80% of the saves, you know, at all times.

You are correct. Rafael DeLis came in the eighth. he faced J.D. Martinez, allowed a home run to Xander Bogart, who is red hot. And then struck out Raphael Devers. Christian Walker came up. Christian Vasquez, rather, Marwin Gonzalez. Yes, so he faced the middle of the order there. To streamer... I do want to go back one to one thing, which is Minnesota. Yep. You know, Calme, even before today, yes, it might not have been his fault, but he hadn't been great so far this season.

Hansel Robles has not been great this season. Just want to throw out my guy, Taylor Rogers, out there. See, you know, maybe he gets the opportunity. I know he's a lefty, but he has been the closer in the past. He's been very good this season. He's been very good in the past. Just going to throw that one out there, maybe a little redemption for some of my late round Taylor Rogers flyers.

Taylor Rogers has pitched in five and a third. He has a, he is not allowed to run. He has a 10K per nine. He's been awesome. So, yeah, definitely. He's really good. Remember the name. Taylor Rogers.

I was about to say Trevor Rogers again. Too many T-name Rogers right now in baseball. To stream or not to stream, we'll start with Thursday. And the way that we're going to do this moving forward, Chris, you weren't on the podcast yesterday.

I'm just going to give you what I think are the five or six best names and you just choose the three that you like most. And we'll go with those. Domingo Hermann at Cleveland, Mitch Keller, at the Tigers. Jose Urania versus the Pirates.

Nick Pavetta versus the Mariner. Alex Cobb at the Houston Astros and Aaron Sanchez versus the Miami Marlins for Thursday. Who are your favorite three? I think it's probably Cobb, Armand, and Keller? Oh, I don't feel good about the third one.

Yeah, it's probably a pitcher from that game, right? It's Keller versus Urania. Yeah, and I'd rather have Keller than Urania. All righty. And then to stream or not to stream for Friday, just in case you can only add pictures for the next day in your daily lineup league. Alex Wood versus the Marlins,

Dane Dunning at the White Sox, J-Hap versus the Pirates, J-T. Brewbaker at the Twins, Wascar Enoa versus the Diamondbacks, and Mike Miner at the Tigers. Your three favorites. Yeah, so I think it's probably Enoa, Dunning, and Wood?

Yeah, I'm not sure he's going to go deep into that game, but he pitched well against the Marlins in his first outing. And what helps is he is a spark. So if you're in a head-to-head points league and you're looking for a streamer, Alex Wood could be a good one. Yeah, I don't hate Hat versus the Pirates or Mike Miner at Detroit, but they are lesser pitchers at this point in their careers.

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