Fantasy Baseball Today - Turang's Huge Game, Early Season Trends & Pitchers Struggling (4/4 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 4, 2023

Brice Turang or Nolan Gorman (4:08)? Both are off to great starts. Why is Travis d'Arnaud playing more than Sean Murphy early on (9:00)? ... Adam Duvall or James Outman (13:50)? Trevor Larnach or Joey Gallo? ... What's going on with steals and BABIP early in the season (18:32)? ... News (28:32): Liam Hendriks is making progress. ... A bunch of pitchers got rocked on Monday (32:12). ... Freddy Peralta and Drew Rasmussen actually performed well (43:40). ... Who are these deep-league options (48:32)? ... We wrap up with bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (56:48). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Stitcher and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Fantasy Baseball Today is a finalist in the Baseball Category for the Sports Podcast Awards! Quickly create an account and vote here: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/sports_category/best-baseball-podcast/ Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi Follow FBT on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1 Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ 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. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your lead. Where fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Who is Bryce Terang? Let's find out.

Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, April 4th. Frank Stanfield joined by Scott White. Today on the show, we're going to recap all of Monday's action. have some new segments for you, this or that. Who are these guys? And we'll wrap up with some of your team name Tuesday submissions. Before we get going, make sure to like this video and subscribe on YouTube if you haven't already.

And if you are listening on the audio side, make sure to download, follow, and leave a five-star rating. It really does help. We appreciate it. For those who are new to the podcast this season, I have a sound bite that I'd normally play at the beginning of the show the past few years. It sounds a little something like that.

this. Oh my goodness gracious. And then we would start the show with our oh my goodness gracious player of the night. It could be good. It could be bad. It could be a situation, which we're going to talk about in just a little bit. And I'll still play it here or there, but I want to mix in other calls as well. So I need your help. Other calls from baseball history, recent calls, whatever it might be. Send some fantasy baseball at cbsi.com or tweet them to me at rhodo underscore frank. And we'll build up a rotation here. We'll still play oh my goodness gracious. But I want to change it up a little bit. With all that being said, Scott, how are you doing?

I'm swell, Frank. I'm doing just fine. I am going to start us off with, oh my goodness, if that's all right with you. Perfectly honest. What's up? You froze up a little bit. Oh, you didn't want me to go into how I'm actually feeling? No, how are you actually feeling, Scott? If I'm being completely honest, I am feeling a little anxious about the way things are starting out here.

I have a few concerns. Namely, a lot of really good pitchers are giving up a lot of hits. Not so much home runs, although today, it seems like there were a lot of home runs being hit. For example, George Kirby today, nine hits and four in a third innings. Nestor Cortez, who, you know, by the standards we've seen from other pitchers so far this season, had a really good debut, seven hits and five innings. And Babbip is way up. Certainly if you compare it to early last season,

but even by the standards of the season long, Babbup last year, Babbup is way up. It's, I believe, coming into play today, Babbip was 301. That's compared to 276 over the first five days of play last year. That's a big increase. Now, it was 290 overall last year, but, you know, still, that's a big increase too,

290 to 301. And I just don't know. just don't know how that's going to play out. It seems like that might be, I mean, the stolen base increase has been. Insane. You know, almost three times as many stolen bases through those first five games as last year. And I did more or less anticipate that. But to see how much BABIP is increased, I just, I don't know how the pitching pool

is going to play out and it has me feeling anxious. Usually I'm the one talking people off the ledge this time of year. It's usually, it's usually me, Scott. let's be honest. I might need some talking off ledge because, yeah, some of my pitching staffs are getting wiped out. We will talk about it. There is an interesting tweet from Jeff Passen early on Monday afternoon, which highlighted

how much steals have been up, the league-wide batting average so far. So we'll talk about a few of those things. Home runs as well. I know there was a lot of home runs hit on Monday, and we're getting lots of questions like, what's going on? There's all those offense going on. Where are we going to find pitching? Well, it's a good question.

and we'll get to that. I want to start with Bryce Terrang. Obviously led the podcast with that, and he had a monster game here on Monday. He went two for three with a grand sock and a shoe. That's right. Grand Slam and a stolen base. His first career home run is a grand slam, by the way.

Already his second steal of the season. And Scott, Bryce Tarang as someone, you know, we definitely mentioned throughout spring training as a, you know, deep sleeper, middle infielder for, you know, deeper roto league, something like that. Maybe he's kind of playing himself into, you know, standard-sized leagues, 12-team Roto leagues here as well, or maybe even points league, I'll find out how much you like him.

But Bryce Tarang is 26% rostered, so he's widely available. Last year in the minors, he hit 286 with 13 home runs and 34 steals, and we'll soon pick up second base eligibility as well. He has shortstop to start on CBS, but yeah, second base will be coming, hopefully within the next couple of days. What are your thoughts on Bryce Terrang? Do you think he is a must add in fantasy baseball? I wouldn't go that far.

I do like him. There were kind of three tiers of rookie short stops who bring some speed element. There were three different tiers that I was targeting in rodeo drafts this year. First tier was Ezekiel Tovar. The second tier was one of the Yankee's shortstops before, of course, Anthony Volpe's stock skyrocketed.

And the third tier was, as Bryce Terang. So I got Bryce Terang and most of my 15 teamers and I'm feeling happy about that today, of course. When we analyzed him a little bit after he made the Brewer's roster, I thought he, I said I thought he had the potential for Thiro Estrada like numbers. And so far with what he's done, I have no reason to back down from that comparison. But the reason I'm not going to say he's most roster is, I mean, he's already sat out one. game. He sat out the only game the Brewers played. It seems like the plan here in the early going is to platoon him. If he plays well enough, I imagine that'll stop. But I did get a lot of people specifically asking, you know, Terang versus Ezekiel Tovar, that first tier, rookie speedy

shortstop that I was targeting. And I'm not ready to make that swap. We haven't even seen Ezekiel Tovar play a game at Coors Field yet. So that seems premature. I don't think, despite the Big Grand Slam today, I don't think we're going to see huge home run numbers for Terang. 12 to 15 seems within the realm of possibility, but that's probably on the higher end of what he's going to deliver. I would be very surprised if he was a 20 homer guy.

And I think something like that is going to be much more attainable for Ezekiel Tovar. So, yeah, Bryce Terang deserves more attention than he's gotten in fantasy to this point, but I'm not going to go as far as to call him must-ad. Yeah, so I tweeted on Monday that I don't think he is a must-add either. I think in any type of categories league, I think I can get behind it either as a bench bat. If you play in a shallower league, like a daily lineup league on Yahoo or something like that, or if you play in a roto league with a middle infielder, then, yeah, I definitely would want Bryce Terang in a league that deep.

And I was going to save this for later, Scott, this or that, basically comparing some interesting players right now. Bryce Terang or Nolan Gorman. I think it will come down to, you know, what are your team needs? If you need power, go with Nolan Gorman. But he picked up two more hits here on Monday, and he was the fourth most added player this weekend on CBS. He's up to 59% rostered in a vacuum. Who would you rather have Nolan Gorman or Bryce Terang? Tarang.

I'm going to stick with the idea that I see more playing time upside. for Terang than Gorman because of the prevalence of bats that the Cardinals have. I know Large Newbar just went on the aisle, but nobody's expecting that to be a long-term stay. And Alec Berluson's been hitting well in New Bar's absence, so that's just going to create one more mouth to feed. I mean, Gorman's off to an impressive start. The plate discipline especially has been encouraging. So I may look foolish about that in the end,

but just so many mouths to feed in that Cardinals lineup. Yeah, I would go with Bryce Terang as well. And I just looked up his splits in the minor leagues just to see how Terang performed against lefties. He was good. Actually, last year he was better against left-handed pitching than he was against right-handed pitching. So I think there's a chance that if he continues to play well

against righties, maybe he just earns an everyday role against left-handed pitching as well. So I like both Terang and Gorman, but I would take Bryce Serang over Nolan. Scott, oh my goodness, gracious, a player that you'd like to highlight from Monday. Well, it's kind of a player, kind of more a situation. So the Braves released their starting lineup today,

and I was amazed to see that Travis Darno was in it again, because that makes it four for four, Travis Darno, in the starting lineup for the Braves. And remember, he was somebody who was pushed down draft boards in a pretty significant way after the Braves traded for Sean Murphy, because the thinking was, okay, Darno's not going to play that much anymore. It's not going to be like a true backup catcher, maybe get some at Bats at D.H. But not going to get enough at Bats to be anything more than like a low-end number two catcher.

And I was a little resistant to that idea first, but eventually I succumbed. Just because everybody was drafting him so late, I didn't want to, I didn't want to be the one reaching for him. But he keeps playing. and Sean Murphy's only started two of the four games. Travis Darno started all four. And so not only that, but he's performed well. Even here on Monday's game, he only had one hit,

but he hit three balls in excess of 102 miles per hour. And he was batting cleanup. So they're trusting him to bat in the heart of the Braves lineup, a very good lineup. And eventually he'll have to sit. I don't think he's literally an everyday player. But he's based on the habits the Braves have shown so far, I think Travis Darno is absolutely worth using even in one catcher leagues.

So that's A. B is, okay, well, what's the impact on Sean Murphy? Is he only going to play half the time? Because that would be a problem. He was obviously a much bigger investment than Darno on Draft Day. I don't think he's only going to play half the time just because through four games, that's what's happened. I mean, he has the second highest pop time among catchers

behind only J.T. Real Muto, and he had an impressive caught stealing when he played Sunday. Obviously, the Braves gave up a lot of assets for him. They signed him to a long-term deal immediately. They like him. And he brings that quality in a catcher that's been kind of overlooked in recent years, as stolen bases have become less important in the game.

Well, they're rising in importance again. So a catcher who throws is an important asset, and that is something Sean Murphy does very, very well. In the long run, he's going to end up making more starts behind the plate than Travis Darnow, just because they've split him evenly. So far doesn't mean that's how it's going to play out all season. And it wouldn't surprise me if occasionally Murphy himself started

to DH. I think the takeaways here are Travis Darno is a hitter, the Braves value higher than Marcelo Zuna, higher than Eddie Rosario, and that's a very good thing for his value. But Sean Murphy as a defender is still vastly superior because he's vastly superior

to most catchers, and that's something the Braves are going to value too. In addition to Sean Murray's a pretty good hitter himself. So don't drop Sean Murphy even if it's for Travis Darno to trust that the plane's playing time is going to be there because the investment they made in him wouldn't make sense

otherwise. But also Travis Darno is worth using. Yeah, and Travis Darno is up to 76% rostered on CBS. The player he's just behind, Scott, is Cal Raleigh, 79%. We know that I think at least Cal Raleigh is going to play more regularly than Travis Darnow. I don't know, maybe I'm wrong, but who would you rather have in a one-catcher league? So Raleigh led the position in home runs last year, and that can't be overlooked, but I'd rather have Darnow in most circumstances, I think. I can't blame me. I think I'd still roll with Raleigh for now, but it is definitely getting closer. Sean Murphy, someone that I was all over in spring training, you know, draft season, and I'm not, not worried, obviously. I mean, sitting out two of the first four games, but I think,

you know, by the, once we can really get rolling here, I think things will kind of even out, and we'll get a lot of Sean Murphy and hit in the middle of a great lineup with the Braves too. So maybe that's just, you know, my confidence because I drafted him speaking, but regardless, I still do have a lot of confidence in Sean Murphy.

Travis Darno is on the rise as well, though. Scott, let's talk about a few other waiver-wire decisions. I mentioned Bryce Terang versus Nolan Gorman. This is something I was going to save it for later, but these are probably, you know, the players we're talking about most. And I have a nice little sound drop here, Scott. A new segment.

this or that. Oh yeah. So let's get into Adam Duval or James Outman. You could only add one of these outfield standouts. Who is going to be? Adam Duval reached base four times again here on Monday. He went two for three with two walks,

a run, and an RBI. The most added player on CBS this weekend. He's up to 66% rostered. James Outman is the other name I wanted to bring up. He went two for four with a triple. Actually, that game is still going on, so I guess he could add to that total if he wants to. Two for four with a triple, three RBI, and two run scored.

He was the third most added player on CBS this weekend. He's up to 59% rostered. Scott, who would you rather have, Duval or Outman? I'd rather have Duval. He had another big game here on Monday, and I just think he's, first of all, he's healthy. I'm not sure. I'm not sure, well, certainly at the end of last season,

he wasn't healthy. Second of all, it's pretty apparent as low as the temperatures were in Boston this weekend, that it's not going to be a detriment to Duval the way it was early last season with the dampened baseball's not carrying. And third, I think his swings perfectly suited for Fenway Park, a lot of towering flyballs to his pole side, and we're already seeing it pay dividends. So he's up to 66% rostered. He went from, that's up from 44% when I wrote the waiver wire column last night. So, yeah, people are on top of that one, and I'm with them.

People are reading and they are paying attention, Scott. So Adam Duval is one of the most added players. Actually, in fact, again, he is the most added. I think I'll do the cop-out kind of thing here. And I think in a points league where you need more volume, I would go after Duval. I like Outman. I've talked about him a lot. And he was awesome in the minors last year.

Obviously, I think it's a better lineup. In the Dodgers, I mean, the Red Sox are scoring a bunch of runs early on here. But I think in Roto and Category Leagues, I would go with Outman. In a Points League, I would go with Adam Duvall. What about if you need power? Two gentlemen on the same team. Trevor Larnick, two for five with a home run, three RBI on Monday. Most importantly, it came off of a lefty.

We haven't seen them play a game against a left-handed starting pitcher yet. So I didn't know if Larnick would be in the lineup. You know, frankly, the bench is a little shallow right now for the lefty. the twins. So I don't know that they could platoon him. And so I'm pretty encouraged that that home run came off of a lefty. He's 14% rostered. Joey Gallo went one for three with a three run

homer. Exit velocity 112.3 miles per hour. That's one day after hitting two home runs on Sunday for Joey Gallo. He's 25% rostered. Scott, who would you rather have Larnick or Gallo? This is a tougher one.

I think I'm going to say So I'm torn between Okay Like we've seen Larnet get chances in the past And he's had little spurts But then he's turned back into a pumpkin Got sent to the miners

He wasn't even expected to be on the twins roster originally So I'm torn between that And Gallo Who of course Has Monster Power We've known that for a long time But when things go bad for him You really regret having him at all

and so I think I'm going to lean like it do it Scott do it I don't even know what I'm about to say I know what I'm going to say you know what I'm going to say it's not Joey Gallo that's the answer for me I get what you're wrestling with here because there's still that smidge of a chance that Joey Gallo regains his old form and you know playing in a smaller market in Minnesota you know not as many eyes not as much attention I get that there's still a chance that he bounces back and he's going to have dual eligibility, you know, first base and outfield. That's pretty interesting too.

But Trevor Larnick, we still have this kind of like mystery bag and he was mystery box. It's a bag for you, huh? I guess so. A little grab bag. But with Larnick, he did have some prospect pedigree. He's betting cleanup for the twins right now. So I think even more counting stats opportunities there too. I'm leaning Larnick, but I think both are very interesting. These were his first two extra base hits, Larnick. So, but the play discipline's been good, and that's something that when it was first coming up in the miners was supposed to be a strength. I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued. I'm intrigued. I guess I'll side with you, Larnick, but it's by the slimmest of margins. All right, well, let's talk about baseball so far, right? Scott, we mentioned

it a little bit earlier, the grand scheme, the way things are kind of playing out right now. I mentioned Jeff Passon had a tweet on Monday highlighting different aspects of the game through the first four days of the season. This is before Monday's games. Solem bases are way up. We're talking 70 steals versus 29 at the same point last year, an 83% success rate on stolen bases versus 67% at this point last year again. That's going to come down. I don't think it's going to be an 83% success rate all year, but people are often running and they're doing it very often. Batting average is up from 230 through the first four days of the season. to 2.45. So 2.30 last year this point, 245 so far this year. OPS from 682 last year to 715.

So regardless of how you want to look at it, bad batting average, OBP, slugging percentage. Each of those marks are up so far. The time of game is down 31 minutes to two hours and 38 minutes overall. Love that aspect of it. We're getting lots of questions, Scott, about home runs coming on Monday and the ball seems like it's flying out. I think we need more data on that before we kind of come to any conclusions. But entering Monday, home run to fly ball ratio was also up through the first weekend of baseball, 11.7% this season, 11.1% last year. So it sounds like a small number, but it actually matters a lot for, you know, as many fly balls are being hit on a daily basis.

So I don't know, what are your early takeaways here on the way that baseball is playing out so far? You mentioned the BABIP earlier, you know, pitching seems like it's just getting absolutely destroyed early on. What are your thoughts? Yeah, so I was a little surprised to see because I got the sense that home runs were up and I was a little surprised to see actually how close it was through the first five games

this year versus last year, up a little, but not as much as I was expecting to see. So, you know, the bigger thing for me are the stolen bases, obviously. and as I was mentioning before, the Babbitt or batting averages you cited here. Okay, so the stolen base is you think the 83% success rate, 83% success rate is going to go down. I don't know that I agree with that because you mentioned, okay,

through five games last year was 67.4. Well, it must have got a lot better after that because over the past few years, the Major League Stolen Base success rate has been around 75%. So I think it was kind of strangely low early last year, and that makes for the disparity there with the success rate, 83% now versus 60. It makes it seem bigger than it actually is. Major leaguers were already very successful at stealing stolen bases doing so at about a 75% rate. So 83, seeing how much the success rate improved in the miners, that kind of corresponds to the same increase.

in the minors. Now, it was a much lower starting point in the miners, minor leaguers overall, not as successful at stealing bases as major leaguers. But yeah, I thought it might be something between 80 and 85 percent, just seeing how much the success rate improved in the miners. You apply that to that 75 percent rate in the majors. Okay. Really easy to steal bases now. And if it does continue, then I think you're going to begin to see. players who we haven't generally regarded as base stealers begin to get in on the action. Not to the same extent,

but players who are not expecting to steal double-digit bass as well. Because mostly, for all the stolen bases we've seen, most of it, it's mostly been limited to players we already regard as base stealers. It's been kind of on the upper ends more. But as the success rate, as teams see how how many outs, how they're not wasting out on the base paths by sending runners,

they're going to start sending more of them. So, like, it could actually increase from here, is what I'm saying. Like, this may be just the start of an even bigger stolen base explosion as the year plays out. So that's where I stand with the stolen bases. As for the babips going up,

that's what I'm concerned about. Yeah, because, I mean, I don't remember it being a topic of great discussion this spring. I don't know that anybody dug into the numbers that much because it was only spring. And, of course, there was a time, it wasn't that long ago where the extreme shifts that became so commonplace in recent years where they weren't so utilized. And it was basically just two defenders on each side of the bag. and it's not like it's not like batting averages were crazy. But as I'm saying that now,

this is coming to mind just now, the whole theory behind BABIP was that, okay, an average BABIP is 300. When BABIP analysis really entered the scene, that was the thinking, okay, average BABIP 300. And what did I say the BABIP was after the first five games? It was 3.01. So maybe it's just been so long since we've seen a league without shifts

that we forget how common hits are, how common hits were. And that doesn't mean every time out George Springer is going to allow, or sorry, George Kirby is going to allow nine hits. But it does mean that we need to get used to the idea of higher whips beyond what we were expecting and even for good pitchers. Like the WIPP threshold, the acceptable whip threshold may change quite a bit. And so that's, I don't know. It's like I can't really offer proactive advice because I feel like it's just something

I have to sit back and see play out. But that's how I'm feeling about things right now is that we may have underestimated the impact of this. Again, we're, you know, four days into the season. So things could still change a little bit, but my early lean just based on these numbers is that, I kind of wish maybe I had another ace around in my leagues where, you know, maybe I drafted one ace, but, you know, maybe I kind of wish I had two.

Going back to, you know, the juice ball era a couple years ago, Scott, where, you know, you drafted pitching so early because you wanted to secure good pitching before you got into that mid-tier, I kind of feel like maybe we're going back to that, but just in a different way, you know, instead of home runs, it's bad-up and it's hits. And that mid-tier of starting pitching, maybe it's not going to be as good as it was last year. And as a result, you kind of wish you had more aces who are striking people out and not getting balls in play. So, I mean, that's my early lean, my early feel for what's going on.

The good pitchers haven't been that good either. Yeah, I mean, well, that's a problem, you know, Scott. We need pitching. So I don't know where it's going to come from. But, yeah. That's my really. In theory, yes, strikeout specifically would be more important to get from pitchers. And not all the high end, not all the pitchers we regarded as high end were big strikeout guys.

I don't know. I'd be curious to see, for instance, Christian Javier, when I picked him to win the Cy Young and the A.L. this year, I talked about how he's the most likely pitcher in any given start to throw a no-hitter. he allowed eight hits and five in his first start. But I noticed his fly ball rate was way down. He allowed a lot more ground balls than usual. Okay, well, that's going to undercut the, that's going to undercut his unhittable quality if he's not putting balls in the air.

I don't know if that happened with Nestor Cortez with him giving up seven hits because he's kind of the same way, a lot of extreme fly ball pitcher, which keeps the hits down. So what I'm saying is there were just kind of some fluke performances in there that may be skewing the results for specific pitchers. Of course, because it's a sample of one for all of them. So it almost goes without saying.

Right. But at the same time, the ability to, for your batted balls to be fly balls, and obviously the ability to miss batts so that the balls are, being put in play to begin with are going to be more important for pitchers moving forward. If this trend continues, if this very early trends continues. So on Monday, Nestor Cortez had a 27.8% ground ball rate. So you can see ground ball rate during the start on Fangraphs, but you can't see fly ball rate. But just based on deduction,

I'm going to assume that he had a lot of fly balls in that start. And I don't know, maybe just got a little bit unlucky there. Let's take our first break here. But when we return, and we'll get into the news and notes on Fantasy Baseball Today. Fantasy Baseball today is a finalist in the baseball category for the Sports Podcast Awards, and we're going up against some big names. It's a voting system, which means that we need your help. You can scan the QR code in the top right corner if you're watching on video or find the link in the podcast or YouTube description.

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see you guys on the south side soon. And I keep hearing late May as a realistic possibility. Awesome news there for Liam Hendricks. I think there's still kind of some hurdles that we need to get through before we start actually talking about a return date or a time tape. but Liam Hendricks is now up to 55% rostered on CBS. If you have an aisle spot available, I think you absolutely should pick him up.

Speaking of the IL, unfortunately, Lars Neupar was placed on the injured list with a jammed thumb. Juan Yuppez was recalled from AAA. Alec Berluson started in left field and was batting second on Monday. Fernando Tatis Jr. will begin his stint with AAA on Tuesday. He's eligible to return from his PED suspension

on April 20th. Sayas Suzuki played four in a simulated game on Monday. He should be back within a few weeks with the Chicago Cubs. Reisel Eglacius has not yet resumed throwing. The original plan was for him to start throwing seven days after being diagnosed on March 23rd. Well, here we are. It is April 4th, and Reisel Eglacius is not throwing yet. I'm not panicking or anything, but obviously it's not good news for him.

Anthony Rendon has been suspended four games for his role in that altercation with with an Oakland A's fan on opening day. Tyro Estrada was pulled Monday after fouling a ball off his leg. He had a monster game before that, went two for four with a sock and a shoe. That's his first home run of the season, his second steal.

And yeah, just a little early takeaway there. He's making me look pretty dumb. So if he's healthy, we'll see if Tyro Esrata can keep it up. Jared Schuster was optioned back to AAA on Monday. He's 71% rostered, Scott. Is this an easy drop for us? Yeah, yeah, I'd say so.

I mean, depends on the depth of your league, of course, but anything close to standard size. I'm sure you could do better than, you know, maybe he'll be up later this month, maybe not. Apparently, Bryce Elder is the most likely candidate to get the call when Max Fried is placed on the IL. He is four-person rostered for those who play in much deeper leagues and only maybe 15 teamers, stuff like that.

Patrick Wisdom was hit on the left wrist with a pitch on Monday, but x-rays came back clean. Ranger Suarez will throw another bullpen session Wednesday. He's working his way back from forearm inflammation. Matt Strom is filling in in the meantime. Max Kepler left Monday's game with right knee soreness. Johnny Quedo left his start with that recurring biceps injury. He suffered during spring training,

and he is likely to land on the IL apparently, which means I think we'll see Brax and Garrett. Scott, I know that Yuri Perez started at AAA. I think it's probably too soon. you know, maybe if this happened in like May or June, we'd see Yuri Perez, but my guess is it would be Braxton Garrett. Yeah, I feel the same way. I don't know that that's something to get excited about. Braxton Garrett had interesting stretches last year.

Yeah. But terrible, look terrible this spring. I know he had a long relief appearance already during the regular season where he was getting hit pretty hard. So would it want to make any real investment in him? All right, Kyle Bradish left Monday start after taking a comeback or off his right foot. Preliminary x-rays were negative, but he'll undergo further testing. Johnny Brito could return to pitch for the Yankees on April 12th. That's the next date.

They'll need a fifth starter. And then I had a note about Sean Murphy, but we already addressed all of that. Pitchers that didn't have it on Monday. There's quite a long list here, Scott, so let's run through him. Jose Barrios, not even the Royals could make Jose Burrios look good. He went five and two thirds, nine hits, eight earned runs, did have seven strikeouts, 11 hard hits allowed, 94.1 mile per hour, average exit velocity against. And this was much of the same problem last year, Scott, where he just got crushed.

He gave up a lot of hard contact and did not look good in the WBC, did not look good in spring training. He's 92% rostered. I think there's no way that you could start Barrios right now, even in a 15 team league. and I don't know. We see another one or two like this, and you're probably dropping him, honestly. Yeah, I mean, I think he's kind of in the same boat as Jack Flaherty. Jack Flaherty's first start of his more bunch of walks, seven walks.

But I don't feel comfortable starting him either. It's more just, okay, I know it hasn't been that long since you were considered a high-end pitcher and a fantasy. and a lot of the underlying data doesn't look that bad. So can you regain that form and an early science for both of them are not good. I will point out that Jose Barrios' opponent in this one Brady Singer had good results. Only two hits, allowed in five innings, one run. His average exit velocity was exactly the same, 94.1.

So I don't know. I'm not saying there was anything weird going on with Stackcast and it was measuring the number wrong. I'm just saying we tend to focus on the average Xe Velocity if it's in line with the outcome. Brady Singer gave up some really hard contact too in that same game. And I think I saw that Berrios's Babip was 500 in this start, so obviously that's really bad.

But as we were talking about earlier, you know, for someone who gives up a lot of hard contact and doesn't get a ton of strikeouts, this is probably not the best time period that we're entering for Jose Breos. So we'll see what he could do. Hopefully it gets better in his next start. Carlos Carrasco was knocked around by the Brewers.

He went four innings, gave up five runs, four hits, four walks, four strikeouts. Still had 12 swinging strikes, but his fastball and curball velocity were each down two miles per hour in this start. Carrasco blamed it on fatigue that he felt, due to the pitch clock.

Well, the pitch clock isn't going anywhere, so that doesn't make me feel too good about Carlos Carrasco. 81% rostered, Scott, are you more open to dropping him early on? Yeah, I was never that high on him to begin with. I'm a little surprised he's that rostered. CBS leagues tend to roster pitchers more than they're rostered on other sites because there's more points leagues on CBS. But even so, I wouldn't want to want Carrasco on a points.

Would you drop him for someone like Graham Ashcraft, who we spoke about yesterday? Oh, yeah, definitely. All right, fair enough. What about Michael Kopeck? He was bombed in his first start against the San Francisco Giants. He gave up seven runs over four and two-thirds.

Five homers allowed. He had 12 swinging strikes on 91 pitches. Zero of them came on the slider. And this is a lot of what we saw last year, Scott, where, you know, when Kopeck was a reliever two years ago, that slider was really good. Last year, just didn't get any whiffs on a slider. that was the same kind of issue here today.

And on top of that, gave up a bunch of home runs. 63% rostered is Kopeck. Are you okay dropping him? Again, I wasn't that high on him to begin with. I do think he was on the initial sleeper pitchers, the very bottom. I think I even put in there, we're really scraping the bottom of the sleeper barrel with this one. But I eventually ended up replacing him with a one-star guy for the final run on Sunday night. So,

well, good call there. George Kirby, you mentioned him earlier, Scott. Not great in his first start against the Angels, four and a third, nine hits, four runs allowed. Did it have 14 swinging strikes. And I was looking into the pitch mix here.

Didn't really change much. He got rid of the cutter that he was using last year. But it was a lot of the same. You know, whiffs on his fastball, not much on his secondary pitches, gave up a lot of hard contact as well, 94.1 mile per hour. average exit velocity against George Kirby in this start.

And look, he has great control. He might just live in the zone too much. We saw this early on in Shane Bieber's career as well. Obviously, we're not dropping George Kirby, but how concerned are you here about this first start? Yeah, this is, this is what I was saying earlier about how I don't remember going through spring box scores, the surplus of hits being an issue.

there when obviously the shift was banned in too and I think Kirby is kind of a microcosm of that he looked pretty unhittable this spring and then regular season starts suddenly he's given up two hits an inning I mean I don't I don't want to be overly broad in the analysis yes it was always so that Kirby George Kirby's arsenal may not be deep enough for him to live in the zone as much as he does. One start into 2023. I don't want to conclude that that's what's going on here. Obviously,

a lot of more proven pitchers have had similarly bad starts already. And so I think my analysis is like it should be for most players this time of year. All right, let's see what happens next. Because I don't, I'm not willing

to change my opinion of George Kirby based on this start. Yeah, I agree totally. On the other side of that game, Reed Detmer's was not great for the Angels. He went four and two thirds. He gave up three runs. Two of those were earned. Three walks, so he was a little bit wild in this start.

Did have seven strikeouts. Maintained that big velocity jump that we saw during spring training. The fastball was up two miles per hour. The slider up nearly four miles per hour compared to last year. But Scott, very clearly here, wild with the walks, and a lot of hard contact against Reed Detmer's as well. I assume it's a lot of similar analysis to George Kirby. Yeah, I mean, I'm not going to change my opinion based on this one start,

but I do think it is worth floating the theory that may be the added velocity for Debtmers, as effective as he was without it, coming back from the miners last year, maybe the added velocities to his detriment. And we saw signs of that in spring training as well. So again, let's see what happens next. Especially with the control. I mean, that would make sense, right? If you're just trying to ramp it up, you just don't know where the ball is going.

So I think that makes some sense for for read Demers. We'll see where the velocity goes from here. Hunter Brown, you think already's getting this awesome start against the Detroit Tigers. We know he's battling the back injury. Well, he was not very good in the start. Four and two thirds, four runs allowed. Six hits, three walks.

Only eight swinging strikes on 93 pitches. 85% rostered, Scott, is Hunter Brown. Obviously, he doesn't have the track record of these other pitchers that we're talking about. I don't think that I'm going out and dropping him. mostly because he has SPARP eligibility on CBS and he pitches for a really good team so I want to see where it goes.

Yeah, me too. I wonder if the hype was a little much and I don't think we were among those hyping him that hard but he did seem like kind of a darling pick once he got that rotation spot for the Astros and of course was pretty high profile prospect but the way he was being talked up

it was like he was you know, Yuri Perez or something. something. So, like, even last year, the little bit we saw, so obviously control was a huge issue for him in the miners. He came up late last year, was throwing strikes at a high rate. Don't know why that started, but whatever. It's nice to see him overcome the control issue.

Even so, 10% swing and strike rate was not very impressive. And in this start, Hunter Brown, had... Eight swinging strikes on 93 pitches. Yeah. So that's even worse than a 10%. rate against the tigers, no less. So I just, I don't know. I mean, obviously, I'm not going to abandon him now if I've already made the investment,

but I have more concerns about him than some of the other pitchers who've struggled the first time through. All right. What about Charlie Morton? He was blah in his first start. Five and a third, nine hits, three runs aloud. More walks than strikeouts. That's two walks to one strikeout, only six swinging strikes.

And we know typically Scott, he's been a slow starter to the past. couple of years with the Atlanta Braves. But, you know, the one thing we could usually depend on Morton for is swinging strikes and strikeouts. And that wasn't the case here. Any thoughts? So there's not a way to look up how many ground balls he got. What his ground ball rate was in this start? Because I think that's going to be the biggest key to Charlie Morton's success. His problem last year was that for really the first time ever, he wasn't a ground ball pitcher, gave up a career high and home runs by far. I have it for you, Scott.

50% ground ball rate in the start. So, let's see. Last year, it was below 40%. Okay, so 50% is really good. 50% is... But is it though, like, this is we get back into the conversation. Do you want to,

do you want your right-handed pitcher to be ground ball heavy with these shift restrictions and, you know, batting average and Babbitt being up? I don't know. I don't know what the answer is, honestly. Yeah, I mean, look, it's going to yield a higher whip.

It's still probably Charlie Morton's best formula for success. It used to be, you know, 10 years ago that groundball pitchers were generally good at run prevention, but we're going to drag you down and whip. And that may be true going forward. Unless it's a ground ball pitcher who also happens to get a lot of strikeouts, It may still be a quality fantasy option, but he's going to be a detriment to whip specifically because of the singles he gives up.

And so that may be what we're hurtling toward here. Charlie Morton did get single to death in this one. None of the nine hits was an extra base hit. So I don't know. I mean, I think, like, obviously he's going to need better starts than this exactly to be somebody you want in your fantasy lineup regularly. but there are some encouraging signs here.

I'm not ready to abandon my faith in Charlie Morton based on this start. All right, well, believe it or not, there actually were some good pitchers on Monday night. Let's take our final break and we'll talk about those right after this. Make sure to sign up for our fantasy baseball today newsletter. It's completely free and features notes from our nightly rundown and the latest articles from both Scott and Chris. Just go to CBSports.com slash newsletters. Check the box for fantasy baseball today and any other newsletters

that you might be interested in and then press save settings and that's it. You're all signed up. Let's talk about some hitter pitchers that actually performed well. Freddie Peralta was great in his season debut against the Mets.

He went six shutout with seven strikeouts, 12 swinging strikes on 85 pitches. The fastball velocity was up one mile per hour. The slider velocity was also up one mile per hour. and Scott, the pitch mix was much closer to Peralta's breakout 2021 than it was to last year in this first start. So I was completely off during spring training,

the shoulder injury last year. The Brewers kind of babyed him, but I can also acknowledge that if he comes anywhere close to what he did in 2021, I will be completely wrong about him. Yeah, I mean, this was a start that made me wish I had some investment in him too. I've zero. I actually had him on my bus 2.0. He also went six innings,

which was something he only did four times last year, six innings on just 85 pitches. And that was my main objection to him, is that it seems like the brewers are just going to baby him and really undermine his utility and fantasy. But one start in that doesn't appear to be the case. Yeah. Someone who was kind of babied by his team in his start on Monday

was Drew Rasmussen, who looked amazing. He was at the Washington National, so obviously it's a great matchup for him. He went six shutout, two hits allowed, zero walks, seven strikeouts, 10 swinging strikes on just 66 pitches. That's a 15% swinging strike rate. But much like Jeffrey Springs, we spoke about yesterday,

the Rays, they have a pretty quick trigger with these guys. And it's not like Rastafsson was in trouble. They just pulled him after 66 pitches. He did change up the pitch mix a little bit so far and this one through five different pitches at least 12% of the time. But Scott, he looked really, really good in this first start. Yeah, it was kind of hard to know what to make of it. His cutter, he used most often.

It was one of his two most used pitches last year. He used it more than anything else in this start. It was down two miles per hour. Clearly, it didn't hurt its effectiveness. Ten whiffs on 66 pitches. I mean, that's a great rate if Drew MassBusing can sustain that. He's looking at good times ahead. And then you have, as you pointed out, Frank, the fact he was removed after only 66 pitches and are the rays going to continue to baby him.

Really more of an organizational philosophy there than something specific to Rasmussen. I have the same issue with Jeffrey Springs as impressive as he looked his first time out. I don't think Rasmussen has Springs upside. and will he be able to miss bats at this rate against teams other than the nationals with consistency? I tend to doubt it, and we're saying that's going to be a problem for a lot of guys, potentially. So I might look to shop Rasmussen after this start.

I mean, obviously I'd want a really good return. It's something I'd look into. The other two names on this list, John Gray, kind of a mixed start, but I put it in the good category, six and a third, two runs allowed, seven strikeouts. They were two solo home runs. The problem is that his velocity was down a little bit in this one. Fastball down one mile per hour, slider down, 2.4 miles per hour compared to last year.

That is John Gray. The other one was Tyler Malley, five innings, one run, seven strikeouts at the Marlins. He is 73% rostered, so could be out there in some shallower leagues. Scott, any thoughts on John Gray and Tyler Malley? Tyler Malley's pitch selection returned to 2021 levels as well. And remember Tyler Malley was a really good pitcher. He had over 200 trycouts that year. Yeah, he did.

And the whip was a little high. But overall, definitely a fantasy asset. So specifically, hang on, I looked at the wrong name. Specifically, Tyler Malley, I think he got back to using his, here we go. four sliders and fewer splitters, and it was much closer to his 2021 pitch selection. The results were obviously going to AWIFs and 83 pitches. Okay, that could have been better.

But I know Chris was high on Malley as a bounceback candidate this year, and early signs are encouraging. I wouldn't add him over Justin Steele or over Graham Ashcraft, but he probably deserves to be more roster than he is after this start, and I'll say the same for John Gray, who has been, who has long tantalized us with his potential, and maybe this year is finally the one. Maybe.

I wrote him up as a sleeper back in January, so I do have quite a few shares, and he looked pretty good on Monday. That is John Gray. Let's quickly run through some deep league names here, Scott. Where should these players be rostered, if anywhere? Brian Anderson went two for three with a home run on Monday. Through four games, he has five hits,

and should play every day for the Brewers. he's 10% rostered. Where should he be rostered in terms of league size and format? Pretty deep leagues. Pretty deep. Okay, so like a 15 team, Mix Frodo, something like that? I don't even know that I'd want him there. I mean, he can be because anybody who's getting at bats can be there.

But I don't think there's a ton of upside here. All right. The Giants hit seven home runs total against Michael Kopeck and the White Sox. Can Fordo, Tyro Estrada, Mike Yistramski, and Bryce Johnson each hit their first. And Jock Peterson hit his second. David V.R. hit his first and second. A double dong for him.

Last year, he had 36 homers between the minors and the majors. Five percent rostered, Scott. Should that number be higher? Where would you look to add someone like David V.R? I mean, I'd prefer him to Brian Anderson. But to compare it to some of the other third baseman we've talked about in recent days, I'd rather have Yohan Makata. I'd rather have Alaharis Montero.

I'd rather have Spencer Stier. But the Giants seem to like David V.R. They seemed committed to playing him close to every day, which is not something they say about many players. And if this starts a home run binge for him, then we may see that roster rate skyrocket. Anthony Descalfani looked great in his return to the mound. He was at the White Sox.

He went six shutout with four strikeouts, 12 swinging strikes on 73 pitches. And he's only 11% rostered, Scott. What size leagues would you be looking to add, Deis Clafani? I think you could justify adding him in most leagues. Obviously, it's a lower priority than Steel or Ashcraft or even Tyler Malley, John Gray. But it's worth reminding everybody that, you know, obviously last year was a wreck for Desclaphani because of the ankle injury eventually shut down at surgery.

In 2021, he went 13 and 6th. with 317 ERA, a 109 whip, less than a strikeout per inning. But he could be another, he could be like an honorary member of the Mount Rush more if he bounces back. And it is interesting that they've decided to award him with a start over Sean Manaya. Sean Mania followed him in this game, actually. Right. So the Giants seem to have a lot of confidence at Descliffeani, too.

I don't know. Maybe it goes completely belly up here and last year is closer to the true Desclaphani. but given the injury situation and the Giants confidence in him. You know, I thought about adding Descliffeani in some deeper leagues, and it just never ended up happening. I wish I had now. What about two outfielders? Josh Lowe has multiple hits in the two games that he started,

both against right-handed pitching. He's 9% rostered. Matt Veerling went four for five with a two-run homer in extra innings. He also attempted to steal, but was one of the rare players to get thrown out on the base. paths. He has started three of four games so far. You know, Deep League Scott, Veerling and Josh Lowe, you know, is 12 team five outfielders, 15 team five outfielders? What do you think? Yeah, I mean, neither has really been on my radar yet. I'd certainly

prefer like a Trevor Larnock to both of them. Yeah. But there is some upside there and they could make themselves relevant if they continue to play with enough if they continue to start regularly enough. I think I prefer Veerling. I just think he's probably going to play more, but Josh Lowe does have much more prospect pedigree. So two names to watch in five outfieler leagues. Tyler Wells came on in long relief of Kyle Braddish,

who got hurt in that start, and he looked very good. Five perfect innings with two strikeouts in this one. His cutter velocity was up 1.5 miles per hour. 4% rostered, Scott. But we've seen Tyler Wells have relevance in deeper leagues. What do you think? Man, you're going really deep here.

Hey, pitch well. Yeah, but no, he's not going to. I mean, if we're worrying about George Kirby, I can't. I understand we're talking about different league depths here, but you have to be especially discerning at pitcher, even in deep leagues, unless it's a points league, I guess, and you just need volume. But I don't know. If you get in a deep enough league where you're considering Tyler,

Wells, I think you're probably better off just starting relievers. All right, well, who are these guys? Scott? Jason Vossler came in on Monday and had a hit a three-run home run off of lefty. Drew Smiley. Maybe he's this year's Brandon Drury after all.

He does have three seasons with 20 plus home runs in the minors though his overall career numbers have not been great. He is a one-person rostered, so we're talking about the deepest leagues here. Luke Rayley, another name double dong for the Tampa Bay Rays. He has started two of four games so far, both against right-handed pitching.

So it looks like he's on the strong side of the platoon there. And had a great spring training. 326 batting average with five home runs. We're talking deepest leagues here, Scott. But who are they? Jason Vossler, Luke Rayleigh. Yeah, well, they're both too old to really call prospects, and they're getting a chance now.

I mean, I think Joey Menace's, You're hoping one of them becomes something like that. It's unlikely, obviously. Both of them, both Jason Vossler and Luke Raleigh had strikeout issues in the miners that probably prevented them from getting a chance before now. I'd bet against it. But, you know, if you're talking about an NL only league for Vosler, an AL only league for Raleigh, then, of course, they're worth taking a look at in formats that deep.

I just, I don't think it's likely they turn into significant fantasy assets, just given their trajectory to this point. Yeah, I picked up Vossler in my NL-only Labor League because I lost Reese Hoskins. I was starting Nelson Cruz, pretty desperate for offense. So I love to see the home run here on Monday. And yeah, look, if you play in an NL-only league, anyone who has a pulse is going to be relevant in that format.

So I'm hitting leftovers worth mentioning. Glaver Torres with another sock and a shoe. Second time he's done that so far this season. He had two hits, two walks, his second home run of the season, his third steal. Just a little reminder that it's a contract year for Glaver Torres. So I don't know, we might see the best year yet overall from him. And he might be, I was saying the stolen bases, the surplus of stolen bases, has mostly been among players that we already consider base Steelers.

I guess Glaver Torres is kind of an exception to that rule. He did have 10 last year, and he had 14 the year before. but I don't think anybody drafted him, counting on stolen bases necessarily. He seems to be taking advantage of the new rules. Yeah, who knows, maybe he's a 2020 candidate this season. That is Glaber Torres. Brian Reynolds went three for five with a double-dong.

Masataka Yoshita went one for four with his first home run in the majors. Easy power to the opposite field over the green monster. He looks good so far, man. I'm pretty encouraged by what I've seen from Yoshita. M.J. Melendez. The quality of contact has been consistently eye. Yep. Yep.

It's good news for him. And I think only one strikeout, so a lot of contact too. Oh, yes. That's what we heard about him is, you know, very Luis Arise-like in that way. M.J. Melendez got on the board with a massive home run. 443 feet, 113.2 exit velocity. Ronald Acuna looks A.OK. Just fine to start the season.

He went three for four with his second home run of the year. Gunner Henderson also gets on the board, two for four, this first home run of the season and back-to-back days with a home run from Shohei Otani, this time off of George Kirby. The call to the bullpen, a few updates here for the Orioles, Felix Bautista. He's getting used early and often this year. Struck out two for his second save for the pirates. David Bednar allowed one hit, but also struck out two for his second save.

For the Astros, it was not a save opportunity, but Ryan Presley was back out there. He threw a clean inning. only through one fastball, and it was down two miles per hour. I'm still on watch here when it comes to Ryan Presley. I don't know. Yeah, it does seem kind of like

something's going on there. A little weird, little weird. For the Tigers, Alex Lang got the first opportunity for a save for the Tigers, and in a one-run game, he faced the top of the Astros lineup. There was kind of like some weird defense.

Torkelson had a double play ball, and he threw it off of Alex Breggman's back, and then Austin, Meadows is just a terrible left fielder, so it was a blown save. That's what you need to know. Alex Lang gave up a run. I don't know that it was entirely his fault. His stuff actually looked filthy in that game.

Garrett Hill eventually picked up the save and extras for the Tigers. For the Angels, Jimmy Hergit was used in the seventh inning with a one-run lead. Then Jose Quijada in the 8th, they tacked on a couple more runs. Carlos Estevez pitched in a ninth, but it was not a save opportunity. For the Diamondbacks, I mean, Scotty, Scotty. Not you, Scotty, the other Scott McGuff. Scott McGuff comes in for the save, one-run game, ninth inning. I'm pumped, I've got him everywhere, promptly gives up a pinch-hit game-tying home run to David Dahl.

David Dahl, of all people. The very next batter, Hassan Kim, walk off Homer. Not good. Not good, Scott. Not great, Bob. No. Scott McGuff needed to gain a footh here as the closer, and he did just the opposite. that he, like, it just crumbled the dirt underneath the foot.

And now, I don't know what happens. Like, Diamondbacks don't have a lot of good late-inning options. I don't know if, so of course, Andrew Chafin got their first save of the year. He's a lefty. And so I don't think, I don't think they'd want him to be the primary guy. Maybe Miguel Castro gets a chance. He did pitch earlier in the game, right? Yes.

and he has, he could maybe get a chance. He's a name to know if you're speculating in deep leagues on saves. Miguel Castro may be next up. I don't know. Maybe they'll give him a tough another chance, but this was obviously particularly ugly. Yeah. I think it's Andrew Chafin for now.

I think he's, look, I can't say that for certain, but my guess is that the next save opportunity will go to Andrew Chaffin. He's looked pretty good so far this season. This Guardians and A's game was wild back and forth. It was a manual Class A came in for the save in the ninth inning. He gave up two hits, two runs, two walks, and that one, he took the blown save, wound up with the win, because on the other side, I believe it was Trevor May,

who came in in extra innings with the Ghost Runner on base. He gave up two hits, two runs. One of those was earned, so he takes the loss. And then eventually the save goes to Eli Morgan, of the guardians. And then the last note for the Reds, Alexis Diaz was unavailable. He pitched two days in a row.

Derek Law converted the save in a one-run game. To stream or not to stream for Tuesday, Domingo Hermann versus the Phillies. No. Hayden Wesneski at the Reds. Yes. Kenta Maida at the Marlins.

Interesting, but no. Nick Pavetta versus the Pirates. No. Rwanzi-Contres at the Red Sox. No. You say Kikuchi at the Royals. It's tempting if you're looking to pile up some strikeouts, but that could go very poorly, too.

So I'm kind of halfway. Dylan Dodd at the Cardinals. Rather not do that in Major League debut. Stephen Mats versus the Braves. No. Andrew Heaney versus the Orioles. I'm tempted by that one. That's my second favorite to Hayden West Nesky, I think.

Jose Suarez at the Mariners Nah Let's slide over to Wednesday Mitch Keller at the Red Sox Don't think so Cory Klober versus the Pirates No David Peterson at the Brewers

No I'll say yes Maybe I mean it's better I'm looking ahead here And I'm not seeing any better options than that No no there are If I have to say yes to somebody on Wednesday

I guess it's David Peterson at Milwaukee. Wednesday is a rough day for streamers. Kyle Gibson at the Rangers. No. Eduardo Rodriguez at the Astros. No. Hunter Gaddis at the A's. No.

Kyle Muller versus the Guardians. No. Chris Flexen versus the Angels. No. Zach Rankie versus the Blue Jays. No. All right. Let's wrap up with Team Name Tuesday. If you want to send in a submission,

some kind of creative team name, send it to Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. These are from Ryan and, Houston actually got them back in February, and I thought they were pretty good. Lindor Truffles. Okay. Minter is coming. Mm-hmm. Karma Caprilyan.

Okay. This one's from Andrew. Esauk and the shoe. That's good. You have to know how Isok Perides pronounces his first name. And I, maybe I'm not giving your league mates enough credit, but they probably won't. Isaac in the shoe? What is that mean? Yeah, exactly.

These are from Terry, Vinnie P's Maronaccio band. I don't know what he's going for there, but that's interesting. The Iads of Marsh. Maranaccio sounds like some kind of like pizza nachos, right? Scott, it's too late to get me hungry here, so let's stop. The Ides of Marsh. Of Marsh, okay, yeah. This one's from Bill.

Ain't nothing going to break a maistrider. Ain't nothing gonna break in my stride. Okay. From Patrick, T. Catelle Parte. Well, just a party. T. Cotel Party. I guess it's like T. Kettle Party. Okay.

That one doesn't work for me. Scott's out. From Felix, Logan O'Hopi, Pale Ale. Okay. From Jake, Waka Flaka Flame. All right. Oh, man. Bringing me back to my middle school days there, Waka-Flocka.

From Scott, fat bottom, fat bottom gorieles. That's pretty good. That's a stretch, but I like, I like, okay, keep going. Rowdy Gunners. Okay. Two shots of Jameson. Apparently has Dre and Jameson Tion on his team. Fair enough.

Jake's on a plane. I have Cornoworth and Frey. I guess, okay. Busy man. applying. Got kid number three due soon. Okay. It's weird, but okay.

The last one is Friedel Birdie. All right. What is that, Freebird? I guess that's what these I guess. Yeah, I didn't figure it out at first. This was for Patrick. You say goodbye. I say Bayo. That's not a bet for cramming two names into one team name, two player names into one team name.

That's not bad. I usually don't like when you do that, but that's not bad. This last one's from Pete. It takes two to Rango. Yeah, it's not bad. I like that one. All right, we're going to wrap there for Scott. I have Frank. Thanks as always for tuning in to fantasy baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify. We'll be back again tomorrow.

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