Fantasy Baseball Today - Walker Buehler Injury, Jake Burger Time Plus Other Waiver Wire Adds (6/13 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 13, 2022

Jake Burger is hot (1:00)! Add him or Bobby Dalbec? Luis Garcia stayed hot and Tanner Houck looks like the new closer for the Red Sox. ... Walker Buehler is out at least six weeks (13:26). ... Which pitchers can you look to add in his place (16:55)? ... Adam Duvall is getting hot while Michael Harris is stealing bases (22:16). ... Which players did we win in FAB Sunday night (26:47)? ... News and notes (34:01): we have updates on Max Scherzer and Jacob deGrom. ... We saw some regression from Martin Perez and MacKenzie Gore this weekend (44:20). ... Jose Berrios looks like he's back and Robbie Ray changed his pitch mix (48:38). ... We wrap with bullpen updates and streamers (58:23). Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection 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 league. Where fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. What's up and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Monday, June 13th. Frank Sample joined by Scott White and Chris Towers today on the show. We had a major injury to one of the top starting pitchers

drafted this season, waiver wire ads, hitters that are heating up in June, start or sit, and much more. But let's get started. Oh my goodness gracious. All right. Let's go with Scott. Oh my goodness gracious from the weekend. Well, Frank, I like a good burger. I don't know about you. I like a good juicy burger. and the White Sox enjoyed one of those this weekend themselves. Jake Burger, the Burger, has, he homered, he homered, he homered again over the weekend.

He's been homering a lot lately. He's hit four home runs in his past eight games, and it's got that batting average looking respectable, too. OPS is over 800. His stats look like what you'd expect a major league corner man stats to look like, which suggests to me that that's what he is. And it's worth pointing out

because the White Sox, a team that struggled with offense all year. Someone on their team who hasn't looked much like a major league hitter for a while now is Yohan Moncada, their third basement. Molkata's still been getting some starts, but Burger's been playing more regularly, getting some at third base, getting some time at DH. They just sent Gavin Sheets down.

He's going to stop bothering White Sox fans. It's going to create even more room for Burger in the lineup. So I think the White Sox are committed to Burger now. They've had enough chicken and pork. They're all in on the burger. And, like, he hits the ball really hard. Like, I don't, I don't think the power hitting is, is a question. Average exit velocity is like 91 miles per hour.

Like, he strikes out too much, bad plate discipline. But at third base, I welcome. I welcome the addition of another power source. Yeah, 100%. He has started seven games in a row. You mentioned they're trying to find ways to get his bat in the lineup. And the power metrics really line up with everything he's doing right now. 90.8 mile per hour average exit velocity, 114 max EV, 16% barrel rate. There's a lot to like about

Jake Berger right now. But there was a few other corner infielder that kind of popped off the screen this weekend as well. Bobby Dalbeck had two homers, his last 16 games. He's betting 280 with four home runs. He's hitting the ball extremely hard. The strikeout rate is down for him. And we saw last year from August 1st on when Dolbeck was striking out less, he was like one of the best power hitters over the final two months of the season. And then Darren Ruff had a double dung on Friday, one off of a lefty, one off of righty. I feel like we do this every couple of weeks.

We bring up Darren Ruff, but he's still kind of interesting. Chris, how would you rank those three? Jake Berger, Bobby Dahlbeck, and Darren Ruff, if you are looking for a corner infielder? I think Dahlbeck and Burger are probably the Spider-Man meme. You know, the one where they're both pointing at each other. And there might be a third one there with Patrick Wisdom. off to the side as well. I feel like those are all kind of the same guy.

But, you know, Patrick Wisdom's pretty widely rostered and has been useful this season with power. Well, where are we at on power? You know, like power, it seemed like power was going to be at a premium. And then all of a sudden the last couple of weeks, offense has really started to bounce back. So I don't know how much we need to be chasing every power source. But yeah, I think I guess I'd rather have Burger

than Dahlbach just because we've seen Berger fail less often than Dahlbeck. But I think they're probably pretty similar players. In theory, yeah. I mean, Patrick Wisdom is for sure a low 200s batting average, because he doesn't just strike out 30% of the time. He strikes out like 35 plus percent of the time. So, you know, but he's, I think probably the most reliable power source of the 3-2. So it's

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An invincibility star Or it could be I don't know What bad comes out of The question mark box And Mario brothers Sometimes you just You hit the fake box

Well yeah You hit the fake box Or it's like It's a It's a lightning bolt The fire The the flower That gives you fire

power but you already got it so yeah it's not great am I gonna jump up there for two thousand green shell yeah is that Mario cart that you were referencing Chris because that's that's what mine's started to go that's what Scott was referencing right I think he was talking about just Mario Brothers general yeah oh you say Mario interesting Mario Mario Mario Mario I don't anyway it's probably like a New York thing Jake Jake Burger uh yeah I agree I would take him ahead of Bobby Dalbeck but I do like both quite a bit if you are still seeking out power and they are

are both widely available. Jake Berger is 20% rostered and he's got six road games this week. Bobby Dalbeck, 17% rostered. He has six home games this week. Chris, oh my goodness gracious for you from the weekend. Well, I wanted to do, uh, thought about doing Nelson Cruz, uh, who hit two home runs and starting to show signs of life, but I'll go with Washington Nationals teammate Luis Garcia who had seven more hits this weekend and 13 at bats, four hard hit balls, three of them coming today. He's off to a very good start this season, hitting 372 with a 15.6% strikeout rate, showing some good signs with the quality of contact. He's someone that I added in Tout Wars today, and I'm going to try to add him wherever I can because I think Luis Garcia, as we talked about

last week, there is real potential for him to be an above-average hitter, if not a standout. And he's also widely available. 21% rostered is Luis Garcia. Looking at names that are much more universally rostered. Like, would you drop an Owen Miller for him, Chris? Sure. Would you drop? I nearly dropped, I had to drop someone,

and I have both Luis Garcia and Jake Cronerworth on the team. I didn't drop Cronerworth, but I thought about it. All right. So, yeah, I know that you are huge into him, and you, I think, moved them inside, like, your top 20. second basement. So I get it. He comes with some prospect pedigree and so far he's off to a great start here with the Washington Nationals. How about... He's a top 10 sleeper hitter for this week too.

There goes. Luis Garcia. Yes, the Nationals have eight games this week, correct? So I know him and Lane Thomas were two sleepers for you, Scott. Would you be okay dropping two names that are over 60% rostered? Would you drop Tyro Estrada and Gavin Lux for Luis Garcia? Yeah, I would. Yeah, I would. I thought you were asking Chris, but... Yeah. I may still have Lux ranked like one spot higher,

but I actually might have just made that move. I've been pretty disappointed. Yeah, I've got Lux behind Luis Garcia now. So yeah, go ahead and do that. I don't know, and I know he had a pretty good weekend, but I don't know what we're still holding out for with Gavin Lux. Doesn't he have two home runs? I mean.

Yeah. Prospect pedigree there, but. Yeah. The underlying numbers are all pretty miserable. The batting average has climbed quite a bit for Gavin Lux. I think he's approaching 300, but only two homers. Handful of steals is nice, but yeah, I would take the shot on Luis Garcia. I think I'd just feel better about the playing time for Garcia as well over a Gavin Lux.

All right, so some hitters there. Again, Luis Garcia, Jake Berger, Bobby Dalbeck. I want to talk about a reliever. Tanner Hauk is going to be the oh my goodness gracious player for me. and this weekend he had saves on both Friday and Saturday, and we've referenced this many times. The Red Sox have been searching and searching for someone to step up, close games for them consistently.

You know, they've tried Hansel Robles in the role. He blew another save on Saturday, and they've mixed and matched with Matt Strom and Matt Barnes to start the season. But Tanner Halk is someone that really kind of seems like he would make sense in the closer roll. He's got that sweeping slider. He throws pretty hard.

you know, gets a good amount of whiffs. So I'm pretty interested in Tanner Hauk potentially taking over this role. He's 35% rostered. Scott, places where you need saves. Are you looking to add Tanner Hauk? Do you have some faith here in him taking over his closer? Yeah, I mean, well, the guy gets a save on back-to-back days for a team that hasn't, hasn't nailed down a closer yet. I think you have to assume he's the frontrunner at this point.

And, you know, heading into that stretch, Alex Kora said he was going to, to try and use him as more of a late inning guy after, you know, he began the air in the rotation and then a multi-inning reliever. And so I guess this is the role he had in mind. I mean, certainly the arsenal is there for him to be an effective closer. He'll have to be consistent about it. But it's not like, it's not like there's much competition on the Red Sox. So I would say, you know, I might prioritize. I don't know if I want to say it. it doesn't sound good, as I was about to say it. But Tanner Scott is widely available too

and has the Marlins' last two or three saves. And I think is emerging as the frontrunner there. I mean, the Red Sox are a better team, I guess. Yeah, I think I would go out. I think I would, yeah, I think I would go Halk over Scott. Okay. Chris, which Tanner do you prefer, Scott or Halk? Scott picked up another save on Friday,

and that was back-to-back saves for him. Yeah, I mean, he's getting a ton of strikeouts this season and he has completely, I mean, he's gone all in Tanner Scott has on his slider. He's throwing it 72% of the time this season, which actually probably isn't that dissimilar from how Tanner Halk's going to throw as a relief pitcher. I would say I probably prefer Hauk just because I think he's on a better team. I think they're probably pretty similar in terms of how good they'll be moving forward. I've never been much of a believer in Halk as a starter, but as a reliever,

I think that two-pitch approach can work. Yeah, I think it makes a ton of sense. Scott, a few relievers I see getting dropped and rightfully so, I guess. Danny Jimenez over the weekend, he gave up a few more runs, takes another blown save and loss on Friday. His ERA is now a tough.

4.70 and Giovanni Gallegos just kind of seems like he is not the closer any longer for the St. Louis Cardinals. Would you drop both of those names for either or both of the tenors? I think that's a hard choice. Yeah. I mean, if it's just, if it's a shallow league and it's like, whatever, I'll go with the hot hand, whoever it is, because there'll be somebody new soon enough, then I think fine, go ahead and do it. But, you know, if it's a league where you really, it was really painful for you to get Jimenez and who's the other one?

Gallegos. Yeah, Gallegos. Well, obviously, you draft a Gallegos, but if it would be really painful to get them back, let's say. Because we don't really have much clarity on the Cardinal situation. They've kind of they haven't had many safe chances lately. There've been a lot of extra inning games,

tie game situations where Helsley has followed Gallegos more often than not, but sometimes Gallegos has followed Helsley and And so it's, there's not a lot of clarity there. Like I don't feel confident saying, oh, Helsley is the guy to have over Gallegos at this point. So that would be the one I'd be more hesitant with. Jimenez, I mean, yeah, he's been terrible.

Who else do they have? I'm going to try and cut this short and just say, I would rank Jimenez fourth of that group, but I probably still rank Gallegos one in terms of who I want a roster. All right, fair enough. Yeah, Oakland is tough right now. I was putting in some speculative ads on, like, AJ Puck in deeper category leagues. I don't know if that's actually going to happen.

He does not have any saves or even think save opportunities, but, yeah, it's not working right now for Danny Jimenez and the Oakland A's. All right, let's get into the big news from the weekend. Unfortunately, Walker Bueller is dealing with a flexor strain in his right elbow and won't throw for at least six weeks. And Chris, I saw you tweeting about that timeline, not throwing, first six weeks that means you would still have to ramp back up so we're looking at I don't if everything works out maybe an August return for Walker Bueller but yeah I mean the best case

scenario would be what yeah probably mid August that's like if he hits that six week timetable and then you know two weeks of ramp up two weeks of rehab assignments like that's asking a lot you know it could easily get into September without even a setback, just being on the later end of this timetable. So I don't want to tell people to drop Walker Bueller, but if you're in one of those leagues where you don't have an IL spot, you're going to have to consider it. Yeah, no, that's a real question.

Scott, what do you think? Would you, look, obviously it's really tough. It depends who's available to, but NFBC leagues, for example, no I L spot, only seven bench spots. Would you drop Walker Bueller in a league like that? I try not to. I do think it's on the table. It's a similar timetable that Max Scherzer got,

and in theory, these are similarly capable pitchers. I know Scher was pitching well, and Bueller wasn't, but maybe we have an explanation now for why Bueller wasn't pitching so well as forearm wasn't 100%. But I do always worry about the forearm strain

being a precursor to something worse, as I was going on about about Zach Allen coming into the season. And that could be happening with Bueller, too. So in a way, I feel worse about his recovery than Scherzer's. Definitely for me, yeah. Yeah. But I'd try to.

It's a more worrisome injury. Yeah. Yeah. You know, a forearm strain versus a lad is just a, it's a more concerning injury. Yeah. And look at, you know, Jesus Lozardo is another pitcher who's had a forearm strain, and he suffered that a month ago. He hasn't thrown a ball yet.

So, I mean, yeah. I think the Dodgers are going to be very cautious with Walker Bueller and rightfully so. I mean, I give you an example. My TGFBI League, which is hosted on the NFBC website, seven bench spots. I have Colton Wong, Fernando Tatis, Tim Anderson, Matt Chapman, Fran Mill Reyes, Eduardo Rodriguez, Freddie Peralta. They're all hurt. You drop Rodriguez before him, I guess, but he's going to be back first.

Yeah. So, I mean, you could be in a situation like that and it's, you know, it's, you know, it's nice right now. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I. Rodriguez, Eduardo Rodriguez, you said? Yeah. I mean, if it's somebody you're not confident is even going to be a viable option for your team, and that's the person to drop instead no matter when he's coming back.

So that makes it easy. If there's a silver lining to this Bueller thing, though, remember we were wondering what the Dodgers were going to do when Clayton Kirschaw and Andrew Heaney got back. Oh, is Tyler Anderson still going to have a spot in the rotation? Well, like I said, life finds away. Life finds away. You're right, Chris.

Yeah, so Andrew Heaney, by the way, I'll have an update on him in a little bit. 72% rostered if you want to pick him up and stash him for now. All right, so look, obviously Walker Bueller was a second or third round pick in most leagues and you're not just going to replace his production, even though he was kind of shaky at times. But let's try to do that. Waverwire pitchers from the weekend in shallow leagues, we keep bringing up Jeffrey Spring. So I will mention him once again. He's 76% rostered and one of Scott Sleeper pitchers.

This week, he has now posted back-to-back school. outings, and he was solid again. At the Twins, five and a third shutout with five strikeouts, drops the ERA to 1.45. But we've talked a lot about Jeffrey Springs. Go at him if he is available. Other players who are more likely available, Spencer Strider had his best start of the season, who's up against the pirates, five and two-thirds shutout with eight strikeouts. John Gray, a nice bounce back after a rough start earlier in the week. Six endings of one-run ball, 10 strikeouts at the Chicago White Sox.

Michael Lorenzen posted his seventh quality start in 10 tries this season against the Mets, six and a third, one run with four strikeouts. Taiwan Walker on Sunday night baseball. Season high, 10 strikeouts against the Angels, 18 swinging strikes. Where did that come from? It was awesome start by him. And then Ross Stripling. It was a two-start week for Ross Stripling.

Fantastic matchups. He was at the Royals and at the Tigers. He goes 11 shutout innings, two hits allowed, six strikeouts. Obviously, not going to get a ton of whiffs there, but I think he's kind of interesting. So excuse me, Ross tripling, Taiwan Walker, Michael Lorenzen, John Gray, Spencer Shrider, Chris, who are, I don't know, maybe two or three of your favorites from that group.

I think Strider is by far the most interesting. But what we've seen from him out of the bullpen, what we've seen from him in spurts as a starter, the upside's obviously super high with the swinging strike rate that he has. So I think he's obviously the number one option and probably should be rostered, you know, in pretty much all leagues at this point. After that, it's a pretty uninspiring lot.

I guess John Gray, his overall numbers are pretty middling, but he's been dealing with a bunch of weird nagging injuries, and then the underlying numbers are a little better, 364-fip, 3-76-X-FIP. So I think I would take a chance on him, especially versus Detroit this week. That's a great match-up. So he would be the guy to go for if Spencer Strider is not available.

Yeah, I mean, I agree. with Chris. Strider is probably most roster at this point and far and away the best of this group. I mean, remember the first start, a couple bad defensive plays behind and were basically responsible for all the runs. And the second start was at Coors Field.

So this was, I think he got a fair shake in this one and look what happened. Spencer Strider, by the way, from your Atlanta Bravescott, they're red hot. Eleven in a row. 11 in a row. Let's go. Still several games behind the

Yeah, I mean, that's going to take some time, but moving in the right direction, it's always a good thing. John Gray, by the way, the matchup this week at the Tigers, so that is just absolutely fantastic. If you just need someone to play this week, Taiwan Walker as well, I don't trust the strikeouts at all, but he's going up against the Marlins this week. He's 54% roster, don't mind that. Ross Stripling, don't like the matchup against the Yankees, but I think he's kind of interesting. He's getting a lot of ground balls. The control has been fantastic. He only has eight walks over 43 innings pitched,

a career high swinging strike rate supported by throwing more secondary pitches, the slider, and the change-up. Scott, any interest in Ross Tripling? I mean, I've gotten burned enough by Ross Stripling over the years that I am skeptical. His two turns here are like one hit allowed in each

and just ridiculously efficient. He threw 56 over five innings in the first one. He threw 62 over six innings in this most recent one. But he's been an all-star before, and in the past I've really liked him. That's why I've gotten burns so much. It is interesting to hear he has a career high-swingy strike rate. I hadn't noticed that.

I mean, I'll say I don't see anything he's doing that Martin Perez isn't doing. It's like I'm as interested in Ross Tripling as I am in Martin Perez. Well, I mean... Their numbers are actually almost identical. Another too much. months of Russ dripling doing this, I would say for sure. In deeper league, some names, well, actually very deep leagues, some names that stood out from the weekend. John Heasley, he pitches for the Royals, by the way. He has turned in three

quality starts in a row. Andre Palante, he made a strong start for the Cardinals this weekend against the Reds, five and a third shutout with four strikeouts. And he has such an interesting delivery. I was trying to figure out he looks exactly like another pitcher. Kenley Janssen, that was the one. Andre Palante, his form looks exactly. exactly like Kenley Jansen. So completely random, but I finally figured it out. And I'm happy I did. Braxton Garrett was another name this weekend as well. An impressive start against the Astros. Five and two-thirds, one unearned run, five strikeouts. He had 15 swinging strikes against the Astros' lineup. That's pretty damn impressive. Chris, any interest here in Braxton, Garrett,

Andre Palante, and John Heasley in the deepest of leagues? I think Garrett would probably be the only one who would register for me. And that's only because he was a prospect five years ago at this point. I mean, he's been a prospect since, but a prospect of some note before arm injuries. But no, outside of really deep leagues, I don't really have any interest in him. All right, fair enough.

Let's move over to some waiver wire hitters. We've already talked about a lot of names, Elise Garcia, Jake Berger, and Bobby Dalbeck. I will bring up this name again. Maybe this is my Eric Hosmer of June, whatever. But Nathaniel Lowe, he's having a big tune so far, I'm just going to keep mentioning it. 341 batting average, four homers,

three doubles, and OPS over 1,000. He's hitting the ball hard, and he's putting it in the air. So I am still pretty interested in Nathaniel Lowe. Yeah, I mean, he's always hit the ball pretty hard. He's had launch angle issues like POSMor in the past. So, you know, if he's, if he can sustain that, then there may be something. But that's a very big if this deep into his career.

Yeah, and it's a small sample, right? It's only June so far, so we're what, 12 days in, and I want to see him sustain it. But look, this is what it would look like if Nathaniel Lowe was breaking out, you know, putting the ball in the air and barreling it up as much as he is. How would you rank these outfielders? These all did something of note from the weekend. Brandon Marsh had a double dong on Friday, but overall has slowed down quite a bit for the Angels. He's 44% rostered.

Andrew McCutcheon had a solid weekend, five hits, one homer, two steals. He's 28% rostered. We're starting to get some speed from Michael Harris with the Braves. He stole two bases over the weekend. He's batting 296 overall. He's 96th percentile in sprint speed. And Adam Duval, who I believe was a sleeper for you last week, Scott. So kudos to you.

Had a double dong on Sunday, and he's having a strong June. 278 batting average, four homers, an OPS over 1,000. 34% rostered. Scott, how would you rank those? Marsh, McCutcheon, Michael Harris, and Adam Duval. I would go Well like if home runs are your greatest need Probably Duval goes to the front of this group

But just in a vacuum all things being equal I would say Harris then Duval Then Marsh Then McCutcheon I can note that Recently Harris made a change to his stance He lowered his hands lower than he's ever had them before And that kind of coincides with him

picking it up at the plate though he still has yet to hit his first home run. And Duval has been working on his launch angle. I heard them say during the Braves broadcast today because he felt like he was hitting it too high, maybe in a way that worked in the past when the ball carried better. And, you know, I don't know how much of this recent success

for Duval has to do with that versus the ball is carrying better because it's, you know, we're into the summer month. now. But regardless, I think Duval's best days are ahead, at least as far as 20, 22 goes. All right. And on tomorrow's podcast, we will take a deeper look at offense so far in June and what's happening right now. Home run to flyball ratio. It just seems like offense is up in general, which would coincide with humadors and, you know, things that we kind of theorized in the past. In deeper leagues, a few names that stood out, Christian Betancourt, last. four games. He plays catcher in first base for Oakland. He's got nine hits over his last four

games. Three homers. One steel. He hits the ball very hard. 92 mile per hour. Average exit velocity. Very impressive barrel rate as well. That is Christian Betancourt. And then Kevin Keirmeier had a sock and a shoe on Sunday. He's now up to seven homers, five steals. He's nine percent rostered. Chris, do you have any interest in Betancourt or Keirmeier in deeper leagues? Both are somewhat interesting for Deeper Leagues. Betancourt, if you're in a league that's deeper than 12 teams with two catchers and even maybe a two to two catcher 12 team league he's playing enough that you're getting some kind of edge on a lot of catchers there um but would much rather have gabriel moreno who just got called up than benton court and betancourt wasn't one of the catchers that i added this week yeah i had him uh behind both gabriel moreno and cow raleigh so in those two catcher leagues where i was looking to make some moves. Those were basically my top three in that order. It was Moreno, then Raleigh, and then Betancourt, just because he is playing as much as he is and hits the ball hard.

I added Kirk Casali over him in one league as well. Okay. Yeah. Joey Bart was sent down recently by the Giants, so Cassali playing quite a bit for them. And speaking of, you know, moves that we were making and bids from the weekend, I wanted to point out some that I made. And if you guys have anything that you guys were looking to do, in Tout Wars, a 12-te-to-head points league. I added Oscar Gonzalez for $13 out of a $1,000 budget. Chris Archer for seven. It's added points league, but it uses Roto style lineups, so five outfielder's and nine pitcher spots.

So it does go a little bit deeper there. In the NFBC main event, 15-team Roto League, I added Alex Kirolov for $22. The backup bid was eight out of 1,000. I was so shocked to get Alex Kirolov. I'm so happy. I hope he gets called up tomorrow. I'm trying to get him everywhere.

He's available because he has. He home or three times again over the weekend. Oh, yeah. I think it's up to nine home runs at AAA. And that only started. He's only been there like a month, I think. Yeah, no, I'm definitely trying to add Carol off wherever I can. Bobby Dalbeck, I dropped Yulee Gurriel for him.

$13. I got Gabriel Moreno for seven in a two-catchel league out of $1,000. So, okay, do that. Stephen Kwan, I picked up because they have three games in Cors Field. I also added Jake McGee for $6 because, He picked up a save on Sunday and I just don't trust Gabe Kapler. And I could just see him mixing and matching and I am desperate for saves. Were you guys making any moves on Sunday Fab that stood out worth mentioning?

Like I mentioned, I got Casale. I added Sir Anthony Dominguez in Tout Wars. That's a saves plus holds league. So I was more interested in him there. Although I did add him in one just saves league and then Luis Garcia as well. No, I think Sir Anthony Dominguez, and that's S. CR. It's not like he was knighted. It's Sir Anthony Dominguez.

It's still a sick name. Like, I kind of just, like, should I call you Sir Scott White moving forward? It's, we can make it happen. I think if you're in one of those leagues where, you know, there's a big bidding war every time a new merger, a closer emerges. Like, that's a perspective one to pick out. I mean, Corey Kenebill's not healthy right now. Yeah.

And he hasn't been reliable even when he has been. Now, they think it's a day-to-day shoulder thing. But Sir Anthony Dominguez's numbers this year, his first back from Tommy John surgery. 34% strike, I rate 29 and 22 and 3rds innings. Yep. 161 ERA.94 whip 11.7K per 9. Yep. And he had 16 strike.

If you've been playing fantasy for a few years, you may remember he had 16 saves as a rookie in 2018. and then he had injuries. So this is really the first we've seen of him for an extended run since then. And he looks awesome. So hopefully he can be some stealthy saves not to root against Corey Kenebill or anything. But I have more Sir Anthony Dominguez at this point.

Yeah. Corey Knavel, by the way, 8.3K per 9, five walks per 9. That is just a rough K-to-walk ratio so far this season. Scott, any moves that you wanted to highlight that you were? Looking to make on Sunday? Well, I don't know if Chris was quite done, but... Oh, look, I just won Gabriel Moreno.

I was surprised. Okay, so in two 15 team leagues, I won Gabriel Moreno for... I won him for $28 in Tout Wars, and I won him for $39 in TGFBI. And these are two catcher leagues, 15 teams. I don't know what's going on there. We're kind of at that point in the year where guys can slip through the cracks. Yeah, I guess. People running low on Fab, you know.

Yeah, Scott, I got Moreno for $7 in the two-catcher league. I have a $1,000 budget, so. Yeah. I was pretty excited to get. Look, we'll see what happens with Danny Jansen, but, I mean, take a shot on one of the best prospects in the game, and if he hits, he's going to stick around. Like, it's...

Oh, now I'm wondering if I won him in a league where I had... I already have Salvador Perez, and Alejandro Kirk, but it's just like, why am I not going to bid on Gabriel Moreno in a 15-team league? Yeah. I did not win him in that league.

I agree with that. That was only a $7 bid. I think it's a good strategy, Scott, to like any time you could stockpile assets, especially in a league that deep, I have a league where I drafted Mitch Garver and Alejandro Kirk has my two catchers. And I added MJ Melendez when he got called up

because I was just, all right, hey, he's a prospect, catcher who can hit. hit and now I start him over Mitch Garber. So, I mean, these things kind of find a way of working themselves out. So I would agree with that. Another player I added in several leagues who we haven't mentioned yet is Bryson Stott, who homered at least once over the weekend. He's looked like a different player since Gene Sukura went down.

It was also about the time Joe Girardi got fired. So you're credited to either one, I guess. but Stott's been basically an everyday player since then, and during that time he's hit all four of his home runs. Yes, he homered on Saturday. So he is up there with, I mean, I think Luis Garcia has more upside, but he's, you know, as a second base shortstop eligible guy with upside, I think he's worth rostering on a similar level.

And there's something to be said for a young player who doesn't have to look over his shoulder and constantly worry. about whether he's going to play that day or not. I mean, he's just playing. He's playing every day now. So I think that's something that can actually help with a young player's confidence. And right now it looks pretty good for Bryson Stott. Before we hit the break, I want to remind everyone to join our fantasy baseball today

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So again, join up there on Facebook if you haven't already. We'll take a break and we'll be back right after this. The news and notes. Let's start with a few Mets Aces. Max Scherzer is scheduled to throw live batting practice in the near future while Jacob de Grom threw his third bullpen session on Saturday. Some good news there. I don't know when we will we'll see de Grom but I don't know maybe both post all-star break that would I mean make sense if they're throwing bullpen sessions you know that I would say

anytime within the next month is possible yeah they don't really need to rush those guys I guess I mean they have a pretty good lead right now their rotation has been bad since Scherzer's injury they were like bottom 10 and ERA heading into the weekend since then so they could certainly use Scherzer and Jacob de Grom. Oh yeah. I think most teams probably could, but they do have the luxury of knowing that they need them for September and October more than June and July. For sure. Brandon Woodruff is experiencing numbness in the middle three fingers of his right hand and does not have a timeline for his return. He was... This is super concerning. Yeah. I don't know. Like, you don't want to speculate, but this is, I remember hearing this with

several guys who ended up having thoracic outlet syndrome. So that's that's, it could be nothing but that's just the thing that jumped out to me. I remember Josh Beckett, I think, was one of the, one of the first guys I remember that where

that was the precursor issue. So what it's referred to as is Raynaud's syndrome. I don't really know anything about that, but doesn't sound good. Anything you wanted to add, Scott, it sounded like you. Well, I was just going to say, I think, I think Strausberg had the same thing before his, leading up to his thoracic outlet syndrome.

So. Hopefully not. Yeah. Hopefully not. No. It's scary for, uh, Brandon Woodruff. I mean, another. Pitchers are, pitchers are going down.

Dropping like flies right now. Yeah. Woodruff and Bueller and Scherzer before that. It's scary. Tim Anderson will begin a rehab assignment at AAA on Tuesday. He's on the IL with a groin injury. Sayas Suzuki is not making progress with his sprained finger. remains without a timetable. Jack Flaherty will make a third rehab start on Wednesday. He's allowed

just one run over his first two rehab starts. I'd like to see him performing well. Chris Sale will throw two live batterers for the first time on Monday. It also turns out that he could return in a relief roll at first just to get him back sooner. And I'm sure they would stretch him out, maybe use him for multiple endings in the bullpen. But that's the plan for now. Friend Moureas will begin a rehab assignment on Tuesday with AAA. He's been out since May 25th with right hamstring tightness. I'm going to plant a flag. This is going to go like it did for Joey Votto. Fremoreis is going to come back and look like himself. Royce Lewis was transferred to the 60-day IL with a partially torn ACL the second time he suffered that injury. Obviously it was a complete tear last year or even

two years ago, but yeah that's that's just terrible. I hate the you know injuries are part of sports obviously so you know you you you're never too surprised by it but it was the same thing twice like that's that's what makes me really like that because it just seems unfair you know yeah and royce lewis like his stock was probably the highest it's ever been like in terms of what everybody was expecting for him so just sucks yep i don't really understand what the angels are are doing with Joe Adele, but what do I know? Adele puts together back-to-back multi-hit games, and then is sent back to AAA this weekend.

I believe it was on Saturday. Look, when you're enjoying the kind of success that they have been. Yeah. I mean, anytime you can get Juan Ligaris in the outfield instead, you know, got to do it. Makes a bunch of sense. They also had Tyler Wade playing center field over Brandon Marsh today, so. Oh, and he was terrible too.

Yeah. It's awful. So bad. They're pulling all the right levers right now. I don't get it. Look, I am obviously a little bit salty because I added Joe Adele in a few spots last week, and I dropped him for Alex Kirilloff. Something I would recommend doing for other people, but yeah, it is frustrating.

Orioles outfield prospect, Kyle Stowers, has joined their taxi squad and will likely make his debut in Toronto. And I'm speculating here, but I do wonder if he's only getting the call because maybe there's an Orioles outfielder or hitter who is unvaccinated and can't play in Toronto. So maybe this is a short stay, but Stowers, Scott, I know someone we've mentioned before on FBT and 5, and he's hitting 253, 12 homers in 49 games at AAA. So he does have some pop, if nothing else. Yeah, it does.

I'm, it's not a profile I generally love in a prospect. some, you know, he's power overhit and he has had strikeout issues in the past. Not so bad this year, about 25%. But yeah, I'm not making a big investment in Kyle Stowers. Oh, right. Corey Canable, we've mentioned multiple times. He's dealing with a tight shoulder and hopes to only miss a day or two, but it does sound scary.

And Sir Anthony Dominguez is one you could speculate on there. Casey Mize will undergo Tommy John surgery, so a pretty big blow for the Detroit Tigers. Andrew Heaney expected to throw at least five in his AA rehab start on Tuesday. He's 72% rostered. Could be out there in some shallow leagues, some points leagues. Antide DiCofani went three scoreless endings at AAA rehab on Saturday.

He's on the IL with an ankle injury. It actually turns out Andrew Kittridge needs Tommy John surgery. Last week they said he's going to have some loose bodies removed, but it is more severe than that. we'll talk about Tampa's bullpen a little bit later on. No surprise, but Sixtho Sanchez is not expected to pitch this year. He's still trying to work his way back from major shoulder. I believe it was some kind of surgery that he had.

Some kind of capsule. Yep. Kyle Hendricks has been resting due to shoulder fatigue, but is lined up to start Tuesday against the Padres. Obviously not much interest there. These players went to the IL this weekend. Nathan Avaldi with lower back inflammation. Colton Wong with a right calf strain.

Marcus Stroman, with right shoulder inflammation. Garrett Whitlock with right hip inflammation. Jacob Junis diagnosed with a gray two hamstring strain. Mike Zanino with a left shoulder injury. Wade Miley with a left shoulder strain. Ramone Arias with a left oblique strain. And each of Mitch Garver, Glenn Otto,

Garrett Cooper, and Mike Clevenger were all placed on the COVID-I-L this week. Can't get Clevenger back for any length of time. No, it's been a mess. Starters sit these questionable players. Michael Koebeck left Sunday with, I believe it was a knee injury scheduled at Houston this week. Did you guys avoid that? Injury, tough matchup? I would.

It sounds like it's not 100%. He's going to make that start, and it's a tough matchup anyway. You'd start him against him if he was healthy, but given the question, yeah. All right, Joe Ryan will start Tuesday or Wednesday against the Mariners. He last made his, he last made his start on May 21st. He's been on the COVID aisle for quite some time. He's not so necessary that I would start him in his first one back. You don't know how guys are going to respond from COVID.

So I would sit him. All right. Lance Lynn expected to make his season debut on Monday against the Tigers, which I believe would make him a two-start pitcher. Yep. Yep, he got moved up just tonight. It was announced he would go tomorrow instead of, sorry, Sunday it was announced he would go Monday instead of Tuesday,

which yes, does make him a two-star pitcher Frank, and I think it means you indeed to activate him right away. His last rehab assignment was, rehab start was pretty awful, but. He threw 79 pitches and three innings, so, you know. Yeah, and he looked fine before them, and he's going against the Tigers for a start. Tigers are. I think go with Lance Lynn. A few hitters that are banged up.

Matt Chapman has missed two straight with wrist soreness, and Yasmani Grandal was out Sunday with a leg injury. Would you guys maybe play it? safe and get those guys out. Chapman, definitely. You know, it looked like he was starting to turn it around. Then he struggled for the last week or so. So I would sit him.

Grundahl, I don't know. Who do you got? Right? Yeah. I mean, maybe you have like Cal Raleigh. Are you carrying a third catcher? You probably shouldn't be. Right.

Or a second catcher, I guess, in a two-catcher league. Generally speaking, that's not the best usage of resources. so I'd probably start a one catcher league which most are yeah like I don't know who are you who are you carrying well I don't do you drop Grandal to get Gabriel Moreno get William Contreras

drop him I don't think he's been pretty awful but he has been but I don't know I feel like we've seen stretches like this from Granda before and he pulls out of it and I just think the track record's long enough that I'm not gonna I wasn't thinking about benching

or cutting him before this injury and it doesn't sound like this injury is a reason to cut him two weeks ago in a 10 team one catcher league I dropped him for I take that back I picked up Alejandro Kirk and benched Grandal and then I saw how good Kirk was

so I dropped Grandal because it's like I don't need him anymore put that There aren't a lot of Alejandro Kirk's out there. Oh, there was a couple weeks ago. Yeah. So maybe that's who Gabriel Moreno is right now. I mean, William Contreras is 71% rostered.

MJ Melendez, 69%. Gabriel Moreno is 51. So there could be some catchers out there in one catcher leagues. Let's move on to some other leftovers from the weekend. Some pitching regression that we saw. Martin Perez roughed up by the White Sox on Saturday. The White Sox absolutely crushed lefties. So just keep that in mind.

whenever you see them on the schedule. He is, Martin Perez is at the Tigers this week. Chris, what did you see from your guy, Martin Perez? Would you still roll him out there at the Tigers this week?

At the tiger, sure. They're bad. Yes. But I think he's not that good. So after that, if he has a rough matchup, I'll definitely sit him. And I think he's a fringe roster guy.

Fair enough. Eric Lauer gives up three homers at the Nationals. And he allowed eight runs total in this start. His last four starts, Eric Lauer, 5.85 ERA. Wifts are down, 13 strikeouts to 13 walks during that time period. Scott, would you start Eric Lauer at the Reds? It seems like he's kind of falling off here. I mean, it's a good enough matchup that I wouldn't automatically sit Lauer, but yeah, he just, he does, he looks, he looks like he's a fringy pitcher again. It's been going

on long enough. And in all phases, you mentioned the one-to-one strikeout to walk right over his last five starts. That's terrible sign. I don't want to mention for Martin Perez. His pitch selection was like back to his old pitch selection in this one start. It was fading the sinker, more cutters. Not a good formula for him, I don't think. I don't know why he did that in this most recent start, but that stood out to me for Martin Perez. All right. McKenzie Gore, we knew he wouldn't pitch to a sub-2 ER all season long. He gave up six runs against the Rockies and looks like his next start is in Cores Field. So I think we should probably avoid that, right, Chris?

Yeah. Yeah, I think that's fine. Carlos Carrasco has had a few rough outings this season the fourth time he has allowed four or more runs. He was at the Angels on Saturday. He gave up five runs in that start. His ERA jumps to 3.93. All of his underlying numbers still look pretty good. Scott, would you start Carasco? at home against the Brewers this week? It wouldn't be automatic, but it just depends who else I have. You mentioned the underlying numbers.

They do. It's been really frustrating because 334 X-FIP, 12.9 swinging strikeout rate, that's like a top 10 sort of rate. I don't know why the results have been so infrequently there for him. Scott, I'll also give you Aaron Ashby, who was destroyed at the Nationals on Friday. He gave up six runs, 13 hits over four and two-thirds,

endings pitched, and he is at the Mets this week. Before we started, you said, you have some thoughts on Aaron Ashby. Oh, yeah. No, keep going with Ashby. Ashby's great. Ashby, this isn't Martin Perez, where he has a bad start. And, you know, you've got to wonder if it's all falling apart. Ashby's previous two starts,

he had to combine 21 strikeouts, first of all. So we were thrilled then. Of the 13 hits he gave up Friday, 11 were singles, and one of the two that wasn't a single was an 82.5 mile per hour triple. So I don't know what that looked like,

but... Probably fun. It looked like an out off the bat. I can tell you that. So, yeah, I mean, it was just got, he just had bad, bad, bad luck in this start, I think was mainly the issue. And there's a lot to like there for Ashby still. All right, we're rolling with him.

We had a few pitchers return this weekend. Shane Boz, not great. Gave up five runs over two and a third. He's at the Orioles this week. Tyler McGill gave up two runs over three in a third innings pitched at the Angels. He's going up against the Brewers this week. And then Clayton Kirshall was at the Giants. He gave up two runs over four innings pitched.

Got his pitch count up to 71. and he's going up against the Guardians this week. Chris, what do you think about those matchups? We got Bads at the Orioles, McGill versus the Brewers, and Kirschoff versus the Guardians. All systems go across the board. Start all of them. Fair enough.

All right, some pitching standouts. Part one, Luis Severino, back-to-back double-digit strikeout efforts. This one was up against the Cubs on Friday. Jose Burrios looks a lot like Jose Brrios. His last two starts, he was at the Tigers. He gave up one run over eight innings pitched with five strikeouts. Joe Musgrove makes it 11 for 11 in quality starts this season.

He goes six shutout and had eight strikeouts. And then Zach Wheeler, another great start. This one up against the Diamondback six shutout with eight strikeouts himself. Over his last eight starts, Zach Wheeler, 1.42 ERA, 0.95 whip, 64 strikeouts over 50 and two-thirds. Endings pitched. He is awesome. Scott, anything you'd like to add on Wheeler, Musk,

Musgrove, Berrios, and Severino. Yeah, so you mentioned Berrios has looked like himself the last two starts, and yeah, they both were great. Four of his last five starts have been quality starts. Now, the one that wasn't was so bad that it hasn't improved his overall numbers that much, this stretch.

But I feel like that's... I feel like he's really trended in the right direction now. And you may have missed your window to buy low based on the way these last two starts have gone. The one thing that stood out for this start was that he still isn't getting many whiffs. Not that he has ever been someone who gets a lot of swings and misses.

Oh, I got a ton on his last start, I mean. Yeah, but I mean, he was up against the Tigers. He had seven swinging strikes. He actually allowed more hard hit balls than he had swinging strikes. So that's been an issue for him this year. And, you know, it's, look, if he's going up against a better lineup than the Tigers,

I think that, you know, that team would make him pay. more than the tigers would, obviously. Okay. All right, some pitching standouts part two from the weekend. Jordan Montgomery. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. So would you use this as an opportunity to sell high on Bari? I mean, his ear is still not that great.

So I don't know if you could sell high, but. I think I would. Like, I've been pretty consistently, like, worried about Brioz this year just because his swinging strike rate keeps trending down and he's allowing a lot of hard contact. He does have a long track record. You know, maybe this is just who he is and he'll be fine. I like him this week.

He's going up against the Orioles. But, yeah, personally, I would try and cash out. I would try to sell burials. You have the many leagues that we play in together? No, I don't. Okay. Just checking. I had him in one league, the Scott White Dynasty League, and I traded him to Chris.

Your problem. Yeah, I would say your problem now, Chris, but... We're rounding the corner. You gave me Trevor Rogers in return, so it's, you know... Man, that hasn't really worked out. It's not really great anyway. Pitchie standouts part two, Jorda Monka. went seven shutout against the Cubs with five strikeouts.

He had 17 swinging strikes on 96 pitches. Julio Arias, an awesome start at the Giants on Sunday. Six innings, two runs, 10 strikeouts to zero walks. Carlos Rodon, we really needed to see something, you know, get back on track here. He's got to... Oh, we didn't. What?

No, go ahead. Say what you're going to say about Carlos Rod. I'm mad at him because I lost in two head-to-head points leagues this week by a combined three and a half points. Ouch. And this great start for Carlos Rodon Sunday was one of the many things that led to one of those losses. And that was the podcast league. So that's the difference between me being four and five and me being three and six in that league, which is a very big difference.

And, yeah, I was the third highest score for the week in that one. I was the second highest score in the other. And incidentally, not even those two leagues where I lost by. the combined three and a half but in the 2014 dynasty league I was the second highest score for the week and lost doesn't bother me as much it's a rebuild year but wow what a crappy week crappy crappy week I'm sorry Scott I do like I like it when you get angry though it's you know it makes for a good podcast I'm not angry I'm depressed it's funny to him he's actually laughing about it no

Carl Sorda by the way he had a six ERA over his previous five starts so I do think we needed to see a great start and that we did. Robbie Ray, what happened here at Sunday? Just completely changes his pitch mix. It worked, so I'm not mad about it, but he fires his first scoreless outing of the season up against the Red Sox. Pretty good lineup.

Seven shutout, had four strikeouts. Throws a sinker in this one, 48% of the time. And entering Sunday, he used that pitch 2% of the time. So what's going on? Chris, what do you think? Robbie Ray, Carlos Rodon, Julio Reyes, and Jordan Montgomery. Robbie Ray kind of just sounds like a guy who's looking for answers.

And so he's going to tinker until he finds something that works consistently. I don't think this approach is going to work for him consistently. There's basically never been a version of there. There have been multiple versions of Robbie Ray that have been good for fantasy. None of them have featured him throwing his slider 18% of the time. So I think it's going to be back to the drawing board at some point. Urias, I think, is mostly just back. Like the velocity is not where it was last season,

but he remains a standout in terms of quality of contact suppression, and the strikeouts have been back the last handful of starts. So I mostly feel pretty good about him. He's still top, I think, 12 pitcher for me. And I probably need to give Montgomery more credit than I have, but I don't want to give him too much credit because I don't know how long he can survive with this, kind of strikeout rate.

So I don't know. I'm not sure what to do with him. I probably need to move him up. He's 84 for me. He could probably stand to move up a little bit, but not too much. Yeah, Montgomery is interesting. His strikeout rate is down,

yet he has a career high 14% swinging strike rate. So it doesn't really add up. It seems like he should be getting more strikeouts than he is. It could be like a sequencing thing or something like that. But overall, he's been pretty damn good. that is Jordan Montgomery. Let's quickly rapid fire, do some starter sit with some of these pitchers as well. Paul Blackburn went eight shoutout endings. He is at Boston this week. I know he's pitched well, Scott, but I feel like I would want to stay away from Blackburn there. Yeah, I've never believed in him. I will sit him. All right. Tristan McKenzie has now gone six plus innings in seven starts in a row. And the problem is that he's at Coorsfield this week. Chris? Yeah, no way. You can start him at Colorado, a guy who's that. home or prone. I like him, but yeah. Although like I could see him going six innings giving up three solo home runs. That's the kind of pitcher he is. Yeah, it could be. Hunter Green, his last seven starts.

He has a 3.2 ERA, 0.99 whip 13.6% swinging strike rate. He is at home against the Brewers this week. What do you think, Scott? I lean start. I could see how you might want to prioritize volume if you have options, but I'd lean start on green. I feel like the fastball's been a lot better for him lately. The last two starts for sure. He didn't throw it as much in this one as the previous one. But yeah, it has been getting better results. He's up to a 28% swinging strike rate, or whiff rate on it, which for a fastball is really good.

Even when it gets hit, it gets hit really hard. But I'm starting to really believe in Hunter Green. All right. Well, it only took us 57 minutes. but we've made it to Charlie Morton. He once again gives up some runs in the first inning, but then he settles down, and he goes six,

gives up four runs, 12 strikeouts, 23 swinging strikes, so still lots of good. You've got to like the trajectory he's on. It's just keep the runs off the board, you know? Focus at first inning. This is the Luis Castillo versus the Rangers.

I've made the Luis Castillo comp for him over and over this season. There was a start last year against the rain or the, sorry, the giants where he had 11 strikeouts, but gave up three runs and five innings. And that was like right around when he started figuring out. This is,

this is that point. Chris, would you start him at the Cubs this week? Yeah. All right. Blake's Nell, actually nice bounce back performance. Six innings,

two runs, seven strikeouts against the Rockies. The problem is that he's at Coorsfield this week. So I assume, no thanks, Scott. Yeah, well,

I'm still not that trustful of, them anyway. But yeah, especially not at Colorado. All right. And then Patrick Sandoval, solid bounce back up against the Mets, six innings, two runs, eight strikeouts. He had 20 swinging strikes in this start. He is at the Mariners this week. Chris, what do you think about that matchup for him? Yeah, I'm still starting him. There's a lot of red flags here, but I just, I think he can pitch better. Like the results have been good. The underlying, the process has been pretty mediocre, but just throw the change up more, man. It's such a good pitch. I don't know why it's, it's his third most thrown pitch this season.

Has it been as good for him this year? I feel like there are in a few starts where it's gotten like no whiffs or one whiff. It got 10 whiffs today. So it was... Last I saw, I still had like a 45% whiff rate. Okay. Yeah, it was 48% entering today. It was 51% last year.

The pitch is a freaking monster. Yeah, he's just kind of use it more. He's got a 100 batting average against on his change. Come on, Patrick Sandoval. hitters coming around in June. I'm actually going to save this for tomorrow when we take a closer look at offense in June overall. The call to the bullpen will wrap up with this. Danny Jimenez, we mentioned he's been struggling. Was there anyone that you guys are looking to speculate on? I mentioned AJ Puck. I guess Puck. I don't know. He's been awesome. He's been really

good. But I don't know. There is another fella. I never really want to speculate on the bad teams. That's true. Especially if there's no like obvious guy. So, yeah. Zach Jackson, I think, is someone who gets a lot of swinging strikes, but I can't really tell you much about Zach Jackson. For the Cardinals, Ryan Helsley got his fourth save this weekend. He's only 52% rostered, so if you need saves in a 10, 12-team league, he could be out there for you.

For the twins on Saturday, Yohan Duran pitched in the eighth inning with a one-run lead. He faced five, six, and seven in the raise lineup. Emilio Paghan then pitched in the ninth, and he picked up his eighth save of the season. For the Giants on Saturday, Camillo DeValle entered in the eighth inning of a one-run game with runners on second and third.

He walked Chris Taylor and then struck out both Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts. Lefty Jose Alvarez picked up the save one inning later. And then on Sunday, Jake McGee picked up the save for the Giants. So, Scott, do you have any feel for what's going on with the Giants right now? Or is DeVal just their highest leverage arm and that's it, basically?

Yeah, I think that's it. I think Gabe Capler has lost so much confidence in the rest of his bullpen that he no longer feels like he can confined Deval to the ninth inning. And so he's just kind of been using him all over the place. So he's still probably the reliever to have from that bullpen,

but, you know, if you're playing a shallower league where somebody like Halsley is out there, it probably makes sense to make the switch. Yeah, and I think Deval is still over 70% rostered, so I think that is a move that makes a ton of sense. For the Reds on Sunday, Art Warren pitched in the fifth inning with the game tied. Tony Santian pitched in the seventh inning with a two-run lean at the time. Alexis Diaz is someone I've mentioned multiple times. I think he's the best reliever for the Reds.

He pitches in the 9th, gave up a homer, but also picked up his second save of the season. The Reds are not very good, so I guess this is just for deeper leagues. Well, they've been better. Yeah. But yeah, they're not very good. All right. To stream or not to stream, let's start with Monday. We've got Mitch Keller at the Cardinals. We love Mitch Keller. Zach Thompson, not the Zach Thompson who pitches for the Pirates.

There's a Cardinals pitcher named Zach Thompson. He's going up against the pirates. Very confusing. Justin Steele is going up. Is Zach Thompson pitching on the other side of that game? No, it's Mitch Keller. No, he pitched today. Yeah.

That would have been sick, right? That would have been sick, right? That would have been fun, though. Zach Thompson. Justin Steele versus the Padres. Mike Minor at the Diamondbacks, Brady Singer at the Giant. Chris Archer at the Mariners and Chris Flexen versus the twins.

I think I don't want any of them. Singer's the only one I would be moderately interested in, but not really. Yeah. Archer probably won't give you a win because he doesn't go deep, but he's been okay for the twins. Tuesday we've got J.T. Brewbaker at the Cardinals, Matthew Liberator

versus the Pirates, Zach Eflin versus the Marlins, Trevor Rogers at the Phillies, and Yusey Kikuchi versus the Orioles. Ethlyn. I think it's a pretty good start. Cacucci. It's okay.

I might try Trevor Rogers at the Phillies, but I'm, you know, that could go very badly, too. Yeah, not much confidence there right now for Trevor Rogers, and rightfully so. We're going to wrap there for Scott and Chris. I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.