Fantasy Baseball Today - Wander Franco Gets The Call, Weekend Recap, Most Added/Dropped (6/21 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 21, 2021

It's Wander Franco time (3:07)! What are our expectations? What's his trade value in redraft leagues? ... Adam Duvall and Kyle Schwarber are red hot (9:06)! Should you add Duvall? ... News and notes (15:55)! Jacob deGrom will pitch Monday, Byron Buxton returned, George Springer is on the verge of returning, and more. ... Who were the most added and dropped hitters from the weekend (30:08)? How about pitchers (34:45)? ... What's going on with Corbin Burnes, Aaron Nola, and a few other struggling pitchers (38:51)? ... We have more pitching standouts from the weekend plus a few deep-league options (47:47). Which hitters had big weekends plus bullpen updates and streamers (58:07)! ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  CBS Sports and Westinghouse are teaming up to give away a 55" TV, portable power station and air purifier over the next month. Go to cbssports.com/homerun to enter. Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now here's Frank, Scott, Chris, and Adam. What's up, everybody? Welcome to Fantasy Baseball today on June 21st. I'm Chris Towers here with Scott White. Happy Father's Day belatedly to all who celebrate, including the only dad on the podcast, Scott White. Well, the only father. I feel like I might have some dad tendencies. You know, I love a good dad joke, but Scott is the only father on the show.

How was your father's day, Scott? It was fine. It was fine. You know, mostly worked. But it was kind of a whole weekend celebration, a bit too much if you ask me. But, you know, that's my way for you. who don't like being celebrated? Do you not like your birthday?

I feel like you could be one of those people who doesn't like your birthday. I'm not like Dave Richard. He gets angry. Angry if you know it's his birthday. I would miss it if it wasn't there, but in the moment it's uncomfortable, I would say, to be celebrated.

But it's nice to be appreciated in theory, even if I don't enjoy it so much in practice. I share that. I am obviously not Frank Stample. He is taking the day off. He's feeling a little under the weather. I am refreshed and recharged after a nice week long vacation that was honestly more exhausting than if I had worked a 60 hour week because I, I've had my three and six year old niece here the whole week. And boy, that makes me appreciate the people who deal with that all the time, even more. Because that is a lot of work. You got a dose of fatherhood. I'm looking forward to getting back to just working my job. And speaking of that job on today's show, we're going to get Scott's thoughts on Wander Franco's call-up.

That's the big news at the top of the show. If you listen to the emergency pod that Frank and I did a little earlier on Sunday, you can hear my thoughts on what to expect from Wander-Franco, how to approach his assumed pending call-up, as has been reported by the Tampa Bay Times at first and confirmed by, other sources. He's expected to be with the raise on Tuesday in time for the start of the series against the Boston Red Sox. Tampa Bay does play six games this week. We'll also talk about some of the concerning pitcher performances from this weekend. What's wrong with Aaron Nola? Reason

to be worried about Corbin Burns, perhaps. I know we've talked about that a little bit from his previous start. The most added and dropped players from the weekend and everything else from this weekend's games that you need to know about. Biggest performances, latest news. all that. But first, Wanda Franco is being called up. The top prospect in baseball, the top minor league or DeStash, would you say wire to wire? Or was there ever a point where Jared Kellanick was the top? Okay. There was a point. In fact, I think in the most recent prospects report, top five prospects to stash, I technically had Kellnick, number one there, had a Franco. But of course, in most publications, Franco was at the top of the prospect list,

every top 100 list. There may have been one or two exceptions, but pretty much universally, almost universally, which is not universally, but almost. Yeah, pretty close to a consensus, number one.

I think the consensus is he's probably the best prospects since Vladimir Guerrero made his debut. Expectation is he is a Vladimir Guerrero, Juan Soto-esque prospect. And the hope is that he can make an impact like those guys for fantasy, specifically more of a Juan Soto rookie season impact. Is that what you're expecting from him, Scott? I don't think you can't expect that anymore from rookies because who is the last one to do that?

That was regarded at that stature. I mean, because we had to keep Brian Hayes last year and Ian Anderson, but they were both kind of surprising that they were that good. Yeah, I would say it's Tatis at the start of the 2019 season. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah. So, you know, obviously, if Wonderfranca is available, given his pedigree, his upside, obviously.

He's 78% rostered right now. On CBS, but somebody showed me that in certain other major fantasy service providers who will go nameless, he's only about half that rostered, which is amazing. But yeah, you know, I wouldn't start him right away unless I was really slumming it at shortstop all this time and desperate to get actual talent in there, then it might make sense. But, you know, I think you have to have,

I think he kind of just have to wait and see how it plays out before you really calibrate what he's worth to you this season. The way he always stood down in the minor leagues was back control, how much contact he made, and of course, high quality contact. The power numbers weren't enormous

for the most part, but he's 20 years old. Really, really. He's the youngest player at AAA this season, I think for any pitcher or hitter. So just a sign of how young he is.

Yeah, very young. And he had been hot in June especially. It's 394 and 16 games for the month with three home runs, four triples, five doubles, make a couple steals too. So I've been filling up the box score.

You could have, I'm sure it would have been easy to justify calling them up out of spring training, and they kept them pretty late with the Major League Club. But he's certainly on the kind of run that normally would earn a prospect, a promotion like this. So, you know, I wonder how they're going to calibrate their infield with Franco here. I'm guessing he's going to play mostly third base, which is he split his time basically a AAA third base and shortstop.

And a little second as well. Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. I would guess Joey Wendell plays mostly second base. I would guess Brandon Lowe plays mostly the outfield and they kick Brett Phillips has been getting a lot of playing time. Yeah, there's no reason for that to continue.

But, you know, hopefully Franco is everything he's he is expect everything he's been hyped to be right away. Hopefully that happens right away and you've got to stud rest of season. That is certainly a possibility. Yeah, he has the eighth highest way

runs created among all hitters in AAA right now. Like we mentioned before, he's 20 years old. Youngest player in AAA has the highest strikeout rate of his career this season, 11.5%. So like you mentioned, the plate discipline is exceptional. That is arguably the biggest calling car for him. But the expectation is he should develop into at least average, probably above average power. thanks to the plate discipline and back control as well. What percentage of your remaining fab would you drop on Wander Franco if he's available?

And where are you planning on ranking him at shortstop? Oh, yeah, I meant to do that so I could have an answer for you. Probably he would probably move into the top 15 right away. Just, you know, I'm being pretty conservative since the prospect columns have burned us so much. recently, but you know, obviously this is as exciting as it's going to get this year.

The one exception maybe being when Kelnick was called up and that didn't work out. But yeah, quick glance at my shortstop rankings, yeah, 15, 16 sounds about right to start out with a lot of room to move up from there. Higher or lower than Danesby-Swanson.

Higher. Okay. Higher, yeah. Would you drop Swanson? I guess I have to. Yeah, I guess if I came to that, I would. I mean, in a shallow league. I'm sorry?

Horace Pallonco, Giorchella, yeah. Brandon Crawford. I mean, the kind of shallow league where Franco's still available, I don't, these aren't impact bats in that kind of league. So I don't think you'll miss them that much.

So yeah, I would take the shot on upside in that scenario. And if you're talking about Fab, I mean, gosh, I think I'd use at least half of what I have left. Yeah. I mean, the season's almost half over.

I might go as high as 75% if, if, uh, if, if it was a league where zero dollar bids counted and you don't have to reserve as much. All right. Let's transition over to the weekend.

And I know we've got Frank on the boards. He's not on the show. He's feeling a little under the weather. But, but Frank, you got the drop for us. Scott, can you do it,

please? Oh my goodness gracious. of all the dramatic things I've seen in my life. No, he doesn't play that part. Who's your, oh my goodness, gracious player from the weekend? I'm going to go with Adam Duvall. Duvall. Yeah.

I'm going to go with Adam Duvall, who had back-to-back two Homer games. He's up to 16 home runs on the season. That's as many home runs as he had all of last season. But in about the same length of time. So, you know, I was among those who said, okay, Adam Duval, pretty good power hitter. But those 16 home runs, he hit in 57 games. Come on. And it was like eight in a five game stretch or something, right?

Didn't he have some like crazy run last year? Yeah, something like that. I mean, he had two, three homer games to get to 16. Well, he had a four homer weekend this weekend. It's only in 62 games, so five more games than the 16 last year. and entering Sunday he actually led the NL and RBI, 52 RBI.

That's way more than the 33 he had last year. It's not giving you anything and batting average. He never has. But, no, how rostered is. He's not very rostered. You know what's amazing?

Here's an incredible fact. The top two in RBI and the National League right now are both on the Marlins. That is incredible. How about that? Adam Duvall and Hazers Aguilar. That must be every single run that the Marlins have scored this season.

That's amazing. That's been driven in by those two players. He's only 42% rostered. I don't think he's going to be starting caliber in points leagues all that often. It's still an all or nothing profile. It's still when he's not hitting those home runs, he's not doing much for you. But he's looking like kind of the. the best of the all or nothing players right now for four second straight year because he was up there

last year too. So I think he's certainly five outfielder material and, you know, probably just probably just keep him plugged in in a five outfielder league like that. Yeah. And I will point out, it's been a lot more all than nothing, uh, over the last three seasons. Since the start of 2019, he's played 159 games, 42 homers, 104 RBI, 80 run scored now. He's only hitting 237 in that span. batting average is never going to be a strong suit. And to be fair, he was having a pretty bad season until three days ago. He had a 666 OPS heading into play on Friday.

But that's how it goes with those all or nothing players. Yeah. And how he meets the NL and RBA. And I'll transition to another all or nothing player who I assume if I hadn't taken him first, you probably would have taken. You know, to be honest, since Frank wasn't, isn't hosting the show,

I didn't think we were going to do, oh, my goodness gracious. So I just totally pulled Duval. There's probably a bet somebody who made me say, oh, my goodness gracious, even louder than that. Well, yeah. And maybe you're going to pick him. Kyle Schorber. Who won up Adam Duvall with five home runs over the last two games. Two home run game on Saturday, followed it up with three home runs on Sunday.

He's got three multi-home run games in his last eight, hitting 400 in that span with eight home runs and somehow still underperforming his expected woe before the season by about 20 points. He's got that OPS right up to about 850. And that's about where you're hoping for from Kyle Schwerber. How do you feel about Kyle Schwabre now? I feel good. I like him better than Duval.

I mean, his numbers are even better, other than the RBI. His numbers are even better than Duval. He's, yeah, he's kind of all or nothing, but he walks some too. So that redeems him to a degree in points leagues. And yeah, I'm, I'll admit, I didn't realize Kyle Schwerver was so good in May. He had an awful April, 619 OPS, but an 857 OPS in May, 861 OPS coming into his three homer game. So I'm going to guess that's around 1,000 now so far in June. but Kyle Schwerber has been

a very solid version of himself basically since the first month since April and I'm I'm kind of at a point where maybe I shouldn't say maybe I shouldn't apply this as like a blanket policy but

it feels like certain plays you just got to throw out there April because it was just a historic anomaly that month and you know if you do that for Kyle Schwerber This is basically the best Kyle Schorber we've ever seen. It's basically the same one we were getting in 2019.

Yeah. Yeah, he was very good in 2019, especially in the second half of that season. So before we move on to news and notes from the weekend, injuries, all the rest of the performances, just want to let you know about what's on CBS Sports HQ this week. As always, CBS Sports HQ is the network to start your sports news day at 8 a.m. Eastern with morning buzz and hour of highlights, news, and all the days need to know news. come back or leave us on all day at 6 p.m. When we break down all the night's action and release dozens of picks from the best analysts and cappers in the sports world,

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the universe, everything. So hop on by, join the YouTube chat. 7 p.m. Eastern time on our YouTube page, YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. Subscribe and you'll get notifications for when we go live, including for this show, uh, on, you know, early, early mornings on the East coast most days, although in the evening tonight. News and notes from the weekend. After playing catch on Sunday, Jacob de Grom confirmed he will start Monday for the Mets, which sets him up for a two-star week. The way this has gone the last, uh, what, three starts, it's been, he's amazing for a couple of innings. And then we, we all freak out when he leaves. And then he, he ends up being fine. And makes his next start.

and I don't know. I don't know, man. That sounds a lot. Four injuries this season, I believe for Jacob de Grom, four different injuries. The only injury is in his mind, Chris. Maybe. I think it's actually in his back. Maybe his shoulder.

Yeah. Well, look, it's, I think it's going to be nerve-wracking from now on. The Jacob de Grom experience is going to be incredible. incredibly, uh, scary, but hopefully it keeps being good news. It seems like it's just a, a bunch of minor things. And when you're throwing 102 miles an hour, maybe every minor thing in the middle of a start seems major, but I mean, there's nothing actionable. You start Jacob de Grom, right?

Right. Ray's manager, Kevin Cass said Friday, Tyler Glass now will be shut down for four weeks while he receives treatments. That, you know, the, the team seems encouraging. by that news. I don't know how encouraged I am by that news because that means you're probably looking

at least late August return at the best case scenario because this probably means no, throwing for four weeks and then ramping back up. So it's probably... Yeah, I mean, they put them on the 60 day IL. So late August is

the earliest it could possibly be. You know, you just hope they don't, he doesn't end up needing Tommy John surgery and then missing all of the 2022. Frank and I talked about Masahiro Tanaka Irvin Santana, guys who've been able to do

this. A lot more examples of the opposite though. Well, but a more reason one might be Denels Lamett who had his longest and best start of the season Sunday when five innings struck out seven. Velocity

was up a mile per hour. 81 pitches. So if the Padres has been very slowly bringing Lament along, I don't know. I don't know if that's any a model. Anybody wants to see the race follow for Glass now, but. It's what I mean. This reminds me of, you know, the angel was Shohei Otani, his rookie season. It was around the same time of the year, I think, when he started having his elbow issues. And it, it was from what I understand, the thought process was if to Ella Glass now or, you know, if a pitcher in the middle of June has Tommy John surgery, the next season's probably a wash anyway. You know, there's just the chances of coming back and making any kind of meaningful impact are so slim that you might as well just push it and see if they can come back without having surgery.

Because either way, you're probably losing all of 2022 either way if he has to have it. So I would guess that there's some of that going on where they think the risk of trying to have him rehab instead of undergoing some kind of surgical procedure outweighs the risks. So, you know, that's maybe the pessimistic take, but if you had no IL spots free, are you hanging on to Glass now? I would try to hang onto them. You know, it becomes a question of exactly which, who's on your aisle already? Because there may be somebody on there that you could not miss that much and stash Glass now instead. All right. We got some rare good injury news from the Twins side, Byron Bucke.

then returned Saturday. Max Kepler returned Friday. Williams Ashtadio was optioned to AAA. Is Miguelson, though, expected to be the odd man out moving forward? I know Nelson Cruz left today's game. I didn't see anything on that, did you? I have not. I imagine they're going to probably rotate players between a few different positions, Kierloff and Larnik.

Larnik's strikeouts have gone way up, by the way. He's at about a 30% rate now. I know he was having a lot of success. success early on making contact, but I've grown less interested in him upon seeing that. He did go three for five today. You did. But yeah, 40 strikeouts and 116 at bat so far. So, yeah.

Blue Jay's manager, Charlie Montoya said that upon returning George Springer will bat fifth or six in the lineup, he doesn't want to mess with the top of the order the way they're playing. And George Springer, I believe, is expected back early this week, possibly Monday. He's on his AAA rehab assignment right now. He started on Friday. Does this lower George Springer in your rankings at all? He was someone who we were looking at as like a top 15 outfielder coming into the season. Obviously, injuries have changed that quite a bit.

Yeah, not really. I mean, if he hits, I'm sure he'll start to move back up. And, I mean, ultimately, I care about how good the player is more than anything else. Makes sense. Chris Sale, scheduled to throw back up. Bullpen Sessions Tuesday and Friday. He is 76% rostered. Adbert Alzale will return from the IL Monday. He has a 406 ERA and a 1.04 whip. 71% rostered is he someone worth adding in more leagues?

Yeah, I would say so. He's, uh, he's probably second in my two in my sleeper pitchers list for this upcoming week. I think I put him second upon learning he was returning and he has two starts right away. Might be limited in that first start, but Still, good numbers overall. ERA is a little high, but the strikeouts are good. The whip is low. I think he probably needs to be rostered in more than 70% of leagues. All right.

Carson Kelly was placed on the aisle with a fractured right wrist. Very frustrating, given what a good start he had gotten off to, that injuries have kind of derailed things. He'll likely be out at least through the All-Star break. Who's your top catcher target on waivers among this group? Max Stasi, William Contreras, Eric Haas, and Jan Goams, all under 15. percent roster or if there's anybody else that you'd rather target. It would probably be

Stasi at this point. William Contreras is close. Those would be my favorite too. And if you have to go deeper than that, they did call Dalton Varshow up. Okay. There you go. To take Carson Kelly's roster spot. He started Sunday's game at catcher and then moved to center field later in the game. And he was crushing it at AAA. I know previous stints in the majors haven't gone well, but still.

You don't remember Dalton Varsho. He was someone who had a lot of hype in the spring, potential, you know, to be a 20 stolen base kind of guy at catcher, was expected to play more in the outfield. So he had nine home runs in 18 games at AAA Reno, batting 313. Pretty good. Yeah.

Mike Mastakis was moved to the 60-day IL because of his heel injury. The earliest Tican return is mid-July. is he dropable at this point? I would say that in standard size 12 team leagues if you're not talking about the expanded rhodo rosters. Yeah, it's pretty dropable. Austin Gomber placed on the aisle with left forearm tightness just as he was really starting to figure it out.

His last seven or eight starts had been magnificent, so that's really frustrating. We don't have much details on that. Well, we do have more now. Okay. Okay. They had an MRI on the elbow. It came back clean. Sounds like he's not going to miss much time. Okay. That's good. We don't have specifics as to how much time we'll miss. Yeah. John Means has yet to throw off a mound. He's on the IL dealing with that left shoulder strain.

Another one that was very frustrating, given how good he was pitching. Corr Seeger could begin his rehab assignment Friday or Saturday. His recovers from that fractured hand like I mentioned earlier. Jeff McNeil is expected to return Monday from his hamstring injury. Brandon Nimmo started his rehab assignment on Sunday with his finger injury. So they could be starting to get back to full health relatively soon. And it's kind of funny, Francisco Lindoror has been crushing the ball for the last three weeks and everybody else on the roster stopped hitting. So they could really use, uh, they could really use those guys back. Ah, yes.

I'm, I'm so sad for the first place, Mets. Patrick Wisdom has sat four of the last six games for the, Cubs, is he dropable, 55% rostered? Yeah, I would say so. Sit in that much. Despite being, despite being limited with a shoulder injury, Brady Singer will start Tuesday against the Yankees. Wilson Ramos was released by the Tigers.

Wouldn't be surprised if somebody snatched him up, but after a couple of good weeks to start the season, he's been pretty awful. Aaron Sanchez moved to the 60th, day, day I, which means he can't return until early July. And start or sit for the. upcoming week. Fernando Tatis, he exited Saturday's game after appearing to injure his left shoulder while diving for a ball. It's the same shoulder he messed up earlier in the season. He did not play Sunday. Are you starting Tatis? All of the, yes, I'm starting him because everything

sounds positive coming from the Padres. They say it's not as bad as what happened earlier in the season. It was more precautionary than anything else. So yeah, definitely start Tatis. Yeah, this is the third or fourth scare like this for Tatis, I think, because I think he had one in spring training. Yeah. Before, like the serious one. He's like the Jacob de Grom of hitters. And the Ronald Acuna of short stops, except Acuna is a different injury every time.

True. Jose Ramirez dealing with a left foot injury. He suffered on Friday when he got a foul to pitch off his foot. Actually, it might have been a hit by pitch. He was able to pinch hit Sunday. Are you starting him this week? Yes. All right, Max Scherger threw a 40-pitch bullpen session Saturday

and plans to start Tuesday against the Phillies. Should you get him in your lineup? Yes, you should. He lines up for two starts if he does indeed return Tuesday. All right. Cody Bellinger and Max Muncie both expected to be activated from the IL Tuesday or Wednesday. Are you starting those two?

More likely Muncie. There's more eligibility there. you might need him more and he's actually performed when healthy. It's not a flat note of Bellinger, but I'd be more on the fence about him. Alberto Mondesie

left Sunday's game with a side injury. Would you be comfortable starting him? I would not because he's just coming back from no bleak injury. I don't know if you're ever comfortable starting him. That sucks because he's crushed it when he's been in the lineup. What, like the five games?

I think it's been. He's got like five home runs. in those five games before. Nelson Cruz was removed Sunday. This was a neck tightness thing. I hadn't seen that update. Would you start him? Yeah, I hadn't seen the latest on that either.

He's, it seems, you know, he's, what, 40 years old? Seems like he's always a little banged up. So if,

unless this sounds more significant, I'd probably lean towards starting crews. Yeah, I'm only 33 and I'm always, uh, injured. So, you know,

I can kind of sympathize with that. we're going to take a quick break on the audio side. If you're watching on YouTube, stay tuned. We'll be right back. And we're back. And we're welcome back. I wish this,

I wish I had the drop that Adam used to do. The welcome back. Because we had some, some big names come back or I guess one big name and one guy who has been really good this season. Well, we had Alberto Mondesi come back. Yeah. And then welcome back to not being back.

Yeah. shortly thereafter. Byron Buxton back from the IL and picked up where he left off. Three for six with a home run, two run score, two RBI, one run scored in his two games this weekend, start him everywhere. Colton Wong, four for 11, two runs, three RBI. In his three games, uh, started two of the three, battled lead off both and hit his fourth home run on Sunday. So cold Wong, he's been somebody in my roto leagues. I've been very happy to, to have around. And I'm happy to have him back. And then almost welcome back to a handful of guys.

We mentioned a few of them already, but I'll add in Kyle Tucker is expected to be activated this week. He's been dealing with a stomach flu. I read that he lost something like 10 pounds while dealing with this illness. So don't be surprised if, you know, he doesn't hit right away because it's coming back from that kind of illness can can really knock you out of things in the middle of the season. So that'll be something to keep in mind. I probably wouldn't start him this week, but, you know, let him get his legs under him. And let's take a look at the most added and most dropped hitters from the weekend. Most added Jake, Jake Frealy is up to 29%.

I added him in one of my 12 team Roto leagues. And at the outfield, he's doing some really nice things, getting on base, running, Max Stasse, Bobby Bradley from Cleveland. I'm at Rosario, Joey Votto, back from injury. Hazer Sanchez, Marlins, prospect, Homer. for the first time in his career last week. Then Adam DeValls, we talked about earlier, and Jonathan India, which one of these guys stands out to you

as someone who needs to be rostered in more leagues? India. India is my favorite of this group. He's been everything, like, he's one of those guys where you wonder how much you should really count April because it was, that was just such a bad environment for hitting.

And since, he missed some, He was out a few games at the beginning of May. I don't know if he was just, you know, they were benching him because he wasn't performing well. But basically, he got back in the lineup and stayed from May 13 on. And his numbers during that stretch are, you know, batting almost 300, OBP over 400,

I think five home runs and five steals or something like that and moved to the lead-on spot because of that. So, you know, the on-base skills were, really the main thing he showed in the miners above everything else. He was thought to have more upside with the bat, but that wasn't in question. So now that we're seeing him do that

and with enough power and speed, I think, to for it to amount to something, and he's dual eligible. Yeah, I think Jonathan India, regardless of the format, is looking pretty interesting again. Yeah, just to specify, it was the start of a series at course field on May 13th.

He had a 616 OPS in his first 26 games. Since then, he's hitting 3-17, 300 with an 898 OPS, a 25-home or 20-steele, 150 game pace since then. So John of India, India, 59% rostered, worth adding in all formats. I think Ahmed Rosario at 53% is probably a little low. You know, I guess he could be rostered in all roto formats, but I think you know, if he's out there in a Roto league, I think he's probably someone who, you know, deserves to be rostered more. And I think Jake Fraili is really interesting.

His minor league numbers are, I don't know if you guys talked about him much. Last week, I only listened to one episode. I'm going to be honest. I didn't listen to all that. That's one more than I would have. But, you know, he has an OPS over 900 between AA and AAA. You know, only about 106 games between the two levels, but 24 stolen bases, 21 home runs for Jake Fraley in 106 games between AA and AAA.

And so far in the majors, he's hitting 250, but he's walking a ton, 22 walks, 21. Strikeouts and 87 played appearances, four homers, five steals. I'm, you know, in any OBP league, I think he's probably a muster roster, outfielder in Roto. and, you know, I picked him up in a 12-team, five Al-Fielder League where Alfield's been a disaster for me. So just hoping he can keep hitting well. Yeah, hopefully.

I haven't let Votto go unroastered either in any of my leagues, regardless of depth, because the thing is, like, he may not help much in batting average, but he'll walk. And it looks like he's a power source again. So even in points... The expected stats look really good for him still. Yeah. All right.

Most dropped players, Nick Solac, Merrill Kelly on the aisle with a fractured wrist, jerks and pro far, Yarmine Mercedes, Garrett Hampson, Pavan Smith, Josh Fuentes, and Willie Calhoun. Any of those guys you think, you know, you would want to give a second thought to dropping. I don't really think so. Well, I mean, Nick Solac, if it's a big enough league, I think Nick Solac has been among the most dropped, but only dropped down to like 70% roster ship or something like that. So I totally understand why all of these players are on this list. They've all lost value over the past two to four weeks. Yeah, I mean, I think Pavin Smith is going to bounce back with numbers like we were seeing a couple weeks ago. But that's not, you know, even at his best, he's not especially high impact. All right. Let's look at some of the most added, most dropped pitchers.

Ross Stripling up to 41% for a two-start week. Vladimir Gutierrez up to 51%. I would guess that's going to drop after he had a poor start Sunday. Sammy Long, Ryan Yarbrough at 75%, Jake O'Darizia at 46, James Caprillion, 71%, Logan Gilbert at 69, and Patrick Sandoval at 69, and Patrick Sandoval at 69, and Patrick Sandoval at 69. I think all of those guys could be higher. Yeah, I agree. what's interesting about Sandoval is he had 11 strikeouts Sunday right I think it was nine strikeouts it was almost his second double digit start in his last three

he had nine Sunday I think nine Sunday okay and he had okay but he hasn't so the strikeouts have been there for him for the most part was it a nine strikeout game I can't find the number now it was okay um but the swinging strike strikes since that 32 swinging strike effort really haven't. So I'm not sure what to make of that, but being only 20% rostered. I mean, that's somebody you could take a flyer on just about anywhere.

And the change-up does look like a special pitch for him, if that's all he has. Yeah, Gilbert and Caprillion, they're the most rostered here. Well, Yarbrough, I guess, is up there too. I'd rather have Caprillion and Gilbert for the upside in Yarbrough. Yeah, Caprily and especially 42 strikeouts, 17 walks and 388 innings. So far this season with 284 ERA, that's pretty good. And the most dropped, unless there was something you wanted to add.

Well, I just, Sam Long, I'm not exactly anxious to pick him up. You had six strikeouts, two runs allowed against the Phillies today. Yeah, the outings have been short for the most part, but they've been getting longer. You know, it's hard to know what to make of his minor league track record because he was awesome in the little bit he pitched to AAA this year. 2019, he was at low A. So I really no idea how to assess Sam Long other than... But it's the Giants, great place to pitch,

and they've done a really good job of having the most out of guys recently. So in a 22 and two-thirds innings of AAA this year, a $190.79.0.7. With 14.7 strikeouts per nine. But yeah, it was just, there's, there's not really anything to see in the minor league track record beyond that because it was so far down. All right. And the most dropped pitchers,

let me know if there's anyone here who you think, uh, deserves a second shot. Martine Perez, Chris Bubich, Ryan Weathers, Jackson Coer, Michael Paneda, Jesus Lazzardo,

Tucker Davidson and Tyler Glassnow, obviously Glass Now with the injury and Luzeta, Luzardo pitching poorly out of the bullpen for the A's right now. I did actually drop him in a 12-team Roto League. I did too. I didn't want to. I wish I didn't have to, but. He was almost at seven now.

Like, the way he's pitching in relief, I don't know why they'd move him back to the rotation. Yeah, he's given up, I believe, five home runs in like two inings or something. since moving to the bullpen, it's a, it's a wild number. So, yeah, it's been, it's been really bad. Michael Paneda,

if you were able to stash him in the IL spot, in an IL spot, I wouldn't want to drop him. Tucker Davidson, it all makes sense that he's on this list because he probably got picked up in two mini leagues, just because he was in line for two starts last week.

But he's not expected to be out for long. And, you know, so if you play in like a 15 team, league. Maybe don't be so quick to drop him. All right. Let's talk about some pitchers who struggled over the weekend and whether there's anything to be concerned about there. Corbyn's, I mean, it wasn't, it wasn't as bad as the previous start, but his two worst starts of the season coming back to back with a drop in his spin rate, 5.1 innings at Colorado. So like, you know, you're grading on a curve.

Eight hits, four and runs, two walks, six strikeouts. Not a terrible start by any means for Corbin Burns, but certainly not the elite pitcher that we were getting earlier in the season. What's your level of concern with Corbin Burns here? Probably like a four. It's not nothing. The spin on the

cutter was only down about 50 RPM this time, which isn't that bad. Kind of normal start to start variance, so not as bad as the last time. But the velocity was down 1.2 miles per hour. And the walks have been up lately, which has been an issue for him in the past.

and might be related to, you know, it's not all about spin with the sticky substances. The reason why batters were willing to let pitchers get away with it for so long is because they didn't want to get hit by pitches. So, yeah, I mean, it's not nothing what the warning signs for Burns, but I'll still trust him to be a really good pitcher rest of season. Lance Lynn gave up five earned runs and four innings on eight hits against Houston on Sunday. He did strike out six, walked one.

This is a really tough Astros lineup, even with Alex Bragman out. He did have some spin rate, noteworthy drops, 194 RPM on average with his four-seem fastball, 113, 13, 134 on the cutter and sinker, so not quite as extreme there. Anything, you know, I would say anything above like the 100. areas where it's noteworthy, anything around 200, I think is, you know, at least statistically important, if not, you know, meaningful moving forward necessarily. Any concern there, you know, for me, the thought is just because he's so reliant on his

fastballs and he doesn't have, you know, this deep bag of tricks that he can pull from. You know, he does seem to rely. I guess he might be someone who relies more on minor differences making a big difference if that makes sense. Yeah, that's a good thought. I mean, that's part of the reason why I was worried about him at the start of the season. This is the first start where things have gone sideways for him.

And it was against the Astros. His ERA is above two for the first time. Yeah. So we'll see how the next start goes, but in and of itself, this doesn't worry me too much. gotta be worried about Aaron Null at this point, right? I mean, I feel like we were probably worried about him a decent amount before, but two and a third inning, six hits, six earned runs, three walks, one strikeout today.

What are your thoughts on Aaron Nola at this point? I don't know. That's because I don't see any like major warning signs, do you? Beyond the fact that he's getting hit really hard. Yeah, well, beyond that. I mean, which I mean, my mind in this. start is, but this was the only one really. Right, yeah, he's a much better walk rate.

Well, this is his best walk rate ever, except for the 13-star rookie season. You know, when that's happening, I wonder if there's a pitch-tipping situation going on, but I'm sure he would be the first to look into that. It was brilliant last time out. It seemed like he was getting back on track. So I don't know, he's a head scratcher. I'm kind of just, I've kind of just been sticking with him where I have him. And that's probably still what I'm going to do.

But it's, it's annoying. Yeah, I think when you look at the numbers, it's the four seam fastball has just been getting crushed. He's got a 395X Wobo allowed with it. It was 300 last season. And he's throwing it more. 39% so far this season, it was 25% last season. So, you know, it could be something. simple as he hasn't had the feel for the changeup, which is, you know, his usage for that is

down 5% for percentage points from last season. That's worth noting. But I agree. It's like a less extreme version of what Luis Castile was going through earlier in the season. He's starting to pull it around. So, you know, when there's not like a glaring sign, it, it, you tend to default to your priors a little more. Robbie Ray, not a great start today.

Four and a third, six hits, two run runs, five. strikeouts, two walks. He still has 37 strikeouts to the seven walks and 22 and two thirds. Innings pitched in June, any concern about this start or just a random tough start. I think just a random tough start. I think it was, when was that Saturday? Saturday. I think so, yeah.

Yeah. About Alex Wood. He struggled in his most season. Only won three innings. Things have not been as good for him over his last five. Starts. He is ballooned from 193 to 409. He has a 78 ERA over the last five.

Are you dropping Alex what at this point? Maybe in like a 10-teamer. You know, in points leagues, which are generally the smaller roster leagues. He's RP-eligible. Right. And he still has an awesome ground ball rate. It's still one of the best ground ball rates. It's like 55%.

So his ex-fip has jumped. It's up around four, I think. I think it's a little over four during this, while this has been going on, so it doesn't like him that much anymore. And his strikeout rate, I think he's at less than one per inning now. He's been, you know, he's been getting,

he's been getting roughed up legitimately here recently. Mm-hmm. But because that, ground ball rate is so high. And because honestly, his track record is really good. Apart from when he's healthy, yeah. Yeah. So I'd be inclined to stick with him if possible.

What about Alec Menoa? Three and a third innings, five earned runs, four hits, one walk. Four home runs allowed. He's now allowed seven in 23 and two thirds innings overall with 27 strikeouts. He's got a 418 ERA. He's basically only had two. starts with the with the Homer problem though he gave up three against the Marlins in his second start and four against the Orioles in his most recent one on Saturday

the Orioles had a had a weekends yes they did Cedric Mullins in particular but also Ryan Mount Castle and Mount Castle out of three omer game Cedric Mullins back-to-back two over games man how legit is he looking yeah and yeah man seen with the two moment we're game. But by the way, Alex Woods' ex-fit is only 369, so not that bad. The XERA is well over four at this point. But anyway, back

to Manoa. Yeah, the fly ball rate is above 50%. That's really high. And he was, he had high fly ball rates in the miners as well. So that's going to be a concern. He hasn't missed as many bads as I thought he was going to.

So that combined with the fly balls. Yeah, it's a 12% swing strike rate right now. Yeah, I'm starting to get an icky feeling here. I'm not saying I'm dumping him. All right. Well, rank him with these four other pitchers who struggled this weekend. Taiwan Walker, Nathan Avaldi,

Zach Eflin, Domingo Armand. Where would Alec Manoa rank? And how would you rank that five? I think Menoa would be at the bottom for me. Wow, below Domingo Ramon. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Mon's been a 711 ERA in June. Well, two starts ago, his ERA was 312. Yeah. It's over four now. Yeah, a couple rough ones. Only one in which he gave up home runs, this most recent one Saturday. He didn't give up any home runs than that first one. So, you know, basically every bad start he's had this year, but one was home run related.

But, you know, he was probably overachieving with the 312 ERA. He does have a 440 X-FIP on the year. It's close between the. those two. I would say they're definitely four and five. Ranking the rest, I'd go Walker one, Valdi, two, Eflin three, Hermon four, and Enoa five. All right, let's look at some of the other performances from over the weekend. Trevor Bauer had a little bit of a blip in his previous start, but he was very good against the Diamondbacks on Friday, one earned run in seven innings, eight strikeouts, three walks.

I'm kind of thinking we might get a version of Trevor Bauer where the control is not as good as we've seen in the last couple of seasons, but he's still pretty good. You know, that's kind of where I'm... I mean, I think he goes from being a top five pitcher to a top 10 pitcher. Yeah.

He only had... The swinging strikes have gone down. His stuff has been not as good as his spin rate has plummeted. I mean, he's... It's been the biggest drop of spin rate for anybody, right? over 300. Yeah, I mean, he had the biggest rise of anyone over the last two seasons. Yeah. So that makes sense. Parabola curve or whatever. Yeah.

Is that correctly? I'm not very smart. I don't know. I didn't follow you. I was thinking about what I was going to say next. Sorry. Makes sense. Now I forgot what I was going to say next. All right. Well, just move on then. Carlos Rodon. Another amazing start. I believe he had a no hit bid going into the six in this one. Ultimately landed up giving three hits. one-earned run to the Astros. Very tough matchup on the other side. This probably might have been the pitching matchup of the weekend. Luis Garcia, seven innings pitched, eight strikeouts, two walks.

White Sox lineup isn't particularly great right now. They're in a bit of a skid, but he's looking pretty good right now. And one question I did want to ask you for a couple other good pitchers on Friday, Chris Paddock or you say Kakucci, rest of season, where would you go? Paddock had 11 strikeouts in five innings, 26 strikeouts, two oaks in 17 innings in three June starts. You say Kukuchi has just been, he's pitched like an ace for like almost two months now.

And his last nine starts, 253RA, 61 strikeouts, and 57 innings over his last nine. Well, this is an absurd choice you're presenting to me because nobody should have to choose between these two. they're both must roster in my mind but I would go Kukuchi over Paddock

I Paddock though if while everybody's spin rates are falling his are holding steady and remember he he needed to pick up spin at the start of the season he has

and and that's been going on for going on for a while now and you know turned in the big strikeout total finally over the weekend on Friday um Yeah, 19 whiffs.

He looks good again. Paddock looks good. He does. Walker Bueller looked excellent on Saturday, had a no-hitter into the eighth against the Diamondbacks, 11 strikeout, 7 and 1-third innings in that one. I want to check out the spin rates. They were down.

He was another guy who had a spin rate increased this season, but his velocity was up. And so, you know, it seemed like he was kind of making a conscious choice, trading some. He was throwing like a mile and a half lower this season. but with a higher spin rate. So, you know, if you can get the fastball velocity back up into 96.5 mile per hour range, I think you probably don't lose much there.

Pablo Lopez was excellent again. Frambervaldez was excellent again. We talked about Patrick Sandoval. What about Chris Bassett? Where would you rank him among the paddock and Kukuchi? Is he a must roster pitcher still? Yeah, he is. Yep.

I moved to a way out. 397 ERA in June, 393 in April, 252 in May. There you go. Interesting. interesting up and down there. I think he's probably closer to the June and April number, but he's proven us wrong for two years running now. Yeah, I have 42 in my starting pitcher rankings

that last update. That was almost a week ago, so it's a little outdated. But, yeah, I would say Bassett's must roster. He's really proved me wrong. And, I mean, the strikeouts have been a lot better this year than they were last year. So good for him. Luis Castillo on Sunday.

a six innings pitched seven strikeouts two earned runs he's got a two 19 ERA 26 strikeouts in 24 and two thirds innings pitched in four June starts are we good with Luis Castillo we're trusting him moving forward Chris was right and you say Chris was right

Chris Chris was right sure yeah I finally said it it's been 10 years Junjun Ryu versus Junjun Ryu versus the Orioles seven innings one earn run Kenta Maeda he's got 11 strikeouts and four walks, three earned runs in nine and a third since coming back from the

IL, five and a third innings, four strikeouts. Where are you on my Aida right now? Scott was wrong about. This is the player I feel worst about, actually. Okay. You gave up on him? No, no, for liking. Oh, okay. You're having it as a top 12 pitcher coming into the year. I'm not saying he's useless now, but he's not that useful either. He's had one six-inning start, and I think in 11 that 11 starts he's made this year. And only gone six innings once.

It's not like it, it's not like they've been the most reliable five and a third innings either. He's been decent since coming back from the IEL, but I just, just not that big of a deal. Do you like him or Lance McCullors more? McCullors had four walks, four strikeouts, two run runs allowed, and six innings.

I would say McCullors. Interesting. McCullors has a 290 ERA, but a 4.0.9. FIP, and he has historically been a pitcher who has underperformed his FIP. So that's interesting. He's a little different now because he does have a deeper arsenal than he did early on in his career. Underperformed his FIP, like his FIP would say one thing, and he'd be even worse. Yeah, he would be like a 365.

I think his career ERA is 365-ish, and his career FIP is like 3-3. Yeah, the walk rate's really high. That seems to be impacting the, the, The ground ball rate is still awesome. The strikeout rate is about what it's always been. Which is good but not great anymore. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I like them more than made. Right. To go back to your original question. Do you like Denelson the Met or Casey Mize rest of season? That's a good question because you know Mises' innings are going to start to slip. He's had Homer issues. in June, too.

Six allowed and four June starts. But I will say over his past seven starts, he has a 12.2 swinging strike rate. That's... Much better. That's decent. Yeah, I mean, much better. His ERA during that stretch,

I didn't include today's game in it, but it's... I would guess it was below three before today's game. Moved up a little. I would say... I think I would still lean Mize, though Lament certainly has

more upside. You're just, you're trusting that they're going to keep upping his pitch down from start to start. It feels like an oversight here that we didn't mention Shane McClanahan until the 57 minute mark. Eight strikeout, six innings, three hits allowed, one earned run. This is kind of the start we've wanted to see from Shane McClanahan, right? So two in a row, more than 80 pitches. They continue to go up. This was his first six-inning start. if he qualified

he would be behind only Jacob de Grom and swinging strike rate so ridiculous stuff so yeah I mean if if if they're going to make him a more traditional starting pitcher they kind of need him to be with Glass Now Down

then it could be really exciting he's less than 60% rostered all right who do you have the most interest in out of this group of lower end starting pitchers Caleb Smith who had six shutout innings against the Dodgers. Alex Cobb gave up one run in five and two thirds. Colby Allard, two earned runs in six innings against the twins. John Lester, two earned runs in six innings against the Mets. And J.T. Brubaker, who struck out nine and six innings against

Cleveland this weekend. Who would be your favorite out of that group of five? Well, probably Montgomery, but I suspect he's also the most rostered by far. Jordan Montgomery. Yeah, I didn't mention him in this. Yeah, but earned run five and a third. third, but that's fine. Okay, I saw him in the notes. Sorry. Just always thinking about what you're going to say. Yeah, I guess so.

I mean, it probably be the second most rostered Brubaker. I know he's been kind of shaky, but still a lot of ground balls. Occasionally he pulls out a good strikeout game like this. I just think,

I think he's going to be useful off and on all season long. I did pick up Caleb Smith in a 15 team league. Same. I did put in a bid for Colby Allard in a 15-team league. He is a better swinging striker than ever. The velocity's been decent.

Not saying he's going to be a huge bat miss or anything. The season numbers are good. Yeah, I mean, Cobb had a big swinging strike start with a lot of splitters against the Tigers, but the previous two starts were bad. What's interesting... I think he's like on the verge. I think Alex Cobb's would be good moving forward.

He might be, because a huge drop in spin rate on the splitter, which is a good thing for the splitter. That's his primary pitch, basically. It came through for him in a big game this weekend, obviously. But I've noticed that with Frankie Moulintos, too. The spin rate on his splitter's been collapsing and his production has been moving up too. And I just wonder, were they using substances

and it was messing up their best pitch? I have no idea. It doesn't that seem like a possibility? Maybe. It was having a negative impact. on their best pitch. Maybe because it's been dropping. It's been dropping like 200 RPM for both of them.

That's what you would want from, yeah, you would want a splitter because you want that splitter to dive off the table. And so when you have less backspin, because you're throwing it like a fastball, you want less backspin. Talk about a handful of the big hitters from the weekend. We talked about Cedric Mullins earlier, five for 13, four home runs over the weekend. He's got 13 homers and 12 steals. He's on like a, what is that, a 30, like a 25, 25 pace while hitting 319.

That's pretty good. Adam DeVall, we also talked about. Ryan Mountcastle had a three home run game on Saturday, eight home runs and 17 games over his last 17 games. Francisco Lindor, he's hitting 275. His pace in the month of June for 150 game season. 32 homers, eight steals, 79 RBI, 111 runs. He's pretty much been Francisco Lindor since the start of June.

I think he'll continue to be Francisco Lindor. Gary Sanchez, three for seven this weekend, two doubles, a home run, 3 RBI. He's hitting 315 with 5 home runs and 12 RBI in June. Is he back to being a top 12 catcher? Yeah, I would say so. It's not hard to break into that group. Back to being a top 6 catcher.

It's not hard to break into that group either. I mean, he might be number 6. Yeah, now that Carson Kelly is heard and Carson Kelly wasn't playing that well anyway. Yeah, I might have Sanchez number 6 now, yeah. What about Harold Ramirez, 3 for 8 with three home runs? he's hitting 273 with a 492 slug in 41 games for Cleveland. Is he someone who needs to be in more rosters?

Looking up the roster percentage now. I think it's like 37%. I don't think so. He hasn't been playing super consistently. He hits the ball on the ground a lot. And this year is no exception. So one big weekend isn't really enough to win me over. Willie Adamas continues to hit really well.

with the Brewers, he went six for 17 with four runs for RBI and a four game series at Colorado, 280, 18 RBI, 14 runs and 28 games with Milwaukee. Louisa Rias has been really good, uh, since becoming, you know, more of an everyday player at third base for the Brewers, seven for 15, five runs for RBI in that weekend series at Colorado, 274 with an OPS over 900, uh, in the month of June. Really good plate discipline numbers for Louisa Rius. And he's playing pretty much every day. He was batting lead off.

but with Colton Wong back, I think he was back to fifth or six in the lineup on Sunday. But Luis Rias, post-type sleeper. He's looking okay. I'm starting him in utility in a 12-team Roado League. It's been one of your favorites. And Mike Dostremski was a big disappointment early on, but he's got three home runs, 11 RBI and 10 games since coming back from the IL. He's 10 for 36 in that stretch.

And Akil Badoo, he had a three-game series against the Angels where he went four for nine with three walks, no strikeouts. In the month of June, he's hitting 3.501 with six walks, six strikeouts in 43 plate appearances with three stolen bases. He's back down to 25% rostered. The improved swinging strike or improved play discipline is making me kind of interested in Akil Badu again. He's not playing quite every day, but he's not like a part-time player either,

if that makes sense. Like two out of three. It looks like he's been starting recently. Yeah, I mean, keep an eye. Like, he's shown, you know, another guy, because he was a rule five pick and because there was no minor league season last year, we're looking at lower minor league numbers. But he showed good plate discipline down there. So, and he showed good play discipline this spring. Good athleticism, good raw power.

There's skills there for sure. All right. And then some noteworthy bullpen things. Taylor Rogers got his seventh save on Saturday. Hansel Robles got the save on Sunday. Kevin Kendall Graveman blew his first save on Saturday. Still has a 131 ERA. Tyler Chatwood got a save on Sunday,

but Jordan Romano had worked two innings on Saturday. Brad Boxburger got his third save Sunday. Hater had worked the previous two games. Jake McGee got his 14th saved. Lou Trevino got his 12th. It's increasingly looking like that's his job. Greg Holland got his fourth save for the Royals. They don't have a closer.

Who do you think is most likely to get the next one between? It's him and Josh Stomont. Actually, that was Holland's first in a while. Yeah, I mean, my guess would be Holland, but it's not with a lot of conviction. It concerned me that Josh Stalmont had worked once in the previous five days, and they turned to Holland for the save. So not looking good for Stamont. All right, let's talk about some streamers for Monday.

I'll give you six options, and you tell me if three of them are good enough to stream. Jake Oteresey at Baltimore, Adbert Alzale coming back from the aisle against Cleveland, J.Hap versus the Reds, Brett Anderson, at Arizona, Merrill Kelly, and Keegan Aiken versus Houston.

You like any of those guys? I know you like Adbert Alisle. Do you like any of the other ones? Not really. Not really. If you're forcing me to pick a couple, Odarezi. Yeah, Oteresee.

And maybe. maybe Brett Anderson's been doing recently, but he's pretty good at keeping runs off the board and it's Arizona, yeah. What about Tuesday? Bailey O'Barre versus Cincinnati, Johan Oviedo versus Detroit, Ross Stripling at Miami,

Cole Irvin at Texas, Andrew Heaney versus the Giants, and Chris Flexen versus the Rockies. Like any of those guys, in Seattle. I think Flexson against... Awesome last time. Okay, sorry. Look at Tuesday.

now. Yeah, I would say Andrew Heaney's always so boom or bust. Maybe he'll give you the positive side of that. Chris Flexen going against the Rockies outside of course field. That's not so bad. Russ Stripling's probably the best choice here. Sorry. Yeah, at Miami. Coming off a great start.

I don't hate Cole Irvin at Texas either. I think those four are pretty decent. Stripling, Flex, and Irvin, Heaney. None of them must start, but they're all interesting enough. All right. That's going to do it for Monday's episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast. I'm Chris Towers. That's Scott White.

Frank will hopefully be feeling better on Monday, and he'll bail me out from having to host again because I'm exhausted. I'm sweaty. I'm just, I really want to go to sleep now. So please, Frank, come back. We'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye.