Fantasy Baseball Today - Warming Bernabel Raking, Blake Snell's Return & Weekend Waivers! (8/4 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 4, 2025

The Marlins swept the Yankees and are playing good ball (2:20). ... Warming Bernabel is raking so far (4:42). ... Blake Snell was solid in his return (10:47). ... Trevor Rogers continues to pitch well (12:58). ... News (18:53): Aaron Judge looks like he could be back on Tuesday. ... The Guardians promoted CJ Kayfus and the Marlins promoted Jakob Marsee (28:57). ... The Dog of the weekend goes to the Yankees and Carlos Rodon (34:33). ... We saw Bailey Ober and Logan Henderson return this weekend (40:05). ... Anthony Volpe is crushing it in the second half (46:13). ... Let's rank waiver wire pitchers (56:16). ... Start or sit these pitchers (1:00:00)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates and streamers (1:07:24). Fantasy Baseball Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Download and Follow Fantasy Baseball Today on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://sptfy.com/QiKv⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get awesome Fantasy Baseball Today merch here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://bit.ly/3y8dUqi⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow FBT on TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@fbtpod?_t=8WyMkPdKOJ1&_r=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow our FBT team on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@FBTPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CPTowers⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@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/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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. Well, fantasy. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Warming Bernabel might just be a dude. Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Monday, August 4th.

I am Frank Sanford, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the show, we are ranking a bunch of WaverWire ads. Lots of bullpen stuff to talk about as well. Talking pitcher returns, starter sit questions, and much more. But let's jump in. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh, my, we will talk about the Yankees later on. Oof, Chris, the Smackdown laid by your Miami Marlins.

How about that? You'd love to see it. Oh, man. I don't think this run is going to continue, but I also did not expect to have fun Marlins games to be watching in July. July and August. And so it's been a really nice surprise to get that and a sweep of the Yankees. All right. You could have just ended it at the nice part. Because I just want to say, I love New Yorkers.

I have been to many Marlins Mets games at City Field, have never had a bad experience, have never had anyone say anything mean to me. It's great. Lovely. The New Yorkers who moved to Miami are some of the meanest people in America. They are so rude when they go to the games And so that must have been a treat for the 11 Marlins fans in attendance over the weekend I think that was like their minority of fans that were there Their largest three game attendance since they've opened up The last time the Yankees were in town

It was I think it was their largest ever If I saw that correct, I could be wrong But that could be right, yeah The Marlins by the way This is from Underdog they tweeted this out 30 and 14 record since June 13th. During that span, they're tied for fifth and batting average, third and ERA first and whip. So look at those Marlins, man.

They are playing ball right now. It's too late to break them up. How many years has this front office been there in place now? Second year, just the second year. They seem to be better at player development. I'm not basing that on anything specific, just kind of a broad observation. but like players who, like, we thought the Orioles were great at developing hitting, and they gave up on Kyle Stowers.

Yeah. That's just one example, but, you know, between that and Augustine Ramirez and, I mean, Xavier Edwards kind of, he got traded two different, he was with two different organizations before the Marlins and kind of had fallen off the map as a prospect. Same thing with Otto Lopez. He was like a failed prospect in Toronto. They pick him up and boom. you know, hit well.

Jacob Marcy. Looking like he might be a thing. That's right. We'll talk about him a little bit later on as well, but let's get into the players of the weekend. And Scott, you are up first. All right. So, Warming Bernabelle is the one I'm going to focus on here because he had a huge weekend against the Pirates.

Crazy series, that one. Friday's game, the most notable. Pirates led 9-0 in the first. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, Pirates led 9-0-0 in the first inning. Rockies ended up winning 17 to 16 on a walk-off home run, which wasn't Warming Bernabelle's, but warming Bernabelle did hit a home run in that game.

He had four hits, a home run, and a triple in Friday's game. Saturday's game. He had three hits and two doubles. At that point, he was batting 500 in his seven games. Win over four on Sunday. So there you go. First time he did. Didn't have a hit in his major league career.

Only a seven-hit hit weekend for Warming Burnabell. He's still batting 438. Curiously, he had his hardest hit ball so far in that over-four game Sunday. And, you know, he actually hit that one ball really well, 108.1 miles per hour. But what makes, and pardon me for this warmed overtake on Warming Burnabelle because I've given it before. But it got to bring it up again,

since he had such a huge weekend. This was a guy, average exit velocity at AAA was 84.1 miles per hour. Pathetic. Now he hit 301 there. He had an 806 OPS there. The slugging was kind of so-so, but the numbers overall were pretty solid. They were pretty solid throughout his minor league career. Now he's come up and he's putting up great numbers, small sample, but, you know, three home runs already.

he's had three batted balls. This whole eight-game sample with a bunch of hits, three batted balls over 100 miles per hour, and two of them were outs. So, like, he's doing the same thing in the majors as he was in the minors. It's not what we would normally consider

to be impactful contact. And yet he's productive. Now, he doesn't strike out much at all. It's 12% at AAA. It's so far, it's like about 10% in the majors. So that helps. But you still need to be able to hit the ball reasonably hard. Obviously, he's a great hitting environment in course field.

But you still need to be able to hit the ball with some authority, right? Like, how long can he maintain this charade? the one thing that makes me that makes me want to keep an open mind is because he was so productive in the miners and I'm trying it's the Pete Crow Armstrong example granted Pete Crow Armstrong had a better prospect

pedigree than Bernabel I don't think Bernabel was ever a top 100 guy on a serious rank list but he was a productive minor leaguer and you know he was a name of sorts so is there this quality that we just don't know how to quantify yet that makes him much better than his exit velocities would suggest i'm at least open

enough to the idea that in like 15 team roto leagues i was throwing a few dollars his way i mean the waiver wires are pretty scant there and you know third base has had some issues lately i i'm at least willing for a few fab dollars to see where this goes but you know i wasn't prioritizing Burnabelle over Andrew Vaughan, certainly, like, there's a big gap between those two if I'm looking for a corner infielder. I remain mostly skeptical, but if somebody's going to let me have him for nothing, I'll see where it goes. There's maybe a little bit of ESOC Paredes in his game.

He ran really high pull rates at AAA. Well, throughout his minor league career, really. And early on in his major league career, he's doing the same. And the one thing, you know, it's very early on in his career, so we can't say too much definitively from his underlying stats, but his bat speed is below average and his swing length is above average. And those two things are usually correlated, the faster your swing is generally the longer your swing is.

But one big outlier there is Issaq Pradesh, whose average bat speed is like 69 miles per hour. That's well below average. his swing length is actually one of the longest in baseball. And so that might be the key to, you know, that approach that he side paratus has of pulling a bunch of power. So maybe there's something there. It's a really small sample size. Bernabelle didn't really run like extremely high home run to fly ball rates in the miners.

So I don't know how much we can take from that. But that's the one thing that I see from his profile that. That does make me think maybe he has a chance of outrunning his mediocre to poor quality of contact metrics. It's an incredibly small sample size. Only eight games played so far, but a 36% pulled air percentage so far for warming Bernabelle. And in the minors, everything you said, Scott was right. His average eggs of loss, he was terrible. His max 1 10.1 miles per hour.

That gives you a little bit more optimism. Not bad. It's not great, but it's not bad. Fangraph gave his upside for raw power of 55 grade. So there's, I mean, it doesn't mean he's there yet, but, you know, that was kind of the expectation of the player that maybe he could become if everything works out. Again, that's warming. Bernabelle will rank some more first base names later on.

You know, you lost Jonathan Aranda. He also has third base eligibility, but yeah, Bernabel could be a nice little Jonathan Erronda replacement if you lost him this weekend. Chris, over to you for your player of the weekend. Blake Snell, and you might look at it, and say, ah, this wasn't a great start.

You gave up three runs and five innings. It was a pretty good start, though. He had 19 swinging strikes on 86 pitches. He struck out eight over five innings. And the three earned runs that he gave up,

were they all on Yondi D.S. swings? Or were those both? Yeah, okay, they were both. All three runs were on Yondi Diaz swings. And Yondi Diaz had a 92.2 mile per hour home run. That was how hard he hit the ball. and a 93.5 mile per hour home run.

Home runs below 95 miles per hour are extremely rare. For some reason, the stack has data is not working on one of them. Because it doesn't show out of how many parks, it would have been a home run. And I was like, was this an inside the parker? I had to go looking for it. No, I think they're just, it didn't work on that one. But the previous or the second home run would have only been a home run. run in three out of 30 parks. It's traveled 341 feet. The other one was not hit much harder,

was hit at the basically same launch angle. I assume it's going to be similar if they get that data, which is to say that Blake Snell struck out eight, walked none over five innings of work, and gave up two fluky home runs that had an XBA below 200 on each. This was a great start from Blake Snell. He's probably going to have that run over the next two months that tricks everyone into drafting him way too high next year and we'll have to argue about it and we won't be able to talk anyone out of it, but whatever. The point is...

The point is you're going to be very happy you have Blake Snell the rest of the way as long as he stays healthy. He is only 34% started on CBS, Blake Snell. We're talking about here. Do you play him against the Blue Jays this week who have the sixth highest Wobah against lefties and the lowest strikeout rate

against left-hand pitching this season? You start Blake's not always healthy. Yep, yep. All right. Unless I'm just stacked in pitching, but it's rare. It's rare that I'd be stacked enough to sit him. All right, my player of the weekend is going to be Trevor Rogers, who took a tough luck loss at the Cubs, but man, he did it again.

Eight innings of one-run ball, eight strikeouts to zero walks, 13 whiffs on 88 pitches here for Trevor Rogers. The velocity remains up around 1.3 miles per hour on his fastball. He has turned in five straight quality starts. two in a row of seven plus innings. And we are nine starts in with a 144 ERA, a 0.75 whip. And he somehow is not universally rostered. Trevor Rogers, he's 77% rostered.

We might be getting to that point in the year where, you know, roster rates kind of lag behind a little bit. You know, people start to pay attention to football. Maybe they lose out a little bit in baseball and, you know, roster rates don't reflect everything. But man, if there is anywhere out there, 10-team leagues, the shallowest formats, Trevor Rogers should be universally rostered at this point. It's hard to argue against that.

I mean, we've talked about how the velocity is up, at least from last year, the swinging strike rate. I think it's still his best since his rookie season when he was close to must-start fantasy, I would say. I figure to start this good, eight innings, a dominant outing against the Cubs. Maybe the beat rider would push a little more for an explanation from Rogers.

The best I could find was that he felt like he was just executing better. Specifically, he said keeping his fastballs where they're really effective up at the top of the zone. That's the explanation. You go through the pitch by pitch. Okay, he added the sweeper. It's been very good for him. He throws it 7% of the time. His slider's been awesome.

But his fastballs and his change-up. which he throws about 80% of the time combined. It looked pretty good, but not outrageously good in terms of like the movement profile. And even the swinging strike rate is, you know, on the changeup is 22%. That's pretty poor for a secondary. But he's just executing really well. Like all the fastballs are in the top third of the zone. All of the changes are in the bottom third of the zone.

He's just commanding really well. He's getting really good results. The control's been excellent. How sustainable is that? Like this is always this is always the problem with guys who I don't know the tipping point for their profile is command either good or bad right because I'm thinking about like Dylan Cease on the opposite side had a great start on Sunday nine strikeouts over five shut outings I think is best start in a long time and it's like well okay he probably just pitched better than he normally does or than he has for the past month or so how sustainable is that? how like it's simple just pitch better but that's really hard to do and so i if you're asking me if i think Trevor Rogers is obviously it's not a 144 era pitcher the rest of the way but his xer a is 328 if you're asking me if i think he can sustain something like a low three zara in

perpetuity forever no i don't i don't think he's that talented i don't think he's that good could he do it for two more months? Maybe. I don't think it's the likeliest outcome in the world, but it's certainly not impossible. So to a certain extent, I feel like he's getting away with it

a little bit, but that's not to say it's not legitimate either. He's pitching really well. It's just pitching at this level is hard. And we talk about this a lot with someone like Ranger Suarez, right? Where it's, you know, he's not overpowering, but when he's pitching well and hitting his spots,

he can go on a run where he looks really, really good. And it kind of feels like Rogers is locked into that zone right now. That's exactly the cop I was thinking of. 77% rostered for Rogers. I don't love the matchup at the Phillies this week, but again, the way he's pitching, I didn't love the matchup against the Cubs this past week, and he just had another awesome start.

So if you have Rogers, I am most likely just throwing him in there the way that he's pitching right now. Before we hit our first break, big thanks to those watching live. Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe on YouTube if you haven't already. Let's take a break and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back in Fantasy Baseball today.

Let's run through the news and notes. As usual, lots to get to from the weekend. Aaron Judge traveled to Tampa on Sunday for live at Bats and could be activated from the IL as soon as Tuesday against the Rangers. He recently received a PRP injection in his right elbow to help speed up the healing process for a flexor strain. Kind of up in the air right now, but how do you guys feel about starting Aaron Judge this week?

I would probably start him because he's Aaron Judge. And, you know, this is, it ended up being only one week. If he does return Tuesday, it was just the one week where you had to sit him. You do worry a little bit, okay, is that elbow 100%? Are they forcing it? I will point out, because I'm not sure we made this point before when Judge suffered the injury. He played two games with the elbow injury and homered in one of them. He said it didn't really affect him at the plate, and there's some evidence there to back it up.

So yeah, I think I'd start, Judge. Yeah, and it's crunch time for the Yankees right now, too. They got swept by the Marlins. They have just a half-game lead over the Mariners for the second wild-carts spot, and they're facing the Rangers, a team that is chasing them for the wild-carts. So this is a really important series. My guess is, Judge, will be back when first eligible on Tuesday. Out of nowhere, the Brewers placed Jacob Mizierowski on the 15-day I-L Sunday

with a shin contusion. Logan Henderson was recalled, and he had a start here. where he was okay. Miz Yarowski is aiming for the minimum I-L stint here. It's also a good way for the brewers to just manage his workload, which I think makes a lot of sense as well. I guess the bigger news here is how do you guys feel about Logan Henderson? He wasn't pitching well in the minors before this call-up,

and it might just be two starts before we see. It might be, but, you know, life finds a way somebody could get hurt. It's nothing else that shows us that Henderson is next in the pecky. order. He's moved ahead of of Chad Patrick. And I thought it was pretty good. I mean, he got, it was short, four and a third innings.

But five base runners, 10 whiffs on 76 pitches. For the way, so intense starts since returning to AAA, Logan Henderson had a 434 ERA 120 whip 8.9 K per 9. That's not great. But you also, with those numbers,

68% strike rate. You love that. 13% swingy strike great you love that and he's been good in every single major league start he's made so far so given the state of starting pitchers on the waiver wire right now it was a fairly high priority for me when i was making my transactions for the new week and and just to touch on the misiurowski part yeah i think this was this is a good excuse to limit his innings and i don't think it's much more than that. Given that it came like

almost a week after his last start, right? Five, five, six days after his last start. They actually cost themselves a little bit of time by not putting them on the IL earlier. So I think a lot of it was just, it gives us an opportunity to skip a couple of starts here and manage the innings. Both Emmanuel Claucce and Louise Ortiz lockers

have been cleared out in the Guardians Clubhouse, which makes it sound like they will not be back or expected to return to the team at least this season. So are you dropping up a roster spot? I'm not saying like, you know, some deeper leagues where saves are scarce. I'm still holding on to Class A just because it didn't go far enough down my waiver transactions to drop him. So he wasn't like my number one choice to drop in those leagues. But if, you know, if he's preventing you from picking up a guy you really want, I say go for it at this point.

It seems unlikely he's going to return this year. All right, Jackson Trio received a PRP injection in his injured hamstring. Pat Murphy said Chorio is expected to miss more than the minimum 10 days. And if you do need some sleeper outfielders for this upcoming week, we have Kerry Carpenter, Austin Hayes, and... Blake Perkins had a two-homer game for the... For the Brewers. He's been doing some interesting stuff lately. Yeah.

And Dominic Canzone. So again, Canzone, Hayes, and Carrie Carpenter are three names that are on Scott Sleever hitters for this upcoming week. You know, Jacob Marcy will talk about in a little bit as well. I think totally fine name to look at in deeper five outfielder leagues. Austin Riley was removed Sunday due to lower abdominal pain, and he was previously on the aisle with that same injury. So it doesn't sound very good for him. I would say plan on having a replacement ready for Monday just in case Austin Riley goes on the aisle. Hunter Green made his third rehab start.

at AAA on Sunday. Three in a third innings, two unearned runs with seven strikeouts to one walk. He is slowly building back up. Jonathan Aronda was placed on the IL Friday with a fractured left wrist. And first base replacements, we've talked a lot about Andrew Vaughn lately. Obviously, warming Bernabelle makes a lot of sense. Kyle Manzardo, the power has picked back up here in the second half. And we got some other deeper league names like Tyler Locklear, Kobe Mayo, C.J. Kaffis,

who was called up by the Guardians. We'll talk a little bit more about him in just a little bit. Jeremy Penae returned on Friday, and then he left with a hamstring injury. He did not play Saturday, and then returned to the lineup on Sunday. So are you guys good getting Pena back in lineups? Yeah, I think so.

I think they called the hamstring injury a cramp. Wow. That's what they called Turyo's injury. That's true. Well, even so. Pena was back in the lineup, so I feel okay starting him. George Springer was placed on the seven-day concussion IL on Friday.

They activate adults in Varshow. Any interest in Varsho who is 27% rostered? He was awesome before the injury, but I didn't really have any faith in it. Some of those outfielders you listed off for the five outfielder leagues, what were some of those names? Probably like Canzon, Perkins, like Jacob Marcy. Yeah, I would take Varsho over. All of the names you just mentioned now, I think. I think that's reasonable.

All right. So that's like three outfielded leagues you probably don't need to bother with them. But if you're having to go that deep into the outfield or pool, then that's what Vaughn is for. Or Varsho, excuse me. Vaughn's for more than that. Vaughn's for everywhere. Oh, he is the man.

Rangers reliever Robert Garcia left Saturday with mid-back spasms. Bruce Bochie said he expects Garcia to be fine. But he blue saves two days in a row where both Phil Maeton and Danny Koole, Lohom pitched very well. So we'll see who gets the next save opportunity for the Rangers. The athletics are moving at Jack Perkins to their rotation. And in fact, he started on Sunday where he was not very good. Three innings, four runs, three walks, four strikeouts. But I was pitching well before this, tons of strikeouts in the miners, 19% rostered. I think in even 12 team roto leagues are deeper. I have interest in Jack Perkins here. Yeah, probably those 12 teamers,

This bad start, bad initiation to the rotation, buys you some time, buys you some time to see how things play out for Jack Perkins, who did also have control problems in the miners. That seemed to be his biggest issue. Here, walking the three in the three innings, during his time in relief where he was mostly working two to three innings, he had a 16% swinging strike rate and a 50% ground ball rate. You like a pitcher who excels at both of those things,

either one of those things you like, but especially both. So that's the upside case for Perkins, but I was prioritizing Logan Henderson over him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I agree. Spencer Arrogati is in a position to make his next start at the major league level. Arrogati, 73% rostered and a name that we did like coming into the season.

So he's someone that you can go out there and look for on some of those shallower leagues as well. The Padres activated Nestor Cortez from the IL and optioned Randy Vasquez, back to AAA. Tommy Edmund was removed from Sunday's game after re-agravating his right ankle injury and it sounds like he is going on the IL and Max Muncie could return on Monday. So

if you're holding on to Muncie assuming he's all good back in the lineup then you can probably go ahead and start Max Muncie as well. I think he went didn't I see he went 5 for 5 in his last minor league game? The power of the glasses hasn't worn

off. Remember he was killing it. before he went on. I mean, he was... He was one of the best hitters in baseball. Yeah. Because he put on the glasses. Yeah, it's a big deal. I mean, it seems like a legit reason

for why he got things back on track. Seeing with... Seeing better generally helps you hit better. Important trait in baseball, it turns out. Look at us, man. Groundbreaking analysis here. Marcela Meyer received an injection in his right wrist on Saturday.

He'll be shut down for the next. three days. South Freelik was out of the lineup on Monday with a flare-up of soreness in his surgically repaired left knee. He is day-to-day. Seth Halverson was placed on the aisle with a right elbow sprain, and it seems like Victor Vodnick would be next up for saves. It's also the Rockies, and their bullpen is not very good, and Victor Vodnick is not very good, and there are lots of save sources out there right now, but, you know, in some of those 15-team, Roto leagues, NL-only leagues, I did have very small bids in on Victor Vodnik.

Correction on the Max Muncie stat. He didn't have a five-hit game. He went five for six in his last two rehab games. All right. Well, that's still pretty good. It's so good. Emmett Sheehan is expected to be part of a six-man rotation with the Dodgers moving forward,

and we'll start Tuesday against the Cardinals. So some good news there. If you held on to Emmett Sheen, we had some prospect promotions this weekend. The Guardians promoted one of their top prospects CJ Kaffis on Saturday and 86 games between AA and AAA. He was hitting 300 with 14 homers, a 930 OPS. Ex of velocities are okay.

Don't really stand out too much, but 11% rostered. Any deep league interest in CJ Kaffis of the Guardians. Yeah, some deep league interest. He's going to pick up outfield eligibility, it looks like. He's had a productive minor league career. He never got a ton of prospect love of even though he's been productive, I think throughout his minor league career. At first, he projected as a first baseman who didn't hit for much power.

And he seems to have tapped into more power as he's moved up the ladder. But he strikes out a lot for somebody who doesn't hit the ball that hard. And that's a bad combination that makes me skeptical, especially given his limited defensive ability, because I'm sure he's not a great outfield. I'm just guessing because he's a natural first baseman that he's kind of pressed into playing the outfield and doesn't add much defensive value there. So he'll need to hit really well.

And maybe I'm not ruling it out, but I think it's unlikely. I lost Jonathan Aranda in Tout Wars this weekend, 15-te-te-Team mixed Roto League with corner infielders. So I picked up CJ Kfis for, like an $18 bid or something like that just because I needed a first basement. So hoping it works out there, but pretty good numbers in the minors. The Marlins also promoted

outfield prospect Jacob Marcy from AAA where he had a 379 on base percentage, 14 home runs, 47 steals and 817 OPS, tons of walks, 19% strikeout rate looks pretty good, doesn't hit the ball particularly hard, but

he runs a lot, he's been aggressive. It's up and down kind of career, like had this breakout Arizona fall league a couple years ago and then was terrible in the minors last year and has now picked things back up and he had a good weekend a debut weekend here against the yankees four hits four walks three doubles one triple chris any interest in your boy jacob marcy it's a weird profile because there's not there's some power here but he's not a power hitter his best skill is getting on base uh he walked 80 times in 120 games at triple a had a 377 o bp despite only hitting

222. That's really hard to do if pitchers don't think that you're a power threat. And so I think the primary thing that Jacob Marcy is going to bring to the table is speed. And if he can keep drawing walks at the major league level, I think he should be pretty useful in roto leagues. It's just our pitcher is just going to pound the zone and bet him to, to be, dare him to beat them. That would be my concern. So it's not a can't miss prospect pedigree, but there's some speed here for sure.

And I did see a few kind of, I mean, not overly aggressive, but like I think a $38 bid in Tout Wars for Jacob Marcy. Again, that's a 15 teamer with five outfielders. At this point in league, that's our season. Yeah. And go ahead, Scott. I think we should probably be at least as interested in Marcy as we are in Allen Rodin, who we again expressed optimism for when he was. traded to the twins, and he's been in the lineup since then. The bad at ball data is better for Rodin in the minors, but they're both great at getting on

base. Marcy brings that speed element, and he's actually performing. It's been three games, but he's looked more ready for this challenge than Rodin has, frankly. Yeah, he went for $68 in my TGFBI League, which is also 15 team rotos. So some, I don't know, decently aggressive bids here on Jacob Marcy. The athletics called up pitching prospect Luis Morales, but he is expected to pitch out of the bullpen.

Speaking of prospects, the Orioles could promote Samuel Bessio and Dylan Beavers at some point this season. And the Cubs option Moises by Astero's back to AAA on Friday. More rehab update. Shane Bieber made what could be his final rehab start on Sunday. He allowed two earned runs over five innings, striking out six. He built up to 62 pitches. Bryce Miller made his first rehab start at AAA on Friday.

He threw four scoreless innings. He allowed just one hit with zero walks and struck out six. I didn't obviously watch highlights of this game or anything, but just based on the line, this kind of feels like one of Bryce Miller's best starts of the year. So I don't have high expectations, but he was really good last year. So we'll see.

Michael King also made his first rehab start at AAA on Sunday. He allowed six runs over three and a third innings, two homers-loud, but it was his first time pitching in a game since May. perhaps we just give Michael King a pass here his first rehab start. The White Sox were called Curtis Mead on Sunday. He was acquired from the raise and should get some playing time here down the stretch. Tanner Halk will undergo Tommy John surgery.

He'll obviously miss the rest of this season and likely most of next season as well. And some other players who went on the IL this weekend, Nolan Aeronado with a right shoulder strain. Miguel Vargas with a left oblique injury. Evan Carter with back spasms and Kirby Yates with some lower back pain. And with that, Chris, I'll hand it over to you. Dog of the weekend.

The Dog of the Week's got to be. Your New York Yankees swept by the Marlins for the first time ever. They traded for what was Jake Bird, David Bednar and Camillo Doval. They all come in in their first game with the new squad. Everyone's excited. We got the best bullpen of all time. And those three combined to give us. up nine earned runs in a walkoff loss to the Marlins who then proceeded to pretty much shut the offense down for the next couple of games.

You know, it's an iffy offense without Aaron Judge and the pitching, you know, was not great. And we'll focus a little bit on Carlos Rodan, who just does not seem to have the command right now. That's the biggest thing. He was, he walked five in four and two-thirds innings, gave up four and runs. Nine strikeouts, still getting whiffs. But yeah, the command has just not been there for Carlos Ron. Where are we at on him? Last 10 starts, man. This has gone on a while now.

It's a 458 ERA 125 whip. There are still some good starts mixed in there, but over four walks per nine over a 10-star stretch. So he is at the Rangers this week. This is the first time where I've kind of thought, like, maybe he's not a must-star pitcher the rest of season. The thing that's so frustrating is, you know, What'd you say 4.9 walks per 9 or whatever?

4.1 walks per 9 over his last 10 starts. Yeah, except it's not really. When you look at the start by start, the last five, five walks, one walk, five walks, one walk, three walks. Even going before that, three walks, one walk, one walk, two walks, three. It's been, it would almost be better if the control was just bad all the time because then you'd be like, okay, he doesn't have it. We sit him.

But he's given us enough of. the good starts, including eight shutout innings with one walk against the Cubs less than a month ago. That it's really hard to... Yeah, it's really hard to actually bench Carlos Redan when he's

still capable of those kinds of starts, right? Yeah. I would be very reluctant to bench him, you know? If you make it through the season without a stretch like this, you're the Cy Young winner. And

even even sometimes the Sy Young winner has a stretch like this So I Terrick Scoble had a couple of bad starts At the beginning of the season Three of Three of Rodon's last four starts

Have been eight strikeouts or more One of them being that those eight shutout innings And I think that's reason enough And you know Maybe it won't go well But who are you starting instead You're picking up a two-star Justin Verlander To start over Rodon

I mean a good matchups for Verlander But that seems In points I would do that That's Yeah, I'd still be reluctant because... I might pitch Trevor Rogers over him right now. Verlander has one win this year. It hasn't been good.

And Rodon could, you know, have an 11-strikeout gem. And I don't think it would be terribly surprising if he did that. So I think sometimes if things aren't going well for your fantasy team, you want to be able to like get your hands in there and fiddle with it and make it right. You don't want to just sit passively while things are going wrong, but you can end up doing more harm than good that way. And I think sitting Rodon would be an instance of that. Yeah.

And this Yankee weekend, by the way, total karma for me making fun of the Astros last week, right? Like the trash can, banger beer, it's like, oh, man. Don't worry. The Yankees will get home soon. Yeah. What'd you say? The Yankees will be home soon. Gosh.

Who cares? Anyway, you can wrap it up, Chris. All right, let's painfully move on here and take our. final break. When we return, we got some big pitching returns. We have some waiver wire players to rank. We'll do all that right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. Let's run through some pitching returns this weekend. We already spoke about Blake Snell. Bailey Ober was back and he was at the Guardians where he allowed four runs over five innings. More of the same. He gave up two homers in this one. Lots of hard contact. The velocity was up a little bit, so that was nice to

see from Bailey Ober. His first start since June 28th. He's down to 70% been rostered faces the Royals this week, which isn't like a terribly hard matchup or anything, but I feel like we need to see a lot more before we re-add or even start paleober, right? Oh, no, I was, well, re-ad. I'd be willing, like, I was encouraged. I was encouraged. I know the result wasn't good, but his velocity was back. And it wasn't just the hip issue got better.

He said he's been working on his delivery, which had gotten messed up by the hip issue, which dated back to spring training. And I know the reviews from Rocco Baldelli were especially positive. They feel like he's back and that, you know, you're going to, he's going to end up pitching like the guy who got drafted pretty high. What is like a number three in most fantasy leagues? So, yeah, it was a bad Guardians lineup had a pretty good day against him. And so even with the good matchup against the Royals coming up, I don't know that I'm ready to act. activate Bailey Ober, but I think things are trending the right direction here.

And he could be a strong contributor down the stretch. So I would be adding him even over like Logan Henderson, who I was talking up, probably not over Trevor Rogers, if he happens to be available. But over Logan Henderson, I'd take over. If you told me Logan Henderson and Bailey Ober, we're going to make the same number of starts the rest of the season. I might take Henderson over him. Yeah.

Henderson might make two more starts the rest of the season. Right. Yeah. Logan Henderson, by the way, the final line here on Sunday four in a third inning, one run, four strikeouts. He gets the Mets this week. If you picked up Henderson, are you okay throwing him out there against the Mets? Don't love it.

I'm less likely to do it in a points league weirdly, which is usually the opposite of what we say with kind of streaming starter types. He doesn't really go deep into starts either. Yeah, I think they're going to be careful with his pitch counts either way. Yeah. All right. Last up, Luis Heel, not great in his season debut at the Marlins Sunday, three and a third innings, five runs, four walks to three strikeouts.

through just 57% of his pitches for strikes. Scott, I know you've been kind of skeptical all along here on Luis Heel. Obviously, we're not starting him against the Astros. Would you argue that his 81% roster rate is too high for Luis Heel? I mean, I'd rather have Oper if I'm picking between those two. I'd rather have Trevor Rogers than Luicel. Yeah, for sure. I agree with that, yeah.

Is 81 too high just on its own? it'll probably go down some after this start as bad as it was. He, just a reminder of why I don't like Louise Heel, because he is the defending A.L. Rookie of the year. And if you look at the full season numbers, they look pretty good. It was a tale of two seasons. He was one of the best pitchers in baseball for like the first half of the year.

And then the second half, he had a 515 ERA, a 144 whip. I don't know that that's strictly the second half. and half, but it was his last 15 starts. So basically half the season. He was just unusable. On his minor league rehab assignment, he had a 565 IRA. Actually, through strikes at a nice rate,

but he was facing minor leaguers there. So I think this start at Miami probably tells us more about where he is. And he's got a lot to prove. So there's upside, particularly in the strikeout department for Louise Heel. I wouldn't blame anybody for picking them up if, you know, there's just a lot of junk. In most leagues right now, there's a lot of junk at starting pitcher on the waiver wire. But it's going to take like a couple good starts in a row for me to feel like I can start Louise Heel. You know who's roster in fewer leagues than him right now?

The guy on the other side of that game, Edward Cabrera. Yeah. Who's been phenomenal for three months. I'd much rather have Edward Cabrera at this point. Yeah, both. too. Even though they're kind of the same guy. Both Rogers and Cabrera are under 80% roster on CBS, which seems weird. So I mean, yeah, yeah. This is what Cabrera did. Can I get into that or is this grew up your rundown, Frank? No, go for it. Six innings. This is against the Yankees, obviously. In case you missed that previous segment. Six innings, two hits, one run, seven strikeouts, one walk. 15 swinging strikes on 94 pitches. Eight came on the curveball, which he threw most, the most of any pitch, 32%. It has a 42% whiff rate overall.

I'm throwing a bunch of numbers at you. I'm sorry. The point is it's a great swing and miss pitch the curveball. And I've noticed over the last month plus, he's been throwing that curveball, that change up, that slider. They've basically been his top three pitches. He's faded both versions of the fastball because neither one was working for him. He's just going all secondaries all the time.

And it pretty much corresponds to this great run that Edward Cabrero has been on. Last eight starts, pretty much spanning the same time of him emphasizing the secondary pitcher offerings. Last eight starts, 228 ERA, 0.97 whip. 8K per 9, which doesn't sound that impressive, but 14% swing strike rate, which sounds incredibly impressive. Well, and you said it's a 0.9 whip? Yep, 0.97.

That'll also make the K per 9 look a little lower because he's not face. many batters per inning. True. And to just add to that, to make this start sound more impressive, the one run he gave up, I believe was a lead off home run on one of the seven four seam fastballs he threw all day. That was a mistake. Shouldn't have thrown that one.

It actually wasn't a bad pitch. Trent Griffin just made a great swing. And he shut him down after that. So it was a very impressive start. All right. Let's get into some waiver wire hitters from the weekend. Anthony Volpe had a huge game on Friday as, as part of that just debacle of a game,

but four for five with a home run and two steals in that one. And in the second half, Volpe is hitting 263, seven homers, four steals, 979 OPS, 72% roster. Scott, I see he is one of your sleeper hitters for this upcoming week. Would you guys take Volpe over any of Matt McLean, Zach McKinstree, Josh Smith? I think those guys are all fringe enough

that it's fine to just play whoever's hot. Scott? Yep. I agree completely. Andrew Vaughan, another home run on Friday, had two more hits on Sunday. Updated numbers with the Brewers, 19 games, hitting 373 with six homers, 24 RBI, and OPS over 1,100 during that time with Andrew Vaughn. He is just kind of in a place alone by himself at first base or just hitter ads right now. 50% rostered.

I mean, he's a must-ad player right now. There is not a format that I wouldn't try. try to add Andrew Vaughn. And I understand in some of those shallower head-to-head leagues, there may just be nobody you could drop. I get that. But if you at all have a roster spot to play with, Vaughn should be one of your top priorities, hitter or pitcher.

Is it stupid that I kind of believe in Andrew Vaughn more than Anthony Volpe? No. Just because at least he has like a mechanism by which I can explain why he's gotten better. It's a guess that it's just a new organization and they've changed some things for him. Yeah. Whereas Volpe is probably just hot right now. But I'll grant that that might be dumb. Well, I mean, Andrew Vaughn throughout his career has shown the ability to hit the ball harder than Volpe.

Oh, yeah. Volpe is hitting the ball the hardest he ever has this year, but with a very low pole air rate. So it's kind of that that's kind of dragging down the exit velocities, at least in terms of how they play out. So I think, I think Volpe you can assume is just hot. I think Vaughn, I wish I could find a good explanation for what exactly changed for him with the brewers.

Yeah. But given that he was an elite. hitting talent coming out of college, sped to the majors very quickly. I think it's likely that the White Sox just failed him. And the Brewers are tapping into the talent that was always there. I don't really buy into this Volpe Hot streak either,

but I will just point out his stack cast data in the second half so far, 92.5 average exit velocity, 20% barrel rate, and 59% hard hit. So look, his, defense, which doesn't really matter to us in fantasy, has been really bad, but he's turned the bat around. He's hitting the ball really hard again. Warming Bernabelle, who we spoke about, how would you guys rank these four kind of

deep league corner infield ads? Burnabelle, Kobe Mayo, Tyler Locklear, and C.J. Kaffis, who we talked about? I think I'd go Mayo. Who's the third name? Sorry? Locklear? Locklear. Yeah. I think I'd go Mayo, Bernabelle, Locklear, Kaffis. I would change a few things there. So I'd go Burnabelle number one just because there's going to be the most competition for him. And I don't have, it's not like any of these pickups are foolproof, right? So Burnabelle number one, and then I would go Locklear number two.

I was encouraged on Sunday for Locklear. He had two hits, but most of all, he attempted two steals, succeeded on one, failed on the other. And that was a part of his minor league game that I wasn't sure at all. Like, I wasn't, I kind of assumed it wouldn't translate to the majors. But attempting two steals in your first three games is a good sign that it will. That Locklear will continue to make that a priority. And then Mayo 3rd and whoever else forth. C.J. Kaffis.

Yep. Yeah. Two outfielders who were right around 50% rostered. It was a nice weekend for Trent Grisham. He homered on Friday, had a steal on Saturday, and then homered again on Sunday. In the second half, he has four homers, one steal, 897 OPS. And big weekend for Jordan Beck, who went two for three with a sock and the shoe on Saturday, hit another home run on Sunday.

Who do you guys like more between Trent Grisham and Jordan Beck? I think they're both basically must start in five outfielder leagues, but I give Beck a slight edge just because Grisham still sits sometimes. And you would expect that to pick up with Judge likely back this week. Yeah, it does throw a wrench in things, man, because Judge has to DH, and Stanton is hitting the ball really well right now. And I think they'll throw them in the outfield a couple of times a week, but that just adds another name because then, you know, Bellinger Dominguez and also Grisham.

So there's just not enough places. Too many mouths to feed here with the Yankees lineup. Colson Montgomery, you know what? I have a theory. Maybe he was just bored in the minors because, man, he is on fire. Fire two more home runs this weekend. 25 games with the White Sox hitting 259, seven homers, 23 RBI, 861 OPS.

There's some underlying plate discipline stuff that's still very scary. The swinging strike rate is very high. Zone contact has actually improved a little bit since he's been up, but man, he is mashing home runs right now. Max exit velocities look interesting. 43% roster for Koso Montgomery, third base and shortstop eligibility.

Is it just all 12 team roto leagues are deeper? Well, you think Montgomery needs to be rostered? Yeah, I mean, he's, other than Andrew Vaughn, none of those other corner infielders we've talked about, I would be rostering over Montgomery at this point. I will point out, struck out twice, three games in a row now. So maybe it's starting to creep up to where the problems we saw from him at AAA with striking out.

if I could just like lean on somebody else's wisdom here so Scott Merkin has been a white socks beat writer for 23 years and back in at the start of July which was before Montgomery being called up was even a possibility right it was even being discussed he tweeted out I've held to the fact that Colson will take off once he gets that major league chance this is a guy who has excelled on the biggest stages of his whole career, which kind of lends credence to your point there, Frank, that like maybe he was, I do think there was some mechanical issues that he had cleaned up

when they sent him down to rookie ball earlier this year. I'm not denying that, but like maybe there is some element of, he just kind of biting his time until, until he reached. Well, or, like one thing that's always hard to say, with minor leaguers is when they're struggling how much of that i don't want to say is by design but is just the team saying we don't care about what your numbers look like we want you to work

on this specific thing and we will be happy when you show us that specific thing and we don't care if you strike out 30% of the time on your way there as long as we don't think you're developing bad habits and that's always a tough thing to balance but that's the kind of thing that we just we don't know and then you get the human element in there where if guys are working on things they're not comfortable with and they struggle do that does that take them down like there's there's a lot that goes into prospect of element that we can't know about and so i can't say for certain that that's what's happened with colson montgomery but i'm open to the possibility that he was bad because they had him working on specific things remember he got really

hot. It was like four homers in the five games before he got called up or something. And it might have just been something clicked or they saw what they needed to see right at the end and they were ready to call him up. I'm open to it even if I think it's a long shot that he's going to be, you know, this good. A couple deep league names here. Spencer Horwitz had a huge game in Cores on Sunday, three for five with a double dong six RBI. Robert Hassel was recalled by the nationals. He had two hits on Friday, then a home run. on Saturday. And Leo Ver Pugero, who plays for the Pirates,

had a huge game on Saturday as well. A three-homer five RBI game has started six of the past eight for the Pirates. Any deep league interest in Pugero, Hassell, or Spencer Horwitz? I mean, I hate to totally dismiss a three-homer game. But the power numbers for Pagero at AAA were pretty bad. And it happened to Corsfield, the three-homber game. game. Horwitz has been pretty hot for a while. He was one of my sleeper hitters for this week. I was feeling bad about that call until his huge game Sunday, but

nonetheless over his past, let me see if I can find the numbers, past 11 games, 395, three homers, four doubles for Horwitz, who had stretches of usefulness last year. I do think it's just a deep league play, but it's probably the most interesting of these three. And if I could correct myself on Colson Montgomery, I said that tweet from Scott Merkin was July 3rd. That was when Montgomery was called up. So he was predicting good things for him on the day he was called up. Waverwire pitchers. Let's rank some names here.

We spoke about Trevor Rogers and Edward Carrera. Max Scherzer had another good start. Six innings, one run, five strikeouts to zero walks. And Michael Waka, a great start at the Blue Jays. Eight innings, one run, five strikeouts to zero walks for him. How would you guys rank Waka, Scherzer, Cabrera, and Trevor Rogers? I'd go Cabrera, Rogers. I think there's a gap.

Then I'd go Waka Scherzer. I'd take Rogers. Would I take Rogers over Cabrera? No. Would I? No. All right, fine. I won't.

I won't. We'll make a unanimous between two people. Next group includes Brady Singer who dominated the Braves, six shutout innings with 10 strikeouts. Clayton Kershaw looked good at Tampa Bay, six shutout with three strikeouts for him. Kate Horton has been solid lately, five shutout innings with three strikeouts.

He was limited to just 71 pitches in this start. That was a season low. And Charlie Morton looked great in his Tigers debut. He was at the Phillies, six innings, one run, six strikeouts with 15 whiffs on 84 pitches. How would you guys rank this group? Charlie Morton, Kate Horton, Clayton Kershaw, and Brady Singer. I think Brady Singer has the best matchups of the four.

His next start is at Pittsburgh. And I don't think I care about any of these four beyond whatever their next matchup is. So. Morton gets the Angels. Not bad. Yeah, I would go Singer, Morton, Horton, and Kirshaw. Horton, Horton, here's a who? Something like that.

You just got it, got it here. It's just a rhyme. I'm just laughing at a rhyme. Some deep league names here. Braves pitching prospect, Hurston Waldrop pitched well in bulk relief against the Reds. On Sunday, five and two-thirds innings, one run, four strikeouts for him.

Was looking much better in the minors recently, but he also was sent back to AAA already, so, you know, not much utility there. Aaron Savali had a great outing at the Ames. Angels, six and a third, shout out with eight strikeouts. He gets the Guardians this week, and Carson Wisenhunt looked much better in his second start at the Mets. Five in a third, two runs allowed with four strikeouts. He gets the nationals this week.

Any deep league interest in Wisenhunt, Aaron Savali, or Herson Waldrop? If you really need to stream someone this week, I don't think Savale is such a bad choice. So three straight scoreless outings, at least six strikeouts in each of them. And he gets Cleveland this week, a bottom five offense. So, I mean, you're kind of playing with fire a little bit because I don't think Savali's that good. I don't see any reason to be bullish on him now. But he's on a nice run and has a great matchup. I want to be excited about Carson Wisenhunt because I love a good changeup.

And he's got a very good one. I don't really see it. Like, either at the minor league level or what he's done in his couple of starts. I don't think he's been that impressive. So I'm, I know he's, look, people who know prospects better than me like him, but I, I have not been terribly impressed. Even though he does have a good matchup this week versus Washington. I think there's some lingering prospect shine there from two years ago. It's been pretty rough for Wizz and Hunt since he got to AAA.

Yeah. Just hasn't shown the ability to get both strikeouts and not give up a lot of walks. He's been able to do one or the other, but not at the same time. starter sit these pitchers this week jack flaredy had a great outing at the Phillies and that's two quality starts in a row 12 innings one run 14 strikeouts are you using jack flaredy home against the twins this week absolutely yeah he's only 62 percent started so that's drop down quite a bit i was not planning on writing about flarity and then i was reading uh nick pollock's roundup from the other day and his next three starts are versus the twins at the White Sox at the twins. I go ahead and start Jack Flaherty

the next three three starts. I mean I think he's been good enough to start anyway. I feel like reports of Flaherty's demise have been greatly exaggerated. I know the ERA's high, but you've got to look beyond ERA people. It's 2025. I hear you on that. I mean, I guess with forecasting

forward, but as someone who has Flaherty rostered in a lot of leagues, it's It's been hard to get through, man. I mean, his ERA has been north of $4.50 for a large majority of the season now. So, I mean, I totally get why people have maybe been worried about him. But he's looked better recently, and he's gotten an 11K per 9. So obviously, that's really good. Gavin Williams pitched very well against the twins, six shot-out innings with eight strikeouts for him.

Last five starts, 180 ERA and a 103 whip here for Gavin Williams. Are you using him at the Mets this week? Like, he could just be breaking through. Like, this could be the breakout. This could be the long-awaited Gavin Williams' breakout. It's been impressive enough with the strikeouts, with the walks being down, 65% strike rate, his last three starts. Like, there's...

If this were a Gavin... If a Gavin Williams breakout were to happen, this is what it would look like. But I just don't trust it yet. there's been too much up and down, and there's been a lot of ugly starts, and it's a tough match-up. So I think this is a Charzard right now.

You've got to be very careful in how you handle Gavin Williams, even though he's potentially dominant. I mean, the problem is it's just the three starts. You know, before that, like his ERA has been good for a while, but the process has been not so good. The strikeout rate had been much lower in the month of June, especially. He had at least three walks and five straight starts or six straight starts before this three-start stretch. I want to believe I just don't have any faith in it.

Drew Rasperson looked great against the Dodgers, five and a third shutout innings with six strikeouts. And five and a third innings his most since June 19th. He has been between 73 and 81 pitches, all three starts after the all-star break. So it feels like a pretty pretty. tight range of what to expect here for Rasmussen. He's only 57% started and at the Mariners this week. How do you guys feel about Drew Raspison? I think he has his uses.

He's going at least five innings again. So they were clearly pulling back on purpose for that stretch of two, three inning starts. But now they're letting him go again. But letting him go means five in Rasmussen's case. Should have a great ERA and whip. So if you're chasing those two categories, good luck to you, first of all. But if you're chasing those two categories, Rasmussen seems like somebody who'd be difficult to take out the lineup. If you like using him as a spark in a points league, I don't blame you for that.

I think a good closer is better than Rasmussen specifically. But I think he has his uses. So that's what I have to say about that. All right. Next up, we have Kodi Tsenga, who has struggled. since returning from the IL, he allowed four runs over four innings here, struggling mildly to throw

strikes, four starts since coming off the IL, 619 ERA, 188 whip. It's 16 strikeouts to 13 walks over 16 innings. I don't think there's any way you could start him right now, at the Brewers. And he's still 59% started. I mean, the

thing was, even before the injury, I know he had a sub two ERA. You got to look beyond ERA, people. His walk rate was really bad before the injury. It's gotten worse, so that's not good. But he's had like a 10 plus percent walk rate pretty much all season. So I was really skeptical of his early success and I'm not surprised. Obviously, I didn't see a 6 ERA coming or whatever it is, but I'm not surprised that he has not sustained his early success. Dylan C's had one of his better starts of the season five shutout innings,

one hit, one walk, nine strikeouts here, 19 lifts on 90 pitches, and actually mixed in some other pitches, like not just fastball and slider like we're used to, and it worked. Not sure that's what we always want to see from Dylan Seas, but he's down to 76% started, and he gets the Red Sox this week.

What do we do with Dylan Seas? I've just starting him. I've been saying that for a while now, and I'm going to keep saying it. And then we have Lucas Geolito, had a great outing against the Astros, eight innings one run, four strikeouts for him. The eight innings were a season high for Gialito.

Back-to-back quality starts after two rough outings, and he's at the Padres this week. 55% started. I mean, it's a good enough matchup that I don't have a problem with you starting. That improved Padres lineups. Yeah, improved with like Ryan O'Hern. It's improved. It's improved. Don't get me wrong, but I don't think it's like a jug or not.

So the thing with the Padres, and this has been true for like three or four years, now is outside of Tatis and Machado, there's very little power in this lineup. They just never strike out. That's the thing that makes them a tough matchup. Not that they put up a decent number of runs. I would guess they've been like top 12 in runs scored the past few years, but they never strike out. So like that start to start upside can be really iffy when you're, when you're streaming against them or starting against them. I mean, they have been a statistically bad lineup.

But they did make a trade to add three hitters. One was Freddie for mean, right? Three hitters, Ramone, Luriano, Ryan Hearn. Am I forgetting somebody? That might have been one of the biggest upgrades anybody made this season. Yeah, but yeah, because their catcher was so bad. But it's still not like they have a good hitting catcher,

a guy with a 675 OPS, something like that. Anyway, the bigger point on Gialito is that it looks like, like he was falling off. He had a couple rough starts. Okay, here, here comes the regression we were fearing. And then he's followed it up with two great starts again. So I, he's given up hard contact. He's not missing bats at a particularly high rate. I believe a lot of the contact is in the air, which is scary when it's that hard. So I. If anybody's buying. Yeah. I'm selling. Yeah. I have very little faith in this. Like, I'm not saying. But I think it's, I take the over at a four on the ERA meter. Again, that was Lucas Julito. Some pitching leftovers. The first group, Hunter Brown, had a great start at the Red Sox.

Seven innings, one run, six strikeouts. Robbie Ray, strong outing at the Mets, seven innings, one run, six strikeouts. But velocity down quite a bit here for Robbie Ray. I thought that was interesting. Nick Povetta, great outing against the Cardinals. Seven innings, one run, five strikeouts. And Matthew Boyd, with a bounce back against. to Orioles, seven shutout with eight strikeouts for him.

Anything to add on Boyd, Povetta, Robbie Ray, and Hunter Brown? So my read on the velocity being down for Ray is that he had been struggling with control lately. Previous three starts, 5.4 walks per nine, just a 60% strike rate. And so I imagine he did that intentionally to regain some command. And he walked only one, he threw 66% of his pitches for strikes. I think it was by design. I haven't seen anything to that effect,

but that's just me like trying to think along with him. And I noticed Ranger Suarez seems to be doing the same thing. He was having some issues with control. It's taken some velocity off in recent starts and the control's been better. The results have been better.

So I kind of think at this point in the season, guys getting a little tired maybe. They're making the adjustments to to get through the dog days here. So I'm not worried about Robbie Ray, long story short.

All right, next group of- That has been awesome, by the way. I don't know. That's probably worth mentioning, too, is just how good he's been lately. So last seven starts, he has a 101 ERA. 101 ERA, 0.67 whip,

just over a strikeout per inning. Seven starts. Again, that was Nick Povetta that we were just talking about. Part two here of pitching leftovers. Brandon Woodruff continues to pitch well, this time at the Nationals. Six innings, two runs loud with eight strikeouts. Merrill Kelly pitched well in his Rangers debut at the Mariners, five and two-thirds innings, two runs, six strikeouts to zero walks.

Yuri Perez, another strong start this time against the Yankees six shutout with five strikeouts. And Christopher Sanchez bounced back against the Tigers. eight shutout innings with six strikeouts here on Sunday night baseball. Anything on Sanchez, Perez, Merrill Kelly, and Brandon Woodruff. Woodruff just continues to look awesome. It's been like possibly the softest landing you could possibly ask for. I know the Marlins have been better lately, but Marlins twice, Nationals twice, and then the Mariners in Seattle are his five matchups so far.

But you still got a pitch. and these are major league hitters you've still got to get out and I'm chalking this one up as maybe my biggest whiff of the year on Brandon Woodruff honestly and and if you had told me that he was going to come out here throwing two miles per hour two and a half miles per hour lower than he did last season I would have banged the drum even harder than I was and I would have been even more wrong so it's remarkable what he's doing with much, with significantly diminished velocity. I don't know how sustainable it will ultimately prove to be,

but he looks phenomenal right now, and I feel dumb for doubting him. And again, that was Brandon Woodruff. Some hitting leftovers. William Contreras had him another big game on Friday, five for seven with his ninth home run. He had multiple hits in four straight at that point. Salvador Perez continues his tear.

Two more home runs this weekend. In the second half, he's got seven homers and an OPS over. 1100. Trevor's story continues to rake. He had a steal on Friday, a homer on Saturday, two more hits on Sunday. Last 48 games for Story. He's hitting 310, 11 homers, nine steals, and OPS over 900 during that time. Big revenge weekend for Augustine Ramirez, who was traded for Janice Chism last year. He had two steals on Friday. He had two homers on Saturday. He's up to 17 home runs. Five steals, 751 OPS for Ramirez.

Shay Langalears continues to rake as well in the second half hitting 407, seven home runs and a 1302 OPS. Christian Walker, Homer twice this weekend. He's hitting much better. Bryce Terang, a double-dong for RBI on Sunday. Also had three hits on Saturday. Big game for Rafael Devers on Sunday. Went three for four with a home run for RBI.

Hopefully this could be just kind of a launching point here for Devers. He's been so bad since going over to the Giants. and Julio Rodriguez, another big game Sunday, two for four with a sock in the shoe, his 20th home run, his 21st steal. And I saw first player in MLB history to go 20-20 in each of his first four seasons. That's pretty shocking.

That nobody's ever done that before. Yeah. That was my big takeaway from that. Neat. It shocks me too. All right. And then we have some bullpen updates here from the weekend. For the Phillies on Friday,

Yohan Duran thrown. right into the fire. He got the ninth inning with a one-run lead, a clean inning for his 17th save, and then he also got the ninth here on Sunday, and he picked up his 18th save, and so far, so good. I mean, he just looks like the Phillies closer on a great team. This could be huge for Duran's value because, you know, he wasn't always just used like a traditional closer in Minnesota, so it could be good things for him.

For the Giants on Friday, Randy Rodriguez, also thrown right into the fire here. He got the 10th inning, with a one-run lead, the Manfred Man on second base. He walked one but picked up his second save, and he is 58% rostered. Randy Rodriguez, this feels like a must-raster player across the board. I'm really wondering Cade Smith versus Randy Rodriguez.

I think I'd still go Cade Smith. I think he's the better pitcher, although Randy Rodriguez of what he's done this year is real. There aren't many better pitchers. The numbers are better for Rodriguez. I'm going Rodriguez. is. But there's just enough uncertainty about how the Guardians are going to play this. That I would still go Smith, but I think they're neck and neck.

Those are the two. I actually did see Yon to Ron out there in a shallower league, but that's not realistic scenario. But Randy Rodriguez. There was one points league that was available that we're playing in, yeah. Yeah, Randy Rodriguez and Kate Smith are the two who are widely available, and they are the two to really go all out for because they could both be. They both have top five upside. Yeah.

Kate Smith, by the way, pitched two perfect innings with three strikeouts on Friday, picked up his third win. He was unavailable for Saturday when Hunter Gaddis struck out three for his first save of the season. For the Padres on Friday, we found out right away. Mason Miller used in the eighth inning with a three-run lead. He allowed two hits but picked up the hold. Robert Suarez got the ninth. He allowed a hit, but picked up his 35.

first save, and then on Sunday, Suarez entered the 9th with the bases loaded. No outs. He gave up a hit, but picked up his 30-second save. Yeah. You know, I don't want to tell people... Robert Suarez is the closer. I don't want to tell people to drop Mason Miller, but it kind of feels like maybe you could drop

Mason Miller, man. Well, I mean, it just depends how scarce saves are in your league. If you're this kind of league where you're on, Duran's available on the way or should drop Mason. And points, I think he's dropable, yeah. But I imagine Robert Suarez has as short of a leash as any closer in baseball right now.

We've seen him have some pretty big implosions in each of the last two years. But yeah, it's pretty clear because Mason Miller didn't pitch in Sunday's game, but he was warming up in the 8th and it just ended up, I think they extended the lead, the Padres, so they ended up not throwing him. But, yeah, I mean, Suarez. And Suarez came in because the guy in front of him imploded. So that stinks. It turns out Mason Miller was the biggest loser of the draft for fantasy baseball.

Wait until we have to argue about where to rank him as a starter next year, though. I'm a little skeptical of that. But anyway, props to Frank for making that call. Yep. For the athletics on Friday, Sean Newcomb got the ninth inning with a four-run lead. He walked one and struck out one, but he did close it out. And then on Sunday with the team down two runs, Sean Newcomb pitched in the 8th,

and then it was Michael Kelly who pitched in the 9th and gave up a run there. I kind of think in deeper leagues, like I had some small bids on Sean Newcomb, but I think he might be, get the first chance here for the athletics. Yeah, I think if anyone's the guy to roster, it's Newcomb right now.

Yep. That's fairly low priority, but... Yeah. Yeah, he's been good this year. Yeah. I had kind of small, bids on Newcomb and Kegan Aiken, who picked up a save for the Orioles on Friday, but then he also, I think, gave up a run on Sunday and took the loss there. So I think the Orioles bullpen is still

pretty wide open. I mean, they both could be, but yeah, deep league names there, Sean Newcomb and Keegan Aiken. For the Rangers on Friday, Robert Garcia got the ninth with a one-run lead. He gave up a walk-off two-run homer, his fourth-blown save and sixth loss. Then on Saturday, Garcia also blew the game, and he gave up two runs, took his fifth blown save, and Danny Kulom and Phil Maton both pitched very well setting up for Garcia. So look, I think if Garcia struggles a little bit more, I think Phil Mayton probably gets a shot here. Didn't you mention earlier in the show? He's got a little bit of a back issue going on too.

Yeah, but Bochi said that he's expected to be okay, but I guess it's not a guarantee. Yeah. No, I think I think people were sleeping on Phil Maeton. And the leagues where states are scarce, those deeper roto leagues. I think just based on how the waiver runs looked for me tonight. Even if Garcia is totally healthy. I could like of these three relievers, well, I was going to say Maiton's been the most effective, but actually it's a cool. I'm is really good.

I can never say his name. But yes, he's actually been the most effective. But I just don't, I don't see him. he's always been more of a lefty specialist, so I just don't see that changing. Yeah, I think Best Kiss and Arrow, Garcia's got a really slim margin for error. For the Tigers on Saturday, Will Vest got the eighth inning with a four-run lead facing 9-1 and 2 in the Phillies lineup.

He gave up a two-run homer to Bryce Harper. Kyle Finnegan then came on and got the final four outs for his 21st save of the season. You know, the other day I said Finnegan is just a trade-up drop, but I wonder if, you know, we could get a little. vest and Finnegan kind of mix and match here in Detroit. Yeah. Yeah, I also noticed that his first appearance for the Tigers, he threw his fastball a lot less than he was throwing with the Nationals. And I wonder if I want, like, that makes sense.

If you look at the, how the effectiveness of his pitches, I wonder if the Tigers pointed that out to him and if he's going to be better than ever. Yeah, I mean, AJ Hinch was saying, he was making no promises to anyone about anything, including Will Fest. I think he's got his foot in the door. Yeah. For the Marlins on Saturday, Ronnie Enriquez entered in the seventh inning with the two-run lead, facing four, five, and six in the Yankees lineup.

Enrique has struck out one, and Calvin Foshae later got the ninth. He struck out one for his 11th save. Foshae has three of the last four saves for the Marlins, but they don't have a closer, and they never will ever again. Foshae is 15% rostered, so do with that. but you will. For the Cardinals on Saturday, Jojo Romero converted the final four outs for his first save of the season and kind of looks like he is just the Cardinals closer for the foreseeable future here. For the Twins on Sunday, Cole Sands got the eighth inning with a three-run lead, facing three-four and five in the Guardians lineup. He walked one, but then struck out two. Michael Tonkin got the ninth inning with a three-run lead. He gave up two runs. He was relieved by Erasmil Ramirez who got the final two outs for his first save.

We did get a report earlier in the weekend that said Cole Sands would be the first option for saves. But maybe he's just more like the highest leverage reliever. That's kind of how to use him. Which is how Rocco Baldelli used Duran at times. So it would make sense if he did that with Sands as well. Like it's not going to be Michael Tonkin. Like he just, he had just gotten called up and he's Michael Tonkin. Yeah.

And he had a 450 ERA in the miners. I don't know how Rocco Baldelli thought that was going to go, but that's kind of how I would have thought it was going to go. Yeah, Sands, I think, is definitely the guy to own from this bullpen. And then for the debacks on Sunday, Kevin Ginkl was unavailable. Lefty Kyle Nelson got the ninth with a three-run lead. He gave up a solo homer but picked up his first save of the season. If I was just kind of ranking and tiering kind of the new closers that have emerged,

Obviously, Randy Rodriguez and Kate Smith are up at the top. And then there's a big drop off. And then I think it's kind of like Dennis Santana, Jojo Romero, and I think Jose Ferrer. You didn't mention it, right? Oh, what I do? Dennis Santana had a disastrous outing. He did. It wasn't, I don't know if it was a save because it was in that crazy game and they were winning by like four entering the inning.

I think it wasn't a save. It was. But he gave up five runs. a third of an inning, I think. Sure did. That was the 17 to 16 game with the walk-off home run for Brenton Doyle. And it was in course field. It was obviously a course field kind of game.

Mm-hmm. And I think I heard them say, I heard somebody say he's always hated pitching there. Like, who doesn't? But, yeah, I think Santana is a tier. I just don't think he's that good. I think he's a tier above Jojo Romero. So the way I do it, the way I do it is top. tier you got Randy Rodriguez and Cody are sorry Kate Smith top tier

tier below that you got Dennis Santana tier below that you got Jojo Romero and Cole Sands tier below that you got Faire who may not even be worth the trouble yeah I put Sean Newcomb in that point in the last year but the second to last year okay yeah he's just not as it's just not as it's just not as certain with him. Yeah. For Romero and Sands, I think. And then I guess, I don't know,

Keegan Aiken, I'm still surprised they haven't given Yaneer Canoe a longer look. I know he's struggled this season, but he has some save experience. He did pitch the eighth inning in there only saved this weekend,

so he could be next up. Yeah, and Aiken's struggling on Sunday. We'll see. But yeah, I think the a Orioles are more of a stayaway than the rest of them right now. All right. And then to stream or not to stream on Monday, we have Verlander at the Pirates.

Bailey Falters at the Red Sox. Slate Cicone is at the Mets. Mike Soroka and his Cub's debut against the Reds. Patrick Corbin gets the Yankees. Eric Lauer is at the Rockies. Adrian Houser at the Angels. And that's probably it. Mike Soroka.

Number one. I think Verlinder at... With a bullet. Verlander at the Pirates and Houser at the Angels are fine. I think they're fine. Yeah, I guess so. Can't really... Fought against the Padres could go okay.

He's coming off a terrible start, but he was on a good run before then. We can never, ever, ever, ever recommend him ever again. We just, that is... He's capable of these just terrible blowups. Oh, man. He's not good. Yeah. On Tuesday, we have Mike Burroughs against the Giants, Zebby Matthews,

at the Tigers, Chris Paddock Revenge Game against the Twins. Severino at the Nationals. He's been much better on the road this season. Dean Kramer is at the Phillies. Joey Wentz gets the Brewers. Will Warren at the Rangers. Emmett Sheehan against the Cardinals. You Darvish at the D-backs.

I think I might have Severino at the top of the list. The way he's been throwing on the road, I get it. Probably. I don't hate Mike Burroughs against the Giants. Yeah. Chris Paddock revenge game against the twins. I feel like that could be either really good or really bad. So that's your fought pick for Tuesday.

I like it. What do we call that a couple years ago, Scott? Fortune favors the bold. Yes, fortune favors the brave. Here we go. You got to be really brave. Yeah, you wanted to say that. You wanted to be like Matt Damon.

To throw Chris Paddock out there. You're not Matt Damon, Frank. Have you ever seen a movie with Matt Damon? I'm sure I have. have. You've seen stuck on you. Well, Scott. Scotty doesn't know is with Matt Dan.

Oh, right. Yeah, you've seen that movie. Technically, he isn't. Yes. I believe it's uncredited. Yeah. Do we have it? No, I don't have it loaded up.

Oh, well, I was going to play Scotty as a no, but I don't have it right now. So we're going to wrap there. For Scott and Chris, I am Frank. Thanks, as always, for tuning into fantasy baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify. And we will be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye. Paramount Podcasts.