Fantasy Baseball Today - Wednesday Standouts; Christian Yelich Concerns? (08/06 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 6, 2020

Frank is back but maybe Scott should remain the host after his great performance! Who were the biggest standouts from Wednesday's action (1:41)? Aaron Nola was incredible why Kyle Tucker has earned consistent playing time! Should we be more excited about Dallas Keuchel and Adrian Houser? ... Max Scherzer left his start Wednesday with a hamstring injury (9:08) but it sounds like he should be fine. .. In other news, Nick Madrigal was placed on the IL with a separated shoulder, Josh James is being moved to the bullpen, and Ozzie Albies also landed on the IL (11:08). Who are some second basemen you can add to replace him? We have more bullpen news and this time Rafael Montero is set to return for the Rangers while the Cardinals closer role seems wide open (15:21). ... Christian Yelich was out of the lineup Wednesday against a lefty (21:37). Is there any reason to be concerned? His approach has been weird thus far. ... We had a lot of randomly strong pitching performances on Wednesday (27:43). Who is more enticing between Kris Bubic, Randy Dobnak, and Kyle Gibson? Chris and Frank also remind Scott why they're fans of Tyler Mahle (36:04). ... After more clunkers, can you drop J.A. Happ, Sean Manaea, Lance McCullers, or Robbie Ray (40:30)? ... What is our concern level for Mike Clevinger after back-to-back five-walk games (47:02)? We wrap up with the latest closer performances from Wednesday (56:10)! ... Email us at [e-mail]. Subscribe to our new YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @CBSFantasyBB, @AdamAizer, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday 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/ Download our printable Draft Kit from CBSSports.com/draftkit! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

Howdy, everybody? Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on a Thursday, August 6th, Frank Stamphill back in action after a slight power outage. everybody in the Northeast is doing well. Joining me, as always, is Chris Towers and host Scott White. Great job holding it down last night. Big thanks to the Welsh who came on and came through for us. So appreciate that.

Scott, you want to take over tonight? Did you just call him the Walsh? The Walsh? The Welsh? I thought I called it the Welsh. Yeah. It's the Welsh. Come on.

I know the Welsh. I've been listening to the Welsh for years, man. Big fan. Scott, I'll just hand over the host Mike to you, man. What do you want to do today? What do I want to? I did not come prepared for this, Frank. I am not taking your job, believe it or not.

This should be a great relief to you, I would think. No, you're ready to host again. You have power back and I'm ready to just be a run-of-the-mill panelist. Just for the record, if anyone wants to do my job, feel free. Come on, I'll still get paid for it. But if you want to do the work, by all means. Take it away.

We'll see. We'll see what we can do. See if we get any takers. 16 games slate on the schedule on Wednesday night. Let's jump right back in. I'm back. And I don't know if I'm back by popular demand, but Susan is also back by popular demand.

I ask for your feedback. Most people enjoy. Oh my goodness gracious. So with that, let's get it started. Oh, my goodness gracious. Scott, I'm not sure. sure if you missed that, but it doesn't really matter because she's here to stay. Who is your, oh my goodness, gracious player of the night? I'm going to go with Kyle Tucker, actually, here.

He didn't take the good one. I didn't. I was being generous to you guys. Kyle Tucker started a game against a lefty, that lefty being Robbie Ray. It was the second consecutive day that Kyle Tucker started against the lefty. The first two times he's done that all year. And in this particular, game against Robbie Ray, he had a home run. So how to make friends and influence people, people being specifically Dusty Baker. I think Kyle Tucker is doing it now as well as he can. He actually had two hits in that other game he started against the lefties. So like, Dusty Baker was afraid to start him against lefties. Well, he shouldn't have much fear of doing that anymore. And, you know, if when Jordan Alvarez gets back, Kyle Tucker has continued to make

statements with the playing time he's gotten. I don't see how Dusty Baker keeps him out of the lineup. Josh Reddick would seem like he'd have to go, right? Yeah, and Kyle Tucker has started eight straight games. Scott mentioned it back-to-back days here against the lefty, hitting a homer off of Robbie Ray. I mean, to be fair, Scott, you can probably hit a home run off Robbie Ray. Where is Adam when you need him. Gosh, Robbie Ray. You guys have a lot more confidence in my athletic prowess than you should. I don't know if it's faith in your athletic prowess or it's just trusting Robbie Ray to be the worst pitcher of all time. I would be terrified to stand in the box against Robbie Ray. Yeah, next thing you know, you get a fastball at the head. That would not, I would not feel confident

or comfortable with that at all. Chris, who's your oh my goodness gracious player of the night? free space on the board. Aaron Nola dominated the Yankees tonight. 12 strikeouts in, uh, was it six innings, seven innings? Six innings. Six innings, six innings, 12 strikeouts. Just absolutely dominant. Bounced back from a not great first start and, you know, obviously had a little extra time off between them, but the no rustiness, the velocity was back up. It was down in his first start, but he averaged 92.5 miles per hour with his fastball. Uh, had both the changeup and the knuckle curve working for him. 19 whiffs on 88 pitches.

That's really good against this team. This is a really, really tough matchup and Aeronola completely dominated them. He was someone who, you know, towards the end of draft season, I noted a few times that it seemed like he was sliding in a couple of drafts. I got him, I think, in the sixth or seventh round in one.

And, yeah, Aaronola's good. Mm-hmm, guys. Yeah, breaking. He is back to being an ace, I think, firmly with this. Only one walk between his two starts. Yep. And remember, long layoff in between the two, too. If anything, you'd be afraid he'd be rusty coming into this start,

but was not. He's really good. Yeah, I hope you'll listen to Scott because the other day I said, oh, you should probably wait until after the Yankees start. He's going to get blown up. And then Scott said, no, I mean, you might want to trade for him now. I mean, if you need help, if you lost Mike Soroka, maybe you lost Max Scherzer. We'll talk about that in a little bit as well.

Like I was saying, if he dominated the Yankees, then there's no way you're going to be able to get him. Yeah, I mean, whoever owns Aaron Nola right now is just thanking their lucky stars that they have, A, a healthy starting pitcher, and someone who looks pretty, pretty damn good. Chris, you mentioned the 19 swinging strikes on 88 pitches. Honestly, probably could have went another inning, but Joe Girardi has stated he's going to be quite cautious with his pitching staff this season, at least six whiffs on each of the fastball, the curve, and the change-up. So he 100% had everything working for him. The player I want to highlight here is actually Dallas Keiko because he went up against the Milwaukee Brewers. Yes, they had no Christian Yelich in the lineup. It was a B lineup for sure.

But seven innings pitched, one earn run, one walk, eight strikeouts. Wait for it. 17 swinging strikes for Dallas Kichel on 97 pitches. He had eight groundouts. Honestly, let's highlight both of the guys in this game. Adrian Houser, this was like a Spider-Man meme game because both of these guys got induced a lot of ground balls. Houser was great as well, seven innings just a little bit better than Kikle. Zero earn runs allowed. Five strikeouts, nine ground outs, 11 swinging strikes on 87 pitches. Scott, is there a chance that we weren't high enough on both Dallas Kichel and Adrian Hauser. I know we liked Hauser as a sleeper, but so far both of these guys have looked really, really good this season. Yeah, I don't know what to make at the Keikel start. I don't make much

of it, frankly, because he had a combined three strikeouts heading into this start before notching this big number. 17 swinging strikes, the last time he had that many in a start was 2017. This is just not his game, and it hadn't been his game up to this point in the season. And you know, he's throwing softer than ever this year. So it's not like he suddenly discovered some stuff he didn't add before. I think that aspect of it is a total fluke. But, you know, he's a reliable innings either, you know, when he's healthy. He pitches deep into games.

He's efficient. You know, he'll have some bad starts, some good starts. But the net result is decent enough that you're happy to, to, I want to say happy to use him. but he deserves to be rostered. He deserves to be started in the right matchups, and I think he came through for you this time. Houser is the one that is really interesting because he looked great as a starter down the stretch.

The only real drawback was that he wasn't pitching that deep into games. He did have one start where he went seven innings like tonight, but a lot of them were, you know, he didn't even quite go five. But you looked at the number of pitches he was throwing, it was like 65, 70. Like, they were clearly just taking it easy with him. You wondered how he'd fare once he started taking that third trip through the lineup. And so far so good.

I mean, he only went five in the first start, but one hit allowed. Obviously seven shutout in this time. He threw 87 pitches, so he was super efficient. The ground balls are there. I'm not sure how much of the strikeout pitcher he's going to be, but it'll be better than Kichel. I think, you know, I think he could be Marcus Stroman-like, maybe even a little better. and obviously no reason you're going to drop them after this start. Yeah, I mean, definitely hold on to both guys.

You know, both pitchers you were drafting as, you know, bench guys. And I think they're more often than not going to creep their way into your lineup moving forward. Keikl's next start comes against the Detroit Tigers as well. So definitely doesn't hurt in a matchup like that, like what we saw out of Adrian Houser today as well. I mentioned this a little bit before. Max Scher leaves his start after one inning with an apparent hamstring, injury. It's not thought to be serious. And the hope is that he makes his next start. Chris,

did you see anything else regarding this? I mean, it seems kind of up in the air right now. But this is really the last thing we need after losing Soroka the other day. We've already lost Verlander this season. Cross your fingers on Max Scherzer. Yeah, I saw a note, I think it was from Minosaris of the Athletic, that there have been five times as many non-COVID trips to the IL so far this season as there were. This was like three days ago as there were to the same point in the previous season. And that shouldn't be terribly surprising given the short ramp up, the fact the pitchers worked up and then back down.

Apparently Scherzer felt this in his first start and pitch through it, felt it again this time, tried to pitch through it. This time you could see, you know, if you look at the velocity chart, he was starting like 92 at the. at the end of the start or at the end of that inning, really. Yeah. That's not at all what you like to see, but the fact that they identified what it is

and that it's not, you know, an arm injury or especially a back injury, like he suffered last year, I figure you kind of have to not be concerned, although you have to be a little bit concerned. Chris, speaking in riddles, It's like inception here on the podcast. Scott, any concern here?

Any serious concern? Scherzer? Well, it's arguably your best player. So, you know, and you just wasted a start from him, basically. You only get so many. Yeah, I don't think he'll go on the I.L. I expect him to make his next turn. He says he's not concerned.

So, you know, I think it's probably, no reason to panic here, I would say. Edwin Incarnacion is considered. day to day after being diagnosed with an SC joint inflammation in his left shoulder. Maybe that explains the slow start that he's off to. He's batting 200 with a 550 OPS and a 39% strikeout rate, or maybe he's just old.

And Father Time is catching up to Edwin Ancarnaecone, but something to pay attention to. Other White Sox news, Nick Madrigal was placed on the IL with a separated shoulder. Scott, if you don't have enough IL spots, you could drop Nick Madrigal, right? Yeah, I mean, I'd want to hold onto him

in like roto leagues with all the lineup spots with the need for speed you could probably he probably deserves to be on your IL in that format otherwise he had to deliver to stay in those smaller lineups anyway and yeah

you could probably move on from him if you don't have a spot to stash him yeah I mean there's a non-zero chance he's gone for the rest of the season non-zero though it does sound like they think he'll be back fairly soon I'm trying to remember the exact time table that was given if it was like two weeks. I want to say it was end of August was the

phrasing I saw. Yeah. Although that's more than half the season. Yeah. I mean, that's like three weeks away from now. But hey, I mean, if he can chip in a handful of steals over the final month of the season, you know, that's something that can sway roto leagues at least. A two to three week absence is a quarter of the season. So it's not long, but it's long. It is. Josh James, we speculated might be headed back to the bullpen. That's exactly what is happening. Brandon Bialick, a name that Chris has brought up multiple times here on the show, will make his first major league start on Thursday against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Bialic has bounced between the bullpen and the rotation in the miners last season,

a 4-2-2-ERA-1-2-2 whip between AA and AAA. Chris, your interest level in Bialik, it's really just deeper leagues for now, I'd imagine. Yeah, I mean, look, you probably need pitching. I would rather have like Pablo Lopez from last night or even Tyler Malley. But, yeah, that looks interesting. Yeah, I'm definitely going to keep an eye on him. And, you know, four pitch pitcher doesn't throw super hard, but he's not a soft tosser either.

Apparently the curveball is really good. So, you know, I want to see what he can do. I'll take his teammate over him as well, Framber Valdez. Remember he pitched in relief the other day. It looked really good. Sure, yeah. So let's see what happens there with Framber Valdez. Ozzie Albies was placed on the I.

Scott, the hitches keep coming for your Atlanta Braves with a bone contusion on his right wrist, some of the top replacements, the most added second baseman on CBS Sports. David Fletcher, Hanser, Alberto, shed Long, and Jonathan's scope. Scott, which one of those four second basemen if you lost Ozzy Albies are you trying to pick up right now?

Fletcher, Alberto, Long, and Scope. Fletcher, if he's going to bat lead off for the Angels, despite the fact that he's not going to provide much in the way of power or speed. He's going to hit for average. Probably going to score a lot of runs. In a points league, the fact he doesn't strike out should make him usable.

There may be somebody in shallower leagues better than him, but he's to the point now where I think he's getting pretty close to being must have. David Fletcher Homer today. There you go. And, you know, kind of a low-key actually back to back with Trout. Point about Fletcher.

is he's quadruple eligible. And that's, you know, that's always useful. But I think particularly this season, when you run the risk of at any getting moment, a team shutting it down for a week. And like if it's right at a lineup lock and you're past the point where you can pick up a player, having a guy who's quadruple eligible,

that seems like a pretty big deal. Now, it's a great point that you bring up. He's 66% rostered on CBSports.com. So it might be floating around there in some 12-team leagues, definitely, and some 10-teamers. Second, third base, outfield, and shortstop eligibility, especially with this season. With so many postponements and players getting hurt,

he's a great player to have on your roster right now. Rafael Montero is on track to be activated off the IL this weekend for the Rangers. Chris, any chance he enters the mix here for saves with the Texas Rangers? It's possible. I mean, when was the last time Rafael Monterey, pitched in the majors. He pitched last year and he was pretty good. Yeah, he was pretty good.

He was somebody I was in Debrilleg's handcuffing to LeClerc, because I just assumed he'd be next in line. Last season, a 248 ERA 0.97 whip, almost 11Ks per 9 under 2 walks per 9. It was good. It was only 22 appearances, but it was... 29 weeks. Like, they haven't had to...

They haven't had a safe chance, I think, since that initial one where Nick Goody, you know, where LeClark got hurt warming up and they hurriedly warmed up Goody and he got the save. And then they said, ah, it's just a matchups thing, whatever. Jonathan Hernandez looks like they're high leverage guy, but they've stuck to pitching him in the eighth inning, often for multiple innings.

He keeps piling up strikeouts. Like, to me, it seemed inevitable. He was going to wind up in that role, just because like who else would. I don't think Nick Goody really stood a great chance of doing that. But if they get Rafael Montero back, that and he picks up where he left off, that gives him, you know, an easy way to keep Hernandez where they want him.

So hopefully Montero becomes a solution there. Right now, the top guy to own in the Rangers bullpen, I think is still Hernandez. But we'll see how it plays out. Speaking of up, Scott, way to pick me up. Speaking of Bullpen's Quanghung Kim is headed back to the rotation. So now we're back left trying to figure out what is going on with the St. Louis Cardinals. You guys were huge fans of Giovanni Gallegos heading into the season.

Helsley has seemingly pitched well for them. And they actually called up Alex Reyes as well. Chris, if you're handicapped in this situation right now. I think I would have to go with Gallegos. He seemed like he should have been the guy. until he wasn't able to report to the team. Helsley, I just, I think he's just a guy. I just, I'm not, I just don't think he's all that good.

And so I would rather bet on the upside with Gallegos that he gets the chance. Although, if Alex Reyes looks like Alex Reyes, you know, it might be him. He hasn't looked like Alex Reyes, basically since that one start he made before I think he tore his peck or injured his shoulder after coming back from Tommy John surgery. But I mean, let's, I think it was the, uh, the lat injury. Yeah, he was like a Vladimir Guerrero, Ronald Acuna, ask pitching prospect.

Like he was considered to be that kind of dominant pitching prospect. And so, you know, maybe there can be a spike out of the bullpen from him. His velocity was way down at in, in, in, spring and summer camp or I guess summer camp I don't know if he pitched in the spring um but you know the fact that they called him up maybe he's maybe it's back I don't know like I'll watch it for sure if he if he makes a couple of good outings and he's throwing 96 97 you know that'll be something to keep an eye on I think there's a good chance he enters into a committee for however long they stick to a committee but I think just given his health history his ability to bounce back from outing to

outing may not be what's required of a closer. That's what I'd worry about as far as his prospects go. And Gallegos, I mean, I hope it's Gallegos. He's clearly the most deserving. But to the extent this matters and people on the Cardinals beat seem to think it matters when Mike Schilt was listing off options for the ninth inning with Kim going to the rotation, the first name he mentioned was Ryan Helsley. That came up in summer camp too and then they ended up naming Kim to close it.

but for what it's worth, I'm suspecting Helsley gets the first chance in the role. I hope not. I hope it's Gallegos. Helsley, 28% rostered on CBS Sports. Giovanni Gallegos is 56%. All right, so let's throw all these Cardinals in together. Raphael Montero.

I feel like we do this every night with just like a who's who of closer candidates. And then last night, Scott, I don't know if you have it in you, if you've got the Michael Cain ready, but Ty Buttery, your boy, picked up a save last. night. So let me put all five of those names in a pot. And which one are you pulling out first here, Scott? Is it Gallegos? Is it Helsley? Montero? Is it Alex Reyes? We're calling it closer gumbo. Closer gumbo. All in a pot. Who's the and dooie? Who are you pulling out first? And buttree, you might use some butter to make a rue when you make a gumbo?

I like that you're furthering this analogy. That's good. That's nice. I think Buttery stinks. All right. I'd like him to be awesome so that we could always refer back to the Michael Kane impression. But bottom line is he has not been very good.

And one of the Angels Beat writers seem to suggest that the idea is to pull back on Hansel Robles until, you know, he gets right. Which may never happen if he's permanently lost that velocity. But, like, I don't think Butchery's the answer. I don't know who is the answer if it's not him, but, like, that's not appetizing at all. So I don't know who else was in this gumbo.

The Cardinals guys and Rafael Montero. I mean, I would go, like, number one and two on that list for me would be Helsley and Gallegos. Okay. Last closer note, Arolda Chapman won't be activated, quote, anytime soon. He's been cleared, apparently, and he's, throwing, but it won't be activated. Zach Britton picked up his fifth save of the season tonight against the Philadelphia Phillies. Some lineup stuff from today.

Christian Yelich was out of the lineup today. Mentioned that earlier. Definitely helped Dallas Kikell pitch well in that game. I just want to ask, guys, if there is anything that you see here, read going on with Christian Yelich, I understand these things can change on the drop of a dime. He can have a four-hit game, and next thing you know, the batting average is where we expect it to be. but his approach thus far has been quite weird. 60% ground ball rate,

he's striking at 43% of the time. His swinging strike rate, his swing rate, excuse me, is a career low. So he's just not being aggressive swinging at pitches. And then when he does, he's swinging and missing. Any concern over Yelich? Just got to ask. They are opposing pitchers, which is not pitching to him, really.

I think he's seen like 19% of, let's see, 46% of the pitches that have been thrown to him have been fastballs and only 23% have been foreseen fastballs. So pitchers are really trying to feed him a healthy dose of breaking stuff. And I want to say, I'm trying to look for it right now, but I think there was a like Christian Yelich, I'm not quite up to speed, quote. from like right before the season started. He might just be a little out of whack, but you're not going to do anything about it. No. You're not going to, what are you going to do?

Trade Christian Yelich eight games into the season? No. Like, you can't. He's rusty. He's, he's, its timing is wrong. He's not caught up to velocity yet. Like they got so few chances leading up to the season

that you have to expect. Yeah, you have to have, little patience, a little more even than usual. I know that sounds weird in the short season, but like he's going to come around. I really have no doubt about it. We're already seeing Ronald de Cunia, who got off to, I think it even worse start with all the strikeouts. We're already seeing him come around.

He's going to be fine. Pitching, I want to say, I'm trying to look for this story as well, but I think I've seen a couple of references like pitching being ahead of hitting right now, generally speaking. It seems like pitchers are doing better than they typically do, even with all of them getting hurt. And so, you know, that may just be the case. Maybe it's just that that brief summer camp window really held the hitters back as a whole. Unless your name is Robbie Ray, of course, Chris. We did get an email from Jonah earlier today, and we've received a few emails regarding Christian Yellich,

and he said he's in a 12 team head-to-head points league and I've been in talks with an owner about Yelich. He offered me, Christian Yelich, for my Chris Bryant and Dylan Bundy. Am I hesitating too much for Yelich or am I giving up too much? You take that? Yeah, take it.

In a heartbeat. All day, in a heartbeat. Before he has a chance to retract the offer, you hit accept. Yeah, I like Dylan Bundy quite a bit, but I don't think that's going to deter me from trying to acquire Christian Yelichael. right now on the cheap.

I will just say, we did a worryometer on Yelich. I think it was last week, Scott. And I mentioned that I just don't think the Brewer's lineup is nearly as good as it has been in years past. They lost Mustakis, they lost Grandals. So there's just a chance that teams are not going to pitch to Yelich. And, you know, maybe this is just an extended slump in a short and season, which, you know, will reflect very poorly when we look back on it. But I will just, I'll just throw it out there.

Yeah, I don't. Ryan Healy's batting leadoff for them. It's a bad lineup against lefties. Eric Silgard is playing. Jed Jerko hit cleanup. I remember number three hitter, Avi Seale Garcia today. So it's not a great lineup right now. No, I'm not sure.

A lot of things have gone wrong for the Brewer so far. I remember the freak out when the Brave started rebuilding about Freddie Freeman and what, like, nobody's going to pitch to him. I'm trying to remember exactly what year that. was, but I think it was the year that I think it was the year he broke out. Yeah. I think it was that 20. And he walked a lot. Yeah. He did walk a lot. But like,

it great hit. Great hiters. That doesn't really like that doesn't really affect them. Like you'll occasionally see like I think we saw that a little bit with Bryce Harper when Ryan Zimmerman started to slip. But for the most part, like guys are good because they're good. Not because there's someone good behind them. Uh, somebody who is not good. right now.

I mean, he's not even getting the opportunity to prove that he's good, is Chris Davis-Wittaker, who homered on Monday. He started against a left-handed pitcher. He homered against the righty, actually, has not played each of the past two games, has now set out three of the last four games, and it seems like he is on the weak side of a platoon. Like, he is only starting against left-handed pitching.

So I feel like I asked the question every single night. Scott, are we getting closer to dropping Chris Davis now that it looks like he's platooning? Um, look, I don't think you have any reason to roster Chris Davis in a league where you're only starting nine hitters. So this the standard head-to-head lineup, and he's occupying your one flexible spot. Like that, that just doesn't add up for me. But if you're talking about a league where you're starting 14 hitters like the standard roto league, not saying you have to start him, but he's probably worth keeping around for the upside.

obviously a couple weeks of this, probably not, but I'd give him a little more time. Mookiee Betts was still out today. Michael Brantley is sitting a second straight game with a quad issue. He is expected to, hopefully, be back in the lineup on Friday. All right, let's take a look at the action from Wednesday night and start off with some random pitching performances.

And I want to ask you, which one of these fellas interests you most? Alex Cobb. Yeah, that Alex Cobb. Against the Miami Marlins. Five innings pitched, one earned run, seven strikeouts, 14 swinging strikes on 86 pitches. His splitter usage is up.

He has a two-star week next week against the Phillies and the Washington Nationals. Rick Porcelo was going up against the nationals in Washington tonight, entering this game with a 13.50 ERA. Seven innings pitched,

one earned run, only four strikeouts. Martine Perez, against the race. Ray's five innings pits, five shutout endings with four strikeouts. Randy Dobnack at the Pirates. Six shutout innings, one strikeout, a ton of ground balls, 11 ground ball outs for Randy Dobnack. Trevor Williams, the other side in that game, seven innings pitch, one earned run.

And Chris Bubich, Boobich, six innings, two runs, two walks, six strikeouts, 13 swinging strikes on 88 pitches. Chris, I'll go to you here first. of these fellows interested most. Cobb, Porcelo, Martin Perez, Randy Dobnack, Trevor Williams, and Bubich. I think it's got to be the young prospect guy, so Chris Bubich, who you'll see, you know, as you noted, he did throw 97 miles an hour. That was, I don't know, what was happening in the first inning of that start. He must have had a lot of adrenaline pumping because his velocity spiked at 97 miles an hour and basically immediately dropped to like 91, 92.

And that's where you should expect him to mostly be. But, you know, there's a little deception in there. He's got a couple of good pitches. And I think what we've seen from him so far, I think that and the fact that he's young and making that leap from, you know, never pitching even in double A. I think I want to see more of him. And after that, I would probably go Gibson and, Cobb. Weirdly enough. He should have been. He should have been.

Kyle Gibson against the A's had nine strikeouts, a quality start, three earned runs over six innings pitched. He has a two-star week next week. He's going up against the Mariners and the Rockies in Colorado. Yeah, Gibson and Bubich are kind of one A, one B.

Maybe you're not going to want to start Gibson, but he's always been one of those guys that like fantasy baseball nerds and I count myself among their ranks, have always been really interesting. He's got this really good slider, and he occasionally throws it a lot, and he does really well.

And he was pretty good last year, and the Rangers are kind of making a habit out of turning your leftover veteran pitchers into, you know, pretty good fantasy contributors. And he threw his slider 40 times on 103 pitches today. You know, But it's, I think if I need someone that I feel comfortable starting, I'd probably go with Gibson.

If I'm speculating, it's probably Bubage. But I'm not sure how I would compare them to like Pablo Lopez from yesterday. So you're really down with Pablo Lopez. I mean, Eleazar Hernandez. He wasn't as good. Very similar today. He wasn't as good. And Eliezer Hernandez.

I would argue belongs in this group. I would be more interested in Eliezer Hernandez than Rick Porcelo or Martin-Parrez or... Yeah, no, that's fair. That's actually fair. Even like Randy Dobnack, I know he's had a couple of good starts so far, but like, there are zero strikeouts there.

Technically, there was one today. Come on, Chris. I mean, give the guy credit. He had a strike. Relatively speaking. I actually want to talk about Dobnack of that group. because, like, I think you hit number one and two perfectly, Bubich and Gibson, who, you know,

I think of Gibson as kind of a poor man's Dylan Bundy and that he has always had this one great secondary pitch that has made his whiff rate much higher than you'd suspect for a pitcher who performs like him otherwise, and maybe this change of scenery will allow him to put it all together. Thinking through my rosters, I'm not sure how many I could honestly make room for Kyle Gibson on, but, you know, he's,

interesting. This definitely gives me something to watch out for moving forward. Dobnack, I think, though, is, like, he might actually be kind of under the radar good. We usually associate with strikeouts, goodness with strikeouts among pitchers, as we should. It's the most important thing a pitcher can do. But Dobnack does, like, the second and third most important things really, really well. elite ground ball rate throws a ton of strikes doesn't hurt himself with walks six innings three hits no runs in this start he's allowed to combine one earn run dopenack has across three starts his e r a in uh i believe it was uh how many appearances wasn't in the majors last year right around 10 i think is era in those it was nine yeah was 159 his er a in the miners last year was 207 his

whip was 0.98. Strikeouts were low everywhere. That's just not what he does. But like, he could be this Dallas Kichel type pitcher that ends up being someone well worth streaming, especially with that lineup backing him and a good bullpen to help him preserve wins.

So here's the problem. How many Dallas Kichael types are there in baseball? There's not a ton, but they're not. There's not. No, I'm not talking about results. I'm not talking about like how good Dallas Kikil. is. I'm just talking about like the kind of profile we're talking about. Yeah. Because there's really only one Dallas Kichel. Like this is not a profile in today's major league environment that really plays well for more than like a handful of starts here or there. You know, that's, and Dallas

Kichel is, you know, a pretty extreme pitcher in a lot of ways. Like there's no starting pitcher who throws the ball out of the strike zone more than Dallas Kikle. I don't think he's exactly a Dallas Kikl to be fair because Dallas, like I think Dobnack's a better control pitcher than Kikl. He might actually be a little worse at missing bats, but yeah, I don't know.

It's just kind of the rare pitcher who comes along, who ends up being serviceable even though he doesn't miss bats. I think Dobnick Yeah. Does Dobnack, I'm sorry, does everything a pitcher

who doesn't get strikeouts possibly could to put himself in a position to be usable. He would, definitely be below... I think he would be below Tyler Malley for me. I think that's fair. Malley was very impressive last night and the swinging strikes were up for him

and, you know, it wasn't an easy matchup by any means. You know, I would say that the Cleveland Indians are probably like a middle of the road matchup right now and Malley looked very good against him. So I would put him ahead of Dobnack. But for me, I think Bubich and Dobnack are the one-A. and 1B for me, especially considering that Dobnack does have two starts where he's lined up for two starts. I mean, you can't really assume scheduling right now. But he's at Milwaukee. We just, you know, ripped that line up to shreds. And he's going up against the Royals. That's a very good

two-star week. So, yeah, I'm pretty, I'm pretty interested in Dobnack. I really struggle with a guy who can't get strikeouts and already throws his breaking pitches like 50% of the time. He also has, Man, there is nowhere to go. He has an amazing mustache, Chris. No, look, aesthetically, I am a Randy Dobnack fan. I would love to see him when the American League saw you. I'm just, there are pitchers I have more faith in for my fantasy team. I do want to ask you guys about Malley because Chris Welsh and I were both pretty dismissive of him yesterday as a guy who has a really good

fastball has always had a really good fastball, throws it a ton, gets creamed the third time through the lineup. So he rarely has starts where he, you know, even goes six innings like he did yesterday. Occasionally he'll have a good start like that, but, you know, there's a pretty clear pattern there. And I'm not. So you're wondering why we like him. Yes. I cannot speak for Frank. But I have always been a Tyler Malley guy. He was someone who. who rated out really well by the Aces metric in terms of stuff and command. And, you know, his velocity's up,

94 miles per hour through two starts with his fastball. And he is someone who has tinkered a lot with his pitch mix over the years. Came in with a low 80 slider and a fastball that he averaged right around 93, a change of about 84. He's tinkered a lot because he doesn't have anything. Right.

He's tinkered a lot. But now he's got this 86 mile an hour fastball that has been, or sorry, 86 mile an hour slider that is a new, new version of the pitch somewhere between the cutter that he tinkered with last year and the slider he used to have. That's been a really good pitch for him in the early going. He's got this changeup that he's throwing a little harder. That's been a really good pitch for him.

So I just, I think the armed talent is there. And I'm hopeful that he has stumbled. upon the right mix because he was a decent prospect, pretty good minor league numbers, has always had, you know, pretty good control. And so I'm just, admittedly, he's just, I wrote this in the waiver, our column yesterday. He's one of my guys. And so is Pablo Lopez, and there are two guys that I just have always been really interested in. Pablo Lopez change up yesterday looked out of this world good. I got serious Luis Castillo vibes from Pablo Lopez last night with that change up.

I mean, Luis Castillo's change up is like, it looked. I'm kind of with you on Pablo Lopez. I stuck up for Lopez on yesterday's show when Welsh wasn't really willing to go there. But, you know, in his case, there's great control. And like, he tends to pitch really deep in the game. So even if the strikeouts aren't there, I think. Remember? And plus, he's a stallion.

Of course. of trying to think of that guy. I think his name was also Lopez, but I can't remember. Rodrigo Lopez. Remember him? Like, maybe you don't. But he was like this not very good pitcher who nonetheless was usable quite frequently. And I think like that's the downside for Lopez.

So he'll always be kind of in that mix as a streamer option. But maybe there's a potential with that change up that he develops into more. I certainly like a pitcher with a really good secondary pitch. For me, for Malley, I'll just put a bow on this conversation. I have to study it more, but just watching him pitch yesterday, it looked different. Like, his mechanics looked different. So I have to go back and watch from last year, but it reminded me of like he was holding his hands closer to his body.

It looked a little bit like Lucas Gialito, the way that, like, that transformation that Gialito went through. And the velocity being up, I mean, those two things in conjunction, you know, might actually lead to something here for Tyler Malley. It's worth noting, you know, a 53% flyball rate in Great American Ballpark is not going to cut it. So he's got to get that down. But the velocity coupled with, you know, the potential changes in mechanics. I'm going to read more about that and update you guys on it.

But he looked like a different picture to me yesterday. So interested in Malley, interested in Lopez. Robico Lopez was good in 2002 and 2004. I was thinking it was more like five years ago. That's how you know you're getting old. Did lead the majors and losses one year. Hey, you know what? Gotta pitch deep into games to be able to do that.

That is correct. And I will just remind everyone that Spencer Turnbull had 17 losses last year. And he looks like a different man. So don't hold the losses against the pitcher. It's not necessarily his fault. Speaking of which, losses, guys that are not pitching well right now, can you drop these pitchers? Jhab.

I'm just going to go out and see. Like, he should not be 79% rostered anymore. Six walks today. someone that I was mildly excited about heading into the season, you can drop him for, I would say, anyone we just talked about. Malley, Lopez, Boobich, I'll drop him for Randy Dobnack if I need a two-star pitch.

Yeah, no, 100% agree. By the way, Mookie Betts is in the game as a defensive replacement, so, okay. Just, he seems fine. Worth monitoring for sure. Some other names on this list. Sean Mania, another clunker, three and a third, six hits, four earned runs,

five strikeouts, he is roster, 95% of CBS leagues, and per Martin Gallegos, who covers the A's for MLB.com. I saw this on Twitter earlier. Sean Mania has a 22.5 ERA in the fourth and fifth inning through three starts this season. So he's not even making it third time through the order. It's second time through the order that Sean Mania is absolutely getting crushed. Same thing with Lance McCuller today at the Diamondbacks, an offense that had been struggling.

I think it were like 25th and runs scored entering tonight's game. Seven hits, eight earned runs. It was really that second time through the lineup. They absolutely crushed him. People were speculating on Twitter that he was tipping his pitches there. He is also 96% rostered. And then Robbie Ray, you know, we brought up the name, but I mean, what are you going to do with this guy at this point?

He allowed six earned runs again today, including three homers. It's a tough matchup against Houston. Scott, Mania, McCullors, Robbie Ray. We already said you could drop Hap. Are you dropping all three of these guys, or you're dropping none of these guys? If you had to drop one, which one would it be? I think I've dropped Manaya everywhere I had him.

If not, I'd be comfortable doing that. I'd drop him for Boobitch. I'm not sure I'd drop him for all of those kind of scrubby pitchers we talked about. But, you know, there's a chance somebody. There's somebody out there in your league that he's worth dropping for. McCullors and Robbie Ray, I think the upside is so good that I'd still hold on to them. Obviously would not feel comfortable starting them right now. McCuller's working his way back from Tommy John's surgery.

that's always difficult. The velocity's down like a mile per hour. The weirdest thing about McCullors is like, we're used to seeing him throw his curveball 50% of the time. It's kind of the key to his success. And he's throwing it more like 30% of the time now, which is still a lot, but considerably less than 50%. He's mostly traded those out for changeups, though.

It's not like he's throwing the fastball more. Yeah, well, it's not working for him. Yeah. And, you know, he's got one of those changeups that, you know, it does have a lot of horizontal movement and can, I mean, he's always been a guy who struggles with his control McCullors. Yeah,

I'm not dropping McCullors or Robbie Ray, although Robbie Ray looks like he's kind of in that Travis Shaw territory, where if you remember last year, Travis Shaw, just got off to such a horrible start and just never fixed it. And it was because he tinkered with his swing before the season, got to spring training, wasn't comfortable with it and tried to get back to it.

And that's, like every time we talk about, swing changes or new pitching mechanics. We always tend to view it as, well, this can only help. And it's like maybe it can, but it can also make things worse, especially if, you know, maybe Robbie Ray is trying to like, maybe he's fighting between the two of them. And look, maybe it clicks. And he ends up being really good.

We know the potential's there. But right now you definitely can't start him. And I'm not going out to make trades for. either of these. Robbie Ray. Well, yeah, either of them, but especially Robbie Ray. As for Manaya, you know, you mentioned that stat fourth and fifth times through the order.

Not even fourth and fifth time through, just fourth and fifth in, sorry, fourth and fifth innings. You can see that in his pitch velocity chart. His like 22nd or 23rd fastball was 91 miles an hour, and all the ones after that up to 40 were below 90. He just has not been able to sustain his velocity. into starts. It was a pretty stark drop off in this one. And you're going to get less effective. Like, he's not a guy who has a lot of velocity to lose anyway. He peaks at like 93, 94. And probably

more like 93. So that, that is a concerning sign for Shamanai. I'd be fine dropping him in anything shaller than like 14 teams. Yeah, I think we're all kind of in agreement here. You're all right dropping half. We're all right dropping him in Naya. Hold on to Robbie Ray. Although, I'm a little bit closer towards letting go of Robbie Red. It's really hard in a shortened season to hope that he turns it around. McCullors is definitely the one out of the group

that I want to hold on to most. And, you know, if you can get him for dirt cheap right now, it's something that I would look into doing on Lance McCullors. Quickly promote a few things. Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash fantasy baseball today. Thank you to everyone who has subscribed thus far.

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So I guess it works, but you're going to be listening to this on a Thursday. Mike Clevenger against the Cincinnati Reds, 5 and 2 thirds, two hits, zero earned runs, five walks, four strikeouts, back-to-back games with five walks for Mike Clevenger. Scott, where does he rank on the Wuriameter? Mike Clevenger, that is. It's not nothing, but I don't want to overstate it either. I'll go three.

The last two starts with a lot of walks that's concerning. You know, his velocity is also closer to where it was two years ago than last year. That's okay, I think. Two years ago, he was still a very good pitcher. When I saw him pitch in summer camp, he looked pretty wild then, too. So I was kind of surprised he walked to nobody in his first start. I'm not exactly sure where the walks are coming from. I'm presuming it's just he's not in mid-season form yet.

But I think there's enough there to remain enthusiastic about that, like, this isn't a Madison bumgarner situation. This isn't the case of him losing a lot of stuff. I think he's going to be fine. So I'll go three. I may have an explanation for the walks, at least in this start. He was throwing a cutter today. And if you look at baseball savannah,

it'll say he threw 40 sliders or 42 sliders, but about half of them or close to it were thrown about 90 miles per hour. So it's pretty clear. His slider's usually in the low 80s. So it's pretty clear it was a distinct pitch that baseball or stack has just hasn't been able to account for properly. That seems like the kind of thing that could throw your control off.

Where are you on the Wuriometer, Chris, with Clevencher. I know that you were just in general kind of worried about him coming into the season. yeah, sorry. Yeah, he threw 11 of those, like, 18 or so cutters for as balls. So, you know, that could explain some of it. Yeah, I'm, I think if you thought Mike Clevenger was going to be one of the five best pitchers in baseball, you should be like an eight or a nine on the Worryometer. I didn't think he would be.

Right. Yeah, he's not going to win, Sa. I feel confident saying Mike Clevenger is not going to be the AL-Sye Young one at this year. Yeah, Shane Bieber is. so even without that yeah so yeah like he he had gotten hit really hard the first two starts but that's never been a Mike Clevenger thing he's one of the best at limiting hard contact so it just seems like a kind of weird start and you know he's had a lot of injuries and he's working on some stuff and I think he'll be fine like I think he's going to settle in as like the 13th to 15th

best pitcher in baseball and you're not going to have to think about it Yeah, and it's not completely uncommon for him to have these games with a lot of walks. I looked into his career game log, and 17 of his 87 career starts, he has walked four or more batters. So it's not completely uncommon for him to be wild at times. So, look, if someone in your league is- A 12% walk rate in 2015, or 2016, 2017, geez. If someone in your league is freaking out about Clevenger, then, you know, we got a question on Twitter today, you know, asking about the walk rate.

So if someone else is concerned about it, I would be trying to acquire him right now if you can. Someone else that I hope you listen to Scott about. We were going through some by-low candidates the other day. If you lost out on Mike Soroka, he mentioned Aranola. He also mentioned Hyun Riu, who went into Atlanta today.

Five innings pitched, one hit, three walks, eight strikeouts, 21 swinging strikes on 84 pitches. That's insane right there, 25%. Yeah. And on 38 changeups. 14 on those changeups, yeah. So he went heavy with the changeup and the cutter tonight. He looked great tonight, Scott.

But the three walks, I feel like that's kind of a weird thing for Ryu. Yeah, definitely out of character. And he did that in his first start of the season two. You know, he had a few starts last year where he had three walks. So I don't make that much of it. You know, he's not going to have many games where he gets this many swingy strikes either. Probably worth pointing out Freddie Freeman was a lot. out of the lineup. Of course, Ozzy Albies was out of the lineup. So it wasn't the Braves A team out there,

but there was no reason to really be worried about Jansiru, and hopefully he's ended, removed whatever concerns you had with this start. Some hitter notes from Wednesday, some fun with Youngens. Dom Smith was banning cleanup against scheduled starter. Max Scherzer on Wednesday, he wound up hitting an RBI double off lefty, Sean Doolittle. Dom Smith was not in the lineup. I believe it was last night or two nights ago against a left-handed pitcher. So maybe the fact that he hit that RBI double tonight

off Sean Doolittle will help him get in the lineup more frequently. Scott, do you think he needs to be owned in 12-te-to-head points leagues yet? Or not that shallow. I missed the name. Dom-Dom Smith. Not that shallow yet, no. Especially since we saw him sit against him. the one lefty, you know, since Cesspit has left. So, yeah, I mean, I'm definitely interested in him,

but it's more of a scout team situation. I probably wouldn't pick him up in anything shallower than 15 team leagues right now. I was going to say he's not that young. And then I remembered he's six months younger than Pete Alonzo. It's just completely absurd. Kyle Tucker, someone we mentioned earlier in the show, he started eight straight games, hit a home runoff Robbie Ray tonight, and had two hits yesterday against the lefty Madison Bumgarner. Alex Verdugo hit his first home run of the season. First home run as a Red Sock, two-run homer off another lefty. Ryan Yarbrough here, so lefty-on-lefty action for some youngsters here.

And entering tonight's game hit an 81% ground ball rate. So I know that that was something I wanted to pay attention to heading into the season, kind of similar to Vladimir Guerrero, where you know, you want to see Verdugo lift the ball and hit more line drives. Chris, I mean, what have you made so? far of Alex Verdugo. He's been playing more consistently than he was, you know, when the season first started. But 81% ground ball rate. Don't love that. No, that's not the approach that you want to see from Alex Verdugo, although it's not surprising. He's always going to be a ground ball heavy

kind of guy. And it won't be 81% either. You know, moving forward, it will probably be something like 50%. I think that's about where he was last season. I, yeah, I'm, I'm okay with what he's done so far. I would hope there's more power to come. But, you know, even if he had played a full season this year, I thought the ceiling was probably closer to 20 or 25. So, you know, hopefully we got better things coming and, you know, it'll take more balls in the air to get there.

Yeah, and the Red Sox need help with their lineup anyway they can get it. So, you know, if he gets hot, hopefully, they can move him up to line up. That would be great for Verdugo's value. Gary Sanchez, Scott, someone that we're receiving a lot of questions about right now. And look, rightfully so. He is two for his first 27 to start the season. He is another one of those extremely streaky players. 16 strikeouts in those 27 at bats. He only has one extra base hit, which is a double. Scott, if someone offers you their Gary Sanchez for your Christian Vasquez right now, are you accepting that trip?

I am. I'm accepting that trade. How about if it's for your Wilson Contreras? It's a little closer. That's one of those situations where I think it's close enough that I'd rather do no harm and I'd probably just stick with, you know, if I was in the opposite situation,

I'd probably stick with Kerry Sanchez. I have a hard time with making a trade that I feel is more or less equal. You know what's funny though? even with how bad he's been and how much he's struggling. This doesn't average, a velocity of 93.1 miles per hour, 45.5% hard hit rate now.

Obviously, that is, you know, only counting balls that you put in play, which has been half or fewer of his plate appearances so far, which is bad. It is. But I don't know,

like a lot of the reasons why we typically get concerned about Gary Sanchez, like he's hitting too many fly balls or he's hitting too many pop-ups, those haven't actually been the issue. So I think it's probably just a tough streak, and he'll be fine. Josh Bell, another one who is off to a slow start. He had three hits tonight, including two extra base hits,

a double and a home run. Some bullpen notes. Brandon Kinsler picked up the save in the first game of the doubleheader for his second save of the season. They had another save opportunity in the second game of the doubleheader of their doubleheader, and it went to Stephen Tarpley.

So, I mean, I don't think he's a name that's really worth monitoring or anything. I just think it was Brandon Kinsler was used in the first game. By the way, how crazy is it that here we are two weeks into the season, among the most secure closers are Brandon Kinsler, Mark Malanson, and Joe Jimenez. In fairness, Brandon Kinsler has only had two opportunities, and only really five games. Are you really worried about him? I mean, he's always been so stable.

But there were guys who we weren't worried about coming into the season who have already lost their jobs and, you know, playing half as many or fewer games as everyone else. So he just hasn't had a chance to. I mean, look, I'm not saying he will blow. And I'm just saying he has not yet had the chance to. It's definitely fair. But I will point out there is not a lot here in this bullpen.

I mean, Brad Boxberger, it's not great. I mean, Nick Vincent. It wasn't a great bullpen before two-thirds of the team got COVID-19. So, yeah. Well, you wouldn't know based on the way that they're playing and crushing everybody. Helps when you play the Baltimore Orioles, of course, Chris. But first place, baby. Let's go.

Let's go, Marlins. Seth Lugo, two clean innings for the save on Wednesday. Edwin Diaz pitched last night in a loss, well, I guess two nights ago now, when you're listening to this. And Uri's Familia had pitched the previous two days before today as well. So, I mean, Scott, I don't know. I don't know if there's any serious takeaway here. It just seems like a fluid situation.

And Lugo was the freshest one here tonight. Yeah, I still think Diaz is the guy you want from the Mets bullpen. His last two appearances were before the ninth inning, but they were both fine. I think he's back in a pretty comfortable spot. I think all season long we might see Seth Lugo use this way, where if he's rested enough, he gets through the eighth with no problem.

They just leave him out there, kind of like Josh Hater was here. handled by the Brewers before he became their actual closer. I think we can see that a lot from Lugo this year, but I still expect D.S. to get the most saves there. Brad Hand picked up his fourth save of the season, one walk and two strikeouts. James Carincheck pitched the eighth inning once again

with one hit and one strikeout. It's Brad Hand's job for now, but I don't think that he has a long leash. If he blows one or two saves, I think we see Karen Chack in that role, especially the way that Karen check has pitched so far this season. I think we might be, I think you might be, Frank, underestimating just who Brad Hand is and how good he's been the past four years.

Last outing, his velocity was fine. It was all the way back. It was back down again this outing. Look back to last year early on. His velocity was pretty low to. He's not a high velocity guy to begin with. And like, he's been getting lots of strength. So, you know, last four years,

Hand has a 275 VRA 109 whip 12.2K per 9. I know we're all excited about James Corinchek and what he could bring to the table, but it would be an upset if he's as good as Brad Hand's been the past four years. So, like, let's just root for Hand to keep the job. And I think he has a good chance of doing it. No, we're not going to root for that

because I don't have any shares of Brad Hand, Scott. And it's all about me. I don't really have much Karen Jack either. but no Brad Hand has been very good there's no doubt about it I'm just saying like when you have someone this good behind you it's a little bit of wishful thinking

all right what is the Karen check thing for for Frank it's a little bit like I want this to happen yeah I mean why not he's he's awesome to watch like Kenley Jansen just

got bailed out from blowing a save he has a league high four saves but uh should have been a blown safe Like, it could still happen with Karin-Chack, obviously. Any closer is a bad week away from losing his job. But I feel pretty confident in Bradhand right now, I guess is all I'm trying to say. I feel more confident than I did a week ago.

Yeah. I feel more confident in Anthony Bass, who has been pretty much lights out for Toronto since he's taking over the role. He did allow a walk and a hit in a one-run game today, but he converted the saves for Toronto. Josh Hader had a clean ending for the save against the White Sox. Joachim Soria, 1.2 innings pitched tonight, picked up the save entering Wednesday night's action. Liam Hendricks had pitched three of the last four games for Oakland. I don't really think there's much to see there with Soria,

but he's likely the next man up if something were to happen to Hendricks. And then Trevor Gott, always trying to figure out the Gabe Kapler bullpen. He pitched a clean ninth inning in Colorado, picked up the save in a one-run game. game. So Trevor got looks, he looks like the guy's got for now. I think this is a much more straightforward situation than we were led to believe and that we've probably been stating here. He has all three of the

Giants saves. The one time he didn't work the ninth inning, he worked the eighth inning against the heart of the Rangers lineup. So at the very least, he's the pitcher, Gabe Capler, trust the most. That was against a couple lefties too. And he's a right-hander, obviously. Tony Watson has yet to throw in the ninth inning. Tyler, Tyler Rogers has been terrible he got a hold today but for the most part

he's been terrible like who else is it going to be it's it's there will be weird times when he comes in in the eighth instead of the ninth but Trevor Gott is clearly the guy to have in the Giants bullpen I think Joe Jimenez Trevor Gott Anthony Bass welcome to 2020 people

we're going to wrap it up there for Scott and Chris I am Frank thank you all for listening and watching fantasy baseball today on our YouTube channel We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.