Fantasy Baseball Today - Week 22 Sleepers & Two-Start Pitchers! Kyle Leahy IS ON FIRE! (8/15 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 15, 2026

Frank Stampfl and Scott White are previewing Week 22 of the Fantasy Baseball season. Are we using Framber Valdez with two starts this week? Make sure to get Kyle Leahy in there with two starts. Ian Seymour and Dustin May are worth using with one start. Cole Carrigg and Steven Kwan lead the sleeper hitters.Subscribe to our YouTube channel: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up for the newsletter at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters

Week 22 sleepers and two star pitchers. Up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. Welcome into FBT Express on Saturday, August 15th. I am, for example, joined by Scott White. And first up, we have the schedule for next week. 22 teams with six games, six teams with seven games. That includes the Braves, Orioles, White Sox, Royals, A's, and Rays. And two teams have eight games, the Reds and the Cardinals.

I meant to write down the Reds, Rocky schedule and I did not do that. Scott, do you know the Rocky schedule? They're at home. All six? All six. Let's go. Zach Veen, let's go. Well,

unfortunately, this works against Zach Veen and T.J. Rumfield and Mickey Moniac. Four of the six are against lefties. But, but there are some Rockies hitters we can enjoy this week. We'll get into that in

just a little bit. All right. Start or sit fringe two-star pitchers. And I guess here we are. Frammer Valdez, he's at the Pirates and at the Royals. I mean, good matchups, but he's been bad. He's been bad, but he's been usable. And those matchups are good enough that,

yeah, I think in both cases you're going to roll with him. What about Brandon Young? He gets a two-star week, both against the race. One at Tampa, one at home. Yeah, I lean yes on that one as well. And the matchups are, you know, they could be better, but Young has been very reliable. Two starts ago he wasn't very good, but then he bounced back nicely. I don't totally buy what he's doing, but it's been good enough for long enough that I think with the two-star week, you're probably just going to use them.

What about Andrew Abbott, who is home against the Cardinals and at the debacks? That's probably just a points league play. He's can be, he's been pretty shaky with those. ratios, but tends to throw enough innings that in a points league you want to take advantage of that volume. Shane Boz gets the Yankees

and the raise. I think he's a little better than a points league play, but he's right at that cutoff. He's directly ahead of Andrew Abbott and my two-star pitcher rankings for this week. The whiffs have really got away for Foster Griffin. He gets the Giants, but he's also in

Coorsfield. Yeah, because it's two-star week, because he's RP eligible. Probably got to stick with him in a points league, but I definitely won it in a categories league. Martine Perez at the

Minnesota Twins at the Brewers. Yeah, he's been surprisingly good of late. I don't think it's the sort of thing you want to put too much stock into, but in a points league you could double up

on Martin Perez this week. Will Warren is at the Orioles and home against the Blue Jays. Good enough matchups that I think I could stream them in a points league. but I don't think it's huge upside. Last name on the list is Bryce Miller,

who has slowed down a lot. He is at the Brewers and home against the Cubs. Yeah, I debated putting him in the no-thanks tier of the two-star pitcher rankings here. He's directly above it. I think you could justify using Bryce Miller in a points league, but it's obviously risky. Who are some two-star pitchers

that you were looking to add and stream this upcoming week? I am looking to add and stream Kyle Leahy most of all. He goes against the Reds and the Phillies, which are favorable matchups. The venues could be better, but the thing is, Kyle Leahy has turned into a ground ball pitcher. I think that's been one of the keys to his success lately.

In fact, his last 10 starts, 186, CRA, 103-WIP, 8.9K per 9, and the ground ball rate has been 50% during that time. Great control. Yeah, I love Kyle Leahy with two starts this week. I also like his teammate, Andrew, sorry, Andre Palante. Whenever I type in Andre Palante's name, my finger just reflexively goes for that W.

But no, it's Andre Palante at Cincinnati, at Philadelphia, the same two matchups there. And he's been a quality start machine, another good ground ball pitcher. Tyler Malley has gotten a lot of wiffs his last three starts the most recent two being with the Braves

the matchups are kind of tough at the twins at the Brewers but I think you know if you're looking for a sleeper he's trending up obviously and Luis Castillo who dominated in his latest start his second for the

white socks brought back the change up, kind of his old pitch mix from his Cincinnati days, and it was really effective. It's a sample of one, him doing that, and so it's a little scary having to rely on him immediately after, but the two-star week happens when it happens, first of those matchups at the Cubs,

the second against the Mets. All right, let's take a quick break, and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back at BT Express. We are previewing week 22, And we move over to the one-star streamers on the pitcher side. Who we got? Ian Seymour's right at the 80% threshold.

So probably this is the last week I can get away with mentioning him here. But the matchup is so good against the Blue Jays that I want to stress. He is at the top of the sleeper pitcher list. Probably just probably start Ian Seymour regardless of matchups. But another really good one this week. Dustin May, the best matchup of all. He's going against the Mariners. and his first two starts with the brewers have looked great.

It's changed his pitch mix with his new team like so many pitchers have, a lot more cutters now. J.T. Ginn gets the Royals. He's a very bankable pitcher. Good ground ball skills, and that's a favorable matchup, of course. Shane Drohan gets the Mariners. Coming off a couple rough outings, but I expected to bounce back with that matchup.

And Landon Rup gets the Guardians. Same thing for him, shaky lately, but good enough matchup. I think the skill set's good enough for Roop to bounce back. Now, finally, Gage Jump against the Royals. Risky, because he dominated last time out. I don't even know what he started again. Maybe he's starting again this weekend. But, you know, he had a dominant start most recently,

and a lot of bad ones before then. I think the skill set is good, but I think he's still figuring out how to be consistent with it. Like the matchup, though, for Gage jump. Over to the hitters and the best matchup. for this upcoming week, we have the Guardians, Reds, Reds, Red Sox, Rockies, and Dodgers. The worst hitter matchups, Blue Jays, Giants, Orioles, Pirates, and Mariners. Scott, who are your favorite sleeper hitters for Week 22? All right, so those Rockies hitters who can take advantage of these six games at Corres Field,

even with four lefties on the schedule. Cole Carrig is number one. And he's been great. He probably shouldn't qualify for this list anymore, especially good at home. Got to start Cole Carrig. Willie Castro has been very. very hot lately. And you could start him anywhere

but catcher basically, like most Rocky sitters, much better at home. So those are the two to capitalize on the full week of home games. Stephen Kwan has been a different player in the second half. Well, he's been more like Stephen Kwan, frankly. Getting those numbers back up, batting average

especially, and with the Guardians having the best titter matchups, I think he's pretty much a must, Stephen and three outfielder leagues. Going a little further down the list here is his teammate Anhelle Martinez, who is eligible at second base and the outfield, recently returned from the IL, and so far in August is batting 394 with a homer and five doubles.

So hopefully he can take advantage of those favorable matchups, which include a series at Corse Field for the Guardians. Zach Gelloff recently to return from the IL himself has been productive all season, including with this return. He's multi-eligible, power speed. The athletics are on the road for all seven of those games. So that detracts from maybe you wanting to use that Gelliff,

but the matchups are really good. Chandler Simpson has been on fire for a couple months now, multi-hit games on top of multi-hit games ton of steals of course and the race have a seven-game week Josh Bell has been on fire that's the main reason to use him

only 39% roster so highly available and it's having a good season overall but especially lately Nolan Aeronado has been hot much better power than we had expected coming in and let me double check here for Nolan Aeronado

if the splits are in his favorite pretty even lefties and righties. There are five lefties on the schedule. So that's an interesting quirk there. But either way, I think Aeronado's worth streaming at third base. Now, all the lefties should be a nice boost to Ryan Waldschmidt. Again, five lefties in six games. And Ryan Walshmidt against lefties is batting 326 with an 827 OPS.

Got to get him active, certainly five outfielder leagues. Abamelik Ortiz, the Nationals' new first baseman. They called him up after trading Luis Garcia. Like Garcia, he only plays against Ritey's and should only play against Ritey's. But that's all the Nationals are scheduled to face. Abamelik Ortiz has a ton of power. He showed it already in a short time in the majors. I think it's a good time to try him out.

And I think I hit all of them. I think that's all 10. All right. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full-lane podcast, Fantasy Baseball today on Spotify. Apple Podcasts or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball Today Express. And we'll be back again next week.

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