Fantasy Baseball Today - What's Wrong With Austin Riley? Struggling HItters & Sell-High Pitchers (6/11 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

Chris Paddack had a great start on Monday (2:39). ... Ha-seong Kim has been an unsung hero in Fantasy (5:39). ... News (11:25): Juan Soto returned to the Yankees lineup. ... Sell-high on Carlos Rodon, Seth Lugo and Jose Berrios (18:05)? ... Let's take a closer look at struggling hitters, starting with Austin Riley (24:01). ... Adolis Garcia has really slowed down since May (29:00). ... Why isn't CJ Abrams running (31:54)? ... Buy-low on Dansby Swanson and/or Yandy Diaz (34:27)? ... Any interest in Colin Rea or Spencer Arrighetti (40:37)? ... What's the read on Ryan Pepiot (47:30)? ... We wrap up with leftovers, bullpen updates, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (50:42). 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, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday Sign up for the FBT Newsletter at https://www.cbssports.com/newsletters/fantasy-baseball-today/ For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ 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 lead. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. No, you shouldn't drop Austin Riley, but he's been really bad, and we're finally going to talk about it. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, June 11th. I am Frank Sample, joined by Scott White. Today on the show, we have five struggling hitters that we have not talked much about.

Three pitchers that continue to look like sell highs. I don't know if you can actually sell high on him, but we'll talk about him. What to make of Ryan Pepio this season and much more. Let's jump in. Oh my goodness gracious. Oh my, Scott. You are up. Player of the Night.

Well, light slate, only seven games. So not a lot of choices here, but I will highlight somebody who I feel. as a sleeper pitcher for this week. Chris Paddock made his first of two starts with favorable matchups, this one against the Rockies in Minnesota. And it went very well. He allowed no runs in six in a third inning, strike out six, walked none, had 13 swinging strikes on 93 pitches.

The curveball especially played well in this one, threw it twice as often as usual, which, you know, probably because it was working, so well. That's why Paddock decided to emphasize the curveball. But it's nice to know that he has another potential weapon there. What stood out most, though,

is that the fastball and the curveball itself were both up nearly two miles per hour. As velocity was up across the board, but especially on those two pitches. And so you could understand why Chris Paddock was so effective. I don't know if he can carry that over into his next start, a increase in velocity that big,

but there's something to work with here if for some reason you wanted to speculate on another pitcher, probably don't have to. Yeah, Chris Paddock is a bit of a tough one because I think he's talented enough, he's capable of having starts like this. He also is prone to having these big blow-up starts this season.

He'd given up 11 earned runs total over his previous two starts. And I just don't know about the pitch mix. It's like none of his pitches have a whiff rate over 29% entering this start. He used to rely heavily on that change up. He's starting to mix in some of these breaking pitches. So the good starts, like they come around. He doesn't walk many.

I think he could be usable in the right spots like this week, for example. Yeah, matchups play. But yeah, it's just like, if you're using him like that, I think it's fine. But I don't know that there's much more than that with Chris Paddock. Is that fair? I mean, it's hard to rank him inside my top 100 rest of season. just given the surplus at starting pitcher. It's not like you have to, you know, this is part of the reason why I was so,

I don't know what the right word is. I was just unimpressed, I guess, by the pitcher call-ups that we talked about yesterday. Hurston Waldrop and Drew Thorpe, who both have prospect pedigree and success in the miners. But, you know, it's, you got to, you got to be really good, really consistently to crack even the top 100. the starting pitch of rankings right now. And that's a lot to ask. You know, obviously, Hurston Waldrop couldn't do it in his debut.

Maybe he'll never have a bad start again. But, you know, it's a tough, it's a tough hurdle to clear. Yeah, the bar is just set so high right now for starting pitching. And I haven't looked into the overall league context yet for the month of June. I think I'm going to do that over the next couple days. And maybe on Thursday, if we have a shorter slate,

we could talk about it. But it feels like, offense has been up in June, but we'll talk about that a little bit later on in the week. Oh my goodness gracious for me is going to be Hassan Kim, who quietly has been really good this season, and he's another hitter that we just really haven't talked about. There hasn't really been much reason to. It's just, all right, he's going out, he's doing what was expected of him. But there's not many hitters who are actually doing what was expected of them entering into the season.

So he went one for one with two walks, two RBI, and his 14th steel here on Monday. The batting average is only 223, but that comes with a three-th, 35 on base percentage, nine homers, 35 runs, 34 RBI, and 14 steals. So, Hassan Kim, he's doing things. He entered this game as the 59th overall player in Roto. If you haven't been ahead to had points league, nearly as many walks as strikeouts this season, 39 walks to 44 strikeouts.

And we were all pretty skeptical that I think the power would translate again this season because Hassan Kim is not somebody who impacts the ball very hard at all. But it's worth pointing out he does have a career high 5.8% barrel rate. Not that's a good number, but it's good for him because it's a career high. Anything to add, Scott, Hassan Kim, a name we haven't talked about, but feels like one of the unsung heroes in fantasy right now. Yeah, he has, for somebody who had a lot of bust speculation coming into the year, he has not been a bust.

Now, he's not hit for a particularly good batting average, but the league wide batting average is so low. Bappet is down so much that it's hard to hold that against him. He's certainly been productive in terms of power and speed and a must-start player. So no dissatisfaction with Hassan Kim to this point. By the way, while you were talking about that, I actually did pull up the numbers for June here. and the two I use, the two I cite most often are home run to fly ball rate,

how often are fly balls turning into home runs, and Bappip, how often are batted balls turning into hits. And both are up in June, they kind of are always up in June relative to April and May. They're still low considering it's June. for instance, June of 2022, which was the year where we were all freaking out about offense being down, the home run to fly ball rate was 12.3% in June of 2022. Again, a bad year, quote unquote, bad year for offense.

It's 11.2% so far this June, so more than a percentage point down just from June to June. And that's significant. It's early in June. there's still two-thirds of the month to go, and maybe it'll go up from there. Presumably it'll go up from there, but it's not like we're seeing drastic improvement so far this month.

All right, that's good to know. It feels like we've talked more about pitcher regression and pitchers taking stepbacks recently, so I don't know, maybe it's just kind of felt that way, but hopefully it continues to plan. It is up. It's just not like it hasn't normalized, I guess,

would be the way to put it. Last point on Hassan Kim, the only thing that I would ask for, more from him in fantasy is for him to move up the lineup. The problem is he's consistently betting seventh or eighth in the Padres lineup and it's not like they have

the greatest lineup. Like the top half of it is okay. Obviously Fernando Tatis has come around and Luis Arise has hit well since being traded there but it feels like Hassan Kim could pretty easily move up in the Padres lineup. So I would like for that to happen. The fact that he's been this good and it still

hasn't happened tells me it's probably not going to happen but But yeah, that's probably the only other thing that could raise Hassan Kim's value at this point. Quick reminder to sign up for the FBT newsletter. If you haven't already, if you're watching on YouTube, you can scan the QR code that will take you right to the website. You click on the FBT logo, you're punching your email address, and it's easy as that. You'll get a newsletter delivered right to your email inbox every Monday through Friday. Let's take our first break.

And when we return, we'll talk about the news and notes. We'll do that right after this. Welcome back in the news and notes. Juan Soto returned to the Yankees lineup as the D.H. He finished one for three with a walk and a run scored. And yeah, it sounds like Aaron Boone wanted to ease Juan Soto back into the lineup. But until we see him playing the outfield again, making throws consistently, and there's no bad reactions, I'm not so sure that we're in the clear yet.

But this is obviously a step in the right direction for Wonsoto. Kyle Tucker is, go ahead. Anything? On Soto? We talked last week about how maybe Juan Soto is the best player in fantasy. Like if we're drafting today, maybe Juan Soto would go number one overall. I don't know that you, who did you say? Did you agree with that one Soto or were you on somebody else?

I moved him up to number one in my outfield rankings. And I think in Roto I would take Bobby Witt, but in head to head points I would take Wandsoto first overall. Yeah. Okay. I think it might be Aaron Judge now. He's so good. It might be Aaron Judge now. He obviously had a huge weekend.

And if this year is what we're just talking about, if it is as oppressive to offense and as oppressive to power as 2022 was, and in fact, even more than 2020 was, well, in 2022, Aaron Judge hit 16 more home runs than any other player. It was a huge gap between number one and number two. he had 62 home runs. And a year where nobody could hit home runs, he had 62, the most in American League history. And so if this year is going to play out similarly even more so like that, then you're going to see that outlier exit velocity, those outlier exit velocities of his, you're going to see it be more substantial in terms of the impact it has on a stat line like we saw in 2022.

So, you know, there's always the question of health with Aaron Judge. there's just a question of health with anybody. Juan Soto a model of health, and we're worried about his health now. Right. I don't know. I think it might be Aaron Judge, I think. Especially with this sliver of doubt with Soto, too, right?

Yeah. That obviously factors into it. I mean, Aaron Judge was far and away the best player in fantasy in 2022. His hands. Go ahead. I'm getting the feeling this is going to, this year is going to play out similarly for so many reasons. Aaron Judge's pace numbers entering Monday.

He didn't play on Monday. He had played 67 straight games, so Aaron Boone wanted to give him a day off. The pace numbers, 58 homers, 125 runs, 144 RBI, 12 steals, and batting over 300 right now is Aaron Judge. Kyle Tucker is no longer using crutches and remains hopeful for a Friday return. He's yet to be cleared for baseball activities. He's on the IL with a right shin injury. I hadn't read that he was on crutches until today, so that seems like the likelihood of him being activated on Friday. is not very likely to happen,

but what do I know? You don't know much, Frank. I've been wrong about many injuries before. You just spend this whole show reading. Is that true? Red Sox manager, Alex Cora, suggested Sunday that Raphael Devers should be back in the lineup on Tuesday at Devers missed Sunday's game with left knee sorenas.

You know, I don't want to read the rest of the news now because he called me out for just reading things. I mean, to be fair, you're reading your own notes. Should I not read them? Should I just like... No, go ahead. All right, I guess I'll keep going. Manny Machado returned to the Padres lineup on Monday.

He finished two for four. I saw that he was pulled for a pinch runner, but they were up pretty big in that game, so I think they were just playing it safe. Jordan Romano resumed a throwing program on Monday. He's on the aisle with right elbow inflammation. Andres Munoz is still dealing with his sore back and could be day-to-day for the foreseeable future.

That means Ryan Stanick is the next up for saves in the Mariners' bullpen. And if you have Andres Munoz, I would go out and get Ryan Stannick as like a handcuff because it doesn't sound good for Munoz right now. Blake's Nell is scheduled to throw off the mound later this week. He's on the aisle with a mild left groin train. Jack Flaherty is expected to make his next start this weekend against the Astros.

He left his last outing with back tightness. Gavin Williams made his second rehab start on Sunday. He allowed two runs over three innings, striking out three. He's 62% rostered. Who would you rather stash between Gavin Williams and Clayton Kirshall? I think Kirshall. There's little reason to doubt how good Kirshall is going to be when he comes back. And it sounds like he may be only a month away.

So I was making a point to add Kirchel in any league where he was still available this weekend. All right. Kate Povich will make another start on Wednesday against the Braves. And I didn't ask this yesterday, but where does Povich rank among the recent pitcher promotions, pitcher prospect promotions with Drew Thorpe and Hurston Waldrop? Yeah, at the bottom, at the bottom. And for what it's worth, I think I'd still have Christian Scott ahead of all of them. Christian Scott, who is currently in the minor leagues, but I doubt is going to stay there for long.

we actually, because I don't think he's going to stay there for long, we've actually seen him have some success in the majors. And I think the strikeout upside is very high. So that just kind of puts it in perspective further. Anthony Rizzo has now sat out two games in a row due to performance. And according to the athletics, Ken Rosenthal, the Yankees are not ready to give up on Rizzo just yet. Alias Diaz left Monday's game due to a left calf injury.

Matt Chapman has missed two straight due to a. hamstring cramp, but the Giants are optimistic. He will be back in the lineup on Tuesday. Tommy Pham began a rehab assignment in the Arizona Complex League on Monday. Dback shortstop prospect, Jordan Lawler, will be reinstated to AAA on Tuesday. He missed the entire season to this point with a torn ligament in his right thumb. And would not surprise me if Lawler makes an impact in fantasy at some point later this season. So just a name to put on the radar, throw him on the scout team for now.

Brett Beatty might see action at second base at AAA, and it looks like the Mets are trying to find any reason not to play Jeff McNeil. Rightfully so, he's been really bad. Ben Lively returned to Cleveland on Monday to undergo further medical exams for an undisclosed injury, and D.L. Hall is headed to AAA to resume his rehab assignment. He experienced a setback with his sprained left knee back in late May. Three pitchers who continue to look like sell high options, but I'm just not sure how much you can get for them.

So we've talked a lot about Carlos Rodon recently and had the same conversation with his last start. Seven innings, one run, three strikeouts, had 14 whiffs on 103 pitches. And, you know, he gave up six earned runs back on May 2nd. In seven starts since then, Rodon has a 228 ERA, a 0.85 whip, 38 strikeouts over 43 and a third innings.

During that stretch, his swinging strike rate is 15% and he had 14 swinging strikes in this start. It kind of feels like he should be getting more strikeouts than he actually is right now. But for whatever reason, the FIP, X-FIP, expected ERA,

they're not buying it. So I think other people see those things. Look, I'm not sure every single fantasy player's in tune with like FIP and X-FIP and X-E-R-A. But my read on the situation, Scott, is yes, you can try to sell high on Rodon, but I just don't know how realistic it is.

Yeah, I don't know that I'm that motivated to do it anyway. You know, he's looked so much better since April and is beginning to incorporate these other pitches. This was the second straight start where he threw his curveball and change up a combined 25% at the time. And obviously, the results were good. And his previous start, they got a fair amount of widths, those two pitches. So I just, I feel like he's trending up so hard that.

I'm not that concerned about Carlos Rodan just collapsing. Now, as I've said many times before, if I have an opportunity to trade for a hitter who I feel like is going to be a fixture, a real improvement for my lineup, I'm not going to be that particular about giving up any pitcher unless it's a surefire ace, and I wouldn't consider Carlos Rodan that.

But he's part of a very large, glob, dare I say, of just really good, trustworthy pitchers who I'm happy to have on my team. Maybe we need a word that's like a more positive connotation than Glob for that collection of pitchers. Flubber? Great movie.

I don't know. Two other pitchers that are on this list that could be sell high. Seth Lugo has allowed four plus earn runs. and back-to-back starts, I don't think that you've just missed your cell high window, but perhaps some regression starting to hit for Lugo.

He allowed four earned runs over seven innings. He only had four strikeouts up against the Yankees, and Jose Berrios finished one out short of a quality start. He was at the Brewers. Five and two-thirds,

three runs allowed, four strikeouts, two homers allowed in this outing. One thing I will point out with Berrios, much like Rodon, the underlying number is not buying it. Burrios allowed eight earned runs on May 7th,

Outside of that one start, he has allowed three earned runs or less in all of his other 13 starts, two earned runs or less in 11 of those. So he's still been really, really reliable. What do you think about trying to sell high on Lugo and Jose Brioz? I am a little more open to it with them, especially Lugo, who, yes, I feel like we're beginning to see that happen with him. Burrios has been so consistent, like on a year-to-year basis, not as good as this. I mean, this year, this was only his third start allowing more than two earned runs. And two of those three starts where he allowed more than two earned runs was exactly three earned runs.

So he's been incredible this year in terms of run prevention. But in a way that's not really backed up by the underlying numbers. So you expect a certain amount of regression there. We just know that the floor for Bereas is still pretty high. When it's harder to say that for Lugo, who spent most of his career in the bullpen and hasn't shown the ability to take on the sort of workload, Barrios does year after year. So either one, I'd be willing to call a sell high, but Lugo especially.

All right, with the cell high conversation out of the way. If I could interject with this real quick on the subject of Carlos Rodon's swinging strike rate looking good, but the strikeout rates not so much. I feel like that's true for a lot of pitchers right now. And this is the lowest strikeout rate for any season since 2018. Now, we're talking half a percentage point improvement from last year, which doesn't sound like much. it's probably more than I'm giving a credit for by saying it doesn't sound like much. I don't know. I think that's noteworthy because for so many years it was strike rate up every year.

And we've seen that kind of trending the opposite direction. And now we're looking at a six-year low here for strikeout rate. Yeah, this doesn't necessarily fit with the Rodan conversation, at least the way that I'm looking at it. Because Rodon is still getting swinging strikes. just feels like he's been a little bit unlucky, but there have been a lot of pitchers that looks like they've actively traded trying to get strikeouts for putting balls in play. And maybe that's when there's less success on balls and play, you can't really blame them. Yeah, it feels like it might be by design. Like one name we'll talk about later, Corbyn Burns. He has traded, traded

strikeouts for ground balls this season. And he's still been really, really good. But he also is averaging less than a strikeout per inning. So, you know, there's given take there. The ratios are still awesome for Corbyn Burns, but you're not getting elite level strikeouts like you thought you were entering the season. Five hitters that are struggling that we have not talked much about. And first up from your Atlanta Brave Scotty. Austin Riley, getting lots of questions, emails, tweets, do I drop Austin Riley? Why is he ranked tough five in your third base rankings? Well, the track record, I mean, if you look at what he's done, the past three years, I think it's, you know, 30 plus home runs. The counting stats are there. It's a good batting average. This season,

that has not been the case, batting 2.30, 3 homers, 648 OPS, plate discipline still looks fine. It's really the power has just plummeted. It's gone for Austin Riley right now. The slug is down to 347. His ISO is 117. His home run to fly ball ratio has dropped from 19% last year to 5% this year. And he's still hitting the ball really hard. Scott, what are you seeing with Austin Riley? And is he someone you would try to buy low on right now? Absolutely. I try to buy low on him. I'm actually writing an article that'll be up Tuesday that's basically, will these 15 hitters get back to normal? Because there are so many high-end hitters who even now 40% of the season are performing well below expectations.

And I suspect a lot of it has to do with the oppressive hitter environment. that's certainly exacerbating the issue, but there are other issues to get into for these 15. I will say Austin Riley. So I kind of do like a scale of one to four, how concerned I am, one being lowest concern for and being high as concern. And I gave Riley a one.

He's one of the least concerning to me because you dig into the numbers, normal K rate, normal walk rate, normal hard hit rate, normal launch angle, exit velocity, just a shade low. But mostly it's that the barrel rate is low. He's not barreling up balls at his usual rate. And that's true for a lot of the Braves lineup.

But that seems to me like a timing thing. And like how do they not have their timing down 40% into the season? I don't know. I don't know what's going on with them. If they need to change their batting practice habits or what's happening there. but I do feel confident that nothing skill-wise has changed for Austin Riley and that it would take just a small, a small little timing adjustment for him to go off.

And, you know, if the environment wasn't as bad for hitters as it is, we may not have even really noticed because enough of his hard hit flyballs would have sailed over the fence that the numbers don't look so bad. but if you're comparing his exit velocity readings, all the numbers I laid out to just hitters at large around the league, like he should have better numbers than he does, and I think it's mostly because of that barrel rate. I was going to ask,

do you think it could be related to Ronald Acuna being hurt, but Ronald Acuna himself was not what we expected. He, you know, was underperforming, and a lot of the Braves hitters were underperforming, even when Ronald Acuna was in the lineup. So I don't really think. Four of the 15 hitters are Braves in that article I'm writing. Who would have thunk it, right?

On June 11th, Marcel O'Zuna, the most valuable hitter in the Atlanta Braves lineup. Crazy stuff. Would you give up any of these pitchers for Austin Riley, one for one? Let's just say you have a pitching surplus. Would you give up Shota I Managa for Austin Riley? If I have a pitcher surplus? Yeah. I mean, I'd try not to, but if push came to shove.

Yeah. What about Paul Skeins? Yeah. Ranger Suarez? Mm-hmm. Anybody is not a surefire ace. Okay. So I assume you're going to say yes to Garret Crochet and Louise Heel.

Yeah. You know, if you're putting it in terms of if you have a pitching surplus. So I'm sure I don't have a hitting surplus. Now, maybe I have a great option at third base and don't really need Austin Riley. Obviously, I could. stick him to utility or corner infielder, and I still think he's going to be plenty worthwhile at either of those spots. So I'm not saying you've got to trade one of those pitchers away

if he's the only thing keeping you afloat in the pitching categories. But if he's not, if you have a pitcher surplus, which you're more likely to have than a header surplus right now, then of course I would trade any of them for Austin Riley. Yeah. And that's exactly why I chose those five names, because they are from the start of the season until now, I would say some of the biggest pitcher risers

in fantasy with Imanaga skein, Suarez, Crochet, Luis Heel. So they might have been names that you got really late or you picked up and as a result you might have surplus and so if you could turn any of them into Austin Riley, it's something that you could look to try to try and do. Adolos Garcia. He had an awesome April

batting 292, eight home runs, four seals, 932 OPS and then has just fallen off the face of the earth. Since May 1st, 155 batting average, 506 OPS, The quality of contact is, you know, the average XVlocity is down during that span, but he still has a 14% barrel rate.

So I don't know exactly what's going on there. I think he's trying a little bit too hard to raise the launch angle, to hit for power, to hit the ball in the air, because the fly ball rate is up. The infield fly ball rate has been a problem for Adelis Garcia. What have you seen? Are you actually worried about this, you know, almost month and a half stretch right now, or you think it's more likely that Garcia gets back on track? Well, when I was digging into

to Odolius Garcia's numbers, I wasn't so much breaking it down month by month. I will say he did have, okay, so I'm looking at it now, he did have a stretch in the middle of February, a six-game stretch where he homered four times. So it hasn't been... In February?

I'm sorry, in May. I was thinking second month, May being the second month of the season. Yeah. In the middle of May, he had a six-game stretch where he had, he homered four times. Just looking at the full season for Adolice Garcia,

everything looks about on track, pretty much right on track except for the batting average, which is hovering around 215, 220, rather than 235, 240. But even 40% of the way through the season, I don't see a misalignment of 20 to 30 points in batting average as a major. issue.

As long as everything else looks normal and the power production looks normal for Adolice Garcia. Everything basically looks normal. You could say, okay, the batting average is down because too many infield fly balls, as you pointed out, that rate is high for him. But that's kind of more an explanation than a prognosis, you know? Yeah, he's had a little more trouble getting hits lately. but I feel like any player, even over a full season, is susceptible to hitting within 30 points of his usual batting average. And so the fact that there's a period mid-season,

not even a full-season sample where a player is doing that, I don't know. I just don't find that that concerning. I think Adolice Garcia would be thankful that he's delivered on power when so many early-round hitters haven't. So if somebody in your league was just freaking out because he's been bad for whatever the past five or six weeks, you would try to capitalize on Adelis Garcia.

Yeah, sure. I see him as the top 15 outfielder. Yeah. Cool. What about CJ Abrams? It's a very similar case to Garcia because he had an awesome April. He hit 295.

He had seven homers, seven steals, a 992 OPS. Since May 1st, Abrams is batting 206, just two walks to 35. strikeouts of 549 OPS. And what surprised me, he only has 10 steals total. So only three steals since May 1st. Obviously, you have to get on base to steal bases. But the nationals are, they lead all of baseball in steals.

And C.J. Abrams only has 10. So it just kind of caught me off guard. The expected stats still look really good for Abrams. 287XBA, 462XLug. He strikes me as someone who might just run really hot and cold. We saw that last year as well. And I think right now is one of those really cold spells. And yeah, I would try and take advantage if you can on CJ Abrams.

Yeah, I'm trying to decide if I'm disappointed in the way CJ Abrams season is gone or not. Because based on his recent slump, his slash line isn't that different than last year. But he's running a lot less. And over the final three months last year, C.J. Abrams stole 38 bases. So we were thinking, okay, next year, maybe he won't steal 75, but 60. I think you can pretty safely pencil him in for 60 after he stole 38 in the final three months. And now he's not even pacing for 30. So that is a disappointment.

That's the main thing you drafted him for. While the slash line looks like it does now. But you point out, the expected stats look really good for C.J. Abrams. He's still putting fewer balls on the ground. he's still pulling the ball in the air more. He's still showing indicators of growth as a hitter here that early in the year was reflected in the numbers now, not so much, but those underlying indicators are still there.

So maybe it's a bad time to make those kind of improvements with the ball not carrying as well. I don't know. I can't say with confidence that CJ Abrams actual stats are going to catch. up to the expected stats as opposed to the other way around. But I'm saying if C.J. Abrams lives up to our draft expectations, it's more because, or I guess to his draft cost, it's more because he improved as a hitter than because he

delivered on the steel total. I don't know what's happened to the steals, but they haven't been there. Two other hitters that I have on this list, and they're not in the same category as the names we talked about it. I think these might be names you more so go after. in a deeper league where you just really need to value playing time. Dansby Swanson and Yandy Diaz. So Swanson is batting 226 with six homers, four steals, a 674 OPS, strikeout rate is elevated. Ground ball rate is a career high, 51.5%.

And with Yandy Diaz, a lot of the same problems. The ground balls, just way too many, near 57% ground ball rate. That's up from last year. And the pull rate is way down for Yandy Diaz. So for someone who doesn't lift the ball all that much, I mean, he really needs to pull the ball a little bit more. And we're not seeing that right now from Yandy Diaz. Do you consider either of these two by-low candidates?

If so, I think it's more for a deeper league. What do you think? Yeah. Yeah, I think in shallower leagues, they're closer to being dropped. In fact, I've seen Dansby Swanson dropped in a couple of leagues, the podcast for the People League, which has head-to-head smaller lineup, but 16 teams. somebody dropped Danesby Swanson.

I picked him up because I know, he is such a consistent track record that I'm still willing to gamble on him meeting it, but I wouldn't say there are no concerns here with

Swanson. The strikeout rate and ground ball rate are both career highs, the ground ball rate especially so. And even more concerning, the batting average on four seam fastball specifically is only 179. He's really struggling on that pitch,

which as I pointed out for Paul Goldschmidt, could mean the bat slowing down. Now, Swanson's making a lot more contact on four seamers than Goldschmidt is. So I don't want to overstate it. He's 30. He's not 36 or whatever Goldschmidt is. But it does raise the question. If you're hitting that poorly on fastballs,

is that a sign that you've lost skill? Has your skill level diminished here as a hitter? So I'm a little concerned about Swanson. Yanty Diaz, I think he's still basically Yanty Diaz. He's doing some things wrong. But so specifically what Yanty Diaz is doing wrong is, I noticed, Okay, exit velocities. A lot of the stuff looks the same.

Strikeout rate. Walk rate is way down. And so I looked into, okay, is he chasing pitches? And yes, he is. His swing rate on pitches out of the zone is higher, which would explain why he's hitting more ground balls. So it seems like, I don't know, if he's pressing, or if he's just not making the right decisions,

swing decisions. clearly he's not making the right swing decisions. But that's something that can improve. And if it does, I think the other, the fact that Yanti Diaz is still hitting the ball as hard as normal. I think it's going to lead to better outcomes. Will it lead to outcomes as good as last season? Probably not, but that was always unlikely for Yon DiDiaz.

Because last year, the 330 batting average career high, the 22 home runs, career high by a lot. And specifically, if we're saying it's harder to hit home runs this year than last year, then I don't know that we should count on much more than a dozen home runs from Yon D Diaz. If he hits like normal, he'll be a points league standout because the plate discipline is so good. And probably since offense is so hard to come by, he'll still be a deserving starter at corner infield in Roto leagues. But in shallower category leagues that don't have those extra lineup spots,

Yanty Diaz might be, he might be pretty Frenchy. All right, let's hit our final break. And when we return, we'll get back into Monday's action. We'll do that right after this. Welcome back in some waiver wire pitchers from Monday's action. We already spoke about Chris Paddock. The other two names, don't think there's going to be much of a priority on either one. But Colin Ray turned in a very strong start against the Blue Jays.

Seven innings, one run, four strikeouts there. His first quality starts since May 13th. and Spencer Araggetti turned in a solid start at the Giants, five and two thirds, one run, six strikeouts, 11 whiffs on 99 pitches. I keep thinking there's a pitcher here with Aragutti. He has good secondaries, he throws hard, control has just been a massive problem.

Three walks in seven of 11 starts for Aragutti. So if he can learn to throw more strikes, I think down the line there could be something there, but I think with either one, like I said, Not much of a priority. What do you think about Colin Ray and Spencer Arrogati? Yeah, I would agree. If I'm kind of poo-pooing Drew Thorpe,

then I've got to do the same for these guys. It's, I'm not saying they'll never appear on my sleeper pitchers for the upcoming week. They may be streamable with good enough matchups. I think Colin Ray already has at some point this year. But Colin Ray, his ERA estimators are all 450 or higher, even though he has a respectable ERA and Eri-Geddy. Yeah, some positive signs there with the whiff rate and the secondaries, but overall, just not quite enough to move the needle in this environment.

Let's talk WaverWire hitters then, and Zach Gelloff kind of coming around. It's like, I wish there was a little bit more, but he's showing some signs. Two-for-four-four with his seventh stolen base and last 10 games for Gell-off. He's betting 250 with two homers, three steals, 55% rostered. Do you think that number needs to be higher, Scott? Because higher than 55%, we might be talking about points leagues at that point. So probably not. I'm not saying there will never come a point where Gelloff is worth rostering in points

leagues, but I think we're still a ways from that. He's got to be legitimately hot before we look into him like that. What about Ryan O'Hern? he slowed down a little bit, but it's picking things back up. Three for four with a double and three RBI. Nine games in June, he's batting 400 with two homers,

two steals, and a 1086 O'Hurne is 55% rostered. Yeah, those numbers are really good. He struck out only like 10% of the time this year. His expected batting averages, 302. His expected slug is 561. He only plays against right, handers, but that's mostly what the Orioles have faced lately. And certainly, they're going to be weeks during the year where that's mostly what they're

lined up to face. So I think O'Hern, if nothing else, he's worth valuing on the level we value Jack Peterson, where if there's enough righties on the schedule, he's pretty much an automatic start in leagues where you have that kind of roster flexibility. Yeah, I think 12-team Roto leagues where you have the corner, you have five outfielders. Ryan O'Hern can fill both of those spots. he's 38% roster on Yahoo. Ryan O'Hern feels like the perfect player for a daily lineup league

where you could just get him in there whenever he's in the lineup against a righty. But those are also shallower formats. So it also makes it tougher because, you know, the bar is set higher for each roster spot that you have. And I'm not sure Ryan O'Hern is going to clear that bar in a 12-team league with, you know, those shallow roster sizes. So daily lineup leagues,

but probably more so, and just like deeper daily lineup leagues, if many of those exist. Speaking of deeper leagues, here's the name that I missed from over the weekend, Scott. Spencer Horowitz of the Blue Jays. He was recalled and has started three straight, all three coming at second base,

and he went two for four with a double on Monday. He's 26 years old. He's always been able to hit for batting average in the minors. It just doesn't really come with anything else. This season in the minors was batting 335, four homers, 22 doubles, a 970 OPS, more walks than strikeouts. Spencer Horowitz only 5% rostered. But another interesting case, kind of like Ryan O'Hern,

where I think it has to be the right league context. Like a deeper points league kind of feels like that's where Spencer Horowitz would benefit the most or be the most useful. Yeah, I mean, I put in some claims for him this weekend in deeper leagues in the 15-team Tau Wars League, which uses OBP instead of batting average. got outbid for him, actually.

I think he's pretty interesting. He was easy to dismiss as a prospect because he was a first baseman who didn't have power, but the Blue Jays have called him up and have been playing him at second base. It's a very kind of mid-2010s approach where you just stick the guy who can't field at second base, but you can cover for it because you have the infield shift.

Well, there isn't the infield shift anymore, but the Blue Jays are willing to try this with Spencer. Horwitz because they value the bat so much. And it's a little reminiscent of Matt Carpenter when he was first breaking in, to be honest, where great plate discipline, great hit tool, potentially a lot of doubles. Now, Matt Carpenter kind of changed his profile as his career went on and he sold out a little more for power and lost batting average because of that. but, you know, at the start of his career,

even as a guy who was limited to like 10 home runs, Matt Carpenter still had a lot of value in fantasy. We're talking a best case scenario for Spencer Horowitz, but that's kind of what the profile reminds me of. Two other names in deeper leagues, both on the White Sox. Any interest here? Corey Jolks, quietly doing some things. One for five with his third home run.

He's betting 282, three homers, three seals, 847 OPS in 20 games. and he has let off six in a row for the White Sox. And Lenin Sosa has hit well since being recalled. Two for four with the RBI and his second steal. Ten games since rejoining the White Sox, 400 batting average, one homer and two steals. Deep league stuff here, Scott.

But any interest? Corey Jolks, Lenin Sosa. Not really. Sosa has been up several times over the years and just hasn't shown much. Maybe he could pull in Elliott Ramos and finally begin to deliver on the potential left. after falling short and repeated chances, it's possible.

But got to see it to believe it from Lenin Sosa. And Corey Jolks, yeah, maybe some speed, but not enough, I think, to really move the needle outside of AL-only leagues. All right, let's get your read on Ryan Pepio because I know Chris and I have struggled to evaluate Pepio this season, and he had a mixed start against the Orioles, six innings, nine hits, four runs, nine strikeouts to zero walks, but he gave up two home runs.

So some up and down here, 16 whiffs on 93 pitches. Obviously, that's great. Eight of those on the fastball, six on the changeup. But he allowed 11 hard hits in this game. It was a very high average exit velocity against. It was nice to see the changeup working here because he's kind of moved away from the change up this season. And as far as I know, coming up through the Dodger system,

like the change up was supposed to be the main pitch for Ryan Pepio. But what's your read, Scott? Because the ERA is a little bit high. I don't know, he's just a tough one for me to figure out this year. Yeah, I think maybe, maybe you can be guilty of overthinking it with Ryan Pepio because we're able to evaluate pitchers on such a granular, granular level now,

oh, look at this individual pitch and the characteristics on it and how many whiffs it gets and whatnot. Well, I mean, he has 10.5K per nine this year. And not many pitchers do. There's only like a dozen pitchers or so with a K-per-9 rate that high. And that's from somebody who doesn't walk many batters, who doesn't give him many hits because he puts the ball in the air a lot. I think Ryan Pepio is giving us what we hoped Bailey Ober would give us.

But he's the one actually doing it. With the big strikeout rate, we were hoping for more strikeouts from Ober. And otherwise, the profile is pretty simple. in terms of what happens on contact. So I'm not saying he's a Cy Young contender, Ryan Pepio, but I think he's a really valuable fantasy pitcher. All right. What about Jackson Chorio?

Kind of showing some signs recently. I just, I'm rooting for the kid. I want it to happen, so I might be grasping at straws here. But one for two with a walk and his seventh home run. Last six games, he has six hits, two homers, four runs, six RBI. And overall, still batting 220. He's got the seven homers, seven seals. His own contact is actually really good.

Nearly 87%. He just chases and whiffs quite a bit. Could this be a sign, Scott? Things could be happening for Jackson Trio. What do you think? It could be a very, very early sign, one that I'm not willing to say. Like, you know, it's such a small sample of success.

Four strikeouts of 300 batting average in June. You know, he still hasn't hit a ball harder than 180. miles per hour this year, so I'm still underwhelmed by the quality of contact. But let's keep an eye on him. Maybe things will continue to improve from here. Yeah, Jackson Trio, down to 78% rostered. I don't think people are wrong,

especially in a points league for dropping Trio, because he's still sitting out here and there. He's striking out quite a bit, so I think that's fine, but if he gets dropped in your league, just, again, throw him on the scout team. Let's see where it goes from here, some early signs in June from Jackson Shrio.

Let's get into some pitching standouts. And the first group, Corbyn Burns, turned in a quality start. He was at the raise, seven innings, two unearned runs, six strikeouts had 13 whiffs on 92 pitches. Dylan Sees, a quality start against the Oakland A's, six innings, one run, eight strikeouts with 15 whiffs on 104 pitches. He was struggling before this, his previous five outings, a 586 ERA,

and a 134 whip for Dylan. and Seas and Logan Gilbert turned in a quality start against the White Sox, six and two thirds, three runs allowed, eight strikeouts to zero walks, 20 swinging strikes on 95 pitches, and last seven starts from Logan Gilbert. This also includes an eight earner run outing, so I'm kind of cherry picking here, but a 489 ERA and a 118 whip for Logan Gilbert. Anything to add on him, Cease, and Corbyn Burns. Sure, to your point earlier about Corbyn Burns and the strikeouts,

he still has just two starts this year with more than a strikeout per inning, which is incredible. There are both 11 strikeout games, as I recall, but still, just not relying on that so much this year. Has it seemed to matter yet? Dylan Cease, even though he's struggled recently, it hasn't been in the normal Dylan Seas way. He hasn't been walking batters.

Three walks in his last four. four starts, like a combined three walks in his last four starts. So I think overall, I'm still pretty encouraged, by the way, C's season is going. Gilbert, Logan Gilbert in this start, through his cutter more than any other pitch, about twice as much as usual. And I noticed the same thing's been happening for George Kirby. The last three starts, I believe it is, not the cutter, but the slider. He's thrown his slider more.

So a couple pitchers who really lean on the fastball suddenly at the same time throwing a secondary pitch as their primary pitch and having success like that. So I just wonder if the Mariners are kind of changing their approach here a little bit. And maybe it's not fair to say Logan Gilbert leans on his fastball, certainly not to the extent Kirby does. He's always had a pretty full arsenal.

But his fastballs normally is most thrown pitch. And in this one, he threw his cutter twice as often instead. So just something to keep an eye on with the Mariners pitchers. Yeah. The problem for Gilbert, when looking into his pitch mix and some of the numbers there, you know, he's got great secondary. He's a slider, the splitter, the curve. They all perform really well.

But anything that he throws as a fastball, either a four seam or a cutter, the cutter was good in this start. But, you know, the overall numbers, the quality of contact, allows on both his fastball and cutter, it's, it's bad. He gives up hard contact. So I don't know if he needs to rely more on his secondaries or try to get those involved, but yeah,

it just. 88 mile per hour average exit velocity on the cutter. But it's a 350, 352 ex-WBas is really high for an individual pitch. Yeah. Yeah, I guess.

The actual results on it have been good, but the expected stats, not so good. Yeah. Yeah. The fastball, I agree. No argument there, 92.2 average exit velocity on that pitch.

And, well, you know what? He's managed to keep the batting average low on that one, too. But, uh, yeah, feels like he's been a little bit lucky on both of those. Maybe. Maybe.

Next group of pitching leftovers, Eric Fetty turned in another strong start. He was at the Mariners. He went seven plus innings, one run, four strikeouts, nine whiffs on 93 pitches, and he also leaned more on his cutter in that start. He threw it 33% of the time.

Pretty good pitch for him. And looking at Fetty, I mean, he doesn't really get whiffs, but all four of his pitches actually do a pretty good job in terms of quality of contact against. He has his limitations on the White Sox. You know, he's just, overall, he's pitched pretty well. And Kyle Harrison, a quality start against the Astros, six and a third, one run, three strikeouts. Lots of the same things. know, only nine whiffs on 77 pitches.

Harrison is a, he's a tough one too, because I thought his secondaries would be better, get more whiffs on the fastball. It's just, it hasn't really been there for Kyle Harrison. He's been like the total antithesis of the pitcher he was in the minors, because he hasn't had a problem with walks in the majors, and that seemed like it would be his downfall,

if anything was. But, you know, he was also a 14K per nine guy in the minors. So yeah, just it's really hard to understand how Kyle Harrison has turned out like he has. But it's not of much interest right now in fantasy. And I'm still not terribly impressed by Eric Fetty. I did have him high in my sleeper pitcher rankings for this week because two starts and the first against the Mariners. And hey, it went well. But the ground ball rate is ticking up a little bit.

It's the ground ball rate is now entering the good territory for Eric Fetty, but it's not like it's some crazy high ground ball rate that would explain his success. I don't, I don't really understand how he's doing it. All right. Let's talk some hitting leftovers. Gunner Henderson continues to mash three for five with his 21st home run, which actually came on the first pitch of that game against Ryan Pepio. And overall, he's been awesome.

He entered Monday as the seventh overall player in Roto, the fifth best hitter in headhead points. That is Gunner Henderson. Royce Lewis homered again, one for four with his fourth home run. He has four home runs in seven total games this season. 107.5 exit velocity, 435 feet for Royce Lewis. Willie Adamas, he had slowed up a little bit recently, but had himself a big game, two for three with a sock and a shoe. His 10th home run, his ninth stolen base.

Jake Cronerworth is coming back around after a bit of a slump. Two for three with his 10th home run, he's homered in two of the past three games. and Cal Raleigh went one for five with a walk-off grand slam. Anything of note on these guys? Did you mention Willie Adamas had been one for 20 in his previous six games? I wrote it down, but I did not mention it. Okay. Yeah, he had.

I don't know that anybody cares. Willie Adamas has actually been a hitter who's performing this year, and so it's kind of just, I feel kind of about hitters exactly how I felt about pitchers last. year where it's just like, I'm just looking for anybody who can do something for me. You know, and if you're if you're actually contributing, I'm not going to nitpick it so much because I just need something from you. So I don't feel like Willie Adomis is any better this year, but he's just producing. So great.

Yeah. He entered Monday as the eighth best shortstop, both in Roto and Head Ted Points Leagues. Again, that is Willie Adamas. Some bullpen updates for the Orioles. Craig Kimball walked one. but struck out two for his 15th save. For the Yankees, Clay Holmes was unavailable. He worked three of the last four games.

And it was Michael Tonkin, who got the ninth. He walked one, but struck out two for his first save. For the Brewers, Trevor McGill gave up a hit, but picked up his tenth save. For the White Sox, Michael Kopeck entered in the eighth with a three-run lead. He gave up a single, a walk, and a single. Then struck out Julio Rodriguez and Cal Rale.

You think, all right, he's going to get out of this thing. And then he gives up back-to-back hits. there goes the lead. Jordan Leisure came on for the ninth with the game tied. He gave up that walkoff grand slam to Cal Raleigh. And for the Astros, Josh Hader pitched the ninth inning with the game tied. Rafael Montero got the 10th with a two-run lead. He gave up three runs.

Only one of those was earned on four hits, he took his third blown save and second loss. Only thing that really stands out for me here, and I don't know that many people have Michael Copac, but even in deeper leagues, I just don't see it. I just don't see much value for, I don't know, almost anybody on the white sucks. Yeah, I mean, because he's not consistently used in save chances. His last was early May. Well, I guess he technically got a blown safe today.

But now Michael Kopeck, he hasn't even been pitching that well. He's up to a 494 ERA and a 154 whip. Yeah. He's so fun to watch. I mean, he's electric. He throws 100 miles per hour, but sometimes he doesn't even know where it's going. And he actually hit Tyler Locklear in like the face with a fastball. It skimmed off of the brim of his cap.

So pretty scary stuff. And it was like 100 miles per hour. So I don't know. I don't know what to do with Michael Kopeck or the White Sox. He probably don't want them for fantasy. To stream or not to stream on Tuesday, we are looking at Mitchell Parker at the Tigers. Tyler McGill against the Marlins.

Yeah. And I think yesterday you said Miles Michaelis against the Pirates. If I have to pick a third. I mean, there's also Albert Suarez. I saw him get added to the schedule, but he's facing the Braves, though. Oh, come on. Nobody on the Braves can hit. Yeah, Albert Swares becomes the clear number three behind Mitchell Parker and Tyler McGill.

By the way, Mitchell Parker ended up being the number one sleeper pitcher for this week. I know we didn't talk about that on Friday show. A lot of rotation adjustments over the weekend. Mitchell Parker wound up with two-star. against the Tigers and the Marlins. So hopefully you checked the update for the article heading into the start of this scoring period because I'd moved Mitchell Parker up to number one.

Maybe the Nationals will insert somebody midweek and he doesn't end up making that second start, but you can only go with what you know at the time. To stream or not to stream on Wednesday, we have Jake Irvin at the Tigers. That one sounds pretty good. Yeah, there's Reese Olson against the next. Nationals coming off a start where he got bombed.

You got Braxton Garrett at the Mets, David Peterson up against the Marlins. Yeah. Who are your favorites for Wednesday? Irvin, Jake Irvin, followed by Rees Olson, even though he got bombed last time. And don't really see a third here. If I have to pick somebody Braxton Garrett at the Mets. Yeah, that one's not so bad. I think either of those just going up against each other, Peterson, I don't think he's a great pitcher,

but the Marlins are really, really bad, so it could work out. Team name Tuesday, and this one is from Jason, and this is a song by Buddy Holly and The Clash. I fought the Lao and the Lao Wang. Yes. Lao Wong. Yes.

I fought the Lao and the Lao Wong. I actually listened to it earlier to get a feel for it, and I completely forgot how it goes now. Yeah, I fought the law and the law one. Yeah, there you go. Classic. From Tom, Bybee Ford, the same. Dale is over.

All right. Why it's not laying forward this ward. Why it's not laying forward this ward. Something's not long for the... Oh, yeah, yeah. Something, why it's not long for this world, I guess. Yeah. Why it's not laying for...

It doesn't work, Tom. You can't cram that many names into a team name. Yep. Well, we tried. From cause. Darno good answers Okay Okay, I can go with that

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That's funny From Mateo, be fruitful and mantiply All right, sure You're not going to have mantiply on a team ever, but... Why not? Please me or tease me. Please me or tease me. That's good.

Is there any wine left? No. We're atavino. Ah. Okay. That's very Chris Berman-like, I feel like. Mm-hmm. And this last one is around the world.

Aranda world. like around the world daft punk I did a terrible job singing that sure and these are all from AJ in New Jersey they are wrestling theme they are right up my alley I don't know how many of these you'll know Scott but we'll say them

anyway have a Bryce day I mean that's just a thing people say that is true you are correct Brian woo woo woo woo you know it alright that's got to be Canely so who is that what is that actually

That's back in the day, whenever, there was like a famous moment when Kane came out, The Undertaker's brother, and they said, that's got to be Kane. You know, my sister and I were talking about this the other day, wrestling. It was clearly like it was a big influential thing for a lot of people my age when they were growing up. But I just never heard about it. They were often enjoying it, but not ever like bringing it. around me. And I, like, it was happening in the background and I was just never aware of it.

And, you know, we both felt that way about wrestling. It's just, it's just strange that in adulthood, we see so many people who were so influenced by it, but we never really saw the stages of it, of them being influenced by it as we were growing up. Does that make sense? Like, it's just kind of this weird phenomenal, oh, you were into wrestling and like so many people were and you just didn't notice it at the time. Yeah, I mean, I think it's harder for me to relate to that just because, like, I was in.

I was all the way in, like, my family was all the way in. So I just had all who were in. I had all the exposure. And, yeah, like, all my friends were into it, too. So, yeah. But there were plenty of things that I knew people were into that I wasn't into. I didn't know that many people were that into wrestling. You see what I mean?

Yeah. I don't know. maybe it's a they were on the d l with it like a yeah maybe people were like ashamed to be wrestling fans like i don't know is it like geographical i don't know it's like a is georgia known for like big wrestling fans i i don't know i it seems to yeah i i don't think it's a geographical thing i just think it was i don't know i maybe i was just oblivious i don't know honestly scott you're probably better off just knowing the way that I turned out, you might be better off.

The New Age Outmans. These are all still wrestling related, by the way. We have basically the same job. You can't see Mejia. John Cena. All right. You will never forget the name Goldschmidt. Sure.

Hello, Beatty. I like the way you're saying, then. You're selling me. Yeah. A lot of them are. Yeah. I'm just, I'm way too into this. Can you dig wit sucker?

Okay, so you get Bobby Witt's name in there, if that wasn't clear, sure. That's pretty good. All you have to do is Bo Leave in Bo Nailer. Okay. Actually, one of my team names one year was all you, why you have to do is Boleave, because I had U. Darvish and Bo Bichette on the same team. How about that? I'm better than you and you know it.

Yeah, with U. Darvish's name. Yeah. And give me a hellsly yeah. All right. No, Scott, you were supposed to give me a hellsly yeah. Oh. Hellsly, yeah. Yeah, let's go.

We're going to wrap there for Scott. 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.