Fantasy Baseball Today - Who's the SP1 in 2023? Torkelson vs. Greene & Grade the Season! (9/20 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: September 20, 2022

Corbin Burnes continues to struggle (1:35). ... Max Scherzer was perfect in his return (7:45). Who is the SP1 heading into 2023? ... Eduardo Escobar or Joey Meneses (13:10)? Jon Berti or Myles Straw if you need steals? ... Spencer Torkelson or Riley Greene in dynasty (26:40)? ... News (33:04): Julio Rodriguez was out again Monday. ... Austin Riley or Pete Alonso next season (40:55)? ... Grade the season for Amed Rosario, Ty France, and Jose Altuve (44:05). ... We wrap with leftovers, streamers and Team Name Tuesday (52:05)! Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Get 20% off Fantasy Baseball Today merch: https://store.cbssports.com/collections/fantasy-baseball-today?utm_source=podcast-apple-com&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=buy-our-merch&utm_content=fantasy-baseball-collection 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/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday You can listen to Fantasy Baseball Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Baseball Today podcast." To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, and Chris. Max Scherzer was awesome. Corbin Burns was not. Again.

Welcome in to Fantasy Baseball today on Tuesday, September 20th. Frank Stanfield joined by Scotty Dubbs, Scott White, today on the show. Who is the SP1 for next season? I feel like nobody has earned that right. No one has taken it and ripped it away. So we'll get Scott. Sandy Alcantra.

Potentially in points leagues. I don't know. We'll talk about it. Yeah, no, it's, it's a good, it's a good question. It's a good, maybe Jacob de Grom again. I know whoever it is. I'm not drafting him in round one. And that may apply even in points leagues.

I think I agree with you, Scott. But we have a lot of time to evaluate all of that. I do have a dynasty question. Which baby tiger would you prefer in dynasty between Spencer Torkelson and Riley Green? And we do have some grade the seasons. I thought you were talking about the actual animal. Baby tigers. Yeah, you know, they're baby tigers.

Famous litter at a zoo or something. Something like that. Anyway, we'll get to all of it. Let's jump in. Oh, my goodness gracious. Oh my goodness gracious, Scott. You are up. Hmm.

Okay, let's talk about Corbyn Burns because he let a bunch of people down again today here in crunch time. Bad start against the Mets, five earn runs and five and two-thirds innings. Strek out only four. And, you know, most of the damage came on a three-run homer to Pete Alonzo.

So I'll make that excuse for Corbin Burns right up front. But it doesn't change the fact that in his past... Oh, I forgot to write down the number. I think it's his past five starts, six starts. How long has these struggles been going on? I have post-all-star break, which is 12 starts long, where he now has a 4.69 ERA over that stretch.

That's not the side I was going to give. Okay, so actually the past seven starts now for Corbyn Burns, he has a 562 ERA, 127 whip, 9.1K per 9. Yuck. And that's even including that eight-inning 14 strikeout effort a couple turns ago. So even with that one awesome adding in there, he still has an ERA approaching six in his last seven starts. And this is for the guy who, I mean, this is why we say,

we don't know who's the top pitcher going to be drafted next year because Corbyn Burns is not making a very strong case here in crunch time. Now, like, is he broken? Is this, how worried should we be about this? I mean, obviously it keeps happening, so that makes it concerning. But velocity is fine. Swinging strike rate is really good. For what it's worth, he blames pitch selection.

He thinks, he says the stuff is right where he wants it to be. He just, he needs to pick his pitches better to put hitters away instead of giving up three run homers to Pete Alonzo. Maybe that's it. Maybe there's a pitch tipping situation going on. I don't know. I don't think you can sit him. I mean, presuming you're locked in for this week already.

Yeah. His next matchup is against the Reds. Even if you weren't locked in for this week, you're going to sit Corbyn Burns against the Reds. I don't see how that's possible. And then next week, presuming your season goes right through the last day of the season, he'll line up for two starts against the Marlins and the Diamondbacks. You know what?

Will he actually make that second start? I'm going to count up starts and make sure. I think he would because what I'm looking at is the Marlins on September 29th, five days, five games after that. Well, I guess four starts after that. two, three, four. That would take him to October 4th. So that's the second to last game of the season.

And the Brewers might really need that game. So I would imagine that he will make at least three more starts. One against the Reds, one against the Marlins, and one against the Diamondbacks. Yeah, I think that's right. Yep. I think, I mean, obviously they could, if they fall out of the race or something, they could insert Jason Alexander again. And he could, you know,

could just skip Burns last turn. But presuming everything goes as lined up, Reds, Marlins, Diamondbacks as what he has for the remainder of the season. And since nothing seems that wrong other than the results itself, I just, I think you go down with the ship and hope that he turns things around.

He's inevitably going to turn things around. You just hope it happens with enough time to still help you. Brewer is currently two and a half games out of the final wild card spot. So mathematically, they could be eliminated by then. which you kind of alluded to, Scott. So there's a chance he doesn't make that last start. But we will see as we get closer to that one.

Scott, do you watch your pitchers in fantasy when they are actually pitching? Sometimes? I feel like whenever I do it, it ends poorly. I don't, it's happened all season long. Obviously, we had the long running bit where I couldn't watch Charlie Morton anymore because every time I would watch him,

he would get blown up. And it just kind of turned out he had a bad season. but I just feel like, man, in the biggest spots, I have Corbyn Burns in two head-to-head championship matchups right now. Watch the start, and he just absolutely gets crushed. It's so deflating, man. And then I come on here and I had to put on my smile and try and act like I'm not angry at the world

because of Corbyn Burns, but... You'd be a little angry. You don't have to be happy all the time, Frank. I know. You can show people you're a person with multitudes. Yeah. I always got to control myself with the two. tweets because I always just like as if it's going to like Corbyn Burns is going to read it.

He's not going to read it. Most likely not. But yeah, I got to control myself there. You want to drop a bunch of F bombs on Twitter. Are you like, are you just like seething on the inside all the time just trying to keep it bottled up? Because that's, I don't know that that's healthy. Yeah.

I think I might need a punching bag in my house or something like that because I get pretty angry watching these starts. I'll dug into the numbers too, Scott. The second half is what I looked at. 11 home runs has kind of been an issue. I noticed the home runs per 9. The home run to fly ball ratio is up a little bit for Corbyn Burns. It's just everything is kind of off around the margins.

It's nothing that really stands out. The swinging strike rate is down like 2.5 percentage points from 16.4% in the first half, 13.9% in the second half. The bad dip is up a little bit. The strand rate is down. I looked at the pitch mix. It's basically the same.

I don't see anything like concrete, wrong. So it's just like a little bit of everything seems to be off with Corbyn Burns. And that's how he gets to this point. But I agree. I don't think you can not play him. I'm playing him obviously in my matchups. It's just, it's really, really frustrating right now. On the other side, Max Scherzer obviously makes his return here. And he was perfect in six innings, pulled after six perfect endings because, you know, first start back, gets 68 pitches in there. So they're obviously playing it safe with Max Scherzer. But he does put up nine strikeouts in this one, 15 swinging strikes on 68 pitches.

It's just a fantastic ratio. Seemingly amped up in the start for Scherzer because the velocity was up across the board. Fastball up 1.1 miles per hour, slider up 1.5 miles per hour. The curve was up nearly at 1 mile per hour as well. And now for the season, he is down to a 2.15 ERA. well over a strikeout branding 162 over 133 and two thirds. Control has been fantastic. 23 walks and 21 starts.

Swinging strike rate is still there. And that kind of leads me to the question I started the show with. I think Max Scherzer probably has as good of a claim to being the SP1 drafted next year as anybody. I think the only risk, Scott, is, you know, his age and the fact that he's been a little bit more prone to missing time the past couple of seasons. But what do you think about that? Scherzer, F.P. 1. Well, I mean, if I'm going to critique him specifically as the number one SP drafted next year, I would say, well, if you're going to take an old guy, why not just take Justin Verlander? I know Scherzer has been a more reliable, or I don't know if reliable

is the right word, but he has a higher strikeout rate than Verlander. But as you point out, he's been less durable than Verlander. And that's over a few years now. of him, you know, not always being there when you want him there. So I think that alone would make me say, okay, probably sure, there shouldn't be the number one starting pitcher drafted. But the thing is, like, it's not with clear enough reasoning that I really care. I would say he'll be one of many pitchers who are good enough to be the top pitcher drafted, which is another reason why I'm probably not going to be the one

who takes the first starting pitcher drafted because, yeah, you can make a case for sure, Zeravrelander, Sandy Alcantara, Shane McClanahan, I'm sure Corbyn Burns will still be in that discussion. I'm sure Garrett Cole will still be in that discussion. And do I care that much which of those I get? No. And even the next year after them is pretty strong. So I am going to be,

partying like it's 2009 next year. I'm just going back to my old drafting strategy and fantasy baseball that I had for the longest and then I executed most successfully, which is play the position tiers and wait as long as you can to fill starting pitcher. I think that's going back to the classics. I think that's MLB's trying to go back to the classics

with his rule changes, and I'm going to go back to the classic. classics with my drafting strategy because I think the way the league is evolving justifies it again. Just on the Scherzer versus Verlander conversation, I think I trust the skills of Scherzer a little bit more, but you're right that. I think it's probably just like a pretty big tier for that SP1 and you just want to wait until whoever is being drafted last or if you do a salary cap draft, whoever's thrown out first or going for the cheapest, you just kind of go for that player. But yeah, I think all of those names you mentioned, Scherzer, Burns, Cole, Sandy,

Shane McClanahan, Verlander. There's like a tier. I think Zach Wheeler probably has a claim in there somewhere too. I put them in the next tier, but I mean, sure, it was a Scion contender last year. So it's like there are pitchers beyond that top group of six, I think it is that we just named. That could certainly contend for the Sion. But I think their ultimate upside is a little lower. I think you've got it right.

Scottie. That's the early lean for drafting next year is just kind of wait and grab whichever pitcher falls the furthest of those top. I think it's going to wind up being like 10 or 12. Like Woodruff is in that mix too. I still think he's really good. Shane Bieber has bounced back in a major way. I don't know.

We'll have a long time to figure it out. I did have one... Rodon. Yeah, Carl Swardon is amazed. Dylan C's. We haven't even mentioned him yet. There's a lot of really great pitcher. Spencer Strider. I think someone will try and make the case for it. I did have another honorable mention for oh my goodness gracious.

I don't think this matters much, but obviously it was a great performance for Tyler Alexander, who took a no-hitter into the seventh inning at the Baltimore's, where he wound up going seven shutout, two hits, two walks, four strikeouts in that one. He did have just five swinging strikes, just a 22% CSW that's called strikes plus whiffs. Not really sure how it happened.

I didn't really see anything in the pitch mix. And even with this outing, he is a 4.91 ERA. His final two matchups are against the White Sox and the Twins. Does this matter, Scott, Tyler Alexander? No, no. I mean, 19-earned runs in his previous four starts. The odd seven shutout effort,

particularly since it's not like he was missing a bunch of bats are crazy. Or do you think crazy like that? No, we can ignore Tyler Alexander. All right. Let's jump into the Waverwire hitters. And man, We get to these names in a bit, Scott, but nice day for your sleeper hitters. Carlos Santana, awesome first day of the week.

Michael Tolia, also. Yeah, he's made the whole week. Like, I can't get the Carlos Santana pick wrong after he hits a grand slam and homers for a second time. And the first, the first game. And it was like the rest of the matchups are the ones I like for him more than what he faced in this one. We'll get to those in just a bit. I do want to mention first, Eduardo Escobar, just because he's more highly rostered. So he's more of like a shallow league action.

at this point in the season than anything else. But he went two for three with a walk and a double. And now in 22 games since returning, he is batting 360 with six home runs, putting the ball in the air, hitting it relatively hard, 17% barrel rate during that time. But Joey Manessus got, I know it's a tough week of matchups. This first game is up against Kyle Wright. Just kind of keeps doing his thing. Four for four here on Monday.

Picks up his first steal of the season. He's still batting 325. He's got an OPS over 900. Who would you prefer? if you just need a corner infielder to the rest of the way, Eduardo Escobar or Joey Meneses. I think I'd prefer Escobar.

We talked about how the Nationals matchups for the final week of the season aren't great either. And matchups aren't everything. But if we're saying matchups don't matter for Joey Menesis, then we're basically saying he's a stud. And that's still a little hard to accept.

except and I've been as open-minded about Joey Maness as I think anybody. Prior to this four-hit game, he had gone one for 13. Still, he's batting 315 in September, 320 overall. He's been really good, and every time you think he might begin slowing down, he has a game like this. So I'm just wanted to pull up the Mets matchups to see if they were as bad as the Nationals for the final week of the season. They're not great.

They're not great. You know, obviously, if you're not looking to fill third base specifically, since Mennesse's can't do that. I guess between him and Escobar, I would take Mennesse's, but it's with some hesitation, clearly. Okay, would you take Escobar over Gunner Henderson or Vinnie Pasquantino, who we spoke about yesterday? No, not a chance.

All right, so if we're just ranking those, it's Gunner. It's Fini P, then Escobar Meneses is kind of a toss-up. Depending on. Yeah, slight edge to Manessus. Cool. Some deeper corner infielder is the ones I just mentioned. Carlos Santana, two for five, double dong, grand slam. He now has multiple homers three times in his last eight games.

And up to 19 home runs total. Still widely available, obviously. These are, again, more so deeper corner infielders. He's 16% rostered. Michael Tolia, I know he made the cut as a sleeper hitter as well. And it's his final week, a full week of Corace Field. And it was a game of firsts for him. He had two triples.

I believe they came in the same inning, something wild like that, which I heard them talking about on the broadcast. It was some kind of historical feat. It sounds pretty crazy. Two triples in one inning. And they were his first two career triples. He also stole a base, which was his first steal of his career as well. He strikes out a lot, but Michael Tolia puts the ball in the air a lot, which obviously will play well in Corse Field. What do you think, Scott? Santana versus Tolia, rest of season, which is two and a half weeks.

So they were not in the same inning, the triples. They were in consecutive innings. Gotcha. So Tolia versus who did you say? Tolia versus Santana. Okay. Yeah, I mean, I don't know that I want to start Tolia outside of course field. The strikeouts are a major concern, but obviously, Coorsfield is a magical place that can make up for those shortcomings. as we saw in his first game back there. But the reason why I doubt many people actually started him despite my recommendation is because of the four-game road trip that he was just coming off of, Tolia went 0 for 14 with eight strikeouts.

His average exit velocity went from, it was 92 miles per hour, which is really good, before. that awful stretch of four games, and then it dropped to 88.2. Which tells you something about sample size, right, that his average exit velocity can change that much over a stretch of a few games. But, yeah, I think once he leaves Colorado, we're not going to bother with Tolia the rest of this season.

But I do think there's a chance he's somebody who impacts the ball hard enough that he, particularly with the help of that extremely favorable home environment, he can overcome a high strikeout rate. I'm hopeful anyway. I'm not saying he's going to be a stud, but that he can remain a useful fantasy option. And if you just need a corner infielder or a utility bat

or an outfielder in a daily lineup league for the rest of this week, man, Michael Tolia, again, he's got six more games in Coresfield. He is 2% rostered on Yahoo. So I know that's where many of the daily lineup leagues are played and did have his splits pulled up. In seven home games, he is batting 296 with an OPS over 1,000. In 10 road games, he's hitting 171 with a 559 OPS. That is Michael Tolia, and I'm pretty sure you could have guessed that, just based on being a young Rockies hitter.

Do you have the need for speed? You need some steals down the stretch? Well, there could be two names available for you. John Bertie, just a massive game here on Monday. He had a sock and two shoes. his fourth homer and he's now up to 36 steals on the season. Since returning, however, from the IL, 30 games. John Birdie has played, he's hitting 212, 2 homers, 8 steals.

He's 49% rostered. And Miles Straw has played well recently. He went one for two with two walks and two steals as well here on Monday. Last 15 games for him, he's hitting 389, three steals, nine runs scored, 26% rostered. What do you think, Scott? Who would you prefer? Bertie or Straw if you need steals down the first? stretch.

Bertie. Even though he hasn't looked that great since returning. I mean, look at how, look what Miles Straw's been doing. Yeah. He's, what is he batting on the year? 218?

That's pretty bad. And hasn't been nearly as consistent of 217 and hasn't been nearly as consistent of a base stealer as Bertie. And I mean, Bertie since returning from the IL has eight steals. True. So that's, you know, in less than two months time, that's still like close to a 30

steel pace just during that stretch since he's returned. Meanwhile, Straw has three steals this month. He had two steals last month. He had two steals the month before. He had two steals the month before. So over the last two thirds of the season, Miles Straw has a total of nine steals. And John Bertie has that in his last 30 games. Right.

All right. Yeah, fair enough. You win, Scott. If you need steals, John Burd. it is. And, you know, I didn't realize Miles Straw was really that bad. Coming into the year, I definitely got duped.

I thought he was like a legit, pretty good hitter, good eye at the play. I thought he had good contact skills and just everything went wrong. I thought the same about Nicky Lopez. Remember those arguments we had, Nicky Lopez versus Miles Straal? The answer was neither.

And speaking of it. The answer was John Birdie. Yes. The answer is always John Birdy, if he needs speed. Should any of these play? be rostered in more leagues over the final couple weeks. Nick Gordon went two for four with his ninth home run and in 44 games since the

start of August he's batting 301 with five homers, three steals and we've pointed this out a few times the stack has data for Nick Gordon is actually pretty awesome just low key 90th percentile expected slugging percentage 81st percentile and average exit velocity he is only 25 percent rostered and Scott say it with me what's dead Ned may never die. Joey Gallo. He's back.

Not really. He went two for three and he hit his 18th home run, but he now has six homers in 33 games with the Dodgers. He's playing a little bit better with them than he was with the Yankees. It's hard to be much worse than he was with the Yankees. What do you think, Scott? Should these two be rostered in more than 25 or 33% of leagues? Gordon.

I mean, it's very, very slightly better with the Dodgers. He entered this game batting 170 with. them versus 159 with the Yankees. Still better. I mean, it feels better because expectations are so much lower now. Yeah. The Yankees gave up a bundle of prospects for him. The Dodgers gave up nothing.

So you don't like anything Gallo does is just gravy for them. But in fantasy, no, I don't think he's redeemed his value at all. Let's see, who else am I commenting on? Sorry. Nick Gordon. Nick Gordon. Yeah, no, what's funny is if you gave Nick Gordon's stackcast data to Randy a Rosarena, it would be like, okay, I can see why Randy a Rosa Raina's putting up these numbers.

If you gave Randy a Rosa Rana stat cast data to Nick Gordon, it'd be like, okay, I can see why Nick Gordon's putting up these numbers. So I'm not really sure how to square that circle. But, I mean, clearly we've arrived at the point where, we can just ignore the fact that stat cast doesn't you know that that Randy a Rosa Rainey we can accept that he just

he's just a guy who dramatically outperforms his stack cast numbers and maybe Nick Gordon is the other way around I would rather have Nick Gordon you're looking to fill a middle endfield spot on the cheap I think he's a better choice than a lot of the guys we've talked about like unless you need steel specifically

I'd rather have Nick Gordon than John birdie, you know, if it's a points league scenario or whatever. But is he that good? Is he as good as Stackass suggests he should be? Probably not. And I assume Nick Gordon would be behind someone like Elvis Andrews and Luis Arnhefo. That one feels pretty close. What do you think?

Yeah, that's pretty close. Probably Renhifo, but it wouldn't surprise me if Nick Gordon was actually the better of the two. to finish out the year. While we're talking about middle infielders, I wanted to mention Jorge Mateo, who has really slowed down. His last 30 games, he's hitting 198,

a 588 OPS during that time. He's down to 60% rostered. Probably still hold him in category leagues just because it wouldn't surprise me if he steals five bases over the final two weeks. But if you did pick him up in points leagues, this is Jorge Mateo,

he could probably go. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I could see in Roto Leagues the fact he's eligible at shortstop and outfield and provides stolen bases when he is going well. That's the thing. I mean, just because he has been bad over the past two, three weeks, whatever it's been, doesn't mean he's going to be bad over the next two.

And, of course, we know that assuming he will be his bad process in May and in June. But in September, you know, we kind of flake on that. Like, somebody was asking me if they should sit Matt Olson for this week. He was like, no, he's still Matt Olson. Fortunately, he goes out and gets two hits. And so already, that's seeming like the right move. But, yeah, I mean, good players eventually come around. Does Jorge Mateo for sure a good player?

No, but he meets certain statistical needs in ways that few players can. I don't think this matters, but might be something to remember for deeper leagues next year. Probably only like NL only, but Brian D. LaCol, Cruz went two for five with a grand slam. It was his 10th home run. He's got three homers over his last six games. And his stack has data is kind of interesting as well. 75th percentile in max exit velocity. He's got a 270 expected batting average, 469 expected slug. Wouldn't surprise me if he can never achieve his expected numbers just playing in Marlins Park, obviously, but it's clear at least this season, Brian Dela Cruz impacts the ball pretty hard. So just probably someone to

remember for next year, deeper leagues. He's 2% rostered. What do you think, Scott? Anything on him? I don't know that he's ever going to be like a true everyday player. Seems like more of a fourth outfielder type on a bad team, in a bad ballpark. Yeah, I can't get that excited about Brian Dela Cruz.

They should have Jorge Solera back next year. Avicel Garcia, you know, signed both guys to contracts just last year. presumably those guys will be back in the lineup on opening day for the Miami Marlins. Which baby tiger would you rather buy in Dynasty? No, not talking about, well, I was going to say local petting zoo, but like you can't pet a tiger, I don't think. Right? No.

I wouldn't. I can't imagine no matter how young the tiger cubs are, any parent is letting their four-year-old in there to pet it. Can you tell that I don't have kids? Because I don't think that I'd be very good at it. Spencer Torkelson went three for four with two doubles and three runs scored. He's doing some things since returning from the miners. 14 games played 280 batting average, one homer in 839 OPS. He's making a lot of contact, 14% strikeout rate.

He's hitting the ball very hard, 95 mile per hour average exit velocity, and he's putting in the air, 13% barrel rate for Spencer Torkelson, albeit very small sample size. Riley Green has been, I would say, a pretty big letdown this year. 79 games played. It's kind of been in and out of the lineup. Obviously, you know, started the season off wrong with, I believe it was a fracture in his foot. Is that what it was going?

Yeah. But Riley Green, 253 batting average, five homers, one steal, four caught stealing, sub-700 OPS. Stackcast data does not look great. He strikes out. He hits the ball on the ground a lot. but you know Scott look these are still they're obviously not as highly regarded as they were entering the season but they they had huge huge prospect pedigree

and you know this off season you could look to buy low on these guys in dynasty so I don't know I guess give me your thoughts on each from like a long-term perspective and if you just had to choose one would you go with Torque or Riley Green yeah they were both consensus top five prospects overall coming into the year Torkelson, of course, a former number one overall pick.

Green was a former number five overall pick. I think drafting either next year is just, it's going to be a blind faith sort of pick. Just, okay, I'm told this guy has a lot of upside. They obviously showed it in the minors. Maybe this is the year they come through and break through with the kind of numbers we were expecting from them all along. And there's nothing wrong with that if the price is right.

Right? Like if we're talking a late round pick, I would invest a late round pick in either Torkelson or Green next year. Green being an outfielder playing the weaker position. We're back, you know, when I was talking earlier about reverting to my old drafting strategy, which there was a heavy emphasis on position scarcity.

You know, we're kind of talking about pitchers at the time, but that was the other half of that equation. Because first base stands out as clearly the deepest position in fantasy again like it used to in the good old days. And so that's probably the biggest knock on Torkelson, just that he's exclusively a first baseman while Green is playing the outfield. But I am encouraged by the way Torkelson's looked since returning. only the one home run, but the walk to strikeout ratio is, I think it's eight strikeouts to six walks. So he's really cut down on the strikeouts. And you mentioned he's hitting the ball hard.

He's showing, over a tiny sample, he's showing signs of improvement. So I think that's very encouraging. And all positions being equal, I'd rather have Torkelson than green for next year, just based on that. But Green plays the outfield. So he's probably going to get drafted earlier. Is it something that you will actually try to do, I guess, in your dynasty? It just depends what the going rate is. A dynasty?

Yeah. You're saying, oh, dynasty is a different story. I don't think either of these players has lost a considerable amount of dynasty value. It depends how deep the league is. If it's a shallow league, you kind of need those prospects to perform right away, or they're going to lose a ton of value. But if it's a deep dynasty league, I don't think you're going to be able to buy that low on either of these players. Jared Kelnick's a different story

you can probably buy really low on him but I don't think we're there yet with Torkelson and Green so that'd be a different story but if we're talking just a redraft context if either of them is like I said either one of them is available in the late round still and it's hard to judge at this point whether they will be then I'll be happy to take that chance on the upside sure

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If you haven't subscribed, please do subscribe YouTube. Follow us wherever you listen to podcast. But if you already subscribe, don't leave because, again, we're going to have some fun stuff planned for you. Let's take a break and we'll hit the news and notes here on fantasy baseball today. The news and notes, Julio Rodriguez was out of the lineup Monday, but is unlikely to require a stint on the IEL. He is currently dealing with some lower back tightness. Tony Gonsland threw a two-inning bullpen session on Monday with the team noting an increase in velocity.

He's been out since August with a strained right forearm and even if he could make his way back it sounds like it would just be as a reliever. He doesn't have enough time to build back up. Carl Sordawn's next start was moved to Friday against the Diamondbacks

due to a blister and a cracked nail on his left hand. The good news is that he avoids Corse Field. The bad news is that he's no longer a two-star pitcher. So, I think I probably would still rather have the two starts, but get healthy.

We'll see you again on Friday. Carl's for done. Tyler Anderson will be reinstated from the paternity list to start game two of Tuesday's doubleheader against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Luis Severino will return and start Wednesday against the Pirates. He built up to

57 pitches in his last rehab outing. Scott, would you start Severino if you have him in a daily lineup league on Wednesday against the Pirates? So he threw 57, you said, in the last rehab outing. Yeah, maybe he gets up to like 70, 75.

The mashup is so good against the pirates that I might risk it. It's risky. I mean, we don't really know how he's going to look until he gets out there. And sometimes pitchers are just a little off, even really good pitchers when they return from the aisle from long absence like that. But the pirates being such a weak matchup and the fact Severino actually did have something of rehab assignment on like John Gray, let's say. Yeah, I'd lean yes on that.

Severino, 84% rostered on CBS, 72% rostered on Yahoo. If you do have any type of start limit, I wouldn't use one of those starts on Severino, but if you're just trying to pick up as much volume as you can, then I think it's okay against the pirates. Chris Bryant took batting practice ahead of Monday's game with the Giants. He's been out since July 31st with Plantar fasciitis. He's going to be an interesting one to try and rank next year, because, man, the guy just cannot stay healthy, unfortunately. Freddie Peralta threw off a mound on Monday the first time since hitting the IL a few weeks back with shoulder fatigue.

Could be back before the end of the season with the Brewers. Trevor Rogers is dealing with a grade one latch train and will be shut down for the remainder of the season, which we speculated on yesterday's podcast, but now it sounds like it is actually happening for sure. Sunny Gray left Monday's game after two innings due to right hamstring tightness. You know, Scott, as soon as we talk up, Sunny Gray, he goes out and does something like this. Can't trust the guy. Well, yeah, I mean, we weren't counting on him getting injured. True.

But, yeah, it always felt like we were playing with fire. With that one, he was outperforming his ERA estimators and didn't have a particularly good swinging strike rate. Not even as good of a ground ball rate as in the past. But at some point, you just got to hop a board and see where it takes you. And unfortunately, it drove off the tracks this time. Oh, Sunny Gray. Gets you every time. Tyler Glass now made another rehab start on Sunday,

going two perfect endings with four strikeouts. Reports are that he feels, quote, very good. I'm not sure that he will make a fantasy impact this year, but I'm looking forward to seeing Tyler Glass now again next season. Brendan Rogers, who was out of the lineup on Monday, will undergo an MRI on his left hamstring. Domingo Hermann, who was moved to the bullpen this weekend, will likely rejoin the Yankees rotation with the injury to Frankie Montas.

Cowrale was out of the lineup on Monday with a jammed left thumb. Eric Lauer is a candidate to return and make a short start on Friday against the Reds. Aaron Ashby will be reinstated to start a bullpen game on Tuesday against the Mets, and no, you should not pick up Ashby, you should not look to stream him because, A, he was not good before getting hurt, and this is likely to be a short start, only one or two innings projected against the Mets on Tuesday. He's also been out since late August due to shoulder inflammation.

That is Aaron Ashby. Tyler McGill was reinstated on Monday, but is only expected to work as a reliever for the Mets the rest of the season. Jorge Soler will not require off-season surgery and will take part in core strengthening work for the next three weeks before resuming baseball activities. He's been out since July with love. lower back spasms.

Not really fantasy related, but congrats. We do have some teams clinching either divisions or playoff appearances. The Astros clinched the AL West. They will have a buy to the ALDS. And the Mets clinched a postseason appearance. We don't know whether or not it's going to be the NL East or the Wild Card yet. So congratulations to those fan bases, the Mets and the Astros. A few prospect updates, Scotty.

Some promotions here towards the end of the season. The A's promoted Tyler Soderstrom and Zach Giloff to AAA, and the White Sox promoted Oscar Colos to AAA. And I don't know if you have any strong takes on any of these prospects, but I think there's a good chance we could see all of them at some point next season. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to Burger and Coloss being in the White Sox lineup together. I think I see what you're going for there, Scott. burger and colos.

Yeah, that's right. That's what we're doing. That's it. That's it. But Oscar Coloss, I mean, you know, he has done some things. And I know we've received some questions about him. Yeah, no, he has. He's hit for really high average.

And power is supposed to be his, like, carrying cool. So that's been encouraging to see. So he's a defector out of Cuba. who also spent time in Japan, so he's well-traveled and has seen a lot of things for a 24-year-old and has had a really productive first season in the minors. So, yeah, I think he's a pretty attractive dynasty asset. All right, that is Oscar Coloss. I did want to check his strikeout rate.

You don't want to ask me about Jake Berger, though? I think we've, we don't really know Jake Burger is yet, but he's kind of interesting. I don't know if it's going to happen, but it needs to. too. I wish there was like a freeze. Do you have a strong take on Coca-Cola versus Pepsi? Well, I don't know how much of a sponsor either is for CBS programming, but... I'm pretty sure it's not existing. I have a preference. I have a slight preference for Coca-Cola, but I don't mind either. I'm not one of those. Oh, I got to have this. If you offer me that other, I'm going to splash it right back in your face, you know?

Like, I'm not going to do that. They're both, you know, at times I'm in the mood for one or the other. Fair enough. Yeah, I think I prefer Pepsi, but the same thing. It's, I don't really, I don't drink dark soda that much. Gingerail, that's where it's at. I don't know, like the past two years, I don't know what has gotten into me, but it's, I try to, you know. Gingerail has gotten into you via your mouth.

That's exactly right. Gingerail is where it's at, man. I do like a good ginger ale. Anyway, let's get into the rest of Monday's action. A little bit of a spin for next season as well. Which slugger do you want in 2023 between these two? I think I know the answer, but I'll ask it anyway. Austin Riley went one for three with his 37th home run,

and he has slowed down a little bit. The power still remains, but 44 games since the start of August. Austin Riley is batting 226 during that time. I didn't really see anything in the underlying numbers. I think the Babbitt might just be a little bit lucky, 261 during that time. And Pete Alonso, the polar bear. He went one for four with a sock and a shoe. 36th home run, his fifth steal. I didn't know that he had any steals. So that was a pleasant surprise. But Pete Alonzo on the season batting 267, 853 OPS. He also has 118 RBI, which is

just massive. Scott, Riley, or Alonzo next season. I mean, just for position scarcity reasons, I got to say Riley. Homer. You know what's funny? I don't know if this is worth bringing up at all. But you're talking about Pete Alonzo having five steals, and I was kind of thinking, oh, that could be 15 steals next year

with all the rule changes and how much I think stolen bases are going to increase. And I don't know if that's really the case. Pete Alonzo is not a fast guy. No. Austin Riley's sprint speed is 58th percentile. It's pretty good, actually. And yet he does not have, oh, he has only two stolen bases this year.

He has two stolen bases for his entire career, as a matter of fact, with that 58th percentile sprint speed. So I wonder if he's a guy, just because he's fast enough to steal bases, if he could benefit and be part of that democracy. of stolen bases that I'm expected to see next year with, you know, a dozen or whatever. Yeah, you know, I think where some of these slugger types can kind of literally just like walk or run into a few steals is when they play on a team that has other like fast players. So you get like that that double steel action, which I think has really helped Freddie Freeman. I would have to look into this, but I think a good amount of Freddie Freeman steals this season have come on double steals. with Trey Turner.

I just feel like I've seen that happen quite a bit, but the Braves have a lot of fast guys. And, you know, like, if they wanted to pull off a double steel here or there, whether it's Acunae or Ozzy Albies, Vaughn Grosom, whatever it might be, I think they can do more of it. So I was weekly...

I can't believe we just had a conversation about Austin Riley Steele's potential. Yeah, right? What are we doing? I don't know. The Braves are 14, you know, it's a... It's Tuesday, September 20th, right? September content, yeah.

We were just talking about Oakland's weather the other day, so we're trying to figure stuff to talk about. But the Braves are 14th in steals this season as a team. I think that could probably even go up a little bit. So, who knows? Austin Riley, a handful of steals next year. Scott's taking him over Pete Alonzo. Yeah. I think it's pretty close.

Yeah. Let's grade the season, Scott. I have three names here. We've done a few of these recently. A mede Rosario. I mentioned him recently, and you just kind of, yeah. I know you're not an a med-rosario guy. but pretty massive game.

A sock and two shoes for him as well. The same day, two different players, him and John Bertie. It's pretty crazy stuff. And to be clear, the sock is the home run. The shoes or the stolen bases. Yeah. 11 home runs now for Ahmed Rosario and 16 steals. He also had a massive Saturday.

They had a double header. He went 8 for 13. He hit a home run. He stole a base over those two games as well. But now batting 283, 11 homers, 16 steals. 79 runs, 67 R3. He's kind of a five category contributors, Scott. Like, doesn't really stand out anywhere,

but just kind of does a little bit in everything. And if this is right, CBS has him ranked as this 76th overall player in Roto this year. It's pretty massive stuff. That's, um, I think, I think maybe by virtue of staying healthy. I don't know if that seems, uh, I can think of a lot more players than that that I'd want Roto. He's not.

Grade the season, Scott. Ameda Rosario. Grade the season for Ahmed Rosario? I mean, relative to expectations, it's probably like a B plus A minus,

I would say. Yeah. Sounds about right. I'm going to pull up. Maybe he'll be a 40 steel guy next season, just because why not? His preseason

ADP was 234.2. And he's a top 100 player. Yeah. Technically. I think I, I think I agree with you there. It's, you know, it's funny. As hot as he's been, you know, with the eight hits in the double header and the sock and two shoes,

he's still batting just 280 in September. Yeah, he was pretty cold before that, I noticed. Yeah. And I think the OBP is below 300 for the month. So, you know, I don't want to overstate his value, but he's certainly in those. deep, and leagues like a standard road a league that start a lot of hitters. He certainly earned his lineup spot. Last point on the Guardians here.

I'm sure I was someone who also crushed them when they traded Francisco Lindor just didn't think the package was all that great at the time. But, I mean, look at what Ameta Rosario and Andres Jimenez are doing this season. And man, you know, it was a good trade for both sides. I mean, at least knowing how the Guardians want to operate their team. Do you know what Andres Jimenez war is this year? I don't really know whether or not he's a good defender. But I'll say he's like a three win player, three or four win player, something like that.

You think he's a three or four win player this year? Okay. Maybe that's too high. I'm probably selling him too high. Too low? Ahmed Rosario's war this year, according to baseball, reference is 6.4. Ahmed Rosario? I'm sorry. Oh.

Andres Jimenez. Is that where you, is that who you were answering for? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's who I was talking about. Okay, so that's who we were talking about all along. Wow. 6.4?

6.4 for Andres Jimenez. Francisco Lindor has only had only one season with a war better than that in his career. What is Lindor's this year? If you have a pulled up, I don't know if you do. 5.3. Wow. Wow. All right. Well, good stuff for the Guardians, like I was saying. You know, this turned out to be a pretty good trade for them. Next up, we have Ty France, who went two for four with his 20th home run, and he is on a bit of a power binge right now.

Six homers over his last 19 games, and he's batting 272 overall, 77 RBI, only 57 runs scored. So I think that pulls down his overall ranking quite a bit. Scott grade the season, Ty France. Hmm. Probably like a C when all said and done. You know, obviously he got off to a great start. It was looking like one of the biggest finds, but it's been a rough finish, a rough second half, and it's kind of brought his numbers back down to, I think, what a lot of people myself included were expecting in the first place.

All right, let's wrap up with Jose Altuvae, who went two for four with his 25th home run. He's petting 292 on top of that. He's got 18 steals, 89 run scored. RBI not great, 53, but he does lead off consistently for the Astros, has a near 900 OPS, and is the 31st overall player in Roto this season. Great the season. Jose Al-Tuvae.

A plus. I don't see how he possibly could have given us more than he has. He's even my, you know, I was pretty optimistic about Jose Al-Tuva. I think I was one of the highest guys in the industry, so I can take a little bit of credit, I guess. Obviously, can take my share of blame for. certain players too but altouvae was one i was right about and yet not even i saw the return of the stolen bases for him so yeah that a plus and i think with trey turner losing second base eligibility and you know ozie albis we're we're gonna be a little unsure about him going into next season

because of all the time he lost to injury i i think jose al tuve unless i'm overlooking somebody he's going to be he's going to be the first second baseman drafted. Man, I think you're probably right. Does Moogie Betts really have second base eligibility this year? Presently does. I mean, I know he's not going to have it next season, but. I want to double check how far away he is from that. Because I don't know how many times he's appeared at second base this year, seven times.

So, yeah, he's not going to be able to carry that over to next season. But that doesn't mean he can't pick it up at some point next season. True. He says he likes playing second base. He says he prefers it to the outfield. Wow. Yeah. I wonder if he can kind of, maybe that's kind of part of the later half of his career situation.

Mookie Betz back to second base. I know he played it in the minors coming up, right, Scott? Early on in his career too. Yeah, that's what he was in the minors prior to moving to the outfield. In fact, there was some. uncertainty when he first got promoted to the Red Sox. They needed him in the outfield right away, but there was some uncertainty whether he'd stay there

or move to the infield. Plus, moving to second base, gets him closer to do his buddy, Freddie Freeman, who everybody loves. So that's it. That's who everybody loves so. All right. Jose El Tuvae, last point on him,

I could be wrong about this, but I still don't think he's going to get the respect that he deserves in drafts. I know. I don't know what's been going on with because it's, I feel like it's been a few years now. Basically ever since the sign stealing scandal,

the fantasy, I don't know that, I think at first I was blaming that. You know, the first year coming off of that, he was sliding in the rankings, Alex Bregman was sliding in the rankings. I think people were holding it against them,

performance-wise even. But I don't think that's the reason anymore. I don't know why he's sliding. He's not getting the respect he deserves in fantasy. I mean, used to be. And I'm not saying he deserves to be a first round pick anymore, but in his prime he was, you know,

a consistent first round pick. I think at this stage of his career, you could make a case for him in round two, given how scarce second base is, especially. Third round, the latest. And I just don't think that will be the case. Again, could be wrong, but I think he probably winds up as like a fourth round pick,

something like that for Al-TUV. I will have so much Jose Al-Tufe, if that's the case. We shall see. He does turn. 33 in May next season, so some people might use that as a point against Jose Al-TuVey. Let's wrap up with some pitching leftovers. We've got the good, the bad, and the ugly. Of course, we will start with the good. Logan Gilbert posted a career high, 11 strikeouts at the Angels.

He went six innings, one run, 11Ks, 21 swinging strikes on 98 pitches, and over his last four starts, he has allowed just two earned runs. Zero.78 ERA, 34 strikeouts, just five walks, a 14% swinging strike rate during that time. And he's really leaned into his slider. So just basically fastball slider. And it has worked for Logan Gilbert during that time. And what's funny about it is the slider's lost a couple miles per hour during that time too. So he's kind of changed the way he throws it in a way that's been more effective.

I mean, you mentioned the last four starts, nine strikeouts are more and three of those four starts. And for most of the season, his whiff rate of strikeout. Ray was pretty underwhelming. So he's kind of taken the next step in his development here, I think. Logan Gilbert and we'll be probably drafted as top 30 pitcher next year, I would say. Something like that, yeah. Top 30, top 36, but in the SP3 conversation, I think is fair. A couple other good pitchers from Monday's action.

Kyle Wright turned into quality start against the Nationals. He went six innings, two runs, seven strikeouts in that one. Clayton Kirshaw, great, once again, against the Diamondbacks. He went six innings, one run, ten strikeouts to zero walks with 19 swinging strikes on 94 pitches. And then Luis Garcia was, okay, against Tampa Bay. Five shutout with four strikeouts in that one. I kind of get this idea that Luis Garcia is always going to have more swinging strikes than the actual strikeouts or just the ratios say that he should have.

but so kind of a Jordan Montgomery situation yeah something like that for Louise Garcia yeah maybe but anything you'd like to add on him Kershaw and Kyle Wright it was a nice bounceback star from Wright he had been a little shaky lately but beyond that you know Clayton Kershaw is looking amazing

as usual guys what's what's dead will never die right yes Clayton Gershaw the bad pitchershers from Monday Jose Suarez gave up five runs over five innings pitched, and Drew Raspison has now allowed four earned runs

in each of his last two matchups. He went six innings, four runs allowed, three strikeouts against the Astros. Obviously pretty tough matchup there. Edward Cabrera, lackluster performance, five innings, three runs, four strikeouts. He now has exactly three walks in five of his last six outings. So as much as I love the stuff, the whiffs, the ground balls,

the walks are just too big of a problem right now. 4.57 walks per 9 for Edward Cabrera. And then Merrill Kelly, another mixed performance, I would say more bad than good. Four runs allowed over six-endings pitched, seven strikeouts against the Dodgers. So you like to see the whiffs, but misses out on a quality start here,

give up a lot of hard contact. It's got anything on Merrill Kelly, Edward Cabrera, Drew Rasmussen, and Jose Suarez. So I mentioned this after Merrill Kelly's last start. And this is two in a row against the Dodgers, so you've got to cut him some slack for that. But just how much it seems like this September hitting environment, which has been very favorable for home runs,

just how much it seems to be hurting Merrill Kelly. Because he's basically been the exact same pitcher. He's been the past couple years. Just the home run rate has been down. And that's why he's had so much success. So in his last three, so let's do it this. way. In his first 27 starts, Merrill Kelly allowed 10 home runs. In his past three starts, he's allowed seven home runs. Wow. Yeah. Not great for a guy. Merrill Kelly. And yet he's still

doing okay considering. He's still going six innings consistently. And as I mentioned, awful matchups last two starts. So I don't know that we need to dump them. But it's just, I find it interesting. We had the good. We had the bad. Lastly, we have the ugly Scott. We'll give you credit for Carlos Santana, but we won't give you credit for Wade Miley, who turned back into Wade Miley against the Marlins. He gave up seven runs over three innings pitched.

Three of those earned. There was a big error in the third inning, which obviously caused the inning to go on longer, and then he gave up a grand slam to Brian Dela Cruz. The, you know, for, look, I don't think he's good, but his final three matchups are against the pirates, the Reds, and the Reds again. So if you picked up Wade Miley, I might hold on to him, but what do you think?

Well, I mean, obviously I lose faith after this start, but he's had a long, solid career of being, you know, kind of a streamable type in fantasy. So I don't think, you know, especially as good as he looked in his first two starts off the I.L. I don't think you, I mean, he was, it wasn't one of those reluctant recommendations that, okay, I have to come up with 10. sleeper pitcher, so I'll mention Wade myelie to fill out the list. I actually picked him up and started him at a couple leagues myself. But yeah, it obviously backfired. And velocity was down 1.6 on a couple of his pitches, so I don't know what that means. I would say even with favorable

matchups, I'd be reluctant to use them just for that reason. To stream or not to stream for Tuesday, Brian Bejo at the Reds, Nicola Dolo versus the Red Sox, Adrian Samson at the Marlins, Austin Voth versus the Tigers, Patrick Sandoval at the Rangers, Aaron Savali at the White Sox, Dylan Bundy at the Royals, and Dre Jameson at the Dodgers. It's a long list of names. I will say, who do we talk about last time we did this? Okay, so Nick Ladolo against the Red Sox, that's an easy one. Patrick Sandival at Texas. I'm okay with that. I don't think it's a must. Probably not going to bother with any of the others. I would say if Sandoval and Lodolo are already gone, which is possible.

I think Adrian Samson's probably my next favorite, but don't really love him either. On Wednesday, we have Adrian Houser versus the Mets, Drew Smiley at the Marlins, Matt Manning at the Orioles, Jordan Lyles versus the Tigers, Rwanzi Contreras at the Yankees in a revenge game, Bailey Ober at the Royals and Hermann Marquez versus the Giants in Coorsfield. Drew Smiley at the Marlins I mean there's still as good of a matchup as you'll find for a left-handed pitcher

despite what happened to Wade Miley and not loving any of the others if you're forcing me to pick one I think I'm gonna pick probably Bailey Ober at Kansas City but that's you know don't feel great about that one Take the over! We're going with Bailey

at Kansas City. Team name Tuesday This one is from Tom Oh, oh, oh, oh, Riley, auto parts. Yow! That was great. You got that yow at the end. That's always my favorite part.

Yeah. From Dale, how much would a Waldichuk Gritchuk? Oh my. How much, and they spelled wood as like Alex Wood. That's how you spell the word. Yes, I know. But I guess, yeah, would. Alex Wood.

How much wood would a Waldachuk, Gritchuk. All right. That is not bad. From Jeremy on Twitter to honor both Ahmed and Eddie hitting home runs on Monday. Super Rosario Brothers. Sure. From Neil and his four roommates who said apologies in advance, it was late at night and our internet went out. They sent us what looks like, I don't know, 10 or 12 different team names here.

Machado about nothing. Okay, sure. Everything Everywhere, Alonzo Quants. Hmm. That's strained. Sorry. I haven't. Have you watched that movie, Scott?

I haven't. I've heard good things. Yeah. I definitely intend to at some point. Yeah. You spin me right round. Okay, with you and right both in there. That's fine.

Lordess of the Springs. Is there a Lord of the Springs? Is that, like, what is that referring to? I think it's just Lord of the Rings. Oh, okay. Yeah. Fun fact, I haven't seen a single, Lord of the Rings movie in my life.

It doesn't surprise me, but I haven't either. Oh, man. For anyone listening this late in the podcast, we're probably going to get some feedback for that one. Maybe we can watch them together. Just block out 12 hours for that. Yeah, let's do a whole day watchalong with our YouTube audience. 2000 Kwan, a space monadacy. That's good.

I like that. Not bad. Yeah. You don't mess with the Yo-on. Yeah, that actually works. I know you like it. Have you seen that movie, Scott? No.

Oh, it's good. I'm sure you think it's good. Yeah. You don't mess with the Zohan. Disco, disco, good, good. Bye-bye, Birdie. Okay. Harold and Kumar go to Mountcastle.

All right. Bayo Watch. Okay, sure. not rain mcmann rain mcmann rain mcmann another that i get that one i think it's rain man the movie which i also haven't seen top gun patrick i have seen rain man at least uh top gun patrick top gun patrick top gun where's the patrick fit in with top gun i think it's supposed to be top gun maverick oh right and it's just any patrick sandoval like patrick what not good not good uh Deuce Bigio, male Lodolo.

I like where they were going with this one, but I think maybe we could have found better names. So you're a big fan of the Adam Sandler movies. What about the Rob Schneider movies? Big fan. I watched Deuce Bigelow when I was too young to watch Deuce Bigelow, but it was, that movie is hilarious. Hot Chick is also a movie I've watched way too many times in my life.

Arise Alive, Drive Ober. There's no way. We're going to know what this is, but it's arrive, a live drive sober, a huge ad campaign in Ontario in Canada. Fraily, my dear, I don't give Adamas. Okay. And lastly, last but certainly not least. Kwan in the hand is better than two in the bush. Spelled like Michael Bush.

Who is not a major leaguer yet, but he's a prospect in the Dodgers organization. Unless there's another bush they're referring to. I guess it could be Bush Stadium, Cardinals, but I think Michael Bush is probably the go-to there. Those were good. Those were really good. I appreciate that. Thank you, Neil. We're going to wrap there for Scott. I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching. Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.