Fantasy Baseball Today - Worryometer: Aces Edition! Add Wilson Ramos and Joey Votto? (4/14 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: April 14, 2021

What in the world happened to pitching on Tuesday? Let's start with Stephen Strasburg and Max Fried (2:13). ... News and notes (10:17). Sonny Gray will return this week, Julian Merryweather hurt his hip and Nate Pearson is pain-free. ... Let's talk about some waiver-wire hitters, headlined by Wilson Ramos, Jed Lowrie, and Joey Votto (16:50). ... Worryometer: aces edition (25:27)! What is up with Blake Snell and Jesus Luzardo? ... Worryometer for hitters (36:46). Should you be concerned about Lourdes Gurriel, Trey Mancini, Ian Happ, and Dylan Moore? ... We recap the rest of Tuesday, get you bullpen updates, 'To Stream or Not To Stream', and read your emails (44:52). ... Email us at [e-mail]. 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @FBTPod, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank, @AdamAizer 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. I drive, center field, and swing. This is magnificent. Got a fantasy question? Email Fantasy Baseball at CBSI.com. Get ready to win your league. Well, fantasy becomes reality. Now here's Frank, Scott, Chris, and Adam.

What in the bizarro pitching world happened on Tuesday? Welcome into Fantasy Baseball today. Frank Stamphill joined by Scott White. Chris is off playing Call of Duty somewhere. You know, Scott, if I told you I had a rotation of Luis Castillo, Steven Strasbourg, Blake Snell and Max Fried entering the season,

you probably would have said that's pretty good, right? Yeah, sounds pretty good. What are the odds? All four of them? Flounder. In the same day, I mean, Snell, against the Pirates, man, what is going on? There's a lot to talk about. Jesus Lazzardo, another one that we can throw in there.

Not that he's an ace or anything, but we did have higher expectations, at least against the Arizona Diamondbacks. I was going to do some fill in the blank for today's podcast. But once all this started just flipping upside down, the world just went crazy in terms of pitching. I was like, no, let's fire up Oriometer and see where we're at, and we'll recalibrate this thing. And the world's upside down when you combine it with what happened yesterday, right?

Yesterday I tweeted, yesterday I tweeted out hypothesis, all pitching is good, evidence tonight. And today I had to switch that to new hypothesis, all pitchers are bad, evidence tonight. And, you know, last night, or I should say what, Monday night, it was guys like Alex Cobb and Wascar, you know, and Adbert Alzali. And today it's, you know, it's the studs you were just referring to

and more. They weren't the only bad ones. Pablo Lopez threw a stinker. It was, wow. Yeah, it was wild. We're going to get to all of it today. We got the Worryometer a little bit later on. Zach Allen made his debut.

Bieber versus G.olito was awesome. Wilson Ramos and Adam Duvall are also awesome. But let's fire things up with, uh, take it away, Susan. Oh, my goodness gracious. All right. So we got to start with obviously Strasbourg, Scott, because, um, look, wasn't a great game, but there's more under the hood that, uh, is pretty worrisome here in this start at the Cardinals. four innings pitch, eight hits, eight runs, seven of those earned, five walks, three strikeouts,

only three whiffs for Schrozzberg, velocity down across the board. Every one of his pitches, the velocity was down, including his fastball, which was down two miles per hour in this start compared to his first start of the season, where he was actually pretty good. He averaged 90.6 miles per hour on his fastball Tuesday night, and we know he was dealing with some stuff in spring, in spring training, dealing with the calf, but, man, it's, I don't really see how a calf injury would affect your velocity, at least not this much. So what are your thoughts about Trotsberg here, Scott? And we'll just get the worryometer started early. How worried are you about him at this point? Yeah, I mean, based on what we know right now, maybe like a, like a six, I'm pretty worried.

I'm pretty worried. Most of these bad starts that we've referred to, I don't, you know, I don't make much of it. But Straussberg is the one I definitely do. You mentioned the drop in velocity. We were already accepting, okay, he may only be a guy who throws 92 now instead of 94, 95 on average. But if it's 90, closer to 90, we saw it tonight that may not go so well. But he seemed like he may have been favoring his neck or his shoulder. He wasn't finishing his pitches.

it didn't look like, like it looked like there may have been another health issue at play in this one. And, you know, in addition to just the drop in velocity, I might explain the drop in velocity. And of course, Strasbourg is no stranger to health issues.

So we'll have to see what more comes out. But concerning. Definitely concerning. Who would you rather have, Scott? Zach Gallen or Strasberg straight up? Again, based on what I know right now, I got to say Gowan. And you know what?

I'd probably move Strasberg behind. Gallin just based on performance anyway. Gallin looked really strong coming back from that that hairline fracture in his forearm. He looked really good. He was one pitcher who performed well today. He only went four innings, but look, in his debut, eight strikeouts, only one earned run,

12 whiffs on 82 pitches for Zach Gallen. Going up against the Oakland A's velocity looked perfectly fine. He did use his fastball a little bit more, but it was his first start of the season. And he was throwing curveballs, which is the pitch that was giving him some trouble with that forearm once he suffered the injury. So I'm with you. I'm willing to move Schroesberg

behind Zach Gallen. And I'm going to do a big rankings update tomorrow. We'll talk about rankings a little bit more the rest of the week. But yeah, I have a feeling Strasbourg is going to be dropping quite a bit. Scott, what do you think? Oh my goodness gracious standout from Tuesday.

Well, you brought up Strasberg. I'm going to bring up Max Freed. It's a couple of bad starts in a row for Freed. Today's start against the Marlins, seven earn runs and four innings, gave up nine hits, gave up two home runs. That's 12-erd runs over six innings in his past two starts for Max Fried. And this was his worst start of his career today.

It was... And it was against the Marlins, Scott, which is crazy. Yeah, so I'm not... I'm struggling to see what, if anything, is wrong with Max Fried. Velocity looks fine. We've seen the slider of velocity. fluctuate quite a bit. It was actually down some, but, you know,

fastball is mainly what you look at for velocity. Sometimes a slower breaking ball is better. I'm not sure that it really, like, the stuff looks fine. He's getting whiffs. I don't really think that's the issue. I don't know if it's, the Marlins are so familiar with Max Fried at this point that they maybe have his number or maybe there's a possibility

he's tipping pitches, something like that. Or maybe, you know, he's just missing his spots early in the C. It's something that happens. It's something that is usually corrected pretty quickly for pictures of his caliber. And I'm not inclined to freak out over it. I got to understand if you want to sit freed until he shows signs of turning it around. I don't think it's a must necessarily. But I get to understand if you want to do that after two pretty bad starts.

But I think he's going to be okay. I mean, I do think he was kind of overrated coming into the season. We talked about that, but not so much because I thought, thought he was going to get trounced. It was just because I think maybe his upside was being overstated. Yeah, Max Fried, what I noticed, I didn't see anything in the velocity, you know, swinging strikes, whatever, 11 whiffs on 86 pitches, it was fine. But the home runs, he allowed, he's allowed three home runs over his last two starts.

Last year in total, in 11 regular season starts, he allowed just two home runs. So there was always going to be regression there. It's, you know, you're not just going to allow two home runs over 11 starts, especially in today's day and age of baseball. But yeah, at least early in the season, he is giving up more home runs. I saw the exit velocity on his specifically curveball and I think it was change-up

where those two pitches in general just got destroyed for Max Fried on Tuesday. So, Scott, if you can turn around any of these pitchers that are off to really good starts, like Trevor Rogers, Nathan Avaldi, in a classic, you know, sell-high situation, trying to buy low on Max Fried, would you pull the trigger on either of those?

As a buy low with Freed, you're saying? Yeah, like, would you... Yeah. If someone sent you freed for your Trevor Rogers or Nathan Avaldi, would you take it? Avaldi, sure. I really like the upside of Rogers. I still think I'd have to do it. But that wouldn't be the first offer I'd made to the guy who had freed.

It wouldn't be... It wouldn't be Trevor Rogers. It would be somebody who I thought... didn't have quite that much upside. But if push came to shove, yeah, I'd still have to rank free to have Rogers at this point. All right, fair enough. Did you have a Worryometer on Max Fried, Scott?

Let's say 3.5. 3.5. And for those out there, we're still calibrating the Worryometer. But 10 is, okay, I'm freaking out, you know, talk me off the ledge here. One is, no, there's nothing to be worried about him. he's perfectly fine.

No issues here. So a 3.5 for Max Fried and a 6 for Strasbourg. So he's getting up there. The Champions League will be down to four teams by the end of this week following the second leg of the quarter final stage. If you haven't already,

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the commenters alerted me to something here what do we got what do we got uh it was reported in the last 20 minutes or so that max freed is having an MRI on his hamstring apparently felt something running down the line uh so you know obviously not you'd rather be a hamstring than an arm but it sounds like it's possible he could wind up in the iL on the iL after all this Ooh, well, that's not great. But thanks for looking out, YouTube chat. So anytime anything happens, we do appreciate the help there. But all right, yeah, Max Fried going for an MRI on his hamstring,

definitely could be what's plagued him at least over the last couple of starts. Was he dealing with anything in the spring? I don't think so, right? Not that I remember. I don't think so either. So, all right, maybe hold off on some of those trade offers until we find out what's going on with Max Fried. Some other news and notes from Tuesday saw that Sunny Gray will make his season debut

either Friday or Saturday this week, and that comes against Cleveland. So a nice matchup there to start for Sunny Gray. Don't give up on Jordan Romano just yet. Julian Meriwether is experiencing left hip irritation per Blue Jays manager, Charlie Montoya. And Meriwether does not really have the cleanest bill of health, Scott. He's dealt with a lot of injury concerns in the past,

and he almost didn't make the team because of all the injuries he suffered before. So hold on to your Jordan Romano. I know, and it looked like there was even a clear indication that he was the closer because again, Romano came in for the eighth. He ran into trouble. Meriwether had to bail him out for the last out of the eight through just two pitches to finish out the inning.

I thought he was going to come in in the ninth and get the save. But an insurance run was added, and apparently Maryweather wasn't feeling quite right. So, yeah, like you said, can't drop Romano just yet. Do not do it. Josh Donaldson will be activated off the injured list on Wednesday. He missed the past two weeks with a hamstring injury. At least it wasn't his calves.

Teoscar Hernandez tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday and will remain quarantine for at least the next 10 days. So get well soon. Teoscar Hernandez. Josh Palacios started in left field on Tuesday. And he's actually been all right the past couple of games, but this is only a name in the deepest. of leagues. We're talking AL only. Josh Palacios. Blue Jays GM, Ross Atkins, said that Nate Pearson

is pain-free after dealing with a groin injury. Scott, Pearson is 52% rostered. What should that number be? I think it maybe should go up to like 60. Just because I know there are pitchers rostered in that same range that I feel like I'd probably pick up before Pearson, but obviously Pearson has a ton of upside. And wouldn't surprise me at all if you know, a starter to into his return, he becomes must add. Kyle Hendricks was scratched on Tuesday out of an abundance of caution because he wasn't

feeling well. He has tested negative for COVID since he was scratch. Alec Mills started in his place. James Paxton is indeed headed for season ending elbow surgery. We are just a few, what's the name here, Scott? Nick Margavichus? That's how we're pronouncing it, right?

Nick Margavichus? I wasn't expecting me to actually say the name tonight. Yes, that is the Mariners pitcher who took James Paxton spot and used to pitch for the Padres. His name is Nick Margavichus. Okay. So a few blowups from him or Justin Dunn. And I'm telling you, Scott, I think Logan Gilbert is on the way. Maybe late April or early May. Who would you rather stash right now between Gilbert or Nate Pearson?

Pearson. Okay. I think it's going to be a longer way for Gilbert. But I got some more news for you, Frank, here. So we're reaching the stage in the night where the beat reporters are actually getting to talk to the players. So I got a tweet here from Mark Zuckerman of massen sports.com. Not Mark Zuckerberg, but Mark Zuckerman.

He says Strasberg attributed his diminished velocity to needing to dial it back some to try to locate better. Says he wasn't synced up the way he normally is, led to poor command and falling off the mound toward the first base line. So, you know, it sounds like he was, had some mechanical stuff going on, which is better than an injury. Yeah, I feel a little better.

I feel a little better about him now, but I'd rather sit him until I saw him get back on track. Christian Yelich was out of the lineup for the second straight game as he's dealing with that back injury per manager, Tony LaRusa. Andrew Vaughn will start on Wednesday and Thursday against Cleveland and should play quite a bit on the upcoming road trips to Boston and Cleveland.

So, Scott, is this a reason to hold onto our Andrew Vaughn shares because I tweeted out asking people, who do you want to hear about Worryometer? And we got quite a few Andrew Vaughn responses. Well, I think you should try to hold on to Vaughn anyway. I finally got a tweet today, you know, should I drop Vaughn for this guy that I, for the first time I said yes to it. And it was Jared Kelnick, who I'm feeling pretty confident will be up next week. But I don't think that's an easy call.

I definitely could see how that backfires on you. If Kelnick doesn't get called up and Vaughn suddenly goes crazy, you're going to feel bad about doing it. But I do think if it came to that decision, that's what I'd do. I think I was drafting Kelnick ahead of Vaughn towards the end of draft season anyway. Kellnick is 74% rostered on CBS, so he still might be out there in some of your shallower fantasy leagues. Tyler Naquin was on the bench for a second straight game Tuesday

against righty Kevin Galsman, so I'm sorry, Scott. Michael Confordo got hit by a pitch in his right wrist in game one of the doubleheader. X-rays came back negative. Lorenzo Kane left Tuesday night's game with left quad discomfort. It was his right quad that was hurt during spring training. Will Myers left Tuesday with an apparent injury. I have not seen anything on what Will Myers' injury is. And Justin Upton was out of the lineup due to back stiffness. John Jay was starting in left field with Jared Walsh and Wright. Jared Walsh, by the way, Scott,

off to a pretty damn good start. And he was one of these guys that he tore it up in September. We didn't really know what to make of it because he struck out a lot in the past. And so far, so good for Jared Walsh. So I think if you got him, we're solidly holding onto him, at least, you know, while he's playing.

Yeah, and it didn't get as much attention as Vaughn sitting out the first game, but Walsh set out the first two games. And then since then, he has started all but one. Now the only one he sat out was against a lefty, so I don't know that he's entirely out of the woods as far as playing time goes,

but 35 plate appearance is only six strikeouts. That is similar to the strikeout rate. Yeah, certainly a much better strikeout rate than he showed in the minors, more like what he showed when he was crushing it in September. So that's a very good sign for Jared Walsh. Would you rather have Walsh or Vaughn? I think I have to say Walsh at this,

point. I think so, too. So, if anyone is in that dilemma, go with the ball. Right. Before we get to some other Worryometer pitchers from Tuesday, I do want to talk about some waiver wire hitters. We got to talk about the hitter, Scott. We can't always talk about the pitchers.

Adam Duvall. Man, you know, you and I talking beforehand, we both dropped them in a 15 team league this week. And of course, this happens. The revenge game against the Atlanta Braves. Adam Duvall goes four for five with two homers, seven RBI, four runs scored, and now has three homers over his last two games. He is only 10% rostered.

This is Adam Duvall we're talking about. And you know what's just ironic Scott last year? Remember you hit two three home run games? One of those came as in Atlanta Brave against the Miami Marlins. And now he just had two home runs in a game as a Marlin against the Atlanta Braves. Yeah, it's pretty interesting. give the Duval give us the Duval take us away because not only is there that connection but I had I picked up Duval in I think Tout Wars among other leagues before he had that three homer nine RBI game against the Marlins last year where the brave scored 29 runs and so that was thrilling I had him in I think TGFBI one of my 15 team leagues last week dropped them for this week missed out on the two homer seven RBI game, which

kind of encapsulates the whole Adam Duvall experience. You know, he's going to hit his share of home runs. It's not going to do much of anything else. And it's going to be sporadic, the production. So it's really testing your patience to see how willing you are to stick with him through the dry spells.

And it's going to be hard to do. Certainly anything shallower than 15 teams. Yeah, I was going to say, you know, what league format or we actually adding Adam Duval in. He's widely available, but I would say anything deeper than 12 teams with five outfielders,

sure. I think you could look at Adam Duval for power and probably not much else. That's about right. All right. Jed Lowry. Keep it rolling, man. Turn back the clocks here. Jed Lowry went two for four on

Tuesday with a three-run home run, his second home run of the season. 19% rostered. He plays six games next week, three of which are in Baltimore. Scott, how imperative is it that you get Jed Lowry on your team? I don't think it's imperative.

I think he'll be I think the production will wind up pretty comparable to if Lowry stays healthy and that's a big if, but if he does, I think it'll be pretty comparable to Jorge Palanco. I know Polanco's off to a bad start, but you know, still low strike

get rate, high line, drave rate, you expect him to hit for average with some amount of pop, and I think we're going to see similar from Lowry if he's healthy. I like that he's walked six times versus eight strikeouts. He has five total extra base hits.

These are good signs that he can be a relevant fantasy contributor, but I don't think he's going to be high end. Would you make that swap if you had the decision, Scott, Polanco for Lowry? I want to, no. I wouldn't. Not giving Lowry's injury history.

And I will just add, you know, if you're in a deeper league and you lost Ketel, Marty. Obviously, Jed Lowry is not going to be Catel Marte, but can you give you some batting average, a little bit of pop while Catel Marte's out? Sure. I think that can be a fine replacement there. Wilson Ramos had a double dong on Tuesday and now has six home runs entering Tuesday night. He had an 82% hard contact rate, according to Stackcast, in the highest average exit velocity in baseball. Scott, I mean, Jed Lowry, Wilson Ramos, like, what is going on? This is like,

Would you drop, we got a lot of questions tonight. Would you drop any of Buster Posey, Omar Narvaez, Sean Murphy, or Mitch Garver for Wilson Ramos? Okay, so some of those names I think I would. Posey, yes, I'm fine with that. Narvaez. Who is also off to a really good start. He is, but I still think I would.

Sean Murphy, I think that's pretty easy. Garver, I might hesitate. But, you know, the kind of leagues where Wilson Ramos is available or probably the shallowest of leagues. One catcher leagues. Right. One catcher leagues. Shallow leagues.

The sort where if you drop Garvey, you're probably going to get another shot at him later. Yeah. I think I would drop any of them for Ramos. I don't average exit velocity 101.2. He's crushing it, man. John Carlos Stan, his ex-slug is 723. His hard hit rate is 80.

I think it just went over that. 82.4% hard hit rate. Like, you know, what normally leads the league? Like 50 or less than that? I would say it's probably somewhere around there. It's a great start. Obviously unsustainable. But at catcher, you know, everything's everything.

You know, you don't have to be that tied to a catcher unless it's obviously somebody like JT. Real Muto. So yeah, write it out with Ramos for now. I like it. Yeah. One catcher league. He has a track record of being good, not this, but, you know, pretty good offensive contributor. We will drop in one catcher leagues. Posey, Narvaez, Murphy, Sean Murphy, and Mitch Garver for Wilson Ramos.

Scott, two veteran corner infielders. Eduardo Escobar went two for four on Tuesday. He has multiple hits in four of his last five games, 68% rostered, so it might be out there in some points leagues. Joey Vado, back-to-back days with a home run. He is 52% rostered, which veteran corner infielder? do you like more? Definitely Votto. Definitely Votto.

In fact, I'm having some remorse here for dropping Joey Votto, especially since it's a league where strikeouts count a full minus one for hitters as opposed to minus 0.5 like CBS standard. But Joey Votto, you know, apart from these two home runs the last two days, off to a slow start. But if you look at his expected stats, the quality of contact he's making. His expected stats, 318 batting average, 564 slug. He's striking out only 11.6% of the time.

I think there may be truth to the idea that we're going to see a reemergence of Joey Votto this year, given his he's made a concerted effort to drive the ball more after being a little too focused on reducing strikeouts. Ironically, his strikeout right now is as low as it's ever been. But he said he got too focused on that. and kind of neglected hitting for power as a result of it.

And then we saw him change his approach midway through last season, had an awesome September. Hinned the ball really hard so far? Good expected stats. I think he probably needs to be rostered in most leagues. Scott Rank, Votto, Jared Walsh, and Andrew Vaughn. I think I still have to put Vado last to that group. It's a shame you can't roster everybody.

This is why you get paid the big bucks. answer the tough questions. Renato Nunez. He has homered in back-to-back games. He was just recalled for the Detroit Tigers. He's only 5% rostered, so this is more of a deep league play, Scott. But I'm wondering, do you think he's going to play every day once Miguel Cabrera returns? I'm sure one could DH and one could play first, but he's looked good so far. He has looked good. And I don't think performance should have ever been in question for. I mean, back-to-back years with being a solid power hitter, as is. I don't see

why that would change. I guess he's playing at a bigger park in Detroit versus Baltimore the past couple years, so that might be one reason, but, you know, he should be pretty productive while he's in the lineup. They had some questions about his defense.

Is my understanding of why he didn't make the opening day roster? I mean, if you're a worse... Presumably those questions wouldn't go away when Cabrera's back in the lineup, but you don't know what's going to happen between now and someone else could get hurt, or maybe just having him in the lineup

and getting used to the idea of his power bat being there, the Tigers will be less likely to take him out this time. Look, I love Miguel Cabrera as much as the next guy, but if you're a worst offender than him, then you've got some issues, man. So if Renato Nunez can't get at first base, then yeah, something's going terribly wrong.

But in deep release, look out for Renato Nunez. Worryometer Wednesday, the ace. is edition. We already talked about Steven Schroesberg, Max Friede getting sent for an MRI on his hamstring. Let's talk about Blake Snell here, Scott, who was at the Pirates. Another one. Freed's going up against the Marlins.

Snell's going up against the pirates. You're thinking, okay, wow, man, you got these two on the same team, fantastic matchups. He couldn't escape the first inning. Blake Snow did not get out of the first. He only recorded two outs. He allowed three hits, three earned, two walks, one hit by pitch, 38

pitches. He got taken out of the game. barking at everybody in his own dugout. I mean, how can you blame him? You're pitching terribly against one of the worst teams in the league. You deserve to get taken out. So what do you think, Scott? Worryometer, 1 to 10 on Blake's now. I will say,

I'll say three for him. I don't know that this start really moves the needle for me. He was throwing plenty hard. He actually threw his breaking balls a lot more than usual. I think it was just one of those days for him. Mainly my concerns about Snell would be, we haven't seen him go six innings at a start yet, and that's been an issue for him for a couple years now.

I'm just not sure. I know he won a Cy Young Award in, what was it, 2018? Yep, but I think he's kind of, I think his fantasy value has kind of, it's kind of coasted on that in fantasy, because it's been, I'm not saying he hasn't been must roster, but he's been kind of underwhelming since then,

and I think a little less than must start. Snell has not completed six in a start since July 21st, 2019. That is a long time ago. And, you know, on the other side of that, basically, Snell is probably a little bit overvalued for fantasy. Junjun Riu is probably the most underrated pitcher, starting pitcher in fantasy baseball year in and year out.

I am here to say, I'm ready to make a bold proclamation on, mid-April, which is probably going to look ridiculous in a month from now. I would rather have Ryu over Snell, the rest of season. I don't think it's crazy. I ended up with a lot of shares of Ryu last year because I thought he was especially undervalued then. He was more appreciated in drafts this year than last year,

so I didn't end up with him as much. But coming into this season, if you're looking at lowest ERAs over the past three seasons, heading into this season. Jacob de Grom was number one on that list. Junjun Riu was number two with the 230 ERA the past three years. How do you like that?

Oh, I like that. I didn't know if anything else was happening. I'm also refreshing my Twitter now because after that Max Friede thing, I'm like, all right, well, I feel like something else is going to break tonight, so paying attention to both. We already spoke about Max Fried.

Let's talk a little bit about Pablo Lopez on the other side and that start. Four innings, pitch, nine hits, six earned, six strikeouts, so still got a decent amount. 13 whiffs on 83 pitches. I just think Pablo Lopez cannot really pitch

against the Braves. If you remember last year, he got destroyed. I think it was like 10 earned runs. It was the game where the Braves scored. I think it was 20, what was it, 24 runs in a game, Scott, or something like that?

29. 29 runs in a game. That was the game that Pablo Lopez started. I think he just kind of struggles against the Braves. They're a really good lineup. And some of their guys got going. Marcel Ozuna, Ozzy Albi's hit a home run.

I think we kind of spoke that into existence yesterday, Scott. But Pablo Lopez Worryometer. Yeah, like a two, but I think I would be worried if I was somebody who was like calling the Pablo Lopez breakout this year, like some people were. He's barely thrown that breaking ball that was getting hyped to this spring. He's barely thrown it at all in any of the three starts. First two starts, obviously, the result was fine. I think he's going to be a fine pitcher more often than not, a quality start more often than not.

but he's kind of in that very small tier of that very small middle class at a position that's so, uh, so two-faced. I don't know that I've ever been sub-tweeted by Scott on the podcast while we were podcasting because I had Pablo Lopez in my breakouts column. Oh, I didn't even know that. I wasn't,

well, thanks for reading my breakout, Scott. Yeah. Uh, so, it hasn't looked great for Pablo Lopez. I will admit that. And he's been very, it's four seam sinker, it's change up. He's not really using the breaking pitch as much. So I get it. I just think

you were probably drafting him as your, what, SP4. I'm still fine with him as your SP4. I think he's going to be like a high threes, ERA, an okay whip, maybe a strike up or ending. And that's solid. It's just maybe he doesn't take that next step that I was hoping on. How about Hazers Lozardo, who was at the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday, two and two-thirds, six hits, five earned two walks, one strikeout. He allowed a three-run homer to Carson Kelly, of all people. Lazardo has now allowed 12 earned runs over 13 in his first three starts.

Lazardo, 1 to 10 on the Worryometer. He's probably like a two as well. And I mean, I think this early in the season, we're talking about three starts for these guys, two for some of them, barely anything. I think really the main thing, that would worry me for a pitcher this early in the year is if they don't seem to be throwing as hard as they normally do like they've lost stuff or I didn't believe that they were good in the first place and it's kind of being confirmed already those would be the main things that would worry me about a pitcher and Luzardo doesn't fall into either of those categories there is something weird going on with him where he's throwing his four seam fastball like two-thirds of the time and last year he was throwing either his four-seam or

two seamer combined he was throwing them only like 50% of the time so for some reason he's leaning way more on the fastball and that pitch was responsible for a 552 slugging percentage last year so i'm not sure why losardo is doing that why he's he's not throwing his breaking ball and his change up as much but i i trust you know somebody's going to reveal this to him and he's going to go back to uh if he doesn't figure it on himself go back to mixing his pitches in a way that makes more sense. I've noticed a few pitchers so far this season, Scott, are relying on the fastball heavy. I think Jacob de Grom has barely used his change-up through his first three starts. He probably just doesn't need to because he's the best pitcher in baseball. But there's

been a few other pitchers that are really going fastball heavy early on. And I wonder if that's what Lazzardo has been doing. But yeah, I agree with him. I mean, his his breaking pitch and his change-up was really good last year for him in terms of whiff rate. So I think if he just does that, he's probably going to turn it around. I think if anyone's freaking out about Lazzardo, definitely looking to buy low on him. Yeah, I would agree. Yeah, fastball is obviously what they threw most in spring training

and they weren't working in their secondary pitches until deeper into spring training. And it may just be that he doesn't have a feel for them quite yet. But either way you look at it, that's something that will correct itself in time, I believe. So I would agree with you that Lazzardo strikes me a by-low right now. I'm not saying you have to keep starting him. I could understand benching him until he turns things around, but I still think he's going to have a good season.

He does have a two-star week next week against the Minnesota Twins. Don't love that one. At Baltimore, that's obviously a better start there. I ask you this. Yeah, tough to sit him in a points league, I would say. Roto probably could do it. I asked you this earlier for Max Reed, but Scott, if you can turn Trevor Rogers into Hayes with Lozardo right now, would you do it? I would be less likely to do that. Hmm. That's a tough. Would you?

Would you, Frank? I'll turn it right back around on you. You can't answer my question with a question, Scott. That's not how this works. Sure I can. I, you know, I'm inclined to say no just because we really don't know who Lazzardo is yet. And it's kind of the same thing with Trevor Rogers. Like, what's stopping Trevor Rogers from being what we thought Hazard's going to be?

There's really nothing. It's just Lizarro's been up longer and he looked good at times last year. He hasn't looked great yet. He has a lot more prospect pedigree than Rogers. I get that. I still have Lizarro ranked higher than Rogers and I'm going to leave it that way.

I wouldn't do that trade. I would not trade Trevor Rogers for Jesus Luzardo. Is that fair? Yeah. Yeah, that's fair. I don't think I would either. But I know I'm not ready to drop Luzardo behind Rogers in my ranking.

Same, same. but they're getting closer. The gap is closing. They're pretty close right now. Last but not least, Luis Castillo was at the San Francisco Giants. It seems like I have to do a weather check every time Luis Castillo's pitching now.

I don't know what the weather is in San Francisco, but Luis Castillo was not really good on Tuesday. Five innings pitch, seven hits, four earned runs, two home runs allowed. They both came in the first inning. Seven strikeouts to zero walks. I do like that for Castillo quite a bit. 14 whiffs on 98 pitches.

Wariometer on Castillo, Scott. One at most. I mean, compared to those other starts, this was a gym from Castillo. His velocity was all the way back up. His changeup was whiff-tastic. Gave up a couple home runs. Didn't walk anybody, you know?

It's... This is... This is just a mess start from a good pitcher. That's all it strikes me as. Yeah, I'm with you. I'd put it as a one as well. If anyone's freaking out about Castillo, another one. Don't worry, he is better as the season goes along as the weather heats up.

I think Luis Castillo is going to be just fine. We're going to take a quick break. If you are listening on the video side, don't go anywhere. If you are listening, if you're watching on the video side, if you're listening on the audio side, we will be back right after this with some Worryometer hitters here on Fantasy Baseball today. Let's start things off with Lourdes-Guriel Scott,

who went 0 for 3 on Tuesday. he's now betting 156. Strikeouts are up a little bit thus far. 1 to 10 on the Wurionometer for Gurriel. Basically one. Yeah, I want to say he got off to a slow start last year too. That sounds right.

And I was taking a kind of a victory lap for it because I wasn't believing in him as hard as others were. Then obviously things turned around. Yeah, so through 17 games last year, he was hitting 226 with one home run. Things got better, and I think they'll get better again for Lordus Garreal. Agreed.

How about Trey Mancini? Entering Tuesday, he had a 32% strikeout rate, a 56% ground ball rate. Obviously, look, we don't want to hold him, you know, too accountable. The guy is coming back from having cancer, so it's a crazy situation, obviously, for Trey Mancini. But, you know, it seems like maybe a year,

off, he's going to get off to a slow start here, Scott. Are you holding Trey Mancini? Where are you at on the Wuriometer? Preferably, I could understand how in a three outfielder league he may be your only way to make room for somebody else who needs to be picked up.

But I think it's too early to say whether or not that time he missed what his body went through if that cost him something. And it may not even be that. You know, there was some skepticism

coming off 2019 that that performance was something he could live up to again. It's worth pointing out. But I think we need to see more. I think it's just too early to judge. And that's true for every player, of course. Mancini, because of his history, I'd put him more like a three or four, let's say four on the Wuriometer. But, you know, I'm not ready to write him off yet.

Dylan Moore random mid-career breakout last year with the Seattle Mariners hoping to get a bunch of steals out of him in category leagues he went over three on Tuesday he's betting 121 and he had a 36% strikeout rate

entering Tuesday night's action and I know you have him in Tau Wars Scott I have him in another 15 team league so we're keeping him there but look in a points league the guy's striking out 36% of the time you probably could cut bait with him Yeah, I almost did in the podcast league.

The head-to-head points won. The long-standing, the longer-standing podcast league. I almost did this weekend. That particular bid just didn't go through. But, I mean, it's notable because Moore was the second best basement on a per-game basis last year even in that format. Rotelig, obviously, the bigger lineup, the need for steals. He deserves a longer leash.

but he was one of the more maybe the player deserving of the most skepticism other than like to Oscar Hernandez maybe coming off last year and the fact that he's striking out even more I mean that's an untenable strikeout rate and look it's a strike out rate that could correct itself next week but making contact was already a problem for more

and right now it's been even worse Ian Hap, the lead-off man for the Chicago Cubs. He went one for four on Tuesday. The batting average stands at 156. I don't really see anything in the stat-cast data, Scott. I mean, he's not striking out more this year. He's not really hitting the ball all that hard. I don't know.

Where are you at on Ian Hap? 1 to 10, Wariometer. I will give him like a 3. because I wasn't totally sold on him in the first place, but if you were, I don't think anything has happened this year to change your mind. He's been getting on base a lot. Like he said,

he hasn't been hitting the ball as hard. That doesn't necessarily mean anything. He just may not be squaring up the ball right now, but it's going to happen for every hitter for stretches this year. So, yeah, I mean, he usually bats leadoff for the Cubs, right? and he has power. I'm not dumping on hap here.

I'm not going to dump him and I'm not going to dump on him. By the way, I just happened to notice this today. Paul Goldschmidt, I know nobody's thinking about dropping Paul Goldschmidt, but his numbers don't look great. He hit his first home run today. But he's another one like Joey Votto,

where you look at the expected stats versus the actual ones, and you're like, wow, Paul Goldschmidt, there's a lot of reason to think he's going to turn things around here. XBA of 312 X-slug of 538. 71% hard hit rate. Wilson Ramos puts that to shame, I guess, but that's about the only player, 71%. Goldschmidt's hitting the ball hard,

and I think he's going to be okay. Yes, so if you have him, then everything's going to be all right. I don't really know that you could buy low on him, just because he's one of the bigger names still. so if you can try for it, but it's probably going to be hard to do with Paul Goldschmidt, who just hit his first home run

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Shane Bieber, nine shutout. Yes, normally that would be a complete game shutout, But this game went to extra innings because both Beaver and Gialito were just fantastic. So Beaver winds up with 11 strikeouts. Gioledo winds up with eight strikeouts over seven shutout. And we didn't talk about it earlier because what are we going to say, Scott? These guys are awesome. Yeah.

Yeah. Imagine those leagues where I have Beaver and Gialito as my one and two. All the ground I gained in the pitching categories where everyone else was stinking it up. So that feels good. But yeah, I mean, they did. what they do. Interestingly, Gioledo's velocity was actually down in this start. He peaked at 94 when normally he peaks at like 97.

On average velocity was down like a mile per hour. I don't know. That means anything. Obviously, he dominated. But maybe the most interesting thing that happened in this game is James Karen Chack got the save. Now, you'll be quick to point out that Emmanuel Class A, who we were assuming was closer who got the previous two saves for the team had worked what three of the previous four days right correct um but the last time we saw him work he took the loss he took the loss in a tie game did not get the job

done didn't look awful of course and look i don't maybe it means nothing maybe it means nothing but i'm just saying class a gave francona an excuse to try somebody else and the somebody else he tried on Tuesday night, got the job done. So still Class A number one in the packing order, but I'm not sure is an open and shut case. All right? I'm not sure. Especially when that save Karen Chack converted Scott started with a runner on second base,

and he did not allow that run to score, so it's pretty impressive there for him. Good point. Matthew Boyd, also impressive, Scott. I don't know. Keep poo-pooing my guy, Matthew Boyd. He was at the Astros, 6 and 2 thirds of one-run ball. Only four strikeouts to one walk. Nine whiffs on 100 pitches.

It's not overly exciting or anything. But I will point out the Astros entered Tuesday with the second lowest swinging strike rate in baseball. But Boyd continues to use his fastball less and his slider and change up more. His fastball velocity was actually up one mile per hour in this start as well. So Scott are you,

is there confidence in Boyd growing at all? Not really. Boone. I mean, we've seen Matthew Boyd throw a change-up a lot before, and that was before he became a good pitcher. So I don't know why going back to that would make him a better pitcher. But that was a while ago. He could have changed up how he throws his change-up.

And where are the whiffs, Frank? If it's such a good change-up, where are the whiffs? Let's be fair, because we're all excited about Casey Mize. He's not getting any whiffs either. I know, but that's Casey Mize versus Matthew Boy. you know. Well, I try. I still like Matthew Boyden.

I would take him over Casey Mize. And I like what I've seen from Boyd and the pitch mix that he's using so far this year. Scott, would you drop either of James and Tyone, who did not have a great second start of the season on Tuesday? He was at Dunedin to face the Blue Jays. Three and two-thirds.

He allowed five earned runs. He is 95% rostered. And Jake Oteresee was obviously on the other side of Boyd in this game, he'll add five earned over three and a third. Would you drop either of Tyone or Odarezi for Matthew Boyd? I would definitely drop Odarezi because there hasn't been a lot to like there in a while. He's 64% rostered, so he's on someone's team. It's not on mine.

He's not a year's. Yeah, well, I see people hype him from time to time and I don't really get it because even the year he was good, he had some definite, issues pitching deep into games. So, yeah, not a lot that I see to like in Odarezi. I'll stick with Tyone for now. I'll stick with Tyone for now. He showed good strikeout potential in the first start.

Yeah, I'll give him a fast for this one. Stick it out a little longer. Some other happenings around the league on Tuesday, Justice Sheffield at the Orioles, six innings of two-run ball, five strikeouts, only seven whiffs on 77 pitches. they should have let him just throw the full seven in the double header because Rafael Montero went on to blow his win. So that did not work out well for Justice Sheffield.

John Means, I don't know, I don't know, Scott. He was going up against the Mariners, five endings of three-run ball, five strikeouts. The fastball velocity was actually up, and the slider velocity was up almost two miles per hour. So anything to see here with John Means, we haven't really done a means check in a while. Well, it's only his third start. What do you want?

Yeah, no, I actually watched quite a bit of this start because I was scouting him because I was seeing if I should trade for him in the Dynasty League. And even though he got off to a rough start with the two home runs, I ultimately decided yes. I saw him hit 94th of fastball a few times. And just the pitch mix and the way he was locating the different pitches, it left the Mariners shaking their heads a lot. and I think he retired nine in a row at one point and then issued a walk and then had to be taken out of it. So it seemed like he came around. He really didn't have his change up so much in this start,

which is his best pitch, arguably. And so he figured out he uses breaking balls more. And I don't know, he just looks like, he just looks like a smart, seasoned pitcher to me who improved physical. basically last year and got the velocity up. And I think has a higher ceiling, but it may be more of a floor case

than a ceiling case for Means. Garrison Wong in our YouTube comments actually said someone in his league just traded John Means away for Jesus Lazzardo. Well, that's a good buy low on Luzardo. Yeah, I like that. I like that quite a bit. If you can pull that off, something you should look into

doing. Taiwan Walker was going up against the Philly's four and a third. One earned eight strikeouts, 12 whiffs on 80 pitches. The velocity was up across the board. Four seam, splitter, slider, curve up almost two miles per hour. All right, Scott.

We got a few more whiffs in this one. We had eight strikeouts. Buying in? Taiwan Walker? I mean, I still have some skepticism there, but the fact the velocity's up across the board. Two starts in. that's definitely interesting.

I would probably value him on about the same level as Casey Meis. Walker, I think, is pretty universally rostered, actually, which I was surprised about it. I was surprised he was as rostered as he was, and I don't have enough enough to put up, but it's fine. At least on our site, it might be different on other sites. He may have had like a really good projection on our site that moved him up in the draft room.

That happens sometimes. That's fair. Ramon Luriano leads baseball with eight steals. That is more than, that is double the next closest. Garrett Hampson has four. So one of my- His career high is 13. He's up to eight.

One of my fill in the blanks guy was going to be, Ramon Luriano finishes the season with blank steals. He's got to slow down, right? Does he? I don't know. I don't know. I remember these seasons where Tim Anderson would steal like nine bases in April and it's like, this is it, the 40 steel season.

and then he finished with 17 or something. I just kind of see that playing out similarly for Luriano because it's not... Well, we've seen that from Bogarts too. Bogarts has done that before, faked us out with a lot of steals early and then slowed down.

I'll set the over under at 24.5s, Scott. What do you think? I'll take the under, slightly under. Boo! I don't even have any Luriano shares, but eight steals in the first month. If he stays healthy, I think that he could very easily go over that number.

Kyle Gibson was at the raise seven innings of two-run ball. One of those was earned. He only had three strikeouts, nine whiffs on 86 pitches. So I don't think we're excited about Kyle Gibson, Scott, but whenever you stream a two-start pitcher

and you get something like this, perfect. Yeah, that's pretty much sums it up, I'd say. Akeel Badoo had multiple hits and now has homered in back-to-back game, 71% rostered. This number should be like 90, 95%. So if Akil Badu is out there in your league, please go get him.

I moved him up into my top 35 in the outfield. Oh my. Top 35. Yeah. Now that's a range of outfielders that I think are pretty easy to cut ties with. It includes guys like Ryan Mountcastle and Clint Frazier. So it's easy to move Badu up that high. But still, even in three outfielder leagues, I think he needs to be rostered.

A few other things. Ryan Mountcastle went three for six with one RBI and one steel across two games on Tuesday. He has a modest five-game hitting streak. So Mountcastle looks like he's coming around a little bit. Mitch Hanigur had four hits across two games. He is now batting 311. Looks like he's back. Marcus Stroman against the Philly. Six shutout, four hits, zero walks, three strikeouts. He had 13 whiffs on 86 pitches. Quality starts. in each of his first two here with the Mets. Remember, he sat out last season. He opted out, Marcus Stroman did in 2020.

Tren Grisham. Looks like he's Tren Grisham. He looks fine so far. One for four with two walks, three runs scored, hit his third home run of the season on Tuesday. The call to the pen. Look at some bullpen situations. Matt Barnes picked up his first save of the season

for the Red Sox. Adam Adivino pitched in the seventh. The Oakland A's, Sergio Romo pitched in the 8th with the A's up 6 to 5 at the time. Lou Trevino picked up the save in a 7 to 5 game. Jake Deekman did pitch three of the last four days entering Tuesday. What do you think, Scott? Is Trevino the guy?

Well, it definitely raised my eyebrow that Trevino faced two left-handed hitters in that ninth inning. And Deegman obviously didn't work in the game. Three the last four days. Yeah, maybe they were just giving them a day off, but Trevino showed he could get the job done. Every time you show you can get the job done, you're that much closer to securing the job, having the job all to yourself.

For the Mariners, I mentioned Raphael Montero, already picked up his third blown save of the season. He allowed two hits in one run. Kendall Graveman picked up the save the following inning. Scott, would you look to add Kendall Graveman in any deeper category leagues with saves. Yeah, I think so.

I think Montero might be vulnerable here. Three blown saves is a lot. He hasn't gotten like shellacked yet. Each of those blown saves, he allowed one earned run. So it's unfortunate for him that it's led to three blown. I think his ERA is like 426,

which of course isn't good, but when you think a closer has three blown saves through less than two weeks, you would expect it to be like 19 or something, you know? Not 420, whatever. but yeah, I would think

I would be a little nervous if I was counting on Montero for saves at this point. Hector Neris allowed three hits, a walk, and two runs in his save appearance, and took the loss on Tuesday. I'm not saying anything's going to happen here, but a gentleman named Connor Brogden might be the next man up. He pitched the inning before Hector Nerris did. Jose Alvarado was used. It's weird because it was a doubleheader.

I think it was in extra innings. I think it was like Nairus was used in the eighth. Brogden was used in the seventh. Jose Alvarado was used in the sixth. For the Cubs, Craig Kimbril recorded a four-out save. His third save of the season, he looks lights out as far. So if you took the shot on Kimbril, so far, so good. To stream or not to stream for Wednesday,

for those in daily lineup league, Scott Griffin Canning at the Royals. Yay or nay? Yay. All right. Ross Stripling versus the Yankees. Nay. Joe Ross. at the Cardinals.

Nay. One day after, I believe the Cardinals scored 14 runs on Tuesday so they just had an offensive explosion. Nolan Aronado, by the way,

he looks fine. Brad Keller versus the Angels. Not after the way those first two starts went. No, no. That's at Keller for now. I agree with you.

Johnny Quato versus the Reds. That's the second best after Canning, but I still think I'd lean against it in a daily league scenario. Tyler Anderson, Sane versus the Padres?

Nope. Justin Dunn at the Orioles. Nope. Matt Harvey, the Dark Knight versus the Mariners. Nope. Michael Fulmer at the Astros. Definitely intrigued by what Fulmer does in this start

because it's picked up a lot of velocity toward the end of spring training, continued into the regular season, went four innings in his last relief appearance, looked really good. So I'm watching Fulmer, but I'm not ready to start him.

I agree. 100%, a game you should be watching. Kohei Arihara at the Tampa Bay Rays. Nah, nah. David Peterson versus the Phillies? Nope. John Gray at the Dodgers. Not that matchup, no.

Let's wrap up with a few questions. This one's from Jacob, dear Alex, Ron, and John. I don't know. I actually know the answer because he included it in the email, but I didn't include it here. These are the past three Red Sox managers. Alex Cora, Ron Renicki, John Farrell?

Okay, yeah, I think so. Five by five categories league. Give up Shohei Otani the batter. Get JT Real Muto. Yeah, I think you have to do that. Real Muto, still easy bet to be the number one catcher. Otani is so awesome, though, Skadlick.

I know, I get it. He's so good. Otani on Tuesday, what did he do? Three for five with his fourth home run of the season. it was a lefty-on-lefty homer off of Danny Duffy. So I would do it as well, but, man, it is... We didn't mention Danny Duffy. Danny Duffy's Velocities way up.

Talk about him. And he had a great start. Six one-run innings with six strikeouts, 13 whiffs. Yeah, his velocity's up like two and a half miles per hour. Which I... You know, it wasn't too many years ago that Duffy was like... We thought of him as like a top 30 starting pitcher. and he was throwing harder back in those days.

I don't know. Maybe there's something here. I'm not rushing out to pick him up, but I'm keeping an eye on it. Scott, I mentioned this before. Do you want to get Duffyed? The verb Duffy is, Danny Duffy goes out. He has two great starts on the waiver wire. You pick him up, you put him in your lineup, blows up for seven runs. You drop him.

He's awesome for two more stars. You go and you pick him back up. You put him in your lineup, blows up for seven more runs. just this is the way Danny Duffy goes. I don't know. We'll monitor it because the velocity is up, but I've been fooled so many times. This one's from OJ. I have a question about long relievers who can become starters since I own all four.

Michael Kopeck, T.J. Anton, Jonathan Loisiga, and Garrett Whitlock seemed too valuable to be stuck in long relief for long. Do their numbers say anything about which can actually move to being starters and which are better suited to the bullpen permanently? I don't know that any are... Maybe Loisaga, maybe Loisaga, just because he's had so many durability issues, I don't know that he's going to get another chance to start again,

and I'll add that Kopec, which is obviously the biggest name of this group. The plan is for him to be in the bullpen all year, just because he sat out all of last year and was coming back from Tommy John's surgery, and that's just a good way to keep his innings. The plan could change. I think that's certainly possible,

but it would take some injuries for the White Sox rotation, I think. The one with the best chance, I think, of joining the rotation at some point this year is T.J. Anton. And the fact that he went three and two-thirds innings in his last appearance, I think is a good indication that the Reds are keeping him stretched out. So that's the one I'd bet on joining the rotation the soonest. I don't know as much about Whitlock. The numbers are definitely interesting. I'll need to look more into him

because it seems like the Red Sox rotation would have some openings at some point. Yeah, I was just looking into Garrett Whitlock's numbers in the minors, and 42 games, 38 of those were starts, a 2.41 ERA, 1.16 whip, 201 strikeouts and 205, and a third innings pitched for, Garrett Whitlock, who is on the Red Sox.

I just found that out. So maybe watch him. He seems pretty good. From Joseph, I can drop Ryan Mountcastle, Andrew Vaughn, Eduardo Rodriguez, or Griffin Canning for Wander Franco. Who is the most droppable? Rule 5 picked from the Yankees was Whitlock. Okay, so Mountcastle, I'm sorry, what was the question?

Would you drop any of Mountcastle, Vaughn, Eduardo Rodriguez, or Griffin Canning for Wander Franco? Ah, Wander Franco, I think could be up next week. too, I would drop Mountcastle for him. Fair enough. For Scott, I am Frank, thank you all for listening and watching Fantasy Baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.