Fantasy Baseball Today - Worryometer Wednesday; Kenta Maeda is AWESOME! (08/19 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Episode Date: August 19, 2020

Happy Wednesday, especially if you have Kenta Maeda on your Fantasy team! What is Maeda's value rest-of-season (1:09)? Unfortunately, Taylor Rogers blew another save. Is it time to add Sergio Romo? ... The unwritten rules of baseball are dumb (7:02). That is all. Keep swinging away, Fernando Tatis. For our OMGG players of the night, Frankie Montas gave you -18.5 Fantasy points (9:28) while Antonio Senzatela was awesome again. Should we buy-low on Montas and trust Senzatela? ... Onto news and notes, the Astros have finally placed Yordan Alvarez on the IL due to discomfort in his right knee (15:16). Christian Pache is being promoted by the Braves and is it time to drop David Dahl? ... Let's fire up the Worryometer (21:40)! How worried should we be over Jose Altuve, Eugenio Suarez, Cody Bellinger, Rhys Hoskins, and Mitch Garver? ... Who were the good standouts from Tuesday's action (34:22)? Snell's pitch count is up while Tony Gonsolin and Marco Gonzales were both great. Did you know Bryce Harper is a Top-5 hitter in FPPG and these Blue Jays hitters have been impressive. ... With the good, comes the bad and the ugly (45:30). What happened with Dylan Bundy and Carlos Carrasco? ... Is it time to drop Nate Pearson, Masahiro Tanaka, and Tarik Skubal? ... Email us at [e-mail]. Subscribe to our new YouTube channel: youtube.com/FantasyBaseballToday 'Fantasy Baseball Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox and wherever else you listen to podcasts.  Follow our FBT team on Twitter: @CBSFantasyBB, @AdamAizer, @CTowersCBS, @CBSScottWhite, @Roto_Frank Join our Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/fantasybaseballtoday For more fantasy baseball coverage from CBS Sports, visit https://www.cbssports.com/fantasy/baseball/ To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Download our printable Draft Kit from CBSSports.com/draftkit! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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

Honestly, I had this whole intro ready about unwritten rules of baseball and this whole situation with Fernando Tatis. But screw that. We had a near no-hitter on Tuesday night from our boy, Kenta Maeda. Welcome to Fantasy Baseball today, Auto Wednesday, August 19, Frank Stanfield alongside Scott. And Scott, we often talk about Maida's pitch counts. Well, this is one way to stay in game, Scott. You just don't give up any hits, right?

Eight innings pitched the final line. He took a no-hitter into the ninth inning. He did allow a hit to the first batter that he faced in that inning. Two walks, 12 strikeouts, 26 swinging shot. strikes on 115 pitches. He entered this game as a top 12 starting pitcher in fantasy points per game. Scott, I know that you have the trade chart coming out on Wednesday, as you do every single week.

How high do you foresee Kenta Maeda moving up those starting pitcher ranks? Ah, yes, because I wasn't already working on it before this happened and I have to revisit it now. No, I mean, you said it with the pitch count thing because that, he'd been great. up to this point this year, but the way we were hoping he'd take a leap forward, he hadn't actually demonstrated yet because he'd been so efficient,

he'd been just throwing 85 pitches every time, basically. 115 in this start going eight innings, actually, 8 plus, 12 strikeouts, you mentioned the 26 swinging strikes. He has been secondary heavy all year, like fastball usage is down. So he's actually made some changes to his arsenal this year in addition to I know he's never thrown a complete game before

but we weren't seeing him throw many eight inning starts with the Dodgers or going six innings with the consistency he has so far. Yeah, so yeah, he looks like, I think this start is the clearest indication yet he is taking that step

and becoming a true front-line pitcher, Kinta Maeda. Yeah, he's probably on the verge of the top 20. So I got like rounding out the top 20. I have like Carlos Carrasco, Chris Paddock, Frankie Montas, and Dylan Bundy, who both turned in their worst starts of the season today.

Oh yeah. I think Kinta Maeda's right in that range. And I'm not exactly sure where I'll slot him within it. But yeah, he's a stud. All right. So we're not moving him all the way up into that, you know, Gialito Darvis range yet, right? he's not like top 15

but top 20 top 25 is you know a legitimate you know SP2 SP3 yeah I mean it's still gotta wonder if it wasn't throwing a no hitter would they have let him throw 115 pitches

and uh I think they would but it remains it remains just a theory it does we shall see what happens with Maeda but he has been ridiculous and Scott I know you had him as a breakout candidate it entering the season.

Another pitcher that I like, Scott, I think I just have to, like, trust myself more and just don't draft Joe Musgrove. That was obviously the biggest issue. Every time I bring up Musgrove, I'm somehow wearing this Pittsburgh pirate shirt,

which you can see on our fantasy baseball today, YouTube channel, but I liked Maida coming into the year. I like Dylan Bundy. I have maybe one of each. Like, I just don't know how I didn't end up with these guys. I should add more of them.

But ultimately, both have been great. We'll talk about Bundy, little bit later on. Kent Maida didn't wind up with the win, Scott, because Taylor Rogers wound up blowing the game. He allowed two hits, two runs. Only one of those were earned. The defense really did not help him.

They tried to turn a double play, and the throw went awry, and then they wound up scoring the tying run on that play. So it wasn't really his fault, but it was still bases loaded, so he wasn't great. You know, what's your panic level? You know, we're going to do Worryometer today on the show.

What's your Worryometer level for... Taylor Rogers, would you be rushing to go out and add someone like Sergio Romo? I think in leagues where saves are scarce, Romo should probably be rostered by this point. He has three saves compared to Rogers five, even without any official changing of the role there. You know, Rogers have been pretty shaky recently, and I know his previous outing, he didn't work the night. He actually, I think he technically set up for, well, I guess he worked. the seventh. I don't know. The way the twins have been using Taylor Rogers recently is, is less than traditional for a closer. So they're already kind of getting creative with the role

there. And Sergio Romo has clearly established himself as the next in line for saves. And Rogers has had a couple of these shaky outings recently. So, you know, I'm not saying Sergio Romo is the closer now, but it's already not a situation where just one guy is getting all the saves. And if Rogers does lose some of Rocco Baldelli's

trust, then you'll be happy you already have Sergio Romo stashed away. Sergio Romo has made eight appearances thus far, a 2.25 ERA, a 0.38 whip. 37 years old, continues

to get it done. 13.5Ks per 9 with 1.13 walks per 9. Again, that is Sergio Romo. So if you are in need of saves, or if you own Taylor Rogers, specifically in a Roto League, I probably would go out and make it a priority to get Sergio Romo on my team.

Oh, you know what? I did have that right. In his last appearance, Taylor Rogers pitched the 8th, and Romo pitched the night. So he set up for Sergio Romo last appearance. It was kind of a head scratcher. I didn't make much of it.

but I mean, I just, I don't think the twins are going to follow the traditional route here at the end of games. Yeah, I remember looking into this, I believe it happened on Sunday, and it was that Taylor Rogers was facing two lefties in the eighth inning, and there were two righties due up in the ninth. So they went lefty-on-lefty with Rogers in the eighth. He set up for Romo. Romo pitched a perfect ninth, and he was there to go up against the righties. So, yeah, I think you're right.

I don't think that they're just, you know, they just have set roles anymore there in Minnesota. Scott, I don't want to spend too much time on this unwritten rules story regarding Fernando Tatis. But we spoke about the double dong on yesterday's podcast. And it was obviously the talk all over Twitter and every sports radio show, everywhere you turn, people are talking about this situation. And I will just say, you need to realize that if you agree with this whole situation that, you know, Fernando Tati should not be swinging 3-0, that this is major league baseball.

This is not little league baseball. This is not, you know, we're trying to teach sportsmanship. This is the highest level of baseball that there is on the planet. So you have the opportunity to enhance a lead. I don't care what it is, what the situation is. You know, you have a problem with Tati swinging there? You know, with 3-0 with the bases loaded, then don't throw them.

a strike, don't throw a pitch to hit, intentionally walk him, or don't get to a 3-0 count. So I just thought it was ridiculous, Scott. It's unbelievably stupid. And based on comments we've seen from other managers around the game, other players, not just Trevor Bauer, but including Trevor Bauer. It seems like the only people who seem to think Tatez did anything wrong by swinging at a 3-0 pitch and hitting a grand slam with a seven-run lead, which, you know, seven-run, leads are known to be lost at times.

Exactly. The only two people who seem to think he did anything wrong with the two managers in that game, as far as I've seen, everybody else seems to be suggesting otherwise. So hopefully, hopefully it's, hopefully everybody can just agree it's stupid and move on. But like, it doesn't even make any sense, right? Like, to me, the rooter thing to do, in that situation, 3-0 count with a 7-run lead

that will prolong the game needlessly is try to work a walk. You know, like not swinging seems to me even ruder than swinging if we're trying to just hurry through this embarrassing loss for the Rangers or whatever. I hate those situations in real life where in your head you've decided

this is the polite thing to do, but then the way it's interpreted is completely the opposite and you just look like a D-bag, you know? I don't know. I can relate to that. All right, Scotty. A lot of action on Tuesday. Let's jump in. Oh, my goodness gracious.

Who do you got, Scott? A standout, whether positive or negative, from Tuesday's action. There is so much that happened. It's really hard to wrap my head around it and to hammer it down to anything that stood out as significantly over the others, except for that might as start. I'm going to go with Frankie Montas, though, on the other end of the spectrum. I already referred to it, it being his worst start of the season. It was dreadful. It was bad in every way a start could be bad.

So Frankie Montas, obviously he missed his last turn because of some tightness in his upper back. And he only went one and two thirds inning, six hits, nine earn runs, four walks, and one strikeout. He only threw six splitters, so he was back to doing that thing.

But, you know, I don't even know that I can take that much away from it because like so many bad things were happening. I'm just not sure he had a chance to get around to the splitter. You know, I don't, you know, you assume, you can assume maybe Rust had something to do with it. You can assume maybe his back was still feeling a little tight and that was impacting him mechanically or whatever. It just, to me, I don't know what else to do other than just shrug it off though. Like it was, it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start. from a guy who entered the day with a 157 ERA,

and now it's 474, but I'm just going to trust he'll come around next time and chalk this one up as something that happens during the usually long, not quite as long, this year baseball season. Frankie Montas, yeah, look, he was scratched from his start on Friday, so I don't know that he was healthy for this one. Maybe it was that he had the long layoff and hadn't pitched in a while. But less than two innings, 1.2, he recorded five outs, six hits, nine earned runs, four walks, and one strikeout. For those keeping track at home, that is minus 18 and a half fantasy points.

If you play in a Rotel League or a Head to Head Categories League, that's a 48.60 ERA and a 6.00 whip. I saw this quote from Bob Melvin earlier today. he just looked a little amped, you know, jumping a little bit. At times, trying to find the right arm slot, spiking some balls, hanging some pitches. It was probably a product of not pitching in a while. And with that, Scott, I will say, if anybody in your league is freaking out over Frankie Montas or they just want to spitefully get rid of him, I will easily buy Frankie Montas right now. I think if you can turn like Kyle Hendrix, Zach Wheeler, James Paxton, or like Aaron

Savale, one of those names into Montas, I would do it in a heartbeat. Yep, I agree. My, oh my goodness gracious player of the night, really, player of the day. Pitched during the day, Scott. Antonio sends a teller. At Houston, eight innings pitched, three hits, zero earned,

zero walks, six strikeouts, has now allowed two runs or less in four of five starts this season. Fastball velocity is up. The slider has been very, very much. very effective, 60% rostered on CBS, Scott. I think the collective mindset here has been skepticism regarding Senzatella,

considering his rostership to this point. But he's performing. So, like, at what point do we just buy into it, Scott? I'm not to that point. I could buy into him as a streamer. And I actually did advise him for head-to-head point leagues only in my two-star,

sleeper or my two-star pitcher rankings for this upcoming week, seeing that he had two road starts. But that's the thing for Sensitella. Like I can look and see, okay, his whiff rate is up this year. His curveball and slider both look better. It's still not a good whiff rate. The ground ball rate is decent. Okay.

Like, I can look at Sensatella's profile, and I can start to see maybe some, you know, kind of the outline of. a respectable pitcher, but then you have to factor in that he pitches half his games at course field. And it's just like, okay, is that, is that guy where you're starting to see something halfway useful going to survive in that environment? Probably not. Probably not. It's, it's very similar to Kyle Freeland in that way. And I don't want to be, I don't want to be caught holding the, whatever it is you hold in that situation, the hose or the spatula. I can't, I don't remember what the

phrases, but I don't want to be caught holding it when it all comes crashing down. Hand in the cookie jar? Is that what it is? I don't think so. But that probably works. Yeah, I'm buying it a little bit more. I don't think he's anything more than a stream. I agree. Like, it's, I'm going to be hesitant to start him at home. But in the right matchups, you know, how he's pitched thus far, the swinging strike rate career high. To this point, he is getting a lot of ground balls, the fastball velocity up around 95 miles per hour. I'm buying it to Sensitella a little bit more. I think if you picked him up for a two-star week,

I probably wouldn't drop him. I would probably just hold on to him and see what he does in that second start. Again, that is Antonio Sinsatella. Today on the show, by the way, we'll have some Worryometer and a lot more action to get to that happened regarding Tuesday, some Apple podcast review questions

later on in the show. Hopefully we can get to those as well. News and notes. Earlier on Tuesday, I'm sorry, Scott. Yuron Alvarez was finally placed on the IEL due to right knee discomfort. I guess we just hold, right, Scott? I mean, there's nothing you could do.

I don't think anyone's buying Yaron Alvarez. I guess you just hold them. I don't think anybody's dropping Yorden Alvarez either. Getting a second opinion. I think it's just something he's going to be dealing with for at least the rest of this year. And, you know, you'll have to be very careful even when he's back, setting your lineup with the minute.

Luis Robert left Tuesday's game while making a diving attempt in the outfield x-rays turned up negative, so you can breathe a sigh of relief cross your fingers for now regarding Luis Robert. J.D. Martinez left Tuesday's game due to dehydration. They are set to play in early game Wednesday, so I'm not sure Martinez will be ready and end the lineup for that one. Paul DeYoung and Yadir Molina have been cleared to resume workouts for the Cardinals. They've been on the COVID-I-L since the Carrients. Cardinals have returned. We all know the situation that went on with St. Louis. The Atlanta Braves placed Nick Marcakis on the COVID-IAL out of an abundance of caution after he came in contact with somebody who tested positive. Scott, and correct me if you know how to say this person's name,

I believe it's Christian Pache. Is that correct? So the way they were pronouncing it on the Braves broadcast was Pache. Pache. Christian Pachet will be promoted. who is one of the top prospects in the organization, Scott, but he is more so known for his defense. So what is your interest level from a fantasy perspective? I mean, this is a really interesting prospect because he ranks very highly and his defense is off the charts. I mean, that is the best tool he brings to the table

and maybe that earns him. That goes a long way to earning him the rankings he gets. But he doesn't strike out much, and his power has greatly improved the past couple years. It's still not to the point where you look at his minor league numbers and say, okay, those are impressive. But like very young player with a ton of athleticism who's sharply trending up in terms of what we're seeing at the plate.

And you just wonder, could he explode one day with like stud production? I mean, there are some scouts who think that's in the, in the offing for Patche. And who knows what he was doing in minor league camp. That's what we're going to face with all these minor league promotions this year. Based on where he was at the end of last year, I can't get terribly excited about picking him up,

you know, especially given the tons and tons of outfielders who emerged on the waiver wire just in the past week. So three outfielder leagues and probably not even looking at Patche. I mean, we don't know how long he's going to stick around. I mean, Nick Marquakis could be back in two days. And if Patche hasn't really had a chance to make an impression yet,

maybe he gets sent back out. But maybe not. Five outfielder leagues, probably take a flyer, see where it goes. Last year in 130 games between AA and AAA, Pache, triple slash, 277, 340, 462, with 12 homers and eight steals. I agree that in five outfielder leagues, I would be looking into speculatively adding Pache,

but I think he's behind names that we've talked about recently, like Randall Gritchuk, who had another big game on Tuesday, Cole Calhoun. Scott Pache or Robbie Grossman? Grossman. Okay. So, yeah, he's not really a high priority as of now, but let's see what happens with him once he gets called up.

Charlie Morton, through a successful bullpen on Tuesday. He might be ready to join the team this weekend. Of course, he is dealing with a shoulder injury. Mike Mustakis is expected to be activated from the injured list on Wednesday. He was dealing with a bruised quad. White Sox manager Rick Rantiria said Tuesday that he's optimistic Yasmani Grandal, who tweaked his back, will be able to return to action, quote,

by the end of the week, George Springer was scratched from Tuesday's lineup due to this lingering issue with his wrist. So we've seen this with a few guys now. It happened with Ronald Lucuna. George Springer sat out last weekend. It seemed like he was in the clear because he at least started, or it might have been two weekends ago, but he had been back, he hasn't really been performing well, so this might be the cause of that for George Springer.

Ray's prospect, Brendan McKay, requires season-ending shoulder surgery. David Dahl was scratched from Tuesday's lineup against the Astros due to lower back tightness. Scott, can we drop David Dahl for, like, any of these outfielders that we've been talking about recently? Because, A, he's not performing, and B, he's now dealing with another injury, which is a common theme with David Dahl.

I would still bet on David Dahl making a worthwhile fantasy contribution before the season's done. But it depends on who you'd be dropping it for. So I actually ranked 10 of the recent surgers on the Waver Wire at Outfield. And, you know, a guy like Jesse Winker, Anthony Santander, of course, Anthony Santander is up to like 90% being rostered in 90% of leagues. just from being added so much in the last week that that probably goes without saying you dropped doll for him but Jesse Winker Anthony Santander

Nick Senzel Ian Hap Garrett Hampson even I'd probably drop doll for and then you get to like Dominic Smith and Dylan Carlson among that group of outfielders I ranked and doll is somewhere in there probably for me rest of season

Dominic Smith if I knew he was playing every day. He would be an easy call over David Dahl as well. But, you know, we haven't seen the Mets face a left-hander in a long time, and we still don't really know how they're going to use Smith in that scenario. Justin Verlander played catch on Monday, actually, for the first time since going down with a forearm stream in his season debut. So that would be a nice little get if you've been holding on to Justin Verlander. So another situation to pay attention to. Worryometer Wednesday. And let's stick with the Astros. Jose Al Tuvae, Scott.

A lot of people submitting Jose Altuve. He's betting 176. He's got a 196 badbip. A 220 expected batting average. A career high, 22% strikeout rate. We actually received this from J. Dilla 13 on our Apple podcast reviews. He said in all caps, Altuvae, help me. What do I do with this guy?

Scott, what do we do with this guy? And 1 to 10, what's your Wariometer on Jose Altuve? Well, it being a short season, I'm a little more worried than I would be if it was a full-length season because we're, I don't know exactly how many games the Astros have played. I know some teams are at like 25 games. So we're nearing the halfway point of the season already. And it's not just, in Altuvae's case, it's not just the base production that suffered, but the underlying numbers that don't look so great either. I still bet on the track record in the long run, but what is the long run at this point?

I would be willing to dangle him in trades, but, you know, I wouldn't want to accept too much of a discount. You would have to find somebody who is even more, even more, you know, subscribing to the track record even more than I am, which is hard to do. So I don't have a problem with Benchchchum, him, I would not drop him. I would not take Nichols on the dollar for him. But I'm a little concerned. He does have three homers, 13 runs, 10 RBI, and two steals. So even with the 176 batting average,

he's still kind of making things happen. But ultimately, you know, he's been dropped in the lineup as well. He's been batting sixth and seventh recently. Upon his own request, he recognizes he's not swinging the bat up to his usual standards, which is encouraging. I mean, if the first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have one, right? Fantasy anonymous. I trust he's going to get it figured out. I'm just not sure how much of the season will be left when he does,

or if it'll even happen and, you know, the little amount of season that's left. Scott, would you trade Jose Altuve straight up for Kesson Hiura, if you can make that happen? Well, Kestinira is not off to it. a roaring start either. He is not. But I probably would.

Would you do it for Mike Mustakis, who's getting set to return, and has been performing well when he's in the lineup? Yeah, I don't think I'd go that far. I think I'd take Al-TuVe still. Okay, so it sounds like you're dropping Al-TuVe down your rankings a little bit, but not

down to like the Mike Mustakis level, which is, you know, borderline top 10, top 12. I don't mind benching Al-Tu-Ve either, if you can pick up someone who's hot like Robinson Canoe. Just play Cano for now. But that's something that I would look into.

Did you give a 1 to 10, Scott, on Al-Tuve? Um, 6. I think that's a guess. I think that's a fair number. Just pulling a number out of the blue. This worryometer isn't calibrated yet. This whole season isn't calibrated, Scott.

Eugenio Suarez is batting 123 with a 158 Babbip, a 27.5% hard contact rate. That's been up over 40. percent each of the past two years. Scott, maybe we didn't put enough stock into the fact that he did have shoulder surgery just a couple of months ago and was expected to miss the start of the regular season back in March if it was going to start then. What is your Wuriometer level on Eugenio Suarez?

Probably like a four. There are a lot of underachieving third basement at the start of the season. That was supposed to be, like this was supposed to be. this was supposed to be the deepest year ever for it. You know, if there wasn't that shoulder issue to consider, that happened, what did that happen? February, January? It was a long time ago at this point,

but nonetheless, shoulder injuries can take a while to come back from to regain the swing completely. If that wasn't there, then there would be little concern at all. And again, I think in the long run, he'll be fine. it's just you know I would have expected him to come around by now too yeah I'll get that a four

I'm a little more worried about him than I'm L2 I'll put it at a 7 just because I don't know that there's enough time this season for him to get going and to see that you know shoulder improve if that's what he's actually dealing with I'm honestly just speculating there but we have seen you know shoulder

injuries affect some guys returning in the past especially from a power perspective and he only has two home runs so far. And that's not normal out of A. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. H. E. E. E. E. E. Hohenio Suarez. So like Altuve, I don't think I would drop him, Scott, but I'm probably willing to bench him. Your top five, third baseman, by the way. Kyle Seeger, Jose Ramirez, David Fletcher, Anthony Rendon, and Yuli Guriel. Well, those are the top three. You said your, like those were my rankings. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Just like, like, like, anyone who plays fantasy. Fantasy.

Fantasy baseballs. Fantasy baseballs top five third baseman. What a group. Kyle Seeger there. Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying. And Rendon's up there, even though he's batting

just a little over 200, right? Yes, actually, I have some notes on Rendon. He's actually... Oh, 254 now. Been way better than we realize. He had two more hits on Tuesday. He has an eight-game hitting streak. 13 hits during that eight-game streak.

Five homers during that streak. He is now. out batting 254 and his OPS is over a thousand. Over a thousand. Something wrong with that. Okay. I retract any Anthony Rendon slander there. Yeah, Anthony Rendon.

He's quite good. I think he's fine. Scott Cody Bellinger, it seemed like we had some signs over the weekend that he was coming around. He's betting 181, 176 Babip. I don't think he's all of a sudden a bad player, but I don't think he's going to live up to expectations. I don't think that's a hot take.

I think that him tweaking his swing has kind of thrown him off to start the season. He's still making a lot of contact, but his, the elite level contact that we saw last year, he is nowhere near that level. So I'm a little bit more worried about... Yeah, at all.

I really don't have any concerns. This would be a one on the worryometer for me. I did drop them behind Moogie Betts rest of season for whatever that's worth, but I would definitely be buying low on Cody Ballinger. Scott, Reese Hoskins, finally homered.

Gosh, we buried the lead. How far are we into this? 30 minutes into the podcast, Scott. We didn't even talk about Reese Hoskins. Yeah. Who finally got off the Schneid and hit his first homer. I still think better days are coming for Hoskins.

I mean, people are freaking out. I've told a few people you can drop Hoskins for Luke Voigt. That's a few questions that we've received recently. But worryometer on Reese Hoskins, Scott. Uh, let's see here. Wow, he has a really good line drive rate. What's that about? Um, I don't know.

Like, I don't know how good Reese Hoskins is. Uh, five. Yeah, the line drive rate is high for him. 30, right around 30%. You're asking me about all these players. I didn't research ahead of the show, Frank. This is difficult. This is like a pop quiz.

I'm sorry, Scott. It's okay. I forgive you. The one thing Reese Hoskins is always going to do is walk, and the strikeouts are down. I was kind of the Reese Hoskins guy. It's not like I was going out on a limb entering the season that I had to have them, but the hard contact is 46% this year. Good ballpark to hit in.

31% line drive rate. Like that's up. He's walking a lot. The strikeouts are down. The expected batting average is up this year. It's like around 250. I think better days are coming for Hoskins. So, like, if someone drops them in your league,

I would be willing to pick them up, or you could probably get him for dirt cheap right now. So that is one that I am more optimistic on and Hoskins, I'll give him a three. It's got Mitch Garver. Mitch Garver is someone who has struggled mightily. You know, Scott, at this point, would you drop Mitch Garver for Pedro Severino?

That seems like a question we're getting a lot. I would not, but I get under. understand why you might be tired of having Mitch Garver in your lineup and want to bench him. It's difficult to carry two catchers. I just think there are so few that can come anywhere close to the upside Mitch Garver has already demonstrated. And like, I mean, the problem with all of this is 20, 25 games. It's still too small with a sample to know much of anything. And we get back to the same problem.

The season's almost halfway over, but the season's only a month in, you know? and it's like, ah, I'd still rather bank on true talent than just some hot hand off the waiver wire. Yeah, it's just a catcher position. It's... Right, it's... I understand. So why not stick with, like...

He's not even playing you. The expectation is your catcher's going to stink. Mitch Garver is stinking. But it could be awesome from tomorrow on, you know? and it's like how many catchers can you say that about. Yeah, and it's a great lineup. The problem, he hasn't been playing as much recently, but it's like, look at this position right now, top five.

Rio Muto, Pedro Severino, Salvador Perez, Martine Maldonado. Like, what are you going to do? Are you going to- Martinado's fourth? He's the fourth highest-scoring catcher in Fent. He's like a 200-hitter every year. It's like, what are you going to do? Are you going to drop Mitch Garver for Martin Maldonado?

Of course not. Like, are you going to drop him first? For Austin Nola? Like, I mean, I don't know how widely available Travis Darno is. He's probably,

probably not, he's probably not that available, right? He might be available in one catcher leagues. Travis Darno is, he's a fair amount too. He's 84% rostered Travis Darno, so. What was that number?

84? He's probably not available. Yeah. Austin Nola has been pretty good, and he is 39% rostered. So that's, you know, if you're needing a short-term fill-in, ultimately I have more faith than Garver, though. Fair enough, Scott.

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All right, we're going to take a break here. we come back. We're going to go over some of the top action from Tuesday here on fantasy baseball today. Tuesday standouts, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Let's start with some of the good Zach Granky on the other side of Antonio Sensitella up against the Rockies. Eight innings pitch, three hits, zero earned runs, zero walks, seven strikeouts. He averaged 88.3 miles per hour on the fastball, which was a season high. I don't know that there's anything to add here. Scott outside of Zach Rinky is who he is. He's a top 20 starting pitcher.

That's fine. Blake Snell at the Yankees. Scott, anything you wanted to add there? I was just going to say, and now is ERA's 184, even though his velocity is down, you know, basically 88 for the season. Velocity doesn't matter with Zach Ranky. He's a different animal.

Yeah, unlike Madison, Bumgarder, he's fine a way to push through it and continue to pitch well. Blake Snell at the Yankees, five innings pitch, pitch four hits, three earned two walks and three strikeouts, up to 92 pitches, Scott. I like to see that at a Blake Snell. He wasn't terribly efficient, 13 swinging strikes. It was a solid start, but I liked that the pitch count is being built up.

Yeah, this is up. 92 is up from 70 was his previous high, so he appears to be fully stretched out now. And that's going to make Blake Snell probably must start going forward. Yeah, and I think even after his last start with the five really strong endings, I think we were kind of all in agreement that, like, yeah, now is the time to get Blake Snell back in your lineup. But if you needed one extra budge push in that direction, you got it here from Blake Snell for the Tampa Bay Rays as well. Brandon Lowe, just worth mentioning another three-run home run. He's now up to eight home runs and 23 steals.

Given the injuries at the position, I was updating my rankings today, Brandon Lough found his way inside my top 10 second baseman. So with how good he's been, I don't think you can really argue it at this point. It's got two pitchers that I don't know that we saw both of these guys pitching well, but it turned into a pitcher's duel. Tony Gonsolin going up against Marco Gonzalez to Dodgers and the Mariners. For Gonsalind, six shutout innings, two hits, zero walks, three strikeouts. The velocity has actually been up for Gonsolin over all this season.

And specifically in this start, he had nine swinging strikes on 84 pitches. He has rostered in 32% of leagues. And on the other side, Marco Gonzalez, seven innings, five hits, one earned zero walks, nine strikeouts. Command has been huge for Marco Gonzalez this year, just three walks in five starts. He has quality starts in three of his last four. Scott, is Tony Gonsolin your waiver wire pitcher of the night? He's only 32% rostered. Well, I'm not riding waiver wire tonight, so I hadn't actually picked out anybody.

But just from a perspective of what I look to add him, Probably. Probably. That's kind of the way starting pitcher is right now, where if anybody has a good start, they're basically moving into the top 50 because there are only about 50 starting pitchers that are worthwhile. And I have Casey Mize in my top 50. I have Rich Hill in my top 50. Like nobody beyond that is trustworthy on any level. So you're just chasing the next. hot thing, which might be Gonsolin, particularly if stripling is on his way out of the rotation. And the thing about Gonsolent too is he has a really good slider. That's his best swing and mispitch. He's hardly been using it this year. He's mostly been fastball splitter. So, you know, there's more strikeout potential than he's even shown so far. Scott, do we need to start to move Marco Gonzalez up the ranks? It's like you don't want to be

excited about him. He throws like 89, 90 miles per hour. He's not terribly exciting. But But, I mean, to go into L.A. and do this against the Dodgers, it's pretty eye-catching. Yeah, it is. And like I said, there's only about 50 trustworthy starting pitchers. So is Gonzalez on the fringes of that group? I don't see why he wouldn't be. He has had an ERA right around four of the last two years. 16 wins in one of those seasons, 13 and the other.

You know, not a great whip, not a great strikeout rate. but just solid enough that he deserves to be starting for somebody, probably, even on a bad team. Luke Weaver, Scott. Not that you talk about these top 50 pitchers worth trusting. I don't think Luke Weaver isn't that makes, but that's just the way pitching has gone this year. Five innings of one-run ball, six strikeouts against the Oakland A's nine swinging strikes on 87 pitches. Seven of those came on the four seam. which averaged a season high,

95 miles per hour in this start. The cutter and the curve still gave up a lot of hard contact. He's 49% rostered Scott. I'm not there yet with Luke Weaver, but it was encouraging to see a bounce back performance against a pretty good Oakland A's lineup. You know, he has a better swinging strike rate Luke Weaver does this year than last year

when he appeared to be breaking out. And his fastball itself has been a lot better. Luke Weaver's problem this year is just that he's giving up a ton of. of long balls. And, you know, as we know from Matthew Boyd, you can't, no matter how well you're doing everything else, you can't survive if you're giving up.

He entered this game with like four home runs per nine. It was just a stupid rate. And obviously, that rate won't continue. Obviously, I don't think he allowed a single home run in this start. And look what happened. He had a very good line. So, you know, I don't think all hope is lost for Luke Weaver. I think there's still a good pitcher in there.

but can't keep giving up home runs to the extent he has so far. Scott, your boy, Alec, Bome, which you found out it was Bome, it's not BOM, which is kind of, you know, it's not great. I got Bomed. Yeah, you got Bomed, right? But he had two hits on Tuesday, has just two strikeouts and two walks over his first five games, so he's making a lot of contact. And for the most part, like, rookies that we keep getting excited about that have been called up, We'll talk about scuba

Scoobal in a second, but he went just two innings and allowed four earned runs so he wasn't great. For the most part, I feel like we've been hyping up these rookies, but they haven't performed.

Boom, very small sample, has somewhat performed well to this point, Scott. Yeah. Yeah, he has, I mean, he hasn't done anything huge,

but in terms of the base skills, like his time in the majors hasn't betrayed what we thought he had there. And it leads me to believe good numbers are right around the corner. And you know, the same could be said for Dylan Carlson, even though he's been up longer and it seems like he's done nothing. Like he's making contact at a consistent rate. It seems to be contact of a good quality.

I'm not really losing faith on Dylan Carlson yet either. Dylan Carlson. I know that in the double header they played, I believe it was on Tuesday, he went 0 for 7. with three strikeouts. So that wasn't great. Not a great day, but overall, he hasn't been striking out a lot. He was batting sixth in the lineup on Tuesday.

He went one for four with a single. So we'll see on Dylan Carlson. Hopefully he does something because he was someone that we were all pretty excited about. Scott, did you know that Bryce Harper was a top five hitter in fantasy points per game entering Tuesday? he hit a three-run homer his fifth of the season, Bryce Harper. Now, that's a guy who hasn't been striking out much either,

and that's an interesting development for him, because I'd basically given up on Bryce Harper as a, you know, above-average contributor or batting average, because the strikeout rate had risen to a level where it just didn't seem like it would be a possibility for him. It's way down this year. He actually has more walks than strikeouts. So, yeah, that's, I mean, obviously,

he's a stud. But, yeah, maybe this goes down as one of his best seasons, at least percentage-wise. Yeah, and, you know, it's always, you know, his production is always tied to strikeouts. The past couple of seasons, you know, he's been dipping a little bit because of the lack of contact. But when he makes contact, it's really, really strong contact. So if he just continues to, you know, avoid those strikeouts, then we, yeah, we could be looking at a massive season here for Bryce Harper.

It's got the Toronto Blue Jays. Randall Gritchuk and Travis Shaw, two hits each. Both of them homered on Tuesday night. And I spoke about being interested in Gritchuk, which I am. I'm also somewhat interested in Travis Shaw, who's just 8% rostered. His stat cast page is very interesting. 92.5 mile per hour, average exit velocity,

the highest of his career, hitting a lot of line drives. He's hitting lefties hard as well. He's performed very well against him. Next week he has seven games. I'm kind of interested in Travis Shaw. I mean, with all these players struggling, you need someone who's hot right now,

I'm interested in Travis Shaw. I'm not there yet. I mean, there are some encouraging, there is some encouraging data there for Travis Shaw, especially coming off an awful season. But the biggest problem for Travis Shaw last season is that he just struck out way, way, way, way, way too much, like double the previous year.

And that's still going on. In fact, a strikeout rate, at least heading into, Tuesday was even higher than last year. Yeah, 35%. That's the one drawback that I've seen in his profile so far. But lots of line drives making hard contact. I think a name to pay attention to,

but if you want to pivot off of like a Suarez who's not been great and doesn't do anything the rest of this week, I don't think it's crazy. I'd stick with Suarez over Shaw personally. But to each his own. Scott Dillon Cease. Going up against the Tigers, someone that you did recommend as a two-start pitcher this week. Six and a third, two earned, two walks, three strikeouts,

13 swinging strikes on 104 pitches. This is now four straight starts of two earned runs or less. Remember last time out he allowed five runs, only one of those were earned, but four straight starts allowing two earned runs or less for Dylan C. Scott. He has definitely benefited from this central only schedule, particularly. AL Central. It was a second straight start against the Tigers. He also had a start against the Royals.

Two starts against the Indians. And one of those, actually those two starts against the Indians, one he had five walks and the other was just a plain bad start. In terms of something other than just earned runs allowed, this was the most encouraging start

for Dillon C's because he did have he did show demonstrate good stuff. He only only ended up with three strikeouts, but he had 14 swinging strikes, and he threw his slider like 40% of the time. It's his best swing and miss pitch. It might be a better pitch selection for him moving forward. But mostly with Cease, I'm just waiting for him to have a tough matchup finally and see if he can pull out a quality start in that, because I'm very skeptical of the overall line for Dylan Cease to this point. The one thing that I've liked the most

from C's this year is that he had one start against Cleveland where he allowed five walks. Outside of that, the command has actually been pretty good. Like, he hasn't been walking too many. He had two walks tonight. But, you know, outside of that one performance against Cleveland, the walks have actually been down, which is, you know, really what I was paying attention to most for Dillon C's heading into this season because he has struggled mightily with walks in the past. All right, those were some of the good performances from Tuesday.

Let's hit the bad and the ugly, Scott. Dylan Bundy. Put him in the bad category. It's definitely it wasn't a good start. Four innings, four hits, four earned, four walks. Lots of fours. Only three strikeouts, though. Two home runs allowed in this game against San Francisco Giants of all teams

entering Tuesday's start. He had allowed just three walks and two home runs all season. Scott, so this was, you know, a little bit of the vintage Dylan Bundy, which we're not used to seeing so far this year with the walks and the home runs being up. The slider giveeth and the slider take it

the way. He said it wasn't really working for him in today's start and the Arsenal isn't so great apart from that pitch. So it doesn't surprise me that in a start, you know, he threw the slider a season low 19% because it wasn't really working for him. You know, he deserves a pass, obviously. He wasn't going to have a 157 ERA all season. But if it's just a question of how often is that slider going to disappear on him because if it's more than one every five starts it could be a problem. I'm not

moving him in my rankings based on this start by the way. I'm giving him a total pass. I'm just, this is a good reminder for the people who were completely convinced Bundy was breaking through as an ace that these things are

tenuous. They can they can wither up just as quickly as they sprouted. I figured something was up with the slider on Tuesday because he threw it a season load 19% in that start against the Giants. So we're not moving. Dylan Bundy, still a top 25 starter as of now. But let's see.

Let's see him bounce back from this in his next start. Someone who also, we were looking for the bounce back, Scott. Carlos Carrasco. And this should have been the spot. He was at Pittsburgh against the Pirates. It's a good lineup to go up against. It's a favorable environment to pitch in. Four and a third, five hits, three earned, three walks, five strikeouts for Carrasco.

He now has 12 walks over his last three starts, back-to-back starts, where he could not escape the fifth inning. 14 swinging strikes on 91 pitches, Scott. What's the concern level? Where are we at with Carlos Carrasco? So as far as I can tell the only thing wrong with Carasco is just that he's not throwing as much strikes as he usually does, which is evident in the walk rate, but even actually looking at the strike percentage itself.

It is way down. It is below league average. Everything else is there. So I feel like that's going to be something that corrects itself sooner than later. He's missing bats. He's throwing basically with his usual velocity. He's been able to throw a lot of pitches every time out. I think he's going to be fine.

I'm not really that concerned. It's just the walks recently seem like an aberration for him. The one thing I'll add that worries me, Scott, is the hard contact rate is up at 53% entering Tuesday start against the Pirates. But if you can acquire Carrasco on the cheap, say you could turn Zach Wheeler into Carasco, Scott. Is that something you would do? Yes.

Okay, so we're still looking to, we're still buying Carasco. You said the hard hit rate is 50%. I have it at 52.9 according to Fangraphs. Oh, okay, you're looking at fan graphs. Okay, yeah. Yeah, Statcast has it only at 37.3, which is completely in line with his career norms. But that is discrepancy,

the sort of discrepancy we often see between those two sources. Yeah, it's true. Did you realize they have a statcast page on Fangraphs now? It's pretty interesting. I did not. I haven't doubt. with it, but it's under every player's page now. There's now a statcast page on

Fangraphs. How's the average exit velocity, Scott, if you still have that up? Is that up the 11th percentile, which isn't good? Yeah, okay. But it's similar to last year, whatever that's worth. All righty, Scott. Are we ringing all the bells? Are we dropping Nate Pearson, who was at the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday, four innings, four hits, five earned three walks, three strikeouts. Scott, this is two clunkers in a row now for Nate Pearson. Yeah, and this Baltimore one was one where he really needed to bring it,

I think, to stay in the good graces with the people who roster him in fantasy. And that was after a Marlon start last time, man, two good math. matches in a row and they both stunk. They stunk. He's not throwing enough strikes. He's not missing enough bats. I'm still more likely to hold on to him than not. Because what I was saying about the starting pitcher position,

like there's just not enough enough useful starting pitchers to roster every team in a league. There just isn't. And so I'd rather have the upside guy than not. You know, I'd rather have Nate Pearson than, I don't know, Danny Duffy, you know, like, where are you supposed to turn? Like, I don't trust him enough to start him anymore in a categories league. You know, most of my categories leagues, I'm starting like, you know, you'd think like nine pitchers.

I'm probably going like five, four with starting pitchers and relief pitchers or maybe even four or five, because that's just the state of starting pitcher right now. And, you know, if a starting pitcher is only going to go four in a third innings, there's a chance of really good reliever's going to out perform him in strikeouts for the week anyway. So, you know, not to mention ERA and whip. Sky, you asked who? Who am I dropping Nate Pearson for?

I'll give you three names right now. Tell me if you'll drop Nate Pearson for any or all of these. Pablo Lopez, Tony Gonsolin, and Kevin Gousman, all of those are rostered in less than 60% of CBS leagues. Okay, well, you found three I'd do it for. Congratulations, Frank. I did it. I finally did it, Scott.

The ugly from Tuesday, Masahiro Tanaka. Against the Rays. Four innings, eight hits, six runs, five earned, zero walks, two strikeouts. Eh, Tanaka, Scott. Are we dropping Tanaka, too? I mean, it's not unheard of. I don't think, Tanaka's not this untouchable like he used to be.

He showed that the past couple years. but in a 12 team league, he probably deserves to be on somebody's roster. I did like that the splitter, he threw it a lot. It was responsible for, I think, most of his swinging strikes. So I was encouraged that it made its first appearance, basically, of the season. For all the good it did him. But, yeah, I mean, Tanaka deserves to be on somebody's roster, but he's probably not going to be an impact player.

That's the long and short of it. The same question, Scott, would you drop him? for any of the three names who mentioned. Lopez, Galsman, and Gonsolin. Probably. I mean, if it's a shallow enough league that those guys are available, yeah, I'll shoot for the upside rather than play it safe

with the guy who I can probably count on having a four ERA over the course of a season. Let's keep the drop train rolling here, Scott. Mike Minor against the Padres, three and two-thirds, nine hits, six earned, one walk, six strikeouts. Scott, he's, 87% rostered.

We've seen more bad than good from Mike Miner this year. Does he join the likes of Tanaka and Nate Pearson? Look, I wanted to believe in Mike Miner. I wanted to. You looked at the numbers heading into the season and there just wasn't much of a case for him. He was not

valued at near the level he performed at last year. And now he's throwing two miles per hour less than he did last year. So you add that plus the fact he had a 460 X-Fit last year, like, clearly overachieved. And it's not surprising he's having the kind of performance he is now.

I don't have a lot of hope for a rebound there. He's hardly undropable. Scott, remember yesterday when we were talking about all these Tigers prospects? And Tariq Scoobel, 32% rostered. Someone went out and picked him up. He was not very good in his debut. We knew he would only pitch around 50 pitches and two innings, seven hits, four earned, one walk, one strikeout.

I mean, we just picked him up. Are we dropping him already, Scott? It wouldn't be, it wouldn't be, uh, it wouldn't be wrong to drop him right away. I don't think this is necessarily indicative of the way he's going to perform for the rest of the time he's up. I presume he's up for the rest of the season,

though with a few more outings like this, maybe not. It's, uh, it's difficult to make, it's difficult to debut in the majors. and it doesn't surprise me that he had a stinker. There's nothing really encouraging to point out here, except that we still know Scooball has a lot of talent, and if he continues to get chances, maybe it'll come through at some point.

Well, his teammate, Casey Meis, is going on Wednesday, Scott. Let's hope that he fares a little bit better than Scoobel did in his debut. Scott, I'm going to run through some bullpen notes from Tuesday. if there's anything that catches your ear or your eye, wherever you're looking or listening, then jump in, feel free. The Rockies, Daniel Bard, pitched a clean ninth with the game tied. Yenzi Almonte pitched the bottom of the 10th up one run,

and he allowed a run. So they tied the game, and then Yaira Diaz pitched in the bottom 11th with the game tied, and he allowed a walk-off single. So I still think that it's up in the air with the Rockies. We don't really know what's going on with them, but Daniel Bard has probably looked the best. Houston Astros, Ryan Presley, pitched the top of the 10th,

allowed the runner that starts on second to score on a single, so can't really hold that against him, but he's been far from lights out. He quietly had two easy saves in his two appearances prior to this one. And then I think Blake, Blake, what's the guy's name? Blake Taylor?

Blake Taylor, yeah, he picked up a save recently. Yeah, he picked up a save after Presley had worked two straight days and needed a day off. So, like, Presley, I think, has kind of solidified that role. And, yeah, you can't really hold against him allowing that run. It's technically not held against him. It doesn't count as an earned run. So that's, yeah, I think Presley is pretty definitively the asterosaloser,

though as much as he's, as the struggles we've seen from him this year, obviously, you know, it could still go wrong for him. Scott, we might be looking at a similar situation to the twins with the Padres. We all just assumed Drew Pomerant would come in and be the guy that pitches the ninth. Well, he came in to start the bottom of the seventh on Tuesday. He pitched to four batters. It was the top of the lineup with the Padres up six to four at the time. So it was a safe situation and they still used him in the seventh.

Emilio Paghan got the next four outs. And then Cal Quantrell came in for the four. final out of the game. What? Yeah, I suspect they wanted Emilio Pagan to close that out. I think it's pretty obvious. They consider Pomeran's their best reliever,

and maybe just for the lineup turning over because he faced the lead-off man when he came in, they wanted to make sure they had their best pitcher out there. It's funny that Pomeranz has an easier time getting saves when he's not the closer than when he is. But there's still no reliever I'd rather have from that Padreys bullpen. And I'm still thinking of Pomerans as a top 10 reliever going forward. I'm happy that you find that funny, Scott.

You said it's funny. It's hilarious. Saves are not funny, Scott. There's nothing funny or fun about saves. And speaking of that, a team that is synonymous with not being fun for saves is the Tampa Bay raise. Nick Anderson came in the bottom of the eighth with a three-run lead to face to three, four, and five hitters in the Yankees lineup.

Chas Roe came in for the save in the ninth. I think it was either the other day or last week. I just kind of joked about, oh, yeah, Chaz Roe is going to get the next five saves for the race. And then he got a save, Scott. It's like, yeah. Your guess is as good as mine here. Would you add Chazzo in any deeper road to leagues?

I don't think so. Maybe an AL only. just like maybe every raise reliever deserves to be owned in a AL only but I don't think Roe is establishing himself as a closer all of a sudden here. Anything else that you wanted to add, Scott? From the bullpen?

Or just in general. No. Brandon Lau, Luke Voight, they both hit their eighth home runs of the season today. That's a lot of home runs from two guys who weren't very highly drafted.

And Lowe especially, his K rate is down from 35% to 25%, which is, that's an improvement of skill that is so great on its own that it completely alters his outlook. But then you get to how hard he's hitting the ball and how rarely he's putting it on the ground, a ground ball rate of 27.6 and during Tuesday, which balls on the ground. idea in the current hitting environment. Not striking out much anymore, hitting the crap out of the ball, rarely putting it on the ground. I mean, that looks like a stud profile

for Brandon Lowe. And I mean, that's that's somebody I might seriously have to consider moving Jose Al-Tufei behind. I hate to say it. That hurts to say. You're grimacing there too. Some takes. I'm buying it hard to Brandon Lowe now. Yeah.

I'm buying in hard. Luke Void is striking out a lot for what it's worth, but he has a 314XBA anyway because of how hard he's hitting the ball, and he's always had a good line drive rate. So, you know, no concerns there about Luke Void, even though the K rate is high. And he was leading off for the Yankees.

So not your typical lead-off man, but the way that baseball has been trending, I guess it's not really all that surprising, Scott. Let's quickly run through some of the Wednesday probabilities, Scott, to stream or not to stream, I just got to ask, you're starting Tyler Glass now at the Yankees, given his recent struggles? I probably am.

Pablo Lopez at home against the Mets? Yes. Casey Mize's debut at the White Sox. I saw the way Tariq Scoobal's debut went. Better play that one. Better soft pedal that one. Framber Valdez in Colorado. E.

Probably not. This isn't like Lance Lynn or Zach Gallen going to Colorado. Taiwan Walker against the Dodgers. Nope. Tanner Roark at the Orioles. Nope. Tommy Malone on the other side against the Blue Jays. Nope. Jake Arieta at the Red Sox. Nope. Alec Mills at home against the Cardinals.

Hmm. I don't hate it. Come on. I don't love it. I don't have it. If it's Alec Mills or nothing, I go Alec Mills. Stephen Burlt versus Cleveland. Nope. Eric Fetty at Atlanta. Nope.

Kyle Wright versus Washington. Nope. Patrick Sandoval at the Giants. No. Johnny Quato versus the Angels. Nope. Ryan Castellani versus the Houston Astros. Nah.

Someone actually tweeted at me and said, tell Scott he's got to look more into Ryan Castellani. He had a lot of swinging strikes his last start. So I'll just throw it out there. Last but not least, Scott, the dark night. Matt Harvey is back. Uh-oh. You know, it's... I was like, whenever I see Scott look away, I know what he's about to do. Yeah, I was going to channel a Christian Bale voice, but I couldn't remember anything he said from

the movie. So that joke wasn't going to go well. So I hit the eject button, but now you've drawn attention to it. And... You swear to me! That's from Batman begins. All right, so I'm going to assume that's a no on Matt Harvey. Let's see what happens. It's fun. It's a nice little storyline.

Sorry we didn't get to your Apple podcast review questions. We will do that on tomorrow's show. I will find a way no matter what to make that happen for Scott. I am Frank. Thank you all for listening and watching fantasy baseball today. We'll be back again tomorrow. Bye-bye.