5 Burning Questions! Brandon Woodruff's Epic Return! (6/23 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS Sports Got a fantasy question email fantasy baseball at CBSi.com Get ready to win your league Now here's Frank Scott and Chris what's up and welcome to fantasy baseball today on Tuesday June 23rd I am Frank sample joint by Scott White and Chris towers to am the show a big return for Brandon Woodruff Calbratish looks like he has turned things around I have seven burning questions for you guys most dropped players on CBS from the weekend and Much more let's jump in I'm thinking on back I think that's the where we got to start man Brandon Woodruff Big old start here looked incredible in his return. He took a perfect game Into the sixth inning at the reds where he wound up throwing six shutout innings He did allow a hit eventually 10 strikeouts to zero walks the 10 strikeouts a season high 10 whips on 79 pitches here Started off kind of scary. You know only average 89.8 miles per hour on his fastball in the first inning But from innings two through six he was sitting 92 to 93 miles per hour The underlying stuff the whips it doesn't blow you away in this one, but this is just kind of what Brandon Woodruff has done since returning last year Philosophy down doesn't really seem to matter. He just goes out there and pitches Really well whenever he has been on the mound and Decently healthy, you know the last time we saw him Obviously he was going through like a dead arm or whatever was going on there But overall it's a three year a on the nose this season. It's a point eight nine whip Chris would you see here from Brandon Woodruff in his return? That velocity just doesn't seem to matter for him. I'm not sure what exactly it is because like People will always do the velocity as a matter. Well, that's true to a certain extent Not everybody needs to throw 98 miles an hour to succeed, but Generally speaking when a pitcher loses velocity they lose effectiveness 98 is not the same for everyone 92 is not the same for everyone But for a specific pitcher going from 96 to 92 usually matters a lot and it just doesn't seem to matter very much for Brandon Woodruff who Had a higher whiff rate on his four seamer last year when he's sitting 92 Or 92.9 I think he's what he was last year then when he was averaging 96 in 2023 now in this start He's down to what 91.5 91.6 and Though Frank said from second inning. It got better here than that, but still not Not where he used to be and for the whole start it was still down. So it's it's just It doesn't make a ton of sense But he's a really great pitcher and he's able to overcome it He barely threw the cutter in this one. He barely threw the curveball in this one It was like 91% Four seamer change up in sinker and he was incredible. It's it's really weird. Well, I'm I'm less convinced because I don't Want to pick up the discussion on branded Woodruff from where he left off last year But where he went left off before he went on the IO where we weren't convinced that velocity wasn't an issue for him It wasn't last year with the three mile per hour drop and Part because he introduced that cutter that was so effective and he had 11.6 K per nine Prior to the injury this year he had lost even more velocity He had stopped throwing the cutter that much and he had only 7.5 K per nine and I think we were definitely concerned that That version of Woodruff was gonna work Comes back from the IL obviously this is a Dominant start in in so many ways but again he Had even less velocity for the whole start he Aber the average exit velocity often was like 95 miles per hour so he gave up lots of hard contact Terry Francona after the game Praise him, but this is how he praised branded Woodruff He said he located really really well. He hadn't been locating on some of his rehab starts, but he certainly did tonight And so that makes me wonder Okay, gave a part contact Wasn't using the cutter that was the key for him last year But still ended up with a lot of strike out still ended up with a good result was the fact he was locating really really well and the acknowledgement that he wasn't locating as well on his rehab starts does that kind of Fill in the puzzle here that Brandon Woodruff can succeed at this reduced velocity even without the cutter But he's got to locate really really well and how often is he going to locate as well as he didn't this start? I was gonna get to a different but but I think we're getting to the same spot Which the but for me is just I just have no faith that he can stay healthy for for any amount of time I mean his recovery from that shoulder injury was super rocky last year if you remember it was a lot of stops and starts along the way He had that lat and he got two months in before suffering a lat injury doesn't even make it a month this time, I think So I'm kind of at the point where I think Brandon Woodruff's just gonna be good I just don't know how long he's gonna be good and I don't think it's gonna be long enough that You should view him as someone you have to hold on to In all leagues. So I think we're kind of nearing the same place and I agree there are Anytime the answer for why a pitcher is pitching better or worse is not There's stuff got better or worse or their pitch mix changed, but just They are pitching better That is where it's really hard for us as analysts because There's not really anything actionable there, you know, like it's just is he gonna pitch well today or is he gonna pitch poorly Say that's been the thing with Ranger Schwarez for out his throughout his career. It's just Does he and maybe Brandon Woodruff is that kind of pitcher now where More often than not, I think he's gonna be good, but the margin for error might be really slim I think even above and beyond that whether you think he's gonna be good or whether you think he's gonna be You know, whether you think this was kind of the best we're going to see from him And I I think it's probably fair to say this is the best start for a Woodruff's gonna make this I still think the end result is If you have him on your team, this is the perfect time to be trying to sell him That's where I was going next with Brandon Woodruff and look I think as long as he is healthy he's probably someone that's going to be in your lineup Although just yesterday we told people not to use him and I still think that was the right process You know, there is a couple people like oh you told us not to use Brandon Woodruff. Hey, hey I was more open to it. I said no to Shane Beaver, but I said I probably would use Woodruff in a point's league And up point's league so hedging hedging hedging, but Yes Sure, I think the grand scheme was that we were still pretty skeptical here on Brandon Woodruff and rightfully so right It's like the last time we saw him as fastballs 85 miles per hour And we didn't have any velocity readings for him throughout his minor league rehab starts So I think if he strings together a few good starts like yeah probably does make sense to see what you can get for Brandon Woodruff and if you can get a healthy top 36 starting pitcher in return Might be something you want to look into, but I'm not even if he pitches well I'm not sure that you'll be able to get that return, but you can try it something you can look into Truth be told I started jane beaver in a couple leagues too It's it's it's always easy to say no hypothetically, but then when you're going and setting your lineups and you're like oh man It's easy to hope for the best case scenario when you're weighing your alternatives I actually have woodruff in two leagues and I bench them in both so oh I started them in I think too also I don't I don't remember how many leagues I have been but however many I had them in scared money Don't make money man. Yeah, nobody right now Do want to quickly touch on Kyle Bradish as well because I mean he just dominated the angels eight shut out innings nine Strikeouts here 13 whiffs on 101 pitches velocity was up between one and 1.7 miles per hour on all four of his pitches And this is now two starts in a row where the slider has looked really good And we talked about that last time out that has kind of been the missing Piece of the puzzle this year along with command four Kyle Bradish, but in this one the slider had nine whiffs 56% wave rate 30 34% CSW was a really really good pitch for him And over his last two starts now 15 and two thirds innings one run 21 strikeouts to three walks We saw a stretch earlier in the season where he pitched well But I feel like this is even a different level of dominance that we didn't see from Kyle Bradish earlier on in the season So uh Scott Can we I don't know can we say it can we say it confidently is Kyle Bradish back I think I'm putting him back in my top 30 after this and it's not just the results from last two starts as good as they were It's the fact that he finally dominated with his slider something that we have not really seen from him All season the the whiff rate is Has been down to like 31 32% this season the woe bow loud has been over 400 That pitch has just been a real problem for him and that's been his best pitch in the past so The fact that we finally see I don't know top 30 I'm looking at it like Maybe top 40. I'm doing top 30 doing it scared money. Don't make mine as the man said. This is this is what we want to see from Bradish from the beginning. The last two starts. I mean, we were talking about him. I certainly was talking about him as like a 15 guy. And like a dark horse, say young contender is I think how I was putting it. The one reason I'm the little hesitant to say yes, he's back is while he did dominate with the slider and this one for the first time. It was a much harder slider than he was even using last year. It was up 1.7 miles per hour from a season average, a 1.7 miles per hour. But already it was up almost a mile per hour from last year. So is this a like, okay, I can understand why the slider worked this time. He was throwing it freaking hard. Like we're not used to seeing from Kyle Bradish, but is that something he can repeat? And is that why the slider was so effective? I mean, it's not like the movement profile changed that much on it. I don't know. That's that to me is a lingering question. There's a lingering question with Woodruff too. Like I'm not saying none of what I'm saying here. One of the skepticism I'm expressing for Woodruff or Bradish is definitive. It's just me hand ringing over whether or not it's sustainable. Because I don't know. I have reasons to doubt whether it is in both cases. And that's my reason for Bradish. Yeah. That's nothing in life is ever certain. And least of all, least of all when it comes to pitchers. So I think you should absolutely be uncertain about everything. And we yelled at sometimes for expressing uncertainty. But the truth is these guys go through stretches where they look better than they actually are worse than they actually are. And I think we've seen a lot of the ladder for Bradish. But my thing with him has just been I'm so he's been so good throughout his career. Really since that 2023 breakthrough, we've never seen Kyle Bradish not be good. I'm kind of just okay, we sound be good. Cool. I'm back in. And maybe that'll look stupid. But that's just kind of the way I'm treating him. It may look smart. It may be the kinds of things I'm nitpicking over are the sort of things I wouldn't have even known about 10 years ago. You know, like I was doing the same job 10 years ago. I was I was having to analyze pictures the same way. And in some ways it felt I don't know that I was any less accurate than that I am now. So at sometimes I feel like there's this deluge of data that's not really necessary to make the right calls or or at least to make as good of an as educated of again, maybe an educated is not the right word, but as as accurate of a guess. Which is all this is of course guessing. Yeah. And I think that range that you mentioned Chris of moving Kyle Bradish back into your top 30. I mean, we just talked about this last week is from SP 25 through 40. I mean, it's all pictures that have upside, but a lot of those guys, most of them have their own warts as well. So I totally get him being back in that range after two really, really good starts here for Kyle Bradish. We do have some very widely available waiver wire pictures to mention here up top because they did some very interesting things here. So Scott, we'll start with you Jake Bennett of the Red Sox when it's course field and he threw a gem. He sure did six shut out innings nine strikeouts, no walks 15 with son 72 pitches is a very high with rate. I could point out that the characteristics of his fastball were different, but of course it was course field. So I don't know that it's worth getting into that. You did miss a lot of bats with that fastball. It's it's a bat missing fastball in general though. Based on what we've seen from Jake Bennett in the minors, a lot of people might not be familiar with the name 25 year old, not really a prospect of great stature, but at AAA this year, Jake Bennett had a 160 ERA 102 whip in 9.4 K per nine, a very high ground ball rate, which I like over 50% in the minors and also now in the majors. So that that's already a feather in Jake Bennett's cap, but again, getting back to the fastball. It's been a batmecer coming into this start 28% with rate. It's it's a fastball that you know, normally we want a high induced vertical break on a fastball. Jake Bennett's is very low and that can be effective too. You just don't want it in that that middle range where where hitters are going to be able to track it well on the way to the plate. And so Bennett's is on the low end of the spectrum and it's gotten a lot of whiffs. Did in this start was already to go along with that very high ground ball rate. And that's not a combination you see often a pitcher with a bat missing fastball and a great ground ball skills. I mean, normally the ground ball skills come from a sinker, which isn't by design, isn't meant to be a big batmecer. So there's a lot of interesting stuff here for a pitcher who now and back to back starts has been really good between the two 14 strikeouts and 14 strikeouts zero walks in 11 and a third innings. And again, at AAA this year, it a 160 ERA. There may be something here with Jake Bennett. I'm intrigued. I know, like I think the burrs are kind of at the top of the heap when it comes to buying into the pitchers when they get there, but the red socks are I think right there. I mean, they're really good pitch development team. They've had a lot of wins. I don't think Bennett because he throws like 93 is going to be an ace or anything, but I think he's a good pitcher. I really like what we've seen. He gets a lot of extension. He's going to generate ground balls. He's leveled up as a strikeout pitcher this season. I think he's pretty good. I don't think he's great. I think, you know, Peyton Tully certainly has more upsides because he's pumping 97. I think Collierly probably has more upside with that deep arsenal and overall better stuff, but I think Bennett is good with a good defense behind him too. So I like Jake Bennett. I think he is worth adding. Yeah. I think in deep relief for sure, 11% rostered, but we've talked about a few players that where you can kind of like beat the waiver wire. And I think you can maybe get ahead of if you play in a 12 team league where people are pretty aggressive on starting pitchers, just getting out ahead of this one because again, everything that you guys said about Jake Bennett, I looked at his last three starts in the majors and then his three starts in the minors before that 40 strikeouts to five walks over his last six starts combined. So that is pretty impressive stuff there for Jake Bennett who will face Yankees this weekend and then he's at the angels next week. So if Mike try to still out, that's still a really, really good match up there for Jake Bennett. Chris, over to you, we will talk about Kumar Rocker who I don't know where man, just racked up a ton of whiffs. And it was a different version of Kumar Rocker than we've pretty much ever seen. If you remember back to the early parts of Kumar Rocker's career, he had this six slider and then he stopped throwing it for a little while and started throwing this harder cutter. He never really threw them at the same time. He started doing it a little bit more lately. Well, Monday's start, not a start. He pitched behind an opener, but it was a start. Was the first time in his career that he has thrown his slider and cutter. I believe it's more than 61% of the time. He threw him 76% of the time combined. So the first time he's thrown both 25% of the time or more each. And it looked awesome. He got 20 whiffs on, yeah, 20 whiffs on 76 pitches, 20 whiffs on 35 swings is a ridiculous number. 17 whiffs off the side of the cutter actually only got one, but the thought there would be, well, if the cutter plays a little better than his fastballs, which have never really worked well, despite, you know, he has a live arm. His fastballs never really worked. Well, if the cutter shape moves a little better with the slider, they tunnel well together. Maybe that can work. It was against a lefty heavy lineup too, which I thought was interesting that he was able to make a cutter slider combo work that well. I don't know. I am definitely not saying you have to add Kumar Rocker right now. I do the FBT newsletter. I always write a little waiver wire segment. I've got two pitchers in there worth adding. Neither of them is Kumar Rocker. I am not recommending him as an ad yet, but I thought this was a really interesting. Who are they Chris? Hurst of Waldrup is getting close. We haven't really talked about it, but he, he threw 71 pitches in his rehab start on Sunday. I think he's probably one start away from getting back with the Braves and then Jake Bennett, I think is, okay, I have a little more interest in Bennett than Rocker, but I have pretty much written off Kumar Rocker, even though he's had some good stretches this season, especially, but it's never really felt particularly sustainable. This looked better than we've ever seen from Kumar Rock. And so I'm definitely going to watch his next start and see what it looks like. Because if he can make this cutter slider combo work, that makes it very, very interesting. And the only other thing I wanted to add with Kumar Rocker was I wonder if there's a bit of a Brian Beo thing going on here because his only other book relief appearance where he had an opener ahead of him this season was in Colorado where he threw seven and two thirds shutout innings with seven shrygouts. So now the two games as a book reliever are the two best games that we've seen from Kumar Rocker all season. So it could just be coincidence. But we'll see. I wonder if next time out they go with the opener approach again for Kumar Rocker and whether or not he can rack up a bunch of whiffs with that slider once again. There's definitely some talent in there. Is there consistency? I think that's kind of like the next part. Can Kumar Rocker answer that question? Before we hit our first break, just a reminder, if you were listening on the audio side of things, feel free to leave a say five-star rating and review on both Apple and Spotify. It really does help us out a ton. Let's take that break. We'll be back right after this. Oh no. Hey, I'm Henny Toykesti. I'm on Lomalla. Welcome back fantasy baseball today. Let's hit the news and notes. Bobby with Junior hit in the batting cage fielded grounders and ran the bases on Monday but it was out of the line up once again. Which is hopeful that he'll avoid the I.L. and he will be available to play in the next couple days. But that's that's just his opinion. So we're still kind of in weight and sea mode. And I noticed yesterday you guys said if he was out of the line up that you would recommend people leaving him on the bench this week. So we'll see what happens if he can actually get back in the next couple days. Terry Frank Hona confirmed Ellie De La Cruz will return here on Tuesday. We knew that one yesterday. So I hope everyone got him back in the lineup. Francis Gole-Endor could return from the I.L. as soon as Wednesday. If you guys had Lendor anywhere, were you getting him back in your weekly lineups this week? I probably should have given more thought to it in some of the deeper roto leagues. Well, I think that's all I have, I think that's all I have. I did not say but I don't know that J.P. Crawford's production is going to be so good that I should have passed up a shorter week for Lendor. It's obviously been a long time since we've seen him. He went on the I.L. in April. But he was borderline first round. I guess because of the hand-made bone entry, he ended up being more like a late second. But he has first round upside for sure. All right. We did get two Dodgers who left here on Monday night. Kyle Tucker left with backs basms and Dalton rushing was taking out because they had a fear of making cushion there. So he did pass his initial concussion protocol test. They will retake it in 24 hours. Dalton, Russian, rushing is unlikely to play here on Tuesday and Kyle Tucker apparently not overly concerned here with that injury. So we'll see what happens with him as well. Jeremy Pena left Monday night with a right hamstring cramp. That is the same hamstring that landed him on the I.L. earlier this season. So see what happens with Jeremy Pena. He actually was hitting really well since he returned as well. So I just want to point out because I saw someone mentioned in the chat and I know it's the first thing a bunch of people are going to think even if Kyle Tucker does miss some time, I really don't think it's going to be James tips. I can't say for sure, but he's only played one game in the outfield since May 7th. It was like two or three days ago. So he's getting better, but he's been playing to a far-am injury. He's mostly been limited to first base or D.H. The Dodgers famously have pretty good first baseman and D.H.s on their roster. So unless they're comfortable with tips in the outfield, I don't really think it's going to happen right now. Even if I go from the aisle. Did you look at today? I did not see today. Let me check that because it was, yeah, it was just a couple days ago when tips made his return to the outfield. But then he went back to first base the next time. He did. So let me see that. There was no games today. Oh, probably. I guess they don't play on Monday. Yeah, I don't think so. Now have a mind. So we'll see about Tuesday there for James tips. Garrett Crochet's left shoulder and Lant are improving, but has not yet been cleared to resume a throwing program. Joe Ryan has been scratched from Tuesday's start due to illness. So he looks like he could avoid facing the Dodgers and potentially start later on this week. Corey Seeger is scheduled to take live BP on Tuesday. He's currently on the concussion aisle. Randy Eros, Arana did some base running on Sunday could return as soon as Tuesday. He is on the aisle with a hamstring injury. Do you guys have any Eros Arana anywhere? Did you consider putting him back in lineups could return on Tuesday, but we don't know for sure. I didn't. I think I did in a five outfield relief, but not a three outfield relief. The Marlins placed Max Meyer on the bereavement list, which means he will miss anywhere from three to seven days. So on the short end, he could still start later this week. If he misses all the time, he'll he won't make it started all this week. Liam Hicks is awaiting MRI results on his injured lower back. He went on the aisle this weekend. Yurrie Perez felt great during his pitch design session and could have rejoined the rotation Wednesday against the Rangers. I believe he only threw around 50 pitches in that first rehab outing. So even if he does start Wednesday, he's probably only throwing somewhere around 70, 75 pitches. I would imagine Emilio Pagod will begin a rehab assignment on Thursday. Tony Santi and has looked better as of late, but I think they are they are desperately in need of just a closer and hopefully if Pagod is healthy, he can just slot right back into that role. Matthews only 59% rostered. So he's out there in leagues. I think Santi and didn't you take the loss today. So he had been looking better, but it's still not still not that stable. Yeah, it's it's a five ERA for overall. Yeah, Matthew Boyd's next start will be in the majors and it looked like that might come Thursday against the Metz. Mick Abel who suffered a setback this weekend underwent an MRI Monday that did not reveal any structural damage. The White Sox activated Kyle Teal and option Edgar Kero to AAA Teal in 78 games last year with the White Sox had 273 eight homers 38 runs 35 RBI three steals a 786 OPS 39% rostered popular sleeper breakout candidate coming into the season. We could use some catcher help with Will Smith and Adley Rutchman and Liam Hicks out on the I L. Would you guys take Kyle Teal ahead of any of Francis Galauvres or Dalton rushing. I mean, I guess rushing is easier now than he's hurt, but yeah, I think I would just because they haven't been getting the job done. I don't I don't think Teal is definitively better than those guys, but if you're in the sort of league where that's an option, you know, you might as well just try to try to wrangle the like we don't we don't know that Francis Galauvres is going to be a great starting option for you because he never has been for a long stretch of time. So you might as well try. You you you want to cast a wide net in a situation where you don't have a surefire option at a position and part of that means chasing the latest thing when the current thing isn't going well. And so I think it makes sense to swap out one of those guys for Teal or I don't know how hot Gabriel Marano is, but like he's in that same group too. That kind of 11 to 18 range of the catcher rankings. Alejandro Kirk. I mean, if you want to swap him out for Teal, that would make sense too. All right, Justin Steele, not to be confused with Kyle Teal, Justin Steele resumed a throwing program on Monday. He underwent UCL revision surgery last May and then suffered a setback in April. And they have said all along we won't see him again until the second half of the season. But if you have a lot of IEL spots and limited and you have a spot to play with Justin Steele is someone that you can stash. Chase the lottery is hoping to return during their homestand, which lasts from June 26th through July 5th. Jackson Holiday has missed two straight with growing tightness. Addison Barger is targeting Thursday to start a rehab assignment. 41% rostered. Chris, do you have any interest here in Addison Barger third base in Outfield eligible? I'm not going to say zero interest, but I kind of think he just got hot last year and isn't really that good. So I'm not super interested in Addison Barger. And perhaps the biggest news in all of sports today, Chris, you're Miami Heat. They were busy. Traded for the Greek freak. Yannis. Yight? Sure. I don't know who else's going to play for their team. I mean, Matt Chris, for some reason I thought the Marlins were the only dead Marlins in FIU or the OK. Yeah, they're the only ones that I really care about anymore. I don't, yeah. I don't know, because I started this job running with a basketball and so I kind of lost the Heat Phantom there. It was running with a football for a while. So I kind of lost the Dolphins fandom there. It's still there somewhere. The way I describe it is like stamp it out because you like, do you try to be big journalists now wanting to know rooting in the press box kind of thing? There's a little bit of that. But there's also just like, I don't know, you start watching every game. You become fans of more than just one. team. The Marlins are working at a restaurant and suddenly you don't like the food there anymore. I mean, that happened sometimes. I didn't happen with me at Derrick Queen when I worked at high school. I will say that. It did happen. I just don't know. Yeah, I don't know. The Marlins were always the one I was most emotionally tied to. So, yeah, that's the only one that's stuck. I'm a masochist is really what it is. Although if I was a masochist, that's still be a dolphin's fan. So I guess that's yeah. To answer your questions, Scott, my first job was working at RB's when I was in high school. I did not ask. I never got tired of the food. No, no, but you were talking about the question if it did get tired of the food. They've got great for all right. So we all started this fast food. We got our bees. We got Harry Queen. We got Duncan Donuts, which is drop the donuts. It's just Duncan now, which is a choice I have to say. Nobody asked me as a former employee pouring coffees for people. Yeah, I never got tired of the food though. I'm very surprised. Every day we're going to RB's, I'd be all right. Maybe Duncan Donuts just isn't that good. Yeah, I mean, how much can you actually eat donuts, you know, unless you get into like the bacon and cheese stuff and I don't know. Oh, I did. Yeah, I got into all of it. All right, fair enough. A lot of us. Is that what they were called? That sounds right to other bounce backs that we did not get to earlier on. Michael King, big bounce back. He needed it against the brave seven shutout innings five strikeouts zero walks. That is the key here for Michael King. Previous five starts before this one a 641 ERA 146 whip. So again, needed a big bounce back and we got it. And one who might be close. Frambervaldez six innings one run eight strikeouts here against the Yankees back-to-back quality starts. And last two, it's 12 innings one run 14 strikeouts to five walks. So I feel like we're getting closer here for Frambervaldez. Chris, would you see here from Michael King and Valdez is your confidence level growing in those two? With Valdez, it's kind of like what I said about Bradish where I I'm so confident that he's going to figure out it figure it out eventually. That I'm just kind of going to buy in every time we see signs of it. And I think the last two starts for Valdez have been very good. So I the curveball specifically played a lot better in this one. And I feel like that's what we were waiting for because really the last I don't know three or four years. That's kind of been the story without that as the curveball goes so egos. I might have written those exact words in tomorrow's newsletter. And there you go. And yeah, that's that's the key yet. What seven whips on it five whips today. Five whips on the curveball. It was a 42% whiff rate on that pitch. It had been a 32% whiff rate on the season. It had like an extra inch of drop. So that yeah, good signs there for Valdez. I agree. And then King, the hard thing is this is also kind of what we talked about earlier where it's just he kind of just needs to pitch better. There isn't that like Canary in the coal mine like with Valdez where it's like, okay, if the curveball's good, he's going to be good. If the curveball's bad, he's going to be bad with King. It's just he kind of just needs to throw strikes consistently and locate down the zone. And he wasn't doing that well before this start. He did it well today. I tend to think he'll continue doing it moving forward. But we don't have a super long track record with Michael King being a mustar pitcher. So I'm still a little wary of him. I kind of think the braves lineup is I'm not saying it's trash period. It's it's kind of playing like garbage. It's struggling. Well, you know, they got really good results from basically everyone for the first two months. And you can't do that all year unless it's the 2023 version of the braves that did. But like, you know, they haven't scored. Baldwin has been pretty bad since he came back pretty bad. So Baldwin strike has nice play appearances. His first at bat back from the I L. He hit the longest home run for anyone this season. Since then, he's gone over 24 with 15 strikeouts. Yep. So I don't know what's going on there because that is not a guy who should even at his coldest should be striking out like that. Golden some braero today for Jake Baldwin. Yeah. Not really sure what to make of that. But oblique injuries. What he was coming back from. And like I'd be easy to blame it on that. Oh, maybe he's not really healthy. But he hit that 476 foot home run right away. I don't know. It's little little concerning there for Baldwin. The one thing I'll point out with Michael King in this start. Well, he did a better job throwing strikes and avoiding walks. Give up a lot of hard contact, man. 12 hard hits in this game. 91 mile per hour average exit velocity. So it was very clearly a step in the right direction for Michael King. But still some things to clear up. It's like you can't just, all right, let me get in the zone and all of a sudden you're giving up all this hard context. So we'll see where Michael King can go. But obviously a nice step in the right direction after a rough stretch for him. I do have some burning questions here that I want to talk about. And I got seven players in particular. Garrett Cole, I keep saying we need more data. We need more. We need to see what happens here. He kind of stunk at the Tigers. No way around it. Four and a third innings, nine hits, five runs, five strikeouts. I did have 11 whips on 89 pitches. So I guess, you know, glass half full. That's the one good thing. And the pitcher list pitcher cards gave his stuff an A minus in this one. But the locations were not good. He had a lot of like 0 to counts where he just threw pitches over the middle of zone and they wound up getting hit pretty hard. Nine hard hits in this game. It's got I lean towards being more worried than not here with a garracle. Who again, he's in his mid 30s. He's coming back from Tommy John and the internal bracelet. I think maybe this should just be expected for him. I mean, it depends what you mean by worried in the short term. I'm worried in the short term, even even though the, you know, he got a decent number of whips in this start. The swinging strike rate since returning for garracle is below 8%, which is just a reblezky level. Yeah. It's like basement level swinging strike rate, which obviously, you know, garracle can't succeed that way. But I think the most critical data point is the stuff. And I mean, pitcherless, like you said, give him A minus for stuff from what I can read from the data. Yeah, the stuff looks good. So he's just pitching like crap. I mean, it's the opposite situation from Woodruff here today where, you know, we wonder if the stuff's really there, but he pitched Grady, located as well as he possibly could and Cole's doing the opposite. If the stuff is there, particularly from a guy with his track record, like we know he knows how to wrangle the stuff. He's going to get there eventually, but right now I don't have a lot of faith that I'm no. Let's talk about Hutta Brown, who is very inefficient at the Blue Jays. Only three innings here, one run, two walks, four strikeouts, two hit by pitches in this game as well. And Chris, what concerned me here is the velocity. So we just got to watch again coming back from a shoulder injury fastball only down half a mile per hour, but the sinker, the slider, the curve, they were all down over one mile per hour in this one. And obviously he was very inefficient. So concern level here with Hunter Brown is second start back from along I else. We're firing up the concernometer. I'm like a two. I think it's probably just rust. I think the two hit by pitches, especially is a sign of rust. He hasn't been quite there yet. It's been it was three walks and five and two thirds innings his previous outing. Only two walks in this one, but he just could not finish guys off was was all over the place. So I'm inclined to just give him the benefit of that doubt. It's his first two starts back from a shoulder injury. It is possible that Hunter Brown just never gets back. I won't discount that possibility, but I don't think it's the likeliest outcome here. I think with both Brown and Garacol, I think we're just seeing a little rust. Garacol reminds me of Sandy, I'll contour last year. I remember it took him a couple months, but he was basically himself in the second half of last season. I think we'll get a stretch like that from Garacol at some point. We're just not there yet. And with Hunter Brown, I mean only two starts that's so little to go on that I don't I don't think there's much value in being worried. All right, Gavin Williams, a nice bounce back after three rough starts at a row, five innings, two runs, eight strikeouts to one walk. He had 14 whiffs on 95 pitches and his velocity was up quite a bit fastball. Excuse me, sinker up 1.6 miles per hour. The fourth seam was up 1.2 miles per hour here, four Gavin Williams, but he continues to allow a lot of hard contact. Five hard hits here, 93.4 average EV against entering this start. He was 6th percentile in average executive velocity against third percentile on both hard hit rate and barrel rate. So it's got I like the whiffs. I like the improved control a lot this year from Gavin Williams, but it seems to have come with a trade off that he's in the zone more. He's also giving up a lot more hard contact as a result. So how worried are you about? I don't know, just like this new version of Gavin Williams. I think it's still the best version of Gavin Williams overall. It's probably going to prevent him from being an ace. I mean, I mean, that's, I didn't shame Bieber have quality of contact issues early in his career where he still was really good and Robbie Raid out with that early in his career. And I wanted to say he was really good, but a lot of that was walks too. If you miss enough bats, then the contact quality matters a lot less because no contact, no contact is better than weak contact. So this is a flaw in Williams game. It was a known flaw coming in. I think that was the main reason Chris and I were divided on Williams coming in where I liked him, Chris Dennett. And it was mostly because of that contact quality. I tend to put less stock in that if I feel like the guy has big swing and mispotential. And Williams has mostly lived up to that this year. He was going through a rough patch prior to this start. He had been so good before then that it seemed inevitable. But I think he's back on track. I would still treat him as a must start picture. And I would also just point out quality of contact is a skill that pitchers have some control of. They don't have as much control over it as hitters do. And it takes a lot longer to know what is real and what is when it comes to the quality of contact that pitchers allow. And so we have a couple of years of Gavin Williams being average, maybe a little worse than average in the quality of contact. It gives up. And then we have two and a half months of him being really bad. I generally think you should regress that. And if the strikeout rate sustains and the improved walk rate sustains, even if he goes back to being bad in quality of contact, but not one of the worst in baseball, I think you're looking at a much improved picture. And I think that's a safe assumption for Gavin Williams. I think it's always going to be a headache. But I think on the whole, what's the R.A. down to now? 382? You know, maybe it's more like 360. But I think he's going to be worth starting moving forward. Yeah. If he gives you like a 360 year A115 to 120 whip, it kind of feels a lot like Hazus Luzardo right? Kind of like inflated ratios, but good strikeouts. Like, you know, there's a good picture there, but it just kind of comes with some inconsistencies as well. Although, although Hazus Luzardo's had some of the weakest contact in baseball this year. So I get what you're saying, just the final stat line is what you're preparing it to. But it is that they do come about those stat lines differently. Master Griffin, a great outing here against the Phillies, seven and a third innings, one run at nine strikeouts, the zero walks, 17 whiffs on 105 pitches. And over his last six starts, it's a 178, ERA, a point eight eight whip, 35 strikeouts to five walks over 35 and a third innings. I know you guys have kind of been divided on foster Griffin. So is he just good? I don't know. I think he might speak good. Not great. Okay. All right. Yeah. Sub four ERA caliber pitcher, sub four ERA, like sub one 20 whip and I think he's saying good for fantasy. Okay. So four ERA pitcher. I, yeah, that's a low enough bar that I think he can pass it. But I don't believe foster Griffin. Like what did you say? It is a 170 ERA over the past six starts. 178. No. I don't think he's that good either. I don't know. 15 ERA pitcher or anything close to the season mark, which is the season mark. I think he's a four-ish ERA pitcher and on the good days, it'll be sub four and on the bad days, it'll be above four. It was probably above four, not that long ago. Six starts to go roughly. And yeah, I think we're seeing a hot streak, but I don't think this is like a top 60 major league pitcher. No. The season has basically been a hot streak except for a little rough patch in May, right? He has three earn runs or fewer in 13 of 16 starts. He's had three bad starts basically all season. I think there's plenty of reason to be skeptical of foster Griffin. I mean, just look at the ERA estimators. They're all on the mid-force. But as valuable as those composite stats are and summing up how good or bad a pitcher actually is and as much as I lean on them myself, I mean, they have their limits. When I go piecemeal through the things that are good versus the things that are bad for foster Griffin, I arrive at a more positive place than the ERA estimators do. He's nearly a strikeout per inning. He has good control. He gives up weak contact less than 88 miles per hour on average. A lot of it is, that's pretty balanced in terms of on the ground and in the air because of that because he's allowing only like a 37% fly ball rate with 88 mile per hour average exit velocity. He's kind of given up more home runs than he should according to how I assess that mentally. And yet he's still come out with a low 3ZRI so far. So I think in terms of raw talent, he doesn't stand out in that way and maybe the legal catch up to it. But obviously, he was dominant in Korea last year. He's been very effective in all those ways. I just pointed out so far here in the majors. And I'm not saying you should treat him like one of your five best pitchers even, but is he somebody that deserves to be rostered in every league that you should plan on starting at least more often than not? I think I'm there with Foster Griffin. Especially in head 10 points leagues too, as a spark. As a spark especially, I think that's all fair. I would just say outliers always exist by definition. These peripheral stats cannot accurately describe every single pitcher in the population. You will almost always go broke trying to identify which pitchers are the outliers in the future. He's getting good results right now. I think it's fine to ride him. I think he's a four-er-air pitcher. That's what it comes down to for me. So however you value that, I think that's a guy who's going to be on the waiver wire at some point. But he's like, use him now, that's sure. But I just, we've already done it once with him where we rode the hot hand and then he had the two bad starts in a row and undid a lot of it. He's gone back and been phenomenal since then. I think that's probably going to happen again. All right, let's take our final break when we return. I have one other player I want to ask about a hitter. And then Nemo, kind of a weird season here. We'll talk about that right after this. [SPEAKING PORTUGUESE] Welcome back, fantasy baseball. Today, I do have seven burning questions or seven players to talk about. I've now trimmed that to five because we got to keep things moving. But Brandon Nemo's the last one I want to ask about. Three for three with a walk and two runs scored here. He's hitting over 300 in June but has zero home runs in the month. The home park has killed him this year. At home he's hitting 225 with one home or a 620 OPS on the road, 308, 6 homers, 874 OPS. And Texas has the second lowest park factor, the seventh lowest home run factor over the past three years. So his underlying stats, his expected stats, the barrel rate, hard contact. It's all there. It all looks good. But I just wonder if maybe he won't get to those numbers. He'll just underperform them because of his home environment. That's interesting because I had made the opposite case for Marcus Simeon with that trade. That's sent Nemo to Texas Simeon to the mats. I decided that there's a lot to like there for Simeon. It's just the Rangers Park that was killing him. He'll be better off with the mats. I didn't really consider the reciprocal for Nemo. So you pointing out those splits. It is illuminating because you mentioned all the underlying stats are there for Nemo. They're not just there. They're better than ever by a lot. His expected batting average is 288. His expected slug is 508. That's like all 90th percentile. It's pacing far ahead of what we normally see from Branden Nemo, even though he's 33 now. So in theory, he should be the best version of Branden Nemo ever. Yet it does, as you point out, seem like that home park is killing him. Now, you know, that's half his games there this year. So you cut this year's sample in half. That's a pretty small sample. 153 play-to-pans is yet. Yeah. So I don't think it's definitive. I still think on the whole, there is more reason to be encouraged by Nemo than not. I might even call him a by-law to some extent. But it could be that this park is is nerfing what should be a more valuable asset than he's actually been. All right, quickly run through some waiver wire options from Monday's action. Andre Palante continues to pitch well. Last seven starts 268 ERA, a one whip on the nose, lots of ground balls. He's limiting hard contact. He's 71% roster. Merrill Kelly turned in a quality start here and against the Cardinals six innings, three runs, only two strikeouts here. It's still too many walks. He's not getting whiffed. I don't know. Merrill Kelly is looking a very old, very quickly here, I believe. And Debbie Matthews, a quality start against the Dodgers six innings, two runs, five strikeouts, two homers allowed. Continues to give up a lot of hard contact. The whiffs are down this year. Like he has a quality start in six of eight outings, but when things go wrong, they go really wrong for Debbie Matthews. So do you guys think any of these three are more than just streamer types right now? Zebi Merrill Kelly, Andre Palante. No, I don't think so. He can't keep getting away with it. That's how I feel about Zebi Matthews. Yeah. And Palante, I mean, great ground ball pitcher, right? But that's about it. He's the one that I want to use most from this group right now. Yeah. I think anything against the Marlantins next start, that seems like it makes a lot of sense at the Cubs next week. Hit her, miss. Could go either way. Yeah. It's not just a high ground ball rate. It's, it's weak contact. It's weak ground balls, 87 mile per hour, average, X of velocity for Palante. And that, and I think he has a career high strikeout rate too. So he is looking really good defense behind two. Yeah. He's looking better. Like he always was streamable. He always had a pretty, a better floor than he was given credit for in fantasy. A better pitcher in real life than fantasy, I'd say, and Andre Palante. But he's, he's looking more usable than ever now. I still don't think he needs to be university rostered or anything. It's still more of a downside play than an upside play. But I think he's, I think he's solid. But there was a really good piece on fan graphs last week by Michael Bowman. Headline is Andre Palante good. I still can't tell. I do think that mostly sums it up. But he, that piece goes into detail about some of the changes he's made. He has a slightly lower ground ball rate this season. He's changed his fastball usage a little bit. But it's led to more strike out in a way that I think has made him a better pitcher. So I think again, it's probably close to a four year A, not a super exciting pitcher, but a useful one. Three deeper names. Anthony K continues to pitch well. And he got that vaunted guardians lineup. Six shutout innings with H. Strikeouts 15 whiffs on 101 pitches. Last 10 starts for Anthony K. It's a 333 ERA also 125 whips. So that tells you probably some luck here on the ERA during that stretch. Brady singer a great start against the brewery. Seven shutout innings with seven strikeouts opposing brand of Woodruff in this one. Eric Lauer continues to pitch very well with the Dodgers this time in bulk relief. Six no hit innings. More walks in strikeouts. Can't keep getting away with it. That is Eric Lauer as well. But three deeper names. Do you guys see anything here with Lauer singer or Anthony K? Is probably the most interesting of this group. And large part in a point. He's a spark in a point league. I've had him in a couple of point leagues where he's just kind of been in my line up most of the time. And I'm happy with it because I don't really care about relief pitchers in that format. And I'd rather just throw a guy like him out there and especially in a two-start week. I don't really think Anthony K has someone who's going to matter in Roto. But I don't think any of these guys are likely to matter. This is the the second year in a row that Eric Lauer has had a surprisingly useful stretch. I don't think there's any reason to think that's going to last. I know it's the Dodgers and maybe they've rung something out of him. He has 16 strikeouts and 28 and third innings since getting the Dodgers. I think we're just biting our time until an actually interesting pitcher replaces him in the rotation either River Ryan or eventually Blake Snell and Tyler Glass. All right. On the hitter side of things, I only have two hitters I want to mention in their names that we keep talking about. So I think we can keep this moving. But Sam Antonacci we raved about him yesterday. Talked about him on the express episode. Huge game here. Two for four with a walk a run. Two steals three RBI, including a walk off two run single. He is dominating in June 67% rostered. Second base in Outfield. I think that number needs to be closer to 100%. And Dylan Cruz looks like he is coming around a little bit two for five with RBI last 11 games. He's hitting 250 three homers 11 RBI one steal and we mentioned this last week the underlying data for Dylan Cruz looks very good. Lots of hard contacts expected stats look good. So five out of the other leagues for sure. And you know, if he starts to catch up to those expected stats, we might be talking about Dylan Cruz in three out of their leagues as well. So I'm hitting leftovers here. Riley Green. The power is coming around after zero homers in May. He's up to five home runs so far in the month of June. Otto Lopez leads the majors and hits. It's shocking. Seems crazy. Man two more hits here. He has hit at least 3 30 in each month this season. Show how Tony has been raking as a hitter once again hit his 17th home run another lead off Homer last 34 games. He's hitting 372 with 11 home runs. The batting average has been a disappointment for Cosima Okamoto, but he the powers legit like 17 homers for home runs in his past nine games. He's on pace for 35 home runs this season. Taylor Ward revenge game in Anaheim. He hit his fifth home has looked better in June so far. Many Machado hit his 14th home run last 12 games hitting 277 with three home runs. So baby steps here for Machado baby steps for George Springer last nine for him. 353 three homeers three steals and Byron Buckston. I think this is probably the best version of Byron Bucks that we've ever seen. Last 15 games he has eight homeers two steals. He's hitting 356. Last year he had 35 home runs in 126 games. His current pace over 126 games would be 46 home runs. So man he is dominating right now. Lots of names here. Some that might be coming around. Anyone that you'd like to touch on here in this group. I mean just want to point out Byron Buckston didn't have a Homer until like the 15th game of the season I think too. And it coincided with him getting moved to lead off and now he's batting second again. But yeah. Yeah, he's got 25 homeers in 54 games since he had his first one. That is what like a 75 home or pace just over that. He's not going to do that. But just the healthy place. He's awesome. I was looking to see if Buckston's currently in line to go to the All-Star game and he is actually the latest update came out today. I'm pleasantly surprised by that because the in L outview. No Ernie Clement. The in L outview. Yeah Ernie Clement is the by far the leading vocator at second base. What is going on? I just you know the subluches fans. I get I like enthusiasm. You know it's it's good to be enthusiastic. But like I don't like you're not enthusiastic about enthusiasm. You just it's just kind of a jerk move to like I want my favorite my team starting player to go instead of the one who actually deserves to my thing on this who cares. What do you mean who cares like vote harder if you don't like I keep seeing Yankees fans especially. But I saw Yankees fans was like, Oh, the the entire nation of Canada's voting for me. It's like Jersey Connecticut in New York have like five million fewer people than Canada. We can't we can't use that excuse. Can't doesn't have that many people. Like just vote. No, an individual person can only vote so hard Chris and they're allowed to care that the fans overall are blowing this. I I have you know we've seen the right guys in years. The updates come out the voting looks terrible and then there's a rally at the end. I think this is the last week. It's only voting through Thursday. I applaud everyone vote harder. Yeah. Everyone to vote for the right players. Scott have you voted yet? No, I haven't see I voted three times. But I usually don't vote. I've been pouring everyone else to if you if you don't express your civic duty, you don't get to complain about the system. You still can. No, I'm still going to watch the game. I can still be like I really wish that. I don't want to watch the all start game. Oh, come on man. I like voting for the all start game. Baseball off star game is the one I'm most likely to watch. But no, I don't really care about all star games. The baseball all start game is probably the best one. It's the only one that actually resembles the sport itself. But give me the home run derby every day over the all start game. Not anymore. They changed they changed back to an outs form and instead of a timer format, it's going to be a snooze. That's going to be a lot of taken pitches and very few actual home runs. We got to start boeing guys for taking pitches. It's not going to matter. I have it. We've done it before. It was a snooze. They changed it to the timer system. It was thrilling. Everybody loved it. I guess not everybody. Everybody loved it at first and then people forgot how bad their system was. I started. Yeah, I mean, that's easy enough to enforce, right? That people got frustrated because the pitcher would throw another pitch before the last home run landed. That's easy to enforce, just enforce it better. Like that was the solution, not to change back to this format that's unwatchable. I don't know if it could still end up in a swing off, but the swing off in the home run derby last year was just epic. Well, that was the all-star game. That wasn't the home run derby. Is that true? Yeah, that was that decided game itself. I thought for some reason that was the home run. Yeah, that would make more sense. That was pretty cool. That was cool. I wouldn't mind seeing that again. Yeah, tie during the game. Yep. Room for a tie. Some pitching left overs, Dylan C say mixed outing against the Ashrows five and two thirds, two runs, four strikeouts, eight strikeouts, excuse me, to four walks. That's back-to-back starts with four walks, four Dylan C. Michael Wacko was great at the race, seven innings, one run, five strikeouts there. Drew Rasmussen, a tough loss on the other side, six innings, two runs, five strikeouts. He has a quality start in five of his last six outings, anything to add or mention with Rasmussen, Michael Wacko, and Dylan C's. Never really. I'm just kind of doing what they do. Yeah. Yeah, it was a nice start for Wacko. I'd been slumping lately. I think in a way that was understandable. He obviously was owed some regression, but that doesn't mean you discard him. He's still got some good start in him and he delivered one. The call to the bullpen. So someone pointed out, pointing this out to me earlier, while the two West Coast games were going on, every game up until that point had a safe situation. He asked, "How many times has there been a night where every single game had a save or a blown save or just a save opportunity at the end of the game?" And I don't know. It was a good question. I was like, I don't know that that, I mean, I'm sure it's happened before, but it's, you don't see that often where it's like every single game has a save opportunity. So interesting night of bullpen. Here for the Tigers, Ken Lee Jansen was unavailable. Will Vest got the final four outs for his second save for the Royals. Alex Lang got the ninth inning with a one run lead. He was a clean inning for his sixth save. Alex Lang just kind of feels like the guy. He's only 35% rostered. I think that number needs to be higher. For now. I think he'll just, he's likely to struggle. Yeah. I don't know that I completely trust him, but he is the guy for the Royals right now. Yeah, no, no. He's not the guy. He's starting every category, he's league. Yeah. And probably very few points leaks. But I don't have a lot of faith that he'll be rostered in August. Yeah. For the Rangers, Jacob Lask got the final four outs for his 14th save. I just want to highlight. He's been amazing. 146 ERA and a.62 whip for Jacob Lask. For the Brewers, Abner Reve. You know what? I don't even know that Lang should be rostered in every category's league because I don't know that he needs to be rostered and saves plus holds leagues. Yeah, it's fair. Yeah. No, I get that. Any leagues would save. I do think he should be rostered. For the Brewers, Abner Reve, a clean a thinning Trevor McGill, a clean ninth inning. Then it was Joel Kunu, who got the 10th with a two run lead. He allowed the man for demand to score, but picked up his fifth save of the season for the white socks. Messy, messy. Grant Taylor got the seventh inning with a three run lead. He gave up three runs on two walks and three hits. Later in the ninth, sorry, Anthony Dominguez. He got, he entered with a one run lead. He allowed two runs on a walk and two hits, took his fifth blown save. He was relieved by Chris Murphy, who finished the inning and picked up the win. We'll get to the Guardians of just a second, but white socks, both pen is a mess right now. Yeah, so I do think you have to say Grant Taylor's ascension has stalled out a little bit. But the good news is Seranthus and Mingus has also been bad lately. So is that good news? There's still a path. It's just Grant Taylor has given up, I think runs in four straight outings. One of them was unearned, but he's been a little shaky lately. If he had a path to take that job, well, I think he kind of blew it. But Seranth and Mingus is also blowing it. So Grant Taylor still has a path. He just has to pitch better than he has lately. Alternate world where he pitches well over the last week and a half or so. Grant Taylor might just be the closer by now. So that's a little frustrating. So the white socks broadcast pointed this out. I was just looking up real quick. In save situations this season, 18 games, sorry, Anthony and Mingus has a 606 ERA. That was an entry Monday in non-save situations, 12 games, a 0.77 ERA. So I don't know if it's just kind of a mental thing, but it's usually the opposite for closers. Yeah. I mean, Seranth and Mingus not really close or I guess, you know, so I guess that might further tell the story there for the Guardians on the other side. Kate Smith, he was trying to get the final five outs. He came back out for the ninth with that one run lead. He allowed two runs out of walk and two hits and took his first loss of the season for the nationals Clayton Beard at the ninth with a three run lead. He picked up his sixth save. They do not have a closer and they never will ever again for the blue jays. Julie Varlin picked up his 16th save for the Dodgers. He picked up his 10th for the Cardinals. He picked up his Riley O'Brien picked up his 19th. I should probably say who for the Red Sox a role this Chapman got the ninth inning with a two run lead in course field and he allowed three runs on four hits without recording it out. He took his first blown save and third loss. I've seen people talking about this on Twitter. This was just Chapman's fifth appearance since May 21st. He's just barely pitched. It's very weird. So yeah, that seems like bad management. You should be using your closer in non-save situations if they haven't pitched much lately. They were probably going to lose this game anyway because they, I believe, gave up a basis clearing triple with no outs in the ninth inning. Jared ran badly misplaced. A ball in left field that it was not an error because I don't think he touched the ball until he bobbled it. But the bobble was like the third thing he did wrong on this play. Yeah, it was really bad. It probably shouldn't have ended on that play even if it probably should have ended, you know, another play later. Maybe, but that was bad. Yeah. And then for the Padre's Mason Miller picked up his 21st save of the season to stream more not to stream on Tuesday. We have Peter Lambert at the Blue Jays, Mitch Keller against the Mariners, Zach Latel against the Phillies, Sean Burke against the Guardians, Kyle Leahy against the debacks, Shane Bos at the Angels, J.R. Richie at the Padres. I don't really say yesterday. I think Bos, yeah, Bos against the Angels, Burke, I like even more against the Guardian, Sean Burke. I did start Kyle Leahy in a point league with that sparpe eligibility. Peter Lambert at Toronto. That's my third choice. I would agree with those three. On Wednesday, we have Griffin, Jacks against the Royals, Aronola at the Nationals, Mike Burrows at the Blue Jays, Shane Drowin at the Reds, Ret Loud against the Brewers, Matthew Liberator against the debacks and Martin Perez against the Padres. Um, Jacks against the Royals. That's my favorite. I don't think I like anybody else that much. I think Jacks Perez Drowin, so I would say. Yeah, if I had to do a second one, probably Martin Perez, like you said, Drowin at Cincinnati. It's risky for sure. I mean, I don't think he's going to go long enough to get the win. And what's the point if he's not doing that? But I like it. I like skill wise. So maybe I guess he's third choice because I have to pick a third. I heard that. That's where I bought my team name Tuesday. And these are from Ryan and the first one is the Kaiway to hell. All right. Life is a Kaiway. Wow. How you doing? Like how you need? Sure. Let's, but not least. That's good. Don't look at my mechanical. Yeah. Slip in. Slip in on it. But then it's. Come on, Frank. You can't do it if you don't know it. I was going to ask because Scott, I know you have kids. I do. How is your, have you picked up any million E's? Oh, no. As a parent. OK, no. No. I want someone to say Travis Bazzana in the minion's voice. I feel like that would be really funny. But I don't know how to do that voice. It feels like something we can generate with AI if you wanted, but I'm not going to do that. But someone in the audience can do a good minion's voice. I'm not going to vote for the All Star team. Chris isn't going to come up to the minion's voice. I support human-made art. So someone in the audience, please, do a minion's voice and send us. You support human-made art unless someone else is doing it. Then it's fine. No, no, I want them to do it. Not the AI. I'm sure we can find someone out there who could do a minion voice. That's what someone knows. Someone in our audience is fluent in minion E's, which is the official language of the minions. I know what your name is Kevin, right? And can send us an audio recording of them saying Travis Bazzana in the minion's voice. That's all I want. And if you send it in, and if it sounds good, we'll use it as a sound drop for Travis. There will be the sound drop. So there you go. That is your incentive. If you are still listening at the hour 10 mark of today's podcast from Robert a classic rock edition Bachman Turner over drive that's classic yeah from Kurt blazed and confused Manie a feel like woman. That's that's good show. Hey, can you see? Shenai a clay. Yep Yeah, but where how does mani fit into that? Oh? Sorry, sorry show. Hey, can you see? Yeah, yeah, Chappy Gilmore. Yeah from Matt the Vladie Mac will make you jump jump jump That's a do I have a load it up? Mac, Vladie Vladie Mac Jump jump Jump jump It's my way or the Kiway Like the like the Lempiscus song. Yeah, those are pretty good Kiway. Wait, I'm saying today save money live better Walbert Yeah From from Duchenne in Edmonton, Canada. Well, McGonicle Billy is dead He said it's a simple Simpson's reference and that you guys would know what it is, but I don't get it. It's a deep. Uh, could I believe it? You know if it's a certain era of the Simpsons, I usually get them. I don't I don't get this one There's a lot of Simpsons. There's a lot of Simpsons like I watched every episode last year I can't remember everything that happened across the 350 episodes or whatever I watched. I think people It's more like 700 episodes. I think people only make references to the first 11 or 12 seasons whatever whatever the drop off was Yeah, whenever Conan left and he left way before then This last one is from Blake. He said last week you read an email that mentioned someone changing their team name due to players performance That reminded me of my team name changing due to injury since I drafted Aaron Judge I set my team name as courts in session once he hit the IL I changed it to courts and recess once he's back I'll go back to courts in session. I like that. It's good. All right. We're gonna wrap there for Sky Chris I and Frank thinks it's always for tuning in to fan the CBS ball today Please make sure to follow and leave a five star rating on Apple Spotify and we'll do back in tomorrow Bye I Remount podcasts No streaming on Paramount Plus Beth and Ripper back in Dunn Ranch This life here is gonna work Is that will make it work to the world? 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