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Speaker 1What's up and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball Today on Thursday, September 3rd. I am Frank Snapple, joined by Scott White. Today on the show, it is time to add all the A's bats for next week. They've got six home games on the schedule and only five righties. Only five righties? They have five righties. So, got a couple A's bats that I am very interested in adding for next week. Jacob Miziorowski is human after all. His first start with more than three earned runs on the season. The battle for the A.L. Cy Young rolls on. And what happened to these three players? Tune in to find out. Let's jump in. All right, I'm going to kick us off here. My player of the night, and it's one of Scott's favorites, Henry Bolte, who had another big game, three for four, two socks and a shoe. One of Scott's least favorite combinations. I think most people. Would not like to have just two socks and a shoe.
Speaker 3Yeah, that sounds like a frustrating afternoon.
Speaker 1That is two home runs and a steal here for Henry Bolte, who had four RBI as well. And now over his last 30 games, he's hitting 320 with five homers. 21 runs scored, three steals in 885 OPS. He is hitting the ball very hard during that stretch. 92.2 average EV. Still way too many ground balls. His launch angle is negative during that span. So, it does put a. Cap on the power ceiling. But still, you like to see that he's hitting the ball hard. He's got really good speed. So, when he gets on base, he can make things happen. And, as I mentioned earlier, the A's have six home games next week, where Bolte has been better so far this season. 312 batting average. OPS around 800 at home. So, I like him. I also like his teammate, Zach Gelof, who had another good game here. Two for five with his 15th home run. Hasn't been as good since returning from the injury. But, overall, this season, he's got 15 homers, 10 steals, he's cut down the strikeouts. His 162-game pace, 27 homers, 103 runs, 18 steals. So, it's been a very good season for Zach Gelof, who has second, third, and outfield eligibility. Also has those six home games next week. He's even better at home, a near 900 OPS. And I guess we could throw a couple other names in there. Lawrence Butler with a five of six, again, being right-handers next week. I think if you're in a deeper league, Jeff McNeil, he's been hot. And, again, a lot of righties on the schedule. So, Scott, anything you'd like to add on the A's bats, in particular, my guy, Henry Bolte.
Speaker 3You're doing my work tomorrow for me, putting together the sleeper hitters.
Speaker 1I got you, Scott.
Speaker 3It's halfway filled out now. Yeah, I think the home away splits for all these hitters support picking them up and streaming them next week. And unless you're set at the positions they play, no need to mess with the guys. It's a good thing, if you have one. But if you're hurting, or you're just dissatisfied with the production you're getting in the outfield, or in Zach Gelof's case, second, third base, their home splits are very favorable, and they seem to be heating up at the right time. Bolte's probably the one we need to get into the most, because he has been hot the longest. You mentioned last 30 games, that's basically since the start of August, I'll mention those numbers again, 320 batting average, five home runs, three steals. What's a little weird about it is, like, I want to say, okay, Henry Bolte's turned the corner. He hits the ball very hard. He's always hit the ball very hard. So, like, there's clearly upside there. And, okay, maybe this is him, this stretch since the start of August is him turning the corner. The strikeout rate hasn't improved during that stretch. It's still over 28%. The touchdown ball rate has improved very slightly to 61%, which is still absurdly high. It is. So, like, those are two major red flags in Henry Bolte's profile that suggest to me he hasn't figured it out. But he's hot. A bunch of home games next week. I'm not saying you can't pick him up and stream him. I just think that's still where we're at with Bolte. He's a streamer option, rather than somebody who needs him. He needs to be a fixture in fantasy lineups. Yeah.
Speaker 1He is a tantalizing player. He is a flawed player for the reasons you mentioned. The strikeouts being up, the ground balls. But the tools are there. I mean, the speed and, obviously, hits the ball really hard. Got to work on that launch angle. But really like a lot of A's bats for next week. So, Bolte, Gelof, Lawrence Butler, who I will remind you in the second half, is hitting 288 with seven homers, four steals, 869 OPS. His OPS at home is 288. His OPS at home is 829. So, definitely like him. And again, a deeper name we mentioned yesterday, Chris and I did, was Jeff Bickneel, who's been hot for a while now. Scott, over to you for your player of the night. Admittedly, a player I did not have on the rundown.
Speaker 3Yeah, I want to talk about John Peck, one of the September call-ups for the Tigers, the shortstop prospect. I want to talk about him in part because when I previously talked about him, I was kind of dismissive. I was trying to look stuff up on him as I was trying to give a take on him and decided that my memory of him wasn't enough to really tout him in fantasy. My memory of what I'd looked up previously. But a lot of that was based on a stint at AAA for John Peck, where he played just six games. So, there's exit velocity data because it was at AAA. Six games' worth of data. So, I don't think it gave me a great impression of John Peck's upside as a hitter. If you just look at the home run stolen base pace in the minor leagues this year, again, most of that time was spent at AA. It was 11 home runs and 22 steals, but in 70 games. So, you know, double that to get to 140, that's still not all the way to what we usually treat as a full season pace. And it's 22 homers, 44 steals. But that can be very misleading. The exit velocities go a long way to telling you how real it is. So, keep that in mind. John Peck started a second straight game for the Tigers here on Wednesday. He went two for five with a double. That double was hit 109.9 miles per hour. And he also had a line out that was hit 100.9 miles per hour. So, those two balls, those two batted balls for John Peck in his second major league game were both hit harder than anything he hit in those six games at AAA. So, already, my expectations for quality of contact have been proven to be too low on him. Max Clark, the big prospect, Max Clark, who's been up for a while now, still hasn't hit a ball as hard as the second hardest ball. John Peck hit in this second game 105.9 miles per hour. So, he's making quality contact in addition to, like I said, that 22 homer, 44 steal pace he was on in the minors. And like I said, started two straight games. Shortstop. So, you think, okay, well, the Tigers have the AL rookie of the leader year front runner, Kevin McGonigal, natural shortstop. How would Peck get to start that much? Well, McGonigal started at DH the first of those games. He started at third base the second of those games. games. And it's not like the Tigers have a mainstay at third base peck is supposed to be a top top of the line defender so in addition to the hard contact we saw him make the impressive minor league pace he was on he is a premier defender at shortstop there may be something here i don't know that anybody needs to rush out and add john peck in fantasy obviously al only leagues for sure we still don't know how much he's going to play i doubt mcgonigal's made his last start at shortstop but too straight for peck he's made a strong impression with this two for five game and the data actually looks pretty good for him so i'm very curious to see how september goes he might be somebody we're talking
Speaker 1about as a sleeper for next year and additionally with that double that he hit you mentioned right around 110 mile per hour ev 400 feet it would have been home run for peck but he's not home run for peck he's not home run for peck he's not home run in seven out of 30 ballparks it just was not a home run in minnesota where they were playing on wednesday night so uh yeah that was definitely a ball that was crushed there by john peck who is one percent rostered i agree with you al only leagues i said this yesterday about johandy morales obviously morales needs to be added in nl only leagues but i think it's similar for him and peck let's see what they do the rest of the week this weekend and if they do anything more or they just continue to play consistently then i think they're in the same league as peck in the mix in deeper mixed leagues 15 team roto things like that i think you can you might be able to look at names like johandy morales and uh john peck this weekend want to give some shout outs here there was a lot of you know interesting performances here on wednesday uh alex bregman another one two for four with his 24th home run for rbi the home run came off of the ms how about that updated second half numbers 299 15 homers 37 runs 40 rbi 980 6 ops for alex bregman who entered wednesday as the fifth best third baseman in roto the fourth most total head-to-head points at the third base position so top five in both category of both league types there roto and head-to-head points uh it's a huge turnaround and and obviously very welcome at the third base position and rafael devers another one just keeps hitting home runs two for three two walks 30 second home run he has homered in three straight and has seven home runs in his past 13 games i didn't look up the numbers but basically you know since the start of may he's been rafael devers it's like a yep i got numbers for you hit me baby rafael now this is
Speaker 3i think this is important because it's not just how good he's been but the way he's done it so i i put it since the start of july i think that is the clear turnaround in in one respect um so the the top line number since the start of july 275 batting average 17 home runs ops nearing 950 that's basically normal rafael devers right the biggest change since july 1st is that his strikeout rate has gone from 29.2 percent very scary to 19.7 he's shaved about 10 points off that strikeout rate and no sub sub 20 strikeout rate that's also classic rafael devers so uh you know i i don't think we were overreacting to a three-month sample there there were there was the there was a big jump in strikeout rate all of last year and if you remove the potential to contribute in batting average from rafael devers he kind of he becomes a one-dimensional slugger which still has value in fantasy but particularly at a deep position like first base it doesn't stand out that much we're definitely seeing a better version of rafael devers since since july 1st which is about two months now a couple of
Speaker 1shout outs here jacob mizurowski i mentioned that he's human he gave up five runs over four innings his first start allowing more than three earned runs all season he walked four struck out five 13 whiffs on 92 pitches he uh did not have that usual fastball working the velocity was fine but it just wasn't as effective he used that pitch less than this one and uh he gave up some hard hits on it and couldn't locate it uh just a 39 zone rate on the forescene here everything else looked pretty good for jacob mizurowski uh and look he's allowed to have a bad start again this is like his one truly bad start of the year but i do just wonder if the innings will start to catch up a little bit to mizurowski here down the stretch last year it was 141 and a third total that was between the minors the majors the postseason and he's now up to 155 so just something to watch here down the stretch yeah something to watch he's he's
Speaker 3it's hard to say just one start like this one shaky start where the walks kind of got away from him something we've rarely seen from mizurowski this year it's hard to say that's the reason why we've seen very little let up from him with the innings uh reaching unfamiliar territory like they are i still wonder at what point the brew are going to be like okay this is our best weapon we're obviously going to the playoffs probably is the number one seed in the nl uh we got to make sure we can get as much out of this guy then rather than right now and pull back on mizurowski's usage they've they've dropped no hints of that yet so maybe it won't happen but if i was running the brewers it would happen
Speaker 1yeah i think that's fair and they didn't really limit them here they still let them throw 92 pitches he just obviously was not very efficient uh that is jacob mizurowski and i will highlight the battle for the al cy young rolls on and both guys were just great once again dylan sees at the guardians six shutout innings four hits zero walks four strikeouts he didn't have his dominant whiff stuff but he threw a lot of strikes he avoided walks he avoided hard contact uh the as it has in previous starts the velocity starts lower you know in the first inning and then he builds up as the game goes on and even with the velocity being down over the past like whatever um i think it's like five or six starts he's still been really good i have the numbers over his last 11 dylan sees 136 era 0.81 whip so he has been incredible as has cam schlittler who at the angels eight innings of one run ball nine strikeouts to zero walks and uh the four seam seven of the 12 whiffs here he did give up some hard contact for sure eight hard hits ninety three point three average ev what helped is that a he had a fifty nine percent ground ball rate so a lot of those hard hits just right into the ground for cam schlittler uh scott anything on these two i i still think it's a coin flip september will decide who wins the al cy young schlittler pulled ahead just a
Speaker 3little bit here he was already ahead i think but it pulled a little further ahead and he needed to start like this it's it's funny that i say schlittler needed to start like this because i looking back he had a 233 era in august but three of the six starts or i mean three of the the starts were less than six
Speaker 1innings and he had like a 130 whip yeah the walks have been up it was three plus walks in three
Speaker 3straight and four of his last five but it was nice to see him bounce back with a truly dominant start sees actually had a little his velocity wasn't down quite as much as it had been in this start and yet it's a little underwhelming i mean it's it's funny that we could say uh a start with six scoreless innings and no walks from dylan cease was a little disappointing but we're used to seeing a lot more than four strikeouts obviously yeah and uh now credit to him that i can be that
Speaker 1nitpicky the updated f war numbers for both of these guys it was 5.1 after their last start it is now 5.4 for each of dylan cease and cam schlittler interestingly enough christopher sanchez 5.7 to 5.6 against jacob mizziarowski
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Speaker 1Welcome back. Fantasy baseball today. Let's hit the news and notes. Dave Roberts said the Dodgers have not yet decided whether to shut down Otani as a pitcher for the rest of this season. And interestingly enough, we did get a text from Chris Towers right as we were starting. And he said, Shohei looks worse than I have seen him in the box. Today. And I've ever seen him in the box today. So that's one man's opinion. But yeah, there is a chance that, you know, that knee is starting to leak into other parts of Shohei Otani's production as well. And you looked it up beforehand, Scott, like he's like last 11 games has really kind of fallen off here.
Speaker 3Yeah, 150 batting averages last 11, but was very hot before then.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's like still a great season overall. And I think clearly, PCA has pulled ahead for the the NL MVP. And I wouldn't, you know, put it past Otani getting hot and still finishing super strong. But yeah, it looks just a little bit off lately. Garrett Crochet. Strikeout four times.
Speaker 3Jeez, tonight. Did you mention that?
Speaker 1I did not. But I saw he also had a stolen base. So I don't know.
Speaker 3Take a strikeout four times. It's going to look pretty bad.
Speaker 1Garrett Crochet will likely throw a bullpen on Friday. He is still trying to return as a reliever this season. Andy Pahez is scheduled to begin swinging a bat within the next couple of weeks. A couple of days. He suffered a fractured hand on August 22nd and underwent surgery to insert a compression screw shortly after. And the purpose of that is to try and get him back on the field sooner rather than later. Sadon Raffaella left early due to a quad tightness. He actually has been pretty hot hitter over the past couple of months as well. So hopefully all is well with Sadon Raffaella. Adley Rutschman has missed three straight with that hyper extended elbow. JJ Weatherholt was given a cortisone. Injection at Tuesday to help the tendonitis in his right wrist. Not sure if we'll see JJ Weatherholt once again, but we'll see. Josh Baez was out of the lineup. He was hit by a pitch on Tuesday, though he stayed in the game. And he has now sat out three of the past seven games as in not started. He did come on as a pinch hitter and actually made an impact in this game on Wednesday night. But the fact that he's, you know, sat out the three of the past seven, Sky. You don't love that for Josh Baez's playing time.
Speaker 3No, you don't. I think. I think he's less than must start even in five outfielder leagues.
Speaker 1All right. Moving on. George Lombard Jr. has missed four straight with right knee inflammation. Kate Ruiz left early after taking a foul tip off the mask. He passed concussion protocol. If for some reason he lands on the I.L., that would open up more playing time here for Harry Ford, who.
Speaker 3Does he deserve it?
Speaker 1I'm not exactly sure. I would still like to see what he could do with everyday playing time. Sure. Was having a pretty terrible season in the minors. He's, you know, hit a couple homers, swiped a couple bags since getting called up, but just not really playing enough to make an impact for fantasy. The Padres are pausing Joe Musgrove's rehab assignment because he's having issues recovering between starts. He is 46 percent rostered. And Scott, we're running out of time here. For Joe Musgrove.
Speaker 3Yeah, we are. I think it depending how I think he's more stashable than a lot of pitchers on the I.L. right now. But, you know, this probably changes that. I think it definitely puts Nick Pavetta out of him, for instance.
Speaker 1Eric Lauer was placed on the I.L. with left elbow inflammation. Michael Soroka and Zach Gallen will throw a simulation. It's a simulated game on Friday. Pedro Ramirez has missed all three, has missed three straight, excuse me, with back spasms. And Jonah Tong is likely to make a start for the Mets next week. He has had a rough year at Triple-A. He has pitched better as of late. His last seven starts at Triple-A, a two ERA, 108 whip, 10.5K per nine, also 4.3 walks per nine. 18 percent rostered. Scott, do you have any deep league interest in Jonah Tong?
Speaker 3Really deeply. Deep league. I'd probably pick him up ahead of the start. I'm thinking like, you know, only. Otherwise, I'd wait and see. His most recent start was clearly his best of the season. Seven one-hit innings, struck out eight with, let's see, 12 swinging strikes on 88 pitches. That isn't, it's not bad, obviously. It's not amazing. I don't know. I'm still pretty bearish on Jonah Tong. And that's the bad. Bad one. Bearish.
Speaker 1Yeah. If Chris is listening to the podcast right now, that just helped him out. So, it's good. Let's talk some waiver wire pitchers from Wednesday's action and the two league winners. The two clear names that we think could be league winners down the stretch. They flashed that once again. Jacob Lopez, quality start at the Rangers. Six innings, two runs, seven strikeouts to two walks. He had 17 whiffs on 102 pitches. That slider was humming. It was awesome. Nine of his. 17 whiffs. And last seven starts now. 245 ERA, 112 whip. He has a 14.7% swinging strike rate during that spin. And Andrew Painter was awesome at the D-back. Seven shutout, two hits, zero walks, six strikeouts, 13 whiffs on 93 pitches. The fastball velocity was not up. And it had one more inch of induced vertical break. I know that's something we've been following closely in his recent starts. But he was good. He was still really good. And in his seven starts since returning from the IL, it's a 312 ERA, 0.89 whip. Right around a strikeout per inning and a 13% swinging strike rate. Scott, both these guys are pitching well. And it looks like both of them line up for two starts next week. That is Jacob Lopez and Andrew Painter.
Speaker 3Yeah, I really don't know what else to say about Jacob Lopez. We've been beating the drum for him for a while now. And his roster rate is, it's moved a little, I guess. It's changed about 20 percentage points in the last year. In the last week or so. But still a long way to go. He's closer to must start, I would say, than being waver fodder. Especially with two starts coming up. I mean, I'm going to start him in every league where I have him, which is plenty, by the way. Andrew Painter, he's probably must roster at this point, too. And definitely somebody you're going to look to start with the two starts coming up. I don't know. I don't know that the fastball is going to get back to being a dominant pitch. He did have that one start a couple turns ago where the induced vertical break was up. And he got a lot of whiffs with it. A couple starts later, it's looking like an isolated incident. But even so, this changeup he's introduced since returning from the minors has obviously transformed him into being a quality pitcher. He may not be the Andrew Painter we were proposing. I promised three years ago, but he's he's good. And somebody who I wouldn't hesitate to use in any format right now.
Speaker 1All right. I do. I wrote down a bunch of names here that are rostered in more leagues than both Andrew Painter and Jacob Lopez. I would drop each of them for both names. So Kyle Leahy, he's still being limited. Will Warren. Good start last time out, but he hasn't been very good for a long time. Joey Cantillo just had another terrible start. Mike's elder, Peter Lambert, Casey Mize, not look good since joining the Padres. And then Frambois Valdez, who it just kind of feels like it's been a lost season for him. And unfortunately Chase Burns, who we know is being limited the rest of the way. Would you dispute any of those names?
Speaker 3Not even a little.
Speaker 1Can I interest you in any of these projected two-star pitchers for next week? Landon Root. He's back from the dead at the Pirates. Five innings, one run, four strikeouts. And I know we've told people to cut him in previous weeks, and I stand by that. But he did change his pitch mix in this one. He threw a lot more cutters. 40% usage. That was just 13% entering. So he made a clear change. It was a solid start. He looks like he's projected for the Cardinals and the Padres next week. Hayden Wesneski threw seven shutout innings with five strikeouts. And over his last three starts, 17 innings of one run ball, 15 strikeouts to seven walks. At the Phillies, at the Rays next week. And Davis Martin, he's also back from the dead. He's back from the IL. He was at the Astros. Five and two-thirds shutout. Three strikeouts to one walk. And he also changed up the pitch mix a little bit here. His last 13 starts before going on the IL were terrible. It was the ERA over seven. He has the Pirates and the Cardinals next week. So Scott, can I interest you in any of these projected two-star pitchers for next week?
Speaker 3Definitely not Davis Martin. One decent start after months of terrible starts is not enough to regain my trust. I'm probably most interested in Hayden Wesneski. The matchups are worse than Roops. But he has looked really good since returning. Not really good is probably an overstatement. He's looked good. 318 ERA, 106 whip. The sweeper has been a special pitch. He had a good start against the Yankees last time out, even though the sweeper didn't play that well. It got the majority, or at least the plurality, of his whiffs here in this latest start. And he's RP eligible, so he'll definitely be on my sleeper pitchers list for this upcoming week. And Roop, there's a good chance he is too. It'll just be pretty low in the range where I'd probably only recommend it for points leagues because there's so much whip risk here. I don't know that emphasizing the cutter like he did today is really going to be a game changer for him, but I don't know. It's nice to see him trying different things after a pretty bumpy stretch there where I recommended him a lot. It's funny, I finally gave up on the idea of Landon Roop being useful right as he's made his last two starts, which were both pretty good. But even so, I don't think the upside in this upcoming two-start week is enough to justify the downside in any leagues where you're protecting ratios.
Speaker 1All right. Got three other names to ask you about here. Are we holding on to Griffin Jacks, who got destroyed in his return against the Mets, two and two-thirds, six runs allowed. The velocity down a little bit here. There were nine hard hits, 92.9 average EV. But in his 11 starts before going on the IL, 297 ERA, 106 whip, 10.6k per nine. He is a spark for those who play in points leagues. He's at the Braves next week. So I don't love the matchup, but I don't know. He was pitching very well, Scott. What do we do here with Griffin Jacks? You might have to make a decision whether or not to... If he's off the IL, you either have to keep him on your bench now or you have to decide to drop him.
Speaker 3I think it'd have to be a pretty shallow league to think about dropping him. I don't want to use him against the Braves in most cases. I think we need to see a good start from him to trust he's all the way back. But he was verging on must start, I would say, before he went on the IL. And the velocity was down a little as you said, but percentages of a mile per hour on most of his pitches. The sweeper was a little more. Not the sort that would really raise alarm for me. Not the kind of velocity drop that would raise alarm for me. So let's give Griffin Jacks a little more time unless, again, it's a shallow league scenario where you just have no other way to create an opening that you need to fill
Speaker 1out your lineup. Is there anything here with Drew Anderson of the Tigers? He had a near quality start at the Twins, and it was five and two thirds innings, two runs. One of those earned five strikeouts, 12 whiffs on 90 pitches. You dig into the individual pitches that he throws, his three most thrown pitches, four seam changeup and curve. They all look pretty good to me. He gets a good amount of ground balls, nearly 10K per nine. The walks are an issue, but I don't know. I'm like mildly intrigued by a very deep league Drew Anderson. Scott, what do you think about him? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 3intrigued. I don't think he's that usable yet. It's more kind of like with John Peck. It's more like I could see this guy being a sleeper next year if he continues on the path he's on right now. The outings have been short for Drew Anderson, and I want to say some of the base runners have been high times, but this was a pretty solid start. I like that he gets ground balls at a good rate, pretty good whiff rate. Obviously still making that transition to a starting role and proving that's something he can last in. But I as of right now, maybe he goes six and two thirds innings next time and becomes an obvious streamer candidate at that point. But as of right now, I don't see Drew Anderson being usable for the rest of this season. What do you
Speaker 1think about dropping Casey Mines? Who had a not so great start here at the Reds. Four runs over four innings. Two homers allowed. His six starts with the Padres. It's a 667 ERA 152 whip. He has one start against the Nationals next week. He's still 87% rostered. Are we dropping Casey Mines?
Speaker 3Yeah, I think that's fair. Even when he was going well, there was a certain fakeness to it. A certain phoniness. I mostly went along with it because it was borderline and because a lot of name value there, Casey Mines. But it's not terribly surprising to see him fall off like he has.
Speaker 1All right, let's move over to the waiver wire hitters and Max Clark went three for four with three doubles, two walks, a run and an RBI and he's played 30 games so far. He's been okay. 257 batting average, two homers, seven doubles, three triples, only one steal, 766 OPS. Oddly enough, he's crushing lefties in a small sample, but he's been very bad against right-handed pitching. Still
Speaker 3hasn't hit a ball as hard as the two hardest John Peck hit today. Yeah,
Speaker 1I think he's a very good prospect. I think long-term, I see how he could be useful for fantasy. I kind of feel 61% rostered might be a little too high for Max Clark right now. Yep, I agree. All right, moving on to Ty Fran. He went two for three with a walk and his 20th home run and his updated second half numbers 323 nine homers 942 OPS 51% rostered. I I don't know how many other times we can tell people Scott, but Ty France is still under rostered
Speaker 3drop Max Clark pick up Ty France. I understand they don't play the same position and first base is among the deepest. Well, it's definitely the deepest but even so as a general rule, I would think most people could drop Max Clark for Ty France.
Speaker 1We threw a couple of names out there the other day and in shallower leagues like a Josh Naylor or Christian Walker who really haven't. Well, Walker was good early on. He's really fallen off Josh Naylor. I mean his his hitting for no power. If I play in a shallow head-to-head style lineup, I could see dropping either of those for Ty France.
Speaker 3I could too.
Speaker 1All right, moving on here. We got a couple Marlins bats. Heriberto Hernandez is looking good two for four with two doubles and two RBI last 19 games. He's hitting 265 six homers 16 RBI two steals opious over 950 during that stretch with a 23% barrel rate. That is incredible stuff for Hernandez 40% rostered. He's got six home games next week to lefties on the schedule. We like lefties for him. He crushes lefties and Javier Sandoja is doing some things here three for five with the seventh homer. He has started 11 straight and 15 of 16 last 30 games 346 for homers three seals 911 OPS 38% rostered second third shortstop and outfield eligible Scott. Do you think the numbers need to be higher for either of these two Heriberto Hernandez at 40% Javier Sandoja at 38%
Speaker 3it's funny that you bring up Sandoja my kids were just talking about him earlier today. They're in their first fantasy baseball league with some friends Florida Florida it's very poorly run but you know I'll give some grace to 11 year olds I still don't understand exactly how because they're not doing it on a website. So who's actually how is the scoring done can they change their lineups they act like they can change their lineups but like is somebody keep I don't know I don't know it may all implode on them but any who someone in their league is a big Marlins fan and acts like Javier Sanoa is the best player of all time. So it's interesting to see that he's been so productive. I actually wasn't aware of that. But I will take a look here and see if there is anything under the hood that would lead me to believe a very low strikeout rate, very low exit velocities, pretty high pole air rate, and good sprint speed. So, you know, the steals are probably legitimate. The power is questionable. To be sure. But I could see him hitting for average with an 8.2% strikeout rate. Like, yeah, it seems like Javier Sanoja in a deep enough league could be a handy utility option for you. I could see that.
Speaker 1Where would you put Heriberto Hernandez among the young outfielders that we've talked about recently? I'll mention another one here. Hector Rodriguez hit his fifth home run, last 11 games. 3.41 batting average, five homers. So, Heriberto Hernandez versus Hector Rodriguez, Lazaro Montes, Spencer Jones, I'll put in that category as well, who's been very good over the past month.
Speaker 3All right, say them again. Hernandez.
Speaker 1Heriberto Hernandez versus Hector Rodriguez, Spencer Jones, Lazaro Montes.
Speaker 3Ooh, that is a group where I am still, I still feel like I'm waiting to see. Probably Heriberto Hernandez, now that he's heating up again, has to go at the top just because the playing time's most secure. I'm inclined to go Spencer Jones next, since he's providing both power and speed. And I think I'd take Montes over Hector Rodriguez, but there's definite talent there for Rodriguez. He hits some balls very hard. I want to see how hard that home run was he hit today. Uh, not among his hardest. It was only 94.6. So, not a good example of him hitting the ball hard, but hey, it went out of the yard.
Speaker 1Yeah, he did have two other hard hits in that game. A fly out at 95.7 and a ground out at 102 miles per hour. The ground ball rate has been too high for Hector Rodriguez, but he does have some juice in that bat for sure. He is interesting. Scott, before we started, you said you wanted to talk about Mickey Gasper. Now's your chance to talk about Mickey Gasper.
Speaker 3Yeah, so Mickey Gasper is another one that I think I may have sold short. He is playing every day for the Red Sox now with Wilson Contreras on the IL. Catcher eligible, but he's playing first base now. Has started 12 of 16 games, and that was even, I think he got sent to the minors during that stretch before the Wilson Contreras injury. So, here on Wednesday, Mickey Gasper went two for five with a double. During that 16-game stretch where he started 12, 395 batting average, eight home runs, 11 walks to four strikeouts, and that's something you see in his minor league numbers too, the incredible plate, like Kevin Youkilis, Greek god of walks kind of plate discipline. He was slashing 337, 455, 66 in the minors. 30 years old, but one of those 30s, 30 years old, that's always been kind of, 30-year-olds, or, yeah, 30-year-olds, that's always been kind of interesting in the minors and just hasn't gotten a good enough look in the majors. Also, average exit velocity about 91 miles per hour during that stretch. So, he hits the ball hard enough. Great plate discipline, like I said. Catcher eligible. I think Mickey Gasper is somebody who certainly needs to be rostered in two catcher leagues right now. And I'm kind of hoping he has a future beyond this year. In like a Christian Walker sort of way. You know, he was a guy who, similar situation, just stalled out in the minors for years, even though he kept producing there because right-handed hitting first baseman is just hard to create an opening for that guy. I imagine Gasper, he can play catcher, but nothing special there. He's just kind of stalled out. Stalled out in the same way. But I think he's a pretty good hitter.
Speaker 1Yeah. It'll be interesting to see for next year. Obviously, Adley Rutschman will be with the Red Sox. And I believe Wilson Contreras is still under contract as well. So, it would have to be some kind of, I don't know, DH situation, you know, play backup catcher here and there. Yeah, let's see. Wilson Contreras signed through 2027 with a club option for 2028. So, they're almost certainly, are you going to pick that up?
Speaker 3Well, yeah. I mean, or he could get traded this offseason, or he could get DFA'd just because he's a... This isn't his first stop, right? I think he was with the Twins before, or am I thinking of somebody else?
Speaker 1He is a journeyman type, so he's probably been around... Yeah, he played with the Twins actually last year, 45 games.
Speaker 3So, it's not beyond being DFA'd and being picked up by someone else.
Speaker 1Former Yankee farmhand, I had no idea about Mickey Gasper. Scott, how would you rank these DFA's? Deeper two catcher league names. Gasper, Ethan Salas, who was recently called up by the Padres, and then two names here from Wednesday. Sean Murphy hit his third home run. His third home run in the last seven games. He's starting to play more as well. And then Leo Bernal of the Cardinals. He hit his first career home run. He hit it off of Yamamoto. He has started both games for the Cardinals since getting called up, and they sent down Jimmy Crooks. So, I think Bernal is going to get a chance to play a good amount here as well. So, how would you rank Bernal? Murphy, Gasper, Ethan Salas in two catcher leagues.
Speaker 3Ali Marmol's actually said that Leo Bernal's going to play a lot. He's a good defender behind the plate. So, they're kind of like the Padres in that they have a catcher who is definitely bat first, and Yvonne Herrera, and one who is definitely glove first, and Pedro Pahez. And Leo Bernal might straddle those two sides of the fence best. I think he's a legit prospect. And, you know, this started two in a row, one at DH. So, clearly the Cardinals like his bat. I'm going to put Gasper ahead of him right now just because he's so hot, but Bernal would be second. And Salas, who was the fourth? There was a fourth, right? Sean Murphy. Sean Murphy. Yeah, I'll put Sean Murphy ahead of Salas. It does, I don't get the impression. I know when we were talking about him getting called up, I said, I imagined him playing like 60% of the time. He did start here Wednesday. Oh, for four, two strikeouts. But the Padres are presenting it more like he's here to kind of an apprenticeship role, get his feet wet, left-handed pinch hitter, occasionally start a catcher. So, clearly Salas has the most upside in this group, but he's probably the least usable right now. Murphy's playing a lot, by the way. Like, I'm not down on Sean Murphy. He seems to be locked in at the plate right now as long as he's going to play. Had offensive potential. I understand why we've all given up on it, but there have been a lot of injuries along the way, and he's getting a lot of playing time now and delivering on it. So, I think between Gasper Bernal and Sean Murphy, there are some intriguing catcher options emerging, even for two catcher leagues.
Speaker 1One other very deep name. He is not a catcher, but he's had three good games in a row. That is Thomas Sejaisi of the Cardinals. Two for four with his fourth home run. And over his last three games, seven hits, three homers, six runs, six RBI. Still only 24 years old. He was okay in the minors this year. He's a name that, you know, has popped up at previous, you know, times in the past. Got one percent rostered. Second, third, shortstop, outfield eligible. Any very deep league interest in Thomas Sejaisi?
Speaker 3No. Wasn't even that good at AAA.
Speaker 1All right. Let's take our final break. When we return, what happened to these three players? Yuri Perez, Brian Reynolds, Ben Rice.
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Speaker 1Welcome back fantasy at baseball today. What happened to these three players? And up first, we have, of Uri Perez who got bombed. at the Royals, four and two-thirds innings, six runs allowed, three walks, three strikeouts, three homers allowed in this one. The velocity down between like one and two miles per hour on his pitches here, and over his last two starts, 11 earned runs, seven and two-thirds innings, eight strikeouts to seven walks, four homers allowed. Scott, what's going on with Uri Perez?
Speaker 3I don't really know. Obviously, walks have become an issue of late, most visible in his last two starts, but last four starts is really where we've seen the walks climb again, 15 of them in 18 and two-thirds innings. It's a lot. He seemed to overcome that midseason by throwing a lot more sinkers. Thing is, he's still done that. These last couple starts, 23% sinker used in this one, 31%. Last time, so that one weird trick doesn't seem to be working anymore, and that's concerning, because I don't know how Uri Perez fixes it now. I mean, I didn't know how he did last time. I trusted he eventually would, and he did, but eventually is difficult to work with right now, because there are only three lineup blocks left.
Speaker 1And next week, he is in line for two starts against the Uri Perez. It's the Mets and the Dodgers, so that's interesting timing. Look, the Mets on the season, they're 28th in WOBA against right-handed pitching, but for long periods, they didn't have their full lineup. Now Soto's healthy. Lindor is healthy. They're in there together, and they are hitting better in the second half, and then obviously you have the Dodgers as well, so it is a tough decision here for Uri Perez next week.
Speaker 3Yeah. It is. I have a hard time doing it outside of points, so I'm going to have to do it outside of points. It's obviously not that strict of a line right now. I don't know about you, but I'm very much paying attention in my Roto Leagues right now to what categories I need the most help in and taking bigger risks on unstable pitchers if I'm chasing wins and strikeouts. So in that scenario, you're chasing wins and strikeouts, maybe a start Uri Perez even in a Roto League, but it wouldn't be my general recommendation.
Speaker 1Yeah. I do wonder if the... The innings are starting to add up here for Uri Perez. He's up to 139 this season, and last year he threw 118, and obviously has dealt with injuries before that too, so just wonder about potentially just wearing down as the season goes on here for Uri Perez. And I realize now that I labeled this segment What Happened to These Three when I have a sound drop for this exact thing. Why didn't I just ask, What's Going On? It was right there, Scott. What about Brian Reynolds? What is going on with him? 43 games in the second half. He is hitting .222, still has seven homers, two steals in that stretch, a .604 OPS. Obviously, he was having a monster first half, Scott, but what's going on with Brian Reynolds?
Speaker 3Yeah, it's been rough. I haven't looked under the hood at it yet, so you're catching me by surprise with this one, but I would have... I would imagine a lot of his success has been fueled by him having such a high walk rate. I know in points leagues especially, Brian Reynolds was looking dominant earlier this year, but in the second half, it would be hard to say anything he's doing is dominant. So his exit velocity for the second half is... Did I not put it in right? I don't think I put it in right.
Speaker 1I have it. It's 90.3 average EV with a 12% barrel rate. Seems unlucky. He has 14 barrels, but he only has... No, he has seven home runs, so that's not true. But the expected stats are actually still pretty bad during that stretch, despite...
Speaker 3So the strikeout rate has blown up in the second half.
Speaker 1Yeah, near 30%.
Speaker 3Yeah, that's too high for Brian Reynolds, so that's a big part of it. And is he pulling the ball in the air? As much. Those are the main things I look at when a player is falling short. And the answer would be that he is... No, it's about the same. I think it's mostly just strikeouts, but he is hitting the ball about as hard. Same pull air rate. He probably overachieved in the first half. It was a better Brian Reynolds than we're used to seeing, obviously better than last year. And now he's probably... Overachieving. Regressing to the mean.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mostly lean that way, too. I mean, if you look at his season-long numbers now, 263 batting average, still a 369 on base, 15 homers, 94 runs, nine steals, 789 OPS. It's basically where Brian Reynolds should be. So, yeah, I think it's mostly just pretty expected regression here for Brian Reynolds. What about Ben Rice? We haven't really talked much about him. Two for five with the RBI here. But my... Leading suspicion, and I wish Chris was on to hear this, but the Home Run Derby got yet another victim, and his name is Ben Rice. I don't actually believe that. Second half, 194 with a 641 OPS, 29% K rate. That is a big number for Ben Rice. But this actually goes back further. If you look, since Aaron Judge went on the IL on June 5th, Ben Rice is hitting 217. Still has 18 homers, but 747 OPS. So, it could just be, look, Ben Rice had a crazy, hot, unsustainable start, and he was always going to regress. Or, you know, perhaps losing the best hitter in baseball just kind of affected lineup protection and things like that. So, what do you think about the fall of Ben Rice?
Speaker 3Yeah, I mean, your theories are as good as anything I could come up with. The strikeout rate has jumped in the second half. Same with Brian Reynolds. But everything else looks pretty much the same. And it's not like he came out of the blue this year. I mean, we had expectations for Ben Rice based on what he'd done previously in the majors, based on what he did in the minors. I don't think he is just a product of Aaron Judge, but you lose, you become more of the focal point of a lineup. Pitchers pitch you differently, and that may be what's going on with him. I still think the fact he's catcher eligible, it's kind of a who cares. I mean, obviously, I want him to perform well. He hasn't been performing that well recently. But what am I going to do about it? Like, he's far and away the best option at catcher.
Speaker 6Yeah.
Speaker 3So, I think we'll see Ben Rice bounce back at some point. And I want him in my lineup when we do.
Speaker 1Yeah, definitely still throwing him out there as a catcher. I guess it's more interesting for a next year discussion when he's only first base eligible. And now we have to factor in this second half downfall. But if Aaron Judge gets healthy for the rest of the season, and he's healthy going into next season, that doesn't mean he's going to remain healthy, unfortunately. But I think a judge being in the lineup with Ben Rice obviously would kind of change the expectation for Ben Rice. Did you realize I have four interesting seasons and stats here? Vlad Jr. had a huge game in Cleveland, three for four with his eighth home run, five RBI. The season is lost for Vlad. It's, hey, just finish strong, give us some confidence going into next year. But how about this? He is in 098 ISO. That is tied for ninth lowest among qualified hitters with Nico Horner. And it's worse than Jeff McNeil, Ernie Clement, Andres Jimenez, and Luisa Rice. Pretty bad. Want to talk about interesting ranks for next season, Vlad Jr.?
Speaker 3Yeah. It's, the whole draft board feels like it's upside down. We've talked about how disappointing most of the first and second rounders are. But there have been a lot of injuries to them. A lot of them have extensive track records. A lot of them are still in their prime. And it's going to be difficult to parse out who belongs where because of that. And I think, in a way that might be kind of refreshing, I probably at some point group think we'll take over just because everybody's too online, particularly in an industry like this, which is conducted entirely online. So probably group think we'll set in at some point. But I feel like we should see less unanimity in the early round. In the early rounds next year than we've seen in many, many years. Because there are so many, like what do you do with Ronald Acuna? What do you do with Gunnar Henderson? What do you do with, and an opinion should vary widely on players like that. So it'll be interesting to sort out who among the disappointing early rounders this year gets preferential treatment and who doesn't.
Speaker 1Yeah. One player who I think everybody will like in the early rounds next season, probably just the first round, That is Jackson Trio who had a big game. Four for six with a double and his 21st homer. Last seven games, 424, four homers, two steals. Last 30 games, 325, eight homers, five steals, 963 LPS. Did you realize Jackson Trio's full season pace, 32 homers, 114 runs, 23 steals. He is ascending to superstardom before our eyes, Scott. Jackson Trio.
Speaker 3Yep, I think he is somebody who there's going to be a lot of unanimity with him. Probably a late first rounder.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 3At least in categories leagues. Points leagues, he might still suffer from a lack of walks.
Speaker 1Carter Jensen, two for four with a walk and a double dong. He is picking things back up. Last 11 games, he's hitting 282 with five home runs and a steal. And we spoke about him recently. I think perhaps we were a little bit too harsh on Carter Jensen because did you realize that entering Wednesday, he was a top 10 catcher in both Roto and Head to Head points? I didn't realize that. So 10th in Roto and 9th in total Head to Head points.
Speaker 3Well, he's played a lot. I think I actually, somebody tweeted me about this over the weekend. And at the time, Carter Jensen was tied for the third most games played at catcher. So obviously it's a position with a high attrition rate. We've seen a lot of injuries there, particularly in the second half. I don't know that there's been any point this season where Carter Jensen has been one of the 10 catchers most were starting in fantasy, but he has come out to being the 10th best overall just because he's always been playing.
Speaker 1Yeah. And I don't really see how that would change for next year. I mean, it seems like they like him and obviously Salvador Perez will be one year older. I guess they do kind of have a log jam of like catcher DH first base types with Caglione and Vinny Pasquantino. Perhaps a trade is kind of in the mix here, but I still think Carter Jensen will play a lot heading into next year as well. And Ezekiel Duran, he is having a great season. Three for four with his 16th home run. Did you realize since the start of July, he's hitting 288 with 10 homers, four steals and an OPS over 850. Did you realize that Scott? Ezekiel Duran, he's really good.
Speaker 3Somebody points out in the chat and I wholly agree that you need a flaming lips drop. For this segment. Do you realize instead of did you realize, but you know, close enough, you can change, you can change the verb tense for the sake of the sound drop.
Speaker 1I feel like Chris has said that same exact thing about that same exact song.
Speaker 3Chris is Chris. Chris knows a lot about a lot of things. He knows more than me about music. That's for sure.
Speaker 1So if he agrees, both of us combined about. Yeah, I'm willing to throw that one out there.
Speaker 3But I do like that song. Let's see. Who'd you ask me about? Ezekiel Duran. He's been great. You can start him anywhere. I think I don't think it would be a bad idea to do that. Curious to see what it would look what he looks like in head to head points leagues. So season average 2.6. That's not amazing. It's not that different from like Brooks Lee or it's about the same as Manny Machado. Frankly, this year, it's bad as Machado has been. And I would imagine it's a lot higher than that during the stretch. You're talking about. Yeah, Duran's a handy player.
Speaker 1Some pitching leftovers here and two big performances probably should have got to them earlier. That's my bad. Trevor Rogers, a big bounce back in chorus field, six and two thirds, two runs allowed, 11 strikeouts to zero walks. He is 74 percent started. Looks like he gets two against the Guardians and the Blue Jays next week. You are. Definitely using Trevor Rogers and Reed Detmers went toe to toe with Cam Schlittler. Seven innings of one run ball, eight strikeouts to zero walks, 17 whiffs on ninety nine pitches. Scott, I know you often cite the, you know, Reed Detmers over his last, I don't know, 15 starts or whatever it is. But over his last five in particular, he has a sub one era and a sub one whip. Yeah. Thirty two strikeouts to five walks over thirty three innings. Anything to add?
Speaker 3And all of them at least six innings. So. He has been last five starts. He's been about as good as anybody. I'll update for you with the last 18 for Reed Detmers. 18, 261 ERA, 0.94 whip, 10.2 K per nine. This is the breakout we've been waiting for. It's happening right before our eyes. It's gone largely unnoticed, I think, in part because he has. Did he just get his fifth win today or did he even win?
Speaker 1He did not win.
Speaker 3He did not win. So he's still Reed Detmers. He still just has four wins on the year.
Speaker 1I think he has the second lowest run support in all of baseball. I don't know how anyone could have worse than him, but.
Speaker 3Yeah. Uh, you know, things are changing in Anaheim and maybe one of the things that changes is the uniform Reed Detmers will be wearing or maybe, you know, things will change around him enough that he's in a better situation next year. We'll see.
Speaker 1If this is actually true. I just randomly Googled this and it's on a website called screwball.com. But starting pitcher run support this season, there are actually five pitchers who get less run support than Reed Detmers. Tanner Bybee, Shane Boz, Michael Waka, Michael King, and Cam Schlittler. Do you have anything on Trevor Rogers? He was awesome.
Speaker 3He was awesome. Good bounce back after a rare bad start. So I think you could feel confident. This was at quarterback. Coors Field. So it could be like, oh, he threw a lot of fastballs, got a lot of whiffs. You know, you can't really get into the whole pitch selection and pitch shape stuff at a Coors Field start. I just take it as, yeah, this is a sign you should continue to start Trevor Rogers.
Speaker 1Couple hitting leftovers here. Ronald Acuna had a huge game three for five with a sock, a shoe and three RBI and six games since he got that mental rest day. He has 10 hits, one homer and two steals. Roman. Anthony three for five with his first home run since coming off the IL. He has multiple hits in all four games since coming back and Juan Soto two for five with his 23rd home run. I did his pace stats as well. 41 homers, 100 RBI, 12 steals. So steals way down this year for Soto. But I think we were mostly expecting that. Scott, what do you have on these three? And what are you laughing about? Share with the class.
Speaker 3I'm laughing just because I had I had more. Time than usual to pour over the box scores and spend a lot of time looking up the sort of things I would always like to look up, but don't always have the time to. And so almost every interesting nugget I came up with you have in the notes already. So that's it was a good, good use of time for me. Yeah, I think Ronald Acuna. I'm hopeful he's back. My, my suspicion. All along with him was that he, he just wasn't right mechanically having to overcome injury. A lot of times bad habits set in and you got to break the bad habits and hopefully that rest day put him back on a good path. He's been looking more like himself since returning. Roman Anthony looks great. Kind of funny that it was only his second home run overall. Yeah. I, I think you can treat him as a must-start going forward, but the four straight multi hit games, Juan Soto, of course you can treat him as a must-start going forward.
Speaker 1The call to the bullpen for the Orioles. Andrew Kittredge got the ninth with a one run lead. He gave up a run on two hits. He took his fifth blown save and the Orioles would lose in extras for the D backs. Juan Murillo got the ninth with a one run lead. He walked one. He struck out two for his third save. He has the last two saves for the D backs. Brandon Garcia pitched in the seventh inning of this game. And Murillo's numbers are actually very good. He is 8% rostered. And I think in deeper leagues where you are looking for saves, I think Juan Murillo is an ad. What do you think?
Speaker 3I think so too. I think he's got to be the front runner at this point after consecutive saves. Three of his last four appearances have been to finish out a game. You didn't have that in the notes. There's a nugget for you. And, uh, Brandon Garcia, he's the only lefty, the diamondbacker. The D backs have, they really can't confine him to the ninth. So I think right now, Juan Murillo got to treat him as the front runner and he's been great this year.
Speaker 1I don't think it's a bad choice for the giants. Dylan Smith got the 10th inning with a two run lead. He allowed the Manfred man in on a hit, but he struck out two for his fourth save. He is 6% rostered. He's been a little shaky, but it looks like he is, uh, most times going to be the guy for the giants for the Marlins. Calvin Foshay got the ninth inning with a three run lead. His third save on Tuesday night, he worked the sixth inning and I proceeded to tell everyone that the Marlins do not have a closer and they never will ever again. And then Calvin Foshay got a save on the very next day. So LOL me.
Speaker 7So this is so Calvin, there was this two straight saves for Foshay. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1No, no, no. He pitched the sixth inning on Tuesday with a three run lead. And then I was like, oh, well, I guess they just will never have a closer again with Pete Fairbanks hurt. And then the very next day, Calvin Foshay got to say, oh, confirmed.
Speaker 3Confirming what you said. lol about how right you were not how wrong you were no i i think i was wrong because the very
Speaker 1next day calvin foche got a save and i just assumed like he left a day after work in the
Speaker 3sixth inning yeah well that doesn't that would not suggest he's the closer then so i still don't feel like they have a closer yeah you're probably right um i'm right about how right you are
Speaker 1we're all right scott we are all right let's talk about the astros josh hater clean ninth inning for his 22nd save and then in the dodgers and cardinals game tanner scott got the eighth inning with a one run lead he gave up a run uh to blow the game he took his third blown save uh in the eighth inning and then the cardinals took the lead and riley o'brien picked up his 35th save of the season 35 saves for riley o'brien i know the era and the whip has kind of climbed up here but man 35 saves give it up for that guy to stream or not to stream on thursday we have blade tidwell is at the pirates luis castillo at the astros quinn matthews at the dodgers bubba taylor is not pitching uh i lied about that um nope nope he just pitched on wednesday uh brandon young against the red socks cal quantrell against the rays and jack perkins is at the mariners who's pitching for the pirates lake bocker i don't know pretty bad day yeah i'd skip it to be perfectly honest if i had to choose one i think i would say cal quantrell
Speaker 3it's pretty bad if you're making me pick three three cal quantrell brandon young and quinn matthews and the pirates in that order yes i know quinn matthews is facing the dodgers but that's the point
Speaker 1you're better off skipping this day on friday we have walker bueller against the yankees rhett louder against the brewers jared jones against the angels shane boz against the red socks zebby matthews at the white socks kumar rocker against the rays merrill kelly at the astros and kater montero at the guardians
Speaker 3hmm not a lot better oof it's a bad time for streaming hope you started jacob lopez and andrew painter yeah oh man boy they're all at least as likely to ruin you and probably more than to help you i would say uh jared jared jones maybe against the angels hasn't been going well for him lately though shane boz and andrew painter i don't know if they're going to be able to do anything about it shane boz and andrew painter i don't know if they're going to be able to do anything about it shane boz and andrew painter i don't know if they're going to be able to do anything about it shane boz and andrew painter i don't know if they're going to be able to do anything about it shane boz and andrew painter i don't know if they're going to be able to do anything about it against the red sox has it been going well lately for him though
Speaker 1zebby matthews it has been going well for him but he's facing the same offense two times in a row
Speaker 3yeah i love it and i don't really buy into what he he's been doing either agreed
Speaker 1i don't like friday either if i had to give you a couple names i would go uh jones boz matthews montero in that order all right all right all right all right that's gonna do it we're gonna wrap there for scott i and frank thanks as always for tuning in to fantasy baseball today please make sure to follow and leave a five-star rating on apple or spotify and we will be back again tomorrow bye
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