Buy or Sell! Foster Griffin Rising, Davis Martin Falling (7/9 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

No niin, pelataan tää läpi ja hankitaisuille enkusta eee. Okei. Ja jos se ei nappaa niin vai et jäävän tää rahattakas. Okei valmina? Ja. Ja alkaa. Käynnä, kestävyys. Ähm. Resistens. Melkein. Tää on su final boss. Resilience. Yes! Hyvä! Woohoo! Välkeen! Tää on Fannasi Basballt! put him on the IL and let him rest up a little bit. But perhaps it isn't that serious and he probably told them he could pitch through it, but obviously he has not been pitching very well. He allowed three runs over four innings in this one, only two strikeouts, zero walks, he allowed a homer, and his fastball was just not good, which is usually his bread and butter. Seven hard hits against the fastball, 101.5 average exit velocity, nine hard hits total in this game, 94.5 average EV overall. He still is having a fantastic season, but it's got obviously something like this does kind of bring his second half into doubt, at least a little bit. - Yeah, so he said, I'm looking at the mlb.com, right up of this by Adam McAlvie, and Harrison said, responding to the idea that the break is what he needs to resolve this. He said, I'm confident in that and so are the trainers, so as everyone, it should be something that's just a little something. Pat Murphy said, it's obvious he's fatigued and we've got to help him on that. We could have left him in there, but we're thinking about his future. I mean, you could have left him in there, but you were probably thinking about the game too, because it wasn't going very well. It's hard to think of any elbow issue being so minor that just a few extra days off is going to make it go away. But that does sound like what the Brewer's training staff is saying. I don't know how much alarm this is going to raise in the typical fantasy league. The fact he doesn't sound like he's going on the IEL might prevent some of that. I don't know. It might be worth floating Kyle Harrison out there just to see what kind of offers you could get. Even if this elbow thing doesn't end up being a big deal and he gets backed pitching like he was earlier this season, I do think he is one of the pitchers who is going to need his workload manages the most in the second half, 'cause he's, I believe his career high and he's like 121 and he's now past 80. So, last year wasn't his career high either. I think last year was like 112. - Yep. So there could be issues with just how much he's limited in the second half. - Yeah, I would try to float him out there as well. I mean, obviously if anyone reads the news or pays attention, you probably will not get nearly what you should for Kyle Harrison, but on the off chance they haven't seen the news there. Go ahead. - Well, it's just, you know, the Brewer's are downplaying and he's not going on the IEL. So, you know, you don't know how alarmist anyone is, and any particular person is. It, I'm not saying you should undersell Kyle Harrison, but he's pitched really well this year. And so in theory, he should have fetched good return, but you're right, just by virtue of having that red cross next to his name. It might be difficult to do that. - Nick Kurtz left early Wednesday, which was originally speculated as a hand injury. It turns out that he's dealing with an illness. He's day to day. Mike Trout was reinstated from the IEL after missing three weeks with a right hamstring strain and he went one for four with a walk and his 18th home run. So right back in the saddle, nice to see from Mike Trout. Hunter Goodman has missed the last two games with a wrist injury, Dylan Dingler left early Wednesday after taking a foul ball off his right hand while he was catching behind the plate. X-rays came back negative, but that is one to watch. We'll see if he's in the lineup over the next couple days. Will Ciketrares left early with a left foot contusion. He fouled the ball off of his foot during the third inning of that game. Brandon Woodruff, who is on the IEL with a right shoulder injury is seeking a second opinion and related to the Brewer's rotation. Logan Henderson will be activated to start Thursday in St. Louis. He is up to 80% rostered on CBS. Let me do a quick search here on Yahoo and see what he is there. 47% so if you play on Yahoo, go check it out. I do think Logan Henderson is pretty close to a must-roster pitcher. Tyler Soterschum was reinstated from the IEL after missing 11 days with a left hip impingement. Ryan Jeffers will remain on his rehab assignment for the next three to four days. He's 64% rostered. He was really good before he got hurt sky. And I think even if you're playing a one-catcher league and you have one of those back end top 12 types like a Sanwell Bessio or Francisco Alvarez, someone like that, I'd probably be seeking out Ryan Jeffers and just kind of hold on to him and see if he can pick up where he left off. Yeah, and it is an if. It is an if. It's certainly no guarantee. But just to remind everybody how well he was doing in those 122 of bats, 3.58 head to head points per game. A week ago, I was able to say that made him the highest scoring catcher on a per game base. It's been Rises their past him again, but still, Jeffers would be the second highest by a large margin with the point per game average that high. So definitely somebody who could regain top 12 or even top 10 standing in fantasy and short order. Oh, and Casey left early with right calf tightness. Brendan Donovan worked out Wednesday for a second straight day. The plan is for him to start a rehab assignment later this week. And I believe that he's still out there like a third of fantasy leagues and he's a very good point sleep player. And someone who can provide batting average if you play in Roto or a categories league and you need help, it is harder to make a batting average as the season goes on. But if Brendan Donovan's right, he's someone that can hit like 280 plus. So just a name to look for out there. He's 72% rostered has second and third base eligibility. Again, that's Brendan Donovan. Andy Rodriguez was placed in the aisle with a left glute strain. Bailey Ober is on track to be activated and start Thursday against the guardians. He's 49% rostered. He had some good moments earlier this season. I thought the numbers were better when I checked. It was like a 450 ERA. So I guess there were some blowups mixed in there as well. Do you have any interest in adding Bailey Ober? Only in very deep leagues. He did get off to a pretty good start, but in a way that wasn't believable. He wasn't missing bats like he usually does. He was given a hard contact. There's a fly ball pitcher, which can sometimes work to a pitcher's advantage, but not if you're giving a hard contact. I think Ober, there's more downside than upside there. - Samonteller was placed in the aisle with a right oblique strain and one of the best of his generation is Colin Equitz. Justin Verlander plans to retire after the season. He has been named to the All Star game as the legend pick, which is, I think that's something they've only started doing recently, but it's got one of the best in the past 20 years, right? It's like kind of a Mount Rushmore. I don't know who the fourth on the Mount Rushmore would be, but Sherzer, Kershaw Verlander of this generation. I mean, they were basically the standard. - Probably sail, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, a distant fourth, but he's, he's off that generation still has a couple years left. Yeah, Justin Verlander, I was trying to remember what year he started, 2005. So my first year playing fantasy baseball was 2000, and my first year of the homelie that's remained in text since then was 2003. So it's, his career's almost spanned that whole time. You know? - I don't remember. I had him as a rookie. - You almost don't know fantasy baseball without Justin Verlander, isn't it? - Yeah, really don't. It's obviously a, Surefire Hall of Famer, three times Sung at Sai Young winner MVP. People forget this, but in his early 30s, he looked like he was falling apart. 2014, he had a 454 ERA with the Tigers. His strikeout numbers had dropped off quite a bit, and then he had a resurgence before I even joined the Astros, but that kind of put him next level even. And got two more Sai Young. It's out of it. Two of his three Sai Youngs came in the latter half of his career. - Yeah, I remember one of my coolest moments with Justin Verlander, not with him. Like I've never hung out with Justin Verlander, but from a fantasy perspective, I remember in 2011 in my homelie rounds three and four back to back. I took Verlander and Clayton Kershaw, and they both once how young that year. I think that was like the first championship that I won, and it was like, that's something you'll never forget, right? Like you draft both Sai Youngs back to back rounds. It was amazing. I don't know that I could ever pull that off again, but. - No. You always remember your first one, Frank. - All right, let's do a little buy or sell. I will throw a statement at Scott, and he will tell us whether or not he buys or sells that. Luis Garcia Jr. keeps on raking three for four with a sock in the shoe. Plus a walk and three RBI. Last 30 games, updated numbers, 346, 50. 13 homers, 37 RBI, two steals a 12 19 OPS, 91.8 average EV, 17% barrel rate, 68 RBI, second most in Major League Baseball. Are you kidding me? Luis Garcia, second most RBI by an only Jordan Walker, which is crazy. So buy yourself. Luis Garcia will get to 30 homers and 100 RBI. The nationals have 69 games left. Again, he's at 20 and 68. He gets to 30 and 169 games left. Does he do it? I'm going to buy. I don't think it's a slam dunk, but I'm going to buy because I am trusting that with him emerging like he has over the past month or so. They're going to get him in the line of more. They're going to stop with this platoon. At least as strictly as they're platooning him. And that additional playing time will help bolster his counting stats. Obviously his pace has to slow from what he's done recently, which is why I say it's not a slam dunk. Sure, he's on pace to reach those numbers, but the pace has to slow. But I'm thinking the additional at bats will help make up for that. I agree. It was really close. I know that sounds crazy just how hot he's been. But obviously this is the hottest stretch of Luis Garcia's career. But yeah, I mean, with 69 games left, the way that the nationals are playing and they're like the lineup around him and just the things that they've done to, I guess, advanced organization this year. I'm buying it. I think I guess the 30 homeruns and 100 RBI. Imagine I told you before the season, Scott Luis Garcia, 30 homers, 100 RBI. That's baseball season. I would have drafted him. Yeah, me too. Let's think with the nationals and talk about foster Griffin, who was awesome again this time against the Ashros seven innings of one run ball, nine strikeouts, the zero walks 22 whips on 99 pitches here for foster Griffin. Over his last nine starts a 149 ERA, a point eight five whip, 55 strikeouts to eight walks over 54 in a third innings and a 13% swinging strike rate. So he's he's getting a lot more whips during the stretch, obviously in the start as well. Buy yourself, which again, this is going to sound ridiculous. The stretch of these coming off of, but we don't have ranked this high. Top 40 starting pitch arrests of season foster Griffin top 40. Oh, man, this is even tougher. I bring this number up exactly because I updated the rankings earlier today and I have him at I put him at 51 that was before this start. But then when I look at it at 41 42 and 43, I have a trio of guys that have underwhelmed for a large part now show to Emanaga, frambervaldez and Freddie Peralta. And I just started thinking like, wouldn't I just rather have foster Griffin? Then these guys the rest of the way. I don't know that I would go that far. I don't know that I want to rank up in my top 40, but I'm still going to buy this. And here's why there is no specific reason why I'd predict an injury for foster Griffin. And yet pitchers get injured all the time. So some of those guys I'm going to rank ahead of them are going to get injured. Maybe foster Griffin gets injured. But I have no specific reason to predict that for him. So I'm going to assume here in this exercise that he won't get injured. But others will. And so by virtue of that, he'll finish in the top 40 rest of season. Do you have anything else to add on this nine star stretch where he looks like one of the best pitchers in baseball? Yeah, I sort of like with Luis Garcia. The pace has to slow. But I've been bullish on, I don't know, that over sales. And I've been, I've been an optimist on foster Griffin for a couple months now. Because even though even though there are some parts of his profile that are causes for concern, I think there's a, I think the positives that way the negatives. I think he gives up weak contact most of it in the air. That's a good combination. Good strike thrower. And and at least good batman. Or I mean, obviously lately he's been a great batman. So nine strike out, three, nine strike out efforts in his last four. And the swing strike rate has been going up. That's the part that I don't think he can sustain. I don't think he's back good of a batman. Or because he doesn't have a strong enough outpitch. But I think he's a good enough batman. So that with those other strengths. Again, as long as he tells he's eating innings, I think he's going to remain a reliable, reliable, reliable, the word I want to use a steady part of fantasy staffs. Let's talk about AJ Ewing who keeps on hitting two for five with a double and his seventh home run. The Homer was a bomb 105.5 EV 420 feet. And over his last 33 games now, AJ Ewing 313 six homeers 17 runs 18 RBI five steals an OPS over 900 during that span. So he has seven homeers nine steals in 53 games. By or sell AJ Ewing gets to 2020. The Mets have 70 games left. So seven and nine in 53. Can he get 13 more homeers 11 more steals in 70 games by or so. I think this one's a pretty easy sell. I think so too. But I want to make it bold, you know, you set the bar to high there. If you said 15 home runs, maybe, maybe we'd have a discussion. But now he wasn't much of a home run hitter in the miners. And I think there's a good chance he grows into being one. He's 21 years old and his exit velocities are solid, but they're only solid. And he's not somebody who pulls the ball in the air, particularly well. This little power surge has been surprising, but I don't I don't think he's to the point where you can expect him to double his home run pace for this point for it. I'm not even sure because he's at seven now and you're saying 13 more. So double his pace over the rest of the way. I'm not even sure how repeat his pace over the rest of the way and get to the 15 stolen bases. I'm a little more optimistic about that. He's been caught a lot. But this is a guy who stole 70 bases in the miners last year. And sprint speed comes in at 96th percentile. He's a dude for sure. So I think he's going to improve his stolen base pace from here. But I don't think he'll come close to the 20 home runs, frankly. I saw this tweet from the just baseball account on X and only three players this century age 21 or younger have accomplished the following in their first 30 53 games. 15 plus extra base hits 20 plus walks nine steals. And that is Fernando Tatis Jr. James Wood and now AJ Ewing. So he's he's a he's in good company right now. And he's 58% roster. We spoke about him yesterday. Absolutely is a must add must roster. Even even in three outfielder leagues, I think. And I'll throw a couple names. Your wife's got who are rostered in more leagues than AJ Ewing. Would you drop these guys for him? Carrie Carpenter. Yes. Let's see. Dalton Varsho 77% rostered. What the? Yeah, that's that's definitely overdue for a correction. I'd rather have Ewing Varsho the gains he made last year in terms of swing speed and fast swing percentage. They haven't carried over sort of like George Springer. What about someone like Taylor Ward? It's just been a down season. He's still 87% rostered. Yeah, I'd rather have Ewing at this point. I think because I think Ward's upside is only so high, even if he even if he does turn things around. Author two names your way that are over 90% rostered. This is we're getting a little bold now. Jarrin Duran and George Springer. I don't have a problem with that exchange. If somebody wants to do it, I don't think I could. I want to hold out a little longer on Springer because he's been hurt so much this year. Although I guess we've talked about he hasn't been playing as much recently, right? He did play today any homer. Yeah. But yeah. It's easier to drop Springer, I guess, for Ewing than it is Duran. But they're both defensible moves. All right. Let's talk about the guy. Hit the music. Shane O'Mack. Shane McClanahan just had his deepest start of the season against the Yankees. Six and a third shut out. Four hits. Five strikeouts to zero walks. He had 12 whiffs on 85 pitches. His 85 pitches were his most since May 18th. And I was watching this game on the Yankees broadcast. Joe Gerardi thought that the raise might let him go deeper, give him a longer leash because this was his last start heading into the all-star break. And I think that makes a good amount of sense here for McClanahan. His velocity was up in this one. He only allowed one hard hit. His changeup was outstanding. He threw 69% of his pitches for strikes, but still kind of has that cap on his ceiling, right? In terms of the pitches per star and the innings per star. So buy yourself after a six and a third shut out start. This will be the high point in Shane O'Mack season. Basically, he should be as sell high. I am inclined to buy that. The outings will remain short. And you mentioned the changeup. How effective it was in this start. I'm not confident he's going to be able to sustain that. So the changeup had four additional inches of drop. And he threw his fastball more than a mile per hour harder. So I think pairing it with the harder fastball, it having a deeper drop accounted for him getting nine whiffs on it in this start. And I don't know. I don't know if that was just a blipper or not. I think the safer assumption, having seen him do it only once, is that it is. And that now would be a time to get out with him coming. Having put together three straight quality starts. And was this-- was this his best start of the season? I guess the May 1st start against the Giants is also a contender. But yeah, I think this one was slightly better. So the most strikeouts Shane McClannahan has gotten and has started this season is seven. So it's mostly the ERA that's driving his value right now. And that's always a difficult category to put your hopes in. Yeah, I think McLaren-Heads is a good sell. Right now. In the honor of, I guess, defending myself because I can hear, read, see the comments coming in now about me being a Yankee homer and trying to sell off Shane McClannahan after he dominated the Yankees, I think he's going to be good. Like, don't get me wrong. I think he'll be solid. He'll probably hover around like a load amid three's ERA the rest of the way. But I do think that there is this kind of, again, that ceiling because of just the limits that the race will put on him. Maybe if he makes it through this season completely healthy, and next year he kind of gets the Drew Rassus in treatment where they've, you know, they've, it's a much longer leash with Rassus in. But for this year, I think the race are still going to be really, really cautious with Shane McClannahan. And rightfully so, I mean, this is his first time really pitching since, what, like, 2022? So what would Yankee's homer as them even have to do with? I don't know, 'cause he just john made the Yankees and we're telling people to sell him off. Like, I don't know. People will come up with anything Scott. Yeah. I can understand if you're saying the rays need to trade him. Maybe that's, maybe they should. (laughing) To the Yankees now. (laughing) Let's talk about Davis Martin, another rough outing here against the Red Sox. Four innings, five runs allowed, two walks, two strikeouts here. And his slider, which was so good early on in the season, at points had a wiff rate over 50%. It had zero whips in this start. And he lots of seven hard hits in this game. He did throw a good amount of strikes, but overall, his first 11 starts, a two ERA 0.99 whip over a strikeout per inning, 1.9 walks per nine, 13% swing strike rate. Last seven starts now, 6.34 ERA 190 whip, 5.9 Kper nine, 4.8 walks per nine. So clearly has taken a nose dive here. And prior to the season, he was kind of like a nothing burger for fantasy. He's 93% rostered by yourself. Davis Martin is droppable. - Oh, I buy it. I buy it hard. You mentioned his slider didn't get any whips in this one. That's been going on for a long time. Like amazingly, that pitch still has better than a 40% wiff rate on the season, but he hasn't had a wiff rate that high on the slider in a game since May 22nd, which basically coincides with those seven starts you laid out. I think it's technically eight, but it's right in line with it. And only once during that eight starts stretch did the slider have even better than a 20% wiff rate. So that pitch isn't working for him anymore. And it just seems like the production is collapsed in every way. - I mentioned again that I updated the rankings earlier today and that was before this start. I moved Davis Martin down to SP68. And so that would, and maybe deserves to be lower than that. But that is below names like Landon Roup, Joey Cantillo, Troy Melton, Trevor Rogers, Ian Seymour, JTGN, Logan Henderson, Sean Burke. So all the names that we've talked about recently, I know how Davis Martin behind those. And I think I might drop them for Jake Bennett too, which after this start, I think I'm gonna move Jake Bennett up as well. - Yeah. - All right, last name I have here is Mackenzie Gore who had another rough one against the Angels. Five innings, nine hits, seven runs, did have seven strikeouts to just one walk, but two homers loud in this one had 14 whiffs on 90 pitches. So, you know, there is some good. Obviously the line itself is bad. He allowed nine hard hits in this game. He's up to a 472 ERA in the season. It also comes with a 358-FIP and a 387-X-FIP. So the ERA estimators say that Mackenzie Gore should be better. - Don't do it Frank. - Buy or sell? Mackenzie Gore is a good Bilo candidate. - Don't do it Frank. I had to ask, don't do it. Ash did not train him well enough. You've all too quickly into a Charizard. - Don't make that trade. - Yeah. I don't buy this one either. AKA I sell it, but I just, I figured I would ask based on some of the ERA, like even as X-ERA is under four of the season. So it feels like there has been some bad luck, but it's just like we've kind of been here many, many times before with Mackenzie Gore. So I do agree with you on that one. A bonus buy or sell? After I saw a tweet earlier today that Scott was enjoying some ice cream. (laughs) Chocolate Chip Cookie Doe is the best ice cream. Buy or sell? Best flavor ice cream. - Oh wow. You know, it really depends on the brand, what the best flavor is. I am a bit of an ice cream connoisseur. - All right, hit us. - To the point that I hate too much ice cream. It had to stop eating so much of it, which is why I was tweeting about enjoying a bowl and it was extra delicious since it is a much rare event now. Chocolate Chip Cookie Doe is a reliably good flavor across all brands, I would say, but it's the rarely the best flavor in any one brand. I would say the best flavor of both Mayfield and Briar's is mint chocolate chip. They're very different versions of mint chocolate chip, but they're both amazing. The Mayfield kind is green and has the very brittle flaky chocolate chips. Thoroughly immersed in there. At the, the Briar's has the thick chunky chocolate chips that have kind of a bitter flavor, but the highlight there is the white mint ice cream, which is just divine. Let's see, what's my favorite flavor of Telemook? It might be cookie dough for Telemook. Monster cookie's pretty good too. Bluebell, I used to like bluebell a lot, not as much anymore, but the flavors are pretty consistent in that brand, I would say. - Do you ever hit Ben and Jerry's? - It's a little out of my price range to be honest, by and spendin' like $6 on a pint of ice cream. It's not really my speed. - It is pretty expensive, but yeah. - Their chocolate chip cookie dough and their chocolate fudge brownie is exquisite. - Yeah, no, it's always good. Sometimes I treat myself, but usually just a special occasion. - All right, well here, you heard it first. The ice cream connoisseur, Scott White, weighs in. Let's take our final break, when we return. I've got the waiver wire names from Wednesday. We'll get into those right after this. - Ready to level up? Chambacasino is your playbook to fun. It's free to play with no purchase necessary. Enjoy hundreds of online social games, like Blackjack slots and solitary, anytime, anywhere, with fresh releases every week, whether you're at home or on the go, let Chambacasino bring the excitement to you. Plus, get free daily login bonuses and a free welcome bonus. Join now for your chance to redeem some serious prizes. Play Chambacasino today. No purchase necessary VGW group voidware prohibited by law, 21 plus TNC's apply. (cars honking) - Welcome back, fantasy baseball today, and we'll jump into the waiver wire pitchers. And two names that keep on getting it done. Troy Melton, great. Once again, against the athletics, five and a third, four hits, one, unearned run, with a season high, nine strikeouts, to just one walk, 15 whiffs on 91 pitches. His velocity was up in this one, his cutter was outstanding, and his whiffs overall have been up recently. So I know earlier on, he was getting good results, but the strikeouts weren't there. That has turned around here for Troy Melton, and we've talked about him a bunch lately. He's 74% rostered, he's also a spark for those who play on CBS, and Jake Bennett, seven shut out, innings four strikeouts to one walk, eight whiffs on 81 pitches here, and he continues to lean on this like, basically three pitch approach, fastball sinker change up, and it works very well for him. He throws a good amount of strikes, he limits walks, doesn't he? get a bunch of strikeouts, but limits hard contact gets ground balls. He is 62% rostered. Four straight quality starts. He's gone seven or more innings in back to back start. So it's got him pretty sure we both have Troy Melton ahead of Jake Bennett, but Jake Bennett, man, he is starting to look pretty good. Starting to look pretty reliable. Yeah, he is. And it's more of a pitch to contact approach, which always invites more skepticism. I mean, rather than pitcher, just not allow contact at all. But it's worked for him. It can work in the major leagues, especially much better than it does in the minors because defenses are so good as a whole. Trying to remember where the red sucks defense rings in particular. Red sucks. That's helping my head. Their defense is really good. Okay. So that certainly helps. Jake's Jake Bennett's current approach. He was more of a bad misser in the minors. And so maybe we can see more of that as we've seen from Troy Melton recently that that skill has really broke through for him after a slow start. So maybe Bennett will get there too. But that's the reason earlier why I was expressing. Do I really want Bennett more than Jared Jones when Jones has more upside? Ultimately, I decided I do. But that's that is the the one flaw I'm seeing here is this strikeouts have been pretty underwhelming. Yeah. Somebody brought up Hagen Daz. I had I had the chocolate peanut butter and Hagen Daz for the first time recently. And that was that was an experience. I've I've really warmed up to the peanut butter in ice cream. I was never a big mousse tracks, but I think a big mousse tracks guy, but I think it was more they just put such a large chunks of fudge in it that it detract like you'd get a bite of that and almost no ice cream in and be like, I came here to eat ice cream, not fudge. And so it it gave it a bad taste literally left a bad taste in my mouth, the mousse tracks. But you know, you get like a peanut butter cut by ice cream. It's pretty good. Yeah, I don't love I don't love chocolate with peanut butter usually, which is, you know, I like Reese's guy. I like Reese's guy. I like Reese's, but like, I don't know peanut butter in the ice cream. I typically can't do it. I had Hagen Daz just the other day. And I'm trying to find the specific flavor that I had. I was pretty good. But oh, it was vanilla Swiss almond. So it was vanilla ice cream, but it was almonds that were also like dipped in chocolate. Yeah, it was very good. I think that my favorite flavor of bluebell since I struggled to come up with one. I think it's actually pistachio almond. They make the best pistachio almond since you bring up almonds. It came to mind. So yeah, I'm that's worth trying out from Hagen Daz. I'm an almond guy. My kids can't eat it. Don't get it to them in my wallet hospital. But more for me. Yeah. How about we rank this whole group's got it again. I just updated the ranks earlier today. So I just did this, but I have them in this order. And it's, let's see, I have seven names here. So it's a lot. They're on the run down it. If you want to check it out. Seymour, Sean Burke, Troy Melton Trevor Rogers, Joey Cantillo, Jake Bennett landed root. That's the order I have them in. Troy Melton's a good ice cream name. All right, say them again. Seymour, Burke, Troy Melton, Trevor Rogers, Joey Cantillo, Jake Bennett, landed root. I gotta remember them all. They're on the run down. If you want to, if you want to control half, they're in this, they're not in the same section. Are they? I have bolded them. All right. So that's your order. You're giving me an order. How about I just critique go through them one more time and I'll tell you if somebody seems out of place. Let's do it that way. Ian Seymour, Sean Burke. I know you guys have, I know you guys have. I know you guys have. Yeah, yeah. I'm Seymour over Burke. Troy Melton third. Okay. Trevor Rogers. Okay. Joey Cantillo. Maybe you would have Cantillo higher. Yep. I'd have Cantillo at least ahead of Rogers. Maybe ahead of Melton, but I don't know. This late is start from Melton. Yeah, let's say Melton over Cantillo, but not over not Rogers over Cantillo. And then I have Jake Bennett and landing root as the last two. He I like root more than Bennett. All right. Let's do it. I like root more than Rogers too. I really wary of Rogers. I mean, I understand he needs to be rostered again, but I could see that falling apart. Somebody did bring this up to me recently about landing root. Last year, he only threw 109 and two thirds innings and he's already up to 97. So I wonder if landing root could just be limited a little bit in a second half. Could be. He's already 27. So I think he's less of a building block than some others. Let's see. Has he ever pitched more innings previously in his career? Slightly more in 2022, but that was a long time ago anyway. Yeah. I mean, he's a guy who yeah, could see his workload limited some in the second half. That's fair point. Maybe Michael McGreevy is better than we think. He turned in another quality start this one against the Brewers six and a third five hits one runs six strikeouts to one walk. He had 10 whips on 90 pitches. His velocity was up around a mile per hour on all of his pitches in this one. He's got a 301 ERA 110 whip. I know the strikeout rate is abysmal. He gets ground balls has a really good defense behind him. Has a quality start in six of his last seven and he has he's 65% rostered. I don't know. Scott, do you think Michael McGreevy's maybe better than we give him credit for? I think he is a see better than we give him credit for. How much credit do we give him? I feel like whenever we talk about him, it's just in a kind of streamer sense. Like maybe he's one step above. When I think about streamers, it's like the Shane Bos and Drew Abbott's we talked about yesterday. Like maybe Michael McGreevy's just like a tear head of those guys. Maybe. He is ahead of those guys. He's surpassed them in terms of reliability. Even though he's the worst strikeout pitcher of the three, I don't think the other two are good enough strikeout pitchers to obsess over that. But I don't know that I'd put him an entirely different tear from them. I still think he's mostly a streamer. His expected ERA is 561. He's got to have one of the biggest gaps between expected and actual. I don't think he actually deserves a 561 ERA. I think there are probably reasons why that number is coming in higher than it should. But it's a strong suggestion that he's overachieved with the low three ERA. We got a step in the right direction from Roki Sasaki. I do think we need to see a lot more, but it was a quality start against the Rockies, the Rockies and LA. Six innings, three runs, five strikeouts to one walk, still allowed two homers in this one. But 15 whiffs on 78 pitches. That is a massive swinging strike rate. And through 72% of his pitches for strikes. So 58% rostered. His previous four starts were absolutely terrible. A name to watch. Let's see if Roki Sasaki could build off this start here against the Rockies. A slightly deeper name. Christian Scott solid outing against the Royals. Five shut out with five strikeouts to one walk for him. And he has a 317 ERA. The whip is higher because the walks are a problem at times. 130 whip. But nearly 11k per nine. He's another one where he's limited. I don't know if they're going to let him go that deep into his starts. But you know, outside of that like first truly awful start of the season when he first got called up, he's actually been pretty good. He just doesn't go very deep in starts. Yeah. I see signs there, particularly with the bat missing. But the walks are so high, the outings are so short. I'm just not moved to really add him anywhere. Yeah. I think it's mostly just a deep name for now like 15 teamers. And then an even deeper name is Tyler Phillips who pitched well. I still am intrigued by his secondary pitches because he gets big whiffs on his curve, his sweeper and his splitter. But his fastballs are just really bad. His control is pretty bad too. Scott, is there anything here? Tyler Phillips. I'm not going to say there's nothing there because he does have an arsenal with a lot of pitches capable of getting whiffs like you point out. But it hasn't actually translated to a particularly good strikeout rate. It's pretty bad actually. You just look at the strikeout ratio for Tyler Phillips and it's like well, that's not going to work. Yeah. So that's where I'm at with him. I do want to stress with Rocky Sasaki like he was really good against the Rockies. And I know we had our moment with him already where we were giving him a chance and he crashed pretty hard and got dropped in a lot of leagues. And I think that makes sense. I do think we need to see more. But man, the good starts when he, when that splitters working like it was in this start, I give it, it really opens your eyes to how good, rocky Sasaki could be. And maybe he will be one day. But I, if you're reluctant to pick him up again, I get it. He certainly not part of that. Certainly not on the level that group we were talking about earlier. Do you have some drop candidates here as well? Spencer Erighetti just got destroyed at the Nationals. Four innings, eight hits, six runs, two homers allowed. His first eight starts, one thirty four, ERA, one thirteen whip. His last seven starts, eight seventy four, ERA, one sixty whip. He's still seventy five percent rostered. Scott, I think that number is way too high. First Spencer Erighetti. Yeah, he gave us a little hope with his previous start after a bumpy June. But then came right back down to earth with this start. And it's really just that one good start since May ended. And he was an obvious regression candidate even when he was at his best. So I think we can safely move on from Spencer Erighetti. Not that there will never come a point when I might recommend him to stream. But I don't think he needs to take up valuable roster space in most leagues. And then Walbert, Arania struggled with the walks big time. Four shut out innings, but five walks in this one. His velocity was down quite a bit as well as fastball down 1.7 miles per hour. The changeup was down 1.1. I'm not saying you have to drop Walbert Arania because I have specifically talked to him up at times. I think there's talent there, but the walks are just a massive problem at times. Four plus walks and back to back starts. He has five walks three different times this year. So if any of those names from earlier are available, I would drop Walbert Arania for them. It's less roster than all of them. So it's probably not realistic. But yeah, I think I'd be willing to make that swap with Walbert Arania. Some whatever wire hitters, Noel V. Marte went two for five with his sixth home run for RBI. He's only started two of the past four games. And in 26 games since returning to the Reds, he's hitting 227 with seven homers, three steals. You know, the power and the speed is still tantalizing, Scott, but the batting average being down, hitting too many ground balls, playing time, just being scarce. Forty three percent rostered. I think that number is probably okay for Marte right now, unless we need to see him play more and obviously just be more consistent. Yeah. I think what we've seen from Noel V. Marte over the last few years and both the majors and the minors. There's two different versions. He either looks like a budding superstar or he looks like he belongs in the minors, you know? And I don't think we've seen the last of him looking like a superstar. And maybe this will be the start of it. I don't know. I think the question, thinking long term with Noel V. Marte, if you have met a dynasty league or you're just imagining what his career might look like, it's going to come down to how much patience the reds have with him during those stretches where he looks awful because he doesn't provide much defensive value. You would know that. And he's a right-handed iterator who doesn't walk much. So they just may not have the patience to stick with him. That's that we've already seen their patience be tested in that way. So overall, I'd say I'm bearish about Marte's future, but it's less because I don't think he can be an impactful fantasy hitter. It's just he disappears offensively too often for them to put up with the downsides of his profile. Jay J. Bladeh with the slump buster. Two for four with his 14th home run. This one came off of a lefty. And it was his first home run since June 15th. In 19 games between homers, Bladeh hit 133 with one extra base hit of 434 OPS. The walks in the strikeout still looked really good during that stretch, but he just was not impacting the ball at all. He's 62% rostered. I mentioned his name earlier this week as one of the most dropped players on CBS. It's only one game, Scott, but do you think people dropping Jay J. Bladeh was a little bit premature? So I'm curious to see what his average bad speed, what his fast swings rate looks like during the rough stretch, because for the season, they're still much better than they've been at the past. And that was what reassured me that there's legitimacy here to the breakout he was having. But if they've come crashing down over that shorter stretch, then I'm going to be a lot more skeptical. Let's see if I can pull this on the fly. So in that stretch where he did not homer for, I think I said it was 19 games, his bad speed was basically identical. His fast swing percentage was only 24%. During that 19 start stretch on the season, it's 36%. About 24% is still a lot better than it was. He was hanging out at 15% earlier in his career. So we didn't give it all back. Look obviously three outfielder leagues he's disposable. I don't think I'd want to drop Bladeh in five outfielder leagues. The tipping point there might be if the reds, let me make sure they haven't. If the reds begin to fade him, like stop playing him so much, they're pretty much playing him every day still. So in five outfield or leagues, I'd be patient with Bladeh. And Caleb Durbin went two for three with his 10th stolen base. He's been pretty good for a while now. Last 35 games hitting 298 seven homers, 21 runs, 21 RBI six deals and OPS right around 900 during that stretch. He's 60% rostered. Caleb Durbin. I have two names who are rostered in more leagues than Durbin right now on CVS that I think I would drop for him. Those are Nolan Aranato and Josh Young for Caleb Durbin. I would make those swaps. Yeah, I can't really argue with that. It wouldn't surprise me if young especially Serpastum, but it's not like my expectations for them are wildly divergent such that I forego the hot hand, which is clearly Caleb Durbin right now. And I did get a request for a deep name here. That is Kyle Carros from the Rockies. He went two for four with his eighth home run and he has started 12 straight games with the Rockies. And basically since the start of June, his last 34 games, he's hitting 350 with five homers, 26 run scored and OPS over 1000. He's 29% rostered. Scott, do you have any interest in Kyle Carros? Yeah, I was just noticing myself tonight how his numbers, I mean, you gave the, the, the hot streak there, but the full season numbers are looking awfully strong. Got an OPP higher than 360 and OPS higher than 800. And of course, he plays a course field, which is going to help the batting average playup. Yeah, he might, he might stick as their third baseman. And I don't think there's a ton of upside there, but it is a position of need. And we were just talking about some of those other third baseman. I'd probably gamble on Carros over Nolan Arinotto at this point. I don't know about over Younger Durbin, but he's, he's emerged to somebody who's usable. Yeah, I think it leads it with corner infield corner infield spots. And whenever the Rockies are home, like definitely could make for a streamer in that, in that sense as well. So again, that is Kyle Carros. Let's get into the leftovers on the hitting side. Cosimo Okamoto hit a grand slam. It was his 21st home run of the season, updated pace numbers, 36 homers, 102 RBI. Pete Crow Armstrong, new month, same PCA, two for four with a double dong three run scored. Coming off that monster, June, he has played six July games so far. He's hitting 476 with three homers, three steals and a 1529 OPS. So he is amazing. Say yes, Suzuki hit his 14th home run, three RBI. He had a terrible May, but over his last 30 games, he's hitting 283 seven homers, 26 RBI. And an 88 OPS. Kyle Stowers, another home run for him. And over his last 18, he's hitting 333 with seven homers and OPS over 1200 Yandee Diaz. Looks to get back on track. He went four for four. He narrowly missed a home run in that game. And he's been dealing with his shoulder injury and he had slowed down a little bit. So just nice to see a good game out of him. Kyle Schwarber hit his 30 second home run. Again, he's at 32 before the break. See here he had 30 before the break and he wound up with 56. So how high will the number climb for Kyle Schwarber this season? South Stewart. two for four with a double-dong three RBI. And last 20 games he has turned it back on, 288, six homers, 21 RBI and OPS over 900 during that stretch. Alec Burleson. - I couldn't help but notice though the two home runs for South Stewart, we're both less than 360 feet. - Yeah, wall scraper's right. I think they both went to the opposite field. I know one of them did, but hey man, that's part of the reason why we like him is playing in great American small parks. So take advantage when you can. And Alec Burleson, I wanted to highlight two for four with his 15th home run. I just think he's having a really underrated season. He entered this game as the 37th bit best hitter in Roto providing $20 worth of value. And 3.1 fantasy points per game, which is better than Zach Netto, Cody Belinger and Peter Lonzo. So shout out to Alec Burleson. Lots of names here Scott, anything you'd like to touch on. - I guess I'm to the point with Stowers where even in three outfield alleys, it's time to pick him up again. - I don't know that he ever got dropped. I think he's still over 90% rostered. - Oh, that's surprising. - Yeah, I was surprised by it as well. Let's let me confirm that if this page will load. Oh yeah, 95%. - He was useless for the first almost three months of the season. There were some injuries in there, but even so, it's not like he had an extensive track record. So okay, I thought I was unusually patient with him, but apparently not. Apparently I was just like everybody else. - I did have one other name here. Joe Adele had a huge game, two for four with a double-dong five RBI. It's been a down season like undoubtedly. And so just trying to figure out why. And his strikeout rate is down. His quality of contact is also down. So seems like a pretty clear correlation. Scott, I think Joe Adele has focused so much on making contact this season that he just sacrificed a bunch of power. - Well, we have a number that states that pretty clearly or doesn't. It will either confirm or deny it. And that is fast-wing percentage. Is he swinging with less intent? And the answer is not really. - Not really. In fact, that's a really high fast-wing rate. - That is fast-wing a lot. - That is an incredibly high fast-wing rate. - That is a lot of intent there. I don't know. That's weird then. - What are your intentions, Joe Adele? To hit home runs. - Maybe a buy for the second half, Joe Adele? - Kind of hard to buy off this game, but. - Yeah, well, how roster does he? - I'm sure that he's still rostered everywhere. Joe Adele is rostered in 84% of CBS leagues. - That's probably about right. I don't know that he needs to be rostered in every points league. - Some pitching leftovers. I have three solid outings and two bad ones. George Kirby, a quality start at the Marlon's six innings, two runs, seven strikeouts, the zero walks. Still just doesn't look completely right. He just doesn't look like the pitcher he has been in the past. And obviously you see that with a 1/32 whip this year for George Kirby. Gareth Colter and an a quality start at the race, six in a third, seven hits, three runs, six strikeouts to one walk, still just nine whiffs on 97 pitches. And just watching this start, when he gets hit hard, a lot of his pitches are just smack in the middle of the zone. So his command is clearly not where it needs to be. Like pre-surgery, Gareth Colt. And Michael King, a strong outing here against the D-back, six innings, one run, four strikeouts for him. He does have a quality start in three of his last four. He's looked better as of late. Scott, anything here on King, Colt and George Kirby. - I look forward to the day when I can tell you Gareth Colt is back. But that day, - Same. - Sorry to say. - Same. - Stop saying. - That's same. - George Kirby. So as we're seeing Bryce Miller and Logan Gilbert lean into their fastball more, we're seeing Kirby get away from it. And it's been to his benefit, the past couple of turns. It hasn't been nearly as effective of a pitch form this year as in past years. So yeah, second straight start, where he threw it, roughly 15% of the time. They've been two of his best starts the year. So I guess you could be encouraged by that, though I'd rather him have a good fastball. And then as for Michael King, I feel like he's kind of becoming the new Sonny Gray, where whatever stretch of the season he's in, you can't feel confident, it's gonna sustain. You can't feel confident that version of Michael King is gonna remain the same. And so analyzing him over these short spans of time as we tend to do in a daily podcast like this is just gonna be pull your hair out, kinds of frustration. I guess when you just look at the season line for Michael King, 341 ERA 115 Whip, strikeouts, not great, underlying numbers don't particularly buy it, but like whenever he's been healthy with the Padres, he's looked pretty good, right? So I think you just kind of. - He had that stretch where he was getting like 4K per nine. - Yeah. - There's a long stretch too, but. - True. - Yeah, he seems to be fine now. - Two bad outings from Wednesday Logan Webb, just had a terrible first inning that completely ruined his day. Seven innings, five hits, five runs, two walks, two strikeouts. The strikeouts from last year, it just looks like a pretty clear outlier for Logan Webb. The ground ball rate has been trending down as well for him. And Chase Burns struggled with the walks against the Phillies, five innings, three hits, three runs, six walks, two strikeouts. Clearly his worst start of the season in terms of control. It's got anything to add on Logan Webb and Chase Burns. - Yeah, Webb. He had that awful starting Colorado last time that we kind of wrote off as a Colorado start where he threw his cutter way more than usual, obviously trying to change the game plan for the thin air environment and just didn't work. His pitch selection was much closer to normal this time. It's not like he continued doing what he did in that Colorado start. And it was still not great. So that's a little frustrating. I wouldn't overreact to it though. Chase Burns, just the second time this year, he gave him more than three walks in a start. And it was six. He's been very reliable. I wouldn't, yeah, I wouldn't sweat over this start for him either. - All right, the call to the bullpen for the Cubs. Jacob Webb got the ninth inning with a two run lead and it was a clean inning for his fourth save. For the Braves, Rice, Illiglacee has got the ninth with a three run lead. He bounced back for his 18th save. For the Marlins P Fairbanks picked up his 13th save. For the raise, Brian Baker allowed a hit but truck out three for his 25th save. Legitimately, I was thinking about this Brian Baker, one of the league winners I think at fantasy baseball this season, just in terms of picking a guy up off waivers most likely who assuming he just doesn't implode in the second half, he's gonna give you like 40 saves and just amazing ratios. He's been amazing. For the Royals, Alex Lang entered in the eighth inning with the game tied facing the heart of the mess lineup. He got the first two outs easily and then just imploded. He was charged with five earned runs on a walk and three hits. He actually left the start with the relief appearance with one run and the bases loaded. The reliever that came in after him just made a complete mess of it. So that all got charged to Alex Lang unfortunately. And then for the Dodgers, Tanner Scott bounced back for his 13th save of the season. To stream or not to stream on Thursday, Merrill Kelly is at the Padres, Andre Palante against the Brewers, Anthony K against the Red Sox, Sean Maniah against the Royals, Mitch Keller against the Braves, Billy Ober against the Guardians. Let's say, we didn't like this day, did we? We talked about it yesterday. No, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. I would like any of them. Polante and the group. It's against the Brewers. So very tough matchup, but I just my comfort level is higher with him than any of the pitchers with good matchups. Yeah. So yeah, I would put Polante. I mean, Merrill Kelly has been a mess. He's, I guess his last start was okay. At the Padres, their offense isn't great, but it's risky. Some manaya maybe could have a good start against the Royals, but yeah, Thursday's not so great. On Friday, we have Zach Lattel against the Yankees who just cannot hit it all right now. Zeppie Mathews against the Angels. Brandon Sprote is at the Pirates, Aaron Ola at the Tigers, Jack Flarety against the Phillies. Brandon Young against the Royals, Luis Castillo at the raise. Not a great day either. Yeah. Maybe a little better Zeppie Mathews against the Angels. It's high risk, high reward play as it usually goes against the Angels. There's a strikeout prone team at baseball. Brandon Young against the Royals seems fairly low risk. Luis Castillo at the raise, I don't mind. That's probably the reverse order if I'd actually use them. I'd go cast deal one, young two, Zebby Matthews three. Flirty has looked good since coming off the IL. He gets the fillies. Their lineup has been hit or miss. Flirty himself, I mean, is someone that can absolutely blow up and just ruin your whole week. So keep that in mind, buddy. Is it good since coming back? So if you want to risk it for the biscuit, Jack Flirty, another option. We are going to wrap there for Scott. I am Frank. 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