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[email protected]. Get ready to win your lead. [MUSIC PLAYING] Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. Noah Cameron has been a monster over his last three starts. 23 innings, five hits, one run, 24 strikeouts to six walks. Wow. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball Today on Thursday, August 6. I am Frank Samful, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers. Today on the show, we'll talk more about Noah Cameron. Another clunker from Paul Schienes will do some buyer sell. Welcome back to Kyle Harrison. And much more, let's jump in. Can you believe it? Wow. All right, Scott. I read off the numbers. I gave you a little preview. Last three starts for Noah Cameron. I will just let you pick it up from there. I mean, who is this guy? Right? This guy looks like-- like, I don't even know who to compare him to. Randy Johnson seems too bold, but he looks like the best left handed pitcher in the world over his last three starts. Five hits allowed. 24 strikeouts in 23 innings, two starts going. Eight innings, one start going seven. And prior to that, prior to that stretch, he had a 527 ERA. And I don't think was on anybody's radar in Fantasy. So what has gotten into Noah Cameron? Something clearly has, because that is a stark turnaround. It doesn't seem like much, but it doesn't seem like nothing. Either. I mean, I've been talking about it after his last two starts how the start of this incredible three start stretch, he began calling his own pitches. And supposedly, I mean, the Royal B-Writers have been driving this point home after each of these starts. He's thrown with more conviction now, whatever that means. I can say, for sure, I can tell just by looking at the data, he's throwing his fastball less. It's gone for being his most thrown pitch, too. A third, fourth most. It's not like he's completely eliminated, but throwing it more like 15% of the time, then I think it was about twice that before. And it's not a very good fastball. And he has a lot of other pitches. So maybe it's as simple as that. Maybe it's as simple as my catcher felt like I should be throwing a lot of fastballs for some reason, but I know better. And then there's apparently this conviction element that's helping, too. I think Noah Cameron has to be added at this point. I don't think he's this good. Obviously, I don't think he's actually Randy Johnson or anything close to it. But of course, he was pretty good last year. In a way, we didn't entirely believe, but it wasn't the. It wasn't. I know Chris was especially skeptical of it. I was a little more open to it, and I think Frank was also. But still, he had an ERA below three. I mean, it didn't seem that good. Bottom line is he's had success before. He's having a ton of success now. It coincides with a change in his approach and in his pitch selection. And I think it's something we have to react to at this point, especially as scarce as the way for why he is this time of year. Yeah, as the resident Noah Cameron skeptic certainly last season, I'm right there with you on this, because this is something we never saw from him last year. Like he was. He had a 299 ERA last year. That's like that was more than just a good stretch. He pitched well last season, but most of the peripherals were in the four range or higher. And this year he's been worse, but this stretch, 24 strikeouts across three starts, he's never done that before. Previous high was 22. Even I think he's thrown 22 innings in. 23 innings across the three starts. He never done that before. Never threw more than 21 innings in any three start stretch. So this is, I think it's clear to say the best three start stretch of Noah Cameron's career. Will he sustain it? Smart money is on no, he won't. For all the reasons Scott said, it's just really hard to sustain this level of production. But I think he just got to buy in as if it's real, because the other options coming out of today are, I don't know, Mitch Bratt and Cody Bradford and Jacob Lopez, who look, I don't think all three of those guys are entirely without appeal. We'll talk about them more later on in the show. I think especially Jacob Lopez looking pretty interesting right now. Yeah. In the same way he looked pretty interesting for about two months, last season. So I'm open to that. Cody Bradford was really good in 2024. But what we're seeing from Noah Cameron, the last three starts is on a different level than what we're seeing from any of those guys. So yeah, go ahead and add Noah Cameron. I don't think you should treat this as if this is definitely a breakout. But take it, take it as if it might be, he's 76, 74% off. Yeah, I'm looking at that now. I was, I'm shocked he's already that high just after two starts. That low, yeah. Yeah. For some reason, his roster rate was just kind of really high all season. I would never dropped from the initial, I mean, it dropped, but not as much as you'd expect. Yeah. I think a lot of the innings eater types usually pop in the CBS projections. And so that's why I just think he wasn't really dropped in that many leagues. So he's out there and it was a two-start pitcher last week. What's his roster rate on Yahoo? Could you reference that real quick? I imagine it's got to be at least 50 percentage points. I would guess I would guess below 40%. 41% roster. Oh, okay. Yeah. So much more widely available there. Looks like he lines up for two next week, but they are both against the LA two steps. So he gets the Dodgers and the Angels. And one other thing I wanted to point out with Noah Cameron while the strikeouts have been up over his last three starts. His swinging strike rate over his last six is 13.9%. So he's been getting whiffs for a while now is Noah Cameron could be out there in some CBS leagues. Definitely out there in Yahoo. I pretty sure I'm pretty sure I know the answer to this, but I'll ask it anyway just because like they are very similar roster rate. And the names we keep talking about, but Ian Seymour and Roki Sasaki. I would take definitely Seymour over Cameron and probably Sasaki. That might come down to what Sasaki's matchup looks like next week, but obviously. Versus the Dodgers versus the Angels. That's about as mixed a bag as you can get for a two-star week. So I don't know. Who's that? Is that Cameron? Yeah. Okay. So I think I lean Sasaki over Cameron, but certainly in a point I'll just take Cameron. Because I don't think Sasaki is a two-star pitcher next week. And then Sasaki for one against the Royals next week. Yeah. Cameron, at least in a point league. Maybe in Rodo, you can make the argument that Sasaki would be better, but I think in a point like I definitely kick Cameron. And look, at this point in the season, there are what seven weeks left after this one, six weeks. Long term versus short term doesn't really matter anymore. It's very weak to weak at that point. Yeah. Like whoever has the best matchups next week might just be the best option no matter what. Yeah. So a couple of names are way would you drop any of these to add Noah Cameron, Davis Martin. Oh, yeah. Still that guy out of that. Still 82% runs. Yeah. His roster rate is what's his roster rate on you? He's been, because like, good question. I'm sure you guys talked about yesterday. Davis Martin has been like a six-ERA for like two months now, right? Yeah. And his velocity is consistently down. He is down to 52% rostered on Yahoo. Davis Martin is. So that's pretty interesting. name to both struggled here.
on Wednesday, Casey Meyers, war started the season by far in his Padres debut, and Reed Depmerz, who his previous three starts were pretty good, his four before that were bad. I just, I feel like we're kind of in like this Reed Depmerz limbo right now. Would you guys drop either Casey Meyers or Reed Depmerz to add no camera? - All right, so when you were gone, I made the case that we probably should just stop stressing about Reed Depmerz and accept that the whole is going to be better than the spotty game log, because in his last 13 starts now, even with the numbers being inflated, some by this most recent outing, last 13 starts for Reed Depmerz, 341 ERA, 0.96 whip, 10.8 K per nine. So like, I'd be happy to have that in my lineup every week, frankly. So Depmerz I think is safe from any kind of drop situation. And honestly, Casey Meyers should be too. I think Casey Meyers has over achieved to some degree this year, but mostly because I think he's had good home run luck, the home run prevention doesn't, exceeds what the data says it should be. Now it helps that he wasn't a pitcher's park, and now he's maybe even in a better pitcher's park. But I'll note that his issue in this later start wasn't the home run catching up to him. He loved one. So it was more that he had uncharacteristically bad control. Velocity was normal, pitch selection was normal, but he walked a few guys, threw only 61% strikes. He entered this start with 2.0 walks per nine innings, so very, very good control. And I don't see anything that would lead me to believe that's like a permanent collapse form. I think it was just something that happened this time out. Casey Meyers probably not as good as the IRA and with overall, but definitely a lot better than this start and definitely worth holding on to still. - All right, Chris, let's go over to you for your player of the night. - Yeah, and I think anytime a pitcher is coming back from an injury, you kind of hold your breath at first, and especially when you're talking about an arm injury. And that's the case with Kyle Harrison, who made his first star in about four weeks, Wednesday against the pirates. He missed time. It was a forearm for him, right? And that's always scary. And then when if you're not watching the start and you just see the box score and you see he left after five innings, he was cruising only 69 pitches, and you see he left with an injury and you start to panic. Don't panic, it's fine. You can exhale. He left with calf cramps in both calves. I'm sure it was painful. I'm sure it wasn't fun, but not something that you would think Kyle Harrison will deal with. Maybe grab an extra bottle of Gatorade before the next start and make sure you're properly hydrated. But otherwise, I think he's probably gonna be okay. And boy, did he look awesome. Even though his velocity was down a little bit, I think about half a mile in the four seamer, a full mile per hour on the Slurve, it didn't matter. He had 10 strikeouts and five innings. He give up one hit, no runs, one walk. I think it was 12 swinging strikes on 69 pitches. Kyle Harrison just really looks like a monster. And he pretty much has all season. The brewers have unlocked something here with him. He has a 284 ERA, the peripherals mostly back it up. He has a 30% strikeout rate, walk rate is career best. I mean, this is one of the biggest possible feathers in the brewers front offices cap. As far as their pitch development goes, Kyle Harrison looks like a completely different guy since getting there. And the fact that he came back after missing a month and was just as dominant as before. This is his fourth double digit start, double digit strikeout started the season. Look, you're always going to have some concern about his ability to stay on the mound, but I think when he's on, he's just going to be dominant. He's a top 25 starting pitcher, as long as he's healthy. Look at Chris praising the brewers front office. They're good. I never-- --what they could do with a guy like Tarek Scooble. Another blot, by the way, on the red socks front offices cap. By the way, I don't think it came up in the trade deadlines extravaganza. Maybe we did refer to it obliquely, but like, they gave up two really quality prospects for Dustin May. And it's like-- My take over there is MLB teams like Dustin May a lot more than I think. Well, you did make that point. But my point is if they were willing to give that up for Dustin May, why weren't they also willing to give that up for Tarek Scooble? And I don't know that they weren't-- Maybe they made the-- Are the red socks you mean? No, the-- Oh, the bird. The bird. Yeah, sorry. --what they gave up to get Dustin May. Maybe, which was-- Alexander Freys and-- Yeah, they're a guy with the trick. Josiah Rackdale. Josiah Rackdale, yes, two off two outpairers. --I'm a whole other-- --his first game today. Rackdale has monster numbers at AA and Freys, his hit a ball, harder this year as an 18-year-old than Aaron Judge has. Then, really, De La Cruz has. I was just reading fan graphs, breakdown of all the prospects who were traded. And they said, the data reads like Junior Kamenero at the same age. So-- So Alexander Freys. And look, that's pretty crazy. Maybe they did make the Tigers that exact same offer. That's what's been reported is they offered two top 100 prospect hitters. I would assume Freys was part of that. And the Tigers just really wanted a pitcher and they weren't willing to give up. They-- --a near majorly-ready pitcher, which-- I guess. It was confirmed that Luis Pena was in that deal. So my guess is Luis Pena, probably Alexander Freys as well. And then-- I don't know who the third prospect would have been, but yeah, that's-- I don't know. Reported package that the brewers offered for Terrick's soul. So-- So-- I mean, that's a strong offer. I would not say-- if that is the offer, I would not say clearly that the Dodgers beat that offer. They-- Oh, no. It just-- The Tigers wanted a pitcher. And the Tigers wanted a pitcher. And the brewers weren't willing to give up pitcher, which-- if you're not willing to give up pitcher and the other team demands a pitcher, then you weren't willing to beat the offer, you know? Yeah, sure. Again, that was Kyle Harrison, the conversation started with Kyle Harrison. And then obviously, he went down a bit of a rabbit hole. But nice to see him back. And the final eight outs that he recorded all came via strike out in that start. Yeah. He looks like he's back, hopefully. The calves are all good. Next time he comes back out. My player tonight, I'm going to just do a quick mention here of On Hell Hanau in his debut, quite the eventful debut, 4 for 5 with a run, RBI, also had two errors in his debut. So four hard hits in this game, all between 95 and 100 mile per hour exit velocity. He played third base in this one. But mostly a short stop throughout his time in the minors. So perhaps a bit of a learning curve defensively here. But I think what's interesting is that-- well, if Jose Ramirez doesn't go on the IEL, he's probably not going to play too much more at third base. We'll have to see. But there is an opportunity for On Hell Hanau to gain another position eligibility. So that would make him a little bit more interesting for fantasy. He is only 15% rostered. spoke about him a lot yesterday. I think in deeper leagues, if you need a middle infielder, kind of interesting that both Lombard had a great first game and then Hanau had a great first game. But has anything changed on that front? Scott, are you still taking Lombard over on Hell Hanau? Yeah. Yeah, I think there's more upside there for sure. Now, what percentage would you say is because of Lombard just having much more obvious playing time opportunities versus being the better prospect? Because I think it's mostly just that Lombard is guaranteed. No, I think-- I think it's bold. I think Lombard has a lot more power. I think he's going to get on base a lot more. And now probably will steal more bases. But I don't think he's going to be a monster base stealer. And generally speaking, particularly if he also has probably-- well, I don't know. I mean, Hanau doesn't strike out much, so plate discipline, who's his better. And I think clearly Lombard's the better on base guy. And if he also has significant-- I think significantly more power, then yeah, I'm going to side with that guy for sure. You know, his four singles, none were hit 100 miles per hour. Four technically hard hits there are between 95 and 100. And it's obviously just one game, so it doesn't say that much anyway, other than maybe that he didn't look overwhelmed. He committed two errors, so I don't know how much-- obviously he's got to play a better third base than that if he's going to stick around or wherever else they use him if Jose Ramirez returns. But yeah, like I said, he moved back into my top 50 with the midseason update 39th.
But I do think Lombard is more like top 20 type prospect. Yeah, I'm not exactly sure where and now is going to play once. Jose Ramirez is in the lineup, assuming he doesn't go in the I.L. I guess there's still a chance that will happen. He didn't play again on Wednesday. But I mean, if J-RAM is back, you've got Brian Roqueo at shortstop. You have Travis Pazana at second. You have, I mean, Delauder, mostly D.H., he could play some corner, but they've been using PD Halpide in center field. So it's kind of hard to. Yeah. Yes. Yes, but I don't think they're on the verge of sending him back down, but his data doesn't look great. I guess he's been a little better since the All Starbreak 775 OPS, but it was a sub 700 OPS both in June and July, still getting on base a decent amount. I don't know. Yeah. I didn't think they're about to send him down. So that is the biggest hurdle for an Al is just, is there a spot for him every day? Yeah. If Ramirez is out, then there is. If not, it's a little iffy. Oh, my goodness. Gracious honorable mention, the battle for the National League MVP, Shohei O'Tani, up against PCA, and they both went yard twice, double-dong for O'Tani, double-dong for PCA. If you combine the hitter and pitcher F war for O'Tani, it is 6.7 and the updated number for PCA, 7.8. I think PCA is the favorite right now. Ship me. If O'Tani gets back on the mound and has like a two ERA in September, obviously things can change, but or if P Crohrm strong does what P Crohrm strong has often done and disappear for months, a month at a time. But he has been a marginally better hitter than Shohei O'Tani this season, just going by WRC plus, which accounts for the ballpark. He's been a much more valuable base runner. And look, I know the pitching 85 innings of a sub two ERA is incredible, but PCA, I'm showing by the numbers is putting up like an all-timer defensive season. He's already been worth like 24 runs by field and run value, I believe. He's like six runs north of any other outfield or something. So look, we can be skeptical about defensive stats, but I think PCA is the NL MVP front runner right now, which just goes to show you what an outstanding season he's having. Yeah, because we've often talked about and I think the results have shown that a two way O'Tani is, you could just pencil him in for him. How do you beat that? But Aaron Judge did with a historic offensive season, and I think rightfully. And if he Crohrm strong with a really good offensive season, obviously improved his on base percentage by 100 points over last year, at least to this point, season is not over yet. And he could disappear for a month, like I said. But right now, the numbers are what they are. And you add that superlative defense to it versus O'Tani's absent defense. And yeah, I think it makes a compelling case. You might go 3035, 3535, and win the platinum glove. Yeah. That is a perfectly fine MVP choice, even against Show Hey O'Tani. All right. Before we hit our first break, we're a minor two. Sign up for the FBT newsletter if you haven't already, especially this time of the year, on the stretch. You need all the help you can get your fantasy playoffs are coming. Obviously, you're trying to climb the rankings in your road o leagues as well. So that is CBS Sports.com/newsletters. You can scan the QR code if you're watching on YouTube. That will bring you right to the website where you could sign up for free. Let's take a break. And we'll be back right after this. Welcome back, fantasy baseball. Today, we have a lot of big news to get to here. We do finally have an Aaron Judge update. He has been cleared to begin light activities, which includes outdoor running and upper body resistance work. So he's still a ways away, but it is a step in the right direction. Judge was asked about returning the season. And he said, quote, oh, I'll be back this season. I don't know why I wouldn't be. That was always the plan to come back sooner than later, definitely, but I never had a thought of not playing this year. So positive update there on Aaron Judge. A negative update comes from Hunter Green, who was placed back on the aisle with a, with right elbow soreness. He will visit Dr. Neil Lattrage on Thursday and reminder that green had surgery earlier this year to have bone chips removed from his elbow. He has an extensive injury history. He obviously throws really hard. And I think this is really scary. He's had Tommy John surgery before. I do, you know, back when I, I think it was, did him and Spencer Schwalmbach on the, you have surgery like right around the same time I think this spring. I think I wrote about both of them. Schwalmbach actually had it in February, I think, and then great. It was before. Yeah. I think it was when Schwalmbach had his injury. I wrote, I looked back at, you know, some other pictures because, you know, you think bone chips. It's not as serious an injury, but, you know, I remember when Walker Bueller had his bone chip surgery. I want to say in 2022 or 2023, you know, he went through that process. And then as he was coming back, he ended up, I don't know if he injured the UCL or they discovered the UCL was injured, but he ended up having surgery for Tommy John. I think during his rehab for the bone spurs in surgery. So, you know, the elbow has a lot of moving parts. It's a complicated joint. And it's not always as clean as you hope. So there's always risk when you're having surgery. And yeah, it's concerning for sure. Jose Ramirez, as we mentioned earlier, he was out again on Wednesday with soreness in that surgically repaired left hand. I guess the good news is that he was not placing the I.L. yet. So we'll see with J. Ram. Freddie Freeman left early after being hit by a pitch on his hand. X-rays came back negative. Twins manager Derek Shelton said Joe Ryan will undergo further evaluation for a lower body injury. Apparently it's been affecting Ryan's delivery, which would explain his recent struggles. Jordan Walker has missed too straight with left knee inflammation. And we do have a bunch of Dodgers updates here. Blake's Nell's next start will come with the Dodgers in the majors. It looks like that will come on either Monday or Tuesday of next week in Kansas City. So I would be pretty scared to use Blake's Nell his first time out. But if it winds up being a two-start, I guess that would be hard with a six-man rotation. Yeah. I don't know. You just waited so long for Blake's Nell. Would you use him first time out next week? I mean, wasn't his one start this season really good? I have no idea. I want to say it was like five shut out. I know it's so long ago. I can't remember what it was. But I believe, oh no, it wasn't. It was bad. He gave up my foreign runs and three handings. Does that sway you? No, I don't know. But I would put it like, I'd rather not start him. I think so too. In a 15 team league, if I'm swapping him in for, I don't know, a Randy Vazquez or some, okay, fine, I'll start Blake's Nell. But my preference if I have alternatives that are actually decent, it would be not to start him. Tyler Glass now will make his next rehab start on Sunday and is expected to cover around three innings and 45 pitches. Dave Roberts said Dalton rushing has a, quote, "very small chance of being able to play catcher again this season." But the Dodgers are hopeful that he can serve as a left-handed option off the bench. And that pretty much kills his fantasy value for the rest of the season. So I think if you were holding on to Dalton rushing in a league with no or limited I.L. spots, I think you could probably just say goodbye to Dalton rushing. Trey Asavage was placed in the I.L. with left knee inflammation. Vlad Jr. was out of the lineup Wednesday as he's apparently dealing with hamstring tightness and other stuff. This one was weird. Like, just the vibes and the quotes around this were odd. I don't know what's going on, but it didn't seem like it was just like a hamstring injury. I don't know. I know he's been dealing with that back all off and on all season. It is a little suspicious, I think. Any time a player gets paid and then just like goes out here and just, look, maybe he's just been hurt all year and that's the reason. But man, he has just fallen so flat this year after an amazing postseason last season. It's very, very weird year all around for Vlad Jr. The Mets had a save opportunity in the 10th inning, but they did not use Devon Williams. It turns out he is dealing with mild arm fatigue, but is expected to be available on Thursday. We'll see about that. Mariners president Jerry DePoto said Kate Anderson will be a starter for the Mariners once he gets called up. I didn't think we didn't have any doubt about that, but I guess there is always a chance that when pitching prospects get called up, they are used out of the bullpen first. But especially since they have a starting fives. Right. Well, I, yeah, I, you said we didn't have any doubts about that. I'll admit I had some doubts.
I wrote it bad at a few times in the prospects report that hopefully they're willing to go six man still since they were before. But maybe since these young, they'll use them as a multi-enium relief for instead. So I'm encouraged to hear Jerry DePoto say that. And I don't know. Did he give any inkling as to the timetable for Kate Anderson? I didn't see anything on that. But just the fact he's acknowledging he will be up is I think pretty big. Oh, he's not going to be in the bullpen next year. Yeah. So, yeah, he didn't say when it's going to happen. I think the fact that it hasn't happened this week and just the mariner's kind of history of the way they handle things. I think they're probably going to wait until like mid to late August when he can preserve that rookie eligibility for next season. So. Hopefully that doesn't cost them a playoff spot. Yeah. Yeah, it's work. It's there. It was right before the trade deadline. I said, we're probably not going to see any major prospect promotions for the next two weeks. And we've seen like half a dozen since then. So I got my face again. But I think that does indicate that maybe teams are kind of shifting their thinking and like that outside chance in an extra draft pick. Is it really so worth pursuing that we're going to damage ourselves in the short term? Well, and especially that draft pick may not, you know, it might be two years before you you see it too. So there's part of that. I am looking at the mariner's schedule. They do have an off day every week for like the next three weeks. The next time they have more than six games in a row, I believe is like August 25th through September 3rd or something. Pencil it in. So, you know, they might be waiting for a stretch when they they have to get a six starter up. Or if someone gets hurt. Yeah, or if someone gets hurt, then it's yeah. But ultimately, look, we just don't know. It's all it's all blind speculation. It could be tomorrow. Yep. Hey, we got a Roman Anthony update. He took over hand pitching in the batting cage on Tuesday. He has been out since early May with wrist and finger injuries. It is pretty crazy to remind yourself what the Red Sox are doing and being the hottest team in baseball while missing Roman Anthony and Garcrochet. It's pretty pretty crazy stuff that they're doing. And remember when like Roman Anthony and Marcelo Meyer and Christian Campbell and Kyle Teal like, man, the Red Sox had this huge wave of prospects coming. And so far, the only one who's mounted to anything is Kyle Teal for another team. And even he hasn't. He's played like five games. He's hardly played this year. Yeah. Michael Garcia received a Cortezone injection and will be shut down for around five days before ramping up baseball activity. I should clarify, I'm still excited about Roman Anthony. And I think people in the game are two. I did some good stuff last year. Like he was, yeah, there's also much. However, Christian Campbell, and as we talked about at the trade deadline, Marcelo Meyer, you know, their, their value is, I mean, off a cliff. Yeah. It's, it's wild how far Christian Campbell has fallen. And they gave Campbell an extension, right? Yeah, I think it was like, it was like $30 million guaranteed or was it way more than that. I, no, that sounds. I think that's probably the ballpark, but 60 million, eight years, 60 million. Oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. What is the latest with Christian Campbell? He's hitting 247 with four homers, five steals and a 712 OPS at AAA. He's cooked. He's not cooking. I, I do not think that $21 million dollar option in 20, 20, 30 forest getting picked up. I don't think so. Andrew Painter left his start early with hamstring tightness. Dustin May is lined up to make his broer's debut Thursday against the pirates. The angels placed Sam Bachman on the IEL so he won't be part of the closer mix. That leaves Ben Joyce and left the Samy Nutera Jr. To pick up potential saves for the angels and the pirates released Marcelo Zuna. They selected the contract of Ronnie Simon, but it might be Simone. I should have looked into that. I have all these stats about him, but it probably doesn't matter anyway. Let's get to buy or sell. And first up, whenever he pitches, you know we got to talk about him. That is Paul Schienz. Another math start at the broer's five innings, two hits, three runs, four walks, six strike outs. He did have 16 whiffs on 93 pitches in this one, but that is back to back starts with four walks and updated numbers. Last eight starts for Paul Schienz. 26 ERA 151 whip. All of his ERA estimators are below 3.7 during that span. So he's a confounding pitcher. We talk about him all the time. Buy or sell. Paul Schienz should be ranked outside the top 10 starting pitchers rest of season. I guess I have to sell it because I just updated my rankings and he sixth for me. I moved him down to eight. Yeah, I haven't done it yet, but I think there's an argument for this though. I think the main thing preventing me is I'm not sure there is an obvious top 10 right now. I moved Jesus Lazardo into my top 10. I moved Dylan Season to my top 10. Gavin Williams, who the last few times we've talked about him, I said, well, he's he's top 20, but not top 10. I moved him up to 12 just because like who else? It's kind of thin at the top of the starting pitcher rankings right now. And so I think Schienz still belongs there, but my my concerns remain elevated. I mean, nothing's changed. I still have ways to expect he's dealing with something physically, but until he goes on the IL that just remains conjecture. So it's yeah, I had seen some talk, not from the team or anything, just speculation from fans that like, you know, maybe Henry Davis was part of the problem. He's not known as a great defensive catcher or a game collar, but Andy Rodriguez pitched today and it wasn't any better. So I don't know. I think. I don't know. I never want I really want to avoid overreacting. And the thing with Paul Schienz is if he goes out and his next start dominates and I've moved him down to 20th or whatever, I'm going to feel really stupid. Yeah. But he hasn't dominated in a while. And we do have a tangible thing that could explain it, the velocity being down and look at the almost nobody will ever have an ERA estimator of 626. You have to be good at absolutely nothing to put a number up that poorly, but you know, Schienz, all the year estimators are below 370. Okay. Well, 370 is not very good for a guy like Paul Schienz. So there's a clear diminishment of talent here. It's just a question of whether it's just a bump in the road or whether it's something more permanent. And I can't answer that question until I know one way or the other whether he's healthy. If he's healthy, then I assume he will be fine. But he might not be. And at this point, you know, it's gone on long enough that we can't just much as I might want to. We can't dismiss it anymore. So yeah, I've moved him down like Scott, he's number six. Yeah, I don't know. There's a lot of pictures with a lot of issues in that range and none of them are Paul Schienz. You know, none of them, like as bad as the eight starts have been, it was what, 80 starts before this that were as good as we've ever seen to start a career. Yeah. Eight starts isn't nothing, but it's a much smaller sample size. And I think it means more when it comes in conjunction with that velocity drop. Exactly. Yeah. That's what I was going to say. It's like not just performance. Yes. Well, the stuff actually looks different and not in a way that, you know, the effectiveness of the fastball by the data we could tell is still up there, but it just might be having a ripple effect effect on the rest of his arsenal as those stats that were tweeted out by codify after last start suggested with the change up. It's made his change up worse, seemingly. Yeah. So I have schemes at eight, but I, I seen argument for having him as low as 11. I could see having Ceece Gilbert and Lazardo all ahead of him the way those guys are pitching right now. So, yeah, I think it's a, it's a good number. Top 10. Good conversation with Paul Schienz. Let's talk about some of those red socks. Will you ever bring you another one? Two for three with a sock into shoe. His 20th home run. His seventh steal he now has nine home runs in the second half already, which is the most in baseball by yourself. Will you ever bring you top 36 outfield or rest of season? Yeah, I've got him right that way. Yeah. Yeah, I think he's, I think top 36 is fine. I originally had this as top 30.
30, but then it looks like that. - Yeah, I would have been sick. - Yeah, I've got him 31, I think. - I moved him up to 26 today in the outfield. - Probably a little lower in point. So I'm looking at Roto right now. I guess I have a little lower in points. - To me, that range is wide open. - Yeah, once you get asked the top plate. - 20 or 22, it feels wide open, so. - Yeah, I'm looking now, you know, I spent more time on starting pitcher than anything else. When I talked about updating my rankings earlier, I could definitely move a braille into the top 36 pretty easily, but I don't think in a way that, I don't think decisively, easily, but not decisively into the top 36. It's easy to say, okay, yeah, sure. He's the hotter of the AJ Ewing, Mickey Moniaki and Hap types right now, but is he definitively better? Will your braille, I, I, I wanna go that far. I mean, his, one of his best assets was that he had a very good pull air rate, and that's kinda gone away this year. Kinda makes sense, actually, given that he's a left handed hitter of Finway, but the batting average is, because he's been so hot, it's now decent. It's been, it was pretty low for most of the year. - Yeah, I mean, before this run, Frankie said nine homers since the All-Star break. So in the first half of the season, he was hitting 261 with like a 760 OPS. - Is batting average seven homers? - Down in the second half, it's only 219. So he's kinda selling out from power, yeah. But yeah, it's, you know, it's been a really nice, not even month, what, three weeks. And so I don't think anything about Will your braille has fundamentally changed. It's just he's in the 30 to 50 range among outfielders in general, and he's currently hot and some of them aren't. So rank him there, yeah. - All right, next up we have Sonny Gray, who was great against the White Sox, six shutout innings with H-Shrike out. He had 17 whiffs on 83 pitches. He leaned more on those breaking balls, which I think is always a good recipe for Sonny Gray, and those two pitches were awesome for him in this one. Nice to see him bounce back. He allowed four plus earn runs in each of his previous two starts, and he has a quality start in 10 of his last 12. Buy yourself Sonny Gray, top 30 SP rest of season. - Let's see, I don't think I have him rank that high, but it's not far. Sonny Gray, I have 38th, but I still have Framber Valdeza ahead of him. I know that seems stupid. It wouldn't take much to move Bryce Miller behind him, try his savage got hurt, so I should probably move him down. I move Gray up to 29, and that's another one. We're like, once you get past the top, let's say, 20, I don't know, 24, it feels pretty wide open as well at starting pitcher. - Yeah, I'm 26, about to be 25, once I move Hunter Green behind him. So I think I'm buying this from him. - He's just a promise to us. - He is just so weird. 'Cause like H-Shrike out some six innings today. - Okay, that's cool. Before that, he had 16 strikeouts in his previous four starts combined. Strikeouts had disappeared again, and he has been so hit or miss when it comes to missing bat. The production at like the ERA has been pretty consistent for the most part. He'll have a couple of bad starts, but actually his previous two starts before this were the first time giving up more than three runs since April 14th. But I just, I'm pretty sure Sonny Gray is pretty good. I don't really know what kind of good pitcher he is, though. That's the thing that I find the most frustrating about him. - I mean, it's only what, 15 years into his career, you're still trying to decide is Sonny Gray good or not. - I think he's pretty good. - Yeah, you know, 2000 innings of a 354 ERA. I'm pretty sure he's good. - Yeah. All right, let's take our final break. When we return, I have a few more by ourselves. We'll talk waiver wire ads, and we will do that right after this. Today I have a few more by or cells. And the next one up is Trevor Rogers, who was great up against the Angels six innings, two runs, nine strikeouts to zero walks. Last 11 starts, 228 ERA, one whip on the nose, 60 strikeouts over 67 innings, 12% swing strike rate. Pretty good number there for Trevor Rogers. By or sell? Trevor Rogers. That's it, by or sell. I mean, I'm more inclined to say sell than buy. I don't really have a good feel for why he's as good as he is when he's this good. And I don't have a good feel for why it goes so poorly for him. It's kind of, you know, now that it seems like Ron Herschware has legitimately leveled up, and you know, maybe not, right? That's, I know there's been a rough patch right here. He's dealing with, been dealing with that injury, but over the course of the last three seasons, Ron Herschware appears to have overcome the worst of his inconsistencies. And Trevor Rogers might be just stepping in there as the new version of that where the pitch mix doesn't really seem to change very much. The stuff profile doesn't really seem to change very much. It's just when he's executing, he can be really good and when he's not, he's terrible. And he just seems to get in a groove and pitch really well and he's done it often enough that I think you have to buy that there's something real there. But this is not a situation where like, the underlying numbers are great across the board and he's just had some inflated ERAs. Dundercliding numbers are kind of all over the place too. I have a really hard time figuring out who Trevor Rogers is at this point. But I think he's probably a sub-forigment ERA guy, probably not a sub-forigment. But he is a must-star pitcher right now, right? When he's going like this, you're just starting him now. I do think it's a good time to sell high though, just so you. So that, like, okay, it looks like a terrible pick at first or maybe you ended up picking him up off the waiver wire because he was such a terrible pick for whoever picked him. You're kind of playing with House Money here if we're worried that the other shoe could drop at some point. Like, go ahead and cash in. I think it's a good time to do that before your league trade deadline comes up if it hasn't already. All right, the last two names here on the list are Jose Altuvé and Christian Yellidge. Thank you for the memories. ♪ And I will remember you ♪ Jose Altuvé is actually coming off for straight multi-hit games. Even with that, he is hitting 244 with a 703 OPS on the season, still 88% rostered. And Christian Yellidge, last 30 games, 191, with a 618 OPS, he has started against just three of the last 10 lefties that the brewers have faced. And he is 90% rostered, he is Util only, buy or sell. Both names are dropable. Not that you have to drop them, but they are dropable. Buy. Yeah. I think that's totally reasonable. Couple guys in their mid 30s, the data for Yellidge is much worse, obviously, he's had tumultuous career with all the back stuff. And then Altuvé was showing signs of decline, maybe faint signs of decline, even prior to last, to this year. And it's just continued, I think. Like Chris was saying earlier, like I was saying yesterday, we're in August, I think you're still waiting around for a player. I'm not saying you can't do that, but if it was me and I could get production right now, I'd probably do that instead. Yeah, I mean, at that point, I think the brewers have to be having discussions about whether this is one of their best hitters when the playoffs come around. I mean, against lefties, I don't think there's any question. You'd rather just have Andriy Vaughan in your lineup, but you know, push comes to shove. It is Christian Yellidge a better hitter than Andriy Vaughan at this point in their careers. I'm not 100% certain that's the case anymore. Again, fortunately, they own $52 million over the next two years. Rough one there for Christian Yellidge. All right, let's wrap up with some waiver wire names from Wednesday's action. And we will start with the pitchers. And I have, we'll start with some streamer types, Bryce Elder, he is picking things back up, seven innings, one hit, one run, but only three strikeouts, only four whiffs. Two earn runs are fewer in four straight. Looks like he lines up for two against the Metz and the D-backs next week. Andriy Palante, pitch well at the Yankees, five and a third, one run, four strikeouts, did have 13 whiffs on 103 pitches. And he has one starting against the Phillies next week. Christian Scott might be more than just a streamer type. I know the final line here wasn't great, but he had 15 whiffs on 96 pitches. And the velocity was up. I didn't really see under the hood what went wrong for Christian Scott here. So I'm still kind of intrigued by him. And he gets the nationals and the braze next week in a two-star week. So can I interest you in any of these three streamer types?
for next week. I think they're fine streamers. Even Elder at this point, I think it's okay to talk about streaming him. In fact, we did for this very start yesterday. And it worked out. I don't think Elder is. I still don't think he's as good as his current ERA because he's still. He got such an early advantage with that long stretch he was on, but he has changed his approach after a rough patch, kind of leaning more into his ground ball tendencies, fading the slider, which was his best swing of mispitch. Actually, through a lot of cutters in this one. And that seemed to work. So he's. I think he's kind of at this point, somebody you can treat as a poor man's Andre Palante, which isn't exactly a ringing endorsement, but it means, okay, with the right matchup, Elder is someone you could think about streaming. And I like. You start next week. You know, versus the match. Yeah. versus Arizona. Arizona is not a great matchup, but I think you feel okay about that. Certainly, in any point, until he's worth streaming. And I think in a lot of road eliques, he's okay too. The D-backs lineup has actually slowed down. Could tell Marta really bad over the last 30 days. And the meds over that want Soto. So yeah, that. We can't get work. Scott has the most upside. Christian's got of these three. I think pretty clearly he's done a good job missing bats. The problem is how much can you chase upside at this point when he's only had one six inning start? I think that keeps him in streamer territory as well. If he went on to have a huge September, it wouldn't be the biggest shock, but I'm not. I'm not placing a high priority on that in Christian's got right now. Yeah, I think it's probably. He has two starts next week. You can expect 10 innings, 4 on runs, and 12 strikeouts from him. And the problem is, anytime you're only pitching five innings, it doesn't take a lot for things to go wrong. Yeah. Kind of like today, right? It's like he pitched well. If he went six innings and it's three runs, seven strikeouts, that looks a lot better, but three runs over five. I mean, even three runs over six is not great. I know we call it a start, but you get a call. You get a point league. That helps. He just doesn't have that really. That's just not really in the cards for him. Point leagues is where you want to start pitchers the most, and that's probably Christian's got's worst format too. Yeah. Three interesting starts in deeper leagues. Jacob Lopez of the athletics, I believe, sleeper for all of us coming into the season. It obviously has not worked out, but he now has eight plus strikeouts and back to back starts. He has a 176 ERA over his last three, taking a look at the next name up. We have Cody Bradford, who looked pretty good in his return from Tommy John surgery, four and a third shutout innings, five strikeouts, reminder of what he did last year in 14 games, 354 ERA 101 Whip. He does not throw hard at all. In fact, he does the opposite. It's like an 88 mile per hour fastball, but it's a really good change up from the left hand side. It looks like he lines up for two starts next week. Then Mitch Bratt, an awesome start here against the Padres. Awesome line. Seven shutout one hit three walks, nine strikeouts, only eight whiffs on 92 pitches. Great start for a lower end prospect of note here. Chris, can I interest you in any of these three deep league names, Mitch Brad, Cody Bradford and Jacob Lopez? I think Lopez is very interesting. Remember, he had a two month stretch last year where he had like a 250 ERA over 12 starts. It was almost 11 K-Prinine if I'm remembering correctly. There's a lot of Andrew Abbott to him where he's got this crossfire delivery and what makes Jacob Lopez work when he's working is that he's just kind of a weird pitcher. His pitches don't move the way you expect them to. Baseball Savant has this fun feature on their player pages where they've got the little bubbles behind the players. Pitch scatter plot, I guess, that shows what the pitch types move like typically and his move way differently than the typical versions of each pitch. That works. That's weird. That helps. I think when he's locked in and he's starring strikes and he's healthy because last year ended with an elbow injury, I think Jacob Lopez can be pretty good and he's been really good over his past four starts. No six ending starts. That'd be something nice to see. Obviously, his home park is going to hurt him as well, but he's got. Let me see. Raising Rangers in a two-star week next week, I think Jacob Lopez should be definitely more rostered than 14%. I'm not going to say it should be 100% because it shouldn't, but if he got to 50% rostered for a two-star week against the Raising Rangers next week, I wouldn't think that was too high. I was very excited about Lopez at the start of the year and I held on to him probably longer than anyone else did. He's kind of a gimmick with his funky delivery, this fastball that has a very low induced vertical break. The thing about gimmicky pitchers is they can look like aces. But when the gimmick slips, while we saw what happened to Lopez, the gimmick seems to be back, though. gimmick seems to be back. He's been throwing a lot more cutters. I noticed these last two outings with the combined 17 strikeouts, which I think has helped to elevate the fastball, not literally elevated, but make it better. And he's looking like he did down the stretch last year. So, small sample and obviously big downside risk, but I think if you're interested in Christian, if you're interested in Christian Scott, and he's already gone in your league, then Lopez is somebody you could look at in a similar vein. Any thoughts on Cody Bradford? I know he was someone we kind of liked last year. He was pitching very well for the Rangers. He's got a really good change up. And he also lines up for two next week at the Angels and at the athletics. Yeah. So he was somebody I had just entirely put out of my mind and I saw him in the box score today and I was like, exactly what I think it is. Because I mean, going back two years ago, when he joined the Rangers rotation with the league control, as he said, career 1.7 walks per nine, career 1.7 walks per nine. Very, very good control. And we contact on in the air. Most of it was what we saw from him two years ago. So that led to massive whip upside. And on his rehab assignment coming back from Tommy John, five starts down there, 225, a 108 whip 12 strikeouts per nine through 69% of his pitchers for strikes. So you'd expect 15% swing strike rate. And then he comes back and you know, looks really sharp for four and a third innings. So I'm interested. I don't know that I could in most leagues make a make a spot for Cody Bradford on my roster yet. I don't even know like, why did he start today? Did they have an opening? Or was it just kind of a spot start deal? I don't even know. Like I said, I was surprised to see him in the box score. I guess he's in. Yeah. Let's see how the next one goes for Danny Bradford time. And Cal Quantra on the rotation. So there's room. Yeah. I'm intrigued. It sounds like Jordan, Montgomery is getting close to MacKerson. Oh, they put Mackenzie Goron the paternity list. So that opened up. Oh, yeah. Okay. So maybe I do was say, but I think Cody Bradford has more pride. I already then cow control though. Well, yeah, he's better than Quantra. And I was a decent guy. I'm a Montgomery will as well. But yeah, Quantra has not been terrible. But I would think yeah, Montgomery and Bradford both get priority over him. I do want to point out before we move. I don't think Mitch Bratt is totally without interest as well. I don't think he's great. But he had some pretty interesting minor league numbers last year, especially he was getting a ton of strikeouts. But even this year, it was like 25% strikeout rate at AAA. 9% swing. He's straight grade though. Yeah. That's not great. But I think the thing I'm most interested about is he's 3% rostered. And he's got the Rockies on the road, not in course fields. The Rockies in Arizona. And then add Atlanta. That's not great. But honestly, it's Atlanta's so hit or miss that it's hard to know if that's a good matchup or not. I don't think it's a good matchup. But you know, two-star week versus the Rockies add Atlanta. I don't think that's the worst one in a point league. I don't know if I could do it in a certainly not a 12-team road o league. But I think Bratt could be a sneaky streamer in a point league. How would you guys rank those three? Because I think they're all kind of interesting in their own way. Bratt, Bradford and Jacob Lopez. Um, Lopez, Bradford and Bratt is the way I would go. Yeah. I agree. All right. I do have just quick three waiver wire hitters to mention here. Andy Rodriguez, another day, another Homer. He keeps making things happen. Back to back games with the Homer. He has started seven of 10 games since being activated. And during that stretch, he has nine hits, two homers and four steals 21% roster. I think that number should be higher. I think definitely in two catcher leagues. I think if you might be desperate in the back end of a one catcher league where
You know, Andy Rodriguez is playing very well right now. He's getting lots of opportunities. So we talk about him a lot, but this is just another reminder for Andy Rodriguez. This next name, I kind of feel like, it's more of like a wait and see, like just pay attention to see if this goes anywhere, but Lawrence Butler has looked better in the second half. He had his seventh home run, 18 games post all star break, 264, two homers, one steal, and 835 OPS, he's hitting the ball a lot harder, and he's got the ground ball rate way down. So I don't think we need to act on it yet, but just something to watch with Lawrence Butler, and then a very deeply named Tim Tawa of the D-Backs, three for four with his sixth home run, and over his last 22 games, he's hitting 300 with five homers, 18 RBI, and an OPS over 800, hitting the ball really hard during that stretch as well. He's playing a lot. He has first, second, third, outfield eligibility. I think if you play in like a 15 team Roto League with that eligibility, I think Tim Tawa, someone that could be useful. - Sure. - Yeah. - We've had interest in him before, and he's hot, and he has, he's multi-eligible. I guess the biggest problem, oh no, sorry, he is playing every day. - Yeah. - Yeah. - He has started eight straight and 15 of 16. - Look, I want to take him over to Zekiel Duran or anything if you're looking for a versatile end-fielder, who's hot, but. - Even Willie Cash try would take over him too, but. - Yeah. - But sure. - Tawa's worth bringing up. - Some leftovers here, and it turns out, these two pictures are human after all. Sean Burke, four and a third, innings two runs, two walks, four strikeouts. The velocity was down a little bit on the breaking stuff here in this start, and he was going up against a buzz on the red socks, but his previous eight games, he was awesome. So I think it's, we'll give Sean Burke a mulligan. I think he's earned that. And Yuri Perez, not at his best at the Braves, five innings, four runs, did have nine strikeouts, had 18 whiffs on 91 pitches. He did not have his sinker working, but he threw it a lot more. So I was like, all right, if it's not working, why don't we try something else? But yeah, first start with more than three-earned runs since May 17th, so. - And it was one bad ending, really. I think he had three-earned runs in the second inning. - I didn't really see too much to be concerned about here, mostly because it's only two walks. And when things have gone poorly for Yuri Perez, this season, it's mostly been the control letting him down, and that has remained very, very good for him since, I mean, really right before the injury, but especially since he came back. So I think it's only one start with more than two walks since he came back from the injury. I would say my concern level for both of these guys is very, very low, but obviously, neither has a super long track record, but Burke doesn't have the pedigree, I think, or the raw talent that Yuri Perez has. So I'm less, less bought in on him, but I'm still pretty bought in. - All right, some other pitching leftovers, Brian. Woo! Another great start at home. Sefin shutout innings, five strikeouts. I mean, this home road thing, it just has to be like a mental thing at this point for Brian Woo. The updated splits, 196 ERA in 10 home starts, 671 ERA in 12 road starts. Hunter Brown turned in a quality start against the blue J, six innings, three hits, three runs, eight strikeouts. He was actually cruising. He had five shutout innings, and then he gave up a two run homer in the six innings, so that kind of messed up his line here, but he did look much better before that. His last couple starts have been better, so that's a good sign for Hunter Brown. It's got any thoughts on Brown or Brian. Woo! - I mean, the main thing, my main thought about Woo is what you already pointed out with the home was splits, and I think we're to a point with him where you get got a seriously considered benching him on the road. At least in shallow reliefs. Hunter Brown, he pretty much seems back. Last three starts, it combined four walks. The previous three were combined 15. And I think that pretty much explains the turnaround right there. Yeah, must start Hunter Brown. - Couple of there pitching left over, show to Emanaga solid outing against the Dodgers, five innings, one run, six strikeouts. His last seven starts, he's back on, 177 ERA, 118 whip for Emanaga, Nick Martinez. He puts together a strong bounce back at the Colorado Rockies, five and two thirds shutout, four strikeouts, zero walks. But you know what we say about Nick Martinez. - He can't keep getting away with this. He can't keep getting away with that. He won't, he won't. - But he does. And then Tanner Bobby, he felt one out short of a quality starting against the meds, but had 10 strikeouts in that 117 whip on 98 pitches. Chris anything to add on Bobby, Nick Martinez, and Emanaga. - Yeah, I don't know where that, the heck the strikeouts came from from Tanner Bobby because I've kind of given up on him having any kind of strikeout upside and look, at major league pitchers are all good. I think Bryce Elder had an 11 strikeout start last year when he was like the worst pitcher in baseball. So these things can happen, and I don't think Tanner Bobby is anywhere close to the worst pitcher in baseball. I just think he's not anywhere close to the best pitcher in baseball either. I think he's like the 70th best pitcher in baseball. And that's fine, that's useful. It's nice to have around, but he's not a difference maker. Martinez, I mean, the control is so good that you will occasionally see these stretches from super elite control pitchers where they just way outperform their peripherals. It's probably not sustainable, but I have a little more confidence in this than Eduardo Rodriguez, or who's the other one? Brandon Fought, and a Fought's control has been very good lately, but I don't, Nick Martinez has a better track record in that regard too. So I certainly don't think he's nearly as good as he's looked so far this season, but I'm just gonna ride it until it stops working. - All right, so I'm hitting leftovers. Max Muncie of the Dodgers hit his 20 second home run, but I have noticed he's sitting more against left ease lately. He has set out against four of the past six lefties, not really sure why he has an 848 OPS against left ease this season, but, you know, I guess keep that in mind if there's a week with a lot of lefties in the schedule. Brendan Nimmo is picking things up two for three with a walk in his 12th home run. I shouldn't say picking things up. He's actually just been good for quite a while now. Last 46 games, 309 batting average, five homers, four steals, and OPS over 850, Junior Caminaro. Caminaro. Ah! Ah, Caminaro. One for three with his 33rd home run, and he has enjoyed his series in Corsfield. Three homers, five RBI, and he's up to, yeah, 33 home runs, like I said. Luis Arise hit his first home run with the Phillies, and just a reminder that Statcast did like Arise in Citizens Bank Park quite a bit. So hopefully more of that to come, and it is another game for Bryce Harper in the outfield. So we need three more there. He collided with, I can't remember who was playing center field, but there's a collision out there. So already, already off to a little rocky start there. Yeah, that's gonna take a little bit of time. Dylan Dingler hit his 25th home run. He has three home runs in his past five games. He is amazing, and Julio Rodriguez hit his 17th home run. He's been okay since returning from injury, but this is Julio's time to shine the summer month. So we need a big final two months. If we want Julio to get to the numbers, we expected coming in, which right now. Like we always do, and he's always done. Doesn't mean he always will, but it's been amazing. Like clockwork every season has played out that way. The only one that didn't, he was injured for most of the second half. But for the time he was healthy, I think he was still great. And he was injured in July, right? He had a concussion. Concussion this year. So I just wonder maybe that could kind of lie wasn't great, but he's, he's raking in August so far. I think he has, was it six walks to two strikeouts? I think so far in August. It's pretty good. All right, the call to the bullpen for the Cubs. Jacob Webb got the ninth inning with a one run lead, and he picked up his sixth save. So he is gaining more confidence, more traction there. For the Orioles this time, it was Giniar Kanau in the eighth. He struck out two and Andrew Kitchwich in the ninth. And he picked up his fifth save. So looks like a mix and match between those two right now. That's so annoying because the literal day before it was Kanau in the ninth Kitchwich in the eighth, and Kitchwich gave up a run. Yep. And so it's like, okay, well, I think you gotta give Kanau the edge here. And of course they go to Kitchwich in the next hour. And it's just, I think you just gotta avoid it until - Kitchwich. - Get rid of this. For the Reds, Emilio Pagano picked up his 13th save for the Braves, Rice Illaglaceus was unavailable. DDA Fwentis picked up his second save for the Cardinals, Riley O'Brien picked up his 27th save for the Orioles, Stephen Cruz got the ninth with a one run lead. He struck out one for his third save. And he now has three of the last four saves for the Orioles. And he is only four percent rostered. So if you are in a deeper league and you need saves, Stephen Cruz is your guy. - Yep. Cruz control. I'd never have.
that the three of the last four for the Royals and Lang, I think his last appearance game in the sixth inning of a game and he's been awful lately anyway. So I think the trend is strongly pointing toward Stephen Cruz, who is widely available, as he said. All right, for the brewers, Trevor McGill picked up his 20th save and for the Mariners, Andris Munoz picked up his 20th save of the season. To stream or not to stream on Thursday, we have branded young against the Angels, Andrew Abbott against the Athletics, Dustin May in his brewers debut against the Pirates. David Peter sitting against the Blue Jays, Luis Castillo at the Red Sox, Martin Perez against the Marlins, Billy Ober at the Royals, Cole Drake, home against the Padres. Dustin May probably at the top of the list. I don't mind David Peterson, Luis Castillo, I don't want to do it. I can see Andrew Abbott having a good start. I think branding young against the Angels would be at the top of my list. And I will, I'll say Martin Perez, it worked out with Bryce Elder. And Perez is coming off as best start of the season. That Marlins offense looks pretty awful right now. So yeah, I don't mind that one. I will choose Brandon Young, Dustin May and Andrew Abbott in that order for Thursday. And then on Friday, we have Zach Thorin at the Pirates, Tyler Phillips is home against the Angels. We have Connor Prelipp at the Brewer, Shane Drow and home against the Twins, Shane Bosat, the Rangers, Kyle Lacey, home against the Rockies, Ronaldo Blanco at the Padres. Marlkelli has looked a little better lately, but he gets the Dodgers and then Kader Monterey at the Giants. I think at the top three here is pretty strong. Drowing against the Twins, Lacey against the Rockies, Bosat, the Rangers. I wouldn't mind Kader Monterey either, but I do really like Drowing and then Lacey especially first game away from course field for the Rockies. That's a good spot to target them. Yeah, agree with all that. Drowing, Lacey and Bosat would be my top three. I think Motterey is interesting, especially that Giants line up there throwing out there right now. And Zach Thorin at the Pirates, the Pirates are much worse against lefties than they are against righties. So I could see Zach Thorin having a good start there as well. We are going to wrap there. For Scott Chris, I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning into Fantasy Baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five star rating on Apple or Spotify and we will do back again tomorrow. Bye bye. [Music] Paramount Podcasts. Hello and welcome to Pluto Fall. If you know the name of the movie you'd like to see, just stream it for free on Pluto TV. We're all your blockbuster favorites are landing all summer law. Catch anchor man, the legend of Ron Burgundy. Fantastic. The Matrix trilogy. Welcome to the real world. Mean Girls. Side up. I'm the key in the world. And so much more for showtime. Press nothing. They're free 24/7. That is so fast. On Pluto TV, stream now. Pay never.
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