Fill in the Blank Rankings Edition! Lots O Interesting Pitching! (6/26 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

[MUSIC] >> Happy, welcome up Friday and welcome in. Some fantasy baseball today on June 26th. I am Frank Sample, joined by Scott White and Chris Towers to be on the show, Junior Caminero, not one, not two. Three homers here on Thursday will do fill in the blank rankings addition and the guardians are finally calling up Cooper Engle. We'll break it all down. There's only one place to start and sing it with me. >> Caminero, come in,ero. >> Junior Caminero for three, three for six with a triple dong, six RBI, third homer off of a position player. But when I got to talk about that one, we were waiting for a breakout game. He's been solid all season, but here we are. Now up to 19 home runs on the season. Walking a lot more of this season, the OVP has been a really, really strong here for Junior Caminero. And I did just want to highlight this. I've kind of gone on an apology tour in recent weeks and it hurts gotten apology. Junior Caminero, I was worried about how he would fare in Tropicana field this year. He's actually been amazing in Tropicana and he's been terrible on the road. Not terrible, but he's been worse on the road. So I didn't want to highlight that. I was wrong about that. He's been really good at home and now has 19 home runs in his first 78 games last year, 20 home runs in his first 78 games. So basically right where he was that last year, Scott, is your guy, Caminero, fill in the blank. He will hit blank home runs rest of season. >> He will hit 26 home runs last season. >> No. >> That same number, 45, two years in a row. >> He's going to get hot in the summer months. >> Yeah, baby. >> Let's do it. >> Yeah, to come. It's good as he's already been. Now, I mean, he's been, I think he's better. I think he's just doubling the walk rate. Makes him a better player than he was last year and he was historically good last year. And I don't know. I mean, that take that you gave about him, leaving Steinberger field very hitter friendly for Tropicana, where sometimes there are side issues. You aren't the only one to have that opinion. >> Oh, no. Some people take it much further. >> It seemed like it was trying too hard to me because it would be different if Caminero was this out of nowhere stud. Nobody saw him coming. And then he had like the most home runs ever for a 21 year old, right? And then he does something like that. Okay, yeah, there's a lot of reason to think he's just a product of his environment. But Caminero for, you know, last couple of years in the miners was in contention to be the top prospect in baseball, monster exit velocities. Like it made sense that he would do something like that as a player so young. And clearly it's continued. >> Well, and I'd also just add that the reason Steinberger field was such a good place to hit last season was because of the impact it had on power. And that actually wasn't why Junior Caminero was good at home last season. Or at least that wasn't why he was better at home than on the road. He had 22 homers and 77 games at home. He had 23 on the road. >> Yeah, that's something we were pointing out at the time. Those of us who believed. >> Yeah, the difference was he had a 197 Babib on the road and a 324 Babib at home. So there were reasons to not even, I don't even know if be concerned was the right way to put it. But just it was an unanswered question how he would hit at Tropicana field just because Tropicana field specifically is a weird place to hit. It causes fastballs to move differently than they do in other places. Strike out rates are much higher than there. It's just there are reasons to think to have concerns about anybody who's going to hit half their times at court at Tropicana field. But there was never a real reason to think that Junior Common Arrow was being propped up by Steinbrenner field last season. That narrative was just looking at surface level data. The way he hits the ball was going to play power wise anywhere. And it was just a question of whether the contact skills would hang on and clearly they have. And I think he's a superstar. Let's think what the Tampa Bay Ray's got the pitcher, the boat pitcher in this one. Looks really good. He was unhittable. He was literally unhittable. I mean, everyone on the Ray's was until they brought in freaking Craig Kimberl for the night thenning for whatever reason. That was something. Well, because it was 13 to nothing. That's why they brought Craig Kimberl in. He combined no hitter that everyone would remember forever. It was ruined. Yeah, no, Ian Seymour. Ian Seymour is actually the Ray I want to talk about even though he spent just 10 minutes talking about Common Arrow and related subjects. But Seymour, 6 and 2/3 and 6 and 2/3, no hit innings. Strike out 7. 12 lifts on 90 pitches. Coming into the game, he had a 13.2% swing strike rate, which is very, very good. Average exit velocity coming into this game, 87.8, which is very good. Very high fly ball rate, which when you're giving up weak contact, like he does, is a very good trick. The way he summed up this start, Ian Seymour said, when you control the count and throw in the strike zone, good things happen. He entered with 4 walks per 9 about. He was having trouble with walks there and did better with that. That's how he starts out. But this is how he finishes the statement. It comes down to the reps that longer outings allow you to have. From a delivery standpoint, you just feel a little more crisp. I think that's noteworthy because Ian Seymour is a pitcher who across five minor league seasons put together a 253 ERA, a 102 Whip and 11k per 9. Fantastic production. Wasn't much of a prospect because he throws like 91. So it feels kind of like Joe Ryan when he was coming up through the race system. I know Joe Ryan throws a little harder now, but he was dominating like this with velocities that low. That Quattro, the Royals manager, said he's deceptive. The ball gets on you pretty quickly. He did a good job of mixing it, kept us off the barrel. I think we were looking. I think when we were looking soft, he went hard and vice-first. He pitched exceptionally well. So Seymour, coming off this dominant minor league career, comes up to the majors. It was pretty well last year for the time he was starting. Move to the bullpen this year. It doesn't do very well. He wasn't much of a prospect. Easy to write him off. But by his own point of view, he just works a lot better as a starter. And so far, all the evidence we've seen of Seymour in the majors supports that. And I know he technically relieved in this one. But the idea is he's finishing it to the starting roll. I think he got up to 90 pitches, right? That's the thing that I think is most interesting here. And that's why they didn't let him finish out the no hitters because this is as far as he's been stretched out to. But it shows that they're willing to stretch him out as I think you think Chris. And that's what I was going to say is that unlike with Shane McClanahan, where the pitch count has been pretty consistently low all season. Seymour in the four starts, only two of them are actual starts, but they're starts. He's pitching a starter's workload. He's gone 55, 72, 81, 90 pitches. That suggests to me that the rays are going to at least give him that chance to get to 90 pitches. Nobody gets 200 pitches regularly for the rays. I don't even think Jurassicson's done it more than a couple of times this season. And he's kind of the one guy they're giving the starter treatment to. But they're not just pulling him at 80 pitches. And they're letting him get up. And so that's the key distinction where if it's only 80 pitches, man, things have to go right, really right for you to get to six innings. And that's why Shane McClanahan has only gone to six innings twice. If they're going to let you go 90, which Jurassicson has done eight times and 15 starts and a couple of other times has gone 85, that's when, okay, you don't need everything to go right to get six innings. You just have to have a good start. And if we think he and Seymour's a good starter, then he can get to six innings at least somewhat regularly. So that's like, Shane McClann in hand is a better pitcher than Ian Seymour, but Ian Seymour might have a chance to be more of a six inning guy than Shane McClann in hand has been so far this season. I don't know that I even agree, Shane McClann in hand is a better pitcher than Ian Seymour. I mean, it depends what you mean by pitcher. He was a better talent than Seymour, clearly. I don't know that with the diminished velocity, he has, he's a better pitcher than Seymour, because I think Seymour is like Quattara said, excellent pitcher, despite not having that raw stuff. And I think this is the warning shot. I think now that he's established, or at least getting established, appears he is established now with this start. I think we're going to see him produce closer to he did in the minors, which again was awesome. Yeah. And just last year, you mentioned he did make five starts in those starts, 316-ERA 105-Wip, and over a strike operating 10.9 K-Pernine in those five starts last year. Well more of a strike up, or any? Yeah, I liked him a lot this off season. I was pretty bummed that they did not start him in the rotation, but now they're starting to transition him over. And they've just done really good work with that in previous years, too. With all the Drew Rasserson was a reliever. Doing an hour Griffin jacks, he's looked really good too. So I'm excited. He's 14% rostered in Seymour. He is RP eligible for those in head to points leagues. What do we do with this? Is he just at him in all points leagues, at him in deeper category leagues for now? What do you think? I think he's probably the most exciting ad since trying to think gauge jump. I mean, gauge jump still out there in some leagues, especially platforms other than CPS. And look, Seymour's behind gauge jump, but it's been kind of a dry spell on the waiver wire for pitchers recently with the exception of jump. Who is the Red Sucks guy? We talked about Jake Bennett. I think Seymour is much more likely to be impactful than Jake Bennett, even though there are some signs I like there with Bennett. What about someone like Sean Burke, who's popped up recently and looked good, velocity being up? Yeah, I mean, I don't trust Burke's success so much. I understand why he might be a higher priority off the waiver wire than Seymour right now. He has a good two-start week coming up too. But if we're starting over and we're not looking at matchups and we're just kind of predicting they have the same job security, all of that, I would like Seymour more. So, I would say in terms of how roster he needs to be, it's about on equal footing with Burke. All right, Chris, let's go over to you. Again, there were a lot of interesting pitching performance here. Todd, do you get me? Double digit strikeouts in two straight. What are we thinking here? I am inclined to believe that this is for real. Now he's not going to strike out 10 matters every time out. But I thought that's who you and I was going to be pretty good this season. And then he got to the start of the season was just absolutely awful. But I think we have a pretty good explanation for why he just wasn't comfortable in, you know, playing in the majors, living in a new country, all that stuff. Like, that's a perfectly reasonable explanation for why a guy would get off to a bad start. And he looks a lot more comfortable lately. You know, the month of June for the most part has been very good. There was one disaster start in there where he didn't get out of the first inning. That needs to be kept in mind. But he's looked a lot more comfortable. The past few starts, you know, past five or six, let's say, he's during a lot more strikes. What's tough is this is not a case where he's dramatically changed up his profile. And that we've talked a lot about lately, how that is it's easier to buy into on a in on a pitcher breaking out when they've changed something. Throwing harder, throwing different pitches, that is always going to be easier than just while he's just pitching better because well, who's to say he's going to continue pitching better. But in my case, we do have that comfort level. You know, it's it's literally a different baseball that they're throwing in Japan versus the United States. It's different routines. He talked about, you know, he wasn't used to when guys eat before the game in America. It's a completely new environment. Everything is new for him. So I am inclined to believe that this is more indicative of who types of emi is than what we saw early on, especially because he's such a weird pitcher that I think just getting to competent, like competency plus weird could be really good for him. And that was kind of my thought process on him coming into the season. So there's a little confirmation bias here, right? I believe Tetsuya, I was going to be good. Now that he's looking good, I'm inclined to believe it. But I think we have a good explanation for why he's starting to figure it out. That slider is just weird. Like you look at the arsenal and you say, well, it's four seamer slider. Basically, that's it. 96% of his pitches today were forcing her slider. He's a very different type of pitcher, but it's giving me a little bit of Justin Steel vibes, where yes, Justin Steel was also basically a two pitch pitcher. But within those two pitches, there were kind of four or five different pitches, right? He had the slider, but he would occasionally just throw out like a cutter. He would occasionally throw out like a sweeper. He had the four seamer that he would cut occasionally, you know, depending on who he's facing, but part of the strike zone he was throwing it in, those pitches could look different. And Emy, it's mostly just the slider, but the slider is really weird. Some of the time it looks like a kind of like a traditional gyro slider. Sometimes it looks like a splitter or a change up or I guess a screw ball, if you want to go that direction because that pitch moves so much to the arm side that it's been really effective against both varieties and lefties in a way that you don't necessarily expect a slider to do. It's better against varieties, but it's doing the job against lefties. So it's a two pitch pitcher, not sure if the fastball is great, but if he commands it well, I think it'll be okay. But that slider effectively works the way multiple pitches and other pitchers are some of us to. So I do think this can work for him. I'm not saying touch of Emy is just a super star forever now, but I'm inclined to buy into him showing that he's figuring it out. Well, for what it's worth, he did point to a couple of things. He thinks he's improved upon. And it seems like he's talking about tunneling, which can be a little harder to quantify, but he talked about how he's done a better job of making his slider look like a fastball. He also says he's had to learn to make a rising fastball. His fastball was never considered that much of a weapon on its own, so maybe that's something Houston's been working with them on. But I mean, for all that fancy analysis, it really doesn't have to be any more complicated than he has 21 strikeouts to one walk over his last two starts. Yeah, the biggest pitcher to come out of the international market this season. And now the last two starts, he's been that dominant. So, you know, I said we've been going through a dry spell here at starting pitcher. I talked about how Ian C. Moore was a good pick up. Emy isn't even better pick him. He's only 46% roster right now. He's to me, he seems like a must coming off these two starts. Yeah, look, you guys have talked a lot about him. My biggest question remains like, is there enough? That slider is truly a unique weapon as you talked about Chris. I just don't know if there's enough else, right? Like maybe he doesn't need anything else. Like if that pitch is just that dominant, but I do worry about the fastball, especially like the command of the fastball. But you mentioned it last two starts 12 innings, three runs, 21 strikeouts to just one walk here for Emy. Scott, you answered the question. Emy over see more Chris. Would you go to me as well? Yes. If I throw Jake Bennett and Sean Burke in that mix, tattoo Emy still at the top. Yeah. Jake Bennett and Sean Burke. I think Burke versus Emy is close, but I'm fine with going Emy over Burke. All right, before we get our first break, reminder that the week 15 previews, Scott's articles will be up on Friday. So you can check out sleeper hitters, two star pitchers, and our FBT express episode on Saturday, previewing week 15 will be out around 8 a.m. Eastern time. So be on the lookout for that both on YouTube and in your audio podcast feeds. Let's take a break and we'll be back right after this. Yes. I'm going to the top of the list. What's this? The white, white, white, white. Oh, look at that. I'm going to put this on my phone, but I don't know if you can see it. Welcome back fantasy baseball today and we have prospect news. The guardians are promoting Cooper Ingle on Friday, 24 year old catcher. prospect likely to place him outfield some DH with the Guardians 51 games at AAA. This season 284 batting average 416 on base 12 homers 41 RBI 9 67 OPS really good eye at the plate 19% walk rate. He is 6% rostered. Scott, what are your thoughts here on Cooper Eagle? Feels like a must add in two catcher leagues. Where would just lot of minutes of your catcher rankings as well. He probably be around 20th. So I'd say he has a ways to go to matter in one catcher leagues to be worth picking up there. And we don't know how much he's going to play yet. So that factors into it. If he's an everyday player and he hits well enough that he justifies being an everyday player, then that's a guy who can move way up at the catcher rankings. Love the plate discipline for Cooper Eagle. He has a a line drive stroke that I think is going to help the batting average play up. Doesn't have a lot of raw power. The hardest hit ball we have data on in his minor league career, which really just his time at AAA between this year and last 107.2. So the average exit velocity, it was 89.3 this year. That's not bad. But there isn't like that high end power that makes me trust Cooper. Incles going to be a reliable source of home runs. He does elevate well to his pull side. So that helps. But this could go to Luke Keishel route where even though he was doing that well in the minors, may not necessarily do it well in the majors. And then is he impactful enough with the bat to to be that useful. I mean, he doesn't steal bases like Keishel does. But he is a catcher, at least catcher, eligible Cooper Ingles. So I think he's interesting. I don't think he's must add outside of two catcher leaks. So I throw him at 23 in my catcher rankings. That's just behind Kyle Teal, Alejandro Kirk, D.S. Andy Rodriguez. Andy Rodriguez is really close. But I like what he's doing. And then I have Ingles just ahead of Dalton rushing J.T. Real Muto, Victor Caratini. Does that sound like the right area? Why do you have Caratini so high still? He actually has been really good over the past month. Oh, how's that? Is that a really like OPS over 800 in June? So Okay. He's picked things up. I buried him long ago. But maybe I need to look at that again. Yeah, I mean, I would I think I might put some of those catchers ahead of Ingles. Some of them behind Dalton rushing is a little difficult to rank because his usefulness is dependent on Will Smith's timeline. So how much do you value the short term? I understand he hasn't been hot or anything, but I think rushing is good. Yeah, that's about right for Cooper Ingles. I'd say. All right. Wonsoto returns to the lineup Thursday as the D.H. he missed both games Wednesday with left side back tightness. Francisco Lendor was out of the lineup after returning on Wednesday reminder that they hate each other. Apparently that was a conspiracy theory that was throwing our way. Bobby with junior is on track to return to the lineup on Friday after missing six straight games with that grade one MCL sprain in his right knee. So if you do play in lineups in leagues where you could change your lineup on Friday, go ahead and get Bobby with junior back in there, assuming he's in the lineup. Is that that like such a self sabotage? I'm thinking of the Soto Lendor thing. Like it's such a self sabotage meds fan take like we got the best free one of the best free agent hitters ever. But here's why it's not actually working out. Here's why it's actually a bad thing. It's because a bunch of meds fans are completely irrational while friends at school and don't think it's bad. That's what it has nothing to do with one so they think it's Francisco and Dorsfield. Yeah. I was just going to say if you guys are meds fans, you would probably come up with self sabotaging theories as well. Just saying. I don't know. I'm a pretty easy go. I'm a pretty chill fan. All things. Pretty easy to be chill when you're sitting at a top, you know, the NL East got them just like, you know, the meds had expectations coming into the season and it's been the train wreck of all train wreck. So I kind of understand why meds fans are just like trying to come up with anything because they should be happy. They have both Soto and Lendor. Let's be honest. And now they're healthy ish. Hopefully they're both healthy and in the lineup here. Ben Brown, apparently not healthy has been diagnosed with a stress reaction in his neck and will have limited activity for the next month. So obviously he was amazing. Big breakout this season, but it sounds like he's going to miss a decent amount of time here. Again, that is Ben Brown. Yeah. And I saw, let me make sure. Yeah. Megan Montemorro who covers the Cubs for the Chicago Tribune said it's similar to what he experienced in June 2024. That ended his season that time. Now there were several setbacks along the way, but that's pretty concerning. Yeah. I was holding out hope that it wouldn't be this bad. But yeah, there's, look, he may not have the same setbacks, but it's that I think it's worth noting. He's going to miss at least one month and he's going to need some time to ramp up after that too. So maybe it's like, I don't know early to mid August that best here for Ben Brown. Zach Elowf was placed in the aisle with a laceration and contusion that he suffered on his hand when I got stepped on the other day. Spencer Horwitz was placed in the aisle with a left hamstring strain. Jared Jones is scheduled to make his next start Saturday against the Reds. He left early on Sunday after taking a comebacker off of his pitching elbow. If you guys played in a daily lineup league, would you use Jared Jones this weekend against the Reds? I don't, I don't think he's good enough to really be using him anyway, I think. Not yet. Look, I think he's got a lot of potential, but he's going five innings every time in the best case scenario. So I just, I think Jared Jones is strictly a stash on your bench guy. If you, if you're just starting everyone, then yes, start him. But like, I think the best case scenario is five good innings. Yeah. That's what I've learned about again, playing, I bring this league up a lot. The Towers Champions league, daily lineup league, I pretty much just start anybody like any pitcher that's on my team, unless there's like the ratios are close and I really need to like, you know, be judicious about who I use. If I'm just chasing like Windsor strikeouts, like I'm pretty much just throwing throwing anybody out there. Marcus, semi, it was how's that worked for you? Marcus, semi, it was placed in the aisle with a look at flex your strain. Yeah. Stevians on the aisle has not gone very well. Ronnie Mauricio was recalled by the match. He was hitting pretty well in the miners, 311, 6 homers, 7 steals, 939, OPS and hitting the ball really hard. Any, it's probably like, and I only leagues, but like any deeply interested Ryan Mauricio. We've done this kind of thing multiple times with him. Maybe like, he's a talented player. The minor league numbers are really good. But yeah, we just haven't seen that the major league level and he hasn't really, are they going to give him an opportunity this time? Maybe that's a big part of it. Yeah. I did see him take a couple swings here on Thursday. So I think he was in the lineup for Lindor who was out. Jacob Wilson was out of the lineup with his left shoulder banged up. He hurt that on a play at home plate on Wednesday. It's also the same shoulder that he dislocated earlier the season. So hopefully Jacob Wilson will be all right. The D-backs transferred Ryan Nelson to the 60 day I.O. He is out with that flexor strain in his right elbow. The Marlins option Connor Norby to triple A after a very rough month of June. And Max Kepler was scheduled to make his D-backs debut here on Thursday. They signed him after an 80 game suspension for P.E.D.'s last year and 127 games. He hit 216, 18 homers, 691, OPS. Don't think we have much interest in Max Kepler. Do we? Oh no. All right. Let's fire up the worryometer one day late. We did lots of names yesterday, but Kevin Galsman, man, we've got to talk about this two terrible starts in a row rocked by the Rangers here. Six innings, 10 hits, six runs allowed, three homers allowed in this one. His splitter did have seven whips, but everything else got clobbered. His fastball on slider just got hit really hard, 13 hard hits in this one. That's six plus earn runs in back to back starts. Chris, where is Kevin Galsman on the worryometer? Um, the roughly the same place he always is. I don't know. I think this is just what happens with Kevin Galsman. And eventually it will stop happening and he'll just be bad. You know, you'll have to retire from professional baseball at some point, but I don't think that's happening yet. Like you look back at last year and on June 26th, he had a, well, on June 25th, let's say, he had a 460 for the season. On June 26th, he had an eight eight inning shutout. So it was much better on that day. But at this same point last year, he was worse. So I don't really think there's anything to look at with Kevin Gosman. I think it's just, you know, when we had Nick Pollock on earlier this off season, he talked about splitter guys are just kind of frustrating. The guys who rely on their splitter so much, if you just, I remember him talking about like the way you have to hold the ball when you throw a splitter, it's just really hard to throw that consistently where you want it to go. Most splitter pitchers rely on chase. Sometimes you're just not going to have the feel for it and you're going to get knocked around because you don't really have much else. You know, a side or so very good as fast balls. Okay. It really all kind of depends on the splitter. And I think this is just a stretch that Kevin Gosman goes through more or less every season. If you want to sit him, sit him. If you don't trust him right now, don't trust him. I don't, I think the mistake would be to drop Kevin Gosman or to sell low on him and think that he's just suddenly broken. I don't think that at all. And it just two starts ago. He had a 341 ERA. So I'd if you, if you find concrete explanations reassuring, which I do. If you like knowing that, okay, this guy might have a beat on what's wrong with him. Kevin Gosman did say this after the game, I need to take a look at my delivery and figure out my land leg. I feel like it's kind of buckling right now. That allows me to pitch up in the zone. I think what he's saying is when it's not buckling, it allows him to, to pitch up in the zone. But you get the idea. Like he thinks there's something there mechanically that he needs to look at, which is often the case when picture struggle. And I mean, Gosman's been through the ringer. I think he knows how to pull out of this. I find it reassuring in part because I don't see a lot going on there in the data that would concern me. So it might just be a small little mechanical thing like he's talking about there, which you might bench him next time out, bench him until you see him looking like himself again, but beyond that, I don't, I don't think you need to react to this too much. Completely agree. Definitely do not drop him. Do not sell him low. Chris, you pointed this out. Kevin Gosman had six or more earned runs in three different starts last year. All three of those starts happened by June 20th. And then from that point forward, obviously, he was much better and still finished the season with a 359 ERA right now. It's up to 436. He, he, he just kind of goes through. Yeah. I was like this. So and I think the year before he was really bad early on and then was great later or the opposite. It's, it's been a lot of, there's a lot of frame or felt as there. And I think that's kind of similar explanations. Valdez, it's the big curve ball, but those are tough pitches. The throw consistently of 73 mile an hour curve ball or whatever it is for, for scoop for Valdez. And in Gosman's cases, the splitter, they're just tough pitches to throw consistently. Yeah. He does get the meds next week. Kevin Gosman, they are 20, 29th in the World Cup against the righties, but now a lineup that has Lindor and Juan Soto in it together, hopefully. So I don't know if you guys just had to make a snap decision, I guess right now. You just bench Kevin Gosman next week. I'd lean. What did you say, Chris? Sorry. I've started. You would start. Okay. Yeah. I try to avoid starting them there. It may be in some leagues that well, my best bet is to hope he, this is the starting. He comes around, but I try to avoid it. All right. Let's do some fill in the blank rankings addition. And I've got six different players here to talk about two pitchers and four hitters. Bryce Miller took a tough loss here at the pirates, but man, Shrike out stuff was dominant five and two thirds, three runs, two homers loud. 11 Shrike outs to zero walks. He had 19 whiffs on 90 pitches here. And 54 Shrike outs to five walks on the season. He's been really good. So got anything to add on this start from Bryce Miller and fill in the blank top blank starting pitch arrest of season. I mean, look, we were talking before the show and Chris was saying he felt like the, the Olive Garden breadstick was either Tatsuya, my or Bryce Miller. And I was like, I don't know of Bryce Miller. It just kind of feels like this is who he is now. This is a dog by Tman story. Yeah. I will note that one of the things we were raving about with Bryce Miller is just him really leaning into the fastball again, which seemed like a proper course of action for him thrown at 47% of the time. He mixed in those secondaries more in this one, only 30% usage of the fastball was still dominant. So I'm kind of just like, whatever. And, you know, obviously just because he did that, this start doesn't mean he won't throw 47% fastballs next time. I think there's plenty of reason to be excited here. And nothing about this start to finish is my excitement. What did you ask like top blank starting pitch arrest you? So I just updated that yesterday. And I put him, I know I moved him pretty high. I moved Bryce Miller 28th. If you wanted to say 24th, I wanted to argue it too much. Yeah, I was going to say 25th. Right. So some way somehow top 30 starting pitch arrest of season for Bryce Miller. I haven't met SP 31. I kind of wanted to put him higher. So maybe I should just do that. But I give you permission. Thank you, sir. Let's talk about why Langford another one. One for five, what is eighth home run and updated numbers since returning to 99 seven homeers, two steals, nine ADOPS. That's all in 19 games since coming back. Chris, why Langford top blank outfield arrest of season? 30. I moved 20 20 today. 25. Yeah. I mean, I look that the gap between like 18 and 35 is pretty slim. Yeah, I haven't taught 24th or 21st. So yeah, top 24. I was just waiting for the page to load to see where I have him right. I have 20, I have 20 seconds. So I think that's what I like the day. The day the exit velocity has improved now during the stretch. It wasn't looking that way at first. It's still giving him the benefit of the doubt to be clear. But I kind of think given how many outfielders are old and boring or old and disappointing or middle aged in baseball terms and either one of those, I think just deferring to the young guy who's disappointing might just be the move. Because there is a lot upside for why Langford. We've seen stretches each of his first two seasons where he's been really, really good. And it's just hoping he can once stay healthy, which has been a problem and was a problem already this season and to cut out the inconsistency. But you know, if you're talking who would I rather have why Langford or Taylor Ward or Jaren Durand or Ian Hap, I'll take why Langford over those guys. Just because the other guys are known quantities and they're not great. They're fine. They're not terrible. But Langford has a fairly high floor based on his first two seasons. And I still think there's a high ceiling there. I guess one thing we do have to bake into his floor is that he has struggled to stay healthy. So hopefully you can do that now, but has been really, really good since returning. Let's talk about Cosima Okamoto who also hit another one. His 18th home run of the season, he has three home runs in his past five games. And he's having himself a big old June 316 six homeers, 989 OPS. Still has a 30% strikeout rate in the month, but reminder, he is on pace for 35 homeers and 101 RBI. Scott, top blank third baseman rest of season. I thought about top 12. I thought about getting them back inside the top 12. Yeah. This is a really annoying question to ask me Frank because I think this was the player. I most struggled to rank in my last updates. That means I still I still only have him 16th, but I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to a lot of underachieving for third baseman. And there are plenty of them. I've moved Austin Riley down to 13th. He is he has begun to sink rapidly in my rankings, but he's still 13th. I have Alex Breggman 14th. I have Esok Parade's 15th. And I'm not even sure Parade's is behind pace that much. He's turning it around in June too. Yeah. Michael Garcia, you know, I got him 12th still. So like there's five third baseman in front of Okamoto where it's just like, I'm not quite ready to say these guys can't bounce back. And you know, if I were to say that, then yes, Okamoto rises to 12th. So it's it's it sounds too low 16th, but that's that's the justification more. It's more about those five ahead of him. I mean, look, there are clear limitations for Okamoto if he's going to strike out this much. But it's funny like he's doing kind of what we were worried or I don't know if worries the right word. But he looks more like Moonatakamerikami than I think we were thinking coming in. We thought there was going to be a clear separation between those two at the strike outs. And everybody the power. Everybody thought Okamoto was definitely going to hit for contact at least. And yeah, yeah, as it turns out, no, he's he's been in all or nothing powerheader. I think you can hedge a little bit with this one as well. I think in point sleeves, I probably I still have them like 14th in Roto actually moved them up to 12. And I think there's an argument for him to be as high as that. 10 in Roto just because the power has been so good for him. But yeah, he, you know, first couple of months, a little bit rocky, but big, big June here for a cosmo, Okamoto. Let's take a quick break when we return to have three other players to ask about where are they and the rankings. We'll talk about that right after this. Welcome back, fantasy baseball today. And we were doing some fill in the blank rankings edition. And next up, we have Connolly Early, who had a great outing hearing in C Yankees, six innings of two run ball, nine strikeouts to one walk, 17 whiffs on 98 pitches. He worked those breaking pitches in more. And they were awesome. That's sweeper in particular. If we could just get more of that pitch, I think that would be nice. I mean, we may have figured out what's been plaguing Connolly Early all season is like he doubled the usage of the slider and the sweeper basically doubled it to about what it was last year. And I've been wondering this all along if, OK, the strength of Connolly Early is that he has this six pitch arsenal, someone who's very young, you know, the raw stuff isn't that impressive. No one pitch is that amazing. But they're all good enough that with the right mix, he can dominate. And maybe he just wasn't landing on the right mix this year. Again, and this started looked closer to last year's mix when he was dominant and he dominated. So I don't know. It's a sample of one, but it's it's encouraging. Yeah. Velocity was back up in this two. You know, everything up was up like one to one and a half miles per hour. So we'll see if he can maintain that. This looks really good in his last start. Two in a 13% swinging strike rate in that one. So we're starting to get some whiffs here. Chris top blank starting pitch arrest of season here on Connolly Early. Yeah. So one thing I wanted to check because when you start mentioning a lefty throwing there's sweeper more. The first flag that goes up is was he facing more lefties and that's yes. Opposing lineups have been very righty heavy against Connolly Early this season 75% of the pitches he has thrown this season have been to righties. Tonight it was about 58% of the time. So he's thrown to righties. So he faced a lot more right lefties and there you go. He threw 25% sweepers. That's a pitch that he almost never throws to righties. So I think that does explain at least some of why he threw the sweeper more in this one at least. I think he's a top 55 starting pitcher that felt low. But I've had some other names just moving ahead to 68 now. Yeah. So if anything it's high. Okay. I mean look I'm encouraged by this start. Maybe I move them up a little after this start. There's only one start recently like the A's guys with each again engage jump. Those guys have jumped ahead of him. Lendon Roup has looked better over his last two starts his underlying numbers remain good. Someone like Roki Sasaki is like Sasaki and early. I you know it's I think they're they both have upside. They're both young guys. So they should be in a similar range of the rankings. But yeah, look, I was worried for a lot of the season that came out as walk stuff for early. Didn't look very good. But now if the strikeouts are starting to come, you know, that could be a reason to pump him back up the rankings here. I will point out next week he gets the national. So you probably don't want to start Connolly early. That's a. Well, he got the Yankees this week. And I was just look because I acquired Connolly early in the podcast for the people league. That's a 16 teamer. I acquired him over the weekend did not put him in my lineup for this week. Left him out. That's the start. I started Ben Brown though with the Red Cross next to his name. So. All right. I'll just edit that one out of the podcast. People don't have to know about that one. Scott. No, no, no, no, you didn't have Red Cross at the start of the week. Yeah, I know. That wasn't a lack of attention on my part. He didn't go on the aisle until Wednesday, right? Like completely unexpectedly. Yeah. Something like. Yeah. It was unexpected. Let's talk about Brandon Marsh. Another huge game. Two for four with a sock in the shoe. His 12th Homer, his eighth stolen base. He had two runs, three RBI. Just had a huge four game series against the nationals. They're pitching his pretty bad nine hits, three homers, six runs, six RBI, a steal. He's having a monster June here. He's had a really, really good season all around. He entered Thursday as the 12th outfielder in Roto, the 23rd outfielder in total head to had points, published my rankings earlier. Someone comments like, you know, I think Brandon Marsh should be higher and I kind of think maybe he should be higher too. What do you think? I moved him up quite a bit with this latest updates. The strike outrate has been creeping up for what it's worth, but a lot of it is just so many other outfielder's have disqualified themselves. I feel like and Marsh is hanging in there. So I got him up to 43rd now. Where did you? I was I was I have met 47. I was even more aggressive. Okay. Surprise. I'm going to lie for 33rd. And I feel like you've spoken, you've been the harshest to our large. That's the tough thing. This is just kind of where I'm at on outfield. Yeah. Because I don't really like him very much. Part of it is just like, you've got like a bunch of dudes who I just don't know where to rank because they're pert. You know, like Mike Trout and Aaron Judge and Ronald Coonier are all higher than that. But then you've got like Brent Rucker, I think will be good when he's back in Roman Anthony and Chase Delodder and Honeel Cruz should all be, you know, back in the next three or four weeks, I think. So I mean, I don't know how good Delodder is at this. Sure. That's fair. But the thing with Brandon Marsh is he's having this huge season. Yes. For sure. That's true. His underlying numbers look identical. Actually, his walk rate is half of what it's been. But everything else basically looks like it's looked the past couple of seasons. He's a 327 X-Wobba in 2024, 33328 Strike out rate. It's slightly better this season, but not huge about. I just, I kind of think he's running hot. And so, you know, 33rd and Roto, I think he's in the 45 range and points. And even that might be too high in points because he's just not a great points player. But, you know, in Roto, you're getting some speed. You're getting some homers from him. He has eight steals, 12 homers. He's already bested last year in both regards. So I'm okay with viewing him as a hot hand play. It's not someone I think is a long-term starter, certainly in a points league. And even in Roto, I think he's eventually more like a four or five Alfielder. So again, I got him up around my 45th rack to Alfielder. This is Brandon Marsh that we're talking about. But I see an argument for him being as high as like 35. So I, you know, I can make that move. I lower Jaren to ran a lot just because like, I don't know. He's been, he's been really, really abysmal for two or three months this season. And so that's kind of like the cutoff point for me. I think I couldn't, I moved him down to 35. I think Brandon Marsh could probably just be right ahead of him. And once that just to highlight what you were saying, Chris about Brandon Marsh, just being hot all season, his launch angle sweet spots percentage is 46%. That is currently a career high. That feels like something that would correlate with just being hot, right? Like, yeah, you're just hitting the ball optimally for a large majority of the season. Now, if he keeps that up, then he's just very clearly going to have a career year. But it, it feels like something that kind of runs hot and cold. So yeah, and that's just not a lot else going on in the profile that suggests that he's truly taken a big step forward. Well, the strike average has been the main one. But like I said, that's been creeping up. Yeah, that's basically where it was then June. Yeah, it was basically where it is where it was last year now. Overall. Last thing I wanted to mention here is Carter Jensen, who continues to hit well. He actually spoiled that combined no hitter and the ninth inning at one for four with his 11th homer last 16 games, 344, four homers and OPS over a thousand. Shrike out rate only 15% during that span. That's awesome to see for Carter Jensen. He's hitting the ball really hard as well. It's got top blank catcher rest of season, Carter Jensen. I moved him way down earlier this month. Finally. And then I had to move him way back up. So I have him 15th, top 15 catcher. Yeah, I think I have him right in that same right. Yep. I have right. I'm wondering who you have ahead. You have Francis Galveston ahead of him now. I do. I have Alvarez 16th. Okay. I have Real Moreno. Yes, I have Moreno ahead. Do you still have Salahediff Salvatore Press? No. I do have Ryan Jeffers. Ryan Jeffers Liam Hicks. I do have Liam Hicks ahead of me. I'm moving down just because of the injury. Sure. I have four IEL guys ahead of him. Okay. Not not to you. So Ruchman, Rushman Hicks, Smith and Jeffers. Okay. I think I've just been more aggressive about moving the injured guys down below. Yeah. Because I have Jensen 11th, but it's basically him, Moreno, Francis Galvest, I think are very, very close because Alvarez is having an awesome June himself. Yeah. All right. Let's wrap up here. I got some other waiver wire names here from Thursday's action and start on the pitchers side. I just wanted to highlight Troy Melton, the velocity of big time in this start for him. Six innings, one run, a season high six strikeouts had 15 whiffs on 88 pitches. And this This is what we were waiting to see. The strikeouts and the swinging strikes kind of backing that up. He has a lot of two run runs or fewer in five of six starts. 59% rostered. He's RP eligible for those playing a points league. Thoughts. By far the most, by far the most impressive start of his season, I thought. Yeah. I know he's had better statistical starts. He had the one where he went eight innings. He had the one where he went seven. But in terms of the bat missing, in terms of the quality of the stuff that he had, I think this is the best Troy Mountain has looked and the closest he has come to looking like he deserves the results he's been getting so far. Because he entered this start with a 15% strike out rate, which is just totally untenable. You cannot be a great majorly pitcher with a 15% strike out rate. So. Here's the thing. This is the velocity he had last year when he was starting late in the season. In the minors the last two years, his swinging strike rate has been 15%. For yet strike out rate swinging strike. So like we knew it was in there. Because he had been running, you know, K-Pronine in the minors like 12. And he just wasn't showing in the majors. Now he needed this big jump in velocity of 1.6 on the fastball, 2.7 on the cutter, 3.1 on the slider. And he had to increase to get there. And I don't know if that's something he could replicate start after start. But he did say he changed something mechanically prior to this start, tried to be more upright on the mound. Because he had found himself leaning back a little bit. Mechanics talk today and mechanics is kind of like the, uh, car bar variable. What did you say? Don't worry about it. Okay. You made a car. It made Frank laughs. That's all I wanted. It was. Yeah. I mean, I'd love to make you laugh Scott one day. One one of these days you'll get there. I'm a tough laugh. Uh, so Troy Melon, where does he rank among all the names that we've talked about today? - "Amai," and. - I feel bad we're getting to him at 55 minutes, 'cause he could've been my player of the night, you know? - I didn't expect to feel in the blank to take that long. - You're oddball segments. You never expect them to take that long. - I always appreciate your faith in us to move. - It's always the days where it's like, oh, there was eight games on the schedule and then we just take like 20 minutes on some. - Well, this was a legitimately interesting day of baseball, okay? - There was honestly the most interesting Thursday ever. - Maybe of the season. - I ran, I looked back at all the Thursdays in history and determined this was the most interesting ever. Melton melons an exciting pick up to, how roster does he? - He's probably more than 55. - 59. - 59? - Yeah, still available in a lot of leagues. Man, who's he pitching against? Texas, next week at the Yankees. - There you go, the Yankees. - Okay. - But yeah, no, he needs to be picked up to probably ahead of, probably ahead of Seymour even. - I think so too, yeah. I think he's like top 70-ish pitcher, starting pitcher. So that should be roster. - I had a Jake Bennett and Sean Burke as well. - I'd go ahead of Bennett, probably not Burke. - I think I had a Burke. - All right, again, that's Troy Melton. We were just talking about some names. You might want to use next week, Papa Chandler, he hasn't really had that dominant start, but he's looked better. As of late, last four starts, 282 ERA 103 Whip, 18 strikeouts to eight box over 22 and a third innings, and he is at the Phillies and at the Nationals next week. So I don't know about the matchups, but he's looked better. Lenden Roup, a quality starting against the Athletics, 16nings, two runs, six strikeouts, he had 11 whists on 108 pitches, and back-to-back quality starts after a rough stretch for him. He is at the D-backs next week. They have struggled against right handed pitchers. Cade Cavali, a strong outing against the Phillies, six innings, two runs, seven strikeouts, 15 whiffs on 97 pitches, and did struggle his three starts before this one. He's at the Red Sox next week. Also looks like a good matchup on paper. So how would you guys rank these three if you're just talking about using them for next week? Chandler, Roup, Cade Cavali, and any of these-- - I've already ranked those three. - Yep. - For my sleep-perfactor's article. - Yeah, they're all three in it. - Well, hit me, baby, one more time. What do we got? - Well, first time. - I ranked them Chandler, then Roup, then Cavali. - That is also the way I would do it, but man starting above a Chandler in a rodeo league would give me Agita. I would not feel great about the possibility of that lingering on my schedule the whole year. Did this want to point out, like, landing a Roup at 70% rostered. Scott, you've been pretty steadfast with this, that like the underlying numbers have remained pretty good for Roup. So if he was kind of dropped in your league after that tough stretch, I totally would, I would make it a priority to get Lander Roup back on a roster. - Right around 80th percentile for contact quality, K-Rate and Groundball rate, 328 XERA, 3-0-0-FIP. - All right. Would you rank him ahead of all the names we talked about today? - Imae and Seymour and - What do we just talk about? Troy Melton. - Melton and Burke and Bennett and look. - There's actually some pretty interesting pictures right now. It's always waves. - You know, this is where it gets tough, 'cause like, if you're chasing upside, Imae has the most. And Melton probably has the second most. I think Roup is the safest bet to be like just a useful part of your team all season long. So it kind of depends what you're looking for. I think if I'm ranking these guys' rest of season and not so much thinking waiver priority, I'd put Roup number one. - All right, I do have some waiver hitters we can quickly run through. Jose Caliero had a big game, two for four with a sock in the shoe, his eighth homer, his 18th stolen base. He has started 20 of the past 22 games. And last year, he had, where I wrote this down somewhere, I think he had five home runs and 126 games. He already has eight homers in 68 games this year. 74% rostered. Would you guys put Caliero at the top of the, just like, eligible everywhere guys. So Willie Castro, Brooks Lee, Ernie Clement, Ezekiel DeRan, it's Caliero at the top of that list. - Yeah, and my ranking, see is I do like Castro for next week because they finally get the full week of home games, seven home games for the Rockies baby. - That's what I was gonna say is. Yes, in theory, but if I had to drop Caliero to add Willie Castro next week, I think I'd do it. And even like 74% rostered, that kind of feels way too high for Jose Caliero. Just 'cause like, okay, he has eight homers. If he's a 16 home or guy like he's on pace four, that's great. Obviously, I think he'd be 16. - Where's Ross? - Yeah, that is, he's just. - I did not reflect it in underline. - Yeah, the underlying numbers do not buy it at all. His track record does not buy it at all. I don't really think there's any reason to think Jose Caliero is anything more than a five or six home or guy at the rest of the world. Three or four home or guy at the rest of the way probably. I think it needs to be rostered in every single category. That's how, like, you know, points leagues does he, probably not, but any type of head to categories, any type of roto, Caliero needs to be rostered in those. Some names at first base, Curtis Meade, home or again, it was his third home run in the last four games. And pretty even splits. I just, again, it's like such a tough position at first base. He has their base eligible as well. And then Jake Burger, oh, let's just put all the cornering field guys together. I have me, Jake Burger, last 16 games, using 370 with four homers. We spoke about this early, like before the podcast. He's on pace for 28 homers and 96 RBI. It's just really quiet for Jake. - And for the next matter. - And he's my 40th ranked first base man. - First base. - It's so loaded man. - And I look at the names ahead of him and I'm like, yeah, yeah, he probably deserves to be for 40th. The most likely to move behind him, with any P just 'cause he's injured. Salvador Perez, just 'cause you're giving up on him completely. Royce Lewis, because you're not at all hopeful that he's figured something out. - I'm pretty hopeful. - Me too. Like I'm saying that I'm kind of, steel manning. - Steel manning, playing devil's advocate. - Taking the devil's advocate, yeah. - And I want to mention Caleb Durbin as well. He stayed hot, he had a six-home run in a revenge game against the Yankees. Last 24, 329, 5 homers, 16 RBI, 3 steals. I would just rank these three in terms of interest level if you need a corner infielder. Curtis Mead, Jake Burger, Caleb Durbin. - Probably Mead, I guess Durbin ahead of burger. This Durbin stretch feels really fake to me though. And mostly it's because he's definitely not a 900 OPS bat. He might be a 700 OPS bat. And so if he's not really running. It's hard for me to actually get excited about Caleb Durbin even as a hot hand play just because I think he needs to be a 30 steel guy to really matter because I do think the bat is extremely weak with Caleb Durbin. So yeah, he's been hot lately. I guess if you want to add him for a for a hot hand play, but I do like the rest of us next week. And so I as of now, I have Durbin as a sleeper hitter for next week. That's fun. But yeah, for saying who ranks high rest of season, Durbin's, I agree Durbin's clearly the lowest. I ranked knee to head of Berger. The weirdest part of Caleb Durbin's season is that he's been awful at home in Finway. And I just thought his swing would work so perfectly on Finway Park and and it's not not so far. Maybe he could turn that around, but this home run was in Finway. So you know, that was one that I thought the same thing. And then I looked at the expected homeruns by ballpark and it was awful at Finway, which didn't make sense. But it was he was a he had five expected homeruns at Finway last year. I just thought he was walking. Yeah, I agree. He's a whole point. All it's just like, yeah, it doesn't even have to be homers. Just like whatever. Just fly balls just bang them off the monster and whatever. Give me doubles, you know, but it has not been working. Yeah. Another outfielder just I mentioned his name a lot this week. I think big things are coming. The numbers are starting to pick up. Dylan Cruz, three for four with his third stolen base. Last 14 games. He's hitting 286 three homers, two steals, hitting the ball hard, underlying numbers of good 42% rostered. Kind of beat the waiver wire. I think some big games are coming here for Dylan Cruz. Some other leftovers on the hitting side contract year, Brandon Loud, two for four with his 19th home run. He is the fourth second baseman this year in Roto and total head to head points. He has been awesome. Jeremy Paine, a two for four with his eighth stolen base. Nice to see him running. Just the other day, he was dealing with a hamstring cramp. So it's good for him. Dylan Dingler remained hot. He had his 19th homerun just an insane June, 368 homeruns, an 1120 OPS and Bryce Harper, a clutch. Go ahead, homerun in the ninth inning. It was his 18th home run. He has three homers in his past six games. Anything to add on Harper, Dingler, Paine, yeah, right and loud. Where do you guys have Dingler ranked? I think eight or nine. I have him eight and I've been, can't do I really want to get him ahead of Cowarali? I kind of do, but Cowarali is a tough one right now. He's, I mean, he's been so awful this season, but he's never been this bad before. You know, it's kind of like what we've talked about with Kyle Bradshaw along, where it's like, yes, Cowarali's been really bad. And yes, the underlying numbers suggest that he, he deserves to be as bad as he has been. This is the first time he's ever been this bad. So I kind of just give him the benefit of the doubt. Not they'll be as good as he was last year. I haven't ranked seventh now. You want to give him some time after the injury. Yeah. I've moved, if on Herrera ahead of him, say, I've moved him below a bunch of guys. I stopped willing Contreras ahead of him. That's the one with Dylan Dingler that I could get him up to seven, but it's important to remember that he had really good underlying numbers. He was kind of not that great before June. He was okay, but it was anything more like a seven 60 OPS at the end of May. So but he's been like top 10 in X-Wheelball all season. Yeah. He's been incredible like the underlying numbers and they were last year too. He underperformed there. So it's, it's tough to know how much of this to buy into. But I, I wrote about it on it was it yesterday's newsletter the day before one of those CBS Sports.com/newlotters. But that's how far how far I can move him up remains a question for me. All right. Some pitching leftovers. Welcome back to Matthew Boyd and he kept runs off the board. He was a bit wild here. Four and two thirds shut out innings four walks four strikeouts or teen whiffs on 76 pitches. That number is awesome. He is 81% rostered. He's only 20% started. Scott, if you have Matthew Boyd on your roster, do you think you would use him next week against the Cardinals? Second start back. I think I probably would. I mean, the walks obviously weren't great in this one. It was it was the only thing that wasn't good unless you count the length, but the walks contributed to him going only four innings. Mr. Tonabats has been doing that all year and like the walk that's an aberration. He was 2.5 per nine prior to this star and last year was 2.1 per nine. I think against the Cardinals Matthew Boyd's fine. All right. Some of their pitching leftovers. Cam Schletler some bad defense behind him. Five innings four unarmed runs nine strikeouts. Two walks velocity was up. He had 16 whiffs on 92 pitches. Mackenzie Gore a quality start seven innings three runs five strikeouts at the blue jays. Freddie Peralta bounce back against the Cubs. It's the only place he could go after his last start. Five and two thirds innings three unarmed runs five strikeouts to one walk and not even Christopher Sanchez could solve the nationals against left hand pitchers. Five innings five runs six strikeouts for him. Chris anything on Sanchez, Peralta Gore or Schletter. Gore is a fine ad because he gets Cleveland next week. Yeah, start. Is he really like 100% rostered? Yeah, he's over 90%. But yeah, he's like 60% started right now. I was going to say like how did I miss him for sleeper butters? Okay. I do not think Mackenzie Gore needs to be that why the rostered anymore but I need 92% roster. You went from saying add him to drop him. Well, yeah, because I because I saw 60% in the run down. I was like, oh, 60% rostered. Yeah, go ahead and add him for Cleveland next week. Start him for Cleveland next week. I don't think Mackenzie Gore is a pitcher who needs to be rostered universally. Yeah. All right. Call to the bullpen for the giant Caleb Killingen got the ninth with a one run lead. He allowed four runs on a walk and four hits. He took his second blow and save and fourth loss. Who gets the next save opportunity for the giants? Probably Caleb Killingen. Some bad bad closers by the bay. That is true. Speaking of which, for the athletics with Hogan Harris unavailable Mason Barnett got the ninth inning and he tossed a clean inning for his second save. His numbers are actually kind of good. 2% rostered. A's probably don't have a closer and they never will ever again, but I don't know. You're in a deep enough league. Mason Barnett. There's a name for you. For the nationals, Clayton Beater entered with one out in the seventh basis loaded a two run lead. He walked one and he allowed another run on a fielders choice tie game. Gus Varlin pitch a scoreless eighth. He came back out for the ninth and he allowed five earned runs on six hits and two homers. He's been quite bad. The nationals do not have a closer and they never will ever again. For the Rangers, Jacob Latz got the ninth with a three run lead. He allowed a two run homer but picked up his 15th save for the Cubs. Jacob Webb got the ninth. He walked one. He kept clean. The Cubs took a one run lead. Trent Thornton got the tenth and he closed it out for his first save and the Red Sox are all the Chapman got the ninth with a three run lead. He allowed three base runners, but he did pick up his 15th save of the year. To stream or not to stream on Friday, we have Andrew Abbott at the Pirates Trevor Rodgers against the nationals. Joey Cantillo against the Mariners. Walbert Arrania against the athletics. Michael McGreeby against the Marlins. JT Genneth the Angels Walker Bueller Revenge Game against the Dodgers. This one looks pretty good. Good slate. Yeah, I like JT Genneth the Angels. I like Joey Cantillo against the Mariners and Michael McGreeby against the Marlins. And I don't even dislike Walbert Arrania against the athletics. I think, great. Cantillo is one of the more interesting pitchers to watch this weekend at the very least because it was what the curveball he started throwing a ton more last time. It was really good for him. That's something to keep an eye on because he's been really just change up or nothing in terms of quality pitches. And if the curveball can be good, that could really matter. So I'm going to watch that one closely. On Saturday, we have Jake Bennett against the Yankees, Kumar Rocker at the Blue Jays, Brendan Young against the Nationals, Slate Sikoni against the Mariners, Jack Perkins at the Angels. Scott, all your love for Friday is now gone on Saturday. Yeah, I don't want to stream anybody on Saturday. Holy cow. Yeah, I like Bennett, but I'm not starting against the Yankees if I could avoid it. If I had to choose, I would probably say Bennett or Sikoni, but I think Perkins is the best one if I have to pick one. If I had to pick one, I'd pick Bennett, but yeah, I'd rather not start Jake Bennett. On Sunday, Brady singer at the Pirates, Mitch Keller against the Red Zech Latel at the Orioles, Merrill Kelly at the Raise Connor Prelyp gets the Rockies in Minnesota, Anthony K against the Royals and Andre Palante against the Marlins. Palante and K. Okay. That's it. Yeah, I don't. I could see a good Connor Prelyp start, but he hasn't been very good. Right. Yep. I think we're all in agreement there. We are going to wrap there for Scott Chris. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning in to Fantasy Baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a 5 star rating on Apple's Spotify and we will be back again next week. Bye bye. [Music] Paramount Podcasts. Now streaming only on Paramount Plus. Chicago, it's my home. The acclaimed series The Shy reaches its final chapter. 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