Get ready for Max Clark, Quinn Mathews! | Fantasy Baseball Advice

Hello and welcome to fantasy baseball today and you know what I just realized? No, I forgot to do Kokomo Friday. I am so sorry. I'm gonna have to hit that button after I introduced Scott White on Chris Towers. We had big prospect promotions. We got more show Hayo Tani injury concerns and we got Kokomo Friday. Now we're back on fantasy baseball today. You know, we try to keep the thing running as smoothly as possible when Frank's not here. But if you pay close attention, may notice some slight differences when Frank's stamples not here. But he will be back for Sunday/Monday's episode for now. Chris Towers, Scott White. We're here to recap Thursday and Scott, you've got something. Yeah, I just noticed. So we pointed out more than once all the ways that the Kokomo song has is outdated. But one just hit me this time. When it was created, everybody on this show lived in Orniere Boca, Sugar O'Rattone, and now nobody does. Yeah, I mean, for me, I think the funnier one is like Yoshi Tutsugo, you know, I don't think anybody's thought about him. I did when I went to the Yankees game last week. I saw multiple Pirates Conor Joe jerseys, which I had to text Frank about multiple multiple. Sure, it wasn't just guys named Joe who wanted to pirate jerseys. Might have been, I didn't ask. I just want to let the magic live. What's the song they use in the second season? We are way off the rails already. The second season of leftovers, let the mystery be. That's the, I had the list of mystery be. I liked, you know, controversy I'll take. I liked the first season opening credits in the leftovers. I think the let the mystery be one is so funny. I think that's such a good joke for that show, because everybody was so like, what happened? Where'd they go? I think that is the funniest way to do it. Okay, let's talk about baseball. It's three minutes in. Let's talk about baseball. We had two big prospect promotions. And if you listen, there's a good reason to listen to fantasy baseball today. Express on your podcast fees, because we talked about two of these prospects who were called up. Max Clark will make his MLB debut Friday for the Detroit Tigers. And Quinn Matthews will make his debut on Saturday for the St. Louis Cardinals. We'll talk about Max Clark first, but I think these are both. I'm not going to say must add players in every single league, especially for Clark, just because you know, I don't know, you know, three outfielder leagues. I think Quinn Matthews, go ahead and add him everywhere. We'll talk about that. But Max Clark, any five outfielder leagues, I think you have to add him. He is, it was the number 19 prospect in your mid season update. 21 years old, former number three overall pick in the 2023 draft, sitting 276 with a 368 on base percentage. Very good approach at the plate. Kind of a classic lead off profile. I think it's a 15% strikeout rate to a 12% walk rate at AAA this season. The power had not been there until the start of June. He has nine homers since the start of June five of them in July. So really picking things up. You've made the comp to AJ Ewing as that kind of prospect and potential impact. And I think that makes a lot of sense. Max Clark, really good hitter, really good lead off guy. I think he's going to play every single day for the Tigers, right? Yeah, I would think so. And the path's been open for him since April when Austin met a Parker meadows. I made them the same mistake. I said the name of the wrong meadows brother on the fantasy baseball express yesterday. If you listen to that by the way, I also said we wouldn't see any major prospect promotions for two weeks. I was trying to give you some credit. Can you not be humble for once? So I was wrong about that because we got two. We got two of the names we talked about actually. Max Clark and Quinn Matthews. But anyway, getting back to Max Clark, you mentioned the powered picked up since the start of June since the start of July, he's slash three thirty eight four sixty six six twenty five home runs four steals and even number of walks and strikeouts sixteen of each. That's always been true of Clark the great great plate discipline. I believe he had more walks than strikeouts for all of last year. That's not right? Yeah, 94 to 90. So yeah, I have made the comparison to AJ Ewing in that good on base guy, plenty of speed. I was viewed as a better prospect of the two for what it's worth. Yeah, it was a very high draft pick, great defender and center. Is there power? And that was the most questionable part of AJ Ewing skill set coming up. Franklake Clark, shown a little more in the miners still not a ton, but a little more than you. And yet we've already seen you and contribute some of that in the majors. So I think there's a lot to be excited about here. I'm not saying Clark's ceiling is so high and so inevitable that you need to add them in three outfield or league, but five outfield or leagues speculating on that upside. I think that makes sense. Somebody asked me, okay, you're comparing them to AJ Ewing. Should I drop it? No, you might have proven something that we're still waiting to see Clark prove, but yeah, the upside is comparable if you missed out on Ewing, then you might want to take a shot on max Clark. Who is the best current outfielder with this kind of profile? This kind of profile. Is it like Jaren to ran? Jaren to ran probably has a little more umph. Well, it is Jaren to ran better than AJ Ewing. Well, I mean in recent years, you know, like the because it's a type of profile limited power, very good on base, very good plate discipline skills. It's a profile that doesn't always translate to the majors. So that's the only, like it's not real. It's not Stephen Kwan. Stephen Kwan's a much more extreme contact profile. Doesn't have the same kind of speed. That's just the one thing I was thinking. Just I guess this is this is going to seem kind of weird to say because he's a former MVP and 40 home or guy, but more recently the way he's played Cody Bellinger, okay, would fit that mold, I feel like maybe like an off peak off peak mookie bets, but that's too high. Yeah, if we're just looking at five by five categories, you could talk about like like Jackson Merrill or maybe Michael Harris. But they're both low walk guys and Xpeclar to be a high walk guy. So that that's not even a perfect comp. Okay, that was just trying to try to come up with a comment. Xavier Edwards, what he's done the past couple of years. Could be a clerk has more home run, more power than that. Yeah, auto Lopez. You know what? I think Max Clark might be pretty similar to Kevin McGonigal in some respect. I don't think the hit tool is as good as McGonigal and I but I do think the speed is better than McGonigal and the power upside down side case is probably pretty similar. Okay, I think those all make sense. I think Max Clark, someone worth getting excited about. And I'm pretty excited about Quinn Matthews too, who has had a pretty up and down last couple of seasons. He dealt with a shoulder injury last year. They really kind of wrecked things for him. And early on this season was really struggling with his control. But he has a 155 year A 59 strikeouts 19 walks and 52 and a third inning since the start of June left you with a lot of K upside. We'll be playing in front of an elite defense. For me, the biggest question is Kenny Thurstreich's I think of Quinn Matthews throw. If he keeps the walk rate under four, I think he can be pretty good for fantasy. Just because there's going to be a decent amount of strikeouts. And that defense is just so good behind him that I think there's a pretty decent degree of upside here. And I think he is not as talented. But a comp could be made to like Nolan McClain when he made his debut last season. I don't think he's going to be that good. But old-ish prospect had some control issues. Matthews bigger flaws than McClain. But I think he could be pretty good. I think pretty much all the he should be at it right now. Yeah, I think so too. Everybody could use another starting pitcher. He here comes one with some upside. We haven't seen many of those on the waiver wire recently. So go ahead and take a shot. I I wouldn't say, I want to call myself an optimist regarding Quinn Matthews, but pictures in general are harder to predict. I mean, there wasn't. It's not like we were turning cartwheels over Nolan McLean when he first got called up. And nobody was talking about Cam Schlippler when he first got called up. Like, he wasn't. I mean, Jacob Mizier asked he wasn't. He was at hype when he called up. He was the biggest name prospect of the three, but he had major flaws. Matthews. So he was amazing two years ago. Terrible last year because he walked like seven per nine. And he had his shoulder injury at the start of the season that made it very tough for him. This year the control is still bad. It's five walks per nine, yeah. For overall. But 3.3 per nine in his last nine starts. And during that time Quinn Matthews has put together a 155 year array, 0.78 Whip and 10.1 K per nine. 0.78 Whip again with 3.3 walks per nine, which tells you nobody's sitting. And the fastball I think has the kind of shape you're looking for. The curveball is a slow loopy curveball that clearly has worked from very well in the miners. I don't know that we see that kind of curveball work as well in the majors generally, but. Way to ribs a good example. It's worth a shot. It's worth a shot. And if the control isn't too much of an obstacle, and if that curveball does play up, then Quinn Matthews might be a very solid contributor down the stretch. All right. Let's move on to our oh my goodness gracious players of the night. Yeah, baby. There's there's a there's a like mini soundboard within Streamyard and Frank added some of the some of the things for this, but there's also like. I didn't want to be rude, but just wanted to make sure they got used. All right. Your gracious player. The night's got. Let's hear it. Gotta go with Noah Cameron. I mean, he deserves it. H shut out. You can't give me a button to press. This is really the thing. H shut out innings one hit allowed. That was on the heels of a seven shut out inning two hit allowed. Start. This one was at Minnesota. Previous one at Detroit. He got plenty of whiffs in both at least 15 whiffs in both. And obviously a start turnaround from the what Cameron had been. Brieher. So what changed for him? Well, velocity has been up in both of the starts. It was up one and a half to two miles per hour on basically everything in the first of those two starts. And this start. It was more like half to one and a half miles per hour on everything. But you know, still noticeable across the board improvement. He also faded his fastball, his foreseemer in both of those starts. And that's not a very good pitch. So it's probably a good idea. What I couldn't confirm is if in this follow up start that eight one hit innings at Minnesota, if he continued to call his own pitches, because that was one of the key reasons cited by those on the Royal Speed for the first dominant start. Call the zone pitches for the first time through with more intent. We saw the velocity spike. We saw him not throw so many four semas and we saw a great result. I can't confirm that he continued to call his own pitches. It wouldn't surprise me as well as it went that first time. And since again, he didn't throw the four semas much. He. He is, you know, he may have a better understanding of what makes him good than his getcha does. And there may be something to him throwing with a little more conviction when he is the one making the call. That's the best I have right now. It's not the most compelling case of all time, but it's not nothing. When you add it all up, call zone pitches, velocity increased fading a bad pitch. There may be something there. A two-star sample is hardly conclusive. There were two really outstanding starts from a pitcher who was good last year. So I'm at least open to the possibility that Noah Cameron is going to turn his season around. I'm not saying he's must add. I would add Quinn, Quinn Matthews over him. Here's another one. Yeah, Rocky Sasaki, Quinn Matthews or Noah Cameron. I, I got to go Sasaki number one. Okay. He also had a good follow-up start. Yeah, a good start here. Probably get into it since he brought it up. Yeah. Do it. Five in a third innings, five hits, two earn runs, three walks, seven strikeouts. He had 18 whiffs. Average 99.1 with the four-seamer velocity still up. You can never quite buy in fully without reservation on Sasaki given what we've seen over the past two seasons. But yeah, I think he should more or less be 100% rostered and just take what comes moving forward as it comes. Did you see the explanation for why he's good now? Not the latest one. He has a comically oversized glove now. That's the reason. Oh, hiding his pitches. Yeah, there was some concern that he was that he was tipping his pitches. The Dodgers got him to use a bigger glove in recent starts and What's weird is he was asked about it and he was like, no, the gloves, not any bigger. And then someone was like, but it's bigger and he was like, well, maybe my face is smaller. That was a weird interaction for Rocky Sasaki. He seems like weirdly like unwilling to accept that like outside help works for him. I don't know what's going on there, but I thought that was funny, but it's kind of a mustard colored glove. Yeah, it's really big. Yeah. Looks like he just bury his whole face in it. Yeah. But it's four good starts in a row. 26 strikeouts to seven walks in 24 innings in that span. The velocity's been up the whole time. Look, it might all fall apart. But given what we've seen, given the upside, given the constant tinkering that the Dodgers have done with him, I think it's worth making the bet that Rocky Sasaki has figured it out. I think, apparently, as in him over Quinn Matthews makes sense. I would take Matthews over Noah Cameron just because it's been two good starts. I know he had a really low ERA last season, but I don't think there's a huge amount of upside with Noah Cameron. So we're in agreement then in order there. Sasaki then Matthews then Cameron a distant third because Again, I don't think there is not a scenario where like I'm excited to pick up camera. Yeah. I need I need pitching hell. I've had this roster spot where, you know, I can't find anybody good for maybe maybe Cameron's worth a shot now that's that's where I'm at with him Sasaki by the way he did walk three and five in a third innings. That's the one negative here. But he threw 68% strikes. So I don't know. I'm still seeing improved control on the whole and velocity was up for the third straight start was actually up a little more on this one. The last one Dave Roberts brought up the point last time that with all the mechanical tinkering they've done with Rocky Sasaki he thinks he's finally got to a point where he's not thinking about it. And that makes a lot of sense to me. I'm going through that with my my kids right now and they're hitting mechanics. They're kind of going through that same process. I'm sure you don't want to be up there thinking. It's a leagues. But but yeah, that that makes sense to me and we may be seeing that play out here too. Still a lot of downside risk for Sasaki. I I would not put him in the circle of trust. No, we could start. But there's a lot of downside risk for there's a lot of downside risk for Noah Cameron Quinn Matthews too. Yeah. For sure. All right. I'm going to Well, punt on my oh my goodness gracious player the night was going to be Brian Wu. We'll talk about him later another bad start. I don't really have a good feel for why things have gone so poorly for him. So we'll get into that a little later. But first, let's take our first break. This is a fast evolving situation. Mr. Killshot. It comes for you. He's a world we should take him out. Welcome back to fantasy baseball today. I am Chris towers here with Scott White. Let's talk some news notes and show how tiny was out of the lineup on Thursday due to lingering me soreness. This is the first time. It has really limited him as a hitter, which is a little concerning. Team doesn't sound too worried, but the fact that it's already ready, becoming an issue on the hitting side in addition to the biceps issue. And the fact that, you know, he had the bullpen session and then didn't recover from it well. It just all points to, I don't know if we're going to get much out of show, Hey, O'Tani has a picture of the rest of the way. Well, yeah. And even the fact that he's having to sit some because he was hitting. Yeah. And this was, I think what we did, a redrap for the second half, we only had him third and that was with Aaron judge out of the discussion. And Bobby Witt was behind him, I think. Like it's, yeah, man, the, the first couple round. Yeah. Have been throttled this year. Of course, one of the players we had ahead of O'Tani in that first two round redraft was one so to so we all have that on our face because I would take O'Tani over so to I agree with that. Yeah, I agree with that. But yeah, it's, it's a little concerning here. I still think he'll be great as a hitter. But it's admirable. And they had already said, you know, it wasn't affecting him as a hitter. So, you know, did it get worse? I don't know. Let's watch Liar pants on fire. Maybe, maybe you never know. It would be the first time. Time stands changed. It would be the first time a professional sports team has misled the public ever. So, you know, Shane McClannahan left Thursday start with lower back tightness. He pitched three innings with one run allowed before leaving. No specific timetable for his return that I have seen. Gerrache hopes to be back in time for the post season. Doesn't mean he won't be back for the regular season. But it doesn't sound like he's expecting to make much of an impact down the stretch for the red socks. So drop everywhere. I mean, if you have the I L space, no, what? Yeah, probably. I think that's probably not a stash anymore, right? Like probably, if I were to be in I L stands, he would be pretty low on the I L stash. Ranky's Gerrache, if I came out with a new list today. All right. Payton, Toli and Jake Bennett could both see their innings limited down the stretch. Toli is already two innings past his career high. Bennett, I didn't realize 30 innings past his career high. Yep. If you'd read that article last week, Chris, you know, I did. What have I skimmed it? I caught you liar, liar pants on fire. I read it now. I read part of it. Certainly the intro. That's the part nobody reads. Well, you're welcome. Then you got one. But yeah, that was concerning. Brian Bayo could be used more as a starter, moving forward. His velocity's been up lately. I don't know, he's pretty boring, but that's just something to keep an eye on with Payton Toli and especially Jake Bennett. I think, you know, 30 innings past his career high. We're pretty close. That might be only like three or four more starts from Jake Bennett. Yeah. Another reason to be dubious of his performance. I think he's kind of just Andre Palante like anyway. Yeah. Doesn't mean he probably needs to be rostered still, but and then he throw that innings concern on top of it. Yeah. Jake Bennett. Jake Bennett is if you can sell him now, it's a good time. And then Toli, I mean, I don't, you know, two innings past his career high, that, you know, if they want to bump it 40 to 50 innings, that gives you a little leeway, but, you know, it's there, there will probably be at least one skip start in there and some extra days of rest and and all that stuff. So just something to keep in mind with him. Well, this is a team that's pushing, make, make it a playoff push, right? They're, they're planning to buy and everything. And so now we're saying 40% of their rotation is isn't going to make it through the regular season even might be a, might be a landing spot for like a Dustin May type. I could see Toli being a big bullpen arm for them in the play. Yeah, that's true. But they got to get there first. Yeah. It's not a guarantee. Yeah, I mean, right now they've got pant or sand ball on the rotation. So they could, they could actually use some bullpen or rotation help. And I don't think any of their injured guys are really anywhere close to coming back, right? I don't think so. I haven't seen anything on Cutter Crawford, Tanner Halker, Johan Oviedo. So I don't think they're in crushes. The only one that's a boost. Look, they get him back for the playoffs to go with Sonny Gray and Render Sparez. That's, they got something cooking. Yeah. All right. The Padres have something cooking. Joe Musker of a Nick Paveta, both through two simulated innings on Wednesday. And he rehab assignment could be soon for them. So we might see those guys in September down the stretch, two names to keep in mind. Roman Anthony was cleared to begin swinging a bat Thursday as he continues to work back his way back from that finger injury. He hit off a tee and took some softwaft batting practice. These are the first real positive signs we've seen in a while. But we've also had multiple false starts in Roman Anthony's recovery. So I don't want to get too excited. Let's, let's, let's see how he recovers from this. I did see a note, Mark Bowman of MLB.com said that Spencer Strider may not pitch again this season at least as a starter. He's returning from yet another elbow injury. And that report also did note that the team is apparently wondering internally whether he might need to shift to a relief role full time, which I've had that thought myself, unfortunately. Yeah, I don't know how, you know, that such vague descriptions there, like there is some internal conversation. Like I'm sure those internal conversations happen all the time for a variety of pictures. And it's hard to know what it means. I mean, Mark Bowman was also floating the idea of trading Strider and just eating this allery he has remaining, which what is the upside of that? Cause what are you going to get for that even eating this allery? I can't imagine it's much. I think it'd be a great reliever. So maybe there's something to it, but I don't know, starting Martin Perez every fifth day. So like, it's not like like they have a lot of talented pictures, but none of them can stay healthy. So I don't think you can just go ahead and say, oh, we're going to take one of them off the board. Right. But at the very least, sounds like you could probably drop Strider in addition to crochet. I'd drop Strider over crochet, frankly, yeah, for sure. Matt McClain was activated from the aisle after missing three weeks with a calf injury. Edwin Aroyo was sent back to Triple A to make room on the roster. The Rangers plan to activate Corey Seeger from the aisle Friday. It's been dealing with a back injury. And trees have just totally wrecked his season. We'll see. Nick Lidolo, this one's a little worrisome is testing a new grip for his curve ball to try to avoid the recurring blister issues that have landed on the aisle multiple times. And that's a really bad sign, I think, because his 2024 season was wrecked because he had a blister. He tried to change the grip on his court, his curve ball. It led to a ligament injury and he just wasn't right all seasons. So that curve ball feels a big deal for Nick Lidolo. He's been pretty bad this season. That one feels I'm not going to say there's no chance. He makes an impact on the stretch, but I'm not super optimistic about Nick Lidolo's chances at this point. If curve balls is everything, if it's if it's different, you know, that it's like Spencer Strider losing his fastball, you know, he hasn't been the same sense. Yep. All right. Josh Young is eligible to return from the aisle on Saturday, but he has quote, not trended in the right direction per manager. Skip Schumacher. Harrison Bader will miss the rest of the season, manager Tony Vittello said it was because of the preexisting planter for Shytis injury and not the scooter accident from this weekend. So there you go. Josh Chisholm was pulled from the 11th inning of Thursday's game, but it was just due to cramping in his legs. So hopefully he's okay. Mitchell Parker had surgery Wednesday to repair a UCL sprain internal brace procedure. So he could be back sometime in 2027. And the twins acquired reliever AJ Menter from the Metz for brewing egg bionny, Agbionny, son of Benny and Billy Amick. There you go. That's the name I've not heard for. I did hear you finish that line sometime. Yeah. I heard it recently for some reason. I can't remember why Benny Agbionny came up, but if you want straight talk about Benny Agbionny and print the heart love theme from the fantasy football podcast, it's a deep cut. I'm sorry. I don't remember that. That might be pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it might be back when I was just sitting in the bullpen. All right. Let's move on to Waiverwire pictures. And we already talked about Rocky Saki. We talked about Noah Cameron. It's a pretty big drop off in terms of how interesting the other guys are. Well, I guess I don't know. And your plant and Noah Cameron aren't that different. And Andre Pellante, good starting against the Cubs, two on runs, six innings. This is what he is. He's a ground baller. You know, can put up good stretches with that defense behind him. He's also not a must roster pitcher. And I don't think I mean, 15 team league, I guess. Yeah. I think that's fine. Pellante probably should be on someone's roster, even at a 12 team league, but it doesn't necessarily have to be on yours. If you've got eight or nine good starting pictures aside from them. It's a good streamer because of the quality star potential. It's probably worth backtracking a little bit. We got sidetracked by Benny Ockbionny. It's probably worth asking. Oh, AJ Mentor. Just for the audience's benefit, do we see AJ Mentor becoming a saves candidate for the twins? And I don't really. Yeah. It's good. I'm not sure he's a clear upgrade over you, Andrew Skolmez. He's not the badness or AJ Mentor that he used to be. His bit is over for, I believe. He's, he's, yeah, right. He's been better than that. I think he probably is better than that, but he's also left handed and I could see maybe a time share developing between the two, but I, unless Gomez falls. I think Gomez would have to fall apart. Yeah. I don't see. I don't see mentor overtaking him. All right. I, Bailey Oberg had a good start on Thursday, two on runs over six innings. I think he's wildly over rostered at 61%. I know he's been decent, 390 80 R.A. 128 whips since the start of July. I really don't think there's any upside here. I, yeah. I mean, look, some pitcher has to be rostered. I understand that, but I, I bet there are more interesting pitchers on the waiver wire in your standard 12 team league than Bailey Oberg. I mean, just agreement. And it's a 15 team league. I would guess Brandon Young still out there, maybe, or who's, may not take no a camera and over Bailey Oberg at this point. Yeah. Pretty similar roster right. So, yeah. Yeah. I agree with you on that. We had a couple of deeper league guys pitch. I don't really think there's anything here. Retlouter, two on runs, over six innings, five strikeout, zero walks. You'd have 12 whips, seven on the slider, four on the change-up. It's a second good start in a row, but he's been bad for a whole lot longer than that. So I don't think there's anything, any reason to add Retlouter right now. Jake Irvin came back from the IL. He's been useful at times, but he didn't look great. Five on runs and five innings. So, need to see a whole lot more there and we've only taken one break, right? I think so. We've only taken one break. Let's take another break. Let's take out Kokomo. That's true. I mean, it was a little disjointed at the start, so we're going to take one more break. Then we're going to do some Scotty doesn't know everyone's favorite game. And then we'll talk more about stuff to happen on Thursday. We'll be right back. The Don Ranch. We're back in business. Let's go to work. Fight in the good fight buddy. I am Chris Towers. That's Scott White and Scott maybe knows things. We're going to find out. Usually knows things. Usually, you don't want me to know things. Yeah, I think for the audience is safe. We want you to like, look, this is, I think you said it yesterday. If you're on a podcast, you got to be willing to be wrong. Is that, is that how I phrased it? I think you said something like that. Something to that effect. Para phrasing. You got to be willing to have people laugh at you. Yeah. Yeah. If that doesn't even sound right either. If you're, you're going to get, you get the gist of what I said. If you're going to be dumb, you got to be tough like that song from the Jackass movie. All right. Scotty doesn't know. We've got five bits of ephemera for Scotty to try to figure out. Let's see if he can do it. I, there are multiple answers to all of these. Oh. So the first one only has two. The second one has three. We'll say if you, you got to get both for the first one. Oh, come on. I thought you're making it easy, but you're actually making it harder. Oh. So you're, you're saying you only have to get one of every category that, that seems. Normally, I just have to come up with one right answer. Yeah. I think I'm willing to be. Yeah. All right. All right. Two hitters are tied for the MLB lead in home runs over the past 30 days with 10 each. Who are they? Two MLB hitters. Two hitters tied for the MLB lead with 10 over the last 30 days, 10 home runs. We'll give you a hint. I'm going to want a hint. I'll make it a little easier. One's the analyst, one's in the AL West. Oh. In at least in AL West, you say, hmm, 10 home runs over the past 30 days. Well, I believe I'm going to guess the one in the NLE snowing where your mind goes. See, a lot of this is psychological is heraberto Hernandez. That has been correct. Ah, play the clip then. Man. You want to guess the AL West guy now? Is the NLE sky medals? No, it's not medals. No, I think he's at nine or eight. He's had a very good 30 days as well. Okay, so the AL West guy, they get through all the teams there and nobody's coming to mind. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to have a good answer for you. So what you're saying is the answers, of course, are Yordon Alvarez and C.J. Abrams, who lead the majors with 10 homeers over the past 30 days. I mean, that one felt pretty easy. Yeah, too easy. So easy, it was hard. I tricked myself. Yeah, you overthought it. Harry Berkter Hernandez, I think it's seven. So he said a good 30 days. He may come up later. Oh, no, no, no, is there anything you want to point out about C.J. Abrams and Yordon Alvarez because it's usually a jumping off point. Yeah, I think the developments. Yordon Alvarez is awesome. I think C.J. Abrams though, I do think it is notable that he was pretty bad in June and has bounced back in a big way. And that's always been the thing with C.J. Abrams. I think this is the fourth year in a row that he got off to just a crazy good start. And the previous three, the second half were absolute disasters. And that has not been the case this year. I think we've talked about it, the nationals. I don't know if their player development is suddenly like one of the best in baseball, but even if they're just average, I think that's a big improvement over where they were before because there were a lot of guys stagnating on the nationals the past five years or so. And if C.J. Abrams avoids the second half slump, which he entered the day batting 408 for the second half. Like at what point, at what point do we put him ahead of Ellie De La Cruz for fantasy? Yeah, that's a tough one because Abrams has been better this season. He's been, he's got to be like top five shortstop. He's got to be a top five hitter overall, right? Yeah, number. I didn't want to go as far as to say Bobby with because that seems like heresy for sure, but even how about this love for wit to do what what C.J. Abrams has done this year? C.J. Abrams has more RBI than anyone in baseball, including Art on Average. Wow. Man, that'd be it. That's, you know, third in baseball and RBI, you will never get this one and I'm not going to play the music. South Stewart is third in the majors in RBI. 79. That is stunning, isn't it? Good for him. Yeah, it's nice for him. All right, let's move on. Three hitters are hitting 370 or better over the past 30 days and only one is more than 70% roster in CBS fantasy leagues. 370 or better three hitters. All right, so these are going to be some obscure ones. They're all in like the 65% rostered range. Well, and then the one is 93. Man. Who's been hot? I mean, who have I wanted to put my sleeper hitters article? That's, if there are that available. One of them was definitely in this week's. I don't know if the other one was because it's really flown under the radar. How good this guy's been lately? All right. Yeah. They're all in the 60% range for rostered because one of them is 93. Because the one we have is 47% rostered. The other two are like 65 to 68%. Okay. So it's not this guy. Unless. Unless. Your numbers are off. Um, it's only named the. comes to mind. I don't like this. Okay, I'm just going to say it for the sake of moving the show, continuing keeping it moving. Ty France. Ty France is. It is not Ty France. He's been hitting very well lately, but the answer is actually Stephen Kwan. Okay. That makes Gabriel Moreno. And Nick Gonzalez. That one. He is like 67% roster. He had two more hits today, including a double and a run scored. He is hitting 316 for the season. I mean, look, it's a 376, Babbit for the season, the expected batting average is still a very strong 283. Does Nick Gonzalez deserve more credit than he's getting? How roster did you say is over 60%? No, that's probably about right. Yeah, it's about 67%. That's probably about right. We haven't talked about him much. I know we definitely did last week, but that might have been the first time we talked about him all season. So I guess from that perspective, he hasn't gotten enough credit. But beyond the batting average, pretty empty batting average. Right. It is exactly. So Tomer's four steals. He's got some multi-position eligibility, but yeah, I think it's a pretty boring player despite being very good. I do think Stephen Kwan, you know, being right around 70% roster, that's probably a little too low. But I understand why people are pretty hesitant to jump back in on him. Sure. All right. You want to move on? Sure. We got a minor league version of Scott. You guys know you're the minor league guy. You're writing about these guys every single week. You better get at least two of the four hitters in the mind. Well, I win if I get to with a four. I will give you that. Okay. And one of them you definitely should get no pressure. Okay. But that's why I'm not giving you credit if you just get one. Four hitters in the minors have at least 30 homers this season. Can you name them? Well, that's a lot of homers. It is. So I think the one you think I should absolutely get is Joshua Bias. Scotty does know. All right. Yeah. I know there are a lot of brewers with a lot of homeruns. But I know the guy we talked about yesterday in the fantasy baseball express quite there. I know he was, I think he was at 29. So that was that was Blake Burke. That's not a guess. I'm just offering up. No, I know. I know. Um, what's that guy? He had a lot of strikeouts. A lot of people were mad. I didn't put him on the mid season top 50. First round pick last year. Andrew Fisher. Andrew Fisher is correct. Yes. Scotty does. Just needed me to walk you to it. Yeah. What you got there. Would you like to know the other two? Uh, can I come up with another one? One is it A ball? One recently got to triple A. Is one of the Dodgers organization? One is in the Dodgers organization. It's like a first basement or a third basement. He's too old for the level really. I look through my minor league notes. I might find him. He is 20. He turns 21 in a couple days. He's in Shelton. That's the one. Yeah. Good job. You got the one. I couldn't. I couldn't have pulled the name off of the top of the dome, but Eastern Shelton. The last one you said was was where? A Arizona diamond backs triple A prospect. Oh, triple A triple A must not be a big name. Uh, band graphs ranked him 15th in the organization. Uh, and there's actually a fan graph piece about him from 14 days ago on their prospect site. I don't think I can come up with the name man. Well, Pena. I could not have come up with the 30 home or season 26 of them came at double A. He slowed down a lot since he got to triple A. Only 24% strikeout rate. A name to know in your deeper dynasty leagues. Big power. There. Uh, and he's got the last name. Pena. Oh, Pena. I thought you said Pena. Like catcher name man. He Pena. Fan graphs usually does the diacritic marks and there is no, uh, tilde over the end. So I don't, I don't know if Pena. There isn't on baseball reference either. So maybe. So that's that's maybe it just got left out. Yeah. All right. You want to, you want to move on? Sure. Should we should we just do one more? If you want. So you probably just do one more. Let's do. Um, let's do the minor league pitchers again. And I think you can get this one. Okay. You got to get to though again. Four pitchers have at least a 35% strikeout rate in the minors this season. Minimum 70 inning. Four pitchers have at least a 35% strikeout rate. Five percent strikeout rate across the minors this season. Minimum 70 inning pitch. Oh, that's not many innings. Well, it isn't the minors. I don't feel like I've written about nearly as many pitchers as hitters this year for the prospects report kind of burned out on pitchers, I think. I mean, there's one. Come on. Oh, okay. Kate, Kate Anderson. Kate Anderson does have the endings to qualify. And he leads all of organized baseball with a 41.7% strike. All right. Well, sticking sticking with the easy names. Seth Hernandez. Seth Hernandez is second. Oh, can you get? Does that mean I win this one? Or throw it off? Well, all right. People want to hear the song. Let's see if we can get one more. All right. Now it gets harder. One was recently promoted to double A at 22 years old. And one has the he's 26 years old in the comes organization. Come on. He doesn't count. That's cheating. 26 years old. Is he has he been in the majors before the 26 year old? Never been in the majors. He just got to triple A four games ago. And who did you say the other one was? I did not say. What did you say about him? Just got to double A. That's not much. Yeah. Oh, um, Anthony Ionson. No. Of the red socks. That's a good one, but no. Yeah, I don't. Scotty doesn't know. All right. Doesn't know. Oh, sky doesn't know how. Caden Hunter of the Baltimore Orioles. He has a 38.4% strike out rate. This season, 11.3% walk rate. He has a six-round pick from the 2025 draft. But seems to be rising pretty quick with this kind of performance. 132 ERA on the season. So just a name for your deeper leagues. And then the other one I was going to do is six teams have multiple hitters with a 400-wova over the past month. CJ Abrams, James Wood and Curtis Mead technically all did for the nationals. That's pretty impressive. Also, Griffin, Kona and Herparo Hernandez for the Marlins are on there. And then I did want a special shout out to Luke Keishel, who has a 397-wova over the past 30 days. I did not notice that. Probably because he has one stolen base and two home runs and isn't quite playing every day. Although I believe he has added outfield eligibility recently. So we'll see if we can get an interesting second half from Luke Keishel. Okay. And that's it for Scotty. Doesn't know. Let's move on to some wave or wire hitters. And Andy Rodriguez had a really interesting game. He went one for three with a walk and two steals. And he suddenly has five steals to go along with five homers in 38 games and a 259-384-54/line. That's a 2020 pace from a catcher with great plate discipline and a 92 mile per hour average of loss. Obviously, he's not going to get a 2020 pace as a catcher. But that was interesting. He's only 16% rostered. He has only started two of four games since his return from the IL. But he came in as a pinch hitter and one of them had two played appearances. I believe he stole a base in that one as well. I think Andy Rodriguez is pretty good. Thank you firmly in the number two catcher discussion. Yeah, I just wish he'd play more. I don't know what they need the pirates feel like they need to see from Henry Davis still. But Andy. Yeah, we talk about Andy Rodriguez a few times this year and how big of a prospect he used to be before having some health issues and he's looked good and the time he's gotten in the majors this year. Yeah, if you don't have a good second catcher, I think Andy Rodriguez is one to target. Dale Lyle had a two-homer game. It's been a very disappointing season for him. He's 77% roster. That's still like a 15-15 pace, but the XBA has dropped nearly 50 points for the quality of contact. It's not been nearly as good as it was last season. And then another catcher, maybe we were too dismissive of Daniel Susak who hit his first two MLB homers on Wednesday and then hit his third on Thursday. He did have 18 homers in 97 games in AAA last season. I think we probably weren't too dismissive, but just wanted to head back here because he homered again. Yeah, I think he could amount to something someday. I have him as a second catcher in actually I'm starting a Mattel Wars right now. So good timing for me because Sam Wilpassai was on the IL and it's 15 team two catcher league who is out there to pick up. I decided on Daniel Susak because I do think there is some potential there. Good call. Yeah. But I don't think in most circumstances anybody needs to bother with him yet. All right. Let's move on to some pitching left overs. Brian Wu continues to struggle. Five innings, five earned runs, five hits, two walks. That's not that bad in five innings, eight strikeouts. He has a 616 ERA in nine starts since June 1st. He's got 54 strikeouts, only 12 walks in 49 and 2/3. Tennings in that span. He has been getting hit harder 90 point 2 mile per hour average, ex of velocity in June and July. I don't really have a good sense for what's gone wrong for Brian Wu though. I know a lot of it is he's been really bad on the road all season. But he had a bad start at home recently. The one thing I've noticed is he's been getting a lot of time off recently. He only made four starts in July and it's been a lot of like eight or nine days in between starts on multiple occasions. I wonder if he's just hitting a wall. The velocity's been fine. It's not showing up there. That's something we talk about sometimes where maybe the velocity's still there but you got to go a little harder for it. It makes it harder to command. I'm searching for an explanation for Brian Wu. So you're kind of assuming they're spacing out his starts because they feel like he needs more rest. I'm wondering if it's more because they're having to juggle six starters. And that it's less the simple it's more the symptom than the cause. Yeah. It's more that because he's getting so much time between starts it's just throwing him out. Yeah, it's a little rusty. Yeah. And obviously it's not the sort of thing that we talk about often and it's not the sort of thing that comes up often but we're searching for answers because quality of contact, swinging strike rate, strike out rate, walk rate, even ERA estimators. He has a lower fit this year than he did last year. Brian Wu. So every that pitch selection, everything looks the same. And he's been awesome at home overall. You mentioned he had a bad start there recently. Well, it's a 220 ERA at home. It's a.77 whip. 10k per nine is supposed to 7.8 on the road. Even that's way off. So like, you know, when this first came up, it was a couple months ago. Should we sit Brian Wu on the road since the splits are so extreme? It seemed like a silly idea of course because Brian Wu is drafted to be an ace. But I think we're there now. I think until we see him get back on track, which I think he will. I think he will. But I would be reluctant to start him on the road right now because this has gone on as long as it has. So with all that being said, I have to ask a question. I may not like it, but I have to ask how certain are we? Yeah. That was a good title. I like it either how certain are we that Kate Anderson is getting called up? If we're thinking that the six man rotation might be messing guys up a little bit and we've seen like Luis Castillo when they were using him as a piggyback guy. He was just clearly unhappy and so was Bryce Miller with it. Here's our creatures of habit. They don't like their habits disrupted. They have six pitchers in their rotation. They've been talking about trading one of them. Do we think they're going to trade two of them? Do we think they're comfortable trading one and sticking with a six man rotation? Or do we think Kate Anderson just doesn't get called up this year or gets called up as a reliever? Barring an act of God like him getting injured. I am 100% on Kate Anderson getting called up this year. I am not 100% on him being used in the starting rotation. But I mean, he would give a team that's fighting for a play out spot a big boost and just by the way they've managed him in July, having him skip three weeks and then come back. That tells you everything. They're saving those bullets for when they matter. Whether or not it's the bullpen rotation, it might change depending on how the trade deadline goes. Also, the mariners don't the reason they've been able to delay the promotion for so long is they've had incredible luck, health luck with their starting pitchers and that could obviously change. Yeah, I would still feel really good about Kate Anderson making an impact this year. I mostly agree. I just had to ask the question. Sure. Don't shoot the questioner. All right. You're a press. Another very good start. Six innings, three hits, one earned runs, six strikeouts, two walks against the Metz. Velocity was up and he was back to missing bats. Sixteen whips on 97 pitches, three each or more on the sinker, four seamer and slider. And that's a good sign because he didn't miss bats in his previous start. It was still a pretty good start, but he had two strikeouts in that one. And now he's back. And since he had those two starts before going on the IL, we're at 14 strikeouts to zero walks, looked like he was turning the corner. Since then he has 54 strikeouts to 12 walks in 46 in the third innings, a 175 year A and I believe four of the 12 walks came in one start. The command and control has been significantly improved for your Perez. Looks like he's making the leap we all hoped he would. And if he keeps this up the final two months of the season, your Perez is going to be draft as a top 15 starting pitcher next year, I think. Good be. I mean, he has that kind of upside. So it to me, the key seems to be the sinker. It's helped make him a much better strike thrower as it did for Edward Cabrero when he was with the Marlins last year. He's last, so last four starts, all quality starts for your Perez. He's throwing the sinker 35% or more. He didn't introduce that pitch to his arsenal till May 12. That was 11 starts ago. And during that time with the sinkers, a part of his arsenal, again, he was throwing it like 15% there early on. Now it's more like 35%. But counting all those starts with the sinker, 11 and all, 242, we are 8.88 whip, 9.5 Cape Brunei. So you got to like that. Yep. On the other side of that game, we had Nolan McLean, six and a third innings, two on runs, two walks, six strikeouts. He had 10 whips on 99 pitches. He's never a big with guy. 82 mile 82.2 mile prayer average, ex of velocity. He did have a rough May, but since the end of May, he has a 228 ERA 71 strikeouts, 21 walks in 59 and a third innings. He's averaging right around six innings per start. It's really just the one bad month so far for Nolan McLean, including last season. He's pitched five months in the majors. Four of them have been really, really good. So that's a good sign. He is a ace borderline ace. However you wanted to find it. He is right there in the in or around the top 10 starting pitchers, I think. Now, if Yuri Perez closes the season out like he's been lately, Yuri Perez versus Nolan McLean would be a very interesting argument for next season. Yuri Perez is two years younger than Nolan McLean. And he's showing the upside now. So that's one to put a pin on that one or this winter. Let's say fall and winter. Sonny Gray, seven innings, four runs, two walks, five strikeouts, nine whiffs on 97 pitches. That's just been inconsistent for him all year. Second poor start in a row. He had nine quality starts in a row before that one. He's just weird. I feel like he's been pitching over his head all season. And his XERA is nearly a run higher than his actual mark. I wouldn't be surprised if Sunny Gray I struggled a little bit over the next couple of months, but he's good. I just don't think he's a sub three, you're a good. - Stop trying to understand sunny gray Chris. - That's a fair point. - All right. I've wasted years of my life trying to understand sunny gray, just let the sunny gray happen. - Just let the mystery be. - Do you understand Sean Burke, who just is dominating right now. His third start in the last five with at least 10 strikeouts, he struck out 10 over six innings. He really hates the Yankees, 'cause he said two excellent starts in the past month and a half against them. This time it was six innings, no earn runs, 10 strikeouts, two walks, consecutive starts with 10 strikeouts, 45 strikeouts to four walks in 31 and two thirds innings in the month of July. And his velocity's gone back down. You remember at the end of June, he had like three starts in a row where he was above 96 miles per hour. He was back down to 95 the past like three starts and his fastball has still been incredibly effective. He's, I don't know what to make of this, 'cause look, we went through this with Davis Martin earlier in the season, looked like he was taking a leap for the white socks and then it came crashing down hard. Sean Burke is younger than Davis Martin, had more prospect pedigree certainly. Remember, Sean Burke technically was their opening day starter last year. So he's more talented than Davis Martin, I think. And he's had, I think it's three, four pitches in the month of July with a whiff rate over 30%. He's pretty good. So there were the five starts where the velocity was up, three, the velocity on the fastball has been fairly normal, but there is kind of a trick there because we're kind of, we're using the crutch of stack casts, we're using the crutch of stack cast player breakdowns and they show you in any given start how different a pitcher's velocity is individual pitches from his season mark. But obviously if you have a stretch of five starts with a velocity's up, that threshold changes. So it stopped being, okay, he's up one and a half, he's up one and it became, he's even. Well, even now means a higher mark than it was before that five start stretch. Still, it was like 96 in that five start stretch. Now it's more like 95, it was more like 94 earlier. So that's the whole break. He's averaging 94.4 before that June 18th start against the eighties. - And now so now he's like low 95s. In the 11 starts, or I'm sorry, eight starts, five with the velocity way up, three with the velocity a little up, 142, we are 8.87 with 11.9 K per nine. Look, he's not that good. - Oh, well nobody's that good. Pedro Martinez, maybe it was very best, but, but it like the, it's really good. And he just had 10 strikeouts against the Yankees with not even the highest velocity. Yeah, it's, I can't second guess at that much. I wish he would sustain the peak velocities, he hasn't, but even while not sustaining the peak velocities is back to back 10 strikeout efforts. So yeah, I think Sean Burke is good. I think Sean Burke might be better than Ryan Weathers, who was fine on Thursday, seven shutout innings. Actually, it's great. Four strikeouts, three walks. velocity was down across the board, eight whips on 106 pitches. He only has one start with more than seven strikeouts since June 18th. And he's up to 115 innings, more than double last year's total. It's most since 2023. I think he's probably just slowing down. So we'll take seven shutout innings every time, but we're talking moving forward. My faith in Ryan Weathers has been shaken by the past month or so. Yeah, sure, that's fair. He has made a change to his arsenal here recently. Fourth straight start of fading his four seamer, which is a pitch with a 284 batting average against a 95.1 mile per hour average of a velocity, not a good pitch. And he's faded four straight starts. Three of those four starts, it's been one earn runner fewer. So that might be something that helps to salvage him, but it's not quite enough for me to be buying back in. Like the starts have been better. They haven't been so good that it's like, yeah, give me, give me Ryan Weathers. So we'll continue to monitor that situation. All right, and then Robbie Ray had an excellent start. Six innings one earn run, one walks six strikeouts, 10 whips on 86 pitches. He barely threw his slider in this start, which is weird. And he has a 165 year race into June 1st, which is also very weird because he only has 48 strikeouts in 60 innings in that stretch to go with 26 walks. This feels extremely fake from Robbie Ray. I would be trying to trade him if anyone was buying. I can't imagine anybody's going to give you much for him, but he was a disaster in the second half last season. I think there's disastrous downside here with Robbie Ray. Yeah, that's fair. It's a really bad strike at the walk ratio. All right, nothing more to add. Let's move on to some hitting leftovers. Ronald Acunio, Homer walked and scored two runs on Thursday. That was his first extra base hit since returning from the IL, but it's been like a 93 mile per hour average. He had a big game, three for four with three doubles, one walk and two steals plus an RBI and two runs. Jack Caglione went two for four with two run with a two run, Homer. He had gotten really cold before this. His ex-wobo in his previous 100 plate appearances, prior to this game was down to 245. That's a disastrous mark. And he was hitting 233 with a 247 on base. And I'm going to guess what he's going to do. And I'm going to guess that's a 439 slug. I made a typo, but 18 strike out the new place. That's actually not that bad. But remains very streaky. There was a point where it felt like Jack Caglione was starting to figure it out. And then he just got ice cold again. I think he might just be that kind of guy, you know? Just a real streaky hitter who's bound to frustrate us until hopefully like goes on. But I don't think he's worth rostering. But not the roster savior you thought he was. Yeah, I don't want to make any-- I don't want to say anything too definitive about Jack Caglione because he's a 23-year-old and his first full major league season. So it's like-- I think we are still learning who he ultimately is going to be. But he hasn't peaked yet. I think it's fair to say. Yes. All right, a guy who is currently peaking, Luisca Garcia for the Nationals 1, 3 for 5, he came a single short of the cycle. We can say that. He had a double, a triple, and a home run in this game. He is hitting 302 with a 973 OPS in the month of July. He was significantly better than that in the month of June. I think it was an 1190 OPS in June. He's been incredible since the start of June. He said, 18 home runs since the start of June for Luisca Garcia. That's got to be pretty close to his season career high before this season, right? Let's see if I can click on the right Luisca Garcia. I would guess it is. His career high. Well, no, I mean, the 18 homeers just since June. Yeah, it equals his career high. There you go. Yeah. And he only had five in the first two months of the season. So all that production has come really since the start of June. Yet he's still. He sat against three of the last six lefties. He doesn't like it's based. And he just never will. That's just I think it's just it's too late. It's too late. Yeah, I think it was really dumb that the national spent like three years with Luisca Garcia not playing into lefties ever when they had nothing to play for. Now they're actually like a pretty competitive team. Maybe he would be able to hit lefties. But I don't think you can throw him out there against lefties now, right? I think you can. I think they, yeah, I mean, I think they can. I don't think they're going to. I guess that's the better way to say it. Because OK, Andres Chapparo is the platoon partner. I guess he's hit OK. But yeah, I don't know. They should or he should maybe he should get some special coaching this off season, find a personal hitting Sevant. Go hang out with me. I'm curious. Get get get coached up against lefties. I think I think Luis Garcia should take his career to the next level that way. Dare the nationals to sit him against lefties. Or whichever team he gets traded to this off season. All right, let's go to the call of the bullpen. Lucas Ursa got the save in the or got the ninth inning. Excuse me for the royals. He did not get the save notably because he loaded the bases before being pulled from Matt Strom who gave a give up a two out game winning grand slam. to Cody Clemens, lefty on lefty, game winning grand slam, down three with two strikes in an '02. - Luis Garcia would never. - That is a heartbreaking way to lose a game. Alex Lang blew the save on Tuesday, so nobody wants this job. It is time for Daniel Lynch to get a chance, I think. I mean, he might get traded, but they've tried everyone else and they've got no ideas. - Yeah. - Yeah, I think they should try. I think they should try Daniel Lynch, but I think that's been clear for a long time and they don't want to. - One team that has been perfectly willing to try guys out in the ninth inning is the Chicago Cubs. Aaron Savali got to save for the Cubs on Thursday. He got the final two outs. He is the 13th pitcher to get a save for the Cubs this season. That is too shy of the MLB record. I believe that was set by the Diamondbacks like two or three years ago. And I think there's a pretty good chance. There's at least one more pitcher who hasn't got to save for the Cubs who will moving forward. I don't know who that pitcher will be. It might be Luke Weaver. - Oh, right. - Right. - I think they're probably gonna trade for a high leverage reliever at least. - It would be a good idea. - Yeah. - All right, and then he-- - Actually good. - The Giants, Eric Miller got his second save in a row for the Giants. I don't know. I have no idea. I don't think that's a bullpen we want any part of anyway, but they've been all over the place, but it looks like things might be trending in Eric Miller's direction. - The Giants don't have a closer and they never will. That seems likely. All right, let's go to the two three. - That is what Frank says. Usually about the Nationals. Last year it was about the Marlins. - On the play. - That played the Giants in that bucket. - Yeah, I think that's fair. And we'll move on to two stream or not to stream close out the show. Will Warren at the Cubs on Friday? Brandon Young versus the Phillies, Kyle Lee versus the Blue Jays. How much said Raptors? Janssen Junk at the Metz, Bryce Elder versus the Nationals. Toma Yuki Sagano versus the Royals at home, Shane Drowin at the Angels, Carson Wizzahunt at the Padres, Zeppie Matthews at the Mariners. I probably don't need to say every name, right? We could just focus on the ones who actually might matter. And I think in this crop, it's Brandon Young, maybe Kyle Lee, and maybe Zeppie Matthews, I would Shane Drowin. - Shane Drowin's number one, clearly, I would go Brandon Young too and Kyle Layhe III. - All right, let's move on to Saturday. Are you starting Quinn Matthews in his MLB debut at the Blue Jays? - No, I'm not outside of the title. - But if you're the type of person if you are the type of person who is streaming, pictures, I mean, looking at the alternatives here Saturday, among those who might be available off the waiver wire, 'cause those are the only ones we talk about. - Yep. - I'm not seeing one that gives me the best. - Yeah, he might be the best by default, but he might walk five and two innings to get sit back to the minors, so. - That's entirely possible. - You, do you know, do you, do your team is in your hands? - I think Connor Prelimat, the Mariners, is interesting. I don't have any faith in it, but obviously great place to pitch. Zach Thornton, versus the Marlins, could be good as well. Maybe Robert Gas are at the Angels. - I don't love the Saturday options. - Yeah, Jack Perkins against the Tigers. - He's just been so bad. I think he's talented, but he's just, I've mentioned him. - So last couple of starts have been just. - Right? I thought his most recent one was pretty bad, but maybe I am remembering incorrectly. I can't say I have Jack Perkins whole game log memorized. - Like two-er-ones and five and two-thirds innings. - Okay, that's time. - Three-er-ones and five innings at the time before. - Not missing many of that. - Yeah. - All right, anyway. - All right, and then Sunday, do we like anybody on Sunday? I think, I know Kymarocker's been good lately. I still don't have a lot of faith in it, but. - And it's tough matchup at Houston. Walbert, Arania's been pretty reliable, but he's facing the brewers. - Yeah, if it was in Milwaukee, I'd feel a little better about it. That's a better place to pitch, but I think Walbert, Arania versus the brewers, Gage Jump versus the Tigers. - Ooh. - You ready to top back aboard the Jump bandwagon? - And then boy, if Kater Montero was in Detroit and not at Sacramento, I think I'd be okay with that one, but that's a real marginal pitcher and a real bad place to pitch. - I mean, my favorite Sunday is landed group at the boundaries, personally. - I had such a lot of the meager blessings of Sunday's stream. - To me is the clear winner. - All right, well, that's the clear winner, and that's where we're gonna wrap. Thank you so much for listening to our week without Frank. We made it. He'll be back on Sunday to get us back on track. Thanks so much to everybody who listened. We will be back on Sunday to recap this weekend. And oh, I should have mentioned this earlier. We're gonna be doing a trade deadline show. On Monday, 5 PM to 7 PM, fantasy baseball today, slash YouTube.com, slash fantasy baseball today. I should have mentioned that literally an hour ago. - And most importantly, Frank will be back for that. - As you already alluded to, I'm connecting the dots. - Frank would have, he would have promoted that an hour before I did. So that's why he's the better host. And that's gonna do it for fantasy baseball today. We will see you on Sunday. Bye-bye. (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) (BEEP) That is so effects. (BEEP)