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[email protected]. Get ready to win your lead. [MUSIC PLAYING] Now here's Frank Scott and Chris. What's up, and welcome in to Fantasy Baseball Today on Tuesday, August 11th. I am Frank Sample. Join by Scott White today on the show Jacob Lopez is on fire. We have Devon Williams' replacements. Probably needed those like two months ago, because he's just been bad. What the heck happened in that Blue Jays Red Sox game? Still trying to figure out what happened with that whole fourth out rule, the weirdest thing I've ever seen on a baseball field. And Scottie doesn't know. No. Yeah, no. I don't know that rule. I tell you that much. I know it now. I kind of get it now. It's still a little fuzzy. I am just going to read a tweet that I found that broke it down very well, and hopefully that will explain it for the rest of the world. Let's jump in. Can you believe it? Wow. All right, let's get things started with Jacob Lopez. Someone I know you recommended Scott as a two-star pitcher this week, and he got his revenge against the Tampa Bay Rays, although the race wound up winning this game. But he pitched very well. Seven innings, two runs, five strikeouts to one walk. He had 12 whiffs on 93 pitches. Eight came on that slider, and that pitch was awesome. He leaned on the slider even more in this one. It was his most used pitch. He threw it 42% of the time. He had the eight whiffs, a 33% whiff rate. 68.8 average EV on 10 padded balls. That is among the lowest numbers that I have seen with that many padded balls for a single pitch. So that slider was awesome. It was also a little bit different. The velocity was down 1.3 miles per hour. It had one more inch of drop in this game. And in five starts now, in the second half for Jacob Lopez. Many of them have been short. This was his first time even going six innings in the last five starts, let alone seven in this one. So lots of five and die, five or less. But 236 ERA 109 Whip, 32 strikeouts over 26 and 2/3 innings, a 14.3% swing eight strike rate during that stretch. So we got a stretch similar to this in the second half of last year, which made us excited about Jacob Lopez as a potential sleeper for this upcoming season. I believe he either ended the season hurt or dealt with an injury that kind of slowed him down. Maybe that's why he got off to such a terrible start this season. But it's got Jacob Lopez has come roaring back. He's only 39% rostered. What do you think about Jacob Lopez? Well, look, hopefully you added him for the two starts this week. We'd certainly talked him up, plenty leading up to it. So far, so good. I would say, and I think the second matchup is supposed to be even better. Yeah, he gets the Rangers. Yeah. So hopefully you did. And look, this is what we were excited about. I know, at least speaking for myself, I was excited about coming into the season. Jacob Lopez consistently ran very high strikeout numbers in the minors. He didn't rate as a particularly good prospect because he succeeded more with a deceptive delivery and just a terrific fastball shape, rather than traditional ways that pictures are evaluated. It doesn't throw particularly hard, for instance. And so he seemed like a market inefficiency, let's say, from a real life perspective, Jacob Lopez, which is why he bounced around a few different organizations, before landing with the athletics. I can't really pinpoint what's changed between him struggling so badly to begin this year and getting dropped everywhere, and why he's doing so well right now. Even as he's succeeded over this recent stretch of starts, there have been differences underneath the hood. Sometimes the velocity's been up. Sometimes it's been down. Sometimes he's leaned more on the cutter. This time it was more the slider. There's been a lot of different changes he's made within this stretch, which-- OK, so there's not one weird trick we can point to that says, Jacob Lopez is fixed now. I wonder if it was more, as you said, coming back from injury, just the command wasn't right. And there's probably a low margin for error here because Jacob Lopez doesn't throw hard at all. First couple starts of the season. He walked five each time. Not many pictures are going to succeed doing that. So I think he probably just needed some time to get over the final hump in his recovery, shake off the rust a little bit. And now we're seeing him perform really well again. And it doesn't mean he-- it doesn't mean he doesn't still have a slim margin for error. And we may see another really rough stretch from Jacob Lopez in the future, maybe even before this year is done. But we know the other side of the coin is still there, and he's showing it now. And it could be really useful down the stretch for you. And part of that slim margin for error is the fact that he pitches in Sacramento. And obviously that is a very, very tough place to pitch. But he did pitch well there, again, here on Monday night against the raise, which is a very formidable offense. The most added starting pictures on CBS from the weekend, Scott, include Hayden Westnesky, Jackson Job, Cody Bradford, and then Jacob Lopez is the fourth name on that list. I-- Job versus Lopez-- I would take Lopez over Bradford and Westnesky. But Job versus Lopez feels kind of close to me. Yeah, because Job is interesting in his own way, obviously, from a more traditional scouting context. He was the top pitching prospect of baseball at the time he got called up. And he looked very good coming back from Tommy John Surgery, his first start back. I would say the big concern with Job and Chris pointed it out on Monday's show is how deep is he going to get to work into games? Lopez just went seven innings. And this latest one is Job ever going to get that chance. I think if that wasn't on the table, clearly I would take Job. But because that is something you have to account for, are the Tigers going to let Job-- are they going to work Job hard enough that he could actually be of use to you and fantasy? Beyond just-- he's got a pitch well. Will he get the volume to be of much use to? And I don't know the answer to that. I think the odds are against it. So particularly now after Lopez just turned in this start, it might tip the scales more in his favor. Yeah. What about Jacob Lopez versus Tyler Malley? Back to back nine strikeout starts, obviously on a much better team now with the Atlanta Braves. What do you think about Lopez versus Malley? I'm pretty skeptical of Malley. I do think there are reasons to be encouraged. But I need to see more-- coming into the year, he was the least exciting of them. And now he's put together two straight nine strikeout efforts. Great. But I need to see more than that, I think, to take him over Lopez or Job. And Jacob Lopez versus Sean Monaya. Yeah, so I feel like he is the most enigmatic of the three. Monaya, because on the one hand, we've seen the longest stretch of dominance from him, the final two months of 2024. On the other hand, that was two years ago. We got a glimpse of him doing the same thing, Sean Monaya, and his latest art. But it is just the sample of one. And so it's definitely a stretch to say, OK, he's back to that guy. He wasn't 24. But if he is back to that guy, he wasn't 2024 at the end of 2024, then he might be an ace the rest of the way, honestly. So it's the biggest gamble. Monaya, I would, for that reason, probably have to put him behind both Jacob Lopez and Jackson
but I would put him ahead of Tyler Mallee, for instance. All right, let's go over to your player of the night. I'm gonna do a hitter here. I'm going to do Cam Smith. Cam Smith of the Houston Astros went three for four. On Tuesday, hit a home run. His 16th, that home run was hit 114 miles per hour because that's the kind of stuff Cam Smith does when he gets a hold of one. And particularly of late, he's been getting a hold of a lot of them. In August, he's 10 for 23. That's a 435 batting average with two home runs. Obviously a small sample, but he's been very good. I think just from the perspective of, "Okay, has he gotten what he deserves at the plate this year?" I would say, "No." He entered batting 226, despite a 246 XBA. He entered slugging 400, despite a 436 X lug. So, you know, on the one hand, there's that. But I don't even think that goes far enough to describe what's exciting about Cam Smith. I mentioned that home run was hit 114 miles per hour, 113.9 technically. His hardest hit ball this year, Cam Smith, 114.7. It's not a lot harder than that home run he just hit. And yet, only 22 hitters have hit a ball harder than that this season. I mean, Cam Smith can deliver exit velocities up there with just about anyone. And I think that is the clearest indicator of upside for a hitter. Obviously, he has to do a lot of other things well to deliver on that upside. But there's no. There's no. Like, faking that, basically. His strikeout rate is not so bad. His bat speed is 99th percentile. He's also very fast, 93rd percentile runner. Like, this is a gifted player. And I think part of the reason why he's had this failure to launch in the majors now between this year and last is because he only got 32 games in the miners. Like, he was rushed very quickly. And he was dominating, obviously, in those 32 games. Like, we saw with White Langford and Nick Kurtz, very similar situation for Cam Smith. But just because it worked for those two doesn't mean it's the right approach for everyone. And I think it's just taking Cam Smith a little longer to adapt, like we've seen from Jordan Walker. I think Cam Smith could be next year's Jordan Walker. It's probably too late from this year. But with the way he started August, he could make a pretty strong first pitch for that. For being next year's Jordan Walker. Yeah, he is an incredible athlete. As you pointed out, the bat speed, the sprint speed, the high end exit velocities that we've seen from Cam Smith. And as a right-handed hitter, you would think he could take advantage of playing in Houston where they have that short porch in left field. You know, he still hasn't mastered or I don't know that he ever will, you know, pulling the ball in the air. So obviously he needs to get better at doing that. But yeah, everything you mentioned here, big game for Cam Smith. And even if you go back a little bit further, his last 15 games, 333, 4 homers, 12 runs, 10 RBI, a 1040 OPS, 90 mile per hour average EV during that spin for Cam Smith. He has started 13 of the last 16 games. That has been stretches where his playing time has been a little sporadic. I feel like he's kind of one of these limbo outfielders for this season for fantasy, right? Because he's 39% rostered. I feel like he's probably rostered in most five outfielder leagues. And I don't know that he's a recommendation for a three outfielder league. So it's kind of that, you know, that weird, in between for a waiver wire outfielder, you know. Yeah. Yeah, I would say right now it would be tough to get him in line up in a three outfielder league, but, you know, watch him closely because that could change quickly. I could definitely see Cam Smith going on a huge run here the final six weeks of the season. If he is available in a five outfielder league, other names that have emerged recently, Griffin, Konaim, would you rather take Konaim or Cam Smith? Well, I know I had Konaim as a sleeper hitter for this week that just started, but not looking ahead at matchups. I think there's a better chance of Cam Smith being a worthy week to week contributor for you. What about Cam Smith versus Jake Mangum? I feel like Mangum's only worth it if you have particular needs that he fills. He's such a limited player. And that way, Cam Smith has more upside for sure. So I, I, I guess Smith is how I'd lean with that. Other deep names that have been getting picked up, Hector Rodriguez, Tim Tallah. Yeah, Cam Smith's on a different level from them. I mean, Rudd. So let me look at, and see how much Rodriguez has been sitting since getting called up Hector Rodriguez. Because oh man, he's not even playing against every right. Yeah, he has played against every right. But he's sitting against lefties, which is to be expected. Hector Rodriguez wasn't hitting lefties in the minors. Yeah. All right. Before we get to this weird play with the blue Jason, the, and the red socks here, I wanted to ask just what you think of Tarrick's Google so far with the Dodgers. So the results haven't been amazing so far. But the fact that he's throwing his sinker more, it just seems kind of weird to me. He used it 32% in this start here on Monday. It was five innings, three runs, six strikeouts. He'd still had 14 whiffs on 95 pitches. All the damage against him done by Jack Caglione, by the way. How about that? That's pretty awesome for Cags, not for school. But what do you make of this? I don't know if it's a Dodger thing, but like his four-seam fastball is clearly better than his sinker. Yeah. I don't like it. And I pointed it out after his first start with the Dodgers, where he struck out only six in six innings, which won at Raise and I, Brawl, except for the fact that it was his first start with the new team and his pitch selection changed. So he now has three starts this year, Tarrick's Google, where he's thrown more than 30% sinkers. Two of the three where his two starts with the Dodgers. So that's, that's how unusual it is. He's done it now back to back starts. And the results have been less than dominant, less than the best we've seen from school polls. So I don't think it's reason for panic. But there is something going on there. He is making a decision that may be to his detriment, at least as far as fantasy is concerned. And obviously you're not sitting Tarrick's Google or anything like that, but I think it's something we're going to want to monitor here over the final six weeks. Just the usage of his sinker. Does it continue? Does he continue to lean on it more with the Dodgers and do the strikeout suffer because of it? Yep, I think fair questions there. Obviously still, you know, one of the best pitchers in baseball, but it could potentially change the what we expect from him as an ace with the strikeouts potentially down, but you know, perhaps it just leads to better ratios because he has an awesome defense behind him. So I'm sure he'll still be great, but it does kind of change the calculation a little bit for school. If he continues to throw his sinker this much with the Dodgers, let's get to this red socks and blue jays play game. I don't let me set it up first and third one out the stadium scoreboards had two out. So I guess that kind of affected everyone's mental and they lost track how many out there was, but a fly ball to center field is caught. The runners just kept running because they thought it was two outs. So the man from third came home and scored the guy on first was like all the way at third base by the time the ball was in the infield and they nobody attacked nobody. The defense starts walking off the field. They throw it to first they get the second out like they know they have that out there to get what would be the third out. So, but it turns out on after review that the run actually scores for the red socks and here is the fourth out rule in Major League Baseball when both runners leave early, they must be appealed. This is not a force play as runners can't be forced backward only forward. It's a timing play so the run legally scores before the third out is made at first base. The run counts unless the fielding team also then appeals that the runner left early fielders then technically abandoned and the run counts. I've never seen anything like it. It's the it's the weirdest thing. Yeah, and I don't know why they're calling it the fourth out rule. It's the sort of shorthand that just makes it even more confusing. I guess what they're saying is in that very unusual scenario, you have to think of it as if you need to record the fourth out. I don't know. It's it's not a good name for it, frankly, but that does seem to be what people are calling it. And so my understanding then is if they had tossed the ball to third base and that was the
the third out, then it would have been fine. The runner at first would have counted as getting to second still, but obviously it's the third out, so then it's over and nobody scores. Or if they had gotten the third out of first base and also threw it over to third base to appeal there, then the run wanted to scored. But yeah, because they technically didn't appeal the runner leaving from third early and went back to the dugout. It's like saying, yeah, we didn't catch that. We didn't notice or we didn't care. And so they allowed the runner to score illegally because they didn't challenge it properly. Yeah. And that's part of it too. You mentioned the team was in the dugout. I think them leaving the field without appealing first is also part of this play. Just very confused. It's like a complete brain breaker. If you are, if you're listening to this podcast, you're probably a die hard baseball fan. If you haven't seen the play, go watch it because it is one of the most interesting things that I have ever seen. Before we hit our break, make sure to like this video. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. Let's take that break and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back fantasy baseball today and let's hit the news and notes. If you had August 10th on your Nathan of Aldi Bingo card, you are the winner. Nathan of Aldi plays in the aisle with right post theory elbow inflammation. Not trying to make light of his injury, but he seemingly goes in the aisle every year with some sort of arm injury. And this year he has lasted all the way until August 10th. Has there been other IEL stint for of Aldi this year's Scott that I'm missing? There honestly might have been. I just don't remember. I don't think it was arm related if there was maybe it was like a hamstring or something, but I seem to recall that there was, but I could check that real quick and tell you I mean any pitcher who's 36 years old, you have to think it's going to have one at some point. He, uh, no, no, he looks like he, he may have missed a start here there with an injury, but not an IEL stint until this one. And he has been having a pretty weird season 421 ERA 121 whip. The K to walk is still very good. It's a 19% K minus walk rate. He has a career high 14.7% swinging strike rate. The X fifth this year are much better than his ERA, but his fifth and his X ERA are right in line. I don't really get it. He's giving up more home runs this season, but his quality of contact is right in line where it was last year. Just kind of a confounding season for Nathan of all the, I feel like he's deserved better results, but he is dealing with this elbow injury and it is August 11th. So I don't really have much faith that he's going to make it back before the end of the season. And maybe like mid September, but tough. Yeah. Unfortunately with elbow inflammation, it could be something really serious or could be something really mild. And it's possible. He just misses two weeks and comes back without even eating rehab. So I'm based on what we know now, but I'm with you that the odds seem against that. Devon Williams was placed on the IEL with a right shoulder strain. We did hear recently about an arm injury that he was dealing with. So I guess this is that. The med said they don't expect them to be out too long, but who knows with a shoulder injury. And what do you know, they have a save opportunity right away here on Monday night and Daniel Duarte to shut out innings across the seventh and eighth. And then it was code high. Sanga in the ninth as the closer with a three run lead. He picked up his first major league save. And his last three relief appearances. He has three no hit innings four strikeouts to two walks. Sanga is about as combustible as any pitcher in baseball. Maybe just using him in one inning, and he roll is the way to get the best out of him at this point. But we know he has questionable control. I think if you had Devon Williams, if you're chasing saves in a deeper league, like, yeah, code I sang up probably makes sense. But anything shallower than I don't know, maybe even a 12 team readily if you're really desperate for saves. But he looks like the guy for now, I guess. Maybe. So yeah, you mentioned three straight hit list relief appearances, all three one inning. So, you know, tiny, tiny sample we're talking about. But prior to that, even working in relief, he had been going multiple innings and hadn't been going well. He's got an ERA over eight on the year. So it's been bad. But maybe, look, he obviously has great stuff that fork ball, especially maybe in that one in your role it could work. Maybe that's what the Mets are planning here trying them out in it. I do wonder if it was more in this case that they needed their highest leverage arm earlier in the game because the game was at risk of getting away from the Mets. They took a five, nothing lead in the first inning and they ended up winning seven, five. And the momentum was mounting prior to the night. So they brought in Daniel Duarte to shut things down. And maybe he's still the high leverage guy for him. I don't know that we can automatically assume that Sangat just because he got the save here. But the leaning has to be toward him. Sure. And Kodasanga is nine percent rostered. So widely available. He is very far down the list of other waiver wire relievers who are available right now. We still haven't seen a pirate save opportunity since they acquired Luke Weaver. But I still think he's going to be the guy and he's 55 percent rostered. So I'd rather have him. I was going to say Jacob Webb, but I feel like Daniel Polencia could be back any day now. Brandon Garcia seems like the highest leverage guy for the debacks right now. So weaver Garcia over them for sure. Anybody else Dylan Smith blew a save here on Monday. He looked like the Giants closer. Still might be there's Stephen Cruz. There's the Angels guys. Sammy Natera did work the ninth inning with the game tied on Monday. And it was a perfect inning with two strikeouts. And he's looked really good. How do you rank that kind of jumbled mess? Scott Dylan Smith, Stephen Cruz, Sammy Natera, Jr. and Kodasanga, Deep League saves. Okay. So we're saying Luke Weaver and Brandon Garcia over them. Yeah. For sure. Like they're in another tier. And whom I rang again. I'm sorry. Dylan Smith, Stephen Cruz, Sammy Natera, Jr. and Kodasanga. I think I put Stephen Cruz number one because we've seen it the most, not that it's been consistently him in in closer situations, but primarily him for the Royals. I don't know. I might go saying a second because I think the others are going to remain messy all season. And maybe the Mets will too, but I have a little more hope for them. All right. Adley Ruchman is expected to be activated and make his Red Sox debut on Tuesday. Carl Sardin will have at least one more rehab start before being activated. And I mentioned this yesterday, but Rodan's velocity was way down in his first rehab start two to three miles across the board. And he's coming back from an elbow injury. So let's see what his velocity looks like in that next rehab start. Bryce Harper is battling the soreness, but we're still in the lineup on Monday. He started at DH with Kyle Schwarber at first base. And that's Schwarber's fourth game at first base. So this gets a little interesting because Harper, my guess is if he's dealing with this knee, he's probably going to DH a couple more days. Kyle Schwarber could gain first base eligibility. He won't play enough. I don't think to gain it for next season. But you could have Kyle Schwarber with first base eligibility this year. And that although it's a stacked position, is that what's interesting? Yeah. Yeah. Again, what hurt, you know, there's some scenarios where you might rather use him at first base at DH. I guess it's also possible if they wanted to get bone in the lineup. I believe Schwarber's made two starts in the outfield this year. It's possible he could pick up a eligibility there, depending how long this goes on with Harper's knee. Yeah. The more of a long shot. Apparently Harper hurt the knee. He fell to ball off it prior to the all start break. So it's something that he's been dealing with for a while, even before they decided to move them to the outfield. So I don't think it's a serious thing. But you know, it might it might allow it might allow Schwarber to pick up some eligibility. Yeah. And Bryce Harper has already played enough in the outfield to gain that on CBS. So that's good news. And Bryson Stott has been playing third. He has gained third base eligibility as well. Cosmo Okamoto was scratch Monday due to a left knee, a left knee contusion. Haraldo Perdomo left early with knee soreness. Zach Gelloff was activated from the I L and provided an instant impact two for four with his 12th homer, two runs to our BI. And he is 62% rostered. He's second third and outfield eligible. And he's having a great season 277, 12 homers, eight steals, 823 OPS, all of that in just 67 games. So Scott, do you think Zach Gelloff, if he's available anywhere, it's just a must add must roster, even in a point league. I don't know that I'd call him that in a point league, but certainly certainly a rodo league. Cos yeah, he's been very productive this year. The strikeout rate has been a lot better. And Bat Speed has been a lot better fast swing rate. So he's making more contact and he's making more impactful contact and it explains why.
why he's been so productive. The underlying numbers still don't support how good he's been. So it's worth pointing that out since he's an unknown, an unknown quantity. You know, we lean on those expected stats a little more when assessing him, but he has been productive when he's played and worthy of a roster spot at with his multi eligibility. I would say especially. Will Smith could take batting practice this week. He's been out since June 11th with a neck injury. Nick Povetta threw off a mound on Monday and he left his first rehab outing with right elbow tightness. And he missed a large majority of the season with that injury. So it's a little scary for Nick Povetta right now. We'll see where that one goes. Paul Seawald was DFAed by the Arizona Dbacks. We'll see if he catches on anywhere else. We have a bunch of pitcher updates first from the Braves Spencer Schwalumbach has continued his rehab program, but as yet to receive clearance to face hitters, Spencer Strider will begin a throwing progression this week. I'm not sure there's enough time for him to get fully built back up as a starter. So perhaps he has a weapon out of the bullpen for the Braves. And that's even if he can make it back. Like obviously, no setbacks and everything like that. But it's interesting. Scott, because last week or two weeks ago, we heard they cleaned out Strider's locker and we just assumed he was done for the year. While starting a throwing program isn't saying much, I think Schwalumbach started a throwing program a couple months ago. And now they're talking about he might not make it back for the regular season Spencer Schwalumbach. So I want to get too excited about this development for Strider, especially hearing that he cleared out his locker. I don't think it's been to report it definitively that he's done for the year. Just it's speculated that he won't have enough time to make it back. And that's probably still true. All right, you can't blame me. Scott, I haven't texted you. I don't know who else would text me at 150 in the morning. You know, I was just wondering that same thing. Now that you brought it up, I should probably just check it, right? Maybe it's urgent, you know, two a.m. I don't think it's a text. I think it's some, I think some apps sent me a notification, which I try to turn that stuff off, but, you know, every now and then something slips through. Back to the picture updates for the braze. Hurston Waldrip will begin a throwing program this week as well. He went on my I L on July 21st with right arm discomfort. Over to the D backs pitchers, Corbin Burns will throw a bullpen on Tuesday. And he's working his way back from Tommy John surgery and a terrace major strain in his shoulder. Zach Gallen will also throw a bullpen on Tuesday, working his way back from right elbow inflammation. Ryan Nelson will begin a bullpen progression within the next seven to 10 days. He is on the aisle with a flexor strain and UCL sprain in his right elbow. So I would say unlikely for Ryan Nelson to be back or at least make an impact this season. The Rockies place Tyler Freeman on the aisle and called up Connor Norby whom they acquired from the Marlins at the trade deadline. And while Connor Norby come on, man, I know, right? Not the one we want. And I want it to use this as an opportunity to talk about Zach Vene because he just, he is on a crazy run right now in the minors. He had a five hit three home or game on Saturday. The other two hits a double in a triple. His last 12 games at triple a four sixty two eight homers twenty runs 24 RBI three steals a sixteen forty nine OPS. Yeah. 12 games eight homers 24 RBI. Like what else does he need to do to get the call from the Rockies? So I would say I don't know if you put together your prospects to stash for this week's guy. I would say Zach Vene is among the top five right now. Yeah. I think the prospects report this week is all just going to be players who could come up this weekend. Now that we're inside the 45 day window, although I'm not even sure Zach Vene is affected by that because he's been some time in the majors last year. So I don't know. He's he's probably ahead of Charlie Condon in the packing order for Rockies call ups both because of this kind of streaky zone, which by the way, he is now for the season at triple a slashing three twenty seven four oh two six thirty five for the season six thirty five. Yeah. Twenty four homers eighteen steals thirty three doubles eight triples. He's he's back baby. There's nothing left for him to do. He's he's proven everything he could. And the other reason why I think he's ahead of Charlie Condon is he's already on the 40 man roster because he was with the major league team for a short while last year. So yeah, I mean, that we finally got an injury to a Rocky's outfielder, but they bring up Connor Norby. So that's frustrating. Yeah. Even if it doesn't happen for Vene this weekend inside of 45 days, rosters do expand still a little bit on September 1st. And I think it's very likely we'll see him then that if it doesn't happen sooner. Zach Vene is 13% rostered. Would you rather stash him over Joshua Baez or Walker Jenkins? No, I think Walker Jenkins has to be the top priority of those three. But I close call between Zach Vene and Joshua Baez. I genuinely don't have a lot of confidence in Baez being impactful for Sanity when he comes up because he's just struggled to make context so much AAA. And you know how that goes as Merlin Boutez did Spencer Jones did. They don't have to make a lot of contact to to have an impact given the quality of the contact they make, but it's it becomes kind of an all or nothing situation and I fear the nothing. Yeah, the last 12 games like never ending story I fear the nothing. Last 12 games were Josh Baez. He has four homers and 11 strikeouts. That is a 22% K rate. So it has been better recently. I think he'll probably be pretty soon. There's definitely impact in there, but I think there will be some volatility with strikeouts as well for Joshua Baez. Let's take a look at some waiver wire hitters from Monday's action and Chandler Simpson two for five with two steals over his last 41 games now updated numbers 383 with 19 steals and OPS over 850. He 77% rostered on CBS 65% roster on Yahoo. I realize people listening to this who play in road o leagues or five outfielder leagues like Chandler Simpson was never available. I totally get that, but in three outfielder leagues got even head to had points or head to had categories. I'm starting to think that Chandler Simpson just needs to be rostered everywhere. Yeah, it gets harder and I've talked about this before head to head points leagues that award only one point per stolen base. This EBS standard is two. I think ESPN might only be one point per steal, but I also think they penalize you minus one for strikeout, which also helps Chandler Simpson. Yeah, it helps a lot. He becomes more Luis arise like and arise is very valuable and points leagues that penalize a full point for strikeouts. That's a good point. Those two how your league scores those particular stats, I think, makes a big difference how valuable Chandler Simpson is from a head to head point standpoint. But yeah, he's sustained this for a while now. I'll note he was a 355 hitter. His last full season in the minors. He was a 333 hitter when he got called up. Mathematically, with as good as defenses are these days, it's really hard to have a batting average that high. Unless you're a huge power hitter and even then it's hard to be a big power hitter and make enough contact to have a batting average that high. We saw Ronald Takunia do it the year he won MVP hit about 340, but it's very rare. Simpson, because he makes so much contact less than 10% strikeout rate because he rarely puts the ball in the air. He's Willie Mays Hayes from Major League 1, not Major League 2, which is good with his skill set. And because he can beat out so many weak grounders for free singles that way, he could be, not a 350 hitter, but he could be somebody who competes for batting titles in the long run. I think that's in the Rome La Paz bill. You add that to him being such a prolific base dealer. Then, you know, he may have a future at least as bright as Xavier Edwards if not brighter. All right, let's move on to Nolan Aronato, two for four with a grand sock in his shoe. That's right, a grand slam, a steal, his 18th homer, his fourth stolen base. And over his last 35 games, he's hitting 254, 10 homers, 25 RBI and OPS over 850. I know Nolan Aronato is old. He's very unsexy at this point in his career. But third base is terrible. It's a really, really bad position this year. So if you want it to go with the hot hand approach, Scott, and just, you know, I know Caleb Durbin and Royce Lewis, they're already too rostered at this point. Like people are finally starting to add them. But Aronato at 70% like even in a point league, if you were using like an Austin Riley,
or a Colson Montgomery or Okamoto who's banged up, but I could see just using Aaron Otto, not dropping those guys for him, but using Aaron Otto over them since he's actually playing well. It was a sleeper header for this week, yeah. Boom. Yeah. He's, do you think he's a Hall of Famer? He's probably a Hall of Famer, right? Yeah, I think so. He's closing it on 60 war. He's one. I don't even know how many goal gloves, but like four or five platinum gloves, right? Yeah, he's a Hall of Famer. Okay. I think so too. I wonder, I know Chris is like way more in tune with like Hall of Fame and six platinum gloves, ten goal gloves, eight time all star. He's made more all star teams than Chipper Jones did. Yeah. Five times silver slugger. Yeah. Yeah, I think Nolan Arnott is a Hall of Famer. Trying to pull up his defensive metrics this year to see if he still grades out well defensively. Yeah, it gets hot like 35 years old. He's getting up there a little bit. Let's see. Same, same number of all star teams as Chipper Jones. Nolan Arnott, the season yet starting to, defense starting to fall off a little bit. He's 61% talent range, 37% talent arm strength. But yeah, actually having a pretty good offensive season is Nolan Arnott. Somebody says Chipper was better. Yes, Chipper was better, but I'm just saying you make as many all star teams as Chipper Jones are doing something right. Chipper Jones didn't win as many silver sluggers either. Two versus Arnott's five. Yeah. But yeah, Chipper had 85 for. He's obviously no, there was no doubt when Chipper Jones retired that he was all a favorite. A couple of their corner infield bats here. Ty France hit his 17th home run. It was his first home since July 23rd. So he went 16 games without homeers, but still during that stretch hit 33 with a 771 OPS 91.4 average EV, the expected stats still really good during that 16 start stretch with no homeers. So I just want to, if you were thinking about dropping Ty France because I've been getting some questions about him, don't continue to hold Ty France. I still think he's really good. He's made big improvements this season. So. Capajor has had the worst hitter matchups this week. So I actually benched France and the leagues where I had him. But so far he's off. So far so good this week. Speaking of unsexy fantasy players, Josh Bell. It is 16th home run. He went two for five three RBI last 52 games. This has been going on since like late May early June 286 11 homeers 38 RBI and OPS over 850 during that stretch for Josh Bell and he's on pace for 21 homeers 95 RBI. He's just an unsung hero in deeper leagues as a corner infielder. If you drive to Josh Bell and ale only or in a 15 team, Roto League, he's just a set it and forget it. He's been fine all year. So he's 37% roster. I don't know that that number needs to be much higher, but he saw it rock solid high floor player with Josh Bell. Two names just to keep an eye on here in the second half. Kobe Mayo two for four with a double three RBI 19 games in the second half three 15 three homeers 93 mile per hour average EV also a 34% strike our eight and Austin Martin had a huge game four for five with a sock and a shoe. His third home or his 12th steal, but he has only started 12 of 23 games in the second half. Do you agree Scott just watch list type guys for now Kobe Mayo and Austin Martin? Yeah, I mean, Martin hasn't played regularly enough to be more than that. And Mayo. There's been so much bad and not enough good yet for me to buy in. All right, let's take our final break. When we return a waiver wire pitchers and Scotty doesn't know we'll do that right after this. Welcome back fantasy baseball today. Let's run through the waiver wire pitchers outside of Jacob Lopez and the three names I have here, Andrew painter, solid outing at the Cardinals, five and a third, two hits, two runs, six strikeouts. He had 12 whiffs on 93 pitches and he threw his change up a lot more as long as he's getting away from the fastball. I think that's a good recipe for painter three starts since returning to 93 year a and a point nine eight whip for painter Hayden was Neskey a strong start at the Giants seven innings three runs only four strikeouts did allow two homers in this one. He's allowed three earn runs or fewer and all three starts since rejoining the Astros. He's 54% rostered and Dean Kramer got his revenge at home against the Orioles seven innings one hit one run seven strikeouts 14 whiffs on 89 pitches here for Dean Kramer Scott do you have any interest in these three. Would you take any of them over the name to mention earlier the Lopez manaya Jackson Joe Tyler Malley group this is Dean Kramer, Wes Neskey and Andrew painter. I think painters there with Malley in terms of my interest level. So kind of at the bottom of that previous group, but in it. This change up that he's introduced since returning to the rotation that it became his most thrown pitch in this one and obviously satellite success in those three starts to 93 R a point nine eight whip nine point four K per nine. Still not who we once dreamed Andrew painter would be, but you know, we saw signs in the secondary arsenal that maybe there was something he could put together and the addition of this change up maybe it's brought it all together. I think the upside is enough that I might take a shot on painter at this point. I'm also sort of interested in Kramer. I don't think I'm ready to pick him up yet except in the desperation situation, but he has changed his approach since joining the twins. Very little use of his sinker six percent for the second straight start. So his two starts with the twins. They've done away with the sinker. The Dodgers have scoobles are on more sinkers. The twins have Kramer thrown less sinkers and now it's been two pretty good addings for Kramer in a row. Obviously a really good adding this time. So it's something to monitor going forward because you know, if he does a couple more starts in a row, I think we definitely do talk about adding him. Yeah. Injunction with using his sinker less, he uses fastball a little bit more mixed results on that, but the splitter and the cutter were both awesome for Kramer in this one. He had five whiffs on each of those pitches. And typically whenever he uses those more good things happen for Dean Kramer. So he has a 525 ERA. He also has a 381 X-FIP on the season. So we'll see where it goes, but encouraging Dean Kramer now with the Minnesota twins. In the very deep name blade, Tidwell, pitch well for the Giants. He was home against the Ashrows. Five and two thirds innings, one run, six strikeouts to one walk, 16 whiffs on 96 pitches. 12 of those came on his sweeper. It looks like he has a really good sweeper and slider. Both of his fastballs get hit really hard. So once upon a time, solid prospect in the Metz organization came over to the Giants, good place to pitch very deeply. He stopped at the Nationals in between, right? Did he? No. No, I must be thinking of somebody else. Never mind. Only 900. God, he doesn't know. We're getting started early. Blades did well. Only 9% rostered. Very deeply played, but do you have any interest in like a 15 team context? Not really. I wasn't very good in the miners even from a bad missing perspective. It was I think 11.6% swinging strike rate, which is kind of average in the majors. And obviously he was doing that against minor leakers. And a lot of the contact was flyballs, weak contact in the miners, but still. I don't think there's enough. Despite all the whiffs in this star for Blade to do well, I don't think the upside is enough to pursue on. All right. I want to offer an apology for two two star pitchers that not great here on Christian Scott for innings for runs. He still had six strikeouts, 14 whiffs on 82 pitches and Bryce elder man like, come on, man. How many times are we going to fall for price elder seven earned runs over five innings, two homers allowed. He was much better before this his previous four starts, 188 ERA and a one whip, but that also came with a five fit and a 433 X ERA. So hashtag trust the process. So there were like, I'm not going to say Bryce elder pitch well. You did it. But the stat line could have looked a lot better. There were a couple of weird things that happened in that first inning where he gave up five runs. The most damaging of which was one run head scored at that point and there was what should have been a strike out throwout double play to end the inning with just one run allowed. But instead of calling it strike three, the umpire called it ball four, which meant the thrown out runner didn't count either. He was allowed to advance for free. So instead of two outs right then it was zero outs and an additional base runner. and actually Bryce Elder did tap his head. But. with all the commotion of the stolen base, I guess the Unpired and Notice, and Elder wasn't particularly emphatic about it. So it didn't get challenged. But if that challenge had been honored, it would have ended the inning. Brett Bady wouldn't have hit a grand slam. And the stat line would have looked a lot better. So a little bit of a defense there, just a game of inches. Example. But yeah, Elder, not very good. And unfortunately, he ruined you the time you might have given half a thought to starting him. And I do want to tell people to hold on Noah Cameron. I know the final line here was not great. It's also at the Dodgers, which is a really tough matchup. But he left this start with two earned runs over five and two-thirds innings. He had two runners on base, the reliever who came in allowed both of those runners to score. And Noah Cameron still had 13 whiffs on 101 pitches against the Dodgers, velocity up on his secondary pitches. He doubled his slider usage. He keeps fading his fastball. The slider looked really, really good. So if you picked up Noah Cameron, I know this first start of the week doesn't look very good. But I am here to tell you to hold on Noah Cameron. What that said, Scott, are you ready? First God he doesn't know. As ready as I can be for something that's designed for me to fail at. Scott he doesn't know. Oh, Scott doesn't know. All right, here we are. I've got three different players. And up first, I was a top. For those who don't know the game, by the way, Scott he doesn't know. I'm going to give Scott one statement, a stat or a fact. And he has to try to guess who that player is. But it's virtually impossible. Maybe not as impossible today. Kind of had to like throw the run down together. But we'll see. Top 10 hitter in fantasy last season. But my OPS has dropped from 959 to 712. That's bad. It's a big drop. Is it? I don't think he played today. Did he play today? I'm going to say George Springer. Darn. Scott, I got it. I know. I mean, I guess you had a 10% chance of getting a right if you know the top 10 hitters off the top your head from last season. I was like, yeah, you know what? Scott Mike gets some of these. I just kind of threw it together last second. But all right. Well, we can't play the sound drop for that one. It is George Springer. And I just wanted to highlight-- I didn't know if he played today, though. He did. He returned to you at a two game absence. He's dealing with a shoulder injury. But over his last 40 games, I know it's a disappointing season. Last 40 games, 273, 6 homers, 21 runs, 20 RPI, 6 deals. OPS is right around 800. And his fast swing rate is 38.5% during this stretch. Last year, it was 40%. So I just thought that was encouraging. Like, he's not going to get back to what we wanted or where you drafted him. But if you held on to him this long, I'm just here to tell you that George Springer-- It's actually a little bit better. Look better. Over his last 40 games. I still don't know that he's worth it in a 3L field or league because he just seems to have reached the phase of his career where he's perpetually banged up. And then out of the lineup, and it's less a matter of how effective he is than how often he plays. But for five L field release, an encouraging development. All right, let's see. Let's see if we can get sky with number two. I have a 338 ERA and a 109 whip on the season. But over my last three starts, I have a sub 5% swinging strike rate. Eww. Foster Griffin. Sky doesn't know. Oh, Sky doesn't know. We were looking for Casey Meis, who bounced back in his second start with the Padres. He was home against the Brewers. Six innings, two runs, six strikeouts. But he only had six whiffs on 83 pitches. His velocity was down across the board, like between a half and 1.5 miles per hour on all of his pitches. His fastball and slider got hit hard in this one. I don't like the line was good. And San Diego is a good park to pitch in. Casey Meis just hasn't really looked as good, you know, over the past month or so. Where are you on Casey Meis right now? Well the approach hasn't really changed. I know you mentioned the velocity was down a little in this one. It was up a little in his first start with the Padres and he struggled with controls. So I get the sense he dialed back a little bit. He was amped up in that first start, wanted to prove himself for the new team and had one of his worst starts. So he tried to dial it back a little and got a good result. But good results without whiffs unless the ground ball radius through the roof. I don't particularly trust them. I don't think it's reason to panic on my, I'm not dropping him over that. But I've been a little, I guess, tepid in my enthusiasm for him even when we do see encouraging signs because it's more like it's just encouraging than it's ever just outright good, you know, even even at his best. So he feels kind of like I'll have a difficult time breaking into the top 40 in fantasy at starting pitcher. All right, this last name up, here we go. I have allowed three earn runs or fewer in all 11 of my starts this season. Oh, come on. This feels like an easy one. It might be pretty, it might be too easy. Logan Henderson. Oh, it's Logan Henderson. Scottie does know. Here we go. You know, Scottie, I've set you up for the past couple of years when Scottie isn't no. I thought I'd throw you a couple cookies, man. Yeah. And get you back in the good way. You made him today focus. That was that you learned. You learned not to do that. Six six West Coast games on a Monday night. I didn't want to apologize early on too because this was our latest start of the year. So thank you for everyone for being here. But six West Coast games on a Friday on a Monday night with a lot of not great pitchers, but interesting pitchers that you need to take notes on. It just took me forever to get through it and make today's rundown. So that's why we started so late. And that's why I kind of fumbled the Scotty as a no. But you know what? Scottie does know. But I don't think it fumbled. I like that. Logan Henderson, a quality start at the Padres six and a third. Three runs allowed seven strikeouts to one walk. He did allow two homers in this one. And he came back out for the seventh inning, something he hasn't done all season. And he gave up a go ahead to run Homer at the time. But it just kind of, I wonder if reinforces the way the Brewers treat or feel about Logan Henderson. I just wonder about like a third time through the order or maybe even a fourth time through the order, you know, this fastball change of combination, which is so good for him. It just becomes more hittable the more that you see him. So yeah, I just wonder about that with Logan Henderson. Basically, every pitcher I've ever looked at, their numbers, the third time through the order get much worse. But it's probably especially bad. And a case like this where it's more about deception and he's got a limited arsenal. And you'll remember when Gabe Kapler first started managing the fillies, he kind of made a hard rule that no pitcher gets to face the line up a third time through because of that tendency. He had to do any go over well. They had some big arms like Aaron Nolo who used to pitching a lot of innings and Gabe Kapler didn't end up lasting a long in Philadelphia. But like that, there was validity to what he was saying. It was just probably to have he handed of an approach. But yeah, there's justification for a lot of these pitchers that don't pitch deep into games. And that's what it is. And maybe Henderson's going to be one of those pitchers who rarely gets the opportunity to do that. It was still a quality start. I mean, it was still a start. I think you'd rather have in your lineup than not in fantasy, even though the ERA was over four for this particular start. He's now made 16 career starts. He's only three of those starts has the ERA been over four. So that's how consistent. Yeah. And this was not meant to disparage Logan Henderson because I still really, really like him, but it's just a reminder of, you know, if he goes too deep into the start, it's like, we kind of have this fine line that we need to walk with Logan Henderson, but he still has 11 K per nine on the year. He's under two walks per nine, I believe as well. So he has been awesome. And just last week, I moved him pretty aggressively inside of my top 36 starting pitchers, rest of season scats. So yeah, that, like, I don't know exactly where I have Logan Henderson. I could look it up real quick, but that doesn't 48. Oh, Hey, there. Let's go sky. Get her. Get him up there. Get Logan Henderson up there. I can get him up some like I have Ian C more 42. I'm not going to move ahead of C more, but there's this cluster of injured pitchers like Tyler Glass, now Carlos Rodón Max Meyer. I have Henderson the first behind them. He should probably jump ahead of them. Yep. All right. Let's wrap up here with some leftovers. I do have some fun hitters with arbitrary endpoints. And I will point out Francisco Lendor hit his 11th home run, three runs scored as well.
23 games in the second half. He's hitting 286 with six homers and a 924 OPS. I also wonder maybe he's only going off because Juan Soto is hurt and obviously they hate each other. So that's well documented. That is sarcasm by the way. Jackson Merrill Madness hit his 19th homerun, last 55 games, 293, 13 homers, 13 steals. The OPS is over 830 during that stretch. Jung Huli, he had a great June, he had a down July. He's back here in August, two for five with his 9th homer, 20 games in the second half, 282, three homers, two steals in 824 OPS. I was surprised to see that Jung Huli is still 81% rostered, but I think that's the right decision. Like especially he's good in points leagues. So I'm happy that people stuck around with Jung Huli. Cags, Jack Caglio, and he continued his heater, two for four with his 21st homerun, three RBI, all of which came off of Tarrick's scuba, very impressive stuff here for Cags. There are five, four names here, anything you'd like to touch on. Caglio, Jung Huli, Jackson Merrill, and Francis Golden Door. - And maybe Jung Huli climbed over that 80% threshold 'cause he was on the sleeper hitters list for this week. - Boom. - So far so good. - You're right. I CBS leagues are a little heavy on the points leagues and that is Lee's best format. So I think that has something to do with the high roster rate, but he's having his best season clearly. And I think deserving of roster spot in points leagues, Caglio, we talked about him yesterday with this hot streak. I think there's a good chance he gets to 30 homers this year. He'll have to stay hot obviously, but I see him finishing out the year strong. Lindor is back. It's gonna take a while for the season numbers to round into form. And the season may run out before they do completely, but he obviously looks like Lindor again. Apart from the steals, he's not running much. But in every other way, I think you should treat him as a stud for fantasy. - All right, some pitching left over Sonny Gray, another quality start. This one at the Blue J, six innings, two runs, four strikeouts to one walk. He went back the other way and through his sinker more and just didn't get many whiffs. Only five swinging strikes on 99 pitches, but it didn't matter. He has a quality start in 11 of his last 13. Mackenzie Gore solid at the angels, five and a third, one run, nine strikeouts, 22 whiffs on 103 pitches. And over his last eight starts, he has a near 14% swinging strike rate. He also has an eerie over five during that span. - Well, well, you know, I kind of dismiss every Mackenzie Gore start good or bad by saying he's a charizard. And he is a charizard. But his best pitch is the change up. And this was the third straight start where he basically doubled the use of his best pitch, the change up. It got 12 of the 22 whiffs in this start. And those three starts with double the change up use, 196 ERA 0.82 at 10.8 K per night. - Maybe. - Maybe something's brewing there. Maybe charizard is learning to trust Ash, catch him a little bit. - Maybe. Hopefully. - I love these references, but I can only imagine how many people listening are like, what are they talking about right now? Yeah, if you haven't played Pokemon, then you're probably a little confused. But yeah. Yeah. Well played Pokemon. It's more like, it's more the cartoon, right? Is that, is that canon in the video games too, charizard? - Yeah, I guess it's more the cartoon. You're right about that. - Yeah, I'm right about that. Thank you. - So thank you. - It's not just playing Pokemon, it's living Pokemon, it's a lifestyle, you know? And re-deadmer, you saw it on the other side of Mackenzie Gore, six innings, one run, six strikeouts to four walks, 17 whips on 88 pitches, and his velocity was up on the secondary pitches, and all the secondaries were awesome. The slider, the change of curve, everything working here for re-deadmers. You spoke about Gore, do you have anything on debtmers or sunny gray that you like to mention? - I mentioned for debtmers now in his last 14 starts with 32060RA, 8.96 whip, and 10.7K per nine. That's a long run of some ace-like numbers. And yet, he did not get a win in this game, which means his win lost record on the season remains three and eight. So that's really what's holding it back in fantasy. And unfortunately, he still pitches for the angels. We wanted that to change at the trade deadline. It did not. - Couple of there pitching leftovers here, Freddie Peralta, a quality start at the athletic six innings, three runs, five strikeouts here, and pretty rough landing spot with the raise. He's at the Rockies and at the athletics in his first two starts. So look, we've made excuses for Freddie Peralta at times, most of the season. But I want to see a couple starts in Tropicana, in Tampa Bay, and what Freddie Peralta looks like in those starts. Michael Soroka, solid in his return from the IL against the Rockies, four and a third shutout, three hits, three walks, four strikeouts for him, and a short outing for Trevor Rogers at the Twins. I didn't see anything about an injury, four innings, two runs, four strikeouts. His velocity was up quite a bit. He was pretty erratic as a result, only 57% of his pitches for strikes. Anything you'd like to add on Rogers, Soroka, and Freddie Peralta. - Yeah, pitch count, or I'm sorry, pitch selection for Soroka seemed pretty normal. The characteristics seemed pretty normal. He just didn't throw enough strikes. He was dominating with the control prior to the season. That was the main thing he had going for him. So walking three and four into third innings, I don't think that's a formula for success for him, but we'll give him a pass since it was Soroka's first start back. Peralta did not throw any more sliders with a raise. Now, his first start was a course field, so we can't really read anything into that. But now we see one with the raise away from course field. Slider usage didn't increase. He got rid of the curve ball interestingly enough, really just hammered home fastball changeup. And got a quality start, but barely a quality start. I don't know that it's much reason for encouragement there. For Freddie Peralta, Rogers was throwing harder, but had a so-so result. I don't not much to take from that start, really. The call to the bullpen for the blue jays, Louis Varlin got the ninth with a one run lead. He allowed a lead off double, but was still able to lock up his 25th save. For the Phillies, Joanne DeRond was unavailable. Jonathan Bowlin picked up his first save. For the Padres, Mason Miller picked up his 30th save. For the Giants, still in Smith got the ninth with a one run lead. He gave up a run on a walk, a wild pitch, and then an RBI single. He took his second blown save and the Giants would lose in extras. For the Ashrows, Josh Hayder picked up the win with two perfect innings and two strikeouts. For the Rangers, Jacob Latz got the 10th with a three run lead. He picked up his 23rd save and for the Dodgers, Edwin Diaz, right back in there in the ninth inning, one run lead, clean inning for his sixth save, though he did allow a fly ball to the warning track. And he pahes right up against the wall there. So still a little scary for Edwin Diaz. Let's get a strikeout to side save. That's what I want to see from Edwin. Yeah, that'd be nice. Let's do it. To stream, we're not to stream on Tuesday. We have Patrick Sandivall at the Blue Jays, Martin Perez against the Metz, Brandon Young at the Twins, Billy Oberg against the Orioles, Andre Palante against the Phillies, Cody Bradford at the Angels, Mitch Bratt gets the Rockies in Arizona and Walker Bueller home against the Brewers. I think I'd go Andre Palante followed by Martin Perez, followed by Cody Bradford. Bradford's a little scary at the Angels and also he didn't work that deep in his first startback. So I don't know that he's equipped to yet, which is why I put him behind Martin Perez here. I would just swap those two. I would go Palante at the top and then Cody Bradford. And then I think Martin Perez and Brandon Young are okay as third options. On Wednesday, we have Shane Bos at the Twins, Zebby Matthews against the Orioles, Kyle Leahy against the Phillies, Merrill Kelly against the Rockies in Arizona. David Peterson is at the National Zach Thornton at the Braves, Tyler Malley gets the Metz, Red Louder at the White Sox and Luis Castillo home against the Reds. Revenge game. So there's a bunch here that I don't hate. None of them I love. Shane Bos at the Twins feels like the best bet. Kyle Leahy against the Phillies, more just because of the way Leahy's pitched lately, a lot more strikes and a lot more ground balls and sad a lot more success because of it. Tyler Malley against the Metz, probably my third choice. But I could see that White Sox Reds match up. I could see either of those pitchers, Red Louder for the Reds and Luis Castillo for the White Sox. either one of them could get a quality start, I think. I also like Merrill Kelly against the Rockies in Arizona.
Arizona. He left his last start with, I think it was some kind of leg injury or a glute or something, but he's already listed on MLB.com. So I, my guess is he's been cleared to make that start. So, yeah, I think Merrill Kelly getting the Rockies on the road could work out very well. So I would go Boz at the top, then probably Kelly's second and then I think Leahy third, but I agree with you, I think Mally is all right and I think Louise Kestio against the Reds is fine as well. Let's wrap up with team name Tuesday and this one is from Sports Stoog on X. Who's Seymour Butts? Have you seen the movie Heaviewicz? I have. I enjoy it. I enjoyed it. I haven't watched it in many years. So I don't remember the reference, but I think that movie was my introduction to Ben Stiller. He plays a funny character. Yes, he does. It's a movie I've actually seen. I've seen it quite a bit. Although I have not seen it in a long time. I wonder how it's aged, but I do remember it being very funny when I watched it as a as a young kid, as a young lad back in the day. This one has anatomist Thompson and it's a keen at Thompson. Yeah, I think it has a few of those kind of that seem what crew was that like a Nikolomem. A mighty duck. Yeah, mighty ducks. Because it has Goldberg in it. The goalie from mighty ducks too. Yeah, I think. Yeah, that's right. This one's from Jason on X. Never gonna give you up. Never gunner give you up. It's hard to sing it all together, but shout out to Rick Asley there. Okay. From a different Jason via email, Augustine everything after. Don't know that I get that one. I don't know. Yeah, we always need Chris here for today. Oh, come on. You're not supposed to put him if we don't get him, Frank, we're getting trouble for that. Yeah, honestly, I didn't really, I didn't look too much to these so. It is dangerous. It is dangerous. Bart Summer. Okay. Bazzata Ramma. All right. And pet shop boys. I believe that's a I believe that's a band. Yeah. The pet shop boys. Okay. What song did they make? Oh, yes. The pop classic West End girls. Is a song. I thought it was like pet shop birds. Which these are from. I used to I used to sell dog food in a pet store. I didn't work for the pet store. I worked for a dog food company and I approached customers and the pet store and tried it to win them over to our dog food. And this pet store I was set up and there was like a display of these parrots. Just they weren't in like a cage or anything. They were just on this perch and a little island in the middle of the pet store. And I, you know, I'm kind of pacing around looking for people to talk to in this kid. He has like. He got too close to the display. Or something and he got like six parrots on him. They're like all over him. He's like, ah, and he looks at me like somebody helped me. And it's like, well, I don't I don't work for the pet store. I don't know that I'm supposed to be handling these birds. But like I got to help this kid. And so, you know, I do the whole like, you know, put your finger up in front of the birds. Chess get it the step on you. But every single one of these birds with their giant parrot beaks like scissor bit me on the fingers before they stepped it was it was I helped the kid. But it was, you know, I took one for the team with all these bird bites. So pet pet shop boys, if it was birds that it was referring to brings back some a little bit of trauma there. What a gallon human being scouting. I know. Yeah. Was that your first job? Was that my, no, it wasn't my first job. It was my third job. Got it. My first job was working at Arby's. Ah, yeah. I started fast food to dunk in donuts. Yeah, just dunk in. Yeah. We've had this conversation before. I think we have, man. I could assume a lot of these to have this chicken bacon Swiss sandwich with honey mustard. It was so good. But lots of that was consumed that summer as a a 16 year old Frank. These are from Joel. Tatsuya blew up in my ratios. Yep, he did. Ah, Haskins Dobbins rice creamer has birdie wand flavors. Oh my gosh. You must an admirable effort, but it's a lot early to Bednar early to arise. That's that's not so bad. Colby Jack Milton on. You know why that works is because only one of the names Bednar forces you to like contort the sound to get it to work because early just means early in a rise. You know, it's obviously not spelled the same, but it's pronounced the same. Yeah, I like it. This next one, Colby Jack Milton on a burger. Okay, that's pretty good too. And these are Simpson themed. So you are on your own here. Scott. Okay. Kattels quick E marté. Okay. Mono really. Yeah. Rice atopes win. Sure. That's the stretch, but sure. You shinsu cho cho cho me. Yeah, it's a that's a classic for a team name Tuesday or whatever we used to call it in the Atamazer days. And Max Powers. Mm hmm. For sure. Speaking of Atamazer, I'm going to lunch with him and Chris Towers tomorrow. And I will read those Simpson themed names to him and see how he feels about them. So I know I know he's a big Simpson's guy. So we'll find out. All right, that'll do. We're going to wrap there for Scott. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning into fantasy baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify. And we will be back in tomorrow. Bye bye.
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