Latest Trades, Prospect Debuts & Weekend Waiver Wire Adds! (8/3 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

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Se on yksi koko. Paul Goldschwin on todella tyhä. -Yeah. -He's kind of turned back into. The guy we all expected him to be 523OPS, since the AllStarBake. 495 in July, I think that's. I mean, look, he's better than that. But I think he's clearly not an impact batter anymore. He's clearly not a guy you can rely on, so. I think it makes perfect sense, in that regard. I just think, unfortunately, for our purposes, it doesn't fix the fundamental problem for Luis Garcia. -Wanna say he's not gonna play everyday. -Yeah. -Right. In fact, I think that's even more assured now that he's with a team that's trying to win something that he was a team that wasn't. So he's locked into that platoon role. Hopefully, hopefully the move to Yankee Stadium makes him a little. It's hard to be much better than he's already been. The expected home runs by Park, I think, give him six more home runs to feed plate every game in. Or is it four more? I'd have to pull it up. -I mean, either way. -He either way. -You cut that out. -Over the course of two months. -And that's how much of a difference do you expect it to make? And tell, sure, are we that he's exactly who he's been to this point anyway? Which I think he is, but obviously there's no track record of this. I think the oddity of the fit is just like, "Well, if you're a Yankee's fan, would you rather than get a third basement? Or would you rather get somebody who can hit at a premium spot as opposed to, well, now your DH spot is occupied fully in case by some miracle, John Carlos stands ready to go at some point." So not ideal, but you'll take a better batch, sure. My first thought was like, maybe. I know nobody was happy about jazz, just playing third base. But my first thought was, maybe they pushed Luis Garcia back to second. He hasn't played a single inning. That second base of this season, he was pretty bad there last season. But it doesn't sound like that's the plan. It could be a breakglass in case of emergency thing if Stan does prove healthy. But I think you can also read this as. They're not expecting Stan to be healthy. Yeah. And. I mean, another part of his, if Judge makes it back, you probably want the DH available for him some day. See, I don't know that you just want him to go out there every day in the outfield and just let it rip, coming off a fractured rib or whatever the exact injury is. So kind of a weird fit, but I think for Garcia, being in the Yankee Stadium, career high-pulled air rate, I think that's something that could be good for him, but he's not going to play against lefties. I just hope. I'm thinking next year too, because Garcia is under control next year. I just hope this doesn't tempt Aaron Boone to sit in rice against lefties again, presuming next year they got Gull Schmidt still, Stanton is off the I.L. They're both right-handed bats, platoon them with the two lefties. I don't know, there's any way they. I think there's no way they can go back. He would have to completely collapse down the stretch. I mean, he has solidified himself as like an MVP candidate. So. I should hope so. I should hope so. Never say never, but geez. I don't. You know, we were ahead of them on rice for a long time ja se on tullut tullut. to say, but we're ultimately not the ones calling the shots. For what it's worth, expected homeruns by Ballpark, 20 in Washington, 25 at Yankee Stadium, 23 is how many Luis Garcia's actually hit. So over the course of two months, I don't know that, you know, that data I treated more as a rough guide than gospel truth anyway, but that doesn't particularly move me. And it's also a mile lineup downgrade, you know, for whatever the park downgrade is. National signup has been better than the Yankees one this year. Yeah, that's fair. Garcia, another one going from the NL to the AL. So if you play an AL only plan to be pretty aggressive on Luis Garcia on the national side of things, couple names that I would just look out for here. Giovanni Cruz has been pretty good in the minors this year. The whip is a little bit higher, but he gets a lot of whiffs. And whenever he's pitched, it's a really small sample size up with the Yankees this year. He's looked really good. So perhaps he can work his way into the saves the closer mix there with the national. So just a very deep league name, Giovanni Cruz there and also Abamellic Ortiz who I would guess is probably going to get another opportunity to get called up, get some playing time. He's hit for pretty good power in the minors. So two very deep league names there, Giovanni Cruz and Abamellic Ortiz with the nationals. Next up the Cubs acquired Kevin Gossman from the Blue Jays for Brett Bateman and Ty South Azine and Gossman. We know he got off to a great star and it's just kind of in, you know, rough over the past month or six weeks or so. 438 ERA 129 whip. He's right at a right at a strike out for any 2.5 walks per nine. The underlying numbers, the ERA estimator say that he should be better than this. So perhaps some regression and what helps that is that the Cubs have the best defense in all baseball. So I think this could actually be a, you know, slight uptick here for Kevin Gossman if he can, you know, throw that splitter anywhere near the zone. It just depends if he's as washed up as he's looked to pass a couple of months. Yeah. I mean, he's just been really bad for a couple of months now and it's, you know, he is 35 and so you wonder if it sometimes just falls apart for guys like that. But we've also seen a lot of ups and downs over the past couple of years. And then he tends to figure it out. I have said that a lot about framberfaltest this season and it hasn't worked out. But Gossman obviously in a much better situation now with the Cubs defense behind him. This is still a team I look at and like, I think they need at least one more pitcher. Yeah. Just right now it's like you're looking at whatever Kevin Gossman has left and then Matthew Boyd and Shody Minaga in the playoffs. Like, this is a team that could be a contender with the right pitching and I just don't know who that is at this point. But I would still think there's a chance one of those Pedro, Pedro Meres, James Toronto, Matt Shaw, one of those guys is on the move somewhere, I would think. I want to point out with Gossman because you mentioned the ups and downs because I found this to be encouraging with him. So the swinging strike rate, the walk rate, the ground ball rate are all about the same as the previous two years. And also the previous two years, 2024 and 2025, he had an ERA over four in the first half, just like he does now and pulled it all together in the second half to end up putting together a pretty good season. So it feels like he's worse, actually quality of context been better for Gossman this year than the previous two years. So he is 35, you can't just count on the same thing happening just because it happened to previous two years. But I'm sure that's what the Cubs are betting on. And I think it's, I mean, how many better pitchers are on the market right now? Maybe Hunter Green gets moved. So I think that's a long shot, especially in division, that would be tough. The two angels guys are still out there. I don't know that they're definitively better than Gossman. Yeah. The only other one I think I would say pretty confidently is better than Kevin Gossman is George Kirby. If you actually believe that the Mariners are actually shopping him, but there was a report earlier on Sunday that the pitchers that the Cubs are looking into are Depp Merz, Soriano, George Kirby and Emerson Hancock. So that's the Mariners are a weird fit with the Cubs just because their best players are short stops and second base where they're best young players or short stops and second basemen too. Brennan Donovan's a long term piece. I think he's only got a year or two of club control left, but that's an awkward fit with the Cubs given their overflow. Yeah. You know, the Cubs have all these young, interesting hitters. Can Patre over Ramirez play in the outfield? I feel like he's only been an infielder, right? I think he's appearing in the outfield this year. Oh, all right. So perhaps that could work with the Mariners. He has 24, five appearances in the outfield in his six. Six in his career. Yeah, just one in the majors this year. Maybe James Triantos, that could make some sense or you know, I've kind of heard Sais Suzuki's name floated out there. He's an expiring deal. So I don't know. Sais Suzuki Plus for George Kirby, something like that. Could make some sense. Both Sais Suzuki expiring. I believe, yeah, they're both expiring yet. Okay. That's an interesting. So wrinkle for the Cubs. And the last trade for now, the braves, your braves, Scottie, they are on the board. They acquired Tyler Malley from the Giants for 24 year old reliever, Anthony Melita and Malley's overall numbers this year are bad. But in seven starts since returning from the I L in late June, he has a 379 ERA and a 118 whip. He's only 20% roster. Scott, do you have any interest in your new Atlanta Brave Tyler Malley? Not really. Yeah, I mean, I'm not ruling out a return to form here. He did have that a 218 ERA for the Rangers last year, injury short and season. And he's actually regained some velocity from then. This velocity was down then. It's a little bit better this year. But it's, it feels like it feels like a team that needs some innings filled, got some innings for cheap. So it's not like Scott, correct me if I'm wrong. I was trying to remember I was trying to go through every picture of the braves have acquired on a major league contract, every starting picture on a major league contract since they got Chris sale. And I came up with right now, the Lopez and Tyler Malley. Can you think of anyone else on a major league on a major league deal? Contrase. So, okay. I think Martin Perez and Carlos Krasko were both minor league deals. I just like they, yeah, I'm not sure that it's crazy how little they've done to upgrade. And like, it's amazing that they've been as good as they've been because they've also in that time, they've lost Max Friede and Anderson, Cowright Spencer Strider, Mike Seroka, Spencer Schwalmbock, Aja Smishov, or I'm sorry to bring that all up, but it's just, that's another team that could really use a, yeah, another starting picture. Alex and Thopolis just kind of, I don't know, he got Chris sale and he's like, "Get up done. Never up to getting my rotation again." Yeah. And man, he does not like to pay for pitchers clearly. And I understand the rationale behind it, but like, at some point you have to be irrational. Well, I say you're not going to win without pitchers. They basically had, on their World Series run, they had, they had Max Friede and Charlie Morton. And then just a patch job after that, like Kyle Wright came up from the miners, I think, AJ Mentor started a game. Was he Anderson around by then? Yeah. Oh, you know what? Anderson really good. And he was good. And so they had three legit starters. Yeah, fair enough. All right. So that's it for trades for now. We do have a couple of there are smaller ones. We'll get to a little bit later on. But speaking of trades and the deadline, we will have a live stream extravaganza here on Monday, 5pm Eastern time. So come hang out. We'll break down all the trades from the day. I'm sure there'll be a lot of stuff going on leading up to 6pm at the trade deadline. And then we'll stay live past that because I'm sure a couple of other trades will trickle in after the deadline as well. And if there's nothing going on, I'll just take some of your questions and hang out. No sparkle quizzes, you know? Yeah, yeah. Why not? So I get trade deadline live special. YouTube only Monday, 5pm Eastern time be there. Let's take a break and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back fantasy baseball today recapping the weekend. And one of two take a look at what the prospect promotions did this weekend. Pretty nice debut for Max Clark, who went three for four with two runs and an RBI on Friday. Went two for five with his first career home run on Saturday, added another hit, another run scored on Sunday. He hits seventh in all three games for the Tigers. Obviously, there's room for him to move up this lineup, but he was having pretty good season in the miners. He gets on base. There's good contact, solid speed as well here for Max Clark 66% rostered. Do you guys just consider him a must add? Must roster is this a like three alphilder name for you. Max Clark. I mean, pretty close. He made a strong of a first impression as he could. I mean, I could nitpick. One of the doubles was a flare to left field. The home run was hit less than 100 miles per hour. So I could nitpick, but he walked three times in the three games. And I obviously was doing really well in the miners before he got called up. His very good plate discipline. I made the comp to AJ Ewing when he first got called up that he could be that impactful. And I'm not saying you drop AJ Ewing for him at this point, but I was putting in my claims in some of those three alphilder points leagues. I didn't need an extra alphilder in all of them, but anyone I did, Max Clark looked like the best one on the waiver wire. Yeah, and I saw some big bits for him too. I don't know who had this much money left, but in my TGFBI, which is a 15 team Roto League, he went for $253 out of $1,000 budget. In our beat FBT league, that's a 12 team Roto. He went for 97. So, smaller league doesn't go for as much, but in a more scarce league, he went for almost 25% of the budget, which pretty big number there for Max Clark. I'm not sure how many other big name hitting prospects will get the rest of the way. I think George Lombard is someone I have my eye on, the Rockies with Charlie Condon and Zach Vien. So, those are probably some of the next. Joshua Bay, as I think is still in play, Walker Jenkins for the twins. So there's a good handful, but Max Clark is up now. So let's see what he can do. 66% roster with him. And the other prospect promotion was Quentin Mathews of the Cardinals. He was okay in his debut at the WJs, five innings, two runs, three walks, three strikeouts. But he had 12 whiffs on 97 pitches. He only allowed four hard hits, 83.1 average EV, and he threw 65% of his pitches for strikes. When he struggled in the minors, it's been a lack of control and lots of walks and things like that popping up. So under the hood, I actually thought this was a pretty encouraging first outing here for Quentin Mathews. He's 39% rostered and looks like he lines up for the Rockies in St. Louis. So long term, I'm pretty interested here, Chris, but especially this week, like you're getting the Rockies on the road. Yeah, let's fire up Quentin Mathews. I thought this was pretty impressive. I thought, you know, obviously the results weren't incredible, but he missed bats. The forcing or looks like it's going to be a weapon. You look at the various models. He's got a low release point and good shape and 94.95 from the left side. It all looks like a plus pitch. I think the slider also looked very good. The changeup looks pretty good. The curveball, that's the one he didn't have great feel for at this one. And it's a big slow curveball. We've talked about that a lot where those can be hard to command. And he has struggled with command a lot in his career, but I think just as a general role, everything that I saw looked like it was going to work. And I'm not going to say I'm like putting $150 bids in for Quentin Mathews, but he's someone I think I want to be pretty aggressive with at a time when, I don't know, unless there's Rocky Sasaki available in your league, I'm not sure there's another pitcher that I'm more into than Quentin Mathews right now. Maybe Kate Anderson. I think they're rostered probably the same. I would definitely take Kate Anderson. Oh, yeah, no, no, that's what I mean. No, I was just talking about the roster right. Mathews is 39% Anderson, I think is like six and seven. Sure. There's a lot of leagues where Kate Anderson is rostered and when Mathews isn't, I think among pitchers rostered in 70% of the leagues or less though. I think Sasaki and Anderson are the only two that I would prioritize ahead of Quentin Mathews right now. So in one of my leagues, I do have a claim for Walbert, Arania over these refuse, but it's a close call. Arania's just been so reliable. I'm not expecting huge returns for Mathews. I'm hoping he'll be good enough to keep on my roster. It was three walks to three strikeouts in this first start. I was encouraged by the 65% strike rate, but you know, three walks in five innings is not good and fits in with what we saw from him the last two years in the minors, especially. And he seemed to have a little trouble putting guys away. That was why I was watching this start. So I think he's high among the pitchers to prioritize off the way of a wire, Quentin Mathews, but I could, if I looked at the list, I could probably come up with some more names beyond Kate Anderson and Walbert, Arania. And like I do want to stress, we don't know exactly when Kate Anderson is coming up. I think it'll be at most two weeks from now. It may be this week. And regardless of when he comes up with Luis Castillo out of the picture, maybe George Kirby or Emerson Hancock as well, we'll see. But even with just Castillo out of the picture, like if Anderson is still available on your link, he has to be the top priority. Must must must. Yeah. What about what about Shane Drow and versus Quinn Matthews? I think Matthew is more talented. I think I was a man drawing. I like drawing man. I like drawing too. I like both to be honest, but I think I like drawing a little bit more. I have a hard time. What we've seen from Drow and recently, he's gone now six innings and four straight starts, five straight starts. And the strikeouts are decent. The contact quality is, am I mixing them up with Gasser? I might be mixing them up with Gasser. So sorry about that. Drow and I think is even better than Gasser, but I need to refresh my memory. I don't want to talk about it here. Okay, 12% swing. He's straight. That's pretty darn good. 88.3 mile per hour average, six of velocity. That's pretty good. And he doesn't have control problems either. 2.5 walks per nine. I mean, look at the ERA estimators for Drow and he's actually underperformed them. They're all low threes. So yeah, I got to go with Drow and over Matthews or Walbert Arania for that matter. Yep. I would agree with that as well. Oh my goodness gracious shout out of the weekend. Oh my goodness gracious. Goes to Gavin Williams, who was awesome again on Sunday. Five and two thirds shut out. One hit, one walk, 10 strikeouts. 21 whips on 89 pitches. He took a perfect game into the sixth inning when can you believe it? Those DMACS tried to bump for a hit. Why would they do that, Chris? Cannot believe they tried to do that. He up here for Gavin Williams. He's leaned more on his sweeper over his past couple starts and it has been amazing for him. I know that we tell ourselves every time you can't get too high on Gavin Williams. You can't get too low on Gavin Williams. But dude, five straight games with 10 or more strikeouts and one or fewer walks. The only other two pictures to ever do that are Clayton Kirsch on 2016 and Chris sale in 2018. So I don't know, maybe Gavin Williams is just entering another stratosphere. I mean, you don't have to go there is the thing like he's doing something historic. He is. And I think he's capable of doing this. Like I don't I don't think if you had told me coming into the season that Gavin Williams would have a stretch like this, I wouldn't fall in out of my chair. You know, it's like it's impressive. Like I think he's capable of impressive things. We've seen the other side of the coin too and I don't think that's gone away. So you know, I don't want to downgrade or like poo poo anything he's done here. My only critique really comes down to I think he's more like a top 20 starting picture in fantasy than a top 10. And right now he's, you know, looking like a top 10, but I don't think it'll continue such to make him a top 10. But top 20 is still really good. Yeah. I mean, and that would be higher than I think we've ranked him pretty consistently all season, right? At least for me, I had him closer to 30 for most of the season. Yeah. And the thing that I'm really struggling with is maybe this is done. I'll grant that. Is the last time I did this. The last time I was like, you know what? I was wrong about Gavin Williams. Gavin Williams is really good. And this was probably in May, I would guess when I finally was like, you know what? The skepticism's just making me look stupid. I'm going to buy in and I'm going to put Gavin Williams as a top 25 or 20 starting picture wherever I ended up getting him. And then he opened June with like, he had a 60 hour range. Um. And like his peripherals didn't change very much from May to June. He just gave up a lot more home runs. And that's just a kind of thing that might happen sometimes for Gavin Williams. It certainly has been this season. And so I think he's pitching really exceptionally well right now. I think he's the kind of inherently volatile pitcher that it just you are bound to get burned by overreacting one way or or reacting one way or the other frankly. But this is clearly the best we've ever seen from him. And there are enough underlying changes in his pitch mix, you know, really, really leaning into that fastball and sweeper combination. And the velocity consistently being up. That maybe this is just the light going off for him. We've seen, you know, his release point tends to fluctuate. His extension tends to fluctuate. He tends to have or at least has in the past had a lot of trouble sustaining his velocity throughout starts. And these are all things that have just made him very, very volatile. And maybe that's done. But I don't know. I just it feels like it's setting myself up to to look dumb if I finally get rid of all my reservations. And I certainly got rid of a lot of them. Lucy with the football. But yeah, there is and again, I will grant maybe that's dumb. Maybe like worrying about the ups and downs of a player's past and like maybe we're just missing the forest for the trees here. By focusing on that stuff. Well, but maybe he's also, you know, full season statistics are more predictive than partial season statistics as good as he's been this five start stretch. He has like a 356 year and most of the peripherals are in line with that. The XERA is actually around four. Right. I don't know. Nobody's ever as good as they are at their best. And you should probably just take the overall track record at face value with Gavin Williams. And what that is is a 350 year and 11k per nine. That's an awesome pitcher. And there's nothing wrong with just being that he might be a top 10 pitcher, but I do think we need more than the the five starts to fully buy in. Yeah. Let's hit the rest of the news and notes from the weekend and some other smaller trades that went down the braves acquired lane Thomas and belly falter from the royals in exchange for Carter, Holton and Lucas Braun and Thomas just wrapped up a nice July where he hit 255 with five homers, 14 RBI, three seals, eight 20 OPS. Scott, do you think Lane Thomas plays every day with the braves or is it just a short side platoon situation? I think he's short side platoon with Mike just dream ski. Kind of taking the Eli White role away. Yeah. It's a little nifty little platoon. I'd prefer better, but we can't always give what we want. Yeah. That is bad news for Lane Thomas's value because he was playing every day with the royals before this trade. So not great for Lane Thomas to maybe a coon, you'll get hurt again. Oh my god. All right. Wow. Why would you even put that out into the universe? What is that? I just didn't like seeing you sad, Frank. Oh, man. Anywho, the twins acquired Dean Kramer from the royals for Yom Nardo Reyes and to make room for Kramer, the twins option Zebby Matthews to triple A. Kramer streamer type. He's flashed a little bit with the splitter that he throws and gets swinging strikes with it at times, but I don't know that this move to the twins really changes much for me with Dean Kramer. That's it's been when there was a moment where we were like, uh, Dean Kramer. But they're on that splitter more. Maybe there's something here because it's a really good pitch. Kind of went back to the typical usage after that and now goes to the twins with an ERA over six. They sent Zebby Matthews down. I don't know that their nest's really better off with Dean Kramer than Zebby Matthews, but that's that's where things currently stand. My interest level in Dean Kramer has not changed. It is very low. All right. The Brewers acquired Bonaylor and Cody Hoyer from the Guardians for Craig Yeoho and Blake Perkins. Very deep league names. I don't think there's much that matters there. What have been cool? Like, can we get Craig Yeoho to the pirates? Exactly. Like they need a closer. He couldn't be any worse than what they have. Like a Craig Yeoho became the pirates closer for the next six years. That would be electric, man. Yeah. I'd buy a jersey for sure. Yeah. The Blue Jays acquired James Tion from the Cubs for cash considerations or a player to be named later. And the pirates acquired Camilo DeVal from the Yankees for a pair of minor leagueers. DeVal has been really bad this season. He does have closing experience. The pirates used him on Sunday. It was in a non-closing situation. It was like they were losing nine to two or something like that. Any gave up a home run. So maybe he could work his way into things. But I think it would have to take a lot to happen here for that to actually come true for Camilo DeVal. Bobby with Jr. is on track to return on Tuesday. So make sure to get him back in your lineups this week. Nick Kurtz has missed two straight due to a lingering hand injury. He was hit by a pitch on Wednesday of last week. And Kurtz had an MRI and X-rays. Mark Cotsay said the X-rays were kind of unclear. This is expected to visit a hand specialist on Monday. This one seems kind of scary. It doesn't seem like you can start him. Yep. So look, at least there's a lot of first baseman out there if you need a replacement. Oh, a non-corner infielder league. I mean, there's got to be somebody good you could use. But it's still a bummer because this is the best first baseman. I feel like I'm having trouble keeping up with injuries right now. They're just happening with such frequency lately. And obviously trade stuff is going on. So there's a lot going on right now. Yeah. I just, every day I look up and I'm like, what? He's got a red cross next to his name. What's that about? And it's like, oh. Nick Kurtz being one such example. Kyle Harrison is expected to make his next start with the Brewers during their upcoming a home series against the pirates. And his lone rehab start five and two thirds, shut out innings, five strikeouts, the three walks. He got up to 68 pitches. So probably in that 75 to 80 range, would you guys use Kyle Harrison first start back from NIL this week? I think it's okay. You know, I would think if you were ranking every starting pitcher for this week, given how good he's been this season, you'd probably go top 50. So yeah, I think you probably leaned towards starting him, but it's not. Yeah. Anytime it's the first start back from the IL, I don't mind giving a guy a chance to show that he's okay. It just, it just depends what your options are. For what it's worth, pirates is the matchup, right? They're much more ordinary against left handed pitchers. Yep. So you don't necessarily have to think of that as a bad matchup for air. All right, next up another injury, Ryan O'Hern, what's placed in the IL with a left quad train and he will miss six to eight weeks, which basically knocks him out for the rest of the regular season. And he had first base in outfield eligibility. So if you're looking for first base for placements, again, like Bryce Eldridge is 68% rostered. Royce Lewis is 57% Thai France still on fire. He's 51% rostered. If you need help in the outfield, if you were using Ryan O'Hern there, there's Max Clark who he mentioned, there's Dom Can Zone, who's been planning its lefties, homering against some lefties as well. Heriberto Hernandez with the Marlins and even Spencer Jones, who's getting a chance to play every day, Homer to get two lefties this weekend. And he was moved up to the cleanup spot here on Sunday. So there's an eight for you. Spencer Jones is also striking out like 40% of the time, but yeah. That he is 37% I think to be exact. But you know, he's super athletic. He's like, he steals bases too. So I don't know. We'll see where it goes. Bunch of braves. If Spencer Jones was going to break out, this is what it would look like. But still a big if whether that's sustainable with the strike out rate that high. He just doesn't, I don't know how to explain it. He doesn't look like a normal human being. He feels like the way he looks, it feels like he should be smaller, but he just, he hovers over everybody. So like Aaron judge, he doesn't look as big as he is. Like, his body just kind of matches like a sense when you look at him. Spencer Jones, it doesn't, it feels like he's six one, but he's actually six seven. I also just think like purpose. I still don't think that bag stance is going to work. There are way too many moving parts in there for a guy that big. It is very wonky. Yeah. But I'll tell you like I watched them pretty close this week and like his at bats have been a lot better this, this second or third time around since getting called up. So we'll see. A bunch of braves, pitcher updates here. Spencer Shredder appears unlikely to pitch again this season. He landed on the aisle with right elbow inflammation back on June 13th. Spencer Schwelmock will likely throw a few more bullpen before being cleared to face live hitters. hasn't yet regained his full velocity and ready. Ronaldo Lopez was placed in the I.L. with left knee inflammation. J.R. Ritchie was recalled to start Sunday and it was more of the same for Richie. Forenings, two runs, three walks, four strikeouts for him. Ryan Hellsley has resumed a throwing program. He's on the 60 day I.L. not eligible to return until August 29th. Will Smith will need at least three to four weeks to ramp back up, including a rehab assignment. He's been on the I.L. since mid June with neck inflammation. Michael Garcia is scheduled to see a hand specialist this week. He's been battling a left hand muscle strain since late June. Brendan Donovan will finally rejoin the Mariners on Tuesday. He is 70% rostered. Second and third base eligible. I know that number is already high, but if he's out there in points leagues, that is the format that Donovan is typically really good in. Yeah. And J.P. Crawford went on the I.L. this weekend. So the playing time concerns aren't there right now. They did say he'll play second base, third base and corner outfield. So could gain eligibility there. Yeah, I think he's worth the look. Zach Elowff is expected to begin a rehab assignment Tuesday at AAA. Nick Ladolo through 50 pitches over three simulated innings on Friday. He's working his way back from that recurring blister issue. The asterisk move, Tatsuya Imiy to their bullpen this weekend. Joe must do it anymore. I, you know, it was so liberating to drop him in all my leagues this weekend. I just fine. What have the most frustrating pitchers that I have covered in the six years that I've been here at CBS Joe must grow. Don't disagree. Joe must grow felt strong after a bullpen Saturday and thinks he's ready to go on a rehab assignment. 27% rostered. Probably going to take pretty long to build up. Do you guys have any interest in stashing Joe must grow? This is actually your seventh baseball season, Frank. Six and a half, six and a third. Just your seventh season. Yeah. I didn't want to see you to sell yourself short. Did the math real quick? You joined us right right in 2020. Hey, there's a pandemic going on. Host this baseball podcast. Yeah. Okay. Who are we talking about? Joe must grow. Do you have any? Joe must grow. I mean, if you have a free I L spot, I'd rather stash Nick Povato who I think's about to go on a rehab assignment too. I was putting in some claims for him in leagues where I have a spot to play with, dropping like Ben Brown for him. I think I'd rather stash Clay Holmes as well. Yeah. He's he'll be back the soonest. And the last item I have here, D-backs reliever Justin Martinez will begin a rehab assignment on Tuesday. He underwent Tommy John surgery last June, but when he's right, he is awesome. He throws really hard. He is nasty. Paul Seewald has been removed from the D-backs Closers role and left the Brandon Garcia has the last two saves for the D-backs. And I saw a lot of people picking him up this weekend rightfully. So Garcia is 20% rostered. How do you guys see the D-backs bullpen playing out here? Do you think it's all right, Brandon Garcia until the wheels fall off or one of the ones Justin Martinez is back? They just kind of work him back in as well. I mean, if Garcia is going well, I don't see why they'd remove him, but looking at his history, even just this year on the miners, I don't have supreme confidence that he'll last in this role. He's been really good the time in the major so far. I don't know what clicked for him to have that about face with his performance, but it's gone well so far as long as it continues to go well, then I think he'll close. Unless the D-backs acquire someone else better to close, which is, and we're not hearing much about the D-backs, but they are currently. Yeah, they're currently in the Wild Card Spawn. Seven games over 500, I think. I did not realize that. Right? They're like 59 and 52. They're suddenly. They are in a Wild Card Spawn. Yeah, I do. Pretty good season. Yeah. So one thing I would say is the D-backs are invested in Justin Martinez long term. I wanted to check and make sure because I thought they had signed him to an extension they did last year. That can go either way, right? That I think when they signed him to it, that was kind of a, "Oh, just they really liked this guy." They really think this is the closer the future, but it's also, you know, they don't have any financial incentives to not put him in the closes role, which you'll sometimes see with smaller market teams with relievers. But, you know, I have a hard times. Teams generally don't take guys out of this closer role when they're finding success. Unless there's a guy, you know, an Edwin Diaz or something with that kind of track record. I don't know if Justin Martinez is that kind of guy yet. So I think Branding Garcia has a chance, but it's probably 50/50 as to whether he takes advantage of that chance. I didn't realize how good he is, man. 210 ERA 0.80 Whip, 26% K-Walk rate. That is. His last 30 innings have been awesome. And he has a 6% ground ball roast. It's kind of only those 30 innings. The control in the miners was terrible. It was 7.3 Wax-Brenine. This year it was five something last year. And then it's just like a switch flipped once he got to the majors, a 2.1 Wax-Brenine. Yeah. So we've gotten faked out by that with pitchers before. Like, oh, they've cleared that hurdle, control wise, and then it doesn't last. But sometimes it does last too. So it's anybody's guess at this point. He's going well right now. If it continues, he'll probably stay. But don't presume anything with Branding Garcia. All right, let's take our final break. When we return, I've got some waiver names, temperature check. What's the latest on Paul's schemes? We'll talk about that right after this. Welcome back, fantasy baseball today. And taking a look at waiver wire hitters from the weekend. Obviously, Max Clark is the big name. But just someone who's been rock solid, Royce Lewis, two for four hit his 12th home run three RBI on Sunday. He also homeered on Friday, updated numbers since being recalled 47 games, 254, nine homeers, seven steals, OPS right around 800. 57% rostered. He's first, second and third base eligible. When did he get second base eligibility? Did I completely miss that? I feel like this was his ninth appearance today. So I'm waiting to move him to second base or middle end field in and Tau Wars, where the standard is 10 appearances rather than five. Okay. I think he only started it for us. He's only started a few. I think it's been a lot of late inning appearances. I think he started for it appeared nine at second base. Yeah, because I think like Luke Heishel no longer really plays second base. He's a strictly out for it. I think he's starting a center field now for them. Yeah, I think so. I'm just an out. So yeah, hey, I wouldn't mind 11 more appearances from Royce Lewis. Let's get him second and third base eligibility for 2027. He's been really good since he came back. It's like a 2525 pace since he came back OPS over 800. I think he's because he's been around and has disappointed us for so many times. I think people are just kind of over it. But I think where is Lewis is fine. I don't think he's a superstar, but I think he's better than he's getting credit for with his current roster rate. I don't think he's most useful at third base, just the position scarcity. I would take him over Nolan Aranado. I think at this point, I would probably drop a Hennios Juarez for him. Juarez has said nothing this year. And then Caleb Durbin versus Royce Lewis, I feel is pretty close. Durbin's been really good since the start of June. Durbin's been doing an even better hitter. I have even less faith in him as a hitter. But he's been like a 900 OPS bat for the last 45 games or so. It's been kind of crazy. How good Caleb Durbin has been. Yeah. So who would you guys say, Durbin or Royce Lewis? Lewis. I think so. Yeah. That one is close. I think there's a little bit more juice with Lewis there, but yeah, Durbin's playing well. Cooper Pratt really picking things up post all star break here. Last 14 games, 349, two homers, four steals, 932 OPS. He is 47% rostered. It's got how high do you think that number needs to climb here for Cooper Pratt? Obviously tough position at shortstop, but I think in any leagues with the middle infield spot, I'm pretty interested in what Cooper Pratt's doing right now. Yeah, you should be. The stolen base is alone. I mean, that's we're usually talking categories leagues, roto leagues, specifically with the middle infield spot. And he can do. He's been prolific with the steals. Also been getting on base a ton. If on base percentage matters in your league, or even if it's points league, you don't have to go as deep into the shortstop pool in a points league. [BLANK_AUDIO] I don't know that in that format particularly Colson Montgomery is better than Cooper Pratt. Things have gotten pretty rough for Colson Montgomery lately. I don't know that I want to keep starting Boba Shett in a points league if it was that short stop. And if I had a chance to swap in Cooper Pratt instead of the waiver wire, I at least have to consider it at this point because we're in August. I still think there's life in Boba Shett, but I think it's late enough now that if you haven't seen it yet this year, you kind of just have to take what you can get where you can get it. A couple of outfielders in five outfielder leagues, Spencer Jones, who I just mentioned, Homer on Friday and Saturday, both off of lefties. He was putting a lead off a lead, not lead on clean up spot on Sunday against the right hand picture. Last five games, he has six hits, three homers and two steals. 34% rostered is Spencer Jones and Jake Mangum, a big game on Friday for the pirates. Two for four with a sock into shoe. He had another two hits on Saturday. I think the playing time is pretty secure. Ryan O'Hern again is hurt. We're still waiting for O'Neill Cruz to return to the pirates as well. Just in a vacuum, if you need an outfielder in a five outfielder league, who would you rather take a shot on? Spencer Jones or Jake Mangum? A Mangum for sure for me. I know Jones is more talented, but I just don't really have like, unless it's probably going to be a 30-homer guy, if he hasn't been anything close to that, I think Mangum's just going to be the better hitter. Yeah, the thing about Mangum is he gives you no power. And Spencer Jones, he may not give you anything, but if he gives you something, he's definitely going to give you power. It's pretty opposite profiles for the two. Yeah, oh yeah. So I'm more excited about Jones. I think there's a limit to what Mangum can do for you, and it's not going to reach relevance in all but deeper roado leagues. I think he's fine. And in a five outfielder 12 team points, or yeah, five outfielder 12 team roado league, I think Mangum's fine. I don't think he's a difference maker, but a guy who, okay, he probably won't keep heading 300, although he's been doing it for a pretty long time. But you know, a 280 hitter who I think is a legit 30-35 plus steel guy who's going to score a bunch of runs at the top of that lineup. Like, I only think he's incredible, but I think he's useful. I think there are, if there are 100 multiverses, I think Spencer Jones probably actively hurts you in like 90 of them in the future. At least the rest of this way. I just think that they'll take, they're so glaring. Yeah, I guess probably I'd rather be starting Mangum right now in such a format. Only five outfielder league would you even consider it. But if it's just for a bench spot, and I want to gamble on upside, I might go with Jones instead. Okay, here. I have two very deep names. Is there anything here with either one Eduardo Valencia, a catcher with the Tigers? He's also been playing some DH. He actually doesn't have catcher eligibility yet. He needs one more game. He went two for four with four RBI on Sunday. He had a two-homer game earlier in the week. He has started three of the past five games. And so far in 11 games with the Tigers, four 52 four homers in OPS over 1400. Pretty good power numbers in the miners as well. Again, that's Eduardo Valencia. And the D sobbey of the Giants, he homered on both Saturday and Sunday. Numbers in the miners, not very good the season. The deepest of leagues, but do you guys have any thoughts or intrigue in Eduardo Valencia or Oslavis Bessabé? And the deepest of leagues, I feel like because I'm looking them up so often, Valencia. Oh man, he must be playing a lot. He really isn't. And maybe that should change. Maybe it will. I don't know, maybe it won't, but he hasn't played a lot so far. So it would have to be a pretty deep two catcher league for me to consider Eduardo Valencia. All right. So we were wire pitchers and some shallow league names between 60 and 70% rostered on CBS. All headstrong match games this weekend. Will Warren against the Cubs, 6 and 2/3 shutout innings, 7 strikeouts, 0 walks. He uses change up and his curve a lot more in this one. And that change up looked great for Will Warren. So bit of a change. It worked for him. He gets the Cardinals this week. Shane Boz took a tough loss against the Phillies, 6 and a third. One run, 4 strikeouts to one walk. Last 13 starts 292 ERA. The whip is higher, 127 for Shane Boz. He gets the angels this week. So that's a good matchup on paper. Shane's rowing another strong start. Six innings, two runs, 7 strikeouts to one walk. He had 13 whiffs on 86 pitches. He gets the pirates this week. Again, they are much better against right handed pitching than they are against lefties. And Walbert, Arania outdulled the Miz. How about that? Six shutout innings, 7 strikeouts for him. 14 whiffs on 90 pitches. He has a quality start in three straight. And he is at the Marlins this week. Chris, how would you rank this group? Walbert, Arania, Shane Drowin, Shane Boz and Will Warren. I would go Arania Drowin. I don't really have a lot of interest in either Warren or Boz. I think they are both just streamers. I guess I'll go Boz over Warren just because I think they are pretty similarly talented and Boz is getting better results. I'll say I don't really have much confidence in either of those guys. I think there is a little bit of a gap between Arania and Drowin and then Boz and Warren. Yep. I. My only disagreement with any of that is they take Drowin over Arania. We already covered that. Already. What about some mid-tier names between 30 and 60% roster. We have K-Dare Moncero, another solid outing at the Athletics. Six shutout innings. Two walks, two strikeouts. He is 56% rostered. He's at the Giants this week. Kyle Leahy continues to pitch well this time at the Blue Jays. Six innings one run. Three strikeouts to one walk. Last seven starts for Kyle Leahy. He's at 21 ERA. 0.88 Whip. He is a spark for those who play in Poinsleys. He's at the Yankees this week. And Martin Perez had a great outing against the Nationals. They crushed lefties. Martin Perez goes in there. Seven shutout innings. Six strikeouts. 11 whips on 78 pitches. And he is also at the Yankees later this week. More mid-tier names. Scott definitely in that streamer conversation. He's got a lot of interest here in Martin Perez at the Yankees. Kyle Leahy. Also at the Yankees and K-Dare Moncero at the Giants. I don't think any is a big deal. I'm most interested in Kyle Leahy. And I was kind of surprised to discover. He was already rostered in all my 15 team leagues. So I guess I guess a lot of people have been noticing him. But so basically you mentioned the numbers one is last seven starts. Yes. So I broke it down his last day. It's 166 ERA 0.95 Whip. 1 K. During the last day, which aren't quite as good as the numbers you gave. But they're still really good. And the reason why I sectioned off of eight starts for Leahy is because that's where the control was drastically improved. It's 2.1 walks per nine in those eight starts versus 3.5. Previously, and also the ground ball rate has gone up double digit percentage points during that same stretch. And to the point that Leahy's now like getting tons of ground balls. And if you're getting tons of ground balls and you're not walking out of anybody and you're getting at least eight strikeouts per nine innings like he has during this eight start stretch, you're probably going to be pretty good. So I mean, it very much fits the mold of a Cardinals pitcher. The season stats are still kind of meh, especially the whip. But I think it's possible Leahy has turned himself into at least, at least like a fringe 12 team guy. All right. And then some lower end options between 20 and 30% rostered. Andrew painter returns to the Phillies with a solid start at the Orioles. Six innings to run six strikeouts. He changed up the pitch mix. He threw his sweeper and has changed up a lot more, which is a good recipe for Andrew Painter. Anthony Kaye. He was at the raise on Sunday, six in a third. Shutout innings with three strikeouts. Definitely just a streamer type. He's a spark. He gets the guardians this week. They're really bad against left handed pitching. David Peterson racked up the whiffs against Yankees. He had eight strikeouts over six in a third innings. And he gets the blue jays this week. And Matthew Lumbertor, a great outing at the blue jays six shutout seven strikeouts to one walk. He gets the Rockies in St. Louis. So pretty deep names here. Chris, any standout to you? Andrew painter, Anthony Kaye, David Peterson and Matthew Lumbertor. Kay Peterson and Lumbertor, I think all are what they are and what they are. and what they are, it's not very exciting, but as. streaming options, let me know what the next matchup is. You know, it's possible they could be worth it, K, especially in a point's league. Painter is the one that I think clearly stands out just from a talent perspective. And he was a different version of himself than what we saw earlier on this season. He was not just throwing the sweeper more. He used that as his primary pitch. And anything to get off the four seamer is always gonna be a good idea for Andrew Painter because despite averaging 97 in this start, it got hit hard again. 99 mile an hour, I've ever jags of velocity in this one. But it wasn't just the sweeper that he was throwing more. That also got hit hard by the way. He also swapped out the splitter for the changeup. He went from, I don't think he threw a changeup at all. This season earlier, he was throwing the splitter as his primary off speed pitch. This time he threw the changeup as his fourth most use pitch, 16% of the time. Still not a huge usage rate, but he got a couple with it. He didn't give up much hard contact with it. So it's different from Andrew Painter. Is that good enough to make him worth rostering in 12 team leagues? Probably not, given how bad he was earlier, but it's definitely something I'm going to keep an eye on for Andrew Painter. And if I was going to add any of these four with an eye on the future, such as it is, I would prioritize Painter over the other guys. Yeah, I mean, if you're in a deeper league and there's just not much out there, seeing what Andrew Painter did here and knowing his prospect pedigree, you could just kind of take a stab and see where it goes. But yeah, I think a name in deeper leagues for sure. And for the other three, you have to be pretty desperate to consider any of them. But if you're in that position, all three of them have good matchups this week. Anthony K. Against the Guardians, David Peterson against the Blue Jays and Matthew Libertor again against the Rockies in St. Louis. In the deepest of leagues, Robert Stock started for the Metz on Sunday. And he looks kind of good. Five innings, one run, four strikeouts, zero walks, he had 12 whists on 70 pitches. He only threw two and two thirds innings last year. This is also his first start since 2021. It's been a long road back for him. But his velocity was up a lot from where he was last year. So kind of interesting there for Robert Stock. Max Scherzer, he was a back quality start against the Cardinals. Kyle Freelin through a complete game on Sunday. I don't really think it matters, but hey, complete game against the Royals. One run, eight strikeouts, two walks, he had 19 whiffs on 115 pitches. The only one that really stands out to me is Scott is Robert Stock. I kind of want to follow this and see where it goes. Yeah, that's all there is to say about it at this point, really, because it probably goes nowhere. But you mentioned the velocity was up from when we had last seen him 12 whiffs on 70 pitches against the Marlins. And in the minors this year, eight appearances, six of them starts. 291 ERA 0.83 Whip 12.9 K per nine. Maybe he's figured something out. But it's like I put in some zero dollar claim sum. I put in a zero dollar claim form in my inelomely league. That's as far as I'm going with Robert Stock right now. But yeah, we'll see if he builds off this. So interesting. One out of a couple things. Yet thoracic outlet surgery last year. That's what he's coming back from and he's starting harder. So that's incredible. Also good follow on Twitter. Robert Stock, he's a big nerd who loves to talk through the statistical process of pitching. He puts a lot of like advanced stats into his approach to pitching. So if you ever want to want to get a feel for that kind of stuff, Robert Stock is a good Twitter follower. A pair of Astros pitchers that I saw get picked up in quite a few spots on Sunday. Christian Javier and Hayden, Wes Neskey. They're both 10% rostered or less. And Javier, coming off a good start, he gets the blue jays and at the Padres this week. And then Wes Neskey, five and two thirds, three runs, four strikeouts, two walks. Looks like he's home against the blue days. Do you guys have any interest in these Astros pitchers? I saw them get picked up in a few spots. I mean, not at this point. Like I don't think anything can happen. Yeah. We really know. They're not any less hopeful than Robert Stock. So I don't want my dismissiveness here to make it seem otherwise. Like they're all probably nothing. But it's a noteworthy performance that if they then do it again next time, it becomes even more noteworthy. And maybe if they do it again, then we talk about picking them up. But that's kind of the point we're at now. The latest temperature check on some big name pitchers. Paul Schienz, a rough outing at the Reds this weekend, four innings, five runs, four walks, two homers allowed. He did have 15 whips on 100 pitches. And he averaged 96.6 miles per hour on his fastball, which is down a little bit. But I just thought this tweet from codify was very illuminating for Paul Schienz. He has made 48 starts in his career, where he has averaged 98 or more miles per hour on his four scene fastball. In those starts, he has a 173 ERA. In 30 starts where he has averaged less than 98 miles per hour on his fastball, 383 ERA. Seems pretty straightforward with Paul Schienz. Well, then if you continue through the thread through codify, which I think I've been pronouncing it wrong, how you thought it was cut off I too? I thought it was codify. I think stupid, I'm sorry. You'll notice-- and this kind of gets to a point Chris has been making in defense of Paul Schienz. Like the fastball, even though the velocity's down, it's still getting its usual results. And that's true. The changeup isn't. So I think losing something off the fastball has made the changeup less effective, because off-speed pitches-- so he's combining changeup and the splinker. So those two pitches-- 2024, 166 batting average against, 2025, 189 batting average against, 2026, 286 batting average against. So that's where you really see the difference with that change of velocity for Schienz. I don't know. I remain moderately concerned, not enough that I'm not going to call him a top 10 pitcher rest of season, but I'd be worried, like, particularly if I had him in any kind of fantasy league, dynasty or retraft. I'd be a little worried. Yeah. My guess is that ERA gap stat is 2026 is carrying a lot of weight. I would guess he was probably fine when he was below 98 miles per hour before 2026. And that's just that he's been below 98 miles per hour, what, like, eight starts in a row, probably something like that. And they've all been mostly bad starts, I would guess. So I'm just saying, my read is that his velocity is down now and he's pitching poorly. And that's why that stat is as stark as it is. But it probably wasn't before. And I'm not saying that's not related. I'm just saying he's pitching worse right now. Regardless of the velocity wouldn't have been, this stat wouldn't look like it does before this season is my point. Yeah, but there weren't many starts before. Yeah, there were like eight last season. There were a handful before 2020 in 2024. There were two in 2024. There were eight in 2020. Where average less than 98. Yeah. But then you look at the initial tweet in the thread, which is number of pitches 98 miles per hour or harder thrown in every start for Paul schemes. And it's, oh yeah, it's gone way down. Basically, two dozen or more every start until this year, where it's mostly zeroes, one, two. So it's, yeah, no, there's something here. I just don't know what it is. Is it Paul schemes has hurt? Is it Paul, like, I have no idea. Yeah. He's clearly not pitching as well right now. What I find especially frustrating about it is, as I've said, every time we've had this conversation, the underlying numbers, it's not showing up there. It's only in the number of earned runs he's allowing. And maybe that's all that matters. It certainly is for the results that we're looking for. But from an analytic perspective, I'm struggling with how to analyze that because the things I care about most are not how many earned runs are you giving up multiplied by nine divided by innings pitch. Like, I know that's the thing we care about. But from a, from a, from a, from a predictive standpoint, it doesn't matter very much. Well, matters is strikeouts and walks. And how hard you're getting hit. And that stuff looks very similar. I don't want to say identical. But. It certainly doesn't look as different as it has as the ERA does. And I don't know what to make of that. My inclination is to say the ERA doesn't matter as much as the predictive stuff. But maybe the ERA is the canary in the coal mine here. Because he was always a guy for whom the predictive stuff didn't matter all that much. His predictive stats were very good. His ERA was always better. And so maybe the ERA is the thing that matters for Paul Schienz and not the other stuff. Maybe there is something about his unique ability to limit hard contact and limit damage that makes the ERA the thing we should look at moving forward. That would be uncomfortable for Paul Schienz from a perspective of trying to predict him because you should not expect any player to be an outlier. But maybe he is. I genuinely don't know. I don't want to say there's nothing to be worried about here. Clearly, his two worst months of his career have been the most recent two. He had never had an ERA below 320 in a month before the most recent two. It's 358 and 625. There's something going on here. Well, it is exactly clear. Like that one song says. It would be one thing if it really was just the ERA. But it's the ERA in conjunction with his peak fastball isn't nearly what it was the first two years. And that to me is. That to me raises a lot more than just OK. His ERA is a couple runs higher, but he is throwing his heart and everything is performing the same. I, I, I, I, I remain a little bit concerned. The pitcher who opposed him, not at his best either Hunter Green, six innings, four runs, four strikeouts to two walks, his fastball got hit hard, couldn't locate a slider. And he's given a four plus earn runs in three of five starts since returning. It's a 683 ERA 137 whip. If your trade deadline hasn't passed yet, by low or heck no, Hunter Green. I would buy low depends how low we're buying. But I, I probably need to adjust him in my rankings a bit, but I suspect he'll still be in my top 20. Five rest of season. And I think you can get him for less than that. All right. Next up we have Bryce Miller who was solid, but the velocity still down this time against the twins. Five and a third. Three hits, two runs. He had three strikeouts to two walks. And with Bryce Miller, his first seven starts this season. His four seam average 96.5 miles per hour. He had a 197 ERA, a 0.72 whip, 10.6 Kper-9. And his next five starts, the fastball down to 95.4 miles per hour, 413 ERA, 124 whip, 6.4 Kper-9. So where are we on Bryce Miller? I am definitely concerned here too, especially given that he has an injury history. His, his fastball looked dominant when he first came back from it, both in terms of velocity and the kind of results it was getting. He has a combined one whiff on his fastball and his last two starts. I don't think Bryce Miller can survive that way. And I, again, I have to be concerned given his injury history that he's dealing with something again. He is a do not start for me right now. I haven't dropped him anywhere. And I hope it doesn't get to that point. But like we need to see a turnaround pretty soon here, given how late it is in the season. And given that, like you can't afford to throw away weeks anymore. And we need to see a turnaround here soon for Miller for him to keep that spot on the roster. Last name on this list is Jacob DeGrom, who's been trending down a little bit at the Asher's three and a third, seven hits, five runs, five walks in this one. His velocity was up across the board. Perhaps that just made it harder for him to command his pitches here. Five earned runs in two of his last three outings. He has gone five innings or fewer in four straight. Chris, are you concerned about Jacob DeGrom? Do you start him this week against the Orioles? Yes, I would start Jacob DeGrom. Yes, I am concerned about Jacob DeGrom. It clearly seems like we are at a point where the decline phase has happened. And given everything he's been through, and the fact that he's 38 years old, that is not terribly surprising. His strike rate is actually up a little bit from last season. His walk rates up a little bit. He's giving up a lot more hard contact. It just doesn't seem to be, have been quite as precise. As in 2025, the one thing I'm surprised with is, you know, he's always had such a dominant four seamer and slider combination really since he really broke out that he hasn't needed anything else. He throws those pitches about 80% of the time, maybe a little more. And the change up and curveball sit there and they both look really, really good on the rare occasions that he does throw them. Obviously, maybe the judiciousness with which he approaches those pitches helps explain it, but it does feel like a, you know, kind of a break class in case of emergency move that Jacob DeGrom could do. Well, I'm, you know, my four seamer and my slider, they're good, but they're not quite as dominant as they used to be. Maybe mix in a few more of the third and fourth pitch and see if that can get him back on track. I think he's good. Probably not like an A setting more. All right, let's wrap up here. Do have some other pitching leftovers and the first group. I'm not going to read off all the stats and stuff. I'll just read off the names. But Scott, did you see anything here on the maze Jacob Mizierowski, Christopher Sanchez, Max Fried and Dylan Seas this weekend. Those four names in particular. Mizierowski's velocity was down, but of course it was way up in his previous start and the results were dominant in both cases. So I don't think it's anything to worry about, but it is worth noting. Only 83 pitches. He's still got through seven, but yeah, you know, it's his first time going more than five innings since July seventh, but the pitch count was still a little limited. He's still got through seven, so I don't want to say that I'm worried, but it's something note. Dylan Seas, his velocity was down for a second straight start. Now, remember in the first start of those two where the velocity was down, complete game one hit, shut out with 12 strikeouts. And the way the velocity drop broke down is it was especially low in the first inning and then it picked up over the course of the game. So the average ended up low, but by the end he was throwing plenty hard. I didn't see a breakdown like that for season this one to see if it followed a similar pattern. So I've also got a good result one or none and six innings with seven strikeouts. So I don't know that it's anything to be worried about, but something to keep an eye on for Dylan Seas. He's had a great year, obviously. Christopher Sanchez walked five after walking three last time. And then where quality starts and we have seen these weird stretches from Sanchez in the past where he just seems to kind of be a little shaky with the control a really good control picture overall. So it's out of character, but we've seen a stretch like this before. Again, I don't think it's anything to worry about, but it is worth noting because all of these could become things to worry about if they persist in the results do drop. Something to keep in mind with all three of those guys. Four other names who pitch well this weekend, your Rasmussen Chase Burns, Sandy Alcantara and George Kirby, Chris, anything that stood out to you Kirby, Sandy Burns and Rasmussen. That's nice to see a good start from Kirby. Things are a little up in the air with him as far as the potential trade because I think it's true. You know, we didn't really talk about it with Castillo, but it wouldn't be surprising if like Luis Castillo just didn't matter for fantasy at all. Now they doesn't have happens games. Yeah, I'm not saying that's necessarily the like least outcome, but it's extremely on the table. Any pitcher that leaves say, uh, if Co-team will field, sometimes I do stuff like that. Just like I'll occasionally just forget the brewers in the National League. They've been in the National League for like 25 years. Sorry. But yeah, if George Kirby left Seattle, I would definitely have to downgrade him quite a bit. That's one that, you know, I was reading Nick Pollock actually, I think he said something like he was kind of excited about the idea of George Kirby getting out of Seattle because there's something about the Mariners general approach to pitchers that he doesn't think works best with Kirby's arsenal. I think that's the way he's talking about the slider and fastball combination, but you know that that's an interesting wrinkle from a smart guy, but I think generally speaking leaving a team mobile. worried about it. So that's something to keep an eye on with Kirby. Other than that, I think Sandy Al Contours just, he's having an awesome season outside of one bad month, basically. Yeah. I think he's pretty good. I saw something, I wish I could find the tweet, but the jet gist of it was that maybe it was Nick Pollock, because he uses the word sequencing. He thinks the issue is sequencing. Yeah. For George Kirby. But I feel like I saw it more from a reporter type who was saying, like a lot of teams are interested because they feel like his issues are sequenced. More about sequ-- why am I can't say that word? Sequencing. Sequencing. Do you have some hitting leftovers here? Massive weekend for Say Don, Rafael. Three for five with a sock into shoe on Friday. Two for four with a double-dong on Saturday. And then two for five with another Homer on Sunday. In his 17 games, post All Star Break, 329, seven Homer's three steals in OPS over a thousand. Four, Say Don, Rafael. Chase the water. He hit his 12th home run on Saturday. He went two for four with three RBI and his seventh steal on Sunday. His updated numbers since returning from the IL 29 games. 310, five Homer's, 17 runs, 21 RBI, five steals. OPS right around 900. Chase the water has looked really, really good over the past month. Hunter Goodman did it again. He blasted two more home runs on Saturday. Four for five, double-dong, five RBI. He has 20 Homer's in 48 games since the start of June. That is pretty crazy. And Jeremy Pena is going off so far in the second half. This weekend, seven hits a Homer five RBI. Fourteen games, post All Star Break, four 33, seven Homer's, 18 runs, 14 RBI, a 1336 OPS there for Jeremy Pena. Big names here. Do a lot of good things. Anything you guys would like to touch on? Rafael Delodr, Goodman, Jeremy Pena. Chase the water is really good. I ever since you said that Michael Brandley cop, I can't get out of my head. I mean, the steals. I love to see the steals because I was like, oh, Michael Brandley without the steals. Well, hold up. Maybe he's going to be like a 10-15 steal guy and all of a sudden. I mean, Ben O'Brandley early in his career was a lot better than that, but he doesn't have to be quite as good. Michael Brandley, I think, was like a second-round pick at his best. He doesn't have to be that good, but he's just look at the month by month. He has had one month with an X-Wobble below 329. And even in that month, he was making a ton of contact and had a 95-mile per hour average. I guess I've lost. He was just heading in the air too much. I think I think Trist Lawters are legitimately really good hitter. And if he can be a 10-15 steal guy too, all the better. I think he's someone you can probably always get into discount just because of the injury risk. But if you get 120 games out of him next year, I think he's going to smash whatever his ADP ends up being. The call to. "Mool, Scott, did you want to see something?" "Cut you off." Well, I was just. So, say down Rafael is now hitting about 40 points higher than the previous two years. His line drive rate is higher. I don't know if that's more of a symptom than a cause. If you know what I mean, like it may just be that he's happened to have a stretch where he hits more line drives. So the batting average is higher because of that rather than the other way around. But I don't see much else that's changed for him. In fact, he's hitting the ball not as hard this year. He's striking out a tiny bit more than last year. I think he's been hot. And he had a stretch in the middle of the last season I want to say where he got that batting average high too. But it didn't last. I don't think I will in this case either. So the nice thing I will say about him is he has traded. He hasn't traded line drives for fly balls and that's the kind of thing that can be a little iffy. But if you look at the baseball Savant page, his line drive rate last year is 21.4%. His fly ball rate was 26. This year it's 26.5% line drives, 25.6 fly balls. So what he's done is he's taken a few ground balls, hit more line drives. But mostly he's cut the pop-ups down. So cutting out the extreme launch angles. And that's where you can really make a big difference with your production is taking the extreme fly balls, which are worth nothing and turning them into either slightly more productive fly balls or even more productive line drives. The problem is line drive is an incredibly noisy stat. It has very little year-to-year predictability. And so when that is the biggest change that a player is making, you should probably bet against it. And in this case, he actually has a significantly worse expected woe, but then he did last season. So I think I've never been a big said I'm a failup believer. And I'm not currently one either, I guess. The call to the bullpen for the Orioles on Friday. Tyler Wells got the ninth inning with a two-run lead. He picked up his fourth save for the twins on Friday. You injures Gomez got the ninth with a two-run lead. He walked to but picked up his 14th save. Then on Sunday Gomez got the ninth with a game tied, single strikeout, single walkoff, RBI single and Gomez took his first loss. For the pirates on Saturday, Gregory Soto got the ninth with a three-run lead. He struck out one for his 14th save. The pirates had five saves in July. And three, well, I guess this is Saturday was August first, but you know what I mean. Three went to Soto and two went to Mason Montgomery. So I don't really know what to do with this pirate. Just trade for Luke Weaver and let's get a closer in here. That is kind of annoying because I had kind of thought that it was just going to be Mason Montgomery moving forward. Yeah, it feels like Montgomery is their highest leverage reliever. Like they just use them in the biggest spot. So not always the ninth inning for the Cubs on Saturday. Jacob Webb entered in the eighth inning with a two-run lead facing the heart of the Yankees lineup. He picked up the hold, left he Caleb Thielbar got the ninth and he picked up his third save. So the Cubs still mixing match there as well. For the Angels on Sunday, Ryan Zepherjohn got the final five outs for Vius Strikeout for his fourth save. And for the Padres on Sunday, Mason Miller was unavailable. Adrian Morayhon got the final four outs, three Vius Strikeout for his second save. And perhaps the Padres just trying to show other teams that Morayhon can close it out. So I don't know. Come get him. Come trade for him if you haven't already. Let's do it. To stream or not to stream on Monday. We have Michael McGreevy at the Yankees subject to change because obviously there could be trades and stuff. But Michael McGreevy at the Yankees, Arinola against the Nationals, Bubba Chandler at the Brewers, Brandon Sprode against the Pirates, Shane Bieber at the Astros, Christian Javier against the Blue Jays, Ian Seymour at the Rockies Wamp Wamp and Brandon fought against the Padres. I like I don't Seymour's a fly ball pitcher, a homer prone pitcher. Yeah. And you know, he doesn't have like a lot of heat. The fastball plays well, but it's the movement on it. And yet I still probably trust him over any of these other options, even with all those downsides in Colorado. So it's not a good data stream bottom line. I could get the passing thought to Michael McGreevy too. At least that's a ground ball pitcher at Yankees Stadium. So maybe he'll do okay there. But that's that's all the enthusiasm I can master. I would probably go McGreevy first and then I think all three of these are very combustible. But yeah, Seymour fought and Javier against the Blue Jays. But yeah, I mean, those could all and very, very poorly. On Tuesday, we have Sean Maniah at the Guardians, JT Ginn in his return at the Reds, Brady Singer, Home Against the Athletics, Zach Letel at the Phillies, Grant Holmes against the Marlins, Hayden, West Neske against the Blue Jays. There are a lot of TBDs because of the trade deadline. So there's not much to choose from right now for Tuesday. Again, but it could go really poorly. I think it's the best pitcher on the group of the group. Maniah, I don't hate, you know, decent matchup. He's pitching okay, but he's not pitching great. Just okay. Singer's been doing some good things. Yeah, I mean, Singer is what he is, but it's, I mean, it's still insincentity, but at least it's not in Sacramento. I don't have a ton of faith in him, but that one, Grant Holmes could be okay. I don't really love any of these options. This is the time of year where it's just really hard because I don't know if any of these guys are going to get traded. Maybe, probably not. Maybe Letel. Maybe singer. Maybe singer. Yeah. Maybe all three. Maybe all done. Maybe every single pitcher gets traded, but yeah, it's, I wouldn't be optimistic about any of them. Yeah. 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