MUST ADD Ryan Waldschmidt! Robby Snelling or Logan Henderson? (5/11 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

The D-backs called up one of their top prospects Ryan Walshmit. Let's discuss on fantasy baseball today express. Welcome into FBT Express on Monday, May 11th. I am Frank sample joint by Chris Towers and we have yet another prospect promotion. The D-backs called up their outfield prospect Ryan Walshmit, who this year in the minors was hitting 289 OBP over 400, three homers, six deals, eight 77 OPS. They DFA to Alex Thomas. So looks like Ryan Walshmit should be in everyday player. He had two hits, three RBI here on Sunday. Chris, we saw big fat bids across the industry here on Sunday night. Would you consider Ryan Walshmit a must add player? Yeah, I think well, maybe not in your three outfielder points league, you know, 10 team three outfielder leagues. Those are it's pretty hard to break in, but anywhere else. Yes, I think so. Walshmit is not necessarily the most tooled up prospect, who's ever lived. He has a good approach, very good eye at the plate, doesn't swing a missile lot has like average power that plays up because he makes a lot of contact and hits the ball to the pull side well and, you know, he'll steal some bases. It's a well-rounded skill set. This is the kind of skill set though for prospects that can sometimes play down as the level of competition gets higher and they don't have like a single carrying tool. I guess in Walshmit's case, it might be the ability to get on base that can carry him, but on the whole, it's a very strong profile that's well, well suited to be very valuable for fantasy. He should hit for some power. He should steal some bases, get on base a lot. So I'm pretty excited. Certainly, you know, more than Spencer Jones, who was called up recently as well. Well, let's rank all the prospect hitters that have been called up in recent weeks. We have Ryan Walshmit. We have the aforementioned Spencer Jones, Travis Bessana, who had a huge game on Friday. He's been running wild so far and Bryce Eldridge, who hit his first career home run this weekend as well. How would you rank those four Chris Walshmit, Jones, Bessana and Eldridge? Walshmit and Bessana is really tough to rank because Bessana is already doing it. I mean, I know he's only hitting like one 90 or something, but he's hitting the ball hard. He's getting on base a ton. He's looking like he has really good plate discipline. And he has seven steals and 11 games. And so that might be the case where Bessana's hitting at the top of that line up. He's going to score a bunch of runs and steal a bunch of bases and this kind of what we hoped Lukishel would be and what we hope Lukishel can still be. I don't want to ram up. And so I do think Bessana clearly has worked his way into whatever the starting conversation at first second bases, probably the top 14 or top 13. You know, I think you asked this question on the full episode. I want to say I went Bessana ahead of Walshmit. And that's what I'm going to do now. And then I'm going to go Bryce Eldridge third, really big power. Did his first major league home run this weekend? It's just isn't going to make enough contact. Does the power, I mean, the power is going to play anywhere, but can it overcome his very tough home park in San Francisco? Remains to be seen, but I like him more than Spencer Jones who at least in theory has a very fantasy friendly skill set, right? It's big power super, super athleticism. He's still 29 bases last year. He plays a by all accounts, at least an average center field for being a six foot seven guides. Just I think it's the worst plate discipline in baseball. I think he's going to he might strike out 40% of the time. And so I really even if Spencer Jones is decent, I think he's going to get sent down when Stanton's healthy and when Jason Manga's healthy. So I there are some outcomes with Spencer Jones is really good, but the likeliest ones are pretty bad, I think. And his batting stance, Spencer Jones, it's like if you if you played MLB, the show you get to choose your batting stance. You choose show, heo, Tony, but then you just kind of like tweak it. And he's he's got like three distinct. Badding stances. It's weird. I've never seen I don't think I've ever seen someone like he's all upright. Yeah. When he first starts and then the pitcher goes into their, you know, get set and he gets like crouched down. And then right as they're delivering the ball, he does his show, heo, Tony thing. And I saw today during a new rebate was pitching against him. Yeah, there's a runner on base. It was late in the game. High lever situation. Amnesty rebate just held on the balls long as he could. And you could see, you know, Spencer Jones, he's got a time it as soon as the pitcher goes into the delivery, he shifts into that O'Tonney stance and he called, you could see him calling for time right before Yuri bay through the ball. And it was like, I think we're going to see a lot of this with how much movement there isn't his swing. Pictures are just going to try to screw him up. And I, it's a lot of moving parts for a guy who already has big swing and miss. I'm, yeah, I'm a little worried about how that's going to go as well. Yeah, I think he needs these things as very distinct timing mechanisms because he just trikes out so much. So I think he kind of needs these things to kind of help him out. Let's take a quick break and we'll be back with more waiver wire ads right after this. Welcome back in the FBT express. We were talking waiver wire ads from the weekend and Robbie snowing the Marlins prospect made his debut on Friday. He was not great on the surface five innings, three runs, four walks to two strikeouts, but he did have 12 swinging trikes on 86 pitches. He 67% roster could be out there in some shallow leagues. Chris, who would you rather have Robbie snowing or Logan Henderson who had another solid start here Sunday against the Yankees? He's pretty close. I mean, Logan Henderson, this is his eighth major league start. I think seven of them have been really good. He had one bad spot start earlier in the season, but we really haven't seen him struggle against major league hitters among pitchers who've thrown at least 30 innings as starters over the last year. He has the best track of to walk ratio like 27 percent strikeout minus walk rate, 27% or something. I don't think he's quite that good. I do not think he's a, you know, sub to ERA pitcher or whatever he is for the season, but he's really good. Logan Henderson, we haven't seen him fail yet. The only thing that I hold to me back is just the brewers don't quite seem to trust him as much as we think they should. Whereas Robbie's snowing, if he's good, I think he's in the rotation forever. And Henderson, you know, they could get a couple of guys healthy and decide to send him back down. So I would give smelling the edge. I thought he looked really good. Despite the poor results, fastball gets a lot of run, a lot of ride. He had a strikeout on the slider, change up and curveball. I think he, I thought he looked pretty confident during any of them. It's a deep and varied arsenal. I think Robbie's selling, I don't know if he's an ace. I think he's probably not an ace, but I think he's going to be really good. All right. Let's slide back over to some alphillers. I think some names could be out there in some five alphiller leagues. JJ Bladey, he continues to impress. He has started 12 straight games for the Reds and Luke really had himself a monster game on Friday. He went two for five with two homers, seven RBI in that game. The Mariners have seven games to speak. They're all against right handed pitching. Chris, who do you like more? JJ Bladey or Luke Rayleigh? Oh, JJ Bladey for sure. I think Luke Rayleigh's fine, but something Scott pointed out on the full episode. Even when they have a righty starter that they're facing, Luke Rayleigh very rarely plays the full game. It says soon as there's a lefty reliever, he's going to come out of the game. So, you know, the even with a bunch of righties on the schedule, he's not going to play full time, I think. And then Bladey, I don't know what his full time role is because he started 12 straight, only one against the lefty. I would assume he's a platoon bat, but he might be making himself too valuable to not be in the lineup. He's had a three and a half mile per hour swing speed game this season relative to last year. And he's done that with a shorter swing. So his bad is covering slightly less distance at a faster pace. That's a, that's unusual. Usually you swing faster. Your swing is longer. Jayde Bladey is doing the opposite. That was true in spring training. He crushed the ball. That was true at Triple A. He crushed the ball. Now in his, at the majors, he is crushing the ball. I think Jayde Bladey is having a very, very interesting start to the season. And I definitely think 29% rostered as he was entering play on Sunday to low. All right. Last one for you, Chris. So rank these deep league saves options. So we have Ryan Zephrjan with the angels. Whoever you think is the leader in the Giants bullpen, my guess would be Caleb Killian with Ryan Walker getting optioned. And then whoever you think in the Reds bullpen, Tony Santine, Pierce Johnson, Graham Ashcraft. How would you rank those deep saves options? Well, unfortunately, the team with the most clarity is also probably the worst team. And that's the angels. But I would go with Zephrjan just because I think it's him. And in the Cincinnati San Francisco bullpen's, I genuinely have no idea who it's going to be Cincinnati. I think they would like it to be Tony Santine, but he just hasn't been very good this season. The the ERA has been okay, but the underlying stuff has been really bad. The velocities down probably as nobody else in that bullpen's been very good. Graham Ashcraft has a 14% walk rate. Pierce Johnson. It's been a while since he's been any good. I think I would go with Caleb Killian of the Giants ahead of any of the Reds guys for now, just because they both seem fairly wide open, but Killian probably a better bet than anyone. the Reds Bowl pen right now, but I don't really love the Giants or Reds situations right now. All right, for more extensive Fantasy Baseball coverage, listen to our full lane podcast, Fantasy Baseball today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Baseball today, Express, and we will be back again later this week. Bye-bye. Paramount Podcasts.