Redrafting Stud Outfielders! James Wood in the First Round? (5/27 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS Sports Got a fantasy question email fantasy baseball at CBSi.com Get ready to win your league Now here's Frank Scott and Chris hello Welcome in to fantasy baseball today on Wednesday May 27th. I am Frank Stanford Joy Fies got white today on the show big night of offense if we were redrafting today How high would these stud outfielders go? What are we doing with sandy? My gosh, you got rocked again another prospect promotion and much more let's start with the players of the night Great call once again. I mean that Padres booth. They are just filled with energy. I love listening to those guys So shout out to them again. That's from the Padres TV booth and we will start things off here with Kade Cavali who had another strong start six innings of one run ball seven strikeouts 13 whips on 87 pitches seven on the curve Five on the fastball. I did get a note here from Chris that Kade Cavali is now just the fourth pitcher in the majors this season with consecutive consecutive double digit strikeout starts and The 10th pitcher with three straight quality starts of at least seven strikeouts. So He's put up some good starts at times. He's also had some bad starts at times The curve ball was awesome in this one. He threw it a bunch He used a 46% of the time clearly his best pitch and again had seven of his 13 whips on that one The curve was also a little bit different the velocity was up a little bit It had two less inches of horizontal break three less inches of drop But it didn't matter because that was very good from his fastball which has not been a great pitch from the season Also had five whips in this outing. So overall he was very good. He threw strikes 70% of his pitches Four strikes. He does have the ERA down to 362 He gets strikeouts. He's looked much better as of late The walks have been down as of late as well. I still think he's pretty erratic, but he's he's pitching well Scott What do you think about Kade Cavali here? Yeah, I think all of that is Basically how I feel about him. He was one of my sleeper pitchers each of the last two weeks and that was largely matchup driven So two turns ago. It was the metsy was facing And he had dominated them previously with 10 strikeouts. He got nine strikeouts and his follow-up started against the Metz and then the Guardians in this timeout So playing the matchups has proven to be successful with Kade Cavali up to this point He neither version of his fastball is good. It seems like and it's hard to make your way in the majors without a good fastball You need a secondary offering that's really really stupendous and Maybe his curveball is it entered this start with a 44% with rate 214 batting average against actually a 199 expected batting average And like you said he threw it a ton in this start 46% normally is more like 29% Velocity was up on it. I'm not sure whether that's Something we would want to continue or not. It seems like it played well enough with the reduced velocity and just Getting more drop. I don't know. I don't know if the velocity is something that needs to continue for that curveball to be successful But I like seeing the increase usage from Cavali I remain pretty skeptical that he's going to be like a mainstay and fantasy rotation somebody you're gonna want to play every week but I Think if you picked him up to stream him this week, I should probably just hold on to him with the kind of run he's on now Still get some fair amount of card contact still You know you'd expect the swinging strike rate to be higher for as good as his K-Pernine is but you could nitpick him to death and And in the end it's like well, what else are you gonna do with that roster spot? He's a pitcher who's performing well and is now up to 10.3 K-Pernine so I Don't know we don't need to make him any more complicated than that when it just comes to do your roster or not So over his last four starts Kade Cavali 288 ERA one whip on the nose 28 strikeouts to just four walks over 25 innings pitched and he has two walks or fewer in seven of his last eight starts So again the control has been better here for Cavali again if you picked him up as a streamer this week Looks like he's in line for two starts next week. So Spoiler alert for later in the week pretty Streaming baby pretty sure he's gonna be on Scott sleeper pitchers for next week as well He gets the Marlins and at the debax next week Debax match. Let's just get picked up in too many leagues and does it qualify anymore 55% I don't see him climbing over 75% of the weekend, but I could be wrong about that Two names we spoke about yesterday pretty glowingly read debtmers and Ben Brown Would you take Kade Cavali over you either of those? Well, maybe next week, but in terms of do I dedicate a roster spot to this guy Just in like with a with a with a rest of season frame of mine I would probably put Cavali third on that list close with debtmers. They're all three close But yeah, I think I'd put Cavali third All right, let's go over to you Scott your player of the night Let's talk about Mookie bets Mookie game here Mookie pookie Mookie pookie So he went I call I have to explain the Mookie pookie thing now because it just sounds bizarre So I had a professor in college in journalism school. He was a former reporter for NBC news and Whenever a student said anything that sounded kind of whiny His response to that would be mookie pookie Or sometimes he just shortened it to bookie clearly did not have uh Did not have time for that kind of attitude But anyway, yeah Mookie bets he went three for five with two home runs five RBI and uh We had been waiting for him to do basically anything because uh obviously he had missed a lot of time with injuries I just came out with an article here on Tuesday 15 Studs who you should keep the faith on and somebody asked me oh Why didn't you put mookie bets on this list? Well, he had played only 20 games to that point I just feel like There's nothing you could make of a 20 game sample um, but uh When we do dig into the data here on mookie bets. I don't see anything to be too concerned about There was the the loss the eggs of velocity drop last year particularly in the first half Which would be easy to tie back to that illness he was dealing with before the season where he lost a bunch of weight Uh when the Dodgers were over in Tokyo. I believe it was and uh and just The season had to get rolling and it didn't have the time to fully recover from that illness to regain the weight and uh So that really saptam of his power in the early going buddy bounce back in the second half And 90.8 mile per hour average exit exit velocity this year. That's right where he's been for most of his career Um strike out rate still microscopic Um, yeah, everything looks pretty normal Even average bat speed right where it's been the previous two years. So I feel like mookie bets is still The player we've known him to be in recent years obviously not as good in his prong as in his Prime but still like must start high and shortstop if we just give Him time to let the numbers normalize and given given given bigger than that 20 game sample and uh hopefully this big performance Uh was against the Rockies right against the Rockies, but in LA hopefully that was the start of it Hopefully it was the start of mookie bets Living up to what we drafted him to be despite the uh The injury kind of delaying things at the start Yeah diving in before the show I noticed a lot of the same things. I mean the expected stats look all right He's hitting the ball decently hard The average exit velocity is actually up from where it was last year Playtdiscipline still looks good. He's only striking out 12% of the time I think Missing five weeks within oblique injury It just takes some time to get back into the swing of things and I I feel like that's what we're starting to see now from mookie bets So hard to say like oh god there and by low now after he has a two home run game But I do think much better days are coming here for mookie bets and and hopefully some of the other Dodgers players as well They went off here on Tuesday night. They put up 15 runs on 17 hits including five homers Andy Pahez another monster game He went four for five with a sock in the shoe his 12th home run His seventh stolen base more on him later Will Smith it's been a slow start for him as well two for four with his fifth homer But he's another one where you dive in and everything under the hood looks pretty good The quality of contact the average you TV is down a little bit from where it was last year, but the barrel rate right on line with last year, expected stats look pretty good. Feels like Will Smith has been pretty unlucky. So I would put him in this kind of, you know, buy right now, conversation, keep the faith in Will Smith. We did get a request to talk about how bad Kyle Tucker has been. And I'm seeing now that he was one of the names in that article that you wrote here that came out on Tuesday. And it's just such a terrible feeling when, if you have a player in your team, you see, wow, the team he's on put up 15 runs. Let me check the box score and Kyle Tucker had to do something big tonight, right? No, one for five with a run scored again in the game where they scored 15 runs. And overall, he's hit in just 245. He's got four homers, four steals, 743 OPS. It's got taken a closer look. What's going on here with Kyle Tucker? And why are you telling people to keep the faith in him? Well, I think just the fact is Kyle Tucker is reason enough to keep the faith, the track record is so robust that even if the data looked pretty alarming, I still think I would bet on him him regressing to the mean over the course of the season. But the data doesn't look that bad. The main thing that's different for Kyle Tucker is his barrel rate has been halved. And barrels are the most valuable form of bad at ball event. That's where most of the damage happens. So on average, the average of his bad at ball events has come out to pretty much what it always has for Kyle Tucker. Only a slight decrease in average exit velocity, the hard hit rate actually a little higher than last year, et cetera. But that barrel rate has been halved and so he's not getting the most valuable bad at ball events. Which to me says, okay, the skill set hasn't really diminished here. He's just not quite dead on accurate with this swing. And that's, he's called basically. He's been called for two months. I doubt he's going to be called for six months. He remained called again here with this 15 run out burst for the Dodgers, but in the long run, I think Kyle Tucker is going to be fine provided. He stays healthy. Remember he was playing through injury in the second half last year. Yeah. To your point about the barrels being down, his expected slugging percentages down a hundred points from where it was last year. That was the biggest thing that stood out to me, but he's still pulling flyballs in the air at a good rate. His bad speed is down a little bit, but it's not a gregis or anything like that. He's chasing a little bit more, but the zone contact is fine. His strikeout rate is 19%. I mean, that's okay for him. The splits against lefties and righties have been okay. Another thing that stood out, he has hit terribly in Dodger Stadium so far this season where he's batting just 198 with a 637 OPS on the road, 290 with an 856 OPS. I think that's one of those things like first year in a new location, expectations, joining the back-to-back world champions, putting pressure on himself and things like that. Dodger Stadium is typically a really good ballpark to hit in, especially for power. So I don't really see that remaining, but it kind of just strikes me as something where it's all right, first year in a new location, still trying to figure things out there. So overall, I would agree with you. I think I don't see enough in the underlying data that like completely scares me off of Kyle Tucker there. Do want to quickly highlight the other team that went off here on Tuesday night. That was the Yankees. They also put up 15 runs on 24 hits, including six homers in that one. Ahmed Rosario, four for six with a double-dong, four RBI. Don't really think there's much value in him in fantasy unless you play in the deepest of daily lineup leagues. Sure. Cody Belinger, two for five with his eighth home run, three RBI. He has eight home runs in his past eight games. And that's pretty much how to balance your SX season so far he's been really good. Jazz, looking much better in the month of May, two for five with his sixth home run. And so far in the month, 302 batting average, three homeers, four steals, 866 OPS. And he does have the overall batting average up to 246 as well, which is, I think pretty close to what we were expecting from Jazz. Anthony Volpe, Scott, his one I wanted to ask you about. He went three for six with his first home run, three runs, two RBI. He's looked pretty good since coming back. To me, the swing looks a little bit different. It's more compact so far. This season, he has started the last two games, but he sat out the previous two before that. They have a bit of a log jam here between Volpe and Caballero and McMahon between shortstop and third base. I just feel like some of those guys are going to get like a couple days off every week, which probably limits, you know, the viability of Anthony Volpe. But he's looked pretty good so far. He's walking a bunch. He has two steals. Is there any fantasy viability here for Anthony Volpe? He's 25% rostered. I think he has a long way to go to become viable in fantasy, especially since the playing time was limited. Even if it wasn't, even if he was locked into a starting job, I mean, he had been pretty fringy, even from a roto context prior to this year. And worse with each passing year. And so I have a hard time getting excited about him now. Again, it's kind of a move point how we think he's going to do if he's only going to play even half the time. And I suspect it might be less than that. So it's worth monitoring if some of these gains he's made, like, for instance, pull air really stands out. He's pulling it in there like 30% of the time. Just about double what we saw from him last year. And that is one way to generate power with a swing that is not, you know, without having a lot of raw power, you can get functional power by pulling in the air a lot. And so if that continues for Volpe, maybe there is another level of play to unlock here. But the biggest hurdle to clear even before that is Kenny getting to the lineup with any regularity. Yep, totally agree with that as well. Before we hit our first break, if you listen on the audio side of things, feel free to leave us a five star rating and review on both Apple and Spotify. It helps out a lot. Let's take a break. And we'll be back right after this. Welcome back, fantasy baseball. Today let's hit the news and notes. And we had another prospect promotion actually saw this news item right after we finished our shows last night. So just kind of unfortunate timing. But the A's called up prospect, Gage jump. And he started here Tuesday against the Mariners. He did struggle here in his first outing five innings, nine hits, four runs, five strikeouts to one walk. He did have 13 whiffs on 88 pitches. It is a funky delivery from the left hand side. But did a good job generating whiffs that has never been an issue had a lot of strikeouts in the minors this season as well. But also came with a lot of walks. The ERA and Whip were not very good. So Scott Gage jumped 23% roster. Do you have any interest in him in fantasy? Yeah, I'm pretty interested. First of all, I will point out that his name sounds like the basic mechanic in a Super Mario game. Gage jump. What are you looking to do? Oh, Gage jump. That's how you succeed in Super Mario brothers. So that's fun. But the stuff that he's pretty fun too, like if you watch Gage jump pitch, it's kind of a fitting name to because he has this bounding delivery where it's just-- it's hard to explain. You just have to see it. It kind of like has a little spring in his delivery that I think adds a little something to it. But the fastball has a lot of zip on it. It's a pitch that plays well in its own right. He has a good slider. Actually, it looked like two versions of a slider in his debut here. They split it into a slider and a sweeper. And all three of those pitches, the fastball, the sliders, and the sweeper got double digit swinging-- or not double digit swinging strikes. Got multiple swinging strikes. He ended up with 13 in all on 88 pitches that was after having a 13% rate at AAA. Which is very good. And throws a lot of strikes. I think he's pretty exciting. And I was encouraged enough by this start that I'd be willing to carve out a spot on my rosters for gauge jump. Probably would prioritize Cavali and redebners over him. But once they're gone, then I think jump would be an attractive pickup. All right, let's continue on here. Shohei Otoni was lifted for a pinch hitter in the fifth inning with the Dodgers up 10 to 1 at the time. He was hit by a pitch on the right hand in his previous at bat. So hopefully there's nothing wrong. He is supposed to start on the mound here on Wednesday. So that is his pitching hand. Feels like they chose to play it safe in the blowout. But I'm sure we will learn more. And if he's on the mound on Wednesday, then I'm pretty sure Shohei Otoni is just fine. Tariq Scuble threw 39 pitches over two and two thirds innings in a simulated game on Tuesday. He is working his way back, assuming no setbacks. I would expect him to be back at some point. June, Garakurshe is scheduled to throw a second live BP on Sunday. He threw a one inning live batting practice here on Tuesday. Griffin jacks left after just two innings of work due to a back injury. He got hit by a 107 mile per hour comebacker in the second inning that he took right off the middle of his back. So he did finish out that inning, but then he went down into the clubhouse and did not return to the game after that. Brandon Marsh left early with an apparent hand injury. He seemed to hurt it after he was picked off at first base, first base in the first inning of that game. Nolan Aronato left early with a right groin tightness and he was hitting pretty well. So could be a loss there at third base. We'll see how that goes. Roman Anthony took 12 to 15 dry swings about any discomfort on Tuesday. He's working his way back from a wrist and now a spring ligament in one of the fingers on his hand. Logan Webb will return Friday against the Rockies in Colorado. Unfortunately, so if you're playing a daily line up, Lee, Scott, are you throwing Logan Webb out there in course field? First our back. I'm probably not depends a little on the specific circumstances of my team. How much I just need to chase counting stats, but probably not. I would be worried about the ratio is getting skewed there. He was already having some ratio problems. Logan Webb. Hunter Green, through a successful bullpen session Tuesday. It's the first time he's thrown from the mound since he underwent surgery back in March to remove bone chips in his right elbow. So it's still going to be a pretty long ramp up here. He's going to have to make a bunch of rehab starts. So I'm thinking maybe all goes well. It's like July or like right after the all star breaks and like that. But Scott and leagues where Hunter Green was dropped. Would you be looking to read him now that he's starting to get on the mound? I would. I did in fact in my shallowest league, a 10 teamer, 25 man rosters. So you know, these decent but still shallow on the shallow end. Not a shallow as maybe most 10 team leagues, but still on the shallow end. And I was picking up Hunter Green to stash an IEL spot, which I had available. It's worth noting. But yeah, now it seemed like a good time to do that if you're dissatisfied with what you already have in an IEL spot. Spencer Schwellenbach has begun a throwing program. He threw a flat ground. He's also working his way back from surgery to remove bone spurs in his right elbow. Feels like maybe he's a little bit behind Hunter Green, even though he had the surgery before him, who would you rather stash right now between Hunter Green and Spencer Schwellenbach? Green. Green's definitely ahead. I think maybe as much as a month ahead. And I would have ranked him higher if they were both healthy too. So he definitely green. Brandon Woodruff is scheduled for a 60 pitched live BP next week. Logan Henderson was placed in the IEL due to a lower back strain. Coleman Crow will start Friday against the Ashrose Drake Baldwin, who's on the IEL with a grade one oblique strain does not yet have a timeline for his return. Flat Jr. has missed two straight with a right elbow contusion. He was hit by a pitch on Sunday. Max Muncie of the Dodgers has missed four straight after being hit by a pitch on his wrist on Friday. He did enter that game as a defensive replacement. So hopefully in the lineup here on Wednesday and Noah Schultz was placed in the IEL with right knee patella tendonitis. What round would these stud outfielder's be drafted in if we were redrafting today? You're not. I just did this exercise two weeks ago at the quarter-way point of the season. We're about a third of the way through the season now. But at the quarter-way point, I redraf to the first two rounds myself. I should be semi-prepared for this. Well, let's see if anything has changed in two weeks, guy. You're not. You're not. Alvarez is heating back up. He went two for five with a double-dong four RBI has three homers in his past two games. He's been awesome this year. He's hitting over 300. His OBP is over 400. He's got 18 homers, 34 runs, 37 RBI. He entered Tuesday as the 13th best hitter in Roto, the third best hitter in head-toed point slings. So, if we were redrafting today, how high would Yordana Alvarez go? I think he'd have to be a first-rounder. I'm surprised the Roto formula has 12 hitters ahead of him. I was surprised to see it. Yeah, obviously he doesn't provide steals. It's kind of a. It's more difficult to quantify player value in Roto than it is in points. That's very straightforward. Roto, it's sort of like. Different players mean different things to different builds. So, what do you prioritize early in drafts? But I would say definitely first-round for Yordana Alvarez. I had him sixth. Actually, when I did this two weeks ago. All right. I was thinking like the one-two turn, but yeah, I think he's right back in that conversation. It always comes down to health. We know how good of a hitter Yordana Alvarez is and he's reminding us of that. He needs one more game in the Alfield. He played a bunch early on, but obviously with the injury now to Carlos Corel, like everything kind of fits in with Yordana Alvarez just being the team DH. He has nine. On CBS, he already is outfield eligible, but for those who play in NFBC leagues or leagues where you need 10 games, he has nine. So we need one more game. Yeah, that would change things if he wasn't. If you couldn't count on using him in the outfield, that would put him a little lower, probably more like the one-two turn like you were saying. James Wood, he will not stop. Three for four with a sock into shoe, his 15th homer, his ninth stolen base. He has a 4/13 on base percentage. 15 homers, 49 runs, 37 RBI, nine steals. He is on pace for 43 homers, 133 runs scored, 107 RBI, 26 deals. He entered this game, averaging four fantasy points per game. Does strike out a lot, but does cancel some of those out with all the walks that he's had so far this season? I know he spoke about him recently, Scott, and you said, third round or still? Oh, I mean, that's something that's changed in two weeks. I think he's clearly a second round pick if we're redrafting today. Yeah, and I think we should clarify for the audience, oh, why is he a second round pick when he ranks? What did you say? I think isn't he like the number one outfielder in points leagues? He might be the number one, but yeah, it was averaging four fantasy points per game. I could look up where he ranks overall in Roto and the media. So we're doing this with the assumption that we don't get the stats they've already put up, right? It's just from today forward, what do we expect them to be? Second best outfielder in Roto so far this season. But I'm doing the exercise, right? From today forward, not all the past counts for is signaling us, signaling to us what the future could be. So with that in mind, I agree I would wait until round two to draft James Wood because a lot of the, you know what, he is doing a better job of elevating the ball. The ground ball rate has gone down quite a bit. I think that must be in May in large part. He's still very opposite field minded. So he is still leaving something on the table, power wise. But as hard as he hits the ball, he can, he can put it over the fence opposite field pretty regularly and has. So yeah, it does seem like he's doing a better job of elevating the ball. That is a step in the right direction. That strike at rate is still scary. And I think presents some downside risk that hasn't manifested this year. I think he will be worse moving forward than he's been so far, which is why I'm going to say round two, but I'm still saying round two. I don't think it's like a warning, warning this guy. The bottom is about to fall out situation entering Tuesday. He was 100th percentile in expected, woe, but average exe velocity barrel rate and hard hit rate. He is just, he is taking his quality of contact somehow to the next level this year. It's crazy. We do kind of have to guard against, you know, we saw him be amazing in the first half last year, fell off in the second half. But if he maintains this over the course of full season, we're probably talking about him more like a first round, pay, but we just, we need to see a little bit of a larger sample size here from James Wood. But still, you know, he's moved up into the second round. What about O'Neill Cruz? Three for three with a walk and his 17th stolen base. The power is down so far in May, but he is still running a lot and he is still hitting really well against lefties this year. 329 908 OPS against lefties. He's actually kind of struggled against righties, which has always been the opposite in his career. He'd be almost focusing a little bit too much on performing well against lefties, but overall, he's been really, really good. If we were redrafting today, Scott, what round do you think O'Neill Cruz would be in? Riskier than Wood. And so I think if he is drafted in round two, first of all, that would only be in road of leagues. And it would be, it would be a borderline there round two because there's a little more downside risk. He provides more speed than Wood does, which is why two weeks ago I chose to rank Cruz ahead of Wood. But that was a mistake. Cruz, I think, is borderline second round. I can't firmly put him in round two because there are probably 18 players that I could justify putting in round two, having just done this a couple of weeks ago. And I'm saying Cruz would be among them on the French. Yeah. I would agree. I think like two, three turn. The latest would be the third round, but somewhere in that round two, round three range for O'Neill Cruz, some of the things that I was most worried about. coming into the season again. Big thing being performance against lefties and potentially losing playing time, but that clearly has not been the case so far this year. He still could regress against lefties, but obviously he's he's taken huge strides. So I got to give credit where it's due three point four fantasy points per game. Plate discipline, not nearly, you know, doesn't walk as much as someone like James Wood. If it was a point's league, how much do you think O'Neill crews would drop down? I think he would be more like a late third round or rather than a late second rounder? Yeah, I think that makes sense. Let's talk about Andy Pahez again had a massive game four for five with a sock and a shoe. His 12th home run, his seventh stolen base. He's got 49 RBI on the season. He's hitting 299, 882 OPS. He's hitting them all harder this year. The average EV is up. The hard hit rate is up. I don't think, clearly he's not in like the first or second round, but he's someone who has jumped up quite a bit. So what round do you think Andy Pahez would go when if we redrafted today? Yeah, this is the hardest one because I don't have quite, I haven't gone deep enough to consider what other possibilities might push him further down, you know? Right. And so I'm just kind of having to, I estimate a little more, I guess. I am skeptical. I will point that out. I'm skeptical that Andy Pahez is going to sustain quite this, which every time he has a performance like he had here on Tuesday with four hits and a home run and a steal. It makes it harder to say. But the plate discipline is still pretty awful. The exit velocities are still pretty mid. And the pole air rates pretty average too. It's kind of, you know, you look at, you look at his baseball savant page, all the sliders are kind of right in the middle there. And then when a guy doesn't walk much, that makes me naturally skeptical of volatility. I see a lot of volatility in that skill set. So I'm going to put Pahez probably in like five, around five or six and a 12 team league. Fifth round was the first thing that came to mind for me. Yeah. Okay. So I'm probably a slightly lower than that. I've struggled with what to do with them in the outfield rankings too, because there is a range of outfielders where I don't really trust any of them. And so maybe Pahez just belongs at the top because he's the one who's actually performing. My most recent update, I moved up to 17. So I think that's what I ultimately decided. He's right behind like Trout, Arosa Reina, Byron Buckston, Jordan Walker, Cody Belinger, others who are also performing. But then, you know, it's not long before you get into like the Seiyas, Zuki, Rirai Lee, Green, George Springer, Jackson, Merrill, Brent Rooker types who are all been pretty underwhelming, but I had a lot more confidence in them than Pahez coming in and they have better, more favorable track records that you don't want to like totally give up on them. But yeah, I think Pahez is under the right to go ahead of them at this point. And the last thing on this list is when we have talked about a lot, it's Michael Harris, man. He just keeps on hitting four for four with his 12th homer. He's got the batting average up over 300. He has three steals. You know, we'd like to see him run a little bit more, but I guess it's hard to run when everything's going over the fence for Michael Harris. 865 OPS so far this year. He entered this game as the 12th best outfielder in Roto, only 2.7 fantasy points per game, which we've talked about as well. So this is someone that would see a pretty big disparity in his, you know, where he's drafted in a category as league versus a head to points league. But where would you put Michael Harris if we're re drafting today? Yeah, he's a really difficult case. Obviously, there's the disparity between the two formats, which has always existed with him. But even looking at this from a five by five context, the batting average is doing a lot of the work there. The home run pace is good. The home run pace is as good as it's ever been. But the other counting stats are pretty underwhelming actually. So how much do you trust him to sustain a batting average in that 290 to 300 range? Something he's done before. He did it as a rookie and I believe in his sophomore season as well before falling off and batting average the last couple of years. That's just a hard mark for anybody to sustain mathematically. You rarely see somebody with an expected batting average that high because it's just not something the game allows for mathematically. But he's doing it now. He's done it before. The data underlying data suggests he should be doing it. But I'm still going to take the under on Michael Harris actually doing it and think that batting average is a closer to 280 in the long run, which would push him down. I think below or at least in the same range as Pa has all put him like in round six. I was thinking of similar ranges. So round five round six. If it's a point league, it's probably more like a 7th or 8th round. I would think therefore maybe even lower for for Michael Harris. Because again, as good as he's been 2.7 fantasy points per game. That's that's like, you know, kind of replacement level. I think it had to point sleep. So five outfielders who have moved up so far this season. Let's take a quick break. Our final one and when we return, we'll talk some waiver wire options from Tuesday. We'll do that right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. Let's take a look at some waiver wire hitters. Jake Bowers. He continues to rake. He went two for four with his eighth home run. And the biggest drawback is he doesn't play all the time against lefties. He has played a little bit more recently. He started against every right hand pitcher except one this season. He started against six of 16 lefties, including two of their last three. He's actually performed well against lefties over all the season. But man, he's hit two 90s. He's got eight homers, four seals, eight 58 OPS, 64% roster. It's got how much higher should that number be for Jake Bowers? I don't know that it should be any higher. I had him as a sleeper hitter this week. And he just had a good game. Maybe he'll end up coming through still. But the return of Andrew Vaughn who's also performing well has really hindered Bowers production for fantasy. He has been playing some outfields so that helps. But I don't know that they love him out there. Yellowch obviously is occupying DH. So there's a real playing time issue here for Bowers that I think knowing the breakdown of league formats on CBS, I think 64% is about right. That puts them in all the five outfielder leagues plus a few of the three outfielder leagues. That seems right. And I have a good feeling he'll be on your sleeper hitters list for next week as well. Scott because the Brewers have seven games next week. Three are in Colorado. So looking like a three. There'll depend how many lefties are on the schedule. Looking now. I mean, this is a very early look. Yeah, it changes a lot. It's one. As of now, one lefty and one two B determined in chorus field as well. So that sounds promising. Yep. Zee Guilds Iran continues to hit as well. Two for four with a double two RBI. He's had a really good May hitting 279 three homers seven doubles 18 RBI one steel 814 OPS. He has every position eligibility except for catcher. He's 61% rostered. So similar ranges Jake Bowers, Scott. Would you just I guess straight up rather have D'Ran over Jake Bowers? I don't think so. I think Bowers is better. But obviously D'Ran is playing more consistently and you can start him anywhere but pitcher catcher, which is handy. So I that that kind of evens things out a little bit. But all things being equal. I think Bowers is the better hitter. He's the one that I think has more upside. D'Ran is more like a handy handy piece that you can plug in all over the diamond. Yep. I would agree with that as well. Next day up here, we have Spencer Horowitz of the pirate. He's been hitting well two for three with his sixth homer. He did get the starting and sell lefty here on Tuesday. He has started seven trade games has three homers in that span over his past seven and overall he's hitting 289 and 858 OPS. His numbers against lefties this season have actually been pretty bad. But he's hitting well now. I know back in the day, Scott Spencer Horowitz was someone that you you liked quite a bit. He said 29% rostered. Would you be looking to add Horowitz in I don't know, leagues where there's a corner in Fields Bob. I'm flattered. You remember Frank. But no, I don't like him so much anymore. I thought I would. I hadn't really paid any attention to him this season until today. And like, wow, Spencer Horowitz is hot. 237 expected batting. Average 366 expected slug. Average exit velocity 86 miles per hour is I don't think this is going to work out. And then there, even though he's played something against left handers recently, I don't think that's a long term arrangement either, particularly once the numbers normalize. So don't see a lot of that. - I think it would have to be pretty niche. He has more walks and strikeouts this season. So if you play in a deeper head-toed points league or a road-o league that uses OBP instead of batting average, yeah, in a league like that, I could see Horowitz having more value, but just in a straight up, five by five contacts with batting average or a shallower head-toed points league, I just, I don't think I see enough impact there from Spencer Horowitz. And Hazus Sanchez had a revenge game against the Marlins two for four with a grand slam. It was his sixth homer. He has played against every right-handed pitching pitcher so far this season, but only two of 13 lefties. So pretty strict platoon. The underlying stuff looks pretty good here. Here's Scott Sanchez hits the ball hard. Expect the stats look good. He has the ground ball right down this year. 23% rostered, I think, you know, in 12 team road-o leagues with five outfielder spots, like if you're desperate, sure, but he's just never gonna play against lefties. Man, you will never quit Hazus Sanchez, will you? - You used to love Horowitz. - Never ever. - I loved Hazus Sanchez. I just, I can't give up. - I mean, I've had my moments of infatuation with Hazus Sanchez myself. And look, he's been reasonably productive lately. I just don't think it gets any better than this and I know it gets a lot worse. So I don't, apart from an emergency situation, I wouldn't bother. - Yeah, I think it's a higher floor. Like if we look up at the end of the season and Hazus Sanchez hit 270 with 20 homers and like six to eight steals, that's fine, but it's just, it's not really a difference maker. And mostly because he just doesn't play every day. Couple deeper names here. As Merlin Valdez of the Pirates, he's showing some pop early on here. He hit his second home run. He has started four of five games since getting called up. He's 10% rostered. And Vaughn Grissom of the Angels had a big game, three for five of the Grand Slam, six RBI. He got to start here with no one's annual banged up. Very deep names here, Scott, but any interest in Hazus Merlin Valdez or Vaughn Grissom. - Avaldez is fairly interesting as a prospect. I'm not sure he's shown anything that gets me particularly excited during the stint in the majors, which may not be a long term one anyway. So home run was impressive, 105.5 mile per hour. Exit velocity in 415 feet is how far it went. So it was a good poke there for Hazus Merlin Valdez, but I'm not rushing to pick him up in any leagues. I wanted to take a second look at Grissom here because this wasn't impressive game. And I don't think it was the first that we've seen from him this year. Hitting the ball considerably harder on average. Obviously a player with some prospect pedigree himself. Not striking out much at all. This is a small sample, but not a microscopic, totally meaningless sample, about 113 played appearances. About, I gave an exact number and I said about before it. That was stupid. And it's probably more now because this doesn't include Tuesdays. Let's say about 120 played appearances. That is a more appropriate way to talk. Yeah, everything under the hood looks better for Grissom. You know, the numbers are still met even with this big game. So I don't, I'm not saying Grissom is somebody that's of much fantasy interest right now either. I guess I'm just saying if he does get more opportunity, I would be interested in seeing how it goes because there are signs here that maybe he's better than we've seen in the past. We've got a few waiver wire pitchers to ask about Shane Boss. He really likes facing his former team. So kind of just wish he would face the raise every time out. But seven innings of one run ball, nine strikeouts here, 10 whips on 99 pitches. I think I said this last time out. I still just don't see enough under the hood here to get me excited about Shane Boss. He's 49% roster. It looks like he lines up for two next week at the Red Sox and at the Blue Jays. Sean Burke had a great outing here against the twin seven innings, two runs, eight strikeouts to two walks, had 10 whips on 100 pitches. He struggled mightily in his previous three starts before this. He looked better early on in the season. 34% roster. You have any interest got in Shane Boss or Sean Burke? Not a lot. I did at one point have some interest in Burke, but his previous three starts pretty much ruined that. And I was hoping to see evidence of a process change. A change to his process that would explain why this start against the twins was so much better. And I didn't really see it. I look at the overall profile, not enough strikeouts or missed bats in general. Too many fly. But surprisingly, Sean Burke has not given up many home runs this year, even during that three start rough stretch. Just more many home runs for a guy who allows more contact in the air and the exit velocities are not exactly low. So I think there might be some home run correction coming in a bad way for Burke that makes this even worse than it's been lately. And so I feel pretty confident ignoring the start. And Boss, the same thing. I just don't see enough here. He did throw more curveballs. But it just wasn't beyond the actual surface level stats there. Seven innings, one run, nine strikeouts. There wasn't anything else there to catch by interest. To make me think like, oh, he unveiled some new skill we didn't know he had. I think you can safely ignore this boss start as well. Yeah, despite the good line here, he's still allowed 10 hard hits and had a 96.5 average exit velocity against. So seems like a pretty fortunate outing here for Shane Boss. Aaron Nola had a bounce back start. I think we need to see a lot more. Obviously he's been so bad this season. But six innings, two runs, five strikeouts, zero walks, really leaned on that curveball. He threw it 49% of the time. And the curveball has always been the best pitch for him. But previous three starts before this 878, ERA 188 whip. So I think we need to see more. He also does line up for two starts next week against the Padres and the White Sox. Can I can I interest you in Aaron Nola? I could see him making the sleeper pitchers list with those matchups, putting him in the points league only range of the two star pitchers. Yeah, overall, I don't think Aaron Nola deserves much interest in fantasy, except as a matchups play like that. Curious to see if he continues with this curveball heavy approach. Because that might work. That might work. It's a really good pitch for him. He threw 49% of the time instead of 32%. So a significant increase. And had just 79 mile per hour average ex of velocity against by doing that. So there may be some potential there if he sticks with it. But I would say the odds are long that he's going to continue throwing half curve balls, half of his pitches as curve balls moving forward. Too much deeper names here. Spencer Miles pitched well again in bulk relief against the Marlins four and a third one run three strikeouts here. He doesn't get a ton of whiffs, but he entered this start with an 84.3 average ex of velocity three 15 expected ERA. He's 18% rostered and he's a spark on CBS. And Eric Lauer was solid in his Dodgers debut. He did get the luxury of the Rockies on the road. Six innings one run four strikeouts for him. And although he's been awful this year, he did have like he was legitimately good with the Blue Jays last year, 318 ERA 111 whip. I don't know, maybe the Dodgers will work some magic here, but two very deep league names got any interest in Spencer Miles or Eric Lauer. I would say they're both kind of interesting. I'm not moved to pick them up anywhere where they probably are already rostered because those leagues are so deep. But Miles Spencer Miles is a very millennial sounding name, by the way Spencer Miles. But he's a good ground ball pitcher allows a lot of weak contact, not a great batman, sir. I know his previous two outings got a decent number of strikeouts, but I didn't expect that to continue into to continue in this latest one. So he we need to see if he can work deeper into games, pick up some more innings before Spencer Miles has even used to us. And Lauer, you know, if the Dodgers pick him up, he's probably going to be of some use. They don't waste their time on players that are just awful usually. And obviously there's a lot of there's a great supporting cast there for Lauer. So I could imagine if he's taking a regular turn for them, which remains to be seen, you know, part of it's just inserting an extra starter to give Otoni enough off days. So I don't know how reliably we can count on. lower starting for the Dodgers. But if it does become reliable, I could see him being streamable. - Spencer Miles kind of sounds like the star of an action movie, right? - I don't know. It sounds a little wimpy to me. - Spencer Miles, I don't know man, it sounds like a TV show, some kind of action show. (groans) Kinda reminds me a little bit of what is that game? - I think it's uncharted Nathan Drake. Kinda feels like a similar. - Now Nathan Drake does. - That's a strong name. - Spencer Miles, that sounds pretty cool to me. - Hey, agree to this agree. So high on it. - Get me the heck crank. - So high on it. What a Rodriguez while you can. We brought this up last week. We said, maybe wait one more start. He gets the giants next week. And he pitched well, six innings, two runs, six strikeouts, he had 13 whists on 94 pitches. For some reason, I watched this start and I have him on a few teams, deeper teams. And it just seems like he is just, it's like a razor's edge. Whenever you're watching it, water Rodriguez pitch, he had a few like bases loaded jams and he just kind of wiggled out of here. He has a 2-31 ERA that comes with a 4-15 X-FIP and his X-ERA was over 4 entering the start. And his matchups next week, the Dodgers and the Nationals who are the best team in baseball against lefties. Next week is going to be a huge regression week coming for water Rodriguez. I would try my best to sell him for anything right now if I can. I mean, you said it's stronger than I could. I can't disagree with that. I've been skeptical this whole time. He had a great run of matchups there that kept putting him in my sleeper pitchers, but that will not be the case next week with those two matchups. And what are Rodriguez's 8.8% K-Walk rate? What ranks fifth lowest among 76 qualified starting pitchers? Does that sound like a pitcher who deserves a 2-31 ERA's this year? So again, try your best. What do we do with these two pitchers? Sandy-- oh my gosh, he imploded again. This time, later in the game in the sixth inning, he did get five innings, which is two runs allowed. But man, the final line, 5 and 2/3, 10 hits. 8 earned runs, three homers allowed in this one. And over his last nine starts, a 653 ERA, a 169 whip, 95% rostered. Should he be? No. I don't think he should. I think he's pretty fringy. Somebody asked me if they could drop him in a 10 team league. Totally fine with that. I think he's better than he's been in his last nine starts. But I don't know that there's a lot separating Sandy Alcantara from like-- Foster Griffin. No. I was going to-- well, I was going to say Seth Lugo. I'm not sure that's so different. Like on paper, he is better. But I think practically speaking for fantasy, the upside starts and the downside starts are going to look pretty similar. And I just don't know that the downside starts-- I'm just not sure the upside starts are high upside enough to make the downside starts worth it. So you're going to be continually frustrated with Sandy Alcantara. There are going to be times where you're thrilled to have them. And happy you started him. And he goes eight strong or whatever, and gets a win with six strikeouts. OK, great. But I don't think these starts are going to totally go away. And that's going to make him frustrating. The next question is that he lines up for two starts next week against the raise and at the nationals. Is there any way that you use them in those two matchups? I could see it in a point's league if you're just trying to maximize volume. Because that is best. He gives a ton of volume. I think point's leagues are where I'd be most hesitant to give up Alcantara. But I don't know. I don't know where I'm going to rank him. If I rank him anywhere in the two-star pitcher rankings, it'll be in that point's league only tier. Or it'll be in no thanks where I don't recommend them anywhere. Points league only would be the only situation. I'm kind of leaning that way right now, the ladder, the no thanks part of it. It's just the raise and the nationals. They're both top 10 in Woebug and right handed pitchers. The season Sandy obviously has been so bad. It could be one of those things where sometimes in pitchers are this bad. They just they find it pretty easily. And they could just like kind of flip it on a dime, especially someone like Sandy who has an extensive track record. But as bad as he's pitched with those matchups, I don't think I would drop him, but I think I would have him on the bench for next week. Joey Cantillo did not last very long here against the nationals. Two innings, four runs allowed, four walks to one strike out. I still think there's talent here. But man, the control is so bad at times. And it just really limits any type of volume that we can get here. I think he's a hold in points leagues because he is a spark. But in category leagues, I don't think Joey Cantillo needs to be your officer. Yeah, I think he's interesting and there's talent. And you could say that in the same way you could say it about grant homes. But ultimately the limits are too clear there that apart from just streaming him on occasion, when you have nobody better to use, I don't see-- I don't have a lot of interest to Joey Cantillo. Three hitters who are trending up Zach Netto, three for four with a walk in RBI, two runs scored. Over his last 12 games, he's hitting 295 with four homers and 10 runs. So it's good to see it's been a pretty disappointing season. Like the power and speed is still OK, but the strikeouts from the batting average have been really bad there for Zach Netto. Jaren Durand, two for five with his seventh home run over his last eight games. He's hitting 303 with three homers, eight RBI, and a stolen base. His batting average still below 200, but the power and speed has been picking up. And George Springer went three for four with his third stolen base, last nine games for him, 289, three homers, two steals. He feels like maybe he's starting to get passed at Fractured Toe, which he was on the aisle for two weeks. And it's not really something that heals them two weeks. So clearly he's playing through the injury. Three names that are trending up here, Scott Zach Netto, Jaren Durand, Springer. Any thoughts on those three? I am interested in seeing-- because I haven't checked in a week or so-- what the average bat speed and the fast swing rate look like for George Springer. And they're right in between 2024 when he looked like he no longer battered in fantasy in 2025 when he was an absolute monster. Right in between. So this could go either way for George Springer still, I would say, buddy is trending the right way statistically, the right direction. So obviously not a time to give up on Springer. All right, Studd, pitchers being Studd's rankum. We have Cam Schletler. He was great once again at the Royal Six innings, one run, six strikeouts to zero walks. He got taken out after 77 pitches, but the Yankees had a huge lead at that point. So I think they were just playing it, saying broadcast was talking about saving Cam Schletler's bullets for later on in the season. Joe Ryan, he was great at the White Sox 7 and 2/3, 2 runs, 9 strikeouts to zero walks. Since he left that start on May 3rd with Elbow Soreness, he's made four starts, and he has a 175 ERA and a 0.74 whip. He has been awesome. Chase Burns fell two outs short of a quality start, 5 and a third, 2 runs, 8 strikeouts at the Metz. And Braxton Ashcraft, yet another quality start. This one against the Cubs, 6 and a third, 1 run, 5 strikeouts to 1 walks, 1 walk. Scott, how would you rank these four? Cam Schletler, Joe Ryan, Chase Burns, and Braxton Ashcraft. You just did. I had a feeling I did. Yeah, so let's say it again, Schletler. It was the second one. Joe Ryan. Joe Ryan. And then I would put Chase Burns ahead of Ashcraft as much as I like Ashcraft. I think those two are closer than maybe most people have them. Because I think Ashcraft's going to pitch more innings and he has the ground ball ability going for him. But Burns is just so electric. So many miss bats. I got to give him the edge. Do you have any other thoughts on these four or keep it moving? I mean, Joe Ryan's velocity was up across the board. Yeah. And then I had two miles per hour. So that was interesting. We've seen some fluctuating velocity from him in the past. But you write that elbow injury with such a fake out. Because it felt like, oh man, another one bites the dust. And then Joe Ryan, it's like it never happened. Well, I why even, why even reported it just, it just stressed us out for no good reason. Kyle Harrison, not quite as studly as he has been lately, but he did manage to shut down the carnal six shut out innings with two strikeouts to zero walks, only four whips on 92 pitches. Overall, I think I'm encouraged by this guy. Like clearly he didn't have his best stuff. And he still managed to have a very useful outing here. Any thoughts on Kyle Harrison? Yeah, I wasn't sure why the fastball played down in this one. It was after three starts of it getting double digit whiffs. That pitch itself, the fastball. Yeah. It just gets two in this one. No, still it up being a good outing. So I guess you could be encouraged by that. But to say, oh, he didn't have his best stuff, you would think the characteristics of the fastball would-- there would be some fluctuation. Like the induced vertical break would change with the velocity or whatever. And then those were all the same. So I don't know why it played down. And that has made a little concern since Harrison's the strength of his whole profile was built on that fastball being a knockout pitch. But we'll just chalk it up as an aberration for now. All right, a couple of there pitching left over. Spencer Strider was meh at the Red Sox. Five plus innings, three hits, three runs, five strikeouts. He actually started this game, allowing back-to-back homers and then nothing after that. Well, I guess he did give up the third run. But overall, he was OK, 11 whiffs on 87 pitches. And then Emerson Hancock shut down the A's, six shutout innings, one hit, two walks, three strikeouts, only six whiffs on 87 pitches, similar to Harrison. Like not sure they had his best stuff, but the A's lineup is kind of hit or miss. But still wound up having a very useful start here. So any thoughts on Strider and Emerson Hancock? It wasn't the greatest start for Strider. But it was another start that raised an eyebrow for me because he got multiple whiffs on four different pitches through his slider just 21% of the time. He didn't seem to have it. It was down a 1 1/2 miles per hour. So that meant more curveballs, more changeups, which weren't really part of his arsenal prior to this year. He dabbled, but it was pretty much just fastball slider prior to this year. And we're seeing him flesh out his arsenal in a way that I think is very encouraging. I don't think we're going to see 2023 strider ever again, but I'm not inclined to sit him after an underwhelming start like this one. Some hitting leftovers. Connor Griffin was moved up to the lead off spot against a left handed pitcher. He went one for four with a walk and two runs scored. He's hit well in May. We just haven't really got a lot of power. Only one home run in the month. And he's not really hitting the ball all that hard. And he's hitting a ton of ground balls. So he's super young. I think he's still trying to figure things out. And even with that, the batting average has climbed and he's still running whenever he gets on base. So I would like to see more power. But overall, I think pretty encouraged from what we've seen from Connor Griffin. Juan Soto, this guy is locked in. Last 11 games. He's hitting 366 with seven homers and four steals. Catelle Marte remained red hot hit his ninth home run. It was a bomb. 113.7 exit velocity, 452 feet. And over his last 10 games, Catelle Marte is hitting 524 with four homers and 16 RBI. Trade turner, two for five with a sock and a shoe. His sixth home run, his tenth stone base. And Casey Schmidt, another one, two for five. With his 12th homer, he has six home runs in his past 10 games. Anything stand out to you on Griffin, Soto, Marte, Turner, or Casey Schmidt. Never a doubt about Catelle Marte. It all look good under the hood. And it has all come back very quickly. And that's what I'm hoping is true for those 15 players I wrote about today. Among them was trade turner, actually. And he had a good game here. Obviously, it's been underwhelming so far. And I think it's easy for people to lose heart here with Turner because he's 33. And it would be understandable if he began to decline at this age. But I don't see any evidence of that sprint speed, still 99%ile average bat speed right in line with career norms. And usually what's a clear indicator of a hitter aging out is he struggles with fastballs. Just can't catch up to the heat anymore. Turner, trade turner entered this game with a 352 batting average against fastballs. So I think he's OK. It's got to get better against everything else. Yeah, I think he's OK. I think this is this game here Tuesday's the start of the turn around. The call to the bullpen for the Braves. Rice, Eleglaci has got the ninth with a three run lead. He allowed two hits, two runs, excuse me, on four hits. But he did pick up his ninth save for the Brewers. Abner, a rebate, got the eighth inning with a six run lead, facing 9-1-2 in the Cardinals lineup. He allowed a walk and a hit. But he did get out of it. And then Trevor McGill pitched the ninth inning with a six run lead. He gave up a single, but that was it. He closed out the game. I do have a lean scout like who is the close. I don't think there is a closer, but I guess I've had to get it. It is most it is far more consistently been a rebate than McGill. Right. But McGill's pitched great other than those back-to-back really rough outings he had. One of which was kind of, it's not like he got hit hard and I think he committed in his own error, right, that caused all the damage to be done. Something like that. He made a bad field decision. I guess it wasn't there because they were earned runs, but like he didn't take the easy out when he showed up or something like that. So and if you look at his, I think his fit is like 175 or something like McGill's been pitching great. And a rebate, I think he's been a little shaky. So I do wonder if Pat Murphy is going to rethink how he deploys those two if this was the start of it. I actually came close to dropping McGill and Scott White Dynasty leading 24 teamer. Definitely going to hold on now. That was all you asked me about, right? The Brewers bullpen. Yes. Did you see Abner or Revee celebration on the mount? I did. I did. Like, what is he thinking? Like a triple, it's like a degeneration X type wrestling celebration. Yeah. Yeah, the chop, the chop to the groin area. Very flagrant. I don't know. I don't know what he was thinking. Look at the opposing dugout and do that. Not just that, but sometimes it was an instance of like you see this sometimes a player just forgetting that tens of thousands of people are there watching him, you know, like I found it hilarious, but it was also a bad look. Like I get why it's a bad look and Pat Murphy after the game, he was not happy about it. So we'll see if that I don't know factors into any decision making there for the Brewers. For the Rangers, Jacob Latz got the final four outs. He allowed a solo homer, but picked up his sixth save for the twins. Yoendries Gomez got the 11th inning with a three run lead. He allowed a hit and the manford man came around the score, but he picked up his third save. The twins do not have a closer and they never will ever again for the debats. Paul Seawall got the ninth with a three run lead. He allowed a solo homer, but picked up his 13th save on his birthday. So happy birthday to Paul Seawall. Well, I guess it's not his birthday anymore, but it was when he got the save to stream or not to stream on Wednesday. We have Noah Cameron against the Yankees, Dustin May at the Brewers, Jeffrey Springs against the Mariners, Stephen Matt at the Orioles, James Entaion at the Pirates, Bob a Chandler against the Cubs, Andrew Abbott at the Metz, Connor Prelyp at the White Sox, Mike Burrows at the Rangers. I'm trying to remember what we said yesterday. I think we said Andrew Abbott is one that did something get removed here. I don't think so. You don't think so? Jeffrey Springs against the Mariners was okay. I think I said Abbott, Tyone and Matt's. I think Tyone. I don't know about Tyone. I'd be more likely to do Chandler than Tyone, I think, but it's obviously high risk. Yeah. Chandler with all the walks against the Cubs lineup that walks a decent amount. Yeah. I think Abbott is probably the top and then Stephen Matt is probably number two and if you need a third one, I guess Tyone, but there is risk involved for sure. Jeffrey Springs. I kind of like Jeffrey Springs on Thursday. My goodness. I don't even know if I should read the names. Grayson Rodriguez at the Tigers, Jack Flierty against the Angels. Eric Fettie against the Twins. Colin Ray at the Pirates Patrick Corbin at the Orioles. You should not have read the names. I hate you for reading the names. You should not stream anybody on Thursday if I had to choose one. I guess I would say Colin Ray, but gross. Patrick Corbin had a good start last time. Yeah, no, don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. Don't do it. follow and leave a five-star rating on Apple or Spotify. And we will do that back in tomorrow. Bye-bye. [MUSIC PLAYING] Paramount podcasts.