Roki Sasaki Soaring Up the Rankings! Waiver Wire Adds & Drops! (6/8 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

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I am Frank Sample, Joe and by Scott White and Chris Towers, today on the show, it is our weekend recap. Roki Sasaki continued his impressive turnaround. Terex Google look great out on his first rehab start. We've got waiver wire ads and drops plus much more. But first let's get into the players of the night brought to you by Stitch Fix. If you're like me and clothes shopping isn't your thing, Stitch Fix has you covered. Get $20 off your first order at stitchfix.com/baseball. Go crazy folks, go crazy. There's only one place to start. That is with Roki Sasaki. Seven shut out innings with 10 strikeouts against the angels this weekend. 19 whips on 98 pitches, 10 on the splitter, 6 on the slider, 1 on the fastball. The velocity was up on his fastball. He averaged 98.3 miles per hour with that pitch. His harder splitter, because now he's got that harder splitter, softer splitter, which they call a fork ball. That harder splitter was amazing. 10 whips. The slider was really good. Again, accounted for six of those whips as well. And over his last four starts, it's a 148 ERA 0.74 whip, 10.7 K.P.9. He's 78% rostered. I think that number needs to be 100%. We know there was a ton of prospect pedigree coming over from Japan. And look, it took a while. Progress is not always linear. We know that. But it looks like he is figuring things out very quickly. What do you guys think? Do you agree? 100% rostered here on Roki Sasaki. Yeah, I mean, he had to remake himself basically entirely after how bad his rookie season was. Last year was the four seamer, which was like 95, 96 as a starter, got higher in the bullpen. It was the fork ball now is what we're calling it. It was a splitter last year, but for the sake of consistency, we'll call it a fork ball. And then it was a sweeper. And the fork ball he couldn't do consistently for strikes. The four seamer was bad. The sweeper just wasn't a great pitch. This offseason, he went back to lab. Went away to sustain most of the velocity that he had in the bullpen, so that was a good start. But even that was pretty bad early on. Remember in spring training, we were talking about Roki Sasaki, not belonging in the Dodgers rotation. He reworked his sweeper into a harder slider. It's more of like a gyro or even a cutter in some instances. And then towards the end of April is when things started to get really interesting for Roki Sasaki because he split up the sweater into the harder splitter. We see now and the softer fork ball from last year, which was a great swing and miss pitch, but not a pitch he could throw consistently for strikes. It was a chase pitch. Now he has the splitter that he can throw in strike counts. He can throw for chases. It's I think his clear best pitch now. And now he's also throwing 98 miles an hour with the four seamer. And that's really the rug that ties the room together in the parlance of our times. Now he's got a four seamer that isn't bad. I don't think it's like a great pitch, only one with in this start, but he can throw it in the zone and not worry about it getting crushed. And that seems to make everything else work. The problem is sustaining 98.3 miles per hour with your four seamer is really hard. We haven't seen that for long stretches from Roki Sasaki. It's really only the last couple of starts. But now we've got this great splitter and the fork ball for chases and the sliter he can actually throw in multiple counts. And now the four seamer is a lot more effective. And it all just looks for the first time in Roki Sasaki's career, at least in the majors, like a legitimate major league starting pitcher. And yeah, I think it needs to be 100% rostered just in case this is real. I think redemers is just as interesting. Yeah, on the other side of that. But the difference is we have seen redemers have good stretches before. And it never ends well. And maybe this time will be different. The peripherals are all excellent uniformly. But this is a new thing for Roki Sasaki. This four-star stretch where it's 11k per nine. The control's been excellent. He's gone seven innings. I think 3 out of his past four starts. I think he has given us the best start of his career three times in his last four starts now. That's a pretty good run. So I think both Sasaki and redemers should be close to 100% roster based on what we've seen. But Sasaki's a little more, like if you have, if they're both available, I think you probably have to prioritize Sasaki over debt. Right now. Mm-hmm. We got a tweet over the weekend that Sasaki should be closer to a top 60 starting pitcher in our rankings. And I can't really dispute it. If you look at the pictures that are around that range for us, it's Jared Jones, Ben Brown, Bryce Miller, Bryce Elder. I'm not saying he needs to be ahead of those guys. But I think he probably needs to be somewhere in that range, maybe at the back end of that. But yeah, I think that makes Rokis Sasaki a must-raster player. We mentioned his name now on the other side of redemers in a tough match up here against the Dodgers. I mean, this lineup is clicking all of a sudden once again, the Dodgers playing really well. Six shut out innings, six strikeouts, 14 whiffs on 91 pitches for debtmers. Eleven on the fastball here. The velocity was up on that pitch as well. Last three starts for debtmers. 19 innings, four runs allowed. 27 strikeouts to five walks. Scott, what do you think of redemers? Do you think he's right behind Rokis Sasaki? These are just one and two in terms of if they're available, these need to be the top two priorities. Yeah, I would say so. Top of mind, I can't think of anyone else from the wav- I mean, from the weekend who would be up there with them. Gage jump had a good start and is more widely available. But not- I'm not as impressed. I'm impressed with them. I'm not as impressed with them as these two. Do you put them ahead of Dustin May? Yeah, I think that's where I have a lot of skepticism over Dustin May still. But I think, you know, I was waiting- this- this- for Rokis Sasaki, this was the start I was waiting for. This was like the- okay, I'm in. Start from him. We're encouraging signs the previous three, but this one was so dominant that there's just no overlooking that he's a changed picture now. And the like mold him back together from the ground up approach that the Dodgers took has worked and it's an impressive feat by all parties involved. But yeah, Rokis Sasaki now seems to be the real deal. And Dehrmer's, I mean, like it's everything for him is looked encouraging all season and there have been flashes of it. And we'd have to say that this latest start Friday was also just a flash from Reed Dehrmer. He's still has a 426-ERA on the year, but that's to go with a 291-FIT, a 292-XERA for a guy with double digit strikeouts per nine innings. I mean, two double digit strikeouts in his past five starts, I think. Yep. So I definitely am hopeful he's trending the right direction. Burnt us a few times before, but you know, you're talking about last picture on your roster. Obviously, there are going to be some doubts with that guy. I think Dehrmer's has a lot more to be excited about than anyone else he could pick up. I was getting one else. If I had Mackenzie Gore on my roster, I'm not saying I would definitely drop Mackenzie Gore for Reed Dehrmer's or that I think Reed Dehrmer's will be better than Mackenzie Gore, but I think they're similar enough that I might as well just take Reed Dehrmer's who's a little hotter right now. There's been a lot more encouraging signs from Dehrmer's. And the underline mean the peripherals, like Scott mentioned, 290-ish on both the XERA or FIT. Well, for his career, he's been about three quarters of a run worse than his XERA FIT with his actual ERA. Look, if I get a 370 ERA and 10.5 Kpern on the rest of the way from Reed Dehrmer's, it's probably going to come with a bit pretty inflated whip, you know, 125 or something, but I would take that. That'd be a pretty good outcome. So I think based on what we're seeing from the skills indicators, yeah, I'm moving Dehrmer's in Sasaki inside the top 65 at starting picture. So that's not. You know, I'm not ranking them as studs or anything superstars, but I do think both Sasaki and Dehran should be rostered pretty much everywhere just in case we're seeing them start to put it together. Just give me a ranking on these four Jared Jones is still 77% rostered so could be out there. In about the same number of leagues as Rocky Sasaki, Jared Jones, Sasaki Dehran and the aforementioned gauge jump. How would you rank those four? Sasaki, close between Jones and Dehran. I think I lean Jones. Yeah, Sasaki Jones, Dehran and Jump. I would flop Sasaki and Jones, but I think it's close enough either way. As in you would put Jones at the top of the list. I would put Jones at the top, yeah. All right, let's go right back to you, Chris, who is your player the weekend? Yeah, I talk about another starting pitch where I think needs to move way up the rankings. I'm moving Bryce Miller into my top 50 as we speak based on what he's shown this season. It's a small sample size. I think it's what four starts, five starts. This weekend's start was the first one where he went, I think six plus innings because they had been doing the awkward piggyback with him and Luis Castillo. They're both in the rotation now. We got one of the best starts of Bryce Miller's career on Saturday. He struck out nine over six shutout innings against the Tigers, gave up one hit, two walks. He is up to 29 strikeouts to just five walks on the season over his five starts. We are seeing in some senses a consolidation of his skill set, right? He's gone from about 65% his four seamer splitter and slider last season. The slider was actually his fifth most used pitch. This year it's his third most and he's throwing those 387% of the time and is working really, really well. Both the splitter and slider are getting terrific results on balls and play average, ex of the loss. He's like 82 and 79 miles an hour across those two pitches. He's getting a good amount of whiffs. He has seemingly, I don't know, fixed but solved me. I don't know if there are difference between those two words. He has lessened a mechanical issue that cropped up early in his career. Remember, Bryce Miller when he first came up was just fastballs, basically. He was like 60% fastballs, maybe 10% sinkers. You don't see that often unless you have really good ones. He had the sweeper and slider combo that rated out really well according to the stuff metrics, but they just didn't get whiffs because he notably changed his arm slot when he threw them. He would go about three to four inches lower and out to the side when he threw his slider. Well now that's about an inch and a half. It doesn't sound like a ton, but it seems like the slider is just working a lot better despite very similar velocity, very similar movement profile from last year. I think that's just, he's hiding the ball a little better and it's making everything play up. So I really love what we've seen from Bryce Miller. There aren't really any red flags in his profile. You know, the velocity has been up. Since his minor league rehab assignment is held here. He's averaging 96.6 miles per hour on the season now. That's almost two miles per hour up from last year, 1.5 miles per hour up from his peak before this. Everything looks really good for Bryce Miller. It's a small sample size, but I'm kind of buying in as a must start picture moving forward. I like it. I was holding back as well in the rankings just because I wanted to see him back in the rotation, see them actually treat him as a traditional starter and they did that this weekend. I'm looking at names that I have inside the top 50, Nick Lidolo, Emmett Sheehan. Sonny Gray is fine, but like Ryan Weathers, we're going to talk about a little later that that's I think Bryce Miller should be ahead of all those names. Yeah. So I think he's verging on like a top 40 starting pictures. So definitely agree with that call Scott over you, your player of the weekend. I want to talk about Pete Crow Armstrong. Pete Crow Armstrong, the biggest moment he had over the weekend came on Saturday. He went four for five with two home runs, but bigger picture in his last and his last eight games. Pete Crow Armstrong is batting 471 with five home runs. Bryce has raised his season numbers now. He has a 258 batting average and a 784 OPS just like that. Just hot eight game stretch suddenly up to 258 and 784. And the reason those numbers are so consequential, they're both higher than last year when he hit 247 with a 768 OPS. Not only that, he has now on a 27 home or pace. He actually hit 31 home runs last year pretty close. He's on a 32 steel pace. He actually had 35 steels last year pretty close. Not counting Sunday's game. He's on pace for 485 fantasy points. He had 492 and a half last year. So the talk about Pete Crow Armstrong all season has been clearly he couldn't have run it sustained who he was last year. It was a bad use of a third round pick, etc. All of a sudden he looks just as good as he was last year. And that's worth bringing up for two reasons. One is that even here in June, if a player gets hot enough, any player, like the sample is remain small enough that he can get his season back on track very quickly. So that's part of the reason this is demonstrative of why we are hesitant to give up on players with the track record, even as they're struggling in June. And the second thing, Pete Crow Armstrong himself. It's a short career I get it, but throughout the short career, we've seen extreme highs and extreme lows from him. And that's why in his particular case, even as he struggled, and even as he had some of the same underlying flaws that have made me a skeptic in the first place, that's why I wasn't willing to bury him in my rankings or admit defeat on him since I ended up drafting him in a lot of leagues. It's like, well, you know, I know how this goes with Pete Crow Armstrong. He can get it insanely hot all of a sudden and and seem fine. And that that appears to be what's happened here in the first week of June. Baseball seasons are long. And every player goes through peaks and valleys. Nobody's ever as good as they look at their best or as bad as they look at their worst. Now that being said, some guys do look worse at their worst than other guys. And I think Pete Crow Armstrong, you just kind of have to accept that we might be going through the Michael Harris lesson all over again, where in the long run, the arc of these guys career will bend towards them being really, really good. You're going to have to live with some detours along the way. I think just because of the nature of their approach, the very poor play discipline, the very poor swing decisions, I think we're just going to have to learn how to not react to every single thing that comes out from Pete Crow Armstrong because he's very rarely going to be in the middle. And you see that with the skill set, right? X, well, but in April 287 X, well, but in May 405. Like that, that's not just a results fluctuate thing. This might just be a guy who just gets insanely hot for a month and then gets insanely cold for a month and it doesn't change who he is. And I get why people get frustrated because a lot of a lot of the people that listen to this podcast are head to head players. One way or another, head to head points, head to categories. And so from a week to week basis, I mean, you can have a week where PCA gives you five fantasy points. You can have a week where he gives you 40. And it's I get why it's frustrating. But you know, for the weeks where he struggles, he could go out and actually win you a week or multiple weeks throughout the course of the season. So frustrating player, but obviously really talented player and has made some subtle adjustments this year. Like the walk rate is basically doubled from last year. It's hitting the ball a lot harder. So even under the hood, it looks like PCA is a better player than he was even this time last year. His is OBP is actually respectable. It's it's I'm not sure this is updated with Sunday, but it was 342 going into Sunday compared to 287 last year. A lot of that's the walks like you said, but some 300 OBP is like a big almost almost the same number of HBPs as last season two. He's not aware of him. Yeah, I don't know what that's about, but there you go PCA. Big thank you to StitchFix for sponsoring today's players of the night. StitchFix takes the hassle out of clothes shopping, just take a quick style quiz, share your size, your vibe and your budget, and you'll be matched with a real human stylist who will send you a fix box with clothes that fit and make sense for your life. Get started today at StitchFix.com/Baseball for $20 off your first order, that StitchFix.com/Baseball. Make sure to hit the like button and subscribe on YouTube. If you haven't already, let's take a break. We'll be back right after this. Some want them green. Some want them ripe. them ready right when they hit their doorstep. But with Instacart's preference picker, available at most retailers, you can choose to get your groceries just the way you like. Delhi meat sliced just the way you want, and avocados that aren't still hard as a puck in the third period. Download the app and get groceries just how you like with Instacart. I'm a little bit more. Attattestin wasan street food udoret, Brioche and Topbrox sampler. Now the main visit is at Aiheta-Ulfäylüen. Wasan street food got used to the water. Welcome back fantasy baseball today. Let's hit the news and notes as usual lots to talk about from the weekend. Terrick's Google made a rehab start at high A on Sunday. He threw five shutout innings, two hits, zero walk, six strikeouts, he had 16 whiffs on 54 pitches, apparently set 97 to 98 miles per hour on the fastball. He topped out at 99. Just truly amazing recovery here. He had surgery one month ago on May 6th and he is already back on the mound. We'll see how his body responds. But there is chatter that his next start could be in the majors with the tigers. We just don't know that yet. So if you have Terrick's Google on your fantasy team, would you guys just throw him back in the lineup this week and hope? Probably not. If I had a respectable pitching staff that could withstand going without him for another week, it seems very risky for a couple of different reasons. But if I'm desperate and I'm starting some middle reliever just to not wreck my ratios, then I think that's probably worth the gamble at that point. I hope to get a Terrick's Google back and hopefully looking like Terrick's Google. All right, Aaron Judge was officially placed in the aisle with that stress fracture in his rib on Friday. Spencer Jones was recalled for now. We know Jason Dominguez out on a rehab assignment. So we'll see how Jones plays over the next week or so. He went three for three with an RBI on Friday. The game was postponed on Saturday due to weather and then on Sunday, he was added to line up against a lefty. So it feels like a pretty strict strong side platoon here for Spencer Jones. 36% rostered. What is your interest level here in Spencer Jones? I would guess he gets sent down when Jason Dominguez is ready to come off the aisle and that could be as soon as tomorrow or whenever the Yankees next game is. He missed the month. I think they'll probably give him at least a week in the minors, but yeah, it could be soon. I mean, I believe they said it's going to be on their upcoming home standard. That's the expectation. Okay. Yeah. But that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be Tuesday. Yeah, they're on the road on Tuesday. Okay. So whenever the next one, whenever the home stand starts, look, it's possible that the whole thing with Spencer Jones and we said this on Thursday is if he gets hot and runs into a bunch of homeers, he could, he could just force his way in, but he's got to do it. And one, three for three game, I don't think changes that yet. Yeah, I think five outfielder leagues. I think a lot of people are pretty desperate and informats that deep. So take a shot for cheap and just see where it goes. A lot of upside. I think a lot of power upside, but I think lots of downside as well with Spencer Jones. Elie, the crews had his scheduled MRI moved up three days to this coming Friday on June 12th. Sounds like he might be ahead of schedule, but please do not rush him back, especially with a speedster and a hamstring injury. Speaking of the reds, Terry Franco and I said, Hunter Green could return from the aisle prior to the all star break. Hunter Green is 78% rostered. Now is the time. It already has been the time, but that's too low. Pick Hunter Green up if he is available in your league, if you have IEL spots, even if you don't. This is someone that could be a top 12 fantasy picture for the second half of the season. So tons of upside there with him. Max Fried is expected to begin throwing from 120 feet and will also undergo more imaging during the upcoming week. He's on the aisle with a left elbow bone bruise. Hunter Brown will make his next start at AAA on Wednesday. He previously pitched that triple A on Thursday, four and a third innings, one run, four strikeouts to one walk. He had 10 whiffs on 57 pitches. The velocity looked fine. I noticed his fastball had four less inches of induced vertical break. So just something to watch there with Hunter Brown. Dylan Cease is very likely to rejoin the Blue Jays rotation at this week. He got up to 75 pitches in a rehab start on Thursday. Do you guys start or sit Dylan Cease this week first start bag? I'd start him. Yeah. Who's he facing? They haven't pointed out yet where he's going to enter into the rotation. Yeah, he's ready to be Wednesday or Thursday. Well, Thursday they're not playing. It would be the difference between the Phillies and the Yankees. Rather be the Phillies. Well, neither is it good. Well, with no air injury. Yankees might be pretty good. Yeah, that might be pretty similar now. Ross the resource has him going Tuesday against the Phillies. So do you see some poor minor league team had to face Dylan Cease. Max Sherzer and Shane Bieber back to back this weekend. Oh, actually, Dylan Cease. I mean, Sherzer actually, I don't think either Sherzer or Bieber actually pinched all that well, but still that's that. Do you see Cease gave up like five runs? That's what about $600 million worth of starting pitcher. Yeah, probably start, probably start Cease unless you're just deep in pitching. All right. Both Garrett crochet and Tyler Glass that will move to the 60 day IL on their respective teams. Both will be out until at least July. Corey Seeger and Wyatt Langford were both activated on Friday. Corey Seeger homerred on Friday. He added another hit on Saturday. Wyatt Langford then homerred on Sunday. So if you have Seeger, if you have Langford, unless you have some other crazy options, I think make sense to get those guys back in your lineups. Jose Altuve was activated from the IL on Friday. He homered on Saturday. He also should be good to get back in your lineups. The twins recalled Royce Lewis on Saturday. He was sent down in mid-May, but in 13 games down at AAA. He hit 340 with eight homers. 19 RBI. He started both Saturday and Sunday. He's 35% rostered. Seemed to be a pretty popular ad and in the leagues where waivers have already run so far, how interested are you guys in re-adding Royce Lewis? I think probably Rodo leagues. He's must add if he was dropped in the first place. Yes. And other wrinkles? What's that? He's played two games at first base and two at second. Definitely one at second and two at first. It might be just the one at second. He started Saturday at second. He started Sunday at first. Yeah. He transitioned to first during that other game. That would be nice if he gained triple eligibility. It would definitely lessen the. What's crazy is I think third base is still the weakest position of those three. Probably, but it's just nice to have. When you're talking about a guy who might just be fringy, I mean, fringy might be generous at this point for Royce Lewis. That can help keep him on your roster, though. It's nice to have that kind of flexibility, especially in a point, if you're only going to have one or two guys on your bench at the hitter spots. You know what that tells me about the twins? It tells me. Still calling up Kellen Kohlpepper sometimes soon. Yeah, mainly because it doesn't seem like they trust Brooks lead a place where it's stopping where they want to keep him at third base. Yeah. Yeah. Byron Bucks in left Friday after colliding with the outfield wall. He did not start Saturday or Sunday. It sounds like he has a good chance to return on Tuesday. I read that from a twins beat writer. So I think we start Bucks in this week, right? I think so. Yeah. JJ Weatherhold returns to the line of Sunday after missing three games with a groin issue. Michael Harris has missed two straight with back tightness. I did see that he appeared as a pinch hitter here on Sunday. Oh, yeah. Well, it was like a base clearing double, right? We had the only abat for the braids that mattered on the day. Yeah. They won three to two and it was all a pinch hit double. So I assume we're good to start Michael Harris this week. It seemed like he was dancing around at second base after he got the hit. Like nothing was wrong. So. All right. Ryan Helsley could start a rehab assignment as early as Monday. He's on the aisle with elbow inflammation. Michael Garcia finally returned to the lineup Saturday as the team's DH after missing six games with that strained right hamstring. Kenley Jensen is slated for a rehab outing at AAA on Tuesday. Brandon Lau was not in the lineup Sunday after fouling a ball of his right knee on Saturday. But I believe he appeared as a pinch hitter as well. So he should be good to go. That's good because that was that was pretty scary. I don't know if you guys saw he was he was in a lot of pain when he found a ball off his kneecap. So yeah. I saw some people say like just speculating that they thought like he fractures kneecaps. Yeah. But yeah. Now I need to think we avoided the worst case scenario there. I want to confirm that he actually actually know. Yeah. He started on Sunday as a DH. I thought I had to line up. Wait. Am I looking at Saturday? Oh yeah. I am looking at Saturday. He appeared as a pinch hitter on Sunday and he had a hit. So yeah. I hope it seems like all is good there. Brandon Lau. Ramon Lloriano underwent surgery Friday to repair a torn right labor and is expected to miss the rest of the season. Casey Meyers will make a rehab start at Singlet on Tuesday. Samuel Bessio left Friday's game with abdominal discomfort. The MRI came back negative and he was back in the line up on Sunday. So we should be all good there. James had Tyone let's just start Sunday night with lay a left hamstring strain. Javier Assad came in and he pitched very well against the giant six and a third shutout innings five strikeouts to one walk. He's one percent rostered. I think we know who Javier Assad is. I don't like NL only, but are you guys do you have any interest in Javier Assad? No. All right, keep it moving. Chandler Simpson has missed two straight with a left thumb injury. Salvador Perez has missed two straight with a right thumb injury. Jacob Wilson began a rehab assignment at AAA on Saturday. The debax promoted prospect, Lou James Groover on Friday, and the option to Jose Fernandez back to the minors. Groover started three straight with Ildemar Ovarges on the bench for each of those. So looking like Ildemar Ovarges is a drop. Groover 24 years old, second round pick in 2023. Scott, do you have any interest in Lou James Groover? He's a good contact hitter, and there was hope he would develop power at some point. He had only three home runs in 256 play to appearances at AAA, which the dime abac's AAA affiliate is very hit or friendly. So that does not sound like an inviting fantasy profile presuming Groover even secures the job. They can pivot back to Vargas if it doesn't work out, but yeah, that's probably the bigger note for fantasy is that Ildemar Ovarges, for now, at least appears to be out of the job. He got dropped in one of my 15 teamers, and I had the chance to pick him up. 15 teams. So pretty deep, there's hardly any hitter's worth bothering with on the way to wire. I decided it wasn't worth pursuing. I will point out he hasn't played since that Muncie collision, right? Yeah, I believe that's correct. I thought it might have been related to that, but they weren't blaming his absences on injury. Okay. Well, that's a good point though. I forgot about that. Yeah. I think Muncie was off at least one of the games this weekend if not multiple. So, it was a bad collision. But no, I mean, if they were talking about it, and it wasn't that, then I think that's, that's a fair point. Because now I'm reading some player updates here, and they have like general soreness. He was out of the line of Sunday with general so it could be. Yeah, so it could be okay. Maybe I should have put in a claim for him, then. I don't know. I mean, I think the long run, I don't think Groover is going to be an improvement. Yeah, and I think, like the like least outcome as Vargas turns back into a pumpkin, and maybe already has. So, you might not have lost anything there. Maybe not. Speaking of the debacks, Jordan Loller has moved his rehab to AAA. He is 36% rostered. How would you guys rank? He's not back yet, but the other two are, Jordan Loller, Royce Lewis, Noel V. Marte. They all seem, you know, have all had different varying levels of upside at some points. Loller, Lewis, and Marte. I get struggling just with the top two. I think I'll give Lewis the edge over Marte because I'm more confident they'll find ways to get him in the lineup. Marte only started what two out of the four games since he got recalled. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. I think you got to go Lewis over Marte. I was adding both of them in Roto leagues where obviously there are a lot more hitter spots to fill. Loller remains interesting. I think a lot of people have written him off. He still hasn't gotten a full-fledged opportunity in the majors. I understand it's been a lot of disappointment over and over again, but tiny sample for various reasons. And I'm not without interest, but you can save him for deeper leagues. And I just, not sure where he's going to play. Loller? Yeah. They don't seem to view him as an infil, I don't think he's played the infil in all this season. No, they converted him to the outfield this year. I would say, I don't think is as good as Loller skill wise, but last I looked, he's holding his own so far. Yeah, he's holding his own, not in a way I find believable, but in a way that's not a way that might not cost him the job tomorrow. Yeah. Or whatever. Loller is back. It sounds like the angels are promoting infil prospect, Denzer Guzman, 22 years old. He was crushing AAA, 336 batting average, 12 homers, 9 steals, 9.74 OPS. I'm going to be honest, I don't know much about this guy. Do you guys know anything about him? And it would probably be like an AL only type thing, but any thoughts on Denzer Guzman? Yeah, I looked to see if there was anything that went into his big breakout so far this season, and I didn't really see like the quality of context stuff is not great at AAA. It's not terrible, but it's like average 89-ish, I think, mild-prayer average, X velocity. So I don't really have a good sense of what's gone on with him having this huge breakout. I don't really have a ton of interest outside of AL only leagues, but it's a name to watch, I guess. A couple of their items here, Marlins pitching prospect Thomas White was diagnosed with a left shoulder, capsular strain, and is expected to miss the rest of the season. Speaking of Marlins pitching prospects, if you've listened to our FBTC Express episodes about this, Carson Milbrand, Carson with a K, just keep him on your radar. His first starter, first couple starts at AAA, it was awesome. And the Marlins have like nobody in their rotation right now. Like, yeah. It's literally good at their roster resource, it's Sandial Contra, Max Meyer. I think they have Tyler Phillips or, or Jake Gusto. Gusto, yeah. I think is the third. There's no fourth or fifth starter for the Marlins right now on their depth chart. So, yep. I do think there's a chance Carson Milbrand gets the call. The Marlins really like guys to get to marinate at AAA. That's the biggest thing, but it might just not have any other options. Right. I, you know, those are two listen to the supplemental episode about prospects every week that Frank and I do. I had added Carson Milbrand to the five on the verge, which are the basically means the five prospects who most need to be stashed in fantasy right now. And he may not be long at AAA, may not be for long. It may be already done with that first start or just one more because they have to fill their rotations on out. All right. A couple of their items here. Max Shers are three bullpened Sunday and express confidence that he'll pitch Wednesday against the Phillies. He's 11% rostered. I can't imagine we have much interest in Max Shers or at this point. Not really. The D back sign Max Kepler to a one year deal. He's currently serving in 80 games suspension for PEDs and is eligible to return on June 25th. He hasn't really been good in a while. So outside of like Anna only leagues don't really think that matters. The athletics traded reliever Joel Kunl over to the Brewers in exchange for cash considerations. And some other names who went to the aisle this weekend. Jack Kohanowitz with right elbow inflammation, Jorge Soler with a left oblique strain Austin Wells due to cervical headaches and Danny Jansen with a right forearm strain. That means more playing time for Kyle Higashi-Oco. Can I make one more point before I move on? I know it's been a long segment. But the athletics are playing in Las Vegas this week. Not in their new stadium. They are playing at the whatever Las Vegas. I don't know high rollers. I don't know what their triple A affiliate is called. It's probably not the high rollers. I like that though. Yeah, maybe that is what it is. I don't know. But anyway, that is. Maybeators. So you know how Sacramento is like the second best hitters Park and baseball. Sure. Sacramento is like a pitchers Park relative to the rest of the PCL. It's actually like either the best or second best pitchers Park in the PCL. That is how bonkers the offensive environment in the PCL is. And the Las Vegas ballpark is like the second or third best hitters Park. Because it is hot. It is at 2300 feet of elevation. Don't start your iffy pitchers in that series. I think you probably still start Kyle Harrison. But don't be surprised if it goes poorly. But Robert Cascer, Brandon Sprout, Jeffrey Springs, Jay-Tegan even feeling a little iffy on. Yeah, that could be a. And obviously, I know it's going to be tough, but sit your rocky pitchers as well. Yes, yes. We need a reminder on that. Let's take a quick break, our final break. And when we return, we'll get into some waiver options from the weekend. We'll do that right after this. Some want them ripe. Some want them ready right when they hit their doorstep. Deli meat sliced just the way you want. And avocados that aren't still hard as a puck in the third period. Welcome back, fantasy baseball. Today, let's talk waiver wire hitters from the weekend and just seeing some names out there in a handful of CBS leagues. They've mostly been added. They're more available on Yahoo, but Jake Bowers continues to perform three hits on Friday, three RBI in that one. He went one for one with four walks, a sock and a shoe on Saturday. He was in Course Field and he took advantage of it. But he has just had an magical season. First and Ben's huge game on Sunday, five for five with his seven home run in 25 games since moving to the lead off spot on May 12th. He is hitting three 27 with four homers, four seals, 19 runs scored. And Eastock Paratus, he homeered in three straight from Wednesday through Friday. He had two more hits on Saturday. Looks like he is coming around as well. Do you think all three of these guys, Bowers, Ben's and Paratus need to be closer to 100% at this point? They're all three of my sleeper hitters for this week, this upcoming week and they were even before the weekend started. So that seems like a promising development. I would say they all need to be more rostered than they are. I'd never lost Faith in ESOQ Parade his underlying numbers look terrible, but they look like they always have. Like he looks like the same player. That's kind of his MO still has the extreme pull air rate that's made him a good power hitter in spite of those short little blue lollipops that I referred to as icicles on his baseball savant page. Bowers, the only issue there is, is he going to play enough against left handers? Is he sat out on Sunday against the left hander? He's now sat out against the two left, last two left handers, the brewers of faith. He started against the previous two, but that's going back like a month. They just haven't had a lot of lefties on the schedule lately. So with Andrew Vaughn healthy and also hitting well, it's still not clear if Bowers is going to play regularly enough to be of much use in three outfielder leagues. But I like everything, I like the profile otherwise. It's just a question of playing time there. And Benj, I don't like the profile as much, but if you told me coming into the season that my favorite outfield prospect would over a month long, 32 game sample, be hitting 328 with five home runs, then I'd probably be pretty happy with that. So I'm not going to overthink it with Benj. I think even in three outfield leagues, he probably needs to be rostrated at this point. Oh, yeah, I was starting to get a little worried about Benj, just because he had really good quality contact metrics at Triple A last season, but wasn't producing. And then he was putting up much better quality of contact metrics than his actual production at the major league level for a while. And he still wasn't producing. And I was like, is there something in here that's fundamentally broken? He doesn't pull the ball in the air much. That's could be one of it. But now he's starting to figure it out. And the underlying numbers are catching up to the overlying numbers. And I think Carson Benj is just a really good hitter. Yeah, I mean, if you just take his overall numbers at face value right now, he is on pace for this was before Sunday's game when he hit another home run. On pace for 15 homers and 25 steals. I mean, you'll take that every day of the week from a rookie outfielders. So yeah, he's really coming around now. Couple of other outfielders, Brandon March homerd, each game this weekend, he has started ninth straight games in 16 of the last 17. He is 68% roster on CBS. Jung Hool-E, he is starting to run a little bit here. He also has just been hitting like a madman since returning in 10 games. Since coming back, he's hitting 561 with 4 doubles, 10 run scored, two steals, a ton of line drives. I was watching Sunday night baseball. And they talked on the broadcast about how the giants want Jung Hool-E to run more. So I think we're going to see part of that more of that in his profile. Who do you guys like more just in a vacuum, Brandon March or Jung Hool-E? Probably March. Is it format dependent? I don't think so. Yeah, now that he's playing pretty much every day. And now and he's not striking out nearly as much as he used to, March. Jung Hool-E is better in points league than in Roto because he hardly strikes at it all. But the thing with Jung Hool-E, he has a 99th percentile expected batting average. So the data backs up what he's doing in that area. And his line drive rate is way up this year, so it makes sense. You can have a line drive rate over 25 percent. You're probably going to hit for average, especially when you strike out as little as Jung Hool-E does. But line drive rate is not the stickiest metric. And so I could see it normalizing very quickly for Jung Hool-E. And then there's still the issue of there's not much else to fall back on there. It's pretty hollow batting average. You mentioned that you want him to run more. Okay. Is it going to be enough to make up for just a 280 batting average? Probably not. So I think there's less here for Jung Hool-E. There's less for you to sink your teeth into in fantasy. And I could all -- I made it go to evaporate with Brandon March, Brandon March, too. But more would have to go wrong there, I think, than in Lee's case. Lee is a sleeper hitter for this week, Don Marsh. I do have four multi-positional bats here. Ziggiel Doran, he went through a hitless four game stretch, but he woke up on Sunday. He went four for five with a double and three RBI. He is 67 percent rostered. Mauricio DuBon, he's making some noise. He homeworked in three straight from Wednesday to Friday. He went two for four with a steal on Saturday. He has started five straight and 13 of the past 15 for the Braves. He's 52 percent rostered. Luis Garcia, Jr. of the Nationals. Two for six with a double-dong, six RBI on Friday. He is 49 percent rostered and Matt McLean, some power starting to come now. He homeworked on Saturday. He went two for four with a double-dong on Sunday. Playing time has been slipping a little bit. He has only started six of the past 10 games. He is 45 percent rostered. Do you think any of these four? Garcia, Jr. and Matt McLean should be rostered in more leagues than they currently are. >> I think everyone's roster right here is probably fine. I think the biggest thing is that he goes to Ron has going for him is the wild eligibility. That's just a nice player to have because I think he's useful. If you really want to go shallow on your bench, you could just have a Ziggiel to Ron on your bench. That's your one fillet, at least in a weekly line-up league. >> I think that's kind of the same way. >> Yeah, he's not first-based eligible. Everyone else, like Garcia, Jr., I think we know what he is to platoon bat. Matt McLean, look, maybe. He's the name here where it wouldn't surprise me if he starts to pop up a little bit. >> Yeah, but he's walking a lot more after. >> Yeah, no, you're right. His strikeout rate is down this year though. >> Yeah, yeah. >> Pulled a hair as well. >> We haven't seen him be a good player since 2023. >> Yeah. >> Right? >> Sure. >> It's to a point where we need to see more than just a two-homeer game. >> If he goes out and hits two home runs tomorrow, are they playing tomorrow? >> Yeah, they're playing tomorrow. If he goes out and hits two home runs tomorrow, then maybe I'll be motivated to act, but it's going to take more than-- he's pretty deep in the hole at this point. >> Yeah, I did put in some claims for him in some of my rodeo leagues where he was dropped just to see, but they were not like $80 claims. They were $7 claims just to see if I can sneak him through and see if there's anything there. >> Other names in deeper five-out-fielder leagues. Welcome back to Lars Newport. He went two for six with a run in RBI on Friday. He hit a pinch hit home run on Saturday. He started two of three games this weekend. Colton Couser, he's starting to come around a little bit. He homeered on both Saturday and Sunday. He has started four straight. I think there's talent there with Colton Couser, but he's another one that kind of played himself so deep into a hole that is-- he was losing a lot of playing time, but could be bouncing back now. And some of those deeper five-out-fielder leagues that you guys have interest in Newport or Colton Couser this weekend? >> Well, now that you bring it up, I probably should have had more in Newport especially because I do kind of like him. >> We always like Lars Newport, man. >> Yeah, I just wonder. >> Because last year he stayed on the field. And so I think how bad he was last year, everyone's like, well, okay, he finally stayed healthy, but he wasn't any good. Now, he needed surgery on both of his heels this off season. That's why he missed the first two months of the season. So I'm open to the possibility that Lars Newport was bad last year because he wasn't healthy, and maybe he can be good because he's healthy. I'm open to that. I'm open to both of these guys being having some value moving forward, but I don't think either there's a must-rost supplier. >> Now, I just want to stress, you asked about 15 team five-out-fielder leagues. And I said, yeah, I would have interest there. I don't think most of the people listening need to care about Newport right now. You know, if it gets hot, then it'll change. But right now, I think there are better uses of roster spots than a standard size league. >> And in the deepest of leagues, any interest in Jared Young of the Metz. He homeworked on Friday. He had to hit a walk in RBI on Sunday. He has like three home runs in his past eight games, I believe he started nine straight. >> It's a very, very deep play, but anything here with Jared Young. >> He's been really productive in the minors, but he's 30. So I think not. >> Yeah. Yeah, I just, I can't get there with him. >> Fair enough. >> Fair enough. Let's be busted. >> Let's be wanted to weigh-rewire pictures. We obviously spoke about Sasaki and Debtmer's earlier. Those names are at the top of the list. Some shallow leagueers between 70 and 80% rostered. Noah Cameron continues to turn things around this time at the twins. Six innings, one unearned run with seven strikeouts to zero walks. Over his last four starts, one 13-ERA.63 whip. He gets the achtros this week. Tanner Bobby pitched well at the Rangers. Eight shutout innings with three strikeouts. He's so up and down. Just continues to tinker. His pitch mix changes like every outing. I have no idea what Tanner Bobby. He gets tired here this week. >> Robert Chandler pitched better as the bulk reliever at the Atlanta Braves. Five in a third, three runs allowed, two of those earned seven strikeouts. He was at five shutout with six strikeouts. They brought him back out for another inning where things kind of fell apart. Before that final inning, he actually had a really, really good line. And then Michael McGreevy and other quality start this one against the red. Six innings, two runs, five strikeouts. He is at the twins this week. Thoughts. Noah Cameron, Tanner Bobby, Baba Chandler, Michael McGreevy. So the one who I think is showing the clearest skill change that coincides with this, this good stretch of starts is Noah Cameron. Still have a lot of skepticism, but it is worth bringing up that during this four start stretch in which he has a one 13 ERA, a 0.63 whip and 10.1 K per nine skin over four starts. And those four starts happen to coincide with a reduction in change up velocity. And the change up was clearly his best pitch last year. It hasn't been nearly as good this year. So I would imagine it was an intentional change granted the drop in change up velocity makes it lower than it was last year. So it's not like, oh, he got the change up back to where it was. I don't see that, but he's making changes to the change up and suddenly enjoying more success, including in the strikeout department. That's for straight again, where the change up has a velocity average velocity less than 80 miles per hour. And they happen to be four really good starts. So I'm not saying I'm back in on Noah Cameron necessarily, but if there are legs here with this a good four start stretch, you know, you at least point to him doing something different with the change up here. Yeah, I have noticed he's also just throwing his fastball less during the stretch. And he's leading on those secondary pitches more. So the change up and the curve ball and those two pitches have been really, really good for Noah Cameron. And they work at last year too. So it feels like a smart change that he has made in recent weeks there with Noah Cameron. One thing we didn't mention in the news notes that just makes me talking about Noah Cameron makes me think of is Bobby Whit left Sunday's game with knee soreness. Team says it's not serious, but that was just something I was just thinking like, "Oh, Cameron, if Whit misses time, that defense might be pretty bad, but doesn't sound like what's going to miss time." Then I wanted to make sure we mentioned it. Yeah, no, no, that's a good one for sure. Six interesting or semi interesting names. I'll throw you at I throw them at you in Trio's here. Gage jump. We mentioned his name earlier. Strong start. This one at the Astros. Six and a third. Shutout innings. Only three strikeouts, but had 12 whiffs on 96 pitches. He does get the Rockies. I guess that would be the start in Vegas. Don't love the matchup, but he's looked pretty good. Zebby Mathews, a mixed outing against the Royals. Seven innings, two runs allowed. Four walks, two strikeouts. He's at the Tigers this week. And Tatsuya Imi solid against the athletics. Five innings, two runs. Three walks, eight strikeouts. Seventeen whiffs on 92 pitches. Last three starts. Two, 12 year A, a one whip on the nose. He is at the Royals this week. Chris, I don't know. How would you rank these three Gage jump Zebby Mathews in Tatsuya Imi? I think I'd go in that order. I think jump is the most interesting. Well, actually, I think Tatsuya might be really interesting, but more as like an experiment than as like a player, I have a lot of interest in in fantasy because he is just going all in on that backwards slider, sinker combo, basically. That's all he's throwing right now. And it's working, I guess, or the four seamer. But man, I do not really know how because he's not really getting strikeouts during his successful stretch. He did today, but even even then over the last three starts, eight points, eight, eight, K. Pernine, five walks per nine. The control's been really bad. I don't think he's gone more than five innings in any of those starts either. So it's just been interesting, weird, but not something I'm buying into yet. Jump, I think the strikeouts are going to come. His strike hour, it's down to 8%. Had good command and limiting damage on balls and play so far. So that's all good. I think the strike outs will be there. So I do think Gage jump is someone who's going to start figuring it out. I wouldn't really want to start him this week in Las Vegas. That's just going to be a tough environment. Like it's the Rockies. If he had a good start, it wouldn't surprise me even there. Yeah, I do have him as a sleeper pitcher for this week. So obviously the Las Vegas of it all does complicate matters. He has been an incredible strike thrower across all three of his starts. So I'm still trying to figure out if he has a dominant enough pitch jump. Gage jump. But but yeah, it's definitely third among pitcher waiver claims from the weekend behind the two images at the top of the show. Sasaki and Debtmerz. That fastball, Scott. I mean, that might just be the answer for Gage jump. I mean, eight eight with eight of his 12 whips on that fastball. That's just really impressive stuff there for him. Next trio includes Christian Scott who pitched well at the Padre is five and two thirds. A shut out with three strikeouts. Over his last three starts 16 and a third innings one run 16 strikeouts to six walks. Luis Castillo pitched well at the Tigers five and two thirds one run five strikeouts 12 whips on 100 pitches nine of those on the fastball. That's probably the best his fastball has looked all season and Griffin jacks bounce back at the Marlins five shut out innings with four strikeouts. He's 37% roster. Great matchup this week at the angels. They strike out a lot and he is a spark for those and points leagues. Scott, how did you rank this trio? Christian Scott, Luis Castillo and Griffin jacks. Castillo, I think deserves to be number one. If they stick with the six man rotation where he and Bryce Miller both get to keep a spot. I'm not that thrilled. I'm not that excited about either of the other two. I think Christian Scott has shown at least in a starting role more bet. Bensigability. I know jacks' swing of misrate is better, but a lot of that was in the bullpen, of course. He has a good ground ball picture. I don't know. I guess maybe jacks. I guess jacks has a better chance of being usable than Scott, but Scott isn't without upside. I'll say jacks over Scott. All right. And then I have three slightly deeper name Trevor McDonald. They solid outing at the Cubs and he has a lot of three-year-and-runs or fewer in six of seven starts. He gets the Cubs again later this week in San Francisco. Zach Latel has turned things around over his last five starts. One ninety three year-a point nine three whip. He gets the Mariners this week and Shane Drowin, a quality start at the Rockies. This is his first time going more than four and a third. He went six and a third, three runs, four strikeouts. Kind of feels like a beat the waiver wire situation with Shane Drowin. I am intrigued, especially like anything that the brewers have been doing with starting pitching. I'm intrigued, but he's got a really good fastball. He gets the fillies this week. It's a very deeply name. But Chris, you have any deeply interested in Shane Drowin, Zach Latel and Trevor McDonald? I am not particularly interested in any of these guys. I think they're probably all about as good as their next matchup and I don't think any of their matchups are great. I kind of like drawing. I'm probably at least as interested in him as Griffin Jackson and Christian Scott from the previous group. The characteristics on his fastball have varied a lot from start to start. Like the induced vertical break was down. I believe four inches in this start making it 11, which puts it on the so low it's good side. Then a couple turns ago, the fastball velocity was just last turn. Kind of forgetting my sequence of events here with Shane Drowin. This start was in course field for what it's worth. That's fair. That's fair. That probably explains the induced vertical break. But even in his previous start, the fastball was dominant. It was up about a mile per hour and that one had got eight whiffs on. Eight of his 13 whiffs on just 68 pitches. That was against the giants. It's playing up. Obviously the brewers are a pitching development factory. He's lasting longer into his outings. I think Shane Drowin's pretty interesting. Yeah. His fastball has a 34% whiffray, which is probably not sustainable. But it's also just a massive number for a fastball. He has four different pitches with a whiffray greater than 33% so far. So yeah, just I think in deeper leagues, just take a shot and see where it goes. Again, the name there Shane Drowin of the brewers. What a fire up the drop-o meter real quick for these starting pitchers. One, you should hold on to this pitcher everywhere. Ten, you could drop them anywhere. Edward Carrera, he got crushed in his return on Friday against the giants. Eight earned runs over three and two thirds innings. Still 74% rostered. Whereas Edward Carrera on the drop-o meter. Got six. All right. I see nothing redeeming there for him. Next up, we have Mitch Keller, who over his last five starts has an 831 ERA and a 158 whip. He gets the Dodgers this week. 75% rostered. Whereas Mitch Keller on the drop-o meter. Ten. All right. So I mean, I think Mitch Keller, even when he's pitching well, is never much lower than like a seven. I think he's a pure streamer. Yeah. So basically, I'm just trying to find names that we could drop for like Rokie Sasaki and Redetmers and even Gage Jump. But I think we found two to ready. What about Merrill Kelly, man? Destroyed by the nationals this week in five innings, seven runs, three homers loud in this one. His previous five starts before this. He was great, 236 year A.99 whip. But he had the first couple of starts where he got destroyed. He has this one now where he gets destroyed. His K minus walk rate is way down. His expected year A is terrible. I want to give him the benefit of the doubt just 'cause like he's a veteran that usually figures it out. But I just don't know if he's like the same picture that he was last year. It was much better in May. Yeah, for sure. It was 24 strikeouts to 10 walks in May. Now the strike at rate is still bad, but strike at rate is never gonna be great for Merrill Kelly. So it's the walk rate that I'm really concerned about there. And the walk rate looked like it was supposed to in May. And then he was bad in his first start in June. But I think as a general rule, Merrill Kelly had figured it out and then had a bad start. So I'm mostly willing to throw away the first couple of starts where his control was really bad. Remember he had a five walk to one strikeout start. I think Merrill Kelly's by far the most not droppable of this group. So what? What a number on it. No, I was gonna say four. Okay. Great. Four just because, okay, in a shallow enough league and he is and pretty much always has been borderline. You know? Jack Lighter, bad outing against the Guardian to know for his last four. He has a 548, ERA 141 whip. He's still 77% rostered, whereas Jack Lighter on the dropple meter. I'm gonna go eight, seven, seven and a half. Okay. To a certain extent, I kind of feel like Jack Lighter and Mackenzie Gore are the Spider-Man meme. It's just, we keep looking at them and it's like, why isn't it better? And it's just, it's not, you know? Like, I think that. The highs have been higher for Mackenzie Gore. I mean, Lighter's had some pretty good highs too. I guess the sustained highs have been better for Mackenzie Gore, but yeah, and I think Redemers isn't far off from that discussion. I know we talked him up earlier, but if Redemers has a bad start in his next one, would anybody be surprised? No, that has been the Redemers experience. So, you know, I think they're all varying degrees of droppable. And the last name here is Joey Cantillo who had a rough outing at the Rangers on Sunday, five innings, seven runs allowed, three homers allowed, four, fifty, seven year A, one, fifty, one whip, still 62% rostered. The dropple meter on Joey Cantillo. I think Crest said 10 while you were talking and I agreed to 10. Oh, right. Like, he's RPL's, I think that's the biggest thing he has going for him. Yeah, but yeah. What do we do with these four starting pictures? Ryan Weathers. He is slowing down a bit. He faced a red socks this weekend. Five runs allowed over six innings, two homers allowed. He has given a five earned runs in three of his last four. That's a five 40 year A, one 24 whipped during that span. He's 91% rostered, 55% started. He's at the blue jazze this week. Start, set, drop. What are you guys doing with Ryan Weathers? So, there have been, I got a hat scout. Well, I definitely don't think he's in the dropple camp. No, worry. In a one star week in a shallow enough league, is he sitable? Sure. But I think in most leagues where the player pool is stretched, so probably any rotisserie format, I'd have a hard time sitting him. Even in a one start, they can list the matchup was awful and the matchup against the blue jazze is, what do they rank now? 23rd. Pretty bad against lefty, too. Yeah, I think probably weathers is still a start in most cases. I will say there's just been some weirdness going on with Ryan Weathers profile all season, because he's been getting the strikeouts all long. He's been missing bats, but that has come with a about a mile per hour drop in velocity at time even more. I think he probably needs to stay healthy. Right, right. But then I'm talking about like, well, he was finding so much success early on, right? He had a flat three, a flat three, ERA after May 11th. And it was like, okay, he's finally doing it. And now the home runs have become a real big issue lately. And it's like, well, the expected ERA was always worse. He was giving up a lot of hard contact all along. And so now you look at in the 386 ERA, all the peripherals kind of point in that direction, too. So it's, you know, that's probably more like who he is. A high three ERA, which is good. It's just not a mustar picture. That's what we're, that's what the scenario you kind of laid out for redeemer, right? Your home redeemer, this is what Ryan Weathers already is. Yeah. Nick Liddello, another subpar outing this time at the Cardinals, five innings, nine hits, four runs allowed, only three strikeouts to one walk. Obviously, miss a lot of time this year with the blister. So we're still kind of waiting for him to get into form. He's made six starts, but it's, it's only one start that's been less than three earn runs so far this season, 91% rostered, 56% started, home against the debax this week. What are we doing with Nick Liddello? I mean, I think he's a sit until he gives you either one amazing start or two solid starts back to back. Yeah, I think you look at the stuff. Stuff Plus is 108, that's actually highest of his career, slightly higher than last year, but basically right in line with last year. The location down from 104 so above average to 90, really bad. Wow. I think that's probably the explanation for Reneklidolo. He's just not executing right now, but the stuff is there. And you see it just in the walks. Prior to this start, he only had one walk in this start. And so it's like, well, he finally got the walks down and start a bad start. But there's more to location than just walks. I'm just saying the walk rate itself is pretty bad. Next up, we have Kyle Bradish, another step back. This one at the Blue Jays, four innings, nine hits, five runs, three walks, three strikeouts. I mean, what has happened to his control this year? Three or more walks in 10 of 13 starts this season. It doesn't help that his swinging strike rate is down from 14.6% to 10.4%. He's 90% rostered, 55% started, home against the Mariners this week. What are we doing with Kyle Bradish? So he kind of was succeeding on one weird trick, which was to throw his curve ball more, which wasn't like his bread and butter. The slider is supposed to be his bread and butter, and it just hadn't been working for him. And he made a conscious decision a few turns back to emphasize that curve ball and it seemed to get him back on track. Only through it 11% of the time in this one, the previous five starts he had thrown the curve ball, at least 25% of the time. So clearly didn't have it in this one. Now those five starts with 25% or better curve ball use, 172 ERA 0.99 Whip, 8.6K, or 9, they're good, but they weren't like, particularly talking about that strikeout rate. They were what we're hoping for for Bradish. So that's why I say it was more one weird trick that was allowing him to succeed, but it's not like he was fixed. And I think he's still not fixed. And I think this start throwing 37% slider and only 11% curve ball shows the danger that comes with that still. Are you guys all right just sitting him for the time being? He gets the mariners this week. They're actually really good against Rides. Yeah, I'd be sitting him. Yeah. And then we got Sandy had one of his best starts in a while. This one against the race. Seven innings one run, that seven strikeouts to one walk. Pitch makes kind of weird man, just like leaned on his fast balls more. He's basically scrapped the slider from his pitch mix. I don't really know exactly what's going on. Obviously it's been an up and down season a lot of down here for Sandy. He's 71% started. He's at the pirates this week. They are really good against right handed pitching. Are we are we benching Sandy this week? Would you guys see in the start? I mean, it's, I feel like my take with Sandy hasn't changed the last four starts. Even though the results have, I think he's, I think he's going to have good starts and bad starts and the good starts. He's going to go deep into them and the bad starts, you know, might not be worth it. It might not go deep. It's probably going to go deep, because he'll. Yeah, but because he's not really a strikeout pitcher, are the good starts worth the bad starts? He's going to give you it. It's basically the same take as Seth Lugo. I think Al Contra is a little better than Seth Lugo. But I think he's that same kind of calculation you're running when you choose whether or not to start him. I don't know that the matchup would be enough to scare me away if I thought he was one of my best five pitchers, but he very likely isn't one of your best five pitchers. Fair enough. Couple other pitching leftovers here. Studs being studs. I'll just read off the names. Not going to go through all the lines here, but oh man, Jacob Mizierowski. Not even Korsfield could stop him. Because I'm the Miz! And I'm awesome! He was awesome again. Yoshi Noble Yamamoto, great outing, and Jacob DeGrom. He's getting back on track here. Chris, any thoughts on DeGrom? Yamamoto and the Miz. Yeah, Jacob Mizierowski has five pitches now. They have finally on baseball sivant split his split his slider and his cutter into two separate pitches. So he is no longer throwing 98 mile an hour cut. Sliders, those are now cutters, with rate for the slider bumps up a little bit, 29.5%. I don't know, man, he's here asks, awesome. He's incredible. He might be the best pitcher baseball. He's incredible. Yeah, that's all. That's all fair. Nice to see bounce backs from these three, Ranger Suarez, Kanchelitler and Nolan McClain. All strong starts this weekend. Scott, anything that you saw from Suarez, Schlittler or McClain? I'm not sure. I'm convinced that McClain is cured. What else him? He had less than a 10% swing strike rate in this one. He still walked three and six innings. He was facing the worst offense in baseball. And so may have just succeeded because of that. Still through just 61% of his pitches for strikes. His problem has been that the secondaries as good as they are, they rely on chase. And Major League hitters have learned to lay off, Geon on the fastball and just take the secondaries out of the zone. And so even though the result was good here again, it might be, it may have been more because he was facing a weak offense than because he fixed the problem he was having there. Just something to watch with Cam Schlittler. He has just an 8% swinging strike rate over his last three starts. I feel like that's something that can kind of fluctuate from start to start. And one of those starts, I believe, was against the Guardians. And they just don't really swing and miss very much. But let's see where that goes. The swinging strike rate there with Cam Schlittler. And also he did get the velocity back. I know his velocity was flagging and his last start dipped a little notably in his final inning as well as down to like 94.95 with the four seamer in that final inning, but it was fine here. So that was the one thing I wanted to see from him. Three other strong outings from Drew Rasmussen at Ben Brown and Mike Soroka. Chris, any thoughts here on Soroka, Ben Brown and Rasmussen? Brown got up to 87 pitches. So they did give him a little bit of a longer leash. Remember he had been right around 82.83. They did give him the chance to pitch into the sixth inning. And that makes me think that if the inning had kept going, they might have been willing to give him a little more leash than they did even since they let him start the fifth inning at 80 or so. So that boads well, but obviously still remains to be seen what it looks like when Ben Brown is throwing. If he gets to 90 plus pitches consistently, because that's just an added wrinkle, but he looks very good. Good to see Drew Rasmussen bouncing back and continuing to pitch really deep into games. I think his most recent start was pretty bad or the one before that. So nice to see that. Yeah. Mike Soroka, I still think he's a sell high, but maybe he's someone that just proves me wrong all season. I don't know if you guys feel differently, but-- Yeah, I don't think he's that good. I think he's getting away with it. He threw his best pitch more in this start. So that's something you can hang his hat on, but you know what, hang his hat. He hangs his own hat. I'm just getting the expression confused there. We did have one last lonely bad outing here. Braxton Ashcraft, it turns out he's human after all. At the Braves, five innings, nine hits, six runs allowed. Did you guys see anything in here that actually? Where is he about Braxton Ashcraft? He's a lot of a bad start. Good offense. And he had to start like this on April 28th against the Cardinals, not such a good offense and bounced back OK. So I think I'll be OK here too. Some hitting leftovers. Holy, holy, the Giants put up 18 runs on Friday against the Cubs. They had three different players with double-dongs. Casey Schmidt, William Thomas, Matt Chapman. Chapman in particular. He really needed it. He also had eight RBI in this game. Then on Sunday, he had a pretty good game too. Two hits with a RBI in a walk. So perhaps finally starting to turn things around, but the quality context is just way down for Matt Chapman this season. Adley Bruchman, a monster game on Friday, four for four with his eighth homer, four runs, and five RBI. Nice weekend for Brent Rooker. He has three homeruns in his past seven games. CJ Abrams, homer on both Friday and Sunday, he just keeps doing the thing. Tour de Walker had a massive weekend, a stolen base on Friday, a sock in a shoe on Saturday, two more hits on Sunday. Ronald D'Akunia has been running it wildly. He has eight steals in his last 11 games. He's up to 15 overall. Kevin McGonagall continues to hit. Well, we need to see more power. He did hit a home run on Sunday. He quietly had like a bad May. Still had seven steals in the month, but just didn't hit as well. He's a rookie. He's a lot to have a bad month, but just worth noting. And then Hunter Goodman, he is on a power bench as well. He has six homeruns in his past 11 games. And quietly has five steals. Just interesting kind of nugget there on Hunter Goodman. Lots of names. Anything you guys like to touch on from the hitting leftovers? Well, surprised that was 17 homers are ready for Hunter Goodman. Yeah, right. That just cracked up. We're kind of quiet. But yeah, that's awesome. Last year was not a fluke. CJ Abrams, I keep waiting for the bottom to fall out because that's what happened his entire career. But I feel like he's already started to slow down by this point in previous seasons and he hasn't yet. So it's good to see not drawing any conclusions from that one way or the other. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. There's something about Brett Rucker. I was trying to look up, but I don't think I'm gonna get there. All right, if you find it, just let me know. Call to the bullpen for the Rangers on Friday. Jacob Latz pitched two scoreless innings to close it out for his ninth save. He's pretty much looking like the guy for the Rangers. For the twins on Friday, Travis Adams got the ninth with a three run lead. He allowed a run but picked up his second save. The twins do not have a closer and they never will ever again. For the Brewers on Friday, Trevor McGill got the ninth with a two run lead. He allowed two runs on a walk in three hits. He took his second blow and save, but wound up with the win. I still think he's the guy. It's been kind of trending that way for Trevor McGill, but I don't know, kind of a step back here for him. For the Royals on Saturday, Alex Lang got the ninth with a one run lead. He allowed a hit, but struck out three for his third save. Worth noting once again, kind of weird saves. The Royals were losing going into the ninth inning. They took the lead. Then Alex Lang came in. He did get saves on both on all three of Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. And they were all these exact same situations. It was not the exact, because they were trailing in this one. I think you were tied, but all three were not winning. Heading into the net. Yeah, all three times the Royals scored two run. I think two runs exactly in the top of the ninth. And so Lang came in at the bottom of the ninth. And what became a safe situation, but were they planning to bring him in anyway if it wasn't a safe, that's what's not clear about it. I think helping his case as far as is either closer is that at least in the last two, both Lynch and Matt Stromb had already worked. So it's not like they were being held back for the save chance. And they seemed like the only alternatives there. So I put in some moderate bids in Lang and my leagues where saves are scarce, even though I have some skepticism, skepticism diminishes with every save, even though we have yet to see a very a clean, a clean runway to a save, let's say for Lang. That's the main reason for doubt. Also, I think worth noting that Lucas Ersse did get the save on Sunday, but he almost blew it, man. Give up a run. And I think the last out was hit to the warning track. It was, yeah, was Lang unavailable? It was, it was a weird situation because they had a spot. They had a five run lead going into the ninth. The first other weird situation. The first reliever came in, gave up three runs, and then Ersse came in with a man on second. They were already like one out in the ninth. So he just kind of came up to mop up what was wrong. Yeah. Lang, I'm sure, wasn't available. He'd worked three of the previous four and four of the previous six. Yeah. So it makes sense. Worth mentioning in our Tout Wars leagues, 15 team roto, Alex Lang went for $38 in mind. He went for $75 in Scott's league. Through the white socks on Saturday, Grant Taylor got the ninth inning with a three run lead. He struck out the side for his second save. Sir, Anthony Dominguez threw 11 pitches on Friday, and that was his only appearance in June so far. So theoretically, should have been available on Saturday. Grant Taylor has far and away been the more dominant pitcher this season. Do you guys think we're starting to see the changing of the guard here? Grant Taylor over Sarantini Dominguez. No. I think the fans community really, really, really wants that to be the case. I have Dominguez in a lot of spots, and I'm really scared that it is changing over to Grant Taylor now. I will say, if you wanted to say Grant Taylor leads the team and saves from this point on, I might agree with that. If it leads the team and saves from now until July 31st, I would probably still take Sarantini Dominguez. the closer. You know, I think that makes the most sense for the white socks, but look, if you want to add Grant Taylor, because you're going to get great strikeouts and good ratios and the occasional save, I think that's fine too, especially in a, you know, a deeper road, O League. I just don't think Grant Taylor is likely to just take that job and run with it. All right. For the Marlins on Saturday, Pete Fairbanks got the ninth with a three-run lead. He allowed two runs on two hits and three walks. He was relieved by Tyler Zuber, who got the final out for his first save. I didn't realize Fairbanks has quietly been bad. 741 ERA 153 Whip. And then on Sunday, it was Anthony Bender, who got the ninth inning with a three-run lead. He picked up his second save. Another situation, do you think we could see someone else take over for the Marlins in the meantime or is it still Fairbanks' job? Yeah. He's basically only had like, he had three bad outings in April. One of them was the one where he went on the I.L. and just clearly wasn't healthy. I'm not saying that to excuse it, but it's just to point out that I think the overall numbers tell a different story than like the 360 XERA. You know, I think Fairbanks has mostly been good. All right. And then for the Tigers on Sunday, we'll Vesca the ninth inning with the Tigers down one run. They wound up with the win because on the other side for the Mariners, Andres Munoz allowed two runs on two walks in a hit. He took his fifth blown save, his fourth loss. You know, Munoz, too. He hasn't been as lights out clearly 540 ERA 137 Whip. I believe Jose Ferrer has a sub to ERA. I mean, is there any chance Munoz could lose a job here? I mean, there's always a chance, but do you think it's a likely chance? I don't think they're particularly close to that. He just has built up so much good will. And I mean, like, obviously extremely talented. So yeah, I think he, you know, if he has another outing or two like this in the next couple weeks, maybe they start to have that conversation, but I don't think they're there yet. To stream or not to stream on Monday, we have an eight game slate and it is terrible for the we have Patrick Corbin against the Phillies. Grace from Rodriguez against the Ashrows, Walker Bueller against the Reds, Jeffrey Springs against the Brewers. I guess that game is in Las Vegas. It's brutal. Yeah, I added Walker Bueller or put in beds for Walker Bueller and a few points leagues. But I'm not excited about starting. You should not stream anybody on Monday. If you absolutely want to or have to or I don't know why you would have to stream on a Monday, but if you want to, I guess I would say Bueller, but it's it's gross. On Tuesday, Trevor Rogers against the Mariners, Troy Melton against the twins, Zach Galen at the Marlins, Dustin May at the Metz, Stephen Colock against the Rangers, Grant Holmes at the White Sox, Walbert, Arania against the Ashrows, Kiway Tang at the Angels, Andrew Alvarez at the Giants, JT Ginn against the Brewers in Vegas and then Robert Gas are on the other side at the Athletics in Vegas. They got to say Dustin May there, even as the biggest May skeptic. Then probably so we don't know about Stephen Colock too because he's been away on a family emergency. So I removed Colock from the two-star pitcher rankings just because I wasn't sure, but there's a chance he could start Tuesday and make two starts. I'd be reluctant to recommend streaming him with this moment though, even with a good matchup. Yeah, other than Dustin May, I don't know, maybe Troy Melton though, his swinging, this has been pretty awful. Grant Holmes could give you a quality start with the White Sox line. It is of course pretty good. I like Walbert, Arania, the match against the Ashrows isn't the best. Right. Andrew Alvarez doing some nice things in a big ballpark in San Francisco, maybe. Yeah, there's a lot of like on Tuesday that they're not terrible. I could squint and see them doing well, but it's hard to get excited about him either. Beyond Dustin May, that's the only one I feel pretty good about. I'd probably say Dustin May, Walbert, Arania and Troy Melton and if Stephen Colock's around a star, I don't think that's a bad start. So I'll go with those three/four. We are going to wrap there for Scott and Chris. I am Frank. Thanks as always for tuning into Fantasy Baseball today. Please make sure to follow and leave a five star rating on Apple or Spotify and we will be back again tomorrow. Bye bye. [Music] [Music] [Music] Paramount podcasts. [Music] No streaming on Paramount Plus. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]