Toughest Players to Rank Heading Into the Second Half! (07/11 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

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His six starts before that, he has 660 ERA and 143, fit. Or a whip. He is just a super volatile pitcher. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason or momentum is not a thing for Gavin Williams. There's no like, well, he's pitching well right now, so you can trust him. That doesn't exist for him. I just have no idea how to value him. He's 27th at SP for me. I can't really justify putting him any higher. It wouldn't take, like if you really twisted my arm, it wouldn't take a lot to get me to drop him down to like 40. I just think he's kind of a headache. That's exactly where I have Gavin Williams as well, so I totally get where you're coming from. That's 27 or? Yeah, at SP 27. That's exactly where I have him too, so I totally get what you're saying there. Let's talk about one more pitcher before he hit a break. A pitcher that I have just behind him is Garakoul. No idea. No clue what to do with Garakoul right now because he's kind of, he's a pitcher that you want to guard against, ranking too low because he's a legacy pitcher and he's a future first ballot hall of fame. But he's also coming back from major elbow surgery and he has an 8% swinging strike rate on the season. And he only has two starts with more than a 10% swinging strike rate this year. With all that said, the results have been okay. And over his last four starts, his stuff plus and his location plus are way up. So I don't really know what to do with that. Like if there are metrics telling me that the stuff is better over this four start stretch, why is he getting more whiffs? So still a very confusing pitcher. You could tell me that in the second half, Garakoul doesn't get all the way back to Garakoul, but he turns back into, let's say 80% of Garakoul pre-injury and he's, you know, a top 24 pitcher rest of season. 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The rest of the podcast, looking at your list because Christian Yalice is a guy with a super strong track record, who might just be falling off. He's 34 years old. He's had a lot of injuries. He missed some time earlier this season with an injury. The underlying numbers are all basically worse than they've been at any point in his career. He has a 28% strikeout rate. That's his highest since 2020. That was a small sample size. That doesn't really count. Although I guess the number of games is about the same right now. He's not hitting the ball as hard. He is not hitting the ball in the air, which he never does, but at least usually hits the ball hard. It's just it might be over for Christian Yalice. But it's Christian Yalice. He was a 29-homer 16-steel guy last year. He had 264. He had over 100 LBI. I don't want to give up on him entirely, but it's mostly just because of his name at this point. I don't have anything I can grab onto beyond that. He is a tough one for sure. I lean towards this is the start of the end because he's 34 years old and you see the cracks underlying in terms of the swinging strike rate. A career high strikeout rate from the season as well. He's been sitting against left-handed pitching. I don't know if I could go as far as to say that I would drop Christian Yalice. Maybe in a shallow head to head point league, I think you probably can. He's only D.H. only. It's genuinely hard to have him on your team. He's not dominating. Anything deeper than head to head lineups. I would hold on to him just on the off chance that he can find a spark. It's a really good brewers lineup as well. The underlying stuff does look pretty worrisome here for Christian Yalice. That brings me to Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. Who I still rank as a top 10 first baseman. My eighth rank first baseman. I fully admit, someone pointed out to me earlier this week. How do you still have him rank that high? Really just me guarding against the fact that his name is right. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. And when he's on, he can produce maybe not first round caliber pull like production because we haven't seen that in a while, but he can be a second or third round type player. He has not been that this season. He has at the time of recording this more steals than he does home runs, which is a wild insane to think about. But everything is down across the board. He's been playing through this back injury. So I think perhaps, you know, that has been lingering for a while, but this is the worst version of Vlad Jr. that we've seen like he's gone through funks before, but I don't know that it's ever lasted a full half of a season. So I get people that are down on him and they want him to be ranked lower. I can see an argument for him being outside the top 12, the top 15 first baseman. It is the most stacked position in fantasy baseball this season. And Vlad Jr. has hurt you more than his help you. So I totally understand that. But just look at what he did in the post season last year. Like he can flip it like that. If he's healthy, it's just he's a major question going into the second half. Chris back over to you. Yeah. If you want, I guess a reason to be optimistic about Vlad. I would just say he had an 88 game stretch in 2023 where he had a 310, Wilba. This year, it's 308, I think. So there is one stretch in his career. You can look at that is similarly bad for Vladimir Guerrero. But now I agree. I have him 8th, but I don't feel good about it in either direction. So I get that. My other guy is Luis Garcia who is I just he has been so good this season. And really it's like the last month and a half or so really that he's been really good. Let's do this second in the majors and strike out area in RBI. Despite starting seven of 29 games against lefties, that alone is just one crazy, but two tells us there's probably some regression coming. He's got like a 900 OPS. He's hitting the ball really hard. He doesn't strike out much. And then I just look at the first base rankings. And like you said, it's such a stacked position. I can't get Luis Garcia inside my top 24. And I really want to because he's good, but like he just doesn't play against lefties. Maybe you can get it there and there and point in a road of league, but in points, it's just a guy who's taken two days off every week is really hard to trust. So I want to believe in Luis Garcia Jr. He looks awesome. It's just hard to get there. And even more than believing in Luis Garcia Jr., you've got to give the player credit. Obviously, but give credit to the nationals organization, man, because they have done fantastic work this year. I was completely down on that team coming in, but they have a newer gene. They have a bunch of guys that are my age, that are like running the organization and coaching the team, managing the team. And they're doing great work. James Wood having a career year, CJ Abrams career year, Luis Garcia Jr. career year. They've managed to get something out of Curtis Mead. They're doing a really good job. So credit to them, credit to Luis Garcia Jr. But yeah, he's a bit of a tough fee to rank. I did get him inside my top 21st basement. I think he's inside my top 12, the second base now as well. But it did come with consternation. There's a lot of really, really good players at that position. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full lane podcast fantasy baseball today on Spotify Apple podcasts or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to fantasy baseball today. Express and we'll be back again next week. Bye bye.