Week 11 Sleepers & Two-Start Pitchers! Cade Cavalli Is Trending Up! (5/30 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Let's preview week 11. Up next on Fantasy Baseball Today Express. Welcome into Fantasy Baseball Today Express on Friday, May 29th. I am Chris Towers, joined by Scott White. We are previewing week 11. Let's kick it off with the week 11 schedule. We got 24 teams playing six games. The six that are playing seven games are the D-Backs Royals, Dodgers, Brewers, Twins and Giants. Don't do that. Don't do the hand gestures. No, come on. I mean, look, we're, I guess we're trying to appeal to the kids. It's fine. The parent class, I think, has effectively killed the six-seven me, thankfully. That's, that's fine. I'm not, look, I was in high school. We were yelling every, whatever Dave Chappelle skit was the previous night for a week straight. So who am I to judge? But let's talk about baseball. The Rockies are a baseball team. They are playing six games this week. They got a split week again. It feels like it's been every week for like a month straight that the Rockies have been three at home, three on the road. Oh, it's been the whole year. They haven't had a full week at court yet. Not to my recollection. Oh, wow. Okay. Well, we got to get one of those. That'd be nice. Wouldn't that stink if the whole season they just never had a game a series a week where they were in Coresfield the entire week? That would stink. All right. They got three versus Milwaukee in Coresfield. They got three at Los Angeles, the Angels of Anaheim. Let's start or sit these fringe two-start pitchers in Scott. I know he wasn't great in his major league debut, but I thought kids jump looked very impressive. I think there's a lot to work with here. Maybe it's, I'm a sucker for a funky lefty with good stuff, but I thought his stuff looked pretty good. I think he's just got, he's got tough matchups in the two-start week. Yeah. And you know, it's even if his stuff does look good, that doesn't necessarily mean he's prepared to succeed with it in the majors in this tough matchup. So I'm saying no to jump in two-start this week. I mean, shoot. If that first start at the Cubs goes poorly, you may not even get two-start. So it seems like too big of a risk to me, but it could potentially pay off. You're saying no to jump. Maybe leap. David Sandlin, I think, is somewhat interesting. He's for the white socks. He had his major league debut this week. He's at Minneapolis or Minnesota and at Philadelphia. Not bad matchups. What do you think of him? Yeah, I just, I don't have a lot of faith in him. I know that first start went pretty well, but I would pass on David Sandlin. Yeah, we're also, I think, passing on Shane Bos, who's at Boston at Toronto. That would say so. The two good starts. I'm kind of interested in Michael Burrows. I think he's, I think he's not as bad as he's pitched. He gets the Revenge game versus Pittsburgh and then he gets the athletics, not in Sacramento. Might be my favorite of this group. Yeah, I still think I'm going to pass on him. You could, you could justify almost any two-start pitcher in a points league truth be told just if you're chasing volume, but I think you could do better than Burrows this week. All right, let's talk about some two start starting pitchers that you are adding and streaming this week. And the one I think most interesting is you've got Bob a Chandler on here. I do. Add Houston, add Atlanta. Yeah. That's tough. Those are tough matchups, but and I'll note that he's a sleeper pitcher in the two-start section of my two-start rankings. It's point league only. So it's a volume chasing, play more than anything, but he's, you know, he's being in the strike outs. I think he started to look a little better throwing a few more strikes. And I think he's the sort of pitcher who you stress, you stress about the matchups less. It's either does Bob a Chandler, B. Bob a Chandler, or doesn't. He's usually beating himself this year, but I think lining up for two starts with some interesting trends. You could, you could justify it in a points league. You want to tell us a little more about any other two-start streamers? Yeah. So we got Kate Cavali who's been great frankly of late. That curveball's been kind of shocking. He rack up strikeouts. He gets the Marlins and the Diamondbacks this week, which are decent enough matchups, I would say, especially with the way he's been pitching. Aaron Nola gets the Padres and the White Sox. The Padres aren't especially favorable matchup. The White Sox is surprisingly not as favorable, but I still think it's not something I'd worry about. Again, more of a points league play. Nola looking at volume there with those two starts. Jameson Tyrone, again, just a recommendation for points leagues, but really like these matchups for him athletics and giants. He'd be higher on the list if he'd actually been pitching well, Lely, but we know the story with Tyrone's in the long run. The ratios are probably going to be respectable and I think this week will help contribute to that. Michael McGreevy don't really trust him. And the last couple starts have been a little shaky. But he's been a quality start machine this year and he gets the Rangers and the Reds. Those are favorable enough matchups for points leagues. And then finally Griffin Jacks makes sure he's healthy with the back. It's like it's just a bruise and he'll be okay. But if he is able to start on turn in week 11, he will get the Tigers and the Marlins like those matchups for a RP eligible pitcher with good groundball skills. Really like the one-start streamers this week. And frankly, I think a couple of them shouldn't be streamers anymore. Ben Brown 71% roster versus San Francisco. I think he should just be 100% roster to pretty close at this point. Jared Jones ad Houston. I mean, if he looks good on Friday, I think he's going to be 100% rostered by the time WaiverWire runs this week. And he might just be anyway. Robert Aurelia, I don't love the talent or the talent's actually pretty good. I don't love the pitcher he currently is, but I think he has potential. But first Colorado on the road, you love that. And then Andrew Abbott gets a good matchup versus the Royals. Away from Kansas City. You'd actually prefer it if it was in Kansas City, but that's okay. We are going to take a quick break. Welcome back to Fantasy Baseball today. Express. We are talking week 11 preview and we are talking about hitter matchups now. The best hitter matchups for this week are the twins, the fillies, the brewers. You get those three games at Colorado, the giants, and the reds and the worst. The cardinals, the guardians, the Orioles, the Metz, and the Rockies. Scott, tell us about some sleeper hitters for week 11. I would love to tell you about some sleeper hitters. I can't say I'm particularly thrilled with this group. I was with last weeks, but we're paying for it this week. I like a couple. You like a couple of the 10? Okay, let's give the first one. Yeah, Ryan Walshmit is the first one. I think you could justify starting him regardless of the matchups, but the Diamondbacks are one of the teams playing seven games scheduled to face four lefties. A small sample, of course, but 438 batting average against lefties so far for Ryan Walshmit. So I think he's going to take advantage of that. Josh Young feels a little like cheating putting him here, but he technically meets the threshold 79% roster. So just niques under, he is batting over 300 for the season and the expected batting average is actually even higher than that. His shaved like 10 percentage points off his strikeout rate to get there. He's been effective at a week third base position and the Rangers. They face, they're not in the top five hitter matches, but they didn't miss by much. They're facing the Cardinals rotation and then a couple of the weaker spots in the Guardians rotation. Jake Bowers, he is sitting more now with Vaughn Healthy, but as long as there aren't lefties on the schedule, he plays a lot. Only one lefty on the schedule for the brewers, and they're one of those teams playing seven games. They also have the third best hitter matchups. Three of course field two. Three of course field. Yep. JJ Blood Day. That's the other one I like. You like Blood Day? I keep getting messages from people as the time to end the Blood Day experiment. He has a couple of offers and they're ready to give up on him. I mean, he's continued to perform well for the most part and the reds of the fifth best hitter matchups. Two lefties on the schedule, but Blood Day has been playing even against lefties, so I'd stick with them. Brandon Marsh, she's got a finger issue right now, so let's monitor that this weekend. It doesn't sound like an IEL situation. So I suspect he'll be ready to go next week for the second best hitter matchups. Only one lefty on the schedule two and he's batting like 340 against righties. These and other guys enjoy the big improvement and strike out rate this year. I'm playing against lefties now too. Playing against lefties, yeah, but I especially like that they're mostly righties. Marsh for next week. Spencer Horowitz has been very hot. I don't really trust it. The bad of ball data is unenticing, but he's hot right now. It's, you know, hot hand play. They're not always good. The pirates, only one lefty for them to Horowitz is another player that benefits from that. And they get the Padre's rotation, the worst parts of the Padre's rotation and the, wait, no, that's the wrong team. I'm sorry. They're pretty good. The matchups. They get the Astros rotation and they get Martin Perez from the Braves rotation. So I think they got at least four good matchups for Spencer Horowitz next week. Carlos Cortez, he continues to get the job done when he's in the lineup. He's actually actually been at his best away from Sacramento and the athletics around the road this week, only one lefty on the schedule. Percentage is still a great for Cortez. Brooks Lee and Trevor Larnick from the twins lineup will include them both. We need some from that lineup to take advantage of the twins top rank hitter matchups this week. Brooks Lee's been fairly hot. Larnick not so much, but no, he'll play a lot with only one lefty on the schedule. Alex Baum has been trending the right direction. He's cooled off a little bit, but with the Phillies having the second best hitter matchups, I'm going to put him on here still. Alright, for more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full-length podcast fantasy baseball today on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to fantasy baseball today. Express. We'll be back again next week. Bye-bye.