Week 17 Sleepers for the Short & Long Weeks! (7/16 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Ei, mä liisaan meille aivan siltä käytetyn auton suoraan verkosta. Ei, siltä. Elisis vahtolisin auto. Joo, aivan sillä on itä kuntotarkastettuja ja vähän ajettuja. Ei, sillä. Ja joo, liisama laitarvi stressata auton arvon alenemisesta. Ei niin. Ja eivän sillä kaikki auton ylläpitokuuluu samaankin teä kuukausimaksuun. Ei, sillä. Ei, just ei, eivän vahtolisin. Ah, se on eiv. eiku, joo, just nai. Mut kattumia liisin kilometrejä. Auto koppapiste eivän spiste komu. Ei, eivän sillä. Ei, eivän sillä. All the way until the following Sunday, but let's start with the shortweeks. Got July 16 through 19, who are the sleeper pitchers you're looking at for this weekend? Well, obviously a bunch of one-star guys, nobody's making two-star, so very three-day scoring period. In fact, not every pitcher is making one-star even. So you're going to want to double-check this before you set your lineups. Not every team has just recording even announced how they're lining up. A lot of guesswork went into play here for very critical decision. Part of the reason why a lot of people like extending it to a long week, combining that first weekend with the first full week. But if you're not one of those that do, you're going with the shortweek. Right now, I show E&C Moore and Griffin Jacks facing off against the Red Sox lineup, which still ranks as second to work, second to worst in baseball, even with the nine-game winning streak heading into the break. Seymour and Jacks have been fixtures amongst the sleeper pitchers lately. Seymour did have a bumpy start last time out, but he was so dominant in the previous three. They think we gave him a pass for that particularly with a matchup this good. And Griffith Jacks has just been very steady since joining the rotation. Last seven starts to 25 ERA and even one whip and an even strike out per inning. And underlying data suggests there's some swing and miss there that's unaccounted for still. So I love those two with that matchup. We have Jared Jones, who had six perfect innings in his final start before the break, striking out eight seems like things were clicking for him finally and he's going against the Guardians. The team tied with the Red Sox for the second worst offensive baseball. And I would guess they've even been worse than that during the stretch they've been playing without Jose Ramirez, who remains out. So Jared Jones is a fine play. Landon Rup, I think he's a fine play most any week, but he's facing a bottom five offense in the Mariners this week still has a 336 expected ERA and a 329 fit and is coming off an eight inning outing as the Blue Jays coming off a strong effort. So not a bad time to play with the Landon Rup. And then kind of stretching here for the fifth one, Cade Cavali. He is at the athletics. So obviously a dangerous place to pitch in Sacramento, but the athletics lineup is injury depleted right now with Nick Kurtz joining some other notables on the IL. And Cavali has been a surprising source of strikeouts of times this year, that 13 strike out effort, effort a couple turns ago where the fastball really played up. I don't think we're going to see that again. The fastball's played more normally recently, but now even even with an average fastball Cavali's been solid enough that I think he'll do fine with this matchup. Let's light over to the hitters and the best hitter matchups again for the short week, just this Thursday through Sunday, mostly just Friday through Sunday this weekend. The Reds and the Rockies are up at the top. They're both in Korsfield. We've got the Reds socks, the Rays and the Royals. Lots of ours. And the worst hitter matchups this weekend, we have the Giants. Brewers, Angels, Guardians and Pirates. Scott, who are your sleeper hitters for the short week and how many of them are non-reds socks and Rockies? Only one of them is not a Reds sock or a Rocky. Because they have a lot of Reds player. Excuse me. They have a lot of available players and they're the team playing a series of Korsfield, so it makes perfect sense. So TJ Rumfield, Cole, Karig and Kyle Keros, a lot of, sounds there after all the R sounds for the best hitter matchups. So I'll say it again, TJ Rumfield, Cole, Karig and Kyle Keros, Rumfield is close to not even qualifying for this list anymore. He has been a red hot wherever he's played, frankly, last 31 games before the break. 357 batting average five home runs, 1044 OPS, obviously with matchups this good and if any, this favorable, got to start Rumfield. Cole, Karig is one of the Rockies hitters with the starkest splits, home and away. 348 batting average, 1052 at home. And then Kyle Keros, he was awfully hot before the break himself, slashing 341 426 670 with six home runs and 28 games prior to the break. It's time to show him some love, particularly with matchups as good. The reds on the list here, JJ Blade, who was heating up again before the break, playing at Kerosfield, to keep him hot and Spencer Steer, who was also showing renewed signs of life just before the break. And also in his career, Kerosfield is 400 hitter, as you might expect. So those are your reds and Rockies for the short week, 17 and then stapled on here. Caleb Durbin, because of a double header, the reds, the red socks and the rays, both play four games that the only teams playing four games. So Caleb Durbin almost never sits. So we have some hope he's going to play both of those games of the double header. And final 23 games before the break, 325 batting average, six home runs, five steals. All right, let's take a quick break and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back, FBT Express. We are here previewing week 17. Now let's talk about the long week. So this is, if you play in a head to head league where you have the 10 day scoring period from July 16 through July 26, there will be a decent amount of overlap here with some of the players we already spoke about. But it's got who are the sleeper pitchers you like for the long scoring period. So again, it's led by E&C, Moran, Griffin, Jacks. That first turn is against the red socks, of course. The second for Seymour, as things line up right now, is the Guardians. So he's facing the two teams tied for the second worst offense. And you know, we talked about how good he was looking apart from that one clunker right before the break in Seymour. And then Griffin, Jacks, his second matchup is the Blue Jays, which is also a very favorable one. Landon Roup also carries over to the long week here in addition to that first matchup against the Mariners. He gets the Royals second time out. And the Royals are funny. They've moved way up the rankings for Runscored, but that's because they had a 31 run out burst over a two-day span in the final five games before the break immediately after those 31 runs. So for two games, final five games, 2.2 runs is what they average. So I still think they're pretty favorable matchup. Roup should do well either way. Austin May hasn't gone the minimum five innings needed for a win since his complete game shut out against the Padres on June 15th. A lot of short addings, couple of them. Shakey. But the two most recent addings, even though they were short, we're good. He looked like he was back on track. He gets the Angels and the Reds, which are two of the three most strikeout prone teams. And then Reynaulda Lopez rounds out the list here going against the Padres. He's a really good matchup in the Orioles, which is kind of middle of the road matchup. But four starts since we're joining the rotation. He's been throwing harder. He's been throwing about the velocity. He didn't 2024 when he had a 190-90 R.A. Obviously, don't think Reynaulda Lopez is going to be that good. But I think the matchups are favorable enough that you might roll the dice on him this week. All right. Let's slide over to the hitters once again and the best hitter matchups for the long week 17 scoring period. We have the Rockies, Nationals, D-Backs, Padres and Cardinals. The worst hitter matchups, Metz, Yankees, Rangers, Guardians and Mariners. Again, you'll hear some of the same names, but Scott, who are your favorite sleeper hitters for the long week 17? So for the short week, it was the Rockies and the Reds. For the long week, it's the Rockies and the Nationals, who are one of the teams visiting the Rockies in the longer week. The Rockies themselves six of their nine games are at home. That's a big reason why they're so favorable. I think the road matchup is. It's the Brewers, but it's a couple of their lower end pitchers. Anyway, go away for the Rockies with all the home games. Cole Carreg, TJ Rumpfield, Kyle Caros, the same three back on this list for the long week as well. And then for the Nationals, we have Curtis Mead, who is heating up again before the Se onjamien aggression tasoaessä ja olis foutkani! crews who should especially benefit not just from the series, it course field, but the fact there are four lefties on the schedule for the nationals nine games. He's a 333 hitter with a 927 OPS against lefties this year. That's Dylan Cruz. And if you've been listening to this whole thing and saying, Scott, I play in a deeper league than this. All of these hitters you've talked about are rostered in mine already. I got one for you that I can almost guarantee isn't and it's tie France only 4% rostered in CBS Sports leagues. You mentioned for the long week, the Padres have the fourth best hitter matchups. Francis forced his way into the lineup on a near everyday basis by hitting 317 with five home runs and a 1,000 6 OPS in his final nine games. Should be able to take advantage of those favorable matchups, presuming he keeps playing like he has. Recently. All right, for more extensive fan history 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, and we'll be back again later this week. Bye bye.