Who's Hot & Who's Not! Reid Detmers 14 Strikeouts, Combined No-Hitter & More! (5/26 Fantasy Baseball Podcast)

Welcome to the fantasy baseball today podcast from CBS Sports Got a fantasy question email fantasy baseball at CBSi.com Get ready to win your league Now here's Frank Scott and Chris now that was a weekend of baseball Welcome into fantasy baseball today on Tuesday, May 26th the games all here. I am Frank sample join by Scott white and Chris towers Today on the show it's our Memorial Day weekend recap buckle up We have a long episode for you. We had a 14 strikeout game a combined no-hitter There are waiver wire names the worryometer and much more very fun weekend Chris I know that you were traveling you were out in Scott's neck of the woods and You guys met up. I was very jealous. How was that? I saw Scott in person for the first time probably had to have been since I moved to New York, right? Yes, and probably even before that because it's not great Makes it look like seven years. Yeah, at least seven years. Wow I was nice. I was up those are fast seven years. We used to work every day together. We did we got we got burgers Yes, I was Hopping around the South East I just went to Atlanta and Greenville lovely. Yeah lovely time. Yeah, two two areas. I'm familiar with burgers weren't the best the place we wanted to go was was closed on a Saturday afternoon Which is something I'm having to get used to where things just close at random times Just because they feel like you know, we don't want to work at that time. So we're just gonna be closed Saturday afternoon You said it was the only afternoon of the week. They're closed. It seems like an odd choice. We're weird choice Yeah, that seems like a good time to get burgers Any who let's jump in oh my goodness gracious. All right Chris. We'll start with you You get the big fluffy buttery bread stick from the weekend Yeah, read debtmers had I want to say read debtmers like did the read debtmer's thing But you could really take that one of two ways, but the way I mean it is He was terrible a couple of starts to go and then out of nowhere Puts together one of the most dominant performances by any pitcher all season Against the Rangers on Sunday where he struck out 14 Over eight innings allowed one hit one or run on a home run uh And it just I don't know man this this guy continues to be an enigma uh and or a source of great frustration For all fantasy baseball players and I think especially analyst because I don't really know what to make of read debtmers I mean we're talking about a guy with a 290 xeRA this season and gets fit as fit is like 340 Something like that and then his eRA is 457 and he's got look at this star after this star And he's got a career for 74 eRA over 512 innings and It's one of those ones where I want to buy Read debtmers and I want to believe that the peripherals are telling us something that the eRA doesn't but Again 500 innings five plus seasons into his career It is hard for me to assume that read debtmers will be anything but what read debtmers has been for his career Which is a guy who is capable of Moments of staggering brilliance But who very rarely does it two times in a row let alone two months in a row So he is 59% roster in CBS fantasy leagues I do think we're kind of we're a little bit in a fallow period on the waiver wire right now where You know, I think we're we're looking ahead at some guys coming back from the aisle Jared Jones and maybe river Ryan and there was one other guy wrote about yesterday his name I can't remember now But there are there aren't a lot of like Super super obvious. I have to add them right now performances I think we've gone through a couple of phases of that Traymellan was the other one who wasn't great on Sunday But I remain very intrigued So yeah, if there's no obvious ads on the waiver wire and I don't know if there are outside of read debtmers You know but Ben Brown I like what we've seen from him But yeah, I think you just go ahead and add read that Merz coming around to Ben Brown Hope that it works out even though I I think the lightliest out of the modal outcome for read that Merz is he just continues to be who he's been Yeah, but this is like There there has been a bit of burnout with recommend date rent commanding read that Merz when we're talking about streaming pictures They're in my sleeper pictures colonies. They're almost every week And I've I've made rough yeah, I'm tired of putting them there too But you see why because he just threw eight one-hit innings with 14th strikeouts And it's very rare you're gonna pick up a picture off the waiver wire who does anything close to that Or who's just even theoretically capable right And so it's like okay if you're going to insist on playing the waiver wire to fill your pitching staff This is probably the best you can do right now or ever And so you know, I'm not saying he's perfect. I'm not saying the ERA is gonna wind up where you want it to be in the long run but like Beggars can't be choosers maybe and that Merz just showed you why he is About the best you could ask for off the net wire and in his next start There's a good chance. He'll show us why he's been so frustrating for his career Yeah, I think Enigma is a good way to put it and Scott and I spoke about him last week and just joking like oh, yeah He's great in your fit and your ex-fif league just because those numbers There have been other years in his career where those numbers look good But it just doesn't really consistently underperforms. Yeah, it just doesn't really line up with actual production But obviously this start is completely different 59% roster and I think he has to be roster in all points leagues because he has a spark as well He's at the raise later this week The three most added starting pictures on CBS right now or zebby Matthews Ben Brown and Griffin jacks Do you put Read Debtmer's ahead of those three Brown's close Brown at the top tier and then I think that's a gap. Yeah. All right. Uh, Scott. Let's go over to you for your player of the weekend The opposite end of the spectrum. Oh Nolan McClain is who I want to talk about here for all the wrong reasons. Would you believe That just a week ago one short week ago Nolan McClain had a 292 ERA and was an emergent ace and The world was his oyster everything seemed to be pointing up for Nolan McClain. Well now just a week later he has a 4 42 ERA I believe it is let me confirm the number 440 Hi, it's gone from 292 to 440 in two starts because in those two starts Nolan McClain allowed 13 earned runs and three additional unearned runs It's been bad. It's been real bad and It seems like his problem in this particular start was that He didn't have the bite on Many of his pitches the change up sinker and curveball. We're all missing three to four inches of drop and he blamed this on Putting in too much work to fix his previous starts mistakes like he says his legs gave out on him early And this start because he was just trying too hard to fix what we're wrong last time So the pitches weren't dropping like they usually do he also had trouble locating everything but the fastball And this is what happens so like a margin of error exists for every pitcher and we're seeing it really for the first time in his career It come into play for Nolan McClain I think it's just part of the learning process. I think he's going to be fine I think even with these two starts the underlying numbers look pretty strong the ERA estimators and all of that even though the actual ERA is 440 And you shouldn't do anything too nutty. I have moved him down a little in my rankings But I believe he's still a top 15 starting pitcher for me So you know Don't don't do anything crazy. I know it's been a rocky couple outings But I suspect the next one will go much better And even if it doesn't I mean we're still talking about What 109 Point two innings in his career With a 336 ERA Like if that's all Nolan McClain is awesome great. You've got a you've got at least a top 15 starting pitcher on your hands especially with you know close to 11k per 9 and a good whip play I I can't It's been a couple of bad starts and that's frustrating I do not think this is a scenario where Nolan McClain is being Exposed as a fraud or anything like There is a pitcher who now has an ERA over 4 who looked like one of the best pitchers in baseball a couple of starts ago who I do think we are being reminded of some limitations there. And that's Shoday Managa who has given up I think five homers in his last two starts. And it's like, yeah, that'll happen for Shoday Managa. That's just going to be a part of it. And I think you'll have to deal with the occasional blow up start and potentially the ERA being a little inflated. With McLean, this just strikes me as a bad start. Two bad starts, I guess, although even the one before this, if you remember, there were a couple of oner and runs. There was also that James Wood inside the park, grand slam that fine. It's a it's an inside the park on run. I'm fine calling it that it did hit off of the outfielders gloves, I believe. And then bounced away from him. And it would have been a tough catch. I totally get why we called those earned runs. But yeah, it very easily could have been caught. No ball hit and play in the major league level should actually result in the batter completely encircling the bases. It might not be any fielders fault, so they can't attribute an error to it. But something has to go wrong. Some that ball went a direction at Shenne-Gon under under normal circumstances. And so it's tough to blame the pitcher for that. Yes, I agree. Top 15 starting pitcher at the worst. I do like the I was putting in too much work and I just got tired excuse because it's real like job interview. What's your biggest weakness? I don't do art, you know? I mean, it's oh no, I understand it. I think it's a perfectly viable explanation. I just like care too much about my job. Yeah. Yeah. If you have an opportunity to buy low a no-one McLean right now, would you would you use this as an opportunity to do that? Sure. Give it a shot. If someone doesn't view him as a top 15 starting pitcher, I will. I'm going to predict his ERA will not rise above 440 this year. Now we go back at the end of the year. Look at the game log will be like, wow, he's ERA was 440 at the end of May. That's crazy. I think he gives up like three runs and six innings next start. I've made the prediction. It'll go up if that scenario, but I predicting it will not rise above 440. That would be that would get it above 440. That would get it above 440. Again, that is no McLean that we were talking about. I am just going to run through a bunch of things that I thought were newsworthy big from the weekend here. And there is a no-hitter. It combined no-hitter for the Astros up against the Rangers. Tatsuya Imei led that no-hitter with six no-hitting four walks to two strikeouts, six whiffs on 97 pitches. Velocity was down a little bit in this one. I kind of, I wish that the Velocity being down led to him throwing more strikes. And I don't want to take anything away from the Astros. Obviously, it's a huge accomplishment. The first no-hitter since 2024 in baseball. But I don't really think this moves the needle much for me when it comes like adding someone like Tatsuya Imei. Did you notice the connecting thread with Imei's performance and redeemer's performance? The Rangers. Rangers offense is really struggling right now. They're really going through it. And they have no Corey Seager. Yeah. So, I don't know. I would like for Tatsuya Imei to figure it out. I've caught him on a bunch of teams. I had a lot of hope in him, but he's just a two-pitch pitcher right now. And I'm not sure his fastball is very good. So it's a 58% strikes, including in this one. Yeah. You can't do that. It's hard. He has mixed in a sinker occasionally. The splitter and/or changeup are just nowhere to be found right now. I just, I think he's a player to watch, but not a player to add right now. Those guys you had mentioned earlier, as heavy Matthews, Ben Brown and redeemer certainly. I can't remember the other one. I think I'd probably prioritize all of them over Tatsuya Imei. Yep. Agreed with that as well. Next up, we have Garakol who made his return and he looked pretty good against the raise six shout out innings, two hits, three walks, only two strikeouts, only five whiffs on 72 pitches. But obviously he was incredibly efficient here to get through six innings on only 72 pitches. The fastball average 96.2 miles per hour. That was up slightly from the last time we saw him in 2024. He also scrapped his cutter. He used that pitch 16% of the time. Back in 2024, he did not throw it at all in this outing. I will add some color to this and just point out that the raise have the second lowest strikeout rating. It's right hand to pitching so far this season. But yeah, I thought it was good to see Cole back. Velocity was good and he's at the royals this week. So if you held them all year, I'm pretty sure you should have started them against the royals. Yeah. I would agree. And it was a good start. I mean, I especially liked that, you know, the Velocity was where we want to see it. He started mixing in the sinker that he didn't really have before. He also had an over the head delivery that he introduced. So he did some things differently. And I think it was perfectly satisfactory. Return, checked all the boxes he wanted to check. He walked three, struck out two, so I can't sit here and say, yes, he's definitively an ace again. But I do think I would be fine getting him back in my lineup. Obviously, you've already had to make that decision by now. But I think seeing the royals on the schedule, you all probably made the right one. Yeah. I wanted to highlight Lance Brostowski wrote about Garakol's first start. And he noted that his arm slot was down. His arm angle was down, which we see from pitchers coming back from injuries at times. And it did change the shape of Cole's force seemer. It got same amount of induced vertical break as last year, about 17 inches, which is very good. But he also added about two inches of cut on the force seemer. So if those things stick and it stays around 96 miles per hour, that could make it an even more effective fastball than we've seen. And he managed to do that without his breaking balls losing their shape. But the one thing I want to, I haven't seen any talk about it, but his changeup was significantly different. Lost like five inches of drop in this one. I don't know if that was, you know, I think I had a lower spin rate as well. So, you know, I assume there's some kind of different grip going on there. I feel like arm angle might affect you like that, right? Like to drop on the changeup. Yeah, but it went from 1457 RPMs in 2024 to 1925. So that suggests a very different grip at least. It might, you know, might be a kick change situation is what I want. And just like, because I'm sure not everybody listening is familiar with Garic Cole's arsenal or even that many people listening here familiar with Garic Cole's arsenal, but the changeup is not like a major part of it. He threw 4% of the time last year, a little bit more in this first start, but it might become another weapon if it's different. The last item I have here just want to highlight once again, I mean, the national's offense will not stop. They scored 10 more runs on Memorial Day, including six homers in that game. James Wood hit his 14th. CJ Abrams hit his 12th. Least Garcia, three for five with his fourth homer. He's 46% rostered. I think we know the deal. He doesn't play against lefties. He's a platoon bat. He's better in a category's league or a daily lineup type situation. Jacob Young hit his seventh home run. He has seven homers in 53 games a season. He had five career homers in 303 games entering this season. So just thought that was somewhat notable for Jacob Young and then Curtis Mead went two for five with two homers and three RBI has started five of the past six games. And he's actually performing much better against righties than lefties. So perhaps starting to turn into more of an everyday player here for the nationals, they're very deep names. But do you guys have any interest in Jacob Young or Curtis Mead? I kind of like me deeply scenario. And it does seem like he's taking over its third base with Brady House having been sent down. So he was performing on a part time role before them, but now he might be stepping into a full time role. Doesn't hit the ball, especially hard never has. But the Polair rate is up this year and the plate discipline, both the walks and strike outs have improved considerably. That's the biggest improvement. And then you have the Polair rate on top of it so we can actually get to some power. It all seems to be working so far. He's actually underperformed his expected batting average by 20 points. But the expected slug, he's overperformed that, but it's a decent expected slug. It's 73% dial. So there may be a legit player here in Mead. I don't know that 12 teamers need to rush out and pick him up, but I think he's pretty interesting. He did start against a righty for the second time in three games on Monday. So hopefully that is the start of him because that's been the biggest problem is he's just been starting against lefties. He hits second against lefties. So if he's like hitting third or fourth against righties moving forward, then it starts to get pretty interesting because there is some like Michael Bush, Miguel Vargas stuff here where the quality of contact numbers for Curtis Mead haven't been as good. But similarly, the first time he's been in the team, he's been in the team. former prospect pedigree, very, very good minor league production. Maybe he's a little bit of a late bloomer after some false starts like those guys. All right, big thanks to everyone checking in and watching us live. We appreciate you being here. Make sure to hit that like button. Subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. We are a little over two months into the season, but there's still a lot left. And you know, we're going to be here live every Sunday through Thursday evening. We've got videos on demand that come out as well. So make sure you're subscribed to get all of our content. Let's take a break and we'll be back right after this. Welcome back in fantasy baseball today. Let's hit the news and notes. And we have more prospects who were promoted this weekend. The debax called up Tommy Troy in 44 games at AAA. This season was hitting 307 with three homers, six deals and 846 OPS. Doesn't hit the ball all that hard. It's pretty good plate discipline here. He's 9% rostered. Second base eligible on CBS should gain outfield as well. Scott, what are your thoughts here on Tommy Troy? Were you looking to add him anywhere this weekend? Only and and only. Did he start today? Yeah. Okay. So he started to straight into Lordes, Korea, went on the IEL plane left field, even though he was mostly second base last year. He was he's been very productive the last two years, but with the Diamondbacks organization, especially their AA and triple air, both very hit or friendly. So you get fake outs like that. Even coming off the big season, he did. I know there weren't a lot of prospect evaluators willing to give Tommy Troy much credit because those exes of velocities are pretty bad. So I was only looking at him in deeper leagues more like in a lonely. But sometimes you get the double fake out where you think this guy's not going to work in the majors because it was clearly environment aided in the minors and he does manage to. I know Tim Tawa had his moments. But yeah, I'm Luke Wormon. Tommy Troy, I'd say the Cubs promoted a pair of prospects, Alfielder Kevin Alcantara and Infielder, Pedro Ramirez Alcantara is 23 years old. We've heard his name for a while now. He's a big tall slugger with 15 home runs a season in the minors. Also lots of strikeouts a 33% K rate at AAA Ramirez. A much more well-rounded player so far. This season in the minors hit 312 with nine homers, 19 steals. Good play discipline hits them all decently hard. I'm intrigued, but Chris, I just don't see how they're going to play enough. Do you have any interest here in Kevin Alcantara or Pedro Ramirez? I look forward to adding both of these guys around July 31st, I think. There's just nowhere for either of them to play. Barring an injury, right? Because Ramirez has played, I think, basically only second and third base in the minors, at least this season. And Alcantara, they're stocked all over the Alfield. So I mean, pregnant and horner are both locked up long-term. Locked up for the next five and six years, respectively, something like that. There's just, I think Ramirez is definitely getting traded at some point and Alcantara seems really likely. I will note, nine homeruns is already a career hot. Oh, he's been Pedro Ramirez again, because I don't think his name has been, is well known to people who don't follow the prospect seen very closely, because he's been one of the biggest breakout prospects this year. That power has been a new development, base dealer, and you look at the underlying stats and they're all as, they back up everything he's doing. I mean, this guy looks like a legit five category player, only five foot nine. So you get some like Jose Ramirez vibes there with the second and third base, short guy with power and speed. Probably not going to be Jose Ramirez, obviously, that's a Hall of Fame caliber player. But I think Pedro Ramirez is a legit prospect if he's available in your dynasty league. And hopefully the audition goes well enough that he's able to get traded, because yeah, I don't see how it works out for him with the Cubs given who they already have in those spots. The Metz recalled Jonah Tongue, a name that we have had interest in in the past. He was struggling mightily in the minors of season, but he did pitch well as a bulk reliever on Friday. He threw three no hit innings with two strikeouts to one walk. He will pitch again Wednesday this week to have instead of it as a starter or a bulk reliever again, 31% roster. Scott, do you have any interest in Jonah Tongue? We talked about this on Thursday, not thinking he would get called up and then he got called up. I don't think my interest level has changed. Let me see. I did have one observation. I remember writing down six more inches on the breaking ball. Because that was a thing that stood out to me. He was getting a lot more sweep on. He didn't throw the breaking ball that much because he threw his fastball on change up a combined 86% of the time. So I know part of it was just he was throwing his fastball more than he was in the minors where it seemed like. I wonder how much his minor league struggles were him trying to expand as arsenal. I think we saw that with Debbie Matthews and why he's been so much better since getting called up. He's kind of reverted to what already worked. Maybe that could happen for Tongue too. If the breaking ball thing develops into something sure, there could be another weapon there also. I think there's a lot to prove here with Tongue because he was horrible when he got called up last year and he's been horrible at Triple A. I'm not saying he can't turn into something good, but I think it needs to happen before I'm really willing to invest in a roster capital in him. He did lower his arm slot by 12 degrees. I think that's just a sign if nothing else that he's been tinkering a lot at Triple A. Yeah. Probably gives us an explanation for why he's struggled. That just doesn't mean he's not going to struggle when he gets more of an opportunity to start. It's just, I remain intrigued, but not, you know, not sold. We did have two other very deep league prospects here. The Cardinals promoted Brian Torres. He's an older prospect, 28 years old. He was hitting the crap out of the ball in the minors. He hit 336 only two homers, but 10 steals and a 931 OPS. He homered in his debut on Saturday. The Rockies were called Sterling Thompson with Mickey Moniak going on the aisle with an ankle injury. This season in the minors hit 341 four homers, eight steals, more walks than strikeouts. He started each game this weekend. Both names are under 5% roster. It's probably just an NL only situation, but Christie have any thoughts here on Brian Torres of the Cardinals or Sterling Thompson of the Rockies. I think just names to watch. Productive players at the minor league level, but not sure. So where is it going to play all that regularly? I know Nathan Church went on the aisle for them. Yeah, Nathan Church won the aisle and Victor Scott has just been disasterously bad. So it's possible. I know that the other outfield prospect that is more interesting for the Cardinals. Buyers, Josh Buyers, who's been pretty bad actually. Triple A. I know there's been a lot of excitement about him, but yeah, I think these are both just names to watch. You know, maybe Sterling Thompson, just because the Rockies play at Cores Field and he's put up big numbers, we've seen that work out for you know, TJ Rumpfeld, I think particularly although obviously Mickey Modi has been great for the last year or so. And Jake McCarthy's actually having a decent season and starting to play a lot more lately. So, you know, I think Sterling Thompson, especially, is named a watch, but there's not much in the track record or pedigree to suggest that he's going to be a standout. Other news items from the weekend Dylan Seas was placed in the aisle with a mild left hamstring strain. He left his start early on Sunday. They sound pretty optimistic. It could just be a minimum stay there for Seas. Francisco Lendor has started a running progression. The first good news that we've received about his left calf train, Vlad Jr. left early Sunday after getting hit by a pitch on his right elbow. X-rays came back negative for a fracture. Crosche will throw a live BP on Tuesday, slowly working his way back from that shoulder injury. Hunter Brown struck out five over two schoolless innings at AA on Sunday. He's eyeing a return in mid-June. Speaking of the a**, Josh Hader is in line to return the first week of June. So hopefully next week. Cole Reagan's will be shut down for two to three days after not bouncing back well from Saturday's rehab start. Edwin Diaz is expected to throw a starting throwing program on Tuesday or Wednesday. He's working his way back from surgery to remove loose bodies from his right elbow back in April. Tyler Glass now played catch on Monday. He's on the aisle with a back injury. It's taken a little longer than expected. He did have a flare up with that injury recently. It turns out Roman Anthony has a sprain in the ligament on the base of his ring finger. It was reported as a wrist issue. It might have been both, but now he's dealing with this finger issue. Logan Webb could return this weekend against the Rockies. Corey Seeger, who's on the aisle with a back injury, is slated to be, isn't slated to be re-evaluated for another week. Wyatt Lainford was cleared to begin a throwing and hitting progression on Friday. A. O'Henry O'Swaras was activated from the aisle on Friday. He missed just about a month with that oblique strain. Trevor's story underwent surgery to repair a sports hernia. He will miss six to 10 weeks. Jared Jones will throw a bullpen Tuesday before the pirates determine whether he will return during the upcoming week. Do you guys consider Jared Jones a must-roster? player right now the way he's looked in the minors. Yeah, pretty close. I'm trying to think if the choice came down to him or been brown or read that nurse, what would I do there? I think I would opt for the healthy two over him, but I mean, Jared Jones probably has the most upside of the three. We still don't know exactly what his role is going to be. I mean, we hope that it's a starter and, you know, Bob a Chandler has mostly pitch poorly, although he showed some signs of life this weekend and carbon magenta, why would they keep magenta skin? He's been okay. Yeah. I mean, we got he has relief experience. We think Jared Jones is fine. We think Jared Jones is more interesting, obviously, but like, I don't know how they feel. Maybe they really like magenta skin. They're not dumb. My thought would just be the thing that's tough about the situation is, you know, say what you want about this, but the pirates are certainly trying to make the playoffs. I think at this point, they probably have, I guess, decent odds to make the playoffs. Yeah, they're right at 50% in fan graphs playoff odds. Actually, 49.3 just ahead of the cups, which is surprising. And Jared Jones didn't pitch last season. So they're, like, even with him only having thrown 18 and 2/3 innings by the end of May, they're going to have to find ways to limit him anyway. So it's like, well, he hasn't really been fully stretched out at Triple A. I think you got to 75 pitches with his most reason one. It wouldn't be the craziest thing in the world to say, yeah, we'll put him in the bullpen, but I don't think up all over again. What it's time to move him into it. Well, yeah, my thought would be you just kind of use him as an elite bullpen arm. And if he becomes the best closer in the bullpen, then you've got a good closer finally, which has been a real issue for them. But I don't think that's what they're likely to do. I think it's just a possibility and it wouldn't be unthinkable. I just, I don't think it's ideal either. Shane Bieber started his rehab assignment at the Florida Complex League on Monday. He threw two scoreless innings, three hits and three strikeouts. Logan Henderson might not start Wednesday due to back tightness. He did pitch well on Friday against the Dodgers, five shutout innings with seven strikeouts. He continues to pitch well when healthy. This one was annoying. Luis Castillo got to start Monday and it was Bryce Miller who was used as the bulk reliever. Luis Castillo through four shutout innings with six strikeouts. Bryce Miller, five innings, two runs, four strikeouts. And he picked up the win. If you were watching that game, Luis Castillo was in the dugout. He was seething after they took him out. He was not happy about that at all. On the other hand, if you have Miller, thanks for the win. You know, like if they're going to give Castillo for innings and then put Bryce Miller in, I'll take that every time because that's going to give Bryce Miller a pretty good chance of getting a win. It just kind of limits his upside because we can't get inequality starts. We can't get big innings, but I guess they're just going to continue doing this until you know, someone gets hurt or well, place himself out of a roll. What was the previous? So the previous time Bryce Miller started in Luis Castillo came at the full puns. So I and Miller went with Miller went four and two thirds, five and two. So he almost, you know, he almost gave you six. So I don't know that we're going to go in with a great expectation of how it's how much he's going to get to pitch in any outing, whether he's the starter or not. I will tell you, even learning over the weekend that Bryce Miller was going to be following Luis Castillo Monday, post the other way around, I kept him as the top sleeper pitcher for the week because I figured, well, it's still going to be two at worst, two bulk relief appearances, which is going to give you at least one starts worth of innings. He's already gotten a win out of it. So it seems like it was the right call. But yeah, if the next time it's just three, four innings for Miller and then we're looking at a one outing week coming up, then obviously it'll be hard to recommend using it. This last news item is for deeper dynasty leagues, but the race place Johnny DeLuca on the aisle, they called up Victor Mesa, Jr. I feel like between him and is it his brother? It's like Victor Victor Mesa, the other Mesa prospect. Yes, it is Victor Mesa, Jr. and his brother Victor Mesa, Victor Victor Mesa and their father Victor Mesa. I feel like I've, we've heard about these guys for like a decade now. It's crazy. But Victor Mesa, Jr. is 24 years old. He was hitting the ball very hard at AAA, 329 batting average two homers, one steel, 93.2 average, tech to velocity, just a very, very deep dynasty name there that I'll throw out. And others who went on the aisle this weekend, Edward Cabrero with a blister on his right middle finger, Jung Huli with a mid back strain, Mickey Moniac with right ankle tendonitis, Nathan Church with a left shoulder strain and matcha with mid back tightness. Wavre wire pitchers from the weekend, Stephen colected through a four hit shut out for the Royals. That was up against the Mariners. He only had two strikeouts. He does not get a lot of those at all, but he does throw strikes. He gets a good amount of ground balls, feels very just streamery, like using them in the right matchups type, 33% rostered. The good news is that he's at the Rangers this week. So if you picked him up and wanted to use him there, I think that makes a ton of sense. Yeah. It's a fine streamer. I think it could backfire because I don't think Stephen colects very good. He's kind of Andre Palante, like I think. And so good ground ball pitcher, probably a high floor and any given star. But you know, he's not he's not going to he's not going to give you this kind of volume very often, if ever again. Three names out there in shallow leagues between 65 and 75% rostered on CBS. Ben Brown turned in his first quality start of the season. He was at the pirates six innings of one run ball with seven strikeouts, 16 whiffs on 83 pitches, 11 of those on the curveball. And he has made four starts so far and has a 189 ERA, a 0.95 whip, 23 strikeouts over 19 innings. He's looked really good. And he's a spark. So honestly, head to point leaks for sure. But I really think any format, the way he's pitching right now, the other two names Noah Cameron bounce back against the Mariners six shutout innings with a season high H. Strikeouts. He gets the Yankees this week and then foster Griffin bounce back at the braves six shutout innings with six strikeouts. He gets the pod raise this week. Chris, I think Ben Brown clearly ahead of these other two names, but do you actually have any interest in Noah Cameron or foster Griffin? Uh, okay. Noah Cameron versus the Yankees this week. No. And foster Griffin versus the pod raise this week. I guess I think that's okay. But I don't, I don't think either of these guys is much more than a streamer. And so it comes down to how good is the next matchup. I do not think you have to hold on to Noah Cameron for a matchup against the Yankees unless there's like a really good two start week after that coming up that I'm not aware of. But as a general rule, my, my view of Noah Cameron and foster Griffin is they aren't neither of them is a long term option at all. I do want to stress. I know we brought him up a couple times already. This podcast Ben Brown is looking more and more exciting as a fantasy asset because early on, I wasn't sure, even though the strikeout numbers were decent, it's like, it's not a lot of miss bats there. Well, it's up to a 12% swing. Strike rate to go along with a 53% ground ball rate, which is very high. And that is a combination you don't often get extreme ground ball skills with above average bat missing skills. All the ERA estimators have below three. And he's now stretched out as a full fledged starter. Six innings in this time out. And it was, it was a five last time or a little above five. Exactly five. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I mean, Ben Brown, I think the breakout might be happening here. There's still his pitches are still somewhat limited, right? What do you get up? Yeah, he's, he seemed to lean even more into just the two the curve. Oh, no, I mean, the pitch counts. He got up to 83 in this one. So he's, okay, 82, he's three over 80 and back to backstarts. Yeah. Yeah. He needs to get higher than that, but it's a question of if he had been at 83 pitches through five, would they have let him go to the sixth if they would, then I think you can be pretty optimistic about it. But yeah, I agree. I think he's, he's looked good enough that he at least deserves to be roster in all formats, just, just in case this is real, even if I have some, you know, relatively mild skepticism still. I do have four deeper names here. Kai Wei Tang of the Astros over his last two starts. 11 shutout innings 13 strikeouts to seven walks. He's only 16% rostered. Andre Palante, his last five starts. He has a 334 ERA 111 whip. The control has been much better for him. He gets the cubs this week. Anthony K has been pitching well in May so far. Five starts 198 ERA 113 whip. 24 strikeouts to nine walks over 24 to third. He is a spark gets the Tigers this week. And Zach Latel over his last three outing 17 innings three runs 13 strikeouts to four walks. V. deeper names here. Do you guys see anything that stands out with these four Kiway Tang, Andre Palante, Anthony Kay and Zach Latel? I would say I don't trust any of them further than I can throw them. I understand you may be in a situation where you have to rely on one of them because pitch against finite and then deep enough league. You got to plug somebody in. Tang is probably the one we're least familiar with and he has had two really impressive starts back to back. And the ERA estimators are okay. They're like mid threes. I don't see a lot to get excited about there in terms of contact quality or badness saying or the I think it puts a decent amount of balls in the air. So it's not like he's a big round ball guy. I don't see a lot to build off of. And these two starts to think Kiway Tang is going to become a real asset in fantasy. But I guess he belongs in the same category as these others. Anthony Kay is the one I most skeptical of because even after this start, solid star got the ERA below four. Fit X, Fit X, the IRA, I think even Sierra, they're all over five still, which tells you what everything looks like apart from the ERA. It's bad for Anthony Kay. So I think that would blow up in your face. I mentioned Palante has pretty high floor because of the ground ball rate. And let tell, I mean, he was, he was pretty solid last year. It's been a whip standout. And after a miserable start, he's gotten back on track in May. Part of it coincides with him following openers as he did this time. Still managed to go seven. And he's following an opener. I still think it's really dangerous because, you know, gone back on track in May. Well, that's with 5K per nine. So like, is he giving you anything in a start where things go south? No. He's just destroying your ERA and whip without giving you any strikeouts. And so I don't think the upside is worth the downside. But again, if you have to plug in somebody, he might not hurt you. He might not hurt your whip in the long run. All right. Let's take our final break. When we return, I have some waiver wire hitters. Who's hot and who's not? I've got the worryometer and much more. We'll do that right after this. Let's take a look at some waiver wire hitters from the long weekend. We've talked a lot about Ryan Walsh, but he had three straight multi hit games entry Monday. And then of course went over five with two strike outs. But he's 69% roster. He could be out there in some shallower formats. Christy, you could sit or Ryan Walsh mid a must roster in three outfielder leagues. He's he's looked pretty good so far. I lean. Yes. It's really hard because I'm not do not take that as me saying. Ryan Walsh mid is a top 36 outfielder for fantasy or anything all of a sudden. But some people use outfielders and their utility spot and some might be multi eligible. So yeah, I could see it. I don't even think he's a top 50 outfielder necessarily, but it wouldn't take much to get him there. And if you wanted to argue he's already there because he's got the prospect pedigree and he's hitting well and stealing a bunch of bases right now. I'm okay with that. I think that's reasonable. So I, yeah, I think he's pretty close to most roster. Dylan Cruz is making some stuff happen early on here. He hit a home run on Saturday. He had a steal on Friday. He was crushing the minor leagues, which we spoke about last week. He's 45% rostered. I think very clearly behind the other young outfielders we've talked about recently, Walsh mid, the Metz guys, Benj and Ewing. But then I think he's, you know, one of the more interesting ones after that group. Scott and all of my Roto 5 outfielder leagues, I was looking to re add Dylan Cruz this weekend. How about you? Well I have him as my 60th outfielder. So even if it's a 12 team 5 outfielder league that puts him right in the startable range there, which doesn't mean like it's, like that's not a high degree of confidence. I don't know how you could have confidence in Dylan Cruz at this point, but you're taking a shot on upside with him showing some signs of maybe living up to it again, very early signs. And, and, and we'll see if he actually does. It's about all I got. All right. Next up we have Jake Berger. He's heating up. Everybody loves a nice hot burger except, I guess in South Carolina on a Saturday afternoon for whatever reason. I was a fine. It was, it was fine. It was, you know, it's kind of kind of reminded me of like a burger. It wasn't anything. Yeah, it wasn't great. It was fine. Yeah. He's coming around. He has four home runs in his past 11 games. And we know he's someone that can be pretty streaky. He's 51% rostered. I don't know that it needs to be much higher than that. But Chris, I think in leagues with a corner infield spot, if burger was dropped earlier and you need power, I think it makes sense to read Adam. Cause again, he goes on these runs where he just hits a bunch of homers. Yeah. And the way I would say it is, when Jake Berger is homering once every four games, he's a pretty useful fantasy option. And when he's homering once every six games, he's basically worthless. That is how narrow the margin for error is for Jake Berger. And if you look at it over the course of a season, that's basically a 35 home or season versus like a 22 home or season. And it's like if he can do 35 homeers, even for a stretch and he's used, if he's not doing that, he really doesn't bring anything to the table. So I think he's a fine, as far as it goes, a hot hand play. I just don't think it's much more than a hot hand play for Jake Berger. I mean, in a road, O league, you, you can mess yourself up playing the high hand too much. Sure. And I, I, and 12 team wrote a league Memorial Mag, you know, I've been starting by a steroids at utility. He's not even playing that regularly at this point. So I've, I picked up burger. I plugged them in. I planned to keep them there. Cause. Can't do any better right now. Unfortunately. All right. Who's hot and who's not hitter edition and some hot bats right now? Christian Walker continued his bounce back season three for three with a double dog on Saturday. He hit another home run each of Sunday and Monday, his four homeers in his past three games. He's up to 15 home runs on the season 40 RBI 8.79 OPS. The Schrik Out rate is down. Scott, are you buying? Well, Christian Walker is selling so far this season. I mean, for the most part, I've struggled with where to slot him at first base. It's such a stacked position. And well, it, it stacked. And then there are those players. You don't want to give up on like Vinnie Pasquantino and Tyler Soderstrom and Michael Bush, who started to come around recently. The other's not so much. And I mean, clearly Walker's been better than them, them to this point. And if last year hadn't happened, it would be easier to say, yeah, definitely put him ahead because that's about where we were valuing him in, in 2023 and 2024. So, uh, yeah, I, I think you could probably trust him as your first basement at this point and just chalk up last year as an operation. The easier one to say that for us, the next one you're about to mention, Katal Marte, who is underlying data has always looked phenomenal. And obviously he has the track record and you just knew this kind of stretch was going to come eventually. He is on an absolute heater. It could tell Marte three for four with a Homer on Saturday, three for four with three runs and three RBI on Sunday. Then went four for five with three RBI on Monday. Over his last nine games, he's sitting five, 68 with three homers, 13 runs, 15 RBI. And all of a sudden, the numbers, he's all back up to a two 75 batting average, seven 97 OPS. This is a good reminder of just how quickly it can turn around for hitters that we know are really, really talented. Uh, Rafael Devers has looked much better in May. He hit a grand slam on Sunday. And now in the month, he's hitting three Oh two with five homers, 16 RBI, a nine, 44 OPS. The last name on this list is Michael Bush, who, uh, Homer dawns Sunday and Monday. We spoke about him last week's Scott. I mean, the underlying stuff in May, I think the Scott he doesn't know is that he had the second highest X, well, among all qualified hitters so far in May. And now he's starting to make good on that hitting 286 with four homers, 19 RBI and a nine 98 OPS in the month. Chris could tell Marte, Rafael Devers and Michael Bush, are you, are they back? Are you feeling good about those three? I mean, Marte was never worried at all. Um, Devers just because he's old and, or sorry, older. I know he's not as old as Catal Marte, but he feels older, I guess spirit. Um, just because he's older because he's had the San Francisco move because his skillsets seemed to be in more rapid decline than Marte. I guess it's the better way to put it. I can't say I had zero concern, but I wasn't ever especially concerned. I don't think he ever moved out of the top 10 at first base for me. Um, Bush, I will say I was starting to get a little concerned, but this is a good reminder that all these stats we have, whatever versions of them you want to use, these skills based indicators, how hard they're hitting the ball, how much contact they're making, even stuff like bat speed. That stuff fluctuates as well. Michael Bush had like some horrifyingly scary bat speed data in the month of April. He's never had, uh, particularly high bat speed numbers, but he was down like two, three miles per hour from his already pretty slow bat speed from last season. I think in April, he was like in the third percentile when I looked it up. And he's up to the eighth percentile now. And he's his average swing speed is still a mile per hour below where it was last year. But he's closed that gap already. And it's just a reminder that while these stats are supposed to get us closer to a player's true talent level and weed out the noise of, you know, was the weather helping him or, you know, whatever we want to talk about, talent level fluctuates as well. And you can't just look at where a guy is in April and say, well, that's what he will be forever. These things do fluctuate. So that's why you want to react and note and notice when a player is going through something like that. You don't necessarily need to change your entire perspective of them based on one month. That's true whether we're talking about OPS or batting average or stolen bases, but it's also true for these underlying numbers. It's less true. You know, there is more to them in small sample sizes, but they're not everything. Hitters who are not so hot, Luke Keishel has set out four of the last nine games for the twins. He's actually hit better in May from a batting average perspective, but there's just no power there. He has one home run on the season 10 steals of 623 OPS. The roster rate is 85%. Scott, should that number be so high here for Luke Keishel? I dropped them in two leagues this weekend. They're both head to head points leagues. So obviously you don't need a middle in-fielder. You know, it goes deep into that position as you wouldn't run a league and I wouldn't dare drop Keishel in a red o'leag because you need to fill that middle and feel spot. But it really feels like what's that? At least you're getting steals. Yeah, and at least you're getting steals, but that's all you're getting. And I don't have a ton of hope that that's going to change because I mean, even coming into this year, it was like, okay, well, he hit for power in the miners, Keishel. But the exit velocities are pretty horrible and the pull air rate as a rookie. It was great in the miners, but as a rookie, it was horrible too. So how's he ever going to develop power? And then, you know, I think you guys Chris especially raised the point. Well, you know, it's likely to get better in year two and I started to kind of buy into that thinking. And yeah, obviously he was rookie last year, but instead it's all gotten worse. It's all gotten worse. It's like a pretty big mess for me. And then he's not even hitting for respectable batting average. So yeah, I think he could afford to be rostered in less than 85% of leagues. He wasn't, he didn't have much of a track record coming in and his production is completely bottomed out. So if you have an interesting alternative, if it's second base, I actually replaced him with El tomorrow Vargas and both of those leagues who has gotten a little cold tier in May. So maybe I'll end up regretting that, but I was getting nothing from Keeshal and it was time to, time to try to get something. Yeah, I've had a few people ask me if they can drop Keeshal for a Bazonah. I, yeah, I think we're there. Oh, yeah. That one's easy. If I had Bazonah as an option, I would have done that. Steven Kwan is a name that we have not talked about, but man, it has been rough. He is hitting 204 with one home run the season, two steals a 585 OPS. He was dropped down to seventh in the Guardians lineup. The plate discipline is still great. He has more walks in strikeouts this season, but for someone who's never hit the ball hard, his average exit velocity is down almost five miles per hour. His hard hit rate is way down. Chris Steven Kwan is 81% rostered. Should that be the case? I'm inclined to say that this is just a cold stretch for him. When, when we're talking about a guy who's getting a little older, he's only 28, but not everybody ages the same. So I like to look at some of the other physical indicators beyond just how hard they're hitting the ball or how hard they're swinging. Obviously, in Kwan's case, he's not hitting the ball hard at all. His average exit velocity low from where it's been, which has never been good. His backstab. Doesn't matter if that speed down, but again, it's 0.7 miles per hour. That doesn't necessarily suggest that he's completely collapsed physically. Sprint speed down a little bit, but again, not so much that it's obvious that this guy's hit a wall. Zalfield defense still looks pretty good. Arm strength still all the all of the other physical indicators that we have still seem okay to the point where I don't think this is indicative of a total collapse in physical ability for Stephen Kwan. So I'm guessing he's just off in some way like his swing length is a lot longer. So there could just be something mechanically wrong that he has to fix. I say that all just to say in my five Alphidro leagues, I would prefer to hold on to Kwan and still have faith that the longer track record is going to work out. What's always tough about Kwan is he's a better point to the player than a roto player. And he's a better five Alphidro league player than a three Alphidro league player. So it's really hard to strike that balance, but I would tend to think I'm not giving up on Stephen Kwan yet. And Kazuma Okamoto has really slowed down over his last 17 games. He's hitting 150 with zero homers, a 36% strike out rate. And overall the batting average is down to 215, 697 OPS, 93% roster. Scott, are you holding on to Kazuma Okamoto? Yeah, I haven't given much thought to dropping him. I suppose there is a possibility you might be able to find something decent on a waiver wire in a shallower points league or had to head league without the corner and field spot. I actually did drop him earlier this year in the podcast league and then regret it. It would like to get it back. I have Kevin McGonigal at third base, so it's probably going to be fine. But I did not like having to drop Okamoto at that point. And I wouldn't like to at this point either. But particularly since the strike out rate has run so high for him, I think it's at least theoretically possible you could upgrade in a points league. The third base position is not the deepest though. Let's fire up the warriometer for I have a couple starting pitchers here. We already spoke about Noah McLean. He was on this list. Showed to Imanaga. He has gotten crushed two starts in a row. He allowed seven runs over six innings, three homers allowed. Still had 16 whiffs on 94 pitches. But over his last two starts, his ear A has jumped from two 32 to 404. 15 earned runs and five homers allowed over 10 in the third innings. Chris, you mentioned the name earlier. Showed to Imanaga. Where is he on the warriometer once 10? I tell about the calibration, baby. If you were expecting showed Imanaga to be a two ERA player moving forward, your warriometer should be at like a 12 because he's not going to be that. If you were expecting him to be a must start pitcher, I still expect him to be that. I just think it might be with a little more inflated of an ERA than you might like as the weather heats up and the ball start traveling further. I would take the under on a 404 ERA, but I certainly wouldn't take the under by a full run. Maybe a half a run and he's more like a 353 60 ERA guy. But with what should always be an elite whip, even after these past two starts where it's gone up a bunch, it's still 1.07. You're still going to get good strikeout rates from him. I think he's very good. It's just a question of whether you thought he was going to be a top 20 starting pitcher. I didn't really. I think he's a lot better than last year, especially after that hamstring injury. And the fact that his velocity has been up this year. And he still managed a 373 ERA last year. So was it really that? I thought it was above four. I mean, all the estimators are about 373, but 373 was the actual ERA. Why did everybody treat him like he was, I guess he was really bad down the stretch, including the Cubs themselves kind of. Yeah, I, I, I'm going to make a blue. Why not? This is the high point for Emonog as the ERA this year. Just like 440 is from McLean. I'm going to say 404 is for Emonog. I say it with less confidence, but I'm going to say let's talk about Robbie Ray who has really fallen apart lately. He got destroyed by the white socks for innings for runs. I guess not destroyed, but man, seven walks over four innings. My gosh. Last three starts for him. It's an 1108 ERA, a 238 whip. I hope you did not use him this week. He's in Coresfield and just obviously the way he's pitching Scott. Where is Robbie Ray on the worryometer right now? Pretty high. I moved him down my rankings quite a bit. He's not even giving you a strike out for innings. So what's the upside? I will put him at like an eight. I don't disagree. All right, Farron. If you guys spoke about McLean, if you had to put a number on it on the worryometer, where would McLean be right now? One. I'll say. three. Wow. That shouldn't be really worried, but you went in with the one. So it sounds worried relatively speaking. Let's transition over to the drop-o meter. I've got Tanner Bide who got crushed by the nationals here on Monday. Three innings seven runs allowed. Five homers allowed. He had been pitching better as of late. Well, getting good results. You know, we still would like to see more strikeouts, but for 57 ERA one thirty two whip. He gets the red socks later this week. I understand why people, you know, had him as a two star pitcher this week. 87% rostered. Where is Tanner Bibi on the drop-o meter? I would say like a six. I'm just not sure. I'm not sure what it is. Tanner Bibi does anymore. Like what would you say Tanner Bibi excels at now? Because it's been since 2024 that he's had an above average strike out right. His walk rate is up now this season, so he doesn't have good control either. He's limiting damage on contact overall. But I mean, if you're a seven K per nine guy, I don't know how much I care about that. He just he seems like a like a streaming type, like a boring streamer. I don't know. Yeah. I think I would pretty easily drop him for debtmers or Ben Brown. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Let me see. Did I make that change of my rankings because I want to say I agree with that. And I did not make I need to move Bibi down behind those guys because I agree with that. All right. Next name here is Noah Shoelts who got hit hard at the Giants four innings six hits six runs at one walk to one strike out had just one swinging strike on 70 pitches. Over his last four starts a nine eighty 70 year A one seventy three whip down to 57% roster. Where is Noah Shoelts on the drop-o-meter? No, unlike a nine. Hey, so is that what you said, Ducrous? Yeah. I still think he's talented. I still think he could be good in the future. But he just has not shown any ability to miss bats yet at the major league level. Well, he does not generate chase. He doesn't really miss bats in the strike zone. And he walks a bunch of guys. And yeah, like he and and I think that the walks are related to the lack of chase, right? His chase rate is 23%. For a guy with the kind of stuff that he has, he should be generating a lot more swings where the batter doesn't know where the ball is. And he's not there yet. No, I think he can, but I think he clearly needs some time in the oven still for the pervary. Jor maybe signs of life from these four pitchers. Bubba Chandler looked better at the blue J's five innings three runs. Only one of those earned 11 strikeouts 22 whiffs on 99 pitches. He is down to 72% rostered. Yuri Perez looked better against the Mets six and a third one run. Five strikeouts to zero walks through 70% of his pitches for strikes. That is a big key there for Yuri Perez. McKenzie Gore bouts back after leaving his last start with injury. He was at the angels. Six innings one hit one run seven strikeouts 17 whiffs on 99 pitches. And Nick Ladolo. He finally had a good start. This one against the Mets six innings of one run ball. Seven strikeouts to zero walks. He had 15 whiffs on 98 pitches. Chris four names here. Ladolo McKenzie Gore, Yuri Perez and Bubba Chandler. Did you gain confidence in any of these four? Was there enough this weekend from from these four pitchers? You know what? I'm going to say something that's going to make me sound stupid, but what I want wouldn't be the first time. Oh, Bubba Chandler should be 100% roster. I don't care. I don't care how bad he's been. I just I don't like if we're going to say read that much should be rostered everywhere, Bubba Chandler should be rostered everywhere. I just that is the kind of upside you're looking for on the waiver wire. And yes, Bubba Chandler's been a disaster this season. You have a bench. Okay. Some of you playing 10 team points leagues where with daily lineup changes and you can't afford the stash players that you can't use on your bench. Okay, fine. Bubba Chandler should be 94% roster then like whatever the number is where you are stashing guys on your bench for upside and not necessarily for using right now. Bubba Chandler should be rostered to every single one of those leagues because the upside is so obvious. Now maybe your specific team does not have room for Bubba Chandler in it. Okay, that's fine. You do not have to add Bubba Chandler. Somebody in your league has no a camera on their bench. I would rather have Bubba Chandler than know a camera. Like right? Like no, I think no camera is actually ranked 66% rostered. There's a foster griffin is more widely rostered than Bubba Chandler. I know foster griffin has been more usable this season. I would much rather have Bubba Chandler than foster griffin on my roster. Maybe it doesn't work. Maybe he's terrible all year. He certainly has been so far. But I just the stuff is so obviously there for Bubba Chandler that I'm going to bet on him figuring that out, especially when we have seen him do that at the major major league level before. I mean, Frank Rae's the possibility maybe Bubba Chandler getting sent to the miners. Sure. Possibly. Hopefully this star prevents that at least for now. But as especially as a way to get Jared Jones in the rotation is they could send Chandler to the miners to work on the control issues. And so obviously if that happened, it would be harder to justify rostering him though we do roster minor league players sometimes. But yeah, after this start, I mean as impressive as it was, still struggled to throw strikes, but not as much and you saw all the missed bats. I can't say it's different from debtmers. And I, you know, I still have Chandler ranked ahead of Dunnburg. So I can't really disagree with what you're saying, even though I hadn't really quite thought about it in those terms. If you have to choose between debtmers or Chandler, I think it would be reasonable to choose debtmersh just because he's looked better this season. But again, well, not that much. Well, it's like four year a versus four 80. But yeah. But the point is still, someone in every league should have a place for a picture with Bubba Chandler's obvious talent. I wanted to comment on Yuri Perez here. Because the Marlins did an interesting thing with him that I haven't really heard of a team doing before and it seemed to pay off. So obviously he was having trouble throwing strikes. He threw 70% of his pitches for strikes in this one as opposed to 63% normally. Walk nobody had a great start. They said in the days leading up to the start, rather than having him throw a conventional bullpen session with a catcher, they set up targets for him to hit. Which seems like to to elementary of a solution to work. Like you would think that would have the opposite of fact. Because you're not supposed to be aiming as a picture, right? And that's basically what they had him doing. But it seemed to work. And we'll see if it becomes a permanent fix for him. But obviously a Yuri Perez who throws strikes I think is a very good picture. And at least for this start he threw strikes. We did have a few pictures tools this weekend. Gavin Williams up against Chris the first Sanchez on Friday. Williams eight shutout innings with 11 strikeouts to zero walks through 71% of his pitches for strikes on the other side Sanchez eight shutout innings with six strikeouts 22 whiffs on 96 pitches. He's down to a 162 ERA and a 115 whip. He has just been bananas good. Christie have any thoughts here on Christopher Sanchez or Gavin Williams. Kind of thinking of Dr. Strange Love or how I start learn to stop worrying and love the bomb. I think is the subtitle of that movie. That's sort of where I'm getting at with Gavin Williams where I have all my concerns about the the just start to start in consistency and the concerns about the control. And the fact that he's given up a lot of hard contact right now. And then I just I look at it on it's like am I to a certain extent missing the force for the trees by trying to do the like, oh he was bad this start but he was good this darn. And it's like well, yeah overall it's a 325 ERA and a 334 whip and okay the XERA is a lot worse but that's also based on a two month sample where he's giving up more hard contact but that hasn't really been an issue for his career. He seemingly fixed the biggest issue that he has this season which is the walk rate. He has been I think a top 25 to 30 starting pitcher for me for a while. He's 26 right now. I don't know how much higher I want to move him right like I've got Logan Webb ahead of him and Kevin Gosman and Framberfaldas and Cobrattish and that all seems like varying flavors of the same kind of treat I guess. And so if you want to take Gavin Gosman or Gavin Williams ahead of those guys and say he should be 19th instead ahead of Freddie Peralta and Cobrattish I think that's fine. But I think he's in that range, certainly. Yeah, like borderline. that's how he's pitched so far this season again. That's Gavin Williams could be frustrating start to start, but he's just someone you leave in your lineup. Because then if you try to play the matchups, you might miss out on a start like this. So don't even mess around with that. Oh, yeah, you just, if you have him, you just start him. One of the gaps, absolutely one of those guys. And then the other pictures do we had on Sunday, Drew Rasmussen up against Ryan Weathers. They both threw seven shutout innings each year. Rasmussen, his first time going seven since May 11th of 2023. He has gone six plus innings and five of 10 starts. So just not being as limited as previous years. And Ryan Weathers on the other side, the velocity was down a touch. It was pretty nasty weather in New York on Sunday. But overall he's I'd say so. It was not great because he because he's Ryan Weathers pitched well. Yes, yes, yes, it was good Weathers in bad weather. It's got any thoughts here on Rasmussen or Ryan Weathers. I don't think I have many beyond what you've already given. I've moved Rasmussen up to 37th since he does seem to be getting the length you want from a starting pitcher now. The race seem to have upgraded their policy with him. Yeah, that's about that's about it. They're both good. All right, let's get it to some other leftovers from the weekend. He is the Miz and he is awesome because I'm the Miz and I'm awesome. Seven innings of one run ball 12 strikeouts 19 whiffs on 96 pitches. He averaged 101.1 miles per hour on his fastball. And that pitch had 16 of the 19 whips in this start. I don't know what else we could say. He has made five starts in May where he has given up one run over 31 and a third innings with 49 strikeouts to six walks. He is a monster. Yeah, let me see 58 strikeouts to zero extra base hits allowed over his past six starts. According to Sarah Langs, S Langs on sports. He's the first pitcher since at least 1900 with 45 plus strikeouts and no extra base hits allowed in a six game span. Notice I said 45 strikeouts. He has 58 in this span. This is bonkers stuff. What Jacob is your ask is doing right now. He averaged 101. I think he picked it 103, right? He had the five hardest thrown balls by any pitcher today. The whole process because he's a star. We know how this is going to end right? Like I don't want to say it. I don't want to put it out there. Don't even say those words. Here's my now. I know what you're saying. And you're. Oh my god. You're probably not wrong. But you can say that about literally any pitch. And I would be like, yeah, it's probably going to end with him getting hurt. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're not supposed to say you're not supposed to. You're not supposed to you're not supposed to speak. I'm not going to. I'm not cute. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not cute. I'm just going to say. Yeah, he might get hurt. That's the only. You're just. You're just hoping it's not this year. And it's not saying that like. Like, oh, you got to trade him before he gets hurt. Like. Yeah, I'm just. I just. I just want to prepare everybody's heart. That's all. Yeah. Okay. So I just wanted to look this up. He had. The most pitches by a starting picture in the sixth inning or later. Of 101 miles per hour in the stack asked air. That was 12th coming into this start. I think he did it like eight more times today. So I would guess Santé and gets the next one, but it's just a guess. And it's, I guess I'm making because the alternatives got to sting. For the pirates, Gregory Soto picked up two more saves on Saturday and Sunday and Monday, excuse me. He's now up to six saves. He has the last four saves for the pirates. He's 62% rostered. That feels like that number should be higher. Dennis Santana is 30%. I feel like maybe outside of like NL only or 15 teamers, Dennis Santana could probably be dropped. Right. I don't even think Santana is the backup plan anymore. He's been so bad. And Mason Montgomery, is that his name? Yeah. The lefty. He seems like he'd be the backup plan to Soto at this point. But I think Soto is just going to run with it. And this is a better version of Gregory Soto than we've ever seen. He's got an expanded arsenal. He's giving up no hits. I think he needs to move up the closer rankings. All right. Next up, we have the Giants on Sunday, Caleb Killian picked up his third save. He's 22% rostered. Giants bullpen kind of a mess, but still kind of leaning with Killian for now. For the athletics on Sunday, Hogan Harris started the ninth with a three run lead. He only recorded one out. He walked to Scott Barlow came on and he closed it out for his first save. Jack Perkins pitched on Friday. He allowed three year runs in a third. And then Perkins here on Monday through four and two thirds innings, two runs, seven strike out. So it looks like they might be stretching him back out. I don't I don't think he's really in the running for saves anymore. But I don't think anyone is. I think it's just a total of void like the nationals in the twins. For the Tigers on Sunday, game one of their double header, Kenley Jansen allowed a walkoff three run homer. He took his fourth blown save and third loss in game two. It was Drew Anderson who pitched two shutout innings with four strikeouts for his second save for the white socks on Monday. Sir Anthony Dominguez got the ninth with a two run lead. He allowed a hit. But truck out to for his 11th save. Grant Taylor pitched the seventh inning in this game. If you're a sir Anthony Dominguez fantasy manager, I think we've we've lived to see another day. So I think he's I guess he's the closer for now, but hopefully doesn't mess that up any further for the royals on Monday, Lucas Erse got the ninth with a one run lead. He allowed two runs on four hits took his fourth blown save and second loss for the Yankees on the other side. David Benard did pick up his 12th save. He only walked one so relatively clean inning for him. And then for the Dodgers on Monday, Tanner Scott was unavailable. Alex Vesia started the ninth. He got two outs. He allowed a hit Blake training came on to get the final out and his first save of the season to stream or not to stream on Tuesday. We have Kate Cavali at the Guardians, Joey Cantillo against the nationals, Griffin Jacks at the Orioles, Shane Bos against the raise, Michael McGreevy at the Brewers, Jack Lighter against the Astros, Jason Alexander at the Rangers, Luis Severino against the Mariners, Aaron Ola at the Padres and Eduardo Rodriguez at the Giants. Eduardo Rodriguez who is also one of the weekly sleeper pitchers for this week. Well, Kate Cavali was too actually. Yeah, I think this is a pretty good slate here. And if I had to pick a third, I actually think I prefer Cavali to Rodriguez for what it's worth. If I had to pick a third, Griffin Jacks would be for me. I would say Jack Lighter. I like Severino against the Mariners. I don't hate Severino either. Shane Bos revenge game. He did pitch well against them last time out. Did he? Yeah, I think it was like six innings one run. I would probably go Cavali, Erod Severino, but I think Jacks is fine too. So I'm fine with any of those. I said lighter. Don't forget lighter. Yep. Joey Cantillo. I usually. I kind of get Batman as other accent there. Sorry. I don't mind Joey Cantillo usually, but against the nationals, they are the best offense against lefties this season. So I would not do that. Well, I'm not wearing hockey pants. On Wednesday, we have Noah Cameron against the Yankees. Dustin May at the Brewers. Jeffrey Springs. I don't know how many people will get that. It's not an iconic line. I don't think it is. One of my most courted lines from that movie though. It's just so stupid. Matt's against the Orioles. James the Tion at the Pirates. Bob a Chandler against the Cubs. Andrew Avin at the Metz. Connor Prele at the White Sox. Mike Burrows at the Paltry Rangers lineup. Yeah, I mean, Burrows has been. You so bad. So bad for the most part. We've had a couple of really good starts in there, but the Rangers look pretty listless right now. So. I think Burrows is okay. I think Springs is okay. Abit at the Metz, I think is all right. Yeah, but at the Metz is okay. Yep. That was a weekly streamer. And then. I think Matt's at Baltimore. Yeah, Matt's at Baltimore is not terrible. Tion at the Pirates, not terrible either, but I would probably put a Abit Springs and Matt's at my top three. So.