TWF 166 - Carrolling In the Deep

0:00You're listening to this week in Fantasy Baseball. Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Fantasy Baseball. I'm John Cudrum, I'm my co-host Patrick Fitzgerald. Today, as always, we're going over the latest news and notes around baseball, covering player performances from this past week and giving some street recommendations at the end of the show with two weeks to go in the baseball season Patrick. How are you doing? I'm doing pretty well. My Orioles are just barely playing off folks hanging on by a thread looking to complete a sweep over the mats today. And today's off to a good start up 6-0. So hopefully they're able to do so. Fantasy teams, men 1, head to head championship right now in the lead so far, but don't have the tiebreaker. So good, you know, could come down to the very end there. And then yeah, just hoping to finish strong and get on the podium in some of my season

1:02long leagues. How about you? Yeah, I think by twins are essentially out of it. They did beat the Yankees today. So I believe the series, I think they ended up losing the series 2-1. But you know, nice to see a little bit of a showing from them. But yeah, I think they're pretty much out. I don't think they've got a shot at this point to making the playoffs fantasy wise. I am in one semifinal matchup currently losing that right now. So that's not fun. And my road o leagues will see if I'm able to finish in the top half and in either of them on my dynasty road o leagues. And hopefully that will work out. But yeah, it's it's not necessarily I'm not necessarily up for any sort of championship right now, unlike you. So don't necessarily have anything huge to do for. Yeah, you just got a, you know, finish season strong. Cross fingers hope for the best in this had to have leagues because they can definitely be fluky if you know, you only have that one week matchup. Yeah, my team is currently averaging one ninety three in my head to head league.

2:02The only saving grace is my opponent is averaging one eighty one. So both of us have players that can't hit apparently. That seems to be the issue. But right now his pitching is just marginally better than mine. So kind of hoping that some of my starters can pull it out late into the week. But yeah, we're only halfway through so plenty of time to hopefully still make some ground in that matchup. Yeah, this is the type of thing that can flip with one good starter one bad start, you know, very, very thin margins. Yeah. All right, well, before we get into the rest of the episode, just a reminder that you could follow our podcast on Twitter at this week. PL, you can send us your fan needs to be a spot questions to our email at this week. P.L. pod at gmail.com. Lastly, make sure you subscribe to or follow the podcast on whatever. Assume the platform you listen to. Well, and all of them spotify Apple YouTube, wherever you listen to your podcasts, make sure you follow us and leave a five serve view if you enjoy the show. And it's just we've been kind of singing all these episodes. Definitely also check out Pitchless Pro. We currently are running a deal 20% off the yearly subscription view is the code live dashboard

3:07all caps, no spaces. So definitely check that out. I might know the season has winding down, but we're still putting out some pretty cool stuff there. And I know some people are drafting already. So as soon as the season ends, so maybe that's a tool that you'll want to use as you get ready for some of those gladiator or NFBC 50 drafts that folks will be doing throughout the off season. But yeah, definitely check that out and make sure you again leave a fire serve view if you enjoy our show. All right, moving on to the injury list. A lot of these injury list placements, it's probably safe to say you can drop most of these guys if they're on your fantasy teams. We are pretty much at the point where a 15 day or a 10 day stint on the injury list goes to the end of the season. So we're going to start with Jackson holiday who's dealing with left wrist inflammation. He could return by the end of the season, but you know, it's unlikely to see if that happens. Stamina Tara of the angels, he was a good option for holds this off the season left form inflammation for him. Kaelin couple of the twins, he's dealing with the left hamstring strain lightly out for

4:09season. P Fairbanks doing again with some nerve irritation in his right arm, expect him to be out for the rest of the season. It's going to be interesting for him to because I believe he's a free agent this off season. So assuming we get baseball next year, he might bite you one of those interesting closer guys to look at in drafts. Hazel's was aardo out probably for season with left shoulder inflammation, probably expect him back for the playoffs, but at least would be surprised with the Phillies hurry him back to make a final start in the regular season. Gage jump dealing with left shoulder impeachment. He is out for the a's Tyler Wells, who is on the raise. I don't mind myself of that. He's done with right form tightness. He was basically in their bullpen. So you know, a source of holes, but not much else beyond that. And the right not a low place of Atlanta dealing with right shoulder inflammation. He's probably unlikely to return as well. So a lot of pictures, not we're probably not going to see for the rest of the season because at least for pictures of the 15 day I all stood. Yeah, yeah, a lot of guys there who you know, their seasons are probably over at least

5:10regular season. Someone like Luzardo, you of course hope he'll be back for the playoffs. And then Lopez, Braves rotation, very kind of up in the air a little bit. Jare Richie is pitching right now actually to fill that spot and not doing too great. So I wouldn't worry about streaming him last week of the season. And then yeah, Fairbanks, I had him need him some saves, you know, some saves from him, put him in my weekly lineup and he gets pulled from the save up Monday and he's on the IL and I can't do anything about it. So those are the type of things that can drive you a little crazy sometimes, but lineup is locked. So you just got to control, you can control. Territories to returns unlikely that most of these guys are going to help your fantasy teams, but might be still useful to know about them. Ryan Nelson activated from the 60 day IL by the Diamondbacks. Unfortunately, he's unlikely to start most likely going to be more of a long relief role. Same thing for Chris Boobitch who is now in the Dodgers. It's going to be unclear on what his role is, but regardless, whatever it is, it's going to be out of the bullpen. And then Clark Schmidt back from Tommy John surgery for the Yankees again, also unlikely to start.

6:10So barring injury, most of these guys are not stretched out to be pitching five, four to five innings. So it's unlikely that they're going to be helping your fantasy teams who are going to be helping your fantasy teams are probably a couple of hitters. Tommy fam. He is back hit DH. It was D.H.ing and hit cleanup for the White Sox and actually hit a three-bone homework in his first game back. Jason Weatherhold is back started at second base and he batted lead off in his first game back. Mike Helgar see who's been dealing with a pretty rough season after that breakout year last year. He is back batted cleanup but went over four. And then one other pitcher, Kyle Freeland, he's back from a pitch nerve did start yesterday's game. And it was not pretty. Four innings eight hits three in one's one strikeout and three home runs given up. So yeah, it's probably probably safe to not have to pick him up in fantasy teams, even if he is a starter. Yeah, I'd leave Freeland alone and then Weatherhold's definitely interesting, but I think they're sort of treating this as a little bit like a rehab assignment at the big league level. So he's not going to play every day or complete nine innings. So it would be good to have in your lineup, but I think because of that, maybe not a must

7:10add or must start. Yeah. Other injury news, Rocky Sasaki, he is likely to return by the end of the week and Emmett Shien was optioned back to AAA, but don't immediately drop Shien because Blake's now was removed from today's start with left-core tightness. If he hits the aisle, that gives the Dodgers an opportunity to call Shien back up. And so some interesting things shifting around with the Dodgers rotation. As always, Kyle Brady, she was already on the injury list last week, but he has now had officially diagnosed with a hernia would like to require surgery. So assuming next year's season starts on time, maybe that affects Brady's Bradish's opportunity to get back for opening day. Hunter Goodman currently day to day with a thumb injury. Of course, no, Rocky's are not rushing to get him back. They're out of the playoffs. Joshua Bias, he is dealing with day to day. He's day to day with left side tightness, kind of similar question there for the Cardinals. They are not in any sort of playoff contention. Aaron Judge, he is out with lower leg tightness currently day to day with that injury after today's twins game and unsure the severity of that injury.

8:13Obviously, it's not related to the injury that knocked him out for pretty much the entire season. The rib. So this is just a fortunate that he's dealing with something else. And then Colson Montgomery of the wide sex, he's currently day to day with left-chorus contusion. So they got all the names. Judge is probably the biggest one to keep track of here. So he's now as well in just seeing what happens with that doctor's rotation. Yeah, they were so close to making it to the playoffs with that crazy forehead and monster. Obviously, not having five because of a tonny, but Chanel might be down. And hopefully Shane comes back up because he had a pretty fantastic two-star week last week. I think he had like 15 strikeouts, maybe one earned run. So he definitely has earned himself another shot. Yeah, it's a, it's a, fortunately, he's kind of the odd man out in this whole equation. Though, yes, he's had his up and down, ups and downs this season. But like he said, as a recent history, he's been doing really well in this sort of, you know, fill in duty for guys as they keep on getting injured in the doctor's rotation. Yeah, maybe he gets one more regular season to start and then could be like a multi-inning, you know, relief guy in the playoffs.

9:14I could see him having some success there. Yeah. All right, that's going to wrap it up for news and oats. And so yeah, moving on to player performances starting from last Friday, who do we got? Yeah, so on the 11th, Ryan Clark was on our hitter recap with home runs to La Maxima for junior Kevin narrow didn't know that was nickname, but now I do. But I'm going to talk about William Contreras of the Brewers catcher. He was two for five of the home runs and six RBI. The home run and half of the RBI as it Contreras did have came against a position player, but still a really solid game in terms of all season as a whole. It's been a little bit of a step back from Contreras. He's putting up his lowest WRC plus since 2021 at just 110. And it's been a kind of a tale of two halves in terms of his approach. The first half was more contact oriented with fewer homers and walks. Second half, he is walking more and actually slugging a lot better, but also striking out more so maybe more of a three true outcomes approach. And he'll still be one of the highest drafted catchers next season because he has such a high floor, but it'll be interesting to see, you know, if he stays with the Brewers and where exactly he does end up getting drafted.

10:16So yeah, it's been an interesting year from Contreras. He's only got 17 homers and he's in 272, but he's got great volume from a catcher. 166 combined rounds in our BI over 600 plated appearances. And he's drafted somewhere between catcher 2 to 4 right there with with rice and lionly leaders below Raleigh. And he is poised to finish there on the strength of his volume. So do you feel like this season has been what you expected? Maybe a small disappointment? Are you happy with what you've seen from William this year? Yeah, I think for anyone maybe hoping for some sort of skills growth that kind of in his prime, that's probably unfortunate. You haven't seen more than 20 homers out of him. I mean, he's reached that mark twice in his career. But overall, I think, you know, you're probably pretty happy with Contreras. Was able to give you from the catcher position. It's probably just a little skewed because we've seen other catchers be really solid this year. And but Contreras is just, you know, pretty good. I think right like that range that you mentioned, he's just at the tail end of it, but he's still top five catcher still returning a lot of good returns from that position.

11:21So yeah, I don't think his stock drops at all. I think if anything, this is kind of what you expect from him. It's almost, I mean, it's actually nearly identical to last year's numbers right now. Like there's an improvement in average, which is probably the nice thing to point at. No steals this. He has one stolen base this season compared to six last years. So if you were really hoping that he'd chip in there, that maybe you're a little disappointed, but ultimately, I think you're pretty okay with the season you've got. Yeah, I think it's been about meeting expectation. That was maybe hoping for a little more power. I think last year he was dealing with like a broken finger or something. And I guess that maybe I convinced myself that that was hampering his offensive production a little bit. I was kind of surprised to see him still forth on the player-rater. You know, above guys like Gabrielle Marano's in over 300 Dylan Dingler, who was, you know, obviously insane for the first half in Liam Hicks. I guess, did miss a little time with injury, but that just shows you, you know, how much the volume matters. I think, you know, aside from Ben Rice, who isn't actually a catcher, it looks like he leads all catchers and runs and is in RBI.

12:23Excuse me, it's up there in the top five and run. So yeah, he kind of chips in and maybe those ways that are a little bit more underrated and fantasy because it's not just, you know, a ton of power and speed. It's just a really nice all-around contributor at the catcher position. Yeah, and you just sometimes you need those guys, right? It's better than someone who maybe bet on Yiner Diaz this season or, I'm just trying to think of other catchers, Ruchman maybe, right? Like, it's just like you are getting more out of him than if you had waited around for catcher a little bit. But, you know, that's always kind of a given take. He is at the tail end of kind of that top tier of catchers. It is what it is. Sometimes it works out for you and you get exactly what you want it. And sometimes like you said, you're maybe hoping for a little bit more and you don't get that from him. Yeah, I think I see Goodman and Baldwin and probably Langleys too going ahead of him next year. And then maybe he'll be kind of in contention with Dengler and Moreno, you know, those kind of guys for that, that kind of fourth catcher spot. So not too much of a fall from where he was last year. Yeah.

13:24On the pitching side, Astrima or Bassadon was Jake's SP Roundup for Chris Bassad, who we actually talked about a couple of weeks ago and is in the midst of a solid outing right now against the Metz. But I'm going to be talking about Drew Rasmussen of the race. He was against Houston in this one and got the no decision. But it was a great outing. Seven innings, one or eight hits, no walks and four strikeouts. Seven whiffs and a 23% CSW and 92 pitches. So not a ton of swing and miss, but just great ratios, especially E.R. right here, like we're used to from Rasmussen. He truly is an ace and the Rasp pack, which is his three fastball combo. Four seamers, sinker and cutter has really served him well this year. And he's putting finishing touches on another great year. Yeah, he has that ace label. He's got over 160 innings this year of a sub three E.R.A. and a sub one whip and a strikeout per inning. Do you see him as kind of that maybe late SP one you'd be comfortable taking? I know that in the meatball draft, like the too early draft that a lot of industry people do, he was 64th overall as the SP 14. So 15th teamer, they're treating him as kind of a back end ace there. What do you think?

14:25That seems really high to me. And I think partially it's just, it's the injury risk, I think, with Rasmussen. Yes, 160 innings this year was great. And if we could believe that we'd get that out of him every single year, that'd be great. I mean, last year he was early solid to 150. So that just feels really high. I just feel like for a guy who just has that injury risk label on him, it's hard for me to say like that as the first guy I'm going to be taking. As my number one pitcher, I just think this may be safer options that you go with. But nonetheless, it's a really good, I want to say it's a really good ceiling for Rasmussen. That's maybe the way I think of him, because if he gets injured, then the floor is just all the just not existent. So yeah, I think that's my take. And if it works out for anyone who takes him as the SP one, then more power to you. I just don't know if I'm willing to take that risk.

15:27Yeah, I think it would be the type of thing we have to back it up quickly with an SP2. I do feel comfortable with that price. So overall, it's been six straight seasons and a lot of these are partial seasons. Obviously with six straight seasons, within year or able to nine in a whip that's 1.08 or lower. So he's pretty much, you know, I guess, Google aside, you know, the most, I may miss to one of the most reliable people in terms of just elite ratios. And the volume's definitely a question mark there, but he is showing the ability to take on a bigger workload now, you know, later in his career. And he's still going to be with the raise next year on a call to option. So, you know, I like that situation for sure. Yeah, I mean, that's a good point that we can't, you know, we should look at all these picks in a vacuum, right? If you do pair them with the workhorse as your SP2, that probably mitigates some of the issues. And because his ratios are so good, like you mentioned, you know, that that can help, especially if the work for core courses, you pick like has some issues with ratios, raspiness and kind of helps smooth that out. Also, Kate could plan about 14 wins from the race this year, right?

16:31That's definitely an added bonus. No, they always find a way to get it done. They just pretty much accept last year, I guess, is the exception aside from that. They are just professional at winning games. It's pretty impressive. Yeah. All right, moving on to the 12th, spinning like Royal was the hit of recap article from Chemical Brian. And referring to Michael Royal, but I'm going to talk to about Francisco Lendor. He went through a fire with two homeruns, two runs, five RBI. And he was a big part of the second game in the subway series against the Yankees. And the bet ended up winning in that game 12-2. Lendor was a big catalyst to that, obviously, with the five RBI. That being said, though, the door's year has not gone very well. He only has 20 homeruns this season. He's only hitting 229 with a 753 OBS, definitely numbers that you would not expect from a guy likely in door. Also only has three stolen bases, which is down from 31 a year ago. And Lendor was affected a little bit by injury

17:32early this season. And you know, that kind of hurt his ADP just a tiny bit. I think he was down at like 25 or something like that. So still kind of going at the tail end of the second round. But yeah, this has been a pretty awful year for him, even though he's managed to play a decent number of games. So yeah, should we expect a bounce back from him next year? Or not saying that this is indicative of his value, but is this kind of more trending to what we expect from Lendor in future seasons? Yeah, I would say to generally expect a bounce back. You know, the speed just feels really difficult to predict him going from barely running it all this year to getting right back to the 30-steel guy that he had been in recent years. So yeah, I would say to expect mostly more of the same with the kind of a tick down in the Steel Department for sure. Maybe protect like 18 to low 20s or something like that. So maybe he falls from like a second round to third round guy. So yeah, I generally feel good like the core skills. There's not too much change. I mean, he's actually swinging the bat a little harder. Maybe he's striking out a tick more, but not a huge difference.

18:34And I just feel yeah, it's been a tough year for the Mets. And I guess we could say that about a lot of Mets season, just because of, you know, their woes. But I do feel like the offensive core is still going to be pretty strong next year. You're obviously have Soto and Bishet is at least serviceable. And then guys like Ben, and Ewing emerging a little bit more to pair with Lendor. So yeah, I think he should be still a solid all around contributor, but maybe, you know, not showing that upside that kind of gets him into the back of the first round sometimes. Yeah, and I mean, it'd be nice to see the power go up for him. But yeah, I'm really hoping at least this speed comes back, because he isn't that old yet. So hoping that that could be some of that could be a little bit more relied upon. Yeah, I mean, he's at least cracked 20 homers in 94 games now. So I feel like the per game and the Homer pace is pretty similar to years past. And the ISO 2 is kind of right in line with this career average. So think just a little bit of a bad, bad luck at 243 versus 289 career is probably factoring in here, you know,

19:35along with the drop in steals, which kind of, you know, is a tough combo. Yeah, it was fair. All right, moving on to pitching. It was the broken coal engine from Nick, referring to Garrett Cole, who talked about a couple of weeks ago. Could be, you know, solid SB2, but it has not been very pretty for Cole this past couple of weeks, but we're not going to talk about him. Instead, we're going to talk about Joey Kentio, who actually was a follower in this game. We pitched against the twins. Four innings. No one runs one hit one walk and eight strikeouts. And yeah, his change up, which is kind of his bread and butter, terms of getting whips, uh, was not doing well in getting strikes, but it was coming in a little bit harder at 83 and a half miles an hour. Kerbal was really solid for seemers getting strikes. And yeah, Contilo, kind of an interesting player this season. Obviously, this one, this game he came in as a follower, but he has started 30 games. So this was just more of a Cleveland doing Cleveland things, I guess. He on the season, he's got a 3.890 year A, a 1.48 whip.

20:38So, uh, you know, okay, ERA whip, not very happy about that. But he does have a 24.8% strikeout rate. So definitely displaying some of the interesting stuff that he's got going on. But a 12% walk rate probably does not help that number out. Also, it's only like a 12% came minus BB there. So Contilo is definitely, you know, kind of, I think he has submitted his place in the Cleveland rotation. We always love Cleveland pictures and what they're able to do. But yeah, do you feel like he's a guy that you'd be drafting kind of at the tail end of drafts? Or is it more someone who you think, uh, maybe it's better to leave him on the way for wire and pick him up for a strong stream, something like that? Yeah, though, the whip risk is really just probably too much for me to bear in most formats. I feel like it's, it's kind of, he doesn't have a huge majorly track record. But ever since he's got a call-up, he's had problems with the whip, especially, you know, just a lot of walks. So it doesn't seem like type of thing that he's going to be able to flip to switch and turn. The strikeout upside is nice. And I think it's been like the last few months he's really leaned into his curveball,

21:40which has gotten a ton of whiffs. But at the same time, it's a really big vending pitch. And I think it's hard for him to land consistently. So the walks have, if anything, got worse from that. So yeah, I think more of a streamer for me, you know, maybe like some good home matchups or teams that are bad against lefty, things like that. But yeah, I just think that the whip risk is too much for me to really stomach on kind of a more consistent basis. Yeah, it's kind of interesting. You mentioned the curveball because that has kind of become his primary pitch over the past a couple of months. Like he, if you look at his usage rates on the pictures page, like his four steamers, number one at 33% curveballs at 30%. But you look at his last few starts and the curveball has dominated his fastballs and hermets of usage. And it is a really good, it's a solid whiff machine. It doesn't always get a ton of whiffs, but you know, it's pretty good. But it's just interesting that that kind of sets the table for him. As opposed to, you know, any sort of fastball foundation. Yeah, I mean, it's like a, it's a 5.1 PLV, which is above average at 34% CSW, like really strong

22:42marks there. But yeah, it moves as negative 20 inches of a high BB. So it just has a ton of drop and you're going to just think about, you know, how hard that is to hit, but also how difficult it is to probably land that in the zone consistently, you know, just a pitch that has that much movement. Yeah. So going to the 13th on the hitter side all around the world was Kyle Stanzel's hitter recap for Jonathan Aranda was putting together a solid season, maybe not as good as last year, but still really solid. I'm going to talk about someone who's kind of jumped back on our fantasy radar after a couple of really tough years. That's that gale of the A's kind of a super utility man. He's two for three with a Homer three runs, two RBI's and two walks in this one. Very dynamic game for gale if he had a solo Homer in the first and got on base four times overall and eight seven win for the A's. And in 26th, your utility man has had a nice bounce back season. Now that the A's are playing, you know, their home games in friendly Sacramento, he is slashing 253 16, 457 with a career high 18 homers and 14 steals. And that's in I think probably a little less than 100 games. So really nice

23:42power speed combo that gale offshown. He's also made some real improvements in the contact rate, which has been an issue for him in years past. And he should have at least third base and outfield eligibility next year and all formats, if not also second base. So because of the flexibility and the upside here, do you feel like he should be drafted in all formats or do you think shallow reliefs? There's going to be better options out there. Yeah, I think when we talked about gale off a couple of weeks ago, he was just starting on this little bit of a hot streak. And I think at the time, we were, you know, basically saying that he's probably like a top 10 third baseman with how or maybe his top 10 second baseman, which is kind of how shallow that that position is. But the multi position eligibility just helps him a ton. He is batting metrics are very interesting, because he has a relatively decent chase rate 80th percent top. But then he like whiffs a bunch. So that, you know, if those contact metrics are getting better, where he's like, you know, do better at attacking the zone, you know, just getting on base for him is so so huge. He is 14 stolen bases

24:45of the season. He's he's improved his OBP by a ton. So you like to see all those improvements. And so yeah, I think he should be probably drafted in all formats, just even because of that position eligibility, I think he's probably ranked as a top 10 third baseman and second baseman at this point. And the fact that he has outfield eligibility is just a nice little addition. So yeah, I think you should probably be drafted in most formats. I think maybe 10 teamers is where you can maybe be a little bit more judicious. But I think even 10 teamers, it makes sense for him to be on a fantasy team. Yeah, I think those like 30 man, you know, NFBC roster, he's going to be on all those teams very comfortably. And even, you know, 23 man or whatever the default Yahoo ESPN is, I think he's like a great last hitter to have. If not, you know, last round pick, maybe a couple of rounds before that, you know, he's got the flexibility. He's got the power speed upside. He's got the friendly home park, you know, I think you're going to be able to find kind of spots to plug and play him even if he does take a little bit of a step back. But yeah, the contact improvements have really just kind of made

25:45inviable. He's got the strikeout right down to like a really palatable 25% and it's backed up by, you know, better swing strike rates and all that good stuff. So yeah, I feel comfortable about him being like a nice piece. I don't expect him to replicate this pace, which is like a 25 25 pace or anything like that. But yeah, I think he's made enough improvements to be more fantasy viable here for sure. The OBP still isn't great. So maybe in that kind of format, you know, he's not really the right guy to look for. But otherwise, I think he's really intriguing. Yeah, and I think we've seen this from him in 2024, right? That was his rookie, I think it was his rookie season, you know, had almost 500 at bats, 17 homers, 25 stall bases. This year is dealing with a little, had been dealing with a little bit more injury, only 3355 at bats, but 18 homers, 14 stall bases is really good. So yeah, if you could just kind of put it all together, stay healthy. Like you said, he's a really good end of the end of the draft bat just because of where you can fit him in. And just how he can kind of pretty much help you in at least four categories, probably not

26:49the average as much. But just because he plays in Sacramento, that's just already so much help there. Yeah, I'm also sorry, I mean, I guess you just got to hope that his flexibility doesn't push him up the board, maybe more than he deserves to be. And I kind of like, you know, it takes away all the value because I think that can definitely happen sometimes. Yeah. On the pitching side, a temporal Joe was next SP roundup for Jackson Joe, who has had a couple of solid starts lately to try to finish the season on a high note. But I'm going to be talking about someone who's actually trying to do the same and who we mentioned earlier in the show that's Amit Shien of the Dodgers. He was at the Marlins and this one got the no decision, but through no fault of his own six innings, scoreless, two hits, one walk, five case, 14, where's that 26% CSW on 81 pitches. So super efficient. And the reset seems to be paying dividends here for Shien. His four seamer took off and then the Marlins Park Dome again over an inch of vert and two inches of run. So a lot better action. But he didn't always located up consistently enough, which kind of prevented him from really racking up a ton of strikeouts here. And Nick was confident in his last two outings, which shaped up to be against the

27:52Giants, but obviously, you know, Shien is sent down now. Maybe we'll be back for a final start, but we'll see. Do you like him as a by-low next year? I think he was going in the 100 to 150 range, got a lot of steam on spring training, but really disappointed how low would he have to fall, you know, for you to be interested in the by-low here. I think red that 7 of that 150 feels okay. I guess I don't know the contract situation of all the pictures with the with the daughters, but just the track record of everyone getting hurt means that he probably should still be able to have a consistent rotation spot. I mean, I guess if you just said what the healthiest rotation would be right now, it's like Yoshinobu, Snell, Klasno, Roki. And then I guess he just like do they do they want Shohe to keep pitching, right? Or are they okay with the six main rotation where it's Shohe and Emmett Shien. I just think like he's going to get 25 starts next season. And I think that's worth it at, you know, what is that? 150 is

28:59probably the tail end of round 13, round 14. I think it's worth the risk at that point. Yeah, I think for me, maybe 175, just because there's some role uncertainty and all that. I guess we'd see how the off season unfolds. Obviously the Dodgers do have some free agents on the pitching side, a scoop box of the biggest one. But at the same time, you know, the Dodgers gave him a lot of chances to stick in the rotation this year. And he put up a lot of bad starts before getting sent down. So I don't think it's the type of situation where they're going to have a super short leash with him, but you know, maybe just a little bit less security than the average picture of his ability. Yeah, if there's just ability based, I'd be happy, you know, top 150 or even inside that, but you have a little extra, but actually, context gives me a little bit of concern there. Yeah, it is fair. I completely forgot about school. And I guess Justin Roblesky still doing a solid job this season. So yeah, it is kind of a weird situation there with the Dodgers and also just ownership as well. That's like another wrench that we have to think about how that might impact

30:02free agency this off season. So yeah, I guess that makes sense. I'd probably now lean with you a little bit more that it should be a little bit later. But yeah, if we get more clarity on his role, it'll come like February or or March, then, you know, I definitely don't have an issue with driving him just a little bit earlier. Yeah, the strikeouts in a winds outside our sky high for him. All right, better talk next time was the hitter recap article from Ryan and Morgan referring to Kyle Tucker, but we just talked about him last week. So we've got a different alfielder, Corbin Carroll also in the NL West to verify with the home run a run of three RBI. The 801 OPS from Carroll isn't too far from his crew mark of 825, but he's been on a little bit of a skid since August 1st. He's hitting 214 with only five home runs. But nonetheless, he had a really solid day this day as we mentioned hitting his 21st home run and giving Arizona a still an opportunity to challenge for that last wild card spot. And he has a 2020 season.

31:03I think it's like 21 homers and 24 stolen bases or something like that. And looking at his ADP, he was going around pick 14 earlier this season. So how did that borderline, you know, on the turn of the first second round? And Carroll's kind of always had this tantalizing sort of like, maybe he can be a 30 30 consistent 30 30 guy injuries have hurt that a little bit. I think the season before when he was drafted pretty high, it didn't help really. I think the injuries hurt his stock a little bit there too. So yeah, kind of knowing what we get from Corbin Carroll is that like a, you know, a solid alfielder, maybe it consists in 2020 player. Do you still see him at the tail in the first round? Or do you think he's just more of a solid like stuck around alfielder, but there's maybe a little bit better targets to be chasing around the turn. Yeah, I think I feel like I'd have to say early second at this point just based on the, you know, all around decent production, but not really exceptional anywhere, except I guess Ron's, he's approaching 100 there. But yeah, it's been interesting. You know, he's still really proficient on the basis, 21 for 24, but just not as much

32:08volume as yours past, which is a little bit puzzling because that would be still, you know, solid. So yeah, I always felt like Carol's a guy where either he'll give you 30 home runs or 30 steals, maybe not both. Like he did last year, but you think you get at least one. In this case, you know, he's pacing more for 25, 25. So a little bit of a step back there. The contact quality is still solid. Like the barrel rate, I think it's down 2 percentage points, but still double digits. So, you know, he's maintained some of those power gains from last year. But the overall style and just hasn't been quite as impressive. So yeah, I think maybe like beginning of the second round, but I think yeah, guys like Tatis with his great second half, you know, some of the pictures, maybe like Miz for sure have kind of, you know, taken over him. And yeah, maybe that will push him down to the early second round as a result. But yeah, still feel good about him as a really well rounded, you know, early building block. Yeah, I'm wondering if team context is kind of an issue too. I mean, Arizona, they traded Josh Nailer and Johannes Suarez last season, but they were

33:10sixth in the majors in runs. Whereas this year, they are 17th. And you can see for Corbin Carroll, his RBI's have dropped a ton. He was, I mean, I think it was like 80s. I want to say it was 87 RBI's last season. Sorry, 84 RBI's last season. He's at 67 right now. He did 84 in 143 games. He's got 67 through 146. So I'm wondering if team context is also maybe impacting just some of those counting stats for him that, you know, he doesn't necessarily have complete control over, you could still, you know, maybe be a better batter with men on base by at the same time. Like if your team's not necessarily getting on the bases, then that you're going to struggle and getting those counting stats too. Yeah, it's been really big step backs, steps backs, use me from Katal Marta and Perdoma this year. So, you know, given the other subtractions from the offense and those guys are progressing a little bit, you know, it does, I think, lower the

34:11ceiling and the floor a little bit there for Carroll, too. So that's a good point. Yeah. All right, moving on to pictures. Thanks to Nick for the, all I do is quin, quin, as we run a particle talking about quid Matthews of the Cardinals, who had a really nice, almost seven innings with eight strikeouts game. But we're going to talk about a different young picture and that's Jonah Tongue, who went six innings, no one runs four hits one walk and six strikeouts. Tongue had a bunch of strikes. He had five of his six curveballs actually for strikes. And the four seamers pretty solid here too, low at skating it upstairs pretty well. Had two more inches of vert for, I believe in IVB of 20 plus inches, which is kind of crazy. And I believe this was actually his second good start, if I recall. But yeah, really a nice day from Tongue. And one of the things that Nick has kind of mentioned about him is just this vulcan changeup that's hard to control. But even that pitch was, you know, decent, had a 25% CSW, but was three for four in terms of getting out from ball and play. And yeah, this was

35:17also a start against a, I guess you were solid ball to our team. So maybe that was a little unfortunate, but nonetheless, good showing from Tongue. And he's got an interesting matchup coming up. He's got the Phillies next who obviously are still trying to compete for a better wildcard spot. And then he faces the nationals up to that who had had a really good offense this season, but maybe are tailing down a little bit. So looking ahead the next year, which I think is maybe the more important thing from Tongue. Because I think we've mentioned him in the streamer's section. I think he's still worth a guy to pick up as a streamer. I wonder if he has the same sort of, maybe draft ability as guys like Nolan McClan or Camp Schlippler last year who both of those guys, I guess, so that was more impacted by injuries a little bit. Both those guys were kind of guys who came on to the tail end of the season and showed out really, really well. Do you think John Tongue has kind of the similar vibe where he could get drafted based on his projected value or do you

36:19think it's still maybe worth having the breaks on rookies like him who just don't have as much of a track record compared to other well-assouted starters? Yeah, I think if he is valued similar to those guys for next year, I think he'd be overvalued. They really tore through the miners. They have like, Tray's Savage too. I'm really tore through the miners and just put up exceptional numbers at every stop. That's what Tongue did last year. He had a 1.43 IRA across double A and triple A last year, and mostly double A, which is insane. But this year is a 4.54 at triple A and it came with a really bad walk rate, 12.5%. 27% strike out rate, so the strikeout offside is there, but I think there's going to be some whip headaches. It is nice to see him rounding out the arsenal compared to what he showed last year at the Big League level where he really was mostly fast, well, change up. Now he's got the cutter as a bridge pitch there. Yeah, I think that there's some nice steps forward here and he seems to be finishing the season on a high note. But yeah, I think that he's still pretty raw. He's only 23, he turned 23 a couple

37:22months ago. So I think it's still a little bit of a raw skill set. I think I'd be interested in drafting him late in some leagues, like taking a flyer, but maybe thinking about him more similarly, someone like Quinn Matthews who has had some walk troubles at triple A, but is also finishing the season at the Big League pretty successfully. So yeah, guys, they do have some clear flaws, but also some upside there, especially in the strikeout department. Yeah, it's also important to note like kind of how dominant the seasons from guys like Schlippler and we claim some words from last season. Yeah, McCleam also had a really, yeah, the 2.06 ERA through eight starts. So both those guys, Schlippler and McCleam, and you just have it as well, had really, really good seasons, whereas with Tongue, you've seen some pretty solid starts, but it's been mixed in with some pretty meh as well. So yeah, you probably can't put him in the same camp as those guys right now, but it's nice to see at least, like you said, there's this little bit of growth here as he makes it to the majors and he's only 23, so there's still plenty of opportunities for him to develop as his career goes along. Yeah, I think maybe Boba Chandler is

38:28like an interesting comparison. Chandler definitely a higher-taughted pitching prospect, but had some struggles in triplets last year, especially with the control and his season this year at the Big Leaks has been decent, but definitely up and down. He's got 147 innings of a 428 ERA and a 135 whip, right? So numbers that don't necessarily help your fantasy leagues for the most part, but some stretches of usefulness. So yeah, it takes a little time for some of these younger guys to adjust for sure. Yeah, and I think that just makes some better streaming targets, right? As opposed to guys that you hold on your roster for the entire season. And yeah, if you just don't invest that draft capital, maybe let someone else take that and if they drop them that that gives you opportunity to pick up these young guys for stellar starts like like this one. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Go into the 15th, that tour guide of the town, scruffy guys to set a recap, first venture of Torgelsen who's sitting somehow in this year, but not doing a ton else. I'm going to talk about the cold caric of the Rockies. He's a rookie. I believe shortstop and I feel eligible in most leagues. He was four for five and that's on a double two homers, two rounds and five RBI.

39:31I needed a lot of damage out of three hole for the Rockies and this one, accounting for over half their runs in the win over the Padres in course field. Seven Hungarians this week for the Rockies, so he's taking full advantage. He had four hits and three extra bass hits if each one coming off the bat over 100 miles per hour with both homers gone in all 30 ball parts too. So showing some power, he's also been showing some speed. And yeah, he's he's shortstop. I'll feel eligible. Like I said, is this another guy in course field who's breaking out maybe in the vein of like Hunter Goodman or do you think it's more of a Zikiel Tovar situation? You know, a guy who has a really solid power speed season, but then you know, for Tovar, he's really cratered ever since then. Yeah, I'm just looking at cold carigs like numbers and decent batspeed I guess, but that's kind of where you could be like, Hey, the metrics are really solid. Just doesn't barrel the ball a ton. Doesn't have a lot of, you know, loud tools and his makeup. Certainly there is opportunities for those things to develop. Probably the good thing for him is speed. So if in his OPP's 338, so

40:32be good more on base than I think maybe there's an opportunity for him to, you know, improve the runs and the stolen base solos. But I think whether it comes to the power department, yes, course is going to help a lot for him. But I don't know if I'd call him any sort of like power breakup candidate there. I think the speed is more where you're going to get value from him. And then just kind of the occasional Homer. You know, maybe he gets to, you know, 15 homers if he plays a full season, but I just think with the metrics where the way they are right now, even playing in cores, it's unlikely that he's going to be more than, you know, like a 20 home run hitter, I think. Yeah, I think he's more of like a well-rounded contributor, you know, back half of your outfield starting line up in like a five-outfield league. Obviously the source up eligibility is nice to get that MI2. I think Shore's out deep enough where he's not really, you know, much of an asset. Shore's up maybe MI leaks. He has that boost. Yeah, I think he's a lot better at home for sure. Like over a hundred point batting average gap and most of his homers have come at home. So, you know, I think you have to kind of leverage him

41:35a little bit in terms of when you use him. But, yeah, the swing decisions are not great, but they're not as easy he'll tow far bad. So, I don't have at least as much concern there. But yeah, I think the steals we saw him kind of run wild in the miners, but it's been much more rain to end like 20 steel pace in the majors. So, and he hasn't been like, you know, 90, a hundred percent successful either. So, I think that yeah, it's more of kind of a well-rounded profile. You might not, you know, stand out anywhere, but I think, of course, field, you know, just kind of buoy-seem into more of a fantasy relevant player. He is a guy who has a really high pull air right 26 percent, which is very high in the league in terms of percentile. I'm curious how being a switcher helps with that. Like that could be a funny little quirk in his makeup where it's like he's pulling the ball in the air, but it like he can kind of attack both both hand in his pictures. So, maybe that helps him a little bit in the power department. But it also does show that he's kind of doing everything he can to get, you know, 10 homers in 289 matte. So, yeah, I mean, maybe he doesn't

42:40get the 20 maybe he hears me wrong and you scale it over an entire season and he's actually a 2020 guy. I just don't think that makeup is truly in his profile with how much he is pulling the ball in the air. So, it seems like this is more of a high watermark for him rather than something I would say could be consistent for the rest of his career. Right. I guess he'd asked him for his contact quality, which isn't great in order to increase that power up side because his swing is already kind of groove for that power stroke. Yeah. On the pitching side, Sir Oak painting was next SP round up from Michael Sir Oak. But I'm going to be talking about Jacob DeGrom, who is finishing his season really strong despite some bumps along the way. You got the win with five innings of two run ball, eight Ks and a 0.8 whip. And he is having the worst season of his career by ERA. I think around three eight. But he's really finishing strong only four in runs in his last four stars in a ridiculous 35 to two strike out to walk ratio. And overall in the season, despite the bad ERA, the whip is still really good at 107 and a 24.9%

43:41strike out minus walk rate. So even at 38, DeGrom is still showing some skills that make him really elite, even if the ERA isn't close to what it was at his peak. And yeah, he's actually showing some durability in his old age, which is funny to see. Now, the God surgery, he's posted back to back, you know, 150 plus inning seasons. It's looking like. And yeah, given that the skills that seem to still be intact here and it'll be in the friendly confines of Texas next year, can you take him as your SP 2 next year? Or is that something that you're not going to be willing to do just given, you know, the apparent risks sometimes with DeGrom? Yeah, it's crazy that he's going to be 39 next year. Like you kind of forget like how old I guess he was when he was so dominant. Like he was 31 in the 2019 season. But as a SP 2, I feel pretty comfortable with DeGrom. I mean, the injury risk will always be there for him. But like you said, a really great park to pitch in, you know, really decent strike out numbers at 31% this season, which is, you know, crazy to hear of. But, you know, as these guys

44:46just get better at kind of extending their careers and still pitching at a decently high level, you know, late into their careers. Yeah, I feel pretty strong about DeGrom. I mean, yeah, the ERA is a little bit of a blip, but probably would expect that to regress a little bit more back to his career average of a, I mean, he's not going to get a 2.6A. That's crazy. That is career averages that low. But nonetheless, you know, you probably see something more in like the low 3s for DeGrom. And for me, yeah, I think that still plays as an SP 2 when he's getting this many strikeouts. And he's probably hopefully going to get more wins. But, you know, this is Texas. We're talking about that it's not exactly the most dangerous team in the league. But, you know, at least it's better than the year he had with the Mets where he just could not get a win for to save his life. Yeah, in some ways, his skills are actually a lot better this year than last year. You know, strike out my swap rates, 3 percentage points higher. And he's getting more whist to even though his ERA is almost a full run higher and his whip is 0.15 higher. So, yeah, I think that maybe he was running a

45:49little, over a little pure last year from a luck perspective in this year to kind of the opposite. You know, maybe homers are coming with more guys on base and more balls getting through. So, yeah, I feel pretty good about him as an SP 2 as well. Maybe it wouldn't pair him with your Razzmi's team. I might feel a little too much injury risk in your first two pitchers. But in a vacuum, I do think I like him both. Yeah, well, you know, you might get, you might get like 225 combined innings out of both those guys if like things do not go well for you. But could be worse honestly. Could be true. I never know. Yeah, it is. I'm looking at to Graham's career and it is really unfortunate. Basically, from 2020 to 2024, granted 2020 was the short and season. So, we actually pitched a full season. But yeah, from like 2021 to 2004, like four seasons, more or less prime to Graham in terms of age 33 to 36, man, like he he doesn't get more than 200 innings across those four seasons. So, it's it's really good to see him at least get to above 150 and 29 total starts this year at age 38.

46:54Yeah, and I think one more year like this, you know, I feel like he'll have a pretty strong Hall of Fame case. So that would be that would be cool to see. Yeah. All right, moving on to Wednesday, we're actually recording this on Wednesday. So we do not have the benefit of articles to talk about. But I am going to talk about Joe Adele who kind of a weird spot. He is bad third in the Cleveland lineup. It's already a lineup that we actually said is, you know, pervative boy, devoid of any sort of offense like they've got Stephen Quan who's been a little bit better this in the second half of the season. Jay Ram, who's obviously really, really good. And then Adele's betting third. And today he went one for three with two RBI. It was a he didn't he didn't contribute with a home or anything, but nonetheless, you know, he is at the top of the order for Cleveland. Not sure about his contract status. So I need to figure that out, but he currently has 22 homers on the season 92 RBI 65 runs with a 239 average. And of course last year, we're very aware of how much of a breakout season that was 37 homers and a 236 average, which yes, that's a breakout

47:59for Joe Adele who was basically hovering around the mid dose alive the last two seasons. But what's your thoughts on Adele, you know, assuming he's able to stay in this Guardians offense, you know, he is going to be batting basically right behind Jay Ram. So it's got a little bit, you know, of an opportunity there to drive in more runs. You know, this year still really solid RBI numbers at 92 compared to 98 for last year. Powered apartment, not like what it was last season, but I mean, it'd be hard to assume that he'd be able to get 37 homers again two seasons of a row. But, yes, or anything you like about Adele, or do you feel like, you know, maybe last year was just the high watermark. And now he's still more of a guy that maybe is viable in a five alpha der league, but not really somebody you look at look at in a three alpha der league. Yeah, I mean, he's standing out in terms of RBI, you know, he could push a hundred for the year, but that's just not something that I feel like it's pretty noisy year to year and it does change. So yeah, it's hard to, it's hard to see, you know, where he fits in on your fantasy team and also

49:00on your real life team, you know, this is, this has been a fine season, but he's still just not a great defender and he's a slightly blowered hitter and it comes out to just barely above a replacement level player. And he's like, next year is his last year of arbitration. So the salary is getting a little high, you know, I wouldn't be surprised to see him end up being a non-tender candidate and maybe you're settling in until like a part time role somewhere. So yeah, I just have some concern about, he's type of guy who he needs to play every single day from to relevant to your fantasy team so they can, you know, crew those home runs and RBI's, but his barrel rate has really plummeted this year. It's only half of what it was last year, even though he's swinging just as hard and he's not striking out anymore. He's actually striking out a little bit less. So yeah, I think that last year does kind of look like a high water mark in retrospect and I kept him in a league on a cheap salary because I figured if I get 80% of what he was last year, you know, be pretty happy with that, but this has been more like, I feel like 70% and it's just not quite enough to really get me interested in fantasy. Yeah, I'm curious how much variance there is in his 80 p because on

50:02NFBC this earlier this season, 120 80 p for Joe and Dell. So it's like getting drafted at the end of the 10th round and a 12 t-mer. And I feel like there's got to be more variance with a Dell where like maybe he was drafted around earlier or around later, but to be a guy who's drafted in the first 10 rounds after one really good season, like I'm kind of surprised to start shot up that high, but yeah, I probably would expect him his 80 p to be more like the high 200s or 300s this upcoming year. Yeah, I guess he has been. I was like into Fanger as a player, Rader, the 31st outfielder. So I feel you haven't necessarily lost if you drafted him, but it makes me think about guys who are a lot more valuable in fantasy than real life and how quickly their playing time can dry up. Obviously Nick Castellanus is a older one. It happened to him, but it does kind of strike me as a similar profile has power, but Port offender, 1000 walks. So as a result, he's not actually that good real life hitter. So yeah, that would just give me a little bit of trepidation. Someone a good center of mirrors, you know, different profile, different type of guy,

51:05but same thing happened to him this year. Defense wasn't good enough and he lost his playing time and all his value as a result. So it just gives me a little bit more pause. Yeah, important to know the playing time question too, because 149 games this year, 616 played appearances. Yeah, if he doesn't get that, it's just like you said, it's going to be harder to really value him in a fantasy league. But if he does get that, then maybe there is some value at the very tail end of drafts to pick him up. Yeah, and I hope he stays with the guardians. If I, you know, if I'm worried about the volume, because their lineup is just just a little dent for sure. Yeah, they'll take anyone who can hit a home or other team. Yeah, contrast well with the rest of the rest of the lineup. Yeah, all right, we'll be on to pitch a pitching cause for dawn today against the twin six innings, four hits, two and runs three walks, five strikeouts in a no decision. And he's had a really solid numbers actually 2.97 ERA 1.14 whip a 26.2% strikeout rate. The walks as usual with redone,

52:08not very good 12% walk right there, but all of that through 75 innings because he's been dealing with injuries so much this season. And the numbers today in his start against the twins, he actually had a slight improvement in his fastball IVB, but that things coming in at 18.6 inches. So a still a really solid number there. And his other pitches, the slider was good for five whiffs out of 26 thrown, change up got to a side of 12. So you know, solid in terms of his fastball was still leading the way with five whiffs 11 called strikes. But the second areas are there to support him a little bit. Just the walks man, that's just the annoying part with her dawn. But yeah, does do you think like the injury bug with her dawn makes him a little risky, which I guess to say is kind of a funny thing to mention about redone because he's actually been relatively healthy. The last two seasons, it's actually been this year that is the season that really hits him in terms of injury. Do you still like him as like potentially a top 40 picture with those types of numbers that he's shown in basically half a season? Or do you feel like their injury risk is still

53:13there for him? And maybe it's not worth risking like a top 120 pick on him. Yeah, I still find him still find him pretty risky. The walks like you said are pretty concerning. And I feel like that combined with the two IEL stints for elbow related stuff, it just kind of scares me off. I know one of them was for a procedure that he did generally recover from on time. The walks are just, this is like a borderline untenable walk rate, you know, at 12% for a major league starter. So I think that there's going to be a whip risk that comes with that. I do think he does a pretty good job avoiding like hard contact. So I don't think he's a risk to give up a ton of hits and walks, but you know, the walks and combined with maybe some worse abit block, I think he could end up looking, you know, more like his 2024 season, maybe we had a 396 year ARA where the, you know, the ratios aren't quite as good. So yeah, I think maybe I'd be willing to take a shot at him in like a shower league as like SB3 type thing. But overall, I don't feel like I could draft him super confidently next year. Yeah, and it's really the whip

54:16that that hurts you. And man, a 4.48 walks per nine, like that number just seems so high. Just the fact that like half his starts, he'd probably giving up at least two two walks there. So don't love that for Rodon, which that was a little bit better. But it is one of those like he, the skills are great. And like you said, you know, maybe worth a flyer, but he's one of those guys who I envision like in a season long team ends up being kind of like a hipster because the, the starts that are great are really great. But then he's just going to hit you with that whip risk and that could end up leading to some some poor ARAs as well. Yeah, and I guess the walks have been a little bit better since he came back from a second I else didn't. Somebody still average in like round two per start and he's only gone about four to five and he's per start. So not a, not a huge drop still. But yeah, I'd be interested to see if it if it gets better his last couple starts of the year two on maybe into the playoffs. Yeah. All right. Well, that's going to wrap it up for play performances. We're going to move on to streamers and we are back to 500, I believe.

55:22Yes, the battle. See over 500 continues two wins one loss and one push from two weeks ago. I hadn't was nesky was to push. He had a win in a quality start. But his second start was kind of rough. So ended up being nine innings of six certain rounds and a 1.44 whip. So call that a push because you do get the win but the ratios were not good. Land a group. Guess is a win and he himself got the win with six corals innings. Only two strikeouts and a 1 whip but obviously good enough start there to be the win. Cal control got two wins two quality starts in 12 innings with only eight strikeouts five and runs in a 0.92 whip. So that's a win there. And then change your own was a loss at 3.2 innings of five earned against the reds. Yeah, and the guys from last week. Mixtures also far we'll see how they end up. They're all two stark guys. So we'll see Griffin Jackson, Jonathan, do well. Davis Martin was just fine and Corbin Burns was not good so we will see what happens with them. This week, yeah, we have some one starts and some two starts. Might be two starts. Might be tough to come by a lot of six game weeks and you know maybe two some bullpen games because it's the final week. But we are going with Davis Martin again at 30%

56:25Yahoo 61% CBS. He gets one home start against the Rockies. Good for quality starts and wins but not strikeouts. You did not have a single strikeout in his most recent outing. So you know, you're getting there. Azabie Matthew is more risky but probably a higher upside play 21% Yahoo 47% CBS. He gets one start at the Giants and is coming off a really good outing against the Yankees today. Christian Javier is the next one of the Astros 34% Yahoo 30% CBS. He gets at Seattle for the first start and then maybe at the age for the second one. Honestly, it would be okay if it's only the one at Seattle. Primarily a strikeout in wins play. Doesn't go super deep that often. And then Ryan Johnson of the Angels 22% Yahoo 24% CBS. He gets one start at Seattle which should be nice and he's got an 18 to three strikeout to walk ratio and it's last three starts. But his season-long written numbers are pretty rocky. So, you know, I think he's decent because it was recent form but still a little risky. And then other guys, Sean Manaya at Texas and Mike at At Washington to end the year but probably not and then Cal Quantals to higher Oster to be a streamer but also at the Twin. So,

57:29if he's available, I think those guys are worth considering too. Yeah, I think last week of the fantasy season, if you're in like a head to head league, it's just so much fun for streamers. Like it could definitely buy you in the butt but at the same time you just run through all your matchup acquisitions. You start dropping guys who are undrobable in the beginning of the year because they're just not going to go again. You can rack up a ton of counting starts. So, all these guys certainly viable in your championships. Maybe be a little judicious with who you pick but nonetheless, all these guys are definitely fun options for potentially helping you secure a championship next week. Yeah, and I would say Quantals, my favorite of all the guys and then after I was kind of in order, Dave Smart and gets a great matchup. So, I mean, Matthew is maybe better pitcher but not as good as a matchup than Jonson and then probably Manaya. Yeah. All right, well, that's going to wrap it up for this episode of this weekend. Fatty's baseball again. You can find us on Twitter at this week. PL sent us your comments and questions at this week. PeelPotatGema.com. You can find myself on Twitter at the john cah you can find Patrick at p fits drilled underscore 99.

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