WEBVTT - MLB: Leading Off August 8th, 2022 (Ep. 569) 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:18.280 Welcome in peanuts, welcome in cracker Jacks. To leading off 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.439 right here on Fantasy Pros, I am Chris Welsh and 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.639 joining me for the first time on the podcast is 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.960 Andrew Seifer, who you can hear on Fantasy Pros. Got 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.160 some podcast action going on, Andrew, what's up, buddy. We'd 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:31.880 met for the first time, like thirty minutes ago. We 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:33.200 get the podcast together. 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:34.680 We're old buddies at this point. 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:39.599 Chris right, exactly exactly about what people going on articles 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:40.479 and podcasts. 0:00:40.760 --> 0:00:43.239 Yeah, so I've been writing the Waiver Wire article over 0:00:43.680 --> 0:00:47.040 Fantasy Pros all season. I have actually taken a little 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:49.440 break over the last month from that because I was 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:52.440 traveling in England for a month actually, so that was 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.720 pretty cool, following some of the other kind of football 0:00:55.760 --> 0:00:57.800 that they play over there for a little while. But 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.520 diving back into my baseball work now, I host a podcast, 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.040 rest of Season Rankings podcast. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:05.200 We talk baseball. 0:01:05.240 --> 0:01:08.360 We update our rankings earlier on in the season, just 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.600 about every week now it's maybe every two weeks, but 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.640 we keep up with rest of season value. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:16.240 And yeah, I'm doing some football stuff as well over there, 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:17.880 so it's good times, you know. 0:01:17.840 --> 0:01:20.679 The rest of season ranks. It's a whole another ball game. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.520 I love the concept of the podcast I just just 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:26.480 finished and released over on the in this League Patreon 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.880 it in this league dot Com my rest of season 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.959 baseball ranks. And this is like my third or so 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.760 update and the changes you go through and probably the 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.600 biggest change. And I'll just throw this out to everybody 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.720 when I was going through all of them and remind 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.400 you this isn't from the beginning of the season. I've 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.600 done an update theoretically every single month. Was the huge 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.360 move I made for Michael Harris. I pushed Michael Harris 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:49.280 up into an elite territory. I did it for my 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:53.480 Dynasty ranks as well, very very different. Oh is my rank? 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.680 Is my audio a little bit different today? Let's see? Oh, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.520 you know what? My audio is different. I'm going to 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:00.840 change us up here in just a second. But Andrew, 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:02.640 you know what, talk about Michael Harris while I fix this. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.240 Well, you picked a great subject. I love Michael Harris. 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.520 I've been in on him since day one. You know, 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:09.880 in my home league, it's a keeper league where you 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.400 can keep six players, and so the bar's pretty high 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:14.440 for keeper value. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:14.680 There. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:19.079 I jumped at the opportunity to add Michael Harris bid 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.560 fifteen bucks of my one hundred dollars. Fab nobody else 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:24.120 bid a dollar on him at the time, So I 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:25.360 had a feeling. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.200 And the reason was. I don't know if you saw 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:28.640 what Marquise. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.639 Grissom said about Michael Harris before he got called up, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.359 but I've never seen anyone throw the amount of praise 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:36.400 at a player that he did. And the main thing 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.280 he said that stuck with me was he said, this 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.560 kid is different, like mentally, he's ready for the prime time. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.519 He's not going to back down from the bright lights. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.520 And he compared him to guys like Barry Bonds and 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:49.520 all sorts of insane pressure to put on a you know, 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:51.640 young kid coming up to the big leagues to a 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.560 title contending team. But Michael Harris just got it done 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:59.360 from day one in you know, roto leagues, category leagues, 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:01.760 especially with stolen bases he brings to the table. He's 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.400 like a true five category stud right away. 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:06.320 And I love meet Michael Harris. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.880 Michael Harris was from a dynasty perspective, probably the biggest move, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.880 and then even from a redraft perspective, when you look 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:14.839 at some of the outfielders that have come back down. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.839 So if if someone would ask me, like, hey, rest 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:20.359 of season ranks, what would be the biggest change, I 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.040 would have said, Michael Harris immediately jumped in. Michael Harris 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.519 was kind of my biggest change. We got a whole 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.720 bunch to go through. Actually, gonna take a look at 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:29.840 some of the waiver guys here in just a tiny 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:32.000 bit a bunch of waiver changes. We'll go through the 0:03:32.040 --> 0:03:34.880 home run contest. Who had some bombs this weekend, which 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:37.960 I'm gonna give a little hint, doesn't look like a lot. 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.040 Does not look like a whole lot of homers were 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.000 hit over the weekend. So the board does have a change. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.920 Though it does have a change. We have one defined 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:47.600 leader and we'll go through all that in bets, dfs 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.840 and stuff like that. But over the weekend, how about 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:52.920 a headline news of Jacob de Gram. Jacob de Grom 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:55.520 gave up only two runs in five and two thirds 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.440 of an inning on Sunday and a win over the Braves. 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:00.560 Only gave up I think a loan two run homer 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.400 to dance by Swanson at the top of the six. 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.800 He had one walk, but twelve strikeouts. Retal World had 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.680 a nice little breakdown talking about how his slider had 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:15.200 absolutely bonkers eighteen whiffs on twenty swings, which is ridiculous, 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.760 and he had maxed out at just under one oh two, 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.560 which is now, by the way, two straight starts that 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.159 he has hit that one oh two marker on the 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.440 fastball the slider. He is throwing higher on average than 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.520 most are averaging their fastball, and the slider looks completely 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.920 on point. Jacob deGrom is back to being the best 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:37.680 pitcher in baseball rest of season rank Andrew, this is 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.240 fantastic to have you on. How did you approach and 0:04:40.279 --> 0:04:42.080 how do you guys approach Jacob de grim because I 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.120 kind of fought with everybody because I'm a little more like, 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:47.800 you know, in like like this, I'm like that I'd 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.120 blind my eyes for Jacob de Grom, and I'm like, well, 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.839 he's there, He's the best. Right before he came back, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.880 I ranked him at the tippy top level. But what 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:56.400 say you? 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.040 Yeah, I mean I once it was clear he was 0:04:59.080 --> 0:05:00.680 coming back, within a matter of of a week or two, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.520 he was already inside my top five starting pitchers rest 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.720 of season. But you know, the real trick with the 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:07.560 rest of the season rankings was how to approach him 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.760 a month ago, two months ago, when you knew he 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.599 was going to be out a lot longer. But you 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:14.560 also know just how good he can be. And with 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:18.720 starting pitchers, you know, in particular, they can make as 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.960 big an impact in two months as a lot of 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.920 players can in four months, five months. You know, we've 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.280 seen this time and again with de Gram and with 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:29.000 guys like Kershaw on his prime. These guys maybe they 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:31.440 only throw one hundred innings in de Gram's case, it 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.400 could be less, but the impact is still huge. And 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:36.480 in our you know, at my site, we come at 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.920 it from like a standard twelve team five by five 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.280 kind of perspective. So there I feel like you really 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.200 want to shoot for upside, you know, you don't you 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.160 want to stash guys who can make a real difference. 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.800 So I had trouble ever moving to Grom outside of 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.760 like my top one hundred or so overall players, even 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:52.400 when we knew he was going to be out for 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.760 a couple more months. So now, yeah, he's definitely right 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:55.200 at the top. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:57.600 I put him in at four. I've got him at 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:00.520 four right now on my rank and this was before 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:04.920 that last start that he had, so twelve strikeouts, looks 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.560 back in it. Mac shus Or Jacob A Gram rest 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.520 of season, Andrew, that's really tough. 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:10.400 They're both so good. 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.120 After seeing that, I think I have to give a 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:16.320 slight edge to Gram just because we just see as 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:18.839 great assures. Or Is de Grom has been even better, 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.240 went healthy over the last couple of years, and it 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:24.320 seems like he's completely healthy now. 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.240 So I love Mac shors Or. He's one of my 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:27.200 fair players in the game. 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.880 He's also an easy top five starting pitcher rest of 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:30.440 season for me. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.280 But I still give a slight edge to Gam. 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.520 I give that too. Oh my internet, hopefully my internet's 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.360 not too wonky for everybody. This is becoming a good 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:41.560 show this morning. Can you hear me? Am I am? 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:41.920 I good? 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:43.960 Yeah, you're fine now, I hear you. Yeah, just a 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.760 little choppy on the video, but you're getting okay. 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.360 Well, you guys don't need to see me that much. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.720 We can play a stock picture up here. Here's an 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:51.839 interesting concept I want to throw out. So something funny 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:54.919 happened before the show where I was looking at Rotal 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.600 World News and I saw a piece of news that 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.599 I didn't read really quick, and it hit my brain, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.520 and the news was George Valaeia getting a promotion. And 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.159 if anybody knows me or follows me, knows that I 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.560 love George Valaira probably more than any other prospect, simply 0:07:10.600 --> 0:07:13.480 also because he is someone that I've followed since before 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.240 he even came over Stateside, and I've interviewed him and 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.400 I talked with him, and just I think he's gonna 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.000 be a great prospect. And of course I didn't read 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.880 the news correctly and it was him going from a 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:26.360 promotion from Double A to Triple A. But it brought 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.560 up It brought up a concept that I've been thinking 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:32.040 about and not really sure how to rationalize. Is how 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.640 we've got top prospects in the game who are probably 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.160 close to ready. George vlaiird be one of them, Corbyn, 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:41.200 Carrol Gunner, Henderson. Yet people are always asking, Hey, are 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.360 they gonna come up? Are they're gonna come up? And 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:45.880 I've kind of been at a loss because of one 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:50.440 major point. Baseball is now giving a advantage for teams 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.000 to have a prospect break with their roster opening day. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.320 Julio Rodriguez. The Mariners are going to get a first 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.000 round pick, a compensatory first round pick now because of 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.160 Julio Rodriguez. There's an advantage for teams like the Guardians, 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:06.040 the Diamondbacks and the Orioles to wait and bring these 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.760 guys up. And that's a big speculative thing. We're gonna 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:10.480 talk about wivers here in a second, but everyone's always 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.120 speculating on the next big prospect. When will Gunnar Henderson 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.120 come up? But I don't know if these guys are 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:17.360 gonna come up because of the advantage of the teams have. 0:08:17.760 --> 0:08:21.600 Do you think, Andrew, it's even worthwhile speculative adding some 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.440 of the top top players like Gorman, Carolyn, Gunner Henderson 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.240 because of this or do you think you would move 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:31.560 completely away assuming especially teams like the Orioles and Diamondbacks 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:34.000 they needed everything they can do. There's no reason for 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.840 them to bring up so they could take advantage of 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:36.840 that new rule next year. 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:37.480 Yeah. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.400 I mean again, this is I hate to hedge, but 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:41.360 this is so format dependent, you know what I mean? 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.520 Because like in a dynasty league, these guys have been 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.320 rostered for like two or three years. Sure, in a 0:08:47.520 --> 0:08:50.360 redraft league, I don't know if they necessarily need to 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.040 be picked up. And then in like a keeper league, 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.600 it really comes down to the specific rules there. 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:55.360 You know. 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.480 I think it's fine if you have a deep bench 0:08:57.520 --> 0:08:59.520 and you want to shoot for the moon and shoot 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:02.560 for extreme upside, like these guys present that, you know, 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.240 So like if I never want a roster or something, 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.800 that's the same thing that you can find ten of 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.280 on the waiver wire. So if I have some you know, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:13.560 fourth outfielder on my bench just wasting away and they're 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.800 not special, sure I'll take a shot on one of 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.200 these guys, knowing that there's probably a one to ten 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.880 chance or less that it actually pays off. I don't 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.640 have a huge problem with that, but I do think 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.199 generally speaking, in redraft leagues, some of these hot prospects 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:28.599 tend to be a little bit overrated. 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.400 And I think right now what I would do for 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:33.360 everybody else. The more I've thought about this is I 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:36.120 do think there's an opportunity for it, because I don't 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.439 I don't know the rule one hundred percent, but I 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:39.760 do believe as long as a guy hasn't lost prospect 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.600 eligibility that they would still qualify for this. I believe 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.679 if that's true. I could see guys like Gunner and 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.720 Corman Carroll getting called up in September where they cannot 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.600 lose a prospect eligibility and then could break roster. If 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:56.440 it is about pure call up, then you shouldn't expect 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.360 to see them either way. What I'm getting at though, 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:00.920 is the last week in August might be the time 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.280 if you want to speculate for a run. The reason 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.760 why those two Corban Carroll specifically would be so interesting 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.800 is because of hitting at the top of an order 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.480 and stealing bases, which could be a league winning thing 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.760 for category leagues in roto. If you're trying to get 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.440 those last minute stolen bases. Gunnar'd be a little bit tougher. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.760 I don't know if he'd run as aggressively or hit 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.440 in the middle of a lineup right off the top 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:22.480 of Corbyn. Carroll would be one of those. But it 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.040 had me thinking because of just how ridiculous I mean 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:27.240 Andrew saw me. I was like, oh, Jorge, let's getting 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:28.560 called up, and then as I did it, I was like, 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.280 wait a minute, this is a triple A. I'm so dumb, 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.400 And I was like, Wow, why did they call him 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.480 up from double A and I had to go through 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.120 that whole process and my brain was frying here. Some 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.600 injuries froll the weekend. Anthony Rizzo missed the entire weekend 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:42.840 with the back injury. Keep an eye on that. George 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:45.560 Springer finally did hit the il with an elbow injury, 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:47.560 which is going to be a good probably short term 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.120 with Marorfield. We'll see what happens once Springer comes back. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.640 Ronald Akoonya was a late scratch on Sunday with lower 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.880 body soreness. They also lost Darnaul, who sat out Sunday 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.040 with a leg injury after a collision on Saturday. The 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:03.280 negatives were X rays were negative for a fracture. The 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.520 positive fantasy boost would just continuously be Will Contraras, who 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.680 has been just such a stud and if he gets 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.920 full time go that would be great. Chris Morel Outsunday 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.200 with a hamstring strain, Mickey Moniac out with a fractured fringer, 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:18.960 and Amelio Pegane out indefinitely. But who cared because Jorge 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.000 Lopez came in and be the guy. Did you get 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.240 hit at all by the Were you a big saves 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.480 speculator this year? Because Johan Duran and Emilio were like 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.840 the classic I'm not going to draft high closers, hold 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.680 on to them, and then Jorge Lopez just completely takes 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:34.760 that away from them. No. 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.360 See, I was on the opposite side of I had 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:38.240 horror Ha Lopez, and I was kind of sweating it 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.680 a little bit because I also had Taylor Rodgers, and 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.240 you know, I had a few closers that I was 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.520 worried We're going to be losing their jobs, and I, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.000 you know, or hey, Horey Lopez has been amazing this year, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.560 but I wasn't sure. I mean, the Twins are not 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.720 a team that has typically just deployed a single closer, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.800 so I thought he would still get some chances. I 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.120 wasn't sure though that he was going to be the guy. 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.840 But as a Hornelo Haz manager, I'm sort of relieved 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.680 by the usage that we've seen from him since they 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:04.319 acquired him. 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.480 He's one of the scariest I completely agree he's the 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.200 quintessential closer that loses their job at the trade deadline, 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.000 like him and Gregor and Soda Gregory Soto. I like 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.959 those two. I was assured they were going to lose 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:17.760 their jobs, and neither one did neither one did. They 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:19.840 both get to keep it, one staying at home and 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.400 one being traded, but you know, in a fantastic destination 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:26.959 and helping and improving their value, which actually brings us 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:29.800 to a little transition of waivers. We usually don't haven't 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:31.559 talked about a bunch of waivers on Mondays, but I 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.280 thought this would be a good thing to do, and 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.280 I picked up two guys. Lots of different waivers stuff. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:39.680 So many people cover it really well over it. In 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.280 this league, we try to do a full look at 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.319 all the different sites on Mondays. When we do a 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.440 Monday episode. My buddy Vlad Sedler from FTN, he'll do 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:48.439 out a sheet where he'll put out and here's what 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:51.120 my fab looks like. And fab and waivers are not 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.720 all created equal because unfortunately, I think a lot of 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.600 the industry that talks about it is talking about it 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.920 from a high stakes a standpoint and talking about it 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.040 from like an NFBC standpoint, which isn't necessarily always what 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.320 everybody else is doing. But what it does do is 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.160 it highlights players you should be taking a look at. 0:13:06.160 --> 0:13:08.679 And the number one player I actually went and looked 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:12.079 over at CBS's platform over the last seven days. That 0:13:12.120 --> 0:13:13.960 made a big change and was also on a lot 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:16.640 of waiver claims if you were played in a waiver 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.000 based league. Was Felix Batista when we talk about we 0:13:20.440 --> 0:13:22.840 talk about, you know, closer roles changing, or this is 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.959 the addition by subtraction where he gets the role because 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.640 you know they move out. He was eighteen percent owned 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.880 last week, fifty five percent this on a CBS that 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:35.240 was a thirty seven percent change in that time. He 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.400 hasn't had a whole bunch, but he did. I think 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.840 after the trade he'd give up a run on the third, 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.679 but he picked up a save on the fifth. Hasn't 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.840 jumped into games yet. I saw a lot of people 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.280 making the move that Felix Patista was one of the 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:52.240 biggest beneficiaries on the trade deadline. If Felix Batista is 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:55.000 still out on the wire, is he an absolute must 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:57.880 pick up in any format right now because of being 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.760 a closer, or do you think he belongs in that 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:04.120 little like run of pseudo closers that are not necessarily trustworthy, 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.120 like I could see in smaller leagues, like guys like 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.200 Soto and him just be sitting around available and people 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.600 being able to churn out closer Hunter Strickland as well. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.000 I mean, I think he's a bona fide stud as 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:16.920 a closer. I really do you know. 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:19.200 This is a guy who if you look at his numbers, 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.920 I mean he's he's had over twelve k per nine 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:24.760 at every step of the miners. He's continued it in 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:28.200 the majors. Very manageable walk rate this year at two 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.600 point ninety six walks per nine. You know, I think 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:34.040 the Orioles obviously have been a better team than people 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:37.840 were expecting, so there's been more save opportunities for Jorge Lopez, 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:40.880 and now those could be there for Batista and I 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.960 just you know, it has to be a saves league, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.520 because this is the thing. If you're not counting saves, 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:48.360 these relievers don't accumulate that many innings, so that makes 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.640 them less interesting perhaps, although even in innings capped leagues, 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.240 the ratios he can give you and the strikeouts he 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.280 can give you can really help as well. So I mean, 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.200 it wouldn't surprise me at all if he was like 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:01.400 a top ten closer and fantasy value the rest of 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:01.840 the season. 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:03.960 I mean, that would actually be kind of shocking to 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.880 me outside of like the peripherals more than it's such 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:10.280 like Orioles picking up that many games for him to 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.640 be able to lock down saves to be a top 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:16.320 ten guy, especially because you added like we added Devin 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.760 Williams to the mix, like Devin Williams was added into 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.320 the crew. I think an easy top ten closer Horay Lopez, 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.240 you could argue could be in that territory now because 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:29.560 you know Atlanta ate itself up. You lost Rice Iglesias, 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:31.400 who comes out of the top ten. You had a 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.680 little bit of a question Atlanta with Kenlly Jansen and them. 0:15:33.760 --> 0:15:36.800 Hoorray Lopez goes into a situation with like being on 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.400 such a great offensive team and now Pugne out. If 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:43.040 they don't implement any type of rotation, Lopez could be 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:46.080 a top ten Batistas wouldn't be the underlying stats. It's 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.080 it almost it's not Edwin Diaz in a seventeen K 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:51.000 per nine, but it's like a thirteen K for nine, 0:15:51.600 --> 0:15:53.920 manageable ish walk right and under two Eira like those 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.080 are really great numbers for a closer. I think the 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.600 underlyings could be of a top ten closer for him 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.280 to finish would be big. But either way, he's only 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.640 fifty five percent on in CBS leagues, which is probably 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.080 going to be relatively lower in others. We found if 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:08.520 you play on like Yahoo and ESPN, you're probably going 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.960 to find the percentages lower than ESPN leagues, and that 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:13.760 might be something to look at. Two other guys on 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:17.840 the young side, Miguel Vargas, who I think is just 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:21.400 an absolute stud, top ten prospect moving forward on my 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.440 list and he'll graduate off of it. He was thirty 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.240 percent owned last week, up to forty two percent owned 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.400 this week. Hasn't really popped off necessarily a whole bunch, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.040 but you see the low k rate hasn't walked yet, 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:34.440 just a couple of hits. He does have a stolen base. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.080 If he's given the run by the Dodgers, he is 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:38.560 someone that you're going to want to hold onto. And 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.360 then Bubba Thompson was a big one that was a 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:44.840 little bit more like late run for people you know 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:47.680 who weren't dealing in the trade deadline, was only one 0:16:47.720 --> 0:16:50.640 percent owned up to eight percent on on CBS. Got 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.680 a couple of stolen bases, but showing off some of 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:58.920 his INACQUI what's the word, I'm looking for his negatives 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:00.640 as far as a hitter goes, as far as making 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:03.960 contact and striking out that he's a little bit more dicey, 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:06.200 especially when like Cole Calhoun comes back. But if not, 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.639 stolen bases something you can always chase. Is this a 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.560 stolen based time? Would are you in a mode where 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.200 you would want to sacrifice a little bit of consistency 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.640 maybe on a batting average player batting average, a little 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.280 bit of homers to speculate on a guy like Bubba Thompson, 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.160 for really could be like game changing stolen bases rest 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:26.440 of the way through. I think he stole like forty 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.159 stolen bases early on this season. Would you sacrifice a 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.840 middle line outfielder to speculate on stolen bases with Bubba? 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:35.080 I don't have a problem with that. 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:36.919 I mean I do think as we get later in 0:17:36.960 --> 0:17:39.040 the season and you see more of the managers in 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.560 your leagues kind of dropping off and maybe moving their 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.040