Speaker 1: Welshman. Everybody to Fantasy Bros MLB, it's time to look
Speaker 1: at to the waiver wire for the week with me,
Speaker 1: Joey p Joe Phizipia. Of course with me is the
Speaker 1: Welsh And let's start here with the guy getting the
Speaker 1: call again from Triple A. Chandler Simpson did nothing wrong
Speaker 1: the first time. I don't know what the problem the
Speaker 1: Rays have, maybe they're just being cheap, but you know what,
Speaker 1: the Rays are in it now and Chandler Simpson is
Speaker 1: back and he has been stealing bases, doing everything he
Speaker 1: possibly can for the Rays at Triple A, and now
Speaker 1: he's getting another opportunity. He was optioned to Durham in
Speaker 1: late May after he was posting a two to eighty
Speaker 1: five batting average, no homers, of course, but nineteen steals,
Speaker 1: seventeen runs and thirty five games. And now it's an
Speaker 1: opportunity for him to rebound again, come back here and
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully continue to give us more stolen bases
Speaker 1: because Welsh when you look at where he's at currently,
Speaker 1: he is still available in fifty percent of CBS leagues.
Speaker 1: A lot of teams had no choice but to drop him.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking for help and steal. It's time
Speaker 1: to be aggressive for Chandler Simpson.
Speaker 2: If he's out there, I think, like points leagues, you're
Speaker 2: going to see the devaluation because sure, you know, stolen
Speaker 2: bases don't mean as much. He has no power potential.
Speaker 2: He doesn't register on RBIs. The positive is he doesn't
Speaker 2: strike out, he even in that time. And that was
Speaker 2: the weirdest thing about the sendown is there was real
Speaker 2: world baseball, you know, like defensive metrics war versus what
Speaker 2: we got in fantasy. And his fantasy owners were like,
Speaker 2: why are we sending down this guy that's hitting like
Speaker 2: almost two eighty and stealing all the bases and getting hits.
Speaker 2: Like why It's like, well, because he's not doing a
Speaker 2: whole lot else, but for fantasy, he is covering some
Speaker 2: of those markers and if he hits at the top
Speaker 2: of the lineup, I love it. The low k percentage
Speaker 2: is phenomenal tons of hits. He's a ground ball hitter
Speaker 2: that's just going to get on base and steal a ton.
Speaker 2: So you know, maybe there's like caveats to it, but
Speaker 2: in my eyes, like he's just a must pick up,
Speaker 2: Like he is a deficit in the home run department.
Speaker 2: But I think he's a no doubt player that you
Speaker 2: want to get on your roster. I would not let
Speaker 2: him be fifty one percent in any format. And I'm
Speaker 2: picking him up across the board because guess what, we
Speaker 2: are still valuing stolen bases in a world where you know,
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll when he was on, he wasn't stealing bases. Really,
Speaker 2: Ronald Acuna is not stealing him. We're just not getting
Speaker 2: that same level of some of the guys we expect.
Speaker 2: So I think a lot of us would probably still
Speaker 2: have that need so go pick up Chandler Simpson.
Speaker 1: Head to head road the leagues, especially in a short week.
Speaker 1: This guy can have four by himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he can win. It's kind of like Ellie. He's
Speaker 2: like Ellie from last year, Like he can win the
Speaker 2: week for you alone. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Casey Schmidt the next guy on their list we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about today, just thirteen percent roster. We're really digging
Speaker 1: deeper on these next couple of ones here. He's a
Speaker 1: guy that, depending on your league rules, good Wuialfai almost
Speaker 1: everywhere in the infield. So he's filling in for Matt
Speaker 1: Chapman now and with Tyler Fitzgerald getting sent down. It's
Speaker 1: like Schmidt is actually clearing a path for himself. He's
Speaker 1: you know, it was up last year, had some mixed reviews,
Speaker 1: but so far this year in thirty three games for
Speaker 1: the Giants, four home runs, fifteen RBI, hitting two eighty four.
Speaker 1: To me at this point, well, it's just a matter
Speaker 1: of is he an interesting depth piece, especially if you're
Speaker 1: in any format with daily train actions where Schmid qualifies
Speaker 1: so many different spots potentially, To me, that's a very
Speaker 1: useful piece if you're willing to manage it out. So
Speaker 1: I think Schmid is worth of speculation. What do you think?
Speaker 2: I love this one. My only hesitation has been like,
Speaker 2: how do they make it work when you know in
Speaker 2: Chapman backets Chapman adamis you've got potentially Devors at first,
Speaker 2: you got Wilmer Flores in there. But you know what,
Speaker 2: like because Casey Schmidt I believe, has registered the entire
Speaker 2: infield this year, they can just pop them into a spot.
Speaker 2: I don't know if to be full.
Speaker 1: Time off that Devor's just DH even you.
Speaker 2: Know, yeah, I mean if Devors wants to DH and
Speaker 2: you want to put Wilmer at first, then you can
Speaker 2: have Casey Schmidt play second, like you can do with
Speaker 2: this stuff. And the reason I love this so much
Speaker 2: in that it looks like the hope is a lot
Speaker 2: greater that he can stay on the field. And his
Speaker 2: profile is just phenomenal right now. His ten percent barrel,
Speaker 2: almost fifty percent hard hit rate, he's walking almost ten
Speaker 2: percent of the time, he's getting the ball in the air.
Speaker 2: And if you look on he's not qualified, but you
Speaker 2: go into baseball savant from a slider person, he's tops
Speaker 2: of the league and like expected whoa expected batting average,
Speaker 2: expected slug he's got that nice launch angle, sweet spot.
Speaker 2: So he's hitting it perfectly. Like there's a lot of
Speaker 2: things that are in favor. It kind of reminds me
Speaker 2: of an NL Addison Barger how people are treating Addison Barger.
Speaker 2: Schmidt kind of has that, but he has less of
Speaker 2: a path for people. So maybe get the next Addison
Speaker 2: Barger in Casey Schmidt.
Speaker 1: I like that a lot. That's actually a really good
Speaker 1: camp there. Next gut on our list is another one
Speaker 1: under twenty percent roster, Tyler Freeman, who came over to
Speaker 1: the Rockies in a trade with the Guardians. Earlier in
Speaker 1: the season and over his last couple of games here
Speaker 1: starting to get really hot, hitting two ninety two over
Speaker 1: that span, with two stolen bases in the last week.
Speaker 1: That's what you're looking for. He's got nine steals on
Speaker 1: the year, hitting three twenty seven. He qualifies a shortstop
Speaker 1: and outfield depending on your league eligibility rules. And look,
Speaker 1: you know at this point you're looking for bats, and
Speaker 1: I think the Rockies are also ready to make some
Speaker 1: hard decisions. You imagine they're going to be trading off
Speaker 1: some pieces too, so more opportunities going to open up
Speaker 1: where things are going to get a little less crowded
Speaker 1: in Colorado come the end of July. Ian McMahon's gone,
Speaker 1: maybe even somebody else. So I could see looking at
Speaker 1: this next player, Tyler Freeman is another guy that might
Speaker 1: be worth a deeper league speculative ad. But what do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's like CVS Jacob Wilson, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, Like that's where he looks right now.
Speaker 2: Really low strikeouts is really long yeah sea, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Well in Colorado boosts him a little bit, so like
Speaker 2: imagine Jacob Wilson there. So it just kind of has
Speaker 2: some feels of that. The hitting profile isn't super sexy,
Speaker 2: but he is walking more than he's striking out right now.
Speaker 2: He is stealing some bases, and you know, I think
Speaker 2: another guy you could look at. He wasn't on our list,
Speaker 2: but like Mickey Moniac, they've got a couple guys that
Speaker 2: you know whether they're going to move off pieces. Assuming
Speaker 2: Ryan McMahon gets traded, like Tyler Freeman, should have the
Speaker 2: season just completely in front of him to run with it.
Speaker 2: And it's just a good contact profile, so you gotta
Speaker 2: be careful about it. He'll probably rank even higher. But again,
Speaker 2: you're hitting over three hundred, you got a little bit
Speaker 2: of homer equity. By the way, his homer came on
Speaker 2: the road, not even at home, so you might have
Speaker 2: a little bit more potential home run. And he steals
Speaker 2: a little bit more than a Jacob Wilson, So if
Speaker 2: he keeps up this profile, he might kind of be sneaky.
Speaker 2: And he's got even twelve team format potential on the
Speaker 2: middle endfield and he just needs to continue playing time.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm kind of into this one if you're
Speaker 2: chasing batting average and maybe runs.
Speaker 1: I didn't put Moniac on the list because I still
Speaker 1: just don't believe in the player. That's that's my you know,
Speaker 1: just shake on it. But I agree, if you're in
Speaker 1: a deeper league and needed outfield help, he might be
Speaker 1: one of those guys you could look at. We went
Speaker 1: through a list of those names. By the way, I'm
Speaker 1: leading off the other day. If you want to check
Speaker 1: that out, go watch leading off with Cortman Carroll's injury
Speaker 1: when that happened there and him going on the ALE
Speaker 1: Official League. We listed a bunch of you know, mid
Speaker 1: level names that you know might be out there in
Speaker 1: shallow leagues and even deeper names. But any port in
Speaker 1: a storm right now. And one more reminder. Last week
Speaker 1: a dragover Christian Moore, second base from Los Angeles Angels
Speaker 1: of Anaheim just twenty eight percent roster. His roster percentage
Speaker 1: actually went down for some reason over the weekend. I
Speaker 1: don't know why. Maybe people picked him up and they said, ah,
Speaker 1: he's not doing anything, and then yesterday he goes and
Speaker 1: he hits two home runs. Again, the Patien's level just
Speaker 1: not there. So this is more of a public service announcement.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's anything else you want to
Speaker 1: add to Christian Moore. But again second pase is not
Speaker 1: exactly you know, the best out there in terms of
Speaker 1: offensive productivity. If you can stash a guy who might
Speaker 1: figure it out as the season goes on, then Christian
Speaker 1: Moore is one of those guys you want to have
Speaker 1: on your roster.
Speaker 2: I think that's the big thing, is like if you
Speaker 2: believe he can figure it out. The negative is he's
Speaker 2: got multi strikeout games and three of his last five
Speaker 2: and a strikeout rates really high. But the positive is
Speaker 2: he does have hits in five of his last seven games,
Speaker 2: and you can see the home run potential. He's barreling
Speaker 2: the ball. He's just not hitting it quite hard enough,
Speaker 2: but he's getting it in the air. I think this
Speaker 2: is a guy that is going to figure it out
Speaker 2: during the season, and like, I'd rather have him over
Speaker 2: Tyler Freeman. And that's me chasing a little bit more.
Speaker 2: I think there's three categories that he can really push
Speaker 2: me for where I think Tyler Freeman is kind of
Speaker 2: a two category guy. But yeah, I'm betting on talent
Speaker 2: and I think we've seen a pretty good track record
Speaker 2: a lot of these prospects getting a little bit of
Speaker 2: time figuring it out post All Star Break. Christian Moore
Speaker 2: is going to be a guy to pick up, but
Speaker 2: he's under under two hundred and I think that's why
Speaker 2: the average or the numbers, the percentages and stuff still
Speaker 2: look low on some of the sites.
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Speaker 1: all season long. Let's start with Eric Lauer of the
Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays. Qualifies at RP and s P, which
Speaker 1: is also one of those tricky things. In those deeper leagues,
Speaker 1: we have mandatory RP spots nineteen percent rostered. He's been
Speaker 1: really good recently. Sure SER's back, but I think we
Speaker 1: have every reason to believe that if Lauer continues to
Speaker 1: pitch well, that he is going to stick in this rotation. Welsh.
Speaker 1: It's another strong outing for him, just to get some context.
Speaker 1: Year in June. He has a one to seven zero ERA,
Speaker 1: a one whip, twenty one strikeouts, just seven walks, and
Speaker 1: twenty one innings. And it's not like he didn't have
Speaker 1: mild success at times with the Milwaukee Brewers too. So
Speaker 1: Laower looks like a guy that I think in deeper leagues,
Speaker 1: if you're looking for pitching and everybody is, you might
Speaker 1: want to throw onto your waiver wire or start to
Speaker 1: throw some fabat.
Speaker 2: I remember he did this a couple of years ago
Speaker 2: when I think it was with the Brewers and he
Speaker 2: had this like hot He was one of the highest
Speaker 2: forcing fastball k percentages in baseball and he was just
Speaker 2: like getting it done. And he's kind of doing that again.
Speaker 2: The fastball looks phenomenal. Batting average against is under two hundred,
Speaker 2: and by the way he throws it like ninety two
Speaker 2: miles an hour, it has a thirty what is it
Speaker 2: a thirty three percent K percentage, which is also not sustainable,
Speaker 2: But it looks just really good, and it's setting up
Speaker 2: some of these other pitches where curveball is an expected
Speaker 2: one for two batting average against, the slider is an
Speaker 2: expected essentially two hundred. The only thing they're getting to
Speaker 2: is a cutter right now. So you've got three of
Speaker 2: four pitches that are get out. His K percentage is
Speaker 2: the highest of his career, his walk percentage is one
Speaker 2: of the lowest. Even the expected ray is in the
Speaker 2: three and a half. Like, there's a lot of great
Speaker 2: stuff here he should stick in. He's been a really
Speaker 2: great streamer, and I think he's moving out of that
Speaker 2: streaming range to like, yeah, maybe you do want to
Speaker 2: hold there might be some regression coming, but that fastball
Speaker 2: has been so good and I think he's floating in
Speaker 2: that like lower just hold on in deeper leagues to
Speaker 2: get some of those starts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that one. Another guy too
Speaker 1: to talk about, Frankie Montass. I don't know what's in
Speaker 1: the water in Queens Man. This guy was dreadful in
Speaker 1: his rehab starts. I had zero hope and somehow he
Speaker 1: had the Braves held down for five score listenings. I
Speaker 1: can't tell you why the velocities up. Everything looks better.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's just working out the kinks and just working
Speaker 1: on stuff, I don't know, just throwing fast balls. I
Speaker 1: didn't watch the rehab starts. I just saw the twelve
Speaker 1: ray and that was enough to scare the crap out
Speaker 1: of me. But the Mets need pitching. They spent on
Speaker 1: Frankie Montas. He's not going anywhere in that rotation. To me,
Speaker 1: with all those reasons, are enough to invest in him
Speaker 1: and just wait and see. I don't know if I
Speaker 1: want to start him necessarily right away again, maybe I
Speaker 1: want to see one more good start, But I think
Speaker 1: it's worth speculating now because if he has one more
Speaker 1: good start, the price is going to go up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a probably a good way to put it.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Mets have just really done a good
Speaker 2: job and as far as their major league and lower
Speaker 2: level minor league pitching development, that that probably has something
Speaker 2: to do with this Vilo increase that we're seeing. That's
Speaker 2: the weirdest thing that you mentioned, and I completely agree.
Speaker 2: It's like he was throwing ninety five last year. He's
Speaker 2: up to ninety six or at least in this start. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and his sinker a full mile per hour higher as well,
Speaker 2: so I think there's something there. I think he got
Speaker 2: away with some stuff in this start. You know, forty
Speaker 2: percent poll rate on him, so we're going to have to,
Speaker 2: you know, continue to monitor. Walk rate was still really high.
Speaker 2: But you know, let's see. I think Frankie Montos on
Speaker 2: this team context as a player that is worth picking up,
Speaker 2: even out of the streamer range as well, to see
Speaker 2: if it works. I think at the end of the
Speaker 2: day this is probably and be like a high three,
Speaker 2: low four era guy, but he just might walk into
Speaker 2: some runs. And he looked good against a great team
Speaker 2: to start, so don't let him sit too long and
Speaker 2: potentially speculate now.
Speaker 1: Diddy or Fuentez has another start today against the Mets. Again,
Speaker 1: as of recording this, we don't know how he's doing.
Speaker 1: The first start. He saw some glimpses out of him.
Speaker 1: Twenty years old, still very young. Still more of a
Speaker 1: spot start right now for the Braves, but another guy
Speaker 1: that you might want to speculate on because Sale is
Speaker 1: going to be out for a while and you know,
Speaker 1: if the Braves get stretched in that rotation. Fwentes could
Speaker 1: be a guy who can make a few more starts
Speaker 1: for Atlanta, but I want to focus our attentions to
Speaker 1: Jansen Junk of the Miami Marlins. Now. You can laugh
Speaker 1: about the name all you want, but Junk right now
Speaker 1: is going to get an opportunity to stick in that
Speaker 1: Marlins rotation. Because Max Meyer is done for the year,
Speaker 1: probably al Contra and or Cabrera is going to get
Speaker 1: moved from that rotation and Junk right now, I think
Speaker 1: if you, you know, just kind of look around trying
Speaker 1: to find some depth of arms, and you have so
Speaker 1: many injuries, I think it's worth me be just throwing
Speaker 1: a couple bucks on him. He struck out nine over
Speaker 1: his last ten and two thirds innings. Again, doesn't have
Speaker 1: a lot of success at the big league level, but
Speaker 1: opportunity is striking right now for him. He also has
Speaker 1: on the year in twenty seven innings, Welsh twenty five
Speaker 1: strikeouts and just two walks. If you're only your strike out,
Speaker 1: you guys got twenty five guys and walk just two guys.
Speaker 1: I don't care who you are. It piques my interest
Speaker 1: and I want to have him on my roster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the context too is six starts, he's only
Speaker 2: walked two. So even outside of the innings that six
Speaker 2: starts he's walked to another kind of interesting one. He
Speaker 2: had one bad outing he gave up five earned runs,
Speaker 2: but all his other starts, his other five starts, he's
Speaker 2: given up less than that. So one outing had more
Speaker 2: earned runs given up than he had given up the
Speaker 2: entire season. The low walk rate is kind of what
Speaker 2: really gets me excited. This is another testament to the
Speaker 2: off season video we did with Lance Prasdowski talking about
Speaker 2: just the system of how they're redeveloping, and you see
Speaker 2: a Velo increase on the four scene fastball. You see
Speaker 2: he's actually added the sweeper in as a really high
Speaker 2: usage pitch which is getting some outs. And I think
Speaker 2: the main thing you said is like they're gonna trade
Speaker 2: out some guys. There's gonna be some potential rotation spots
Speaker 2: out there, and Jason Jensen Junk has actually been pretty decent,
Speaker 2: so I'm open to streaming him for sure.
Speaker 1: All Right, outside of Chandler Simpson, these guys are not
Speaker 1: rostered in a lot of leagues. Lower nineteen percent, Montoss
Speaker 1: twelve percent to your Fuentes ten and Jansen junk four
Speaker 1: percent of CBS leagues. So I don't want to hear
Speaker 1: the YouTube comments talking about, Oh, these guys are all
Speaker 1: gone in my league. No they're not. I can tell
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