Sometimes, baseball can be that game we all fell in love with *covers mouth so you can’t hear number* years ago. Whether it’s Paul O’Neil hitting a triple with an error to score a home run for a child in the hospital or that minor leaguer who crashed through a fence to make a catch or Bryce Harper tossing a foul ball to an actual clown to silence his questions or Reggie Jackson thinking about someone other than himself for a moment after Thurman Munson’s plane crashed or Lou Gehrig’s speech or Kirk Gibson’s fist pump or Saturday. It would’ve been Yordano Ventura’s 26th birthday. Obviously Edinson Volquez was very close to him when they were both on Royals. According to Volquez, they shared everything, even constantly having to tell people, “No, I’m not Johnny Cueto.” Edinson posted a pic of Ventura on his Instagram page Saturday morning, then went out and pitched the game of his life that afternoon, a no hitter — 9 IP, 0 ER, 2 walks, 10 Ks, lowering his ERA to 3.79. For one day, Edinson was able to say, “No, I’m not Johnny Cueto. I’m better.” Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
Jorge Soler – Was optioned to the minors because he wasn’t performing up to expectations, which brings me to my question, why didn’t they option down the entire Royals team?
Whit Merrifield – 3-for-4, hitting .307, and his hitting streak has reached 19 games. Twenty more games to reach the hitting streak that Paul Molitor measures all hitting streak by, his own.
Carlos Carrasco – 4 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA up to 3.36. I will be shocked if he’s not DL’d before his next start, or looks terrible in his next start then is DL’d. Carrasco only seems to pitch terribly when he’s injured, and, if you’re keeping track, he’s been injured three times this year.
Jason Kipnis – 1-for-2, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 7th homer. After streaming both Bauer and Skoglund’s rain-shortened games, I don’t even want to talk about this Indians/Royals game. I’m mad, yo!
Ben Lively – 7 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 0 Ks in his 1st start. He’s a control artist with few Ks. Looks like a poor man’s Nola. I will call him Ben Daytona Beach.
Odubel Herrera – 3-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 4th homer, hitting .234. Before the game was even over, I immediately added him in one mixed league. If you take nothing else from this post today, grab ODB, and not because “Ooh, baby, I like it raw,” but because he has a long way to go to get back to where he was last year, and this could be the turn around we’ve been waiting for, and, if it’s not, then you just drop him again, and this is a crazy long run-on sentence and, if Siri is reading this, she’s out of breath by now, and like, “Please consider revising.”
Freddy Galvis – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 5th and 6th homers, hitting .236. If you escaped this weekend without your pitchers getting absolutely killed, you’re living right. Without a doubt, Our Commissioner Manfred is sticking Capri Sun straws into baseballs again, juicing them.
Maikel Franco – 1-for-4 and his 7th homer, hitting .223. See what I said for ODB, but you can stop about 17 words into the sentence.
Eduardo Nunez – 1-for-4 and his 3rd homer. The Convent is hitting near-.375 in the last week. Yes, I’m really trying to make this Convent thing happen.
Brandon Crawford – 2-for-4, 4 RBIs and his 4th homer, hitting .268. Just another day at the juiced ball factory.
Eric Thames – 1-for-3 and his 15th homer. The Lord Thames took all of April to build a major league reputation as a home run hitter, then he rested in May, and now He has returned.
Domingo Santana – 1-for-4 and his 10th homer. Someone needs to hack his iCal so he thinks it’s Sunday every day.
Kenley Jansen – 1 IP, 0 ER and his 9th save on Saturday. Oh, and by the by, Jansen hasn’t allowed a walk all season. New major league record to start the year. “Pfft, I haven’t walked in five years,” someone reading this post.
Brandon McCarthy – Dodgers said he will be able to start on Tuesday, even with his blister. No one said he’ll be able to throw more than four innings. As the Latin dentist said, a small caveat.
Joe Ross – 3 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 7.34. You need to impress before you regress.
Tanner Roark – 7 2/3 IP, 4 ER, 6 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 3.95. Decent start, though was left in a bit too long (Dusty!), and now Roark has three straight solid starts, lowering his ERA from 4.73. His peripherals, however, show a guy that will likely waver between a 3.70 and 4.30 ERA. Did I say waiver? Well, depends on the league and matchup.
Koda Glover – 1/3 IP, 5 ER. Not exactly a Kazam because he was brought into a two-run game in the 8th, but any sane manager would’ve removed him after he sat in the dugout for 40 minutes waiting to go out for the ninth inning. Emphasis on sane.
Ryan Zimmerman – 3-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 16th homer, hitting .371. Which brings me to my question, where the flying effs in the effing eff hole was this year all the years I owned your stank ass?
Matt Wieters – 2-for-3, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 5th homer, hitting .278. I think if we were to track this, Wieters has more comments asked about him than any other player. Peraza is likely top five with a three way tie of Logan Morrison, Smoak and Bour.
Michael Taylor – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 6th homer, and 2nd homer in three games. Hot schmotato alert with a side of Taylor H.A.M.
Khris Davis – 3-for-4, 3 runs, 2 RBIs and his 17th homer. I’d put his chances of leading the major leagues in homers at about 20%. Yet, no one respects Khris Davis, I will call him Rhodney Davisfield.
Matt Joyce – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 4 RBIs and his 7th homer, a grand slam. He also homered on Friday, so he could be a slight schmotato, or it could be he was facing Shawn Kelley.
Scott Schebler – Him and Billy Hamilton are both out with shoulder injuries, but the Reds said neither will hit the DL. T, see, Disabled List with tomatoes, they’re schmotatoes. Schebler, not Schweppes, diet tonic, not Nintendo’s Sonic, they’ll be back, for your DFS stack, that you got, it’s their shot. Sorry, saw Hamilton and was reading my Lin-Manuel.
Amir Garrett – 2 2/3 IP, 8 ER as he was activated from the DL. I hope Muslim Mrs. Garrett at least got some virgins out of that start. Namely, Mindy Cohn.
Zack Cozart – 3-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 8th and 9th homers, hitting .344. Since I own him in a few deep leagues, I’ve not only been pleasantly surprised by his output, but am glad to see him stay healthy. I just totally jinxed him, didn’t I? *smacks head* So stupid!
Ender Inciarte – 5-for-5, 2 runs, 5 RBIs and his 6th homer, hitting .299. Without actually doing any research, I’m going to say Ender has one big game once a month and does nothing else the rest of the month. Or at least it feels that way.
Matt Adams – 2-for-5 and his 6th homer, and third homer in two games. Damn, his bi-yo diet is paying off. That’s yoga and yogurt. If someone steals that, please just thank me in the introduction to your NY Times best seller. If you need a schmotato, by all means grab Adams, even if he no longer eats schmotatoes himself.
Julio Teheran – 5 IP, 7 ER, ERA up to 5.40. Maybe Teheran should stop taking the mound to the song, Bombs over Baghdad.
Danny Santana – 4-for-5, 3 runs, 3 RBIs and his 1st homer. He plays about once a week, so he could be better than sitting through the Madoff movie on HBO, but only barely. By the by, that movie was terrible. I want my Saturday night back so I can watch something else on TV (notice how I didn’t say I wanted my Saturday back to actually go outside).
Tyler Flowers – 1-for-2, 4 runs. Guess what he’s batting. Go ahead, I’ll wait. *taps finger, goes for a glass of water, faucet won’t shut off, shoves towels into sink but it’s no use, inflates raft, paddles back to computer* Okay, time’s up. Flowers is hitting .365 with a .475 OBP. Zoinks!
Dustin Pedroia – Will be activated on Friday, the first day he’s eligible. Red Sox said it will be good to have Dustin back. Yeah, it’s allergy season.
David Price – 7 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.00. He’s absolutely perfect and back to his old Cy Young self! Or this was a solid game, and I would still be hesitant with him. Like a teamster, I’m leaning on the latter.
Andrew Benintendi – 3-for-4, 3 runs, 3 RBIs and a double slam (6, 7) and legs (8), hitting .269. You see what happens when you play him? Goes from Benchintendi to Ben-extendi.
Manny Machado – 2-for-3, 1 run and his 3rd steal, and three times as many steals as last year. Machado is hitting .219 right now, which, to me, honestly, interjection, means he’s going to hit .320 the rest of the way.
Jacoby Ellsbury – Shut down with headaches. Funny, people that own him in fantasy also have headaches. I say make a group doctor’s appointment. Or one through Groupon.
Luis Severino – 7 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 2.90. If you’re wondering, the underlying stats are saying Severino is pitching as well as his ERA looks. Contrary to their name, underlying stats are hashtag truth.
Jordan Montgomery – 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.67 vs. Joe Biagni – 7 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.31. This matchup was billed as, “Why again don’t I own these two guys?” I have no answer for the matchup billing. Joe “Bighead” Biagni has impressed the most of the two. His K/9 is 7.9, BB/9 is 1.8 with a 3.19 xFIP. It’s hard to make a case against him in any league.
Marcus Stroman – 6 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 3.25. This season feels like it’s missing more guys like Stroman. Not necessarily putting together an ace-like year, but being respectable. No one’s respectable this year. Y’all lost your manners!
Justin Smoak – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 14th homer, hitting .283. He’s tied for the 5th most RBIs in the American League, fulfilling his preseason promise to Make The American League Great Again.
Mike Leake – 6 2/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA up to 2.64. The Regression Fairies deal with too hot or too cold temperatures by saying “I literally can’t,” they know who Zayn Malik is and they will ruin your pitchers’ ratios.
Michael Wacha – 4 1/3 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 4.67. Hey, you guys had a good run, if you ran around the block screaming bloody murder while watching Wacha ruin your fantasy team, but I think it’s time to look elsewhere.
Stephen Piscotty – 1-for-3, 3 RBIs and his 3rd homer, as he hit third. How a guy went from barely starting, he was struggling so much, to batting third, Piscotty doesn’t know! In fact, nobody knows!
Ian Happ – 2-for-5, 4 RBIs and two homers (3, 4). Sonavabench! Just when I thought I was out on Happ, he goes and lays that on me! Lies on me? Lain on me? Why is ‘to lay’ so confusing to conjugate?!
Kyle Hendricks – 4 IP, 4 ER, ERA at 4.09. The entire Cubs team looks like everyone that played at the original Woodstock twenty years after — dead, hungover or reborn into a shitty version of themselves.
Jean Segura – M’s revealed that Segura could miss up to two (stutterer!) months. I said six weeks. Then M’s said seven weeks. And I said I could beat Shazam in six and a half weeks.
Ariel Miranda – 9 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.74. Great start, and I dropped him before the game even ended. Live by the Stream-o-Nator, and die by the ‘holding streamers too long.’ Not pithy, but it makes sense.
Nelson Cruz – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 14th homer, hitting .297. Regarding what I said for Rhodney Davisfield, I’d put Cruz’s chances at about 15%.
Ervin Santana – 4 IP, 7 ER, ERA up 2.44. The Regression Fairies were more overdue for that Ervin start than they’re overdue to send back a cape to the online clothing rental site, The Buy-In, the Switch and the Wardrobe.
Jose Berrios – 6 IP, 2 ER, 8 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 2.76. Funny how sharp one pitcher can look against a terrible team vs. how bad one pitcher can look against the same team. Maybe funny isn’t the right word. Interesting seems wrong too.
Miguel Sano – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 14th homer, hitting .303. On our Buy/Sell tool, Sano has scored $28 so far, and is due to score $17 more, which means he’s still a Sell, but not a crazy ‘sell this guy quickly to get him off my team.’
Albert Pujols – Sat out yesterday after hitting his 600th homer on Saturday. Pujols’ 600th home run was a grand slam (one of seven grand slams on Saturday, a major league record). Pujols was the first player to accomplish that milestone with a grand slam. Pujols was also the first player to accomplish that milestone who was balding at 21. Somewhere, Lebron’s forehead is like, “Oh no you dint!”
Carlos Rodon – Will start a rehab assignment on Tuesday. You should stash Rodon if you have DL room, which is absolutely no one.
Todd Frazier – 3-for-5, 2 runs and his 8th homer, hitting .195, and third homer this week. Don’t look now, but–Why are you blindfolding yourself with a piece of bacon? You can look, was just going to say Frazier’s heating up.
Justin Verlander – Left yesterday’s game with a tight groin. If he has a tight groin now, wait until he gets home to Kate Upton. Hey now!
J.D. Martinez – 2-for-4 and his 10th homer. In case anyone forgot, that’s ten homers after missing the first five weeks.
Justin Upton – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 11th homer, 2nd homer in as many games, hitting .258. Since Upton hasn’t had that big sucky month, that we refer to as B.J. Upton, Justin may be capable of one of his old school productive seasons.
George Springer – 3-for-5, 3 RBIs and two more homers (15, 16), hitting .280. Too bad some think Springer is nothing but Adam Duvall at leadoff. Poor misguided shorthand.
Carlos Correa – 2-for-3 and his 11th homer, hitting .315. Real question, have the Astros ever had a game where they didn’t hit at least six homers?
Yulieski Gurriel – 2-for-3, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 5th homer, hitting .267. You know what kind of year he’s having? He’s having worst guy on best team year. So, he’ll be valuable just because of all the counting stats he will unavoidably get. We should have a glossary term for this — worst guy on best team — please suggest in the comments.
Brad Peacock – 6 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 2.30. His K/9 is 13.5, his BB/9 is 4, and his xFIP is 2.85. Astros are having one of those magical years, and that means they’re gonna give crazy run support and make some pitchers just so much more valuable. I think we’re seeing a career year from Devenski and Peacock. I’m in on Peacock, which means you’re in. Pun noted, and intended.
Cole Hamels – Ready for his first session on the hill. Sounds like a junior congressman. He should hang out with Jonah Ryan and the rest of The Jeffersons.
Rougned Odor – 1-for-4 and his 8th homer as he was moved down to the seven hole, hitting .204. I feel bad how terrible he’s performing, but we must soldier on. Whoa, that sounds a lot like “Sold Odor on…” If only there was a date sometime in April following that! All foolsies aside, he has eight homers and five steals, if he were hitting .270, which he should with neutral luck, he wouldn’t even be an issue. Neutral luck on his average, and he’d be a top five 2nd baseman.
David Dahl – His return from his rib injury has stalled. Dahlled? Every year there’s one player that pulls a Kotchman, and this year is definitely Dahl. I could really use him in the leagues where I have him stashed, but now I’d put his timetable to sometime in August.
Tyler Chatwood – 8 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 4.60. I told you to buy him on Friday, because I’m motherfudging psychic! How’s that, D eaters!? Sorry, should explain, Chatwood’s fans call themselves D eaters.
Jeff Hoffman – 7 IP, 1 ER, 3 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 2.61. I’d look at the Stream-o-Nator for Hoffman, which is to say, I’d stream him every time he was in Petco. Easy, peasy, hair so greasy.
Hunter Renfroe – 1-for-3 and his 11th homer. Renfroe! Or as Scooby Doo would say, Renfroe!
Steven Matz – Will return for next weekend’s series vs. the Braves along with Seth Lugo. After the start, Lugo will likely move to the bullpen until Matz is injured again, so Lugo may not move to the bullpen. Damn, did Matz get injured again while I was typing that previous sentence? “You’re not gonna have Matz to walk all over anymore!” That’s Matz doing a Nixon impersonation.
Andrew McCutchen – 3-for-5, 3 runs, 3 RBIs and his 9th homer, hitting .232. Knee McClutchin must’ve been wearing a throwback jersey, and the dread wig he donated then took back from a homeless man.
Jameson Taillon – Will make another rehab start. This is the feel-good story of the year, by far. Though, the runner-up feel-good story was Jose Altuve posing as a 5th grader and hitting a home run in a Pee-Wee League championship. Okay, kidding, but this does bring up a fascinating idea. You know how Kris Bryant pretended to be a college student and took batting practice with the college team? MLB should have Altuve go back to different grades until people realize he’s not really in the school, and fans can make bets when Altuve will be found out. “I say Altuve can pose as a 3rd grader.” “Well, I say he can’t make it back past 4th grade!” “He’ll never make it back past middle school!” I call this show, Are You Taller Than A 5th Grader?
Hey Grey! I was offered W. Myers for my D. Betances in H X H league counting R/HR/RBI/K/NSB/OPS, W/K/BB/NSV/OBPA/ERA. Chapman may return in mid June. But I ever dropped Brad brach when Britton returned. Want to know if I may lose one of the elite closers.
Should accept ?
@ps12349: Take Myers and run
@ps12349: Agree with F
Kinsler supposed to come off of dl on tuesday. Who do i cut: lemahieu, d travis, piscotty, matt adams (1b/of). Full dl so i added travis a while ago, acquired lemahieu, and added adams to play in my OF when polanco was hurt and piscotty was mia (5 games / missed a series at coors). Thanks
@Scott: Travis
Hey Grey,
How serious is this JD Martinez homer binge? It’s like his bat was made out of Christmas trees. Are you selling high or riding this wave to Valhalla?
History tells us he’ll get hurt at some point, but the 100-110 games he does play usually are good
BTW, history’s stupid
Taillon or Severino ROS?
Which side, Arenado for Rendon and Severino?
@H: Severino. Getting Arenado > giving Arenado
@H: Taillon is awesome, and plays in the better division for SP. But I think Severino has the higher upside and K potential.
Arenado.
@H: 1. Severino……2. Arenado
@H: Agree with others
@Grey: Followup question: If I traded Rendon and Severino for Arenado and replaced Severino with Taillon would that be better than having Rendon, Severino and Taillon?
Yes
@Grey: thank you!
No problem
I was surprised you didn’t mention andrus. He had a nice weekend and quietly is having a very good season. It isn’t getting a lot of attention, but so far his production has been near elite especially at the SS spot.
@Scott: I was waiting for you to mention him!
I have the opportunity to add either Rodon or T Murphy or Wilson Ramos.
Can you rank them for best DL stash? For my catcher I have Hedges and my pitching staff is solid
@Fleeced: Rodon. Ramos.
@Fleeced: Rodon, Murphy
Thanks Grey for the good article!
Can you rank the below SPs?
1.Bauer / 2.Godley / 3.JC Ramirez / 4.Peacock
Thanks!
@LucasArt: Peacock, Bauer
A heartfelt, tear jerker of a lede and a Mindy Cohn virgin reference — you’ve set the bar mighty high for yourself for the rest of the week!
@Manley Ramirez: I feed off the pressure
Bautista, Gardner, or Dreadless Pirate going forward? OBP league, could use more speed.
@Swfcdan: Gardner for speed. Joey Bats if overall stats.
@Swfcdan: Agree with b
Grey!!!
So good, ’cause I got you!!!
a. For the worst player on the best team….MLB Lincoln Chafee.
b. Like Peacock alot and got the pun! Well played, Shakespeare!
c. John Rambo Quote of the day for June 5
Sheriff: ‘Buried in a hole by a bunch of goddamned weekend warriors! Thought you said he was the best you ever trained!’
Colonel Trautman: ‘However he may have ended up, there was a time when he was very special.’
Sheriff: ”Special’, my ass! He was just another drifter that broke the law.’
Colonel Trautman: ‘Vagrancy, wasn’t it? That’s gonna look real good on his gravestone in Arlington: ”Here lies John Rambo, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Survivor of countless incursions behind enemy lines. Killed for vagrancy, in ‘Jerkwater’, USA.’
Sheriff: ‘Don’t give me any of that crap, Trautman!’
Cheers,
Ante
@Ante GALIC: A. Haha, I think he should likely do different B. Just call me Shakes C. Nice!
@Ante GALIC: I only watched First Blood for the first time maybe a year ago and have never seen any of the sequels … but I gotta admit … I *really* look forward to my Rambo quote of the day!
14 team keeper league.
When Taillon will return from the DL i have to choose which pitcher cut between
Bundy
Nova
Manaea
Taillon himself
No one want to trade and i really don’t know how to move.
@Ciwa: Bundy
@Ciwa: Manaea for me
@Ciwa: Manaea
@Grey: What’s got you guys down on Manaea? Injury concern? He looked great vs. Cleveland and NY.
You know, you’re right, Bundy is a bit less than Manaea, Manaea’s peripherals are a bit nicer
@joemorganhair: Manaea 27% k% … 14% SwStr%… 50% groundballs… yes please
@Ciwa: Drop Bundy, bad underlying stats esp K-rates, bad home park and division
honestly just looking at his fangraphs right now, idk why anyone likes him as more than a 4/5 SP
Werth Parra or Kepler? in 12 team h2h obp 6×6
@sunrisejuice:
Or even Pham?
@sunrisejuice: Kepler
@sunrisejuice: Kepler
Mookie/Kipnis or Altuve/Trumbo in a dynasty? Could use more speed.
@Swfcdan: Mookie side
@Swfcdan: Agree with B
Drop Avila for Chase Anderson? He had 2 good outing recently and 2 start coming. Lamet just got picked up and Jimmy Nelson is owned too. H2H 12t Got Lucroy too
@jokerrtrick: Sure
Teamwurst
@Scrapski: I’ll put it on the list
Geez, Danny Valencia goes 9 for 10 over the weekend with an HR, 7 Rs and 6 RBIs, including 9 straight at-bats with a hit to set a Mariners record, and he does not get so much as a hot schmotato alert?! What’s a fella named after an orange varietal gotta do? :-)
@LenFuego: Ha
Giant 8-hole
@Terry: Awesome, I’ll put it on the list
Thank you Grey for a stupendous re-cap.
Streamers unite but in a limited pickup league Pick 2 for ROS among Skoglund, Biagini, Sabathia, Cotton, Foltynewicz, Volquez, J. Montgomery, D. Norris, T.Williams, Tillman or Nola.
@Tony C: Folty, Nola
Trade Aledmys for Cozart in dynasty?
@Swfcdan: Sure
Hello Grey,
Who would be a better stash in a 10 Team H2H Points League?
Rodon or Gray
Thanks much Grey.
@Yankee My Wanky!: w/o looking at timeframe for return, Rodon
@Yankee My Wanky!: Agree with B
Who would you drop, if anyone, in order to add Taillon?
12-team, h2h, 5×5, redraft.
C – Realmuto; 1B – Smoak; 2B – Dozier; 3B – Machado; SS – Correa; OF – Benintendi, Duvall, Desmond; Util – C.Santana; Bench –Polanco
SP – Tanaka, Maeda, Severino, Odorizzi, Wheeler , Shoemaker, Montgomery
RP – Holland, Bush, Wilson, Reed, Glover
DL – Freeman, Wood
@Not your average Joe: Montgomery
@Not your average Joe: Agree with B
12-team, h2h, 5×5
c-wieters
1b-carlos santana
2b-kinsler (dl)
3b-kyle seager
ss-russell
of-trout (dl), springer, desmond
util-maraza, smoak
sp-bundy, strailly, berrios, severino, degrom, pineda, wood (dl), nova, quintana, walker (dl)
rp-watson, allen, neris
actual dl: gray, smyly
Fucking Kinsler. I’m doing fine without him, but am wondering how long I should go before I seriously think about replacing him. That is, if we think he’s going to be out for a long ass time. Would you take any of these guys in his place, and if so, how long would you wait before you did it?
Chris Taylor
Jed Lowrie
Josh Harrison
Tim Beckham
Adam Frazier
Hernan Perez
Yangervis Solarte
Thanks, Grey!
@FeverDog: I think Kinsler is back this week, actually. If not, drop either of DL’s SPs, put Kinsler on DL and pick up whoever has the best matchups this week….
@FeverDog: Agree with B
What your thoughts on picking up Salazar who’s now a FA?
@G: Depends on the drop, but he is in the bullpen for a bit, but should be back in the rotation soon.
@G: Hes a bullpen arm right now so other than helping with K ratios hes not worth it
@G: Agree with others
Awesome stuff Grey!
16 team H2H weekly points league…redraft
I was offered his Donaldson for my David Price and Noah Syndergaard… what do you think?
Thanks
@RicoSuave: I would lean no, but it probably depends on team rosters. Price and Thor for the second half of the season once the Asgardian is back in the rotation will be a solid 1-2 SP combo each week.
@RicoSuave: Fair, Depends on needs
@JeF WiTh 1 F: thanks guys… my other SPs aren’t doing that good either… My SPs are; Price, Pineda, Maeda, Wacha, Gausman, Davies, Foltynewicz, Ryu, Taijuan Walker (DL), SYndergaard (DL).
@RicoSuave: Thanks! I prefer Donaldson side, but sounds like you need the SPs
Trade for C-Dick or wait for CarGo to come around? Shallow obp
@Mike: I’d take Dickerson
Hi Grey, two questions please:
In a points league, I have to bench one of these guys: Encarnacion (5 games, 2 of which are at Coors–facing Senzatela, Freeland, Miguel Gonzalez, Holmberg, Quintana), Carlos Santana (same matchups as Encarnacion), Duda (5 games, facing Gee, Darvish, Teheran, Colon, Folty), and Matt Adams (7 games, facing Pivetta, Nola, Eickhoff, Lively, Harvey, Gsellman, Lugo). Who would you bench? I feel like I have to start Adams in points because of the additional 2 games, but then again I like all of their matchups and all have been pretty good recently so it’s a tough decision.
Secondly, would you start Hendricks vs. COL, Maeda vs. CIN, or Davies @ARI? I don’t feel so good about any of them. Thanks
@asdfasdf: Actually I think the Mets have a doubleheader on Saturday so Duda might have 6 games if he plays in both of them. Thank you
@asdfasdf: Santana — Hendricks
Drop one of these for mazara?
Jbell, melky,choo, a Frazier
Thanks!
@Wacha Wacha: Choo
@Wacha Wacha: Bell
HEy Grey!
Need some advice for MI in a H2H 7×7 (+BB, +OPS)
Pick 2
Andrus, Castro, Villar, Pereza
Thanks!
@MJP: Matchups and number of games this week? Andrus is too hot to sit at this point. And Villar….but not overly enthused…
@MJP: Peraza/Castro
@MJP: Peraza, Villar
Great Monday morning read Grey! For my last pitching spot for the week, I somehow have to choose between Shoemaker (@HOU) and Norris (LAA, @BOS). Who will suck less? Normally I wouldn’t go near Norris, but Shoemaker @HOU scares me to death…
@Milarky: Shoemaker
What u think , I need RBIs , HR and Runs.
Harper, Garrett and Cotton for Keuchel, Berrios and Hamilton.
@Bobby: Keuchel, Berrios and Hamilton don’t hit HR’s or RBI’s.
@Bobby: Assuming you are the Keuchel owner, I would not do that. Garrett and Cotton are garbage. You can get power at a much lesser cost.
@Bobby: I’m taking Harper there
@Bobby: Harper
Jbj or Kepler rest of the season?
@Bosox: JBJ
@Bosox: [email protected]Bosox: JBJ
@Bosox: Agree with others
Drop Aaron Altherr for ODB?
Thanks!
I LOVE the smell of mustache wax in the morning!
@Just Busted: Sure
@Just Busted: Go for it
Goddamn Odubel. I knew I’d be too slow to him when he eventually picked it up. I hate you. He was supposed to be my project.
@Cram It: Trade you him for Story
@Grey: You mean Michael Taylor? Okay.
You want Story? Gross, why? He didn’t hit in April
@Grey: I like to lose.
I’ll throw in Rajai and Gurriel and anyone else I just picked up, think on it, no rush to answer
Lebron’s forehead to Pujols: “Hold my hairline’s beer.”
@BERK!: Haha
Can you comment on merrifield? Feels like the average is somewhat legit, with reasonable expectation of 12-15 hr; 15-20 steals…..
@Bbboston: 8 homer/15 steal guy, super duper boring
@Bbboston: Agree with Fungazi
@Bbboston: One thing you have to worry about with Whitfield is that it seems likely that sooner or later Raul Mondesi’s skills will finally translate to The Show. Mondesi is killing it in AAA – .319/.361/.540 at Omaha with 12 SBs in 14 attempts, all while flashing his plus-plus defense and arm at both 2B and SS.
Have Mondesi’s prior attempts at winning the 2B job been disappointing? You bet. But he is still just 21 years old and it is hardly surprising that MLB pitching has proved a challenge thus far.
@LenFuego: Merrifield, not Whitfield.
Either work!
Grey,
Weekly league question:
I’m starting Sale, Paxton (2starts), McCullers along with Giles, Iglesias, and Melancon
For my final spot who should I start for the week:
Pineda (vs Boston)
Devenski (4 @ KC, 3 v LAA)
Thanks
@Mike and Ike: Pineda
Worst player on a good team – Super Sh’TAR or Counting Blows
@Count de Monetball: Super Sh’TAR? Like Ishtar?
If ya gotta explain, that’s a no…
Ha
Gsellman and Miley are available in my league. Are they more streaming options then adds? I have one free spot to add someone. Which one do you like better?
Thanks for all your help
@MyTeamsSucks: Streamers
@MyTeamsSucks:
Other guys Cobb, Delgado, and
@MyTeamsSucks: Gavigilo too. Sorry my phone is acting crazy and keeps hitting send. It’s a 12 man, h2h huge rosters. Not much to stream with in this league not many guys available.
Thanks
@MyTeamsSucks: You opened the door about streamers. The guys you mentioned you can stream.
@MyTeamsSucks: Stream
Gerrit Cole v MIA
or
McCullers @KC?
I thought Lance, SON disagrees
@Joe Quadres: McCullers
@Joe Quadres: Both are good, McCullers
Donaldson or Lamb ROS?
@Xhibit: Lamb
@Xhibit: Agree with F
@Xhibit: Lamb still can’t hit lefties. If we are talking RoS it’s Donaldson, and it’s not even a hard call imo.
Even if you believe that the power and production are even going forward, Josh DONGaldson figures to hit about 20 points higher.
I would be super interested to hear the reasoning behind picking Lamb. Is it the days off?
Is Conforto a top 20 keeper in OBP going forward? 30?
@Piss in a Gatorade Bottle: I’d give him 30, hope for 20
Dynasty keep forever obp league…
Machado and 2 picks in our prospect draft for Kershaw and Matt Carpenter
Which side?
@Bucktail30: Machado
@Bucktail30: Agree with F
Hey Grey, I have 2 spots for my weekly head to head 8 category league (R, XBH, Homers, TB, RBI, K, SB, OBP). They’re all playing 6 games. Pick two…
Polanco (2 @Bal, 4 vs Miami…4 righties)
-4 righties, who he hits slightly better against
-worried they may rest him a game or two as they did yesterday due to his healing ankle
-Gausman, Miley…Volquez, Worley, Strally & Locke)
Trumbo (2 vs Pit, 1 @Wash, 3 @NYY)
-5 Righties, which is good.
-Nova, Kuhl, Cole…Ross…Montgomery, Severino & Tanaka)
Benintendi (3 @NYY, 3 vs Det)
-2 Lefties, Farrell has been benching him vs lefties lately.
-Tanaka, Sabathia, Pineda…Verlander(injured?), Farmer & Norris)
Hicks (3 vs Bos, 3 vs Bal)
-4 Righties, swich hitter hits both ok
-Pomeranz, Porcello, Price…Bundy, Tillman & Gausman)
-Hicks has been insanely hot, .438 OBP in the last week, 6 xbh and 18 TB). Polanco is just 3/12 (was heating up before ankle injury) but has much better matchups. Trumbo is trumbo and Benintendi has been ice cold until yesterday’s monster game, so he could be heating up…or Farrell could continue playing Young vs lefties.
I have turner but could use the steals benintendi could get (I doubt they’ll be sending Polanco with his ankle). I have springer, machado, judge and EE so I have a lot power.
Guess I’m leaning towards Benintendi heating up and sticking with the hot Hicks.
@TacktheKack: Benintendi, Hicks
12-tm OBP
Drop Souza, A.Hicks or Devon Travis for Odubel?
@The JoGarza: Travis
Ian happ over odor
@Fizz: Nope
@Fizz: Agree with F
In a 12 team, standard H2H ESPN redraft league, 5 OF spots, seeking guidance on these options. Which side do you like in each scenario and also please rank them on best to worst for me. Thank you for the advice and excellent write up on Volquez et al. Truth is indeed stranger than fiction at times.
1. My Rizzo and Russell for his Correa. I would grab LoMo off the wire with open spot.
2. My Rizzo, Russell, Schebler and Britton for his Correa and Wade Davis. Again I grab LoMo plus open a streamer spot or could pick up Taillon or Neris.
3. My Lamb, Puljos and Verlander for his Correa and Archer….grab LoMo.
Lastly, given this squad, would you pick up Neris or Taillon? It is holds league so cheap saves are tougher to come by as the promotions that might come for Vizcaino or Rivero won’t help as they are rostered.
My team:
C- Realmuto
CI – Rizzo, Lamb, Seager
MI – Harrison, Russell, Owings, Lowrie
OF – Conforto, Schebler, Maybin, Melky, Kepler, Marwin
Util – Pujols
DL – Freeman
SP – Kershaw, Verlander, Severino, Nova, Odorizzi, Manaea/streamer spot.
RP – Melancon, Maurer, Britton
@JC: 3 — Neris over Britton 6 weeks ago
Strasburg for Thames, which side?
@Warren Loegering: Needs trade…Fair
@Warren Loegering: Agree with F
What side…Judge/Tulo for Harper?
@Ryan: Harper
@Ryan: Agree with F
ROS of season lowrie, schoop, merrifield?
@GoFish: Schoop
@GoFish: Agree with F
Peacock, Chatwood, or hold onto Morton/Aaron Sanchez until back from DL?
Ottoeneu points and both DL guys are on active roster with Turner, Thor, and Pollock taking DL spots up
@The Boy: Peacock over Morton
@The Boy: Agree with F
Math class with Grey Albright. 3 x 0 = 3. Teehee
@Cheese: Huh?
@Grey: It’s a bad joke… Machado had 0 steals last year, and you said he has 3 times as many steals as last year… Sigh…
Oh, I forgot what I wrote
Machado or Rizzo ?
@JC: Machado
@JC: Flip a coin
For the worst player on the best team = YuGo
@StinkyPete: We have better above
Worst player on best team – Ringo Starr
@Make Richie Sexson Again: Ha, I’ll add to the list
Traded Judge for Keuchel over the weekend hopefully this was a good trade. Now to fill the void of Judge-
Please rank on who to p/u Odubel Herrera, Franco, kepler, Bird, Parra or Calhoun?
thank you
@lwomack58: Franco, Odubel
Would you drop Belt for Duda?
@lwomack58: I would
@lwomack58: Agree with F
Good team’s worst player = A Scavengerage Joe
@Bill Lumbergh: Nice, will add to the list
When do you think the Mets will bring up Amed Roario? How will they use him? Who’s position will he take ?
@fieldvision: Next couple of weeks, Asdrubal and Reyes will become platoon
Thank you Grey for the great write-up!
16 team H2H weekly points league…
I need to start 5 SPs… Please help.
Foltynewicz Vs PHI;
Ryu Vs WAS;
Gausman Vs PIT, @ NYY;
Maeda Vs CIN;
Pineda VS BOS;
Price @ NYY;
Wacha Vs PHI;
Davies @ ARI.
Thanks again!
@RicoSuave: Not Wacha, Gausman, Davies
Thx Grey! Things are looking good. Rizzo, Story are starting to heat up it seems like. I don’t know why but I feel like a massive streak for Story is about to unfold. Weather is getting better, the balls will be flying in Coors.
This may be a weird one, if you had to for a util spot would you want Smoak, Inciarte, Broxton, or ODB?
@Synyster: Either Smoak or Broxton..Smoak if you need more power
@Synyster: Agree with F, I think Story’s gonna hit 15 HRs one of these summer months
@Grey: hopefully he moves up from the 7-8 spot in the lineup too
Agreed
@Grey:
Hopefully Desmond can put it together too. Just picked him up from the wire. Would like to see a shot at 20/20.
Agreed
Odor, Kyle Seager, Darvish = The answer to the question, “Who did you waste your 3rd, 4th, and 5th round picls on?” Subsequently, also the answer to the question “Why is your team 4-5?”
Ah, preseason projections, how you make us feel so smart, just to remind us we’re all just like Piscotty…we don’t know…
@Jose: Ha
Would you drop Duffy in a 12 team H2H league? I also have Alex Wood, Eduardo Rodriguez, Haniger, Segura and Taijuan Walker so I’ve got a real log jam on the DL/Bench.
@Mr. Rickey: Yes
Runt of the Hitters
@nick the smooth dick: Most Fallible Player
@nick the smooth dick: Look at Nick dropping gems! I’ll add to the list
@Grey: Err now and then I can muster up a couple!
I’ve been impressed by you Nick and your mustering
Hey Grey! Is this a crazy trade for me to make?!?! which side you like better for ROS in a H2H:
Tanaka & Arrieta for Paxton & Britton
@JohnnyBeGood: Pax side
Ender seems like Mini-Rendon.
Mini-Rendonkey?
@The Great Knoche: I don’t see the comparison
@Grey: Rendon has half his RBIs in about 4 games. Same as Ender. Rendon just has a lot more.
I see, different types of players tho
@Grey: I didn’t say they were brothers from another mother. They just live by the big game.
I see, so how’s the NFBC team doing?
@Grey: Good until this last week. Went from 1st to 4th.
Lost Kinsler, Lost Freeman. Still hanging around. Rudy made a big push this week. Think he picked up 5 spots or so into 3rd.
You?
My pitching is still a mess, hitting can only carry me so far, think I’m in 7th close to third, but nowhere near 1st
Hoping to crowdsource some weekly lineup help! SON is still biased towards Hill and Nola still.
Which TWO from the below are you benching this week if you need Ks + W?
Leake @ CIN
Hill v. CIN
Nola (@ATL + @STL)
Biagini @ SEA
Alex Wood (said to be starting on Sunday v. CIN, not confirmed otherwise he’d be an obvious must start)
Ryu (v WAS + v CIN . . . But if Wood comes back it’s only 1 start v. Wash, which ain’t pretty)
@Duda Want to Build a Snowman?: Leake, Nola
Limited moves league, H2H. ROS back in on Wainright (and drop Maeda) or hold move, keep Maeda benched.
@dtbran: Hold
Russell is basically taking up space on my roster at this point. ROS Russell, Souza or ODB?
Thanks
@John: Roll the dice on ODB upside.
@John: Agree with Cram
Grey,
H2H 10-team cat. keeper (keep12) balanced stats (R,H,HR,RBI,SB,BB,AVG, OPS,XBH / W,CG,SV,K,GIDP,ERA,WHIP,QS) – 35 moves max a year (no streaming), but we have very deep teams, with 6 bench spots.
Was in 1st but have be de-throne’d with 3 bad weeks. I’ve been punting my CI spot as I know Turner will be coming back soon enough but maybe I should get a fill in. Please review team below and do you see any swaps from the wire you would make? There is a lot of interest in Rosario so if I don’t keep him I will shop him around but not interested in dropping him.
Waiver:
Hit – R. Martin (C, 3B), Souza Jr., K. Morales, D. Santana, JBJ, J. Smoak, N. Walker, J. Schoop, J. Harrison, C. Santana, Tulo, D. Pedroia, B. McCann, M. Moustakas, W. Castillo
PIT – C. Anderson, B. Peacock, T. Bauer, Z. Godley, J. Guerra, J. Hellickson, V. Velasquez
RP – B. Kintzler, J. Johnson, M. Bush, B. Norris, F. Rodney, B Maurer
My Team (Goldschmember):
C – Evan Gattis
1B – Paul Goldschmidt
2B – Brian Dozier
3B – Nolan Arenado
SS – Jonathan Villar
Mi- Trea Turner
CI – EMPTY
LF – Corey Dickerson
CF – Charlie Blackmon
RF – Lorenzo Cain
Util- Bradley Zimmer
BN – Ryan Braun (DL)
BN – Amed Rosario (NA)
DL – Justin Turner
DL –Tom Murphy
Sp – Chris Sale
SP – Sean Maneae
SP – Carlos Carrasco
RP – A.J. Ramos
Rp – Greg Holland
P- James Paxton
P -Taijuan Walker
BN- Ivan Nova
BN- Masahiro Tanaka
BN – Justin Verlander (DTD)
BN- Rick Porcello
BN – Jimmy Nelson
DL – Alex Wood
Thanks in advance bud
@Josh: Smoak should’ve been filling your CI weeks ago. I would’ve dropped Murphy to put Braun in the DL slot and trade Rosario. Those two spots are hurting your flexibility.
@Cram It: #shallowleagueproblems
@Josh: Agree with Cram
Safe to start Straily tonight at Chicago?
@Straily: In some leagues
@Grey: How about in a twelve team mixed league? Thanks.
Need to drop one of these guys…
Yonder, Bour, Smoak
Thanks coach! Loved the writeup today. Hope you had a solid weekend. My ratios were destroyed from streaming Harvey/D Holland/Marquez on Friday. Then Koda on Sunday. Ouch.
@knucks: Thanks! I streamed Holland too, oldest effin trick in the book and fell for it… Bour
@knucks: Wow, I nearly left Bour off this list. Glad I didn’t. Thanks again.
No problem
Hey Grey
I’m in a deep 12-team H2H keep forever league. We have 40 man rosters (32MLB guys
and 8 MiLB guys). The offensive scoring categories are: R H HR RBI SB BB K TB AVG OPS
I’m currently in 2nd and want to add AVG/HR/RBIs to my lineup. I’ve received an offer where I trade: Vlad Jr. for R.Zimmerman
Vlad Jr. is by far my biggest trade chip. I want to maximize his value in any trade. I haven’t offered him up to anyone for anything before…Is Zimm enough of a prize to trade Vlad away? Zimm is killing it so far but his injury past is scary and he could be a sell high
Would you do the deal or stand pat?
@JayB: Hold
Have Forsythe, Happ, Villar and Travis rotating at 2B. Would you drop any for Odubel? 12 t h2h 6×6 OBP Dynasty?
@Chucky: Travis
How has Peacock become so good this year without any changes in his pitch types or velocity? Deal with the devil?
@Fungazi: I hope so, that would be interesting!
What do I do with Yasmany Tomas? He’s been benched often and now he is day-to-day. Would you drop for someone above or someone like Travis Shaw, Domingo Santana, Chris Taylor, Whit Merrifield, Souza?
Is Hernan Perez worth holding over anyone above?
@Sdub88: Drop for Domingo, Perez is for SBs if you need those
Is Madea worth holding onto? He’s been terrible…but I hate to drop him and he turns it around.
@Matt: I dropped him two weeks ago
Grey nice article! Quick question This is my team. who should I drop for Yoan Moncada or should I just hold?
Catcher – Austin Hedges
1b- Kris Bryant
2b- Matt Carpenter
3b- Jonathan Villar
SS- Trevor Story
Of-Adam Duvall
Of- Aaron Judge
Of-Michael Conforto
UTI-Cody Bellinger
UTI- Corey Dickerson
Thanks for the help!
@Cobi: No one
Pick three to start this week:
Gyorko, Odor, Hanley, Hicks, Reddick
Thanks for all your help.
Odor, Hanley, Hicks
@Grey: Rizzo came through with that 3/4 and I salvaged the tie when I edged my opponent by .0001 in the OBP category over this Schwarber drawing 3 walks!
Not sure if you saw the shenanigans of the Mets game yesterday – they pulled off a double play in the top of the 7th, and after all the players left the field, the umps ruled that Hurdle challenged within 30 seconds (he clearly didn’t cause everyone left the field)… ruled that Neil Walker didn’t actually step on the bag so the player was safe at 2nd. Everyone had to come back on the field and of course the Mets gave up another run. Keith Hernandez. Being a Mets fan is so much fun
Get out of here! Are you serious?
@Grey: damn my comment got messed up with that random Keith Hernandez. I was going to say that Keith Hernandez and Gary Cohen were railing against the Umps the entire time. The call was correct, but I haven’t seen commentators rant on that level since Jeff Van Gundy did so with regards to flopping in the NBA (which is a classic and might still be on youtube)
I’m sure JeF can elaborate some more about the Mets thing too
I’ll have to check out the video
16 team H2H league, 6×6 (OPS)
I get Giancarlo Stanton
I give Trea Turner
I would pick up Marcus Semien for SS. I have lots of OF depth and would be hurt up the middle, but I’m really considering this deal with the additional power I’ll get and OPS. Thoughts?
C – Matt Wieters
1B – Justin Bour
2B – Roughned Odor
3B – Ryon Healy
SS – Trea Turner
MI – Freddy Galvis
CI – Tommy Joesph
LF – Ian Desmond
CF – Adam Jones
RF – Stephen Piscotty
OF – Josh Bell
OF – Carlos Beltran
Util – Jorge Bonifacio
I may be wrong but……I actually like the new Stanton batting in the two hole
I don’t love it
billy hamilton over mazara?
Sure
I’m adding Bedrosian if he is still on the wire after games begin tonight. Due off the DL tomorrow. Figure it makes sense to add him for a hot minute and see what happens. Likely asking for confusion and a headache of course, but figure it could be worth the flyer. No commitment. Norris has been great of course. But. Sociopath… Who is will me?
@knucks: I’d Bed with you
Skipping comments in case one of these suckers posted a Leftovers spoiler. My gut tells me it was the worst, but my heart says it will be life changing.
@Dr. Kenneth Noisewater: No one mentioned it until you, so now you’ve brought spoilers on yourself!
@Grey: Ralph ought to spoil it for me.
Ralph watches it?
@Grey: Yeah, he ruined the Gravediggaz intro the other other week but that wasn’t a spoiler to me.
Surprised to hear this
@Dr. Kenneth Noisewater: Haven’t watched yet, too busy profiling, ranking, and cursing starting pitching…
@Ralph Lifshitz: What do you mean? Trevor Williams did well.
You watch The Leftovers? You didn’t even strike me as someone who had HBO
@Grey: Hahaha why? What sort of person doesn’t have HBO? I only watch HBO, Amazon, Netflix, AMC, and some Showtime. My wife wouldn’t allow exclusively baseball on the telly.
I figured you watched Basketball Wives and Real Husbands of Hollywood
@Grey: Hahaha! I’ve never seen any of those shows.
Translation: Grey thinks you’re dumb…
Nah, I pictured you rocking gold chains and chatting up baby mommas, neither is dumb, I like my old picture of you rocking BET over this new artsy TV guy who reads Alan Sepinwall
@Grey: If it makes you feel better, I just had to google Alan Sepinwall. Haha!
My wife is dragging me to Jack Johnson concert, on Friday. This is going to be great!
You’re then going to be ‘dragged’ by me for the rest of your life, Bubbly Toes
You should dress up like Curious George for the concert and carry a surfboard
Holding Glover over Bedrosian?
Yes
dee gordon + wood for lester? side?
Gordon
Worst players on best teams…
I was going to suggest Dal Maxvill (worst player from the “million dollar team” 68 cardinals) or Joe Dugan (worst player from the 27 yankees), but when I went to check their lines, actually neither one of them had good counting stats despite their amazing lineups.
Carlos Guillen was probably the “worst” everyday hitter on the 2001 Mariners and did end up with over 70 runs scored despite batting 9th.
Someone mentioned Dugan above
Would you drop Peratla for O. Herrea
Yes
Please rank the following ROS for deep roto:
Altherr, C.Gomez (assuming he’s back in a week), Adrian G, Ian (Een) Happ
Thanks!
Happ, Altherr
@Grey: Thanks Grey – one follow-up, b/c I know you love/are tormented by Odor. I’m being offered him for each of Cano or Abreu – I’ve rebuffed up to this point, do you see him exceeding either of those players’ value from here on out?
Thanks as always for all the content
I’d take either, Cano first
Gerrit Cole and Moncada for Trea Turner in a keeper league. What side do you prefer? Is it close? Thanks !
Turner
Aldemys or Didi as replacement for Segura?
Didi
Any thoughts on Howie Kendrick? With segura going down i need to fill a 2b/ss and my other is D. Travis so im in a less-than-ideal situation with that position
Others available are jed, jordy, chris taylor, iglesias, etc.
@LeggoPens: also brad millers out there
Taylor
Lame pickings but how would you rate from best to worst a streaming SP
option from this list. Strailey, Kennedy, Fiers, Butler, Colon, Pivetta, or Wojioeceislwadwdski?
Straily
Grey,
Biggest needs are steals & average, 10 team roto w OPS; ODB over Broxton for the last roster spot?
Also, I was praying for a return to usefulness from Happ & Tyson Ross to bolster a struggling pitching staff…Happ looks “blah” and Ross got mashed in his last two…yikes! Might need to turn to Rodon!
Thanks, Homie!
Go ODB
Need a bat this week…16-team, H2H-Points League, (HR=4, 3B=3, etc. K=-1, BB=1, SB=3, CS=-1)
Tommy Pham
Michael Taylor
Gerardo Parra (only 2 games in Coors)
Tommy Joseph
Chad Pinder
Danny Valencia
(appropo of nothing, I still believe in Odor)
Taylor
Conspiracy alert – I think Rodon knows he stinks at the start of the season so he delayed his injury for as long as he could
Ha
Grey,
Pillar, Gallo, Alonso, Morrison, or Owings?
Thanks!
Alonso, depends on needs
FAAB day for me. Plans are:
1)drop cesar for whit. running out of money tho so hot bat aside do you think this is a better move ROS or keep Cesar? He scores tons of runs and has a great BA. He may steal again one day I dunno.
2) drop Russell for Tim Anderson. See above.
3) droping Altherr for Kepler/odubel/melky. This just feels right. agree?
4) dropping vmart (finally, you must get sick of my asks about replacing him) for Duda/Souza/Melky
What you think boss?
Halfway through House of Cards. I like it so far, but I think I may just be a massive fanboy.
1. Keep Cesar 2. Hold 3. Kepler 4. Souza — I haven’t started new HoC yet
@Grey: thanks!
No problem
Two start Lamet @ Ari (yikes!) and vs. KC (yum)….or one start G. Cole vs. Mia?
Cole
Worst of the best- Sabrina.
Hilary Duff?
@Grey: Charlie’s Angels
Oh, damn, old school reference… I’ll add it to the list, but I think it’s gonna get beaten
If you were given a job to write for any show you watch which one would it be? Are you only comedy?
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is my current favorite comedy
Worst players on the best teams are Counting Schmos.
Nice, I’ll add it to the list
10 team Yahoo H2H 7×7
R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG
W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
Yo Grey which are the best/worthwhile starts (choose up to 6 please) this week out of the following:
6/6
McCarthy vs. WSH (7.0)
J. Garcia vs. PHI (5.4)
Lamet @ARI (-0.7)
C. Anderson vs. SF (-2.6)
Gausman vs. PIT (-4.6)
6/7
Cotton vs. TOR (5.7)
Folty vs. PHI (5.0)
Lynn @CIN (3.3)
Nelson vs. SF (-4.3)
6/9
Glasnow vs. MIA (5.8)
J. Montgomery vs. BAL (3.7)
Biagini @SEA (-9.0)
Chatwood @CHC (-13.5)
6/10
Fiers vs. LAA (3.2)
Miranda vs. TOR (-4.3)
Guerra @ARI (-6.8)
6/11
Lamet vs. KC (20.2)
Bauer vs. CHW (9.3)
Garcia vs. NYM (8.8)
C. Anderson @ARI (-9.4)
Garcia, Folty, Lamet vs. Royals, Bauer, Garcia, Lynn
@Grey: Thanks man! Big help! However I shouldn’t have included Lynn because I already own him .. SO is there another start/add worth using instead out of the remaining options here or nah?
McCarthy vs. WSH (7.0)
Lamet @ARI (-0.7)
C. Anderson vs. SF (-2.6)
Gausman vs. PIT (-4.6)
6/7
Cotton vs. TOR (5.7)
Nelson vs. SF (-4.3)
6/9
Glasnow vs. MIA (5.8)
J. Montgomery vs. BAL (3.7)
Biagini @SEA (-9.0)
Chatwood @CHC (-13.5)
6/10
Fiers vs. LAA (3.2)
Miranda vs. TOR (-4.3)
Guerra @ARI (-6.8)
6/11
C. Anderson @ARI (-9.4)
These aren’t good… Miranda
@Grey: Okay thanks again!
No problem
Ian Happ or Kepler? in 6×6 obp league H2H
Kepler
I picked up ODB, just so i can enjoy the bat flips. Now, should I drop Altherr? Too much phillies (on top of being a phillies fan, which is hell on earth), and he seems to be flaming out. I’d be dropping DUDA in an OBP league.
You can drop Altherr
Come on, Albright. No need to be passive aggressive in the Springer blurb. You can just call me out instead of addressing the non-existant “some.” Tap into your Jersey roots! Don’t really understand the confusion or implication that comparing Springer to Duvall is a slight. They are what they are. Useful donkeys. No more, no less.
Here are their respective stats over the past calendar year:
Springer: 123 R, 32 HR, 84 RBI, 6 SB, .256 AVG, 23.9% K%, .208 ISO
Duvall: 88 R, 32 HR, 116 RBI, 9 SB, .244 AVG, 25.2% K%, .234 ISO
This is immediately following a 9 game stretch in which Springer feasted on the Bal/Min/Tex lowly staffs. Already forget the 29 game stretch from 4/19-5/25 where he hit .220 with 2 homers? This is what donkeys do. It’ll all even out in the end. They’re both .260/30 guys. Nothing wrong with that.
Haha, I was just messin with you… If Springer doesn’t get the SBs, the comparison holds more than its share of weight, they look nearly identical…
@Grey: Springer’s gonna start stalking me in my dreams a la Freddy Krueger pretty soon. Go be a donkey somewhere else!
Garcia and Ryu are my two-start streamers in NFBC this week. We’ll see if Ryu actually makes both of his scheduled starts with the Dodgers shenanigans. In his last three starts, Garcia has given up just 1 earned run in 21.1 innings. On the year, he has a 0.87 HR/9 and a 57.1% GB%. Hasn’t allowed more than 4 ER in any of his 10 starts. Doesn’t get many Ks though (5.78 K/9). Basically the definition of a high floor, low ceiling SP. Pretty appealing in the current landscape considering the fact that balls are flying around like it’s an ’80s Ron Jeremy flick.
Why do you hate Springer and his dinkeyness?
Garcia is a no brainer streamer this week… Ryu is likely decent ratios and 9 IP two starts combined
@Grey: I don’t care about Springer at all, that’s the thing. He can score his 100+ runs and put up .260/30 (though I’d prefer 85/.250/25, since I don’t own him anywhere). Good for him. I just don’t understand why he’s considered to be a much better fantasy option than someone like Duvall. Doesn’t look like the steals are coming back.
Bedrosian is allegedly going to be activated tomorrow. Missed six weeks with a groin tweak. Looks like I should’ve saved my Ron Jeremy reference for the day.
You don’t care about him at all? Ouch! I’m hurt for him! Springer’s considered better b/c of the 15-steal speed that evaporated… Haha re: Bedrosian
Grey,
Should I trade Verlander for Desmond?
Sure
So I was offered this trade in my 12 team H2H league, My Yonder Alonso and McCullers for his Miggy, Benintiendi, and MadBum. My team below:
C- Gary Sanchez
1B- Yonder Alonso
2B-Trea Turner
3B-Kris Bryant
SS- Machado
OF-Bellinger
OF-Conforto
OF-Judge
Util-CarGo
Bench: Puig, Chris Davis, Adam Jones,
SP: McCullers
SP: Severino
SP:Pineda
RP: Jensen
RP:Knebel
Bench: Hill, Maeda, Duffy (DL), Manaea
My only problem is how limited it leaves me at Pitching until Bum comes back, and though I like Benintendi, I don’t see how he fits in my lineup. I should have prefaced this with I am in first so to stash Bum for later would be awesome, but am I crazy to decline that offer?
Miggy side
Great stuff as always, Grey!
15 team 5×5 keeper, Who are you dropping out of: Kepler, Zimmer, Lamet.
Thanks again! Btw, have you binged through season 3 of Bloodline yet? Just about to start it, I think I’m subconsciously trying to delay the inevitable end of the show ( at least I have Better Call Saul to fall back on… sounds like I should try Leftovers too, huh?)
Thanks! I’m watching Bloodline now, about 4 eps in, it’s aight… Leftovers gets great in the 2nd season, 1st season is a bit of a drag, tho I don’t think you should skip it altogether… Drop Lamet
@Grey: What I love about the Leftovers is all the characters are flawed. Even the seemingly normal ones do some crazy shit. it’s like the Departure fucked everyone up even if they weren’t directly affected. That and I love to hear Carrie Coon talk.
I love the bulletproof vest bit, that was awesome
@Grey: annoys me that Justin Theroux is so buff tho, cuz we are like the same age and height…but not weight.
Yeah, he pisses me off for same reason, dude’s too fit, not cool
Points league:
1. Domingo Santana or S Souza?
2. J Gyorko or Didi Gregorius
thanks
Souza… Didi
Hey Grey
You mentioned Demond could get Pipp’d – I have him but Parra is on the wire. I wouldn’t drop Desmond obviously, but is Parra a good investment over guys like Herrera or Kiermaier?
1 – Guess I’m asking – pick 2 of the 4 going forward – ODB, Kiermaeir, or Parra or Valencia?
2 – Nelson or Manaea going forward?
3 – For worst guy on best team, how about that team’s Lupus – wasn’t he the worst kid on Bad News Bears?
Thanks!
1. ODB, Keirmaier 2. Nelson 3. Ha, will add to list
thinking of grabbing Paulino for the one start tomorrow, thougts?
I’m starting him in one league, but that league is a mess pitching-wise
Thanks Grey
No problem
10 team Yahoo H2H 7×7
R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG
W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
Similar to my previous question but need to figure out who to start this week out of the guys already on my roster… Or maybe it’s a question of who NOT to start?
6/6
Ray vs. SD (20.7)
Nova @BAL (-15.3)
6/8
McCullers @KC (7.4)
J. Ross vs. BAL (8.5)
6/9
Moore vs. MIN (17.4)
Shoemaker @HOU (-9.6)
6/10
Carrasco vs. CHW (24.7)
Severino vs. BAL (22.0)
6/11
Ray vs. MIL (22.9)
Nova vs. MIA (1.6)
I wouldn’t start the negative numbers
@Grey: Joe Ross has a positive number after that disaster in Oakland? I don’t even think he’ll make that start!
Who’s starting in place of him?
Thanks Grey
Kiermaier over B. Zimmer?
Nah
Last Bat Standing?
I’ll add it to the list
Worst guy on the best team? Mr. Brown (Tarantino in Resevior Dogs)
I’ll add it to the list
Hi Grey,
Thanks for the fantastic work as always.
You really don’t think either Ariel Miranda and/or Jeff Hoffman are worth holding on to in a 12-team H2H? I understand Miranda’s far from a sure thing and Hoffman might not even crack the rotation, but both absolutely dazzled on Sunday.
I dropped both
Hey Grey,
I’ve just been offered a pretty big trade. 10 team. H2h. Standard.
My Carrasco, Wil Myers and Avisail Garcia for his Peacock, Judge and Encarnacion. Which side do you take ROs?
Rest of my team as follows:
Flowers
Smoak, Travis Shaw
Odor, Owings
Lindor
Lamb, Suarez
Harper, Gardner, JBJ, McCutchen
Kluber, Vargas, Shark, Ed ROD, D. Holland, Oh, kintzler melancon.
Also out of those who would you drop to grab Tom Murphy?
Thanks a lot.
Edwin, it’s fair… Holland
@Grey:
Ya was leaning Holland as well.
Thank You!
Don’t wanna be a total pain but do you see any obvious weaknesses on my squad that I should hurry to correct? I think my bats are set. But my starting pitchers need a boost. If this trade goes through who would you deal for SP strength? (Was trying to hold carrasco but w his injuries he’s the most value I get I’m return)
Again, thanks for the great write ups and all the work you do. Been in 1st place in my league the last 6 weeks cause of you and your team!
@GL3: Prolly try to see what I could get for Lamb, while starting Suarez or Shaw… Maybe you can get a top 25 SP for him?
@Grey:
Cool, thank You!
drop altherr for zimmer?
Sure
What camp wins?
Stanton for
Lester + G. Sanchez
or
Pineda + Pollock
Stanton
Which side would you prefer – Carrasco/Odor or Altuve? Thanks.
@tank1: Alternatively, I could offer Reynolds/Carrasco for Altuve.
Altuve
Why do you feel Stream-o-Nator is down on Manaea for today’s start?
Manaea has looked dominant last 2 starts, his season peripherals look pretty good, the game is in Oakland, and other than a high BB%, Toronto has been a below average offense against LHP the last 3 weeks.
Curious your take.
Bleh stuff, career #’s bleh
Hey hey, Grey!
Hmmmm. Rodon is available in my league, and with the Rockies leaving Petco, my streaming options aren’t looking too sexy. You think Rodon is worth putting streams on hold for a few weeks?
My bench spots are crowded with suspended and injured players, so my only other option would be to ditch one of my closer specs: Bedrosian or Rivero.
Love yas!
@Sportive Tricks: you can probably lose Bedrosian
@William Hung:
Yah, I was kinda thinking that. Draft picks die hard, though.
Hold off on Rodon
@Grey:
Thanks!
You Sir, are no Jumping Joe.
Like Rita Wilson says, T. Hanks!
10 team Yahoo H2H 7×7
R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG
W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
(1) C: Wieters
(1) 1B: Rizzo
(1) 2B: Odor
(1) SS: Owings
(1) 3B: Rendon
(3) OF: Harper, Springer, JBJ
(2) UT: Encarnacion, Abreu
(6) Bench: Broxton
(2) DL: Haniger
(3) SP: Carrasco, McCullers, Nova
(2) RP: Wilson, Knebel
(4) P: Betances, Glover, Severino, Ray
(6) Bench: Lynn, Shoemaker, J. Ross, Garcia, Miranda
(2) DL: Walker
So I picked up JBJ (who I originally drafted and dropped) to fill in for Harper during his suspension and now I got a bench bat situation so trying to decide who to drop/keep? Maybe the bench bat isn’t so bad considering how many pitchers I already have?
What you do with this team considering I’m in 1st but still consistently lose in SBs (I don’t think Broxton has a stole a bag since I picked him up) and also is Owings just in a slump or his magic gone?
Available Bats (% owned): T. Frazier, Gardner, Belt, Peraza, Hicks, Inciarte, Gallo, Zobrist, Smoak, etc…
Am I trying to tinker too much here or would you make any changes considering who is available?
I’d own Peraza over Broxton
@Grey: Word big bird I can definitely add Peraza over Broxton but I’d still have a bench bat…?
I mean Peraza is eligible at 2B, SS, and OF just like Owings so maybe I should try flipping Owings to a team for a SP?If so, I wonder what he’s worth?
Or do you have a better idea oh wise one?
Try it
@Grey: What tier of pitching do you think I could get for Owings?
Samard maybe — Samaybe?
@Grey: Hahah actually I might be able to pull that off? The team below offered me a deal back in April trying to get my Harper of course but in the package he offered Samardzija…
Here’s my team and the other team below so should I just offer Owings for Samardzija or do you see a different package opportunity to try and get a better SP?
10 team Yahoo H2H 7×7
R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG
W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
(1) C: Wieters
(1) 1B: Rizzo
(1) 2B: Odor
(1) SS: J. Peraza
(1) 3B: Rendon
(3) OF: Harper, Springer, JBJ
(2) UT: Encarnacion, Abreu
(6) Bench: Owings
(2) DL: Haniger
(3) SP: Carrasco, McCullers, Nova
(2) RP: Wilson, Knebel
(4) P: Betances, Glover, Severino, Ray
(6) Bench: Lynn, Shoemaker, J. Ross, Garcia, Miranda
Other team:
(1) C: Perez
(1) 1B: Miggy
(1) 2B: Murphy
(1) SS: Crawford
(1) 3B: Machado
(3) OF: Thames, A. Garcia, Bellinger
(2) UT: Alonso, C.Taylor
(6) Bench: Carpenter, Benintendi, Werth, M. Gonzalez
(2) DL: Kinsler
(3) SP: Strasburg, Darvish, Stroman
(2) RP: Herrera
(4) P: G. Gonzalez, Samardzija, Vargas, Tanaka
(6) Bench: S. Gray, Pomeranz, Harvey
Sure, take Samardzija
Hey Grey, anyone coin Lin-Ariel Miranda yet? Missed opportunity for Hamilton jokes.
Have a great week!
Ha
Brett Phillips called up.
Brewers!
Trade advice if you will….
His Kershaw, Judge, Bogaerts, Peraza for my Arrieta, Blackmon, Trea Turner, D Robinson.
My roster
1-gold
2-Turner
3-Donaldson
Ss-machado
IF-Hanley
Of Blackmon, Trumbo, Desmond, Polanco
U Kipnis Moist kiss
2nd to last in Homers and could use QS and ratios from Kershaw.
Kershaw
5x5obp M Taylor or Pham ROS
Taylor
@Grey: weekly roto. need to start one of the following. who do you like?
duda – 2 @ tex, 3 @ atl
kepler – 3 @ sea, 3 @ sf
beintendi (facing 2 lefties) – 3 @ nyy, 3 vs det
thanks!
Benintendi
Would you stream Paulino @KC tomorrow. SON has [email protected] -4
I am in one league
Who would you put your money behind, Nola on the road for two starts @ATL/@STL or Tanaka at home for two starts BOS/BAL? Thank you!
I’m starting Nola in one league, prolly deeper than yours
NL only roto
villar OR yasmani tomas + knebel
Villar
Lucroy or Austin Hedges ROS?
Gardner/Schebler or Kiermaer/Hicks? Which side?
Thanks!
Hedges — Schebler
drop diaz or schoop for franco or hold?
12 team non keeper
thanks as always for all the great info
Diaz
Have Chris Taylor as my only 3B after a couple trades. Worried he may cool off or lose playing time when (if) Dodgers get healthy. Franco, Castellanos, Drury, Gurriel all available. Worth dropping one of Zimmer, Kepler, Broxton, Duda, Belt for any of those? Or just take my chance with Taylor and worry about it later
Why don’t you worry about that after he cools off?
@Grey: Wasn’t sure if a name like Franco/Castellanos was worth grabbing for insurance while they’re available over one of those backup OF.
Not especially
I got offered Jake Lamb and one of Bellinger/Judge for my Kris Bryant. This is a keeper league and I’m in first place.
Roto league 5*5. Other 1B are Thames and Hosmer. Other 3B are Rendon and Eugenio.
Is this deal anywhere close for Bryant? Would you take it?
Not really, Bryant side
This might be a foolish question, but would you drop Verlander to stream in a 10 team league?
I’ve ran the rule over his underlying numbers, and outside of an uptick in velocity, taking into account the recalibrations, there is nothing other than name value to suggest an upswing in performance. All the main projection systems have him pegged for an ERA just south of 4 ROS, which is at or below replacement level.
I think you’re likely fine doing that
Have some trade talk around a bunch of players. How would you rank Story, Trumbo, JBJ, and Carlos Santan rest of the way in a 5×5 head to head.
You did
@Grey:
I was waiting for you to say that but wanted to be sure.
BTW, saw you talking about The Leftovers above. Great show. Saved the series finale to watch tonight. Another show I just got into in binge fashion is The Americans – its been around for a while but never checked it out.
Americans is better, but Leftovers was solid, they stuck the landing, think you’ll like the finale
Should I use my #1 waiver on Corey Dickerson, or save it? 10 team, H2H league with OBP instead of Avg.
Thanks!
Yes
Sexual Healy looking a whole lot like his 2016 now (11 HR in 55 AB v 2016’s 13 in 72). . . near identical peripherals, and AVG is explained by the 20 points in BABIP difference. Sort of reminds me of what we all have wanted from Franco, without the fanfare.
True dat
Haniger(if healthy),Jackie Bradley,Souza ROS?
JBJ
Austin Hedges or Salvador Perez ROS?
Perez
@mike: Perez is the ultimate definition of Ron Pompei set it and forget it at the catcher position
Looking to sell high on Smoak because I need pitching. Roark not enough return?
I’d take Roark there
Keon Broxton or Kevin Kiermaer ROS?
Thanks!
Broxton
Are we taking correa for judge
Yes
i have jake lamb and no real reason to hold joey gallo in a keeper league…
would you swap gallo/ drew pomeranz for Justin verlander/ dellin betances?
my 2 rp’s are Robertson and glover (who got his sh(t pushed in recently)
thanks.
other option is gallo for sonny gray straight up?
I’d take Dellin
Do I add mark Reynolds off waivers or keep Duda at 1B? #2 waiver position and don’t want to waste it. Thanks.
I’d want Reynolds
is david dahl even worth owning in a keeper anymore? someone offered me adam jones for him..
Not in some keepers
@Grey:
its a keep as long as you want league, but you can only keep 6 players a year. doubt he beats out goldy/ Rizzo/ trout/ lamb/ judge/ altuve
Not a keeper there
kepler, souza or puig?
Souza or Kepler, flip a coin
I have a roster strategy question that I would like your thoughts on. I kept Gary Sanchez to start the year and picked up Sally Perez when Sanchez went on the DL in April. I have continued to hold Perez since Sanchez is back to help get me caught up in games played at catcher and because he’s the top rated catcher in my league.
I have tried trading Perez and can’t get any bites for even a nuisance value — I wouldn’t trade anything worthwhile for a catcher either. Would you drop Perez? I’m not in desperate need for the roster space, but I’m annoyed that I’m eating up the spot.
At the same time, I am in first by a pretty solid margin and both the 2nd and 3rd place teams need catching help pretty bad. Would you hold him to keep him off of their teams?
Thanks.
Don’t carry 2 catchers
I’m in a keeper league and theres not limit on the amount of years you can keep someone…
i have a $10 severino and $4 joey gallo…
would you deal the pair for a $1o cueto and $10 samardzija, or a $13 grinke and $10 samardzija?
trying to improve my pitching as current staff is as follows:
severino, salazaar, duffy, pomeranz, lackey, manea
thanks for the insight.
Either sounds decent, Greinke first
Hey Grey!
What are your thoughts on stashing any of these guys on the DL:
Rodon, Skaggs, Lugo?
My pitching staff is real weak (Severino, Hill, Happ, stream spot) now that Salazar is in the pen. Is the order that I’ve got them above about accurate?
Thanks
Lugo
Have Mark Reynolds, and Yonder was just dropped. Do I make the swap or stand pat?
Also, Broxton or Pillar?
Hold — Broxton
@Grey:
SCHPANX!
No schmoblem
Reynolds or Moreland?
Brad Miller or Travis?
Reynolds… Travis
14 Team H2H Keeper League
Pitching is a mess thanks to Verlander, Salazar and Vince V being my top 3 to start the season.
Would you trade Verlander for any combo of the following pitchers:
Lynn, Guerra and Lackey.
Thanks
Lynn, Guerra
Hey Grey
Can I get thoughts this trade offer?
Calhoun/Jason Vargas for Porcello/Gio Gonz?
Deep 20 Team League
Thanks
@Maverick: There’s also this on the table:
Schebler/Jason Vargas for Porcello/Gio Gonz
Thanks for your thought on both!
Schebler side, same story as first
Gonzalez side, depends on needs, it’s fair
@Grey: Thanks a lot Grey!
1 more please….there’s a trading frenzy going on in our League lol
Which Side wins or fair?
Rizzo/Paxton/Cotton —– Votto/Oh/Samardzija
Mucho Thanks!!
Rizzo
Lackey or Lamet ROS?
Lackey
Have dyson and Broxton,drop either for ODB?
Dyson
10 team H2H points league:
Haniger is hopefully coming back this week and I’ll have to drop someone to activate him. I can’t drop any of my pitchers because of the emphasis on good pitching in this league. My offense is stacked and the only two hitters that I would consider dropping for Haniger is Matt Holliday or Pujols. Holliday has hit better than anyone would have thought and has probably scored as much as Pujols so far. Should I drop either for Haniger in a points league?
Holliday
Adams or Duda? need power
Duda
Wilson Ramos worth a stash? I would drop Logan Forsythe, leaving Happ at 2nd.
Hold, or drop Happ
Do you think Wilson Ramos could be better than schwarber and maybe I should add him for his return next week for my Cather
Nope
12 team 6×6 h2h (OPS/QS)
I have been starting Tim Anderson while Addison Russell has been sucking on my bench. Wondering if Didi Gregorious is a better play for a while, or at least until he goes cold. So drop Tim Anderson to start Didi Gregorious?
Also, when is it time to say when on Russell in your opinion?
Thoughts? Thanks!
Yes, start Didi, drop Anderson… Prolly time to look elsewhere on Addison
Ya ya boring Catcher questions:
I have Wieters, should i drop for Wilson Ramos as he will be DH so play in more games
Hold
@Grey: weekly roto. who do you like for my last sp slot?
nola – @ atl, @ stl
maeda – vs cin
thanks.
Neither, Nola
hey Grey,
16 team H2H points league…
Odubel Herrera or Renfroe?
Thanks
Odubel
@Grey: Thanks again!
No problem
@RicoSuave:
do I start Odubel 4 games @ ATL and 3 games @ STL or
Bellinger 3 games Vs WAS and 3 games Vs CIN.
Bellinger
Altherr or Schebler ROS?
Thanks!
Schebler
Thoughts on Jimmy Nelson?- Still a streamer or potential breakout year? His peripherals look pretty good now
I’d own him in deeper than 12 team leagues
Any concerns regarding a deGrom injury or his recent performance? Would a trade of Odor and Moncada for deGrom (12-team, 5×5, redraft league) be fair? Which side you prefer?
Really? It’s all I’ve talked about with deGrom for the last 18 months
@Grey: So, Odor and Moncada (one awful and one unproven) too much to give up for deGrom?
It’s fair
Conforto for two games (Gee and Darvish) or Benintendi for three games (Tanaka, Sabathia, and Pineda)? Thanks!
Benintendi
Grey, SON doesnt like Maneaa vs Tor that much. Would u start him in a 12 team?
I would
@Grey: thanks
No problem
salazar and maeda for Archer in a 10 team keeper roto
Archer
@Grey: Vegas has the Nats expected runs at 3.72 tonight v. Ryu – I didn’t even consider Ryu as a streamer today
I’ve had some good success so far combining the Expected Runs data with SON, but this one was a shocker. I don’t think Ryu can hold the Nats below 4 runs tonight
Ryu is listed on SON as 5 2/3 IP, 2 ER, seems about right, Dodger Stadium plays to pitchers
Hey Grey
Good stuff. Except on Cozart. I hope you didn’t just give him the kiss of death.
I know Piscotty hit a dinger last night and has been walking a lot.
He maybe heating up so this is maybe me being ansy to make a move
Would you drop Piscotty for JBJ
Thanks
I’d want JBJ
Think the regression fairies have finally caught up to D. Holland? Safe to drop for a streamer spot, or hold for one more try? Thanks.
Stream
Hold Pujols for the ribeyes, or safe to drop and grab Rosario. My SS position sucks. Thanks.
No idea what Pujols has to do with your SS position, but I’d hold Pujols
Have Calhoun and Renfroe starting at OF…drop either or both for Adam Jones and Braun (I’d bench till healthy and put on the DL spot within 2 weeks). H2H points league favors power with no penalty for k’s.
Both
12 team 6×6 h2h (OPS/QS)
Which two would you roster for utility bat?
Josh Bell, Adam Frazier, ODB, Matt Adams
ODB, Adams
@Grey:
In that order? And if you had to drop one of Frazier or bell to pick them up, who would it be? I want to keep one move in reserve for the week and can’t do both. Lol, I obviously had the wrong two rostered!
Frazier for ODB
Would you drop Broxton for Domingo Santana?
Nah
Yeah so…I’m good with the finale.
Yup, solid, right?
@Grey: Yeah I’m at peace with it. Which seems fitting considering. Something about that show, I absolutely loved it.
Agreed, plus Coon naked for 5 mins straight
@Grey: How weird is it that I saw her naked and thought of you? Ha!
Hahaha… and I thought of you, weird!
Should I drop ed rod for who? Blach, Kelley, Hoffman, Biagini, Straily, Skugland.
Yes, Biagni
Fuuuuudge, I have so many DL/Stashes, but I HAVE to hold Segura through this, don’t I?
Now, Bour is day to day… Why can’t I have nice things?!
Yeah, hold
Worst player on the best team: The Last Star Fighter.
Awesome movie. Earth was their last option. EARTH WINS!
Haha, I think we’re going with Most Fallible Player
@Grey: Say what?!
Yup!
@Grey: Nice! I’ve had a couple okay ones over the years but sometime like last year had one for something, can’t remember what it was even about, that I thought was the best of the bunch but didn’t make it. Vindication!…Now if I can just start watching The Leftovers to get my life right apparently. Coon naked for many minutes?! Say what x2!!
It puts the poon in–Okay, I’m gonna stop
@Grey: Say no mhore…
Worst player on the best team: Sigourney Weaver.
Thanks Hollywood. This is the hot woman we have to look at in Alien?
HA
Franco or Bregman ROS.
Bregman
Nova or Kendrys in a vacuum?
Nova or Alonso? (I like Alonso more than Kendrys, but Alonso may not be available).
Thanks!
Nova, Nova
Worst player on the best team: Lena Dunham.
Cool HBO. I wish the nude scene warning came with a warning that it was Lena Dunham who was getting nude for EVERY Girls episode. Sigh.
HA! Funny
Drop peraza to stash Rosario?
Hold
10 team keeper- roto
Get Mazara for Piscotty and Maeda or Salazar? too much?
Maeda or Salazar
@Grey:
Mazara will be that much better than Piscotty long term eh
I like him better, yes
Choose one ROS: Villar, Yasmani Tomas or Kepler
Villar
1. Conforto or Dickerson ROS?
2. Conforto or Dickerson next 3 years?
Conforto…Conforto
OBP league
Machado, Severino
for
Xander, Dickerson, Archer, Robbie Ray, Duvall
Machado
@Grey:
Thanks! Same league, thinking about NEXT year:
Stanton and Archer
for
Conforto and McCullers
Stanton
Tailon or Walker or not point in rostering either 12 team 9×9 league starting pitching kinda sucks
Meh, you can roster Taillon if you have room
some brain damaged soul dropped desmond in 20 team h2h with hits/slugging/OPS/total bases/BB’s/holds/QS
C flowers
1B mauer
2B jose ram
SS villar
3B franco
OF (3) stanton/gardner/kepler
util (1) morales (1B/OF)
BN rasmus (does well when he plays against righties, but sooo many damn LP in AL east)
DL freeman/semien
i’ve over the year waivered morales and ryu recently so likely my low ass waiver doesn’t get this done, but if it did who’s the drop?
Rasmus
Baez or Todd Frazier ROS?
Frazier
Thoughts on daily league (in espn one), better strategy to have more bench bats or pitching?
And with that said, drop Maeda or Ed Rod to pick up Odubel or hold
Ed-Rod
Odubell Herrera or Ian happ?
Odubel
10 team Yahoo H2H 7×7
R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG
W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
ROS Owings or Peraza?
@ebudz: Peraza
why did you include the pitching stats if you are asking about batters?
Peraza
Hoffman @ C.Cubs or Montgomery vs Balt. Son like Mont. better. Who would you start
@lwomack58: In SON we trust
Mont.
Do you share Mike’s optimism in Jaime Garcia? That K/9 and BB/9 is pretty meh. On the positive side he does face some bad teams this week, but I’m taking the opposing opinion and rolling Nola out tomorrow so I hope I’m right there.
Who’s Mike? I’m streaming Garcia tomorrow in a 12 teamer
Grey, busy day. Finally got to this article today.,
10 team keeper league OBP HR/RBI/R/SB
This week lineup.
Grandal
Hosmer
LeMie
Arenado
Seager C
Bradley JR
Jones A
Conforto
Bellinger
Bench
Duda
Travis D
Moncada
Marte SUS
Polanco
Morales
DL Freeman
Drop any guys above for… Alonso, Herrera, Choo Franco, Kiermier and Schoop?
Odubel over Travis, play him over Jones
In a points league where quality pitching is at a premium is Eduardo Rodriguez worth holding on to? Probably back end of july at earliest and our playoffs start in August. Worth holding on to or cut?
Hold if you can
Though, he is likely done for year
Redraft league. Darvish and bregman for trout which side? Is it close?
Archer and Manaea for Nova and Verlander?
Archer, Manaea and Wade Davis for Verlander, Nova and Pujols?
Which side do you favor in each…even if Manaea turns out to be a streamer.
ODB isn’t worth owning over Trumbo is he? Have Conforto, Judge, Duvall as well (11 tm keeper)
aaron Hicks or Odubel herrera ros OPS league?
Herrera with the Kazaam!
10tm Head to Head
most SB ROS Buxton, Broxton, Motter. Beckham T.Anderson, or Maybin Who you taking?
Need thoughts on a trade offer.
Dynasty league. 5×5 OBP and QS
Receive Urias, Odor, Jake Bauers
Give: Duffy, Dahl, Eloy Jimenez
Worst player, best team: Dan Aykroyd
Steamer makes this seam pretty clear cut for ROS, your take:
Judge/Kipnis OR Odor/Jansen