I wonder if Freddie Freeman has Fletch-like dreams where he pictures himself with a huge afro and his name is Freddie World B. Freeman.  “He’s actually 6-5, with the afro, 6-9.  Pretty good hands, loves to hit ones deep.  His club is behind by three, and World B. Freeman drains a three-run homer!  Wow, was that some kind of hit.  You know this kid from the gritty streets of Orange County, California sure can play.”  By the way, gritty in Orange County refers to a Sonic Drive-In that has a B grade from the Health Department.  So, yesterday, Freeman put up those stats that I told you to pay a 2nd round price for — 4-for-5, 3 runs, and a double slam (1, 2) and legs (1), hitting .346 on the year.  I was truly perplexed how low I saw some people ranking Freeman in the preseason.  If anything, I think a stronger case could’ve been made to have Freeman ranked above Miggy, who was a consensus top 12 pick everywhere.  Guess Freeman could use the name Mr. Under-ranked when he sneaks into country clubs to visit Dansby Swanson (1-for-5, 1st homer, hitting .179).  Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
PSYCHE! Â Before we get to the roundup, just wanted to announce that all Player Raters are now running with rest of the season stats, and all player pages now have injury news at the top of their pages. Â Click a player’s name, say Ian Desmond, and you’ll see it. Â I have faith in you! Â Anyway II, the roundup:
Julio Teheran – 7 IP, 0 ER, 7 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 0.00 vs. Gerrit Cole 6 IP, 3 ER, 10 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 6.55 – This matchup was of one pitcher you expect to be worse than he always is, and one pitcher you expect to be better than he always is, and the pitcher who is always better was better, and the pitcher who’s always worse was just that. Â Sometimes, the dress is blue and gold and looks blue and gold.
Starling Marte – 4-f0r-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 1st homer, a game-winner.  He hit for the fake news cycle — three singles and a home run.
Collin McHugh – Shut down for six weeks with a posterior impingement of his elbow. Â WebMD defines a posterior impingement of an elbow as getting your elbow stuck in your rear. Â Gives a whole new meaning to elbow grease!
Dallas Keuchel – 7 IP, 1 ER, 3 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 0.64.  Got the tough-luck no decision though, because Luke Gregerson gave up six runs in a third of an inning, which had fantasy owners wishing they didn’t grab Gregerson just so they could imitate Darth Vader with, “Luke, you are my waiver fodder.”  Being a nerd gets you in trouble, that’s rule one.
Lance McCullers – 7 IP, 3 ER, 6 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 2.77.  I’m crushing so hard on McCullers I’m buying a Trapper Keeper just to write “Grey McCullers” all over it to see what our married name would look like.
George Springer – 2-for-6, 2 runs and his 4th homer. Â Between him and Marwin Gonzalez ( 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and 3rd homer), the Astros have been able to buoy themselves with Bregman (0-for-5, hitting .167) and Altuve (2-for-5, 1st steal, hitting .200) struggling early. Â They’re getting Marwin pardons.
Danny Duffy – 7 IP, 2 ER, 10 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 2.08. Â Two starts, two sparkles. Â I’m about to apply a unicorn sticker to my computer where Duffy’s name is.
Mike Moustakas – 2-for-5 and his 3rd homer. Â Moistasskiss!
Salvador Perez – 1-for-5 and his 4th homer, which was his 4th HR in 4 games.  He’ll cool off at some point, but I’ll give Perez this, he’s like the Doc Martens of catchers.  Not always pretty, but they are durable.
Nate Karns – 5 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 8 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 7.11. Â I prefer Kwik-E-Mart.
Aaron Sanchez – 7 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks in Tampa.  Aaron Sanchez opened the basket, saw a Ray, tofu and sofrito, and made a dish he called Rays so-FU’d.
Chris Archer – 7 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 8 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 2.45.  Archer tries to take from the rich teams and give back to his poor team, but he just returns with no decisions.
Marco Estrada – 5 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 5.73 vs. Jake Odorizzi – 6 IP, 2 ER, 3 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 4.50.  This game was billed as Ponch vs. Not Poached, but Ponch was the one who had his goose eggs broken.
Josh Donaldson – Hit his 2nd homer, but left the game with a problem with his calf that bothered him all spring. Â I ranked him lower than most, and I wasn’t about to draft him, but I should’ve ranked him even lower and wrote a schmohawk post for him. Â I blame no one but myself. Â Actually, I blame you, but pretend to blame myself. Â As I said all preseason, the Jays are not going to be good this year and Donaldson is about to come back to earth. Â He says he can return on Tuesday, but we’ll see.
Jesus Sucre – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 1st homer. Â Sweet Jesus!
Steven Souza – 1-for-2, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 1st homer, hitting .417. Â On one of my teams that is doing slightly, insanely, adverbly well so far, I’ve been playing the sweet tunes of Souza all season.
Corey Dickerson – 1-for-4 and his 2nd homer, hitting .360. Â He was in Friday’s Buy, prior to that he was mentioned as a hot schmotato, and now he’s moving towards, “How do you not own him yet?” territory.
Ervin Santana – 6 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 0.69. Â Apparently, someone’s in the business of teaching me a lesson for not ranking them. Â Lesson learned, class dismissed at University of California at Ervin.
Miguel Sano – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer.  Could he help Buxton (0-for-4, hitting .077)?  Because right now Buxton’s not swinging it, he’s winging it.
Jorge Polanco – 2-for-4 and his 1st homer, hitting .389. Â Hot schmotato alert!
Cam Bedrosian – 1 2/3 IP, 0 ER and the save on Saturday. Â The Sciosciapath said Bedrosian wouldn’t be limited to pitching the ninth and used in high leverage situations in the 7th and 8th. Â He added, “Your fantasy teams can suck it!” Â Then danced around flapping his arms. Â I own Andrew Bailey in one league for the occasional save.
Matt Shoemaker – 4 1/3 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 7.71. Â The Cobbler got eaten alive.
Albert Pujols – 2-for-5, 3 RBIs and his 1st homer. Â Not bad for the 9th round! Â Wait, that was last year, I don’t own him this year. Â Carry on.
Mitch Haniger – 1-for-4, 2 runs and his 3rd homer, and 2nd in as many games. Â Mitch don’t kill my vibe! Â Not like, “Hey, Mitch, don’t kill my vibe,” but more like I’m talking to a third person and telling them that Mitch is good and keeps my vibe going. Â Perhaps I should say, Mitch does not kill my vibe.
Edwin Diaz – 2/3 IP, 3 ER to cap off a 7-run ninth loss.  That was epic in the bad way.  Like taking four hours to illegally download The Avengers, only to realize at the end you’ve downloaded a Ralph Fiennes/Uma Thurman movie.
Hisashi Iwakuma – 6 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners (3 BBs), 2 Ks, ERA at 2.25.  Hisashi my dashi — slurp SLURP!  If you can pull it off, I’d do an early season sell on Iwakuma with his six walks to four Ks thru two games.
Gary Sanchez – Hit the 10-day DL with a biceps strain.  True story, I mumbled something about Gary Sanchez being out, and Cougs was like, “I didn’t know your agent got your script to Will Ferrell.”  And I was like, “Men are from Mars yadda and all, but what are you talking about, woman?”  Then she reminded me Gary Sanchez Productions is Will Ferrell’s company.  Ah, Cougs, Ted and I had a good laugh over some fro-yo.
Aaron Judge – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 1st homer, hitting .211. Â The pitch screamed out of the park, “…jury and executioner…” Â Was hard to make out the first part.
Kevin Gausman – 4 2/3 IP, 4 ER, ERA at 5.40. Â In, like, your 4th professional season, you can’t be having blow ups like you’re a rookie.
Wade Miley – 5 IP, 0 ER, 8 baserunners (7 BBs!), 5 Ks. Â Who ordered the Official Wade Miley Range Model Air Rifle BB Gun?
Kyle Hendricks – 6 IP, 4 ER, 6 baserunners, 6 Ks.  He gave up four runs three times last year, and his April ERA was 3.91 in 2016, so there might be some sweet ‘buying low’ action in a couple of weeks.
Robert Gsellman – 5 IP, 3 ER, 8 baserunners, 7 Ks. Â As of right now, we hear all of Gsellman’s elbow tendons are still intact. Â I repeat, still intact.
Michael Conforto – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 1st home run. Â Took him a week to get a start and a homer. Â I say it takes him about three weeks to have the job full-time and about six weeks to be on all mixed league teams.
Adeiny Hechavarria – Hit the DL with a strained oblique. Â What’s more oblique, the Marlins called up a Riddle? Â J.T. Riddle, that is. Â Though, Miguel Rojas will become the everyday starter and is as questionable as Riddle, though more literally than figuratively.
Michael Wacha – 6 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 6 Ks. Â He was in my Friday Buy, and the Stream-o-Nator turned his lonely eyes to him.
Stephen Piscotty – Out after banging his knee, which happened the game he returned from being out for banging his head three times in one inning.  Piscotty is quickly turning into the “Merely a flesh wound” guy.
Bronson Arroyo – 4 IP, 6 ER.  This start was appropriately enough against the Cardinals since starting Arroyo is its own form of a Hail Mary.
Adam Duvall – 3-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer, hitting .348. Â I got the sense in the preseason no one wanted back in on Duvall, though he seems like a younger Trumbo, who is a younger Encarnacion. Â The Russian nesting dolls of power.
Kendall Graveman – 7 IP, 1 ER, 3 baserunners (1 BB), 5 Ks, ERA at 2.08.  I ignored Graveman so much coming out of the preseason, I didn’t even mention him in my roundup after his first start.  If you haven’t noticed, I skip starters that don’t matter for fantasy, unless they did something of note (Guthrie), or starters are skipped if they’re so good they’re owned everywhere and had no value change (Kershaw).  The ones that we should be focusing on are the starters that are unownable and getting better.  With that said, Graveman should’ve been mentioned after his first start, and should be owned in all leagues.  For whatever reason, Graveman went from being a weak contact, 5+ K/9 guy to one now throwing a 95-MPH sinker that can induce grounders and a 8+ K/9.  I just gulped.  He suddenly has Cy Young Keuchel-type possibility.
Sean Manaea – 5 1/3 IP, 5 ER, 5 baserunners, 10 Ks. Â Someone’s been hanging out with Robbie Ray and Pineda!
Joey Gallo – 2-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Â He’s going to get sent down or to the bench any day now for Beltre, which is criminal, like chewing gum in Taiwan. Â *someone on the streets of Taiwan opens their trench coat* Â “Psst, you want some Bubblicious?”
Charlie Blackmon – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 1st homer.  Blackmon hit that homer off Maeda, and you know someone was watching this game back in Japan thoroughly confused why the announcer was calling the hitter Blackmon.
Zack Greinke – 6 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 6 Ks. Â I’m sure JB will talk about Greinke on our next podcast, and I’m sure I will dismiss him with something like, “Yeah. Â Okay. Â Cool.” Â That sounds like a podcast I need to tune into if I were you!
Patrick Corbin – 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERAÂ at 1.80. Â It would be my luck that I was all-in on this guy last year, and now this year he puts it together. Â I’m not picking him up in mixed leagues yet, but I am eyeing him like a cyclops with a monocle.
Chris Owings – 3-for-4, 2 runs and a slam (1) and a double legs (3, 4), hitting .360. Â Feels like the type of guy who you love in NL-Only leagues, but doesn’t stop you from looking at the newest shiny toy on waivers in mixed leagues.
Melvin Upton Jr. – Signed a minor league deal with the Giants. Â Too bad he no longer goes by his nickname. Â That would’ve been a hit in San Fran.
Wil Myers – 2-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer, and Yangervis Solarte (3-for-4, 2nd homer)Â helped the Padres to a close loss, which is a small victory!
Jordan Zimmermann – 6 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 3 Ks. Â Luckily he went against a Sawx team that was fighting the flu like a drunk chimney sweep.
Nicholas Castellanos – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 2nd homer, hitting .263. Â Is this the worst name change since Kendry added an S? Â Did Castellanos’Â mom yell at him this offseason that his great-grandfather, who he was named after, hated the name Nick? Â Did he get met by some Mexican women in an alley and they insisted he add ‘cholas’ to his name? Â I got questions, y’all!
Daniel Norris – 6 1/3 IP, 3 ER, 10 baserunners, 2 Ks. I like how the first suggestion in Google for this guy is “Daniel Norris van.” Â There should be a Daniel Norris VanGraphs. Â Could have Heatmaps about where in the van is the hottest during winter months, Plate Discipline about what he can’t eat because he doesn’t have a fully-functioning kitchen, and Spray Charts to show what the random stains around his van are. Â As for Norris’ start, his velocity was fine, but his command was shaky. Â I’d give him another start.
Eduardo Rodriguez – 5 IP, 4 ER, 8 baserunners, 5 Ks. Â Ed-Rod was hurt by homers from Iglesias and McCann, i.e. church and almost Arizona state.
Rick Porcello – 6 IP, 3 ER, 12 baserunners (11 hits), 8 Ks, ERA at 4.38. Â The funniest (not funny) is accusing Prospector Ralph of liking the Sawx, which is his favorite team, then asking him if he likes Porcello. Â He’ll be like, “I don’t like the Red Sox any better than any other team for fantasy, but Porcello is gonna be a mahnster. Â Go Sawx!”
Jackie Bradley Jr. –Â Headed for an MRI as he deals with a hyperextended knee. Â He says he can play through it, though he would like his right cleats about a quarter of an inch longer so he’s not walking like a penguin.
Hanley Ramirez – Out until at least Tuesday with the flu.  The flu bug that’s going around the Red Sox clubhouse is like the chicken pox episode of The Brady Bunch.  No one is safe!  And Brock Holt is totally Alice.
Sandy Leon – 2-for-4, 1 run, 2 RBIs, hitting .438. Â Cousin Oliver!
Jake Arrieta – 7 IP, 3 ER, 5 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 2.08. Â All I’ll say is he was great until June last year too, throwing no-hitters and shizz.
Kyle Schwarber – 2-for-5, 2 runs and his 2nd homer, hitting .231.  I know it’s against the sports website law to say multiple negative things about the Cubs, and never second-guess Joe Maddon, but why is Schwarber batting leadoff?  Are we living in a time now that historians will look back on as the era when guys who shouldn’t be hitting leadoff hit leadoff?  Is Michael Lewis writing a book?
Domingo Santana – 1-for-3 and his 1st homer. Â Well, we know he can hit on Sundays. Â Got six more days to prove out.
Jeremy Hellickson – 5 IP, 0 ER, 2 baserunners, 2 Ks, but left Sunday’s game with a forearm cramp.  No need to cue Eddie Vedder yet for a, “Jeremy’s broken….”
Jeanmar Gomez – 1 IP, 3 ER, though not even the sphinctory can help this FEMA.  For a while last year, he was the best closer who sounded vaguely like a Swedish auteur.  This year, he looks like what his name translates literally into, Levi’s in the ocean.  You know when you get jeans wet?  That’s how comfortable Jeanmar has looked in the closer role all year.  I’d own Hector Neris in every league, and I’d even back him up with Joaquin Benoit and Pat Neshek.  There’s no way Jeanmar gets another opportunity.
Joe Nathan – Nationals re-signed him to a minors deal. Â Considering Dusty’s throwing every reliever every day, shortly they’re gonna have nothing left but lips and ass, which made Nathan’s famous.
Trea Turner – Likely out a few days with a hamstring pull. Â Dusty said, “I don’t think he pulled it too badly.” Â Hopefully Dusty doctors better than he manages.
Jeremy Guthrie – 2/3 IP, 10 ER, the Saturday start that happened on his birthday.  If you’re going to drop a ten-spot that quickly on your birthday, it should at least involve some exotic dancing.
With respect to Ervin Santana, IHTSITYS, BITYS. I tried to get you to put him in your rankings, but you just wouldn’t listen. Tsk tsk tsk. :-)
I drafted treinen and Watson as closers. Holland is still available. Is he worth adding over one of mine? I’m the absolute worst at picking closers. Thanks for the help.
Mr. Grey,
I’m in a net saves and holds league. Would you lose Dyson, Siegrist, Kintzler, or Ottavino to add Benoit? Thanks as always for the help and insight.
does someone need to go tell Story to wake up?
Yeah
is camilla or doolittle the pickup?
Neither…Casilla
is camilla the pickup or doolittle
haniger/franco/grichuk pick two
franco/grichuk
Finnegan with a clunker. Thankfully only 1 ER, but 5-1 walk to ks and only lasted 2 IP with 69 pitches. Very disappointing.
@letsgobravos: Check that, 4 Ks* That helps a little. Crossed him up looking at someone else’s line in the box score.
@letsgobravos: lol the game of walks between Finnegan and Glasnow
Yeah, was a mess
wus goody Grey,
10team h2h cats.
pick two Haniger, Dickerson, Avisail, Souza, Beltran
Eickhoff over Graveman?
thank u. peace!
Haniger, Dickerson…Hold for Graveman’s start
Buuuuuuuce!… ×2
@JeF WiTh 1 F: trade value boosted!
Haha
Trying to scoop up some waivers after missed draft. Limits to transactions (35 to go)
Vogt
Miggy
Odor
Bregman
Tim Anderson
Pollock
McCutchen
Cain
Mazara
Haniger
Owings
Thames
Drop any for Carlos Gomez Judge, Broxton, hold for now?
@Huddy: I’d Hold
Judge over Owings
IS it time to dump Buxton in redraft leagues? Asking for a friend… who looks suspiciously a lot like me…
Depends for who
@Grey: was looking at Conforto
Springer/Reynolds or D.Murphy/J.Villar?
Villar
@Grey: Thanks Boss.I don’t know what stats some of these online trade analyzers use,but the disparity is huge.
One was so head scratchingly strong on the Reynolds side I had to go to a higher authority and ask you.
No problem
hey Grey I need a replacement for Turner
Looking at
Panik, Lowrie, Marwin Gonzalez, Andrelton Simmins,Kendrick
Thanks Grey
Marwin until he cools off
Grey,
Need help 12 team league category for holds and a category for saves.
Which of the following is left out on your team: Giles, Will Harris, Neris, Benoit, Gregorson, Benoit
@Brett: Grr I meant who’s left out of: Giles, Harris, Neris, Benoit, Bush, Gregorson
One of the Benoits? Lose Gregerson
12 team 5×5 roto
Who to fill in for Segura? Semien, Saladino, Owings, Galvis
Semien
Drop Degrom for Pineda?
Ha
Sorry AJ Ramos or Greg Holland
Ramos
ROY Ramos or Holland?
No idea who you’re talking about, give first names
@Grey: ROY Pedro or Matt?
Ha
SON got the Glasnow call wrong, he looks lost. It’s a Jimmy Vaughn start, he’s walked 2 runs in already. 36 pitches, 1 out, Le Blanc warming in the first!
Not pretty
JBJ for trea turner? trea all day right?
Yes
so i dropped pineda and he has since been picked up in my league… ouch
would you buy him back? with say….
nelson cruz/ taijuan walker for pineda/polanco?
thnks
No
@Grey: thanks…. would you be buying pineda back in general? i have a love/hate with the guy… really hating the fact i didn’t have him today
Let him go
10 team Yahoo H2H (Max Acquisitions per Week: 6)
Scoring:
Batters: R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG
Pitchers: W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
(1) C: Martin
(1) 1B: Rizzo
(1) 2B: Odor
(1) SS: Semien
(1) 3B: Rendon
(3) OF: Harper, Springer, Bradley Jr.
(2) UT: Abreu, H. Ramirez
Bench: Longoria
(1) DL: Rodon
(3) SP: Carrasco, Duffy, McCullers
(2) RP: Bedrosian, Johnson
(4) P: Betances, Lackey, Gausman, Walker
Bench: (J. Gray, Ray, Gravemen, Finnegan, Nova)
Available SPs: Hellickson, Hammel, J. Ross, Iwakuma, Pomeranz, Garcia, Lynn, Snell, Corbin
Available RPs: Kelley, Rodney, Grilli, Neris, Benoit, Neshek, Street
Available Bats: Drury, Castellanos, Thames, Broxton, Y. Escobar, Owings, Reynolds, Souza, Haniger, Solarte, Parra, Dickerson
Already used 1 of my 6 adds this week after dropping Hellickson for Gravemen per your advice earlier today (thanks) but now I’m hearing JBJ is DL bound and Benoit is the new closer in Philly so should I make some more moves add/drops here to help my going forward? Not used to an acquisition limit so not sure if I should prioritize streaming or injuries…
1) Was thinking of cutting Rodon and moving JBJ to the DL instead? Even with my bench bat, I still don’t have a 3rd OF with JBJ down.. so what’s my best move here?
2) Also is Benoit worth adding over anyone/using an add this week?
1. Go for it 2. Are you going to play him?
@Grey: Well if I cut Rodon and then place JBJ on the DL, I’d still have to cut another player in order to pick up another eligible OF out of: Drury, Thames, Broxton, Owings, , Souza, Haniger, Parra, Dickerson?
If only I could make a 2 for 1 trade …
And I’d only play Benoit over one of my current relievers IF you think he’d be better than who I got?!
Cut Thames
@Grey: Ha no no Thames is one of the many bats available to be picked up …
Trying to decide if it’s worth cutting Rodon AND another player in order to place JBJ in my 3rd OF spot… Already hate having a bench bat but I’ve got two 3rd baseman in Rendon and Longoria and my UTIL guys are Hanley and Abreu …
@ebudz: replace* JBJ (once I can DL him)
You want to place JBJ in your 3rd OF spot? Cut Rodon if you’re saying you want to put JBJ in your DL spot, tho not sure
@Grey: I need to replace* JBJ with one of Drury, Thames, Broxton, Owings, Souza, Haniger, Parra, Dickerson…
BUT in order to do that I’ll need to drop Rodon in order to use the DL spot for JBJ and ALSO I’ll need to drop another player because I don’t have enough free bench spots.. sorry for the confusion but here’s my team info again:
10 team Yahoo H2H (Max Acquisitions per Week: 6)
Scoring:
Batters: R, H, HR, RBI, SB, BB, AVG
Pitchers: W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
(1) C: Martin
(1) 1B: Rizzo
(1) 2B: Odor
(1) SS: Semien
(1) 3B: Rendon
(3) OF: Harper, Springer, ______?
(2) UT: Abreu, Longoria
Bench: H. Ramirez, Bradley Jr.
(1) DL: Rodon
(3) SP: Carrasco, Duffy, McCullers
(2) RP: Bedrosian, Johnson
(4) P: Betances, Lackey, Gausman, Walker
Bench: (J. Gray, Ray, Gravemen, Finnegan, Nova)
Available SPs: Hellickson, Hammel, J. Ross, Iwakuma, Pomeranz, Garcia, Lynn, Snell, Corbin
Available RPs: Kelley, Rodney, Grilli, Neris, Benoit, Neshek, Street
Drop Rodon, grab Haniger
@Grey: Still gotta drop one more player… probably gonna be a pitcher eh?
Ray or Gray, too much risk w/ both
@Grey: Also better idea… which two of my guys should I package together in a trade for a good buy low target!?
Sorry for all the questions but I’m kinda stoned…
You don’t say! Hanley and JBJ for one OF — Cruz-type?
Which side in a 12-team H2H QS?
Bundy for Gsellman/Jim Johnson?
Also, are you going as gaga for Bundy as everyone else?
Bundy
Yahoo H2H
Pitcher Scoring: W, L, SV, K, ERA, WHIP, QS
Totally not trying to jinx Paxton but my opponent’s got him pitching now and deGrom @PHI later to start the week while my Walker is on the hook for a loss… so should I still bench Finnegan @PIT (-18.7) tonight?
@ebudz: Disregard… haha I left him benched…
Nah
@Thee Almighty Grey
Yo dude! Pumped for another season of fantasy baseball! I just checked out your draft ranking because I have my draft tonight.
I was wondering if there are any players that specifically stick out to you that you like more or less now that the 1st week is over. Anyone that really jumps out that I should keep an eye on during the draft? Just finished reading your buy/sell from Friday.
Thanks as always brotha! And have a great season!
Finnegan and Graveman I like a lot more now
I’m walking on High Cotton, the A’s pitching staff should not be forgotten.
Yeah
With segura down need a shortstop but who do I drop
9×9 league
Have betances,melancon, neris, benoit,jansen,giles
Travis,rajai Davs,inicarte the drop is neris?
Depends what you need
@Grey: I have 6 relivers spots need steals also drop travis? Or hold and go without Ss? neris better then betances?
Travis who? Devon? Why would you drop Devon Travis?
12 team 5×5 roto
Who to fill in for JBJ? Kepler, Peralta, Souza, Grichuk or Leonys
Also Judge
Judge
Coach, Who you like from these options:
Garrett at Piratea
Ryu at Cubs
Volquez home vs Mets
Leaning the rookie
Edinson
500. Pay that man.
Wilson or Jimenez good spec adds if you need saves? Would be dropping a bench bat or Gsellman. Hunting for saves is fun but frustrating at the same time, missed out on Benoit by an hour.
Wilson
I saw Benoit got named closer a few hours ago. No way he’ll get 25 saves and get traded at the deadline… yeah that’s happening
Don’t agree
@Grey: wasn’t asking if you did but thanks for having such a large ego
@J-FOH: let’s get this one straight, you showed up to his post saying that and
1. didn’t expect nor want his input
2. and he’s got the large ego in this instance.
oky dokey.
Rank em nova,hammell, pineda,kennedy, gsellman?
Nova, Pineda
@Grey: team was mostly auto drafted do I take nova and pineda off waivers or the guy who will help me most this week?
Who will help you this week?
Paxton Morton redux. I am alone in my excitement, I would imagine.
I like Paxton, Morton does little for me as of now
@Grey: Morton’s throwing 94-97. Second start in a row against a team with a heavy lefty slant, and he’s getting through them. He’s always murdered righties, now it seems he’s moderately effective against lefties.
If we’re in on Graveman, we should be in on Morton, too.
I hear ya
Ender over DeSchizz or L Martin?
Yes, over DeShields
@Grey: Thank you
No problem
I have room to add someone: C Owings, Zimmerman, Werth, C Hernandez, Shaw, Galvis, D Peralta, Tomas, Grichuk
Who do you like?
Tomas
Grey,
My team is becoming a M*A*S*H* unit. on the DL are Gary Sanchez, Sonny Gray, Trey Turner and now possibly Posey after getting hit in the noggin by a Taijuan Walker pitch. I need a replacement for turner. Do you have any suggestions on who I should go after? Any player regardless if they are available or not would be great.I know you don’t know who is on my waiver wire, but i need a few names to pick up.
Owings
Chris or Micah?
Micah Owings is eligible at 2B?
cant find micah
Have a few options: Jorge Polanco, Marwin Gonzalez, Ronald Torreyes,
Marwin
really? I was thinking Polanco. He is a defensive liablility. Fielding Pct. counts here
Go for it
Grey
Go with who? polanco?
Grey,
chris is taken
Gray- Happy Passover. I’m playing in a single league (Ultimate) at NFBC. Playing against some of the best roto players anywhere. Players who were released yesterday (whom I’m even considering making bids on) are in order of preference: Inciarte,Smyly, Aguilar, Mesoraco.
My teams is as follows:
Grandal
Wolters
Rizzo
Murphy
Shaw
Diaz
K.Davis
Trumbo
O.Herrera
Schebler
Grandson
Andrus
Solarte
Dyson
Sale
Archer
Duffy
Nola
Cotton
Hammel
Iglesias
Rodney
Casilla (picked him up last night for Rondon for $34 ($10 more than I needed to)
Soler
Joyce
Cozart
Bauer
Corbin
Nolasco
Odorizzi
Thinking of putting a bid on Iglesias for Joyce, giving me more speed flexibility. Also Smyly for ? and Mesoraco for Wolters.
Any suggestions and is $100 for Inciarte about right (in your opinion) ?
Thanks in advance. Could be a very important season long play.
You too! You could use Ender so $100 sounds good…. $15 on Jose Iglesias lose Joyce, forget Smyly… Mesoraco for $7
@Grey: Thanks bro. I own Raisel Iglesias. Hoping Casilla can be my 3d closer. Would you drop Wolters for Mesoraco ? $7 sounds good. When is Mesoraco due back ?
I wouldn’t drop Wolters if 2 catcher league
@Grey: Thanks. Hope he plays. Spell check converted Inciarte to Iglesias. $100 bid for Inciarte/drop Joyce.
Casilla or Benoit?
Benoit
Need two bats for UTIL slots in a 5×5. Who do you like this year from Asdrubal, Choo, Span, Panik? Thanks!
None…Asdrubal, Panik
HEY grey I’m in a 12 team dynasty league 7×7 I was offered his trea turner for Addison Russel and Carlos Martinez my current 2b is schoop. WHAT do you think?
Take it
Thoughts on trying to acquire Turner?
A) K. Seager for Trea?
B) Villar for Trea?
@Mrs. Featherbottom:
If you can get Trea for either one of those do it and run!
Try it, either one, Seager first
@Grey: Cool beans homeslice
Bye Felidia!
Margot or piscotti?
Piscotty
Available Trea Turner replacements: Brad Miller, Zobrist, Baez, Schoop, Travis, Walker, Castro. Who do you like?
Schoop
Need a fill in bat while Trea is out for me–UTIL spot, who would you rather have Judge, Marky Reynolds, Yunel, Solarte, Gallo, ZImmerman, or Parra?
Judge
Manager ruins another starter’s line. 3 ER through 7 for Cobb…Close to 100 pitches…first full season back…throw him out there for the 8th! Of course he’s going to let up more runs and not get through the inning. Why can’t managers foresee this?
Yeah, so stupid
Was offered Todd Frazier for Robbie Ray OR Fulmer in a keeper league. Which would you deal? Thanks!
Take it, send Ray
Kepler a drop until we see more?
Sell on Pineda or hold after this?
Last but not least, d Travis, Saladino or peraza for my bench/2b rotation… I have all 3 right now. Saladino and peraza are nice due to their multiple position eligibility
Hold
What up Grey,
12 team 6×6 OPS, Schoop or Owings to hold down the MI spot? I know its early and Schoop has a history of slow starts, but figured I’d throw it out there.
Thanks man
Schoop
Been watching the Yankees-Rays game. All of the stars are aligned for Pineda. Has his “A” stuff, perfect weather/grip, is getting the borderline calls. Command is as good as I’ve ever seen from him. Most importantly, he’s been getting ahead of just about every Rays hitter. He’s a completely different guy when pitching from ahead. Hitters can’t just ignore the slider and sit on his fastball when they’re in a hole. Still doesn’t have a third pitch though, and Rothschild practically sprinted out to the mound as soon as he gave up that first hit to Longo. Until he develops a third pitch, he’s still a matchup guy to me. Definitely a promising outing though.
Good stuff, Magoo!
@Big Magoo:
The announcer said “no pine tar today”.
Pretty fucking douchey if you ask me.
HA
16 team keeper league (keep 5). yahoo, roto, 5×5.
give- Marcell Ozuna
get- Kole Calhoun
I’m looking for someone to give me R and have RBI to offer.
is this good or should I look elsewhere/some else for runs?
MY TEAM
CA- Zunino. 1B- Pujols. 2B- Forsythe. 3B- Beltre. SS- Machado. IN- Holliday.
OF- Marte. OF- Trumbo. OF- Duvall. OF- Ozuna. UT- Duda.
BN- Jankowski, Owings, DeShields, MSmith, PAlvarez.
SP- Bumgarner. SP- Cole. RP- Familia. RP- Osuna.
P- JWilson. P- JJimenez. P- Bradley.
BN- Taillon, Nola, Nova, Davis, Severino, Miranda.
Hold
Happy to see you are using “Sweet Jesus”
Sell hard Pineda owners….
Haha
Grey – Thames or Piscotty?
Piscotty
Eugenio dropped in my 16er dynasty. Drop T Shaw for him?
Hold
10 team h2h redraft
Drop Kepler or Margot for Haniger, or hold?
thanks g money!
Haniger
@Grey:
Who’s the drop for him then? Kepler or Margot?
Kepler
Everyone been dumping Piñata…
Dudes perfect thru six today haha!!
@FrankGrimes: He still sucks
@JeF WiTh 1 F:
Haha 1F of hate!
he is no Jeremy Guthrie
That’s for sure
Haha
Drop Kepler or Buxton for Castellanos?
Looking like I may need a 3B in case Donaldson spends any time out.
Kepler
@Grey: Oh snap, Kendrick and Moustakas also available. Take either over Cast?
Moustakas
I guess we will all be wanting to pick Pineda back up again.
It’s the Rays
@Grey: watch him no hit them.
Ha!
Damnnnnnn Pineda looking good. Get him ready for the Buy column Friday. My merkin is floating in the wind. *jinx*
Haha
@Grey: Hahah your new subscription service just exposed Project Merkin’s real name. I think I need to speak to my employer.
You can email Rudy and he’ll tell you how to change it rudy @ razzball.com
@Grey: Nice. Will do. Love you + @rudygamble
Haha
@Grey: The Merkin is back!
Thanks Grey and Rudy.
Ha, nice!
@Grey: Pineda looked good today. There should be a glossary term for a player you love, then hate immediately, but then love again.
Pineda, hammell, or nova?
@jt: Nova
Nova
@jt:
Piñata!!!
Jump back on the wagon bruh.
Pick two franco, bird, tommy jo, Kepler, grichuk, Moreland, reynolds
Maikel, Grichuk
What do you think about Joe Jimenez getting called up for DET? Since I bathe in SAGNOF butter and play in a deep 14 team league I’m always on the lookout. You think he’s closing by year end with K Rod there?
Maybe in Sept
Add any of Brantley, Healy, Travis, Gallo, Reynolds, or Haniger over Rendon, Buxton, Schoop, or Tommy Joseph?
Healy over Buxton
Grey!!
Nice write-up!!
a. Sorry late to the party! Had to write a recommendation for a colleague who was terminated after Trump’s EOs 1 and 2 limited the number of refugees accepted into the country. It’s just to qualify him to get on an other company’s roster which might enable him to get a job.
b. Arrived in Don Ameche earlier today! All is good, as you can see! Internet connection!
c. Thanks for the Haniger, Toles, and Margot.
d. John Rambo Quote of the day for April 10
[Change of scene, in town]
Sheriff: ‘Morning Amy! How are you doing, girls?’
Ladies on a bench [in unison]: ‘Great, thanks. Alright this morning?’
Police Officer: ‘Andy!’
Sheriff: ‘Howdy, Will! Good morning, Dave!’
Dave: ‘Hi, Sheriff!’
Sheriff: ‘Gonna take a bath this week?!’
Cheers,
Ante
Thanks! B. Nice! C. No problem! D. Awesome!
Who do I drop to activate Osuna tomorrow?
Tommy Joseph, Kepler, Jarrod Dyson, Pineda, Folty, Shoemaker, Treinen, Neris
Folty
My favorite is listening to hordes of lazy fantasy analysts obsess over Porcello’s BABIP, without actually trying to learn what he did differently. Then again, they’d actually have to watch baseball, or at the very least know what pitches he throws, and when.
The absolute best however, is when they talk a bout his GB% dropping, and then not realizing that’s actually what’s driving his improvement. What can I say, I’m a Porcello truther. I’m going to do a True Crime Podcast series on his improved sequencing.
HA!
@Grey: Do I want Pretty Ricky in an RCL? Hell to the no! But he’s the mad nuts in QS leagues. Even when he’s not at he best, he gets deep into games, and typically limits mistakes. Now allow me to explain his development.
His four seamer is a plus pitch, and he’s started to use it a lot more in two strike counts, and against lefthanders. He gets great spin on it, and has elevated the pitch more which is what’s driving his extreme jump in IFFB the last year +.
As for the aforementioned approach change to lefties, he’s throwing his 2-seamer more on the inside to lefties as well. Which has manifested itself in an extreme improvement in success vs. LHB. In fact the drop in his BABIP can be directly correlated to his approach changes to lefthanders, as the year over year drop was nearly 100 points.
Thank you, thank you. I’ll be back to teach Porcello 201 next semester.
I hope he has a 4.30+ ERA this year, just so I can periodically put elements of this quoted into my posts
@Grey: I hope Delino never plays!
I hope Benintendi collides with Betts! Wait, I own them in leagues — dah!
@Grey: They collide over and over again in my dreams.
Funny I had a dream where I was going to school with Benintendi… Seriously… Not like ‘school him’ like slang, like I was going to class with him, so weird
Great work Grey!
16 team H2H points league… redraft
Altuve and Fulmer for my Odor and Gausman? what do you think?
thanks
Sounds fine
@Grey: who gets the better deal?
Hey Grey,
So before I asked if you like haniger or Dickerson over anyone on my roster. You said you liked Haniger. Who would you drop for him?
C: Weiters
1B: Goldy
2B: New World Odor
3B: Rendon
OF: Polanco, Benitendi, Rajai
Util: Carlos Santana, Jean Segura, Edwin Encarnacion
Bench: Kepler
DL: Tom Murphy
NA: Yoan Moncada
SP: Finnegan, Walker, Pineda, Archer, Kennedy, Odorizzi, Duffy, Snell, Pomeranz, Maeda
RP: Giles, Kimbrel, Ramos, Bedrosian
DL: Street
NA: De Leon
Thank you.
Snell
Hey Grey,
12-team keeper with QS/OBP.
Been offered Freeman (can’t be kept next year), Cespedes (can’t be kept), Porcello (17th round in 2018, 11th in 2019)
for my
Mookie (10th round in 2018).
Thoughts?
Hold
@Grey:
Thank you, hope all is well!