On the ones and twos, it’s not DJ Khaled, with a cigar in his baby’s mouth, dropping another one in a major key. Â It’s yo’ boy, DJ LeMahieu (4-for-5, 4 runs, 1 RBI), the French-sounding EDM mixmaster, spinning his wheels around the bases. Â Yo, DJ LeMahieu, what you got to say about that? Â “Pouvez-vous chicken francaise?” Â Yo, you sound like me pretending to be French! Â Next up throwing down, it’s Mark Reynolds (3-for-5, 2 runs, 4 RBIs and his 25th homer), the man, the myth, the Mini Donkey. Â All brays to you! Â Then how about Trevor Story (3-for-4, 6 RBIs and his 17th and 18th homers) finding his way into back-to-back home run games, like succinylcholine finds its way into back-to-back Forensic Files. Â Then there’s Carlos Gonzalez…Actually, you still suck! Â So, the Rockies, scored (fill-in-number, too high to count) last night, and Jon Gray did all he had to do — 6 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks, which in Coors is all you can ask. Â His peripherals are gorgeous — 8.6 K/9, 2.8 BB/9, 3.59 xFIP, but something I failed to remember this past preseason, it’s still a struggle to start him in Coors. Â I mean, shizz gets ugly fast like a reality TV person at a reunion show. Â Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Robert Gsellman – 5 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 5.98. Â Mets’ GM, Sandy Alderson, told Gsellman he needed to pitch better, and Gsellman said, “I don’t really care.” Â Overhearing, Jose Reyes told Sandy he’d have a word with him about putting his best foot forward, then Jose pointed to the foot that doesn’t have the ankle bracelet.
Masahiro Tanaka – Likely to return next week. Â That’s good news if you read it at night, bad news if you read it during the day.
Aaron Judge – 2-for-5, 2 runs and his 37th homer. Â You know what’s funny (not funny), a bunch of stat nerds get super dreamy about a home run that goes far. Â Like a 377-foot homer counts less. Â They’re like, “wOBA is not short for wombat, it was a stat first devised by Tom Tango–Holy schnikes, Judge just hit a 457 foot homer!”
David Robertson – 1 IP, 0 ER and the save, ERA at 2.25. Â Aroldis has been overworked, has hamstring issues, and Joe Girardi yesterday was like, “I don’t care if Aroldis is 100%, I’m not 100% he’s my closer anymore.” Â Robertson and Betances should both be owned either way, but Aroldis might be DL’d or demoted from the job.
Brian Goodwin – Hit the DL with a groin strain. Â Goodwin’s Law states, at some point, if a discussion lasts long enough, a grown man will discuss another man’s groin.
Jayson Werth – Nearing rehab assignment. Â Yo, he’s been out for two months with a bone bruise. Â Making $21 million this year. Â No joke. Â Even more of a ‘no joke,’ Dusty will Totally McGoatley start Werth when he returns.
Ryan Zimmerman – 2-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 28th homer, hitting .310. Â You know how Yahoo puts a note on your team page about corrections made to a stat line? Â Yeah, well, I think there should be a note saying, “If you owned Ryan Zimmerman for the last three years but not this year, you will get backdated stats to your past teams. Â Congratulations on your 2014 league title!” Â Nice! Â I need to contact Scott Pianowski and tell him our preseason bet from 2014 just got reversed!
Luis Valbuena – 2-for-3 and his 13th homer, and, well, guess. Â If you can’t guess, you haven’t been following along with everything I’ve said about Valbuena in his career. Â If he hits one homer, he also hits another. Â Yes, technically, that would mean, if he homered on April 2nd he’d have 162 homers this year. Â Any hoo! Â Could be a short-term schmotato.
Kole Calhoun – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 14th homer. Â He hit that home run very gingerly. Â Well, he hit it hard, but he’s a redhead so everything he does is gingerly.
Cam Bedrosian – 1 IP, 0 ER and his 6th save, and clearly the Angels’ closer. Â I guess that means he’s the Angels’ *pinkie to mouth* savior. Â High five me! Â Right now! Â No? Â Okay.
Steve Pearce – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 12th homer. Â He’s like Valbuena East. Â Usually when he hits one homer, he follows it with more.
Marcus Stroman – 6 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at…guess. Â Go ahead. Â I bet you don’t even get the right number in the front. Â I wouldn’t have. Â I had no idea he was doing so well. Â It’s not in an insignificant number of innings either. Â In 159 1/3 IP, he has a 2.99 ERA. Â Zoinks! Â I’ll never forget a commenter a few years ago said he would never own Stroman because he’s short. Â Maybe I remember that because I’m short, but what a super random thing to worry about. Â So what if the only other major leaguer he could comfortably share pants with is Altuve.
Lance Lynn – 6 IP, 1 ER, 10 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 3.05. Â Guess who had the grapefruits to start this guy in Fenway? Â This guy with two thumbs pointing at himself wearing pants that could fit Stroman and Altuve!
Trevor Rosenthal – 0 IP, 2 ER and just didn’t look right, and was pulled faster than a rope a great white shark chewed through. Â I grabbed Seung-Hwan Oh in one league, likely because I haven’t owned him yet this year and have no hard feelings, and I also grabbed Zach Duke, but he’s more of a LOOGY.
Xander Bogaerts – 1-for-4 and his 7th homer. Â Well, lookie lookie! Â Just took a little mocking from me to get him started. Â You’re welcome.
Jose Urena – 5 IP, 0 ER, 8 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 3.61. Â This is depressing or uplifting depending on your POV. Â On our Player Rater, Urena is a top 40 starter, ahead of Wacha, Berrios, Montgomery, Hamels, Tanaka (!), Folty, Lackey and Porcello, to name but a few.
Lorenzo Cain – 2-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 13th homer, hitting .293. Â I had this whole thing planned out in my head. Â Was going to say how the Royals are actually much better of an offensive team than you’d think, but it turns out you were thinking correctly. Â Their offense is, well, woof. Â A .310 OBP is 28th in the league, and they’ve scored the 20th most runs. Â Only offensive stat where they’re in the top ten is steals, and I have two words for you: Â Oh. Â Kay.
Danny Duffy – 5 IP, 4 ER, 8 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 3.82. Â On the Stream-o-Nator, there’s every pitcher’s ownership number, and I was surprised to see Duffy at 97%. Â I’m guessing he’s on a few teams that are now more interested in fantasy football. Â Segue, snitches!
Marcus Semien – 2-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 5th homer. Â He has an eight game hitting streak. Â The Ghost of Joe DiMaggio called and said, “I wouldn’t even let Semien near my Mr. Coffee with the Ghost of Marilyn Monroe begging for it.”
Rajai Davis – 2-for-5, 1 run and his 26th steal. Â I mentioned this on the podcast the other day, but I’ve been holding Rajai for about three weeks (at the cost of owning a middle reliever), because I need steals, and the King of SAGNOF has seven steals in his six starts. Â Granted, that dates back two weeks, because the A’s have been storing him with the LLAMAS, the LOOGYs of hitters. Â (After I wrote this, I grabbed Zach Duke and dropped Rajai; I already regret this.)
Blake Treinen – 1 IP, 1 ER and his 2nd straight game allowing runs. Â Why am I reminded of Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors? Â Treinen, I see your true colors…Shining through…I see your true colors…Colors, colors, colors… Aw, sookie, I’m mixing Lauper with Ice-T in my brain!
Clayton Richard – 9 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 4.84. Â On our top 100 starts for 2017, there’s five Claytons listed, and one of them is now Clayton Richard. Â By the way, Kluber is on there seven times, five for Scherzer and only three for Sale.
Wil Myers – 2-for-2, 1 run, 1 RBI, and stole three bases (12, 13, 14) in the 4th inning, 2nd, 3rd and home. Â And Giancarlo stole one and he wasn’t even there!
Zack Cozart – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 17th homer, hitting .313. Â He blew past the 16 homers I arbitrary gave him the other day as the next number of homers he’d have when he got hurt.
John Lackey – 6 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 4.67 and stole a base! Â The first of his career. Â That man’s got horse teeth and a 38-year-old gallop to match!
Anthony Rizzo – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 4 RBIs and his 28th homer. Â HR to the Rizzo!
Paul Goldschmidt – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 29th homer. Â Au Shizz!
Carlos Beltran – 2-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 14th homer. Â Um, uh…Old as shizz!
Josh Reddick – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 12th homer, hitting .295. Â Kinda goofy to see Reddick hit third in the lineup, then you see the Astros almost thirty games over .500 and not so goofy.
Charlie Morton – 6 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners (4 BBs), 9 Ks, ERA at 3.69. Â Stream-o-Nator loved this start, and enjoys his next one even more, so if you’ve gone this far with Morton, don’t let up yet.
Tim Beckham – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 17th homer, now five homers for the O’s, and four of them oppo, hitting .485 in August. Â Seriously asking, why did the Rays get rid of him? Â Could someone please answer? Â This shizz is keeping me up at night. Â What, you don’t want Grey to get his requisite ten hours?
Edwin Diaz – 2/3 IP, 2 ER, and three straight walks to load the bases to open the ninth inning. Â He looked like he couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn, even if the word “BARN” was painted on Billy Butler’s back. Â Diaz has now given up five runs in his last three appearances. Â Prolly too early for a straight switch, but maybe there’s something wrong with Diaz’s arm, elbow, armbow. Â No matter, I grabbed Nick Vincent, and David Phelps will be back soon from the DL, and could also be an option.
Yonder Alonso – 3-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 23rd homer. Â First home run since his trade to the M’s, and it couldn’t have come at a better time, in the 4th inning vs. Ubaldo. Â Hmm, should’ve left it at “it couldn’t have come at a better time.” Â Stephen King was right, lose extraneous words, I think he said that, maybe, hmm.
Clayton Kershaw – Could start his rehab assignment on Monday. Â Since I don’t own him, here’s hoping his rehab takes longer than Michael Madsen and Lohan’s combined.
Yu Darvish – 6 IP, 3 ER, 9 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 3.83. Â I don’t own him, so it doesn’t matter to me, but, man, the Darvish starts of 7 IP, 12 Ks are few and far between this year.
Nicky Delmonico – 3-for-4 and his 2nd and 3rd homer, hitting .396. Â Hey, it’s Lounge Singer, Nicky Delmonico, playing his number one hit, “I’m Kinda Better Than Todd Frazier.” Â It’s catchier than the name implies.
Jose Abreu – 2-for-4 and his 22nd homer. Â I texted Endorphin Ralph and Halp yesterday, “I got sonavabenched on Tuesday by not starting Rhys, and that is not happening again, so I’m starting Rhys over Abreu on Wednesday.” Â Crazy like a fox! Â That’s me.
Carlos Rodon – 7 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 4.00. Â Can I write my Carlos Rodon 2018 sleeper post yet?
Jake Petricka – 0 IP, 2 ER, and the blown save, ERA at 9.00. Â Rick Renteria says he wants to give guys a shot to earn the closer job. Â Rick, suggestion. Â Lick your pencil tip and cross off Petricka’s name.
Mikie Mahtook – 1-for-3, 2, runs, 2 RBIs and his 9th homer, and his third homer this week, and hitting near-.375 in that time. Â Hot schmotato alert!
Ian Kinsler – 2-for-3, 2 runs and a slam (12) and legs (9), hitting .248. Â Member in the preseason when Kinsler said Latin players shouldn’t show so much emotion? Â Well, Kinsler’s lucky, he’s had nothing to be enthusiastic about this year.
Elvis Andrus – 3-for-5, 3 runs, 4 RBIs and a slam (16) and legs (23), hitting .299. Â Adrian Beltre (2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs) and Nomar Mazara (3-for-5, 3 RBIs) also homered in this game. Â Who has the most homers of these three? Â Yup, Andrus. Â You saw that coming in March.
Joey Gallo – 2-for-4, and his 35th homer, and ten homers in 14 August games. Â Obviously, Donkey Dong Jr. leads the league in barreling up.
Gerrit Cole – 6 IP, 4 ER, 7 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 4.04, and three homers allowed. Â I don’t know, dudes and five non-dudes, he’s tantalizing AF. Â Is 26 years old with a 97 MPH fastball and a season under his belt of 200+ IP and a 2.60 ERA. Â I mean, it’s there. Â Somewhere. Â He’s throwing his change twice as much this year, but it has worked for him. Â His curve has been gizzarbage, but that pitch was irrelevant when he had his breakout season, so. Â Dot dot dot. Â Yup, still don’t know. Â I think he can be better, but two seasons straight of lousy results, it’s going to be hard to be super excited about him next year.
Josh Bell – 3-for-4, 1 run, 2 RBIs, hitting .260. Â If I would’ve told you in March, you’d get this from Bell this year, you would’ve drafted him in every league. Â Yet, after all the offense this year, he feels so yawnstipating.
Orlando Arcia – Out with back spasms.  Apparently, the happiest place on earth is not Orlando, FLare-up.  True story, I was trying to do a joke, with Orlando, FL, and asked my mom, who is a doctor, for an FL word, and she was like, “Only thing I can think of is floculus,” and I was like, “Well, you need to floculus better,” and then we laughed.  S’nerdy!
Jimmy Nelson – 6 1/3 IP, 3 ER (5 unearned), 9 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.74. Â “Hey, guys watch my impersonation of the Crash Test Dummies.” Â “The band or the–” Â As Jimmy Nelson hits a wall. Â “Oh, I see, not the band.” Â Nelson’s next start is such an easy matchup, I’d hold him, but that would definitely be the nail in the coffin if he’s bad vs. the Ryder Jones-led Giants.
Keon Broxton – 2-for-4 and his 18th and 19th homers, and 2nd and 3rd homer in two games. Â It’s not my habit to mention hitters who hit pinch hit home runs, and I didn’t on Wednesday after Broxton’s pinch-hit jobber on Tuesday night, but now he has three homers in two games, and I CAN’T QUIT HIM!
Neil Walker – 2-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 11th homer, and 1st home run since the trade. Â I prefer to call him Army Crawler.
Travis Shaw – 1-for-4 and his 26th homer, hitting .293. Â Still one behind Thames’ 27 homers in the race to lead the Brewers in homers that only I care about, but, in the big picture for fantasy value, it’s not close with Shaw leading Thames by fifty points in average and almost thirty RBIs.
Manny Pina – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 9th homer. Â Fun fact! Â A Spanish porn actress is called a Manny Pingas.
Jered Weaver – Announced his retirement. Â I’ll never forget the time it was “Bring Your Dog To The Park” Day and Weaver threw his fastball and a Golden Retriever jumped down from the stands and grabbed the pitch before it reached home plate.
NL-only
Lamet (sd) or Eickoff?
Derek Dietrich or Adrian Gonzalez?
Drop McCullers for Morton?
Sure
Amed Rosario, Kepler, semien, solarte, Trumbo, Frazier over
Cesar, Bradley zimmer, pujols, or Broxton
9×9 league
Steals/net steals/ops
Semien, Amed over Zimmer and Pujols
@Grey: even if I have segura on my team do I add Amed need semien for homers ,
Matt Moore vs philly, Erasmo @tampa, starting either of these guys?
You keeping Corbin on team or drop for next streamer?
I guess keep Corbin, but have no idea of your team….I’d start Moore
Miggy droppable in a 10 Teamer?
Yup
@Grey:
further to that…. Is Miggy done? Should I make him one of my keepers next year in 13 team mixed? Does anyone think he’ll bounce back?
He could bounce back next year, no idea of your team and if he’s a keeper
@Grey:
ok thanks. really just wanted your take on if he’s doneski..
No problem
Need Quality Starts and as much K/9 as I can get, I have Yu and Sale so doing ok in Ks, QS are more urgent. Who would you take ROS?
Options include:
Bundy, Teheran, Vargas, Blach, Roark, Wacha, Estrada, Hammel, Richard, Perdomo, Nolasco, Moore, Gausman, Maeda, Morton, E-Rod, Clevinger, Ureña, J Montgomery, Happ.
Clevinger
H2H I only have Scherzer and Rich Hill left vs about 6 opponents starts, trying to keep ERA WHIP you start or bench Hill @ Det? Thanks
Bench
Drop Rosenthal for Treinen, Belisle, Barraclough, Lyons, Parker, Minaya, Hildenberger
Treinen
ROS, Buxton or Rosario?
Buxton
Hey Grey!
Currently in 1st but completely f***ed with Harper, Aroldis and Lester leaving my roster in rough shape for the playoffs.
Need some advice:
1) Do I dump Miggy for Buxton? In a keeper auction where I spent $51 on the former FML
2) Buxton or Marte ROS?
3) Robertson or Oh for saves ROS
1. Yes 2. Buxton 3. Oh
Is it safe to start Happ @CHC (Arrieta) tomorrow? Need pitching scores.. WHIP, ERA. W, K
Nope
here’s the situation: dynasty league: i’m strugling for pitching, my staff right now is
severino
carlos martinez
aaron nola
jimmi nelson
blake snell
paxton dl
mccullers dl
ray dl
according to you is likely to jimmy nelson become garbage by the way he is been lately.
a guy in my league is asking for my souza in exchange for his manaea, pitching has been so poor in the free agency, i can give him souza (although i know i can do better, but anyone wants to sell pitchers in this league) and pick domingo santana from FA,
so, should i pul the trigger in a souza-manaea straight up deal?
and, who you think is better? souza or domingo santana?
thanks a lot grey.
@tony: ex
i know manaea is not great but i could use an extra arm and mix and match him, i’m desperate also lost harper and correa, still i’m in first place, but that could change in a minute.
@tony: Your staff looks fine.
Trade’s terrible, Souza’s better
@Grey:
thanks guys, i was panicking.
No problem
Phew, glad I didn’t drop Story! Appreciate the call on holding yesterday, he lives another week haha.
How would you rank Pham, Parra, Hicks ROS? 12t h2h
Hicks, Pham
who do you need when you want to turn a 9 run lead into a baseball game, yep you guessed it captain feldman. 4 HR, double and lineout and inning isn’t over yet.
Haha
Should I drop rosenthal and trienen? Got rivero, hand, doolittle, and vizz.
@Favio Vasquez: Not if you need saves.
Agree with Cram
Rosenthal hit the 10 day dl, would you still hold him?
Nah
Ok I dropped my pack of Rosenthal heartburn tablets for a pack of Zieglers.
Nice!
Grey – enjoying your home stretch write-ups!
Agree with your views on Beckham. He has a good pedigree but was no where near this productive in TB – I’m in a keeper, where do you see him ranked next year as I just grabbed him
Thanks!
Thanks! Prolly around 175 overall
Great stuff as always Lothario.
12-team, OBP, with 6 bench spots. I’m getting thin at OF. Do I …A.) Drop Desmond for help now (Mahtook, Pearce, Kepler, Reddick) or …B.) Hang onto to him cause he might be back soon for some sweet Coors action.
Thanks Griz!
A. Yes, Mahtook
@Grey: Thanks G!
No problem
Grey,
Where do you think Chris Taylor falls next year? Top 75?
What’s your take on Rich Hill ROS? 12 team league. Hold him or stream?
Do you think Nunez more or less stays in the lineup for the rest of the year?
And last question, Inciarte or Puig ROS?
Thanks for all your help!
No way, top 175 maybe for Taylor… Hold Hill…. Yes on Nunez… Ender
@Grey: Thanks!
No problem
@Grey: Are you taking Nunez or Ender ROS?
Nunez
Different guys but you like Buxton or Mikie ROS?
Mikie
I have loved my Tim Beckham pick up and am enjoying 2 weeks of unreal production. However, I am reminded of a post-hype breakout I picked up once before and held on to with high hopes….
eerily similar to Brad Miller, don’t you think?
Plus, JJ Hardy is back soon. What are your thoughts of Tim Beck heading into 2018?
Too early to say… Can’t mix an entire season with one good month… I like Beckham as of now, assuming he’s going to be drafted after the top 150 overall
@Fogimon: miller also was never a top drafted prospect.
Worst thing I did this week = picked up Matt Adams for his games in COL and all righty matchups
Best thing I did this week = benched Matt Adams before lineups locked
Haha, nice
uh oh, jose ram hit by pitch and yanked.
Eek
@Grey: now saying “forearm” so that’s probably much better than anything in the hand/wrist. having said that i’m fairly sure sometimes those initial reports are just wrong and i know i’ve seen it been the wrist in those spots before this year. did they claim correa’s finger thing was something completely different NOT in the finger (which had already been hurt earlier in year)
Yeah, don’t believe that report yet
Nice of Ausmus to get Greene into a meaningless game to give up some hits and runs. If he needs some extra work have him do drywall on the weekends. Never fails with the closer in a non-save situation.
I would like to tell Edwin Diaz that if I wanted Fernando Rodney, I would’ve drafted Fernando Rodney. Diaz also hit two batters in his nightmare outing. What a yutz.
I know, what was that crap?
@Grey: I knew it was going to happen. The game was out of hand half way through, and I had the premonition that the taxed Tigers bullpen was going to go to their closer in a blowout.
They should’ve just pitched Mikie Mahtook!
@Grey: I would’ve gone with Jose Iglesias, but sure Mahtook works too.
Fun fact: Mahtook is the Inuit word for whale penis.
To dolphin, “Get on Mahtook, is fun.”
@Fred Garvin MP: all this b.s. about a guy “needing some work”. i get that you want to have your pitchers stay fresh and all that (and that makes sense). what about all those instances of a pitcher who’s coming back from injury “doing a bullpen”. why in the F doesn’t that just happen with the closers who haven’t pitched in 5 days or however long? “work” doesn’t need to be in an actual MLB game. how do NONE of the 30 managers ever do this? not even ONE smart one? and if you want a guy to face live hitters, WHY NOT just have him pitch to his own teammates in practice (you know during those HOURS before a game starts)
@The Harrow: scratch the last part, that would mean a guy might have to pitch twice in same day. however, this could be done in off days or the night of the game that just finished.
h2h 20 team redraft with hits, BB’s, total bases, slugging and OPS added, QS and holds for pitchers.
C hedges
1B freeman
2B c.hernandez
SS semien
3B franco
OF (3) jose ram (2B/3B/OF)/gardner/stanton (who hard to believe even back in late march you could’ve gotten both freeman/stanton in a 20 teamer, esp with the 19th pick)
util morales (1B/OF)
BN villar (2B/SS/3B), fisher
SP archer/duffy/morton/faria/lamet/peacock/meyer
RP oh/vincent/e.diaz/yates/treinen
DL ray/mccarthy
had stashed meyer thinking he’d be back soon. eventually intend to have only 1 BN bat, holding onto the villar hope probably way too long
1. drop meyer for which of junis/woodruff (intend on benching woodruff @ COL tomorrow of course). all other SP in FA are terrible . when ray is back villar probably is the drop for him
2. drop villar now (or anybody else) for delmonico/olson?
22 moves left on year (started with 80 so i’m right about at the average of 3.2 per week)
1. Woodruff 2. Nicky
starting Lester vs CIN today? 20-30 mph gusts out to center have me a little hesitant.
I’d bench him if you’re not feeling it
Story PSA: Just like this week, Rockies have another [email protected] week coming up, week of 8/28 (3 v DET, 3 v ARZ) then another 3 game homestand v SF right after. Could be some more tastiness ahead!
Nice!
Drop Carlos Santana for Rhys or Keon Broxton? Or hold?
I’d hold
James McCann, Flowers, Vasquez or Ramos for Catcher eww i know
Ramos
Hey Grey! Loving Story’s lines this week in Coors.
Thinking about keepers in a H2H OBP / OPS, keep 5 league (12 teams). Lots of value guys on the wire in this league due to small benches, so leaning towards the best players (rather than best bargains), as long as the salary is below likely auction value of course. Which 5 would you lean towards?
BATS
Goldy, keep for $51
Harper $58
Devers $5
JUpton $13
Moncada $7
Domingo $5
Manny $50
ARMS
Severino $4
Nola $6
Stroman $16
Darvish $23
Cole $15
Kershaw (via trade) $58
Cullers $7
Ha, nice!
Goldy, keep for $51
Harper $58
Devers $5
JUpton $13
Wild card — Darvish
@Grey: Thanks – exactly my thinking too, wildcard being Darvish of Severino, depending on where Darvish signs.
Looks like I may be dropping Moncada and Domingo for playoff streamers etc. if they don’t get their act together!
@Grey: Thanks – exactly my thinking too, wildcard being Darvish of Severino, depending on where Darvish signs.
Looks like I may be dropping Moncada and Domingo for playoff streamers etc. if they don’t get their act together!
Yeah, exactly
@Duda Want to Build a Snowman?: Goldy, Harper, Devers, Severino, Kershaw.
SONS likes Mortons next start vs Washington? that sounds like trouble
Sounds fine to me if it’s home
@jon: WAS without harper i’m guessing boosts the hell out of SON vs WAS ratings when on road. goodwin gone now too. treat urner the list goes on.
At home is good too
My offense runs deep, but I need to open up a spot for a streamer.
Drop Pham, Gallo, Dickerson?
Also,
Dickerson
Hi Grey: Is it still too early to drop someone steady like Yonder or Ender for a hot schmotato like Mahtook?
I’m also starting to think about keepers in a roto league that allows two keepers drafted after the fifth round. I don’t suppose either of the guys I mentioned would be a potential keeper, right? Under the rules of the league I could keep Yonder for a 12th-round pick, or Ender for an 18th-round pick. They aren’t really bargains at those levels, right?
And a way too early query: What’s your guess on Jose Ramirez’ value next year? Top five rounds?
Thanks!
Not too early to drop Yonder for Mahtook — Jo-Ram is top 60-70
Streamer question
M. Moore vs Phil-SON +13.8 -is scheduled to pitch tomorrow and SON shows him going on the 19th.
McHugh vs OAk-SON+8.8
Montero vs MIA-SON +3.4
Teheran vs CIn-SON+0.7
Can only pickup two
Thank you-have a great day
I’d go with SON
drop Ryu for Morton?… I don’t love Ryu next start @ Det, how do you feel about that start?
Yes
@jon: ryu’s start after is another road game SON don’t like.
No steals for Dee since August 2, any concern about an undisclosed injury?
I hope so, but doubt it
@Ben: he picked up peraza’s disease.
Hoping Peraza comes thru today vs. Lester
@Ben: If you’re hitting in front of a guy that homers every game, you probably don’t need to steal much.
Anyone holding onto C.Dickerson? His overall numbers don’t look too bad, but he’s been terrible lately. Oh, Bedrosian, & Robertson are available and I could also use a SB SAGNOF guy down the stretch. Hold Dickerson or drop? Thanks.
@Scandalous Bob: You know what you need at this point. Do what you need to do.
Drop for Robertson
Picked up Corbin as a flier in case this start against Houston goes well, but should I start him today? Or bench and see how he does today? His next two starts are at the Mets and at home vs. SF, which are good matchups.
I wouldn’t start him
Picked up Rhys to slot into my lineup as a 5th OF (yeah we start 5 OFs, big whoop wanna fight about it?) But he doesn’t get that eligibility until I assume Monday or so…
Hang onto Rhys, or get Herrera back when he’s healthy?
Don’t really need the OF spot this weekend as I have a firmer grip on this week than when Brad Peacock shutting down Semien before Furbush enters the game.
Hold
@CMUTimmah: haha – I jumbled the punchline there… but the gist is I have this week in the bag on Wednesday already.
Excellent!
You don’t own Darvish? I thought you said Darvish was where you start drafting pitchers. I thought you were the reason that I have Darvish on every team. I thought I had your rankings and strategies memorized. You were joking right? You own him.
If someone is drafted before I get a chance, I can’t own him
@Grey: The problem with Grey’s draft strategy… everyone knows what his plan is going into the draft because he writes about it…
This too
@CMUTimmah: most of grey’s leagues aren’t leagues filled with his followers, they are “expert” type leagues; and in those his “wait for SP” isn’t a popular one in general at all. more particularly the high end SP like darvish. go check out one of those recaps from the preseason by grey or rudy about those expert leagues, those guys are very often the kershaw/bum/scherzer drafting and all other big name SP before pick 40-50.
this isn’t from “people knowing Grey’s strategy”. i’d assume they do know it as they’ve played with him for years and simply themselves don’t ascribe to it and do use top 3-4th draft picks on SP.
Darvish went in the top 30 of my leagues, no way I could’ve got him
Chachin vs WSH or Wainwright vs PIT?
Pitchers in Petco, hitters in Coors
@Grey: I’ve thought about tattooing that on my forehead!
Okay, maybe not … but it’s those sort of things I always try and factor into my decision making.
Haha
@Joakim Blackwell: Chacin
Is it time for me to finally cut bait on Derek fisher and replace him with Yonder Alonso?
Also for the short schedule fill in to chase counting stats today:
Brandon Phillips in coors, Ketel Marte vs Mike Fiers, Nick Delmonico with the hot bat or a double header participant in Buxton or Kepler?
-Thanks!
I’d chase the DH — Kepler
@Grey: Thanks!
No problem
Oh and lose Fisher
Hey hey hey Grey,
Can you rank the schmotatoes? A. Jacksob, Cron, Mahtook, K. Brox.
Thanks! Love yasssssssssss
Who is that up front?
@Grey:
Ooops. I usually contact you from my laptop, my thumbs are too big for the phone.
Austin Jackson
Still love, bro.
Love bro!
Brox, Mahtook
Aloha Razzball —
Perennial 1st place team on the verge of locking it up again this season ;) . . . . I’m looking at my first legitimate keeper konfuscia this offseason. Keep 6 of the following; 10 team, 6×6 (OBP, Holds)
Goldschmidt
Altuve
Arenado
Mookie
Bellinger
Bumgarner
Syndergaard
First 4 are no brainer, but which 2 of 3? Can I package for Trout, Harper . . . ?
Soak up the last few of summer everybody!
Thanks!
@Cano Soup For You: Aloha yourself! Not Noah…I’d package Bum and Noah for Trout or Harper if possible
Mikie Mahtook or Zimmer the rest year?
@PHIL: Zimmer hasn’t had a hit all month. Mahtook now.
@PHIL: Agree with Cram
Well never thought I’d read the name Scott Pianowski ever again, at least it’s on Throwback Thursday.
Oh, and 5 starts last night = zero wins. I love baseball!
@Randy BoBandy: Wait, did something happen to him?
Grey –
Todd Frazier’s 19 homerunss are nice, but the rest of his stats are puke-stastic and they’re getting worse in Yankee pinstripes …. I’m currently in 3rd place in a deep keeper league, do you think it’s safe to drop Frazier for other needs (I’m without a catcher at the moment) and roll with Healy and Kendrick at 3B?
Healy has sever splits, and Kendrick has ouchy lower back issues — maybe I’m over thinking …
Thanks for your input!
@Racehorse: Yes, lose Frazier — Healy
PSA: I’m starting Nola, Taillon and Edwin Jackson today so they will all probably get rocked. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
@Benintendo64: Don’t jinx my guys!
Lose K Seager for Souza? Would be for a bench bat, have Devers at third. Thanks
@Eg: For additional context, am considering using top waiver priority to do so, in a 12 team 5×5 H2H league
@Eg: I wouldn’t use #1 priority for a bench bat.
@Eg: Oh, do agree with Cram
@Eg: Sure
I guessing the answer is a yes, but I’d like to check anyway: ROS, would you own David Robertson over Employed/Brain Freeze closers (Shane Greene specifically)?
My league is 10-team points.
@ctrengove: Assuming you gets points for holds, definitely Robertson.
@ctrengove: Agree with Cram
@Grey:
I do get points for holds. Thanks, guys.
@ctrengove:
And Robertson is rostered.
@ctrengove: He who hesitates is lost.
I feel like I lost by not hesitating with Belisle
@Grey: Haha. Sometimes it pays off to not be the first guy to the wire.
I kinda wish I didn’t get Hoskins first, keeps sonavabenching me
@Grey:
You guys are great.
FWIW, I’m 14-4 in my league and heading strong into the playoffs. I know you’re interested in my specific league, so I’ll keep you posted as the season winds down.
Nice!
@Grey: 1st place problems.
Like a baller!
You have all 12s in that other league yet?
@Grey: Not yet! .002 in average from all 12’s on offense. I should end up with 12’s in K/Win/SV.
But ERA/WHIP is probably going to be too tough to pull off.
Damn!
@Grey: Like a baller!
Haha, yes, us!
That doggie held Weaver’s pitch in its mouth
@ctrengove: There’s no way a golden retriever can catch a baseball coming in at 82MPH. It’s hyperbole.
Hey, watch it!
Can you write some more critical analysis about Bogaerts please; especially about how he doesn’t steal many bases.
@Double Bagger: Ha, will do!
12-team keeper MLB league (5×5, budget = $260)…pick one keeper: Daniel Murphy or Justin Upton next year @ $20?
@Left Coast Yankee: Murphy
@Left Coast Yankee: Agree with Fabsy
Rosario or Story, ROS? I can’t decide, I keep going back and forth! Thanks Grey
@mrm3711: Also for SAGNOF, Hilderberger, Minaya, or Vincent? Muchas Gracias!
@mrm3711: And last one, I promise: can I cut Taijuan Walker lose and use it as a streamer spot, or hold? SON is lukewarm for his next start @NYM. Grazie!
@mrm3711: Cut
@mrm3711: Vincent for now
@mrm3711: Story
News of Melancon feeling discomfort in his elbow has me looking at the wire for the upcoming announcement that he will be shutdown for the year. Playoffs start Sept 4th…..best speculative add?
Cards (Rosie, Oh owned….. Duke or ?)
Mets (Familia?)
Marlins (BearClaw hoping Ziegler implodes?)
Mariners (Vincent owned…. maybe Phelps?)
White Sox ( who knows….Minaya or Petricka…they won’t win enough anyway I guess)
This blows.
@No Pun Zone: Phelps
Hello fantasy family,
I have a question and not looking for a “right” answer just personal preference/opinion. The question is:
On any given month, what would be the minimum AVG/OBP/SLG liner a hitter would have to put up for it to be considered a “good” month?
Love the work Grey and all responses from everyone.
Thanks in advance
@PrinceRudynasim: .275/.340/.460
@PrinceRudynasim: Thanks! Donald sounds about right
@Grey:
Thanks a lot!
No problem
Still remaining patient with Albies? I think his lack of attempted steals is the most disappointing. Other options: Wong, Joyce, DeShields or hold?
Thanks
@Steve: Can go Wong but if you’re looking for steals I’d hold if those are you SB options. Not that Joyce runs.
@Steve: Nah, time to move on… Wong
In regards to the Wil Myers comment, I didn’t know you referred to your heart as a base.
@mcmi11ions: Haha, that was stolen long before! *swoon*
Morning Grey, Bochy said hes not going to rush Melancon back into closer role. I could use some saves and Bedrosian is avail. Drop Melancon for Bedrosian? My other two closers are Holland and Hand. Thx.
@Synyster: Go for it
@Grey:
Ty sir. Sam Dyson is also avail. Bedrosian over Dyson?
Yeah, Bed
I sonovabenched Rhys too and benched Abreu last night!! *high five* Wait. Never mind. That’s pretty funny.
Broxton or D. Santana? Rodon or Clevinger? Yu left with back tightness. Hope it’s nothing.
Thanks! Have a great day!
@Scuffy McGee: Broxton/Clevinger
@JeF WiTh 1 F: Thanks bro-ham!
@Scuffy McGee: Word
@Scuffy McGee: Yeah, so annoying… Broxton/Clev
@Scuffy McGee: Oh, and saw that on Yu, yeah, hopefully…
@Grey: Rodon or Taillon? Tough.
Rizzo has 2B eligibility in standard ESPN leagues! Who says Joe Madden doesn’t care about us fantasy baseballers!
Drop which one of Galvis or T. Anderson, now that I can slot Scooter as my Middle Infidel?
@BrownL: Galvis
@BrownL: Agree with F
Grey,
Trevor Story becomes a player you start at home every time, bench on road? Is Heaney in LAA a must add if he pitches well Friday? Gets Rangers at LA next week and they are garbage away. Thanks man season is fading appreciate all the help this year
@lt81: Apparently Story is the guy you bench every day until August 16th
@Fungazi:
???????
@PrinceRudynasim:
Smh i posted laughing emoji and “?” Posted instead. Comment was hilarious. Damn that trevor stpry
@Fungazi: Haha
@lt81: I wouldn’t mess with Heaney out of the gate… Start Story at home
From the other day: how had I not thought of that Nat Gio pun before! You guys are full of them, can only imagine the fun you have dreaming them up all day haha.
E-Rod, J Monty, McHugh, Clevenger. Pick 3, gracias. (P.S Grey means gang in spanish slang, shows you are a true gangster).
And is it ok to drop the Toddfather (Toddgrandfather?) in my 16 team league? I have Devers called up and Eugenio as a Util.
@Swfcdan: Not Monty and yes ok to drop Frazier
@Swfcdan: Thanks! Agree with F