To quote one of the great poets of our time, as Pitbull said, āHello, my name is not Mr. Rightā¦ā Something-something for a few lines then, āā¦But Imma be your Mr. Right Now. Right now, right now, right nowā¦.ā Mr. Bull is exactly right (now). All that is right for, uh, now in fantasy baseball is right now. If youāre wondering about what a guy did in August or what he can do in another two weeks, you are doing mental gymnastics that you should avoid. You are not Simone Biles of the brain. Stop and think about Mr. Bull, you just need Mr. Right Now, which brings me to: Otto Kemp. He was near the top of the 7-day Player Rater, and is playing every day. That’s what we need right now, Mr. Bull! Put aside all your personal feelings about how you paid a first round price for Grounder Henderson! Forget that Elly De La Cruz has become Adam Frazier with speed. Don’t remind me that Ceddanne Rafaela is so-danne boring! Let me fly with a hot waiver wire pickup as we careen towards the season’s final week. Be a constipated Mr. Bull and stop the bullcrap! Anyway, hereās some more players to Buy or Sell this week in fantasy baseball:
Psyche! If you or anyone you know has breathed in a coal oven, you might be eligible for compensation with the best pizza anyoneās ever tastedāWait, thatās not right. Oh, right: Fantasy Hockey is kicking off! Fantasy Basketball is spiraling out of control (in a good way) with Fantasy Basketball Rankings, and every week we have multiple people giving youĀ Fantasy Football Rankings. Finally, this post was released early onĀ Patreon, as will the 2026 rankings after I write them. Anyway II, the Buy/Sell:
BUY
Tyler Stephenson – My autocorrect changed his name to Tyler Stepson, and I kinda want to call him that forever. Who’s been hot? Tyler Stephenson. Who bought me cologne from CVS for Xmas? Tyler Stepson!
Patrick Bailey – PB & J is the Giants’ catching tandem of Patrick Bailey and Knizner, as in PB is for Patrick Bailey and J is for what you’re smoking if you’re starting Knizner.
James McCann – Raleigh is Big Dumper and McCann is my private property, do not touch.
Kody Clemens – His inclusion might be mostly because of his huge three-homer game last week. “Might” is lifting 600-pound barbells over its head.
Sal Stewart – Already gave you my Sal Stewart fantasy. It was written while telling my therapist, “You should really validate me. Uh, parking.”
Thomas Saggese – He’s been hot, so take what I’m about to say with a grain of salt. Cards should get more criticism for how they develop hitters. They regularly have guys come up who are supposed to be special who look incredibly lost: Winn, Walker, Gorman, Nootbaar, Saggese…Not to mention all the guys they traded away recently who have excelled elsewhere. Saggese went 26/12/.306 in the minors in 2023 as a 21-year-old! Where is any of that?
J.P. Crawford – Kinda funny thing (not funny at all) is there’s certain guys like Crawford who are meh in drafts, then we spend so much time in-season talking and thinking about them because they get hot for a week here and there and are always available.
Chase Meidroth – Fun fact! He is not a high school QB in a crop top. That’s Chase Midriff.
Jose Caballero – It truly is funny how Caballero sat behind Volpe with a busted shoulder for almost six weeks, and Caballero started playing and almost immediately became a top 10 shortstop for fantasy, because of his steals.
Harrison Bader – Case to be made that the best lineup spot in baseball is hitting in front of Schwarber. Between there, in front of Judge and where? Maybe in front of Raleigh. Arozarena has seen 31.4% fastballs, easily highest of his career. Any hoo! Bader’s excelled in front of Schwarber, since Trea’s been out.
Will Benson – Been hot, but not entirely sure where Benson is playing. Maybe Nick at Nite?
Daylen Lile – Just gave you my Daylen Lile fantasy. It was written while exploring the Arctic.
Parker Meadows – This is about this year, and Meadows has been hot, but, I gotta be honest, he’s gonna be a hard guy to not write a sleeper post for again next year. I won’t because I refuse to write sleeper posts in back-to-back years, but Meadows has such an enticing blend of speed and power.
Bailey Ober – This is a Streamonator call like the one it makes to the YMCA.
Yu Darvish – This is also a Streamonator call. “Is there a YRCA for robots?”
Keegan Akin – Been getting saves for the O’s, so that’s all you need to know here, and I won’t go on to tell you that the O’s have better sign a closer this offseason or they’re going to be in for another long year because Keegan is not Akin to a great closer.
Bryan Abreu – Shows you so much of what makes a great closer is opportunity. If Abreu was a closer since 2022, he’d be on his way to a huge career. Instead, he’s considered a solid middle reliever who happens to be getting saves right now. Why do I sound like the guy arguing his arbitration this offseason?
Andrew Kittredge – Brad Keller, Caleb Thielbar, Porter-Psyche! You thought I was really gonna say grab Porter Hodge? What am I joke to you? Am I some kind of imbecile who needed google to spell imbecile and google returned search results to buy a mirror–Hey! What’s the big idea?
SELL
EveryoneĀ ā Stop looking for an āeveryoneā on your fantasy team. Everyone isnāt a person, itās everyone. Keanu, āWhoa.ā You canāt wait for some phantom hot streak that may or may not come. Iād drop everyone this final week-plus if theyāre not performing. This is also a drop for all starting pitchers on any teams that have already made the playoffs and might only see a few innings in the next week. In general, I canāt imagine any playoff-bound starter getting more than five innings. This final week is uncharted territory and on maps itās named: Not-Just-Kevin-Cash-Is-Yanking-Starters-Before-70-Pitches-Land. Itās between the Arabian Sea and H2Hplayoffsistan. Thereās no time to wait! You need to do whatever it takes to win your league! Donāt be afraid of success! Be the hero you always dreamt yourself to be! Be a bright, shining star who is able to win a fantasy baseball league! Be the man you see when you look in the reflection of your computer screen while your fantasy team page is loading!
Grey
I realize this may sound crazy, Would you drop Joe Ryan who faces the Phillies
For Christian Javier @ Athletic and @ Angels _(Maybe)
Sorry
you also include
Luis Gill hone vs Whitesox
Tyler Wells hone TB
Wells
I would
Thank you pal
No problem
Would you rather 2 start Shane Smith @NYY and @WAS or Edward Cabrera @PHI and vNYM. I know…awful choices.
Do we even know if Edwards will get 2 starts?
No idea
Smith
Weekly lineup (set tomorrow) — Goldschmidt or Westbutg? Goldschmidt kind of platoons with Rice; and Westburg still recovering from one of his injuries.
Westburg
KEEPERS – KEEP 10 – 16 TEAMS
I am keeping – Witt Jr – Schwarber – Rooker – Tevor Rogers – Steele
ON THE FENCH
Luis Gil
Luis Morales
Langeliers
Grisham
Keaschall
Simpson
Crews
Campbell
Lawson
Grey which 5 players do you like – THANK YOU – Enjoy your slow season
Runs (R), Doubles (2B), Triples (3B), Home Runs (HR), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), Batting Average (AVG), On-base + Slugging Percentage (OPS)
Wins (W), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Holds (HLD), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP), Strikeouts per Walk Ratio (K/BB), Quality Starts (QS)
fence
Simpson
Crews
Langeliers
Grisham
Morales, toss up on this last one
Oh man the Tigers announcers are like me when I whiff on a pick. “This guy cant be this bad. He did so good last year! He will turn it around!”
Tigers announcers
“Slumps happen but the Tigers will get out of it and win. They cant keep losing, and the Guardians cant keep winning.”
Tigers losing by 3 to Atlanta in the 5th.
Cleveland hit a leadoff homerun to begin the game. Up 2-0.
Yeaaaaaah. Btw Fangraphs had Tigers at like 100% odds of playoffs as of Sept 1 lol.
Fantasy questions for you. How do you feel about Kim in LA as a sleeper? Of course other Kim in ATL just hit a HR today.
Would you rather keep Cecconi or Boyle for next year?
I think I can keep both, but if it came down to it wouls you rather have Tyler Oneil or Santander next year?
Thanks as always!
Haha, yeah, bad time to be slumping…Dodgers didn’t seem to want to play Kim every day at any point, even when they had room for him…Boyle…O’Neill and Santander are two massive “hey whatever happened with that guy” guys
Drop brooks Lee for any of blaze alexander, Kody Clemens, Josh Jung, Nick Eaton, Otto kemp for finals week in a 5×5 h2h?
Jung
@Grey: weekly roto. need to start one of these guys next week. who do you like?
early vs det
cantillo vs tex
gore @ atl
cecconi vs tex
warren vs cws
thank you!
Cecconi
As a potential keeper for next year,how would you rate Westburg,Tovar,Durbin and McLain? Thanks!
Westburg, Durbin, Tovar
14 team h2h 6×6 with OBP, TB, HLD+SV, QS+W and K/BB
Currently in the first of a two week finals
1) Are we still holding Otto Kemp and Sal Stewart? Both haven’t been playing as much lately and with Bohm back, will Otto play at all? Only 9 moves left to make the next 9 days.
2) Blew my ERA and WHIP the first few days of the match up thanks to the likes of King, Pepiot, etc. My opponent has a 2+ ERA and sub 1 WHIP while I sit at 6.75 and 1.75. I am currently back 5 SV+HLD (He has 5 relievers, I have 3). I am barely winning in K and QS+W. I am also projected to have 5 more starts than him going forward. I have 9 remaining moves, he has 8.
Would you just try and out-bulk him for K and QS? I was thinking of punting my 3 relievers and picking up 3 two start pitchers. That way I would get 6 starts (hopefully) for only 3 moves. That would give me 11 more projected starts and still have 6 remaining moves.
3) How would you rank these 2 start options. Emphasis on K and QS+W
Pfaadt LAD, @SD
S Smith @NYY, @WAS
McGreevy @SF, @CHC
Weathers @PHI, @CHC
Blublaugh @OAK @ LAA
Thank you again for all your help this season!
1. No, you can lose them 2. Yes, out-bulk him…makes sense to go for two-start starters 3. Pfaadt, Weathers, Smith, McGreevy, wow these are awful
Lol yeah 14 teamer and these were the best options. Trying to optimize my moves as much as I can. Thankfully I am winning 8-4 and have the tie breaker. Currently way ahead in OBP, R, RBI, HR, TB and slightly winning in SB, K, QS. As long as I finish 6-6 I’ll win.
good luck!
LOL Tigers let some Jack Black character hit 2 HR off them. Luckily they were ahead 5-4 and with 2 outs in the top of the 9th Nacho Alvarez comes up and gets ANOTHER FLIPPING hit and ties it. Then Profar gets another hit to give them the lead. Vest blows the game and Tigers lose.
I dont get it. He PH Baez for….Jung who is hitting .103.
He wont play Carpenter because “OMG A LHP” meanwhile the OF went a collective 0-11 without him.
He loves Vest who has a 4.60 ERA and a 1.63 WHIP over his last 30 games! In his last 7 a 5.63 ERA and a 2.25 WHIP. A closer allowing more than 2 baserunners an inning would seem to be…problematic?
Division lead at 1.5 games I believe and Guards have a doubleheader today. Looks like they got the first in the bag.
What an insane time to get this cold…And they’re going against the Braves who haven’t been good since 2023…Wild time as a Tigers’ fan (and prolly Guards’ fan)
Friend texted me so not sure how accurate but he said the lead was 12.5 on Aug 25. So…..in less than a month possibly blew a 12.5 game lead is insane.
At least Josh Naylor got a HR last night, I hope he can get the steals to get a 20/30 and we can comp him as Juan Soto lite haha.
Nationals have to stop the early games. Abrams needs to sleep after getting out of the casinos. *only excuse I have for him and the team seemingly does play a lot of early games as of late*
Is Rooker unlucky or because he pulls all his HR he doesnt get the boost the others have with that ballpark? He cut his K-Rate from 33% to 29% to 21% this year. He also I believe is 2nd in XBH but somehow not really seeing that play out. BABIP is lowest of the past 3 years, .302 which is lower than Urshela or Butler. Kind of a weird year when looking at some of the under the hood numbers.
Sexy Dr. Diet Pepper! Thatās an is a lead to blowā¦honestly I thought all divisions were locked up by September 1stā¦and they shouldāve been! Yeah, interesting observation with Rooker, might just be bad luck and he could be in for a huge season next year m, will have to dig in further
ERA and WHIP the only cats that matter. Two moves left. Who would you chose?
Cantillo at Twins
Alexander home Mariners
Yesavage at Royals
Early at Rays
Choose
Yesavage, Cantillo
My final 3 starts
Would u start all 3?
Bubba home vs Aās
Yu at White Sox
Ober home vs Cleveland
Yes
Got a roto strategy question for ya that I’m mulling over. I am up 3.17 to 3.27 in season ERA and 1.123 to 1.154 in WHIP in a league. Those are very likely unassailable leads if I bench my pitching for the ROS. However, I would likely lose a point in holds and possibly K’s in doing so.
If I keep running out starters and relievers, I will likely be able to gain a point in K’s, but also run the risk of blowing up my ratios. My current overall lead is 9.5, could just as easily be 2 or 3 points in a day given the right conditions
I’ve got all SON approved starts left (values of $10+) for 9 or so starts for the likes of Biebs, Freddy P, McLean, Sheehan, etc.
My biggest concern is losing several ratio points if my starters/relievers get repeatedly bombed which happened recently when my ERA went up .14, and my WHIP went up .027 in a week.
Keep going with the pitching or lay up/bench them?
Meh Iād bench them
Thanks. Tough to switch gears after being aggressive for the better part of six months. If I need to hold onto to my K’s point, I can always make some starts later next week.
Yeah totally
12 team, 5×5 roto
1) I cannot afford a blow up to ERA/WHIP but could also use a W.
Do you trust Gallen v PHI? (Nola) ($13)
2) Pick 2 hitters (one must be C)
Stanton @BAL (Sugano)
Rooker @PIT (Chandler)
Baldwin @DET (Montero)
Goodman vLAA (Hendricks)
1. No 2. Goodman, Rooker
I am in need of a bulk reliever this weekend, does anyone have any insight on who might be slated for that role today or tomorrow?
Berrios
Actually when did he pitch last because the jays just announced he was going to move to relief
He last pitched on 16th
Need Ks, limited on qty of starts
Thatās why I asked. Berrios seems possible for tomorrow behind Yesavage
Yeah, maybeā¦Iām not sure
Ashcraft (following Burrows) tomorrow vs. the A’s? Could get 3-4 decent innings with some Ks
Appreciate that
Anytime…we’re all in this together trying to win Championships!
Thatās right!
Commenter call of the day for sure. Good looking out KBZ
Saw he pitched today following Chandler, rather than tomorrow. Glad you grabbed him and he worked out. He only threw 33 pitches, so maybe he can still follow Burrows for a few innings tomorrow? Doubt it, but you never know.
Yeah I doubt it but I guess maybe
I think your sleeper analysis of Tanner Bibee last year might still be applicable to 2026. He has the stuff and command. If he can add consistencyā¦Do we give him a mulligan and consider him a sleeper againāwith no write up,of course? Thanks!
Yeah, I still like him, heās very close, just needs a little bit of luck and consistency
QS instead of wins. Please rank top 2 for 2 start combo:
Taillon @CIN, vs. STL
Berrios @KC, vs. TB
Early @TB, vs. DET
Thanks.
Berrios, Early
Berrios is moving to the pen
Tigers down 3-0 before getting an out. 6-0 now after the 2nd. Am I at the point where I need to hope Cleveland stumbles vs the Tigers pullout of this nose dive of a stretch?
Super smart front office with that Maeda signing 2 years ago, Flaherty and frickin Cobb this season , and getting that help at the deadline we needed with Paddack and Morton. Oh yeah!
Nurse more morphine please!
Guards have nice pitching, but their offense is so bad, shouldn’t be beating anyone 6-0 in the 2nd
10-1 beatdown by Atlanta to the Tigers.
CLE up 2-0 on MIN in the 3rd. Only down 2.5 if they win. Hell, they might be only a game back when they enter that series vs Tigers next week.
Im going to be siiiick.
Haha oh no
I donāt like how this Severino outing is going, not one little bit.
Nope!
And the As inning lasted 8 pitches! Get back out there! I guess he had no time to dwell on his incompetence.
Hahaha
The big man needs his rest! Take a damn pitch!
Haha
OK, this is a follow up question from your previous post. We have our regular rosters and then we have a minor league roster, which is basically a stash list of minor-league players until they lose prospect eligibility. Every year we do a first year player draft to compile our minor league rosters. We only have nine players on our minor-league roster. Next year, I will have to call up Horton, Cags and probably Gilbert or lose them. Are there any players from this list that you would move on from in order to participate in this yearās first year player draft?
If I call them up and add them to my roster now, they will take the place of one of my 13 keepers or I can leave them on the minor-league roster for now and call them up at the beginning of next year with no penalty. That is why I am not calling up Horton or Cags or Eldridge until next year. It is a OBP/QS keeper league. We keep 13. This is all about stashing the next great player while they are still in the minors without them taking up space on your active roster. Again, would you move on from any of these players in order to participate in this yearās first year player draft? I have the number six pick this year.
Anthony Gutierrez
Drew Gilbert
Cade Horton
Rhett Lowder
Bryce Eldridge
Jac Caglianone
Bryce Rainer
Vance Honeycutt
Tommy White
Still don’t know how deep your league is, but Gilbert is kinda whatever and Honeycutt is hitting .170 in the minors
That will work. Thank you sir.
No problem
Are you using scherzer today in 12 team roto at kc?
I am!
Wish me luck!
I am right there with you!!
Thelma and Louise we are
Thanks for the quick reply. It was close to first pitch. Glad you’re on the same page
Literally, ha
Hmm not great
Ha yeah. Max doesnt love us anymore…
Not the best start!
Well I went down with the ship my captain. I guess Scherzer can be removed from further start consideration
Yeah, alasā¦it sucks, sorry
No problem. I had him in my lineup before i asked. I was just looking for approval. I at least started gray and got 6 decent innings.
Yeah, I wish I did where I started Scherzer
Hi Grey
I misstated one of the questions and thought it best to restate my overall question. Sorry for this error.
Re: 10 Team Yahoo Points.
On the last day of the season, you can pitch multiple SPs. Of course, there can be huge positive and negative point swings.
The following SP are on the WW and projected to start on the last day.
Which ones would you select?
1. Giolitio vs Detroit
2. Peterson vs StL
3. Simeon Woods-Richardson at Phil
4. Michael McGreevy at CHC
5. Shane Smith at Washington
6. Ian Seymour at Toronto
Thanks!!!
Giolito, Petersonā¦none of these are safe though
very helpful!
What is your thoughts on
1. Jameson Taillon vs StLou
2.Ryan Weathers vs NYM
3. Merrill Kelly at Cleveland
This is so helpful
Thanks!!
I like Weathers
Thanks!!
No problem
In the last post I submitted a list of chumps who are starting Sunday. You went for Holmes but it seems that heās going to be part of some double act with Manaea. Whether heās starting or relieving heās not much use to me. Whoās next up? Or do you like Tresavage @ KC (-3.1) more than any of āem?
Ed-Rod v SF: 11 on the SON
Burrows v OAK: -2.9
Simeon W-R v CLE: -3.7
Latz v MIA: -6.5
Thanks!
You need a Quality Start more than anything?
Itās a bit hard to tell until I know how my starters go today and tomorrow – and I am leading QSs 3-1 though my opponent has a few more starts left than I do. Great ratios and a ton of Ks is probably what Iām after lol. Not much to ask, is it?
Tresavage or Ed-Rod, I guess, but woof
Tell me about it. Maybe if I go Ed-Rod with the mindset that I donāt trust that bastard it will all work out!
Re Kershaw, it was pretty neat to be there for this one. Being in the company of yourself and royce! the main highlight of courseā¦
Haha, yeah, that actually’s not bad logic with these options
Absolutely! Good times! When do you come back stateside?
Hmmm, not sure. I do have a pretty big birthday next year which might be marked by some overseas travel so might be able to work something in thereā¦
Ooh…Turning 40! That would be a good time!
Iām not sure Razzball even existed when I was 40 lol.
HAHA, old man!
I need 1 win this weekend to clinch. Which of these 5 available pick-ups is the heavy favorite to get that W?
Darvish @ CWS
Ober vs CLE
Taillon @ CIN
Cantillo @ MIN
Mize vs ATL
Darvish
I, for one, cannot wait for the results of the Braves/Tigers game tonight. A true battle of wills and gumption. A true test of the 5.56 ERA. Who will prevail? Elder? Morton? Both?
Haha
Both!
Need SBs today/tomorrow/Sunday to have a shot at moving to the championships. Whoās the better betāCaleb Durbin (red hot but not running a ton) or Austin Martin (random schmo but getting on base and all Twins have a green light by order of Rocco)? Mangum, Bader, V. Scott also out there.
Durbin
Hey Grey, I claimed Weencel Perez to fill in for injuries a few weeks ago, but he has struggled. Would you grab one of these guys for next week instead?
Daylen Lile, OF WAS (6 @ATL, CHW)
Moises Ballesteros, C/DH CHC (6 NYM, STL)
Mike Tauchman (6 @NYY, @WAS)
Lile
Am I right to drop Weencel over Isaac Collins? Probably doesn’t matter…
Yes
What’s up Grey?
I see you noted Kittredge and Akin. Would you pick one of them up and drop one of Vest, Pagan or Romero? Matchups below.
Kittredge (6, NYM, STL)
Akin (6, TB, @NYY)
Vest (6, @CLE, @BOS)
Pagan (6, PIT, @MIL)
Romero (6, @SF, @CHC)
Pagan gone for Akin
Hey Grey,
Getting ready for the last week with some potential claims. Here are my current starters, of which I need to pick 7 to start next week.
Flaherty (@CLE, @BOS)
Glasnow (@SEA)
Mize (@BOS)
Sanchez (MIA)
B. Williams (DET)
N. McLean (@MIA)
Springs (KC)
Zebby (@TEX)
Messick (DET)
Other options on the WW ā would you drop any of the above to possibly start one of these guys? Likely no keeper implications to speak of.
Bibee (v DET) ā Iām the one who dropped him right before he got good!
Tyler Wells (v TB)
Stephen Kolek (@LAA)
Michael McGreevy(@SF, @CHC)
Colin Rea (NYM)
Cavalli (CHW)
Cecconi (TEX)
Is that Gavin Williams or a B. Williams?
Bibee, Wells, Cecconi and Kolek over Flaherty, Mize, Zebby and Springs
WHOOOWEEEEE, big changes – I love it! It’s Gavin Williams. Apologies for the typo. By the way, Springs pitches @PIT this Sunday – do you think I should wait and see how that goes before dropping him?
Also, the order that you listed the adds (Bibee, Wells, Cecconi and Kolek) – is that the order you’d prioritize them? Same question with drop priority (Flaherty, Mize, Zebby, Springs).
Appreciate all the great help this year! We’re nearly there!
Ha, No problem — yes, wait for Springs, I don’t mind him on the road, don’t trust him at home…Hmm, not that order
Wells, Bibee, Cecconi, Kolek…that order
Dropping priority would be Zebby, Mize, Flaherty