Before yesterday’s start, I saw someone named Anthony Seigler hitting leadoff for the Red Sox, and I thought to myself, “Self, you green-eyed, handsome devil! Get him off your bench, you have to start Cade Cavalli. The Red Sox are not scary in Fenway with Seigler or whoever else they have.” Then I thought about how Seigler sounded like a character from The Producers. Thankfully, I started Cade, because that would’ve been a sonavabench that I might not have come back from that quickly. I might’ve needed a Solace Journey in Sedona or some shizz at a retreat, and I didn’t want that! Cade Cavalli went 7 IP, 0 ER, 1 hit, 0 ER, zero walks, 13 Ks, ERA at 3.69. Damn it, I love butter and that ain’t margarine. The glory that is 13 Ks in 100 pitches? I love it! He’s sitting on 10.2 K/9, 2.9 BB/9 and a 3.58 xFIP with newfound confidence in his slider (or sweeper, depending on where you’re looking for your stats). He abandoned it last year; brought it back this year and has a .162 BAA with it. Daddy goes vroom into a Love Buggy like Reese McGuire, if he were turned on by excellent pitches. Cavalli looks like a top 25 starter who is knocking. Open the door, please! Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
CJ Abrams – 1-for-5 and his 18th homer, hitting .273. Curtis Jackson Abrams ain’t getting fiddy, but he might get to thiddy.
Willson Contreras – Was tossed from the game after charging the mound. It looked like Cade told Contreras to “Sit down, boy.” Contreras took offense, as one does when being called boy. Unless you’re on Only Fans and paying to be called boy. Then that’s charging a different mound. I believe the Cancel Police are circling my house in helicopters. If you don’t hear from me again, it was fun!
Connelly Early – Left with elbow discomfort. Zoinks. And that’s not a good zoinks. That’s a bad zoinks.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. – Scratched due to back tightness. Vlad Jr. feels like what I thought Taylor Ward was going to say about this year. We’re going to get to October and Vlad Jr. is going to say, “I wasn’t healthy all year.” His back is usually a shelf, but it should be putting him on the shelf.
Kevin Gausman – 6 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 4.19. This start was vs. the Mets. Putting this start into my “Not Mets Calculator” and it’s a 1 1/3 IP, 6 ER start. Shudders.
Christopher Morel – Signed with the Mets. Oh, yeah, that’ll fix them. You’re in luck, Mets, you’re fixed! Take a victory lap! You can’t lose now!
Nolan McLean – 6 IP, 0 ER, 7 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.78. You don’t think this bounce back start by McLean was triggered by the Morel signing? You’re crazy! I have an LLM that makes virtual bridges in Kansas to sell you!
Francisco Alvarez – 1-for-4, and his 9th homer. That’s only in 180 ABs. That’s impressive, right? It sounded it in my head.
Ronald Acuña Jr. – Long shot to return prior to the break. Acuña, a rich man’s Byron Buxton. Snapped! Not as in I got him, but as in I’m applying to be on the TV show, Snapped, because I’ve lost it after drafting Acuña.
Martin Perez – 5 IP, 4 ER, 8 baserunners, 1 K, ERA at 3.27. Is there a German word for wanting to see regression from a pitcher you don’t have?
Nathan Church – 1-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 6th homer. Also, in this game, Nelson Velazquez (2-for-2) hit his 3rd homer. Both guys had like one combined hit over the last week. That’s Church and yuck to state the obvious.
Fernando Tatis Jr. – 2-for-5 and his 4th and 5th homer. Reports are coming out about the ball being juiced. MLB is saying it’s not, which means it is. Some are speculating it might be as crazy as 2019. I like how the whole league kept it a secret from Tatis until yesterday.
Manny Machado – 2-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 16th homer, hitting .189. So, the wind was blowing out in Wrigley, huh? Well, whatever!
Dansby Swanson – 3-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 12th and 13th homer, hitting .203. First 70 games, seven homers. Last 12 games, six homers. Really puts in perspective Tatis’s season. Actually, Spencer Horwitz out-homering him really put that into perspective.
Alex Bregman – 1-for-3, 3 RBIs and his 7th homer, hitting .243. Is it me (it’s not me) or are the Cubs the most hot or cold and no in-between team?
Michael Busch – 1-for-4 and his 10th homer, hitting .233. I’m going to pick him up and will likely cool him off. Here goes nothing, said Grey “William H. Macy as The Cooler” Albright!
Matthew Boyd – 5 IP, 3 ER, 8 hits, zero walks, 2 Ks, ERA at 5.08. So, the wind was blowing out but he pitched well? Or, right, it was the Padres. Boyd’s one of the biggest buy lows, for what it’s Wuertz, and it should be Wuertz something otherwise why are you reading this?
Pete Crow-Armstrong – 1-for-4, 2 runs and his 18th homer, hitting .284. PCA stands for Phone Charlie’s Angels. Wait, that’s wrong. Ended the month with 11 homers and hitting around .380. Not a bad month!
Junior Caminero – 2-for-5, 3 RBIs and his 23rd homer, hitting .294. Juco Loco had the best week of the season on the 7-day Player Rater. (I think.)
Ryan Vilade – 1-for-3, 2 runs and his 6th homer, and 2nd homer in four games. Hot schmotato alert!
Carter Jensen – 1-for-4 and his 12th homer. He now has a 20-game hitting streak. During this streak, he’s hitting .359 with five homers and four Razzball mentions!
Bobby Witt Jr. – 3-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 11th and 12th homer, hitting .294. Thank you for being healthy enough to give more Joys de Witt with your ropers.
Griffin Jax – 6 IP, 3 ER, 5 hits, zero walks, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.45. It’s time to stop looking at Streamonator for Jax and time to start starting him everywhere.
Yordan Alvarez – 3-for-4, 4 RBIs and his 26th homer, and 7th career grand slam, tying an Astros’ franchise record. Previously held by me, Dickie Thon. Kidding. I don’t know who he tied. Jason Lane? Derek Bell? What is this, name the random Astros player?
Mike Burrows – 5 IP, 4 ER, 8 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 5.58. Monocle still affixed, which is more than I can say for Burrows.
Joe Ryan – 4 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 3.61. Joe lies! Joe Ryan’s lyin’ with his good pitches that are flat because of the bouncy ball!
Brandon Sproat – 5 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 5.28. I have a monocle glued to my eye for this guy, and, if your league is aggressive, I’d grab him now, but Sproat’s far from out of the woods. In fact, Sproat sounds like he’s in woods.
Jake Bauers – 3-for-4, 3 runs and his 15th homer, hitting .272. People seem to really want to drop him. He’s around a top 12 1st baseman above Freddie Freeman.
Jackson Chourio – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 12th homer. Ja-Chou, God bless you!
Sal Stewart – 2-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 16th homer. Sal Stewart or Bauers? Okay, Sal, and it’s not close. Sal’s around top five for 1st basemen.
Liam Hicks – 2-for-6, 1 run as he was activated from the IL. Kevin from ESPN’s “Get Him In Your Lineup” Department said, “Susan in HR said, ‘Have some candy,’ and is now mad I took that to mean her entire candy bowl. Is that not some?”
Javier Sanoja – 3-for-5, 3 runs, 3 RBIs and his 3rd homer, and hitting around .400 in the last week, and played yesterday in Coors to give Otto Lopez a rest for what freakin’ reason?! I need Otto and you bench him when they’re in Coors?! Why?! Marlins scored 14 runs and Otto didn’t play?! Holy sit!
Owen Caissie – 1-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 10th homer, five homers and ~.250 in June, which isn’t bad. [Mr. Prorater crashes through my wall] “That’s a 30-homer season-long pace!” Use a door! “Sorry.”
Eury Perez – 5 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners (4 BBs), 8 Ks, ERA at 4.21. Rather than impressed by it, I think it’s not a great start for command, and there was no way you could start him in Coors.
Justin Wrobleski – 7 IP, 3 ER, 7 hits, zero walks, 11 Ks, ERA at 2.80. Putting it in perspective: Dodgers moved Ohtani to Friday, because they didn’t want him to have to pitch in Bing Bong. Wrobleski just did it with a 6.2 K/9, and made it look easy. Imagine you had him and EdRod instead of Framber and Sheehan. Sorry, not for you to imagine, I’m telling my own stupid ass to imagine it.
Colby Thomas – 2-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 4th homer, and 2nd homer in two games. Apparently, he was the pickup when Soderstrom went down not Carlos Cortes, who I’m sitting here with who stopped playing.
Rafael Devers – 1-for-2 and his 15th homer, which was his 250th career homer. Devers will get 250 more homers if he hires Melky Cabrera as his website designer, and he makes a SquareSpace website congratulating him on 500 homers.
Landen Roupp – 2 2/3 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 4.55. Landen Ro-downn. Is that something?
Luis Arraez – 3-for-4 and his 4th homer, hitting .331. Arraez and shine!
Ketel Marte – 2-for-5, 3 RBIs and his 17th homer, and five homers in the last week. Call the escape room because someone’s locked in!
Brandon Pfaadt – 5 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 5.40, as he was recalled from Reno. No, do not pick him up. Pfaadt is The Biggest Loser and only in the problematic way.
Bryan Woo – 6 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.17. This was about as easy as matchups get. He was at home facing the Angels, i.e., Neto plus eight.
Jose Soriano – 5 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.42. Picked him up off waivers in my RCL because: I have nothing to lose in that league. Worked out okay, will see where this goes. Stay tuned, or not! Your choice.
Jacob deGrom – 7 IP, 2 ER, 4 hits, zero walks, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.48. After the 1st inning homer to Manzardo, I began a strongly worded letter to Whom It May Concern and Voters of the MLB Hall of Fame, making up a story about how deGrom diddled my dog, Ted, but then deGrom settled in and I crumpled up the note, tossed it into a waste paper basket that I won’t empty, in case I need to uncrumple that letter for next time.
Corey Seager – Left the game with back discomfort. Crazy, never thought I’d see the day. Hmm, where’s the sarcasm font on this thing?
Joc Pederson – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 14th homer, and his 2nd homer in two games, third homer in four games, fourth homer in five games, fifth homer in six games and sixth homer in June! Okay, last one, less impressive, but there’s few guys hotter right now.
Josh Jung – 2-for-4 and his 9th homer. Nearly picked him up in one league, but Eugenio Suarez returned to action, so, boy, am I glad Eugenio’s back!
Tanner Bibee – 7 IP, 2 ER, 5 hits, zero walks, 2 Ks, ERA at 3.69. DeGrom’s line was better, and he was way more impressive to watch, but Bibee — and a bunch of the Guards’ hitters and pitchers — seem to get by without being impressive. Streamonator loves Bibee’s next one, and I can’t say I’m enthused.
Cristopher Sanchez – 7 IP, 0 ER, 5 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 2.00. Sanchez’s last starts vs. the Pirates: Straight nails. Like Lenny Dykstra on the Razzball Patreon podcast. It’s true, he appeared on the pod, lying in bed, doing God knows what.
Trea Turner – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 9th homer, hitting .237, and 2nd homer in two games. Second mention same as the first. Treat Urner is a Sell, I am! Treat Urner is a Sell!
Bubba Chandler – 6 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 4.62. You really have to take a cold hard look at a pitcher on your team if he has a 4.50+ ERA more than a half season in.
Junior Perez – 1-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Junior Perez is in the Llamas mold who could go 30/30/.170. Or better: 30/30/[covers mouth so you can’t hear it].
Colson Montgomery – 1-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 21st homer, hitting .221. He’s going to get to 40 homers, and still be underrated next year. The Adam Dunn at Shortstop Story by Colson Montgomery.
Cam Schlittler – 4 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 2.08. A’la George Michael singing Elton John, “Don’t let the regression go down on my starters…” Too late, George! Also, RIP. Can you tell I’m reading a George Michael biography? Second mention in two days. Don’t worry, I’ll be done by Freedom (day) ’26.
Ben Rice – 1-for-4 and his 23rd homer. Rice-a-HRoni!
Tarik Skubal – 6 IP, 1 ER, 1 hit, zero walks, 9 Ks, ERA at 3.15. Yankees are the biggest pushover on hitting right now or nah? I’m going yah. Are you going nah? Nah or yah?! Nah or yay?! Nahct or yacht?! Yacht! Nahct’s nahct a freakin’ word!
Riley Greene – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 10th and 11th homer. Also, in this game, James Outman (1-for-3, 3 RBIs) hit his 3rd homer; Kerry Carpenter (1-for-5) hit his 13th homer and Spencer Torkelson (2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs) hit his 14th homer. I feel like I’ve done exactly this roundup already. I think Colt Keith ended up being the star of that game. Holy crap! I did! June 11th! Title: Twins Lets Zebbybody On The Tigers Hit A Homer, and Riley Greene was the main focus. Tigers can’t do this again. I’m only allowed, by strict fantasy baseball blogger by-laws, to focus on a guy of Greene’s ability once a month. At most!
5th in a 12-team roto but my pitching’s a crime scene; W, K, ERA, WHIP, all bad at the same time, like my pitching staff signed a group contract.
Can pry loose Foster Griffin or Kevin Gausman via trade. Which one fixes things the best, or am I just picking my favorite flavor of mediocre?
Hey Grey. I know you speculated a possible IL stint for Weathers, but the news seems to read along the lines of “he’ll look to bounce back.” How serious are you about dropping Weathers? He and Framber are the back end of my staff.
Sale
Eovaldi
Messick
Weathers
Valdez
Drop one of both of Weathers and Valdez for Trevor Rogers and Cavalli? 6×6, QS instead of Wins.
Thanks!
We’re entering new territory with Junior. He needs a good nickname, stat. I can’t remember a 6-game stretch like this in the last decade.
Keeper League 10 team
Would you trade Gunner for a 1st rd pick and Sonny Gray?
I have Abrams.
What’s a 1st round pick? Like Jesus Made or like someone dropping Tatis?
Sounds bad in general
Made would be there.
Hey Grey, I could use some feedback. This time is struggling in a 10 team H2H. Thanks!
1) Should I drop Duran for Canzone, Nunez, Dansby, or Cassie? Been tough to roster him
2) My pitching has been shaky… do you see the need for an upgrade there? Who would you try to sell?
C – Yainer Diaz
1B – Kurtz
1B/3B – Busch
2B – Hoerner
3B – Okamoto
SS – Gunnar
2B/SS – Lindor
OF – Pages
OF – Walker
OF – Stowers
OF – Jordan Walker
OF – Greene
Util- Aranda
Util – CJ Abrams
Bench: Durran, Merrill
SP: Joe Ryan, Chase Burns, Framber, Tolle, Abbott, Bibee, Bradley, Arrighetti, Bieber and another streamer spot
RP: Seranthony, Baker, Fairbanks, Lange
IL: Barger and Henderson
1. Dansby 2. Seemed okay up top, but the backend is a mess, you have three to four streamers…Bieber looks broken, Arrighetti is not actually good, Taj might not be, Bibee is on waivers in some of my leagues and I dropped Abbott 6 weeks ago
I have to drop 1
Chandler Simpson or Jung Ho Lee
Chandler is only good if you need steals
@Grey: 12 team weekly roto redraft. if you needed to drop one of these pitchers, whos getting cut? jared jones, roupp or warren? thanks.
All of them? I guess Roupp
Helsley clutched his elbow warming up today and looked visibly upset. No bueno. Is Kittredge the next in line as a speculative add
closermonkey agrees with that. some rotoworld writer prefers rico garcia (and for sure earlier in year he was getting higher leverage than kitt). cano’s also turned back into solid/reliable and has been gaining leverage lately (was probably just pitching hurt last year, but who knows, sample sizes on RP are so small a guy could be just as good across large chunks of career and have 1-2 years that appear really bad). probably ain’t wolfram is probably the only consensus not him here i’d think.
There’s no clear cut handcuff it could be him, it could be four or five other guys
you already knew the answer on CUBS hot/cold, palencia had like 3 saves and has been DL’d twice, but was mostly timewise healthy. and he wasn’t blowing saves either. he simply didn’t have many opp’s, since CUBS either beat people very easily by more than 3, or lose. not as “very easily” as today of course
Yeah true
Bregman with the Ticker Tease of the year: 0-5 with a walk when his team scored 23 runs. I was giving him this scorching hot week in Chicago to prove his worth before dropping in a 10 teamer and this is on the negative side of the ledger…
Have a great night!
Same. Nico Hoerner 0-3, BB.
Yeah brutal
Hey Grey, trade question. 12 team redraft. Who do you prefer?
Chourio and Fairbanks for Cole and Willson Contreras
Chourio
10,team Al 5×5, Need to fill soderstrom hole, currently only have Acuna….jeffers and culpepper also on reserve…choices are Siegler, Khalil Watson, trammell, kuroda or Ingle?
Watson
Worst decision ever.
Weekly waiver. When Pena went Il, I needed a 2B/SS and I had decided Swanson. But he hit 3 HRs that day, so (thinking he’d got everything possible near-term), I changed my selection to Caleb Durbin. Swanson thus far —
Tuesday: 2 HRsWednesday: 3 HRs
So the contest is: Who has the 2nd worst decision this decade?
Haha
Wrong IMO. Not funny.
“He’s red hot, I can’t pick *that* guy up!”
Solid logic. lol
he’d have told you to grab durbin anyway, was noted several times by grey as “hottest hitting player in MLB” for like over a week or so.
Hey Grey,
What would you think of a K.Tucker for Vlad Guerrero trade? Fair? Who wins? It’s a keeper league if that changes things
Fair, I’d take Vlad
Nico Hoerner going 0-for-3 on a day the Cubs score 22 runs is chef’s kiss when the chef just came out of the bathroom and didn’t wash his hands.
E. Coli Hoerner
Explains all the runs.
Haha
Ironically a solid joke.
i’m sure i’m not the only one that remembered, and at the time it probably appeared nuts, but back in like early april didn’t hoerner have like the same 4 HR’s he has by now at the end of like the first 7-10 days of the season, pretty sure he did, and you noted him as “he’ll still end year with like 11 HR’s. similar but not as glaring as last year’s edman having like 7 HR’s at the end of the 2nd week of the season (and a bunch in the playoffs 2 years ago), then turned back into edman right after that (till lately, but that sample this year is too small to take much from, and HR’s ain’t his bag anyway)
Poor Melton! 2 starts in a row with two hitters and no wins (actually a loss).
Yeah
Cubs score 15 Runs! Let me see what The Busch did! Oh, oh…. He sux!
Haha
Ok, they now have 23 Runs, and The Busch has a HR, so all is cool.
Haha. On cue, he just got you a garbage time homer.
Cubs winning 23-3 now going into the 9th. I have Bregman who was 0 for 5 with just one run scored, and got to hit against a position player twice. Busch managed a HR against the position player in his last at bat at least. Bregman sux more! Ugh!
Yes, you win Shota. Bregman does suck more – HA!
Thank you! Haha!
I’ve got Wood!
Haha
This year only in 5c5 roto with OPS, 16 team league – AJ Ewing or Braden Montgomery?
Thanks!
Braden
I picked a good day to be facing Walker Buhler & Payton Tolle. #RIP my opponent’s ERA & WHIP lmao
Haha
Apparently this means you’re ready for a massive offensive outburst.
Ha
Ole’ Dansby. The more I know, the less I understand.
Haha
Chad Tracy asleep at the switch there. Bases loaded, no one out, Tolle on fumes and Chapparo due up. Opts for a righty out of the pen. Nats counter with the most obvious pinch hit ever in Garcia Jr.
Ha, yup
Absolutely right. In related news, I can’t remember a time when a middle reliever didn’t allow every single inherited runner to score. Or perhaps that’s only where my pitchers are concerned.
Definitely had the same. My pitchers get hit around, leave the game with 2 outs, and the reliever lets more guys score than a cheap hooker.
I know it’s brutal
grey’s noted it pretty lately, but it’s really maybe the most true i’ve ever seen, l.garcia hits better overall in games he doesn’t start. he’s simply done so many 1-2’s and 1-1’s after entering later than the start of the game. never ever have i thought (i have garcia in many places, i’m mostly in deep leagues, dude went almost 20/20 when he was like 22 2-3 years ago) “hmm, should i BN this starting player today for garcia anyway (when garcia isn’t starting the game)” more than i’ve thought this exact thing in say the last more than month as with l.garcia this year.
Yup!
also he’s the last one left, like a panda or something. go back a few years and there were 4 l.garcia’s, all with some startingish at least job (righty side only counts for hitters). the SP one is no longer in HOU’s org and in minors (never came back from injuries), the RP one got old and has been up/down lately, the other MI one (PHI’s) eventually PHI gave up on.
Haha, yup
Understood if you don’t get to this late post, but with Henderson and Snell IL-stashed, would it be crazy to move on from Early for one of Sasaki, Gore, Peralta, Lodolo, Imai, May, Buehler?
I’m a co-manager and the move will likely take some convincing. Could you rank your Top 3?
It’s not crazy to drop a pitcher with elbow issues…Roki, Imai, Freddy
Thanks, Grey. You remind me of that saying about the Grateful Dead: You’re not just the best at what you do, you’re the *only* one who does what you do. 🙏
Ha, thanks!
What’s good Grey? The 12-team H2H keeper league (keep only six) that I play in has 5 matchups left until the playoffs. I’m currently in 3rd place. Just wanted to get your general thoughts on my team (i.e., strengths/weaknesses, areas to improve, etc.) Any insights are appreciated:)
C – Raleigh
1B – Vlad Jr.
2B – Young (Gelof on IR)
3B – Caminero
SS – McGonigle
INF – Yandy
OF – Yordan
OF – Chourio
OF – Bolte
OF – Merrill
UTIL – McCarthy (Soderstrom on IR)
SPs – Kirby, Meyer, Abbott, Tolle, Sheehan, Hancock, Detmers & Roupp (Henderson on IR)
RP’s – Miller, Varland, Megill & O’Brien
Hi to Ted!
ted says hi! Your hitting looks awesome, sucks that Vlad sucks, but it’s insanely stacked…Your pitching looks a bit wonky, Roupp sucks, Sheehan and Hancock aren’t much better and your ‘aces’ are a little iffy
Appreciate the feedback. My hitting is stacked and if Vlad and Raleigh were producing just 1/2 of what they did last year, it would be Lincoln Hawk. I have the best closer group in the league, but yes, my starting pitching could use an ace. It is a league of home town homers, so trying to find someone to buy Raleigh for a good starting pitcher. Good afternoon to Ted:)
I like that idea! Ted sends that shizz right back!
Master in a 12 team league with wins era whip saves holds quality starts, k/9. How would you rank Bradish, Jax, Lodolo, Imanga, Trevor rogers, payton tolle, L. Henderson
Tolle, Rogers, Bradish, Shota
16 team h2h league. Not sure why, but I have three Twins SP: Ryan, Zebby and Taj. I’ll never get a W bc they don’t score when those guys pitch. I get burned when I start Taj and Zebby for ‘decent/good’ matchups; I get sonavabench’ed when I sit them in not favorable matchups. This season has me questioning my 15 yrs of fantasy baseball existence.
(okay I’m better now, needed to let it out)
Bench TAJ @HOU tonight? I need starts this week, so I SHOULD start him? Option 3: YOLO!!!
Start him
Different league: Redraft,10 team, standard 5 x 5
Please rank top 3 SPs: Cole, Soroka (IL), Lambert, Pallante, Cavalli, Urena, B. Young
Thanks
Cole, Cade, Soroka
Cade or Dustin May ROS (10 team)?
Cavalli that is…ha
Cade
sup Grey,
Would you start Taj Mah-lastweekstreamer at Houston today? SON has him at $8.8?
HAHA, I would
Would you take a chance on May @ Braves tomorrow? Assuming his last bad outting was due to the back, or give it a week? Thanks!
I would not
Good afternoon. Redraft, 12 team, standard 5×5 Roto.
Please rank top 3 SPs: J. Soriano, M. King, S. Burke, Buehler, Sproat, Boyd
Thank you.
Boyd, Soriano, King
Hey Grey,
Great write up!
In a 10-team h2h, standard 5×5 categories (OBP instead of avg), do you drop any of these guys for Jake Bennett? I was thinking possibly altuve, Mason Barnett (is he closer? this is a saves only league), Hancock or framber Machado, valdez? I’m in last place and need to make up 13 games in 5 weeks for a playoff run.
C: Herrera
1B: Luis Garcia Jr
2B: Nasim Nunez
3B: Caminero
SS: Swanson
CI: Colson Montgomery
MI: Altuve
OF: Bauers, Wood, Yelich, Esmerlyn Valdez
Util: Machado, Julio Rodriguez
BN: Naylor, Paredes
SP: Hancock, Woodruff, Trevor Rogers, Michael King, Hunter Brown, Bradish,
RP: Latz, Aroldis, Mason Barnett, Grant Taylor
IL: Ben Brown, Soroka
Thank you!
I meant to say Framber Valdez… not machado. That should read as follows:
I was thinking possibly altuve, Mason Barnett (is he closer? this is a saves only league), Hancock or framber valdez? I’m in last place and need to make up 13 games in 5 weeks for a playoff run.
Lose Paredes
Betts or Swanson ROS?
Betts
Dear picture of Dorian Grey – i got offered Julio and Yesavage for Schlittler. That’s a clear yes, right? He also has Bradish and Mize – would you rather take Yesavage, Bradish, or Mize as part of the trade?
Yes — Mize
I’d do it.
Hey Grey!
10 Team / H2H
Bottom of my staff: Shota / Melton / Weathers / Warren / Hancock
Available: Boyd / Cavali / Jax / Imai
Who all are we swapping here?
Thank you in advance!
Weathers / Warren / Hancock — Boyd / Cavali / Jax
Cam Smith over Lile ROS?
Lile
What’s the deal with Burrows? His arm angle is way down this year. Increased walks and hits, and a lower K rate. This is mechanical, IMO. I have shares of him everywhere, and they are worthless!
Yeah, agreed
Bought in this season thinking the Astros would do their thing and fix pitchers…but this ain’t Tampa Bay.
Not with Burrows
Hey Grey, I’m sure Razzball takes most of your time but I’m curious if and or when you are writing for other literary genres, what is the type of stuff you write? Are you coming up with ideas for shows, books, etc. or are you approached by people who know what they want and you have to try and write for “that vision”?
All the above
Hi Grey,
is Vlad cooked? leaugemate is offering me some trades in OBP league
Let me know your thoughts if you would trade for him
Freeman/McClanahan for Vlad
Sal/McClanahan for Vlad
Take Sal and run
Hey Grey. 8 team Keeper league. I’m looking to move my $12 Skubal for a few bats for next year. I was looking at $4 Oneil Cruz and either $4 Reynolds or $5 Bichette for him. Do you think I could land more for him. I don’t like drafting top 5 starters since their season could crash on a dime. With it being a 8?team league there’s plenty of arms on waivers to fill out the season I feel. I think if Cruz heals ok he might be a top 20 pick next year. Your thoughts and thanks
You should land more or don’t trade him
How about Skubal for Chourio straight up
Sure
Cavalli or Detmers
Cade, pretty close tho
The good news: I have been crushing my league with LouGar & Corange Julius Abrams.
The bad news: this is something like the 3rd time they’ve benched them both at once leaving me with an empty MI spot, where I’ll park LouGar, because he never actually gets a full game off.
The good news again: LouGar will probably go 2 for 3 as a PH with a HR. Again.
Serious question, because I’m not some galaxy brain MLB manager and don’t know such things – what are the Nats gonna do in the playoffs when they face lefties? They gonna bench 2 of their best 4 hitters, both of their starting MI tandem? Maybe bat them 7-8 instead of 2-4?
I fail to see how that would be an effective strategy.
Not worth removing them from your lineup, they usually enter the game in the 5th and get a few good ABs
Yeah, I means real playoffs for the Nats, but I did indeed leave LouGar in the lineup for his 2 RBI single.
LuGaJu!
LuGaju is definitely better. Sounds like a Pokémon or one of Godzilla’s relatives.
Yeah
NL only roto dynasty league. Who r u taking?
Mead or Blaze Jordan?
Thanks and enjoy the 4th!
Mead, thanks!
Pretty sure Tatis’ problem isn’t the juiced ball, it’s the lack of a juiced Tatis.
Need more ringworm meds
this year for sure should give some weight at least to those that think “anybody caught on roids once is likely on roids all the time” (till 2026 on tatis of course) just that one roids cycle he cheaped out on, got caught, but rest of the time/career does spend up, gets the good shit that the tests doesn’t notice (years ago this would be noted and known what was meant by calling it the “braun stuff” or “he’s in contact with braun’s people”, since braun never actually flunked any tests, but that one time did have urine TO BE tested with like 10 or 11x human testosterone levels in it; not often, but for sure that instance proves the people that can afford it can and do take PED’s that beat the tests)
I received an offer of G. Jax for my T. Melton or McLanahan (TB) in a 12 team roto, I am last in whip and era so thinking maybe trading McLanahan
No
got it, thanks!
My team is full of injuries. Need to drop a pitcher for a hitter. Who’s the drop-Boyd, Gage or Jax? Thank you
Jax
Richard Hidalgo = Random Astros name that still floats in my noggin
Though I always remember him as Ricardo Hidalgo for some reason.
You starting Lugo today vs Tampa?
Just kidding G, finally quit that dude last week. Moving on, but only to tomorrow’s starter Kolek. Do you like him any better?
Haha, nice! I wouldn’t mess with Kolek
Thanks Grey
Unrelated
Is Angel Mart worth holding in a 12 teamer
Lile, Mitchell, Marsee would be replacement options, or Hold?
Nope
Lile
What’s a fair compensation for Jung for a team who just lost Matt Chapman in a Keep forever?
Ashcraft, McLean or Jump? Does it need a sweetener on either side?
I wouldn’t trade those guys for Jung
Hey Grey. Looking to shore up my “weakest pitcher spot” with either Jax or Sproat. Both are available and I will be dropping N. Cameron. Who would you rather have ROS? Thanks.
Jax
Thanks.
Also, what are you thoughts on my horrible catcher situation. I have Jeffers on the IL so I have been filling in with K. Ruiz but could get C. Kelly or Y. Diaz off of waivers.
Would you rather have Ruiz, Kelly or Diaz while waiting for Jeffers to come back?
Kelly
ROS (8 keepers but probably N/a). Bench bat for weekly league – Barazza (Cle) or Busch?
Bazzana
12 team redraft h/h points
Need to fill Early from this group
Roupp
Boyd
Lugo
Castillo
Grant Holmes
Bennett
Gunn
Lambert
Montero
Sproat
Drop Roupp add Jax to list
Boyd
Good morning Grey!
May sound like a stupid question, but is Max Meyer a start at Colorado?
I wouldn’t
I was offered Julio Rodriguez for Hunter Brown and Wilyer Abreu. It’s a 5×5 league but OBP instead of AVG.
I’m a big proponent of offense first but this would leave me reeeeeal thin at SP:
Bryce Miller, Tatsuya Imai, Bubba Chandler, Eduardo Rodriguez, Spencer Arrighetti, Peter Lambert, and 2 streaming spots. …also I’m not a fan of J-Rod personally.
What say you, O Grey O Grey?
JRod side
Hey Grey, how would you rank ROS- Jax, Warren, Jose Soriano and Jump?
Soriano, Jax, Jump
Shadencasten?
Hands off my Busch! Wait.
HAHA, nice
Hey Grey! Happy Bobby Bonilla Day!
Juco Loco: LOVE it! Excellent choice for nickname.
10tm H2H redraft
1) Would you start Trevor Rogers @CIN? (-18.6)
2) Please rank: Cavalli (eventhough he plays for WSH), Rogers, Melton
Thanks!
Grey
1) Who would you prefer
Conine, Valdez, Jacob Gonzalez or Cole Young
2) Who gets more playing time Conine, Valdez or Gonzalez
1. Swanson or Brooks Lee for MI ROS? Is it a push?
2. Do you take Pratt over either of them?
Swanson 2. no
Esmerlyn Valdez or Cole Carrigg? Need homers with Esmerlynn but Cole’s HR/SB are enticing, who do I take?
Or take Cam Smith over both?
Yes, Smith over both
Valdez
Hey Grey,
My Langford for his Woodruff who wins?
OF without Langford is Yordan/Springer/Walker/Adell/McCarthy.
Rotation right now is Degrom/Gore/Weathers/Gray/Bradish/Imai
Thx
Works for me, it’s fair
The positives of starting Cameron 3.2IP, 9 H, 3 W, 6 ER, 0 Ks and Roupp 2.2 IP, 5H, 6W, 4K, 6ER is that now I don’t have to monitor those annoying WHIP and ERA for the week.
HA
Thanks for lighting the fire under Swanson’s a$$! Clearly he was reading Razzball last week.
Least I can do!
And he won’t let his foot off the gas now!
Yup
deGrom’s falling into quite the pattern this season: a 9.00 era in the 1st inning, followed by a combined 2.00 era the next 5 innings. He might win the Cy Young if the Tigers used an opener for his starts.
True
Griffin Conine
I always liked him as a player, but never stays healthy. I think I owned him the past 3 seasons, and when he starts rolling he gets hurt.
Well he’s back from the IL, and on board again. I saw he basically has 200 PA’s in 3 seasons and has like 8 homers…Supposedly 80 grade raw power.
A guy like this I always wonder what could have been if he just stays healthy and given the starting gig.
Yeah
Hey Grey, 12 tm roto 7 bench spots. Looking for a call up stash to help me out of my run
Only listing potential call ups (De Vries and Jesus Made no chance I assume)
James Tibb, Kaelen Culpepper, Luis Lara, Zac Veen. Any others??
Lara, Baez, Tibbs
Schliz
Haha
Is there a German word for wanting to see regression from a pitcher you don’t have? Yup, but a glossary term version of it might be “throwing shade-nfreude”
Nice!
That’s now 16 hr allowed for Degrom in 95.2 ip, which is the tied for 5th most by a qualified starters this year. He has the 8th highest hr/9 out of qualified pitchers.
Ouch
I just traded Curtis Mead and Cade Cavalli for Kevin Gausman, did I just make the wrong decision? because it feel terrible watching Cade destroy Boston
Seems it
Schadenfreude
Yes
I approve this message
10 team 5×5 OBP.
Starting tolle today home vs WSH?
Cavalli over Hancock? Trying to protect ratios
Yes
Yes
A new #2 on the 100 Best Fantasy Starts list! 2 other no-names also made the list yesterday:
02 Cade Cavalli Jun 30 @BOS
42 Tarik Skubal Jun 30 @NYY
70 Cristopher Sanchez Jun 30 vs PIT
Sanchez now has 5 of the Phillies’ 8 entries, but only 2 top 40:
10 Cristopher Sanchez May 16 @PIT
20 Cristopher Sanchez May 5 vs ATH
27 Jesus Luzardo Apr 28 vs SF
40 Cristopher Sanchez Mar 26 vs TEX
70 Cristopher Sanchez Jun 30 vs PIT
82 Zack Wheeler May 17 @PIT
88 Jesus Luzardo Apr 4 @COL
95 Cristopher Sanchez May 27 @SD
That wraps up a pretty amazing June with 30 starts in the top 100, including 6 of the first 11:
01 Jacob Misiorowski (MIL) Jun 12 vs PHI
02 Cade Cavalli (WSH) Jun 30 @BOS
03 Dustin May (STL) Jun 15 vs SD
06 Casey Mize (DET) Jun 29 @NYY
09 Drew Rasmussen (TB) Jun 10 vs BOS
11 Drew Rasmussen (TB) Jun 5 @MIA
16 Yoshinobu Yamamoto (LAD) Jun 13 @CHW
19 Brandon Sproat (MIL) Jun 23 @CIN
31 Cam Schlittler (NYY) Jun 19 vs CIN
38 Logan Gilbert (SEA) Jun 16 vs BAL
40 Tatsuya Imai (HOU ) Jun 25 @DET
42 Tarik Skubal (DET) Jun 30 @NYY
43 Nolan McLean (NYM ) Jun 17 @CIN
43 Bryan Woo (SEA) Jun 18 vs BAL
46 Ryan Johnson (LAA) Jun 23 vs BAL
49 Payton Tolle (BOS) Jun 26 vs NYY
57 Bryce Miller (SEA) Jun 6 @DET
64 Trevor Rogers (BAL) Jun 20 @LAD
64 Logan Webb (SF) Jun 27 vs ATL
67 Joey Cantillo (CLE) Jun 20 @HOU
68 Logan Webb (SF) Jun 3 @MIL
69 Yoshinobu Yamamoto (LAD) Jun 6 vs LAA
70 Foster Griffin (WSH) Jun 22 vs PHI
70 Cristopher Sanchez (PHI) Jun 30 vs PIT
73 Gage Jump (ATH) Jun 18 vs LAA
78 Kyle Bradish (BAL) Jun 22 @LAA
81 Kyle Bradish (BAL) Jun 17 @SEA
84 Noah Cameron (KC) Jun 7 @MIN
90 Peter Lambert (HOU) Jun 17 vs DET
96 Nathan Eovaldi (TEX) Jun 26 @TOR
Rasmussen, Webb, Yamamoto, and Bradish each earned 2 entries in June. Misiorowski has 5 appearances in the top 100, but only 1 in June.
Three each for the Orioles and Mariners.
Five teams were the opponent 3 times each: Orioles, Reds, Angels, Tigers, Yankees
14 Home/16 Road
3 best starts of the year happened this month, that’s really shocking.
Also shocking is the impact of Aaron Judge as Yankees ending the month in style. That is 3 pitchers they added to this list in 4 games.
Yikes!
Some Top 100 stats for the year:
Home 48 Road 52
05 March 152 starts (3.29%)
27 April 784 starts (3.44%)
38 May 838 starts (4.53%)
30 June 788 starts (3.81%)
May is still the leading month in top 100 entries and % of starts, but 5 in the top 10 and 3 more in the top 20 in June is quite impressive. Last year May was actually the month with the lowest % of gems.
67 unique pitchers
5 Jacob Misiorowski
5 Cristopher Sanchez (actually 3 in the top 40. I blame AI for saying 2)
4 Gavin Williams
4 Cam Schlittler
3 Paul Skenes
3 Bryan Woo
3 Drew Rasmussen
That’s really interesting! I would’ve thought more in April and less as the weather heated
This is awesome, Vin! I love this!
Wow, that’s an insane start
TEAM OF THE MONTH
Orlando Calrissians (ORIGINAL RECIPE) [Fred Garvin MP]
98 Runs/77 HR/214 RBI/28 SB
213 K/2.82/0.963/18 Wins/20 Saves
Standings
End of May
1. Man or Stroman? 89.5
11. Orlando Calrissians 54
End of June
1. Man or Stroman? 79
2. Orlando Calrissians 78
Wow, I can dream about a month that good
Hey Grey! And I was juuuuuust thinking about offering Early to someone in my keeper league… oh well. Charlie Condon hit his 18th HR last night, now at 18/69/56/5/.286/.416 in 71 games. C’mon Rockies, bring him up!
Ha, yup
It’s soul destroying when, after waiting out his development and knowing his upside, you learn Cavalli is actually a shit bag.
Sigh
How many games were won by RPs yesterday? Wrong! (Unless you said 0). Starters won all 15 games!
Wow!
Take that, Aaron Ashby!
Ha!
I picked up Joc on Sunday. He homered on the first pitch of the game, but then went out 4 times so I dropped him. Bangfizzle!
Bangfizzle!
El Camino !! what a sweet ride
We love it!