May the Fourth was with Rowdy-D2, as he had the night, that every hitter used to have in 2019, 4-for-6, 8 RBIs and his 6th and 7th homer. Anyone who asks, I say grab Rowdy Tellez. You down to Jarred Kelenic or Rowdy Tellez and I’m Tellez who I want who I really really want. Wanna see who’s hot? Look at the 7-day Player Rater. Don’t have to scroll far down for Tellez. Wanna see a gorgeous Statcast page? Look at Tellez’s. I wrote a sleeper post last year for him, but my one caveat was: Does he have playing time? He struggled to find it; Jays shipped him off and now he won’t be denied, especially not on the planet of Tater-ooine:
Sorry, these are just so cringe that I can’t resist. Also, having a great night, and now deserves a Colt 45, was Andrew Cutchrissian (4-for-5, 2 runs, 4 RBIs):
Okay, okay, one more, and this is the worst one, which makes it the best, Luis Chewurias:
Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Freddy Peralta – 5 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 5.09. Not gonna sugarcoat the poop with jimmies on the crap. This was not as good as you want to see, but he’s only really had one bad start.
Kolten Wong – 1-for-4 and his 1st homer. A Wong dong for Obi-Wan Kenobi! Okay, no more.
Zack Wheeler – 7 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 7 baserunners (1 BB), 7 Ks, ERA down to 4.10. Wheeler struck out Corey Seager looking with 97.5 MPH on the fastball, and his giddy up hadn’t touched 97.2 MPH before last night. That’s a relief. Literally, *pointing to bullpen* That’s the relief coming in after…*counts on fingers, toes, pulls down pants…* That was only 78 pitches. Hmm, guess when you have a good thing, you don’t want to get too used to it. Actually, not sure why Wheeler was pulled, but he did look great. The problem with Wheeler was the velocity, and if that’s at capacity, then the paucity of good starts should stop, but you wanna see him stretched out further — show some elasticity! Okay, that last one was just to use a word ending in –city. Sorry, just keeping it real with you. Ya know, showing my authenticity. *walks off humming Starship’s We Built This City*
Martin Perez – 7 IP, 0 ER, 8 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 2.25. Here’s My Favorite Martin! (Only because I don’t know another one.)
Carlos Santana – Hit the IL with ankle bursitis. Ooh, so sad–Any hoo! This extends MJ Melendez’s leash, and *moonwalks, explaining what I’m doing* Michael Jackson Melendez. No? Okay.
Nolan Arenado – 2-for-4, 5 RBIs and his 7th homer. I was willed a piece of the Magna Carta, and it’s been in my family for 800 years. Wanna check it out? I have it haphazardly by this open window–NOOOO!!! Torenado!
Juan Yepez – 2-for-3, 1 run and two doubles that were goofy-oppo-wackos. Yepez is an “oops did I do that” doubles machine.
Tyler O’Neill – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 2nd homer. This Buy Low Window’s going to close quicker than the Torenado window.
Adam Wainwright – 7 IP, 0 ER, 2 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 3.18. *blows dust off a 2022 Cardinals scorecard* Ah, I remember this, Wainwright was still pitching. Can’t believe he’s retired. Just last year. In 2067.
Tony Gonsolin – 5 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 1.64. I’m a broken record with this, but if a guy has an ERA under 2.00? C’mon! Just roster him. I’m a broken record with this, but if a guy has an ERA under 2.00? C’mon! Just roster him. I’m a–Sorry!
Mike Clevinger – 4 2/3 IP, 3 ER, 7 baserunners, 4 Ks, as he was activated from the IL. In the leagues where I have Clevinger, I slow-played him, and pretended I didn’t know I had to activate him just to see how he looked, and he will now be activated, as he was much better than his line. Just clearly tired as the game went on, which brings me to my big ol’ gripe. Why was he kept in the game for 95 pitches?
MacKenzie Gore – 5 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 1.71. Will Gore stay in the rotation with the return of Clevinger? My guess is yes, but neither can throw a lot of innings this year either way, so they might bump Gore to the pen for a start or two here and there.
Manny Machado – 2-for-6,, 3 runs 2 RBIs and his 5th homer, hitting .380. Preseason: 3rd base is gross. Now: On the Player Rater, three of the top six overall are 3rd basemen, including Machado.
Cal Quantrill – 6 IP, 3 ER, 8 baserunners (5 BBs), 7 Ks, ERA at 3.54. It’s hard to overstate how bad Quantrill’s peripherals are. Like “barely startable in 15-team mixed league” type stats. Just very ugly stuff. Could he get better? Sure, but I’d be super careful until I saw more.
Dylan Bundy – 3 2/3 IP, 9 ER, ERA at 5.76. The Regression Fairies love Is It Cake? and hate your fantasy team’s ratios.
Kyle Bradish – 4 IP, 4 ER, ERA at 5.40. As Dan Pants said after his debut, “Are you sure your name’s not Brad? Because you seem dot, dot dot…Brad-ish.” Ha! I love Dan Pants. So, Bradish has four pitches, powered by a 94 MPH fastball, slow 12-6 80 MPH curve, and pretty iffy command, which worries me with rookies. Was old at Triple-A (25), and I wouldn’t even stream him outside of AL-Only, but monocle secured.
Cedric Mullins – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer, hitting .230. Way off last year’s pace for homers*.
*Everyone is way off last year’s pace.
Carlos Correa – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer, hitting .264. Someone please explain to me how Correa is good for fantasy. He has no speed; barely any power; kinda meh on average. What am I missing?
Yusei Kikuchi – 6 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 4.35. If you see someone being dragged away in a straitjacket, it’s me. The guy who just dropped Kikuchi in a league after he was dreadful for a month, and I didn’t want to endure what was sure to be a bad start vs. the Yanks. Sure to be! Welp, I’m not going back, because you can’t avoid bad matchups, and I wouldn’t start him in those.
Matt Chapman – 1-for-2 and his 5th homer, hitting .220. Crazy he’s hitting for such a good average. Oh, yeah, .220 is now a good average. Welcome to 2022 MLB.
Joey Gallo – 1-for-3 and his third homer. Gallo wishes he could hit .220. He’s merely hitting for a league-average .188.
Xander Bogaerts – 2-for-5 and his 2nd homer. His blurb is here because Internet Law, Subsection 2.3 states, “Every mention of a Red Sox or Yankees player must be followed by the other.”
Garrett Whitlock – 5 IP, 2 ER, 2 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 1.25. It’s a little crazy to me that I’m still fielding questions on whether or not Whitlock should be rostered. Look at his numbers. You can’t find room for that?
Matt Barnes – 2/3 IP, 3 ER, ERA at 8.64. The Red Sox game plan of “Not investing in a closer” is going about as well as that game plan sounds. They should prolly use Whitlock or Houck to close, but that’s too much common sense for a MLB team.
Reid Detmers – 4 2/3 IP, 3 ER, ERA at 5.32. Streamonator hated this start, and doesn’t like his next one, but I could see starting him and then cutting bait or reevaluating.
Anthony Rendon – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer. *squinting eyes closed and rubbing temples* Hold on a second, I’m trying to remember when Rendon was good.
Taylor Ward – 1-for-2, 2 RBIs and his 6th homer, hitting .375. Usually I ignore pinch-hit homers, but I just wanted to say how dumb does an em-effer need to be to see Ward have one of the best weeks anyone’s had this year, then bench him? This isn’t rocket surgery. A guy is hitting well? Play him!
Jared Walsh – 3-for-5, 2 runs, 4 RBIs and his 3rd homer, hitting .235. He had some good at-bats vs. lefties yesterday. Will that matter? You kidding? Of course it won’t!
Trevor May – Stress reaction in his humerus bone. That’s no laughing matter.
Tylor Megill – 5 1/3 IP, 3 ER, 6 baserunners, 9 Ks, ERA at 2.43. Pitched well, but was unlucky. Dot dot dot. To have Ottavino follow him.
Guillermo Heredia – 1-for-3, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Someone didn’t get the memo that random Braves’ outfielder fantasy value is supposed to go to Travis Demeritte.
Ian Anderson – 5 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 9 baserunners, 1 K, ERA at 4.01. Lines might tell you different, but Megill looked a ton better than Anderson.
Matt Brash – 3 IP, 4 ER, ERA at 7.65. Hey, I’m just gonna leave this Shasta on the bar counter while I go to the bathroom in this Al-Qaeda run bar, can you watch it? Thanks! *four hours later*…Hey, I must’ve fell asleep…Wait a second, why is my chest cavity open and Amber Heard is crapping into the hole?! Ah!!! Roofie!
Eugenio Suarez – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 4th homer, hitting .202. Was surprised to see him hitting for such a high average. .202 is practically .350 for him.
Justin Verlander – 6 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 1.93. Hard to be mad at a pitcher with a sub-2.00 ERA but let me try. Where’s the strikeouts, Mr. Man?
Dillon Peters – 3 1/3 IP, 0 ER, 2 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 0.00, and 16 1/3 scoreless to start the year. He has some yawnstipating peripherals. He’s the embodiment of making a lot of nothing. It’s the Peters Principle.
Daniel Vogelbach – 2-for-7, 3 RBIs and his 4th homer, as he hits cleanup. Good to see he’s no longer hitting leadoff, not because I have any personal stake, but I was worried for the future of mankind that someone could be stupid enough to look at Vogelbach’s body and think, “Hey, a leadoff hitter!”
Michael Pineda – 4 1/3 IP, 2 ER, ERA at 3.77. This start was vs. the Pirates. The Pirates’ lineup is so boring it ends with a Tucker & Knapp.
Alex Faedo – 5 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 1 K, as he was called up. Well, he sure is tall. What’s that boy got in his gams, Always-B-Grow? Get the fertilizer out of your shoes, boy! You’re too tall! I saw nothing especially interesting from him, and I did y’all a favor and actually watched the Pirates/Tigers game. Pretty flat fastball, and an okay slider that he can’t setup. Maybe AL-Only, but I need more than tall. Even more so during Short King Spring.
Patrick Wisdom – 2-for-3 and his 5th homer, and 2nd homer in three games. He’s been a hot schmotato, wizen up! Wait, that’s his brother.
Nico Hoerner – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer. Hey, could someone check on Seiya? By the by, I was watching this game and saw Nick Madrigal’s hitting .235 with 2 RBIs. On the year!
Leury Garcia – 1-for-4 and his 2nd homer, hitting .127. Tony La Russa smiles, “That guy can be my two-hole hitter any time. Right after I’m done putting Adam Engel there.”
Jose Abreu – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 3rd homer, hitting .229. Everyone is on pace to hit 18 homers, and Rob Manfred is walking around telling people how exciting it is to see middle relievers thrive.
Patrick Corbin – 8 IP, 3 ER, 9 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 7.16. Big shoutout to the 0.3% of fantasy baseballers who were crazy enough or in a coma to start Corbin in Coors. We raise our glasses to you.
Cole Irvin – Dealing with shoulder soreness, but hasn’t been ruled out for his next start. Guess he’s gonna Hacky-Sack the ball to the plate.
Frankie Montas – 7 IP, 0 ER, 5 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.44. Will Montas win five games this year? Not-Frankie-likely.
Corey Kluber – 6 IP, 0 ER, 4 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 2.36. Streamonator call mostly, but I’d also start literally anyone vs. the disgrA’s.
Jon Berti – 2-for-5 and his 1st and 2nd homer at leadoff, hitting .314. Won’t find him in the Buy column this week, which is already on the Patreon, but if you can platoon Berti correctly in daily leagues, you could get some sneaky value and speed.
Jesus Aguilar – 3-for-5 and his 2nd homer. He tends to hit ’em in bunches like Mr. Chiquita Banana.
Elieser Hernandez – 4 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 6.66. Number of the beast, and the beast is a snake that stands for the Diamondbacks. Now, I’m making the hissing sound, but it’s not the sound of a snake, but the deflating of my hopes after streaming Elieser. Welp, let’s bring up Max Meyer now. I demand of you, Marlins!
Pavin Smith – 2-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer, and 2nd homer in as many games. Hot schmotato alert!
Daulton Varsho – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 5th homer. More like Var sho!
Madison Bumgarner – Left after one inning when he got mad at the ump for checking him for sticky stuff. Who knew Mad-Bum was about face, he should’ve turned around. Damn it, that is a clever line! Y’all are lucky! Here it is, enjoy:
When you’re not at all happy with your manicure pic.twitter.com/n1GtLSuoIj
— Razzball (@Razzball) May 4, 2022
Duran or Grisham?
Grisham
My season in a nutshell: started both McClan and Luzardo. Just running in place
my cease romano for his jazz houser?
is jazz elite?
thanks!!
Thank-you Aaron Nola. That will be all.
Haha
Drop Greene for Stroman?
Or a 2-start Gomber?
Yes
Which one you prefer – Taillon, Gomber or Stroman?
Hey Grey,
Saves and holds league ROS:
Helsley
Drew Smith
Anthony Bass
Helsley
Grey,
Is Jake McGee closing? If not what would be a fair offer to ask for him in return?
You’re gonna trade a middle reliever for something?
i can try. I have too many middle relievers. Graveman, Helsley, King, McGee, Tyler Rogers, D. Smith, Will Smith.
Also tomorrow Alcantara and Darvish go head to head for me. Who should I start?
Both
Or just Sandy
which one? Both or Sandy?
In a 12 team yahoo H2H points league would you move Gore for Castillo before he comes back. I’ve heard others speak on flipping Gore for Jose Abreu( reach in my opinion), Kris Bryant and Bellinger. I think those last 3 are reaches for Gore unless you agree their obtainable for Gore. If not is their a few names you can think of that you would want for Gore or at least are obtainable for him. Thanks Se?or Grey
I’d take Castillo…maybe someone thinks they’re selling high on Lauer? Maybe Lourdes?
Freddy Peralta a reach for him? I do like Castillo coming back and being move at the deadline though.
Never mind I was just countered by someone who wants Gore and McKenzie for Alcantra. Only hesitation is I think Triston McKenzie is going to be very good in the second half
I’d take Sandy
Yeah I’m definitely doing that but dumb yahoo won’t let me accept till tomorrow because the Guardians played already
Franmil currently 3-3 to raise his AVG to… .186!
Seriously, I hope this is the start of something. I own him but have been able to bench him mostly thus far.
Haha I know been a struggle
From the twitters:
The Cincinnati Reds are now 3-22.
They have scored an NL-worst 79 runs. If they doubled that, it would still be fewer runs than they’ve allowed, 166.
Their 6.90 ERA is a full two runs worse than the next-worst team
Damn. Just…..damn.
HAHAHA, yeouch
And yet Houser could barely handle them. Arrrggghhhh!
Profar has hit a cliff, would you swap with either of: Estrada, Espinal, Wendle, Ha-Seong Kim or Josh Rojas?
Also would drop Cortes or Luzardo for: Mikolas, Christian Javier or Kuhl,
Also are you starting Luzardo tonight at San Diego? Thank you!
Add Brendon Rodgers to the list of 2B/SS he was just dropped by a league mate. Thanks.
Espinal
Sure, Javier and Mikolas over both
I am not starting Luzardo
Hey Grey,
Someone dropped Trev Rogers in my league, would you add him for Wood,
Sandoval, or Lauer?
i’d do it for wood, but some of that is seeing him dropped in a lot of spots (i saw it and waivered him in a 16 teamer with like 8 SP owned per team, so outright crazy there), likely can reobtain wood. lauer is a straight up hold in 12’s i’d think, sandoval probably close to that at least but would depend on how many SP’s kept per team and league size.
Nope
Hi Grey,
Thanks for all the work you do, this is my first season on the site and it’s A+ stuff, love it.
League is 12 team H2H cats, 5×5 OBP, daily lineups on Yahoo. FAs are a free for all, guys only go up for FAAB if they’re dropped, but there’s a 50 add limit for the season. Here’s my bats:
C – Smith
1B – Joe
2B – Wong
3B – Witt
SS – Gleyber
IF – Neuse
OF (start 4) – Harper, Springer, Nimmo, Jesus Sanchez
Util – C. Walker
Bench – Villar, Gallo, A. Rosario, Laureano
IL- Bryant, Voit
1- Miranda is a FA, so I can go get him right now.
2- India got dropped and his FAAB is tonight.
You spending a move on either? Would probably drop Villar, then Rosario if both, what do you think? Thanks again.
Thanks! 1. Save your move 2. Yes, make the move, $3
AL only OBP over AVG, net steals over steals, total bases added 10 team h2h. gotta drop schoop or toro (both been bad, but toro’s underlying stats not bad or as bad) to activate miranda (waited till i saw playing time, now 3 days in a row playing)
C zunino
1B naylor (OF, had been schoop or c-sant)
2B gleyber (SS)
SS story (2B, still early, but looking like one of those guys that takes a year to adjust leagues/new teams, which are frequently seen (ask lindor or the dozens of others))
3B torkelson (1B)
MI schoop (1B/2B)
CI (toro (2B/3B)
OF (4): lou bob, stanton, straw, 54 dollar steak
util otani (hitter only)
BN: pinder (2B/OF)
stash: miranda
can’t keep stashing while adding players anymore, bundy just got corona’d (and looked like somebody with that yesterday)
Schoop
Pressly is activated. Had an closer swap offer for Jansen. Which side in a SV+HD league?
pressly, nothing changed if he’s healthy from a month+ ago. was drafted higher since he’s shown a top 5 RP in the last few years when healthy.
Honestly, this too, but it’s a tomato-tomato move
Those are both tomatoes, my dude.
Lots of tomatoes
Jansen
right it’s tomato for same move, but it’s only being sent to leverage (“maybe my opp thinks he’s still hurt or is worried he’ll get hurt”) from opp who knows fully well which of these has been better for the last 2+ years. should’ve been sent the minute pressly was hurt, otherwise it’s fairly insulting
Yeah, that’s fair
if say i owned pressly (do in numerous spots, mostly dynasties from back when he cost nothing to obtain, only talking redrafts here though) and kenley for him was sent the day of the injury AND that was an arm injury, yeah that i’d have done. those offers of course don’t tend to get sent. waiting till right when he’s healthy i’d respond “your possible edge was 2-3 weeks ago here dude”
You like Winder tomorrow Vs A’s?
Nope
Small and shallow 6-team roto redraft. I have Teoscar coming off IL and need to move 2 players to make room. Tough decision – who would you keep – Julio Rodriguez or Taylor Ward?
Ward
Thanks, Grey. Not that I disagree with you, but last time I asked this a maybe a week ago you said keep Julio over Ward. Anything in particular that changed your mind? BTW, Julio moved up to 5th in order tonight.
Ward looks like real deal, and it’s a shallow enough league to make switch and switch to someone else if you need to
Hey Grey, can you rank these 3 for me (5×5, shallow mixed league)?…K Hayes, L Urias, Profar
Thanks Grey!
Urias, Hayes
Once Rutschman is up, him or D’Arnaud? No AVG, BB + XBH instead.
Adley
Same for Murphy and Adley?
Adley if he were up but he’s not
Have we gotten to the point where we need to start considering streaming *bats* against the Reds, much like how some stack bats in Rockies home games?
Can you imagine Great American Ball Park during the summer, with the Reds fielding what is essentially a minor league team (that pitching staff is not going to get much better)? Jonathan India, sorry, you only thought you had been promoted to a MLB team …
Haha, yeah, I could see it
Well that was satisfying.
I have Othani, my opponent has Houck.
Started today behind in ERA & WHIP. That changed in a hurry. Rofl
Othani is ridiculous.
Ha, nice
I had ohtani and houck In my main league
That didn’t work out quite as well for you.
The reds have THREE (3) wins. 3-22. On pace for a 19 win season. I had no idea it was that bad. They at least have the Pirates in their division so they may be able to win some games soon.
Haha, it’s so sad
PIT fans are licking their chops to play them i’m pretty sure right now, lose votto (having done nothing yet) senzel and naquin lately, every pitcher they have is falling apart including 2 there was good reason to think they wouldn’t be (mahle/greene)
Grey,
what side you taking in this 12 team keeper league, H2H, 7X7.
R,HR, RBI, SB, BB, TB, AVE
W,L,K,ERA,WHIP,QS, NSVH
devers, belinger, severino
or
B.lowe, Arozarena, Muncy.
Devers
6×6 with OPS
How would you rank these possible adds with MI eligibility?
Miranda
Gimenez
C. Hernandez
Kim
Drop Kelenic for one from this group of potential additions?
Yepez
Olivares
Vogelbach
Aguilar
Bader
Add Melendez to 2nd group
Thanks.
I still want to know what Manoah’s mother looked like when you referenced her about a week ago. I noticed some fleeting shots of a lady behind home plate that caught the eye but I wasn’t sure that was her (I googled for images).
Is hotties in the crowd a type of softcore somewhere? haha
HAHAHA, I wouldn’t know *casually googles it myself*
Arraez just hit the wire. I see he’s been placed on COVID protocol; however, understanding he may miss a few games, would you favor him over Miranda or Bader (if I add two).
Not over them
Miranda — Bader
Would you trade houck and jo-mo for lance Lynn?
Meh, I prefer JoMo, can drop Houck tho
It looks like kelenic survived some roster moves and will not go down yet. I guess souza was lifted for something unrelated to a call up. I was actually hoping kelenic would go down so I can move him into an NA spot and pick someone else up. I am stubborn and haven’t cut him yet. This has to be mental because he crushed minor league pitching. I previously used a Luis Brinson comp but it is more like hiura with the K and high ev when he makes contact.
He’ll go down when Lewis is recalled
Can we drop Houck now? Lol
Yes
Yay, Story and Houck decided to -17 me to start the back half of the H2H matchup!
Story I have to hold right? Would you be trying to sell him?
Also, I’m dropping Houck later today – no need to think twice right? 12-teamer
Hold Story, forget Houck
Houck, Ashby or King ROS?
King
I <heart> that answer, thought for sure you’d say Ashby. That said, how about Ashby vs Syndergaard ROS?
have Hunter Greene and Houck in my RCL – ouch!
So painful
Turns out Jared might not be so Walshed up after all. You’re right, I watched the game last night, great AB against Diekman. Another great game today. Hopefully this is the start of what we thought we were getting.
I almost dropped him an 8, cuz it’s an 8, but then viola
Exactly!
yaz activated in NL only… drop travis jankowski or jordan luplow
Jankowski
Who to drop for Presley?
Sims, Gallegos, Bender, Sewald or Scott Barlow? SV+HLD
Sims
Still holding houck or drop for gonsolin? Houck was just tagged for 7 runs in 2 innings out the bullpen
I’m ready to hate drop him. Totally sucks getting roofied by a pitcher that you weren’t expecting to pitch on a given day.
Can go with Gonsolin
Would you drop Varsho to pickup T.Stephenson?
There can be only one.
No
12 Team, 6x6QS, Redraft
I’m struggling out of the gate. The offense should get there (everyone is underperforming) but my weak spot is definitely pitching. How does this trade look to you?
My Bichette for his Adames & Verlander. (I’d drop Villar)
(I could maybe try to squeak out his Rodon instead of Verlander, but I’m not sure.)
I’d take Bo
Got offered Wisdom for Daniel Bard. Which side is better?
Bard
Should Franmil Reyes be benched?
Don’t know your options
Grey, I’m at my wit’s end. We have to start a rookie pitcher. I felt good rolling into the season with Hunter Greene and Matt Brash. Holy [email protected]#t have they killed me! I’ve got a guy willing to possibly trade me Lodolololololo, but I’m not sure how much better that is. My other option is to claim a reliever less likely to kill me, but we only get one claim per week and I was hoping to use that to plug holes in my OF (Olivares, Lewis, or someone like that).
Is Lodolololololo worth trading for in your opinion? I know it depends on what for, but do you think he’s any good, and is he likely to stay up?
Nah just go with a reliever
Yeah kinda figured. Having said that I may have found one (current) starter that you’ve mentioned, though I’m sensitive to the roofie. Any thoughts on these options? Remember one claim per week, so i can’t keep claiming rookie pitchers. Too many holes to fill!
Glen Otto (TEX, next week starting vs. KC & BOS)
Brock Burke (TEX)
Josh Winder (MIN)
Steven Wilson (SD)
I’m open to any other suggestion if you happen to know an other way under the radar rookie pitchers. Thanks Grey!
Ha, those guys stink…I guess Wilson
Soto has a whopping 7 RBI to show for his 6 HRs. Haha. Wonder if we’ll see a 40 HR/65 RBI season?
Haha kill me
Appreciate your work Grey!
$1000 H2H Daily Points Keeper
I have Marsh, Bohm and Tork as $20 keepers. Mostly bench bats who play sparingly so thinking more long term and aiming for upside. A few available bats are T Grish, Laureano, Tellez, Olivares, and Melendez, all would also be $20.
Could you rank the top 4 you like out of that whole crew? Thanks!
Thanks! Tork, Tellez, Trent, Ramon
Not a good day to be starting Greene AND Houser.
Sparkling.
Nice. 15.25 K/9.
Hahaha
Nope!
@Grey: 12 team weekly roto. dont have an available dl spot. drop vaughn for yepez, or hold?
Hold
Good god, Greene is getting hammered! Five dongs, even Keston has hit one out, so glad you talked me out of the roofie pitcher!
Haha, yup
Happy World Password Day (mine is 12345…shhhhh)!
Need a 2B batty call today. who you like from the below:
Ryan McMahon (back & hitting 5th)
Cesar Hernandez
Ha-Seong Kim
thanks in advance!
Haha, that’s my password too!
McMahon
Damnit….got my COL MI’s mixed up. McMahon = rostered. Hampson = available.
You like the Roman Salad, Hampson, or Ha-Kim?
Kim
Doesn’t really matter how complicated your password is if you are going to broadcast it!
Haha
Hi Grey!
6×6 Keeper ROTO league with OPS
1) Apparently Teoscar’s due to come off the IL today, though the IL hasn’t been lifted yet. For ROS, who is the drop?
Robbie Grossman
B. Nimmo
Dansby
K. Wong
2) Would you drop Justin Turner for any of the WW dudes below?
Rowdy
Dan “Leadoff hitter stereotype challenger” Vogelbach
J Aguliar
Pavin
Christian Walker
Thanks for your wisdom!
1. Grossman 2. Tellez
Hilarious on Vogelbach…hahahaha
Glad to crack you up as you do for me!!!! Thanks my man you’re awesome!
Thanks!
Would it be cool to start Kuhl at Arizona tomorrow?
Sounds fine
12 Team H2H 6×6 OPS Redraft
Moncada or L. Urias ROS?
Thanks
Urias
Thanks again for the great write up Grey!
16 team H2H weekly points league
I guess this guy lost patience with Franmil…
I got offended Franmil for my Houck or M Gore.
Who should I give him?
Thanks
Houck
Rico, how goes it, dude
Should I release Mahle and sign Max Meyer to my farm?
Doesn’t sound great
I like the ‘buy low’ on Franmil but I think it’s 2-3 more weeks of winter for him. I’m holding for now.
His next five series are in CLE, CWS, MIN and CLE.
When the weather warms, so will he.
My $.02. Cheers,
Yeah, makes sense
Do you know why Mondesi is out for the year? Thought meniscus surgery was like 4 to 6 weeks of down time
No idea
Mondesi has a torn ACL, eight to nine months recovery time. ffs
Ah, yeah
Looking ahead to tomorrow I want to pick on some crap offenses:
Kuhl @ Ari
Lyles vs KC
Josh Winder vs Oak
Brubaker @ Cin
Which two do you like?
Which two starts, that is.
AL-only which side do you prefer?
A: Merrifield, Lorenzen
B: Story
B
A couple of questions for nl only with ops instead of runs.
1) drop lux for demeritte at ss or hold?
2) need to drop one out of walker, yepez, and yaz. Who’s the drop?
Thanks you sir!
1. Hold 2. Yaz
Ohtani’s telling Trout, “I got this today. Go rest old man.”
Haha
Hi, Grey.
Lynch or Saurez for SP? Or is the difference negligible?
Thanks for everything!
Meh, I’d try Lynch, but prolly same diff
Hi Grey,
Thanks for all your hard work.
1. I was going to start the Cards Mikolas at SF against Webb. Do you agree?
2, I was going to waive Cole Irvin of Oakland. My question is in the list below worthy of being picked up or are they Meh and I should just wait for better pitchers to be available. Martin Perez of Texas whose next start is at Philadelphia, Tanner Houck of Boston or Kikuchi of Toronto who next start at NY. Thoughts?
Thanks!!!
1. Yup 2. I’d try Houck of those, but none really right now
Thanks! Your help is very much appreciated!
No problem
Acuna and Espinal/Estrada/McCutchen or Betts/Arenado? OBP league if that makes any difference.
Acuna
@Grey: 12 team weekly roto redraft. looking to drop kelenic (dont love his prospects once lewis is back) for a pitcher. who do you like of rasmussen, lodolo, wacha or kikuchi?
Lodolo
Should I add yepez over bohm?
Meh
In a league with daily lineups and no games limits, starting 9 hitters (8 positions + 1 U), I have Alonso (1B), Devers (3B) and Ohtani (U) who aren’t getting benched on days they’re playing. There are guys like Tellez and Bohm out on waivers, but with only one position of eligibility, they can only fill in the 1B/U or 3B/U spots. Is it crazy to hang on to guys like Gurriel because his added LF flexibility along w/1B eligibility lets me fill in for 6 of my regular starters?
I’d go Tellez
I seen STREAMONATER has Spencer Strider slated for tomorrow’s matchup against the Brew Crew. Is that just speculation or have you guys seen somewhere that Atlanta moved him to the rotation?
I kind of need strikeouts and was thinking about picking him up despite STREAMONATERS -$40
Streamonator puts in a long man when no one is yet announced
Hosmer or Yepez?
Hosmer
Good morning Grey
Xander B. vs. Teoscar H.
Fair trade?
Sounds fair
Grey, which of these OFs would you batty call in Coors today?
Robles (8) vs Senzatela
Daza (2) vs Aaron Sanchez
Hilliard (7) vs Sanchez
Hampson (8) vs Sanchez
Robles
Keeper H2H points league where scoring is -ABs, Hits, Doubles, Triples, HR, SB, -CS … dropping Dylan Carlson ($23, receive $12) to pick up Grisham ($6 min or more and how much) or hold?
Sure
Hey Grey, I do realize how utterly stupid this sounds, but if I’m not able to fix my mess via waivers, would you start Cooper Hummel or Jared Kelenic next week. YES THAT IS A REAL QUESTION!
Kelenic
If Manfred was commissioner of the NFL, he’d make every quarterback strap weights to their arms because passing is up.
HAHA
While Manfred doesn’t have access to the nuke codes, he does have control of the humidor codes in every mlb stadium. He’s probably sitting alone in his office right now- shades drawn- jerking with the humidity levels just to screw with everyone. Kind of like when a 2 year old gets ahold of the tv remote.
HAHAHA
Wacha or Lorenzen ROS
Wacha
Would you trade George springer for Tyler O’Neil in a roto keeper league
Yes
Hey Grey! Great write up as usual!
I roster Sims and was wondering if I should swap him for one of: Helsley, jhoan Duran, Floro in a saves only league? Its a limited moves league so didn’t know if it would be better to wait incase better options present themselves later in the season?
Thanks!
Yes, Duran
Would you move Bohm for Kim in a 16-team OPS keeper? I’ve got JRam at 3rd and Tatis and Mondesi on the IL.
Nah
Please pick 2 now and for ROS, Tellez, Hosmer , H.Renfroe. Thanks for all you do. Your info is top notch.
Tellez, Renfroe — No problem
Trade offer- Albombso for Kyle Tucker?
Tucker side
How about dropping Franmil for Laureno?
Thanks
Meh, different things, but I’d want Franmil
Is it too early to drop Franmil for J Pena?
Thanks!
I wouldn’t
Would you drop Adolis Garcia for Laureano?
Nah
Tyler Stephenson or Sean Murphy ROS?
Tyler
Tellez over Franmil Reyes or Gorman?
Over Gorman
ESPN Points
Which of the following (if any) would you want in return for Hosmer, please rank Top 3
Tyler O’Neill
Semien
Bryan Reynolds
Edwin Diaz
Josiah Gray
Winker
LeMahieu
For Hosmer? You can’t get these guys for him, can you? I’d take O’Neill, Semien, Diaz
I’ll try and report back LOL
Haha
Yo Grey, I’ve been trying to sell Bryce per your advice but not many takers. I may be able to send Bryce 1 for 1 for either Javy Baez or Nick Castellanos. Good deals? Would love your thoughts. Thank you sir
Nah, I’d try to do better
H2H points league IP,Ks,Hits,Walks,HRs let up
Gotta still start Ohtani today @ Bos right?