Ya know how they used to say a complete game under 100 pitches was a Maddux? Well, kids, the only way a pitcher is ever throwing a complete game again is if it’s under 100 pitches. A complete game equals Maddux. There’s no non-Maddux complete games anymore. Right? I’m not being coy. Can’t imagine any pitcher throwing more than 100 pitches again. Okay, I’m being a little facetious there, but seriously. The other day Ranger Suarez threw the most pitches in 2024 with 112, and only one pitcher is averaging 100 pitches per game, that’s Hunter Greene. Okay, enough yelling at clouds, Tanner Houck (9 IP, 0 ER, 3 hits, zero walks, 9 Ks in 94 pitches, ERA at 1.35) was excellent yesterday. In 26 2/3 IP, he has thrown two walks. This is the way, said like The Mandalorian. Red Sox have put together a great rotation and every day I love a different one the most. Anyway, here’s what else I saw yesterday in fantasy baseball:
Connor Wong – 2-for-3 and his 3rd homer and 2nd homer in as many games. May all your Wong dongs come as easily.
Garrett Whitlock – Hit the IL with an oblique strain. Sounds like it’s gonna be one of those two-week oblique IL stints vs. a six-week much oblique’r.
Kevin Gausman – 5 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 8.16. Standing on the ledge of a tall building, I scream to the firefighters below, “What does Kevin Gausman‘s velocity look like? How about his splitters? Are they dropping?”
Firefighter opens Statcast dot com and screams back, “What’s his average velocity on fastballs usually?”
“What? Speak up!”
“Here, look at this:”
Peers down and I follow my eyes off the side of the ledge, “He looks….fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiixed, I think–” So, Kevin Gausman went , which isn’t on its face a great start, but it’s better. I will happily wear that sonavabench if it means he’s fixed, and, if his Statcast velocities mean anything, he absolutely looks fixed. Oh, Jesus H. Xmas, please let it mean that. Take this as a step forward, and then next time take another step forward and so on and so forth! Assuming you’re not on a ledge.
Daulton Varsho – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 3rd and 4th homer. If you told me you were from the future and Varsho was about to have a solid season starting today, I’d believe you. If you told me this was a blip and he’d go back to sucking, I’d also believe you. See, you’re from the future, why would you lie to me?
Giancarlo Stanton – 1-for-3 and his 5th homer. Okay, cute, now let Aaron Judge switch back to his regular jersey.
Juan Soto – 3-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 4th homer. So spoiled by Sexy Dr. Pepper that him hitting .350+ with power and I’m like, “I want more!”
Kerry Carpenter – 1-for-5 and his 3rd homer, hitting .292. Carp good; Tork meh. I might be misremembering this, but I could’ve sworn everyone thought it would be the exact opposite when they were prospects.
Tarik Skubal – 6 1/3 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 2.28. He looks 100% like an ace. Barring injury, I’d be shocked if he’s not a top three starter next year.
Parker Meadows – 1-for-3 and his 1st homer, hitting .077. “Listen, it’s very nice you want to get that body in that overhead compartment, but there’s no way you’re fitting–Hold on! Meadows moved! He’s alive!” The other day I was noticing how awful Torkelson and Colt Keith were doing but they seemed to be just a hair under mediocre compared to Meadows.
Dane Dunning – 5 IP, 1 ER, 7 baserunners (4 BBs), 5 Ks, ERA at 3.91. Dunning does not look like an ace. Barely a Streamonator call, if being honest.
Starling Marte – 1-for-5, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer. You can kick yourself about not taking the draft day discount on Starling, but don’t kick too hard. You’ll hurt yourself just like him shortly.
Luis Severino – 6 IP, 0 ER, 8 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 2.14. Streamonator loved this, but also until a guy has an ERA over 2.50, you kinda should just start them.
David Bednar – 2/3 IP, 3 ER, ERA at 13.50. Kazaam!
Yordan Alvarez – 2-for-5, 2 runs and his 5th homer. 45 more for Captain Woo Cubano! C’mon! Let’s go!
Mauricio Dubon – 1-for-4 and his 1st homer. He’s the type to get hot real fast and ride the heat for a week.
Marcell Ozuna – 1-for-5 and his 8th homer. Ozuna is the top ranked Braves player on the Player Rater. By a lot.
Max Fried – 5 IP, 3 ER, 11 baserunners, 2 Ks, ERA at 7.71. Yeah, he seems totally fine. Nothing wrong there. Ow, eyeroll headache.
Ronald Acuña Jr. – 2-for-5 and his 1st homer. Tildaddy tells you can have dessert!
Cody Bellinger – 2-for-4, 2 runs and his 3rd homer. Cody hit that one high! Literally, I mean, he looks stoned.
Eduardo Rodriguez – Transferred to the 60-day IL. I’m sorry, how tight is his lat?
Ketel Marte – 3-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 5th homer, and 2nd homer in as many games. Damn, he looks good and likely to repeat last year vs. my concerns of him falling back to a 15-homer bozo. Ketel’s no bozo! Booze? Maybe. But not bozo.
Joc Pederson – 1-for-2 and his 2nd homer, and 2nd homer in as many games. Guy goes from zero to schmotato in two-point-two.
Brandon Pfaadt – 7 IP, 2 ER, 6 hits, zero walks, 6 Ks, ERA at…Any guesses? C’mon, you like Pfaadt, what’s his ERA? Bzzt, wrongo! It’s 5.32.
Cal Raleigh – 1-for-2, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer. Maybe he can fart on JRod to get him going? Maybe he did and that’s why he’s not going?
Mitch Garver – 1-for-3 and his 1st homer. Hold up, hold up right there. Wait one second! M’s have two Mitches? Don’t they know they ain’t shizz but hoes and tricks? Have they not gone to the doctor to have themselves examined? Ya know, Dr. Dre!
Bryce Miller – 6 IP, 1 ER, 1 hit, 1 walk, 7 Ks, ERA at 1.85. I saw B. Miller in the box score and I immediately thought of PS Hoffman in Capote. Damn, RIP. Am I the only one who thought that in the entire world? Prolly.
Elly De La Cruz – 1-for-3 and his 5th homer. Dude is so good, what was I thinking? More like Elly oh El, you big dummy!
Andrew Abbott – 6 IP, 2 ER, 7 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 2.70. I have Abbott in a few leagues, and I’m sure when the summer heats up and the ball’s flying in Cincy, I’m going to regret it, but right now I’m making kissy faces.
Kris Bryant – Hit the IL with a lower back strain. Hope Kris Bryant, Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez voluntarily agreed without pressure to sell the rest of their careers to the devil for the 2016 championship.
When you have one million on Kris Bryant being this year’s Comeback Player of the Year for two years in a row pic.twitter.com/r63vc9ChPl
— Razzball (@Razzball) March 21, 2024
Sean Bouchard – 1-for-3, 1 run as he was called up. He has 60-grade power and speed. Possible 30/30 player. He’s also about to turn 28 years old, and the Rockies have given him a total of 40 games played in the majors. Oh, where he’s hitting .304!
Trea Turner – 3-for-5, 2 runs and his 2nd homer, hitting .329. Treat Urner looks totally fine in the early going. You know who doesn’t? Bryce is taking some cuts that are reminiscent to those years when he hit .240.
Kyle Schwarber – 2-for-5, 3 RBIs and his 4th and 5th homer. The schmohawks are making me look like a schmohawk.
Cristopher Sanchez – 6 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 2.53. Was free in all drafts. Still kinda free in trades.
Mike Trout – 1-for-4 and his 8th homer. Maybe when Trout was wearing a Gone Fishin’ t-shirt he wanted to be wearing a Big Johnson t-shirt while needing to be The Big Dog and didn’t like Ohtani being there?
Reid Detmers – 5 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 8 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 1.19. Why do I feel like his next start is going to be a 3 IP, 5 ER start? Angels have really ruined me.
Amed Rosario – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer, hitting .328. Hot schmotato alert!
Esteury Ruiz – 1-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and a slam (2) and legs (2) in his 1st start back, hitting leadoff. Aw, yeah, Ruiz is hitting spite homers! Those are the best! We love spite homers.
Landon Knack – 5 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 4 Ks, as he was called up. My my my my my my Sharona! Sorry, it’s an earworm. Knack doesn’t have great stuff, but solid command, so he’s interesting for deep leagues (NL-Only, 15-team mixed). Itch just said yesterday, “He posted a 0.96 WHIP in 15.2 innings across three Triple-A starts this year and should translate fairly well as a 26-year-old rookie if he can maintain the velocity and command gains he’s shown so far in 2024, when Knack has shown a real aptitude for the sweeper, and I’d like to sweep out his legs.” Not cool, moving on!
CJ Abrams – 1-for-4 and his 5th homer.
Salvador Perez – 1-for-6, 2 RBIs and his 5th homer. I’m pretty sure Perez could homer with a dislocated shoulder in a wheelchair. Dude’s such a beast. He’s like the anti-Kris Bryant.
Hunter Renfroe – 1-for-6, 2 RBIs and his 2nd homer. As Scooby-Doo would say, “Renfroe!”
Paul DeJong – 5-for-6, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer. Colonel Mustard in the escape room with an impossible-to-understand puzzle!
Erick Fedde – 5 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 6 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.10. Crochet? Big upside. Fedde? A White Sox starter with maybe 4-5 fantasy starter potential? I’m yawnstipated.
Yu Darvish – Hit the IL with neck soreness. The injury happened when he was whipping his head around to watch opponents’ hits.
Michael King – 7 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners (2 BBs), 10 Ks, ERA at 3.33. After waiting 70 years to become King– No, ChatGPT! You dope! So, there definitely seems to be something to the less plate discipline the opposing team has, the better the results for The King.
Bryan De La Cruz – 2-for-4 and his 3rd homer, 2nd homer in the last four games. Bryan De La Snooze waking up. Jokes aside (were there jokes?), De La Cruz hit yesterday’s homer the opposite way pretty easily and I’m intrigued.
Keaton Winn – 6 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 4.09 vs. Trevor Rogers – 5 2/3 IP, 1 ER, 4 hits, zero walks, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.92. Both of these offenses look like they’d lose to the O’s Triple-A team. Marlins’ 3rd baseman was Otto Lopez. That honestly sounds made-up. Ocho Lopez? Sure. Otto Weimaraner? Okay. Otto Lopez? That’s a made-up name. Giants started Nick Ahmed, and he’s like their third best hitter! They have a guy named Tyler Fitzgerald. I’m kidding! I made up that name. Gotcha! No, I didn’t make it up! That is a real name!
Pablo Lopez – 6 IP, 1 ER, 2 hits, zero walks, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.97. Yes, Pab-Lo also looks like an ace. Less sung. Not unsung. Barely sung? A little bit sung. A lil’ sung-sung.
Gunnar Henderson – 2-for-4 and his 6th homer, and his 3rd homer in the last three games. It’s Gunnar MVP props going to the moon.
Cedric Mullins – 1-for-4, 2 RBIs and his 5th homer, and third homer in four games. Everyone except Jackson Holliday is good in the O’s lineup. Luckily, they moved the faces back or they’d all be a bunch of little Bondsies.
Albert Suarez – 5 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 3 hits, zero walks, 4 Ks. Suarez is a feel-good story of a guy who hasn’t made a major league start in eight years, and is now 34 years old. Would love to see a major motion picture about his life. Oh God, it’s Kevin Costner in brown face! Nooooooo! We have to recast! What, now you want Wilmer Valderrama? Oh God! He’s worse! Mario Lopez Jr.? Oh, forget it! It’s Costner’s job, we’ll just say he’s wearing a mud mask. So, I wouldn’t go crazy about picking up Suarez in mixed leagues. Not sure I’d even Streamonator him, but good for him. He deserves the biopic treatment. Lorenzo Lamas? Oh, that’s awful too! Can we young-up Edward James Olmos?
Hi Grey
In a weekly 10 Tm redraft with OPS as an extra cat, would you drop any of the following for Starling Marie:
Lane Thomas, Nolan Jones, Taylor Ward
Thanks
Ward
If you were going to pickup Yates or McArthur and had to drop a starter, who would you drop:
Mitch Keller
Jordan Hicks
Chris Sale
Seth Lugo
Bryan Woo
Kodai Senga
Reynaldo Lopez
Thanks.
i’d drop hicks if it had to be one of those. i’d go mcarthur on that as well if saves only and/or dynasty or keeper deep enough where mcarthur would be kept, if anything else yates.
Hi Grey. Would you sell high on Imanaga or hold and see if he’s really ace material? Kinda hard to judge his worth
If Judge gets hurt Soto has not real protection. Yordan has better bats in front and behind him than Soto for counting stats, but he always seems to find the IL for periods of time.
So would you want Yordan or Soto?
he’s gonna say his rankings didn’t change in the first 20 games on these 2.
Can someone tell Jeremy Brewer that the people rely on his updated Top 100 Hitters ranks and we’re starving out here!? (Thank you for the free content, everyone buy a subscription)
Pretty sure he’s on vacay
Hey Grey!
10 team categories. 3 ILs all taken up and want to hold them. Someone dropped Royce. Would you drop Nolan Jones or Josh Naylor to stash him on the bench?
4 ofs , 2 utils start. Right now my 2 utils are Naylor and Bichette and my 4th OF and 2 BEN are Duran, Wyatt, NoJo
No
Howdy Grey & Happy National Exercise Day!
I fully plan to get in some 12oz curls…might increase the weight to 16oz. who knows.
Anyway, I was a dumbell and picked up/ started Maeda today…
Looking to get a good stream in tomorrow with SON’s recommendation of Triston McKenzie vs. OAK. You trust him or he just gonna roofie me?
Thanks as always!
Should coincide with National Excuse Day
I’d trust Triston there
Ha, they should definitely be synonymous!
And I just read that Triston is pitching through a torn ligament in his right elbow… while that explains a lot, how are the trainers even allowing that??
That doesn’t seem good
Iglesias, Mason Miller, Robert suarez or Craig kimbrel ? Just for the next week or so. Points league
Raisel
GREYYY!
Who do you rank ROS:
Kyle Isbel
Gabriel Arias
Tommy Pham
Mickey Moniak
Colt Keith
None of these guys are ROS options…Arias, Moniak
Better IL stash
Brax Garrett or Woo?
Woo
Thank u
No problem
So Jack Leiter doesn’t throw a Maddux. Worth hanging onto for a few more turns?
Don’t think so, unless it’s a deep league…Are the Rangers even giving him another?
I’ll have to see if they throw him again.
Yeah
this is funny (not for him nor his dynasty owners, to be fair what they probably paid they’ll never be happy with), he was “being moved to bullpen” just some weeks ago, now he’s on his what 4th or so start or so since that ended.
Hey can I talk to you outside for a second about O’Neil Cruz and Jesus Luzardo?
Think “Roadhouse” and I’m Dalton and you’re Jimmy.
Ha
Please rank ros
Mize,King,Kikuchi,Pepiot
Kikuchi, King, Pepiot
Gonna piggy back this. Where would you put kutter in this list?
4th
Please rank ros
Mize,Pepiot,Kikuchi,King
Kikuchi, King, Pepiot
@Grey: you have a chance to watch leiter? worth holding on to for the time being in 12 team redrafts?
Drop
Kikuchi or Michael King for the foreseeable future
Kikuchi
Hey Grey! 2 questions for ya….
1) Need an Albies replacement, can you please rank these guys short term moving forward? E Julien, India, L Garcia, A Rosario
2) Prob matchup dependent, but can you rank these SPs moving forward? C Mize, Ed Cab, A Abbott
Thanks Grey!
1. Garcia, Julien 2. Mike, Abbott
What’s good Grey? I’ve tested the trade waters in my 12-team H2H keeper league (OBP & SLG%) and there’s not value for Jordan Walker. Just read that he’s pinch hit that last two games and is batting in the bottom third of the lineup. He’s currently in my UTIL position so can really roster anyone. Current best options are Jesse Winker, Jake Fraley, Ryan O’Hearn, Masyn Winn, Brandon Marsh, or newcomers like Andy Pages or Sean Bouchard? It is an OBP% league so Fraley and Bouchard stand out to me. Do you like any of those options or trust the process with Walker? Good day to you and Ted!
Ted says good day to you poop! Fraley
Hit me baby
One more Heim!
Haha
Re: Sean Bouchard, you neglected to mention that he also has 27 walks against his 115 major-league at-bats, so his lifetime major-league OBP is … .434. He has undoubtedly been by far their best offensive performer during his major league run … but the Rockies cannot find a place in their lineup for him. They’re geniuses over there in Denver, I tell ya, geniuses!
HAHA, yup
you see them pinch running k.freeland a few days ago. gotta suck to know you’ve been on this roster your entire career, and out of all the shitty pitchers they have, they want YOU least protected from injury such to do that with.
i was harping/laughing about this in one of my league’s chats BEFORE i knew he did get hurt when they did that. he’s not that hurt though, “eh it’s only his non pitching shoulder”, so my guess is COL sees that and “well that worked well so we’ll keep doing it”
Which hot shmotato better chance to pop this weekend? Amed Rosario(@Yankees). Or Bryan De La Cruz (@Cubs)?
Amed
yeah rizzo, bryant and baez (less so rizzo, but not by a ton)’s careers are going out the way bregman/correa/altuve’s deserve to be if karma was a real entity.
and TON got IR’d even though BOS said yesterday no concussion eh, doubt any bookie alive would’ve taken a bet saying that’s exactly what was going to happen (if bet made after BOS claimed that) just BOS was a day late to it.
there likely ain’t no medical test made yet that TON can’t go over the projected return date on.
Yeah
it’s also entirely possible BOS either
(1) was just lying yesterday
(2) BOS’s medical team is so inept they didn’t actually DO all the tests before it was announced “no concussion”
but then you see this stuff from somebody named chris cotillo on rotoworld: “Despite O’Neill clearing concussion tests, the 28-year-old still needs to get back into baseball activities before he can return to action. He’ll be sidelined for at least the next weeks”
is that just written by TON himself, if he has a concussion sure, days/weeks/even possibly rest of life you’ll have concussion symptoms; but if he doesn’t have a concussion why would he need “weeks” to “get back into baseball activities”. that or just chris cotillo has a memory and is guessing how long that’ll actually take since he knows about TON (and is probably exactly right).
True
SVHD league. Who are the top 3 ROS?
Fairbanks
Shelby Miller
Uribe
Speier
Kopech
Estevez
Matt Moore
Jansen
Estevez, Jansen, Fair
I feel like Otto Weimeraner may have better stats than most of my draftees currently. Doggone it!!
HA!
Estrada or Luis Garcia ROS?
Thairo
12 team H2H: trade T. Ward/Foley for Yelich?
Could bite you, but I’d go Yelich
Hey Grey-
My idiot brother dropped Riley Greene. Should I sh*tcan Conforto to pick him up?
HAHA, yes
I need an everyday CF. Currently I only have Pages. Would you drop him for any of the following? If so, who are the top 2?
Buxton
Marsh
Siri
Benson
Rafaela
Blake Perkins
Wilyer Abreu
Did you just pick him up?
Yes. Just wondering if I should swap him out for Benson(7 home games coming up) or Siri(highest preseason rank/projections) or Pekins or …..Buxton
Benson
#1 and streaming all the way!
10 team league and have been streaming starters with great success so far.
Question now is should I HOLD any recent streamers for rest of season (to go along with my 3 lock starters of Peralta, Skubal and Ragans).
Currently on roster after last couple games and worth holding onto longer?
Ranger Suarez
Cristopher Sanchez
Or keep streaming with match-up waiver wire options still available like:
Bello
Cortes
Lugo
Lodolo
Abbott
Reynaldo Lopez
Wacha
Kiuchi
Hunter Brown (still sore about what he did to me last week)
Who do you like most of those groups to keep or just keep going with my steady strong stream?
Thanks again for all you do!
Stream
Hi Grey,
I have the following streamers. How would you rank them:
Kutter, Crochet, Cristopher Sanchez, Casey Mize.
Thanks!!!
Mize, Kutter
Thanks!!!
No problem
Esteury Ruiz, winker, varsho or nootbar while T. oniell is on IL in a points league?
Or haniger
Winker
10 team H2H Points League
I feel crazy for asking this question but:
who do you prefer moving forward ROS:
Judge or Adolis Garcia?
Judge
10 team H2H Points League
I feel a little crazy for asking this but,
Who would you prefer moving forward ROS:
Judge or Adolis Garcia?
Judge
Luis Garcia,Chas McCormick or Andy Pages?
Would you drop Woo or Jung to add Orelvis to a reserve spot? It is a keeper league. Thanks.
Garcia
Hold
ROS..
J. Holliday or Eloy J?
Paul Skenes mustache coming soon to a MLB park near you… maybe May?
Jackson
@Grey: weekly roto. need an albies replacement. slim pickings, but who do you like between india, gorman, rosario, l garcia and rengifo?
thanks!
Gorman
Grey,
need a SP for a pts league:
JJones, Littell, Suarez, Stroman, Singer
Jones
Abreu vs Carrasco or Harold Ramirez vs Canning. Who do you like?
Ramirez
That’s who I went with. Already got an RBI.
Nice!
Nelson Velasquez Or Suwinski?
Velas
Thanks to Grey I don’t know anything anymore. Is Tyler Fitzgerald real or not? Life is so confusing.
And how many years until Sal Frelick resembles that sleeper post you wrote (that you’ve yet to begin touting, I might add)?
Also, are you excited to turn Andy’s Pages? Or is he just another mediocre slugger?
Thanks, Grey!
https://razzball.com/dodgers-outfield-printing-1-3-pages/
Frelick’s ADP was 275, he’s in the top 150 https://razzball.com/playerrater/
Oh, yeah. I like him a lot. I was asking a sincere question in a snarky way. Sorry. How long do you think it takes until he’s hitting the ball with authority and becoming an all-around dynamo?
April 27th
Kris Bryant- no thanks, no way, no how! I made that mistake last year in RCL.
Grey
10 team
I need HR’S and RBI’S
Would you drop Nootbaar for
O’Hearn
Haniger
Varsho
Marsh
Thanks
Haniger
Hi Grey,
Edouard Julien or Nolan Gorman ROS?
Thanks!
Mike.
Gorman
Thanks Grey!
No problem
The A’s owner must be livid today. Esteury gained a fraction of value. Quick, send him back down! Maybe no one will notice.
Haha
Please rank – O’Hearn; Winker; Rizzo; Jordan Walker
Walker, O’Hearn
Riley Green and Jordan Walker were both dropped today. You like either of them more than Oliver Dunn?
15 team league btw
Yes, Greene
10 team 5×5 league… running 6 OFs, need to drop 1.
Schwarb
L. Thomas
B. Reynolds
T. Ward
S. Kwan
E. Ruiz
Appreciate all the handy info, Grey.
Sorry about the double post
No problem
Feel like I just answered this
10T 5×5 Category OBP Keeper League
Best bench depth bat
K. Carpenter
W. Benson (stashing TJ Friedl on IL)
L. Nootbaar
J. Fraley (stashing TJ Friedl on IL)
N. Gorman
Can you rank please.
Thanks Grey
Gorman, Fraley
Would you drop M. Chapman or J. Outman for Gorman?
Chapman
10 tm 5×5 league… currently holding 6 OFs. Need to cut 1.
K. Schwarber
B. Reynolds
S. Kwan
T. Ward
L. Thomas
E. Ruiz
Just picked up Ruiz off waivers and grabbed Ward and Kwan off waivers earlier in the year.
Ruiz
Batty call
Canha home vs Leiter or
Wilyer Abreu home vs Carrasco?
Abreu
Waiver wire flyer in h2h points league: Edward Cabrera or Zack Littel?
Littell
I need saves and steals (6×6 ops). Who has a better chance of helping me out this week and beyond, E Ruiz or general McArthur? Thanks!
Ruiz
10 team NL only ROTO. ROS Baty or Chapman? Does that choice change in dynasty format?
Thanks!
Baty
Please rank the following groups:
(1) Severino; Mize; Turnbull; Cabrera (Mia); Kyle Harrison
(2) Fralic; O’Hearn; Winker; Rizzo; Jordan Walker
Mize, Severino, EdCab
I dont know what Fralic is
whoops – Jake Fraley (Cincy).
Fraley
Rank em IF edition…..KeBryan, O’Hearn, A. Rosario,
Rank em RoS (or give me your top 4) OF edition….Hanniger, OHearn, K. Carpenter, Nimmo, Winker, Frailey, Estuary
Rank em SP edition (or top 5) – Singer, Lugo, Keller, Wacha, EdCab, Blackburn, Butto, Gore
Rank em RP edition – Aroldis, Pressly, Hoffman, Abner Uribe,
Thanks!
O’Hearn, Hayes
Fraley, Nimmo, O’Hearn, Ruiz
Lugo, Singer, Wacha, EdCab, Gore
Hoff, Uribe, Aroldis
Thank you sir!
No problem
Also a Q: Nootbar is everyone’s favorite candy bar, but only batting .200
That said he’s batting 3rd (for now) in a stacked Cards lineup that isn’t hitting a lot yet.
I don’t know a whole lot about him. Worth a pickup for bench depth? Upside is what, 20/15? Is he a high ave guy?
Meh, he’s fine for counting stats and AVG (in theory)
noot noot!
Noot Noot!
Yo got the package already!
Wing sauce is fire.
I had El Perro last night!
Me too!
#metoo
Am I using that right?
Maybe depends
Still my favorite.
Venus survival train lives on! Need more edits of her in less clothes tho.
This season deserves Venus to get to the end and say I orchestrated everything when she did nothing
She got Soda voted out! LoL
That was very funny
Everyone should leave saying, “Damn, Venus, you got me!”
Btw that was worst tribal ever. They should have got rid of that vote me out idiot Q!
Why wouldn’t they just vote out Q?
Yall are in the weirdest league ever.
Ha
It’s at least the second time he has done that too. He is uninteresting anyhow just boot him. They shouldn’t let them all hover and talk at tribal it’s boring ha.
Yeah, they try to sell it like it’s “a live tribal” but it just shows how little thought they had previously
Woohoo! Glad ya like it. It’s my 1st new sauce in a couple years. I was nervous – it’s like sending your child out into the world. Some people might think your child is ugly and smells funny.
Ha. It’s tasty! Thanks again.
Drop kebryan for Garcia jr, o’hearn, fraley or Winker?
Depends on needs…O’Hearn
Gausman was dropped in my std 12 team league. How much FAAB should I bid of my $1000 budget. That’s providing you think he’s fixed.
$117
Thanks Grey.
After admiring him for years, this is my first time rostering Randy Arozarena, and what a delight!
A favorite pastime I have is to go back and look at my draft to see that literally every pick over the next round and a 1/2 would have been substantially better. At the time I recall debating Randy vs Adolis, and decided the SB & Ave gave him the edge.
Because I am a very smart man, who makes excellent decisions under pressure.
I don’t know if I’ve ever had the pleasure
Randy is one of tge streakiest players in recent memory. could hit 5 homers in 5 days at any point. as a fellow randy owner i’m stoked that he looks like he wants to run more this year. it’s early. keep the faith
<3
So Devers plays yesterday after they were talking about getting imaging done after he left Tuesday night’s game with knee soreness. They let him DH. I guess DH is better for the knee. It’s not like he would have to run if he hit the ball yesterday (3K’s). Fast forward to today and now he is out of the lineup and is getting an mri. Brilliant.
Ha, good stuff right?
Yep. Maybe they should get that barking shoulder looked at too. Of course I am not a doctor so that probably is a foolish ask.
Haha
This kind of stuff always baffles me. The Red Sox invested $313 million in Devers with his contract extension. Yet, they won’t splurge on an MRI for a few thousand bucks to protect that investment.
I was just offered Jordan Walker for Tanner Houck? I accept this right?
Sure
Haven’t seen any blurbs on Taillon that I can find. Is he a pick up / go today in his first start home vs Marlins?
Seems fine
Think Maeda is fixed? Starting him at home vs Rangers today in 12 teamer?
Nope
Hi Grey
pitch or sit my “Ace” Luzardo in Wrigley tomorrow?
Yes
ambiguously accurate
Ha, yes
10 team keeper league
I do own Max Meyer, but he’s prob a keeper and hold.
Drop Flaherty for Houck?
Sure
Grey
In my 14 team keeper on Sunday I dropped Houck for Ranger…Do we have a glossary term for this irony???
Haha
I also can’t believe Severino has that low of an era with his fastball moving a lot less and a whip of 1.38. As soon as I believe, he will will crush me. For the record, I had him on one team and dropped him after his lone bad start vs mil. I can guarantee that he will implode once I add him to my team. We’ve had that kind of relationship.
Yeah, I hear ya
Please pick 2 best streamers u prefer
Hicks home vs Arizona
Bello at Pitt
Assad home vs Miami
Gore home vs Houston
Mize at Minny
Hicks, Assad
can you rank j. lowe, s. suzuki and i. happ ROS for an OBP league?
You did, if they were healthy
thank you!
No problem
Hi Grey,
I have Rhys Hoskins and Ryan O’Hearm at 1B. What are your thoughts on adding Nolan Jones? Would you trade Crochet to get Jones?
thanks again for all your help!
Sure
Do you think that I could get Jones by offering Hoskins or O’Hearm or Jarran Durran or do I need to offer Crockett?
thanks so much!!
Try it
Would you rather have Kikuchi or Rodon?
Kikuchi
Houck has faced LAA (2), Oak and Cle. I guess I need to see more before I believe.
Cool
Who’s a better source of saves this year? Munoz or Fairbanks?
Munoz
Looking for advice on Hunter Greene as depth bench starter. Still prefer him over Weathers or Irvin or Anderson?
Much appreciated
Yup
Morning, Grey! I’m still tinkering with a Paredes / Westburg trade in a 14-team H2H OPS league.
Paredes and Yandy for Westburg, Julien, and Fraley — which side do you like?
Fraley
Thank you. Just listened to the podcast. Peace n luv
No problem
Standard ROS Kutter or Ranger? Leaning Kutter, but Ranger’s W advantage has me questioning.
Kutter
Thx!
No problem
Could you rank these CI options for a 6×6 (OPS) categories league?
Maikel Garcia, Matt Chapman, Jorge Polanco, Colt Keith
Thanks Grey!
You did
Thanks!
No problem
drop kiroloff or velazquez for outman ? 10 team 5×5 h2h
Kirilloff
Top 10 pitchers in my H2H points keeper league. Ranger, Houck, Detmers, Berrios, B.Miller, Blanco, Glasnow, Kimbrel, Lugo, Bradford. 5 or 6 weren’t even drafted. As for my team, Luis Gil has another start this week. If he’s all over the place again, I think I gotta drop him and use that spot to stream. I’d have probably done it already but we don’t have zero bids so I am trying to give guys more time. He looks like he’d belong in the pen, but you have to throw strikes in the pen too.
Cool
Drop kebryan for o’hearn?
Sure
How would you rank these following pitchers
Assad, Wacha, Butto and Turnbull
Wacha, Turnbull
Grey!!!!
Awesome!!
a. Your cabby who looked like pock-mark Noriega also tried to get an audition but the judge said “No way, Manuel.”
b. I was going to make a joke about Noe Ramirez because I saw N. Ramirez in two box scores on back-to-back days, both losses for Los Doyers, like how you can tell if your team is losing…N. Ramirez is pitching but I digress as N. Ramirez was optioned to OKC. Noe is not in MLB any more, last pitched in 2021 so the yokes on me.
c. Started Houck in my RCL true story, almost asked if I should drop him to pick up Knack then I slapped myself into reality before I asked. Both Knack and Houck still rostered.
d. Chris Rock quote of the day for April 18, 2024
[on hosting the Oscars] I didn’t want to do it at first, they offered it to me a few times. I thought the risk was too big next to the rewards, but it was a conscious decision to have a big year. I also wanted to get some offers and stop writing movies, we ended up getting a high rating and it was a fast show. There’s no more pressure in show business than that first seven minutes of monologue, that is it, your whole life is on the line.
Cheers,
Ante
C. Nice!
12 team league:
Have a nightmare hole with Nick Castellanos, I also have Jose Siri in outfield. Going to pick up Brenton Doyle (huge at home series coming up) for Siri.
My other choices on waiver wire are Varsho, Winkler, O’hearn, should any be picked up for Castellanos or wait a touch longer?
Hold
ROS: Houck or Javier?
Javier
Who is the drop out of Fairbanks, Yates and Alzolay? Thanks!
Yates
12 Tm roto redraft
EDLC, Morel and Singer for JROD?
Sure
Ha sorry, I would be JROD side
Then don’t do it
Would you stream Leiter today against the Tigers in a shallow league?
I am
I regrettably did, as well. Ouch. He got… leightered up.
Brutal
ESPN Points….should I start Jordan Montgomery tomorrow @SF (vs Snell)?
Yes
Dubon or Davis Schneider to replace Albies?
Davis
Would you cut Fairbanks for either mcarthur or yates in a saves +holds league or should I give him more time? I am trying to be patient. Thanks
You CAN’T cut Fairbanks after this interview he did. https://twitter.com/TalkinBaseball_/status/1780783826500731140
At least he didn’t blame it on the baseballs this time.
Haha
McArthur
At the risk of ruining another under the radar pitcher, Jake Irvin looks pretty good. Mixing a 97 4 seam up with a 92-93 2 seam with late movement. tight breaker. commanded everything really well yesterday. caveat he’s got the Doyers again in his next and I tend to be leery of guys who make a back to back against the same team. His statcast page ain’t real purdy but fip likes him to the tune of 3.25 era. 2.35 bb/9 will play. looks like he has the ability to mostly stay off the barrel. Deep leaguer or match up guy probably but person of interest at least.
Stop jinxing guys! I kid, I watched him, he seemed kinda meh tee be aitch, but maybe if he can keep command good
i give a meh++
it’s just below a good minus
Ha, that’s about right
Should I deal Jackson Merrill for Luis Arraez?
6×6 Roto OpS/Qs league
Sure
Grey,
Trade offer to ponder…this offer was made *before* the starts occurred yesterday for the record. For context, I have Jordan Walker as a black hole in my lineup right now, but the rest of my lineup is quite strong.
Offer received: his Colton Cowser for 2 of my Cristopher Sanchez, Tanner Houck, Bryan Woo
Is a 2 for 1 too much?
You have the arms to send two for Cowser? Then the latter two
I guess technically speaking I do, Castillo, Pablo, Freddy are my top 3. But then I have Bassitt and it drops off quickly to those 3.
I guess what I’m trying to figure out more is…do you think Cowser is for real? I kind of feel he is but I’m a first place team so far so I’m wary of tinkering too much.
I like Cowser
10 team 5×5 OBP
Drop outman for Varsho, Benson or Ruiz?
Meh
drop melendez for jeffers or wong? thanks grey
Meh
What side you prefer for this season?
Nolan Jones and Hunter Brown
Or
Jackson Chourio and Ryan Pepiot
Ty
One more to consider Jones/ Brown for Chourio, T Mkenzie , and Gavin Williams?
Thx again wiseman
I prefer Pepiot
Jackson
12 teams dynasty league
Without regards to position and team roster
Drop 2 :
Mountcastle
Hoskins
Gelloff
India
Soler
Springer
Thanks
Jogon
Mount, INdia
Mornin’ Grey,
In a dynasty league I have been offered my Chourio / J. Holliday for his J-Rod / Lindor.
I am not competing this year – hope to be in it next year and beyond. Which side do you like better?
JRod
How’d you like to have Fairbanks, Bednar and Jax in your bullpen? FACT: Our league’s rules don’t prohibit us from starting players who are currently IL into slots. Also known as addition by subtraction.
Ha, damn
Rather start Bello at Pirates or turnbull versus white Sox? Streamonator likes Eflin at NYY? Thoughts?
Well I should ask would you start all 3?
Start all 3
Hicks or Stone ROS?
Stone
Hey Grey! Houck looked amazing last night – he deserves that #2 on the Best Starts list. Batters had no idea whether the ball was gonna curve in or out, or just drop down.
Yup!
in dead last by a mile in my 5×5 roto with OBP. trying to find some buy low pieces.
trade nimmo for nolan jones?
Sure
How many spite homers before they start Ruiz against righties too? Come on, A’s!! Haha
Seriously!
Who is a better pick up at catcher, Wilson Contreras or O’Hoppe?
Logan
Yo you are a funny m$therfu&er. How would some Dominican lady come up with the name Otto?
Thanks!
2 days ago Ranger Suarez threw a 112-pitch complete game.
Houck did grab the #2 slot on the 67 Best Starts list. Suarez sits at #19.
Weird, I thought I was looking at the top pitches thrown this year…hmm, I must’ve mis-sorted
Thanks, Vin! Fixed
Can you mention MY players too? ;-)
Ha Ha. Good one…
HA
Drop Jordan Walker for Bryan De La Cruz in 12 team roto, OBP/SLG?
Giving him until Sunday
Smells like the Ineffective List for Bednar. One can only hope…
Nah. He just came in to get work in the 8th (they were already losing) since he had not pitched since his clean save on Friday. Plenty of times that doesn’t go well for closers. He actually struck out the final 2 he faced but his pitch count was up thanks in part to two long battles of 8 and 7 pitches so no reason to leave him out there in a game that was over. Gray doesn’t even get to mention it if Fleming gets Nimmo out and the 2 runners don’t score.
He’s such a mess right now