Another top prospect was called up, this one was also the star of Webster and used to dunk on Gary Coleman, his name is Emmanuel Lewis. Dick Butkus was his dad and he burned down a house. Let’s hear it for the boy, who is actually a 49-year-old man pretending to be a seven-year-old! [intern whispers in ear] Interesting. Okay, turns out this guy is named Emmanuel Rodriguez. Ya know what separates Gen X from every other generation? We had multiple celebrities who were in their thirties playing children — Emmanuel Lewis, Gary Coleman, every cast member on 90210. You know what’s also true of us and no other generation? We had celebrities who never broke kayfabe. And not just wrestlers. Mr. T was an actor who never stopped acting. He’d go on talk shows as Mr. T. That’s weird. Any hoo! Emmanuel Rodriguez (1-for-4, and homered on Saturday) is another top prospect. Uppercase yay! For the Twins. Lowercase yay. But that doesn’t make him bad on his own. Middlecase yay? Here’s Itch on him, “The oft-injured E-Rod is healthy and hitting. He’s got four home runs and three steals in his last eight games along with eight walks against six strikeouts over that same stretch. Minnesota just recalled OF Walker Jenkins, so it’s a little bit crowded out there at the moment, but Byron Buxton seems to be on the verge of another trip to the injured list, and there’s just not much downside to getting Rodriguez up to the majors while he’s on the field and feeling good, and I pray Grey feels bad.” Cmon! So, that was from two weeks ago, and Buxton is out for the year, having hip surgery. (He’s supposed to be ready around Spring Training, but we’ll see.) This year Rodriguez went 11/7/.272 with a 18.6 BB% and 26.4 K% in 202 minor league at-bats, and, yes, injuries have, uh, hurt him. He reminds me a lot of Royce Lewis. Not a super promising comp! He has easy power (his Saturday home run went the other way with no effort), some speed and can’t stay on the field. I’m sure I’ll talk more about him this offseason in my rookie outlook series. Will investigate more his relation to Dick Butkus, if nothing else. Anyway, here’s what else I saw this weekend in fantasy baseball:
Joe Ryan – 4 IP, 4 ER, ERA at 3.84. Good to see Ryan still starting games when he’s not at 100%. No one can make his arm worse but himself and the Twins.
Trevor Larnach – 2-for-3 and his 13th homer, hitting .269, and 2nd homer in five games. After a long siesta of meh, he might be heating up again. They say The Larnach Monster comes out when temperatures cool.
Jo Adell – 2-for-5, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 21st homer. First home run since August 22nd, i.e., Adell says hello to September.
Steven Kwan – 3-for-4, 2 runs, 2 RBIs and his 3rd homer. Kwan went from a light-power guy to “We shut the power off after numerous attempts to contact you.”
Travis Bazzana – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and a slam (12) and legs (19), hitting .249, and 2nd homer in five games, and hitting out of the three hole. A Bazinga Bazzana!
Tanner Bibee – 6 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 4.16. Don’t love Bibee in general, but Streamonator says he gets the A’s at home next, and giddy up.
Esmerlyn Valdez – Hit the IL with a hamstring strain. The Magician’s season is about to wand down.
Paul Skenes – 7 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 3.78. 2024-2025: 76 runs allowed in 55 starts. 2026: 30 starts, 76 runs allowed. Wish Saturday’s start was a more promising “quality” Quality Start, but those strikeouts are pretty meh, so let’s not get out over our *pinkie to mouth* Skenes.
Bubba Chandler – 5 1/3 IP, 3 ER, 9 baserunners (4 BBs), 3 Ks, ERA at 4.28 vs. Matthew Boyd – 5 1/3 IP, 4 ER, 9 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 4.16. This matchup was billed as, “Letterman voice, ‘Bubba/Boyd… Boyd/Bubba… Bubba/Boyd… Boyd/Bubba….'” It’s of little consolation but Boyd’s line should be better; Civale gave up two of his inherited runs. Feel like in general, Boyd’s 4.16 ERA should be better and Bubba’s 4.28 should be worse, but alas.
Clay Holmes – 5 2/3 IP, 2 ER, 9 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 2.85. That Holmes out-struckout (out-struckout? Me learn English good.) Skenes just reaffirms my feelings on Skenes’s start.
Kyle Bradish – 3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 4.12, and hit the IL with abdominal discomfort. Bradish returned this year as roughly 40% of who he once was. Not entirely sure if the Orioles tried to fix him at any point, but either A) They did and couldn’t. B) Did not. C) There’s no C.
Trevor Rogers – 6 IP, 4 ER, 8 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.22. Gonna be very cool when the O’s go out this offseason and get a starter like Freddy Peralta, who will be a 5 ERA pitcher for them.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. – 4-for-5 and his 9th homer. Every year there’s crazy stats that no one ever could’ve predicted, but is there one that’s more absurd than this being Vlad’s 1st home run in Toronto?
Kazuma Okamoto – 1-for-3 and his 32nd homer, hitting .236. Saying Okamoto has 32 homers right after saying Vladdy just hit his first at home — with two weeks left of the season — is such a bitter pill.
George Springer – 2-for-5, 4 RBIs and his 15th homer. If I had a time traveling DeLorean, I’d go back to 2025 and drug test Springer. That’s it. Just show up in Toronto and ask for his pee.
Dylan Cease – 5 IP, 1 ER, 9 baserunners (5 BBs), 9 Ks, ERA at 2.38. Cam Schlittler won the AL Cy on Sunday, and the season is ending at the perfect time for Cease — the Ceason? — because it feels like Cease is about to resort to his old, terrible command ways.
Robert Gasser – 5 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.30. Streamonator said to stream, so I streamed, but was very annoyed to see their pen blow his chance for a win. I blame Ashby. He’s told the whole pen about vulture wins! Shut your mouth, Ashby!
Joey Ortiz – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 9th homer. Will be interesting to see who ends up with more homers, Joey Ortiz or Vlad Jr. One guy is a 7-10-homer guy and another guy is Joey Ortiz.
Chase Burns – 3 IP, 2 ER, ERA at 2.80. Unlike Joe Ryan, I don’t mind Burns throwing a few more innings because that’ll allow him to throw more next year. Well, in theory, if there’s a full season next year. I think I’m going to stop talking about the potential lockout until it actually happens. Just know that when I say next year, I’m well aware next year might be truncated.
Eugenio Suarez – 1-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 24th homer, hitting .213. Should be his last year in the majors, but watch him have one of the worst years ever next year. Oh, it’s going to be gloriously bad.
Rafael Devers – Shut down for the season with a core muscle injury. Fantasy teams with him just took a hit to their core. In the 2nd half, .275, 18 HRs, 46 RBIs, .376 OBP, .611 SLG and .988 OPS.
Logan Webb – 5 IP, 6 ER, ERA at 4.31. Damn, what a supreme sucker, and, no, that’s not a sucker with sour cream. Good way to get on my shizz list is do that in the final weeks. What a weird season he had overall. His June was better than anyone’s — 38 IP, 0.71 — and other months have been miserable.
Manny Machado – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 27th homer, hitting .221. If he ends up hitting .240 with 30 homers, you’re gonna look at his stats next year and think it wasn’t nearly as bad a season as it was.
Michael McGreevy – 6 IP, 1 ER, 6 baserunners, 6 Ks, ERA at 3.83. McGreevy deserved better than you secretly calling him McGrody. McGroovy was right there, too. How did McGroovy (see?) have a solid season with a 6.3 K/9 and 2.5 BB/9? I have no idea. His ground balls were even down (not literally).
George Soriano – 1 IP, 0 ER, ERA at 4.36 and his 4th save. Riley O’Brien’s been a disasterclass since August 23rd — 8 IP, 11 ER, 5 BBs, 13 hits, and only seven Ks. Soriano’s been far from stellar too, which is to say [shrugs] I don’t know. O’Brien likely gets next save, but it’s a mess.
David Sandlin – 5 2/3 IP, 0 ER, 2 hits, zero walks, 5 Ks, ERA at 5.64. You in March, “I don’t care what Grey says, I’m drafting Paul Skenes for my H2H team because I need him for my playoffs.” The guy who slept through your draft, “I got sand in my shorts…Hey, I didn’t draft David Sandlin, I said I had sand in my–Meh, ya know what, who cares? I’ll take him.”
Randy Arozarena – 3-for-5, 4 RBIs and his 24th and 25th homer, and 2nd and 3rd homer in two games. If the Rice Bowl called Bing Bong home, he’d a 40-homer guy. Though, that might be true for any top 100 drafted hitter.
Zack Gelof – 2-for-3, 3 runs, 2 RBIs and his 18th homer. Gelof in Bing Bong? 30-homer guy. Road games? 10-homer guy. Bing Bong equals “hitting on the moon with aluminum bats.”
Shea Langeliers – 1-for-1, 2 RBIs as he was activated from the IL. Whoa, what a surprise it is to see him activated! Not as great of a surprise if I hadn’t dropped him because the A’s said he was out for the season, but then he didn’t start on Sunday, so an okay surprise?
Lawrence Butler – 2-for-4, 4 RBIs nd his 15th and 16th homer, 2nd homer in three games. Hot schmotato alert!
Josh Jung – 2-for-4, 1 run, 1 RBI as he was activated from the IL on Saturday. Honestly, who cares, but I saw he was hitting third and Langford sixth and I rolled my eyes so hard I lost a pupil for a few minutes.
Corey Seager – 3-for-5, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 18th homer, three homers in the last week. The good news is someone out there is going to think this September from Seager means he’s worth drafting next year. Oh, and then we’re gonna laugh! Oh boy! Unless it does mean that, then they’re gonna laugh at us. I don’t like that nearly as much.
Cal Quantrill – 6 IP, 1 ER, 5 hits, zero walks, 4 Ks, ERA at 2.82. Cal Quantrill: H2H Playoff Winner.
Gabriel Moreno – 1-for-5 and his 13th homer, hitting .301. Yo Gabby Gabby!
Nolan Arenado – 2-for-4, 2 runs, 3 RBIs and his 25th homer, 3rd homer in four games. You have to check this out, I purchased a child’s turtleneck with the name “Jobs” written in Sharpie on the tag. Gotta be Steve’s from summer camp when he was a kid. Here, I have it over by this open window–NOOOO!!! Torenado!
Matt Olson – 3-for-5, 3 RBIs and his 39th homer. Four fewer homers to go!
Grant Holmes – 4 IP, 2 ER, ERA at 3.49 vs. Andrew Painter – 5 IP, 1 ER, 10 baserunners, 3 Ks, ERA at 5.54. This matchup was billed as, “Holmes/Painter, which is what Harrison Ford did before his big break.” I’d check Streamonator for both guys.
Hayden Wesneski – 3 IP, 3 ER, ERA at 3.70. Sigh. All around terrible start. Notched only four whiffs, four-seamer was down 1.6 MPH and had a 88.4 MPH exit velocity. Can’t be bothered to be holden Hayden.
Isaac Paredes – 1-for-3, 2 RBIs and his 21st homer, 2nd homer in two games, and third homer this week. Finally this schmohawk gets hot. I hope he hits nine more homers in the final two weeks. Not because I have him, but this way people will be suckered into drafting him next year. “Ooh, yeah, he’s a 30-homer guy, that’s great value.” Yeah, he’s a 17-homer guy who happened to get hot when most leagues were already decided.
Brody Hopkins – 1 IP, 2 ER, as he was called up by the Rays. He’s a top pitching prospect and also sounds like the son of the head of the hospital, which causes all kinds of problems for the nurses, because he’s trouble! His command might be trouble too — 8.8 BB/9 in Triple-A in 94 IP. Sounds like a work in progress that I will be avoiding.
Freddy Peralta – 5 IP, 0 ER, 0 hits, 3 BBs, 4 Ks, ERA at 4.67. Rays jumped out to a huge lead and FreddyKBB cruised out to the Ivictory Coast for a free night at the W.
Jonathan Aranda – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 20th and 21st homer. Ya know what kind of season Aranda’s having? The kind you would’ve taken from Vlad Jr.
Richie Palacios – 2-for-4, 3 RBIs and his 10th homer, 2nd homer in five games, and he was in Friday’s Buy. Ask for him by name, that name is Dick Palace.
Ian Seymour – 6 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 10 Ks, ERA at 4.27. Is there a list where I can sign up for being in on Seymour for 2027? A “I Want To See More Seymour” list. Does that exist? Put me on it.
Ranger Suarez – 7 IP, 1 ER, 5 hits, zero walks, 8 Ks, ERA at 3.33. Ya know the Phillies are a well-coached team, because their pitchers leave and they’re still good. Might’ve made that up in my head, but it sounds good. In reality, the Red Sox are just a good pitching team too. Pretty impressive since their home park is anything but easy for pitchers. 7th in the league for ground balls and a great defense doesn’t hurt.
Payton Tolle – 6 IP, 0 ER, 5 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.02. He threw an immaculate inning. There were two immaculate innings this weekend (Justin Martinez). I bet Rob Manfred has them using an immaculate inning ball.
Caleb Durbin – 1-for-, 2 runs and a slam (13) and legs (18), hitting .250. He’s a whisper from a very interesting end-of-season statline: 15/25/.260. 15/20/.240 or less is far less so. Durbin needs a whisper campaign.
Noah Cameron – 6 IP, 1 ER, 5 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 3.84. If you’re wondering, yes, I am going to let Cameron hurt me again next year.
Adael Amador – 1-for-4, and his 4th homer in 15 games, and the Rockies are about to go home for ten games. That’s a schmotato, as is their whole team.
Jackson Jobe – 6 1/3 IP, 1 ER, 4 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 3.89. Not to be a hater my whole life, but this was home vs. the Suckies. If he didn’t pitch well, I would’ve suggested he try real estate with Alex Kirilloff. (Check him out at Sun Coast Realty!)
Zach Neto – 1-for-4, 2 runs and a slam (26) and legs (20), and his 3rd homer since Tuesday. That’s five games on your Bobby Grich advent calendar.
Moises Ballesteros – 1-for-2, 2 RBIs and his 9th homer, 2nd homer in five games. Kinda interested in Moises for 2027. Think there could be some sneaky 2nd catcher value here. In the back of my mind, I am currently thinking about how I thought that also for O’Hoppe for, like, three years.
Andrew Alvarez – 7 IP, 0 ER, 5 baserunners (4 BBs), 8 Ks, ERA at 3.35. This was a Streamonator call, and his next is not, and I wouldn’t read too much into him beyond that, since he had a 5.29 ERA in Triple-A.
Zac Thornton – 7 IP, 2 ER, 6 baserunners, 4 Ks, ERA at 3.44 vs. Gerrit Cole – 4 1/3 IP, 5 ER, ERA at 3.67. This matchup was billed as, “H2H Playoffs are frustrating as all hell. Here’s one more example of my opponent having Thornton and me having Cole and dubya tee eff.” Though, some billed this as, “I had Thornton and my opponent had Cole, what’s this joker talking about frustrating?”
Cam Schlittler – 6 IP, 0 ER, 3 baserunners, 8 Ks, ERA at 1.95. Yanks should do him a solid, let him rest for the final two weeks and let him win the Cy with a sub-2 ERA, as they’ve all but clinched the Wild Card.
Ben Rice – 1-for-2 and his 38th homer. Rice-a-HRoni!
Christian Scott – 6 IP, 2 ER, 5 baserunners, 7 Ks, ERA at 3.76. Nearly streamed Scott, but at Yankees seemed too scary. I had no problem streaming EdRod and Grant Holmes though! Check out the big brain on Grey!
Eury Perez – 5 IP, 3 ER, 6 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 3.99. This should’ve been the year Eury broke out, so now I’m wondering if it will never come. Can’t imagine drafting him next year with any semblance of assurance he’ll be great.
Josue De Paula – 2-for-2, 3 RBIs and his 1st homer. With that home run, the Dodgers have traded De Paula to the Reds for Elly De La Cruz and a Hunter Greene throw-in. I kid! Not until next July 31st for that.
Emmet Sheehan – 6 IP, 0 ER, 3 baserunners, 5 Ks, ERA at 4.79, and two straight solid starts since his return from the minors. Where was this Sheehan the first four months when I rostered this bum? Suddenly, he’s good? Seriously, that grinds my gears and I don’t want my gears grinding! My gears are oiled and in neutral! (Can you tell I know nothing about cars?)
Tyler Glasnow – 4 IP, 4 ER, ERA at 3.50. Maybe I am Mr. Conspiracy, but am I the only one who sees the Yankees and Dodgers facing the most random teams here in September? Teams that most people would’ve pegged as pushovers even when making the schedule last year. Yanks got Rockies at home? In September? Why? Dodgers are vs. the Marlins? Also, facing the Reds twice and Nats in September? [adjusts tinfoil hat] In addition to the Rockies, the Yanks got the Twins, DBags and Angels? Why are they facing these teams in September? Stop monkeying around, Manfred! I’m onto you!
Happy Playoffs!
My entire team decided to get healthy at the same time.
For 6×6 H2H with OPS do I drop:
– Ryan O’Hearn
– Javier Sanoja
– Willson Contreras
– Teoscar Hernandez
– TJ Rumfield
You would think Sanoja but he’s been so good and my team could use the average boost. Or you’d think Rumfield but he has a seven game week in Coors, and is also an average boost.
Just had Dongeliers, O’Hearn and Willson all get healthy almost simultaneously. Already dropped LawBut to activate Shea. (maybe regretting? was on bye for his two dinger Sunday)
Willson just hanging out on my IL as it stands.
Thanks for your buck o five!
I was rewatching The Wire recently and realized that Lando would be a shortened version of Orlando. That triggered the thought that Lando Calrissian in Star Wars might actually be Orlando Calrissian.
And now I’m to believe you are here with this username and this is just a big coincidence?!
Would you stream either, neither or both of these guys tomorrow?
Griffin Jax at home versus the A’s
Foster Griffin at home versus the White Sox
What’s good Grey? Much like a lot of other posters, in the deep stages of the playoffs in my H2H 12-team, shallow keeper league. Just got Willson Contreras of the IL, but don’t have anywhere to play him.
Bolte is in my UTIL and has been awesome over the past three weeks. Vladdy seems to be (I know, I know) heating up and don’t really want to drop him in a keeper league.
Two questions for you…
(1) Do you activate Contreras and cut either Bolte or Vladdy?
(2) Is Bolte better for the rest of the season than McCarthy or Merrill? I think no, but I have Stockholm Syndrome with both players.
Appreciate you, and hi to Ted!
Ted says hi! 1 Bolte 2. Over McCarthy
Interesting…so cut McCarthy and replace with Bolte and then put Contreras in the UTIL position? THX again.
ROX home for the next 10 games. OAK is only in Bing-Bong for 6 more games. Factor into your decision?
I factored in, if you went with McCarthy, I would understand…just Bolte has been so good…I don’t know, tough call
EMMANUEL IN MINNESOTA: tonight on Skinemax
Hahaha
So a third-place finish for the good guys in the ol’ H2H. I supposed having drafted Vlad, Gunnar, Maikel and H Brown in my first five picks I guess I should be happy with that haha.
Haha third feels great for that group of guys!
H2h points finals, thanks for all your help this year in helping me get there
Do you like Jax for 2 starts this week (athletics and Red Sox at home)? I’m thinking if him over Chapman in my RP slot. I’m mostly concerned about blow up risk (I don’t need huge upside).
I need to bench one for the week among Wood, Altuve, Pena, and Bell. Wood’s been pretty slow to get going again and was thinking him. I don’t need crazy upside, just production. What do you think?
I’d go Jax
I don’t know their matchups, but Altuve
hi grey
i am considering sitting jram today due to his cold streak. would you sit him over any of coby mayo, josh naylor, or george lombard jr?
I’d go Mayo
I’m with you on Sheehan. He’s going to suck us back in for next year, isn’t he?
Yeah, but he was just sent down to cloud our judgment a bit more
I missed that. It’s probably better for me not to see him do well this year. I finally started to heal.
Haha, same
That bastard Sheehan’s late-season heroics didn’t escape my notice either.
A real Bastard
Bradish was legitimately terrible this year. Terrible doesn’t do it justice. Hats off to the O’s though. Good thing they acted when they did while they’re still mathematically alive for a wildcard spot.
Haha, last wild card in the AL is so sad…jays are in it, how?
Crazy, right? Will a team under .500 actually make the playoffs?
Then bounced after one game
Yes, exactly
Are you dropping Webb with the talk of possibly shutting him down? Or would you wait until they confirm the shutdown plan?
Drop him
Made it to the finals of my H2H league, I lost Devers, just as I got back Wilson Contreras. Anyhow, i need to pick one of these 3 Tucker 7 games, Spencer Jones 7 games or Bauers 6 I haven’t played Tucker in forever, but he did show a pulse last week and Bauers, who’s been good to me has been getting days off with the shin issue. Thx in advance.
Jones
Would you dare to bench CJ Abrams vPHI/@STL and his .229 OBP over the last 30 days in favor of Sanoja @AZ/@SD (on my bench) or Saggese vSF/vWAS (on the wire)? Daily lineups, so could play matchups too.
I wouldn’t
@Grey: weekly roto. who do you like between?
bolte – 3 @ tb, 3 @ cle
de paula – 4 @ cin, 3 vs sf
thanks!
Bolte
Happy Monday Grey,
Made it to the championship matchup. Again and again, thanks to you and the team!
A. Here are my starts this week:
These are locked in:
Skubal @CIN vs SF
Henderson @PIT
Tolle @TB
Need 4 more from these:
Javier vs KC
Imanaga vs ATL
Quantrill vs TOR (supposedly dealing with lower back tightness but did fine)
Jobe @CHW
Sheehan vs SF (not locked in yet for this start – and I’d have to pick him up off waivers)
Gray-Rod vs MIN (waiver pickup)
Johnson vs MIN (waiver pickup)
Lopez @CLE (waiver pickup)
Scott vs PHI (waiver pickup)
B. For RPs, I dropped O’Brien – can’t deal with the blowups even if he seems to bounce back. The ping ponging is terrible. Also worried about Ben Joyce, and he’s not getting many opportunities. I picked up Evan Phillips but worried that will backfire.
How would you rank Phillips, Bryan Hudson, Spencer Miles, Joyce, O’Brien? Saves-holds league.
C. On the batting side, I swapped in a bunch of guys to maximize games played.
Guys on my roster right now:
Mayo @NYM vs MIL (may drop for back half of the week)
Amador vs SD vs SEA (7 games)
Heriberto @ARI @SD
Jones @MIN @ARI
Ewing vs BAL vs PHI (7 games)
De Paula @CIN vs SF (7 games)
Guys on the waiver wire:
Palacios vs ATH vs BOS
Canzone @LAA @ATH
Jac Cag @HOU @PIT (not sure how healthy he is)
Pasquantino @HOU @PIT
Gelof @TB @CLE
Bolte @TB @CLE
Bateman vs DET @TEX
Koss @STL @LAD
Pratt @PIT @BAL
Saggese vs SF vs WSH
Would you swap any of the waiver wire guys for the ones on my roster?
Nice! Good luck! Quantrill, Scott, Shota, Lopez B. Hudson, Evan, Joyce C. Palacios over Mayo
Interesting, I was thinking Javier and Sheehan would make the cut. Not trusting in their recent improved performance or is it just a matchup thing?
I’d go Sheehan but you said he might not go, just going off what you’re saying…I don’t trust Javier
Gotcha, ok so assuming Sheehan starts, take him over Lopez?
Yup
Sheehan was sent down
Would you take 2 starts from Jax (ATH, BOS) over 1 from Henderson (at PIT) in a weekly points league?
Yes
Paredes or Okamoto for the rest of the week? Thanks Grey
Okamoto
12 Team League. 5 x 5. No limit on keepers. 6 Keepers. 22 man roster. Daily league. Start (C, 1B, 2B, SS, 3B, OF, OF, OF, UT, UT, SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P) with 5 bench spots.
Who are you keeping:
1B. Matt Olson
2B. Ketel Marte
SS. Francisco Lindor
3B. Colby Mayo
2B/3B. Caleb Durbin
OF. Aaron Judge
OF. Jordan Walker
OF. Seiya Suzuki
OF. Daylen Lile
1B/OF. Jac Caglianone
SP. Logan Henderson
SP. Bryan Woo
SP. Hunter Brown
SP. Max Meyer
SP. Joe Ryan
SP. Jared Jones
Olson, Lindor, Judge, Walker, are easy calls…then I don’t know, maybe Ryan and/or Brown maybe Cags or Seiya, dealer’s choice
I like it. Thank you. Was thinking Cags and Lile (age) over Seiya. Kept Brown this year and keeping SP’s sucks.
Yeah, I hear ya
Hey Grey,
I somehow stumbled into the finals in my H2H keeper league. I have 5 moves/adds for the week. Drops don’t count.
I have a couple of decisions to make this week. Wetherholt should be activated soon so I would have to drop a bat to activate him. I’m leaning Gelof, Naylor or Clemens. Surprised to say that I’m leaning Naylor. He has lost all of his power. I can slot Clemens who has been surprisingly much more effective into the 1B slot. I would like a streamer slot too.
Who would you drop out of J.Lopez, R.Garcia, E.Alvarado?
which bat from above would you lose to activate Wetherholt?
Naylor
Jacob Lopez
Pick 3 of these very questionable starts for streaming
Gausman vs ATL
Javier vs KC
Soroka vs MIA
Kikuchi vs SEA
Cantillo vs OAK
D.May @ PIT
Prielipp @ LAA
C.Scott vs PHI
Cantillo, Scott, May
G Man. H2H 5×5 semis against the #2 seed
As a White Sox fan, I don’t know how much longer I can march Colson Montgommery ($5.6) and Munetaka Murakami ($8.9) out there. Despite having a 7 game slate (@CLE3, vDET4), they have both been absolutely dog shit the past month.
Thinking of starting Konnor Griffin ($13.7) at SS (MIL3, KC3) and Coby Mayo ($8.5) at 3B (@NYM3, vMIL3) instead. Thoughts?
Meanwhile, my opponent only has 4 starts scheduled for the week, while I have 9. He has 3 solid closers in Varland, Hader, and Scott.
I am rolling out Senga ($11.4 — BAL3, PHI4), but could also sub in Latz ($4.1 — BOS3, TOR3) for any of the below if I want to try to compete for Saves as well. If so, which starter would you bench?
Taj Bradley ($10.5, @LAA)
Cade Cavalli ($2.0, PHI)
Ian Seymour ($6.4, BOS)
Emmet Sheehan ($15.1, SF)
Bryan Woo (-$3.4, @COL)
Kevin Gausman ($4.2, ATL)
Nick Pivetta ($14.2, MIA)
Reid Detmers ($26.6, SEA, MIN)
Finally, gotta start Aaron Judge, despite this weird cadence, right?
Appreciate it!
Makes sense to go Konnor and Mayo….Gotta start Judge…Senga and Latz and not Pivetta
Hey Grey, I’m needing to fill a util spot (replacing Devers), would you go with Bolte, Teoscar or Paredes? 5×5 cats
Bolte
Arenando or Joshua Baez
Arenado
Thanks Grey for getting me to the Championship game. I am still trying to get some kind of production from my SS. Drop Pratt to get Carrigg’s 7 game homestand?
Yes
Start Cole at Arizona, Chandler v KC or E Perez at SD
Gerrit
Looks like Sean Burke may be a bulk reliever today at Cleveland. Do you trust him? He’s had a rough few starts. Thanks!
Nope
In the semis, I need to overwhelm this guy with K’s and wins, so going all low-quality volume. With that in mind, pick 3 of these 2 steppers:
Buehler @ Col, MIA
Peterson, ATL, @CIN
Kent, PHI @STL
Sandoval, @TEX, @TB
Tong, BAL, PHI
Drew Anderson, @TOR, @CHW
These are terrible…Sandoval, Tong, Anderson
Indeed! Should be fun
Haha
Garbage on my wire too. I’m going with Manaea in Citi against the Orioles. Bad pitcher yeah but bad hitting team in a good pitcher’s park. Still, barf
Ryan Johnson or Drew Anderson as a 2-start SP this week? I’m hunting Ws, QSs and Ks in my finals week.
Who are they facing?
Johnson vs SEA, vs MIN
Anderson @TOR, @CHW
Johnson
Hey GMAN! Thank you so much for yet another year of second to none insight articles laughs and everything! Been a proud reader since the jump and look forward to coming to this site everyday. You’ve been a part of every CHIP without knowing it haha.
With that being said, in the championship round this week, We have a max moves per week of 6. The final week those are almost always used on streamers to mazimize W,QS and K’s.
Im at a cross roads, this week would you trust BOLTE(ATH) or Springer?
12 team 6×6 OPS AVG SB HR RBI R. W, K, QS, SV, WHIP ERA. we play one UTIL and one extra IF elig slot. Long time keeper, we keep 7 at years end so this is the week everyone not in my top 7 get cut haha)
Line up is as such
Langerlies
Vladdy
Sal Stewart
JRAM
Elly
Muncy (LAD)
Woods
Anthony
Bolte
Benge
Eldridge(UTil slot)
Hererra
Ohtani on the IL
Snell
Cole
Ranger Suarez
Eduardo Rodriguez
Degrom
Corbin Burns
Sheehan
Roupp(Streamer today)
Chapman
Latz
Bednar
Thank you again so much Sir for all you at the razzball team do for us 90287798725852 male and 17 female readers haha
Thanks! Appreciate you! Bolte
Good luck!
Would you drop Bryan Woo (9/18 @COL) or Trevor Rogers (9/19 vsMIL) to pick up Griffin Jax (vsATH/vsBOS) for the championship week?
Woo
How do you rank the following hitters for the week ahead: Eldridge Mayo, Paredes, Rumfield?
I have Okamoto and Bregman, so adding any of those above would be a Util play.
Paredes, Rumfield
I see someone likes his sandwich with no mayo. Hey, it’s a divisive condiment!
HAHA
Need help choosing my pitching matchups for the finals. Two week round, pitchers can be changed between the two weeks. Start 4 SP and 1 RP. Tough choices here as guys like Henderson, Melton and Tolle got me this far but Kade, Taj & Seymour have good matchups on the bench. This is a H2H points league so the two starters could be more valuable.
Current 4 SP & 1 RP:
Logan Henderson @PIT (Jones)
Troy Melton @TOR (Soriano) @CHW (Burke)
Tarik Skubal @CIN (Lodolo) vsSF (Webb)
Payton Tolle @TB (Peralta)
Mason Montgomery RP
Bench:
Kade Anderson @LAA (Detmers) @COL (Feltner)
Taj Bradley @LAA (Urena)
Kevin Gausman vsATL (Perez)
Kyle Harrison @BAL (TBA)
Clay Holmes @CIN (Burns)
Ian Seymour vsBOS (Suarez)
Which 4 SP’s would you start?
Do you really need Melton’s two start week? I don’t trust him….Seymour over Melton
Nope. Seymour has been solid.
Cool
Edman or France out of the DH slot for all the marbles this week?
Edman
I need to sit 3 of these guys for the championship.
I need Total IP, Total Ks, QS, and good ratios! Got some brutal matchups.
Woo @Col (he’s been great for 5 of his last 6 starts including 6 SO innings at Bing Bong)
Kade Anderson @LAA & @Col
Glasnow vs SF
Logan Henderson @Pit
Jax vs Ath & vs Bos
Ryan Johnson vs Sea & vs Min
Mahle @Hou
Luzardo @ Mets (questionable with shoulder…can’t afford a missed start)
Quinn Matthews vs SF & vs Was
FreddyKBB vs Boston
Thanks!!!
Woo
Kade
Luzardo
Luzardo trending towards a start. Who would you sit if he goes?
Mahle
I’ve got room for one batty call today. Who do you like:
Travis Bazzana (-4.4 hittertron) (Rank 18th Last 14 days)
Max Clark (-4.5) (30th)
Koss (-3.7) (25th)
Norby (22.0) (374th)
Cronenworth (26.6) (908th)
Norby
Hey Grey, 12TM PTS league with no K penalty, I need to cut a UTIL batter, whose the drop between Shea Langeliers, Nico Hoerner, or Jeremy Pena? Thinking Nico for more limited ceiling?
Do we know why Langeliers didn’t play on Sunday? If he’s being eased in, I’d lose him
he didnt start but still went 1-1 with 2 RIBEYES
He should DH all week, probably will sit one day(maybe an off day)
Yeah, hopefully, just not sure why he didn’t start yesterday
Would you start Amador or Norby over Keaschall in points league weekly line up? Hittertron says no, but I want to know what Grey-i says. Also would you take 2 starts from Quin Matthews (SF, WAS) or one from Gausman (ATL).
Nah
Quinn
Which hitter to add for the next week? I’m in the second week of the finals. T Peters, A Riley, J Sanoja, McNeil, Koss, Gasper, Hao Yu Lee, Dustin Harris
Sanoja
Hey Grey!
BWAHAHAHA! I counted 4 Vlad snarks in 1 post. Might be a record. Love it!
(and hate it cause I drafted him in the 3rd). Lets see if I can stay away next year, lol.
And yes, also love me some Dick Palace.
Thanks for all the input this season!
HAHA, No problem
Made it to the finals this week with one team in a H2H format that has a locked lineup at the beginning of the week.
My rotation is: Sale, Luzardo, Burns, Wacha, Urena. With Burns limited innings and Luzardo’s questionable status (though initial reports are positive), should i bench either of them for one of: McGreevy, Soroka, or Brandon Young (2 start week)?
I don’t know who those other guys are facing…Luz for McGreevy seems reasonable tho
Gotta drop one player, who is is out of these guys?:
Edman
Moniak
Heriberto Hernandez
Meidroth
Chase M.
Hey Grey!
Have one team left in contention for the finals and have some decisions to make for the weekly lineup:
First – Who should I start at UTL? Moniak home vs SD and SEA with 2 LHP slated to start OR V. Pasquantino @ HOU and @ PIT. OR Start both Moniak and Pasquantino and sit G. Perdomo (home vs MIA and NYY). *Will they sit Moniak at home vs lefties?
Second – My 8th pitcher: The following are locked in as starters: B. Baker, C. Smith, G. Cole, D. Cease, G. Williams, J. deGrom, D. Rasmussen…but for my last spot I could start either:
A. Nola @ NYM
OR E. Pagan to try and get some extra saves this week. (I am leaning toward Pagan in the hopes to win this category)
Thanks!
Start both, sit Perdomo
Pagan
Is Vladdy worth a pickup and start for the final fantasy week?
Yes
Hi,
12 teams dynasty league
Who would you drop :
J.Jones
Rogers
Kirby (better next year ?)
Imanaga
Thanks
Jogon
Rogers
Hey Grey,
Need some help with my playoff roster:
Going j to week 2 of 3 week playoff down 6-4.
Don’t trust that Jesus Luzardo will be good to go this week(would like to see how he does this week before starting him). I have Lodolo but I havent trusted him all year. Wondering if Michael Soroka against the Marlins might be a play. Whip, era, k, wins+qs, saves+ holds. I have Skubal, Misiorowski, sonny gray, Nolan Maclean, Edwardo Rodriquez locked in.
Also I need 5 OF(runs,rbi, sb, obp, total bases)
Acuna Jr(locked)
James Wood(locked)
Julio Rodriguez(locked)
Lawrence Butler(likely locked in)
Last spot- Varsho, Canzone or possible pick up Henry Bolte. I need some speed and I am already starting Naylor at CI so that eould give me 3 Mariners in my lineup. Was lacking steals my first week. Im leaning Bolte.
Soroka’s going to go what? 3 to 4 IP? Seems risky at best…I have no faith in Luzardo tho this week — not sure why the Phils would risk him
Bolte
I agree about Soroka but i really have no choice! Its my last spot and i have 2 starts from skubal and Misirowski this week!
Hoping he can give me 5 innings(pitched 4 last game) and a chance for a win and good ratios
If he can keep it to 70 pitches to get thru 5, he might
Going into my H2H points league semis this week and Freeman looks like a drop. Who would be your top 3 replacements?
Garrett Mitchell, Kazuma Okamoto, Michael Busch, Tristan Peters, Brett Bateman… or bank on some Coors magic from Amador, Norby or Craigg?
Thanks for the help!!!
Okamoto, Carrigg, Norby