4/15, Part 1: Modica Monday, recapping a MASTERFUL Weekend, MLB recap, and more...

You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network Fantasy best Friends Forever. Yeah, this as the Fantasy best Friends Forever. Here the Fantasy Sports Radio Network alongside Frank Stample. I am Greg. He's going, Frankie. Hear the music playing. You can only mean one thing. Winter is here, Greggy. Big Game of Thrones premiere last night. I enjoyed it. Thoroughly nice little rink labor from from Chris Pavona. We didn't know that was I like, what things that we don't

know what's coming happens like that. I enjoyed that. Good, good times, good times. Great weekend. Just in terms of a great weekend, everything that was happening of the NBA Playoffs UFC I watched Saturday was really really good as well. Um actually did have to get my passport renewed, which took four hours in a post office. Greg. That was not a highlight of my weekend. But then Game of Thrones baseball, I'm sure the Yankees sucking pleases Met Modica,

who's gonna be joining us? But outside of that, I mean the great weekend. You literally skipped the thing that I did for ten hours this weekend. What did you do? Watch The Masters? Man? That was literally the number one thing all weekend. Tiger Woods, Dude, that was with the story of the weekend UFC. Everyone is excited about it, rightfully, so like what it was awesome? I look, I just I don't have much interest in gol Oh my god, man, I watched literally from beginnings and nine thirty to two

thirty on Sunday. I woke up right for it, sat in front of the couch, barely moved, and then Saturday turned it on at like three o'clock. Oh my god. It was perfect, the perfect, perfect weekend, so public to watch the Masters. It was amazing. Watch a little baseball, uh earlier, later watched the pill the Sixers, and the Nets. It was an amazing sports weekend at Modica. It actually was.

I didn't get to see the Masters yesterday. I had to record our first podcast and just doing so many things, a little family day, palm, Sunday, driving around, So for me, I didn't get to enjoy it. Happy for Tiger. Not the biggest Tiger fan, but I was respect greatness, so I'm happy he was able to accomplish that. Feed. Yeah, it was. It was. It was awesome, man. It was

so cool. Like I was at Judy's family's house or dad just stood up after Tiger hits the pot and just like Greg is with his history, I'm like, yeah, we did. It was awesome. It was. It was cool, man, It was cool. Uh. Then I I made sure I was home last night, plenty of time for Thrones. Sat down and pretty much what I expected, a big set up for the season. It was fine. You know, I enjoyed it. I'm here for the sentimental moments. I think a little bit more than than you were. I was

excited about, you know, everyone meeting up and stuff. It was. It was. It was fun to watch. I enjoyed it. Um. You know, I see a lot of people complaining on Twitter. Greg. The only thing worse than Game of Thrones Twitter is people complaining about Game of Thrones Twitter. Like, dude, Like there's mute options on Twitter, Like you can mute words, you can you can not follow people. It's like I don't understand, Like it's either people talking about Game of

Thrones or people complaining about Game of Thrones Twitter. Very frustrating. Honestly favorite part of Thrones last night night even Kenn the map. The new map is ridiculous. It is awesome. I didn't really pay enough attention to it. Oh my god. So basically it's just winter Felt, but they go inside in like not just over winter Felt. They go inside it, which is awesome, and then it's just um King's landing when they go inside and they go inside the key

f It's awesome. You gotta check it out, seriously. Yeah. I saw people talking about it on Reddit afterwards. I don't know if you're thinking of like being like sarcastic, right, but I loved it. I went back and watched it twice before I even started the show. Yeah. I might actually just go back and rewatch the whole episode. I think I think you need with it. You're not you're a Throne guy, Mat I'm a big Game of Thrones guy, I've read all the books and stuff. I was happy

with last night's episode. Fine, but I hopefully you know from here on it's a lot more action and we get to see how this plays out. I believe episode three is the Battle of Winters right, the Battle of winser Fell ithoudan very very exciting which we're all which, to be fair, were all assuments gonna be the We all assume it's gonna be the living versus the dead. But theoretically the Golden Company could be there in episode and that could be a bottle a sandwich of action.

It could totally like totally Winter from the North and like people from the South, and then just you know what. I also realized this is more from Matt because I have a feeling that Frank won't know who he is. I think you're on just looks like an older, jacked up Joshua Jackson is what I realized, Yes, last night, and no Pacy from I'm not a fan, but I know who I knew you even know who he is.

He just isn't jacked up Pacy with like a must. Seriously, I'm not crazy about the atflets they put that guy in it's kind of like, you know, uh, wanting to be a hipster pirate and stuff like exactly. That's exactly my point. You're we're on the same page here. I'm agreeing with you. Thank you, my buddy, Thank you. All right, let's hit it some baseball from what was that's more Thrones, all right, So let's hit this baseball, of course from this weekend, in particularly the Weaver. Frank, I know we

actually got Clin Fraser this week rather than last week. Okay, twenty seven and the highest other bid was seventeen. I think I wanted to be twenty three, but whatever, four dollars, I'm not gonna complain. We were right around the right

bids and very very happy, uh with that. But this week, at least from my league, when you were talking about last night, and this isn't the number one guy by any means, that's where I wanted to start, and that's with Mike Sirocca, because you guys, I felt a lot of people in the industry yourself included, Frank, and in my Homebilly, you were very very excited about Mike Saroka. And we're trying to figure out why exactly, because he's

not in the rotation. There are no plans to call him up to be in the rotation as as of now, two Ussan comes up pitches like six marvelous innings, he's locked in the rotations, Shawn Nucom gets sent down. So I was surprised when I saw on the train last night that you and Florio were not about being a bunch for Tussa, but you were all about about Mike Saroka. And I was, like I said, confused, because that was not where I had in my head we were gonna go.

I thought, there's gonna be a long conversation how much to we been on two on? What's the plan? And it was Sharroca that you guys have the discussion with. How come you're more on Sharroka than Tussan. Well, I think the term locked into the rotation referring to two K two san is is a very loose term right now because it's gonna be fluid. I think the Braves rotation could be fluid all season long. It's gonna be very performance based, like as long as Max Freed performs well,

he'll stay in the rotation. The same thing goes for for a two K Twossant. They sent down Seawan Nucomb try and get him right because the command the control has just been terrible. It's been god awful. So they sent him down, try and get him right. And Mike Foltonevitch is gonna be back for this team as well. So there's a lot of moving parts for the Braves rotation, but ultimately I believe whoever performs well is going to be in this rotation. I don't know if that anyone's

a lock. I don't know that Julio toron'so lock for this rotation either, but it's gonna be very performance based, and if I'm just looking at it based on skills, who has the best skills? Um. I loved Mikesaroka last season. I'm not going to back off of him now. He's made two starts in the minors so far, his first one on his second one wasn't as good four earned runs in four and a third endings, but his first

one five perfect endings with seven strikeouts. He has always been a guy who gets a ton of ground balls as well. So me personally, if I think it's a fluid rotation and ultimately talent will win out, and that that's who's gonna end up in this rotation, and that leads me to believe that at some point Mike Sarroka is going to be in this rotation. And it's not a knock on Tuk Tuson. I like him a lot.

I don't like him enough to bid the you know twelve to fifteen percent that people were bidding on him last night, because as high as the strikeout upside is still have a lot of concerns regarding command with him. He walks a lot of guys as well. So he's a high upside picture, but there's also a very low floor based on based on his command. So I like Toussan, but I like so Rocca a little bit more. How do you reread? How do you break this down? Matt?

Between two Tussan, I think Frank Kittle a lot of good points here saying that it's fluid. It's very fluid. I think there's two spots for three people. That's Tousan Ahfried and I'm like Frank lest year. I've been on Saroka everywhere, owned them everywhere. Unfortunately, you know, he was shut down the shoulder. I was excited again for him this season. I think he's major league ready to be a starting pitcher. I think they're best if he can, if he can be the guy they're anticipating, I think

he works best for them. Freed has a lot of upside, but the jury is still out on him to sign for me. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what he truly is. Is he more of a middle relief inning picture, you know, like those multiple innings you get the high strikeouts, or can he really be a starting pitcher. I know some people feel he's definitely going to be a starting picture. Some people feel, you know, it's maybe not gonna end up that way. So the jury is still out. I

love Sarroka. I found out though. The interesting thing was two weeks ago actual people bidding on Sarrocca, and I thought I was like, wow, I thought I had time, And last week, wherever he was available, I did scoop him up. Yeah, people are all over here, Mike Saroka um grabbing him. Now the own of my team leaves my Great Fantasy Based Romitational, my main event. He was already owning both of those. Uh, he got scooped up

last night in G S T as well. I believe yes, he went for he only went for four bucks head of a thousand, so maybe we should have been a little bit more aggressive on that, but we chose to to pick up jeff'son margin over Mike Sarroka. He does have the job for now. We'll see what happens there. It's interesting because when I wanted to pick up to last night you you were kind of all about Greg.

You're you're being very shortsighted about this, and like, you're right, I am being shortsighted because I know you're staying on brand, which appreciate the consistency. And question question if two key two shot didn't come in Saturday night, what would you be this excited? Even if they said he's gonna be in the rotation, but he didn't pitch Saturday night that I loved seven was seven strikeouts and shut out ball. Oh great, But I don't know what he truly is

going forward? Well, so so I I want to I would not be this excited, No, for sure, Matt, but I but I would be excited. I remember he had some hype buildings for him throughout the spring. People wanted to be and he finally got this opportunity right towards the beginning of the season. So I would have been if if you would have told me right away he's in the rotation, I would have been excited. I really think so, and I think most people would be excited.

I agree with you on that, but not as excited. I don't know that well to percent of fab in some leagues. He went for a hundred and thirty three dollars in my main event last night, so in our main event that that Matt Modiga plays in as well, so people were regressive. The backup bid was seventy five dollars on him, but you know that's probably where the

ranking would have been. If he didn't pitch in that relief and pitch that well, you know, he probably would have been in that, you know, definitely, But you know, because he pitched as well as he did, and people remember the last thing they saw. He goes for more than I think the other thing that I gives maybe a little bit hesitant on Serrocca, and I know talent was out. I completely understand that, and they he'll wind out spending the majority of the season in the rotation,

as you kind of believe it. I know you believe that as well. But Sean Nucom maybe back next before Saroca, Right Like, there's no guarantee that Sirocca is the next guy up for Atlanta. There's no guarantee for anybody in this sortation. Definitely not spoke about this Friday, Kevin Gausman. I don't think he's very good. I don't think Kevin Gosman like me personally. You're you're not in on him either. He's a two pitch pitcher. He relies on the splitter

a ton. I don't think he's that good. So who's like if he struggles, who's to say he doesn't get moved to long relief in the minors or whatever it might be. I don't think anyone is a lock for this sortation. I agree, and that's why I don't necessarily

break the bank for Tussan or for Sarocca. To be honest with you, but if Sirocca performs well like we think he could, just given you know, the strikeout upside we think he has and the fact that he gets as many groundballs as he does, I might go as far as say he might be the best picture one like in this rotation. Once, once it's all said and done, he might be the best picture in this rotation, Max street Man. I like Max free to, but for another

two pitch picture. Freddy Freeman was really talking on Max Freed. And the thing with Suroka now is you can get him cheap, Like in the last couple of weeks, you're getting him for basically nothing. I mean, I've seen to sapings, like Frank said, throughout, I've seen as high as two hundred a little over that, and I thought that was a little crazy. I was bidding on Tucson. Don't get me wrong with like, I don't like Toussan. I'm just trying to make an argument here. Yeah, and and and

I appreciate it. And then you go um with Max Freed and and all these guys at the Braves. But these guys are right. If Siroga is still out there in year league and he's not costing you anything, you know, now was the time. Now was the time if you have the bench spot to a bench spot available for you to stash him. Before we move on to the Braves, that you want to mention Arronasiskayana hits the d L

with right shoulder inflammation. As we've seen with a guy like Dylan Patances right shoulder inflammation or Luis Savarino right shoulder. Information can last a while because I have to figure out why it's inflamed. And he had at least similar issues last season. I believe it was the same exact act injury, which means a J. Mints A taking over as the closer in Atlanta for now. If he's available, he's must add Frank. Yeah, absolutely, You're not going to

be available in any fifteen team leagues. But you know a big majority of people that listen to the show play in twelve team leagues. He might have been out there. I think you have to be aggressive. It's his job to lose, unless, of course, the Braves get in on Craig Kimbrill bidding once once June comes around, when the draft compensation gets lifted from him. But for now, it's a J mentor's job to lose. And uh, you know Rodi's vis kay. You know, I've I've read some really

pessimistic reports regarding this injury. He could be out a long long time, So I think it's a J mentor's job right now. Yeahs, you gotta be aggressive. I have to be aggressive with a J. Mintjo and just like I was last summer with Mintor, because if this guy is out for a while, Mintjer may not relinquish this job. This is what we said last year, and he's gonna have an opportunity this year. This is one of those rare instances, Matt. I know we always speculate on who

the closer could be. If a closer goes down where you know it's Mintor, there aren't any question marks like this is the guy. I agree right now right it's a j mentor, like Frank said, be aggressive. My thing is is just now the perfect opportunity for Greg Kimball to get the homecoming. Certainly possible, certainly possible. But you also when you mentioned the Braves, you probably you mentioned

Kaiko too. Even they're all the questions they have about their rotation, there could be a spot for Kaiko and or Kimberle. There's a few spots where where Dallas Kaiko could end up. I think you know San Diego they've they've talked about it as well. You know they're making do with guys like Eric Lauer for now and your favorite Nick Vicious margat Vicious over there, which you know, look, I don't have a ton of faith in regarding him.

They have Paddock, obviously, they have Matt strom Strom bounced back in his most recent start, but they don't really have a veteran that they can lean on. And I think it would make a lot of sense for Dallas Kaiko to end up with a team like San Diego, especially if they want to be aggressive, which they have been. You know, uh Fernando Tati Junior starting the year in the majors. Do they really want to make a push

for a wild card spot or even the division. I think Dallas Kaiki make might make a lot of sense for a team like San Diego. And he was floating around on a few fifteen teamers. He wasn't available in any of mine. But our buddy Florio texted us and said he'd been seventy nine dollars on on Dallas Kaiko because he was available in one of his fifteen team leagues. The next closest bid Greg One. That's a terrible feeling, man hate, but I look, I can't blame him for

being aggressive on Kaiko. I mean in the team league, you know, seven pcent. I don't. I don't think it's terrible, but wow, sucks I don't think you can give me too heartbroken about that. He really I know. Look, it's human nature. We hate to see that the run up bid was so low where we overbid, but you got your guy. That's always gotta be your goal. It's very difficult to try and nail these things, especially in competitive

fifteen teams. Hunter Dozer was a guy that you know, I missed that everywhere last night I definitely do and just and I was in on up was in a hundred doze or to uh and in our main event, Greg, he goes for a hundred and twenty seven dollars. Why don't you explain to everybody why Hunter Doser was so popular this weekend. Yes, it's a very small sample size. Everything is. I'll tell you more about it over the break.

But he's made strides in terms of his bad at ball data this year, and he's striking out less two so and he has the prospect pedigree. He's been around a while. But I think there's lots of like. There's also reason he's getting more playing time now very day. Goodbye, Ryan, all right, say right, we'll come back more of the waiver wire and we're baseball come out next to me Daily rodo dot com. Learned from the game's best DFS players. We don't just give you advice. We play every day,

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waiting on that. Moving on, just saying moving on. The hun a hundred does are Yeah. I mentioned what he's doing with his bad and ball data. The hard hit rate up this year again, small sample size only has thirty six bad balls. Hard hit rate. The average eggs of last ninety three point six isles per hour. That's up from eighty nine miles per hour last season. Launch angles up a little bit, as well as batting averages to fifty six, which is fine, but according to Baseball Savant.

They haven't expected batting average at two nine two greg, So there's a lot to like regarding Hunter Dozer right now. The strikeout rate last year this year down to sixteen really small sample size, Let's see if he can keep it up. But so far he's made some significant gains at the dish this season. I wanted to be aggressive on him. I know, you know, I'm not gonna go over a hundred dollars for a guy like hundred Dozer.

I was gonna spend you know, four to six percent something like that, and I had a bit of forty three dollars. He goes for a hundred and twenty seven in our main event at forty three dollar backup bid. That was the next closest bid, which was my bid. So I wasn't on a hundred Dozer, but I wasn't willing to break the bank form not Evel, where are you a Hunter Doser? He was one of my sleepers this season. He's a guy I owning, uh pretty much all my Draft Champion leagues and a guy I should

have probably acquired last week. I would have got him for nothing, you know, pretty much nothing, And this week I put in say four bids are so a little less a little more, and I really wasn't close in the majority. I think I got him in one or two, but I pretty much bid on him and almost all So people are in on hunterd Doser obviously, people hoping uh that he will h has learned has the sample size will go bigger and the consistency will remain with

a guy like hundred Doser. So of the other top bids that I saw this week, and you guys in comment on them. As we continue on Ruenna's alias in r G S T League, Frank went for a hundred twenty seven dollars O come. People are desperate for saves. Obviously they see him pick up a saved this past week as well. That was a game where the game was tied when Anthony Sporzact pitched in the eighth inning and then Ronan Slias comes in in the ninth and and picks up a save there. So people are just

trying to find saves anyway that they could. I understand that, you know, you take a few speculative ads. I mean, I wasn't gonna be very aggressive on him because I still do think that Anthony Swarzak is the main closure. I mean, maybe they make lies in a little bit, you know, if there's a a bunch of lefties coming up. So I get it, you know, you try and take a stabbt getting ten to twelve saves something like that

out of him. But me personally, I still think Anthony Swarzak is the guy until maybe around the trade deadline if they end up ultimately moving him. But I think it's war Zak for now. I agree, what other what other names here, Matt, were you in on this week? Because I'm kind of going down, uh one of our fifteen team league list, nothing really is standing out to me. I'll give you some names that Frankie, Frankie and I've

been on. But who are your targets this week? Who are the biggest targets in your in your big leagues? I think in UM as far as you know, arms not closures now. But I think the one guy was Nick Anderson. I mean, he has a path where you can see him closing at some point for the Marlins, and I did that path could come sooner than later. I believe he's currently reading all relief pictures and strikeout percentage,

so He's somebody I would definitely want to get. I really didn't get many shares because it depended upon the situation. Who I had, you know, first, as a conditional bid that I mean starting pitching more, that I need to hit her all that stuff. But he's somebody that I would be wanting to require now on the cheap for the possibility. That's really the way to do it in

obtaining shapes, get the guys before their name the closer. Yeah, and and Florio brought this up to us yesterday when we're kind of going through GSC and trying to figure out who we want to bid on. Obviously, we have the three man team, so we get perspectives from all over, but he mentioned Nick Anderson as well, and rightfully so, Man, I mean the cap for nine, uh, right around nineteen uh. He's he's been awesome to this point. He's got sixteen strikeouts,

sixteen strikeouts in seven and two thirds endings. I mean, the guy has just been absolutely ridiculous of swinging strike rate, is up getting hitters to chase as well. He's predominantly a fastball slider pitcher, but he's been the best reliever in the Marlins pens start the year. So definitely definitely a pathway to saving opportunities here or Nick and I agree with that one. I had a few small bids in on him. I had like a twelve eighteen dollar

bid in two different locations. He ended up going for over seventy. I mean, I wasn't gonna do that that that's very very aggressive in my opinion, but I do it. Did have a few small bids, I didn't get them anywhere though I didn't wasn't really a wirator. I guess I'm not. I don't know. I think our leagues. I don't feel overly desperate for saves at the moment. Maybe

that's where I'm at. So I haven't felt the needs to go out and get him a name that we have speculated on Frank, and we talked about him briefly last week. We picked him up. You know, I think g s T. We grabbed him and it was Eric Thames or very very little and you talked about Matt how last week you could have grabbed Hunter Doser for nothing. That's basically when we grabbed Eric Thames for this week.

We cast this thirteen dollars and we saw last year Hayes's Aguilar steal the job from Eric Thames and run away with it. This year, has Aguilar has struggled out of the gate, Is it possible that Eric Thames can just get his job act, I mean it's a possibility. I think they're gonna give uh Agilar a longer leash. I mean, look, Thames would be really good if he if he had an opportunity, you know, and was you know,

as that situational hitter, that matchup guy. We know the power is real, you know, we know the power is real. We know the balls juice. We know Miller Park, if fly, you know, is a very hit or friendly park, so you know, couldn't happen. Yes, But I think right, I like the spec I like the way you're thinking on it. But I think Aguilar has a longer leash, and I

think I agree with Matodika here. Uh we didn't mention that we actually own Hayes Tolar in this league, so we kind of wanted to lost town a little bit and having both Brewers guys in case anything were to happen to Aglar, who's been really unlucky to start the year. I mean he's batting one fifty six. Has expected batting average according to Baseball Savant two fifty two, which is basically in the range that he was in last year. He had a two fifty seven last year, striking out

a lot less. This season, he's walking more. This is all hazers, Aglar, so, I think better days are coming. And obviously, hitting in Miller Park, it's a great environment to hid in. Um So, we basically just wanted to lock down having both of these Brewers guys. But you know, looking into Eric Thames, you know, there's a lot of

warning signs to me. He has like a forty eight percent strikeout rate Greg um you know, and like a sixty nine percent flyball right, So it basically two outcomes here, strike out or just trying to hit a home run, trying to lift the ball and hit a fly ball. He's not walking, he has a zero percent of walker. He doesn't have a walk rate. He doesn't have a walk on the year. So this is basically just trying

to lock down both. But it's not like Eric Thames has been that much better than no he he obviously hasn't. I am happy in GST. We changed both our catchers out, which was nice we get rid of Beefcatsto and who else do we have? Um? It was we had, yeah, well, Chris Ianeta, the Terrible Catchers. We dropped them both for Josh Beagley and Christian Baskets. Who has hit today? Playing second base? Today? Kid you not for the bus and Red Sox. He's playing second and Blake's Whiteheart is catching.

Why I think they wanted to give dustin Majoria about new yet off. I don't have anything, man, I don't give me that baby. Well, we're never gonna use Christian Baskets in the second base right now? Enough? All right? I was interested that I thought Luis Eirias at three bucks a very good bid in RS. Before we move on from the Catches, I do want to ask Modica Matt, were you in on Josh Familey anywhere? What have you seen from him? Do you like the games he's made?

He's had some power, know in the minor leagues a couple of years ago he hit like nineteen homers or something like that, so he's got a little bit of power. It's a good oakland A's line of two. Were you in on Josh Fagley anywhere? I'm gonna put a couple of small bids that really wasn't gonna know above like a seven to eleven dollar range, was you know the market I was paying for Fegley. Interestingly enough, Mitch Garber was available in a couple of leagues. You weren't forty

dollars in one. I had a thirty one dollar bit on that one missed out, got swyhearted another. But yeah, look, if if you own like, uh, the Nick Hunley types of the world and all that the ion net is and Fagley was out there, I totally get being aggressive. I got Josh Fagley for a thirty three bucks in the main event. The next closest bid was it is what it is, the second catcher. But it's about need.

It's about you know, you needed to catch or you need to upgrade the position, and that thirty bucks it could really it has worked it for you in my opinion, to the guy that maybe really didn't need it and only went three. Yeah, so I had Carson Kelly as my as my second catcher, which very interesting situation for the Diamondbacks, right, so they trade for Carson Kelly. I thought he's gonna have the opportunity to play every day, and even with Alex Villa going on the DL, Greg,

he's still not playing every day. I mean, John Ryan Murphy is still getting a lot of playing time for four the Diamondbacks. So I ended up dropping him. I picked up Fegley for it was actual thirty two bucks. But yeah, I mean he's performed well. The hard hit rate is up. I mean well at the Oakland A's lineup is a very deep one too. It's not the best hitting environment. But you know, I get him as my second casher. I'm fine with that. I also I picked up Chris Davis. Let you see, for eight bucks.

He's my utility player. I'm hoping that I kipt lightning in a bottle here. Greg, it's just a hot weekend. It's a small model, man, if you can cash it, Oh my god, I did one hundred dozer. I was in a Dan Vogel box was available in our in our main event, he goes for four hundred and forty four dollars. I think I had a hundred and thirteen dollar bid. I wasn't expecting to get him. I figured someone was gonna be much more aggressive, and rightfully so.

But he went for a four forty four. The next closest bid was one seventy one, So you know, put that in perspective. But Matt, you know, has has referenced that you want to get your guys, you really want vogel Box, you gotta spend up to get him. So that's what someone did in our main event. You know, I wasn't. I was one willing to give up, work up a third or two fifths of my fab budget

left for for Dan Volga. He was really the he was the top guy if he was still available, I thought so too, and Vogle Black and whether Clint Frasier was still out there as well. I know that was suber aggressive on him. Uh last week, Um, trying to go through the g d D League. Now, Frank and go over some of the big waiver wire guys here and see who went. What do you make Matt Oh,

I've seen him picking a cold places. Adam Wayne right, I know he's ugly the first star, it's gotten better the back next to what do you think of him? I do have him on a couple of teams. There was a couple of thirty round selections. On the twenty ninth round. Uh, he's off of one and I do think I have him on two others still. I think right now he is you know, border borderline roster bull and depended upon you know what the matchup is and stuff, you can roll him out there. I mean, I see

people excited about like Jorge Lopez. I'll start Adam Wayne right over him. Every Yeah, every day. Well you're the Jorge Lopez guy, right, you excited about Joregal Lopez. Yeah, mild excitement here for Jorge Lopez, who has a two star week this week. He's going up against the White Sox and the Yankees. And I mentioned that the underlying skills, the swinging strike rate, it's a little bit over league average. Look,

he's not blowing anyone away. The case for nine are not great, the walks for nine haven't been great, but I think the arsenal is decent. He throws like an eighty seven mile per hour slider and the whiff rate is actually up on that. He did have prospect pedigree in the past. He was a top pitching pitching prospect for the Brewers a couple of years ago. But he's bounced around. He hasn't he hasn't been great until now,

he's been all right. So in deeper leagues, you know, as a two star pitcher, I was looking into him, Adam Wayne Right. I just don't know what he offers at this point, right, like he's probably gonna have like a low four's e r ray. I agree with Matt that maybe in the right matchup you can stream him, but me personally, I'll go the other way. I know Matt said he would use Wayne right over Lopez. Um, I'm I'm a little intrigued by Jorge Lopez. So I

want to see what he does this week. I don't know if I, you know, technically throw him in there right away, but I did pick him up in a few deeper leagues as a speculative bad just to see if there's anything here with him. You know, when he pitches at home in Kansas City, it's a good ballpark, and he did have some pedigree, So I have some interest in Jorge Lopez. Two more names I wanted to bring up to you, Matt before we hit the break here. That's Hunter Renfro for San Diego. Inside our gd D

he went for sixteen bucks out of a hundred. The question really isn't about run for his talents, but that playing time, but the injuries in San Diego, he could play every day and we know the powers there. Yeah, I will. I think sixteen dollars is a fair bid. I want to own him or Fran mill Rays. Like you said, it's just about the opportunity of playing time.

Can they get it? You know, you know it's look where three weeks into the season, not even and you know maybe there's gonna be some trades down the road to Uh, Fran mill Rays was available one of my really big leagues, and I did like nine on him, not really needing the outfielder there, but I wanted the talent and he went for over. Like, yeah, I'm with

you on friend Milrays too. I tweeted this out yesterday Greg Drink regarding the hitters who have the biggest difference between their batting average and expected batting average who start the season. Friend Milrays was the top one heading into yesterday's Action batting average and a three forty nine expected batting average. So better days are coming for him. Uh, you know, he's He's played a lot of the time, the majority of the time this year for the San

Diego Padres. They're trying to get creative. Manuel Margot another one. If he was available in twelve team leagues, I would say go out there and be aggressive on him. He's off to a solid start this season, and he hit his second home run yesterday, a leadoff home run against Zack Frankie. But has an interesting power speed combination. People

are so ready to write off Manuel Marco. The guy is still only twenty four years old, Greg, so you know, he's been playing every game since April seven, he's been in the line up. They're giving him an opportunity. So I like this padres outfield, and I think a lot of people did with you. Were worried about the playing time. But now you eliminate one guy with Frankie Cordero who went on the I l and you know, things start to work themselves out a little a little bit here.

So if Marco or friend Murrays were available, I would I would be very aggressive on either one. I very much agree I. I was with you a few weeks ago, and anymore go then I wanted to take a shot on him. If he can find the playing time, playing times there, uh, he won't probably cost as much as a guy like Hunter Renfro. So that's why I like Manuel Margot if he's out there. One more name before the break, Matt, and that's Miss Morland, who hits in the middle of that Red Sox order. There's always the

time every year where I feel like I'm after Moreland. Uh, it's earlier rather than later. Now he went for about eight dollars to our guy Ian Coln inside the g D League. Are you in on Miss Moreland? Yeah, for things you said, He's hits in the heart of that lineup. He's on the strong side of the platoon. I have him on a couple of teams, another guy like you know, late twenties, thirties round draft pick or you could get on waivers for nothing. So look, he's got power, we

know that. And that lineup. Look, the Red Shocks are gonna get hot. The Red Shocks are not a you know, three intent team or whatever the hell they are. No, they're not. They're not a three intent team, and they'll certainly get hot. Probably the Yankees this week, Frank, Yeah, rightfully, so with the with the pictures that there, the Yankees are throwing out there right now, just can't do anything right. But regarding Mitch Moreland, look, he's batting third in the

Red Sox lineup, he's already got five homers. You know, like if you started him for any of that, like you feel great about it. Maybe he doesn't play against left handed pitching every single time, but you know what, he's gonna give you between a two fifty and two sixty bantning average right around there. He's got a little bit of pop. The r B I S can certainly help you out as long as he plays and he's

batting third. I thought it was interesting for the Red Sox early on in the season they were trying out Rafie Devers adding third, and what do you know, a couple of weeks into the season, they're already pushing him down to bat six. So it's like, why would you try something all spring and and give a guy a shot? And it's like, I know they're getting off to a slow start, but you just you don't really give him

time to work through it. So it's interesting. Look, yeah, as long as Mitch Moore and petting third for the Red Sox, the perfectly fine corner infielder utility, you've got a little bit of pop definitely helps with the RVF. Al right's he good break when we come back, we'll go over some to start pitchers with that Modiga here and we'll break down the week with the Elemo five game on Patriots Day of Boston. If not, we'll give it two star pitchers and let you know what we think.

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discount today. All right, Matt, I know there's a name that Frank wanted to ask you about. You grabbed in the main event, and that was my man from Miami, Austin Howard Dean. What were you thinking? Uh, he was probably a thig third on my list, So you know you have conditional bids after your top bid. He's gonna be playing every day, they called him up. Uh, you'll have a spot and in fifteen team leagues, guys that will have at bats in a good part of the order. Eventually.

I don't see him, you know, batting in the bottom end of that lineup all year. I don't see that as the possibility. So for what is it four percent or so to take a shot missed out of my other two options. Uh, So you know, we'll see what happens there. It's funny. I actually watched a lot of Austin Dean oddly this weekend, Frankie, because I was in Philly and the Marlins were playing Film Get Crushed, and

I was watching Zac Get crossed. Yes, yes, yes, I was, um and Austin Deine give me the every day right field with this. Isn't Peter O'Brien down, not right on her? Doesn't Peter O'Brien down. And Austin Dean's get all of playing time that there in Miami, and they don't really hit all that much. But deems to me part of the middle of it, so we'll see. He's a deeper league ad. I don't have any problems with him in fifteen teamers obviously, and only anyone who has a job

should be owned. He's got a tweety one career batting average in the minors. He was hitting three seventy five this year. You get three forty five with p s last year in the minors between double A and triple A. So I think if you're picking them up, you're really banking on the batting average here plays in the big park, but maybe a lot of those turned into uh, get a lot of gap shots. Get a lot of doubles

out of Austin Dean. Only twelve homers and two stone bases, so modest pop. But I think what you really wanted to him is batting average and in the fact that he's gonna play every day, Greg, I don't have a problem with int deep believe. Okay, So there you go with Austin Dean. Let's get into some of the two start pitchers for this we hopefully your ladders have not locked yet. If you go by the gate, the team that plays not just the first game of the day.

I want to begin with Nick Pavetta, who many people were high on coming into this year. Matt the then I faces the men and he's in Colorado. Certainly two starts. You're not exactly thrilled about. You gonna start Prevent this week. No, I will not be starting Nick Pivetta this week. I highlighted into my article over at the Athletic yesterday. I did two start pictures every week. And look, I'm not cutting him in any twelve or fifteen leagues. I mean

definitely not fifteen, And even in the twelve. If you had believed in him prior, you gotta give him more than three starts. I did a tweet last week on Louis Castillo, Zach Wheeler and after get the third Jamison Tye on you know after their first month, what they were able to do rest of the season. Granted, Provetta has not looked good the Phillies radio broadcast, which I'm becoming a real good fan of. Uh they said it best and it's been the theme early on. Provetta did

not bring his swing and miss stuff. He almost salvaged that start on whatever the middle of the week last week where he went up getting dreamed. But when you give a pitch to the picture, you know, Jeremy Hellison k get a hit off of you, you could have had a one to three inning. It turned into you know, a four run any or more. So I think there's talent there. I'm not bailing on it. Look at the state of pitching, you know, the further you go down,

look at these guys you're streaming. One week, everybody loves Spencer Turnbull, then they don't love him. So I think you got a better on talent from now. Let it win out and go from there. It's one thing I don't actually love to fill his radio broadcasting because I thought, like, way too horsh for me. It's like every radio broadcast is home erge. I don't disagree with at least what I was listening. They weren't pulling any punches. Oh I was.

I did not like it. Like I was listening actually all into the train yesterday, and the color guy was just like, oh, I got a really good feeling I got. I got a good feeling about Gene. You got good at bath here against it was like, what is that he goes? Let the stats say that. I'm just telling you my feeling about Gene. Jean's gonna end it right here like this is weird. I was that the event that he actually hit the home run now even cool. I didn't know he he and he. I didn't know

that years. Oh that's so funny. No, no, no, no, it was not a batter two before that. Yeah, we had a feeling. Was a little later regarding Nick Pavetta fifteen team leagues, I agree. I I can't cut him there. I don't want to cut him after three starts in a twelve team league. I'm just saying it's a little bit tougher there because you see a lot of these guys were performing on the waiver wire and and you want to pick him up. I think it's a little

bit harder. Um. I agree. Look, if you try, if you drafted Nick Pavetta, it's obviously for the skills you you want them to win out. Um, so try your best to be patient. I'm starting to get a little bit of a John Gray vibe right from from Nick Pavetta. Where it's you know, is he always gonna be a guy where the peripherals are much better than the e r A. He pitches in a tough ballpark and Citizens Bank, it's obviously not to the same level of corpse field.

But no, last year four four point seven seven ear a, we see the strikeouts, we see the command is solid, and the fact that he had a three point four two x fit and we all right, well, he's got to get better. Well this year only three starts from the nine point four or five year a three point nine eight x five. Is this a guy that's just

always gonna have better peripherals than his actual numbers? I don't know, Like we do have a sample size of three innings at this point regarding Nick Pavetta, But you know, at some point I got to see him put it together. Uh, you know, met for for for ess and g's here those who are listening and watching at home, and you figure out what's are would you rather have Nick Pavetta or EDWARDO. Rodriguez. I had them pretty much, uh, neck and neck. They were part of the six pack of

upside arms bumped and disappointed so far. You know, I probably there slight lean Pivetta. I had him a couple of spots higher. I mean, it's pretty much a very close coin to I think Edward Rodriguez is a very talented picture who unfortunately hasn't made him to stay healthy. Had the bed knee, got the surgery, expected good things out of Rodriguez, and like I said, these guys we're seeing have a good starter or two we get all excited about. You know, the guy Thornton in the in Toronto.

You know, just because you have a lot of swinging mrs in one game doesn't mean that he's going to translate for the rest of the season. And look, I think that John Gray Camp is a really good one, Frank, And I think you know, maybe that is the case. But you have a bench too, and he's on my bench. This week. Uh, you know a guy like Pavetta. I know, people after the first couple of starts for I Rod were like, he's on my bench, and I'm like, you can't do it. I know last week we went a

little back and forth on Zach Wheeler. I'm like, you can't sit Wheeler. You you invested too much on him. He's not at course field. You gotta roll with him. You know, some of these guys, you're gonna start him over. It's it's gonna backfire the majority of times. Sometimes. Yeah, if you have like you're a fifth or six starter and you want to take a shot on these two start guys or these guys that are coming off a

good start, I understand it. But I think in the long one, you gotta at least give him a month or so. In my opinion. The reason I asked because I actually traded Nick Pavetta to Greg in our in our home, our work ley here for Eduardo Rodriguez. So I was able to read pure I think that's very fair. Yeah, I was able to read the rewards of the third start while I was like, did not that he was very very bad? It's not it's two star pitchers. Let's continue all of the two start pictures. Frank Um, and

we mentioned a water Rodriguez. What about Derrick Rodriguez who faces Washington and Pittsburgh this week, dek Arriez for the San Francisco Giants matter. Are you on him this week? No, I'm not. And look, he's only giving up one walk in three starts. That's excellent. Uh. To me, he's upside is a four A four e R a picture outside of an excellent spin rate on his curve ball. I think he's an average picture or an adequate picture, even I've changed our turn and picture at best. I'm not

gonna roll with him. I don't think the strike an upside is there to gamble on. So I wasn't a Rodriguez guy coming into the season, and I'm not gambling on him right now. I didn't have any shares of de rod as well, Greggy, I will say this, or you're playing a daily transactions league. I like him for the start against the Pittsburgh Pirates in Pittsburgh. I do agree that he's probably mostly a an average picture in baseball that gets saved by the fact that he pitches

in San Francisco, which is a huge park. But regarding his two starts this week, I believe both of them are on the road at Washington and Pittsburgh, so you know, they're still regarded as as more picture friendly parks, but obviously not as good as San Francisco and Washington is you know, obviously they're swinging the hot pads to start the year, so you're playing a daily league. I wouldn't use them against Washington, maybe against Pittsburgh, but overall I

wouldn't use them either. My arguably favorite to start picture here these week is Kyle Gibson, who faces Toronto and is in Baltimore. Uh. The fantasy community has a love hate relationship with Kyle Gibson. Do you love him where you hate him? I love him for what I want him to be. Which was my replacement for Rick Porcello this year because he was he was going a hundred pitchs later and for like two dollars for a buck

or two in auctions. I thought he could give you that hundred and eighty innings or more, you know, maybe closer to two hundred, possibly give you the strikeouts of say a hundred and eighty, which he's gonna give you strike ats for volume in the innings pitched. It hasn't translated early on. I still believe it, but I don't know if he's getting this to start now. Of course, now that Martine Perez is pitching tonight and I think they have him for Saturday, and now I'm seeing Cole

Stewart as a possibility on Sunday. That's one of the frustrations about this, trying to do this two start week in March or eight in the month of April. I can't wait for this month to be over. With these off days and rainouts and teams being able to move some things around. That meeting of fish starter, it becomes uh confusion. It's a tough one, Greg, because I really like the matchups and we we just don't know as of right now whether or not he's going to have

that that two star week. I use CBS and they kind of they you know, they project to the best of their ability to figure out who's a two star pitcher. So I believe it was Toronto and Baltimore. Those are pretty damn good matchups, right Like, if you can't start Kyle Gibson for a two star week against those two, when are you gonna start this guy. So he hasn't been great to start start the year. He actually got blown up against the Royals and then also did not

perform well against the Mets. He's giving up a ton of walks, but again, uh, you know, if you can't use them against Baltimore in Toronto, especially in a deeper league, when using him, I tend to agree that's only the only time I'm going to use really any of these guys. For the Minnesota Twinkies coming up, we get to this is a really interesting one. He joked about it last Friday. That was you, Darvish, because he faces Miami, and in Miami you're gonna start him. He also faces Ares on it,

so it's a two star picture. Obviously you're gonna play him. What are your thoughts thus farmat on you, dar Wish or what you've seen from him. It's been disappointing though he did have on the last start zero wooks, so you gotta take You gotta look for civil linings everywhere, so you gotta try. So yeah, zero walks and that was progress the point where you, Darvish to me, I wrote the semi piece, if you own him, this is a much start. If you're not gonna start him this week,

then why is he on your roster? There's you don't have there's no justification for him not to be here. He's at Miami and I forget the second start, but yeah, so you have to roll him out in this two start week hopefully you know, he had to figure some things out, maybe mechanically. You know, that first start was horrific, but it's gotten incrementally better, I'll say, you know, trying to look for that. You know, always stay positive spin. So yeah, you Darvish is if I own him, he's

definitely my line up this week. I have one share of you, Darvish. Greg. I was hesitant, but I did put him in the lineup. And I think it's just a little bit different regarding Darvish because you know, he's coming back from the injury at the slow start and spring training, so he's still kind of ramping up. Like, if I could afford to wait, I would rather see him build himself up and kind of work himself into some kind of form, hopefully a good form here, So

personally I would want to be patient. But just like that start against the Marlins is so enticing, So I owned him in one spot I started him, So I guess I agree Greg get him in there. But you know, if you had the luxury of waiting and you had a good enough rotation, I would kind of just you know, want to see him get worked up and and slowly build himself back up. One other name we talked about Frank last week was Tyler Molly, who face it off

against the Dodgers and the Padres this week. Molly's like a league average guy, but people have been excited about him for a little while. A little prospect pedigree here it was Tyler Molly got met Oh, this is what I'll say, This is what I wrote about him the top of my head. He's become finishing relevant again. And you know he's got like a strikeout rate ground ball that's great. You know, that's everything you want, the walk percentages and had to control. But then you look at

the flip side. I believe that, you know, he's got that really low babbitt the hard strand rate. This is not a week I'm gonna be using Mally in a deeper league. Yes, I would roster him. I don't think I want to roll him out this week, though, Yeah, I agree, and I actually watched his last start against the Marlins. He has that strand rate, the left on base percentage that Modique is talking about, so he wiggles

out of some trouble, I'll put it that way. I remember, I believe he had first and second against the Marlins early on in that game and got saved by a phenomenal, phenomenal diving stop by Jose Glaciers, which ultimately ended up saving him. And the walks have actually been up a little bit more this year. You look at his minor league numbers, he didn't walk anyone, but in the majors he's been walking more people. So it's something that he

has to get right. That's starting against the Dodgers just really scares me too, So I think owning him is like a speculative player deeper league, or just leaving him on your scout list for now, I think makes sense. But I'm with Matt, I'm not starting him. That that's starting against the Dodgers really worries me. I agree with that, but he's he's certainly a watchless guy for I'm attention based on the strikeout for ending and the groundball rate

being over fifty percent. I agree with all those factors that Modeca mentioned. It's just the match against the Dodgers scares me. But yes, you should. You should be paying attention to him to see, you know, look if he performs well against the Dodgers, and yeah, I think that's kind of like, uh, that's giving you a green light there that all right, maybe we could trust this guy a little bit more. Yeah, absolutely, Matt, What do you what's going on in the athletic this week? What do

you what do people pay attention to? Uh? To start week, two Star Pictures is up podcast with two Star Pictures is up as well and hitting Planner, so you know, get a chance to check that out. And remember, chaos is a ladder. Chaos is a lot of didn't we get to do Thrones recaps each and every Monday. It's fun, especially for the crazy episodes because you know that they're coming. You know they're coming. Greg, there's well, there's five episodes left.

Next week is also an hour, and then I think they all incrementally get higher, like it was like an hour of twenty minutes. I think there's one that's like closer to ninety minutes as well, So there's a lot that still needs to happen between you know, a war against the White Walkers and a war against Searcy. There's a lot that needs to happen in these next five episodes. And it's gonna be fun to get a little recap here. Yeah,

it's gonna be a good time. It was nice, like everyone, I think it was good last night, right, everyone gets like talked to each other and see each other the first time in a while. You know, it's only gonna good. Dad Hill from here. We've talked about this in the pit a ton and I wouldn't mind if just everyone dies. Sure, I just want to see chaos Modica, like you know, I wanna. I want to cry. I want to be emotional during the final season. I want to see crazy

stuff happened. I don't know, you know what. I might be alone, but you know what, I don't want to say. I don't need to see Danny and John snow riding dragons kissing each other. That's why I don't need riding each other. I would do That was awful. That was like high school exactly exactly. Why do be of like how to train a dragn not great? Not great? Net. We're replacing Matt Modica with Chris Ventcher. We'll do that next, Matt, we'll talk to you next this week. We'll be back right back, ethless