Analyzing Nestor Cortes and Shota Imanaga's MLB Season

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00:00All right, so let's hit on a couple of pitchers here, one with the Yankees, one with the Cubs.

00:07Nestor Cortes Jr., strange week for him.

00:11Talked about maybe being traded, but not, you know, look, I mean, Cortes was a great

00:16find a couple of years ago, and now you just would wonder even if he would get a start

00:22in a postseason game for him.

00:24I think you'd have to ask that question.

00:25And Shota Imanaga has been beat up a little bit, but again, another player based on your

00:30average draft position, where you got him, where you took the shot.

00:33As long as he gets his 180 innings at the end of the season, whatever it is, he was

00:38just an absolute monster for fantasy owners.

00:40I can't complain too much about him.

00:41So Cortes Imanaga, let's close it out.

00:44No problem, Imanaga, as you already said, it's almost like Terang again.

00:47You've already gotten more than you ever expected here.

00:49No one thought he'd have the season he was having here.

00:51He's probably no longer in the Rookie of the Year consideration.

00:54That's done here.

00:55I'm still rolling him out there.

00:57He is what he is.

00:58We all need innings eaters, and that might be what he is right now.

01:01So no problem with Imanaga.

01:02Cortes, I want nothing to do with, hasn't had a quality start, I believe, since June

01:0515th.

01:06So it's been six weeks.

01:08His numbers on the road are horrific.

01:09You cannot start him on the road.

01:11The ERA, is it over six or approaching six?

01:14It's just ugly here.

01:15And as you said, even the Yankees know this, because apparently if they were acquiring

01:18Flaherty, Cortes was gone.

01:19They already had a deal worked out to send him somewhere too.

01:22Even the Yankees know that the bloom was off the rose there.

01:26It was fun for a little while.

01:27The league is caught up to him.

01:28I don't want much to do with Cortes.

01:29Two home starts against subpar teams, sure, that's when I might start him in a week.