Exploring Grant Holmes' Potential in Fantasy Baseball

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00:00They're asking if you have one more to start pitcher for this week that we can break down.

00:05Do you have one?

00:06I do.

00:07Could be dicey.

00:08Uh, he pitches on a really good team, but he's pitching against the Dodgers for one

00:12of the two starts.

00:13So the second one's against Miami when I like, so maybe the Dodgers, you know, come down

00:19a little bit.

00:20It's possible.

00:21Uh, Grant Holmes, uh, had a really good 2024 for the Atlanta Braves.

00:26He also like Rasmussen qualifies at RP.

00:28So if you have mandatory RP spots and you don't like your closer situation, well, Rasmussen

00:33or Grant Holmes are two guys you could probably get in there.

00:36But I do want to caution one of those starts is against the Dodgers.

00:39So you got to protect yourself a little bit.

00:41He struggled with walks a little bit in the spring, uh, but the strikeout rate is very

00:44solid.

00:45Obviously the Braves are a very solid offense.

00:47So you could do worse than Grant Holmes if you're desperate for some pitching right now

00:50off the waiver wire.

00:51But, uh, you do have to understand that it's a little dicey whenever you're throwing any

00:55pitcher up against that Los Angeles Dodgers team.

00:58So that's one more guy you could throw to that list.

01:00But I agree with you.

01:01I think Povich is the one that's most intriguing, not so much because of the matchups, but because

01:04of if he performs well in both of those matchups, that is a guy that next week, I guarantee

01:09you is going to be one of the most added pitchers off the waiver wire.

01:12And you could just get a jump on everything and save yourself some cash in order to add

01:17someone.

01:18You must drop someone.

01:19A lot of times it's important to see who's the most dropped.

01:22So let's take a look at a pitcher and a hitter that are most dropped.

01:27And Joe, talk about where you're pulling these numbers from, and then we can dive into

01:30the players.

01:31Well, these numbers are from a CBS sports where you're going to find a lot more paid

01:36leagues.

01:37And that's where you want to find those numbers, because I think that's what matters.

01:40Now these situations are all relative because some leagues you have very short benches or,

01:45you know, limited IL spots, so you can't hold everybody.

01:47Now you mentioned earlier the good news, quote unquote, about Jared Jones and that being

01:51that he's got his brand UCL that this time they don't think he's going to have Tommy

01:54John.

01:55He's going to come back sometime mid season.

01:57Color me on optimistic about this.

02:00This is the same nonsense I heard last year where Garrett Cole wasn't going to have Tommy

02:03John.

02:04And guess what?

02:05He's got Tommy John now.

02:06Now he didn't end up pitching the rest of the season, so that was fair.

02:07He did make it through.

02:08So, okay, we can call that maybe a push.

02:10Jacob DeGrom had a sprained UCL.

02:12They said, oh, he wouldn't need a Tommy John surgery.

02:15Guess what?

02:16He did.

02:17So I just, if you are really strapped, if you're in a situation where you have two IL

02:22spots and you have the opportunity that you're holding somebody that you like, let's say

02:27Ronald Acuna is one of them, right?

02:30You can drop Jared Jones, in my opinion.

02:33If you're in deeper leagues and you have the opportunity to trade him off this, I would

02:37because somebody might bite on that news.

02:41You can stash them on the IL, but I understand the limitations.

02:44And for those leagues where you have those limitations, I'm still just very skeptical.

02:50Maybe I'm being a pessimist, Matt.

02:52Maybe you want to take the other side of this.

02:54I love Jared Jones as a pitcher.

02:55We were excited about him going into the season.

02:58But once we got that news and the second opinion, and it took a very long time to get the second

03:02opinion and all of that news out there-

03:04To get the right second opinion.

03:05Right.

03:06Well, it just seemed very strange.

03:07Like, this happened, and then it was crickets for like a week.

03:11And then all of a sudden, then it was, oh, it's a sprained UCL, he's going to rest, he's

03:14going to rehab, and they'll be fine.

03:16Will he be fine?

03:17Okay.

03:18So here's the thing.

03:20That's the movement that caused the sprained UCL.

03:22If you continue to replicate that movement, you will eventually tear the UCL.

03:27That's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so.

03:29And overall, if you want to keep him stashed for some type of hopeful reason, go right

03:35ahead.

03:36But I think pitching is just so bountiful that you can definitely find a way.

03:40But I am a bit crestfallen, if you will, because I like Jared Jones, and what he means to Paul

03:43Skeens as well.

03:44All right, give me a hitter.

03:45All right.

03:46I'll give you a hell yeah, too, or maybe a snell yeah.

03:49That's a baseball show.

03:50I don't know.

03:51Let's get to Evan Carter, who got sent down.

03:53Well, look, Evan Carter, I told you, he's gonna struggle against left handed hitters

03:58pitchers.

03:59Excuse me.

04:00I told you, two years ago, when he was going in the same ADP, actually, just last year,

04:05Wyatt Langford and Evan Carter were back to back, I told you, it was fraudulent, that

04:08Wyatt Langford is by far the better player, Evan Carter, you know, he'll bounce around,

04:13I think he'll be back and forth between the major leagues and the minor leagues, maybe

04:16he'll figure out some of the holes in the swing.

04:18But this is a classic example of a guy getting hot in a postseason, and getting overrated

04:23as a prospect.

04:24And next thing you know, Evan Carter is not a productive fantasy player.

04:28So in dynasty leagues, yeah, his stock is low right now.

04:32But I would be moving on from him regardless, because this is the player that I told you

04:36he was anyway, and I thought he would be and he is not anything close to Wyatt Langford.

04:40So although they were ranked closely together last year, they are not anywhere close to

04:45the same player.

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