Fantasy Baseball: Key Player Starts for Upcoming Matches

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00:00George, let's take a look at some starts here.

00:01We'll start off with your Yankees.

00:03Clark Schmidt gets the Angels and Orioles this coming week.

00:07Monday against the Angels at home, and then Saturday against the Orioles at home.

00:11Are you going to double dip on Schmidt?

00:15Absolutely.

00:16He's pitched okay.

00:17Solid.

00:18Nothing great here.

00:19You know, I'm for Will Warren in the same category, by the way.

00:21But you're getting two decent starts here, right?

00:23The Angels, average offense, Baltimore, average offense there.

00:28Both at home.

00:28We know the Yankees can hit at times.

00:30They're not hitting right now.

00:31Hopefully by next week they have figured it out.

00:33So it's sort of this definition for me.

00:36If you have him on your roster and you're not starting him next week,

00:39then he probably shouldn't be on your roster.

00:40It's really that simple.

00:41All right.

00:42But he's better than – he's better than your average guy.

00:44Maybe you want to move on after it, and I don't have an issue with that.

00:47So many of us is out there.

00:48But, yeah, I'm starting Clark Schmidt next week.

00:50And for my home league, that's exactly what I'm doing.

00:54David Peterson, who just threw nine innings, George,

00:56gets the Braves and the Phillies in divisional matchups this coming week.

01:00It's a little dangerous, George,

01:01because I think people are going to look at that start last week and think,

01:04wow, I got to make sure he's in the lineup.

01:06And I think you probably do.

01:08But what would you put the odds of this guy going deep into a second game in a row

01:13for the New York Mets?

01:14You know how they treat these guys these days.

01:15I mean, he's – I don't – I hate the matchups here,

01:20and it would worry me, but it's a two-start week.

01:23It's funny.

01:23If it was a one-start against either one of those teams,

01:25yeah, probably looking in another direction here.

01:27Two starts, both on the – what are you going to do?

01:30I mean, you want to be the optimistic viewpoint?

01:32Oh, great.

01:32He's a left-hander.

01:34Theoretically, he should keep Harper in check, assuming he's back there.

01:37Right?

01:37Schwarber in check.

01:38Olsen in check.

01:39All right?

01:40So you can look at it that way here.

01:42But, of course, the right-handers might totally kill him.

01:43But we'll see.

01:45All right?

01:45But, yeah, I am not going to be happy about it.

01:49Why can't it be one good start and one bad start?

01:51Why can't we throw a Washington Nationals in there?

01:54But, yeah, I'm likely starting because I just have no choice.

02:01All right.

02:02St. Louis Cardinals.

02:04George, what a strange season it is.

02:07I mean, is this the weirdest season?

02:08Well, our Orioles are, like, having a horrendous, like, unpredictable season.

02:11But the Cardinals, George, what did they win?

02:14Like, nine in a row or something like that?

02:16And then they started asking questions to Moselak, who is the GM, only for this year.

02:23And then he's going to retire, I guess, after the year.

02:25And they asked, oh, like, you guys are in it.

02:27You guys are going to, like, go for it.

02:28He's like, oh, I don't know.

02:30You know, like, we got a lot of young players.

02:31And this is with them playing really well.

02:33So what happens to the Cardinals from there?

02:36They lose every game.

02:37They lose.

02:38The players are like, all right, that's it.

02:39It doesn't matter what we do.

02:40We ain't doing squat.

02:42They lost six games in a row.

02:44I know these are great matchups for Libertor against the White Sox and Reds.

02:48But as I've talked about before this season, I'm just really concerned that players are traded and stuff like that from this team.

02:55And by the way, can I say this also, George?

02:59Why did the Red Sox ever fire Heim Bloom?

03:01Like, do you see all these players that are coming up for the Middle East?

03:05I mean, they did a fantastic job.

03:06I mean, I know the bets trade sucked.

03:08But beyond that, like, it seems like every player this guy acquired did a good job.

03:13The future for St. Louis is very bright.

03:15I just don't know what the present looks like.

03:18Agree on all counts here, right?

03:19No, nothing makes sense here with St. Louis Cardinals.

03:22I can't say this enough.

03:23They wanted to trade away players.

03:24They thought this was going to be a rebuild season.

03:26Or you want to go to retool, whatever.

03:29They weren't expected to compete this year, right?

03:31They want to trade Sonny Gray.

03:32He declined it.

03:33They wanted to trade Fedor.

03:34They couldn't get the offer they wanted here.

03:35They want to trade Arenado.

03:36No, I ain't going nowhere.

03:38And they end up being a good team.

03:40They end up competing here.

03:41And as you said, GM makes the comments.

03:44Air goes out of the balloon.

03:46All right.

03:46It's really where air goes out of the balloon.

03:47Which, by the way, shouldn't have surprised anybody.

03:49All right.

03:49I think we knew at the deadline they would like to be more sellers than buyers.

03:53So, it sort of is what it is here.

03:54Maybe now they're regressing back to the mean, back to the team we thought they were going to be,

03:58which seems to be what's happening here.

04:00As for Lib, I mean, White Sox, if you like Cincinnati, we don't here.

04:04Once again, he's on my roster.

04:05I'm starting him next week.

04:07I just don't have a choice here.

04:08And like I said, if I'm not starting him in a two-start week, then he shouldn't be on my roster.

04:12I should have moved on already.

04:13And odds are I'm starting him next week, and then I'm moving on.

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