Fantasy Baseball Tips: Key Pitching Prospects to Watch

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00:00Let's start off with the Red Sox on Monday.

00:03Simple and plain, this is probably a good one.

00:05Richard Fitz against the Colorado Rockies.

00:09The Red Sox are at home on a Monday against the worst team in baseball.

00:13You said it.

00:14They are playing better.

00:16But if I'm going to grab somebody, this probably is a good time to start.

00:20Fitz is actually a two-star pitcher, by the way.

00:23The fact that he's going on Monday lets us know that.

00:26Fitz goes against Colorado, then he gets Tampa Bay.

00:29That second start is Shane Baz, for what it's worth here.

00:33Even if it was one start, by the way, yeah.

00:35He'd be a guy because he's facing Colorado.

00:38So I'll take a shot on him.

00:40I don't like Fitz.

00:41He's not somebody I want on my team.

00:43And the fact that it's a two-star week is really perfect because he is a streamer.

00:47He'll start him this week, and then you're getting rid of him

00:49because you're not going to want him to be on your team probably after that year.

00:52But, yeah, he would go for me one or two starts this week.

00:55We have Andre Palante of the St. Louis Cardinals,

00:588% owned in fantasy leagues, gets a matchup Tuesday

01:02against the Washington Nationals.

01:04I guess if you just walk James Wood, just call Andre, George.

01:08Pick him up.

01:08Call him.

01:08Say, just walk James Wood, and the rest of your start will be fine.

01:13That's what they did the other night, right?

01:14What, they intentionally walked him 17 times here?

01:16I don't know why more teams don't do that, Craig.

01:19I know.

01:20We joke about it, but why aren't you – why let the V11 team's best hitter when they –

01:24let's face it, Washington doesn't have a lot of great hitters,

01:26but when they only have one or two and the game's on the line here,

01:29why do you pitch to him?

01:30Why?

01:31He's really good, James Wood.

01:33Really, really, really good.

01:34So, yeah, I would welcome him as well here.

01:36Palante's another one.

01:37He's got two starts this week.

01:38I was telling you during the break here, I'm deciding between him

01:41and Yuri Perez for my fantasy team to replace Clark Schmidt, who got hurt.

01:45I play in a points league, so wins are more important.

01:47So, I'm kind of leaning towards Palante, but Yuri Perez is the better pitcher.

01:51I don't think it's really all that close here.

01:52So, I haven't made that final decision here, and I'll decide later this week.

01:55But, yeah, I'm starting – I would start Palante if I had him on my roster

01:59this week as well.

02:00All right.

02:01Now, this is a little bit of a stunner.

02:03The Blue Jays decided to give Eric Lauer a shot in their rotation.

02:06George, what is going on here?

02:07This guy is pitching fantastic.

02:104-1 with an ERA sub-3, 15% owned against the White Sox.

02:15I mean, look, he's got the potential to get blown up at any time.

02:18He's a soft-tossing lefty.

02:20But, man, for the time being, if the Blue Jays are going to score runs

02:22like in your points league, you've got to go for it, right?

02:25Agreed.

02:26You're riding on the hot car.

02:27You're playing a bad team.

02:29I understand Chicago, blah, the White Sox, that ball,

02:31does fly out of that ballpark.

02:32But if it was at home, it would be the same problem.

02:34All right.

02:35So, yes, I think you already named the reason why.

02:36They're playing well.

02:37They're scoring runs here.

02:38Points league.

02:39Wins could be big here.

02:40Get a couple of strikeouts.

02:41I'll take my chances with Lauer.

02:44All right.

02:44We've got Hugh Darvish of the San Diego Padres.

02:48Remember Hugh Darvish?

02:4938-year-old starting pitcher.

02:51Career.

02:52Fantastic.

02:54What's missing from Hugh Darvish, George, this season?

02:56Oh, that would be stats from Hugh Darvish.

03:00Yeah, I don't know about this.

03:03I mean, this is, like, in name only for me at this point.

03:05Takes on Arizona.

03:0724% owned.

03:09People hanging on to this guy for half a season.

03:11Kind of crazy.

03:13This is a guess anyway, right?

03:15Because he was supposed to – they thought maybe he was going to start Sunday.

03:18They scratched him there.

03:20So, we don't know if and when he'd start during the week.

03:22Or is he going to start?

03:24Is it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, whatever day it might be?

03:26It doesn't matter.

03:28For me, I do – I intently dislike starting a pitcher his first game back

03:33after returning from a long-term injury, which is what this is.

03:36We haven't seen him this year.

03:37So, there's no way I'm starting – and, by the way, if we talk about this next week,

03:40same topic.

03:41You know, same topic.

03:42I'm not starting him in that game either.

03:43I need to see him pitch once before I'll think about putting him in my lineup.

03:48The Texas Rangers signed Patrick Corbin in the offseason.

03:50Man, in April, Patrick Corbin looked like the signing of the offseason.

03:54But all good things must come to an end than it has for Corbin.

03:58Although his numbers at the end of the season are going to be better this year

04:00than they have been in the last few years, George.

04:02You've got to be a little nutty to start him at Houston, no?

04:06I don't think you need to be nutty, all right?

04:08You mentioned it.

04:09It's catching up to him.

04:10We didn't expect him to have, you know, a great season.

04:14He's not getting wrecked.

04:16But last couple of starts, three earned runs, five earned, four earned.

04:19And it's starting to come the other way here.

04:21Houston doesn't have the greatest offense.

04:23I know they scored 18 last night.

04:25But, listen, the bottom line is this.

04:26If this was in Texas, Texas Rangers ballpark, not the state of Texas.

04:31It isn't there.

04:32I'd probably start him in Texas.

04:33In Houston, no.

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