Let's help set those line-ups for week 2.
Welcome into FBT Express on Saturday, March 28th. I am, for example, John, Scott White, and let's help you set those line-ups for week 2.
A first look at the schedule.
For next week, 20, 6 teams have six games, and there are four with seven games next week. The DBACs, Braves, Metz, and Giants, let's get into a two-star pitcher Scott. And we'll start with some of the fringe ear names. Will you, would you start or sit Edward Cabrera? Coming off a bad spring, doing things with the pitch mix that we don't like,
but the matchups are pretty good here against the angels and at the guardians. The matchups are very good against the angels and guardians. Even though I'm not sold on Edward Cabrera, the season he had last year. The pitch selection he showed this spring kind of reverting back to what he was doing earlier in his Marlin's career over emphasizing the four-seamer. I don't know. Maybe it was just spring
experimentation. He's rostered virtually everywhere. First widely drafted his Edward Cabrera
“was for him to have matchups this good in a two-star week. I think I'd have to call him must start.”
It can blow up in your face, but you drafted him. Like, you got to make use of them. If it with matchups this good or else what was the point. Right. Next up, we have Ron Harris Swarrers, bad final star in spring training, 10 earned runs in that one. And some tough matchups here at the Astro's home against the Padres. Are you starting Swarrers his first two stars with the red socks?
Yeah, Padres matchup doesn't worry me. Yeah, he was drafted too high for him for you not to consider him a must start when he's making two stars. Okay. The only other name I had on this list is Roki Sasaki. Do not start him. His matchups are against the guardians and at the national's great matchups, but terrible spring. He's 19% started. That number should be even lower. Do not use
rooks. Not just terrible spring. I mean, we've never seen him have a good start.
Yeah, right. And that sounds right. Did he have a single good start last year to look good and relief in the playoffs, but yeah, can't trust him even with those matchups. Let's continue on with two star pitchers that you can add in stream for next week. Scott, who are your favorites? He had a couple good starts last year to be fair, but not that many. My favorite two star pitchers are Cody Ponce. I came really close to calling a
must start putting him in that category of my two star pitcher rankings, but he is only 68% rostered. So I decided, I decided not to. He gets thought Rockies into Ronto and the white socks. Can't ask for much better matchups than that pretty good MVP and the Korean League last year had a
“great spring. I think I think you run them out there for sure. Ryan Weathers at Seattle versus the”
Marlins revenge game. Yeah, didn't think of that. Did you? Didn't have a good spring. But he has good stuff. Let's try him out for the two star week. Braxton Ashcraft. I think there's a lot of upside here and a high floor, too, because he's such a good ground ball pitcher at Cincinnati. Little scary there. But again, he's a ground ball guy and then against the Orioles. You know, those could be better matchups, but I think I think just the fact he's making two
starts and is available enough leaks qualify for this list. Makes me recommend Braxton Ashcraft. Kyle Harrison, widely available up and down spring, but there's still some potential there and he's he's getting to work with the brewers pitching lab for the first time. He gets the raise and the Royals does a pretty good matchups. Chris Bassett, hopeful, hopeful for a bounce back year from him. And he gets the Rangers in the Pirates. So those are pretty good matchups.
Clay Holmes, Cardinals, Giants. You know, that's probably more of a point sleep play. He
“embass about probably more like point sleep play. If you're just looking for volume. I think the”
matchups are good enough. I think they're good enough. That you could run them out there this week. Will Warren gets the Marlins coming off of very good spring. I'm not sure the underlying number support a big breakout for Will Warren, but that's a good enough matchup that could try them out. And here's the real wild card Joe Boyle available like 90% of CBS sports leagues, tremendous
stuff tons of strikeout upside. It's always had trouble knowing where the ball was going.
And I'm not even totally sure he's starting this following. He's taken a second turn in the raise rotation because he's an injury fill in for the first turn on this weekend. Let's see.
That's on Saturday.
fill in for a Ryan Peppio. And if that start goes really poorly, if he's walking everybody inside, I don't know that I want to keep Poille here as a sleeper pitcher. But if that goes well,
he gets a lot of strikeouts. He sticks around to make a second start. It would be
“at the twins who I think are going to have one of the worst offense this year. So keep an eye on”
what Boyle does Saturday. You may want to start him a week too. All right. Let's take a quick break. We'll be back right after this. But what I want to do is I don't want my not-to-trip to the whole studio. The messer-by-talk-laptor-bücher soft-behind-the-internet. I mean, master's real-time. I mean, you can say, you can say that you're a koen. You mean, you're a strier-ups, huh? But you don't understand.
A guy, a super-vote, a famous truck. He does a lot of work with viso steuere. And when he's done, he's catching. - Does he? - Safe. viso steuere. He's going to be a good guy. - Now, let's go to the house. Welcome back in FBT Express. Helping you set those lineups four weeks too. Let's slide over to the hitters. And the best matchups for next week are the Blue Jays, Philly's, Braves, Metz and Tigers. The worst hitter matchups,
guardians, reds, Yankees, Padres and Pirates. Scott, who are your favorite sleeper hitters for week two, under 80% rostered, heading into the weekend that is. - Yeah. So, Dan's B. Swanson was, the cubs aren't among the teams with the five best hitter matchups, but they just missed. And they have three games against left-handers. Dan's B. Swanson last year, his batting average was 50 points higher, his OPS, about 150 points higher against left-east and
right-east. Plus, he stands for Swanson. He's like a 20, 23 at every. He's kind of surprising. He even qualifies for this list. Garza Binge, great debut on opening day, suck an issue.
“Homer and Steel, that's what we call it, suck an issue. Great on-based skills. You mentioned”
the meds have the fourth best hitter matchups. They're one of the few teams playing seven games.
So like Binge there, the fillies have the second best hitter matchups. Going against the nationals
and Rockies rotations. So I think Justin Crawford is a good play for them. Diamondbacks, one of those teams playing seven games, Gabriel Morano's out there and nearly half of CBS sports leagues. I know a lot of people in one catcher leagues don't need another one, but now there's so much excess there. You can make the case that streaming catchers is a viable strategy. So if you're on the fence about the guy you have Gabriel Morano worth a look,
I mentioned the matchups already fourth best. Five of the seven games are against right-east. So not a bad time to play Brett Bady. The Rangers are scheduled to face just one lefty and there are six games. And that is very good news for a player who showed new upside this bring Josh Smith. You can play him at three at a four-end field spot. Pretty soon you'll be able to play him at all four-end field spots. But he kind of changes approach at the play. It was hitting
the ball harder this spring. He had a bunch of home runs and was significantly better against
“right-east and left-east last year. With the Tigers having the fifth best hitter matchups, I think”
Labor Tores is a good play. I think Colt Keith is a good play, especially since there are zero lefties on the schedule. Diamondbacks, again seven game week, Jordan Lawler. Someone you could look into. And finally, Micah Stremski of the Braves. Third best hitter matchups. One of those four teams playing seven games only two are against left-east. Good chance he's sitting against left-east. But, you know, he'll have the five games against right-east. So play a lot this week. How do you
huge spring with six home runs? Always older. I don't know that we're going to see a breakout season
for Yostreamski. But he spent the last few years in San Francisco, not a great place for left-hand power and then he had this big spring. So could happen. He's only 13% roster. The matchups are good enough. If you need another outfield or he could give Yostreamski a whirl. All right. For more extensive fantasy baseball coverage, listen to our full-length podcast, fantasy baseball today, on Spotify, Apple Podcast, or anywhere else podcasts are found. Thanks for listening to
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