Two-Start Pitchers (Week of Sept. 14, 2026)

0:00Hello and welcome to the RotoWire Fantasy Baseball Podcast. I'm Clay Link. You're with FSWA Hall of Famer Todd Zola. Todd, it is now our never-time in Fantasy Baseball heading into the second to last week of the season. Championship week for a lot of teams and should be interesting. I looked ahead to the two-start list. Kind of slim pickings, maybe even worse than last week. So hopefully your roster is pretty well set, but we'll do what we can to look at the potential options for next week. What's on your mind today, Todd? Anything in particular? No, you mentioned it. Not only openers, but there are teams using piggybacks like Kyle Lohey. We may have to have a new entry on the grid for piggybacks, where it's not really an opener. I'm saying it's on in cheek. Oh, that's actually good. But you will need to.

1:00Yeah, it's pitching is just nuts. Run scoring is up this month and it's supposed to be down. It's been this way the whole year where things have been goofy. I've been, you know, it's, I've been someone mentioned. It may be though it's been a warmer September. Well, run scoring in the domes is skyrocketing. It's all a matter of match. It's just a lot of time to try to base your moves on what's happened in the past, you know, precedent. Just this year, it's just not just wacky. It's, I don't know. I think it makes it fun and challenging, you know, so it's just a bizarre year. Yeah, we, you know, September's always kind of a weird month, especially this was probably more than so the case when Ross has expanded to 40 players, but always some late swaps and piggyback situations just, just guys wearing down and managing innings. It's just, you know, a lot of uncertainty, especially when we were in the earlier months,

2:02just a lot of moving parts and altered roles at this time. So it can be kind of tough. Speaking of tough for fancy managers, show Hay O'Tani, Miss Four Games and Return to the Line of Monday then dealt with renewed soreness now going to the IEL today. So kind of a nightmare situation for head to head players, especially those, you know, in semifinals or finals weeks this week, but in his place, the Dodgers are going to call up, Hoseway DePaul, their top prospect, 21 years old. I believe he's going to be the first Dodgers position player prospect to jump from the AA straight to the majors since 2013. His impending need to be added to the 40 man, this winter factored into the decision to call up DePaul over like TIBS, for example, but DePaul, wow, AA Tulsa 948 OPS 27 Hoverse 31

3:07steals 104 RBI, 106 runs scored, absolutely phenomenal year. And this is a very dynamic skill set here. So I think, you know, he's 21 years old and it's a small sample here. He needs to be picked up everywhere and, you know, if you're in a head to head league, maybe you're lucky enough to get him as your O'Tani replacement at the DH spot. I think that's important too in that he's going to be playing mostly game now. I didn't think about this next year he's going to be DH only, right? That's true. But we'll talk about that next year. I think it just helps us not to worry about the field, not to be positioned, just brings the bat and it will be in the lower part of the order, but the Dodgers turn over. And you mentioned the 31 steals stolen bases from the bottom third of the order. It's not a bad thing. I mean, I don't mean a bad thing. I mean, a guy that hits in the bottom, you try to avoid the bottom third and fantasy, but if they steal, because after the top couple, the bottom of the order steals a lot,

4:11and we'll see what the Dodgers do. Be like and be successful his first attempt. That way they won't, you know, Dave Roberts won't put the Kibosh on running, but I'm very, you know, let's see if the user of the platoon, though, you know, the Dodgers have enough bats that it may just be a platoon. We'll have to find out, but I'm with you at this point, you know, if you're running someone out there with a low floor and just injuries, you've got to go for a guy like to follow. 81 walks to 87 strikeouts and 588 played appearances. You love to see that. Good for a 401 on base. So while they skipping the AAA level, you know, most stats here, I'm seeing indicate that he's ready to roll. So get him acclimated before the post season, try to get O'Tani right for when it really matters. And we, you know, we talk about the PCL that a lot of teams don't like to advance to your pitchers. That means the pitching on the PCL is probably a little stronger. I'm sorry, the pitching in AA is probably a little stronger than it might be for another

5:12for another, you know, for, for like the Eastern league or something like that. Yeah. So it's going to be interesting to see what he can do to Paul. It's kind of a surprise call, at least for me. I was not expecting me the whole, the whole time. I mean, you kind of wish you, you know, we should, I think people just point realized that the Dodgers are forced to put them on the 15 and not the 10 day IL because of the dual player, which makes sense. It's, you know, they're getting advantage all season long, right, with the exception as far as number of pitchers it can carry. But, you know, having, having played Monday, you know, they can't retro it as far. I mean, he'll be back by the end of the season, but will also, you know, even O'Tani, sorry, sorry to interrupt you. I'm just going to say I think max five games at the end of the season. Yeah, that's the thing. And, you know, it's, maybe that's enough to get his timing back, but sure would like to say, you know, you know, a week, 10 days of getting in there because you're probably going to, probably, are you going to be ready? Are you going to be healthy?

6:13Is this going to, he's got what three different entries he's dealing with, right? Yeah, knee biceps and neck too, I believe not. And the knee isn't going to go away in 10 days, right, or whatever it is left. That's, that's, it may calm down, but not going to go away. And the whole injury thing, the, you know, the famous thing about getting, you know, hit the elbow, whether guy jumping over the dick, that's not what his elbow got hurt, is it? Oh, good question. I don't, I don't think so. I think that just people are pointing to that is. I don't know, well, maybe his biceps, yeah, I don't know. Maybe, which would be, would you be, you know, kind of a bummer. Yeah. Is it also speaks towards the job, the Dodgers are not infallible, right? Yeah, that actually leads into my next question. Are the Dodgers still the favorites in the National League? Well, I was tasked with coming up with some, you know, out of the box bets at the All Star

7:17Break. And I put the Milwaukee Brewers winning the World Series. I only wish that I put a couple bucks on that bet at the All Star Break. I may have, I don't remember, I usually do. I just like to back up, you know, it was, it was reissing me on, you know, basically saying, you know, things, things have to go perfectly right. And there's a lot that can go wrong. Pitching, etc. Right now Blake's now looking good, Tyler Glass, now's looking good, Yamamoto Yamamoto. But still barely, barely one last year, the Dodgers did and things went perfect. They won the year before, but they were an inch away from San Diego, not going to mount. So we'll see, it could be the Brewers. Gosh, I'd like to say the Phillies, but I just, they haven't, I thought by now they put it together. The big weekend with Atlanta, right? If they sweep, we'll talk next week, otherwise, I think Atlanta's got that. But, you know, the Dodgers still have to be the favorites, but it's not by much.

8:19Yeah, I'd agree with you. And the National League, it's, it's kind of becoming more wide open. I'd say, I think the door was open for another team anyway, but especially more so now with, you know, Freddie Freeman's little banged up. Yeah. Yeah, Tony now out. So I bet that's, that's is coming around a little bit. Yes. I wish the Brewers were a little more settled in the, in the number three spot in the rotation with, with Harrison struggling a little bit. With what Gasser and Joe Han and Harrison and it's the fourth guy who am I forgetting? That you know, kind of battling for those two spots. You're going to figure they sent Sprote. Oh, no, yes. Sprote got. Yeah, he'd already converted, he already converted to the bullpen. Yeah, true. You know, but you got, you got how you got Anderson, a Gasser and Drow Han. Yeah, you got Henderson and, and Mr. Oskey, the clear one too. I thought it was a six starter that was, you know, competing for the final two spots.

9:19Harrison's no longer a lock. Yeah, they, they mentioned that it possible roll change and they said, you know, we will start. We have to, you have to wonder if maybe they'll abbreviate his next couple of outings. I mean, and Drow Han's been on a limit. I mean, remember when Harrison, Tristan Concraft pointed this out to me, we're talking this week. When Harrison's on his limit, people, why isn't Joe Han starting? Well, we got to limit his innings. You know, we can't just rush him in. So maybe they were limiting his innings for now, right? But even so, it's, it's going to be interesting with the, I still think the rules of the favorites. But I just, like I said, I wish they had a number, a firmer third starter. Yeah, that does kind of leave open some questions. Gasser's been okay lately, but quite, you know, it could sneak in. Media ochre lefty. Yeah, good, maybe. Yeah, we'll see. I, you know, the Dodgers also have M.A. Cheein who looks like he's going to start again on Sundays. Yeah.

10:20Against Miami. That has a great starting against the Reds this week. He's broke out 10. So I could end up being a big factor for teams down, down the stretch here in the play, especially in head to head leagues. But let's talk about some of the pick up from the RotoWire Stakely, which is a traditional five by five Roto League, only two, you know, actual positive dollar value pickups here this week. And as we normally see in a lot of leagues, as football starts the pickups, we'll handle down a little bit. But still some activity here. Hostway to Paula, as you might expect, was the top pick up at five dollars. Christian costs at four. Leo Bernal is kind of showing a little something at the dish already. Jonah Tongue is your dollar ad. Got the win, but it was kind of, I mean, the overall numbers were not fantastic. How do you feel about Tongue? Well, let's see how he lines up here to end the regular season.

11:21Looks like Monday against Baltimore versus Philly. So he'll be on our two-star list. Actually, it looks like two home starts and then a road start ad Washington in the regular season. Considering I laughed at the thought of Cody Senga being a closer, I'm probably not qualified to talk about Tongue. The wild, some are, some are San San Pedro Moe walking like every batter in the minors, but it's come up in the majors and hasn't walked a better yet. So sometimes these things flip, you know? But yeah, that's the concern with Tongue is the walks. And who knows, the bright lights bearing down a little bit more. So I will talk about it with the two-star. I mean, to me, he's more of a flyer. If you need strikeouts, you know, you're something like that. But long-term, I think he still, you know, he still needs to show the durability, the stamina and the control. Yeah. I mean, still a lot of questions, but he had some hype coming up and still, you know,

12:25he didn't have a question to mine. That's kind of the thing. But he'd been pitching kind of well with Syracuse before the recently. But lately, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Right. So still working progress, still a lot of unanswered questions there, but I could see it. I had him as a priority behind Sheen, and I'm glad I got Sheen and the Towers head to head. Scratching and clawing in the semi-finals here. Not going to get. I'm not going to jinx you. Trying to make another, I think this would be my third championship if I make it. And second in a row against Ariel Cohen if he makes it. So we'll see how it plays out. Not banking on anything, but hoping for the best. Yeah, especially that lead's or precarious. It's a point's league, but if your opponents, or you have a lot of pictures lined up in a particular weekend, things can move quickly. And I need Sheen to have another good start. So, you know who really was great this week? He was still warned. Who I started and not feeling great about him. He had like 25 points.

13:27Another guy that he's going to be as a piggyback guy, not wait, we need him as a starter. Yeah, that was weird. We're going to piggyback him with freed. No, we're going to move him back and see. And it's been a few like that. Yeah, it's been a weird month. I picked up Ren although Lopez. Why not? He didn't for fair great in his return, but okay, he struck out five at least. And this league he lines up at Chicago for his next start and probably not going to start him, but you know, see what happens in maybe next week. The final week of the season, he'd be home against the Reds, which is a matchup. You know, I'm always targeting their top. Zach Gallen picked up John Peck. Connolly early kind of interesting work in his way back, maybe a starter to for Washington for the end of the season. I think that start could come at double A on Sunday. So that's kind of an interesting one. And then I also picked up Sean Meniah. I do think I am going to have to start Meniah starting him over guys like Lugo and Ronaldo

14:32Lopez. I have Lugo in my team. I mean, he's going, he's getting, he's getting length and the match are playing better. I don't, I think that's, that's, that's a nice, I like that one. I mean, that's, it's not bad for a zero dollar ad in the way this league lines up. He's one start home against Baltimore. Nothing wrong with that. He's got a one three four win. He's been serviceable though. The sheds veteran literally, so do I mean, the offense is, I don't see turned around. It's far more productive than it was over the first half. Yeah, so that's it for pick up nine pickups this week, relatively light week, but it's what you expect with the budget swindling and, you know, focus on based on football starting to get a lot of the attention. In the other players that you want to mention for a move on? No, I think they'll come up when we talk about the pitching. Yeah, I think, yeah, it's just the, um, to Carlos, the main guy, we, another, another, another last good minor league or to come up, right?

15:33Yeah, it's something that same thing too. It's like, another potential difference. I'm at the point where I'm wondering how many of these guys are going to have cards on my stride, I mean, I think, yeah, the rookie, the rookie drafts getting better and better and better. Hell yeah, man. Well, I'm looking forward to, you know, ending the season strong and, you know, the baseball never stops. So the second the regular season ends, we wrote a wire, we'll begin shifting our focus to next year. And of course, we will be, you know, having all the lineups and projected starters for the post season as well. So I'm going to be treating it as if there's a season until we're told there isn't. Exactly. I mean, we had a lot of obligations to our partners to, yeah, we'll be hard to work regardless of, you know, the labor uncertainty. And I know a certain magazine that's going to be publishing regardless of the situation because we had to make a decision over the summer. So that's not, I'll, and we're going to try to get out there earlier.

16:35So I shall be busy. I'll be scooping one off the newsstand. So, I don't know. We'll see if we can get one to you. I mean, but, yeah, good news for you guys is I'll be freed up to do more profiles earlier. Anyways, you know, I have a bunch of the old Rotawire magazine saved. I get the reasons we, you know, discontinued that, but I still love every now and then flipping through them. That was a great time in my life. You know, you know, it is coming, and this isn't the year to come back, but the, the prints coming back a little bit. I don't think you've ever been to the Rotawire office here in Madison, have you? No, I have not. No. Well, we have every single magazine cover framed on the walls. It's quite a sight to see. So it's a trip through time, you know, the gritty size more covers and I drove them out of the covers. I'm not going to say I have all of them, but I have a lot of them. Yeah, that's, it's pretty fun. But, you know, good times and good memories making the magazine. Yeah.

17:35Although it's quite stressful. All right, well, let's get into our two-star pitchers for next week. Good luck to everybody, Vine, for a championship and, uh, see if there's any, you know, real appealing options here, but my initial glance was pretty darn mediocre. But for Arizona, Corbin Burns is back and you're fair, well, in his return, good to see Corbin back, but he, uh, he only threw what three innings. Yeah. Yeah. So two hits, two walks, striking up two over three scoreless innings. Can't expect him to want to throw 57 pitches. Pretty unlikely that he'd be deep enough to qualify for the win. He doesn't land it for two anyway, but just mentioning him. Um, he'd have to be ultra efficient to get a win here, but we'll see. Also, we're just going to mention Michael Soroco. We haven't penciled into start. Probably not a pick up for mostly, but just one to mention that he's back for Arizona as well.

18:39And then for the athletics there on the road all week, and then Jack Perkins is our two-star pitchers pitcher for the athletics, uh, gave him five, uh, four-ternd runs over five innings, two homers allowed in his last start. Ugh. I don't really see anything to like here. I especially was recalled. I mean, he was so bad he was sent down. Yeah. But desperation recall. I don't care for on the road. I know former Roto wire cross-baked guy James Anderson loved Perkins, but um, and it's still, you know, to me, that's a, that's a, uh, it's still a, uh, uh, rubber stamp for the future. It just wasn't this year. Yeah. Gonna miss James and happy for him for sure. Sure. Congratulations on the new gig at baseball America. He's my top-fend, uh, lead fantasy writer. Yeah. It was a pleasure to work with James for almost 15 years myself. Wow.

19:40Like, that was crazy. He was a rising tide that lifted all boats and everybody at Roto Wires is indebted to him. So just big thanks to James for everything he did and wishing him the best. Of course, it's still going to be keeping in touch with James. Yeah, he said, we'll see him in first pitch and all that kind of stuff. So looking forward to it. Awesome. Uh, no two star pictures for, uh, we officially saying zero per Perkins. Yeah. I put you on board with that. I, I'm negative. I mean, I, he's, because he's disappointed me. Yeah. At the end of the day, I clearly, isn't the worst, but it's going to be easy. He's wild. He's nothing you can point to. Unless you, unless you get points to strikeouts and that's it. And there's no league like, well, I'm not going to say there's no league like that because you never know. But, uh, and these two teams don't strike how much? Yeah. Good point. Uh, no two star picture for Atlanta. I guess even with, uh, Bryce elder going on the aisle, they still have six martine

20:45Perez. Yeah, well, Smasch others and a stay, right? Yeah, it's kind of surprising given his struggle. So, be it a brand new young at the Metz versus Milwaukee. 94. This has been a kind of a blind spot for me, Brian. He's showing a little bit of cracks lately though. Yeah, six or in runs is last time out. He's giving up at least one Homer and five straight and actually eight Homer's over the last 27 innings. Each, that's not great. Matt the Metz versus Milwaukee. Hmm. Two, does two sound right? Yeah, that's where I'm at. That is where I'm at. I can't go any harder than that. Patrick, Patrick, San Paul left these one and four, but at Texas at Tampa Bay. This might be one of the few guys who was available in some leagues. They give up 10 hits as less.

21:46He's not going to. Yeah. And quite frankly, doesn't have to with the Red Sox bullpen. And it's dropped five straight decisions. So if you're in a league with, you know, negative for long. He's not a, he's not like our average three compare against kind of guy. He's not, I mean, if that, if he is, that's a very low average. I mean, he's a two compared against. Yeah, to make it sprinted me to two. There is wind potential in both games. Not pushovers, both teams are running for the playoffs, but to me is it to. Yeah, two is the new three at this time. You got to scrape the bottom of the barrel a little bit. And I've been doing that in some leagues. It's tough, but try to extract value somewhere. David Peterson versus Atlanta at Cincinnati. Another pretty middling option to put it nicely. A seven and eight. I actually thought he might be swapped out of this rotation for Javier Assad, but Peterson

22:52holding on for now. He still may, who knows? Yeah. Yeah. Only one run is allowed as last time out, but only four in a third inning as well. Three and two thirds before that. So, yeah, there's been pretty darn inefficient lately. Seven walks as last two starts. If I can trust him anywhere, but I may give him a one desperation one, David Peterson. Can I give him a one as well? Chicago's took a little off something to play for and the Redstone. Atlanta does. So I'm giving him a one. And maybe that's just because I can use to be a favorite of mine streaming. Yeah. Well, Nikola Dolos had a tough year. He went on the aisle with more blister issues and then reportedly tweaked his grip on his famous breaking ball to kind of reduce those issues that have been recurring for several years with the blister, Nikola Dolos. But overall, you know, five, one, two, Yara, been a tough, tough year and you know, it just

23:55hasn't panned out as expected. It was pretty nice year last year, but Yara has jumped from three, three, three last year to five, 12. Meanwhile, his whip has jumped from one to one, five, three. That's. I mean, he was a bit of a sleep, not sleeper, but I mean, you know, he's a little industry face. He's still had some sleeper appeal coming in. Yeah. I can't give him, I can't even give him a one, though. I would these matchups, I gotta go zero. I just see the daughters versus the coves. I know they're both at home. I just, I will not, I'm not trusting him. He hasn't shown me anything to trust. I trust louder, more than I don't trust him. Wow, really? I don't. That's kind of a tongue and cheek hyperbole. Yeah, louder stuff is just not particularly good. I will give Lidolo one, but I got you down to zero. Yeah. Louder stuff looks straight to me. Maybe it's like, maybe my angle or whatever. No, you're saying that right. It's, he's four more guy who gets by on mixing up the pitch mix pretty evenly and

25:02you know, commanding things with that. That hasn't been the case lately. So, the stuff has been getting knocked around pretty good. I'm going zero on louder, are you as well? I am as well. Yeah. Okay. Tanner Bible historically, a lot better at home versus the White Sox versus the Athletics. So this is one where it's been a pretty tough year for him as well. Five and 15 overall. That's the only one. That's the only one. I have been 15 pitchernoling right now. He's shown signs, but then he, you know, it's like every step forward, two steps back. Exactly. I do think though, among the options we've talked about so far, he may be the best one. Oh, easily. So I'm going to go three. I want to talk myself into a four, but like you say, on a scale basis, three is pretty good this week. You want to go three? Well, the Rockies, I don't know, we've given a single positive digit to anybody on this roster so far this year. I start now, you know, home all next week.

26:03So that's something to keep in mind for Rocky's hitters. Yep. I actually did consider picking up at Al Amador, but decided against it. Not just home, but we call him for seven. Yeah, good point. Home for seven. That's big, big, big, big. And then they're home to start next week as well. So they got a nice 10 game home stand here. Because here could be helpful if you have Rocky's hitters, but Sagano and Feltner book and B zero. Oh, for sure. Sagano zero, right? Feltner zero, writing these down so we can recap, of course, at the end of the show. Davis Martin, Eric Fettie for the White Sox. It's all last week that I was considering picking up Eric Fettie and I'm glad I didn't because he took the loss, but it was not a bad outing against Pittsburgh. Five innings, only one run allowed, but also only one K. So did not really provide value to fantasy managers in that outing.

27:03At Cleveland versus Detroit, same two set for Fettie. Start with Davis Martin. I want to probably put him on that too. I don't think I had to have him actually as high as Ennevald Brandon Young. So I'm going to be going to go one on Davis Martin. Yeah, he's in a rut. It looks like he may be breaking out, but I'm with you as well. And one, this is just a weird week. Fettie hasn't, hasn't, doesn't matter if he's been primary patriot, it's the same rank, but they seem to have an open for him a little bit. Which isn't the worst thing. No. I mean, I lost him. I lost him. Bulk relief was the last time. Yeah, I'm going to go one, but I don't love it. He's actually, he's been better than I thought. One five OERA in his last 24 innings, but it is airfetti. We've been down this path many times. I think I'm only going to go one though, save him to the smart. Yeah.

28:03Yeah, that makes sense. OK, next up, Troy Melton drew Anderson for the Detroit Tires. Melton still has a 2-4-2 OERA at Toronto, at the White Sox. I feel like in my head he's been kind of on the decline. Yeah, he may be hitting the wall. I mean, because he started a little late, so there may be like a late dead arm period or something. Although, I mean, he started late. Yeah, he wasn't injured. So it wasn't just that he was in the minors. But he's looked a little better lately and Detroit has stopped to play for. Does he make three? Is he my first three? You know, I can't do it. It's going to stay with two. You gave Bobby a 3, didn't you? All right, that's right. That's right. Just checking. Yes. But yeah, Troy Melton. Let's see. I like what I see at him, Elton. The next year. Yeah. He has 570-EA over his last four outings and only 14

29:05Ks in the last 23-2-3. That's the thing. Strike cuts your down. I do think I'm going to give him a 2. Yep. Put him on that 2. And Anderson? I'm going to go 1. Yeah. I'm kind of nervous about the Blue Jays. I know they've been at disappointment all year, but I still feel like they could rally. They're still in the mix for that wildcard, aren't they? Yeah. They're going to put the A's, is that it? Yeah, that kind of makes me want to just double check. Actually, there, yeah, there, one game out of that final wildcard. Guardians of Blue Jays and Rangers still technically alive. Orioles still technically alive, although I would say probably unlikely. Only three games back in that second wildcard. I guess maybe it's wishful thing, but I just hope Vladdy goes on a tear next week. In my head to head. It's fine. If I make 100 Brown versus KC versus Atlanta

30:06was drafted 100 Brown as Borderline A's, like Borderline top 12 or 15 type of pitcher. Four run runs is last time out, but it has struck out seven or more. Each of his last three starts. There's one a couple of decisions recently. So Brown, you know, mis-timed you to injury and it does seem to maybe be rounding in the form here with his, that your, your thoughts generally on 100 points. Yeah, I mean, not he's going to be five for me. It would be a low end five in another week. This may be the best pitcher in the board this week. I haven't looked. No, he's not. I see a, I see a guy with a, with a, that begins with an M and ends it. We're out ski. It's coming up in a bit. Oh, yeah, that's a big one. Yeah, so I'm, I'm going to go five on Brown and just, it's, you know, it's reputation. It's well matched up to that Atlanta. You don't love it. But Houston's in the throw of things too. So I think Brown's round in the corner. No ad reads this week, but I'm going to just pause briefly because I didn't earlier.

31:07And I will splice in some prepaid words from our blue wire sponsors right now. All right, we're back here in the road wire fantasy baseball podcast, Clealing and Todd Zola. Heading into the second to last week of the regular season, looking at the two-star pitchers, we just graded 100 brown tide. You're giving them five right? I'm going five. Maybe it's wishful thinking because I got them on a staff keeper, but I'm going five to home starts. So I get it. I'm going four, but, OK, yeah, I see the case. Michael Waka at Houston at Pitt. I believe in his latest note that noted how many quality starts, 20 quality starts. Yes. That's pretty amazing. 20 quality starts in 29 outing. That's a really impressive. But he's got to go on the road for two here.

32:10Excuse me, Michael Waka. Add Houston at Pitt. Definitely not going five, four, maybe even be a stretch, but how well he's pitched and kind of contextual with the list of two-star pitchers this week. I think I'm going to go four. He should be our three comparison guy, but I'm going four as well. Maybe I'm grading on a scale, but no, I'm going to go four. One of the best pitchers of the second half, so three debtmers. He's been just fantastic so far in the second half. Five and eight overall, but let me just double check. Of course, you can use our game logs. If you don't know about this, I mean, I use it all the time. But if you're on our game logs on our site, you can click a certain date, another date, and it gives you the numbers just within that time span. You can also sort it. They say you want to find out how well he's done and you can sort it by runs. And then, all right, take away these two outings. I know they occurred. But take them away and see what his numbers were.

33:11You can do things like that, too. Really cool tools built into the site here. Of course, check us out if you haven't already. But since July 17th, and including that date, a 1-3-7-084-WAPE 68K is the 10-Walks-5 homers. So many threats on to H.Shud. He's been like a fantasy MVP in the second half. Versus Seattle versus men. I'm actually tempted to go five. I'm not going to go five because, as we've said, numerous times, I like to reserve that for the very best. But that's a high-end four, read debt. I'm going five. I mean, to me, he's pitched like it. So he's going to be real high in your weekly. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, I give credit for what you've done lately. No, he's going to be five. Seattle isn't hit. And Minnesota is a tricky button. I mean, these are at home.

34:11Now we're going five. But you consider putting Ryan Johnson in that two mix. I threw 103 pitches as last semi-auty. He's gone six and back-to-back outings. And in three of his last four. What I like, Johnson's deceptive. Yeah. He probably, I'm trying to see if he's faced either of these teams before. He may have faced Seattle because of the within the division. But I like him against teams that have, let's see, Minnesota. He faced Minnesota, actually, that was back in July. And he hasn't faced Seattle yet. I'm going to give him a two. There's so much deception there. He has a couple of, it's weird. He has a couple of games with five locks every other game. He's like two or fewer or almost. So yeah, I'm going to go two. I can see picking him up if you need strikeouts or something.

35:12Yeah, that was my thought, exactly. It's like among the available options, he's got some appeal here. Seattle's offensive has been terrible. Levels are a mantis. You see that 474? I think he's, I don't think the, wasn't that like that was coming off an injury scare. He looks a bit of a fashion, the outfit wall. Yeah, looks it. The walls did a day, but he ended up fine. Oh gosh. So I'm going to, yeah, I'm going to give Ryan Johnson a two as well. Roki Suzuki were projecting him to be back, although they've given, you know, many indications that he will return as a starter at Cincinnati versus San Francisco. That's pretty good. His command is all over the place. You never really know what you're going to get from. Gone through five stretches. He's gone through two stretches, you know? Yeah. I'm going to go home. How deep is he going to go? Yeah, I'm surprised he's 22 homers allowed 48 walks as well.

36:12He's, um, plus he don't know how stretched out he's been. He's not going on a reason. No, I mean, probably going one. I think I'm going one and it's almost as if I just want strikeouts. You know, like a reliever type of position, but just going to go one. And he'll contour up lining up for two at Arizona at San Diego. Mm, he's going to have a say in the wild card race. Yeah, they're playing spoiler trying to play spoiler a little bit here. Is he five? I'm going to, I'm going to give him a five again. It's a low and five. Yeah. Coming into today, Arizona, San Diego, a happy game out, have a game of heart. I'm sorry for the third wild card. Um, that's why I was saying he could be a spoiler. It's not within his division. We usually think of spoilers, but it's the Padres and the Diamondbacks battling for that third wild card. Yeah, I'm going to go five as well. I think, you know, he's, he's had some clunkers, but overall, he's been pretty darn good.

37:18The Miz, you mentioned the Miz earlier as, uh, probably the top rank pitcher on your weekly pitcher ranking. There was some talk that maybe they limit him. And he has not reached 100 pitches since July 7th, but he's routinely going in the 90s. So not many major limitations here on the Miz. And I wouldn't expect that next week heading into the playoffs, maybe the final week. Maybe they skip him, but I still think they want home field over the Dodgers. So I think they're still playing competitively. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I don't think this week would have any implications, but at Pit at Baltimore, that's a five, right? That's a five. Pit is good against, you know, the good, good offense, but it's still a five. Who's he matched up with? It's not skiing. But I wonder who's the Jared Jones who just had a free, that'll be a fun one. That'll be a fun one. He's really blossomed. Because Ash Crap is out now, right? I believe so. Yeah. So they got Curtis going primary tonight.

38:19Connor Prely, we have in for two. I mean, he's not piggybacking with Joe Ryan again on Sunday. So he'd be versus the Yankees at the Angels. I kind of like Prely, but he's my blind spot. He's too stiff. He's he's my blind spot. Judges back. Yeah, it's a lefty. They, it's the gold Schmidt Rosario, Ramos lineup. They, you know, they do have a platoon lineup there. I mean, I'm going to say one because everybody seems to like him, but I trust you more than me on this one. I wrote down a two and I'm a stick with it, but it was kind of scary here. It's kind of an if you need him. Yeah, it's kind of in that Ryan Johnson mix for me, but I get, I got you down as a one. Yeah. Jonah Tongue, we talked about picked up in the stake league versus Baltimore versus Philly for Jonah Tongue. As we said, got the win, but it was kind of just man kind of carried by the offense. Um, four run runs for his one walk seven case did hit a batter as well, but yeah, that's definitely a step forward compared to his

39:29previous previous appearances in the majors this year, Jonah Tongue versus Baltimore versus Philly. Probably going to put him in that two mix. I'm going to put him as a two, but we usually go point, I'm going to go point like two. If I'm in a ratio battle, I'm scared, but I think he has enough and I know you get points for losses and minus for this or minus, but I think I think these matchups and appoints me, I would use him. Also alluded to Will Warren moving to the bullpen for one start, but then returning to the rotation of the vengeance. Pick up the win, struck out eight over six innings of one run ball. It was home against the Rockies though. So yeah, keep that in mind, but he's pitch actually is less two stars with that one relief parents mixed in pretty good. Aminusoda at Arizona. I'm only going to give him three that need to be even be high, but like what he's done lately. I mean, if we're grading on a scale, it seemed to be I'm going to go three as well.

40:31Yeah, probably going to start them if I make it to the championship round, which could hurt, but at Minnesota at Arizona is pretty good to use that. Christopher Sanchez, that's a five, right? Absolutely. Yes, sir, he's, I guess the Miz is pretty much cut the Saiyan right? Yeah, he's still the favorite them is, but you know, Sanchez will get the votes. He's got 17 wins, 279 year, ain't not too bad. A Jared Jones, we talked about coming off probably his best career start ever. Absolutely unreal. This last time out, those yesterday, everybody was good yesterday. You want to hit a pitching over seven. That's that's wild. So Jared Jones versus Milwaukee versus Casey. I actually, I do think I'm going to go for Milwaukee scares me right? They don't, they don't, I mean, they don't have a ton of homers, but they still can, you know, move the line.

41:33I'm going to go for as well. What about Casey, my walk of Bueller, they got to go to Colorado to start, but then home against Miami to end the week. Neither like grade options, I like my eyes a little more. So I'm thinking my is to you, one. All right, I'm going to give you a look. I want to say zero, but I'm going to give him the one he's done better than I expected. So I'm going to go, I'm matching you with a two and one. All right, Katie Anderson, the big lefty call up for Seattle recently. I got his first big league win as last time out against the Rangers. And this is how I was going to say nice two step in an act Colorado down the week, but at the angels to start, although it would at least tend to be opposite. Read debtmers and then act Colorado. See a four. Did it might see I'm going five men now, are they going six and I'm forgetting?

42:35No number six is. Well, they have hand cock is out. Right. Well, no, he's bet we got him projected though. Oh, true. Now, I'm just I'm just wondering what are the chances that Anderson makes that start. You know, I could see Seattle maneuvering things so that he doesn't. Yeah, they've been tough to project with their pitching style. I guess they have, you know, Bryce Miller, who was that's who it is. And he's been actually all right. So I think honestly, I think this is a guest that very well could use Miller. I'm with you on a four, but I wouldn't be shocked if Anderson is skip that second start. And I wouldn't be I wouldn't be upset by it either. Because they start Miller in Colorado and said Anderson, then you just get at the angels for next week. Yeah, that's true. Tendon. Right. Landon Roup at St. Louis at the Dodgers.

43:38Doesn't get the cozy confines of 18th Park to help him out. So hoping for a step up. It has pitched okay lately, but a little bit. I mean, it's very lucky early thought maybe we'd get a step up, but we didn't. I'm going to go one. I'm going to go one that is a kind of difficult matchups. Quinn Matthews versus San Francisco versus Washington. I like the capability, but he also can lose that command at a moment's notice. So the versus San Francisco versus Washington. I like him enough to go to. Yeah, I go. I'm going to go to. We're going to bring him off this week. Yeah, no, he's not available in the head to head. He's picked up last week, but I'm going to go to on Quinn Matthews. Two ends one team. All right, next up. We got Griffin Jacks versus the athletics versus Boston.

44:41That feels like a three for me on Jackson. Am I missing anything? No, I mean, he's not in mid season form sort of thing, if you will. You know, injury here coming back there. I'm going to go three as well. Cody Bradford still winless and versus Boston versus Toronto. I don't like those matches for a lefty. So I'm going to go zero. I am as well. I want to we got two more chances to disagree with me. Maybe we don't. We have no more chances to disagree. That's true. No two star pitches for Toronto or the national. We have one more week of two star pitches next week. So we'll have more opportunities to disagree with. I can't believe it's only one more week. I know right. Two more weeks of podcast folks, but one more week of maybe we'll get the Tau daily champion and maybe maybe we'll we'll see what you're going to have the Tau daily person coming on because you talked about your head. I think Tau daily. I'm sorry. The Tau the champions league Fred Zinkie or you know,

45:42colleague Fred is off to a good start in that. It's two week championship. We don't use the last week. So I don't want to jinx somebody by inviting whoever's leading on Friday because it won't be over yet. But we'll see. We'll see. We'll get them both on. Good luck to Fred. Now we'll have to figure out something fun to do on that last show with no two star pitches to grade. But we'll still be here with the lights will be on two star pitches for next week. The week of September 14th. 2026. Good luck to everybody. Jack Perkins zero. Brandon Young two. Patrick Sandeval two. David Peterson one. Nicoladolo. I say one Todd zero. Rhett louder zero. Tanner by B3. Tomo Yukicigano zero. Ryan Feltner zero. Davis Martin one. Eric Fettie one. Troy Melton two. Drew Anderson one. Hunter Brown. I say four Todd five. Michael walk of four.

46:43Reed Demmer's I say four Todd five. Ryan Johnson two. Rokie Suzuki one. Sandeel Contra five. Jacob Mizorowski five. Connor Prelip I say two Todd one. Jonah Tongue two. Will Warren three. Christopher Sanchez five. Jared Jones four. Casey Mies two. Walker Bueller one. Kate Anderson four. опер丁 Belly three. Alan Lisa Tenkel two. Chris fastenies and jack ерш Martin on one one. One one McGriffin Jackson three. Cody Bradford zero. Well it's a maker break time. So let's try to win some one of those mentioned so far. Keep it going. Ritios can still move this time of year. Don't get too complacent there and bring it on home.

47:46Yeah. Enjoy a host's way to Paula weekend and let's finish strong all around. Thanks so much guys for being with us. Not just today, but all season long. We appreciate your comments and the chat and just hanging with us. So we'll be back the next couple of weeks. The finishing is out, but a good luck and we'll talk to you soon on the Rotawire Fantasy baseball podcast.