 Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Sussman joined today by Jim Sanis of Fandle. Hey Jim, it's the final time we're talking about six players, how do you feel? I'm glad we have six, Greg, because we have a lot of good options for tonight's slate. Like I could have talked six pitchers on this slate and that's a very legitimate number. Like there are three dudes below 9,000, three dudes above 9,000, so I could have gone six pitchers deep so I'm happy to have this while we still do and cherishing the final chances you get to talk about the twins of course and Brandon Woodruff, what could possibly go wrong here? Absolutely nothing. We'll get to Brandon Woodruff in just a moment, but first we'll begin with your highest price pitcher, someone that is not under 9,000. In fact, he's above 11,000. Not only that, he's the highest price player on the board tonight at Fandle. It's Jacob DeGramme, 11,200. I guess you're not worried about a blister. It sounds like he's not worried about it and I tend to trust Jacob DeGramme more on these things than I trust myself but I think if you are worried about the blister for Jacob DeGramme, you want to go sunny gray and cash gains. I think the gray is the number one cash gain pitcher on the slate because you know, the blister is at least a slight concern from a cash gain perspective. Gray has an amazing match with the pirates but the reason I prefer Jacob DeGramme in tournaments is because he has a higher strikeout match. If he is facing the Phillies, a 24% strikeout versus the righties since the start of last year whereas Gray is facing the pirates, we're at 21%. And that does help to have that 3 percentage point gap in strikeout rate for the opponent. DeGramme has also been disgusting this year not that he needed a velocity increase but he's up 1.8 miles per hour on his four seamer from last year to 99.0 miles per hour on average this year. That's gross, 18.5% swinging strike rate which means his 33% strikeout rate is good but it actually could go up from where it currently is which is just nuts to think about. That could happen tonight facing the Phillies. Again, I want to go sunny gray in cash gains because no finger issue for him. He is at home facing a lesser team but DeGramme I think has the higher true ceiling. So I want to go Jacob DeGramme number one in tournaments for tonight. I think there is enough value at Hitter to make it pretty easy to afford. So despite the blister issue, Jacob DeGramme my number one tournament pitcher for tonight. It's funny that the highest price pitcher on the board is almost contrarian in a way because of sunny gray's matchup with Pittsburgh here but that's what DeGramme is. He does have those lingering issues with the blister but that strikeout rate, the fact that he can go up is crazy. The fact that he's becoming even better after the last two years is crazy. DeGramme against Philadelphia, I seem to strike out quite a bit really in a good spot tonight. 11,200 but worth it potentially. If you don't want to spend all the way up the pitcher you don't want to go up to Jacob DeGramme or Garrett Cole or sunny gray. You can go with Brandon Woodruff. As you said, what can go wrong again with Brandon Woodruff tonight facing off against the Chicago Cubs who of course is only one of the best teams, sorry, the best team in baseball. What can go wrong? Exactly, what can go wrong? Could be totally fine. But I think with Brandon Woodruff the upside is enough to justify the risk associated with him. And Woodruff, he seems like he's just been this underappreciated ace for almost an entire year now because he had a 29% strikeout rate last year. It's gone up to 31% so far this year but his salary never budges. He has $8,400 once again for today and the Cubs as mentioned are very good and they're playing awesome baseball right now. But Chris Bryant was scratched last night. That means that they could potentially be a lesser former themselves for today. That's a huge thing for Brandon Woodruff. I think that if Bryant sits we definitely bump him up for sure. So Woodruff, good in that respect. We also saw him get 10 strikeouts this year on the road against the Pirates. And that's key because the Pirates has mentioned a lower strikeout team and that game occurred on the road. Last year Woodruff had pretty aggressive home road splits where a strikeout rate would dip about like 10 percentage points when he went on the road. Now doing work against the Pirates does not mean you can do work on the road against the Cubs but potentially with no fans in the stands maybe Woodruff feels more comfortable pitching on the road this year. He showed that 10 strikeout upside. He's had at least 10 strikeout three times in his past 15 starts. Overall a 30% strikeout rate in that time when he's been leaning more on his sinker. So I think that Brandon Woodruff has tremendous upside and upside you don't usually see out of pitchers in the salary range. So I'm gonna keep on going at Brandon Woodruff despite the concerns around the matchup, despite the concerns around the home road splits especially if Chris Bryant does wind up sitting. I think if you want other value options Tyler Chatwood, maybe again, we'll see what happens but also Frankie Montas who has not gotten negative five annual points within his past three starts. So I think that three options down here Woodruff, Montas and Chatwood my favorite of that bunch though all things considered will be Brandon Woodruff. I think the home road splits obviously very different this year where there isn't a crowd where he's not as stark of a difference this season compared to last. Tyler Chatwood, I actually just picked up in season long because why not? Wait, what's the worst that can happen? We've already seen that. So it's only up from here and Frankie Montas obviously has been good most of the season. The back of the price isn't rising of Brandon Woodruff and all the other reasons that Jim mentioned they can make prime start today on Fandle if you don't want to pay up. Now if I look at this slate just completely blindly and I knew that the Rangers are playing in Colorado today I could have locked Joey Gallo in there with my eyes closed thankfully you did it for me. Yeah, Joey Gallo doesn't really need Coors Field to crush but it probably can't hurt, right? To put him out there, you know, we're not exactly Joey Gallo's not exactly a warning track power type of guy but you know, it can't hurt to be out in Coors Field. So it's interesting about Gallo and we haven't really noticed this recently because the results have been pretty spotty but he might be trimming his strikeout rate a bit at least against righties through 38 plate appearances versus righties this year Gallo's strikeout rate is 24%. Now that is a small sample but if you look at stabilization rates over on FanGrass they say it takes 60 plate appearances for a strikeout rate to stabilize and Gallo is over halfway there about, you know, about 67% of the way so it's not insignificant that his strikeout rate is 24% versus righties through 38 plate appearances. He's still making hard contact. He's still putting the ball in the air so I think the results and the power are going to snap into place for Joey Gallo very quickly and it could very well be this weekend as he plays at Coors Field. I think that both Gallo and Shinsu Chu are cheaper than they should be given that this game is at Coors Field. You could have Gallo at $4,000 and Texas Chu is usually around 32 in Texas so I do like that. Willie Calhoun, another guy with better results than Peripheral so going back there once again Isaiah Kiner-Felefa has been batting second against righties at least he did their most recent time so the Rangers willing to steal bases they've got some power, they've got some guys who I think have salaries lower than they should be. I think that they deserve to be in your stacking echelon for tonight and Joey Gallo, the first guy you'd want to try to jam in there. Joey Gallo improving strikeout rate is scary for the rest of the league. We'll see if it sustains but in Colorado we know that warning check power doesn't exist for Joey Gallo on a normal day. In Colorado it's gonna be out of stadium power. Gallo at $4,000 a little underpriced according to Jim which makes it well worth getting into your lineups. Also spending up tonight quite a bit at the hitter position because just a little bit less than that is Jose Ramirez. He's in Detroit tonight, not exactly a stadium where you want a target. So why are you going after Jose Ramirez here for an expensive price of $3,800? Yeah, I do think it helps a lot that this is during the summer with Detroit because you look at the park factors for the full season for Detroit, it tends to be pretty bad but that also includes April when it tends to be very cold in Detroit. So they do benefit from playing this game in August versus earlier in the year and Jose Ramirez is one of the few Cleveland batters who doesn't suck right now. So I think we can go here facing Yvonne Nova. Nova, low strikeout guy and the way he's gotten by in the past or at least relatively gotten by with an ERA under five is that he's gotten ground balls and limited hard contact. Those things aren't happening as much this year. The ground balls are still there but the hard contact is really high. And when you allow a lot of balls in play and some of them are hard hit it doesn't matter what your ground ball rate is you're probably going to run into pretty serious issues which is what has happened to Nova so far this year. So I do want to stack Cleveland even though their offense has been really bad. They have a 68 WRC plus to open the season that's just hideous but Ramirez one of the guys who has been okay against righties this year 36% heart rate rate, 50% fly ball rate and a 21% strikeout rate he can add some steals to the equation as well. So I think that with the situation where Cleveland is facing a lower strikeout pitcher they're in a better offensive environment in Detroit than usually get at that stadium and Ramirez actually playing well himself I think that they do work as a stack tonight. It is risky because again they've been putrid to start the year and it's been a long enough sample where that is a major concern but I would not be shocked if they write the ship tonight especially with Ramirez at $3,800. It's a price you can't ignore for Jose Ramirez here, $3,800. I am surprised we haven't even met you Willie Calhoun at $3,300. That's one of your boys in Colorado tonight but nevertheless, Jose Ramirez who positions at Willie Calhoun a little bit better than Willie Calhoun. Let's trust him tonight in Detroit. Moving away from both Joey Gallo, Willie Calhoun and Jose Ramirez we're getting to your boy Jorge Palaco who's $2,800 for the Twinkies. I always wonder whenever we do this, Jim which twin we're gonna talk about today and today we're getting to Jorge Palaco, excuse me. Palaco $2,800 tonight over on Fandle. I would love to stop talking about the Twins Greg but they keep giving me value options on this team and with the offense, the way it's playing it's hard not to go back so I would love to quit the Twins but as Jake Gyllenhaal said I just don't know how to quit them right now. Jorge Palaco is the value play of the day $2,800 against Wrighty since the start of the last year. He has a 37% heart rate rate, a 45% fly ball rate and a 15% strike area. Palaco's stature, you don't expect him to be the super high fly ball guy but he has been exactly that. $2,800 likely to bat near the top of the order and based on Jacob Junis, Jacob Junis is more than happy to allow a lot of hard contact. This Twins team did just see him last week and Junis left after four and two thirds, did allow a couple of home runs in that game so he'll allow hard contact. The Twins will supply it and Palaco is likely to bat high in the order for just $2,800 with really good peripherals against Wrighty. It's the good thing about this Twins team from a stacking perspective is I think they've got guys in every salary tier. If you are going with Woodruff, Montas or Chatwood as your pitch, you can go with Nelson Cruz, Eddie Rosario or Max Kepler but if you need value, you've got Palaco, you've got Marwan Gonzalez, you've also got Mitch Garver in there, Miguel Sano, you've got options in each salary tier so they're an ideal team for stacking. You can use the value plays to afford guys like Nelson Cruz and I definitely like that and of course, Byron Buxton guaranteed six home runs tonight too, that doesn't hurt either. So the Twins, I want to go away but they just keep on giving them to me for good salary so why not go on back one more time tonight? For the record and I counted, Jim named nine different Twins that you were able to start tonight in this game. He went down the entire lineup and said you could start every single one depending on which picture you have, what salaries you need to be able to fit in there. The Twins have them all from Nelson Cruz, all the way down to Jorge Palaco, all good start tonight for the Minnesota Twins. Yeah, there is one more value play that is even cheaper than Jorge Palaco and that's Aaron Hicks. He's just a couple of hundred dollars cheaper, 27 hundred dollars, so a hundred dollars cheaper. Fool the Yankees, facing off against Boston Knight. Hicks gets on base a lot, doesn't necessarily hit the ball a lot but he does get on base quite a bit. Tonight, hopefully he runs into one. Yeah, I think there's a good chance that does happen, Greg. And the reason I wanted to go with Aaron Hicks here for this spot is because we don't know what kind of picture the Yankees are gonna face. The Red Sox are going to the bullpen game which means they could go righty, they could go lefty but Aaron Hicks being a switch hitter I think is beneficial here because he can hit guys with both handed this pretty well. Like you said, we haven't really seen the power so far this year but you look at his numbers, he is lifting the ball, he is making solid contact so he's also not striking out a whole lot. When we're looking at numbers in such a small sample I wanna focus on strikeout rate and walk rate and make sure these guys are seeing the ball well. Even if they're taking a crazy amount of walks, like I used to raise Hoskins like a couple of times ago like obviously this isn't always gonna work out but it means that they're seeing the ball well. And with Aaron Hicks, I think that's a pretty major plus and it tells me that he's probably gonna lock in at some point here in the pretty near future. So I think that Aaron Hicks at $2,700 switch hitter facing a Red Sox bullpen that could be a total disaster. I think that definitely does line up well but honestly like the Yankees are another team where you can get a lot of value here. If you're okay passing up DJ LeMay, Hugh and Aaron Judge, everyone else on this team is $3,100 or lower. Aaron Hicks I think is my favorite option in there but Labor Torres, again another rough start to the season but he's not striking out a whole lot and making decent contact. He's $2,700 as well, probably gonna bat fifth. Luke Void is $3,100. I want hitters who can hit both righties and lefties and most of the guys in this Yankees lineup can do so. None better than Hicks the switch hitter so I'll put him at the top of this list but overall the Yankees, a team you want to monitor even though we don't have any idea who they're facing tonight. We don't know who they're facing but we do know it's on that awful Boston pitching staff so the bullpen game for the Red Sox should be beneficiary to the New York Yankees and notice Jim did not name nine Yankees there. He only named a few, nine twins. He missed out on Joe or Sheila and Clint Frasier but that's okay, we'll forgive you Jim. Certainly Aaron Hicks on our list tonight and very, very priced at $2,700 on Fandall. There you have it, those are the six picks that are gonna win you money tonight on Fandall Jim. We appreciate the time, good luck tonight. Thank you Greg, same to you. We're looking forward to talking some NFL with you on Monday. It is finally NFL time, it's weird. There hasn't been any practices or anything, no real news so we're gonna try to sift through all the coach speak, all the nonsense and try to find some winning draft picks starting next week right here on The Hurry Up. For Jimmy Sannis, I'm Greg Sussman. Thanks so much for watching, enjoy the games tonight. Have a fantastic weekend. We'll see you back here Monday for another edition of the Fandall Hurry Up.