 It is that time once again to fill out your waivers for your season long teams heading into week number four He we are here to break down those waiver decisions and get you set for those waiver claims tonight and take your questions live on air This is the waiver wire Q&A right here on the Fandal YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter channels My name is Jim Sonnis. I am a senior writer and analyst for number fire calm joined here as always by JJ Zachary's and editor-in-chief of number fire and fan duel JJ. We are on to week number four. How do we number three go for you? I was okay. It was fine. I feel like it was I was a better tout Then then how my season long teams on my teams in general went but it was an okay week. It was all right Yeah, I feel that very much so as someone who had some Justin Fields Issues I can understand relate to you know things being not not ideal But hey, that's over here for week number four potentially talking Justin Fields once again because he's facing the Lions and not the Browns this time around as Always we are taking your questions No matter where you are watching get your questions in via YouTube twitch Facebook or Twitter will take questions wherever you are We can talk about your waiver claims talk about sentiment talk about if you want to deal some dudes stuff like that What to do with players going forward as always get those questions in if you want to talk some NLB DFS We doing that at 430 today Let's start the questions off over on YouTube by talking to Daniel asking for Devontae Smith's rest of season outlook Devontae Smith Pretty quiet overall last night as was the entire Eagles team But it still seemed like he's a pretty focal or a pretty major Part of that Eagles offense so JJ. What is your outlook for Devontae Smith going forward? Yeah, I mean look you had a 25% target share in week one He had a third over 30% target here in week two and then he gets big this past week He has about a 16% target share against Dallas a defense that you know We thought was gonna be one that we would attack pretty aggressively entering the season I would say and you know, they're they're playing better than we expected so You know, that's that's happening well But this week, you know from a rest of season standpoint, you know Don't sell Devontae Smith right now because this week they get Kansas City a game that should you know They should see a negative game script or they could see a negative game script And if they do it's more passing and the matchup is gonna be pretty favorable For the passing attack against Kansas City who's been very beatable both on the ground and through the air The defense is just not look good. So Devontae Smith if he sees like a 25% target share this week, which wouldn't be shocking. I think that he's a really good play Yeah, I think that it's also hard to if you're looking at in terms of like if you like want to bail on someone I wouldn't be bailing on someone the day after they had a pretty, you know Public fall down that led to a pick six. That's not gonna lead to the best sentiment It was the sentiment on the Eagles offense is not great right now So now is not the time to sell and Devontae Smith still gonna get outlook I'd agree there Daniel also asking us to rank the Titans bears dolphins and Bengals defense is for this week The Bengals are facing Jacksonville the Dolphins facing Carson Wentz and India. It's a Coby Bresset revenge game I'll let you know that the bears are facing Jarrett golf and the Titans facing off with Zach Wilson of the Jets How would you feel about those defenses there JJ? I think I like the bears the most of that group mostly because you know, you're looking at units that Haven't necessarily I think of the units here. The bears have probably played the best I know that that seems kind of counterintuitive, but you know week one they get the Rams What do you expect? No one's really doing well against the Rams right now week two They do really really well against the Cincinnati Bengals last week. They still weren't terrible against the Browns defensively It's just you know, what what do you expect from a team that's gonna see that kind of game script just in general? I think I'm gonna go with with Chicago. They're at one probably go. I guess Cincinnati at two Tennessee at three in Miami at four But I think that you can make an argument for you for any of these teams realistically That's just kind of off the top of my head how I would probably rank them Yeah, they're all options, which is good for the waivers this week. Like you've got options. Yeah. Yeah, for sure I think with Cincinnati, I've been impressed with their defense overall And they do play Thursday. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing for them But the defense is playing well, and I think that's a benefit for them, too Let's talk to yellykins probably said that wrong. Well, what everyone's giving a shot over on twitch What percentage of free agent budget are you spending on Chuba Hubbard if you have Christian McCaffrey on your team and They said they appreciate it. Thank you. Yellykins again, not sure other pronounced up But either way we appreciate it as well So Chuba Hubbard can be filling in for Christian McCaffrey for probably at least this week potentially longer than that What are you doing with Chuba Hubbard this week on waivers? Yeah, you know, I think that you kind of answered that Jim We're you know, it's it's a he's gonna play this week for sure We don't know what's going on next week or you know, maybe the week after that But the bottom line is you know teams usually if a player is going to miss three weeks They will put that player on IR and Christian McCaffrey right now is not going on IR Which tells me that this is not a serious serious injury And I know that it seems serious when it all happened on Thursday night But you know, you also have to keep into into consideration the fact that they were playing Houston You know that game was likely gonna gonna finish in Carolina's favor and they're not gonna you know Given what happened last year with CMC. They're not they're obviously not gonna rush him back onto the field So The fact that he's not on IR means that I think that other people are going to end up spending more on Chuba Hubbard than I'm willing to I think a correct, you know, we talk about this every week where like a fob bid depends on You know what your waiver wire pool looks like every week how deep your league is how many teams there are all that kind of stuff I think at the end of the day, I wouldn't spend more than like 15% on Hubbard this week And I know that others are thinking like I've seen recommendations of like 40 to 60% for Chuba and I'm just like look I understand. I mean look, I think Chuba is probably gonna be an RB to from like a ranking standpoint and how we view him Going into this week against Dallas. So don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that like Chuba's a bad play I'm just saying that this is a an Alexander Madison esque type Situation here where you know last week Dalvin Cook doesn't play There was a decent chance that he wasn't gonna play and so people were in now Alexander Madison getting Madison off the waiver wire Madison had a better match up this past week than what Chuba Hubbard's about to see against Dallas And so, you know, I I'm just I'm not gonna go super super hard after Hubbard And maybe that bites me at the end of the day But I'm I'm trying to be as logical as I possibly can and reading between the lines here seems to show that CMC Is likely going to be back in two or three weeks And that's gonna be the extent that you have Hubbard and then the other thing just to keep in mind Just keep in mind. I do think Hubbard's gonna be the very the clear running back in this backfield But don't discount the fact that they do have Royce Freeman there, too And we you know There is some variance in the projection that we have for guy like Hubbard now again, don't twist that don't take that the wrong Way, I'm 100% saying that Hubbard is Likely to be the 1a the guy in that offense But you know, I don't think that we can just naturally assume that he's going to be CMC in terms of usage With Royce Freeman another capable back who still played some snaps after CMC went down With Royce Freeman back there as well. Yeah, the snap distribution was 38 for Hubbard to 11 for Freeman I think after McAfrey got hurt if you include penalties and stuff like that So it was very much skewed towards Chuba 10 carries five targets in that time good red zone usage But the good thing too is you could put 10 to 15 percent down on your free agent budget and still get it Like it's not a guarantee. Don't get it. So like you can be conservative and still get them Just kind of keep your league mates honest put that claim in you might not win it just you know, you know Keep them honest effectively. It's not to Kenny on YouTube. Should I trade Alvin Camero for DeAndre Swift and DeAndre Hopkins? Receivers here are AJ Brown. I'm our Cooper and Robert Woods. Pretty nice. Oh, I guess AJ Brown's hurt now though running backs are Mixin and Najee so trying to move Alvin Camero for DeAndre Swift and DeAndre Hopkins Hopkins Dealing with a decreased target share dealing with a rib injury things were spread out in Arizona now Swift is is getting a great role, but in a questionable at best offense. So what would you view this trade here JJ? So, I mean, I I think this is a smash I usually go for the one and a two for one, but in this I'm going for the two And I say that you know, you mentioned the the Lions offense, you know being questionable The Saints offense is kind of questionable I just I don't I don't know how good the Saints offense is that the Saints right now through three weeks They have averaged 20.3 team targets per game That's four less than any other team in football right now They have the lowest pass-to-rush ratio pass rate in the league right now They're very run heavy and neutral game scripts That seems like it would benefit a guy like Alvin Camero But what it does is that it just slows this offense down It makes them not run as many plays They're they're playing in closer games because they're going to try to win with defense and they need to win with defense with James Winston Look, I Winston's been fine. I'm not saying that like they're like a horrific offense But I don't know if it's like significantly more of an upgrade over what's going on with Detroit And then on top of that Detroit right now has a 33 percent target share going to their running backs Which is something that like yes, it would be like a top five number if they sustained that since 2011 But they don't really have alternatives there and Deandre Swift is very very good This isn't this isn't Anthony Lynn thing, you know, we've talked about this on the show Anthony Lynn Has that has a thing for running backs for obvious reasons used to be your running back Yeah, exactly. And so so like I think I here's my general take here I wouldn't I wouldn't be shocked if this is a PPR format Let's say I wouldn't be shocked if Deandre Swift outscored Alvin Camero from here on out Like like do I think that's gonna happen? Probably not would I be shocked not at all? I mean Deandre Swift is seeing awesome awesome usage And so the fact that you're getting Deandre Hopkins on top of that given your wide receiver situation, especially with Robert Woods Basically being Van Jefferson AJ Brown being banged up like just go for it. I think this is a smash trade. I would do that all day Okay, let's stick with Deandre Swift here talk to Jerry over on Facebook got an offer For Deandre Swift in exchange for Zeke and Renfro, I'm not totally sure which side Jerry is on here So would you prefer the Swift side of this one or the Zeke and Renfro side of this one? This is just one of those like musical chairs trades where like, you know, nothing's really like happening You know, you're just you're doing a one-for-one here because Renfro is just a waiver wire guy He's just a you know a bench guy some depth So this question really comes down to who do I prefer Rest of season between Zeke and Deandre Swift I think you could argue that if it's a PPR form and I would go Deandre Swift because Zeke is just not seeing that work But if it's more of a standard league, I'd probably prefer Zeke because I think that the you know The rushing upsides certainly there for Zeke the touchdown equity and the touchdown upside is certainly there This idea that like Tony Pollard is so significantly better than Zeke. I think it's just false I think both of them play their role very very well in that offense and it's a it's it's arguably I mean, maybe outside of Cleveland. It's the best one-two punch in football right now. I mean, it's hard to really find No, because Nick Chubb's really good. I should I should that's disrespectful to Nick Chubb. Sorry, Nick Yeah, outside outside outside of this is a PPR league that makes it a lot more difficult I would see if I could get more because I think that from a market standpoint people would value Zeke More than Deandre Swift, but but keep in mind and I do think it's it's pretty close I mean, it's I would not be shocked if again, especially with Zeke. I wouldn't be shocked if Deandre Swift outscores him I might honestly just prefer Swift straight up rest of season in a PPR format But I do think from like a market standpoint, especially Zeke coming off the game that he just had last night I think that you could get more than Hunter Renfrow being that added piece. So talking about the Zeke versus Pollard thing Tony Pollard does lead all running backs and Russian success rate minimum of 25 carries so far this year So rushing success rate a number fire metric just you know seeing how often they increase the team's expected points to the drive He is number one, but Zeke Elliott is number three. So it's not like Zeke's some stiff He's just yeah, they're both usually fun ways And we have to be realistic like the the the types of touches that Tony Pollard is getting are one Are conducive just things like that they're manufactured They're getting him the ball in space a little bit more Zeke is between the tackles between the guards runner honestly And he and like that's how they utilize him He's their workhorse and in this idea that like Tony Pollard just take over the backfield I just think doesn't make that much sense You know week one we didn't see that much out of Zeke because they played a really good front And we shouldn't have expected much we didn't really get a good sample size of them But the last two weeks Zeke has looked good on the ground like just as a running back So I'm not I'm not really concerned about Zeke. I like both Zeke and Pollard I mean, it's just one of those back we see this, you know every now and again where we get these backfields Where both guys are viable, you know, think back to like the Atlanta days with Devonte Freeman and Tevin Coleman You know, obviously we've seen this with Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb last you know last season and such I think that's just what this is now with Dallas. Yeah, and You know putting on my film bro hat Zeke's look good this year. He's like He's getting a lot of red zone work He had eight of 16 chances inside the red zone last night three of eighth week before so he's getting red zone work Touchdowns to be there Zeke's fine. Let's talk to Darryl over on Facebook. I'm streaming quarterbacks this year Who would you want rest of season Derek Carr or Kirk Cousins now? Kirk Cousins was a sell at 15 transactions for you JJ But this is not like a situation looking to train them. It could be just which one do I want to hold? But Derek Carr also playing pretty good football right now. So it's not a bad problem to have Who do you prefer here between Derek Carr and Kirk Cousins? Look, I had Kirk Cousins as a sell this week in the 15 transactions article and podcast and the main reason Being you know, there's three things that I usually look for whenever I'm trying to see if I should sell a pocket passer Because obviously Kirk Cousins Derek Carr. They don't run that much So like from a pocket passer standpoint, you're looking at touchdown rate Kirk Cousins touchdown rate right now is basically in line with what he did last year But keep in mind last year was easily a career high form That's touchdowns about it by attempts and then also look at how their offenses are doing Just in terms of of how often they're scoring overall touchdowns So, you know, one of the things you can just simply look at is past a rush touchdown ratio And if that's skewing one way pretty dramatically like we see right now with Minnesota, uh, and there's I'm blanking on the other team that is doing that with that's that's happening Maybe uh, yeah, Cincinnati. Yes. Thank you. Uh, Cincinnati is the other team that's happening too. Um, you know, that generally regresses So Minnesota right now has like an eight past a rush or past a rush touchdown ratio And that's something that we don't see we've seen like twice Over the last 10 years. So Kirk Cousins is going to regress. He's also throwing a touchdown on every like 114 passing yards When the average over the last decade has been 160 Um, and so like those are the things that, you know, Kirk Cousins not going to keep this up Is Derek Carr going to keep this up? I don't know. Um, I'm going more with my with my, uh My preseason take and feeling about these guys. I'm going to go with Cousins still for two reasons Number one, I think that minnesota is more likely and more conducive to shootouts than la is at this point. Um, and number two, I like the Weapons in the minnesota offense a little bit more than I do, uh with vegas now That's really what this comes down to. I think it's actually Pretty close to a coin flip from here on out just giving the way that Derek Carr's been playing I would pick Cousins too. The one thing I would say in favor of Carr is, uh, Michael Leone He established the run tweets out a neutral situation pass rate graphic each week, which is a cool graphic But he is I think the raiders are second in situation neutral pass rate right now. So like John Gruden analytics friend But also like Derek Carr's chucking a deep so I agree I'd go cousins because of the shootout juice, especially like this week in Cleveland that game's gonna be nuts Um, Kevin's to fancy your revenge game, but I think that that car is really interesting too Let's talk to Derek on youtube is juju smith Schuster drop below in 12 team leagues manual sanders on waivers sweet, uh, call beasley hunter ren fro pretty fun guys juju is banged up We I mean juju still has a good role when he's healthy But what would you do here if you've got those good guys on waivers? Yeah, I mean like if we're being completely objective here, uh, and you remove the names You're looking at especially cold beasley like cold beasley is juju smith Schuster from from a production standpoint Like like it's not that dramatically different. I'd say the biggest difference Would be that juju has a little bit better of a red zone presence than then cool beasley does but from a You know, I mean juju's probably gonna see slightly bigger target share But the offense in general is just better in buffalo Um, I can make the argument for both buffalo guys I think here versus juju hunter ren fro has seen an uptake in target share versus last year But it's not dramatic enough for me to be like, yeah, we got to go all in a hunter ren fro And a 17 target share in this raiders offense But you know cool beasley who's gonna see probably a 20 share in this offense manual sanders Is gonna see a 17 share in this offense while Seeing this like absurdly high a dot and seeing all this deep work. I think that you can make the argument um You know, this is one of those like psychology things where if juju ends up like just going off and playing well You'll be upset that you dropped him for for those two from one of those two guys But you know if you you know like for instance, he's banged up like you said And if you really need a wide receiver this week and you're in a fairly shallow league I think it's okay to drop him from one of those if it's a ppr league I think you can go with beasley for floor for safety But I think sanders in a half in a standard league is probably the play just because of where he's seeing his targets You know, he's still being targeted a good bit Um, and like you said the the where he's seeing his targets He's seen seven of his 20 targets have been 15 plus areas I mean, he's he's getting down the field and that's how they're utilizing him Um, so I could I could make the argument for sure if if juju like doesn't play this week Then I would drop him for one of those two Or I would also say too like Who would you rather attach your fantasy assets to like josh allen or ben roethlisberger? And right now I know what my answer that is and it's not bad You just gotta be realistic, yeah Yeah, let's talk to deesh over on youtube uh two quarterback league They have jaylen hurts trevor lorence and justin fields Would you drop one of the final two quarterbacks for taylor heinecky jacoby verset mac jones or zack wilson? now heinecky is a good match up this week, but You know that that would be tougher for me. I feel like I'd still be holding on to the two rookies despite the trouble The despite the struggles I've had. What about you JJ? Yeah, same. I mean look justin fields was was uh bad last week. I'm not trying to say he wasn't bad but Uh matt naggy's game plan was was horrendous I mean it was the exact same game plan that he would throw out that he threw out there And has thrown out there with for andy dalton. Uh, there wasn't any extra extra help from a protect protection standpoint And that didn't allow justin fields to really escape the pocket. They were like I mean I watched that game back and like he just didn't he wasn't even rolling out of the pocket I mean like what are you like? This is this is your your franchise guy who you know has wheels He ran a 4 4 4 40 at his pro day and you're just letting him be a pocket passer And his first ever start against one of the best d lines in the league like what are you doing right now? And your left tackle is 39 years old and was fishing a month ago Yeah, yeah, you have a banged up offensive line and it's an offensive line It's been really ineffective the first two weeks of season like you got to be at least a little bit more creative And you got to hope that that creativity comes But I think trevor laurence is still a better bet than um, you know I would hold on justin fields just to see if that comes together and hits And then I'd say trevor laurence is just a better option than the other guys I mean at least with laurence like he's not afraid to chuck it deep and we know that You know interceptions aren't going to count as much as Touchdowns will in terms of hurting your team versus helping your team. You know trevor laurence is fine It's probably like a solid qb2 from here on out. Yeah, I'd agree. Let's talk to kenny over on youtube. Should I trade? miles gaskin for brandon iuk and full ppr gaskin has had an underwhelming role so far are yuk finally got Basically a full-time role back on sunday night football. He got some work You know, I still feel like he's probably going to be The number three piece in that offense behind debo and kiddle as long as those two guys are healthy But like, you know, he did get the he was getting routes again. So what would you hear gaskin versus iuk? I just feel like you could probably get a little bit more Uh for gaskin. I think it's a fair enough trade though Like I'm mostly though just saying this from the perspective of the scarcity of the running back position And the fact that gaskin's still seeing some work and hopefully two is back eventually and hopefully the offense Uh, you know can can move the ball consistently I think it's fair though overall. I mean iuk has upside. I mean he still has that upside. He was really really good last year Um, I think it's it's it's a fair enough trade. I don't really lean one way or the other too strongly Okay, let's move to sabastian on youtube 12 team super flex. You've got christian mccaffrey being offered dj moron chuba hubbard For staphon diggs and they're pretty thin at running back Uh staphon diggs still has a good role for this buffalo offense Um, what are you doing? But d morse had ton of targets for carolina as well. So what do you do here jj? So props to the person that's proposing this trade to sabastian Uh, this is exactly what you should be doing if you have someone like chuba hubbard You let and you don't have cmc you go to the cmc manager and you say hey I'll give you chuba hubbard and dj mor and i'll be able to upgrade My wide receiver spot to staphon diggs and I know that some people might not see that as that significant of an upgrade at Wide receiver and you know, I love dj mor and morse seeing an awesome awesome target share in that offense But you know, realistically staphon diggs's target share isn't that significantly different than dj morse right now And i'm going to put my faith in josh allen a lot more than i'm going to put in sam darnold You know, no i mean darnold's been fine, but obviously, uh, you know, it's josh allen versus sam darnold The one thing too with staphon diggs. He was a buy this week for me in the 15 transactions column And the main reason for that is the fact that uh, he's seeing that good target share He's like a 26 and a half percent target share. It's not as high as his 29% one last year But it's still fairly high. I mean a 26 and a half percent target share is good He has eight deep ball target 15 plus air yard targets this season He's converted one of those one of those eight whereas last season through week three Staphon diggs had seven of those targets and he converted every single one of them So so we're we're looking just at i mean that's literally the difference between this year and last year for staphon diggs is that Uh, he was converting those intermediate and deep balls where he just hasn't yet Uh, that's gonna come with time and the other thing too. I should point out. Derek cardy Uh hit me up on twitter and quote tweeted something about staphon diggs this week that i tweeted And he mentioned that uh, two of the first three games for buffalo were in games that had 15 plus mile an hour wins too And that could play into why josh allen has not connected as well on the deep ball. So Houston is a get right game. I think for staphon diggs what i'm saying here is I would hold diggs because like I said earlier I think hubbard's like a two week play as opposed to like an eight week one Yeah, I think the wind on sunday was like 15 to 20 and we've done research on wind at number fire and Anytime you get wind 15 to 20 miles per hour Peter players underperform their projections by about seven percent So it does matter a lot and that was the case in sunday like they were talking about a lot during the broadcast too So, uh, that was impacting things on sunday. The softy tenantha. Would you trade knocking hind? So brandon. I use so uh gaskin I would rate pretty well above hind's hinds has like a role I mean he's getting some work getting some yardage finally got some red zone working on sunday But still not like a huge thing there indy Kind of looking like there might be a more negative script than you would hope as well Uh, what are your thoughts on hinds versus? Um, I think it's fine again one of those trades were especially a half ppr If it was a full ppr league, I think that it would be maybe slightly different But I think it's fine. I would probably lean iuk there Um, the other trade though Where it's tim patrick and latavius murray for iuk Give me the iuk side on that one all day because you're you're basically just taking depth pieces You know, nahin hinds at least has flex appeal Um, you know from here on out tim patrick Is tough to trust and he's going to be irrelevant once jerry judy comes back Latavius murray tough to trust because of what we saw this past week with you know The the backfield the way it was split between the three guys and uh, you know Even tyson williams not seeing the work that he I mean we know that it's just going to be a headache week to week Just give me iuk all day for something like that If you're able to do those two for ones where you're giving up two bench assets to upgrade even if iuk would be a bench player Do that all day long Okay, let's go to melo over on youtube is la visca should not worth dropping for the likes of a tim patrick hunter renfro zack pascal or a aj green christian kirk on the waiver wire I mean christian kirk and aj green are pretty interesting out there obviously talked about a hunter renfro in 15 transactions tim patrick may be forced into a lot of work with uh kj hamler now done for the year We talked about should not last week role didn't get much better in week number three. What are your thoughts on this one? I mean, it's just tough to imagine the shinult role being anything more I mean shinult is like shinult's base. I mean we we've talked about this last week I mean he's he they're using him like they wanted to use travis etn Like they wanted to use cadarius tony before they were sniped Uh, imagine what cordial paterson would do if he were with her mire. Yeah, right right 30 touches the game Right, exactly exactly. So, you know shinult's usage just is not very attractive to me Uh, so I would go with one of the arizona wide receivers I think that the safer option of the two I just I think aj green is just a safer option of him and christian kirk because I I can see a scenario where ron delmore gets more and more work Um, and and they don't necessarily utilize christian kirk as much but aj green Uh is not a threat ron delmore is not a threat to aj green because of where aj green lines up on the field Um, and so I guess aj green is like the safer Play versus christian kirk off the wire, but you know if you want to go with kirk I have no problem with that, but I would prefer either of those arizona wide receivers over the viscousin alt at this point Again, tie your players to good offenses and arizona is real good right now Let's talk to david over on youtube Would you hold mike williams or try to sell high mike williams has been awesome But he's been awesome supported by really good underlying data and again tying your guys to good offenses So for me personally, I'm hanging on. Uh, what are you doing with mike williams here? Yeah, I mean But here's the problem too with guys like mike williams and I talked about this about I mean this is like to a way lesser degree But I talked about this about michael pittman in the 15 transactions article and in podcasts today where These guys have great peripherals I mean mike williams is converting a lot more than michael pittman is right now But pittman has seen like a 33 percent target share over the last two weeks You have these guys who have really good peripherals and mike williams case He's been one of the best fantasy wide outs uh in fantasy so far this year But I still don't think that the sentiment across the fantasy football world Is that mike williams is a wide receiver one and he is a wide receiver him and him and keenan allen are both wide receiver ones in fantasy football right now And you know, I don't think that's selling that you're gonna yield that I think that most people are gonna say You know, he's just playing a little bit out of his mind to start the season He's probably more like a high-end wide receiver two mid-range wide receiver two So i'm gonna give something that's along those lines, but I don't think that's the case I think that he's probably a lower-end wide receiver one mid I mean he might be a mid-wide receiver one from here on out just given the usage given the offense Uh given everything that we've seen so far So I don't think he's a sell because I don't think the sentiment around mike williams is is positive Like I I think it's still fairly new. I mean look at like his percent roster this past week on fandal Look at his cost on fandal and still seeing that percent I mean like people should have been all in on mike williams last week and they just weren't because it's mike williams So, uh, I would not be trying to sell high right now because I don't think people realize that this is a for real thing Also having good players in your team is a good thing. You know, it's okay to just enjoy it Enjoy mike williams. Enjoy mike williams david. I will I guarantee you I will enjoy mike williams Uh, let's get to one more here, uh from s bruner. I had seen another question on mild sanders Let's talk to s bruner on twitch. Would you trade mild sanders for mike williams? Uh, so we just talked about like williams liking him mild sanders Didn't get a lot of work last night, but he was on I think for 80 percent of the snaps through the first three quarters I feel like I want mike williams here and I don't know if that's an overreaction But what about you? Okay, it's not it's not it's not an overreaction Uh The I look I mild sanders is fine. He's good like he's a solid rb2 In fantasy I would say and he's efficient and we know that he can break out a big run You know with every carry but uh The fear with mild sanders is twofold number one what we saw last night Uh with just that the offense being sort of inept to start the the game I know that they kind of came together and rallied in the fourth quarter Um, and they were you know, like jaylon hurts was still fine from a fantasy perspective Uh, but the offense is a little bit questionable. It's like an average offense Then on top of that, uh, we've seen kind of gain well be utilized as the third down back the negative game script back Quite a bit and that hurts mild sanders. Uh, I i'm going with mike williams here You got to remove where you drafted these guys around this point in the season Um, mike williams the peripherals are there everything's there. I already talked about it I think that he is a much more solid asset in fantasy right now and moving forward than mild sanders and uh with mild sanders too, I think that um Just there are enough concerns there where you can just take again the fun asset Like don't I I've had a lot of mild sanders in my life. It's very frustrating So just take mike williams and enjoy it that is all the time we have for jj for today We're going to go to our mlb dfs q&a here in just one segment first jj. I appreciate the time. Good luck on your waivers And good luck to you in week number four. Thanks jim. See you guys All right, so check out jj's work by searching for the late round podcast wherever you get your podcast You can find out the podcast spotify stitcher, uh, google podcast You can also find it up on number fire dot com in text form and follow jj on twitter at late round qb Let's move now into our mlb dfs q&a for this tuesday main slate as always you can get your questions in Wherever you are watching youtube twitch facebook twitter will take it from anywhere to get you set for a really fun slate In mlb dfs for today. Let's go over here and check out the pictures for today which show why this is a fun slate We've got guys Like chris sale here. We've got charlie mortin versus zack wheeler brandon woodruff is pitching We have got uh logan web you darvish walker buehler It's a pretty sick slate a lot of good pictures for today I'm into a lot of them so we can take questions on pictures. We'll start things off though with dj over on facebook Asking about chris bassett facing the mariners. I would cross him off dj not because of bassett himself Bassett is a very good pitcher. I cross him off to pitch count He has had one start back from his um his facial injury when 48 pitches in that first start back I'd project bassett probably somewhere around like 70 or so tonight the a's need to win this game So like they're gonna let bassett go As long as he can The problem is i'm just not sure how long the quote-unquote can part of that is so to me dj cross him off for today Go back hopefully in the playoffs. I'd love to watch the a's there probably not gonna happen but like Next year is a good time to go back to chris bassett good pitcher. Just not a good pitch count for right now Let's talk to kyle. How would you stack the rockies and red sox together having trouble putting full stacks together with them? Let's go over here and check out some line-ups here for the red sox I'm assuming this is a salary thing kyle if I had to guess just because You know, we got these good pitchers for today and the red sox are they're not cheap It's very difficult to stack them for sure. Okay, we've got uh Kike Renfro devours bogarts jd schwerber and dolbeck. They're facing Bruce Zimmerman, I wouldn't expect Zimmerman to go super deep in the games He's had two rehab starts when 45 50 pitches some yes and probably 60 or so for Zimmerman Not a full leash, but then going over to the orils bullpen So I do kind of want guys who can hit both the righties and lefties I'm okay bumping up the the guys who hit lefties better because they'll be face Zimmerman first, but still overall Would like some versatility there. So let's go um with dolbeck Let's get renfro in there the other hunter renfro. Maybe this is primary renfro. We'll say this is primary. I feel better about that um Okay, so if we're trying to get to the Rockies, we need to say some salary. Let's get um I'm guessing we're not going to see brennan rogers. Oh line-up is out. What in the world? Okay. Go Rockies um Brennan rogers is in there. All right. Happy day. Good for him. That was pretty scary last night. So Glad to see him playing. We do have garret hamson too. Let's put rogers in there first Put him at shortstop Let's put hamson in the outfield Okay So if I had to guess what you're running into kyle is the fact that a lot of these dudes are all at the same positions One way you can navigate around that is you could put kiki or nanos second base Third base might be a bit difficult to fill between these two teams I think you could go devours devours definitely does get bumped down versus a lefty So that's not necessarily Super desirable. The other issue is we got ds and crone or both of uh catcher slash first base and in addition to doll back as well So from a positional perspective, I get why it can be tough to get the two to mesh I do think we can make it work though, uh between all these guys I don't know a full lineup because like, you know, uh ethically questionable to build out a full lineup You know that away, but I think we can make it work rogers has a lot of flexibility. Hampton's flexibility Third base, maybe you're skewing towards a one-off versus filling that one up See what positions hosse glacies is eligible at. I don't think I'll need to use a glacia today Yeah, uh, $232 catcher or second base slash shortstop I don't think I'll have to go there today tomorrow when it's a max scherzer slate I think that he glacies is in play versus a lefty, but I think for today we can make this work So I would say Kyle Focus on the mid-range plays focus on doll back focus on I mean rent for us kind of a mid-range play focus on rogers hamson Diaz All those guys in order to give yourself more salary flexibility Maybe you need a one-off at third base to make it work But I think between the red socks and rock or the red socks and rock He's got enough mid-range guys to make this work So, uh, I would just kind of focus on the mid-range options and that should make things a bit easier One other way to make it easier is by using logan web of picture Which is what I want to do for today. So let's go through why I like web here briefly web is facing the diamond backs I know web was pretty rough last time out got got knocked around He went for innings that is the first time he has gone less than six innings in now his past 12 starts So he's had 12 starts with uh more sinkers He's gone six innings in 11 of those 12 Just happens to be the most recent one as the one where he did not go six innings, but 101 pitches for him the start before that Really good peripheral numbers 27 strikeout right in that time 2.91 skill interactive. Yeah, Ray A super low fly ball rate allowed and he's facing the dime back So I think logan web is the other option getting flexibility kyle in terms of your salary to make a Rocky's red socks pairing work for today. Let's talk to dj as looking A. G. Alexi did do well against the angels last start, but I'm a little wary about it thoughts You should be wary his peripherals are really really tough He's had four outings. Alexi has had his heal interactive era is 6.66. So he's the devil very clearly 19 walk rate for a lexie and those four starts 60 fly ball rate I am much more inclined to stack the angels they into use a lexie as a result Of those peripheral numbers one thing he has done well is to press hard contact 32 percent of hard hit rate allowed So that's another reason to not be as enthusiastic about the angels I just also have trouble finding Four dudes. I really want to use on this team. Let's refresh really quick here to see Hit the lineup is out. Yeah, you can use otani. You can use walsh march is fine You can go with those guys, but it's not a team. I enjoy stacking right now. So Alexi is someone I would steadfastly avoid due to the peripheral numbers. Let's talk to william William says just touching down. How do you feel about stacking the twins? Okay, let's go over here and check out The twins facing tyler alexander. That's not a bad matchup. I would say william alexander in his past eight hours of more sinkers has a 19 strikeout rate 4.67 skill interactive era Good number of fly balls good amount of hard contact. So that's not a bad matchup I definitely think that's okay Issue run into is the twins Hadn't been good against lefties for a bit now But they have been upgraded recently because they've gotten byron buxton back. Uh, bich garver is back now as well See the twins lineup is out yet. It is not so I don't think it's bad william. They're just not a priority for me So like if you're looking for a team that may go a bit overlooked, maybe the twins great out well Then let's just check out what their implied total is today to see if they are a team likely to generate buzz as a result of what the bookmakers are saying And the twins, they're not too high. So william. I think they're fine. Yeah, I can talk myself into that pretty easily So, yeah, I'm not opposed to that william. I think they are definitely okay Kyle is hilliard usable even though he's batting eighth for colorado I'm guessing william is a regular viewer as I often talk ill or speak ill of uh guys batting eighth for a national league team Uh, william. Oh, or sorry. This is kyle. My bad kyle. Uh, kyle. You are I knew your regular. Um I think that it's okay hilliard is a lefty. However, his numbers in a very small sample are pretty good against lefties Let's see here Um, yeah 51 played appearances. That's not a whole lot 277 isis. Let's pull up the broader sample here on hilliard see If we can trust him in a lefty on lefty matchup. So down in triple a Did play pretty well. Let's let's see expand this to last year too and Look at the numbers versus lefties last year to see if what we've seen In a small sample this year is fluky or legitimate. Okay. So in this career versus lefties 33 strikeout rates, but A 237 iso not too bad Um fly bar right down to 32 percent. So I would say kyle I'm not super jazz about hilliard But I wouldn't cross him off just because he's batting eighth in the national league park Usually I do but I make exceptions for course field. So I feel like hilliards Upside is muted as a result of that and because the fly ball rates pretty low versus lefties But he's fine. I think that if you need to go there totally, okay I would not prioritizing without an hour. I can super high within this stack But he's not a cross-off for me. Let's see what daza's done Versus lefties. Oh 95. Yeah, so I'd probably prefer hilliard over daza. I guess if that makes sense Uh within this stack. So after kevin, should I make this trade? Russ and chase edmonds for joe burrow and oston echler Yes, I don't really want burrow, but I want echler and I'll take that quarterback down great and just figure out the quarterback from there But getting echler there is a massive upgrade william right now. I have the red socks Colorado and twins thoughts. I don't object to any of those william. I think they're actually all pretty Pretty solid. I might try to make it a bit more stacking and trim it down to just two you know if it's like a one-off on the twins Like let's say garver gets and I guess it's kind of tough, you know, we want doll back. We want crone. We want Diaz and stuff like that. Maybe maybe Garver's not the right guy, but let's say donaldson if donaldson plays. Let's see what his salary is 3200 dollars We were talking before william about how like the red socks and the rockies may not mesh the best because third base Is kind of a weak point for the two teams at least for today against the lefty So maybe use donaldson's like a one-off I would try to trim it down where you have like Four of one team three of another and maybe a one-off donaldson to make that bit But I think all three are fine options for stacking today william Kevin can I also I can also trade for either tana hill or jared golf get tana hill Definitely tana hill the best of those options. So if you can get burrow or a tana hill over burrow I would do that for sure We talked about web being the top pitcher for today the other two guys I like are both in the same game. That is this one right here zack wheeler versus charlie morton morton is just under salary again He is down at 8600 dollars So you can have a lot of fun with a charlie morton lineup for today because you can get up to Let's just build that a red sock stack here actually spilled a spill of rocky stack. Let's do that first Let's do rogers in here at second base Let's go with story It's cronaut in there today To do to do crones in there. Okay. Let's go with crone And then do we go hamston and just do one two three four or do we go dias? Let's look at this here quick. Okay um hamston's at 214 against lefties and dias is at 205. Let's go with hamston Let's fill that outfield spot Keep catcher slash first base open if you go with charlie morton at 38 or at their 8600 dollars You've got a lot of flexibility to have some fun get the really good players in the rockies and still have enough to get up to Some good options elsewhere So I think that morton works really well. I do prefer web, but I do like morton quite a bit wheeler Means a lot to be a bit more cost effective, you know call a salary conscious, but that's fine I think that he's worth that for sure. We can bump crone down to dias and still gets a Pretty solid rocky stack here 2850 left. I think that's totally fine. So I would say Ranking for me web 1 morton 2 wheeler 3 considering salary Sock to dj using the phenom wainwright love that. Uh, how would you stack minnesota candy city? And the Dodgers, okay, let's go over here wainwright I'm not as into just because the pitch the strikeout numbers have been lower recently So his past 11 started the more sinkers 18 percent strikeout rate. He's very good. Uh, just not as good for not my favorite for dfs because the low strikeout rate, but Uh, he's a good pitcher. So that that that does work Uh, as far as Kansas City, the royals are facing. I can't find them in my sheets Why can I okay there it facing erin's valley? That's fine. Yeah, um, that that works The Dodgers are facing you darvish. I know the results have been bad for you recently But I still wouldn't go there over his past nine starts the more forcing fastballs You has a 30 strikeout rate still I would not stack the Dodgers person I know I know the results are what they are, but I would not be going To the Dodgers for today. He was I know it's been bad, but I personally Would not be doing that one. I think the twins are fine. I think the royals are fine Now there's a priority for me, but they are fine. I would say Uh, let's check to see the royals lineup though because I know pares or pares got banged up Um, if Salvador pares does not go I downgrade the royals quite a bit Mondes he works like a one-off But I would downgrade the royals quite a bit if he can't go Salvador says, uh, sorry. I'm late and uh, erin says he's late as well So welcome guys, uh, if you want a quick rundown of thoughts for today pitching for me Logan Webb won charlie morton two And zack wheeler number three as far as stacks go love the rock. He's a course field pretty big into the red sox facing off with zimmerman slash the oryals bullpen And then Who was the third stack? Trying to remember what I oh the white sox white sox facing riley o'brien Um, I do want to see what their lineup looks like because if we can get gavin sheets in there We can kind of go nuts with him He's another guy's catcher slash first base kind of annoying. He's betting eighth. I guess it's not as high as I was hoping Um, but I think that um, the white sox do grayed out pretty well And you can get to them from a sour perspective if you go With web or morton is her picture. So white sox good stack for today as well erin says beautiful weather here in minnesota erin, uh, I didn't know you were in the motherland out in minnesota um Gotta send my warmest regards to the 507 down by rochester. Let's go minnesota Welcome erin and hello to minnesota Salvatore salvatore says he appreciates number fire. It took me a second to realize that was number fire because I I'm uh, operating a little behind still catching up from sundays because uh, those ring nfl season can be a a little bit draining for sure Uh, but yes, we appreciate you as well. Salvatore, uh, michael's post in the royals lineup. Uh, salvatore pares is in there Okay, this dude's a tank has ever missed a game like in his life has ever been a game a baseball game played We were where salvatore pares did not play. I am unaware of it if there if there is one. Okay, so we got, uh hard hit wit Lopez I don't want to go to ben and tendy zantana modesty so I think that if we're going back to dj's question about stacking the Royals, I would say gets pares in there get modesty in there Ben and tendy's not a guy typically used but like I feel like he's been doing better recently Let me dig into this just to be to make sure i'm not because like, you know Sometimes like we'll see like the home run tracker and it'll stick in your brain a little bit too long Let's check out what ben and tendy's done. Let's say since the beginning of september to see if I should be Bumping up my thoughts on him here Okay, let's go over to stat cast and let's go from september 1st through Yesterday, okay 8.4 percent barrel rate pretty in line with his full season number same thing with his hard hit rates Launch angle about the same as well. Check out the The plate discipline numbers strikeouts are down a bit. That's good Is iso 214 so better results are been attending this time the bad of all data not drastically different But it's good to see results results or results so I would say If you're trying to stack the royals pares modesty ben and tendy all guys would be turning towards there Diffuse is wheelers upside still worth getting up to despite all the high sourd stacks I would say so I tend to still find the value To make it work great question diffuse because I think on a lot of I think on this slate We're gonna see a lot of people go down because we've got good pitchers who are a lower side the wheeler On the road facing Atlanta kind of a tough spot for sure I agree with you that his upside is still worth it. I think that when I'm considering the salary I'm okay bumping wheeler down below web at morden But he's number three for me just for the reasons you mentioned I think the upside for him is tremendous Because wheelers are really freaking good pitcher. This is over his past nine starts if you were sliders usually lowering your slot issues is a bad thing because Like it's uh, it's a tough situation You know you you want sliders or strikeouts, but hasn't mattered for wheeler 29 strikeout rate 26 hard hit rate. He's been awesome. So I I think that he's still worth it I'm okay bumping him down because of that but I still think he's good Especially like the rockies guys diffused like rogers is mid-range sally salary ds is mid-range salary Hanson's mid-range salary. You can make a rocky stack work with wheeler pretty easy. So yeah, I agree He's still worth it But he's number three for me tonight behind this other guys erin says para's missed 145 games in 2020 Is that the acl year? 2020 didn't play that many games because it was uh, COVID whatever he tours acl I think that was he tore like before opening day. I'd already said some opening day dfs lineups And I had to redo all of them because he was out. I was very sad about that But outside of a torn acl nothing else can keep salvatore para's out of the lineup for today Forever kevin says made the trade and he accepted. Thanks. Uh, congratulations on Austin neckler. Enjoy. That should be a lot of fun Kyle, do you like oakland for one os particularly at third base and outfield? Thanks for the help So they're facing tyler anderson Anderson does a pretty good job expressing our contact a 30 hard hit rate allowed In his 11 starts the mariners. He did get absolutely crushed last time out, which is why he's starting once again here today But I tend to not use guys against him third base and outfield so chatman I'm guessing you're looking at I I can use chatman against anyone because he's the best hitter in baseball The one guy I would caution against using if he's in the line today is chat pinder pinder is been leaving a lot of games early for pinch hitters so I would be pretty wary of pinder in terms of looking at outfielders for the a's I think they're fine For one offs chatman's great. So like a third base if you need to go chatman totally fine I'm okay with that But I'd be wary of pinder and an overall not seeking out oakland because Freeland does a good job or Anderson I should say does a good job of expressing our contact So that'd be my one concern there dj is asking do you like tyler anderson against the a so I was just talking about how I don't want to use guys against him I also don't want to use him as a pitcher because the strikeout rate is too low. I need like I need a lot of strikeout juice and anderson's not going to get me that 18 or 19 percent strikeout rate Since he joined the mariners. He's using a lot of sinkers. That's not super good in terms of getting strikeout. So I would be okay Not using anderson, but I also don't really want to use guys against him. It's 13 game slate I need a lot of upside anderson's probably not going to be the guy to get that A's are a low strikeout team. So no tyler anderson for me Trying to look through this list here and see there's anything we have not discussed yet as far as Pitchers or stacks. Uh, one thing here is charlie barns. I don't know if he's been confirmed as a twin starter Let me just do a quick Twitter search here See if he is confirmed as being invidued for the twins for today And Because I've been on the stream for a while now and Don't see full confirmation that anderson will start but Charlie barns I should say Haven't seen full confirmation yet, but if we assume that he is I think that you can definitely be okay with the A couple of uh tigers dudes. Let's see if their lineup is out yet Yeah, okay, so I don't mind Haas like one off. It's actually a pretty rough lineup. Maybe I shouldn't go in there But um, I think the Haas is okay as a one off there. Let's go to salvator at first base Zimmerman sheets vaughn Who is a better play to you? I don't like vaughn against righties. He's really annoying. Um, not a lot of power versus righties And vaughn is actually not in the lineup for today. So now vaughn Uh, I do like sheets. He's batting eighth which is kind of annoying, but he's got a lot of power So, uh, I definitely feel good about that one. I know michael mentioned how he's batting eighth. That is annoying Uh, but he's low salary to access to a good team. I will still use him despite the fact. He's batting eighth Zimmerman Facing freeland at coors. I think Zimmerman's fine. If he gets in there, he may not play He doesn't play every day even against lefties, but I would say Zimmerman oversheets if we're talking Straight up here. What's the sound come that? $2,700. Yeah, if you can get Zimmerman, I would do that if he plays for today Mike, can we go with houston against waka waka waka? Okay Michael waka, let's see here. This is over his five outings with his cutter usage way down 29 strikeout rate not the best batted ball data though So I probably avoid houston for today against waka. The strikeout numbers are pretty good Not sure how long he'll go. He tends to be pretty scattershot when 36 pitches last time out So I'd probably be lower on houston personally Um There is a path to a good game because the hard contact is there But waka's been okay from an under the line number of perspectives Michael asking which white socks would you prioritize other than sheets? Sheets is batting eighth. Yeah, it's a bummer. Um pretty Annoyed about that for sure. Well, let's just go through a white sock stack here Let's put web back in a pitcher because I don't think a Wheel of lineup work very well. Let's go sheets. I know he's batting eight. Don't care too much It's because he's got some juice. Good good lineup I'm okay with it still Okay, and then let's go here to the white socks Let's go ahead to the side who I want to use among the like studs here And it's not easy Not easy okay Is grondall playing today Yes, indeed. He is okay a break has been hit the ball really well since like the start of august or so on I think I was looking at number yesterday. I think it might have been since the all star break Really good numbers for a break you overall even against righties. He's been pretty solid. So I think that's pretty encouraging for him Tim Anderson get some good steals. I'm not trying to be silly now given the health situation he's had So I think I'm gonna go with grondall as being the other priority here. I know it does lock up Your utility, but I feel like you're just going to do that with the with the white socks So let's do that. I want Jimenez and robert in there if I can get them. So let's try if we can make this work and That if you're stacking them with a team that is pretty heavy on outfielders, you need those slots. I'm very okay going Anderson Moncada, I'm not into not as into just because like the power numbers this entire year, honestly have been pretty underwhelming So I would say If you're stacking the white socks, I would assume you're going to go in using two outfield slots and A catcher slash first base slot utility slot may you can get in Anderson like that's totally fine, too But I think you're gonna have to try to game plan around this for a white sock stack So Jimenez robert two priorities for me. We're on dolls a priority a braves a priority and sheets That's five dudes as those are the five guys that be focusing on most in terms of rotating through there today Arons says they're expensive. They are it's definitely one of the downsides of the white socks DJ is asking how long will re you go? Let's go over here and check out some pitch count stuff. Okay So he missed only one start But I have him projected for 70 pitches for today Because he's not fully healthy. The good thing is like they've got a lot in the line Like they need wins So like if they think he's the best option, they'll keep him out there But that also means they could go with like a playoff type mentality And yank re you whenever he starts to struggle, which probably is not the worst idea. So I would say not very long DJ or DJ that's gonna Patrick Corbin stack against him with the Rockies for today That is all the time that we have here for today on this fan dual live Q&A and the waiver wire Q&A As always doing to give you all a big thank you for tuning in for today. 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