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Derek Van Riper here with Enos Seris. Welcome to those of you watching us on YouTube.

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On this episode, we will discuss the challenges, or at least the perceived challenges of replacing a star in the wake of Mike Trout's calf injury, which, yes, that is a huge bummer.

Eno continues to run hot.

Spencer Turnbull, no hits the Mariners.

I think Eno's guys just keep matching up against Seattle.

I think that's part of the secret.

But we'll dig into that and a few other interesting recent pitching Seattle. I think that's part of the secret. But we'll

dig into that and a few other interesting recent pitching performances. We're going to dig

further into the idea of home run suppression being a skill and provide some insight as to how

you might be able to find some pitchers who really truly own that skill on a year to year basis.

So a lot of ground to cover here. Let's get right to it. We'll start with the Mike Trout situation. He's out six to eight weeks, you know. It's the grade two calf strain. For now, they're not bringing up Joe Adele and Brandon Marsh, so there's that. I don't think those guys are far away. At least one of them should be up relatively soon, because as we've said many times, This is an Angels team that fancies itself a possible playoff contender.

So... one of them should be up relatively soon because, as we've said many times, this is an Angels team that fancies itself a possible playoff contender.

So at least they've got some high ceiling options to potentially bring up and bridge the gap until Trout's return in a month and a half or two months from now.

But for fantasy managers, this is a tough blow because it happened early in the week. So weekly leagues in a lot of situations, you're stuck with Trout taking a zero the rest of the week.

And once you're able to swap him out, you're kind of going through this panic mode of, well, how do you replace Mike Trout?

I mean, it seems almost impossible to take a guy like that and actually come close to his production. But I dug into

the numbers and it's not as hard as you think because if you look at a dollar value calculator

for the season to date, you find there are some surprising names who have exceeded or at least

matched the overall value that Trout has provided to this point.

I had no idea that Adelis Garcia is worth $35 this season, and Trout's been worth 24.

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