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It's me, Joey P.

Joe P. Sapia, with me, of course, is the Welsh.

And today we're going to look ahead to the weekend of Fantasy Baseball, some guys to pick up to play at hitter positions, some streaming pitchers, and some guys were on the fence about starting. And the first one that I might be on the fence about, but I want to throw in there on Sunday. It looks like Grayson Rodriguez is ready to make his triumphant return, question mark, for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim against the Dodgers. Tough star potentially there, but he is going against Roki Sasaki, who has been rocky and up and down. Last couple starts a little bit better for Roki, but still, Grayson Rodriguez, after striking out 11 in his last rehab start, I'm kind of curious to see what he might have. So if you're looking for an option this weekend and you're kind of on the fence, I would see what Grayson Rodriguez is all about. We know that Angels lineup's got a little bit more pop in it recently as well, especially that Mike Trout turnaround. So I'm going to go ahead and start Grayson Rodriguez this weekend, activate them off my bench, throw them to the wolves, aka the Dodgers, and see where things go. Welsh, how about you?

Where are you going for a start for the weekend that maybe people might be on the fence about? Yeah, and these guys usually just, you know, for people to know, it's usually a little bit higher ownership percentage. They may be teeter between like, do I want to start these guys? Maybe they're owned. Maybe in smaller leagues are available. So, you know, none of the, this guy's not available in my league.

Grayson might be.

Jason is 50% rostered.

So 50% percent. they're owned, maybe in smaller leagues are available. So, you know, none of the, this guy's

not available in my league. Grason might be. Yeah, Grayson is 50% rostered. So 50% on CBS. Well, and over here

on Fantasy Bros. This guy's going to have a higher ownership percentage because his Fantasy Pro's

consensus roster percentage is 59%. That's going to be a lot more. But, you know, kind of pairing through

the guy that I really locked in on and also the reason I'm using him is because I feel like

there's still just like kind of a connotation to starting him, like how like Davis Martin is.

And it's Nick Martinez with a raise. And Nick Martinez has been used in some like follow up

to the opener situations. But really the big thing is he's just been absolutely phenomenal, probably because of that. When, when they do do that and he gets to not face the top end of an order and he kind of moves through. He's got a 17 ERA on the year, 1.05 whip. He really hasn't been a strikeout guy. And that's, it does kind of worry me with some of these guys.

The Foster Griffins, he kind of got blown up. You worry about the Janssen Junks. You worry about the Nick Martinez. These guys are under 20% K percentage. They just don't have like a lot of wiggle room. So like if they get beat down a little bit, things are going to get bad. That has not happened with Nick Martinez this year, though. He has not given up more than two earn runs in a single quote start. He has never given up more than two and runs this year. And he's going up against the Marlins this weekend, which I think is a solid matchup. Again, strikeouts aren't big crazy. He's not walking a bunch, but he's going deep into games. He's getting low peripherals. The Marlins, a lot of their hitters are kind of based around like barreling type of guys. Well, Nick Martinez is not giving up a ton of barrels this year. He's keeping exit velocities really low. So poor quality of contact against him. So I think this is a good spot. If you're a little bit fringy on him, shorter leagues, that's going to be my pick for the start of the weekend. All right. For me, as we continue to look ahead here, Major League Baseball for the weekend, I'm looking for a guy that maybe I can plunk off the waiver wire and throw into my lineup. He's rostered in just 40% of CBS leagues right now and even lower on Yahoo and ESPN. It's Luis Garcia of the Washington Nationals. He qualifies at first base. He qualifies its second base in most leagues as well, obviously playing there last year and they're making that transition to first this year. And for Garcia, it has been kind of an interesting season for him in that transition. He's at the 276 batting average. He only got three home runs, but he has driven in 22 runs and scored 18. He has two stolen bases as well. But it's recently the hot streak that I'm concerned with. Again, I'm looking for somebody who's swinging a good bat. Baseball is a game of streaks. I want to play the upswing of one of those streaks. Over his last six games, he's hitting 400 with two of those three home runs. He's also got two walks, two strikeouts. So he's seeing the ball really well. He's got eight hits over that span and he scored four runs. So Luis Garcia, a guy who is going to play this weekend for the Washington Nationals against the Baltimore Orioles. And he is at home for those games as well. So swinging a hot bat, pick him up, plug him into that lineup, see how things things go welsh how about for you where are you

going for your streaming hitter this week it's a guy that you brought up in the last week or so i

believe i don't remember which show it was but yeah this week for the waiver wire at okay that's what

it was yeah well if you did not sometimes we do these and people don't pick them up how dare they how

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