The Sleeper and the Bust Episode: 1533 – 2-Start Pitchers for Week 23

The auto starts, Zach Wheeler, Chase Burns, Braxton Ashcraft.

Excuse me, Parker Messick, Kevin Gausman, Ronnier Suarez, Cade Cavalli, and Robbie Ray.

I put the, uh, the two wild guys there at the end.

They can be inconsistent, but Cade Cavalli and Robbie Ray, are, are you, are you taking either on your lineup right now?

I, I don't think so.

Um-

And if you were, it'd be more, would it be more Ray than Cavalli?

Yeah.

I, I don't think you can take Cavalli out of your lineup right now-

Agreed

... with the way he's pitching.

I think you-

Joe would love to hear that

... you could make the argument for Robbie Ray.

I think you'd have a hard time doing it, but, uh, you know, he did only go four innings, not in his last start, but the, the start previous to that.

So.

His walks are up with San Diego.

Yeah.

He's got 5-3-3 in his three outings, but I mean, that's kind of a Robbie Ray experience, and it is one of those things where if he was still with y'all, with the Giants, we wouldn't necessarily notice that 'cause it'd be baked into the full cake.

Mm-hmm.

Instead, it's isolated because it's, his only three starts with San Diego, so it stands out more.

But that, that's just Robbie Ray.

It, it, it's not a great run with San Diego, but even with that, even with all those walks and a few homers, um, he still has a 4.20 ERA despite the 153 whip, because he's Robbie Ray.

So I, I, I can't see taking him out of any rotation.

Maybe a shallow league you might have somebody better there, and he could be more of the wobbly auto start.