Assessing Oneil Cruz's Slump and Fantasy Baseball Insights

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 Let's talk about O'Neal Cruz here

00:04 because I think O'Neal Cruz is a lot better

00:06 than what his numbers are showing,

00:07 but we're kind of running out of time here,

00:09 literally and figuratively.

00:10 - I can feel you warming up,

00:12 stretching for the victory lap

00:13 on Jack Flaherty's Bad Start coming this week, probably.

00:16 I could just feel it.

00:17 Next Sunday, Matty's gonna take a hard lap

00:19 on that victory lap with Jack Flaherty at some point.

00:22 Some of the guys going wrong, O'Neal Cruz.

00:25 I don't know, Matt, I mean,

00:27 maybe he isn't as good as we hope he is.

00:29 This is a point where now you start to worry.

00:33 He didn't play baseball for a whole year last year

00:34 'cause of an injury.

00:35 Those last 15 days, no homers,

00:37 19 strikeouts and a buck 62.

00:39 Look, the pirates, we've been down this road before

00:42 with some of their prospects.

00:44 Gregory Polanco was a can't miss guy.

00:46 Well, he missed.

00:47 You get guys like this sometimes as an organization

00:49 where they just have not become the dude.

00:52 We're gonna talk about another guy,

00:53 another one of the high draft picks coming up

00:54 in the waiver wire segment

00:56 that does look like he is hitting right now.

00:57 And maybe somebody to add, but Cruz right now,

01:00 maybe a Byman Dynasty, but right now in redraft leagues,

01:02 I have specific concerns.

01:04 Corbin Carroll, who went ahead of Jose Ramirez

01:06 in pretty much every single draft this year.

01:08 He continues to struggle.

01:09 It's been another bad month for him.

01:11 No homers for RBI in the last two weeks,

01:13 18 strikeouts hitting under 200 with a 640 OPS.

01:17 I don't understand this.

01:19 It's just really puzzling.

01:20 Sophomore slump, maybe,

01:21 but they have figured out Corbin Carroll

01:24 and he has yet to make adjustments back.

01:25 And Pablo Lopez, this is the one

01:27 where I think it's an outlier.

01:28 I'd be buying Pablo Lopez.

01:30 You look at the stats for him.

01:31 The ERA is at 12 over his last nine innings in two games.

01:35 The whip is at 176.

01:37 Pablo Lopez strikeout rate is still very strong.

01:39 The strikeout to walk rate is incredibly good.

01:42 You buy Pablo Lopez.

01:43 He just has stretches like this.

01:45 This is who he is.

01:45 This is why he's not a true fantasy ace,

01:48 probably a notch below,

01:49 but a guy certainly you want in your rotation.

01:52 So buy on Lopez with Carroll, with Cruz.

01:57 I don't know.

01:58 It's a tough situation here.

01:59 I still believe long-term in Carroll.

02:00 Cruz, I'm not sold on.

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