Waiver Wire Report (9/11/22) by Jeff Zimmerman September 11, 2022 A cold hit me hard about the time I started this week’s report. I completed the rankings and just added small notes when I deemed them necessary. -Jeff In the article, I cover the players using CBS’s (about 40% or less initial roster rate) and Yahoo’s ADD/DROP rates. Both hosting sites have the option for daily and weekly waiver wire adds. CBS uses a weekly change while Yahoo looks at the last 24 hours. Yahoo is a great snapshot of right now while CBS ensures hot targets from early in the week aren’t missed. The players are ordered for redraft leagues by my rest-of-season preference grouped by starters, relievers, and hitters. Batters Joey Meneses Josh Jung AJ Pollock Bubba Thompson: He’s still starting (10 straight) and stealing bases. Spencer Steer: Playing all over. Power and average profile. Triston Casas: Five straight starts. Nick Gordon: Playing with balanced production. Oswald Peraza: Started six of seven. Jake Fraley: Not facing lefties but six righties on next week’s schedule. Lane Thomas: Leadoff for nine straight. Brendan Donovan: Started in only five of the last seven games. Kyle Farmer Luis Garcia: Batting second versus lefties. Elvis Andrus: Leading off and not embarrassing himself. Jose Siri: Starting about 80% of the time. At a 25 SB pace. TJ Friedl: Not facing lefties but six righties on next week’s schedule. Corey Dickerson: Only faces righties with the team facing six next week. Michael A. Taylor Romy Gonzalez: Has a .333 AVG with a 29% K% and .439 BABIP. Seth Brown: His value is linked to the righties he’s facing. Five on the schedule for next week. Keston Hiura: He has cooled off hitting .172/.194/.276 in September. Nick Pratto: Losing playing time with Vinnie Pasquantino off the IL. Ildemaro Vargas: He hasn’t been playing with César Hernández at third. A .552 OPS in September. Michael Toglia: Only five road games next week. Gavin Sheets: Starts only against righties. Faces three next week. A drop Cavan Biggio: Six starts in the last 10 games. Lewis Brinson: Starting against lefties and has three on the schedule for next week. Catchers Cal Raleigh Carson Kelly Yadier Molina Christian Bethancourt 베탄코트 CBS Hitter Rostership Rates Name Prev Roster% Current Roster% Change% Brendan Donovan 3B STL 40% 45% 5% Kyle Farmer SS CIN 40% 42% 2% Joey Meneses RF WAS 36% 51% 15% Carson Kelly C ARI 36% 39% 3% Cal Raleigh C SEA 35% 49% 14% Seth Brown 1B OAK 31% 33% 2% A.J. Pollock LF CHW 30% 34% 4% Jake Fraley LF CIN 29% 31% 2% Josh Jung 3B TEX 28% 35% 7% Triston Casas 1B BOS 27% 40% 13% Oswald Peraza SS NYY 20% 23% 3% Yadier Molina C STL 20% 22% 2% Nick Pratto 1B KC 19% 21% 2% Luis Garcia SS WAS 17% 20% 3% Keston Hiura 1B MIL 15% 18% 3% Nick Gordon LF MIN 14% 24% 10% Lane Thomas LF WAS 14% 21% 7% Gavin Sheets RF CHW 14% 17% 3% Cavan Biggio 2B TOR 12% 14% 2% Bubba Thompson LF TEX 11% 17% 6% Christian Bethancourt C TB 10% 12% 2% Michael Toglia RF COL 9% 13% 4% Elvis Andrus SS CHW 8% 20% 12% TJ Friedl CF CIN 8% 18% 10% Jose Siri CF TB 5% 9% 4% Corey Dickerson LF STL 5% 7% 2% Spencer Steer 1B CIN 4% 12% 8% Michael Taylor CF KC 4% 10% 6% Ildemaro Vargas 3B WAS 1% 5% 4% Lewis Brinson CF SF 0% 2% 2% Romy Gonzalez 2B CHW 0% 2% 2% Starters Hunter Brown: Great in his debut and get’s Detroit for his next start. Jose Suarez Dean Kremer Bailey Falter: Been fine with a 4.02 ERA, 4.30 xFIP, and 1.20 WHIP. Two starts versus Miami and Atlanta. Brayan Bello: Walks are destroying his upside. Jordan Lyles Mitch Keller Roansy Contreras Kyle Bradish: A low-4.00’s ERA talent. Streaming option. Ryne Nelson: Leaned (67% usage) on 95-mph fastball in his debut. No walks in the start after a 3.1 BB/9 in AAA. Before his July 22nd AAA start, he had a 3.7 BB/9. Since then a 1.9 BB/9. High flyball nature (36 GB% in AAA, 28% in MLB start) but no MLB homers yet. Faces the Dodgers and Padres next week. Ken Waldichuk: I’m not sure if there is any upside. Wade Miley: He was acceptable in his first start off the IL and faces the Giants on Sunday. I’m not sure where his talent is right now. Bailey Ober: Might join the Twins this week. In his last rehab start, he was at 52 pitches. Mike Minor Adrián Martínez: Shut out Baltimore but has not been good otherwise. A junk 94-mph sinker (5% SwStr, 40% GB%) but his slider (14% SwStr%) and change (14% SwStr%) are decent. Faces Houston this week. Cody Morris: Too many walks (4.5 BB/9). Limited to 54 and 61 pitches in his first two starts. Aníbal Sánchez: Four starts with good results (0.84 ERA, 0.80 WHIP) but bad underlying stats (5.5 K/9, 3.8 BB/9, 4.97 xFIP). Glenn Otto: Too many walks with too few strikeouts. Patrick Corbin: He threw 79% sinkers in his last two starts. Louie Varland: Demoted back to AAA but a very interesting arm and if promoted again, a solid starter. CBS Starter Rostership Rates Name Prev Roster% Current Roster% Change% Jordan Lyles SP BAL 38% 41% 3% Roansy Contreras SP PIT 33% 37% 4% Dean Kremer SP BAL 32% 35% 3% Jose Suarez SP LAA 22% 28% 6% Brayan Bello SP BOS 22% 24% 2% Mitch Keller SP PIT 20% 23% 3% Ken Waldichuk SP OAK 20% 22% 2% Hunter Brown SP HOU 18% 55% 37% Patrick Corbin SP WAS 15% 17% 2% Kyle Bradish SP BAL 13% 27% 14% Wade Miley SP CHC 11% 13% 2% Glenn Otto SP TEX 8% 11% 3% Mike Minor SP CIN 8% 11% 3% Bailey Falter SP PHI 7% 27% 20% Cody Morris SP CLE 6% 8% 2% Ryne Nelson SP ARI 3% 11% 8% Adrian Martinez SP OAK 1% 4% 3% Anibal Sanchez SP WAS 1% 3% 2% Louie Varland SP MIN 0% 4% 4% Relievers: Saves-based ranks Jimmy Herget: Good reliever who is the closer. Pete Fairbanks: Great reliever who is getting most of the Save chances. John Schreiber: Great reliever who has gotten the last two Save chances. José Leclerc: OK reliever who might now be the closer. Dylan Floro: OK reliever who might now be the closer. Nick Martinez: Below-average reliever who was temporarily the closer but might be losing his job. Adam Ottavino: OK reliever who is now the backup closer. Héctor Neris: Below-average reliever who got a random Save and is now a ways from closing. CBS Reliever Rostership Rates Name Prev Roster% Current Roster% Change% Peter Fairbanks RP TB 33% 37% 4% Nick Martinez RP SD 31% 35% 4% John Schreiber RP BOS 15% 21% 6% Hector Neris RP HOU 12% 14% 2% Adam Ottavino RP NYM 10% 12% 2% Jimmy Herget RP LAA 9% 19% 10%