Gredients of salutations. Everyone. It's rich Wilson. Welcome to Fantasy Baseball Live.
Today is September twenty fourth, just past three o'clock in the afternoon,
and we are down tim to seven days left. Tim Yeah, okay,
yeah, sorry, yeah, you clicked out on me there, Rich Oh,
I did seven days seven days left of the season. Yes, the
end is near. And as the end becomes near, the list of injuries
just keeps growing and growing and growing. It's uh, it's crazy. It
really is camp every time. The camp keep Tampa can't keep anybody healthy.
Yandy Dias went out today, Well, ye, Yandy Dias windowed. And
you can add that to Brandon Lowe who went out on Friday. I think
Luke Raley two left hand of everyone's got a strained neck. The other's Brandon
low He's pretty well done with a fractured kneecap. Feld went off his knee
the other day. Uh yeah, if there's any potential for Andy Das to
miss time, uh, that lineup is getting real thin. They might actually
be in a situation where they don't have to platoon Josh Lowe anymore. Well,
Timmy said, they've got a great minor league system. They've got all
these players that they've been hoarding. It is time for Curtis Mead who is
hitting two eighty one now, and Junior Camnario, who who hit a ball
one hundred and twenty miles an hour. It's time for them to get a
shot in a field promotion they would call that. Yeah, remember wartime.
In fact, my father in law, who was just a tough, tough
dude, he got one of those where every all the officers were dead in
World War two and they said, you're it. He led the baton as
a as a foot soldier. He led actually his platoon or whatever, and
got all kinds of accommodations. So it does happen, happens in baseball two.
Yeah, without a dot, it looks like, all of a sudden,
Jonathan Randa is a full time player. Oh yeah, did he get
called up? So? Uh, he's been on the squad for a while.
Not really, I'm not sure when he when he last got called up.
But yeah, he's another one of one of those, like you said,
up and down started players, And now it looks like looks like he
might get fairly regular at bats this coming week. I get play Timmy that's
a really good all these guys can play. I mean, now, can
they come in in a week and figure it out? I don't know.
But Randa can hit, Curtis Mead can hit, Junior Cameron Arius a monster.
I mean, these are these are guys that they might be better than
the players they're replacing. Maybe not YONDI Das. Yeah, I was gonna
say yeah YONDI d Is if he missed his time, that's gonna be a
tough one to fill. Like, what are they going to do? Move
Rosarina up into the leadoffs? Fuck? I would think that might be their
best bet. Or maybe Manny Margo. Yeah, Margo's not an everyday player
for the most part. It's gonna be interesting to see how the Rays managed
to put enough band aids on their team to get to get anywhere in the
playoffs. Hey, I wish them all the best, but man, that's
losing a lot of talent in a short period of time. It is,
indeed, Timmy and they are losing today as Taj Bradley just hasn't been the
player that I thought he could come just a five fifty ear for the season
has not been good. No, he's he's at spurts where he's looked really
good, but there's no consistency there at all. And you know, hey,
the Jays are playing for they're playing for a spot right now, so
they're putting it all on the line. So yeah, it'll be interesting to
see, you know, when you're speaking, switching over to the Jays just
for a second, their closure looked very, very mortal yesterday Apparently he's got
a crack finger. Now. Oh so I'm started, Yeah, so I'm
started watching anxiously to see if he gets a save opportunity this afternoon and how
he does, because again, just another potential potential injury there that the Jays
donate. And we're seeing a lot of injuries, a lot of players Mike
Mike Trout has done for the year. I don't know if you saw that,
they're not he's not playing. Yeah, it's really disappointing, you know.
Tristan McKenzie got blown up today. He could. I was watching the
Orioles in Cleveland. I think he walked. We walked five guys in a
row, I think because he walked in a run. It just six total.
I was looking at it was it was awful to him me, I
mean it wasn't the ball, but at Leastie was out there, I mean
atlas he and Shane Bieber out there. Just disconcerting that we didn't see Michael
Trout come back. Yeah, did you when you were watching McKenzie, was
he throwing any fastballs? And yeah, but the velocity was in the right
area in nineteen ten, ninety three, somewhere in that range. I don't
know, let's check. That's why we have Baseball savant Tim that tells us
what he's going on game feed. Let's see that would be uh, that
would be the Guardians, right, So down to the Guardians clicked the open
fat pitch velocity and we will sort by Tristan McKenzie. Fastball ninety two one,
ninety one, eight, ninety one, three, four, ninety four,
ninety two, nine, yeah, ninety three. Yeah, so it
looks like it's okay, it looks like ninety one to ninety three. It's
happen out at ninety four, so it looks like about normal, okay,
just zero control. So yeah, he just couldn't finte on Blake yep.
So, but hey, at least he went out there and pitched, so
that gives us a little bit of hope and encouragement coming into next season,
because I mean, that's what fantasy managers need to be. They need to
paying attention to this now because you're going to forget when you're in the heat
of things in February March. How these guys finished up. Well, Yeah,
and when you start looking at keeper leagues and some of the decisions you
have to make every start, he gives us now, gives at least something,
you know, if the keeper aspect comes into way, he gives you
at least something to base a decision on. And up until now there has
been absolutely nothing to base the decision on. Right. So, speaking of
keeper Stimmy, you talked about Dylan Cease and he was on your bubble and
you were not Yeah, you were thinking about not keeping him yet he still
am Okay, But yesterday, I mean again it's just one game, but
he looked awfully good yesterday. Yeah. No, he he had a good
game yesterday, One in a row. Is that a streak? I don't
know. Yeah, And again yeah it was it was. It was Boston
with I guess the B team in there, and it's not an overpowering lineup,
but no, Ceas did look good. He out six as he didn't
walk anybody eleven strike oats through one hundred and eight bitches. Yeah, he
looked fine yesterday. I still haven't made up my mind on what I'm gonna
do. I'm still very much up up in the air. I think you
should keep him. I will be doing a baseball If people are going to
be dropping dylancies, then I think there's got to be some value on him
for next season. That means people are really down on middle last night,
Look, the stuff was still off the charts. Yeah, except for getting
it into the strike zoner that was I think his biggest problem this year were
the walks that were way way up. Can that can that be you know?
Can that be improved upon next year? Yeah? It can, or
it could end up in that same sort of situation. His walk rate is
less than it was last year. What's your next question? M His walk
rate is less. Last year's walk percentage was ten point four. This year
it's ten point one. What's your next question? So? So, so,
what where where is he? Where is he getting hit something? Everything
is getting hit much harder. So last year at a thirty one percent hard
hit rate, this year it's a forty one point nine percent hard hit rate.
In fact, it's uh so that's happening, but it's average for so
he nobody hit him hard last year. He's still in the twenty fifth percent.
Tellent ball is being hit hard, So that's not the problem. Strikeout
rates are down, the walk rate, yeah, I knew they'd be down.
The people have a better launch angle on him this year than they did
last year. So my guess is it's Location's probably given up more home runs
this year. Let's take a look. Yeah, I'm counting, yeah,
eight fifteen fifteen nineteen home runs. Last year it was fifteen sixteen home runs.
I don't know. Yeah, My short term thought was, what's happening
is people are laying off the junk that they were swinging at last year.
Okay, the stuff of the wild movement outside of the strike zone and forcing
him to come in and when he's coming in, he's getting Does that make
sense? Sure? So that would be location that's different than walks being a
problem. So location, yeah last year. Yeah, this last year's walk
rick was three point eight two. Now you can argue, Timmy that maybe
people over evaluated him coming in this season with nearly four walks per nine because
this year it's four point zero three, so it's very very similar to what
he did last year. But I mean his ear a is double what he
did last year. Yeah, if they're laying off the stuff that they were
traditionally swinging at prior to that and forcing him to come in, that would
make sense, wouldn't it. And they're hating it harder because they're laying off
that junk, okay, anticipating him having to come in with something. You
know what I mean, if you can't throw stripes with your breaking stuff,
well most baggers will just lay off. They'll sit back and wait till they
get something that they do. Like I was just fastball velocity before we do
that. Just one other data point that you might want to consider because maybe
maybe Dylan Sees isn't as good as everybody thought he was so last year two
twenty ear a at two seventy x eerie x earra comes from Baseball Saponts,
a baseball sponsoring liked him. But fielding independent was actually when you factor when
you factor out the ball the ballpark, it was actually three fifty. This
year it's for twelve, So you can argue he's an upper three's, upper
three ear A guy last year and an upper three ear A guy this year.
I mean it's it's starting to get pretty close. Yeah, because the
stuff Timmy looks almost identical. Let me you ask the question, what's his
fastball velocity? Yeah, last year it's ninety six point eight. Well this
year it's actually off a little bit, ninety five point six, So he
stuff is down, so not drastically, though not drastically. His spin rate
it was twenty five eighteen this year on his fastball. Last year was twenty
five seven. So his fastball is a little off this year from a velocity
standpoint, but ninety five six is still good where he's touching ninety eight.
So yeah, it's interesting. It's definitely something. It's going to be a
tough decision because I've got some I got some pictures said I can invest in
as keepers. They'd give me considerably more money to spend at the auction,
and eventually, you know that has to come into play. You know what
my keeper plus the ten dollars, what does that get me? Yeah,
And thinking about this and just looking out I'll do a deeper dive for you,
but just looking at the data. The data would suggest he was overdrafted
this year. He's probably more a number two starter than he has a number
one starter, maybe even an upper number three starter, just looking at what
the data says. Right, So location is definitely off. But I mean,
he doesn't have a great walk rate, doesn't have one this year,
didn't have one last year. It got a little lucky last year. He's
given up more hard hit rates this year, but it's still my crazy bad
He's got good stuff, he just can't locate it and he can't throw it
off strikes. Yeah, is that going to change moving forward? What can
we expect next year? More and more of more of this year, or
of bringing back to more of twenty twenty two. I would have a tendency
to lean on twenty twenty three. Well, twenty twenty one looked a lot
like twenty twenty one looked a lot like more like twenty twenty two. Actually,
his actually his his walk rate has come up three years in a row.
So it's three six nine and three eight two than four than four h
three. His strikeout rate's been going down since twenty twenty one, which is
not good. Yeah, he looks like he is regressing, regressing tim So
his fastball velocity is going down, his location is getting worse, his walk
rate is getting slightly worse, though it's never been good. But if we
take a look ninety seven point seven five average VELOSSI in twenty twenty, ninety
six seven in twenty twenty one, ninety six eight, and ninety five six,
So twenty one to twenty two same velocity, but definitely has come down
two miles in the last three years. That's significant. Ye, So I
feel you're I think you might be onto something in terms of not necessarily no
brainer keeping him because it doesn't look like the same guy to me. Well,
again, I've I've got options, and it's all going to be a
boat whether or not. The option plus some money to spend out the option
makes it a viable choice, right, and yeah, I'm gonna have some
I'm gonna have some decisions to make. Speaking of the Rays and Toronto,
did you see George Springer with an infield the park infield inside the park home
run? No, I missed it. It was great. I mean he
hit it off the wall and it kind of took a weird angle and got
away from the center fielder. Which is MAINI Marco is a good center fielder,
but he kind of stood there and watched it for a while after he
hit it, and then he took off and he still hit an inside the
park come run, So that tells you how far that ball was bouncing around
the outfield. It was very exciting. Yeah. I was gonna say if
he gave it a good spy before getting out of the gates, Yeah,
that would have been exciting, no doubt about it. Yeah, I went
to Uh, I went back to the I was watching the Oriols game.
Then I went back to the Race game because I'm gonna see Junior Camenario hit.
Unfortunately I missed the hit that he got today, but uh it was
it was I think a very high end velocity hit today. So guys,
I think he's gonna be good tim Yeah. I watched. I watched yesterday
and I watched his approach and everything he hits is gonna be hard hit.
Yep. His his swing is everything he misses is going to be a hard
miss. That's just it's gonna be a bleak injuries in his future. So
yeah, no, he is attacking the ball the right way of putting it
to Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah, he's full force. Yeah,
he swings hard when he makes connect, when he connects, yeah, it's
gonna go plazes, There's no doubt about it. The question will be will
he connect enough, yes, I think, or will he have to turn
it down? Now, turning it down will come with age, but at
his age, that's still many years away, isn't it. Look I mean,
Timmy, these guys that come up and swing hard to hit the ball
hard, I mean, that's just who they are. I mean, that's
these are really bat speed guys. And a lot of these bat speed guys
are coming up from Latin America, so they're all kind of going off their
countrymen in terms of what they're doing. And Junior came Innario is no different.
And a guy's gonna hit thirty forty home runs and then it could come
with a you know, two sixty two seventy batty average and a low one
base percentage. That's who the guy is. I mean, yeah, two
sixty two seventy is fine. I think he isn't. But look at a
strike right to strike it rate's always been pretty reasonable. I think what is
an eighteen percent or so this year? Yeah, that makes good content.
I think besides the not walking a lot, it's your Dan Alvarez type of
starter kit. So I think, I mean it's a this is a this
is a player, my humble opinion that the Rays have needed for years.
It's the middle of the order bat that's going to hit home runs. He's
probably a DH. Maybe he plays first or third, I don't know.
He's not a very good defender, and he's just going to hit home runs.
I think it'll also hit. Yeah, well, I agree with you
on the raised needs yep. Yeah, they've always been able to find one,
two, three type bats, right, especially Tampathy or your bats number
Curtis Us. It's just like all the guys that they've been bringing up is
a very good baseball player. But Junior Camonario is a guy that they desperately
need. Yeah, they need somebody the teams fear. Yeah, the cleanup
spot. Yeah, a guy that can make a difference that with one swing
of the bat can add three runs to this corporate Yeah. I think Rady
Rosarina is that guy too. But I think he's a difference maker, I
really do. I think he's like a lad junior type of like scary dude
in the middle of the lineup, even the maybe Vlad Junior's not having the
best of seasons. That's the kind of guy I think Connect Caminario can be.
I think he's really good. Yeah, it's gonna be interesting to see
Howard plays out. I'm glad we're getting the opportunity to see HIMY glad,
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Unfortunately that opportunity also erased any opportunities of seeing
him in Arizona, isn't it. Yeah, let's take a break get back
because the finally, I mean finally, the Arizona Fall Leagues, the rosters
are at let's talk about him. Sounds good one of them. To me.
One of the things I've always looked forward to is going to the Arizona
Fall League. It's in Arizona, obviously every July, every usually every October,
in November. One year was in I think it was in September,
early late year. They moved it. They moved it up almost a month
of one year. Yeah, that was brutal. I was saying it was
one hundred and five degrees or something. So I've already checked the weather of
the week I'll be there. It's ninety five, which is not not horrible.
So once it gets into triple digits, that's what counts, right,
that's what counts. Yeah. So but this year, I think I've already
mentioned they're going mostly to night games, and that's gonna be I checked the
schedule throughout the whole year, and it's mostly night games once or twice a
week. They will have just one afternoon game. So it used to be
two afternoon games in one night game, but they switched up. Yeah,
they switched that around, which I think makes sense given how it can be
well. Yeah, well, yeah, you're gonna you're gonna get well.
And also the other thing is you're probably going to get more people out to
the games by increasing the number of night games simply because not everybody, believe
it or not, in Arizona is retired. You know, you'll be able
to get some families taking advantage of evening games. Yeah. I will say
that, like you guy Scott's Sale on Scott Sale in particular, that's a
pretty heavily attended night games, so there's seems to be a lot of people
come into those games. Yeah. No, I think it'll it'll help with
the attendance. So tomorrow I will be recording a podcast. To me,
while i will go through all the everything in detail, I've written all the
notes or sitting here in my top in my six hundred prospects. To me,
there are fifty seven guys that will be attending, so I'm gonna go
through all fifty seven, so it could be a nine hour podcast. Well,
I'm going to ask you some questions, mister Mclouds. I'm gonna ask
you, okay, so we can get your opinion and then I'll share a
few of mine. But I'm going to give most of my stuff tomorrow.
What were your impressions when you saw the rosters come out. I had some
concerns when heading into the roster announcement, okay, And most of my concerns
centered around the fact that with what we've seen this year, okay, in
our changing game and going younger okay, and bringing up younger prospects early,
how would that affect the Arizona falling. And my hope was that we would
see, as we've seen in the past, some elite talent, some mid
tier talent, and some players getting a last look before they're shuffled off.
The forty man. That's sort of a situation right, yep. Well my
first reaction was where are the elite level prospects? I went to your top
two fifty, took a look. Okay, the Arizona Fall League has always
had some elite talent present. Okay, you know, how would you define
how would you define how would you define elite? How do you find elite?
How do I define it? Yeah? Players that can be with star
potential, that are on the cusp of arriving the Jackson I found. Yes,
I wanted to see one of Holiday or Cheerio, Dylan Cruz could have
been there. Jordan Lawlor, he's up with the team. Where's Marcela Mayre?
Whyatt Lankford? Uh, Ethan Salas? Everybody likes to see a fourteen
year old catch he is? He's on the IL So okay, okay,
well, hey, it would have seemed like he would have been there.
How about James mhm hm. You know I could go through the list,
Jane James Wood, Colton Cowser, Walter Jenkins, Cold Keith, Where's Cold
Keith? Yeah? I go through and I don't know if any of your
top thirty forty prospects are actually going to be in attendance, and that concerns
me because let me let me ask a question. I want to see some
of those big names, and why do you think, why do you think
they're not there? I think they're They are not there because they've put in
full seasons and their teams have determined that they want to rest them. But
if I go back historically and take a look, you know, Michael Trout
got in one hundred and some at best at the big league level, and
he managed to show up along with Bryce Harper, two Hall of Fame guys
were there, dead tired, They were still there. They were still there.
Are we seeing a change in the way the teams and the league is
approaching the Arizona Fall Lake? And based on where I'm seeing, I would
have to say yes, because we don't have We don't have any any top
twenty five prospects, do it? Do you argue, maybe, Ricky Ricky
Tentaman if ye, yeah, I mean I've got an option. It's not
there. And I find it very, very disappointing. I really do.
So it leads me to believe that the future could be a very changed one.
I was joking about just taking and moving the complex leg over and calling
it the AFL. That's possibility, isn't it. Yeah, I tell me,
you're it's funny. I mean we did not talk about this ahead of
time. Yeah, I think you are spot on. It's first of all,
I mean it was the the MLB marketing department not involved in any of
these decisions. I mean, I mean, isn't this an opportunity to have
the force the team teams to at least put some of their marquee players and
put them out. There's some very good players coming, but like there are
all the guys you listed were good. The Yankees. They're the only team
that I'm going to go through tomorrow that do not have And I think I've
got thirty of their players ranked. None of them are going none of them,
not one, not a one. There's all There are as guys that
are on the on the on the bubble of the forty man roster, but
you don't. You don't have Spencer. I mean we're Spencer Jones. That's
their big marquee name. He should be there. He's not, is he?
He is not? And well, yeah, you know what if you
want to get people okay, Like for me, the Arizona fall has been
a combination of a social event plus seeing some of the top young players in
the game up close and personal. Right, Well, if you're gonna take
the close and personal and the young up and coming stars out of the equation,
it sort of leaves me to like, am I going to spend five
thousand bucks to make that trip? Yeah, there's got to be something to
draw me. Other they hate the social aspect definitely draws me. But I'm
just very disappointed in the elite talent not being there. It feels like that
the baseball geeks took over this event and said, look, we need to
make some decisions. We want to get guys that are out there, who
are on the bubble to see if we need to keep them, and they
forgot about the public. They forgot that, Yeah, this is an opportunity
for us to showcase a talent. Maybe. Then Tim comes in and says,
well, nobody goes to the games anyway. Fear if you want more
televised, but you know, if you don't try, they'll never be televised.
You'll never have people come. Well, yeah, yeah, you look
at where's Connor Norby, where's the Baltimore Orioles list of prospect depth? You
know, what I mean. Yep, Yeah, it just it just seems
very it seems very disappointing to me. It is I got the Orioles.
Let's see who the Orioles one of They have one top twenty five guy coming,
and that would be Billy Cook, who I like. But he's a
forty man guy, right, That's a guy that's in double A twenty four
years old, and they want to see they want to keep him on the
forty man And that's a guy that's probably out there. There's showcasing him potentially
to be moved. But that's that's why he's there. Yeah, you know
where's Yeah, where's Cole Young or brooks Lee or you know. There's just
so much talent that's available to see so little of it. Like I said,
I I'm I'm bummed. I really am. I you know, it's
funny. I I will I'm going because actually I've got some meeting I've got
some meetings set up. I'm actually gonna go to see some of the backfield
games, right, so I'll be doing a lot of that. I'm actually
looking more forward to that. They am the Fall League. I'm like,
like I've first of all, I've seen so many of these players, and
they're very good players. But there's nothing there that I want to take a
photo and put it on my Twitter feed that says this is, here's here's
a junior Caminario or or Jackson Churio up at bat. I mean, who's
going to care if I if I put there and put lazarre M Martiris of
the Oakland A's is up? I mean, who cares? Yeah? Yeah,
you know, Yeah, you want to go to a game, you'd
like it'd be nice to see. Wouldn't it be nice to see one of
the two Jacksons or Dylan Cruz. Who is you know all the excitement is
you know why at Langford? You know some some of the some of the
true elite level prospects, James Woods, you know, James Wooden Washington,
that would get me excited. Yeah, yeah, even Max, even Max
Clark. Let's see what the kid has. He was a number five pick,
wasn't her three pick? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, Well I can
tell you that James wood will strike out a lot, because if you were
to go yes and Max Clark, I think it won fifty in the in
low way. So he's that guy really probably pound for pound is the most
talented of any player taken on draft Day, the first round. But he's
got a ways to go. But you know, if I'm there, if
I'm the Minnesota Twins and i'm you know, I'm in that area, I
would have loved to have seen Max Clark. Maybe I go. Maybe I
build myself a new fan. Maybe it's a kid of the men of the
parents of the Minnesota Twins who go that live out in that area, or
they decide to take a trip down and they fall in love with Max Clark
and they become big. I think there's some value there that's not going to
be there to this year ten. Not going to be there. No,
no, exactly. So like I said, yeah, I as I look
through you know, the upper rains, okay, of your prospect list,
so many of those players are already playing in big leagues, aren't they.
Yeah? Yeah, the game has changed. Let me ask another question.
Are we seeing the end of the Arizona Fall League based on what the Arizona
Fall League has been historically and in the past, Yeah, I think we
are. I think it's going to be a very different league than what we
have come to expect, and I think we have to as it appears major
League Baseball is doing. I think we have to change our perspective on what
it once was as compared to what it will be. And I don't think
they're one and the same. Yeah. Can you imagine the marketing department of
the baseball HQ guys trying to get people to spend a few grand to come
down to see that. Let's come see all the great young prospects. It
ain't there, Tim, It's not there. Yeah. Yeah, it's uh
again, you know, when when you're looking at a program like that,
there's there's more than just way more than just the the on field product.
But yeah, it's gonna be tougher and tougher to get people excited to actually
go to Arizona to watch the best young players in the game if the best
young players in the game aren't there, right, Yeah, that's that was
I think you said it perfectly. That was exactly how I felt. And
you know, I'm like looking at him going, you know, I mean
the people that run baseball, I mean, we can make fun of them
all we want. They're not stupid people. I mean they understand what is
out there, and it just seems like somebody at the MLB executive level has
to say, look, this should be a showcase as well. You need
to send some of your best players as well, at least for a couple
of weeks. Dylan Cruz, Yes, he's tired. He could suck it
up for two weeks and go and start a few games. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, it's historically, you know, we've seen players who is one
of the Oh, Kyle Tucker, he was totally disinterested in being there,
and his play reflected. We were laughing because the only time it looked like
he showed down any motivation is when there were scouts in the stands, probably
his own people, right, So yeah, but other than that, you
know, Francisco Francisco Lindor seemed to be very fairly indifferent. But at the
same point, at the same point in time, we had we had a
player who's now closing in. He's got the forty part and he's closing in
on the seventy and round. Laguna, who played December in January in Australia.
Okay, came back and attended spring training and then worked his way through
three four levels all summer. He managed to show up at the Arizona Fall
league, and he looked he was enthused, he was happy to be there.
He was cheerleading from the dugout. Yeah. So, hey, you
know what if Ronald acun you can do it based on bouncing around from two
continents and playing basically baseball for a full twelve months. Yeah, it soaking
the rest of them. Right, Maybe you had a hint as to why
Ronald acun you was going to grow into the best baseball player on the planet
because of the extra ward that he had that other players clearly don't have.
Yeah. No, I remember watching him and Victor Roebulis and both of them
in there. They were they were cheerleading on from the dug It was fun.
It was fun to watch, It really was. It's about allergence of
careers there. Yes, not some go so some goon or so. So.
I know, Tim, just this the Arizona Fall League. But I
will be doing a podcast and there are fifty seven guys that are worth monitoring.
Uh So, if you're interested in that, I will go through and
briefly touch on all of them because there are some very good players going that
maybe won't have much of you know, won't have the high end impact that
a lot of the players who will not be going will have next season.
But for dynasty leagues, you know, there's a White Sox are sending a
nice little consortium to the you know, to the to the to the game,
and so they're Ramos is there and that's you know, so there's some
there will be players there that dynasty league owners in particular should be monitoring,
and I will go through those if you are interested. Podcasts I'll record tomorrow.
Podcasts come out Tuesday or Wednesday. Timmy, let's take a break.
Get back. I got a few more questions for you before you tell us
who you're gonna pick up this this evening for next week. Does that sound
reasonable? Yeah, nobody there. They're all hurt. They're all let's let's
take a break. So he was hurt this year, that's why he is.
Yeah, exactly. That's gonna be exciting to watch him pitch. So
do I see Zach Bean Zach Bean's name there as well? I did not
see Zach Bean's name there? No, Okay, okay, there was enough.
I saw it under Evan. Oh it's a picture the picture. Yeah,
there's a picture named Zach Bean or they got a name wrong. I
thought I saw saw his name name there, but yeah, no, And
again, sorry if I'm I'm being a bit of a downer today, but
it just when I Hey, when I saw it, that's how I felt.
Look, you might be being a downer, but I felt exactly the
same way, and I wanted to get your perspective. That's why I wanted
to ask you the question. Not tell me the three players you want to
see or anything like that, just what were your impressions when you saw it?
Because when I saw it, I went because the first thing I saw
was actually, I think a Mayo, the MLB writer what's his first name
anyway at MLB dot com pipeline, Jonathan Yeah, yeah, And I saw
his and they had the the top hundred guys that are there, and I
said, that looks like a small list to me. He must have missed
somebody. And then I went and actually looked at the rosters and I'm like,
oh, mah, this isn't good, this is no fun. So
yeah, yeah, Jonathan Mayo is who the guy was thinking of. So
yeah, yeah, all right, Tim, I got to get back to
the notes. H Ronald Dacunia, as we talked about on Friday, you
were hoping he would play a lot. He's up to forty forty. I
don't know if he's gotten two solo bases two solo bases or not today,
but he's going to be forty seventy. You know, he's going to get
at least two base hits over the next few games, and he's going to
try to steal. He's going to Timmy. It's he's gonna be forty seven.
How would you compare this season that Ronald Dacunia is having to Aaron Judge's
historic season of sixty two home runs. I would have to list Aaron Judge's
accomplishment as being a greeder one. Okay, why is that? Well,
because not that Ronald Dacunia couldn't be forty seventy in the past. He's got
the wheels, Okay, where I think he could have potentially produced that level
of season. I think when you look at overall the stolen based category and
how it's being approached this year with all of the changes, I'm going to
equate that forty seventy to forty fifty. Okay. Last year, the team
that led all of Major League Baseball and stolen bases was the Texas Rangers.
Okay, with one hundred and twenty eight. This year, the Reds are
leading major League Baseball with one hundred and eighty one. Nine teams have already
passed the hundred twenty eight stolen bases the Rangers accomplished last year. The rules
have changed. Now that does that take away from Ronal Lacuna being a great
player, No, it certainly doesn't. But putting the same level of weight
on stolen bases year as compared to last, I don't think it's fair.
Now again, you could say Aaron Judge was playing with a with a loaded
ball for some of the sixty two home run season, and we don't know
because Major League Baseball has been dicking around with the baseball for like two three
years now. But I think the scene. Do you have any like evidence
that it was a loaded ball? Or is this just you know, hyperbole
your Yeah, it could be, it could not be. I don't know.
Okay, major League Baseball has not helped their case for legitimacy by screwing
around. I will agree with that, But there's there's no evidence that the
ball was loaded. No, I'm just saying it could have been. Somebody
could say it is and I couldn't deny it or I couldn't. You know,
I couldn't. I couldn't take either side of that out. But I
will agree. Yeah, I have a tendency to believe that Aaron Judge's sixty
two home run season is a is a better accomplishment than Ronald kuna is forty
seventy. What would Ronald A Kuna not? That's not that's yeah. If
Ronald to Kunia next year goes fifty seventy, how would that compare to Aaron
Judges? I mean, at what point can you equate historically the sixty two
home runs, which you know was around for forty fifty years. Does does
zacun you have to hit sixty three home runs for it to be a better
season, or some other kind of combination he can do that would equally equal
what Aaron Judge did last year. They're different players and they play different games.
I yeah, hey, Run Lacoon, you're good hit sixty five home
runs. You know who knows it's not out of a lead off that.
I don't think Run would be teeing off that much. But he's got the
skill and the power to do it. There, it's two different stats.
Two different leagues, two different periods of time. So for me to say,
hey, if run Lacuni next year, hit forty forty plus home runs
and stole one hundred and twenty five bases, he doubted my attention. Aaron
Judge two twenty four over under one hundred forty games. The safe bed is
to take the under. But I'll say it's in the right area close,
That's what I because I don't. I don't think you'll see. You won't
see Aaron moving forward. You won't see Aaron Judge, even even though he
could steal twenty basses, you won't see him doing it. I don't think
it'll be the same situation as Mike Trout. Mike Trout could could have stolen
thirty basses every year of his career. There is no doubt in my mind
that Mike Trout could have been a blank thirty stolen bass guy every year of
his career. He chose to take the safe rout and ruled that out of
the equation because of the obvious injury risk. Okay, and I don't see
Aaron Judge ever stealing fifteen to twenty stolen bases again. The Yankees want that
power bat line up. Why would they have him running? I just typed
Mike Trout into Baseball Savant, and you know, Michael Trout is thirty two
years old. But you take a look at his hard hit rate and it's
ninety five percent tile. He's in the ninety six percent tile and speed.
This is a guy who still has crazy, crazy skills. And yeah,
I mean I don't see a whole lot of slowing down. Now. He's
striking out a little bit more. He's you know, I mean that's the
only thing that he did this year. But I mean everything he's all read.
I mean, his his chart looks fantastic. Still, Yeah, I
think the only thing you have to be concerned about with Mike Trod is a
the team he's playing on, if it's the Angels, and b there are
some issues with that back, Oh for sure, ye has he as he
ages it's it's not going to get any better. How is that? Is
that the right way of putting it over under? Or maybe I should ask
you yes or no? The answer is yes to all of your your points.
That's why he was not going to steal bases. Does he get traded
in the off season? Yes or no? I'm gonna say no. Does
Michael Trout ever say anything publicly that he wished you would have been traded or
he hates playing for the Angels? Does he ever say anything negative? Yes,
the day after he retires. Yeah, right, I would. Yeah.
He does not seem to be the type of person that would, you
know, kind of say something negative like that. He probably is thinking it,
but he's probably not gonna say it. Well. Yeah, And the
reality of the situation is he made a commitment to stay in Anaheim, and
one of the reasons was that huge contract. Yeah. The other was familiarity
with the you know, he obviously likes living and playing on the West Coast.
Yeah, yeah, you know what I mean. So, and he
got paid a bull with load of money, so, you know, public
if he went public and complained, there's a lot that can be thrown back
in his face. It's not positive. So why would he Yeah, and
it would it would not. I don't I can't imagine him everything. I
mean that he's too much like Derek Jeter. I mean, those guys just
always know what to say and what not to say. I mean, it's
just I think they have that extra gene that some players I know if I
was at that play at that level, I could never I would I couldn't
hold my tongue. I would say exactly what I felt. But those guys
are just good. I mean, they just they just deflect all that stuff
and just say I'm just gonna go out and play my best and put my
best effort on the field and hope the team wins. That's just that's their
answers. So yeah, I was gonna say every injure you from for the
most part, tim lost time, they all say the same. They all
say, can you repeat that, Timmy? Yeah, if I'm here,
you'd say that again. What did you say when you get two elite players?
Okay? Dealing with the press, all of their interviews are the same.
Yeah. Yeah, they're all very positive for the most part, you
know what I mean, And they don't say. I mean, it'd be
you know, it'd be nice if somebody actually told you what was really happening.
I think I would appreciate that more so. So Okay, yeah,
we'd appreciate it. But I can't see it. I can't see it really
happening. Yeah, I mean, that's so entertaining about Trevor Bauer, I
mean, he would tell you exactly what he felt, and I thought that
was refreshing. Now it turned out, yeah, he maybe that had a
double edged sword, but at least I liked that part of it. So,
yeah, Tommy fam is refreshing in that way too, is I thought,
tom did you see the comments? That's that's yeah, that was not
good to him, that I mean, and it was it was. I
mean, you have to consider the source of Tommy fan, but he probably
spoke the truth. Well, he doesn't have any reason to lie, does
he know? His career is what it is. He's not going back to
the match. He doesn't have any reason to pump anything up, and yeah,
it is what it is. And he doesn't have any reason to die
it and he doesn't does he including his fantasy football league play. Yeah,
but I would think back to what he said, it fits like, yeah,
and it's an ent Yeah, Frankly, Yeah, Joe Walter, right,
I mean because buck Joe Walters letting the you know, the the Indians
are running the asylum or whatever the no, not the Indians are Who's who's
running. The crazies are running the asylum. I think that's that's what he
that's his Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, the tail is wagging the
dog. Use whatever metaphor you want that you want to use. But at
some point in time, Buck is going to be gone and somebody is going
to move into that situation and they're gonna have their hands full in a big
way, because hey, you can put up with just about anything. Okay.
And again I'm not taking Tommy FAM's word the gospel, but assuming there
was some truth in what he was saying, and I have to assume there
was, that's you know, you can get away with that, okay,
when you're winning your division and you got a World Series belt under you know
what I mean? You can, Yeah, you can get it getting away
with a lot more when things are going good. But when things aren't going
good, yeah, that that changes the equation a little bit. And whoever
does take over at some point in time for Buck Shoals or they're gonna they
could have their hands full well over under Buckshaw Walter is fired as a Mets
manager, yes or no, Yes, I think you will be. I
think i'd be surprised if he's right. I'd be surprised if he's running that
team next year. I would I think it changes in the win. Yeah,
whether he deserves that are not to him. I mean you can we
can debate that. We don't have we're not in the knowledge. But I
would think public it would be great from a public view for them to just
you know, look, they've got David Stearns in there now, and let's
just new do a new field manager. Let's just reboot this whole thing.
Well yeah, you know, hey, we definitely know that they're interested.
They will be signing players, they will be making moves. Personally. I
think they're one of the leading candidates for Yamamoto should he be posted, and
that I can't you can't rule o Tawny, how did the equation? Yeah,
Hey, the Mets have to make some changes. They simply have to.
I have a two more questions to ask you before we pick up your
waiver warts. I mean, and it's your Dan Alvarez. I know he's
is playing in the field today, but he hasn't been playing in the field
because he hurt his elbow. It's an elbow, it's a knee, it's
a back, and I of the player. He is only twenty six years
old. Yeah, it Why does it feel like he's thirty six years old,
Tim that I mean it just I worried long term that this body is
gonna hold up. And I mean he's a wonderful player, but he never
plays a full season. He gets hurt a lot. Do you consider that
when you're drafting next season? I think I think he's still at the stage
where people will take a look. You can say, man, there's forty
home runs, one hundred and twenty RBIs there, okay, and you can
hit and they'll discount, they'll discount the injuries. My approach is going to
be a little bit different. It's gonna be probably, I think, a
little bit more along the lines of what you're looking. I'm gonna count if
I'm looking at your Dan Elvers, I'm gonna count on twenty five to thirty
home runs and eight eighty five RBIs okay. That's what I'm going to put
in the bank and have a reserve bat that paired to go into my act
or brasser and combined with Alvarez, then it gives me the forty home runs
because I have a hard time, based on what we've seen thus far,
believing that your Dan Alvarez can get in five hundred and fifty eight at bats.
So the safe the safe play is to count on twenty five to thirty
home runs, eighty five RBIs and have a no fielder at already. And
that won't allow me the opportunity right now to draft your Dan Alvarez. Somebody
will pay a higher price. He did not play in two twenty two games.
He was hurt the whole season, can abbreviated season. One hundred and
forty four games in twenty twenty one, one hundred and thirty five last year,
and he's had one hundred and seven let's call it one hundred and twelve
or so that he'll get by the end of the season. That's not that's
a trend, that's not going in the right direction. No, it's not.
And I think if you want to take the risk that he does something
he hasn't done in the past three years, go and take the risk.
It could win you a league. But I can't. I can't see taking
that risk for him. Is he a first round pick next year? Not
for you, I'm not saying for you. But does he go in the
first round next year? No, He'll probably go towards the back of the
second early third would be my guess. Yeah, he'll probably, he'll probably
go off the board as a top top thirty five player. I might take
him in the third round. Maybe I'd have to think about that. But
because you're right, I mean you do. I think counting twenty five to
thirty and eighty five RBIs feels like the right approach as opposed to penciliana and
forty and then I've got my power. I don't have to worry about it
anymore. I think you do. Yeah, I think you have to have
that backup. You gotta have somebody on your seven man reserve that is capable
of playing the oat field just to cover off. We've been talking Corbyn,
Carrol Gunner, Henderson Junior, came Area, We've been talking all of these
kids, Tim and it's fun to talk about him because we don't know what
we can do. It's boring to talk about Mookie Betts. Yeah, he's
really really good. But Evan Carter is hitting three twenty five with three home
runs and three solom basses and fifteen games. He looks really good. Yet
we're not talking about him. I don't see anything out there about Evan Carter.
Yeah, that's that's both good and bad. It's bad because we should
be talking about it. It's good because if we don't talk about him,
we might get him at a bit of price next Year's pretty totally. I
mean, he's a very very good place, not flashy. He's not gonna
he's not gonna pull a junior came in area of one hundred and twenty mile
an hour exs of velocity and everybody goes crazy because you know you're dreaming a
forty home runs. This is a very good baseball player. Yeah, I'm
very happy with what I've seen from Evan Carter. And you look at the
Rangers situation. Okay, they got some big money tied up in that squad,
but the outfield, you know, Adolas Garcia has got one spot,
okay, and he's heading into his first year of arbitration. Okay. Leodist
Diverse right now has a center field gig, but he hasn't had much of
a second half. He showed improvement in the first half, but the second
half he's serve falling off a cliff and that leaves Evan Carter in left field,
and it looks like left field is all his for the taking, and
it looks like he's ready. I could see a fifteen thirty three fifty OBP
type player next year. And on top of all the goodness I just mentioned,
the Rangers could also use a left handed bat in that lineup. Yep.
Ye. The only disadvantage it is probably going to hit eighth or ninth,
right, That's the only downside with Evan Carter. Yeah. The runs,
Yeah, the run score could be a little bit lower, but if
he gets at a three fifty OBP who's hitting, it's a copy the order
if he's baseball players, So yeah, yeah, he'll lose him at bats
okay, and and opportunities. But at the same point in time, he
could still score eighty plus runs hitting at the back end of the Rangers lineup.
Yeah. I like him a lots over two or two strikeouts a day,
just in fairness, but he's been extremely good. He's he was hurt
a little bit this season, Timmy, but he's always performed extremely well.
Is very young, so they've been they've been aggressive with him, and I
mean the only fly in the ointment could be mister Wyatt Lankfort. So uh,
he's gonna be up next season. He might even break camp. So
that's Evan Carter better hit because because you just went through it. Uh,
it might be Leot Tavers is the guy that's odd man out and Carter placed
center field and White lankforts and left. Well, they've given to Tavares plenty
of opportunities. Absolutely, okay, and the yeah, and the first half
looked really, really good, but he really has stumbled badly in the second
half this year. So, hey, Evan Carter can play center field.
Candy he can't. That's out of all of those guys you mentioned, he's
the one that I would be very careful next year of penciling and anything next
time because White Langford is common man. Yeah, he's common m Yeah,
it's again. Rangers are gonna have a really good team again next year.
They got really good teams. So but let's see. But Jacob Degram might
be their second half of next season. Maybe his native old he gonna resign
with them? Is can we even expect? Is he gonna go back to
being an old native OLDI or the native OLDI we see every four years who
looks really good? So, I mean, and Dane Donning, is he
really back? They need pitching to him? Well, yeah, they need
pitching. But even without the pitching, they're gonna score enough runs. If
they're they're gonna win ninety games next year. Yep, yep. To me,
it's like a break get back and let's hear, let's hear the guys
you're picking up. I mean, I need help. My job is barely
getting in the way of my fantasy, my fantasy hobby here, Tommy,
I am just not paying attention. So I need you to tell me who
to pick up here the last week because I am writing and digging into prospects
and talking to people, and I'm not managing my teams very well. So
help me, my friend. Well, the biggest help that I can give
right now is to take a good look at the games today. Follow it,
follow it very very carefully, and fine players that look like they're going
to get at bat's fine pictures who you think are going to get the work,
and go with them. One player that I'm going to that's that's requiring
work t him. I want you to tell me I should pick up Junior
Caminaro. Yeah, if he's available, they're you know in re draft leaks.
He you know, the Raises only have five games. He's gonna play
every every day. Curtis Meats should play just about every days. Looking at
h at Toronto, Let's look at Bijio. He's playing virtually every day now,
Okay, glad he's dealing with H. I believe it's a leg issue,
Okayne. And he he did well. He did hit a home run
to day, so I think he had two. Oh we had two home
runs a day? Yeah, he did. Yeah, But Bijo was playing
for first base, playing a fair bit of the first base and he's actually
been playing fairly well lately. Little for five with three with three strikeouts today,
So not been a good day from the only guy that didn't get a
hit to day. But again, look for players who are going to play
every day, and hey, stay on top of what's happening today, so
you don't pick up somebody who's injured. What David Schneider is he getting a
chance to play? I haven't been following. Uh, he's been slumping of
late, come back down to earth, So he'd be a player that I'm
not a hundred percent sold on heading into the last week of play. The
Jays will do whatever they need to do, and I can see them going
back up back to matchups, possibly with Schneider. Here's a here's a name
for you, a blast from the past, and a guy that I'm targeting
in in a couple of weeks. Joe Odell. Yeah, he hit a
home run yesterday, didn't he. Yeah, he's hit a couple in the
past week. If I'm not mina stay, he can hit home run simmy.
Yes, this question is can he hit well? Doesn't doesn't matter.
In LA, They're gonna give him playing time. Yeah. Yeah, he's
gonna get opportunities. And again that's the sort of that's the sort of player
you got to look for. As far as pitching is concerned, pitching is
always a mess. Okay, the last week of the season, as teams
clinched towards midweek, your two start, your veteran that was pencil in for
two starts because they might need him in the second one while the team clinches.
Guess what, He goes out and throws fifteen pitches in the first inning
and walks off. Right. Yeah, Your best bet with two start pitchers
is to find guys that are either on contending teams you believe will be playing
next weekend or on teams that are totally out of it, and you know
they'll start them simply because they will, you know what I mean. It's
ay, there's nothing on the line, right, so it doesn't matter what
you do as far as you're pitching, it's it's going to get screwed up.
The last week of the season for starting pitching is always tough because of
all the various circumstances that come into play. So again, hey, when
we get to talking about two start pitching, you know, again, that's
something that we should take into consideration. Like, yeah, Baltimore, Okay,
you know John Means is just back right, yep, I pitched a
gem in his last oating. But is John Means going to Are they going
to throw him out there for seven innings? Baltimore of a gasbook blanching.
You know, Timmy, he hasn't three four here. Yeah, I would
think he has a chance at least go five innings. I would think they'd
want to get stretched out. Yeah, and remember that the Orioles are looking
more and more likely that they're going to get a buy in the first round,
so they want to make sure that I like Kyle Bradish and Kramer,
these guys that have pitched all season. Yeah, you could see that being
one or two innies. I think John means goes. I guess five or
six innings. So that's yeah. Yeah, you're looking at You'll look at
a team like Miami. Okay, I think Uri Perez is pitching midweek now.
Nope, nope, nope, he got hurt. Uri pres Uri Perez
has a capsule issue or something something wrong with him. M Okay, you
didn't hear it again. Just be just be very careful, be very careful
with your pitching, and in some cases you're gonna get burnt. That's all
there is doing. Yeah, the marble face Perez on the fifteen day entry
list. Yeah, SI joint inflammation, so sports illustra he was carrying too
many sports illustrators around him, and so he's got that that will do it.
That puts him up there with Clint Barns in the deer meat. Right.
I'm let's see what a SI joint is. SI joint inflammation would be.
I don't even know where is what is your SI lumbar? SP's back
looks like I was gonna say, sigh, I know I SI avowed everything
every time I move outside. Apparently it's it's it can be associated with pregnancy,
but perhaps he's pregnant. Yeah, well, we have seen just about
everything this year. We can add that one to the list. Uh,
let's see anybody else, any closed guy that might get a say for for
our listeners that maybe uh people aren't thinking about. Well there there have have
been some changes, uh in the in the ranks of the closers. You
know, Martin is back in a setup role. Uh Uh, Kenley Jansen's
back. Okay, you look at uh uh Kansas City. Okay, it
looks like MacArthur has moved into the favorite in that committee situation. Okay,
but again you're looking at kens He said, how many games are they gonna
win? MacArthur's a better option right now than say her nand is Uh he's
been very disappointed. I thought he would he would, He has good stuff.
Yeah, he just didn't. He laid an egg m. Yeah.
You look at the Rangers. Okay, I don't know. Did you see
Chapman yesterday? He got the save, Yeah, he got the save,
but he was all over the place like and I don't mean just all over
the place. I mean we're talking, we're talking major league the closer they
couldn't find. We're taught he was all over the place, Lsie La Clerk
might be an option if we came with Chapman. I mean, he was
terrible last year and the first five months of this season four and a half
months he looked like vintage rolled as Chapman. But as soon as he got
traded, the wheels have just fallen off. He's been absolutely brutal. Yeah,
it's again. He did not look good yesterday at all. I wouldn't
be surprised if I was eight Clerk gets some saves. I traded in this
last week, I traded a rolled as Chapman in a Dynasty League going into
the deadline for Ranger Suarez. I was, I was thrilled. I'm like,
I'm done with a rolled as Chapman. Sure you can take this old
guy that's probably not going to be a closure again. Then I picked up
I thought a decent picture. I was very happy. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. You look at Baltimore and Canoa hasn't really stepped it up. Okay,
in the in the absence, uh, in the absence, in a
big absence of Felix Batista. Okay, so you could see Sional Perez getting
some saves along with you know, possibly colombie. It's it's it's a little
bit of a it's a little bit of a mess in Baltimore for saves.
But again, we're down to seven days, right. I heard Felix Batista
was was thawing some bullpen sessions. Yeah, yeah, maybe we'll see him,
Maybe we'll see him back in the It would be good, I mean,
particular in the playoffs. Yeah. You look at you look at the
Reds and all of a sudden, Alexis Diaz. Look, he's looking tired.
He's had a long season. Yeah, that's awful, awful, the
last two I have in four or five leagues. So yes, that one
hurt. Yeah, but again, what do you do? What do you
do? What do the Reds do? You know? Do they give Lucas
Simms a shot? Well, maybe they do, but my guess is they'll
go back to Diaz and hopefully he's gotten up left in the tank. Even
Ryan Presley has had mixed results lately. It's we're nearing the end of the
year and some of these guys are just flat out tired. You know.
We could see Matt Matt Brash getting saved in Seattle over munios again, is
that do I believe do I believe that long term affects anything. No.
I think Munios goes into goes into the season next year. Okay, as
as the closer, but again you could see Matt Brash with a save.
Who knows, you know, who knows what Detroit's gonna do with with Lang?
You know again, up down and all around. Uh. As far
as what I would do, I would the two guys that I would probably
look at picking up it would be jose lac Clerk would be one uh and
MacArthur. Those would be the two that I would probably focus on this week
if I was looking for if I was looking for saves, and everything else
is just a total. You know, hey, Kirby Yates in Atlanta,
he could find himself working in the ninth inning as they rest I Glaciers heading
into the playoffs and mentor you know, they've both thrown a lot of balls
this year. I could see them giving Kirby Yates an opportunity for saves,
any other any other pickups, tim any other pickups? No, not not
really. Again, what you've got to focus on are the specific needs of
your team where you can make some moves and just go out and find what
you believe to be the best option to fill, to fill that opportunity I
am taking into consideration. Yeah most most, yeah, most, most people
don't have any money left. But again, when you're putting your bids together,
you should be looking at what other people have for money. And yeah,
hey, if if rich Wilson has thirteen dollars left and you can catch
him in a league, well you should be bidding fourteen dollars, right,
he got to do a little work this week, you know, take a
look at what others have left over for fab and what you spend is irrelevant
because you don't get that cash back at the end of the year. And
this is the last kick at the can. So go forward, aggressively,
sick another break it back. And let's talk about two star pitchers. Good
advice from the Great timber Cloud. Different kind of two start pitchers, Timmy,
I just want you to tell me, Okay, they're gonna actually how
many total innings are they gonna throw? Louis Castile and Justin Verlin are both
and Kevin Gaalsman all three have two starts. How much can we expect in
their last start? In particular, dings pitched? Uh It depends on what's
what's on the line. If it's looking at the Mariners, I think what's
gonna happen is the Mariners and Rangers are gonna beat up on each other and
give the Jason opportunity. Okay, So I think Castillo's second start against Texas,
you know, on the last day of the season, he's going up
against John Gray. Second second to the last day, Saturday. Yeah,
yeah, the thirtieth. Yeah, I think that game is still gonna count,
so I think. But Gassman and Verlander are going up on Sunday,
I would think that's that's going to be somewhat a meaningless game, don't you
think. I think the potential for it. I think it could mean more
for Verlander than it will for Ghostman. I think the Jays are in the
situation with again and again. I'll have to look and see what the schedule
looks like after this, but it's all about who's going to be Who's gonna
clinch before the Saturday, right and obviously if the Jays, if Seattle clinches,
oh you know, Castillo is not going to pitch. If the Jay's
clinch, hey, you know, Ghostman's not gonna he's not gonna pitch on
that Saturday Sunday. So accordingly, you know you're gonna have to sit down
and look at the schedule and make a decision as to what you believe is
going to happen. And I can't. I can't tell you that. Let
me guess it's just as good as your's. The only thing I know is
with Seattle and Texas playing playing a whole host of games, one would think
that works in favor of the Jays. I would be out of those three
if I really wanted to try to get two wins out of him, I
can only pick one. I would go with Luis Castile. Nothing to do
with the quality of the pitcher. I just think the fact that his game
is on Saturday, he's got the most likely guy to pitch two games because
I think that Saturday game has a chance to count. Let me ask you
another kind of crazy question. Blake's now two starts, Yes, right,
been the best pitcher in the National League. So say people, as a
as a as an owner, I can debate that. Is he he's not
going to be with the Padres next year. He's playing for a contract.
Does he rest on his Laurels and say, hey, I'm not gonna I'm
not going to risk it. I've had a great season. I'm a good
chance I'm gonna win the Nationaligue cy young and barely pitching these last two games?
Or is he put the pedal to the metal and go full boar on
a Monday start? Excuse me, on a Monday start and a Sunday start?
What say you? Full bar? I'm thinking full boar. He seems
like a kind of guy that would not low foot going in. He would
he would go for it. Yeah. Yeah, I think he's gonna pitch
the I think he's gonna go for the full, the full nine yards.
Yeah, I'm not concerned about Blake Snell per se. Yeah, all right,
let's get to some true two start. Here's Adrian Howser home against the
Cardinals, and Zach Thompson and home against the Cubs and Justin Steele on Sunday.
I think he, I think he. I think they roll them out
there for both starts, even though that right now it looks like they've pretty
well clinched that division. They're playoff aspirations are not going to be based on
Adrian Hoser. They're going to be based on Burns, Parlta and wood Groff.
Right, So, I think on the last day of the season,
I think they're gonna go all in to try and do damage to the Cubs.
You know, it's it's an injured division game, but hey, if
Milwaukee can beat the Cubs and knock them out of the playoffs on that last
Sunday of the season, I think that gives them something to play for it,
don't you or am I being too traditional in my You're being too traditional?
But I think the last day game of the season, nobody's gonna really
care. That would be my guests, but I don't. Let mean,
who knows. Yeah, I would definitely Adrian Houser. I would definitely be
looking at him as a two start pitcher. Tanner hewk home against State Rais
okay, Jack Thompson at Adrian Hauser and home against Hunter Green. No,
Hunter Green, Yeah, there's there could be. There could be a lot
of straycoats in that game. Hunter Green pitched at Jem the other day,
didn't he and then and then and then blew it up for him? Yeah,
and I'm both on the same team. Man sucked. Yeah, But
yeah, I mean, boy, that if Hunter Green can start to do
that more often, you've got something Ryan Nelson at the White Sox and home
against Houston on Sunday. Ah, I see Houston resting everybody on the Sunday
unless unless there and again they could be in tight. They could need that
Sunday win to make the playoffs. H I love the matchup against jose A
Arena, but I game Joserena. That was with the Marlins back in the
day. I believe, so, yes, I don't care. Yeah,
uh Zach's right, Yeah, I don't. I don't think he'll go to
five innings. Yeah, Michael King, he's got yeah, Okay, that's
the pass the past two Yeah. Ryan Feltner, Uh yeah, that's a
pass for me. Okay. So really the two guys, Adrian Hawser and
Tanner Hawk, those are the two guys I'd be looking at. Yeah,
with Ryan Ryan Nielsen probably being the number three. Now again, if you
go through your league and you'll find players like uh Re Debtmer's is got Okland
on the last day of the season. Oh here, here's here's a gem
one that I like a lot is and he's rosters. The tune of fifty
seven says Michael King. He's got ghost than Zach rank H. I like
I like that. Yeah, yeah, kanis bitch is very very well and
he's rosters Junior realized, Sy it's less than sixty percent. Michael King could
be out there and he could be a difference maker, and he's throwing strikes.
He's looking really really good right now. Indeed, indeed, Timmy,
that is a rap, my friend. Lets take a final break, get
back, let's wrap this puppy up and talk about what we'll be doing this
week. Good stuff, tim, Yeah, we've had a lot of stuff.
We've had a lot of stuff to talk afternoon. Yeah. Yeah.
You know what, even when the notes are a little on the lean side,
we always will always find an hour and a half hour and a half
to talk baseball and the notes are on the lame side. Is that what
you said? Well, I didn't get my raise, so I feel like
freek that was hurtful. McCloud, Come on, lame, use the word
lame on. Rich Wilson notes, there was only four questions and you know
they were Yeah, but we expanded upon him, and you know we turned
a dandylion into a rose. Wow. Wow, jeez. So I'm sorry,
Timmy, the gloss that cloves have come off? Where was your waiver
wire this week? It was not existed, but I know it was not
existing. I would have read more questions. I was kind of say it
was as lame it's you. It's maybe even more lame, rightfully. So,
uh so, Timmy, we've got so just let him. I know,
I'm not on vacation, but I'm traveling down to Wilmington. We're doing
My wife's on a board and we have to do a charity fundraiser on Friday
night. It's called an oyster roast and harvest toast him, so we'll be
eating. We'll be eating oysters and having a good time there. And I
don't know, I'm I'm, I'm I'm. It's instead of it was always
me going to corporate events with it was always I had to attend that Lorie
would always join me. Now as in my retirement, it's the other way
around because Laurie's involved in a lot of stuff. So I just go and
I'm the I'm the guy tagging along. So I don't know, but I'll
be down basically recording and writing and things like that and rooting my teams onto
the bitter end. We'll try to do a podcast on Friday, everybody,
they'll be our last Friday podcast. Sunday will definitely be doing a podcast and
probably talk more about the Arizona Fall League as I'm going out, and then
just wrapping up things, Tim and starting to look towards next season. Yeah,
you know, it might be interesting. Next Sunday is with all the
games, they're all starting early, aren't they three o'clock? Let's when they
usually start? Okay, yeah, they all started at the same time though,
I believe, don't they three o'clock? Tim? Yeah, if we
moved it back, say half an hour on the podcast or an hour,
we could just do a live stream on the last day and comment on all
the games as they're shaking down. That might be fun. That's great,
as long as you don't make fun of my lame notes, which I won't
have any notes for the life. I'll come up with something because we're probably
going to talk a little bit about next season and things like that, maybe
a little bit about the playoffs coming up. So yeah, yeah, no,
I'll go easy on you for your notes days and then the week after
that one whatever Friday is not Friday, not the six Timmy, that is
the first day that my Chicago Cubs will drop. So it'll be twenty two
or three prospects for the Chicago Cubs. So I'm very excited about that.
It's all done. I'll loaded, I'll go do yeah, Yeah, it's
cool. Yeah, and probably what three two to three weeks after that,
we'll be discussing the NL Central, right, So that'll be the sixth I
got one dropping, the sixth, the tenth, the thirteenth, the seventeenth,
probably be the twentieth, ten of October, which is one we'll do,
or that'll be a Friday or sometime around there we'll do the NL Central.
Yeah, we'll be getting that one knocked off before the World Series champion
has been determined. Cool. I like it, very very exciting. So
offseason stuff starting ten. We never rest here, Yeah, no, we
never do. I've you know, finally started my rankings and asked me who
I've got number one at Oatfield Rich I'm going to say, uh, Colton
Cowser of the Baltimore Orioles. Uh No, I'm gonna go with a Kunia.
Oh okay, I know it's it's a mooring but what can I say?
The beggar question is who is number three? Who is number three?
Uh, Fernando Tatiase, Junior Soto one of those two? Okay, very
very good, very good. So I think it's gonna be a fun week
for Tim and I next week because in our DL five we are tied Tim,
We're tied for third place. Tim's got a better team than me.
He has played better, He and his partner have played better than I have.
So I'm expecting Tim to win, to beat me out. But who
knows Timmy, who knows? Well? You know what we've We've played the
we've played the odds right, and we were close to catching up on saves,
okay, So all of our bullpen guys sucked horribly okay, and we
got wins, which we really did need. So basically we're going back and
forth making the right decision decisions and having the wrong outcome. It's pretty hilarious.
Actually, Bob and I were laughing about that, like, it doesn't
matter what we do right now, it's turning up wrong. So I give
the edge to you because right now we're just totally fumbling, and like I
said, we're making the right moves but nothing's working out right. If that
makes that, boy, I tell you, it happens a lot. It's
gonna come down to probably who gets more at bats and endings pitched out of
the two of us, and that's you know, nothing you can do.
Unfortunately, I played Tanner Biby last week when he was hurt because to me,
I was writing and not paying attention to my teams, and that's that
was a bummer. So oh well, well we had Ryan Mountcastle going and
he really contributed a lot and we just want you. Yeah, so that'll
be fine, and I've got another another and DL six. I'm gonna say
two months ago I probably had eighty points in that league, and I'm I
hit my high water mark I think it was yesterday at one hundred and fifteen,
moved up in the second place. So don't give up, everybody.
I thought the team was going to be good to me, and they just
underperformed for the first four months of the season and they finally caught fire and
I've got a chance to be in the money, so I'll be rooting that
team one so yeah, so it's I got two rooting interests coming into next
week. Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. I've got two or three
with a rooting interest. But what I'm finding this year with my teams is
I never had with any of them, I never had the big weeks.
Okay, I've got I'm going to finish in the top four and I think
four of my leagues, but even the ones, I'm finishing very very strongly,
and it just seems like I haven't had that that monster week and most
of my teams are sort of limping down the home stretch. And what makes
a huge difference is, well, you know, and I'm looking at it
in the one league I'm probably gonna finish fourth, is you know, the
three guys ahead of me, their teams are just churning out numbers like crazy,
and I'm just sort of, you know, I'm mosey and right right
along. And again that's the that's the element of luck in the game,
and you really do need some big weeks in there. And if you don't
get them, yeah, you can still have a fine year, but it's
hard to push yourself up over that hump. Okay, if you don't have
the big weekend, Hey, it's part of the game. It happens,
right, And uh, one of my Dinny Sea leagues. I agree with
you, Timmy, one of my Dinny Sea leagues. I just my pitching
staff. Everybody's having Tommy John surgery, and I just it's just sitting there.
I mean, this is nothing I could do. And it's a really
good team. And I've been between eighty five and ninety points and I finally
got some of the pictures back that weren't having Tommy John surgery and they started
performing and I popped up to one hundred and two points. And I'm maybe
two or three points behind the guy, and you know, for the last
spot in the money. But if I had another two weeks, I could
probably catch them. I just don't know. So it's just like, but
I feel really good that, you know that the finally, you know that
what I thought was going to be a good team turned out to be a
good team. Just took too long for the guys to recover from and there
was just not enough people. There was just not enough people to enough time
and enough players. With all everybody injured, I just couldn't make it through.
So well, yeah, I can I can relate to that. I
you know, I've got one team that you know, if we were playing
okay through to the middle of January, and there'd be hope exactly. That's
that your tat Wars are your labor team. Yeah, yeah, middle of
January twenty twenty six. Maybe, Yeah. Tell me what's what's for tonight?
What's for dinner tonight? I had some past the last night, and
as there is a practice, when Tim has passed on one day, he
has passed the leftovers on the next day. So I've got I got some
some shells and spaghetti sauce, a couple of dinner rolls, and we're gonna
eat. We're gonna chew through the leftovers. What about you, rich when
you look at Tim, for the last five nights in a row, we
have either been to a charity event or out with friends, or we've eaten
out for five straight nights. So we're done. So I don't know what
we're eating. It could be a tomato sandwich. I mean, we're we're
I mean, I just feel like we've put on ten pounds. It's just
been it's been tough. So so we're we're letting our stomachs take a rest
and probably gonna eat something very very late. I think there's a salad in
the refrigerator that's been sitting there for a couple of days, and maybe we'll
split that. We do love the tomato sandwich. It gets some whole whole
grain seven grain bread and a little bit of cream, cheese and tomato slices
on there. So we might do that, but nothing big tim Last night
we had we had pizza out of a famous pizza joint and it's in the
kids live in Jersey City. There's a place called Raza are A z z
A. They have Neapolitan. Those are the smaller pizzas to me that are
a little bit fancy. Okay, it was fantastic. It was great.
All of everybody made it and you know, the grand baby was there,
so we had a blast. So that was our five five nights in a
row and that's how we ended it up. And like we're driving home,
gone, finally let's let's take a break from eating for a few days,
said, we're doing that. Yeah, no, I totally get it.
Years ago, when I was working on the road, you know, I
used to say, you know, yeah, I'm on the road, so
I'm I'm eating oat all the time. And people would say to me,
oh, you're so lucky you're you're eating on the road whatever. You know,
after about two weeks or it totally sucks, it really does. You
get home and what's the first thing? The first thing here? Hey can
we go over for supper? I don't want to go over for supper.
You know. It's it's vastly overrated. It's it's it's nice to think about
not having to cook, but when you're eating out of restaurants all the time,
it highly I spent my career doing that. That's what I did every
I mean I would go to dinner meetings and or or you know, just
sitting on an airplane eating. And yeah, I totally agree with you.
But our our eating out was fun because we went mostly out with people,
so it's more of a social type of thing. But you know, you're
trying to watch what you eat. You know, you're think of your cardiologists,
watch your salt and take, don't eat too much cholesterol. You know.
So you're you're thinking through all this, and it's just like at some
point to just kind of give up and go, well, I'll get to
all that later. So later has arrived, So later is now Later is
now to me? It is a wrap. Well, have a have a
good week, and we'll talk to you on Friday. My friend here,
yes too, Oh listeners out there, here's wish, wishing you the best
of luck this week as you chased down those titles, and have a good
week. Rich, be safe, be well, and we'll talk to you
next Friday.