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the mustachioed man of Mystery Gray.
Alright, how are you doing? Gray?

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I'm good man. How are you? How are you doing? Beat

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On? That's a better question.
Are you doing better than Tim Anderson?

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Uh? Yeah, I think so. Actually, I mean in general,

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yeah, I think I think so. I think his bank account it's probably

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still in a whole lot better place
than than mine is. But outside of

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that, yeah, I'm doing all
right, Grey. Actually, Tim Anderson's

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weekend is a good example of how
sometimes money doesn't matter. That was a

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brutal weekend for him. Man,
I actually I was. I made the

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mistake of tweeting I felt bad for
Tim Anderson and people were like, why

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do you feel bad for him?
But man, I don't know. Man,

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It's like I can't even imagine bro. Like he he went out,

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he looked like such a sucker.
Oh man, dude, I mean yeah,

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damn he got like it looked like, I mean, Jose, I

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wouldn't mess with Jose Ramiro's okay,
first of all, wouldn't not mess with

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Jose Ramires myself because I know better, especially now and after hearing the story

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about how like when he was a
kid, um people with guns, he

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used to chase him down if he
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he's, uh, you know,
he's been through it, you know what

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I'm saying. So he's not a
guy you mess around with. I wouldn't

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think so. Um, but he
barely it looked like he barely touched him,

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Like honestly, like, um,
who was the o'dore and Batista?

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O'door really like landed a punch on
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But Jose Ramirez honestly, like,
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his head down and he was just
swinging wildly and he looked like he grazed

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Tim Anderson. But Tim Anderson must
have a glass job because he was done.

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It was like I was like,
okay, goodbye, man. Yeah,

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if you thought a guy with one
homer power had a bit more in

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the tank as far as power was
going, Man, Tim Anderson looked bad.

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Oh, he looks so bad.
I feel I do feel bad for

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him though, Man, I man, for anyone who's brannyone's ever been embarrassed

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ever in their life, I would
think you'd have some some empathy, even

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though he absolutely did fuck around and
find out like the worst way. Now,

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I got up upgrade the explicit warning
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Yeah, are you funding are you
funding, um, No, I mean

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he did. He got like it
was a full right hook, but like

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he got like the weird knuckles,
like he got like the secondary knuckles,

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not even like the punch knuckles,
and still got knocked out. I mean

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it's I know, everybody in Major
League Baseball is a good athlete, they're

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all strong. Like anybody takes a
right hook from most professional baseball players,

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they're probably getting knocked out. That
was bad. And I have a gripe

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with baseball fights in general, like
even even the Odor Batista one, which

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is like I think the gold standard
for recent ish fights, Like there's too

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much pulling away, like the ref
stepped or the up stepped away. He

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was gonna let them square up,
and then all of a sudden, everybody's

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pulling each other off. Like I
don't even know if Tim Anderson would have

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gotten clocked if his teammates hadn't to
pull Ramirez to the point where like the

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right hook was exactly the right distance. That's actually that's actually a fair point.

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Yeah. But then you look at
the fact that Elvis Andrews, basically

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another three homer guy, he was
the one pulling back Tim Anderson. It

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was like it was like a feather
pulling back a marshmallow. And then Andrew

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vaud who I'm sure is a strong
enough guy, like you know, compared

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to me, but he carried Tim
Anderson like he was a baby. It

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was basically like, okay, but
I hear what you're saying though. That

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is a fair point, because like
if Tim Anderson and Jose Ramires we're just

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squaring up and there was no one
like pulling at them, Yeah, maybe

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maybe it would have looked different.
Oh. All I know is Tim Anderson

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might also be lucky that Jose Ramire
is just raised him. I mean,

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getting knocked out is getting knocked out, whether he at least if he would

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have got like really hit, he
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of himself. Now it's like,
oh, like you can just get like

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flicked in the head and just you're
just gonna knock over. I do think

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it's also it's you know, actually
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a perspective, speaking a big picture, Tim Anderson's like he just tweeted thinking

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the bigger picture, which I don't
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maybe he's talking to me, he's
he's basically right now, Tim Anderson is

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like punch drunk and he's just tweeting
stuff. But he just tweeted a big

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picture. So, you know,
because Tim Anderson tweeted that, I'll try

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and I'll try and figure out what
he means by saying, like, if

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you think about the big picture,
the fact that it looks like he barely

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tagged Jose Ramirez, like Jose Ramirez, I feel like what we don't realize

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is I think a lot of people
may not like Tim Anderson in the league

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because it was basically like you barely
touched Jose Ramires and Jose Ramires is like,

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okay, we're fighting that we're going
because yeah, I mean, it

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didn't take a lot to set off
Jose Ramirez. So I think the entire

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league has had enough of Tim Anderson
in some ways, and even like his

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teammates, I mean, yeah,
some of them were, you know,

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pulling him back, but most of
them were like, yeah, you can

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go get your ass beat. Good
luck. Oh yeah. I mean I

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guess in regards to the big picture, I got two ideas on that one

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great one, you know, big
picture. Now, Tim Anderson is set

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up when he when he gets DFA
after this year because he he can't hate

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anymore. He has a future matchup
lined up with Jake Paul that's gonna it's

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gonna make some money for him down
the line. And then also, I

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mean, if we think big picture, like at least he got to live

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in Chicago for his career, was
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that's a wig picture, that's a
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thinking about like if if if Tim
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everyone in the league wasn't secretly rooting
for Jose Ramirez, which may not be

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the case. People may legitimately not
like Jose Ramires either, and they may

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think that he uh jumped a gun
on Tim Anderson a little bit. But

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so if that's the case, then
you know, think a big picture.

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There is no one ever going to
try and make a tag on Jose Ramires

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again. He will literally he'll He'll
steal one hundred and fifty bags like next

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year. People are gonna be like, I ain't messing with that guy.

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Don't throw it. Don't even bother
throw it at the second because I'm not

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tagging them. Just eat it,
eat it. You know I am not

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going near that. All right,
great, let's go ahead and move on

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to some some other baseball stuff that
might be relevant for our listeners. Um,

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we said it last week. There's
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not going to cover because well,
we record on Monday typically, and uh

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well trade deadline was Tuesday, and
there were a number of trades we didn't

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cover. So let's just talk about
them real quick, Gray, I don't

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know how long we need to spend
on them, since you know, everybody's

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already in their place and and everything. If if anything, some of the

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more interesting stuff may be all the
people who get DF eight after the All

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Star break but or after sorry,
the trade deadline, but they haven't really

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cleared and signed with anybody. So
we'll get to that when that comes next

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week. Let's start the top.
Let's talking with the biggest one. Justin

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Verlander goes back to Houston, the
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I mean, Verlander himself has been
he's been fine this year, but you

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know it's kind of in the the
shots are mold where it's starting to decline

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a little bit, and you see
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specifically. Yeah, no, I
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Uh, you know, his better
days are behind him for sure. I'm

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you know, on the Astros,
we'll probably get more wins and you know

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what thing what people think of the
trade, I you know, I think

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the common perception of the trade is
probably accurate. I'm not gonna, you

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know, I'm not gonna be able
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or on the Astros. He'll be
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walks are up a little bit.
I think the uh, you know,

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I think probably the Crawford box is
in Houston could hurt him a little bit.

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More like he could end up giving
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that could hurt him because you know, his stuff justn't isn't as there as

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it has been you know, for
the last you know, fifteen years or

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whatever. So yeah, I mean
I think he's fine, though. I

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think we're probably seeing Justin Verlander h
starter Fantasy Starter number two versus a Fantasy

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Star number one, Like I was
saying with Max Scherzer last week, But

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you know, in that in that
regard. He's also been he's been pretty

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solid for you know, ratios,
and he's forty years old. I mean,

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how much more can you ask for
a guy? I mean, so

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he's so clearly a first ballot Hall
of Famer. Um, do we ever

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see a three hundred win guy again? I don't think so, right,

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I don't. I don't know anyway. Yeah, I think Verlander is what

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he is at this point, which
is like a solid number two. Um,

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and he's probably you know, he's
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bit more wind winds probability now because
of the Astros versus the Mets. So

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yeah, he's fine. Yeah.
I mean it's gonna be really hard to

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get the three hundred wins, as
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the shorter outings, the you know, the six mans, the all the

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stuff that is being done to take
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Yeah, I don't know if we
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seems like Scherzer Verlander might have been
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mean, I guess do you really
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game given the lack of strikeouts?
I mean, he certainly. You know,

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he missed a little bit of time
this year, so the Player Raider

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numbers may not quite match up.
But I mean he's currently fifty second on

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the Player Rader among pitchers. Oh
wow. I mean that says he's like

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a four five even now, the
certainty and the that you have with him,

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the innings, the ratios, maybe
that bumps him up, just given

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some of the blow ups that we've
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But like if you're looking, okay, so sorry not to terup, but

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if you gave him Charlie Morton's wins, which you know Braves Astros, that

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feels pretty similar. If you gave
him Charlie Morton's wins, he'd have six

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more points on the Player Raider and
that takes him to about twenty five overall

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for starters. So it's just because
he had no wins why he's that low.

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Yeah, I mean I suppose that's
that's true. I mean, it's

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not like he was with a bad
team and the Astros aren't. I would

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say I would say, actually,
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a team that's okay. I wouldn't
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want to clarify, he has six
wins on the year. I mean it's

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not exactly. I mean, I
wouldn't say he should have you know,

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twenty wins already, but you know, six wins is pretty bad for a

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guy with a barely three year right, Yeah, it's not it's not ideal

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certainly the contribution he's got on the
winds side. Um, I mean,

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wins are always fickle. That's that's
that's just it, I know, but

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winds are fickle. But also that's
why he's down at fifty two on the

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Player Raider. I mean he has
a he has a negative for wins,

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where like you know, Charlie Morin
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in value for wins and Justin Burlander
has you know, less than zero,

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so I mean strike out. So
if he was on the Astros all year,

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I think he would have ten wins. And if he had ten wins,

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he'd be a top twenty five starter. I'm not saying he's a top

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fifteen starter anymore. But you know, at two to three, I don't

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know, I mean, not not
four to five like whatever you were saying.

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Okay, but you can say that
though, because you know what,

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on this podcast we allow contrary opinions. I mean, well, I guess,

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would you take him rest of season
over Charlie Morton, who's k rate

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is better? Very similar for Charlie
Moore? Yes, I would take him

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off for Charlie Moore. I'd Actually, you know, here's a guy,

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so him or Aaron Nola. Now, Nola right now is twenty eighth on

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out of starters, twenty eighth starter
on the Player Raider. Would you take

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Nola or Verlander? I'm taking Nolah. Yeah, Nola sucks. No,

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Nola's five. Okay, Nolah's good
for a lot of things, but man,

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he gives up a lot of home
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He's a really a pain in the
ass. I mean, if you're cursing

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once on a boy, guess you
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Right. Um, Yeah, I
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Nola. But it's I think that's
pretty close. Actually, I don't know.

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I mean, yeah, Dan Dunning
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Dan Dunning or Justin Verlander. I
feel like Dunning's been exactly what Verlander has

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been. Yeah, I mean I
guess maybe I take Verlander just because there's

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no way he's not finishing out all
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suppose Dunning is a little bit younger
and hasn't really gone like a you know,

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he hasn't never put up like a
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So maybe there's an innings thing there
with Dunning. But I mean I think

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they're like I wouldn't expect what they
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ratios, neither his strikeout based Yeah, I mean the Rangers charts a little

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bit better. Okay, So okay, so I would say Suzer is definitely

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still better than Verlander. I would
agree with that. And I think I

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said sures there was a number two. So yeah, so maybe Verlanders number

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three. You've convinced me that he's
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I mean I think he's kind of
honestly, he's like he's kind of Jordan

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Montgomery, Like that's that's kind of
who Verlander is now. I like,

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I like that, Uh, I
kind of like that comparison. I don't

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think. I don't think Montgomery's that
bad though. No, he's a he's

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a good, solid pitcher, But
like if you said to somebody, justin

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Verlander is Jordan Montgomery, Like that
would trigger all sorts of alarms in their

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mind, and you go look at
the numbers and you'd be like, oh,

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well they're both little three easier A. Montgomery's whip has been a little

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bit wonky this year, but he
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kind of same same with those two. Yeah, I think, you know,

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perspective and trade value wise, that
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viewed differently, right, Yeah,
No, that's a fair point. I

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think if you were if someone was
trading Justin Verlander, they'd be able to

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get more in a trade than Jordan
Montgomery. And Jordan Montgomery's probably the same

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as Justin Verlander. Yeah, I
agree with that. All right, let's

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go ahead and move over to Arizona, where they added Paul Seuld from Seattle.

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Seattle's getting Dominic Kenzone, Josh Rojas, and Ryan Bliss. We don't

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really need to discuss any of those
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for our game unless you're in you
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some value there, but he was
he's already been picked up. It ends

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our Arizona. Who is the closer? Somebody tell me discussion every week at

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least Seattle is maybe the best part
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little bit. But where are you
at on Paul suld Well after Sunday and

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he gave up three runs, no
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Maybe you know, maybe the Diamondbacks
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Uh yeah, no, I think
I think Sea Walls probably the closer.

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too, um or I am actually
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know their name. I don't know
who they are. Uh. The last

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Diamondbacks GM I know is Dave Stewart. Oh oh the managers the GM.

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Oh sorry, that's they just pulled
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it's just gave me their manager.
I'll tell you in a second. Okay.

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So anyway, I just traded for
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needed saves. I traded with Derek
Carty, who needed um I guess he

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needed offense, I don't know.
I traded him Max Muncy for Paul Sewald.

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Uh. So you know, that's
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if you need saves, I think
Sea walls in a great play.

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He's a solid pitcher. He didn't
look great on Sunday. You know,

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I think that's gonna be fine.
I think I think he'll be fine.

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You know, everyone everyone blows a
game occasionally. Um, so yeah,

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I'm fine with Seawald. I think
he's I think he's good, and he's

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probably uh, you know, probably
safe for at least one or two more

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blow ups until they look at Ginkle
again. Hopefully that doesn't happen, because,

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like I said, I just trade
for him. But yeah, I

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think I think seawalds okay. And
to be fair, his first game in

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Arizona work with Arizona was perfectly fine. He had a clean out, and

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so yeah, I think he's fine. I think they traded for him.

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They're going to give him this opportunity
because they really didn't like anybody in that

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role season. Every time they got
handed somebody, it kind of went bad.

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Arizona's at least, you know,
it's not home run friendly. It

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used to be, it's it's no
longer that way. So I think that

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maybe helps out with some of the
blow ups a little bit to mitigate leaving

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Seattle, just some extent there,
Scott Barlow goes to San Diego. He's

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Mike Mike hays In. Yes,
step, You're right, Mike hays In

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is the GM there. Scott Barlow
is leaving Kansas City, so he's losing

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his closer job. He's going to
San Diego. Hayter is not going to

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give up his job to Scott Barlow. I can almost promise you that.

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Um. But if we're looking in
Kansas City, Austin, Austin Cox or

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Carlos Hernandez, do either of them
interest you for saves? Are you picking

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up one or the other or both? Potentially? Oh? Who is the

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guy who lost his wife the cancer. That's super sad. It's sad anyway,

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Mike hays And that is I was
still I was looking at Mike Hayson's

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Wikipedia page. Okay, Scott Barlow, I think, is you know he's

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just become a middle reliever. And
then in Kansas City, I would say

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Carlos Hernandez is like the one guy
I would pick up. But will it

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be definitely Carlos Hernandez job from now
until the end of the year. I

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don't. I don't really, I
can't say that. But it's also I

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mean, the Royals are sneaky,
terrible team, so you know, they

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may only get five saves total from
now until the end of the year.

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So yeah, Carlos Hernandez, I
guess if you're desperate. But it's not

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a great situation. Yeah, it's
definitely not a great situation. They did

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give Austin Cox the first save.
That was I think on Friday. Yeah,

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it was Friday that he got the
save. So we'll see how it

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goes. I think it's kind of
a bit of a mess. Austin Cox

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has not been particularly clean in his
own work, so it's not as though,

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you know, if he's not the
closer, you're you're picking up good

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numbers. He's been a little radic
as well, so I think it's probably

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Carlos Hernandez. It seems like the
most logical one. But just keep an

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eye out if if they keep going
Austin Cox, and then maybe they they're

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just trying to get him ready for, you know, a future closer role

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as he is, he is still
young in that system. Um, Tommy

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fam goes to Arizona. General Rodriguez
goes back to the Mets in that deal.

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Are we getting full time playing time
for FAM now? And where does

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that move him up into the outfielders
for you? Uh? No, I

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don't. I don't think that's gonna
be. I don't think he gets everyday

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playing time. I think he's probably
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I don't I don't think he's very
good anymore, like you know, that's

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uh. He did have like a
year or two there where he was very

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valuable for fantasy, but in general, I don't know. I mean,

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he's fine, but he's not really
like a you know, mixed league twelve

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teen guy that you can really rely
on. I mean, if he's hitting,

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sure, great, you know,
it's that's fine. I think,

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you know, he gets a little
bit boring with his stats now as a

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for a fantasy guy, at least
because it's like, you know, he's

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got ten homers thirteen steals on the
year. That's fine in like n OL

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only, but in a mix league
that kind of gets boring a little bit,

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at least in a twelve team mix
league or shallower, which is you

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know the majority of our listeners.
So yeah, he's fine. I don't

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like he's really kind of boring.
Not in reality because like you know,

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he goes his strip clubs, gets
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I mean, in reality he's not
boring at all. He's actually he's

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really he's crazy as shit. But
for fantasy he's like, he's okay.

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Yeah, I mean, I think
I maybe have a little bit higher opinion

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on his his fantasy production than you
given full time. Um, just because

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there's been a number of times this
year where he's been performing really well,

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and if he was playing every day, I think he would be on he

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would have been pretty much universally owned. And then just you start looking at

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the plane appearances he's getting and you're
like, oh, I can't, can't

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start somebody that's getting, you know, three out of six games. But

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I feel like he's getting more starts
since he's been traded. He's played the

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last four games hitting either third or
fifth. So he's sitting in the middle

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of the lineup and he's gonna give
you a little bit of both. He's

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gonna give you a little bit of
power, a little bit of speed.

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His average isn't gonna tank or at
least it generally doesn't absolutely tank. So

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I think there's a little bit more
value here than maybe what you're looking at.

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But I agree that he's not like, he's not a needle mover.

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He's not gonna put up massive numbers
rest of season. You know what you're

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describing as a guy who's more valuable
than most people think. Yeah, yeah,

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I mean that's what I think that
I just usually which is usually a

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guy you have in like a fifteen
team mix league or deeper and you're happy

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with them, whereas like in a
twelve team mix league, you grow kind

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of bored of that. You grow
you grow bored of the middle of the

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order, hits one homer every ten
days and steals a base every ten days,

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and you're like, yeah, there's
gotta be someone else. Fair enough,

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fair enough, I think he can
give you a little bit of both.

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But you're right, I mean,
in a shallower league, it's probably

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gonna get pretty bored unless he gets
hot. Just something to throw out there,

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though. I mean, if you're
looking at deep in outfield, I

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think you could do worse than him, especially with some of those guys at

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the back end not really performing very
well in recent days. Hiward Candelario,

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could you also go in and could
you beep out all of the times you

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disagree with me on this podcast as
well? So you just want me to

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just remove myself the question and then
just remove myself. Is that what you're

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you're wanting here? So we left
dons disagreements. No, don't you dare

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now, don't now, don't be
self deprecating. Just gonna white noise it.

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It's just gonna like wave I was
putting waves crashing on the beach during

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my whe I'm supposed to be talking, and then you'll just come in I

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disagreeing with waves. Actually put me
you know that famous shot of Ben Affleck

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looking real sad on the beach with
the towel. Put my head on that

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body and just have me staring at
the water talking. That's pretty much what

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we're gonna do. I think I'm
just gonna turn on a noise machine.

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I'm gonna pre record my questions every
like every ten minutes, and then just

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that that's gonna be how the podcast
is. Yeah, could you just cue

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me? Okay, anyway, I'm
feeling giddy today. Go ahead, Sorry,

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be Done't I mean to interrupt you? Please continue movie over to my

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uh, you know, potentially division
winning Chicago Cubs. They have added Heimer

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Condelario, big, big, huge
move for the Cubs. Um they sent

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it sent DJ hers and Kevin made
Djhurs sounds like the guy who was at

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Gray's bar mitzvah playing tunes. Um. He does seem to be playing every

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day Candelario and hitting, but he's
sitting six through eight. I mean,

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if Tommy fam was boring to you, then Candelario at the back end has

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to be you know, are you
falling asleep? DJ Hers for and for

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DJ Herr's credit, not only did
he DJ, but he also made Blue

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Balloon animals, so it's like any
cars. And now now he works at

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Enterprise, but then he was at
DJ what he did in my partment?

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Okay, oh yeah, So Heimer
Condelaria, I think he's actually great.

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I like him, like Heimer Candelaria. I'll be honest. I didn't you

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know last year I wrote a sleeper
post for him, and man, he

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looked terrible. He looked awful,
but he has a great launch angle and

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and Wrigley. I think he could
do some damage. Like, I really

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think Heimer Condelaria is kind of underrated, even in shallower leagues. I'm I'm

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a fan. Um I think,
uh, you know, we're looking at

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a guy who could potentially say twenty
five homers, ten steals, two seventy

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five average, Like you know,
he needs to finish strong for that to

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happen, but that could be his
end of the year numbers. That is

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good, it's good. I mean, you know, I'm staying the obvious

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here, but twenty five ten two
seventy five is really solid, especially for

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like where he was drafted. So
yeah, I'm I'm a fan of Heimer

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Condolaria. I think he probably is
gonna be underrated again next year too.

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I don't see him moving up draft
boards, so you know, just just

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brace yourself for Heimer Candolaria's sleeper twenty
twenty four. Yeah, I mean,

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I mean the numbers are solid,
they're they're fine. I would say that

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like this year, if you're looking
at a player raider, his value was

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really kind of buoyed by the county
numbers and with him moving over to Chicago,

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who has you know, I didn't
think i'd say this. They actually

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have options, you know, to
in their batting order right now. It

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like him being buried at the bottom
is going to take away from what he's

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been providing in you know, for
the Nationals, where he was hitting at

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the top of the lineup, because
he's i mean, he's fifty seven fifty

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three on the runs RBIs for them
hitting in the bottom of the Cubs orders,

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he's just not gonna get the play
appearances and the runs in RBI,

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I think in there. But I
think in regards to the overall production in

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regards to home runs, stolen bases
and what you're saying, Yeah, I

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mean, I think it probably does
go a little unrecognized that he's having a

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pretty solid season and I think he's
going to end up, you know,

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in the low twenties of home runs
and you know, probably eight nine,

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00:32:16.960 --> 00:32:21.559
ten steal somewhere in that area.
And that is that is a pretty solid

405
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:25.759
player in most leagues. Again,
in a shallow league, with him dropping

406
00:32:25.799 --> 00:32:29.599
in the order, it may not
be as interesting. But he also has

407
00:32:29.720 --> 00:32:32.759
multip musician eligibility, and that's always
nice in shallow leagues because then you kind

408
00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:37.240
of move them around when other guys
have days off too, without having to

409
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:40.599
go to the water. Yeah,
that's fair. Moving on to some of

410
00:32:40.680 --> 00:32:45.720
maybe lesser trades here, M Paul
Deong goes to Toronto, Matt's Fanson goes

411
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:51.759
to back to Saint Louis. In
that deal, U Bo Bischett Retro Bishette

412
00:32:51.839 --> 00:32:53.640
goes over to the I L.
But it doesn't sound like it's a big

413
00:32:53.680 --> 00:32:59.680
issue, I guess. In correlation
with this, they've also called up a

414
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.839
day Davis Davis Schneider, who is
getting time at third base. De Young's

415
00:33:04.880 --> 00:33:10.000
playing shortsopper second base. Actually I
think Davis's playing second base. Sorry about

416
00:33:10.039 --> 00:33:14.240
that? Are you interested in the
Young? And I'll go ahead and bring

417
00:33:14.319 --> 00:33:19.519
in David Schneider here, who has
had a pretty successful year in Triple A,

418
00:33:20.119 --> 00:33:22.559
going twenty one home runs, nine
stone bases two seventy five, four

419
00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:30.880
sixteen, five fifty three. I
think, um, I think Davis is

420
00:33:30.960 --> 00:33:37.599
at second and with Maryfield now is
I think David Schneider's at second with Marryfield's

421
00:33:37.640 --> 00:33:44.119
in the outfield still even though even
though I see roster resource has it the

422
00:33:44.240 --> 00:33:47.640
opposite way or something? Um,
anyway, that's that's irrelevant. Uh,

423
00:33:47.960 --> 00:33:52.920
yeah, you know, David Schneider, I don't know, maybe because you

424
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:59.240
know, sometimes these guys are like
you know, written off as like not

425
00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:05.279
real prospects. Early on in their
minor league career. But he looks he

426
00:34:05.519 --> 00:34:08.840
looked like he really came around in
Triple A this year. Like I don't

427
00:34:08.880 --> 00:34:12.920
know, I mean, I get
it. At no point was he a

428
00:34:13.000 --> 00:34:17.000
prospect that anyone was interested in,
like in you know, prior to twenty

429
00:34:17.119 --> 00:34:23.159
twenty three. But unless he's just
finally you know, you know, seeing

430
00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:28.519
the pictures in Triple A for so
much, because he's been there for now.

431
00:34:29.079 --> 00:34:30.679
You know, he was there in
twenty twenty two as well, So

432
00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:36.400
maybe he's just seen the pictures so
much in Triple A. I don't know.

433
00:34:37.239 --> 00:34:39.039
He looks like he was breaking out
though in Triple A. Like,

434
00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:44.440
and he's only twenty four. It's
not like he's a twenty eight year old

435
00:34:44.960 --> 00:34:49.400
and he's and has been in Triple
A for like three years. He's not

436
00:34:49.840 --> 00:34:53.760
like Kenny Powers, like he's just
gotten to Triple A kind of and he's

437
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:59.079
twenty four. I don't know.
I mean, I was kind of surprised

438
00:34:59.119 --> 00:35:04.079
to see him sort of come up
without any fanfare whatsoever, and everyone just

439
00:35:04.239 --> 00:35:08.079
sort of I think people just wrote
him off. But he looks he looks

440
00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:15.880
good. You know, if Baschett
comes back this Friday as they're saying the

441
00:35:16.039 --> 00:35:20.519
lineup does get a little bit squeezed, so he may lose a little bit

442
00:35:20.599 --> 00:35:25.639
of playing time. Um, and
you know Paul DeJong the reason why we're

443
00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:31.960
even discussing the Jays right now with
Paul Dejeng getting traded there again, when

444
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:37.719
Bashett comes back on Friday, I
think Dejeon probably falls into somewhat of a

445
00:35:37.199 --> 00:35:44.639
platoon of some sort. And he's
also Dejeng isn't very good, so I

446
00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:49.119
mean he hits the occasion, it's
like the occasional Homer. He doesn't make

447
00:35:49.199 --> 00:35:52.719
great contact, so he's not gonna
hit for a good average and he's fine

448
00:35:52.880 --> 00:35:58.400
for like like deeper leagues in like
mostly for daily leagues too, once he

449
00:35:58.480 --> 00:36:01.199
starts platooning. So yeah, I
don't know. I'm I'm interested in David

450
00:36:01.239 --> 00:36:06.119
Schneider more than Dejean, to be
honest. But we'll see what happens with

451
00:36:06.440 --> 00:36:09.599
Schneider's playing time once the check comes
back. But for right now, because

452
00:36:09.639 --> 00:36:15.480
Schneider's hitting so well and he's seeing
the ball so well, I would pick

453
00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:17.920
up Schneider in just about any league
if you have, you know, the

454
00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.400
room for him. Yeah, I
would tend to agree, and it wouldn't

455
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.719
be surprised to see, like,
you know, Santiago Espinall or Cavn Bigio

456
00:36:25.840 --> 00:36:31.440
get optioned if if Davis Schneider continues
to hit, I think the Young is

457
00:36:31.559 --> 00:36:34.719
just you know, he's gonna be
a deaf piece. He can kind of

458
00:36:34.760 --> 00:36:37.800
play all over um, you know. And if the Young is in that

459
00:36:38.039 --> 00:36:44.320
class of guys, who if your
only really great season was twenty nineteen,

460
00:36:44.800 --> 00:36:51.159
I don't believe you, like you
aren't that you want Pancho that's a that's

461
00:36:51.199 --> 00:36:55.440
a good point. Yeah, well
then the Bigio Espinall, they had a

462
00:36:55.599 --> 00:37:00.639
they had a bunch of guys that
had huge twenty nineteen teams. The years,

463
00:37:00.719 --> 00:37:02.519
right, Yeah, I think twenty
nineteen was a very good year for

464
00:37:02.840 --> 00:37:07.039
for Toronto and everybody. Oh they
oh wait, they had the uh the

465
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:12.400
bounty ball and they were in the
minor league park right now. Twenty twenty

466
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:15.480
I thought was, oh no,
twenty you're right, yeah, twenty twenty

467
00:37:15.519 --> 00:37:17.360
and twenty twenty one they're in a
minor league park. Yeah, my bad,

468
00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:20.920
Sorry, no, that's fine,
but yes, the bounty that's how

469
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.920
bounty the ball was. Like Paul
DeYoung was a legitimate, like fantasy stud

470
00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:30.800
for that season. That's that's how
crazy that ball was. Moving on.

471
00:37:30.960 --> 00:37:35.679
Aaron Savale is going to Tampa Bay
for much needed pitching reinforcement, and they're

472
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:38.480
actually giving up a very good prospect
in calmn Zardo going back to Cleveland for

473
00:37:38.639 --> 00:37:44.400
this. Savali is a cost control
young pitcher who's good, I mean,

474
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:46.559
and just kind of thinking about this, like, can you imagine if Tampa

475
00:37:46.639 --> 00:37:51.239
Bay's pitchers could stay healthy, how
good they would be this year? Gray?

476
00:37:52.119 --> 00:37:59.360
Yeah, Okay, So my thoughts
on that is the raise don't pay

477
00:37:59.400 --> 00:38:02.880
anyone. Well, they they did
actually pay Fflyn a little bit, but

478
00:38:04.199 --> 00:38:08.559
you know, barely. They don't
pay anyone. So if they like ruin

479
00:38:08.679 --> 00:38:13.280
their arms, they're kind of like
they shrug and they're like, nah,

480
00:38:13.960 --> 00:38:17.800
you know, we'll just well,
we'll just create another great starter, you

481
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:23.159
know, so really, you know, it happens. I think that's sort

482
00:38:23.199 --> 00:38:29.679
of the raise perception on this whole
thing. Um. I kind of understand

483
00:38:29.719 --> 00:38:35.519
getting Sevalier for Manzarto, even though
I think Menzarto could be good, Like

484
00:38:35.719 --> 00:38:42.039
you said, uh, you know, controllable young starters who are already good.

485
00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:45.400
That's valuable. So yeah, I
think the raise, I think Sevalier

486
00:38:46.119 --> 00:38:52.360
you know, is he a two
five o ear a picture. No,

487
00:38:52.840 --> 00:38:57.920
obviously he's not, but he could
be a three to five oh picture.

488
00:38:58.079 --> 00:39:01.920
He's kind of like, you know, a Marcus Stroman or something like,

489
00:39:02.119 --> 00:39:09.599
you know, not not incredible case, good command um manages to make induce

490
00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:15.000
a week contact from hitters. So
yeah, he's like he's one of those

491
00:39:15.079 --> 00:39:21.119
guys who will exceed like his X
fit, Like he's gonna he's gonna look

492
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:25.239
better than his peripherals, but this
better. Yeah, I don't know about

493
00:39:25.280 --> 00:39:30.360
that, but yeah, he's he's
a startable guy though, like in in

494
00:39:30.639 --> 00:39:34.920
just about every mixed league, um, you know, with four ratios.

495
00:39:35.039 --> 00:39:38.079
If not, you know, maybe
if he can get the case back from

496
00:39:38.199 --> 00:39:42.840
last year, then he becomes a
whole lot more interesting. But right now

497
00:39:43.079 --> 00:39:46.280
his case are you know, pretty
bad. Yeah, every case is being

498
00:39:46.440 --> 00:39:51.000
under twenty percent makes him you know, he can run him out there for

499
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:53.199
the ratios and that's that's fine.
I've been doing that in some leagues.

500
00:39:53.320 --> 00:39:58.800
It's it's really hard to find guys
you can count on for good ratios consistently

501
00:39:58.880 --> 00:40:01.079
this year. But yeah, the
case just really aren't there. So it's

502
00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:06.800
some extent you're eating up innians especially
if you have an Indians cap without the

503
00:40:06.920 --> 00:40:10.159
opportunity to really get a lot of
strikeouts. You know, I think the

504
00:40:10.239 --> 00:40:15.039
biggest thing he's done this year is
just really really limit the home run.

505
00:40:15.599 --> 00:40:21.760
And I don't really have anything that
I can contribute in regards to what has

506
00:40:21.840 --> 00:40:27.199
caused this significant drop in his home
runs. Like he hasn't really picked up

507
00:40:27.239 --> 00:40:30.599
velocity. There's not really been a
pitch mix change or a dropping in like

508
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:36.639
the break or change in the break. Really, it just seems like he's

509
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:39.679
kind of had the year where the
home run the flyball has been very depressed

510
00:40:39.719 --> 00:40:44.079
and he's just kind of keeping the
ball in play. And so I mean,

511
00:40:44.159 --> 00:40:45.760
as long as he's doing that,
you know, I'm all for him.

512
00:40:45.920 --> 00:40:50.639
I do wonder about that home run
the flyball as we kind of enter,

513
00:40:51.440 --> 00:40:54.920
you know, next season and where
where he might be ranked. I

514
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:59.280
think, you know, I kind
of trust the raise. I don't and

515
00:40:59.440 --> 00:41:02.559
not nothink kind of picture I usually
draft anyway, But you know, if

516
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:08.400
he's going at a decent draft spot, I could see potentially maybe like if

517
00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:14.679
he's at like two hundred overall,
yeah, one seventy five. Yeah,

518
00:41:14.760 --> 00:41:17.079
maybe if he's you know, if
he's above one fifty, then it starts

519
00:41:17.079 --> 00:41:21.559
to get a little iffy because you're
really just making a ratio play. But

520
00:41:21.840 --> 00:41:24.639
anyway, yeah, maybe they can
teach him the curveball or the change up

521
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:29.239
that they teach and everybody, and
then he'll be a better pitcher. But

522
00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:30.719
until the case come up, he
is. He is kind of what he

523
00:41:30.920 --> 00:41:34.760
is, And like he said,
I think it's more three five, maybe

524
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:37.880
even like three eight if I'm being
realistic in regards to where I'd probably have

525
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.599
him at rest of season. But
the Rays are a very good organization,

526
00:41:40.719 --> 00:41:45.920
and you know, he's been pitching
very well all year. Speaking of somebody

527
00:41:45.960 --> 00:41:47.880
who has been pitching well, Michael
Lorenzen is on the move. He's going

528
00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:53.239
from Detroit to the Phillies. How
U Lee is going back in the trade

529
00:41:53.320 --> 00:41:57.800
to Detroit. The second half this
year, Michael Lorensen has been great.

530
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.360
He has twenty six and two thirds
Indians. He's a one six ninety eight

531
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:05.440
nine whip in a twenty two percent
k rate. He has gotten rid of

532
00:42:05.559 --> 00:42:08.400
the cutter and the curve, barely
throwing the sinker, so he's just simplified

533
00:42:08.440 --> 00:42:12.920
down the pitch mix and and the
results have been good so far. Right,

534
00:42:14.440 --> 00:42:19.039
Yeah, no completely. My big
concern with him is I think the

535
00:42:19.239 --> 00:42:23.360
Phillies have talked about or was it
the Phillies or just general consensus. I

536
00:42:23.519 --> 00:42:30.840
think someone well anyway, someone said
it, and it makes sense that he's

537
00:42:30.920 --> 00:42:36.039
could be he could be limited and
moved to the bullpen fairly soon because his

538
00:42:36.199 --> 00:42:39.199
innings are getting up there, like
he can only he can probably only throw

539
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:49.280
like thirty five to forty more innings, so you know, five to seven

540
00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:52.800
more starts maybe, yeah. I
mean I guess most people are only gonna

541
00:42:52.840 --> 00:42:57.199
throw ten more starts, so you
know, maybe that's not maybe that's not

542
00:42:57.360 --> 00:43:00.119
bad. But yeah, I mean
he's getting up there with innings, so

543
00:43:00.360 --> 00:43:05.760
I don't know, I could see
the Phillies potentially moving him to the pen

544
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:13.679
because it's like either get you know, five to six more starts or get

545
00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:19.559
like the rest of the year with
a solid, long reliever. So you

546
00:43:19.639 --> 00:43:22.920
know, that's just something to watch. Because the Phillies do have six men

547
00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:27.239
in their rotation right now. Yeah, I mean, I just don't think

548
00:43:27.480 --> 00:43:30.559
Christopher Sanchez really stays in the rotation. I think that's the piece that moves

549
00:43:30.599 --> 00:43:34.760
to the bullpen, or maybe they
send him down to the miners if they

550
00:43:34.800 --> 00:43:38.800
wanted to continue throwing starters innings Michael
Lorenz. I mean they traded for Lorenzen.

551
00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:43.559
He's on the last year of his
contract, so they really don't have

552
00:43:43.599 --> 00:43:47.679
any incentive not to blow his arm
out and let him throw innings upon innings

553
00:43:47.719 --> 00:43:51.800
the rest of the season. Because
I was thinking the opposite way of what

554
00:43:51.960 --> 00:43:54.960
you're saying. And what's I guess
you know you've heard reported. I assume

555
00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:59.679
they were grabbing him just to load
him up on Innians and maybe save Wheeler

556
00:43:59.800 --> 00:44:04.960
and Nola, Walker and Suarez,
the guys they have under contract for next

557
00:44:05.079 --> 00:44:10.199
year and just let you know,
Lorenz and be the Innians guy. Um.

558
00:44:10.320 --> 00:44:14.360
I mean, he's a thirty one, thirty two year old pitcher.

559
00:44:14.440 --> 00:44:16.599
He's gonna be a free agent.
I just don't see them being like,

560
00:44:16.679 --> 00:44:19.920
oh, well, we had we
had to preserve this guy's arm. Who's

561
00:44:19.920 --> 00:44:23.280
not gonna be back with us.
I yeah, I just quickly did a

562
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:30.039
search. I see the Phillies.
The Phillies reporter said that they're a six

563
00:44:30.119 --> 00:44:34.440
man rotation right now, but they
have to go to they have to move

564
00:44:34.519 --> 00:44:39.679
someone to the bullpen soon. So
do that do they really? I don't

565
00:44:39.719 --> 00:44:45.159
know that's you know, honestly,
you're right. I can't argue with that.

566
00:44:45.440 --> 00:44:50.280
I mean, why why limited a
guy? Why limited a guy who

567
00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:53.880
you're not gonna have around? I
mean it sucks, you know, it

568
00:44:54.039 --> 00:45:00.760
sucks to say that from a labor
standpoint, because just like who cares about

569
00:45:00.840 --> 00:45:04.039
lorenz and in his arm? But
you're you're right. I mean, the

570
00:45:04.079 --> 00:45:07.159
Phillies could throw him for the rest
of the year potentially. It's hard to

571
00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:10.800
say, Yeah, that sounds like
one of those news bits from a less

572
00:45:10.840 --> 00:45:17.280
than maybe reputable Philly source, but
who knows. Moving on, let's talk

573
00:45:17.280 --> 00:45:22.559
about Jack Flaherty. He goes to
Baltimore, Seattle or Saint Louis is getting

574
00:45:22.599 --> 00:45:28.039
saysar Prieto, dream Rome and Zach
Showalter back. I will say the philosophy

575
00:45:28.119 --> 00:45:30.159
has been ticking back up slightly for
Flaherty. So there's a little bit of

576
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:35.440
hope here. Where are you at
on Jack Flaherty? Who you know?

577
00:45:35.519 --> 00:45:38.719
I mean, he had he was
okay, He's had a strong little second

578
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:43.639
half start here? Where are you
at on him? Also? I think

579
00:45:44.119 --> 00:45:46.360
I forget which start it was,
but there is one of those starts from

580
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:51.400
flattery flattery, where's like he gave
up so many earned runs, and if

581
00:45:51.440 --> 00:45:55.280
you threw out that one start,
his ratios look better, Like everything looks

582
00:45:55.360 --> 00:46:00.239
better. He still is having some
issues with his command, though, I

583
00:46:00.440 --> 00:46:05.960
believe so unless the Orioles can fix
that. But you're right, the velocity

584
00:46:06.159 --> 00:46:10.000
is up. So yeah, I'm
I'm in on Flattery if he's able to.

585
00:46:10.400 --> 00:46:15.400
You know, Baltimore is a great
park. I think he's got you

586
00:46:15.519 --> 00:46:20.760
know, I think he's potentially could
be a good you know, every Stark

587
00:46:20.840 --> 00:46:24.400
guy for the rest of the year. I would I would keep starting him

588
00:46:24.480 --> 00:46:30.599
until, like he you know,
said otherwise with his pitching, I have

589
00:46:30.719 --> 00:46:32.440
no I have no problem with Jack
Flattery at this point. I would.

590
00:46:32.920 --> 00:46:37.199
I was really kind of out on
him when he was with Saint Louis and

591
00:46:38.159 --> 00:46:42.079
I felt like he was just,
you know, a little bit too wild.

592
00:46:42.199 --> 00:46:45.239
But right now I don't mind them. I'm kind of in on Jack

593
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:50.119
Flattery, on the Orioles. Yeah, and another guy who has you know,

594
00:46:50.199 --> 00:46:53.639
he's coming up on a restricted free
agency. So another guy that you

595
00:46:53.840 --> 00:46:58.639
assume is going to have the innings
and he's he's another he's somebody who needs

596
00:46:59.079 --> 00:47:01.159
to show that he can still pitch
because he's going to be looking for that

597
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:05.480
next contract. He's not. He's
only he's only twenty seven, So I

598
00:47:05.559 --> 00:47:08.360
mean, in some ways, he's
very lucky to have gotten called up when

599
00:47:08.400 --> 00:47:15.639
he did prior to the injuries because
he kept his arbitration clock ticking to some

600
00:47:15.840 --> 00:47:19.039
extent, so that that was very
nice for him. But yeah, I'm

601
00:47:19.079 --> 00:47:22.599
with you. I think that he's
you know, a solid option for them.

602
00:47:22.639 --> 00:47:25.159
As he's coming down the stretch,
the velocity ticking up makes me feel

603
00:47:25.199 --> 00:47:29.599
better about you know, where he's, where his arm is at and in

604
00:47:29.679 --> 00:47:34.679
regards to health and what's going on. So I think he's a fine streamer

605
00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:37.440
here, and you know, the
home runs should be helped out by moving

606
00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:43.320
to Baltimore. Yeah, no,
agreed, Josh Bell is going to Miami.

607
00:47:43.840 --> 00:47:46.920
Jean Skirrett, Khalil Watson go back
to Cleveland in that deal. They

608
00:47:47.000 --> 00:47:52.199
immediately cat Jean Sagira, So nothing
to talk about there. I almost didn't

609
00:47:52.199 --> 00:47:53.639
feel like there's nothing to talk about
Josh Bell. He's going to do a

610
00:47:54.280 --> 00:47:58.800
almost same park factor, but one
that's so much worse for home runs than

611
00:47:58.960 --> 00:48:07.360
like he's yeah he is, Oh, okay, he's very Yeah, let's

612
00:48:07.400 --> 00:48:10.360
just move on then, Ryan Yarbow
goes to the Dodgers. Devin Mann and

613
00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:15.199
Darlin Figueroa go to Kansas City.
The second half this year, Ryan Yarbo

614
00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.760
has a two three five year,
a one zero whip and a fourteen percent

615
00:48:17.880 --> 00:48:22.599
K eight. He's never been a
strikeout guy, and he's starting with an

616
00:48:22.679 --> 00:48:27.440
opener, but he's giving some pretty
solid ratios this second half and really most

617
00:48:27.480 --> 00:48:30.119
of the season. Gray Yeah,
and all of a sudden, the Dodgers

618
00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:35.599
cheat, So you know how bad
they bad? I mean, the Dodgers

619
00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:40.800
have made a Madraszario a clean up
hitter? Is that? I mean,

620
00:48:40.960 --> 00:48:45.519
I think at a certain point,
like if you're cheating so much where you're

621
00:48:45.599 --> 00:48:49.960
making a guy with three homer power
into a clean up hitter, then you're

622
00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:54.760
cheating too much. You're making it
too obvious. Like it's like, I

623
00:48:54.840 --> 00:48:59.519
don't think the Dodgers cheat, and
then you see Rosario cleaned up and you're

624
00:48:59.559 --> 00:49:04.639
like, oh, okay, hold
up a second, cheat it? Um?

625
00:49:05.119 --> 00:49:09.639
Yeah, I think Yarbro is fine
and like NL only um where you

626
00:49:09.679 --> 00:49:15.519
could get potentially some good ratios and
you know, like actually in one NL

627
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:20.920
only league, I think I picked
him up because he was you know,

628
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:25.079
he was he was super cheap for
fab and I needed, uh, you

629
00:49:25.159 --> 00:49:29.239
know, I just need an arm
and that's all Yarbro really is. And

630
00:49:29.320 --> 00:49:32.599
it's for n L only only,
so L only only. So yeah,

631
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:37.960
it's like it's fine. Yeah.
I will say I've always kind of been

632
00:49:37.960 --> 00:49:40.159
a fan of Ryan Yarborro. I
just I think he's a good pick.

633
00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:44.760
Like he's just a really solid pitcher
most of the time when he's healthy.

634
00:49:44.920 --> 00:49:47.280
The times that he's not looked good, I feel like he's he's been battling

635
00:49:47.360 --> 00:49:51.760
injuries. So I always like him. I think he's a fine streamer even

636
00:49:51.800 --> 00:49:54.679
in shallower leagues, even without starting. He's he's got wins in two of

637
00:49:54.760 --> 00:50:00.679
his last three starts, and he's
going when he's going at least five Innians,

638
00:50:00.760 --> 00:50:04.440
six Indians and most of them as
well. So you're getting the Indians

639
00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.239
out of him that you would out
of a starter anyway. So I think

640
00:50:07.320 --> 00:50:13.679
there's a place for him as a
streamer even in like twelve team leagues potentially,

641
00:50:14.159 --> 00:50:16.360
but again it depends on whether you're
where you're at against that Indians capital

642
00:50:16.360 --> 00:50:22.440
limit. There's a bunch of other
minimal DLC here Gray, I'm just gonna

643
00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:25.199
run through them. You tell me
if there's anything after I get through this

644
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:29.400
list that you want to kind of
circle back to and talk about. Garrett

645
00:50:29.440 --> 00:50:32.480
Cooper and Sean Reynolds go to San
Diego for Ryan Weathers and he goes back

646
00:50:32.519 --> 00:50:37.880
to the Marlins. Markanda goes to
the Brewers for Justin Jarvis back to the

647
00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:43.960
Mets. AJ Pollock and Mark Matthias
go to San Francisco. Luis Aurius goes

648
00:50:44.039 --> 00:50:49.960
to Boston, Andrew Chaffin goes to
Milwaukee. Jake Berger goes to Miami,

649
00:50:50.800 --> 00:50:54.800
Calhoun to Cleveland, Jase Peterson to
Arizona, Rich Hill and Gie Manchoy to

650
00:50:54.880 --> 00:50:59.639
San Diego, and Luis Patino to
the White Sox. There were some other

651
00:50:59.719 --> 00:51:02.119
deals, and I didn't quite mention. I almost feel I almost feel like

652
00:51:04.119 --> 00:51:07.599
Jake Burger was in there as like, which guy is unlike the other guys.

653
00:51:09.360 --> 00:51:15.880
It's a little bit unfair to put
Jake Burger in with like AJ Pollock,

654
00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:22.679
is it. Jake Burger's not that
bad. Come on, and he's

655
00:51:22.719 --> 00:51:27.199
got like, has he got twenty
six homers? I mean he's on he's

656
00:51:27.280 --> 00:51:30.880
on pace for like thirty five homers
this year, and I don't know,

657
00:51:31.000 --> 00:51:36.000
I mean, yeah, the average
isn't good, but he makes no contact.

658
00:51:36.119 --> 00:51:39.199
But I mean, is he that
much worse than Kyle Schwarber, Max

659
00:51:39.280 --> 00:51:45.360
Munsey? Yeah, or Max Munsey. I mean Schwarber, especially Schwarber's just

660
00:51:45.960 --> 00:51:53.239
been so bad. Muncy Munsey hasn't
been good either. I will say,

661
00:51:53.760 --> 00:51:59.199
back to the Muncie Seawall trade that
I mentioned earlier, that isn't on base

662
00:51:59.320 --> 00:52:02.519
potentially, so months he's a little
bit better there. Um. Yeah,

663
00:52:02.920 --> 00:52:07.000
Burger I think is okay. I
mean, he's fine for power. I

664
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:12.840
would have I would have gone and
tried to get him in like an Anna

665
00:52:13.000 --> 00:52:15.880
only league where he came into the
league from the White Sox. I think,

666
00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:20.840
you know, in a mixed league. Yeah, I mean, okay,

667
00:52:21.000 --> 00:52:24.800
he's probably more of like a a
utility guy in a twelve team mixed

668
00:52:24.880 --> 00:52:32.320
league. So yeah, but AJ
Pollock is like he's unstartable. Burger is

669
00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:37.280
better than that, Okay anyway,
Yeah, I have nothing else to say

670
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:39.920
about those guys. Fair enough,
fair enough. I just you know,

671
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:44.800
if AJ Pollock falls into an everyday
roll, the Giants are very old,

672
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:47.440
Like I don't know what the Giants
are gonna do with him, Like I

673
00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:52.599
don't even know why they were trading
for him, so that's where you know

674
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:58.239
he gets thrown in there. But
yes, ill Aj Pollock feels like a

675
00:52:58.400 --> 00:53:01.440
trade you make when it's like,
well, we have to say to our

676
00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:07.840
fans, we're trying something because otherwise
we're doing nothing at the trade deadlines,

677
00:53:08.000 --> 00:53:13.679
so let's do something. Well,
we gotta we can't do anything that's really

678
00:53:13.760 --> 00:53:21.400
gonna be anything, so let's do
AJ Pollock move. It's like when I

679
00:53:21.639 --> 00:53:25.280
am surprised it wasn't a Cubs move. Honestly, it feels like a got

680
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:29.599
Cubs move this year, but you
know, you know, it feels like

681
00:53:29.679 --> 00:53:37.159
it feels like a recent Yankees move. Keenan Middleton, Oh oh okay,

682
00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:43.320
what is that? What's that doing
for us? I'm surprised they didn't go

683
00:53:43.400 --> 00:53:47.239
back to the Dodgers because they love
bringing back crappy old players who do nothing

684
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:52.199
for them nowadays. That would have
been another good thing. Honestly, I

685
00:53:52.280 --> 00:53:57.800
think I think Ryan Yarbro is better
than Keenan Middleton, for like, if

686
00:53:57.840 --> 00:54:01.119
the Yankees, the Yankees needed a
starter more than they needed just a random

687
00:54:01.199 --> 00:54:07.360
mental reliever. And not that Middleton's
awful, but I mean kind of not

688
00:54:07.519 --> 00:54:12.000
great, kind of that actually not
really good. He's like thirty eight years

689
00:54:12.039 --> 00:54:16.280
old now, and yeah it's not
great, Rye, it's not He's like

690
00:54:16.400 --> 00:54:22.360
thirty. I'm just ship. Okay, Yeah, let's move on past the

691
00:54:22.000 --> 00:54:25.679
Okay, sorry, I'll put Jake
Burger in that useless class of trades.

692
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:30.960
Jake Burger, I apologize. Next
year, when you hit twenty home runs

693
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:35.519
and one sixty four, you know
it'll be whatever. Next day is the

694
00:54:35.599 --> 00:54:38.320
return of the injured pitcher. Had
a bunch of guys come back from pretty

695
00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:44.199
long absences. Brendan Woodruff I think
being the top of the class, you

696
00:54:44.239 --> 00:54:46.559
know, as a guy we definitely
liked in the preseason, and then I'm

697
00:54:46.639 --> 00:54:52.440
sure all of our teams didn't like
that he was no longer available on them.

698
00:54:52.079 --> 00:54:55.440
Velocity was down a little bit on
his first outing versus Pittsburgh, but

699
00:54:55.480 --> 00:54:59.679
he went five innings. He gave
up two earned on, two home runs,

700
00:55:00.119 --> 00:55:05.000
nine strikeouts, zero walks. Where
are you at on Brandon Woodruff?

701
00:55:05.039 --> 00:55:08.000
And maybe I guess you know we're
gonna talk about a few other guys returning

702
00:55:08.039 --> 00:55:12.960
from injury. How do you handle
pitchers coming back from a long injury?

703
00:55:13.000 --> 00:55:16.840
Appy, I had one of those
years where I had like Woodruff, Freed,

704
00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:23.800
Max Freed, chastism O'Neil Cruz was
like four of my top six rounds,

705
00:55:24.920 --> 00:55:30.480
and alpanoah yeah well and Agmanola Yeah
I had one of those years.

706
00:55:30.559 --> 00:55:34.880
Man. I am doing really bad
in a lot of my leagues, like

707
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:38.920
worse than I've done in a while. Um. Anyway, Woodruff, if

708
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:44.280
he's healthy, I think he's a
number you know, he's a number one

709
00:55:44.360 --> 00:55:46.400
if he's healthy. His you know, like you said, Veloss, he's

710
00:55:46.440 --> 00:55:49.920
down a little bit, so that's
a little bit of a concern. I

711
00:55:50.000 --> 00:55:53.639
don't think he's completely healthy, but
you know, knock on Wood. I

712
00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:58.320
wouldn't trade for him if I didn't
have him, but if you have him,

713
00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:01.159
you know, knock on wood all
right. So that's what I was

714
00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:05.880
gonna ask, is you know where
he's sitting. Would you would you make

715
00:56:05.960 --> 00:56:09.519
a deal for him and potentially look
to to add him or is it strictly

716
00:56:09.599 --> 00:56:13.639
a you know, if you have
him, they're throwing him. But I'm

717
00:56:13.679 --> 00:56:16.320
not. I'm not going out for
you know, on a Linda Graham.

718
00:56:16.440 --> 00:56:21.000
So it sounds like you're more in
the secondary camp. I mean, talking

719
00:56:21.000 --> 00:56:22.280
about some of the guys we were
talking about earlier would you rather have,

720
00:56:23.239 --> 00:56:30.840
um, Jordan Montgomery or Brandon Waldriff
rest a season? Oh you know,

721
00:56:30.960 --> 00:56:35.239
I'd probably go uh, I'd probably
go Woodroffe. Yeah, just for the

722
00:56:35.360 --> 00:56:38.639
upside play there. Yeah, how
about how about your boy? Actually,

723
00:56:38.840 --> 00:56:43.599
I mean I'm I'm pop committed at
this point. Yeah, So how would

724
00:56:43.599 --> 00:56:49.639
your boy Jose Barrios? I would
go would Driff over Barrios for sure?

725
00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:55.760
Yeah? I would. I would
say Woodroffe or Glass now? Glass,

726
00:56:55.840 --> 00:57:00.480
I would go Glass now, But
I mean that's I think that's probably closer

727
00:57:00.760 --> 00:57:04.679
than Barrios. I mean, I
mean, Varis has been pretty pretty thing

728
00:57:04.840 --> 00:57:07.480
good this year. Grahad, Yeah, but I want to give him I

729
00:57:07.599 --> 00:57:15.599
hate on those. It doesn't matter. He could be pitching. Well yeah,

730
00:57:15.719 --> 00:57:19.480
okay, let's move on Ester Cortez. He's also returning. He his

731
00:57:19.559 --> 00:57:22.880
first outing versus Houston. He went
four innings, one hit, one home

732
00:57:22.960 --> 00:57:25.039
run, one n run, one
walk in eight ks, which was very

733
00:57:25.119 --> 00:57:30.559
nice to see from him, especially
against a you know, team in Houston

734
00:57:30.639 --> 00:57:34.679
that doesn't tend to strike out all
that much. Where are you at on

735
00:57:35.000 --> 00:57:37.360
Nestor is he is he kind of
jumping back in where he normally fits in?

736
00:57:37.599 --> 00:57:40.679
Or is this another kind of you're
writing out if you have him,

737
00:57:40.719 --> 00:57:46.840
But that's about where we're at.
Uh. Yeah, he actually to me

738
00:57:46.960 --> 00:57:51.639
he looked better than Woodroff, but
he was on a lower he was on

739
00:57:52.519 --> 00:57:55.599
a shorter pitch count, so right, I think, yeah, yeah,

740
00:57:55.800 --> 00:58:01.920
so yeah, he looked good.
Um, I don't fully trust him because

741
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:06.760
of the injury, but yeah,
I think he I think he looked fine.

742
00:58:06.920 --> 00:58:08.760
I think he looked probably the best
out of you know, him or

743
00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:14.199
Woodrobe. I think he looked even
better. But yeah, I think Woodrobe

744
00:58:14.199 --> 00:58:17.440
obviously has a higher upside than Cortez. All right, so you're still taking

745
00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:22.320
Woodrobe over Cortez, right, yeah, even though they were despite what they

746
00:58:22.360 --> 00:58:25.760
looked like. So you brought up
Aaron Nola, would you go Aaron Nola

747
00:58:25.840 --> 00:58:30.079
or Esta Cortez? Oh? I
go Nola for sure. Okay, Yeah,

748
00:58:30.480 --> 00:58:34.360
just trying to gauge where you have
everybody. Max Freed another one.

749
00:58:34.400 --> 00:58:37.239
He's coming back. The Brakes have
been trying to fill their pitching rotation all

750
00:58:37.360 --> 00:58:40.760
year, and maybe he can help
them. At the Cubs, he had

751
00:58:40.800 --> 00:58:45.000
six innings, three hits, zero
RNs, zero walks, eight k's by

752
00:58:45.039 --> 00:58:49.519
the way, at the Cubs,
not just a sleepwalk anymore, they are

753
00:58:49.519 --> 00:58:54.079
actually leading the league in runs in
the second half. Velosi looks good.

754
00:58:54.159 --> 00:58:59.440
If anything, it's it's maybe up
slightly from where he was at the beginning

755
00:58:59.480 --> 00:59:02.639
of the season or end of last
season. Uh, you've always I feel

756
00:59:02.679 --> 00:59:07.559
like you Max Freed, if always
said a little bit of a a fragile

757
00:59:08.119 --> 00:59:12.119
line. Here, Where are you
at on Freed? As like the one

758
00:59:12.440 --> 00:59:15.239
Atlanta pitcher you might have trusted other
than Stryker coming in the season? All

759
00:59:15.280 --> 00:59:19.559
right, Yeah, no, I
I drafted Freed in a bunch of places,

760
00:59:19.679 --> 00:59:22.920
like I said, Uh, yeah, I'm hoping Freed's good. I

761
00:59:23.159 --> 00:59:27.719
have real concerns about it because,
like he was out for a while,

762
00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:31.559
but you know, like you said, the velocity looked good, So yeah,

763
00:59:31.679 --> 00:59:37.199
maybe he's fine. I'm I'm I
would be shocked, honestly if he's

764
00:59:37.239 --> 00:59:43.360
fine health wise, because you know, what he had isn't something you know,

765
00:59:43.519 --> 00:59:47.599
most guys just come back from.
Uh you know, he he seems

766
00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:53.599
like he was headed for serious surgery, So I don't know. Hopefully he's

767
00:59:53.639 --> 00:59:57.039
fine, though, you know,
I, like I said, I have

768
00:59:57.280 --> 01:00:01.039
him on team, so I want
him to be fine. I think he's

769
01:00:01.079 --> 01:00:07.000
got the most risk out of these
three pictures. But also he easily looked

770
01:00:07.039 --> 01:00:10.039
the best out of all three of
them too, Like he looked better than

771
01:00:10.079 --> 01:00:15.880
Woodroffe and Cortez. So I would
say freed over all of them and just

772
01:00:16.079 --> 01:00:21.199
hope he's healthy because I mean that's
the only thing stopping him. Yeah,

773
01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:24.719
I was gonna say the same thing. And all these guys, when you

774
01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:30.440
missed this much time you're always worth, they're gonna reinjure something. So when

775
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:35.440
it comes to reinjury, I don't
know that that I necessarily have him as

776
01:00:35.559 --> 01:00:37.360
less of a risk, but like
all of them have that risk, and

777
01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:43.039
like you said, he looked the
best of the group. Jose Rakidi is

778
01:00:43.039 --> 01:00:45.559
the next one. I think this
is maybe the last of the injured guys

779
01:00:45.559 --> 01:00:47.199
we're gonna talk about real quick.
He looked the worst of the group.

780
01:00:47.239 --> 01:00:51.440
Going three and a third, you
have a five earned, one home run,

781
01:00:51.599 --> 01:00:54.480
three walks, one strikeout at the
Yankee So also kind of the toughest

782
01:00:54.519 --> 01:01:00.760
matchup potentially, at least ballpark wise. Again, the Cubs have led baseball

783
01:01:00.800 --> 01:01:02.360
and runs the second half. I'm
just gonna say that as much as I

784
01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:07.599
can, while it's true as a
Keps fan, are you, I mean

785
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:10.440
Arkiti maybe one just to avoid Gray. I'm a little worried about him.

786
01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:14.880
Yeah, I wouldn't go nearer Rakiti. I don't even think he's that good,

787
01:01:14.960 --> 01:01:17.840
even if he's healthy, he's just
not that good. I don't think,

788
01:01:19.159 --> 01:01:22.280
you know, like at least for
fantasy, he's like he's an innings

789
01:01:22.360 --> 01:01:27.679
eater usually. So yeah, I
wouldn't mess with him, absolutely not.

790
01:01:28.760 --> 01:01:34.360
Yeah. I mean he's kind of
a high threes Arra with like right at

791
01:01:34.400 --> 01:01:38.679
the line of strikeouts where you're maybe
okay with it. So yeah, not

792
01:01:38.800 --> 01:01:45.079
a whole lot there. I think
to circle is back around and guys we've

793
01:01:45.119 --> 01:01:47.599
talked about before. I think he's
basically what I would predict for Aaron Civale

794
01:01:47.800 --> 01:01:52.920
next year, which is like a
three eight ear a with like a twenty

795
01:01:52.039 --> 01:01:57.639
one percent k rate. And I
think I think, if anything, I

796
01:01:57.719 --> 01:02:04.760
think Silvalia is better ratio wise and
just better in general, and as shown

797
01:02:05.719 --> 01:02:09.519
like he can have better keys or
Keti doesn't do anything for me. Yeah,

798
01:02:09.679 --> 01:02:15.039
that's that's completely fair. Moving on, Oswaldo Cabrera was recalled as Anthony

799
01:02:15.159 --> 01:02:20.239
Rizzo was sent to the I l
Asaldo Cabrera has been up and for back

800
01:02:20.639 --> 01:02:22.679
back and forth, back and forth. Is this finally a time he gets

801
01:02:22.719 --> 01:02:28.800
playing time or were just ignoring and
waiting until he gets traded or finally gets

802
01:02:28.840 --> 01:02:31.840
some playing time magically. Yeah,
I mean the Yankees are just such a

803
01:02:32.000 --> 01:02:37.480
mess. They're just being run.
They're being run so terrible. I don't

804
01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:42.320
know what they're doing. I don't
think Cabrera has playing time. Yeah,

805
01:02:42.320 --> 01:02:45.000
I would tend to agree. I
don't know. I don't think it's there.

806
01:02:45.119 --> 01:02:49.760
I mean, they they're looking at
Oswaldo, Cabrera, Rizzo, like

807
01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:55.599
you said, Rizzo goes at il. Jake Bowers becomes an everyday guy Like

808
01:02:57.079 --> 01:03:01.599
why why? I mean, I
know he's hitting right now currently, he

809
01:03:01.840 --> 01:03:07.360
is hot, but him, that's
who you're like. You have all these

810
01:03:07.920 --> 01:03:14.239
prospects that aren't like you have Praza, you have you have Oswaldo and oswald

811
01:03:15.400 --> 01:03:19.599
and instead you're like, oh,
let's see what Jake Bowers can do for

812
01:03:19.760 --> 01:03:22.760
us? Like what, I don't
know, man, The Yankees are absolute

813
01:03:22.840 --> 01:03:27.280
mess. That's all I can say. Anyway, Moving along, Yeah,

814
01:03:27.320 --> 01:03:29.760
the outfield is a little weird,
and it's it's all. It's all a

815
01:03:29.800 --> 01:03:32.880
little bit weird right now in New
York. Um Well, Matt Walder.

816
01:03:34.599 --> 01:03:37.920
Uh, he's just hitting everything.
There really wasn't anything to say other than

817
01:03:37.079 --> 01:03:40.719
just like, I feel like we
had to mention him because he's come out

818
01:03:40.760 --> 01:03:45.079
of nowhere to just let the world
on fire. Gray, what's going on

819
01:03:45.239 --> 01:03:49.599
here? Yeah? Yeah, And
he's hitting in the middle of the Twins

820
01:03:49.719 --> 01:03:53.039
order right now, and the Twins
really don't have much for in the way

821
01:03:53.119 --> 01:03:58.000
of like, you know, a
middle of the Wader bat. So Walder,

822
01:03:58.360 --> 01:04:01.599
Matt Walner looks good, like,
he looks like he has big time

823
01:04:01.679 --> 01:04:05.320
power. I don't know if the
average is gonna be able to stay like

824
01:04:05.519 --> 01:04:10.599
right now, it's at around two
seventy. He looks more like a two

825
01:04:10.760 --> 01:04:15.119
twenty five hitter at best, so
you know, the average could definitely bottom

826
01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:19.840
out, but he has big time
power. So yeah, I'm adding Walner

827
01:04:19.960 --> 01:04:25.719
everywhere as of right now. Like
he to me, he feels kind he

828
01:04:26.239 --> 01:04:30.400
reminds me of Joey Menez last year. Like you know, sometimes these guys

829
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:34.840
come up, like a Walner comes
up and he has big time power and

830
01:04:35.639 --> 01:04:40.760
the pictures don't really know what to
do with them. So and by the

831
01:04:40.840 --> 01:04:43.960
way, Walner has more power than
Joey Menez. But you know, with

832
01:04:44.119 --> 01:04:46.519
that said, Walner comes up and
the Pictures don't know really how to get

833
01:04:46.599 --> 01:04:50.639
him out yet, so they just
pitch to him like you know, they

834
01:04:50.719 --> 01:04:56.280
just try and overpower them, and
he hits a home run like when,

835
01:04:56.480 --> 01:05:00.440
you know, because he can hit
fastballs. So eventually Pictures is gonna be

836
01:05:00.519 --> 01:05:03.159
like, oh, he can't hit
sliders, or he can't hit you know,

837
01:05:03.480 --> 01:05:08.079
he can't hit changes or whatever he
can't hit. I don't I don't

838
01:05:08.159 --> 01:05:13.920
know what he can't hit, but
something there'll be something he can't hit because

839
01:05:14.119 --> 01:05:17.000
they figured it out in the minor
leagues. Like you know, there was

840
01:05:17.280 --> 01:05:20.639
times in the minor leagues when he
looked like a two twenty hitters, So

841
01:05:20.760 --> 01:05:25.679
I think he comes back to that. But right now he's hitting everything.

842
01:05:25.840 --> 01:05:30.360
So I would definitely I would grab
him in every league. As to where

843
01:05:30.519 --> 01:05:34.480
Rees was recalled from the end from
his rehab assignment, second and stolen bases

844
01:05:34.559 --> 01:05:38.519
in the league right now, I
mean, maybe this is the guy who

845
01:05:38.559 --> 01:05:41.440
Tim Anderson should have picked a fight
on, you know, another another single

846
01:05:41.480 --> 01:05:48.519
home run guy. Oh, that
would be hilarious, like it would be

847
01:05:48.800 --> 01:05:51.599
It would be like that would be
like I said earlier, like the feather

848
01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:59.480
fighting the Marshmallow. Uh Man,
Yeah, he should have. You're right

849
01:05:59.639 --> 01:06:02.480
to understand. Um, yeah,
I mean everyone knows the ruise. He's

850
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:06.199
got crazy speed, So yeah,
I would. I would activate him.

851
01:06:06.239 --> 01:06:11.039
I would assume no one dropped ruise
when he was injured. I would,

852
01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:15.760
so I would activate him. Sure, all right, Slate Sosny was recalled.

853
01:06:15.639 --> 01:06:19.920
The numbers this year in Triple A
for the Diamondbacks look really bad.

854
01:06:21.519 --> 01:06:24.920
You know, he's got a six
three eight r A a one three eight

855
01:06:25.039 --> 01:06:29.119
whip. I will say he is
in reno in the PCL. So you

856
01:06:29.159 --> 01:06:31.719
combine those things and you kind of
understand where maybe that comes from. But

857
01:06:31.840 --> 01:06:36.119
he's being given an opportunity up in
the majors for the Diamondbacks. I don't

858
01:06:36.159 --> 01:06:40.320
know that he necessarily sticks in the
rotation, but he's up there for now.

859
01:06:40.880 --> 01:06:45.239
Are you interested in Sisny in anything
outside of l only Gray? No?

860
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:50.119
Okay, three other real minor d
minor moves. I'm just gonna say

861
01:06:50.199 --> 01:06:53.559
them again if tell me if you
want to discuss them at all. Jake

862
01:06:53.599 --> 01:06:56.360
Fairley goes to I. L.
T. J. Hopkins has called up

863
01:06:56.440 --> 01:07:00.639
by Cincinnati. He was hitting six
sixteen home runs, one stone base three

864
01:07:00.639 --> 01:07:05.000
eighteen fourty one down in the minors, Jeter Downs was called up. He

865
01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:09.239
had thirty six games in Triple A, three on runs, eight stone bases

866
01:07:09.239 --> 01:07:13.719
and he's hitting one seventy five,
three on one three thirty three. Not

867
01:07:14.000 --> 01:07:16.840
really a line to report home about, but you know, at one point

868
01:07:16.880 --> 01:07:20.760
he was considered a top prospect in
the game. And then Western Wilson was

869
01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:25.199
called up as well. Twenty eight
years old Triple A this year. In

870
01:07:25.239 --> 01:07:28.679
a hundred games, he had twenty
five runs, twenty three stone bases,

871
01:07:28.719 --> 01:07:32.440
sixty seven sixty nine, two sixty
three, sixty one and five twenty four.

872
01:07:32.599 --> 01:07:35.960
He is twenty eight, so he's
been down in Triple A for a

873
01:07:36.079 --> 01:07:41.159
while, but he's never put up
a line like that one. Yeah,

874
01:07:41.400 --> 01:07:45.679
but he is a Quad A player. I mean I think, I don't

875
01:07:45.719 --> 01:07:48.440
know. I mean, maybe he's
hot, you know, like I was

876
01:07:48.480 --> 01:07:54.039
saying with Joey Menez, maybe Wilson
comes up and is hot for like a

877
01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:57.360
month, But I don't even think
he has playing time, to be honest,

878
01:07:57.440 --> 01:08:00.599
I think he was just you know, a backup. I think,

879
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:06.880
if anything, I think Johan Ruis, I think no Rojas, excuse me,

880
01:08:06.960 --> 01:08:11.960
Johan Rojas. I think takes over
for Well, Marsh got injured,

881
01:08:12.840 --> 01:08:17.279
so the Phillies called up Wilson.
I think to backup Rojas. I think

882
01:08:17.640 --> 01:08:21.960
I think that's how that's gonna play. And Rojas is interesting for speed,

883
01:08:23.359 --> 01:08:26.920
but Wilson is not even like,
you know, I don't think he's playing

884
01:08:27.000 --> 01:08:30.279
times there anyway. Um, Jeter
Downs, Man, what happened to him?

885
01:08:31.000 --> 01:08:35.560
What happened? What happened to him? Bro right? I mean he

886
01:08:35.720 --> 01:08:41.880
was hitting, like Jeter Downs is
hitting one seventy five in triple A?

887
01:08:42.840 --> 01:08:48.000
What how do you hit one seventy
five in triple A? Um? Unfortunately,

888
01:08:49.359 --> 01:08:53.720
I think Jeter Downs is gonna be
like I think he's gonna be out

889
01:08:53.760 --> 01:08:56.680
of baseball in a couple of years. I mean, I don't know,

890
01:08:57.079 --> 01:08:59.880
he's got to really figure it out. I don't know why he was even

891
01:09:00.039 --> 01:09:02.960
called up, to be honest,
I guess you know the Uh they had

892
01:09:03.000 --> 01:09:06.159
an injury, so they were like, well, let's call up Jeter.

893
01:09:06.680 --> 01:09:12.520
Uh, And then they held their
hand over their mouth so people would think

894
01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:16.920
they were calling up Derek Jeter.
Let's call up the forty eight year old

895
01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:26.079
Jeter. Wait, doesn't he own
another team? We can't? Can we

896
01:09:26.479 --> 01:09:29.760
call up a guy who isn't even
in our farm. So though that,

897
01:09:31.279 --> 01:09:35.079
yeah, Jeter Downs has been really
bad in Triple A. So I had

898
01:09:35.159 --> 01:09:42.000
nothing to see there until like maybe
maybe if he gets hot, I don't

899
01:09:42.000 --> 01:09:45.560
know. Yeah, and it doesn't. I mean, hitting one seventy five

900
01:09:45.600 --> 01:09:48.000
and Triple A is not inspite of
confidence that he's gonna get hot all of

901
01:09:48.039 --> 01:09:51.560
a sudden. I mean, we
were talking about a guy who had like

902
01:09:51.720 --> 01:09:57.359
power speed combo and like he was
gonna be great. And this is this

903
01:09:57.560 --> 01:10:01.119
is maybe the argument point for a
white guys who get traded a bunch as

904
01:10:01.119 --> 01:10:04.960
a prospect because he moved you know, four different three or four different times

905
01:10:05.000 --> 01:10:12.920
between teams, or or you can
make him your leadoff man and first basement

906
01:10:12.960 --> 01:10:19.079
if you're if you're the Yankees,
Jake Bowers has been traded one seven times.

907
01:10:19.840 --> 01:10:26.439
He must be good. Everybody wants
him. Everyone wants him, right,

908
01:10:28.319 --> 01:10:30.520
all right, great, let's go
ahead and go through some waivers here.

909
01:10:32.039 --> 01:10:38.239
Okay, Well, let's talk about
Jake Powers. He has been hot,

910
01:10:39.600 --> 01:10:44.760
Jake Bowers man, this is the
Jake Bowers Show. Um, okay,

911
01:10:44.920 --> 01:10:51.159
So anyway, like I was saying, um, let's see Louis RINGIFO,

912
01:10:51.319 --> 01:10:57.000
he's been hot, JP Crawford has
been hot sticking with the Mariners.

913
01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:05.359
Kade Marlowe has been hot. Um
I mentioned earlier that UM watchmod called marsh

914
01:11:05.720 --> 01:11:14.760
is injured, So uh, Rojas
is really like Rojas potentially could really big

915
01:11:15.399 --> 01:11:18.560
in every league. He could potentially
be a really good pickup. I don't

916
01:11:18.720 --> 01:11:23.760
you know. I mean, we'll
see. But he has speed if you

917
01:11:23.920 --> 01:11:30.560
need steals like he could be like
Estuary Ruis for um you know a couple

918
01:11:30.600 --> 01:11:33.359
of weeks. Okay, anyway,
speaking of a guy who has speed,

919
01:11:33.920 --> 01:11:41.479
Blanco on the Royals, Um,
Joey Menace, who I've mentioned five or

920
01:11:41.560 --> 01:11:46.880
six times podcast, he's also been
He's been hot. Uh, let's see

921
01:11:47.239 --> 01:11:53.159
who else Gary Sanchez been hot?
Um U t J. Friedel has been

922
01:11:53.239 --> 01:11:59.720
hot, Mike Uh Tuckman, Uh, Joey Vado, Matt Wallner who he

923
01:11:59.800 --> 01:12:02.279
meant mentioned earlier, who I think
should be owned in every league, Bryce,

924
01:12:02.640 --> 01:12:11.079
Bryce Terrang, Ryan Moundcastle, Freddie
Furman has been hot a a dollar

925
01:12:11.239 --> 01:12:16.880
store, Freddie Freeman, uh Ian
Happ and Jake crownin Worth and have I

926
01:12:17.000 --> 01:12:23.960
mentioned Jake Bowers. That's about it. Yeah, before we get into the

927
01:12:24.039 --> 01:12:29.960
pictures, I realized we skipped over
the bullpen section, Um, Jordan Hicks,

928
01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:32.920
Eric Swanson actually seemed to be kind
of in a committee in Toronto.

929
01:12:33.119 --> 01:12:38.560
Gray until we get Romano back,
are you are you willing to roster both

930
01:12:38.600 --> 01:12:40.920
of them and just see if you
can get some saves out of them?

931
01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:47.199
Uh? No, No, I
would say I would say probably, I

932
01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:50.680
would just go with one of them
and hope you get the saves. If

933
01:12:50.760 --> 01:12:58.159
anything, I'd say Jordan Hicks,
Um we mentioned earlier in the royal situation,

934
01:12:58.279 --> 01:13:01.000
I would probably go with Carlos Hernando, but not really expect anything.

935
01:13:01.119 --> 01:13:08.520
And then the Phillies Kimbrell was tipping
his pitches, so they went with Dominguez.

936
01:13:09.039 --> 01:13:13.880
I would also look at Soto potentially. And then after Seawald was moved

937
01:13:14.479 --> 01:13:18.479
to the Diamondbacks, Munez looks like
he looks actually looking a solid pickup,

938
01:13:19.279 --> 01:13:24.640
the Mariner's new closer. So yeah, yeah, Andre's Munos is probably the

939
01:13:24.760 --> 01:13:27.800
closer pickup of the week, if
he's not already owned in your leagues.

940
01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:31.760
We'll see what happens with Kimbroll and
whether he can get back into the ninth

941
01:13:31.800 --> 01:13:35.039
inning and you know, stop tipping
his pitches. I think it's been an

942
01:13:35.079 --> 01:13:40.159
issue for him before, so maybe
it's something that he's just he's reverted back

943
01:13:40.199 --> 01:13:43.600
to that he needs to kind of
clean up, hopefully, because I have

944
01:13:43.720 --> 01:13:47.920
Kimbrell all over the place. In
regards to Waivers jumping back there, there's

945
01:13:47.960 --> 01:13:50.399
a number of catchers who have actually
been performing well. So if you've been

946
01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:55.640
kind of writing it out and you're
with whoever, and your catchers have been

947
01:13:55.640 --> 01:14:00.760
awful, Cal Rowley has been hitting
well and Kisner. Gary Sanchez I think

948
01:14:00.800 --> 01:14:03.439
has like six home runs in the
last two weeks. Mitch Garver has gotten

949
01:14:03.920 --> 01:14:09.119
catch your eligibility and he's hitting and
playing pretty regularly. Tom Murphy is not

950
01:14:09.199 --> 01:14:12.680
playing regularly, but he's hitting when
he does. And Alejandro Kirk, who

951
01:14:12.680 --> 01:14:15.960
we've been waiting all year to finally
hit, has finally hit. After we

952
01:14:15.279 --> 01:14:18.239
destroyed him on a show like three
weeks ago it said he wasn't hitting.

953
01:14:18.600 --> 01:14:24.880
He has turned it on on the
pitcher side. Michael Rinsen versus Washington.

954
01:14:25.039 --> 01:14:29.560
We already talked about how good he's
been. Brady's singer at Boston. He's

955
01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:32.279
been a little bit inconsistent this year, but he's writing I think a streak

956
01:14:32.319 --> 01:14:38.000
of three quality starts in a row. Ryan yarbro versus Colorado. I don't

957
01:14:38.039 --> 01:14:41.000
know if he's started that game or
going with an opener. Paul Blackburn has

958
01:14:41.039 --> 01:14:45.119
started turning around again as well,
and he's going at Washington. Adrian Houser

959
01:14:45.239 --> 01:14:47.800
has been up and down, but
he gets home Colorado, who has been

960
01:14:47.880 --> 01:14:53.560
pretty much a mess. And then
Brandon Fat not great matchups, but he's

961
01:14:53.600 --> 01:14:57.600
started to look a little bit better
in his couple of outings. He gets

962
01:14:57.640 --> 01:15:01.079
the Dodgers in San Diego and Ideal, but he is a two start guy.

963
01:15:01.159 --> 01:15:04.319
So if you're chasing strikeouts this week, you could do worse, I

964
01:15:04.399 --> 01:15:10.119
think than than running him out there. Anything else, say Gray? Um,

965
01:15:11.479 --> 01:15:15.239
no, no, well, no, I know Jake Bowers, but

966
01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:19.000
Googe grabbed Drake Bowers for Gray.
Let him. Let him start at the

967
01:15:19.039 --> 01:15:24.039
top of your line up like the
Yankees do. And if you have specific

968
01:15:24.119 --> 01:15:27.840
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969
01:15:27.880 --> 01:15:31.680
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970
01:15:31.720 --> 01:15:34.239
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972
01:15:39.359 --> 01:15:43.000
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973
01:15:43.039 --> 01:15:45.439
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