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the mustachioed man of Mystery Gray. Alright, how are you doing? Gray?
I'm good man. How are you? How are you doing? Beat
On? That's a better question. Are you doing better than Tim Anderson?
Uh? Yeah, I think so. Actually, I mean in general,
yeah, I think I think so. I think his bank account it's probably
still in a whole lot better place than than mine is. But outside of
that, yeah, I'm doing all right, Grey. Actually, Tim Anderson's
weekend is a good example of how sometimes money doesn't matter. That was a
brutal weekend for him. Man, I actually I was. I made the
mistake of tweeting I felt bad for Tim Anderson and people were like, why
do you feel bad for him? But man, I don't know. Man,
It's like I can't even imagine bro. Like he he went out,
he looked like such a sucker. Oh man, dude, I mean yeah,
damn he got like it looked like, I mean, Jose, I
wouldn't mess with Jose Ramiro's okay, first of all, wouldn't not mess with
Jose Ramires myself because I know better, especially now and after hearing the story
about how like when he was a kid, um people with guns, he
used to chase him down if he didn't get a hit in a game like
he's, uh, you know, he's been through it, you know what
I'm saying. So he's not a guy you mess around with. I wouldn't
think so. Um, but he barely it looked like he barely touched him,
Like honestly, like, um, who was the o'dore and Batista?
O'door really like landed a punch on Batista like that was like he hit him.
But Jose Ramirez honestly, like, if we're being real, he put
his head down and he was just swinging wildly and he looked like he grazed
Tim Anderson. But Tim Anderson must have a glass job because he was done.
It was like I was like, okay, goodbye, man. Yeah,
if you thought a guy with one homer power had a bit more in
the tank as far as power was going, Man, Tim Anderson looked bad.
Oh, he looks so bad. I feel I do feel bad for
him though, Man, I man, for anyone who's brannyone's ever been embarrassed
ever in their life, I would think you'd have some some empathy, even
though he absolutely did fuck around and find out like the worst way. Now,
I got up upgrade the explicit warning on the podcast for this week.
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Yeah, just just go in and edit the podcast and add beeps.
That's nothing, Brandon. You. Yeah. I don't do anything at all
except show up and talk. But yeah you do all that. Thanks great,
Thanks, Just no big deal. I have professional editing equipment over here.
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Yeah, are you funding are you funding, um, No, I mean
he did. He got like it was a full right hook, but like
he got like the weird knuckles, like he got like the secondary knuckles,
not even like the punch knuckles, and still got knocked out. I mean
it's I know, everybody in Major League Baseball is a good athlete, they're
all strong. Like anybody takes a right hook from most professional baseball players,
they're probably getting knocked out. That was bad. And I have a gripe
with baseball fights in general, like even even the Odor Batista one, which
is like I think the gold standard for recent ish fights, Like there's too
much pulling away, like the ref stepped or the up stepped away. He
was gonna let them square up, and then all of a sudden, everybody's
pulling each other off. Like I don't even know if Tim Anderson would have
gotten clocked if his teammates hadn't to pull Ramirez to the point where like the
right hook was exactly the right distance. That's actually that's actually a fair point.
Yeah. But then you look at the fact that Elvis Andrews, basically
another three homer guy, he was the one pulling back Tim Anderson. It
was like it was like a feather pulling back a marshmallow. And then Andrew
vaud who I'm sure is a strong enough guy, like you know, compared
to me, but he carried Tim Anderson like he was a baby. It
was basically like, okay, but I hear what you're saying though. That
is a fair point, because like if Tim Anderson and Jose Ramires we're just
squaring up and there was no one like pulling at them, Yeah, maybe
maybe it would have looked different. Oh. All I know is Tim Anderson
might also be lucky that Jose Ramire is just raised him. I mean,
getting knocked out is getting knocked out, whether he at least if he would
have got like really hit, he wouldn't have this embarrassing like mnage out there
of himself. Now it's like, oh, like you can just get like
flicked in the head and just you're just gonna knock over. I do think
it's also it's you know, actually from a from a big picture sort of
a perspective, speaking a big picture, Tim Anderson's like he just tweeted thinking
the bigger picture, which I don't even know what that means. But maybe
maybe he's talking to me, he's he's basically right now, Tim Anderson is
like punch drunk and he's just tweeting stuff. But he just tweeted a big
picture. So, you know, because Tim Anderson tweeted that, I'll try
and I'll try and figure out what he means by saying, like, if
you think about the big picture, the fact that it looks like he barely
tagged Jose Ramirez, like Jose Ramirez, I feel like what we don't realize
is I think a lot of people may not like Tim Anderson in the league
because it was basically like you barely touched Jose Ramires and Jose Ramires is like,
okay, we're fighting that we're going because yeah, I mean, it
didn't take a lot to set off Jose Ramirez. So I think the entire
league has had enough of Tim Anderson in some ways, and even like his
teammates, I mean, yeah, some of them were, you know,
pulling him back, but most of them were like, yeah, you can
go get your ass beat. Good luck. Oh yeah. I mean I
guess in regards to the big picture, I got two ideas on that one
great one, you know, big picture. Now, Tim Anderson is set
up when he when he gets DFA after this year because he he can't hate
anymore. He has a future matchup lined up with Jake Paul that's gonna it's
gonna make some money for him down the line. And then also, I
mean, if we think big picture, like at least he got to live
in Chicago for his career, was Jose Ramirez has been in Cleveland, Like,
that's a wig picture, that's a w Yeah. Also, if you're
thinking about like if if if Tim Anderson isn't just hated in general, and
everyone in the league wasn't secretly rooting for Jose Ramirez, which may not be
the case. People may legitimately not like Jose Ramires either, and they may
think that he uh jumped a gun on Tim Anderson a little bit. But
so if that's the case, then you know, think a big picture.
There is no one ever going to try and make a tag on Jose Ramires
again. He will literally he'll He'll steal one hundred and fifty bags like next
year. People are gonna be like, I ain't messing with that guy.
Don't throw it. Don't even bother throw it at the second because I'm not
tagging them. Just eat it, eat it. You know I am not
going near that. All right, great, let's go ahead and move on
to some some other baseball stuff that might be relevant for our listeners. Um,
we said it last week. There's gonna be a number of trades we're
not going to cover because well, we record on Monday typically, and uh
well trade deadline was Tuesday, and there were a number of trades we didn't
cover. So let's just talk about them real quick, Gray, I don't
know how long we need to spend on them, since you know, everybody's
already in their place and and everything. If if anything, some of the
more interesting stuff may be all the people who get DF eight after the All
Star break but or after sorry, the trade deadline, but they haven't really
cleared and signed with anybody. So we'll get to that when that comes next
week. Let's start the top. Let's talking with the biggest one. Justin
Verlander goes back to Houston, the Mets get Drew Gilbert and Ryan Clifford.
I mean, Verlander himself has been he's been fine this year, but you
know it's kind of in the the shots are mold where it's starting to decline
a little bit, and you see it most with the k rate for Verlanders
specifically. Yeah, no, I think I think we've seen Justin Verlanders.
Uh, you know, his better days are behind him for sure. I'm
you know, on the Astros, we'll probably get more wins and you know
what thing what people think of the trade, I you know, I think
the common perception of the trade is probably accurate. I'm not gonna, you
know, I'm not gonna be able to break any news here with Justin Verland
or on the Astros. He'll be fine. His kayser way down, his
walks are up a little bit. I think the uh, you know,
I think probably the Crawford box is in Houston could hurt him a little bit.
More like he could end up giving up more Homers in Houston, and
that could hurt him because you know, his stuff justn't isn't as there as
it has been you know, for the last you know, fifteen years or
whatever. So yeah, I mean I think he's fine, though. I
think we're probably seeing Justin Verlander h starter Fantasy Starter number two versus a Fantasy
Star number one, Like I was saying with Max Scherzer last week, But
you know, in that in that regard. He's also been he's been pretty
solid for you know, ratios, and he's forty years old. I mean,
how much more can you ask for a guy? I mean, so
he's so clearly a first ballot Hall of Famer. Um, do we ever
see a three hundred win guy again? I don't think so, right,
I don't. I don't know anyway. Yeah, I think Verlander is what
he is at this point, which is like a solid number two. Um,
and he's probably you know, he's a guy. He probably has a
bit more wind winds probability now because of the Astros versus the Mets. So
yeah, he's fine. Yeah. I mean it's gonna be really hard to
get the three hundred wins, as you kind of commented in there, just
the shorter outings, the you know, the six mans, the all the
stuff that is being done to take anyings and stress off of pitchers arms nowadays.
Yeah, I don't know if we ever get to three hundred. It
seems like Scherzer Verlander might have been our our best shots at that. I
mean, I guess do you really think Verlanders at SP two for for our
game given the lack of strikeouts? I mean, he certainly. You know,
he missed a little bit of time this year, so the Player Raider
numbers may not quite match up. But I mean he's currently fifty second on
the Player Rader among pitchers. Oh wow. I mean that says he's like
a four five even now, the certainty and the that you have with him,
the innings, the ratios, maybe that bumps him up, just given
some of the blow ups that we've seen from some of the other guys.
But like if you're looking, okay, so sorry not to terup, but
if you gave him Charlie Morton's wins, which you know Braves Astros, that
feels pretty similar. If you gave him Charlie Morton's wins, he'd have six
more points on the Player Raider and that takes him to about twenty five overall
for starters. So it's just because he had no wins why he's that low.
Yeah, I mean I suppose that's that's true. I mean, it's
not like he was with a bad team and the Astros aren't. I would
say I would say, actually, the Mets were a bad team. Are
a team that's okay. I wouldn't say they were they are. I just
want to clarify, he has six wins on the year. I mean it's
not exactly. I mean, I wouldn't say he should have you know,
twenty wins already, but you know, six wins is pretty bad for a
guy with a barely three year right, Yeah, it's not it's not ideal
certainly the contribution he's got on the winds side. Um, I mean,
wins are always fickle. That's that's that's just it, I know, but
winds are fickle. But also that's why he's down at fifty two on the
Player Raider. I mean he has a he has a negative for wins,
where like you know, Charlie Morin has ten wins and he has six dollars
in value for wins and Justin Burlander has you know, less than zero,
so I mean strike out. So if he was on the Astros all year,
I think he would have ten wins. And if he had ten wins,
he'd be a top twenty five starter. I'm not saying he's a top
fifteen starter anymore. But you know, at two to three, I don't
know, I mean, not not four to five like whatever you were saying.
Okay, but you can say that though, because you know what,
on this podcast we allow contrary opinions. I mean, well, I guess,
would you take him rest of season over Charlie Morton, who's k rate
is better? Very similar for Charlie Moore? Yes, I would take him
off for Charlie Moore. I'd Actually, you know, here's a guy,
so him or Aaron Nola. Now, Nola right now is twenty eighth on
out of starters, twenty eighth starter on the Player Raider. Would you take
Nola or Verlander? I'm taking Nolah. Yeah, Nola sucks. No,
Nola's five. Okay, Nolah's good for a lot of things, but man,
he gives up a lot of home runs. I mean he is.
He's a really a pain in the ass. I mean, if you're cursing
once on a boy, guess you may as well just curse the whole time.
Right. Um, Yeah, I don't know. I guess I'm taking
Nola. But it's I think that's pretty close. Actually, I don't know.
I mean, yeah, Dan Dunning is thirty one out of starters,
Dan Dunning or Justin Verlander. I feel like Dunning's been exactly what Verlander has
been. Yeah, I mean I guess maybe I take Verlander just because there's
no way he's not finishing out all the innings through the season, whereas I
suppose Dunning is a little bit younger and hasn't really gone like a you know,
he hasn't never put up like a two hundred any type of season.
So maybe there's an innings thing there with Dunning. But I mean I think
they're like I wouldn't expect what they give you is all that different. Good
ratios, neither his strikeout based Yeah, I mean the Rangers charts a little
bit better. Okay, So okay, so I would say Suzer is definitely
still better than Verlander. I would agree with that. And I think I
said sures there was a number two. So yeah, so maybe Verlanders number
three. You've convinced me that he's not quite a number two. Yeah,
I mean I think he's kind of honestly, he's like he's kind of Jordan
Montgomery, Like that's that's kind of who Verlander is now. I like,
I like that, Uh, I kind of like that comparison. I don't
think. I don't think Montgomery's that bad though. No, he's a he's
a good, solid pitcher, But like if you said to somebody, justin
Verlander is Jordan Montgomery, Like that would trigger all sorts of alarms in their
mind, and you go look at the numbers and you'd be like, oh,
well they're both little three easier A. Montgomery's whip has been a little
bit wonky this year, but he has a few more case like It's it's
kind of same same with those two. Yeah, I think, you know,
perspective and trade value wise, that would be different, that would be
viewed differently, right, Yeah, No, that's a fair point. I
think if you were if someone was trading Justin Verlander, they'd be able to
get more in a trade than Jordan Montgomery. And Jordan Montgomery's probably the same
as Justin Verlander. Yeah, I agree with that. All right, let's
go ahead and move over to Arizona, where they added Paul Seuld from Seattle.
Seattle's getting Dominic Kenzone, Josh Rojas, and Ryan Bliss. We don't
really need to discuss any of those people. I don't think they're overly relevant
for our game unless you're in you know, a only and maybe ROAs has
some value there, but he was he's already been picked up. It ends
our Arizona. Who is the closer? Somebody tell me discussion every week at
least Seattle is maybe the best part to pitch in, so that maybe a
little bit. But where are you at on Paul suld Well after Sunday and
he gave up three runs, no recorded outs, and he blew the game.
Maybe you know, maybe the Diamondbacks are still up in the air unsaved.
Uh yeah, no, I think I think Sea Walls probably the closer.
Um you know, for full disclosure, I just actually traded for Seawald
too, um or I am actually the Diamondbacks GM who I actually I don't
know their name. I don't know who they are. Uh. The last
Diamondbacks GM I know is Dave Stewart. Oh oh the managers the GM.
Oh sorry, that's they just pulled up. I typed in or GM and
it's just gave me their manager. I'll tell you in a second. Okay.
So anyway, I just traded for Seawald in um Town Wars because I
needed saves. I traded with Derek Carty, who needed um I guess he
needed offense, I don't know. I traded him Max Muncy for Paul Sewald.
Uh. So you know, that's basically what I think. You know,
if you need saves, I think Sea walls in a great play.
He's a solid pitcher. He didn't look great on Sunday. You know,
I think that's gonna be fine. I think I think he'll be fine.
You know, everyone everyone blows a game occasionally. Um, so yeah,
I'm fine with Seawald. I think he's I think he's good, and he's
probably uh, you know, probably safe for at least one or two more
blow ups until they look at Ginkle again. Hopefully that doesn't happen, because,
like I said, I just trade for him. But yeah, I
think I think seawalds okay. And to be fair, his first game in
Arizona work with Arizona was perfectly fine. He had a clean out, and
so yeah, I think he's fine. I think they traded for him.
They're going to give him this opportunity because they really didn't like anybody in that
role season. Every time they got handed somebody, it kind of went bad.
Arizona's at least, you know, it's not home run friendly. It
used to be, it's it's no longer that way. So I think that
maybe helps out with some of the blow ups a little bit to mitigate leaving
Seattle, just some extent there, Scott Barlow goes to San Diego. He's
Mike Mike hays In. Yes, step, You're right, Mike hays In
is the GM there. Scott Barlow is leaving Kansas City, so he's losing
his closer job. He's going to San Diego. Hayter is not going to
give up his job to Scott Barlow. I can almost promise you that.
Um. But if we're looking in Kansas City, Austin, Austin Cox or
Carlos Hernandez, do either of them interest you for saves? Are you picking
up one or the other or both? Potentially? Oh? Who is the
guy who lost his wife the cancer. That's super sad. It's sad anyway,
Mike hays And that is I was still I was looking at Mike Hayson's
Wikipedia page. Okay, Scott Barlow, I think, is you know he's
just become a middle reliever. And then in Kansas City, I would say
Carlos Hernandez is like the one guy I would pick up. But will it
be definitely Carlos Hernandez job from now until the end of the year. I
don't. I don't really, I can't say that. But it's also I
mean, the Royals are sneaky, terrible team, so you know, they
may only get five saves total from now until the end of the year.
So yeah, Carlos Hernandez, I guess if you're desperate. But it's not
a great situation. Yeah, it's definitely not a great situation. They did
give Austin Cox the first save. That was I think on Friday. Yeah,
it was Friday that he got the save. So we'll see how it
goes. I think it's kind of a bit of a mess. Austin Cox
has not been particularly clean in his own work, so it's not as though,
you know, if he's not the closer, you're you're picking up good
numbers. He's been a little radic as well, so I think it's probably
Carlos Hernandez. It seems like the most logical one. But just keep an
eye out if if they keep going Austin Cox, and then maybe they they're
just trying to get him ready for, you know, a future closer role
as he is, he is still young in that system. Um, Tommy
fam goes to Arizona. General Rodriguez goes back to the Mets in that deal.
Are we getting full time playing time for FAM now? And where does
that move him up into the outfielders for you? Uh? No, I
don't. I don't think that's gonna be. I don't think he gets everyday
playing time. I think he's probably still somewhat of a platoon player. And
I don't I don't think he's very good anymore, like you know, that's
uh. He did have like a year or two there where he was very
valuable for fantasy, but in general, I don't know. I mean,
he's fine, but he's not really like a you know, mixed league twelve
teen guy that you can really rely on. I mean, if he's hitting,
sure, great, you know, it's that's fine. I think,
you know, he gets a little bit boring with his stats now as a
for a fantasy guy, at least because it's like, you know, he's
got ten homers thirteen steals on the year. That's fine in like n OL
only, but in a mix league that kind of gets boring a little bit,
at least in a twelve team mix league or shallower, which is you
know the majority of our listeners. So yeah, he's fine. I don't
like he's really kind of boring. Not in reality because like you know,
he goes his strip clubs, gets stabbed, slaps Jack Peter and Jock Peterson.
I mean, in reality he's not boring at all. He's actually he's
really he's crazy as shit. But for fantasy he's like, he's okay.
Yeah, I mean, I think I maybe have a little bit higher opinion
on his his fantasy production than you given full time. Um, just because
there's been a number of times this year where he's been performing really well,
and if he was playing every day, I think he would be on he
would have been pretty much universally owned. And then just you start looking at
the plane appearances he's getting and you're like, oh, I can't, can't
start somebody that's getting, you know, three out of six games. But
I feel like he's getting more starts since he's been traded. He's played the
last four games hitting either third or fifth. So he's sitting in the middle
of the lineup and he's gonna give you a little bit of both. He's
gonna give you a little bit of power, a little bit of speed.
His average isn't gonna tank or at least it generally doesn't absolutely tank. So
I think there's a little bit more value here than maybe what you're looking at.
But I agree that he's not like, he's not a needle mover.
He's not gonna put up massive numbers rest of season. You know what you're
describing as a guy who's more valuable than most people think. Yeah, yeah,
I mean that's what I think that I just usually which is usually a
guy you have in like a fifteen team mix league or deeper and you're happy
with them, whereas like in a twelve team mix league, you grow kind
of bored of that. You grow you grow bored of the middle of the
order, hits one homer every ten days and steals a base every ten days,
and you're like, yeah, there's gotta be someone else. Fair enough,
fair enough, I think he can give you a little bit of both.
But you're right, I mean, in a shallower league, it's probably
gonna get pretty bored unless he gets hot. Just something to throw out there,
though. I mean, if you're looking at deep in outfield, I
think you could do worse than him, especially with some of those guys at
the back end not really performing very well in recent days. Hiward Candelario,
could you also go in and could you beep out all of the times you
disagree with me on this podcast as well? So you just want me to
just remove myself the question and then just remove myself. Is that what you're
you're wanting here? So we left dons disagreements. No, don't you dare
now, don't now, don't be self deprecating. Just gonna white noise it.
It's just gonna like wave I was putting waves crashing on the beach during
my whe I'm supposed to be talking, and then you'll just come in I
disagreeing with waves. Actually put me you know that famous shot of Ben Affleck
looking real sad on the beach with the towel. Put my head on that
body and just have me staring at the water talking. That's pretty much what
we're gonna do. I think I'm just gonna turn on a noise machine.
I'm gonna pre record my questions every like every ten minutes, and then just
that that's gonna be how the podcast is. Yeah, could you just cue
me? Okay, anyway, I'm feeling giddy today. Go ahead, Sorry,
be Done't I mean to interrupt you? Please continue movie over to my
uh, you know, potentially division winning Chicago Cubs. They have added Heimer
Condelario, big, big, huge move for the Cubs. Um they sent
it sent DJ hers and Kevin made Djhurs sounds like the guy who was at
Gray's bar mitzvah playing tunes. Um. He does seem to be playing every
day Candelario and hitting, but he's sitting six through eight. I mean,
if Tommy fam was boring to you, then Candelario at the back end has
to be you know, are you falling asleep? DJ Hers for and for
DJ Herr's credit, not only did he DJ, but he also made Blue
Balloon animals, so it's like any cars. And now now he works at
Enterprise, but then he was at DJ what he did in my partment?
Okay, oh yeah, So Heimer Condelaria, I think he's actually great.
I like him, like Heimer Candelaria. I'll be honest. I didn't you
know last year I wrote a sleeper post for him, and man, he
looked terrible. He looked awful, but he has a great launch angle and
and Wrigley. I think he could do some damage. Like, I really
think Heimer Condelaria is kind of underrated, even in shallower leagues. I'm I'm
a fan. Um I think, uh, you know, we're looking at
a guy who could potentially say twenty five homers, ten steals, two seventy
five average, Like you know, he needs to finish strong for that to
happen, but that could be his end of the year numbers. That is
good, it's good. I mean, you know, I'm staying the obvious
here, but twenty five ten two seventy five is really solid, especially for
like where he was drafted. So yeah, I'm I'm a fan of Heimer
Condolaria. I think he probably is gonna be underrated again next year too.
I don't see him moving up draft boards, so you know, just just
brace yourself for Heimer Candolaria's sleeper twenty twenty four. Yeah, I mean,
I mean the numbers are solid, they're they're fine. I would say that
like this year, if you're looking at a player raider, his value was
really kind of buoyed by the county numbers and with him moving over to Chicago,
who has you know, I didn't think i'd say this. They actually
have options, you know, to in their batting order right now. It
like him being buried at the bottom is going to take away from what he's
been providing in you know, for the Nationals, where he was hitting at
the top of the lineup, because he's i mean, he's fifty seven fifty
three on the runs RBIs for them hitting in the bottom of the Cubs orders,
he's just not gonna get the play appearances and the runs in RBI,
I think in there. But I think in regards to the overall production in
regards to home runs, stolen bases and what you're saying, Yeah, I
mean, I think it probably does go a little unrecognized that he's having a
pretty solid season and I think he's going to end up, you know,
in the low twenties of home runs and you know, probably eight nine,
ten steal somewhere in that area. And that is that is a pretty solid
player in most leagues. Again, in a shallow league, with him dropping
in the order, it may not be as interesting. But he also has
multip musician eligibility, and that's always nice in shallow leagues because then you kind
of move them around when other guys have days off too, without having to
go to the water. Yeah, that's fair. Moving on to some of
maybe lesser trades here, M Paul Deong goes to Toronto, Matt's Fanson goes
to back to Saint Louis. In that deal, U Bo Bischett Retro Bishette
goes over to the I L. But it doesn't sound like it's a big
issue, I guess. In correlation with this, they've also called up a
day Davis Davis Schneider, who is getting time at third base. De Young's
playing shortsopper second base. Actually I think Davis's playing second base. Sorry about
that? Are you interested in the Young? And I'll go ahead and bring
in David Schneider here, who has had a pretty successful year in Triple A,
going twenty one home runs, nine stone bases two seventy five, four
sixteen, five fifty three. I think, um, I think Davis is
at second and with Maryfield now is I think David Schneider's at second with Marryfield's
in the outfield still even though even though I see roster resource has it the
opposite way or something? Um, anyway, that's that's irrelevant. Uh,
yeah, you know, David Schneider, I don't know, maybe because you
know, sometimes these guys are like you know, written off as like not
real prospects. Early on in their minor league career. But he looks he
looked like he really came around in Triple A this year. Like I don't
know, I mean, I get it. At no point was he a
prospect that anyone was interested in, like in you know, prior to twenty
twenty three. But unless he's just finally you know, you know, seeing
the pictures in Triple A for so much, because he's been there for now.
You know, he was there in twenty twenty two as well, So
maybe he's just seen the pictures so much in Triple A. I don't know.
He looks like he was breaking out though in Triple A. Like,
and he's only twenty four. It's not like he's a twenty eight year old
and he's and has been in Triple A for like three years. He's not
like Kenny Powers, like he's just gotten to Triple A kind of and he's
twenty four. I don't know. I mean, I was kind of surprised
to see him sort of come up without any fanfare whatsoever, and everyone just
sort of I think people just wrote him off. But he looks he looks
good. You know, if Baschett comes back this Friday as they're saying the
lineup does get a little bit squeezed, so he may lose a little bit
of playing time. Um, and you know Paul DeJong the reason why we're
even discussing the Jays right now with Paul Dejeng getting traded there again, when
Bashett comes back on Friday, I think Dejeon probably falls into somewhat of a
platoon of some sort. And he's also Dejeng isn't very good, so I
mean he hits the occasion, it's like the occasional Homer. He doesn't make
great contact, so he's not gonna hit for a good average and he's fine
for like like deeper leagues in like mostly for daily leagues too, once he
starts platooning. So yeah, I don't know. I'm I'm interested in David
Schneider more than Dejean, to be honest. But we'll see what happens with
Schneider's playing time once the check comes back. But for right now, because
Schneider's hitting so well and he's seeing the ball so well, I would pick
up Schneider in just about any league if you have, you know, the
room for him. Yeah, I would tend to agree, and it wouldn't
be surprised to see, like, you know, Santiago Espinall or Cavn Bigio
get optioned if if Davis Schneider continues to hit, I think the Young is
just you know, he's gonna be a deaf piece. He can kind of
play all over um, you know. And if the Young is in that
class of guys, who if your only really great season was twenty nineteen,
I don't believe you, like you aren't that you want Pancho that's a that's
a good point. Yeah, well then the Bigio Espinall, they had a
they had a bunch of guys that had huge twenty nineteen teams. The years,
right, Yeah, I think twenty nineteen was a very good year for
for Toronto and everybody. Oh they oh wait, they had the uh the
bounty ball and they were in the minor league park right now. Twenty twenty
I thought was, oh no, twenty you're right, yeah, twenty twenty
and twenty twenty one they're in a minor league park. Yeah, my bad,
Sorry, no, that's fine, but yes, the bounty that's how
bounty the ball was. Like Paul DeYoung was a legitimate, like fantasy stud
for that season. That's that's how crazy that ball was. Moving on.
Aaron Savale is going to Tampa Bay for much needed pitching reinforcement, and they're
actually giving up a very good prospect in calmn Zardo going back to Cleveland for
this. Savali is a cost control young pitcher who's good, I mean,
and just kind of thinking about this, like, can you imagine if Tampa
Bay's pitchers could stay healthy, how good they would be this year? Gray?
Yeah, Okay, So my thoughts on that is the raise don't pay
anyone. Well, they they did actually pay Fflyn a little bit, but
you know, barely. They don't pay anyone. So if they like ruin
their arms, they're kind of like they shrug and they're like, nah,
you know, we'll just well, we'll just create another great starter, you
know, so really, you know, it happens. I think that's sort
of the raise perception on this whole thing. Um. I kind of understand
getting Sevalier for Manzarto, even though I think Menzarto could be good, Like
you said, uh, you know, controllable young starters who are already good.
That's valuable. So yeah, I think the raise, I think Sevalier
you know, is he a two five o ear a picture. No,
obviously he's not, but he could be a three to five oh picture.
He's kind of like, you know, a Marcus Stroman or something like,
you know, not not incredible case, good command um manages to make induce
a week contact from hitters. So yeah, he's like he's one of those
guys who will exceed like his X fit, Like he's gonna he's gonna look
better than his peripherals, but this better. Yeah, I don't know about
that, but yeah, he's he's a startable guy though, like in in
just about every mixed league, um, you know, with four ratios.
If not, you know, maybe if he can get the case back from
last year, then he becomes a whole lot more interesting. But right now
his case are you know, pretty bad. Yeah, every case is being
under twenty percent makes him you know, he can run him out there for
the ratios and that's that's fine. I've been doing that in some leagues.
It's it's really hard to find guys you can count on for good ratios consistently
this year. But yeah, the case just really aren't there. So it's
some extent you're eating up innians especially if you have an Indians cap without the
opportunity to really get a lot of strikeouts. You know, I think the
biggest thing he's done this year is just really really limit the home run.
And I don't really have anything that I can contribute in regards to what has
caused this significant drop in his home runs. Like he hasn't really picked up
velocity. There's not really been a pitch mix change or a dropping in like
the break or change in the break. Really, it just seems like he's
kind of had the year where the home run the flyball has been very depressed
and he's just kind of keeping the ball in play. And so I mean,
as long as he's doing that, you know, I'm all for him.
I do wonder about that home run the flyball as we kind of enter,
you know, next season and where where he might be ranked. I
think, you know, I kind of trust the raise. I don't and
not nothink kind of picture I usually draft anyway, But you know, if
he's going at a decent draft spot, I could see potentially maybe like if
he's at like two hundred overall, yeah, one seventy five. Yeah,
maybe if he's you know, if he's above one fifty, then it starts
to get a little iffy because you're really just making a ratio play. But
anyway, yeah, maybe they can teach him the curveball or the change up
that they teach and everybody, and then he'll be a better pitcher. But
until the case come up, he is. He is kind of what he
is, And like he said, I think it's more three five, maybe
even like three eight if I'm being realistic in regards to where I'd probably have
him at rest of season. But the Rays are a very good organization,
and you know, he's been pitching very well all year. Speaking of somebody
who has been pitching well, Michael Lorenzen is on the move. He's going
from Detroit to the Phillies. How U Lee is going back in the trade
to Detroit. The second half this year, Michael Lorensen has been great.
He has twenty six and two thirds Indians. He's a one six ninety eight
nine whip in a twenty two percent k rate. He has gotten rid of
the cutter and the curve, barely throwing the sinker, so he's just simplified
down the pitch mix and and the results have been good so far. Right,
Yeah, no completely. My big concern with him is I think the
Phillies have talked about or was it the Phillies or just general consensus. I
think someone well anyway, someone said it, and it makes sense that he's
could be he could be limited and moved to the bullpen fairly soon because his
innings are getting up there, like he can only he can probably only throw
like thirty five to forty more innings, so you know, five to seven
more starts maybe, yeah. I mean I guess most people are only gonna
throw ten more starts, so you know, maybe that's not maybe that's not
bad. But yeah, I mean he's getting up there with innings, so
I don't know, I could see the Phillies potentially moving him to the pen
because it's like either get you know, five to six more starts or get
like the rest of the year with a solid, long reliever. So you
know, that's just something to watch. Because the Phillies do have six men
in their rotation right now. Yeah, I mean, I just don't think
Christopher Sanchez really stays in the rotation. I think that's the piece that moves
to the bullpen, or maybe they send him down to the miners if they
wanted to continue throwing starters innings Michael Lorenz. I mean they traded for Lorenzen.
He's on the last year of his contract, so they really don't have
any incentive not to blow his arm out and let him throw innings upon innings
the rest of the season. Because I was thinking the opposite way of what
you're saying. And what's I guess you know you've heard reported. I assume
they were grabbing him just to load him up on Innians and maybe save Wheeler
and Nola, Walker and Suarez, the guys they have under contract for next
year and just let you know, Lorenz and be the Innians guy. Um.
I mean, he's a thirty one, thirty two year old pitcher.
He's gonna be a free agent. I just don't see them being like,
oh, well, we had we had to preserve this guy's arm. Who's
not gonna be back with us. I yeah, I just quickly did a
search. I see the Phillies. The Phillies reporter said that they're a six
man rotation right now, but they have to go to they have to move
someone to the bullpen soon. So do that do they really? I don't
know that's you know, honestly, you're right. I can't argue with that.
I mean, why why limited a guy? Why limited a guy who
you're not gonna have around? I mean it sucks, you know, it
sucks to say that from a labor standpoint, because just like who cares about
lorenz and in his arm? But you're you're right. I mean, the
Phillies could throw him for the rest of the year potentially. It's hard to
say, Yeah, that sounds like one of those news bits from a less
than maybe reputable Philly source, but who knows. Moving on, let's talk
about Jack Flaherty. He goes to Baltimore, Seattle or Saint Louis is getting
saysar Prieto, dream Rome and Zach Showalter back. I will say the philosophy
has been ticking back up slightly for Flaherty. So there's a little bit of
hope here. Where are you at on Jack Flaherty? Who you know?
I mean, he had he was okay, He's had a strong little second
half start here? Where are you at on him? Also? I think
I forget which start it was, but there is one of those starts from
flattery flattery, where's like he gave up so many earned runs, and if
you threw out that one start, his ratios look better, Like everything looks
better. He still is having some issues with his command, though, I
believe so unless the Orioles can fix that. But you're right, the velocity
is up. So yeah, I'm I'm in on Flattery if he's able to.
You know, Baltimore is a great park. I think he's got you
know, I think he's potentially could be a good you know, every Stark
guy for the rest of the year. I would I would keep starting him
until, like he you know, said otherwise with his pitching, I have
no I have no problem with Jack Flattery at this point. I would.
I was really kind of out on him when he was with Saint Louis and
I felt like he was just, you know, a little bit too wild.
But right now I don't mind them. I'm kind of in on Jack
Flattery, on the Orioles. Yeah, and another guy who has you know,
he's coming up on a restricted free agency. So another guy that you
assume is going to have the innings and he's he's another he's somebody who needs
to show that he can still pitch because he's going to be looking for that
next contract. He's not. He's only he's only twenty seven, So I
mean, in some ways, he's very lucky to have gotten called up when
he did prior to the injuries because he kept his arbitration clock ticking to some
extent, so that that was very nice for him. But yeah, I'm
with you. I think that he's you know, a solid option for them.
As he's coming down the stretch, the velocity ticking up makes me feel
better about you know, where he's, where his arm is at and in
regards to health and what's going on. So I think he's a fine streamer
here, and you know, the home runs should be helped out by moving
to Baltimore. Yeah, no, agreed, Josh Bell is going to Miami.
Jean Skirrett, Khalil Watson go back to Cleveland in that deal. They
immediately cat Jean Sagira, So nothing to talk about there. I almost didn't
feel like there's nothing to talk about Josh Bell. He's going to do a
almost same park factor, but one that's so much worse for home runs than
like he's yeah he is, Oh, okay, he's very Yeah, let's
just move on then, Ryan Yarbow goes to the Dodgers. Devin Mann and
Darlin Figueroa go to Kansas City. The second half this year, Ryan Yarbo
has a two three five year, a one zero whip and a fourteen percent
K eight. He's never been a strikeout guy, and he's starting with an
opener, but he's giving some pretty solid ratios this second half and really most
of the season. Gray Yeah, and all of a sudden, the Dodgers
cheat, So you know how bad they bad? I mean, the Dodgers
have made a Madraszario a clean up hitter? Is that? I mean,
I think at a certain point, like if you're cheating so much where you're
making a guy with three homer power into a clean up hitter, then you're
cheating too much. You're making it too obvious. Like it's like, I
don't think the Dodgers cheat, and then you see Rosario cleaned up and you're
like, oh, okay, hold up a second, cheat it? Um?
Yeah, I think Yarbro is fine and like NL only um where you
could get potentially some good ratios and you know, like actually in one NL
only league, I think I picked him up because he was you know,
he was he was super cheap for fab and I needed, uh, you
know, I just need an arm and that's all Yarbro really is. And
it's for n L only only, so L only only. So yeah,
it's like it's fine. Yeah. I will say I've always kind of been
a fan of Ryan Yarborro. I just I think he's a good pick.
Like he's just a really solid pitcher most of the time when he's healthy.
The times that he's not looked good, I feel like he's he's been battling
injuries. So I always like him. I think he's a fine streamer even
in shallower leagues, even without starting. He's he's got wins in two of
his last three starts, and he's going when he's going at least five Innians,
six Indians and most of them as well. So you're getting the Indians
out of him that you would out of a starter anyway. So I think
there's a place for him as a streamer even in like twelve team leagues potentially,
but again it depends on whether you're where you're at against that Indians capital
limit. There's a bunch of other minimal DLC here Gray, I'm just gonna
run through them. You tell me if there's anything after I get through this
list that you want to kind of circle back to and talk about. Garrett
Cooper and Sean Reynolds go to San Diego for Ryan Weathers and he goes back
to the Marlins. Markanda goes to the Brewers for Justin Jarvis back to the
Mets. AJ Pollock and Mark Matthias go to San Francisco. Luis Aurius goes
to Boston, Andrew Chaffin goes to Milwaukee. Jake Berger goes to Miami,
Calhoun to Cleveland, Jase Peterson to Arizona, Rich Hill and Gie Manchoy to
San Diego, and Luis Patino to the White Sox. There were some other
deals, and I didn't quite mention. I almost feel I almost feel like
Jake Burger was in there as like, which guy is unlike the other guys.
It's a little bit unfair to put Jake Burger in with like AJ Pollock,
is it. Jake Burger's not that bad. Come on, and he's
got like, has he got twenty six homers? I mean he's on he's
on pace for like thirty five homers this year, and I don't know,
I mean, yeah, the average isn't good, but he makes no contact.
But I mean, is he that much worse than Kyle Schwarber, Max
Munsey? Yeah, or Max Munsey. I mean Schwarber, especially Schwarber's just
been so bad. Muncy Munsey hasn't been good either. I will say,
back to the Muncie Seawall trade that I mentioned earlier, that isn't on base
potentially, so months he's a little bit better there. Um. Yeah,
Burger I think is okay. I mean, he's fine for power. I
would have I would have gone and tried to get him in like an Anna
only league where he came into the league from the White Sox. I think,
you know, in a mixed league. Yeah, I mean, okay,
he's probably more of like a a utility guy in a twelve team mixed
league. So yeah, but AJ Pollock is like he's unstartable. Burger is
better than that, Okay anyway, Yeah, I have nothing else to say
about those guys. Fair enough, fair enough. I just you know,
if AJ Pollock falls into an everyday roll, the Giants are very old,
Like I don't know what the Giants are gonna do with him, Like I
don't even know why they were trading for him, so that's where you know
he gets thrown in there. But yes, ill Aj Pollock feels like a
trade you make when it's like, well, we have to say to our
fans, we're trying something because otherwise we're doing nothing at the trade deadlines,
so let's do something. Well, we gotta we can't do anything that's really
gonna be anything, so let's do AJ Pollock move. It's like when I
am surprised it wasn't a Cubs move. Honestly, it feels like a got
Cubs move this year, but you know, you know, it feels like
it feels like a recent Yankees move. Keenan Middleton, Oh oh okay,
what is that? What's that doing for us? I'm surprised they didn't go
back to the Dodgers because they love bringing back crappy old players who do nothing
for them nowadays. That would have been another good thing. Honestly, I
think I think Ryan Yarbro is better than Keenan Middleton, for like, if
the Yankees, the Yankees needed a starter more than they needed just a random
mental reliever. And not that Middleton's awful, but I mean kind of not
great, kind of that actually not really good. He's like thirty eight years
old now, and yeah it's not great, Rye, it's not He's like
thirty. I'm just ship. Okay, Yeah, let's move on past the
Okay, sorry, I'll put Jake Burger in that useless class of trades.
Jake Burger, I apologize. Next year, when you hit twenty home runs
and one sixty four, you know it'll be whatever. Next day is the
return of the injured pitcher. Had a bunch of guys come back from pretty
long absences. Brendan Woodruff I think being the top of the class, you
know, as a guy we definitely liked in the preseason, and then I'm
sure all of our teams didn't like that he was no longer available on them.
Velocity was down a little bit on his first outing versus Pittsburgh, but
he went five innings. He gave up two earned on, two home runs,
nine strikeouts, zero walks. Where are you at on Brandon Woodruff?
And maybe I guess you know we're gonna talk about a few other guys returning
from injury. How do you handle pitchers coming back from a long injury?
Appy, I had one of those years where I had like Woodruff, Freed,
Max Freed, chastism O'Neil Cruz was like four of my top six rounds,
and alpanoah yeah well and Agmanola Yeah I had one of those years.
Man. I am doing really bad in a lot of my leagues, like
worse than I've done in a while. Um. Anyway, Woodruff, if
he's healthy, I think he's a number you know, he's a number one
if he's healthy. His you know, like you said, Veloss, he's
down a little bit, so that's a little bit of a concern. I
don't think he's completely healthy, but you know, knock on Wood. I
wouldn't trade for him if I didn't have him, but if you have him,
you know, knock on wood all right. So that's what I was
gonna ask, is you know where he's sitting. Would you would you make
a deal for him and potentially look to to add him or is it strictly
a you know, if you have him, they're throwing him. But I'm
not. I'm not going out for you know, on a Linda Graham.
So it sounds like you're more in the secondary camp. I mean, talking
about some of the guys we were talking about earlier would you rather have,
um, Jordan Montgomery or Brandon Waldriff rest a season? Oh you know,
I'd probably go uh, I'd probably go Woodroffe. Yeah, just for the
upside play there. Yeah, how about how about your boy? Actually,
I mean I'm I'm pop committed at this point. Yeah, So how would
your boy Jose Barrios? I would go would Driff over Barrios for sure?
Yeah? I would. I would say Woodroffe or Glass now? Glass,
I would go Glass now, But I mean that's I think that's probably closer
than Barrios. I mean, I mean, Varis has been pretty pretty thing
good this year. Grahad, Yeah, but I want to give him I
hate on those. It doesn't matter. He could be pitching. Well yeah,
okay, let's move on Ester Cortez. He's also returning. He his
first outing versus Houston. He went four innings, one hit, one home
run, one n run, one walk in eight ks, which was very
nice to see from him, especially against a you know, team in Houston
that doesn't tend to strike out all that much. Where are you at on
Nestor is he is he kind of jumping back in where he normally fits in?
Or is this another kind of you're writing out if you have him,
But that's about where we're at. Uh. Yeah, he actually to me
he looked better than Woodroff, but he was on a lower he was on
a shorter pitch count, so right, I think, yeah, yeah,
so yeah, he looked good. Um, I don't fully trust him because
of the injury, but yeah, I think he I think he looked fine.
I think he looked probably the best out of you know, him or
Woodrobe. I think he looked even better. But yeah, I think Woodrobe
obviously has a higher upside than Cortez. All right, so you're still taking
Woodrobe over Cortez, right, yeah, even though they were despite what they
looked like. So you brought up Aaron Nola, would you go Aaron Nola
or Esta Cortez? Oh? I go Nola for sure. Okay, Yeah,
just trying to gauge where you have everybody. Max Freed another one.
He's coming back. The Brakes have been trying to fill their pitching rotation all
year, and maybe he can help them. At the Cubs, he had
six innings, three hits, zero RNs, zero walks, eight k's by
the way, at the Cubs, not just a sleepwalk anymore, they are
actually leading the league in runs in the second half. Velosi looks good.
If anything, it's it's maybe up slightly from where he was at the beginning
of the season or end of last season. Uh, you've always I feel
like you Max Freed, if always said a little bit of a a fragile
line. Here, Where are you at on Freed? As like the one
Atlanta pitcher you might have trusted other than Stryker coming in the season? All
right, Yeah, no, I I drafted Freed in a bunch of places,
like I said, Uh, yeah, I'm hoping Freed's good. I
have real concerns about it because, like he was out for a while,
but you know, like you said, the velocity looked good, So yeah,
maybe he's fine. I'm I'm I would be shocked, honestly if he's
fine health wise, because you know, what he had isn't something you know,
most guys just come back from. Uh you know, he he seems
like he was headed for serious surgery, So I don't know. Hopefully he's
fine, though, you know, I, like I said, I have
him on team, so I want him to be fine. I think he's
got the most risk out of these three pictures. But also he easily looked
the best out of all three of them too, Like he looked better than
Woodroffe and Cortez. So I would say freed over all of them and just
hope he's healthy because I mean that's the only thing stopping him. Yeah,
I was gonna say the same thing. And all these guys, when you
missed this much time you're always worth, they're gonna reinjure something. So when
it comes to reinjury, I don't know that that I necessarily have him as
less of a risk, but like all of them have that risk, and
like you said, he looked the best of the group. Jose Rakidi is
the next one. I think this is maybe the last of the injured guys
we're gonna talk about real quick. He looked the worst of the group.
Going three and a third, you have a five earned, one home run,
three walks, one strikeout at the Yankee So also kind of the toughest
matchup potentially, at least ballpark wise. Again, the Cubs have led baseball
and runs the second half. I'm just gonna say that as much as I
can, while it's true as a Keps fan, are you, I mean
Arkiti maybe one just to avoid Gray. I'm a little worried about him.
Yeah, I wouldn't go nearer Rakiti. I don't even think he's that good,
even if he's healthy, he's just not that good. I don't think,
you know, like at least for fantasy, he's like he's an innings
eater usually. So yeah, I wouldn't mess with him, absolutely not.
Yeah. I mean he's kind of a high threes Arra with like right at
the line of strikeouts where you're maybe okay with it. So yeah, not
a whole lot there. I think to circle is back around and guys we've
talked about before. I think he's basically what I would predict for Aaron Civale
next year, which is like a three eight ear a with like a twenty
one percent k rate. And I think I think, if anything, I
think Silvalia is better ratio wise and just better in general, and as shown
like he can have better keys or Keti doesn't do anything for me. Yeah,
that's that's completely fair. Moving on, Oswaldo Cabrera was recalled as Anthony
Rizzo was sent to the I l Asaldo Cabrera has been up and for back
back and forth, back and forth. Is this finally a time he gets
playing time or were just ignoring and waiting until he gets traded or finally gets
some playing time magically. Yeah, I mean the Yankees are just such a
mess. They're just being run. They're being run so terrible. I don't
know what they're doing. I don't think Cabrera has playing time. Yeah,
I would tend to agree. I don't know. I don't think it's there.
I mean, they they're looking at Oswaldo, Cabrera, Rizzo, like
you said, Rizzo goes at il. Jake Bowers becomes an everyday guy Like
why why? I mean, I know he's hitting right now currently, he
is hot, but him, that's who you're like. You have all these
prospects that aren't like you have Praza, you have you have Oswaldo and oswald
and instead you're like, oh, let's see what Jake Bowers can do for
us? Like what, I don't know, man, The Yankees are absolute
mess. That's all I can say. Anyway, Moving along, Yeah,
the outfield is a little weird, and it's it's all. It's all a
little bit weird right now in New York. Um Well, Matt Walder.
Uh, he's just hitting everything. There really wasn't anything to say other than
just like, I feel like we had to mention him because he's come out
of nowhere to just let the world on fire. Gray, what's going on
here? Yeah? Yeah, And he's hitting in the middle of the Twins
order right now, and the Twins really don't have much for in the way
of like, you know, a middle of the Wader bat. So Walder,
Matt Walner looks good, like, he looks like he has big time
power. I don't know if the average is gonna be able to stay like
right now, it's at around two seventy. He looks more like a two
twenty five hitter at best, so you know, the average could definitely bottom
out, but he has big time power. So yeah, I'm adding Walner
everywhere as of right now. Like he to me, he feels kind he
reminds me of Joey Menez last year. Like you know, sometimes these guys
come up, like a Walner comes up and he has big time power and
the pictures don't really know what to do with them. So and by the
way, Walner has more power than Joey Menez. But you know, with
that said, Walner comes up and the Pictures don't know really how to get
him out yet, so they just pitch to him like you know, they
just try and overpower them, and he hits a home run like when,
you know, because he can hit fastballs. So eventually Pictures is gonna be
like, oh, he can't hit sliders, or he can't hit you know,
he can't hit changes or whatever he can't hit. I don't I don't
know what he can't hit, but something there'll be something he can't hit because
they figured it out in the minor leagues. Like you know, there was
times in the minor leagues when he looked like a two twenty hitters, So
I think he comes back to that. But right now he's hitting everything.
So I would definitely I would grab him in every league. As to where
Rees was recalled from the end from his rehab assignment, second and stolen bases
in the league right now, I mean, maybe this is the guy who
Tim Anderson should have picked a fight on, you know, another another single
home run guy. Oh, that would be hilarious, like it would be
It would be like that would be like I said earlier, like the feather
fighting the Marshmallow. Uh Man, Yeah, he should have. You're right
to understand. Um, yeah, I mean everyone knows the ruise. He's
got crazy speed, So yeah, I would. I would activate him.
I would assume no one dropped ruise when he was injured. I would,
so I would activate him. Sure, all right, Slate Sosny was recalled.
The numbers this year in Triple A for the Diamondbacks look really bad.
You know, he's got a six three eight r A a one three eight
whip. I will say he is in reno in the PCL. So you
combine those things and you kind of understand where maybe that comes from. But
he's being given an opportunity up in the majors for the Diamondbacks. I don't
know that he necessarily sticks in the rotation, but he's up there for now.
Are you interested in Sisny in anything outside of l only Gray? No?
Okay, three other real minor d minor moves. I'm just gonna say
them again if tell me if you want to discuss them at all. Jake
Fairley goes to I. L. T. J. Hopkins has called up
by Cincinnati. He was hitting six sixteen home runs, one stone base three
eighteen fourty one down in the minors, Jeter Downs was called up. He
had thirty six games in Triple A, three on runs, eight stone bases
and he's hitting one seventy five, three on one three thirty three. Not
really a line to report home about, but you know, at one point
he was considered a top prospect in the game. And then Western Wilson was
called up as well. Twenty eight years old Triple A this year. In
a hundred games, he had twenty five runs, twenty three stone bases,
sixty seven sixty nine, two sixty three, sixty one and five twenty four.
He is twenty eight, so he's been down in Triple A for a
while, but he's never put up a line like that one. Yeah,
but he is a Quad A player. I mean I think, I don't
know. I mean, maybe he's hot, you know, like I was
saying with Joey Menez, maybe Wilson comes up and is hot for like a
month, But I don't even think he has playing time, to be honest,
I think he was just you know, a backup. I think,
if anything, I think Johan Ruis, I think no Rojas, excuse me,
Johan Rojas. I think takes over for Well, Marsh got injured,
so the Phillies called up Wilson. I think to backup Rojas. I think
I think that's how that's gonna play. And Rojas is interesting for speed,
but Wilson is not even like, you know, I don't think he's playing
times there anyway. Um, Jeter Downs, Man, what happened to him?
What happened? What happened to him? Bro right? I mean he
was hitting, like Jeter Downs is hitting one seventy five in triple A?
What how do you hit one seventy five in triple A? Um? Unfortunately,
I think Jeter Downs is gonna be like I think he's gonna be out
of baseball in a couple of years. I mean, I don't know,
he's got to really figure it out. I don't know why he was even
called up, to be honest, I guess you know the Uh they had
an injury, so they were like, well, let's call up Jeter.
Uh, And then they held their hand over their mouth so people would think
they were calling up Derek Jeter. Let's call up the forty eight year old
Jeter. Wait, doesn't he own another team? We can't? Can we
call up a guy who isn't even in our farm. So though that,
yeah, Jeter Downs has been really bad in Triple A. So I had
nothing to see there until like maybe maybe if he gets hot, I don't
know. Yeah, and it doesn't. I mean, hitting one seventy five
and Triple A is not inspite of confidence that he's gonna get hot all of
a sudden. I mean, we were talking about a guy who had like
power speed combo and like he was gonna be great. And this is this
is maybe the argument point for a white guys who get traded a bunch as
a prospect because he moved you know, four different three or four different times
between teams, or or you can make him your leadoff man and first basement
if you're if you're the Yankees, Jake Bowers has been traded one seven times.
He must be good. Everybody wants him. Everyone wants him, right,
all right, great, let's go ahead and go through some waivers here.
Okay, Well, let's talk about Jake Powers. He has been hot,
Jake Bowers man, this is the Jake Bowers Show. Um, okay,
So anyway, like I was saying, um, let's see Louis RINGIFO,
he's been hot, JP Crawford has been hot sticking with the Mariners.
Kade Marlowe has been hot. Um I mentioned earlier that UM watchmod called marsh
is injured, So uh, Rojas is really like Rojas potentially could really big
in every league. He could potentially be a really good pickup. I don't
you know. I mean, we'll see. But he has speed if you
need steals like he could be like Estuary Ruis for um you know a couple
of weeks. Okay, anyway, speaking of a guy who has speed,
Blanco on the Royals, Um, Joey Menace, who I've mentioned five or
six times podcast, he's also been He's been hot. Uh, let's see
who else Gary Sanchez been hot? Um U t J. Friedel has been
hot, Mike Uh Tuckman, Uh, Joey Vado, Matt Wallner who he
meant mentioned earlier, who I think should be owned in every league, Bryce,
Bryce Terrang, Ryan Moundcastle, Freddie Furman has been hot a a dollar
store, Freddie Freeman, uh Ian Happ and Jake crownin Worth and have I
mentioned Jake Bowers. That's about it. Yeah, before we get into the
pictures, I realized we skipped over the bullpen section, Um, Jordan Hicks,
Eric Swanson actually seemed to be kind of in a committee in Toronto.
Gray until we get Romano back, are you are you willing to roster both
of them and just see if you can get some saves out of them?
Uh? No, No, I would say I would say probably, I
would just go with one of them and hope you get the saves. If
anything, I'd say Jordan Hicks, Um we mentioned earlier in the royal situation,
I would probably go with Carlos Hernando, but not really expect anything.
And then the Phillies Kimbrell was tipping his pitches, so they went with Dominguez.
I would also look at Soto potentially. And then after Seawald was moved
to the Diamondbacks, Munez looks like he looks actually looking a solid pickup,
the Mariner's new closer. So yeah, yeah, Andre's Munos is probably the
closer pickup of the week, if he's not already owned in your leagues.
We'll see what happens with Kimbroll and whether he can get back into the ninth
inning and you know, stop tipping his pitches. I think it's been an
issue for him before, so maybe it's something that he's just he's reverted back
to that he needs to kind of clean up, hopefully, because I have
Kimbrell all over the place. In regards to Waivers jumping back there, there's
a number of catchers who have actually been performing well. So if you've been
kind of writing it out and you're with whoever, and your catchers have been
awful, Cal Rowley has been hitting well and Kisner. Gary Sanchez I think
has like six home runs in the last two weeks. Mitch Garver has gotten
catch your eligibility and he's hitting and playing pretty regularly. Tom Murphy is not
playing regularly, but he's hitting when he does. And Alejandro Kirk, who
we've been waiting all year to finally hit, has finally hit. After we
destroyed him on a show like three weeks ago it said he wasn't hitting.
He has turned it on on the pitcher side. Michael Rinsen versus Washington.
We already talked about how good he's been. Brady's singer at Boston. He's
been a little bit inconsistent this year, but he's writing I think a streak
of three quality starts in a row. Ryan yarbro versus Colorado. I don't
know if he's started that game or going with an opener. Paul Blackburn has
started turning around again as well, and he's going at Washington. Adrian Houser
has been up and down, but he gets home Colorado, who has been
pretty much a mess. And then Brandon Fat not great matchups, but he's
started to look a little bit better in his couple of outings. He gets
the Dodgers in San Diego and Ideal, but he is a two start guy.
So if you're chasing strikeouts this week, you could do worse, I
think than than running him out there. Anything else, say Gray? Um,
no, no, well, no, I know Jake Bowers, but
Googe grabbed Drake Bowers for Gray. Let him. Let him start at the
top of your line up like the Yankees do. And if you have specific
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