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Speaker 2: This is a July breakdown.
Speaker 3: We're gonna be breaking down all the stats, all the
highlighted players in July.
Speaker 2: But that's not it. We will also be taking.
Speaker 3: A look at the MLB trade deadline and this specific situation.
Not gonna come on here and like go through necessarily rumors.
I don't have any connections to that, Bagman and I
aren't trying to play those people. Go to pass and
go to Rosenthal. What we are gonna do, though, is
we're gonna take the rumors that.
Speaker 4: Are out there.
Speaker 3: I have constructed what I think the trades could look
like to different teams for players.
Speaker 2: I have almost everybody. There's I think there's like two people.
Speaker 3: I decided only do two teams on because I hadn't
heard any other real rumors.
Speaker 2: But isn'turely.
Speaker 3: What we did is each of the like the big
names taking the three top teams. I kind of assume
I take a look at what I think those trades
could look like for people, for better or for worse,
and thank God, and not doing it in an article
because like anybody that posts these articles about the trades
just people what we're good more.
Speaker 2: I mean, I will point out.
Speaker 3: Was it even close to the actual I think Mark
de Rosa just dropped a trade for I'm trying to
remember who it was. It was like to get Auto
Lopez and it had Roman Anthony and another player in it,
and it was like, come on, dude, like let's be real, real, Hey,
we're gonna play this game. Then I'm gonna trade Roman
Anthony when it's a trade for Auto Lopez or something
like that.
Speaker 2: So those are the ones I think they get demolished.
Speaker 3: But you know, there's some of your favorite prospects and
your favorite teams theoretically could get moved. So we're gonna
go through trade package scenarios and then looking as a whole.
Instead of the seven days, we're gonna look at the
leaders for the month, pick out a few players that
have really stood out, gonna be some guys you know about,
and then some latest news.
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Looking at doing a prospect ADP, We've got all of
that under the sun, this football stuff in there as well.
We've got the group me rooms, Prospects and Baseball can
talk through it all season, and I share stuff like
what I did the other day. I was out and
I saw Rock Schelowski. I shared that on social which
most people probably shared it in the rooms. Yeah, bust
get them out of here. Someone was like, yeah, he stinks,
look at this. He should trade him for Robbie Ray.
And then someone agreed with him, and I was like, Oh,
this is another side of the Internet that I don't frequent.
Speaker 2: This is like the two.
Speaker 3: Brain cell internet section where people are agreeing with each
other that they should trade the number one overall pick
for absolute rental mediocre pictures.
Speaker 4: I wasn't aware I do wonder. I know a lot
of those accounts are still real, but somebody say today
that it's like there's now more bought activity on the
Internet than there is human activity on the Internet. And
I just wonder if some of them are just trolls
patrol accounts. Very strange, Oh.
Speaker 3: I mean that there's a whole discussion on that. Yeah,
there's companies that, like I can tell you, I not
you can get into it crazy. But like back in
the day, I worked in radio and I worked are
on political radio. I literally had a meeting with a
company that one of their big two things is they
had built an entire station of bought accounts to help
change near I'm not even joking about this, Like, and
it was this totally normal conversation and they're like, so
what we can do is we could change the narrative
of conversations. And it was in the political space, which
is even nastier. Hence I don't work in that range anymore.
But like when you hear that, and that was like
five or six years ago, just know that there's tons
of that out there. But more to your point, like,
are those body counts out.
Speaker 5: There to be like Rock Cholowsky, kid hit a wood
bat trade on for Robbie Ray like, I don't think so,
It's just like it's a lower stemmed brain cell range
of the internet, and they just like they have the
dumbest takes and everybody feels they have to put.
Speaker 2: Them out there. But that's okay.
Speaker 3: If you're not mean, you can have you can have
the worst takes on the planet.
Speaker 2: And I don't care. It doesn't bother me. It bothers
me when the as I.
Speaker 4: Mentioned from a genuine place, when the people are like,
why are you rounds of sarcasm anymore? My god? Yeah.
Speaker 3: But when people are like, why are you sharing a flyout,
it's like, well you can go away then, or arguing
with me what rookie ball is?
Speaker 2: I literally had to.
Speaker 3: Actually, I don't block a lot of people, especially I've
never done it on Instagram. I blocked a guy because
he argued he tell me I didn't know what I
was talking about that Bridgeley was rookie ball, and I'm like,
I'm here, no, it's not like I guess.
Speaker 2: It's a theory of rookie ball.
Speaker 3: But they thought it was the Arizona COMPLIXX and they
wouldn't listen to me. And I was like, Okay, then
I'm done, Like can't I can't do this.
Speaker 4: I can explain it to you, I cannot understand it
for you. Yeah, I'll be like I'll see you there.
I don't have the time or crayons to explain this.
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Speaker 3: Two day, two days, all right, some news and notes
just to get to here and then I'm not gonna
tackle any of the trade deadline based things because we're
gonna do a whole segment on that. But we joked
about this on leading Off, and I say we it's
great because Bogman, we've done multiple shows together and leading.
Speaker 2: Off this week and you were here or Friday.
Speaker 3: I hate to monopolize what we talked about and try
to do it again, but it was just a really
funny conversation I had never heard in my life of
the ultimate Grand Slam, and Cody Clemens apparently did that.
And what it comes from is being down three runs
on two strikes, with down bottom of the ninth, two
outs and hitting a Grand Slam. I still don't understand
how it fully works because it said there were fifteen
walkoffs and thirty four totals, so it must have been
like the top of the inning.
Speaker 4: What I thought it was was I thought an ultimate
Grand Slam is when at any point in the game
you are down by three runs and you hit a
Grand Slam to go off by a run. That's how
I understood it. That might be incorrect, but I know
it is.
Speaker 3: It is incorrect, Like even the sension right here it
says a walk off Grand Slam hit by the home
team when they are trailing by exactly three runs in
the final inning.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, okay, okay. So there's been fifteen walkoff ultimate
Grand slams. The other ultimate Grand slams are for the
away team that went up going into the bottom in
the top of the night.
Speaker 2: Yes, that I actually have it here. It is. I
don't know why we had such a hard time with this.
The rarity thirty.
Speaker 4: Four in that low brain cell section on what dude.
Speaker 2: We're down there right now with them. We're like, wait
a minute, So it is a it is a I'm
still struggling with this.
Speaker 3: It is the rarity thirty four instances have officially been
recorded in MLB history, where it says the batting team
must be down by three runs of the bases loaded
down down one, two or three runs as a standard,
but only a three run deficit results in a one
run walk off victory of your home run. The extreme subset,
it says, even rare are those hit with two outs
and two strikes. So that's where the super duper extreme
ultimate is that has only happened fifteen times. That's the
difference that I kept screwing up. Here is the two
strike thing. Two outs and two strikes is the extreme
only fifteen times in the history of baseball. The other
is just being down in the final inning.
Speaker 4: But it's still only the home team.
Speaker 2: It is only the home team. Okay, that's what it says.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's what it says because it's a walk because
it's a walk off, because.
Speaker 2: The wait team can't walk out the game.
Speaker 4: I understand that. I just didn't know that it was
a walk off. I thought it was in the ninth
you're down by three and you hit the go ahead
grand slam. That that's what I thought it was.
Speaker 2: This is so rare. We had you memaged it in.
Speaker 4: A perfect game. If there's only fifteen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Eldridge was the last to do it, and he
did it this year, by the way, he did it
like a month and a half ago. The one before
that was Gean Carlos Stanton in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: So nobody thought about it with Eldridge because the announcer
was like, you, like, Tarp's off, it's gonna be hogs
out if he hits.
Speaker 3: His log out on the plate, And it's just like, dude,
like a take a breath, brother, But yeah, the Ultimate
Grand Slant and that turned in it devolved into a
very Denny's based conversation and Mozrella sticks and we got
very hungry at the beginning of leading off and that's how.
Speaker 4: We I've had a couple of Ultimate Grand Slams in
my day, yeah.
Speaker 2: The Penultimate.
Speaker 3: So that's the only thing though, is they should have
like because if an Ultimate Grand Slam is the thirty
four instances, then give it like the Super Ultra Grand
Slam is the even rarer version of it, which, by
the way, they've turned situational hitting essentially into into Fortnite sprites.
Speaker 2: That's what they've done.
Speaker 3: They're like, well, this is the Batman's sprite, but if
you want the galaxy sprite, then you have to have
two strikes out there. They're essentially turning these into needless
dumplings and sprites.
Speaker 2: That's the whole world we live in right now. Good
for Baseball for doing that.
Speaker 4: By the way, I mean I've heard of the sprites.
I don't know what nidos or dumplings areos are the
squishy toys? Oh okay, which, by.
Speaker 3: The way, shout out here, I don't know if he
listened to on itl Ghost Fork, who watches us on
it on Leading off, I had mentioned this weeks ago
because we had my daughter's birthday coming up. I was like,
these guys are obsessed with squishies and all these things.
And he goes like and he you know, hits up.
He's like, I got a connection. I'm like, oh man,
you gotta let me know. Long story short after like
a week or so a we connect and he wants
to send something and I'm like, oh my gosh, dude,
that's amazing.
Speaker 2: They get here.
Speaker 3: He sent the dumplings and the needles for them, and
I know.
Speaker 4: Are they the same type of squishy toy or something?
Speaker 2: So this is the thing.
Speaker 3: They're these like little secret boxes. Okay, look at go
grab one and then in it is like.
Speaker 2: A squishy toy. But here's how they get you with those.
Those have different rarities.
Speaker 3: Kids open it up and they want the likes yeah,
and it's like you could get the standard like you know,
yellow one or whatever, but then there's the whatever it
is gold or sparkle or what it's the super rare one.
And that's how they get you with those.
Speaker 4: This is going to be your kids, beanie babies.
Speaker 2: This is my kids.
Speaker 4: I got.
Speaker 3: I got plastic in here that can cook your lobsters
and you're all day long. That is just sitting in
my uh yeah, boil bags in there there.
Speaker 2: I think they're I I think so.
Speaker 3: And then the needles are just like I actually like
the needles. They're like squishy stress ball. I just want
to squeeze them, but all these kids want them like crazy.
That's what this stat is. It's literally the glitter dumpling
of baseball. They're like if you get two up to
two strikes. It's really rare, like urban dictionary terms. Honestly,
it's only something people will dumpling. The glitter dumpling is
that on accident one time, I did not like what
I saw. Yeah, that's not a good sight to take
a look at. But you had kids, you would know,
so I know all those things. Unfortunately, goes for shout
out to go and shout out to Cody Clemens, by
the way, outside of his glitter grand Slam, that he
got his glitter dumpling Grand Slam. He's actually been pretty
damn good this year too. I think it was nineteen
seventeen or nineteen armers, stolen bases are there. He's batting
average on two it was two forty four, but xba's
and the two fifties profile looks good. Doesn't strike out
a bench. I mean, if the Twins don't sell him off,
he has a chance, especially if they sell off guys
like Josh Bell, and if some insanity happens.
Speaker 2: Where a guy like Bucks and word Ago, you could
hit it.
Speaker 3: The middle of the lineup. So I'm kind of a
Cody Clemens guy something to watch. I don't know if
I'll buy into him next year, necessarily about forty four.
By the way, twenty four, No, I said two forty four.
Well I thought you said two twenty four. No, two
forty four with a two to fifty one XBA yeah,
and fifty or fifty three RBI fifty one runs not bad.
So I'm he goes and has like what eighty five
eighty five maybe twenty three homers, ten stolen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and qualifies at first, second and the outfield over
twenty games at each sneaky as hell?
Speaker 2: What is his ownership percent? Did you think I'm gonna
put it up?
Speaker 4: I would guess forty percent On Yahoo thirty five percent.
Speaker 2: Oh damn, you almost nailed it. Thirty four percent.
Speaker 3: This is between Yahoo and ESPN, So I bet you
Yahoo's probably around like forty and he has pretty probably
around like twenty five.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, sob somewhere.
Speaker 4: He's one hundred and thirty fourth according to Yahoo's season
long ranking.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean, if you're sitting out there, that's
one of those dudes. Absolutely one of those dudes. In
the trade world, we had the obviously the trade we
talked about last time, which ended in just disaster. Really
unbelievable that the Red Sox traded for Curtis me.
Speaker 2: They traded a.
Speaker 3: Huge haul in Conley early and then Curtis Meat literally
breaks his risk. We got the official note six to
eight weeks of the broken Russ.
Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody on leading off said, when I draft a
player and they get hurt two days later, I call
that the Bogman. You should call it. The Red Sox
really is what you should call it. The uh uh
Breslow is what you should call it. So that really stinks.
But now they're in on Auto Lopez. It has been
rumored a little bit, so we'll see. We'll get into
that later, but they may have to make another trade
because Curtismeat is just not going to work.
Speaker 3: Out at all. Well, and it looks like they are
and they are rumored with a whole lot of them,
So that's something we're going to talk about. There was
another smaller trade Logan o'happy was traded to the Rangers
with Chase Silseath. Actually this says for this note was
o'happy and Chase Silseeth traded to the Rangers for on
Hill Aredondo.
Speaker 2: A couple of interesting notes.
Speaker 3: Rodondo is a nobody and Baseball America did a pretty
brutal blow where they say, hey, sometimes these guys get
traded that we don't have an our thirty and you know,
we check in with teams and scouts to see if
maybe we miss something. I think it was like we
getrus And then they said this isn't one of those cases.
Speaker 2: So that was a nobody.
Speaker 3: But another interesting note, let me pull it up here.
This is Arico found this. I didn't talk about this
on leading off, but there's this note here that this
is really interesting. If Ohapi is held down for at
least twenty five days and he was sent to Triple A,
two years of contractual control turns to three, so check
that out. So he was sent down, O Happy ended
up promoting Rangers.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was saying, if there's anything else in this note,
but that's essentially it. So if they keep him down
till I don't know, August second or something like that,
they will get another year of control through arbitration for him.
Just kind of sneaky in that trade. I mean, there's
a little bit of money attached to him.
Speaker 4: Weird, but work in the contract. To be honest, that's
very strange.
Speaker 3: Something with the angels and his arbitration whatever, and I
don't know, I don't know, or maybe was a hobby
one of those guys that was bought out of arbitration
and that's just part of his con. I can't imagine
this part of his contract. I think that's a very
arbitrational sounding thing.
Speaker 4: No idea.
Speaker 2: I don't know. RICO found that.
Speaker 3: I thought that was that was a really really trippy
element that maybe was something that the Rangers were thinking about.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's funny because I have him in one
of my lineups and I saw the green flag next
to him. I'm like, I wonder if this is just
because he just got traded, but I didn't realize he
was sent down so quickly. Yeah, arbitration eligible next year,
so yeah, it has to be something.
Speaker 2: So that's what it is.
Speaker 3: So then he would become he would get another year
of eligibility by holding him down, So.
Speaker 2: It's kind of a brutal blow. I'll also say, like
he's a great dude personally.
Speaker 3: I've been around him, like he kind of hate to
see guys like that get manipulated in their contracts and stuff.
But it's a game, man, That's how it works. Max
Clark was finally called up. This is my Bubbet Chandler
for the year in that, like, this is a dude
I thought could come up really early.
Speaker 2: Did not happen.
Speaker 3: He stayed down for you know, obviously the majority of
the year in triple A stolen bases. Over twenty the
power started to tick up a little bit. Batting average
is good. I kind of love everything about Max Clark.
I feel like for the last couple of years, and
I could be wrong about this, I feel like I've
always been higher on everybody else in Max.
Speaker 2: Clark, So we'll see if that works out. It worked with.
Speaker 3: Biana, I was the highest on Bizana definitely because people
gave up, but that doesn't mean that'll necessarily work.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 3: I pulled up his prospects savant page, which gives you
kind of a run of what he did at Triple A.
Really good prospects of on score if that matters to you.
But he had a one to eleven max ev so
upper tier, top fifteen percentile in that range. He definitely
didn't like. His XP was kind of low, two fifty five.
His fiftieth and ninetieth percentile evs they're not great. He
definitely wasn't barrel in the ball, but he does not
strike out at all. He walked a ton, he did
not chase and whiff. That was top ten to fifteen
percentile overall. And the thing I would feel kind of
positive about is this looks like the type of guy,
uh because he's always been able to do this with
his swing. He's a very analytical guy. He's going to
get the ball in the air and he's gonna pull it.
He had a nineteen percent pulled air percentage, which is
pretty good, especially if that translates over So he's it's
kind of like what I talked about with Larnik. He's
not a guy that has big hard hit numbers. He
doesn't have big barrel numbers. But if he gets the
ball in the air enough and pulls it, good things
are going to happen. He pairs that with really good
contact skills ninety over ninety percentile zone contact rate. He
doesn't swing and miss, he doesn't whiff, he doesn't chase,
he doesn't strike out.
Speaker 2: So he's just going to make really good.
Speaker 3: Decisions and in those decisions could turn into him, you know,
getting some homer, stealing a bunch of bases, and if
they do trade the living crap out of that team,
then he might be able to move up.
Speaker 2: Higher in the order.
Speaker 3: Because we're gonna talk about school, but also Casey Mais
got pulled today because he's there getting ready for a trade.
Apparently glabor Tors is going to get traded, so Max
could move up the lineup. So all that to say, like,
I want to pick him up, I want to have
him in leagues.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's a good ad right now, and
like you said, definitely a lot of opportunity to move
up in this lineup. No one is really crushing it
right now.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Dingler had a nice start to the season. He's been
pretty good all year. Riley Green's hitting at three. Got
mcconagal lean off, but after that is Glaber Torres holding
on to that number two spot, you know, real hard.
I don't know. Colet Keith is hit at five right
now and he's platooning Torque is between six and eight
every single game. So yeah, there's a chance to to
be high in this lineup by the end of the year,
specifically with trades.
Speaker 3: Lineup or not is not out as we're recording this either,
so I don't know where he's hitting he's going up against.
He is going to get to the left Eya tonight
and Jeffrey Springs, assuming he's in the starting lineup, which
I imagine I'm gonna guess he's sitting like seven. That'll
be probably the general spot. But he's guy that can
move up higher in the order.
Speaker 2: Also prospect.
Speaker 3: I did a prospect video on Fantasy Pros this week,
but Quinn Matthews I had mentioned it should be up soon,
and he was he's gonna make his debut tomorrow on
Saturday against Toronto. I'm into it because Toronto is just
flailing right now. I really don't hate this I really
want to monitor his command though, because he has it's
previous years that's gotten away from him. He's kind of
fixed that this year, but you know, we'll see, we'll
see how that goes, but I think he is a
potential spot starter.
Speaker 2: Probably the best news for you, bogs. How hilarious is this.
Speaker 3: We did this whole segment I remember was the last
show or the one before about how Paul Seawald really
wasn't as bad as you thought. You're only blown toos
hold on, you'd only blown two saves the whole year.
And then I get a text from you about about
how upset you are. And then, to your credit, I
think they did this for you. Paul Seawald has been
removed from the closures role after his thurn blowed saved.
Speaker 4: So very funny because about an hour before Paul Seawald
blows this save, I get a text from c K,
who has been given me all year because Seawald has
been good. He's like, hey, look I'll take him over
the Brewers. Guys, they've been terrible all year, you know,
and he's I would rather have Seawald. I'd rather have Seawald.
Here's another a strong close from Seawald and he texted me,
He's like, I loved hearing you talk him up, and
I'm like, I don't think I was talking him up.
Number one and number two. Uh, look at what you did.
Look at what you did that that's an hour later
I texted him, do you see what you just did?
Do you see? And that was when he gave up
the homer to the two run homer in the ninth
and they were still up by a run and then
immediately gave up another homer to blow the save, and
then they yanked him out and the Thebacks had to
go to eleven. That's why I was in on e
Rod the next day on that bet on leading off,
which I did, you know, mistakenly because that game started early.
Erod was great because they had to play in the
eleventh and everybody was gassed for that day game critical.
Speaker 3: Also, that was a critical ass game. If you were
listening to the broadcast that game. If they had lost,
they would have lost the season series against the Pirates
and they are vying for the final wild card spot
against the Pirates. That's the type of stuff you can't
lose that and they and to have lost like that
could have been devastating. Imagine if the Diamondbacks would then
get kicked out because they lost the season series to
the Pirates at the very end.
Speaker 2: So that was why that was so brutal.
Speaker 3: I believe they didn't want to like announce announce like
Brian Garcia is a guy. Unfortunately the bell was super
annoying with guys like Ginkles. Don't be surprised when that happens.
But I did go pick up Brian Garcia in one
of our leagues.
Speaker 4: Well, what I read that they were thinking is that
instead of trading for players at the deadline, they're going
to get deep players that they traded that they spent
money on back after the deadline, So like Justin Martinez
is going to be a boost. They expect Corbyn Burns
to come back, so they're not going to make trades
because they're going to get these guys back, Like as
soon as Justin Martinez comes back, I think they put
them right back in.
Speaker 3: I we'll talk about that in the trades because I
got something for the Diamondbacks. And there was a lot
of like local conversation around what you're saying, But that
is true that that's what the sun the Suns did
this when I used to work in sports radio. One year,
it was the year ragihon Rondo was trade. I was
drafted by the Suns. They then traded regihon Rondo to
Boston or they you know, they traded the pick to Boston.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah.
Speaker 3: But the Suns, we had the whole draft party. The
whole radio station was there, fans were at the stadium,
and what they knew they were doing this because they
then traded everything. They had no first round pick, and
they brought out Amari Stodemeyer and they're like, this is
our real first round pick, and Amario like walk down.
That's like what the Diamondbacks are trying to tell you.
But there's a couple of interesting things out there. Only
other piece of Spencer Strider likely is not going to
be pitching the season. There's a as the word was
put out scuttle butt that he would not be returning
as a starter.
Speaker 2: He might return as reliever. Probably more important that they
go get a starter.
Speaker 3: Many p was put on the aoh with some wrist soreness,
and Onel Cruz has been.
Speaker 2: Cleared for baseball activities.
Speaker 3: That would be a big benefit of the pirates as
they are looking to make some moves.
Speaker 2: So those are a few of the news and notes.
Speaker 3: Let's take a break, though, and let's dig in to
trades the market. I apologize if something does happen between
us airing this or you listening, you got to understand
the next.
Speaker 2: Three days could be chalk full of it.
Speaker 3: Frankly, there's a guy we're going to talk about that
was pulled from a start today that seems like a
trade could be imminent. So we might be wrong, and
we might post this as this happens. But let's take
a break and we're going to talk trade and trade
scenarios right after this.
Speaker 2: In this league. Oh I remember in this league?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that MLB trade deadline is Monday. I
believe it my pm Eastern, maybe it's six pm Eastern,
one of those. And the idea of what I want
to do here is talk about the major dudes.
Speaker 2: We got the major guys, and what these trade options
look like. This is a little bit real world.
Speaker 3: I think this is slightly rooted in a little bit
more reality than it is. I specifically pick on, like
I mentioned, the Mark de Rosa thing. Mark Derossa one
was pretty messy with some of those trades. This is
my idea. Now, did you want to point this out? Though,
there's no world upon any world that I thought Curtis
met would cost conly early. So take that with a
grain of salt, because that was a trade I didn't
see coming. If they were going to trade Curtis meat,
I would have thought they would have traded like a
double a prospect or something like that. So this might
be wrong, But this is rooted some in what the
rumors are floating around a few things I've heard in
the grape vine. And then also there are some names
in what I've put together that look similar to conversations
that like because like passing A Rosenthal have talked about
in the trade market. But again, like Freddy Peralta was
pulled today, So that's one that could happen anytime soon,
which I'll talk about here in a minute.
Speaker 2: I think Casey My's I don't have him on the list.
Speaker 3: Those were two guys that were pulled that obviously seems
like a trade is looming, but I wanted to hyper focus.
I'm leaving out the Clay Holmes, I'm leaving out frankly,
the Adlie Ritchman's the Helio Ramos is to focus on
like the big names that I think will have really
big returns, And you got to start with Trek Scougel
and the Dodgers. The minute they lost that game that
he pitched on Wednesday, dude, the Tigers put out a
goat tweet with him, like tipping his cap. They knew,
they knew that this was not and every single prognosticator
went out and was like, Yep, this is what's happening.
Jeff Passon has openly said that everybody in baseball thinks
the Dodgers are going to get them. I got a
text from somebody that said, the Dodgers are the team
that every other team knows is going to happen. It's
just about what the package is going to look like.
That doesn't mean it's going to happen.
Speaker 2: I would speculate if the.
Speaker 3: The Tigers are little pains in the ass or the Dodgers,
if it pushes till a Monday, I think that's gonna
be a problem.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure the.
Speaker 3: Dodgers are going to want to wait out the very
end and miss out on other opportunities. I'm not saying
they won't but as I said before, the Dodgers are
one of those teams. I think the Brewers are still
in it, and there's a lot of chatter about the Rays.
There's other teams, of course you don't want you know,
the Braves could enter it, but these are the three
likely teams. Any comment before I'm going to talk to
you about the packages that I think look like for this,
we're now all on one hundred percent range of ter
school is going to get traded. Do you have a
feel on a team a fantasy impact it's the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: I'm annoyed with it. I don't like it. I would
love if the Rays got them, if the Brewers got them,
just to be somebody different. But I think that I
think that whatever, like maybe we turned into into a
bidding war, but the Dodgers can still win that even
with their with players. So yeah, I just think that
I think it's inevitable that he ends up with the Dodgers,
like Thanos.
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is what my my trade option looks like,
and names might alter, like maybe I'll get some of
this right, maybe I'll get nothing right. The Dodgers trade
I have thought for a while, and then I got
this confirmed with me. By the way, confirm take as
much as you want. But I've been saying I think
Zayer Hope or Mike Suroda are one of the pieces.
I personally think Zayer.
Speaker 2: Hope is the guy.
Speaker 3: I feel like the Dodgers would not want to give
up Saroda, especially if they end up giving up a
higher end pitching piece as well. The Tigers are gonna
want a big haul. They're gonna probably want two big pieces,
something that can help soon. And I think if it's Saroda,
the pitching piece looks less. If it's Hope, I think
you're gonna see someone like Sheehan or River Ryan go.
So my trade option for the Dodgers is they trade
Zayre Hope, Emmett Sheehan. Cam Lighter is a lower end pitcher.
I believe that's one of the lighter group out There
was a college pitcher drafted by the Dodgers has had
a pretty good season. There definitely could be more pieces.
I think you could alter this to maybe it's Hope
and Ryan and another. I just don't know if it's
three high end. If it's two high end guys, I
think is going to be three pieces. If it's one
major one and it's not like a Sheehan or a
River or a Hope or a Serota, then I think
that's where this trade goes to, like four pieces from
the Dodgers, and then it's I got and be honest
with you. Then I think it's gonna look gross. I
think there is a scenario I'm just gonna throw this
out there where the top piece is River Ryan, and
River Ryan has credible stuff, plus numbers and everything like that,
but Tiger fans will feel sick because it'll be River Ryan,
and then it'll be like Kellen Lindsay cam Lighter and
then like Chase Harland, and everyone's gonna be like, you've
got to be kidding me. The Dodgers didn't trade any
other top five pieces, even if it's a rental and
everyone's going to be sick. But that scenario aside, I'm
gonna go with there's a really big competition and the
Dodgers move off of Zyre, Hope and Emagy and which is.
Speaker 2: A really really big give.
Speaker 3: When you're getting a rental player. But there's also the
rumor that he wants to resign. He wants to sign
with the Dodgers in the off season.
Speaker 4: So I think though, I think if you're the Tigers,
you have to be trading for pitching, right, So like
a deal around River Ryan would be great. Did you
did you said EMMITTT. Shehan in there at one point,
didn't you?
Speaker 3: Well, No, look on the shoot, that's that's the that's
the trade. That's the actual trade. Are Hope and m
she And that's the one I am officially putting down
is I think it's Hope and Shehn. I'm just saying
the Dodgers are nasty wizards. They might do something where.
The one I think that will piss everybody off is
this trade is now centered around River Ryan and then it's.
Speaker 2: Like four other three or four other prospects.
Speaker 3: This one, Hope and Shehn is already a really big
give for a rental type of guy. They're gonna probably
assume they have a good chance to resign him and
sell him. And these are expendable and this is a
big This is a pretty big give for Hope and
she Han.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think you might see that other trade though,
that like four pieces for one, because not a lot
in the system for the Tigers, uh, in terms of
their top ten four pitching, especially pitching that's coming up
anytime soon. Looking at at the list here, like Ben
Jacobs is twenty eight guy, ale Kai Witherspoon is a
twenty twenty eight guy. You know, you have job who
would be coming off iel to replace Scooble, and then
they have but it looks like they're gonna trade Myz
And you saw Flaarty and Resoulsen down there as well injured.
So I definitely see the scenario where it could be
a four for one and they're getting like three shots
at pitching prospects and then you know one other hitter
or something.
Speaker 3: That, yeah, you're not wrong about that. This one I
think is interesting though, because they get a rotation piece
in Shehan.
Speaker 2: They get Hope as a future guy that they could
put in the middle of the lineup, and then you
got another dart throw and a guy like Lighter.
Speaker 3: The other trade options I put the Brewers together, I
think this would be a hyper aggressive one. Brandon Sprott
as the pitcher. I think he's expendable for this team.
They probably don't want to give up Logan Henderson, but
they got a pair spot with a high end prospect.
I actually don't know if the Tiger. I don't think
the Tigers could pull off getting a Luis Pana that's
way too much. I do think and Andrew Fisher could
be involved. Again, this is a big ass trade, but
I am assuming the reality is teams really are fighting
and arguing for, you know, for high end pieces, and
this isn't gonna be one of these disappointing trades. And
then I also put Tyson Harden, so Brandon Sprott, Andrew
Fisher and Tyson Harden no Painian made going for the
Brewers and the Raise one I really don't know how.
Speaker 2: To put together.
Speaker 3: I put three pieces Ian Seymour, who is a bit
older who could finally get in the rotation. He would
be a kind of now piece, Nathan Fluelling and Cooper Fleming,
and I put those together. Fleming and Fluelling are two
top four or five in the system. I think they'd
have to give up more to beat out these other teams,
so that's why they're giving two higher end prospects. They've
got a guy named Kaden Bodine for Fluelling. Fleming they
just drafted Grady Emerson, so I just think they have
flexibility to do it, and Ian Seymour would be someone
they kind of give up on. So those are my
trade scenarios. You look at these Dodgers one is probably
still the move, but I think the Brewers one is
pretty pretty aggressive.
Speaker 4: What would say, Brewers one isn't bad, But I do
think that if you can get sheehan and two shots,
that's probably what I want for Ark School.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 3: And by the way, he probably go to either one
of those three teams, and I'll be wrong, but those
are my trade options, all right.
Speaker 2: Mason Miller, Mason Miller trade stuff. It's very dicey. It's like, well,
it's not going to happen, then it's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Three teams. I put together the Brewers because it does
seem like if the Dodgers are the winners, the Brewers
might be turning their attention to Mason Miller. They're obsessed.
They are in a position to have a I think
you call it the super bowlpen, and the Brewers have
the pieces to be aggressive. Mason Miller is different because
you have multiple years of control, multiple years, you can
have them be the most elite closer in baseball. You
could stretch them out if you want, but you got
multiple years, So what is that going to cost? They
traded the Leo DeVries to get him. I think the
cost because I think Preller is going to be so
so aggressive. I have a very very aggressive trade and
people might scoff at this, but this is where I
think Luis Penia goes.
Speaker 2: Luis Penia goes.
Speaker 3: I added Brandon Sprot again and Josh Adam Sheski. Those
if in the prospect world, if you understand, that is
a big haul. Adam Shesky is a dude, Paenia is
obviously a dude, and Sprot can go into the rotation.
It might feel too much, but I think this is
what the going rate is going to be in the cost,
and I think this is why the Brewers really could
pull this off if they put something like that together.
I might be wrong about the Adam Sheski side. Maybe
it's Penia, Sprot and something else.
Speaker 2: I do feel pretty aggressive.
Speaker 3: That Penia would be the guy that would go, because
then I think Preler gets a win off of that.
He gets I traded Davrez, but we got Payinia and more.
Devrez is seen is higher than Pinia, so getting Penia
plus is kind of a wash if they're going to
move off of Miller. The other thing missing from this
is high end pitching off of SPROT. I don't think
they would trade Logan Henderson or something like that, but
this would help some of the positional issues that the
the Potterys maybe face long term.
Speaker 2: So I don't know if you if you have any
thoughts on this one that.
Speaker 4: No, this sounds right like it's gonna cost way more
to get Mason Miller even though he's, you know, not
the World Series Chaser the Trek Scooble is because he
has three years of control still, He's intake him till
after twenty thirty so and cheap for this year. His
contract for this season is four million bucks. So, and
then what's gonna happen next year when he has to
go into arbitration he's actually going to get paid. Finally,
we may not even have that at the beginning of
the year.
Speaker 3: And I think they can go and I think them
getting the the Lil Lara and the Cooper Pratt deals,
I think it makes sense. Again, I could be wrong
in here, but I think Pain is expendable because they
gave Pratt the deal, They've got, they've they've got made,
and they break that up.
Speaker 2: Pain is the big piece for there.
Speaker 3: The other two options, I think the Yankees could be
super aggressive Dax Kilby. I've heard that the Potteries are
obsessed with They're obsessed with Dax Kilby, even though they
want ready pieces. Spencer Jones and Carlos Lagronia. Again, that's
a huge haul, but those are the expendable pieces that
the Padres could get away with moving and it doesn't
affect the I'm sorry, the Yankees expendable pieces. It covers
a future and a little bit of when now. And frankly,
the Grania, if he's a closer by next year, he
could be their next Mason Miller.
Speaker 2: So that's that one.
Speaker 3: And then this is my own personal one I've been
talking about for a while. I think the Mariners could
pull off a crazy one and they move a guy
like Ryan Sloan, and that would be huge. In some
aspects of real baseball, Sloan is seen as higher than
Pana and I'm putting Johnny Farmelo on there because they
have a lot of expendability.
Speaker 2: Those are two big prospects.
Speaker 3: But we've already talked about why Mason Miller is important here,
and that would give them a super bulpin with a
super rotation imagine Muniosen Miller and then you've got those
rotation pieces and you still have Kate Anderson coming up,
so that even though the Mariners haven't been tied as much.
Speaker 2: That's my deal. Which of these deals do you think
is the one that gets done?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the Yankees one is my favorite one.
If I'm the Padres, right controllable pitching stud shortstop, uh
and a good outfielder in Spencer Jones, like that is
the one that I want. If I am the Brewers,
you get three big name prospects for all yeah, the Potters,
I'm sorry, Uh three big name uh, three big big
names for a closer in any scenario anyway you cut it.
I think it's the right way to go. You know,
when you trade for Mason Miller, you're kind of pushing
your chips in to see if it works. It didn't,
so I think restock this. Uh, he's definitely getting moved,
like Mason Miller is for sure getting moved.
Speaker 2: Oh you think so?
Speaker 4: Yes? I well, I think, you know, I think you're
kind of hitting the reset button on the payroll. With
the Podreys, I think they're going to start shedding it
and they don't want to pay a closer, and I
think that is what it's going to make him push,
which means maybe we're taking a prospect off if they're
really aggressive at trying to get him off of payroll.
But you know, the Pods, we're never going to be
at the top of the payroll heap for very long.
Speaker 3: The only thing I'll throw out that I've said that's
a little bit different is I have thought that the
Padres could also be a team that screws everybody's brains
and they become buyers and then all of a sudden
they say and they go. That one I have shipped
them to is I think Retchman to the Padres makes
all the sense in the world. That's a guy they've
been looking for closers forever. I think they could go
and trade a Cash Mayfield or something like that.
Speaker 2: That's a big give.
Speaker 3: Maybe it's a little bit lower and I'd went too high.
Probably that is a little bit too high. Maybe they
could trade, you know, like Omar Cruz and Ryan Weidman
or something, and they could get a Rechman and then
all of a sudden, do they really want to trade Miller?
Speaker 2: Trade Miller. That's where I would go back to trading.
Speaker 3: Miller to a team like the Mariners, and then all
of a sudden, they get maybe a Kirby Back or
they get a Bryce Miller and they get someone that
helps them in the now. That's another scenario, Hunter Goodman.
I find Hunter Goodman to be the most difficult to
prognosticate because the Rockies want the top pro and everybody's organization. Essentially,
the Rays have already said that THEO Gillen is not available,
So how are they going to make this work?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: But the three teams that are tied to Hunter Goodman, Yankees,
Red Sox, Rays, all in the same division. Yankees that
would be George Lombard and I think Spencer Jones and
Colorado would just be like, holy crap, they should totally
do that. The Red Sox that would be Franklin Arius, who,
by the way, fun note was playing second base today
for whatever that means. If that's they're not going to
trade him or they are, and then I paired him
with Justin Gonzalez and the Rays. I did as I
mentioned before, Fluelling with Cooper Fleming, and then I threw
in another prospect, Michael Fortt, who's kind of a decent
like back end starting pitcher. But I just don't know
if any team would want to do this. I have
a this is the one I just don't understand. I
actually feel like if the if Hunter Grummin is traded,
it's going to be something stupid. And I do think
the Red Sox and Yankees make the most sense because
I think they have the flexibility to move off of
Lombard and Arius. Especially if the Yankees would go and
get like a you know, with Netto or a Auto
Lope or an Auto Lopez as well, then you can
really justify it.
Speaker 2: But to either three of these moves you think happened
for Goodman.
Speaker 4: Ah Man, I think I just think the Rockies are
gonna have to take less than one, and I don't
know if they're willing to do that. You kind of
mentioned that when we talked about this before. I I
think that he stays in Colorado. I think they're gonna
ask for the moon, no one's gonna come even close,
and he ends up in Colorado, and I think they're
okay with that. Because he does have three more years
of control. You know, he's still making a hundred million
dollars this year. He is arbitration eligible, so that is
when to increase by a lot next year. But I
think they're asking for too much as it stands right now.
So I think if you do see a Hunter Good
in trade, it's gonna be underwhelming from what the initial
publicized things are. But I I just at this point
I would say, I think I doubt it happens.
Speaker 3: All right, That's that's fair. I think this is going
to be the most ridiculous one, to be honest, all right,
a couple more zach Netto, I only put the Red Sox,
and then this other interesting team, the Phillies.
Speaker 2: I think the Yankees have been tied as well.
Speaker 3: I probably should have put the Yankees, but I'll be
honest with you, I think the Yankees one is probably
I feel like they wouldn't give up Kilby and they
wouldn't give up Lombard, which is weird. So I just
have a hard time with it. But the two moves
I did is the Red Sox trade Marcelo Mayor, who
by the way, is a California kid, a Southern California
Kid to get Neto and Anthony Allenson, which is a
big time pitcher for Neto. If they trade Mayor, it
might not cost that much, but I think this definitely
gets it done. Neto offensively is a better player than Mayor.
They get a higher end pitcher, someone that could help
them in the near future. It might be something lower.
I actually think that is a very likely one. And
then I did one with the Phillies where how about
Andrew Painter. Andrew Painter came up, Painters getting some value again,
and Dante Nori was someone that people really like. This
would give the Angels a rotation piece soon and an
outfielder that could help them there in the near future
if they're going to trade off guys like a Deel.
So those are the two options. Either one of those
stand out again, the Yankees one, I guess if I
were to quickly give you, I just don't feel like
they give it. You know what, Maybe it's Kilby, It's
Kilby and something smaller. That's what I'll say, Like Kilby
and ben Hess is what I'm gonna say for them.
So Kilby, Ben Hess, Marcela Mayor, a and Sen Painter,
Nori which one do you like for Nedo.
Speaker 4: Any of them. The Angels need help so bad, specifically
in the system. We know that Harney Moreno with the
stupid comments about well, winning is not the absolute end
all be all here, okay if you say so, it
is for the fans. So I think you just need
to hit reset on this franchise as a whole. I
think a new owner would be great, but that's not
gonna happen. So rebuild, restock this, start trading off the
pieces to get to the bigs and fill the farm
system until the young guys start coming up and making
you competitive. You're gonna get out spent by the Astros
and Rangers until that happens. And the Mariners right now
are awesome, so I just think that it would be
dumb for them to hold out for an extra piece
or something. So I think that'll definitely get smoved.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he would be like a little Pejoita. By
the way, if he was back in Boston, there'd be
a lot of those comps Hunter Green, Hunter Green, fifty
to fifty chance they say he's going to get traded.
I have heard that the Dodgers are infatuated with him.
He could be the contingency plan if they don't get
him another one.
Speaker 2: I think this one could make a ton of sense.
The White Sox.
Speaker 3: The White Sox they need some help. We haven't been
tied to a whole lot. And then the Atlanta Braves.
We haven't put in a bunch of these. The Braves
have got to do something.
Speaker 2: Hunter Green.
Speaker 3: I think there's a little bit of control still, there's
concerns about health in general. I actually think Hunter Green
could look like a trade that people are going to
be like, oh, really, here are my trade options. The
Dodgers here do not give up a Shehan or any
of the big hitters. They give up a River Ryan
Neil Morales, who is a very good prospect, probably near
the top five, and then a lower end picture in
Brady Smith. So River, Ryan Morales and Brady Smith go
to the Reds. The White Sox version. I put two
pieces Billy Carlson that gives the Reds a you know,
another future like defensive middle infielder, and and he's just like,
what role does he have in this team anymore? You know,
They've got Coleson Montgomery and Mike me Drowth and Rock
and then Tanner McDougall. Maybe it's Hagan Smith, but I
did Tanner McDougall, and then the Braves it's a weird one.
Didier point is Alex Lodice and Luis Guanipa is the trade.
So I mean, there there's some good pieces in here,
but there's no superstars which people would probably jump at.
Dodgers is probably the most compelling. That's the offer I
think they give if they can't get Scooble, and I
think that still gets it done.
Speaker 2: White Sox would really.
Speaker 3: Benefit from this, I think more than anybody. Braves obviously
would you know it would be a good one. But
any thoughts on this trade?
Speaker 4: I guess my question is why are the Reds trading
Hunter Green? Like he is?
Speaker 2: What?
Speaker 4: Is he a free agent? Not until I think it's
can he sign an extension?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got too Oh that's what it is. He's
got two more years.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay's around fifty million dollars after it's like total,
it's like, let me look at this. I believe that
there's also an option that's involved in this. Yeah yeah, yeah,
So like if a team gives up a decent amount,
it's gonna because they pick up the option and it
gets this dealed around fifty overall. It just still makes
them relatively affordable. It's something that the White Sox could
easily do. I don't know the cap situation of the Braves.
The Dodgers might be a team that wouldn't want to
pick up the maybe pick up the option, So that's
why I just don't know. I feel like they'd be
more prone to give up for Schoogle than not. But
the White Sox I think are a super super interesting
one in this case because I don't think McDougall and
Carlson are a huge, huge give and they easily could
pick this up because they need bigger rotation.
Speaker 2: They're ready to make a big move. Like I think
this is perfect.
Speaker 4: For the Whites. I agree with that. I just I
find this a weird trade for the Reds. But I
guess he's a free agent after twenty twenty nine at best. Okay,
But I do I think they might hold out for
a little more than people feel comfortable, so i'd see
the White Sox difficult. But I do think it'll get done.
Speaker 3: To your point, If that's the case, it's like the
Dodgers could up into Shehan. The White Sox could go
Hagen's Smith, or they can go they have other positional players,
and the Braves could add an Owen Murphy or something
in this and that's where the change could happen. Two
more big ones, Otto Lopez Yankees and Red Sox seem
to be the definitive ones if he's traded. I think
it's kind of a like, whoever doesn't get Neto maybe
gets the other guy. I think he is going to
actually cost more than Neto, just because there's still controlled
batting average champion Red Sox. I put Marcella Mayer in
Kyson Witherspoon, which is I guess now that I'm thinking
about it, maybe Ayen's depending how teams look at it,
Witherspoon might be seen higher. If not, they would give
up a Andsen and the Yankees. I did Dax Kilby
and Spencer Jones for the Marlins, and they've done trades before.
I think this would make a ton of sense. They
might want more pitching, to be honest, But those are
my two trade options. I'm actually not sure if either
really fully pull the trigger, but I think the Daks
one would listen, and maybe it's Dax and you know,
I throw this out. What if it was Daxon like
Jason Dimingaz, I don't think that's out of.
Speaker 4: I would do that. Yeah, I think I want the
Yankee side more either way, so I would want the
Yankee side. If I'm that Auto Lopez. How long is he?
Speaker 2: I want to say he's got twenty four thirty yeah three?
Speaker 3: Ye see, that's why he's gonna cost so much. I
probably undersold some of.
Speaker 4: These, like, yeah, I think I think he's more Kilby
and Domingaz. And if I'm the Marlins, I'm doing that.
Speaker 3: You know what, now that I look at this, the
Red Sox one it might need to be Franklin Arius
and a Andsen, and then the Yankees one probably is
like Dax and Jason Dimingaz.
Speaker 2: That's probably what those look like.
Speaker 3: And the final one again, I guess I kind of
glossed over Gossman a little bit.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that would cost too too much,
but I.
Speaker 4: Just looks like that deal with Philly is almost done,
is what it says, whatever it is, whatever the hell
it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I thought this was interesting.
Speaker 3: Freddy PEARLTA was scratched today and I'm doing it this
one's a little bit different. I have long said I
think the Brewers are the team that gets him back,
like they want a return of him. There's a report
out that the Mets want like a top one hundred
prospect for him, which I think is super interesting. I'm
gonna put the Braves in there because we haven't done
the Braves a whole bunch. But I'm gonnaive you a
mystery team. There's one of Diamondbacks, the Diamondbacks reported Gambo reported.
He mistakenly reported that the Diamondbacks A if they do trades,
it won't be big. They will not go over the
salary cap. They won't go over the cap number luxury tax.
I'm sorry, not solid cap, luxury tax, which is six
more million dollars for them. But he incorrectly reported whatever
the contract is is held against the salary cap. That's incorrect.
It's what's left on the contract. Why is it important?
Freddy Prawlt has eight million dollars on the whole season,
so that's about four million ish dollars left. And I'll
throw this out. The Diamondbacks were trying to get condly early.
Remember they were trying to get a package of Ryan
Waldschmid or Tommy Troy. This is the perfect scenario for them.
And guess what, Corbyn Burn, it's probably going to be
an advocate former teammates. I think the Diamondbacks could call
the Mets and offer a Tommy Troy straight up for
a Freddi PEARLTA. That's about a top one hundred prospect.
I have the Braves giving up Ditty or Fuintees, the
Brewers Tyson Harden, who is in a real world sense
might be seen as like a higher end type of guy.
All these teams could give up a second piece, specifically
the Brewers. But I think the Diamondbacks are a sneaky
one to pay attention to because they really do need
some help, and this would be a cheap, cost efficient
way to do it without giving up any of your big,
big future pieces. And I think Tommy Troy might be
the best piece of that. It just depends what they
want hitting or pitching. Braves and Brewers I think could
do the pitching. I think the Diamondbacks could do the hitting.
I don't know how you'd feel about Paralta being there,
but it would be something.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean, Tommy Troy seems like a cheap price for
a starting pitcher, But Peralta's been miserable all year. So
I do think that whoever goes out and gets Freddy
is going to be supremely confident in their pitching coaching.
Right Like Milwaukee has the best pitching warrant Baseball. These
seventeenth d backs are twenty third, so adding anybody could
help them. But are you confident that we can find
what has been wrong with Freddy and turn him back
into the all star level pitch?
Speaker 3: They they got to just do something, though, and the
rotation is a disaster, and they are getting pieces coming back.
Speaker 2: It's one of those pieces. I think it's a good
calculated risk why the dbacs could do it.
Speaker 4: But I don't think the funny thing. I think you're
going to be so pissed. I don't think they're mayking.
Speaker 2: I don't think you're wrong about that. I think that's possible.
Speaker 3: I mean, if the Brewers make the pull, I also
want to throw out. As we end this, there's other
rumors floating around. The Nationals apparently are looking at suitors
for Luis Garcia. The second suitor, Jared Durand's name is
coming back up again in trades that the Red Sox
are willing to part with him. There was some controversy
with him the other day.
Speaker 4: Him and Contreras getting into it a little.
Speaker 3: Bit, and Contrera's downplayed it and was like, no, that's
my dude, and.
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah. Luisa. Rise is someone that
is like going to get traded.
Speaker 3: This could be explosive. The Twins seem to be out
of it with all their guys. But even if we didn't,
I mean, if we see half of these guys go,
that's a big deadline. Mason Miller's schooble good mind netto
Hunter Green, Lopez Peralta. You've got Ali Rutchman, Kevin Gossman
play homes is one of the Diamondbacks are also looking at.
I think the Diamondbacks are looking at a cheap, controllable closer.
I think they'll make one of those kind of weird,
stupid moves. But I would be surprised at this if
the Dodgers and Brewers do not come away with a
rotation piece. And I think I would be surprised if
the Yankees do not come away with and the Red
Sox do not come away with bats.
Speaker 4: That's right, I agree with that.
Speaker 3: Ye, those are the big four main pieces in those
are my trade scenarios. We can look back on the
trades after they happen. If I hit any of these
based on the teams, you guys can let me know
if you think I'm way off, and it'll be kind
of funny looking back at what I wrote versus what
actually happens. In some of the names, there's always gonna
be some like really low low in names that like
the Brewers, I thought, one guy, Alexander Frios is someone that,
like I think teams would love.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if it'll end up making sense.
So there you go a little bit of trade action.
We'll see what comes to play.
Speaker 3: Last thing up here is let's look at some July
leaders see if there's any convo pieces to have here.
Speaker 2: Bogs.
Speaker 3: We do this week by week, but when we look
at the month, let's take a look. We've got in
homers on the bats. Jordan Alvarez, cj Abrams and James
Wood had the most July homers all with nine. I
guess it's not counting today, not the thirty first, but
everybody else he was the leader. Matt Olsen har Roberto
Hernandez as Merlin Valdez and Ben Rice. They were household names. Yeah,
household names of the magician. I really think har Roberto
is fascinating A long time ago. I actually it's not
them anymore. But I don't know if I ever told
you this. I had lunch with his agent, and it
was with my friend of mine who was meeting with him,
and I got to join and I ended up talking.
He's no longer with these people, so it doesn't matter.
But I remember they were talking him up for areas
of a fall league and who he was going to be,
and he just never really materialized. He's stuck around just
way too long in the minors, and he's finding himself.
Sixteen homers page man, Oh yeah, dude, don't you remember
I did this to you with the guess who?
Speaker 4: Oh, that's right, that's right. He did have her.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was all savant. If you look at a savant,
you're gonna think this is an elite player. Sixteen homer,
seven stolen bases. He's only hitting two thirty eight, but
he has an XBA of two fifty one. Elite barrel
elite hard hit manageable K percentages not in a ball
in air and he pulls it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're not in AP points league, he needs
to be rostered in most leagues. That that's what I
would say, especially with this power output for July, who
knows what he has for the rest of the year.
So yeah, he's been great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think he's just like a wildly fun
player to look at. And in that same period of time,
obviously you kind of all know about the as Merlin
Valdez stuff, but his average is kind of come back
down to earth a little bit.
Speaker 2: But he's hitting two seventy seven.
Speaker 3: His XBA is to twenty seven, his barrel percentage is
still at twenty five percent, his hard hit is still
over fifty. His kate percentage has gone down, but it's
still thirty five percent. But uniquely, he is the Murrcamie
of outfielders in that he does not chase. He just
end zone wiffs, maybe at one of the worst rates here,
and he's got the most ridiculous hard hit profile. I
think he's going to finish the year with twenty plus
homers and probably a two forty average, and we're going
to be into him next year and.
Speaker 4: That, Yeah, I picked him up and dropped him a
bunch early in this season, but the spots where I've
picked him up, I have no longer dropped him.
Speaker 3: RBIs as Merlin Valdez was your leader in July with
twenty four.
Speaker 2: How about this.
Speaker 3: If I would have made a question game and you
had three guesses, you probably never would have guess who
number two in RBI is. I know you do because
you wrote it. Jake McCarthy with twenty two RBIs. He
was tied with cj. Abrams, says Zuki, Jordan Alvarez, Jordan Walker,
James Wood and South Stewart all had twenty. I think
McCarthy is kind of the look here. Someone asked us
a question in leading off, and I want to say
the name was Van Rod might have said, who would
you rather McCarthy or pick up a Max Clark? And
McCarthy is hitting ten homers, seventeen stolen bases, two ninety
three on the year, a solid XBA of two point
fifty nine.
Speaker 2: His profile is always weird.
Speaker 3: He doesn't hit the ball hard at all, but he's
getting it in the ball. He's getting the ball in
the air and pulling it way more than he's ever
done before. And that has just led to really good
results because he's like low strikeout and stuff. He's kind
of those launch angle sweet spot guys. So he has
found a good way to find optimal hitting ability of
getting it in the air, pulling it and you're having
really good results. He's just not trying to overdo anything else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean a great fit in Colorado for sure.
I was interested here in the RBIs sal Stewart kind
of keeping up with it. I was worried about him because,
like he had the big breakout in March. In April
where he hit two eighty one with nine homers, then
he dropped down to two forty two forty eight. He's
still only hitting two forty two for July in only
two thirty four since a break, but he's hit three
homers since the break. He has six this month. Uh,
and he is kind of picking that back up. So
it may never be an average guy, but he's got
that popp and strive in runs very frequently. So salth
Stort has been a guy that I was a little
leery about. But he is proving himself throughout the year
here and.
Speaker 3: I think that's something you'll probably take into next season.
Where you're going to be, like, man, I'm really happy
with Like, you know, he kind of went up and
down and he was able to get out of the
slumps and stuff.
Speaker 2: So yeah, really impressive.
Speaker 3: In your run department. James Wood score the most run
dull is he had one hundred, Yet he was close.
Speaker 4: He's got to be close.
Speaker 3: He's got to be right there. Twenty five runs he
scored in July. Jordan Walker was second with twenty, Mattelson
with nineteen, as well as JJ Weatherholt and then Gabby Moreno,
Sales Zuki and Cole Carrick all.
Speaker 4: Had ninety nine.
Speaker 2: Is he at ninety nine?
Speaker 4: Ninety nine?
Speaker 2: That's crazy?
Speaker 3: I hidden one in there just to talk about for
a second. If we just pick one guy in each category,
how about freaking Gabby Moreno. Gabby Moreno hitting three h
eight up to eight homers, four stolen bases in under
three hundred bats. If you were to give him six
hundred bats, he's like projecting nothing crazy, but you know,
sixteen and ten. But it's the batting average. And if
you look at his freaking profile, dude, it is sexy.
Second highest second percentile XBA in the league two top
top two percentile two ninety eight XBA while hitting three
oh eight. He's expected wOBA top six percentile. He's getting
the ball in the air, he's squaring it up, he's
not whipping, he's not striking out. I mean he is
doing the things. He looks really impressive and it's the
highest career pulled air percentage of his career, so it's
just a quality of contact.
Speaker 4: HEAs top ten blocking.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Defensively he's really great too.
Speaker 3: I mean, Gabby is like top five in the last
month at catcher, like top four or five or.
Speaker 2: Something like that.
Speaker 3: So he is worth owning in those single catcher formats
if you're rostering some losers or whatever.
Speaker 4: Gabby has been great. The bad is going to stay.
I worry about are we going to pay to keep him?
That is my one worry, because he's one of the
inteligible next year.
Speaker 2: They love him.
Speaker 3: They love him, I mean if it's if he's loved
in twenty nine, yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think Gabby's one of the The problem they have
is all the money that's spent.
Speaker 2: They just need money to come off the books.
Speaker 3: I don't know what money is coming off the books
in the interview meant you could try to get rid
of Lords and Carbyn Burns is kind of a He's
a stain that.
Speaker 2: They've got to deal with. But that's probably why they
want to be careful, because the don't want to go
over the luxury because they got a sign a guy
like him.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep.
Speaker 3: Batting average over last month, whilch, you've guessed it. Nick
Gonzalez with the best batting average three seventy nine in May,
followed by Stephen Kwan Jackson Holiday at three seventy with
Chandler Simpson and Gabby Mourno's up there.
Speaker 2: There's a couple guys here.
Speaker 3: Nickonzalees has just sneakily been kind of that dude throughout
the season. He's hitting three sixteen on the year. Hell yeah,
six homers, four stolen bases. It's just been low counting stats.
He's low key, kind of just Jacob Wilson.
Speaker 4: I see your Hell yeah, sounded like the banana bread guy.
Speaker 3: Hell hell, hell yeah. It was meant to be more
stone cold because he's never worked. Hell yeah.
Speaker 4: Uh, Nick Gonzalez, bro Hell Jackson Holliday hitting three seventy
this month from the top ros after hitting two forty
two s nine and then three seventy hitting four to
twenty nine. Since the I mean the power's not there.
He hasn't hit a homer in July and he only
has five on the season.
Speaker 3: You want to know what though, one hundred and fifty
four at bats, five homers, five stolen bases. If you
do do that is is like a six hundred. You're
essentially at a twenty twenty guy. And he has had
some rough spots. His launch angles up, his walks are
way way up. He's hitting fastballs better than he's ever done,
and he's sitting off speed pitches like he's just making
better decisions. And I wonder if he's going that other route.
His hard hit percentage is dropped, his barrel isn't really
going anywhere. I think he's just like trying not to
be hyper hyper aggressive. Let me look at his bat
speed real quick. I think his bat speed might have
gone down because this is a guy that, let me
see it's at seventy am.
Speaker 2: I wrong.
Speaker 3: I feel like I do this a lot with him.
I'm kind of not really. I guess it's the exact
same speed as last year. It is down from his
rookie season. But here's the key.
Speaker 2: It's like the larning thing.
Speaker 3: His rate of going seventy five or more is the
lowest it's ever been, like six percent. He's just not
trying to tap into high, big bat speed moments. He's
just like sitting back, getting the bat out in front
of the plate, and good things are starting to happen.
So like holidays maybe coming together. This month has particularly
been good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we want, you know what hit the ball first,
and then we'll work on the power in the offseason.
I think that's that's what we're getting for Holiday right now.
Speaker 3: And you know, if you look at this list, by
the way, Cazales Kwan was on here, Holiday Simpson Morinoday
struggled early also, like not a lot of big offensive
players in here, Like Holiday could be one of those
guys if he were to continue this month, over all
those months, he could be a twenty five to twenty
five guy. In the month of July stolen bases, Ellie
led the way with eight. You had Chandler Simpson with seven.
Josh Naylor was six and tied with Naylor's like just
a bunch of other players. Chandler Simpson has definitely turned
stuff around. I think we did this recently. Like you know,
he's just he's a three ish category player. I'm glad
the stolen bases are coming back. He's not going to
lead the league unfortunately, he's not going to score one
hundred plus runs.
Speaker 4: Maybe are we in er out for twenty seven? Just
say all the labor tough gets fixed, normal schedule, blah blah.
Speaker 2: You asked me this last time.
Speaker 4: I'm asking again. I'm gonna ask you every time until
we get a definitive answer and I don't remember to
ask you or forget your answer.
Speaker 3: Well, I think you might have said rest of season,
like am I in or out for next season? Like,
I think I'll be relatively okay ish in because I
think he's gonna be just absolutely dirt cheap. It's just
gonna be a three hundred hitter, forty stolen based guy
that you can get outside the top two hundred that
can do something for me.
Speaker 4: But he is just what's the line fifties?
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not interested in one twenty five or one fifty. Okay, Yeah,
he's a nothing burger in there. And the cat stealing
thing was just ridiculous. So I'm way against him than
I was before.
Speaker 2: What is this other one?
Speaker 3: Offense is overall offensive war offensive score for the month?
Offensive score. Okay, so James Wood had the best offensive
score fourteen. C J Abrams number two at twelve point five.
Youord On twelve point four, Drake Baldwin ten point eight,
PCA ten point three, and Curtis Mead.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing that's nine point one.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, all right, so those are your big guys
on the pitching side. This is interesting you put this,
but innings pitched. I wouldn't have realized this. The most
innings pitch in July was TAJ Bradley, more than anybody,
more than Sandy Seth Lugo. Jake Bennett was number two.
What is interesting about those two players? Bennett and Bradley
both really good months. Bradley just rattled off, like, man,
how many times have we gone down the road of
freaking TODJ Bradley. He's got a three six five ERA
on the year, he's up to twenty seven point six
percent k percentage, but he just rattled off a two
nine to two ERA month.
Speaker 2: He just had what is this?
Speaker 3: I mean of his last seven starts, four of them
have gone seven and five have gone six plus and
he has not given up.
Speaker 2: Actually, he had one dud in there, the Chicago Cubs
was like the dud, but other.
Speaker 3: Than that he had had really, really really good starts
with a couple ten strikeout performances as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean in since like really the middle of June,
June twentieth, he's had one game where he's giving up
more than two were runs. Dude has been a stud recently, he's.
Speaker 3: Been ridiculous wins Chris Saale, Uh, Foster Griffin and just
like you wrote it up, Brandon Fought with Jake Bennett.
Those are the most wins this month. Fought's definitely been
held up by the wins, but dude brothers also been
going like six or seven every single start.
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's also super low and the walk per
nine will get to that, but he's second lowest in
walk prin as well, and that that is what is
doing it.
Speaker 3: Foster Griffin is I cannot believe how he's maintained too.
I mean, Griffin's done a better job of it, but
he's not like him, and Fought might be in the
same similar range.
Speaker 2: Griffin had a lot more shapes.
Speaker 4: Like guys out of nowhere from the top rope, Griffin Bennett,
I think you can put fought in there as well.
A bunch of dudes from the Melton Melton has been
from the top rope as well. No one was drafting
any of these guys and they're all playing great.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Meltain, when we go to e RA, Dylan
c said the best ERA this past month with a
point nine, but Troy Milton had the second best point
nine to two. Robbie Dobnach one point or Randy Dobnack sorry,
one point zero four, Shota Imanaga one point one nine,
Sean Burke.
Speaker 2: But we talked about on leading off. I am in
on Sean.
Speaker 4: Burt Lois walk per nine also of the month of
Sean Berk zero point seven zero.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I see that shrump Lois walk and one
of the best eras. And by the way, he just
rattled off ten strikeouts. I mentioned on the season, he's
the eighteenth pitcher in VBR. I'm not saying you're gonna
get him for cheap cheap, but I think his name
value still puts him outside the top thirty starting pitchers.
And I really really like that in the way of
trying to buy him by him is a guy that
is not being valued in the You gotta have to
value him. You can't be like, well, I want on,
Like there's a forty pitcher in that return. The owner
is going to hold on more. But get him involved
in a trade. I think he's really sustainable. And he
was top five in ERA in the last month. When
we go to expected era, Chered Jones had the best
expected ERA this month of one point four Lozardo one
point four to one Wheeler one point eighty six, Burke
one point nine two and Trek Scouble one point ninety seven.
Would just like to point out the obvious here. The
only guys in the top five ERA that had an
expected RA that supported was Sean Burke. Again, but Jared
Jones is in there. That's a fun one. Got a
lot of big names in there as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it was bigger names here, but like you said,
Jared Jones at the top, Burke in the middle there,
then it's like Cison Schuler and Uri Perez on the
back half.
Speaker 2: Of the top.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it is nice to see these guys should have
better results.
Speaker 2: At least you put Picture war On here.
Speaker 3: You got Trek Scubele and Cam Schlitler both put up
the two best one point four Why school is gonna
cost so much? Dylan Cees with a one point two,
Jared Jones and Sean Burke with fought and Trevor Rodgers
feel really good about my buy on him. They all
had a one point one sale Wheeler, Lambert, Uri, Gilbert.
Speaker 2: Cole, Skeins, and Melton.
Speaker 3: The reason I said all of them those are all
pictures within over one war this past month, so very
very impressive. The Kate Pern, I'm more K percentage guy,
but you and like piece of Peter were always K
per nine guys. Wheeler had the best of starting pitchers
at fifteen point eighty four, Gavin Williams fourteen point four
to nine, tol Had totally had it almost thirteen, and
Joey Cantillo close to thirteen. Then, by the way, Sean
Burk is number five on that list. Just want to look.
Gavin Williams is probably the guy I give the least
credit to, and I need to probably work on that.
Gavi Willie is a three point seven to one era.
He has a thirty one point six percent K percentage,
which is top five percent of the league and only
a seven percent walk rate. He deserves some flowers on
how freaking good that's been.
Speaker 4: Not too different on K percentage by the way, Misrowski
forty point six led or actually I think this might
be for the year.
Speaker 2: Let me just double.
Speaker 3: But the K per nine guys are going to tell
you a similar story. It's probably going to be very
in line with the highest thirty d K percentage are
going to be.
Speaker 2: Most likely these guys.
Speaker 4: Amy Wheeler number one forty three point eight percent, Gavin William,
Shawan Burke, Dylan sees Turk, Schouble, Schlitler, Jared Jones at seven,
Lozardo Sale and Bradley's.
Speaker 3: Okay, so that well totally was number three on this
list and Cantillo was two. Burke moved up to three
when you did K percentage.
Speaker 4: So totally's not in the top thirty here.
Speaker 3: Twelve point ninety three k per nine according to this
So that's crazy. And then you're and then you're walk
grate five, I think that's what it is. He's yeah,
probably not qualified.
Speaker 2: So and then your walk rate, your walks per nine
Burke was the lowest. Fought was Also those.
Speaker 3: Are the only two qualified under one walk per nine,
Foster Griffin was three, Jake Bennett, Gavin Williams.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're getting the trends here.
Speaker 3: Do you worry about guys like Jake Bennett and maybe
some type of a slowdown because of innings.
Speaker 2: I just probably don't they need him.
Speaker 3: Uh, It's hard to not buy into these guys, and
I think specifically Burt Griffin and Bennett have weird valuations
that I would.
Speaker 2: Just really love for you guys if.
Speaker 3: You can get them involved in a trade where you're
getting them back and another piece obviously, and then maybe
you're trading away a bigger underperforming name or I hate
to say it, but like you might have someone out
there that wants to take a shot on on Aaron
Judge coming back in a decent amount of time. Maybe
you can get a bat and you can get a
Sean Burke thrown in, you know, and that that might
be a winning play here. So just throwing it out there,
big big numbers in July with some big interesting names
and some trades that are gonna go down and it's
going to change kind of the whole landscape. We'll see
when they come down next week. We'll be doing breakdowns.
I think you and I got to talk about it,
but I believe we are going to do maybe a
post a draft episode.
Speaker 2: Well definitely.
Speaker 3: Whatever the episode is trade deadline, Sorry, whatever it is,
it'll be after the trade deadline, if it's live or
if it's recorded, and we'll be breaking down all the
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