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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome back. It is the rass Ball Fantasy
Baseball Podcast. I am beat on, joined by the Fantasy
Master Lithario.
Speaker 3: Great, all right, how's it going over there? Great?
Speaker 4: Good man? You know, I actually I went to uh,
I went to see the Dodgers Cubs game on Saturday,
you know, because I went to go boo Pete Crow
Armstrong because I don't know if you I don't know
if you've seen this, but he's he's been. He's been.
He's been given to the Dodger fans a little bit.
He's been. He's been poking the bear as as you want,
as one might say, he's been uh he's actually the
Cubs are bears, so it's a cannibalistic yes. So he
was saying that, you know, Dodger fans aren't real fans.
So yeah, I got to prove him wrong.
Speaker 2: I had.
Speaker 4: I got there at like the middle of the third inning,
I believe, and then I you know, had a we
had a little bit of a chardonnay and a little
bit of we had a you know a little bit
of sushi, and left in the seventh inning. But before that,
during those three plus innings, I was there. I booed
the crap out of Pete Crow armstrong man, how dare you?
How dare you?
Speaker 3: Sir?
Speaker 1: So you were at the ballpark for less time than
it took you to get there and get home, That's
what I'm hearing.
Speaker 4: I actually know the game was. The game was early.
It was four point fifteen my time, so we we're
fairly close to Dodger Stadium where we lived. So I
actually we left it like I want to say, we
left it like quarter to got there like six point fifteen,
and then left around six forty five, so it's like
a half hour, right, it's about roughly.
Speaker 1: So you were there for like one additional trip of
that you were there for like forty five minutes a
little bit more.
Speaker 3: That's good. That's good, the approving Pete Crow Armstrong.
Speaker 4: So I will say this honestly, at the Dodger Stadium,
I mean I've been I haven't been to every stadium.
I haven't even been to a lot of stadiums, to
be honest, but Dodger Stadium is actually is one of
the better stadiums in my opinion. And it was. I
mean it's a good matchup, right, Like the Cubs are
a the Cubs are a popular teams. As one might imagine.
It was busy. I mean there was a guy in
front of me with like a Fuki Dome jersey, a
Cubs jersey what else. Yeah, there is a guys, guys
all the I mean there is a lot of people.
It was. It was. It was crowded. I mean it was.
It was a good Well spent four hundred hours for
twenty five minutes at the Paul Park. It was nice.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's that it could be worse.
Speaker 1: Gray, There's there's worse ways to spend money. You could
spend money like the Red Sox and just fire everybody
that you have on your payroll, uh, in the management and.
Speaker 3: Just just completely clean house.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe I mean, you know, you're leading AL, I'm leading NL.
Speaker 3: And my wrestling league. I'm I'm top fifteen overall.
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe between you, me and like Rudy, we
can just go College of Coaches this.
Speaker 3: Thing and help the Red Sox out.
Speaker 4: What if we what if we actually sent the streaminator
there to uh matter? Is a possible to send the
streaminator and the hitter tron. I mean I've I've honestly
I've never met them in person, but I would just
send the robots, right, you know. It's uh, it's actually
the I saw the Red Sox uh. So there's a
couple of funny things actually on the Red Sox uh situation,
because you know, I don't know if you saw this,
but they they sent uh to pick up the coaches.
They sent a party van and on the side of
the party van it said coaches for hire. That was
that was where the Red Sox coaches where they departed
through They were sent away in a van that said
coaches for hire. So that's that's pretty funny. But also
which I find humorous is the fact that Brad the
GM is possibly the worst GM of all time. And
because he has the U, he has the owner's ear.
I'm assuming so he's like probably saying to Henry, like
John Henry that is, He's probably like, yeah, I mean,
I mean, our team should be better. It's it's gotta
be Cora. Yeah, man, that's yeah. Yeah, it's totally Alex
Cora's fault. Why the Red Sox are losing. I mean,
you know Alex Cora and his in his defense, I mean,
not his defense, but he got fired on Saturday, and
I believe he saw this coming on Friday. He got
an alert on his Apple Watch, so he knew. Yeah.
But Bresla, I mean the fact that anytime a GM
is like so awful, you know that they're in the
owner's ear being like, yeah, it's the manager, man, it's
the manager. It's not us. It's not we're good. You
are buying players that are good, and I'm I'm going
out and spending your money in a in a thoughtful manner.
It's the manager, man, Sure, sure it is, okay, it's uh.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 1: It was Joe Maddam's fault, and then Phil Davin's fault,
and then Ron Washington's fault and then Kurtsuzuki's.
Speaker 3: This is this is the Angels.
Speaker 1: This is just another terrible team, maybe the only team
with a worsh GM in all of baseball.
Speaker 3: I just I just felt like I needed to mention.
Speaker 4: I like Angels as we record this on Sunday, uh
in a in a not a not a first time
but maybe the first time, possibly first time I recording
this on Sunday, and the Angels actually just came out
and said.
Speaker 5: That they are d FAG Jordan Romano, do you know
how are Bulls an organization has to be to DFA
A guy that you called your closer three days ago.
Speaker 4: That's crazy. That's like, that's like, that's worse than anything
the Rockies have ever done. If you're calling someone a
closer and three days later you're like, you know what,
you're not even good enough to be on our team. Ah,
that's nuts.
Speaker 3: It is. It's it's kind of ridiculous. It's absolutely crazy.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll obviously get into the replacements for the Angels
at the end of the show.
Speaker 3: When we sacked off.
Speaker 1: Needless say, I don't I don't really think either of
us are overally interested in anybody there.
Speaker 3: But we will get into.
Speaker 1: That somebody that's you're very interested in Gray, somebody that
we you've forced me to talk about every every week.
Every week he's added to the notes. Whether I put
him there or not. Did heer fintess finally got his
start and Dan abruptly gave up forward in three innings
and was sent back down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and that's why I'm not the GM for
the Braves. Yeah, I mean he obviously he wasn't great,
but I mean I would have just kept him around.
I don't know, man, I mean I understand, like it
wasn't the best start anyone's ever seen. Obviously, someone who JR. Ritchie,
who will talk about in a second, obviously was better
and deserved to stay in the rotation. But I would
have kept Flints over Perez for over Martine Perez for
another start until Strider returned, like at least see Flente's
for another start. But yeah, that didn't happen, so unfortunately, Yeah,
FLA's got sent down, So he's he's basically a drop
in most mixed leagues. I mean, you can't wait around
for him to return. I do think he will return
at some point. I mean who knows when though he
could return as far as you know, he could return
in two weeks, or he could or he could return
in two months. I mean, no one has any idea
when he's in return. I think it's a it's probably
up to whether or not. You know, the Dodgers, excuse me,
the brains stay healthy and uh, you know how well
the guys in the rotation. Do you know Strider will return?
Rainaldo Lopez got bumped, so Strida will return, and I'm
assuming they'll go to a sixth man or Martin Perez
will get bumped or d F eight or I mean
Martin Perez shouldn't even be on the he shouldn't be
on the team. But yeah, I mean Flante's is I
still like Flante's. I mean, I'm not gonna you know,
I'm not gonna say it was the best of starts, obviously,
but I still like. I mean, he still looks good,
like he's striking out what I think he struck out
seven and in three was it? I don't know, something
like that. It was like I think it was, yeah,
seven strikeouts and three innings. I mean it's that's good, right.
I mean, of course you want to see him like
five plus and not give up as many. You're in runs,
of course, but I mean seven strikeouts and three innings.
You don't, you know, you don't roll out of bed
and strike out seven guys in three innings if you're
not like, if you're not nothing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is just pens kind of what
happens in between those those seven strikeouts. Sometimes, Oh he didn't.
He didn't have a lot of walks. That's good to see.
The walks have been a problem that the control has
been an issue. Just uh, you know, not not the
best nights for him. I'm sure there will be better
days to come for for Diny Flintz.
Speaker 3: I don't know when that will be.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, you're I know, you're your trashy marching pess.
He does have a two seventy RA and an nine
to four whip at the current moment that is extremely
lucky as a sub two hundred babbit and an eighty
six percent left on base for for marketing prez, which
is pretty ridiculous. But with those numbers, be very hard
for the brands just to DFA even tell him he's
not he's not worthy of being on their roster.
Speaker 4: That would be something that would be honestly, that would
be hilarious if a major league team was like, we're
dfaying this guy with a one something in the array
because his peripherals don't look good. Can you imagine you
imagine wal Wise being like, yeah, I mean he sure
he had a two and a half array, but do
you know what his ex fip was. I mean, come on, yeah, okay,
like look.
Speaker 1: Cloth Bake Soriato has on hundred percent left on base.
Speaker 3: He's off obviously not going to do this. We just
deft him so that, you know, we get ahead of
the drop. Well we did.
Speaker 4: We had ahead of the regression anyway.
Speaker 1: So what the Braves did do after they sent Didier
down was to call up JR. Ritchie, their other top
pitching prospect. He had a better start. He went seven innings.
You know, he looked good. They've said he's staying up
for the time being. What is your thoughts here on
j R.
Speaker 3: Ritchie? Are you grabbing him across the board?
Speaker 1: You know, as you mentioned, they're they're kind of full
on starters once they get healthy. But at the moment,
you know, he will be in the starting rotation. They've
said they're not sure what they will do when they
are healthy, whether he will be in the rotation, whether
he will go to the bullpen or potentially back to
the minors to stay stretched out.
Speaker 3: So it is a little bit of a guessing game.
But what are your thoughts in the current moment?
Speaker 4: Uh? Yeah, So it's you know, it's honestly, it's kind
of interesting to be doing this podcast on a Sunday
versus a Monday, because we don't have the U, we
don't have the fab results that we usually have. I
bid on Richie. I didn't bid aggressively. I think I
put in like I want to say, thirty seven to
forty seven dollars in a that's in a thousand dollars fab,
so you know, roughly three to five dollars. I I
don't mind like the flyer on him. I do wonder
like I like him, Like I like everything about him.
You know, Tripaa looks great. He was a you know,
well regarded prospect. There's nothing to not like about his profile.
The only thing is, like what the deal is with
the rotation because you know, like I was saying before Fuentes,
like Spencer Strider is gonna return at some point, Martin
Perez is there and doing well as you you know, Richie.
I mean, if they went to a six man rotation,
it wouldn't shock me if Richie is like, you know,
if Richie gets hit around in uh in his next start,
maybe maybe he gets sent back down, maybe he goes
to the bullpen.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know that's after Strider returns, obviously. So yeah, I
mean it's kind of I don't know. I mean, I
have no idea what's gonna happen with Richie. I don't think.
I don't think the Braves even know what's gonna happen
with Ritchie because it's a matter of whether or not
if he pitches well. I find it hard to believe
they're not gonna find room for him in the rotation.
But if he's like, you know, if he has a
a mediocre to bad start next time out and Strider returns,
Richie could be out of it. He could be out
of the rotation potentially, Like it's not send Stone that
he has to stay in the rotation. So yes, So,
like my fan bids kind of point too, I'm I'm
kind of if he on whether or not he's actually
gonna stay up and in the rotation, if he does great,
if he's you know, like, if he pitches well next
time out and continues to pitch well and stays in
the rotation, you could possibly be getting a solid like
number uh two to three starter, Like he is very good.
It's just a matter of whether or not he is
going to you know, be around so we'll see. I
like him, though, I think uh, I think the biggest
issue is probably gonna be what his rest of the
season like innings are going to look like. You know,
as soon as he moves to the bullpen, he's going
to become dropable in mixed leagues. So you don't want
to go too aggressive with him. But if he's you know,
if if the the the off chance that he stays
in the rotation and pitches well, I think you gotta
you gotta at least bit on. You got to at
least be aggressively going after him.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I mean, I don't think I'm spending
necessarily like I think somewhere under ten percent. I think
that you know, you said in the same area, somewhere
under ten percent is what you would throw on him.
As you mentioned, he's he's a very good pitching prospect.
Everything looks good on him. It is just a matter
of whether he stays in the rotation. You know, I
put bids on him in all my leagues. I think
I'm in like the you know, out of a thousand,
I'm like the seventy dollars range. So you know, I
could use him if if I grab him. If not,
if somebody wants to spend up, it won't be the
end of the world either. Let's move on to you know,
some guys, we're a month end of the season. Let's
let's do some check ups here. Make sure the sky
is not falling gray for some of these early round
players that are struggling to start with some of the
low home run guys. You know, we're just waiting from
the gate on board with the our at the top
of that list, Bobby Wood Junior, who actually has one today,
as you mentioned, we're talking on Sunday. He had one today,
But twenty seven games, he has one hundred and twenty
plate appearances, he has nine stolen bases.
Speaker 3: He's in in two eighty eight, three sixty seven, three
seventy five.
Speaker 1: All that's fine, except that he has that one home
run that he had today, any thoughts here on BWJNYH.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know this is actually so last year, if
people remember, the Orioles said that they were moving their
fences in. So I got extremely excited about Gunner Henderson,
as you know many people did. I would, I think,
and he went on to have pretty terrible year. Now
this year, the Royals went on record as saying they're
moving their fences in, and so far my Bobby Wood Junior,
Vinnie Pascatino, and Jack cagleone hasn't been the best. I
don't know what's going on. I was expecting Kansas City
to play like it was Mexico City.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 4: It's really really been awful. I got it, you know,
as you mentioned with Bobby wit Junior, I mean the
underlying numbers look fine. I have to assume he's going
to be better than this. I have to. I mean,
I'm not trading him for thirty cents on the dollar.
Like he looks. I mean he looks fine under the hood,
like everything is in line. He's walking a decent amount.
I mean he's he's stealing a bunch of bags. If
he can get hot for power, I mean, we could
get exactly what we you know that that twenty twenty
homer forty steel season with you know, hitting three twenty.
It's still out there, it's still POSSI but yeah, I mean,
obviously it's not the way you want to start. You
don't want to you don't want to get through almost
uh you know, a month of games and we're actually
I think it is over a month now, like a month,
a month of games and you have like one homer
on the year. It's just miserable. It's been awful. I honestly,
I I'm struggling in a bunch of leagues because of
the guys that were the next Bobby Wood Junior and
the next guy we're going to talk about it. I
have them in multiple leagues and is not has not
been great. Uh I have I have one league where
Bobbywood Junior and uh more Comedy and I'm like, I
look at more comedy hitting home run after a home run,
and I'm like, why am I not doing better? In power?
And then I see Bobbywood Juniors just like he's like
sitting there. I Bobbywood Junior's basically become Chandler Simpson, Like
I don't want I don't want another channel I have
that I don't even know one. So yeah, I hope
he starts hitting for power. Everything looks good. If anything,
maybe you can I don't know. After his home run
on Sunday at the price probably went up a little bit,
but maybe you can do a quick buy low. Maybe
I don't know. I would.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you can get Bobby Witt at any
kind of by low, I absolutely would do it. As
you mentioned, all the underlying numbers look fine, by ball,
ground ball, line line drive, all in line, hard hit,
average eggs willstley look fine. It's just a matter of time.
I would absolutely buy low on Bobby Wit. Your teams will.
Speaker 3: Come around, and yes, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't been in a few leagues auction league,
so you know, when you spend a lot of money
in an auction league on a player, you do need
them to perform. I spent Bobby Wit and Otani in
a mixed league, so I just it would be great
to think it both form like top three picks on
the offensive side.
Speaker 3: Otherwise, so Tani may have to get moved to the
pitching side.
Speaker 1: That'd be the weirdest thing I've ever done in my life.
Next to the other guy who you mentioned is ruining
some of your teams, and that is Fernando Tatis Junior.
Twenty six games, one hundred and thirteen played appearances, no
home runs, six dolen bases, nine runs twelve over real eyes,
he's hitting two fifty three point thirty two ninety two.
He is a twenty five point seven percent strikeout rate,
ten point six percent walk rate. The k rate is
up a little bit, but the swinging strike looks like
it's in line. What are your thoughts here on Tatis.
Speaker 4: I just looked at uh. I just looked at it.
I just opened the stackcast page, and uh, he is
one hundred percent hard hit. He's the he's the number
one hard hit guy in in the major leagues. That's interesting,
top one percent for hard hit. Yeah, I you know,
I've I think. So here's what here's my thoughts on Tatis.
I think I think he's probably going to be okay,
because I mean, he does get hot, and I think
I think he's going to be all right. But I
am like the launch angle does concern me because like
Bobby Witt Junior, like he was, he was still hitting
balls in the air. I don't I don't know if
I can say that about frand his battered ball profile
is I don't. It's not exactly what you want to see.
So it's uh, you know, it's it's up from last
year as ground balls, and his ground balls were already
pretty high for a guy you want some power from.
Right now, his ground balls are at fifty percent ground
ball rate, which is really awful. His launch angle is
under four so kind of it's still a little bit
early for some of those things. But you know, the
strikeouts are up, walks are down. It doesn't look good.
You know, the balls he is hitting, like I mentioned,
with the hard hit, the balls are you know, hitting,
The ones he's hitting are coming off the bat hard,
So that's good. But there's a lot of stuff to
be worried about with Tatis Junior. And I honestly like
I have him in leagues where I can't move him.
But if I were in a league with trading, I
might take seventy five cents on the dollar for Fernando
Tattists Junior. I don't know if I'd necessarily be buying low.
I'm I'm a little concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm a little bit concerned as well with the
As you mentioned, the launch angle is concerning.
Speaker 3: It's under four degrees, which is, you know, essentially hitting
the ball into the ground. And you know, the fly
ball rate.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you get like the low launch angle, but then
they still launch and like the fly balls just aren't there.
He's at a twenty seven percent fly ball that's bottom
fifteen in the majors right now.
Speaker 3: And in flyball rate.
Speaker 1: I mean he's never been a huge, like fifty percent
fly ball guy, but this is this.
Speaker 3: Is low even for him.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm taking seventy five cents dollars,
but if I could move him for equal or you know,
ninety cents, I think I would do that. I just,
you know, enjoy having that possibility.
Speaker 4: There would you do Junior Cameniro for tatis Uh?
Speaker 3: No? I don't think I will.
Speaker 4: What about Jackson Cheerio?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 3: We still have any seen Chario. I still don't know
when we're going to see Chario. I told you before
the show.
Speaker 1: I was offered Cheerio for James Wood in the RCL
at the very beginning of the season.
Speaker 3: I should have I should have clicked yes, yeah you
should Yeah, I should have one.
Speaker 1: A rare play of times where you should absolutely accept
the train at the beginning the season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, totally to tease or uh, you're you're better.
You're better at either words than I am. You know what,
that's your job, You're the host.
Speaker 3: Would you rather have to tease? Or C. J Abrams?
Speaker 1: Oh see, people get on me every time I rank him,
every year you are at this, I would, I would, actually, honestly,
I would take C.
Speaker 4: J Abrams.
Speaker 3: Cj Abrams is so good if people still still hate
on him because his exit velocity is not not elite,
he is. He is very good. Gray.
Speaker 1: Okay, so if you're taking c. J Abrams, let's see,
would you take would you take more comy? I mean
that's a complete change in value, Like where comedy was
like a two hundred and eighty B now he's like
a top twenty on a play Raider.
Speaker 4: No, right after I right after I tell you you're
good at these and you do. But I have to
and you give me more comedy Now we have.
Speaker 1: To we have to level it in Gray, I have
to make sure you haven't lost your mind here.
Speaker 4: You know, would would I take Why didn't you say?
Would I take Abner Uribay and Nick Martinez. I mean,
come on, man, I like more commedy.
Speaker 3: I'm not okay, okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: I mean you know they were kind of going right
next to each other in draft season. I know you
already had a preference, so I'm assuming I know where
you're going. But Ellie are Tatis?
Speaker 4: Oh oh, Elie? For sure? Of course, of course that
one's uh tattoos other strugglers tattoo.
Speaker 3: What about Gunner because it was going clearly after Tatis.
Speaker 4: People are complaining about Gunner because his average isn't doing
that well, but he's pays for like a fifty home
or twenty steel season. I would take Gunner for sure. No,
he was.
Speaker 3: Basically doing what you thought JA was gonna do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, yeah No. Jeff Chisholm, Actually, what's
the funny thing is everyone heard him say I'm gonna
do a fifty to fifty season, But what he said
was I'm Gunner Henderson and I'm gonna do a fifty
fifty season. He was actually predicting someone else in season else.
He was predicting someone else's life Tatis or Jay Rod.
Speaker 3: See that's a good I will take.
Speaker 1: I'll take Julio, just because we know, we know exactly
what Julio's.
Speaker 3: Game plan is. He's he sleeps through the cold months.
He's a bear.
Speaker 1: He hibernates, and then as soon as he gets warm,
he comes out and he just smashes everything in sight.
You know, I I know that's gonna happen, Whereas I
will say with Tatis right now, I don't know that
he's not gonna have, you know, YONDI d ys season
this year where he just beats the ball into the
ground all year, even like a Christian yellow season, which
is good to sell it season, It's not quite what
you were drafting.
Speaker 4: For Nando Tatis for no, No, it's it's not I agree.
Speaker 3: Would you take Julio or would you rather have I was.
Speaker 4: Just thinking if what if Julio Rodriguez got traded to
the Padres and he was like warm weather in April,
I would take I would take Jay Rod absolutely. No
Tatis for me is falling. Like I said, seventy five
cents on the dollar, j Rod, I'm still at one
hundred percent.
Speaker 3: Okay, So I mean you're you're you're fully in still
on j Rod.
Speaker 1: That's good for the people listening to now I know
that there's some commentaris who are panicking on some other
top guys we haven't quite talked about here because they're
not like demolishing your team mad, But uh yeah, I
fine fine with Jay Rod.
Speaker 4: Would absolutely take him is terrible. Kunya hasn't been good.
I would take a Kunya though before Tis.
Speaker 1: Would you take uh? And this is I feel like
this is hard before you because you love him? Would
you take ord On over all these guys?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I would take your over hey, over
all these guys. I would take him over Tatis. I
don't know which other guys you're talking about.
Speaker 3: Tatis, Julio. I'm not gonna put Bobby win In, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I would take I would take Bobby Bobby Witt. So
I just rank him real fast, Bobby Wit Jay Rod Urdon, Uh, Tatis.
My only problem with yourd On is we've seen this
before and then he like he is oblique, goes sideways
and he misses like, you know, two months. I mean
he has never had a full season, right, I mean
we we've seen this before your.
Speaker 1: One hundred and forty seven and one hundred and forty
four in different seasons.
Speaker 4: So that.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would I would call that a full season.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's fine, right, Yeah, no, I agree, it's been
it's been a minute, but yeah no, I like, hey,
I love Jordon. Don't get me wrong. I still put
him in front of the tatis. But I would take
j Rod gets hot and you know he always goes
thirty thirty even though he doesn't play in April. That's
pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is, the worst part is you can't take
him out of your lineup even in April, because you
know he could just smash three home runs and steal
all base or two in a game, and you're just like,
I'll just eat the two twenty with with nothing going on. Yeah,
Jordon's been amazing and he's three games from getting outfield eligibility.
Speaker 3: That was that was the easiest, easiest pick of all time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about a guy who was not an
easy pick and still is probably just making it harder
and harder to decide where he belongs, honestly, and that
is my boy. Pete Crow Armstrong twenty four games, one
hundred and eleven played appearance is a home run on
basis sixteen runs, seven RBIs. He's sitting two thirty five
two ninety one three fourteen k raid is up to
thirty point six percent five point four percent walk rate. Well,
tell the PCA owners what what they can expect the.
Speaker 4: Rest of the season here, Gray, Well, I'll tell PCA
just like I'll tell PCA's owners just like I told
PCA for the twenty five minutes I was at the
Dodger game yesterday. Boomoo, I told you not to draft them.
Boom boomoo, I boo you for drafting them. I told
you don't draft them. I said it perfectly clear. I
was perfectly clear, do not draft PCA. He's got problems.
I don't see I don't see anything good in his line. Really,
to be honest, I feel like if we get like
a twelve to fifteen homer thirty steal, because he's still
has steals twelve to fifteen homers thirty steals two forty five,
I would I would be more than I would be
more than excited for that line. If I had PCA,
I'd be like that would be like, I feel like
that's where you're at at this point. You know, at
some I would guess he's gonna get hots at some point,
but you know, like I said in the preseason, he's
got the the stink of like the Keaston. Herrera looks
great on paper, but could fall into such a terrible
slump where it's almost like they wanted they wanted demote
him to like try and get his head right because
his strikeouts are concerning, and they've been concerning for a while.
I you know, I don't have anything really good to
say about PCA, to be totally honest. It's not just
because he was bagging on the Dodger fans. I think
I think he's got real issues in his profile. So yeah,
I would if I could get draft value back, I
would be trading him in a second. But I don't
you know, I wouldn't have drafted him. Actually, it's a
funny story, is I accidentally did draft him in an
auction league. I did. I did, possibly screw myself, but
that's okay, you know what, I take d l there.
I didn't want him. I thought people would be bidding
him up. I got stuck with him, but that's fine,
you know what I You know, things happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a great we uh we we all get stuck
in in auctions, you know, trying to trying to price
and force and then and then getting stuck with guys.
I know it happened to a couple of places this year,
and uh yeah, just gotta just gotta deal with it
and figure it out throughout the season. Yeah, it's the
same issue. He's having problems with the outside the high fastball.
He can't lay off it and he can't hit it.
And he's always struggled with the outside low. That's everybody.
Everybody struggles outside low, that's just the general batting thing.
But he has to get over the outside high and.
Speaker 3: He just is not doing it. He's still swinging, he's
still missing, and it's not swinging.
Speaker 1: He's not swinging quite as much as he was at
the end of second half or the second half of
last year at them.
Speaker 3: But it's it's just not good. He is still hitting
the ball hard.
Speaker 1: The launch angle's fine, So that gives me at least
a little bit of hope that he just has to
fix this gap. But a gap is something that's really
hard to fix in season Gray, So yeah.
Speaker 4: I was surprised. I was kind of surprised that they
gave him a long term deal. I was, honestly, I
was kind of surprised because I mean, his numbers they
don't seem like the kind of you know, I mean
real baseball. So he's good on defense, even though he
looked terrible yesterday in the outfield. He misplayed a one
fly ball really poorly. But anyway, I mean, I guess,
you know, for defense, and there's other things that can
help with with real baseball. So maybe they wanted to
lock him in for a long term deal. But I
was kind of surprised they gave him the deal they
gave him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I know they offered him something last
season in the middle of all of everything to see
if they could get him.
Speaker 3: I mean, they're essentially getting him for two extra seasons.
I don't hate the deal.
Speaker 1: I have a little surprise they went ahead and continued
to try and grab him after he declined that the
initial deal. You know, as a Cubs fan, it's fine.
We've had We've had worst deals on the Bucks. Start
a million by the.
Speaker 4: Time, honestly though, we can Yeah, know, you guys have
had worse deals. For sure. We should get to the
next guy because we can both do a victory lap
on him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's move on to Roman Anthony, who in twenty
two games this year, ninety seven played appearance as a
home run, two stone bases, eleven runs, four RBIs. He's
hitting two twenty five, three sixty one, three twenty five,
just under a twenty six percent strikeout rate. He does
have a sixteen and a half percent walk rate, which
is nice. But uh, I mean, I'm gonna let you
start here. Graanty on Roman Anthony. I know we both
got got pushback for our ranking and preseason.
Speaker 4: Dude, like, what was that? You know, honestly, still in hindsight,
I still don't understand it, because you know what hindsight
is twenty twenty is a lie, because I still don't
understand the pushback I received over Roman Anthony in the
preseason because you look at his numbers and you take
both of us out of the equation, and there's not
one projection system that thinks he was gonna be good
for fantasy for real baseball. Sure whatever, I don't know
who cares. I'm not playing real baseball. I'm playing fantasy.
And I look at Roman Anthony's projections and it's like
fifteen homers, seven steals, two fifty five average. You know,
even if you want to be generous and give him
two seventy five and fifteen steals twenty homers. Where he
was going in drafts was insane. It was so crazy.
I think, honestly, I think it was because he's handsome.
I'm not lying, I'm not lying, I really do. I
think people were like, oh, he looks like a cool
guy to hang out with. I think if I hung
out with him, girls would be attracted to him and
I could get like, you know, leftovers or something. That's
my thought on the Roman Anthony situation, because it made
zero sense why people were drafting him as high as
they were drafted to meet. You and I were so
we were so low on him. We were like, you know,
I'll include you too, because I wrote a schmohawk post
about him, And I know you were like so off
of them that you you ranked them really low. So
you ranked them so low there is people complaining about
how low you.
Speaker 3: People were like coming to you like, uh, you know
you a podcast.
Speaker 1: And an idiot that can't rank anybody, right, like like,
how is how is Roman Anthony not.
Speaker 3: A top ten outfield? That's stupid? Like yeah, let me
put them over your on avage.
Speaker 1: Shut shut up out there, okayush it? Yeah, No, I
mean I love Roman Anthony. I think it's gonna be
a great real life baseball player. He will hit for eventually,
he will hit for average. He will be a solid
defensive player. He will get on base. Like he's gonna
do all of that.
Speaker 3: Right now.
Speaker 1: His current profile does not really support fantasy or where
he was being drafted.
Speaker 4: His profile, His profile like no dis respec to Rooum
and Anthony and his uh his fans out there, But
his profile looks a lot like Andrew Benintendee if you
know what I mean. I mean, it's not his stats
aren't aren't that different than Ben and Tendee's quite honestly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, another guy who kind of got away with it.
You know, it's just a decent looking dude.
Speaker 4: It's all about the handsome that's all people care about.
Speaker 3: The name.
Speaker 1: The names helped, too, Gray, I swear the names help
because when you're at the draft boards, if you have
a fun or interesting name, you will go before you're
supposed to. Versus if you have a terrible name or
a boring name or one nobody can pronounce, you will
get married. People will marry you for no reason other
than They're like, I don't like this name, and I
don't know this name.
Speaker 4: I'm out, like totally crazy. I know, no, no, no,
I I agree. I think like Elle Tomorrow, Vargas could
be a OP ten player and people would still be like,
I don't know what the hell that is.
Speaker 3: I don't Vargas like, I don't want to argus. You
know a good.
Speaker 4: Vargains ever in base tomorrow. I don't know what that is.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sure he's a fantastic player.
Speaker 6: Roman Anthony side before everybody yells at that he is
hitting the ball hard ninety two point seven average exit
ve lost forty seven point three hard hit both down
from last year's small sample size, but those are both
good numbers in regards to where they rank among other hitters.
Speaker 1: The fly ball rate twenty That sounds failiar. That's the
same flight ball rate that Tatisa is at. Both struggling
launch ago really not bad on Roman Anthony's just just
kind of bedding a little bit of blah. Yeah, that's
a red kurt that is contributing to the Red Sox
just terrible start of the season and the empty ening
of their management. Duran Duran, who I really like this season.
So I will just go ahead and take the hit
on that one. Since I posted about Robin Anthony twenty
two games, ninety three played appearances, he's a home run
four stone basis.
Speaker 3: He is hitting one ninety eight the average.
Speaker 1: Axs have lost the heart hit both down a non
non minuscule mount Gray. I'm I don't love what I'm
seeing from Jan Duran. Please tell me there's something to
bring up my hopes because I have probably too many shares.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know the problem with Duran, I think is
like you look at his underlying numbers and they're kind
of similar to what they were last year, and last
year he wasn't that good. So it's like, so there's
real I mean, there's some concern here. I would I
would be concerned if I had Duran, you know, his
his numbers, like they kind of feel like a fifteen
homer Like last year he went six, he had sixteen
homers and stole twenty four bags and hit two fifty six.
I would kind of feel. I feel like he's in
line now for roughly a similar sort of year, minus
maybe a little bit on the average, just because it's
so low right now. But I do think he'll get
hot at some point, but not like I don't think
he's ever reaching that, you know, that top fifty hitter type,
you know, year, at least not this year. I would say,
where was he in drafts this year? Like seventy seventy
overall in that area. If I could get draft value,
I would be trading him. I don't. I don't. I
don't have tons of great feelings on Duran. I think
the best thing that one could say for him is
he looks sort of similar to last year, when he
wasn't a complete boss. Last year he was you know,
he was fine. He was he was a serviceable third outfielder.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 4: And that's about as I think as good as you
can say about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's really when I was ranking him, that's
all I really thought.
Speaker 1: He you know, I didn't think he was going to
expand on what he did last year, needed him to
do it again. And then right now, I'm not sure,
Like you said, the average isn't great, it's one month.
Speaker 3: It's one month of average.
Speaker 1: Everybody across the board generally has in at least one
month where their average is awful. Would we have noticed
that in August. I don't know, but right now I
notice it. And Jaron Duran has been not good. Let's
would you rather have Duran or PCA. Why don't you
just rank PCA Duran in Roman Anthony For the people
who know.
Speaker 4: Uh, I would go PCA Duran then Roman Anthony. My,
you know, my big problem with Roman Anthony is he
if he's good, he's not great for fantasy. Like it's
sort of like a similar problem I have with like
Jackson Holiday, Like even if they're like really good, their
fantasy value is kind of iffy. So I you know,
if PCA is really good, he's gonna have great fantasy value.
If Duran is really good, he's gonna have great fantasy value.
If Roman Anthony is really good, he's gonna be Okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's completely fair. And they're all they're also tied to,
you know, the run production.
Speaker 1: Roman Anthony is tied to run production the most out
of this group because of his profile. He needs the
GIT and he's great runs and he's hits home runs,
like he needs to do those things to give us
his value, and the whole Red Sox lineup isn't hitting,
so it's it's also gonna bring him down as well.
A few more names here Gray, some guys who might
be trapped in a paperbag right now, Manny Machado he
actually heard?
Speaker 4: Is that a R. Kelly reference? What is trapped in
a paper you know?
Speaker 2: Guy?
Speaker 3: Guys who could hit themselves out of the paper.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's nothing, Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Mark Kelly? Where where are you going?
Speaker 5: Great?
Speaker 3: I don't I don't know. It'll always follow your your mindset.
So to the list.
Speaker 1: When I was making it, as I mentioned, he had
two of runs today, he did not like me put
him on the list.
Speaker 3: Are you concerned at all about man?
Speaker 4: No, I'm not. I'm hoping the the trip to Mexico
hopefully that will wake wake up his bat and he'll
he'll return and keep hitting homers. But yeah, I'm I
I would be buying low on Machado if I could.
Speaker 3: I agreed. Everything seems normal with him, just a little
bit of a slow start. And if I recall, this
is not actually his first start. Is this of a pattern?
A little bit? Your boy?
Speaker 1: Your boy vin Vinny p one hundred and fifteen plate apparances,
three home runs. He is hitting one fifty five Gray
twenty percent strike out rate twelve point two.
Speaker 3: Percent walk rate Jesus.
Speaker 1: Twenty percent isn't a bad strike out rate in general,
but it's bad for him. Swinging strike late rate is
in line at least, so maybe the k rate equalizes eventually.
Speaker 3: But uh, Vinny p does not does not look like
the guy from last year.
Speaker 4: No, he looks terrible. He looks so he looks so bad. Yeah,
I'm you know, I'm not one hundred percent concern because
last year he did he he didn't really get hot
until the second half. So I'm hoping he still has
like you know, he gets hot at some point and
and still gets his stats because you know, he doesn't
have to he doesn't have to do a ton, but
he's gotta. He's gotta do something because right now it's bad,
Like right now his numbers, like you know, it's basically
like would you want him or Ryan O'Hearn, Like, well
o hearn is hitting for average. I mean it's not
Vinny Pascatino. It looks terrible. So I'm not for alled.
I don't think. Yeah, I don't. I don't know if
I would take seventy five seventy five cents on the dollar,
but for at draft value, but I yeah, I mean,
if someone was willing to give me draft value, I
would I would definitely take that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 1: I would absolutely take seventy five cents on draft value.
Speaker 3: But I also kind of had.
Speaker 1: Him right closer to that than I think a lot
of other people.
Speaker 3: So I guess, would you rather have him or we're coming?
Speaker 4: Oh? Man, I'd probably I'd probably take d l and
just take more common me At this point, I think.
Speaker 3: I think I would Would you rather have him or Catcher? First?
Baseman Liam Hicks?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, I would take Pascatino hopefully?
Speaker 3: How about about him? Or or old Man Harper?
Speaker 4: I would take I would probably take Harper, to be honest,
it was yeah, I mean Harper, uh Pascatino, I don't know.
I mean it's closed, but I would probably take Harper,
you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would too. How about Finny p or trying
to find a appropriate level of.
Speaker 3: Equal equal?
Speaker 2: Bad?
Speaker 3: But but Mitchel? How about him? Er Michael Bush? I
would both are awful.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would take Michael Bush, though I.
Speaker 1: Would also take Michael Bush. I'm assuming that if you're
taking Michael Bush, you're gonna probably take Freddy Freeman and and.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I mean.
Speaker 1: It seemed like seems like you are maybe down on
vvp's value a little bit at least like an eighty
five percent yeah on the dollar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, if someone was giving me, Yeah, I mean someone's
giving me Bryce Harper or you know, or Freddie Freeman.
I mean yeah, yeah, because I'm concerned about Pascatino a
decent amount. And Pascatino has got no speed whatsoever. So
it's like if he's not hitting for power and average,
like what are we doing here?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, somebody who is, Uh, we were also concerned, like
he's been a mixed bag, and that is Lawrence Butler.
Speaker 3: To of them runs four stone bases this year.
Speaker 1: That's fine, but he's sitting won eighty three gray with
a twenty seven and a half percent strikeout rate. Lawrence
Butler was a little bit of a kind of a
mystery coming into last year. We thought we kind of
knew what we might be getting this year, but I
don't know, it seems like EA sees it, it just
gets a little bit worse.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's fair. I actually I think I'd be
buying on Lawrence Butler. His his babb It's pretty low
looks like he's, uh, you know, sack Town hasn't really
heated up completely yet from what I've heard. So yeah,
I mean, Sacramento gets hot, he's in a it's a
good park. He's not even he doesn't even really need
to hit for power, like, you know, an insane amount
of power. I mean twenty homers, chucks in twenty plus steals,
hits two forty. Yeah, I think that's all doable. Still,
I would be buying him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think as long as you're not
to pay full draft cost, I would be buying.
Speaker 3: As well.
Speaker 1: As you mentioned, he's getting a little bit unlucky. I
will say the only concern that I have for him
that is maybe legitimate is the launch angle.
Speaker 3: Is is down to four.
Speaker 1: When he first entered the league, the the you know,
the twenty two eighteen to sixty two season, and in
twenty twenty four he wasn't eleven point three launch angle.
He's down seven degrees, which I know, if you're listening,
you may be like, I don't know what that means.
Speaker 3: Seven degrees is a huge.
Speaker 1: Amount in launch angle in regards to what's going on.
He has a fifty percent ground ball flyball is down
to twenty five percent.
Speaker 3: That's my primary concern here.
Speaker 1: You said, like, as you mentioned, he doesn't necessarily have
to eight all runs get value. But I'm worried if
you can't lift the ball, I don't know if the
average is gonna get back up.
Speaker 3: And the average was already pretty low.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's fair he was. Also he
wasn't like that expensive at drafts, So I don't know.
I'm fine with Lawrence Butler, to be honest, if I
if I could buy him low, even because he's I
think he should be better than that. He's not a
one to eighty hitter. I don't think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's probably settled in about two twenty.
Speaker 1: But like I said, it seems like every season it
just gets a little bit, takes a little bit down.
Speaker 3: Would you have I'm just gonna throw out the line.
Speaker 4: Would rather him or Ian Happ oh Ian half? For sure, he's.
Speaker 3: Been He's been very solid to start the season here.
How about him? Or uh Taylor.
Speaker 4: Ward Taylor Ward. I would go Taylor Ward.
Speaker 1: Okay, the opposite into the Ward of the spectrum of
Taylor Ward, Taylor Simpson.
Speaker 4: Uh in Chandler Simpson is kind of a needs basis
kind of thing. If you need steals, then you go
Chandler Simpson. I'm fine, though, I would go Taylor Simpson
in most scenarios because I mean, I think he's just
gonna be more valuable in general.
Speaker 1: All right, and last one for oh yeah, I'm gonna
ask these two because I feel like I the last
two years I have him ranked similarly.
Speaker 3: Brenton Doyle.
Speaker 4: Oh, Butler for sure. Yeah. I don't want any part
of Doyle. I don't, Yeah, I don't. I don't buy
him getting back to where he was. I think I
think Doyle's got real issues. And on top of that,
I don't even know if he's like the strong side
starter anymore. So yeah, I'm going Butler.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The split thing has me a little bit concerned on Doyle.
Would you be surprised to learn that he's actually above
Butler on the Player Raider?
Speaker 4: Wow?
Speaker 1: But that's how bad Butler's average has been.
Speaker 3: I mean, what eighty three? Will just thank you?
Speaker 1: He also only has he has subtain and runs and
RBIs that that's awesome?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: Well, just so people know out there who aren't in
front of a computer. Brenton Doyle is has one homer
six deals and is hitting two nineteen. So hasn't been
hasn't been great.
Speaker 3: It's not being conduct if.
Speaker 1: It's not a great thing to say that he is
above Lawrence Butler on the play render, it is just
a beer fact that they are both bad and they're
both low. Right now, I actually we'll go different. I'll
go Doyle on this one instead of Butler. At least
he gets at least he gets Colorado. I know Lawrence
gets uh gets Sacramentoso. It's a little bit of a
either or there, But I will go ahead and take Doyle. Uh,
if nothing else, at least the launch angle is not
really weird on him. Let's go ahead and move to
sagn Off it upgrade. There are some injuries to talk
about here over in Dodgerland, over where you live. When
Diaz is heading to the IL, sounds like it's going
to be a pretty decently long stay.
Speaker 3: Who are you grabbing up? As is the next in
line there?
Speaker 4: Uh? You know, I think it's probably it's Tanner Scott
for sure, or Alex Bassia maybe. So it is Tanner Scott.
If Tanner Scott takes the job and runs with it,
he could be the c for the foreseeable future. But
if he fumbles, and he could fumble it, he could
fumble the bag, baby, because we've seen Tanner Scott be
bad before. So if Tanner Scott's bad for a game
or two, and Robert's gonna have no problem going to
Vessia or God forbid trying. So I would say Tanner
Scott could be the closer from now until Edwin Diaz returns,
or he could fumble it by Thursday and Vessia could
be in there getting saves. So I would go Tanner
Scott and I would probably handcuff him with Vessia for now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's those are the two I would go with.
Speaker 1: I know we always throw China in here, and he
even like an every list in every place you look,
he's gonna be added as as like the third guy,
I would not pick up, like Tina.
Speaker 3: I don't want him. He's terrible. He will kill your
whip if not also your e O.
Speaker 1: I would rather take a shot on like Will kleinb
or Jack Dreyer or Justin Robleski, like literally anybody else
in the Dodgers' bullpen.
Speaker 3: I would rather have on my roster.
Speaker 4: He's actually pitching very well.
Speaker 3: He's been phenomenal.
Speaker 4: But for but for what you're saying though on that
in my NL only league, I did pick up Will
Kline because I skipped over trying and I and for
exactly the reasons you're saying. Tanner Scott and Vessia were
rostered already, so they weren't even options. I skipped trying
it and I went with Will Cleine just on the
outside chance that you know, uh, because if if Scott
and Vessia both well, if Scott's not the guy VESSI
they like Vessia in earlier innings, and Tryining is terrible.
So by that rationale, Will Klein could see possibilities, but
he needs other things to happen. He needs Tanner Scott
to screw up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And the reason I even.
Speaker 1: Throw Jack Dryer in there is because they gave him
saves at the end of last season and he's been
he's been good for you know, a season and a half.
Speaker 4: Man agreed all right.
Speaker 1: Over in Atlanta, Rice e Iglesia sends to the I
L I feel like there's a clear closer here, But
what do you think?
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's definitely it's Roberts Swarez. Absolutely, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And if you were speculating on Robertsauarez is gonna collapse
as soon as they hand him to the role, who
are you grabbing up next?
Speaker 4: I guess, Kinley, I guess.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's who I would go with as well. But yes,
it's Robert Suarez.
Speaker 1: Over in Toronto, they have announced that Jeff Hoffman is
out of the Closer role. He is now. They say
he's splitting, but it feels like it might be Louis Barlantine.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm actually that That surprised me because I figured
Hoffman was either gonna have the role, He's gonna have
the closer role. They were gonna give him a PHANTOMI
l stint. I didn't think they were just gonna remove him.
But he looks removed. So yeah, Barlin's the guy. I
I'll see if I get him in FAB this weekend.
I imagine he's gonna go for a lot. As we
record this on Sunday, it hasn't come the FAB results
haven't come back yet. I have him, I think I
want to say I have him in like the uh
twenty to thirty dollars range. I'm not gonna get him,
probably that's out of a thousand and then in a league,
but it depends on needs, Like if you really need
a reliever, if you need a closer and you need saves,
then you bid more. I actually saves are one of
the few things I don't really need, you know. I'm
I think in one league where I do need saves,
I bid seven dollars out of one hundred. So know
that's I mean, that's a decent amount in one hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1: I think I would if you really need saves, I
would probably go up to like I would even go
up to like fifteen percent, just because I feel like
it's a pretty you know, he's been pretty solid. It
feels like he's got the role. You know, I could
definitely see spending the money and grabbing him out. Let's
move on Gray over in Houston. We talked about this
last week, but Anniel Delos Santos gets another save this week,
fully moved on from the Brian's right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Brian's are gone, Bryan's, the Brian's are out.
Nyel is in and hater is in five minutes.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Over in Texas, Jake Lets gets a save. Is this
signs of things to come? Or who do you like
in Texas? Because I I I have no idea.
Speaker 4: I know, so dumb. I mean I don't I don't
know what they're doing down there. I really like, I
don't know like there. I mean, none of the none
of these guys are really that good, to be honest.
But Junis or Lats, I guess it's a I guess
if it's a heavy lefty heavy ninth, they go with
Lats and Junis. If it's heavy writings in the ninth,
I guess, so matchups, I would probably go, I'd probably
go Junis, But I mean it could be Junis, Lats
or even Cole Winn could potentially get saves.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's there's been nobody in Texas that has taken
the job.
Speaker 3: And run with it.
Speaker 1: You know, Lats has been solid, Jenis is actually you
know they're they're both been surprisingly because the names are
not anything. Uh, the Bullpen's actually surprised when pretty solid.
So there's worse things you could do than run those
guys out there. But you know, it just feels like
a split situation Over in Colorado and Antonio Senctela, it's
a save. He is at his job, and it asked
with Rockies closers at any at any point, is it
even worth it?
Speaker 4: No, I don't think it is. But it's actually you
put a good Vodnik as far as I you know,
I think Vodnik's the closer he got. He got to
save on Sunday sense sense of Tella. Whatever first name is,
Antonio Sentatela. It's a I think there's an old Abin
and Costello routine about Sesquehanna hack Company. U the uh,
Antonio says to Tela has actually pitched really well. Uh.
And I didn't realize that until you put his name
on the outline for the podcast, because I had no clue.
But he looks I mean, his numbers look good actually,
but I wouldn't speculate on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, really, the only person who's been really
bad is the worst person in that bullpen's been Victor Vodnick.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately. I mean it's not even really close. I assume
he's gonna have the job still.
Speaker 1: But if he continues to do what he's been doing
when he's at like a seven year a currently, he's
not gonna have too many more opportunities.
Speaker 3: Even in Colorado.
Speaker 4: His array is above his k is k per nine Man,
it's awful and af's a pretty terrible staff to have,
as you're as you're lying Gray.
Speaker 1: Now, finally Gray, we teased it off the top. Jordan
Rotto was released by the Angels.
Speaker 4: He won the Angels. It's very ridiculous. I mean, that
is a really ridiculous thing. Like I don't know, like
I hope, I'm like, we're recording this on Sunday. I
want to make that clear because if we find out
on Monday that he did something to like precipitate this dfang,
because that's the only reason why, like otherwise, like it
makes no sense. I mean, I'm not saying he was good,
don't get me wrong. He was actually pretty terrible, but
he was their closer. It's crazy to be like, I
think he's the best guy we have in our bullpen
and then literally a day later be like, eah, we
don't want him on our team. So unless he did
something that is like se egregious to get dfa'd, you know,
like I don't know what it could be. But unless
that's the case, I don't know what's going on here,
you know, With that said, I guess Sam Bachman until
I mean, I think this is Kirby Yates's job when
he returns. I just don't. I don't know when he's returning.
I don't know what's taking him so long to return.
To be honest, I thought I thought you'd be back
by now. So I would say, if you really are
a desperate need, I would stash Kirby Yates, and I
guess Sam Bachman, if you know you're really looking for saves,
I guess yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Would say Sam Bachman or Chase sil sith uh sil
Seth has been okay, I feel like he's about to
blow up. He's his breakfasts are pretty bad. I really
don't want anybody in this bullpen. Let's move on to
waiver wires, where you might have some names for people
that they might want.
Speaker 4: Oh okay, well done. Done with the the angels. Oh
thank god, the angels are so bad. I was I was, actually,
I think in the UH in the roundup for Monday,
I was saying about the angels that like, if you
you took someone that just like just got out of
a comb and you showed them the roster of the angels,
they would be like, is this twenty seventeen? I don't
know what year it is. Adam Frazier, Juan Moncata. You
got guys in that lineup, You're like, what where did
that guy come from? Okay, anyway, Waiver Wires. Miguel Vargas
has been very hot. Carlos Cortes, we might actually talk
about him next week in a longer segment if he
continues this hot hitting. I kind of like what I'm
seeing with him. Anyway, He's been hot, Cosa Montgomery has
been hot, Mason Win's been hot, Oswald Parrazza, Adelaie Rushman
finally been hot after you know, being a top prospect
seventeen years ago. Nathan Church is hot, Nason Nunez is hot,
Elle Damaro Vargas is I believe a top five second
basement on the season long player Fargus has been hot
for a minute, and that's an urban Dictionary minute, which
is a long time. Anyway, on Hell Martinez has been hot.
Spencer Torkelsen, I think he has five homers in five games,
been hot, Josh Young been hot, Kobe Mayo hot, Hey
Sung Kim hot, Nathaniel Lowe hot, and finally beat On's
favorite guy, Matt mcclaan hit two Homers on Saturday. Can
you believe it? He's been hot.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Just waiting for him to drop from everybody else's roster
so I can grab him up.
Speaker 3: Gray.
Speaker 1: Everybody everybody beat to it in draft season. So just
just waiting. Now, great, real quick. The the it was
a movie made. It was a child's movie about the
Angels being so bad that if they won a pinan
the deadbeat dad would come home and get his his son.
That team nineteen ninety four Angels went forty seven and
sixty eight in a one hundred and fifteen game season.
There's a four hundred four four oh nine record, Gray
over under four o nine for this Angels team. Remember
that this was a team that was bad enough to
have a movie made about how bad they were.
Speaker 4: Now yeah they're yeah, they're terrible, awful, all right.
Speaker 1: So streamers, real quick, before we get out of here.
Davis Martin has been good. He's going he gets the Angels.
That's a that's a win. Clay Holmes is a two
starter versus Washington at the Angels again. There you go,
Bick Martina, Zach Cleveland, Bailey ob versus Toronto, Grant Holmes
versus Detroit Kaiedair Montero versus Texas. Jake Urban has actually
been really good. He gets Milwaukee, not the greatest matchup,
but again he's been really good. And Kyle Harrison at Washington.
There is some streamers for you if you have specific questions.
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selections be correct and have a great week. I'll talk
to you later.
Speaker 4: Greg alright, Lades