Speaker 1: Greene's incitations. Everyone at Church Wilson Walk in the Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Live. Today is the twenty eighth of June, about
Speaker 1: three o'clock in the afternoon, and it is summertime here
Speaker 1: in beautiful New Jersey. Tim, it's going to get to
Speaker 1: be one hundred and five on Thursday. Yikes.
Speaker 2: Congratulations, good for you. You can keep that.
Speaker 1: I've got high school tournaments ago to this week. I'm
Speaker 1: doing a run a minor league stadiums on Tuesday and
Speaker 1: Wednesday in Maryland. And then it's been really nice the
Speaker 1: last few weeks and then all of a sudden, I've
Speaker 1: got all these trips planned and it's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be melting out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're looking at We're looking at mid eighties here,
Speaker 2: which is pretty darn hot by our standards. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we got a nice week of warm weather coming up.
Speaker 2: And you know what, it is, June twenty eighth, meaning
Speaker 2: the next time we get together, we're gonna be on
Speaker 2: the other side of the halfway mark of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty much right out the halfway mark. I know.
Speaker 1: It's this season is flying really, Yes, how's the season
Speaker 1: been for you?
Speaker 2: How has it been for me? Well, in two leagues,
Speaker 2: i lost Ponts, Parton and Brown before the season even
Speaker 2: got started. Okay, so it's I've got some teams that
Speaker 2: are absolutely dreadful, and I've got some teams I'm sitting
Speaker 2: near the top or at the top of the leaderboard.
Speaker 2: So it's sort of up, down, and all over the place.
Speaker 2: But because I invested heavily in several pictures and he
Speaker 2: seemed like a good plan at the time, I'm languishing
Speaker 2: in something and there's nothing I can do about it.
Speaker 2: You know, in one league, I think I've got like
Speaker 2: double digits on the IL. I've also got Langford, I
Speaker 2: lost Elie de la Cruz, you name it. I've basically
Speaker 2: lost it. And it's tough. Yeah, you do the best
Speaker 2: you can to try and find replacements. But hey, when
Speaker 2: you lose a third of your pitching staff, you know,
Speaker 2: in the first week of the season, basically, yeah, your toast,
Speaker 2: that's all, is it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tough to recover from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, almost impossible.
Speaker 1: So well, I've been totally distracted this season. So we
Speaker 1: had we had two real estate major real estate transactions,
Speaker 1: personal stuff and busy, and then I've done more scouting
Speaker 1: this season than I have. It feels like that I
Speaker 1: have in prior seasons, and I've.
Speaker 2: Just I.
Speaker 3: Have.
Speaker 1: I've been distracted, I don't have to tell you. And
Speaker 1: I haven't had a chance to really work the waiver wires.
Speaker 1: I've been working the waiver wires for my dynasty leagues,
Speaker 1: for Dynasty league players, for minor leaguers, but I just
Speaker 1: haven't kept up with closer switches. And you give us
Speaker 1: so many options, I can't even figure out which are
Speaker 1: the right ones for me. It's it's been tough.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's a hard enough game to play when
Speaker 2: you've got the time to play it. When you don't
Speaker 2: have the time to play it, yeah, it gets to
Speaker 2: be a little bit more of a challenge. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I know it's it's tough. That's why i've often, you know,
Speaker 2: thought back to twenty some odd years ago. I was
Speaker 2: playing a lot of redraft leagues. At that point in time,
Speaker 2: dynasty leagues were you know, there were some keeper leagues,
Speaker 2: but dynasty leagues weren't really a thing, you know, flourishing.
Speaker 2: It really wasn't happening. And you know, when you're looking,
Speaker 2: I don't think I would have had the time to
Speaker 2: play them. You know, I'm down now to basically one
Speaker 2: dynasty and one fifteen team keeper league, and I don't
Speaker 2: know how you do it. I'm playing that number of
Speaker 2: dynasty leagues. Man, it's a lot of work. It's a
Speaker 2: crazy amount of work, it really is.
Speaker 1: This was the first week that I didn't have So
Speaker 1: we've sold the house and we bought the house. I
Speaker 1: saw that's done, and I feel like a whole time
Speaker 1: frame has been lifted. So I actually had a chance
Speaker 1: to spend time with my leagues. I'm going, oh, I
Speaker 1: got Cooper Pratt in the league. I'm very excited. So
Speaker 1: I was like, it's all excited. I got up into
Speaker 1: my how to get in my lineup? So yeah, little things,
Speaker 1: little things here.
Speaker 2: Well you you don't have time for the little things? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: And that's what makes it tough. And in dynasty leagues,
Speaker 2: it's all about a lot of those little things, you know,
Speaker 2: the guys that you stashed away, okay on in the
Speaker 2: hopes at some point in time, like Cooper Pratt might
Speaker 2: get a call up, right, and players that have grown
Speaker 2: this year and increase their value of Hey, when you've
Speaker 2: got the number of dynasty leagues you have, you're going
Speaker 2: to find surprises until you get into it on a
Speaker 2: like a full time, full time basis, and that could
Speaker 2: be good and bad.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it is what it is. It's the professional
Speaker 1: I have chosen. I'm not complaining. I get paid to
Speaker 1: watch baseball games, so yeah, I'm pretty happy about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, And I get I get paid to
Speaker 2: torment you by picking closers you've never heard of.
Speaker 1: Right, So that's true, that's true. Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: You're welcome. I cut you some slack this week because
Speaker 2: there were there's there's a couple of opportunities out there.
Speaker 2: But I looked at the teams, I looked at the players.
Speaker 2: I said, no, no, I'm not mentioning these guys. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe verbally we can go through it, we get to.
Speaker 2: But I listed one name in the closer report and
Speaker 2: all the rest of them, I just said, no, if
Speaker 2: Rich doesn't want these guys, said, that's good enough for me.
Speaker 2: This week on the fringe dart tossing, can we So next.
Speaker 1: Week I think that'll be the fifth, Right, So it's
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Right, So on the fifth, maybe your closer
Speaker 1: report either that week or the following week, you can
Speaker 1: start to give some thought to if a role as
Speaker 1: Chapman leaves and look at the Boston Red Sox, like, like,
Speaker 1: who's going to be left? Because they might trade the
Speaker 1: setup guy too.
Speaker 2: I don't even like Wedlock. Yeah, he's the guy that
Speaker 2: I'm telling people to buy right now is Wedlock? But
Speaker 2: you're right, Yeah, and the Mets could trade Williams and
Speaker 2: Luke Weaver. H you know what I mean? That's yeah,
Speaker 2: I would like.
Speaker 1: I would like some discussion about that, taking a look
Speaker 1: at the obvious guys Devin Williams enrolled as Chapman, and
Speaker 1: then like, who would you be buying now?
Speaker 2: Yeah? No, that sounds like a good fun exercise because,
Speaker 2: let's face it, if you can sneak in on some
Speaker 2: of those relief pitchers, yeah, you're you're still looking at
Speaker 2: two months of the season. You could be looking at,
Speaker 2: you know, four or five saves a month, eight to
Speaker 2: ten saves. If you can multiply that by one or
Speaker 2: two guys, your three points in saves could grow into
Speaker 2: six to eight and be of value once we get
Speaker 2: to the last week of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, let's look at these games. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: they go to the Texas Rangers versus the Toronto Blue Jays,
Speaker 1: and just if we can just bemoan the fact that
Speaker 1: at Langford has it the iel again. Just he looked
Speaker 1: like exactly what we thought he was going to be
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the See he has been fire
Speaker 1: the last two or three weeks and then it's just
Speaker 1: hamstring pull and out through the All Star break.
Speaker 2: Yeah. It was one of those where if I drank,
Speaker 2: I'd probably be doing this blowing a two point two
Speaker 2: on the breathalyzer. Rich. It was just like, come on,
Speaker 2: give the old guy a break. Okay, Uh yeah that
Speaker 2: that that one hurts you. The only good thing is
Speaker 2: the timing and that you will be old. There's there's
Speaker 2: three games that you won't have to worry about over
Speaker 2: the All Star break.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the only that's the only good news about
Speaker 2: that one. And yeah, I scrambled and tossed Evin Carter
Speaker 2: into the mix for the waiver wire because that's the
Speaker 2: right guy. Yeah, but can we.
Speaker 1: All admit that you were right on Evan Carter. He
Speaker 1: couldn't lefties in the minor leagues. He brought that up
Speaker 1: to everybody's attention. I'm not sure he can hit, right,
Speaker 1: he's very well. I mean, he's just turn he's just
Speaker 1: turned out to be not that good.
Speaker 2: No, it's hey, there's limitations. And he's in a position
Speaker 2: where he's a fourth oatfielder, reserve type oatfielder who will
Speaker 2: at best platoon and at worst to get two hundred
Speaker 2: and two hundred and fifty eight bats a year. And
Speaker 2: I think that's who the player is. Rich.
Speaker 1: You don't think he'll get more than two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty at bats up because he is a strong side platoon, right,
Speaker 1: So he.
Speaker 2: Had three hundred and three. He's not gonna play full time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's yeah, we just I I missed on him,
Speaker 1: and early in his career. I figured it out once
Speaker 1: he got into Triple A that there was a big problem.
Speaker 1: But I mean, sometimes you don't see the splits until
Speaker 1: the player gets into with better pitching because everything looks
Speaker 1: like a fastball in the lower levels of the minor
Speaker 1: leagues and the US to get guys that can actually
Speaker 1: spend the ball. And also that's when the splits really
Speaker 1: start to come out. And he's just never been able
Speaker 1: to solve it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at the Jay's game here. And Bieber's
Speaker 2: up to ninety one pitchers pitches and they still have
Speaker 2: them in there in the in the sixth inning. I
Speaker 2: think they're treading dangerously on on that situation that one
Speaker 2: nothing game could could change fairly quickly.
Speaker 1: Four walks. That's a little disappointed. But obviously pitch better
Speaker 1: than he did the first game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he definitely did. He just allowed another hit, so
Speaker 2: they got two on yeah, one out. Yeah, I'm a
Speaker 2: little ticked.
Speaker 1: I didn't start Komba Rocker at all. I didn't start
Speaker 1: Bieber purposely didn't start bb I was a little do
Speaker 1: I start Koomber Rocker? He had a rough last outing
Speaker 1: and I decided not to, And he's just shoving it
Speaker 1: against the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: Well, and let's let's face it, the Jays right now
Speaker 2: their offense basically is being carried by O Komoto with
Speaker 2: his two forty batting average. Laddie is down I believe,
Speaker 2: under eight hundred in the ops.
Speaker 1: He's almost under seven hundred. My friend, yes, seven two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have got a grand total of well, lad
Speaker 2: he's at two seventy. Nathan Lukes, who us at three
Speaker 2: oh five, or any clements having a fine season at
Speaker 2: three oh one. But I mean there's a lot of
Speaker 2: two under batting averages in there and no power.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and you know, if they brought up Keys,
Speaker 2: he played yesterday and that's why. But the problem with
Speaker 2: Keys is to make it work, they have to either
Speaker 2: take George Springer or Glad Junior out of the lineup
Speaker 2: to get him in there.
Speaker 1: Yep, you know that's yeah, And you're not going to
Speaker 1: take your five hundred million dollar man out. And George
Speaker 1: Springer is a bit in the heart and soul of
Speaker 1: that team. So I don't know. That's what makes Keys
Speaker 1: a tough ad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very much. So. I wasn't sure how they were
Speaker 2: going to do it, even though I got lucky and
Speaker 2: they did make the move, But it's a move with limitations,
Speaker 2: serious limitations. What happens if Keys go out? It goes
Speaker 2: out in his next game and hits two home runs? Well,
Speaker 2: Springer or Vladie's not in the lineup? Is Springer or
Speaker 2: Vlady not in the lineup two days in a row?
Speaker 2: Now that becomes a problem, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can't. I can't imagine that. One of our
Speaker 1: Patreon members. Again, I encourage you, but to become a
Speaker 1: Patreon member. It's a it's a cult, Tommy right, it's
Speaker 1: it's not a not a club, it's a cult.
Speaker 2: We're okay with Yeah, Yeah, I'm perfectly fine. We had
Speaker 2: a fun discussion today. Actually, one of the guys made
Speaker 2: a trade with you, okay, and they were talking, you know,
Speaker 2: he was talking about you going to get.
Speaker 1: Trash for the trade.
Speaker 2: Probably did no, Actually no, they wanted me to make
Speaker 2: the trade on air with you. Okay, okay, negotiat negotiated trade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I made a trade. I have a sea that's
Speaker 1: just going nowhere.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: And it's a shame because I've got Paul Skins on
Speaker 1: that team. It's just going nowhere, and I'm stuck in
Speaker 1: like ninth place. And uh, i have Ranger Suarez, which
Speaker 1: I have Rangel swarz about every team and saves a
Speaker 1: kick on him in a bunch of leagues. He woned
Speaker 1: both of those players. I'm assuming he's competing. And it
Speaker 1: gave me Max Clark and yep, somebody else. Oh, oh,
Speaker 1: Grant Taylor. Grant Taylor and a third round pick for
Speaker 1: he first had Indie Rodriguez included in that he was
Speaker 1: on my team. I thought that was too much so
Speaker 1: I took Andy Rodriguez out and I was just, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Grant Taylor, Max Clark, and Max Clark has not been
Speaker 1: very good after the first few weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: I still believe. So I'm a bit of a soccer
Speaker 1: for Max Clark, but I mean, I'm not playing for
Speaker 1: this season and Ranger swars and then say, Azuke, you
Speaker 1: can be good for the next couple of years, but
Speaker 1: I'm hoping Max Clark makes up for that and Grant
Speaker 1: Taylor really becomes a closer or a big starter or so.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a fair trade all around. So
Speaker 1: that's why I did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it had definitely definitely a good trade. And yeah,
Speaker 2: my comments you know, when they asked you we should
Speaker 2: do it on ere, I said, well, does he had
Speaker 2: do you need any former MVV guys And they said, well, no,
Speaker 2: Rich won't have any of those. I said, how about
Speaker 2: I could negotiate for closers and Rich ain't gonna have
Speaker 2: any of them. So we had, we had, We had,
Speaker 2: we had fun with it. We really did good for you. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I got the reason I brought it up.
Speaker 1: I got a note from somebody that says, you know,
Speaker 1: with these worm burners, I e. Vlad Junior and Tatis
Speaker 1: Junior hitting the ball on the ground. How hard is
Speaker 1: it to change the swing and hit the ball in
Speaker 1: the air. And my response was, well, it's hard. And
Speaker 1: when you're an established star, in Vlad Junior's case, you're
Speaker 1: making five hundred million dollars and what is it Tatis
Speaker 1: is two fifty three, And it's a tough motivation to
Speaker 1: go to these guys and go, we really need you
Speaker 1: to lift the ball more to hit more home runs.
Speaker 1: And so are they going to do it? I don't know.
Speaker 1: If you're in the minor leagues and you're twenty one
Speaker 1: years old and thea A coach comes over to and says, look,
Speaker 1: you're not going anywhere unless you change your angles on
Speaker 1: your swing. You're going to change your angles on your swing.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is.
Speaker 2: The player is saying, yeah, okay, how do we get started?
Speaker 1: That's right? Yeah? And how how can I get better?
Speaker 1: And so for and maybe Vlad Junior is going to
Speaker 1: have to buy into Okay, maybe I need to start
Speaker 1: get the ball in the air a little bit more,
Speaker 1: and maybe he'll he'll buy into that. Maybe in an
Speaker 1: off season discussion. Maybe he'll do that. I mean, we'll see,
Speaker 1: But I don't think. I think Lad Juniors has gotten
Speaker 1: into some bad habits here and the results are starting
Speaker 1: to starting to really speak for themselves. Maybe he's worn
Speaker 1: out a little bit after the long season last year
Speaker 1: and never got a chance to take time off in
Speaker 1: the off season. Maybe the conditioning is becoming part of
Speaker 1: the problem. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, definitely, that's what the young side rich. It's
Speaker 2: all about bad habits.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's and I just I think
Speaker 1: it's really important because it's funny because I've been doing
Speaker 1: a lot of work with agents and I get stories
Speaker 1: from these guys. I've actually heard conversations with these kids.
Speaker 1: I mean they're kids on the phone, and it's like, hey, man,
Speaker 1: they want me to do this. I'm not doing this.
Speaker 1: They paid me a million dollars in a signing bonus.
Speaker 1: Don't they know who I am?
Speaker 2: Basically, Oh, yeah, you're a minor leaguer. Yeah they got
Speaker 2: they got next to nothing invested in, right, and yeah.
Speaker 1: Like the agent's trying to tell them, you know, trying
Speaker 1: to make them feel good, like, yeah, you're the man,
Speaker 1: and you're going to figure all this out, but also
Speaker 1: trying to convey that, you know, the fill in the
Speaker 1: blank team is a good organization. You need to listen
Speaker 1: to them. I know, personally, this guy, I mean, they
Speaker 1: have your best interest at heart, and they're trying to
Speaker 1: sell them on this kind I mean, these players have
Speaker 1: been doing it this this certain way for years and
Speaker 1: a lot of them just don't want to change, and
Speaker 1: then others want to change right off the bat. I
Speaker 1: mean they're highly motivated, they get they get it all.
Speaker 1: It's just different players, different personalities out there.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and you know what ultimately kicking off the
Speaker 2: organization that happens to be paying the freight and looking
Speaker 2: at you as a long term and it's not a
Speaker 2: good way to start a relationship. It really isn't. And
Speaker 2: you will lose eventually if things don't, if they don't change,
Speaker 2: if you're not who they Hey, there's a mess of
Speaker 2: players that are twenty seven to thirty five years old
Speaker 2: playing in the minor leagues or in Korea or in Japan,
Speaker 2: or are the baseball Okay, at some point in time,
Speaker 2: if they say jump from you, you should be looking
Speaker 2: at putting your ego aside and saying how high if
Speaker 2: you want a good career, a good and long career
Speaker 2: in the majors.
Speaker 1: Yeah. People talk about makeup, and a lot of people
Speaker 1: misconstrue makeup as the guy's a bad person or a
Speaker 1: good person. That's not it. It's are you willing to
Speaker 1: be coached? Are you willing to listen? Are you willing
Speaker 1: to try different things? That's what good makeup. That's when
Speaker 1: organizations talk about. That's what they're talking about good makeup.
Speaker 1: Not that the guy versus like a sailor or you know,
Speaker 1: maybe drinks too much or something like that. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are more other issues. But makeup is you know,
Speaker 1: are you willing to put in the time in the
Speaker 1: effort to make stuff happen?
Speaker 2: And well yeah, and if you're not, eventually decisions will
Speaker 2: be made and the team's gonna win. Yeah. Yeah, the
Speaker 2: employer always does right.
Speaker 1: Most of the time. They're gonna win. Blad Junior, Lad
Speaker 1: Junior is gonna win every time because he's the face
Speaker 1: of the franchise. So they're gonna have to negotiate with
Speaker 1: Lad Junior if they want him to change his swing
Speaker 1: to add more loft to hit more home runs. That's
Speaker 1: gonna have that's gonna be a dicey conversation.
Speaker 2: Well, and again, it'll give us a good indication who
Speaker 2: it is because he wants to be the face of
Speaker 2: the franchise. He wants to be the team cheerleader, the
Speaker 2: go to guy, all that stuff, and he's projected that
Speaker 2: very very well over his career thus far. So a challenge.
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to see the tone set. How does
Speaker 2: that sound?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think when you get the Vlad
Speaker 1: Junior's level, when you're considered one of the best players
Speaker 1: in the league, it's it's a tough conversation because it's like, look,
Speaker 1: this has always worked for me. The power is gonna come.
Speaker 1: I'm strong, and you got to sit there and go, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're getting older too, you know. So those are hard conversations.
Speaker 1: So you and I, well, yeah, they are older conversations.
Speaker 2: Well, and it's one with a veteran who's tied into
Speaker 2: a contract with a lot of zero is one that
Speaker 2: has to be done respectfully. Yeah, okay, then yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: You know, I was just looking at the standings in
Speaker 2: the Ale. Do you realize as of today there are
Speaker 2: only four teams in the al over five hundred Okay,
Speaker 2: and the third best record in the AL is currently
Speaker 2: being held White so by the White Sox.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's funny. I that's it was five when we
Speaker 1: did the review, what two or three weeks ago, and
Speaker 1: that's down to four. Look at that. Yeah, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at another rais the Yankees, the White Sox and the Mayor.
Speaker 1: Oh and the Braves at six five at five hundred.
Speaker 2: Yeah, at five hundred, the Braves.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the Braves are in. I got the wrong.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just gonna say, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's only four and there's and one of the
Speaker 1: Mariners have a five hundred record. Wow, that's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're the only four teams right now over five
Speaker 2: hundred and Neale or you know Tampa, the Yankees, the
Speaker 2: White Socks, and the Guardians at forty three and forty.
Speaker 2: Everybody else is five hundred or worse.
Speaker 1: And you gotta believe Tim with the with the construction
Speaker 1: of the Guardians team without Jose Ramirez in two weeks,
Speaker 1: are they going to be in a week are they
Speaker 1: going to be.
Speaker 2: Over five hundred last ten games or four and six?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So that's trending in the wrong direction.
Speaker 2: Yes, most definitely did you catch the the White Sox
Speaker 2: game where they got the safety near the end, made
Speaker 2: up for the lost extra point and got up to
Speaker 2: twenty two runs.
Speaker 1: I saw that. I looked at my guys that I
Speaker 1: had from the White Sox. They didn't do so well,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but that was that was an impressive performance.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it was impressive about that. And very
Speaker 2: very unusual is the Royals put in they utilize the
Speaker 2: regular bullpen being down like fifteen runs. Yeah, Ersig was
Speaker 2: in there, laying was in there like.
Speaker 1: A positional player. I thought he was a positional player
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pictures like, yeah, but they used a regular bullpen
Speaker 2: in a blowout like That's something you don't see very often,
Speaker 2: is it.
Speaker 1: No, And it's pretty shocking. And I just assume that
Speaker 1: it was positional guys coming. That's that's really bad one.
Speaker 1: It's the regular bullpen.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I think Lango torched for five or five
Speaker 2: and runs or something like that. But yeah, you don't
Speaker 2: you don't see that. And Vargus had a huge day
Speaker 2: and he's got another home run is nineteenth today. Uh,
Speaker 2: Vargas is turning into quite the quite the player this year,
Speaker 2: isn't he?
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Yeah, and uh they're just holding They're doing
Speaker 1: better than holding court into uh until the big slugger
Speaker 1: comes back. So it's yeah, Murakamie, I mean, it's it's impressive.
Speaker 1: Other games, Tampa Bay is up five to nothing on
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. Simonbacks is forty one and forty one. Our
Speaker 1: buddy Cedric Mullins had a home run. Not having a
Speaker 1: great season, but he's a second half guy, so hopefully
Speaker 1: he'll start to win up a little bit.
Speaker 2: You know what really surprised me when when I look
Speaker 2: at the Rays, is their their their lead off that okay,
Speaker 2: Yandy Diaz, he's up to fifty three RBIs Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: we were talking about Yeah, we were talking about Junior
Speaker 2: Cameranaro off to a rough start. Yeah, he's hit about
Speaker 2: ten home runs in the past week. He's up to
Speaker 2: twenty two now. Monster.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a monster.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We talked him up on the discord page, and
Speaker 2: as soon as we talked him up about about him
Speaker 2: not hitting many home runs in June, he went on
Speaker 2: a terror and hit one. He's I think he's hit
Speaker 2: one every day for the past week, week and a half.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's a forty home run guy. He's going
Speaker 1: to compete for home run titles. That's that's a big,
Speaker 1: strong DUDEO Yandy diaz is. I mean, if he had
Speaker 1: more power, looks like with his arms, he would hit
Speaker 1: nine hundred home runs a year. But he's more a
Speaker 1: double cetter. But that's a good player. I mean it's
Speaker 1: a good baseball player. Not a great fantasy player, but
Speaker 1: a really good baseball player.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's hitting three thirty six this year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: to go along with fifty three RB and Mullen with
Speaker 2: the Cavin Arrow hitting behind him, hitting home runs on
Speaker 2: a regular basis, his run scored, I've got to be
Speaker 2: off the charts good, I would think. So.
Speaker 1: I watch a lot of Orioles games because a big
Speaker 1: Oriole fan. I've never watched Pete Alonso play many games.
Speaker 1: I know he played for the Mets, but I never
Speaker 1: really watched Mets games. Who the hell watch Mets games?
Speaker 1: You know, he's a Mets fan. He's a he's a
Speaker 1: fun player, he's very enthusiastic. He's he seems like a
Speaker 1: guy that he's a guy that you want to root for.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at him and going I wonder if
Speaker 1: that's a big problem with the Mets, and obviously they
Speaker 1: fired their manager. They just don't have like a Pete
Speaker 1: a Lonzo, very good player, but a guy who looks
Speaker 1: like a natural team leader to me, Yeah.
Speaker 2: That could be here. It's just underachieving into me any
Speaker 2: different areas combined with injuries. Yeah, it's Freddy Perrault has
Speaker 2: been a huge disappointment that did not work out. Yeah.
Speaker 2: They they bet on Bova shit, and I don't know
Speaker 2: if they consider that working out. You know, Biento's didn't develop.
Speaker 2: Beattie is batting two eleven, So what the potential we
Speaker 2: saw last year seems to have disappeared. Yeah, Carson Benge
Speaker 2: and the other kid, yeah ewing, Yeah, there's this potential there,
Speaker 2: but I don't know it's I've heard it's a lot
Speaker 2: of personality clashes could be abundant.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so my understanding, and a huge Mets fan
Speaker 1: told me this buddy of mine. He said, look, man,
Speaker 1: you should dig into lend Door versus Sosa. Apparently their
Speaker 1: their lockers are at the opposite ends of the of
Speaker 1: the clubhouse. Apparently they don't like each other and it's
Speaker 1: a huge rift and nobody everybody dances around it in
Speaker 1: the clubhouse, and that was big reason that the manager
Speaker 1: got let go, because he wasn't able to solve that.
Speaker 1: I've heard rumors that pool Holes is interested.
Speaker 2: In the job.
Speaker 1: I don't know why he would be. Maybe he can
Speaker 1: mend defenses, or maybe one of them's got to go
Speaker 1: to him.
Speaker 2: Well, pool Holes is big enough, he can at least
Speaker 2: defend himself well in a scrap. Yeah, but no, Hey,
Speaker 2: when you've got three quarters of a billion dollars not
Speaker 2: getting along, If that is the case, that's problematic, isn't it. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 2: very much so. And hey, you know a manager is
Speaker 2: never going to win that one.
Speaker 1: No. I mean it's tough, but I mean that's quite frankly. Look,
Speaker 1: analytics are making all the baseball decisions these days. That
Speaker 1: the job of the manager is to get the players
Speaker 1: to get along. That's his job, and if, for whatever
Speaker 1: you can't get it done, you gotta try somebody else.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and the bottom line is you when you've
Speaker 2: got that type of money involved, maybe just maybe they
Speaker 2: should have talked to somebody who might know a little
Speaker 2: bit of history before you signed two guys if in
Speaker 2: fact they do hate each other, right, I don't know that.
Speaker 1: That was before, before the factor after. I don't know
Speaker 1: what happened. My buddy didn't know that, but he was
Speaker 1: absolutely convinced. I did look around, and yes, there appears
Speaker 1: to be an issue with the two players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's and again you know, oh, speaking of you
Speaker 2: ing they he just pinch hit for Taylor and smoked
Speaker 2: the tour and Homer. Yeah, my light.
Speaker 1: I thought I had him in all ten of my
Speaker 1: Dinasty leagues haven't been nine. I traded him Christian Campbell
Speaker 1: or something something like that because.
Speaker 2: I do goals. Uh, funny, I have just stopped.
Speaker 1: Using my bait, my fantasy baseball leagues as science experiments.
Speaker 1: That starting to.
Speaker 2: Play to win, that's probably a good plan.
Speaker 1: Yes, probably Look at that hit two seventy six. It
Speaker 1: was his fourth arm run, fourth m Run's got seven
Speaker 1: or eight stole base. That's a really good baseball player.
Speaker 1: I think it's a lot more powers because he fills
Speaker 1: out and gets He's still a young kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so's so's venge. You know. I mean, there's there's
Speaker 2: some talent on that team, but they got to find
Speaker 2: a way to get it, to get everything on the
Speaker 2: same page and move forward. I really think that Freddy
Speaker 2: Perrault was. I think that's that is a huge part
Speaker 2: of the problem. They're pitching has been even McLain hasn't been.
Speaker 2: No should Yeah, no, he hasn't been to the level
Speaker 2: of was expected. And you throw yeah, those two starters
Speaker 2: for send your rotation, your starts. That's a problem. You're
Speaker 2: not going to win a lot of games if the
Speaker 2: guys you expect to win fifteen to twenty win eight
Speaker 2: to ten.
Speaker 1: Right, So let's come back to the Orioles. Keby Mayo
Speaker 1: hitting one ninety one, Jackson Holiday hitting one ninety six. Yes,
Speaker 1: batty and average is just one statistic guy. I know
Speaker 1: Mayo hit some home runs, Holidays hits has some power,
Speaker 1: but those are those are six fifty three ops and
Speaker 1: a six thirty six ops. Two guys that were top
Speaker 1: twenty five, top fifty prospects just haven't developed. It's it's
Speaker 1: really surprising and disappointing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, Now you got to cut I think
Speaker 2: you got to cut Holiday a little bit of slide
Speaker 2: a little bit, I agree, because of the injury this year.
Speaker 2: But I did find it. I was reading an article
Speaker 2: somewhere today that said the Orioles are all in they're
Speaker 2: playing for this year and expect them to make moves? Okay,
Speaker 2: where do they make the moves an outfielder? Maybe? Maybe,
Speaker 2: maybe the Angels can find a way to move my crout.
Speaker 1: I think that. Look, the Orioles have plenty of depth
Speaker 1: to move them. It's going to come down to the
Speaker 1: Angels do they want to move them? They did fire
Speaker 1: the general manager, right, so Perry Misser's gone. So that's uh,
Speaker 1: gives them an opportunity to to do something out in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and hopefully I mean did he get fired
Speaker 1: because he wanted to move my trout or did he
Speaker 1: get fired because he refused to move Mike Truck. I
Speaker 1: guess we'll find out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is interesting though. I'll see if I can.
Speaker 2: I'll see if I can find the article real quick.
Speaker 2: But one of the one of the intuch okay Orioles
Speaker 2: going for it? And who uh who are the Angels
Speaker 2: non trade untouchable? Uh?
Speaker 1: Probably Zachno, I would assume.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: The problem is that Joe Adell is an asset people
Speaker 1: would want. Zach Nito is definitely an ass that people
Speaker 1: would want, power hitting, athletics, middle infielder. But who else
Speaker 1: they don't have well just a trade.
Speaker 2: Well no, the the article goes on to say that
Speaker 2: already Mayer wants to hang on to Debt, Mers, Soriano
Speaker 2: and Adele. Everybody else is there for the taking.
Speaker 1: Which that is Mike Mike Trout. So Debts has had
Speaker 1: a very good season.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, and you know what I I can I
Speaker 2: the player that I don't get on that list is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's because he's just looking at wins and losses
Speaker 1: and eras. If that's where they're getting the quote from.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know it's Marina.
Speaker 1: Gonna be telling us about launch angles and fast and
Speaker 1: induced vertical break. I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Only if it applies to his new condo. Okay, I
Speaker 2: thought that would be my train of thought. But I
Speaker 2: can remember we were talking about Jose Sorano after his
Speaker 2: hot start, and yeah, I think it might have made
Speaker 2: even a fact in fiction. Okay, But just to give
Speaker 2: you an example on Sorriano, at the end of April,
Speaker 2: his era was point eight four okay. At the end
Speaker 2: of May, his era on the year was two point
Speaker 2: six y five okay. Currently, as of today, his era
Speaker 2: is three forty one. By the time we get to
Speaker 2: the end of the season. I'm willing to bet his
Speaker 2: eer is over four fifty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that. We had that discussion. Yeah, what six
Speaker 1: weeks ago, and that's what you included. You're spot on.
Speaker 1: But who do the Orioles need? They had a first
Speaker 1: basement pen a ansa don't. They've got a good catcher
Speaker 1: and Rutchman obviously Gunner Henderson. I think Holiday is going
Speaker 1: to be okay, So that's good. The problem is Dylan
Speaker 1: be Versus back from injury. He's a platoon guy. Colton
Speaker 1: Colton is definitely a platoon guy. Let's see his splits.
Speaker 1: His right left splits are one forty three. It's one
Speaker 1: forty three against left handed. He's only had twenty one
Speaker 1: at bats. So they're playing them as a platoon guy.
Speaker 1: They need to get a tailor awards a good player.
Speaker 1: They need another full time outfielder.
Speaker 2: That they do. I agree totally, and it'll be interesting. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you look at the schedule and you look at
Speaker 2: the standings. What in the AL is everybody a buyer?
Speaker 2: You guys have sellers out there somewhere. Yeah, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 1: What Manford, that's what Manford want. I wanted to everybody
Speaker 1: to be in it.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he got his wish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's it's surprise. Let's take a look at
Speaker 1: a couple of other games here. I mean, look, the
Speaker 1: Guardians scored one run today. I I mean they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to almost pitch shutouts to him to win. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just really, really difficult.
Speaker 2: I agree, And not only is it difficult to their
Speaker 2: expectations for Cooper Engle might be a little high.
Speaker 1: He's playing field this afternoon. But they do not want
Speaker 1: to put put them behind the put them behind the
Speaker 1: plate plate, do they?
Speaker 2: No? No, So we'll see what happens there. But yeah,
Speaker 2: there isn't an abundance of offense. You know. They moved
Speaker 2: Stevie Gwine into Leofs spot to day with Designer and
Speaker 2: the two hole, which makes sense to move the waters
Speaker 2: in their Monzargo Watson's been playing well, he's he's not
Speaker 2: striking out as much as I thought. I think he
Speaker 2: stole a base today, yeah his second. Yeah. Maybe watching
Speaker 2: can help out there, but you can't lose somebody. Yes,
Speaker 2: there's a maybe in there, careful.
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking speaking of the of the Cleveland Guardians, I
Speaker 1: got uh Patrick Bailey's name wrong. I called him Patrick
Speaker 1: Stewart were I made a joke of it when he
Speaker 1: was coming or when he got trade, and I called
Speaker 1: him Patrick Stewart, and my brain has stuck on there.
Speaker 1: So I apologize for a Friday show what I called
Speaker 1: him Patrick Stewart and attempt didn't correct me on it. So, uh,
Speaker 1: I messed up, tim It happened. It happens. Let's take it.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and come back. I get some
Speaker 1: more questions for you, then we'll get into waiver war.
Speaker 1: They haven't talked that much about Max Meyer. Nine wins
Speaker 1: a two sixty ere. It does have a three sixty
Speaker 1: one expected era over strike out for any they obviously
Speaker 1: expected ERA suggests a correction is coming. But is it
Speaker 1: enough for you to sell high on or is the
Speaker 1: guy that you're keeping until he falls over?
Speaker 2: A lot? Would depend on where I am. It's all
Speaker 2: about context. Okay, if you're leading, if you're in the
Speaker 2: top three spots in your league, you ain't selling them
Speaker 2: Come Hill or eye Water. You need those numbers to
Speaker 2: stay up top. If you're in fourteenth place, well I
Speaker 2: would see what you betch. Yeah, it's it's not like hey,
Speaker 2: everybody era.
Speaker 1: That's that's really good.
Speaker 2: That is big numbers. Yep. So again a lot would
Speaker 2: depend on if I'm in rebuilding mode and what I
Speaker 2: could get for him, But definitely if i'm if I'm
Speaker 2: chasing down the title, there's no way I'm moving him
Speaker 2: right now. How can you you know you're you're you're
Speaker 2: giving up nine wins in the mid two earra and
Speaker 2: a pile of strikeouts. Yeah, you ain't giving up on that.
Speaker 2: You know you're taking that and just praying and he
Speaker 2: stays healthy and continues, you know, a run of even
Speaker 2: a three ear ra. Oh you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: That that helps your chances of winning big time. So yeah,
Speaker 2: all about the context.
Speaker 1: I think Trevor Rogers similar got off to a rough start,
Speaker 1: two wins in a row, one giving up one run
Speaker 1: over the last thirteen last five games, a two oh
Speaker 1: five ear eight. But Tim, he's not striking at anybody.
Speaker 1: Six and a half strikeouts per nine for the season,
Speaker 1: six and three quarters strikeout over a month of June.
Speaker 1: Is this somebody that you can start to count on
Speaker 1: or is this the lack of strikeouts eventually just going
Speaker 1: to catch up to him.
Speaker 2: They might catch up to him, but the Orioles need
Speaker 2: him badly. They're saying they're in it to win it. Well,
Speaker 2: if they're in it to win it, they're going to
Speaker 2: make some moves. They're going to get better. I think
Speaker 2: he just lived with the lower strikeout rate, and I
Speaker 2: hope he continues pitching at the level he has over
Speaker 2: the past past month or so. Now again, if somebody
Speaker 2: offers you an arminal leg well, yeah you take it.
Speaker 2: But are people going to make those type of offers
Speaker 2: Rogers people?
Speaker 1: I don't think fantasy managers are going to be offering
Speaker 1: a lot for Trevor Rodgers because I mean they might
Speaker 1: not be looking at the detailed stats that we just
Speaker 1: went through, but they're gonna now he's not He's not
Speaker 1: that good. He's a number four.
Speaker 2: Starter and Max Meyer is younger, I think, with a
Speaker 2: little bit better pedigree, and you know what I mean, Yeah,
Speaker 2: Meyer will fetch something as compared to Rogers not so much.
Speaker 2: Probably might take.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rogers is going to get paid over the winner.
Speaker 1: He's a free He's gonna get paid. Lefties get paid.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a shocking number. You watch.
Speaker 2: Everybody who can throw the ball and generate an ERA
Speaker 2: under four is going to get paid. This offseason. It's
Speaker 2: supply demand, right.
Speaker 1: So I was watching the Yankee and Red Sox game yesterday.
Speaker 1: Red Sox have won two in a row against the Yankees,
Speaker 1: which is pretty interesting. And Carrett Cole. They pitched okay,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't vintage Garrett Cole. He did get up
Speaker 1: to one hundred miles an hour. But during the middle
Speaker 1: of the game and the dugout, after you'd giving up
Speaker 1: another home run and Garrett Cole apparently screaming in the dugout,
Speaker 1: I think he threw his glove that the broadcasters seemed
Speaker 1: to imply that he was screaming at himself. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But after he came back in, he he came back
Speaker 1: in and pitched a much much better I should we
Speaker 1: be concerned about these last two outings? Are just saying,
Speaker 1: I mean, it is Garrett Cole. He is coming back
Speaker 1: from Tommy John surgery. He's going to be just fine.
Speaker 1: What what do you think about this situation?
Speaker 2: I like your second part of the statement. He's Garrett Cole,
Speaker 2: Cole the Velocities area, He's coming off major surgery. I
Speaker 2: think right now it's what's happening with Cole is he's
Speaker 2: very competitive. He always has been, and I think in
Speaker 2: his mind he's the Garrett Cole of one Cy Young's.
Speaker 2: But his body right now just isn't cooperating fully. So, uh,
Speaker 2: he's getting a little cranky. And I believe it is
Speaker 2: with himself. He's not only venting on anybody other than
Speaker 2: he thinks he should be better and do better than
Speaker 2: what he has. So I'm not concerned about Garrett Cole
Speaker 2: yet now two three starts down the road. Yeah, you
Speaker 2: might want to start looking. I know, it's tough to be.
Speaker 2: If something doesn't right itself and improvement isn't shown, you
Speaker 2: might want to send him against mats like the Dodgers, you.
Speaker 1: Know, speaking of the Dodgers, Tim, Yeah, gauge jump against
Speaker 1: the Dodgers tomorrow in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Oh, dear lord, I don't think that even.
Speaker 1: Well, I gotta try. I got a statue in my
Speaker 1: front yard of I don't think I've got the kahonas
Speaker 1: to make do that deal.
Speaker 2: You gotta pass, Okay, you just got to, right. I
Speaker 2: mean that's crazy, Yeah, yeah, it is. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, point in time, he could shove it.
Speaker 1: That's really really good. If he does, then I think
Speaker 1: it's yeah, the new season must start everywhere, but everywhere
Speaker 1: that seems insane to me.
Speaker 2: Well, it would depend on the format too. If you
Speaker 2: only got one move all week on pitching, who's the
Speaker 2: second game against? Right, I didn't you might want to yeah,
Speaker 2: you might, well, you might want to take you might
Speaker 2: want to take the bad with the good there and yeah,
Speaker 2: and live with an ERA of seven. Okay, depending on
Speaker 2: who the second games against?
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, the Dodgers of old I haven't checked this
Speaker 1: season could be pitched. The lefties pitched well against the Dodgers,
Speaker 1: and I was thinking that as well, trying to convince
Speaker 1: myself to put him in. But I might do it
Speaker 1: in teams that want My pitching is horrible and just
Speaker 1: just for the fun of it. But uh yeah, yeah anyway,
Speaker 1: m hm uh so, what are the Oh, let's go
Speaker 1: to Kyle Tucker? Speaking of of the Dodgers, I've lost
Speaker 1: my notes. Here, Wait a minute, where I got so
Speaker 1: many notes that that's hot prospects of the month. Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. He hit it home right yesterday.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: In my twenty twenty five draft targets, not twenty six
Speaker 1: twenty five, I urged the pass on Tucker. The speed
Speaker 1: had dropped down. It was he was hitting most of
Speaker 1: his power with his leverage. Turned out, I was wrong
Speaker 1: at a great season last year, but that stuff's even
Speaker 1: gotten worse this year. So the exit velocities have come down.
Speaker 1: The speed, he's twenty second in the twenty second percentile
Speaker 1: in the League of sprint speed. He looks like not
Speaker 1: the same guy to me. And he's having a brutal
Speaker 1: season this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I actually in one of my fifteen team redraft leagues,
Speaker 2: I sat him this weekend.
Speaker 1: Disagree with that.
Speaker 2: No, over the past twenty one days. Even with that,
Speaker 2: I'm running the RBI. You know, he was about in
Speaker 2: two thirty two. Yeah, okay, he hasn't stolen a base
Speaker 2: in two plus weeks. So I just said, now I'm
Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna sit you. I'll take I'll take, my take,
Speaker 2: my lumps, and I put I think a rabbit in
Speaker 2: there to try and generate some stolen bases. But yeah,
Speaker 2: it now seven home runs, forty four RBIs, and six
Speaker 2: tolen bases on the year. That's scoring Kyle Tucker.
Speaker 1: Yeah. And the thing that's again disconcerted. He is only
Speaker 1: twenty nine, right, so it's a little shocking that we're
Speaker 1: starting to see the erosion of his skills and he's
Speaker 1: still not that old. He does pull everything. So there's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. When you take a look at
Speaker 1: the data and analytics guys are looking at it that
Speaker 1: this is not a good model. This is not somebody
Speaker 1: that you're looking for growth at. This does not look
Speaker 1: good at all. Now, maybe bounces back next season and
Speaker 1: he's fantastic, but it looks pretty brutal. He's still very
Speaker 1: patient up the plate. But that's about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has not been a good year for Kyle Tucker. No,
Speaker 2: I think in one league, guy have Tucker and to tease, yeah.
Speaker 1: You expected sixty home runs you got fifteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the number between fourteen and sixteen.
Speaker 1: That number, Yeah, it's a it's a small number.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's not good. It's not good.
Speaker 1: No, wow, Okay to me, let's take another break, come back,
Speaker 1: and let's do your waiver.
Speaker 2: Armor friend, looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Past week or at least every week that I can remember.
Speaker 1: What was it like going through the process. Was it
Speaker 1: easy coming up with these names? Did you really have
Speaker 1: to dig and struggle? What was your thinking when you
Speaker 1: came up with the list?
Speaker 2: It was a fun list I had. I had. I
Speaker 2: enjoyed picking it. So I started at the beginning of
Speaker 2: the week, and I found some players that offered, you know,
Speaker 2: huge stolem based potential. There were some kids in there
Speaker 2: that left out that you just did. Had some veterans
Speaker 2: that I think are undervalued. So no, it was a
Speaker 2: fairly easy task this week. I did have a couple
Speaker 2: of late men. It adds Evan Carter being one because
Speaker 2: of the injury to what's his face, no, white white Langfort. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, there were a couple of late minute changes.
Speaker 2: But for the most part it was fun. I enjoyed.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed this week. I really did.
Speaker 1: The first guy is a great name. He's just he's
Speaker 1: at the top of my list on the hot prospects
Speaker 1: of the month of June. How many how many home
Speaker 1: runs is hit in June? A lot?
Speaker 2: You have time.
Speaker 1: I haven't actually put the stat cecles. We have one
Speaker 1: more day to play here in June, at least for
Speaker 1: my list. And they think June thirtieth is on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: That's when the list comes out, so it will not
Speaker 1: be June thirtieth, everybody. But look, it's huge power ninety
Speaker 1: two and a half monarexs of velocity at a top
Speaker 1: of one fourteen. He's yoke and everything nineteen degree leverage
Speaker 1: on a swing. It is a it is a bat
Speaker 1: ten that is built for home runs. He's striking out
Speaker 1: a ton, and he's striking out partially because he's trying
Speaker 1: to hit home runs. And maybe that's what the Cardinals
Speaker 1: have wanted end to do. I mean, they didn't take
Speaker 1: very kindly to Jordan Walker not hitting, and so hopefully
Speaker 1: Joshua Bias is not a carbon copy of Jordan Walker.
Speaker 1: He comes up and struggles and then gets in purgatory
Speaker 1: for two years.
Speaker 2: I don't know. But it's a.
Speaker 1: Great name I've got. I'm doing the analysis here too,
Speaker 1: but it's a great name. I appreciate it.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Put it on there. The question is he going to
Speaker 1: get the call?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's that's a big question. After looking at
Speaker 2: what happened to JJ with their whole ball, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it has to be a concern. But the
Speaker 2: Cards are three and seven in the past ten, they've
Speaker 2: lost four games in a row. Are only four games
Speaker 2: over five hundred right now, and I think the Cards
Speaker 2: have got a reasonable shot if they can find a
Speaker 2: bit more power. Because there are only there's only two
Speaker 2: teams in their division with less than four four hundred
Speaker 2: run score. They happened to they happen to be one
Speaker 2: of them. Their run differential is minus nine. Okay, that's
Speaker 2: not good. They need a bit more power. Nasan Church
Speaker 2: is a fine player, but I don't know if he's
Speaker 2: an everyday player. Okay. I I think everything is stacked
Speaker 2: right now, especially what we've seen lately was you know,
Speaker 2: Sean Key's getting the call and Angle getting the call.
Speaker 1: Hey, I think the Cards get to the other Cooper
Speaker 1: get a call to Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cooper Pratt, Yeah, We're yeah. Teams are starting to go
Speaker 2: to their miners and bringing up top prospects. The Cards
Speaker 2: could use that bat in their lineup. So I just
Speaker 2: think everything is set up and based on what we're
Speaker 2: seeing around the league. Hey, would I be shocked if
Speaker 2: he doesn't get called up until September? No? Would I
Speaker 2: also be shocked if he's up to start games next week? No,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be shocked at all. I don't know how
Speaker 2: it's going to go. I don't know how the Cards
Speaker 2: are going to approach it, but they could use the
Speaker 2: power and that's where he's been flashing big time down
Speaker 2: on the farms. So yeah, and I've always been.
Speaker 1: And what I'm confirming with everyone, I've looked at the
Speaker 1: data and it's it's real. But he is trading off
Speaker 1: contact for power, and it's just is that going to
Speaker 1: play long term? Is he going to hit to thirty? Probably,
Speaker 1: but he could be forty home runs as well, And
Speaker 1: the question is is that what the Cardinals want? And
Speaker 1: history says there could be some issues with that philosophy.
Speaker 1: Now again, they've switched over. They have a whole new
Speaker 1: general manager. Now does he have a different philosophy. I
Speaker 1: think that's all to be determined.
Speaker 2: He well, how long did they live with Nolan Gorman?
Speaker 1: Too long?
Speaker 2: There we go. Yeah, So yeah, I don't know what's
Speaker 2: gonna happen. All I know is if he's available, it's
Speaker 2: worth putting a small bid in this week to see
Speaker 2: what happened over the next couples.
Speaker 1: The right strategy play correct. That's what you're basically.
Speaker 2: Saying exactly, Yeah, because if he gets the call at
Speaker 2: the beginning of this coming week, Okay, for those that
Speaker 2: don't have him, you better be prepared to empty the
Speaker 2: vault because he's going to cost He'll be two hundred
Speaker 2: two hundred plus and a thousand dollars redraft fat budget. Easily, Yeah,
Speaker 2: easily easily.
Speaker 1: Jake Bennett is the next guy. He's steining at the Yankees.
Speaker 1: I think it was Friday night's game, or maybe it
Speaker 1: was yesterday's game. I think it was yesterd against Cole
Speaker 1: this where he pitched extremely well. Six and a third innings,
Speaker 1: three hits, one earned run, only three strikeouts. So he's
Speaker 1: not striking out a ton of guys. It's a six
Speaker 1: point eight strikeout per nine, but he's not giving up
Speaker 1: a lot of runs either.
Speaker 2: Well, No, and he went into I know it's the Rockies,
Speaker 2: but he went into Color. I don't bitch very well.
Speaker 2: I believe he took a win out of that, out
Speaker 2: of that appearance. I yeah, my original assessment was bid
Speaker 2: a bit small, right, Well, I think it's timed up
Speaker 2: for bidding a little bit and at twenty one percent
Speaker 2: rostered after the past two starts, I know it's a
Speaker 2: small sample size. Bid a little bit and see see
Speaker 2: how things continue to shake down. Because so far, so good, I'm.
Speaker 1: Gonna say something bold, probably stupid.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid of teams going into course field anymore.
Speaker 1: The Rockies are so bad, I'll take my chances.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, that's fair. Yeah. When you look at
Speaker 2: that offense, have they scored more than eight runs this
Speaker 2: season in a game. I'm sure they probably have at
Speaker 2: some point in time over the course of what eighty
Speaker 2: games of which they've played, But their offense is it's bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not gonna put a bad pitcher. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna throw a bad pitcher. If there was Tayland Walker
Speaker 1: was still in baseball, i went put tailand Walker start
Speaker 1: him against the Rockies in Colorado. But I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: just not afraid anymore. I mean that you know, that's
Speaker 1: a terrible team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it is. I agree.
Speaker 1: Okay, Owen Casey, you were big on Owen Casey coming
Speaker 1: into the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know there's limitations. Okay, Yeah, there's not many too,
Speaker 2: not many pitches he doesn't like, but the ones he
Speaker 2: really likes he hits. He hits the ball hard. Okay,
Speaker 2: nine home runs might, but forty three RBIs for a
Speaker 2: player that's rostered to the level of thirty five percent.
Speaker 2: Take the batting average hit and enjoy those rbiyes Miami does.
Speaker 2: He is one of the few sluggers on that team.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I'm projecting moving Ford. You're looking at
Speaker 2: a twenty home run Yeah, eighty five to ninety RBI. Bet.
Speaker 2: I'll live with the batting average out of Owen case.
Speaker 1: Richard ninety one six, exit velocity hundred and twelve max
Speaker 1: sixteen degree launch ankle. With a profile like that, he's
Speaker 1: going to hit a lot of harm runs. I think
Speaker 1: they're split problems though. Let me see No, there's no Yeah,
Speaker 1: he doesn't hit. He's got a slug of two ninety six.
Speaker 1: It's below three number against left hander, so he's he's
Speaker 1: being platooned against left hand. He doesn't hit well against
Speaker 1: left hand or so. Nine home runs all against right
Speaker 1: handed pitching this season. So that's gonna mute its stuff
Speaker 1: a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yep, it will. I just think if you're looking for
Speaker 2: if you're looking for an outfielder, I give him a look.
Speaker 2: I give him a look before the next before the
Speaker 2: next guy on the way.
Speaker 1: Ye Evin Carter. I mean we mentioned him earlier. I
Speaker 1: mean okay, I mean I get what he's on here.
Speaker 1: I mean he's got talent, but he can't hit lefties.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna play until until we see, well, be
Speaker 2: after the All Star break. Right, So he's got what
Speaker 2: it said one two, he's got what three weeks basically?
Speaker 2: Or two weeks. I don't know when the All Star
Speaker 2: break is. That's like two.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, let's forge the sound. July six, it's
Speaker 1: not July seventh, is probably the fourteenth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so he's got two and a half weeks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well we can go to the Google machine here, Timmy,
Speaker 1: let's see when is the MLB All Star I voted?
Speaker 1: Have you voted for your Major League the fourteenth? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you voted yet for for who's going to start?
Speaker 2: No? No, I I don't partake. As a rule.
Speaker 1: It wasn't very much fun for me. A lot of
Speaker 1: the guys that you typically would vote for, like the
Speaker 1: lad Junior having really bad bad seasons, Trey Turner not
Speaker 1: have been a good season, And all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you've got these players that nobody's heard of, Miguel Vargas,
Speaker 1: the kid in Chicago, that guy Miguel on Marcami, Come on, Tim,
Speaker 1: and those are the guys that are doing the best.
Speaker 1: But it's like, I mean they're not real all stars.
Speaker 1: I mean they're having good first halves. You know, all
Speaker 1: stars are your established guys that that are all star players,
Speaker 1: and uh, it's you know, they're they're not doing it,
Speaker 1: so it might be a weird it is Beguel Vargas,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry he is, I got I got the name right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got nineteen number one. He's going to be an
Speaker 1: All Star Timmy, he probably should be starting.
Speaker 2: Yes, he should be. Yeah, he's having a heck of
Speaker 2: a year. Joe on him. I think Murk Onmy had
Speaker 2: you know, got hurt where it be would be starting.
Speaker 2: I think Okamoto should be in the game. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of young players, first year players. It should be
Speaker 2: in the game. I don't know if they'll get there,
Speaker 2: but hey, who deserves to be the Jay's nomination, you know,
Speaker 2: nominated player players Okamoto or Blid Junior, Okamoda.
Speaker 1: But I bet you lad Junior is leaving a vote
Speaker 1: getter for first base. That was my problem in doing it.
Speaker 1: It's like the guys that you want to have his
Speaker 1: All Stars and see them in the big game are
Speaker 1: not having good seasons. It's these up and coming guys
Speaker 1: that seem like a lot of them are having You're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out is this a shift in the
Speaker 1: skill or is this are they just having a really
Speaker 1: good first half of the season.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, exactly, And it's going to be tough. And
Speaker 2: on top of that, it's going to be tough. Any
Speaker 2: j that's involved in a vote is probably going to
Speaker 2: win it. Ernie Clement generated the most votes, okay, and
Speaker 2: has a spot on the team because Toronto is voting
Speaker 2: in mass and the country of Canada is voting in
Speaker 2: mass or all the Jays again, so it'll be fun
Speaker 2: to see some of the results, it really will.
Speaker 1: Ai says. Ernie Clement was the leading vote getter in
Speaker 1: the American League. Ernie Clement three point yes, Ernie three
Speaker 1: two million votes.
Speaker 2: Yes, how did that happen? Right?
Speaker 1: People in Toronto are are voting as you were saying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in Canada coast to coast. It's Canada's team, Ernie.
Speaker 1: Ernie Clement is the leading vote getter in the American
Speaker 1: League and the show Heytani in the National League Show
Speaker 1: Atani's only got one hundred thousand more votes. Ernie Clement.
Speaker 1: It's just ridiculous, right, that's why I don't vote rich.
Speaker 2: That sums it up eloquently.
Speaker 1: So yes, So Guerrera's got two and a half million votes,
Speaker 1: so he's yeah, he's well on the lead. Obviously, Ben
Speaker 1: Rice is probably the guy that is deserving. That's that's
Speaker 1: what I was talking when I was going through the
Speaker 1: voting process. That's what it felt like to me, is
Speaker 1: that your typical All Star guys weren't really going to
Speaker 1: be getting the votes this season, or shouldn't they beginning
Speaker 1: the votes, but they shouldn't be getting the nomination.
Speaker 2: No, it's not a country club. Okay, just because you've
Speaker 2: got history, but it is a country club. You know,
Speaker 2: we've seen players that have got nominations well well beyond
Speaker 2: their prime and hey maybe once, but you know two
Speaker 2: three times. Now. Get some of the kids in there.
Speaker 2: They're playing well enough. They deserve it.
Speaker 1: Sun chee ching Boston Red Sox, Mister McLeod.
Speaker 2: Yes, Verslo Mayor and Trevors' story are both on the shelf.
Speaker 2: He is your every day, second basement shortstop, middle infielder.
Speaker 2: He's got three weeks of every day uh trip PLA
Speaker 2: numbers are pretty solid. Seven home runs, ten steals, uh
Speaker 2: in deeper leagues. I'd give him a look. He's gonna
Speaker 2: have playing time until after the break, for sure.
Speaker 1: Two thoughts here, One is how much do the Boston
Speaker 1: Red Sox Christian Campbell. They must just despise him. Maybe
Speaker 1: he's hurt. I don't know. And then why the hell
Speaker 1: does Franklin Arise still in Double A? I don't get it.
Speaker 2: He's working on his bunting. His bunting.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got fourteen last I looked us four
Speaker 1: or five more than he's ever had. He's hitting three hundred,
Speaker 1: I mean, just walking as much as he's trying. He's
Speaker 1: doing every and he's still sitting in Double A. Granted
Speaker 1: he's just twenty one years old, but he should be.
Speaker 1: He's he would be in many other clubs. He'd be
Speaker 1: the starting shortstop for your Major League Baseball team. And
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the Boston's terrible.
Speaker 2: Why isn't he up, Well, he's not up because they're
Speaker 2: not going to burn a year of service time. Why
Speaker 2: would they? It makes sense to see him up because
Speaker 2: he deserves it and he's earned it. For the same time,
Speaker 2: it's a year of service time for a team that's
Speaker 2: not competing if they brought him up, then we'd be
Speaker 2: yelling at screaming, what are they thinking? They just cost
Speaker 2: themselves a year of potentially one of the best players
Speaker 2: in the game. He's twenty one, he'll be up next year. Yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe break camp next year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he might break camp, right, and then you'll have romanantaturn.
Speaker 1: He might not even return the season.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I mean, the last I saw, Garrett
Speaker 2: Corset is not anywhere close to returning to the game.
Speaker 1: You know, looks it looks like you're right, they're just
Speaker 1: maybe they're just throwing in the towel here. Yeah, why
Speaker 1: burn service times all these guys. But so we got
Speaker 1: Sung cheat ching, Yeah, we got Chang, Yeah Chang. Tom
Speaker 1: Edmond is back, Yes he.
Speaker 2: Is, and he's hitting well. Uh since he's returned eleven
Speaker 2: for twenty nine for RBIs Yeah, you got mid teenspop.
Speaker 2: Forget the speed. That's the thing of the that's the
Speaker 2: thing of the past. Those days are gone. But he's
Speaker 2: also eligible second third, notefield, so you got some roster
Speaker 2: flexibility there as well. And Dodge is don't don't need,
Speaker 2: don't need another power bat. Even Mookie Betts is starting
Speaker 2: to play a little bit better. He's been hitting some
Speaker 2: home er and slavely, so you know, you look at
Speaker 2: I think I think Edmund deserves a little bit more
Speaker 2: respect than the he's playing every day. Yeah, he's going
Speaker 2: to score runs. He's going to hit a few home
Speaker 2: runs and hit for average. That works.
Speaker 1: Yeah, send me a sake, ad break, and let's talk.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to Cooper's when we get back. Don't be
Speaker 1: last week it was Cooper Pratt. This week it is
Speaker 1: Cooper Ingle. Yeah, tell us about Cooper and your ingle,
Speaker 1: and then tell us who would you rather the rest
Speaker 1: of the season, Cooper Ingle or Cooper Pratt.
Speaker 2: Well, uh, we mentioned Ingle last week, and you know,
Speaker 2: brought it up in our timing. Timing was fairly good.
Speaker 2: I think the thing that's very important, and we've discussed
Speaker 2: it several times, is in the context of the Guardians,
Speaker 2: he is a power beat. In the overall context of
Speaker 2: who he is as a player compared to other players
Speaker 2: around the league, he is not a power beat. It
Speaker 2: just goes to show you how little power is in Cleveland. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he can hit some home runs, and I used your
Speaker 2: narrative for the three home run day, But as you
Speaker 2: mentioned in your blurb, the home runs. There's coming in
Speaker 2: seventeen degree leverage swing. Hey, the Guardians need any power
Speaker 2: they can muster with the loss of Jose Ramiers and
Speaker 2: Angel Martinez, it makes sense that they give this kid
Speaker 2: a look, and they have done exactly that.
Speaker 1: Totally one percent agree with the Cooper Ingle or Cooper
Speaker 1: Pratt different kinds of players. Who do you have for
Speaker 1: the rest of Who would you rather have for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Uh, that's a tough one because I'm I'm gonna go as.
Speaker 1: You're thinking, you're taking playing time to talk it through
Speaker 1: with me, Timmy, You've gotta be thinking playing time. What
Speaker 1: happens when Jose Ramirez comes back? Is Cooper Pratt's a
Speaker 1: really good defender. Is Joey Ortiz going to push him
Speaker 1: out of that shortstop role?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think I think I would probably go with
Speaker 2: the stolen bases and the hit tools out of Pratt,
Speaker 2: which I feel more confident in that he will deliver
Speaker 2: as compared to Cooper Ingele trying to hit the ball
Speaker 2: into the park because that's what the Guardians need. Does
Speaker 2: that make sense?
Speaker 1: And trying to play a position that he's really played
Speaker 1: much of.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exact. I when the Brewers brought up Prade. I
Speaker 2: that wasn't for a week or ten days or two weeks.
Speaker 2: They brought Pride up because they think he can be
Speaker 2: an asset throughout the whole of the season. I don't
Speaker 2: have the same level of confidence. I I love Cooper Ingle.
Speaker 2: I think he's a very good player, but I don't
Speaker 2: have the same level of confidence right now in Ingle
Speaker 2: as I do in Prade. So Pride.
Speaker 1: It is eleven games for Pratt, five stolen bases. You
Speaker 1: put that out for an entire season. I think that's
Speaker 1: seven hundred sol basis. So yeah, give or take. I
Speaker 1: mean that's and look, I mean it's very small, it's
Speaker 1: only eleven games, but he's walking as much as he's
Speaker 1: striking out. That's exactly what he did in the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: So right now, if you ask me on Cooper Engle
Speaker 2: and Sean Keyes the next game on the list, I'll
Speaker 2: have a different answer, very different.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Shawn Keys is the next player. Again, huge power,
Speaker 1: some swing at best, and it doesn't have great batspeed.
Speaker 1: I am a little worried about him handling velocity, but
Speaker 1: I think you're more worried about as you talked about
Speaker 1: at the top of the show, either's Flattie or or
Speaker 1: or George Springer is going to have to sit or.
Speaker 2: Or oh, commodal or come out.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, comout is playing third base?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Springer's your d h. Ladie's at first and
Speaker 2: Keys will cover first or third. But yeah, it's going
Speaker 2: to be tough for Sean Keys. Yeah. What what happens
Speaker 2: when Shawn Keys hits home? He gets he gets into
Speaker 2: a game and hits two home runs? Well, that means
Speaker 2: they had to set sad probably Springer or Blighting. Okay,
Speaker 2: Well do they put him in the next day or
Speaker 2: do they sit him after a two home run day?
Speaker 2: That would mean Springer or Lighty is oh two in
Speaker 2: a row or one each? It could be problematic, It
Speaker 2: really could so. Based on that I mentioned Seawan Keys
Speaker 2: because of the power potential, would I spend a bundle
Speaker 2: on him tonight? No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. Yes, And look I saw him.
Speaker 1: I saw him played this earlier this this year. I
Speaker 1: mean he's not a good third baseman.
Speaker 2: He is not.
Speaker 1: I don't know how good Okamoto is at third base,
Speaker 1: but I'd be shocked if he's not better than Seawan Keys.
Speaker 2: I watched Okamoto a lot this year, and he's fine
Speaker 2: at third base. Yeah, it's it's not a gold glove
Speaker 2: third baseman, but he's more than adequate. Okay, it's not
Speaker 2: a problem at all.
Speaker 1: Keys is not is not adequate in my opinion, he's
Speaker 1: not adequate there.
Speaker 2: Okay, Well in that case.
Speaker 1: You're talking d H really first base. And then it's
Speaker 1: it's the Yeah, they're three best players. I guess Ernie
Speaker 1: Clement is having according to the All Star votes, he's
Speaker 1: the best player on the team. But I think they're
Speaker 1: three best players are Spring and Okamota. Right, So, and
Speaker 1: that's where Shawn Keys is playing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, there you go the word problem discussion.
Speaker 1: Right, So I'm assuming out of the Coopers and Shawn Keys,
Speaker 1: Shawn Keys is the third guy who would rather have
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Kider Monterra. Every time I see him pitch,
Speaker 1: he looks pretty good, particularly like the first four or
Speaker 1: five innings. Third time for the lineup, they seem to
Speaker 1: team seem to figure him out a little bit. But
Speaker 1: he's better than I think people think.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, the problem is a very obvious one. Okay.
Speaker 2: Over his past six starts. He's struck out war one, four, two,
Speaker 2: three and three. Yeah, okay, yeah, the ear is yeah,
Speaker 2: the era is great. At three point thirty nine, he's
Speaker 2: sub one on the whip point nine to nine. He's
Speaker 2: winning some games, but there's no strikeouts happening there, and
Speaker 2: I think that's what's causing people to shy away the
Speaker 2: low strikeout numbers. I'm looking through all my leagues. If
Speaker 2: he's sitting there this week, I'm picking them up. I'll
Speaker 2: live with the low strikeout rates to take my chances
Speaker 2: on somebody who's pitching better than my number six starter,
Speaker 2: who is usually carrying an ERA of five. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: I'll take the hit on the strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with you there, He's okay. Max
Speaker 1: months is your pick on Friday. Yeah, yeah, that's the
Speaker 1: Max monthly of the Athletics, not the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. Hey, batting average could be a concern, but
Speaker 2: as we looked at it on Friday, power and speed
Speaker 2: are legit right, So hey, he's gonna have He's gonna
Speaker 2: have the job for a while with the Zach Galovo,
Speaker 2: So we'll see how it all shakes down.
Speaker 1: Mayson Nunya is the Speedster thirty thirty five stolen bases.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, it's it's interesting when you look at stolen
Speaker 2: bases this year, because I I did take a good
Speaker 2: look at it. Your top five six guys are not
Speaker 2: getting caught. The next group down is getting caught a
Speaker 2: ton Nunyaz is in that top group. While he's a
Speaker 2: leading stolen based guy in the league right now, four
Speaker 2: up on Bobby wit Junior. Yeah, he's only rostered forty
Speaker 2: one percent. The only thing I can say there is
Speaker 2: he's a rabbit. He gives you speed. That's all he
Speaker 2: gives you. Basically. Okay, if you need stolen bases, he's
Speaker 2: only rostered to the you know, for go out there
Speaker 2: for them in your lineup and get some stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Speaking of stolen bases, I'm sure you were looking at
Speaker 1: the stolen base leaders. But if you weren't, how many
Speaker 1: stolen bases does Chandler Simpson have this season?
Speaker 2: Don't Chandlers?
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't don't look.
Speaker 2: I want you to guess. Yeah, I'm going to say
Speaker 2: I looked at him. I I'm going to say fourteen.
Speaker 2: And he's been caught about eight times. I know he's
Speaker 2: been caught at time.
Speaker 1: That was my second question. You're at bastard. I think
Speaker 1: you're really good when you do your research, because, yeah,
Speaker 1: nineteen stolen bases, but eight christ stealing eight?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah, No, that that is huge. That's that
Speaker 2: number left out at me when I when I because
Speaker 2: what I do is I just go to MLB and
Speaker 2: I checked my categories just to see who's doing what.
Speaker 2: And you know, you look at your your top guys. Okay,
Speaker 2: Nunia Is caught three times, Bobby Went twenty eight stolen
Speaker 2: base caught four times, Jazz Chisholm caught four times on
Speaker 2: twenty four, Jose Ramirez caught twice on twenty four. You
Speaker 2: go down your top six to seven guys, they've all
Speaker 2: been caught at most four times. Okay, then you get
Speaker 2: into the second group, okay. Uh. Chandler Simpson caught stealing
Speaker 2: nine times on nineteen successes, Fernando Tatiz caught eight times
Speaker 2: on nineteen, Jose Caviero in New York caught seven times,
Speaker 2: Jacob Marsey caught nine times on eighteen. There's a whole
Speaker 2: bunch of guys in there that are stealing bases and
Speaker 2: januarating numbers. But some of them are being caught to
Speaker 2: the tune of like forty fifty percent. That's a tough
Speaker 2: Teams are gonna teams are gonna say time out. You know,
Speaker 2: if you can't steal and you've got you know, you've
Speaker 2: got a success rate of sixty percent, you just starn't
Speaker 2: running as much anymore. They'll put the brakes on that, rightfully,
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of the we talked about Jacob
Speaker 1: Marcy on Friday. That was again one of the analysis
Speaker 1: I had done. I saw the Jacob Marcy's success rate
Speaker 1: and the fact that it is the sprint speeds had
Speaker 1: come down. It was another red flag there. But back
Speaker 1: to Chandler Simpson. If he's going to steal thirty forty bases, okay,
Speaker 1: I mean there is zero home runs, there is no power.
Speaker 1: He's got a launch angle of one degree, one point
Speaker 1: six degrees. I mean, everything's a ground ball, it's all
Speaker 1: about wheels, and he's hitting two sixty five. I don't
Speaker 1: get this. I don't get this player. I don't know
Speaker 1: why people are rostering him.
Speaker 2: It's a problem because you know, when you're looking at
Speaker 2: an OVP of three h six, he's not going to
Speaker 2: be out of the leadoff spot, is he.
Speaker 1: No, he's not. I got three or four, but yeah,
Speaker 1: yea three.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Last year was a three twenty six on base percentage.
Speaker 1: So I look, the rays are as good as anybody.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at numbers and I'm I'm thinking, he looks
Speaker 1: like a pinch runner to.
Speaker 2: Me, Well, hey, when when you get caught nine times
Speaker 2: on nineteen successes. Yeah, somebody in the Raised organization is
Speaker 2: say it is going to be saying either you can
Speaker 2: either you can steal bases or you can't, and we'll
Speaker 2: make the decision moving forward. And you might not like it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it felt like that. That seemed like an obvious
Speaker 1: one to stay away from. Chandler Simpson at the draft
Speaker 1: table and Okay, you're gonna get some. It's like expensive
Speaker 1: home runs. These are expensive stolen bases. You're getting poor
Speaker 1: batting average, no one base percentage, I means absolutely no power.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can get twelve more stolen bases right
Speaker 2: now today. Okay on a ninety five sent success rate
Speaker 2: out of nunias. Who's sitting available in sixty percent of
Speaker 2: the leagues out there? Okay, Yeah, why why would you
Speaker 2: invest why would you invest in simpler In Simpson and.
Speaker 1: Cooper angles every bit as fast as Chandler Simpson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, on your list too. Yeah, and he can.
Speaker 1: Hit Anthony Siegeler. I saw his home run yesterday off
Speaker 1: of Garrett Cole. That was his first one, So I
Speaker 1: I is that why he's on this list? Because he
Speaker 1: had home run off of Garrett Cole?
Speaker 2: Well, again, I thought it was only fair being that
Speaker 2: I brought up Shang. Okay that we go with his
Speaker 2: double plate card partner. Okay in Siegler, Okay, that's my
Speaker 2: al only middle er.
Speaker 1: That's who the Red Sox with a huge paint. That's
Speaker 1: who's playing up the middle for them.
Speaker 2: All right. Yeah that sounds like it's a good legal
Speaker 2: firm exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, good one, McLeod, give you a shot.
Speaker 2: But they're gonna hold it. They're gonna hold down the
Speaker 2: port for a little while. So yeah, is what it is.
Speaker 1: I don't think Sequens a very good baseball player, but
Speaker 1: I get I get why he's on the list. I
Speaker 1: saw how good he is Ian Seymour bulk reliever road.
Speaker 1: Didn't he get a didn't he have a no hitter
Speaker 1: going into the seventh or eighth inning?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Uh, I don't. I don't recall this entirely possitive
Speaker 2: even pitch him well. Since they they moved him into
Speaker 2: that role June eighth, he's allowed six turned runs over
Speaker 2: nineteen innings four appearances. And let's face the starters too
Speaker 2: tough to find at this point in the season. Time
Speaker 2: to dig deep, deeper and start looking at some of
Speaker 2: these bulk relievers. I'm gonna try and find one two
Speaker 2: guys every week moving forward that fit the Bill. Seymour
Speaker 2: was my guy this week, simply because he was easiest
Speaker 2: one to find, and he's been pitching fairly well, so hey,
Speaker 2: we gotta do what we gotta do.
Speaker 1: Right on the twenty fifth, which was what Friday Thursday
Speaker 1: something like that six and two thirds endings of no
Speaker 1: hit ball, it was against the Royals and they didn't
Speaker 1: have Bobby with Junior playing at that juncture. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was part of that game. That team was so bad.
Speaker 1: He was okay, but he just tore ruts through. It
Speaker 1: was impressive.
Speaker 2: And you know who blew up the no hitter?
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't remember, I do I remember, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. Tell me who it is.
Speaker 2: Craig Kimbrel.
Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, that's right, Craig Kimberll. I was laughing, like,
Speaker 1: why is Craig Kimberrel even in on a major league
Speaker 1: baseball team? I remember that he came in, was a
Speaker 1: no hitter, Yeah, I remember. Yeah, Brandon Sproke was your
Speaker 1: pick on Fridays. He's still your pick.
Speaker 2: Yes, he is still my pick. Yeah, right, organization, right arm,
Speaker 2: there's going to be up, there's going to be downs.
Speaker 2: But the other thing I I did some digging. You know,
Speaker 2: over his past five starts, he's only about five walks.
Speaker 2: That's good, right, you know, if he's starting to control
Speaker 2: the ball a little bit better, I think the results
Speaker 2: overall are going to be better. Limiting the walks is
Speaker 2: a good thing. I think at some point in time.
Speaker 2: Right now he's twenty five percent rostered. He keeps those
Speaker 2: walks down and pitches at even seventy percent of that
Speaker 2: last outing, He's gonna be a valuable commodity. You can
Speaker 2: buy him now, you can pay a lot more from later.
Speaker 2: And I think now is the time to buy.
Speaker 1: One thousand percent. Agree with mister McLeod. Last guy is
Speaker 1: Zach Thornton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who is Zach Thornton? Uh? He's the guy that
Speaker 2: held the Phillies to Wonder ask me that question. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I went, I went through. You don't have them listed
Speaker 2: as a top prospect. Now I know because I checked. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2: He pitched the game against a Phillies this way limited
Speaker 2: in the Wonder and run over six inning, seven strikeouts,
Speaker 2: and then he was promptly sent back to Triple A
Speaker 2: and the Metster in Celmo. They're gonna be moving more people.
Speaker 2: Zach Darton will be back in the deepest of leagues.
Speaker 2: If you've got room on your reserve list, pay a
Speaker 2: buck for him now, because he will return and you'll
Speaker 2: get the opportunity to see him. There's no doubt he
Speaker 2: will be back. And when I look at the options,
Speaker 2: do I want Jonathan Tong right now? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: He's really it's really come down from what he did
Speaker 1: last season, that's for sure. I was worried about Jonah Toong,
Speaker 1: and I saw him pitch against Alma Rodriguez twice in
Speaker 1: a week, which is pretty remarkable in the minor league season.
Speaker 1: Uh and Elmer out pitched Tong both games, and he
Speaker 1: did not have a slider. It was a great interesting
Speaker 1: looking Tommy was interesting fastball, you know, real large extension.
Speaker 1: He's not a big guy, had a great change up,
Speaker 1: but I just didn't. I was worried when I saw him.
Speaker 1: And he's not even the worst season this year, So
Speaker 1: I don't know. Zach Thornton's a lefty that does ninety
Speaker 1: two miles an hour with a good, sweet way. That's
Speaker 1: that's who the player is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's two miles an hour more than Tommy Malone.
Speaker 1: That's true, probably about four miles an hour. Let's see Tommy.
Speaker 1: Let's see what Tommy Malone was doing at the end
Speaker 1: of his career. Now I'm sitting at the baseball it's
Speaker 1: played guests the player.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, I'm going to say eighty seven point
Speaker 2: two miles per hour on the heater.
Speaker 1: Ex of velocity. Let's see, what is it? Eighty seven
Speaker 1: point two?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Right, So.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're it's impossible to hit it right on the
Speaker 1: nose plus or minus. What what allows you to win?
Speaker 2: I haven't a clue.
Speaker 1: So wait a minute. So you said eighty seven point two.
Speaker 1: If it's eighty seven point five, is that close enough?
Speaker 1: Is that a win? If it's if it's okay, point two,
Speaker 1: is that close enough? For the win.
Speaker 2: They're both they're both close enough by me.
Speaker 1: Okay, well then you win eighty six point six. That
Speaker 1: was when his career ended up in eighty six point six. Mm,
Speaker 1: you know what hit you know what hitters hit off
Speaker 1: the office fastball one eighty.
Speaker 2: Four, eighty four. I gotta love you, tom Sure, thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I just picked in two twenty three. So that is
Speaker 1: Zach Thornton. Tell me to take a break and come back,
Speaker 1: and we'll do the one guy, and you close the
Speaker 1: report very quickly. Look at some more games, Tim wins.
Speaker 1: I guess the player, and it looks like Jackson Holliday
Speaker 1: hit a home run seventh inning, but it looks like
Speaker 1: they're going to lose to the Washington Nationals, who continue
Speaker 1: to hang in there. Tommy forty two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Jays just lost. But Brandon Nemo ran into
Speaker 2: the wall making a catch at the end of the game.
Speaker 2: Stay tuned to see if there's a concussion syndro old
Speaker 2: thing happening with Nemo. He was down on the ground
Speaker 2: for a few seconds before they got him back on
Speaker 2: his feet, so.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they'll do the protocol. We'll have to see
Speaker 1: the Royals have now are five to four over Tim's
Speaker 1: White Sox. Unfortunately, Bobby with Junior with nothing. Lane Thomas,
Speaker 1: your buddy, Lane Thomas with a couple of hits, the
Speaker 1: stolen a couple of stolen base.
Speaker 2: Well, it's been a long time since he's been by
Speaker 2: my buddy. But yeah, I did get a lot of
Speaker 2: my leg at Lane Thomas at one point in time.
Speaker 1: You sure did. Let's still your buddy. Yeah, come on,
Speaker 1: what's a friend you've got to I When you tell
Speaker 1: me you divorced the player, then then he won't be
Speaker 1: your buddy anymore. I didn't hear a divorce of late Thomas.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, he was too kind to me for
Speaker 2: a couple of years. Yeah, or at least one. Anyways,
Speaker 2: the Jay's lost a again now six games under five hundred.
Speaker 2: Louis Barlin finally around, allowed to run, he struck out
Speaker 2: the side. I looked like a wild pitch, allout to
Speaker 2: run to score. But no offense from the Jays at
Speaker 2: all today.
Speaker 1: It's a problem to me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, big time problem.
Speaker 1: It looks like the Pirates are up five to four
Speaker 1: last night. Look Connor Griffin batting lead off again. You
Speaker 1: like that? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: Thank you's having.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's proven it. And didn't he hit a home
Speaker 2: run in his first game back.
Speaker 1: Guess he did?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah. No, I have no problems, just get
Speaker 2: them on the field.
Speaker 1: Ryan O'Hearn is going to hit twenty five home runs
Speaker 1: this season. He said he has twelve on run today.
Speaker 1: Like Ryan O'Hearn is not a great baseball player, but
Speaker 1: you look up he was a platoon guy. Explaining a
Speaker 1: little bit more against lefties. He's at twenty twenty five
Speaker 1: home runs. That's fine for a first basement outfit. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty good baseball player.
Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with that at all.
Speaker 1: High on base percentage, Yeah, interesting. Saint Louis up two
Speaker 1: to one over the hapless Marlins. Jacob Marcy another zero
Speaker 1: for three day, another strike at any one ninety six.
Speaker 1: I just will not surprise me if he gets the motor.
Speaker 2: At some point in time. Yeah, it's possible. It is
Speaker 2: entirely possible.
Speaker 1: The Houston Astros have caught up to the Detroit Tigers.
Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty with a good, good outing though. That was
Speaker 1: good to see. What we're going to talk about. Amaya's
Speaker 1: shoved another game on Thursday.
Speaker 2: By the way, Yeah, he's up, down and all over
Speaker 2: the Bloys, but mostly two or three recently. Yeah, ten
Speaker 2: ten strikeouts, I believe. Yeah, maybe he's starting to find
Speaker 2: his comfort level. And if that's the case, he can
Speaker 2: be a very, very very good pitcher. His history in
Speaker 2: Japan is such that that might work. Go for Houston,
Speaker 2: after all.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping he's better because then I can make fun
Speaker 1: of you when he has a bad game, because I
Speaker 1: haven't been making fun of you because it felt like
Speaker 1: kicking when you're kicking you when you were down. So
Speaker 1: I just have the heart to zero point zero on
Speaker 1: Amaya because he was so bad in the first few starts.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't uh, there were other issues involved, Okay,
Speaker 2: which makes it even harder to kick somebody, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, as you noticed, I did you have
Speaker 1: a heart? I know it's hard to find sometimes, but
Speaker 1: I do have a heart.
Speaker 2: Yes, the compassionate Simpson Brown, your hundred brown you today.
Speaker 1: I think he gave up two runs, struck out a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys.
Speaker 2: You didn't care.
Speaker 1: Only four?
Speaker 2: Yeah, No the Tigers again, Bullpen, Yeah, the best I
Speaker 2: think got rocked the other day. Finnigan a loud and
Speaker 2: earned run today. Yeah, clarity pitch really well. Nobody had
Speaker 2: them going. I wonder why the biby Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh the great John Deane reached out to me with
Speaker 1: Houston Astros called up uh uhla U l l O
Speaker 1: l A. I think he's going to pitch out of
Speaker 1: a bullpen, two pitch pitcher. He wants to know if
Speaker 1: he was worth a it was worth a pick cup.
Speaker 1: Maybe some holds opportunities, but I there's no save opportunities. Again,
Speaker 1: I do not think he's going to pitch out of
Speaker 1: the rotation. He's primarily been a reliever for the last
Speaker 1: month of this season, so it looks like they've moved
Speaker 1: to the Bullpenks just didn't have a third pitch. But
Speaker 1: it's a good art so quick scouting report on you, Lola.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, and it's a tough bullpender crag. You got
Speaker 2: hater in the ninth. Yeah, King is pitch really well
Speaker 2: to to twenty five Array Bray who's turned it around
Speaker 2: and he's now down to an ERA of six after
Speaker 2: a horrible start. Okert's pitching well, Yeah, that's a tough
Speaker 2: bullpender crack. I don't even know how many holes will
Speaker 2: be there. Yeah, based on the depth of that pen.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, are you, Timmy. So let's go to your
Speaker 1: closer report. You just have one player, which is thank you.
Speaker 1: We all thank you for.
Speaker 2: That so well, you know, after last week and extolling
Speaker 2: the virtues of Jayden Hill of the Rockies.
Speaker 1: He's on the i L. Now, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for for I spent some money on jayde and Hill
Speaker 1: just to have it go on the i L.
Speaker 2: Thank you. You're welcome. You're welcome. Ye. It's obviously an
Speaker 2: unlimited i L league, and you didn't have enough people
Speaker 2: on there, so I probably did you a favor because
Speaker 2: it's better than Hill's on there than say Blad Jr.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, I was saying I was thinking about putting
Speaker 1: a rider on the on the rules that if the
Speaker 1: player goes to the i L within the first seven
Speaker 1: days of picking them up, you get your fab money back.
Speaker 1: We'll see how the vote comes out of that.
Speaker 2: I'm sure it will be positive. Yeah. Oh yeah, I
Speaker 2: don't know which way, but somebody is positive. Yeah. No.
Speaker 2: I well, when I look at the the as bullpen,
Speaker 2: it's a mess. Okay, Barnet, this pitch well lately, uh
Speaker 2: competition is Harris and old Albaretto. It's not it's not happening.
Speaker 2: I'm going to spend a couple of bucks on Barnett
Speaker 2: this week. I totally ignored the Angels situation. I totally
Speaker 2: ignored the fact that Pierce Johnson is now the closer
Speaker 2: until Pegan comes back in Cincinnati and again should be
Speaker 2: back this week, I believe towards the end of the week.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm sort of hearing.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 2: Totally ignored the Rockies. I'm not going to nominate a
Speaker 2: closer for the Rockies ever. Ever, Again, I don't.
Speaker 1: Think for the Kirby's got the close for the Angels
Speaker 1: because I saw it was like his three hundred save
Speaker 1: or something like that, a little thing. And I'm surprised
Speaker 1: they haven't given to the Sam Pakman that that seemed
Speaker 1: like because you made that call about six weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That seemed like the right call to me, and it
Speaker 1: just didn't happen.
Speaker 2: No, And it's not because he's not pitching good. The
Speaker 2: Bachman's pitching fine. Last I looked, I think, is your
Speaker 2: e ra A is under three? I'll just take a
Speaker 2: quick quick gang, I got your.
Speaker 1: Covered balls here? Uh he is a Oh that's a
Speaker 1: strike out. He's three.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah, striking out of striking out an a batter in
Speaker 1: any walking too many guys. A three point fifty three
Speaker 1: expected era. So the e right expected the era for
Speaker 1: Roden Line.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, but for whatever reason, they they just don't
Speaker 2: want to give them your job. So uh but again,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm staying away from the Rockies. I'm going to
Speaker 2: stay away from that Angel situation. I got players listed
Speaker 2: as far as looking at picking up spec closers. Do
Speaker 2: I want a spec closer on the Rockies? Do I
Speaker 2: want Jimmy Hurgett who might have the job, But the
Speaker 2: Rockies aren't going to win any games, and if they
Speaker 2: do win them, yeah, no, I'm just staying away from that.
Speaker 2: I've seen enough out of the Rockies both and the
Speaker 2: Angels bullpen, and right now the Cubs bullpen. I just
Speaker 2: don't I just don't want to have anything to do
Speaker 2: with it. Any spectics on those teams right now, it's
Speaker 2: just it's a mess. And you know, today the athletics
Speaker 2: at Barnett doesn't work out, They're back to having a
Speaker 2: bullpen that can't stop anything. So h it's a mess.
Speaker 2: As well, and it's hard to recommend repeatedly on messes
Speaker 2: hoping that something's going to stick. So I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: a little bit of a conservative approach when it comes
Speaker 2: to some of those pens.
Speaker 1: Rich you know, I stam Bakman hasn't gotten the job.
Speaker 1: Party Marino says he only has one win, so that's
Speaker 1: not good enough.
Speaker 2: Well, hopefully you can find a way to muscle his
Speaker 2: way into the second win at some point in time,
Speaker 2: and then then he can be president of team operations.
Speaker 1: I gave myself a rimshot. I was very friend, well done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wait for you to stop talking if I could
Speaker 1: get my stupid jim gout. It's like going on and
Speaker 1: on about the Rockies closers and the Athletics closes. All right,
Speaker 1: all right, so what about that.
Speaker 2: It's a gift. It's a gift to be able to
Speaker 2: to hold that dought carry on a conversation and jump
Speaker 2: in with a lame ass spots.
Speaker 1: It was lame ass, that is for sure. DS the
Speaker 1: Dodgers getting z back.
Speaker 2: I heard he's back throwing. Yeah. Edwin d is thirty
Speaker 2: year old shortstop in Houston.
Speaker 1: I think I and the bullpen Friday at Dodgers Stadium,
Speaker 1: reports Jack Harris the California Post. That was two weeks ago,
Speaker 1: in the.
Speaker 2: Nineteenth So yeah, he was recently played to ramp up
Speaker 2: his throwing program. I would think probably midd mid July, yeah,
Speaker 2: post All Stars somewhere in there. And when he returns,
Speaker 2: uh Tanner Scott will go into the obviously the setup role.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, I again, it's you never know how
Speaker 3: things are going to work out initially, and the Dodgers won't,
Speaker 3: you know, if Diaz has some russakog off, the Dodgers
Speaker 3: have options.
Speaker 2: Okay, they don't have to force their hand, but I've
Speaker 2: got them in one league and it's fairly important that
Speaker 2: I get ten, ten to fifteen saves out of them.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping he comes back strong when he does
Speaker 2: in July, it's there.
Speaker 1: Scott's got some snaves. I have my NFC team and
Speaker 1: right drafted uh Edwin Diaz. So that's worked out for
Speaker 1: me at least I guessed right there and picked the
Speaker 1: right handcuff on it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so yeah, after last year, Yeah, he's he's
Speaker 2: pitching like the Tanner Scott that the Dodgers thought they
Speaker 2: were buying two eighteen e or a point seven whip
Speaker 2: forty stragots in thirty three. Yeah, he's getting He's got
Speaker 2: eleven saves, nothing wrong with that, and uh and the
Speaker 2: fine supporting peripherals. Peripherals, he's done well this year. Nice
Speaker 2: to see.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question, maybe something you can
Speaker 1: ponder over the next week or so, assuming that the
Speaker 1: Detroit Tiger's not in it and ken Lee Janssen gets moved,
Speaker 1: is it will fess Kyle Finn again somebody else.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hope and pray at somebody else because those
Speaker 2: two haven't proven to be much of an answer this year.
Speaker 1: You picked Drew Anderson a few weeks ago.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, I did. And now I think they've got him
Speaker 2: working as an opener. I'll just confirm that, Yes.
Speaker 1: He worked as an opener a few days ago. Correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's been an opener and a closer. That's is that
Speaker 1: the same? I they just one pitches the first and
Speaker 1: the other guy pitches the ninth, then it's still one.
Speaker 2: Any Yeah, that is true. We didn't me about Anderson
Speaker 2: is the fact that this year, Uh, he's struck out
Speaker 2: sixty four and forty nine and two thirds. So I
Speaker 2: think he's got the stuff to work the ninth inning,
Speaker 2: and I would love to see Detroit give him, give
Speaker 2: him that opportunity. I m h trade them, trade best
Speaker 2: trade Finnigan start. You know, if you're gonna dis mandle
Speaker 2: the team s Google's going maybe Kenley, why not? Why
Speaker 2: not you have Andrews in the shout. I don't know
Speaker 2: if they will, but maybe I.
Speaker 1: Think Anderson as well. I mean it's a three or
Speaker 1: four expected era, so he's pitching. He's pitched a lot
Speaker 1: better than the Perpher'll say, eleven over eleven strikeouts for
Speaker 1: nine walks, a bit a little high, but reasonable. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the kind of stuff we need to
Speaker 1: talk about, we need to figure out. And the next
Speaker 1: two weeks the time to be making some one dollar
Speaker 1: bets on something. And I joked that the first inning
Speaker 1: of the one inning, whether it's the first of the ninth,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I mean, you you put an opener in
Speaker 1: because the first three batters.
Speaker 2: Are the best batters, so that you want to get Yeah.
Speaker 1: You get off to a good start, and you want
Speaker 1: to not have your starter, who's now the bulk reliever,
Speaker 1: go up against the three best pitchers and excuse me, hitters,
Speaker 1: and you bringing Drew Anderson that has to say a
Speaker 1: lot about his ability to get guys out.
Speaker 2: Agreed totally.
Speaker 1: Plus I'm seeing little symbols next to his name on fangrass,
Speaker 1: which means he pitched in Asia.
Speaker 2: Yes, you are correct, You are very correct. Yes, yes, definitely.
Speaker 2: I it will be interesting starting to look at some
Speaker 2: of these guys. But yeah, a team like a team
Speaker 2: like Oakland should take on the whole Detroit bullpen one
Speaker 2: through three because all three of them would probably be
Speaker 2: better than what they have right now. If Barnett doesn't
Speaker 2: work out, that they Oakland has to do something to
Speaker 2: improve that bullpen or they're just simply not going to
Speaker 2: make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would agree. And if if they have found
Speaker 1: maybe an ace in cage up, maybe he's not an
Speaker 1: ace ace, but a guy that could pitch at their
Speaker 1: top of the rotation, it gives them at least a
Speaker 1: chance to win against you know, tough matchups in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So it kind of gives them a little bit more
Speaker 1: of incentive to think, oh, maybe we can get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I think that would be a huge win
Speaker 1: for a team that's playing in a minor league stadium.
Speaker 1: I mean that would be Chi can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, the starting that's that's when the
Speaker 2: relief pitching component of the game takes on even more significance, because, let's,
Speaker 2: let's face it, you want your starter to survive five innings, right.
Speaker 2: If you don't have the bulb, you're you're totally screwed.
Speaker 2: It's as simple as that, and it's all there's also
Speaker 2: the demoralizing fact that, yeah, hey, you got a three
Speaker 2: run lead going into the sixth inning and you lose
Speaker 2: the game. Well, you can want to lose so many
Speaker 2: games because of your bullpen, and it's going to start
Speaker 2: to wear on the whole of the team. So, you know,
Speaker 2: in a park like they're playing in, the A's are
Speaker 2: going to have to if they want to be a successful,
Speaker 2: you know organization, they're going to have to have a
Speaker 2: strong bullpen. And they've just flat out dope this year
Speaker 2: and it's costing them dearly.
Speaker 1: Today. That is a wrap, my friend, Great stuff, Great
Speaker 1: job on the waiver wire. Again, I don't know anything
Speaker 1: planned for this week for you. I know I'm all
Speaker 1: over the place. I've got a busy week for me,
Speaker 1: But what about you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I've I've got I've got to work tomorrow, okay,
Speaker 4: and yeah, well yeah, I'm actually you're gonna like this one, Rich, Okay,
Speaker 4: I'm chauffeuring tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Okay. We have a yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, except I'm
Speaker 2: not making the big bucks that they are. But there's
Speaker 2: there's a couple consultants, okay that are need to be
Speaker 2: driven around different sites. Okay, So I want your thoughts
Speaker 2: on this. Okay. I decided because they are you know,
Speaker 2: people of prestige or you know. Yeah, I was gonna
Speaker 2: dress a little bit better tomorrow. Yeah. So what I
Speaker 2: did was I broke out my Freddy Flintstone suit with
Speaker 2: the shirt with the tie. That way I could that
Speaker 2: way I could to work for It's the same colors
Speaker 2: as the TV show, right blue and the shirts orange,
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's h T hot. Did you think it's
Speaker 2: appropriate to be chauffing around Muckety Muck's wearing a fridge
Speaker 2: Lintstone's shirt, Rid, What would you take me?
Speaker 1: I would think that's probably not a good thing here
Speaker 1: because you're looking for a big tip. I would probably
Speaker 1: uh be your charge.
Speaker 2: I don't care about the tip.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, can you care about the Canadian. Just be
Speaker 1: your charming Canadian, goofyself. You'll be just fine. Leave the
Speaker 1: fred flint Stone shirt at home.
Speaker 2: That's the only thing I got with a tie that
Speaker 2: I can wear.
Speaker 1: Well well. But it sounds like fun. So that's that's
Speaker 1: your day tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's my day tomorrow. And then I got a doctor's
Speaker 2: appointment on Tuesday. You'll probably say my blood pressure is
Speaker 2: too high, I smoke too much, and I don't eat right.
Speaker 2: So I'm sorry of you. I'm getting pre up for
Speaker 2: the lecture on that and the rest of the week,
Speaker 2: I'm just going to watch baseball and kick back and
Speaker 2: start working towards at we wear.
Speaker 1: Next game i'll be at is the Frederick Keys. If
Speaker 1: anybody's out of Frederick, Maryland on Tuesday night, that's where
Speaker 1: you will find me. Assuming my dentist appointment goes okay
Speaker 1: tomorrow he doesn't tell me I have cavities. I think
Speaker 1: I think I'm good. I think I'm good. No, teeth
Speaker 1: don't hurt anymore, so I think I'm good there.
Speaker 2: But that's avoid avoid the root and els. Yes, stay away,
Speaker 2: I'm good.
Speaker 1: I mean nothing hurts. So that was pretty brutal six months.
Speaker 2: Ago, but yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it wasn't good, all right, Tim. I will
Speaker 1: talk to you then on Friday, my friend.
Speaker 2: Yes, be safely, well, have yourself a great week, and
Speaker 2: we'll catch everybody next Friday.