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I went over to the Reds Complex yesterday to see
our boy, Lordis Guriel. Yeah, apparently Max Kepler suspended. Max
Kepler was playing in a game and they were so
not prepared for him that he uh did not even
have his own jersey. It was a unnamed because all
the guys have named that, not all of them do,
but they rip it. No. The Diamondback Ale, Yeah, he
just holked out on it. The Diamondbacks wear jerseys with
names on it, but he was wearing I guess you
know what. I guess most of the ACL now that
I'm thinking about, I guess they don't have their names
on it. Lordis had his own personal jersey with his
name on it. Wow, But he was wearing an unnamed
six the eight jersey. So I went and I got
to see a little bit of Lordis in rehab in
Max Kepler's Diamondback debut and rookie ball.
Speaker 3: I mean, let's go. I'm Kepler. Fine, I don't care
about Kepler. Let's get Lortis back. That's what I want.
Speaker 2: He looked good. He played in the outfield too.
Speaker 3: They did a whole lot of hamstring injury. Looked bad too,
So I'm glad he's back quickly for a hammy.
Speaker 2: I put it on my Instagram. He hit a double
in his first hit bat, which is nice. Ran the bases.
He played left field. They had Kepler and right, and
then they also had aj vussvit Vukovich who was rehabbing
in center. So it was like the entire outfield was
just those dudes rolling around. Now that yeah, yeah, I'm
not thinking about it. I'm like, did Lord has play
center at some point? Maybe not, but I can't imagine. No,
But he looked good. Kepler was really interesting because Kepler,
like and by the way, Lordis took his own personal
car there. And I wouldn't get into people's businesses about
this type of stuff. There are people that are very interested,
but I just want to point out, like, so the
bus pulls up. It's a bus of all the young guys.
Usually rehabbing players don't drive incomes a blacked out, HEMI
whatever like SUV and I'm like, oh, this might be Kepler.
It's aj Vukevich right driving some badass him like okay,
and then I see like a white van come up,
and then I saw it just some other like look
like a rental car, and then I think Kepler walked up.
I didn't recognize it was him.
Speaker 3: And then where are you out watching these guys in
the parking lot? Is my question?
Speaker 2: I'm hanging So, like you get the Reds, like you
have to walk through the parking lot and then there's
like this.
Speaker 3: They actually have to go to their house if you
want to go to this game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Reds works is you walk through the
parking lot and then you go right by the cages,
and then there's the there's like they have outdoor gym equipment,
and then it's like the fields, so like I had
just walked up and the Diamondbacks are coming out and
so all that happens, and then up polls a BMW
Mercede like a mercde BMW SUV. Nothing crazy about that, dude. Actually,
it was like have you ever seen those cars that
change colors like ya and stuff like purple?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pain chob.
Speaker 2: I took a picture to send to my friend and
I was like, guess what car is Lord's Curriels And
it's the most rediculous, Like here I can you can
kind of see it here. Uh, like you kind of
see that. You're like, which car is lord Is Curriels
because it's like normal car, normal car, and it's like
purple shiny change, You're muted, purple shiny changing colored BMW.
It was ridiculous. I just wanted you know, are you
still You're still muted? Box, You're just still you were talking.
Speaker 3: I was coughing. I was coughing my bad Uh yeah,
I'm It's the same color as his hair, is what
I was saying.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. My whole point of that was to be like,
it's just hilarious. No human beings there, it's rookie ball.
It's kids that have never seen anything, and Lord just drive.
Speaker 3: It's like I'm not going on the bus.
Speaker 2: No, they all drive cars, all of the none of
none of no rehabit.
Speaker 3: He just said they were bust in.
Speaker 2: Who was I said, the players are bust in any
rehabit drives themselves always. It's happened with I've ran I
parked next to Michael Waka one time, like when I
pulled up to the camel Back Ranch and there's a
guy sitting in his car, and when they opened the gates,
we walked out and then Michael Waka gets out, puts
his jersey on. I'm like, oh, they all drive their
own cars, but I I just don't recall a time
why I'd seen it.
Speaker 3: I want you to go through their cars and like
start taking pictures of the inside and see what type
of fast food bags these guys having.
Speaker 2: I could. I I'm feel weird about doing that, but
it was I hadn't seen a flash the flashiest car
I had seen it. I've never seen one in rookie Ball.
Anybody pull up in that. They usually pull up that.
Speaker 3: Have you seen anybody drive up in an es heap?
Just a total pile of garbage belts?
Speaker 2: Are you know?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: I have the funniest one of all time. This wasn't
in rookie Ball, but this was in the right at
the onset off of the year of his suspension, Fernando Tatis.
And this is the only reason I know this because
I was so thrown by thrown off, pulled up and
I'm not joking you a mini van as like a
mini van, but we're talking like nineteen ninety seven mini
van paint. It looked like he had bought that thing
for one thousand dollars cash straight, and it was the
biggest pile of crap I'd ever seen a player ever
roll up in. And I was shocked. And then like
two days later he rolled up in his insane Porsche that.
Speaker 3: He stayed the night at a single mom's house and
had to get to the ballpark real quick is probably
what it was.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, how are you gonna buy you You're
not gonna roll up buying your de wormer when you're
driving a Porsche. You gotta have the I may make
this weird about all that stuff, but it was just
so funny because Lord just rolls up in the flashiest
car I had ever seen. He goes out there and yeah.
Speaker 3: Didn't weren't you at Salt River Fields one time? And gettell,
didn't you have like a oh something Neon Green or something?
Speaker 2: To be fair, that was their home ballpark. He has
the most. He has a g Wagon and it's the
most insane g way. I never knew anything about cars
until like you individualize the players and in these places
where you can start to see them. Kotel is very
there's a couple of flashy dudes out there. Cautel's flashy
lords is flashy. Kepler was not. Kepler looked pretty rusty
by the way, but they said he signed a major
league deal in that I believe because I'm looking this
up because it does feel wrong by the way that
a guy who suspended for PEDS can go play in
sanction games, because I want to point out this isn't
a game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like, maybe his jersey was wrong because
they're cheating and that's not good.
Speaker 2: Well, no, but it wouldn't be the first time with Kepler.
But it's not like this was the Bridge League where
or an instructs game where this game doesn't count and
it's not re or this is a minor league recording.
I know it's played in a weird spot. He has
minor league stats now, and I was just like, is
this right? Like, and apparently there is there is some loophole.
Speaker 3: I think it's given like twenty games out.
Speaker 2: I think it is something like that they give a
cushion to suspensions because they let these.
Speaker 3: Players they call it like they're not not suspended, but yeah, yeah,
it's like a rehab assignment almost.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so they can play in the minor league. So
Kepler was there. He went and hit in the cages,
got out there, played in right field, which I think
was probably a good sign, not dhing. He hit four,
he took a couple of walks. He didn't do anything special.
He's timing looked off. But he's gonna play in the
minors for the next two weeks and then presumably he's
probably gonna go straight up because he signed a major
league deal with the with the team, so I think
it's gonna I don't know if he'll stay here in
rookie ball or he'll go up to Triple A or
something like that, but he'll then probably get activated right
when he can, and that's gonna mess sup the Diamondbacks lineup.
And I don't know. He might there might be some
fantasy relevancy there. May maybe he's only a platune guy,
but if he played every day as a DH there's
something there. But Lordis should be back before him.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, so yeah, I don't think Kepler's going
to do much, but it's he's not a zero, so
we'll see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see. But I just that was a funny
random thing that I did yesterday. And seeing Lordis and
all them dudes, Uh, bigger in the industry market is
Trek Scoople not just through a bullpen yesterday. Not just
had one minor league start. He's returning to the Tiger's
rotation on Saturday. He is back after like a month
of being out in same timeline, return one minor league start,
they like the bullpen, and he is right back into it.
Do you got any random thoughts? I thought he might
have one or two more minor league starts before.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is just news. This is just awesome news.
It's great. It's weird to me because how much what
was the time difference between Schooble going on the IL
and Crochet going on the IL because they've had completely
opposite directions on the IL because Crochet, uh, you know,
his shoulder strain is way worse than they thought. So
now it's kind of like we have no idea when
Crochet is coming back. But Scooble was so fast through this.
I mean, this surgery is gonna definitely be named Schooble surgery.
Speaker 2: I think he already had. It's called the School scope.
That's like the that's gonna be the loving name that
they have. But I was saying this and leading off today.
The only thing I'm curious about, though, is like, look
at Snell. How far off was Snell from Schooble, Because
Snell is not remotely close, like was it? And I
know he had another injury, and maybe that's the thing
that's also holding.
Speaker 3: Back to the Snell scope. He had the Schooble scope,
but he had.
Speaker 2: The Schoobole scope, and his timeline does not look like
it's fast at all. So I'm just curious.
Speaker 3: Does this worry you for for Schooble then, do you
think they're pushing him or he's pushing himself too fast?
Because that it's that is exactly what happened with Crochet, right,
He definitely was rushing himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Crochet stuff is all jacked up, though,
I don't know if you saw it. Do you see
Like they asked Breslo about it and Brazil's like everything's fine,
everything's normal, and it's like, well, no, Crochet just said
like things are a lot worse and like they suck.
Their communication sucks. I don't know if Crochet really pushed it.
It just has not progressed. Whereas well, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, he went on the eye out and initially said,
I don't think this is gonna be very long at all.
I think I'm gonna be able to come out as soon.
Speaker 2: I just didn't. But it just didn't progress. That was
I don't think he like did something that he didn't
go into a minor league game, like I'm not worried
about Schooba because like he got into a game, his
velo went great, he looked great, they did another bullpen.
Everything must have been great, and like, I just don't
think I don't think anyone would want to press this.
I guess the Tigers might want to press this more
than he would. But why would he put his free
agency at risk if like he didn't feel really good,
So I think or something about it. The Snell thing
is probably different because of whatever the other injury is.
But I'm very, very curious why did he get better
so quick versus why Snell doesn't seem to be and
what is the ramifications for the future, Like I want
to see the next guy he.
Speaker 3: Has the alien DNA that everyone's talking about. I believe,
well school has. Jimmy John we talked about that, Jimmy John. Boy. Yeah,
everybody just needs to go get an unwitch and you'll
be fine.
Speaker 2: So support of subs bread is pretty elite. I just
want to I had port of Subs not too long ago,
Like I forgot how much I liked.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I've ever had Porta Subs with you.
I mean, so they just weren't in my area. But
it's funny that you mentioned Porta Subs because I had
one of my favorite managers from my grocery store job
bought a port of Subs franchise and have to go
do that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You know what the problem is though, is like we're
not a sandwich society anymore. Sandwiches too expensive, Like it's insane,
Like we we went from five dollars foot longs to
like you can't get out of a sandwich place.
Speaker 3: Also, the most dollars they are the most. They're considered
the most unhealthy fast food that you can get. They're
supposed to supposedly because of the sodium. They're more unhealthy
than burgers. And I actually saw some states are gonna
start labeling smoked ham as a carcinogen just like cigarettes.
So really, yeah, I guess smoked ham causes cancer at
the same rate as cigarettes too.
Speaker 2: Apparently don't also causes an idiot causes poverty, so you
can't eat literally, you're better set getting burgers than you
are sandwiches because of the tides of change on the
pricing too. So I don't know. The Scooba thing's fascinating.
I I just don't have any worries. I'm just rolling
it out. I'm not trying to get rid of him.
I just don't overthink it was Google.
Speaker 3: You're saying his cruchet needs to start smoking. And just
like Jimmy John, Jimmy John here is eating sandwiches turik skuble.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm pretty down on the crochet stuff. Joe
seems to think we're not gonna I mean, but Joe
does this every time like a guy has a setback.
He's like, we're just I don't know if we're going
to see them the rest of the season. It's almost clockwork.
He's done it with every single did it does it
with cold with Wheeler, like any pitcher that has that,
I don't think that's the case, because he's like, do
you think we'll see him at all this year? I'm like, yeah,
I just think it might be August. You know, it
might be a little too late, like where it kills
fantasy owners. The Boston Red Sox are like, I mean,
Jesus dude, what are they They got to be five
games away losing from selling this team off?
Speaker 3: Like why think they just asked, uh, what's the name
the other day and he said, we're not We're not
there yet.
Speaker 2: Well, of course they're not. No team, no team is out.
The Tigers suck, They're not out of it. No anybody
but the Rockies. Every team is still like quote in it.
But win's enough enough? Like when are we going to
be done with this song and dance? Like especially the
Red Sox, like cases doesn't exist. Roman Anthony is more hurt,
Crochet is more hurt. Your team stinks. It's just like
sell the pieces, play it to the future. I think
fans would embrace the team more if they just decided
to sell off.
Speaker 3: At this you see the Red Sox guy saying the
f wort every third word talking about the Red Sox
the other day, the fan outside the stadium no, I
feel like I saw it one hundred times. I'll send
it to you, but it's this guy one not doing anything.
Oh no, I think I Boston accent. Yeah, yeah, he.
Speaker 2: Gotta love him. Another big topic of conversation. I'm very
curious where you stand on this. I know we've kind
of tinkered around this, but Ronald a'cuney is hurt again,
and he has hurt again back on the ie L.
I think we might have talked about the injury last time,
but it is official. He is on the io with
a hamstring injury. I've seen a lot of people letting
this be the catalyst to them. I think I saw
like Eric Cross tweeted about it. Everyone says Acuni is talented.
I wonder if everybody is just a prisoner of the
moment though, because it's like when he's hurt, everyone cries,
and then when he's back, everyone's like, oh, he's so talented.
But like I like into Cunya to maybe Buckston at
this point, is he kind of buckst in me? It's
just's he's always hurt, he's rightful of talent, he doesn't
have the downs like Buxton did, and there's not the
age but like, are you at all fed up with this? Like,
has this been a final catalyst to you to see
another in another iel stint?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say it isn't. But it isn't because I'm
like so sure that he's going to be fine. I
think this is what Like I rostered Buxton through that,
through his issues because I believed in him. I just
I Ronald Kunia has been so expensive this whole time,
even through the injuries. I haven't been rostering him, So
I don't know that my stance. I feel like I
was kind of already out on Acunya at cost, so
I don't think my opinion has changed that much on
Acunya anyway. You know, one hundred and fifty nine games
in twenty three forty nine and twenty four ninety five
last year, so it's two years in a row with this.
This is I'm going to end up being in third
year because he's going to end up playing whatever it is,
one hundred games or well, if you.
Speaker 2: Want to one hundred, dude, this reads off like Buxton.
If you want to play the game, how many years
since twenty eighteen there are nine seasons? I guess you
can't really count like twenty twenty. So even if you count,
take that off here, sir, for a second, of eight seasons,
how many times has he had more than one hundred
and twenty games, It's two. It's two seasons his second
full season in twenty twenty three. Otherwise one hundred and
eleven and one hundred and nineteen if you don't count
twenty twenty. That leaves currently four seasons where he has
had under one hundred games played. He might get over
that this year slightly, but he is tracking to be
just like he was in previous years. Like there is yes,
I think it's fair, but there's a point where we
got to be like we can't even do because I
was going to do this whole like, well, he's because
he's weird. He's having these like ridiculously altering seasons where
he's like I hit more homers, now I steal more bases.
He if he were to have like six hundred bats,
he's essentially telling us he is a twenty one homer
forty five stolen base guy twenty forty. It's awesome. That
is worthwhile relatively of like a first round, but you
can't do that, Like I think we're at the point,
I'm not sure you can legitimately do that anymore. Can
you really play that game that you're going to get
six hundred bats out of him if you get five on.
Speaker 3: The earliest he needs to go. And let's say he
comes back, he plays the rest of the season and
he's he's not great, He's not like one yeah, so okay,
so but he only has seven homers. Let's say he
comes back, you know whatever, at the end of this month,
he plays the rest of the season, and he goes like,
I don't know, twenty eight thirty and he's hitting two
sixty or something. He's still great. So, I mean, how
much downside is there? But how what's the earliest he
can go because of these injuries. I don't I don't
claim to know what to do with Ronald Kuya. Yeah,
that's kind of where I'm at at this point. I
don't know if I do.
Speaker 2: That's not really even my point. I'm not sure. I like,
I think at this point, I mean, he also to
the last three years he has hit like essentially two
fifty and not over three hundred. He's really streaky. I
think the upside is tremendous, and I think I think
he's starting to feel like back into the first round player,
a great wheel player, but he keeps getting taken at
four or five. But I think there might be a
real long look people start having and saying like, Okay,
I just got to trust Julio, you know. Maybe I
mean Jackson Trio's had some injuries as well. Maybe people
value because I'm looking at my my Dynasty list isn't
the good example here. But Otani, wit Soto, Carol, Ellie,
I think those should probably be no I mean, even
though Ellie's hurt right now, those should be no brainers
over Akunya. Or maybe it's Carol. So with Otani, then
you could start having a question Ellie, Julio, Churio. But
then I think you have to throw James Wood in there,
and then throw maybe a couple of pictures in there.
I think you can get Akunya to the back half
of the first round, and it's just going to be
a matter of like what what can you stomach? Can
you do?
Speaker 3: You want to do?
Speaker 2: All the injuries? I think enough that I don't know
if people you can't do that, as in, you can't
put him in the back of the fire.
Speaker 3: I can't put him in the first round.
Speaker 2: Oh, you can't put him in the first round.
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think I just wonder I'm saying it
right now. I wonder if people in the draft season
are going to remember this same feeling of like the
inconsistencies of him. The upside is so tantalizing, but this
is just a reminder there's multiple injuries again. This is
like injury prone injury plague, Like we've got to start
considering that there's something broken in there. And it just
is reminiscent of what we did with Buckston. It's just
a Kunya is twenty eight years old, Like, well, I
guess we were doing that or five years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean because Buckson is only thirty two now,
and he had the huge season last year at thirty one.
So I think the thing here with Acunya to me
is like, look, you can you can be forgiven if
you come back quickly from this injury and don't get
injured again for the rest of the year and perform
like a stud. That's the one path to Okay, I'll
ignore this and you can get to the back end.
Speaker 2: You know why that works as well is because I
also think there's a handful of first round guys that
have also been a pile. Gon has been a pile.
Kyle Tucker's suck, Fernando Tatis looks bad. You've got three
players right there that aren't pushing the cause to go up.
Speaker 3: I do think like you also have the James Woods
and guys like that that are yeah, but he.
Speaker 2: Can really push themselves up. I think it's James Wood.
Maybe you know, Julio's there, but then now you start
getting Now it's like, okay, Jordan Alvarezer Akunya, I think
that's like, you know, interesting.
Speaker 3: Is you're not going to stay healthy, right, He's healthy now,
but if he gets hurt, you know, I feel like
if Jordan gets hurt, it's worse than if Acunya gets hurt,
because you know, if Jordan gets hurt, it tends to
be for a long time.
Speaker 2: So who would you rather an or cj Abrams? Oh?
Speaker 3: I think it's C. J Abrams right now?
Speaker 2: Would you rather long like next year James would or
Acunya would?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think that's where I think that's kind of where
we're at.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's it's it's definitely fair, but I think,
but I think that's the only path to like, you know, hey,
we're not We're not moving Ronald Acunya down. And I
don't think that that it's the likely path. I think
the likely path is he misses a month, he comes
back slow, and if anything else happens again, one more
I elston or missed games or whatever. I think people
are really gonna start dropping him in their rank.
Speaker 2: I think something I want to do right around the
beginning of July is the All Star Game is coming up,
is I want to do like a two round look
at what next year would be. We'll do one of
those at the end of the season as well, but
I'd like to do like what an early round look is.
Speaker 3: Well, during the All Star break, we'll have our draft.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's true. Yeah, Well, because sometimes though, it
was like we have these conversations and then push comes
to shove and it's like, well, what I really take
keman Arra over him? Or all the discussions we've had
about pictures, would you really want to scooble or his
schemes like there might not be enough players in there.
But if anything, like there's a big question mark in
Acunya and I guess I would throw this out. I
definitely would listen if I own Acunya in Dynasty, but
it's I'm not going to play the discount game, you
know what I'm saying. Like, but if if someone out
there is like, hey, I'll give you James Wood and plus,
I think I'm listening to that, or I don't think
I would listen to like someone that's like, I'll give
you JJ Weatherhold and then Jesus Lozardo. I'd be like
Kick Rocks. But someone that really wants to make a
play and wants to give you know, I mean, what's
his face? Might be really difficult. But what if you
could get like Andy Pajas and Nolan MacLean. You know
what I'm saying, I'm doing that. Maybe everybody would scream
and say they would do that, but it's like, I
don't think you'd have done that a month ago. I agree,
But that's something I would start paying attention to right now.
So there might be some Dynasty poking around. Also, the
good season Onial cruise has come to kind of a
screeching halt. He hit the eye l He has fractured
a couple fractures in his fourth and fifth whatever blah. Yeah,
and he's expected to miss a month to six weeks,
which at this time frame that's post all start break.
Speaker 3: And it sucks because it's a hand injury, which can
sap power, so stinks. Fraction.
Speaker 2: Yeah, handmy bones are the biggest scary ones, but there's
always I mean O'Neill cruise is kind of a freak,
but also like the adjustments he's made to being able
to get inside on pitches to hit lefties. What if
this risk affects that and that just goes away, then
he's gonna just become poop O'Neill cruise again. Yeah, exactly.
So we already talked about Garat Crochet. That's the other
really big one. That's a absolutely brutal pal. I have
no interest in him the rest of the season. For
anybody that'll be like, well, would you buy him? No,
I don't think so. Like I think he'll come back,
but I just don't know what it looks like, and
I think it's too scary, like I would sell like
a dog crap player or something like that, but I
think it would. I think those things are going to
be like someone would be here's this, would you take
gera Kroche Kyle Harrison rest of season.
Speaker 3: No, I don't want Crochet, so.
Speaker 2: But I think that's what's in my AUK, and I'd say, well,
I'll just take Kyle Harrison the rest.
Speaker 3: Kyle Harrison's performing very well. Yeah, that's yeah, no, no, no, no,
all right.
Speaker 2: Some other stuff around baseball. The Vegas games are really
interesting because there was massive power in the first game.
It was a nineteen run game eleven homers. But then
they slowly kind of paced out. But like one thing
is for sure.
Speaker 3: They were exhausted from playing that game the night before.
Speaker 2: They got a human door of the living crap out
of the stuff in Vegas. Once they have, I know
it'll be a dog. Yeah, but it's like Arizona, Like
it's probably I think it's gonna play similar to Arizona. Yeah,
you know, like which is high.
Speaker 3: Arizona's the second highest elevated stadium in the country.
Speaker 2: They were higher. They were nine hundred feet higher elevate
Vegas was. Yeah, Vegas is, but the the retractable roof
and stuff will help with it, so it's not.
Speaker 3: It was like one hundred and seven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the main thing, is like it's not going
to be like, you know, the ball is going to
be flying eleven homers every single game, but it's probably
gonna play closer to Arizona standards. It's not gonna be Colorado,
but it's gonna play closer to that when it does
end up happening, right right right, play the over. One
of my favorite things that happened this whole week. I
talked to you about this. Rookies have been going nuts,
but Braid Montgomery. Braid Montgomery was called up. I've been
pretty vocal about him on Fantasy Pros. I said I'd
rather have him over quite a few players. And he
makes his debut. I got caught in stuff and I
end up like, you know, I saw he got his
first hit. I saw the clip of it. I'm doing
stuff and then I realized they're they're in extra innings.
I turned the game on. I told you this. As
I turn it on, he's like stepping to the plate
for the pitch and then he hits the opposite field homer.
And I felt like I was in a like a
fake world because they also were doing that, Like what
was that?
Speaker 3: Like it's an AI ending no, no, but they also
were doing oh yeah, yeah, Yeah, they were wearing the
old school like White Sox unis those like blue and red,
but also the box score. Yes, it felt I would
tell my mom about that, Like it looked like it
was the late eighties with the uh like all the
graphics they were using on the screen.
Speaker 2: But like as I tuned in, you see all of
that and he literally just hits the opposite field and
I'm like, what just happened? Such a cool moment? Like
did I drink a teach he drink before this? What
is one hundred percent? That's what I felt like, And
I'm just I'm a big believer in the dude. And
then he followed that up with a two hit game double.
He's just a switch.
Speaker 3: Hitter with the White Sox can do you no wrong
this year. They meant great the whole year.
Speaker 2: And then Garrett Crochet is injured and it's like every
single guy that got in the Garrett Crochet injuries made
the majors, so or the trade. But I'm a big
braid Montgomery guy. Also, Bryce Eldridge had a walk off
Grand Slam. He's really improved. They also had a couple
of other times. Tyler Callahan hit his first homer that was
against a tawny, but Eldridge. I had the question asked
to me Eldridge of Montgomery, and I said Montgomery. But
we do have to give credit to Eldridge because he's
hitting almost three hundred. Now how we're starting to go.
He's starting to get regular playing time. These are a
couple new rookies that are valuable in fantasy.
Speaker 3: Eldridge came up earlier and was sent back down and
then came back up, Is that right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then he like sat, you know, like they
didn't do anything with him. So he's had like a
really weird run, but he's really finding consistency and he's rolling.
But the aggressive one for me is Braid Montgomery. Like,
I think he's going to stay through the Red They
also traded not that this matters, but they traded Derek
Hill the White Sox did to the Phillies for like nothing.
It just clears up more room for them to make
the commitment to Braid Montgomery. So I think he's gonna
hit in the middle of the lineup, and I think,
you know, just the twelve teams, you got to own him.
Ten team it's a little bit tougher, but you know,
he might play his way into it. Did you see
the Kattel nonsense again?
Speaker 3: Yeah, the boob Nightingale, Like, I mean, tell me, you
make up stories without telling me, you make up stories completely, I.
Speaker 2: Or you have one human being tell you something and
then you decide you're going to run with it. Because
like they brought up the trade rumors again, and then
they brought up the Katel is a bad teammate thing again.
Tory had to do a press conference to say, like this,
you guys are causing more problems. This isn't a thing anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. So, I mean, Kittel has been hot and
I think you know, winning forgives all transgressions a lot
of the times, and you just not heard anything about this.
So it was almost like they were waiting for him
to do anything that can be taken as a slight.
And he sat when Otani pitch because of his injuries,
and that was when Nightingale decided to go, oh, he's selfish.
He took the night off because of blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah, and Tori had to
come out and say it's a bunch of nonsense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they said we asked him this narrative. I I
think I am too. Like, on one hand, we're not
going to pretend like like, I don't think.
Speaker 3: He's not a team leader.
Speaker 2: He's not me is the furthest thing from a team leader.
I don't think he connects with this entire team. He's
very flashy, he's very show bodie, and I think, if
we're being real, there's like the smallest, little tiny elements
of I really hate to say this because I don't
mean it how it sounds, but like you know, like
they say soft type of stuff, like he's just like,
come on, Bickley. I don't know what the word is.
It's not that, but it's like, yeah, he's just but
like you know, he's like, yeah, I do need to
take time off and stuff, and I think it rubs people.
But if a cry baby but he's not a good teammate,
does that mean they don't want him? Like no, he
tells one of the best players out there, but he's
not a team leader. Frankly, I'm not sure Corbyn is
a team leader. Corbyn is pretty like quiet and he
just kind of agrees with everything, Like I know by example,
he's a lead by example tells not a lead by
or example.
Speaker 3: He's not a leader. I think Goldy was a lead
by example. He was never gonna go get those guys
fired up. Same thing is like, yeah, a good call. Yeah,
And I think that, you know, maybe as Corbin gets
older he can step into it. You know, Uh, maybe
it's not for him, but I think that's where you
go when you get a guy like That's why you
go get Nolan Ernado. He's been a team captain before.
He can do it here, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Like, I think next year Nolan will step into that
more because.
Speaker 3: He's Corbyn burns too once he comes back in it.
If he ever plays, you know, that would be great.
But you know, it's this is a non story. This
is Nightingale trying to you know, get a bunch of clicks.
It's all clickbait nonsense. It's not happening.
Speaker 2: I hate it. It is dumb. It is dumb. Other
news going around Francisco Indoor is gonna go through some
full baseball activities this week. Might sort of rehab assignment
next week. So that's a positive sign. We could be
having him closer. I mean, because we were having that
debate about stuff like this still doesn't line him up
to the middle of June, but if he starts that process,
he could be on the back half of June. Finally
we get something that's what we needed.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Colson Montgomery miss Tuesday with back tightness, didn't play on Wednesday.
Keep an eye on that. Will Smith to the eye
l he missed four games with some next soreness. So
that's the Iyel stint. Hopefully it's gonna be minimal, but
it's something to watch. Dalton Rushing is gonna get some
more playing time. When he's not he's slanning at people
outside of the running area.
Speaker 3: I think he's he's gonna there's gonna be a big
fight this year because of Dalton Rushing.
Speaker 2: At some point, he's gonna he'snna bla. He's gonna he's
gonna pretend he's a New York Knicks fan and the
rest of the teams around people around him are Spurs fans.
He's gonna be clocking, hopefully treat like pa uh. Willia
Domas miss Wednesday with some pain in his knee slash hip. Okay.
Sam Besiah left Tuesday with wrist pain. This has been
another weird one. There's something going on with the Orioles
and the manager and the playing time of Besaio and
the injuries. There's there's it's very catell like what's going
on right now? There's a lot of like weird defendee's
type of stuff that boob Yeah, maybe the locker, what
are we doing? Also in the minor league world, Cole
Krgrog was called up to the majors, Victor Scott was
sent down. Cole Kerrok I don't personally think is a
long standing one, so I'm not super in on him
and Luis Lara signed a seven year extension for thirty
one million dollars still in the minors. I think he's
very similar to like a South Frillic type, and I think.
Speaker 3: Is he close? Yeah, we're good.
Speaker 2: I mean he's been destroying Triple A. He's just a
tiny guy.
Speaker 3: He's buying out all of his you know options and
all that is saying that he's going to be up
pretty soon.
Speaker 2: Well, it also says like they believe that he's a
long standing guy. They did it with Cooper Pratt earlier
this year and he hasn't come up because he's struggled
Luis Laara has not struggled. He has been hitting over
three hundred. He's actually had some decent power. He can
steal bases, go on, bass guy. But you know, he's
just not up yet. I think he'll be up relatively soon.
And that deal kind of solidifies it. And then in
the Comeback World we mentioned Lordis Gariel rehab assignment was
with we'd actually started on Monday, I think. But out
here in the ACL Drake Baldwin is gonna start a
rehab assignment this week. That's fantastic. Connor Griffin is gonna
start throwing, they said yesterday, and Yan your Diaz started
a rehab assignment on Tuesday. So a couple of fantasy
relevant guys that are you know, getting close ish, we'll
take it. We need some of the right let's take
a break. We come back. It is guess who the
starting pitcher edition Bagman made it harder, So I'm gonna
really suck at this. He's going to lay the land.
And I want you guys to listen really hard and carefully,
because I want you to play along and see if
you can get some of these. And then we'll have
some fantasy conversation around them. So when we come back,
it is fantasy starting pitcher. Guess who in this league?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: I remember in this league? Yeah, I remember that. All right, Box,
you set the table here. You've got eight pictures, four
editions of A versus B and did you I guess
the first thing that maybe.
Speaker 3: I have one big hint to tell you to start.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, first, what are these like thirty day or
season long?
Speaker 3: These are all the last thirty days one month.
Speaker 2: Okay, one hint.
Speaker 3: One big hint is that every one of these pictures
you can tell by the numbers, are in the top
fifty starting pictures according to Yahoo for the last month.
So all top fifty. So that is a big hint
for you because I made this way harder.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I can tell this is gonna be brutal.
I can tell these are going to be names that
are gonnad.
Speaker 3: Well, you got the first five names without a second,
without a hint last week or on Monday, so I
had to make these a little harder for you.
Speaker 2: No, I'm I'm game four it. I am going to
say the over under is one point five if someone
wants to take a bet.
Speaker 3: So that is no hints you getting these names right,
like slight.
Speaker 2: Hint, I don't think like me destroying it with no
hint was that's immaculate. That was a freak show you
giving like a relative hint where you're like this guy's
and now this guy's al when you start doing the
like this guy just on the Brewers and he's the fourth.
Speaker 3: Start Okay, I don't get that, but like.
Speaker 2: Of me like really guessing it smart before we were
breaking like uh division or leagues count divisions, don't oh yeah,
wait when you're like both of these guys are in
the NL Central like now I'm starting to lose it,
I'm gonna say one point five and I don't I'm
not gonna hate anybody that takes the under on this
because this is a tough experiment here. So that's the
line if you want to guess it play along for yourself.
Is Bogman set the stage for the first.
Speaker 3: Guess who also feel like you know just from these stats,
it's a little bit harder to guess as well than
the hitters, but all right, player a thirty point one
innings pitched in the last thirty days, three wins, thirty
four strikeouts in those thirty and a half thirty point
one innings two point eight point eight two Whip Player
B twenty four point one innings pitch so six fewer innings,
two wins, one less win, twenty nine strikeouts. So again,
over nine K per nine ERA is better by zero
point six one point four to eight. Whip is also
lower point seven four. So any off the top hint guesses.
If not, I will give hints.
Speaker 2: You know what annoys me about this one? I'm gonna
say this one specifically. I'm annoyed because I feel like
the whip should be something that I'm on, Like there
are a few guys that really were untouchable, and I
feel like this very specific one is going to piss
me off because I feel like the whip should give
it away.
Speaker 3: I think this one's gonna be harder too, because I
think the question between them for the rest of the
season is interesting, but I may think it's more interesting
than most people do.
Speaker 2: So, okay, Player B is clearly the higher ranked player. No, okay,
you did switch it up this time, very good.
Speaker 3: I honestly I couldn't. I Player A definitely was higher
going into the season. Right now. That that's why I
have these two because I want to know who you
would rather have for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: I really want to just look at names because but
I won't cheat because the whip thing specifically.
Speaker 3: Don't go about thirty days and you can look at names.
I don't care about that, like if you just look
at the season totally. Yeah, that's what I was going
to look at. I'll do it in a second, because
I want to give it a shot. Hitt, Let me
get this off here. I can do one hint, like
an easy hint.
Speaker 2: Let me throw one out here. Okay, his player B
Justin Robleski. No, no, is anybody Justin Robleski here?
Speaker 3: Not in any of the eight. No, there's no Justin Robleski.
I thought about putting him in. I did not.
Speaker 2: All right, Well then that ruined it, all right. Let
me let me look at them season long names here,
just to get some guys in my brain.
Speaker 3: I'll and I'll do this. Uh, player A is al
player B is NL.
Speaker 2: Okay, one good one fun guess that's possible. Let me okay,
this could be this could be a screw up your bogs?
When did you do these?
Speaker 3: I did these at about three am.
Speaker 2: Okay, because I was gonna say, is Davis Martin on
here at all? But Davis Martin got them things lit
up in a previous start, so I don't think he.
Speaker 3: Davis Martin is not on this list today.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I didn't think he could. Okay, Uh, you
said player B is n L, Player A is a L.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with a guess here. I've got my
n L guests and I'm gonna butcher this. Let me
get my AL is top right, Yes, Okay, my a
L guess I'm gonna lock in here. Oh oh that
that doesn't track. Damn it. That doesn't track what I
was just about to do. Okay, No, that's I just
found a couple a L guys that I think would
really make a lot of sense here, but their names
don't track for this. Okay, Player B Max Meyer uh incorrect?
Who Max Meyer is? One hundred percent somewhere else here?
By yes? Your yeah, I know you won't figure it
out your hesitation. I know Max Meyer is somewhere in here.
The a L version, the AL being the higher name
is really throwing me the hell off here. I'm gonna guess, uh,
Brian wu, Yeah, all right, you want to Okay, I'm
gonna get these right. Thank you, Chaps. Deepen down the
hint al East, uh n L West mm hmm uh
is player B Mike Soroka incorrect?
Speaker 3: The hell is clear you had the correct team when
you said Justin Robleski.
Speaker 2: Oh is play Player B has got to be the
lower name. Who the hell is? Emma Chian mm hm
oh rok Roky? Yes, yeah, absolutely, the strike cups makes
total sense. Low whip Rokie has been a f and
demon out there, and then Player A was the higher one.
It's player This doesn't make sense. His Player A Garrett Cole.
I don't even think he has thirty in ings left.
Speaker 3: Player A is not Garrett call I'll just give it
to you. It is Drew Rasmussen.
Speaker 2: That's a good one. And Drew just had a did
your account yesterday's count?
Speaker 3: He was in there. Yeah, so for the last month,
Drew Rasmusen ranks nineteen. Sasaki is thirty. Sazaki is such
a good one too. I went on a whole thing
I think it was yesterday.
Speaker 2: On the live stream with me and Arico and not
Joe Bizipia, which I found out five minutes before the show,
because uh, Arico. We were laughing because, like it was
two years ago, he was hyper defensive of Roki and
I was all over his ass about it, and I
was one hundred percent right and how garbage Roki was.
But I've always left open the possibility that he could
get better, but we just didn't really buy into it.
And then even in this draft season, we had Lancestowski
back on, who we then were kind of poking fun
again that like he's just a reliever, but Roki made
such significant changes. His split finger is crazy, and he
has a completely new slider. Last year it was this
like low variant sweeper and this year it's this like
harder biting slider, and it's better. His fastball command is better.
And Joe and I were because I was given his
flowers too, because he was super and Unrokie, but he
was fifteen months too early. We looked the location plus
year over year was ninety to ninety nine last year
to this year. But check this out the pitching plus,
which I guess I'm with Joe that he was saying
like location isn't gonna tell. Location is just gonna be
just a pure, you know, balls and strikes type of thing,
the pitching plus might be a better marker to like
the overall stuff. I know there's stuff plus numbers two,
but check this out. Pitching plus the year before was
in eighty four, so one oh six this year, huge chance.
Speaker 3: That's massive.
Speaker 2: He's a completely different picture. I'm so in on Rokie
right now because he's got three pitches he can rely on,
and the split finger I think is demon mode. So
I buy this thirty.
Speaker 3: Days I'm wondering and I haven't seen anything about it,
and maybe I've just missed it. But our baseball team's
using AI to see if, like you know, guys are
tipping a pitch or you know, if they're throwing the
same sequence or any of that stuff, Like has that
stuff been as maybe hit a pino? I mean, he knows.
Speaker 2: That's a really great question. They've got the technology to
track all of this stuff. It would be similar to
what did I just see the other day.
Speaker 3: Oh, I'm sure they're using it in some capacity.
Speaker 2: I'll bet you there is, because here's the example. I saw.
This guy wrote this program I love poker, Big Poker guy,
and this guy this is crazy. There's this this live
stream that happens is called Hustler Casino and it's high
stakes and it's these you know, billionaire millionaire people that
play high stakes. They play awful cards for hundreds of
thousands of dollars. And there's this guy named Nick Airball
and there's this person that took hour and I know
this might be boring to you, but check this out.
They took hours and hours and hours of video and
hands that Nick Airball played bluffs, things that were right whatever.
He put them into a program and they he used
AI to and I don't know what program he might
have had to like sequence something, but what they did
was they had AI tracking every hand, every eye movement,
and they found correlations to figure out when they're bluffing.
So like he used this as like an analysis tool
to figure out better ways of what they what type.
Speaker 3: Of tell at a table.
Speaker 2: Though well, no, it's just a program like this would
be something this is for him to review himself. No,
this is another person created this program and he used
all the video from Hustler. Don't get focused on that.
The thing is is this guy took video, hours and
hours and hours of video. He used AI to create
facial analysis and then compared it to hands and then
it was able to build in what are tells, whether
it's betting patterns, whether it's facial ticks, whatever, to try
to create an advantage to learn how this specific person is.
So take now that technology, yeah, and go put that
into pitching and all the tools and the data that
they have. I would have to say, someone out there
is working or obviously something like that. That makes your
life easier. If you can have hours and hours and
hours and hundreds of thousands of hours of video, analyze
specific things like that and then be able to dumb
it down. That is a use case for AI that
I don't even think. We could cry like, oh, it's
taking a job away from a human, Like I don't
even think.
Speaker 3: Well humans aren't noticing these things then yes, But also
like why AI does it?
Speaker 2: You're gonna have some analysts that's gonna sit there and
watch ten thousand hours of video and write that down
Like this would be the use case. Why that makes sense?
That's a really fun question you just had. I think
there are tests.
Speaker 3: I thought about that, like in the middle of the
night last night, and I was like, well, I can't
text Chris, it's four thirty in the morning.
Speaker 2: But the key is is like, you couldn't just dump
that into AI. What they have to start with if
someone has to build have AI build a program around
facial or in this case it might be like, uh,
where your elbow is, Yeah, it might have physical they'd
have to have it build something that can analyze that,
and then you would take that program and put it
into something that can start analyzing and sorting that type
of data in the in the changes and very very smart,
mathematical way beyond someone stupid like me that could do.
But I could one hundred percent see that being something
that is utilized in the next couple of years.
Speaker 3: All right, that was ready for number two, absolutely all right.
Player player A has uh pitched way more innings than
player B, So player A thirty seven innings, four wins,
forty one strikeouts, two nine to two ERA and one
oh eight whip. Player B twenty eight innings, so nine fewer,
only two wins twenty three strikeouts. The strikeouts are way less,
but the ERA is almost run better one point nine
to three. The whip is also better zero point eighty
six compared to one point oh eight. So obviously player
B way fewer innings, way fewer strikeouts. But the ERA
and whip are crushing right now. So you have any
guesses for players?
Speaker 2: Legitimately? Is player A Max Meyer?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually I know I could tell because the innings.
This is the most innings pitch on any of these guys. Also,
Max has been a pretty good, like two or three
e RA guy, like he hasn't dominated on the whip front.
So I do get that one. I get I get
that as the one point five over because I I mean,
I guess you did tell me that's one, so I
probably would have guessed it. But also attached to this, Yeah, no,
I'm on the under his player B has to be
the higher player. I think in this respect he's got
like I don't.
Speaker 3: They're like, they're like, i'll just tell you this player
or Max Meyer was one eighty five preseason according to this,
and player B was one seventy five, so they're like
right in line.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean that's kind of a hint the low whip.
I'm just staring at some names here and not cheating,
not sorting.
Speaker 3: Andy R. Hillery r a two under under two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to say, well, this guy had a
I was gonna say, Kyle Harrison, but Kyle Harrison had
a bad outing, so that would have really skewed these numbers.
So it can't. And Kyle also wasn't in that high
drafted range. It's low strikeouts? Is player b Parker Messik? No?
He hesitated there. I was figuring out a way to
say no. So I brought this up the other day.
So this this has my brain curdling a little bit.
I brought up that there's this new type of picture.
They're not new, but it's this new breed of like
low strikeout but successful pictures. And I had been putting
Robleski as one of those guys. Joe had someone today
Now I'm forgetting who the hell it was. I'm like,
we could throw him in there. There's a couple of
these and there's there's a grouping of these players that
it's like they don't have low k numbers? Is it
Davis Martin? No, he wasn't.
Speaker 3: Drafted that high and he just got killed and he
did just get mood.
Speaker 2: But yeah, there's a they're really interesting guys that we
all kind of like, now are okay rostering even though
they have like these low strikeout numbers. The whip I
guess is really throwing me off in that period of time.
And I mean you straight up told me like the
general range that he's having, So like, why am I
screwing that up? All right, I'm gonna go with one
more get now blown up? One eighties. Let me give
a guess, because I'm just wasting time here. We will
go with do I want to concede? I think I
might have to concede here? Uh, take a guest. I'm trying.
Speaker 3: Quit looking at names. Take a guess, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't have a guess.
Speaker 3: Embery Hancock, no way, I was.
Speaker 2: Dude, I promise you I was gonna say Emberson, I said,
just say it.
Speaker 3: You should have just said it. You would have been,
you would have hate.
Speaker 2: You're over, you screwed.
Speaker 3: Now you've burned. You've burned. Your only one that you
knew is on this list.
Speaker 2: You know why I didn't because because of the ADP
and Marston Hancock wasn't in the one eighties.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you preseason it's not the eight it's not
the They don't give us ADP on Yahoo. They give
us what the Yahoo preseason rank was.
Speaker 2: Yahoo preseason rank had Hancock in said two hundred.
Speaker 3: That's what it says.
Speaker 2: I mean, completely threw me off the trail because Hancock
has a sub one ERA in the season, he's wavered
on the strikeouts that.
Speaker 3: Was over the last month. That he is fifty seventh,
but his preseason was one seventy five. And Myers is
forty second and his preseason was one eighty five.
Speaker 2: So Fantasy Baseball Fantasy pros ADP, I gotta see this
because I.
Speaker 3: I thought Hancock was in the three hundreds.
Speaker 2: I thought he was undrafted across the board. I am
like in shock because that. I mean, dude, I just
did a is this real? I just did a search
and he's not in the top six hundred of ADP
on Fantasy Pros.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe they adjust those in season or something. I
don't know, or maybe it's like this is what his
uh you do?
Speaker 2: Yahoo?
Speaker 3: Maybe that's what his thing was for the last thirty days,
Like if people were doing drafts in the last.
Speaker 2: Thirty that must have been because he was not top
six let me on Yahoo. He's not top six hundred
on Yahoo preseason according to Fantasy pros ADP.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look no sense for the season. I have
it on season total, it still says one seventy five,
so I don't know why it's like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't even show up in the top two
hundred and fifty seven pitchers on ADP on Fantasy pros.
That's unless the search tool is not working. That's crazy. Well,
that's my bad. You did say say the name. I didn't.
Hancock has been incredible. That's a really weird one though,
to compare against each other, to Max Meyer and Hancock,
I know you're going to say that, Well, where do
you have him ranked in your latest update? Are they
that different? Be like thirty six and thirty eight or something.
I don't know. I've been pretty like weird about hand Uh,
not Hancock, but Max meyrall season. I think he deserves
his flowers a little bit more. Twenty six and a
half k percentage two eight five ERA he does haven't
expected ERA a full run higher, and his walks are
a little bit higher this year. But he's just kind
of altered, like he's altered his pitch mix. He's gone
heavy sweeper, he's sweeper slider. He's throwing both of those
pitches more than fifty percent of the time. He's lowered
you know that. I mean, I guess that four seeing
fastball usage was the same as last year. He's just
getting more whiffs on both of those pitches. I think
i'd say Max Meyer, but you know, Emerson Hancock the
sweeper has been disgusting.
Speaker 3: I think I mentioned and Exfit are like right on
top of each other.
Speaker 2: So there's this cool thing about the pitching coach with
the the Mariners. I guess you used to play with
Chris Sale and that's where he was inspired to change change.
The arm angle of Hancock was interesting. Yeah, the across
the arm you know angle that Chris Sale has in it.
It's created this so much more success for Hancock and
the sweepers been good.
Speaker 3: Both guys good.
Speaker 2: I guess it would go with Max Meyer, but I
don't know, like Hancock has the support of the you know,
great ballpark around him. That's a fascinating one.
Speaker 3: All right. Uh the third one here, I'm I'm just
gonna give you a hint to start, because these are
hard names and I'm going to admit that, so I
won't tell you which one, but one of them is
about thirty percent roster and the other one is about
eighty percent roster. I'm just gonna throw. That's gonna be
your hint to start. So I won't tell you which one, okay,
because I have one of them. One of them is
about thirty percent, one of them is about eighty percent.
Speaker 2: Because the thirty percent one I want to ask because
if it's too I might have a guest already.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well do you want to guess right now? Well,
let me give the numbers first? Oka?
Speaker 2: Yeah, sorry, sorry, okay.
Speaker 3: So player A thirty three innings, three wins, thirty three
strikeouts one nine to one e ra A one two
one quip. Player B thirty point two innings pitched, three wins,
twenty five strikeouts. Low on the strikeouts two nine three
on the e r A. So the e r is over,
uh you know, a full run higher, but the whip
is point three lower at point nine to one versus
one point two to one.
Speaker 2: So no, I gotta retract, I gotta You don't have
a guess. Well I thought I had a guess, but
I just remember this has been more relief, So this
guy is not going to work. Who I was thinking of.
Speaker 3: Didn't put relievers in.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me ask. This is player A the higher
on percentage. So this is uh, I just okay, I
can't ask that. Well, you know you said none of them.
Speaker 3: No, no, I'll give you. I'll give you league before I
give you that. Okay, cool, So you tell me when
you want league, I'll give it to you.
Speaker 2: Give me a league, all right? A L is A
and L is B Okay is player A reed debt
meers incorrect?
Speaker 3: That's a yeah.
Speaker 2: Damn I thought I had. I thought I hit the
player B is one of those annoying guys. Okay, I
got a guess for player B Okay player B Michael
McGreevy incorrect. I thought those were such good guesses.
Speaker 3: They were a great guy two guys I considered, by
the way, God, that.
Speaker 2: Really and that grinds my gears. I whip is player
A Peyton Tolly?
Speaker 3: No, tell me when you want the vision?
Speaker 2: Oh? Hold on? Okay, Player A was a right, yes,
Player A. Spencer Arraghetty.
Speaker 3: Almost in here as well. I told you these are
lone names.
Speaker 2: Well you U said player or one of them is
eighty percent owned one of them is. That's not a
low name, that's a pretty high name. One is going
to say.
Speaker 3: I'm telling you they're both low names. You'll understand when
you hear them. But the thirty percent is exponentially lower
than the eighty percent. Yes, Lo Lo, but good this
month for a full month? And really good?
Speaker 2: Is player B o Dustin May No?
Speaker 3: I thought I was divisions?
Speaker 2: No now yet now yet he's got to make this too.
Speaker 3: He's got one.
Speaker 2: Oh really, I want to hit The over for the
boys is over? I want the over the boys.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of money writing on this. Wells just
a lot of people listening together and have taken bets.
Speaker 2: Like three people that are like, you know, this is
really bad for podcasting, man, I think it would be better.
Speaker 3: People could watch you torture yourself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should do this on video one, So everybody
go like the YouTube channel, get it over one thousand,
and we'll do all of our episodes on video moving forward.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I'm failing here. I'm gonna do one more?
Is player player B Christian Scott?
Speaker 3: No, All right, here we go. Claire A is from
the AL West. Player B is from the NL West.
Speaker 2: Player B Edward of Rodriguez.
Speaker 3: You're on the right team.
Speaker 2: Oh you said his name earlier, Oh Soroka. Yes, I
strikeouts through me. Okay, so it doesn't count, damn it.
Speaker 3: So that's the eighty percent. So the thirty percent picture
from the Al West. This should be a much better hint.
Speaker 2: Now, Oh maah, well I did I guess Eric Getty,
I guess uh.
Speaker 3: Lower lower lower on a bad team, read Debtmer's teammate.
Speaker 2: No, which one is this? It's not Urania, is it?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: It is.
Speaker 3: Urania.
Speaker 2: Thirty percent own. That's kind of shocking percent roster. Look
at that. Look at that thirty day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a nine K per nine son, thirty three strikeouts,
thirty three innings, one nine to one e r A
one two one whip. That's pretty damn good man, and
three wins on the Angels.
Speaker 2: Look at him real quick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, I know. It's been better than we thought. Yeah, dude,
So you asked if Mike Soroco was Michael McGreevy, And
when you said Michael, I was like, oh god, he
does have it. And then you said, read Debt meers
for a player a who is Walbert Urania's teammate. So
you were pretty close in.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess, but what Urine is really interesting? Though?
I hate the the one three six whip is the
thing that you like, You're like, ugh, because you know
he does haven't expected era that's in the threes, but
you know, to be fair low, hard hit, doesn't get
barreled a whole bunch. Expected batting average is actually really
good against. And then you look at the pitch profile.
He's got four pitches he throws double digit percentage of
the time, all of them twenty percent with for more rain.
Is much better pitcher than I for twenty two.
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've they've actually got it in there, and he
gets like, you know, okay, chase solid whiff ground ball
kind of monster. Like what you worry about with like
high whiff or high whip like ground ball guys is
like if the quality of contact changes, does everybody just start,
you know, pounding the crap out of the zone with
him and whatever? But yeah, because he's got a thirteen
percent walk rate, so that that's the thing that worries you.
But I don't know, there's definitely something there, definitely streamable
and obviously Soroka Literally from the day I saw him live,
I was like, Wow, Soroka is a change pitcher. He Yeah,
I've been on him all season, so he's been a
really good one. But that's yeah, ur AINI I just
I wouldn't have guessed. That's amazing, bogs all.
Speaker 3: I have one last one to try to get a
guy to hit the over. Yeah, And I'll give you
a big hint before we start here. Okay, you have
said one of these names already in your guesses. I
won't tell you who will win, but you have said
one of the names in your guesses already. So that's
the that's the big hint to start. I'm pulling for
a year over as well. Here a little. I also
like watching you torture yourself. But Player A over the
last thirty days, thirty innings only one win, thirty four
strikeouts three three oh e er one whip Player B
twenty seven innings over the last thirty days, three wins,
but only twenty two strikeouts. Lower r A at three,
but a higher whip at one point one nine. Is
Player B Davis Martin? Guesses immediately, No is Player.
Speaker 2: A Davis Martin. No, neither one of them is Davis Martin.
All right, so I use the Davis Martin player. Give
me what was the hint? Again?
Speaker 3: You said, I'm sorry, I said you said this player's
name already. I know that.
Speaker 2: Wasn't there another?
Speaker 3: Oh okay, and there was not, no you cheating cheater,
there was not another.
Speaker 2: Guess is m y sa be Spencer Arraghetty? No, I
can't just say all Spencer Array is not on this list?
Speaker 3: You guess?
Speaker 2: Maybe yeah, maybe you didn't. Maybe you did say that already.
Uh well, I mean I got my face because you
said I've said his name, but.
Speaker 3: You did only say his name one time, but you
did say one of the player's names.
Speaker 2: I'm I'm very sorry to the to the overbetders. The
one win, I feel like is kind of a giveaway.
I mean, you know, thirty days picking up only one
win with the three hurry in a low whip that
stands out. That sounds out as like an obvious type
of thing like this should be somebody that they had
good performances or on. Kind of like a bad team
that's not supporting. Maybe it's a bad bullpen.
Speaker 3: What kind of hint do you want next? I'll give
you one more.
Speaker 2: I don't know, just give me whatever, all right, I'll
give you.
Speaker 3: Divisions, okay, Uh player a n L Central.
Speaker 2: Oh you're gonna. I just I thought you're gonna.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do divisions. Player B al.
Speaker 2: East, Al East and NL Central you said.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But n L Central is Player A and player
B is Ale East.
Speaker 2: I mean Player A is not Paul Skans, is it?
Speaker 3: No, it's not. I love that you're going to be
I love that you guess that name when you hear
the actual.
Speaker 2: Name is player A. Braxton Ashcraft incorrect? Oh my god,
I mean that could be.
Speaker 3: Player that's the name you said to By the way,
his player A? Oh right?
Speaker 2: Is player A? Well that's.
Speaker 3: See this is fun because it's pure torture you on tilt.
I have no clue who this is. My AI program
to to get all of your tells has worked so
well for me.
Speaker 2: Is it Kyle Harrison incorrect? Oh my god?
Speaker 3: It's a good guest too, because you said his name
A bunch.
Speaker 2: It's not said everything mass player's name Michael McGreevy. H right, team,
Well now it doesn't count. It's no, it didn't count
when I gave you divisions. So all right, we'll just
give me the names. I can't do anyone.
Speaker 3: Claire A is Dustin May whose name you said? Only
one win though you really you got nothing on uh
on player B.
Speaker 2: No, I'm burnt. I can't wait Will Warren. Wow, Dustin
May has been that much better than Will Warren.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Interesting, Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: He only has one win because he plays with cards.
Speaker 2: Let's look at Dustin Riley.
Speaker 3: Riley O'Brien has been blowing like every Dustin May save.
Speaker 2: I feel like, yeah, I guess it was kind of
right about the bullpen and stuff, but uh one two
five era on the season for Dustin May four two
one through thirteen starts, he's giving up a ton of
less barreled contact. He's walking so much less while six
percent he hasn't expected the ray that is almost a
full run better than where he's at right now. And yeah,
I mean the fastball is up a mile per hour
year over year. This cutter seems to kind of have transformed,
but it's kind of getting banged around. He's trippy. He's
where I kind of still don't buy it. I think
think it's it even between the era and expected era.
So I think he's like a three nine to four
E RA. Guy. I don't love the lack of strikeouts.
I kind of think he's gonna come apart but I'm
down with him as a streamer. But I will tell
you I would have never thought Dustin May versus Will
Warren would have looked that close.
Speaker 3: Yeah I know, yeah, because Will Warren has been great.
But yeah, Dustin May May's had a really good month
and a better season than the last month too.
Speaker 2: So under was in play. That's all you needed to
do is the under and play. How many did you
guys get right? Let us know if you got any
of those. I mean, I feel like the world is
more right now, don't you. Yeah, well, yeah, I feel defeated.
So yeah, I scaled more what I'm used to feeling there.
That was a definite, definite good game we did have.
Let me pull this up here because I don't want
to get past it. The Grim Reaper checked in. I
don't know what evil the Grim Reaper's up to, and
then we're going to do the two start pitchers here,
so we got a little action. I just got to
bring it up here. So I'm stalling a little action
on from the Grim Reaper with the title of Vegas Baby.
So yes, I mean, like this is someone that's going
to be talking about hockey and literally none of us
are going to care m.
Speaker 4: Hello boys, I run into something most of foul this week.
I don't know who did it. I don't know what
department at Major League Baseball they work in, but some
moron decided that the Athletics should play six consecutive home
games in Las Vegas.
Speaker 2: I forgot we had the Vegas games. Never mind, I'm an.
Speaker 4: Idiot this week and now, even after eleven Athletics home runs,
it is still Tuesday night, with four more games to
go at a ballpark somehow even sillier than Sacramento, and
nobody said a word. No breaking news, no special announcement,
no warning, just six straight home games in Las Vegas,
hidden in plain sight on the schedule, as if this
is something we've all agreed to. Whoever made this decision
and in the process ruined my weekly pitching matchups, please
know that I possess a very particular set of skills,
skills acquired over a very long fantasy and Grim Reaper career,
skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
I will look for you, I will find you, and
you are cursed toodles, so.
Speaker 2: Is the Grim Reaper has just become like he's cursing,
like well, no, not even cursing anybody.
Speaker 3: It's just like grind just like the schedule maker.
Speaker 2: Noah, we don't do that. We need like you just
get it. He's grinding his gears. He's like, you know,
grinds my gears, Vegas runs. I'm gonna curse somebody, like what, No,
we need curse some players.
Speaker 3: Well, my guy had A's pictures and Brewers pictures, so
his team is folded. I guess who was it?
Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison got uh no was it Harrison? Yeah, Harrison
got obliterated.
Speaker 3: It thirty five hits and eleven homers.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous. Well then, but then the under was in play
the last one too, Yeah, because they were all so
exhausted from playing the first game.
Speaker 3: So that was my thing. It was like everyone was
talking about how many runs are going to be hit
and maybe, but also do you remember how you ever
do a day's worth of work out in one hundred
and ten? You remember how being how sapped you were?
Speaker 2: Oh after that, dude, I went out it was one
hundred and seven yesterday to watch that. I didn't even
do anything. I just watched baseball and I was just
absolutely fried.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, it h it's a different type of heat.
I know people dislike the humidity more, and it's understandable,
but there's a reason why the unhoused move. They'll die
in the heat. Yea to die in the heat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. I saw something recently that was like, we
just got to get people to move out of Arizona
in like a couple other states, like cause it's going
to get bad.
Speaker 3: And it's like, yeah, probably, but well, yeah, the people
that don't have homes go to San Diego for the summer.
Speaker 2: I've thought a lot about I heard people talking about
when you go to like Europe, because I've never been
to Europe, want to need I need a sugar, mama, daddy,
anybody else. But they're like the person, sugar person, there's
no air conditioning anywhere, And I'm like, I don't know
how I would survive, Like I'm just conditioned to an
air conditioner. It doesn't have it. Why are you dying today?
Top dying just my voice? Joe did the same thing.
Speaker 3: You and Joe are just like he does, like died
straight up on the episode. I mean, I got a
terrible cold last week and I've been hacking ever since then.
Speaker 2: But uh, I forgot you sound so good. I forgot
you had any the.
Speaker 3: Uh it is interesting. Have you seen the Europeans coming
over here for the World Cup and trying our food
in Yeah, people have been are air conditioning and all
that stuff. They're like, oh my god, I love America.
I had no idea. People think we're fat just because
we're lated. No, we're fat because the food is amazing
and abundant, available everywhere, and it's cheap, and we're comfortable. Yeah, exactly,
and we're very comfortable, that's true. And also everything is
so far in the US you don't you can't walk it.
You will die in the heat. You see everyone gassing
out in Florida. Yeah, it's pretty. It's hot here. It's
way hotter than anywhere in Europe.
Speaker 2: So yeah, exactly. So I just need air conditioning. That's
my main point. I need air conditioning everywhere I go.
All right, let's take a look at two star pitchers
at the tippy top Chris Sales going next week. My boy,
you know what, I was totally missed opportunity. Dennis Buddy,
Dennis Sidler. He did a signing with Chris Sale, and
I knew it was happening. And I had a couple
of things he was going to get done. But then
I realized I was like.
Speaker 3: Oh, you know what, I want to least sign a
White Sox jersey with the arms cut off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so will you send these scissors? I was thinking,
you know what I want to do. I was going
to ask Dennis to have Chris do a video and
it was gonna be but we were gonna do it
for Fantasy Pros and it was going to be like,
you know, hey, Peanuts and Cracker Jacks love you guys,
Well you're my favorite, and then just completely ignore Joe
And that was going to be the video. But I
missed the opportunity because I was a day late. I
didn't realize it was the day I thought of it,
and he'd already done the signing. I don't know if
they would have done that, but he Dennis likes to
do stuff like that. But speaking of Chris Sale, Chris
Sale's got the two starts as he continues to roll
no Biggie There, Chase Burns two starter, Zach Wheelers a
two starter, Garrett Cole. At this point, Davis Martin, you
just got to keep rolling him out. He's up on
that list. I think we need to talk about Peyton
Toley Chota, I min naga. Let's do a little stop
at Framber Valdez. Framber has kind of a good matchup
going back to Houston and he's got the Chicago White Sox.
But he's been mid dude, Like I should have called
him a dick on the episode today because he is
He's just so unlikable. Yes, he's just so unlikable, and
then on top of it, he's also like not great.
He's just pretty mediocre right now. I think he's just
so droppable in ten team, and frankly, I don't think
a twelve team, I know, like the name value would
make me want to stop. But like if there was
like a good pitcher floating out there, I'm not sure
I would let Framber stop me. But I get not
being that dramatic about it. What do you feel about
Valde and how he's pitched and then going up at
Houston and then at home against Chicago.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think outside of the two big blow ups,
he's been okay. Right He gave up seven against Boston,
he gave up eight against Minnesota. Other than that, like
two of his last three sites starts. He gave up four,
but he was at least through five innings in both those.
You're right, though, he's not putting up crazy strikeout numbers.
He is just very mid is mid now. If you
want to bench him against the Astros and White Sox
White Sox, excuse me. I'm fine with that move.
Speaker 2: I just don't know if I feel good about them,
Like maybe he's gonna ramp up, you know, hit seven
people and his return to Houston or something like that.
But I don't know.
Speaker 3: Would you rather start Framberg for those two or Walbert
Urania at the Diamondbacks and then at the A's Urina?
Speaker 2: I think I might go Valdez, to be honest with you.
Speaker 3: But Dbacks have no offense right now, just disappear.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's true. But the A's do have offense
and it's in second meno, So I don't love that. True.
I don't know. Maybe yourrain is the not a Vegas
game though, Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Maybe all right,
mackenzy Gore, It's true, McKenney Gore, Twins and Padres. I'm fine.
I'm good, actually more than good. Nick Martinez been great
this year, but at the Dodgers and then Washington. No, no, no,
might not. I don't love that. Dylan cees Boston and
Chicago both on.
Speaker 3: The Great Yeah, yeah, but he looked great and yeah, so.
Speaker 2: Red Debt Mars has our Diamondbacks and then at Angel
at the A's I'm fine with it because I'm a
Debt Maersk guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's pitching too well right now.
Speaker 2: I'm not a Ryan Nelson guy who just got his
tits lit and he's going up against the Angels and
then the Twins, even though those are great matchups, I'm
not I'm not interested.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just got hammered by the Marlins. So pass you're.
Speaker 2: Passing, okay? Seth Lugo a big old bang on his head.
You see that one hundred and seven miles hours off
off a Nemo. Yeah that and Nemo even was like,
are you okay? Like going over to make sure. Yeah,
I don't know if it starts to push. But it's
Washington and the Cardinals like.
Speaker 3: No, I'm not. No, the Cardinals have been nice this
year and Washington is still leading the league in runs.
Speaker 2: Pass Jared Jones, how about Jared Jones. He's not going
past like seventy seven or seventy five pitches in any game.
He's got the A's, but then he's got Colorado, but
it's in Colorado.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and at Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Nah. I also think I'm kind of down. So then
the lower percentage guys, You've got Ka White Tang, who's
going up against the Tigers and the Guardians. You've got
Brandon Young who's at Seattle. But then at the Dodgers,
Lucas Nonedo, he's got the Cardinals and the Rangers, and
then well, I've been asking all of them. And then
Jack Perkins has got the Pirates and the Angels, and
I don't really like anybody else. I want to love
the Brandon Young one, but I freaking hate the matchups.
I like Jack Perkins, I kind of like GI leader.
Brandon Young's my favorite of all of them, but I
think he's the least startable. I think I would start
Tang over Young.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't. I would start Young because Tang got lit
in his last start, So I think that that ride
is over with.
Speaker 2: I feel like, so you want Young against the Dodgers,
I don't want.
Speaker 3: Any of them. If I'm being honest, this is.
Speaker 2: A garbage week for two star pitchers that actually I
actually think I like Giolito and Secconi more than I
like Tanging Young. But this, this might be the reason
how bad it is. If if this is a concern
for you, you might have to you know, you might
have to swallow a bad pill and just be like,
you know what, I am going to start Nick Martinez.
I am going to start Ryan Nelson because there are
some really bad options out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now I think I am starting Ran yet against the
Diamondbacks in the ages at this point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'd rather do that than reach down
into this barrel of I.
Speaker 2: Wish I had a favorite, an under fifty percent CBS guy.
I don't have, like a guy that I'm like, Oh,
I absolutely love this. It's all pretty like I mean
down there, I'm not starting lorenz In and righting a
stole and stuff like that. I don't want to know.
So I think it's more of a streaming picture week
than it is playing the two starts. Absolutely agreed, that's
what you got in store for you. There you go.
That that is the episode. That's everything. Thank you to
the grim Reapoo.
Speaker 3: Real quick before we leave. Yeah, these closers because I
put this together last night, and I couldn't believe it
when I was doing it. There were so many blown
saves in three days. Hogan, Harris Laying, Rico Garcia, Kirby Yates,
Rice Auglecias Valencia, Santillion, Senzateella, Johan Duran, Keaton, win all
Blue saves, A got losses, and then a bunch of
guys that aren't closers got saves this week. I just
want to know, like, who is someone that you're putting
a bid in on at the in the closer market
because it's really bad right now.
Speaker 2: I got two guys, Yeah, that's interesting. We actually we
just did a waiver wire pitcher thing. It's like a
short on Fantasy pros. Joe brought up Elvis Alvarado, who's
kind of interesting, but he's not said to anything. My
two guys. Despite Alex Lang getting a loss, I want
to pick him up because he's getting the primary saves
and one not listed anywhere. He is jo Hendris Gomez
with the Twins because he has been getting he got
the last two saves. I think they're comfortable with him
right now. They don't win a lot of games, but
Gomez and Lang are the two guys in the lower
percentage market that I'm trying to pick up. Everything else
is relatively speculative. I don't know what the hell's going
on with the Reds, and you know, I'm not going
to guess that Iglesias or Palencia is going to lose
their job or anything like that. Alvarado is kind of
interesting from like a really deep, deep perspective, But Andris
Gomez and Alex Lang are the two guys that think.
Speaker 3: You should pick up all right, good, Yeah, I just
wanted a couple names there because it is the closing.
Stuff has been going crazy. Yeah, I feel like the
last two weeks.
Speaker 2: That is going to do it for the episode. Got
a fun thing I'm gonna do on the Friday episode.
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Speaker 3: Peace.
Speaker 4: Mobar