Speaker 1: Green Societyations. Everyone at Ritch Wilson Walking Fantasy Baseball Live.
Speaker 1: Today is May eighth, about nine twenty in the morning,
Speaker 1: and it is always on Fridays. I'm here with my
Speaker 1: good buddy, mister Tim McCloud. Tim, I'm Dragon. A little
Speaker 1: bit was off at the Hudson Valley game. It was
Speaker 1: cold outside watching Gabe Davis play pitch for the Chicago
Speaker 1: White Sox and Caveam Bonamer, Caleb Bonnemer and guys like that,
Speaker 1: so it was a lot of fun. But I got
Speaker 1: in late last night. I was cold, so you have
Speaker 1: to give me a boost of energy, my friend.
Speaker 2: Okay, well we're gonna talk closures. How much more energy
Speaker 2: need rich? Like, really, it's one of your favorite topics
Speaker 2: of conversation. Did you see Bonomer get plunked by uh No?
Speaker 2: That was in night before. I guess Garrett Cole got
Speaker 2: a little cranky and drilled him after he got three
Speaker 2: consecutive hits off them or something.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Bartomber's good. He's like, it's a that's a
Speaker 1: big big boy. The I forgot who was pitching for
Speaker 1: uh for the Hudson Valley team. He through four innings,
Speaker 1: four walks, four hit hits Batman was Finally the manager
Speaker 1: came out said that's enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you got your work. You got your work. Abel
Speaker 2: to somebody else yet so uh.
Speaker 1: Anyway, so that's that's what we got. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's close. I think we should talk about the big news,
Speaker 1: and that's uh, Trek Scuball needing elbow surgery. I mean, Tammy,
Speaker 1: we're going closers has been brutal. Starting pitching has been
Speaker 1: absolutely I don't of anything saying, like anything the high
Speaker 1: end pitchers three of the big four if you include
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown or now the il I mean that's you know,
Speaker 1: the lone wolf is Paul Skens. I mean makes sense
Speaker 1: of this for me. First of all, if you own
Speaker 1: Trek scouble, how long is he going to be out?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Well?
Speaker 2: Apparently when they got in there and they took a
Speaker 2: look at the elbow, apparently there was only one loose body,
Speaker 2: which to me means obviously he's got good antibodies. Sorry, I.
Speaker 1: Had the mouse over the rim shot, I says, you
Speaker 1: were going on, where's he going with this?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Okay, yeah, anybodies are good. Apparently, now they're saying
Speaker 2: four to six weeks oh really. Oh yeah, apparently there
Speaker 2: was only one loose body in there. Everything was pretty clean.
Speaker 2: So they're saying four to six weeks. So that changed
Speaker 2: is the equation considerably from what we thought might be
Speaker 2: two to three months. Okay, so if he is back
Speaker 2: in four to six we'll go on the long side
Speaker 2: of that, maybe go seven weeks. You're basically looking at
Speaker 2: the same loss of time as per se Hunter Brown. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're looking at twelve to fifteen starts probably over the
Speaker 2: balance of the year once he returns, assuming he sticks
Speaker 2: to that time frame. So it it's still bad and
Speaker 2: it's still gonna hurt, but it's not gonna hurt as
Speaker 2: bad as what we possibly thought at the time of
Speaker 2: the incident.
Speaker 1: So I did not read that as again, I was
Speaker 1: out freezing my butt off at an early May game,
Speaker 1: so because in my head, I thought this was a
Speaker 1: disaster for the Detroit Tigers. They're off to a slow start,
Speaker 1: losing Scooble, and problem not going to be able to
Speaker 1: trade him before the deadline because he was about when
Speaker 1: he would come back. He would come back sometime in August.
Speaker 1: Now if he comes back in early July, late June,
Speaker 1: they have a chance, and he pitches two or three games,
Speaker 1: they have a chance to move him at the deadline,
Speaker 1: which would be great for them.
Speaker 2: Well, they have a chance to move him at the deadline,
Speaker 2: and if they can play five hundred baseball, you know,
Speaker 2: if they can play decent baseball in the meantime, they
Speaker 2: might also decide to keep them, depending on what happens
Speaker 2: in their division. So it doesn't it leaves things I
Speaker 2: think in a state of fux as we had, you know,
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Anyways, it just seems like tim the Troit Tigers and
Speaker 1: some of the some teams are really struggling. It just
Speaker 1: does not look like the Detroit Tigers season. I mean,
Speaker 1: they for some reason, they have brought up Max Clark.
Speaker 1: They've got harvy bias when he's healthy in center field,
Speaker 1: fram Er Valdez is just angry at the world and
Speaker 1: throwing at people. I mean, it's it looks bad in
Speaker 1: Detroit at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's stump by bramberveld Is. That was bushleg totally,
Speaker 2: and yeah, like come on, grow up a little bit.
Speaker 2: I Hey, I get it, you're disappointed that you gave
Speaker 2: up back to back home, but plunking the next batter
Speaker 2: is not the answer to the solution. The answer the
Speaker 2: answer to the problem that I should say is pitch better.
Speaker 2: Pitch better. They're not going to hit out of the park. See,
Speaker 2: you have a job. Hitters have a job. They were
Speaker 2: doing theirs, you weren't doing yours. You know, suck it
Speaker 2: up a little bit. I was disappointed in that, I
Speaker 2: really was. But then after that stump last year with
Speaker 2: the catcher and this signals whatever Bramber has moved from
Speaker 2: my maybe list to my I just don't want to
Speaker 2: have anything to do with it.
Speaker 1: I think that's fair. Well, getting back to the Tigers,
Speaker 1: maybe I misspoken. I didn't realize how bad that americanly
Speaker 1: Central looked. They're in second place eighteen and twenty ten,
Speaker 1: one game in front of the potential World Series champions,
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox.
Speaker 2: Well, I did I have to I would you would
Speaker 2: hear me laughing with out? Okay, come the end of
Speaker 2: septmver shohen something happened? Okay?
Speaker 1: Oh I know is if they're at the end of July,
Speaker 1: I will we will have a show dedicated to me
Speaker 1: kissing your ass, I mean would be amazing.
Speaker 2: You won't mention any of my Really.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that. That would be an amazing call. Soah,
Speaker 1: but I mean, yeah, you're right. I mean that's great
Speaker 1: news on school. People haven't heard it. I had not
Speaker 1: heard it that three to only three will you say
Speaker 1: four to six weeks?
Speaker 2: Four to six weeks is what they're saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I get it. I guess one. I guess
Speaker 1: the fear was there would be more elbow damage, not
Speaker 1: just loose bodies, but potentially more structural damage. So that's
Speaker 1: good that that's not what's going to happen. But I
Speaker 1: guess the point here also is thinking back to the draft.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's always been a risky proposition to draft
Speaker 1: a starting pitcher in the first round. And we had
Speaker 1: definitely scooble and schemes going in the first round, and
Speaker 1: some of them we had crochet going in there. And
Speaker 1: I saw one Yamamoto win in the first round. Does
Speaker 1: this give you pause for that strategy of hey, look
Speaker 1: we still need these top pictures and let's go grab
Speaker 1: them to get the two hundred strikeouts when they just break.
Speaker 1: To me, it's just by definition that's what happens.
Speaker 2: Well, it does, but I really don't think it changes,
Speaker 2: not for me anyways, It doesn't change the equation a
Speaker 2: whole lot. How many home runs is Bobby Wad Junior
Speaker 2: got he was drafted four? Yeah, Juan Soto has missed
Speaker 2: what three weeks? Ron Lacuna is out, Julio Rodriguez hasn't
Speaker 2: started a COVID. Corbyn Carroll is chasing Bobby Wad Junior
Speaker 2: in the home run department, protecting Fernando.
Speaker 1: Payment Bone. That's what we expect. Yeah, Tatist Junior has
Speaker 1: been a disaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he hasn't a home run yet. Gunner Henderson is
Speaker 2: not hitting his weight. Okay, that is what six seven
Speaker 2: players in the first round bats. Okay, underachieving an Injuries
Speaker 2: can affect us all. So I'm I know the odds
Speaker 2: of pictures getting hurt are higher, But when you look
Speaker 2: at this year, if you happen to right now have
Speaker 2: Faull Schemes touch, would that provides a little bit of
Speaker 2: an edge? I would been considering the ten top e
Speaker 2: ra as are all from undrafted or later drafted pictures,
Speaker 2: right Yeah, if you if you've managed to hold on
Speaker 2: to Schemes and and Er Yamamoto, Yeah they're good picks.
Speaker 2: It makes a difference if you happen to to have
Speaker 2: to have drafted Fernando to teas junior. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: been tough. So I hey, I said, pictures, pictures break,
Speaker 2: but a good picture also provides you a big age.
Speaker 2: So do you do nothing?
Speaker 1: Are you okay taking a picture of the first round?
Speaker 2: I'm not because I don't think I don't think you
Speaker 2: have to. I think you can. I think you can
Speaker 2: work with the middle rounds and do very well. But
Speaker 2: at the same point in time, I'm not going to
Speaker 2: slighter fault somebody for taking a ball of schemes in
Speaker 2: the first round. Yeah, he's the best pitcher in baseball.
Speaker 1: I think is best in baseball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the last time I looked, skiings e
Speaker 2: ra is better than schools. Uh. And he started off
Speaker 2: he started out with an era of I believe it
Speaker 2: was about one hundred and thirty five after that first misadventure.
Speaker 1: So it's been very good. So yeah, and the Pirates
Speaker 1: are better, so they're winning more games. So he went
Speaker 1: from a guy you were going to trade for a
Speaker 1: forgot who last season and I talked to you out
Speaker 1: of it now being the best picture in baseball. Wow,
Speaker 1: how things have changed with mister McLeod.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I happened to have. I happened to have Skimes
Speaker 2: and Yamamoto in one league, in a keeper league. So
Speaker 2: I'm a okay, I you know, you look at Schoogle
Speaker 2: and he's been hurt before. This isn't you know, this
Speaker 2: isn't something new this way.
Speaker 1: Well, Tommy John surgery in college too, So that's that's
Speaker 1: always the fear. And I wonder if it will affect
Speaker 1: his free agency because second, Tommy John surgery's lasts about
Speaker 1: ten years, and yeah, he's getting close to ten years.
Speaker 2: Mm yeah, oh yeah. With the dot I would have
Speaker 2: to think, yeah, what is transpired is going to affect
Speaker 2: you know, hey, I think the sky was a limit.
Speaker 2: I think there is a limit now, okay. And he's
Speaker 2: not going to get He's going to get a good contract.
Speaker 2: He's not going to be in the Boroughs, not by
Speaker 2: any stretch of the imagination. But he's not going to
Speaker 2: get a half a billion dollar contract. I ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 1: He's going to get paid a lot though, and you
Speaker 1: know Scott bars is his agents. Yeah, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: It particularly comes back and can pitch effectively down the stretch.
Speaker 1: I mean that that could be extremely good. So can
Speaker 1: we get a Gunner Henderson? You mentioned his name. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he is not on my start set or drop, you know,
Speaker 1: because I think you're starting them. But I mean talk
Speaker 1: about I mean, the power is there. With nine home runs,
Speaker 1: he's showing good speed. He's a guy that could go
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty, maybe thirty twenty and hit to ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that therein lies the problem. Randy or Rosarina
Speaker 2: can do the same thing.
Speaker 1: Candy, Are you suggesting that Gunner Henderson is the is
Speaker 1: the new Randy A. Rose Arena.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not suggesting that to be the case, but
Speaker 2: it could prove to be at some point in time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: Gunner Henderson could be twenty five to twenty five low
Speaker 2: batting average type player.
Speaker 1: But he's never been. He's never been that. I mean,
Speaker 1: look at you see a strikeout rate twenty one percent
Speaker 1: last year, twenty two percent the year before that, thirty
Speaker 1: one point five this season, and he's got the worst
Speaker 1: walk rate of his career.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's yeah, he's he's posting a two sixty
Speaker 2: OVP right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Randy E. Rose Arena is return more valuated. I
Speaker 2: would be willing to bet.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I don't know how many
Speaker 1: home runs in stolen bases he has, so uh yeah.
Speaker 2: But it is this way. It's a long way from
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, where he had thirty seven home runs,
Speaker 2: stole twenty one bases, and had a two eighty one
Speaker 2: average three sixty four OVP. Yeah, in eight ninety three
Speaker 2: ops six eighty one. What alarms me is the strikeout
Speaker 2: to walk. That's that's you know, he's always struck out,
Speaker 2: but he's on base after the first month. To strike
Speaker 2: out three hundred times, that's a big number.
Speaker 1: So if I may, if I may, to me, it
Speaker 1: feels like his timing is either off or he has
Speaker 1: changed his swing type. So he's always had a fairly
Speaker 1: modest launch angle nine and a half degrees in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, nine point two degrees in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: It jumped up to seventeen degrees this season, So that's
Speaker 1: either a guy. We can look at the data and
Speaker 1: find out if he's popping up a whole lot of balls,
Speaker 1: which could very well be the case. So he's gone
Speaker 1: a significant sixty one percent airball rate in a thirty
Speaker 1: eight percent, So he's popping up at seven point eight
Speaker 1: percent of the time, which is a little higher than
Speaker 1: last season. But he is trying hit the ball more
Speaker 1: in the air, which usually brings your strikeout rate up,
Speaker 1: but his in the bottom line. By doing all this,
Speaker 1: his exit velocity has dropped significantly. So either his swing
Speaker 1: is all messed up or his new approach is not working.
Speaker 1: But he needs to get back to being the Gunner
Speaker 1: Henderson who drives the ball, who gets on base. And
Speaker 1: maybe he didn't like the seventeen home runs last season
Speaker 1: and tried to change something, but it's not working.
Speaker 2: No, And I was thinking, when you stray out fifty
Speaker 2: four times in one hundred and fifty nine at bats,
Speaker 2: that don't leave much room for pop ups, does it.
Speaker 1: Hey, if you got a two sixty on base percentage, ten,
Speaker 1: that is not that's not a guy. That's that's a
Speaker 1: going to be a long term major league baseball player.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it is Gunner Henderson. He's got
Speaker 1: to find a way to solve that. And somebody's got
Speaker 1: to figure that out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, he's he's ninety points below his average. Yeah,
Speaker 2: career average, that's no, that's not going to work, and.
Speaker 1: We're seeing he's just getting under the under the ball
Speaker 1: too much. So hopefully it is just a mechanical problem
Speaker 1: that he can fix and get back to being the
Speaker 1: guy that he is. Otherwise it's gonna be a long
Speaker 1: season for the Orioles. And you start to look at
Speaker 1: that front office and I love, you know, I'm pretty
Speaker 1: close to that front office. I love what they're doing.
Speaker 1: But Gunner Henderson hitting two to one, Pete Alonzo two
Speaker 1: twenty five, Tyler O'Neil two hundred, Colton Cows are one
Speaker 1: to eighty nine. Cook he may have won sixty seven.
Speaker 1: All of the guys, not Alonso, but all of the
Speaker 1: young kids that they thought we can't miss prospects and
Speaker 1: I did as well, Timmy, they're missing.
Speaker 2: Well, they've got Liordi Tavaris and center field. That wasn't
Speaker 2: part of the plan, was it?
Speaker 1: Well? I mean, and where the heck is Jackson Holiday
Speaker 1: He's on the Mike Trout recovery plan. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a guy that had hammate surgery and can't recover
Speaker 1: from it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know he's back on a rehab a signmon,
Speaker 2: but again, I was expecting to see him two to
Speaker 2: three weeks into the season. Well we're now into week six. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's and it's probably going to be if things work
Speaker 2: out right, he's going to be about a month longer
Speaker 2: on the aisle. And I was all the other guys
Speaker 2: that had surgery around the same.
Speaker 1: Time, the same day. It was the same day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're all back and produced.
Speaker 1: They all started the season on on the roster and
Speaker 1: the major League ross. Now again the power's out there,
Speaker 1: which you understand, But Jackson Holliday, I mean it's like this.
Speaker 1: I think it's concerning the guy that he finally has
Speaker 1: an injury and his recovery time has been so elongated.
Speaker 1: And again I threw the Mike Trout word out there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Timmy, it feels a lot like Mike
Speaker 1: trout have, you know, would have a a problem and
Speaker 1: it would take him months to recover from.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, Andrew Vaughn broke his hand a week week
Speaker 2: and a half after and he's already hit a home
Speaker 2: run for the Brewers. Okay, Yeah, that's that's a long
Speaker 2: it's a long time for Jackson Holiday. And hey, I
Speaker 2: got that one wrong. That one has made a huge
Speaker 2: difference to a lot of my squads this year. You know,
Speaker 2: losing a month, a bonus month of Jackson holiday hasn't
Speaker 2: helped my cause offense, I got.
Speaker 1: I've got him, and I expected a big year. I
Speaker 1: did not. I drafted him in my draft and hold
Speaker 1: before he got injured and then I'm like, okay, you
Speaker 1: know I got a replacements. So he comes back sometimes
Speaker 1: middle of April. I mean it's it's a month late already,
Speaker 1: and it's like, where is he?
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly back.
Speaker 1: To pitching, tim so yes, I mean it's it's been
Speaker 1: tough and we're going to talk. In fact, we'll talk
Speaker 1: closers next, but starting pitching. I mean, you've got guys
Speaker 1: like Robbie Snelling coming up this week and Elma Rodriguez
Speaker 1: who hasn't been good. But these are why these guys
Speaker 1: are getting bid up well.
Speaker 2: And know, hey, you can't ignore them because all it
Speaker 2: takes is one ahead and it solves a lot of
Speaker 2: your problems. But for everyone that hits is going to
Speaker 2: be three four plus at Gold and hey, you go
Speaker 2: to the waiver wire and take a look at what's
Speaker 2: out there. There ain't much. Yeah, yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Playing the middle middle reliever game. Too, which is is
Speaker 1: a tough game to play. Yes, it is so, I mean,
Speaker 1: and and again, Noah Saultz starting to come back to
Speaker 1: earth a little bit. The walks are starting to mound up.
Speaker 1: The era is now north of four fifty, So, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we're going to see that he's not quite
Speaker 1: ready yet. And but that's that's that's who's up. Those
Speaker 1: are the kind of guys that are coming up, high
Speaker 1: end potential dudes in the future that might not be ready.
Speaker 2: Well, not everybody is a Carvin Burns, right, yeah, and
Speaker 2: Carvin Burns struggle last year a little bit too. It
Speaker 2: wasn't he wasn't all world. You know, it takes a
Speaker 2: while for these Chase Burns, Yeah, Chase burn chess.
Speaker 1: He's thinking, you said Corman Burns, which but then I'm thinking, like, well,
Speaker 1: where is Corban? Right? I know he's coming back from
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. Isn't he expected sometime in the second half.
Speaker 1: We have to look into.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, August September, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, yeah, all right, So starting pitching is a nightmare.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. We got a whole lot of advice.
Speaker 1: I mean, we will tell people when guys get called
Speaker 1: up what we feel about them and so forth. But uh,
Speaker 1: closingess think is even worse off than starting pitching. And
Speaker 1: I I kind of laughed when I saw Amelio Pegan
Speaker 1: hit our buddy Amelia Pagan hit the eyel because Tim
Speaker 1: was just talking on Sunday about, Hey, at least we
Speaker 1: got Amelia Pagan, and it's like, guess what, Tim, we
Speaker 1: don't have Amelia Pegan anymore. So you've done some research
Speaker 1: on the top guys that were the top closes that
Speaker 1: were taken in the NFBC, and wanted to go through
Speaker 1: a game or something to tell us what you got
Speaker 1: going on.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I just went through and I took a
Speaker 2: look and listed the top twenty closers for the NFBC ADPs.
Speaker 2: And I was just thinking, making it fairly quick, let's
Speaker 2: go with a pass or fail and I'll just give
Speaker 2: you the top twenty. How does that sound?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Okay? Number one, Mason.
Speaker 1: I say, pass or fail? Is it the okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Well reverse roles for this one, okay. The
Speaker 2: top ten with Rich this morning, Mason were at number.
Speaker 1: One pass fine colors, okay.
Speaker 2: Number two Edwin Diaz, oh fail, yep, I agree. Number
Speaker 2: three Andre's Munosh.
Speaker 1: Well, he's still healthy. He's not been very good. I'm
Speaker 1: going to say a D so apparently passing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, that's fair. Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 2: At number four we got Kate Smith.
Speaker 1: Oh pass.
Speaker 2: Okay. At number five Johan Duran.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but I mean, if you're saying today he's failed,
Speaker 1: he's been he's been hurt more than he's been on yep.
Speaker 2: Number six David Bedner.
Speaker 1: Same camp as uh Moon, he's passing it, but it's
Speaker 1: it's it's a C minus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no flying colors. There's no flying colors in
Speaker 2: the seven or oldest Chapman.
Speaker 1: Oh h B plus passing okay.
Speaker 2: Number eight than Williams.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say fail, he's been brutal.
Speaker 2: Okay, I agree. Number nine Ryan Hillesley.
Speaker 1: Uh now hurt. I'm gonna say fail.
Speaker 2: Okay, I agree. Number ten Josh Hater, No fail. He
Speaker 2: has pitched yet, yeah, racial Iglesias, Uh, back back to
Speaker 2: the il.
Speaker 1: He pitched pretty well before getting hurt, right, Yeah he did.
Speaker 1: I'm going to give him an incomplete. I'm not sure yet.
Speaker 1: Let's see how changing the rules. I think he's got.
Speaker 1: I think he got to save back already, So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he did. Yeah, yeah, it's but again,
Speaker 2: he has spent time on the IL.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't a tremendous amount of time.
Speaker 2: No, no, it wasn't. No, it was just two weeks,
Speaker 2: I believe, just a bit.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to give him a pass.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I'll agree with that. When Yeah, now we're
Speaker 2: getting into some real gems. At number twelve, Carlos Estevez.
Speaker 1: Uh fail Lucas, Yeah, Lucas or sag A plus Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Estevez was pulled from his reheb I know more.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not getting the job back. I cannot. You
Speaker 1: can't pull the jobs been great.
Speaker 2: The only reason they would give the job back as
Speaker 2: of is is so they could trade him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I don't think that matters anymore. I
Speaker 1: think arms and arms and arm You know, if you
Speaker 1: if you can get guys out, you're going to get traded.
Speaker 2: Uh thirteen Jeff Hoffman.
Speaker 1: Oh well I have to say fail because that's that's
Speaker 1: what you would say, So I'll say fats Jeff Hoffman.
Speaker 2: Well he's not the closer anymore. So yeah. Then he
Speaker 2: said they were going to fix that problem last fall
Speaker 2: after the World Series and it took them five weeks
Speaker 2: to do it. So at four thirteen, we've got Daniel Valencia.
Speaker 1: He's back, right, so I'm gonna I'm gonna say he's
Speaker 1: been He was good before he went out out for
Speaker 1: what two or three weeks. I'll give him, you know,
Speaker 1: a solid C minus a barely passing okay.
Speaker 2: At fifteen, we have our friend in Miami, Pete Fairbanks.
Speaker 1: Oh, I think it's a fail.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's back on the IL.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Sixteen we have Amelia Pegan.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean he's hurt now, so I guess you
Speaker 1: want me to say fail. I don't know how he
Speaker 1: was before. I think he was okay before he was Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I mean I mean up until now. I mean
Speaker 1: it's been a pass because he just went on the IL.
Speaker 1: But I mean that's a tough one. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how to answer that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And a month from now is the guys
Speaker 2: that haven't rostered will say fail because he's out for
Speaker 2: two months.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah for two let's go with a fail.
Speaker 2: Seventeen Kenley Jensen, the Aging Ageless Wonder.
Speaker 1: He's been good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, I agree. Eighteen Trevor McGill.
Speaker 1: He's been okay, right, he still has the job, doesn't he.
Speaker 2: No, he doesn't been on the I l he's been hurt. No,
Speaker 2: I think it's a committee committee. But he's number two
Speaker 2: or three in the committee.
Speaker 1: Sor right, Well he's a fail then, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that one.
Speaker 2: Dennis and Tanna.
Speaker 1: Oh pass.
Speaker 2: Even though he's sharing the job with Soro.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say pass. Okay, I
Speaker 1: mean you're you're talking what number nineteen?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you expect towing the drup.
Speaker 1: Uh see he's only got two saves. Yeah, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna yeah, Yeah, that's that's something. That's Yeah, with a
Speaker 1: five point four strikeout for nine almost as many walks
Speaker 1: and strikeouts. Oh yeah, it's a fail.
Speaker 2: Okay. And at twenty we have the other half of
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee closer and under him with Abner your rebay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure. I don't know. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know how to respond. I mean that's I
Speaker 1: don't know how if a guy's in a committee, has
Speaker 1: he helped or not? I mean I guess he has.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah he has. But yeah, again, when you've got
Speaker 2: McGill and your eBay. There was a split decision basically
Speaker 2: at the time of the draft. But now going over
Speaker 2: this list, we've got about about five or six passes
Speaker 2: and all the rest are question marks or fails.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's any strong passes. Yeah, So Rebay has three saves,
Speaker 1: Trevor McGill has four. Yeah, that's that's not helping anybody.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's sort of a split decision. So yeah,
Speaker 2: closers it has been. It has been a mess. I'm
Speaker 2: willing to bet right now. As of today, sixty percent
Speaker 2: plus of the FAB spent in most re draft leagues
Speaker 2: has been dedicated to the bopen position.
Speaker 1: It's it's I mean, I don't play in a lot
Speaker 1: of re draft leagues, but in my dynasty leagues it's
Speaker 1: been I have spent eighty percent of my FAB on closers,
Speaker 1: no question.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Because in a dynasty league, you've got your core,
Speaker 2: your core bats, your core pitching. The only thing that
Speaker 2: you find on the waiver wire are the setup guys
Speaker 2: and you know, the seventh and eighth inning guys. That's
Speaker 2: got to be your focus in a dynasty league because
Speaker 2: you're not going to find all your top prospers are gone.
Speaker 2: All your top bats and pitchers for the most part
Speaker 2: are gone. So what do you have to play around
Speaker 2: with the bullpen? Right?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean so, I mean you've got young prospects too.
Speaker 1: I mean the thing about dynasty league, particularly deeper dynasty league,
Speaker 1: if you get a guys are popping up all the time.
Speaker 1: I mean, those are the guys that you want to
Speaker 1: spend money on. I mean, because everybody else wants them
Speaker 1: as well. So the yeah, so I try to on
Speaker 1: my daily notes, like everybody, the guys that are popping up,
Speaker 1: then the guys that are breaking out. So these are
Speaker 1: the guys that I'm spending a lot of money on.
Speaker 1: So sometimes you spend more money on them than you
Speaker 1: do a replacement second basement.
Speaker 2: So right, exactly. Yeah, you're using the free agent rule
Speaker 2: to cover off injuries, that's right, not for the most
Speaker 2: part doing much of a job, because you're taking basically
Speaker 2: role players and trying to get full time at bats
Speaker 2: out of them, and that doesn't work real well, does it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't cost you much in a dynasty
Speaker 1: league for a second catcher, doesn't cost you much in
Speaker 1: a redraft league for a second catcher. Those are those
Speaker 1: are guys that are a couple of bucks and you
Speaker 1: put a couple of you lose a catcher, and you
Speaker 1: put in you know, three two dollars bids and you
Speaker 1: get one of them. That's that's it. But if you
Speaker 1: if you want the young prospect that's coming up, usually
Speaker 1: you have to you have to pay for them. And
Speaker 1: then it's all about closers. And if you're competing, which
Speaker 1: I am in a bunch of the dynasty leagues, I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm spending one hundred and one hundred plus on each
Speaker 1: closer and I'm starting to run out of fab in
Speaker 1: some league.
Speaker 2: So I really that instead after going through the top twenty,
Speaker 2: it's very easy to see how that can occur.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I'll give you an example. I so we talked,
Speaker 1: you did the closer report last week and you were
Speaker 1: all on Sam Bachmann. Well that afternoon, Ryan Zephyrhan got
Speaker 1: the got the save, and I'm like, I better get
Speaker 1: both of them, so you know who's going to win.
Speaker 1: And I got both of them, and Zephyrn looks like
Speaker 1: he might be in the lead forgetting the saves and
Speaker 1: uh and in the Los Angeles So I mean.
Speaker 2: It's very well play at this point. Yeah, well that's
Speaker 2: that's a hand you've been del ignoring. It's not going
Speaker 2: to solve your problem, is it.
Speaker 1: That's yeah, I mean just who knows so anyway, So
Speaker 1: closers are a mess. I think that's easier at least
Speaker 1: for us to try to guide people because you're at
Speaker 1: least trying to figure out who to pick up. But
Speaker 1: with starting pitches, that's just there's just nobody out there.
Speaker 1: There's just nobody there.
Speaker 2: No, at least when you look at closers. Okay, we'll
Speaker 2: look at some of the non injury type failures. Okay.
Speaker 2: Uh carlos As, I've never been bullish on him. Uh again,
Speaker 2: Drafting the setup guy made sense. Jeff Hofflin in Toronto, Okay,
Speaker 2: Jay said they were going to look at upgrading their
Speaker 2: both and they weren't happy with Hawf And we saw
Speaker 2: hoff and enjoy a roller coach right of ups and
Speaker 2: downs last year. It made sense to grab Louis Barland
Speaker 2: early because he was pitching well, he finished the season. Well, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, hey, they brought in Rogers. Rogers wasn't closing.
Speaker 2: Rodgers is a setup guy. We know with that sidewinder
Speaker 2: you know that I just didn't think it was gonna work,
Speaker 2: So it made sense to pick up a guy like
Speaker 2: Louis Barley, you know, and when you look at when
Speaker 2: you look at the situation in Milwaukee, I think your
Speaker 2: Rebay is a better picture. Trevor McGill has always spent
Speaker 2: time on the IL okay, so picking up at your
Speaker 2: EVA makes sense. A lot of the a lot of
Speaker 2: speculating on closers, I think is looking at your high
Speaker 2: risk guy. And we haven't covered twenty to thirty yet
Speaker 2: there's another thirty of the league we haven't looked at.
Speaker 2: But looking in advance at closer situations that are shaky,
Speaker 2: trying to target the setup guy or the arm that
Speaker 2: I think has the best potential. Okay, you know, hey
Speaker 2: like Bachman. The reason I like Bachman overs ever drunon
Speaker 2: Backman's got a fastball of touches one hundred miles an hour.
Speaker 2: Theren's always no where it's going. But that maybe qualifies
Speaker 2: him to be a closer. So you know, those are
Speaker 2: some of the things that I look at. But again
Speaker 2: I think the obvious in a Jeff Hoff and just
Speaker 2: makes sense. So I picked up additional shoes. I I
Speaker 2: up until last week, I had I had four or
Speaker 2: five shares that Tony sandy On in most of them.
Speaker 2: I had him at four or five shares in my legs.
Speaker 2: I cut him last week because Emilia Pegan looked very safe.
Speaker 2: Didn't work up, didn't work out too well. But I
Speaker 2: had some tough decisions to make, and Santy's the guy
Speaker 2: I think if you're looking going back to peg On,
Speaker 2: I think he's the guy to look at it this week.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and get back. Let's do the
Speaker 1: st start or drop game.
Speaker 2: Mmmm, love it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna put some famous guys in here. Gunner Henderson,
Speaker 1: Softest Lasser. You're starting them, I mean, so that's just
Speaker 1: it's just what you're you're probably I think you're starting
Speaker 1: with the junior or do you just so pissed off
Speaker 1: your you're sitting him. I don't know. I think you're
Speaker 1: starting him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I've got him in I've got him in
Speaker 2: one league, and yeah I'm starting him because do I
Speaker 2: want to have Tyler O'Neal in there when Datis goes
Speaker 2: off and his four home runs in a week.
Speaker 1: No, Yeah, we have to do I need to do it.
Speaker 1: Base Wilson on breakdown like I was doing on Gunnor
Speaker 1: Henderson with the teas junior, see if I can figure
Speaker 1: out what's going on there. But I've got seven guys.
Speaker 1: These are more year second third tier dudes, and actually
Speaker 1: I want I got to go, hold on, I need
Speaker 1: to do because I was going to do guess the player.
Speaker 1: I have to guests the players. I'll do the first
Speaker 1: one as I'm looking it up. So this one, this
Speaker 1: one's impossible to know, So this is an educated guess. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Tim, as you know, I write about prospects, and
Speaker 1: I've written up one hundred and six capsules of all
Speaker 1: of the players so far that I've I've talked about.
Speaker 1: So if members can get away, that's that's the number
Speaker 1: I'm up to. And I've written about at least one
Speaker 1: player in each organization, and it's usually I write about
Speaker 1: the players, particularly the early part of the season for
Speaker 1: the most part, who are off to strong starts. What
Speaker 1: was the last team that finally got on the board
Speaker 1: with a player that I wrote about?
Speaker 2: H Well, I'm going to say if it was pitching,
Speaker 2: it has to be Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: No, it's just any prospect within so any of the
Speaker 1: top twenty guys that I write about. What was the
Speaker 1: last team? Did I that that got there? So so
Speaker 1: you're looking for the weaker organizations for prospects. Is your
Speaker 1: guest Philadelphia?
Speaker 2: No, because you'll you'll have Adon Miller in there, even
Speaker 2: though he hasn't.
Speaker 1: He hasn't played yet. He hasn't played yet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let me see who.
Speaker 1: It's not the Dodgers. I'll give you a hint.
Speaker 2: Well, gee, thanks Rich, that was my second choice. They
Speaker 2: get off This h.
Speaker 1: Padres very close. Ethan Sallas is off to a good start,
Speaker 1: so he got talked about a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Is actually the Houston Asteros Okay, yeah, which is you
Speaker 1: know another another week organization?
Speaker 2: Yeah. No. The reason I said Philadelphia is because after
Speaker 2: painters uh badding last night, I just took a look
Speaker 2: through Triple and Double A to see what Philadelphia had
Speaker 2: for bitching. They don't have anything, not anywhere close anyways.
Speaker 1: That is that is true. Sad, It was sad. Oh
Speaker 1: it's funny. I mean some teams are loaded with pitching
Speaker 1: depth and his others are just they're not so anyway,
Speaker 1: says play sit or dropping. This is after our good
Speaker 1: friend Tim Weber, who basically asked me a Patreon question.
Speaker 1: That was a damn good question because I have Stephen
Speaker 1: Kwan in two leagues and he's been a zero this season.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about some other guys. We expect him
Speaker 1: to have a high batting Sitting two eleven when I
Speaker 1: wrote this before last night's game, he has one home
Speaker 1: run in two stolen bases. He is rostered. In ninety
Speaker 1: four percent of fan X leagues, Stephen Kwan play sit
Speaker 1: or drop.
Speaker 2: He's still occupying the leadoff spot. I can't believe that
Speaker 2: we're going to see much more of this underperforming. So
Speaker 2: I've got play When When When When the Guardians lose
Speaker 2: faith in him and move him out of the leadoff
Speaker 2: spot and start sitting him, Well, then act accordingly. But
Speaker 2: for now, I think you got to play him.
Speaker 1: Travis Passano by the end of May will be leading off.
Speaker 1: What do you think of that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I can see it.
Speaker 1: Yeahs upside, but he can really hit and.
Speaker 2: Hit yeah. No, I I I think Bazanna even be
Speaker 2: in the either leadoff or the two spot.
Speaker 1: It looks like they got chased the louder in the
Speaker 1: two spots. That's the spot. Think he's got power it
Speaker 1: can really get on Basi's a good player. It's a
Speaker 1: very good thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, is only one issue with injury them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't say.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Matt Chapman also roster ninety four percent of the time.
Speaker 1: He's off to a brutal start. Two thirty four batting average,
Speaker 1: one home run, no stolen bases. Play sit or drop?
Speaker 2: Uh sit, pick up one of those former NBB stars.
Speaker 2: It's tearing it up.
Speaker 1: So a s for Matt cham Well. I mean, Okamoda,
Speaker 1: you've been You're starting to warm up with Okamoda. He's
Speaker 1: really on a tear. So and Murakami's I think Judge
Speaker 1: has taken over the league there, but murra Kami is
Speaker 1: number two. I think in home runs. I mean it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Right now, the your leader in home runs and
Speaker 2: RBI is at third base is Okamoral. He's up to
Speaker 2: ten home runs. Now, what do you mean leading who
Speaker 2: all of Major league baseball? At third base?
Speaker 1: Oh? At third base? Okay, so up a third base?
Speaker 1: So how many does Markami have?
Speaker 2: Fourteen? Okay, but the Alcomotives closing ground quick.
Speaker 1: He is, indeed, he is indeed, Okay, here comes my
Speaker 1: here comes my, my, my, guess the player, Justin Crawford
Speaker 1: outfit with the Philip Phillies roster sixty nine percent of
Speaker 1: the time, one of Thames guys coming into the season.
Speaker 1: It was a good call too. To sixty four batting average,
Speaker 1: no harm runs, three stolen bases. He's not really contributing
Speaker 1: much to him, sit, start or play.
Speaker 2: Play. I have some teams that are batting two twenty.
Speaker 2: Justin Crawpert's two sixty four is Studley. He's gonna steal
Speaker 2: b says he's gonna run. I haven't given up on
Speaker 2: Crawford yet. I don't least have either.
Speaker 1: So here's here's the guests, the player and the problem
Speaker 1: with Justin Crawford. Justin Crawford lefty on lefty hitting oh
Speaker 1: fifty six. He's got some platoons, splits them so right.
Speaker 1: But he's not the worst in baseball hitting oh forty five.
Speaker 1: And he got his first single. He was hitting he
Speaker 1: was hitting goose egg. Yes when I looked at this yesterday.
Speaker 1: He is now one for twenty two. What who is
Speaker 1: that player who is the worst lefty on lefty? You
Speaker 1: know who this is, Timmy, because you've called him out
Speaker 1: very early in his career. Oh Neil Cruz Texas Ranger outfielder,
Speaker 1: Ohvan Evan Carter, Yeah, Evan Carter. Here's the Here's here's
Speaker 1: the top ten tim and lefty on lefties and guys
Speaker 1: who are potentially destined to be a platoon guy Evan Carter,
Speaker 1: OH forty five, Justin Crawford, OH fifty six, Sal Freelik
Speaker 1: hitting OH sixty seven, Lawrence Lawrence Butler won twenty five.
Speaker 1: Austin Wells won twenty five, Vinnie p won thirty two.
Speaker 1: Is probably not hitting much better against right.
Speaker 2: No still won sixty seven.
Speaker 3: Lefties Tyler Soders from one thirty three, Jack Bowers at
Speaker 3: one forty three, Jake Cronenworth and then Mickey Moniac and
Speaker 3: then you.
Speaker 1: Got Nolan Gorman's of the World. And if I do
Speaker 1: it by slug, which I think is another good thing
Speaker 1: to look at. So slug is Andre Zimenez jumps up
Speaker 1: in there, Cedric Mullins jumps up in there, Troy Johnston
Speaker 1: teach rumsfield, all these guys that eventually hopefully the Georgia product. Oh,
Speaker 1: the the first basement coming out of of help Me,
Speaker 1: Timmy out of Colorado in the minor league's triple A.
Speaker 1: Ah that guy.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, the big slugger, Yeah, big slugger. So yeah,
Speaker 2: the guy that I predicted would be up fairly fairly soon.
Speaker 2: Oh what's his name? What's his name?
Speaker 1: Totally totally blanking on it.
Speaker 2: Oh, I got Charlie Conyon.
Speaker 1: Charlie Connon. There we go. So that's Justin Crawford. Temp
Speaker 1: stole thrown him out there. Here's a disappointment. Tennis is
Speaker 1: a guy that Tim's always drafted in the pass Ezekiel
Speaker 1: to six roster to what eighty six batting average, one
Speaker 1: home run, two stolen.
Speaker 2: Bases said, buying another middle infielder that at least will
Speaker 2: give you a stolen bases.
Speaker 1: We got to find out what's happened to Tovar. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's shocking. Yeah, Alec Bohm, I mean if it Aid Miller,
Speaker 1: if Aid and Miller were playing, this would be this
Speaker 1: would be easy. He'd be he'd be off the team.
Speaker 1: But one fifty nine batting average, one home run, no
Speaker 1: stolen bases, Alec Bam has been brutal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Donnie Baseball loves him, though. He says he's gonna
Speaker 2: turn it around. I'm gonna set him, but hey, maddingly's
Speaker 2: gonna play him. I'm still gonna sit him until something happens.
Speaker 1: Number six, Colton Kowser, This is a this is either
Speaker 1: dropper said, I mean, I don't know what happened to
Speaker 1: this guy? To mean, one seventy nine batting average still
Speaker 1: rostered in fifty percent of the league's I mean, what
Speaker 1: has happened to Colton Kowser?
Speaker 2: I have no idea, but the same thing has happened
Speaker 2: to a lot of players in Baltimore. Yeah, he's a
Speaker 2: drop for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's drop everybody nasty leagues, which is crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. But what do you do, no home runs,
Speaker 2: no stolen bases, one seventy nine batting average, Yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: it's Yeah, at least Crawford's got your three stolen bases
Speaker 2: in a batting average. Yeah, I mean that's two out
Speaker 2: of three, two out of three. Eight badkuser.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's been heard, but still, I mean, it's just, uh,
Speaker 1: there's just nothing there. He's still got eighty three plate appearances.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in a dynasty league, Yeah, I would say sid okay,
Speaker 2: because you're not going to find anybody to replace them.
Speaker 2: In all probability but as soon as you do find somebody, yeah,
Speaker 2: replace him.
Speaker 1: He's sitting on labor wars, tim Nobody wants them. And
Speaker 1: I'm taking a look at a strikeout rate twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four thirty twenty twenty five thirty five percent. This year
Speaker 1: thirty two percent. I mean, and then you know he's
Speaker 1: always been able to hit the ball hard. He's not
Speaker 1: hitting the ball hard, and I mean eventually the strikeouts
Speaker 1: catch up with you, and it caught up with them
Speaker 1: last season at one ninety six batting average. It's terrible
Speaker 1: against same side arms. So I mean, it's it's a
Speaker 1: tough profile for Colton Cawser.
Speaker 2: It most certainly is fifth overall pick.
Speaker 1: Final guy is Cedric Mullins. Definitely a platoon player, but
Speaker 1: it's been brutal. One thirty ninth batting average, two home runs.
Speaker 1: I think he hit a seventh, had a seventh stolen basis,
Speaker 1: So the production is there. I guess he's making the
Speaker 1: most of his few hits that he has, but I mean.
Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, and it's the raise, so you know, the
Speaker 2: platoon situation is not going to change. Uh, The strolling
Speaker 2: bases come in handy, but the one thirty nine batting
Speaker 2: average offsets that. I think the Rais will eventually drop him.
Speaker 2: So I'm going to drop him. I'm going to drop
Speaker 2: him now and try and find out who the ras
Speaker 2: are going to call up that one thirty nine batting average.
Speaker 2: You just you can't. It doesn't matter what he gives you.
Speaker 2: It's offset by the fact that it's costing you dearly
Speaker 2: in that batting average category.
Speaker 1: Still time ninety runs score. Excuse me, he's still got
Speaker 1: nine runs scored. I'm surprised at that. I mean again,
Speaker 1: he is making the most of the hits.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The only thing is nine times six is fifty
Speaker 2: four fifty four fifty four runs scored with that batting
Speaker 2: average again, how much does it help you?
Speaker 1: He has he has sixteen heads, six walks, and he
Speaker 1: scored nine times. That's impressive. It's almost a fifty scoring
Speaker 1: rate for the amount of times it's getting on base.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, he gets on base, he steals one,
Speaker 2: somebody slaps the same, he scores a run, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean typically it's a it's a third, so
Speaker 1: that you know, you get on base and you usually
Speaker 1: score about a third at the time, and he's scoring
Speaker 1: half the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it probably has to do with the stolen bases
Speaker 2: providing him and edge getting him getting him one base,
Speaker 2: maybe two bases occasionally quotes or the home blake on
Speaker 2: his way around.
Speaker 1: Take another break, Timmy come back, and I've got a
Speaker 1: couple more questions than we're going to get you out
Speaker 1: of here.
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
Speaker 1: Just jumping around here. Carlos Care out for the season.
Speaker 1: I know he's not great, but he's still useful and
Speaker 1: deeper leagues, he's a middle infielder. Bryce Matthews has not
Speaker 1: posted the great batting average, has got speed and power.
Speaker 1: I think he gets full time at bats. Is that
Speaker 1: a guy that you're interested in? Is you make your
Speaker 1: wayward roster thirty six percent of the time at fan
Speaker 1: tracks leagues?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll make my waiver wire. But am I going
Speaker 2: to spend a bundle on him?
Speaker 1: Probably not anybody else in interesting in Houston.
Speaker 2: Uh No, No, there's not a whole lot of interest
Speaker 2: happening happening in Houston. I did just as an ad
Speaker 2: and this is for this is for Joel On the
Speaker 2: Discord site, Cole Reagan's is dealing with an arm issue again,
Speaker 2: and apparently I learned something new. He's suffering from VEEO,
Speaker 2: which is valugous extension overload syndrome and as a result
Speaker 2: of the supra psychologic stresses placed to caught across a
Speaker 2: posterior elbow during pitching following failure of non operative measure.
Speaker 2: Surgical options consists of arthroscopical or limited incision posteromedial decomp Russian.
Speaker 2: That's for you, Joe, Uh. Cole Reagan's it doesn't, It doesn't.
Speaker 2: It doesn't sound good.
Speaker 1: I mean, what what's going on? Or you preppy for
Speaker 1: your impact exam here?
Speaker 2: Well if basically he dared me to pronounce it correct correct,
Speaker 2: So I've tried to make him. I've tried to make
Speaker 2: a He said he wanted to hear me say super
Speaker 2: physiologic Okay, super physic physiologic stresses. Okay, if you can
Speaker 2: say that three times quick, apparently you win a prize.
Speaker 2: That's for you, Joe, Okay, I can do it. I
Speaker 2: can do it.
Speaker 1: Wow. Tim fell for that one, fell for the Bay of.
Speaker 2: Hook lighted singer singer, but literally, but Cole Reagan's I don't,
Speaker 2: I don't. I think that's good news for cool Reagans.
Speaker 1: Okay, So nothing, this has nothing to do with Carlos Korea.
Speaker 2: Uh, no, he won't be pitching.
Speaker 1: We're about we're talking about Carlos Korea. Tim starts going
Speaker 1: off of Cole Reagan's and that nobody understood.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but come on, I I got to give my
Speaker 2: friends with the discord. Let's say this rich Wow.
Speaker 1: Very specific.
Speaker 2: That's what you get when you enjoyed the discord.
Speaker 1: So okay, people get you out of marketing. Man, we
Speaker 1: need a new market cheap.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's your A one, that's your got A one,
Speaker 2: your A one a A I guy.
Speaker 1: Hey, hey, let's get back to some positive stuff. Robbie Snelling.
Speaker 1: Yea very good.
Speaker 2: So, yes he is.
Speaker 1: He is facing the Nationals tonight. I think you started.
Speaker 1: I'm starting them right. I have them a three I
Speaker 1: think three leagues. But give me a realist a stat
Speaker 1: line for his first start.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I wish I was starting him in more, but unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I've got a lot of leagues that are weekly moves,
Speaker 2: and they may be announcer on Tuesday because they don't
Speaker 2: care about us fantasy folk. Uh, realistic stat line. Five
Speaker 2: innings pitched, four hits, two walks, two runs, and seven k's.
Speaker 2: And I think if he is anywhere close to being average.
Speaker 2: I think he's up for good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was my second question. Do you think he's
Speaker 1: up for good? I think I'll get more than a sponsor.
Speaker 1: I mean Paddick is just he's gone. Yeah. They dropped him.
Speaker 2: They devate, yeah, devate him. Yeah. Yeah. And you know what,
Speaker 2: Urry Perez might be the guy getting sent down the
Speaker 2: way he's been pitching lately. Yeah, it hasn't been good.
Speaker 2: I'm very disappointed with what I'm seeing there. It's I
Speaker 2: was expecting good things from Uri Perez and they have
Speaker 2: yet to arrive.
Speaker 1: It's funny Temp Temp mentioned Paddock gone and I sent
Speaker 1: tim right after a show on Sunday where we're watching
Speaker 1: the We're watching the complete blow up of Andrew Kiddridge
Speaker 1: and in real time. I mean, it just just completely
Speaker 1: and I am pitched poorly again last night, I believe
Speaker 1: I think he lost the game. And when we got
Speaker 1: off the got off the the done recording, I went
Speaker 1: to my email and somebody during that melee on one
Speaker 1: of my Dynasty League team had dropped them. Something's fantastic,
Speaker 1: Like he wasn't.
Speaker 2: Even him to get pulled from the game. He's just
Speaker 2: out of here.
Speaker 1: But it's so cathartic to do that, So I forgot
Speaker 1: the person who did it, But well done. I mean
Speaker 1: that there can be definitely that can make you feel good,
Speaker 1: just to get rid of somebody who's just completely annihilating
Speaker 1: your your ratios or doing whatever he's doing. Through Tim,
Speaker 1: you're breaking up all of a sudden, so.
Speaker 2: Thanks for it.
Speaker 1: Forget well, Tim is breaking up. So let me see
Speaker 1: if I can Tim. I'm going to drop you. Why
Speaker 1: don't you just uh, I'll leave. I'm gonna kick you
Speaker 1: off the uh off the teams here, so just call
Speaker 1: back in. Let's see we bring Tim back in, see
Speaker 1: if we can get this going. If not, that'll be
Speaker 1: a rap. Try to lean on a calling, see what's happening,
Speaker 1: waiting for others to join, see if we have that,
Speaker 1: so that that could be a rap. But the other
Speaker 1: question I had obviously what hitters Tim targeting? What pictures
Speaker 1: Tim targeting? But we might not be able to get
Speaker 1: to that because Tim has lost his Internet connection. So
Speaker 1: let's see if we get him back in.
Speaker 2: Tell me you back, yeah, yeah, I am yeah. I
Speaker 2: don't know what's going on with teams. They must hate me.
Speaker 2: This morning they had to reset absolutely everything, So it
Speaker 2: must have been all them big big words I use
Speaker 2: when I'm driving old Reagans and just shut it.
Speaker 1: Down, just the AI engine behind it going. We've had
Speaker 1: enough of this guy showing off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not my cloud, but we know back from that.
Speaker 1: Two final questions were before we get out of here,
Speaker 1: Sun Moon song, one of the guys that you mentioned
Speaker 1: with the padres, Jake Cronworth, goes out I think with
Speaker 1: a concussion, so it might not be long. He gets
Speaker 1: the call, Is he worth the pickup? Is he gonna
Speaker 1: be in your waiver wire?
Speaker 2: Ah? If you're looking for a short term in your
Speaker 2: replacement type in deeper leagues, yeah, you give him a look,
Speaker 2: but I think once grown a word's returns from that
Speaker 2: from his concussion. Senator my l I think songs probably
Speaker 2: back in the minors. So yeah, hey, you want to
Speaker 2: throw a buck down, you got room. Yeah, take a chance.
Speaker 2: But I'm not counting on anything in a big way.
Speaker 1: So this is not on our list because it made
Speaker 1: it late last night, and I'll have timp's thoughts and comments,
Speaker 1: but I I have a lot of knowledge about Spencer Jones.
Speaker 1: Uh he he gets the call. Spencer Jones has got
Speaker 1: a ton of power. He's fast, he's going to steal bases.
Speaker 1: He's also going to strike out an awful lot. Jason
Speaker 1: Jason Demigaz goes down with a pretty nasty run into
Speaker 1: the wall. I think as an a a cl spring
Speaker 1: Carlos State.
Speaker 2: And a concussion.
Speaker 1: It definitely looked like a concussion. I thought that was
Speaker 1: pretty much why he was laying on the field and
Speaker 1: got carted off because the concussion did not let me
Speaker 1: be at the wall really hard. I was watching the game.
Speaker 1: But so Spencer Jones gets the call. Good on him.
Speaker 1: He seems like the next logical guy to come up.
Speaker 1: I mean, oh, look, from a fantasy standpoint, there's definitely intrigue.
Speaker 1: He could be a ree Hins tim where he comes
Speaker 1: up and it's eight home runs in two weeks. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's that kind of massive power. Ultimately, I think the
Speaker 1: strikeouts will catch up to him. Hopefully I'll be able
Speaker 1: to work with him. He's still very young. He's extremely talented,
Speaker 1: but the swing is really long. It's he's six foot seven,
Speaker 1: so it's it's a tough profile for me just looking
Speaker 1: at it. It's the scouting community, not fantasy scouting, but
Speaker 1: The baseball scouting community is really really split on this guy.
Speaker 1: Most people believe that he's never going to hit enough.
Speaker 1: There are people that say, look out, Hardy hits the ball,
Speaker 1: He'll hit two forty, but he's still going to hit
Speaker 1: thirty home runs with some stolen bases and speed and
Speaker 1: played he's an outfield. What are you waiting? I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming if you've got him in a dynasty that
Speaker 1: you're going to put him out there. What's your caculus
Speaker 1: on the whole Spencer Jones thing.
Speaker 2: I pretty well agree with what you're saying. I think
Speaker 2: long term, I think there's some issues that are going
Speaker 2: to be problems, and I don't see those problems going away.
Speaker 2: But at the same point in time, we're a Cami
Speaker 2: striking out a novel, log, isn't he? And he's got
Speaker 2: fourteen home runs. He's got fourteen home runs. When I
Speaker 2: look at the fantasy friendly skills, or at least the
Speaker 2: power and the speed, yeah, I that intrigues me. It
Speaker 2: intrigues me enough to invest because I think he's going
Speaker 2: to get probably two to four weeks between the Stanton
Speaker 2: injury and the subsequent Domingus injury, he could go off
Speaker 2: and in the next week he could hit five home
Speaker 2: runs four bases. We're gonna be shocked if that happens.
Speaker 2: Not at all, So I'll take the short term gamble
Speaker 2: fully realizing that long term there are some serious challenges.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: I think Maura comis a pretty nice little comp there.
Speaker 1: Ericam's only hitting two thirty seven, so he's got a
Speaker 1: two seventy babbit so it's pretty real that two thirty seven,
Speaker 1: thirty four percent strikeout rate. He does walk a lot,
Speaker 1: and Spencer Jones walks a lot, but that's the kind
Speaker 1: of player we're talking. It's he's never going to hit
Speaker 1: a lot. So the hope is that he's a three
Speaker 1: ten three twenty one base percentage and can be speed
Speaker 1: and power, and from a fantasy standpoint, you just have
Speaker 1: to work around the two thirty batting average that he's
Speaker 1: going to post. That's I think the best case scenario
Speaker 1: that's out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's one that I'm willing to explore because
Speaker 2: of those short term especially redrafts, because of the fantasy
Speaker 2: friendly tools.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'll worry about July once he gets there
Speaker 2: sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally agree with you. So that that's my thought.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been pretty clear. I'm pretty confident in
Speaker 1: what I think Spencer Jones is going to be able
Speaker 1: to provide. And again, there's a lot of guys out
Speaker 1: there who've got speed and power and can't hit. The
Speaker 1: question is is the strikeout rate is going to be
Speaker 1: so bad that he'll be unrosterable and unplayable by a
Speaker 1: major League baseball team, or is it going to be
Speaker 1: loud enough tools that people are just going to live
Speaker 1: with the low batting average A lah, Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just going to say, ask Kyle Schwarber
Speaker 2: owners if they're happy.
Speaker 1: But Kyle Schwarber is a bit of a unicorn as well, right,
Speaker 1: So I mean it's he's got such massive power that
Speaker 1: and he walks, he walks a lot. Now, I mean,
Speaker 1: can that's what these three true three three outcome guys,
Speaker 1: that's what you worry about, and it's it's this is
Speaker 1: not Connor Griffin coming up. I know, well, it's.
Speaker 2: Definitely definitely not. But Jones also brings an added dimension
Speaker 2: that Schwarber and Murricami don't possess, and that's he's good
Speaker 2: enough speed to give you some stolen bases that that's alluring,
Speaker 2: you know, it's yeah, I agree with your long term,
Speaker 2: but short term, I'm gonna take my chances. That's it.
Speaker 2: And by the way, that's my that's one of the
Speaker 2: bad time targeting this week.
Speaker 1: The other thing is the difference between Murakamie and Jones.
Speaker 1: Is Murakami that's one of the best players on his
Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox team. It's Jones, no matter how good
Speaker 1: he plays, will not be So.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they have that judge guy there. It's sort of yeah,
Speaker 2: it sort of rules the rust and will continue to
Speaker 2: do so for a long time hopefully. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, Timmy, give me the hitter that you're targeting and
Speaker 1: the picture that you're targeting for this weekend.
Speaker 2: No Spencer Jones for all the reasons. Yeah, for all
Speaker 2: the reasons I just mentioned. Uh pictures the guy that
Speaker 2: I cut last week to make to make room for
Speaker 2: for other other pitching. Uh Tony Santalon and Cincinnati. Uh.
Speaker 2: Right now, I believe he's got one save nine holes
Speaker 2: and he's sporting an ERA of two sixty something like that.
Speaker 2: Ashcroft would be the next in line after Santi but
Speaker 2: I think I think he's got the closer the closure
Speaker 2: gig or at least one foot on the mound for
Speaker 2: the next two months. So yeah, so two months, could
Speaker 2: you eight to ten saves? Eight to ten saves, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that could be. That could be two three points come
Speaker 2: end of the year. So uh yeah, I think he's
Speaker 2: the guy to be spending some money on this weekend.
Speaker 1: Great stuff, Tim. I'm going to leave you with yet
Speaker 1: another guess the player.
Speaker 2: Okay, this one's going to tick you off.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna we.
Speaker 2: Might Wyatt like Wyatt Langford, anything that's that Wyatt Legford.
Speaker 1: Going back to lefty and lefties. We talked about all
Speaker 1: the guys that could not hit lefties. Okay, lefty on lefty.
Speaker 1: There's a guy, Tim, who was who let me ask
Speaker 1: a questions, who was leading the league in lefty on
Speaker 1: lefty from a slug standpoint with an eight sixty seven
Speaker 1: slug Yes, five home runs, by.
Speaker 2: The way, five home runs. I having a clue, Rich,
Speaker 2: you ready, give me a team, Give me a team.
Speaker 2: I may be able.
Speaker 1: Now I'm going to tell you the player. Because your
Speaker 1: blood blood pressure is going up, Ben.
Speaker 2: Rice, Ye, you're right, you know what, And it's perfect timing.
Speaker 2: I was filling my pil trays last night, and I
Speaker 2: still have my pale elipator Rick damn well beside me.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: Okay, So this is Aaron Boone who says he's worried
Speaker 4: about about Ben Rice and he lefties and he's got
Speaker 4: an eight sixty seven slug against lefty on lefty.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but he could have eight sixty nine. Okay,
Speaker 2: Oh you're an idiot.
Speaker 1: Oh oh.
Speaker 2: Oh man, there's gotta be a low eight team that
Speaker 2: can run somewhere.
Speaker 1: That's that's pretty remarked. I because I was like looking
Speaker 1: at splits and then I saw Ben I went to
Speaker 1: Ben Rice, I did this split page. I go, oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, she's got iPhone runs what And then then
Speaker 1: it led me into the trail like let me take
Speaker 1: a look at the league leaders. I laughed out, laughing.
Speaker 2: Yes, oh yeah, oh, thank you, Levatur. He saved the
Speaker 2: day again, Timmy.
Speaker 1: That has wrapped my friend. Good stuff, everybody. We've back
Speaker 1: on Sunday time. I have his waiver wark going, and
Speaker 1: we'll see a Robbie Snelling start, We'll see a Carlo's
Speaker 1: Radon starts, so there'll be some fun things to talk about,
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll get another update on how trek scouble
Speaker 1: is going, So people that had Scooble draft him in
Speaker 1: the first round, maybe all is not Walt. If you
Speaker 1: can come back here in the next month or six weeks,
Speaker 1: all will not be lost.
Speaker 2: No, all will be lost, and yeah I all I
Speaker 2: can do, Rich is wish you a super pychological stress
Speaker 2: free a couple of days, and we will catch you
Speaker 2: on Sunday.