Speaker 1: Okay, Queen's Sociations.
Speaker 2: Everyone at Ridge Wilson welcome the Fantasy Baseball Live or
Speaker 2: Take ten with Tim. Except it is Thursday, ten the eighteenth,
Speaker 2: excuse me, the thirteenth of August. Here about three o'clock
Speaker 2: in the afternoon. Tim has graciously moved the time around
Speaker 2: so I could accommodate my busy Friday. Tim is, I'm
Speaker 2: going down to Pennsylvania to do some work down there.
Speaker 2: So it's what I'll be doing tomorrow. Yeah, so I
Speaker 2: couldn't make it work.
Speaker 3: Sounds like fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't tell you what, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's work. Yeah, I mean we have to do work.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to do some work. Or is coming along.
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna try to hang out with some
Speaker 2: friends of ours too, and in the middle of all
Speaker 2: of that, so so we'll see how it all goes.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm looking forward.
Speaker 3: To Yeah, it sounds like it sounds like a very
Speaker 3: very good plan for a Friday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Well, that's a Friday all day. I think we were
Speaker 2: going to leave here about eight, eight, nine o'clock in
Speaker 2: the morning and then I think we're going to get
Speaker 2: back late afternoon. So yes, I got to go take
Speaker 2: a look at a kid and have lunch with some friends,
Speaker 2: and that it's all intermixed together. So Timmy, I was
Speaker 2: at a concert last night, got my daily noteses late
Speaker 2: this morning. It was a late night for me. It
Speaker 2: was funny. So the concert started at our little performing arts.
Speaker 2: It's not a little it's like fifteen hundred seat little place.
Speaker 2: And they either start at seven thirty or eight. I
Speaker 2: like them when they started seven thirty because it's usually
Speaker 2: the bands or the artists will do an hour and
Speaker 2: a half to two hours. But we started at eight
Speaker 2: o'clock and the guy second or third song it was
Speaker 2: the Eagles tribute band announced that they were going for
Speaker 2: two and a half hours. I think the entire audience went,
Speaker 2: oh it was. It was an older crowd. You know,
Speaker 2: a lot of people don't live in town, so they
Speaker 2: probably drove in from anywhere from a half hour to
Speaker 2: an hour. They're like calculating the mind having to get
Speaker 2: up for work the next day, like uh oh, so
Speaker 2: there you go.
Speaker 3: Well, well, and you know it's hard to take it
Speaker 3: easy when you're living life in the fast lane, right,
Speaker 3: That is true.
Speaker 2: Temp. This band was pretty amazing. The uh you could
Speaker 2: close your eyes and the singer sounded like Don Henley.
Speaker 2: It was absolutely remarkable. But the thing, because I'm a
Speaker 2: guitar guy, their guitar player, their main guitar player, was amazing.
Speaker 2: This guy not only was he incredibly skilled in a
Speaker 2: gifted guitar player, because most of the Eagle stuff is
Speaker 2: not fast guitar solos. It's very much a feel, very
Speaker 2: much Bendi kind of stuff, and it's that's so he
Speaker 2: could play it perfectly. But what he did is because
Speaker 2: you know, you're trying to cover Don Feldman and and
Speaker 2: Glenn Fry and Joe Walsh all have different styles, tim
Speaker 2: he his patches to make himself sound like that were
Speaker 2: spot on. I mean it, it sounded just like the
Speaker 2: record album. Now you can argue there was none of
Speaker 2: his creativity in it at all, but he matched it perfectly.
Speaker 2: So he was amazing that people were like, like you
Speaker 2: could just tell when he would sit up there and play,
Speaker 2: like just their mouths hanging up. But it was very,
Speaker 2: very impressive. But it was fun. We had a great time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: got by the time I got the pups back, it
Speaker 2: was like eleven fifteen, eleven thirty. I'm like, I'm not
Speaker 2: doing daily notes tonight. That's not happening.
Speaker 3: No, No, you saw all the daily notes you wanted
Speaker 3: to at the concert, right.
Speaker 2: That's true. So I wrote him about ten o'clock this
Speaker 2: morning over over coffee. Yeah, wrote my daily notes. Tell
Speaker 2: me so, we've got a fun show, playing a quick
Speaker 2: show here. We're gonna take a look at the standings
Speaker 2: and then look at the disappointing hitters. Next week we'll
Speaker 2: talk about disappointing pictures. I have a little bit of
Speaker 2: a victory lap to because Bryce Harper was already decided
Speaker 2: his knees hurt after playing the outfield for a couple
Speaker 2: of games. That's going to end very well, Timmy. I'm
Speaker 2: very excited that about Bryce Harper and my two teams.
Speaker 2: I'm competing in that he's going to be taking some
Speaker 2: time off because his knees are going to hurt. Very
Speaker 2: excited about that.
Speaker 3: I can imagine. My comments to that statement are surprise, surprise,
Speaker 3: just annoying. Yeah, they don't think about us, rich, they
Speaker 3: don't give a rat's but duty about us. This equal
Speaker 3: to the.
Speaker 2: I think I saw an article it might have been
Speaker 2: Baseball savonn or Fangraphs or something about why this made
Speaker 2: a lot of sense, and I read it and I
Speaker 2: just said, this is BS I mean because I mean
Speaker 2: they bring up all the reasons, like, you know, because
Speaker 2: he's not batting leadoff. To me, he's batting forth. And
Speaker 2: they were trying to convince the reader myself that this
Speaker 2: makes sense, and I'm like, on what planet does this
Speaker 2: make sense? You know, It's like, I get it, I
Speaker 2: understand the logic. I just disagree with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I was going to say, yeah, now you can.
Speaker 3: You can make anything make sense pretty much if you
Speaker 3: want to rationalize it and cherry picked your stats and
Speaker 3: do what you know, do what you have to do.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, when you look
Speaker 3: at it, yeah, there's a reason they moved in the
Speaker 3: first base. The reason they moved into the first base
Speaker 3: was to keep them on the field. So now they're
Speaker 3: putting them back in the oatfield or the you know,
Speaker 3: that significantly decreases the odds of him staying healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure
Speaker 3: that when out, you really don't.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and so you got that issue going. And
Speaker 2: then like I mean, Kyle Schwarber could be a wonderful
Speaker 2: lead off guy because of his on base uh, his
Speaker 2: own base characteristics. But why not get a light hitting
Speaker 2: I e. Lewis Arise who gets on base a ton
Speaker 2: and put him at the leadof so you can put
Speaker 2: you can put Schwerber a little bit further down when
Speaker 2: guys are on base. The guy that you got, that's
Speaker 2: an on base guy, so he can knock him in.
Speaker 2: I don't understand that. It makes no sense at all.
Speaker 3: Well, and you got Pete crow Armstrong in the leadoff
Speaker 3: spot most days, I believe now, so I want to sorry,
Speaker 3: that's that's Chicago. But yeah, no, I sometimes I don't
Speaker 3: understand the rationale behind some of the moves that we see,
Speaker 3: Like a rise is one that yeah, okay, terrible it
Speaker 3: might work, and you might yeah it might work, you
Speaker 3: might be a hero, but you're There's got to be
Speaker 3: better ways to can figure your lineup and more advantageous
Speaker 3: ways to configure your lineup than having him as a
Speaker 3: cleanup or yeah, okay whatever.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly. So that expression you're playing with fire. So
Speaker 2: so Timmy, So tomorrow, I've got a little grandson wants
Speaker 2: to come to our garden to me eight feet by
Speaker 2: six sixteen feet by eight feet, so it's a little
Speaker 2: tiny plot that we have community garden and he wants
Speaker 2: so we've got some candle up about ready to be picked.
Speaker 2: We have a couple of little tiny rows of corn
Speaker 2: and that's ready to be picked. So he's all excited
Speaker 2: about coming over, and Tim tells me a dad joke
Speaker 2: that I should share with him. So timmy want to
Speaker 2: share with our listeners?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, why is a farmer still single? Obviously? He
Speaker 3: candle candle OpEd.
Speaker 2: It's very funny. It's that, of course, our our grandchildren
Speaker 2: are brilliant everywhere. I think that's ever.
Speaker 3: So, yeah, he's what three rich, he's four? Four? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: if he was five and you're still a little young,
Speaker 3: they grow up so quick.
Speaker 2: It's that's right. It's very very funny to take a
Speaker 2: look at these standings. Uh, let me get over to
Speaker 2: MLB dot com standings because I was looking at some
Speaker 2: of the games. Let's see, in the American League, we've
Speaker 2: got the Rays leading the American League from a let's see,
Speaker 2: this isn't right? Uh, why why am I not seeing?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 2: We go, that's right. Yeah, So so they've they've got
Speaker 2: a wide six game lead over the Yankees. The White Sox.
Speaker 2: I mean, believe it or not, the Twins are on
Speaker 2: their heels only two games out, then followed by the Guardians,
Speaker 2: and then the Astros are still over the Texas Rangers
Speaker 2: by a couple So if it ends today, it's the Rays,
Speaker 2: White Sox, and Astros. Is that are they your division
Speaker 2: Winter winners?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say yes, they are the division winners.
Speaker 2: You do not think the Rangers can catch the Astros.
Speaker 3: You got to pick somebody, and in the world of mediocrity,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Houston over Texas.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. It is very my yocre with with
Speaker 2: the Astros. If it weren't for Jordan Alvarez, Lord Have Mercy.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that definitely flip a coin. That's a coin
Speaker 3: toss for me. But I'll go I'll stick with Houston.
Speaker 2: Right now as well as the Red Sox have been
Speaker 2: playing of late, though they've lost five games in a row,
Speaker 2: so I guess that's an incorrect statement. They're still UH
Speaker 2: with ten games behind the UH the Tampa Rays, and
Speaker 2: still four games behind the Yankees, who are in the
Speaker 2: wild Card. The Red Sox and the Rangers. With the
Speaker 2: Twins Tigers only half a game out, and root for
Speaker 2: the Tigers, the guardians of game out the Blue Jays
Speaker 2: all of a sudden after going seven to three early
Speaker 2: game and a half out the Orioles kind of mediocre
Speaker 2: Orioles or two games. I mean, it doesn't stick with
Speaker 2: the Yankees, Red Sox and Rangers. So do one of
Speaker 2: these competitive teams get in?
Speaker 3: Well, hey, at this at this point, all three wild
Speaker 3: cards could come out of the Alias, couldn't they? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a that's a possibility. Personally, what I would love
Speaker 3: to see, Okay, I would love to see Toronto and
Speaker 3: Detroit find a way to sneak in or at least
Speaker 3: one of them, because they were the big sellers at
Speaker 3: the deadline in the AL. I would nothing would bring
Speaker 3: a smile to my face more than seeing the sellers
Speaker 3: make it in as a wildcard.
Speaker 2: Tam, I particulate the Tigers after all the hubbub about
Speaker 2: about Casey Mize and Trek Scouble and Scooble's lost his
Speaker 2: first two games and the Troy Tigers make it in.
Speaker 2: That would be fantastic.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, And then you know the Jays gave up
Speaker 3: their best star during Gosmanan, So yeah, I'm started rooting
Speaker 3: for those two teams to find a way one of
Speaker 3: them to find a way to make it in. I
Speaker 3: think the the Yankees in Boston, Okay, yeah, I think
Speaker 3: they are very very close to being a lock. You
Speaker 3: look at Boston and they've lost five in a row.
Speaker 3: But guess who they've lost them all to. They're playing
Speaker 3: the Ja's right now, and the J's are hot. They're
Speaker 3: not going to play the J's for a while. I
Speaker 3: don't think after after today's games.
Speaker 2: So, but I watched I think I was telling you
Speaker 2: I watched that Red Sox game on Saturday or Sunday.
Speaker 2: That's not a very good lineup. I mean, they need
Speaker 2: Rom and Anthony, they need some guys to come back,
Speaker 2: and at Pantle, Roman Anthony's getting close to a rehab start.
Speaker 2: But that they got a lot of redread of retreads
Speaker 2: in that lineup.
Speaker 3: There's a few of them. Yeah. Contreras has been playing well,
Speaker 3: Caleb Durban's been playing well. Yeah, they're making it work.
Speaker 2: It's very much to Blue Jays from last season, isn't it.
Speaker 3: I I don't think you can rule them ote. They
Speaker 3: got their hands full. There's no doubt about it. They're
Speaker 3: going to have to, you know, find a way like
Speaker 3: you got Minnesota with sixty two losses, Detroit has sixty one,
Speaker 3: Toronto has sixty three, Texas has sixty one. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: four teams in there fighting for one spot that are
Speaker 3: all neck and neck, and then you got Seattle at
Speaker 3: sixty five losses. Yeah for the four to sixty three.
Speaker 3: You know, Seattle, as I mentioned last week, has been
Speaker 3: a huge disappointment. And my thoughts haven't changed there one bit.
Speaker 2: If ramber Valdez can find his old self along with
Speaker 2: Jackson Job and Troy Melton and Kater Montero, is okay.
Speaker 2: Drew Anderson's not horrible. That's a formidable rotation.
Speaker 3: And they've got a kid that's gonna win the AL
Speaker 3: Rookie of the Year and he's gonna get some votes
Speaker 3: for MVP as well, isn't.
Speaker 2: He Kevin McGonagall, do you think yeah?
Speaker 3: I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean I don't think it's going to be close
Speaker 2: to the top. He might, but I mean maybe some
Speaker 2: Detroit maybe some Detroit writers will revote for him. I mean, well,
Speaker 2: he's been he's been good. I mean, twelve one runs,
Speaker 2: eleven stolen bases, we're walks and strikeouts of two eighty
Speaker 2: six average. I mean.
Speaker 3: You gotta be yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, but.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been very loud contact. But you know, that's
Speaker 2: that's just it. I mean, he's a fifteen to fifteen
Speaker 2: kind of player that can hit, which is what Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think everybody, that's what I thought. So, I mean
Speaker 2: I think it's a good player.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, he's had a very very good year.
Speaker 2: So Commy is not going to catch him than from
Speaker 2: a Rookie of the year standpoint.
Speaker 3: Yeah, amer Commy's he's hit for the power. He's hit
Speaker 3: for a little bit more than I thought he would.
Speaker 3: I thought he'd have more trouble with the high fastball,
Speaker 3: and he hasn't. But he's still also very streaky. He's
Speaker 3: gone to eight nine games with a lot of goose
Speaker 3: eggs being posted and then they'll heat up and part
Speaker 3: four or five in the bleachers and then he's been
Speaker 3: very streaky. So right now with the White Sox, they
Speaker 3: need some pitching like they got yesterday from Luis Castile. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that was a big game for runing nine ten strikeouts
Speaker 3: and shut down opposition. A lot of their fortune is
Speaker 3: gonna I think swing with how Luis Castillo pitches down
Speaker 3: the stretch.
Speaker 2: Back to Rookie of the Year in the American League
Speaker 2: without looking. So I told you Kevin mcgonaga's on base
Speaker 2: percentage of three eighty nine, what's.
Speaker 3: Murakami's three seventy five.
Speaker 2: Three sixty eight? Good guess. So you got three sixty
Speaker 2: eight versus three eighty nine, twenty six home runs versus twelve,
Speaker 2: I mean, in thirty fewer games because Murakami missed so
Speaker 2: much time. That's a that's an impressive season, particularly when
Speaker 2: you compare it to Kevin McGonagall. So, I mean, I
Speaker 2: know some of the writers don't understand that value there.
Speaker 2: They're gonna look at a two eighty four batting average
Speaker 2: a goal, Well he's great, But I don't know. I
Speaker 2: think I'd rather Murakami as my rookie of the year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and okamoor still lurking in the shadows.
Speaker 2: It's still lurking, yep. But a three or three on
Speaker 2: base percentage, so yeah, yeah, Carter Jensen, I mean, problems
Speaker 2: you can't hit. But a sixteen home runs, a two
Speaker 2: ninety nine on base percentage.
Speaker 3: Well, he's probably leading the Royals now, Bobby Way would
Speaker 3: he's probably second on the Royals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and JJ Weatherholds had a very nice season, very
Speaker 2: comparable season to Kevin mcgone Yeah, Kevin McGonagall. Sixteen home runs,
Speaker 2: thirteen solar bases in a three fifty one on base percentage.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he owns the leadoff spot for the Cards. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, I mean that's that's a very comparable season too,
Speaker 2: JJ weatherhol And I think in the National League, I
Speaker 2: mean South Stewart's going.
Speaker 3: To win that, right, another home run today, four runs scored,
Speaker 3: two RBIs I South Stewart, I believe is on pace
Speaker 3: for somewhere around one hundred and thirty RBI, somewhere in
Speaker 3: there one hundred and twenty five, two hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: rb eyes. Yeah, I would South Stewart owns it. It's his.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, it's eighty nine RBI. So yeah, he's yeah,
Speaker 2: and it's so J. J. Weatherholts got forty five. So
Speaker 2: and I'm guessing he comes to a second.
Speaker 3: I would say that's a good that's a good calling.
Speaker 2: I'm not looking at the picture pool. Let me take
Speaker 2: a look at the picture pool. I mean, Nolan McClain
Speaker 2: said a really good season. He might give him some competition.
Speaker 2: A three forty two e or a one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty nine strikeers. That's a really good season.
Speaker 3: So is Foster Griffin.
Speaker 2: Foster Griffin. It's American League though.
Speaker 3: So well, what's the league?
Speaker 2: Does he end now? I guess it was. Yeah, he
Speaker 2: has no chance because he's Yeah, he's not going to
Speaker 2: win either because he uh, he left too early. Park
Speaker 2: Parker Messic has been very good in the americanly two
Speaker 2: fifty nine era. He's going to give Kevin mcgonago and
Speaker 2: Murcami a run for their money. One hundred and forty
Speaker 2: two strikeouts, one hundred and forty two winnings with nine
Speaker 2: wins at a two fifty nine ERA. It's pretty good.
Speaker 3: That is very good. Yeah, he's I drafted him as
Speaker 3: a reasonably late round pick by I think as a
Speaker 3: number four starter, and he's been my ace in one league.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I have no complaints at all of the
Speaker 3: Parker Messig in the season. He's having none.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the wild card, Timmy, give me
Speaker 2: the wild Yeah, Yankees, Red Sox and Tigers are excuse me,
Speaker 2: Rangers are in it. If the season were at end
Speaker 2: to day, who were your.
Speaker 3: Three Yankees, Boston and I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna be
Speaker 3: I'll display my homer as I'll say Toronto the Alias.
Speaker 2: I will go with the Tigers, just because I want
Speaker 2: that to happen. I would not be surprised if the
Speaker 2: Blue Jay's pull it out, though. And if they pull
Speaker 2: it out, tim, I mean, they got hot last year
Speaker 2: at the right time, So be careful, everybody at the
Speaker 2: betting pools. Let's see National League. The Brewers are comfortably
Speaker 2: in first place, the Braves are comfortably in first place,
Speaker 2: and the Dodgers, though the Padres all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: are waking up. And I think they've been the best
Speaker 2: offensive team in the second half. I think I saw
Speaker 2: a stat with that. But the Brewers are the best.
Speaker 2: I guess they're tied. Oh, I guess officially tied with
Speaker 2: the Rays. Is the best record in the major leagues.
Speaker 2: How does that end up, Timmy, give me the divisional winners.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the Braves, the Brewers, and
Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Okay, so chalk As is, yeah, chalk As
Speaker 3: is Yeah.
Speaker 2: Cubs have been hot. I guess I shouldn't just say
Speaker 2: that the Brewers are going to make it easily because
Speaker 2: they are seventy one fifty, only three games back their
Speaker 2: top of the wild card selection. The Padres have come
Speaker 2: out of nowhere five games in a row. They won
Speaker 2: seven and three, and then all of a sudden the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks kind of sneak in. The Philadelphia Phillies with Lewis
Speaker 2: Arise have dropped out, Timmy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, the Phillies right now are there? Yeah, there
Speaker 3: are only two wins up on the Marlins. They are
Speaker 3: only one loss better than the Marlins. And then you've got,
Speaker 3: like you said, you know, if you start looking at
Speaker 3: I think the Cubs are a lock for a wild guard.
Speaker 3: After that, I think it's fairly wide open. I know
Speaker 3: the Padres aj Peller is playing off another another. Let's
Speaker 3: let's go for the go for the gusto, and it's
Speaker 3: so far working. It could go any one of a
Speaker 3: number of ways. Even the Cardinals, they're a game over
Speaker 3: five hundred. Yep, you can't you can't rule them. Actually,
Speaker 3: my wish they would bring a smile to my face
Speaker 3: is the Cardinals bring up Josh Baiez the first week,
Speaker 3: the end of the first week of September. He hits
Speaker 3: ten home runs in the Cards finish a game light
Speaker 3: on the wild Cards.
Speaker 2: And that funny. I'm really right he's going to get
Speaker 2: Weatherholt so but yes, starting to borrow. These guys can
Speaker 2: come out and and they will be under that forty
Speaker 2: five day limit. So let's let's hope we'll see him.
Speaker 2: But it's really the Phillies, Miami or the Cardinals are
Speaker 2: really I don't think the Nationals and the reds Pirates
Speaker 2: have fallen a way off. Yeah, it's a lot less
Speaker 2: open than the American League. So who makes it into
Speaker 2: the wild Card with currently we got the Cubs, Padres,
Speaker 2: and Diamondbacks. Is that how it finishes and the Phillies
Speaker 2: are left out?
Speaker 3: I'm going to go with the Cubs, the Podres, and
Speaker 3: I gotta go for I gotta go for an upset somewhere.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the Marlins and the Phillies don't
Speaker 3: make it.
Speaker 2: Look I know there's a lot of Phillies fans listening
Speaker 2: to this, and I wish your team all the best. Uh,
Speaker 2: that's stupid trade they make. I would love to see
Speaker 2: it just kind of not work because backfire, backfire big
Speaker 2: time and they just they fall out of it. I mean,
Speaker 2: that team is too good to even be questioning this,
Speaker 2: but the work question whether they're going to make it
Speaker 2: or not.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's six games over five hundred. They should be
Speaker 3: in a lot better spot than they are. And again,
Speaker 3: I got nothing against the Phillies. I gotta pick one
Speaker 3: long shot in there, and my long shot choice is
Speaker 3: got to be in that division Miami.
Speaker 2: The Marlins are plus twenty three from a run to inferential.
Speaker 2: The Phillies are minus seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah they Yeah, Aaron Nola, anybody, he's probably that.
Speaker 2: So to me, let's take a break and come back.
Speaker 2: I got a great game for everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it sounds like fun.
Speaker 2: We will look at probably the standings every other week
Speaker 2: now because that's it's getting close, and quite frankly, there's
Speaker 2: not a whole lot to talk about from a fantasy
Speaker 2: perspective except for pickups. We'll start on to start uh
Speaker 2: to uh to start pitchers coming up, probably this Sunday
Speaker 2: because people are starting to just wanting to stream guys.
Speaker 2: We'll start to include that. Maybe not this week, maybe
Speaker 2: next week. But it's kind of hard Timmy to talk
Speaker 2: about is this guy going to correct the rest of
Speaker 2: the season? What's gonna I mean, I mean, there's not
Speaker 2: much left.
Speaker 3: No, the rest is the rest is very very short.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's I know the waiver war are My
Speaker 3: initial thoughts is it's going to be short. There's just
Speaker 3: not that much happening. So we will have time probably
Speaker 3: to do to go into detail on some other things
Speaker 3: and still be able to get done in under our
Speaker 3: three hour deadline.
Speaker 2: See see, folks, this is what I have to deal with.
Speaker 2: See how tim Craft's not doing his work. This is
Speaker 2: this is exactly. It's like, I'm not gonna have it.
Speaker 2: But here's a couple of suggestions, and it was my suggestion.
Speaker 3: You're welcome. I don't even get to thank you. Bolts like,
Speaker 3: come on, what's up with that?
Speaker 2: They will start to start start pictures this week and
Speaker 2: Timmy's like, well, you know what we could do, there's
Speaker 2: pictures because I'm not going to get my top this week.
Speaker 3: That's right, I'm taking a week off.
Speaker 2: Volts.
Speaker 3: You're s o l go find them yourself.
Speaker 2: By the way, the Tiger's up three to nothing in
Speaker 2: the bottom of the eighth in over the Guardians. The
Speaker 2: Tigers are playing well. Uh Montera with another nice start
Speaker 2: three twenty two ear a. I mean it's got a
Speaker 2: great year, great season.
Speaker 3: Yes, he really has U and he was going up
Speaker 3: against mess today, so it's not as if he had,
Speaker 3: you know, him and the Tigers that an easy path
Speaker 3: to a three nothing late because Parker message pitch well,
Speaker 3: very well.
Speaker 2: The Marlins, I think, gave up their entire rundo for
Speaker 2: virtual this this today, timmy thirteen to nothing against the Pirates.
Speaker 3: My guess would be, Okay, at some point in time
Speaker 3: in this game, and I'm just clicking on the game,
Speaker 3: there was a positional player involved. Let's just screw it down. Yes,
Speaker 3: there we go, so yes, Sonoja Yeah, yeah, Fibrant runs
Speaker 3: and yeah, yeah it's yeah.
Speaker 2: Well they put a positional guy in. I mean they
Speaker 2: were only I guess they were down eight to nothing.
Speaker 3: But eating nothing. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Who was pitching for the Pirates?
Speaker 3: Oh Ashcraft? Yeah, Ashcraft had a good game to it.
Speaker 3: Or yeah, Tim, he's pretty Goodah, that's nice to see
Speaker 3: us solid start here. Oh, Gonzalez is the beneficiary there.
Speaker 3: Apparently he had a home run in the Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's it's funny.
Speaker 2: I've been spending a lot of time over the last
Speaker 2: few weeks, but really intense the last two weeks. Pretty
Speaker 2: much doing most of my writing because tend me the
Speaker 2: end of the minor league systems seasons in three weeks.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I got to start. I got to
Speaker 2: start cranking stuff out. And I do a lot of
Speaker 2: comparisons to Nick Gonzales when I took a look at
Speaker 2: the date of a particular minor league player and it's like,
Speaker 2: you know, you're five foot eight and you're trying to
Speaker 2: hit everything five hundred feet and it's going three hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy five feet. It's being caught.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: That was Gonzales.
Speaker 3: Don't do that, No, no, don't always the other gunsalis
Speaker 3: that hit the home run today?
Speaker 2: Oh, Jacob Gonzales?
Speaker 3: Jacob Yeah. And and Flora is a catcher named Flores
Speaker 3: has two homers and six RBIs there you go? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh he got caught up. Oh that's great. Used to
Speaker 2: be a former Yank. Have him on my NFC team.
Speaker 2: I gotta put him in.
Speaker 3: Well, I tell you there, there, there you go. I
Speaker 3: might even add them to my waiver wire because I
Speaker 3: only have three names, so fear, I think.
Speaker 2: Okay again, happy to do your work. Okay, let's get
Speaker 2: to disappointing team. I wonder if next week we do
Speaker 2: the pictures. Will Paul skeins me and my all disappointing team.
Speaker 2: I think he will.
Speaker 3: Well, if he's not on.
Speaker 2: Yours, he's gonna be on here, saying there we go.
Speaker 2: When you're the number one picture, you gotta gotta pitch
Speaker 2: better than what he's doing. Right is he's been fine,
Speaker 2: But that's that's the guy you should get in the
Speaker 2: fourth round, not the not the first round.
Speaker 3: Well, did you see where his velocity was on the
Speaker 3: fastball in his last start? Ridge? I did not ninety.
Speaker 2: Six top velocity or average?
Speaker 3: Uh top, I believe.
Speaker 2: Because ninety six average that's still good enough.
Speaker 3: Well yes, but considering he started the season hitting ninety
Speaker 3: eight ninety nine miles an hour fairly consistently. That's concerning why.
Speaker 2: We're doing this, uh, why we're doing this podcast. I
Speaker 2: will look up what that was, so skien sonya. So
Speaker 2: let's go position by position. To me, that's what we're doing. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's start with catching. I'll begin because this one's a
Speaker 2: chip shot, so first it is. I mean again, I
Speaker 2: get it, folks, some of these guys were hurt, but
Speaker 2: even when they've been playing, they have up and very
Speaker 2: good and Kyle Riley's been terrible. Tim uh, first catcher
Speaker 2: off the board. He's got a one to fifty nine
Speaker 2: batting average, and that's hard to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're hitting less than fifty percent of your
Speaker 3: playing weight, it's never good, is it.
Speaker 2: Guy had sixty home runs last year, Timm, he's got twelve. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm pretty good with Matt twenty percent of what he
Speaker 2: had last season.
Speaker 3: I'm playing the balls on my advocates over here. Yeah, right, yep.
Speaker 2: So I don't that's that's awful. I mean, I I
Speaker 2: he's better than this. He's not as good as sixty
Speaker 2: home runs. I guess my question where does he go?
Speaker 2: And I mean he was a second third round pick.
Speaker 2: Where does he go next season? Assuming he gets a
Speaker 2: couple more home runs this year and that's one sixty five,
Speaker 2: one seventy something.
Speaker 3: Like that, Oh, my guess would be the highest yield
Speaker 3: goal is fifty six. You're off the board. But for me,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. It's a pass. I don't care how
Speaker 3: far he falls. The batting average is always going to
Speaker 3: be problematic. He has is the OBP. So even if
Speaker 3: he's got to hit thirty plus home runs, in my
Speaker 3: in my mind to carry value because you've got an
Speaker 3: offset and you know the negative impact of the batting
Speaker 3: average OVP. So I'm just staying away totally. I don't
Speaker 3: care how far he falls. He won't fall far enough
Speaker 3: to get my interest there.
Speaker 2: Rich. What's what's fascinating is you look at Babbitt and
Speaker 2: you see a two h six babbit, you go, well,
Speaker 2: I mean, clearly that's a big part of his low
Speaker 2: batting average, which is this but every gear it's two
Speaker 2: forty eight, it's two fifty one, it's two twenty. This
Speaker 2: guy has never even though he hits the ball hard,
Speaker 2: he's never cared a very high batting average balls in play.
Speaker 2: So even if it was a two forty eight babbit,
Speaker 2: which it was last season, it's still a two hundred
Speaker 2: batting average to ten I mean, and that's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the guy is going to be totally.
Speaker 2: Agree, it's tough. I totally. We're gonna get to a
Speaker 2: couple of those guys that are one dimensional players that
Speaker 2: you have to work so hard at the draft table
Speaker 2: during the season to make up for their deficiencies. It's
Speaker 2: just sometimes it's just not worth it. Agree, who's your catcher, Tim.
Speaker 3: Oh oh this is this is a jem Augustin Ramirez.
Speaker 3: You know, he an ADP of eighty two to four,
Speaker 3: which puts him in the sixth round. Okay, the depth
Speaker 3: of catcher has improved to the point where I'm just
Speaker 3: probably gonna pass, but I will be watching what he
Speaker 3: does over the balance of the season.
Speaker 2: If he stays up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if he stays up, if he hits again, I
Speaker 3: want to I want to see the next six weeks
Speaker 3: and see how it shakes down. But you know, when
Speaker 3: you look at a catcher that was drafted in the
Speaker 3: sixth round and you look at the production we've seen
Speaker 3: this year, that's ugly. Imagine pairing cal Rally and Augustin Ramirez.
Speaker 3: That's your catcher pairing. As you left the draft table,
Speaker 3: and you're thinking, yes, eighty home run, seventy eighty home runs,
Speaker 3: fifteen twenty stolen bases, I'm good to go. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: you're good to go, all right, as we now know,
Speaker 3: good to go about thirteenth or fourteenth place probably.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so your first yeah, you deserve it too, if
Speaker 2: I if I made tim, because that means too out
Speaker 2: of your first five maybe six picks were catchers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good time Yeah.
Speaker 2: By the way, Paul Skins average velocity ninety five point seven,
Speaker 2: you're right, max velocity ninety six point five, down a
Speaker 2: mile per hour, and his yearly average he averages ninety
Speaker 2: six to eight was Uh so that's one point one
Speaker 2: mile differential, which is not good.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it's just.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know, it's just a fluke. He's gonna come back,
Speaker 2: but you know it's becoming problematic his velocity. He's losing
Speaker 2: velocity as the season goes down, which could be he's
Speaker 2: just tired him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it could be. But you never like to see
Speaker 3: that trend occurring, do you.
Speaker 2: As concerning this is a guy with nasty stuff. Thirty
Speaker 2: three whiffs for misses, so that's a twelve percent whiff rate,
Speaker 2: which is.
Speaker 3: Not good, not good, not good at all. Nope.
Speaker 2: So but he pitched well, I mean he only he
Speaker 2: lost two nothing, so he didn't must not only pitch
Speaker 2: sixty five total pitches. They must have got taken out early.
Speaker 2: Wasn't following that game. So and it probably is like
Speaker 2: if you have n't be a dynasty league, you can't
Speaker 2: trade him now because no one's gonna to pay full
Speaker 2: value for the guy.
Speaker 3: No I traded him. Oh when was it. It's about
Speaker 3: a month or so ago now, and I have picked
Speaker 3: up heyzeus made and aj ewing and stours and an
Speaker 3: upgrade on the draft pick. And I never like to
Speaker 3: see trades work out as this one has thus far.
Speaker 3: I know, but I'm but I'm not disappointed that I
Speaker 3: made the deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So I think that's where you and I are similar.
Speaker 2: I I want I want the trade to work for
Speaker 2: both of us. I want the other players.
Speaker 3: I do too.
Speaker 2: I want the guy to keep playing well. It really
Speaker 2: bumps me out if if the guy gets hurt or
Speaker 2: he just stinks after that. So yeah, it just it's good.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's not. It really isn't.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know like I've always thought, you know, hey, you
Speaker 3: make a trade like that, you want both teams to benefit,
Speaker 3: both teams to do well, the players to have success.
Speaker 3: Yet ye yeah, so far, I'm a little happier than
Speaker 3: I think my trading partner. But again, he made that,
Speaker 3: he made he made the move. Try, you know, trying
Speaker 3: to catch an ease Yeah, and a high high hybrid
Speaker 3: keeper format. It's hard to get aces in those formats
Speaker 3: because nobody trades them until we're thirty six right.
Speaker 2: Yeh. By the way, Tim, Yeah, speaking of trading partners,
Speaker 2: we're not trading partners in this, but we are closer
Speaker 2: recommender client. I'm the client, either the closer recommender or consultant.
Speaker 2: Ben Joyce, Timmy got the last save and for the Angels,
Speaker 2: thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Yes, m hm, you're welcome. I got the tarra Yeah,
Speaker 3: and he's got what three four saves in an e
Speaker 3: are just over one or something like that, and Ben.
Speaker 2: Joyce gets next.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you got the right closure there.
Speaker 2: All right. I don't even talking about Tim Dylan Smith.
Speaker 2: Is that who I got?
Speaker 3: Uh, well, you can talk about you can still talk
Speaker 3: about him. I think SPI's okay, all right, all right?
Speaker 2: You think at the last save?
Speaker 3: Did he uh have they had a save in the
Speaker 3: past month?
Speaker 2: First base, Timmy, I got, Look, I got Vinny p
Speaker 2: two thirty two batting and every six runs and seventy
Speaker 2: nine games you go, oh, Rich, he's hurt. Okay, seventy
Speaker 2: nine games times too, is pretty much a full season.
Speaker 2: Twelve of them runs, that's what his annualized. He has
Speaker 2: been brutal.
Speaker 3: It has not been a good year for n P.
Speaker 2: Totally agree and I will probably draft him again next season,
Speaker 2: but that's just.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you know, I'll look at the I'll look
Speaker 3: at the price and if the price is favorable, I'm yeah.
Speaker 3: I he's not on my do not draft list.
Speaker 2: I was a he's still really young, so I think
Speaker 2: he's he's maybe twenty eight something like that. Mm hm.
Speaker 2: Last I looked, it's still well and now his average
Speaker 2: X velocity is way off this season. So yeah, so
Speaker 2: that's got to be the injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it has to be the injury. Yeah, And like
Speaker 3: I said, I'm not I'm not adverse to looking at
Speaker 3: him next year, depending on how much off season surgery
Speaker 3: we hear about October.
Speaker 2: Hopefully none thirty two to six thirty two horme runs
Speaker 2: to six. Yeah, you don't go from ninety point nine
Speaker 2: mile hourgs of velosity in twenty twenty five to eighty nine.
Speaker 2: Eighty nine is still good, but his max x velosity
Speaker 2: max was one oh eight. I bet you Lewis Rise
Speaker 2: has hit up a ball one hundred and eight miles. One
Speaker 2: hundred eight's not great for your max. So it's it's
Speaker 2: it's a bit a bad season, and I think he's
Speaker 2: going to be cheap at the draft table. So I'll
Speaker 2: probably have you got.
Speaker 3: Tim, But I got a guy that I probably won't
Speaker 3: stick with, and that's Ladd Junior ADP of ADP of eighteen.
Speaker 3: Before I look at Ladd at any price, Okay, he's
Speaker 3: got some things to work through and he's got some
Speaker 3: things to resolve, and I, hey, I hope you can
Speaker 3: get back on track. Who that Joey Barto I think
Speaker 3: came up with an analysis. I'm glad something with his
Speaker 3: back leg or you know, driving through the ball. Well,
Speaker 3: we'll have to see. But right but right now, I
Speaker 3: think Lad's going to go too high for my liking,
Speaker 3: and he's going to be a pass. Like I said,
Speaker 3: I've got to see some changes.
Speaker 2: Where does he before? The great Tim McCloud would and
Speaker 2: would be enticing enough for you to grab.
Speaker 3: Him too far? Fifth, sixth, seventh round. That's right, you'll
Speaker 3: never drop.
Speaker 2: That far, ye, just because he's Lad Junior.
Speaker 3: Yeah, somebody will. Somebody will pick him up from the
Speaker 3: third round hoping on a return to for him, and
Speaker 3: it could very easily occur, I believe. But am I
Speaker 3: going to take that chance? No, I'll go down the
Speaker 3: table a little bit and find your first basement. If
Speaker 3: I'm going to roll the dice, it's not going to
Speaker 3: be on a first basement that has demonstrated some definite
Speaker 3: problems this year. Okay, first, second, third round, No, that's
Speaker 3: just not going to happen for me.
Speaker 2: Rich This one's kind of sad for me. Jose l
Speaker 2: TV the second basement off the board. It's a guy
Speaker 2: that you could always count on at minimum for great
Speaker 2: batting average. He's sitting two forty, it's got fourteen home runs,
Speaker 2: two stolen bases, ninety six games. He's been out a
Speaker 2: little bit. But it's just sad. I mean, we're starting
Speaker 2: to see the natural progression of the guy losing his skills,
Speaker 2: and he could have a bounce back like a George
Speaker 2: Springer type of season where he puts it all back
Speaker 2: together and he looks like he's reborn. But this is
Speaker 2: unfortunately at the beginning of the end for Jose al Twov.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and all you have to do is look
Speaker 3: at the history of success from second base types over
Speaker 3: the age of thirty five is somewhere between slim and none.
Speaker 3: Al Tuov is going to be thirty seven next year. Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 2: How many hits. Does he get to get a baseball
Speaker 2: reference for that? I ask Google how many career hits?
Speaker 2: It's because AI stuff is so good. You don't even
Speaker 2: have to look up stuff. Anyone just looks how many
Speaker 2: career hits.
Speaker 3: Does I'm gonna say twenty five hundred.
Speaker 2: L two vs. Twenty four and seventy seven. So here's
Speaker 2: what's going to be sad. He's going to fark of
Speaker 2: three thousand.
Speaker 3: It is correct.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a shell of himself trying to
Speaker 2: get the three thousand, and it's going to be sad
Speaker 2: to see that.
Speaker 3: Yes, he will get there, but it will probably be
Speaker 3: in twenty thirty two as a DH in Colorado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something like that. That'll be That'll just be awful.
Speaker 3: It'll be the same ending we saw from Robertson Can.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So he's got how many hits does L two
Speaker 2: we have? He's got only eighty nine. That's tough, you know.
Speaker 3: So four to five years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but if he could do one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty two hundred and eighty that he did in
Speaker 2: the last two years, that he'd get there in three years.
Speaker 2: That won't be awful. But if it's I'll take him
Speaker 2: five years. That's yeah, who's your second basement?
Speaker 3: Well, I gotta go with Jackson Holiday.
Speaker 2: I thought of him. I thought of him. I'm underwilling
Speaker 2: to do that though.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I'm having trouble with that one myself. I'm going
Speaker 3: to be a buyer next year, Okay to injury. Injuries
Speaker 3: basically destroyed the season before he even got going. You know,
Speaker 3: it's funny when you start looking at that that hand
Speaker 3: surgery he had it just never y you know, Hamming nobody, yeah, Hammy, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Some of the guys that had that surgery playing well,
Speaker 3: they're playing as good as Yeah, it just hasn't happened
Speaker 3: with Holiday. I'm going to show up my Scottish bloodlines
Speaker 3: and be a buyer next spring on Holiday. But it
Speaker 3: has been very, very disappointing. What's happening.
Speaker 2: His ex velocity was eighty eight point eight twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: really good for a kid that's twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: You expect he went down a mile and a half
Speaker 2: eighty seven point two with a max of one oh
Speaker 2: five point eight. That is not what we expect, and
Speaker 2: that to me is indicative that that hand never got
Speaker 2: the strength back in the hand.
Speaker 3: So totally agree.
Speaker 2: I mean he still walks a lot. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: he's just a speed is there. It's I'm a buyer
Speaker 2: of my third base man, Machad. It's a weird one, Timmy.
Speaker 2: Twenty three home runs, but he's got a two to
Speaker 2: fifteen batting average and I'd look at it. It's a
Speaker 2: two twenty nine babbit and he kind of think he
Speaker 2: still hits the ball pretty hard. I think that's going
Speaker 2: to correct, and I think I don't know, he's a
Speaker 2: four to third basement. Off the board is set where
Speaker 2: he's going to go again. Next season, he might hit
Speaker 2: thirty home runs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll buy if the price is right. If he
Speaker 3: falls a little bit, I'll definitely be interested. But at
Speaker 3: an ADP of thirty seven point two from last year,
Speaker 3: that just isn't right for me. Yeah, he's going to
Speaker 3: have to fall a little bit, and if he does, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll definitely be interested.
Speaker 2: Timmy, here's your third basement.
Speaker 3: Oh, I gotta go with an Atlanta not so brave
Speaker 3: Austin Riley ADP of sixty four to nine. He started
Speaker 3: his career and you know, I know you were never
Speaker 3: big on Riley. You had big time concerns, and after
Speaker 3: the first three seasons it looked like wrong. Yeah, dead wrong.
Speaker 3: It wasn't happening. But he started his career with three
Speaker 3: consecutive thirty plus home run seasons. He's likely to finish
Speaker 3: the next three years by not getting the twenty. He
Speaker 3: has fifteen this year, the batting averages in free fall,
Speaker 3: and he's likely to set a career high in strikeouts
Speaker 3: this year. So you might not have been right out
Speaker 3: of the gate, but the past three years you've been
Speaker 3: pretty spot on in your analysis on Austin Riley. I'm
Speaker 3: just not interested in taking chance after seeing three consecutive
Speaker 3: years of not getting your twenty home Oh, Cooper Pratt,
Speaker 3: he's the guy. No all, look elsewhere. I won't touch her.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough, I mean, pardon my. My concern has
Speaker 2: always been with Austin Riley's. It's got a terrible approach,
Speaker 2: just swings at everything, no two strike, two strike approach.
Speaker 2: He's still got big power. I mean, he still hits
Speaker 2: the ball really, really hard. It's not quite as hard
Speaker 2: as he did last couple of years, but it's hard enough.
Speaker 2: But if you're up there just hacking away. Timmy, the
Speaker 2: Major League baseball pitchers have got a book on him now,
Speaker 2: and they know exactly how to pitch it. You can look
Speaker 2: at the data and you pitch them away, away, and
Speaker 2: down and you get him out every time.
Speaker 3: And sweeper sweeper, sweeper sweepers. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you make a mistake to where you throw him
Speaker 2: a fast he's going to destroy the fastball. So yeah,
Speaker 2: and you could see it in the data. The fastball
Speaker 2: used have just been going down throwing to him since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. That was that was the year we're
Speaker 2: all bad stuff started happening. So they just started giving
Speaker 2: it more and more off speed pitches, and you know,
Speaker 2: just just you know, just that's what happened. It doesn't
Speaker 2: it's not more complicated than that.
Speaker 3: No, there's a book. People read it. Well, here we
Speaker 3: get to the end, and that's exactly what's happening.
Speaker 2: He's hitting expected batting average against breaking pitches one seventy
Speaker 2: four against off speed pitches. It's not great against fastballs,
Speaker 2: but you know, at least he's got to expected four
Speaker 2: to twenty eight slug. He's got to expected three eighty
Speaker 2: three slug on breaking pitches. He's just there is nothing happening,
Speaker 2: No tell me. Let's let's take a break and that
Speaker 2: was a great one by you, and let's come back
Speaker 2: and finish this up. What's happening with these games?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 2: The uh oh it's whimsy the Thursday, right, yep, the oh.
Speaker 2: The Red Sox are up one to nothing on your
Speaker 2: beloved Toronto Blue Jays. You don't even like the Blue Jays,
Speaker 2: but by default that's that's who it is, right. Who's
Speaker 2: pitching for the Yeah, totally, totally. He's gonna get some
Speaker 2: He's going to get some MVP votes. Tim Brookie of
Speaker 2: the yeah votes.
Speaker 3: I guess mad Max Schuers or I believe.
Speaker 2: Yeah for the Toronto Blue Jays. Yeah, totally. I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Going back to Rookie of the Year three point one
Speaker 2: fourty ear a, seven wins, one hundred and twenty four
Speaker 2: strikeouts in one hundred and nine innings pitched.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's having a very good year.
Speaker 2: Very When can I take my victory lap where everybody's
Speaker 2: saying Connley early, and I'm like, I'd rather have Peyton
Speaker 2: Toley rather Peyton and I every time people would take
Speaker 2: Conley early six rounds in front of Peyton Toley, I'd
Speaker 2: rather have Peyton Totley there you go.
Speaker 3: He was, Yeah, the predictions were simply early.
Speaker 2: Right join us that Patreon saying get that kind of insight,
Speaker 2: Patriot dot com. I'm there for you. Okay, anyway, short
Speaker 2: stop Timmy, I'll go. I've been going first year. I
Speaker 2: think you and I both thought her role to the
Speaker 2: Predoma it was going to be tough to replicate his
Speaker 2: season from last year when it was twenty seven home
Speaker 2: runs twenty stolen bases. I might have that reverse. It
Speaker 2: might be twenty runs, twenty seven stolen bases into two
Speaker 2: ninety batting average. He's sitting two forty four of this
Speaker 2: season with nine home runs, and he's still got the
Speaker 2: stolen base. He's going to fall short of twenty seven
Speaker 2: most likely, but he's going to be twenty two to
Speaker 2: twenty five nine home runs. I think that. I think
Speaker 2: he's a ten to twelve, ten to fifteen kind of
Speaker 2: home run guy. He is. Babbitt is pretty low at
Speaker 2: two sixty four. It's just it's so hard when you
Speaker 2: see a guy Kyle Riley another example that you look
Speaker 2: at look at his history. You don't see a progressive thing.
Speaker 2: You just see this out of know where he jumps
Speaker 2: up and he blows up. You just can't fall in
Speaker 2: love with that, and you can't have that Fomo at
Speaker 2: the draft table when it's like, I'm gonna let somebody
Speaker 2: else take that risk. Yeah, maybe he's blown up, but
Speaker 2: I'd rather take some guy that's progressively getting better as
Speaker 2: opposed to just out of nowhere does this season. I
Speaker 2: think that's what happened with Parolda Pardoma.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know, I think we all predicted regression. Okay,
Speaker 3: but regression to what. Okay, we now have a better
Speaker 3: idea what that regression is. A new borrow will be
Speaker 3: set and it should be a lot lower than it
Speaker 3: was last year. Okay. I'm a buyer on Prudomo.
Speaker 2: He's a good baseball player's a good fantasy baseball player.
Speaker 2: He's just not the ninth short stop off the board
Speaker 2: or with potentially going even higher than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm buying, assuming the ADP for next year reflects
Speaker 3: his twenty twenty six season a little bit better, and
Speaker 3: it should. Okay, So I don't have any problems with Pardoma.
Speaker 3: I stayed away from him for the most part is
Speaker 3: year because I didn't know what I was getting into.
Speaker 3: And whenever you're in a situation where yeah, yeah, he's
Speaker 3: gonna regress, but regrets to what. Okay, I'm not going
Speaker 3: to pay the price based on that high season. I
Speaker 3: have no shares of Perdoma, I have no shares of
Speaker 3: call Orriling. I just stayed away, okay, and avoided it.
Speaker 3: But next year, yeah, I'm gonna look at I don't
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look at Perdomo. Assuming the new bar is
Speaker 3: reflective of what he did this year, you might actually
Speaker 3: end up getting yourself a bargain there with that, with
Speaker 3: that low babbittt.
Speaker 2: My whole life is predicated, whether it's baseball or just
Speaker 2: living in Genlef. I if I don't understand it, I
Speaker 2: can't explain it to somebody, I just walk away. I mean,
Speaker 2: I just like, I don't understand why this is happening.
Speaker 2: Good on this hitter for doing this picture, for doing
Speaker 2: this whatever for happening. I don't get it, so I
Speaker 2: can't invest in it. And that was my deal with Perdomo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, very enough.
Speaker 2: You're short stop, mister McLeod well.
Speaker 3: My short stop. Okay, I uh, it's true. Confession time. Okay,
Speaker 3: I missed short stop on the list. Okay, yeah, we.
Speaker 2: Could skip we could sky it, come back to it
Speaker 2: or do you.
Speaker 3: Have I get you pull your Yeah, I'm gonna pull somebody.
Speaker 3: Uh you know when in dough. Okay, go go with
Speaker 3: tried and true. There's not a hope in hell. I
Speaker 3: will have any shares of bobus ship.
Speaker 2: Chip shot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yeah, you can find more of that over
Speaker 3: at the Discord site.
Speaker 2: The great analysis it. Yeah, that was that was. Everybody
Speaker 2: knew that going in. People still invested in them and
Speaker 2: I yeah, yeah, So let's on a three year contract.
Speaker 2: So next year he won't be pretty good.
Speaker 3: Forty million a year I think after for years.
Speaker 2: Or something like that. So final year that's when he'll
Speaker 2: blow up again and some general manager will buy into it.
Speaker 2: And I yeah. So now, speaking of general managers, I'm
Speaker 2: going to tell you something. So I got content. You're
Speaker 2: gonna laugh. I got contact of my Major League baseball
Speaker 2: team to see if I was interested in joining their
Speaker 2: analytics department.
Speaker 3: Congratulations, guess who it was. I know who it was,
Speaker 3: The Rockies.
Speaker 2: The Rockies. I laughed out loud. I got the email.
Speaker 2: I laughed out loud, like they have an analytics department?
Speaker 2: Don't they listen to this show?
Speaker 3: Right right, right to your principal exposure Okay to the
Speaker 3: world of baseball is through your Patreon site and the podcast. Okay, no,
Speaker 3: they do not listen. They don't read the Patriot on
Speaker 3: site and they don't listen to the podcast. Okay, no, congratulations,
Speaker 3: I I I.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it was it was I'd have to move
Speaker 2: to Denver, and I said, actually, it wasn't Denver. It
Speaker 2: was the Phoenix. That's where their analytics group is. And
Speaker 2: I said, it's like one hundred and ninety degrees on
Speaker 2: the summertime. Thank you. They have a look. I've offered
Speaker 2: other kinds of stuff. That was almost pulled the trigger
Speaker 2: on a couple. I'm not interested. I'm just not interested.
Speaker 2: But it was I did laugh out laughs. It was
Speaker 2: a it was a you know, I got the note
Speaker 2: It says, hey, I heard from this guy with somebody
Speaker 2: in the Cleveland Cleveland Guardians organization really like work and
Speaker 2: blah blah blah, you know, can you help us in
Speaker 2: this area? And I just likely appreciate it. I wish
Speaker 2: you guys all the luck. But I I said, I'm
Speaker 2: not interested in going to uh to live in Phoenix.
Speaker 2: But uh, then it was I didn't want to say that.
Speaker 2: I guess it would be a challenge. I mean, you
Speaker 2: can go in there and actually make an impact and
Speaker 2: get them analytics focused. That would be kind of exciting.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm retired to him, I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 3: There's lots of challenges we can look forward to in life. Okay,
Speaker 3: maybe that's the key, look forward to challenges.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because you'd have to you have to hire a
Speaker 2: bunch of people. And you know, because I know, I know,
Speaker 2: I was in the analytics world for years. I know,
Speaker 2: like who a lot of the good people would be
Speaker 2: to bring in there. So maybe turn them into an
Speaker 2: analyx you know what this podcast? You could be hosting
Speaker 2: the podcast. I'd come in as a guest, and I
Speaker 2: tell you everybody we've jettison.
Speaker 3: Okay, you could hire me and Nails okay from the
Speaker 3: Discord site to be your analytics department. Okay, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: a good player.
Speaker 2: Good go to the outfield. Did you boba shit right?
Speaker 2: This first one. I don't feel good about putting this
Speaker 2: guy on here because he was hurt. But Aaron Judge
Speaker 2: turns thirty five in April. I'm very disappointed and discouraged
Speaker 2: that we lost Aaron Judge. I forgot when May June and.
Speaker 3: Long ago, far away in a different galaxy. Yeah, yeah, we're.
Speaker 2: Just we're not gonna he's not coming back to him.
Speaker 2: He's just not coming up. I mean, there's it's crickets
Speaker 2: with the Yankees. They're not saying anything, and it's he's
Speaker 2: not swinging at bat, he's not doing he's not doing anything,
Speaker 2: and it's no. And you know, look, you got guys
Speaker 2: that are this old, that big. You just don't want
Speaker 2: to be musical chairs. You don't want to be the
Speaker 2: guy who drafted Aaron Judge with the third pick or
Speaker 2: second pick in the draft, thirty four years old, and
Speaker 2: then this happens. I know it can happen to anybody,
Speaker 2: but you're just increasing your odds. That's something something bad's
Speaker 2: going to happen. And it did.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, Well he's a first round pick. Next year,
Speaker 3: he'll probably be a second round, late first second round pick.
Speaker 3: That's too high for me. I the age, combined with
Speaker 3: the injuries were starting to see that just puts him
Speaker 3: in a bracket where there's too much risk relative to
Speaker 3: where you're going to have to acquire him at. So
Speaker 3: I'll be staying away from her in.
Speaker 2: Judge, I get it, man, All of a sudden, you're thinking,
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge and with the seventeenth pick in the draft,
Speaker 2: you gotta do it, And I get it. I mean
Speaker 2: I might even be tempted, you know, to grab rule
Speaker 2: in the second round, going hey, I got a chance
Speaker 2: to get fifty on runs. But I should I should
Speaker 2: have gotten that guy with a third overall pick, But
Speaker 2: I don't know. Man, is a ton of.
Speaker 3: Right, They're They're most certainly.
Speaker 2: Is yeah, who's your first guy? Tim?
Speaker 3: Well, speaking of risk, we're going. We're going right to
Speaker 3: the high end of the scale. Ronald Dacune junior ADP
Speaker 3: of six point eight. He's going in the top ten
Speaker 3: picks of drafts last year. And if you're betting on
Speaker 3: a return to form out of Accunia junior, you're betting
Speaker 3: against two seasons in a nine year career. That's that's
Speaker 3: not good odds. Okay, Yeah, he can have a monster season,
Speaker 3: much the same as Aaron Judge, but two of the
Speaker 3: nine where he's exceeded six hundred at bat, that's that's
Speaker 3: not enough for me. I'll be passing on a junior
Speaker 3: as well as Aaron judge next year, and my rankings
Speaker 3: will probably reflect it.
Speaker 2: I think it's a similar situation. I agree with that.
Speaker 2: I mean, how many more years do we have to
Speaker 2: have a Ronald Lacuna junior getting hurt? I had actually
Speaker 2: a trade offer. I owned Ronald dcunyan one Dynasta league
Speaker 2: and somebody one of him. And before I had a
Speaker 2: chance to even look at the trade two of the
Speaker 2: players that he included in the trade he just accepted.
Speaker 2: Because I'm the commissioner. He accepted two of the players
Speaker 2: that were in the the offer and another deal that
Speaker 2: had been accepted, So I never got even a chance
Speaker 2: to review it because it was an olden voy by
Speaker 2: the time I got to it.
Speaker 3: Well what somebody limited patients?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's like, all right, yeah, I'll wake
Speaker 2: up at three o'clock next next time in the morning
Speaker 2: and then take a look at the trade offer. But
Speaker 2: I was little disappointed in that I didn't even I
Speaker 2: didn't get a chance'll take up to really analyze it.
Speaker 3: Okay, uh, he's got less he's got less less patients
Speaker 3: than most of my nurses that I drive around.
Speaker 2: It's true a lot. That's funny. Okay, my next guy Timmy.
Speaker 2: I don't know how I feel about this, right, I
Speaker 2: like during Jared duran and he's actually had a good season.
Speaker 2: He's going to go twenty twenty seventeen or run seventeen
Speaker 2: stolen basis, but he's hitting two of too, and it's
Speaker 2: on base percentage is two sixty, and we know that
Speaker 2: that look. One of the things that as fantasy managers,
Speaker 2: one thing you cannot you can't control much. The one
Speaker 2: thing you definitely can't control is how often the player's
Speaker 2: going to get played by his manager. At some point,
Speaker 2: Jared Durant's going to be sat more than just against
Speaker 2: lefties when he's got a two sixty on base percentage
Speaker 2: because the analytics apart is going to go no, that's
Speaker 2: not working.
Speaker 3: Yes, so I.
Speaker 2: He's been disappointing because of that, but he's going to
Speaker 2: go twenty twenty. So I'm not sure what to make
Speaker 2: of him. I'm not even sure I recommended people pick
Speaker 2: him up. It was one of my draft targets. I
Speaker 2: was wrong on that. I guess I was wrong. He's
Speaker 2: going twenty twenty, though, but I don't know how to
Speaker 2: think about it.
Speaker 3: Helped me well when he's going twenty twenty, but somewhere
Speaker 3: you're going to have to cover that two two batting average,
Speaker 3: the OBP plus the back sitting against lefties. Okay, my
Speaker 3: personal thoughts, If somehow I end up with Duran on
Speaker 3: any of my teams next year, you can assume I
Speaker 3: was over medicated on Draft DA. I can't play that
Speaker 3: game more. Auto draft yeah, my buddy, Auto, Yeah, No,
Speaker 3: how do you compensate and weigh one up against the other.
Speaker 3: I have a hard time drafting players for the most part,
Speaker 3: that I know are going to kill me somewhere. I
Speaker 3: would rather take a fifteen to fifteen type that's going
Speaker 3: to bat two fifty five and has a history of
Speaker 3: three hundred plus OBP. I'll take the lower power and
Speaker 3: speed numbers totally offset by a consistent batting average or OBP.
Speaker 3: I It just puts you in a hole. And what
Speaker 3: you do is on Draft DA you end up trying
Speaker 3: to find a way to get out of that hole. Now,
Speaker 3: to get out of that hole, you end up going
Speaker 3: off your draft strategy. Okay, to end up with players
Speaker 3: that you're not really that bullish on, but you're just
Speaker 3: trying to compensate for the fact that you made a
Speaker 3: move that puts you into a negative situation. I like
Speaker 3: to try and stay away from that wherever possible. It
Speaker 3: just creates chaos, and no, we got enough chaos on
Speaker 3: draft Day. We don't need bonus chaos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, but here's the problem. I bet you
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it now because this bat speed is great.
Speaker 2: He hit still hits the ball pretty hard. Expected batting
Speaker 2: average is two thirty three. I mean, you can argue
Speaker 2: that it could be if he hits two fifty and
Speaker 2: does twenty twenty, that might actually work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it might. But you happen to look at the
Speaker 3: schedule and he's facing five lefties next week. Ye, then
Speaker 3: you gotta have you gotta have coverage for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gotta be thirty next season as well, which
Speaker 2: is kind of crazy. You still think of it as
Speaker 2: a kid and he's.
Speaker 3: Not time does nuts stand still?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it bumps me out. I like Jared Durant. I
Speaker 2: love his story as well, where you know he was
Speaker 2: really distraughted, people should read about it, and it considered
Speaker 2: suicide and it basically then kind of got sought some
Speaker 2: help and really turned his life around and played well.
Speaker 2: And now he just runs into a bus saw here
Speaker 2: and it just bums me out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I did. This isn't personal on my behalf.
Speaker 3: It's just about, of course, not Timmy.
Speaker 2: He's not listening.
Speaker 3: No, no, don't.
Speaker 2: Have to worry about that, but it does bump. I
Speaker 2: would see that he's not having a good season because
Speaker 2: then you worry about what's he what's that doing to
Speaker 2: him emotionally? You know?
Speaker 3: Ye? I wish him all the best with what he does.
Speaker 3: It's just what he does is not what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: Totally get it, all right, give me your.
Speaker 3: Second outfielder, okay, my second oldfielder. Okay. Eleven home runs,
Speaker 3: seven stolen bases, and a two thirty nine batting average
Speaker 3: over four hundred and two at bats. As a late
Speaker 3: first round pick, you'd have to say it's pretty dreadful, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that great? Yeah, Kyle Tucker with an ADP of fourteen
Speaker 3: point eight. The Dodgers might spend the most, but it
Speaker 3: doesn't guarantee the best Kyle Trick. Tucker has been a
Speaker 3: huge disappointment this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When I wrote about Kyle Tucker, wasn't I think
Speaker 2: it was twenty twenty five. I looked at the data
Speaker 2: and I said, I don't like what's happening. That's a
Speaker 2: guy that I'm not going to recommend. And then last
Speaker 2: year came out and had a great season, But all
Speaker 2: of the towels were there a year ago, and I
Speaker 2: repeated them again this season. I'm like, I don't like
Speaker 2: how Hardy hits the ball. I don't like the dwindling
Speaker 2: speed I think it will hit. And I just think
Speaker 2: the fantasy tools are dwindling before our eyes, and I
Speaker 2: think it finally caught up to him. That doesn't mean
Speaker 2: he's not going to improve next season, but I just
Speaker 2: don't like what he does. Tim. I think he's overrated
Speaker 2: because of that.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I mean if he hits twenty home
Speaker 3: runs steals ten bases, so it's two forty. He's not
Speaker 3: a first round pick. In the second round, No, and
Speaker 3: he's going to go I think based on name recognition
Speaker 3: at short point in time, too early, Right, he's Kyle Cucker.
Speaker 2: That's right, But it's an eighty eight point eight mile
Speaker 2: and hour eggs of VELOSSI he's got a tonnel launch.
Speaker 2: You always worry about the guy with a tremendous amount
Speaker 2: of launch. They can have seasons like this where you know,
Speaker 2: it's all leverage built and sometimes they go out sometimes
Speaker 2: that you want the guy that can actually hit the
Speaker 2: ball hard and his speed this is gone. I mean
Speaker 2: speed's at the twenty seventh percentile. And I don't know
Speaker 2: how he stole twenty seven bases last year, but he's
Speaker 2: probably a ten stolid base guy with a fifteen to
Speaker 2: twenty home run That's probably who he is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think even down shifting on him for
Speaker 3: next year, it's going to be too expensive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this one's this one's easy for me. I feel
Speaker 2: adam not having to say this with Chandler Simpson. But look,
Speaker 2: first of all, I think it was who were we
Speaker 2: talking about? The power guy? If if you hit, oh,
Speaker 2: it was Kyle Riley. If he does, if he has
Speaker 2: fifty sixty home runs, I'll live with some of the
Speaker 2: other problems. If Chandler Simpson steals sixty seventy bases, I'll
Speaker 2: live with the fact that there's no home runs, that
Speaker 2: he's got forty nine runs scored, which you should have
Speaker 2: a lot more because he said and he's got twenty
Speaker 2: five RBIs. But if he if he steals sixty or
Speaker 2: seventy bases, oh, I might like I might have a
Speaker 2: chance to say, all right, I get it, but if
Speaker 2: you're going to steal thirty forty, so what I mean,
Speaker 2: not with all of everything else kind of zero's there's
Speaker 2: no use for that guy in my humble opinion.
Speaker 3: Now, there's lots of options for speed you can find, okay,
Speaker 3: but it is simply impossible to get less power production
Speaker 3: of a player than Chandler's and the best you can
Speaker 3: do is a tie. Zero is zero Okay? Yeah no,
Speaker 3: uh not for me?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I didn't get it at the draft table.
Speaker 2: I didn't get it. I mean I mean against against
Speaker 2: still me sixty seventy eighty basis. We'll talk, but you
Speaker 2: got to be able to guarantee that to me. And
Speaker 2: then what happens is you draft that guy for all
Speaker 2: of the speed, and then you go light on other
Speaker 2: positions for speed and you go with power, and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden you wind up with a ton of
Speaker 2: home runs and not enough speed, and it's just it's
Speaker 2: not good tim This is.
Speaker 3: Up and no betting and no batting average, because the
Speaker 3: guys you're getting for power late are the guys that
Speaker 3: lad two twenty five to thirty home runs. But you're again,
Speaker 3: the trade off and getting a Simpson is you got
Speaker 3: to find the power. The power you're going to find
Speaker 3: later on in the draft. Stop set Simpsons speed is
Speaker 3: going to come with no batting average, and then you
Speaker 3: end up with Luisa Rise Chandler Simpson and pick a
Speaker 3: home run back, right, Yeah, okay in fifteenth place.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a fifteenth place because you got all these
Speaker 2: one dimensional guys and they decided to have their off gear.
Speaker 2: Not that Chandler Simpson had had an off year. I
Speaker 2: just look, thirty to forty stolen bases is a great season.
Speaker 2: I mean that that's great. I mean I never talk
Speaker 2: about a guy stealing fifty sixty bases, and I right
Speaker 2: about prospects all day long. You talk about forty plus, right,
Speaker 2: but if he does forty five, you're like, great, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: But you can't count sixty or seventy. And I think
Speaker 2: people were betting on that. They had to be otherwise
Speaker 2: why would you draft them?
Speaker 3: Well, exactly, yeah, and you know what you're breaking right sore,
Speaker 3: if he steals fifty, you're in fourteenth instead of fifty exactly.
Speaker 2: I don't like it's Lewis Rai's same argument. Kyle Riley's
Speaker 2: same argument. It's these one dimensional guys you could have
Speaker 2: everybody's gonna be really, really careful of. And when it
Speaker 2: all like Kyle Riley last year, it's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But if it doesn't, yeah, I mean it's really bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going all in.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hey, if it's then you're not going to finish fifth
Speaker 3: or third. No, you're going to be at the top
Speaker 3: of the board, or you're going to be looking up
Speaker 3: at everybody else.
Speaker 2: Yep, all right, timm, you got your last guy, and
Speaker 2: then uh, we'll get your picks and get out of here.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going with another Dodger. Okay, I'm going with
Speaker 3: Tioscar Fernandez's ADP was one twenty four point six. Okay,
Speaker 3: he was twenty ninth outfielder off the board. But is
Speaker 3: that proving to be that much of a better buyer
Speaker 3: than his fellow Dodger Kyle Tucker. Are you gonna you know, hey,
Speaker 3: based on costs? Yeah, it's got to be a very bit.
Speaker 3: Theo's got eleven homers and forty two RBIs I think
Speaker 3: it's time the Dodgers started promoting that outfield depth. It's
Speaker 3: currently sitting in the high minds. Ti Oscar to me,
Speaker 3: has been a big disappointment the year. This year. Yeah,
Speaker 3: traditionally you go back a couple of years at thirty
Speaker 3: home run Mark was in. You know, he he's gonna
Speaker 3: be very fortunate if he gets twenty this year. And
Speaker 3: I don't see that trend improving moving forward. So come on,
Speaker 3: Dodgers start bringing up some of the kids.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, let's let's take a look at ti Oscar.
Speaker 2: Hernandez still sign a three year sixty six million dollars
Speaker 2: running through twenty twenty seven, so I mean you could
Speaker 2: see ti Oskar becoming a part time player next season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like the Dodgers don't have options in
Speaker 3: the minors and the high miners do they Nope, they do.
Speaker 2: Not tell me to take our final break. Come back,
Speaker 2: and let's see who Tim is gotting pick it up
Speaker 2: on his waiver wire. It's only got three guys. Those
Speaker 2: two give him people an next your nay to forget
Speaker 2: him out with you.
Speaker 3: Till well, well, and you know what, I now, I'm
Speaker 3: now up to five or six because I've picked your
Speaker 3: brain and you've done. You've added three more players for me,
Speaker 3: So you've got at least a fifty percent commitment to
Speaker 3: the waiver wire this weekend. Congratulations and my thanks, Rick.
Speaker 2: I I think I just wrote about a player that
Speaker 2: I thought might be up. I'll have to give you
Speaker 2: that name. I can't remember who it is. Yeah, we
Speaker 2: literally fifty players over the last four or five days.
Speaker 2: I can't remember them all, but somebody I think might
Speaker 2: be coming up soon. But anyway, to me, who are
Speaker 2: your who are your two picks? Give me your hitter
Speaker 2: and then your pitcher.
Speaker 3: Okay, my hitter. You're gonna like this one. It finally
Speaker 3: happened in Colorado. We have a Zack Zachvens twenty three
Speaker 3: percent roster see at CBS. Yeah, I had a great
Speaker 3: year at Albuquerque. It is Albuquerque, but twenty four Homers.
Speaker 3: I think it's Albaqueri, but twenty four homer. His nineteen
Speaker 3: stroll on base is ten thirty seven ops. The only
Speaker 3: thing I had to add to that is the Rockies
Speaker 3: forget you was still in their miners. Nice to see
Speaker 3: Zach Viene up and somebody that I think people should
Speaker 3: be looking at with a few dollars this weekend.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, Timmy, it's even money that he'll be sent down
Speaker 2: before the waiverwater list gets published. So that's the downside.
Speaker 3: Yes, there is a downside. Yes, yes, he would go
Speaker 3: for eight in two games. Okay, bye bye.
Speaker 2: He did hit a home run right then? He had
Speaker 2: a home run his first game up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, last him. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, I'm a huge Zach Vine fan. I don't think
Speaker 2: he'll be a star. But he hits the ball really hard.
Speaker 2: He's faster than you think, really aggressible on the base paths.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not going to be a great hitter.
Speaker 2: But I struggled with understanding that there were three better
Speaker 2: or four better outfielders on the major league squad than
Speaker 2: when Zach Vine provided. I didn'tunderstand why he was sitting
Speaker 2: in the minor leagues, and it perplexed me. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Now that we're on the fourteenth, tell me why the
Speaker 2: first basement's not coming up.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Maybe they forgot about him too, Yeah, I don't know. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that it puzzles me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could be heading, like not heading, but I
Speaker 2: could be part of their analytics department too, yes, helping them.
Speaker 3: And listen listening listening to me drowing on about the
Speaker 3: Rockies all by myself. Okay, with w.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine. I mean, there's no way. I'm sixty
Speaker 2: three years old, soon to be sixty four. I can't
Speaker 2: hold my tongue and say, well, well, be real corporate.
Speaker 2: Well you know, I think exactly can I What are
Speaker 2: you guys stupid? Why aren't you pretty them up? What
Speaker 2: more information do you need?
Speaker 3: That's one of the perks of being a senior. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's right, Yeah, yeah, you're yeah, you're entitled to you
Speaker 3: your opinions and sharing them. It's important they get out there.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, for sure. All right, Timmy, here's your picture.
Speaker 3: Oh, you're gonna love this one. Okay, we got we
Speaker 3: have a blast for the past happening here roster to
Speaker 3: the tune of thirty nine percent Tyler Maine of the
Speaker 3: Atlanta bradds.
Speaker 2: Oh, I like Tyler, I have still got a I'm
Speaker 2: still running them out there.
Speaker 3: Okay. Since moving to the Braves at the deadline, two starts, okay,
Speaker 3: he's struck out sixteen batters in those two starts, twelve
Speaker 3: innings pitched, and he's allowed a total of one earned run.
Speaker 3: Maybe escaping the Giants and moving to his Braves New
Speaker 3: world in Atlanta. You can't you can't ignore that at
Speaker 3: this point in time in the season. So he's he's
Speaker 3: available in sixty one percent of the league at CBS,
Speaker 3: He's probably available in a fair number right across the board.
Speaker 3: So I think you got to take a look at
Speaker 3: Tyler Manley.
Speaker 2: Unfortun and my guy that I was going to tell
Speaker 2: you I think will be up soon is famous and
Speaker 2: you've already talked about him before. That's Walker Jenkins, but
Speaker 2: probably another guy you want to put back on had
Speaker 2: made my Hot Prospect of the week. He was seven
Speaker 2: for twenty three with two home runs stolen base and
Speaker 2: I mean, you can't stay healthy? Is in that Royce
Speaker 2: Lewis Byron Buxton? But you begin the question, are the
Speaker 2: really three better outfielders on that Minnesota Twins team than
Speaker 2: Walker Jenkins? And I think they got to bring him up?
Speaker 3: Mmm, I totally agree, and I have mentioned him. I believe, Yeah,
Speaker 3: you definitely have that.
Speaker 2: Well, what about Charles Mackado? Is he going to be
Speaker 2: on your list?
Speaker 3: The do Yeah, I want to see what happens in the
Speaker 3: next couple of days in Toronto. The kid that seems
Speaker 3: to be really impressing is that Baban kid. Yeah, he's
Speaker 3: scoring point with both the team and the the fan base.
Speaker 2: So is he that good?
Speaker 3: Ah, well, he controls the strike zone, Okay, he's got wheels. Okay,
Speaker 3: so at the top of that lineup, it sort of
Speaker 3: makes sense. Is he that good? Well, the kid can hit,
Speaker 3: but he's not going to hit for power. He'll steal
Speaker 3: some bases, he'll get on base, score some runs. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's he's a power.
Speaker 2: There's no speed. I mean, excuse you, there's no power.
Speaker 2: Eighty four point five x velocity, nine degrees of launch.
Speaker 2: That's no power.
Speaker 3: No no power.
Speaker 2: Nowhere does chase a little bit more than you would think,
Speaker 2: So I would question how good his walk rate's actually
Speaker 2: going to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got I've got Jay's c lineup as right
Speaker 3: now under my waiver ward. I do that a lot.
Speaker 3: I just make team notes, okay, and then I go
Speaker 3: back on on Saturday and start reviewing what they've done
Speaker 3: on the you know, the three four games since Monday
Speaker 3: Tuesday sort of thing. I got to. I got Triolo
Speaker 3: from Pittsburgh. I think he had a fairly big day
Speaker 3: to day again.
Speaker 2: Well I think everybody did. Yeah, So I'm looking at
Speaker 2: his big Babeman twenty swing, which is average, so the
Speaker 2: chase rate is average. It makes really good end zone
Speaker 2: contact of swings probably really short. He's just punching at
Speaker 2: the ball because there's no power and you think he's fast, right,
Speaker 2: it's my solar basis so well, I don't know. Yeah, but.
Speaker 3: Snire seems to like him and like what he's done
Speaker 3: so far, so that means he's going to get playing time.
Speaker 3: If you were looking for some cheap speed late in
Speaker 3: the season, he might be a guy worth stashing.
Speaker 2: Doesn't have any solo bases yet. Let's he got one to.
Speaker 3: Day mm hmm. Yeah, I haven't looked at the yet. Again,
Speaker 3: that's what.
Speaker 2: We're He's not floating my boat.
Speaker 3: No, I'm changing that. Yes, guess who will be back
Speaker 3: next week? Jordan Lawler? Should I mentioned mentioned him year? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what we're looking at this week.
Speaker 2: You know who just knowed the Triple A from Double
Speaker 2: A Osway Persino. I saw that most of the season
Speaker 2: has really played well in Double A.
Speaker 3: He has And.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean if you if the Tigers think they're
Speaker 2: in it, I mean I think they're in it. Not
Speaker 2: only what a half game out a game and a
Speaker 2: half of whatever we said, I mean, why not bring
Speaker 2: up Persino in the in in September?
Speaker 3: Do you know how to spell that? Rich? They type
Speaker 3: it into my way a report that Thank you very much, Bryce, Bryce,
Speaker 3: now right, no, okay, I got it.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 3: If I if I get into the if I can
Speaker 3: get into the Patriots, hey, I'll use your analysis to book.
Speaker 3: I'll steal old a thing. Thank you.
Speaker 2: I don't Yeah, you have to take a look at that. Jeez,
Speaker 2: Simmy for an hour and fifteen minutes. So let's wrap
Speaker 2: this puppy up.
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
Speaker 2: So have a good long period before the Sunday show,
Speaker 2: which I think we might need to start at two
Speaker 2: thirty because I've got another baseball game to code two
Speaker 2: so at five yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: Just like, just give me a time and you know
Speaker 3: I'll be there. And I filed the notes away, okay
Speaker 3: for the annual analysis, so okay, the performance appraisal. Willing
Speaker 3: to work with others, yeah, okay, it's there.
Speaker 2: Flexibility making skills, yeah, I got that up front. Counterbalance
Speaker 2: the uh, the pilfering and forgeries that you're doing on
Speaker 2: my content, the speaking speaking of copyright, may I for
Speaker 2: just a moment, so part of the reason I couldn't
Speaker 2: do the Daily notes. Is Laurie and I got to
Speaker 2: this big discussion after watching UH, so we went and
Speaker 2: saw this. I think I mentioned this the concert was
Speaker 2: the Eagles Tribute band and we're trying. I thought that
Speaker 2: the tribute band is the one pain the royalties to
Speaker 2: the Eagles, because the discussion started is the Eagles and
Speaker 2: notorious and pretending Don, particularly Don Henley, he's got He's
Speaker 2: got sixty people this is on the Internet that's dedicated
Speaker 2: to finding people that are that are violating his copyrights
Speaker 2: of his songs, particularly on YouTube, and their goal is
Speaker 2: to shut these guys down. So he is litigious as
Speaker 2: litigious can possibly be. So I'm thinking, boy, it takes
Speaker 2: a a lot of hoodsbu to become a tribute band
Speaker 2: to play their material because then they're probably going to
Speaker 2: be up your butt every time you perform to make
Speaker 2: sure you know everything's going off. So that's how I
Speaker 2: thought it worked, but I wasn't totally sure when I
Speaker 2: did the research to I mean, I was completely wrong.
Speaker 2: You know, who was responsible for telling to communicating the
Speaker 2: playlist and so forth. It is not the performer because
Speaker 2: copyright now says you can play any song live. It's
Speaker 2: actually the facilities job. The facilities job to actually share
Speaker 2: back to the publisher that they played, you know that
Speaker 2: they played Hotel California, so that then the publisher can
Speaker 2: pay the monies to to the artists. So that's how
Speaker 2: it works. So our facility has a deal with several
Speaker 2: different publishers they have to it's subscription that you do annually.
Speaker 2: I don't know exactly the mechanics and how that works,
Speaker 2: because I know the Eagles are going to be a
Speaker 2: lot more expensive than if you brought in probably you know,
Speaker 2: a lesser known band, maybe let's call it a tribute
Speaker 2: band for Heart or something like that. I would assume
Speaker 2: the Eagles songs are gonna be more valuable than the Heart.
Speaker 2: So I don't know exactly how everything works out, but
Speaker 2: it's actually the facility who contracts with the publisher who
Speaker 2: then pays the agent. Then it made me think of
Speaker 2: when I was in high school. Tim I went to
Speaker 2: a high school that didn't have a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Most most public schools here don't have a lot of money,
Speaker 2: and they have always do for the high school musical
Speaker 2: Spring high school musical, they'd always do Oklahoma, they do
Speaker 2: these things that were old, and I mean, who cared
Speaker 2: about them?
Speaker 3: Right? So I went, yeah, but they were popular in
Speaker 3: the yeah, the thirties and forties.
Speaker 2: So I I wanted to do Greece, right. So I
Speaker 2: was the guitar player, and I was pretty well known
Speaker 2: in the school, and I was pretty actively involved in
Speaker 2: a lot of things. So I went to the drama
Speaker 2: teacher and I said, we should do Greece. I'll play,
Speaker 2: I'll put the band together. It'll be great. She goes,
Speaker 2: we can't, and I'll tell you why. She goes the
Speaker 2: because Greece was a new musical. It's a lot more
Speaker 2: expensive to get the rights than it is for Oklahoma
Speaker 2: and things like that. That's why we do those those
Speaker 2: old fashioned ones. Because some of them are in the
Speaker 2: public domain, they don't charge as anything, and some are
Speaker 2: so nominal. And we're in high school and we can't
Speaker 2: do that. I go, why don't we raise the prices
Speaker 2: of the tickets? And she goes, well, you know this
Speaker 2: isn't a very wealthy community, and tickets right three bucks?
Speaker 2: I said, I want to be charged five bucks. So
Speaker 2: I helped to work out the math, like what the
Speaker 2: difference was and how much we'd have to raise the tickets,
Speaker 2: and she bought it. She goes, okay, we'll do grease.
Speaker 2: So I got all excited. I've got to put the
Speaker 2: band together. We raised the ticket prices and I'll never forget.
Speaker 2: As soon as we announced that, she came to me
Speaker 2: she said, Wilson, if this doesn't work, your parents owed
Speaker 2: me three hundred dollars or something like that. This is
Speaker 2: in the seventies, right, So it wasn't big.
Speaker 3: Money curious cash. Yeah, it's big bucks.
Speaker 2: And fortunately sold out. It was the best attended performance
Speaker 2: the school had seen for years because people wanted to
Speaker 2: say it was like a modern like a modern performance
Speaker 2: as opposed to whatever. So that that was my sour.
Speaker 2: So I knew how that worked, but I had forgotten
Speaker 2: when we went and watched this Eagles tribute band. But
Speaker 2: it's the same kind of process. So well, that was
Speaker 2: that's fascinating in terms of how all of that works.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and there is the other option. You just
Speaker 3: go ahead and do it, don't pay anybody, and if
Speaker 3: somebody tries to collect you justublically shame them that you're
Speaker 3: a bunch of high school kids trying to raise money
Speaker 3: for some benevolent society or even you know what I mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: at some point in time, I get it. But you're
Speaker 3: a bunch of high school kids, like come on, give
Speaker 3: them a break, right.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they do for educational purposes. You
Speaker 2: don't have to pay as much as the local the
Speaker 2: local performing arts, you know, the kind of thing that
Speaker 2: you know, the community theater, they have to pay a
Speaker 2: lot because they're they're a money making venture in general.
Speaker 2: So high schools. I think in churches they give people
Speaker 2: discounts because it's supposed to be educational, et cetera. But
Speaker 2: you still have I mean when you have no money
Speaker 2: as a as a public institute like a school. And again,
Speaker 2: the drama departments probably their entire budget was five hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: We put all the risk on this one on show
Speaker 2: to take up their entire budget if it failed, right,
Speaker 2: So that was that was the risk. But it worked out.
Speaker 3: So yeah, very bold of you, and congratulations.
Speaker 2: I was an entrepreneurial, an entrepreneur and when I was
Speaker 2: seventeen to always looking for a name, and it had
Speaker 2: nothing to do with making money. I just wanted to
Speaker 2: play some good music, which back in the day I
Speaker 2: mean Grease was great, so it's still a great music.
Speaker 3: So yeah it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right Tim. We will see you on Sunday, my friend.
Speaker 2: A little bit early, but everybody have a good week. Tim,
Speaker 2: you say your good
Speaker 3: Boxy, be safe, be well, and we'll catch all on
Speaker 3: Sunday for riches Waiver Wire