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I hate to say it, but tits were lit today. Ooh,
we did not start the day off well. We started
off early on this Monday, July sixth with a Phillies
Royals game which looked like it was going to be
pretty Chris Sanchez. Oh, we got two starts, Chris Sanchez
going up against Noah Cameron. One pitcher went five innings,
struck out seven, gave up one in run. One pitcher
went three and one third twelve hits, nine earned runs,
gave up all and it had only one strikeout. I
think I guess which one was the one that gave
up nine on runs.
Speaker 3: Yee. I can't believe Christopher Sanchez gave up that many runs.
Speaker 2: Ooh, the cy young candidate after I the Betting Pro Show,
make the case for blah blah, this and that's your fault.
Absolutely obliterated for niner and runs. Literally, no worst way
to start your week off in fantasy when you have him,
especially like weekly rodo. You're just like whelp, guess I'm done.
Guess I'm done with that one. Taking a look here too,
this wasn't anything crazy. It did look like there was
a difficulty in touching the zone. There was a little
vlo decrease after the first inning with him, but he
just it's got banged around Man.
Speaker 3: Christy five against Washington two starts ago on the twenty fifth,
he gave up four, which was the second most amount
of runs he'd given up all year on June fourteenth.
So June fourteenth, June twenty fifth or two of his
worst games. You didn't give up six all the way
back in April. Every other game besides that has been
two or fewer runs until this game.
Speaker 2: And look at his change up and slider, So it
actually looks like just as a aside from here, it
looks like they were just sitting on his change up
and slider, which he wasn't hitting the zone. But look
at the average ex of lassuits against them, ninety four
point seven against his changeup, which had seven hard hit
balls against, and ninety four point three on his slider.
His sinker was ninety point five. But he wasn't throwing
it in the zone, wasn't getting swings inside the zone,
and they really weren't chasing it. And these dudes were
just banging around the secondary stuff and the Royals just
obliterated him on that front. That is I mean telling
you that's it literally starts a week off the worst possibility.
You can't think I'm been miserable too, They've been not good.
Lane Thomas had a bomb and by the way, this
wasn't even like Bobby Witt he had he was two
for four. Salvi had a bomb. Tyler Tolbert had a bomb.
Looking of the people that started the game, every single
person but Josh Rojas got a hit. No shocker there
by the way, Josh Rojas. But yeah, three and one
third twelve hits nine in runs. So there you go.
Start your week off great. That's gonna be super awesome.
Speaker 3: The last time that the Royals scored the last time
that the Royals scored more than five runs was June
twenty first against the Cardinals and they lost twelve to ten.
They scored the game run the five. Every other game
has been five or fewer in that stretch.
Speaker 2: Six earned runs in the first inning yikes, Sanchez, yikes.
They've actually scored a run. As we're recording this, it's
the eighth, every single inning of the game, they've scored
a run.
Speaker 3: So they have these Royal has been all, you know
what it is, it's you gave up on the Royals, right,
and here they come.
Speaker 2: I was about to say this is the Royals that
I was making those preseason bets, like, hey, they're going
to be a thing. No, this is that version of them,
but that I'll put a little bit of wrinkle in
and that's gonna hurt some stuff. The big story over
the weekend, though, it's it almost would have been better
if we could have just reacted in real time, because
I feel bad because then it's like, I don't want
to sound hacky, because we've now had like everyugh of
roughly twenty four hours of most everybody kind of being
disgusted by the.
Speaker 3: Uri Perez stuff.
Speaker 2: But to be fair, like I saw it, Bogman texts
me and I had the game on, and what did
I respond when you said they're pulling him? Discuss one
word disgusting, Absolutely disgusted by the Marlins taking Eurie Prez
out and Joe Joe I mean credit to Joe, because
Joe knows sometimes it's you know, when to play heel
and stuff, so you know, big, big credit to him
for that. Joe played a little bit of the heel
on like, well, you know, you're competing and you want
to have uri and I get all of those things,
but I just think, from top to bottom, it is
the most heinous thing out there. I do not get.
He was three games off of injury. He had gone
over one hundred on the year. It's not like it's
a no, I mean, a perfect game. There aren't.
Speaker 3: It's just so rare you have to let him at
least give up a hit.
Speaker 2: Thirteen in the history of baseball, isn't that right? Does
that sound right?
Speaker 3: I think it's twenty one. It's more than thirteen.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's less than twenty five total in the history
of the game. He's under one hundred pitches going into
the eighth and they pull him, and it's just the
same horrible excuse he stuff. I mean credits to twenty
four coola that, like, you know, he just doesn't back
down and he's just like, yeah, that was my decision,
blah blah blah. But it's just I don't care. I
think it's discussing anyone in the organization.
Speaker 3: You gotta let him go, you gotta let.
Speaker 2: Him have that. I don't care what's on the line.
I mean, I maybe I'm just selfish in that. But
in the same token, this isn't just an individual thing.
This is also a team based thing. Like the defense
worked towards us. The catcher called the game like I
just he stuck to his guns. He's like, just we
were gonna go ninety pitches and just to have the
best yury for us. And it's like, no, I think
it's great. I think it's the worst thing in the planet.
Nothing can convince me otherwise. Not that, Like we got
to have him for the season, and we go, dude, well, like, okay,
if if he has twenty pitches in the eighth inn,
and guess what, he probably lost the perfect game, you
know what I'm saying. Like, in theory, he could probably
have gotten out of that in ten to fifteen pitches. Okay,
now you got a dilemma.
Speaker 3: You're at there, and you can even yank him out
of a no hitter. I have no issue with that.
He walks the first guy in the eighth go ahead.
Speaker 2: No, you just take him out right there. You take
him out right there. Just don't even do it yet
to your point, Okay, cool, we can do that. But dude,
if he goes ten to fifteen pitches, he's a little
bit over one hundred, he's a little over his total,
and he has one inning left to go for that perfect.
Speaker 3: Game, and you're up eight nothing. Just tell him, Hey, listen,
I'm gonna leave you in. You're gonna hurl ninety one
down the middle, and if they hit it out, they
hit it out. You're not exhausting your arm. You're gonna
give them change ups or whatever. Just when they hit it,
we're done. If it goes out, it's eight to one,
no big deal. Who cares you're out. I just it's
universitally it's universally bad.
Speaker 2: It's not a no hitter, because that's what I said
to Joe's and like, it's not like this was like
a four walk no hitter and the pitch count had
gotten up in the sixth inning. You're under one hundred
in the seventh inning with a perfect game going on,
and on top of it, how asinine it looks that
they then bring in a bullpen that immediately walks, then
gives up a hit and then almost blows the game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, LB updates. It's like combine no hitter or combine
perfect game out the window after what Like, yeah, it
was gone as soon as ury was out. You know what.
Speaker 2: It's like, it's in my brain because the World Series
of Poker is going on. It's like first hand getting
pocket aces someone shoving all in and just being like
a lot of tournament to go. It's like, no, brother,
you got the best hand. You got the best hand,
the best You can't start your hand any better. The
odds are in your favor. If something doesn't work out,
it doesn't work out, you have to go. And it's
like folding there, And I thought, I think he folded.
Speaker 3: That was I thought it.
Speaker 2: Was a horrible, horrible, disgusting decision. I hate all of it.
And if I were here, I would be pitt like
how many times is the guy ever going to be
given that opportunity? So it's you know, it's almost like
also the Saquon thing, like Saquon had a chance to
beat like the record, remember, and it was.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, but at least that was his decision, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And maybe you wanted to come out. I don't know.
Speaker 3: Well, it was it was interesting, you know. I I
went to the game yesterday in Houston watched the Astros
when two Zip over the race. Dude Angler had a
great start up from the miners, really good start for
Macey Angler for the race. Uh and and but they
ended up losing two Zip and we leave the game.
We're in the parking lot and I was like, damn,
ur he's got a perfect game going. Let's uh so
John turned it on the radio as going and you
should have heard the radio people. They are like, Yuri
is hugging people in the dugout in the middle of
a perfect game. It was like they were panicking. They're like,
this has to be some types of gamesmanship. No way,
you're not pulling him here. They were utterly shocked. The
fans in the stands are yelling shame at the Marlins, like.
Speaker 2: The A's fans were sham here. Yeah, well, I mean
you're you know what, You're at a ballpark. You have
a chance to see history, so you're taking it away
from everyone in the crowd as well, right, Like it's
it is really I think it's.
Speaker 3: One of the poor decisions I've seen in a baseball and.
Speaker 2: You know it's worse. Is like I so of saw
like Ken Rosenthal's out there being like I just understand
why they did it, and it's like, brother, we all
get the logistics of like, Okay, you want the guy
to be healthy, but do we really think you're gonna
get your reasoning?
Speaker 3: Your reasoning sucks.
Speaker 2: You're reasoning stupid. It is a the the amount of
attention you could have on the lifetime achievement. He may
never come close to this again. For what because he
was at ninety two pitches and you were just really
comfortable him being at ninety Get out of your comfort zone.
I think it is so stupid. There's nothing I could
hear otherwise. It's it's insane to me that they pulled
a guy from a perfect game that wasn't even like
we I guess we'd have a little bit of a
different argument if he was like one hundred and fifteen
pitches and they were like, we were comfortable atty. He's
blown past ten pitches of uh, I think of his
higher high and there's two innings in front of us
or something like that. That's a different story. It was
ninety two pitches with two innings to go, like you're
saying he couldn't have a five or six pitch eighth
and then all of a sudden, you're under one hundred
going into the ninth with a perfect game going on.
Speaker 3: It's like he set it in one hundred and fifteen
and say, hey, listen, you get to one fifteen, you're done. Sorry,
out of that injury before whatever just got there, just go.
Speaker 2: To my stomach, goes sick to my stomach. No, no,
you weren't, dude, because if you were, you wouldn't have
done it. You would have let this guy go and
chase history in baseball, and that is crazy. But the
big positive is I think there's like a general like
you could assume even if you take away like this,
the totality of it being like a pseudo perfect game
like eury Perez, looks like some corners might be starting
to turn a little bit like. Since he's returned, he's
had This is his third start since the injury return.
He has only given up a total of two earn
runs in those three starts. Two of the three starts
he hasn't walked a batter. He did walk four in
the Colorado game, which wasn't like awesome, but he's progressively
gone deeper in He's had eight or more strikeouts in
two of the three, barely give up many earned runs
because he isn't kind of a waffly season so far,
but his strikeout rate looks good. His walk rate has
now decreased under ten percent. His expected is still a
little bit up there because he's given up like a
lot of like you know, contact overall. But I think
this return to injury is starting to show, like the
revamped version of Uri pres the Uri pres that we
thought we were going to get more of inconsistency and
guess what, he should be plenty healthy, So we're not
gonna put any other excuses on him. But for his
next start, I legitimately like that we had, you know,
the breaking news taken away from us of the potential
perfect game going into the ninth, like anything coulda happened,
what happened to Luke Backer or whatever could have happened
to Yuri, but that not given an opportunity is.
Speaker 3: We're also Diamondbacks fans. We've watched Edwin Jackson throw way
too many pitches and a no hitter and the rest
of his career was ruined by it. So like we've
seen it happen, we understand the logic behind.
Speaker 2: Yeah, seven walk, no hitter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it just ridiculous. He threw one hundred and forty
nine pitches in that no hitter, right, and I still
wanted it because that's what you did back then. Right now,
we understand. Okay, if you get up over one twenty one,
twenty five, that's ridiculous. Maybe yank him at that point,
like I said, set it one fifteen and say, hey, listen,
if you're in a perfect game one fifteen, any other game,
one hundred pitches, that's your absolute max, that's it. We'll
give you one fifteen and a perfect And he was
there and they yanked it. So it's just it's going
to be regret for uh, for the manager's career, for
URI's career. It's just going to be a regret for
the rest of their lives because well, we're going to
know the what if. It's always going to be.
Speaker 2: But they're doing the like we're just moving past it,
like it was just what we had to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they can say that, but it's you're never
going to move past it. It's going to be talked
about for all of URI's career.
Speaker 2: I did say, though, if this was like Cam Schlittler
and got pulled, this would be national coverage media, Like
every radio show would be starting with it. You know,
the entire world would be dominated by you know, Aaron
Boone pulls Cam Schlittler under one hundred pitches for a
perfect game, and everyone would be just up in arms
about it because it's a stupid marlin. Nobody really cares,
but I think it's gross. One positive has come out
of ABS, outside of just the greatest strike zone it
is the frauds have been caught, and the frauds leaving.
Cebe Buckner is leaving baseball, as well as six others
who apparently I didn't know this. They were offered a
buyout and they're like, he's retiring, but apparently there was
some buyout that was offered, probably because you're the worst
umpire in baseball and he's taking his little retirement buyout
package or whatever, and he's shipping off and will not
be missed, as well as a couple other umpires are
going to be joining. What are you yelling at?
Speaker 3: Yelling at my cat? He will not be quiet.
Speaker 2: Sorry, you would think you had children, by the way.
Sometimes with the way I look, I see you turn
around and you're like screaming, and I'm like, oh, what
kid caused something? It's like, oh, it's the cat, it's
the fur kid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you won't quit yelling, that's uh. You know, he's
super upset about ury Perez being pulled. He is so
mad about ury Perez getting ink. But he was like,
you know what you tell them Cebe Buckner, last d As,
brian O Noor all gone. We want them all gone. So,
you know, it's funny. All my way out to the
game yesterday, I was looking up It's like, how bad
is this year? Dead Last worst Umpire? I think there's
probably one graded and he's forty one.
Speaker 2: I think I saw somebody say he's actually only called
a handful of games this year and even and he's
still the worst of all. He is the absolute worst,
So get the hell out of here.
Speaker 3: And he was behind the plate in the Astros game yesterday.
But good lord, there were a lot of challenges I've seen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good I mean, the only thing that you're hoping
and praying for is that the ABS system is going
to create a better batch of umpires, umpires that can
get outside of themselves and work through it because you're exposed.
And you know, it's like any job baseball players do,
the studying figure out where they're off. You would hope
umpires are doing the same things to try to figure
out how they can be better. And I'm really sure
the old school umpires really took that to heart and
wanted Nope, they're retiring and they're gone.
Speaker 3: So to ask you one question before I move on,
did you like my signature on the katarna?
Speaker 2: So it did look pretty good, so I was this
is hilarious. So Bogs and John went out and John
took to heart something you said a while back that
you said because you had never signed it, no one
had ever asked for an autograph like that. And then
you're like, I hope it's a katana. And apparently John
had a katana and he had you autograph it at
his house, so you there's a kanda out there that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, He's like you should have wrote one of one
on it. I'm like, damn, I should have he.
Speaker 2: Buy the katana four.
Speaker 3: No, he just had it.
Speaker 2: John's the total ultimate dudes, dude. He's just like he
just owns a katana because he can. If I was
like a single dude with money like John, like, I
would also buy katanas and I would buy whatever I want.
Speaker 3: Is I think this was a spare katana obviously, so
it's got my greasy signature on it. It's pretty good.
It was pretty good. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, if I ever go out there and he wants,
I'll signed the other end of yah. Yeah, yeah katana.
So because I go out to Texas a lot. But yeah,
I thought that was really good. He looked great, by
the way. In the leading off anime, he looks on.
Speaker 3: A strict diet man, so he's like he's lost all
the weight, he's all cut up and everything. But he
ate like a horse at the game because he's been
starving himself. So I'm like halfway done my nachos. I'm
like I'm done. He's like, yeah, I'll kill that. Thank you,
please appreciate that. So yeah, he's uh. We had a
great time. It was a good time. To nothing game
kind of felt like a library for a part of
the game, but it was good. The night before would
have been better. But it alsoort of costs way more
money because we got free tickets four Sunday game. Yeah,
but did you see the fourth of July? That was
Jordan walk off in the bottom of the night.
Speaker 2: Good game, Yeah, pretty pretty good. All Star Game rosters
are out any comments any care? I don't care because
they're stupid and run and Mike Trout's hurt and I
don't know, cal like not make it. But then someone
a bowed out and he got in or I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if that happened.
Speaker 2: I know him and Edwardo were in for the diamond.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I kind of figure do they are they still
doing the extra vote job or whatever that is. I
haven't seen anything for it, so maybe over I think
it was like I thought maybe kateel would make it
and he didn't. But yeah, I mean it was funny
that vladd made it and then people were very very
mad about it, and then Vlad was like, yeah, I'm
not playing, yeah, shut up, but you did have though,
what is it for red?
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Let me look here? Oh did
digit weather Hold not make it? So I guess only
two two rookies make it in the al Kevin McGonagall
made it and Travis Bizana as reserves. That's nuts, that's
absolutely crazy. And then yeah, I just don't have to
make it. No, Connor Griffin was hurt, so.
Speaker 3: Now he has twenty stolen bases. He's the first Pirate
since nineteen oh one to steal twenty bases in their
rookie season with the Pirates.
Speaker 2: I was saying to Joe today, I was like, it's
just another one of those cases of like, twenty stolen
bases just snuck up on me. At Connor Griffin. I
was like, what, like, he's only a five homers, but
twenty stolen basement.
Speaker 3: Tony, it was stealing home.
Speaker 2: He'd been hurt. A whole bunch the infielders in the NL,
Luisa Rise, Bryce Harper, Auto Lopez, Matt Olson, and Sal Stewart.
So I guess Sal Stewart's another rookie. The look at
the reserve outfielders though, for the NL corm and Carroll,
Pete Crow, Arms, Jordan Walker, and James Wood because Brandon,
Marsh and Dude by the ways, good well, no, look
at the starters, Marsh, Soto and PAHs. I'll take Pete Crow,
James Wood and either Carol or Walker over those guys.
So I don't even think the starters made sense. But yeah,
I mean it's it's it's fine, you know it's gonna
I mean, the NL is absolutely stacked, and maybe there
wasn't anything like egregious I guess that I would be
all pissy about or whatever. But you know, Mike Trout
is on the starting lineup, but like, who would have
been better? Cody Bellinger? They really didn't have great options
for any of that. But I'm just waiting for the
home run Derby. That's what I'll care about.
Speaker 3: Them, and Arrow is the only one that has signed
up so far.
Speaker 2: It's just great. I think Hunter Goodman is going to
play in it. There was video of him like having
his dad throw him BP and it was like in
a home run setting. I just don't think they've announced it,
so stupid Hunter Goodman. I'll probably do it, and then
I don't know, like.
Speaker 3: What else is this? Be? Schwarber will because it's in Philly, so.
Speaker 2: Schwa Okay, that would be a really good one. Any
other guestimations on guys. I'm looking at guys that made it.
Speaker 3: How many how many guys have already said they're definitely
not doing it.
Speaker 2: I don't know I don't. I don't know if Bobby
has said anything about it. I mean, Judge is hurt.
Buckson's been hurt.
Speaker 3: Swarber said, up, he's healthy. He will he will participate
it and select it as an All Star. He was
an All Star, right, Schwart Yeah, so yeah, he'll go.
Let's see, said he plans participating from the home fans,
provided he can secure his ideal batting practice. Pitcher Nick
Kurtz said he grew up in Philly. He's a prime
candidate to add. And like you said, Hunter Goodman, that's
what the Okay.
Speaker 2: So Kurt's Cameron Aro Goodman, Harper Schwarber, that's what we're
kind of sitting on right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess the guys that have officially said they
are not doing it are Shay Lengliers, PCA, Jordon that's.
Speaker 2: It, Pa. Yeah, we asked you, Bud. He's not gonna
do it, guys, so everybody'd be careful.
Speaker 3: I mean, I watched Chris Young in a home run
derby before, so they've had worse participants.
Speaker 2: I like Chris Young, but there's been some bad home
run derby stuff.
Speaker 3: So yeah, but Chris Young, somebody slept it was it
was a home run derby in twenty ten in La
at Angels Stadium. I think it was somebody slept on
their shoulder wrong. I was supposed to participate paid, and
then it wasn't the sneeze. I remember Sammy Sosa had
the sneeze and didn't participate in the home run derby.
But it was someone slept on their shoulder wrong. And
then the day of the home run derby, I saw
Chris Young was participating, Like as we're driving towards the state.
Speaker 2: Not the listener, Chris Young.
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, not the player that's out there.
Speaker 2: In the next episode, we're gonna put together our fantasy
All Star team. I might take a little bit angle
because we're gonna do something similar in leading off this week,
so it might try to like, you know, change it up,
because I think in that one we're gonna.
Speaker 3: The anti All Star team. Don't oka think we could
do Yeah, we could do like the.
Speaker 2: The All Garbage and then we could do the All
Good and we'll do something like that, like because I
almost think there's like an All Value All Star team,
and then we'll do a little bit different on leading.
Speaker 3: The MC value All Star Team.
Speaker 2: The MG values exactly. We'll do the MC values on
that for sure. But that's what we'll do in the
next episode. All right, some news around baseball, and then
we're gonna be taking a look at the top leaders
over the last seven days and get some names to
talk about. You mentioned vlad had said he is not
going to participate in the All Star Game. Probably good.
Maybe he does need to change his swing. Maybe you
could just adjust your swing doing that, but whatever. Bar
Buckston aggravated his hip injury on Sunday and he left early.
Not great. I think they did say it was more precautionary.
So maybe he is light this week, and I think
he wants to probably play the All Star Game and
all that.
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, I would think so maybe he gets a
couple more days off and then participates.
Speaker 2: Not sure, so a couple of daisies because he is
He's a starter, starting a center fielder out there, so
that's pretty pretty sweet.
Speaker 3: So I mentioned old Man a little old.
Speaker 2: Speaking of old Man here, Brandon Woodruff back to the il.
Unfortunately Joe was dancing on the grave. He had shoulder inflammation.
I really do think, really really think this has got
to be like if the Brewer.
Speaker 3: The Brewers have.
Speaker 2: Us window where they have got young locked in talent.
They've got talent robust in the minor leagues. They're winning young.
It's everything, I guess is a better way to put it.
You got to put your chips in. This is an
opportunity to be able to take this division. You've got
it and you've got the pieces to make it happen.
That would not deplete your team. It's not like it's
a bunch of old guys. I really think they need
to be aggressive and losing Woodruff and knowing even if
he's gonna come back in a little bit, he's on
you know, dicey grounds here, they should be aggressive in
the market and as stupid as it is I said
on leaning off Bogs, I think they should go and
try to get Freddy Pearl to back right like they
don't want like they loved Freddy there. The Mets clearly
don't want him. But I do think they should go
and they should get some bullpen help, and they should
I just think they should go all in. There's a
couple of teams that, like you know, the Dodgers and
Yankees can do stuff. It will. I think the team
like the Brewers should be the one that comes.
Speaker 3: Out the gates first.
Speaker 2: They go get Sonny Gray. I don't know if you
can get Sandy, you know, call up the Twins and
try to pull off a blockbuster for Joe Ran, Like
they should be the ones and they have. They do
have a clear hole starter back in a closer right
like starter at the top because now Logan Henderson or
actually Shane Droan is your number five with no depth
when Logan Henderson is up, so you've got to have
another starter, and I'm torn.
Speaker 3: I would say bullpen first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so then you're with me because I kind
of think like if you could go get like a closer, closer,
then you set yourself up where Euribay and McGill can
kind of be more like rotation, you know, you can
probably need to be yeah, rotationally like nice dudes. So
maybe they could go and get like, you know, Luke
Weaver and Freddie Peralta in a big trade or do
multiple But I really really like, of all the teams,
I think this is the team that should go balls
to the wall and make it happen.
Speaker 3: I think it was on Peacock, but you know, the
the Brewers are playing the d Backs this week, and
uh love what I was watching and somebody said, well,
we found out earlier this year that uh Abner Uruba
is a big Sean Michaels fan, so which I thought
was pretty funny.
Speaker 2: Oh, because well you should have said triple h DX down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean he was in the right ballpark,
so yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, a bit of a reference.
But you guys still got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that would be the place, so be
on the lookout for that.
Speaker 2: I saw an article written this morning too, I want
to say it was Athletic or something that was like,
you know, this is one of those windows, and it's
like it is it truly is a window right now.
And it's like you've got Yelich still for another year
or two, but you've got churioh. You know, you've got
some pieces that are flying. Bryce Terrang has been awesome.
Go out and make some moves, like your system is
one of the best in the minor leagues. You've got
another draft that's coming up, like you can make real
stuff happen. So I hope to see it. And I
think the Brandon Wood draft injury should be another like
wake up piece. Why they should big wake up moment,
especially if you were like, oh, you know, wonder Green,
he's back, We'll just do it. He got obliterated three
and one third, gave up eight earned runs, walk four
and seven strikeouts in his return. You know, I saw
him in the in complex before he started making the
moves and stuff, and the fastball looked good, like things
looked good. This was not good at all.
Speaker 3: I mean, he had struck out four over six and
a third six and four innings, and he didn't give
up a run in any of his three rehab starts.
So to see him not give up any runs, I'm
even okay if you were, how were the people that
threw him right back in the lineup? So I don't
even blame those people because he had looked good in
his rehab starts. He looked real good rehab he was.
He absolutely got destroyed.
Speaker 2: He didn't, Now this would be maybe one of the things.
He really didn't throw a split finger. He didn't seem
to be comfortable with it. Why that's important. Last year
he threw that almost eleven percent of the time. He
threw only two split fingers in this game. Now his Velo.
His fastball Villa was down slightly not I don't think
it's anything crazy ninety eight nine from ninety nine to five.
His slider, you know, was about the same in Vello.
It did have a decrease in spin, so he wasn't
spinning it quite as much and he wasn't throwing his
split finger. So this does kind of reek of like
he's just not comfortable and doesn't have the stuff. The
only thing I'm concerned about is like why, you know,
like he only threw a split finger to lefties? Did
he not have a very lefty lineup that he could attack? Like,
like why did the pitch mix? Why was it this way?
Was it just a he's not comfortable quite yet, Because
if you believe that's the case, that's the type of
thing where I go. I try to go pull off
a trade right now. He was injured, he came back,
he got freaking obliterated. Someone's like, Jesus Christ, what did
I get into? And then you go and take advantage
of it? But I don't know what the answer. I
do lean on potentially trying to buy him.
Speaker 3: I think I'd rather buy this is his first start
off of rehab. I think he's gonna be okay.
Speaker 2: But he didn't have the split finger whatsoever. Because looking
at the plot chart, one of the things you look
for is like the you want the split finger to
like kind of dive off of the fastball, like on
the shape and what like. He threw one that was
and one that was way off. This just reads to
me he didn't feel he had the split finger, so
he didn't go to it, and this led to some
just not great stuff.
Speaker 3: Maybe before you buy weight another start to see if
that you know. Yeah, but then I think it's a
way down.
Speaker 2: I think that's when it dies.
Speaker 3: Okay, so then figure it out. Then are we buying
or are we not buying it?
Speaker 2: No, I'm talking about it. I'm saying I think I'm
going to just buy it. I mean, I think I'm
going to. But but you know, just is a point here.
He didn't really throw it. I think this might have
been a feel thing, but there was some spin issues.
His arm angles a little different right now too. It's
the highest it's ever been, so maybe he's going to
have to lower that. I think some things will work
on I'll buy on it. But he did get them.
Things jiggled. Oh, yo, who these placed on the aisle
with a concussion. Of course that was on Friday. Yep,
gotta get out of proto Ryan Helsley to the isle
with elbow discomfort. That's bad news, I believe, isn't that?
Is that gonna be Canoe? Or is that going to
be Garcia? Because didn't Garcia have the little rum? If
I want to see who they're listing right now on
roster resource, they are listing Tyler Wells. I thought it
was Rico Garcia was getting them last time. But Tyler
Wells is listed as your current closer.
Speaker 3: With Rico has four saves and because he had a
little two yeah, one, yeah?
Speaker 2: What was the Now I want to look at the
game log of this. When did Tyler Wells get his
last save?
Speaker 3: Where?
Speaker 2: Okay, here we go. Uh, he had the last two saves,
so that's it. He had the third and the fourth
he got the save, so they they must have thrust
him into that role.
Speaker 3: June second was Rico Garcia's last save.
Speaker 2: All right, So Tyler Wells looks like he's your pickup,
so he's getting the save opportunities. He already locked down
two and probably for the foreseeable future. Carlos Aredn placed
on the aisle with elbow inflammation.
Speaker 3: Rinse, repeat, just move on.
Speaker 2: And the Atlanta Braves they signed Andrew McCutchen to an
MiLB deal, so he has not quite ended his watch yet.
He'll probably get some opportunity with the Braves. I don't know, man,
Remember that first week he came out like blazing with
the Rangers and stuff, and I saw him during I'm
just rooting for the guy because I love the guy,
rooting for him when in Rangers camp and stuff. And
he came out the first week and hit some bombs
and then he just literally fell apart.
Speaker 3: I think, don't you feel like Andreon McCutchen is going
to be around baseball beyond when we're alive? Like, I
think this dude will be in baseball for a long
long time. He probably a future manager something like that.
Speaker 2: I mean just I think he'd be a great like
media personality, like I love to see like have a
podcast like you know MOOKI is doing, you know, or
like you have a lot of the NBA guys are
doing these post ones like get him in that type
of space. I think it would be good. But I
think anything whether it's he's coaching or he's doing that.
Like I hope he stays in baseball. The problem is
that we're talking about him doing everything but playing the game.
So I think that's gonna kind of he's going to
be one of those like, what is it that account
the Hall of Good. He's going to be the like
but he doesn't qualify because he won an MVP, So
he's the Hall of like really good, hall of almost hall.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you I don't like the saying hall
of pretty good because it's also not the Hall of
only good of only great stats. It's a Hall of fame.
Speaker 2: So you don't like the Twitter account?
Speaker 3: No, no, the Twitter account is fine. It's the name.
It's the Hall of Fame. It should be called the
Hall good Enough or something, you know.
Speaker 2: Oh you don't, Well that's I mean, that's their Twitter account.
They're the Hall of pretty Good.
Speaker 3: And yeah yeah, yeah, no, no no, but the Hall of
pretty Good has been his saying since I've been alive,
you know, like the guys that are almost in the
Hall of Fame but not have always been the Hall
of pretty Good. And I know that's the Twitter account now,
but that name has been around for minute.
Speaker 2: I didn't know that was the thing for you that
worked out.
Speaker 3: Well, it's not really a thing, but it's just one
of those small annoyances. I old man A clouds.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm gonna do one where it's like, yeah,
that doesn't work me up at all, but I can
appreciate that. I want to do like a Hall of Mambre.
And you just came to a mind. Remember Connor Jackson.
Speaker 3: Remember Connor Jackson. Remember how Valley Fever ruined Connor Jackson's career.
Weird dude, Valley Fever man did he ever? That's like
a nineteen eighteen disease. That's not like a two thousand's diseased.
Speaker 2: Connor Jackson, Because didn't he go and play for someone
else like them? I think he played or something Oakland,
That's what it was. No, so he played same like
be shocked at this by the way. He played with
the Diamondbacks for one, two, three.
Speaker 3: For six years. Yeah, no, he was around for a while,
but he was like up and down and up and down,
I felt like.
Speaker 2: And then he went to Oakland for two and then
his career ended in twenty eleven with the Boston Red Sox.
It looks like where his best season. This is a
true just remember because he didn't ever do anything good.
His best season was two thousand and eight, where he
had a two point eight war, he had twelve homers,
ten stolen bases, seventy five RBI, eighty seven runs, and
he hit three hundred and that was in five hundred
and forty eight bats, so like it was very actually
Chad Tracy like, but hitting three hundred having significant runs in.
Speaker 3: RBI three seventy six too. Yeah, that was a.
Speaker 2: Really good season, and the three seasons prior to that
had been kind of similar, and then everything fell apart.
When was his valley fever though.
Speaker 3: Two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine, because
he missed a ton of games I think in two
thousand and nine with valley fever, and it was just
like it just ruined his career.
Speaker 2: Let's look if it correlated. Yeah, May of two thousand
and nine, and guess what, two thousand and eight is
that great year and then two thousand and nine he
hit one eight, he was ascending thirty games, he was
valley fever ruined his career at.
Speaker 3: Valley fever, and that's not even a thing. People know
about We know about it because they're from Arizona.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, and valley fever actually is a little
bit more common in Arizona because the dust, like we
get the haboobs because it's like when windstorms come in,
they kick up like crazy dust and we you know,
we have sand and there's so much more dirt. There's
less like grassland and stuff. So valley fever hides a
lot more out here, and it actually is a little
bit more common than you think out here. But never
if I heard a baseball player getting it and he
lost thirty to thirty five pounds which made him miss
the remainder of that season and he never recovered.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it says I'm looking at valley fever history. It
says it's an infection cos by inhaling some type of
spores from the soil, which, while named for California San
Joaquin Valley, Arizona is the epicenter for the disease, with
Maricopapima now counties reporting the highest infection rates in the
United States. So weird, and.
Speaker 2: He is now focused on private lending and pursuing his
passion of travel, so he obviously transcend transitioned to a
financial sector and he's working in private lending. So that's
what he is he's doing now. And by the way,
his father was John M. Jackson, who who I guess
would act on General Hospital. I didn't know.
Speaker 3: Okay, he went to the NBA.
Speaker 2: I don't know, but he went to my my aunt's college.
That was one reason I loved him a lot too,
because there was like the UC Berkeley stuff out there.
I don't know, rabbit hole, rabbit hole that happens, but
that was the guy that, like Jackson, absolutely was obsessed.
Speaker 3: With Connor Jackson. I thought he was going to be
just the biggest thing and hard hitting Carlos Quinton. Same
group of young guys coming up.
Speaker 2: And he's coaching I think with like the White Sox whatever.
But that's the Hall of Remember, those are the member Berrys.
Speaker 3: I bet he's teaching them, Hey, don't be like Zach
Greenky and lean in with your shoulder if you get
a fight. Oh he actually if the guy is way
bigger than you.
Speaker 2: Riley, Carlos Quentin got hit like more than any baseball
player for like a couple of years or whatever.
Speaker 3: He was just over the plate all the time. They
got mad that people hit him, it's crazy, stupid.
Speaker 2: Some news on the comebacks, and then we got to
get to the seven days. Jose Ramirez has been hitting
off a tee and is trying to come back shortly
after the All Star break. That would be huge if
that happens. Still kind of assume August, but I think
that's a great sign Edwin. Diaz threw a bullpen on
Sunday and said he was feeling good, planning to come
back after the All Star break, and I saw this note.
Someone thought this might have been like a gotcha thing,
but it wasn't because it was reported by the Dodgers
beat reporter and multiple accounts put it out. But he
also commented on the cock fighting thing, and he's just like,
I haven't heard anything. He's like, I didn't do anything wrong.
I haven't heard anything. Because someone asked him about it
and it was like, okay, baseball just completely just having
none of it. So if you know, moral stuff aside,
if you're just like I wonder if something doesn't sound.
Speaker 3: Like anything that's gonna happen, Oh yeah, yeah, it's just
going to come.
Speaker 2: Back, and and you know him talking about it. I'm
going to talk to Murakami. He ran for a couple
of days, which is great, and they're saying he's going
to start a rehab assignment today. That is the idea
that he was going to go to Charlotte and play
for the Charlotte Knights, which.
Speaker 3: Could back for the weekend, like right before the All
Star break.
Speaker 2: But yeah, maybe a couple of days that he comes back.
Speaker 3: To him in the home run Derby Man, he'd be fun.
Speaker 2: I would have been sick. Zach Galoff activated from the IL.
Mike Trout took some BP and might be returning on Tuesday,
a little bit before the All Star Game, which is great.
Max Freed is close to making rehab start, which could
get him lining up to that kind of later July thing.
And Tristan Cassis nobody knows. Shut down from his rehab
assignment with a wrist injury.
Speaker 3: And when will Tristan Cossas play again? Nobody knows.
Speaker 2: I kind of think he might be a guy. It's
one of two ways. I either think he's going to
have a new home and he's going to just be
like a bounce back guy in two years somewhere else,
you know, the the athletics or something or he's gonna
be a guy that's gonna be out of baseball completely,
like we might just he might be gone, you know
what I mean. He might go the route of like
you know, like Joey Vado is doing, but like Joey
Voda's successful, like Tristan Costas might just go and like
teach yoga or something, you know, and start a thing.
You know, maybe he'll go work with me.
Speaker 3: Maybe Connor Jackson just hires all former first baseman for his.
Speaker 2: Company financial advisor or whatever or whatever.
Speaker 3: So Tristan Costas is too weird to be working in finance, right,
That's why.
Speaker 2: I said, like he'd be like owning like a yoga
studio for baseball players or something like something.
Speaker 3: I just I just get these vibes.
Speaker 2: I do think he likes the game, and I think
he wants to succeed at it. But I wonder if
we're heading down this route of like a I said
this on leading Off, but like Alex Kirlov, where it's
just gonna be too much. You know, you can't you
can't recover. He can't play this game. Eventually, he's gonna
get waived or something like. He might be too talented.
The teams are not ready to give up on him.
So I might be calling this early, but this is
like two years.
Speaker 3: This is too and I'm sure he'll bounce around for
at least two or three more years. Yeah, there'll be
a white Sox. That's where you succeed when you like,
you know you good.
Speaker 2: They don't have room for him, Yeah, well they they
spent the last three or four years. They would just
pick up just a handful of just random players.
Speaker 3: They just give him, I doubt move on.
Speaker 2: She make he's a little bit of Lamont Wade. Here's
from Jared Kelnick. And they just throw all these guys
in in a pot and see if any of them work.
But maybe they won't be that anymore.
Speaker 3: So all right, there you go.
Speaker 2: That's the news that's floating around here.
Speaker 3: Let's like a break.
Speaker 2: We come back and look at the last seven day
markers for some hitters and pitchers, see what's going on
around baseball. We'll do it right after this. You would
have punched me right now, but you want why don't
you punch me in the face.
Speaker 3: Punch me in the face.
Speaker 2: Hey, Derek, you know what's always good for shoulder paint?
What if you lick money in this league over the
last seven days, nobody from batting average standpoint has been
hotter than mister Auto Lopez. Auto Lopez All Star Auto
Lopez very well deserved hitting five hundred. Nick Nozalees was
right behind him at four eighty one, p four seventy four,
and then a couple other names, Jordan, Garrett, Mitchell was
in there. But Auto Lopez now nine homer seventeen stolen
bases with a three forty six batting average going for
that baton title. Are you a buyer that Auto Lopez's
high rank is deserved?
Speaker 3: Now? Should he be a top.
Speaker 2: I don't know, four overall second basement.
Speaker 3: Okay, So if you're asking me if he should be
a top four overall second baseman, I would say yes.
If you're asking me, do I think I think he's
going to continue this for the rest of the year,
my answer would probably be a little more murky. I'd
say yes, for sure. The numbers are great. He's leading
the league in batting average, He's almost ten ten on
homer's a stolen basis. He's scoring a lot of runs,
which are harder to come by than RBI, so they're
more important so I think he's doing great and he
absolutely the ranking right now. Overall in Yahoo he's sixth,
and I know they wait batting average way more. It's
probably close to being right. Man, he's having an unbelievable season.
Do I think he can last in the second half?
Probably not? Can he still be a top forty to
fifty player? Yes?
Speaker 2: Who would you rather? Auto Lopez or Bryce Terrang? Here
are their numbers. Tereng has three more runs. He does
have three more rbi. He also has nine more I'm sorry,
three more homers. He has nine more RBI, but Auto
Lopez has four more stolen bases, and the batting average
difference is two seventy one to three forty three. So
Lopez only has two of the four categories two of
the five categories. But in the Player Raider and Fantasy pros,
Auto Lopez on the season is number one at second base.
Price Train is number two.
Speaker 3: I'll find the counting stats somewhere else. Give me the
sixty points in batting average.
Speaker 2: So you're gonna take Lopez over Terrang? Yes? I would
would you take Terrang over Brandon Lao? Brandon lau has Okay,
he has eleven more homers, significantly more RBI, less runs, obviously,
less still in bases, and less batting average. So he
he dominates in two categories, but Lopez dominates in the
other three, and you're taking you're taking over him.
Speaker 3: I yeah, I'm gonna take Lopez over Brandon Lao because
roster brand Lao so many years, he's gonna miss a
chunk of time at some point here I feel like
as well.
Speaker 2: So then here you go this player forty nine runs
to fifty nine runs. I'm gonna take as well over Audio. Yep,
it is can Tel. Ten more runs for Lopez, eight more.
Speaker 3: Give me everybody's name, and then say this player, like
I can't figure that out.
Speaker 2: Come eight homers to it goes Marte's way, eight RBI
goes Marte's way, thirteen stolen bases in huge batting average.
So Marte takes three of the five. I'm sorry, Lopez
takes three of the five categories from Marte. Marte only
gets the RBI in homers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the homers, hmm, it's close. I think I'd
take Kittel.
Speaker 2: Last one Jazz Chisholm. But let me give the stats
out before you answer. Runs forty three to fifty nine
in favor of Lopez, twelve to nine homers in favor
of jazz, thirty three to forty two RBI in favor
of Lopez, seventeen to twenty six stolen bases in favor
of jazz, three forty three to two twenty five average
in favor of Lopez. So Lopez has three of the
five categories.
Speaker 3: Again, the two twenty five is just so bad, it's
like almost unstomachable. Let me see unstomachable.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 3: Two two, two eighty one, one seventy seven. The swings
are just too big for jazz. Give me Auto might
be the best second basement now.
Speaker 2: That I think that's what we've gotten to. I mean,
you took Katel over him, but you're thinking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I'm still I'm still wishy washy on that one.
Even to be honest like it, Lopez might just be
the best second basement now. Like Terrang, Terrang, Lao, Kattel,
and Jazz, those are the ones that compete, I think,
but I probably at this point right now, it's Otto, Lopez, Kittel, Terrang,
those are the three that I want.
Speaker 2: Really interesting one too is Nickonzalz, who was second there.
Nicknzales has over three hundred bats this year, maybe to
your shock, is hitting three to twelve on the year,
has scored forty nine runs, but he only has four
homers and four stolen bases. He does it at three
seventy OBP. Having a surprisingly good season, but the profile
has completely changed for him. I mean, I guess a
little dramatic.
Speaker 3: But we're two years ago.
Speaker 2: He was eight percent barrel, thirteen degree launch angle.
Speaker 3: You know he's doing all that sud.
Speaker 2: Let me see what his pull rate back then was, Yeah,
twenty percent pull rate. This year it's a two point
eight percent barrel. He has stopped barreling. He's stopped trying
to get the ball in the air five point seven
launch angle. His average hex velocity has dropped. He's still
not striking out, which is great. And I want to
see if he slowed his bat down because he used
to be a big batspeed guy in college. It's actually
I didn't realize this. It's gone up. Sixty eight point
seven is rookie year. Well, No, seventy one point one
twenty twenty four. That's the barreling in the launch angle.
I told you seventy point five, So he's kind of
lowered this down a little bit. It looks like he's
opened up his stands. He is letting the ball travel,
He's not trying to pull it. He's playing for contact
and it's working for him. Is Nick Gonzalez somebody we
should be giving a little bit more of attention to.
In the player Raider on Fantasy Pros, Nick Gonzalez is
ranked You want to guess what second base? Among second basemen,
He's ranked eighth fourteenth, so in fifteen man, that is
a starting second baseman. He is ranked higher on the
Player Raider Again, I think this is waiting.
Speaker 3: He forty rbi though too.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize that forty rbi and forty rbi forty
nine runs is impressive. He's ranked higher than brooks Lee. Yeah,
hold on, higher than brooks Lee, Sam Antonachi, He's higher
than Curtis, Me, Luke, Keishal those are some players he's
He's just below Ozzy Albi's and Luisa Rise on that list.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you brooks Ley because Brooksley has six
year runs, but ten more homers, eight more rbi, one
more solemn base. But it's uh three twelve to two
fifty in batting average.
Speaker 2: I think I'm brooks Lee on that one because Nick
Andzalz is towing the line of like Jacob Wilson Luisa
Rise like in a points league, I'm Nickonzalez. Nickonzalaz is
like low strikeouts, which you love. His XBA is two
eighty seven. That's phenomenal. Like he clearly looks like he's
his contact hitter and he's consistently making contact against all
type of pitch types. So like I buy, I buy
this version of him of like what he's doing, but
I just don't think it's gonna lead to he doesn't
steal bases at a big clip or any of that.
So like I'm gonna pick a lot of guys over him,
I'm gonna pick brooks Lee over him because I think
that's a median. I think a really interesting one is
a guy like the Nuniaz who only does one thing,
versus a guy like Nick Gonzales, who giving serviceable RBI,
giving solid runs, giving good batting average. Like I think
I think Nick Gonzales is more valuable than the seam Nuniaz,
who does again one thing and that's stolen bases and
he actually hurts you in two others like significantly in
batting average and homers.
Speaker 3: What about what about Antonacci?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of knew you were gonna go there.
I would go with Antonacci because I think Antonachi it
is the counting stats, Like he's already hit more homers,
He's stealing significantly more bases, Like he gets on really well.
Like I'm going to take Antonacci over him.
Speaker 3: But I do think they're too right, like way fewer Antony,
way fewer. Yeah, about sixty sixty or seven actually seventy
h I c k listened to the pod and he
texted me, he said, just listen to baseball Pod. I
traded Austin Riley for Antonacci in early June in an
OBP league. Some in the league chat literally said, wtf
are you doing? Right?
Speaker 2: So he traded Riley for Antonacci. Yes, yeah, great trade
and Austin Riley's dead. Yeah, it absolutely worked. So yeah,
that's a great trade, the one that was tough to
make back then. That was really good, high tight for him.
But yeah, I think Nickonzales is someone needs a little
bit more attention. Definitely has some placeholders for leagues, Like
it's probably right around the Antonacci rane, like you know,
what I think a good example is if you're owning
Ernie Clement, you should own Nick Gonzales. There Ernie Clement
has a few more homers, but they're like kind of
the same vibe. So if where you value value, Ernie
Clement should be the same range. Though, I will say
check this out. Nickenszals is rank fourteenth or Anie Clement
is twenty ninth on this player Raider, what's the hitting
it in two ninety seven two stolen bases? Where did
he go? Not at seven homers, low rbi twenty nine
runs are okay? At thirty eight, Like you know, nothing
is incredible. It's a lot of like below average stuff
with great batting average. He gets lots of hits. He's
a great points league player, but common denominator always. It's
very confusing because you have people that care about points
leagues talk about players that it is one of the
few times where it is dramatically different. You know, like
sometimes in football half PPR to PPR. Most of the
time it doesn't matter, but then there's a couple of
times it does matter. That's kind of like the points
league thing, but it's much bigger where there are guys
that are almost nothing burgers in category leagues that are
super relevant. Jung Houli is a prime example.
Speaker 3: And just don't strike out in a points league and
you're worth a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. In home run department, Dancy swan And had five,
and he had a whole bunch of guys Jordan camin Naro, Devers,
Riley Green and Josh Bell with four. So Dna Swanson
was a big talk of the town obviously because he
had that big output, but he was able to chip
in a few others. His batting average is up at
two oh seven, sixteen homers, ten stolen bases. He's hitting
two eighty six this month, which is four games, by
the way, But I would like to just point out
he only has hits in two of the four games,
and three of his four hits came in the one game,
so he had this little stretch again. It was literally
against Padres he was two three, two for four, three
for four, and three for five, and he had five
homers between the two games which went June to July.
But he is inconsistent still kind of across the board.
So I think there's spots to own him because accounting
stats you can see where they're so big, but you know,
I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like those homers came in the middle of the Padres
streak of the year two where they lost eight straight
and they just snapped it last night. So terrible run
for the Padres, good run for Dansby. I am also
not buying it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not buying it in like a I don't want.
Speaker 3: Two eighty six for the rest of the year. When
he you know, because he's hit four games this spot.
That's the point, Like he's hitting two h seven dude,
yeah you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like you got to kind of assume he's this
like two forty kind of inconsistent guy who can have
these big power outputs and stuff. But it I mean,
it's like, you know, probably sixty percent of his production
has come in like a week's worth of games if
you stack them all together, which is like insane. You
need a little bit more balance. Maybe it's good for Rodo,
but the batting average is just like murdering you in there.
Anybody else in this home run mark or do anything
for you. I mean, Josh Bell is probably the only name.
I'm not really sure we've like mentioned Josh Bel once
this year.
Speaker 3: But Josh Bell does this every year. He's good for
a two to three week stretch and then sucks for
the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: So he's the prime guy to get traded for someone
that needs a first baseman. You know, maybe it's like
Diamondbacks if they were to try to go cheap, like
he should be moved off of this team in favor
of some type of contender soon. It's been pretty solid
to forty seven, thirteen homers, bad OBP numbers. He's striking
out a bit more, but you know, the quality of
contact looks pretty decent.
Speaker 3: This is good.
Speaker 2: This is a deeper League play fifteen team corner infield play.
I think I'm interested in him, especially if he were
to go somewhere better. But right now he's kind of
DH only and you know, had a really the hot week.
That was about it. And on the RBIs Jake McCarthy
led the way with thirteen, followed by Jordan and Dansby
with eleven, Riley Green had ten, and then a shlew
of players with a bunch more. So we stop at
Rake McCarthy, who sure would have looked good as a
diamondback this year three zero six batting average, nine homers,
fourteen stolen bases three forty three. Obp, he is barreling
the ball better. He is significantly getting the ball in
the air more, even though he's not hitting it hard.
This is I do this a lot, and I apologize
if you get annoyed it.
Speaker 3: But this is that C. J.
Speaker 2: Abrams thing right here. You know, it's Beryl get the
ball in the air. And obviously you're hitting in Colorado
type of thing when you don't have a full complement
of this really great hitting profile.
Speaker 3: That's where he is.
Speaker 2: I want to see his home yeah, I mean home
is definitely lifting it because he has seven of his
nine homers have come at home. He's he's hit three
forty two, two ninety one, three twenty six and three
eighty three. And he's getting lifted up by Colorado helping
him out with some big blasts. It's just he's kind
of hard to deny right now, like he's always been
a contact hitter. No, I don't think he's gonna get traded.
Think the Colorado built around him.
Speaker 3: Now he's getting traded the Astros and Mony the Astros
are interested in Jake McCarthy, Mickey Moniac. I mean, he's
not a free agent till twenty twenty nine, So to
your point, maybe, but he is arbitration eligible. And we
know the Rockies eight paying players money at all. Unless
their Chris Bryant, they can never play, so.
Speaker 2: He'd have a glut they've got. That's their biggest thing.
They've got like six different guys that can be an outfielder,
and mccart's is.
Speaker 3: Just stacking the minors for them. Right, They're not winning
anything this year. McCarthy's never going to be more valuable
than he is now.
Speaker 2: Worst case scenario for fantasy, though, if you are right,
this is bad, yeah, fantasy, because I mean, he's still
a solid player, but this power output is changing. It's
kind of changing the profile a little bit because I mean,
he is pacing to be a twenty thirty guy with
a three hundred average And if.
Speaker 3: You have a slugging home road too as well as
it just as horrific or even worse.
Speaker 2: Let me see, Yeah, I can tell you he is
five ninety two slug at home, four thirty four on
the road.
Speaker 3: So it's not great. Yeah, I mean he's seventy five
iso one two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's significantly better at home, not just from average,
but a home run perspective the misleading thing. If he
were to be traded, he probably still finishes as a
fifteen to thirty guy this year. It's gonna be pretty
hard for him not to be. But we want him
to stay in Colorado. And he's very relevant now and
I cannot believe he's still hitting over three hundred. It's
crazy town to me. In the runs department, Kyle Stowers
led the way with eight. We had Hicks, Carrols, and
Swanson with I'm sorry he had ten, and then those
guys I just mentioned had eight. Stours is the big guy.
Stowers is a great guy to talk about here because
let's check back in on him because it was bad, bad,
and there have been some improvements. He's back up to
a two forty seven batting average. He's got eleven homers
after really struggling. He hit two twenty nine in April
in a small sample size, two eighteen in May and
look like he might be cooked. He then went June
with a two fifty five average with five homers, and
he's already hit three here in July. He's off, yeah,
really hot July. If you look at where things are
standing now. His strikeout rates the problem, but everything else
looks like it's lining back up, getting the ball in
the air. He's hitting the living crap out of it.
His xba's in the two forties, which is not like
the coolest thing in the world, but it's good because
it's kind of like a stable zone. He's pulling the
ball in the air, and this is what I really like.
He is balanced on his hitting type. He's not only
dominating fastballs. It's two forty six fastballs, two thirty five,
breaking two sixty four against off speed and the fastball
and breaking pitches. His XBA is higher than the actual
so I think those are good signs for him. I
think he might be turning a corner a little bit,
but the strikeouts do cause a little bit of a problem.
But I think I'm gonna be a buyer back in
of Kyle Stowers because also I like, I love the
way his profile is.
Speaker 3: He's got the opposite issue of Jake McCarthy's two ten
at home, two seventy five on the road, but the
power has stayed the same. Five homers at home, six
on the road, so power plays everywhere. But for whatever reason,
he's seeing the ball better on the road.
Speaker 2: I'll take it. I will take it. Solen basis Connor
Griffin with six, Khalil Watson had four, and then a
group with the three, and as mentioned before, Connor Griffin
with just the sneak est amount of stolen bases. I
just was shocked when I saw that at twenty. Honestly,
with the I kind of stopped paying attention to the
leader boards once I knew my Chandler Simpson bet was
just dead dead.
Speaker 3: But here is the board.
Speaker 2: Actually he doesn't even qualify, so check this out. Eighth
in the league is Chandler Simpson. He's tied with O'Neil,
Cruz and Tatis with twenty one, and then it goes
to Randy or Rose Arena. Connor Griffin is stealing so
much he has doesn't even qualify, but he's up there
if I change the qualification.
Speaker 3: He is tied with Jose.
Speaker 2: Cabira with twenty, so he is top ten in baseball.
No one has less games played or played appearances with
twenty or more stolen bases than Connor griff and that's
super impressive. The same Nunians is still at the lead
with thirty two, Bobby Witt has thirty and then it
goes Jazz Ramirez, Pete Crow. So I don't know, Simpson
could still come back, but Bobby Whitt looks like he's
gonna still fifty this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it takes a couple of pulled hand strings for
that bet to pay off, but yeah, he can absolutely.
I think they had him hitting five yesterday and he
stole base, so Simpson can definitely make it happen. Did
all these happen in a glut for Griffin at some
point seven seven, one five Now, I mean he's been
just really productive the whole time. He does have five
and four games this month, so he had fifteen going
into July on July sixty s twenty, so it's a
lot this week. But that's a great sign.
Speaker 2: We like that, Yeah, we do like that a lot.
And then walks, you like to put this up here.
I think the interesting one is the leader though it's
Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker with eight walks? Is that good?
Speaker 3: Is that bad?
Speaker 2: The passiveness of it. He's got seven homer six dolen bases.
He is hitting two forty six on the year. He
hit two eleven two forty seven, two forty two, and
in June he just hit two thirty three. He is
off to a hot July. He's over four hundred, He's
got five hits in twelve at bats. Maybe I think
you would maybe mention this before. He also has six
walks in July that like, maybe there's something to him
finding you know, his rhythm and the plate and seeing
the ball better. And when the walks go up, that's
the early signs that he has seen the ball. I
don't know if as you or Joe or someone said that,
and then it looks like it's kind of materializing. Are
you gonna buy it though? Are you gonna be a
buyer of Kyle Tucker now that things are like slow,
Like there's this little little creepy, creepy in of excitement.
Speaker 3: Homies made me look stupid enough this year, So I'm
not gonna go double down and buy back in. So no,
I won't be buying back in on him. I did.
I did just go to look at his like just
overall swing percentage, it's up three percent from last year,
so it's not even like he's being passive. And that's
four percent up from twenty twenty four, so he is
almost six and a half percent up from twenty twenty
four so in swing percentage. So it's definitely not him
being passive. He's just not having a good year. So
hopefully it's turning around. But I'm not going to count
on it at all.
Speaker 2: I mean, I might buy I think I might be
a little by for the second half here. I don't
I don't cheap. I really wish I could see. It
would be super cool to see like a month breakdown.
I know it's probably somewhere someone could probably put me
onto it, but I'd love to see, like what has
he done in the last fifteen days as far as
like barrel percentage and launch angle, Like has he made
some better Because the only way I can kind of
read this outside of like you go look a game
log and you're like, oh, look, you know, he's got
more hits and stuff, but like maybe there is more
of a comfort level that's starting to happen, you know,
because he's seeing the ball better, he's striking out less,
he's walking a little bit more, Like you know, you're
starting to have a higher comfort level, and the success
is getting there. He just hits in three of his
last four games, Like things are starting to click a
little bit, a little tiny baby bit. I think I'm
gonna be a little bit of a buy now because
I think it's so dirt cheap over on the pictures,
some high percentage pictures that are owned with some interesting
start show. Hey Tani six innings three and runs nine
strikeouts against Padres. Maybe Sanchez, maybe Mizzy gets beat around,
Maybe Otani comes back kind of gets that little MVP.
I don't know, maybe maybe not. Dylan Ce seven innings,
zero and runs nine strikeouts against Seattle, Logan Gilbert seven
to one third zero and runs one hit, seven strike
cuts against Toronto. I mean, I do have to note that,
like I as one of the people that was like,
oh yeah, like I hate this Mariner's situation. They're just
been good and they're all going seven, you know. I
just want to point that out, like we're worried about it.
Logan Gilbert on here, piggybacking is the smartest decision alive.
Speaker 3: Everybody agrees.
Speaker 2: Emerson Hancocks seven innings, two hits, five strike cuts against Toronto.
Luis Casillo six innings two earned four strike cuts against Toronto.
Speaker 3: Like other and they're like, look to avoid this, we
just all have to be really good.
Speaker 2: I think They're all looking at Kate Anderson and being like,
we can't let this go if one of us slips.
Kate Anderson's coming.
Speaker 3: Because that dude is like he's having on historically. Want
to add him into the rotation for God's sake.
Speaker 2: You can't do you have a seven in rotation? Yes,
have a rotation issue.
Speaker 3: Okay, well do the piggybacking in the playoffs? Man seven
is fine traits.
Speaker 2: And like, go make a blockbuster trade build up this team,
Like are you gonna be I'm not saying to do this,
but like you know that you may have a huge
trade if you traded George Kirby, and like, have you
made your team that much worse? Like, okay, you lose
the depth of a guy you've counted on. But if
now it's like Gilbert and Hancock and uh Luis Castillo
and Bryce Miller and you put in Kate Anderson, Like
I know that, I know I understand the susceptibility there,
but like, what if you could massively imp Yeah, that's
what I'm saying, Like what if they could get an
elite bullpen piece or an elite bat that might be.
Speaker 3: Available, I catcher that can hit that would be nice
right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but maybe you know, it's like they go out
and they get I mean, maybe they just feel that
they don't have those needs. But what if there's a
third baseman, you know, or whatever that they could lock
in Brendan Donovan didn't work out, and they could solidify
that offense and then maybe they could get another pitching
piece for depth. I mean, trading at that level is weird,
but that team, that team is so stacked it's insane,
and you've got to a lead pitching prospects. I mean,
what Kate Anderson's doing in the minors, it's like unheard of.
But it is tough to trade when you're in a
race a picture that consistently can go out seven. I
understand that, but it's a it's a glut of riches.
Yamamoto Struck got ten padres and seven innings, nowhere runs,
had a couple walks. Joe Ryan continues to be freaking
good dude. Seven innings, nine strikeouts against the Yankees. Jesus,
he's just Lozardo had the good road game six innings,
nine strikeouts against the Royals. Sunny Gray continues to make
a huge case for one of the trade assets. Six innings,
one and run, two walks, seven strikeouts against the Angels.
Another I just know how they would trade him. Sandie
O Contra eight innings, one and run, eight strikeouts. I'm
fascinated by him because we had heard all year long
about how like this is the year they trade him.
This is a year they trade him. If we're going
to buy that load of bolt crap that they're selling us,
so they got to keep your healthy and we're competing
and da da da, then you guys need to go
be buyers. You need not sell anything. You should be
out there buying pieces. If you're going to sell us
on this story, why he can't go to a perfect
game because you guys are such winners, then go get
some pieces and Sandy can't be a trade asset. And
he helped his cause. But at the same time, eight innings,
eight strikeouts, how do you justifiably get that off your
team if you're winners?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, So I think you're right. You can't
trade him right.
Speaker 2: Now, can't damn it. Kyle Bradish seven to two thirds,
five strikeouts against the Reds. Tray Ya Savage had seven
strike cuts against Seattle. Michael King I know Joe's been
a big fader of him. He kind of keeps rolling.
Six innings, five strikeouts against the Dodgers under ninety percent braxs,
and Ashcraft a good bounce back five and two thirds
seven strikeouts against Washington Boggs he had. I think he
got beat up in that last one, and I think
the attention may have come off of him a little bit.
I don't know if you had any thoughts on Ashcraft.
Speaker 3: I just don't think too much has come off. I
think that like when you bring up underrated starters in baseball,
I think his name is like one of the top
at the list every single time. So I don't think
too much wore off. You're right, he gave up five
in that start before he gave up six on June six,
so it's been a little more acquaint about once a month.
Speaker 2: He gave up four on May fifteenth, and then like
he's good for one month.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he does.
Speaker 2: He kind of he ses the bed once a month,
So just know your July one is going to be
in like a couple starts.
Speaker 3: But we still love him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, dude's getting out two hundred plus strikeouts that he's
at like he's having eight season, one hundred and twenty
two strikeouts, like phenomenal year.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 2: If there's any buying opportunity, I I'm like rolling with him.
I mentioned Hancock was with Nicolodolo's six innings, wondering and run
against Baltimore and Ward Rodriguez all Star Rodrigaz six innings,
two and runs, no walks, three strikeouts. Would you've ever
believed with how bad it?
Speaker 3: I said, like an idiot. When he beat the USA
in the World Baseball Classic and just looked untouchable. I'm like, well,
he's going to give up eight in his first start
for the Backs to be terrible. I was been rock solid.
There was like a little stretch of made two starts
where it's like maybe rod starting back into a pumpkin.
But then like the last four I think three or
four in a row have been amazing for him. Again,
he's just he keeps smelling him down.
Speaker 2: There's no reason to ever believe in it, and it's
just changing, you know. I want to look real quick,
what's the thing that's changed with him. I think it's
obviously been his command. I I'm not gonna even look
at that here, but eight percent walk grate. Looks like
he stopped trying to strike guys out. Four seam is
the same. He's starting to change up a lot more.
And that thing they are not hitting the dude, he
had a three hundred average against it last year. It
looks like he deadened it a little bit. It's got
less spin.
Speaker 3: It's got lotion. Dude, you mentioned it before. You don't
need to look it up. But it's one oh nine
this year it was plus. Well, kJ Bluss is one
oh nine. Last year was one hundred one two, one
ninety seven. The best it's ever been was his rookie
season at one oh seven, and this is better one.
What is his stuff plus is ninety one? His pitching
plus is one oh two this year. Yeah, he's just
well the change up. What's the change up? Because the
change ups are always historically bad on stuff? But what
was last year to this year? Because he got the
changeup got beat around last year. Not that much different
as ninety three last year, ninety five this year?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I mean it's just purely location because he's
not he is doing his curveball. It's thirteen percent, which
it's essentially looks like I'm just trying to do this
in real time here. Yeah, you know the real adjustment
is he just this added curveball. He threw at four
percent last year, it's thirteen percent this year, it looks,
and he's starting the changeup more. Maybe it's making the
change up more effective because he's locating stuff. I mean
that those are the easy answers. But what's weird. I
guess what I get at is what's weird about it
is I really never pinpointed him as a guy that
just needed location to fix things.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Well, Yo, look, location is Yeah,
obviously location is better, but that this wasn't the type
of guy that it was. Well, if he could just
locate a little bit better, he'd be so much more efficient.
You're like, no, everything's pretty average. You can see the
stuff plus numbers. It's all average across the board. People
actually making more zone contact against him right now, dude,
but it's not working.
Speaker 3: The most runs he went up in a game this
year is four. Eve up four at Baltimore on April fifteenth.
On April twenty second, he also gave up four against
the White Sox through five innings. In both those games
gave up four and six and a third against Washington
is really weird. One was when he walked five and
struck out three and it could only get out of
two and two thirds. But even in that game when
he just had nothing, he only gave up two runs,
one earned. There was an error in there too. So
it's been almost every start he rot has been great.
So I would very weird expected to continue until further
notice as long.
Speaker 2: As he's locating. Yeah, I mean you do worry, like
as the season goes on a little bit further he
could tie. You're out? Sure, Sure, I think he's on
the I think at least one more year year on
his contract. He could be a trade candidate when when
the Diebacks inevitably sell, which they should. He's been so
good and I think the what's owed to him isn't
as dramatic anymore. I could be wrong about my miss.
Is it twenty mil next year?
Speaker 3: It's it's just I think it's average is twenty because
it's four years eighty, but I don't know. It doesn't
show the digraphs how it pays off.
Speaker 2: Just it ends and it ends after next year. Yes, okay,
so yeah, that's what I thought, so it's you know,
ten million pro rated this year, twenty million next year.
If the Diamondbacks could send ten million dollars in that
deal and maybe get you know, you get a prospect
back and you send them ten million dollars that covers
this year, and then you've got him. I just think
he could be a trade piece at this point and
that there's a lot of scenarios where this could be
a good thing if he wanted to be what if it, Well,
they are, we know, but they need to decide that
they are like flirting with five hundred. And it looks
like there's like a mutual option as well on the
year before he's.
Speaker 3: Got option if he hits some type of inning pitch threshold.
But I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2: I wish this would tell me this because apparently he
has a ten team no trade clause, and I was
about to say, like the Breeds kind of jump out
to me as a team that would be so his
is actually he's a nineteen million dollars is next year
is what the money would be, And it's twenty one
this year.
Speaker 3: So you know, who was it whose wife refused to
move to certain sport that wasn't okay, it was LA.
I think that's why he has those ten teams.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he wanted to like he didn't want to
be traded when he was like a tiger to La,
they wanted to stay there. And then he came to
the Diamondback. So it was yeah, something with his wife
or whatever. So I don't know he saw. Yeah, Casey
my six to two thirds four strikeouts against Texas, Nick
Martinez five and one third three strikeouts. He continues to
be good. Sean Burke had eleven strikeout performance against Cleveland
and Jack Flaherty five and two thirds five strikeouts. That
is our fifty percent and up, so very highly owned.
These are some guys that are under fifty percent, and
my surprise you. Aaron Nola is under fifty percent now
forty eight percent. Seven innings, seven hits, three and runs
seven strikeouts against the Kansas City Royals. Spencer Arraghetty is
at forty three percent. Six innings, four strike cuts against Tampa.
Jake Bennett a little bit of swag seven and two
thirds six strikeouts has looked really good as of recent
Meryl Kelly five innings tour and runs, six strikeouts against Milwaukee,
and then Pete Lambert five and two thirds six strikeouts
against Tampa. The reason I mentioned all those guys, they're
between thirty five and forty eight percent probably more ten
team available, maybe slightly. Guys are dropping around in twelve
teams with small benches. If you had to pick two
guys that you want to bank on rest of season,
obviously Nola's at the top. That's a fin aanswer. But
Nola Arraghetty, Jake Bennett, Merrill Kelly, and Pete Lambert.
Speaker 3: I mean, the only one I feel real positive about
is Jake Bennett. Right, like three quality starts in a
row for him. We know that the Red Sox are trading,
so he's going to keep his rotation spot. He's been great,
So I think Jake Bennett is the one that I
really want over way over the rest of them.
Speaker 2: You don't have a second one because I would say.
Speaker 3: There, Getty's been turned into a pumpkin. I don't trust Yeah,
Nola's fine, I don't know that I trust him after
his rocky start, Meryl Socks, Lambert is Lambert's been good.
I get I probably should give a little more credit
to Pete Lambert, but I don't know. It's just not
my guy. So Jake Bennett look great, that's the guy
that I want out of this group. Biolog Yeah, yeah,
he's the dude.
Speaker 2: But Bennett and Nola would be the two I would
pick under I mean under twelve percent, essentially. Kyle Lahey
five innings, six strikeouts, Zach Lyttel six innings, three strikeouts
against Pittsburgh. JP Sears is on the list. Ryan felt there,
Mason England, is there anybody in here that I don't
want any of these guys under any I don't even
want to really stream them, to be honest with you,
even though these were good performances. JP Sears five innings,
one hit against the Dodgers is like no joke. But
I don't trust these guys as streamers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Layy has had has been good, but I think
he had to blow up recently. But I tell you
so what. Feldner has just been good, but he's not dependent.
Like he had nine strikeouts in this game against the Giants.
He had zero against the Twins, but he only gave
up one earned over six, gave up two or earned
over six against Boston. He's been on this list like
four or five times. In the last couple months, so
he's interesting if you're like really desperate or really need
that extra start at the end of the week, and
maybe they're playing on the road or something so you
don't have to play him in Colorado. Let me just
look at his splits real quick to see what his
home road difference is. Home is Era is four to
one four away is thera is four or five eight.
But interestingly enough, forty one and a third innings at
home and only seventeen and two thirds on the road.
So if Feldner has a road start and you're desperate
for somebody out of this group, that would be my guy.
Some poop starts.
Speaker 2: I wonder if there's any concern here. Logan Gilbert three innings,
seven earned runs, two strikeouts, Logan Web, Logan, I'm sorry, yeah,
Logan Webb. Who'd I say, Logan Logan Gilbert, Logan Gilbert mariners,
seven and runs, two strikeouts, who walks at Colorado? Don't
kid he had yeah, because he had been good. I
just wondered if this reactivated early season scares of Logan
Web for you at all, because like things had turned
around once he got back looked good and then he
got I mean he got jiggled.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he got jiggled. I'm not worried about it. That's
a at Colorado weird start. I'm gonna choose to ignore
this and if he's bad in the future, I'll pay
the piper. But not now, Okay.
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown four innings, seven earned runs, four walks to
just three strikeouts against the Tampa Bay Rays. He's now
got a three three eight ERA good strikeout rate but
over thirteen percent walk rate. He has not had a
single start this year where he has walked one or less.
It is two plus every singing starts. As a year,
he has six, so it has been it's a little
scattered because he had two at the beginning of the year.
Out for a long time, but since returning he has
had four starts like in a row. A couple have
been good. I mean, I don't want to say they'd
been bad or anything like that. Six innings, tour and runs,
four strikeouts, five and two thirds won seven strikeouts, but
there's a lot of walks in there. This one kind
of came to a head. He got beat up a
little bit. It looks okay, but Joe had some serious
concerns about Hunter Brown even into the selling market. What's
your level of concern.
Speaker 3: I think I would rather buy for the second half.
Like the injuries behind him, He's gonna get a couple
of these wishy washy starts out of the way and
probably be good for the second half. So I think
I'm okay with Hunter Brown moving forward. And by the way,
this bad start yesterday they gave away his bobblehead, which
is kind of funny. No, it wasn't on his bobblehead day.
He had this terrible start and next day, Oh okay.
I was like, wait, did you get it?
Speaker 2: Was that yours?
Speaker 3: I did? I did? I did get it?
Speaker 2: Oh you got a hundred Brown Ball ahead.
Speaker 3: Nyes, I got one yesterday.
Speaker 2: Look at you?
Speaker 3: Too bad?
Speaker 2: It wasn't a an anime card that you could have
sold for fifteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Did you see those people fighting over it at
Dodger Stadium?
Speaker 2: My god, honestly fighting. But I saw people were getting him,
and then there were scalpers there that were walking around
and they were paying anywhere from two hundred to like
eight hundred dollars for the card on the spot, and
then people are putting them on eBay. For like twelve
hundred and thirteen. Can you imagine just going to the game,
getting a couple of those and then you just like
went to the game and then you walked out like
you know, one thousand dollars because people wanted a couple.
Speaker 3: That's like job.
Speaker 2: That world is crazy to me. So you people lines
down the road, I know, it's just crazy. Tanne Bybee
four innings, six earned runs, only one strike at against
White Sox. He's been pretty dicey. I'm my interest is
pretty minimal. Gauge Jump though Gage Jump had been great.
Went three innings, six earned runs, three walks, one strike
out against Miami.
Speaker 3: But I believe it's the couple.
Speaker 2: He's had a couple big bumps in the road here.
He's still got a three seven seven ERA. But yeah,
his last start was four and two thirds against the Dodgers,
five earned runs, and then this is three innings, five
earned runs. He has three walks to six strikeouts between
those two starts. Do you have less confidence engaged Jump
moving forward? Or is this just the bad patch? No?
Speaker 3: I think you know, like if you're in a daily
and you don't want to start him in his next start,
like before the break or something because you think he's
hitting a rough patch. I'm okay with that. I think
I just want to see what his first couple starts
to look like after the break, because maybe he's just
getting tired, you know, and he needs the break and
he's gonna get it, so there's gonna be a nice
break for him here. So not too worried, but I
am like he's on the radar. He's on the worry radar,
but I'm not worried. If that makes I.
Speaker 2: Think it's a good way to put I'm gonna join
you in that, like I'm paying attention to it. But
I'm gonna still roll out because I think he can
bounce right back out of this and go deep into games.
But his lack of high end strikeouts it's a little
bit of a concern. And if he's going to be
pitched into this type of contact, we'll see.
Speaker 3: But maybe if you're gonna suck, you can at least
get us some damn strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Please, Yeah, thank you. Shane Bieber stinks. Four inning, seven strikeouts.
There you go, and David Peterson got obliterated for tender
and runs, so yeah, it was great. There were no
closer blown saves, but there were some non closer saves.
Kyder Montero ended up getting a three inning save. Will
Klein got one after Tanner Scott had pitched back to back,
and Sean Newcomb picked up one after I forgot his
first name. Grand Taylor pitched the night before.
Speaker 3: So are you at all because didn't you mention Newcomb earlier?
Are you all interested in Newcom like maybe just even
if he's not getting saved, just helping your er if
you have actually bullpen spots.
Speaker 2: What I had mentioned though, is actually when you looked
at run values, his fastball was like it was absurd.
It's like one of the best fastballs in baseball. When
you just singulate, I'm trying to see if I could
even like find it right now. I don't think I'm
gonna be able to do it really quick. But when
I was just going, I was going, like, pitch value
to pitch type, he has like this insane valued fastball
this year. That to me, what that reads off is like, well,
this is a guy they could absolutely trust in the
in a closing spot. And I just don't think they're
gonna come off of grand Taylor though. I think like
none of these guys mean much to me. I mean,
Will Klein is always interesting, especially if he could be like,
you know, anywhere else because Edwin Diaz is gonna come back.
He's gonna bump everybody in there. Montero, that's a singular situation. Nup.
If the White Sox weren't winning, I would say, like
Nukem is a prime guy to be traded and then
maybe could go and like actually pick up saves from
another spot. But I do think grand Taylor has some
like nutty stuff. Maybe he just get I think he's
a source of like random cheap fun saves or something
like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like if you're in a super deep league and
there's no good starter spots out there, and you have
a pitching spot that's just eating up, you know, dump
a star ad sean newcom and just get those good
ratios and a company.
Speaker 2: Let's look at this if I can find it. Okay,
So he is currently now he has the twenty first
best run value on a four seen fastball, which, by
the way, the guy right in front of him, kider Montero.
When you look for relievers, let me look how many
legitimate relievers are there?
Speaker 3: Just while you're going through that. Looking at his Yahoo
like rank and everything, he ranks two three, which isn't
very high, and he's only two percent roster, but that's
what zero wins in three saves, fifty one strikeouts, over
fifty two innings, and two and a half VRA and
just over one whip. So like, because ratios are just
really good and he still holds value even not getting
saves or wins.
Speaker 2: Let me look at his run value charge. Yeah, and
by the way, the run value, yeah, I mean it's
his fastball only. His slurve does have a positive run
value as well, but the real levers. There's only two
relievers ahead of him with a higher fastball value rating
this year, and it is Jacob Latz and Kaider Montero
or in Michael Peterson, so that's three and Brian King
that's four. So there's a billion. There's four hundred of
it head but the rest are starting pitchers. By the way,
Rodriguez it's ten, he's tenth overall with a ten value.
But you know, it's the effectiveness of like what that
pitch has done. It has a one to oh three
batting average against, It has a thirty six percent wif
frey This is Sean Newcomb a forty three percent K percentage.
The expected batting average is one twenty three, and this
might be correct.
Speaker 3: This is correct.
Speaker 2: The lowest hard hit percentage against a four seam fastball
in baseball belongs to Sean Newcomb.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: One is a twenty percent hard hit rate. So like
that that pitch has been incredible for him this year.
And it's not like, you know, he's only pitched four games,
thirty four games this year. He's a two five eight era,
you know, twenty four K eight walk Like that's a
valuable reliever that's floating out there. So I just I
don't hate it. I don't hate if he got opportunity,
But it's a weird speculative market, all right. That is it,
my friends. That is all that we have for you.
In the next episode, we are going to I forget
about the second thing we were going to do, Bogs.
We're going to do two things. We were going to do,
the kind of valued All Stars and maybe the anti
All Stars, and then there was something else fun that
we were going to do, but it's completely escaped my mind.
So maybe they'll come back. We will also check in
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Speaker 3: Peace out, oh by for you.