Speaker 1: Greet Society, Jason's Everyone at twich Walls a mocking Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Live. We're back for a second day in a row.
Speaker 1: It is the thirty first of May ten. Do you
Speaker 1: believe it? Thirty first? Yes, tomorrow will be June. Holy moly,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: I got a calendar on the wall that reminds me
Speaker 2: of that right in front of me.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. Still you still use wall calendars. That's that's impressive.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I got one on my phone. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I got to put in my past where I do this.
Speaker 2: The next thing all I have to do is look up.
Speaker 2: It's right back in front of me. I can even
Speaker 2: put notes on it for things that I can pretend
Speaker 2: from forget down the road. Right, So doesn't get any
Speaker 2: better than that.
Speaker 1: So I want to make sure, I mean, because Tim
Speaker 1: and we all know, we all love it. No one
Speaker 1: loved Tim. But you do know about like facial recognition.
Speaker 1: You've got that turned on on your phone? Right, you
Speaker 1: look at it and it automatically comes on.
Speaker 2: Facial recognition for me is called a mirror Rich.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, you do have it turned on. I just
Speaker 1: want to make sure you do do have it turned.
Speaker 2: On I know who I am.
Speaker 1: Damn it.
Speaker 2: I haven't got to that stage.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, all right, well but.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, come on from the guy who just a
Speaker 2: couple of years back learned what control C control V is. Okay,
Speaker 2: you're asking a lot. I've heard of this facial recognition thing. Hey,
Speaker 2: but with a beard, my face changes all the time.
Speaker 2: If my phone had never recognized me.
Speaker 1: It was a mission apossible movie, wasn't it. Where the
Speaker 1: guy wanted to the bad guy wanted to get into Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a secure location. So he killed the guy and
Speaker 1: then he put his face up. The guy's face up.
Speaker 1: That's how I got in. I thought, oh that's not good.
Speaker 2: No, no, no. They do the same thing with the
Speaker 2: fingerprinting thing every once in a while, right, yeah, they
Speaker 2: kill somebody off and they grab his hand and stick
Speaker 2: it on a phone or a wall unit whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tim and I were talking. We have three things
Speaker 1: that we can talk about. One is Jordan Lawler, Two
Speaker 1: is Jonah Cox or three is a joke that starts
Speaker 1: off as follows to just somebody just sent this to me.
Speaker 1: The joke starts off as, uh, a jew Ahn doing
Speaker 1: a lawyer, which would like what topic, would you like
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 2: Well, You've got two jokes in there. Because Jordan and
Speaker 2: Lall are staying healthy is another one.
Speaker 1: Let's that's true.
Speaker 2: Let's let's go with the joke that we don't know
Speaker 2: and haven't heard. Okay, okay, all right.
Speaker 1: Ever, start off with a joke. A jew, a Hindoo,
Speaker 1: and a lawyer get lost in the countryside while hiking.
Speaker 1: The sun sets and they're wandering around hopelessly in the
Speaker 1: gloom when they see light in a farmhouse. They knock
Speaker 1: on the door and explain their situation to the farmer,
Speaker 1: asking if they might sleep the night here. He says, well,
Speaker 1: we don't have any more beds, but two of you
Speaker 1: can sleep in the vacant small henhouse and the third
Speaker 1: can sleep in the warm barn. Both are clean and
Speaker 1: dry and have fresh hay that will be comfortable. The
Speaker 1: Hindu likes his privacy, so he volunteers to sleep in
Speaker 1: the barn. The other two are about to doze off
Speaker 1: in the chicken house when a knock on the door.
Speaker 1: They open it. It's the Hindoo. He says, I can't
Speaker 1: sleep in the barn. There's a cow in there, and
Speaker 1: cows are holy. I cannot disrespect the cow by sleeping
Speaker 1: in the barn alongside her. I must sleep here in
Speaker 1: the hen house. So the Jew volunteers to sleep in
Speaker 1: the barn. But shortly thereafter there's a knock on the door.
Speaker 1: It's the Jew. I can't sleep in the barn. There's
Speaker 1: a pig in their pigs are unclean, and no Jew
Speaker 1: can sleep alongside one. I must sleep in the inn house.
Speaker 1: Lawyer sighs and agrees to sleep in the barn. A
Speaker 1: few minutes later, there's a knock on the door. They
Speaker 1: opened the door. It's the cow and the pig.
Speaker 2: Okay, I know where this is going.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny, right, yes, yes, yes, I thought there
Speaker 2: was going to even be more to it, but yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: It's a clean joke, right, that's that's if we can't
Speaker 1: pick on lawyers, that's true. I mean, who can you pick?
Speaker 1: Who can you pick? So? And then and then I
Speaker 1: was doing the Jordan lawler. I was, you know, I
Speaker 1: saw that at bat last night. I got a double
Speaker 1: one at bat at double and I'm thinking, why is
Speaker 1: there only one at bat? So I start searching around
Speaker 1: and looking, and he's been on the il for two
Speaker 1: months because he got hit in the wrist and fractured
Speaker 1: his wrists and so forth. Darned if he didn't get
Speaker 1: hit by a pitch yesterday. I don't know if it
Speaker 1: hit his risk. I don't know. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I don't know what it hit. But he only got
Speaker 1: one at bats him. So for Jordan Bahler, that guy,
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's like that schleprock guy. He's got that black
Speaker 2: cloud over his head. Hey, and yeah, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: it's not good. But we did have some exciting news
Speaker 2: that I alerted to you two just before we came
Speaker 2: on the air. That's always cool when one of your
Speaker 2: one of your guys gets us one of my guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, Jonah Cox is uh. I will read up
Speaker 1: what I wrote about him. Our Patreon members know all
Speaker 1: about him because I've been writing about him for the
Speaker 1: last six weeks or so, and he's gotten off to
Speaker 1: a really great start. This is what I wrote, let
Speaker 1: me go down to Jonah Cox originally signed with the
Speaker 1: Athletics in twenty twenty four, and his carrying tool has
Speaker 1: always been a seventy great speed. He posted back to
Speaker 1: back seasons a fifty eighth stolen basis. Narady has twelve
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty six. I wrote this at the end
Speaker 1: of April, so it's probably a lot more.
Speaker 2: At the page twenty seven he gets a growth number.
Speaker 1: At the plate. He's a slappy hitter who has never
Speaker 1: shown much power, but he's beginning to generate a bit
Speaker 1: more pop thinks to add it leverage in a swing.
Speaker 1: More importantly, he's making better contact, the necessary step if
Speaker 1: he's going to carve out a role at the highest level.
Speaker 1: For our fantasy perspective, Cox is an interesting, intriguing stash stash.
Speaker 1: The speed will absolutely play, and while he is most
Speaker 1: likely outcome as a fourth outfielder, there's enough doubles and
Speaker 1: on base ability to envision a role similar to what
Speaker 1: Miles Straw provided during his time with the Astros and Guardians.
Speaker 2: Jonah, Yeah, that is good news. You'll generate some interest
Speaker 2: tonight for those chasing speed some other Our good friend
Speaker 2: John Dean on the Discord page again very active over there,
Speaker 2: having a lot of fun. He shared some news today
Speaker 2: that I find very very interesting and very much as
Speaker 2: another one of our members, Nails mentioned outside the box
Speaker 2: thinking today the Columbus Clippers are starting Cooper Ingle in
Speaker 2: left field. It's his first non catcher start at level. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so obviously the Guardians haven't soured on Ingle's bat. They
Speaker 2: just want to try and find a way to get
Speaker 2: him into the Lions. So that's interesting news, isn't it.
Speaker 1: It is so so if every recalls bow Naylor, uh
Speaker 1: probably gone right. I mean he's he's probably in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues for quite a while. Tim and I both
Speaker 1: independently thought, oh good, Cooper Ringle is going to get
Speaker 1: a shot. And then they signed Patrick Stewart. Who it is?
Speaker 2: They treated big Big Bailey the giants defensive guru, an
Speaker 2: offensive bum.
Speaker 1: Right, so now they moved Cooper Ingle to the left field.
Speaker 1: Who is Patrick Stewart?
Speaker 2: To me?
Speaker 1: What famous guy is Patrick Stewart?
Speaker 2: Patrick Stewart, He's an actor of the Come On Star Wars,
Speaker 2: Star Wrek.
Speaker 1: Star Trek. That's right, he was. He replaced the Captain
Speaker 1: Kirk after. I don't know if it's Captain Kirk, captain somebody,
Speaker 1: but he was the guy at the helm after after
Speaker 1: William Shatner. Well done, mister McCleod.
Speaker 2: Well Jody watches Star Trek all the time. God, nothing
Speaker 2: to do with me. That, that's all on Jody.
Speaker 1: So good stuff there. So Jonah Cox gets brought up
Speaker 1: and the Cooper angle hopefully maybe can't play the left field,
Speaker 1: and he's athletic enough to do that. He's got a
Speaker 1: great arm.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and some bad news.
Speaker 1: Uh there's always bad news to me.
Speaker 2: Who's her always?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: La did little cruise hit went into the gap, hobbling
Speaker 2: halfway down down the first base line. He limped off
Speaker 2: on his own. But they put McLean into pinch pinch
Speaker 2: run for him. That's not good.
Speaker 1: Mccount Garcia's same thing yesterday for the third came up
Speaker 1: hobbling and he didn't play today.
Speaker 2: I think is hurt the Dylan Cruise.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he's hurt us Connor Griffin on the I
Speaker 1: to hear about that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, I did. Yeah. It's it's hard to
Speaker 2: sort out all this doom and gloom. That's why I
Speaker 2: wanted to throw a couple of good good news things
Speaker 2: in there, because there isn't enough to overshadow the doom
Speaker 2: and gloom. Definitely not.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see. I mean, it's just Dylan Cruz scratch
Speaker 1: from the national starting lineup. Hit hit hand during Saturday's game.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that's not anything bad. Uh. Jezu Sanchez announced uffs
Speaker 1: removed from Sunday's game with the right risk. Everybody's getting
Speaker 1: hit by get by pitches of the wrist. What is
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 2: Well, when you're down to your high A starters occupying
Speaker 2: major major league rotation spots. Yeah, you got a lot
Speaker 2: of young pig is coming up and they're moving them
Speaker 2: fast and they're far from a finished product. I think
Speaker 2: some of the some of the hitters are are wearing
Speaker 2: it as a result.
Speaker 1: The good news, We've got my buddy Ryan O'Hearn back.
Speaker 1: I've got him in a bunch of leagues. Get him
Speaker 1: out there for tomorrow's games, and I'm probably going to
Speaker 1: start to sit a j ewing and the league starting
Speaker 1: to catch up with him a bit, so I'm going
Speaker 1: to probably rest him for my buddy, Uh Ryan O'Hearn.
Speaker 2: So I was just going to see how he's doing today,
Speaker 2: and how is you in doing over one with a
Speaker 2: run scored? What I find uh, yeah, I don't have
Speaker 2: that information available. Our good friend Carson b hit his
Speaker 2: fourth today, which was nice. I am a little concerned
Speaker 2: though with what I'm seeing. You know, the Mets are
Speaker 2: up five to one over the Marlins. Okay, but Nolan
Speaker 2: McClain's pitching. He's allowed one earned run, two heads, two strikeouts,
Speaker 2: which seems a little low. Bern All on the plane,
Speaker 2: but he's walked five to day, I know, ninety four
Speaker 2: pitches to get through five. That's yeah, that concerns me.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if he's hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's hope not. Let's maybe I mean a greouster
Speaker 2: down the walks are up, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe it's just an off day. Again, it's
Speaker 1: against the light hitty Marlins. But we'll take a look
Speaker 1: at the data a little bit afterwards see if what's
Speaker 1: going on. I expected more power from BNJ. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to come. He's got above average power. It
Speaker 1: is not ever going to be a thirty home run guy,
Speaker 1: but it's more than you know, four after the first
Speaker 1: two months. Yeah, he's going to hit more than twelve
Speaker 1: home runs.
Speaker 2: I agree. What is nice to see is he's got
Speaker 2: the batting average up to two fifty four and he's
Speaker 2: hitting consistently in the leadoff spot. I think things you
Speaker 2: are going to I think we could see a really
Speaker 2: good second half out of this young fella.
Speaker 1: I think you're right. I absolutely think you're right. My
Speaker 1: buddy Ranger Suarez was mewing down the Cleveland Guardians and
Speaker 1: they got to him here in the sixth inning. And
Speaker 1: now he's given up four runs. So four runs but
Speaker 1: ten strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a big number for him, isn't it. Eight hits,
Speaker 2: two walks, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean it was gone along just fine. And they
Speaker 1: just scored two runs in the fifth in off of them.
Speaker 1: Jared Durant starting to show that he actually is a
Speaker 1: major league baseball player. Up to ten home runs now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is playing very very well. You know, when
Speaker 2: you've got an offense of jim like Austin Hedges contributing
Speaker 2: two RBIs. Yeah, it's no wonder the Guardians are leading
Speaker 2: four to three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: By the way, Jared Durram tim pace for a thirty thirty,
Speaker 1: he's gonna it to twenty. But he's got ten on
Speaker 1: runs and ten stolar bases or a third of the
Speaker 1: way through the season.
Speaker 2: Yes, And does he end up on the Boston Red
Speaker 2: Sox come August first or whatever the day is in August?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you would think that would be a
Speaker 1: guy that they would move. I mean, we thought they'd
Speaker 1: move him over the off season, Yeah, with Sadan Rafaela
Speaker 1: and a bar. But once Roman Anthony went down, there
Speaker 1: was room for Jared Durant. So, but I think Anthony
Speaker 1: got pulled off a rehab. But at least he's starting
Speaker 1: to play baseball against He would expect him to be
Speaker 1: back sometime in June.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would expect so. But I believe it was
Speaker 2: more recurring pain in the hand risk, whatever it is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's not a good sign.
Speaker 1: No, no, but you know it's the same thing it
Speaker 1: was with Jackson Holiday. Remember all day right, he struggled
Speaker 1: to come back and then it finally got right and
Speaker 1: he came back. So yeah, so if you if you
Speaker 1: get Roman Anthony back, let's call it July, first, first
Speaker 1: couple of weeks in July, and he starts to get
Speaker 1: back by the end of July or so, it's a
Speaker 1: trade deadline. Yeah, you could see the you could see
Speaker 1: the Red Sox move on from Jaron d Ran.
Speaker 2: I would think that's a real pausibility and his value
Speaker 2: probably won't get much higher than it is right now,
Speaker 2: will it.
Speaker 1: No, I mean the batting average isn't where it needs
Speaker 1: to be, But I mean the production.
Speaker 2: Is there, Yeah, exactly, Washington up.
Speaker 1: Three to two, Washington playing a little bit better, one
Speaker 1: game over five hundred. Who would have funked that your
Speaker 1: buddy tatist Junior Tommy finally hit, finally hit a home run.
Speaker 1: Yesterday's first home run a bomb too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I sat down, I brought up my avacus
Speaker 2: to try and figure out what that projects him through
Speaker 2: to at the end of the season. And I've got three.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take the over. But yes, very good math,
Speaker 1: very good math.
Speaker 2: But I'll both don't lie, that's true.
Speaker 1: I will take the over.
Speaker 2: There.
Speaker 1: Let's see who's done the damage. It looks like Wood
Speaker 1: with another home run, sixteenth year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Garcia with a home run, hanging in the
Speaker 2: second spot. Up and down season there, But I think
Speaker 2: there's better to come out of Garcia in Washington.
Speaker 1: You know, Curtis need Curtis Meat's over three today with
Speaker 1: a strikeout. I know he's on your waiver wire today,
Speaker 1: and we haven't talked about him in a while. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a guy that I've always liked that he just
Speaker 1: has never been able to put it together and I
Speaker 1: still have him on a couple of teams just because
Speaker 1: Dynasty League teams, just because I'm stubborn like you. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if I believe in it or not.
Speaker 2: Well I'm not. I'm not one hundred percent sold. But
Speaker 2: at the same point in time, when you look at
Speaker 2: what he's done over the past couple of weeks, like
Speaker 2: those numbers are in the books, they're very real, and
Speaker 2: he has just been on fire. I think he's I
Speaker 2: don't have it up in front of you, but I
Speaker 2: think four home runs and ten RBIs in the past
Speaker 2: two weeks, that's that's big numbers. I can see why
Speaker 2: he's hitting in the three hole today for the Nationals.
Speaker 1: Well, his exit velocity is up two miles. So last
Speaker 1: year was eighty seven point five this year eighty nine
Speaker 1: point four launch ack on fifteen degrees. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: a guy that should hit twenty home runs. If he
Speaker 1: can produce an eighty nine and a half mon our
Speaker 1: ex velocity with a fifteen degree of launch, you should
Speaker 1: hit twenty home runs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because his contact skills through through the miners have
Speaker 2: always been fairly solid, haven't they always been fairly exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, he's walking as much as he's striking out,
Speaker 1: it's only striking out sixty percent of the time, walking
Speaker 1: fourteen percent of the time.
Speaker 2: Good numbers.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's yes. I mean, I'm glad I held
Speaker 1: on to my I'm not telling you I I did
Speaker 1: it with a lot of forethought. I just I just
Speaker 1: had an intuition that he was a better player than
Speaker 1: what he was showing well.
Speaker 2: And I think, you know, sometimes a move and a
Speaker 2: fresh start helps, And I think in Tampa Bay, I
Speaker 2: think I think that was the best thing that could
Speaker 2: have happened for Curtis Mead was moving to another organization.
Speaker 2: He was sort of starting to trap in nowhere land
Speaker 2: in you know, in Orlando or Saint Pete's sorry, but
Speaker 2: he was starting trapped in nowhere. It just was not happening.
Speaker 2: And that fresh location, I think is done. Them a
Speaker 2: world are good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean as good as the Tampa Bay Rays
Speaker 1: are as an organization. It's tough if you're if your
Speaker 1: name's not Junior Cameron Earra, I mean, you're you are
Speaker 1: going to more than likely platoon.
Speaker 2: Yes you are. Actually I had to rewrite that my
Speaker 2: narrative on Curtis Mead because that's when the first he's
Speaker 2: playing nine out of ten, the Rays aren't platuning him.
Speaker 2: I had a brain cramp for exactly I read it over.
Speaker 2: I say, hey, he's not there anymore, Kim, and we
Speaker 2: had to do some modifications before you're a A one.
Speaker 2: I call it a one. That's how I remember at
Speaker 2: Steak Sauce. AI guy fixes it up for me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, let's see the Mets. We talked about
Speaker 1: the Mets. See it looks like the Detroit Tigers and
Speaker 1: you're you're vaunted Chicago White Sox. Four games over five hundred, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It's just with the White Sox going out there, Sean
Speaker 1: Burke another Connectic three seventy four era, I mean, what
Speaker 1: is I'm not sure how this is possibly happening, but
Speaker 1: it is justin Zallas playing first base as you predicted.
Speaker 1: So he's going to play all over the field, hasn't
Speaker 1: gotten a hit yet. We'll see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tim and Iron opposite opposite ends on this one.
Speaker 2: I I rethought that went through after our discussion and
Speaker 2: we're still on We're on opposite ends. But I had
Speaker 2: to put a caveat in my description for him today.
Speaker 2: That makes that makes a fair bit of sense. I
Speaker 2: think there's a little bit more of a logical way
Speaker 2: of looking at things. Turning over to the Brewery.
Speaker 4: If I could just comment, it's not that I don't
Speaker 4: like Gonzales, I just think everybody needs This is not
Speaker 4: a guy the eighteen home runs that were hit, fifteen
Speaker 4: of them out of the eighteen and Charlotte.
Speaker 1: I've been to Charlotte one hundred times at the stadium.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you everything flies out of that stadium. This
Speaker 1: is not a thirty home run guy. This is a
Speaker 1: ten to twelve home run guy who can hit. And
Speaker 1: if you with not much speed, if you think that's
Speaker 1: who the guy is good, If you think he's a
Speaker 1: thirty five home run guy, you're going to spend all
Speaker 1: your fab I'm afraid you might be mis taken.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's what I that's what I qualified in
Speaker 2: my narrative. I just said, remember where he got those
Speaker 2: eighteen minor league home runs? Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry you
Speaker 2: were saying, yeah, Misserski going up against my today, down
Speaker 2: to earth for my am I but not not a disaster.
Speaker 2: Four and two thirds. He's allowed three hits, two walks
Speaker 2: tour and runs with four strikeouts. Miserowski's throwing at one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifteen today, He's four inings pitch, three hits,
Speaker 2: four strikeouts.
Speaker 5: So it's not a no way hit or I will
Speaker 5: take that what he is doing absolutely one, because his
Speaker 5: five innings, he just got his fifth, just got the
Speaker 5: last out, five inues, hits to and runs, four strikeouts,
Speaker 5: And I'm not complaining about that at all.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't think there is any reason
Speaker 2: to complain. What I like to see is the fact
Speaker 2: that he made it through five innings and back to
Speaker 2: back starts, and the walks are down a little bit today.
Speaker 2: So David Hamilton having a huge game for the Brewers.
Speaker 2: Three stolen bases. Wow, that's all I can do, though, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it is. But I happen to have him on the team,
Speaker 2: so I'm just I'm sort of yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, you've been carrying him?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah I have. Yeah, it's good. I think he's
Speaker 2: a little guy.
Speaker 1: Very funny. Uh. Texas Rangers up Ford to nothing. Michael
Speaker 1: Walker having another good season but getting beat up a
Speaker 1: little bit today. It's just not happening from the Royals town.
Speaker 2: No, no, your Google futility and it's sort of popping up.
Speaker 2: It really is. You know what's interesting is Duran one
Speaker 2: for two run a couple of RBIs. Uh, I'm happy
Speaker 2: to see that he's playing. Well, I don't know which
Speaker 2: which which guy is he here? Duran? I'm not Yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't know if Josh Josh Smith is gonna have
Speaker 2: a job to come back to the way Duran is playing.
Speaker 1: Did he get two home runs a couple of days ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's hitting for power. He's the hot streak he
Speaker 2: was on, is is still he's still on it. You
Speaker 2: gotta gotta triple today as well. So that's probably the
Speaker 2: two RBIs. Yeah, and Jack later three innings pitched, one walk.
Speaker 1: You start, you start everybody against the Royals, and I
Speaker 1: don't think they got one of the best best players
Speaker 1: in the game. And Bobby with Junior, it just feels
Speaker 1: like it's the Los Angeles Angels all over again. And
Speaker 1: you know you're taking up Mike Trott and you're inserting
Speaker 1: Bobby with Jr. Into the equation.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but you know, you start, you look at
Speaker 2: their lineup. Okay, they got Jensen hitting, he's d Hington,
Speaker 2: but they got Jensen hitting the leadoff spot, and they
Speaker 2: got with and Pascatino and sal Prez and Kathlynon who's
Speaker 2: got some potential. And then you got Isaac Collins, Michael Massey,
Speaker 2: Loft Loftlin, and Kyle Lisbo.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, well it should have Michel Garcia, but he
Speaker 1: just got plumped as well, so that would extend it
Speaker 1: one more. But my problem is that those are pretty
Speaker 1: good names that you just went through. Jensen's hitting two
Speaker 1: twenty five, pass Quentina. I don't know how he's two eleven,
Speaker 1: but he is peresident to him. They're just not hitting
Speaker 1: and pass Quantina after that twenty twenty four breakout season,
Speaker 1: it's just fallen off. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's and you know, and then you add
Speaker 2: four holes in the lineup to that, Yeah, and it's
Speaker 2: it's just ugly. Yeah, right right now there it's it's
Speaker 2: it's ugly and the pitching isn't helping.
Speaker 1: So the tal on pass Quentina probably should have been
Speaker 1: thirty two home runs in two thousand. Oh he had too.
Speaker 1: Thirty two home runs last year?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, where did the power go?
Speaker 1: Tim?
Speaker 2: I have absolutely no idea.
Speaker 1: Let's take heed.
Speaker 2: He needs a little more pass day in his diet.
Speaker 1: He thinks maybe he left it all on the field
Speaker 1: as the big shot in for Team Italy. I don't
Speaker 1: know a right Well, look, well here it is. You
Speaker 1: don't have to go very far. So okay, twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four exit velocity ninety one miles an hour, twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: average ex velocity ninety one miles an hour twenty twenty six,
Speaker 1: eighty eight point three in the ball very hard.
Speaker 2: One of those is not like the others.
Speaker 1: Eh No, I'm guessing it's either a timing probably, but
Speaker 1: more likely he's probably got some kind of injury going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, something's out of think in a big way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's Yeah, that's that's not going to cut it.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're not going to hit the ball hard,
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to have power. That's that's why you
Speaker 1: bought Vinnie pas Quentina. That's wheat by Fantas the managers
Speaker 1: buy him. That's why the Kansas City Royals have. That's
Speaker 1: what they expect them to hit. Thirty home runs.
Speaker 2: Yep, that is the truth. Big day today in Baltimore
Speaker 2: for Doogie Kauser and Kyle Bradish. You look at the
Speaker 2: score of nine to five and you sort of cringe
Speaker 2: a little bit out of the gate, but then you
Speaker 2: realize that Bradish when seven innings, four hits, three walks,
Speaker 2: four strikeouts, thanks start for British. Can I rant for
Speaker 2: a second about the Jays?
Speaker 1: I was curious also if you can address why Mills
Speaker 1: was on your Miles was on your waiver, Wik, because
Speaker 1: I was watching that game and he was getting destroyed.
Speaker 1: So maybe you can tell you that too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well the reason the Miles is on there
Speaker 2: was obviously not because of today. It was prior to today.
Speaker 2: And again, uh, the Jays because of injuries or whatever.
Speaker 2: We're forced into that situation. But I find the player.
Speaker 2: It's it's fascinating, isn't it. Did you did you read
Speaker 2: my blurbo him?
Speaker 1: I did not? Yes, I did? I did? I did
Speaker 1: read it? Yes?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean. He's got a total
Speaker 2: of fourteen and two thirds innings of minor league ball
Speaker 2: on It.
Speaker 1: Was all the lists of all the injuries that he had,
Speaker 1: back surgery, Tommy John recovery.
Speaker 2: What I find amazing is the fact that Jays took
Speaker 2: a chance on him in the Rule five draft and
Speaker 2: prior to today, to today, in thirty three innings, he
Speaker 2: posted a two sixteen era he's actually their number four starter. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 2: when you look at all of that, pretty remarkable that
Speaker 2: with so little on his resume he's accomplished as much
Speaker 2: as he has. Uh, I'm I'm I'm still going to
Speaker 2: throw a small, a small chunk of change at him.
Speaker 2: Probably it's in leagues, right, a jornable, a tab to
Speaker 2: play around with, but because you know the Jays are
Speaker 2: going to keep him up there for the whole year, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got I mean, he throws hard fastball, sits
Speaker 1: at as a sinker, sinker, curveball, which is kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: Typically ninety six mile an hour sinker probably up to
Speaker 1: ninety eight gets a good whiff. You don't usually see
Speaker 1: a sinker with that amount of whiff. He doesn't really
Speaker 1: have the big secondary pitches though, slider nineteen percent, curveball
Speaker 1: twenty five percent whiff rate, and he doesn't throw a
Speaker 1: change up. So he's using a sinker to go against
Speaker 1: glove side batters because sinkers are going to go away
Speaker 1: from from what is your right handed so it's going
Speaker 1: to go away from a left handed batter. So that's
Speaker 1: so that's a little I think that's a little dicey
Speaker 1: to do it that way, but that's that's what he's
Speaker 1: decided to do because he does have a change up. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: what's his expected ear A two ninety six, so run higher.
Speaker 1: It's now up to three point fifty four expected. The
Speaker 1: era is probably going to be four forty probably he
Speaker 1: feels about right. What's number four?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I just found it. Like as soon as
Speaker 2: I saw fourteen fourteen and two thirds innings down on
Speaker 2: you know, down on the farm. It obviously speaks to
Speaker 2: the desperation in Toronto to get some starting pitching. But
Speaker 2: at the same point in time the kids pitched, okay,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, And hey, in als, he
Speaker 2: should definitely be a target this week. I would pay.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a ground ball machine because he's sawing
Speaker 1: that that sinker a thirty time and it's just it's
Speaker 1: a ground it's minus two launching, which which basically means
Speaker 1: it's people are hitting it on the ground. So and
Speaker 1: he's gets it's a good pitch because he gets a
Speaker 1: lot of swing and miss with it. He's getting guys
Speaker 1: beating it into the ground. Batting average against this one
Speaker 1: seventy five it's a good pitch, no wonder he throws
Speaker 1: it along.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And the other point with the Jays. If the
Speaker 2: Jays lose out on a playoff spot by one game,
Speaker 2: John Schneider should be fired.
Speaker 1: Why is that?
Speaker 2: Well, because yesterday they had a five to one lead
Speaker 2: against Baltimore, totally in control of the game. Okay, and
Speaker 2: they bring in John Schneider brings in Louis Barlin to
Speaker 2: pitch the eighth inn in a five to one game.
Speaker 2: Barlin walks through the eighth, no problem, five to one
Speaker 2: going into the night. Well, it's Jeff Hoffman times and okay.
Speaker 2: And John Schneider is a players He takes great pride
Speaker 2: in being a players manager and being a player's manager.
Speaker 2: He can put that in his resume when he gets
Speaker 2: his asspireds at some point in time. Because Hoffman proceeds
Speaker 2: to totally blow the game, Jay's end up losing a
Speaker 2: game that they shouldn't have lost. Why, you know, come on,
Speaker 2: you and I we can look at the numbers. We can.
Speaker 2: Jeff Hoffman has his ups and his downs. The inconsistency,
Speaker 2: you know, he he'd thrown the ball well over his
Speaker 2: prior six to seven starts. But it's like one of
Speaker 2: those every time he goes out. For me, it was
Speaker 2: a cringe thing. Okay, is this going to be the
Speaker 2: day that he blows up again? And you know, hey,
Speaker 2: and for him to make the decision to go with
Speaker 2: Barlin in the eighth, he's he hasn't protected if he
Speaker 2: wants to go with Hoffman in the ninth. Okay, fine,
Speaker 2: keep Varlin handy in case he's but he didn't half
Speaker 2: into the eighth.
Speaker 1: And then if you got Farland sitting there.
Speaker 2: That can go in inning in a third or an
Speaker 2: inning and two thirds. And you know, yeah, no, it
Speaker 2: was just it was.
Speaker 1: He played.
Speaker 2: Very much so and hey, I get it. It's fine
Speaker 2: to be a player's manager, but it's going to cost
Speaker 2: you at some point in time your job. That's all
Speaker 2: I basically, yeah, I I I shook my head at
Speaker 2: how that whole thing unfolded. And again he'll probably you'll
Speaker 2: probably go back to hopping in the ninth and another
Speaker 2: starter too, and away you go.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's take a break. Anytime Tim gets a
Speaker 1: chance to row on Jeff Hoffman, he takes it. Well done,
Speaker 1: well good ranked him, thank you well back in a second,
Speaker 1: everybody could take a quick break. I'm to tell you, man,
Speaker 1: as long as you got Amaya, you were dead dead
Speaker 1: right on Louis Varlin. I mean, you just nailed that one.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks, Rich. I I just saw the opportunity. The
Speaker 2: Jays said in the off season that they were going
Speaker 2: to look to improve the bullpen. They weren't happy with
Speaker 2: how things shut shook down, And you look at it's
Speaker 2: not it's non personal personal, Jeff. It is the fact
Speaker 2: that your season last year was like a roller coaster.
Speaker 2: It was up, down, all over the place. Well, he
Speaker 2: add all of that up, and Louis Varlan pitch lights out.
Speaker 2: He's got to be the next guy in line. And
Speaker 2: for an organization, he said they were going to look
Speaker 2: at improving their bullpen. They already had one piece there
Speaker 2: they added Rogers. I just saw an opportunity sitting there
Speaker 2: waiting to happen. Then, if it wasn't for John Schneider,
Speaker 2: probably would have happened sooner. Uh So, Yeah, yeah, that one.
Speaker 2: That one's worked out well so far, and I hope
Speaker 2: it continues to. Louis Varlin looks totally in control of
Speaker 2: his game right now, he really does. I think it's
Speaker 2: hard him.
Speaker 1: I've got him in three leagues thanks to you, So
Speaker 1: I appreciate that as well. I do have canal spent
Speaker 1: several hundred dollars a canal across all my leagus. I
Speaker 1: got that one as well. But I got Louis Varland.
Speaker 1: So you know, fifty to fifty, that's that's not a
Speaker 1: bad that's not a bad percentage.
Speaker 2: No, hey, many a major leaguer who would love to
Speaker 2: be fifty to fifty with the hit tool, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I got a couple more questions for you
Speaker 1: before you get into your before you get into your
Speaker 1: waiver Ward Lucas Ersek, I mean, I hate what you
Speaker 1: wrote about, like the uh when you wrote about the
Speaker 1: Kansity Royals closer situation to go, it looks like it's
Speaker 1: going to be a job share. Lucas Ersek has been awful.
Speaker 1: I mean, if somebody deserves to lose a job, it's him.
Speaker 1: It shouldn't be no job share should be you're pitching
Speaker 1: the six inning pal.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, but again up until a couple of games ago,
Speaker 2: Lucas Orzig in the area of three twenty six, what's okay?
Speaker 2: Six point thirty three, three games, three outings, back to
Speaker 2: back blown saves eight earned runs in those three outings.
Speaker 2: He is totally employed now I employed. I Yeah, that's too. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's too. Yeah, you should be unemployed.
Speaker 1: Kind of in a couple of leaks, I'm not happy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's like, what the hell I mean, I've not
Speaker 1: got a bad enough team. I'm one of my better
Speaker 1: players is now blowing up, like, come on, give me
Speaker 1: a break?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well exactly. I Matt Stram came back to David.
Speaker 2: Matt Stram is not a closer, and he's proven that
Speaker 2: over a long career. Okay, so I didn't even mention
Speaker 2: Stram in my narrative. I went with Daniel Lynch. He's
Speaker 2: been hitching really well again, he's failed starter, including I.
Speaker 2: I think what they will do is a once.
Speaker 1: Elite prospect, Daniel Daniel. He went from Daniel Lynch to
Speaker 1: Daniel Lynch the fourth and that's that's yeah.
Speaker 2: I think so too, Like there are three better than
Speaker 2: him already, right, yeah, that's right. Yeah, So I I
Speaker 2: think what they'll do is they'll probably give Ursak a
Speaker 2: couple of days, they'll start Lynch if they're in a
Speaker 2: save opportunity, see how it goes. They might job share
Speaker 2: it for a bit. I don't think they will take
Speaker 2: Lucas Ersik has had a good season, there's something wrong
Speaker 2: right now. I think they'll try and fix it first
Speaker 2: and put them back into the role. Now, hey, I
Speaker 2: think that's.
Speaker 1: Fair, But they got to take them out of the role.
Speaker 1: I mean their season, Tommy is it might have already
Speaker 1: slipped away. It is definitely yeah, way.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they can't afford to give up games now,
Speaker 2: much the same as the Jays. They can't afford to
Speaker 2: give up games in a tough division. And I'm just
Speaker 2: not convinced right now that they'll take Ersak and say
Speaker 2: you're you're never going to be the closer again. I
Speaker 2: think they'll they'll give them a bit of a break.
Speaker 2: They'll they'll look at tape, they'll try and figure out
Speaker 2: what's going on because he has had a huge, huge
Speaker 2: success this year. Oh okay, uh, figure out what's gone
Speaker 2: wrong and get them back into the role. If they
Speaker 2: can fix the problem apparently is so yeah. I'm just yeah, Hey,
Speaker 2: it's easy for us to say, yeah, yank them, get
Speaker 2: him to there and put them in purgatory. But I
Speaker 2: don't think the Rolls will take that approach.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they might. I think they should. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's just I don't know. He's not been very
Speaker 1: good at late. Let's go to komber Rocker. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: been playing Russian Roulette with komber Rocker. It's because I mean,
Speaker 1: I I can. We can go down your injured list,
Speaker 1: my injured list. It looks like everybody else is all
Speaker 1: your best pitchers are sitting on the injured list. So
Speaker 1: cumber Rocker is healthy. And when there's a good match
Speaker 1: up reason I put him in. And I don't want
Speaker 1: to look at the results. To me, just I hope
Speaker 1: he makes it. Throw it, and he eight did on
Speaker 1: Saturday six and he's pitched three hit snow and runs,
Speaker 1: two strikeouts and three walks. He's got a three fifty ARRA,
Speaker 1: but it's an expected array of a run higher. It's
Speaker 1: only striking out seven and a half for nine. Maybe
Speaker 1: at some point he becomes a better pitcher, but this
Speaker 1: is a number five starter at the moment. This is
Speaker 1: a guy that you you just cannot count it. Correct,
Speaker 1: Am I am I overstating it?
Speaker 2: No, You're stating it perfectly fine. All you have to
Speaker 2: do is a quick scan. Yeah, he six innings, pitched
Speaker 2: three hits, pitched really really well, two strikeouts. He was playing.
Speaker 2: He was pitching against the Royals. The game before that,
Speaker 2: he allowed four earned runs over five innings. Okay, against
Speaker 2: the Astros the game before that was a total miracle,
Speaker 2: but it was the Rockies in Colorado, just no earned runs.
Speaker 2: The game before that against Arizona, no earned runs, then
Speaker 2: three and five, but the strikeout totals three, three, seven,
Speaker 2: five two. I think you're doing it the right way.
Speaker 2: Start him against favorable sit them, against the Dodgers, any
Speaker 2: the cover, anybody with an offense, sit them. I don't
Speaker 2: feel confident right now in Kumaracker being much more than,
Speaker 2: as you put it, the number five starter with an
Speaker 2: Eirin or before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm starting about a third of the teams. I'll
Speaker 1: start up against the Mariners, and I probably won't start
Speaker 1: up against the White Socks. There. Maybe I will now
Speaker 1: that Markami's.
Speaker 2: Out, but I'm yeah, sorry, I would.
Speaker 1: I wasn't starting marginal pitchers against the White Sox with
Speaker 1: Mr Kami and there. I mean, that was a dangerous lineup.
Speaker 1: Now we'll see what it is now. I might feel
Speaker 1: a little bit better than that, But like Mariners, are
Speaker 1: no good Marlin's. You know you can pitch against them.
Speaker 1: I was starting everybody against the Mets. That might as
Speaker 1: as Juan Soto is starting to look more like Juan Soto,
Speaker 1: maybe I take a step back there, but otherwise, I mean,
Speaker 1: just know, these marginal guys, you got to be really
Speaker 1: really careful. And I know it's all about getting innings
Speaker 1: in at but sometimes with pictures tim as, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a PSA for everyone. It's be really really careful.
Speaker 1: You do have ratios if you're playing anything besides the
Speaker 1: Points League, and that you gotta be careful about that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't take very long lucas Er to destroy
Speaker 2: the ratio.
Speaker 1: It's demoralizing because you can be sitting there and you know,
Speaker 1: let's call it fourth place, and you know, with an
Speaker 1: e A and then in a week you can drop,
Speaker 1: you know to eleventh place in arts leagu r twelfth
Speaker 1: place and it takes you weeks to come back from that.
Speaker 1: And to me, I find Fantasy baseball part partly emotional.
Speaker 1: It's like when you just get slapped around for a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, it's it's hard to come back emotionally,
Speaker 1: to come back and say, ah, there's got to be
Speaker 1: more to life than this.
Speaker 2: Ye Oh yeah, it does get tough because, like you said,
Speaker 2: it can take you. Uh like in my XFL and
Speaker 2: me at my league, I had the schemes and a
Speaker 2: couple of bad starts at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 2: Well I'm now up to uh eer a and web
Speaker 2: I'm now up into the top half. Okay, but it
Speaker 2: took me two months to get there, Lucas Ersik, could
Speaker 2: you know two three two three bad starts and you're
Speaker 2: back to what took you two months to accomplish. And
Speaker 2: you're right. That does leave a certain mental strain, okay,
Speaker 2: and keeps me away from a blood pressure cuff for
Speaker 2: an extended period. It's tough, it really is, because you
Speaker 2: you do things the right way, and sometimes the right
Speaker 2: things don't happen. And yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm okay when you when you logically think it
Speaker 1: through and you say, I'm not gonna I'm not going
Speaker 1: to start this guy against whatever team it is. We've
Speaker 1: got reasons and he either has a good outing and
Speaker 1: you go, well I should started. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: What I'm not okay with is kooma rocker luck he's
Speaker 1: had a couple of good starts. Let me just throw
Speaker 1: them in there. I'm gonna forget. You can't do that.
Speaker 1: That's how you get annihilated.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is. And I got lucky because I have
Speaker 2: two or three shares of ers and in one league
Speaker 2: my ear is totally destroyed, so it didn't matter. And
Speaker 2: the other two leagues, I sat them because I've got
Speaker 2: four closers. So I said, ah, who am I going
Speaker 2: to house? Said, I got, I got other guys. I
Speaker 2: So I lucked out and I didn't take the full
Speaker 2: impact of where there would there have been a week
Speaker 2: two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's let's let's finish on Mike Trout before we
Speaker 1: get into your waiver wire. There's starting to be a
Speaker 1: little bit of noise on the internet with writers speculating
Speaker 1: that the Angels are finally going to move Mike Trout.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's a day late and the dollar short,
Speaker 1: as they would say. He's having a great season. Hit
Speaker 1: his fourteenth. He is at batting average up to two
Speaker 1: forty one. It's on base percentage just four to twelve.
Speaker 1: I mean he is. He's on a thirty five home
Speaker 1: run forty home run pace with a four hundred one
Speaker 1: base percenta to that is vintage Mike Trout. He's even
Speaker 1: stole five bases.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's not around ten pick or around twelve pick.
Speaker 2: Wherever he went this year, it was so late, it
Speaker 2: was sad. I remember I was talking about it.
Speaker 1: But I would hope this is a plea for me,
Speaker 1: and I'm hoping you would agree with this, that the
Speaker 1: Angels need to move them, and they just need to
Speaker 1: move the guy so he can at least get a
Speaker 1: chance to compete in a playoff game in a World series.
Speaker 1: And I mean, they're gonna have to eat a big
Speaker 1: part of his salary, but maybe they get a couple
Speaker 1: of pieces back. They're not going anywhere the way they're going,
Speaker 1: and Mike Trout, I think they just need to move them.
Speaker 2: They've had enough bulblehead nights from Mike Trope and that's
Speaker 2: the only thing he has left other than staying healthy
Speaker 2: and you know up numbers. That's I agree with you.
Speaker 2: There's nothing happening in angel Land for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, a perfect destination for him would be the
Speaker 2: White Sox.
Speaker 1: That would be very interesting.
Speaker 2: I don't yeah, Trout and Murricami, that'd be fun.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun.
Speaker 2: It would be fun for the white Sox fans who
Speaker 2: are who have lots of reason to enjoy what's happening
Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, I would hope they move them. Would
Speaker 2: I bet on it? No, Because again, it'll get into
Speaker 2: money and somebody's gonna have to somebody's gonna have to
Speaker 2: eat a whole chunk of it. Right.
Speaker 1: Look, I've talked to enough front offices and a lot
Speaker 1: on the business side as well, and I know there
Speaker 1: is a given pool. The marketing department is on the
Speaker 1: phone to the front office going whatever you do, do
Speaker 1: not trade Mike Trout. He because he brings in this
Speaker 1: amount of money. And I mean, they've got it all
Speaker 1: for sure, and it's but in the end, it is
Speaker 1: about winning games. And yeah, everybody loves Mike Trout and
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and they don't want to lose them. But
Speaker 1: what they really want is a winning team. And if
Speaker 1: you can get you can get some salary relief, and
Speaker 1: you can get some young players in there. That Mike
Speaker 1: Trout is over, he's passed his prime. They can get
Speaker 1: some guys that are twenty two years old to have
Speaker 1: a chance to be sixty percent of Mike trout and
Speaker 1: start to fill some holes and then three or four
Speaker 1: years you're a better team. I think you got to
Speaker 1: do that.
Speaker 4: And yeah, you're gonna lose some bibblehead nights and you're
Speaker 4: gonna lose a little money along the way.
Speaker 1: But the long term is you want a winning franchise
Speaker 1: because that's what gets fans to the stadium.
Speaker 2: Well, and let's let's face it. All you have to
Speaker 2: do is look back over the past two three years
Speaker 2: and Mike Trot has endured a slew of injuries, He's
Speaker 2: missed a pile of time. How many opportunities are you
Speaker 2: going to get to move Mike Trot? That's right, when
Speaker 2: he has when he has fourteen home runs at the
Speaker 2: end of May with a four twelve OVP, you might
Speaker 2: not yet another opportunity that is as good as the
Speaker 2: current one is.
Speaker 1: Rich that's right, people, I bet you I haven't taken
Speaker 1: a look at this. Maybe one of our listeners to
Speaker 1: take a look at what the White Sox average attendance
Speaker 1: is doing. I bet its way up because they're winning games.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, they're winning games. Yeah they They brought
Speaker 2: Nasheeda up this week and the place was just rocking Okay,
Speaker 2: I didn't even put him in the Waiver Wire because
Speaker 2: I like the story, but I'm not recommending anybody by
Speaker 2: it for fantasy purposes. Yeah, hey, it's a great story.
Speaker 2: But again, the fans just went wild when they brought
Speaker 2: him up, and he's got so much enthusiastic they shot
Speaker 2: him in the Jurassic Room, pounding back a couple of beers, like, hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: so it's exciting right now.
Speaker 1: I almost did a daily Notes on him as well,
Speaker 1: but I decided, I mean, let's let's do a couple
Speaker 1: of waiwhear be where we break for another comer from
Speaker 1: a commercial break here. I'm really proud of you for
Speaker 1: putting ed Edwin Arroyo. Been talking about him a lot
Speaker 1: on the Patreon site, and he's, as you say, he's
Speaker 1: off to a great start. He's very young though, he
Speaker 1: just turned twenty two. So but I mean, particularly if
Speaker 1: Elie de la Cruz is really hurt, you might be
Speaker 1: prophetic here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think it's gonna happen sooner than later.
Speaker 2: He's playing too well, they'll find it. And and they've
Speaker 2: also been getting him some reps in at third base. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's all set up and if de la Cruz
Speaker 2: is hurt, then we don't have to worry about the
Speaker 2: reps at third base for now, do we. Uh? I
Speaker 2: just again, I know it's hard to believe, but occasionally
Speaker 2: I do. Listen. Yeah, I mean, well, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: I know you've been big on him for a long time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's he's yeah, he's done. The Boston
Speaker 1: Ress just scored six, six earns off of somebody. Let's
Speaker 1: see who did the damage playing the Guardians Guardians Tanner Biby,
Speaker 1: Okay it was it was pitching, okay, and let's see.
Speaker 1: Let's see so oh no, so he didn't Yeah, he
Speaker 1: only gave six. He pitched the quality start three and
Speaker 1: run six inning spitch. It was Alderman and then screwed
Speaker 1: him over.
Speaker 2: So okay, well has done that before.
Speaker 1: Reference all right, So anything else to say about Evan
Speaker 1: barroial No.
Speaker 2: You got power, you got speed, you got out the
Speaker 2: handle of that, and yeah, the Reds have been sort
Speaker 2: of floundering lately, which is understandable considering their bullpend mess.
Speaker 2: But they need a spark and I think he could
Speaker 2: give him that spark. Hopefully it doesn't come at the
Speaker 2: cost of Bellie de la Cruz spending time on the
Speaker 2: I L.
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say boring old JP Crawford.
Speaker 1: Is that fair?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, he's JP Crawford, except this year he's hitting
Speaker 2: for power. He's number three on the home run list
Speaker 2: for the Mariners, which explains part of the Mariners problem.
Speaker 2: By the way, Wow, well yeah, when JP Crawford's you
Speaker 2: number three guy with nine homers, yeah, there's yeah, it
Speaker 2: identifies a need. Yeah, he's playing well. He's up to
Speaker 2: nine home runs. Good set a career high this series.
Speaker 2: Well on pace for it another one as I put
Speaker 2: it ride the hot streak well at last special Okay,
Speaker 2: run score could be higher, but nobody's hitting worth a
Speaker 2: leg behind him except for Luke Raley. Yeah, he's having
Speaker 2: a good year. And if you have a middle infield
Speaker 2: need give him a look.
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at his data. He is hitting the
Speaker 1: ball a little harder, eighty eight point two up from
Speaker 1: eighty seven point two, and it has slowly risen over
Speaker 1: the last few years that he's you've got enough for
Speaker 1: fifteen home run pop his it's weird. He's hitting the
Speaker 1: ball harder, He's not striking out as much, but he's
Speaker 1: got a terrible babbit because he's only hitting two nineteen.
Speaker 1: If we take a look at his babbit, it's got
Speaker 1: to be really low. Two twenty six babbit. Tim, there's
Speaker 1: upside of it. There's upside with this guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and again, how much are you going to spend
Speaker 2: on JP Crawford tonight or Gauge Jump. You're spend five
Speaker 2: bucks on one, you'll spend ten times at plus on
Speaker 2: the other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's fair, that's fair. But I mean, if if
Speaker 1: you don't need a short stop, you don't need a shortstop.
Speaker 1: Everybody needs church. Yeah that's part of the problem.
Speaker 2: Mm. Yeah, I agree with you. But for a relatively
Speaker 2: nominal f you're getting yourself a I think a pretty
Speaker 2: good player.
Speaker 1: Expected batting average is two fifty one. I think times
Speaker 1: onto something. There's no speed left, but it could be
Speaker 1: fifteen home runs with a guy that can hit a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, score runs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a middle endfielder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: Uh. I was actually surprised that Tatsui am I only
Speaker 1: roster to forty four percent of CBS leagues. I mean,
Speaker 1: people have they run away from him, mister McLeod.
Speaker 2: Oh no, they haven't run they've taken They've taken one
Speaker 2: of Musk's rocket ships and blasted off to get away
Speaker 2: from him. Yeah, roster, But what do you do with
Speaker 2: a pitcher's struggle to begin his career and he goes
Speaker 2: out and causes a no hitter?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I put you remember then the four years before arriving
Speaker 2: in Houston, his worst year A was two point four
Speaker 2: or five. I think the talent's there. I think patient's required.
Speaker 2: He pitched okay today. If he happens to be if
Speaker 2: you happen to be in a league where he's dropped,
Speaker 2: would I spend fifty percent of my fab on him? No,
Speaker 2: but I would bid on him. Pitching is tough, and
Speaker 2: I know two stars arts and the phrase turn a corner. Yeah,
Speaker 2: take what you want of that. But he's looking a
Speaker 2: lot better, and as the number five starter, I think
Speaker 2: he's worthy of a ross response right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My concern would be, and I'm sure this is
Speaker 1: your concern, if you're going to walk a lot of
Speaker 1: guys and you're pitching in in Japan, you might be
Speaker 1: able to get away with it. It's got pretty good stuff, yep,
Speaker 1: which he does. It's hard to get away with that.
Speaker 1: In major league baseball, you get punished and.
Speaker 2: Gender, Yeah you do. And one of the things that
Speaker 2: concerned me, and I mentioned it in the off season
Speaker 2: and I'll reiterate it right now, is that last year
Speaker 2: we saw a huge change in the walk rate for Amaya. Okay,
Speaker 2: we're talking huge, like about a fifty percent improvement. Okay.
Speaker 2: He cut the walks down last year in a big way.
Speaker 2: And one of my concerns when looking at him was
Speaker 2: is this real or do we see regression in his
Speaker 2: first year in major league baseball at the levels he
Speaker 2: demonstrated prior to last year. And I think it was
Speaker 2: a legitimate concern and it's coming to the floor. He
Speaker 2: is walking. His walk rate last year was very very low,
Speaker 2: and it looks more like that was a one off
Speaker 2: as compared to his career. Model Rich, I.
Speaker 1: Think we all remember you saying that. We appreciate you
Speaker 1: saying that, but in all due respect, you know, I
Speaker 1: love you like a brother. That was very very fine print.
Speaker 1: I mean you were all then with fine print. You
Speaker 1: guys need a magnifying glass will say it was fine
Speaker 1: print there, mister mcclown, you did say it. Yes, that
Speaker 1: was eight minutes of a love vessel of mine. And
Speaker 1: it's like what they am worried about?
Speaker 2: You know? Is that.
Speaker 3: I said, and I said.
Speaker 2: Whis voice very quietly.
Speaker 1: We were all in love with the guy, So hopeline
Speaker 1: and sinkred him too funny a quick break and come
Speaker 1: back and get some more.
Speaker 3: Names, get composed him.
Speaker 1: I just I knew it was gonna it was a
Speaker 1: win win from rich Wilson.
Speaker 4: It was if he was going to pitch well, I
Speaker 4: was going to do well where I drafted him, and
Speaker 4: I was going to be thrilled.
Speaker 1: If he was going to pitch poorly, we can make
Speaker 1: fun of him.
Speaker 2: I mean it was it was win win, well, yeah
Speaker 2: you got, you got a full years worth of entertainment.
Speaker 2: It sucks, man, I mean, if.
Speaker 1: We've all done it, you you fall, You basically wind
Speaker 1: up a player and then he just bombs and it's
Speaker 1: just like you just have to wear it. You have
Speaker 1: to wear it, and it's nothing else you can do.
Speaker 2: The crow put it in the frying pat adds eleven
Speaker 2: and exactly eat away.
Speaker 1: Exactly here could be my crow coming up in that case.
Speaker 2: Jump. Yeah. I got stuck with the word okay because
Speaker 2: we discussed it on Yeah, I think it's on Saturday,
Speaker 2: and yeah he was okay, so I sort of overdid it.
Speaker 2: You know, he pitched okay, Okay, might have to be
Speaker 2: good enough when half your game is there in the
Speaker 2: Sacramento band box. But kept the ball in the yard.
Speaker 2: We saw the strikeo potential, and I'm thinking expect more.
Speaker 1: Okay, he's got a great arm, he's got a Yes,
Speaker 1: he's got a great arm. Pitches in a horrible situation,
Speaker 1: horrible location in Sacramento, I mean, but and it's not
Speaker 1: a great matchup going even going into uh on Away Park.
Speaker 1: It's Chicago, though, I mean that's Shock has got a
Speaker 1: good team. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Mmmm. Yeah, I'm hoping that they can find a way
Speaker 2: somewhere to find find a bad or two that heats up.
Speaker 2: Nobody's going to take and replace those twenty home runs.
Speaker 2: And it's looking like what six weeks, four to six
Speaker 2: weeks for America. He's what I read, he's got.
Speaker 1: He's got to the Cobs, not the not the White Sox.
Speaker 2: Oh sorry yeah, yeah, sorry, sorry my bad. But but
Speaker 2: again the white the white the White Sox offense. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're they're going to need a miracle to survive his absence,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: Well, speaking of which the miracle might come in the
Speaker 1: form of Jacob Gonzales.
Speaker 2: Yes, you know, I was a bit more bullish on
Speaker 2: him and sort of came down to earth over the
Speaker 2: past twenty four hours after we talked yesterday. Yeah, fifteen
Speaker 2: of those eighteen at home. Yeah. So basically what I've
Speaker 2: done is I love the power and the power potential,
Speaker 2: but at the same point in time, I think it's
Speaker 2: important that we don't forget where a good chunk of
Speaker 2: that pop came from. Uh it was Charlotte. Uh. I
Speaker 2: think he can still be a good asset. But if
Speaker 2: you're betting on equaling that same power potential, I think
Speaker 2: you're asking for too much. How was that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree with you. And look, I hope
Speaker 1: because all Jacob Wilson ALMOSSU is as similar play. If
Speaker 1: you remember, Jacob Wilson looked like the rookie of the
Speaker 1: year and so that Kurtz Fella came on the on
Speaker 1: the road.
Speaker 2: So it was well, yeah.
Speaker 1: Jacob Wilson got off to a really really strong start.
Speaker 1: Let's hope Jacob Gonzales could do it. But Jacob Wilson
Speaker 1: has become the guy that we thought he was going
Speaker 1: to come, light hitting, good middle endfielder. Jacob Gonzales, light hitting,
Speaker 1: good middle endfielder. I think that's I think they're kind
Speaker 1: of comparable players there. So yeah, yeah, Vaughan Grissom, is
Speaker 1: he on this list.
Speaker 2: He's on this list because Nolan Shan you will hit
Speaker 2: the il with ankle tendonitis and there is no timetable
Speaker 2: for a return at this point in time. But he
Speaker 2: had he had a six rb a home run, six
Speaker 2: RBA game on May twenty six. Okay, that gets your attention, Okay,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to see what he did over the
Speaker 2: next three four games before I brought brought him to
Speaker 2: the waiver wear and he's added five more RBIs in
Speaker 2: the four games since that big one. Now, he's likely
Speaker 2: a short term play, but if he keeps hitting the
Speaker 2: way he's hitting right now, it won't be a short
Speaker 2: term play. They'll find room in that lineup for that
Speaker 2: bad and right now he's hot, so he qualifies at first, second, third,
Speaker 2: the middle corner. There's a lot of different ways you
Speaker 2: can use von Grissom, but until we get some sort
Speaker 2: of a timetable from annual he's going to be playing
Speaker 2: on a regular basis and he's hot.
Speaker 1: You could have put a gun to my head and
Speaker 1: said what team does Vaughan Grissom play on it? And
Speaker 1: I could not have told you. I mean, I've completely
Speaker 1: lost track of that guy after you know, he's he's
Speaker 1: been bouncing around with the Rays and all over the
Speaker 1: place and Braves, I believe Braves. That came up as
Speaker 1: a brave and yeah, it's just it and he winds up. Okay,
Speaker 1: let me, he just got me. It looks like he's
Speaker 1: going to get a shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and hey, with opportunity, one never knows.
Speaker 1: Do they Eric Lower with the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that sort of got ugly. You know. Lower
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three had a great year with the
Speaker 2: Brewers three sixty nine year, I basically straight going in
Speaker 2: any hundred. Yeah. In twenty last year he was key
Speaker 2: part of the Jays rotation. Okay, they didn't go too
Speaker 2: well with year. He wasn't happy the Jays based on
Speaker 2: his performance, weren't happy. Be the Jay's moved on and
Speaker 2: normally I wouldn't have looked at recommending Eric Lower.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised you did, But tell me why why did
Speaker 1: you recommend him?
Speaker 2: Well, the Dodgers scooped him up for cash, something they
Speaker 2: have lying around and coach coaches. I like that one.
Speaker 2: Your AI assistant full marks there in his first start,
Speaker 2: in his first start with the Dodgers, six innings of
Speaker 2: one run, ball and the w You can never have
Speaker 2: enough pitching. And then the Dodgers, no doubt, as good
Speaker 2: as anybody else. A small bid just makes sense to me.
Speaker 2: We've seen success in the past. The Dodgers have got
Speaker 2: him in that rotation for now, eventually to be replaced
Speaker 2: probably by River Rhyme. But he won that first game
Speaker 2: and he looked like the Eric lower we saw last year.
Speaker 2: Why can't he duplicate that? The Dodgers wouldn't d You
Speaker 2: are a smart organization, Okay. I if they would have
Speaker 2: traded him to Sacramento, you would never see him mantion
Speaker 2: of Eric as a Dodger. I think right now it's
Speaker 2: worth a look.
Speaker 1: I cannot disagree with your logic, Okay. The fact is
Speaker 1: he's not a very good pitcher. That's just fact.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's number five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he does throws the ball like, what is it,
Speaker 1: ninety miles an hour? Ninety miles an hour lefty.
Speaker 2: That's where the wind behind him.
Speaker 1: That's what it doesn't strike out. None of his pitches
Speaker 1: besides his cutter thirty one and everything else is not
Speaker 1: a swing and a miss. His slug on his four
Speaker 1: seam for six hundred, slug on his on his cutter
Speaker 1: is seven twenty two. I don't get it, man, I
Speaker 1: don't see anything here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except in his last start. Okay, he won. He's
Speaker 2: got a big offense behind him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: Obviously happy in La versus Toronto. Personal motivation. I just
Speaker 2: that it's pretty tough to walk away from any Dodger starter,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 1: I totally agree. But man, they've got it. Yeah, took
Speaker 1: them and they got River Ryan sitting in there. River
Speaker 1: Ryan can't with his ninety nine on our fastball, can't
Speaker 1: come in and pitch better than Eric Lauer. That's that's
Speaker 1: what I say.
Speaker 2: Apparently that's what the Dodgers believe right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could be again talking my book, so I apologize,
Speaker 1: but I think it's River Ryan, and I got River
Speaker 1: Ryan everywhere. So talking talking your book is when you
Speaker 1: come and basically you've got something that you're trying to
Speaker 1: promote and pimp out so that other people want him
Speaker 1: and you could trade it to him. I noticed what
Speaker 1: it sounds like. But I just think River is the
Speaker 1: better choice here as opposed to Eric Lawer. But maybe
Speaker 1: they run him out there till he becomes Eric Lawer again,
Speaker 1: and then that's when they bring up River Ryan. I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 2: And I've got River Ryan mentioned totally. Yeah. I said
Speaker 2: he's shoving it. Okay, he's allowed wonder and run for
Speaker 2: the strike up brainning in fifteen innings, pitch three starts.
Speaker 2: He's now we've got his work holder up to six innings.
Speaker 2: I spend a penny now or pay the piper later.
Speaker 2: He will get the call, and I'm convinced of that
Speaker 2: the River Ryan will get the call. But I think
Speaker 2: for now they're going to roll lower out there and
Speaker 2: get as much out of that arm as they possibly can.
Speaker 1: You take a look at the Dodgers starting rotation.
Speaker 4: Timmy may we for a moment we may Yamamoto great, yeah, great,
Speaker 4: ace em it she hand could be good. Definitely a
Speaker 4: startuple guy number three four guy now and then.
Speaker 1: It's law anywhere power Robleski and Sasaki. That's your Yeah,
Speaker 1: three through six in a six mare rotation that you
Speaker 1: have to do because of Shani. That's not pretty good. No, Tyler.
Speaker 2: Rabloski's up and down. He'll pitch a jam and then
Speaker 2: in his next outing he'll get absolutely clawber. No, he's
Speaker 2: not striking, but you know who has. And I've gotta
Speaker 2: I've got to admit I'm using the word surprisingly here.
Speaker 2: Pitch well in his past five starts. This is Zaki,
Speaker 2: I know. Yeah, it's the past three starts against Philly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: against Philly, Milwaukee and the Angels, he's allowed four and
Speaker 2: runs and the UH one two and zero one two
Speaker 2: one two before that. So all of a sudden, the walks,
Speaker 2: after a horrible sort of walks, have come down. Two
Speaker 2: of his past three outings, he's got w's and he's
Speaker 2: struck out seven and eight in those two games. So
Speaker 2: Sazaki is pitching a lot better. I yeah, you look
Speaker 2: at the rotation that there are, there are question marks,
Speaker 2: but still it's a pretty good rotation. And they still
Speaker 2: have River Ryan sitting there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting with Sasaki. If I could just for
Speaker 1: a moment, his eras for fifty nine has expected eras
Speaker 1: for fifty five, so he is pitching to that era,
Speaker 1: which is good news in this case because if you believe,
Speaker 1: and again remember, advanced statistics, expect expected advance statistics are
Speaker 1: all looking on the previous stuff you've done. It's not projecting. Okay,
Speaker 1: the last three starts we've seen better control. If you
Speaker 1: believe that control has gotten better and you start to
Speaker 1: see that your income down, that expected array is going
Speaker 1: to come down, rut with it, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden he could be sitting at a three seventy
Speaker 1: five her expected array matching up, and you're going to go, wow,
Speaker 1: that's a much different player. So I think it is
Speaker 1: about the control here. Nothing wrong with the stuff.
Speaker 2: No, again, the velocity isn't what it once was.
Speaker 1: Hours hard to hit though, Yeah, yeah it is.
Speaker 2: But he's only you know, he's only twenty four years old.
Speaker 1: I know. Look at this slider with a forty two
Speaker 1: percent rate split finger with a thirty three percent rate
Speaker 1: forkball to thirty two. That's nasty stuff.
Speaker 2: Yes it is. Let's hope of moving forward he can
Speaker 2: sustain the results of the past four or five starts. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if it, then that makes the Dodgers even more of
Speaker 2: a powerhouse, doesn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because it doesn't sound like they're going to get
Speaker 1: Blake snow back anytime soon, does it.
Speaker 2: No, And they're not getting Yeah, they're not getting snelled back.
Speaker 2: I don't think till probably next year. And glasnow is
Speaker 2: day to day forever, right, yeah, pretty much. Yeah, so yeah,
Speaker 2: they can't.
Speaker 1: I think there's room for mister River Ryan and and
Speaker 1: they're probably hoping that that Eric lower can whatever he
Speaker 1: can give them is probably is good. So yep, which
Speaker 1: is why they're good. This is why they're going to
Speaker 1: have Trek Scubale, Tim, they will have Terrek Scuball in
Speaker 1: this rotation.
Speaker 2: Well, the Detroit's Detroit's not going anywhere, no, okay. Their
Speaker 2: bullpen is in total shambles, and we can discuss that
Speaker 2: a little bit later. But runs, yeah, they're not scoring runs. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they don't enough starting pitching, and the bullpen's terrible. Other
Speaker 2: than that, the deed is great.
Speaker 1: They got a great walk up music for all their players.
Speaker 1: That sounds great.
Speaker 2: You catch that behind a forty.
Speaker 1: He sounds great. It's the tumbles behind the anyway, it's
Speaker 1: a good call out, Sasaki And I'm glad you brought
Speaker 1: that up because I've got him on a couple three leagues,
Speaker 1: and I've been starting him more based on his last
Speaker 1: uh you know, his his last production that he's done,
Speaker 1: and it's been against decent teams like the Phillies, and
Speaker 1: he's pitched better. So maybe we're finally starting him. If
Speaker 1: he can control those walks, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely a positive sign.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Tim Is, I'm obviously a little uh
Speaker 1: less bullish on Eric Lauer as Tim Is, but Tim's
Speaker 1: a better player than me. So I'll let you guys
Speaker 1: decide what you want to do there, Chase me and Trough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nobody's chasing medros You know what, He's tied for
Speaker 2: thirty second with thirty five run scored, handful of homers.
Speaker 2: This strong betting average OBE skills twenty nine percent just
Speaker 2: seems a little light if you. If you're looking for
Speaker 2: a middle infielder, I give him a look. Rich.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. When I was writing about Justin Gonzales,
Speaker 1: I thought he might be an interesting upgrade from Chase Medroff.
Speaker 1: But chas it's been, Chase Medroff has been very good.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, and I think at twenty nine percent,
Speaker 2: I think we should be showing him a little bit
Speaker 2: more love. Jake McCarthy, Yeah, nps over the past week,
Speaker 2: hitting near the top of the order, speed run scored small, big,
Speaker 2: get it done.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at the Rockies. We haven't we
Speaker 1: haven't busted on them in a while. Can we do that?
Speaker 2: Easy? Easy, easy foddery?
Speaker 5: Yeah, going wrong there.
Speaker 1: I mean it's just like, I mean, the guys just
Speaker 1: come up and they don't play well. I just I've
Speaker 1: never quite understood them. We go to roster resource. I
Speaker 1: don't even know who they're starting lineups anymore. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Rockies here we go, ye.
Speaker 2: Batting lead office Jake McCarthy, Yeah, correct.
Speaker 1: I mean this is not a first division regular, right.
Speaker 1: This is not a guy that the Dodgers are going
Speaker 1: to put on in the outfield is but he's getting
Speaker 1: some playing time. Tyler Friedman.
Speaker 2: If the if the Dodgers are offered McCarthy for cash,
Speaker 2: they're responsible. How much are you paying us?
Speaker 1: Exactly? Tyler Freeman's kicked around with the Guardians, and now
Speaker 1: is your number two hitter, your best hitter on supposedly
Speaker 1: on the Colorado Don't think so? T J Rumfield. Okay,
Speaker 1: Hunter Goodman's having a decent season. Trey Johnson, Okay, not
Speaker 1: very good. Willie Castro okay. Zecho Tover is having a
Speaker 1: terrible season at least the last sight looked Sterling Thompson.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he's still kicking in there, but he is
Speaker 1: an Edgeward. True, that's a terrible line up, Tim a
Speaker 1: terrible I mean, Brit Doyle. He's back in the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: It's a it's a five hundred team at Triple A.
Speaker 1: It's that doesn't include their starting rotation.
Speaker 2: But yeah, why why would why would we let's go
Speaker 2: biling on? Isn't it fifteen yards? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And how's Charlie Condon doing. I haven't written about him
Speaker 1: in a long time, which is probably not good. He hasn't.
Speaker 1: Let's see, he's hitting two fifty seven with seven home runs.
Speaker 2: No, no, Well, average ext velocity is ninety miles an hour.
Speaker 1: There's no leverage still, it's like eleven degrees of leverage.
Speaker 1: Come on, Charlie had some had some yoke to it. Man,
Speaker 1: let's let's.
Speaker 2: Get it out. Yeah exactly? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is good enough?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, No, It's it's tough in Colorado, it really is.
Speaker 1: We talked about we talked about Curtis Mead earlier. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: that guy's been really good, I mean really good lately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has you know four we're stand RBI's ten
Speaker 2: ninety nine ops over the past two weeks. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: happy for Curtis Mead and I hope he continues at
Speaker 2: that pace. And again you got middle and corner infielder's
Speaker 2: corner infield positions locked up at twenty five percent. Roster
Speaker 2: definitely worth worth a look to.
Speaker 1: Me, Gonna take a break, come back, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to give you another name. Okay, who does having a
Speaker 1: really nice season? Your Handy Morales, Handy Morales, third basement,
Speaker 1: first baseman with your Washington Nationals.
Speaker 2: Okay, the guy that Curtis me stole his job.
Speaker 1: That guy, well, he hasn't been promoted yet, so he
Speaker 1: hasn't a chance.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 1: But I just hitting three nine for twenty five on
Speaker 1: base percentage six or two slug with twelve home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty four strike I mean it's a little bit strikes,
Speaker 1: striking out a little bit too much, but that's that's
Speaker 1: not bad.
Speaker 2: No, So what you're saying is we will not see
Speaker 2: Brady Hoset ever in Washington.
Speaker 1: That's I don't think I wrote a detailed analysis on
Speaker 1: brady House. Yeah, and I've always been a bit of
Speaker 1: a Brady House apologist. I thought he could be a
Speaker 1: major leaguer.
Speaker 4: I'm not twenty home runs, I think. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 4: so sure. I mean, he might be able at twenty
Speaker 4: home runs, but there's really nothing else there at all.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's going to hit very well. There's
Speaker 4: no speed, he's not very athletic. He's an average defender.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think Morales steps in front of Brady House,
Speaker 4: and if somebody gets hurt there at first or third,
Speaker 4: you could see Johandi Morales coming up.
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, and you start looking at it. If if
Speaker 2: Curtis Mead stays off the il and keeps itting the
Speaker 2: way he has, yeah, it's goldn't be tough to take
Speaker 2: him out of the line for anybody, right.
Speaker 1: I totally agree. But who's playing first.
Speaker 2: Base in Washington? Good question? Oh that's uh Nate? Is
Speaker 2: that Nate?
Speaker 1: No, that's Lewis Garcia Jr.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Garcia Junior.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've also got a chance to what I mean,
Speaker 1: James WIT's playing the alphabet he is doing a lot
Speaker 1: of dagent so.
Speaker 2: But Garcia, you can go to the second base and
Speaker 2: they can put Eunias on the bench as a bench runner,
Speaker 2: which is what he is.
Speaker 1: That's right. So I think there's a chance. I've written
Speaker 1: about Johandi Morales a lot and just been trying to
Speaker 1: channel might enter Tim McCleod to trying to figure out
Speaker 1: how we could get him up, because again, fourteen home
Speaker 1: runs or twelve and runs, whatever it is in a
Speaker 1: third and season, I think guy's on pace for thirty
Speaker 1: hour runs with again a few too many strikeouts, but
Speaker 1: good plate control and ninety mile on ares velocity. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff sitting there that says, hey give
Speaker 1: me a shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the Nats have a pretty fair offense build
Speaker 2: around Wood and C. J. Abrams, you know, young Tellen
Speaker 2: and Cruise. They can they can have they can have
Speaker 2: a pretty sweet offense there in a year or two.
Speaker 1: If Dylan Cruz could ever could ever do anything, they
Speaker 1: might actually have something. And I have I've actually surprisingly
Speaker 1: written about a lot of Angels prospects, which is really
Speaker 1: weird this season, but I have written about more Washington
Speaker 1: Nationals prospects then I have anybody else, and it's it's
Speaker 1: so they are having some real breakout seasons, Devin Fitzgerald
Speaker 1: and Hya probably here in the next few weeks. And
Speaker 1: that guy just is like the real deal. So Dylan
Speaker 1: Cruz better hits. So there's guys gonna be chomping at him,
Speaker 1: gonna pass it right on the depth chart.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I was gonna say, he best be be
Speaker 2: looking over his shoulder.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's kind of the Jordan Lawler thing.
Speaker 1: You know. Look, it's these young kids. They keep getting better,
Speaker 1: and if you can't stay healthy, you can't perform, somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna take your job. And again, the Nationals have some
Speaker 1: really interesting guys. Fever King's playing very well.
Speaker 2: It's not what Tassle doing this year at Triple A.
Speaker 2: Have you followed him at all?
Speaker 1: No clue?
Speaker 2: Okay, I don't either.
Speaker 5: I saw that.
Speaker 2: I just yeah, I just saw the name there and
Speaker 2: I'd ask.
Speaker 1: He's he's Wan Grissom, No, like, what team is he on?
Speaker 1: Not even sure? I guess he's so with the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 1: I mean, at some point you just just give up
Speaker 1: on guys. Let's see Robert Hassel the third again. I
Speaker 1: think he started screwing up once he put the third
Speaker 1: on there. That's just me. He's got one arm run,
Speaker 1: five stolen basis hitting two twenty six.
Speaker 2: That's not going to see him to the bigs.
Speaker 1: Nope, that's not good. Let's see what his ex velocity
Speaker 1: is here. Ex velocity is eighty nine point four. There's
Speaker 1: no leverage on the swing, dude. These guys man, they
Speaker 1: kind of started. They got to start putting damage to
Speaker 1: their swing. They got to start adding some leverage, and
Speaker 1: you know, somewhat they strike out too much. Who cares
Speaker 1: get to the major league?
Speaker 2: Yeah, two to three years from now, I'll be writing
Speaker 2: about Robert Hassel when he returns from career or Japan.
Speaker 2: How's that?
Speaker 1: I know you will. Indeed, he'll be a must pickup
Speaker 1: and I must be pressing zero point zero going we
Speaker 1: all remember Robert.
Speaker 2: Hass Yeah, yeah, he's directly related to Yeah Amy exactly. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Complete, We're completely off the rails, I know, O waiver
Speaker 1: war anymorrow? So how about Spencer Miles?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think we already talked about Yeah, yeah, interesting,
Speaker 2: I'll spend a couple of bucks tonight.
Speaker 1: I actually think that's not a bad idea. I kind
Speaker 1: of agree with you there, mister Jack Peterson.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, you know, I honestly thought he was
Speaker 2: the end of the road. Okay, I but then five yeah,
Speaker 2: five homers in an eight seventy vice slug in the
Speaker 2: past week. Yeah, go figure. But you can't leave him
Speaker 2: sitting out there at four percent roster if you need power,
Speaker 2: can you got to roll the dice on him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he is stuck on your ut slot. But
Speaker 1: he Yeah, I mean I thought he was done too,
Speaker 1: So good for Jack Peterson, I agreed. Edgar Quaro, tell us,
Speaker 1: why what about Edgar Quaro? Is Kyle to you playing yet?
Speaker 2: No, No, he's not. I think he's still rehabbing the
Speaker 2: rehab he has set back, and yeah, I think this
Speaker 2: is second goal round. But this one sort of caught
Speaker 2: me off guard because I picked him up a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago just to have just to have a
Speaker 2: catcher with the oh Drake Baldwin, you know, just to
Speaker 2: fill a slot basically. And the more I've looked into
Speaker 2: him over the past three four weeks, he's really playing
Speaker 2: good baseball right now. On May seventh, he had two homers,
Speaker 2: seven RBIs and a five ninety nine OBS as of
Speaker 2: yesterday eight homers, eighteen RBIs and then eight h one obs.
Speaker 2: I think right now he's rostered to the two to
Speaker 2: four percent in two catcher formats. He's got to be
Speaker 2: better than a lot of the number two sitting out there,
Speaker 2: and I think he's gone from an afterthought to very
Speaker 2: relevant in about the past three weeks. I say, go
Speaker 2: get him.
Speaker 1: River Ryan is about to become a twenty eight year
Speaker 1: old rookie. I mean they it was a late bloomer,
Speaker 1: then he got hurt, and now he's coming back from
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. It is what it is. This guy's
Speaker 1: got a great arm. I think he's going to be
Speaker 1: a very very good picture. I got stars all around this.
Speaker 1: If he's available on your waiver war, you have to
Speaker 1: pick up river Ryane.
Speaker 2: You just have to totally agreed. Yeah, he will be
Speaker 2: one of my targets this week in deeper fifteen teen leagues.
Speaker 2: If he's sitting out there, I'm I'm just going to
Speaker 2: spend a few bucks. Hopefully land them will wait out
Speaker 2: the Eric Glower thing and hopefully reap some rewards in
Speaker 2: the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have David Sandler, though all things considered.
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I mean that that's my number one target.
Speaker 1: That's my target. The data man really look good on
Speaker 1: this guy. And I mean, I mean we talked about
Speaker 1: it on Friday. But Tim, for those that didn't catch
Speaker 1: the Friday Show, why is David Sandlin on this on
Speaker 1: this list?
Speaker 2: Because he's good, real good.
Speaker 1: I shoved it again, start absolutely shoved it.
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, no walks, one hit ball, six innings, ninety
Speaker 2: seven miles an hour with the heater, and as your
Speaker 2: bonus for next week, he's going up against the Twins again. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's yeah, there's just a lot to light there, you know.
Speaker 2: And basically the White Sox got him simply for for cash.
Speaker 2: They brought back Jordan Hicks' contract, right and and oh
Speaker 2: I think that's how the acquire was. Gotta remember, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it was. Jordan Hicks had a couple of
Speaker 2: forty four million old or whatever. They took the contract
Speaker 2: a good junk of it. Then Sandland was the tossin. Well,
Speaker 2: obviously the White Sox saw something and good on them.
Speaker 1: Last guy's Ezekiel Tovar. He's the rocky Okay, he's had
Speaker 1: it all that season, but maybe he's coming around a
Speaker 1: little bit. He's only he's only rostered percent of the leagues.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and you know what, he still only twenty
Speaker 2: three years older, believe Yeah. Yeah. The past three weeks, yeh,
Speaker 2: three homers, ten RBIs in a two ninety average. That'll play.
Speaker 1: So the Yankees are really good, right, Yes they are.
Speaker 1: Ryan Weathers is off to a really great start. Will
Speaker 1: Warren's off to a really great start. Ryan Brothers got
Speaker 1: beat up and and Sacramento. Will Warren's getting beat up
Speaker 1: today in Sacramento. It's it's tough timmy to play to
Speaker 1: pitch in Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was gonna say, yeah, it's what's the what's
Speaker 2: the score today? Where are we sitting three?
Speaker 1: Three nothing? In the first inning, Warren gave up three
Speaker 1: nowhere and runs. But he gave up three runs. I
Speaker 1: mean still, I mean he's got beat around.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's that's okay. There was a reason
Speaker 2: for that side. Uh who handed it to him? Tred
Speaker 2: apparently with his third era of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good defender. I'm not sure what happened there.
Speaker 1: To me, I will say, let me ask you a question,
Speaker 1: because I personally thought this was a great waiver Wire.
Speaker 1: I think a lot of really interesting names on here.
Speaker 1: Did you find it difficult to come up with the names?
Speaker 1: Did it all kind of flow? Pretty obvious? Guys? What's
Speaker 1: your thinking on it?
Speaker 2: It was fun, It really was, because there's a little
Speaker 2: bit old in there, there's a little bit of new.
Speaker 2: There's some future specs like Yeah, unless you're really looking deep,
Speaker 2: you wouldn't realize that Vigor Borow is doing as well
Speaker 2: as he has. So I enjoyed finding that. Looking at
Speaker 2: Spencer Miles in his history and the whole nine yards fascinating.
Speaker 2: Curtis Mead finally showing some potential that we thought would
Speaker 2: be there, you know, Vond Grissom, like you said, you
Speaker 2: weren't sure where he was playing, you know, and all, yeah,
Speaker 2: all of a sudden over the past week, Bond Grissom
Speaker 2: my throws a no hitter. Okay, Yeah, there was a
Speaker 2: lot to like Arroyo, uh, you know for a future specta.
Speaker 2: I had fun this week, I really did. There were
Speaker 2: a lot of names that I think could really benefit
Speaker 2: fantasy squads that might Hey, they're not all going to hit,
Speaker 2: but there's some names here that I think will make
Speaker 2: teams better. And I know, they'll make my team better
Speaker 2: in a lot of cases. So I was. It was
Speaker 2: a fun week, It really was.
Speaker 4: I still kick it over that Tatsuya Maya is only
Speaker 4: owning forty four percent of leagues. He was probably rostered
Speaker 4: in one hundred percent of leagues to start the season.
Speaker 4: That's shocking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I again, when you start looking at redraft
Speaker 2: leagues and what we saw over the first seven weeks
Speaker 2: of the season, Hey, if you don't have yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, dynasty leagues. I'm certain that he's still rostered
Speaker 2: in dynasty leagues except the odd one where somebody just
Speaker 2: said I've had enough. But I don't think too many
Speaker 2: in dynasties have given up on them. But in redraft leagues, yeah, man,
Speaker 2: that's tough to love through. You know, you're in an
Speaker 2: NFBC format where you got no I L you've only
Speaker 2: got seven Yeah, yeah, you can't play around with that.
Speaker 1: So I'm not even sure I'm picking them up in
Speaker 1: an NFBC format. I mean, it's tough, man, He's he's
Speaker 1: been brutal, and but still it's still if you can
Speaker 1: anyway you can hold on to him, you gotta hold
Speaker 1: on to him. I but I mean, I get the
Speaker 1: realities of the situation. You know, no il slots and
Speaker 1: he's been bad, But picking up Kate Jump over Amaya,
Speaker 1: I don't think you can do that. I just don't
Speaker 1: think as long as much as I like Amaya, excuse me, Jump,
Speaker 1: I mean, Amaya's got the proven track record, it's a
Speaker 1: better environment to pitch in. YadA, YadA, YadA. I mean
Speaker 1: you gotta pick up a Maya over Jump. I think.
Speaker 2: I would ye, no, buy no, I'll take all my
Speaker 2: MVB bias. Jump concerns me of all the pictures on
Speaker 2: the board today's I had a waiver wire run last
Speaker 2: night and I didn't put a bit in on him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I get it. I mean it's it's hard.
Speaker 1: It is hard to disagree with the Sacramento logic. I
Speaker 1: just keep saying he's got a great arm and we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's still going to pitch ch half his
Speaker 1: games away from that ballpark, and you know there's gonna
Speaker 1: be some bad, crummy teams coming into It's a sacrament
Speaker 1: to as well, so you know, if you can start
Speaker 1: them two thirds of the time and maybe it works,
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yes, I'm open. Yeah, well yourself, you got a choice.
Speaker 2: You want Jump or you want Sandlin for the rest
Speaker 2: of the year.
Speaker 1: I think, I mean, I probably, I mean the logical
Speaker 1: conclusion to Sandlin, right, so he throws almost miles an
Speaker 1: hour the white side sort of role. I do worry
Speaker 1: about Mr. Comi being out. Is that going to hurt
Speaker 1: their their offense? But there seems to be something special
Speaker 1: going on in Chicago and that can really carry players
Speaker 1: for a period of time. And I mean it's hard
Speaker 1: to disagree with what's I mean. The data is the
Speaker 1: data with Sacramento. I mean, anyway you slice it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: ball jumps out, doesn't matter if your right handed hitter
Speaker 1: or left handed hit or going against a right handed picture.
Speaker 1: It just everything flies out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, it's like looking at you could have the
Speaker 2: best picture on the planet in Colorado, and what does
Speaker 2: that do? You know what I mean, you can't argue
Speaker 2: with what happens. It's it's the reality of the situation
Speaker 2: in the Sacramento it's a minor league park with the
Speaker 2: league boys hitting the ball a mile.
Speaker 1: I remember when it was years ago, I did an
Speaker 1: analysis home and away of just oh jeez, the picture
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame going to be a Hall of Fame
Speaker 1: left from the Dodgers Kershaw and okay, so I looked
Speaker 1: at every game he pitched over a course of a
Speaker 1: couple of years, and even the great Clayton Kershell back
Speaker 1: when he was a two something ear a. He did
Speaker 1: go to Colorado and have a four and a half
Speaker 1: five year a. This was the best pitcher in baseball.
Speaker 1: Like still give up four or five runs a game
Speaker 1: at Colorado.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know if I if I'm not, yeah,
Speaker 2: I believe I'm still right. But there has been one
Speaker 2: no hitter tossed in Colorado in all the years they've
Speaker 2: been in existence, and it was Hideo Nomo did.
Speaker 1: Of course, you've got that stuck, You've got that stat
Speaker 1: at the ready. It's a Japanese guy, of course. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's take a break. Come back the damn closer report.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna eliminate the segment at some point, may make
Speaker 1: it soon.
Speaker 2: I'm running out of the hair, eloda tail.
Speaker 1: That kind of hurt is no damn good. Daniel Lynch
Speaker 1: is a failed starter. I don't even know the hell
Speaker 1: Drew Anderson is. That's who we got on the list.
Speaker 2: Come on, Drew Anderson pitched lights out in Korea and
Speaker 2: Japan of course, Come on, lord, how could you forget
Speaker 2: those moments?
Speaker 1: You know what time is it in Japan? It's it's
Speaker 1: it's exactly the opposite. I mean, I'm asleep.
Speaker 2: Well, I checked my games from Japanese feeds because they're
Speaker 2: a day early, right, that's true. Yeah, I know the answers.
Speaker 1: Good Betty, Yeah, good Betty. Let's see Drew Anderson. I
Speaker 1: love that you can always tell when you go to
Speaker 1: fangraphs and they've got the symbols next to their name,
Speaker 1: you know that guy is pitched or played in Asia,
Speaker 1: because that's that's where they get it from. Let's see here,
Speaker 1: Drew Anderson. Yeah, thirty seven Indies pitch eleven, k's for
Speaker 1: nine four walks per nine, spected the era of two
Speaker 1: eighty eight on three sixty two ear a A he's pitched. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: he has ball rate.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think when you look at it, you know,
Speaker 2: the first thing that leaves out, at least to me,
Speaker 2: is Kyle Pinigan. Okay, he has a two three EARRA,
Speaker 2: but to go along with that two O three ear a,
Speaker 2: he also has a one fifty eight whip and four
Speaker 2: blown saves. I don't think that two O three e
Speaker 2: Arra is real. I think it's going to be a committee.
Speaker 2: But if I have to pick one of the two,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Drew Anderson.
Speaker 1: Ninety five on our fastball, really good looking change up,
Speaker 1: thirty fifth rate on the curveball.
Speaker 2: Yeah it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy's got pretty good stuff.
Speaker 2: It's not bad. No, and again I just four blown stage.
Speaker 2: I don't know. The Tigers will probably go within again,
Speaker 2: but I think they are.
Speaker 1: Going with again. I actually might Anderson, God help me,
Speaker 1: I might. I might put Drew. I might put some
Speaker 1: bids out for Drew Anderson.
Speaker 2: Well, in Dynasty leagues, you know he's going to be available,
Speaker 2: and again probably isn't.
Speaker 1: In Dynasty expected batting average guys are expected to hit
Speaker 1: against him one ninety one. Mm hm wow. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: Detra's gonna suck again, aren't You're gonna suck me in?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna spend all my Oh I'm not exactly what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. I'm sorry, I'm tired.
Speaker 2: I'm tired of I need zero point zero on some
Speaker 2: different players.
Speaker 1: Right, Okay, uh, Kyle Hurt look a great arm failed starter, right,
Speaker 1: I can't believe Tanner. Scottplow is one save for the
Speaker 1: Dodgers and he's gonna being a job share, But I
Speaker 1: guess anything as possible.
Speaker 2: Well, I don't. I don't think it's a job share
Speaker 2: right now. But Scott had a rough outing last night. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a long leash. The Dodgers turned
Speaker 2: to him for a save on the twenty seventh, and
Speaker 2: he got it. You know, Hurt right now is sporting
Speaker 2: a twenty one four strikeout to walk ratio in eighteen
Speaker 2: and he's he's pitching really, really well. Even if Scott
Speaker 2: owns a job until Diaz comes back, Hurt's going to
Speaker 2: get you some saves. There are going to be days
Speaker 2: when it's going to be a heavy right handed and
Speaker 2: they want to mix and match. They want to give
Speaker 2: Scott a day off. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like what
Speaker 2: Kyle Hurt's been doing. And if you're in a league
Speaker 2: that allows for twice weekly moves, he's a type of
Speaker 2: reliever I would want sheep that I could move in
Speaker 2: and out of my lineup to augment my starting pitching.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean he's got a good arm, that's for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. I uh so, I was kind of smirking
Speaker 1: and smiling at the write up. Uh So, one of
Speaker 1: my catchphrases, and so I trained, I've trained my AI
Speaker 1: engine to you know how to rate and you know
Speaker 1: what to say and so forth. But one of the things,
Speaker 1: if you read my narratives is keep an eye on
Speaker 1: this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I saw it on Kyle Hurt, and I'm going
Speaker 1: I don't think I ever heard Tim say something like that.
Speaker 1: Sounds like something I would write and my AI engine
Speaker 1: would throw in there, and sure enough it went back
Speaker 1: to the original. You did not say keep an eye
Speaker 1: on this one.
Speaker 2: So no, I didn't know. That's not an expression I use.
Speaker 1: You're right, right, So, but it's interesting. It's if I
Speaker 1: think about what you just said and Kyle Hurt, that
Speaker 1: would be something I'd want to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: this one like this, this could be something there. So
Speaker 1: I actually give kudos to the AI engine for putting
Speaker 1: that that throwaway line in there, which I think is
Speaker 1: pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. We've all got our pet pet phrases that we use. Okay,
Speaker 2: I have stage of the program. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we've all got our phrase phraseology. I'll call it that
Speaker 2: we use. And that's twenty years and I got a
Speaker 2: whole slew of mind what I have to do, and
Speaker 2: I didn't have time today. What I usually do is
Speaker 2: I go through and I reread to see how many
Speaker 2: of the same phrases I use on different people, and
Speaker 2: then try and mix it up so I don't say,
Speaker 2: you know, it's that part of the program or whatever,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, so that I don't have
Speaker 2: it in there, like.
Speaker 4: Don't need to do that anymore. The AI engine will
Speaker 4: fix that for us. We'll make sure just oh okay, yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean.
Speaker 1: It's you know, I can't even begin to tell you, Timmy.
Speaker 1: I mean I could sit there and say, He'll phrase
Speaker 1: something like I don't like the way you phrased it.
Speaker 1: He'll give me eight different alternatives. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: just just I want that one that sounds better. It
Speaker 1: just boom done.
Speaker 2: I can't think of eight options, okay, in less than
Speaker 2: twenty minutes. Rich, So yeah, that's that's it is just.
Speaker 1: An amazing He's that AI stuff is just an amazing
Speaker 1: tool for writers. I don't know how we survived before
Speaker 1: it came on. Daniel lanch is the final guy. Look
Speaker 1: I love I love Lucas Ersk, I have him in
Speaker 1: several leagues. But it's Timmy's right. It's been a horrible,
Speaker 1: horrible funk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's yeah, there's there's some issues there. We just
Speaker 2: gotched earlier. Whether or not they just yank him from
Speaker 2: the little they try and work through it. Daniel Lynch,
Speaker 2: I think is a guy you think of. Matt Stram
Speaker 2: is available and apparently they activated him off the IL today.
Speaker 2: I think I was reading somewhere, but Matt Stram has
Speaker 2: never worked in a closing capacity. I would go with
Speaker 2: Lynch over Stram. I really would.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they can't tell me. I can't stress. The
Speaker 1: Kansas City Royals are going to lose again today. They're
Speaker 1: going to be fifteen games under five hundred. Their season
Speaker 1: is slipping away, and it is a Monday, and there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of guys in the minor leagues that
Speaker 1: can come up and help them at the moment. They
Speaker 1: got to start doing that. It feels like somebody's gonna
Speaker 1: get fired here very soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's I think that's a very real possibility.
Speaker 2: And you know, you look at the j excuse me,
Speaker 2: you look at the Jays and whether or not it's
Speaker 2: a committee or not. I've got it as Barland being
Speaker 2: the ninth inning guy and he should be indefinitely. So
Speaker 2: I have called that that penn stable with Louis Barland
Speaker 2: closing a guy that's sort of Gomez in Minnesota intrigues me.
Speaker 2: Of the last three on this list, there is nobody
Speaker 2: that intrigues me. I mean absolutely nobody. I don't want
Speaker 2: to play around with the Reds, the Athletics, the Giants.
Speaker 2: I would rather look elsewhere to a number two three
Speaker 2: guy than look at the favorites on those teams, because
Speaker 2: they're just terrible blements, absolutely horrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, I love Bobby Wood Junior. I love the
Speaker 1: fact that Bobby Wood Junior solo seventeenth face today. Why
Speaker 1: is Bobby Wood Junior stealing a base when they're down
Speaker 1: six to nothing and the seventh inning, excuse me, the
Speaker 1: sixth inning, that's what he sold his base. They were
Speaker 1: down sixth to nothing, he sola base.
Speaker 2: Really Yeah, that to me, it makes absolutely no sense. No,
Speaker 2: there should be a there should be a stop sign up.
Speaker 2: Why take a chance on something that's just getting stupid happy?
Speaker 1: Yeah, man, that's a stupid that's stupid.
Speaker 2: I mean, they don't have enough offense to score six
Speaker 2: sex runs in a game where they gonna come back
Speaker 2: from being five to six down. And what are your odds?
Speaker 2: Infant isly small?
Speaker 1: Batting average two twenty eight, two oh nine, two oh seven,
Speaker 1: two thirty seven, two seventeen, two twenty seven, two oh nine,
Speaker 1: two fifty two if you take out Bobby wit Junior.
Speaker 1: That's the batting average of the Kansas City Worlds with
Speaker 1: the team they threw out there today. That's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not good, No, terrible, thy that is yep,
Speaker 2: it is definitely tim.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take our final break. I want to congratulate.
Speaker 1: I think this was a great Waiver Wire and Closer report.
Speaker 1: It was a great show. Let's wrap this puppy up
Speaker 1: when we get back.
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: That's when they went ten to one, seven games under
Speaker 1: five hundred. They're still hanging. Oh your your White Sox.
Speaker 1: Five games over five hundred as they come back late
Speaker 1: in the game. It was in the seventh inning and
Speaker 1: they scored two runs and they beat the Tigers two
Speaker 1: to one, five games over five hundred. McLeod, Oh my god, wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they laughed at me.
Speaker 1: I say, Coles Montgomery, this fifteenth home run, MM is
Speaker 1: exactly what we thought two thirty five going to hit
Speaker 1: thirty home runs. That's just a guy, that's who he is.
Speaker 2: Yep, exactly. Well, Hey, you know what. I love what's
Speaker 2: happening in Chicago on this socide. I really do. I
Speaker 2: I really feel bad for Murammie and the fact that
Speaker 2: they're going to miss him for the next while. But good.
Speaker 2: Good for the fans there, they're excited, they're coming out
Speaker 2: to the park. Good for the White Sox.
Speaker 1: It's the pitching. Tim Sean Burke has been good. I mean, no,
Speaker 1: Schultz hasn't been very good, but he's the most famous.
Speaker 1: Anthony k has been very good. The guy that we've
Speaker 1: been talking oh, the guy we talked about on Friday
Speaker 1: with eight wins. I mean, it's it's been a really
Speaker 1: really strong pitching rotation.
Speaker 2: David Davis Martin, Yeah, Davis Martin, Yes, Yeah. Nobody had
Speaker 2: him on the in draft and hold leagues. He's probably
Speaker 2: rostered to the tune of less than two percent.
Speaker 1: I would guess, so in draft and hold leagues, I mean,
Speaker 1: nobody was just going to grab this guy. So it's
Speaker 1: a rotation to Davis Martin, Eric Fetty, Anthony K, Sean
Speaker 1: Burke and now David Sandlin. I mean that's that, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a no name starting rotation. Nobody. I mean,
Speaker 1: Eric Fetty's somewhat famous. Anthony K coming back from from
Speaker 1: Korea is a career Japan. I mean, one of the
Speaker 1: Asian players. It's just crazy, Yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: But they're playing good ball or having fun. And up
Speaker 2: until the injury, Murakammy has been huge. He really has.
Speaker 2: If you want to target, you know you got you
Speaker 2: gotta look at the pitching and say, yeah, it's it's
Speaker 2: getting things done. But Murakami and it's unfortunate because White
Speaker 2: Sox only have him for two years. I believe they
Speaker 2: weren't all in on Murakami. They had the best offer
Speaker 2: and procured his services. But it's not like he's got
Speaker 2: a five year deal. I think it's only a two
Speaker 2: year contract. Now there's some serious cash in two years.
Speaker 1: Eh, he's gonna he's going to be a rich man. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't. I mean I mentioned it on Friday.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think he's Kyle Schwarmer, but he's
Speaker 1: sure as hell like playing like Kyle schwar And lastly, look,
Speaker 1: Kys Robert makes a lot of money, so he's gonna
Speaker 1: be he's going to cost the team a bundle.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and he's entering free agency at twenty seven.
Speaker 2: I think, yeah, that's a good That's a good age,
Speaker 2: isn't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean other than that, they they just don't
Speaker 1: have much offense. I mean it's really been Muracammi and
Speaker 1: everybody else. I mean, Coleson Montgomery can hit a lot
Speaker 1: of home runs, An Andrew beIN attendee is e chase
Speaker 1: meandrs he's been okay, Tristan Peters, Drew Romo's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know you who's been delivering and not
Speaker 2: in a huge way, but and that.
Speaker 1: She and yes, you're right, Yeah, he's been playing pretty
Speaker 1: good baseball.
Speaker 2: And Argus Argus has got some pretty stolid numbers.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's but if you take a look at that,
Speaker 1: I don't bring up spot track. I mean, but there
Speaker 1: is nobody making any money on this team.
Speaker 2: Nobody, no, they they would based on the salary floor
Speaker 2: posed to the players by the owners last week, the
Speaker 2: White Sox would probably have to quadruple their playroll payroll
Speaker 2: to get the minimum.
Speaker 1: It's it's been a remarkable season. It's just just amazing it.
Speaker 2: So it most certainly has. And again I thank you,
Speaker 2: thank you for the kind words on the waiver wire.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it's good stuff, good stuff, fun.
Speaker 1: Anything going on this week you want to share with
Speaker 1: our listeners or you know, before we get out of here.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just going to be trying to cobble together
Speaker 2: pitching staffs, tossing a few dars tonight on some potential saves,
Speaker 2: and just a quiet week following following the game, hanging
Speaker 2: out with all my good friends over on the disc
Speaker 2: card site, having a lot of fun there. Rich I
Speaker 2: really am great group, and hey, hey, if you're part
Speaker 2: of the program, come on over and visit. We have
Speaker 2: a lot of fun over there and share a lot
Speaker 2: of wise words. It's a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I went and saw a lot of baseball this week,
Speaker 1: three minor league games, and went out and saw Friday
Speaker 1: afternoon a tournament, a high school tournament, watching some players
Speaker 1: for a scout I was doing work for. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to take definitely no games on Monday, but I
Speaker 1: might even take Tuesday off just to cool my jets
Speaker 1: a little bit. I just feel like I'm a little
Speaker 1: burned out seeing a lot of players are all starting
Speaker 1: to blur together.
Speaker 2: Oh that's never good.
Speaker 1: It's never good. It's like, because you know, I try
Speaker 1: to take detailed notes as best I can, and then
Speaker 1: you read back through the notes ago you're trying to
Speaker 1: visually remember who the guy was, and I did I
Speaker 1: take video of this guy? Like I start to get
Speaker 1: everybody jumbled up, and that's that's not good for anything.
Speaker 2: No, no, man, you need you need to take some
Speaker 2: time to enjoy that retirement right.
Speaker 1: Supposed to be in retirement. So it doesn't feel that way.
Speaker 1: I'm just I just I'm just me. I'm doing something
Speaker 1: different that I love for a lot less money. That's
Speaker 1: that's what that's my retirement. I'm working as hard, if
Speaker 1: not harder, for about a tenth of what I used
Speaker 1: to make, and but I'm doing something I love. So
Speaker 1: that's that's what it is. I guess. So my teams
Speaker 1: all all tank.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I totally understand what you're saying. I went
Speaker 2: from having one good, solid job with an income to
Speaker 2: two part time jobs and advanced by my hobbies. So
Speaker 2: I'm probably working more now than when I.
Speaker 1: Was supposed to be working, right, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: but it's I would give it up for anything. I
Speaker 1: would just you know, I just love my little life.
Speaker 1: I've carved out here and it's great.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: We do a lot of fun stuff and then intermixed
Speaker 1: with going and watching. I get paid to go watch
Speaker 1: a baseball game. I think that's pretty dark cool.
Speaker 2: So that is hard to beat my brand.
Speaker 1: It's hard to beat. It is hard to beat Timmy
Speaker 1: with that. We will be back on Friday. I think
Speaker 1: it's the following week I will not be around, so
Speaker 1: we'll cancel. The following weekend. That's when I have to
Speaker 1: go to Des Moines for the for the wedding. Yes,
Speaker 1: unless I get out of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I did.
Speaker 1: Get refundable tickets, so I was trying to figure out,
Speaker 1: can I pull a handy between.
Speaker 2: Now and then. I'm willing to bet and give good
Speaker 2: odds that whenever you bowl that Laurie would not support it.
Speaker 2: You're going to that wedding. It's a done deal, right.
Speaker 1: So it's funny. I was. I was just looking at
Speaker 1: the flight arrangements, going okay, so what did I get
Speaker 1: myself into? Not only were the tickets ridiculously expensive. The
Speaker 1: flight leaves at six am. I'm like, oh, dear God,
Speaker 1: did I get I mean that means we're leaving for
Speaker 1: the airport at four fifteen. For that's I don't do
Speaker 1: well at that time of day, Tim, I do not
Speaker 1: do well.
Speaker 2: Sleep's overrated. Okay, I'm sure they'll give you a pillow
Speaker 2: on the plane, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, the trips sounding worse and worse. It's like, get
Speaker 1: closer to it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you're definitely not selling it. You're not selling it,
Speaker 2: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Life. Make sure you get to make sure you get
Speaker 1: your haircut before you go. I'm like, okay, all right.
Speaker 2: My favorite, my favorite three words, I'm on it.
Speaker 1: That's like, okay, all right, Tim, I'm talk to you
Speaker 1: for everybody. Good luck with your teams and good luck
Speaker 1: with the waiver ward this weekend, Tim.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's hoping everybody finds some use useful parts to
Speaker 2: improve their lot in life. Be safely, will and we'll
Speaker 2: catch you into the week. Rich