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Speaker 1: Hey everybody, welcome back into the rath Ball Fantasy Baseball podcast.
I am beat On, joined by the Fantasy Master Thario himself. Great,
all right, how's.
Speaker 2: It going over there?
Speaker 3: Grey?
Speaker 2: Hey?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Him? Hey? Hey, what's going on there?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 3: I you know, I got I got a bone. I
had a bone to pick with you. Uh A few
weeks ago, I forgot, I forgot, I forgot, I forgot.
I had I had issues with with you.
Speaker 2: Weeks ago you had issues and yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: Actually I had I had a serious bone to pick
with you, but I totally forgot about it. And then
I just remembered again today, So.
Speaker 4: I gotta I got something that I got something, so
you you, I sounded like both cosby you.
Speaker 3: You a few weeks ago you wrote a post where
you said the best time for streaming. I will say too,
it's like the only time you've ever written a post
for raspball. So for me to then take issue with
it is you know, it's not the nicest thing of me.
But you, I mean, you wrote a post and if
I'm wrong, you correct me. But you wrote a post
about streaming and what were the best months to do
to stream? And you said April was the best month
to stream. Correct or not correct sir, I.
Speaker 2: Said that the data tends to indicate that early in
the season.
Speaker 3: Please stick to the question as posed to you. Okay,
so you say April is the best month to stream
early in the season. So my question to you, sir,
is how do you know who to stream in April?
Because see my problem is, see this is why I
like this. I prefer to stream in like August September,
because by that point, you know what teams are good,
you know what teams are bad, you know which pictures
are good, you know which pictures are bad. In April,
you're like, oh, well, coming into the season, looks like
the Red Sox are pretty good. I'm not going to
stream against them. And then suddenly they're under four hundred
record is like, oh they're awful. What am I doing?
I should stream against them? But you have no idea
in April, whereas in August September you have a better idea.
So what do you say to that, good sir?
Speaker 1: Streaming everybody except for the Dodgers and at Yankee Stadium.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, then that's pretty much.
Speaker 1: And if you're concerned about it, you know, stick to
guys at home rather than on the road. Okay, always pluses,
you know, always good splits are always there. The dad
is there to say, you know, at home is always
almost always better.
Speaker 2: Than on the road. Just do that.
Speaker 3: I don't know, man, I don't know, man, because I'm
saying is like watching Jack Flattery against the Red Sox.
The Red Socks are terrible, Okay, there anyone should be
able to shut them out. But Flattery can't find the plate,
which you would know. But you would only know that
three weeks into the season. Because no, I mean he's
not good because his command is a mess. But you
may not have known that the first you may not
have known his command was gonna be a mess the
first week of the season. So it's like April might
be a good month to stream. But I don't think
you have all the information yet. I don't know. So
I I see what you're saying with the stats, how
they bear out that April is a better months for streaming,
But I just don't think you have I don't think
you have the information. Man, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it could go either way.
Speaker 1: I think you just kind of have to stream a lot,
I think in this time of year, and then you
kind of take a break, you know, around like June
or mid August, then you can come back and jump
in again. September it gets it gets better in September
again you get you know, teams falling out and people
not carrying in any way, shape or form. So that
can go both ways, and streaming can go both ways.
As you know, in the two RcLs that I'm in,
I am, you know, I think near the bottom end
pitching in one and I'm near the top and pitching
in the other.
Speaker 2: So you know, it's as with.
Speaker 1: Anything in fantasy baseball, it can go, it go either way,
and sometimes you just have to pick and.
Speaker 2: Choose your bounds.
Speaker 3: I yeah, I agree with the with the point that
you made about the summer months being not great for streaming.
I do agree with that.
Speaker 2: Once.
Speaker 3: Uh, I will say that like June and July, it's
a it can be real ugly, so I would be
careful for the most part. You know, obviously there's exceptions,
but I prefer I prefer a colder weather in September
and like you know, maybe mid August to tail end
of August, and then you know, start streaming heavy towards
the end of the year. But you know, if you're
in position like I am in our RCL league, it
may not matter who I stream in September because my
team is not doing well. So I was also, I
was watching the Red Sox Patriots game. It's the Patriots
Day game. Yeah, yeah, not the New England Patriots I was.
I was saying, I was watching the Patriots Day game
with the Red Sox and Tigers. As I mentioned earlier
with Jack Flattery, it was just so frustrating to watch
because I can't find the plate. But anyway, so I'm
watching that and uh, Sonny Gray, he starts grabbing at
his uh he grabs at like the is like handstring
the top of his leg. And I wasn't able to
read his lips. And I do believe he was not
saying ooh ooh that oh that leg is so tight.
Oh I like that. Oh oh, I feel like, oh
oh that's nice. I've been doing some real good workouts.
I don't think he was saying that.
Speaker 5: I think it was more like ow ow owl was
and I think so, Yeah, I would potentially look at
pay in Peyton Toll as a a guy who sounds like.
Speaker 3: A toll. It sounds like the big dig there in Boston.
But yeah, Peyton Toll tole tole is it totally?
Speaker 2: I think it's Toll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Peyton Toll. Yeah, I would. I would look at
him if he hasn't been called up already by the
time people listen to this, Uh, might be might be
something that's uh, that's breet. That's what you call breaking
news there, beat on. I know the BEA doesn't stand
for breaking news, but that's how you do it.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the lesson gray and yes, if if it
looks like sun and Gray is going to the AOL,
which it seems like he my Peyton Toll could be
coming up. Obviously, there was that that spring training battle
of is it going to be Peyton Tolla early? Was
it gonna be one of the other pictures who got
hurt for the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: And it looks like we may.
Speaker 1: Get kindly Early and Peyton Toll at least temporarily if
Sonny Gray is forced to the I L. Speaking of
guys going to going to the I L. Mick Abel
is headed to the I L. Kendrick Rojas was recalled
and you put a note in here, Connor prep pre
Lip is maybe just like he's on deck, He's he's
sitting there waiting for his chance as well.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on this situation?
Speaker 3: Hm, well, I don't know. See this is kind of
interesting to me, So I don't know how the the
Twins prospects, how their their minor league rotation is laid out.
So maybe that's why Kendrey Rojas was called up first.
But it seems to me like Connor pre Lip looks closer.
I mean, he's older, He's two years older than Rojas,
and his stuff looks better. I don't know, Like honestly,
I'm I'm not the prospect guy. It's more of a
question for Itch, I guess. But for whatever reason, pre
Lip looks like I mean, he's twenty five years old,
he looks like he's been ready for a few years,
and he was a you know, he's a decently regarded
prospect too, So I don't really know. I don't know, man,
I don't know what they're doing. I don't know why
he was in the minor still, let alone being passed
over for Kentry Rojas. If you know, Rojas does get
into rotation, someone needs to be in rotation because the
Twins are obviously a man down now with mick Abel
going to the AyL. So I guess we'll see. I
don't really have a ton of Rojas. I wouldn't say,
is anything outside of ale only or maybe a streamer
in mixed leagues depending on how he looks, but his
commands looks awful, So I wouldn't really mess with Rojas.
If pre Lip came up and he was in the rotation,
it's a little bit more interesting to me, probably probably
like fifteen team mix league interesting. But you know, still,
I mean that's a little bit more than Rojas, not
a ton more. I don't think they're shallow mix league
guys yet. They're mostly Rojas at least is ale only
and pre lip Is, you know, potentially al or fifteen
teen depending on if he gets called.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I feel like they're both from a
what they can revide standpoint, like similar in that they
can probably get some strikeouts. They both have terrible commands,
so you're gonna have to deal with that part of it.
I agree Connor prilip Is is definitely on the higher
end of it, but I feel like it's just kind
of like similar, similar builds, just a little bit different
tiers of them. So, Yeah, if Connor prilip comes up,
I would look at him and like you said, probably
a fifteen team is probably about.
Speaker 2: The right depth there. You know, Kendrick Rojas, maybe.
Speaker 1: In a fifteen team league you do some spot starts,
but you're probably not rostering him a full time another io,
Hori Polanco goes to the i L with a right
risk contusion. It seems like Mark Vientos is going to
fill in for him. They have Ronnie Mauricio down in
the minors. There's potential they could they could bring him
back up, but for now it seems like it's Mark
Vientos is going to be the primary beneficiary here.
Speaker 3: I uh yeah, I had Actually, I feel like we
haven't really discussed uh this as much as like did
He or Fuentes as you're you're well aware, I'm baited
breath over here waiting for did He er Flintes. I've
I've renamed him Fwente's because I am dying for him
to come up. But I don't think I don't think
you're as as aware of my on paralleled love for
Mark Fiento's, even though probably unwarranted, but I really like
Fiento's mostly because I have them in a bunch of
leagues and I really need Piano's to do something, you know.
So then so I put this on the podcast outline
just so we could talk about Mark Fiano's.
Speaker 1: Maybe if we mentioned his name, you know, he'll really
he'll really get it going and turn it on Gray.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Fiano's the fresh maker. I uh yeah, as I
as I sit here and uh look at Mark Fientos's
stat line, he's got a sixteen percent hard hit. I
don't remember. I don't remember Biento's having a sixteen percent
hard hit before. Maybe there is maybe there's nothing here. Yeah,
I don't know. I felt like Viento's really showed something,
you know, two years ago in twenty twenty four. Obviously
that is what two years ago was. You know, he
hit twenty seven homers, hit two sixty six, looked like
it looked like he was actually clicking, and then last
year was okay. I mean, under the hood wise, this
year hasn't been great. For the last you know, I
want to say the last week he looked good before
Polonco went down. He hasn't looked great since. If I'm
being honest. He's making a lot of contact, just not
a lot of great contact. So I don't know. I
guess put Fiento's on your watch list. You know, maybe
there's nothing there.
Speaker 1: Thanks for that, great I will say, you know, to
give you a ray of hope here. The sixteen percent
hard hit is the fan grabs hard hit, which factors
in a number of things that they don't exactly tell
us what they are. The stat cast hard hit is
forty four point two percent, so not great even I
mean Mark Vinto's typically is higher than that, but it's
not as gloomy as sixteen percent sounds.
Speaker 2: So it's a little bit barrel better.
Speaker 6: The barrel rate is down, but barrels is one of
the weirdest dumb stats out there, honestly, Like it's like
three barrel stoves off the whole barrel for the whole season.
Speaker 2: It's it's a weird stat.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: So not so concerned about that. Would like to see
him square up some more. Yes, I guess the weirdest
thing for me is that the k rate is down.
It's the best he's he's really had, and at the
same time, the swinging strike is the worst he's he's
really had. So I'm kind of curious where that up. Like,
if the k rate is down and he's still gonna
hit the ball semi hard, that I'm I could get interested.
Speaker 2: But if the k rate is just temporarily.
Speaker 1: Down but the swinging strike rate is gonna eventually bring
that back up, Uh, that's that's just gonna lead to
a lot of disappointment.
Speaker 3: Like last season, I feel like I appreciate you trying
to make me feel better about Mark.
Speaker 2: I was trying to give you a little upside there, Gray,
you know.
Speaker 3: You know it's a I got another bone to pick
not with you, though, Why can't these why can't these
stat providers get on the same page? Like this is
this is something I've I've beat and emmed about before
in the past, and I just like I just don't
get it, man, Like why can't they Why can't we
all just get along? Why why can't we all just
be in the same gang and just be like, you
know what, this is hard? This is our hard hit
rate for one guy across every website, Like why do
why this? Fan Grabs and statacast and Baseball Reference all
have different like stats, like why, Like what's the I
don't It's just like the dumbest pissing contest. I don't
understand why we can't just get on the same page.
I really don't. I don't know, man, It's it's annoying
from like a reader perspective, to be honest, I mean
they must know this, they must know it's somewhat annoying.
Like when someone's like, oh, yeah, he's a a one
point eight war player and it's like, well, which war?
Like come on, man, like why does there have to
be more than one war? Like come on, like, oh,
he's an eighteen percent hard hit guy? Like, oh, well,
it's actually forty four percent. Like what, oh man, it's
just so frustrating.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 3: Fangraphs separates hard hit and medium hit whatever that is,
so that's why the hard hit at stadcast is better.
But anyway, it doesn't. It's like it doesn't need to
be different. It just doesn't. No one cares. Just someone
adopts the other person's hard hit. No one don't care.
Speaker 1: Well, like like Yandi Diaz, the great Fangrafts versus statcasts
hard hit. So like Yandi Diaz versus per statcast hits
the ball incredibly hard, he just hits it straight into
the ground. Per Fangrafts, he does not hit it that
hard because he doesn't ever lift the ball, and in
order to have a hard hit you have to actually
lift the ball per them.
Speaker 2: So it's just a matter of how they define.
Speaker 1: And as you mentioned, medium hit, there's also a thing,
so there's it's it's all just a classification and how
it's factor. But yes, I would I would like to
see everything come together. I would also love to see
universal your ID is used across the board, because boy
would that make my job a lot easier when I'm
trying to pull data from all different places. And uh,
everybody uses a different junior or not junior, or the
third or not.
Speaker 2: The third, or Joshua or josh that that's terrible. We
just all have player ideas that would be so great.
Speaker 3: You should hear. You should hear Rudy when he's got it,
when he's like, why is it? Why? Why is the uh?
Why is the player raider not sinking? Like, oh man,
this guy's got a till day over his end. Man,
it's like he goes he goes crazy with like oh,
it's like, oh, Fangrafs uses a an accent over this
guy's e and stat Kass does it. It's like, oh, man, ah,
you don't you drive me crazy?
Speaker 1: Gray Cole Reagan's who was supposed to be my A
in the Parts League. You know, I'm I'm actually competing
in that league and like some other people, so it
would be really nice if my ace could turn this
turn this around for me. Luckily, I have plenty of
other pictures who are good other than Cole Reagan's, who
I drafted much later. Should just listen to our own
advice and avoid all of them. Anyways, Reagan says, one
great start versus Minnesota, one solid start, at Detroit, one
not good start at Atlanta, and two bad starts at Cleveland.
Speaker 2: At New York.
Speaker 1: I mean he has a sixty arra a a one
six seven whip. The k raid is below twenty four percent,
the walk rate is almost twenty percent. The fastball velocities
down over a mile per hour from last year.
Speaker 2: Is can you give me any any hope here?
Speaker 3: Gray?
Speaker 1: I mean, I tried as hard as I could for you,
for Mike Bantos, Do you have do you have any
We think Cole Reagans was not just a complete.
Speaker 2: Waste of a draft pick.
Speaker 1: Well a magically fined you know, a mile and a
half that he's lost off his fastball and two years
last year and a half, that'd be phenomenal.
Speaker 2: If you just do that, great, I mean, he'd be
right back right.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I don't know, man, you know, I'm I'm pretty concerned.
I'll be honest, I'm not. I'm not really optimistic about
cold Reagan's. I wasn't coming into the year. I'm still not.
I think, uh, you know, the velocity being down is
the most concerning thing. I think the the walk rate
is so abnormal, like he doesn't usually have great command,
but this is like so abnormally terrible that that leads
me to believe that there could be a mechanics issue.
So then that means the velocity could come back, So
that could just be a matter of one little tweak
and he's right back to the great pitcher he was.
So if anything, I would be buying love right now.
People are concerned, and rightfully to a certain extent, but
he could fix everything. Like we saw Renaldo Lopez in
spring training, there was a velocity issue. He tweaked a
part of his most part of his wind up, and
he suddenly started finding the velocity again and he was
pitching well again. So Cole Reagan's if this, I mean,
this is so bad, I would assume this is a
mechanics thing. Now if it's an actual injury that he's
hiding because he did not have a full season last
year due to injury. So if this is an injury thing,
then he's just then you're getting nothing the rest of
the season. Unfortunately, this is either one tweek to his
mechanics and he's fine, or this is he's actually injured
and he's not gonna be fine all year. So you know,
for a buy low, I would I would say, yeah,
why not, you know, hopefully knock on wood, it's a
mechanics thing, he gets it fixed and he comes around
any kind of this if you're buying low enough. I
don't think it's one hundred percent that he's gonna definitely
be better, but I think there's probably I mean, I
would say thirty thirty percent chance he's better, which is
better than nothing. I mean, that's better than nothing, right,
I mean there is, I mean there's some real concerns.
I mean, nothing is right here. So you know, if
you're if you're looking for me to be like, well,
I think you know he's absolutely you know that all
the peripherals to me, you know, look like he's a
guy who's gonna come out of this. I can't say that.
I don't think that necessarily, but he could. I think
there's still a chance on the table that he has
you know, a a a strong bounce back. But it's
a risk. There's definitely there's a large risk here now,
I you know, I don't know. I did my best
to be optimistic.
Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: Let me throw some names at your gray and potential
trade scenarios. Would you rather have Cole Reagan's or equally
terrible start in.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, I'm I'm pretty much done with Shean.
I I you know, I was hoping for something from
Emma Chien for the last couple of starts. He just
looks so mediocre. And it's so unfortunate to say, because
he was like one of the guys who I felt
the most confident about, as like a strong number two,
and it just hasn't been there in any way for Emmachan.
That is, you know, his velocity is down a lot,
his strikeouts are down, his walks are up. Nothing looks
right with m and Sheen. Unfortunately, I wouldn't say, I
wouldn't say Emmachian is a drop in all leagues, but
he's honestly, he's probably a drop in some of the
shallower leagues. So yeah, I would go Reagan's over Shean,
all right, once you go.
Speaker 2: With Also, I'm just gonna keep going the straggling path here.
Speaker 3: Luis Castillo, Oh, Castille also looks terrible.
Speaker 2: He looks he looks really uh looks really bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, you know how bad Luis Caste. He
looks so bad that I have him in one league
and I saw that he's getting the uh the sack
town A's in Seattle, which is about as good a
matchup as you can get. Only thing better I think
might be the Rockies on the Road. And I'm not
sure if I'm starting Luis Castilio because he's just so
he's been so bad, So I would go Reagan's overs
as Castilio, and uh yeah, there's there's real issues with
Castilio too.
Speaker 1: How about a long time favorite of the podcast, Mackenzie Gore.
Speaker 3: Oh, Oh, that's a that's a tough one, I would say.
You know, McKenzie Gore was another guy who I was
out on in the preseason because I felt like, uh,
he had he had really screwed me so many times
in the past that it was just a personal decision
I had to make for my own mental health. But actually,
I think mackenzie Gore's numbers looked pretty good under the
surface this year, and it's a good park. His velossity
looks good. I think I would have to go Mackenzie Gore.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm gonna ask you our next guy up
that we're gonna talk about, who's been just as bad Gray,
maybe even worse.
Speaker 2: Eric Croche.
Speaker 3: Oh, Crochetould, I would go Crochet, but I do think,
like I think we talked about Crochet after the last
time he blew up, he's he's got issues as well.
He doesn't he's not, you know, without the issues, like
Velos is down, not quite as bad as Reagan's, but
it's down. Command is off. But Crochet looks better under
the hood still. You know, I think the last time
he had a terrible start, I think I said he's
now more like a top twenty five starter versus a
top three starter. And I would say that's that's still
true of Crochet. So Crochet over Reagan's and Crochet over
as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would take Crochet over all of them as well.
And he's been of the group of unlucky pitchers. It
seems like the number say. You know, I'm not saying
it's all unlucky because he has been bad, but he's
also been a little unlucky as well. So of the group,
I would take Crochet. Let's move on to some prospects
and just kind of check in as we are and
like the three week phase of the season, and you know,
this is when you might see some some of the
first prospects called up. This is kind of that early
you know, I always call it the Chris Bryant timeline.
He is the most memorial one for me as a
comes fan. Where they should have been they should have
been up, but they aren't, but they could be coming
at some point. Let's start with Colt Emerson over in Seattle.
He's hitting two fifty eight, three sixty one, four fifty two.
He has two of them runs and sixtlen bases. Are
you potentially looking at Grabby and Colt Emerson and what depth.
Speaker 3: Ofly Yeah, I would say probably in a twelve team
mix league, and deeper I would say cold Emerson, it's
probably it's I mean, I don't see why he's not
called up any day now because like they already signed
the deal with him, so I you know, I I'd
be kind of shocked if he's down in the minors
for much longer. I think in the last I want
to say, in the last like five days, he's lowered
his UH strikeout rate at Triple A. It was a
little bit high about like last week this time, and
it's already down to like twenty six percent. I think
it was over thirty percent like a week ago. So
he's already starting to come around in Triple A. He's
too good of a hitter, and they have a they
already made a deal with him. So yeah, I don't
really see why he would be in the minors for
longer than maybe another week. Like if he hits like
three point fifty this week and pushes his average up
to like three hundred and his strikeout right down to
like twenty three percent, and he looks like he's exactly
in line with where he's been at every point in
the minors, he could be up by this time next week.
There's no reason to keep him down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, the only thing is where that he played.
Speaker 1: But it is not as though JP Crawford needs to
play every day, so he could definitely definitely slot in
somewhere in this lineup. Let's talk about Max Clark over
in Detroit. He's hitting three fifty one, four, sixteen, five, nineteen.
He has a home run in six tolen bases. He
seems to be doing everything he can to force Detroit's hand,
But is there a spot for him Gray?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would think that probably when Seal Perez,
he actually when Seal Prez just beat out a an
infield hit and then I'm watching the game. That's a
that's a interesting for people listening to this podcast. Yeah,
I would say when Seal Perez is probably he's he
can get bumped. The Tigers are in like the Tigers
are in their competitive window. They you know, McGonagall was
brought up opening day like they're they're going for it right,
Like there's no reason. Max Clark is ready, Like he's ready, ready,
He's like he's as ready as they're gonna come. There's
no reason to keep him in the minors, Like he's
killing trip AA pitching, Like why would you leave him
down there? It just doesn't make sense. So I would
guess Max Clark is up within like two to three weeks,
maybe less, maybe a little bit more, but soon within
a month for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean when Seal Perez is hitting, you know, a
as well as you and I would in the majors,
So it does feel like there should be an opening
for him coming up. Over in San Francisco. Bryce Eldridge
is hitting three fifteen, four, four, seventy nine and has
a couple of home runs. You know, it feels like
there should be, you know, an opening for him in
San Francisco. There's just we're just kind of waiting for
the opportunity. You know, it feels like Drew Gilbert could
take your Seat's good Casey Schmande, although they're both actually
hitting okay right now. But Bryce Eldridge, it feels like
it's going to force their hand a little bit here.
The strikeout rate is still a little bit high, so
they could potentially use that to just milk the service
time a little bit.
Speaker 2: But what's your thoughts here on Bryce Eldridge?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I would I would think Bryce Eldridge
because probably I want to say, he was on the
majority of people's lists for guys who were gonna break camp.
So I think everyone's really like surprised that he was
even sent to the miners to begin the year. I
you know, I am. I was surprised. I felt like
he was breaking camp. So I don't know. I I know,
like Casey Schmidt is their DH. He's he's most famous
for his pants being seen through and everyone's seeing his testicles.
Speaker 2: So there's that.
Speaker 3: Drew Gilbert is the Melissa Gilbert's brother. I don't even
know dreel Gisdrew Gilbert is. I don't know there's guys
on the Giants team that's like Christian Costs.
Speaker 8: Okay, you say so, man, if you made up that name,
I would have been like you. I mean, they're and
they're going nowhere for the Giants. So like, I mean,
why wouldn't you just bring up Bryce Elbridge. It doesn't
make sense why he's in the minors, just like he's
gonna strike out a lot, but that's his profile anyway,
He's gonna strike out like that's he's always gonna strike
out a lot. I don't see that even as he
you know, he gets older, maybe he comes down a
little bit in strikeouts, but he seems like he's gonna
strike out a decent amount even as you know he
gets older in the major So yeah, I would. I
would bring up Bryce Eldridge yesterday, but maybe within the
next week or two.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like he deserves a shot at some point.
Speaker 1: Like you said, the strikeouts may be bad, and there
may be there may be an adjustment period where the
strikeouts are a little too much, But it feels like
they need to bring him up at least give him
that look and let him make those adjustments. Let's move
over to Arizona Ryan Walshpan was a you know, popular
guy to potentially break camp. We're gonna see him soon
as he's sitting three thirty eight, four eight, five sixty
three with a couple of home runs and forced on
the basis. Meanwhile, Arizona is trotting out guys like Alec
Thomas and Jose Fernandez and you know, Donmorrow.
Speaker 2: But Gargas, I'll.
Speaker 3: Leave that one for you. Uh yeah, Ryan Walt Schmidt,
I mean he's probably probably should have been breaking camp
with the team. I mean it's pretty obvious. I don't see, uh,
I don't see why he's in the minors, but I guess,
you know. I mean you already mentioned a stat so
no reason, no reason to say that again. But yeah,
I mean he's killing the minor leagues right now. You know,
the strikeouts are a little bit up, but not bad.
I think I think he needs to come up and
sink or swim, I would say, again, I don't know.
I mean it could be, it could be tomorrow, it
could be three weeks from now. I have no idea,
but he's be up though. He's he's definitely a guy
to put on your radars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be coming up. I mean, all these guys
feel like they should be up soon. Whether they are
or not, that's always hard to say, but it feels
like they should have the opportunity.
Speaker 2: Another guy that kind.
Speaker 1: Of fits in the same mold of we we thought
he might break camp and just kind of waiting for
him to get a call up is is Travis Bazanna.
Speaker 2: He has a home run five stone bases. He's sitting
two seventy eight, three seventy four for eighty one. He's
cut his k rate. You know, it may just be
a again, just he needs an opportunity.
Speaker 1: Daniel Steven's actually not been absolutely terrible, so that that
maybe pushing the start date back a little bit.
Speaker 2: But what are we gonna see Travis Bazanna.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, you added him to the list,
I believe. I don't know if Bazanna is uh. I
don't know if he's as close as the other guys.
I would say, I mean, he could be, he might,
he might be up, you know, relatively soon, but I
would guess a little bit later for Bazana. But then again,
I was like I was convinced that I was convinced
that Noah Schultz wasn't coming up until like August September,
so I don't know. I mean, it's all you know,
it's really it's just guesswork. But Bizanna, I mean, Bizanna
will be an ad in every league if he gets
if he gets called up, I just don't know if
he's that close. Maybe he is. I don't know. He
is making a lot of contact in the minor leagues.
He's got speed, he doesn't have like a ton of power.
So I'm not as excited about Bazana. He feels he
feels better for real world than he does for fantasy,
but you know, maybe yeah, No, I.
Speaker 1: Agree in regards to where his appeal lies versus fantasy
versus real world. But I still think he's gonna be
useful guy in our game. I don't think it's just
gonna be, you know, the useless profile. I just wanted
to throw him in there because I do think there's
potential he could get an opportunity. It just feels like
Cleveland is gonna try. They're gonna try everybody they have
before they bring him up. Unfortunately, so there may be
a little bit of a wait. How about another guy
I added here, which is Joshua Bias. He's only hitting
two six, three eight, three ninety seven, but he's got
three home runs, five stolen bases.
Speaker 2: He can kind of play a few different positions.
Speaker 1: And the Cardinals, I don't know if you know this,
their their lineup is pretty pretty awful gray after the
top four.
Speaker 2: So so when when do we think Joshuabias comes up?
Speaker 3: You know, he probably is another guy. He probably should
have just broke camp with the team. I don't know
why he's in the miners, but I mean, he is
getting a bit exposed in Triple A with the strikeout
rate over thirty percent and hitting two oh six, so
maybe there is a good reason he's in the miners.
I don't know. He might also just be bored. I
mean his stat I was just like I was looking
at his minor league stats for last year is twenty homers,
fifty four steals in a two eighty seven average with
a twenty point six strikeout rate. Like I mean that
he should have been called up then. So I don't know,
but he does. He's either bored right now at Triple
A or he is struggling to make contact. It does
look like he's he's had some struggles with contact in
the past, with you know, in the Miners in twenty
twenty four, So yeah, maybe he just needs to Maybe
he needs a little bit of time at each level.
I don't know, I don't think. I mean, if you're
the Cardinals, like they're going nowhere, so like, I don't
know why you would call them up until there's a
really legitimate reason. And he hasn't given them a legitimate
reason and yet. So yeah, I don't think he's I
don't think he's due that soon. Maybe maybe I'm wrong,
I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this feels like it was the Cardinals a decade ago,
he'd probably be up, but right now, in their current shape,
it may be a little bit of time. I do think,
just some of the lack of production from their guys
may produced, may be forced to hand a little bit.
But as you mentioned, he's having his own struggles. He's
picked it up a little bit recently, but yes, he's
the strikeout rate is still high, so we'll see if
that can come back down.
Speaker 2: Let's move on to somebody. I mean, we just have
to talk about him.
Speaker 1: We have to talk about Matha Graymonataki Mura comedy twenty
two games, ninety three played appearances, eight home runs.
Speaker 2: He's only hitting two a eight, but uh, I mean.
Speaker 1: Eight home runs over this time and this last week
he had four him runs where he hit three thirty three.
Speaker 2: So where are you putting Mura comedy for the rest
of the season? Is this like the.
Speaker 1: Ultimate so high point because you're worried there's gonna be
a you know, a strikeout pictures adjusting or would you
are you fully gonna go.
Speaker 2: Ahead and buy the power to break out?
Speaker 3: Here? It was if pictures are adjusting and he strikes
out more, how much more can he strike out? He's
already striking out a lot, isn't.
Speaker 2: He He is striking out a whole lot.
Speaker 1: He does have a twenty one and a half, say
walk right, So at least he's you know, it is
a it is an Adam Dunn type.
Speaker 3: It's true. Yeah, it's a true three outcome guy. Yeah,
I mean, I've liked more coming. Is uh? Are people
calling mathra?
Speaker 1: Is that his?
Speaker 2: I just threw that out there because I thought I
threw it out there.
Speaker 3: Okay I wasn't. Yeah, I don't know, Yeah, I you know,
I saw something like he was. I think he was
the first player in one hundred years or something where
he had the first rookie or something where he had
hit a home run in three straight games twice in April,
something like that. I don't know clearly, I don't work
for Elias Sports Bureau, but I mean there was some
stat where it's like he's doing things no one's ever
seen before with power. I would say, he is not
going to hit for a fridge. If this is I
don't think he's going to get better for average. But
we always knew that, like we always we always sort
of felt like that was gonna be his like real
big drawback. He is doing enough with power, and third
base is such a hideous position. I mean, everyone knows
who the number one third basement is. That's it's gonna
be no shock to people. But listen to the player
raider third baseman so far for the year. Now obviously
it's early. Don't have to tell you that, but I
say it anyway. So number one Jose Ramirez, no shock,
then more a Kami, then Austin Riley, then Mauricio Debon,
then Jose Calboero, then Max Munsey, Dodgers, Kevin McGonagall and
Max Munsey as Oswald Pirazza, then Matt Chatman. That's the
top ten third baseman.
Speaker 2: It's bad.
Speaker 3: I mean, third base is so bad, you know, like
Manny Machado hasn't done anything so far. I'm sure he'll
come around. Probably a bi low, uh, Johannio Suarez will
get hot at some point. Also probably a by Low.
Junior kamaniro Is, you know, he's probably a bi lo
a little bit. He's teenth right now on the on
the on the player raider for third basement mckel Garcia
probably a by low. But there is a lot of
like a lot of terrible third basement. So the fact
that Morikami has that position eligibility that's going to keep
him relatively valuable for fantasy for the most part. I
don't I don't see him like bottoming out for like
fantasy unless he hits like one seventy, which I don't
think is gonna get that bad. Like I do think
he probably can keep his average around the two ten
mark to ten with you know, say thirty five to
forty homers. I mean, it's not it's not perfect because
of the average being you know a little bit on
the down side, but you know he's he does have
a little bit of speed too. We haven't seen it yet,
but he should be able to steal say seven bags,
thirty seven, say thirty seven homers, seven steals two ten average. Again,
it's not perfect, but it's you know, for third basement,
it's not it's not that bad. I do think he's
always going to struggle for average, you know. I mean
he he struggled with strikeouts in Japan so and and
struggled for average a little bit in Japan. You know,
hit two forty four in Japan like that. That comes
out to about to ten or lower in the majors.
And so he's doing basically what he's always done. I
don't see him really changing his profile, but he will
hit for power, which is good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Would you rather have him or Matt Chapin.
Speaker 3: Oh, for sure, more comedy, I was, you know, I
think we talked about more comic earlier in the year,
and I mentioned he was probably should have been going
in front of Austin Ryan Rafts like he like. I
think Austin Riley or him is a legitimate like either or.
And I think I'm going more comedy over Austin Riley
just because I like the upside Austin Riley. I think
we kind of know what we're gonna get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, at least we hope we know what we're gonna
get there, based on, you know, the last few seasons.
It's it's tough to say. I would also go to
burg Comedy there. What about somebody who pretty much gives
you the same type of profile au Hanio Sorez or
Burke Comy.
Speaker 3: I would go Sworez because I think Suarez is probably
the same power but two twenty or plus on average.
So again, same profile, like you said, but a little
bit better on average, a little bit at least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's definitely also the track record behind Suarez
where you feel like, I know he can do it.
Speaker 2: He's done it.
Speaker 1: There's not there's no dangerous adjustment period coming up, just
the usual month where he'll not hit a single ball.
Speaker 2: It'll be okay, let's talk some pitching pop ups.
Speaker 1: Here, Gray, There's there's some guys that you know you
talked you ran off the third base player raider list,
and if you look at the hitter player Raider list,
it's a lot of names that we expected to be there,
or we've already talked about them, and it's a few
here there, but then when you pull up the pitching list,
it's it's different. It's a whole lot of guys we
didn't expect, or at least we didn't draft him to
be up there. You know, we may have thought they
were gonna be good, but we didn't draft the mass
top pitchers. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about
the number one starting pitcher on the Player Raider, which
is Jose Soriano.
Speaker 2: You know, that's the kind kind of thing that happens.
Speaker 1: And this is also why we always devalue started pitching
in drafts. Let's start with Jacob Zerowski. Five games started
this year. He has twenty six to two thirds innings,
a three or four year eight one away whippy, thirty
seven point eight percent strikeout rate, a ten point eight
percent walk rate. I mean, Jacob Msowski has come out
of the gates and been every bit of the guy
we thought he could be based on what he did
last year. Is uh, is this is this legitimate? Or
is there is this a little bit a little bit
too good for for what you expect?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. You know, I'd probably say that Messerrowski's similar
to what we saw last year with him, whereas like
he was great before the All Star break, then afterwards
it was a little bit more hit or miss and
uh he you know, actually it's sort of with him,
it's not hit or miss, it's more like miss or miss.
He's he just he just misses the zone.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like he's gonna he's gonna walk guys, and
at some point he's gonna come into a situation where
he's just walking everyone. And you know, it's it's not
like he it's not like he's gonna suddenly be more hitable,
like he's not hittable. It's just he he loses the
zone sometimes. So I I like him still. I think
at some point that we're gonna see, you know, a
stretch of games where he's just not as good as
he's been so far this year, like what we saw
last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say, you know, last year he finished
with a four to three six. Obviously we saw better
things from him at different times. He's at a three
oh four. Now if I split the difference and say
he's a three six five three seven guy, that feels
about right to me.
Speaker 2: Would you take me over or under it. Let's just
say three six five.
Speaker 3: I would take the over a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's fair. Let's talk about another guy,
Parker Messik.
Speaker 1: Four games this year, twenty five to two thirds innings,
A one oh five, E, A oh seven eight with
twenty six point nine percent strikeout rate and a's.
Speaker 2: Seven and a half walk rate. Where you out of
Parker Messic in his uh his great start to the season.
Speaker 3: Uh, you know, I was watching the the no hitter
the other day where he lost it in the in
the ninth inning, and he looked I mean, he looks
kind of hitt able in like, not in a terrible way,
but like he doesn't that he's just like he makes
he induces weak contact, which is good, that's not a
bad thing, but it's the kind of profile that is
not going to be an ACE. So where he is
right now, like if you could sell high, I would
sell high. I don't think he's going to become unusable
because he does have good command. So with good command,
he's able to locate the pitches in a place where
they're not gonna be able to make good contact. So
I think it's I think he'll be good, but I think,
you know, even even his good is more like, you know,
like best case scenario, and this is a really good
case scenario. But best case scenario, I would say like
logan web and worst case scenario is like Andrew Abbit.
He's probably somewhere in between those two for you know,
what they're doing right now or what they will do.
So I like messic. I just think he's probably closer
to like a number two or three versus an A's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would say I agree with that. I think
he's probably a three for most people. You know, the
strikeouts are nice. He did have strikeouts in the minors,
so I could see that carrying over in twenty five innings,
and you know that's that's one of the stats that
will unnormalize the fastest. So maybe the strikeouts remain, which
makes him at least a little bit more interesting for
his favorite velocity's up about a half mile per hour
or so. He doesn't throw particularly hard, but he's above
ninety three with that with that small bump, and above
ninety three is a not unmeaningful jump of velocity there.
Ninety three is kind of that that number you want
to stay above to get a little bit of leeway
in your fastball, and he's also mixing in a cutter
this year, so pitch micks plus velocity bump. I can
buy this to an extent. I'm not buying him as
a you know, a sub two year a type of guy.
But you know, if I put the same E R
A that I that I gave for miss Rowski, which
is like three seven, I can see him being a
three seven year eight guy and being useful because the
whip's gonna stay down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's fair. Actually, when you, uh you mentioned stabilizing,
I I was looking at at something similar last week
to try and get a field for where we were
in the season and and shrikeouts to stabilize the the quickest,
which I mean you knew you already said that. I'm
just sort of reiterating that. Yeah, thank you for.
Speaker 1: Conferring to letting the people know about just you know,
complete bs and and saying things.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: I know, I was just saying that I was actually
you know, I was. It was interesting because I was
looking at it last week to be like, oh, like
because exit velocity, right, So I was like, because I
was wondering, like exit velocity and like when that stabilized.
So I was looking at up and I was like, uh,
that doesn't stabilize till like June.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so no, because like you know, because people will
be like, oh wow, look at that. You know, like hey, hey,
what do you think of? Like you know this guy
you know whoever, like say Dylan Dingler or something, you know,
some random guy And I'm like, what is this? I
don't care what is so he has a good exit
velocity for the last three days? I mean what, I
don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exit velocity barrels, they're they're fun stats, They're great
tools to use. They they do take about a half
season just because it's based on unbattered ball events and
you you're really good one out of every three plate
appearances or one out of three at bats, I guess
I should say, uh, you're getting to hit. So there's
it just takes longer to get that data in there.
So yeah, absolutely, k rate is one of those things.
So when you see a jump early in the season
and in a month or so in that is something
that you can actually start to kind of bank on
a little bit.
Speaker 2: Can people start to bank on Gavin Williams Gray.
Speaker 1: He has been great for Cleveland twenty nine and two
thirds innings, two one two ere a one oh one whip.
He is a thirty four point eight percent strikeout rate
fourteen point eight percent walk rate is not ideal here
he is made mixing in a sinker, throwing the slider
a little bit more. But are you buying this Gavin
Williams jump or is this a a sell? There's some
he wanted some type of situation.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, no, I mean he's he was good last year.
I was out on you know, I'll be honest, I
was out on Gavin Williams coming into the year.
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 3: It looks like I was wrong. But he's the kind
of guy where I'll I'll take the y l on
him because like his command is so awful that I
don't really want to get mixed up with that. It's
it's a little bit worrisome how terrible his walk grade is.
So I I do think he is a solid pitcher.
I probably should have been in on him, but his
walk grade is just so terrible that I'm fine passing
on a guy like him. But I mean he looks good.
I mean, you know, he was good last year, So
I don't see why he can't continue to be good
this year. At some point I will get in on him,
and at that point he will become terrible. Moral of
this story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm posually great that will probably happen. So if
you get to stay out, it'll be great as a
Gavin Williams owner. Just just to stay away from us.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the walk rates our concerned. There's gonna be there's
gonna be bad with games.
Speaker 1: There's gonna probably be a couple of ball ups here
just when you walk that many guys. But everything right
now looks great on Gavin Williams. So I'm you know,
I would enjoy it while you can. Michael Soroka, I
wasn't sure we would ever say his name on this
podcast again, but here we are. Gray four starts twenty two,
two thirds innings two seven eight ear a thirty per
point one percent strikeout rate, six and a half percent
walk rate, the highest velocity of his career at ninety
four point four. He also added a cutter, U is
Michael Soroka finally breaking out a decade later?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think he is. I Actually I feel like
Michael Roko is one of the my early like, first
week of the season, make out possibilities, him and him
and the next guy. And I like everything I see
with Soroka. I'm I'm happy I spent a couple bucks
in fab the first week of the season to get Soroka.
His stats look incredible, he looks he looks like an ace.
But you know, with a grain of salt, obviously because
it is still April. But I mean you might get
a solid number two from him at at worse. So,
I yeah, I like Soroka a lot. I think he
looks he looks great, Like everything under the hood looks
like him, you know, breaking out. Uh so, I'm I'm
in yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean he's always had great command.
Speaker 1: If you add vel plus strikeouts to great man, that's
that's a nice, nice little thing.
Speaker 2: And plus he adds a new pitch. I like all
of that. I'm not saying he's legitimate completely, but I
like everything I'm seeing. Would absolutely be running him out
there for the future.
Speaker 1: This next guy who utz is Emerson Hancock. Four games
this year twenty three and two thirds d means two
two eighty or eight O seven six twenty nine four
percent strikeout rate, four point seven percent walk rate, he's
throwing the slider a lot more, he's abandoned his change
up and then his yielding positive results. Gray I've I've
kind of low key always hated Emerson Hancock just because
I never knew where the fantasy goodness would come from.
Speaker 2: But at uh, at his credit rates, there is plenty
of fantasy goodness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's a a bug. What is it is?
Something's crawled into its crawled into my skull an earworm.
I don't know what it is, but I have like
from the first start of the season with Hancock and
I was like, everyone should pick him up. And there
was people in the comments talking about his uh swinging
strike rate or some nonsense, and I was like, guys,
it's literally and it's guys, trust me. This is always guys.
When they're pushing back, there are people saying like, oh,
like you know, like his swinging strike rate or some
nonsense the first start, and I'm like, it's like you
just pick him up off of waivers. Like if it
doesn't work, it doesn't work. So that's like the biggest
like if people can keep that takeaway, you know, into
next year, Like if a guy looks like good, if
he looks good in his first start. Just grab him
and see what happens.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: With all that said, I think Hancock has continued to
look good. He's been He's not as good as sorokah,
not even not. I wouldn't put him on the same
level as Gavin Williams or Messic or Mesrowski. So he's
definitely the lowest out of all these guys. But he's
he's continued to look good, and he's got you know,
he's got a good park for home starts. He's you know,
upped his watch McCall. He's upped his uh, his strikeout
rate a bit. His command has always been excellent, So
I yeah, I like him. I'm you know, I'm in
as long as the ride goes and it looks like
for you know, for whatever reason it could it could
potentially last for a bit. You know, none, none of
his peripherals are really jumping off the pages being like,
oh this will definitely you know, at some point it's
gonna like he's gonna be bad. It doesn't like his
numbers aren't saying that, so I would I would get yeah,
I would still be buying. But he's definitely the lowest
of the guys we've talked about, I would say.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Greg Amberson Hancock before the season was throw so
underthought of. Nobody thought he was gonna make the rotation
so he wasn't even drafted in our ale only league.
So I picked him up the first fab run in
our ale onlyly because it came out he was actually
going to have a rotation spot. That's how crazy under
like undervalued I guess or or un thought of Emerson
Hancock was.
Speaker 2: But he has been great. The change changes to his
pitches seem to be working.
Speaker 1: So you know, as long as it's going, I'd absolutely
run him out there. You know, he is, uh, he's
getting a little lucky, So I don't know that I
necessarily think he's gonna be a two two eight eer
a guy or a seven six whip guy. But the
walk grade is down quite a bit. It's it's basically
cut in half. So there's there's a lot of positive
signs here.
Speaker 3: There's definitely a little bit of like with fantasy baseball,
and I mean with a lot of things in this
life that we in this thing we call life, there's
a lot of a lot of this, but in fantasy baseball,
for sure. It is like you see a lot of
like a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing
where people are like, oh, you know his you know,
his swinging strike is down or something like. It's like
you're you're looking at stuff after like five innings, like
or whatever it is. It's like you just don't don't
worry about all that. We can worry about that when
it's like that, when it's time to worry about that.
But there's in one start. It does not make you know,
there's like it's very little. Uh, there's very little takeaways
in one start except for Jack Flattery who obviously can't
find the plates. Obvious. I'll deal with that.
Speaker 2: Hey, I can still turn around. You never know. Baseball
is a weird game. Let's move on to the next grey,
which is laid en route.
Speaker 1: Four games this year twenty two and two thirds Indians
two three eight year eight O nine seven whip twenty
six point strikeout right seven point eight percent walk right.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: He's also of throwing the cutter a little bit more.
This is a guy I kind of like last season.
The numbers at the end of the year didn't really
we're really sparkling, but he really pretty solidly and just
finished the season really poorly.
Speaker 2: What do you think about landa Rout?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I would say with him is my
biggest takeaway is like, if you were to say to
someone his career, he has one hundred and seventy nine
and two thirds career innings, is his era for his lifetime? Era?
Is it above or below three point six? And I
think most people will be like, well, it's got to
be above three point six, it has to be, but
it's not. It's not above three point six. So I mean,
I think he's been solid for his career. I don't
think you know, he doesn't have Like I think the
case will come down a little bit from where they
are right now for this season, and if he lands
in the.
Speaker 7: Uh, you know, eight and a half k per nine
three five five eer area where he's been for his career,
it's solid.
Speaker 3: It's probably like you're looking at taking him out of
the lineup against like tough matchups for shallower leagues at
least for like, you know, a twelve team mix league
and shallower there's gonna be times when you probably don't
want to start him. But I think he's solid in general,
Like he's one of those guys that's real solid for
you know, a deeper league for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen team league, you definitely have some value even
a twelve team league. He's definitely a solid streamer. And
if your pitching staff wasn't wasn't great coming out of
the draft, he could definitely be somebody you keep on
your roster and just think you said, maybe don't stow
him out there against the worst matchups, but you really
should should be throwing it other than aces out in
certain matchups. So that's really not that crazy either. Let's
go ahead and sagn off it up, Gray, Let's talk
about down here on the Saves part of the podcast.
Over in Philly, Johann Duran is heading to the IL.
They're saying is mostly a precautionary move in the meantime,
Who do you think is the person you want here
to pick up the Saints?
Speaker 3: I mean, I would. This is the kind of this
is the section of the podcast where if you go
back to it a week later, you sound like a
total idiot because there's like I mean, it's so it's
so hard to decide, like to it's so hard to
give advice for bullpens because these guys are always like,
you know, Brad Keller looks to me like the guy
for the ninth Maybe it's Jose Alvarado Kirkering. Possibly I
would say Keller is the guy, but I mean I wouldn't.
I wouldn't bet too much on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Keller got the first save, so I would say
it's him hopefully. Elverado has been there for so long,
but man, he's been terrible. I suppose he's in that line,
but I don't think i'd want to necessarily run about.
Speaker 3: Not to not to disagree with my podcast host. But
Keller hasn't had he doesn't have a save.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, I thought he had one this week. Okay, well,
I think it would be Keller.
Speaker 1: Chase Schugart, Tim Maza also potentially get looks here, but
I would say it's Keller and based off the fat
BET's all most other people do as well. Over for
my cobbies, Daniel Polincia goes to the il because we
can't have nice things. Who was taking over here?
Speaker 3: Well, this should in theory, this should be easier because
he's already got a save. But Caleb Theelburr, theel Bar
file Bar, he got the save, so I would just
go him and just I would ignore the rest of
the guys. But you know, as I say that, probably
by by Friday someone else will have a save. But
I guess Caleb thigh Bar.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would go with thigh Bar as well. He's
the you know, it could be him.
Speaker 1: It could also be Riley Barton, It could be Hobe Milner,
it could be a number of people for the Cubs here,
I think it's still barn first, but he is a lefty,
so you never know how that's.
Speaker 2: Gonna go over In Houston.
Speaker 1: Ail de la Santos gets two saves this week, So
are you cutting Brian and Bradio across the board?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, get a brellwe off your teams. Uh, Brian
Brian Kings still been pretty solid, even though I think
I think Dalo Santo's is the is the closer until
Hayter returns. But King has been good, so it doesn't
hurt to hold on to King for now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, any oldellas Santo's always felt like a guy who's
getta end up in the bullpen. Uh. He's always st
good in spring training, Gray and if you could do
spring training and not regular season, it.
Speaker 2: Just feels like that is a just dead path to
the bullpen.
Speaker 1: Over in Washington, Orlando Rubolta comes up, gets the saves,
gets optioned back down. Just oh, just confusing this even more.
There's not a lot of saves in Washington. But is it?
Speaker 2: Is it Gus Varland, Is it Clayton Beeter?
Speaker 3: Yes, I think it's I think it's those two, Varland
or Beater. I would probably I would probably go Varlin first.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I like Varlin Right now they seem to be going
to him for the saves. Clayton Peters had not the
cleanest of starts to the season. PJ Pulland has been great,
but it feels like he's their multi inning guy.
Speaker 2: I think Brad Lord is kind of the deep, you know,
the dark horse here if you're looking really deep in
Washington for saves and you're in that kind of league.
Speaker 1: But uh, I feel like it's Violin and maybe bee
Her at some point Minnesota. The Twins have five different
pictures that have saved Gray. Are you gonna is it
even worth rostering any of them? And if he were
you rostering?
Speaker 3: Uh No, Yeah, I think someone should have said to uh.
Derek Shelton, their manager, the Twins manager Derek Shelton should
have been asked the question do you think you're smart?
If he answered yes, then someone should have been like, no, no,
you're not not, So stop trying to manage the bullpen.
Just choose a closer and have them be your closer.
Speaker 2: Some guys.
Speaker 3: Pick a guy for a roll. Man, just pick a
guy for a roll. You can't figure this out on
the fly, it's too much for you. I would say
Cole Sand, but in one of my leagues, Cole Sands
got dropped and I ain't picking them up, So there
you go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have him in a number of leagues because
he seemed like a free closer, and uh, I've looked
at dropping him in a few different times.
Speaker 2: So uh, it's it's there. It's it's possibility, you know.
Speaker 1: Funny enough their best bulpan arm Garrett acton this year
so far, he doesn't have safe He's the only person
who doesn't have savings. He's been the best, so uh
fun fun in Minnesota. Over in Sacktown Gray, the A's
are fun to try and figure it out too. Joe
Cunel seemed like he was the closer, and then they
brought in Mark Lighter Junior, to get a safe for
some reason, even though he's terrible. And then there's Hawen
Harrison Scott Barlow there too, So who do you want
here for for the a's.
Speaker 3: You know, I was saying, I think I said on
Rosball the other day that Joel Cwnan might have the
highest velocity for or fastball with the lowest k raid
in the history of baseball. I don't know if anyone's
ever had his sort of velocity and just done nothing
with it. But you know, with that said, I mean,
he's been successful so far, so he would be the
guy I would go for and I would ignore the rest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's probably what I'm doing as well.
You know, I will say Hogan Harris Scott Barlow have
both been pretty solid. I don't necessarily trust Scott Barlow,
but Hogan Harris I wouldn't mind. Adding if you're just
looking for a league pitcher to run out there, who
has a potential for a save opportunity?
Speaker 2: Over in Cincinnati, Emilio Pagan blows the same but gets
the win. Graham Ashcraft actually comes in and closes that one.
Speaker 1: Who is it here in Cintonies it's still Pegane and
who would you grab up if you have him in
your worry?
Speaker 3: Uh, Santillion is I think the clear cut back up.
I think Pegan is still the closer though, I think, yeah,
he has struggled a bit, but I think his leash
is a little bit longer, so I would say, you know,
he's actually one of the He's we've seen this movie
before where like, you know, the closer is terrible and
the guys behind him are very good, but the closer
who's terrible continues to get saves, so we'll see. I
think Pegan's still the guy. Santillion looks like the backup though, Yeah,
I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: The White Sox Sir Anthony Domingas blows to save this week.
He does get another save after that, though, any concern
on Sir Anthony and who would you pick up as
his backup?
Speaker 3: I think Leisure is probably the backup, but I think
Domingas is the closer.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I think it's Domingas. I also agree
at Leisure. Second, I don't know if you want to
speculate him further, and I would say Brian Hudson over
in Miami, Pete Fairbanks blows US has two clean opportunities, including.
Speaker 2: A save in one of those following the blown safe though,
so still feels like he's the guy. But who are
you grabbing if if you're worried in Miami?
Speaker 3: Uh? Actually a guy. I think we talked about on
like the first podcast of the new season. I think
we talked about Tyler Phillips. He's been great. Uh yeah,
we uh we were up on that way early.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: God, so we're so smart.
Speaker 2: We say occasional smart things on this show.
Speaker 1: Tylon Phillips has been great, John King, Lake Picar, really
everybody except for Fairbanks, Foucher and Bender, the three guys
who are supposed to be the closers.
Speaker 2: Everybody El's been phenomenal. Those three have been terrible.
Speaker 3: Those are the guys I have, by the way, that's
who we are, terrible guys. Oh yeah, I have the
terrible guys like like up to my eyes and the
terrible guy.
Speaker 2: Oh so there you go.
Speaker 1: There's I mean, I still think it's Pete Fairbanks. Like
I said, he got two opportunities after I wouldn't hate
picking up Tyler Phillips.
Speaker 2: Though he's been he's been so good.
Speaker 1: He's getting strikeouts, he's getting you know, a good amount
of innings for a reliever as well, so you could
do worse than speculating on him or even Lake McCall,
who has been great for like the last season and
then into this one.
Speaker 2: Give the people some way for wire bats, right, Okay?
Speaker 3: Cool man?
Speaker 2: Uh so?
Speaker 3: Uh, Jeremiah Jackson uh been hot. I don't know how
long Jackson holiday. I guess uh he had a broken
hammetbone and should have went to lynd'or or Corbyn Carroll's
doctor because I don't know what that was Jackson all day.
But anyway, Jeremiah Jackson's been hot. Oswald Praz has been
really hot. That might have a lot to do with
the fact that they were in Yankee Stadium but been hot.
Luke Rayley, Uh, Mariner's been hot. Marcelo Zuna is showing
life there in Pittsburgh. I Uh, I don't think it's
gonna last long, but he has been hot. Josh Young
in Texas been very hot. Johnny uh de Luca Johnny
Johnny de Luca. Uh, he's been hot. Sounds like he's
in the mafia. Okay. Nolan Aernato is actually shown life. Wow,
who would have thought it? Carson Kelly has been hot,
and Mason Wynn, Jake Magnum, Dalton Rushing, and finally ever
since Perea has been hot White Sox outfielder. I don't
think it's gonna continue. Actually, all the guys I mentioned
probably won't continue, not just the not just the ones
I point out. They're all probably probably just hotchmi potatoes.
But they have been hot, so there you Yeah, you know, if.
Speaker 1: They've been hot, then you know there's the possibility they
can continue to be hot.
Speaker 3: So there you go.
Speaker 1: Some streamers for you, Jeffrey Springs at Texas, Davis Martin
at Arizona, Stephen Matts versus Cincinnati, Wild Warren at Houston,
Grant Holmes versus Philly, Play Homes versus Minnesota, Michael McGreevey
at Miami and versus Seattle, Foster Griffin versus Atlanta at
the White Sox, and Ward o' rodrigas versus the White Sox,
and Ret Louder at Tampa Bay versus Detroit. There are
some streamers for you if you have specific questions, you
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