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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll have some new bets on that show.
Speaker 3: That's that's for sure. But uh Man, tough weekend to
Speaker 3: be a Diamondbacks fan. Junior Cameranaro just beat our brains
Speaker 3: in and then I my buddy Joe sent me a
Speaker 3: text and he's like, this guy's gonna sign with the
Speaker 3: Dodgers and just beat the brakes off of us for
Speaker 3: a decade. I think it will be.
Speaker 2: There's no human being hotter than Junior Cameerero right now.
Speaker 2: We actually started the first leading off and say first pitch.
Speaker 2: I believe first pitch, by the way, was posted if
Speaker 2: people are looking out for that, but we started leading
Speaker 2: off talking about it too. There's literally nobody on the
Speaker 2: planet hotter right now than Junior Camenaro. Absolutely ridiculous. Diamondbacks
Speaker 2: helped it. I kind of agree with you. By the way,
Speaker 2: hitting three twenty nine, three twenty three with nine homers
Speaker 2: he's ending June he had is actually hysterical. He had
Speaker 2: a homer every single game against the Diamondbacks. He had
Speaker 2: three against the Royals, so that is six homers in
Speaker 2: four games, but it's actually seven homers in six games
Speaker 2: because he had a homer a couple games prior to
Speaker 2: the Royals.
Speaker 3: They play a double header in there is that like
Speaker 3: also in five days?
Speaker 2: No, it was five at bats? Yeah, five at bats ridiculous, dude.
Speaker 2: I will say, nothing will be more annoying, but maybe
Speaker 2: whatever baseball thing is gonna, you know, work itself out
Speaker 2: or whatever. I say, like, nothing will be more annoying
Speaker 2: than the Rays crying poor and how they have to
Speaker 2: trade Junior Camanio. Like that's the stuff where you just
Speaker 2: eye roll, Like I guess it's one thing if a player.
Speaker 3: To San Diego for the entire system.
Speaker 2: No, but it's like it's one thing I guess if
Speaker 2: you if a player like adamantly does not want to
Speaker 2: come back and stuff like that, and maybe that'll jump
Speaker 2: up or whatever. But like like take a Trek scooble
Speaker 2: or in this case, I imagine Junior Kamanaro loves being
Speaker 2: a Ray and like teams should have the ability to
Speaker 2: sign players they do in basketball, you know the super
Speaker 2: MAXs and stuff like that. You would love to see
Speaker 2: all teams have a viable option to sign players. It's
Speaker 2: just when a billion dollars is being thrown at players
Speaker 2: and stuff like that, Like I don't want to have that.
Speaker 2: I hate Actually, that is maybe the only thing you know,
Speaker 2: in all the baseball's nonsense of this stuff, I don't
Speaker 2: like having. The conversation is is like, well he's going
Speaker 2: to be a Dodger or a Yankee. That we have
Speaker 2: the same conversation about every single player, and it's like that. Definitely,
Speaker 2: you want to see players be able to I want
Speaker 2: to see players like Byron Buckston. I want to see
Speaker 2: them want to be on that team for their career
Speaker 2: and stuff like that. It's just hard when a twenty
Speaker 2: two year old is pacing to have his like second
Speaker 2: straight forty plus homer season. He has a he needs
Speaker 2: twenty six homers to cross one hundred career homers and
Speaker 2: he's twenty two years old. I mean, this sky's the limit.
Speaker 2: He and nobody is hotter on the overall basis. He
Speaker 2: has a batspeed average of eighty miles per hour. Bogman,
Speaker 2: That's an insane number, Like everything is insane across How how.
Speaker 3: Could that dude want to stay in Tampa though? You
Speaker 3: know what I mean? Like I would rather go to
Speaker 3: it somewhere, even if it is the Dodgers somewhere that
Speaker 3: is going to be in the playoffs constantly. Now, the
Speaker 3: Rays have done a really good job of making the
Speaker 3: playoffs with a lower payroll, like historically, they've been one
Speaker 3: of the best teams at it. I just don't know
Speaker 3: how much you can depend on that long term. And
Speaker 3: you're right, it sucks that some of the teams are
Speaker 3: willing to spend money and some aren't. And hopefully the
Speaker 3: new CBA will have something in there. I know they
Speaker 3: discussed maybe contract limits so you can't sign a guy
Speaker 3: like fifteen years like Juan Soto signed and all that stuff.
Speaker 3: So don't know what that's going to look like. It
Speaker 3: seems like the negotiating is just still ugly. So but
Speaker 3: Cameron Aro is white hot, super young, unbelievable right now
Speaker 3: and beat our brains hit for the entire weekend.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, me and Joe we're talking
Speaker 2: about this. Who would you rather next season Cameronaro or
Speaker 2: Kunya Camon Arow? So, okay, so I know you're going
Speaker 2: to I kind of knew you're gonna instantly answer that,
Speaker 2: and that's not necessarily the wrong answer. All the tricky
Speaker 2: thing about Cameron Aro, unlike all the other first round picks,
Speaker 2: is he doesn't come with the stolen bases and he
Speaker 2: just never will. He has zero stolen bases. But real quick,
Speaker 2: you've got Soto who stole the bases. You've got Bobby Witt,
Speaker 2: You've got Corman Carroll, You've got Ellie Day La Cruz,
Speaker 2: You've got Julio Rodriguez. You go across the board. All
Speaker 2: the first round dudes are significant stolen bases that go
Speaker 2: with batting average or solid stolen bases with batting average
Speaker 2: homer potential. They are true five come outcome, true five
Speaker 2: outcome players. When you look at the first two rounds,
Speaker 2: the only guys that really don't have that in them
Speaker 2: is what Camonaro and your Alvarez, Like, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I might be forgetting another Nick Kurtz. I guess would
Speaker 2: be another one of those like those are the only
Speaker 2: non stolen based guys. You do need elite power to
Speaker 2: justify it, and he does have that, but like, do
Speaker 2: you think that makes it tougher for him that there's
Speaker 2: no stole and he's a four category type of player.
Speaker 3: It does, And what I was gonna say was just
Speaker 3: asking me who has more upside because it's still Acunya,
Speaker 3: Like Acunya still has more upside. I understand that, but
Speaker 3: I just don't think. I don't think Acunya is ever
Speaker 3: getting back to that insane season that he had. I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna miss chunks of games moving forward. You
Speaker 3: just kind of have to plan for it. And as
Speaker 3: you mentioned before, Junior Camonaro eleven years old, right, like,
Speaker 3: he turns twenty three on July fifth, so he's still
Speaker 3: very super young. One hundred and fifty four games last year,
Speaker 3: he's already eighty one, and that he's played every game
Speaker 3: or all but one game for the Rays this year. So,
Speaker 3: and you know, third base probably not as bad as
Speaker 3: we thought going into the year. There's some guys that
Speaker 3: have moved up, right, Miguel Vargas has been great, great,
Speaker 3: so is south Stewart, who still qualifies a third. But well,
Speaker 3: Jone's argument was third base has become kind of worse,
Speaker 3: and that's a positional. Maybe it is worse because I
Speaker 3: am looking at Yahoo, So yeah, it is.
Speaker 2: It's a lot worse than you're thinking. Let me let
Speaker 2: me ask you a different player then, Okay, Julia Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: And let's assume Julio's like he was last year, thirty
Speaker 2: thirty to sixty. Who do you want? Camon Aro Julio.
Speaker 2: M that's tougher because maybe Akunya is the only thing.
Speaker 2: The thing that's holding him back is just games played,
Speaker 2: the injury stuff. So but if you take that out
Speaker 2: and you look at like the overall like stolen base
Speaker 2: overall potential, he's kind of struggling with batting average. It's like,
Speaker 2: would you rather camon Aro or Julio?
Speaker 3: I think it's still gonna be cam and Aro. I
Speaker 3: just think Camanaro's gonna hit forty five and driving one
Speaker 3: hundred again.
Speaker 2: Camon Aro or James Wood.
Speaker 3: James Wood.
Speaker 2: James Wood's twenty homers, thirteen stolen bases, two fifty eight average.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like, I think James Wood has more upside for like,
Speaker 3: I just I think the power is a little now.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's more sustainable than it is
Speaker 3: for Julio, but he's you know, Julio's in one of
Speaker 3: the worst hitters environments in Seattle. So Corbyn Carroll or
Speaker 3: who or Junior Corbyn Carroll?
Speaker 2: Corbyn Carroll's thirteen homers nine stolen bases to seventy eight average.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think the stolen bases will pick
Speaker 3: up as well, Like there's no reason that there's no
Speaker 3: reason for him to only be at nine. He has.
Speaker 3: How many triples does a guy have? Like he's got
Speaker 3: a time they need to let him. See.
Speaker 2: I guess what I'm getting at is like, is a
Speaker 2: two sixty twenty five to twenty five guy enough for
Speaker 2: you to go over Cameron Aro or is it more unique?
Speaker 2: Because I mean because corbyck Carroll is paid sixty thirty. Okay,
Speaker 2: but Corby Carroll's not pacing to be to be that guy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but he yeah, you know what I'm saying like that,
Speaker 2: you're right, but he could easily get there.
Speaker 3: You know, one good month, he could have nine stolen bases,
Speaker 3: ten stolen bases in a month and be right on base.
Speaker 3: So uh yeah, I think I think it's probably still
Speaker 3: Carol for me. Okay, Yeah, I mean, and it's like
Speaker 3: Julio's qesable, Like they're all I'll say this as long
Speaker 3: as everybody finishes the year with and we're not going
Speaker 3: into the year twenty twenty seven with you know, injury issues.
Speaker 3: They're all going to be in the same tier.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And like I'm just throwing out too, I'm not
Speaker 2: just again, I'm not against this idea. Elite homers have
Speaker 2: a big place. I do think it. Things got hurt
Speaker 2: a little bit by like Chandler Simpson completely falling apart,
Speaker 2: and then elite players stealing bases like Bobby Witt and
Speaker 2: Jose Ramirez were leading. So that argument where you can
Speaker 2: get later stolen bases, it's hurt a tiny bit more,
Speaker 2: but you can still get those stolen bases. You can still,
Speaker 2: I mean, unfortunately Pete Crow and like guys like James Wood,
Speaker 2: They're going to be more valuable. But there's the Bryce
Speaker 2: terrings of the world. If you can give me forty
Speaker 2: plus homers, I think there is a space that I
Speaker 2: just needed guys like Camonaro and Nick Kurtz to hit
Speaker 2: for average, and they are hitting for average, and Nick
Speaker 2: Kurtz is hitting two seventy nine. You know, Jenna Kamenaro's
Speaker 2: XBA looks great, huge batspeed, huge power, and they both
Speaker 2: are probably pacing out to be close to forty homer guys.
Speaker 2: I think that's okay. I think it's going to be
Speaker 2: a really interesting discussion. Into next year of do I
Speaker 2: want now floor Homer power guys more than I care
Speaker 2: about five tool potential because a lot of these five
Speaker 2: five tool potential guys are coming with weird caveats. Julio
Speaker 2: has had part of a down year. He has these
Speaker 2: first and second half, so kuniyas injured. Ellie had got
Speaker 2: hurt multiple times, Like would you rather just have the
Speaker 2: big power and tackle stolen bases a little bit more?
Speaker 2: And the second or the third or the fourth, you know,
Speaker 2: you get Bryce Terrag and then you get like, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean here the top stolen based guys. By the way,
Speaker 2: here is your board. You have Naesiem Nuniez, who is
Speaker 2: free but is kind of stunk, has thirty two, Bobby
Speaker 2: Witt twenty eight, Jose Ramirez twenty four, Jazz Chisholm with
Speaker 2: twenty four, ONEO Cruz with twenty one, and Pete Crow
Speaker 2: with twenty. So all the guys with twenty four of
Speaker 2: the five were pretty high value guys. But you could
Speaker 2: still get ONEO Cruz cheap. You could get cheap ish Jazz,
Speaker 2: you can get cheapish. And then some guys further down
Speaker 2: road near Randia Rose Arena. Unfortunately, a lot of this
Speaker 2: looks bad. This actually is bad for the list change.
Speaker 2: Let me pick up Marcy Bull.
Speaker 3: Let me make this point. How many hitters there are?
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna give you the number. There are thirty
Speaker 3: three qualified hitters that are hitting two eighty or higher.
Speaker 3: How many of those guys do you think have fifteen
Speaker 3: or more homers? Right?
Speaker 2: Homers are stolen bases homers.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking of the Camonaro side of combining the average
Speaker 3: with the power. That's why I gotcha.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. So there's how many thirty three?
Speaker 3: There's thirty three guys that are hitting two eighty or
Speaker 3: higher and are qualified. How many of those guys also
Speaker 3: have fifteen homers? Oh? Ten, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, seven.
Speaker 3: So those guys are William Contrerez has twenty or I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: Jordan Alvarez is twenty five, so seventeen, Otani has seventeen,
Speaker 3: Caminaro has twenty two, Walker has eighteen, Schmid has sixteen,
Speaker 3: and Wilson Contreras is hitting two eighty one and has seventeen.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean this, Yeah, I mean and a
Speaker 2: lot of those guys are high. I mean again that
Speaker 2: this is why like the second first, second round picks.
Speaker 2: It's like Elite power, Elite stolen bases or the combo players.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be interesting strategy stuff. But all I know
Speaker 2: is like Junia Kamanaro is lighting the world on fire
Speaker 2: and stadium be damned and whatever. It's it's been pretty
Speaker 2: damn cool. No one hotter crazy stuff. Over the last
Speaker 2: couple of days, Carlos Mendoza was fired by the Mets
Speaker 2: Andy Green. By the way, I thought this Andy Green
Speaker 2: was like the former Diamondback Minor League Andy Green. It's
Speaker 2: not him, is it.
Speaker 3: We both have that this is the former padres man try.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, not the not the former farm hand of
Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks. You did it with Chad Tracy, I did, yeah,
Speaker 2: Red Sox, who was a different one, which is stupid.
Speaker 3: Because we had already done the Chad Tracy one before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's the interim coach Mendoza. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: just so indifferent about, Like Joe has all the thoughts
Speaker 2: in Da Da Duck because he's as My.
Speaker 3: Favorite part was mister Mett dancing behind the reporter who
Speaker 3: was reporting Carlos Mendoza being fired, and here comes mister
Speaker 3: Met doing a break dance behind the guy. It's so funny,
Speaker 3: very very funny. I would just say, though, like it's
Speaker 3: just a scapegoat, Like it doesn't matter. Yeah, I think
Speaker 3: it was just a scapegoat. Well, are we surprised that
Speaker 3: he got fired like two days after they had six errors? Right,
Speaker 3: like they're a complete embarrassment. Everything is awful. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's not a surprise at all that.
Speaker 2: He got Maybe the lack of fire is in that,
Speaker 2: like sometimes you might need a manager to light a
Speaker 2: fire under guys by just benching a bunch of dudes,
Speaker 2: Like how about like you know, get into Lindoor and
Speaker 2: Sodo's face, how about bench Ventos and try. I mean
Speaker 2: they kind of did it by giving like binge and
Speaker 2: ewing opportunities. That's why I'm so weird about it. I
Speaker 2: don't really care. I think it's it's just like the
Speaker 2: pieces Mets fans. I think they needed a fall guy
Speaker 2: for the amount of money that they've spent to build
Speaker 2: this team to be playing.
Speaker 3: As bad as they are.
Speaker 2: They didn't make bad moves necessarily, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: Like they did let Edwin Diaz walk, whatever, they brought
Speaker 2: in Devin Williams, they brought in Freddy Peralta. They brought
Speaker 2: in Bobashitt to be fair, and Luis Robert. They made
Speaker 2: all the moves that made people go, wow, we're happy.
Speaker 2: It's just all the pieces were wrong and I'm not
Speaker 2: sure if that other Usually the managers are not involved
Speaker 2: in like a lot of the player talent acquisitions, so
Speaker 2: it's like that's why it's to look somewhere else, but
Speaker 2: it's whatever. Also, the Angels ended up firing Perry and
Speaker 2: they brought in John Moseleyak, Who's gonna be intern GM
Speaker 2: and help hire the next GM. So Angels and Mets
Speaker 2: just kind of clean the house.
Speaker 3: Yeah Mozillac, you know, he worked for the Cardinals forever
Speaker 3: and yeah, was big in their organization. But I was like,
Speaker 3: is he just gonna be the new GM there? And
Speaker 3: he said he was pretty much like nope, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: help them hire somebody else I'm not doing I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna be the GM again. So it was almost kind
Speaker 3: of like, you're not gonna blame this Angels team on me,
Speaker 3: Like I loved having a I love having a job
Speaker 3: in baseball.
Speaker 2: But I'm not gonna be either way. That's an adult
Speaker 2: saying like, no, don't put me in the position that's
Speaker 2: gonna get me fired. I will help in the consulting
Speaker 2: to bring the person I.
Speaker 3: Want to live in Orange County. Please and talk about
Speaker 3: baseball as my job. That's what I want to do.
Speaker 2: Percent I want to make, you know, probably super high
Speaker 2: six to seven figures and not have the responsibility. That's
Speaker 2: a great job. That's getting older and wiser. But a
Speaker 2: couple firings out there. The one of the bigger, more
Speaker 2: frustrating pieces of news. Wyatt Langford. Man, Wyatt Langford came
Speaker 2: out like gangbusters off of his so season, started underperform,
Speaker 2: gets hurt, has a bad reaction, comes back and is like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's back. Three seventeen in June seven homers, three stolen bases,
Speaker 2: almost had more RBI than strikeouts, which is pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Three seventy one OBP. He had hits in what is
Speaker 2: this nine of his last ten games. We're like, dude,
Speaker 2: Wyatt Langford, he's rolling back, he's increasing his barrel percentage
Speaker 2: a bit, he's luring his strikeout rate, he's getting the
Speaker 2: ball in the air, and he's gone because he's now
Speaker 2: out until after the All Star break with a hamstring strain.
Speaker 2: I don't believe that what was the last thing? Wasn't
Speaker 2: it his like shoulder, it was something because because he
Speaker 2: took a bad swing and he was out. Now he's
Speaker 2: got a hamstring strain. Maybe it's just going to be
Speaker 2: one of those like weird losty years. I'm really torn
Speaker 2: on what to do because him being able to turn
Speaker 2: it around it's key to the future value. I just
Speaker 2: don't know if this is going to be a permanent
Speaker 2: problem with him or is this just like a time
Speaker 2: in a the small little time capsule of where we're
Speaker 2: at with him, and people are gonna over inflate like
Speaker 2: he's massively injury prone. All I know is there a
Speaker 2: people that are writing him.
Speaker 3: The hell off. I mean, I think it's fine to
Speaker 3: write him off for the rest of this year, right,
Speaker 3: like I know, out through the All Star break and
Speaker 3: all that stuff. But like my man guy is constantly hurt.
Speaker 3: He keeps going on the il.
Speaker 2: No interest in buying him second half of this year.
Speaker 3: No, it's a hamstring over and over, isn't it. Hasn't
Speaker 3: it been the hamstring? A couple of times I thought,
Speaker 3: now I want to see, like I'm looking, I'm.
Speaker 2: Looking at as Wyatt forearm. I guess it was the
Speaker 2: forearm early, That's what it was, because remember I was
Speaker 2: it was out here where he swung and hurting himself,
Speaker 2: and I didn't think that was.
Speaker 3: It was a quad earlier too. Yeah, right, squad, the forearm,
Speaker 3: the hamstring, oh, my throat, neck, chest, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. Like, it just seems like it's everything then
Speaker 3: the oblique last year. So I don't know it's it is.
Speaker 3: It's nice that it's not the same injury happening over
Speaker 3: and over and over. That's a good point, right, But
Speaker 3: it's some injury happening over and over and over. So
Speaker 3: I think I think you're right in the fact of
Speaker 3: we don't know what to do with him. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna buy him low. I understand. It is
Speaker 3: a good time if you're gonna buy him, buy him now.
Speaker 3: People are frustrated. We had someone in our grooming room.
Speaker 3: They're like, this dude is made of glass. He is
Speaker 3: never going to you know, he's never gonna get right.
Speaker 3: People are frustrated. So it's gonna be good time to
Speaker 3: buy in Dynasty. It's a good time to buy if
Speaker 3: you believe he's gonna come back after the break and
Speaker 3: have uh, you know, a nice rest of the season.
Speaker 3: I I just think for the rest of this year,
Speaker 3: I'm probably a no go on Langford and going it
Speaker 3: like in Redraft, I think I'll be low. I did
Speaker 3: not low in Dynasty. We've seen it before, like the
Speaker 3: floor is already established, so u it is still very good.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, Uh, depending on what he looks
Speaker 3: like at the end of the year, That's how I'll
Speaker 3: think of him going in. But I don't want to
Speaker 3: buy him now because I'm afraid he's gonna miss more
Speaker 3: time than they think. Because when it's three injuries in
Speaker 3: one season, you're g gotta baby that guy back too.
Speaker 2: So I just wonder is part of the babying this,
Speaker 2: Like if you really wanted, you know, you could you
Speaker 2: could have let him push through it or maybe push
Speaker 2: back like a tiny bit like Quicker, But this is
Speaker 2: like a you know, we're gonna have him push after
Speaker 2: the All Star break that gives him roughly probably close
Speaker 2: to three weeks to get right. I don't know, You're
Speaker 2: You're probably right in that buying him this year it's
Speaker 2: really risky. I think if you wanted to do it.
Speaker 2: I could co sign if it doesn't cost a ton
Speaker 2: because his return was so vintage Wyatt Langford and vintage.
Speaker 2: I mean again, you know last year he to forty one.
Speaker 2: He was a twenty twenty guy. He was easily pacing
Speaker 2: out to surpass that this year, which looks like better
Speaker 2: at least in the short term. It's been better contact skills.
Speaker 2: His XBA is only two forty one and at two
Speaker 2: seventy eight, But like that, he showed you a good
Speaker 2: sign of life for this month if you wanted to buy, like, okay,
Speaker 2: he could get right. I don't hate it. I just
Speaker 2: think it's really risky. It's better dynasty play. It's a
Speaker 2: much better dynasty play for you.
Speaker 3: Go see what he is in dynasty, especially if you're
Speaker 3: a bottom feeder, like, go see what the cost on
Speaker 3: Langford is.
Speaker 2: Yea, if a winning team has Langford and he's banged
Speaker 2: up and you've got some you know, you probably have
Speaker 2: to give up, you know, probably multiple pieces, something that's
Speaker 2: like really overperforming and then something that abides him for
Speaker 2: the future a little bit while you take white Langford.
Speaker 2: I like that idea, and looking.
Speaker 3: Back at his injuries from last year, it was really
Speaker 3: the oblique all year that dogged him. So it was
Speaker 3: one injury last year that bothered him throughout the season.
Speaker 3: This year it has been different injuries. So I'll take
Speaker 3: this year over last year for sure, because it doesn't
Speaker 3: seem like it's anything long term.
Speaker 2: How he needs to drop some weight. Not in that
Speaker 2: he's fair, he's just like dude's built. He's like musk,
Speaker 2: really muscular. I wonder if like maybe a little less stiff. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: maybe you need to go for a little bit more
Speaker 2: agility and take off a little bit of that muscle
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 3: Well Schwantson'm working with a Yogi stat yet, get Let's
Speaker 3: get him some bendiness in here, some flexibility, Please.
Speaker 2: Do something, man. Kyle Schwarber has reached thirty homers pre
Speaker 2: All Star Break. How many homers did Kyle Schwarber have
Speaker 2: at the All Star break last year? Probably thirty? He
Speaker 2: had thirty. He had thirty homers at thirty five by
Speaker 2: the time we get there. Now, Yeah, he's pacing out better.
Speaker 2: He's also pacing out way more strikeouts as well. Thirty
Speaker 2: four percent k percentage.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 2: He's kind of insane because he's hitting for a better
Speaker 2: batting average, he has higher homer and totals, He's striking
Speaker 2: out way more, the outcomes are becoming a little bit
Speaker 2: more predictable. But he looks like he's I mean, he's
Speaker 2: on pace to put up another sixty home run season,
Speaker 2: which is absolutely absurd. And he's he's pushing the boundaries
Speaker 2: of the cost to a player that has batting average risk. Again, Like, now,
Speaker 2: let me let me tell this at you. If you
Speaker 2: had the option to take Man, if I could get
Speaker 2: the right guys here, I'd have to be looking at
Speaker 2: I'm not going to get the right guys here on
Speaker 2: the player raider. But it's like if you had the
Speaker 2: chance to take Junior Camonaro and let's say Fernando Tatis.
Speaker 2: Let's say Tatis is gonna move himself out into the
Speaker 2: third he can't hit home or second round he can't
Speaker 2: hit homers anymore, get some stolen bases, or you go
Speaker 2: and take a Ellie de la Cruz and the second
Speaker 2: round get a Kyle Schwarber. So get where I'm going here, Like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you have some batting average risk with the power in
Speaker 2: the second round and you get your stolen bases in
Speaker 2: the first, Or do you just like the idea of
Speaker 2: the floor of a guy like Kurtz or Camonaro, and
Speaker 2: then you take a stolen basy guy in the second
Speaker 2: I'm using probably the best upsided sample. If you believe
Speaker 2: his power is going to come back. You know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 3: I think there's stolen base's, stolen based guys to get
Speaker 3: so you know later, So just give him the power.
Speaker 2: Would you do Junior Camanaro and Kyle Schwarber together?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, I mean camin arow hits for power for
Speaker 3: all traverage and so he'll bring up that's like, that's
Speaker 3: like two two sixty guys that are going to average
Speaker 3: fifty homers. Yes, please, thank Do you think it all?
Speaker 2: Falling Knife is gonna be a part of Kyle Schwarber
Speaker 2: or is it? If he has two fifty plus homer
Speaker 2: seasons like no one's. And what I mean when I
Speaker 2: say falling Knife is he's thirty three be thirty four
Speaker 2: next year? Is that the time where thing I kind
Speaker 2: of don't feel like a guy's a d h you know,
Speaker 2: big thick bodied guy like you look at thirty four
Speaker 2: you kind of feel like you can do this till
Speaker 2: thirty seven, which by justifiably that should probably be a
Speaker 2: wheel pick if he if he hits another fifty plus homers.
Speaker 2: What was his ADP this year?
Speaker 3: What was Kyle Schwarber's Kyle Schwell, he was in the twenties.
Speaker 2: Let me see, two thousand.
Speaker 3: I don't think it was lower than that.
Speaker 2: Was it eight?
Speaker 3: Last year? Fifty six?
Speaker 2: Was it? I'm hoping this is pre drafts. He was
Speaker 2: twenty one consensus, Yeah, seventeen on Yahoo twenty in the tent.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a wheel pick this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean he's just showing consistency. I think
Speaker 3: you're right in thinking about falling knife, like specifically if
Speaker 3: he has you know, if he gets to fifteen, then
Speaker 3: like falls off at the very end. I think people
Speaker 3: will worry about that and maybe maybe he won't be
Speaker 3: a turn player. Maybe he'll be right where he was
Speaker 3: last year. But I think you start thinking about that
Speaker 3: stuff when the cracks really start showing, and can they
Speaker 3: show up at any point after you know, thirty three? Sure,
Speaker 3: but I would for a guy like him that doesn't
Speaker 3: have to play the field and just gets to go
Speaker 3: out there and hit every day thirty five, that's probably
Speaker 3: when I would start worrying about it.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. He's absolutely insane. Season other news is floating
Speaker 2: out there. Ellie Daily Cruz, after returning from an injury,
Speaker 2: sprained his ankle on Sunday, but he did stay in
Speaker 2: the game, so that's good.
Speaker 3: Maybe give you an imaging today. I haven't seen any
Speaker 3: I haven't seen an update yet today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's probably it's all just like precautionary stuff.
Speaker 2: Jack Kagleon was scratched Sunday with groin tightness. He'd been
Speaker 2: on a little skid after being you know, the Kyle
Speaker 2: Schwarber at that time, one of the hottest players in baseball.
Speaker 2: Tiny little skid going on fourteen homers. Everything's rolling. Probably
Speaker 2: need to watch the back probably something to do with it,
Speaker 2: you know, maybe this back thing there's or I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: was groin soreness. If if you had some of these
Speaker 2: this soreness kind of lingering for the last couple of days,
Speaker 2: maybe this was finally like that was the cause of
Speaker 2: the skid. Let him rest, get a couple of games,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, kind.
Speaker 3: Of like the Royals are going anywhere, so might as
Speaker 3: well let him rest it up.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Jaska Hernandez is expected back today. Another We got Connor
Speaker 2: Griffin back on Friday, which was great. Some injury stuff
Speaker 2: floating out the Yandi Diez left with a shoulder strain
Speaker 2: on Sunday, hopes to play on Tuesday. Johneo Suarez left
Speaker 2: after being hit in the hand on Sunday. X rays were,
Speaker 2: uh inconclusive, So that's not great. Maybe because of swelling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he did he get he got hit
Speaker 3: and they you know, X ray him immediately after the game.
Speaker 3: So another one that we're waiting for an update today.
Speaker 3: Will probably hear something, but I just don't see anything
Speaker 3: quite yet.
Speaker 2: Crazy Willie Damas dealing with some back spasms. Chris Bassett
Speaker 2: had a procedure to remove bone spurs in his back.
Speaker 2: Will be reevaluated a couple of weeks, probably out until August.
Speaker 2: Some ilestins Jesus Sanchez il the ankle sprain, Marcus Simeon
Speaker 2: ile hip strain, and then some other floating back news here,
Speaker 2: uh Seawan Keys, Cooper Ingle, and then Christian morr Is
Speaker 2: actually option Ingle called up. Shawn Keys called up. I
Speaker 2: don't think there's a ton of fantasy Cooper Ingle. Maybe
Speaker 2: if he gets more of a long term not a
Speaker 2: ton of fantasy value. Hilariously, two former diamond back signed
Speaker 2: some minor league deals. Carlos Santanas signed to deal with
Speaker 2: Atlanta and then Tommy fam your boy returning to the Phillies. Right, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 3: Probably played everywhere. Uh so hopey, what what is the
Speaker 3: triple A for the Phillies Lehigh Valley?
Speaker 2: That sounds about right, Yeah, good luck.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Carlos Santana went is hlaiers. I saw some account
Speaker 2: just crying, like so you're saying he was injured the
Speaker 2: whole time and then he could just sign brother Carlos
Speaker 2: Santana was horrible. The Diabacs kept him down here because
Speaker 2: they did not want to bring him up.
Speaker 3: I mean they still don't have it. And this is
Speaker 3: what the worst first base of all time or whatever
Speaker 3: you gave us, that's that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where that's at now.
Speaker 3: The worst war in the history of baseball ever? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Ops, it was the worst. Ops.
Speaker 3: And he can't make that squad. He's just done, like, yeah,
Speaker 3: there's nothing there. Get him a microphone, man.
Speaker 2: You know. Trade deadline is gonna start looming a little
Speaker 2: bit here, and interesting that Orioles are planning to buy
Speaker 2: at the trade deadlines, so we have to see what
Speaker 2: that ends up. Looking like, they got a couple young
Speaker 2: pieces that haven't materialized. I wonder if they would be
Speaker 2: trade bait like you know, the Kobe Meos of the world,
Speaker 2: the Dylan Beavers. They definitely have some pieces in their
Speaker 2: minor league system. They got some interesting pictures. I don't
Speaker 2: think any blockbustery type of guys, but Luis de Leon,
Speaker 2: Nestor Herman. You know, they got some fun hitter like
Speaker 2: They've just they've got the pieces. I don't think to
Speaker 2: make blockbuster trades. I think they're gonna do what they
Speaker 2: did in free agency. They're just gonna make like boring moves.
Speaker 2: You know. They're just gonna like go and acquire like
Speaker 2: a I mean, you know, go and look at the
Speaker 2: trade market potential. They'll buy someone on the bottom half.
Speaker 2: Maybe they buy a bat like. I just don't know
Speaker 2: what the buyers for the Orioles look like, but I
Speaker 2: think that's interesting that they are buyers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what do you think after I think we're a
Speaker 3: game below five hundred now, just got swept by the
Speaker 3: Rays all these picture injuries. Do you think the d
Speaker 3: Backs are still buyers or do you think they're starting
Speaker 3: to look at selling.
Speaker 2: I mean they should. They're twelve and a half back
Speaker 2: in the divisi Let me look where the wild card is. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're I mean they're only three back in the wild Card,
Speaker 2: but they're.
Speaker 3: The division is almost like can we even count the
Speaker 3: division anymore? It's probably the Dodgers by ten games every year.
Speaker 2: But I mean by that standard, like, no one's really
Speaker 2: out of it. But Giants, Mets, and Rockies are at
Speaker 2: least nine games out of the wild card. Diamondbacks are
Speaker 2: only three. I think they gotta like they gotta lose
Speaker 2: like two more series for them to do it. But
Speaker 2: the problem is is, like Meryl Kelly and and Zach
Speaker 2: Gallon don't have any trade value. Who would want them? Like,
Speaker 2: who would want unless there's a team that thinks they
Speaker 2: can fix something or pitching in their ballpark, like the
Speaker 2: Cubs of Gallon or whatever.
Speaker 3: But somebody with a pitcher injury, they'll just try to
Speaker 3: get somebody to eat anything.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I was almost gonna say, like if you
Speaker 2: were trying to piece the Orioles with like the dime,
Speaker 2: I just don't.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think the Diamondbacks pieces are good. I don't
Speaker 2: think there's any fit unless they want depth. They want
Speaker 2: to be like, oh maybe we can get Meryl fixed
Speaker 2: or whatever and you get them in Baltimore. I could
Speaker 2: totally see that for like nothing, but it it'd be
Speaker 2: Interesting's to be interesting. The next couple of weeks is
Speaker 2: going to be super fascinating with you've got Future's game,
Speaker 2: you've got draft, you've got All Star break, you've got
Speaker 2: trade deadline looming. Like there's just a lot of we have,
Speaker 2: by the way, our second half draft to take a
Speaker 2: look at. Like there's just there's a lot of interesting
Speaker 2: conversations around all this. Some guys coming back from injury.
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker returned on Saturday with a homer after missing
Speaker 2: a couple of games with the back spasms. Daniel Palencia
Speaker 2: is rehabbing, but he's gonna be out until after the
Speaker 2: All Star break. Mike Trout took thirty swings, did some
Speaker 2: running on Saturday. Might be back before the All Star break.
Speaker 2: I bet they'd take it easy on Yeah, there was
Speaker 2: rumor he wanted to do the home run derby. I
Speaker 2: imagine that's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: He did say that that's going to keep him out.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Okay, Trent Grisham is going to be returning
Speaker 2: at some point this week after that hamstring injury. Nick
Speaker 2: Pavetta should begin throwing off a mound soon. There's no timetable,
Speaker 2: but they're saying like sometime after the All Star break,
Speaker 2: probably August. We had Adlie Rechmand chased a lot of
Speaker 2: Christian Scott All activated from the IL and then negatively,
Speaker 2: I suppose Baltimore Jackson Holiday had been out for four
Speaker 2: games of growing tightness, but he did return on Friday.
Speaker 2: So a lot of injury things loomin out there. All right,
Speaker 2: let's take a break when we come back. Let's take
Speaker 2: a look at the last seven days. There's a guy
Speaker 2: named Luis Garcia that pops up on some of these
Speaker 2: lists because he has quietly been having a ridiculous season.
Speaker 2: Give us an opportunity to break down some players, a
Speaker 2: couple of struggling guys we can throw out, look at
Speaker 2: pitchers and closers, and that's what we got for you
Speaker 2: right here on in this league.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, let me.
Speaker 2: Explain something to you.
Speaker 1: I am not in this league. You're in this league.
Speaker 3: I'm the dude. You are one pathetic loser.
Speaker 2: Production. Over the last seven days, no hitter had a
Speaker 2: better batting average than Louis Garcia. He's also up here
Speaker 2: in the homers. The RBIs we're going to be talking
Speaker 2: about the runs. He did a little bit of everything.
Speaker 2: He had five twenty six over the last week. Freddie
Speaker 2: Freeman is right behind him, just under five hundred. TJ.
Speaker 2: Runfield has been on this list multiple times. Four fifty eight,
Speaker 2: Yon Di Diez, Xavier Edwards, Miguel Vargas, a lot of
Speaker 2: guys that you kind of have seen but I had,
Speaker 2: And it happens all the time, dude. You know, you
Speaker 2: just doesn't matter if you do this five days a
Speaker 2: week like I do, or sometimes into the weekends you
Speaker 2: do daily shows. You just get lost in players, especially
Speaker 2: if you don't own them in fantasy or whatever. I
Speaker 2: had one of those moments when I saw Louis Garcia's
Speaker 2: two homer game and I was like, sixteen what? And
Speaker 2: then I go and look at the profile and I'm
Speaker 2: like what. Luis Garcia is quietly having a bonker season.
Speaker 2: He hit all of sixteen homers last year, eighteen homers
Speaker 2: a year before. He's hitting two seventy nine with sixteen homers.
Speaker 2: He's stolen bases are way down, only two compared to
Speaker 2: fourteen last year. He's got a five forty three slug
Speaker 2: and eight fifty ops, obviously all career highs. His barrel
Speaker 2: percentages up, his exit velocity average x velosity is up
Speaker 2: two miles per hour, his heart hit rate is up
Speaker 2: close to two percent out percentage points. He's getting the
Speaker 2: ball in the air more than he has ever done before.
Speaker 2: He's pulling it more than he's ever done. Not elite,
Speaker 2: but he's pulling it. XBA is at two ninety one
Speaker 2: with a better k percentage than in years prior.
Speaker 3: It's just crazy. It's just absolutely crazy. The season that
Speaker 3: he's had quietly pretty ridiculous. What are your thoughts on
Speaker 3: Luis Garcia. I mean, it's just like you said, it's
Speaker 3: this month, right, it's June. He hit well in April
Speaker 3: and May, like he hit two fifty three. He had
Speaker 3: one homer between March and April. In May at eighty eight.
Speaker 3: Picked it up a little bit with four homers, but
Speaker 3: he's only at seven runs. He is hitting at thirty
Speaker 3: RBI this month, eleven homers, twenty five RBI. He has
Speaker 3: seventeen runs as well, and he's hitting three h four.
Speaker 3: The average has climbed every month. The power has gone
Speaker 3: crazy here. This is a dude that is not looking
Speaker 3: forward to the All Start break right, like he wants
Speaker 3: let's play through. Come on, no All Star break please.
Speaker 3: So he is white hot. So I don't know what
Speaker 3: you do with him. I mean, try to trade him now,
Speaker 3: but you just ride this way, get anything for him.
Speaker 2: He's one hundred percent one of those dudes like he
Speaker 2: is better for your team than he is in the
Speaker 2: trade market. I know I have said this once or
Speaker 2: twice before in the years passing. It might have been
Speaker 2: more in prospect one. But I will never forget back
Speaker 2: to when he was here in the Arizona Fall League,
Speaker 2: and I remember watching a beat because at the time
Speaker 2: Luis Garcia was not a homer guy at all. He
Speaker 2: was a contact across his body hitter. But then I
Speaker 2: was at a BEAT. I was at a session over
Speaker 2: i Puire Sports Complex where he was running VP, and
Speaker 2: I saw him in batting practice just pulling the ball,
Speaker 2: just doing what opposite of what he does in game,
Speaker 2: and dude, he was hitting tanks and I was like, man,
Speaker 2: there really is just like there's a real ability hit
Speaker 2: for power, but it never it didn't feel like it
Speaker 2: was ever going to materialize, and then it just started to.
Speaker 2: So it's like it's it doesn't feel out of pocket,
Speaker 2: especially knowing that like he can be a contact guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's run higher xbas than his batting average
Speaker 2: over the last two years, and he had a high
Speaker 2: XBA three years ago as well. It's low strikeouts and
Speaker 2: you can see the improvements. Plus by the way he's
Speaker 2: dominating against righty's. Fourteen of his sixteen homers have come
Speaker 2: against right handed hitters. Now, to be fair, it's a
Speaker 2: little platoony. He's not playing a ton against lefties, but
Speaker 2: he's hitting two eighty six against lefties.
Speaker 3: Does he need to play against lefties with those numbers?
Speaker 3: He doesn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he doesn't have a babbit issue.
Speaker 3: I mean yes, this month, like, uh, you know, his
Speaker 3: war is like fourteenth or whatever. Because of his defensive numbers,
Speaker 3: he just plays first base. He doesn't do a lot
Speaker 3: on defense, but his offense number is you know, batting
Speaker 3: and base running, he's four. It's Pca cagleon Otani. Those
Speaker 3: are the only three guys I had of him for June.
Speaker 2: Trying to I mean, I don't know if you know,
Speaker 2: if you could do, like, let me look at this
Speaker 2: real quick at first base? Although, like, who'd you rather?
Speaker 2: I'm gonna pull up my rest of season ranks because
Speaker 2: I again I just did not have him where he
Speaker 2: should be. Would you rather Luis Garcia or Bryce Eldridge?
Speaker 2: Bryce Eldridge is hitting knows it, thinks about it, is
Speaker 2: hitting two seventy nine with six homers in one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty at bats so far this year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's Garcia for me, and that's Washington
Speaker 3: is leading the league in runs. The whole offense is healthy,
Speaker 3: They're just not as San Francisco, so uh, if we
Speaker 3: are splitting hairs, that would be it.
Speaker 2: Here's a really interesting how about this rest of season
Speaker 2: Luis Garcia or the injured Vinie pas Quentino, who hit
Speaker 2: FO Yeah, I don't want Vinie either. I think I
Speaker 2: would do that. This is a really tough one. How
Speaker 2: about Casey Schmidt who also has sixteen homers, hit two
Speaker 2: ninety with seven stolen bases in San Francisco though, really
Speaker 2: hot star, Which one of those hot bats.
Speaker 3: Would you rather? Is there someone that's gonna end up
Speaker 3: on a team a different team quicker than Casey Schmidt, right,
Speaker 3: like the Giants they got a trade for something.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, but no, but I actually think the opposite.
Speaker 2: Like they've got three contracts that I think are almost untradeable.
Speaker 2: You can't start then trading away your young assets that
Speaker 2: can help you in that time. I think Casey Schmidt
Speaker 2: can't be traded for that.
Speaker 3: How much how much team control they have. He's twenty seven, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think they've got a couple more years on him, right,
Speaker 3: he's he's arbitration eligible next year. But he is a
Speaker 3: free agent twenty thirty.
Speaker 2: And they've got twenty five million on Chapman. They've got
Speaker 2: like thirty plus terrible covers, terrible, three terrible contracts they're
Speaker 2: sitting on. I suppose he's doing a real great job.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't think he can go anywhere. But
Speaker 2: like when you start, okay, here here's one, this is
Speaker 2: a better one. It's Garcia for me, Luis Garcia or
Speaker 2: Alkamoto who's nineteen homers but hitting just two thirty eight.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll take a Kamoo there, Like those homers are
Speaker 3: coming crazy.
Speaker 2: And three more than Garcia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I don't know a Kamoto has been playing
Speaker 3: great recently.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not trying to argue that. I think that's
Speaker 2: the kind of the line.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, but I think that's a good I
Speaker 3: think these are good names. Casey Schmidt is tough. I
Speaker 3: think a Kamoto would definitely take. But that's you know,
Speaker 3: that's also a borderline. Garcia. You know, Garcia got no
Speaker 3: love in the off season. I feel like, so yeah,
Speaker 3: but here we are sitting in June, and he was
Speaker 3: pretty pedestrian in the first couple of months, but this
Speaker 3: tune has really picked him up. And it's just so
Speaker 3: good to be on the best offensive baseball right now.
Speaker 2: A guy that has been hot kind of all season
Speaker 2: long too, TJ Rumfield, who is on here hitting two
Speaker 2: ninety four, twelve homers, three seventy two OBP. Batting skills
Speaker 2: are kind of like weird. That actually remind me of
Speaker 2: like what Trevor Larnick has changed to. It's like low,
Speaker 2: hard hit, not crazy barrel. He does get the ball
Speaker 2: in the air and he pulls it and he has
Speaker 2: really low strikeouts. That's like this new version of the
Speaker 2: players we've been seeing. You know, they're the guys that
Speaker 2: have crazy, hard to hit, crazy barrel, they get the
Speaker 2: ball in the air like insane, crazy bat speed. And
Speaker 2: then he got these guys that they don't live in
Speaker 2: that world. They've got slow bats that wait, they get
Speaker 2: the ball in the air and pull it. But it's
Speaker 2: not big barreled stuff. It's not big hard hit stuff.
Speaker 2: And that's who TJ. Rumfield has been. He had one
Speaker 2: little blip in April where he hit two twenty nine,
Speaker 2: otherwise three ten in May, three eighteen in June and
Speaker 2: has put up just this really solid season. Are you
Speaker 2: a buyer of what TJ. Rumfield is doing or do
Speaker 2: you just still hate the kind of the weird profile
Speaker 2: that he's putting out ninety one point eight percent zone
Speaker 2: contact right by the way, Yeah, it's not that.
Speaker 3: I hate the profile. It's that I you know, his
Speaker 3: xba's two forty seven. Uh so I don't expect this
Speaker 3: two ninety four to stay. And I mean, just across
Speaker 3: all these you know projections, I think is average, where'd
Speaker 3: it go? Yeah, it goes. It's usually in the two fifties,
Speaker 3: two fifty six, two fifty nine, two fifty four, but
Speaker 3: up to two seventy four. So I just don't know
Speaker 3: what he's going to hit for the rest of the
Speaker 3: area's stealing no bases. I think the power is replaceable.
Speaker 3: So and does he have any home road things? Two
Speaker 3: eighty four verse three or four? Uh seven homers at
Speaker 3: home and five away? So the power is playing, which
Speaker 3: is nice. I would say I'm lukewarm on TJ. Runfield.
Speaker 3: I don't hate him, but I don't think I'm going
Speaker 3: out of my way to acquire him now he is.
Speaker 3: What do you think his ownership percentage is? Oh, I
Speaker 3: was just about to look I I'm on Yahoo.
Speaker 2: Well, I have the consensus, okay of these, so I'm
Speaker 2: going to guess his Yahoo percentage is around sixty five
Speaker 2: percent forty six percent. Okay, Well, this is going to
Speaker 2: surprise you. His consensus between Yahoo and ESPN fifty one percent.
Speaker 2: So I'm surprised. Yeah, well, I think he's points the guy,
Speaker 2: though he is clearly a point. He makes a lot
Speaker 2: of contact, doesn't strike out a whole bunch. You know,
Speaker 2: he's actually better on the road than he is at home. Like,
Speaker 2: I just think it's sustainable. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 2: be sexy or anything like that. I mean his XBA
Speaker 2: tells a much different story. Hitting two forty seven.
Speaker 3: But I just don't think there's anything special. And if
Speaker 3: he hits two forty five, he's going to be a jag,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: And to be fair, if if because he doesn't have
Speaker 2: a ton of homers, if it does pace back, he
Speaker 2: might have a good season looking total where he hits
Speaker 2: like two sixty five with twenty homers or twenty four
Speaker 2: homers or something like that. But if all the good
Speaker 2: already came out and it's like the next three months
Speaker 2: is mediocre, you know, it's tough to justify in a
Speaker 2: ten team league or whatever. But I just think he's sneaky.
Speaker 2: I'm willing he's definitely sneak right now. Lots of his
Speaker 2: own contact, doesn't strike out, does a good job pulling
Speaker 2: in the air, you know, better on the road than he's.
Speaker 3: Been three or four basically all year in the lineup two.
Speaker 3: I'm still good with that.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Colorado, here in a second homers the last
Speaker 2: week seven by Junior Camonero, half of them by the
Speaker 2: from the Diamondbacks. Luis Garcia had six, a couple players
Speaker 2: with four, Jack Peterson and Hunter Goodman. Have you seen
Speaker 2: the Hunter Goodman split thing.
Speaker 3: Which one Okay, Colorado splits. Get take take a guess at.
Speaker 2: What you think his his split looks like. In Colorado.
Speaker 2: He's hitting two forty two on the season. He got
Speaker 2: twenty five homers. He's ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Uh, let's say twenty at home and five on the road.
Speaker 2: And what do you think the batting averages?
Speaker 3: Oh, to seventy verses like two fifteen.
Speaker 2: Two eighty four versus one ninety three. Holy crap, But
Speaker 2: that's in favor of the road. He is hitting only
Speaker 2: one ninety three in Colorado, two eighty four on the road.
Speaker 3: And guess what those homers have to be on the road.
Speaker 2: Then eighteen of the twenty five homers on the road,
Speaker 2: He's hitting seven homers with a one ninety three batting
Speaker 2: average in Colorado.
Speaker 3: Huh did he do that last year too? Is this
Speaker 3: a trend for him last year? I don't believe it
Speaker 3: was last year. No, he hit three seven at home
Speaker 3: and two forty eight on the road. He did hit
Speaker 3: eighteen homers on the road, so more than half of
Speaker 3: his thirty one homers. But that's I'm going to say
Speaker 3: this is an anomaly and it will not continue.
Speaker 2: That's actually kind of where I'm at too, which makes
Speaker 2: him scarier. That makes Hunter Goodman even scary. If if
Speaker 2: you are underperforming at home in the best hitter friendly
Speaker 2: environment out there to this level, I just have to assume,
Speaker 2: like hnter G. Goodmin's going to hit forty plus homers, Like,
Speaker 2: I just don't think that's going to continue. I've never
Speaker 2: seen it before. What's the cause of it?
Speaker 1: Are you?
Speaker 3: Is he doing very strange?
Speaker 2: Is he over? Because check this out too.
Speaker 3: Think he's pressing at home teen.
Speaker 2: Degree launch angle with a thirty percent pold rate. That's absurd.
Speaker 2: Those are that's some of the high and with a
Speaker 2: seventeen percent barrel rate, those are some of the highest
Speaker 2: out there. How is that not working in Colorado? Is
Speaker 2: he not able to do that in Colorado?
Speaker 3: Is it over? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I just don't know what it looks like. He does
Speaker 2: have a thirty almost three percent k percentage, which is bad,
Speaker 2: But it's one of the weirdest splits I've ever seen.
Speaker 3: That's very, very strange, and it's so weird that I
Speaker 3: would say it probably cannot continue to the end of
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 2: I kind of think so too, But it's like, I
Speaker 2: don't know what you do with him, But I just thought,
Speaker 2: like me and Joe were talking about it, it is
Speaker 2: like it's one of the weirder things that's that's out
Speaker 2: there for sure. The other guy I wanted to mention
Speaker 2: Jacques Peterson. I don't know why I can't get him
Speaker 2: to pop up now, but Jock hat there we go.
Speaker 2: Jock had four homers this past week up to thirteen
Speaker 2: with a two forty ish batting average, but hitting almost
Speaker 2: two fifty on the month. So I don't know if
Speaker 2: you have any thoughts on Jock as he starts to
Speaker 2: roll it out.
Speaker 3: I mean, well, let me ask you this, would you
Speaker 3: rather rest this season Jock or Rumfield?
Speaker 2: Rumfield?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but you Yeah, I think so too. You know, Jock.
Speaker 3: Jock is all just power in driving and runs so
Speaker 3: uh decent producer. But I probably try for some upside
Speaker 3: with Rumfield. But yeah, I mean it's it's a good
Speaker 3: year for Jock. And he can still hit righty's like crazy,
Speaker 3: He's still you know, two forty six with twelve homers,
Speaker 3: and he but it cannot hit lefties one seventy six
Speaker 3: and one homer and only seventeen at They just won't
Speaker 3: let him even try. But if he can be a
Speaker 3: dog as a as a side platoon. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 3: can manage, especially if you're in daily it is. It
Speaker 3: can be a little bit tougher when you play in
Speaker 3: like weekly moves leagues and stuff like that. When you
Speaker 3: play in like daily moves and you can just move
Speaker 3: him in and out, I think it makes it even
Speaker 3: a little bit better. In the RBI department, two guys
Speaker 3: at fifteen last week that was Junior Camerino and Dansby Swanson.
Speaker 3: Number two was with nine Luis Garcia, also Ryan O'Hearn,
Speaker 3: and then a group of guys that had eight.
Speaker 2: Dansby Swanson. Definitely a forgettable year. He's hitting only one
Speaker 2: ninety and.
Speaker 3: Definitely have like six RBI in that Mets game. But
Speaker 3: it was, yeah, he did.
Speaker 2: It was seven rbi actually, but he actually had as
Speaker 2: I'm looking here, he had a stretch of three games.
Speaker 2: It was four, seventeen and four, so nine fifteen of
Speaker 2: his nineteen RBIs came into three games stretch. The problem
Speaker 2: is is like everyone was like, oh my god, we
Speaker 2: were wrong about Dansby. Dude. It was it was a
Speaker 2: six game stretch. He had a hit in each game.
Speaker 2: It was the ending of Colorado, the Toronto series and
Speaker 2: then part of the Mets series where he ended up
Speaker 2: having four or five multi hit games, he hit a
Speaker 2: bunch of homers, RBIs, had some stolen all that stuff.
Speaker 2: And then guess what he is now, Oh, for his
Speaker 2: last sixteen and you know, his average get back under
Speaker 2: two hundred, he's just like super super inconsistent.
Speaker 3: His xba's one ninety nine. It's in the bottom four
Speaker 3: percent of the league. Yeah, great spike week for Dan's May.
Speaker 3: But I'm not expecting more like this.
Speaker 2: Not I mean, like I would like to be optimistic,
Speaker 2: but I'm not really.
Speaker 3: I mean, you would be as optimistic as you want.
Speaker 3: It's not gonna spike like this again.
Speaker 2: No, another guy Ryan O'Hearn two eighty six, thirteen homers,
Speaker 2: a stolen base, one of those just quietly sneaky awesome seasons. Profile,
Speaker 2: relatively solid, you know, like I do. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to write home about like average x velocity or barrel
Speaker 2: raid or anything like that. But his XBA to sixty plus,
Speaker 2: he's hitting to eighty plus. He's a little bit overinflated
Speaker 2: on his babbit, but like he's just been. He's another
Speaker 2: one of these guys. So let me ask you TJ.
Speaker 2: Rumfield or Rhyin o hearn.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 2: A lot more k problems with Ryan O'Hearn, but it's true.
Speaker 3: Umm, let me look at splits here three tj U
Speaker 3: sixty nine away nine homers at home four a way
Speaker 3: batting over three zero six two seventy three, two seventy one.
Speaker 3: So it is dipped by the way, but the same.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: That's what I was gonna say. No swings, just straight
Speaker 2: up two seventy plus.
Speaker 3: For three five three five on homers. Uh yeah, I
Speaker 3: probably Ryan O'Hearn slightly, just because you know we've seen
Speaker 3: him do it before. Uh, older guy, all that, But
Speaker 3: I there's not I'm I'm good with however you answer this,
Speaker 3: but I I'll go with Ryan O'Hearn. I like Hearn
Speaker 3: or Louise Garcia. Luis Garcia, Okay, yeah, I think I'm
Speaker 3: oh Hearn just he's hitting clean up a lot, four
Speaker 3: or five seems like almost every night now. He has
Speaker 3: dropped down to five for the last six straight games,
Speaker 3: so maybe they're moving him down a little bit. That's
Speaker 3: also Connor Griffin came back, so it's probably just going
Speaker 3: to be five but I you know what, even dropping
Speaker 3: him in the line, it's still all heard me. Uh.
Speaker 2: In the run department, we had the most by crew,
Speaker 2: you know, Camon Arrow and Louis Garcia. We had Dylan
Speaker 2: Cruz with seven, Yandi Diez Horner and Pa Has also
Speaker 2: in there, and a handful of guys with six. I
Speaker 2: wanted to get Dylan Cruz. You know. It's funny. I
Speaker 2: there's like videos they do in Fantasy pros. For the
Speaker 2: last three weeks, have continuously tried. I'll look and I'll
Speaker 2: be like, oh, the last seven days Dylan Cruz has
Speaker 2: been good, and I'll kind of look and it's just
Speaker 2: it's just still it hasn't gotten there. Even though there's
Speaker 2: these little glimpses, it's still not quite consistent enough. Like
Speaker 2: he's he's only hitting two twenty eight in June, and
Speaker 2: that's surprising, but it's it's heavily weighted to that point.
Speaker 2: Though he has raised his batting average forty points from
Speaker 2: the beginning of the month of the back of the month.
Speaker 2: So that's why, like, Okay, the month hasn't exactly been good,
Speaker 2: but he's finding these moments. He has hits in what
Speaker 2: is this eight of his last I think eleven games.
Speaker 2: He's got hits in three of its last four games.
Speaker 2: You know, he's he's got multi He's got four multi
Speaker 2: hit games in his last eight games or nine games,
Speaker 2: you know, So like he's finding some of that Consistency's
Speaker 2: profile starting to like even out a little bit.
Speaker 3: If he qualified average x velocity hard hit would be
Speaker 3: up there. His bat speed looks good. His XBA is
Speaker 3: actually way better than where he's at. It's two fifty
Speaker 3: nine right now to his two twenty six batting average,
Speaker 3: but it's still it's kind of mediocre. So it's like
Speaker 3: I want to get on the train early and say, like,
Speaker 3: Dylan Cruz is turning around. I kind of think he is,
Speaker 3: but I just don't know.
Speaker 2: If the turnaround matters, if it matters enough, if you know,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, I just don't know.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be something where you're like, man, I'm so
Speaker 2: happy I picked him up. He just might be like
Speaker 2: two fifty fifteen fifteen by the end of the year
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 3: Do you remember the uh there's a South Park episode
Speaker 3: where they're trying to it's the You Got Served episode,
Speaker 3: and Butters is like putting a crew together and chef
Speaker 3: chef is their coaching. It's like, you know, you have
Speaker 3: the heart, but you don't have the soul. No, No,
Speaker 3: you have the soul, but you don't have the heart.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: No, hold on, I'm sorry. You have the heart and
Speaker 3: the soul, but you don't have the talent. That's what
Speaker 3: I'm getting at. That's how you just sounded with Dylan Cruz, right,
Speaker 3: you just don't have I don't know that it's going
Speaker 3: to matter, and I think that I think you're correct
Speaker 3: in that. So I'm you know, it's nice and I
Speaker 3: tell you what not hitting in a bad spot either five, three, five,
Speaker 3: down the six a couple of times. But he's in
Speaker 3: that top, you know, top end of the lineup between
Speaker 3: five and four and three. So that's been nice, uh
Speaker 3: for him recently. But I I think you're right. I
Speaker 3: just don't think it matters too much.
Speaker 2: In the stolen base department, naesem Nunia has continues to
Speaker 2: roll guys in the lead the league. He had four
Speaker 2: along with Victor Roebliss in the three department, cob Ra
Speaker 2: Opinia in Chandler Simpson. Chandler Simpson finally showing up, but
Speaker 2: it's a little too late.
Speaker 3: It's been starting more.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean unless I mean, I only care
Speaker 2: because like I'm.
Speaker 3: In the you're upside down on your uh your Simpson Lease.
Speaker 2: I'm upside down on my Chandler Simpson stolen based marker here.
Speaker 2: And obviously, like Jose Ramirez can't do, but Chanler Simpson is,
Speaker 2: he's ninth, He's eleven, twelve, thirteen stolen bases behind the
Speaker 2: seam Unions. I mean you would need I mean, if
Speaker 2: naeem Unias were to go down, there's like a world
Speaker 2: where Chandler Simpson could start picking it back up because like, dude,
Speaker 2: three stolen bases and he's like top five in stolen
Speaker 2: bases out there, and then you're really cooking. But naeem
Speaker 2: Nunions would have to completely disip here because he's just right.
Speaker 2: I mean, Bobby whit by the way, is second with
Speaker 2: twenty eight. He's been on an absolutely ridiculous clip here
Speaker 2: and good dude wants to steal fifty bases or whatever.
Speaker 2: But that's what the current landscape looks like and interesting
Speaker 2: in the walk department, you always put this. Jordan and
Speaker 2: PCA is in their PCA continues to roll.
Speaker 3: I mean the bat is so hot that they're pitching
Speaker 3: around him at this point. So and it's great that
Speaker 3: he's walking, yep. Keep stealing bases, keep getting on base.
Speaker 3: It's what we want.
Speaker 2: Some bats that have struggled over the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 2: by the way, last two weeks, James Wood hitting only
Speaker 2: a buck seventy nine for fifty nine with one homer.
Speaker 2: Matt Olsen averages there but no counting stats to sixty eight,
Speaker 2: no homers, no stolen base, whatever. Jordan Walker t forty
Speaker 2: four eleven for forty five, no homers, no stolen bases.
Speaker 2: Andy pat has two twenty four, no homers, one stolen base,
Speaker 2: Riley Green two fifty one homer. It's actually really not
Speaker 2: a struggle. It's just a little bit down. Drake Baldwin though,
Speaker 2: holding a buck fifty one with one home or not
Speaker 2: a bus zero five? Yeah, zero point zero five to
Speaker 2: one of that group, where's your biggest concern? If anybody,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of big names, so I think it's
Speaker 2: hard to be crazy concerned. James Wood and Andy Poster
Speaker 2: are not in the same world.
Speaker 3: Jake. Drake Baldwin having two hits since coming off the
Speaker 3: IL is very concerning. One of them was that massive
Speaker 3: four and seventy foot homer, and then he had one
Speaker 3: of the hit and that's it. Like he's clearly still
Speaker 3: some may right, So what are we doing? Like I
Speaker 3: might have to stick him back on the il. Maybe
Speaker 3: his catching is great and that's why they're not doing it,
Speaker 3: but that something is wrong. I mean, that's bad for
Speaker 3: this list. So you know, James Wood is going to
Speaker 3: be up and down. He's still very young. Matt Olsen
Speaker 3: was white hot, so not surprising this year. Same thing
Speaker 3: with Walker.
Speaker 2: I'm a little worried about PAHs a little bit because
Speaker 2: he's trailing down. April he hit three nineteen he was
Speaker 2: oddest player in the world. Down to three sixty two
Speaker 2: sixty six in May, which was okay, it was fine,
Speaker 2: still good, eight homers, three stolen bases this month though
Speaker 2: hitting two oh eight ton more strikeouts, power down, not
Speaker 2: stealing bases, actually got caught. He's five attempts. He's gotten
Speaker 2: caught four of his last five attempts. I don't know
Speaker 2: what to deal with that is. And things are starting
Speaker 2: to tick down, Like I still like him and I
Speaker 2: still think he's going to piece together a solid season,
Speaker 2: but things are tapering down a tiny bit. His season
Speaker 2: total isn't representative of like the dramatic kind of drops.
Speaker 2: But I wonder, you know, maybe the break is going
Speaker 2: to do him good and stuff like that. But I
Speaker 2: always slight concern about Andy pa has just throw that
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 3: They haven't moved him down in the lineup, which I
Speaker 3: think that would be. That would be to me, the
Speaker 3: big the big deal is if they do shift him down,
Speaker 3: but he's still hitting two right now, just hat can't
Speaker 3: buy a hit in this little streak. So I think
Speaker 3: you're right. I think they don't move him down before
Speaker 3: the break, and I think they give him the benefit
Speaker 3: the doubt after the break. I think if he struggles
Speaker 3: those first couple of weeks, if he doesn't pick it
Speaker 3: up before the All Star break, now, if he struggles
Speaker 3: those first couple of weeks coming off, they are gonna
Speaker 3: move him. Now. There's too many talented bats in this
Speaker 3: lineup to keep him at two if he ain't hitting.
Speaker 3: So I'm with you. I don't think it's a major thing,
Speaker 3: but it's just one of those you know, Yeah, maybe
Speaker 3: I am looking like I'm not gonna exclude him from
Speaker 3: a deal at this point. As honest, the.
Speaker 2: High percentage pictures. Going over to the pictures that had
Speaker 2: some good starts. Yamamoto six innings, four k's against the
Speaker 2: patter's two earned runs. Chris Sale ten strikeouts and six
Speaker 2: innings against the Giants. Mizerowski slipped in through one oh
Speaker 2: five point five. I don't know if you saw that.
Speaker 2: I think that's the highest registered pitch ever. Now six innings,
Speaker 2: eight strikeouts, did have four walks against the Cubs. Logan
Speaker 2: Webb continues to roll seven innings, one hit ball, six
Speaker 2: strikeouts against the Braves. That's a huge start. Zach Wheeler
Speaker 2: seven innings, five k's won and run against the Mets.
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown six innings to earned runs, two walks for strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Really good to see, you know him come back with consistency.
Speaker 2: Speaking of consistency, haesus Lozardo broke up his home road
Speaker 2: split thing he had and he was bad on the road.
Speaker 3: I guess it was.
Speaker 2: And then he comes out and he's just going again.
Speaker 2: Five innings won and runs, six k's against the Mets.
Speaker 2: Maybe the Mets got him right. He's just the weirdest
Speaker 2: pitcher this year. Like, put your hands up a little bit,
Speaker 2: like I still kind of believe in him because of
Speaker 2: the big strikeouts and stuff, but he is super inconsistent.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been inconsistent, but he's good, you know. So,
Speaker 3: I mean, like like him getting back on track here.
Speaker 3: Evaldi too. Evaldi had been getting a little ugly and
Speaker 3: he had a nice start down here.
Speaker 2: Sonny Gray seven innings some point one seven and one third,
Speaker 2: one hit, no one runs, nine strikeouts against the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Hello trade market. Drew Rasmussen dominated the diamondback six innings,
Speaker 2: no one runs, five strikeouts. Nadie Valdi seven innings, nine strikeouts.
Speaker 2: Evaldi kind of piecing those starts back up together. He
Speaker 2: was a little bit bad.
Speaker 3: It was like this is his first good one in
Speaker 3: like I think four or five starts. So let's get
Speaker 3: him back going like this start.
Speaker 2: Speaking of a couple of guys that we want to keep,
Speaker 2: you know, we want them to get back going. Kyle
Speaker 2: Harrison five innings, nine strikeouts against the Cubs, He rolls,
Speaker 2: Davis Smartin bounces back five and one third, zero earn runs,
Speaker 2: three strikeouts against the Royals. Max Meyer continues to do it.
Speaker 2: Seven innings, five strikeouts, Robbie Ray eight strikeout or eight innings,
Speaker 2: nowe and runs two strikeouts. I put on a video today.
Speaker 2: I am a seller of Robbie Ray. Uh he has Sorry,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have something like why no.
Speaker 3: Why is Robbie Ray gone soon? Is? Is he a
Speaker 3: free agent too? Because I mean he's he's gonna get traded.
Speaker 3: He's a free agent after this year. He's one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: He insane month. It's like a one e R. He's
Speaker 3: but he's got huge home road split spot. That's what
Speaker 3: I was gonna say. We looked at him, I think
Speaker 3: last week and.
Speaker 2: More and a half on the road to something at home,
Speaker 2: bad strikeout rates and also his stuff from matically down
Speaker 2: stuff plus location, pitching plus it's all down.
Speaker 3: The stuffty four fifty four that's home ROADR.
Speaker 2: I'm the seller of fifty four. Ye Emerson Hancock five
Speaker 2: and two thirds six strikeouts against Cleveland, and she And
Speaker 2: had a nice one five innings, five strikeouts. Him and
Speaker 2: Roki Sazaki maybe battling a little bit right now. Roki
Speaker 2: was crying, I know, That's what I'm saying, Like he's
Speaker 2: like crying and stuff, and she In is a good start.
Speaker 2: Redettmer's five and two thirds eight strikeouts against the A's
Speaker 2: we love that. Foster Griffin just duty continues. Seven innings,
Speaker 2: nine strikeouts against the Orioles. Awesome, and that's where now
Speaker 2: the seventy percent owned under that. Luis Castillo had a
Speaker 2: nice start six innings, four strikeouts, Michael Walker seven and
Speaker 2: two thirds with seven strikeouts. Trevor Rodgers is on my
Speaker 2: by list. Trevor Rodgers six and one third, one in run,
Speaker 2: zero walk, seven strikeouts, Peyton totally had a seven strikeout
Speaker 2: against the Yankees, and Taj Bradley seven strikeouts and seven
Speaker 2: innings against Colorado. Why is that the stopping point? Because
Speaker 2: those were all fifty percent or higher owned on Yahoo? Correct, Yes,
Speaker 2: these are under fifty percent. We've got Jack Flaherty who
Speaker 2: went five innings, zero earned runs, nine strikeouts against Houston,
Speaker 2: Joey Cantillo six innings, nine strikeouts, wonder and run against Seattle,
Speaker 2: hold on, and then Brandon Young five innings, eight strikeouts Washington.
Speaker 2: Who do you like most of those three? Brandon Young,
Speaker 2: Joey Cantillo and.
Speaker 3: Flarerty Cantello is I think it's like five or six
Speaker 3: great starts.
Speaker 2: So you're why was why is he still so under?
Speaker 3: Why is he still under fifty percent rostered right now.
Speaker 3: I mean his era is three eight seven, so you
Speaker 3: know he's under four. He's been a great start last
Speaker 3: couple starts six innings, one run, eight innings, one run,
Speaker 3: five innings, one run. He had the blow up right
Speaker 3: the seven against Texas at Texas over five innings, but
Speaker 3: he still struck out seven in that game, four to
Speaker 3: four zero four than zero one. Like, he has one
Speaker 3: game with over four earned runs in a game and
Speaker 3: he's gone, I'm under five innings, pitched two three and
Speaker 3: four starts only of seventeen, so he's getting you five,
Speaker 3: he's allowing under four, and he's you know, striking out
Speaker 3: eight point nine per nine. So everything is pretty good
Speaker 3: for Kantio. I'm wondering why he is not rostered in
Speaker 3: more spots.
Speaker 2: Probably you're not wrong, Yeah, I mean, then that should
Speaker 2: be one that you can go rectify. I think if
Speaker 2: I had to pick between the three, I'd probably go
Speaker 2: with Cantio. Here as well, Brandon Young's kind of fun
Speaker 2: flairty is pieced together as those Tigers are saying they
Speaker 2: got to win more games, but Cantillo would be the
Speaker 2: one I have more trust in. Also, if you threw
Speaker 2: Michael McGreevey in there. Does that change anything? He went
Speaker 2: six innings, four strikeouts, thirty one percent.
Speaker 3: Okay, no, I like McGreevy, but it would still be
Speaker 3: kntio from me.
Speaker 2: Interesting lower percentage guys under fifteen percent or lower. Jake
Speaker 2: Bennett six and one third, three strikeouts with an under
Speaker 2: and run. Yeah, Slaye Chraconi six innings, four strikeouts, zero
Speaker 2: earn runs. He did that against Seattle. You have Kamar
Speaker 2: Rockers six innings, five strikeouts, zero and runs against Toronto,
Speaker 2: and then Connor Prelip six innings, ten strikeouts against Colorado.
Speaker 2: Of those four guys, any intro, where's the interest in?
Speaker 2: Because I think Jake Bennett's kind of got the talk
Speaker 2: of the town right now for a lot of people
Speaker 2: in Boston, and.
Speaker 3: You know, once they have their fire sale, Jake Bennett's
Speaker 3: going to stick in that rotation too, right.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and there's a lot of lefties, by the way,
Speaker 2: just pointing out like if Garrett Crochet came back, they'd
Speaker 2: have Crochet totally early and Bennett you'd have four or
Speaker 2: five lefties.
Speaker 3: And Prelip, I mean, I love those ten k's, but
Speaker 3: he has been you know, the last start was three
Speaker 3: earned over six and only four strikeouts, only two strikeouts
Speaker 3: against Saint Louis, So like, those strikeouts are not guaranteed.
Speaker 3: And he does have a six and a five in here,
Speaker 3: and he doesn't have any games for yet, has given
Speaker 3: up zero, so little interest in prelip. But he needs
Speaker 3: to get more consistent for me to really buy in
Speaker 3: some se arts.
Speaker 2: I think Arraghetty had won. He's kind of been a
Speaker 2: very common expected regressive type of guy. He gave up
Speaker 2: eight eared runs. The the other one I think that
Speaker 2: hurt though, was Walbert. Walbert Urana had been solid and
Speaker 2: give up seven earned runs against the A's.
Speaker 3: So is that like so so when Walbert Urania does
Speaker 3: something like this, is this like a hey, look, if
Speaker 3: Cantillo is available, I'm just dumping Walbert Or are you
Speaker 3: still holding out a little bit for for Walbert? No?
Speaker 2: I think Walbert and Cantio are in the same like range.
Speaker 2: Like I still like, by the way, he still has
Speaker 2: a three one for you here.
Speaker 3: Ah. Yeah, he hadn't given up more than three runs.
Speaker 3: He had given up more than three runs one time
Speaker 3: before this start in thirteen starts. So yeah, and it
Speaker 3: was yeah, like you said it was in April, so
Speaker 3: it was a long time ago. You know, bad start,
Speaker 3: it was at home against the A's. You know that
Speaker 3: A's had been run.
Speaker 2: Who was more least though, Arraghedtty or Urana, Like if
Speaker 2: you had to pick between them.
Speaker 3: The rest of the like, even though we expect him
Speaker 3: to come back and we expected regression, the rest of
Speaker 3: the year has been pretty good. So I think it
Speaker 3: probably still longer leaves for Aarraghedtty.
Speaker 2: I think I might go Urine if I had to
Speaker 2: pick between the two, But Aragedy is more owned. He
Speaker 2: does have a higher roster percentage, so there's that.
Speaker 3: The correct answer is probably neither.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if you can find someone else on the
Speaker 2: wire in the in the closing department. Some closer blown
Speaker 2: saves Ryan Helsley, I believe that's like a second one
Speaker 2: as of recent He blew one against the Braves, Gregory
Speaker 2: Soto blew one and took the loss against the Royals,
Speaker 2: Louis Varlin against Texas, and Kenley Janssen blue one against Houston.
Speaker 2: Those are four guys thrust into a closer role that
Speaker 2: they have solidified. Some non closer saves Tyler Alexander got
Speaker 2: one after Jacob Latz, who, by the way, I'm a
Speaker 2: big buyer on he had pitched back to back, Jimmy Herbert,
Speaker 2: he had to save Justin Lawrence, PJ. Bolan, Jordan Wicks,
Speaker 2: Sam Ntira. I mean, there's kind of a huge list
Speaker 2: of them, between the closers that drop some and these
Speaker 2: random saves out in the market. What what's got your
Speaker 2: eye here?
Speaker 3: I mean, Jimmy Hrgantt is not listed as a co
Speaker 3: closer in Colorado, so you know, if you're just desperate
Speaker 3: for saves in a roto league or something, maybe he'll
Speaker 3: get some same thing with Chase Petty after I think
Speaker 3: Santillion went on the IL, so he's listed as a
Speaker 3: co closer now and got a save as well. So
Speaker 3: those two guys in particular, and who is who is
Speaker 3: behind Kenley? Is still vest in Detroit because Kenley has
Speaker 3: been garbage coming back. He's been real bad.
Speaker 2: So I'm trying to look.
Speaker 3: Here, Yes, Will vest right now, Will Best has two saves,
Speaker 3: Finnegan has one, but he also they both have blown
Speaker 3: saves in their last two appearances, so I don't know
Speaker 3: who they go to outside of Kenley, but Kenley doesn't
Speaker 3: his ERA is up over five and he's been pretty bad.
Speaker 3: It's coming back, So.
Speaker 2: I can't believe one of the things and just point
Speaker 2: out a gett. Not to just regurgitate some of the
Speaker 2: stuff I did today, but like I was looking Jacob Latz,
Speaker 2: by the way, only fifty two percent roster between Yahoo
Speaker 2: and ESPN. He has been like elite this year. He
Speaker 2: just dropped, had nine saves in June. Great strikeout percentage,
Speaker 2: low ERA, bad quality of contact against Like he looks
Speaker 2: like an absolutely legit closure that I don't think the
Speaker 2: team looks to just I don't think they would trade
Speaker 2: off because I think the Rangers are a team that
Speaker 2: they could sell a piece or two off if they're
Speaker 2: out of it, and then they want to still compete
Speaker 2: to next year, like they're built that way that they're
Speaker 2: still competing. So I don't think getting rid of someone
Speaker 2: like that would and by the way, like Ory would
Speaker 2: be as if he's into a team not closing That's
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to get out, Like that would suck
Speaker 2: about having him, I don't think that's going to happen,
Speaker 2: and that's why I want to buy him right now.
Speaker 3: Tyler Alexander actually had saves in back to back nights.
Speaker 3: But the reason he got the save on Sunday is
Speaker 3: because Colwyn blew it the inning before in the eight,
Speaker 3: so Tyler Alexander came in after they retook the lead
Speaker 3: and got the save. So you know, I just puint
Speaker 3: that's good news for Lats. They just weren't gonna put
Speaker 3: Lats in anyway because he had pitched forty pitches on
Speaker 3: Friday and Thursday, so they were giving him the next
Speaker 3: two days off anyway, so he wasn't gonna come in.
Speaker 3: That's why that looks weird, but it's still Lats as
Speaker 3: as the guy. There you go.
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