Speaker 1: Greene excise chations. Everyone at Church Wilson walking to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Baseball Live. Today is August second, the eve before the
Speaker 1: end of the trade deadline, and Timmy, we've got trades
Speaker 1: happening all over the place. We just have heard that
Speaker 1: the Rays are acquiring Freddie Peralte as we come on
Speaker 1: the air. We obviously had the big Trek Schooble move.
Speaker 1: It's been an exciting twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was sort of like install mode with not
Speaker 2: much happening, and all of a sudden things are happening
Speaker 2: and they're going to continue to happen for the next
Speaker 2: twenty four plus a couple hours. So yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Good for the Rays acquiring ready for all that would
Speaker 2: be interesting to see what what's going back to the
Speaker 2: Mets and uh As it was no surprise. The Dodgers
Speaker 2: line is schoobl and a good call on the Hey,
Speaker 2: you nailed the two big parties. I don't know too
Speaker 2: much about the other kid, but we'll talk about it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a good trade.
Speaker 1: The Mets are getting Aiden Smith, Emilian Petra and Gary
Speaker 1: gil Hill. So Gary gil Hill looked like he has
Speaker 1: had a chance to pitch mid rotation and it really
Speaker 1: has really struggled this season. Aide Smith came over as
Speaker 1: part of the Seattle Mariner trade a couple of years ago.
Speaker 2: Toolsy kid could.
Speaker 1: Be something there and a million pitchers got a good
Speaker 1: arm probably reliever. So that's that's typical of what you
Speaker 1: get with a really good player by Freddie Perrault. Of
Speaker 1: what the Dodger, what the Tigers got back for Trek
Speaker 1: Scoobel is insane, just what a great haul. But that
Speaker 1: looks like who Freddy Peralta is bringing back.
Speaker 2: That sounds reasonable to me.
Speaker 1: I mean it's there. There's no aidon Smith, there's no
Speaker 1: zire hope that Freddy Parolta can't command that for two
Speaker 1: months rental was there. Some bets and we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: Well, and let's face it has Freddie barral to earn
Speaker 2: much more than that with his with his performance this.
Speaker 1: Year, it's been terrible. I mean, yeah, my worst call
Speaker 1: for my draft targets was Freddy Parolta playing hard stop.
Speaker 1: I mean he's just been awful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, the Braves have got not the
Speaker 2: braves or Raves have got some fixing to do. The
Speaker 2: their pitchers throw strikes, don't they as a rule.
Speaker 1: That is there. That's their thing, Tommy. They get guys
Speaker 1: to throw, some guys increase velocity. Some guys introduced his pitches.
Speaker 1: I say, guys, teams, the Rays are all about getting
Speaker 1: guys to throw strikes, and it doesn't take them along.
Speaker 1: I would not be at all surprised at Freddy Peralta
Speaker 1: and within two weeks is back to what he looked
Speaker 1: like in Milwaukee. Would not at all be surprised.
Speaker 2: We might be able to start calling six inning Freddy
Speaker 2: instead of four inning Freddy. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 1: When I sent out my little note to our Patreon members,
Speaker 1: I said, three to five inning Freddy just got moved
Speaker 1: so much. Sure what inning he's up to, but.
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I haven't even read your notes.
Speaker 2: It's pretty funny.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he was five inning Freddy, he's moved on
Speaker 1: the fourning Freddy on his way to three inning Freddy.
Speaker 1: I I mean, we'll see maybe. I mean, I've looked
Speaker 1: at the Baseball Savon stuff and has to do the
Speaker 1: breakdown for a Patreon members. I'll dig into a little deeper.
Speaker 1: I didn't see anything obvious in terms of what was different,
Speaker 1: so what's let me dig dig into that. But it
Speaker 1: could just be well, he needs a new he needs
Speaker 1: a new address.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I new address is not going to hurt him
Speaker 2: at all, definitely agree, Yeah.
Speaker 1: For sure, Timmy. So I've been writing my little fingers
Speaker 1: off to the bone. I encourage you. Now's the time
Speaker 1: to join the Patreon site because I write up each
Speaker 1: and every trade. Uh and I've written up I think
Speaker 1: six or seven already, probably twenty five different players breakdown,
Speaker 1: Baseball Savant breakdown of all the principal guys that get traded,
Speaker 1: and then usually a profile of all the minor league
Speaker 1: guys that get moved as well, and the Freddy PERALTA
Speaker 1: Trade's gonna be actually pretty easy because those are all
Speaker 1: three famous dudes that I've already got written up. So
Speaker 1: just a little bit of an update and kick that
Speaker 1: puppy out.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I was going to say, it's not like
Speaker 2: you've got to do a lot of digging. If you've
Speaker 2: already got them and have them included in the regular information,
Speaker 2: you can write a Patreon right, So yeah, that makes
Speaker 2: it a little easier for you.
Speaker 1: Usually we're our early because I'm going to a baseball
Speaker 1: game this afternoon with my family. You're seeing the Summrset
Speaker 1: Patriots against the Richmond's flying squirrels. To me, think they're flying,
Speaker 1: they might not just be regular squirrels.
Speaker 2: So how can you beat watching a flying squirrel? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you just can't beat it.
Speaker 1: It's great. So nine tickets. So it's the four people,
Speaker 1: my my sons, I plus the mother in law Laurie, myself,
Speaker 1: my daughter, her husband, and again two babies of the
Speaker 1: oven eleven. So nine tickets for one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: two dollars. That's like that.
Speaker 2: That would be the two.
Speaker 1: Tickets at a major league baseball game, if if maybe
Speaker 1: if so, Yeah.
Speaker 2: And there's bound to be some sort of promotion where
Speaker 2: you're going to sit back and have a few chuckles
Speaker 2: and have some fun with it.
Speaker 1: And the great greatest bargain and the greatest bargain in
Speaker 1: baseball fourteen dollars six tickets to go see the Summrset
Speaker 1: Patriots or whatever minor league stadium is near you. They're
Speaker 1: they're not expensive and it's just this great entertainment.
Speaker 2: Well, you can't even you can't take nine people people
Speaker 2: to a show for that, can you? No?
Speaker 1: And I yeah, twelve rows from the field. I mean
Speaker 1: it's like you can see the guy sweat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you're right there, you know at the theater.
Speaker 2: That'll barely get you two tubs of popcorn in the episoda.
Speaker 1: So I think the new movie that's out is it Odyssey?
Speaker 1: Is that the one the Homer poem that was done.
Speaker 1: Apparently that's the one getting all the everybody says you
Speaker 1: got to go see that. It's all that time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, apparently I saw there was no talking in it rich.
Speaker 1: So that's a funny time.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: But apparently that's the movie to go see. And it's
Speaker 1: only an eye mass and it's twenty five dollars a
Speaker 1: ticket to go to go see a two hour movie.
Speaker 1: I mean, wow, that's that's I need to get your
Speaker 1: tub of popcorn and your overpriced coke And you're spending
Speaker 1: fifty sixty bucks now to go to the movie theater.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well yeah, you can get a family of four
Speaker 2: n plus dogs at a minor league game and have
Speaker 2: just as much, if not more fun, Right.
Speaker 1: God, I hate barking the park day. That's that's what
Speaker 1: they always call it. Man, the dogs they're everywhere. It's
Speaker 1: unbelievable to me. So if I see that promotion going on,
Speaker 1: I use these just aside to stay home. I've had
Speaker 1: enough of dogs barking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that takes the dog days of summer to a
Speaker 2: whole new low, doesn't it for you?
Speaker 1: For sure? Timmy, Let's talk about some of these traits.
Speaker 1: Let's just run off that talk about the big one,
Speaker 1: and this is this was the worst kept secret in baseball.
Speaker 1: The Dodgers acquired Trek schoobl from the Tigers. Right handed
Speaker 1: pitcher River Ryan who's currently in the IL with a hamstring,
Speaker 1: pool Zayer Hope outfielder, and right handed pitcher Brady Smith
Speaker 1: who is in High A and I have him as
Speaker 1: a top forty starting pitcher potentially baseball. So it's a nice, little,
Speaker 1: nice haul by the Tigers. But what was your initial
Speaker 1: thought when you saw it? And we'll talk about some
Speaker 1: of the criticism on the internet, and just give give
Speaker 1: me your thinking when you first saw it.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a win win. The only group that is
Speaker 2: going to lose from this deal, in my opinion, are
Speaker 2: the fantasy folks that happened to have Trek scooble rostered.
Speaker 2: And the reason I say that is because they didn't
Speaker 2: acquire Terry to Schooble for August, and they didn't acquire
Speaker 2: him for September. I think had he stayed in Detroit,
Speaker 2: he would have pitched every fifth day. He would have
Speaker 2: gone seven eight innings. Yeah, yeah, he had as a Dodger.
Speaker 2: They want Scooble, unless, of course, they signed him to
Speaker 2: an extension of sorts in the next two months.
Speaker 1: But so I I have a laugh track here to me.
Speaker 2: Let me look, yeah, you should have that.
Speaker 1: I need to have that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but unless something like that happens, are there are
Speaker 2: the Dodgers going to overwork Schooble in August and September
Speaker 2: when they're about ten minutes away from clinching the division. No,
Speaker 2: he's going to pitch a little bit less down the
Speaker 2: stretch than he would in a normal year, I believe
Speaker 2: because the Dodgers won him for October. Right.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great point.
Speaker 2: I think us fantasy folks that have Derek Scoobel could
Speaker 2: end up being a little disappointed by what they see
Speaker 2: in August in September. Other than that both teams win. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the Tigers. The Tigers got who in the in the
Speaker 2: real game of baseball, the Tiger's got a relatively young
Speaker 2: starting pitcher in River Ryan who can be a very
Speaker 2: good pitcher, a top prof span and then they got
Speaker 2: an outfielder who could be playing in that outfield for
Speaker 2: the next ten years on a two month rental. The
Speaker 2: Dodgers got their got their playoff pitcher. It's a win win.
Speaker 1: I think you bring up a really good point with
Speaker 1: Schooble going to the Dodgers. The only maybe counter argument
Speaker 1: to that is he did miss six weeks of or
Speaker 1: five to six weeks of time, so his arm at
Speaker 1: least for this year, should not be worn out. But
Speaker 1: I think that's a really really good point, one that
Speaker 1: I had not considered that he might pitch well in August,
Speaker 1: but could you know, miss a starter or two down
Speaker 1: the stretch.
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, and even though he doesn't have the Miley
Speaker 2: joh on his arm per se this year, they don't
Speaker 2: want to put the Miley john until October, so you
Speaker 2: know what I mean, that's where they want to see.
Speaker 2: That's what this trade is all about. It's a third
Speaker 2: World Series.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think if you've got rookie Sosaki's actually been
Speaker 1: pretty good this season, you got Rableski, who's been fantastic.
Speaker 1: Those are the guys that are really going to get
Speaker 1: hurt from a fantasy standpoint, because I think you're going
Speaker 1: to see it. They're going to see them move to
Speaker 1: the bullpen.
Speaker 2: Well, I think that's a possibility. But at the same
Speaker 2: point in time, you're also gonna see Yamamodo probably skipping
Speaker 2: a starter too. You're gonna be shean. So I come September,
Speaker 2: I think I might want to have the Robeleskis of
Speaker 2: the world on my roster.
Speaker 1: He gets moved to the bullpen and then he's not
Speaker 1: stretched out anymore.
Speaker 2: Well, see, that's why I don't know if that'll occur.
Speaker 2: If they'll move into the bullpen right away, they might
Speaker 2: start two weeks from now. They might start shuffling these
Speaker 2: guys in and out of the rotation and you'll see, uh,
Speaker 2: fake hamstring strains and you'll see sore backs and yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. Yeah, I just I just
Speaker 2: think that there might be opportunities for some of the five,
Speaker 2: six seven type starters in September. So I don't interest.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the Dodgers are going to do,
Speaker 2: and we'll see that defined fairly soon. But until a
Speaker 2: firm commitment is made to push these guys into the pen,
Speaker 2: I'd start to be stashing them because, let's face it,
Speaker 2: in the last week, two weeks of the season, we've
Speaker 2: been struggling for pitching all year long. It's not going
Speaker 2: to get better the last week of the season. We're
Speaker 2: gonna see some you know, we do every year, we
Speaker 2: see some real oddities and some guys getting called up. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: the same thing will happen this year, guarantee.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the guys that are getting called off
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers will be Tyler Glasnow, Blake Snow and
Speaker 1: that'll them basically coming back from injury, and they're the
Speaker 1: ones that I think you're going to see if they're healthy,
Speaker 1: are going to be the guys that are pitching every
Speaker 1: fifth day, So which is kind of right because you
Speaker 1: want them to get in for the playoffs as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's it's a it's an interesting and a
Speaker 2: good situation for the Dodgers to be in having that flexibility.
Speaker 2: They're up by a slow of games, nobody's going to
Speaker 2: catch them in their division, so it allows him the
Speaker 2: flexibility to manage that pitching in a fashion the best
Speaker 2: preparers for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Let me talk to you about these minor league kids.
Speaker 1: River Ryan. You know, I've been all in a River
Speaker 1: Ryan for a while. A lot of people don't remember
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four when he had his four game
Speaker 1: debut with the with the Dodgers. He was up with
Speaker 1: the big club, a one thirteen earra throwing ninety nine
Speaker 1: miles an hour with a great secondary pitches, particularly his
Speaker 1: change up. This is really good. And then he blew
Speaker 1: out his elbow and we lost him for a year plus.
Speaker 1: And he's finally back this year and he's got not
Speaker 1: a great era of four forty six earra, but it's
Speaker 1: striking out ten per nine. He's walking under two per nine.
Speaker 1: He's got a bad babbit against him. That's why you
Speaker 1: know that he's had a few more run scored against
Speaker 1: the plus it's the PC. Since he's got healthy timmy
Speaker 1: and gets stretched out again. I think we see him
Speaker 1: in a couple three weeks, and I know he's in
Speaker 1: your wave where I thought it was really smart for
Speaker 1: you to include him, to say, hey, beat the rush
Speaker 1: for River Ryan. He's the guy that's coming up. And
Speaker 1: I'm I'm all I've been all in for River Ryan.
Speaker 1: He is twenty seven and he's just been heard a lot.
Speaker 1: Former infielder that got converted to a picture kind of
Speaker 1: allah Jacob de Gram. That's that's who he reminds me
Speaker 1: a lot of. I doubt he has the career of
Speaker 1: Jacob de Gram, but that highly athletic guy with really
Speaker 1: good stuff. So that's River Ryan.
Speaker 2: Anything that, No, I think we're going to see River
Speaker 2: Ryan as soon as he's healthy. And I think he's
Speaker 2: dealing with a hamstring issue if I'm not mistaken, So yeah,
Speaker 2: as soon as he's healthy. Uh, that's why I'm recommending
Speaker 2: by by now, well he's you know, hey, I'm sure
Speaker 2: everybody's going to be taking that approach anyways. But stating
Speaker 2: the obvious, Yeah, by now he's hey, the week he
Speaker 2: gets called up, you're going to pay a small fortune
Speaker 2: for him.
Speaker 1: So people ask me how how I knew it was ZAYR.
Speaker 1: Hope and River Ryan. Did somebody tell me that the
Speaker 1: answer was no, they didn't. It was I. First of all,
Speaker 1: I thought the scuba going to the Dodgers was even money.
Speaker 1: That's where he was seen to be going, and the
Speaker 1: Dodgers could out spend everybody on him and River Ryan
Speaker 1: based on his stuff is basically because he hasn't pitched
Speaker 1: all that long, it's a fairly fresh arm. That's why
Speaker 1: I set him over Emmitt Shean. So that's my logic
Speaker 1: for doing River Ryan, and then my logic for doing
Speaker 1: Zayr Hope. And I'll just write you what I wrote
Speaker 1: yesterday morning before the trade, and this is because he's
Speaker 1: going to come out on my notes on tomorrow for
Speaker 1: patron members. And so here's what I wrote. I'm writing
Speaker 1: this Saturday morning, eight one. Zaire Hope is still a
Speaker 1: Dodger and still on an absolute tear. Over the past
Speaker 1: six days, he's launched seven home runs while hitting three
Speaker 1: ninety one, a stretch that's impossible for cross checkers in
Speaker 1: front office evaluators to ignore. He's might pick to be
Speaker 1: moved for Trek Scougle and recency bias is real scouts
Speaker 1: who haven't seen him much are now watching him dominate
Speaker 1: as their as they file their report. Timing is often
Speaker 1: nine tenths of the wall. So I mean, look, they
Speaker 1: had a bunch of people to choose from. Zyre Hope
Speaker 1: is the guy that's got the most fantasy upside, and
Speaker 1: of all of the Josh de Paula, et cetera. Serota.
Speaker 1: He's got the highest upside, but it's also the highest
Speaker 1: risk because we don't know if he's going to hit.
Speaker 1: But that's the guy that you know if you're swinging
Speaker 1: for the fences, that's who you bring in. Do you
Speaker 1: see say coming up this season.
Speaker 2: I think there's a possibility you might see in the
Speaker 2: last couple of weeks of the season, just for cup
Speaker 2: of coffee. But I don't They've assigned him to Yerie, Okay.
Speaker 2: I don't think there's no reason for them to be
Speaker 2: in a big hurry this year. The service time counts.
Speaker 2: Take it, you know what I mean. Like I said,
Speaker 2: other than a cup of coffee, I don't see him.
Speaker 2: But when it comes to next spring and our re
Speaker 2: draft leagues, my thoughts there right now are he should
Speaker 2: be drafted at the actual draft. I think he'd be
Speaker 2: up early next year, very early. I think you're gonna
Speaker 2: want a roster Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to spend much time in year.
Speaker 1: He's been in Double A all season. I think he
Speaker 1: finishes in Triple A. And I'm totally with you. I
Speaker 1: think it's totally possible that he sees a cup of
Speaker 1: coffee here nuts, so he can still be rookie eligible
Speaker 1: going into next season. It gives the Tigers two months
Speaker 1: to get Max Clark totally in Meshton major League Baseball.
Speaker 1: Doesn't look like he's need a whole lot.
Speaker 2: No, after two games, isn't he already emactioned?
Speaker 1: It could be. I mean, it's it's pretty impressive what
Speaker 1: he's done. We're going to talk about him a little later,
Speaker 1: but you know, it's he's The upside is huge here.
Speaker 1: The fantasy upside is huge here is provided he hits.
Speaker 1: There is some concern about how much he hits, and
Speaker 1: I think that's the only thing that that we're worried about.
Speaker 1: But the tools are definitely there.
Speaker 2: What do you think as far as Brady Smith is,
Speaker 2: if possible we see him in twenty seven again, assuming
Speaker 2: there's using uh is twenty seven and mid twenty seven
Speaker 2: reasonable target for Smith? Or think?
Speaker 1: So? I think he's I think there's I think he's
Speaker 1: a little a little bit further out than that. He
Speaker 1: just started in High A. It's big stuff and his
Speaker 1: control is improving. I think he's I've got him in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight Dash twenty nine guy, But it's a
Speaker 1: fastball that's up to ninety seven. It's big stuff.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you tell.
Speaker 1: If you tell me he's better long term than River Ryan,
Speaker 1: it would not shock me. It's that kind of upside.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, and all of a sudden, yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: you take you take a look at the Tigers, and
Speaker 2: you got River Ryan, and you've got Brady Smith, okay,
Speaker 2: and then you know you've got Melton.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a good rotation of River Ryan, Melton,
Speaker 1: Jackson job coming back job, and and Framer Valdez can't
Speaker 1: be this bad, right, I mean, he's.
Speaker 2: Gonna it's good when his last one one of the streak, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I mean that's I mean, yeah, they're going
Speaker 1: to miss trek' scoogle, but that's not horrible. That's that's
Speaker 1: a that's a rotation you go to war with and
Speaker 1: any start to take a look at their offense gets
Speaker 1: probably at the end of twenty twenty seven, assuming there's
Speaker 1: a full season or most of the season, you got
Speaker 1: Max Clark and center, you got Riley Green, then left
Speaker 1: and you've got Zay your Hope sitting and right, you've
Speaker 1: got up the middle, you've got you've got mcdonagall, uh
Speaker 1: and yeah, Glabor Torres and then at first it's either Torqua,
Speaker 1: center Hasway, the Hosway Brasino coming up who might play catcher,
Speaker 1: And that's starting to look like a pretty good, young,
Speaker 1: controllable team. That's becomes really exciting for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dylan Danler behind the blade, Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah,
Speaker 2: there's uh, there's enough offense there, yeah, and very solid offense.
Speaker 2: Mcgonagal's just been yeah, there's your Ale Rookie of the
Speaker 2: Year as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: The other thing, with one of the reasons, I thought
Speaker 1: they would pick Zaire Hope like Mike Mike Saroda is
Speaker 1: another another great Los Angeles Dodger outfielder, and so is
Speaker 1: Hosway to Palla, but they're more like mcgonaghill and Max
Speaker 1: Clark hit first guys that have some power the basis well, well,
Speaker 1: actually mcconaga really doesn't run the base as well. But
Speaker 1: I mean those are really really high floor players. Zire
Speaker 1: Hope is the is the Byron Buckston Connor Griffin kind
Speaker 1: of upside, the huge upside, and I think you take
Speaker 1: a swing when you've got a lot of these really
Speaker 1: high floor guys on your team already. So that's another
Speaker 1: reason I thought, say your hope would be the guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it's a great trade. I do
Speaker 2: have to chuckle over when I see some of the
Speaker 2: comments on Twitter, I really do tell me more. Well,
Speaker 2: a lot of them are in the direction of, well,
Speaker 2: Dodgers got all the money, they can do this. This
Speaker 2: isn't about money. What this is about is the Dodgers
Speaker 2: being able to develop a good farm system and move
Speaker 2: it at the right time. Anybody can afford Terry's Google
Speaker 2: for two months. If you can't afford teris even the Rockies,
Speaker 2: the Pirates. You know, you're looking at what at most
Speaker 2: a third of his salary from this year. It's not
Speaker 2: about money. When they if they resign him to a
Speaker 2: long term deal, then it's about money. But this trade
Speaker 2: is about the Dodgers developing a farm system that they
Speaker 2: can shop for the parts that they need to put
Speaker 2: them over the top. And every one of the thirty
Speaker 2: teams in Major League Baseball can develop a farm system
Speaker 2: in theory. Okay, So when I hear it's all about
Speaker 2: the money, yeah, yeah, yea, yeah, that to me is
Speaker 2: just crap. Sorry, but that's all right.
Speaker 1: I wrote it up. I can encourage everybody to go
Speaker 1: read my notes of what I wrote up about the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the thing that I found the most compelling,
Speaker 1: Sarah Hope was not signed by the Dodgers. He was
Speaker 1: signed by the Cups. River Ryan was not signed by
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. He was also traded for. So not only
Speaker 1: not only did did they pull off this trade selling
Speaker 1: some excess capacity they have, they were smart enough to
Speaker 1: bring these players in. That's just that's just good management, Tim,
Speaker 1: and that's all it is. I absolutely agree with you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the show, Hey Tommy and some of the other big
Speaker 1: free agent signs, that is about money, but this is
Speaker 1: about really good baseball management.
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know every time down the road that I see, well,
Speaker 2: the Dodgers gave up on you were Dan Elbraz Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, well, yeah, but they also got during Scooble,
Speaker 2: uh for two prospects that weren't in their system. You
Speaker 2: win some, you lose them, but you got to have
Speaker 2: them to be able to be able to win. And
Speaker 2: that's what the Dodgers did here. They're they're they acquired
Speaker 2: the right players. They developed these players, and now they
Speaker 2: have moved them for what they need to attempt to
Speaker 2: get a third World Series. But this is not about money.
Speaker 2: This is about the Dodgers' ability to acquire the talent.
Speaker 2: And for everyone that they lose, they're gaining some back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and double down to this. If people are looking
Speaker 1: for one hundred percent that the Dodgers make no mistakes,
Speaker 1: that's that's unfair. That's that's too much to ask of
Speaker 1: any entity. I mean, so, yeah, so they blew it
Speaker 1: on your ant Alvarez. Jake Galoff is a number first
Speaker 1: round draftic. He's not going to make it. I mean,
Speaker 1: they they have swing and missus all the time, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, most of the times they swing,
Speaker 1: they make connections. I also wrote and talk to some
Speaker 1: people in this aspect of it, that the Dodgers are
Speaker 1: worried that there's going to be some changes in the
Speaker 1: collective bargaining Agreement, where let's face it, tempty the other
Speaker 1: twenty nine teams don't like what the Dodgers are doing.
Speaker 1: They're they're building a juggernaut and they're probably going to
Speaker 1: look to make rules to guard against that. And if
Speaker 1: you're the Dodgers, you got to take advantage of being
Speaker 1: the first team in the National League to ever three
Speaker 1: peet and do you know? This is what it's all
Speaker 1: about winning. So how do you how do you criticize
Speaker 1: him for doing They're playing within the rules.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're playing within the rules. And you know what,
Speaker 2: there are twenty nine other teams out there that can
Speaker 2: invest a little bit more in their scouting department, their
Speaker 2: analytics and they have the exact same opportunities as the
Speaker 2: Dodgers to acquire talent. Maybe what they have to do
Speaker 2: is look at them, pull out a mirror, look in
Speaker 2: the mirror and say why are the Dodgers doing this?
Speaker 2: And maybe improve on that aspect of their club and
Speaker 2: get to that stage. You know what I mean. It's hey,
Speaker 2: how do you fault the Dodgers for the fact that
Speaker 2: they ended up with You're hope in the trade in
Speaker 2: your river ride? Yeah, you can't fault the Dodgers for that.
Speaker 2: You can't fault them for anything in them. Hey, what
Speaker 2: they pay for people coming out of the draft is
Speaker 2: exactly the same as the Colorado Rockies. It's you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, It's that's right.
Speaker 1: It's in fact, they have doors drafted after the Colorado Rockies.
Speaker 1: All those players were available that they got this road
Speaker 1: is they were all available for the Rockies to get.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I have no sympathy for team for the
Speaker 2: other for the twenty nine team owners out there, the
Speaker 2: ones that are whining, I have no sympathy, no compassion whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Do your job. Spend some money on your analytics, Okay,
Speaker 2: and you're your analysis folks, you know, and why can't
Speaker 2: you do the same thing as the Dodgers. You can
Speaker 2: just do it. Quit whining about the fact that the
Speaker 2: Dodgers have all this talent. Well, hey, how'd they get
Speaker 2: this talent by doing something you're not spending a little
Speaker 2: bit of money on your front office people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that is what they're doing. I mean
Speaker 1: they've got they've done better scouts, they have better analytics,
Speaker 1: you know, they have better models. But yet the Rays
Speaker 1: have done very similar stuff. The Milwaukee Brewers have done
Speaker 1: some or like the Angels or Angels are an hour
Speaker 1: down the road and like they're they're well everything they
Speaker 1: do is seems to go the opposite. And think, I'm
Speaker 1: almost only lucky with Mike Trout and that's what they've
Speaker 1: been living off for the last fifteen years.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, and they they did well with shoey Otani.
Speaker 1: That's fair, that's true.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but again for the most part, yeah, they're fifteen
Speaker 2: years behind the Dodgers when it comes to their their
Speaker 2: scouting and s and that's something that they can address
Speaker 2: and only they can address. My you, so, team owners
Speaker 2: whining about this particular set of circumstances. No sympathy here,
Speaker 2: new confession whatsoever. Keep whining because that's all it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so that that's our take on the Dodgers.
Speaker 1: And look, if the Dodgers make it to the World Series,
Speaker 1: I will be rooting for the team playing them. So
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I look, I want to see the
Speaker 1: Dodgers get defeated because you're you're defeating the best and
Speaker 1: people don't. But go take a look and talk to
Speaker 1: television executives. They will tell you they love the Dodgers because,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's a huge market. Lots of people
Speaker 1: are tuned into Los Angeles, but everybody also wants to
Speaker 1: knock off the Dodgers, and it presents compelling television, compelling
Speaker 1: sporting events. You know, Canada, Canada whatever, you know, the
Speaker 1: can the Blue Jays, you know, the the ragtag Blue
Speaker 1: Jays defeat the Dodgers, and they came, they came within
Speaker 1: a couple of outs or beating the Dodgers, and that
Speaker 1: makes compelling television and compelling sport, and that's I think
Speaker 1: that's what these guys are looking for as well. So
Speaker 1: it's not always all bad to have the New York
Speaker 1: Yankees of the twenty twenties.
Speaker 2: No, and yeah, that's a fair column. Yeah, very fair.
Speaker 2: Everybody hates the winners. Everybody's pretty underdog as a rule. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's less right unless you reside in that community and
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 1: You resigning that community, you're thrilled, and you resigne outside
Speaker 1: the community. You want to see them get beaten. That's
Speaker 1: what makes it fun. I think that's what it's all about.
Speaker 2: Right, And advertisers like that, don't they because people watch it.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right to me. That's take a break,
Speaker 1: and we've got lots of other stuff to talk about.
Speaker 1: Two or three antheonys. There's so much here. I'm going
Speaker 1: to get to your waiver wire as well. But the
Speaker 1: White Sox acquir Lewis Castillo from the Mariners and pay
Speaker 1: his entire twenty twenty seventh salary the rest of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, and if he pitches one hundred innings in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, which probably won't happen because of the lockout,
Speaker 1: he his his he vests his twenty twenty eight option.
Speaker 1: In return, the Mariners received this this Bleweyway relievers. Sir Anthony,
Speaker 1: I actually laughed out. I saw that, Sir Anthony, to
Speaker 1: mean guests, I do not, Yeah, don't field Nolan Jones
Speaker 1: really and double a catcher Boston. So this is a decent,
Speaker 1: small kind of minor prospects, some guy to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on. But Timmy, this one's really interesting because we
Speaker 1: knew that the Mariners were going to move some pitching,
Speaker 1: and you and I both thought, and I think the
Speaker 1: whole world thought, they need positional bats back, and Nolan
Speaker 1: Jones is at least having a pretty good season and
Speaker 1: and triple A. They didn't get any any any bats
Speaker 1: back here.
Speaker 2: No, it's a very if you just look at Yeah,
Speaker 2: there's a reason to sort of a truckle. Yeah, they
Speaker 2: didn't get any bats back. They moved and created spot
Speaker 2: for Kate Anderson. Yay, you know, no.
Speaker 1: No, they moved and they got to move somebody else
Speaker 1: because now Bryce Bryce Miller's got a roll, so they're
Speaker 1: back to now five and say six. But I think
Speaker 1: I think callery dump. It's a salary. That's the only
Speaker 1: thing that I concluded. I mean, what else is there?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, Is Nolan Jones ready to step in and
Speaker 2: improve upon what they already have? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: Maybe you think differently, But.
Speaker 1: He's having he's having a nice bounce back and trip away.
Speaker 1: But you cannot count on Nolan Jones. Is not the
Speaker 1: meciety here. If you're counting on Nolan Jones to be
Speaker 1: your massides and maybe he comes up and can do
Speaker 1: what he did was a twenty twenty four to twenty
Speaker 1: three with the Rockies, Okay, But I mean that you
Speaker 1: that's how you lose a job. By counted all that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, no, that's yeah. By.
Speaker 2: On the other hand, the White Sox very sneakily got
Speaker 2: themselves a picture that's going to improve their club and
Speaker 2: then it cost them And it didn't cost them anything,
Speaker 2: really did it.
Speaker 1: No? That cost them money. They caught money. But I
Speaker 1: mean I looked at Lois, what's that?
Speaker 2: Oh, go ahead?
Speaker 1: I looked at Lewis Castille's stuff and on on Baseball
Speaker 1: Slavant and his slider is the thing that's that was
Speaker 1: always his killer pitch, that was his outpitch. It has
Speaker 1: not been very good this season. The velocity is still fine.
Speaker 1: Uh So if the Whites, I mean, every team that
Speaker 1: trades with somebody, there's there's a coach somewhere that's going.
Speaker 1: I can fix that. That's just that's that's what I do, right,
Speaker 1: I can fix that. So maybe there's something they've seen
Speaker 1: in Castile's delivery that they can can get him throwing
Speaker 1: the slider right again. I mean, the Mariners are really
Speaker 1: good at this, so I don't know, but to me, look,
Speaker 1: he becomes the best picture on that staff. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's a staff you know that they've been getting by
Speaker 1: with Anthony k and and all these other guys that
Speaker 1: are number three four starters, and at least they got
Speaker 1: somebody that's got a pedigree.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, the pedigree. But the White Socks have done
Speaker 2: a pretty good job with Davis Martin, Sean Burke and
Speaker 2: Anthony Kay, haven't they absolutely?
Speaker 1: Tim But you go the playoffs and that's what you're
Speaker 1: gonna throw out there.
Speaker 2: But I mean what's to say that they can't They can't.
Speaker 2: They can't work with Louis Castillo.
Speaker 1: Now, I mean that's a fine point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's you know, Hey, who had Sean burkepeg for
Speaker 2: what he's doing, or Davis Martin or Anthony K.
Speaker 1: Well you had Anthony K. You had Anthony K.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Well that's only because I drafted all the
Speaker 2: guys that came over. I had hit on one of them.
Speaker 1: You would think, finally an admission there, Wow, scattered scatter
Speaker 1: approach shots sometimes work.
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I've still got the marks on the barn
Speaker 2: door where I was, where I was trucking it.
Speaker 1: That's true.
Speaker 2: So you know what they gotta do is they gotta
Speaker 2: sign moa comie to an extension. He loves Chicago, he
Speaker 2: was being there. He's only on a two year deal.
Speaker 2: What they have to do and quickly? While Mirakami is
Speaker 2: enamored with Chicago, he loves it there. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: throw three three to five years at him for one
Speaker 2: hundred plus mill and get him inked long term.
Speaker 1: Winter hits. Before the winter hits, he realizes, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: it's cold here.
Speaker 2: He'll be back in Japan enjoying their summer.
Speaker 1: Two questions for you, Uh, Nolan Jones did not make
Speaker 1: your waiver wire? Is that because you just it's Nolan Jones.
Speaker 1: I'm that interested. Nolan Jones is not going to get
Speaker 1: promoted or or what was the thinking there?
Speaker 2: Did you even consider them all of the above? Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just don't think he's going to get called up
Speaker 2: right away.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I question the overall skill set. Uh. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: there's there's nothing to work work with. There there is,
Speaker 2: and he's having a much better year. But I just
Speaker 2: don't see them. Yeah, I could be wrong. I just
Speaker 2: don't see them looking at Nolan Jones as an answer
Speaker 2: that's much better than what they have, if even the
Speaker 2: equal to what they already have. So who knows. Maybe
Speaker 2: maybe the Mariner is a moving another picture and get
Speaker 2: that every day back. But I I he's not a
Speaker 2: player I'm targeting right away, you know, And Sir Anthony
Speaker 2: dimingus well not passed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my take and and all of these write ups
Speaker 1: I'm doing. I'm also having my AI assist to give
Speaker 1: his take as well. And I think he's the AI
Speaker 1: system simply mimicking mine. I'm not seeing a lot of
Speaker 1: original thinking there, but that's okay. So but anyway, my
Speaker 1: thought was, look, the White Sox improve themselves. Not a
Speaker 1: great deal, but they improve themselves. They showed the fans
Speaker 1: that they're in it to try to win, which I
Speaker 1: think is always a good thing. And they did not
Speaker 1: screw up the long term plan of Nold Schultz and
Speaker 1: some other guys that Hagen Smith has not been very good,
Speaker 1: but some of the guys that they think they're going
Speaker 1: to count on from a pitching long term. Nor did
Speaker 1: they do something like trade Brandon Montgomery or something like that.
Speaker 2: Ye stid Yeah. Money, yeah, and there's melon tickets like
Speaker 2: crazy for New Yorkamy. Their attendance has to be up, right,
Speaker 2: So they got some more money they can play with,
Speaker 2: right Yep.
Speaker 1: I think with Seattle, I I think George Kirby or
Speaker 1: one of these guys is going to get moved. That's
Speaker 1: going to free it up for Kate Anderson and that's
Speaker 1: going to bring in the big bat if.
Speaker 2: Not, I think I think.
Speaker 1: It's malpractice with the with the Seattle Mariners.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's dumping salary is what it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's just the.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no exactly, Yeah, it's just fringing up cash for
Speaker 2: oh Winter in Mexico for the owner. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, Julio Rodriguez is still still young, but I
Speaker 1: mean Mike Trout was young at one point. I mean,
Speaker 1: these these guys do start to get older, Timmy, and
Speaker 1: you got to strike when the iron is hot, when
Speaker 1: your team is good, and you got these great pitching,
Speaker 1: it's all there. Clearly, Sir Luis Castillo was at Salar
Speaker 1: dumb because didn'tet anything back. But I I'm not sure
Speaker 1: the White Sox were the appropriate organization to try to
Speaker 1: get a young major league player back. So I think
Speaker 1: they're they're going to move a big guy and let's
Speaker 1: see if it it unlaunches, unlocks something from what the
Speaker 1: return is going to be.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you look at Randy or Rosarina. He's going
Speaker 2: on thirty two, Josh Naylor is in his year, thirty,
Speaker 2: cal Reley is thirty. Uh, you know, they got some kids,
Speaker 2: and you know in Emerson and young, but they've got yeah,
Speaker 2: the core core of their team is all. They're pretty
Speaker 2: We're closing in on them pretty quick, and that doesn't
Speaker 2: include Rodriguez. So their window is, Yeah, two years from now,
Speaker 2: we'll be saying the same thing we said about Laddie
Speaker 2: two years ago. What are the J's gonna do? You know,
Speaker 2: are they gonna sign them yet? Yeah? Yeah, it's it
Speaker 2: will come to a head where if they don't make
Speaker 2: the right deals and mariners, they could be in trouble
Speaker 2: a couple of years. Oh you know, even they're pitching
Speaker 2: like Logan Gilbert Okay, yeah, he's twenty nine going on thirty. Okay, Brian,
Speaker 2: Brian who twenty seven? But Miller is twenty eight. Kirby
Speaker 2: is gonna be He's in his twenty ninth year now.
Speaker 2: So they've only got a couple of years and things
Speaker 2: will change very very quickly if they don't do something
Speaker 2: about it.
Speaker 1: They have to. It was the same, It's the same
Speaker 1: exact logic and thought process of why the Tigers had
Speaker 1: to trade Trek Scoubel. You have to do it. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's and if you're going to make a run and
Speaker 1: it's all sitting there there, they can catch the tie,
Speaker 1: they can catch the Rangers, but they're not going to
Speaker 1: do it with the offense they they have. I mean,
Speaker 1: isn't Kyle Riley still out?
Speaker 2: I think he's back.
Speaker 1: He's not doing much then.
Speaker 2: No, he's in the dumper right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they need some help. There's a lot of other trades.
Speaker 1: I'm just going to focus on one because you put
Speaker 1: him in your waiver wire. And this was a kind
Speaker 1: of a kind of interesting trade. The Pirates acquired Carmela
Speaker 1: de Val from the from the Yankees exchange for a
Speaker 1: couple of a double a catcher and Omar Alfonso, an
Speaker 1: eighteen year old outfit or Lewis Cruz who I kind
Speaker 1: of like Lewis Cruz there. But why is Novelle on
Speaker 1: your waiver wire? Oh he's been terrible?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah he has. Did you read what I wrote
Speaker 2: about him?
Speaker 1: And the weaver were timmy? I I did not get
Speaker 1: a chance. Let me read it now, let me see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you might want to give it to read.
Speaker 1: The Pirates are all into the deadline and the best
Speaker 1: they can do was the fourth best reliever of the
Speaker 1: Yankees bullpen. Not ideal, but Duval has a hundred saved
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine games in his career, thirty six
Speaker 1: more than Greg Risotto and Mason Montgomery combined. That experience
Speaker 1: matter so interesting. Look, I would developed.
Speaker 2: My original My original assessment didn't didn't include that experience. Matters. Basically,
Speaker 2: what I was saying is Pittsburgh's all in and that's
Speaker 2: the best he could do, and that's not good enough.
Speaker 2: He's going to get some saves in all probability, and
Speaker 2: that's why I have him in there. But am I
Speaker 2: chasing community developed No, not at all.
Speaker 1: I used a chance to be better Tim. He was
Speaker 1: pretty good when he was with San Francis Go and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, we'll see. I mean I I think the
Speaker 1: Yankees got rid him because they were just tired of
Speaker 1: him and he was no good and they saved a
Speaker 1: little bit of money in the process. And Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: He was a fourth bullpen arm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, why not move him and just say, hey,
Speaker 1: we've got we can bring up somebody from Triple A
Speaker 1: those one hundred miles an hour and probably be at
Speaker 1: the same spot as to Vow, I'm just wondering if
Speaker 1: getting out of New York and uh, And again, the
Speaker 1: Pirates are really good at developing pictures. Maybe they see something. Again,
Speaker 1: there's I'm sure there's a coach in a corner somewhere
Speaker 1: going I can get I can get that slider back
Speaker 1: to being uh, because again that was his calling car.
Speaker 1: But it's you know, and it's still generating fifty percent
Speaker 1: with rate. But the Yankees decided to rely on his sinker,
Speaker 1: and the sinker was effective, but he wasn't the same
Speaker 1: pictures and maybe they go back to the pitch MIxS
Speaker 1: he used in San Francisco, So there could be some
Speaker 1: tweaks along the way. That's why I thought when you
Speaker 1: put him as you're as a guy to grab, I
Speaker 1: thought there was some I thought there was that was
Speaker 1: actually pretty good.
Speaker 2: I think he's I think he could be the best
Speaker 2: of the three guys there, but I'm not paying for
Speaker 2: him and taking that chance now. With what I've seen
Speaker 2: over the past several years, his saves have been in
Speaker 2: steady free fall for the past three years, as e
Speaker 2: or as up there. What annoyed me the most about
Speaker 2: this is the pirates all in at the deadline and
Speaker 2: that's the best they could do. We're both been upgrade, Like,
Speaker 2: come on, really, let's think.
Speaker 1: It's still twenty eight hours something like that. Let's let's
Speaker 1: let's give him. Let's givehim twenty eight hours so and
Speaker 1: then we can then we can bust on them.
Speaker 2: Oh I just busted right out of the gate. Sorry,
Speaker 2: I don't know. It just disappointed me, you know, Like
Speaker 2: I said, with the arms that are available, I think
Speaker 2: the pirates could have done much better. I think what
Speaker 2: they have now is a committee of three instead of
Speaker 2: a committee of two. But hey, I could be wrong
Speaker 2: and Devell could take the world by storm and anchor
Speaker 2: that bullpen like he did three four years ago. I
Speaker 2: just I just found it disappointing.
Speaker 1: Let's let's talk Freddy peralta real quick.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm just going to give you.
Speaker 1: My thoughts there. I will write it up for our
Speaker 1: Patreon members. Seeing a guy with an ERA of four
Speaker 1: ninety nine not good, expected earray of three eighty two
Speaker 1: much better. And that's pretty much where expected ERA last
Speaker 1: year was three forty three, three thirty five. So that's
Speaker 1: the kind of picture he's been and the data is
Speaker 1: saying that he has a chance to be back of that.
Speaker 1: He's never been a control artist, and the controls pretty
Speaker 1: much are in line with what they've been. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the data, Timmy, and it's showing that he has
Speaker 1: really come off throwing his sinker and it looks like
Speaker 1: the the Mets wanted him to throw his four seamer
Speaker 1: more so again as and it looks like, see what
Speaker 1: else is Yeah, his forcing more than he is a sinker.
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering if they get him back to throwing
Speaker 1: a sinker, and maybe that makes a difference. But there
Speaker 1: is something that has changed that calls you know, something
Speaker 1: that's that's been different. And everything's getting hit hard, particularly
Speaker 1: his curveball, which has never been the case. This stuff
Speaker 1: was always played very well. So his location's not there.
Speaker 1: I think it's set up for him to have a
Speaker 1: bounce back, and I think it's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I think psychologically getting out of New York,
Speaker 2: I'm sure somewhere wherever he is right now, he's going, ah, finally,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I I I just think
Speaker 2: from a mental aspect, leaving, leaving the Mets and going
Speaker 2: to a team in this first place in the division,
Speaker 2: I think that's going to be a positive. Without any
Speaker 2: of the mechanical you know, without any of the mechanics
Speaker 2: and everything else that goes into being a good pitcher.
Speaker 2: I think I think we'll see improvement just with him
Speaker 2: escaping New York.
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but.
Speaker 1: I think so They've got to get him off throwing
Speaker 1: that four stinger man, it's the four singers. Gave up
Speaker 1: sixteen her runs last year, seven her runs this season.
Speaker 1: It's just not a very good pitch, and they got
Speaker 1: to get him throwing that. They're going to get him
Speaker 1: throwing that syncher more. That would be something that he
Speaker 1: might want you to consider.
Speaker 2: And I'm sure they will. I'm sure they will.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're good at this, so yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: and you know they're going to get him to throw
Speaker 1: more strikes. So that's just that's just what they do.
Speaker 1: Is that going to be next start? Probably not, but
Speaker 1: I think look, his his agent's going Freddy, You've got
Speaker 1: everything set up for you. If you have a great
Speaker 1: last two months, no one's going to remember the first
Speaker 1: four months. You're going to be able to go out
Speaker 1: and command a huge salary. So it's all there for
Speaker 1: him and if he if he flops it, he flubs it,
Speaker 1: but it's all sitting there for him to be able
Speaker 1: to take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: It's a much better opportunity in Tampa Bay over the
Speaker 2: two months final two months of the season than it
Speaker 2: would be in New York with the Mets.
Speaker 1: Timmy, let's take a break and come back and check
Speaker 1: some of the scores and see what's going on, and
Speaker 1: then we'll do your waiver wire. Let's see, I was
Speaker 1: watching a real game youre talking, and they've hit a
Speaker 1: rain delay. So the Saint Louis Cardinals are up one
Speaker 1: to nothing. Would you think of Quinn Matthews start yesterday?
Speaker 2: It was solid? Yeah, I was fine with it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I liked. I like what I saw. The big thing
Speaker 2: there will be whether or not Dustin May is a
Speaker 2: Cardinal come Monday after four balk or six o'club, whatever
Speaker 2: the time is. Yeah, there's an opportunity for him to
Speaker 2: fit into that rotation. I believe his next game would
Speaker 2: be against the Rockies. I'm not sure if home we're away,
Speaker 2: but uh, I was. I was impressed. It was okay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't if you know, it wasn't like
Speaker 2: he was setting the world run. But it was steady
Speaker 2: and good for him. I think should there be an
Speaker 2: opening and then the Cards haven't said anything yet, but
Speaker 2: I think they're waiting to see what happens in deadline.
Speaker 2: I think he'll be in the rotation balance of the season.
Speaker 2: I'd be I'd be looking at going out and getting
Speaker 2: him tonight that's what I'd be doing.
Speaker 1: Max Shuars are with a good start five and it's
Speaker 1: pitch three hits and run five strikeouts of one walk.
Speaker 1: Is that enough for him to a team to go Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll take a flyer on, mister sheers Er.
Speaker 2: Well, see, I I look at the standings, okay, and
Speaker 2: the Jays are what three four games out of a Wildcards?
Speaker 2: But they've been playing much better.
Speaker 1: Wait I told us uninspired baseball two days ago.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, no, it was a week ago that I
Speaker 2: looked at the schedule and they got thirty five of
Speaker 2: their final games are against teams that they've got to
Speaker 2: chase down to get into the wild Cards. What if
Speaker 2: the Jays just help and and found a way to
Speaker 2: make it into the With what's going on right now,
Speaker 2: they're gonna pass Detroit no probability, So maybe the Jays
Speaker 2: they might not be buyers, but maybe they'll just hold
Speaker 2: pat and see if they can chase everybody down over
Speaker 2: the last two months. And they can't be totally ruled out.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I don't know if they're gonna I don't
Speaker 2: know if they're gonna move Max or Springer or Ghostlan.
Speaker 2: They might just hold on to that team and try
Speaker 2: and make up ground and maybe they can, maybe they can't.
Speaker 2: Are they going to get that much for what they
Speaker 2: have to put out there? I don't think so. So
Speaker 2: that'd be interesting. You see how it shakes down Jay's
Speaker 2: old pat That's interesting.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's I mean, it's a good thought process
Speaker 1: of when I had not considered I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: the uh uh uh, the Guardians up to nothing on
Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks, Patrick Bailey with the home run. One of
Speaker 1: the deals they did we didn't talk about was Blake, uh,
Speaker 1: Blake Perkins going to the Guardians, And I thought, out loud,
Speaker 1: does this mean maybe Stephen Kwan is on his way
Speaker 1: out of Cleveland because Blake's Blake Blake Perkins is kind
Speaker 1: of a Steven a poor man. Stephen kwant on bass
Speaker 1: guy really can defender no power, a little bit of speed.
Speaker 1: It's like Stephen Kuan, and Stephen Kuan has been like
Speaker 1: red hot over the last few weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah. When I read the trade, the first thing that
Speaker 2: caught my mind is Milwaukee only had to give up
Speaker 2: a case of Yoho to get Bowe Naylor.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I tried to create jokes on
Speaker 1: you who and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: been writing too much over the last few days, but
Speaker 1: I got the joke. Yeah, so I thought the acquisition
Speaker 1: of bon Naylor is actually interesting. I mean it's because
Speaker 1: what I wrote to our Patreon members. I mean, remember
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers move guys the year before they're ready
Speaker 1: for free agents free agency, and that's William Contrera's next season.
Speaker 1: He'll be a free agent at the end of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seventh season. Don't be surprised if William Contrere's
Speaker 1: gets moved in the off season and they go with
Speaker 1: Jefferson Quarra and they're gonna be looking for some backups.
Speaker 1: And I think it was a nice little move. Let's
Speaker 1: see what Let's see if Boon Naylor can help.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Gary saying, you know that's.
Speaker 1: He's forty years old. He's the old guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Gary pass Baal Sanchez.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, let's see what else we got going on here?
Speaker 1: The oh, the here's a score seven to one. The
Speaker 1: Reds are up. Its Sea's doing damage for the Reds.
Speaker 1: Your buddy, uh oh, Spencer Stewart with another home run
Speaker 1: up to twenty four.
Speaker 2: Amazing season.
Speaker 1: Now, look at that Hayes with a home run. Keep
Speaker 1: Brian Hayes hit he wan.
Speaker 2: Yes, and you got Mitch Keller he went all of
Speaker 2: two innings along seven ened runs. Chase Burns a one hitter,
Speaker 2: three straight coats. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So when do we start to get worried about about
Speaker 1: Paul Skeins Uh?
Speaker 2: I have him nowhere, so I'm not worried at all.
Speaker 1: But it's here. An up is just below four.
Speaker 2: Yeah. On an interesting graph. Okay, looking at basically by
Speaker 2: start and looking at velocity, and his velocity has come
Speaker 2: down steadily since that first month that he showed up. Mmm.
Speaker 2: I think it was first inning velocity or something. It
Speaker 2: has come down on a fairly gradual basis. I I
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what to think there. I you get
Speaker 2: the you got the memories of how things were up
Speaker 2: until this year. But the reality of this year is
Speaker 2: he hasn't pitched well and the velocity is down. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna have to look at that very closely in the
Speaker 2: off season. I'm not ready to formulate an opinion now,
Speaker 2: but there are warning there are warning signs that maybe
Speaker 2: maybe there are some issues, serious ones.
Speaker 1: The first picture off the board is.
Speaker 2: For me, Yeah, I'm a moto.
Speaker 1: For me, it's Jacob Miserowski.
Speaker 2: Yeah. See my my concern with Miserowski is.
Speaker 1: Throwing Ye for sure, his arm's gonna fall off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, E is a game at one hundred and
Speaker 2: three miles an hour. Okay, no, no, no, no, I
Speaker 2: don't you know. No, I will not have Miserowski.
Speaker 1: Totally get it, I totally get it. But he is
Speaker 1: the best pitcher in baseball right now. I mean that
Speaker 1: that guy is. He's doing stuff that's never We always
Speaker 1: talk about how Tony Misowski is doing stuff that people
Speaker 1: didn't think was possible. Guy throwing that hard, I mean
Speaker 1: it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The guy that I want over Miski is Chase Burns.
Speaker 1: Okay, Chase Burns very good. He's uh, he's actually winning
Speaker 1: the game at the moment. He has been really good.
Speaker 1: Is Garrett Cole another? Can I start too? Is out
Speaker 1: in three forty seven year a starting to look more
Speaker 1: and more like the Garrett Cole of old.
Speaker 2: Yes he is, and you're not paying a premium for
Speaker 2: him next year?
Speaker 1: You don't think so?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I think you'll be drafted
Speaker 2: as number two.
Speaker 1: Who was stock that's pitching for the Mets. Who is
Speaker 1: Stock thirty six year okay, sack or something.
Speaker 2: Rubber Stack? Yeah, I don't know. I his nickname is Crunch.
Speaker 1: As supposed to Crutch. Okay, well.
Speaker 2: Well yeah no, yeah, five inning, three hit ball for
Speaker 2: a stray Coats. I you got. Yeah. I am going
Speaker 2: to take a very quick look to see how many
Speaker 2: teams Robert Stock has the name the day rings the
Speaker 2: ball of the bell. He's making his first start since
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, exactly he was, Yeah, he was out
Speaker 2: of the Padres system. Pitch really well in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think either one of my kids were
Speaker 1: married in twenty eighteen. A lot that's happening since twenty eighteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, since twenty twenty one. He pitched two and two
Speaker 2: thirds innings and for Boston in twenty twenty five. That's it.
Speaker 1: So my questions still stand. Who was Robert Stock? So?
Speaker 2: Wow? I have no idea. I have no idea idea whatsoever.
Speaker 2: But he's stage incrib'll come back from TuS syndrome nerve
Speaker 2: condition back in March, pitching for Team Israel. What year
Speaker 2: is this is? Twenty twenty six? I have no idea yeah.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. These rando rando starts, and I know he'll
Speaker 1: be picked up all over the way for where nobody
Speaker 1: knows who he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, let's go, yeah exactly eighty four point five.
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I have no idea what his
Speaker 2: view is.
Speaker 1: Let's see. I'm sure he's a Tim McLoud special, So
Speaker 1: he has to be a soft tosster because Tim like
Speaker 1: sas soft tosters tof tossers.
Speaker 2: Okay, but he's alrighty, I have wim like soft left.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see Santi al Contra, Robert Stock, Oh, mister
Speaker 1: McLeod's see for sam Or ninety six point three touching
Speaker 1: ninety eight? Is uh the sinker sweeper? Change up?
Speaker 2: It doesn't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Only he throws hard for one, So
Speaker 1: I've never seen a pitch. Well, it's very it hasn't
Speaker 1: caught my eye.
Speaker 2: It's very rare that you get a thirty six year
Speaker 2: old picture that's still minors eligible in dynasty leagues, and
Speaker 2: he is.
Speaker 1: He's almost thirty seven. Yeah yeah, yeah, Wow, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: What's that? Wow? That is crazy. I mean, let's move,
Speaker 1: let's move to your waiver wire. Uh. First, of all.
Speaker 1: I mean, your little note to me was the teams
Speaker 1: didn't cooperate, therefore you didn't have a lot of it
Speaker 1: took that to meeting and have a lot of obvious names,
Speaker 1: so you had to dig a little bit of Is
Speaker 1: that how I should understand it?
Speaker 2: Well, some of them were straightforward and obvious and some
Speaker 2: of them, Yeah, I had to do some dig and
Speaker 2: I had to do some research. I was hoping we'd
Speaker 2: see some some moves that might fold into waiver wire activity. Uh.
Speaker 2: I think we have more moves generated by potential call
Speaker 2: ups and the call up of Max Clark than we
Speaker 2: have as a result of the trade situation.
Speaker 1: M Thus far, I think we're just getting started. I
Speaker 1: agree with you, and it's it's a bumber that the
Speaker 1: trade deadline is on Monday, because I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see that's where you gonna see opportunities, particularly in the
Speaker 1: closer side. They're gonna all they're all gonna pop up
Speaker 1: late tonight and tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Well, let's face it, the Mets are moving everybody, and
Speaker 2: up until an hour ago, they hadn't moved anybody. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're that whole bullpen is going to get gutted. Or
Speaker 2: at least it probably should. But again, what what happens
Speaker 2: with that, we can only speculate. They might get some
Speaker 2: relief arms back that they can plug in, and who knows.
Speaker 2: It's how you how you make how do you make
Speaker 2: a call as to what's going to happen to the
Speaker 2: Mets bullpen.
Speaker 1: I know it's funny. I bought these tickets for this
Speaker 1: game today back in March, and I was not thinking
Speaker 1: about the trade deadline. The hindsight, I should have picked
Speaker 1: a different game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you're gonna go. You're gonna have fun with
Speaker 2: the family and we'll scoot through this real quick so
Speaker 2: we can get you out here.
Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be worried about all
Speaker 1: the trades that are being made. I know, I know me, Tim,
Speaker 1: I I.
Speaker 2: Have have cell phone, will travel.
Speaker 1: Exactly. It was funny because, uh, last night, it was
Speaker 1: about midnight when the with the the the Cherk Scooble trade,
Speaker 1: when I was just finishing up a write up, I
Speaker 1: think of the Lewis case steel trade, like, I'm really tired.
Speaker 1: I'll write this in the morning. And what did I do, Timmy?
Speaker 1: I I wrote the article in my head for the
Speaker 1: next thirty minutes. Then I couldn't get to sleep, so
Speaker 1: I should have just gotten well, wrote the damn thing.
Speaker 2: Well, I remember, going back a few years now, this
Speaker 2: might be quite a few years. Were listening to you
Speaker 2: tell me a story about how you were at a wedding. Okay,
Speaker 2: and you spend a lot of time Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time in the bathroom, cheat and
Speaker 2: checking on your phone. I suggest you would be to
Speaker 2: tell Laurie that your stomach's a little bit, a little
Speaker 2: bit funky and it's a little bit of wax. Set
Speaker 2: this thing up. So when you get to the ballpark,
Speaker 2: you have to go to the bathroom on a regular basis, okay,
Speaker 2: and then you can check your phone.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my son had the nerve to get married in
Speaker 1: late September. Yeah, I know, and it was I mean,
Speaker 1: I was competing for a fantasy title, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I had to check the scores.
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, yeah, you loved him before you
Speaker 2: loved him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a huge check the damn wedding.
Speaker 2: And then.
Speaker 1: All right, Timmy, we got up up front, we got
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson. I think there's gonna be enough move another move,
Speaker 1: time's right, If somehow I sitting on a free agent pool.
Speaker 1: He shouldn't be this guy. If he doesn't start a
Speaker 1: game this coming week, there should be an investigation.
Speaker 2: Totally agreed, Totally.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he will perform like he has all season. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is the major leagues, but it's pretty mature Arsenal guy.
Speaker 1: It's got good control, good pitch ability. He's he's one
Speaker 1: of the more now ready pitchers we've seen in a
Speaker 1: while coming up for the minor leagues.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, And everything he's done this year has been
Speaker 2: basically perfect, hasn't Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean he's been been the best picture of the
Speaker 1: minor leagues and it's not been close.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Well, I was close in the first month with Seth
Speaker 1: Hernandez and then Seth Hernandez stumbled a little bit in
Speaker 1: High A, and now he's a bit hurt, and now
Speaker 1: it's Kate Anderson's just he's just been a monster. It's
Speaker 1: it's not the bottom line. I think I saw Key
Speaker 1: Wall had him as his number one prospect, which is
Speaker 1: a little a little over the top, but there's definitely
Speaker 1: an argument for that. Let's go to the second game
Speaker 1: flash from the past. Luis Capensano yeah, I think we'd be.
Speaker 2: You know, he's been a disappointment, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: But lately he's showing some signs of life. Past week
Speaker 2: he's gone seven for fifteen, three RBIs, two catch er formats.
Speaker 2: I'd spend a buck on. Can I know if I
Speaker 2: was struggling to find the catcher this week?
Speaker 1: Max Clark, tell me what your impressions are so far?
Speaker 2: I don't care how much blinking he wears. Okay, he
Speaker 2: can hit, and in his first two games nine at bats,
Speaker 2: two singles, two doubles, a home run. He hasn't run yet,
Speaker 2: but that will come.
Speaker 1: He's a seventy runners. That's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, Apparently the rumors he can hit her true.
Speaker 2: If you have if you have anything left in your fab,
Speaker 2: if you have the most fab and you have six
Speaker 2: hundred and eighteen dollars, uh, spend one dollar more than
Speaker 2: what the next person has and you get this guy.
Speaker 2: Oh was that?
Speaker 1: Look? I never gave up hope. As you know, I've
Speaker 1: been a Max Clark apologist. I even wrote that you
Speaker 1: might see him take the next level once he gets
Speaker 1: to the major leagues because he just never had that
Speaker 1: draft drop mic season that almost every young player has
Speaker 1: where it's just like, well, kind of like Joshua Bias
Speaker 1: where you're just screaming like why isn't he up? You
Speaker 1: never had that year with Max Clark. It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's pretty good. But the everything about the underlying stats
Speaker 1: that it was all there. He's always been really really young.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's ever going to be a you know,
Speaker 1: a first round draft pick, but he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that's just going to be fifteen to twenty home runs,
Speaker 1: twenty stolen base and the guy can hit and just
Speaker 1: it's going to be a year in and year out.
Speaker 1: That's the player.
Speaker 2: He's going to be in a dynasty league. He's the
Speaker 2: type of player that can anchor your team for a
Speaker 2: long time.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. I mean, sure you'd wish him to,
Speaker 1: You wish he was kind on a Griffin, but he's not.
Speaker 1: It just isn't It's just the way it is.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, that's apples and apples sort of, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you got to take the player for who
Speaker 1: they are, and I think high floors there's a lot
Speaker 1: of value there. I think people people discount that because
Speaker 1: they're all looking for the thirty five home run guy
Speaker 1: or the forty stolen base guy. And give me the
Speaker 1: guy that hits fifteen to twenty home runs and steals
Speaker 1: fifteen to twenty bases and I'll just take that every
Speaker 1: day of the week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in my league, the drafts that has our fab
Speaker 2: on on Saturday nights, rich the team that's in fifth
Speaker 2: at a pile of money. They spent two hundred and
Speaker 2: forty two to acquire Max Clark last night. You're going
Speaker 2: to have to spend. Sky's a limit on this guy.
Speaker 2: Spend if you've got the most fabs, spend a dollar
Speaker 2: more than you have to. But get the guy roster. Know,
Speaker 2: if you have the opportunity, don't pass on it.
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, he's tatted up, he's blinged up, and but
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, that's just that's just the guy he is.
Speaker 1: I mean, who cares, That's that's who he is. Brian
Speaker 1: de la Cruz, outfielder with the Philadelphia Phillies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the the Phillies have been shuffling the outfield decks
Speaker 2: since the old Garcias season ended. You know, they've they've
Speaker 2: gone with various different options, and so far they really
Speaker 2: haven't found anything, but Dela Cruz he's going to start
Speaker 2: earning more playing time, you know, since getting called up
Speaker 2: about a week week now. He ate for a team
Speaker 2: of the home run three RBIs if you're looking for
Speaker 2: a cheap dark toss in the outfield. If he continues
Speaker 2: to hit, he's going to continue to get opportunities. So
Speaker 2: maybe de la Cruz Bruce to be the answer. Would
Speaker 2: I bet big money? No, But so far he's doing
Speaker 2: what it takes to be hanging out in that outfield,
Speaker 2: So why not?
Speaker 1: Were you a Chris Farley fan?
Speaker 2: Not overly?
Speaker 1: No? Uh. He had this bit that he did when
Speaker 1: he was on Saturday Night Live where he would like
Speaker 1: when he would meet a famous person. They did it
Speaker 1: with Paul McCartney. He would go, remember that time you
Speaker 1: were in a stadium with all those fans screaming your
Speaker 1: name and blah blah blah, and Paul McCartney goes yeah,
Speaker 1: he goes, well, that was awesome. That was one of
Speaker 1: his bits. I feel like when looking at Britton Doyle
Speaker 1: was the same thing. It's like, remember the year when
Speaker 1: he had twenty three months So that was awesome and
Speaker 1: it's been terrible since.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, personal tragedy, in juries. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: but he's back off the il Ah. I would spend
Speaker 2: a couple of months if I have an Oakfield hoole,
Speaker 2: just to see what happens over the next couple of months.
Speaker 2: He's going to get an opportuny. Need to play with
Speaker 2: the opportunity. Yeah, who knows. I if you got a
Speaker 2: hole in the outfield, I would look at Brenton Doyle.
Speaker 2: Would I spend a lot to do it? No?
Speaker 1: Spender Jones on another home run, I think it was yesterday,
Speaker 1: So he's got power, tim question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in the past four games he had three home
Speaker 2: runs and added a stolen base for good measure. He's
Speaker 2: hot and when hot, that skill set brings plenty of
Speaker 2: goodness to the table. Hey, he's gonna play. He's the
Speaker 2: guy that you're going to spend money on if you
Speaker 2: want him this weekend when you had three three home
Speaker 2: runs in four days. Yeah, with his skill set, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're gonna spend some money. But he might he might
Speaker 2: stay off in space for you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll break your heart. That's just what I think.
Speaker 1: But he has long term.
Speaker 2: I'm long term long term. I agree redraft leagues.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the speed and power that's for sure to
Speaker 1: me to take a final break, come back and let's
Speaker 1: finish up your list. Mister Quinn Matthews. We've already talked
Speaker 1: of Matthews with one tea by the way, everyone, so
Speaker 1: just if you're searching for him, it's one t In Matthews.
Speaker 1: Uh you what your you talked about Dustin May getting moved.
Speaker 1: That would make a lot of sense to me, given
Speaker 1: the injury history of Dustin May. I'd get whatever I
Speaker 1: could from him and bring up Quinn Matthews. What do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, bingo, that's that's where I'm at. Time to see
Speaker 2: what the kids got and the Cards have gone into
Speaker 2: a bit of a swoon. They're not scoring any runs.
Speaker 2: Their offense is really in the tank right now. It's
Speaker 2: just too bad the Cards didn't have anybody down on
Speaker 2: the farm that might be able to help them out. Hint,
Speaker 2: friggain and get bias up. Come on Cards, do they
Speaker 2: do the right thing? But anything? Getting back to Quinn Matthews, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be in that rotation right
Speaker 2: right down the stretch, So I would spend a little
Speaker 2: bit of money on Quinn Matthews.
Speaker 1: H Andrew Painter is the next guy. A lot of
Speaker 1: expectations did not meet it this season. He came up
Speaker 1: for a spot start to put some of the way
Speaker 1: for our.
Speaker 2: Why because you pitch well. He pitched really well. Early on,
Speaker 2: he gave up a two run shot to Alonso, but
Speaker 2: after that his spots starred. He was hitting. His spots
Speaker 2: went six innings, three hits or walks, two were and
Speaker 2: runs six strikeouts. I put one in a row. Isn't
Speaker 2: a streak, but there might be the starter one. I
Speaker 2: just think there's I still believe in Andrew paint Painter.
Speaker 2: Maybe I'm an apologist whatever, but I just think that
Speaker 2: we haven't seen anywhere near the best of Andrew Painter.
Speaker 2: And would I spend a bundle for him tonight. No,
Speaker 2: but I would spend something I wouldn't let somebody else
Speaker 2: I woul wouldn't know if somebody else take advantage of
Speaker 2: the opportunity and get a freebee.
Speaker 1: As an apologist for many players, Tommy, I can assure
Speaker 1: you it as a lonely spot to be. But if
Speaker 1: you believe, you believe, and that's the important part. I think.
Speaker 1: I think it's a good person to be an apologist for.
Speaker 2: So Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that I've.
Speaker 1: Got Cooper Pratt in a couple of leagues and I'm
Speaker 1: playing them over the labor touruses of the world to see.
Speaker 1: He's been fantastic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he just keeps on a rule and in the
Speaker 2: past week, uh, he's driven them five runs, swiped a
Speaker 2: couple of bases. He's a bat of three thirty three.
Speaker 2: He's now up to ten steals in his first one
Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen MLB at that's I own. It's a
Speaker 2: three eighty two OBP. Why is the only roster in
Speaker 2: forty four percent of the league's I'm not gonna I
Speaker 2: don't think.
Speaker 1: The power has come up yet. So I think that
Speaker 1: might be maybe people are moved over to football.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. He's been fantastic
Speaker 2: for up Ron Cooper Brad and I'm not going to
Speaker 2: mention him anymore of this year, but he is one
Speaker 2: player that I would really like to have in redraft
Speaker 2: leagues next year as my middle infield type player.
Speaker 1: Two home runs, ten solen bases, and eighteen percent strikeout right,
Speaker 1: a thirty percent walk rate. It's three forty four Babbitt,
Speaker 1: which is an awful I mean, that's that's what you
Speaker 1: wanted of a rookie. I mean, it's just showing good
Speaker 1: contact skills and he's running. He's got a little bit
Speaker 1: more speed, a little bit more power that will eventually
Speaker 1: come out. He's never going to be a power hitter,
Speaker 1: but it's a good baseball player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, and I think I think the
Speaker 2: Brewers are very happy to have him in the everyday lineup.
Speaker 1: Yep, A little bit like Max Clark. So let's gonna
Speaker 1: be a you're gonna you're gonna sit down maybe in
Speaker 1: thirty seven games and see a very similar production line
Speaker 1: for Max Clark. Would be my guess. Last guy, my
Speaker 1: guy River Ryan weird to see a Detroit Tiger emblem
Speaker 1: next to him, but that's what we got.
Speaker 2: That's what we got. And my thoughts would be get
Speaker 2: him Roger down my why wait, he is going to
Speaker 2: be in the Tiger's rotation as soon as he gets
Speaker 2: through the hamstring issue, So make the move now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it'll be I don't know when he's
Speaker 1: coming back from the hamstring with a couple of starts
Speaker 1: in triple A and then he's out. Ye uh your
Speaker 1: closer report. You got three guys Camillos and it's this
Speaker 1: is the thing that's really gonna change. And we'll probably
Speaker 1: do a podcast on Tuesday or Wednesday, depends on how
Speaker 1: comotos I am on Tuesday after after staying up all night.
Speaker 1: I probably it's probably going to be a long night,
Speaker 1: that would be my guess. I mean, because it's we've
Speaker 1: had probably got a third of the trains. It's usually
Speaker 1: two thirds coming, a third, a third and a third.
Speaker 1: That's the way it does the last three days, so
Speaker 1: we got we got a lot coming still.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm I'm up for Tuesday. And if you're
Speaker 2: going to be up late, I'm definitely willing to make
Speaker 2: it instead of six thirty in the morning seven if
Speaker 2: that helps.
Speaker 1: That's why you're just all heart my friend. Close the report.
Speaker 1: We got Camille dival. I I might throw a buck
Speaker 1: down on him. I I don't know something, it's a
Speaker 1: gut feeling. I have the stuff. It still throws really
Speaker 1: really hard do it.
Speaker 2: He could end up with fifteen saves over the next
Speaker 2: few months.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's say so, And I makeson Montgomery sex pretty
Speaker 1: good but crazy, so I he answer Anthony Deming is
Speaker 1: there on my I don't even want to talk about
Speaker 1: them less. I don't like these guys.
Speaker 2: Jordan Romano is ranked higher by Rich Wilson in the
Speaker 2: same group.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been burned by those guys. It's Kevin
Speaker 1: all over again. I mean, those guys leave a mark
Speaker 1: where you spend a fortune on fab and then they
Speaker 1: come and they punch a six arra and they lose
Speaker 1: their job in a week and a half, and I'm
Speaker 1: just done.
Speaker 2: I get it. I get it. One of the guys
Speaker 2: that I was never a bully, Sean is is not
Speaker 2: the next guy, but the guy he replaced. I was
Speaker 2: never a big Faulsea wolf man.
Speaker 1: No, I remember that when it was with Seattle, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know you lost the gig.
Speaker 2: And last night he sealed his fate, totally allowed five
Speaker 2: and runs without getting it out. So definitely low leverage
Speaker 2: for Faulsea Wold. He's out of the East, totally out
Speaker 2: of the mix.
Speaker 1: And Bradon Garcia's attend that the guy that Tim's got
Speaker 1: down for who was going to take over the.
Speaker 2: Role, well, you know, it's a committee. We covered it
Speaker 2: on Friday and I gave my full rationale on Friday,
Speaker 2: and I'm sticking to it. He's the only lefty in
Speaker 2: the bullpen, and Tory Levello said he's going to mix
Speaker 2: and match, so he's going to get lots of opportunities.
Speaker 2: And guess what, He's gotten two saves in his first
Speaker 2: two opportunities to pitch since see what was removed they
Speaker 2: from the from the gigs, So you know, being the
Speaker 2: only lefty, even if it's a committee, I still think
Speaker 2: Garcia is going to get plenty of opportunities for saves
Speaker 2: in Arizona. Now again, that could change once we see
Speaker 2: Justin Martinez back and he's heading over in a rehab assignment,
Speaker 2: but temporarily, of all the guys there, I think I
Speaker 2: like Garcia the best of Merlo probably number two or
Speaker 2: the was Aga, the Wisago him too.
Speaker 1: That was going, yeah, Martinez is coming back from Tommy
Speaker 1: John surgery. But Garcia throws really really hard tim so
Speaker 1: we looked at that just tying seven point three and
Speaker 1: a nasty, nasty sweeper. So it's classic kind of closer
Speaker 1: profile there.
Speaker 2: Uh, and the last left ed hitters aren't going to
Speaker 2: like him at all. Now.
Speaker 1: Eric Miller with San Francisco Giants, who do you like
Speaker 1: if they're both in the wave where Eric Miller or
Speaker 1: Braiden Garcia.
Speaker 2: Eric Miller and it's not it's not I like Garcia better,
Speaker 2: But with what Lavello has said and the mix and
Speaker 2: the committee and Justin Martinez returning, I think Eric. I
Speaker 2: think Braiden Garcia has a much higher ceiling but also
Speaker 2: higher risk because of all the various variables involved. Eric
Speaker 2: Miller I only has to worry about a whole like
Speaker 2: of a lot. He's now got back to back saves.
Speaker 2: He's had a consistently good year. The upside. No, But
Speaker 2: if I was looking at playing the safe and cheaper bad,
Speaker 2: I'd stay away from Arizona and go with San Francisco.
Speaker 2: I think you can get Miller for half the money.
Speaker 2: You'll get an Arizona closer like Garcia, and you might
Speaker 2: end up seeing better results two months from now. Okay,
Speaker 2: So I'd go with Miller over Garcia. He'd be my
Speaker 2: number one closer option. This week.
Speaker 1: I've got some teams that are really hurting from a
Speaker 1: closer standpoint, so I might be partaking in some of those.
Speaker 1: I gotta do something, Timmy. I have no closer. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm literally starting eight seven or eight starters every week
Speaker 1: and then some middle relievers. It's it's tough in a
Speaker 1: couple of those leagues lost everybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the guy I target would be Miller. I
Speaker 2: think he's the safest, the safest of the three.
Speaker 1: I'll give it a I'll give it the old college try.
Speaker 1: And to me, that is a wrap, my friend. It
Speaker 1: is three twenty. I need to do the post propection
Speaker 1: here and I got to get get off to the game.
Speaker 1: The weather looks like it's going to hold I think
Speaker 1: tomorrow it's I think the I think no one is
Speaker 1: ark are going to be out tomorrow. So apparently it's
Speaker 1: supposed to be really rough for tomorrow. But today I
Speaker 1: think that the rain is going to hold off. I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to that. And I just checked and there's
Speaker 1: no more trades. The thing at the top of the list,
Speaker 1: and I use MLB trade rumers. If people they're always looking,
Speaker 1: that's a great, uh, I think, a great source to
Speaker 1: do a really good job at tracking all the trades.
Speaker 1: So that's that is what I use.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think it's a good option. To me.
Speaker 1: We will talk again on tomorrow. We'll figure out if
Speaker 1: we can do Tuesday or Wednesday, and we'll try to
Speaker 1: get together and talk about all the trades that have
Speaker 1: that have happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a AM is my final offer.
Speaker 1: By the way, am.
Speaker 2: I know you, Laurie the family, have a wonderful day
Speaker 2: at the ballpark, have fun and enjoy time with the family.
Speaker 2: And to all our listeners, let's let's hope that the
Speaker 2: trade deadline works out well for each and every one
Speaker 2: of us. Uh. We'll catch you early in the week
Speaker 2: for an update. Thanks Rachel.