Speaker 1: Greeney's Societations. Everyone, It's twelve and walking too. Fantasy Baseball Live.
Speaker 1: Today is the twenty first of August, and Tim and
Speaker 1: I are a little hairy today. I made Tim see
Speaker 1: if we could get earlier on the podcast, and he's
Speaker 1: running from all of his many jobs that he has,
Speaker 1: and I've got a delivery, furniture delivery coming and supposedly
Speaker 1: anywhere from nine thirty here to eleven thirty, so we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. You see if we can squeeze an
Speaker 1: eight podcasts.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, our lives are very hectic. And just one
Speaker 2: of those nights at the old hospital, emergency was busy
Speaker 2: and they got back up longer for report, so I
Speaker 2: couldn't speak as much as I wanted to sneak out early.
Speaker 2: It wasn't in the cards for GA.
Speaker 1: Totally understand, and I appreciate you making your best effort,
Speaker 1: and I apologize. My schedule's been a little nuts here
Speaker 1: of the last few weeks. And I said, we've got
Speaker 1: this new place to me and it's not furniture, so
Speaker 1: we quick had to buy all this furniture, and we
Speaker 1: have a bought furniture in a long time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you have, it takes forever for it to come.
Speaker 1: Unless you buy it off the floor, it takes forever.
Speaker 1: It takes forever. I mean weeks, like months, actually four
Speaker 1: to five months for stuff to get made and deliver,
Speaker 1: and then then they give you okay, we're delivering on Friday.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, you got a choice. Yeah you can, like
Speaker 2: you said, you can buy off the floor or sit
Speaker 2: on the.
Speaker 1: Floor, which we've been doing so.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, Yeah that worked for so long. Eh, So I.
Speaker 1: Was like with you ten. We got big exciting news
Speaker 1: last night. The Mariners announced that Kate Anderson finally is
Speaker 1: going to come up and try to help the team.
Speaker 1: And I don't know when you got Bryce Miller, I
Speaker 1: point kind of an era of eight over the last month.
Speaker 1: And and poor George George, Oh, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: George spring Gerby. Oh, Kirby, George Kirby just got lit
Speaker 1: up again last night. So it's and I'm taking a
Speaker 1: look at the the standings. I mean, they're almost out
Speaker 1: of it. To me, it's just too little, too late.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, it definitely is. And I know what's going
Speaker 2: on with Kirby. Kirby is still limiting the free passes.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's time that George Kirby started eliminating some of
Speaker 2: the hits because his his hit great. He's he's allowed
Speaker 2: ten plus more than innings pitched, I believe thus far
Speaker 2: into the year. And yeah, that's the only pitcher. You know,
Speaker 2: Brian Wu has had moments of success, and I'm not
Speaker 2: mistaken his room numbers are not that great. They created
Speaker 2: Luis Castile Miller's gat. Yeah, so what you got, Logan
Speaker 2: Gilbert that you can say you're satisfied with there? Or
Speaker 2: who am I missing?
Speaker 1: That's it. It's funny because I brought this up about
Speaker 1: two months ago talking how strong the Seattle Mariner pitching was,
Speaker 1: and you were the one that called me out and said,
Speaker 1: is it really that strong? And I think you were
Speaker 1: I think you were right. And and it's Kate Anderson's
Speaker 1: obviously been the best pitcher in the minor leagues this season.
Speaker 1: It's not even close. And it took the Mariners a
Speaker 1: long time to realize that maybe they're starting pitching was
Speaker 1: not as good as it was supposed to be coming
Speaker 1: into the season, and probably trying to manage Kate Anderson's
Speaker 1: service time. Blah blah blah. Here we are Timmy a
Speaker 1: good chance they're going to miss the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, as much as I love the
Speaker 2: fact that he is getting called up, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 2: We're looking at five to six starts, okay, of which
Speaker 2: is probably going to be a ninety pitch cap on it. Okay. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he is going to marginally help your fantasy squads. He
Speaker 2: will be better than what you're probably wheeling out there
Speaker 2: as your number five six starter. But in the big
Speaker 2: scheme of things, it would have been nice had you
Speaker 2: been called up maybe a couple of weeks back.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the more the merrier, and five to six starts is,
Speaker 2: like I said, it's going to be nice to see. Okay,
Speaker 2: it's definitely a positive, But from a fantasy point of view,
Speaker 2: I just don't know how much help is there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm looking at George Kirby's data and it's interesting
Speaker 1: to me there's not a whole lot of difference year
Speaker 1: over year except everything's getting hit just a little bit harder, so.
Speaker 2: Just enough to just enough to inflate that year a
Speaker 2: and low him to have some outings that aren't very good.
Speaker 1: Without looking what was George Kirby's era in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say four ten very.
Speaker 1: You're really good at this game. You've become very good
Speaker 1: tim four point two one. So it's essentially the same
Speaker 1: era they's got this season stuff. I'm taking a look
Speaker 1: at the stuff from last year to this year, and
Speaker 1: I made the comment without looking at his era looks
Speaker 1: about the same. And if you go back to twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, that's when the stuff was really sharp and
Speaker 1: he had Yeah, so it's nothing leaps out as obvious,
Speaker 1: but maybe he's more a three point fifty to four
Speaker 1: e a guy as opposed to the ace that a
Speaker 1: lot of people thought he was going to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you know, when you looked at you know,
Speaker 2: his introduction to the league as a twenty four year old, Okay,
Speaker 2: he posted a three thirty ninety RA one twenty one whip. Okay,
Speaker 2: he followed it up for a great year in twenty three.
Speaker 2: He got the whip down to one oh four ERA
Speaker 2: three thirty five EAR three fifty three, and now we've
Speaker 2: got back to back four plus ERA seasons and the
Speaker 2: workload if you look at the workload in twenty three
Speaker 2: and twenty four, one hundred and ninety and two thirds
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety one, almost identical twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty six innings. This year one hundred
Speaker 2: and forty, he'll be up around one sixty one seventy
Speaker 2: somewhere in there. Probably it it's a little concerning. I
Speaker 2: think we thought we had a solid number two, possibly
Speaker 2: an eight after those first three years, but I think
Speaker 2: we have to be downshifting moving forward.
Speaker 1: His expected he are any in those same season. So
Speaker 1: it's very interesting to me. This year it's four last
Speaker 1: year of three eighty eight. Two years ago, three ninety
Speaker 1: he had a couple three forties in there, but again
Speaker 1: you averaged it out and it's a three fifty to
Speaker 1: four year a guy. That's I mean, that's a solid
Speaker 1: number three guy, even boarding on a low end number two.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's the guy as coming back
Speaker 1: to what you just said, I don't think it's who
Speaker 1: he thought he was going to be when he was
Speaker 1: twenty five in posting that really step up season. I
Speaker 1: think he's a very good pitcher, but I think that's
Speaker 1: that's it. He's not a great pitcher.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, the consistency factor, if you go back five starts. Okay,
Speaker 2: in four four innings he lowed seven earned runs. Okay,
Speaker 2: his next outing nowhere and druns. The one after that,
Speaker 2: five innings against Tampa Bay one aarn drug in his
Speaker 2: past two earnings against Houston and Milwaukee fiber and run
Speaker 2: six earned runs. And what's interesting is if if you
Speaker 2: look at those five starts, the three starts where he
Speaker 2: allowed seven, five and six earned runs, uh, they were
Speaker 2: all on the road. The two starts where he allowed
Speaker 2: zero and one earned run. We're pitching in Seattle. Maybe
Speaker 2: we've got a home road split problem happening here.
Speaker 1: Which I mean Seattle is one of the best places
Speaker 1: to pitch. Again, looking at his wift rates as well,
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to get to some pitch that's
Speaker 1: got a thirty percent wither that means it's a plus pitch.
Speaker 1: Nothing is preaching that this season, whereas he's always at
Speaker 1: that four seamer that had a thirty percent rate is
Speaker 1: sweeper last year at a thirty one percent. This year
Speaker 1: it's twenty one and twenty five. I mean, very good,
Speaker 1: but stuff's not quite as as sharp. And you know
Speaker 1: the problems of the road. I mean, you roll it
Speaker 1: all up together and I think we beat this course enough,
Speaker 1: but he is more of a three than a two.
Speaker 2: I think so too. And if you well, what I'm
Speaker 2: finding alarming, And again about the last five starts, what
Speaker 2: would you say his in those five starts his highest
Speaker 2: strikeout rate was in those five games number struck.
Speaker 1: Six three really yeah against threes.
Speaker 2: And two two's and the five starts before that six, seven, seven, five, five, ten.
Speaker 2: Maybe maybe he's tiring good beating into that and that's
Speaker 2: not good for a picture. Who's what twenty eight?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your fantasy manager, you're still throwing him out there.
Speaker 1: That's the problem. So you're just taking it on the chin.
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to start, uh, I'm going
Speaker 2: to sit him on the road down the stretch in
Speaker 2: leagues where I'm in a really close ear ra you
Speaker 2: know ear ra situation. I'm I'm going to sit him
Speaker 2: on the road.
Speaker 1: Well, this is a perfect setup for my first topic,
Speaker 1: and that is mister Paul's skiings. Another battleling on Wednesday
Speaker 1: four walks three and runs in four and a third
Speaker 1: innings against the Tigers. This isn't the Doctors, this is
Speaker 1: the Tigers.
Speaker 2: Ylo.
Speaker 1: His velocity was season average. Who would you get would
Speaker 1: you consider sitting him for his next start? Since July first, Timmy,
Speaker 1: he's posted a five to sixty seventy ear A four
Speaker 1: walks per innings. And then I've given you. Let me
Speaker 1: give you a couple of cops, because I did some
Speaker 1: research on this for the season, five inning Freddy down
Speaker 1: to four inning Freddy. It's a five twenty seven e
Speaker 1: Arra and he's walking three point seven per nine. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty close comp Aaron Nola a five to twelve
Speaker 1: vra in walking three per nine. You want it over
Speaker 1: that same time frame of July first, Dean Kramer almost
Speaker 1: exactly the same type of stat line as is Kumber Rocker,
Speaker 1: as is fram Ra Valdez. That's where Paul's skeens has
Speaker 1: been performing. That those are his peers that he's been
Speaker 1: performing at so and those guys you're you're not starting
Speaker 1: Dean Kramer every start? Would you be starting Paul Skins
Speaker 1: every time? Now?
Speaker 2: Well, looking at the back, I'd be looking at matchups.
Speaker 2: It's at that stage for me where you know, hey,
Speaker 2: it's it's nice to say, Okay, he's going to bounce back,
Speaker 2: but we're down to the final five six starts of
Speaker 2: the year. Okay, he's already done the damage that has
Speaker 2: caused you, in all likelihood to see your ear and
Speaker 2: whip inflated over the past two months to the point
Speaker 2: where it's costing it's costing you a title. Are you
Speaker 2: going to take again? It depends on how close you
Speaker 2: are in the era A category are you? Are you
Speaker 2: going to play around and take a chance. I don't
Speaker 2: know he's he's at the stage for me where if
Speaker 2: I had him anywhere I'd be, I'd be playing matchups.
Speaker 2: And if it's not a favorable matchup, I probably said them,
Speaker 2: if it's if it's got the potential to cost me
Speaker 2: even more points in that year A category.
Speaker 1: His next two starts at San Diego and then home
Speaker 1: against San Francisco.
Speaker 2: What do you do, sid start?
Speaker 1: Yeah? You got to start them against the giants.
Speaker 2: You have to, Yeah, you have to? Yes? Uh San Diego,
Speaker 2: now that Fernando Tatis has found his way out of
Speaker 2: his early season power power slump, Uh No, I don't
Speaker 2: Between Tetiz Junior and Meryll No, I don't think. I
Speaker 2: don't think i'd want that. I might want to play
Speaker 2: that game in San Diego and.
Speaker 1: Kind of bummed that tatist Junior is uh finding his
Speaker 1: stride because I was hoping to get him cheap next season.
Speaker 1: I was, I was slump.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, cheap is going to be a very relative term.
Speaker 2: You Yeah, you might, you might get him thirteenth instead
Speaker 2: of eleventh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure, for sure. So let's so we've
Speaker 1: we've we've beat up really beat up George Kirby, kind
Speaker 1: of beat up Paul Skins. Let's draft the top ten
Speaker 1: pitchers off the board next season.
Speaker 2: Sounds okay that that sounds impossible, but yeah, it should
Speaker 2: be fun.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to hold you in any of the
Speaker 1: guesses but or any of the picks here. So do
Speaker 1: you want to go first? You want me to go first?
Speaker 2: Well, it makes no difference to me. Whoever, I don't
Speaker 2: pick you will pick so, and vice versa. So that's
Speaker 2: what I'm figurering. Anyways, I figure we got to.
Speaker 1: I just want to see. I want to see if
Speaker 1: Paul Skeens goes number. I want to see if he
Speaker 1: goes in the top ten. So we'll see. I think
Speaker 1: the first couple are easy. I know you're going to
Speaker 1: take Yamamoto, so I'm going to leave that for you.
Speaker 2: No, actually, I'm not really Yeah.
Speaker 1: Nine twenty East Coast time, Tim has not taken al
Speaker 1: moto as as the number one pitcher off the board. Look,
Speaker 1: I have reservations about this. I think we all do.
Speaker 1: Can Jacob miss Jacob Mazerowski's arm literally going to go
Speaker 1: flying off his body one day? It's entirely possible, Tim,
Speaker 1: But yeah, he's just been ridiculous. And I don't even
Speaker 1: think Paul Skeen's last year was this good. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's twelve wins, one hundred and thirty nine innings pitch,
Speaker 1: he's got a thirteen point six strikeout per nine walking
Speaker 1: to he throws one hundred miles an hour, averaging one
Speaker 1: seventy five year and expect at one ninety three. So
Speaker 1: the data saying it's all real, I'm going Jacob Mizowski.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's and yeah, I got no brothers with that.
Speaker 2: One by one two is either Schoogle or one mister
Speaker 2: Oski two or vice versa. So I'm I'm I'm looking
Speaker 2: at Schoogle with the number two picks and I actually
Speaker 2: penciled in his team is La D Is that correct?
Speaker 1: For next season?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can can they really add another four or five hundred
Speaker 1: million dollar picture.
Speaker 2: They probably can't, but they probably will.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, he's not he's not great since he's been
Speaker 1: with If I guess if he wins a title, then uh,
Speaker 1: then maybe the Dodgers will want to have him. But
Speaker 1: if he doesn't, I don't know, We'll have to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm going with Schooble a's number two. I
Speaker 2: looked at the rest of the I think even a
Speaker 2: slightly above average Schoogle is it is a good bet
Speaker 2: to to return the investment.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, you could still argue because of the
Speaker 1: consistency and the track record, he should be the number
Speaker 1: one guy. But I mean, I just don't think you
Speaker 1: can take anybody over Jacob Mazarowski at the moment. But
Speaker 1: I mean Scooble is boring and good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think we're going to see a hole different.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to see more than five
Speaker 2: pitchers go off the board in the first two rounds.
Speaker 2: I was that maybe six. But we're not going to
Speaker 2: see the rush to grab an ace because I think
Speaker 2: our definition of an ace is changing even as we speak.
Speaker 1: I'd love to fish down with Braxton Ashcraft that kind
Speaker 1: of area. I just I think that's where the value
Speaker 1: is going to be. You know, that's that's more low wind.
Speaker 1: That's probably a number two starter. I think there could
Speaker 1: be some value in these number two guys sitting there.
Speaker 2: So I think both three number or two's equals better
Speaker 2: than two number ones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I struggle, Like Parker Mesic, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at uh, you know, by war and Parker Messick's the
Speaker 1: eight best picture in baseball. I'm gonna get it. It's
Speaker 1: been great. I really struggle with, you know, taking Parker
Speaker 1: Mesic as my ACE. I just, I mean, I'm much
Speaker 1: rather Chase Burns or a Dylan see somebody that's a
Speaker 1: flamethrower than the Parker Messick. But he'll probably be at
Speaker 1: somebody's ace.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right to me, I'm a definition definition of
Speaker 2: ace has changed very much. I think in the past year.
Speaker 1: It's true. Look, I think the safe the safe pick
Speaker 1: here is Christopher Sanchez as right, and yeah, but uh
Speaker 1: all right, I'm gonna go should I go Cam Schlitzler
Speaker 1: or Christopher Sanchez. I gotta do Christopher's chances. I gotta
Speaker 1: be conservative here. I mean, obviously he's just been money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ave, he's had a very very good year and
Speaker 2: you know that that's scoreless streak run. Yeah, it's yeah, No,
Speaker 2: I don't have I don't have any problems at all
Speaker 2: with Christopher Sanchez as the number three off the board.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean expected the array with Camp Schlitzler's two
Speaker 1: ninety three with Sanchez, and Schlitzer's actually struck out a
Speaker 1: few more guys. I mean, but I mean Sanchez is
Speaker 1: just again the track record there. So I'm going Camp.
Speaker 1: I'm going Christopher Sanchez, you're on the close.
Speaker 2: You'll get your shot at Camp Schlitzler. Because at number four,
Speaker 2: I'm going Yama Moto your guy. Well, I'm going over
Speaker 2: again the same argument we used for Sanchez, I'm using
Speaker 2: for Yama Moto versus Schlitzler. Okay, I just think Yama
Speaker 2: Moto as the proven track record, good team. You know,
Speaker 2: the strikeouts could be a little bit better from Yamamoto,
Speaker 2: but it's off set by a point eight nine whip
Speaker 2: and an ERA under three we've now seen for what
Speaker 2: two full seasons. Yeah, it's yeah, I have a hard Hey,
Speaker 2: I get it if you if you want to look at,
Speaker 2: you know, the Yankees starter. But for me, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: take a little bit of a safer path and go
Speaker 2: with Yama Moto at number.
Speaker 1: Four to say you, Schlitzler's got a point nine to
Speaker 1: four whip, so not much difference there. I mean, I look,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm debating. I'm debating between Schlitler, Schlitzler, and Chase Burns,
Speaker 1: even though Chase Burns is I just think the upside
Speaker 1: with Chase Burns, I don't think he has hit his
Speaker 1: full potential yet. He's still walking a few too many guys.
Speaker 1: But I just think it's all there. He's won fourteen games.
Speaker 1: I think Sanchez has won sixteen, so he leads the
Speaker 1: major leagues to maybe Foster Griffin's got fifteen or something
Speaker 1: like that. But I'm gonna go with Schlittler. I'm gonna take, okay,
Speaker 1: the obvious one here and go Slittler.
Speaker 2: TiO, Okay, well you're gonna get You're gonna get a
Speaker 2: chance to to get your guy and Chase Burns because
Speaker 2: I'm going I'm going safe and a little bit boring
Speaker 2: with this one. But Dylan ceases now put together, was
Speaker 2: it seventeen two hundred strikeout seasons in a row? Something
Speaker 2: silly likes? You know, I think it's five years now,
Speaker 2: two hundred strikeouts in a row. I don't see any
Speaker 2: reason why that should change hitting into next year. Uh,
Speaker 2: he's liking Toronto. Toronto's liking him. So as much as
Speaker 2: I love Chase Burns, I think Dylan is just a
Speaker 2: safer pick with his.
Speaker 1: Which is weird because he's always been a bit volatile.
Speaker 1: But you know, the guy rarely gets hurt.
Speaker 2: He just because yeah, he just keeps Yeah, And you
Speaker 2: know what, there's something to be said for somebody when
Speaker 2: you look at this year's top four picks, five picks
Speaker 2: in the pitching department, how many of them don't have
Speaker 2: injury issues? Sanchez, Jamamoto, Mizerowski. But that's that could be
Speaker 2: a time bomb, or it could prove us wrong, like
Speaker 2: Mason Miller. Yeah, there's question marks with all these guys.
Speaker 2: I'm taking a little bit of a safer approach, but
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean it's a right approach. It's just easy
Speaker 2: to argue.
Speaker 1: Starting in twenty twenty one, one hundred and sixty five
Speaker 1: innings up to twenty twenty five hundred and sixty eight,
Speaker 1: I mean he's been Dylan case has been one hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty to one hundred and ninety innings for the
Speaker 1: last five years, So he's going to be assume he
Speaker 1: doesn't get hurt. He's going to be right there this season.
Speaker 1: I mean there's value.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, yeah, I think so.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the upside is with Chase Burns. I
Speaker 1: think the stuff is just flat out nasty. I mean,
Speaker 1: I wish he played for a better team, but he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He is. It is what it is. So I'm going
Speaker 1: Chase Burns.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, what do you think? I I guess my
Speaker 2: question to you would be, because I know you're all
Speaker 2: over this guy and you love him in a big way,
Speaker 2: what's the upside difference between Chase Burns and Urie Perez.
Speaker 1: Oh, well, you can't take Eurie Perez because you you know,
Speaker 1: you all over him.
Speaker 2: That's all. That's all. That's old newsle Rich. That was
Speaker 2: like eons.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, you can't take them from me. Look,
Speaker 1: I think that of you. I'm asking you.
Speaker 2: I think you could.
Speaker 1: Get I love your I think you get Uri Peress
Speaker 1: a little bit later than Chase Burns.
Speaker 2: No, yes, I I have a tendency to agree, but
Speaker 2: I was I was looking at it, not from not
Speaker 2: from my perspective. I'm not taking I'm not going to
Speaker 2: take him. I've got somebody else in mind. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to throw out to you, what is the difference
Speaker 2: right now between Chase Burns and Uri Perez in your mind? Like,
Speaker 2: why would you take Perez ahead of Perez?
Speaker 1: Why would I take Burns ahead, take Press ahead of pres?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, sorry, I'm gonna take.
Speaker 1: I would I think the place for a better team.
Speaker 1: Uh team, I think it's going to score a few
Speaker 1: more runs. Okay, Then again, Miami is a better pitching environment,
Speaker 1: so you can argue that I'm taking a look as expected.
Speaker 1: The array of of Uri Perez is three sixty, is
Speaker 1: a little less with Chase Burns. But I think they're
Speaker 1: I don't know. To me, I think they're both really good, right.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to get your your thoughts on the
Speaker 2: two of them going like head to head sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Eh, I think they're very close. You can argue gury
Speaker 1: Pez has got a broader arsenal, got a few more
Speaker 1: weapons to throw at it. He can also argue that
Speaker 1: he's still he has just started to come back from
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. I think you're finally starting to see
Speaker 1: here in the second half, the guy exploding and he's
Speaker 1: twenty three and what a year younger than Chase Burns.
Speaker 1: I think you're splitting hairs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, okay, you know, I was just curious.
Speaker 1: I think if you put them out, if they were
Speaker 1: free agents, one would get three hundred and fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars in the other get three thirty.
Speaker 2: It's like, okay, yeah, now that's cool. I'm not taking
Speaker 2: Urie Brezo.
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't take him quite yet, because I think
Speaker 1: you can get him on. I said one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, Tim,
Speaker 1: you're on the clock.
Speaker 2: Well, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna continue my role of
Speaker 2: boredom here and safe what I perceived to be safe picks.
Speaker 2: At number eight, I'm going Garrett Cole.
Speaker 3: Damn.
Speaker 1: I was hoping he would fall to me. You know that,
Speaker 1: I think you know, as we got into this season,
Speaker 1: I took Garrett Cole in a couple of leagues, and
Speaker 1: I knew it was a bit of a dicey pick,
Speaker 1: just coming back, but he had a couple of wobbly
Speaker 1: first outings and still pitched well. He looks like vintage
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole. Over the last month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he has. He's been rocking the cats. Boh, yeah, no,
Speaker 2: he's he's been looking like the Garrett Cole of war Old.
Speaker 2: I think I think you know the first however many
Speaker 2: starts were he was hitting miss Well, that's coming back
Speaker 2: from Tommy John, I think, climatizing himself to the game,
Speaker 2: settling in knocking the rust off. But lately, if I
Speaker 2: said to you right now that Garrett Cole is going
Speaker 2: to be the best pitcher in baseball next year, would
Speaker 2: you say I am totally insane, a little insane, or
Speaker 2: it's a possibility.
Speaker 1: Oh, I definitely think it's a possibility. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're insane at all. Is it likely? No? But I
Speaker 1: mean I look if I think it's almost guaranteed as
Speaker 1: the top unless he gets hurt, a top ten pitcher,
Speaker 1: and probably very likely he's a top five pitch pitcher.
Speaker 1: So if Jacob, if Jacob Miserowski doesn't get hurt, he's
Speaker 1: going to be the best picture.
Speaker 2: Yeah you think that guy? I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean he's throwing stuff that nobody's seen before. I mean,
Speaker 1: until something happens, I think, yeah, he's a bit of
Speaker 1: a unicorn right now.
Speaker 2: How many had pictures on this list have three hundred
Speaker 2: strikeo potential in Mizerowski.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just don't. Yeah, they don't pitch.
Speaker 2: Enough to have that right exactly. Yep.
Speaker 1: Okay, cool, all right, I'm going I'm going boring here.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: I know this guy said he was going to retire.
Speaker 1: I think now he's saying he will not. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at stat cast page. It's all red and that is
Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler. Yeah, the velocity is down a smidge ninety
Speaker 1: six one ninety five two, but I mean the split
Speaker 1: finger is ridiculous forty six percent with rate still in
Speaker 1: a sinker even more. I mean, Zach Wheeler, what's his
Speaker 1: expected era is two seventy nine on a two ninety
Speaker 1: two era. I mean, come on.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Yeah, yeah, no, no problems at all. You know,
Speaker 2: I got a problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your tenth guy, and then we're going to take
Speaker 1: a break and come back. And I want a guy
Speaker 1: that is not the top ten, not even in the
Speaker 1: top twenty, that you think is going to turn into
Speaker 1: a guy that's going to be really good next season.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna throw that out. I didn't put it
Speaker 1: in the notes. So yeah, so like even more miserable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you. Yes, looking at my tenth guy. Okay, well,
Speaker 2: I can't pick Urie Perez because you're not. But no,
Speaker 2: and you know what, that narrows it down to two
Speaker 2: pictures for me, and I'm going to go. I don't
Speaker 2: know if this is a safe pick or or not,
Speaker 2: but everything we've seen from Peyton Tolli this year has
Speaker 2: been really, really good, and I think it's going to
Speaker 2: get better. I'm gonna go with Peyton over Paul and
Speaker 2: go with Tolly in Boston as my number ten.
Speaker 1: I think it's a great call. That would have been
Speaker 1: my guy that I think you get him a little
Speaker 1: bit later, but that would have been one of the
Speaker 1: guys I was considering. He has ranked sixteenth over the
Speaker 1: last couple of months in terms of what he's been doing.
Speaker 1: So he's been he's been good. Tim I, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. I mean, that
Speaker 1: guy has I thought he would be better than Condlee
Speaker 1: early he is. He's got big stuff.
Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah, everything I'm seeing I like And as much
Speaker 2: as scheme should be the pick, somewhere in there, I.
Speaker 1: Think, do you think he's still a top ten guy?
Speaker 2: I The Straycoats indicated he's a top ten the year
Speaker 2: A and Whip don't say the same story. I think
Speaker 2: he'll go off the board top ten, somewhere between five
Speaker 2: and ten. But I'm not I'm not going to play
Speaker 2: that game. I have nothing other than my gut feeling
Speaker 2: to support it. But something's wrong. We're seeing it in
Speaker 2: the results. Is it mechanics, is it a mass injury
Speaker 2: of some sort? Playing playing shape? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: I don't know. And when I have doubts like that,
Speaker 2: I'm going to lean in another direction rather than making
Speaker 2: the commitment you have to make as a top ten,
Speaker 2: as a top ten starter. Okay, I'll look elsewhere because
Speaker 2: I just I don't feel comfortable, you know. So if
Speaker 2: I don't feel comfortable, why would I make the move.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to yep personally.
Speaker 1: Timmy, Let's take a break and come back, and let's
Speaker 1: see if we can come up with out of our asses,
Speaker 1: somebody who's going to break out next season. I think
Speaker 1: one of the answer should be Kate Anderson.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe I've got a guy that has not struck
Speaker 3: out as many guys as I would have thought.
Speaker 1: Another Pittsburgh pirate.
Speaker 2: That's Bubba Chandler, yeah, yeah, and Ashcraft, Yeah, they're both.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Ashcraft kind of. I don't think Bubba Chandler
Speaker 1: is going to be in your top thirty forty guys.
Speaker 1: Maybe he will be, but I just think it's a
Speaker 1: guy that you can get a little bit later that
Speaker 1: the upside is still pretty terrific. And he's even terribly
Speaker 1: youngest his first season in the league. I think Brax
Speaker 1: and Ashcraft is again I sound like a broken record
Speaker 1: with him. I think that guy is really good. I
Speaker 1: think he's really boring because he doesn't doesn't throw one
Speaker 1: hundred miles an hour, he doesn't have the eighty grade
Speaker 1: slider or anything like that. He's just really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't. And you know, when I look
Speaker 2: at the list of pictures that I have that we
Speaker 2: didn't select, Schemes is on there, Massac is on there,
Speaker 2: Nolan McLain is on there, Garrett Crochet, Logan, Gilbert Uri, Perez,
Speaker 2: Max Meyer, Hunter Brown. There's there's some really good pictures
Speaker 2: that are going to fall into a de facto or
Speaker 2: default a sort of situation. But if you can land
Speaker 2: a couple of those, a couple of them might be
Speaker 2: better than some of the gambles on the perceived top ten,
Speaker 2: if that makes sense.
Speaker 1: I did not have Max Meyer on there, and I'm
Speaker 1: looking at his stat line and I should have Max
Speaker 1: myre though, he's got an expected array of three eighty six,
Speaker 1: getting a little bit lucky there, but uh.
Speaker 2: Wow the strikeouts. Yeah, he's had a good year, he
Speaker 2: really has.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, there's there's Miami Marlon pictures man just environment
Speaker 1: and the in the factory that they've got over there
Speaker 1: just all works well.
Speaker 2: And if you look at Kate Anderson, Thomas White should
Speaker 2: be considered too, right, he's hurt. He's hurt. But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: Seth Hernandez, Yeah, there's some there's some pictures. It's going
Speaker 2: to be fascinating to see when they arrive and with
Speaker 2: how much Vander.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think we're going to see Seth Seth
Speaker 1: the Hernandez. That's just my take. I mean he's he's
Speaker 1: after his like incredible start. I mean he's really tapered
Speaker 1: off a bit, so, uh. I think he'll probably be overdrafted.
Speaker 1: Just that's just my thought there.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, yeah for next year in aery Draftleig, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he probably will.
Speaker 1: Be Okay, Uh, fun stuff Timmy, let's uh, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let me get back to my notes here.
Speaker 2: You don't want my long shot for it next year?
Speaker 1: I thought I thought one of those was your long shot.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, who's your long shot?
Speaker 2: No? Okay, herod O Saki, Oh jeez, leading the NBB
Speaker 2: and strikes he wants to st them over. Then the
Speaker 2: top twenty start sitting that will be drafted as a
Speaker 2: top one or Cody Ponce there we go, I.
Speaker 1: Am totally done with these Japanese guys, Timmy, I'm done.
Speaker 1: Uh am Iya did me in? I'm done? Okay, two
Speaker 1: years I wad with with Sasaki and I'm not even
Speaker 1: gonna it's a zero point zero you mentioned in Japanese picture.
Speaker 1: Done done.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what, we don't play in any leagues together. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we won't be fighting over it, but we did.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with a Cody ponzas of the world. These
Speaker 1: guys that come over, particularly from Korea, with with you know,
Speaker 1: some improved stuff, I mean, Foster Griffin, They've they've been great.
Speaker 1: But these high end Japanese guys. Yeah, for every Yamamota
Speaker 1: that you get, there's I mean, my husband, brutal Sosaki
Speaker 1: was terrible. I mean he's pitch He's pitching much better
Speaker 1: this season, but I mean these first year man, forget
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the only benefit you got there is if you
Speaker 2: played in the playoff league and you had you picked
Speaker 2: him up for the save, if you ended up lucking
Speaker 2: into the saves and playoffs when they when they moved
Speaker 2: him into the bullpen. Yeah, No, Psyche's twenty nine years old,
Speaker 2: he's a veteran. He's leading their league in strike oats.
Speaker 2: I feel much more comfortable about him than I do
Speaker 2: about per se. Uh. I would feel the most comfortable
Speaker 2: about him since any pitcher since Yamamoto. How's that.
Speaker 1: You talked that maya really big man. We all bought
Speaker 1: into it man, and then we bought into well. I'm
Speaker 1: a little concerned about his control. Incredibly, you did it
Speaker 1: before the season started.
Speaker 2: But it's like like what, yeah, what are you talking about? Yeah,
Speaker 2: for a while I was hockey rolls Rice and I
Speaker 2: delivered a pindo a little bit exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like, get, this guy's gonna be great, because the
Speaker 1: greatest guy since Yama Mode. Okay, okay, and then three
Speaker 1: days for the season, I'm a little concerned about his control.
Speaker 1: What oh you drafted already, draft bastard?
Speaker 2: All right, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 1: All right, what's the name? What's the guy's name? Again?
Speaker 1: One more time? I won't even give you a zero
Speaker 1: points there. I didn't. I wasn't paying attention. What's what's
Speaker 1: the picture's name?
Speaker 2: Was? I was gonna spell it out s A I
Speaker 2: K I heroical. He's leading the sack Japanese. Yeah, Sechy, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's been leading. He's leading the MVB in Stracos Yere.
Speaker 2: He's wanted to come over for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: I think he'll Hey, if of course, we get some
Speaker 2: sort of assemblance of a CBA, there's a good possible
Speaker 2: ability we'll see him next year. The CBA is going
Speaker 2: to mess everything up. In effect, that really.
Speaker 1: Might mess up the Japanese guys who post, right, because
Speaker 1: they typically post in December January. We're not going to
Speaker 1: know anything in December January.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's that's the problem. That these guys sign
Speaker 2: on for another year. Do they defer their plans permanently?
Speaker 2: What happens with the North American guys? Do we see
Speaker 2: them going to Japan if they get an offer and
Speaker 2: not even considering looking at Major League Baseball. It's going
Speaker 2: to cause a total mess of that whole situation. Rich,
Speaker 2: It's gonna be ugly, ugly, ugly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I've I've been busy writing up. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm starting on my prospect stuff right writing for
Speaker 1: my fall project, and I'm probably three quarters of the
Speaker 1: way done. I mean, I'm just finishing up the Toronto
Speaker 1: Blue Jays today and that will be two thirds of
Speaker 1: the teams, So I've got the West to do, which
Speaker 1: is probably the biggest chunk, just because I don't know this,
Speaker 1: but I'm putting in like, you should start the season
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven in the big leagues. And then
Speaker 1: I'm thinking it's kind of depressing because you don't know
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. And I don't know what's going to
Speaker 1: happen in the minor leagues either. And then I think,
Speaker 1: and what's going to happen with our Patreots side. Is
Speaker 1: anybody gonna win a bay where we have.
Speaker 2: Nothing to talk about? I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna suck.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, before you start, when you do your
Speaker 2: first division, Okay, yeah, you should put the caveat up top. Okay,
Speaker 2: this applies to everything from here on forward. Until we
Speaker 2: get some definition. There might not be a season, or
Speaker 2: it might be aduced. We don't know. And when it
Speaker 2: comes to ranking players, and especially when you're looking at
Speaker 2: potential arrival dates, it's pretty tough. If we don't have
Speaker 2: a full twenty twenty seven, it doesn't start on time.
Speaker 2: All of your estimated arrival times are going to be
Speaker 2: pushed back by that amount of time, aren't they. Yeah
Speaker 2: that they miss Yeah, so yeah, one caveat, and you
Speaker 2: would have you wouldn't have to mention it for the
Speaker 2: other twenty five teams, right.
Speaker 1: I just decided just to not even mentioned. And I'm
Speaker 1: just kind of writing and going, well, you know, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. I mean, again, I don't know the
Speaker 1: CBA rules. I believe the minor leagues are now in
Speaker 1: in the Union effect, I know they are. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I mean, it would seem crazy that they
Speaker 1: would delay all these kids getting started. That just backs
Speaker 1: everything up. I don't know. That's what a mess.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. It's a mess.
Speaker 1: I just take a look at the standings. To me,
Speaker 1: I know it's not fantasy baseball, but it is baseball.
Speaker 1: We can talk about about whatever we want on on
Speaker 1: the on Fridays. That's that's dealer's choice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, g G I right, t G.
Speaker 1: I thank god it's Friday.
Speaker 2: Or something that I put on my running shoes to
Speaker 2: remind me the toes going first.
Speaker 1: All right, that's very fun. It's very dad joke Jackson
Speaker 1: the about the why is the armor single? Because it can't?
Speaker 1: Elope mean it was it was expressionless, like you're no
Speaker 1: genius kid.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I want to know that it for right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've left for any people speechless, but usually not
Speaker 2: at that age yet.
Speaker 1: First, all right, so Yankees. Yankees have had a good week.
Speaker 1: The Red Sox in four and six. So we've got
Speaker 1: a tie here between the Minnesota Twins and the Texas Rangers,
Speaker 1: with the Blue Jays a half out, yeah, Guardians a
Speaker 1: game out, Tiger's a game and half, and the Orioles
Speaker 1: the tough series against the Yankees just did not did
Speaker 1: not get it done. And now they're two games out.
Speaker 1: You still think the Yankees and Red Sox are getting
Speaker 1: in who gets that last spot?
Speaker 2: Well, you know, and sharing the injuries that Jay's been
Speaker 2: dealing with, the playing good baseball. Yeah, they've got the
Speaker 2: best record over the past ten in in their division
Speaker 2: at seven and three. I'm still I'm still rooting for
Speaker 2: one of Toronto or Detroit. But Detroit's gone four and
Speaker 2: six in the past ten there, so i'd bet I
Speaker 2: gotta like what I got a root for the Jays.
Speaker 2: I really am after they're after their headline sell off
Speaker 2: and moving play. Hey, they're only three games under five hundred.
Speaker 2: They took two or three from the Rays. This weekend's
Speaker 2: a big series. They got to win at least one
Speaker 2: game in New York before they head back home. If
Speaker 2: you got Kansas City next, So if they can win one,
Speaker 2: possibly two against the Yankees, we'd go a long way
Speaker 2: into helping them out. So I'm rooting for the Jason.
Speaker 1: Let's see who Detroit's got next. Let's see. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the they got yeah, the oh, they got the
Speaker 1: Uh They're at Kansas City this weekend home against the
Speaker 1: Rays and the Rays haven't played well. Ooh then home
Speaker 1: against home against the Dodgers, yikes.
Speaker 2: Ooh, Yeah, then they're five games under five hundred. They've
Speaker 2: got they got to turn around that four to sixth
Speaker 2: in the past ten and consecutive losses back to back.
Speaker 2: They got to turn that around real quick.
Speaker 1: The Twins are the Twins are two games that are
Speaker 1: five hundred, and if the season end of the day,
Speaker 1: along with the Rangers, they would be in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's just embar and the Houston Astros are going to
Speaker 1: win the West time well, sixty four and sixty four
Speaker 1: with a five hundred record.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and there were there one game up and there
Speaker 2: somebody from the AL is going to make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Maybe even two teams are going to make the playoffs
Speaker 2: with a sub five hundred record.
Speaker 1: Yep. At this juncture, well, I guess the Rangers are
Speaker 1: only one game behind the Astros, so the Rangers still
Speaker 1: could win the division. The Astros could be out of it.
Speaker 1: So that's that's an interesting playoff situation.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I still think I'd love to see four teams
Speaker 2: from the ALE East make it, and that's entirely possible,
Speaker 2: as are a million other different combinations. Minnesota, Cleveland, Detroit,
Speaker 2: and Texas. I would say, Hey, the Mariners I think
Speaker 2: are out of it at eight games under five hundred.
Speaker 2: Detroit's on the CUSP. Baltimore I think is out of
Speaker 2: it at six games back, that's going to be tough
Speaker 2: to you know, they've gone four and six in the
Speaker 2: past ten Baltimore with everything so bunched up, every win
Speaker 2: counts at this stage, it really does. It's going to
Speaker 2: be that tight. I think unless somebody explodes and wins
Speaker 2: ten in a row, that changes that change. Hey, if
Speaker 2: Baltimore was to win ten in a row, that would
Speaker 2: put them right on the heels of Boston, maybe ahead
Speaker 2: of Boston. So I get anything's possible. But once you
Speaker 2: get five six games under five hundred right now, with
Speaker 2: what you've got to crawl over to get into a
Speaker 2: position where you're in the hunt, it's going to be tough.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to give it up for the Twins.
Speaker 1: They've had a great season. Ye, no one projected that
Speaker 1: as as well as no one projected the White Sox. Then,
Speaker 1: I mean the White Sox is still I mean, they're
Speaker 1: still limping along a little bit, but there are three
Speaker 1: games above the Twins, so I mean they're not completely
Speaker 1: in it, but it looks very very good. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the West, I mean the Phillies and Padres. That's
Speaker 1: the talk here, Timmy, because they have just come out
Speaker 1: of overre and the Phillies are now seventy and fifty eight.
Speaker 1: They are squarely in the NL wild card in the
Speaker 1: San Diego Padres, and now if the season we're in today,
Speaker 1: they are the last wild card team in it.
Speaker 2: Arizona is still hanging in tough. They're only a game
Speaker 2: back in San Diego. So I think we got a
Speaker 2: race happening there. The Cardinals three games over five hundred.
Speaker 2: I don't think we can rule the Cardinals totally out
Speaker 2: of it, but everybody else for the most part, Miami's
Speaker 2: at five hundred, there is a race for that wildcard, uh,
Speaker 2: for that one.
Speaker 1: Who gets in, who gets in Padres, it's a Padres,
Speaker 1: so it is as is So it's the Cubs, Phillies,
Speaker 1: and Padres.
Speaker 2: That's yeah, that's what I'm surmising right now. Again unless
Speaker 2: either Saint Louis Arizona. Arizona doesn't have to go on
Speaker 2: as much of a terror, but they play some good baseball.
Speaker 2: The Cubs, it's I mean, the Cardinals, that's just a
Speaker 2: it's just a pure long shot. As well as Miami.
Speaker 2: They've had good years, very good years, but I just
Speaker 2: don't think there's enough there on the Miami side. The hitting,
Speaker 2: and on the card side, the pitching.
Speaker 1: The Marlins are the saint boat as the Mariners. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Marlins have got me great pitching, They've got a
Speaker 1: great pitching environment. But so they get some hitters. It's
Speaker 1: just I mean they're maybe sneak in every once in
Speaker 1: a while as a wildcar, but it's just yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just not happening.
Speaker 2: Now. The Marlins might come into the year, they might
Speaker 2: not have a twenty home run back in their lineup.
Speaker 2: That doesn't work.
Speaker 1: No, No, totally agree. It's very it's very Cleveland Guardian esque. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then in the American League, you've got the three
Speaker 1: AL East guys, right, so that is the Yankees, Red
Speaker 1: Sox and you're Toronto Blue Jays.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm I'm gonna go with the three three
Speaker 2: division winners, and I'm gonna go with four teams out
Speaker 2: of the Ale East. Yeah, all three wild cards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Tigers. Boy, that's gonna be a tough haul. Man.
Speaker 1: That that was a last tough last season. That really
Speaker 1: probably did them. Inn Guardians still have a shot, still
Speaker 1: have a shot.
Speaker 2: Yes, they definitely do. SODA's Minnesota, but there's not there's
Speaker 2: not much wiggle room in there where you know you
Speaker 2: were mentioning the White Sox have cooled off a little
Speaker 2: the other five and five in the past ten, and
Speaker 2: you're right, definitely they've cooled up a little bit. But
Speaker 2: Minnesota has been five and five in the past ten
Speaker 2: and Cleveland has been four and six and Detroit's been
Speaker 2: four and six, so they're cooling off. They're playing at
Speaker 2: the same There's been no change in the overall standing
Speaker 2: in the past week and a half. They're just all
Speaker 2: playing at the same level. Nobody has stepped up and
Speaker 2: gone seven and three or eight two. They tighten it up.
Speaker 1: Everybody's five and five or four and six except for
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays seven and three. So no one is
Speaker 1: really making a move here. And we still got thirty
Speaker 1: five games left, so there's plenty of time for somebody
Speaker 1: to go on a Red Sox ten and oh, twelve
Speaker 1: and oh kind of run. If that happens. Tigers, even
Speaker 1: the Orioles could jump even the Mariners could jump in.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's yeah, of course.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree totally. It's very very much up in
Speaker 2: the air. When hot streak will determine whether or not
Speaker 2: you're in it. Or you're trying to lower your golf
Speaker 2: handicap in October.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's take a take another break, come back
Speaker 1: and do some rapid fire stuff and get out of here.
Speaker 2: Ah, sounds good.
Speaker 1: I have been told that the delivery guys will be
Speaker 1: here in twenty minutes. Twenty minutes, so we got it.
Speaker 2: Let's finish.
Speaker 1: Let's finish this up in ten twelve minutes, and then
Speaker 1: we'll call it a day. Let's talk about poor Josh.
Speaker 1: Biased me, but I think he was over three yesterday. Obviously,
Speaker 1: with the historic opening day three home runs, he's over.
Speaker 1: He's over twenty four since. Uh, I think with eight strikeouts.
Speaker 1: I think i'd strike out Yesterday's When I wrote this,
Speaker 1: it was over twenty one. He said, he won sixty total.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, Yeah. He's been a little longer,
Speaker 2: he's been a little.
Speaker 1: So what do you do. You're starting them this week
Speaker 1: and you get a chance to reset your lineups, you're
Speaker 1: putting them out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely, he's been a little unlucky. He's been hitting
Speaker 2: the ball hard, he said, been hitting it at people,
Speaker 2: he said, He's he's been in the beneficiary of some
Speaker 2: great defense. Yeah, and he's a rookie. Okay, we saw
Speaker 2: him hit three in his debut, right, he could hit
Speaker 2: three in his next game? Out? Are you going to
Speaker 2: leave that on your bench? No?
Speaker 1: I did. This week. I had one team and I
Speaker 1: did not put him in. So I was a little concern. Look,
Speaker 1: if he hits three three home runs in the next game,
Speaker 1: I that would be really historic, never to be repeated.
Speaker 2: But yes, and very annoying. There would be a rent
Speaker 2: coming on our next podcast.
Speaker 1: It would just be bad fantasy management. From my standpoint,
Speaker 1: I don't look, this is a this is a guy
Speaker 1: that's got huge power, but it's huge swing and miss,
Speaker 1: and he's swinging for the fences. And I just thought
Speaker 1: the setup. I would have loved to see him go
Speaker 1: one for five in the first game with a double. Uh,
Speaker 1: I think, I mean you go, you go three home
Speaker 1: runs and it's a stark and everybody's saying it's a stark.
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, can you imagine the mindset
Speaker 1: you're in. I mean, now you're really going to swinging
Speaker 1: for the fences.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you pretty well set the bar at a very
Speaker 2: very high level. It's gonna be tough to maintain. Yeah,
Speaker 2: when you're think his his ops that first game was
Speaker 2: five or something like that. Yeah, yeah, ridiculous, but yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what he brings to the table. If you
Speaker 2: need power, it's pretty tough to keep him on your
Speaker 2: bench because he at any point in time, he could
Speaker 2: hit one out of the bar. Okay, it depends on
Speaker 2: where you're at, what you need in your lineup and
Speaker 2: go according like, yeah, I can't fold anybody for senting
Speaker 2: them or starting them either way could prove to be
Speaker 2: a winner. We we don't know, we have no idea
Speaker 2: what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look at his splits. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the minor leagues. Did it do his minor league splits? Here?
Speaker 1: Let's take a look. He might wonder if he struggles
Speaker 1: against the right handed hitters, right hand at pitching. Oh love,
Speaker 1: there it is. My screen went blank here for a second.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's twenty four home runs against right handed,
Speaker 1: thirteen against left handed. But he had half as many.
Speaker 1: Now there's really no splits. A little bit better against
Speaker 1: left handed, Yeah, a lot better, I'm sorry. Seven hundred
Speaker 1: slug against left hand or right handed pitching. I mean
Speaker 1: it's fine, twenty six. So he crushes left handed pitching.
Speaker 2: But I mean there he says, thank you, Matthew Boyd.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So two eighty two three forty seven seven
Speaker 1: hundred slash line against left handed pitching. Two forty three
Speaker 1: sixteen five twenty six still very good against writing and pitching,
Speaker 1: but he definitely crushes left handers. So it's a two
Speaker 1: hundred more and ops against a left handed pitching. So yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: just throwing numbers out for everybody. Take it as you wish.
Speaker 1: I right, mercifully. The Dodgers put Edwin Diaz on the IL.
Speaker 1: I mean tim it. It was ridiculous. I mean, I
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's heard, I don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on. Awful.
Speaker 2: The trump had turned into a kazoo.
Speaker 1: I mean it was wow. I don't ifin they rushed
Speaker 1: him back. I don't know what had But I mean,
Speaker 1: my question for first of all, who gets a saves.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's Tanner Scott.
Speaker 2: I think Vashiar could get one or two. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: pay a big buck to find out. But at the
Speaker 2: same point in time, if you're sitting in your waiver wire,
Speaker 2: if you're sitting in your free agent pool, yeah, Investia
Speaker 2: for a buck or two might not be a bad pickup.
Speaker 1: My question for you is next season. I mean he
Speaker 1: is at DS top five closer off the board this year,
Speaker 1: maybe in the top three closer off the board. I
Speaker 1: know I took him and it's been a disaster. Fortunately
Speaker 1: I did handcuff him with Tanner Scott, which worked out okay.
Speaker 1: But is this draft status going to fall to a
Speaker 1: point of maybe no longer a top five, top ten
Speaker 1: closer or will people just assume it was he wasn't
Speaker 1: ready and make start making excuses and he'll go off
Speaker 1: the board very high as a closer.
Speaker 2: Top five it is healthy and can prove it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: people will be watching very closely to see what happens
Speaker 2: when I'm assuming he returns off the IL last year,
Speaker 2: if he's one hundred percent healthy, Yeah, he's going to
Speaker 2: go as somewhere between three and five.
Speaker 1: All right, let's break this down. He doesn't return this season,
Speaker 1: and you've got an early draft before the season starts.
Speaker 1: Over going to the assumption this season's going to start
Speaker 1: as normal, what do you do.
Speaker 2: I'm taking Louis Ireland or you own Durant or Racio
Speaker 2: la Glaciers ahead of him. That's what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: Top ten, top fifteen, what do you.
Speaker 2: Do he's gonna go? I still think top five. I
Speaker 2: think he'll go ahead of Louis Ireland. I think he'll
Speaker 2: probably go ahead of Brian Baker the raise. They switch
Speaker 2: closers around every twelve months, whether they need to or not.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to go top five.
Speaker 1: Really, even if he doesn't play the rest of the
Speaker 1: season and all we have is this turd that he
Speaker 1: had over the last month. Yeah, wow, I'm not doing that.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. I'm not
Speaker 2: doing it either, Rich. That's where I think. That's where
Speaker 2: I think will happen.
Speaker 1: Wow, Wow, what's wrong with people? Tim? You can't do that?
Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, I know, you also can't pick up Louis
Speaker 2: Ireland in every league or you know what I mean? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Or am I okay? Yeah, He's got a history of
Speaker 2: being one of the best bullpen arms we've seen over
Speaker 2: the past ten years. It's hard to ignore that. I
Speaker 2: get it. I can ignore it. I think I I
Speaker 2: can find closers when I need closers, So I am
Speaker 2: not as concerned about closers on draft day as maybe
Speaker 2: some people are. But if I have a choice between
Speaker 2: Louis Arland or a Dias, it's an easy decision for me. Yeah,
Speaker 2: or Glaciers Derby.
Speaker 1: What about Lats I mean down in Texas has been fantastic.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, he's obviously the man standing right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that was a that was a good call.
Speaker 1: But I picked him up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that would go well yeah, yeah, I mean.
Speaker 1: Dylan Smith has still got a chance. I haven't completely
Speaker 1: shot Dylan Smith. Yeah, still got a chance. Uh well,
Speaker 1: last question here. Cal Quantrell gets out, gets out of Colorado,
Speaker 1: and he was actually pretty good before he went to Colorado.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I forgot if he signed or got traded.
Speaker 1: I don't remember how he wound up. But he's he's back,
Speaker 1: posting a two seventy nine ear in his last seven stars,
Speaker 1: a couple of wins, not many strikeouts. Thoughts on cal quantrelle.
Speaker 2: He's proving to be the Andrew Abbot before Andrew Abbot
Speaker 2: showed up. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's an okay picture. Oh, he doesn't strike out enough.
Speaker 2: There are limitations, but the same point in time when
Speaker 2: he gets on a tear as we've seen, Yeah, two
Speaker 2: seventy ninety arra over the past seven starts. Yeah you
Speaker 2: got you got a roster um. It's like for me,
Speaker 2: like I looked at Brandon Fat the same sort of
Speaker 2: situation at some point in time. Okay, it's all gonna
Speaker 2: it's all gonna go to hell in a handbasket. And
Speaker 2: the same thing will probably happen with cal Quandrille, and
Speaker 2: we see it off and on with Andrew Vert those
Speaker 2: that type of picture will and has the potential to
Speaker 2: run off seven to ten games where you want them
Speaker 2: in your lineup. Okay, And he's at that stage right
Speaker 2: now where you want him in your lineup. He's pitching,
Speaker 2: well are you Are you married to him? No? Definitely not.
Speaker 2: You've got to realize those limitations. But as long as
Speaker 2: he's getting it done, get him active.
Speaker 1: Take our final break, Tim come back, and let's figure
Speaker 1: out how you're gonna be picking up this weekend? Is
Speaker 1: there anybody to pick up?
Speaker 2: Fun jokes?
Speaker 1: And we made it. Thanks again for coming in a
Speaker 1: little world way, and it did help because we were
Speaker 1: able to get a full hour in who are you
Speaker 1: picking up? Give me a picture, give me a hitter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this could be a really, really light of Waiver wire, like,
Speaker 2: the obvious answer is for a picture is Kate Anderson,
Speaker 2: But I think he's rostered to the tune of eighty
Speaker 2: percent now in CBS Yahoo leagues is I think it's very,
Speaker 2: very low. I think somebody said twenty three percent. And
Speaker 2: my answer to that is nobody's playing in most Most
Speaker 2: Yahoo leagues have been abandoned by now with the race
Speaker 2: down to two or three teams, everybody's moved to football
Speaker 2: as fart. Sorry for the sort of snarkiness.
Speaker 1: How I like how you say yeah. I like how
Speaker 1: you say yeahoo so yeah who. Well, it's funny because
Speaker 1: Laurie and I were talking about excuse, say pasta not pasta,
Speaker 1: but I think meally, and it might even be with
Speaker 1: English speaking, it's it's actually a long a, So pasta
Speaker 1: is probably the correct pronunciation. But here in America we
Speaker 1: say pasta, and we also say Yahoo as opposed to Yahoo,
Speaker 1: but it's probably phonetically a long a as well. So
Speaker 1: just FYI, as people are laughing at their phones as
Speaker 1: you say Yahoo, tim, it probably is yeah.
Speaker 2: So anyway, but yeah, yeah, I take it in the
Speaker 2: constant context of referring to a group of individuals as
Speaker 2: Yahoo's okay, that's probably where I get it from. Uh pictures. Yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously Anderson's out there. Just remember you're getting six starts
Speaker 2: and also they might be very good starts. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: if Anderson's out there, he would be my choice. I
Speaker 2: I'm looking at hey, everybody needs to get their ship
Speaker 2: to port and without a tug boat? How do you
Speaker 2: do it?
Speaker 1: Matt Wilkinson? Oh, Lord, actually pitched pretty well.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, how can I pass on a guy that
Speaker 2: I know we will spend on a Sunday fifteen minutes
Speaker 2: discussing body type? Yeah, just for you Rich.
Speaker 1: Look, Matti, they said the former Cleveland Guardian six five
Speaker 1: eleven six feet, about three hundred pounds, throws eighty nine
Speaker 1: ninety miles an hour. But it's a funky delivery. No
Speaker 1: one picks it up. Well, I mean, he won't be
Speaker 1: very good long term, but can he have some early
Speaker 1: success until you know, people pitching coaches start to break
Speaker 1: down everything. Yeah, I think he could. So, I mean
Speaker 1: it's not a horrible call, but don't overdraft him next
Speaker 1: season because of the sess he might have the end
Speaker 1: of the season here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to see him park a few boats
Speaker 2: before I decide to invest in the Doug boat. Okay,
Speaker 2: yeah it's but again, it's a really really lean week hitters.
Speaker 2: I haven't a clue. The only guy that is creating
Speaker 2: a mess for Cooper Pratt owners and Joey Ortiz owners
Speaker 2: David Hamilton. I haven't checked to see what his level
Speaker 2: of ownership is in CBS leagues. But you know, David
Speaker 2: Hamilton has been really playing well the past several weeks.
Speaker 2: He had a monster game. This one of his games
Speaker 2: this week, it's a homer pile of arv eyes run
Speaker 2: score and he stole two bases. David Hamilton's an early
Speaker 2: thought when it comes to hitters.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was on the eighteenth, three for five home
Speaker 1: run to run score, two stolen basis.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, he's been playing well and he's making it
Speaker 2: a mess for all the other infielders that should have
Speaker 2: full time jobs there, and hey, good for David.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cooper Pratt is the guy long term though. That
Speaker 1: guy can really really hit. So but yeah, I saw
Speaker 1: I was looking at because I have Cooper Pratt coming
Speaker 1: off the eel. I was going to put him in,
Speaker 1: and I saw Joe your tea's got the start last
Speaker 1: night I'm like, what so, but hopefully Cooper Pratt will
Speaker 1: get in there. Timmy, that is a wrap, my friend.
Speaker 1: Thanks again for coming in early. Hope everybody enjoyed it.
Speaker 1: Uh what's that Japanese picture's name again?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 2: Am I? Oh sorry yes it was zero? Yes yeah
Speaker 2: s A I K I S s h I what okay?
Speaker 2: I get to use the top rolling my keyboard again?
Speaker 2: Hot damn.
Speaker 1: We will see you on Sunday. Brindy, good luck with
Speaker 1: your teams this weekend. Simmy, good luck with all your
Speaker 1: teams and we will talk to you on Sunday.
Speaker 2: Thanks a bunch of be safely well and we'll catch
Speaker 2: you all on Sunday