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Speaker 2: com Bogs, I had not even realized this obligatory CBS comment.
Speaker 2: This is my heavy time of CBS Sports HQ. By
Speaker 2: the way, July and August they love me there they
Speaker 2: exist after that. July and August is my like. They
Speaker 2: have me do lots of work. And I did a
Speaker 2: hit last night, and the first one was and it
Speaker 2: kind of coincided because you and I actually, about thirty
Speaker 2: minutes or well in between our recording here, we're gonna
Speaker 2: be doing a VP show on MLB Futures, and so
Speaker 2: the notes they sent me for the show coincided with
Speaker 2: me prepping for our betting pro show. And all of
Speaker 2: this to say, I did not realize until yesterday that
Speaker 2: this is the first time and god knows how long
Speaker 2: show he Atani is essentially even money.
Speaker 3: You can get him even money at books for MVP.
Speaker 2: Because Shohotani and PCA are neck and neck with each
Speaker 2: other not minus won ten in both spots.
Speaker 3: They're right there.
Speaker 2: They both went double dong, which, so tell me about this.
Speaker 2: Otani and pa Yeah, went yard against left handed pitchers
Speaker 2: and you get me in.
Speaker 3: The first inning. So apparently, uh show hey and PCA
Speaker 3: leadoff hitters going yard in the first against lefties, both
Speaker 3: lefties against lefties was the first time in Major League history,
Speaker 3: which I cannot believe that this is real, but Elias
Speaker 3: Sportsbureau put it out yesterday that is the first time
Speaker 3: ever that leadoff hitters both went yard against left handed
Speaker 3: starters in the same game to start the game. So,
Speaker 3: I mean, I was at an even weirder one and
Speaker 3: I had to look up which Opening day was. It
Speaker 3: was two thousand and nine, where I think you were
Speaker 3: with me. The we saw leadoff homers. Uh by, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: We saw homers from both sides of the plate from
Speaker 3: two switch hitters on the same team for the first
Speaker 3: time in opening day history.
Speaker 2: So I gott guess who it is. Hold on, I
Speaker 2: gotta guess what is so two switch hitters. Was the
Speaker 2: team the Cubs, No, it was it was the d Backs. No, No,
Speaker 2: But who were the two teams it was?
Speaker 3: I think I think they're playing the Podres, But I
Speaker 3: don't remember.
Speaker 2: So this was a Padre switch hitter and a diamondback
Speaker 2: switch hitter.
Speaker 3: Nope, it was two diamondback switch hitters, both yard from
Speaker 3: either side of the plate on opening day in two
Speaker 3: thousand and nine, first base and second base for the
Speaker 3: d Backs. I think you'll get first base. I don't think.
Speaker 3: Oh nope, uh nope, I'm not gonna get either one. Okay,
Speaker 3: I'll give you. I'll give you initials tc TC is
Speaker 3: the first base, yes, Tony Clark. Oh okay, duh, stupid me,
Speaker 3: Tony Clark, little or fl at second base?
Speaker 2: Francisco indoor nolz yeahplay Lopez.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, that was I remember that because I remember
Speaker 3: seeing it like on Sports Center or whatever that night,
Speaker 3: and it was the first time in major league history.
Speaker 3: But I can't this is a crazy stat to never
Speaker 3: have happened in the hundreds of thousands of games likely
Speaker 3: played in baseball history. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And also, these guys both hit two homers yesterday. They
Speaker 2: were double dogging it. And then so then when my
Speaker 2: study started to go in here because I'm doing the show,
Speaker 2: and it was actually really astute point from the host
Speaker 2: that was on there of saying and then I.
Speaker 3: Made a really good point, by the way, but.
Speaker 2: They were like, should we consider the defensive metrics of
Speaker 2: Pete kroh Armstrong a lot more win playing this game
Speaker 2: because Pete kroh Armstrong. So check this out, Peter Armstrong,
Speaker 2: I think this updated last night, So forgive me if
Speaker 2: it's like a or two off. But pek Armstrong has
Speaker 2: a seven point five or had last night a seven
Speaker 2: point five war that, my friends, is almost two full
Speaker 2: points higher than the next hitter. I believe the next
Speaker 2: hitter was five point seven. That's absurd. Now, Shoeyotani the
Speaker 2: combined hitter and pitcher war, and I like, I use
Speaker 2: that because I think war is an important factor from
Speaker 2: an overall perspective.
Speaker 3: Obviously, like there's.
Speaker 2: So many other things, but like war is gonna come
Speaker 2: into it when you're looking at like awards and stuff
Speaker 2: like that, how is that player most valuable statistically? Like, actually,
Speaker 2: I think war is going to really be an interesting
Speaker 2: battle in the inn a rookie race because Jijit Weatherhold
Speaker 2: is like he's just fallen out of the top ten
Speaker 2: of war, but it's statistically he's been He's been fine.
Speaker 2: But salth Stewart is gonna have like one hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty RBI and he's gonna have thirty plus homers. But
Speaker 2: he's only like a he's like two points of war lower.
Speaker 2: All right, So getting back to it, six point four
Speaker 2: is the combined war for Sho Haotani between hitter and pitcher.
Speaker 2: He's been good, but you have a full point higher
Speaker 2: for Pete kroh Armstrong. And nobody has a higher defensive
Speaker 2: metric rating than Pete k Armstrong in baseball, so he
Speaker 2: has the highest defensive And my argument in there, I said,
Speaker 2: it's really funny we're having this conversation because last year
Speaker 2: we had this as an anti conversation around Kyle Rawley,
Speaker 2: Kyle Rally going against Aaron Judge. Everybody was, you know,
Speaker 2: Judge is great, but look at Kyl Rawley. It's sixty homers.
Speaker 3: It's just another thing.
Speaker 2: But he had one of the worst negative He was
Speaker 2: a negative war guy. Defensively, he was so so it
Speaker 2: wasn't defending Aaron Judges, this great defender. It was saying,
Speaker 2: Kyl Rawley is such a bad defender with these stats,
Speaker 2: maybe we need to look against it. Okay, if we
Speaker 2: have that same energy, should we be looking at Pete K.
Speaker 2: H Armstrong higher because he is not only number one
Speaker 2: and war in baseball, he's number number one defensively in
Speaker 2: WAR and he's putting, He's gonna put up potentially a
Speaker 2: thirty five to thirty five maybe even a forty forty season.
Speaker 3: I think if PCA continues like that to the end
Speaker 3: of the season, he wins probably without much question. I
Speaker 3: think the reason why it's even right now is because
Speaker 3: PCA has been streaky in his you know, limited career
Speaker 3: so far, He's been very streaky. So if he goes
Speaker 3: on one of those downstreaks and Otani is not pitching
Speaker 3: but still killing the ball, They're probably still going to
Speaker 3: give it to Atani. But I do think that, you know,
Speaker 3: we know, with everything, you get voter fatigue and people
Speaker 3: are tired of voting for Otani for MVP. So I
Speaker 3: think if it's close at all, it's going to go
Speaker 3: towards U PCA. So if PCA keeps it up, I
Speaker 3: think he's the MVP. But if he has a bad
Speaker 3: September or you know, starts to slow down now and
Speaker 3: has like a bad six weeks to end, I think
Speaker 3: it's still going to Tani. So that I think that's it.
Speaker 3: I think if if it ended today, it'd be PCA wins.
Speaker 3: By the way, this.
Speaker 2: Has updated now it is a seven point eight war
Speaker 2: that is more than two full points higher than the
Speaker 2: next player in baseball. This might be unpopular, bogs. I
Speaker 2: think it's still shoo Tani and they're even money. I
Speaker 2: think it like because if you also take out like that,
Speaker 2: just the war for a second, which isn't everything. Like,
Speaker 2: they're not going to just pick the guy with the
Speaker 2: best wins above replacement whatever. It's got to be the
Speaker 2: whole package. And to be fair, Otani not pitching right
Speaker 2: now hurts statistically from an offensive standpoint. It's not like
Speaker 2: he's been like the best. I mean, we've seen him
Speaker 2: be dramatically better. He's really cut down his he's really
Speaker 2: cut down his stolen bases. He's got twenty six homers,
Speaker 2: the same as as PCA, only six stolen bases. But
Speaker 2: my argument is that he still is a three war pitcher.
Speaker 2: He's a two way player. He the Dodgers are on
Speaker 2: a six game losing streakers we're recording this. They can't
Speaker 2: pick up wins, and he has been banged up and injured,
Speaker 2: and he's still carrying this team as the most valuable
Speaker 2: player on this Dodger team, and it's a public award. Now,
Speaker 2: maybe there's a little push against because it's a Dodger
Speaker 2: and they bought all these players, these type of things,
Speaker 2: there could be voter fatigue for. But it's like he
Speaker 2: was one of the best pitchers in baseball for the
Speaker 2: first two months, then he got banged up. He's still
Speaker 2: hitting and he's still on track to be like a
Speaker 2: three hundred thirty five. Got a little bit more work
Speaker 2: to do if he's gonna get to one hundred hundred.
Speaker 2: But you know, if Pete Crow, I mean, because Pete
Speaker 2: Crow is not gonna probably get to a hundred RBI,
Speaker 2: probably gets to one hundred runs. I just think the
Speaker 2: hitting and pitching side will be a favor.
Speaker 3: But what I think is this will be super close.
Speaker 2: I think it'll be the closest we've seen and I
Speaker 2: think Shohio Tani will just get the edge on on
Speaker 2: Pete Crow Armstrong unless something dramatic happens, like an injury.
Speaker 2: But if they both keep the similar pace, I still
Speaker 2: think this is going to Otani. And I'm gonna take
Speaker 2: that over to our VP show because when the last
Speaker 2: time you got Otani at like relatively.
Speaker 3: I that point, I definitely agree with, Like, if you
Speaker 3: can get Otani anywhere close to even money, and you
Speaker 3: obviously he can win the MVP's done a bunch of times,
Speaker 3: then yes, go get him. But I will firmly disagree
Speaker 3: that if they both continue at this pace at the
Speaker 3: end of the year, because I think if you ended
Speaker 3: it today, I think PCA wins. If you ended it
Speaker 3: right now, I think they would they would give it
Speaker 3: to PCA. So I think if they continue, it will
Speaker 3: be PCA because of all the things that you mentioned,
Speaker 3: the vote fort the fact that Otani's on the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: the fact that he can't pitch anymore this season most likely,
Speaker 3: so all of that stuff, I think that I think
Speaker 3: people just want to see someone else win the award,
Speaker 3: so in the writers specifically, so I would say PCA,
Speaker 3: but we can talk more about that on VP.
Speaker 2: But crazy kind of just stuff overall from that very
Speaker 2: very interesting market, not like a betting thing here, but
Speaker 2: I thought that was an appropriate jump in. Also George Lombard,
Speaker 2: George Lombard gets called up by the Yankees, makes his
Speaker 2: major league debut, hits a homer in his first game.
Speaker 2: Also had like two defensive runs save in his first outing,
Speaker 2: which is a Anthony Volpi against thing hits the homer
Speaker 2: the two biggest notes the funnest things about this. He
Speaker 2: hits a homer on the same night his brother, high
Speaker 2: school draftee makes his major league debut, who also hits
Speaker 2: a debut made sure yeah, I'm sorry, pro debut. They
Speaker 2: both made their debut. Their father, George Lombard, who's like
Speaker 2: a I think a bench coach or whatever for the Tigers,
Speaker 2: got to take the day off and see watch George
Speaker 2: in the stands while watching on his phone.
Speaker 3: Jacob.
Speaker 2: But that home run ball was almost in Zach Campbell's
Speaker 2: mitt and he couldn't get it, and another dad did
Speaker 2: and they gave it back to George Lombard.
Speaker 3: Zach Zach Hampbell is the Khaki shorts door who goes
Speaker 3: around getting every homer. Yep, okay about that. I hate
Speaker 3: that we know his name. Yeah, I just yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just not my thing. You can give me space to rant.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna ran anymore. I thought I was. Actually
Speaker 3: that's what I was doing. I thought you were. I know,
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna do it. I just that's annoying, that's all.
Speaker 3: That's hard. It's annoying.
Speaker 2: We heard an interesting thing Adam mccalvey MLB dot com
Speaker 2: said in the you know, lots of conversation around the
Speaker 2: Schooble trade and stuff, and we're gonna talk about his
Speaker 2: debut in just a second, but that the.
Speaker 3: Brewers had a proposal out there.
Speaker 2: That included Luis Pania. I wonder if there was nothing
Speaker 2: else in it, but they said they wanted established pieces.
Speaker 2: I'm a little shocked though. I'm assuming it had to
Speaker 2: be Painia and then low level guys and they just said, hey, listen,
Speaker 2: we want something that's close established. But some people are
Speaker 2: up in arms Boggs because Louis Penia would have been
Speaker 2: like the highest piece out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they wanted pitching back. I think that's
Speaker 3: what it was, right, so you get River Ryan back
Speaker 3: in that deal, a big piece of it. So I
Speaker 3: think that was the reason. But I was pretty surprised
Speaker 3: by this, I think as much as anybody else was,
Speaker 3: because when you're dealing a player like Schooble, I feel like,
Speaker 3: at least for optics, you have to get the best
Speaker 3: player you possibly can back, whether it's a pitcher or not,
Speaker 3: you just need the best asset, and I thought Paanya
Speaker 3: was better than anything he got back from the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: So I was pretty surprised when I read this as well.
Speaker 3: Kind of weird.
Speaker 2: Speaking of Terrek's schoobl he makes his major league debut,
Speaker 2: he goes where did I go?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 2: He went six, gave up two and runs, two walk
Speaker 2: six strikeouts. They didn't pull off a win, and that
Speaker 2: was kind of one of the things in this is like.
Speaker 3: They lost six straight.
Speaker 2: School look good though, it looked like everything that you
Speaker 2: were kind of hoping for. I don't know if you
Speaker 2: had any thoughts on the Schooble outing.
Speaker 3: No, he looked good. But I am very much enjoying
Speaker 3: this Dodgers losing streak. You know, they're on a six
Speaker 3: game losing streak at the Dbacks are still eight and
Speaker 3: a half games back of them for the division or
Speaker 3: eight games I guess it is now back for the division.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean, he looked good. Just they aren't
Speaker 3: hitting very well right now, so yeah, what it is
Speaker 3: and there is nobody knows. A couple other debuts that
Speaker 3: did not go so well.
Speaker 2: Freddy Peralta debut three and two thirds, nine hits, seven
Speaker 2: earned runs against the Colorado Rockies, and then Casey Mez
Speaker 2: last night three and one third, eight eurned runs, three walks,
Speaker 2: only one strikeout. I noted on that HQ hit that
Speaker 2: it was like, it's hilarious because the last minute the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks out, they were getting Casey Mice, and then all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the Padres came in with their top
Speaker 2: prospect and that didn't end up happening, and then they
Speaker 2: just blew him out of the water. I mean they
Speaker 2: just annihilated him. His fastball command was really bad. The
Speaker 2: secondary stuff wasn't doing anything. The diamondbackshould hit him hard.
Speaker 2: He gave up Boggs eleven hard hits in that game,
Speaker 2: Casey Mice did, five of which were one hundred miles
Speaker 2: or more on the exit velocity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not a good start for either of those guys.
Speaker 3: The Parolta one was funny because didn't they say I
Speaker 3: think they said that Freddy had like he had this
Speaker 3: impeccable record at Colorado and then just got smashed at Colorado.
Speaker 3: But Casey Mice couldn't get anything over the plate, dude,
Speaker 3: Dbacks were crushing him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was crazy. It was ridiculous. How bad that looks.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure what the what the fix is
Speaker 2: going to be from there? Do you have any reservations
Speaker 2: on neither of those guys moving forward? I kind of
Speaker 2: think you just move on to Freddy Pearl, So I
Speaker 2: thought the Rays were going to fix stuff. Casey might
Speaker 2: be a little bit different here, but the Peralta one,
Speaker 2: I'm I think you can cut him.
Speaker 3: I'll give Peralta one more to not be a start
Speaker 3: in Colorado, right like? But that that is absolutely and
Speaker 3: that's if you have held on to Peralta through all
Speaker 3: this mass, if you've held on to him the whole time,
Speaker 3: then maybe give him one more that isn't in Colorado
Speaker 3: because they didn't trade much. They still have a okay
Speaker 3: lineup and it's in Colorado all that stuff. But U
Speaker 3: but Casey, myes didn't look good. I get I guess
Speaker 3: the same thing for him though. It was a road game,
Speaker 3: and the whole reason we like this move was so
Speaker 3: he'd be pitching in San Diego where the ball dies
Speaker 3: a little bit more specifically later in the season. So
Speaker 3: maybe one more start for both those guys, you know,
Speaker 3: But Freddy Perrault has been bad all year, so one
Speaker 3: is at most I'm surprised that anyone beyond a dynasty
Speaker 3: league would still be holding on to Parolta honestly for real.
Speaker 2: And then a note around baseball befhere we look at
Speaker 2: some of the injury. We got lots of injury based
Speaker 2: things that are kind of floating around. Seven straight wins
Speaker 2: for the Red Sox and the Braves, six straight losses
Speaker 2: for I'm sorry, seven straight wins for the Red Sox,
Speaker 2: six straight losses for the Braves, and seven straight losses
Speaker 2: for the A's and not you didn't mention it, but
Speaker 2: I already said it's six straight losses for the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: Some crazy streaks that are going on in there the Braves.
Speaker 2: One is really fascinating. If the Phillies start taking, you know,
Speaker 2: taking their shot. I got to throw this out, like
Speaker 2: how dumb I am. I was like, oh, I want
Speaker 2: to sell Luisa Rise when he became a Philly and
Speaker 2: get off the hype. And then he just hemps these
Speaker 2: homers like I think the Phillies could be rolling great.
Speaker 2: So that's a really bad run for the Braves that
Speaker 2: the Philly start catching. And a note on the Red
Speaker 2: Sox Sadana Ralphaela on VBR and Fantasy pros is the
Speaker 2: second most valuable player in the last thirty days eight
Speaker 2: homers in that run and Williard Bray you most home
Speaker 2: runs since the break nine homers. He has just been
Speaker 2: He's batting average hasn't been there, but he has been crushing.
Speaker 2: Caleb Durbin also the last thirty day is hitting over
Speaker 2: three hundred, So Red Sox really finding.
Speaker 3: Like some stable room here.
Speaker 2: And then finally I think we're about to get like
Speaker 2: athlete's got to get uh brought back off the il.
Speaker 2: But once we get him, like they've got these pieces
Speaker 2: that are out there. But I think Saiddan like ironically,
Speaker 2: I don't know if Willier's going to like really really
Speaker 2: change his fantasy value to next season based off of
Speaker 2: like how I liked him, probably a little bit more
Speaker 2: because that was my guy. Like if I had a
Speaker 2: couple guys I was attached to, that was my dude.
Speaker 2: But Rafaela, he's playing at a level that what do
Speaker 2: you think, Let's it's kind of a version of chicken,
Speaker 2: But like, what do you think rafaela Is value next
Speaker 2: season is going to be? He is currently hitting two
Speaker 2: eighty seven, fifteen homers, fifteen stolen bases, could easily pull
Speaker 2: out like a twenty twenty season. His runs aren't gonna
Speaker 2: look super good. He's got fifty eight now around like
Speaker 2: let's call it like seventy five maybe eighty and RBI
Speaker 2: probably the same thing. So let's just say twenty twenty
Speaker 2: eighty eighty with a ninety batting average that has the
Speaker 2: vibes of a Perdomo, and Perdomo last year did that
Speaker 2: and he was around ninetieth overall. So rafaela top one
Speaker 2: hundred player next year, yes, or yeah your name.
Speaker 3: Yes for sure. I mean there weren't the risk even
Speaker 3: if they don't pan out, like Perdomo is not doing
Speaker 3: what he did last year at all, right, So but
Speaker 3: you know, within the top one hundred, absolutely, I And
Speaker 3: I think he could be higher because he's a Red
Speaker 3: Sox too, so I would say he if he finishes well,
Speaker 3: he'll brush top seventy five. So but yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: you were you scare easy because of repeatability with these
Speaker 3: guys and like that. You know, last season for Perdomo,
Speaker 3: twenty homers, twenty seven stolen bases. This year only nine
Speaker 3: homers and seventeen swipes, and the batting average is down
Speaker 3: from two ninety to two forty four, so forty six points.
Speaker 3: So you know, I think repeatability will scare some people off,
Speaker 3: but I think somewhere between seventy five and one hundred,
Speaker 3: as long as you finish is off the season, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think, I mean it's lining up to
Speaker 2: be there all right. In the injury world, that's there's
Speaker 2: quite a few things that are floating out there. James
Speaker 2: Wood was placed on the aisle with an oblique strain,
Speaker 2: and another big name, Nick Kurtz, with a strained thumb.
Speaker 2: I am more aggressively concerned about the James.
Speaker 3: Wood one because of obliques in general. I don't believe.
Speaker 2: Now, I've been kind of nuts with stuff. We have
Speaker 2: not seen any update. We did hear that it's a
Speaker 2: mild oblakue. I'm looking for the Twitter doctors to tell
Speaker 2: us is that going to be It's always yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: because a b o blach are just bad, like it's
Speaker 2: been like a really bad thing. But is this something
Speaker 2: like a mild one? Can you return back like pretty
Speaker 2: quick off of an aisle stent? I'm kind of what
Speaker 2: I'm looking at it.
Speaker 3: I think if they're calling it would be three to
Speaker 3: four weeks, right, I think that's probably what we're looking at.
Speaker 2: We're still not seeing that. We're not seeing any marker
Speaker 2: that says how long this is going to be.
Speaker 3: Well, it's because you can't you can't promise anything on obliques,
Speaker 3: I think, and that's the reason why they're scary is
Speaker 3: you don't know if it's gonna get worse when you
Speaker 3: start working out again or swinging again again or whatever
Speaker 3: it is. So yeah, I think the calling it mild
Speaker 3: just means it wasn't terrible on the MRI. So, but
Speaker 3: recovery time.
Speaker 2: Is well, they haven't announced anything from an MRI. They
Speaker 2: haven't told us anything, and that was two days ago.
Speaker 3: So maybe it's put them on the IL immediately. I
Speaker 3: think that says enough. Yeah, they put them right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's just like, are you on the IL
Speaker 2: and then you're gonna just rest a little bit and
Speaker 2: get back, or is this IL that is two or
Speaker 2: three weeks and then all of a sudden, I mean,
Speaker 2: what can you do to me?
Speaker 3: It sucks?
Speaker 2: In our redraft, our second half redraft league, I took
Speaker 2: James Wood in the first round and I took Aaron
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge. But the positive is I also took Acunya,
Speaker 2: who's back. But Aaron Judge, by the way, uh cleared
Speaker 2: for light activity, So that maybe could be an early
Speaker 2: good sign that was back first Judge or would I'm
Speaker 2: gonna say would maybe, But let me throw this out
Speaker 2: to you. Could Aaron Judge pull a Jose Ramirez where
Speaker 2: it's like goes to light activities to working out and
Speaker 2: then just in game.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, should I hate the rehab stuff for
Speaker 3: your mega superstars? Why are we wasting cuts in triple A?
Speaker 3: It never makes sense to me at all. So I
Speaker 3: hope they do that. No guarantee, but I mean they're
Speaker 3: pretty slow rolling him anyway. If they don't have a
Speaker 3: shot at the division, they'll definitely be sticking him in
Speaker 3: a rehab. So how you said that sticking him in
Speaker 3: a rehab, sticking him in a rehab assignment, singing him
Speaker 3: in triple A? I probably should have said so, Arson
Speaker 3: Judge is in the other type of rehab. Aaron Judges
Speaker 3: in the rehab for baseball, Bobby Witt was activated. That's
Speaker 3: really good. He just came out. I came out the
Speaker 3: gates too off of the activation.
Speaker 2: Three hits right away, so big positive there. Jordan Walker
Speaker 2: has missed two games in a row with a knee injury.
Speaker 2: Also not great. All these guys that we loved in
Speaker 2: the first half a little bit banged up. Uh the
Speaker 2: d Garrett Crochet is throwing from flat ground. That's actually
Speaker 2: some pretty good news for the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: In this run.
Speaker 2: If somehow they could get him back in September. I mean,
Speaker 2: I've heard nothing that has said anything about him being
Speaker 2: able to go anytime soon, but if they could, holy moly,
Speaker 2: that would be amazing. That would be huge for fantasy
Speaker 2: owners to get him in this last run, and also
Speaker 2: the Red Sox and Blake Snell. His next start is
Speaker 2: going to be in the bigsfore we have assignments. He's
Speaker 2: had a one ERA that has been really, really good.
Speaker 2: A bunch of other injury notes. Joe Ryan, this is
Speaker 2: an important one. Actually should have moved this higher. Joe
Speaker 2: Ryan is dealing with They're calling it, what is LBI.
Speaker 3: Lower body injury, that's your your hockey stuff, and they
Speaker 3: don't have to at they don't have to say what
Speaker 3: is hurting the guy, so they just say upper body
Speaker 3: or you don't like that vagueness. Oh well, at least
Speaker 3: it's consistent in hockey. You know, it's a lower body
Speaker 3: or upper body for everybody. They don't say he's dealing
Speaker 3: with a blood disorder. Okay, what is it?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: Why would you tell us? So he has a blood disorder?
Speaker 3: Is my point? I Carlos Grasco.
Speaker 2: I thenk I'm out on Joe Ryan and a couple things.
Speaker 2: He's given him sixteen earned runs in his last three starts.
Speaker 3: I don't like that. That's enough. You don't have to
Speaker 3: say anything else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, but this was more important that he
Speaker 2: was asked about this and he didn't get into details,
Speaker 2: but they said, like, do you think you can fix
Speaker 2: this mechanically in your rotation? He said no, Like, whatever
Speaker 2: this thing is is causing him to not be the
Speaker 2: full version of Joe Ryan. So I don't feel confident now.
Speaker 2: Am I just cutting Joe Ryan?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: If you still have a trade deadline, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: move him, but I don't trust him, so I would
Speaker 2: be very careful about my starts with him because I
Speaker 2: don't think anything is guaranteed right now. So him unable
Speaker 2: to repeat his delivery has caused some bad results on him,
Speaker 2: and I think it's going to go really bad the
Speaker 2: rest of the way through. Hunter Green was placed on
Speaker 2: the I L with elbow soreness, and it is essentially
Speaker 2: looking like he is not going to pitch the rest
Speaker 2: of the year. They're saying he might be able to
Speaker 2: pitch later this year. That's I'm a little bit worried
Speaker 2: we're going to get a really devastating again, which I
Speaker 2: thought that. I'm not sure it ends a career or
Speaker 2: anything like that, but that would be a really devastating
Speaker 2: blow to a guy that has had a multitude of injuries.
Speaker 3: And his fantasy value. Until he proves himself again, he's.
Speaker 2: Not draftable even like the year he returns to Dynasty.
Speaker 2: In my mind, like I don't care how hard he's throwing,
Speaker 2: I'll be out out. Vladimir Guerrero Junior missed two games.
Speaker 2: Schneider said that it's not the major. They said, he's
Speaker 2: just tight and tired.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean you say me too, Me too, same buddy,
Speaker 3: But uh wake up every morning tight and tired. I mean,
Speaker 3: didn't what was the thing that they said the other day,
Speaker 3: like he only has forty something games to not hit
Speaker 3: any home bombs or whatever.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he has not hit a homer at home
Speaker 2: all season long. And there's only like, however many more games.
Speaker 2: There's really low opportunity. I don't know how many more
Speaker 2: home games there are, which is a weird stat.
Speaker 3: By the way, what what.
Speaker 2: An absolutely just abysmal year this has been.
Speaker 3: I don't has there been a guy in the top
Speaker 3: two rounds that's been worse? Can you think of one?
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker's been pretty bad, yeah, not as bad as him.
Speaker 2: He's been the right one, yeah, yeah, number one stunner
Speaker 2: of badness my kil garcia cortizone injection in his hand.
Speaker 3: He's been out since June twenty second, so that's not good.
Speaker 2: They are saying he had renewed soreness on the twenty
Speaker 2: eighth trega savage to the IOH with the inflammation. Kyle
Speaker 2: Harrison he left Wednesday with cramping after striking at ten.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure that's a bad it's a horrible thing.
Speaker 2: Wilson Catreras left Wednesday with an illness. Dalton Rushing is
Speaker 2: not going to catch again the season ucl injury.
Speaker 3: That's bad.
Speaker 2: Andrew Painter was removed wed Day with hamstring tightness and
Speaker 2: Josh Young is a at least ten days with a
Speaker 2: rehab assignment away from starting a rehab assignment. And then,
Speaker 2: in kind of the call up world, Jerry Depoto said,
Speaker 2: the Mariners will not push Kate Anderson in the pin when.
Speaker 3: He's called up.
Speaker 2: That's actually a great piece of news here, and I
Speaker 2: think you're a week away just as soon as they
Speaker 2: can manipulate him to be the perfect thing. They did
Speaker 2: this with the in a different way with the Julio Rodriguez.
Speaker 2: Guess what get him where? He can't lose his prospect eligibility.
Speaker 2: He starts in the rotation next year he's rookie eligible.
Speaker 2: PPI extra pick count it. I think you have roughly
Speaker 2: ten days and then Kate Anderson will be up, So
Speaker 2: pick him up.
Speaker 3: I almost guarantee you that's going to happen. Change is
Speaker 3: that they've done with all of the qualifications for these players.
Speaker 3: Is it still they have to be brought up before
Speaker 3: September to qualify for the playoff roster.
Speaker 2: They have to be brought up before September for the
Speaker 2: playoff roster. They cannot exceed fifty innings pitched as a pitcher,
Speaker 2: or they lose prospect eligibility and forty five days on
Speaker 2: the major league roster.
Speaker 3: But I so it's just threading that needle. Yep.
Speaker 2: But I believe September I could be wrong about this
Speaker 2: is what I've heard in the past. I don't think
Speaker 2: it counts towards the days, like you can't lose your
Speaker 2: prospect eligibility by days on the roster in September. But
Speaker 2: even if that's not the case, if they bring them
Speaker 2: up about August sixteenth or seventeenth, he can't exceed the days.
Speaker 2: He can't exceed the innings if they control it, and
Speaker 2: that would allow him to be rookie eligible.
Speaker 3: For the start of next year.
Speaker 2: And if he breaks camp he will be PPI eligible
Speaker 2: because he breaks camp out and then there you go.
Speaker 3: Then they can have their first playoff eligibility. I think
Speaker 3: is most important for the marriage. Great, right, Yeah, I agree.
Speaker 2: Marcel Luzuna was released, by the way, not really a
Speaker 2: prospect thing, but he was released and Jorge Solaier was
Speaker 2: designated for assignment. Some prospect call ups Hector Rodriguez, Sesar
Speaker 2: Printo Prido, Christian Franklin also on hell Yonoah was called
Speaker 2: up and had.
Speaker 3: Four hits in his major league debut. Hector Rodriguez is.
Speaker 2: I'm interested in Hanoah's I'm interested in. We also had
Speaker 2: a Gusta Ramirez recalled, so maybe there's something there and
Speaker 2: a multitude of guy sent down. She and Cuero Manzardo
Speaker 2: were optioned. A guy that I am picking up off
Speaker 2: of waivers, Jackson Job, is going to be pitching on Saturday.
Speaker 3: He was activated.
Speaker 2: Here's the big sign. Had a five or six percent
Speaker 2: K minus walk percentage last year in the majors and
Speaker 2: the miners. This year a twenty percent K minus walk
Speaker 2: percentage over, it's like around a twenty six percent K percentage,
Speaker 2: around a six percent walk rate. If that carries over,
Speaker 2: big good things are going to happen.
Speaker 3: I'm picking him up.
Speaker 2: And Ben Joyce was activated for the Angels, so maybe
Speaker 2: he gets an opportunity at some saves if they ever
Speaker 2: have any of those games. So I'm looking at picking
Speaker 2: up Job. I'm looking at picking up Joyce. You know,
Speaker 2: her and uh, Hector Rodriguez are really interesting. But Kate
Speaker 2: Anderson would be my top priority in that prospect world.
Speaker 2: And those are some of the news and notes.
Speaker 3: All right, let's take a break. When we come back.
Speaker 2: We're gonna look at the post deadline lineups and rotations
Speaker 2: around baseball, talking about some players, seeing what fits, what's cool,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get to some two start pitchers at
Speaker 2: the end. Don't go and wear more in this league coming.
Speaker 3: Up, I generally come in at least fifteen minutes late.
Speaker 3: I use the side door, and after that I just
Speaker 3: sort of space out for about an hour. Tell space out.
Speaker 2: I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real actual quirk.
Speaker 3: Would you feel good, sport and indulge us and just
Speaker 3: tell us a little more.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you.
Speaker 3: Something about in this league.
Speaker 2: Let's take a look at some lineups. So, as mentioned before,
Speaker 2: Bogman put together some rotation and some lineup changes. And
Speaker 2: this is just all post trade deadline. I think for
Speaker 2: the most part, as I stare at this, like there
Speaker 2: is well, maybe like one, but like, I don't see
Speaker 2: one that we picked out of here that doesn't necessarily
Speaker 2: maybe one or two maximum that don't have like some
Speaker 2: implication to a trade.
Speaker 3: That ended up changing.
Speaker 2: So we'll start al up and then we'll go to
Speaker 2: some NL and starting with Baltimore.
Speaker 3: This is interesting, Bogs.
Speaker 2: Dylan Beaver's getting a leadoff spot versus right handed hitters,
Speaker 2: Cees hitting cleanup and Kobe Neo in the seventh spot.
Speaker 2: So probably let me pull this up here. Dylan Beaver's
Speaker 2: is someone to to. I don't think we've said his
Speaker 2: name one time this season. I know, let's take a
Speaker 2: look at Beaver's. Beaver's hitting two forty four this year,
Speaker 2: two armers, five stolen bases. It's the worst profile in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: They must be looking to get him going, hitting around
Speaker 2: two forty eight versus righty's kind of struggling versus lefties.
Speaker 3: But he is hitting two seventy five since the All
Speaker 3: Star break.
Speaker 2: It looks like since they have been, you know, giving
Speaker 2: him a little bit of this run. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: if I see any Fanta value out of Beaver's, but
Speaker 2: if he's going to be strong side leading off, that's
Speaker 2: something worth noting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely deeper leagues. He has been hitting leadoffs since
Speaker 3: the twenty fourth. He pinch it in one game and
Speaker 3: the four hole, and he did it today.
Speaker 2: By the way, as I'm as I'm looking at this,
Speaker 2: because Ryan Johnson pitched and versus what you wrote, it's
Speaker 2: almost identical. It's Beaver's let off, Cees was clean up,
Speaker 2: and then Mayo was not in this lineup though it
Speaker 2: was cal Or. No Mayo did pinch hit. He ended
Speaker 2: up pinch hitting, but Calser was the one that was
Speaker 2: a little bit later. So yeah, that's that, okay. I
Speaker 2: didn't even realize that that's actually a relatively important factor
Speaker 2: if Beaver's is going to continue getting these strong side
Speaker 2: I don't know, a deep twelve man, this might be
Speaker 2: pick up able.
Speaker 3: Every game he started since July twenty fourth, he has
Speaker 3: hit leadoff, so strong side platoon leadoff hitter. I was
Speaker 3: more interested in Cees and Mayo being in the lineup,
Speaker 3: so they both kind of hold more. How you. Of
Speaker 3: course Mayo got benched today. We knew ces with how
Speaker 3: hot he's been, was going to be the guy, and
Speaker 3: he's hitting clean up, so that that's real nice. But
Speaker 3: Mayo should be in most days as well though. Something
Speaker 3: to watch.
Speaker 2: Strand hit three twenty four in July. In five games
Speaker 2: in August, he's hitting zero point zero seven to one,
Speaker 2: so he has one hit this month.
Speaker 3: So he was really really hot last month. You know
Speaker 3: what is the change?
Speaker 2: The month split Philly. Then they went to the angels.
Speaker 2: I'm not really sure, Like what can you find the
Speaker 2: correlation if there is some type of correlation, but depending elevant,
Speaker 2: that's what it is. Yeah, yeah, I suppose. Yeah, people
Speaker 2: picked him up that was the problem. And then let's
Speaker 2: just take a look at Mayo. That's another one of
Speaker 2: those I feel like I just have not stared at
Speaker 2: with Kobe Mayo this year two five, a very quiet
Speaker 2: fifteen homers, two stolen bases, really good hard hit rate,
Speaker 2: Bat's being's phenomenal. All the hard hit stuff is good,
Speaker 2: but everything else is it's a little I mean, he's
Speaker 2: barely in the ball as well getting the ball in
Speaker 2: the air, but expect abouting every sucks. Strikeout rate is
Speaker 2: really bad. He's got all the inner workings of it.
Speaker 3: What's this of it?
Speaker 2: His own contact is it's actually not bad. It's eighty
Speaker 2: one percent. So is that that's just a quality of
Speaker 2: contact issue? I mean, also the Chase wiff in k
Speaker 2: percentage is like really hurting. But he checks that that
Speaker 2: little four quadrant double digit barrel close right at fifty
Speaker 2: percent hard hit rate, twenty degree launch angle, and thirty
Speaker 2: one percent pulled air percentage with an eighty one percent
Speaker 2: zone contact rate. I actually think there's something there. I
Speaker 2: just don't know if it's going to materialize this year.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I need to put a pin in that
Speaker 2: for next season. Low babbit, but he kind of runs
Speaker 2: low babybs.
Speaker 3: Yeah, hitting he's hitting two seventy five since the break.
Speaker 3: It's two fifty six in July, and you know, only
Speaker 3: three games in August, but he's hitting three hundred. So
Speaker 3: uh looking better at least, so.
Speaker 2: We like that. Over with the Boston Red Sox, who
Speaker 2: are going today, Let's see if this, yeah, this is continuing.
Speaker 2: Nick Soguard leading off and that continue today going up
Speaker 2: against least Castillo making his debut.
Speaker 3: Has a hit so guard two forty six.
Speaker 2: Nothing else really speak of on the season. It's really low,
Speaker 2: minimal at bats. Again, he just kind of hasn't like
Speaker 2: had an opportunity to do anything. But he's getting that
Speaker 2: leadoff spot. I still don't think there's really much there,
Speaker 2: Like what type of fantasy value is that it?
Speaker 3: Also maybe like in a very deep league, maybe hitting
Speaker 3: leadoff for Boston you could score some runs.
Speaker 2: Maybe, Yeah, maybe I wonder what happens when Richman comes back,
Speaker 2: Like Retch is a really good like one like I
Speaker 2: almost see this.
Speaker 3: As Rafaela should lead off at that point, right, well,
Speaker 3: or do you put Adley at three? Will?
Speaker 2: Will You're at four? And then maybe Durbin moves to
Speaker 2: one or maybe he just keeps If so, see, I'll
Speaker 2: pull it this. If so Guard stays there, that actually
Speaker 2: might be something. But it's like deep league stuff again
Speaker 2: that I don't I'm not sure either the Baltimore any
Speaker 2: of the Baltimore guys, or this is one where I'm like,
Speaker 2: it's beyond twelve, like Beavers is the one I maybe
Speaker 2: check in a little bit. And I obviously have interest
Speaker 2: in Mayo, but he can't put it together. But so
Speaker 2: Guard's interesting. Uh the bigger this is a bigger one.
Speaker 2: Let's go over to Cleveland. Joe Adell. There's the lineup change.
Speaker 2: Joe Adell cleanup hitting for Cleveland, and this is.
Speaker 3: What I was talking about. He didn't play today though,
Speaker 3: which is kind of funny, but uh, he the game
Speaker 3: has been he's been hitting clean up, so funny.
Speaker 2: Enough, they hit Nate Low clean up today and he
Speaker 2: was two for four with a bomb, so that cleanup
Speaker 2: spot's really interesting. And hitting in front of him the
Speaker 2: latter's been hot. Ramirez is there. Bazana hit leadoffs, so
Speaker 2: if he continues to hit four, it's Bizana de latta.
Speaker 2: Ramirez is right there, Like, I kind of love that.
Speaker 2: That probably puts low in at six. So let's what
Speaker 2: what does Lowe's percentage own? It's got to be really
Speaker 2: low still, right, No Pun, there was no I literally
Speaker 2: had no no, I know, no pun attended thirteen homers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: thirteen homers. Profile looks pretty decent. I don't think they've
Speaker 2: been I didn't realize he can't hit. He's hitting a
Speaker 2: zero point eight three against lefties this year. He's had
Speaker 2: twenty four at bats and only two hits. So he
Speaker 2: is strong like strong side. He is where he's going
Speaker 2: to be getting his playing time, and that's probably hitting six.
Speaker 2: He's only two percent on on.
Speaker 3: Yahoo, he's two percent. Joe Adell's been hitting like garbage.
Speaker 3: He hit two sixty four in June. He had five
Speaker 3: homers in July, but only hit two twenty eight. He's
Speaker 3: only hitting one thirty three in August, two hundred after
Speaker 3: the break, so he's very streaky. But he has not
Speaker 3: picked it up since a very decent June here.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's played two games with the Guardians he has.
Speaker 2: He had two hits in a first game, hasn't registered
Speaker 2: in the other hits. He's striking out a decent amount.
Speaker 2: It's a weird I mean, I like the dell there,
Speaker 2: but that's a weird construction of maybe he's pressing a
Speaker 2: little bit. There's a lot that I think there's just
Speaker 2: gonna be RBI opportunities on the season, sixteen homers, two
Speaker 2: thirty seven average. It's tough with his XBA that's two
Speaker 2: fifty nine. I wonder how, like Translady, we can have
Speaker 2: that be over in Cleveland. And so Cleveland's also like
Speaker 2: a really nice, like left handed ballpark for hitters, and
Speaker 2: he's like pretty heavy pole not as friendly to right
Speaker 2: handed hitters. But I don't know if it matters, But
Speaker 2: that's an interesting I think versus uh, righties, you're going
Speaker 2: to continue seeing adele Win out there. Maybe they're giving
Speaker 2: him a little bit of a break, Like.
Speaker 3: Where what is he hitting against righties this year?
Speaker 2: He's hit he's only hitting two ten, so he's destroying lefties.
Speaker 2: He's hitting three h six, only two ten against righty's.
Speaker 2: So maybe that was sit him to ooh, what if
Speaker 2: Joey Dell's in a platoon.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he might be.
Speaker 2: They might just be letting him get going. And he
Speaker 2: played three straight days. But just pointing out he has
Speaker 2: not hit righty's, low, has not hit lefties, and uh,
Speaker 2: he's probably not in any platoon by the way, he's
Speaker 2: going to hit against righty's, but he really dominates against lefties.
Speaker 3: So maybe keep that in mind for Joey. Oh, that's
Speaker 3: kind of an interesting one. Detroit.
Speaker 2: Uh, you put the Drew Anderson was moving up in
Speaker 2: the rotation and Jackson Job is going to be in
Speaker 2: in Saturday on Saturday, and that's the one I've been
Speaker 2: focused on. I've been focused on. I don't know how
Speaker 2: it's gonna go. I'm hoping it's gonna go decent. As
Speaker 2: I mentioned before, but the current rotation now is Framber, Montero, Melton, Anderson,
Speaker 2: and then it looks like Job is going to lock
Speaker 2: up that five spot. And by the way, Melton's been incredible, Dission,
Speaker 2: he's been great. Next year Melton was the pickup. Oh man,
Speaker 2: I think it depends on how they finished the year.
Speaker 2: Probably still well, I'll tell you why. If Framber melts down,
Speaker 2: I'll take Melton but I think it's probably still Frombert.
Speaker 3: Will see what he does. But uh yeah, Melton has
Speaker 3: been good for like two straight months. He's been really good,
Speaker 3: so uh yeah, definitely him and Job. I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know if Drew Anderson is anything, but he's in
Speaker 3: the rotation now so we'll see. But yeah, Job is
Speaker 3: a pickup and Melton has been great. Melton's got to
Speaker 3: be like eighty percent now right.
Speaker 2: Oh and he's yeah, let's pull up his numbers because
Speaker 2: he just had like another one of those just se Yahoo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one five eight era in twelve starts this year,
Speaker 3: uh and qualifies a spn RP in Yahoo. So what
Speaker 3: do we call that? A little spark, little sparm reaction spar.
Speaker 2: Also, if you look at the Savant, this would have
Speaker 2: been a really good guess who on h on Fantasy
Speaker 2: pros because you look and it's like, holy crap, low
Speaker 2: barrel against low hard hit rate. I mean k's are
Speaker 2: a little bit median twenty two k percentage eight percent
Speaker 2: walk rate, but I mean even as expected, the ra
Speaker 2: is only three eleven, like one five eight R. I
Speaker 2: mean he's been pretty awesome. Whoa real quick kind of
Speaker 2: is that? As the color of your energy. Whoa how
Speaker 2: must did that joke? The other day ninety six his
Speaker 2: four scene was actually down a mile per hour. His
Speaker 2: cutter is up to almost two miles per hour this year,
Speaker 2: and he's throwing it a ton more. He's backtracked on
Speaker 2: a slider, which he's throwing that harder. The run values, dude,
Speaker 2: look at this cutter. Last year was a negative four
Speaker 2: run value. This year plus twelve.
Speaker 3: That's gotta be.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: No, I want to go look well, look at this too.
Speaker 3: By the way, strikeout percentage May eight percent June twenty
Speaker 3: two point one percent, July thirty point four percent. Uh,
Speaker 3: in his one start, it's only sixteen percent in August,
Speaker 3: but he'll have more. But that has climbed in every month.
Speaker 3: So if that climbs in August, he's gonna be over
Speaker 3: a thirty percent k rate.
Speaker 2: So I wonder if I can find I always have
Speaker 2: a problem finding the exact thing I want. Pitch arsenal
Speaker 2: is that, No, that's not what I want. I find
Speaker 2: my run values on my pitches.
Speaker 3: Run value is that on the front page run values? Pitch?
Speaker 2: Oh, I found it, I found it, Okay, it's it's
Speaker 2: uh pitch arsenal stats. So let's look at just cutters,
Speaker 2: and let's see the best cutters from a run value
Speaker 2: perspective this year.
Speaker 3: Ooh, check this out. Let me change a qualification. Look
Speaker 3: at this box.
Speaker 2: Troy Milton the number one run valued cutter this year. Ah,
Speaker 2: that pitch has been that efficient. A nineteen percent hard
Speaker 2: hit rate, a one seventy one expected batting average. He's
Speaker 2: not striking out or whipping a ton of guys, but
Speaker 2: no one can do anything with it. Is the highest
Speaker 2: run value of any cutter thrown by a starting or
Speaker 2: not even relievers are in there. That's the number one stunner.
Speaker 3: Damn. Yeah, it's only twenty five years old. This dude
Speaker 3: a lot of room to grow. Yeah, a little room
Speaker 3: for activities.
Speaker 2: A lot of dudes out there, all right, Houston, Varshow
Speaker 2: was put into the cleanup spot and Altuve was put
Speaker 2: to six.
Speaker 3: Did you look today at all that that continues. I
Speaker 3: don't think they played today. Yeah, they didn't play.
Speaker 2: Today, so it didn't matter. Var show anything for you
Speaker 2: with var mean, I don't hate the change. Var Show
Speaker 2: is always he's like looming with fantasy relevancy. Seven homers,
Speaker 2: ten stolen bases, two forty two average.
Speaker 3: He's super, super pol heavy.
Speaker 2: It's really the only thing that he does. I mean,
Speaker 2: you're gonna be hitting if you're cleaning up for your
Speaker 2: on Alvarez, That's actually kind of an incredible situation to
Speaker 2: be in. There might be a lot more run opportunity
Speaker 2: RBI opportunities.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, absolutely so. I mean dropping him in
Speaker 3: the cleanup spot is great. Let's take a look. He
Speaker 3: has hit like crap since June. Hit two point fifty
Speaker 3: in June, hit two oh five in July and August
Speaker 3: with zero home runs, so he needs to pick it up.
Speaker 3: They're putting him in the cleanup spot for now, but
Speaker 3: he's gonna have to justify this. So it's a really
Speaker 3: good spot to be in. Hopefully it's six though, but
Speaker 3: he has to pick it up if he's gonna stick there.
Speaker 2: This one wasn't deadline related, but you did put this
Speaker 2: on Stephen Cruise. Did Stephen Cruz take over? Do you
Speaker 2: think he's fully taken over that closing spot in Kansas City?
Speaker 3: I mean, laying well, I believe he's had the last
Speaker 3: three saves for the Royals, if I am correct, If
Speaker 3: I'm remembering that right, I'm pulling up the closer chart. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm pulling out he is listed as the closer. Now, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're right.
Speaker 2: Lang has moved to seven lynches eight er seg is
Speaker 2: not even involved anymore, and Stephen Cruz.
Speaker 3: Has that they've only had one save in the last
Speaker 3: week and he got it, so now there's not.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a lot of opportunity anyways. But uh, four
Speaker 2: to nine ERA expected is lower at three seven nine.
Speaker 2: Let me actually let me pull him up on van
Speaker 2: Gress does a lot. I love a lot of things
Speaker 2: about Fangress, but from an ease of you standpoint, are
Speaker 2: like quickly looking at a player, Savant.
Speaker 3: Is hard to it's hard not to match.
Speaker 2: Two five to three post All Star break he's been
Speaker 2: He's had really an eleven games since the All Star
Speaker 2: Break that seems crazy, zero point eighty four whip, three
Speaker 2: saves and ten innings during that time, where he was
Speaker 2: four eight eight previously. But he's had a a two
Speaker 2: ERA in June, a two ERA in July, and a
Speaker 2: three e RAY in August. He's actually been pretty damn
Speaker 2: shut down with a almost twenty eight percent k percentage,
Speaker 2: a little bit high on the walks, a little more
Speaker 2: a little too barely as well. But I mean he's
Speaker 2: locking it down and getting it done, and I think
Speaker 2: he has not. I mean, actually he's given up an
Speaker 2: earned run in three of his last eight appearances.
Speaker 3: But they haven't been back. He hasn't been blowing them
Speaker 3: like Alex. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and it also hasn't been like it hasn't
Speaker 2: been like traumatic. You know, they're not like traumatic outings
Speaker 2: or something like that. So all right, uh, Stephen cruise
Speaker 2: if he's still floating out there with the Angels, von
Speaker 2: Grisham has been hitting or Grissom has been hitting. Clean
Speaker 2: up ballasteros DHD and went six and then Ben Joyce
Speaker 2: activated and was he put at the closing spot as well?
Speaker 3: I think Rosser Resource had him at the closer spot.
Speaker 3: It was either that or he got to save last
Speaker 3: nine or two nights ago or something. Let me, Yeah,
Speaker 3: they did put.
Speaker 2: Him at the closing spot, and they don't really have
Speaker 2: anybody else like viable, right.
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of the point too, is that
Speaker 3: who else Well.
Speaker 2: Let's see, they had a save opportunity today and that
Speaker 2: did not go to him, That went to Natara.
Speaker 3: He did not pitch. Maybe they just didn't want to
Speaker 3: pitch him today, but they.
Speaker 2: Went Ferres up first, Murphy Sacito and Natara got a
Speaker 2: uh four four out save, I guess you want to
Speaker 2: call it. I mean, he gave up a hit, so
Speaker 2: that but he went one in one third of an
Speaker 2: inning and he ended up getting the save there.
Speaker 3: So just keep an eye on that.
Speaker 2: But Ballisto's caught today, which is pretty fun. And then
Speaker 2: as a follow up, Grissom hit five today. They went Meckler,
Speaker 2: Sill in the middle.
Speaker 3: Of that lineup though, yeah, Shanwell, Netto and.
Speaker 2: Grissom, but yeah, I think that's your main point is
Speaker 2: Grissom is like hitting in the middle of that lineup,
Speaker 2: and Grissom on the year pulling it up two.
Speaker 3: Sixty one seven homers, but.
Speaker 2: It's been over like two hundred and fifty three at bats,
Speaker 2: so it doesn't really translate fantastic. It's okay, there's some
Speaker 2: RBI opportunities. I think Ballistero's is probably more fantasy relevant
Speaker 2: just because if like he's gonna start catching more, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the guy makes a time of contact.
Speaker 3: He just hasn't had any consistency.
Speaker 2: To get I mean, I guess he's had opportunities this year,
Speaker 2: it just hasn't worked. But he does have a couple
Speaker 2: of hits in his first few Angel games.
Speaker 3: Von Grissom hit three thirty three in July and he's
Speaker 3: hitting two eighty one since the break, so decent there.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Ben Joyce also threw sixteen pitches
Speaker 3: last night and that is two days off the il,
Speaker 3: so they definitely weren't going to pitch him in after
Speaker 3: a night game. So that I think Ben Joyce might
Speaker 3: still be the closer. But Natara is a lefty, so
Speaker 3: I think if you have lefties coming in in the ninth,
Speaker 3: it'll probably go to Natara, And if you have the
Speaker 3: right he's coming in, he'll probably go to Joyce.
Speaker 2: Over In the Twins, Jeff Hoffman is listed as a
Speaker 2: co closer with Gomez, but I mean, when the hell
Speaker 2: did the Twins the Twins gotten a save operation. Let
Speaker 2: me look, they're actually going right now since yeah, so
Speaker 2: I don't think we've seen how that's necessarily materialized. But
Speaker 2: Hoffman is a decent okay, so let me do this.
Speaker 2: Steven Cruz or Jeff Hoffman.
Speaker 3: Who do you want? M Hoffman? I mean, just opportunities,
Speaker 3: even if he's splitting him, might be more for Hoffman. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's a good point. Okay, that's a good point. And
Speaker 3: I think I take Ben Joyce over both of them.
Speaker 2: I think I would take Hoffman over Benjo. I like
Speaker 2: Benjoyce's stuff, but I think it would take Hoffman there fair.
Speaker 3: You know, I don't have an argument against that. Sure,
Speaker 3: the Yankees bunch of interesting stuff.
Speaker 2: Luis Garcia, the three hole hitter win going against right
Speaker 2: handed pitchers. Helio Ramos was batting five, Lombard batting eight.
Speaker 2: Doesn't really do a lot for anybody, but he's getting
Speaker 2: playing time out there, and obviously he hit that homer.
Speaker 2: They are not playing today, so we can't take a
Speaker 2: look at what that looks like. But Luis Garcia looks
Speaker 2: like just locked in. And there was another game where
Speaker 2: I think he was going to come into maybe it
Speaker 2: was a pinch hit or something. It wasn't the home
Speaker 2: run one. He just seems scary, like that ballpark is
Speaker 2: just built for him. Like, I love, his profile is ridiculous.
Speaker 2: He's hitting two eighty three. He might legitimately be like,
Speaker 2: what does his contract look like? Because I was about
Speaker 2: to say, like he looks the part of a top
Speaker 2: one hundred player for next season. I'm gonna look, I
Speaker 2: just don't remember if it's Yeah, so he's got an
Speaker 2: arbitrational year next year, so it's fourth year arbitrational.
Speaker 3: I don't see. Yeah, yeah, it's just unrestricted.
Speaker 2: I mean he's gonna be sitting around next year, not
Speaker 2: platooning and just being a dude.
Speaker 3: The guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, he did struggle versus left he's sitting two
Speaker 2: oh seven this year, but in that rity platoon, he's
Speaker 2: just a he's a dude.
Speaker 3: Helliyo, rama. I mean, I just love all these I.
Speaker 2: Don't think there's any fantasy implications, So I will say
Speaker 2: I do think Lombard is a player to to speculate
Speaker 2: a twelve team and above to hold on to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: Ha there, Liam Hicks clean up versus right handed pitchers
Speaker 2: kind of let me okay, let me stop here for
Speaker 2: a second.
Speaker 3: We got a lot of guys that.
Speaker 2: Do have these platoony type of situations, but there's just
Speaker 2: such a large handful of these players that when they
Speaker 2: are in their platoon, they are put in a ridiculus
Speaker 2: spot a la Luis Garcia, a la Liam Hicks. That
Speaker 2: not that they were even in question to not like
Speaker 2: own or something like that. But it's just like extra
Speaker 2: goodness for people, like if you're dealing with you, like
Speaker 2: should I really be excited about platoon players.
Speaker 3: This, that and the other thing?
Speaker 2: And it's like, well, strong side when they're when they're
Speaker 2: thrown into strong side, like hitting.
Speaker 3: Three or four for a team, yeah, you should, especially
Speaker 3: for a good team, especially for the Rays who have
Speaker 3: been producing runs all year long. Yankees have been producing
Speaker 3: runs all year long. Like you know, if you're gonna
Speaker 3: go and hit three for Miami, who cares, But especially
Speaker 3: if you're platooning. But if you're hitting for a stud team. Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Two other al ones they're not a ton Ton related here,
Speaker 2: but Cody Bradford was activated for this first time since
Speaker 2: TJ put in rotation, So I don't know if there's
Speaker 2: much I like there. And Nathan Lukes was leading off
Speaker 2: for Toronto. Was Toronto going today? Toronto was going today?
Speaker 2: Let's see what happened today? And it was Straw today,
Speaker 2: so I thought I saw him. No right now, Straw
Speaker 2: let off, But Lukes did hit five wop pics hitting
Speaker 2: behind streaming behind Springer. It was David Peterson, Okay, so lefty, lefty, he.
Speaker 3: Was hitting five.
Speaker 2: I mean that those are actually pretty good, solid spots
Speaker 2: to take a look.
Speaker 3: I mean I'll take I'll take four or five, that's nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but are you gonna take Nathan Luke's to sixty
Speaker 2: one five homers in just under three hundred of bats.
Speaker 3: You know, just like so Guard, it's a it's a
Speaker 3: runs play guy hitting lead off for a team that
Speaker 3: could be good offensively, but it hasn't. Really I'd rather, honestly,
Speaker 3: I'd rather have so Guard at this point, but uh,
Speaker 3: not bad for Luke's Interesting you say that in the
Speaker 3: month of July.
Speaker 2: Luke's nineteen runs just in the month of July.
Speaker 3: That's actually if you're that is a play. Yeah, well
Speaker 3: maybe I'm mistaken. Yeah no, no, I'm saying that's good.
Speaker 3: Well that's what I well, I just said I'd take
Speaker 3: so Guard.
Speaker 2: But yeah, oh oh, you meant mistaken on Soger, I
Speaker 2: thought you were like mistaking your ideas. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: him said, yeah, he had twenty six runs in the
Speaker 2: month of June nineteen. In the month of July, I
Speaker 2: mean he doesn't have any he is one this month,
Speaker 2: so that he's actually struggling in August, but interesting over
Speaker 2: in the al or you know, the Diamondbacks quite a
Speaker 2: few changes post deadline. One didn't have to do with
Speaker 2: the deadline. It just had to do with one of
Speaker 2: the worst closers in baseball. Lars Nootbar looks like a
Speaker 2: leadoff guy for the d Backs. He was thrust into
Speaker 2: the leadoff spot.
Speaker 3: He they moved him all over by the way, and
Speaker 3: I think this is wrong for tonight. I think he's
Speaker 3: hitting They got him at five tonight. I think they
Speaker 3: had him. They had him at six, and then at
Speaker 3: one and then at five. This is Lavollo, so yeah,
Speaker 3: he is. Yeah, I'm looking at this. He's hitting five tonight.
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised. But see, here's the problem with it.
Speaker 2: If you're going like whether you're left or not, the
Speaker 2: Diamondbacks against myz, this is what might actually give people trouble.
Speaker 2: Even like like Corman Carrolls, one of the best left
Speaker 2: handed hitters against left handed pitchers in the league this year.
Speaker 3: Newp Bar Actually I can't.
Speaker 2: I don't want to speak to it until I look here,
Speaker 2: but I want I do want to say that like
Speaker 2: he doesn't have massive struggles against left easy, no never mind,
Speaker 2: he's said he won.
Speaker 3: Twenty five against lefties this year.
Speaker 2: But my point was is, if you've got a right
Speaker 2: handed hitter they can throw out when they can throw
Speaker 2: out new Bar Carol, and then they put a switch
Speaker 2: hitter like Perdomo at three, it's gonna be fits for
Speaker 2: teams because then you know, then they can switch it up.
Speaker 2: Tonight they went Perdomo, Switchy, Carol Moreno could tell switchy,
Speaker 2: and then Neupar. I think that's probably more of a
Speaker 2: traditional lineup. I think they're going to go with, but
Speaker 2: they're gonna move these all around either way. Nupar is
Speaker 2: hitting somewhere in the top five, and I think he's
Speaker 2: become I don't know. I think he's become more Fantasy relevant.
Speaker 2: Being with Arizona, it's positive place for him to hit.
Speaker 2: He got a hit in his last game. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm a New Bar guy. But the season hasn't been
Speaker 2: great two thirty two only a couple homers. Is that
Speaker 2: cast looks like phenomenal. If he can start to get going.
Speaker 2: He's not getting the ball in the air, which that's
Speaker 2: something I'd love to track.
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I think he's I think he's Fantasy relevant three homers
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: So he's he's been frustrating this year, but we know
Speaker 3: there's obviously a lot more in there and he's in
Speaker 3: a new scenario, so hopefully it works out a little
Speaker 3: better in Arizona. But yeah, he's kind of he's kind
Speaker 3: of mid right now, as the kids would say.
Speaker 2: And this has kind of moved Katel around a little bit.
Speaker 2: But again, I wouldn't really read too much into any
Speaker 2: of it because I think the diamonbacks just they adjust
Speaker 2: their lineups. They just moved around. Katel is going to
Speaker 2: hit two, three, he's hitting five. There's good RBI opportunities.
Speaker 2: And then the big change I had picked him up
Speaker 2: in one of our leagues, Brandon Garcia. Brandon Garcia has
Speaker 2: been the guy that's been getting to save opportunities. And
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna come off of that. He's
Speaker 2: wow success.
Speaker 3: I mean they might you never know. It's when Justin
Speaker 3: Martinez comes back. They might go to Martinez. Thank you
Speaker 3: for saying that.
Speaker 2: I'm completely wrong about that, because you're right. Justin Martinez
Speaker 2: yesterday or the day before started to rehab assignment of Veselia.
Speaker 2: Now I think it's gonna take a week or two,
Speaker 2: and I don't think because we've seen Lovello a bunch,
Speaker 2: I don't think Lavello is gonna thrust him right back
Speaker 2: into the closing role. Could be wrong about that. I
Speaker 2: think they might have a little warm up tee up
Speaker 2: game or two. So I do think he will get
Speaker 2: his saves, but I don't think those saves will come
Speaker 2: till September. But I would be picking up justin Martinez
Speaker 2: because I could be wrong about that, because he's got
Speaker 2: absolute closer stuff. But Garcia has been efficient. And then
Speaker 2: look at dumbass Ginkle last night in little situations where
Speaker 2: who else would he go to? Well, let's put Ginkle
Speaker 2: out there. They're one hitting the padres and Gigle gives
Speaker 2: up four earned runs because he's the worst on the planet.
Speaker 2: So Garcia, if he's successful, they're not gonna do anything
Speaker 2: with it. But he is a lefty and he'd be
Speaker 2: a better fireman than anything for Garcia to close games out.
Speaker 3: I think this is going to depend on how good
Speaker 3: Garcia looks in the role, because he has it now
Speaker 3: in my opinion, So I think it depends on how
Speaker 3: good Garcia look and then how good does Martinez look
Speaker 3: in his rehab assignments. If he is just you know,
Speaker 3: smoking every batter and striking out everybody, they'll probably just
Speaker 3: throw him right back in that role, no matter how
Speaker 3: good Garcia is. But if Garcia has been good and
Speaker 3: Martinez is kind of wonky coming off this injury, which
Speaker 3: control is a big issue coming off of a surgery
Speaker 3: like that, so I know, you know, they might they
Speaker 3: might leave him down in triple A until he gets
Speaker 3: figured out. I'll give you a couple of little updates.
Speaker 3: He pitched, He's pitched twice.
Speaker 2: Martinez. He pitched in a Bridge League game which actually
Speaker 2: didn't count.
Speaker 3: But here's a report.
Speaker 2: He was hitting one hundred and one oh one and
Speaker 2: topped out at one h two in the Bridge League game.
Speaker 2: And then it was two nights ago, and this is
Speaker 2: when I saw that report.
Speaker 3: He did pitch. I'm looking for I'd have to go back.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to see if anybody else reported it
Speaker 2: made my life easier. It doesn't look like they did,
Speaker 2: so I can't see where the stuff is. I'd love
Speaker 2: to see where that splitter is. But regardless, in that
Speaker 2: one before, he was pumping one hundred, so I think
Speaker 2: that's a really really good sign for him to come back.
Speaker 2: So I'm glad you mentioned that. I'm glad you mentioned
Speaker 2: him because I will say though, like I would not
Speaker 2: have a quick trigger finger with with Brandon Garcia, because
Speaker 2: he has been pretty dang good right here. I mean,
Speaker 2: just go to his savamp page. I don't know if
Speaker 2: you have it up right now to e er point
Speaker 2: seven to seven whip. But also look at the efficiencies
Speaker 2: when you look at he doesn't qualify low hard hit
Speaker 2: ground ball merchant two point nine barrel against, thirty one
Speaker 2: percent k percentage, ninety seven on the fastball, one sixty
Speaker 2: five expected batting average against. He just doesn't get like
Speaker 2: a ton of whiffs. But he has been really really
Speaker 2: good and that sweeper cutter sinker Combo has worked super
Speaker 2: well for him, So I think I don't think what's
Speaker 2: his face is going to be super quick to want
Speaker 2: to take him out of that role. But Martinez is
Speaker 2: a closer.
Speaker 3: That's who he is.
Speaker 2: So it's kind of a you know, one in one
Speaker 2: out there with the Mets. Carson Binge has been batting
Speaker 2: clean up. That's pretty nice. Zach Thornton and Robert Stock
Speaker 2: in the rotation. That means nothing to me but Bene
Speaker 2: hitting clean up. I think it's made him even a
Speaker 2: bit more valuable right now.
Speaker 3: So who would you rather have?
Speaker 2: Well, no, that's a dumb one. I want to give
Speaker 2: you a better one. Give me a better one. Could
Speaker 2: you rather have Benjerr Adele rest of season bench?
Speaker 3: I just think Adele's too tricky. Hasn't hit well in
Speaker 3: two months? Like but hold on. I think Adele was
Speaker 3: traded part for his power, right or mainly for his power,
Speaker 3: but also the glove is great, So I think that's
Speaker 3: kind of what it is.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: It hasn't, has it? I mean, I am I getting
Speaker 3: that wrong? I know Joe Adell had like remember.
Speaker 2: Joy Dell had those like crazy Yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: not looking. I'll pull it up real quick here. Why
Speaker 2: don't you take a guess. I'll give you his defensive rating.
Speaker 2: It first, to your guests? Is it positive or negative?
Speaker 3: Positive? I would say it's actually negative? Is it Okay?
Speaker 3: That's where I was mistaken. So they just took him
Speaker 3: for power. But he hasn't hid in two months, so
Speaker 3: I guess his war this year. See. I knew I
Speaker 3: was getting that wrong because he had like he had
Speaker 3: the game where he robbed three. Yeah, no, I went
Speaker 3: and looked and were propped up by that. Yeah, defensive
Speaker 3: numbers were terrible. That's what guess. Guess his war negative.
Speaker 3: It's not negative point five, You're actually so close. It's
Speaker 3: point one point.
Speaker 2: It is point He's a average player on the planets
Speaker 2: and Carson ben Oh, let's look at Bene. I'm gonna
Speaker 2: guess beinge is like two. I'm gonna say two point four.
Speaker 3: Two point four war. I'll say one point six.
Speaker 2: Dude, we broke it. It was two even, so we
Speaker 2: were right in between. By price of right rules, you
Speaker 2: win though, so but yeah, to a two war positive offensive,
Speaker 2: almost dead even on defensive rating, but a little bit negative.
Speaker 3: So I don't know, I just wanted to throw that
Speaker 3: out there because.
Speaker 2: I mean, benj has been awesome, but I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: like new bar and it's like Benje is just clearly
Speaker 2: here with phillies. This is the one I really really retract.
Speaker 2: Is I think I was just I was just wrong
Speaker 2: on the like I said Minch earlier in the show,
Speaker 2: the Luise Rice thing, he was hitting cleanup.
Speaker 3: Bawl went to five, Marsh went to six. Are they
Speaker 3: did they? They played today, let's take a look.
Speaker 2: And literally and he cleaned up again, and guess what
Speaker 2: two more hits in an RBI for Luisa Riz Jesus Man.
Speaker 3: He's got he's did. He hadn't hit a homer since
Speaker 3: June thirtieth before that bomb last night.
Speaker 2: And he's got Schwarber, Turner and Harper in front of him,
Speaker 2: and then behind it went Bowman Marsh again. So it
Speaker 2: looks like that lineup is kind of sticking around a
Speaker 2: little bit. And yeah, I was just I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: we should sell on him. I think I might have
Speaker 2: been wrong. This might actually be the time where he
Speaker 2: just improves his fantasy value. I'm kind of bummed about
Speaker 2: Brandon Marsh by the way. He's just kind of falling off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was kind of to be expected.
Speaker 3: There was no Yeah, I mean, the dude was hitting
Speaker 3: like three forty three for the first two months or
Speaker 3: something absurd. There was no way that was gonna stick.
Speaker 3: So uh yeah, but he's still had in a great
Speaker 3: year regardless. Yeah.
Speaker 2: The Giants, Bryce Eldridge was leading off, they had Susak
Speaker 2: at five, They've got a bunch of rotational stuff. They
Speaker 2: got a committee. I just think they're kind of a
Speaker 2: mess right now. There's also I like Eldridge leading off. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if he continues leading off, if that keeps, I mean,
Speaker 2: how many times has.
Speaker 3: He I think he's done it, like since the trade deadline.
Speaker 3: I think in three or four straight games, really, I believe.
Speaker 3: So let me see, Well, this tell me he only
Speaker 3: has ten at bats hitting one. So that's definitely not
Speaker 3: the case. Because he's only batting that doesn't mean he
Speaker 3: hasn't done it since every game since the trade deadline.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, trade deadline. I was thinking all start game. No,
Speaker 2: you're right about that.
Speaker 3: That could be the case. He's got ten.
Speaker 2: He is hitting three hundred, his second best batting average.
Speaker 3: No, they moved him around, he's been, but it's been three, three, one,
Speaker 3: two one, So he's hitting in the top three. He's
Speaker 3: hit the top three every single game since July seventeenth.
Speaker 3: He had one game where he pinch hit at not
Speaker 3: at the ninth hole, but he's DHD or played first
Speaker 3: and hit second, third, or first in every single game
Speaker 3: since July nineteenth. July seventeenth, excuse me, okay.
Speaker 2: And on the year, he's got that two fifty five average,
Speaker 2: eleven homers, twelve percent barrel.
Speaker 3: Rate, great hard hit rate, he's dropped his ks.
Speaker 2: Dude, we're gonna have a breakout next year because I
Speaker 2: don't think you can call any of this like this
Speaker 2: is just like cool, this is good stuff. But man,
Speaker 2: you look at this profile, dude, like high walk he's
Speaker 2: top fourteen percentile in the league in walks. His strikeouts
Speaker 2: have come down. It's above average, bad speed, his heart
Speaker 2: hit rate. I didn't realize this ninety six percent of
Speaker 2: so top four percent of the league. And hard hit
Speaker 2: rate with good barrel average ex of velocity. And he's
Speaker 2: pulling the ball. But I mean the guy just in
Speaker 2: the way he can hit. He can just hit the
Speaker 2: spray the ball around the field. I think Gallagridge might
Speaker 2: be in line. It might be like a really good
Speaker 2: value next.
Speaker 3: Year, if if, if, if could he get him position?
Speaker 2: Like how many games? What is the positional stuff here?
Speaker 3: Where is that at? Right now? They see that only
Speaker 3: first base in DH? But does he have enough to call? Okay,
Speaker 3: no he does, never mind, Okay, I'll shut up.
Speaker 2: I was taking yeah, yeah, yeah, No, I'm wrong because
Speaker 2: Savant had the hole just DH only thing he's played
Speaker 2: eighteen at first But he needs two more for full
Speaker 2: qualification on everywhere next.
Speaker 3: Year seven more? Is it twenty five? No? Twenty, it's
Speaker 3: just twenty Okay.
Speaker 2: Okay, my god, the psychopath. I still stand pretty firm.
Speaker 2: I think ten is fine.
Speaker 3: But how about if you need like works Yahoo ready
Speaker 3: for his Yahoo job. Well, no, that's five, that's five
Speaker 3: for Yahoo. Five is Yahoo.
Speaker 2: I think ten should be good, but then maybe get
Speaker 2: down to fifteen. I just don't see the twenty thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know why somebody made a standard of twenty.
Speaker 3: What about when the Anthony Rizzo would move to second?
Speaker 2: Now, I don't think that's your count though that I
Speaker 2: don't think your count.
Speaker 3: That's why give me twenty seven outs.
Speaker 2: Then give me ten arts at a position, not moveovers.
Speaker 2: That would be my qualification for a guy. They can't
Speaker 2: move over to the position in the fifth inning or
Speaker 2: the fourth inning or anything.
Speaker 3: It is ten games started at a position, no shifts.
Speaker 2: That's my no, No, well that's gone, But that's what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna run on. Saint Louis, Nathan Church been batting
Speaker 2: five one hundred. Dobbins also was put in the rotation.
Speaker 2: And I think the important thing too.
Speaker 3: Is not it's just new Bar and Dustin May replacements. So,
Speaker 3: but where the f is Joshua Bias.
Speaker 2: Brian Torres has been hitting seven, and I think that's
Speaker 2: where Joshua bia is whenever they're ready. I do kind
Speaker 2: of believe this has to be manipulation game stuff. Is he?
Speaker 3: Is he the same deal as who we're talking about before?
Speaker 3: Who are Kate Anderson? Yeah? Kate Anderson?
Speaker 1: Ye?
Speaker 3: Any prospect is any prospect?
Speaker 2: This is like you if you do the sixteenth or
Speaker 2: seventeenth or something, you're just like assuredly not gonna blow
Speaker 2: through the qualify because they can manipulate the at bats
Speaker 2: or the innings pitch by not letting them go to
Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty at bats or fifty innings pitch.
Speaker 2: But the game, the service time thing. You know, if
Speaker 2: I'm wrong about the September thing, then just you bring
Speaker 2: them up on like the sixteenth or seventeenth, and then
Speaker 2: they shouldn't push that qualification and then you have them
Speaker 2: as a rookie next year. He's got to be a
Speaker 2: week or so away. I don't know why they would
Speaker 2: keep I mean maybe, I mean they already have what one, two, three,
Speaker 2: four or five? They got five lefties in the lineup, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't think that's something that's holding them back. Torres
Speaker 2: is hitting two thirty two, Like, just let let the
Speaker 2: young dog eat. I think the young dog will eat soon.
Speaker 2: But maybe Nathan Church is like a tiny bit more
Speaker 2: relevant than we were giving credit for. That was actually
Speaker 2: my argument all year where we're doing the Baseball Show
Speaker 2: and it's like, why is By is not there?
Speaker 3: Whyse By is not there?
Speaker 2: And I was just like, well, they're just not going
Speaker 2: to get They don't want Church to go.
Speaker 3: Away, you know.
Speaker 2: I think they view him as like a solid defender
Speaker 2: versus what would be replaced. He is struggling, his bad
Speaker 2: average is starting to come down a little bit, but
Speaker 2: under twenty percent k percent and she's got nine homers,
Speaker 2: six dolen bases. Like he's just been fine, but you
Speaker 2: would have to explain it to me, like I'm two
Speaker 2: years old, why you don't let a young like up
Speaker 2: and coming potential star.
Speaker 3: For your team not get playing time.
Speaker 2: And then the final one was Washington has had cj
Speaker 2: Abrams in the lineup, that is without James Wood leadoff.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry he cleaned up today though, And Dylan Cruz
Speaker 3: hit lead off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And Dylan Cruz has gone back and forth about
Speaker 2: that Cruz hit third this time, but he's also done
Speaker 2: lead up the leadoff spot as well, and he's gotten
Speaker 2: some interesting playing time. And then Dylan Lyle was cleanup.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so today Lyle was on the bench, Cruise let off,
Speaker 3: and Abrams hit clean up and Brady House was at three.
Speaker 3: So a lot of weird shifting with James Wood down.
Speaker 3: This is more of a Wood being out than the
Speaker 3: trade deadline.
Speaker 2: So yeah, but you know, still like yeah, and Dylan
Speaker 2: Cruise has been getting his playing time, which I think
Speaker 2: has been something really important. And I will say I'm worried.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna let it fully get me back in.
Speaker 2: But he's doing kind of what he did the previous season,
Speaker 2: where you know, ten percent barrel, forty four percent hard
Speaker 2: hit rate, kzer down, launch angles up, he's pulling the
Speaker 2: ball a little bit more and his XBA is better
Speaker 2: than his batting average. Like hand up like this, a
Speaker 2: little hand up here. If you're gonna have one of
Speaker 2: the most powerful offenses in baseball centered around Wood and
Speaker 2: Abrams and you got Dylan Cruz that's gonna be hitting
Speaker 2: near them, like maybe a breakout is going to be
Speaker 2: on the horizon if you can just get those contact
Speaker 2: numbers up a little bit. That's really really what you
Speaker 2: want to see.
Speaker 3: Hasn't hit better than two thirty four in a month yet.
Speaker 2: And weirdly, dude, check this out, he's hitting one seventy
Speaker 2: nine against righty's three or four against lefties.
Speaker 3: That's what the hell is weird. Yeah, it's just like
Speaker 3: a weird split for him. So there you go.
Speaker 2: Those are some of the deadline rotational kind of breakdowns
Speaker 2: giving us an opportunity to talk about some players and
Speaker 2: breakdowns and stuff, and that is what has been post
Speaker 2: trade deadline, and there's still some more stuff on the way.
Speaker 2: All right, final up here, let's look at the two
Speaker 2: start pitchers. Things things can really start getting wonky, you
Speaker 2: just want to point out as you get into August.
Speaker 2: But looking at CBS's two starter, we'll start at the top.
Speaker 2: Guys that are no concern Dylan Cees, Paul Skeins, Trek Scougble,
Speaker 2: Sonny Gray. Those guys all got two starts next week.
Speaker 2: Logan Henderson, by the way, he's in the don't worry
Speaker 2: about camp though he does have the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: But I ain't worried about it.
Speaker 2: Brian Wu No hesitation with Sean Burke. He's actually got
Speaker 2: a phenomenal matchup next week, the Reds and the Tigers.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: Trevor Rodgers is good, Yuri Perez, Reed, Detmer, Shoto, Imanaga, Rangers, Suarez,
Speaker 2: taymor Biby, Tigers and Padres any hesitation whatsoever? Eighty four
Speaker 2: percent owned on CBS.
Speaker 3: Is that any? Does that stop gap you at all? No?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I think after all, then how about this.
Speaker 2: Noah Cameron, he's got He's technically lined up to go
Speaker 2: against the Dodgers and Trek Scouble in the first start,
Speaker 2: but then it's the Angels, but both are road games.
Speaker 3: Don't care. No Cameron was he went eight innings, he
Speaker 3: struck out nine or whatever in his last start. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm rolling Cameron.
Speaker 2: Ryan Weathers I think has been pretty good. I don't
Speaker 2: really supermind those matchups. I don't mind Bryce Elder. He's
Speaker 2: got the Mets and he's got the Diana. Divebacks are tough,
Speaker 2: but I don't think I hate those. But how about
Speaker 2: this one? Freddy Peralta No at the A's and then
Speaker 2: at home in Baltimore.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: no no. And then check this out, dude, look at this.
Speaker 3: So it goes like CBS is like.
Speaker 2: It'll it'll do the start percentage and then it'll show
Speaker 2: the roster percentage. So like Freddy Peerltz is like eighty
Speaker 2: six percent on and that's going to change forty three
Speaker 2: percent start rate. The next guy is Christian Scott, who's
Speaker 2: got the Braves in Washington. I'm gonna say no on
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I thought Christian Scott was coming around
Speaker 3: the corner here and he has not been good, so yeah,
Speaker 3: let's but.
Speaker 2: Also more those I don't want him to go against
Speaker 2: the Braves in Washington.
Speaker 3: I don't want to do that.
Speaker 2: But it just doesn't go deep enough into games to
Speaker 2: matter yet. Yeah, exactly sixty was Christian Scott. Then it
Speaker 2: jumps down into guys that are thirty percent or under.
Speaker 2: So you've got I don't know if this is gonna continue,
Speaker 2: but if this is gonna roll, but Eric Lower is
Speaker 2: scheduled for two I wonder if they could take that
Speaker 2: second away with like maybe a Snell start, but he's
Speaker 2: scheduled against Kansas City of Milwaukee.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're nae Snell's gonna come back, they said. They
Speaker 3: said Snell's next start is in the Big so he's
Speaker 3: not gonna get these two starts. So no, okay?
Speaker 2: Uh Dean Kremer has got Baltimore and the Phillies.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, I you know what, Philly's been bad recently.
Speaker 3: I'm okay with that one. I'm gonna say no. I
Speaker 3: don't like that one.
Speaker 2: I don't like Jacob Lopez. I don't particular like Andrew Painter,
Speaker 2: Rett Louder, White Sox and the Marlins.
Speaker 3: Pass.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I like any of the Okay,
Speaker 2: then here's a couple of interesting ones. Cody Brawd just
Speaker 2: coming back. I don't think he's gonna go deep enough
Speaker 2: into games. But how about Mitch Bratt, who Midge Bratt
Speaker 2: five percent on on CBS, has got Colorado, and then
Speaker 2: he does have a road game against the Braves. But
Speaker 2: how about that last outing where he looked dominant. I
Speaker 2: mean he went seven I think it was one hit.
Speaker 2: He's now sporting on the season a three nine ERA
Speaker 2: and six starts.
Speaker 3: His whip is high.
Speaker 2: His strikeouts have to kind of keep rolling, but he
Speaker 2: went seven with nine strikeouts in this start. He has
Speaker 2: gone five in his three last starts, two of them
Speaker 2: which was against the Guardians and the Padres, both really
Speaker 2: tough matchups, have both been good. He did have some
Speaker 2: rough patches before that, but the last two starts specifically,
Speaker 2: he has been pretty good. Low PERCENTA Jones, yay or nay?
Speaker 2: You start him next week one two.
Speaker 3: I'll go with Mitch. I'll go with Mitch Bratt. I
Speaker 3: mean the nine K's was very, very impressive, so yeah,
Speaker 3: I'll stick with them for the rest.
Speaker 2: I don't really like on Dobbin's Quantrill did well on
Speaker 2: some Irvan.
Speaker 3: Anybody do anything for you? Nope, no, not at all.
Speaker 2: All right, well, there you go. That's that is the
Speaker 2: episode my friends. Next week will be slightly wonky ish
Speaker 2: because I'm not around on Monday, maybe later Monday night actually,
Speaker 2: to be honest with you, but I got according it
Speaker 2: with Bogman. But Bogmin, I forgot. It's not around on Monday,
Speaker 2: So Tuesday we will see if we can. We'll have
Speaker 2: the baseball episode out, so it'll just be a day
Speaker 2: later for that bad boy. But yeah, we got the
Speaker 2: normal two episodes. I believe I Bogmin's not on leading
Speaker 2: off next week. But I am on Wednesday. Maybe you
Speaker 2: guys want to tune in. I'm not on Monday because
Speaker 2: I'm off. But yeah, we got all the normal stuff
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Speaker 2: August Marty prepping for the next Dynasty and Prospect update
Speaker 2: that's gonna be happening. The last month update was really
Speaker 2: late into August, but I don't anticipate this next one
Speaker 2: to be that late. And I'm actually when I get
Speaker 2: back on off of Monday, which I am my son's birthday,
Speaker 2: So Minie Welsh, we could wish a happy birthday to
Speaker 2: meet Welsh on Monday, and we're we're taking him to
Speaker 2: the Greatest of Wolf's, the Greatest of the logs for
Speaker 2: his birthday. So that and fun fact, this is how
Speaker 2: great my kids are. This is actually a present from
Speaker 2: my daughter to him.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, lot this.
Speaker 2: Because she got she does some work and more money
Speaker 2: than us now yeah yeah, and our acting stuff and
Speaker 2: she paid for this for herself, so she is I
Speaker 2: mean you know what I'll end up having to pay for,
Speaker 2: but it's never going to be free for me.
Speaker 3: But that is a present.
Speaker 2: So that's where I will be on Monday, uh, hanging
Speaker 2: with the kiddos and doing that. But we'll be back
Speaker 2: with it and after that I'm going to be planning
Speaker 2: the p one, a VP's Prospect ADP system, which you
Speaker 2: guys I think will be into.
Speaker 3: But that's it.
Speaker 2: False on Twitter, is at the Welsh and at Bogman's Sports.
Speaker 2: You guys have a fantastic weekend and we will talk
Speaker 2: to you next week right here and then this league.
Speaker 3: He's out