Speaker 1: Pretty society. Jason's everyone at Rich Wilson Welkin of Fantasy
Baseball Live, and today is May twenty fourth, about three
o'clock in the afternoon. As always, he heard of my
good buddy mister Tim McCleod and said, we are celebrating
the Memorial Day weekend. But unfortunately, if you're on the
eastern side of the Mississippi, it's been raining since Thursday
night and I think it's going to continue to rain
into tomorrow. Baseball games have been canceled. It's not very
pleasant weatherwise.
Speaker 2: No, we're enduring the same the same thing here. It
was cool up until yesterday. It started warming up a bit,
but it's still only mid high fifties here. The sun's
out today, but it rained all day yesterday. So if
your weather is coming from the western part of where
you're currently residing, yeah, you get some more raine to
look forward to. Rich.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were watching the Oriel game because it's usually
on if they're you know, they're playing, and you get
to see. It wasn't raining down in Baltimore, but it
was gray and overcast and kind of gross. And I
made the comments to Laurie. I said, you know, you
pay eighty bucks for this ticket, You're going to happen.
I mean you have to go. You go to a
minor league baseball game, you pay fifteen dollars for it.
If it's like this, you stay home.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a loss
one can can you know? Deal take care of fairly? Yeah,
deal with take care of fairly easily. I switched where
I am. I switched as far as live games are concerned.
I switched to Milwaukee from Many even though it is
further to Milwaukee. I know if I get tickets for
a game there, barring a huge disaster, the game's going
to be played and you go to Minnesota, Yeah you
could be you could be sitting in the rain for
two hours before they cancel a game. So yeah, if
I have a choice, I'm going to go to an
indoor stadium any day of the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, it's it's it's indoor. I get it.
I've been to the Dropic Canda, which I think it's
a bad RAPPI thic. It was a very good experience
for me. But it is weird to be inside of
a dome to watch a game. I get that, But
you're right, it's seventy two degrees.
Speaker 2: It's very nice, exactly. Yeah. You know, when you buy
your ticket, you don't have to worry about getting a
replacement for a rain delay that you can't attend, So
you know, yeah, for us US folks in the rural
part of the world, it's sort of important.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Milwaukee Brewers, they were up one and nothing,
but it looks like the Dodgers just caught up. But
Milwaukee's been strong this season, Timmy. They pretty much stret
they see the Dodgers are thirty two and twenty, but
the Brewers are in thirty and nineteenth. So they're out
there on the heels of the Dodgers for the best
record in the National League.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the Brewers are getting it done. Hey, they
do have a strong lineup, there's no doubting that. But
when you compare you know, Jake Bauers and Garrett Mitchell
and Salfrele to pick any three on the Dodgers, it
wouldn't seem like a fair play. But that's not the case.
They're playing good baseball. And today, you know, Brandon Sprout
was holding his own, but now through four innings he's
up to three hits three walks. I have a feeling
that sprout is going to be not sprouting much after
we get through the fourth inning. He's up to almost
eighty pitches now, So another inning, maybe two, and I'd
be about it.
Speaker 1: I would think, Yeah, the lineup, I get back to
that point. I mean it's a it's a great point.
But Cheerio Terrang and William Contrera's pretty dark strong to
start it off. To get down to the Dodgers, I mean, Rojas,
kim rushing, Hernandez is having an okay season, pay Us,
I mean it's it's the Dodgers are strong at the top,
but the back of the lineup is is not great.
Speaker 2: No, And if you look at say the top five, okay,
you got Otani hitting two seventy three, Bets one sixty four,
Freeman two sixty two, Kyle Tucker two fifty, and pay
Us at two eighty. Now compare that to the top
of the Brewers lineup, where you got Cheerio at two
ninety seven, Terrang at two ninety five, Contreras at three
oh three, Bowers at to eighty two, and Andrew Vaughn
at two ninety five. That number started to jump, so
to at you, doesn't it thats a huge betting average
that they're getting out of the top five in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Yeah, then you take a look. I mean the Power
Obviously Tod he's got the best power, but probably the
next best power that is William Contreras. I mean, that
guy's got massive power and Cheerio he can he can
hold his own against. You know, the Power probably has
more power now than Betts and Freeman. Probably it's not
as much as Tucker, but I mean, you know, you
go person for person and it's not as lopsided as
one might think.
Speaker 2: Exactly. Yeah, totally agree.
Speaker 1: Yep. Let's see, I was watching the Oriole game and
the Detroit Tigers can't hit a lick. But of course
they're winning three to two on the Oriols. But uh,
good news there if you're Gunner Henderson fantasy manager. He hit.
He hit a home run off for Fraan Ravalde, so
left steel lefty, which was good to see because he
has really struggled of late against left handed pitching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's just not enough offense between those two teams. No,
it's you know, Cole Keith went one for two with
an RBI today. Matt Berling is batting just over the
Mendoza line three for four. Uh. There's problems there there,
there really is, and they better turn it around fairly quickly.
As far as Baltimore is concerned. Holiday hit a home run,
which was nice to see yesterday.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, he did hit one the day because it
didn't start.
Speaker 2: So yeah, they started working him back in there slowly.
But if Jackson Holiday can start resembling a little bit
more of what we saw the last year, that's going
to help Baltimore considerably, I would think.
Speaker 1: I think the lineup is okay. I mean, Taylor Word's
a good player. Henderson's a great player, if you know,
again left lefty props. He's starting to come back. He's
hitting two thirty think he does twelve of them run
to day. Retchman's fine. Alonzo's you know, going to hit
a lot of home runs.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: The matter average is not what it used to be.
Bessiah is going to be a mash. I mean it's
a good lineup. It's the pitching that's just awful. This
but awful tim.
Speaker 2: Yeah it Uh, you know Brandon Young pitch well today,
but he has been. It's Brandon Young and yeah, it
considers he's in number four or five. But you know,
when you start looking at that lineup, the rotation in Baltimore,
Trevor Rodgers is terrible. Yeah, he's regressed to the point
of being the Trevor Rogers we saw at the got
the long time of the trade.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, got the motive. Yeah, he doesn't look
like he pitches the night because it's a it's a
evening double hitter. And let's see if he gets one
of Shane Boz has just been okay. You know, I
was hoping he would take a step up like we've
seen with Taj Bradley, and it just hasn't happened. You
just know, and you look put it together and.
Speaker 2: You look at Chris Bassett, who came over from the Jays,
had a great year last year, but it was used
more as a swingman, long guy, and I think being
a part of the rotation at thirty seven, I think
the Orioles were asking for a bit more than maybe
Chris Bassett can deliver. At this stage of his career.
I think he was much better working, you know, four
and five inning stints following an opener or coming in
when somebody was either heard or struggled early in a game.
Seemed to work out very well for him last year,
but as a starter full time, I don't know rich well.
Speaker 1: So you've got Trevor Rogers, who it doesn't look like
a major league pitcher to me. I mean, he's he's
got he's got decent stuff. He doesn't throw hard enough.
It's all about location. His location is not there. He
gets hit hard. That's what's happening. Kyle Bradish is a
good picture. Ooz should be better. But I mean that's
two decent guys in Boz and Bradish, and after that
it's Bassett Young and Trevor Rodgers, and that's just not
good enough. And they're back to the same problem they've
been in for the last three years. Not enough pitching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two out of five is forty. Yeah, that's just
about with the one lost record will end up Yeah,
maybe a little higher, but not much.
Speaker 1: Yep. And Boz is underperforming. So Bradish is a better pitcher.
He hasn't pitched us. He had a really good out
in his last one, but he's not been very good
to date. But I mean, I think once he knocks
off the rust off of Tommy John, I think he's
going to be okay, it's just I mean, they just
don't have one or two guys. You compare that to
a Dodgers of rotation or Yankees rotation. I mean, it's
just awful.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, there's room for improvement. And that's one
of the reasons that I was surprised they moved Grayson Rogaz.
Speaker 3: No.
Speaker 2: No, and not that Grayson Regaz has been the end all,
the be all, but yeah, it just didn't a good arm.
Speaker 1: It doesn't have a good arm anymore. I mean, I
just don't get it. I don't know what they're doing.
I think heads are going to roll this offseason. It
has to well.
Speaker 2: At some point in time. Yeah, somebody's gonna pay the price.
That's just the way the game is.
Speaker 1: Yankees and raised Timmy playing to is zero zero after seven.
I looked at this game a little while ago, without looking,
what is Aaron Judge's batting average?
Speaker 2: Without looking, I know he's been struggling. Uh, I'm gonna
say to forty eight.
Speaker 1: It's very good. To forty six.
Speaker 2: Ooh, I got to buy me a lottery ticket today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, wow, that.
Speaker 2: Was just a pure guess.
Speaker 1: I mean the pending right there, but the contact rate
just hasn't I mean, look, it just hasn't been there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Yankees strong suit has been there. Starting
pitching unbelievable. Yeah, Warren has stepped it up. Who's pitching today,
whether there's always yeah, Weather's always, to me been a
good pitcher. He just couldn't stay healthy, and I think
they have to be careful with him. But hey, Garrett,
Garrett Cole had himself a pretty good debut, didn't he.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I looked at the base lossavant data and his
velocity was actually up prior to the surgery. Just a smidge,
but it was up. The secondary pitches were not as
sharp as they will be once he you know, just
knocks off the russ and throws more. But it got
through healthy. The velocity was there. I think in you know,
six weeks, he's going to be probably back to Garrett Cole.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And for those that made the investment at draft
time and stashed him away, that could be absolutely huge
in the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was one of those. I drafted him hoping
that he would come back. I was afraid of Zach Wheeler.
I should have drafted Zach Wheeler as well, because I
don't get it, Timmy. I thought TOS resolution TOS was
supposed to be a death nail, and Zach Wheeler is
just I mean, he looks better than ever.
Speaker 2: Apparently Zach Wheeler didn't read that article. Yeah, and again
it just goes to show you, Yeah, hey, if you
stayed away away from Zach Wheeler, that was probably the
right move to make. There's no doubt my mind it
was the right move to make. But sometimes the right
moves to make don't turn out to be the right moves.
And that's why we play the game right, or else
we'd all call it call of the Year a week
after we have our drafts, crown or winner and awhere
you go.
Speaker 1: So I grabbed him in our draft and hold league
that you know that we've got with the podcast or
cut through whatever you call it. Say we mock draft
that we play through, and I drafted both Wheeler and Cole,
and Wheeler lasted to like my number four five starter,
and I just thought that was I mean, I was
thinking I said this on the podcast. It's like I
get it, But I mean, he is Zach Wheeler, so yeah,
maybe he can define logic and it appears to be happening.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, you can. You can be very right
and very wrong at the same time. When it comes
to the game of baseball. That argument applies to Zach Wheeler.
Speaker 1: Cleveland Guardians are thirty one and twenty three with great pitching.
And I have to tell you a guy that I
got dead wrong was Messic. I didn't like the size,
I didn't like the athleticism. Twenty four ear Haine looks
absolutely fantastic. And I think you just have to give
grace to anybody any picture that's coming through the Cleveland
Guardians organization that they're going to be better than their
profile and their stuff and whatever metric you want to
look at the Guardians just make them better pictures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not power hitting, it's the strength of that organization,
that's for sure. And they've tailored it around their strengths,
which is the pitching, defense and putting the ball in play. Yeah,
and you know, you look at Williams Coney Messick. I
thought Tanner b Biby was going to be an age
and he's the number four right now. But Messic is
in two leagues. Is my best picture to date and
it's not even close. And I picked him up, I
believe as a number four or five something like that. Yeah,
it wasn't something I put a lot of thought in.
It was at that stage of the draft where I
secured my top of the top tier arms that I wanted,
and well, yeah, Parker Messic story, Yeah, why not, I'll
take him. And he's turned out to be one of
one of my more astute moves. I think I've got
him in two maybe three leagus.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Parker Messic is six foot tall, reportedly twenty five
pounds man at another twenty or thirty on that. It's
a big, heavy set, shortest type of picture that throws
ninety three point six and.
Speaker 2: Everything you everything you hate a starter, right, everything?
Speaker 1: I hate start every but he's got lost. He's got
a seventy great change up. It's a forty five with
rate on. It doesn't really have well he's got it,
doesn't really have a very good, uh breaking pitch at all,
but he's getting by with no one can touch that
change up. He throws it a lot, and the four
seamers just a lot better, even though it's not coming
out very hot. I don't get it, man, but that's
that is the that's the secret sauce of the Cleveland Guardians.
They take guys like this, and Shane Bieber was was
the same guy, right, He couldn't throw. He was a
better physical specimen the messic, but ninety three miles an hour,
didn't have the big fastball, And yet he want to
sign Young Award.
Speaker 4: Yeah, up, down, in out.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Don't walk people, Yeah yeah, make make the other team,
aren't it. And if you can do that consistently, like
so many can't in this game today, you're going to
have success. You know, you don't have to throw the
ball at ninety eight miles an hour to be successful,
but you have to know where it's going all the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Messick just has great command of his pitches. I mean,
that's what it's all about location with him, and I
mean he is he is, He's really good. And I
just flat out and missed. I If Parker Mestic number
two come two to do Oho comes out, I'm gonna
feel exactly the same way. Just so everybody knows. The
next guy comes up looking like Parker Messick, I'm going
to have the same philosophy because you just can't bet
on elite command from a guy and the Pixie Dust
known as the Cleveland Guardians. Maybe if he comes up
as a Guardian, I would feel differently the Parker Messic
two Dodo comes up as part of the Red Sox. No,
I'm not, I'm not. I'm gonna trash them just like Parkers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have too many shares of tug Bully
on your rosters.
Speaker 1: Dude, I don't. But now he's not with the Cleveland Guardians.
He got traded to the Giants. So now all of
a sudden, I was becoming interested if you read my
last kind of updates on on tugbo and I'm like,
maybe there's something there. And also they got traded to
the to the Giants, I'm like, oh, I just became
uninterested because if the Guardians trade you and you and
you kind of look like Parker Messic Tugboat, you know,
and they trade you, it might mean that they don't
think that they can turn into that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah he's not two point oh point and that's yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Guardians need to find some power to him.
And I'm not going to try try to tell you
how to do your job, because you do it way
better than But may I give you a name.
Speaker 2: You may give me a name, as long as it's
not Joski.
Speaker 1: Well he's out of baseball, isn't he.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But Ralphie Velasquez, Yeah, just got just got promoted
to Triple A. Wrote about him two or three times
already the season. The last time I wrote he could
get promoted directly from Double A. But maybe a couple
of couple three weeks in Triple A and you'll see him.
So it's been one week in Triple A. So he's
got big boy power.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he is on my radar and recently and he
will make it. Yeah, well exactly. You go through their
lineup and other nose Ramirez and the latter. Yeah, Menzardo
can hit the ball a long way. He doesn't enough,
you know, and then you get sheman. You know who
has really really performed well for the Guardians this year?
Uh is Angel Martinez?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, I had by the way, Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean me too. I picked him up
late to fill the middle infield slot, hoping he would
get full time at bats. And yeah, he has worked
very very well for the Guardians this year.
Speaker 1: Nine home runs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know how many stolen bases he's got,
because I imagine it's pretty close to nine as well.
Eight hmm.
Speaker 1: Do you look at the stats every day and memorize them.
I mean, this is pretty crazy. I after the batting
avert of Aaron Judge, you miss it by two hundreds
of point, you get one.
Speaker 2: I'm out of a bad day.
Speaker 1: It's impressive, man, it's impressive. Geez I.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know you were talking earlier about we were,
you know, getting a life and having a life. Yeah, okay,
you know where I sat. No explanation required.
Speaker 1: The Mets and Marlins are zero zero after six, and
I mean the Mets are just struggling. My buddy a
j Ewing with two more hits, hitting two eighty two,
another stolen base, up to three stolen bases, Christian Scott
with decent start.
Speaker 2: Glad you see that. I've got a couple of cherries
and yeah, glad to see it.
Speaker 1: But the Marlins owned the Mets. I mean they the
Marlins always beat the Mets. So that's probably gonna happen
here at the pack at the back of the last
three endings here.
Speaker 2: So yeah, Owen Casey seems to have been woken up
a little bit of the past few games. He's starting
to hit the ball a little bit. He's not in
the lineup today, but he seems to be playing a
little bit, a little bit better. But again, it's not
other than Otto Lopez, who's been All World and should
be in the All Star He's betting three thirty eight
other than Auto Lopez and Xavier Edwards, and they're not
power edders. And that lineup has been up, down and
all over the worst.
Speaker 1: So riddle me this, mister McLeod. How does Xavier Edwards
have six hume runs in six stolen bases?
Speaker 2: Ah, he has yoked six balls and they vanished to
creep over the fence if you see you look at
edward stat cast page. Okay, and it explains it all,
doesn't it. It really, it just speaks for itself. I Hey,
I like, but why is he only.
Speaker 1: Have six stolen bases? I mean he's got good speed.
Twenty seven stolen bases last season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're gonna come. I think you'll end
up with twenty twenty five stolen bases. Uh, but you're
look at that, you know, his average exit.
Speaker 1: The loss of the league seven point six right.
Speaker 2: Barrel percentage six point four hard hit. Yeah, he has
added a.
Speaker 1: Little bit of he has added a little bit of
loft to a swing. It's an out of eleven point
eight degrees, which could be the reason for you know,
slightly more home run power. Doesn't mean more power because
his bat speed ranks ninth in the ninth percentile on
the league. So he's not hitting it. Just doesn't swing
very hard, but he makes a great contact. He's fast. Yeah,
there's a lot to like with Xavier Edwards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at the squared up percentage chase percentage
with percentage K percentage, they're all ninety percent plug chases
eighty seven. But I mean, you know, the walk rate
is there for value in obp leagues. It's it explains
his numbers pretty much to a t, except the six
home runs which should probably be three, which will end
up at eight or something like that.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so he'll get twenty three stolen bases, eight
home runs and.
Speaker 2: Score a pile.
Speaker 1: Yep. The Twins are up six to four on the
Red Sox and Redsucks are just really really struggling.
Speaker 2: Yeah they are, and every time it looks like they're
gonna get ready to do something with your sheeta, Okay,
which they probably should. He hits a home run, yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, his first well, he hit his first home run. So,
I mean, every time it looks like d Ran is
starting to get going, he just oh for is it
for for a while? That guy's that's been a brutal season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. At the top of the lineup today, Duran's at
That's that's not good. Jay's fans are holding their breath
hoping for some good news because they had two.
Speaker 1: Dylan Ceas went out.
Speaker 2: And so did Gladdie.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, but apparently the X race came back
negative and Vladdie he was.
Speaker 2: Hit right yeah on the elbow.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, just a contusion and CEA's just a mild
hamstring so hopefully, hopefully not too bad. There. Can we
come back to Jared Duran? Sure, How can you, as
a Major League Baseball organization hit a guy leadoff that's
got an one base percentage of two fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Come on, you can't do that, No, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: He's all he's hitting on. I don't know how many
times it's top of the lineup, but it's been more
than once. He's been there a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, you just can't do that. That does not
that does not compute at all.
Speaker 1: They must really hate Christian Campbell.
Speaker 2: I think it's up there on the list. Yeah that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, so Guards playing in front of
them really and they don't have a chance this season.
Speaker 2: Tim.
Speaker 1: They need to bring these kids up, let them play
and figure out who's good and who's not. And if
Christian Campbell can't play, they need to just you know,
cut them and trade them or do something and say
we made a mistake there and move on. But I
don't understand what. I don't understand what's going down there.
Speaker 2: No, I it's not even organized chaos. It's just chaos. Yeah, yeah, no,
it's you know, there's there's some great young talent in
that organization. But yeah, like you said, you got Yoshida
and so Guard hitting what one, two, three, four, fifth,
and six in their lineup today? No, No, that's not
take the hit, do what you gotta do and move on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, Franklin arises two more home runs on
Friday night or Thursday nights. I mean, he's just playing
extremely well, and I don't get moving moving Mayor, Marcela Mayor.
He's hitting two seventeen. He's just he's just not an
offensive threat at all.
Speaker 2: Well, and I was just going to on top of that,
they got their best two young pictures in their rotation
every day, so they're burning up service time on those
two pictures, Connley Early and Bayton Tolett and leaving the
bats down on the farm. Hey, if you're going to
burn service time, do it for everyone, you know what
I mean, Like, hey, go all in.
Speaker 1: Not happen well. And their defense, they have promoted a
lot of guys has been promoted. Roman Anthony Hurt been promoted,
Kristin Campbell been promoted. So I mean they have brought
and Jared Duran promoted in the last couple of years Ruffao,
uh Saydan Rafael. So they have brought guys up. It's
just it hasn't come together. And a lot of their
positional players just haven't delivered. A Roman Anthony spent a
zero this season. You and I thought he'd be very good.
Now he's hurt, and you're right there. Their pitching is
looks really really strong, and they've got some other young
pitchers that are coming up, and they got to get
these bats to play. And Jared Durant to me is
the biggest mystery. I'm not sure what happened there. He
hits the ball hard, he's fast, it's just not happening
this season.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think I think something's got to change
really quickly or Craig Roselow is going to be looking
for a job.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he hasn't he hasn't been fired already.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I I was a big band of Craig Roselow
early on because he did a lot of work with
the Japanese players. He's an Australian a and he was
an advanced scout that was responsible for several several signings
end in Boston's ways. So I was a big fan.
But I'm I don't like what I'm seeing right now.
Somebody's going to pay for that.
Speaker 1: So Jared Duran ninety third percent tilent sprints pizza. You
can steal as many basis as he wants. Ex Velocity
is still solid at ninety point two, down a little
bit from last season. It's still good enough. His launch
angle's kind of increase. He's just striking out too much
and rarely walk so his hit tole is just not
where it needs to be and that's what's holding them back.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, at some point in time, if you want
to be a lead off that getting on base is
rather important, isn't it Not the twenty five home runs,
it's the three forty plus OVP that will drive your future.
Speaker 1: His his one base percentage last year was three thirty two.
The year before that was was two three forty two.
But I mean, if you look at it, his expected
batting average was two forty two sixty. That's where it's
been about. And then all of a sudden you add
the lack of walks and that one base percentage is
expected one base percentage is more like three ten. So
he should never be hitting at the top of the lineup.
Speaker 2: No, totally agreed, yeah.
Speaker 1: To me to take a break, come back, and I've
got specific questions for you. So I'm gonna apologize ahead
of time to all of our non Patreon members. There's
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Speaker 2: So Jimmy gets a raise.
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apologize ahead of time on that. We will go a
little bit long today, Timmy, because we were not able
to do it a podcast on Friday. I thought I
had grandparent duty turned out early on Friday morning, got
a call from the kids and one of the grandkids
was not feeling well, so we canceled the playdates. So
but it was too late to throw notes together, so
I just let it go.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know what it was. It was good
that you did that because I was planning a quiet
day on Friday and I ended up driving six hundred
and fifty miles.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, you told me that.
Speaker 2: Where did you go again, Terrace Day, Ontario. It's about
three hours three hours east of thunder Bay, which is
four hours from here in the first place, about twelve
thirteen closer thirteen hour day.
Speaker 1: Anyways, Yeah, I'm all moved in at our new place,
which is nice, and starting life, starting to get back
somewhat to normal, which is which is good. So actually,
yesterday we didn't have a whole lot to do, which
was a nice failing like, wow, JESU is great.
Speaker 2: Put your feet up and relax because you've earned You've
earned that right with the hectic lifestyle you've led over
the past couple.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to put his feet up on. Tim None
of the furniture has arrived yet, so.
Speaker 2: Not even in an old popcase that you used to
put your records in.
Speaker 1: Nothing, so we've got I used to take it. So
we got two chairs, you know, like you know, side chairs,
I guess you would call it, which we sit in
in the living room, and then we have two dining
room chairs that are being used as footstools. But the
dining room chairs are a little higher than the chairs,
so you're feet are elevated a little bit, and it's
it's uncomfortable. Yes, it's not good.
Speaker 2: You want to talk about uncomfortable. When I was young
and stupid and partying, I used to sleep on three
dining room chairs when I couldn't find a crash at well. Yeah,
you just set them up all together with a little
space and hey beats the floor.
Speaker 1: So one of the one of the things. So one
of the reasons we live in a high Rise. It's
the eight stories. We live on the fourth seventh stories.
We live on the fifth floor. But we're now facing
the green, which is where all the action goes on
in our town.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: We used to face the back, which is quiet. There's
no views, so to speak, you look at another building.
But now we have these gorgeous views. It's it's absolutely stunning.
The downside, Tim, is you face South Street, which is
where all the bars are, and there are people coming
out of the bars at two thirty in the morning.
It's not a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: So no, I was good, but you got free entertainment,
right man, it's like.
Speaker 1: At night?
Speaker 2: Man, is this guy? Guy? Is this guy gonna fall
on his face before he takes fifteen steps? I'll take
the over, Laurie can take the under. You know what
I mean? Here, you get it.
Speaker 1: So the music, I think there's a music ordinance, so
they have to turn the music or close the windows
or something by eleven or twelve. So that's not so bad.
But it's the guys, and it's always the guys stumbling
out of the book. The bars free last. So we're
gonna get We're gonna get some soundproofing windows in our bedroom.
So so we're gonna be looking into that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, you have a balcony you can sit over
n or anything like that.
Speaker 1: No, we don't. We have Juliette doors, so you kind
of okay. They they are all these doors that you open,
but there's there's no balcony, but you can open them
and it's beautiful. It's it's beautiful. I now we have
to deal with is all the drunks at two thirty
at nine? So that's it's always something.
Speaker 2: Tough, it's always something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, speaking of it's always something. Now, Stephen Kwan is
three for three today, but it's been absolutely brutal form.
Travis Passana has now moved to the leadoff spot. So
first of all, does Pasana get maybe an uptick in
value now that he's moved to, you know, the top
of the lineup, and will he be able to stay there?
Speaker 2: Well, I think Stephen Kwan will dictate a lot of that,
and if Kuan picks up his game, Bazanna might end
up in the two spot. But is there a much
that much difference being the leadoff spot in the two
spot in the Cleveland lineup? They're both going to get
the extra bats they're both going to get.
Speaker 1: Is not batting second, is he?
Speaker 2: No? No, he's way down in the lineup. But if
Kwan returns to the top of the lineup and Bazanna
gets moved into the two spot, that's what I was
sort of referring to. I don't think lead off or
number two for Bazanna. I don't think it changes the
game or the end result. He's going to get the
same number of it bats. He's going to score runs.
So wherever Bazana is one or two, I don't think
it makes that much of a difference status wise. But
I don't think he's ever.
Speaker 1: Going to hit two because that's Jose Ramirez number two
in that lineup for last five years and at the
water hitting third, and they're looking for somebody that can
hit home runs fourth, and then Quant's all the way
down in seventh today.
Speaker 2: Well, based on his batting average, now granted there's there's
a pretty ugly babout involved, Yeah, that's where Kwan should be.
Should be down seven eight, nine.
Speaker 1: Run two stolen basis. Yeah, from a fantasy standpoint, again,
three hits to day, there's absolutely no reason to own
Stephen Kuant because I mean, he's all about bat It's
it's Lewis a rice. If he's not going to give
you batting average, what's the point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, A lot of his value is tied into the
leadoff spot run score in batting average. If he doesn't
have it, you shouldn't have him active. Now again, we've
seen a pretty lengthy resume from Stephen Kwan, so I
don't know if I would cut him loose quite yet,
but I sure wouldn't. I sure wouldn't strive to have
him active.
Speaker 1: I've got him sitting on my bench by the way
Pazzana and just hit a home run.
Speaker 2: Okay, third season, Yeah, Stephen Kwan might want to buy
shares in the seventh eighth spot moving forward, because then
is a good We're going to be a good player.
He's not.
Speaker 1: He's not going to be a great player, though he
can really hit. But from a fantasy standpoint, I don't
think the power and the speed that he sole on
a lot more bases than I thought he was going to.
I think he's more of a fifteen fifteen kind of guy,
twelve to fifteen kind of guy. But he should hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Louis Arise with a little bit of power and
a little bit more speed.
Speaker 1: Than Kwan or a better version of step Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, or what Stephen Kwan once was. Yeah he
isn't right now, Yeah, that's yeah. But I agree with you.
I don't think you know, we're never going to rave
about Travis Bizana as a round three pick, round two pick. No,
there won't be enough power speed to generate a lofty
position in draft drankings. So I could be a good player.
But I'm pretty.
Speaker 1: Close with the Cleveland Guardian system, so I I know
a bunch of guys there. Their philosophy is they want
Travis Measana one through nine. That's that's how they want
to build their team. They want really good baseball players
with great instincts, who make great contact, get on base
with speed and power. And that's they told me, point blank,
if we could have a guy like that one through nine,
we'd be very very happy. With the pitching they have.
They think it compete every year well.
Speaker 2: And the thing is they don't have to pay those players,
not compared to not compared to uh Pete Lonzover. You
know what I mean, A big home run bat, you
pay a big strole and base bat with some part
where you're going to pay those guys. That group that
they're funneling and looking at are never going to be
the eight year, three hundred million type player.
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, so it makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: It's just yeah, sure it does.
Speaker 1: But they're winning. I mean, they want a lot. Over
the last few years, it's all been about pitching. If
they could just get some cheap power, and I love
what they did with ree Hoskins. It's just not working.
Speaker 2: But that's if you're what you gotta do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you're a cheap ball team, that's what you
gotta do. And maybe Nathaniel low would have been a
better pick. They were probably both the same amount of money.
And yeah, it looks like Nathaniel Lowe's up to seven
home runs hitting a little bit more. Reee Hoskins just
doesn't look like he's got a thing left.
Speaker 2: Well. The batting average is bad from Hoskins, which is
at least something. Hoskins could go on and tear at
any point in time and hit three four home runs
in a week. He's got that and I believe that potential.
He just hasn't done yet. So I'm not I'm not
throwing Hoskins for the wolves quite yet. Give me another
two three weeks and if we haven't seen enough tick
in the power. Yeah, but I'm trying to exercise some
patients because I think Cleveland's trying to exercise patients, so
I'm going to follow their lead. For now, we'll.
Speaker 1: Talk about Kevin Alcantara and Pedro Ramirez. I think you've
talked about Ramirez in your YAI yep, So we'll talk
about both of those. But one thing that was interesting
Friday night, very quietly. It's funny how all the fanfare
when the guy gets promoted. Oscar Jones got demoted back
to Triple A after he hit a home run I think,
and yeah, show showed a little bit for a couple
of games, but in the end he just didn't hit enough.
And it's what I worry about with Spencer Jones long term.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I I picked up the news on
page sixty three at the Times. Yeah, you're right, exactly. Yeah,
well yeah, when you get called up, Okay, you got
the byline right across page one, when you're demoted, Yeah,
it's break before the obituaries wherever they.
Speaker 1: It's just not there. But see he had twenty seven
plate appearances. No, he didn't hit a home run. My
bat struck out forty four percent of the time. So
what is that twelve strikeouts and twenty seven apparents or
something like that.
Speaker 2: So he was as advertised, wasn't he.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, we didn't hit a home run.
But I'm sure I looked at his Baseball savon page
the Eggs of Alcis. I mean that he just hits
the ball hard and it swings really long. He's got speed.
I don't know. I he he flummexes me, Tommy, I
don't know. Somebody else can take over this answer Jones
babysitting and I'm done. I don't know what to do
with him anymore.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well yeah, except you don't have money any of
your teams, do you? No?
Speaker 1: And people people constantly it's like they don't listen to
the podcast, and my Dynasty leagues, I constantly get offered.
I think they're messing with me. Spencer Jones, Like, I'm
not giving somebody today, offered to trade, offered to give
me somebody for my Ranger of Suarez, Timmy, who is
the bigger Ranger Suarez fan than me. Nobody. You're not
getting my.
Speaker 2: Ragerez he is, Yeah, you pay for him, that's right near. Yeah,
I get.
Speaker 1: That nobody wants to pay for him because he's Ranger Suarez,
But in the end, he wins games, has low ear A,
strikes out a handful of guys eight per nineties. He's
a great number four guy that I'm not getting rid of,
not for some stiff Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, the offers that I'm getting steady are uh Edward Rodriguez,
Bailey over I'm getting all of the dreg pitchers that
are having great years that we know are going to correct. Okay,
well you want a premium you want a premium player
for somebody who is significantly overperforming at this point in
time in the season. I can tell you what you're
going to get back from me, not a nothing. I'm
not interested in overpaying for. Yeah, I had I had
one offer for ed Rodriguez and what did they want?
One of my closers, either Barlin or Munos whatever, because
I've got some extra closures. But what I want with
Edward Rodriguez' e RA is two something right now? Is
expected era is.
Speaker 1: Something like that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, trade me. The statue have already
accumulated okay, and I might be interested, but no I'm not.
I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1: If you could trade the stafts that have already been accumulated,
that would be awesome.
Speaker 2: Well, it would change the whole trade dynamic thing rather significantly,
wouldn't it. Yeah, you'd be willing to take a chance
on somebody who's off to a hot start, knowing that
you got those in the bank, and also knowing that
there are certain limitations as far as the future is concerned. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Also people would be looking to it, couldn't. I mean,
all of a sudden, Edward Rodriguez has a lot more
value than he does now, then he might train him
for Louis Viarland. But you're Louis Varland's like my Ranger Suarez.
You're not getting Louis Varrett. Tim's got Louis. That's this guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. You want it, you pay for it. I'm
sitting in a league right now where there I'm down
near the bottom. My team basically sucks injury after injury,
but I own the save category. And there's five teams
within five points of each other, and they all need saves,
and they're all trying to lowball me on them. I'm sorry,
I will cut them loose to watch you spend your
fab before I'll trade for garbage.
Speaker 1: Is Joe what was the name, Joel Knell? Is he
one of your guys on that No, No, you sucker
me into getting spending a lot of fat on him anyway,
nexcept frank letta rise still still you know, they just
don't want them up for some reason. And now they're
going with Marcella Mayor. Let's talk about Marcella Mayor two
sixteen batting average two eighty six, one base percentage. I
was really wrong in him. I thought he was going
to hit, thought to be a little bit of power,
a little bit of speed, and he just can't hit.
Speaker 2: No, I am. I'm looking at the statcast page right now.
Speaker 1: Ex velocity nine percent loft. He's a double cider at best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking at the percentiles on u x Oba
fifth percentile X batting average seventh percent, dile x slug
seven percent, dile average X of velosity fourteenth percentle Other
than bat speed, he swings, he swings swings hard, but
other than that, he's not over fifty percent. I don't
think in any category if you have k percent sixty
five nineteen point one. He's not striking oda luck, but
other than that, it's solidly blue.
Speaker 1: So if we look at the bat speed, and the
bat speed's as good as it usually, the bat speed
is what you glob one to and say, if a
guy's going to swing hard, eventually he should be able
to have higher x velocity and hit for power. And
that's the theory. And he's not been able to translate
that really get bat speed into exit velocity, which might
mean he's just not strong enough yet, right, So I
don't know if they get him through a weight program
to get him a little bit stronger, and he's got
to start elevating the pitches otherwise it's just going to
be doubles. And he makes good he makes very good contact.
But what we've learned, if you don't hit the ball hard,
you're gonna have a low batting average. And that's what's
killing Bricela Mayor. I'm still not willing to give up
one up tell me, but it's been brutal and I
don't see anything changing the season. He's gonna have to
have an off season where he comes on looking bigger
and stronger before all so we go, oh, maybe we've
got something now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with that expected batting average or two oh one.
That's not reason for optimism, is it.
Speaker 1: No? No, no, it's not good. And Franklin rise. I
guess you just don't think he's ready, or maybe they're
just trying to Maybe it's fair to give Marcela Mayor
a shot to see if he's got value. Maybe that's
the right thing to do.
Speaker 2: We are going to see her rise up before the
end of the year, though, I'm convinced of that.
Speaker 1: Garrett Cole, look great, Any concerns must start. You're not
weren't looking at matchouts, you just start. He's Garrett Cole.
Speaker 2: Wheel them out there. Yep. Yeah. You've only got so
many starts between now and the end of the year.
Take advantage of every single one of them.
Speaker 1: Tim and I did. I think it was a couple
of weeks ago. Tim, we went through the top forty
starters starters, so and I said, Christoph Sanchez is having
a tough season, and I was dead wrong. I mean,
the first like three weeks weren't very good. But there
was a report out and I couldn't believe it. I'd
actually go back and check and two thirds scoreless innings.
I mean, I haven't heard it's a record, but oh
my gosh, that's unbelievable in the modern game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The I was listening to that game on the radio,
the last game he pitched, and he was just dominating
flat oh, dominating. His next start, he's got an opportunity
to set the all time Phillies record, which is held
by somebody who was a Grover.
Speaker 1: Cleveland. Yeah, he was a president I think New Jersey.
Speaker 2: It was back in twenty eleven. Yeah, so he's already
got the modern record. Now he's looking at the old time.
And I wouldn't bet against him with the way he's
pitching right now. He allowed six earned runs going back
into mid April or whatever. Then he allowed to earned
runs in his next start, and since then he has
allowed nothing but Zero's very, very impressive.
Speaker 1: Very it's yeah, I don't know, you can't. I mean,
it's just dumbfounding what he's doing. And and it's it's
not like he's pitching six innings then this is all
he looked at a couple nine, you know, complete games,
a seven.
Speaker 2: It's just crazy quality start leagues. Yeah, he's got to
be up here at the top of the list right
about now in all in any format, he's up at
the top of the list. But yeah, he's going deep
into games. He's pitching very effectively. Yeah, it's it's impressive.
Speaker 1: I used to work quietly here. Jonatoan quietly got the call.
But it looks like he's going to pitch out of
the bullpen. Is there any interest?
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I think he's going to They're going to
increase the workload. I think he's going to pitch behind
an opener, which automatically, if he can go three innings,
you know, automatically generates interest. So yeah, I would have
to say, yeah, I was sort of split between him
and the other kids who was going to get the call.
And I'm interested, but I'm not going to pay anything
for the privilege because we've seen some wild numbers coming
out of Triple A and Jonah Thong, So I'm not
walked everybody. Yeah, the walks have been off the charts,
and I'm interested, but if I can, if I got room,
and I probably don't, mostly cistachium my will, but again,
those walks concerned, they really do.
Speaker 1: Tosh Bradley was back touchout. It was ninety nine point
eight where I saw his upper woman, so it's called
triple digits. I didn't think he was ever going to
throw that hard. He's been if you could say, healthy, tended.
This is one of the real breakout pictures this season.
Speaker 2: Totally agree, and nice to see him back in the game.
I know it's fantasy folk. That was, you know, on
top of all the injuries, that one sort of came
out of nowhere, okay, and it was at the at
a point in time when I think a lot of
us had just lost aces and arms were falling off.
It's nice to see him back. He'll be a difference
maker this year for a lot of fens was I think.
Speaker 1: This season, and maybe it's just recency bias on my standpoint,
but the number of young pitchers that have just taken
the next step forward. I mean Taj Bradley, Cam Schlittler,
we talked about, Parker Messick Weathers has looked really good.
So I mean, you take a look at these kids
that have always had really good stuff. Maybe they couldn't
stay healthy, maybe they walked too many, and all of
a sudden you're looking down and you're seeing low three era,
mid two Eras and some of these guys with a
ton of wins. It's this has been a really interesting
season that we talked last last week or week before last,
that upper forties has been tough, but you get into
when you were drafted, you get into the forty through
ninety level pitching, that's where that's where those guys have
really made hay this season.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and you didn't even mention like Miserrowsky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all those guys, they're all that same, They were
all that same kind of the before starter and they've
all so many of them have hit.
Speaker 2: It's going to make it very interesting drafting next year.
And it's something I'm going to have to put a
lot of thought into. How do you want to attack
pitching next year? Seeing what we've seen this year with
you know, the injuries out of the top twenty five
starters heading into the season, and now are these guys
are going to all be top twenty five starters next year?
Were the same thing where does a where does a
bargain begin? And an overpayd start sort of thing, it
would be fascinating to go through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really good point because you take these
top ten guys all these young twenty six year olds
that are having I mean, how many are going to
be able to duplicate what they did this year next year?
And then all of a sudden you get Hunter Brown
a bit of a doing the cheat because he didn't
accumulate the innings and or maybe he struggles when he
comes back. But now he comes back next season, he's healthy,
and as it turns back in the Hunter Brown, it's
the same thing that you did on Zach Wheeler this season.
You know, you've got to be able to play both
of those sides of the coin.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not an easy going to balance. It
really isn't.
Speaker 1: I'm not by the way, if Uri Perez is a
bargain next season, I'm playing it.
Speaker 2: I'll have a hard time not doing the same thing.
Speaker 1: Rich stuff is outrageous.
Speaker 2: It is, it really is. I don't know what's going
on there, but I'm expecting at some point in time
this season and into the future, Eurie Perez I think
has the potential to be a top ten starter in
the game. We haven't seen it yet, but I'm not
willing to rule that out as an option moving forward.
Speaker 1: Totally agree with you, So I actually trade it for
him in a dynasty league. I think I got value.
I'm sure I got ripped off. I thought I got value.
So I'm pretty excited to have him, I think now
in three leagues. So I'm trying to quietly accumulate Uri
Perez when he has allows the outing going, hey, I'll
take him off your hand.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all of you. I'm that type of guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah. To me, it's they can break, come back and
do your waiver report. I think it's a good waiver report,
so I'm excited to go through it. I'd say a
names got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven,
twelve thirteen, about fifteen, eighteen eighteen names uh, and we'll
take time out. There was a knock knock battle going on.
Tim did a knock knock joke on Steven Mattz and
he told me to make sure that the AI assistant
didn't change it. So I told my AI assistant, don't
change the knock knock joke for Tim. He's very proud
of it. And then I said, why don't you give
me some alternatives and we'll see which one is better.
So people as we speak are voting now on Tim's
knock knock joke versus the AI assistant lock knock joke,
which I think I thought they were all bad, but
I'm going to put Tams as the least offensive of
the knock dock joke, So I would put you in
the lead on those.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was sitting back, obviously with too
much time on my hands, trying to be creative. Then, uh,
after you decided you I'm want to turn your options
to your assistant. Yeah. I just want to kick the
cass and take no prisoners. Okay, I'm going to put
you in your place this week, AI assistant.
Speaker 1: I think it's funny. I mean Tim, Tim not only
writes the not only writes the dock doc joke, but
he gives direction and he says rich with a long pall.
So it's the times plant director at the same time
telling the character me, what the I've known you, I've
known you for twenty years.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah I could. I can pick your pocket with
the best of the I It's like, okay.
Speaker 1: Are we are we supposed to? Are you gonna plague
you and I'm gonna play me? Is that how you
want to do the knock knock joke?
Speaker 2: Sure?
Speaker 3: Okay, go ahead, Tim, Okay, let's try this with precise
rich knock dock.
Speaker 1: Rich very reluctantly, who's there?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Door? Okay, I'll play along.
Speaker 2: Door.
Speaker 1: Who doormat?
Speaker 2: Something that Steven hasn't been over his past three appearances.
Speaker 1: And this is my direction, my direction last scene shaking
his head impounding the zero point zero button, So let
me do the zero get that I laughed harder at.
But how I'm supposed to react?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I I saw more size okay,
and baby.
Speaker 1: One of But what was funny? It wasn't just the joke.
It was directions to me, like how I should react.
Speaker 2: That wasn't the dead was I figured out how you would.
Speaker 1: It's very funny. So let's let's do the A. I'm
gonna just go a couple of them. He gave us
five because he's a show off and has infinite amount
of knock knock jokes. I didn't like the first one
that he actually gives us a title. Option two is
the Matts problem. Tim says, knock knock, I say, who's there?
Tim says algebra? I say algebra? Who algebra? Algebra? You
a hint, Steven Matts is solving his problems. Think that's funny, right, Uh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, algebra, I would say, but you got algae on
your bra wash it?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: Who's their ground ground? Who ground mats? Which is what
hitters should be doing more often. That was a pretty
good one. I'll give them on one. On that last
last one we'll do. This is actually pretty good one too.
Knock knock? Who's there?
Speaker 3: Ray?
Speaker 2: Ray?
Speaker 1: Who? Remember when Steven Matts was struggling not lately?
Speaker 2: Pretty good? That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: So, uh, I think it's actually kind of crazy that
we live in a technology world that you can actually
give an entity, not a subject, and create a knock
knock joke. Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm just glad I didn't lose.
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't think you're gonna lose. So some of
them are pretty good, But I don't think you're gonna people.
People love you, by the way, so you'll win just
because of that. Anyway. Let's got your Timmy Kevin Alcantara.
Speaker 2: Or yeah, yeah, yeah, you got him? Good news, Yeah,
fifteen homers in his first one hundred and fifty triple
a bats. Bad news. He struck out sixty times in
those same one hundred and fifty seven at bats. Power
is enticing, but I'm not going to spend on that
power when I know he's striking out what forty odd
percent of the time, not.
Speaker 1: Quite forty, but it's yeah, it's a lot. I'm gonna
give you. I'm going to give you a comp m
Joe Adell. I think if Kevin al Contra can become
Joe Adell, I think, but Joe Adell came up, speed
and power. We thought he was going to hit, couldn't
do it. Kevin al Contra speed and power, but I
thought he was going to hit, can't hit. I think
if Kevin al Contra can carve out a Joe Adell
type of career, I think that would be a great
thing for him. Whether he does or not, I don't know.
But he's got big boy power.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no doubting the power none whatsoever. It's just
whether or not he's goetting back two hundred.
Speaker 1: It's six foot six, he's a really tall and skinny.
It's it's gonna be a lot of swing and miss.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just hey, just know what you're getting into
and make the decision based on the eyes wide open,
not dreaming. That he's gonna add two seventy.
Speaker 1: I know Matt Shaw got got injured and he put
him to the Endine is that why Kevin al Contract
got the call?
Speaker 2: Uh? I would have to chase, chase the timeline on
that one. UH wonders for Shaw and the other cub
call up. I think I think I think he was Shaw.
I think Alcar was just a Contract, was just a
call up. I don't think it was who's replacing David Frye.
Maybe Reese Hoskins. I yeah, No, I don't think. I
think the first Ramirez was because of the Shaw injury.
I believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to Paedro Ramirez and just do the
cups here. Peter Ramirez has been one of the best
performers in Triple A this season our Patreon members now,
I've written about him a ton. He's made a couple
of hot Prospects of the week, so it was really
good to see him get the call. Timmy, what what
what are your what's your what's your thinking here?
Speaker 2: Well? My thinking is that if I'm not mistaken, I'll
just confirm that he's replacing a player that could be
out for a while. I think it's a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: With Shaw.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, let me just confirm that. I'm pretty sure
it's a shoulder. No, it's a back injury.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lower back yet.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so he could be up for a while,
and I think he can play pretty much all over
the place. Candy Ramirez, Uh, let me let me tell
you real quick.
Speaker 1: He's with the Cubs, right, let me go to the
Cubs and the Cubs everybody. I use something called m
I LB Tracker. I think it's an I think it's
an MLB product now. But they've added some wonderful new
capabilities this season. And yeah, now tell us every every
position that the player is playing, and I can tell
you that. So that's the last. So to twenty twenty six,
let's see Kevin Ocntras Pedro Ramirez. Pedro Ramirez has played
fifteen times at second base, twenty five times at third base,
one time, one time in left field.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, he can he can play where he needed,
So I think there's gonna be enough at bats there.
That was that was my concern. I sure could be
out for a while while I included your narrative and
your description of his of his skills heading into the season,
and I like the line, especially if he learns to
lift the ball. Okay, well, he's up to nine home
runs now, so I think I think he read this
capsule and said I kind of added some lock to
my ball because Rich Wilson says I'm gonna be a
better and he's at nine homers until in nineteen bases
posted three twelve average. If I have a choice between
the two, Ramirez and le Contra, I'm going with Ramirez.
I like the overall skill set better.
Speaker 1: I actually agree. This is what So I've written one
hundred and sixty or so Catholic one hundred and fifty
eight capsules already. Paedroramiers is one of those that I've
updated for the season. Most of the time, Timmy, I
do not look at what I wrote before. So this
is what I wrote about patro Emirs tull summary, proof,
loft and modest power boost elevated Ramirez fantasy relevance. There
you go. I think said, here's our fantasy manager should
approach Ramirez with some spec skepticism, but given his proximity
to the majors in the early power uptick, he's a
reasonable ad. In deeper formats. The ceiling isn't that of
an impact player yet a middle infield option and deeper leagues.
He can absolutely fit that. So I told people to
go out and grab them and hopefully they did and
now they're going to be able to benefit from that. Yeah,
so that has worked worked out well. So let's go
back to number two, which is Shane Bieber. Forgot about
Shane Bieber.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been such a long time between pitches. I
can see where that's usually possible, but apparently he's starting
his rehab his timent. Next week is the time frame
if he's healthy and the skills are such that, yeah,
it's worth sitting on him for three weeks. Let's hope
he stays healthy and he slots into the Jay's rotation.
Sometime towards the middle of June.
Speaker 1: I was pretty sure Alex Bohm was going to be
on this list because it seems like you said home
run every day this week. So he has been very hot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's Alex is hitting bombs and you know it's
funny he's making a sous ayra to Don Mattingly because
Don maddingly had nothing but good things and praise to
say when he took over when he took over the team,
and yeah, yeah, yeay, kudos to Don Maddingly, he called
that when he's gone seven or twenty two homes over
the past week, take advantage of the hot streak, find
a whole for him in your corner. Excuse me, or
d H slot.
Speaker 1: I have some things to say about Dylan Cruz. May I, yeah,
you may so. Dylan Cruz started the season in the
minor leagues, did not play well, and one of the
things that the Washington Nationals told him to do was
to elevate. Start elevating to basically get the ball off
the ground, and they would not. They told him they
weren't going to promote him until he stopped hitting more
balls on the ground. Apparently that happened, so he started
to elevate more. He start. They said they didn't care
if every ball was caught in the outfield. They wanted
him to get the ball in the air. He started
getting the ball in the air. Good things started to happen.
He finally gets to promotion, but guess when he got
the promotion to him. He got the promotion two days
after he could secure another year of team control for
the Washington Nationals.
Speaker 2: So it just.
Speaker 1: Their edict to him corresponded to the time that he
would be called back up. There was a big story
about I think it was on the Athletic which I
thought I laughed out loud. I'm like, yeah, that figures.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Dylan Cruz is not signing a long term deal
with the Washington Nationals or to the other part of
the story, right.
Speaker 1: Well, not if you're not play better. He's he's not
gonna have there.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: His clients, so that's why they want the extra So
they still believe in him. I think all this says
they still believe in him. Do you believe in him? Tim?
Speaker 2: I picked him up as a reserve pick, basically a
ladder round pick. Yeah, I just kept him on my reserve.
So I've still got him in two leagues. So yes,
I still believe.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm not sure. I mean, he's got to hit
the ball harder, because when I did the analysis over
the over the winter, I'm saying, I said to our
Patreon and this is not a major league guy. I
don't I was really high on him coming through the miners,
really high on when the Nationals drafted him, but it
was pretty ugly guys get better, but he's got to
get better.
Speaker 2: Tim, Yeah, he does what we're looking at right now.
Can't be that finished product, or he doesn't have to
worry about Scott Borrows negotiating any sort of long term deal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for sure, Jutinski. Garcia, the password saw him.
I saw the game yesterday. Didn't look great, But what
about the password, Tim.
Speaker 2: Well, you can be rest assured. There are two players
that I will not mention again on the waiver wire
this year. One is Garcia and the other is mike
Y Stremski. Okay, my spell check limits have been exceeded
by having them both in one article. Totally Rich Garcia,
he's hitting right now. He's gone five or sixteen with
an RBI. We know the powers there and I think
it's going to eventually surface speed too. Yeah. I don't
think he's run as much as the potentially he could,
and we might see that now. But yeah, I think
this game though mm hmm, and a lot of consonants.
Speaker 1: You better hope that he doesn't hit him, he doesn't contribute.
Because you and I were on the air. When I
was on the clock in my NFC slow draft, I
wanted to take Joe, I wanted to take the password,
and you wanted me to get the reliever from Los Angeles,
Ben Joyce.
Speaker 2: So there's no no rejoicing. There is there.
Speaker 1: Guess who's on my team, mister didn't rejoice not he
is not. He's still I don't think he's he's is
He started a minor league rehab yet, so he can
still have value. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes two of us right now. Yeah. I
wasn't counting on him being as long as he has been.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Spencer Hurwitz.
Speaker 2: Yeah again, I'm trying to trying to look each and
every week to see who's hot and who's not. And
right now Horowitz is playing well. One homer hit, a
second one today off Dylan Ceas with a solo shot
the lead off the game. So that's two homers ten
RBIs every twenty five batting average over the past three weeks.
He's sitting on the strong side of a pull of platoon,
in the leadof spot of that. Hey, if you're looking
for a corner infield this weekend, give Horwitz a look
and take advantage of that hot streak.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's take a break, come back and let's
look at some more games and then we'll come back
and finish up your waiver A long the.
Speaker 4: List, okay, bringing them okay.
Speaker 1: Vinnie Pasmentina went one for three, raising his batting average
to two hundred.
Speaker 2: Small steps, small steps.
Speaker 1: So the Royals are up six to three over the
struggling Seattle Mariners. Timmy, they just can't hit.
Speaker 2: No. Then you know, Brian will coming off a strong start,
was rolling into the fourth inning and then allowed four
under runs in the fourth I think it was, and
he was gone at four and two thirds and up
and down season so far. Uh. The Dodgers, ooh, they
scored some runs. Let's hope that Yamamoto was in when
they scored him. I could use the w how he
was Please tell me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Six six and two thirds. He hits a walk, strikeouts.
Speaker 1: The Orioles walked it off. They ken Lee Jansen came
in for the save and blew it. Who got the
I don't know who got the Was it a home run?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Cowser cows are three run home run off? Wow, second
home run of the season.
Speaker 2: He's up to two h Dougie Cowser comes through in the.
Speaker 1: That's funny, that's good. That's good McCloud. Let's see and
so the Dodgers up five to one, as Tim was saying, uh,
twins six to four over the Red Sox. Let's see
if anybody's done anything with the Red Sox. Now, contraretus
with another home run. Let's see what else is going
on here? Still Zeros, the Mets and Mets and Marlins.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, nobody wants to win that game. The Yankees
came came back with Yes, Aaron Judge with a two
runs shot, making a winner out of Tim Hill. I
believe it is. Yeah, Okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: Tim Hill blew it on Friday night too, so good
to see him bounce back a little bit. All right, Tim,
let's get back to you, my friend. We've got uh,
let's see Smich Horwitz he did, Stephen Matt's already and
Troy Melton with the Detroit.
Speaker 2: Yeah we missed Wade Meckler.
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's know, we'll good to Tray Melton and
we'll go back and get Wade Meckler.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, Melton looks like he's just already. Apparently the
Tigers are bringing him on the road with him. His
next start is going to be with the Tigers the
rehab eleven and two thirds. He only allowed tour and runs,
struck out sixteen basketballs where it should be mid high nineties.
Next week, the Tigers have the Angels from the White
Sox on the schedule. Buy him, get him active, and
start him next.
Speaker 1: Week with met arm I like tree mounton a lot.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's a starter that I'll spend some money
on this week.
Speaker 1: Wade Meckler, outfielder with the Los Angeles Angels.
Speaker 2: Really well, Hey, he homered off of Jacob de Grom
okay in his first big league at bat. How can
you not roster a player with that potential? Hey, I
think he's going to play for a while. You're looking
for an outfielder with a little bit upside. Yeah, he's available,
Give give him a look in deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: Who was the father played baseball as well?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure on that one, Rich.
Speaker 1: Wave Metler, Troy Melton, Nick Morribido, which we talked about.
They're talked about last week anyway. So he's up kind
of a bit of a carbon copy of aj Ewing. Yep,
maybe maybe Ewing's a little bit more advanced at the moment.
Even though that Nick Morbito is older. But what are
your thoughts on Nick Morbito this this season.
Speaker 2: Well, there's no doubting the speed. Okay, he's stolen fifty
nine and forty eight bases the past few seasons. The
question is whether the hit tool is ready. So far,
he's zero for seven in his first week with the Mets.
I think in deeper league he's definitely a bye. But
we got to count on the Mets having some patients
to light him unlock at elite speed, and I personally
am not sold at this point in time. It's hard
to be. After an over for seven start. We don't
know what the Mets are gonna do. Hopefully they exercise
patients rich.
Speaker 1: I don't think they will. I don't. I didn't get
why he got called up to begin with. I mean,
I think you got to. You gotta absorb and digest
a little bit of a j ewing to see what
he can do. Not bring up a guy that's just
like him, maybe not as good, but just like him.
And Nick Morbido try to figure out what to do,
and I think there's just too many miles to feet.
I do like Morbido long term, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Eventually they move them, particularly if a j Ewing is
the guy that sticks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the guy that they're planning around for the next
three or five years. Yeah, so that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Uh see, we did Paedro Ramirez, Kiri Tang. It's great
outing theyterday. I watched that game. He was pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, he looked good and uh yeah that's
I picked him up in virtually every league I'm involved in,
and yeah, I was pretty happy with the results. I've
elevated him to a status on my teams. Now, Rich,
I think this is the I think this is the week.
If you don't get him this week, you're he won't
be available next not after that last start.
Speaker 1: Now you've elevated him to ACE just because you're all
your guys are.
Speaker 2: Hurt because pitching sucks. Yes, mine especially.
Speaker 1: Okay, it was actually you know, it's funny. I should
have written this dand it was a guy that I
wanted to tell you about as a possible pick up.
But I'll try to find that. If you talk a
while about Brian Torres, why is he on this list?
Speaker 2: I could talk about him forever, Rich, He's the guy
that we love Okay, he's a twenty eight year old
who is a key mumulated over. But they're three thousand,
one hundred and eighty two Minor League and Puerto Rican
Winter League at bats over eleven seasons. And he finally
got the call and lo and behold three for eight
in a doubleheader with a home run, two RBIs, two walks.
The kids got a little pop, a bit more speed
than the walk, and his career strikeout to walk where
he's four sixty one to forty. Over the past few years,
he's really developed his hit tool. I don't know why
he has sat in the minors for as long as
he has, but looking at what he's done over the
past two years, he's more than deserving him an opportunity,
and I'm rooting for him big time. The other thing
that's real interesting about Brian Torres, if you happen to
play in fan track leagues, he also brings along with
him catcher eligibility, and I think that's something that fantasy
managers of Drake Baldwin and Ryan Jeffers will be looking
for this weekend, so that sort of elevates him a
little bit. I paid, Yeah, Drake Baldwin is out for
a couple of weeks or so. They're expecting it to
be maybe just the minimum fifteen. Jeffers is a handmade
situation that's at Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: You're the hamdmaid You're the hamdmaids there of the bone,
bone chips. That's the sexy injuries this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you got two of your top five catchers
in Baldwin and Jeffers. They're going to need replacing this week.
So that sort of elevates Brian Torres stock in my mind.
I paid seventeen and got him last night in one
of my leaves, so I'm sort of happy about that.
Speaker 1: Tommy Troy with the Arizona time, I just kind of
liked Tommy Troy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I kind of like him too. The problem being,
Lords Guriel is dealing with a hamstring hamstring strain, and
the d Becks have turned to Tommy Troy, which is
all fair and well, but the Diamondbacks also seems fairly
confident that Gariel is going to need a minimum stint.
So yeah, it's exciting that Tommy Troy got the call,
But for how long would be my question? So I
would temper expectations based on that he's not taking Lord's
Guriel job. That's not happening. So yeah, if you're looking
for a short term replacement, a short term price.
Speaker 1: Tim spent so much time spelling out Yustremsky. He put
outfit or with a small O.
Speaker 2: I break their names down into him and Garcia. I
break the names down into four sections so I can
hopefully get it spelled right and then check twice. I
won't be mentioning either of those guys.
Speaker 1: Name is impossible. I mean, you gotta. You just got
to memorize that. You can't fanatically sound that way. You
have a shot at it. You can get close. I
don't think you can get closer to.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I put host and then I go yn
x on. That's how I spelled.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I always struggled with Ramirez until I realized it
was ram.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, we all have our ways of beating the system, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean two illiterate guys. I mean, and I
got to come up with tricks anyway. Michaeus Trimsky a
flash for the past.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, going going back to February, it was looking
like an extra bat, and he played like an extra bat. Okay,
for the part, first part of the season, but over
the past couple of weeks three homers, eight RBIs thirteen
twenty four ops. It's fine that it's time at seven
percent rostered in CBS to get him mind your roster
and take advantage another veteran player on a street, take
advantage of that streak and roll them out there.
Speaker 1: Here's my guy, Tim. Okay, you're probably gonna say no,
and I totally can, but this is an open mind.
This is one of my guys. Okay, he's now in
triple as a pitcher's a left handed pitcher.
Speaker 2: Okay, he hit.
Speaker 1: He had an outing on Wednesday. Seventy eightings, pitch four
hits nowhere runs, ninth strikeouts and no walks, touching nine
not touching, ninety nine miles an hour, ninety miles our
averaging ninety six point seven throws hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's left.
Speaker 1: You probably don't know who this is, do you not?
Speaker 2: Off the top of my head.
Speaker 1: No, that's because you've you've put him out of your
head because he plays for the for the Sacramento Athletics.
This is Cage Jump who's having He was off to
a tremendous season last year. It's not as good this season,
but he's playing in Las Vegas. Get this to him.
He'll be on my Hot Prospects of the week. It's
got a five sixteen ERA at home in a two
point one nine earra on the road. He's got to
learn how to pitch in adversity if he's going to
pitch in Sacramento. But this is a good picture, big stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like.
Speaker 1: Cage jump getting an opportunity. I haven't looked at you know,
who's got to jump over no pun intended to get
a shot. But he's this is a this is a dude.
If he can I don't know, hang in there against
in Sacramento and pitch well on the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I'm I'm not adverse to taking a look
at him at all. I would just include the usual caveats.
His home park sucks, yes, and it's going to be
it's going to be tough to pitch there. But I
I certainly would not exclude him from a future waiver
wire because of that. I would just qualify it.
Speaker 1: I just think the arm is too good. Nobody is
thinking about this guy because he's in Sacramento. I mean,
it's he's pitched. It's ninth starts in triple A and
with a really good outing, I think now might be
the time to jump on him. So that's that's my
cage jump tip for everyone.
Speaker 2: It's a solid tip.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no issues here.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break and come back and let's look
at the closers. Just yawn, run through it.
Speaker 2: That sounds fair to me.
Speaker 1: The first the first guy is really annoying because Grant
Tailor should have been the closer from the beginning. I
don't get it. I mean, this is a guy who's
got a great arm. It'd be one thing to me,
if I may emote, it'd be one thing if they
said that they're going to move him from the closer
role a Lah Chris Sale and some other guys and
moving to the starting rotation. They got him as a
two inning guy, sixth and seventh inning guy. I don't
know what. They're just wasting this guy. It makes no
sense to me at all, either make him a closer
or turning him into a starter, but making him a
multi any reliever is just dumb.
Speaker 2: Well hey, yeah, no, it's a good rand. It's a
fair rand. I haven't you agree with it? The white
sowks don't. That's and that's where we sit right some
major league teams. Yeah, thirty eight strikeouts in twenty five
and a third. He hasn't allowed near and run in
ten straight parents even got to save in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think moving forward, based on what
we know, we're going to see the occasional see save.
We're gonna see strong peripherals and potential for more of
Sir Anthony na Minga's falters, which is possible. Okay, I
would take a bet on that if you gave me
a little bit, you know, you wouldn't have to give
me high odds. I think you got to get them
rostered just for that zero point zero era and the
strikeout potential. I think, like I said, there's gonna be
more saves to come. I don't know what. The White
Sox are obviously trying to stretch them out. They want
them into a into the rotation next year or whatever,
but the World Series right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to push back on that. They're not
stretching him out. Let's see, I'm looking at his game
blog one two. He started off the season one two, three, four,
five five. His first five outings, he pitched one inning,
Then they let him pitch one in a third inning,
then two innings. Then he bopped and bopped between one
one and the third and one and one and two
thirds until uh May ninth, when he pitched two innings,
pitched two innings on the seventeenth, one inning on the nineteenth.
That got the safe that they're not stretching him out.
He's a They've moved them from the ninth inning to
the seventh inning, and every once in a while they
let him pitch the eighth inning. To explain that to me,
the guy throwing.
Speaker 2: The way he talks lied like a rug. Yeah, that's
the only how you explain. He went two innings on
May ninth, then one and two thirds one to one. Yeah,
it's they're saving him for next year year. Okay, Well
why there's.
Speaker 1: Only pitching more stressful situations too. Yeah, I mean, don't
you become a better pitcher when you're pitching in a
more stressful situation than the sixth inn.
Speaker 2: Yeah? I would think so, Yeah, I I I don't know,
I just don't know. I would be taking and doing
one or two things with grand Taylor. I would have
him as my closer, and I would move him into
the rotation next spring, or I just move into the
rotation right now.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: Let's see two innings, three innings, three and the third,
three and two thirds four build up that arm strength.
Grand Taylor is not not a twenty year old kid.
Speaker 1: But he is still young. He just turned twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yes, but twenty four, by starting pitching metrics, is now old,
isn't it. That's a three year veteran. Like it's not
like he's a.
Speaker 1: Kid, not like that. But I I get your point.
Speaker 2: Yes, there was a little market there.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's a little but I get your point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's twenty four years old. He's not He's not
a kid? Is he a twenty four?
Speaker 1: He's a kid? I mean he's a kid. He literally
just turned twenty four. He turned twenty four four days ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, yeah, but how old Chase Burns? How old
is Miserowski? How old is you know? That mid tier
we were talking, But they're all in the same age group,
aren't they.
Speaker 1: Chase Burns, it is probably younger. Wouldn't be surprised. I
see Chase Burns is twenty three and Misserowski is what
came up as a high school kid. So he's probably
younger as well. Now same same exact age, twenty four months,
twenty four years, one month, twenty one day, so he's
a month older than great. Yeah, he's spent two years
of start in the big.
Speaker 2: Leagues, right exactly. Okay, so it's time for the White Sox.
Pardon the expression, but it's time for them. You should
get off the pot do something. Either make them a
reliever and you could be one of the best in
the game, or convert him to being a starter. But
this they're wasted. They're wasting each pitch he throws with
his current status as a wasted pitch, isn't it.
Speaker 1: So they can do what the race did keep when
they kept Griffin Jacks up and converted him into a
starter on the Major League Rochester. Or they get to
send them down to Triple A for the next three
weeks and let them get out to four or five innings,
then bring them back up and let them finish the
job in the major leagues. But I don't get him
setting up or being the seventh inning guy for Sir Anthony.
I don't get that. I know Sir Anthony has saved
a lot of games. Sir Anthony is dangerous. I mean,
and if the White Sox think they can at least
have a decent showing this season, then you got to
get your best guys and in the most high leverage situation,
and that is Grant Taylor. It's not, sir, Anthony.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to April nineteenth, just to further reinforce that.
On April nineteenth, Taylor threw one in two thirds innings.
He threw thirty nine pitches. Okay, thirty nine pitches on
April nineteenth. He hasn't equal that number since.
Speaker 1: I don't get it. I mean, I get handling guys
with kid gloves, but this doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 2: No, these are kid kid gloves are handling him with
it just it just doesn't It doesn't compute, not to me. Anyways,
It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at roster resource. I was just going to
see where they had him slotted in. They say he's
a co closer because he got one saved. They say
he's a coloser. What do you want?
Speaker 2: No, No, that he's not a co closer. That's Anthony Minge.
So yeah, okay, well they're wrong, Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got one save on the season.
Speaker 2: That's Tim Cloud Move. No, Tim McLoud. Tim McLoud move
would be recommending him to Rich Will.
Speaker 1: That's Joel Taping spelled Joel Canal or Canale. Let's just
see how many strikeouts this guy has. Let's see here
five point two through he's really really throwing strikeouts now,
I mean, uh, twelve strikeouts. He's got twelve big ones.
Speaker 2: Tim, He's probably got the wrong body tape for the job. Okay,
but no, I I.
Speaker 1: What you're right about, Grant Taylor. I think we talked
about I just not neither one of us understand what's
going on. But the arm is special, and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's getting it done. So you got to get
him out. You got to get him out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, particularly in this world where it's uh, you know,
somebody E are going down at least to get four
or five strikeouts a week from from a talent that's
probably not going to blow up that often, just because
he throws so hard. I think, Yeah, it's a good
call by you. And then it's the ageless Kirby Yates.
Is he now going to get the guy? He's going
to get? The starts over? What was it? The two guys, Yeah, Seffrage.
Speaker 2: And John Hyer, John and Backman, and I think it
is lighter than lighter somewhere else. You know what, He
got the last save? Okay, the Angels bullpen is nothing
to write home to mother a boat. He got the
last save. I think the next opportunity probably rulls his way.
He did save thirty three games for Texas in twenty
four So hey, you want to toss a dart. Odds
our best right now in l l A. If you're
looking at Yates as compared to the other auptions that
are sitting.
Speaker 1: There, now, that's the tem a clown we've all grown to.
Gets one save, makes the closer report.
Speaker 2: That's our guy, that's our man. Yeah, ask me how
many shurees I have a Kirbyates.
Speaker 1: Rich Zephyr, John Bachman, and Kirby Yates are listed as
co co closer Coco Coke closer. So yeah, Curbyates is
at the top of the list according to rosters. So
you're in violent agreement with him.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, you get that last save and one is
the start of a streak.
Speaker 1: Right I am, I'm tapping out.
Speaker 2: I'm not shocked.
Speaker 1: I got my Varland going, I got Mahogan Harris and
I think he's on the IEL at the moment. I
and oh my buddy Vodnik one on the il crushing
blow there. Yeah, he was. Yeah, I don't know how
long he's gonna be on, but I'm getting by Timmy.
I I've been able to follow the Tim McCleod strategy
and it has worked. I will give you kudos. It
has worked. It has cost me most of my fab
but it has.
Speaker 2: I didn't say it was free.
Speaker 1: I have, but I have enough saves in most leagues
and I'm actually doing pretty well.
Speaker 2: But good guys.
Speaker 1: Literally, I've literally rostered guys from trying to get saves
that I've never heard of in my life. I mean,
I just don't and this is what I do for
a living. And I like, I don't even know this
guy is. Tim said grab him, he got the save them.
Speaker 2: You know what you need to do, Rich that would
help me or dementually is I would like you to
go through all the teams and pick the top ten
starters Okay, who are going to fail? Okay, so I
can have a reference source for my closure report. That
was that? Yeah, because that's what it is. They're all
failed starters, right, Yeah.
Speaker 1: For the most part. Yeah, I mean that's that's that's
usually what happens. But I mean, like Zephyr John, I
mean he was a third round pick in twenty nineteen.
He just got lost in the shuffle because Covid was
the following year and this guy in twenty nineteen. Almost
all of them became that were starters became relievers because
they lost so much time and the teams wanted to
try to extract value. Another draft came out and all
of a sudden, you had a lock. You had a
log jam, and then they got rid of short season
balls and it's it's the Zephyr John's never got a
chance to do anything and they became relievers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because how many actual relief pitchers were drafted as
relief pitchers and started their career in Major League base Well,
probably in a very very small number. The one that
comes to my Chadkirk Cordero in Washington. He came out
of college I believe as a closer. But and the
guy that throws with his left and right arm, I
believe he was a bullpen arm the most part. Yeah,
but he's a starter now.
Speaker 1: It was only throwing right handed, which is a bit
of a bummer.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, but not very many pitchers begin their
major league career as closers right out of the draft
or you know, signed as a free agent whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, I'll double down on that and tell you
that if if a team drafts a closer, they rarely
don't make it. Yeah, it's it is the guys. It's
the guys that come down.
Speaker 2: From starters. Yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they'll get a shot because somebody. Every once in
a while team will spend a second round pick on
a on a guy who was a closer, the best
closer in college in the last ten years, and you
look up and they're you know, they're still in Double A.
So it happens.
Speaker 2: All. Yeah, I know, if you're going to be drafted
as a closer, you better throw the ball one hundred
miles an hour with accuracy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but if those guys are in college, it typically
if you're going to throw ninety eight miles an hour
topping that a one hundred, a college coach is going
to start you because that's their best chance of plinning
because a college kid, typical college kid can't hit one
hundred miles an hour. Even though if it's not a strike.
So and then if you're in high school and you're
throwing that hard, they're gonna the kid's gonna want to
start so he can sign for big money throwing ninety
eight miles an hour. So that's why they're rare that
they're coming out as relievers to start the games off. Tammy,
let's take a final break, come back, a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah it was a good show.
Speaker 1: Yeah up, great for commercials. All right, Let's see what's
happening with the games here as we wrap up. The
Dodgers up five to three, the Kansiity Ruels now up
eight to three. Let's see who's done damage here. Garcia
with two hits, sal Perez three for four. No one
hit a home run at all?
Speaker 2: Yeah, no home runs, ye, Seth Lugo.
Speaker 1: In life, you know that. I don't know what the
mayors have to do. They year in and year out,
they just don't have any hitting.
Speaker 2: Well they Hey, Julio Rodriguez is now up to night
home runs after a slow start. But yeah, justin Crawford,
Josh Kneeler Rosine is having a look. Really, the hot
streak's over. Then you get young, you got Canzoni.
Speaker 1: Look at Emerson, my guy four.
Speaker 2: Four yeah, one rbi. Yeah, look at that. Yeah, Yeah,
I think there's enough offense there. But what's where I
have found disappointing in Seattle. This here is Yeah, Brian
wu is had he's been up down all over the place.
Luis Castillo is not the Luis Castillo we knew at
one point. Now. Yeah, and they got a couple of
big arms sitting down in the minors. That's, hey, we're
gonna see those arms sooner as compared to later. I
think if if the Mariners want to get back in
this thing this year, simple as that.
Speaker 1: Yeah. The run score of the Seattle Mariners is two twelve.
That's not very good. So No, the Blue Jays are
two fourteen. But the Red Sox are the only team
in the American Lace blow that at one eight nine.
The Royals are one ninety nine, Troit Tigers are two
or three. That's where they're sitting. And runs scored is
down with the Royals and the Tigers. Tim that's the
Angels have scored more runs than the Mariners.
Speaker 2: That that is not good at all, not good at all. Well, Yeah,
it looks like, yeah, immotos in line for the win.
Nice to see. I'm curious to see who's who the
Twins have put out there up six four over the
Red Sox. Who have they entrusted their ninth inning to
the guy I wanted to see, mister Gomez and he's struggling,
just allowed to run six'. FIVE i sort of Like
gomez and you, know sort Of.
Speaker 1: Oh they seems like it's just been A russian roulette
there in terms of he's getting. Shot, yeah.
Speaker 2: Exactly, yeah it's been all over the.
Speaker 1: Place it looked like The athletics are up three to.
Nothing they're you, know, interesting they're hanging in there at
twenty six and twenty six doing. Okay your Guy cortis
with another another home, run up batting three point fifty
with a nine eighty six.
Speaker 2: Ops, YEAH i DON'T i don't know what is going
to happen. THERE i got a decision to. Make Tommy
troy scored a run one for one in The diamondbacks
game over The, rockies And Corbyn carroll with a triple
and he's now up to what twenty seven twenty eight? RBIs.
Yeah ryan Wal schmidt with his fifth stolen, Base keep, running, Run,
ryan run.
Speaker 1: Back to the. Athletics they're gonna have to do something
With Lawrence, butler tim platoon guy batting one sixty eight
three home, runs it's just not getting it. Done and
right after that Is Tyler sodastrom baton one ninety four.
Run these are guys that really contributed five home, runs
guys that really contributed last, season and they're not getting it. Done.
Speaker 2: Well, No and you look At cortez today with the home,
run his, fifth and he's batting three forty seven and
you look down and the other big contributors so far
today for The a's is bold one per woman the
run scored in AN. Rbi they're gonna have to get
those guys in the lineup every day. Somehow and you're you're,
right at some point in, Time, yeah there's going to
be a change. There there has to. Be it's as
simple as. That and right, there and if they go
with the best, players yeah there's a. Problem somebody's going
to hit TRIPLE a that isn't going to be real
happy to be IF i have to, BELIEVE.
Speaker 1: I have to believe it's it's going to Be, uh
it's going to Be Lawrence. Butler let's see where he
went in. DRAFTS i think he went pretty early one ninth.
Speaker 2: Round, yeah, yeah because there's twenty twenty potential sitting, there, Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah guess what not?
Speaker 2: Happening, yeah, no it's not, happening not not thus, far
that's for. Sure The astros up big on The, cubs
who scored all the runs for The. Astros Jeremy Pinya,
no no home, run but one before with a couple of.
Rbs Christian walker has been hitting these on fire, lately
one or three RBIs And Nick allen that nobody has. Rostered, yeah,
okay it's. True him And go drilled for seven and
runs today.
Speaker 1: And The mets lost got walked off by The marlins fort.
ENOUGH i had to be A Grand slam home, run,
right it's the only way that, happened, Right, yeah there
it Is. Hernandez pinch, It, no not a. Pinch he
came in for casey Grand slam walk. Off oh, boy
the uh the guy From Oh, Fleming Frank fleming's not
gonna be happy.
Speaker 2: Tonight, well he's gonna look At hernandez's five seventy one. Ops,
okay and, yeah sitting one night.
Speaker 1: Three and walked off A Grand slam off of who,
Oh Devin, williams.
Speaker 2: Ooh oh, yeah there's gonna be there's there's an epic
Rin oh, yeah.
Speaker 1: He's probably it's probably already out There, Fairbanks fairbanks with
the win as. Well, timmy that is a, wrap my.
Friend what you got going on this?
Speaker 3: Week uh, say, well say a little bit of, work
a lot of baseball and that's that's pretty. Much it
can just give me another another quiet and quiet, week
try to stay out of. Trouble come up with a
new knock knock material for? You WHAT ai assistant who
struggled with the caliber he pace this?
Speaker 2: Week he?
Speaker 1: Did he thinks he can solve it by knowing all
the knock knock jokes in the. World he doesn't have
the creativity of the Great tim, mcclown that is for.
Speaker 2: Sure, well, Thanks, RICH i appreciate. It and what's on
the schedule for you this? Week you didn't catch any?
Games oh, yeah, yeah, Yeah so The yankees are playing
or The Summerset patriots are playing THE i think.
Speaker 1: The Toronto double. Eighteen So i'll catch a bo gets.
There i've got uh next weekend On friday him off
to a high school tournament to watch a bunch of
kids in The. Northeast so it's, uh so that'll be,
yeah that'll be fun to get a chance to see
a bunch of high school kids. Playing and, Yeah i'm
watching some play players for some scouts That i'm doing work.
For it's really nice to. ME i, GO i, go
AND i watch write my, report give it to MY ai.
Assistant he makes it looks, good look, good AND i
send it. In that's HOW.
Speaker 2: I gotta get me one of them. Fellows.
Speaker 1: Fantastic it's the greatest thing. EVER i mean, this this
is changing the. World i'm telling, you it's it's. Fantastic but,
yeah so that's and you, know just more moving related.
Stuff and we're actually going to, uh we're going to
because a couple of weeks from now we have to
cancel The sunday. SHOW i will be in Des, Moines.
Speaker 2: Iowa my wife close to, me my.
Speaker 1: Wife's niece son is getting, married so we're going for
a wedding and to get From New jersey To Des
moines eye with, him twenty five hundred dollars was the
price of a. Ticket this was before the gas inflation
because of the. WAR i don't know what the hell
is going. On In Des, moines but twenty five hundred
dollars for a flight to get To Des moines From
New jersey was.
Speaker 2: Outrageous, well, yeah and you're probably Flying Piper.
Speaker 1: JEROKEE i think it's a real jet To chicago and
then and then a little tiny jet From. CHICAGO i,
mean it's. CRAZY i, Was i'm, like DO i have to?
Go so it's five thousand dollars my wife AND i
to go see a? Wedding come, on.
Speaker 2: Aren't they? Sorry so my my.
Speaker 1: Son and, daughter they were gonna they were gonna bring
their families and they found that much. Ticket it's where
and now they're just sending a representative and dad's a very,
car SO i have to get the car From it's
the whole. Thing but they're lovely people.
Speaker 2: And they're, like they're.
Speaker 1: Very dear family. Members so we're going to. That THAT'S
i think on the, tenth eleventh Of. June so that's
coming in peop Believe june is right around the.
Speaker 2: Corner, yes it most certainly. Is the thirty first is Next,
sunday and then we roll into the month Of. JUNE
i think getting back to the flying, thing just for a,
SECOND i think what you're going to see is you're
not going to see any, plane any planes half. Full
they're gonna they're gonna consolidate. Flights the airlines will work,
TOGETHER i, think even if they have to to try
and find a way to get you, know a flight
occupancy up over the ninety percent. Level so it's going
to be a really awkward end also really expensive. SUMMER
i think for those who choose to fly rich.
Speaker 1: Could be could be again this. ONE i bought these
tickets before the price of gas went, up SO I
i don't know WHAT i don't.
Speaker 2: KNOW i.
Speaker 1: Mean Des moines is one of those weird cities that
it's pretty, big but they don't have a big airline presence,
there so it's exagal jets coming in so they can
really keep the you, Know Spirit airline was a was
an airline that just went out of. Business and when
you lose those low cost, airlines it raises the raids
up for everybody because now you don't because there was
they used to find it To newark and they only
went to half a dozen, cities but you had to
compete With Spirit airlines into the, cities and now they're.
Gone And Jeff blue is having some financial. TROUBLE i mean,
it there's you know that becomes. Problematics air. Airline air
travel is getting very, expensive and it's a real real
bummer BECAUSE i can't go To Des, Moines, tim AND
i want to go to Des. Moines so what's, yes
what's in Moinem what it was? Corn?
Speaker 2: Yeah oh there's lots of. Corn, yes, YES i was
going to, say, yeah that's ONLY i think about eight
ten hours, me that's.
Speaker 1: Close, well we can meet up of the go to
The TRIPLE. A The cubs are, there.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, no it's about ten twelve HOURS
i think for me to get to the. Morning, yeah
it's not a bad little LIKE i was almost going
to go See joe bondamnsa there a few years. Ago
oh really, yeah they got a nice little concert hole. There.
Ah but then, everything just the time and the timing
of it just wasn't. Good but we'll.
Speaker 1: Come we'll go to A Chicago Cubs TRIPLE a. Game
SO i think the wedding's on A friday, night So
saturday night we'll be, free, man BECAUSE i think. SO
i think we come back On. Sunday so so many
people did the, show but At friday night's the. Wedding Then,
SATURDAY i think there's after wedding, stuff BUT i Think
saturday night we're going to be. Free so maybe wells
to The cubs game if they're.
Speaker 2: Playing, No i'll see how my busy schedule, looks AND
i thank you for.
Speaker 1: That all, right all, right my, friend have a good week.
Time everybody, else good luck with. Everything we'll talk to
you Next.
Speaker 2: Sunday, yeah be, safe be, well and good fortune to
everybody filling those holes in your roster this. Evening