Speaker 1: Greenish citations everyone of Tritch Weill's kind of Fantasy Baseball Live.
Speaker 1: It is August the ninth, about three point fifteen in
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Here is always from my good buddy, mister
Speaker 1: Tim mcclaud tmmy believe it's almost the middle of August.
Speaker 2: It is almost the middle of August. And hey, my
Speaker 2: apologies for holding things up to get things going. But
Speaker 2: I got locked out.
Speaker 1: Tam got locked out of the Patreon site and I
Speaker 1: said his password again. He's still locked out, so we'll
Speaker 1: have to figure it out another day. I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you can be me. So that's I guess
Speaker 2: I gotta.
Speaker 1: Not go to the Discord site and be you. I
Speaker 1: could do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm expecting lots of funds. Okay, I really am.
Speaker 1: How's your Tim? I gave you Friday off offully you
Speaker 1: spend it?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah. I worked in car shops and on Saturday, Uh,
Speaker 2: I worked and went up to drive, brought brought the
Speaker 2: car we're looking at down, took it for a good drive.
Speaker 2: Certain nice when you work where a dealership, if you
Speaker 2: if you want to look at a car, you just
Speaker 2: sort of borrow one and go up and bring your
Speaker 2: car back down and go for a drive, and yeah,
Speaker 2: it's cool.
Speaker 1: Cool, and you like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty happy with it. I'm going to
Speaker 2: be a zoom zoom sort of guy moving forward. I
Speaker 2: think rich a.
Speaker 1: Zoom as in the software zoom or zoom as in
Speaker 1: the zoom.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's a Mazda and all. They ran a
Speaker 2: whole series of commercials for a long time that had
Speaker 2: the zoom zoom model.
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was part of their commercial program, their marketing program.
Speaker 2: Everything was zoom doom, this, zoom doom that. So you know,
Speaker 2: after all of my time spent in Japan recruiting players, have.
Speaker 1: You ever owned a Japanese car?
Speaker 2: No, I haven't. But one of the things that I
Speaker 2: did do was, well, just from talking talking to people,
Speaker 2: they have a tendency to not want to break very oft.
Speaker 2: And then the last a heck of a long time,
Speaker 2: I went on and took a look at a couple
Speaker 2: large Canadian used cars and there was a whole mess
Speaker 2: of them with two hundred thousand plus kilometers still running.
Speaker 2: So that to me is a positive sign.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've owned Japanese cars and you know they
Speaker 1: run forever. That is. That is true. So some of
Speaker 1: the some of the American cars, they run for it.
Speaker 1: I mean as long as you keep the will changed.
Speaker 1: And yeah, cars cars run. I mean they last a
Speaker 1: long time.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: The average age at least is eleven years. The average
Speaker 1: age of a car on the road is eleven years.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I think with the salt that we pour on
Speaker 2: our roads, probably considerably lower. And our winters take a
Speaker 2: real toll on vehicles, they really do. I know people
Speaker 2: that have got vehicles that have lasted a long period
Speaker 2: of time and they get them undercoded every year before winter, ah,
Speaker 2: just to try and protect protect the undercarriage from salt erosion.
Speaker 2: And it's a real it's a real thing, it really is.
Speaker 1: It's a yeah, we'll get to base one and a second.
Speaker 1: Just want to tackle on. It's something similar when we
Speaker 1: lived at the beach for eight years. The average HVAC
Speaker 1: you know, your air conditioning unit that sits outside most
Speaker 1: of them here and normally last about fifteen twenty years.
Speaker 1: They last about six or seven years at the beach,
Speaker 1: and then you got to put in a brand new
Speaker 1: one and you get the absolute cheapest one you can
Speaker 1: because they have one of their high efficiency and this,
Speaker 1: that and the other, and save you don't get them.
Speaker 1: You get the cheapest one because six seven years later
Speaker 1: you're replacing it again, and it just sucks because they
Speaker 1: just disintegrate because of the salt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, it doesn't matter how much
Speaker 2: you spend. The salt's gonna take its toll on it,
Speaker 2: whether it's high end or low end. So why and
Speaker 2: why throw your money away? Right exactly?
Speaker 1: The guy said, I remember the last one I bought.
Speaker 1: He goes, we had this high energy efficiency fifteen thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: I go, okay, what's your cheapest one? Oh, sir, you
Speaker 1: don't want that. It's not very efficient. What's your cheapest one?
Speaker 1: It costs four thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: I'll take that, I'll take two. I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Still, But sir, you're gonna it's gonna they're gonna charge
Speaker 1: you ten percent more for your energy usage. I'm aware,
Speaker 1: So I'll take the cheap one.
Speaker 2: Fifte eleven thousands a lot of exactly, so more than
Speaker 2: I haven't. I've done a good day.
Speaker 1: For sure, for sure. So uh, it's been a fun
Speaker 1: baseball week. Up is down and down is up. The
Speaker 1: Dodgers finally won a game yesterday. They're three and seven
Speaker 1: over the last tense they they get the big Trek
Speaker 1: Scooble signing Timmy doesn't pitch is okay, doesn't win. But
Speaker 1: they've been struggling and all of a sudden, you look
Speaker 1: in the Mets roared back and they they can't lose
Speaker 1: the game. I mean it is it has been a
Speaker 1: weird week in baseball.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and you know, on on top of the
Speaker 2: fact they picked up Scooble, Edwin Diaz returned and he
Speaker 2: ain't blowing He ain't blowing his horn, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: The victory last night, he blew the save, and I
Speaker 2: think that's too he blew. You know, I don't think
Speaker 2: he's he's pitched a clean inning since he's been back.
Speaker 2: O'donne's saved. O'dannie saved him last night with a Lady
Speaker 2: Enning homer. But no, the Dodgers. Dodgers have been looking
Speaker 2: like mere mortals. Is scary, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Without looking, who's got the best record in baseball?
Speaker 2: Out looking Milwaukee, I would guess that is correct.
Speaker 1: Milwaukee's seventy three and forty four with a one forty
Speaker 1: run differential the same as the Dodgers. But there are
Speaker 1: three games up on the Dodgers.
Speaker 2: That's crazy, Yeah it is. Milwaukee has a good baseball team,
Speaker 2: they really do. And yeah they're tied with Queen's today,
Speaker 2: one all in the bottom of the fifth and mister
Speaker 2: Rosky he allowed to run Brooks Brooks Lee with a
Speaker 2: whole drop.
Speaker 1: Drop fantacy maners got to drop him to he gave
Speaker 1: up a run.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, drop him now before he has no value,
Speaker 2: or trade him now before he has no value, something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: Some things don't change, though, and that is the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Angels. Tim are terrible.
Speaker 2: Yes they are. Yeah, yeah, yeah they are, that's all.
Speaker 2: And they're going to continue to be terrible for.
Speaker 1: A while. Yeah, they're losing again today, ten to two
Speaker 1: with the Marlins. The Marlins have crawled back up to
Speaker 1: five hundred. Let's see, he's doing the damage for the Marlins,
Speaker 1: co nine with a home run. Gusto Pitch pitched a
Speaker 1: good game but comes out in the fourth inning. We've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of that this year, to tell me,
Speaker 1: with a lot of four plus innings and then guys
Speaker 1: get guys get sent to the showers after that.
Speaker 2: Well, you're looking. In a lot of cases, all you
Speaker 2: have to do is look at the walks and look
Speaker 2: at the bitches, and hey, you're not There's a reason
Speaker 2: that we call them five inning. Preddy, you walk two
Speaker 2: or three guys, that adds an extra fifteen bitches to
Speaker 2: your you know, at least fifteen pitches over and above
Speaker 2: to your pitch counts. It's hard to get into the fifth,
Speaker 2: six seventh inning when you're sitting at sixty sixty pitches
Speaker 2: after three innings. You know, it's it. It's a struggle.
Speaker 2: And uh, that's just the way of the world that
Speaker 2: that it's always been and it always will be. If
Speaker 2: you're walk badgers, yeah, you're you're gonna drive your your
Speaker 2: counts up. That's why the first inning, to me is
Speaker 2: so important in games. If you get a hitter that
Speaker 2: can run a count up on a picture, even if
Speaker 2: he makes the out running running that count up, that's huge.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That used to be the the Yankees kind of way,
Speaker 1: the Yankee way. Now that you've got all these guys
Speaker 1: that just swing and miss all the time, and it's
Speaker 1: just it's weird watch the Yankees. Just not the same team.
Speaker 1: And uh, but uh, let's talk about the Nationals back
Speaker 1: on the win column here seven to one, uh bemblic
Speaker 1: or tease with another home run. That's great. It's a
Speaker 1: platoon but he's got big boy power. It's just he
Speaker 1: cannot hit a lefty to save his life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see what they
Speaker 2: do with him over the next six weeks. As I
Speaker 2: mentioned in my waiver war article, I think the next
Speaker 2: six weeks is you could go a long way in
Speaker 2: shaping his future with that team.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe, I mean, I think it's pretty clear
Speaker 1: the last three years he's got huge power, huge eggs
Speaker 1: of velocity, and it's been like one ten against the left.
Speaker 1: He just cannot hit left handed pitching. Now maybe that changes.
Speaker 1: If it does, also it becomes a lot more interesting.
Speaker 1: But it's he's going to be a platoon guy, but
Speaker 1: big boy power. He could be like Jock Peterson. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: it seems to have work for him.
Speaker 2: That's a decent that's a decent player. You're balthemore Orioles
Speaker 2: are scoring some runs today.
Speaker 1: They've actually played pretty well since uh since the trail.
Speaker 1: I think they they've maybe lost two in a row
Speaker 1: here to Texas, but prior to coming in there. I
Speaker 1: mean they're still not out of it.
Speaker 2: No, I it's still a little bit earlier for that.
Speaker 2: But like I'm looking at Ta kuber Rocker, he just
Speaker 2: got smoked today fiber and runs in two and two thirds,
Speaker 2: he's up to This is why we don't have four invibiting.
Speaker 2: But he's up to sixty one pitches through two and
Speaker 2: two thirds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's been pretty good this season. I think
Speaker 1: I actually started against the Orioles and I got him
Speaker 1: in one league, and I it's just crazy. I mean something,
Speaker 1: you start, you said him, he has a great game,
Speaker 1: you start him.
Speaker 2: He stinks.
Speaker 1: I mean it's very, very frustrating.
Speaker 2: Big time yep.
Speaker 1: Alonzo, Pete Alonzo with his twenty fourth home run, and
Speaker 1: he's got to get to thirty maybe thirty five. It's
Speaker 1: maybe not what the Orioles were expecting, but it's still
Speaker 1: good power.
Speaker 2: Well, you know what is batting average is thirty six
Speaker 2: points higher than Gunner Henderson.
Speaker 1: What what is wrong there? Tim? I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's a base dealer, he's a home run hitter, he's
Speaker 2: an average hitter, but none happened at the same time.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't get I mean he's like ex
Speaker 1: of velocities down a little bit, but he's still hitting
Speaker 1: the ball really hard. I I don't understand. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's two years in a row that he's
Speaker 1: just not hit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can't have a two fourteen bat hit
Speaker 2: in the lago spot.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that probably does have a pretty well
Speaker 1: he's only walking eight point six percent of the time,
Speaker 1: so it's probably what a two ninety five one base percentage.
Speaker 1: That's unacceptable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't work. No, actually, definitely not.
Speaker 1: Last year he hit two seventy four, but he's got
Speaker 1: a two forty nine babbit that's the problem. And he's
Speaker 1: hitting the ball hard enough that he should have a
Speaker 1: higher babbit than that. So it might looks like it's
Speaker 1: just bad luck. But eighteen home runs only eight stolen bases. Man, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it did not see that coming.
Speaker 2: No, he might want to take in that extension when
Speaker 2: it was offered.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, do you really think he's
Speaker 1: not going to be a great player.
Speaker 2: I've seen enough in the past couple of years and
Speaker 2: I'm questioning it, questioning it. Yeah, now you're gonna pay
Speaker 2: two hundred, Yeah, you're gonna pay three hundred million plus
Speaker 2: on a ten year deal for Gunner Henderson is a
Speaker 2: free agent.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean his his again, his ex velocity is
Speaker 1: off the season. Eighty nine point six is worse than
Speaker 1: I thought it was. Four years in a row with
Speaker 1: ninety two plus on our exivelocity, it drops by three miles.
Speaker 1: I just you just don't see that. That's just weird.
Speaker 2: Very you know what else is weird? And I saw
Speaker 2: a chart to identify it. Paul Skein's velosity has been
Speaker 2: falling steadily since his first year in the league.
Speaker 1: That's confirming he's not been very good. Tim Let's face it.
Speaker 1: I mean, is he a top five pitcher now? Off
Speaker 1: the board?
Speaker 2: Probably? But not to me. That's what that's a past
Speaker 2: for the only the only picture right now that I've
Speaker 2: got confirmed in my top five is Yamamoto.
Speaker 1: Okay, So let's let's I've now got Paul skins up.
Speaker 1: You are correct, I mean, ninety eight point eight to
Speaker 1: ninety eight point two in twenty twenty five, that's within
Speaker 1: the margin of era.
Speaker 2: That's that's fine.
Speaker 1: This year, Yeah, ninety six point nine.
Speaker 2: That's not fairly significant.
Speaker 1: I mean he's still doing really hard. I mean shouldn't.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one ninety seven expected batting average against
Speaker 1: his four seam or the sweeper. Nobody's hitting I mean,
Speaker 1: nobody's hitting the stuff and it's rates. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: He still looks really good to me, even at ninety
Speaker 1: six point nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if I'm looking at the top five picture next year,
Speaker 2: what I want to see is consistent results. They don't
Speaker 2: have to be the best results, but I want consistency.
Speaker 2: That's that's important.
Speaker 1: It's really hard, though, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Well when you take a look take a look at
Speaker 2: Yama Mortal, he's just sort of humming right along. Not best.
Speaker 2: He's a top ten picture. But how many games have
Speaker 2: we seen Yama Mortal in his rather brief allow five
Speaker 2: or more and runs? How many times has he been
Speaker 2: pulled early? Probably not very often.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, So Paul, just just more data to
Speaker 1: I mean, you can just roll your eyes if you
Speaker 1: want three nine era, expect that the era is two
Speaker 1: ninety nine. So it's a run better. He still got
Speaker 1: really really good stuff.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, Yeah, I you know, I don't
Speaker 2: know either. That's why it looks for you.
Speaker 1: It looks I mean, I mean I don't know about
Speaker 1: dropping them too much. I mean this, this, this looks
Speaker 1: like a stud to me. He says, like he's getting
Speaker 1: a little unlucky.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's very consistent at it this year.
Speaker 1: I agree. I agree that Gunnar Henderson is a little
Speaker 1: bit more disconcerting. Why has he got the huge eggs
Speaker 1: of velocity down? He's added a little bit more leverage
Speaker 1: to try to hit more balls out. I get that,
Speaker 1: but we need to find out what has happened with
Speaker 1: his eggs of velocity because that's that's driving everything, and
Speaker 1: he is getting a little unlucky. So maybe it's not
Speaker 1: as bad as the surface that show. You know, you
Speaker 1: can squint and see that, so, you know. I have
Speaker 1: these conversations because I do a lot of work for agents,
Speaker 1: and I have this conversation when a kid's in college
Speaker 1: and I'm arguing the same thing, I don't know, am
Speaker 1: I going to invest fifty thousand dollars in this kid to,
Speaker 1: you know, to get him the nutrition and training and
Speaker 1: then he's not going to be very good? And I'm
Speaker 1: trying to argue that it feels like the exact same conversation.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Yeah, it's my money Wilson. Really it's
Speaker 1: worth it.
Speaker 2: And the next thing, you want a ten percent share.
Speaker 1: Rich You're right, how about we go halves he's on it.
Speaker 1: You put in twenty five and I put in twenty five.
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
Speaker 2: Now, yes, yes, yeah, I'll talk to Laurie and get
Speaker 2: back to you.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I don't think i'd ever do that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I know there's there's that's part of the thing that
Speaker 1: Oh the guy in Cleveland that got thrown out of
Speaker 1: the leaks of his gambling closer.
Speaker 2: Ah, yes, what's his name again?
Speaker 1: I forgot anyway, he.
Speaker 2: Looked it up after the last podcast, Yeah, I said,
Speaker 2: and and you know what happened?
Speaker 1: What's a I forgot?
Speaker 2: I forgot it again. He's still on the roster. So
Speaker 2: I'm scrolling down jud buying Emmanuel class A manual.
Speaker 1: Class A was one of those guys that sold his
Speaker 1: future earnings to people to invest in. And I guess
Speaker 1: he got the last laugh right, because he made money
Speaker 1: off of future earnings and there ain't going to be
Speaker 1: no future earnings, so I guess it work.
Speaker 2: I think, well, he's still getting paid, so I guess
Speaker 2: there's something for now. Anyways, at least I imagine he's
Speaker 2: still getting paid.
Speaker 1: Oh, I wouldn't think he's getting paid. I would think
Speaker 1: he's on administrative leave. I was assuming he's not getting
Speaker 1: it's not getting paid. Let's see, yeah, is a manual
Speaker 1: class A m hmmm, still getting getting paid. Let's see
Speaker 1: here what the Google machines say. No, it's no longer
Speaker 1: getting paid.
Speaker 2: He's on the restricted list.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not getting he ain't going to get paid.
Speaker 1: I mean, but it's the funny thing is he already
Speaker 1: got paid because he sold his future rights. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: what gave him motivation to do that. If you think
Speaker 1: about it, he's like, well, what do I have to
Speaker 1: lose except my dignity, throat, I've already gotten paid for
Speaker 1: my future. Let me see if I can double double
Speaker 1: down and gamble a little way.
Speaker 2: I don't know, Yeah, yeah, it's yeah, what price do
Speaker 2: you put on dignity?
Speaker 1: Well, let's see what. Let's say what his contract wants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guaranteed it was. Mine would probably be a
Speaker 2: lot less than his. Kidding that's one on.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, A j Ewing's still batting a leadoff, still
Speaker 1: playing really nice, two sixty three batting average, very strong,
Speaker 1: bashett is having a good game today. Yes, Robert Junior
Speaker 1: hit a hit, a home run, hit his fifth. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jared Jones with a tough outing. I just traded I
Speaker 1: traded him away. Got lucky on that one.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was going to say, timing is every thing
Speaker 2: well done? Yeah, Bene with another decent day, two for
Speaker 2: three with an RBI.
Speaker 1: Look, if the Mets can just stay the course to
Speaker 1: me let these young kids kind of again. I know,
Speaker 1: you look at the Orioles and you go, that's what
Speaker 1: we said for them, and look where it's gone them.
Speaker 1: Absolutely nowhere. But I think if they just let these
Speaker 1: young kids like percolate over the next rest of this
Speaker 1: year and a good part of next year, I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a good solid and then they
Speaker 1: they hire, they bring in some pitching to augment and
Speaker 1: they got really good young pitching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't know how you accomplish it, but
Speaker 2: at some point in time, you've got to have something
Speaker 2: called team chemistry. And yeah, they're going to have to
Speaker 2: find some way to work through that. But no, with
Speaker 2: you em and you know Soto is gonna hit. He's
Speaker 2: gonna have a four hundred ov B for the next
Speaker 2: seven eight years and hit twenty five thirty plus home runs. Whatever,
Speaker 2: there's a good core there, there's no doubting that. But
Speaker 2: they got they got some tweaking to do.
Speaker 1: I watched the Athletics versus Boston yesterday times. It was
Speaker 1: the only game one, and I got a chance to
Speaker 1: watch my buddy Cage jump looked really really good. And
Speaker 1: the Boston broadcasters, I mean, the Boston had come in
Speaker 1: winning I think on another ten game winning trick was
Speaker 1: just absolutely ridiculous, and they were just on a high
Speaker 1: and just got of hand it to him by jump.
Speaker 1: But you know, as I'm watching the game, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the starting lineup and it's so grad. It's it's
Speaker 1: it's Monasterio, It's Siegler, It's Jared Durant and is two
Speaker 1: on bam. It's Eli White, remember Eli White. The speeds
Speaker 1: are kid. I mean, how are they doing this?
Speaker 2: Eli White today is three for three with a run
Speaker 2: scored and an RBI.
Speaker 1: But he's still hitting two thirty eight. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know how they're doing this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, hey, Durbin has been hot, hot, hot hot.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Raphaella's had a really nice season and William Wilson. Cantreras
Speaker 1: has been great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I wish William was playing like Wilson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but they're doing this with that Roman Anthony, maybe
Speaker 1: Trevor's story a little bit and Garret Ksha don't forget
Speaker 1: Karrit Crochet hasn't played in honest, it's May.
Speaker 2: Forever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're playing great. They're winning again today.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They are now twelve games, twelve games over five
Speaker 2: hundred penning today's result.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 2: They were way under five hundred at the end of May.
Speaker 2: And I still remember talking about selling off on their bullpen.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, we had we had a roll as
Speaker 1: Chapman gone, he was gone, and yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because we talked about who was going to be left.
Speaker 1: And we both agree both of them are going.
Speaker 2: Yeah, crazy crazy game that we that they play, that
Speaker 2: we play.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is, yeah, it's it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: But you know, you're talking about team chemistry, and again
Speaker 1: maybe it's just the broadcasters I was listening to. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were so excited. They said, the team is excited
Speaker 1: about what's going on with, you know, with the club,
Speaker 1: and they maybe that has something to do with it.
Speaker 1: These guys get on a roll. They like each other,
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, they're they're winning ten games
Speaker 1: in a row.
Speaker 2: Yeah, after winning fourteen or whatever it was in a row.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah and insane.
Speaker 1: The age just scored another run, So it's three three.
Speaker 1: The Yankees and Atlanta tied up at one to one.
Speaker 1: Kind a pitching battle between Schlittler, who's just been really,
Speaker 1: really good. This is another eleven strikeouts and for the Braves,
Speaker 1: grand Holmes held up. The Yankees don't have enough bats anymore, Tim,
Speaker 1: they just don't have enough.
Speaker 2: No, but I you know, I was looking at the
Speaker 2: bottom of that lineup, and a couple of times this
Speaker 2: week I saw Jones and Lumbard Junior Yill in the
Speaker 2: box score with NaNs numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah. All I know is Spencer Jones this this week,
Speaker 1: and I took him off of the prospect list because
Speaker 1: he is no longer eligible. Tim, he's I don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about. I don't have to worry about predicting
Speaker 1: if he's going to be any good or not. That's
Speaker 1: all on you, So good luck.
Speaker 2: I thank you for that. I don't know, Yes, well,
Speaker 2: guess what I'm got to quote you. I don't either.
Speaker 1: He's got power. I you know, you just have to
Speaker 1: deal with this. He's hit two fourteen. Yeah, I can
Speaker 1: see that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, Kyle Schwarber Mini, Kyle Schwarber with a bit
Speaker 2: of speed. How's that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You hope? What do you? I mean? Obviously Lombard Junior
Speaker 1: has been fantastic. Do you think it'll stick?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it will. I I don't. I don't
Speaker 2: think we see Anthony Volpe until sometime in September of that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I just if even that, I I think they've moved on.
Speaker 2: It's changed time.
Speaker 1: And well, I mean they're saying here, the media is
Speaker 1: basically saying here that Chisholm is a free agent at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, and they're gonna have Volti
Speaker 1: playing at second base, and that's where they're gonna They're
Speaker 1: gonna have Volpi and Lombard Junior as they're up the
Speaker 1: middle tandem. That's that's what they're saying.
Speaker 2: He could be. But I know that every time Volpi
Speaker 2: while in New York, every time he makes a misstep,
Speaker 2: there's you know, hey, players make mix missteps. They're human.
Speaker 2: Every time something happens involving they're gonna boo him like
Speaker 2: you ain't ever seen it's Yeah, I I don't know
Speaker 2: how he could. I don't know how he could play
Speaker 2: in New York moving forward. Yeah, Hey, I know they're
Speaker 2: paying them, but he's got to have an awful, awful
Speaker 2: thick skin. Ignore what he's going to hear every time
Speaker 2: there's a mistake, and he will make something. I don't
Speaker 2: care how good of how good you are. Yeah, you're
Speaker 2: going to fail occasionally. Man. Like I said, Hey, if
Speaker 2: he can survive in New York after everything that's happened
Speaker 2: the past couple of years, hey, all them more power
Speaker 2: to him.
Speaker 1: Uh Yeah, it's unfortunate, least for here because he's a
Speaker 1: local kid to where we live. So we went to
Speaker 1: school two miles away. So that's a real bomber. Today,
Speaker 1: it's take a break, get back and uh Rich Wilson
Speaker 1: had a star star sighting this week. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: about it till we get back. We live in a
Speaker 1: very cool town, historic town. Lots of trendy bars and
Speaker 1: then lots of bars that look like you know something,
Speaker 1: that like richness of those bars, like you might see
Speaker 1: them in an old, old fashioned kind of movie. So
Speaker 1: they do. Hollywood comes in and does a lot of
Speaker 1: movies here, and there's something called grown Up three. It's
Speaker 1: an Adam Sandler Chris Rock movie. And so they're in
Speaker 1: town shooting at probably I think a restaurant hotel combination,
Speaker 1: maybe two or three miles from where we live. But
Speaker 1: they came into our town to eat, which is what
Speaker 1: everybody does. And I'm in line picking up my pizza
Speaker 1: two days ago and I turned turn around. Guy asked
Speaker 1: me what's good here? And I said, well, you know, so,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the different pieces. I look up and
Speaker 1: it was Adam Sandler, kind of like like you look familiar.
Speaker 1: He goes, yeah, I am. I go, oh, I think
Speaker 1: I know who you are. This is what you want
Speaker 1: to get. Else get this, I said, enjoy, and I
Speaker 1: walked out with my pizza.
Speaker 2: You probably got to thank you.
Speaker 1: He said, Hey, that sounds great. That's what I'm going
Speaker 1: to get. I said, I'm not steering your wong. I
Speaker 1: live upstairs, trust me. I ate way too many too
Speaker 1: much pizza here, so this I know. Yeah. So uh,
Speaker 1: all right, let's get back to baseball. And I got
Speaker 1: a couple of questions for you here. Let me get
Speaker 1: to my notes. The hunter Green having elbow surgery again.
Speaker 1: Now they haven't said if it's Tommy john or or
Speaker 1: Brace surgery, Mike brace surgery. He's already had Tommy Johnny
Speaker 1: just a couple of years ago. This isn't a bad development.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is not good. It is really not good.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it could be and it could be
Speaker 2: getting towards the end here, Rich you know, like how
Speaker 2: many you have? Well, yeah, I know he's so young.
Speaker 2: But when was the last time he was truly healthy?
Speaker 1: Has he ever truly been healthy?
Speaker 2: That would Yeah, I had a.
Speaker 1: Shoulder problem before, he had an elbow problem.
Speaker 2: Right, yeah, yeah. Are we looking at Lancema Colors?
Speaker 1: I mean we well, I mean I think it's a
Speaker 1: better picture. Had more upsight than Lancel Colors, but it's
Speaker 1: it's a fair Are we looking at Dustin?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: So he was healthy in twenty twenty four and fifty innings, okay,
Speaker 1: twenty six starts. He probably he was on the I
Speaker 1: L for a couple of three.
Speaker 2: Weeks, so yeah, yeah, Okay, that's only two years ago.
Speaker 2: Past two years have been Yeah, well where that where
Speaker 2: that what happened before the one hundred and fifty innings?
Speaker 2: That's got twelve five Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 1: So he's never he's never had a game started that
Speaker 1: begins with three, so he's always.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't. I In dynasty leagues, I think
Speaker 2: you have no unless you want to give him a
Speaker 2: boy if you're sitting on him. Yeah, in re draft
Speaker 2: leagues for next year, I would, I would, I would.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be touching him by the time he comes back,
Speaker 2: even in the best set of circumstances. He's going to
Speaker 2: be back for September, right, that's a long time to
Speaker 2: sit on. Yeah. No, it's tough.
Speaker 1: He's not going to play next year. I wouldn't think
Speaker 1: no again, if it's let me, it's fallen exactly what
Speaker 1: Dustin May did, and that was too back to back surgeries,
Speaker 1: maybe with a year or two in between. And I
Speaker 1: mean Dustin May, he didn't come back for a long time,
Speaker 1: but before you and then he wasn't very good when
Speaker 1: he came back.
Speaker 2: So I don't know a twenty twenty nine he'll win
Speaker 2: somebody a league.
Speaker 1: Here you go yours truly, because I have my fink
Speaker 1: on three or four dynasty leagues. I mean, it's tough,
Speaker 1: it's tough, but I have a lot of depth in
Speaker 1: my pitching. I've learned from past mistakes. So Calyn Culpeper
Speaker 1: gets the call with the Minnesota Twins, A really interesting call. Again,
Speaker 1: we're still a little too far out for these guys
Speaker 1: to still be rookie eligible. And we know that teams
Speaker 1: like to do this because they get that sandwich pick
Speaker 1: in the draft of you know, they they win the
Speaker 1: Workie of the Year or they come close to it.
Speaker 1: There is some report, but kln Culpeper caught him up
Speaker 1: a little. What do you think.
Speaker 2: I mentioned him in the waiver wire. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you read my capsule there, but I thought I
Speaker 2: was being fairly fairly creative with my last sentence. Do
Speaker 2: you want me to utter it now?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: Well, hey, Kalin's a pepper. Wouldn't you like to roster
Speaker 2: a pepper? Took?
Speaker 1: All right, that's pretty funny today. I let my AI assistant.
Speaker 1: I hopefully kept that and I gave them specific instructions,
Speaker 1: don't change any of the puns. So, but I I
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to read it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, I started like what the Twins are doing.
Speaker 2: They're they're they're in the hunt for the AL Central
Speaker 2: title and they're bringing up a top kid who's finally healthy. Okay,
Speaker 2: it was like they're not wasting it and they're not
Speaker 2: taking any chances on his next Iyel state. If it's
Speaker 2: going to happen, it's going to happen at the big
Speaker 2: league level. So I started liking what the twins are doing.
Speaker 2: The kid's got some popp he's got some speed. Hey, good,
Speaker 2: good for them that they're bringing this kid up and
Speaker 2: hopefully he contributes.
Speaker 1: I think he's really good. I think this is a
Speaker 1: kid that we haven't people don't talk enough about. It
Speaker 1: could be because I mean, last year was healthy, he
Speaker 1: went twenty home runs, twenty five stolen bases, and hit
Speaker 1: two eighty nine. So their speed and power in a
Speaker 1: field of hit. He's already hit a home run so
Speaker 1: far this season. This is a guy that, yeah, and
Speaker 1: everybody's excited about George Lombard and Max Clark. This is
Speaker 1: a guy that's brought up there with that talent. He's
Speaker 1: a very good baseball player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you're looking at adding him through the
Speaker 2: waiver wire this week, you will not pay as much
Speaker 2: for Colepepper. I don't think as you will for Lombard.
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have Culpepper. He might have been
Speaker 1: ranked Tiger than I have to go back and take
Speaker 1: a look. But I just think he doesn't get the
Speaker 1: do I don't know why. I mean, I mean people
Speaker 1: that play. Yeah, he played for the Yankees, you're going
Speaker 1: to get more more juice. But Colpeper has a chance
Speaker 1: to be a very very good baseball player. I was
Speaker 1: happy to see him called up and again didn't quite
Speaker 1: understand it, just given the baseball stuff Jackson Job, Tim,
Speaker 1: I love what I didn't read what you about him
Speaker 1: in the way. We'll save it for that. But I mean,
Speaker 1: can you imagine if Jackson Job had not gotten hurt
Speaker 1: and you had Job, Myz schoobl and Troy Melton. I mean,
Speaker 1: that would have been the best rotation in baseball.
Speaker 2: Maybe be up there for sure. Yeah, I think is
Speaker 2: hurt right now.
Speaker 1: I think he's been hurt all season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I can't believe after his last outing he's healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he got up big time. Yeah, So yeah, it'd be
Speaker 2: it would be quite the rotation, no doubting and.
Speaker 1: Job up to one hundred miles of hours. Tim. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that in a few minutes. But we also,
Speaker 1: as I did some math or Patreon members.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that, right, well done, Well done, so.
Speaker 1: Kate Anderson, Joshua By as other top prospec Here's the math, everybody.
Speaker 1: So to remain rookie eligible, you have to stay as
Speaker 1: a hitter below one hundred and thirty eight bats in
Speaker 1: a pictriple of fifty innings. That's easy to manage, right,
Speaker 1: So the so the teams can manage that, they can
Speaker 1: put the guy on the bench and you know, or
Speaker 1: just stop stop throwing them if he gets close to
Speaker 1: that fifty innings. And if all.
Speaker 2: Loan the Rockies, I'll loan the Rockies my Avoco soulator.
Speaker 1: What you cannot alter is forty five days of major
Speaker 1: league service to stay rookie eligible, if you take the
Speaker 1: twenty ninth of which is really weird. Twenty ninth of
Speaker 1: September is the last day, so it's really early this season.
Speaker 1: That makes August thirteenth as forty five days out. So
Speaker 1: anytime after August thirteenth, these guys could now get called
Speaker 1: and remain prospect eligen. It's gonna be tougher for Klein
Speaker 1: Culpepper and the Max Clark's and the Lombards of the world.
Speaker 1: But some of these other guys. They could bring them up. Now,
Speaker 1: does Kate Anderson have a place to pitch will? That
Speaker 1: is what we don't know. Maybe they'll go to a
Speaker 1: six man rotation. But that's that's my latest theory, Tim. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, it's nice to know those numbers.
Speaker 2: And you know that josh Bias doesn't get called up
Speaker 2: sometime around the fourteenth, fifteenth, you might as well got
Speaker 2: him lose, right, Well, he.
Speaker 1: Could get a September call up, But I mean, what's
Speaker 1: that well, I mean, I don't even I mean, at
Speaker 1: some point because what Joshua Bias, what bothers me with
Speaker 1: him is the success that JJ Weatherhold has had this season.
Speaker 1: And for all we know, the Cardinals go, look, this
Speaker 1: worked perfectly for us, and Weatherhold's got a good chance
Speaker 1: of winning the Rookie of the Year and we started
Speaker 1: them up the beginning of the season. Let's do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, So from now on in Saint Louis, every
Speaker 2: time somebody doesn't get a promotion, we're going to say
Speaker 2: they got weather holded.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's an unreasonable position to take, by the.
Speaker 2: Way, Yeah, I don't know for us.
Speaker 1: To take that for us to assume that they're going
Speaker 1: to follow with what's worked in the past. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's what people do, whether we exactly whether it's it's
Speaker 1: the right thing to do or not. I think that's
Speaker 1: where you and I have a problem with.
Speaker 2: But I mean, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: But it's shocked if Bias is not here until April
Speaker 1: next season, if we have a season.
Speaker 2: I have, I have been two legues, and I have
Speaker 2: sort of counting on the power. So no, it wouldn't
Speaker 2: shock me if he doesn't get called up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, anything to glean from Trek Scooble's mediocre start
Speaker 1: for Terrek School, Casey my is getting blown up, Freddy
Speaker 1: Peralta getting blown up, Robbie Ray getting blown up, all
Speaker 1: guys that were traded at the deadline, just trying to
Speaker 1: find their footing in their new city.
Speaker 2: What do you think, Well, I schoobl didn't have a
Speaker 2: bad oding, two earned runs over six and well if yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: if you, if you, if your expectations were sixteen strikeouts
Speaker 2: because he's a Dodger and a no hitter, well yeah.
Speaker 1: That's what my expectations are. Quite frankly, tell me, Okay.
Speaker 2: They're higher than mine.
Speaker 1: I mean he's Trek scoobway goes to the Dodgers that say,
Speaker 1: I was told by everybody on television that this was
Speaker 1: best picture in baseball. He was going to make the
Speaker 1: Dodgers a three peak. That's what I was told.
Speaker 2: But he's still good. But again, of things happened last year.
Speaker 2: Congratulations to the Dodgers. They did win the World Series.
Speaker 2: They were the champions, But I don't know if they
Speaker 2: were the better team in the World Series. Anybody can
Speaker 2: win and lose on any given day.
Speaker 1: That's coming through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm no law. I'm nasty now, Rachel. Okay,
Speaker 2: I'm not a nice guy. By the way, you.
Speaker 1: And your damn weather you just talked about last week
Speaker 1: all week long, Tim, It's been here and it absolutely blows.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's unbelievable how hot it is here.
Speaker 1: I mean it's it's not the temperature hot, but you
Speaker 1: go outside and it feels like you're in a sauna.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, by now we're usually getting our first snowfall. Okay,
Speaker 2: and it's still eighty five flipping degrees here.
Speaker 1: It's hot El Nino, man, where everything's reversed. There's no
Speaker 1: hurricanes at the moment, which is great, but all the
Speaker 1: heat ships up here where we live.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's yeah, it's been a hot hot
Speaker 2: July August, Yeah.
Speaker 1: For sure. But I wanted to thank you for that
Speaker 1: because I told you after I think it was the
Speaker 1: last Sunday. So Tim says the hot water's coming. He goes,
Speaker 1: I hope he's wrong, like Wednesday. She goes, I hate
Speaker 1: Ti mccleodic. Oh I do too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a family thing. Okay, well done, glory, thank you.
Speaker 2: I'll try and send some cold weather in January. Make up.
Speaker 1: We said it all in a very loving way that
Speaker 1: we talked about so so uh, this is kind of
Speaker 1: a dumb question. But five inning Freddy went to three
Speaker 1: point two? Is his next outing more likely to be
Speaker 1: two plus innings Freddy or five plus innings Freddy?
Speaker 2: U Freddie Parolta has not been good all year? Why
Speaker 2: would we why would we expect out of the blue
Speaker 2: for him to change that in one start or two starts.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say he's going to continue being Freddy
Speaker 2: until Tampa Bay actually has some time to work on
Speaker 2: a few things, and less than a week is not
Speaker 2: time to work on a few things. So if I,
Speaker 2: if I I don't have Parolta, I've got him in
Speaker 2: one redraft and one dynasty and he's sitting mood. I'm
Speaker 2: just gonna sit him until I see some semblance of
Speaker 2: five inning Freddy and that first start. No, it wasn't happening.
Speaker 2: I started.
Speaker 1: Boy, I guess, guess when Freddy next pitches?
Speaker 2: When would that be Monday?
Speaker 1: Tomorrow?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: And Sacramento.
Speaker 2: Oh well, let me get him back for that, please please,
Speaker 2: that's not good. No. And you know what, because we're
Speaker 2: picking on them, making them go into this, you'll probably
Speaker 2: pitch a two hitter or something, okay, just to rub
Speaker 2: it in their bases, and everybody else is as they
Speaker 2: have them on their bench, right, you can't start them
Speaker 2: in Sacramento. But yeah, no, you just can't start them there.
Speaker 1: And there's a article thirty eight minutes ago on MLB
Speaker 1: dot com title mis become second fastest picture in MLB
Speaker 1: history to two hundred strikeouts in a single season. That's
Speaker 1: pretty impressive.
Speaker 2: It is incredibly impressive.
Speaker 1: Trying to find out who the fastest one two one hundred.
Speaker 2: Was, Doc Goodense, Oh Spen, Spencer Strider, oh, Strider Schreider hundred.
Speaker 1: That obviously didn't end well. I mean, Spencer Strider. We
Speaker 1: talked about, you know, kind of what Hunter Green's is is.
Speaker 1: Is Hunter Green going to become Spencer Stryder.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's possible, which is not good.
Speaker 1: No. No, he's a side young and he's gonna be
Speaker 1: the number one picture off the board. I know you're
Speaker 1: not interested in and I get it, totally getting me.
Speaker 1: He's going to be your number one picture off the board.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I am. I'm going to try and go
Speaker 2: safer if I can get Sanchez or Yama Motor. That's
Speaker 2: my early thoughts. Sanchez, Yamma Motor. I think I'll roll
Speaker 2: in that direction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I get that. I mean that makes
Speaker 1: total sense to me. The Athletics fire their general manager
Speaker 1: David Frass. After all, it was his fault to me
Speaker 1: of moving the team out of Oakland into Sacramento. It's
Speaker 1: definitely his fault.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, definitely the only positive here for David forrest
Speaker 2: Okay as a GM. Okay, his next GM job, you'll
Speaker 2: probably make more than minimum wage.
Speaker 1: That's true. You know, it's funny. I was watching this
Speaker 1: as the time with watching my Buddy Cage Jump Play,
Speaker 1: and then I saw this news. I was writing writing
Speaker 1: the notes for you, and I just I just decided
Speaker 1: to do kind of a deep dive on the new
Speaker 1: stadium in Las Vegas. I must say, Tommy, it looks beautiful.
Speaker 1: I mean it looks a little bit like the Sydney
Speaker 1: Opera House, you know, kind of that that kind of architecture,
Speaker 1: and it's it's enclosed except the outfield, like a window
Speaker 1: is there? That looks like it's open to me? I
Speaker 1: mean I think it's there's not a wall there or
Speaker 1: glass there. It looks completely open. And I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough to even even venture. I guess
Speaker 1: is that going to be? Is that going to help
Speaker 1: or hurt? Or what is that going to do to
Speaker 1: the aerodynamics in that park?
Speaker 2: Well, it could end up proving to be a pain
Speaker 2: in the glass.
Speaker 1: That could be. I'll give you I'll give you a
Speaker 1: a rim shot for that. But if people haven't seen it,
Speaker 1: you should go take it is absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it has to look nice Vegas. It's sort
Speaker 2: of a rule. Okay, yeah, it has to look nice.
Speaker 2: It's in Vegas. But based on where I'm what I'm
Speaker 2: hearing a lot of the casinos right now are hurting
Speaker 2: real bad and there might even be some bankruptcy. So
Speaker 2: let's hope it doesn't follow suit with the casino industry
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't heard that, Is that true?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow, Yeah, casinos are the business. Business is down.
Speaker 1: You know what else is down? Not to get off
Speaker 1: the baseball subject, I read read an article I think
Speaker 1: it was in the Wall Street Journal today of how
Speaker 1: how little people are drinking now and a lot of
Speaker 1: wineries are going under because people around the world are
Speaker 1: just they're no longer drinking, you know. The alcohol consumption
Speaker 1: has gone down drastically, which is pretty interesting. That's that's
Speaker 1: pretty fascinating as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, again, I won't get into the politics of the day,
Speaker 2: but we're not buying anything American in liquor right now,
Speaker 2: so it's having a huge bearing on things.
Speaker 1: But that's part of it as well. But apparently I
Speaker 1: read this article they said, and maybe this is one
Speaker 1: that some California vineyards are just burning their fields, which
Speaker 1: makes no sense to me, but that's I don't know, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know they're taking they're taking the look, they're taking
Speaker 2: the Long Island out of the ice.
Speaker 1: They are taking a long island, Timmy. That is that
Speaker 1: is a wrap for looking at games. And let's take
Speaker 1: a quick break and come back and look at you
Speaker 1: waiver war. It's a good one this week lost. It
Speaker 1: is an extremely young waiver wire report. Lots of kids
Speaker 1: under twenty five, which you always like to see. And
Speaker 1: my buddy basib I was just looking at him thinking
Speaker 1: about picking him up, and I kind of laughed out loud.
Speaker 1: I've been writing about him for gazillion years and it
Speaker 1: was good to see him having some success and making
Speaker 1: a ten o'cloud waiver wire. That's exciting. I mean, so,
Speaker 1: what was it like looking for the names that they
Speaker 1: come easily? I'm curious on the waiver to excuse me,
Speaker 1: the closer report? Did that come easier? Did that took
Speaker 1: a lot of digging to figure it out?
Speaker 2: The closer report took a fair bit of work, okay,
Speaker 2: because so many teams and hopefully I got most of them,
Speaker 2: most if not all of them right. There were so
Speaker 2: many players that changed teams, okay. I was deleting names,
Speaker 2: adding names, shuffling all over the place. The closer report
Speaker 2: was it was, it was a handful as far as
Speaker 2: the article itself. I actually did something very very very
Speaker 2: very novel, and it made a whole lot of sense.
Speaker 2: I started this basically after we got off the air
Speaker 2: on Tuesday. Okay, we reviewed everything, so I started.
Speaker 1: We started from that thing You're welcome.
Speaker 2: Exactly, Yes, thank you. I appreciate it when you make
Speaker 2: my life easier. But no, I so I had. I
Speaker 2: had names starting on actually even before we did the podcast,
Speaker 2: I had some of the traded names, et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2: So it was actually a lot of fun because again
Speaker 2: I spread it out over a full week and I
Speaker 2: got into the actual written narratives. I did the closer
Speaker 2: report last night for the most part, and a lot
Speaker 2: of the written narratives were this morning, so it was
Speaker 2: all sorted out organized. It flows fairly smoothly, but again
Speaker 2: because of the volume involved. Had I not taken and
Speaker 2: worked on it, you know, starting on Monday of the week,
Speaker 2: it would have been it would have been a handful.
Speaker 1: The first one brings a smile to my eye because
Speaker 1: I love your analysis. I did read some of them,
Speaker 1: I guess I didn't read the one that you made
Speaker 1: the joke on. Uh, Caleb, Uh, what was the one
Speaker 1: you were telling me, oh, Caling Culpepper, I missed that one.
Speaker 1: But I loved your analysis, and Andrew Alvarez, you really
Speaker 1: broke it down from a baseball savant standpoint.
Speaker 2: Tell us what people should pack him up. People should
Speaker 2: pick him up because he's got a good pitch mix. Okay,
Speaker 2: he's got a curve, he's got a forcing fastball, he's
Speaker 2: got a slider, and I think he throws a sinker
Speaker 2: eight percent of the time. He's got a fourth pitch
Speaker 2: in there, so he's he's got it all. But what
Speaker 2: I really like is the fact that he's he's a
Speaker 2: southball and he's got a ninety two point eight mile
Speaker 2: an hour fastball, which right away says to you, ninety
Speaker 2: two point eight on the fastball. Yeah, but then you
Speaker 2: look at what he does with his breaking stuff. Okay,
Speaker 2: he's got the curve at twenty seven eighteen, the slider
Speaker 2: is at twenty six to sixty. Man, he can spin
Speaker 2: that breaking stuff big time, Okay, which I think, who's
Speaker 2: going to help offset the fact that he has a
Speaker 2: relatively low velocity fastball. The problem is to walks. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: it is definitely a problem. But when I see a
Speaker 2: picture that can spin a curve and spin a slider,
Speaker 2: and he's pictures from the left hand side. He's got
Speaker 2: an okay fastball. It's not like it's eating It's not
Speaker 2: Tommy MALONEI ish, Okay, there's upside there. Okay, If at
Speaker 2: some point in time his control improves, he could be
Speaker 2: a really, really good find. So basically what I put
Speaker 2: is he's a work in progress, but I'd like to
Speaker 2: see how that progress looks on my roster compared to
Speaker 2: the competition. So that's where I am with Alvarez. He
Speaker 2: intrigues me, good man.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's definitely obviously the path is very narrow.
Speaker 1: If you don't have velocity, I mean, you've got to
Speaker 1: have great control. He's off stuff that really spinds, so
Speaker 1: he's going to get some swing and miss with his pitches.
Speaker 1: But I mean it makes any mistakes throw ninety two
Speaker 1: miles an hour, it's going he's going to get hit.
Speaker 1: So that's right, that's the problem. Miserowski. You throw one
Speaker 1: hundred and two, you make a mistake, it's still one
Speaker 1: hundred and.
Speaker 2: Two, yeah, exactly. Yeah, odds are pretty good. It is
Speaker 2: in the catcher's mitt before you've completed your swing through
Speaker 2: the ball.
Speaker 1: So yeah, and this is just the way it is
Speaker 1: when you throw that hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, very few players have the have the bat speed
Speaker 1: to pick up pick up the type of pitch and
Speaker 1: then start to swing. Almost everybody against Jacob Mezeroski. Why
Speaker 1: you so successful? Have got the cheat on the fastball?
Speaker 1: Have got to start his swing earlier, and you started
Speaker 1: thinking it's a fastball coming alson, it's a change up
Speaker 1: or you know, some kind of some kind of breaking bit.
Speaker 1: You're you look stupid. And that's why I get so
Speaker 1: many bad looking swings. Looks like the bud guys are
Speaker 1: way out front because also they see, oh it's it's
Speaker 1: different than a fastball. They try to make the adjustment
Speaker 1: and guess what, it's too late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're down on one knee smiling. It's and then
Speaker 2: walking back to the Yeah, then walking back to the Doug.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's yeah. So Alverra is intrigues me. He's five
Speaker 2: percent rostered. I'm going to see I'm going to see
Speaker 2: how many leagues I can add him in just to
Speaker 2: see what happens.
Speaker 1: Good, good for you, and I hope it works out.
Speaker 1: So I got a chance after the Red Sox game yesterday,
Speaker 1: I flipped every and watched the Angels game. Got a
Speaker 1: chance to watch Moys's bellisterios. You know who he is,
Speaker 1: Tim Alejandra Kirk. I know baseball, the baseball references. Moys's
Speaker 1: bellisterios is one hundred and ninety five pounds.
Speaker 2: That's a lot by he is. I haven't see he's
Speaker 2: as big as Kirk. Kirk's a tank, a little tank,
Speaker 2: but he's a same height.
Speaker 1: They're both five ft eight. Maybe, yeah, maybe Kirk's got
Speaker 1: twenty pounds on him, but it's a big fact. He's
Speaker 1: a little fat kid. I mean that, that's who he is.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say it like that. Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: can flat out hit just like Alahama Kirk can. I
Speaker 1: think there's going to be maybe a little bit more
Speaker 1: power than Kirk. The Kirk's got decent power, but he's
Speaker 1: a He's the shortest, big, heavy set kid. That's that's
Speaker 1: who he is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And the big the big thing that we should
Speaker 2: get out of this this whole exercise, is the fact
Speaker 2: that he's playing in Anaheim, so he should get If
Speaker 2: he doesn't get an opportunity to play in Anaheim, he
Speaker 2: won't get an opportunity anywhere. Okay, it's yeah, he's going
Speaker 2: to get that opportunity as the number two catcher. I
Speaker 2: think I'll take a chance on him heading into all
Speaker 2: six weeks of the season. Look at the cot id do.
Speaker 1: Contact look at me if you had a chance to
Speaker 1: watch me. I saw him a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: at the Fall League. He looked okay to me, because
Speaker 1: that was always a concern that he was really gonna
Speaker 1: put on Wait, and I'm like, I think he's okay,
Speaker 1: and I look, well, wow, he put on He put
Speaker 1: on some serious palmage. But Kirk is only striking out
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen percent of the time. I don't think Moys's
Speaker 1: Ballisterius is quite at that level yet. But in the
Speaker 1: minor leagues Triple A Timmy five hundred and nine played
Speaker 1: appearances and twenty twenty five he struck out thirteen percent
Speaker 1: of the time. So there's a lot of similarities there
Speaker 1: between kirk thirteen home runs. So yeah, Kirks, Kirk's a
Speaker 1: good little player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, he is. Yeah, I don't disagree. So Ballisterio
Speaker 2: is a twenty percent roster, there's an opportunity to get
Speaker 2: in a second catcher. I think that might help you
Speaker 2: down the stretch.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never known how to pronounce this
Speaker 1: guy's first name, os Leviz. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: ass Elvis. I always struggled to actually write it because
Speaker 1: it was a very odd name that he Basibi is
Speaker 1: his last name, second base shortstop with the Giants.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's nice to see him back, you know.
Speaker 2: The first time we saw him, yeah, it was a
Speaker 2: long time ago. And he's still only twenty five. You know.
Speaker 2: The race brought him up early in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: He struggled and we haven't seen him since. But San
Speaker 2: Francisco is now home man. In the past seven games,
Speaker 2: he's going eight for twenty six, three home runs, eight RBIs.
Speaker 2: I'm thinking a small bit is worth it, just to
Speaker 2: see what happens in week two and possibly week three.
Speaker 2: He's two percent rostered, so he's you know, hey, when
Speaker 2: everybody else out there, okay is chasing Lombard and Culpepper
Speaker 2: and you're broke with fourteen dollars, fab give give us leaves?
Speaker 2: Uh A look.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at the pronunciations. Oh slave vs.
Speaker 2: Slavey, slavey slavey okay o.
Speaker 1: H hyphenated s l A, so that would be oh
Speaker 1: slave and then it's E E C E vs O.
Speaker 2: Slaves sleeve O slave Yeah, old slavey Okay, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I think it's pretty close to what you said.
Speaker 2: Good there, nice Ukrainian lad.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I don't think so to give you a
Speaker 1: stupid grim shottle because I started laughing.
Speaker 2: But there we go. There are rules for a reason.
Speaker 2: We get true.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, many thanks, this guy is he is not Ukrainian.
Speaker 1: Now I don't know why I'm laughing. Now you got
Speaker 1: me laughing, all right, rettbat By the way, Ukraine doing
Speaker 1: really good in the war. There were think we're all
Speaker 1: rooting for Ukraine.
Speaker 2: So we are.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how that war has changed. From me. They're
Speaker 1: really defining the way war is going to be fought
Speaker 1: with everything is drones and all all remote control and stuff.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely fascinating.
Speaker 2: Well you're looking straight to Hormo and Hermos. It's it's
Speaker 2: the same thing, the rone. Yeah. Yeah, it doesn't matter
Speaker 2: how big your aircraft area, how many planes it has.
Speaker 2: On one little five thousand dollars, drone can sink it. Yeah.
Speaker 2: That changes the way the game's played.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so my, my, nephew runs helicopter helicopter company, and
Speaker 1: they are they are creating drones as well. Uh and
Speaker 1: they cost like fifteen to make and and you know,
Speaker 1: and they carry a payload, and you know they're testing
Speaker 1: them and they're in the wild. Now you put temmy
Speaker 1: like like militarily where they are. But show me some
Speaker 1: video which are publicly available, and they're amazing, Timmy, It's
Speaker 1: just like you know that that's how And you can
Speaker 1: have these nerds sitting in it that play video games,
Speaker 1: sitting in a book somewhere three thousand, five thousand miles
Speaker 1: away and doing the remote control with these things, and
Speaker 1: it's it's it's a safer war and it's pretty it's
Speaker 1: pretty crazy. What's actually happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know with my background in Pong, I'm looking
Speaker 2: at the playing some joubs down the road.
Speaker 1: I've given you too many rim shots. Brett Brett Bateman.
Speaker 1: I saw him play the other day. It's more about him.
Speaker 2: If you're looking for power, he ain't happening. If you're
Speaker 2: looking for a good hit tool with solid wheels, it
Speaker 2: just might happen. For now, I I've got to give
Speaker 2: him a look. If your game is the al only model.
Speaker 2: But uh, the Jay's tossed him me in the leadoff
Speaker 2: spot today, which I sort of like, I don't know
Speaker 2: how he did. I haven't, I haven't jacked talking. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the last I saw Schwarz, Okay, yeah, in an al
Speaker 2: only he's not rostered in an al only you roster.
Speaker 2: Everybody with a pulse and Bateman might be around for
Speaker 2: a while on their big league rosters, So yeah, give
Speaker 2: him a look.
Speaker 1: If Schwarber with two home runs and a stolen base
Speaker 1: just just becaused him.
Speaker 2: That was a pity stolen bas Rich, we know it.
Speaker 1: Schwarber's batting one and a rise, batting fourth, Bryce Harper
Speaker 1: and right field.
Speaker 2: Makes total sense.
Speaker 1: I just it's the dumbest thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just hoped.
Speaker 1: I hope they got because I got Bryce Harper a
Speaker 1: couple of leagues in which I'm in the money. If
Speaker 1: he gets hurt playing right field, Timmy.
Speaker 2: I'm better. Hear you yelling all the way from here.
Speaker 1: With Cody Bradford starting picture with the Texas Rangers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, solid, Hey, he's been hurt on the il. He
Speaker 2: made his debut and it was it was okay, four
Speaker 2: and a third shadowed innings he's lowed a couple walks
Speaker 2: struck of five. Again, we're still looking at building up
Speaker 2: arm strength. I'd look at rostering him now, but I
Speaker 2: think they had him on a seventy pitch count. I
Speaker 2: think that will gradually increase to the point where he's
Speaker 2: pitching five and six innings. But they're going to be
Speaker 2: careful with them. But again, it's a situation where pitching
Speaker 2: is tough. I give Bradford a look. He's not a
Speaker 2: bad starter when he's one healthy.
Speaker 1: Calin Culpepper. Anything to add on mister Culpeper, No, I
Speaker 1: think I would if I had the money.
Speaker 2: I think I I might be tempted to be very
Speaker 2: aggressive with Culpepper. I think Minnesota is going to play him,
Speaker 2: and as much as we know, oh that Lombard is
Speaker 2: gonna play Colepepper is not a He's not a bad
Speaker 2: consolation price. If you're playing the middle infield game this week.
Speaker 1: Order these three for the rest of the season. Cal Culpepper,
Speaker 1: Max Mark, George Lombard.
Speaker 3: Junior, Uh Clark, big gap, Yeah, I've Clark.
Speaker 2: I Yeah, I think he is. I think he's gonna
Speaker 2: gonna rock rock our world for the next six weeks. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I Lombard right now has a guaranteed playing time, so
Speaker 2: that gives him a slight edge, But I like the
Speaker 2: stolen based potential maybe a bit. I'm gonna call it
Speaker 2: a draw. In the next two I'll probably focus on
Speaker 2: Culpepper because I think he'll be a little bit less expensive.
Speaker 1: Best mccommon on George Lombard. Look, I love George Lombard.
Speaker 1: I do. I I've seen him play conservatively forty five
Speaker 1: fifty games, seen a lot of year in my neck
Speaker 1: of the woods. See I mean, yeah, I mean I've
Speaker 1: seen him play a lot. I don't think I've ever
Speaker 1: seen him play like have a great game, like you
Speaker 1: kind of come away going wow, that's amazing. But if
Speaker 1: you piece it all together, he hits the ball pretty hard.
Speaker 1: He's obviously fast. He's a great defender at shorts. Why
Speaker 1: they had n't why they had him playing third base
Speaker 1: in triple A, I didn't understand that he's a great
Speaker 1: defender at short. But he's never had that stretch of
Speaker 1: time where it's been this is going to be a star.
Speaker 1: That's that's my only like negative feedback. Everything else from
Speaker 1: the scouty reports, from the data that you look at
Speaker 1: it all looks good, except he's never put it together.
Speaker 1: You can also say the same thing about Max clark
Speaker 1: though Max Clarker in the last sixty days has been
Speaker 1: pretty darn good.
Speaker 2: He's been incredibly good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But I mean George Lumbard just not has not
Speaker 1: had that stretch.
Speaker 2: Hm. Okay, it's interesting. And again, if you look at
Speaker 2: at the environment, I would have to think that Colt
Speaker 2: Pepper gets a fairly big edge because Minnesota versus the
Speaker 2: Bronx do that. You know, Lumber's gonna have to play.
Speaker 2: There'll be a fair fair bit of slack initially because
Speaker 2: of what's happened over the past year and will be
Speaker 2: et cetera, et cetera. But at some point in time,
Speaker 2: if he goes into the tank for a week or two,
Speaker 2: they move everybody in New York, don't they.
Speaker 1: The media today Copper City on the bench. So that's
Speaker 1: a look. You know, they from from the like the
Speaker 1: ken Rosenthals of the world. I'm assuming they know.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: They asked from the Yankees for Trek Schouble was in
Speaker 1: fact George Lombard junior and they said no.
Speaker 2: And I think I think I don't have any problems
Speaker 2: with accepting that as reality, the Tigers aren't going to
Speaker 2: ask for anything less one to give it.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it was George Lombard, Elmer Rodriguez and the third.
Speaker 1: That would be my guess because you can equate Elber
Speaker 1: to uh to Ryan River Ryan, and you can equate
Speaker 1: George Lombard probably more value than than the Zayer hope
Speaker 1: just because he plays shorts off. You're looking purely from
Speaker 1: a baseball standpoint, but that that would have been a
Speaker 1: competitive offer for Trek Schouble and the Yankee said no,
Speaker 1: So that would have So everybody knows that that's been reported.
Speaker 1: So you would think that Lombard's gonna get quite a long.
Speaker 2: Look, Jill, as far as they go in October, how
Speaker 2: was that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's take a break and then come back and
Speaker 1: talk about mister Jackson.
Speaker 2: Job.
Speaker 1: You're looking for any negative Jackson job. He didn't have
Speaker 1: as good a swing and miss stuff as he's had
Speaker 1: in the past, but the velocity was there, the control
Speaker 1: was there. He looked really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah. One hit, one walk over, five hit, ninehundred point one. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I said, go get him. Don't be shy about partner
Speaker 2: with the good trinket of that fab you're gonna have
Speaker 2: to pay for. He might earn you that value in
Speaker 2: Rudy Graft leagues this year, Dynasty leagues. You got to
Speaker 2: be excited for what you saw in that first uh
Speaker 2: for sure. Yeah, and hey, there's gonna be he might
Speaker 2: have outings where he's going to struggle and he you know,
Speaker 2: they're going to watch the pitch count. They're not going
Speaker 2: to do anything stupid in Detroit. But man, you got
Speaker 2: to like what you saw after that first start.
Speaker 1: You really did what's the best pitch of the minor
Speaker 1: leagues two years ago? I mean, and he looked great
Speaker 1: when he got called up the Tigers first day around.
Speaker 1: It just it just sucked that he you know that
Speaker 1: he got hurt. There's no guarantee he's not going to
Speaker 1: get hurt again.
Speaker 2: But well, we used to talk about under Green. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: he's a talent. I agree, Richard.
Speaker 1: I spent a lot of time talking about George Lombard.
Speaker 1: Tim has talked a lot about it. So what about
Speaker 1: George Lombard Junior? I want to talk about him?
Speaker 2: No, No, we'll just talk about dad.
Speaker 1: Okay. Dad was a baseball player too, so and don't
Speaker 1: forget Jacob Lombard Junior was taken to the first round,
Speaker 1: the twentieth pick or whatever so by the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 1: So he's hit his first home run in the minor
Speaker 1: leagues as well. He's a little bit more toolsy than
Speaker 1: George so for you Dynasty league managers, but probably won't
Speaker 1: hit as much as George Lombard. So so there's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was the same day, if I'm not mistaken
Speaker 2: or something like that.
Speaker 1: George got George got the call, hit his first arm run,
Speaker 1: and Jacob the brother hit up home run. So that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is very cool. Yes, why did the parents
Speaker 2: like George more than not just kidding?
Speaker 1: George ring in the cash?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's the retirement ticket.
Speaker 1: So far, exactly. Wow, pit pitty brothers against one another
Speaker 1: kind of parents?
Speaker 2: Are we poor? But we had a lot of fun
Speaker 2: doing it.
Speaker 1: Laurie and I have the conversation all the time, who
Speaker 1: would we rather take care of us, our our loving
Speaker 1: daughter or our cut to the chase sons. So who
Speaker 1: wants to make the decision of pulling the plug?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I know the direction I'd be hitting it.
Speaker 1: Exactly all right. Ben Laicuartey's love. I've always loved the
Speaker 1: Ben Laicuarty's he does. You just can't hit lefties with
Speaker 1: this big boy power.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're looking, if you're looking for some home runs,
Speaker 2: he's already getting hit two in his first week up. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 2: he can hit. He can. He can hit one or
Speaker 2: two home runs a week, even in a platoon situation.
Speaker 2: So again, if everybody's chasing the big names and leaving
Speaker 2: the little names alone, Orties could be a nice guy.
Speaker 2: If you're if you're looking for an extra five to
Speaker 2: ten home runs over the next six weeks, eitherk that's
Speaker 2: entirely possible, or am I being overly bullish?
Speaker 1: Just gonna be if he hits enough, I mean you know,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, sure, he's a big eye, swings for
Speaker 1: the fences. I mean, you've ever seen the plays. He
Speaker 1: is a large man. It's not very athletic. Obviously he's
Speaker 1: playing first base, sorted off in the outfield, but obviously
Speaker 1: they moved moved in the first base. Saying I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna hit a lot of home runs. What else
Speaker 1: he does? I mean, I don't know, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't think much else. But that's that's just me. So
Speaker 1: he could be a Joe Hensky Noel who kind of
Speaker 1: comes up in his fifteen home runs in four weeks
Speaker 1: and then you'd never hear from him again. He could
Speaker 1: literally be that guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, makes total sense.
Speaker 1: I hope he's not. I hope he does more than that.
Speaker 1: I think he's I think he's a better player than Joehnsky. Know, well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't strike out nearly as much. Augustine Ramirez, I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're reminded me of him. I have totally forgotten
Speaker 1: that he was out there playing again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. They send him to the miners the
Speaker 2: beginning of May, and it took that deadline deal for
Speaker 2: Liam Heggs to get him recalled. Yeah, the kid. You know,
Speaker 2: he did hit twenty one homerslus, he drove in sixty
Speaker 2: seven runs, he stole sixteen bases. I don't think we
Speaker 2: should forget those numbers.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me was very good last season. I mean, what
Speaker 1: did he play over his head? I mean I don't know,
Speaker 1: probably a little. I think he was overdrafted this year.
Speaker 1: I think people got burned by him.
Speaker 2: But yeah, big, big, big time people got burned. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: you look at you're looking at pretty close to a
Speaker 2: twenty twenty player. I don't know where he went, but
Speaker 2: I know I had I had no shares, I would
Speaker 2: have to venture. I guess he was probably seven eighth
Speaker 2: off the board catchers. Yeah, so yeah, people got burnt
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sprint speed of thirty last season he stole sixteen bases.
Speaker 1: That that that does not compute. It is huge bat speed,
Speaker 1: it is big exolocity. I think he's got and it
Speaker 1: doesn't have a leverage swing at all. So if he
Speaker 1: decides to add a little bit of angles to a swing,
Speaker 1: this guy could just be a massive home run here.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised he hasn't done that. His big problem is
Speaker 1: timmy catching blocks above average one percentile caught stealing above
Speaker 1: average one percentile pop time twenty eighth percent. He just
Speaker 1: sees a terrible catcher. That's his problem.
Speaker 2: He's a DH guy tier Tyler block anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well please, that's that's a sore subject. Don't bring him.
Speaker 1: I was disappointed he didn't get moved at the uh
Speaker 1: the doudlight.
Speaker 2: I was hoping he would get Yeah, he might be.
Speaker 1: Rule fived, you know at this December, I mean, what
Speaker 1: are they going to do with this guy?
Speaker 2: They're going to have to do something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's completely blocked and there's better players that are
Speaker 1: on his heels now. I mean, he just does not
Speaker 1: have a chance.
Speaker 2: No, because those better players actually play a position and
Speaker 2: that counts. And that's that's the situation. We can see
Speaker 2: with August or Mires as well, couldn't we.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what's tough, man. You know the same thing
Speaker 1: with like Jordan Lawler. You can't stay on the field
Speaker 1: and all these players are just passing you. It's like
Speaker 1: sitting on the freeway and you're broken down and everybody's
Speaker 1: passing you. And it's just that's what happens with these
Speaker 1: guys that don't have a defensive position or get hurt
Speaker 1: and they just they're just dead in the water. It's
Speaker 1: really sad.
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, you're right, it is because the future is
Speaker 2: incredibly limited, incredibly.
Speaker 1: Your guy, Hector Rodriguez, I'm you've been talking about him
Speaker 1: for three weeks. He finally got a shot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they called the kid up. The only person who
Speaker 2: hit more home runs at Triple A at Triple A
Speaker 2: before the clump was Josh bay Is. I just hope
Speaker 2: the Reds give the kid a steady diet of the beats.
Speaker 2: Let's see what he's got heading into twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: Retter are in trouble. It's a pretty lowsy minor league system,
Speaker 1: pretty lowsy major league team. Outside of led La Cruz
Speaker 1: and the first baseman I spent Spencer start. That's the Steart.
Speaker 2: No, no, Stuart, Oh, Stuart, Yes, Al Stewart. He's hundred.
Speaker 2: I think he's on pace for like one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty RBIs and thirty plus. Wow, he's going to get
Speaker 2: some MVP votes if he keeps up what he's been
Speaker 2: doing over the final six seven weeks.
Speaker 1: Definitely rookie for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: But it's it's I don't know. I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think they have enough. Man, I just don't know.
Speaker 1: This pitching is just okay. And losing Hunter Green again,
Speaker 1: it's just that's that's a big loss. But let's see what. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see did Rodriguez over three today?
Speaker 2: That's not encouraging.
Speaker 1: But so he's two for thirteen since getting the call.
Speaker 1: He never walks by the way, it just swings anything.
Speaker 1: Just so yeah, just everybody. Yeah, So if you're no
Speaker 1: base percentage league, take that into consideration.
Speaker 2: Agreed.
Speaker 1: Uh, Ronnie Simon, Yeah, oh I official Marcellus Soona has
Speaker 1: been released. That was that was kind of under the radar.
Speaker 1: It just kind of just happened.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just sort of happened. And spot opens up for Simon.
Speaker 2: And yeah, you look at his minor league numbers and
Speaker 2: eight home runs, he stole thirty two bases, decent plate coverage.
Speaker 2: So I just put Simon says, if you need stolen
Speaker 2: bases down the stretch, here's your opportunity. I played the
Speaker 2: old Simon says game.
Speaker 1: There you go. Josh Smith first base, second by third base,
Speaker 1: short stuff, outfield eligible bums, not eligible catcher bum No.
Speaker 2: I know slacker. Yeah, but you know, I had a
Speaker 2: big game Friday, and I think the Jays are going
Speaker 2: to give him a real serious to look. You know,
Speaker 2: he's he's been a double digit power speed guy and
Speaker 2: a very valuable super sub type. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: if he's still in Toronto next year. You know, they can,
Speaker 2: they can, they can utilize him, I think, and his
Speaker 2: super sub ule a lot better than some of the options.
Speaker 2: David Schneider, for instance, I think I think he carries
Speaker 2: a bit more weight, so I think days are going
Speaker 2: to give him a good look. And I said he
Speaker 2: had a big game Friday, so he's finally healthy and
Speaker 2: he's missed a pile of time this year. So let's
Speaker 2: you're looking for one person fits all as far as
Speaker 2: your roster eligible is concerned. Josh Smith, you'll do it
Speaker 2: for ten.
Speaker 1: Ten kind of guy, Yeah, plays everywhere. Yep, here's another
Speaker 1: guy that plays everywhere.
Speaker 4: Tim Tom Yeah, exactly, And all of a sudden, out
Speaker 4: of nowhere, he's been on a little bit of a
Speaker 4: teir ten for twenty seven to Homers five to RBIs
Speaker 4: even a stolen base over the past week.
Speaker 2: Nice little run. Toss that in with the roster flexibility
Speaker 2: and in deeper formats, I think he should be looking
Speaker 2: at owning a roster spot.
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Speaker 1: I don't do you still have access to the Discord site.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm good on the Discord site. It's just a
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Speaker 1: Okay, well bizarre, Yeah, all right, Timmy, let's take a break. Everybody,
Speaker 1: buckle up. I know I've got my uh, I've got
Speaker 1: my notepad open because I'm going to be taking cope
Speaker 1: beous notes figuring out who I'm going to waste all
Speaker 1: my money on this weekend. Eric freaking Miller really pissed
Speaker 1: me off man that that I lost sleep over that
Speaker 1: I was I was upset. I rarely get upset about
Speaker 1: Fantasy Baseball. I just couldn't believe it. I'm like, come on,
Speaker 1: I just spent all this money on this guy.
Speaker 2: It's like, not again again.
Speaker 1: I just start the question what am I doing? Like
Speaker 1: why did I subject myself to this.
Speaker 2: Masochistic tendencies?
Speaker 1: Let's let's take a break, come back, and let's see
Speaker 1: what Tim is telling us to pick up this week.
Speaker 1: Ryan zeph John, I had him in a bunch of
Speaker 1: leaves where I gave up on him.
Speaker 2: I just don't little.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a It's a mess. It really is.
Speaker 2: Do any of us know what we're doing? Uh? I've
Speaker 2: been fortunate. I managed to nail quite a few guys
Speaker 2: over the years and that that have worked out. But
Speaker 2: I gotta be honest with you. You analyze that, you
Speaker 2: look at it. The ones you analyze like, yeah, Boston, okay, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna load up my team with Garrett
Speaker 2: Wdlock and then Boston goes on to care Okay. You
Speaker 2: just have so little control over so many things. You
Speaker 2: can spot and identify trends and skills that you like,
Speaker 2: but l U c K comes into play. It has to.
Speaker 1: That's it is. It's an impossible position. I I've admitted
Speaker 1: I'm not good at it. I just I don't have
Speaker 1: the touch. I know some people like yourself can see
Speaker 1: it and figure it all out. I just I overthink it.
Speaker 1: I think I got the best picture, and he's a
Speaker 1: sent the Grant Taylor I got, I got the I
Speaker 1: got him in a bunch of leagues, and he's got
Speaker 1: me like five saves or something like that. It's just like,
Speaker 1: come on, yeah, and then do you tell me he's
Speaker 1: being stretched out to be a start. He's pitching the
Speaker 1: six any one, any I just I just I don't
Speaker 1: get it. I don't get it. I don't get it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's yeah.
Speaker 1: You know who was getting opportunities Hogan, Hogan, Harris up
Speaker 1: to ten.
Speaker 2: I picked him up again, Okay, in a couple of leagues,
Speaker 2: so yeah, I just ran out of patient and now
Speaker 2: he's getting opportunities. So I have I I honestly thought
Speaker 2: at one point in time the A's would start to
Speaker 2: play better. Okay, Well Kurts being oh doesn't help. And definitely, yeah,
Speaker 2: definitely the A's. They got a terrible bullpen. They just
Speaker 2: didn't move to improve it. So by default, Harris is
Speaker 2: the guy that he cares.
Speaker 1: He's got a pretty good arm.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Back to that lineup, you know, it's a little like Judge.
Speaker 1: Nick Kurtz is a little bit like Aaron Judge. I mean,
Speaker 1: you take him out of that lineup like you do Judge,
Speaker 1: and you look at it and you go, not a
Speaker 1: lot there.
Speaker 2: Mm you've always been getting playing time there. And I
Speaker 2: almost listed him is Lawrence Butler he was the other day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, I know, but he's not that good.
Speaker 1: I have sat him on my bench in one league.
Speaker 1: I've got him and I haven't played him in weeks,
Speaker 1: if not months, and I'm afraid to drop him because
Speaker 1: of what he did last season. But I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think he's not good.
Speaker 2: No, that's fair.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's get the closer report here first. Guys,
Speaker 1: a lot I'm all in on, but I don't know
Speaker 1: what the heck I'm talking about, So don't listen to me.
Speaker 1: That's your Fannie Cruz.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm all in on him right now in Dynasty
Speaker 2: keeper format. Yeah, yeah, you take a look at Washington. Okay,
Speaker 2: Clayton Beater is not the answer at least. I don't
Speaker 2: believe he is long term. But he's been on and
Speaker 2: off and he might be getting saves right now, but
Speaker 2: I don't think long term is the answer. If you're
Speaker 2: playing in a Dynasty keeper type format and you have
Speaker 2: any cruise is sitting out there, it's under miles an hour,
Speaker 2: and the gun hasn't a clue where the ball is going.
Speaker 2: He's going to be a bullpen arm forever and ever.
Speaker 2: And I think with a break or two either way,
Speaker 2: he intrigues me from a dynasty point of view. If
Speaker 2: you got room in your miners. Yeah, take a look
Speaker 2: at Cruise.
Speaker 1: I think he doesn't does have great control, but I
Speaker 1: think he has enough control when you marry that together
Speaker 1: with his slider and fastball. That that's what gets me
Speaker 1: excited about it. And I agree with you. I think
Speaker 1: he's the best arm in that in that bullpen. I
Speaker 1: think it's just a matter of time before he gets
Speaker 1: a real shot.
Speaker 2: I agree. That's why I wanted to bring him up today.
Speaker 1: Next guy is your book. This took a lot of
Speaker 1: internal fortitude, and I appreciate that we all do. Tim
Speaker 1: buried the hatchet at least for a week and put
Speaker 1: Jeff Hoffman now.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know what, He's moved to Minnesota. Okay,
Speaker 2: And now the initial I'm not going to say everybody
Speaker 2: in the industry, but a lot of people believe that
Speaker 2: Hofflin was going to move into the closure role in Minnesota,
Speaker 2: and I took the opposite sort of position. I looked
Speaker 2: at it and said, Gomanz has been pitching really really well. Okay,
Speaker 2: maybe Hoffman, we'll get save opportunities, but why would they
Speaker 2: take Gomanz out of the role And he's been pitching
Speaker 2: as good as he has Okay, I think Hoffin is
Speaker 2: going to get some safe chances. I think Gomez is
Speaker 2: their closer. I don't think Hoffin unless Gomez falters. I
Speaker 2: don't think Hoppin's gonna take the job away from them.
Speaker 2: But if you're looking for holds and you're looking for
Speaker 2: the occasional save, I think Jeff Hoffin is gonna deliver
Speaker 2: in that direction. I think getting out of Toronto was
Speaker 2: probably a very good thing for Jeff Bofin.
Speaker 1: Tim told us to pick up Sam Bachman last week.
Speaker 1: Sam Bachman is hurt. Right, Zephyr John has moved. We
Speaker 1: turn our attention to somebody named Sammy.
Speaker 2: The Terra slamming Sammy and he's a picture that doesn't work.
Speaker 1: Well, there's waving his handgun. What about me?
Speaker 2: Well, and that's right now. With Zephyr John gone, it
Speaker 2: looks like a two horse race, okay, between the Taro
Speaker 2: and off injured veteran Ben Joyce to Yeah, he does.
Speaker 2: I got to give the nudge and Taro. I think
Speaker 2: he's got a couple of saves this week. He's got
Speaker 2: a nice effective fastball slider combination. And based on what
Speaker 2: we've seen from Ben Joyce over the past couple of years.
Speaker 2: He might have the better stuff, he might be the
Speaker 2: better pitcher, but Ben Joyce hasn't been able to stay healthy.
Speaker 2: And until we can see some sustained health from Joyce,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look at other options. And right now in
Speaker 2: the Tarrot's a guy.
Speaker 1: Plus, the Angels have such a bad team. He wonder
Speaker 1: how many opportunities there's going to be out there. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you got a roster somebody.
Speaker 2: Well, and the thing is they might be better next year.
Speaker 2: You know, you're not a whole lot, but he might
Speaker 2: get he might.
Speaker 1: Get ten twe I think I've asked that before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, but you know he's working with
Speaker 2: ten to twelve wins maybe over the next six weeks.
Speaker 2: Right next year breaking camp, Okay, he's going to be
Speaker 2: looking at sixty wins. It's a bigger number. I like
Speaker 2: him in Dynasty. I like him in Dynasty leagues. I
Speaker 2: would I crossed him simply for that reason.
Speaker 1: There's no reason for the Angels, as bad as they are,
Speaker 1: to go out and sign a free agent who's a closer.
Speaker 1: But that's never stopping from doing stupid stuff. Before Tim's
Speaker 1: fall in on Dylan Smith. He's a guy there so
Speaker 1: in San Francisco. Anything else to say about him?
Speaker 2: No, Uh, the guy that should be there is in Boston.
Speaker 2: And yes, I'm I'm bitter too, Okay. I I don't
Speaker 2: know if I had as many shares of Eric Miller
Speaker 2: as you did, but well.
Speaker 1: I just had me. I mean my problem is, so
Speaker 1: I play in uh ten dynasty leagues, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to say, in five of them, I've got plenty of closers.
Speaker 1: The other five is one league that I got a
Speaker 1: pretty good team. I have no closers and we do
Speaker 1: have whole in that league.
Speaker 2: And I just I've.
Speaker 1: Guessed wrong every time. I just have guessed wrong, and
Speaker 1: I I'm desperate for I got Hogan Harrison there so,
Speaker 1: hey look at me, But I've guessed wrong every time
Speaker 1: I've That league has just been cursed. I just cannot
Speaker 1: get the right guy.
Speaker 2: It's just not working out for Ye that's Eric Miller.
Speaker 1: Got Eric Miller?
Speaker 4: Ye?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Luke Weaver, I think this is the guy
Speaker 1: to get.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're I, I would have to think that
Speaker 2: he's going to own the closer gig for the balance
Speaker 2: of this year and into next year. Okay, he's got
Speaker 2: a solidarity. He's a good pitcher. He's been around h
Speaker 2: the Pirates. I would be shocked if he's not their
Speaker 2: closer entering. Yeah, he is, by far on this list
Speaker 2: of a player. He is by far the aaphist best
Speaker 2: bet to generate what we're looking for out of a closer.
Speaker 2: And you'll pay for him too, You'll pay for him.
Speaker 1: I like Ryan because I like the next guy to
Speaker 1: Ryan Zephyr John's arm. It's every bit as good of
Speaker 1: arm as a Eric Miller. They're both. Yeah. Well, and
Speaker 1: he's in a better he's in a better space to
Speaker 1: get some closed opportunity save opportunities.
Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely. Hey, you all you have to do is
Speaker 2: go to stad cast look at the numbers. It speaks
Speaker 2: very highly of Ryan Zephyr John. Uh. The Cobs have
Speaker 2: been waiting forever for Plenty to get back and to
Speaker 2: return from the I l And apparently he's out on
Speaker 2: a rehab right now or he's heading into a rehab.
Speaker 2: But I I don't feel confident at all that Daniel
Speaker 2: Palencia will pitch the balance of the year. I think
Speaker 2: if he does, excuse me, and he's effective, I think
Speaker 2: he's a closer, But I don't I just don't think
Speaker 2: it's gonna happen. I think it's going to be a
Speaker 2: combination of Zephyr John and is it Web. I believe
Speaker 2: so at twelve percent rostered on Zephyr John, I have
Speaker 2: to believe that we're going to see some saves out
Speaker 2: of him over the next six weeks. So again, he
Speaker 2: would be one you could look at where yeah there's
Speaker 2: some risk, but unless you've got the biggest wallet, you
Speaker 2: ain't getting Luke Weaver.
Speaker 1: I was at yeah, for sure, a little disappointed. I
Speaker 1: totally understand that Jeffrey Jon Jeffrey Yon did not make
Speaker 1: your list.
Speaker 2: Yeah, did you see what I think it was? Jose Ramirez?
Speaker 2: Did you see what he did? No? No, he did
Speaker 2: the yawn move at first base after getting a hit.
Speaker 2: I thought it was sort of cute.
Speaker 1: Oh that's kind of funny. Look, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's going to play. I don't know if it's going
Speaker 1: to play in the major leagues. Probably somebody probably truld
Speaker 1: to go run up, run up, back up the middle
Speaker 1: with a with a hit for him. But I've seen
Speaker 1: a pitch a lot in the minor leagues and it's
Speaker 1: fun to me. I mean, yeah, I like literally sit
Speaker 1: up in my seat when he comes in because it's
Speaker 1: like he's he's very athletic, and the little splits he
Speaker 1: does when he strikes out a guy, it's it's very
Speaker 1: Savannah Banana. It's it's fun. And again, I got a
Speaker 1: manual league you.
Speaker 2: Can't have you can't play baseball and have fun. It's
Speaker 2: a rule rich you gotta scowl and spit you in
Speaker 2: tobacco and everybody no.
Speaker 1: And he's out there having fun. But you know, you know,
Speaker 1: these stiff major league guys are going to be all
Speaker 1: pissy at him. And it's fun. I mean, at least
Speaker 1: it wasn't the minor leagues. People would like, they would
Speaker 1: laugh and they would point it was it was cool,
Speaker 1: like I you know, people didn't do that, and he
Speaker 1: looked like he was having fun. There was one hundred
Speaker 1: miles an hour. So he's got some pretty good stuff too.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, no, he's got some good stuff. And yeah
Speaker 2: he's he could end up making my closer report before
Speaker 2: the end of the year. Did you you know it's
Speaker 2: also you know when you're you know s different, right
Speaker 2: Jeff McNeil bundt in a close game, and I can't
Speaker 2: remember who was a Kenley Jensen. Somebody had a little
Speaker 2: hissy fit. You know what, if you're going to give
Speaker 2: a player first base, you're gonna be that lazy. You're
Speaker 2: gonna give him first base? He deserves to take it.
Speaker 2: I don't That is one unwritten quotation marks around unwritten
Speaker 2: rule that I just have no use for. If I
Speaker 2: don't care, if you're throwing a no hitter and you're
Speaker 2: up one nothing, I'd be telling you, but do what
Speaker 2: you have to do. Get on base. You can't score
Speaker 2: from home plate. And I think it was Kenley Jensen
Speaker 2: that had a little bit of a fit. But I
Speaker 2: agree with what McNeil did. Get on base. What you're
Speaker 2: supposed to do trying to win the game, right, Yeah, people.
Speaker 1: Just say me, this is not these unwritten rules that
Speaker 1: we don't understand because we're not in the clubhouse. But
Speaker 1: I think I would guess that major league baseball players
Speaker 1: are going to have a problem with Jeffrey jan But
Speaker 1: I hope that he continues to do it. I think
Speaker 1: fans are gonna love it. And that's what we got.
Speaker 1: We need more of that, and we just absolutely need
Speaker 1: more of that in baseball.
Speaker 2: Hey, what did the fans think of Mark Fidrick and
Speaker 2: all his antics. They loved it, they loved every minute
Speaker 2: of it. Yeah, and if al Habroski when he was
Speaker 2: throwing as the mad Hungarian, they loved him. He was
Speaker 2: crazy as a loon. But I mean, yeah, added something.
Speaker 1: Yep, shame about Mark Frederick. If they would have had
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery back then, he would have. He could
Speaker 1: have been really special, but blew at his elbow and
Speaker 1: no one knew what to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there is nothing back then you could do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Tommy John he had a surgery in
Speaker 1: seventy four, so it was saul so brand new, so
Speaker 1: it just just wasn't there yet. So it's an interesting,
Speaker 1: interesting historical tidbit. Tell me a sake, our final break,
Speaker 1: get back, and let's try to wrap this thing up.
Speaker 2: Sounds good, all right?
Speaker 1: Tell me we've had fun, made fun of, not made fun,
Speaker 1: not there. We've talked about Moyses Bello STEREO's budgets. We've
Speaker 1: talked about ben joyced one hundred and five miles an hour.
Speaker 1: We've talked about guys jumping up in mid air after
Speaker 1: they pitch. Who am I going to pick up this weekend?
Speaker 1: I want you to give me the guy that you're
Speaker 1: drilling down on from the waiver wire and the guy
Speaker 1: you're drilling down on from the closer report.
Speaker 2: Well, I got no money, Okay, I've already picked up
Speaker 2: That's right, it is August. I forgot said that in May.
Speaker 2: Richards been running too. But I'm gonna I'm gonna probably
Speaker 2: look at Ronnie Simon. I've already picked him up in
Speaker 2: the league that has fab last night, okay, and uh,
Speaker 2: I managed to get Ronnie Simon on a relatively low bid.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna be looking at the Ronnie Simons Andrew
Speaker 2: Alvarez types of the world for positional players a closer
Speaker 2: report for the most part, I'm I'm good on saves, okay.
Speaker 2: So I'm I'm not looking at a situation where I
Speaker 2: have to spend on saves right now. Okay. So I'm
Speaker 2: probably going to be focusing on the Dylan Smiths and
Speaker 2: Yovanni Kruz types, especially in my Dynasty leagues, Guys that
Speaker 2: I can dash away just to see. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I look at Washington and I don't think Clayton Beader.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's the answer long term there, right
Speaker 2: I have a gut feeling that that you have any
Speaker 2: cruise with triple digit high heat. I like cruise a lot.
Speaker 2: I'm not guaranteeing he's gonna succeed, not by any stretch
Speaker 2: of the imagination, but he's really the type of guy,
Speaker 2: and the circumstances in Washington sort of dictate to me
Speaker 2: he's he's of interest big time.
Speaker 1: All right, So that's you personally. So let's now step
Speaker 1: out of te McLoud personally. If there's no object, I
Speaker 1: everybody on your waiver wire is available, and I've got
Speaker 1: plenty of cash going after.
Speaker 2: Uh, I'm probably going after Jackson Joe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's the right move. I agree.
Speaker 2: Starting pitching is getting tough to find after what we
Speaker 2: saw in that in that first start. Yeah, that looked awful. Good. Uh,
Speaker 2: you know there are who's to say that the Savvy
Speaker 2: doesn't produce both Culpepper and Lomberg over the next six weeks.
Speaker 2: You can't rule it, oh, Ken, you can't say it's
Speaker 2: a definitive no, he's not going to do it. Who's
Speaker 2: to say that Ronnie Simon isn't isn't a lot better
Speaker 2: than Hector Rodriguez or Josh Biaz. You know, so when
Speaker 2: you get when you get to looking at where you're
Speaker 2: going to spend your money, spend it. Spend that capital
Speaker 2: in a spot where you're not going to have that
Speaker 2: many options to spend it on. Moving forward and pitching it.
Speaker 2: Pitching would be it for me. Let's go back as
Speaker 2: far as sorry and Luke Luke Weaver in the b.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go back on the way
Speaker 1: back machine, shall we. Okay, but going back to vintage
Speaker 1: or twenty twenty four, I believe I got it right.
Speaker 1: The Detroit Tigers were nowhere at the trade deadline and
Speaker 1: they traded off Jake Flaherty, Jack Clarity, j Jack Clarity
Speaker 1: to the Dodgers. If you recall remember that, I.
Speaker 2: Not specifically, I know they moved them. Yeah, they moved up.
Speaker 1: And Detroit went on a roll after that, and they
Speaker 1: made the playoffs. Scooble was the man, and they went
Speaker 1: pretty far in that playoffs before backing off. In twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five, Detroit's only two games out, two games out
Speaker 1: of a wild card. They're plus eighty five on the
Speaker 1: run differential, which is catch just everybody the best in
Speaker 1: the American League just one game better. One run better
Speaker 1: than the Red Sox and three runs better than the Yankees,
Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, they get Max Clark up.
Speaker 1: Ken mcgonaga's almost got a year under his belt from
Speaker 1: from being a rookie. Turklesen can't be as bad as
Speaker 1: what he's shown this season. And also you get Jackson
Speaker 1: job up with Schrey Moulntain, who looks really, really good.
Speaker 1: You know, it would be really cool if somehow the
Speaker 1: Detroit Tigers snuck in and repeat it that twenty twenty
Speaker 1: four season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're only three and a half games back. They're
Speaker 2: tied in the loss department with Minnesota and Cleveland. Quarter
Speaker 2: back of the White Sox. They look at their.
Speaker 1: Two games back, two games back in the waft guard.
Speaker 1: That's that's what MLB is showing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, two games out in.
Speaker 1: Lost Colton to Texas, Texas about to lose today.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh and and you know, yeah, you go to
Speaker 2: the West and you got Houston two games over five hundred,
Speaker 2: Texas one game over all, sitting with all sitting with
Speaker 2: fifty eight losses. Yeah. Is there a possibility that nobody
Speaker 2: gets in from the aos? Maybe nobody should.
Speaker 1: Oh, somebody's got to, Yes, But yeah, yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, absolute Yeah, you could you
Speaker 1: could have it.
Speaker 2: You could have a team with a worse with a
Speaker 2: better record not making the playoffs than the winner of
Speaker 2: the AL West. Yeah, it's it's entirely Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, the Yankees and Red Sox are well above the
Speaker 1: Houston Astros and the Chicago White Sox, uh in terms
Speaker 1: of runs in Minnesota Twins are only two games behind
Speaker 1: the White Sox believe it or not, so they're they're
Speaker 1: not out of it either, which is, you know, all
Speaker 1: kind of interesting when you think of Kilek Calin Culpepper
Speaker 1: and calling him up, and I mean, losing Joe Ryan
Speaker 1: does not help at all the Minnesota Twins fortune. And
Speaker 1: so but I I kind of keep looking at this
Speaker 1: Detroit Tiger team and seeing what Jackson job did, and
Speaker 1: I mean he's not Trek Scooble, not by any stretch
Speaker 1: of the imagination. But man, if he can just get
Speaker 1: on a runner at the end of the that could
Speaker 1: make a huge difference. That can make a huge difference
Speaker 1: for that team and a huge difference for people grabbing
Speaker 1: him the last couple of weeks listening to you, because
Speaker 1: this is not the first time you've had him on
Speaker 1: the waiver war pick him up this week. It can
Speaker 1: make a huge difference.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know, when I look at the stand
Speaker 2: current standings, the team that bums me out the most,
Speaker 2: I think it's it's number one on my list is
Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners. There's six games under five hundred, and
Speaker 2: you look at that pitch, they should be a They
Speaker 2: should be a far better team than six games under
Speaker 2: five hundred.
Speaker 1: But a couple of weeks ago I brought up with
Speaker 1: that great pitching and he go, is it really that good?
Speaker 1: And then you broke it down. They got famous guys
Speaker 1: who in the past have been really good, but they're not.
Speaker 1: They have been great this season.
Speaker 2: No, And the the offense is such that they need great. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they need to win two to one games, three to
Speaker 2: two games, et cetera. And yeah, that's I just find
Speaker 2: it very, very disheartening when I look at Seattle, because
Speaker 2: I think that team should be a lot better. If
Speaker 2: I was a GM, if I'm brunning that, I'd be
Speaker 2: concerned about my future. I really would. It's that team
Speaker 2: should not be six games under five hundred, at least
Speaker 2: not in my opinion.
Speaker 1: I agree now, I know he's been hurt a lot,
Speaker 1: but he still has played in eighty four games. Kyle
Speaker 1: Riley has twelve hound runs after Timmy get this hitting
Speaker 1: sixty last season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be a difference of forty eight. It's
Speaker 2: a big number.
Speaker 1: TEP ten majored in accounting. Yes, it's good with the numbers.
Speaker 2: Figuratively speaking, I am yes.
Speaker 1: So, I mean if you when you combine the lack
Speaker 1: of production that they've gotten out of the catching decision
Speaker 1: because of Kyle Riley's injury, and then just I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's still hurt, but he's striking out thirty
Speaker 1: two the third of the time he's striking out. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think we all expected he wasn't going to repeat sixty,
Speaker 1: but I don't think anybody's had less than twenty on
Speaker 1: their books for this season. That's what he's going to do.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, not at all. And you start, you know, hey,
Speaker 2: you can live with a low batting average and striking
Speaker 2: over the third of the time when you hit forty
Speaker 2: home runs. When you don't hit forty forty or more. Yeah,
Speaker 2: once you get into the no, you that does not
Speaker 2: make it. That does not make a major league bad?
Speaker 2: Does it a twenty home home run bad? With a
Speaker 2: thirty five percent strikeout? Right? Oops, I ain't working well,
Speaker 2: it's tough.
Speaker 1: What is on base percentage? Just two seventy it's he's
Speaker 1: bet in one sixty three with a two seventy. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's tough. That's why he's batt eighth in the lineup.
Speaker 2: That would be correct.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's just I mean, and then he combined it
Speaker 1: together with the pitching that's just been okay. It's yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. I think it's a yuck season for sure.
Speaker 1: And you would think heads would roll at some point
Speaker 1: in Seattle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody, somebody should pay for a wom would think.
Speaker 1: Yep, Timmy. We went back on Friday. I promise. We
Speaker 1: took off of Friday just because we had a long
Speaker 1: show earlier than the week and I just didn't want
Speaker 1: to take Temple away again. But we're gonna be back
Speaker 1: with Friday, and it's getting towards the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Lots of focus on the playoffs like we've just been
Speaker 1: chatting about, and focus on trying to bring championships home
Speaker 1: for a fantasy managers that listen to us. And then
Speaker 1: we're back next Sunday. So we got a couple few
Speaker 1: more weeks, I mean for the season is there. We're
Speaker 1: going to be at it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a fun time and looking
Speaker 2: looking forwards is solving all of the baseball challenges of
Speaker 2: the world. Rich and hopefully you get your bullpen guy
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: No, no, I'm going to get a bullpen guys. No
Speaker 1: telling if he's going to be the closer or even
Speaker 1: a decent It's just the way it goes. I will
Speaker 1: get guys. I'm sure they will stink like. That's where
Speaker 1: my headspace is at the moment. I have no confidence
Speaker 1: in my ability to get the right guy.
Speaker 2: I just Daniel nail one or two in the next
Speaker 2: to the next three four weeks, and life will all
Speaker 2: be back to being good again. Right No, I.
Speaker 1: Now, I now, Louis Varland. I mean, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've done the scattershot approach. It's yielded me definitely some results,
Speaker 1: but it's yielded me as many just frustrations of just
Speaker 1: throwing my fab away for nothing. And I bet you
Speaker 1: I have spent in many of these leagues sixty seventy
Speaker 1: percent of my fab budget on closers for trying to
Speaker 1: find closers. And that's what's really frustrating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did a survey. It's got to be at
Speaker 2: least five, maybe even longer five years ago and looking
Speaker 2: at I think I looked at tout okay, and I
Speaker 2: looked at the amount of money that was spent on
Speaker 2: fab over the course of a season on the bullpen
Speaker 2: component of the game because I was I was using
Speaker 2: it as an argument for looking at including holes along
Speaker 2: with saves, and I believe the number was close to
Speaker 2: fifty percent of the fab that was spent over the
Speaker 2: course of the year was dedicated to chasing saves. That's
Speaker 2: that's insane.
Speaker 1: It is no, that's I'd be I'd be fit. I'd
Speaker 1: fit perfectly into that leak. That would be be Yeah.
Speaker 2: The ten percent of your counting categories are are are
Speaker 2: sucking fifty percent of the fab out of the system.
Speaker 2: That doesn't make sense at all logically, it really does.
Speaker 1: I agree, and to me and maybe it's just me,
Speaker 1: it's sucking more than fifty percent of my my think time,
Speaker 1: my mind space when I'm supposed to be analyzing my
Speaker 1: team and figuring out what are the right guys to
Speaker 1: put in and looking at closely at pitching, and like,
Speaker 1: I've got seven starters I could put in, which are
Speaker 1: the five best to put in? Because I'm now an
Speaker 1: I don't have time because I'm trying to figure out
Speaker 1: which stupid closer that I'm not gonna get or he's
Speaker 1: gonna stink.
Speaker 2: But it's so frustrating. Yeah, that the time management equation.
Speaker 2: Don't use it rich No.
Speaker 1: No, I mean at some point you do run out
Speaker 1: of time. I mean there is a yah so much
Speaker 1: time you can dedicate to this, And when it's spending
Speaker 1: all your time running in circles, which is what I'm doing,
Speaker 1: running trying to find a freaking closer, it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's just I just wish I knew. I wish I
Speaker 1: knew what I was doing. I just wish I did.
Speaker 1: I know people are listening to us because we're supposed
Speaker 1: to know. I know some stuff. I don't know anything
Speaker 1: about closers.
Speaker 2: Well, you just gotta tart and be fortunate enough to
Speaker 2: toss the right dart at the right time and all things. Hey,
Speaker 2: you look at all the logic, Like I looked at
Speaker 2: Miller and I said, no, there's no way the car,
Speaker 2: there's no way the Giants are moving Miller, he's a
Speaker 2: safe bet. I had him, I think in four or
Speaker 2: five leagues, and then all of a sudden, yeah, Boston,
Speaker 2: who has a loaded bullpen picked them up, and yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it's I agree.
Speaker 1: It is disheartening well that the two leagues I play
Speaker 1: in that are one year leagues. I dressed. I drafted
Speaker 1: to Edwin Diaz. They could look at me. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna lock it down, screwing on a tick, got hurt
Speaker 1: most of the season. And my second guy was uh
Speaker 1: was Santana from Pittsburgh. It's pretty good. I think, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's not a bad second guy. And I like
Speaker 1: free saves and dfaid, so yeah and gone it is gone,
Speaker 1: Like all right, well that didn't work so well.
Speaker 2: Hopefully better days ahead for sure.
Speaker 1: All right, Timmy, let's take a let's let's a wrap,
Speaker 1: my friend. We will see you on Friday.
Speaker 2: Be safe, be well, and good luck to everybody this evening.
Speaker 2: Chasing down those opportunities. There's some good ones this week.
Speaker 2: Don't be shy about spending some cash. Catch you Friday.
Speaker 2: Rich