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Speaker 2: I am spectacled. I actually I used to wear contacts
Speaker 2: when I first started rasball, but then during the pandemic,
Speaker 2: I was like this, I'm not I'm not seeing anyone,
Speaker 2: I'm not doing anything. But what am I putting on
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Speaker 2: I got lazy. That's what happens, man. You get lazy.
Speaker 2: Get life. Life comes at you real fast and you
Speaker 2: get lazy. Uh. So did you see my post on Monday?
Speaker 2: You probably did it.
Speaker 1: I did not grat Okay, I was. I was returning
Speaker 1: from a bachelor party weekend and uh a few days off,
Speaker 1: so it was a long weekend. I h I got
Speaker 1: my lineup set and that was about as much as
Speaker 1: that I got done on Monday.
Speaker 2: Not not not a real excuse, but okay, I'll uh
Speaker 2: I love it slide you know, you know it's not an.
Speaker 1: Excuse for you because you don't drink or you know,
Speaker 1: do anything that would cause recovery time to be necessary.
Speaker 1: But if some of our listeners understand what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear you. I haven't drinking a long time.
Speaker 2: And that wasn't even really I don't. I don't think
Speaker 2: I ever really said I was gonna stop drinking.
Speaker 1: I just did.
Speaker 2: Anyway, So chat GBT, did you see you didn't see this?
Speaker 2: You should open up my my post from today, Uh, Tariq.
Speaker 2: It's hard to get San Juan hit when you're poor
Speaker 2: trek and I don't. I don't know what Rudy was
Speaker 2: doing with the I don't know what Ruy was doing
Speaker 2: with the title the month's title. Rudy said, I was like,
Speaker 2: I need a title. So this is how titles go.
Speaker 2: With Rasball. I send a I send a message a
Speaker 2: DM over to Rudy and I'm like, I need a
Speaker 2: title for Tarik's scuble. He pitched a gem. So then
Speaker 2: Rudy sends me back a title and I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't know what you're talking about. I don't know what
Speaker 2: this means. I mean I might have to defend it
Speaker 2: or something like what if the commenter is like, what's
Speaker 2: your title mean? So I you know, and that has
Speaker 2: happened before, Like a commenter will be like, oh, what
Speaker 2: does the title mean this? And I'll be like, I
Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know. I don't know what's a
Speaker 2: rudey title. I don't know. So I said to Rudy,
Speaker 2: I was like, what's his title mean? He's like, say
Speaker 2: it out loud and I'm like, well, I'm at the movies,
Speaker 2: so I can't really just I can't start talking out
Speaker 2: loud anyway. That wasn't even it didn't that was not
Speaker 2: so you have it open now I do. Okay, So
Speaker 2: look at Matt Urling. So this was chatchbt. Did you
Speaker 2: do you see the CHATCHBT thing?
Speaker 1: I do?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, So I said to chat GBT because
Speaker 2: Rudy was like playing around with chat GBT for our
Speaker 2: football side of things. By the way, the RAS Bowl
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Speaker 1: Anyway, my rankings drap drop on Friday.
Speaker 2: Okay, so beat on his rankings for Fantasy football drop
Speaker 2: on Friday. Okay, so I said, So Rudy said to
Speaker 2: me he's playing around with chat GBT. For I never
Speaker 2: really played around with him. But Rudy was like, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna play around with it and see if it's usable
Speaker 2: for our football, like, you know, for football to do
Speaker 2: like a you know, a Q and A on the
Speaker 2: football projection. So I'm like, okay whatever. He's like, have
Speaker 2: you played around with it all? I'm like, no, I
Speaker 2: haven't played around with it. He's like, you should look
Speaker 2: at you should check it out. So I'm like okay.
Speaker 2: So I, So I go to chat GBT and I'm like,
Speaker 2: give me a few sentences to describe Matt Urling for
Speaker 2: Fantasy Baseball in the style of Gray Albright. Dude, it
Speaker 2: literally gave me me back to me. I mean it
Speaker 2: is like uncanny. I showed this to Kougs and she's like, wow,
Speaker 2: I could I could basically be married to chat GPT.
Speaker 1: Yeah. That's uh. I'm glad that you're finally on board.
Speaker 1: You know you're you know you're old, so it's okay
Speaker 1: that you're late. I mean I'm not young. But like
Speaker 1: the readers know or the listeners know when I use
Speaker 1: chat ebt in my descriptions, Like it's pretty clear. Uh
Speaker 1: it's either in the template that I've wrote every description
Speaker 1: for the last three years, four years, whatever it's been,
Speaker 1: or it's really like entertaining and funny and.
Speaker 2: Uh oh man, dude, it is literally it sent me
Speaker 2: back to me. Man. Like it literally like for people
Speaker 2: who didn't read my Monday post. Uh, it says for
Speaker 2: Matt Urling, it says, matt Urling sounds like the name
Speaker 2: of a guy who installs your ceiling fan then hits
Speaker 2: two homers off your ace the same night. It sounds
Speaker 2: like that, I'd say. And then it says eligible at
Speaker 2: three positions and hotter than a mid July bush light.
Speaker 2: He sneaks putting together a season that says poor man's
Speaker 2: wit and Merryfield with a gym membership. I don't know
Speaker 2: what that means, but it sounds like sometimes, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: not a league this is it continues, not a league winner,
Speaker 2: but a category filler who shows up on waivers every
Speaker 2: may like you up. Don't ignore the upside. He's got
Speaker 2: fifteen ten potential with a dash of why didn't I
Speaker 2: pick him up two weeks ago? My god, this sounds
Speaker 2: just like me. The computers are taking over.
Speaker 1: Man, Yeah great, I'm just gonna I'm gonna write all
Speaker 1: your posts for you. I'm just gonna ask chat ebt,
Speaker 1: you know, summarize last night in Gray Albright done, and
Speaker 1: you can just do you just pay me for whatever
Speaker 1: time you would normally spend writing it, you know. And
Speaker 1: that's how it works. I think that's exactly how most
Speaker 1: company are working. Now. You're just young people feeding the
Speaker 1: older people above them chat GBT, you know, and seeming
Speaker 1: very intelligent.
Speaker 2: We're screwed, okay, anyway, let's see.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna take over the world. Gay, It's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Let's just do a podcast now that chat GIBT could
Speaker 2: have done in thirty seconds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I guess the Pirates really are wondering
Speaker 1: if chat Ebt can bring back o'neo Cruz to you know,
Speaker 1: the player that they thought they were getting back in
Speaker 1: Like April, he wants out of Pittsburgh. You can't really
Speaker 1: blame him for that. I think every player in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: wants out of Pittsburgh unless they can't sign anywhere else.
Speaker 1: April two fifty three, eight home runs, twelve stone bases.
Speaker 1: May he hit two oh two four hum runs six
Speaker 1: to olen bases. You know, not great, but at least
Speaker 1: those the home run stone bases were there. June Gray,
Speaker 1: He's hitting one fifty three with a home run in
Speaker 1: nine stolen bases. He's been benched for lack of hustle
Speaker 1: on multiple occasions. If you've seen any clips or watched
Speaker 1: any Pirates game, you've basically seen it. I mean, what
Speaker 1: do you think in regards to Oneil Cruz, Like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing with him for you know, our purposes
Speaker 1: until he gets traded? Can you can you start him
Speaker 1: at all? Or is it a a hold and pray situation?
Speaker 1: M M.
Speaker 2: Well, I would say, you know, I was thinking I
Speaker 2: should have just asked chat Shipt this, But well, isn't
Speaker 2: he he was good as a shortstop, like as a
Speaker 2: defensive shortstop, right, yeah, yeah, So how did he go
Speaker 2: to the outfield and now he like he's incapable of
Speaker 2: picking up grounders in the outfield by the time he's
Speaker 2: like he's he's like basically like the the reverse me.
Speaker 2: If you were to put me a shortstop and hit
Speaker 2: a one hundred and ten mile per hour grounder at me,
Speaker 2: I would dive out of the way and hide my face.
Speaker 2: And he is basically in the outfield and a thirty
Speaker 2: five mile per hour grounder makes it out to him,
Speaker 2: and he's like, oops, my bad. I really kind of
Speaker 2: like shocked at what Like every time I watch him too, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't watch the Pirates that much, to be honest.
Speaker 2: I watched them occasionally when Paul Skins is pitching or
Speaker 2: if they're going against a team I want to watch,
Speaker 2: But I don't watch the Pirates a ton. But the
Speaker 2: few times I have watched the Pirates, every time the
Speaker 2: ball gets to the outfield, O'Neil.
Speaker 3: Cruiz is it's like an adventure out there for him
Speaker 3: to play center field. The ball is it's so far
Speaker 3: away from the plate and somehow he can't.
Speaker 2: Pick up he can't pick up a grounder in the outfield,
Speaker 2: but he's able to play short stop. It's really puzzling anyway. Uh,
Speaker 2: I don't know if like you mentioned benching him, I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, he is at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: he is a fifteen homer twenty seven steel guy right now.
Speaker 2: I know the average isn't good, but fifteen homers in
Speaker 2: twenty seven steels, I don't know if you can really
Speaker 2: bench that. I know June has been a miserable month
Speaker 2: for him, but yeah, I mean I get it. I
Speaker 2: do think he is like miserable, which I mean, he
Speaker 2: seems miserable, and I would imagine I would be two
Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh, So I mean, I can't fault the guy
Speaker 2: for being miserable in the same place I would also
Speaker 2: be miserable. But uh, yeah, I mean he he's definitely
Speaker 2: I mean, he's definitely struggling. In the month of June,
Speaker 2: he had what was it, one sixty nine in the
Speaker 2: month of June one fifty three. It was a bad month.
Speaker 2: Whatever it was, it was a bad he Actually he
Speaker 2: had two homers on Sunday and and raised his June
Speaker 2: numbers a little bit, so the numbers you said were
Speaker 2: a little bit lower. But he he definitely, I mean,
Speaker 2: he definitely looks like a mess and doesn't look happy,
Speaker 2: which is not good. Uh, but I don't know if
Speaker 2: you can really bench him with that much talent. I mean,
Speaker 2: he was, he was struggling, and like I just mentioned,
Speaker 2: he he had a good Sunday with a two homer Sunday.
Speaker 2: So I'm imagining, you know, he could get hot this
Speaker 2: week and make all this sort of a moot point
Speaker 2: and have like a hot July potentially. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm fine with you know, starting him every day.
Speaker 2: I think you got a you know, certain guys you
Speaker 2: just sort of have to run out there and let them,
Speaker 2: you know, art for your fantasy team rain or shine,
Speaker 2: and hopefully at the end of you know, the six
Speaker 2: month season, you have good stats. I don't really I
Speaker 2: don't know, really like what it's going to take other
Speaker 2: than potentially a trade to really get him totally right.
Speaker 2: But he, yeah, he seems miserable. I don't know what
Speaker 2: else he'll say on that. I think, I mean, he
Speaker 2: strikes out a ton, so he's gonna be prone to
Speaker 2: these you know, incredibly deep valley slumps, and that's it
Speaker 2: seems to be what he's going through right now. I imagine,
Speaker 2: you know, when he gets hot, it'll be it'll be
Speaker 2: the opposite and he'll have you know, his his May.
Speaker 2: His May wasn't great. I believe it was what was
Speaker 2: his April that was really solid. So he's coming. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so he's kind of having you know, he's kind of
Speaker 2: had back to back sort of miserable months. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean in April. I do remember in April, people are like,
Speaker 2: oh my god, Like I think I actually might even
Speaker 2: said this. I don't know chat GPT would know for sure,
Speaker 2: but I think I might even said that O'Neill Cruz
Speaker 2: looks like it's, you know, this guy who's hitting in April,
Speaker 2: looks like the guy who's going to be a top ten,
Speaker 2: top fifteen overall player in twenty twenty six. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that didn't happen. Obviously. The strikeouts are just so crazy.
Speaker 2: He's just like he doesn't make enough contact to really
Speaker 2: have a consistent year from you know, month to month,
Speaker 2: so there is going to be these huge slumps. I
Speaker 2: think probably like if he were to bring his contact
Speaker 2: into you know a little bit better like Ellie da
Speaker 2: La Cruz. I mean, he seemed like he was going
Speaker 2: to be a contact issue for his whole career and
Speaker 2: his contact right like, he's at a twenty five percent
Speaker 2: strikeout rate, hitting two eighty, which reminds me kind of
Speaker 2: what with Bobby Wood Junior what we thought of him
Speaker 2: when he first came up. We thought Bobby Wood Junior
Speaker 2: was going to be a batting average risk with his
Speaker 2: contact and he was able to figure it out. And
Speaker 2: also going even further back, I remember that for Chris
Speaker 2: Bryant was when he originally came up, he was striking
Speaker 2: out like thirty percent of the time and then he
Speaker 2: was able to figure out. Anthony Rizzo was another guy.
Speaker 2: But yeah, so guys do occasionally figure it out, like
Speaker 2: not always, but some guys do figure it out. And
Speaker 2: I think O'Neil Cruz is young enough maybe where he
Speaker 2: could still but it seems like that sort of ship
Speaker 2: has passed at this point, Like he's he's young, He's
Speaker 2: young enough, but not quite young enough to figure out
Speaker 2: his contact where I think, you know, maybe he gets
Speaker 2: it down to twenty nine twenty eight percent at some
Speaker 2: point if he gets into a good groove for a
Speaker 2: long period of time. But right now he he seems
Speaker 2: like he's a thirty plus percent strikeout rate guy, which
Speaker 2: is gonna be you know, at best, probably to fifty
Speaker 2: ish hitter, maybe potentially you know, two fifty five.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: He actually hit two thirty nine in twenty twenty four
Speaker 2: with a thirty percent strikeout right, So he does hit
Speaker 2: the ball so hard, so that that is good. That's
Speaker 2: he's got that going for him, hitting the ball hard.
Speaker 2: So but at thirty three percent, it's gonna you know,
Speaker 2: which is strikeout right now? At thirty three point six percent,
Speaker 2: that is gonna be, that's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 2: a struggle for him to hit hired in like two thirty.
Speaker 2: So I do still think you have to start him
Speaker 2: every day though, because of the power and speed and
Speaker 2: like Sunday with the two homer game he has, you know,
Speaker 2: he has the ability to have like out of nowhere
Speaker 2: these great games, and you don't want to have that
Speaker 2: on your bench. So yeah, I'm still on board with
Speaker 2: o'neo Cruz.
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're you're still starting him, Let me throw
Speaker 1: some names at you on whether you would trade O'Neill
Speaker 1: Cruz out for these players. But let's start with Bobashev. No. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's aim a little bit higher than that. How about
Speaker 1: Ian Hap?
Speaker 2: So in your scenario, you have Ian Hap on your
Speaker 2: bench and you you want to start him at utility
Speaker 2: over O'Neal Cruz.
Speaker 1: Is that what I'm saying? You're like tired of ONEO
Speaker 1: Cruz and you're looking.
Speaker 2: At going off with you Ian Hap?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I would I would keep on'eo Cruz in that scenario.
Speaker 1: Okay. How about Byron Buxton? Would you buy into his
Speaker 1: his hot season? No?
Speaker 2: Because I think he's gonna get injured at any point,
Speaker 2: So I'm not getting into that.
Speaker 1: Okay, And I guess let's go all the way to
Speaker 1: the last name I have here, uh CJ Abrams.
Speaker 2: I would go C J Abrams over O'Neill Cruz.
Speaker 1: Okay. So there's there's gonna be a point where, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just take take the guy who's who's performing right now,
Speaker 1: and you know, of equal value.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, let's move on.
Speaker 1: Then let's talk about a player we all kind of liked. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we all liked him, but he
Speaker 1: got a lot of draft type right at the end
Speaker 1: of draft season, and that is Cam Smith, and he
Speaker 1: was he's kind of doing the opposite of O'Neill Cruz
Speaker 1: where he started out terrible. He was hitting two thirteen
Speaker 1: with three homers in a stolen base in April May.
Speaker 1: You know, he hit for a little bit better average,
Speaker 1: but only one stolen base, no home runs, got dropped
Speaker 1: a lot of places. And now in June Gray He's
Speaker 1: hit three eighteen with four home runs, two stone bases,
Speaker 1: fourteen runs and sixteen RBIs you know, he does seem
Speaker 1: to be hitting better in Houston. That's that's not really
Speaker 1: surprising giving the ballpark. But what are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Cam Smith? Are you going to grab him up pretty
Speaker 1: much across the board or is this more of a
Speaker 1: you know, depending on what your roster in corner Enfield
Speaker 1: is looking like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I you know I still have I still
Speaker 2: have him in a league or two.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 2: This could potentially be his breakout. I mean, we we
Speaker 2: saw a guy who came up and was overmatched in April,
Speaker 2: and you know, a bit in May as well, even
Speaker 2: though was a little bit higher average, but still was
Speaker 2: kind of overmatched. And now in June, he started, you know,
Speaker 2: he started to hit for power, he was hitting for average,
Speaker 2: he was doing everything, and an adjustment period of like,
Speaker 2: you know, two months for a twenty two year old
Speaker 2: is like nothing. I mean that that is really like
Speaker 2: I feel like if we saw a similar pattern with
Speaker 2: Roman Anthony, we would think nothing of it either. And
Speaker 2: cam Smith, like if everyone remembers, we were crazy excited
Speaker 2: about him in March because of how insane he was
Speaker 2: doing in spring training, and then adjustment period happened in
Speaker 2: April and May, and now he's coming out of in June.
Speaker 2: It's not an unheard of pattern for a rookie hitter.
Speaker 2: So I think this could be his breakout. Like this,
Speaker 2: this is potentially cam Smith becoming who we thought he
Speaker 2: was back in March. I'm completely bought in. I. You know,
Speaker 2: I mentioned I already had him in leagues. I never
Speaker 2: really I didn't drop them in the leagues I had.
Speaker 2: I might have dropped him in one league, that's not true.
Speaker 2: I potentially could have dropped him in May in a
Speaker 2: shallower in like a twelve team league. I probably did
Speaker 2: drop him, but I have him also in a fifteen
Speaker 2: team league, where I never dropped him and I think
Speaker 2: I benched him at certain points in April and May,
Speaker 2: but he's definitely he's been in the mainstay in my
Speaker 2: lineup now for the month of June, and hopefully this
Speaker 2: is him, you know, taking off and becoming who we
Speaker 2: thought he was, which is you know, I think he is.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's insanely talented, like he has you know,
Speaker 2: seventy great power potential, you know, forty homer power, has
Speaker 2: ten steel speed. His hitting right now at twenty six
Speaker 2: point seven percent strikeout rate on the year, and that's
Speaker 2: including you know, some of those you know, some of
Speaker 2: the struggles he had early on in watch McCall in April,
Speaker 2: he's hit. He had a twenty five percent strikeout rate
Speaker 2: in June for a twenty two year old, Like that's
Speaker 2: kind of like that's star. That's like basically, if I,
Speaker 2: you know, in a year's time, look back on Cam
Speaker 2: Smith and he's a star in twenty twenty six, I
Speaker 2: could look at the month of June as being the
Speaker 2: point when he started breaking out and becoming that superstar.
Speaker 2: So I I and that wouldn't be a shock to
Speaker 2: me to have that happen. So yeah, I think this
Speaker 2: is you know, I if Cam Smith is out there,
Speaker 2: I would actually I would absolutely be buying in and
Speaker 2: in Keepers in Dynasty for next year. If you can
Speaker 2: still get Cam Smith for a relatively decent price in
Speaker 2: a Keeper of Dynasty. Now's the time to be doing it,
Speaker 2: because if he keeps, you know, in July and August,
Speaker 2: he keeps progressing and getting better and better, it's gonna
Speaker 2: be a more expensive, you know, proposition to try and
Speaker 2: trade for him at that point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, maybe you can use this the
Speaker 1: home road splits to get that value or keep that value,
Speaker 1: you know, relatively affordable. Three eleven five home runs and
Speaker 1: three stolen bases at home, two forty three two home
Speaker 1: runs and a stolen base on the road. Who do
Speaker 1: he do? Uys have ten less games on the road
Speaker 1: for the you know, the home run stolen base numbers.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you some names, you know, Cam Smith
Speaker 1: or if you're looking at you know, maybe your free
Speaker 1: agent wire, you're looking at your roster. Maybe you have
Speaker 1: some of these guys and Cam Smith is sitting there.
Speaker 1: If you have brooks Lee who's actually been okay recently,
Speaker 1: would you drop brooks Lee for Cam Smith?
Speaker 2: I would?
Speaker 1: Okay, let's move up the boy a little bit. How
Speaker 1: about Josh Smith, who is he's been solid?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would go to Cam Smith.
Speaker 1: Okay, Willie Castro out of the utility player, but if
Speaker 1: you're starting him, particularly at third base, a different, different.
Speaker 2: Type of player, but I would go Cam Smith, Okay,
Speaker 2: equal kind of June breakout.
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer.
Speaker 2: M that's a that's a tough one because Spencer Steer
Speaker 2: could potentially be breaking out as well from his early struggles.
Speaker 2: I'd probably go camp Smith though.
Speaker 1: All Right, one more, how about how about Alec Baum,
Speaker 1: who you know has been very solid this year, just
Speaker 1: doing his Alec Baumb thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, super boring but somewhat valuable, doing his normal, his
Speaker 2: normy type thing. I would go camp Smith because Alec Baum,
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I mean, you know
Speaker 2: what you're getting, it's like top twenty ish third baseman
Speaker 2: because of average runs and nothing really else. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I would go camp Smith just for the upside.
Speaker 1: Okay, you were you were in on camp Smith and
Speaker 1: Gray I like it, and I'm also in on him.
Speaker 1: I picked him up in the I think he was
Speaker 1: available in two leagues and I got him in one
Speaker 1: and got outfit in the other so definitely worth grabbing
Speaker 1: if he's still yeah, actually.
Speaker 2: In Cam Smith's defense, which I don't know if he
Speaker 2: needs defense because we're obviously profusely talking about how much
Speaker 2: we like him. But if player Raider for the season,
Speaker 2: this is player Raider for the season. Third baseman rankings,
Speaker 2: Cam Smith is above Josh Smith, Willie Castrow, brooks Lee,
Speaker 2: and just about even a little bit below Alec Baum
Speaker 2: but close and Alec Bomb. Like I mentioned, is you know,
Speaker 2: he's being bullied by good batting average and some runs
Speaker 2: actually okay, so yeah, so so Cam Smith is even
Speaker 2: with those struggles in April and May, overall for the
Speaker 2: year has actually been pretty good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he has been. I mean again, you just kind
Speaker 1: of ignoring what's happened because that's already happened. You can't
Speaker 1: do anything about it. And he's been he's been good
Speaker 1: since making that adjustment. Hopefully you can continue that going forward,
Speaker 1: and like you said, hopefully he is a guy that
Speaker 1: we all want to draft in twenty twenty six. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about some people who have struggled in June, like
Speaker 1: o Neil Cruz did Gray and these are all gonna
Speaker 1: be highly owned guys. Gray and you know, we're not
Speaker 1: necessarily I don't think we're dropping any of guys. These
Speaker 1: guys all act to you. Maybe maybe one of these
Speaker 1: guys might be starting inter that territory. But let's get
Speaker 1: into it. Let's start with Jaren Duran. April he is
Speaker 1: he had two seventy nine, two runs, ten stone bases,
Speaker 1: was doing everything you want him to do. May two
Speaker 1: fifty eight runs three stone base is not not exactly great,
Speaker 1: but okay. In June two o six one home run
Speaker 1: and two stolen bases.
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on Jaron Duran? I, you know,
Speaker 2: I think he's another one where I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 2: if he's potentially moved in the trade during the trade deadline,
Speaker 2: because he doesn't seem happy either or and not happy
Speaker 2: in Boston potentially. I don't know if I don't know
Speaker 2: what they're gonna do, but they have to. I feel
Speaker 2: like they have to get rid of one more guy
Speaker 2: still the Red Sox that is uh and Duran feels
Speaker 2: like the odd man out potentially. So I look at
Speaker 2: his numbers and I think he looks to me like
Speaker 2: he's just having like a bit of an off year.
Speaker 2: It doesn't like it. It looks like like his strikeouts
Speaker 2: are up progressively each month they've gotten worse, uh slump.
Speaker 2: The slumps have you know, have extended into like, you know,
Speaker 2: weeks at a time, like you mentioned June has been bad.
Speaker 2: May wasn't that good. I mean, he's really fast. So
Speaker 2: I mean, the the real problem, like or not the problem,
Speaker 2: but the the unfortunate thing is like that the steals
Speaker 2: haven't even been there because like you know, at worst
Speaker 2: case scenario, guy that fast, you would hope would get
Speaker 2: on base and steal some you know, steal some bags
Speaker 2: to help with his fantasy value even if he's not
Speaker 2: hitting for power. But the I mean, the the bigger issue,
Speaker 2: and I think why his his year. It looks like
Speaker 2: his year is going to be down overall because like
Speaker 2: the hard hit is down for the year, the fly
Speaker 2: balls aren't down, and the ground balls aren't up. So
Speaker 2: the fact that he's not hitting for power makes me
Speaker 2: think that he's just he's he's not making good contact unfortunately,
Speaker 2: and you know that feels like it's something that's just
Speaker 2: dragging on now going on like three months half the
Speaker 2: season now, where he's just not making that good of contact.
Speaker 2: So I I think this feels like a down year
Speaker 2: for him. I don't know. I mean, maybe he still
Speaker 2: comes out of it. Maybe he starts hitting for power
Speaker 2: in the second half and you know, he or he
Speaker 2: gets traded and you know, wherever he goes it becomes
Speaker 2: a non issue there maybe, But yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2: His numbers don't like, his strikeouts are up a little bit,
Speaker 2: but not really up that much. It's really the hard
Speaker 2: the hard contact that's down that has me fairly concerned
Speaker 2: because you know, nothing else in his batted ball profile
Speaker 2: really is jumping out like a launch angle. Well it's
Speaker 2: you know, up a little bit, but not that bad
Speaker 2: from last year, and you know, it's just sort of
Speaker 2: like not really great. You know, just not making solid
Speaker 2: contact is really seems to be the issue. And that,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, he could come out of that.
Speaker 2: It's possible. I would probably be selling low. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: be dropping though I would. I would. You know, it
Speaker 2: depends on the trade that people get offered and how
Speaker 2: much you can trade for someone here. But I would
Speaker 2: probably be looking to trade low a little bit, not
Speaker 2: not like, you know, insanely low, but I don't think
Speaker 2: you're getting draft value anyway, Like he was a top
Speaker 2: twenty pick in the draft, so you're not getting that.
Speaker 2: But if you can get top fifty right now, I'd
Speaker 2: probably take it, just at a concern that he never
Speaker 2: really out of this. And you know, because like last
Speaker 2: year he had twenty one homers, stole thirty four bags.
Speaker 2: This year, if he breaks you know, twelve homers and
Speaker 2: twenty five or thirty, I mean, he could still get
Speaker 2: the steals that those coming up, Those can come in
Speaker 2: a handful in a bunch. So I but the homers
Speaker 2: really are what I think is never not going to
Speaker 2: get there this year. So if he breaks twelve homers
Speaker 2: this year, I feel like that would be a victory
Speaker 2: for him. And that is way below where I think
Speaker 2: preseason projections had him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I'm not I had I had him
Speaker 1: ranked you know pretty much, I think around eightp So
Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and say I didn't
Speaker 1: like him. But I was worried because the twenty one
Speaker 1: home runs kind of came out of nowhere. It's not
Speaker 1: something that was really in his profile prior to that.
Speaker 1: And it seems like, you know, his true home run
Speaker 1: numbers maybe in the teens rather than in the low twenties.
Speaker 1: That is disappointing. You know, I think in regards to
Speaker 1: the hard hit gray to maybe calming you down a
Speaker 1: little bit. It does depend on what hard hit you're using,
Speaker 1: because there's the the Fangraphs hard hit, which combines how
Speaker 1: the ball is launched and it has to be in
Speaker 1: a certain you know, window of that. And then there's
Speaker 1: the stat cast hard hit, which is strictly how hard
Speaker 1: the ball comes off the bat. In the stat cast,
Speaker 1: how hard the ball comes off the bat, it's actually up.
Speaker 1: It's actually the best of his career along with the
Speaker 1: average exit velocity, so in you know, in theory, he's
Speaker 1: actually hitting the ball harder. But it is also the
Speaker 1: highest launch angle he's had, and that's been an issue
Speaker 1: in June where it's climbed to like a fifteen and
Speaker 1: a half sixteen launch angle, and his last year he
Speaker 1: was at a nine and a half for the season,
Speaker 1: so that may be The issue is just like he
Speaker 1: needs to put the ball on the ground. He needs
Speaker 1: to hit you know, line drives and ground balls, and
Speaker 1: right now it feels like he's you know, the twenty
Speaker 1: one home runs got him feeling himself a little. He
Speaker 1: went a little Willie Mays Hayes trying to launch everything
Speaker 1: and just hitting warning track balls. You know, forty seven
Speaker 1: percent fly balls in June only fifteen percent line drive.
Speaker 1: That just feels like a like he's just trying to
Speaker 1: launch everything for some reason. One thing that he didn't
Speaker 1: have last year is is bad splits. He was better
Speaker 1: at home than than on the road last year. But
Speaker 1: two ten versus lefties this year and two seventy five
Speaker 1: versus righties. That was a lot closer last year. So
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what's going on that. That maybe again
Speaker 1: just a swing path thing where it's it's harder to
Speaker 1: hit lefties. If if you're trying to uppercut everything in
Speaker 1: regards to selling Gray top top thirty outfielder, would you
Speaker 1: would you take? I mean, the rest of season on
Speaker 1: the top thirty would be like Riley Green's at twenty nine.
Speaker 2: I would take Riley Green, Okay, So you would.
Speaker 1: Take a pretty much a top thirty outfielder as long
Speaker 1: as they have I would say, you know, at least
Speaker 1: some upside at that point, because there's a few names
Speaker 1: on the rest of the season that you know, we
Speaker 1: you and I probably wouldn't have there, But it's a
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's it's the projection system. But yes,
Speaker 1: I think top thirty is about about the right area grade.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can tell them as a top twenty just
Speaker 1: based on the stolen bases to the right team. But
Speaker 1: I think that's probably where you're looking.
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm, yeah, like looking at the UH, looking at
Speaker 2: what what has already happened the player raider for the
Speaker 2: season thus far, the guys in the UH in the
Speaker 2: top twenty outfielders. Uh, So this would be buying high
Speaker 2: because these guys have already been the top twenty outfielders
Speaker 2: so far for this year. Out of those guys who
Speaker 2: I wouldn't necessarily trade Byron Buxton would be a guy
Speaker 2: I would not trade Duran for. And also Yelich, Andy
Speaker 2: Page's Hunter Goodman, who's top fifteen outfielder actually right now,
Speaker 2: but you probably have my Catcher and Helio Ramos and
Speaker 2: Taylor Ward, but guys who I so then, so that
Speaker 2: leaves the guys who I would Aaron Judge obviously, Pete Crow, Armstrong,
Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, James would, Juan Soto, Saya, Suzuki, Riley Green,
Speaker 2: Cormyn Carrol, Who's injured right now, but I would still
Speaker 2: trade for him Jackson, Cheerio Tatis, Brenton Rooker, Julio Rodriguez,
Speaker 2: Taeoscar Hernandez, and aforementioned O'Neil Cruz, which would probably be
Speaker 2: probably a trade you could do. I think I would.
Speaker 2: I would take O'Neil Cruz over Duran because I think
Speaker 2: the power is higher and the steels are relatively the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean they're they're both contact issue guys right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Duran's average is going to be better. But you know,
Speaker 2: I would go oneal Cruz over Duran, Okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And there's a few guys after, Like you named
Speaker 1: a few guys you wouldn't take. There's definitely a few
Speaker 1: guys after Duran you would still take, like probably Jazz,
Speaker 1: you know, I just looking down the list, maybe maybe
Speaker 1: a guy we're gonna talk about here a little bit
Speaker 1: as well. But you really do hate Nanty Pye, So
Speaker 1: you just you just don't buy it.
Speaker 2: I don't. I wouldn't say I hate it. It's just
Speaker 2: it's like, you know, it's a sample size of a
Speaker 2: major league, sample size of three months. I mean I
Speaker 2: have them in a league, I you know, I have
Speaker 2: them in my tow Wars league, where I am currently
Speaker 2: in first place. But I would say with Andy Payes,
Speaker 2: I like him. I just you know, it's like, how
Speaker 2: much can you trust a guy who's only been who's
Speaker 2: only done it for half a season. I mean it's fine,
Speaker 2: it's good. I mean he's been great. He's a top
Speaker 2: twenty outfielder right now. So you know, I'm not kicking
Speaker 2: it off my team. But I would still take Duran, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, for just to put it together and potentially
Speaker 2: be uh, you know, a top five outfielder or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely agree with the upside play, especially if
Speaker 1: you're you know, you're needing to chase some some points
Speaker 1: and get back into things. You gotta you gotta take
Speaker 1: a risk of some guys to turn it around. I
Speaker 1: think we would both. You know, I actually take Jackson
Speaker 1: Merrill over him despite his struggles in June, correct, Gray.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I would take Jackson Merrill.
Speaker 1: All right. So Merrill's first thirty one games April through May,
Speaker 1: since he he did miss some time, but the first
Speaker 1: thirty one games he hit three twenty two, three sixty two,
Speaker 1: five twelve and nineteen percent k raid a five and
Speaker 1: a half percent walk rate, five home runs of stolen base.
Speaker 1: Is it is all going well? Twenty games in June,
Speaker 1: he's hitting two fifty three thirty three, three fifty five,
Speaker 1: no home runs, no stolen bases. You know, the numbers
Speaker 1: in general look okay, Gray, but what are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Jackson Merrill and just the power speed drying up?
Speaker 2: This is like, this is probably confirmation by it, but
Speaker 2: I feel like with Jackson Merrill and Gunner and I'm
Speaker 2: thinking of Gunner Henderson as well, and like guys who
Speaker 2: just get injured and then they come back and they're
Speaker 2: never the same or at least not the same this
Speaker 2: year and it takes them yeah, yeah, this season because
Speaker 2: it just feels like sometimes like these guys get injured
Speaker 2: and it's just like they just don't come back, right.
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I'm concerned about Jackson merriw. I
Speaker 2: think he's probably injured still, but it's like, how do
Speaker 2: you you know, what do you do with that information?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if he is really
Speaker 2: injured still. I'm saying I think he might be because
Speaker 2: just the numbers look so terrible, But I don't know.
Speaker 2: I would probably I'd be looking to buy low on
Speaker 2: him just because you know, it's like, how long can
Speaker 2: he stay injured? I mean, I would assume he's gonna
Speaker 2: like I'm assuming he's gonna get healthy. Like that's like
Speaker 2: the same way I feel about Gunner Henderson aka Grounder
Speaker 2: Henderson with this awful long jangle this year, Man, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna be so out on Gunner Henderson. Next year he's
Speaker 2: gonna have like he's gonna be a top three Fantasy
Speaker 2: next year. It's gonna be so awful. I already know it.
Speaker 2: I already know what's gonna happen. But back to Jackson Merrill, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean his ground balls are up, hard
Speaker 2: hit looks down again. It's like you know, unfortunately, like
Speaker 2: you mentioned with Duran, none of these sites can get
Speaker 2: on the same page using the same data. So I
Speaker 2: say hard hit is down, and then you look at
Speaker 2: a different site it looks like their heart hit is up.
Speaker 2: So I don't know, but what I'm looking at right now,
Speaker 2: it looks like Jackson Merrill's hardhead is down. I'm on fangraphs,
Speaker 2: so maybe stadcast is showing something differently. I don't know
Speaker 2: why these people can't all get on the same page anyway.
Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill is ground balls are up, five balls are down.
Speaker 2: Hard hits down. But he's probably just injured or he's
Speaker 2: probably you know, struggling to come back from the injury
Speaker 2: he had earlier. Uh so he's just not one hundred
Speaker 2: percent yet. But that could you know, at some point
Speaker 2: that could click and he could have a huge second half.
Speaker 2: So I would be buying him. But there's no there's
Speaker 2: nothing really to point to and be like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: this is why he should be better. I mean his
Speaker 2: numbers look.
Speaker 1: Like, eh, yeah, I mean that's that's pretty much where
Speaker 1: we're at right now. With the numbers. You're buying based
Speaker 1: on kind of the upside, based on what we saw
Speaker 1: last year. And you know, the injury narrative makes it
Speaker 1: easy to say, yeah, I mean he just gets it,
Speaker 1: gets gets healthy and kind of gets back in the
Speaker 1: flow of things and you know, turn things around. So
Speaker 1: it's it's definitely a narrative that you can buy into. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, just looking at the player Raider Gray, let's
Speaker 1: start with you know, maybe uh, let's start Jan Duran.
Speaker 1: Would you have have Duran or Meryl uh Merrill? Okay,
Speaker 1: I think we actually asked you that already h Ian
Speaker 1: hat uh uh I would go Meryl, Okay, I do
Speaker 1: feel like Ian Happ is basically like the average version
Speaker 1: of Merrill. So you're like trading one that's struggling for
Speaker 1: like the average version when Meryl still has the upside.
Speaker 2: Ian Happ is like the guy who's like for fantasy.
Speaker 2: It's like, if you can take Ian Hap over Player A,
Speaker 2: then player A should probably be on waivers. It's like,
Speaker 2: as good as Ian Hap is every year, it's impossible
Speaker 2: to say like, oh, yeah, I want Ian Hap, Like
Speaker 2: do you really want them? I mean you should, you
Speaker 2: should want them, but do you really want them? It's hard.
Speaker 2: It's hard to be like, yes, I want Ian Happ.
Speaker 2: It's so boring.
Speaker 1: It's It's definitely one of those draft and hold or
Speaker 1: type of plays where like you don't have to look
Speaker 1: at it, you just come back the season You're like,
Speaker 1: Ian Half is the man. He's a top twenty five outfielder,
Speaker 1: twenty outfielder every year. Why does nobody want this guy?
Speaker 1: But yeah, you have to look at it week by week.
Speaker 1: Give me a little.
Speaker 2: Brutal He's probably like the best guy for like a
Speaker 2: best ball or like a Gladiator league. It's like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I drafted Ian Half. Now I never have to think
Speaker 2: about him again.
Speaker 1: And nobody wanted him, so you know I got him late.
Speaker 1: How about how about one Cruise Gray We talked about
Speaker 1: him already, No Cruiser or Jackson Marrie.
Speaker 2: I would go Neil Cruz.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go somewhere in the middle of those two.
Speaker 1: Then how about Taoscar. I feel like Taoskar is a
Speaker 1: good middle.
Speaker 2: I would go ta Oscar.
Speaker 1: Okay. So you're willing to give up a guy, but
Speaker 1: not necessarily a like a top fifteen or maybe.
Speaker 2: At a hard one. It would be a hard trade
Speaker 2: to do an Andy Pies. That would be hard. I would,
Speaker 2: but it would be hard. It would be difficult though.
Speaker 2: I would struggle with it, but I would do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, James Wood, I'm assuming you take James Wood
Speaker 1: over Oh you gotta take James Wood, you know.
Speaker 2: Thank god? Thank I mean thank god I had James
Speaker 2: Wood over Jackson Merrill in my rankings because I took
Speaker 2: James Wood in every league, and thank god I did.
Speaker 2: If I would ahead Jackson Merrill in every league instead
Speaker 2: of James Wood, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be thrilled
Speaker 2: with myself right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I thought I had James Wood high,
Speaker 1: but you're you were definitely even higher than on him
Speaker 1: than I was. It's uh, he's been great and and uh,
Speaker 1: well hopefully we'll be for a long time. Uh. That's
Speaker 1: also what we thought about Jackson Merrill though, so we
Speaker 1: will see. Uh a guy we also assume was just
Speaker 1: continued being good after a down season last year. Gray
Speaker 1: and next two guys, you know, we thought the return
Speaker 1: of Vicunya might kickstart the Braves offense, and it has
Speaker 1: for a couple of players, but for a few players
Speaker 1: it has not. A couple of those are Alsie Albi's
Speaker 1: and Michael Harris. Albi's has not been good at any
Speaker 1: point this season, but it's getting worse. Gray April two
Speaker 1: thirty eight, four home runs, four stolen bases. Not great,
Speaker 1: but kind of an Albi's line the year. You know,
Speaker 1: he'll he'll have a good month somewhere and build off that.
Speaker 1: May two thirty two home runs, a stone base. Again
Speaker 1: not great. Maybe there's better time to come. That did
Speaker 1: not happen in June. He's sitting one ninety eight. He
Speaker 1: has no home runs two stolen bases. He's always destroyed
Speaker 1: lefties Gray He's not even doing that every home run
Speaker 1: he has his versus right yes, which is so weird
Speaker 1: for him. I mean, this is the maybe the one
Speaker 1: guy on this list I want to ask, does he
Speaker 1: need to be owned at this point?
Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I think I think we've
Speaker 2: reached a point where you can drop Ozsi Alby's. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I I've already. I think I finally I had him
Speaker 2: in my in an hour RCL league, a league that
Speaker 2: I'm struggling for the first time in probably a decade,
Speaker 2: but I am. I've had Ozzy Alby's and I've benched
Speaker 2: him a couple of times. I think I might be
Speaker 2: dropping them soon. I think it's I think we've gone
Speaker 2: to the point where it's just not it's not happening.
Speaker 2: Uh And maybe it does at some point happen. But
Speaker 2: is the upside really worth the you know, how much
Speaker 2: you're going through the stress of like you know, or
Speaker 2: the the ulcer you're that is building up in your
Speaker 2: body to own Ozzi Alby's right now? I don't think
Speaker 2: it is. I mean, I don't think the upside is
Speaker 2: really that great to you know, deal with what he's
Speaker 2: doing now. It's just not it's not like, Oh, when
Speaker 2: he gets hot, he's gonna put up, you know, a
Speaker 2: fifteen homer month and you know he's going to carry
Speaker 2: your team, Like, I don't think so it seems on
Speaker 2: it seems doubtful at this point, Like, you know, he's
Speaker 2: at a six homer, seven steal two twenty three a
Speaker 2: year right now. Even if he gets hot and he's
Speaker 2: like and he has a great second half, what's he
Speaker 2: going to end up with twenty twenty fifteen season. So
Speaker 2: you're looking at fourteen homers and thirteen you know, or
Speaker 2: eight thirteen homers and eight steals the rest of the way,
Speaker 2: which is like, I mean, it's fine for a second basement,
Speaker 2: but it's not really that amazing that you have to
Speaker 2: hold on to him through all this. So I think
Speaker 2: it's time to move on from Ozzie Alby's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if you know, maybe he's just trying
Speaker 1: to get out of this terrible contract he signed Gray.
Speaker 2: I mean, they got.
Speaker 1: Club they've got club options for the next two years.
Speaker 1: Not wily, you'd be like seven million dollars for a
Speaker 1: second basement, absolutely, but if he continues this this path,
Speaker 1: they may be like, nah, I'll just uh, we'll just
Speaker 1: pay a minor league, you know, the league man and
Speaker 1: uh and get the same numbers. At this point, maybe
Speaker 1: there's just a long con here.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, maybe maybe he's like Ricky Jay in disguise.
Speaker 2: I think, uh, he's right now on the Player Raider.
Speaker 2: He's behind Gavin Lux on the play Raider for second baseman,
Speaker 2: and Gavin Lux is not good. So I mean that
Speaker 2: give that gives you kind of an idea of what
Speaker 2: you're dealing with. Ozzy Alveys. He's way behind Ernie Clement.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just mentioning guys who I think are
Speaker 2: probably on waivers in leagues. I mean he's like, you know,
Speaker 2: he's behind jor Hey Polongo, He's behind Willie Castro. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's behind Caleb Durbin. I mean, he's behind so many
Speaker 2: guys on the Player Raider who are read available. So
Speaker 2: it's like, yeah, just move on.
Speaker 1: Yep, number eight, second basement player, Otto Lopez, who I'm
Speaker 1: still picking up in leagues for free. Yeah, move on.
Speaker 1: It's it's time. I hate to say it because I'm
Speaker 1: a big Alsie Albis fan. I have been for a
Speaker 1: long time, but it looks bad, as does this next guy, Gray,
Speaker 1: who you've always kind of kind of been the low
Speaker 1: man on and you know, kudos for you for having
Speaker 1: him buried in your rankings, and that is, of course,
Speaker 1: Michael Harris the second April two thirty three, three home runs,
Speaker 1: six stolen bases, sixteen point eight strikeout rate. Okay, doing okay,
Speaker 1: Well we'll build May two forty five, zero home runs,
Speaker 1: four stolen bases, twenty percent strikeout rate.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, go ahead, good continue.
Speaker 1: June one forty eight, three home runs. At least there's
Speaker 1: three home runs in a stolen base, twenty seven percent
Speaker 1: strikeout right, though Gray has jumped eleven percent from where
Speaker 1: we started, really ten and a half, but still ten
Speaker 1: and a half percent on the strikeout rate is an
Speaker 1: absurd jump, even in a monthly sample, because strikeout rate
Speaker 1: is one of the first things that normalizes. Like, that's
Speaker 1: what's going on here, Gray. He is a four point
Speaker 1: eight line drive rate in June.
Speaker 2: I'm reminded of a scarface when he says to Michelle Pfeiffer,
Speaker 2: your womb is polluted. That's the braves. The braves womb
Speaker 2: is polluted because there's a lot of problems there. I
Speaker 2: can't quite figure out why they have so many issues
Speaker 2: with like these otherwise talented hitters. There really are a mess.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 2: It's going on two years now where I would be
Speaker 2: firing hitting coaches, get rid of Brian snicker a clear out,
Speaker 2: clear out the clubhouse because there's something wrong. Because like
Speaker 2: I didn't like Michael Harris a second, but he shouldn't
Speaker 2: be awful and he's terrible, I mean awful. You go
Speaker 2: on the Player Raider and right now he's the he's
Speaker 2: he's ranked seventy seventh for outfielders. That's actually when you're talking,
Speaker 2: that's what I was laughing at because he's behind Dane Myers.
Speaker 2: I'm the Player Raider Dean Myers. I mean, I have
Speaker 2: Dane Myers in my towl worst team that is currently
Speaker 2: in first place. But I mean Dan Myers is who
Speaker 2: he is like that, Like, let's be real here, I mean,
Speaker 2: Michae Lara's the second's awful, man, Michaelara's the second is
Speaker 2: right now, he's like a toss up with like Mickey
Speaker 2: Moniac and Mike Ostrensky.
Speaker 1: Like what awful I was?
Speaker 2: Honestly, I'd move on from him too. I would move
Speaker 2: on from Michael Harris a second. I never liked them though,
Speaker 2: but I would if I were in a twelve team
Speaker 2: mixed league or Shallower, I would just be like, you
Speaker 2: know what, if he gets hot, he gets hot, whatever,
Speaker 2: I would just drop him. It's it's to that point
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: I mean, playing an injured Dylan Cruiz has been better
Speaker 1: for your lineup than playing Michael Harris the second recently.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, I again, I feel like there's
Speaker 1: something in Atlanta that's wrong, and I feel like it's
Speaker 1: connected to Snicker. But until that changes, I just don't
Speaker 1: see where it's coming. Like it's it's it cannot be
Speaker 1: hotter than it is right now in Atlanta. Like it's
Speaker 1: the ball's not gonna fly any better than it does
Speaker 1: right now, and they're still not hitting the ball. Michael Harris,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned as a line drive rate under five
Speaker 1: percent in June, is a sixty six point seven percent
Speaker 1: ground ball rate. His launch angle is under five They
Speaker 1: just need to trade them to Toronto already a former Brave.
Speaker 1: Since we're just going to continue this line Gray, I mean,
Speaker 1: I could have thrown a couple more in here, we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about Marcelo Zuna and this group too.
Speaker 1: He's been terrible all season as well. But we're not
Speaker 1: going to We're gonna talk about a guy I've been
Speaker 1: down on for like six seasons in a row, and
Speaker 1: I might finally be right, and that is Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 1: April three, nineteen, five home runs, May four ten, four
Speaker 1: home runs. I'm just eating my words as I speak.
Speaker 1: And then June he is at two hundred with a
Speaker 1: home run. I was worried about the injury. I was
Speaker 1: worried about it him lasting a full season. I don't
Speaker 1: want to say he can't turn around, because every time
Speaker 1: I say that, he just kicks mine all over the place.
Speaker 1: But what are your thoughts on Freddie Freeman? Gray? I
Speaker 1: need an unbiased observer because I always see the end
Speaker 1: of the road for Freddie Freeman. Is it actually here?
Speaker 1: Or is this the bad month? No?
Speaker 2: I mean I'm not that unbiased because I don't like
Speaker 2: Freddy Freeman either. I also I feel like I think
Speaker 2: I wrote an overrated post about him in the preseason,
Speaker 2: like I would be trading Freddy Freeman three months ago.
Speaker 2: I would never have drafted him. I didn't draft Freddy Freeman.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have drafted him. I told people not to
Speaker 2: draft them. I think, yeah, I mean, the numbers you
Speaker 2: mentioned in June are terrible, and I think the average
Speaker 2: probably comes back a bit. Like you said, he hit
Speaker 2: two hundred in June with one homer, and I think
Speaker 2: he probably, like the average, will still get up again.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, probably closer to April where he
Speaker 2: hit three nineteen versus May where he hit four ten, so,
Speaker 2: you know, but still a three hundred hitter or at
Speaker 2: least to eighty. But the power really is, the power
Speaker 2: hasn't really been there going on like you know, three
Speaker 2: three three of the last four years and really kind
Speaker 2: of like three, you know, the last two years. And
Speaker 2: the speed is really just completely evaporate. Like you know,
Speaker 2: we knew he had, you know, his his ankle injury
Speaker 2: was gonna slow him down, but it's completely removed any
Speaker 2: chance that he has any speed whatsoever. And you know,
Speaker 2: he wasn't a fast guy to begin with, but he
Speaker 2: used to chuck in like you know, a ten steals
Speaker 2: or ten plus steals. Now he's had zero steals for
Speaker 2: the year and he's only attempted one. Like he and
Speaker 2: He's even said his ankle is still bothering him, So
Speaker 2: like the steels aren't gonna suddenly appear as the season
Speaker 2: goes on. If anything, the Dodgers are gonna want to
Speaker 2: arrest him and make sure he's healthy for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So you're looking at it like, if he gets to
Speaker 2: many homers, three steals, and a two eighty average, I
Speaker 2: think you're you're actually you're doing pretty well for yourself.
Speaker 2: If you get those numbers. I wouldn't count. I would
Speaker 2: take the under on all of them. But that's sort
Speaker 2: of what that's like best case scenario, I think. So, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I would be selling Low. I mean, you're obviously you're
Speaker 2: not dropping Freddy Freeman, but I would. I would sell Low.
Speaker 2: I think he's basically at this point he's a runs
Speaker 2: in rbish and batting average guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, if he can sell him, go ahead
Speaker 1: and sell him. You know, would you would you sell
Speaker 1: him for you know, rejuvenated Michael Bush.
Speaker 2: Michael Bush looks pretty good. Yeah, I think I I
Speaker 2: think I would take Michael Bush. To be honest, I
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean prop yeah, I think I
Speaker 2: would take Michael Bush. It's close though, I would you
Speaker 2: could probably get someone, uh, you get someone thrown in.
Speaker 2: I think maybe in that trade. Uh, if you're if
Speaker 2: you're able to if you're able to barter, if you
Speaker 2: can do a little if you can do a little.
Speaker 1: Haggling trade somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, maybe, Yeah, I don't and that's not a
Speaker 2: terrible trade for me. I don't mind it. I would probably,
Speaker 2: you know, right now, on the player raider, Bush is
Speaker 2: above Freeman, so yeah, and I don't see that necessarily changing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I would take Bush.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you're you're welcoming me. Michael Bush owners
Speaker 1: out there.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: He started hit well as soon as I traded him
Speaker 1: in the Parts League. How about how about Tyler Schauderstrom,
Speaker 1: who started the season on a tear and it's it's
Speaker 1: cooled off a little bit.
Speaker 2: I would go Freeman over Soderstrom.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about the Braves replacement for Freeman, Matt Olson?
Speaker 2: Uh, wo, we go Matt Olson.
Speaker 1: And then how about Vlad?
Speaker 2: I think Vlad?
Speaker 1: Okay, so we have a pretty decent idea where you're
Speaker 1: at on him. You know, Soderstrom seems to be kind
Speaker 1: of the line for you. Let's move on to Anthony Volpe.
Speaker 1: He started the season in April two thirty seven, five
Speaker 1: home runs, three Stone bases, May two forty two, one
Speaker 1: home run, four Stone bases, June two or two, three
Speaker 1: home runs two Stone bases. I mean, it's a guy
Speaker 1: that is at least putting up the home runs in
Speaker 1: Stone bases each month, but it's getting harder and harder
Speaker 1: to start him, especially with you know, some of the
Speaker 1: other middle infield options available in leagues.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think he's also he's kind of in
Speaker 2: the Azzi Alby's camp where it's like, even even if
Speaker 2: he does get hot, I mean, we're really what are
Speaker 2: you losing by moving on from Anthony out Anthony Volpe,
Speaker 2: I think you're probably I think you're probably at the
Speaker 2: point where, in a twelve team mix league or shallower
Speaker 2: you're you could look elsewhere. Uh, you know, it depends
Speaker 2: on who's available. I think I still have Volpey above
Speaker 2: Ozzie Albi's in my mind even you know, a different
Speaker 2: position obviously, but I think Volpey over Albi's. But volpe
Speaker 2: is sort of at the point where, if you have
Speaker 2: better options on waivers, I think you can move on.
Speaker 1: All right, would you take which of these guys would
Speaker 1: you take volpey or over Volpey Trevor Story out of Lopez,
Speaker 1: bobaet Dansby Swanson.
Speaker 2: I think Dansby Swanson for sure. I think probably Bobaschett. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: I hate to say it, but I think you do.
Speaker 2: I think you take Bobaschett over Volpe Lopez. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: think Lopez. You're probably you should take Lopez over Volpe,
Speaker 2: not not Trevor Story.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, you know, I'm just gonna say no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm boba shit, just because it's a little like what
Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier with some of the boring guys,
Speaker 1: where it's like, yeah, like he's kind of the Ian
Speaker 1: happ now of like that's what he said. He is, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could get him, but it's really boring and he
Speaker 1: really needs somebody to hit him in otherwise there's not
Speaker 1: really value there. I'll take. I'll think the chance Volpe
Speaker 1: turns it around, hits two forty, It does like a
Speaker 1: couple of five fives months the rest of the season,
Speaker 1: but I get it if it's a deeper league. Wyatt
Speaker 1: Langford April two ninety nine, six home runs, four stolen bases,
Speaker 1: The breakout is happening. Everybody drafted him is a genius.
Speaker 1: May one eighty nine five over runs, six dolen bases.
Speaker 1: You know, at least he's inting home runs stealing bases.
Speaker 1: The average will come June twenty four to him runs
Speaker 1: a stolen base and now he's head in the eye
Speaker 1: out with an oblique issue. I mean the oblique helps
Speaker 1: kind of give him a reason why it was happening
Speaker 1: and give us as a narrative to work with. But
Speaker 1: we also just talked about how a guy's coming back
Speaker 1: from injury tend not to necessarily come back in the
Speaker 1: same manner as we want them to. What are you
Speaker 1: doing with Wyatt Langford? I mean, he has the name
Speaker 1: he put up at least one big month where you
Speaker 1: can you can point to and say here's what a
Speaker 1: healthy Langford does. But would you would you trade him away?
Speaker 1: Or you're just waiting and hoping.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean at some point I think, I, well,
Speaker 2: I would to your question, I would. I would trade
Speaker 2: him away if I could get something decent. But in
Speaker 2: the in the bigger picture, with Wyatt Langford, I mean
Speaker 2: he's gonna be a struggle to rank next year and
Speaker 2: to draft where he I think he where he probably
Speaker 2: will end up going. At some point, what he did
Speaker 2: in April could become like every month, and he could
Speaker 2: do that every month and have that thirty thirty three
Speaker 2: hundred year I think that's still possible for him. It's
Speaker 2: going to be a struggle to actually rank him and
Speaker 2: draft him where. You know, that is that possibility that
Speaker 2: really it's realistic, but not I mean not necessarily you know,
Speaker 2: possible or at least, excuse me, not realistic. I mean possible,
Speaker 2: but not realistic, you know, because I mean we haven't
Speaker 2: seen it for extended period of time at any point
Speaker 2: in his career. Like he did it for one month
Speaker 2: this year, where like if he did if he did
Speaker 2: his April every month, that would have been great. But
Speaker 2: he didn't do He didn't do it every month. He
Speaker 2: did it for one month, and last year, you know,
Speaker 2: he did it for like a half month at that.
Speaker 2: So you know, at a certain point, like how do
Speaker 2: you keep ranking him and drafting him as like a
Speaker 2: top twenty outfielder when he hasn't you know, he hasn't
Speaker 2: come close to that. I mean, it's still too early,
Speaker 2: you know, to write off his entire second half but
Speaker 2: with the oblique Now, I mean, how do you like,
Speaker 2: what do you do with like? I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: he could be out for weeks, so he comes back
Speaker 2: after the All Star break, has an okay August, say,
Speaker 2: he has a great September, so he's got two months
Speaker 2: left really to show us something. So he has you know,
Speaker 2: if he has a great September, then he had a
Speaker 2: great April and a great September. It's like, okay, but
Speaker 2: what is What's that? I don't know, man, I feel
Speaker 2: like I might be the low man on Wyatt Langford
Speaker 2: next year unless he has like such an insane second
Speaker 2: half that puts all this to rest. But right now
Speaker 2: I just don't see it, and especially like the way
Speaker 2: he had his May in June showed me nothing like
Speaker 2: you know, like that May was nice, like you said,
Speaker 2: with the steals and speed, but I mean he hit
Speaker 2: one eighty nine and I don't know, I'm not I
Speaker 2: feel like I'm losing faith in White Langford until he
Speaker 2: actually shows it. And he could. I mean, he's still
Speaker 2: young enough he could show he could show it over
Speaker 2: extended period of time, but right now, one one month
Speaker 2: is one month of his career.
Speaker 1: Is not doing it for me, you know, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it's starting to get to that, I mean injury
Speaker 1: rep at this point. I know he's still very young.
Speaker 1: You can figure out how to deal with, you know,
Speaker 1: the stresses of Major League Baseball, the schedule and everything
Speaker 1: a little bit better. But I mean, I'm with you,
Speaker 1: like we need to see it at some point. But
Speaker 1: he's twenty three. I'm not giving up hope. But I
Speaker 1: agree it's gonna be very weird to rank him. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming there's gonna be kind of like this year even
Speaker 1: There's gonna be people who are all in on him,
Speaker 1: and then there's the rest of us who will take
Speaker 1: him if he gets to a certain point, and so
Speaker 1: I probably want him.
Speaker 2: I was super happy. I mean I was like, you know,
Speaker 2: I was super excited to take James Wood in every
Speaker 2: league and I didn't get why at Langford because I
Speaker 2: was so high on James Wood. But I'm glad that
Speaker 2: worked out fine. But yeah, I mean, I'm you know,
Speaker 2: I'm James Wood. It's like he's become a star, and
Speaker 2: why at Langford was supposed to be a star, But like,
Speaker 2: where is that? Where is it?
Speaker 1: Okay? I agree, I had I had went over Langford
Speaker 1: as well. I know that it was not universal, but
Speaker 1: I'm glad it worked out for both of us at
Speaker 1: least if you could move Langford right now, Gray, I mean,
Speaker 1: would you move him for Dylan Cruz, who's kind of
Speaker 1: in a similar situation that he's injured. We're not sure
Speaker 1: when he's coming back. He struggled as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I wouldn't take on Cruise now, all right.
Speaker 1: How about the oh go ahead, okay, how about south Relick. Oh, look,
Speaker 1: he's been solid this year. He has been to call
Speaker 1: it the breakout. It's been the breakout.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean he moved, He's gonna moved to the
Speaker 2: leadoff spot. He's a top thirty outfielder right now on
Speaker 2: the player Raider. Now, I would take the you know,
Speaker 2: whye Langford for you know, after the All Star break
Speaker 2: for two and a half months, hopefully that you get
Speaker 2: over free like yeah.
Speaker 1: Okay, how about how about Taylor Ward?
Speaker 2: I would go Taylor Ward over Langford?
Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe in like the thirty thirty five range
Speaker 1: of outfielders somewhere on there and up, you would you
Speaker 1: would bet that swap anything else, just take the risk
Speaker 1: of the linker comes back and you know it is
Speaker 1: healthy because again, when he's been healthy, he's looked good.
Speaker 2: Just there's just been issues there, right, Yeah, no, totally. Actually,
Speaker 2: when I was going looking at the player Rader for
Speaker 2: pre Look and Taylor Ward, I noticed Mookie Betts. Uh,
Speaker 2: who's been a who's been a bit of a struggle.
Speaker 2: Uh he could have been he could have been listed.
Speaker 2: You don't have him on the podcast outline or I
Speaker 2: should say chat g b T didn't put him on
Speaker 2: the podcast. But Mooky Betts is like, you know, he's
Speaker 2: been a struggle too for the better part of the year. Uh,
Speaker 2: he's getting by a lot on like what he does
Speaker 2: and runs and RBIs because that's been you know, still
Speaker 2: fantastic because of the Dodger lineup and and where he's
Speaker 2: played in it. But yeah, he's been he's been a struggle.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, Mooki Bets's numbers aren't screaming. He'll
Speaker 2: be okay for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: No, every all the numbers are trending down, Our hits down,
Speaker 1: exit velocity is down. Home on the fly ball is
Speaker 1: plummeting gray the last two seasons. Yeah, the the end
Speaker 1: of Mooki may may be here. It's a it's it's
Speaker 1: sad to see because I think I think most of
Speaker 1: us have enjoyed watching Mookie play. He's been a great,
Speaker 1: you know, ambassador for the game. And uh yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's sadly coming to an end. Let's move over to
Speaker 1: closers and some guys we could have included in June
Speaker 1: strugglers as well as things that may come to an end.
Speaker 1: Gray Robert Suarez April fourteen, innings six four year ah
Speaker 1: five to seven, whip May ten and the third innings
Speaker 1: four three five year A one one six whip June
Speaker 1: ten and thirty eight's seven eight four one seven four.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not good. You still getting the opportunities,
Speaker 1: So you know, there's that. But the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a I think a lot of people were worried
Speaker 1: about Robert Soures entering the season and it's starting to
Speaker 1: show up.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, I know. It's unfortunately the Padres don't have
Speaker 2: anyone behind him who could take over for him. Wait,
Speaker 2: hold on, I'm hearing something. My finger to the earbud. Oh, actually,
Speaker 2: they have a lot of guys who could take over
Speaker 2: for him. I stay correct that they have They have
Speaker 2: multiple replacements that are really good. Yeah, but I mean,
Speaker 2: if anything, I wouldn't be sure. If I were the Padres,
Speaker 2: I would trade Robert Suarez to like the Phillies or
Speaker 2: something and let him be awful as the Phillies closer
Speaker 2: for August. I would get anything I could for Robert
Speaker 2: Sorez if I could trade him in fantasy or in reality.
Speaker 2: But you know, it's like, as long as he's the closer,
Speaker 2: which he is as of right the second, I mean,
Speaker 2: you got to start him in most leagues, I would think, so,
Speaker 2: I don't know. I finally benched him in one league,
Speaker 2: in a weekly league, but I had a decent alternative.
Speaker 2: So unless you have really good alternatives, I don't know
Speaker 2: what you do with Robert Sorez other than start them
Speaker 2: and hope he you know, corrects whatever the issue is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I started him as well in the leagues that
Speaker 1: I own him. You know, I didn't really have a
Speaker 1: clear better option. So that's what you went That's what
Speaker 1: I went with. Like you said, he's still getting the saves.
Speaker 1: You just just hope they keep rolling them out there
Speaker 1: for that. If you're if that's what, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: his value is gonna be. I think Jason Adam would
Speaker 1: be on the short list of guys would it would
Speaker 1: be next? He's been phenomenal all season and last season
Speaker 1: and pretty much his whole time in the majors. Adrian
Speaker 1: Morjon he might be on that list as well, but
Speaker 1: that's where I would look. Maybe Jeremiah Strata over in
Speaker 1: uh San Francisco. Gray Camillo Davall has also been terrible
Speaker 1: here in June. As we continue this theme, you know,
Speaker 1: he's had twelve innings in June with a six ear
Speaker 1: a and a two whip. It's hard to have a
Speaker 1: two whip grade, Like, it's really difficult to get to
Speaker 1: that point. What are you doing with Camilo d'vall, who
Speaker 1: you know was doing just just fine up until this month.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, I mean he was doing fine as
Speaker 2: far as e a, but his his peripherals looked pretty
Speaker 2: bad for a while. Now, like he's his strikeouts are
Speaker 2: way down, his walks are have been terrible. They've continued
Speaker 2: to be terrible. He's he's just not pitching very well.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, I think they have I don't know,
Speaker 2: they seem to like decide he was gonna be the
Speaker 2: closer randomly when his numbers really weren't backing that up,
Speaker 2: but that was more because Ryan Walker were so terrible.
Speaker 2: I think they probably should have went to Randy Rodriguez
Speaker 2: as the closer, even though they didn't. But he would
Speaker 2: be my choice, you know. I think maybe at some
Speaker 2: point he does finally get the opportunity to be the closer,
Speaker 2: because his stuff looks nasty. He looks like the closer,
Speaker 2: I mean clearly, like his numbers are ridiculous and Duval's
Speaker 2: number are not good. So yeah, I don't know. I
Speaker 2: would be stashing Randy Rodriguez as of right now. It
Speaker 2: does not seem like they're giving that. Uh, they're they're
Speaker 2: not necessarily going that route. But I would stash them
Speaker 2: and see what happens. Maybe maybe they finally figure it out,
Speaker 2: maybe they go over. Maybe uh, he becomes the closer. No,
Speaker 2: we'll see, but I'm not I'm not counting on it,
Speaker 2: but I would stash him just in case.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would go ahead and stash Randy and maybe
Speaker 1: Tyler Rogers, although they seem to not really want to
Speaker 1: make him closer, but he's been he's been great this
Speaker 1: season as well. I will say Camillo Devall was great,
Speaker 1: in May just just been awful here in June. The Braves,
Speaker 1: you know, we had to make fun of him last
Speaker 1: podcast and say they hadn't had saves they got to
Speaker 1: last week, but they also went to two different guys. Gray,
Speaker 1: We said it was just gonna be a headache. I mean,
Speaker 1: same thing with you know again it's Iglacias and Lee.
Speaker 1: If you want people right.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, I would say Iglesias even though I don't
Speaker 2: trust him at all, but I think I think that
Speaker 2: would probably be the way I would I would go.
Speaker 2: I would, you know, if I could, I'd probably put
Speaker 2: him on my bench in my fantasy league and see
Speaker 2: if he can get right, and if he does, then
Speaker 2: you can move him into your lineup next week if
Speaker 2: you have if you could do that potentially, But yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't trust him, but I think Iglesias is the guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, and then let's do our arbag or necessary weekly Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: We said it was a Ryan kirkeran last week and
Speaker 1: Matt Strong got to save this week, So there you go.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just gonna mention it until they trade
Speaker 1: for somebody, and then that person will do collapse in
Speaker 1: on himself too. It might be Robert Suarez, who knows.
Speaker 1: One last note on Robert Suarez is the one thing
Speaker 1: I did notice. The change up has been the problem pitch.
Speaker 1: It's been getting hit around. The verticle drop is just
Speaker 1: not there like it was early in the season. So
Speaker 1: that's what we're looking for. If he's gonna turn around
Speaker 1: and keep that job, you want that change to come
Speaker 1: back around. Great, give the people some waiver wire bats.
Speaker 1: I'll give him some streaming options and we will get
Speaker 1: out of here.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So Otto Lopez looks like he's been the
Speaker 2: hottest hitter on the Seven Day Player Raider who is
Speaker 2: under one hundred roster, So grab him if he's still
Speaker 2: out there. Spencer Steer has been hot. Nolan Gorman, Gary
Speaker 2: Sanchez remember him? I don't, but maybe you do. Ramon
Speaker 2: Loriano has been hot as well. Kyle Stowers, Tommy fam
Speaker 2: look at that he's getting hot even outside of trip clubs.
Speaker 2: Zach mckinstreet, he's been hot. Joey Ortiz, Jacob Young for
Speaker 2: the Nationals. I didn't even know he was hot, but
Speaker 2: according to the Seven Day Player Raider, he has been.
Speaker 2: Ristian Moore, Angels second baseman prospect, he's been hitting for
Speaker 2: power and not much else, but yeah, he's been hot.
Speaker 2: Mason Wynn, Caleb Durban Brewers, multiple position eligibility, he's been hot.
Speaker 2: And finally Carlos Correy. There's a name you haven't heard
Speaker 2: a while, and he's been hot, so go get him, guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he actually went for a lot in our in
Speaker 1: one of my leagues Gray, and I was not. I
Speaker 1: was not expecting that, to be honest. It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's like twenty percent of a budget. That's that's craziness.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know. I only have twenty percent of
Speaker 1: my budget left, so I didn't get him obviously, anyway.
Speaker 1: Substribing options on the pitcher side, Quinn Priester at Miami,
Speaker 1: Jacob Lopez at Tampa Bay versus San Francisco, Eric Lauer
Speaker 1: versus The Angels, Charlie Moore than that Texas, Dean Kramer
Speaker 1: at Atlanta, Edward Rigez versus Kansas City, Jeffrey Jeffrey Springs
Speaker 1: returns to Tampa Bay, Brian BeO versus Cincinnati, Jamison ti
Speaker 1: On versus Saint Louis, Simeon Wood Richardson at Miami, A
Speaker 1: Jason Junk versus Minnesota, and Edward Cabrera versus Minnesota versus Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Much better week this week for streamers than last week.
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