Speaker 1: Greedy societyations. Everyone at church twelves a walk in the
Fantasy Baseball Live. Today is the twelfth of July, about
three o'clock in the afternoon. As always, I'm here with
my good buddy, mister Timoclad, and Tim is telling me
it is very, very hot up in Canada. You were
saying ninety seven ninety eight degrees. That's what we had
a couple of weeks ago, My friend, I feel for you.
It's miserable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it is totally miserable. Yeah. I've dropped as much
laundry as I can humanly drop. It ain't going no more.
And it's still too darn hot. Oh man, wow.
Speaker 1: And we're here, I was telling Tim before I got
on the air. We've got some power spikes going on.
We lost power to are building about seven o'clock this
morning for about a half hour, and all the units
came up, but all of the other stuff, the the
corridors and the elevators and stuff have not come up yet.
So now the the contractors are out trying to figure
what the problem is. And I don't know too if
they keep pulling the plug or not, but we keep
going in and out of power and my poor dishwasher.
I've tried three times to run it. It gets halfway
through and then the power goes off and you gotta
start all over again. Side don't know. So if forget
see you are going you get salmonel on top of everything,
you'll know why.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I don't think it's gonna be the problem.
You're gonna you're gonna clean him so many times, you're
gonna wear the the print that's on them off before
you get them out of there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true. That is true. So good. So,
how how is life, timmy? How has your weekend been?
Speaker 2: It's been Uh, it's been okay, other than the fact
it's just uncomfortable because of the heat. But then again,
like I said to a couple of people yesterday, you
know what I think three months into the future, okay,
and it's going to be equally uncomfortable just from another perspective. Okay,
So yeah, it's been hot. I haven't done a whole
lack of a lot. I've been watching games, watching watching
some of my team struggles, some of them doing okay.
Got some wave wire pickups in last night for the
one league that does Saturday and was surprised I got.
I got a couple of players. Maybe maybe it's because
it was hot and people are busy, whatever, but I
managed to pick up a couple of players on the
cheap that I sort of didn't expect to pick up,
not for like six seven bucks on a thousand dollars
fab eh. But who did I pick up? That surprised me?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 2: Where are we here? Oh? Derrick Hill. I got him
for I think five bucks, and I think he can
be a useful, useful piece in a redraft. And who
else ice snag she uh friend and fat for five
six bucks?
Speaker 1: Oh lord, that's that's what he's one of my kryptonites
to him. As you know, I thought he'd be good
for a while, and it just he comes back and
he actually pitched a good game and then it's like, oh,
what's going to happen to him now? So but yeah,
I get why you picked him up.
Speaker 2: Yeah you know, Hey, I've got Nick the blister lodolo
who's off off to the aisle with more blister issues.
So I'm sort of glad that I did sneak him
in there because I had just when you think you
might have enough arms, we know the answer to that question.
We simply don't you know, Yeah, you can never have enough.
Speaker 1: Ever, I'm taking a look at your talent Wars team
and it's him. It's just it's disappointed if Lad Guerrero
is the reason that you're kind of sitting midpack.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I've been begetting.
Speaker 1: You got Corbyn Carroll who's had a very good season.
Carson Bitch has been great. Yeah, Caleb Durban's been fine.
I mean if Jackson Holliday's been hurt most of the season,
Dancy Swanson had he had like ten home runs in
three days. I mean he's been ok. Dylan Dingler's an
All star I mean, and your.
Speaker 2: Ralph Stuart Jaredy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's freaking Vlad Careri gets he's up to
six now, I think. But I mean if he would
have been at fifteen sixteen, that would have made a
world of difference for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it most certainly would have been. I still hold out.
I haven't. I haven't given up on this team, simply
because up until about a week ago, eighty points left you.
At one point, I was only seventeen points out of first. Okay,
now Scott's out of the Scott White that's from CBS
has had a he's had a very very good week,
and he's up there. I think hunderdneight as of right now.
But when I look at it, I'm right now, I'm
fourteen points out a second. A month ago, I was
sitting with fifty five points. Okay, So I've made a
move in the right direction and I still have the
potential to move up the ladder. So I'm not ruling
myself out of this one. This is one of those
leagues where everything is bunched up because everybody has a
weakness somewhere. Most teams have a couple and you know,
I still think there's a possibility if things break right
and Glad he starts hitting and I can get a
little bit of consistent health, I might get up into
the top five, maybe higher. So I'm okay with what's
happening in Toke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you get ten twelve more home runs, you're going
to pick up four or five points in home runs,
and you're going to pick up maybe even more and
runs batted in. I mean it's very much bunched up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. And I look at wins right now.
I get four and a half points and wins Okay,
I'm sitting with a grand total in wins forty four
fifty wins. Six more wins gives me seven points, So
it's it's very volatile. And you know in saves I've
got I'm at the back of a big pack with
twenty eight, but they've got Edwin d Is coming back,
so you know there's a potential for another four or
five points there if Diaz is fine. And you know
you pretty.
Speaker 1: Much have been going just with one closer. It looks
like that's Louis Varland if I if I'm not mistaken,
So youually surprising you don't have more wins Foster Griffin
as you're leading win total, that's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you know, Andrew Abbott's been up down all
over the place, Luis Castillo, Dillon Cees, I think is
got six wins. But yeah, it's been the case of
Foster Griffin and Busks.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, part of Dylan sees his problem is
Vlad Guerrero. I mean, this is a guy that's sporting
a two fifty six earra, a one point one two
one three whip with one hundred and forty eight strikeouts.
Mister McLeod and and he's got six wins.
Speaker 2: Come on, Yeah, it's hard to win games when your
team is scoring one in two runs out. Yeah I know, yeah, yeah,
it just doesn't It just doesn't compute. Eay. So no,
like I said, I am, I'm happy with this team.
I've had a slew of injuries underperforming, but at the
same point in time, I'm still sort of hanging in there.
And as long as I'm hanging in there leaving the break,
that means the potential. There's some potential for growth there.
So well, we'll see how it all shakes down.
Speaker 1: We got we're all rooting for you, Timmy, make us proud.
We won't talk about you, we won't talk about your
labor team, but we'll so which yea is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we will stay away from that nightmare on Elm Street.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the games. That's first we had.
I didn't, I mean, Timmy, I thought about it. It's
only two hours away to go to Philadelphia. For me,
I just didn't want to. I did not want to
go see the futures game, so I didn't go. The
al Ao one six to one. Nathan Follwing he had
home run, so of course he gets the MVP, and
I guess it was about I don't know if you
watched the game, it was about pitching. Seth Rnande through
one hundred and one mile hours, so I think he
averaged one hundred and touched one oh one. He was
the talk of everybody out there and a lot of guys,
a lot of guys hitting big, big numbers. I think
Ryan Sloan hit one hundred miles an hour as well.
Even even your buddy Kate Anderson reached back and hit
ninety five, which was pretty impressive. So they were all there,
all sticking it out to me, trying to share who
was who had the biggest one, And it looks like
it's seth Ernandez.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Did they reduce that to five innings by any chance?
Or is it still seven?
Speaker 1: It was seven, and it's I mean, I get people
that like the Bowden guy who's with the MLB used
to be the Jim Bowden, Jim Boneen. He talks about
it like it's the second Coming. It's not. I mean,
it is. It is just not. When you don't go
to minor league baseball games and you go to that,
maybe it's a big deal, But I go to three
games week so, and I'm just not going to slip
all the way down there to sit, you know, eight
stories high to watch a game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for seven innings for seven days. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: You want to get all those kids in there, You
want to get them all an opportunity, and you're cramming
them all into seven inning. To me, that's just a
classless move on behalf of Major League Baseball. Hey, if
you're going to make the game free, yeah, sure, do
what you want with that. The people are paying to
see these kids, and you're cutting it short at about
seven innings. Now, that's garbage, at least in my opinion.
Speaker 1: It was a little disappointed. No one really tagged anything.
Hazus my Day hit one hundred and six point nine.
That was the highest eggs of velocity afraid to Duno
hit a large flight ball four hundred and two feet.
That was a nice shot. It was stilling out, but
it was pretty you know, no one really tagging anything.
My buddy Louis Penia hit a couple of hard outs,
but other than that, it was pretty light.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, when you start mentioning the pitching that was involved, understandable. Yeah,
there was some big arms with big stuff throwing, throwing big, big,
big big bitches out there today, so I mean, I'm
not surrized. Was a high scoring game, so.
Speaker 1: Just everybody knows suth Rnandez did not throw have the
hardest thrown ball. It was of Gels Simi Junior. I
think he's a blue jay with one hundred and one
point one and I'm looking at the top.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be hit a mile, I think too,
or something.
Speaker 1: They could very well know. So I watched part of
the game. I didn't watch it all as ten No's
I'm busy writing top five hundred prospect capsules and then
I wrote wrote up the first round of the draft
for everybody all over our patren members. So if you're
interested in that kind of stuff, join us at the
Patreon site. It was a it was a fun draft.
By the way, Timmy the White Sox, I know, our
buddy Tim Weber does not like uh Rock Chailowski or
as as Manford said, Chilowski, Butoski. Yeah, they did the
right thing. It was. It was the right move to
take Rock. Chilowski was the first overall pick, and I
think he's going to be good. I think he's going
to be up soon. He's a really good defender, going
to have power. I think he reminds me a lot
of Troy to Lewitski. That's the cop I keep coming
up with.
Speaker 2: Speed.
Speaker 1: I don't think Tulawski has any speed. And I just
think he's going to move real quickly. And I think
you'll see Colson Montgomery move off short to probably third,
unless he's already at third. I don't know. I am
paying attention, but that's that's my thought. But I really
the draft was actually pretty chalk. I mean, the guys
went where they were supposed to go, not too many surprises.
Speaker 2: The Royals moved up a little bit, didn't they or
I remember seeing I saw some serious whining coming of
the Casey like with their pick. But I don't think
it was a bad pick. Maybe just me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't have the list of somebody went early
and got the outfielder out of Georgia early and a
little bit of Cedric Mullins and that kid. So anyway,
so the only thing on the draft, and I don't
propose to be a television executive here, but a Saturday
at one o'clock for a draft, I think it was
meeting five other people watching.
Speaker 2: I don't think that.
Speaker 1: A lot of people watching this thing if they were
trying to generate buzz. I don't know, Tim. I mean
the NFL and the NBA have it Thursday night at
at prime time.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean major League Baseball has it just
prior to the evening news. You know, they ung, they
used it's such a great game, and they're surrounded.
Speaker 1: By I will say, I thought of you because when
Manford came out, you had to kind of kick the
festivities off. I mean you couldn't hear him talk because
of the booze. Maybe that's just the way it is.
I mean, the guy in charge always gets gets mood,
no matter if he's doing a good job or not.
But he got booed big time.
Speaker 2: So well rightfully, So yeah, I would have been. I
would have been. I would have been there booing along
with the rest of the masses and probably losing getting
booted out of the country in the process.
Speaker 1: All right to me, let's take a look at these games.
What is going on? So again we talked the quick
futures game. Uh, one, guy, I don't think Thornton was
on your pickup on your waiver ward? Was he exactly.
He is, Oh okay, I missed that. Yeah, he's having
a really good outing seventies, two hits, five strikeouts to
walk soft tosster tosster al. He's like ninety ninety one
at least I saw him in double A last year.
He's like ninety one. But I mean you could see
hitters flinchy when he threw he did. They're just not
picking up his stuff very well. So he yeah, early
success here.
Speaker 2: Well, we mentioned uh, oh, what's his name, Wiganton?
Speaker 1: Is it? Oh?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, we mentioned him last week, and I
mentioned Thornton week before. So with Thornton pitching today, I
figured it was a good time to just toss him
in as a reminder. And seven innings, two hits, two walks,
five strikeouts, zero in the ear and run department. So yeah, no,
he bitch, well today you can. I think you're gonna
see both those kids up there in the second half.
Once the firesale sales starts off, we go, And those
are the two names. They are more than like, you're
going to find a way to slide into that rotation.
So go now or go home would be my model.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Mets have played a little better of late,
they're still forty and fifty six. Boston's only three games
under five hundred. They are really making the lake push
my buddy aj ewing Timmy. He looks like a he
looks like a player. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one for three with the run score today, got it,
got it in early. What's sort of surprised me is
we've seen more power from him than I expected and
a little bit less speed. But I think come end
of the day, those numbers will reverse themselves over the
long haul. In a hurry, speeds his game, and he's
gonna steal a lot of bases at the top of
the at the top of the order order in New York.
Speaker 1: I think, hey, man, I want to see him hit
for some power because he's he's fast. He's eighty nine, no,
ninety five percent solid sprint speed. He's gonna steal basis
if he if this power that he's showing with an
average exit velocity of eighty nine to five max of
one to ten point five, needs to put a little
more leverage on it. But if he can hit fifteen
eighteen home runs with thirty stolen bases, gimme, gimmey, gimmey.
That is what Jared Durant should be doing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, definitely. I think he's up to six home
runs already in seven I seven, okay, yeah, yeah, that
takes him. That takes him from being an eight to
twe well to a twelve to eighteen. That changes thing
was in a big way. It really does. I totally
agree with you. Yeah, I'm happy to see that power.
Speaker 1: Im he's going to steal thirty bases? Well, I mean
I'm looking at the data. The data says it's a
fifteen out run guy. So if he's a fifteen out
run guy with thirty stolen bases that can hit, I mean,
Jared Durant is putting up big stolen base and power
numbers this year, at least the last I look, but
he's not hitting. This is what I mean. I kept
saying it was aj Ewing could be Jared Durant in
It looks like that's what he's becoming.
Speaker 2: Well, I hope so, because I just picked him up
in the trade as a second piece behind my Day,
and if I didn't get success from both those players,
I'll be ecstatic.
Speaker 1: Let's see what just some out lying what Jared Duran
is doing. Duran, I can't spell.
Speaker 2: I can't spell duran He's got.
Speaker 1: Two rs in it. Jared Durant is he's got thirteen
runs and fourteen stolen bases. He's hit one ninety three
with a with a two point fifty nine on base percentage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not good.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Eighty nine point five eggit a loss, same
as but aj Ewing is doing ninety third percent. Style
in sprintsby Ajwan is ninety fifth percent. I mean he
said they look very comparable. It's just and it's got
thirty percent strikeout rate with Durant. I mean, he's just
swinging and missing too much?
Speaker 2: Mm is he ever? I'm surprised he's still in Boston.
I would think they've got to be shopping them they
Does anybody want them? That could be part of the problem.
Speaker 1: I mean, does he become a does he become a
part time player if he moves out of Boston and somebody, oh,
the wit Mirryfield has become witt Maryfield where he's putting
up nice Fantasy numbers and all of a sudden he
gets traded in place twice a week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure he's probably happier in Boston for now.
Speaker 1: What do you do, Sorry to be labor, What do
you do if you own Jared Duran with fourteen home runs,
fifteen solar bases or whatever it was. You keep putting
them out there? Right, even though he's hitting one ninety seven.
Speaker 2: He's still playing. I believe most every day. You got
to take the power and speed and I hope somehow
you can survive. I hit to the batting average or OBB.
The OBB is brutal. That's yeah, that's brutal.
Speaker 1: By the way, you were right, can't City Royals. They
were the ones that drafted Zion ross Arose. He was
the he was taken a little earlier there when he
thought But again, it's kind of Cedric Mullins type of
type of profile. He was not in my top fifteen guys.
But it's still a good pick. It's an exciting pick.
But we'll see how that all shakes out. Let's get
back to some of these games. The Yankee in Washington
are tied up at two. Who are the Yankees sewing
out there this today? All their guys hurt? Oh Will Warren.
Warren's had a bit of a bounce back to they
good to see.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he went five innings the one thing I'm noticing
trending pretty well across the board. A lot of the
pitchers are going short. Either that or there's a lot
more injuries that we're going to find a boat after today.
But you know, Handcock only through one and two thirds
and there's a couple of pictures out there through three innings,
four innings. I think it was a break going into
the break, but more went five innings, four hits, two walks,
one turned run, a couple of strikeoups. Not a bad effort.
Speaker 1: Not a bad strategy too, to give a break before
for the big break. Because there's a couple of games
again on Thursday, which is good. Last year they didn't
have any games on Thursday. But most most teams, most
teams are getting a full four days off, and you know,
you could be eight nine days between starts, which is
a really nice break for these guys.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and looking at Washington today, mister Wood with
his twenty eighth, to Speed with his seventeenth, there's your
two runs scored.
Speaker 1: Curtis Meat has just been a I mean, what a find,
I mean just amazing.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and you know you start looking at the
Nationals there at five hundred they're not under the saying it. No,
not by any stretch of the imagination. New not at all.
Speaker 1: Crol Armstrong continues to do it, hitting two eighty nine
with power and speed at the top of that lineup. Uh,
Matthew Boyd with a nice, well decent start today six innings.
It's not two strike hits. That's a terrible start. What
am I talking about?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's the same as Andrew Abbott. They pulled
him after four four, three walks for rounds. Thanks for
three strikeoats.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Hunter Green starting? Was it
Friday night? Twelve strike out? That's more like it?
Speaker 2: Yes, that is definitely more like it. A little bit
too late for this year, but bod Dwell for next
question for you. Have you flipped over to the Philadelphia
Phillies game against the Tigers?
Speaker 1: He was, I was just looking at the Mariners, But
let me flip into that. That's scoobl Scooball.
Speaker 2: Pitch that game, right, Yes, he did, Yes.
Speaker 1: Pitched okay five four its two and runs five strikeouts
and a walk and then Keeter Montera comes in and
blows it for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was looking at the other starter today. Do
you think somebody might be making a statement.
Speaker 1: Well, that was one of my questions to you. Yeah,
Zach Wheeler was pissed that he wasn't named, as you know,
directly to the team with a two point one four
ear a, particularly after starting the season on the eyel
He's been, I mean amazing since he's gotten back, and
he's obviously justin Verlander getting that pity invite with with
Legends invite or whatever, going what the hell? Why did
I get it? And then when they do invite Zach
Wheeler to pitch, he says, screw you. I'm not going
What did you think of that? Would you? Were you
happy for what Zack Wheeler did or do you think
he was a little immature? Uh?
Speaker 2: You know where I stand on the All Star Games.
So Wheeler, well, yeah, you know what if that's if
that's how you feel, stuff it. Yeah, Hey, I could
use a week off with the family. I got no
problems with with Zach Wheeler being honest and he and
he was so yeah, good for Zach Wheeler. He's not
He's not the type of player that throws that every
ten minutes, you know what I mean? Yeah, I am
the you know, he's from what I he's a very
quiet guy, right, he doesn't command headlines, et cetera, et cetera.
But he just let them know that he wasn't happy,
and yeah, stuff it.
Speaker 1: Assuming he gets the win. He's won ten games in
sixteen starts, ninety two innings, pitched one hundred and five
strikeouts in a two fifteen era. How can they find
what are their twelve starters fifteen starters there? How can
they find more deserving guys th Zach Wheeler? Does It's
make any sense to me?
Speaker 2: No, it doesn't. And on top of that, he's announced
that you know the end is coming near, and hey,
it's it's no big surprise. As much as I think
it's great that they're honoring Burlander, I think they're slighting
Zach Wheeler, not because of Burlander, just the whole process.
He should be he should be part of that game.
He should have he should have been, he should have
been picked to the team as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, part of it is just no winning, I mean
just it's just it's just a process that is very
challenging to get players that have had these great first
two months and then you get guys Zach Wheeler that
are the true all stars. I mean people want to
see them play. They've got the big names, have an
outstanding seasons, and they don't get it because they've got
to invite everybody, a member from every team and blah
blah blah blah blah. And it is. It is a
very challenging process.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there's no doubt it is challenging. But it
shouldn't be challenging when it comes to a pitcher who
has demonstrated a high level of skill like Wheeler over
a long period of time and bouncing back after all
of the injuries. You know, yeah, no, that should have
a no brainer. So good for Zac Wheeler. You spend
time with the valley and you're broughably better off and happier.
Speaker 1: Board Ian Seymour, I mean he was out to uh
he was rolling, not to day three in the thirties,
pitch five earned runs. Yikes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Mariners sort of give it. Gave it to
him today, but again one starts, one start is exactly
what that is. One starts. So yeah, the Mariners actually
showed some offense today. Rose Arena with his eleventh Wilson
his number two, whoever Wilson is, Uh, but no, the
Mariner's actually putting some runs up and they're one of
the teams that you know, Hancock pitched one on two
thursd innings through nineteen six.
Speaker 1: So did they just pull them for just to pull
them to get him the longer extension or was he hurt?
Speaker 2: I have no idea. I am assuming. I'm assuming they
just pulled them out of the game. I'm hoping that
is the case. I will take a quick look to
see what it says is about mister Hancock.
Speaker 1: So the Wilson you were referring to was West and Wilson.
Just want to make sure that one of my namesakes
gets uh Wilson, whoever, whoever that is. I had to
make up for it him. You hope you understand.
Speaker 2: Ah, Yes, apparent hand injury Drick in the hand by
a comeback or during the opening frame. He remained in
the game, but he was lifted after a two oh
walk in the second Pictures to follow.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, I mean, Curtis, there's some
players that have had just amazing first half. Curtis Meet,
I mean guys that have come out of nowhere, Curtis
Meat and Brian, Brian Rocho it is eighth one today.
I mean, this is a guy that totally did He
looked like a high a player and look what he
has done this season to seventy eight bad average, scoring runs,
eight home runs. Good on him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it's it's awesome, you know, just to see
players basically coming out of Yeah, they were all Waiverware
players of the year. Me wrote you, how how high
was a kid in Saint Louis drafted?
Speaker 1: Oh? Jj, Weatherhole?
Speaker 2: Uh not Weatherhole? Walker?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah Walker? Okay, yeah you're Walker?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, good for you if you stuck them under
your reserve, your reserve roster, or you picked them up
early in the year. It's those those those type of
players are the ones you will end up seeing on
money place finishes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think this is why you see him
on money place finishes.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: So you're you're always there's always a position or two
when you're in your draft that you just you're you're
going to be weak and you can't have a superstar
at every position. You're you're playing in eighteen league, so
you're playing a fifteen team league and you say, you know,
I'm just gonna go light on middle endfield and hope
that I can find some body. First, waiver wire comes out,
Bryan Rochio's got the job. I must get him. And also,
you're going to get twelve to fifteen home runs. He's
not going to be Jim batting average, going to get
you some stolen bases. That's how you want to leave
because you loaded up everywhere else.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I know in a couple of the leagues,
I'm contending one rings a bell. I went late on
middle infielder and grabbed Auto Lopez and I think the fourteenth,
fifteenth round. There you go, okay, yeah, yeah, it's the same,
same difference. Yeah, and yeah, he's been he's been a godsend.
Unfortunately I paired him up with Glad Junior or Kyle Tucker.
I can't remember which one, so one offsets the other.
But yeah, no, hey, if if you, if you, Hey,
you tossed arts, you hit the board. Good for you, congratulations.
Speaker 1: Let's talk Kyle Tucker. You bring up a good name.
I don't know if we've talked about him before, but
I've been like looking at his stuff and the data
does not look good on him. He is really First
of all, he not fast, twenty percent not fast. At all.
His average ex of velocity is just trending down and
this year Maxic's velocity of one oh seven. This is
Kyle Tucker. I mean it's he is not having I mean,
obviously seven on runs. You're going, what the hell happened?
But you look at the data and it's like, yeah,
seven armed runs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's pretty fascinating. I took a look at
one of the leagues I'm in. It's an Earth League
and basically Earth eat Basically.
Speaker 1: You can you can bring in anybody on the in
the world.
Speaker 2: Uh no, it's it's one of a boat. I'm in
the Canadian version of it, but there are different areas
geographically throughout the States and Canada as a whole where
leagues are formed. Okay, fifteen team leagues, Okay, and uh
you're not only playing in your league, you're also playing
for an overall Okay.
Speaker 1: That's definitely an FBC type of the format.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it got it. Okay, Yeah, I found interesting. Was
right now, I think I'm fifty second overall at one
hundred and fifty teams. I'm in the fifth place in
my league, but I am the number one team to
have drafted out of the fourteenth slot. No, really, yes,
in fifteen leagues, the best anybody can do is low
fifties in the overall coming out of the fourteenth spot.
And one of the reasons for it we're talking about
him right now is Kyle Tucker and Blad Junior. Yeah,
a lot of people headed in that direction, okay, towards
the back end of drafts, and I'm seeing the poor
overall results from that slot, you know, coming out of
that league because we have that information. It's pretty fascinating
when you start looking at some of that stuff. But yeah,
you know, Kyle Tucker felt to you in the twelfth fourteenth,
somewhere in that range. You were all over, Kyle Tucker,
and you got seven home runs, six stolen bases in
the two forty nine batting average, which is less than
Angel Martinez.
Speaker 1: You got bumpus. Yeah. Yeah, I have to tell you, Tim,
that sounds a lot like a participation trophy. You're in.
You're in fifth place, but you're in the first place
because you drafted fourteen. I don't know, man, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Rich. I got nineteen nine point eight in every rational
rationalization course I ever took in a university. I fricking
ate them.
Speaker 1: Okay, wow, it sounds like Tim's corrying.
Speaker 2: I didn't the college edumacation.
Speaker 1: But Tim, you you were the fish with the person
with the last, the first thing that begins with tea.
You're the best.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm in first creaking place. And don't don't forget it.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's come back, let's take up, let's take a break.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, dug down. You'll laugh at here.
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting. I just don't know if it's any good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, congratulations Jim. Yeah it doesn't mean it, but yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh all right, let's see where let's let's see
if there's some other games. I got a couple of
questions for you. Oh my buddy caves jump kind of
bounced back yesterday. Didn't win the game, but he looked.
But the White Sox again beating up on the Athletics,
up eight to one. Who's pitching Shultz? Schultz? Hey, no walks,
that's the important part there for strikeouts. Ye walk?
Speaker 2: Yeah again.
Speaker 1: Look at my buddy Brandon Montgomery with a home run
two for three.
Speaker 2: Yeah, big game, deal with a big game and and
and didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, that guy's been really good. That guy's
been really good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, gang back you jumps for a second. Yeah,
on the road, yeah, at home. Nah, you know what
I mean. I think that's what we're going to be
based with their.
Speaker 1: Rich I think it's I'm going to say, at the
game at the home home with half the league, I'm
gonna set him against anybody who's decent. But if he
played the Royals, come in, I'm starting them.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know, that's not that's not a revelation. That's like
being the first place for the fourteenth spot obviously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just the same, of course I did.
Speaker 1: Exactly, thank you very much, my arms, you're welcome myself
at the back exactly.
Speaker 2: Three. Surgery is coming up with my bread and be careful.
Speaker 1: I was after the after the the Futures game, I
flipped over and started watching the Oriole game with wri
and and I saw that, oh Vinnie pass Metinos and
I didn't get a chance went on my lineup. I'm like,
that's that's a bad.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, give yourself a m shot.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, I'm good with that. Thomas starting to look
like a player again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, three for three today with an RBI. Yeah, and
Vinnie p actually got ahead. Yeah, yeah, what typically two
for three three r B I I just a home
run is fourth?
Speaker 1: I saw the it was dead center field.
Speaker 2: It was no doubt or yeah, oh you hit it good?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah it was it was I don't know what
the I don't know what the data set. I think
they said maybe one oh eight. So that was a
nice poke.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it seems like Tyler O'Neil's starting to play better,
but I can't put him in my waiver. Weare because
I can't recommend him because he'll get hurt as soon
as I do. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah, it's been really good now hitting three, tave
As plays Alexander.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he qualifies all everywhere replaced.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Zach McKinstry, who was done absolute. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was going to say, if you were hoping on
and betting on a repeat for mcinstry, you love that. Yeah,
it's he's been terrible. Yeah, it's and he went reasonably
early if I'm not mistake, and you know, I'm not
talking first five rounds, but he he definitely wasn't an
afterthought heading into drafts this year. Is it? Is it?
Speaker 1: I know that Shane Boss throw one hundred and four pitches.
But I have seen more stat lines that show four
and two thirds innings for the starter. I mean, maybe
I'm watching too many Freddy Peralta's box, but yeah, it's
it's like these guys can't get the five innings and
they get taken out and he's gonna win the game.
Speaker 2: Well, and you look at Boss and he didn't walk anybody. Yeah,
they must have. They must have worked him deep into counts.
He must have worked. He must have run one.
Speaker 1: Hundred and fourth pitch through four and two thirds, seven hits,
nine strikeouts, and no walks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if he were to walk two or three, he
probably would have gone in three and two thirds. I
don't know. I agree with you though. The past week
and a half two weeks seems like every every other game,
and I know that's an exaggeration, but you see four
in the third, four and two thirds, four and two thirds,
four another, and in a lot of they're always pitch
by the way, Yes they are, and they have big leads. Okay,
so you know, yeah, that's sort of sort of troubling
to me. I told today, they must have worked as
to full count steady all day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you remember Jose Soriana. We talked about him revelation. Yeah,
he was a sub one Earra for a long time
up to three forty nine. He's climbing to him. He's
gonna get the four fifty by the end of the season.
Speaker 2: Yes, I have no doubt I have. You know, when
we saw that early start, I think I said three
fifty to four year a was my project projection. I
might be low. I think you know he's at three Yeah,
what's he at now? Three forty nine?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Another month of four four to five I think I
think you'll break the four mark. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's another one Dustin by four inspitched and he
is up two to one, and he does have a
chance to win. Two hits, four walks. That was the problem.
How many pitches did he throw? Eighty four? I mean,
I guess they just didn't want to put him in.
That's tough man from a fantasy standpoint, that's the stuff
that makes you scream at the computer.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, did you catch the J's game yesterday? Through
the first two innings they had thrown I think it
was one hundred and thirty and forty pitches. You Savage
walk seven Buehler walked for There was eleven walks I
think in the first two innings yesterday. Wow, we're just insane.
I couldn't believe that.
Speaker 1: I went to I think it was three years ago
I wrote about this. I went to a game in
Myrtle Beach, which is where I lived, about an hour
north of that, and there were twenty four walks and
a nine inning game, and about about the fifth inning,
I just couldn't watch it anymore. I just left.
Speaker 2: I just like I can't.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. When there's that many walks, it's just
it's painful to watch.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I I would have said, if you watch it
till the bitterer and you you're that would have been insane.
I just would have got up and laughed.
Speaker 1: I was on my phone, I was, I was, you know,
looking at anything else with the baseball game.
Speaker 2: It was so bad.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was amazing. When when that many people
get walked, it's unwatchable, unwatchable basis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, totally agree, totally got I got.
Speaker 1: A couple of questions for you, going to get to
my notes? Where are my notes? Tim? You keep asking
did I see this game? Did I see that game?
I've been I've been writing, Timmy for the last now
two and a half. Yeah, but I'm finally done tomorrow.
Tonight I wrap up the prospects of the week and
just my notes from tomorrow. Then I'm taking two days off,
so our Patreon members don't expect anything from me on Wednesday.
Not happening.
Speaker 2: I'll give you the closure report on Wednesday, so you'll
have some content.
Speaker 1: Just just that. I thank you. That'll be great. I
just need I need a break, Timmy. I I I
get to the point of not caring anymore. It's just
like you watch these.
Speaker 2: Players, it's like, oh, break, break, break, and this.
Speaker 1: This all star break is coming at the perfect time
because what's going to happen is all the trades are
going to pick up here in the last two weeks
of July, and that's gonna be fun and exciting, but
it's gonna be a lot of work. And I just
feel like I really need to take a mental break.
So tired of looking at pigsball, just sick of it.
Speaker 2: It's again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so let's get some questions kind of Griffin.
I know you're you got Jacob Gonzales as one of
your one of your pickups, but kind of Griffin goes
out with a torn tent and his ring finger, which
when I, oh the trade go down, I thought, well
that's really interesting. Boy. My first thought was this happened
yesterday morning when Jacob Gonzales got moved from the White Sox.
The Pirates have gone. That means they're going to take
Rock Cholowski because that definitely gives them a lot of
capacity in the middle infield. Like, why the heck are
the Pirates picking this guy up? Is he just going
to be depth in the infield? And that's when I
realized the real bummer news is that kind of Griffin
is out pretty much the rest of the regular season.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The number of what I'm seeing, I'm seeing ten
to twelve weeks. Well, you just do the math, and
that's the middle of August, middle of September. Yeah, yeah,
get it back.
Speaker 1: The last week of the season and hopefully the Pirates
are still in it and he can help in the playoffs.
But so so then they get Jacob Gonzales he didn't
play yesterday, and Isert the other guy that they got
with pitch yesterday? Because I watched part of me to
get this torch and Jacob Gonzales didn't start to day,
and he came in as a you know, came in
off the bench for first base, so they didn't even
play him at shortstop. So does everybody have it wrong
that Jacob Gonzalez is not going to be the guy
that's going to be filling in for shortstop for Connor Griffin.
Speaker 2: Well, my question would be, if we've got it wrong,
do we want to have Criolo?
Speaker 1: I don't think no. So yeah.
Speaker 2: My train of thought is, I, you know, Jacob Gonzalez
came up to the White Sox after hitting a Brazilian
home runs in Charlotte, Okay, expectations were incredibly high, but
I wasn't. I was disappointed to some extent, but he
didn't embarrass himself.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a good way to put it. Yeah,
So I I.
Speaker 2: Still think that Jacob Gonzalez will get playing time at shortstop.
I haven't seen any what's the other choice. I just
don't think they can go with Triola every day? Is
there every day shortstop? So despite the fact that he
hasn't got much in in the first couple couple of
games since the trade, I'm gonna leave that for now
and see what happens after the break. I'm going to
pick him up in deeper leagues.
Speaker 1: I think that's smart. I wrote up the trade on
if you got a chance to see that, but I
did a little snark, very subtle. Smart is said it
was a fascinating trade because the White Sox appear I've
seen enough from Gonzales just after ninety six big league
plate appearance. They surely knew the eighteen home runs he
hitted Charlotte weren't real. Yeah, that was smart to me.
They did realize this, right. It's like, right, you're a
major league baseball team.
Speaker 2: You realize that it's not the hockey. So I would
say that's a fair assessment.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I mean there's it's a smart organization too.
I mean I've talked to a lot of those guys.
I feel pretty confident they knew. But it's like, I mean,
they gave him up for basically the thirty fourth pick
in the draft, and that's essentially what it was, and
they gave up a guy that's a major league reliever
as well. It was it felt like they dumped them, Tim,
That's what it felt like the me.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Likewise, I think I think the Pirates did very
well with that trade.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're taking a chance on the upside from a
twenty four year old who proved I think that he
belongs at the big league level. I'm not saying he's
going to be a star, but at the same point
in time, wood risk, what would would risk is there
in the thirty thirty four slot? None? You know what
I mean, It's it's all upside for the Pirates.
Speaker 1: On that deal, particularly Gonzales was the tenth pick. I
think so they. I mean, it doesn't sound like a
very good trait to me. Look, Gonzales is not a
power hitter, but he is hitting the ball harder this season.
He is putting a little bit more leverage in the
swing him and there's fifteen ish type of home runs,
a guy that can hit, a guy that can really
play defense at shortstop. Second, you put him into wherever
you want, it's a pretty valuable player.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I think so. Like I said, it's all
upside for the virus, all upside.
Speaker 1: And you got him as a fantasy player, you can
put him in a lot of different spots. I think
it's a pickup, but I totally support your position there.
My second comment was, Lad hit is hit home run
number six. Now he isn't playing in the All Star Break,
All Star Break, the All Star Game because of his
back problem. Hopefully, Timmy, a few days off will be
the trick here and you can get back to being Vlad.
Speaker 2: Yeah. My initial response was going to be, but I'd
hit a home run number six? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's an injury situation. I
think he's going to bounce back next season, and if
he drops too late to the second round, I'm going
to be all over it. Uh. I think you're done?
Speaker 2: What a white But I've said yea too many times
this year already. I'm yeah, there might be done. Yeah,
I don't know. I just hope that the back problem
isn't the result of a front problem being.
Speaker 1: Too large, and that's always been my concern, as you know.
Speaker 2: Likewise he is I saw.
Speaker 1: I don't think I did I share this with you.
I was in Las Vegas maybe six years ago, and
I was at one of those buffets, right okay, and
I was having like it. I said, where do you
go for breakfast? And they go, well, you have complimentary
to the breakfast buffet. I go oh great. I went
to it was Timmy. It was unbelove thievable how much
food was there. And I got I got like normal stuff.
I got a muffin and oatmeal. Right, and Glad Junior
came in with his entourage staying at the same hotel.
Did me had filled up a plate. But I've never
seen as high as any he played that fir seen.
It was stacked with food.
Speaker 2: Man, it was.
Speaker 1: It was sausage on top of bank and on top
of pit.
Speaker 2: On top of everything. It looked like one massive, one
massive omelet.
Speaker 1: Eh wow with my oatmeal going wow, I'm not eating
enough here. But that always kind of stuck. When he
was young too, I think he might have been he
just played in the Major League, so it was it
was a very young Edwin Diaz. Tommy went on the
rehab on Saturday. I'm guessing he's back after the All Star.
Speaker 2: Break, That's what I'm hearing. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see. Hey,
I think he slides, you know, right back into the
ninth inning role. But first week, week and a half
or so, they might they might ease him in slowly
because they don't have to ease him in quickly, right,
so that, Yeah, I know they'll there'll be egos at
play here, but Tanner Scott's had a good first half.
They can survive with Tanner Scott.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Like I said, egos will definitely be involved. But I
just don't know if they'll say, Okay, the first time
there's a save opportunity, they'll give him the ball. I
think it might take a week week and a half
after he's back, just ease him in slowly, assuming that
all the egos can handle said process.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I mean I yeah, he's definitely once he's activate.
Speaker 2: You got to get him in there, right, Yeah, you
got to get him in there. Yeah, definitely. I think
there could be there could be upwards of fifteen saves
in the second half of VIAZ that that'll make a difference.
Speaker 1: So I watched the festivities of the of the draft yesterday,
was writing my notes as the picts are being made,
and then about I guess two thirty three o'clock first
round was over, and I said, well, let me watch
the first ten rounds were over, and then I switched
over and watched a little bit on MLB Network and
then decided, okay, I want to watch a baseball because
I turned on the Pirates rule on the part of
a double pitter and I saw Ezra Valdez hit a bomb.
I'm like, wow, that's great, good, this is good for him.
And then they announced that was his ten home run
of the season. I'm like, yeah, I mean, did I
literally fall asleep because he just got up? And again,
I haven't been watching baseball the last weekend at the
least Major League baseball. Oh my word, to me, he's
had ten home runs in one hundred plate appearances.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And if you yesterday he hit three two in
the first game, yeah, one and the other one. If
you go back and you look at his numbers, okay,
the fourteen in the past two weeks, six homers, eighteen
RBIs and at twelve seventy seven obs. If you go
back three weeks is obs is thirteen twenty. He's got
eight home runs twenty one RBIs in the past three
weeks in sixty three at bats. That's insane.
Speaker 1: This is just the body all the time till we
see young kids come up, and it reminds me of
Gary Sanchez. When was it twenty sixteen or something, when
he came up his first year with the Yankees. I'm
trying to bring up his Yeah, he came up. Yeah,
twenty sixteen, he hit twenty home runs and two hundred
and twenty nine plate appearances. So it's the same kind
of thing that ezral and Valdez is doing. And he's
going to get figured out. But I mean, you recommend
him your waiver. War I talked about people picking them up.
It's been a great pickup for people.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you've got yourself just in the past two weeks. Yeah,
six home runs, eighteen RBIs Yeah. For some that's just
not a bad three months the gap and you've you know,
a three month total and you've got it all in
two weeks. Yeah. And you know, the kid is only
twenty two years old. It's not like there isn't future
potential sitting here. It's just not just a hot streak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's not. He does this in the Fall
League where he won the MVP of the Fall League
a couple of years ago, and yeah, cooled off when
he got back into you know, traditional minor league. Bas
he's a good player. He's not a four run guy though,
I mean, he's more of a twenty twenty five. It's
a good player, though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you look at what he did it in
the minors this year or or last year, thirteen home
runs the year before in twenty twenty five he had
twenty seven plus another eight in the fall or six
or eight in the ball he hit thirty plus there.
I think I think he's got potential to be a
thirty home run hundred RBI mediocre OBP batting average type player,
which in our game, I'll take twenty five to thirty
home runs ninety RBIs I'll be very happy.
Speaker 1: I'm struggling going with thirty, but I can go twenty
to twenty five. I can't go thirty. But I mean, look,
he's going to get stronger as he gets older, and
you're right, right, age and so forth. But I don't
think this is the next I don't know, Kyle Schwarber
or someone like that. This is not it's not that
kind of power.
Speaker 2: No, No, he's on a terror enjoy every minute of it.
But at the end of the day, he's not going
to be a fifty home run bad yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: And the last one is Kyle Harrison, after getting touched
up the last couple of games, goes out with a
forearm straight. So thoughts on that, thoughts on whom I
get his starts?
Speaker 2: Uh? When I look at that situation, it's it's nice
to see Logan Henderson back. Milwaukee's got to be happy
about that. Okay, and he pitched okay this week and
his outing. But your options Robert Gasser, I think that's
who they're going to go to initially, Oh yeah, did
he ever? But you know, Brandon Woodrow's going to be
out for a while. Quinn Priester, he's coming back off
of the Rasac outlet, and I think the rehab is
not going well. I think they it's a stop. It
was a start stop and they're back to start again.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know when you look to the to the minors,
you know, do they yeah, you call me clous Yeah, yeah.
There's not much sitting there. Could they move up one
of their one of their kids. I I don't know.
I I think there's I think there's a possibility the
Brewers might look, might look for a picture because I
don't think they've got.
Speaker 1: They've got huge depth of trade from too. So this
seems like the what did they bring back Freddy Peralta.
Speaker 2: Oh that'd be a got to move be be a
fan favorite. I think I think I think five inning
Freddie was like the Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: Uh Freddy and Milwaukee though this is a new one.
This is this is Mets induced.
Speaker 2: Mets. It's the yeah, exactly, no, it's hey, they they
got the chips, they move a player like Laura. I
don't think they know Laura's too good, but they got
players they can move, and they got lots of So
I think.
Speaker 1: Laura is probably a fourth outfielder. I think he's up
but I think that yeah, he's upright, very very valuable.
He's cheap. He's cheap for the next six years.
Speaker 2: I mean they got him on it was it thirty
one million, fifty to fifty million max type contract. That's
enticing to the right team. You would think, yeah, that's.
Speaker 1: Enticing for the Brewers to keep him as well, because
let's say he has a fourth outfielder and you've got
him for four or five six million dollars a year.
That's I mean, that's great. I mean that's what a
fourth outfielder is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately a heel, but do is hurt because I
would have been a good chip they could have moved
for like say schooble, Wow.
Speaker 1: Give me a rep. Shuttle that to mean, let's take
a break and come back to waiver wire. Well, my
buddy killed the do oh Man since his return, but
he's not been Tarrek scoobable. Good.
Speaker 2: No, have you got have you got a second? Rich?
Speaker 1: You mean a pause it? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Could you pause for a second?
Speaker 1: Let me do that to me? Told me my voice
sounded terrible, so have we ad just at my microphone
hopefully it sounds better to Yes.
Speaker 2: No, I just got a little bit tending, a little
bit quick, and I was all over b do. I
thought he was going to be a star player and
it just never worked out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, right there with you man. Yea, let's go
to your waiver wire. Jacob Gonzales first pace, second base,
probably shorts up eligible soon if he does get that role. Yes,
you got any more to say about mister Gonzales.
Speaker 2: No, I I think we've we've said pretty well everything
they needs saying. It was. I just think the parts
it was a smart move. I think on their behalf,
I agree with going out and getting somebody that I'm
the chief. The timing was perfect and the worst it's
going to happen there is. Things don't work out and
unless that thirty fourth pick becomes a superstar, which odds
are long. Uh yeah, it's a fine move by the pars.
I got to give him credit.
Speaker 1: Zero percent means not a chance in how one percent
says he's going to be there. Rock Chilowski makes his
major league debut in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: I'll go with eighty percent, and he will this year.
Oh not, Oh sure, I don't think in twenty seven.
Now six Now, I will go with five percent.
Speaker 1: Five percent. Okay, Yeah, it's probably about right. I think
there's this He's pretty ready. So it'll be interesting to
see what they do. The white sucks are in it.
Speaker 2: Yes, they move, They most certainly are. I every time
I don't know whether to laugh or say wow. When
every time I look at the standings and they're still
up top, it's you know what I mean, it's, let's
face it. My prediction going back to the beginning of
the year was the consummate long shot prediction. Okay, and
everything had to work out just perfect, but so far
it has.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it was your best call in sixteen years.
It was a joke and it just turned out like
wait a.
Speaker 2: Minute, this is actually happening, right, Yeah, yeah, it was,
like I said, the consummate long shot pick. It's working out,
like I said, it's it's crazy. And you know what,
I'm gonna opt that to twenty percent. With everything crazy
that's happened, and with the White Sox this year, I
got to give them more than five percent of roach.
Speaker 1: I mean, if if he let's say he signs this week,
this coming week, and then he's out by the end
of the end of the week, playing which he should be.
And let's say he gets off the snide, great, they
start him in High A, he's playing well, they move
on to Double A, you know, by the end of
July and he's still hitting. I mean, why did why
bring in, uh, you know, a journeyman infielder to you know,
kind of back up everything. When you've got potentially this
guy that's got all the upside in the world, and
you give him a little exposure to the major leagues,
you bring Loves a September call up, maybe plays in
the you know, in the in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I don't know, can they can they sign can they
sign him to a long term deal right away?
Speaker 1: I do not believe that is allowed. So let's back
that up. So they used to that used to not
be allowed when they sign the player as soon as
they were drafted. I think I'm not I think they can.
I think, you know, you give them the sign so
that they used to do it back in the Garrett
Cole days, where you know, they would sign you for
four years and that was your deal coming out of
the draft. Now they give you the bonus, so Rock
Chelassie is going to get nine ten million dollars in
the bonus. I then think they can sign them to,
you know, of one hundred million dollar seven year deal extension.
I don't think there's any any problem with doing that.
They still have to give you the bonus though, what
you earned in the draft, that you earned in the draft,
right right?
Speaker 2: Yeah? So what happens if they say, if they sign
them to a big extension two weeks from now, yeah, yeah,
I would.
Speaker 1: You can play monkey business with that because you could say,
well I would, I would have signed you to a
ten million dollar deal, but since I'm having to give
you a ten million dollar bonus, it's just going to
be one hundred million dollar year. And it's the same.
The numbers are the same.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I was going to say, you get to
the end of the world, the numbers are the same,
how you get there? Well, yeah, whatever.
Speaker 1: I think he's represented by c I think he's represented
by c AA, so he's gonna sign quickly. And they
have a tendency they don't mind doing long term deals.
It's bars who doesn't like to do long term deals.
By the way, one of my uh, one of my
agents I worked for, got a first round pick, so
I was very excited.
Speaker 2: Actually actually I actually.
Speaker 1: Uh, I actually went and saw this guy and wrote
up notes and so forth, so he was able to
sign them based on my notes a couple of years ago.
We're not signing representative or advise him and another guy
you're gonna like this. I can't say stuff as it's
going on, but I was asked three months ago to
go to Rutgers to watch remember that for a weekend,
to watch Barry Bond's nephew who looks like he could
he could wrestle alligator alligators. This guy is gigantic and
he got signed in the tenth round by the Giants.
Giants picked him up and I don't know if he's
going to hit enough, but you should see this guy, Timmy.
It's just the enormous man with I mean muscle and
top muscles. But yeah, I gotta I got a text
from the guy saying, hey, we we he was we said,
who was weak? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I know exactly.
Speaker 1: That was pretty okay. That's Jacob Gonzales Bart to Hernandez
if I could start on this one. I write up
my draft targets, and Hernandez kept coming up as a
guy that the data looked really good on, and I
was just a very small comment in my draft notes like, look,
I I don't know if I believe this or not,
but his data looks really strong. He hits the ball
harder than you think, there's some leverage, he's got good speed.
And then all of a sudden it see him in
your notes was actually kind of like, eh, and that
tracks for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well, you know, he's had a good season
so far. He's up to thirteen home runs. Okay, oh,
in case he's going to miss two to four weeks
with the calf strain. Apparently his calf calfed, so Hernandez
up to thirteen already. He doesn't have to worry, you know,
the playing time issues shouldn't be a concern moving forward.
I started like Hernandez as a sneaky power pick with
the thirteen. He's already gotten. He's only rostered to the
tune of twelve percent. So yeah, take a look in
your leagues and if he's out there, they had him
hitting in the two hol today, I believe. Yeah, and
that's not a bad bad player for somebody who everybody
has ignored basically for the first three months of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I when I get what, I recommended him or
put him on my lse and recommend it. But it
was one of those like I don't know if this
is real, but look at this and then that's that's
But it's turned out to be true. So, by the way,
what does calf calf? What's calf calf? Me? That was
over my head.
Speaker 2: His calf has calved, it's it's packed in. Yeah, it's
an old expression I used. Yeah, the guy calved. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe what does Maybe I don't know the definition of
the verb of calf.
Speaker 2: Yeah I did. Yeah, there's it's not good. Okay, when
you're when your car calfs, you're calling a toad ruck.
Speaker 1: Okay, how do you spell that is it calf as
an c A L effort c A l V. How
do you spell calft?
Speaker 2: I would pick the wrong one. I I let's see,
let's see how you're No, that's right. I didn't put it,
did I put it in there?
Speaker 1: Agriculture and zoology refers to cow, whale, or similar large animals.
Past sense of the verb calve and glaciology refers to glaciers.
The glacier capped a massive iceberg into the ocean. Okay,
breaking or detach of a smaller piece of ice.
Speaker 2: Huh?
Speaker 1: Is that the reference?
Speaker 2: H Maybe I'm using a Canadian Canadian terminology here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot of English teachers
that listened to our.
Speaker 2: Podcast just that fire, Yeah, just to like, you know,
I didn't take any after grade ten. My feeling and
proper pronunciation was not good.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on Derek Hill. You brought him
up earlier. I came up as a as a Detroit Tiger,
I believe years ago.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and all of a sudden, the Phillies need
an outfielder and as a platoon bat. You know, we
have seven home runs stolen basic still three in one game.
I think it was last night of the night before. Uh,
just an FYI. If you're looking for an outfielder, even
in a platoon situation, Hill's playing pretty decently, A small
bid might get you a replacement type outfielder and tied
the storm.
Speaker 1: This one's very exciting. Next with Jackson, Joe, Yeah, I
look at his day one hundred point two, as you
write in here. He look he didn't throw many many
pitches because he didn't have to. At least he was
throwing hard. So he started his rehab. So if he's
going to come back and that, I guess he could
always get option to the minor leagues. He's got to
come back in.
Speaker 2: Thirty days, right, and by then the Tigers are likely
to be in need of a or a plug us
starter because we don't know what's going to happen with
my schooble. I think. So he's on the move, so
there could be an opportunity for an everyday starter over
the last six seven weeks of the season. You know,
I just think, being what pitching is this year and
the shortage thereof they spend a buck or two, see
what happens.
Speaker 1: I remember a couple of years ago when the Tigers
moved Flaherty when Flirty was having his big kind of
bounce back season pitching extremely weather the to the Dodgers,
which you know, he played a critical role in them
winning their first World Series. The Tiger as soon as
they traded them they went on a huge role and
made it into the playoffs on the back of Errek's schooble.
Be interesting to see if Terrek's schoogle gets moved Jackson
job comes up and they make a big move, not
on the back of Trek's schooble, but on the back
of Jackson joke. That would be very interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that'd be like all over again, one of those things, right, yeah, exactly, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Symmetry symmetry my friend.
Speaker 2: Okay, i'll google it when we get off the air,
which I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think that.
Speaker 2: Might be a timism.
Speaker 1: Is alert. I'm pretty sure that you're conflating two words together.
But that's Matthew Matthew liboratories starting picture with your Saint
Louis Cardinals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, June wasn't very kind, but the last three starts
two winds, He's only allowed four and runs and I
just put sort of a historical reference and there, give
me liberatory or give me another mediocre bullpen arm. It's
an easy choice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're that's liberty. He's been playing so well. He
has a major waiver ward all the time, So that liberatory.
Forgive me that you've used that before?
Speaker 2: Yes, I have. Yes, that's that's one of that's a time.
That's a timism.
Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of guy who always appears on the tim
waver where Jake is back.
Speaker 2: Yes, he's up to stolen bases. He's got home at
the top of the Pirates line up. And don't count
on any power if you want to take go to
his if you get a sec rate, now go to
his stat cast page and look at his power numbers. Rich,
I don't know if you have, but yeah, just take
a quick look.
Speaker 1: Is he in the draft? Him? Was Jake Magnum in
the draft?
Speaker 2: Mangum in the draft?
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 2: This? This?
Speaker 1: Yesterday? Was he drafted yesterday?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: Was he a top five hundred prospect last week?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: I know, I haven't looked. I haven't looked at Yeah,
I got you.
Speaker 2: Now a look at that stat cast page.
Speaker 1: Ready to get to the Just take a break and
let me take a look at make them as uh,
coming back. So the race last year, wasn't he two
years ago?
Speaker 2: Yeah, at one point in time he was, Yes, definitely.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm looking at Jake Magnum. He's he is up
there with the Chandler Simpson with the average velosity of
eighty four point one. If memory serves me, correct, Chandler
is eighty four point one. He's got two home runs.
He's fast, that.
Speaker 2: Is correct, So there may he is a rabbit. Yes,
when you start at average exit velocity, Okay, you see
a two, a four, a five, a one, and a
one in the next five lines. That's not good for power,
is it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a two point seven launch angle. So
he's a he's a grand ball hitter that's got good
deals and makes really good contact that never walks. What's
your next question. It's a part time play, switch hitter,
switch hitter. Helps he's a part time player.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a he's a traditional leadoff mat How was
that being positive about it?
Speaker 1: That's really being positive. That's an old school. That's an
old school school. It's amazing. He's got a three sixty
four on bass percent. That's because he's hitting three ten
is expected batting average. Be expected batting average is two
sixty one. That feels more realistic with a two ninety
expected on base percent. It's not what he's currently Tim,
you scared me. I'm I'm I'm.
Speaker 2: Backing the way. Yeah. No, he's bugs bunny. Yep, he's
a rabbit, Okay.
Speaker 1: Victor Mason Jr.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we haven't talked about him for a while. I
figured it was just about time we did. He's still
only twenty four past week six or twelve, couple homers
stolen base You're not a full time player yet, But
if you're looking to fill an oatfield hole, I'll spend
a bucker who just to see what shakes down, and
you won't have to spend much more than that.
Speaker 1: Victor Mason Junior, obviously his father was legendary baseball player
in Cuba. Victor Victor Mason never made it. He's a
junior's got a chance. But another Cuban that I took
a picture of on the scoreboard and send it to
mister McLeod was Pedro Leon playing for Philadelphia Phillies double A,
and I mean I told Tim, I mean, look, it
was kind of sad see him at double A. But
another hand I mean, you got to give it to him.
He's at least trying. He's the dream is not dead yet.
Speaker 2: No, no, it's not. And eh, good for him. He's
still plugging along. Maybe at some point in time he'll
head over to career or Japan. Have an outstanding year
and I'll be all over for sure.
Speaker 1: Tristan Peters is next. And do you know that Tristan
Peters will be in the All Star Game?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: He is? Wow, he was the Travannah Banana is an
All Star.
Speaker 1: He is the third of the Chicago White Sox. Apparently
Miguel Fargus got vote. He was originally named the Murakami
was a replacement, and then Tristan Peters was the one
that was announced yesterday. So yeah, how.
Speaker 2: About that be good for Yeah, good for him. A
Savannah Banani hit for the cycle Friday. Uh, sixteen percent
roster again, another outfielder that with a diet of steady
at bats. I think he's getting in Chicago. He's an
All Star. Congratulations Tristan Peters. That is awesome. Good.
Speaker 1: How can you be an All Star and only be
sixteen percent roster? Something is not. Something doesn't set well
with me.
Speaker 2: There well, a lot of people have migrated to football,
basketball and hockey. I think, Richard, that's all I can see.
Speaker 1: Well there, it's all about football. Nobody cares about it.
But football it's amazing. Yes, yes, yeah, Tristan Peters, he's
got speed. How can Tristan Peters be an All Star?
Two and forty seven at bat six and runs five stars?
Speaker 2: He is hitting three hundred, but yeah.
Speaker 1: The batting average is two fifty nine. I mean, it's
like these All Star I don't even know who assigns
these guys anymore. But even looking at data, it's just
a defender. But I don't know, man, this is not
an All Star Zach Zach Wheelers All Star and Tristan
Peters is.
Speaker 2: Come on, well, come on, can you understand why he
told him to stuff it?
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you. If Tristan Peters is getting I'm
not getting upset. If Tristan Peters is an All Star,
it's just delegitimizing the All Star game. This is not
an All Star player. I'm sorry. He's having a nice
rookie season. I get that, But.
Speaker 2: What is this good question? How come Fergus isn't in there?
Speaker 1: Fargus is in there, he is, he was the one
that was originally voted in. Why isn't Coulson in there? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Six homers, five stolen bases.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Montgomery's got what twenty some ad home runs? And
why why why isn't I mean, g he's City two eighteen.
But look at the damage the guys. He's got twenty
three home runs. Wouldn't you like him coming off the
bench in an All Star All Star Game with a
guy on second base as opposed to Tristan Peters.
Speaker 2: I mean twenty three home runs? He three home runs
fifty three rd Wow. Yeah for Montgomery, that's big numbers. Personally,
I like to have a quality bench runner there.
Speaker 1: Rich, Okay, I'm getting worked up about the stupid all
start the All Star Game. I wonder you don't watch
it anymore?
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, yeah, yeah, it becomes a little
bit clearer, don't it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I know this for factcause I was watching
the UH again after the Pirate game then they were
doing the because I think it was the Pirates and
White Sox, and I was watching the White Sox feed.
They were talking about Tristan Peterson. Peterson's got you know,
just kind of and I'm like, he's having that good
of a season. And that's when I looked at like, oh,
come on, anyway, I digress, Let's move to me. Hector Rodriguez.
We talked about him on Friday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, TJ. Fradel is not the answer. Blake Done
isn't quite ready to get back. The Reds are eight
games under five hundred and the tough end. I just
have a hunch, call it a hunch that Hector Rodriguez
is going to get the call. He's up to twenty
three homers now in three hundred and forty six. That's
I think we're going to see him in the second half,
and I think it could be early, and I think
there's gonna be some power there. So again, depending on
your league format, how many reserves you know, if you
have any reserves boughts sitting there. I like what Hector
Rodriguez has done, and in Toad, I've got bias. I'm
probably gonna put in a cheap bit on Hector Rodriguez
just because I could the bias, No, not in place
of bias. In addition to bias, Hector.
Speaker 1: Rodriguez is said, obviously vergo, he's still very young as
we mentioned on Friday, and he's a guy that's been
always very aggressive at the plate, but he's still he's
a baby. He's like twenty one, twenty two, but great.
You could definitely see him as a September call for sure.
It's a good call by you, Patrick Sandoval.
Speaker 2: Now with the Bosston Red Sox, Yeah, return from basically
it was a full two year absence due to the
Tommy drawn. He looked good. You know, four and a
third innings do you allow five bits a walk and
earned a run, struck out five against the White Sox.
He got the heater up to ninety six to one,
and it's a positive sign. Give sanderbal a look. I
like what I saw on at first start. Now, granted
he's coming back from a two year absence. Tommy John, Yeah,
there could be ups and downs, but there's not an
abundance of starting pitching sitting out in free agent pools,
especially in fifteen team leagues.
Speaker 1: As we start off the top of the podcast, Neck
Thornton with the Mets really pitching well today. It doesn't
throw that hard, very tough pitcher to pitch up as
I saw him against some him throw last season. It
was impressive, So good on him. I don't know if
it's long term, but Tim doesn't care. If you get
a couple three good starts from him, that's a couple
three good starts from him.
Speaker 2: Uh and I I think it's fairly apparent that the
Mets are going to be going to be moving people. Okay,
that's going to great opportunity for both him and Jack Wynninger. Okay,
so hey the sort of the sort of guy that's
worth stashing, I think in deeper formats, Well.
Speaker 1: The Red Sox came back and beat the Mets. Boy, Frank, Frank,
the tank is not going to be happy about this.
Uhs went in with a one. So the Red Sox
scored two in the ninth they need to tie up
and one in the tenth inning. That is brutal. Brutal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that that is not good, Vinyl in the tenth
I'm just curious to see.
Speaker 1: Up again. Chapman got the win.
Speaker 2: Okay, the same, so they brought Chapman.
Speaker 1: They brought Chapman in the ninth. Then he with the
game basically right tied, and yes, that's that's what you do.
But I get the Red Sox now two games under
five hundred the Red Sox.
Speaker 2: Tem Wow, Devin Williams, you know he really wants to
remain a Matt doesn'ty.
Speaker 1: So so Thornton lose, doesn't get the win, seventies pitch
doesn't get five strikeouts, two walks nowhere and runs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that sucks. Yeah. If I was Devin Williams,
I'd be buying Zach Thornton supper tonight and it wouldn't
be drived through.
Speaker 1: That's true. Uh, Ryan Walschmidt, as Tim said, obviously, you're exciting.
When he got the call the first time it didn't
go so well, was told to go down and put
the ball more in the air. I think he did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he slugged five owners and forty five of bats
and then in addition to that the big problem being
the forty strikeouts in his first one hundred and twelve
at bats. He's sort of proved that by walking more
than striking out and his return down to the farm
that he didn't want to stay down on the farm.
And the Diamondbacks are great, gave him, gave him a call,
and he's back with the big league team and I'm
hoping for better results this time around.
Speaker 1: He's a good player, I'd be shocked. Yeah, he doesn't
figure it out. I mean's it going to be this time?
Who knows? But that's a good baseball player. And then the.
Speaker 2: L's Yeah, twenty five percent roster. Everybody figured he'd be
down for a lot longer than he was, including myself.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What are the Diamondbacks doing? Are they in it?
I mean everybody's in the National League, right, is it
the American League? Yeah, everybody's in it in the American League.
Nobody's winning. Yeah, in the American League. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the Diamondbacks or I can't remember. I haven't
looked at the standings in a while. I think they're
in pretty good shape.
Speaker 1: Shall we. While I'm looking that up, tell us about
Andrew's Gomez, the guy that's on your closer report. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was just sort of roaming through. I'm going to
do an updated closure report for Wednesday for everybody, but
I Gomez stood out to me because he's still available
in fifty three percent of CBS leagues, He's only forty
seven percent rongsterra. In his last twelve appearances, he's allowed
only tour in runs, perfect six for six closing out
games in the past month or so, he's got the
closer role when I think he's poised for a long
run in that position. My suggestion is, give you a
free agent pool a spy if he's still sitting there.
Fixed that cope, Pa, right, smartly? I like Gomez and
I just don't I can't quite understand why he's not
getting a little bit more love. So I just wanted
to point that out to everybody. Didn't give him the
opportunity to check out their pre agent pool.
Speaker 1: Diamondbacks are only three and a half games out of
a Waldhart spot with the Miami Marlins. To me, if
the season were to end today, the Miami Martins would
be in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You know. You know who's in trouble in that division
and huge trouble or the Atlanta Braves.
Speaker 1: They've just fallen off. Look at that. They're yeah, four
and six in the last ten. So yeah. As bad
as the Philadelphia Phillies have played, they are only three
games down in the long lost column, same amount of
wins as the Braves. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Braves have really been stumbling along lately. A
lot of that is is pitching related, which is which
is not a good sign. You know they You look
at their rotation and you're looking at sale and you've
got Ronaldo Lopez Jr. Richie Grant Holmes, Bryce Elder. The
bullpen is fine, but when you've got you know, you're
missing Ronald Lacune Junior, and you've got Martine Perez schrollin back,
Spencer Streyder all on the I l that's tough. I
don't know what the Braves are going to do, but
I honestly believe that they're in big time trouble if
the Marlins stay hot. You know, we're still we're still
looking at almost three full months. The Braves could be
limping into a wild card situation.
Speaker 1: The Marlins are eight games, about five hundred. The Marlins,
yeah they al Contra or his brother Sainte al Capo
anytime soon.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's put that's put them in a real buying,
hasn't it. Because a month and a half ago it
looked like a no brainer. Right. Well, all of a sudden,
Liam Hicks is playing lights out, Otto Lopez is having
an amazing season. Kyle Stowers is starting to head for power.
I think he's up to a dozen home runs. You
got Hernandez, who's playing well. Joe Mack is doing just
fine catching, and yeah, I'm Marseille Owen Casey.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, Marseille, I got a bs on that.
It's been terrible.
Speaker 2: Tim, come on, somebody has to be the glue that
holds all those pieces together.
Speaker 1: I find a questiontory for me. We get out of
here this looking at the standings. Here, do the Colorado
Rockies at thirty nine and fifty eight catch the Mets
at forty and fifty seven? What say you?
Speaker 2: No? I don't. I don't the Mets a trait for
somebody to finish out of the Rockies. I don't think
their owner right, want to see the slats right, yeah?
Rooting for them?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I think yeah, yeah, when you when you had.
Speaker 1: The payroll in baseball, finishing dead last would be a
beautiful thing.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, uh, but it has nothing to do with
club post karma. I think we've determined that, right.
Speaker 1: I think obviously the mass the most disappointing team this season,
It's not even close. But to me, the Kansas City Royals,
I don't understand how they're that bad. Thirty eight and
fifty eighth. The pitch, it's been terrible. Yeah, And I mean,
it's it's Wet Junior and nobody else on the offense.
Speaker 2: It's it's yeah, that's how, that's how they're that bad.
They got no starting pitching and it's Bobby Wood and
you know, hey, I think the thing that is really
Salvador Perez has got old very quickly, and Vinnie pass
Pasquarantina hasn't produced, and.
Speaker 1: He was it was positive that he actually went on
the I L because fantasy managers didn't have to make
that part decision. It's like, all right, you're on the
I L. I'll go get anybody else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, No, Lane Thomas has been sort of
a revelation and I think, you know Jackie and yeah,
there's a few future there, but right now it's Bobby
Wit And yeah, it's Bobby Witt. You know the same
with Carter Jensen. I think there's a future there. I
like Carter Jensen, but Bobby Wit is not surrounded by
an abundance of of talent. You look at the outfield,
you got Isaac Collins, Okay, Lane Thomas and kaglian On.
It's it's better than it was. But who's been the
best royal in the past week? And a half two
weeks Tolbert, I would yeah, baby, yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean Bobby was the best best player there. But
I mean, look at the starting pitcher, I mean starting pitching. No,
Cole Reagan's has been awful.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know what happened to him, Chris Purk,
Tommy Tommy Grace surgery or Tommy John. Reagan's is just yeah, yeah, terrible.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So your best pitcher is Michael Walker. I always
like Leander Avila, but he's a back of the rotation,
probably more of a spot sort. He's your number two. No,
A Camera's been terrible stuff, Luke.
Speaker 2: I mean they have no pitching, No, they they don't.
If you look at the bull Fannersic started started hot
and then then collapsed. And their best their their best
reliever is probably Daniel Lynch, who they were hoping was
going to be their best starter. Yeah, at one point.
Speaker 1: So when you lose Cole Reagan's to elbow surgery and
bu Beck, who was probably the second best pitcher last season, soreness,
it's it's yeah. So they're going to be sellers, right,
but I mean I guess they could sell. I think
he can't sell or press. First of all, he's as
big as a house. It's huge again. I saw the
damn like it looked like you talking about a water
pill stake a water pill man, but uh are salt tablets.
I guess to get get the water weight out of them.
But it's it's been tough man, that is. I don't
know who they move. Lane Thomas is the guy they
might be able to trade, but everybody's Lane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Lane Thomas might be a guy. They're not gonna
get anything for an Isaac Collins or Nick Loft and
or Michael Massey. No, there's just nothing there Lane Thomas.
Somebody might look at him as a as a reserve
type player for the start, and you look at the
bullpen Alec Lange has just been getting toasted his closer lately.
Are they gonna Daniel Lynch baby or sick? Somebody might
take a chance on when.
Speaker 1: Somebody somebody don't take a chance on urs because it's
it's a good arm. But you know, yeah, yeah, but
the positional players, that's who they are. Mean. Jensen's yeah,
player with it's gonna be good. Kagling is gonna hit
thirty forty home runs, Vinny p what the heck? Happened
to him. Who knows, And they're not going to move
any of those guys that are all killed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're sellers with nothing to sell or limited limited
options to sell.
Speaker 1: Timmy great podcast. I love this. You know, Waiver War
was very very good. I know you said it was limits,
but I thought there's some really good names in there. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think there's, especially in the Oakio, I think there's
some solid names. And when you start looking at pitching,
I yeah, look at Joe, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look
at Patrick Sanderbal, look at that Zach Thornton and as
we mentioned last week, Jack Wynninger. These are arms that
are gonna play. I don't know how well they're gonna play,
but right now, any any arm is a fairly going
And what Thornton did today, I think he's going to
generate some interest. You might want to up your bids
by ten twenty percent on Thornton if you really want him,
because yeah, he pitched a gym today.
Speaker 1: It's a soft tosser with a lot of deception. This
guy's usually get figured out just fy. From from the
peanut gallery. This is rich from the calories all that
out there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not disagreeing with you, not not one bit.
But again, it's the time of the year when you, hey,
if you need wins, if you need some strikeouts, I
think you got to look at pretty well most of
the options available, and they are then, especially in fifteen leagues.
You know, some of the pictures I'm seeing picked up.
But yeah, it's it's thin and looking at the miners,
there's not gonna be a lot of help, is there.
Speaker 1: As we talked about on Friday, and they courage everybody
if I have to listen to our show on Friday,
if you get a chance to do it. But there's
been so many promotions this season. It has been absolutely remarkable,
and it's getting thin in the minor leagues. There's a
lot of seventeen eighteen year old kids that are now
your top prospects. Because all the top prospects have been
called up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've they've all gone the high Double A. We're
now at the big league level bit this year, yep.
Speaker 1: And one are the top prospects left to get another
call was Ryan Welschmid. Guess what he's up.
Speaker 2: He's up, Yeah, and I think he'll be up for
the duration.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I don't think the Brewers bring
up would be very exciting that they did, and we
could go through the top one hunderd to see if
there's guys that could could get the call.
Speaker 1: But I mean it is, it is getting very very light.
Let me just do that real quick before we get
out of here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you must have moved your mic again. You're starting
to get a little on the lean side. Think there
we go there, bring it back, Sorry about that, that's okay,
there we go. We got some definite Oh thank.
Speaker 1: You, Mike. Figure out why my so Franklin a rise?
You know, maybe he gets the call. The Red Sox
are playing well. I think Max Clark, that's a guy
that we're gonna see. We're gonna see Max Clark, Lewis
de Ryan Leo de Ryes. Do we see him? Maybe?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: The Ryan Kate Anderson's the.
Speaker 2: Guy you're gonna well, yeah, he's coming out, Tim.
Speaker 1: Tim's got the logic. He's right in the logic. Whether
it gets executed, I don't know that the Mariners trade
one of their their starting six and then they bring
up Katie Anderson and they don't they don't miss a
beat offense from it. That's the move there. Ye, Charlie
Condon probably probably see him in the second half. There's
some power, right yep. Elmer's my buddy. Elmer's there.
Speaker 2: I hope you don't see him.
Speaker 1: That means that there's injuries in Baltimore, excuse me, and
the Yankees. Joshua ay As is a guy that's that
seems to be an obvious one that would be called
up at some point. He hasn't been called up yet.
And then there's all the outfielders in in Los Angeles.
If Tips gets moved, you're gonna see him. I think
if if hoswide the poll or Zayr Hope gets moved,
you might see one of those guys. But you're totally speculating.
If those guys get.
Speaker 2: Moved, well exactly, yeah, what what what does Detroit want
for Scoogle? We have no idea.
Speaker 1: I throw out I throw OUTSI your Hope and and
River Ryan some combination like that. So you get you
get a minor league picture that's ready. Zire Hope is
if he's not ready this year, he's there next season, right,
And it's it's that guy. Not to say he could
ever be Jose Ramirez, but it's a guy that's got
speed and power that at least kind of smells like
Jose Ramirez a little bit, so that that might be
really interesting. Uh, Cleveland's good. Yeah, so so I think
that would put like a fantastic look there for Detroit.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's going to be who who do they want?
Is who they're going to get, and we have no
idea what they want. I hope feally does make sense.
So and the Dodgers do have a ton of them.
Speaker 1: That is a that is a wrap my friend. My
head funds are doing weird stuff. I'm kind of maybe
too far back of my head and maybe that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're cutting in and they've been cutting in and
out a little bit in the second half today.
Speaker 1: So okay, well I think I've got a position. Well now,
so it's time to get It's time to go away.
So I'm going to walk my dog down five and
a half floors to get to to take him out
because the elevator is not working, and then walk back
five and a half floor. So I'm going to do that.
Timmy and Wrap my friend have a good week off.
We will see you next Sunday.
Speaker 2: Yes, it's been a fun show. I hope our listeners
enjoyed it. Damn to them and you rich. Be safe,
be will