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is what is in store for the show today. Bogs.
You probably missed this earlier in the week, and you
would have loved it. Because to be fair, I don't
want to be too picky about like you, you know,
you do the show sheets on these and you and
me are pretty collaborative. Joe does the show sheets on
leading off, but that's more of his thing, you know,
because he's always done it. Kind of that control. But
the other day, the day after Pete Crow hit for
the cycle, they did not make Pete Crow the topic
the number one topic of the show. They made the
Dustin May start, which was good, by the way, but
it wasn't like Misowski's like he gave up and run
and stuff, and we're in the show and I couldn't
help myself to be like, I cannot believe that we
didn't open the show with a guy for a cycle
like I get dustin May. It has been awesome and
then it devolved and then of course it you know,
do you know what, can you take a guess where
Joe went with it?
Speaker 3: Uh? I don't know that I can.
Speaker 2: He's like, uh, what time do you get up? What
time do you get up? He wanted me to get
up at three in the morning to do the show.
Sheef that's what he said on air to do that,
and I was like, no, I'm just trying to teach
and learn a little bit about Sometimes there's a few
topics I think that are the most important that should
be before anything else. And not only did Pete Crow
Armstrong hit for the cycle, which I think a cycle.
I know a cycle is not like in the same
level as a no hitter. But here here's.
Speaker 3: My my path top is perfect game.
Speaker 2: Number two is a no hitter. Number three to two
is like what Miserowski did, like absolutely Berserko start. You know,
it was nowhere, but it's one hit. I know, it
doesn't make got close to that. I would say in
the same vein like a four homer game, like a
three to four homer game would be kind of up
there as well, you know, that would be in that's
like that pool and then everything else. So like special
insane moments, three to four homers, what Miserowski type of
fifteen plus strikeout, one hit, you know, insane record breakers,
no hitters, cycle. I don't know if I said cycle cycles,
perfect games. Those are the things that I think are
the tippy top. But also if you weren't aware, as
I had pointed out there Pek K. Armstrong he had
jumped to number two in War And I know war
doesn't mean it's a ton of people, but if you're
talking about like wins above replacement and like league value stuff,
he jumped over Yorder Alvarez. At this moment, he's one
of only two players with a four plus War. He
has point zero, one away from Bobby Witt Jr. It
is being understated the year that Pete Armstrong is having.
So we can talk a little bit more about that.
I threw a lot at you. I don't know what
you think about all of that, but I definitely got
I got slapped.
Speaker 3: On the hand by mentioning that how could we not
start with a cycle?
Speaker 2: Because I think cycles are still like a pretty important thing.
Speaker 3: Look, your boy started the sheet with a cycle, right,
so you.
Speaker 2: Know that's what I meant to like lead up to this.
The number one thing you had on here was PCA
with a cycle, And it made me think of that
moment where it was like, you know, I woke up
and I was more laughing for you to hear of
a whole him being like, well, why don't you get
up at three in the morning and do the show sheet.
Speaker 3: And I was like, well, why don't you be up
at three in the morning.
Speaker 2: Why don't you go after yourself for that?
Speaker 3: But also my question, I want you still up at
three am because I am grinding and working, all right,
because that's what I do every day.
Speaker 2: Stay up till ten pm?
Speaker 3: Yeah, what's your problem? Yeah? Why don't you stay awake
until all the games are over?
Speaker 2: I feel bad about saying those because they're right, Like,
I don't pick on most of the stuff. I really don't,
because it's like that person's the one that gets up
and does it.
Speaker 3: But anybody, anybody who wants to shame me for sleeping
after eight pm can miss me. I do or eight am.
I do not care. People have different schedules period, end
of statement. That's it. That's all you need to know.
So don't miss me with the I wake up earlier, Okay,
I say up later.
Speaker 2: I worked off. I really wasn't worked up.
Speaker 3: I hate it. I despise it because I've worked nights
for so long in a quession profession hour and.
Speaker 2: A half before the show, so I'm still fine with it.
But it's like it's it's West Coast. Remember, You're like
I'm West coast baby, I'm not.
Speaker 3: My favorite part of living in Texas is noon kickoffs.
Speaker 2: So yeah, you got that, But it wasn't about that.
It was about and I'm.
Speaker 3: Just more having PCA is having an insane month. Really,
I don't even know if it's the full season, because no,
in March April. In March he had two forty one
and May hit two thirty three. He had three homers,
four homers, so seven five, yeah, four h six over
fifteen games. Here in May with eight homers in four swipes.
The guy has been incredible. He's hitting everything. Has twenty
six hits in fifteen games. He had twenty four in
twenty nine games and twenty eight and thirty one games,
so like the previous two months. But I think this
is what PCA is. I think he's going to get
his hits in bunches and then he's going to say
it and be bad, and then he's going to come
back up and hit him bunches.
Speaker 2: So that's part of the discussion right there, is because
I ask the que because now, because by the way,
the hilarious part about today's show started with Peter kroh Armstrong.
You know, it was like today he had him as
the picture and stuff, and we had an extending conversation
about it. I said, like a the first half is
great and it makes you feel like last year, the
war feels a little bit more intense. There is something
that even if he does struggle, like he's just going
to be a guy, like almost like how Jazz is
like low batting average, high counting SATs.
Speaker 3: But one thing did stand out to me.
Speaker 2: One is, excuse me your throat is he's hitting lefties
this year and he has made a change in his swing.
So last year he hit one eighty eight against lefties.
He is hitting lefties better than righties this year eighty
six against lefties, which I think that is That's like
my oneil cruiz thing. It's one thing when you're dominating dudes,
you're dominating dudes, and you still can't hit lefties. Like
we poke at that, his babbitt b is and overinflated.
He's he's dominating lefties. And if you look at bat tracking,
if you want like a correlation to this, his bat
speed is up two miles per hour season overseason. His
fast swing rate, so his ability to get to it
is way higher. Now that might drop if he goes
into struggles and stuff, but that means like he is
really on top of stuff and his stance has changed
his stance. Oh you know what, actually I realized, I
think I said that incorrectly today. His stance is a
completely closed off stance. So I actually said, because his
MLB average is an eleven degree open stance, he's completely
closed off his stance. I guess that's actually not a
concerted thing. So I guess I kind of screwed that up.
But regardless of the point, he is getting to that
fast wing quicker. The bat speed is better and that's
equating to better contact results and he's able to hit lefties.
The thing that I guess I'm wrong about is that
I thought he had opened up his stance a little
bit like O'Neil Cruz, which helped him hit lefties. It's
just been, you know, his ability to get to the
ball quicker. He's kind of crushing stuff. Now. He does
still have strikeout issues, which is a problem, but he's
pulling the ball, he's walking more, he's got a higher
his own contact rate. Like I don't know, I feel
like I feel a little bit more stabilized with Pete Crow.
His XBA is.
Speaker 3: Two sixty two if you've got a two sixty.
Speaker 2: Pace, And he wasn't the best player in baseball and
then the worst player in baseball, and he just kind
of like rides the waves a little bit more. People
are gonna have such a better representation of him. People
aren't gonna slam him. We're not gonna want to slam him.
He doesn't have those big extremes. And I kind of
think that's my whole point of this is I kind
of think we're there, even with someone who yeah, yeah,
I was one of the most negative about Pete Crow
in the off season, but now I think we're there.
And I had asked the question to Joe Dynasty, would
you rather have Pete Crow or Ronald Kunya? And he hesitated.
Now I'm like, that's how I feel too, But he
said exactly what I was hoping he would say, because
I agree with this. We got to see the end
of the season. We got to see him do this
for the season, we got to see we don't think
he needs to be a two seventies. I'd love him
to be a two seventy six hitter. Then I don't
even think it's a question. Maybe he's like a two
sixty guy and he doesn't fall off for three months.
I think that kind of answers that question of like,
you know what, maybe he is somebody without the injury
issues and he's got all this skill set that you
would want over Acuna. It's still tall order. But I
don't know what you think about that. I think we
just need more of him doing this before we can
make that decision. Though.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you on both fronts, right, Like,
because right now he's pacing to have, you know, pretty
much the same counting stats with a better batting average
from last season, which is exactly what you want. You
want growth in batting average because there's not a lot
of room for growth on thirty one homers and thirty
five stolen bases. You know, maybe a little more in
the runs in RBI department you can break one hundred,
but he's over ninety in both those last year. You
just want it better than a two forty seven average,
right and he's hitting two seventy six right now. You
mentioned the improvements against lefties, and our goal, what our
goal should be for PCA is to just make him
more consistent and hitting lefties is going to make him
more consistent. I still think he's going to have these
surges where he's unstoppable, but if the rest can be
a little bit better and it's not surge and sink
and it's just surge and then steady, that's what we
want from PCA. So I think it's fair. I think
it's fair to answer this question either way right now,
because you're also saving four years on PC's twenty four
years old and Acuna is twenty eight, so there's just
a lot more runway for each twenty his career.
Speaker 2: You want to feel the consistency of him, and you
know we might not be there yet and some of
these things might median out, but it's like, you see
him hitting the ball harder fifty one point nine percent
hard hit rate, that's full ten percentile points higher. You
see him hitting lefties, and you're like, those are big
changes that you needed to make. He's consistently hitting to
fifty or higher against fastball breaking or off speed, like,
those are things that you want for him.
Speaker 3: To be able to tap into this.
Speaker 2: So if you can have a little bit less variance,
it's going to make him like a higher and elite
fantasy player, and I just kind of think we're in
that space.
Speaker 3: I think I'm gonna say PCA, Yeah, I think I
want him over Acunya because of the injury stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm leaning I could definitely I could see this being
a straight up trade of someone that's just like, you know,
four years, maybe a slight little lean to Acunya if
this contracts involved.
Speaker 3: If it was like forty five.
Speaker 2: Dollars Acuoni or thirty dollars Pete Crow, I'll take Pete Crow.
If it was one of those where it was like,
you know, forty five dollars Acunion, twenty dollars peak Crow,
then it's probably it's like so easily peak Crow like
that type of stuff if you're in contract. So, I
don't know. I think it's a really interesting, interesting conversation,
and it's been it's been fun all the I'm giving
Joe crap about that, but we had lots of good
conversations about it and bust balls both ways. But then
it was full circle because it was like I went
on this kind of ti ratee about him when he
had the cycle when we weren't talking about it, and
then today he was like the topic of conversation and
then we bring that up speaking of Acunya.
Speaker 3: By the way, quote a long way.
Speaker 2: To go before returning. According to Walt Weiss, that is
about the worst news outside of being out for the season,
because the long wait is just so ambiguous, like there's
no time.
Speaker 3: What's the timetable?
Speaker 2: We don't know. I think he missed three weeks with
the last hamstring injury. If they're saying he's a long
ways away, I assume, I'm I'm I'm thinking August. This
feels August to me. Maybe it's right after the maybe
the All Star Game.
Speaker 3: We'll save us a little bit.
Speaker 2: And it's right after that, but it is late late
July to early August. I think he's coming back. And
that's pretty brutal. It's a brutal blow to fantasy owners
for sure.
Speaker 3: That sucks. And it's that, you know, he had the crazy,
insane season and then it has been kind of, you know,
stuck in limbo with these injuries. Forty nine games, twenty four,
ninety five last year, fifty three this year. That's why
I think I'm gonna take PCA. You know, even dude,
I just he's not getting back there, is he getting
back to one forty. He's hit one fifty twice in
his career. Oh you mean games played? Games played? Yeah, yeah,
twenty nineteen he played one fifty six, he played one
fifty nine, and twenty twenty three. His next highest is
one nineteen.
Speaker 1: Hill.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is why I did this.
Speaker 2: Comp took a Kunya a couple of weeks ago, and
everyone was like they did you know that meme where
they're like hmm, yeah, like that where I said, is
Acunya the next Buxton? In that like Buxton had you know,
these amazing years and then it was like just dealt
with like multiple years of injuries. And this is the
exacting conversation where like box and I wasn't played one
hundred and noted all and this song and then all
of a sudden he just does, Yeah, Kuna has one
hundred percent gonna have a run you know of like
a couple of seasons where things will kind of start
to click and stuff like that. But like when is
that going to happen? Maybe I won't, by the way,
but like when is that going to happen? It's in
question for us to have the conversation is what makes
it stupid? And annoying, and it could make people turn
in that direction. The problem with making that move from
Acunya to Pete kro Armstrong is it's like I don't
want to say this, you know, Like how like a
car depreciates as soon as you take it off the lot,
But like, let's say, what what is going to depreciate quicker,
A a hamstring, a range rover or a tesla, Like
you're going to saying like a tesla is not. And
what I'm getting at here is like Pete Crow is awesome.
And that was probably a poor analogy and there's probably
better ones, but like what.
Speaker 3: I'm getting to say is it about the battery. I'm
not sure, But.
Speaker 2: Like when Pete Crow is awesome, he's awesome. When Pete
Crow is down, pet Crow's value plummets to nothing, but
Cunya never really plummets to nothing. That's what I'm like.
He always, yeah, he's a safer, he's gold, you know,
and Pete Crow is crypto his bitcoin. But but Pa
is going to be bad for more games than Acunia
plays total, and that all of those things are in play.
I'm just saying when Pete Crow goes bad, when he
breaks bad people are like, I don't want any part
of him. This is garbage, dead it up, But like
that just doesn't happen. A Coudia's value just rarely dips down.
So to get off of Pete Crow now or to
get off of Ronald A Coudi now in favor of
Pete Crow maybe leaves off the table safety that Acuna
could still provide. So it's it's an interesting one. I
want to get this out of the way. Do you
have any feelings on the Homer in Derby ditching the clock.
I kind of think it's stupid and like, why why
is it every year they got.
Speaker 3: To change something. I don't mean that quit changing the
damn thing.
Speaker 2: Does that make the game better to you, though you're
more of a connoisseur of Homer and Derby.
Speaker 3: I I don't think it does. I just want one
consistent thing. I don't want to keep changing it. You
don't think you're going to clock. Either keep the clock
or ditch it, but don't keep changing it every damn year.
I think that's the thing. I like the you know,
the tournament style I think is fine.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: I thought it was okay with the clock, But I
also understand that it you know, it really wears those
guys out, so it makes things weird because sometimes you
have really old guys throwing and they can't go as fast.
So I don't know, like, just keep it the same,
just figure out what works best and quit messing with it.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the exact same take as me then,
because I'm just like, why are we changing these Let's
keep it to say, like I don't need every single
year there's some new thing. It's like now it's four
twenty five for bonus, and here's what.
Speaker 3: I just think it makes it better if you keep
it the same because you can compare home run derbyes
from year to year too. It's different. It's so different
without the clock. So I just find whatever works best
and just to sight on that and lock it in
for twenty five years.
Speaker 2: I legit. Think I said this in leading off today.
I think they change it every year so there's something.
Speaker 3: To talk about.
Speaker 2: So people talk about it a month before, like they
make a new thing and they're just like, hey, what
do you think now, because like they're going to do
this and people are gonna kind of hate it and
they're going to next year be like ah, we decided
to go back to the just make the prize absurd
so that all the home run hitters want to be
in it. That I think that's the biggest change you
can make to the home run Derby to make it
the best that it could possibly be.
Speaker 3: The prize like ten million dollars.
Speaker 2: Wasn't that something we did with the dunk contest? Didn't
they change that to like five million or something?
Speaker 3: Or that makes these guys that never play and come
off the bench to do weird dunks. Though, like even
if they did in that, some of those the basketball
players are making so much money anyway.
Speaker 2: I just think that if you know, never mind it
is one hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, why would they give it?
Do they?
Speaker 3: They say, like something wrong? Yeah this is this is
one hundred thousand dollars is a lot of money. Like
that's great, but let's for baseball players. Make it enormous
so that we get the biggest home so that gord
On is in it every year, you.
Speaker 2: Know, I complete this is a really interesting little thing.
By the way, I didn't even know this, but next
year the All Star Game is here in Phoenix, And
did you know that Matte is whoever the Phoenix Suns owners. Yeah,
he's personally funding a million dollar himself to the winners
of the slam dunk and three point contest, matching another
million also for charity. That's actually super interesting. But I
could not agree with you more. The Home Run Derby
should be like five million dollars brought to you by
Capital One, and every ball can have Capital One on it,
and they pay the money. I mean, these teams, you know,
these are these companies pay for ten million dollars for
a thirty second ad during the Super Bowl. You're telling
me you can't get five million, maybe call it ten
million dollars, ten million dollars out of a team or
an organization to have full sponsorship rights, they pay five million. There,
they get five million. They put it on the balls instead.
Speaker 3: I want it. I want it to be so many
people want into the Home Run Derby that individual teams
have to do their own home run Derby to see
who represents them. That's what I want, right, Yeah, I mean,
let let's let's do that and make it so the
best players are in here.
Speaker 2: Oh and imagine the story too of like one sod
with his seven hundred million versus like a Connor Griffin
who's making like, you know, four hundred thousand dollars or something.
Not that any of them are poor, but it's like
getting guys to be in there that are making you know,
one tenth of that, Like I love love that, and
I don't. And I think even those those bigger guys too,
like no one's gonna scoff off. Just make sure you
never do it in California, so they take their extra packs.
And yeah, I know, I completely agree with that.
Speaker 3: All of these Derby's also only allowed in Florida from
now on, just so everybody knows. Yeah, honestly though, if
they want so many places.
Speaker 2: It's a very different conversation, by the way, well just
because like Baseball, they just did their next I'm gonna
talk about on a prospect one, but they did their
next like, here's what's another thing we want in the
labor agreement, And everybody has come away with the sense
that there's not one thing Baseball is doing that doesn't
have to do with cutting costs. They're acting like they
are just dirt poor, and it's it's embarrassing and it's stupid,
and everything is about cutting costs. But all of these
leagues are like trying to They have meetings and boards
and a bunch of losers sitting around a table. How
can we make this better? There is only one thing
that will make it better and more competitive, and it
is money.
Speaker 3: Cream.
Speaker 2: Cash rules everything around me. Cream, get the money, dollar
dollar bills, y'all. Put a stupid prize on the All
Star Games, on your home run derbies, on the Pro Bowl.
Get stupid prizes that people don't want to but not
And I say this, one hundred thousand dollars is what
people are praying to make in a year. But like,
put something that these athletes, you know, that they really
want to fight for. I completely agree. Then you're going
to get these dudes taking their time out. Seriously, they're
not having a great time. I want them to be
like I want them to be sweating.
Speaker 3: If Otani and so to decide that, you know, look,
I already have enough money. Let me let somebody else
go to the home run derby and win this ten
million dollars. Then fine. Or if you make so much
money and you don't care about it, at least participate
and if you win, donate the money to charity. You
can write that off anyway, So you know, just figure
out a way to get the best home run hitters
in the home run Derby is my main concern.
Speaker 2: It's not these dumb ass little stupid like no no
clock and it's just like I don't care.
Speaker 3: Time to start, quit being polite and start getting real
the real home run derby. This time it counts.
Speaker 2: How about the home run Derby champion gets to pick
if the AL or NL is the home in the world.
Speaker 3: Shit, how about how about the home run derby winn
it gets to choose which pictures piggyback in their rotation.
Speaker 2: How about yeah, yeah, so the Mariners, how you didn't
even know about this before the show. I'm not surprised
you missed this. But the report came out that the Mariners,
as a team the pictures, unanimously have decided that they
are going to undergo a full piggyback rotation up until
the All Star break. So I believe it lacks clarity,
But how it reads on paper is that every single
picture will experience a piggy backer, and I believe every
single picture would be the piggy back. That's how I
read that. So every picture would be the guy that starts,
the game goes five, and then another guy would come in,
and then there would be one turn where that same picture,
let's say use Logan Gilbert would be the guy that
comes in in the fifth or sixth inning to replace
immensely stupid, horrible for fantasy. Maybe it's good for real baseball.
It will theoretically untax some of your bullpen. But if
they kind of keep with this, you would in theory
need more pictures that are closer to starters. And this
is why if they are to do this, it's brought
up a lot of conversation about guys like Rian Sloan
and Kita Anderson coming up, because you would need probably
somewhere between two and four pitchers that could go deep
into games if they are making a full commitment to this.
The lack of clarity really screws this up. But you
can right off the gate, right out the gates, you
understand the ramifications. A quality start leagues would be really hampered,
I would suppose, because this is obviously going to be
to like limit innings pitched and stuff like that, so
that's in theory would hurt that it could hurt the
other picture not being available for wins for a week.
I guess two start pitchers could maybe be more affected.
It hurts strikeouts. If a guy gets hit up a
little bit, that's another inning or less. They would have
to like bring down their ratios, or I guess it
could work vice versa. It's just a really bad, stupid
situation that I also hate reacting to because I don't
feel like we have enough information. But my reaction was
to drop all of those starters just a spot or
two around the pictures that they were, because, like, I
have to assume they're all going to be negatively affected
to some degree. So I don't love I really really
don't like the situation. I'm hopeful the whole, like they've
agreed to it, is that it ends after the All
Star break, but I don't know, man, Like I think
there's a possibility that maybe what they do is they
do this, they experiment with it, and then after the.
Speaker 3: All Star break they just say, well, guess what.
Speaker 2: Luis Castillo, Ryan Sloan and Kate Anderson, you are now
the new piggybackers, and we are gonna three times a week,
you know, attach one of these guys to starters and
rotate them before we go to the bullpens and it
just it messes. I mean, cool to Kate Anderson gets
some stats, but I think it just kind of messes
with everybody, and it's it's it is less than ideal.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like it, I'll say that. And maybe
I'm just being you know, too much of an old
man here and not really buying into something new and
you know, being a fantasy there that hates that some
of my guys are gonna lose value because of this.
So not my favorite move. I also don't I don't
think it can last beyond the you know, the break.
I understand why they're doing it, but there you're a
game and a half in first place. Isn't this something
like didn't the Astros do this like ten or fifteen
years ago in the minors throughout every level? Didn't they
do piggybacking for like, I don't three months. I just
don't feel like it was just not worth it.
Speaker 2: Maybe I felt like maybe it was that was like
more openers because the openers are being toyed around, But
maybe you're right. I don't. I don't know if it
was to that degree, but it's it's really drastic and
it feels like it's coming off of the heels of
like Bryce Miller and Luis Castillo both said they didn't
like it, and the organization clearly for whatever it is,
whether they want to limit their pitchers innings, whether they're
worried about their bullpen, I really can't say to what
They have too many guys to what degree it is,
but they've come to this decision that this helps their
organization and they you do have to trust the pitching
factory of it, but I just don't know. I don't
know where the end of this is, and I would
love clarity, and it's not for them. They don't owe
us clarity or anything like that, but we have to
react off of what we know and for face value.
To me, it as seems like seems like every guy
will get a start is going to struggle to get
to six ever, and then every starter is going to
be pushed into the back half role where they're likely
maybe they get to save or something like that. It's
just it's so messy and weird, and if it's if
it can, if it was the entire season, I probably
would drop these guys a little bit more. But but
we don't know, will they will they say all of
a sudden, well, hey, Logan's just rocking, we're gonna let
him go seven and then we'll bring in Luis Castill
for the last three. Okay, then that's a little bit different.
I just we don't have the clarity of those things,
and that's what makes it dumb.
Speaker 3: I just looked it up in Google's AI thing said
that it was in twenty thirteen and twenty fourteen that
the Ashtros did this in double A and triple A,
so where they would piggyback the stars. But the main
reason they were doing it it was to prevent arm
fatigue for their upcoming big prospects. That's when they had
a lot of big prospects down there, because they were
real bad. So, uh, they phased.
Speaker 2: It out after Christian Javier got called up in like
nineteen completely, but they started phasing it out after twenty fourteen.
So maybe, yeah, so, but but it's only really been
used for, you know, to prevent arm fatigue. So so
we're gonna see, we're gonna see what it looks like.
And I told Joe, I said, here's the one thing.
You better hope it all doesn't work't work exactly exactly
where is going. You better pray to God this doesn't work,
and then next year it's two other teams that do this.
Maybe not every team is going to do it to
this degree.
Speaker 3: And start getting holds heavy in some of these leagues.
Speaker 2: If this, dude, you play in a quality starts league,
you probably got to change rules.
Speaker 3: How I just switch it to holds?
Speaker 2: Maybe?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess, yeah, I mean wins.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if a guy still goes five, they
still could be, you know, in line for the win.
But quality starts leagues are kind of destroyed. Yeah, holds again.
Might I think if this does work with wins and holds,
would that be a hilarious stat if people did that together.
Speaker 3: You could do wins and holds together. But I would
think just adding holds would not own make those back
half starters worth more, but also middle relievers for the
teams that aren't doing it, so it could open up
just more value. But I don't, you know, I'm old man,
yields a cloud. I'm used to what I'm used to.
I don't like it.
Speaker 2: It looks yeah, well yeah I don't. I don't want
to do it.
Speaker 3: Well, Also, like don't like change.
Speaker 2: You don't like dealing with these three back systems in
the NFL, And it's like, I don't want to start
dealing with like seven to eight pictures in a rotation
that are going to like not be able to accumulate
some stats on some weeks. And it's just it's bad.
Speaker 3: Did you see I couldn't. I can't remember who the
old player was. I think it was Ted Williams. But
it's like James, how young is James?
Speaker 2: James Wood's like twenty four twenty three.
Speaker 3: Matters the same amount of pitches of pictures in his
career that Ted Williams faced about his entire career.
Speaker 2: Yeah, in two seasons he has faced the amount of pictures,
which I mean they.
Speaker 3: Play more teams, but also those pictures just they like
if you're starting, you're going nine. That's just it. Here
you go.
Speaker 2: It's part of the argument that kind of dies on
when the people just want to be like, there's just
nothing that beats this guy in this guy and it's like, well, yeah,
he faced like, you know, thirty different pitchers over like
five years, threw probably eighty one, you know, and.
Speaker 3: I mean you can miss me with that eighty one nonsense.
But yeah, they they got to face a lot of
easier pictures and it wasn't as tough. They didn't have
as much travel, they didn't face as many And if
you players who.
Speaker 2: Just got off the line working, you know, at the sawmill,
and then he goes in and throws you know, seventy
four you know, for one hundred and twenty five pitches,
and these guys get thirty hits and one goes five
hundred feet Like, yeah, I mean nothing should count before
the league was integrated. So whatever, No, no, I agree
with that. Agree with that, all right, all right, some
more relevant baseball stuff. Those are kind of like topical
conversation things that are floating around. Good Lord, really sow
long we were going, but we had a lot there.
The giants are listening on players. But I have had
a conversation about this. It doesn't matter bugs. I'm gonna
throw this out to you.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've looked contract right.
Speaker 2: They can't trade any of them. Matt Chapman was like,
everyone's like, oh, this is the most likely.
Speaker 3: Well guess what.
Speaker 2: He's owed twenty five million dollars to twenty thirty one,
so he ain't going anywhere. Domas ain't going anywhere. Dev's
ain't going anywhere. Ain't nobody taking on those contracts there.
It's Lisa Rise and Robbie Ray. Those are the ones
they are gonna trade. So the Giants are listening on
all their players. They're gonna be stuck with those guys.
I just I think they're gonna be in a weird
position where they're gonna want players that are close to
the majors because they can't rebuild. And this is what
happens when you have three or four players that have
a billion dollars, is you are stuck in a no
ability to rebuild. So deal with it. My boy Hunter Green,
who I told you I spent a little bit of
time watching him pitch in Complex League on Saturday. This
is a weird surprise. He said he was pitching next week.
But I didn't realize he wasn't gonna pitch here because
this was supposed to be tonight. I was thinking about going.
By the way, Green is already sent to Triple A.
They sent up to Louisville. He's added to the roster.
I believe he's pitching tonight because he was added. Worst
case it would be tomorrow. But this kind of changes
my brain a little bit. With him, I thought it
would be like little slow ramp up out in ACL
then maybe he moves to like a start in low
A or high A, and then he goes to triple
A and has you know, three starts.
Speaker 3: Dude, I don't know, Like, maybe he does have three
or four starses there.
Speaker 2: But if you're already at triple A and he pitched,
like I told you, close to fifty pitches last time,
I kind of think he might be like in a
fifty to sixty pitch on this one. Maybe he goes
sixty to seventy five in the next one. I think
there's a possibility he has two rehab starts. It's probably not,
but I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.
He has two rehab starts and goes up to the
majors maximum probably three. But Hunter Green's close. Hunter Green
is lining up for like right in the beginning of July,
unless they want to slow this stuff and be after
most All Star break. But you're going to be getting
him for post All Star Break.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean for how long? I guess is the question.
I don't know. I think I think it coming off
of this injury is so important for his future value
because obviously, you know heard at the end of last year,
right when you needed him, was annoying, and then uh,
he missed. He's you know, never thrown a full assortment
of starts. Twenty six was his most last year. Is
over one hundred and fifty innings. That's great, but you know,
hopefully he gets back in and is just regular hunter,
green and lasts. I think I think his value for
next season is going to depend a lot on if
he makes it through the end of the year healthy
coming off of this. If he does, I think it's
gonna be wheels up. He's gonna have high value. It's
be very high chosen picture next year. If he doesn't,
he goes back on the IL, I think he's gonna
get buried a little bit.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of a two outcome thing.
Speaker 2: It's what it is.
Speaker 3: But for this year, I feel good. I feel good
about him coming back.
Speaker 2: I don't I'm not sure if I'm trading for anything
like that, But like, I hadn't even thought about this,
but imagine that one two combo of Chase Burns and
Hunter Green. It's ridiculous, absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 3: If they only had a bolt, they both got to
make it. Like Chase Burns just has to prove that
he can do it over. I don't think he's thrown
much more than one hundred innings in his in any
season in his career. And Hunter Green needs to make
it to the finish line. Yeah, I mean he I
mean he was like super super I mean he got drought.
He was like a year after he got drafted.
Speaker 2: He was in the majors, So yeah, he hadn't done
it in the minors, so they got to see how
that worked. Speaking of the reds, Ellie ramping up his rehab.
He started running on Tuesday and it began a reheb
assignment tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Get the full Triek Scoople from Ellie. It looks like
he's just going to be back real quick.
Speaker 2: It's great, not great, Strider. Strider's moved to the sixty
day il he It is a two month probably plus situation.
I don't feel super great about anything with him, and
I'm not going to read all that, but.
Speaker 3: Come on, Carrasco happy survivor of blood disease is back
with the Braves, and he piggybacked last night, so I have.
Speaker 2: No interest in him. Drake Baldwin on the Brave side,
returned from the eel and hit the longest home run
of the year on his return for seventy three.
Speaker 3: In the rain, Too crazy Bomb.
Speaker 2: He's a beast man. He just came right out the
gates and just dominated. Hunter Brown, also returning from the
il five and two thirds seven strikeouts. Feel very good
about that. That's just like, get him right back to
where he was. Yes, I have no hesitation with him.
I think I think there's still has some overall hesitation.
Speaker 3: Like that piggybackers. I'm right back and throwing five and
two thirds. I think Joe had some hesitation with him.
Speaker 2: I don't at all. And then I'm gonna We're not gonna
do any of it really here. But I definitely you
want to listen to a conversation about this. Had a
long conversation on leading off today the Thursday episode about
Andrew Painter because I was kind of ready because he
got sent down and he has been absolute dog ass
this year.
Speaker 3: But I just.
Speaker 2: I firmly believe there's going to be a season in
the next two or three years where Andrew Painter is
going to live up to the hype. That doesn't maybe
necessarily like settle everybody in But like I guess what
I'm saying is I don't believe he's washed. He just
it doesn't work this year. But there's a long conversation
about that, and he got sent down after giving up
six earned runs. It's just not good. But I talk
about the stuff, numbers and things you might be interested
in in the injury world. Jose Ramirez had his surgery.
Speaker 3: Is expected five to.
Speaker 2: Seven weeks, so that would be like, I mean it's
probably August.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, not on fire.
Speaker 2: Not great, dude.
Speaker 3: I was so with you, like I just thought that
was it's my fault, and I apologize to everyone rostering
Jose Ramirez when I put hard earned American green backs
behind him, He's gone.
Speaker 2: Hard earned American money. Mikeel Garcia left Tuesday with a
hand injury. Did not play on Wednesday. Michael Harris left
Tuesday with a back injury. Also did not play Wednesday.
Did not look at either of the Today looked at
the lineup.
Speaker 3: Michael Harris has been dealing with this back stuff for
a while so.
Speaker 2: Well, and the Braves got postponed today. I don't know
if you notice that. I just noticed that their game
was postponed, so that's just an extra day to return.
I'm not sure. Let me look an MLB lineup, so
I want to see if because I feel like Garcia.
How long have you said Garcia has been out for Garcia?
Speaker 3: Well, Garcia has been coming and going in the lineup
as well.
Speaker 2: I think he's still going. He's still not in the lineup,
so that's no, that's no point.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, he's been frustrating this year.
Speaker 2: Like I think he's still having decent numbers, but he's
missed a bunch of games.
Speaker 3: Mikel hasn't he ye, I don't think I roster him anywhere,
so I haven't been beaying super close attention to Mikel.
But uh, it's been it has been here. It's man,
it's been a long year. Two sixty six, three five
swipes in sixty seven games. Sitting two sixty six like me,
number for fine, but they're not mediocre.
Speaker 2: Randy Roseana went to the ile with a hamstring strain.
I I did a video on Fantasy pros firmly believe
if he is sitting out there. Just don't let Dominic
Canzone sit out there anymore. He is absolutely dominating. Luke
Rayley's kind of banged up too. He's hitting lefties when
given the opportunity. I think Canzone's just gonna play every
day and he's been hitting in the middle of the lineup.
So just friends, don't let friends let Dominic can Zone
se on the wire if he's out there. Dania Planciel's
placed on the io with an inflamed elbow.
Speaker 3: Not good.
Speaker 2: Jacob Webb, I believe got the save, So that might
be someone you want to speculate.
Speaker 3: On about Paul Seawald. Cubbies, don't you want a closer?
Speaker 2: Did you not get the memo? Mike Cason said, Diamondbacks
are buying. They're not sellers. They are buying. They are
out there looking for a bat, which we're going to
talk about maybe one of the potential bats they could buy,
and how bad first base is.
Speaker 3: But they and if they're buying, you can't trade Paul
Seawald because he's literally the only good bullpener. That's my point.
They can't get rid of him.
Speaker 2: Chased the lotter wentto the IOW with a broken rib.
They tore his back to the Iowa with an oblique
strained Good Lord and Edward Aberry left with some hand cramping.
In the Coming Back World, Kyle Rowley back from the IL.
He'd been out since May fourteenth, so about a full
month that oblique strain. Garrett Crochet says he is close
to playing catch. I guess that's a pretty good sign.
Edwin Diaz when not murdering animals chickens, he is throwing bullpens.
That's what he did this week. So it took some
time away from killing some chickens. Roman Anthony, I was
about to say allegedly, but it's not allegedly, it's not.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 2: Roman Anthony, how to follow up MRI. It came back clean,
but he's still not been clear to swing a back.
Speaker 3: What is going on in the Roman Anthony?
Speaker 2: Absolute disaster of a season?
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is it really sucks. I mean the worst
part is is I think he's going to have enough
time to come back and be good again and get
no discount next year. So just a frustrating year. If
you're I don't know an Anthony right now, I don't
know if you will be good.
Speaker 2: This team is going to be big sellers, and I
don't know. I actually think he's going to be a
discount next year, don't. It's not going to come close.
Speaker 3: We'll see. I think he's got enough time to come back,
can still look good and then not be a discount,
and he will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if he came back in August and was like Gangbusters,
that's a good point. If he had like two months
of killing it, that'd be great. But he's so inconsistent
this year. If he doesn't come back till let's say August,
and then he's just kind of like black again, I
think people are going to turn the opposite direction. But
to your point, what you said was he has enough
time to come back and do it. He does have
enough time if he comes back in August, but we
don't know what the hell's going on with him. Ury
Perez began a rehab assignment. Ryan Helsey was reinstated from
the IL, which is great closure. Roles Yan your Diaz
was activated from the IEL, so there's some catcher action.
Austin Wells starting a rehab assignment Kotank I think started yesterday,
and Carlo Stanton reinjured his calf blot and then you
get some rehab assignments for pretty much no one that's
fantasy relevant outside of von Grisham, Tyler, Molly, Ronnie Mauricio.
Von Grisham has some fantasy relevancy. So a lot of
rehab assignments that are floating out there. All right, let's
take a break, come back. It is player debate time.
We have five player debates, some really fun one. Let's
dig into it right here on itl.
Speaker 3: I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy.
Speaker 1: That says you in this league.
Speaker 3: Hey, Barva, what's the name of that restaurant you like?
Of all the Mazurella.
Speaker 1: Sticks me in this league?
Speaker 2: Player debates, three hitter debates, two pitcher debates. We'll see
if we get to all of them, if we're quick enough.
This very first one, Bogman, I wanted us to do
this one, and I'm dicey about it because one of
these guys is very, very highly named after, and I
think you are going to hear the name and have
an immediate response. But hold that immediate response. When we
compare Kevin McGonagall to Otto, Lopez doesn't feel in the
same world. Kevin McGonagall. You know the rookie prince that
was promised. He's going to potentially be Rookie of the Year.
He's been hitting all season long. He's hitting two eighty
two with six homers, nine stolen bases, forty seven runs,
and twenty He has been great. But little did everybody
know that Auto Lopez beats McGonagall in four, uh actually three,
three of the five counting stat categories and his neck
and neck on the other two. He beats McGonagall in
RBI with thirty one. He beats McGonagall with thirteen stolen bases.
That's four more, and Otto Lopez is like the league
leader in batting average. He's going for a batting title.
At three thirty eight, he has four less runs and
one less homer. Otto Lopez is having a year where
you're just like huhh and you don't want to buy it,
and you don't want to believe it.
Speaker 3: But Otto Lopez.
Speaker 2: Looks like he's gonna walk out with like five to
twelve homers, twenty to twenty five stolen bases, and a
batting title. This is the better representation of what Roaldo
Perdomo was last year. McGonagall has a chance to go
anywhere from twelve to fifteen homers and you know, close
to twenty stolen bases, and if he hits two eighty
two ninety, he's gonna win a Rookie of the Year.
So by name value, it's not close. But Auto Lopez
and McGonagall statistically they are both right there. They're actually
also by the way, I think nine to ten are
eight to nine in war, they are literally right next
to each other. So rest of season, this moment on
who would you rather, Kevin McGonagall or Auto.
Speaker 3: Lopez, man, I think the answer is probably depending on
what you want. If you want floor, it's Lopez, But
I want ceiling, and I think you're just gonna have
more ceiling with mcgonagall's power. I think the lineup is better.
You know, they're gonna be so close, Like you said,
they're so close on everything, and Auto Lopez just I mean,
the batting average is insane. It's you know, in it's
just so good everywhere. It's three forty nine at home,
it's three twenty one. On the road, it's four fifty
eight against lefties and still two ninety five against righty's.
Every month for Auto Lopez three twenty two nine, three
fifty five. The average is so high up there, so
I think, But but McGonagall, I just think the power
is going to be better. I think there's more upside
from runs and RBI for him as well. So it's
probably McGonagall slightly. But I don't have like, I don't
have a good argument against Auto Lopez specifically, if you
need batting average, if you need batting average, it is
definitely going to be Auto Lopez, So it depends on
what you need.
Speaker 2: Well also, but when you say what you need, Lopez
like clearly has the run on batting average, but also
stolen bases, and you could argue, like the runs like
that kind of feels like and not.
Speaker 3: The run because he's always on base.
Speaker 2: Yeah, not the Philberto's runs, but like, yeah, you know,
the he's always on base, hitting at the top of
the lineup feels like he's going to score ninety runs
if there's no separation of runs.
Speaker 3: Okay, I do agree with you. I think there's a
separate of power.
Speaker 2: Auto Lopez, you know, doesn't pull the ball, like, he
doesn't walk a ton, which maybe kind of hurts like
a little bit of the get on base thing. He
doesn't get the ball in the air a ton like,
So I have much more of a belief of McGonagall,
who's a twenty one degree launch angle, has a twenty
one pulled air percentage. You know, those are the things
he walks more than he strikes out, Like he's super
patient at the plate. He hasn't expected batting average it's lower,
but it still looks like, you know, really good. I
do feel comfortable that Otto Lopez is going to get
me the stolen bases and the batting average, but like,
I'm not sure if the other categories are really locks,
and I don't know if the stolen base differential is
something to go crazy about. So like, you know what
the badding average is the play here, But I'm kind
of with you on the McGonagall power side, which I'm
gonna flip.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna flip because I'm looking at this power right now,
and the ISO for Auto Lopez is not great. It's
one thirty seven, but that's the highest it's ever been
in his career, and you hit fifteen homers last year.
His slugging also is four to seventy three this year.
It was three sixty eight last year. And both those
number I mean, I sold one forty seven for McGonagall,
so ten points behind. And it's in the slugging for
uh mcgonagall's four twenty nine to four to seventy three
for Auto Lopez. So I I think I'm gonna flip
to Lopez just slightly. But it is a very very
close either way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And this is like not that you don't know
that Otto Lopez is like a good valuable player, but
I think, like when I stare at this, the thing
that's in my mind is I think everybody reacted when
they heard this as saying, well, Kevin McGonagall, but like
you think it's out of pocket in a redraft league
that you could trade McGonagall for Lopez and maybe get
a little bit more, you know, or you know, if
you're focused on a trade like this would be another way,
if you're really focused on trying to get like the
McGonagall in a deal and that the owner doesn't want
to sell them off because it has to be Rookie
of the Year and da da dah.
Speaker 3: It's like Otto Lopez might be a really good alternative.
Speaker 2: Now. I do think he'll be tough to get because
people are gonna see what he has provided from batting
average and like really struggle wanting to get rid of that.
The name values are not close, but the players are.
I think both of these guys are gonna score ninety
plus runs. I think McGonagall could take the RBI marker,
and I think he takes the homers. I do wonder
if Otto Lopez comes back down to earth. His XBA
is two ninety four, his BABB is up a little bit.
I just do wonder if, like you know, that it
starts to come back down. Not that it's gonna matter
if he's like three ten. I guess what I'm getting
at is like, does it come back down more? In
like a worrisome degree. But I really probably wouldn't even
get focused on that. He's stealing bases. He's stealing. He's
got three this month, he'll probably get to four, and
he stole four in April five in May, so that
seems consistent his power, doesn't. He had three homers in April,
but he's hit one homer each the last two months,
so he might struggle to get to ten. So if
you get like ten twenty five out of him with
a great batting app average runs and some RBI like
again like, that's gonna feel like Perdomo. So the answer
might be what you said out of Lopez. I'm gonna
go Kevin mcgonaga, though.
Speaker 3: But it is I was gonna say, are you coming?
Speaker 2: It's hype, but it's hyper close. But like I said,
if if it's a question of I have to pay
more for McGonagall, I don't want to do it like
I Lopez. He might be a better play to try
to go in trade four in a league, you know,
because he's just not going to cost as much. All right,
Number two, I hate this. I know your Bogmann actually
literally is like, well, how am I supposed to choose?
Speaker 3: And I was like perfect.
Speaker 2: One wanted to be the Diamondbacks first baseman, but they
didn't want to sign him. The other, I don't think,
really wanted to leave the Diamondbacks didn't want to sign him.
The Diamondbacks would be lucky to get both Christian Walker
or Paul Goldschmidt. Christian Walker on the year two forty
six average, he has struggled as of recent eighteen homers,
fifty two RBI, forty two run Versus Paul Goldschman, who
is absolutely come on like Gangbusters He's hit a three
oh one average and looks like he ain't going anywhere
because Jean Carlos missing time. Eleven homers, thirty six RBI,
twenty six run. It's tough to pick that because like
it's one hundred and twenty lessed bats. So I think
if you paste it more, I think they're pretty close
and running RBI. I saw a stat that blew my
mind bogs. And this has nothing to necessarily do with
those guys, but there is rumors of Christian Walker that
I'm in Backs having interest in bringing him back, and
I just want.
Speaker 3: To throw this out.
Speaker 2: The Diamondbacks combined first base production. I believe the number
I might be off by a couple but you'll understand
how why it doesn't matter. Have a combined call it
five seventy four OPS. I think that's what the number
was of all the first basement they've run out this year.
That OPS is not only the worst of any first
baseman combos in baseball this year, it's the worst since
nineteen twenty. No team in over one hundred years has
had worse first base production, especially from like an OPS standpoint,
than what they are Arizona Diamonbacks are getting right now,
So the Diamonbacks would it would behoove them.
Speaker 3: Even when it was a bunch of losers hitting against
eighty mile per hour fastball.
Speaker 2: No, yeah, just a bunch of boat workers that were
just jumping in and just starting to hit baseballs like
it was better than what the Diamondbacks are doing right now.
The reason it's relevant is because if you want to
put Christian Walker in that boat of like he's going
to get traded, and if he go, if he goes
back to the Diamondbacks, my god, you know what type
of hitter he is in that environment. He's really been
great in the power department. You were totally right about that.
Average is sunk. But man, if he gets a better destination,
maybe he has four categories. Goldie. Goldie looks like a
strong four category guy and he's dominating in New York.
So who would you rather rest of season from this
moment on Christian Walker or Paul Goldschmid.
Speaker 3: It's still going to be Walker. But I'll say this,
if Goldie were to get moved because the Yankee just
don't need him and they can get something back for him.
Oh all right, just listen to me. If he does
get moved, which I think, you know, just for the
Yankees to get something they absolutely need because they don't
really need. Goldie's playing well right now, but you're gonna
get judged back, you know, probably after the All Star
Bak break. But he's going to be back, and if
he comes back, and if they're easing him in, they're
probably gonna d h him sometimes, which is gonna push
Ben Rice to first, and it's going to push Goldie
to the bench. Right. That's going to keep happening. Walker
doesn't have that issue. Walker is very streaky. He's on
the down right now where he was on the up before.
But he's going to come back and have another big
month at some point. It's just what Christian Walker has
done throughout his career. So I'm not surprised that he
was white hot and now he's kind of cold right now.
So because of playing time, the answer is still Christian Walker.
But if we can or if there's an extended injury
judgments is longer than we or he comes back and
they don't outfielder. But Trent Grisham's out right now too right,
and I know Stanton just had the setback. I don't
know that Stan is coming back at all. I don't
think you can depend on him, but it's just Walker
is guaranteed these abs, So it's definitely Walker for me.
Speaker 2: Still, I'm gonna go Goldie. That might be weird for you.
I mean, Walker has struggled the last two months. It's
really sunk that batting average where Goldie is hitting four
hundred against lefties right now, in the two months that
he's got significant playing time. He hit two eighty nine
in May. He's hitting three eighty two this month. Power
across both months, he's got an eight to ninety oh ps.
Diamondbacks would love that. That was in the month of
May and over thousand ops in June.
Speaker 3: They would sure like that.
Speaker 2: And from a profile standpoint, it's like it's kind of
vintagey Goldie. Low strikeouts, higher walks. His barrel rates the
best it's been since twenty twenty three, it's tied, his
walk rates the best since twenty twenty three. His launch
angle is the best since like twenty twenty one. He's
pulling the ball like he looks revived. Now, maybe that's
all gonna fall apart because he is an old house
and that's going to disappear. But Goldie's hitting in like
a really really great environment, and I think the DH
spot is open. They've got injuries, judges out for some time.
And I really like Christian Walker's power.
Speaker 3: You know, he's.
Speaker 2: Obviously always been like a poll heavy guy. He's struggling
at home. You know, he's hitting two thirty four at home.
He's hitting better on the road. If he were to
be traded to a team like the Diamondbacks, my eyes
would perk up because it's like, man, I think he
would start to ball out there. But I kind of
on the opposite end, I'm like, if it's just right now,
it's Goldie, not thinking if it's the fir well, yeah.
Speaker 3: If it's for the if it's for the first, the next,
just month, then the answer is Goldie. I would agree
with that, but I guess everything else to me is
too speculative, Like does Walker get traded. I'm not gonna
count that. Does Goldie lose time because a couple other
guys come. Not When he's hitting three hundred plus, he's
not losing any time.
Speaker 2: But maybe he becomes.
Speaker 3: More by the back half of the year. That's a
possibility because Jeorgi and Grisham are both going to come back.
They're not like Stanton might not come back, but that
are both going to come back.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't have to take away from Goldie though.
Goldie could still think it will though, but I don't
think it has to. But I think it absolutely will.
Speaker 3: So that's it. Look playing time for both these guys,
complete playing time. My answer is Goldie one percent, without question.
I just don't think he's gonna get that playing time,
So it's Walker Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go with Goldie on that one. It's a
fun debate. The second one was another fun one that
we threw out, and the only reason we did it
was because of a of a your reaction here, because
this might be another one of those just gonna throw
it out there that you're gonna hear and you're gonna
instantly just have your answer for it. But it might
be a little bit relevant to what your fantasy team
looks like. But as a whole, the player debate is
going to be Brian Reynolds to the Pittsburgh Pirates, who
is quietly having a really great year versus Fernando Tatis Junior,
which I know feels very icky for people to hear
on the season, Brian Reynolds is hitting two eighty three,
has scored fifty runs forty seven RBI, ladies and gentlemen.
He's pacing out to have a one hundred hundred season
and it has sure helped having some pieces around him
in lineup protection right Oneo Cruz has been good, Ryan
O'Hearn like Brandon Low, they actually have pieces. Well, now
he's scoring runs, he's hitting RBIs, he has ten homers,
he's five stolen. He even has five stolen bases. Guys,
this is like vintage Brian Reynolds, remember when he was
two eighty twenty five to ten. He looks like he's
back there, but now at a potential hundred hundred season
in front of him Versus Fernando Tatis Junior, who is
an absolute talent. He has wildly more stolen bases, eighteen
to Reynolds's five. Their average is almost moot at two
eighty four, but Fernando Tatis, in nine more at bats,
has scored twenty two les runs with only twenty eight,
has scored twenty one less RBI with twenty six, and
has two homers to the ten. So you obviously know
Tatis has been hitting like crazy this year. He has
not been able to connect to the power. There's still
a whole second half. Obviously, if he did start showing
up that power with a two eighty four average, that's
going to equate to probably more RBIs, and you know,
the stolen bases will look crazy. And if the guys
around him could get him in to score more runs
like Machado, things could go really great. We know all
the things that can be good with Tatis, it just
has not been. And Brian Reynolds is on kind of
another worldly play right now, and so many things look good,
and the pacing numbers look sick. So the question is
rest of season. Yes, I understand Tatis has other position qualifications,
but Brian Reynolds or Fernanda Tatis Junior in a vacuum
not thinking about position.
Speaker 3: I would like you to, just before we start this,
tell me how many more runs the Pittsburgh Pirates have
on the season than the San Diego Padres. Oh, that's
interesting question.
Speaker 2: I guess I don't know how many.
Speaker 3: Like its one hundred ninety nine. That's exactly right, Okay,
I mean Pittsburgh is fifth in the league in runs
and the Padres are twenty ninth. Only the Red Sox
have one less run than the Padres two hundred and eighty.
Right now, the Padres batting average is where is It
is two eighteen that is dead last in baseball by
ten points. The Reds are hitting two twenty eight, which
is second worst, Cleveland at two twenty nine, and then
Phillya two twenty nine. So it's not just Fernando Tatis
not hitting homers that concerns me about him for the
rest of the season. It's obviously Machado is having a
down year and the offense as a hole is bad,
and Brian Reynolds is in the middle of this lineup
and by the way, is continuing to rake without O'Neill, Cruiz,
Connor Griffin just went on the il as well, and
those guys are going to come back and make this
lineup even better when they do, because it's been good
all year. This is easily Brian Reynolds to me for
this year, obviously, not for Dynasty. Fernando Tatis has a
crazy high ceiling, but it's not working this year. He
still only has two bombs. It's not like, oh, the
the flip switched and here it is to you know, uh,
five six seven bombs in this month. No, it's still two.
So the batting average is fine, but no one's getting
on ahead of him. No one's driving him in either.
It's like a whole systematic thing for the Padres right now.
So for me right now, it's it's got to be
Brian Reynolds and that one is way better except for
solen bases.
Speaker 2: I wonder if that contract thing is still, like is
it really in his head and affecting him, you know,
that whole Like he's got to give up like thirty
five million dollars to whatever that agency when he sold
part of his contract. I wonder if that's gotten to him,
or there's a floating injury like you could argue, like
he is still hitting for average, and he's hitting the
ball hard. I mean, he's sitting the ball harder than
he did last year. You know, he's still barreling the ball.
Those things are really good. He just has miserable. Yeah,
that's been the thing that we focus on the entire year.
He cannot get that launch going. He's hitting the ball,
his bat speed is a mile and a half faster
than last year. He's getting to it faster, but that stance,
he closed it off a lot more compared to last year.
Thirty degrees open last year, seventeen this year. So he
essentially cut his batting stands in half. And it's like
that clearly has to be something to it. So but
what is the reason behind that? What is the reason
to have closed off your stands to get more bat speed?
Is the reason that you're maybe, you know, hiding some
type of injury, Like I just don't know what it is,
and maybe they'll just be will never have any.
Speaker 3: I assume it's going to get fixed, but it just
hasn't and we're three months in.
Speaker 2: I think Reynolds is just too hot right now. I
don't I wouldn't kill anybody that wanted to keep meeting there.
Because it's high average, high Sperling base. You assume the
power could go up. I mean, he's kind of, if
we're being honest, he kind of looks no more than
Xavier Edwards, you know, stolen bases average, I mean, the
Xavier Edgards scoring more runs. Tatis has the ceiling, but
but Reynolds is just too consistent right now, Like it's
gonna be hard for him to not have one hundred
hundred season with twenty plus homers and ten stolen bases,
And it's like, that's what you dream of. Just give
me twenty five hundred hundred to eighty five and ten
stolen bases like that is a top two or three
round player.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have a chance to make us look real dumb.
Speaker 2: Oh this one could make us look like one mass
for sure when Tatis all of a sudden, so it's
getting the ball in.
Speaker 3: The air and he has hit three homers tonight and half.
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, But like I think the point of it
is okay in June June eighteenth, what's more important to you?
Playing for the upside or playing for I don't even
want to call Reynolds not upside, but like the safety
of a of a fourth round player or third let's
what would you say that is twenty five to ten
to eighty five, one hundred hundred, that's like a third
round player, right, yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Would you like that safety of a third round player
that is just locked or do you want a player
that has the downside of an eighth round player and
the upside of a first round player?
Speaker 3: Because it's not just Tatis having to come through for
this to happen. It's the rest of his teammates as well,
because like he's already hitting two eighty four. If the
power comes, the power comes, and that's great and that
will lead to more RBIs, but he still has to
be driven in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do pull up what is Tatis ranked right now?
You want to get people might get on my case.
Speaker 3: No, just tell me, okay, Tatis is ranked one hundred
and forty seven.
Speaker 2: Perfect, because I want anybody to get on my case
about me calling the low and eighth round player.
Speaker 3: Guess what it's worse.
Speaker 2: So in the draft season, if you okay, perfect, I
nailed it. If you want to have the debate in
the preseason, in draft season of do I want a
guy that has the down the downside of a tenth
round or the upside of a first or do I
want to have a guy that has the floor of
a third fourth round player? And you want to go
on the other side, that's fine. When it's the middle
of the season, I'm going to take the the balance
of the third fourth round player who's killing it than
having those big swings. So I'm gonna go Brian Renolds too,
and I actually thought I was gonna go with Tatis
before we started this, But the more we've done it,
I'm gonna go with Tatis or Renalds to me now
as it hit five homers tonight and we won't lead.
We won't lead leading off with it either, we'll talk
about yeah, Tiger has a story on or something. Now,
all right, on the pitching side, two pitching debates, will
try to be a little bit quicker. This one I
thought was a lot of fun. It is Redebtmers versus
Emerson Hancock. Why is it so much fun? Because Hancock
has been incredible in a better pitching environment, but he
has now pushed to a piggyback role, potentially Redebtmers on
a poop team, but there's a lot of trade rumors
out there. Redebtmers one hundred strikeouts with a three six
eight ERA, a one whip, only three wins because team
context kind of sucks. Versus Emerson Hancock, who has a
few less innings, pitch seventy nine to the eighty eight,
five wins, seventy five strikeouts, but a three two eight ERA,
which is better in a one point zero two whip.
So again, hand with the I think the team context
is better, the home ballpark is better. He's been super consistent,
though his strikeouts have come down versus Dettvers, who's been
a strikeout machine a little bit higher. I don't want
to call it inflated or anything like that era, but
you know, it's a tiny bit more up there. His
expected era is actually a lot better. Debtmors is and
there's some trade rumors out there rest of season. Which
guy do you want?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's Debtmers for me. I don't like the Mariners
using this piggyback thing, and if they're going to continue
it beyond the All Star break, it's probably going to
be with you know, other starters in there, as you
mentioned coming up, like Kate Anderson. So I think Reed
Detmers is having a great year. You're right about the
team contact, but I don't think there's many more starting
pitchers that are more likely to be traded than a
guy that has one hundred strikeouts is having a spike
year on a team that's fifteen games below five hundred.
So it's going to be Detmers to me for me
because of the fact that I think he's probably going
to get traded and he's just wholly consistent. Right now.
I'll take the lack of wins for the strikeouts and
the uh, you know, the ability to go deep in
games unlike Emerson Hancock. Can you give me the Yahoo
rings a both these guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm really curious because what's fascinating while you're doing
that is Detmers is the guy with the higher ERA
and a way better expected ERA, and Hancock is in
the opposite direction better six.
Speaker 3: Verst one oh three. You want to know who's who?
You want to guess?
Speaker 2: I think Hancock is eighty six, Hancock is eighty six, Yeah,
one on three six. It's Debtmers with the higher ERA,
way better expected ra Hancock with the lower e RA
but much worse expected ra. K percentage goes in the
favor of Debtmers. You've got a twenty spot ish lead.
You just said in favor of Hancock. What is hand
What What is Hancock's XCRA four point four to six
his I'll say this, his x FIP is three six
five and Sierra is three five to nine. So so,
and Sierra is a marker lot of people want to
go by. I think what's probably registering some of that
is he's getting barreled like crazy, ten point seven percent.
That's up three percent from year over year. He's getting
hit harder as well, that's probably leading to some of it.
And his sinker, actually his two biggest pitches, his sinker
and his fastball have some pretty high x of velocities
against run ninety three miles per hour, but there haven't
been great insane results against. But on the same token,
like Debt, Meers is not giving up a lot of
barreled contact. He's striking out more, he's walking less like
I think, I think he's getting traded, And I think.
Speaker 3: There's also there's also a nine inning difference here in
favor of Debt Merse. I think that's going to be
way bigger by the end of the year, way bigger. Well, yeah,
with the piggyback situation.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent. Yeah, And if anything, I don't want
to let it drive me. But if I needed, if
we looked at these guys and were like, all right,
twenty spots ball lah, coin flip, Oh, how about the
coin flip be the guy that's not going to be
in a piggyback situation and isn't going to potentially lose
quality star to maybe potentially lose wins. What if his
pitch count goes up through four innings and they're not
given a shot to go to the fifth inning because
they don't want the pitch count to go up. And
what if he would have had a great inning? Like
again ifs and bututs. It's crazy to me, But I'm
with you on Reed, Debt Merz. The final one you
actually didn't really want. I think this is a great one,
and it is. There's a bit of recencies for it.
But the way people are talking about Dustin May right now,
who we're going to talk about, is how everybody was
talking about Jose Soriano at the beginning of the season.
So those are the two that were going up against
each other, Dustin May, Soria, Jose Soriano, everybody's love child.
Eighty seven innings this year, has picked up eight wins,
very good, ninety two strikeouts has been great, still has
a two point seventy nine era despite a couple of
blow ups, but as an inflated one two three whip
versus Dustin May, who's now up to eighty one and
two thirds of an inning, five wins, seventy five strikeouts,
so that is less than the innings pitched a three
seven five ERA, but a one to one four whip.
Biggest differences bogs. When I look at this, Soriano's walk
rate has inflated. His expected ERA is four to ten.
His walk rate is one of the worst of his
career at eleven point seven. I put him on the
cells and we pair him up against Dustin may who
lowest walk rate he's had in the last four years.
He actually has a lower expected ERA than his actual era. Uh,
you know, k percentage looks fine. He's not giving up
barrel contact. He's obviously coming off of that really phenomenal outing.
He is giving up a lot of hard contact, though,
which might be a little bit of a concern. I'm
surprised it actually isn't leading to a higher expected ERA.
But these guys almost have a full differential when you
look at XCRA in favor of Dustin May. So, is
this easily Dustin May to you? Or are you going
to go back to your your baby Jose Soriano from earlier.
Speaker 3: No. I By the way, it was one time I
said I like Closos Horiano when he was the best
pitcher in baseball for like two months.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm not amy.
Speaker 3: Everybody was like, no.
Speaker 2: The only thing we ever did we talked about ranks
one time, and I think you were like, well, he's
got to be a top twenty pitcher in baseball.
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, he's pitching like it, but
I'm not putting them there. Yeah, I like, I think
this is close. I think they're both overrated right now,
right because uh, Soriano has kind of come back down
to earth. But also this month has been better than May.
He's is era in June is three four five, which
is very reasonable. It's z point eight four like it
was in April five three four in May, so a
couple blow ups. He had seventeen earned runs in May,
He's only had eight in June after having four in March.
In April, so, but Dustin May has just gotten better
every single month five two eight, three eight six one
three one. He's peaking right now. So I think currently
today most people are going to say May. I don't
really have a strong argument one way or the other
for either one of them. I'll say that Dustin May's
is three seven five Soriano's is four oh one, So
like maybe a slight to a slight bump towards May,
and I'll probably pick May here, but they're both I
think probably a little overrated.
Speaker 2: I'm I guess I'm clearly Dustin May just because I
put Soriano in the cell department. I don't like the
walk right like I love the strikeout. I like the
strikeouts for Soriano even though they've dipped.
Speaker 3: But like I could get traded too. Yeah, he's in
the exact same situation as read Deeptmers.
Speaker 2: By the way, Yeah that's a goodoint. You could trade
both those guys. But it's just like the walks I
think really hurt this The expected dra is telling the
story of kind of how he's getting hit right now,
he's been inconsistent. He hit a seven walk game recently.
I don't like it. Dustin May, I think, is finding
a groove. Also, if you look at the stuff numbers,
I don't have Soriano's up, so maybe that would tell
a good story. But last year Dustin May was ninety eight,
ninety seven and ninety five. That's stuff plus location plus
and pitching plus. This year he has a higher stuff
plus on every single pitch, and the stuff location in
pitching numbers. His fastball is up to one oh three.
His sinker was ninety. It's up to one fifteen. That's
been a huge change. This is what the hell is this?
Is this the change it or cutter? I can't tell
the the naming here, but that's up. The slider is
way up up to one fifteen. That's like an elite
pitch curveball one O three and change up. It still
kind of sucks, but models are weird with that. But
the stuff plus numbers one O three, one oh two
and one oh five. The pitching plus is up ten
full points. Location is up. It's showing that like he's
got a couple like really and especially having that slider
is like an elite pitch. His location has gotten better,
which tells a better story. That's that's the answer for me.
It's just it's dustin May.
Speaker 3: What was that? What was the the stuff for May?
As well?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Stuff? Location, pitching? Give it to me? Yes, Uh, I
thought you were saying May. I was okay, say it
again because I have Soriano's Oh oh okay.
Speaker 2: I was in a pull up crianos Well, I went
away from it, but I believe I said it was
one oh two or one oh three.
Speaker 3: Stuff plush pitch at location was like.
Speaker 2: One O two. I think it was one O three,
one O two and one oh five was the overalls,
and he had two pitches of one fifteen or.
Speaker 3: Higher oneh three, one oh six.
Speaker 2: That's the prising on the location plus numbers for Soriano.
Speaker 3: And then he has his UH sliders and one oh five.
His UH four steamer is a one oh two or
is I don't know what this fs is? Uh? And
then the splitter, okay, splitters one O two, slider's ninety six.
That's bad. That sinker is one O five, excuse me,
and his fastball is ninety six. So yeah, I mean
it's it's fine.
Speaker 2: I just think there's a better story being told on
the stuff of Dustin May, especially now.
Speaker 3: That he's both going to rank lower than they currently
rank at the end of the year.
Speaker 2: I think it's the where they ranked.
Speaker 3: Actually didn't look that up, but I can't Soriana, you
want to take any cracks at these?
Speaker 2: Sure, Soriano is like the era is I'm gonna say
seventy five, and Dustin May is like one to fifteen.
Speaker 3: Uh. It would be one fifty two for May and
fifty nine for Soriano.
Speaker 2: I definitely think Soriano will be lower than he has
ranked at the end of the year. I think that's
I think Dustin may has a shot to be a
little bit higher. I guess I'm just a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Of a believer. Yeah, I believe, Yeah, I think now
I don't believe in either one of them. Okay, that's fair,
that's fair, fair enough.
Speaker 2: All right, there you go, player debates. Who did you
guys like the most in here, Dustin May Or, Soriano,
det Mercer, Hancock, Reynolds, Tatis, Walker, Goldschmid, Auto, Lopez, Kevi McGonagall.
Let us know, love to hear from you guys, especially
if there are any big disagreements. Final up, let's look
at the two star pitchers for next week. I'm not
gonna seem any Mariner. Oh I see a Mariner, but
that probably won't happen because of piggybacking. Let's see on
the high end, you've got Gavin Williams, Sunny Gray, Carlos, Redon,
Jesus Lozardo. A note on Jesus Lozardo, he for whatever reason,
cannot pitch at home this year. I believe that's what
it is. Right. He has his Have you seen his
split on Lozaro? Oh my god, look at his split.
It's the most insane thing.
Speaker 3: We had that crazy run of where he wasn't giving
any innings here any runs up? Is that all those
starts on the road. Check this out.
Speaker 2: He has a one to five to five road era,
a six point six zero era at home. He has
more starts at home than on the road. So if
you think it was just one start, he's given up
thirty three runs at home and only seven on the road.
Speaker 3: Why did I say that?
Speaker 2: He has two road games next week against Washington and
the nuts. Hell Yeah, uh, you got Kirby. We'll see
how that ends up going. Nolan McLain, Yeah, I know
why you laugh.
Speaker 3: Hell yeah, dude, but it's.
Speaker 2: You sent me like a dance. It was like some
contemporary dancing dude.
Speaker 3: Some lady was just dancing to like an Ai song
made from the bananana bread bro Hell.
Speaker 2: I told dogs I was in this is like a
year or two ago. I was in flat. I don't
remember what we were there.
Speaker 3: I think it was just like a little trip.
Speaker 2: We were in Flagstaff and I had to go run
out to like Walgrange or something to get something for
everybody as I do, as you do. And I saw
a video and it was someone with like one of
those you know, like what would Jesus do bracelets?
Speaker 3: But it was every word.
Speaker 2: From that like banana bread, bro hell. And then I
ended up sitting in the parking lot. I watched that
original video about ten times and I laughed as hard
every single It is just one of the funniest.
Speaker 3: Videos, tackling like a psycho and the.
Speaker 2: Hell ye all right, so sorry about that. Nolan McClain,
Drew Rescimus and these are all no brainers, any braining
with Framberveldez going against the Yankees and the Astros.
Speaker 3: Last one, yeah, and that was against yash shows, So
not really.
Speaker 2: Okay, Michael King, probably nothing you savage. Foster Griffin has
got the phillies and the orioles.
Speaker 3: He's been good. Yeah, I'm I'm rolling him.
Speaker 2: I don't like it though. I don't like those starts.
Hunter Brown good, Shay McClanahan good. Now we get into
some stuff Michael Waka at Tampa Bay and at the
White Sox, I'd say I'd still go, yes, you know,
has it? How has Walker been recently? Has Walker been
let's tick a look terrible this month. I think he's
been I think he's been fine.
Speaker 3: He's been decent. Uh.
Speaker 2: He has a five point three e RA this month.
He had a three three two last month he got
four and runs against the Twins. Four earned runs recently
and three earned runs he had He went seven, six,
six and seven in the last two.
Speaker 3: So who does he have again?
Speaker 2: He has the Rays and the Whites. I think I
still with this.
Speaker 3: Where where are these teams in runs? Because I know
the White Sox are high, right, I'm not gonna be Yeah, yeah,
you know what, it's fine. It's how about your boy
at Wardo.
Speaker 2: He's got the Cardinals and Tampa Bay, both road games.
He has been nuts.
Speaker 3: So I think I told you this yesterday, e Rod.
I was texting with one of my buddies is also
a Diamondbacks fan, and we were going back and forth
the I'm like, yeah, they get turned into a pumpkin.
And then he goes out seven innings, gives up one run,
strikes out six. I'm like, never doubt, e Rod, love
you buddy. Yeah, he's having a good year. So I'll say, yes,
last good start.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm okay.
Speaker 3: With this too. Bradish.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, these are still.
Speaker 3: High percent kind of high percentages grant homes.
Speaker 2: That's fine. Casey's got the Yankees in the Astros. I
actually don't love that. Jack Lighter, Mary. You think he
got hit up a little bit today, didn't he? Let's see, Yeah,
looks like you did.
Speaker 3: They give ups. Let's see you give up all seven
of these.
Speaker 2: He gave up six of the seven.
Speaker 3: So I think his last start out wasn't great either,
was it?
Speaker 2: Marlin Marlins? Both road games, Marlins and the Blue Jays.
I don't think I want to do that.
Speaker 3: Let's see. Yeah, six earned runs in this game, five
in the last game, and that six is the season high,
five tied for his previous season high. So yeah, I
pass on. Jack Glider.
Speaker 2: Think I'm a passy Merle. Your boy Merle has got
thes in Tampa. He's always bad, so he's the worst.
Pete Lambert Blue Jays and the Tigers.
Speaker 3: He's been good. I'm actually okay with Lambert.
Speaker 2: I don't love the Master. I guess if you need
to do it, that's fine. Edward Cabrera, I don't know
if he makes those because he got banged up. Mitch
Keller has got the Mariners and the Reds.
Speaker 3: By the way, Toronto Detroit twenty three and twenty four
in runs, So I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2: Who I mean, Lambert's a little bit of a rest.
Speaker 3: That's fine. A Mitch Keller, Marlins and Reds. I think
has at Keller's been not great recently too, hasn't he?
He started out real hot, but I think he's kind
of slowing down recently. So I'm gonna I'm gonna question
on that one. Andre Polante has got the Diamondbacks and
the Marlins. I actually kind of like this one. He's
been good. And by the way, uh, who are we
just talking about here? At Keller his last three games
four earned, five earned six four earned five earned six
earned seven earn in his last four games, oh ah
oh five six seven ah.
Speaker 2: So no on Keller.
Speaker 3: I would rather Polante over Keller. I would also rather
Zebbi next. Zebbi has been good, like two or three
starts in a row. I know he started out real bad,
he got sent down, he was not good, but he's
been the.
Speaker 2: Last He's got the Dodgers. You want to start Zebi
versus the Dodgers, I would avoid that and then play
him against Colorado.
Speaker 3: If yeah, if I'm in, if I'm in a week, uh,
you know, a daily league, then for sure. Let's see
the last couple of starts for Zebby. He gave up, no,
it was two of the last three have been good.
He went six innings the game of seven against Detroit
in between there, but seven and two afters and then
seven and two against the Royals. So you're right, yes,
skip that Dodgers once starm against the Rockets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Anthony k. You know what sneaky. I do like
both of these. It's the Guardians and the Royals. Guardians
are without Za Ramirez there without Chase the latter like
I I think their offense is just kind of dangled
right now. Anthony Kay. I'm down with Anthony Kay here.
Speaker 3: Twenty fifth and twenty seventh and runs those teams.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I think this is a really good
spot starter for next week, especially if we're in the
low percentages. By the way, we're just going through the
CBS chart. I know there's plenty of pitchers you guys
don't have. We're just like to talk about them. This
is probably like that we're under under fifty percent. Started
at Polante. That's one. We're skipping. Zebbi k is number two.
We like Brady Singer. That's gonna be a no for me.
Dog Nope, I guess looking at the rest of this list,
I don't think I like anything from a two start,
and we're talking Houser and Savale. Senga's got the I
don't like saying against the Phillies.
Speaker 3: I don't like Sanga until he proves himself.
Speaker 2: Maybe Sprot has got a home game against the Reds
and then the Cubs, or I'm sorry, I like the
road game against the Reds and the Cubs. Maybe Sprot.
I don't like anything else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Asad has been good, but at the
Mets and then the Brewers is just no good. So
I'm with you. I don't like what you know what
h Kyle Lee Hay or LEI? How do you say
his name?
Speaker 2: Lay? Hey Lehi?
Speaker 3: He well lay he is from Trailer Park Boys, so
I always I can't not think of Kyle Lay as
a drunk now. But maybe against the the d Backs
and the Marlins, because I feel like he's had a
couple of good starts in a row. I know the
last one yesterday was it yesterday or two days ago
was really good. There.
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