Speaker 1: Britney's incitations everyone to twich Rich Wilson was in a
Fantasy Baseball Live team Make a Tongue died.
Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say, you know, it's gonna be
a fun show and we forget who we are before
we just get on the air. Right.
Speaker 1: We went out to dinner last night, stayed out so
like we had it was burger night at one of
the local joints. So we uh we had burgers. They
were comet burgers. Timmy one was a truffle burger. They
had bison burgers. Uh wagu beef burgers.
Speaker 2: Had cost that that would cost you in our.
Speaker 1: They were it was it was a charity type thing,
so they was all included in the ridiculous Yeah do
you make but.
Speaker 2: Well you hate like they didn't serve your chickens, so.
Speaker 1: That there was there was chickens not quite for like
it didn't look too good.
Speaker 2: But looked a little foul, a little found.
Speaker 1: Exactly there's a room shot very well playd It sounds.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, this week's been hasn't been a great week,
but uh I got one up into first and yeah, yeah,
you know it's such a weird year. It's it's a
league where uh it's to redraft, but you can't trade. Okay,
And what I've found is one hundred and seven hundred
and eight points might win it because every team in
the top seven or eight that's still in contention, they've
all got flaws. Every single team has a flaw somewhere.
And my team, I've got a lot of seven's eights.
I got a couple a couple high numbers, but I
don't have any low numbers. And it sort of push
pushed me, like my flaws are across the board. Okay,
they're not.
Speaker 1: You can look at it both ways. Flaws across the
board are pretty good in every every category.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And in this case, it's sort of propelled me
for now in the first but it's going to be
a close battle simply because it's it's hard this year
with all of the injuries players getting called up, especially
the injuries. Uh you know, well, when you lose a
Bobby Wit or you lose a Shade Angulars, you know
right now And in my case, I missed Wyatt Langford
for a long time and he's back and that's making
a huge difference to my team. The injuries have played
a huge role but again getting a Normally you'd be
looking at one hundred and twenty five plus points in
a fifteen team you can pull off the win. But
this year it's I think we're going to see a
lot of numbers lower than that, simply because of all
of the different challenges we've had to deal with across
the course of the year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I've seen that, I've seen both. I'm
still seeing teams pull away, but I don't playing a
lot of redraft leagues, but in dynasty leagues, there's it's
it's pretty much still in the middle as well. I
mean there's some teams that have really leagues, have really
good teams, but uh, the injury is just tough. I mean,
we just lost more players this week. We'll just go
to this part of the of the program, and we've
got Byron Buckston's hurt again, Casey Schmidt's done for the season.
Vinp is out again. Just a brutal year for Vinie Pascantino.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so so has been out. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, that's
that's a that's a big loss. Yeah. No, you start
looking all those players you just listed. I went through
and tried to look at possible replace Spence, and I
gotta be totally honest with you. I've come up with
some names, but there is not There's not a whole
lot there that we can be searching out. Okay, like Buxton, Okay,
there's nobody in Minnesota you want to grab, you know,
your best hope there is that they bring up Walker
Jenkins at some point.
Speaker 1: And I think, I mean, is he is he's playing?
He might be still, No, he's back playing. Talk about it.
They cannot stay healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're betting on Jenkins to help you with
Byron Buxton? Is it is?
Speaker 1: It is curious? Are the Twins doing something wrong or
they just running into bad luck? Because I mean Royce Lewis,
Byron Bucks and a Walker Jenkins. I'm sorry, Timmy, he's
in that camp of Wow, if he only played every
every inning and of every game, boy, this guy would
be really good. He just can't. He's only twenty one
years old. Can't stay healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I don't know. Byron buctions in a class
all of his own. But if you take a look
at it, if you take a look at the Twins
Twins roster, okay, yeah, it's not overpowering. Oh was that.
Speaker 1: No, no, and it's it's just weird how they seem
to have a bunch of players in the same mold
of incredibly talent if it just cannot stay healthy, and uh,
I know that's across the board, but it's, uh, it
is something. So we'll get we'll get to those who
Tim's going to replace those guys with. But this is
primarily like a pre pre trading deadline show. We'll be
back on Sunday, Timmy, I need to move the show
up an hour. Hopefully that will work for you. It's
it's family Day at the baseball Park for the Wilson Class.
Speaker 2: So I got nine tickets, got nine tickets.
Speaker 1: Did I tell you we're expecting to grow by two?
Speaker 2: Yes you did. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: Yeah. My daughter in law is pregnant with her third
and I'm pretty sure my son is said that's it.
So and my daughter is pregnant with her first, so
it's very very exciting. They're both due in late November
early December, so very very exciting. But we're going at nine,
So going to the summrset Patriots, but I think it's
going to rain, so I might get canceled or postponed.
But anyway, that's the game starts at five, so I
need to get a little early to make sure i'm there.
I can't be the guy that gets there late.
Speaker 2: So well, no, no, when, no, when you're paying the
tickets and hey, hey you're getting a you're getting a
bargain too, because you're getting eleven in and you're only
paying for nine.
Speaker 1: Right, that's true. I'm getting eleven, that's true. I got
two in the oven. So yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a deal like that.
Speaker 1: Wednesday was a great day for me. So so Tuesday
and Wednesday. So Tuesday, I mean, timmy, I it poured here.
It was I've never seen it rain that hard for
that long. I mean, so every baseball game around here
got canceled and it was great. I got chance to
stay home, Vegi out with LORI watching ted Lasso or
were we watching that? And then the best news is
double hitter day on on on Wednesday, so you get, uh,
you get let's see fourteen innings and for uh because
they only play seven and double hitters here. But yeah,
that was great. So Tuesday and Wednesday great days.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I had I was on the
rollb host of other week I ended up with three
trips long trips into Manitoba. I did. I did pull
one over on a nurse this morning. That was pretty
pretty funny. I had to pick somebody up because they
were short, somebody at the at the one facility I
drop off to. So I said the nurse when I
picked you up, sorry, I'm a few minutes late, but
they were they were short. At the other place I
had to drop some You have no problem at all.
They were short, and I said, yeah, they just got
to keep working on hiring taller people. And she said
she sort of looked at me like oh, and then
she started laughing. Said good, I'm only yeah. So she yeah,
coming off of midnight shift. She appreciated my sense of humor.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 2: Not everybody does.
Speaker 1: Tim the Charmer, Tim the Charmers. So I will tell
you back to baseball, Timmy. I will be glad when
Terrek Schouble signs. I have gotten more spam, more click
bait on. Where is Trek's Schooble going to sign? Just
trade them already, right, so we can just get on
with our lives.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I uh would. I would love to see you, okay,
because and everybody has the Dodgers. Okay, that's yeah, that's
just area news.
Speaker 1: I forgot, uh as Jeff Passing or somebody said, I
think Terrek' school's going to the Dodgers, and that was
that was worth the whole day of spam noted baseball writer.
You know Jeff Passing, like, that's that's revelatory.
Speaker 2: Oh we've been saying that for what six months?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, breaking news, the news, the news flash. Yeah. Now,
you know what I'd love to see. I'd love to
see him end up with the White Sox just because
I think it's fun. Yeah, I think that would be cool,
or Philly or yeah, I and everybody's protaking the Dodgers.
Well it's not a real tough prediction, okay, but I'd
love to see him end up somewhere else. I really would.
And now with Max Clark coming up, what does that
mean or does it mean anything? It's just time because
he's been so hot or.
Speaker 1: I think it's weird if I may, because yes, he's
he has not made his case this season up until
the last four or five weeks. He's been great. He
got it off, he got started off really hot. He's
cooled off for good two months and now he's back
to being hot. But all along time of the underlying
data said good. But they just put a bunch of
stiffs out in the outfield. Now they're thinking about coming sellers.
Let's burn his rookie eligibility, let's burn his service time.
And I don't get it.
Speaker 2: They're obviously working under the Colorado Rocky system right now.
Speaker 1: You're gonna bring him up for a couple three weeks
and then he won't perform.
Speaker 2: Well, it's just nonsensical, which fits the Colorado Rockies build. Yeah,
I agree with you. Yeah, they're going to move s Google,
but they're bringing up their top prospect and Saint Louis
is bringing up their top pitching prospect and leaving the best,
arguably the best power bat in the miners still in
the minors. What by his head? What two doubles in
another home run? The other yesterday or the day before, Like,
come on, come on, Like you're going to bring up
Quinn Matthews and he's starting Saturday. You're bringing him up,
and you're leaving Bias to sit on the farm. Like, hello,
Saint Louis, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Like, yeah, but where where where would Bias play. Where
would he play?
Speaker 2: Who cares he's better than whoever they've got?
Speaker 1: All right, well, I mean, let's I mean, that's the problem.
A picture can always get called up. And by the way,
Quinn Matthews has not been good this season. He's pictureon
members that read my stuff know that I thickets. Over
the last eight games, he's been great. That's why he's
getting the call. But the walks have been crazy bad.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I am my my analysis because he's going
he's my he's my picture. Okay, to target my my analysis.
You'll like, you'll like this is very short and sweet. Uh,
big strike coach, big walks, big debut on Saturday against
the offensively challenged Blue Days Blue Jays. All and all
sounds like a goal for me. But he's got a
big strikeouts, big walks.
Speaker 1: So it's interesting what's happened to Quinn Matthews? If I may,
because this is what I do from living, then I
had no other value. So let me add some value here. Okay,
So two years ago Quinn Matthews looked great, I mean,
just was a real breakout candidate, and then last year
he hurt his back and he missed some time, and
then when he came back, I think he was trying
to alter his pitching mechanics so he wouldn't hurt his
back again, and he got his mechanics all out of
whack and he wasn't able to land his slider at all.
So this year, first part of the year, the same
thing was happening. And I know this for a least.
This is what the Saint Louis Cardinals share with me,
that they were trying to encourage him to go back
to his old mechanics, that there was nothing wrong with
his back was fine, but he was afraid to and
he just couldn't get his body to kind of do
what they were telling him to do and go back
to the old Mechanicis was really fascinating that it wasn't
like I refuse to go back to my own mechanics.
He just couldn't do it like it's it's like he
was too used to throwing it. So apparently that's starting
to happen. So the walks are coming down. So if
he could turn back into the guy that we saw
in twenty twenty four, that's a mid rotation, maybe even
a little bit more of a pittricksays really good stuff.
So just a little work in progress still, and he
might struggle with his control, but he's a pretty good
picture well man.
Speaker 2: And if he hurt himself throwing in a particular fashion,
it makes sense that, you know, maybe sego somatic. He
doesn't want it's going to take a while for him
to realize that he's not going to hurt himself again,
you know what I mean. Yeah, it's so his brain
says he.
Speaker 1: Hurt himself because of his pitching mechanics, but the doctors
and the pitching doctors have said, no, that's not it.
But he can't get his head over trying to change
his mechanics, which is pretty fascinating. I love those kind
of stories because it just shows the internal struggle of
people to try to come to come over. And that's
really many times the difference between somebody who's excels and
somebody who doesn't.
Speaker 2: Well. Yeah, and it goes back to the old Yogi bearism.
Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, always good for for a Yogi bear. So
what about Max Clark? Is this I'm sorry, let's before
we do Max Clark so outfield in Saint Louis, Joshua Bias.
Let's see he's it's a hold for make sure see
where he's been playing all season long, and see if
he's played anywhere else. Hold on for a second. Outfield. No,
he's played right, center, and left, so that's good. So
I'll look at So he's not going to replace unless
Jordan Walker gets hurt. So that's not where he's gonna play, right,
So so Jordan Walker is safe. Okay. Yeah, So then
we've got at centerfield Nathan Church he probably could play,
probably could take over that. I don't know if he's
a center fielder though. And then leftfield is Lar's new bar.
So the question is can Lar's new bar play center?
And then then Joshua Bias replaced Nathan Church.
Speaker 2: Well, and here's the other option. They've got Brian Torres
at DH. He can certainly replace Brian Torres because the
Cards haven't been using him on a regular basis anyways. Yeah,
so there there's an opportunity there somewhere. Yeah. Yeah, So
why aren't the Cards bringing them up? Are they pulling?
Are they going all JJ weatherhole on him?
Speaker 1: Well? I mean, look, I mean organizations are I mean,
they do have patterns, and maybe this is just what
they've decided to do.
Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, because right now, if you you know that
they're in they're in four spot, okay, in the and
A Central, but they're only a game under five hundred.
They're half a game back of the Pirates. They're not
going to catch either Milwaukee or the Cubs, but there
is a wild card spot sitting there for them right now.
You know what I mean? They're the Hey you look
at Miami's five hundred, Washington's five hundred, the Pirates are
five hundred. San Diego is a game over five hundred.
There's about five teams battling for wild card positions and
the Cards are one of them. So why not why
not get this kid up and see what you can do?
Because if you look at the cards lineup, Okay, is
there a lot of power there? Yeah, with Walker and
maybe Burleson, but nowt bar and win and tours and
Blaze Blaze Jordan. I' like what he's doing, but there's
no power. Nathan Church. You know they need a.
Speaker 1: Weird one because Blake Jordan, when he was originally signed
as a high school kid, this is a guy that
was mister home Ron Derby. He would be out there
swinging as hard as he possibly could and hit moonshots,
and then he became a contact guy because the Red
Sox said, hey, we want you to make better contact
than he's. He lost the ability to hit home runs,
which is fascinating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's pulled the exact opposite of Gunzalez in Pittsburgh. Yeah, exactly, exactly, Yeah,
which is sort of cool, but again, it doesn't help
Saint Louis when they honestly need a big power bat
somewhere hitting three, four five in that lineup, I think they.
Speaker 1: Would benefit from. Uh yeah, bring it up, Joshua Biase.
I think that's that's a no brainer. What about Max Clark?
Does Max Max Clark? I mean, this is this is speed,
This is decent power kind of in that a Juan
type of model whers fifteen home runs and twenty five
stolen bases. He can really really hit. What do you
think of Max Clark?
Speaker 2: I just hope that they're bringing him up now for
the duration. Okay, I'm just hoping that this. You know,
if he doesn't hit for the first week, week and
a half, I hope they don't ship him back, Okay.
Zach McKinstry, We all knew it wasn't the answer. Heavier
bias is in center field. Okay, you got Erling, who
can play, you know, against tough lefties. You got James
Outman who will hit the odd home runs, steel the
odd base, but no contact skills whatsoever from Outman. It's
time that they give him a long, long edition. And
you know, basically since he broke out of that funk,
he has been hot as hot as hot can be.
Past seven games, two homers, five RBIs, a stolen base
and then one point five one four obs like, there's
no purpose right now for him being in the minors
other than the other than the clock.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I'm I'm all little Max Clark, as
you know. I mean, I I think I got him
in three or four dynasty leagues, and I've been acquiring
him as he's had the he's had a tough season.
People think that I've been over ranking him, and maybe
I have, but I think he's one of the few
players in the minor leagues that have truly five tools.
And five tools as a scout knows, is also to
play the fields. This is a great center fielder right,
can play both corners. That's what he's got the arm
for that. It's just a great baseball player. Now, is
he going to be a first round draft pick one day? No,
this is this is more of a third round draft
pick and of that Jared duran when Jared Durant used
to be good kind of that model.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I And you know, I'm how old is
Max Clerk?
Speaker 1: It's twenty one, right, twenty two? He's twenty one, isn't.
Speaker 2: He he's twenty He turns twenty two in December?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's twenty one years old.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's a kid. Yeah, yeah, there's time to
see what the kid can do at the big league level.
If you got any fab left to spend it, Timmy,
let's take at.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break, come back and uh and work
on these standings and see who's got a chance. Looking
for buyers and sellers as we're looking at these uh standings, temps.
So let's see. Yeah, so leading, we've got Tampa Bay
if the if the if the season we're to end today,
the winner of the East is Tampa Bays. The winner
of the Central it's Chicago White Sox and the Rangers
win the West. Does that stick?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think the I think the Rangers are are
going to improve forward. Okay, the team that, but and
you know, hey, it's it's pretty tough to argue against
the White Sox. They've now advanced their lead in the
loss column, their three losses better than Cleveland, only one
win better. There's a couple couple of games they've got
to make up yet. But the White Sox are just
plugging away. And Murakami, who was in a dreadful funk
after he came back off the I l well, he
changed that in a hurry this week. Is he invited
his parents to throw out first pitch and catch a game,
and he had two home runs in the game and
another one I think last night or the night before.
I looked like Murakami's out of his slump. So that's
certainly not going to hurt their cause.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, yeah, I just came back a little early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. When he was knocked and the
rust off. Instead of it on a rehab assignment, he
was knocking it off playing every day in Chicago, right.
But when I look at the setup, ah, yeah, the
race should win that division. The Yankees with old Aaron
Judge are not the same Yankee team.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've lost Cody Bellinger now too, is that just Yeah,
they just don't have enough firepower to go with that
great pitching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Ben Rice will only carry them so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right. I mean he's and as good as
Ben Rice as he still know Aaron Judge, right, I mean,
that's that's their team as Aaron Judge. And I think
we're seeing when they don't have Aaron Judge that it's
definitely a flaw team.
Speaker 2: Well, and you know, the way Boston is playing, I
wouldn't be shocked if Boston catches and passes the Yankees.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Boston has hit a bit of a tailspan
after I mean, there's still seventy three over the last ten.
So they won two in a row, but I mean
obviously they won was a thirteen in a row or
something like that. Yeah, so they're only three three games back.
So in the wild Cards the Yankees Red Sox in Cleveland.
But this is where it gets interesting. The Twins are
still only one game out. They're five hundred. The Houston
Astros now after going eight and two or only one
game out. The Orioles are two and a half games out.
The Mariners with that great pitching are three games out
and then the Tigers for I mean, like, who where
does the line I'm looking at the Tigers for it
is that where the line of sellers begins and goes
down and the Mariners Orioles, Astros Twins are all buyers.
Speaker 2: Well, the Twins aren't going to be buyers because their
owners won't give them any money to buy with. Right,
And I don't know how the Twins are doing it. Hey,
I salute them. The huge disappointment for me is Seattle. Okay. Now,
we talk all the time about their great rotation, but
if you start taking a look at it, George Kirby
has been so so. Brian Wu is, Era's closer to
five than it is four right now? Okay, Yeah, they've
got some They've got decent mileage from uh yeah, Hancock. Okay,
but now they're looking at moving. Yeah. You know who's
other than Logan Gilbert, who has been pretty consistent all
year that that rotation has been very disappointing. Wu. Like
I said, Era's up there, Castillo had an incredibly rough spell.
He's been pitching better lately. Kirby has been okay, you know,
Miller is He's always heard and when he's not, he's
been you know, you know who the number.
Speaker 1: That's not fair. I mean probably he got beat up
the last time out, but he's been very good.
Speaker 2: Who's that Bryce Miller? Grace Miller and I have to
I have to pull him up and see whether But
I think I.
Speaker 1: Was with you on your rant until you beat up
on Bryce Miller. Let's take a look. Bryce Miller's a
two seventy five ear a, nine point three strikeouts for
nine to one point four wolves. Come on, tim, Okay,
he went too far.
Speaker 2: Right, He's only thrown sixty eight innings. Give him time,
he owes regress.
Speaker 1: It's very fair that he has not been able to
stay healthy. Twenty twenty four pitched, you know, had thirty
one starts. But last year hurt, this year again hurt too.
That's a fair point.
Speaker 2: Well, I think the second best picture in the Mariner's rotation.
Speaker 1: And his k I'm sorry, double a not even a
triple a.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, come on. The Mariners to
me right now have been one of the biggest disappointments
this season. Not Craig quite Toronto Blue Jay disappointing, but
not far off. With a rotation like that they should
be better than three games under five hundred.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. I totally agree. And part
of the problem is, though, I mean, who were you
going to take out? Who are you going to sit?
I mean maybe Brian would because it's been But those
are tough calls, right because those guys aren't hurt, they're
just underperforming. Do you move into the bullpen? You can't
demote some of those guys because they've got too many
Uh yeah, their options are all gone, so I thought
Blue probably has an option left. But that's where the
problem gets and that's why you got to move some
of them.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, exactly, move them. Improve your offense, get Anderson
and slowan. Slowing up your team is better. It makes it. Yeah,
it's a tough decision, but you know what gms get
paid to make tough decisions, like make a decision would
be you know, Yeah, the Mariners are three and seven
in the past ten. That's you. Yeah, that's not good.
There's a change, there's a I think there's there's a
decent chance if they don't make some moves, they're going
to finish under five hundred and not be not make
the playoff. Derby.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, and I think it's almost guaranteed
that Kate Anderson is coming up. But that's what they
want to do. I think that's what they're gonna They're
gonna sort it out over the next What is we
got four days? Over the next four days, Kate Anderson
will be up next week to start a game.
Speaker 2: I would think that's a safe if he's not then
prepared to see a new GM in Seattle in the
next two weeks. How does that sounding?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well maybe over the off season. At some point
you got to call a spade of Spain and say,
what are you doing? You've got all this talent, why
are you leveraging it better? And I think if I'm
the owner of the team and I see what Kate
Anderson is doing in the minor leagues, going like like
what you doing here? This guy could be Paul Skeans,
what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Well, Yeah, do we want to make the playoffs or
do we don't? And yeah, their team is too good
to be They're not too good there. They should be
too good to have that record, but they're they're pitching
just hasn't hasn't been getting done and getting it done.
Speaker 1: Okay, So so the so the Rains are gonna win
the East, right, the White Socks are going to win
the Central, correct Rangers and Houston are essentially tied. Who's
gonna win the Who's gonna win the West?
Speaker 2: The Rangers?
Speaker 1: Okay, So the wild card is if the season we're
over today, the Yankees, Red Sox and Guardians, who are
your wild card participants?
Speaker 2: I can go with that?
Speaker 1: Really, So you don't think the Orioles, Houston, Twins, Seattle
are gonna sneak in.
Speaker 2: The Orioles have to have to crawl by Boston and
the Yankees, and I don't think that's gonna happen. So
the Twins just don't have enough talent in my opinion,
to do it. The you know, the Guardians have the pitching,
and I I'd like to say Houston, but again there's
there's some holes that need addressing. And even if they
address them, are they much better than what? Are they
to be much better off? I don't know. The Mariners,
I think will fumble and stumble and find a way
to it. And I don't think it's going to come.
Speaker 1: Down who who the Astros can can acquire and who
to Cleveland. That seems to be the battle then for
that last slot, and the twins still hanging in there.
So we'll say the Orioles. I'm with you. I mean
it's I mean, they're talking. I mean it looks like
I think Rutcherd's definitely gonna get moved. And I mean
I heard Jackson holiday we'll get traded. I mean, how
can you do that? I mean that can guy's been
hot as hot could be over the last couple of weeks,
and you take a look at you take a look
at the data about the it's all there. It's a city.
It just needs to stay healthy. And it's so forst
year he's ever actually been hurt. He's still a baby
to me. He's not very old at all.
Speaker 2: Was he twenty twenty two? Yeah, twenty two turns twenty
three later in the year. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So he's a year older than Max Clark, and
he's got two plus years of MLP experience. I mean,
little too early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody's given up on him. Yeah give it twenty two. Yeah,
I'm a twenty two year old kid. Yeah, I know
he'll be a target of mine again next year.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with let's take a look at his
at his U Baseball Savant page. Let's see. Uh so
his ex velocity is down this season, partially because he
was perfect. It was eighty eighty nine last year. There's
no leverage. If he adds a little bit of leverage,
going to see the power come up. Sprint speeds set
seventy nine percenttol So, he's got speed. It's a very
good hitter. Never expands the strike zone, walks a ton,
strikes out a little bit too much, but that's probably
just youth. But I mean, it's it's just all sitting here.
This is a guy that's going to be a fifteen
to fifteen kid, maybe more twenty twenty. If you can
it can hit, it's going to be the player.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know when you start looking at the
at the Orioles. Okay, the bullpen is a bit of
a mess. Okay, it's functional, but it's a bit of
a mess. But you look at the starting pitching, Okay,
ither than Kyle brady'sh Okay, you got Dean Kramer, you
got Rogers, you got Young, you got Bess. They should
be selling Trevor Rodgers at the deadline. Enough of this
talk about winding her up and going for it. I
don't think there. I don't think they're in a situation
where they can go for it. Realistically, they should take
rogers is heading into free agency, move to Trevor Rodgers,
and get a a boot full of the prospects, a
lefty like Rogers in command, solid a solid return, you
would think at the deadline, and then find a find
find some pitching in the offseason, over pay for it,
but get it, and then you're back in the hunt
again in twenty seven, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, part of my problem with the Orioles
is because I watch a lot of their games. They
they just these prospects when they came up, looked like
some of the best players we've seen in a long time,
particularly when you looked at them all in one team
and got a Henderson's been very, very good this season,
but he's not been the superstar. He's not been the
Bobby with Junior that I know I predicted. A lot
of people thought he was going to be top three
shortstop in the game. He's just not that guy athlete.
Rutchman's been very good, been hurt a lot, he hasn't
taken it to the next Australian Kobe Mayo's showing some power. Fine,
he's got he's got platoon splits to me, and it's
not good. It's it's he's a weak side. He's going
to be a weak side platoon hit or if he's
not care if he's not careful, and then jerks Dad
never developed Cowsers hitting below too. Twenties on that now
for two and a half years. These are all guys
that we thought were going to turn into potentially stars
and they just haven't except for Gunner Henderson.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, and some of them have after they've been moved,
Like Kyle Stowers is a fine player. Yeah, yeah, you
know he's he's up to fifteen home runs now this
year and three hundred and seventeen at bats. He's going
to be a twenty five eighty type player, I think, yep.
For a number of years moving.
Speaker 1: So that's a full time on it. It's a full
time ring. The very good player. Dylan Biever's a full
time player either.
Speaker 2: That's up.
Speaker 1: Guy's got platoon splits. So they've got all these guys
that were famous and they might have over evaluate it
what their full upside was going to be and maybe
move the wrong guys want being Kyl Stower. So it's
very very interesting what's happening in Baltimore.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, they Why would they want to move Holiday
right now to watch them blossom and grow into an
average to above average player on another team. Yeah, that
makes no sense to me as a twenty two year old.
They should be holding on to him and waiting to
see what the future brings, because you're not going to
get for him right now. What the upside potential is
a year down the road? Are you now?
Speaker 1: You're not. And the part of the problem is that
they they, I mean, Cowser really has very little value.
I mean somebody will probably taken, but I mean because
he is controllable guy Kobe Mayo's at the same everybody
wants Jackson Holiday, so there's a lot of value there.
But do you want to move him? I don't know
if that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I don't think it does. Yeah, but hey, yeah, so
I don't know. I think with what the oriel should
do is move move Rogers as much as you can
for him, and we don't fix some of the other holes.
Speaker 1: He's a free agent at the end of the season
as well. But I mean you're not gonna be bradish. No,
you're not gonna move Shane Bobs. You've signed him to
a long term contract. So I mean, those are your
two guys at the top of my buddy Cat Hunter
had another great outing now moved up to double A.
Did he pitching double A? I can't remember anyway, So
that's an interesting guy. I mean, Trey Gibson's not a
that's probably back of the rotation guys. So they still
need more pitching.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do, but they can't. They're gonna have a
hard time fixing it now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I totally agree. It doesn't make sense for them
to trade for Freddy Parolta. You know, no, no, no reason.
Jackson holiday for Freddy Parolta makes no sense.
Speaker 2: So it makes it makes total sense if you're in
New York Mets for sure, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Let's quickly look at the National League. I think the
Dodgers are in firm controlled or up by a lot
the Brewers, or if the season end, they would win
the Central. The White Sox and excuse the Cops are
five games behind them, and then the Atlanta Braves stumbling
a little bit against the Mets recently. They are twenty games,
about nineteen games above five hundred, and they are firmly
in control their seven games up so the season and
end it's the Dodgers, Brewers, and the Braves. How do
you see that ending?
Speaker 2: The only team that I think with a good charge
that could catch the Braves might be the Phillies. The
others I think are carved and stolen, and Philly has
been gone to and eight in the past ten I
don't think.
Speaker 1: The Phillies have been very good this season. They're a
minus fifteen. Differentially with that offense, they just have sputtered
a lot. The good pitching has been shutting them down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it has ay. They need a bat They probably
need a bullpen arm. Maybe maybe they'll get them. I
don't know. They could use another starting pitcher, you know,
if they have to. They're their number four guy doesn't
exist yet, does he?
Speaker 1: Now? The painter's been a real disappointment there.
Speaker 2: Nola's I mean, Nola's done. It's done. Yeah, yeah, it's yeah,
So they need a picture. I I can't see anybody
other than Philly makes some moves. Because Atlanta hasn't been
playing overly great as well. They've turned it around a
little bit. They were in sort of pre fall for
a while. Uh, they've turned it around a bit. Now
I'm gonna go with Atlanta, Milwaukee and the Dodgers as
the Yeah, they're gonna win the division.
Speaker 1: Cops look like they're in firm control of the season.
In today, they'd be the walk card. The Diamondbacks fits
are there, but then the Padres are not out of
it yet. We keep hearing rumors they're going to be
trading Mason Miller, which I would have never brought in
Mason Miller for Leo DeFries. But that's just me. Pittsburgh pirates,
they say they're going to be buyers, Simmy, who knows.
The Marlins and the Nationals, they're all not there. The
Cardinals are only three games out. How do you see
the Wildcard playing out?
Speaker 2: I think it's I think the Cubs Arizona and it's
such a log jam. I have no idea other than
the fact that A. J. Preller is still running the Padres,
so you can never write you know, you can never
write off him making moves to try and improve the team.
I just yeah, Saint louis their best minor league Bad
is still in the minors and they're a five hundred team.
One game under five hundred. The Pirates aren't going to
spend any much. Like, come on, if Washington you get
a pitcher Miami, it's just a total logjam.
Speaker 1: Washington's got plenty of depth in the minor leagues of
trade front, by the way, they could get anybody they want.
That's a really, really strong minor league system. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I look at all of those teams, and I don't
think they can address enough of their flaws. Like you
got San Diego, Saint Louis, Pittsburgh, Washington, and Miami all
jockeying for one position. All five of those teams I
just listed, I think it's five are all five hundred teams.
Why if you're one of those five teams, the smartest
move of those five would be Saint Louis bringing up
their young talent because it doesn't cost them anything to
do it right. They don't give anything up to make
those moves. Do the other teams have a minor league
system capable of wishing them over the hump? I I don't.
Speaker 1: Know, but let me let me riddle you this, mister McLeod.
The Western Nationals they need, they need pitching in a
desperate way. And the Seattle Mariners have a lot of pitching.
We already talked about some of it's not so good,
but they have a lot of pitching and they need offense.
What about a marriage between the two and like a
Lewis Garcia junior for an Emerson Hancock or maybe a
Brian Wu. I mean, somebody's got some upside that's also
got a couple of years you have to worry about
free agency that Kirby. I mean, somebody that's got a
pedigree that would immediately be top of the rotation. I
mean looking at Cake Avealing exactly. I mean they just
don't have any pitching with Foster Griffin. He's there, but
you think he's going to get moved because he's he's
a free agent.
Speaker 2: Yeah yah, they're selling on Griffin.
Speaker 1: So I would think like a controllable starter for a
bat makes a lot of sense to me for the
Washington Nationals kind of what the Orioles did last year
with Shane Bose. They didn't work so well because it's
just been okay, But that's I think the kind of
deal they need to make.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that makes total sense because the Bats in Washington,
the big bets or other. I think Abrams has got
a couple of years, but Woods has got what like four?
You know, the core of.
Speaker 1: Can't you can't trade Wood?
Speaker 2: I just can't, no, no, But I mean I was
just sort of inferring the core of Washington's offense, you know,
Wood crews, whatever, however you want to shake it down,
it's going to be around for a while. But they pitching, Yeah,
they need another pitcher. Yeah, it makes total sense for
both this year and for next year.
Speaker 1: And I don't think that the Nationals want to give
up on cruise. I think he would. He could land
them a ton, right, because that mean twenty four year
old kid that's still got a ton of upside, you know.
They're So let's now look at the Mets and then
we'll take a break and get on the other stuff.
So I'm going, who are the Mets going to keep?
That's what We're going to look at it and do
it a little differently. So I'm just going to go
through their lineup.
Speaker 2: You tell me easier to do it, It's easier, easier
to do it that way.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's right. You tell me trade or keep?
This is easy?
Speaker 2: A j ewing you're going to keep them, keep keep
keep keeping.
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor. I'm gonna answer for you. I'm gonna say
they're going to try to trade him. The question then
I have for you is will he be traded or
will they keep him?
Speaker 2: Uh? Oh, they're going to try. For sure.
Speaker 1: They're going to try, that's for sure.
Speaker 2: He's got lots of money in New York. They'll find
a way to move them. They'll eat some salary, they'll
do what they have to do.
Speaker 1: He might be an interesting guy to move to, uh Seattle.
Speaker 2: Well, then it takes one of the kids out of play,
doesn't it. Do they want to do that?
Speaker 1: Well, they moved Francisco Lindor, and then they that's true.
Then they yeah, they guess they don't need pitching, but
we always need pitching. So yeah, okay, looks like a
two carried away Boba Schett. I know they want to
trade him. There's absolutely no way they can't.
Speaker 2: So yeah, right now, that even for an owner with
deep as deep a boxes said as the Mets, No,
they're stuck with the shed.
Speaker 1: Carson Binge.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's there for the long haul. Jared Young, Bye bye.
Jorge Polanco, Yeah, he's actually healthy. Bye bye, Tyrone Taylor.
Speaker 1: I he's been pretty good this season, right and player.
Speaker 2: I think they want to keep Tyrone. I think they'll
trade him, but I don't think they'll be disappointed if
they don't, and they have to keep them because he's
the sort of player that he will he'll produce. He's
not an everyday player. But yeah, yeah, I think they
could keep him and they'd be okay with that.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, hold for a second, Timmy doing something real
quick here, let's see, and next would be uh Brett Batty.
I know they'd like to trade him.
Speaker 2: I think he's untradeable, right yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez is interesting because everybody's everybody's all their catchers
are hurt. That's an interesting guy, right yeah.
Speaker 2: I I think if they got the right deal, they'd
move him. But I don't know if they will get
the right deal. As far as the rooster, Marcus Semeon
bye Bude.
Speaker 1: If anybody wants him, I think he's just going to
be a bag of balls. And then probably the worst
I mean, I take I think Bobashek probably the worst
signing here. Forty two million dollars for that guy was ridiculous.
We all knew that when they signed him. And he's
got of hopped out clause. I mean, that's the easiest
call of easy calls. There's no way he's on that.
Speaker 2: Yeah. No, Yeah, the odds of me winning power Ball
back to back are better than the odds of him out.
Speaker 1: And the second, the second worst deal is Lewis Roberts
that has just not worked out. There's kind of stuck
with him at the moment. He is a shell of himself.
We all thought maybe it was the White Sox that
were you know, he was unmotivated as soon as he
left the White Sox. I mean, what did the White
Sox do? They turned it on.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And you know what's interesting though, and it's a
real pause when you look at Robert. Okay, he might
only have you know, an ops in the past seven
days of five eighty nine, but that's higher than it
was over fourteen and twenty days. So we're seeing improvement
from Robert. I just don't know what a five eighty
nine ops if the market is yeah, they're going to
have to get rid of them.
Speaker 1: Basically, you're going to try to.
Speaker 2: Give them, yeah, try and give them away all right.
Speaker 1: Let's look at the starting Pitchingel McClean staying Freddy Pralta,
that's an easy one.
Speaker 2: Bye bye bye bye, Zach Thornton staying twenty four year
old lefty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sep, that's actually been very good to Sean Andyah,
bye bye, Christian Scott. He's got to stay, right, he's
only barely.
Speaker 2: Got to stay. Yeah, yeah, twenty seven. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I think the entire bullpen is up for being moved.
Speaker 2: I would I would agree with you there. I'd be
shocked if Williams isn't moved, even though he's got a
really funky contract. I think they're I think they'll move him.
They'll have to eat some money because he's got ten
years of deferred one point five. He's got fifteen million
in deferred money. They might have to eat that deferred money.
But I I can't see them going into next year
with Williams and Weaver. No, yeah, no, I think.
Speaker 1: That they're just saying pick anybody you want. And I
think the uh I think the Mets are going to
get just demolished. I think you're gonna see a lot
of kids get called up and on Sunday. To me,
that's your homework for the next two days. You're gonna
tell me who we should be targeting to get called up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it would be nice if the teams could cooperate
and actually make some deals, like, hey, we're talking aj
Minter is the as at the top of the food
chain for deals in the past couple of days. No,
that's that's not gonna that's not going to get it done.
Speaker 1: Well again, I think I think Ken Rosenthal was right.
There's a lot of American League teams that know their
cheam's not very good, but they're still in it. That's
a tough call. And the heartbreaking loss for the Tigers
on Wednesday night, they think against the Orioles where they
had the seven zero lead and they lost. That was
that was it? That was that was the nail and
the coffin.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, There's there's been some really really bad performances
this week by bullpens. We've seen starters take big leads,
laid into games and come out of it with none.
Brandon Fat Arizona, Brandon Fat pitched a gym seven innings,
didn't allow an earned run, okay, and the bullpen coughed it,
oh coughed it up. It's terrible. You shouldn't be blowing
leads that late in both the game and the season.
If you want to pretend to be a playoff team,
that should. That's that should. Now, that's why I think
Devin Williams is definitely on the move. Somebody's gonna pay
for Devin Williams. He's been pitching fairly good lately if
I'm not mistaken, right, So yeah, I'd be shocked if
he's not moved.
Speaker 1: Tem Me, look, let's take a break and got more
stuff for everybody. So, Timmy, can you stand a few
minutes longer?
Speaker 2: Well, let me see one at my baby schedule. I
get that, Ena, I that for fifteen minutes. We're good.
Speaker 1: So you lie. There has been some trades. The Curtis
meet for commed Bernie. We you talked about that on Sunday,
Tim That that was that was tough man. Curtis need
on his third at bat, gets hit out for six
to eight weeks, he's pretty much gone for the season.
That was a tough one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, short turn, that one looks like a lose loose
or the situation.
Speaker 1: We'll see commonly early they think might be pitching soon.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know what they say better early than late.
Speaker 1: We could also look through the Angels roster and it
looks like they're going to get rid of everybody. This
was a weird one. I wrote about it to our
Patreon members and I was trying to figure it out
and Chase Silsath and Logan Ohopi. At one point, Logan
A Hopi was a top one hundred prospect. It just
has not been very good, but he's still a major
league player. Silsath has been pretty good as a reliever,
and they got back somebody that no one has really
heard of that is Angel Rondo. Uh, and all trying
to figure out, like how could you give up two
major league players they're on a team control and get
back Angel Rondo, which is no one's really hurt of.
Speaker 2: Well, basically I think where it identifies as the current
value of Chase Silva said than Logan o'hapi yeah he yeah, yeah,
you broke down. I went through your breakdown on that
on that deal that I got in my email inbox
because I'm a Patreon member, and I think he nailed it,
like oh Hoppy, which is exbloss he eighty three something
or eighty four sill Seth Will help them in their
in their bullpen. Yeah, I I I yeah, I don't
see much of anything short term there. Rather than sil
said I think he's the guy they wanted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they actually moved Logan o hoppy to triple A.
That kind of tells you how far his star has
gone down. But what happened to Logan o' hoppy. I
mean when I wrote into the analysis, I mean, he
is a shell of himself and it looks like he's hurt.
That's all I can figure.
Speaker 2: Well, that's that would be that would be my my
analysis as well. Yeah, it's yeah, he's twenty six years old. Yeah, yeah,
I remember when you first came up. He had he
had about seven or eight home runs, didn't he in
about fifteen minutes and then hurt himself. And he's never
looked the same since, has he? Really?
Speaker 1: His ex of velocity in twenty twenty five was ninety
one miles an hour. It's eighty seven miles an hour this,
I mean, that's just you just don't see that kind
of exit loss unless the guy is hurt. He's always
been a terrible defender, so he can't play behind the
behind the plate an so he got that going against him,
and now if he's lost his power, I think he's
going to get dfayed.
Speaker 2: I think that's entirely possible. Yeah, yeah, and it sucks.
Speaker 1: And then still south, the analysis there is he's definitely
obviously more valuable, but his expected ear ray, it's still
got a fairly interesting gap there. So we'll see. I mean,
it's I guess maybe you're right. The analysis is maybe
both of those guys aren't enough to pull back a
decent but a named prospect.
Speaker 2: Well, hey, you know what, I think the Angel just
wanted to part company. They found a taker and it's done.
And long term I don't think. I think there might
be nothing long term in this deal. Short term maybe,
so Susic can help out that bull, then I think
I think he can.
Speaker 1: I think definitely think he can. So we'll see. They
the Rangers need to do more, for sure.
Speaker 2: Yes they do. They definitely do.
Speaker 1: Uh, the more players in the eye olt, do you
have anybody Casey Schmidt was a brutal one, particularly from
Amant through the leagues, and it just just that was
a guy got off the waiver water. It was my impact.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's that sucks. And yeah, Bucks, then the
only thing. The only hope I see in the bucks
and situation is call up Walker Jenkins. I don't see
anything else worth looking at in Buxton. As far as
Casey Casey Schmid is concerned, Matt Chapman's supposed to be
back this weekend. Christian cost is not the answer. It's
just a wait until Chapman comes back. Situation and Vinnie P.
Speaker 1: Brutal season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, what they've what they've done with Vinnie P
is they've moved Salparez to first base. Okay, uh, Jensen's
gonna get most of the catching at bets, Perez is
gonna play first base. There's nobody at full a slot
in the high minors in Kansas City, So I think
it's just a case of they're going to shuffle a
deck internally in Pez they'll get most of the first
base at bats. And yeah, it is sort of what
it is. There is nobody there of interest to replace
Vinnie P. Unless Salparez is on your waiverwear and I
don't even know if you want Salpaerez the way he's
been playing, he's been playing better, but nutsal forres.
Speaker 1: Vinnie P will be on my target list for next season.
This is a guy even through his his injuries, it's
still hitting the x M Moossy of eighty nine miles
an hour, huge leverage. I think the last year it
was ninety one. I think he can repeat that. It's
making good contact at eighteen percent. He walks a little bit,
there's no speed, but the thirty two home runs he
hit up last season, I think you could do twenty
if you tell me twenty five home runs from Vinnie
P with a you know, a two forty two fifty
batting average, maybe a little bit more. I think that's
the player. And I'll take that as a late first
round of a late first baseman.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will as well. The only thing that might
stop me is everybody thinking the same way, and it
eventually drives his price up to where it is too high.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think you want to overpay for him.
And I guess my question is, right now, how many
people are saying, Hey, Vinnie P Is going to be
on my team next year? Well, guess what, there's fourteen
other teams in your reader AFT league. If they're all
thinking the same way, Vinnie P Is going to start
moving up board simply because of the pressures put on
it with everybody saying he's going to bounce back.
Speaker 1: So you're telling me I'm stating the obvious. I'm stating
the obvious. The Dodgers are acquiring Trek Scooble. That's what
I just pulled.
Speaker 2: Okay, more or less? Yeah, let's go with that, okay.
Speaker 1: Rich, mister obvious. So one thing that I thought was
actually kind of interesting. You don't typically hear managers come
out and say, yeah, we're moving so and so out
of the closer gig, and that's exactly what Tory Leavell
said on Wednesday. So who gets the save opportunities in Arizona?
Speaker 2: Well? Can I Can I pimp the Discord site for
a second here? Rich?
Speaker 1: Of course?
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, the question came up what's going to happen
in in Arizona on the Discord site and there was
a fair bit of banter. So I chipped in and
here are here are my thoughts that I put into
the Discord site. And I started, like my my thought
process here. But I always do until it's wrong my analysis.
Speaker 1: That's very well played.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you? Uh. Tory Levello shared his thoughts in
the postgame pressor. This is a quote. Rather than settling
on a designated closer, Levello indicated plans to play the
matchups in the ninth inning, so the left handed Garcia
may be deployed primarily against left handed heavy portions of
the line up late in games. Lavello mentioned Jonathan Loizaga
as another Yeah, him too as another picture who might
factor into the late inning picture. And Juan Morello and
Kevin oh Ginkel could also if.
Speaker 1: You use to put him on the on your waiver war.
If he appears on the waiver war, I'm the leading him,
and I'm going to put I deleted.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I expanded, I expanded Lovello's statements, and and
my my assessment is right now, the Diamondbacks have the
grand total of one left handed reliever in their bullpen,
and that's Brandon Garcia. That's it. That's all or Alrighty's
not that this guarantees that he gets the work. But
if I was playing the odds based on what Tory
Lovello has publicly stated, he's going to get some of
that work. Okay. The rest looks like a job share
at this time. For the next while, it's the three
words we fantasy folk dread hearing will pend by committee.
My updated ranking for the Closer report will be Garcia, uh,
mister l and Maurillo in that order, listed as co
closers Committee. And the guy that I will be targeting
is Garcia because I think he's going to get the
bulk of the opportunities as compared to the other three
guys that's in there. And I took Jinkle off. Actually,
I know people are high on Morea and I like
I like Morella stuff, and I think he can do it.
But if Lobela was good to his word, hey you
end up with two of the three lefties in the
ninth inning, and he's going to go with Garcia. So
that's my logic and that's exactly how I put it
on on the discord discord site. So there's my thoughts. Rich.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. If we can also
talk about the discord site for a moment again, I
encourage everybody to join his Patreon dot com formar slash
Prospect three sixty one. So I of course torched him
because that's that we have fun. We like them make
fun of each other and on his on including Gabriel
Hughes in his waiver work, last year last week and
one of the very active member Nails. I think his
first name is Paul, and he did a wonderful analysis
of why Tim was right. So Tim, I, let's talk
about that on Sunday when we have a little bit
more time, because he made some really good arguments that
you were right. I still can't get over it. He
still plays in Colorado, but let's let's let's break through that.
It's pretty interesting.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'll take those three herd runs that he allowed
and I'll smile and I'll be very very happy. And hey,
thanks Paul. I appreciate you having my back. You know,
I throw you under the bus at the first opportunity,
So it's refreshing when somebody has my back.
Speaker 1: Yes, that's that is for sure. Okay. The final segment
is Spincer Jones had a big night on Wednesday, home
run and a stolen base. Nice timing. Does Spencer Jones
get moved as the Yankees try to bring in some offense.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say, no, they're going to stick with them.
Speaker 1: Really? Is that a smart move?
Speaker 2: No, there's a Yankee move.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, yeah, I think he needs to get moved.
That's just me.
Speaker 2: Mm yeah, I've got I've.
Speaker 1: Got a couple of other young kids, and I think
it's gets moved. I kind of want to know if
you've got any opinions here in the in the trade
that life. Here's my here's my deal for Errek Schouble,
Zire Hope and River Ryan. I could go Zire Hope
and em It Sheehan for Terrek schoobl plus one, but
I I think that's the kind of even though Terrek
Scooble is a Renter, he's different. I think it's going
to take a couple of big bodies, and I think
that's what the Dodgers are going to do. So that's
sire Hope and Hope and River Ryan are two of
my young kids. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I I like it. The only thing I
the only thing I did was put I've got two destinations.
One is the Dodgers, and I've got substitute James Tibbs
for a Hope. Uh.
Speaker 1: Again, I think that's fair. So once again, another patroon
member sent me said, like, if if the Dodgers move somebody,
who's the most likely to have playing time in the
second half? And my thought was James Tibbs. The third
would be that guy zire Home might not but but
James Timms. I think xire Hope's got way more upside
than James Timms. But it might be both of them. Tim,
I think school is going to command a ton of players.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and here's my here's my other schoobl bet uh,
Aiden Miller and Andrew Painter.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow, I like that, Tim So Andrew Painter's got
a right arm. I'm shocked that he had so much trouble.
I think I think that's improvable. And then aid Miller
has been scary hurt this season with a bad back,
But I don't think you give up on that talent.
That's a great call. That's a very similar kind of
package that you could get from the Phillies.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just saw when I looked at the Phillies
they need a pitcher. If they added Scooble, that changes
the dynamics in the NL in a huge way. And
Aidan Miller and Painter with Yeah, maybe some low level
that might be that might be enough to get Detroit's
interest because of the upside potential. Not that yeah, but.
Speaker 1: If it's if it's down to the Phillies, and the
Dodgers and you're playing cards. I mean, the Dodgers can
keep throwing guys down, they will, they will outspend easily
the Phillies.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, there's no doubt they'll easily outspend. It's
what Detroit sees as the high end potential from the
big names and Aiden Miller if he if he returns
to Aiden Miller could be a really, really good baseball.
Speaker 1: But if you're on the if you're on the the
Detroit side, you have to factor in that he's a
chronic back problem. You have to factor in that kind
of stuff, the fact that he's missed the entire season
because of a of a bank injury.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah. I just thought it was I just
thought it was worth to there.
Speaker 1: Just I just I love it. A good good job
on that one. In Milwaukee, I I think I think
Milwaukee's got to be active. They've got so much depth.
They've got as much depth, if not more depth, than
the Dodgers. Do I nobody's got more depth than the
outfield than the Dodgers. But across the board, the Brewers
do they need some more pitching. I think Jeff Williams
is a guy they acquired from the Mets last year
for Freddie Peralta. I think Jet Williams can still play.
He's had a somewhat of a tough season. If you
look under the cover a little bit, there's still a
lot there. And I just think he's expendable. Tim they
got Lewis Laws their fourth outfielder. Jet Williams can also
play the athlete play the infield as well. I think
he's expendable. I think the Milwaukee Brewers move.
Speaker 2: Him, Yeah, I I I think it's a good call.
My call with Milwaukee is a acquirer Fast Ready. He
comes back home to Milwaukee for Luke Adams and a
low level dark toss because the Brewers. The Brewers have
the first base depth now that they who did draft Fisher?
Was it or somebody.
Speaker 1: They drafted Fisher in twenty Yeah, they can't hit though
he can't hit well, Brewers have got time to fix them.
Speaker 2: They got an extra first baseman they can move. So
I think they're going to take Luke Adams and and
whatever and ship them off to the Mets for Ready.
Speaker 1: Look, if I don't know what happened to Fast Freddy five?
Any Freddy four? Any? I don't know what the nickname is.
I looked at the date extensively before this year's when
I was doing my draft targets. He was one of
my draft targets, one of the ones I obviously missed
on h I just can't believe that I was so
wrong on the analysis of him. So I got to
revisit what he has done and what's gone wrong. But
I have a tendency to believe a lot of it's
just the Mets and there's just something not right there.
I can't figure it out. People seem to think it's
Francisco Lindora is the source of all the clubhouse problems.
I don't know, but something's definitely not right there.
Speaker 2: No, there's yeah that, Yeah, it's a mess. They've got
to get that sort of. They can't go into next
year in the same situation as they are in right now.
That just cannot happen.
Speaker 1: No last guy is the Rays. I think the Rais
say their series about schoolball. Ryan Pepio, I believe is
still hurt. The Key could be an interesting guy. They've
got a ton of depth in their starting pitcher, Brody Hopkins,
so they've got a lot of depth that they can move,
and we know that teams love that controllable uh control
with pictures, and you could see them do another deal
with the UH with the Nationals as well. Uh, the
Nationals would love to have some of that that really
good starting pitcher that's sitting in the minor leagues for
the Rays. What do you think?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it makes sense because they can they can, they
can move some of that depth and they're not paying.
They won't be paying for it. It be short term.
So yeah, no, that makes total sense. And let's Fay said.
With the j Jay's out of it, Gosman could be
moved even though he is very very popular in Toronto
with both the fans. Yeah he could. Yeah, he's he's
been a model citizen while in Toronto they just love
him and he likes Toronto in a big way. So
I would have a tendency to think that the J's
are going to move Bieber possibly Ghostman. Uh, They're gonna
move jeff Off and my destination there is to the Phillies.
Yeah for next to nothing. Uh. I here's an interesting
one that I thought of, and it makes sense if
the Mets will eat the deferred money or some part
of the contract Devin Williams to the Cubs for James Treantos.
What do you think?
Speaker 1: Uh, I mean, I like James Treanto's Yeah, I mean
that's I mean there, I think the Mets are gonna
have to eat some of the money. I don't know
what his contract is off the top of my head,
but yeah, that's I'll buy that.
Speaker 2: Oh okay. And the other The other thing is I
think Daldon Varsho ends up with in Texas for a
mid to lower level prospect.
Speaker 1: Is he is he a free agent at the end
of the season.
Speaker 2: I believe it's coming up. Yes, yeah. A Varshow to
the Rangers makes sense when you look at right now,
the Rangers are looking at Evan Carter in center field.
Varshow improves their defense and gives them an everyday player,
and they can put Carter back in as a fourth outfielder.
So I sort of think that the Jays are going
to move as the sky's a limit as far as
the Jays are concerned. But I think Varshow ends up
in Texas. I think it's a nice fit.
Speaker 1: To me, It's like our final break come back and
let's see who ten is going to be picking up
I'm anxious to hear this. I think one of them
is going to be the pitcher to see. You got
a beautiful day brewing here in New Jersey. Seventy six
degrees at ten thirty. I think it's going to get
the low eighties this afternoon. Think about going to our pool,
sit by the pool and finishing off the week that way.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a good idea, right, Yeah, it sounds
like a great plan. It's hotter than the hell here,
so it's they're called they're calling for low nineties with
the humid X and it's been that temperature all week.
My my poor ac is gotta you know, please don't
start me again, not again, every time I go to turn. Yeah,
it's been hot here, really hot in human.
Speaker 1: Break soon you lets you let us on to uh
Quinn Matthews being your pictures? Is that is that your move?
Speaker 2: Yeah? That that would be my movie. The other there's
some bullpen moves in there. Eric Miller in San Francisco
is starting to generate some positive vibes. So yeah, Quinn Matthews,
Eric Miller. Yeah, Like Matthews is going up against the
Jays who can't hit their way out of a wet
paper bag on a good day. Yeah, if I I
had Matthews rostered right now, I'd have him starting against
the Jays. It's gune deal. I had no Fromoto. That
offense is just blah and it's it's it's it's not
even just blah. It's an uninspired blah. You know what
I mean? Yeah, yeah, I was.
Speaker 1: We mentioned that on Sunday, how uninspiring it was to
watch their games.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Max Clark forty rostered. Yeah, that forty five
percent will turn into ninety five percent rostered by next
Monday when we get the results of this weekend's fat people.
Anybody who's got money left if he's sitting in the
free agent pool and spend the money. Yea.
Speaker 1: In my dynasty leagues that I have focused so much
on outfielders, I'm gonna have trouble starting Max Clark. I'm
flushing outfielders. If he played first base, My first base
are terrible. I don't know what has happened. I've just
done a terrible job at kind of rostering minor league
first basement. And I got I got Reee. Hoskins playing it,
and then Josh bells world and I have nobody.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and you know what, those nobody's are probably
your best options when you take a look and you
look at Vladdie, okay, you look at past Quentino, you look.
Speaker 1: At both of those in leagues.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, you know, first first base has been depleted
of upper to elite level talent because of injuries this year.
So we've gone and we've rostered the Reecee Hoskins and
Josh Bells of the world. Looking at films, they're not
villains anymore. They're everyday players to fill ins. That's where
it gets brutal, you know. Yeah, do I want to
fight in my fab wors for Nolan Sanuel? No, it's no,
I don't know.
Speaker 1: No, No, definitely.
Speaker 2: And you look and who's got the potential to get
called up? Are there big first basement out there? Probably not?
So at first base has been it's been a tough
position to fill this year.
Speaker 1: I have Michael Bush and a bunch of leagues and yeah,
but I mean that's that's that's how I've been rostering.
To me and I look down and I'm sitting in
eighth place in a lot of leagues, and I just
I don't have the power sitting in my first first
base lot and where I've got power, I'm doing just fine.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, I know you're picking up your power elsewhere.
But you know, Pete Lonzo's got twenty two home runs. Okay,
it's not a bad number, but it's not fifty, isn't
It might not even be forty. It might be it
might be one of his worst seasons as a major leaguer. Okay,
so right across the board, you start looking at base
and it hasn't been pretty, and everybody's hey, I'm surprised
that players like Reece Hoskins are only roster When you
look at the current situation out there, you could do
much worse.
Speaker 1: I was that for sure, Timmy, that isn't wrap, my friend,
We're gonna we're gonna stop it there. Thanks for going
the extra ten minutes or so. I appreciate that act
fifteen minutes. So we gave our our listeners lots of content.
We're back in an hour early on Sunday, and Tim
is going to allow me to get off to go
to a family baseball game. So that would be gret
But Tim happens weekend. Let's hope we get some trades.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I don't want to be talking solely about
a j miner on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Rich Now, yeah, I didn't even write him up. It's
just like, okay, yeah, yeah, I gotta say. I gotta
save my fingers for the real stuff because that's that's
going to come coming in Sunday and Monday is going
to be crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah it is. I think the idea of doing a
show at the beginning of next week Monday night, Tuesday whatever,
to look at some of those moves, probably probably a
wiest plan because I think we're going to have our
hands full right at the deadline, probably.
Speaker 1: Tuesday, because I'll be I'll be writing all Monday. So
I used to go to the wee hours of the
morning on uh on writing up all doing all the analysis.
So I'm uh yeah, that's what I'll be doing on Monday.
So I got to rest up over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Okay, it sounds good. Be safe, be well, and we'll
catch you all Sunday