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me hear myself stun spans and they can't even count

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several charges on everyone up the.

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Speaker 2: El s and I'm alreadium.

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Speaker 1: I hear my baby sound just like your name was Mark.

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Speaker 2: And it's a rap by podcast.

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Speaker 1: It's a rapop podcast. It's a rapop podcast. It's a

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Speaker 2: It's a rapp podcast, a wrap up podcast. Got a turn?

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Speaker 1: Do it should? Rap bo podcast?

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome everybody to the Rasball Baseball Podcast. I

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am my cooler filling in once again for beat On,

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and I am joined by the bespectacled man himself, the

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man who puts abs into abs, fantasy Master Lithario himself.

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All Brad, how are you doing it to me?

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Speaker 1: Yes?

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: I do put abs, and I put abs actually into

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everything I get into because I can't go anywhere with

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a man sinks back. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Yep, yep, Yeah, it's hiding underneath the desk behind you, right,

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there's just like a crunch master. That's what you every

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time you're just back there crunching.

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Speaker 1: You have no idea from like the bottom of the

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screen to the floor. I am so jack. Just the

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stuff that is exactly out of screen is like insane,

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guy must work out twenty hours a day. I mean

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it's like, what who is this? Who is this guy?

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That's like you can bounce a quarter on this guy

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all different areas you can bounce quarters on, like not

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just one, like you know, like you can take quarters

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and bounds them on every single area underneath underneath the frame.

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You'll you'll never see what's below the frame.

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Speaker 2: I mean we got to cover it up because if

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people saw it was below the frame, they might they

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doubt your your fantasy baseball acumen. They're like, is this

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guy just on here to show off his apps or

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is he actually here to give us fantasy baseball advice?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's that's exactly what people would think. They'd

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be like, oh yeah, no, wonder why his teams are

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doing so bad? This guy's working out too much. Oh man,

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speaking of teams doing bad. So this is something that

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I uh so I have confession to make. Okay, I

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don't even know if I don't know if it's a

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confession as much as I'm talking about it for the

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first time, because I never really I don't. I don't

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talk about my TGFBI team really, but I don't want

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to say that. Like, so I'm in in this TGFBI thing,

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which is like, you know, this big tournament of all

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different fantasy baseball experts and anyway, any anyway, so I

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was like, you know, I think, God, I actually I

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should have should have prepared. Unfortunately I was in the

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gym and I wasn't prepared to discuss this. But anyway

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I was. I had I think, pick ten, I want

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to say pick ten. Maybe maybe it was like eight

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or nine, I don't know, somewhere in that range. And

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you know what, I was like, you know, because I

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never ever talk about this team, I'm gonna draft Paul

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Skans with my first pick, just because as just to

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see how I can do with that, because it wouldn't

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be something I would ever normally do. But it's like

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a bit of an experiment, and you know, compared to

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some people's experiments with their expert teams, this experiment is

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pretty tame. I mean, this is not even barely an

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experiment because most people would just draft Paul Skians. They

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wouldn't have an issue with drafting them. But you know,

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I never really draft starters in the in the early going,

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in the first, you know, twenty or something picks, I

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don't draft a starter in the first two rounds. So anyway,

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so I drafted Paul Skians with the first pick, and

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then I took Jackson Churio, and then I took I believe,

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but let me just say I I drafted Paul Skames

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in the first round. And my team is so awful.

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It's so so bad. It's like I think I might

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out of over on the overall standings, I might be

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in dead last. It's so bad. It's like I've never

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had a team as bad as this team before. And maybe,

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draft starters early at least the benefit of the doubt

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and say maybe that they're more experienced at drafting starters

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early so they know how to draft hitters later. And

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it's a you know, it's a learning process that I'm in.

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I mean just so, I mean awful. You don't even

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like my starting pitching is somehow, It's like it's not

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even I mean, it's barely competitive. If I'm like in

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last place, essentially, obviously, everything's bad on my team, including

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my pitching with Paul Skeens. I have Paul Skeens, Framber Valdez,

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Ron Hill, Suarez.

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Kwait Tang. I mean, you would think Framber, Skeens and

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McLean would have been able and Suarez would have been

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able to at least hold down the flour.

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team league, Justine's mixed league. So you would have thought

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I would have at least decent pitching. But oh my god,

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my team is so bad. It's so bad, and my

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pitching is so horrendous. It's only beaten by how awful

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my hang is. My hitting is actually hilariously terrible. Actually,

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so it's gonna say, I'll see the highlights. So Auto Lopez,

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c j Abrams, Jackson, Suri has been fine, injured obviously,

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but been fine. That's that's where the highlights end. That's

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it for the highlights the low lights. Mark Fiento's is

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my first baseman, Manny Machilad and Terrible, Isaac Collins, Jeremiah Jackson, T. J.

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and Naceum Nunez is that my ami. Wow awful? Oh

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so bad? So anyway, Uh, that's a that's that's a

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story about that.

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Speaker 2: I will, I will give you a little bit comfort.

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It is three and twenty fourth out of three. I'm

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also I'm I'm not I'm not too far ahead of you.

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I'm down there as well to eighty seven. I'm looking

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at her squads. There's a lot of crossover, a lot.

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and I can see why we're hanging out at the

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bottom of teach FBI standings together.

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Speaker 1: I've officially moved on from Jack Flattery as of his

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eyes of one day, Well, he's getting dropped this week.

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I really like Jack Flattery coming into the year. As

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you know, anyone knows from my if they're reading Rasball.

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But he's just so he like, he does not seem

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capable of knowing where the ball's going when he's pitching,

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which is an actual problem. I don't I don't know

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why he can't locate at all, you know. Good. The

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Tigers have just been awful this year and Jack Flattery

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has been incredibly terrible. So yeah, I'm dropping them. And

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that's a fifteen team league, as I mentioned, and I'm jacking.

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I'm dropping Gi Flattery. So if anyone's listening and they

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have Gi Flattery, you know, yeah, listen, hey, listen to

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the guy who's in three hundred fourth place. Okay, anyway,

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that's actually in that team somehow. That's one of my

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few teams that doesn't have Fernando Tattoos Junior and Ronald d'acuna.

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Speaker 2: She's on my TEACHFPI squad. Bernando Tattoos Junior finally had

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a tatar this weekend. It was a pretty giant one

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in Washington, but it's hot there, the wind was blown out.

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He finally went yard. So congratulations to all Fernando Tatist

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Junior owners out there that the the long wait is

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finally over, as well as I mean Ronald Lacuna there's

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nothing that can get you right better than a little

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bit of a late May weekend in Cincinnati with the

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blaring hot just blasting heat in humidity off of that river.

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and Kuna the rest of the year. Is this what

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you want to see? Or is this kind of you're

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like a little bit of a dead cat bounce here

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to be a bummer when it comes to Akunya because Tatis,

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Tatis I think has actual I think he has actual

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issues with his swing right now. I don't know, like

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he is hitting the ball hard. So it's not like

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I don't think he's hiding an injury. I just think

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he happens to be, you know, needing a swing adjustment,

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which is really not a not an easy thing to

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do in the middle of the season. You know, if

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it was easy, he would have changed his swing. So

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know that one homer, which is you know, thankfully he

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hit a homer finally, so I can stop making up

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blurbs about how he's so hasn't hit a home run,

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but yeah. I mean, I I'm really concerned about tattoos

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now with a Cunya. I you know, I feel like

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but I am concerned that like we've seen Acunya come

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out of you know, cold spells before and it usually

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leads to you know, he gets incredibly hot and then

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outside of twenty twenty three, he gets injured. So I

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the the the doom sayer here, but Acunya has really

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like I mean, he's he's either like cold, hot or injured.

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a guy who goes cold to hot to injured, it's like,

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oh god man, you know. So I mean, hopefully Acunya

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is you know, it stays on the field and and

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remains healthy because I do you know, I do worry

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about him knees. Uh you know, is his numbers. So

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bit from where he was in previous seasons. Now, I

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don't know if you know that those it's still early

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enough where a lot of those numbers could bounce back.

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not even in June yet, so there's possibility here Acunya

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has like a huge month of June. His numbers look

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the Thursday night game, I mentioned how like, you know,

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his exit velocity is the lowest it's been in his career,

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which is I mean, it is concerning, It's not I mean,

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it's not a terrible exit velocity. Like it's not like,

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you know, he hasn't become you know, who's the guy

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that we talked about last week with the A team

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percent who is the guy anyway? So it's not like

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he's become awful Akunya that is, But I mean the

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exitplocity is the worst of his career. His uh, you know,

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his max is decent, good even I would say top

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ten percent of the major leagues, even though you know

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usually he's above where it is now. So it's it's

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little bit low as well. But you know, the numbers,

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stretch of the imagination. I just want, like Akunya, I think,

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to stay. If Acunya stays healthy for one hundred and

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forty games, he's gonna be worth his draft pick. He'll

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he'll be fine at the end of the day. Like

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he'll end up with like you know, probably twenty five

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plus homers, twenty to twenty five steals, eighty ish average, Like,

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all the counting stats that comes with that. That's totally fine.

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on the field to get those numbers, because if he's

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like you know, like we've already had, we've already lost him. Actually,

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I said, one forty Is he even gonna be able

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to get to one forty games after what we call it,

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after his injuries? Yeah, I mean, I like, I like

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Acunya still. I mean, we saw what he's capable of

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this uh, this weekend in what we call it in Cincinnati,

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he won't get to one forty. I'm looking at his

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stats now, so.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so he's two games left, I think right or

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is that am I reading that wrong?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: They have one hundred and two left, so he'll.

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it's gonna be a close call. But I mean he

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needs to stay healthy. That's like the uh, you know,

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the worst, the worst thing that can happen as you

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lose him for a month, and like you know, because

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you know, even even in shallow leagues, you're not gonna

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be able to replace the guy who just did what

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he did this weekend. I mean, that's the kind of

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stuff he's capable of. So you figure the average comes

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up a little bit. He uh still gets to like

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twenty five homers, twenty five steals, maybe even you know,

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maybe even plus on both of those. Maybe he gets

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twenty five plus or twenty five plus steels or homers,

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eighty average. And if he could stay on the field,

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he's gonna be he'll be worthwhile. But there's a few

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ifs there, which are you know, it's a little it's

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a little iffy, let's be honest. And then you know,

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still really yeah, I'm still concerned. Yeah.

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is I mean, the Braves have already cracked open a

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nine game lead on the rest of the NL West,

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on the NL East there. Man, that's a throwback remember

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when the Braves were in the NL.

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Speaker 1: West Atlanta, the Brewers in the al Or.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but the Braves, I mean, because they've got a

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big lead there in the NL East. That that's another

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consideration too. Maybe they don't have Ronald Acunya run as much.

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Maybe they don't push him out there every game in

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terms of like a day game after a night game,

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to give him a little more rust down the stretch.

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So that's another factor with Ronald Acuna Junior. As we

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move forward, we are speaking here on May thirty first,

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so it is we've got a little bit of like

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end of May numbers. Uh, we don't have the player

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raider fully up to date for today's action. Because if

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you go and sort by the last thirty days, you're

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gonna find two pitchers look like Paul Skans Intreeks scooble

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right now they are not Paul Skans in Teeks scouble

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their Jacob mister Rowski and Chris Sanchez from the Philadelphia Phillies.

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There where Sanchez it's done, His May is done. In

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terms of the player Raider, he was sixty two and

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a half dollars worth of value there in May, forty

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five and two thirds innings, a point three to nine ERA,

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a point seven to seven whip, fifty two k's. Miserrowski,

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he pitched today before the today he was at fifty

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nine two thirds innings and he was clocking in at

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a point to nine ERA, a point five to four

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whip forty nine k's in thirty one and a third innings. Sorry,

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that was fifty nine point two dollars worth of value,

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not fifty nine and two thirds innings. Then went out

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through seven shutout innings today with ten k's was it

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eight k's. In addition, I think he the double he

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gave up to Estoc Paradus today was the first extra

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base hit he gave up in all of May, which.

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Speaker 1: Is ridiculous, I mean ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's bunkers. So if I was Oh, go ahead,

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who you picking for the rest of the season in

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terms of like if you had to go with one

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or the other and think about it. Here, Sanchez has

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a little more volume, so the ratios play a little

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bit better, but Mislerowski the strikeout rate is absurd. So

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if you have to build one for the rest of

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the year, who you're going with Sanchez or Misslerowski.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I was gonna say, you know whose job

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I went in. I don't envy right now as the

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person has to pick the nl picture of the money.

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But then as I as I say that, I realized that, like,

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if that was your job, I mean, talk about a

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cushy job. What else you do for the living man?

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All you do is choose who's the best picture of

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That sounds amazing. I want that job, and I would probably,

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you know, as crazy as it is, because Sanchez didn't

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give up one earned run. I think I gotta go

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Mezzeroski for the best picture of May, which is nuts

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because Sanchez had like the best uh. I think he

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had the most inning scoreless in a month. Since like

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the oral hersheis are a crazy year and like, hey,

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both of these guys, you know, the really insane thing

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is like both of these guys had like years where

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it was like basic, I mean, excuse me. They had

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months where it was like no one had seen a

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month like this in like fifteen years, and they both

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had an exact similar month in the same month this year.

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Like it's kind of crazy because, like, you know, we

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hadn't seen anything like this since Cliff Lee and I

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believe it was twenty eleven, and then before that it

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was like Oral, and then before that it was Fernando

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and then it's like that's it, Like those are the

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biggest months of all time, and Mezzerowski and Sanchez both

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do it in the month of May in twenty twenty six,

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So it's really I mean, it's actually kind of crazy.

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If I if I worked for Alia Sports Bureau right now,

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my head would be exploding. I'd be like, wow, I

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got to come up with some stats here, I you know,

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for the rest of the year. I think it's an

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actually kind of an easy call. I'm going Sanchez easily because,

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like you know, like you mentioned just the innings alone.

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I mean, I don't you know, Meserawski as much as

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I love him, and I think, you know, because of

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the month he just did, and we saw and seeing like,

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you know, a couple of weeks of this insanety before

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the All Star Game last year, after he was called up,

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like he's capable of He's capable of this, obviously, but

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we also saw, you know, after the All Star break

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with him last year, you know, he lost his control

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a little bit. Like he is a tall guy. He

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throws really fast. The ball is like, you know, it's

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a he can get out of swords a little bit

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and get a little wild. So I mean, obviously I'm

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not giving him away for free. I'm not, you know,

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I think he's incredible. I would be you know, if anything,

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I'd be probably trying to Uh it's not like you

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can trade for him right now, but I would, you know,

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I would be buying versus selling, if anything. But I

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do think Sanchez is just so refined that I want

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Sanchez over Meserawski for rest of the season. But you know,

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they are close. I mean, I'm not going to say

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it's the easiest of calls.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's totally fair. Well, I mean, if

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we're speaking about hot Maze, which we'll get into a

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few more hot and cold players. After we get through

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some of our call ups here, it's time to talk

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to Chicago White Sox. My friend, they've been eighteen and

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ten in May. They're responsible for the three main callps

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that we have coming here. So unfortunately we want to

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talk of Murakami went down with a hamstring injury in

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terms of, you know, he came up against the greatest

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mortal foe that the Chicago White Sox have ever seen,

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which is running down the first baseline. I mean, just

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as he let him in as Juan Mancatta, Louis Robert Junior.

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It's not an easy thing to do. Murakami also fell

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victim to that should be out four to six weeks

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with a Grade two hamstring strain. Coming up for him

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is Jacob Gonzalez, who at TRIPAA was hitting three, seventeen, four, nineteen, six,

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sixty eight before the call up, a one sixty eight

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WRC plus nineteen homers and eighteen stolen bases in fifty

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two games. I will say that that parkin Charlotte does

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play generous for bats, but he was a solid left

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handed bat. Fifteenth overall pick back in twenty twenty three

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out of Mississippi for the White Sox. So he does

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have some pedigree, but it's always been more of a

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glove first profile interest in Jacob Gonzalez, who should have

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a strong side play tune roll according to Roster Resource,

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while more comedy is shelfed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, definitely, I you know, the the more

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comedy thing, not to not to add more fuel to

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the absolute killer that the Murcammi injury is, because I

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actually he was like the one guy who I had

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right in a lot of leagues, Like more comedy is

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one the one guy I haven't like multiple leagues that

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is really killing it. And uh now I'm concerned that

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more comedy is gonna return be a little bit rusty

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and the strakeouds are gonna balloon and ah man, I'm

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like I'm bumming myself out, just like man oh man,

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the worst, I mean absolute worst injury that could happen.

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And I've heard it's what it's multi week too.

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Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's a great two.

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Speaker 1: Oh god, that's like a month at least. Man, Oh,

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that's so brutal. Okay, So Jacob Gonzalez, Yeah, I mean

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his he looks like he's got like video game numbers

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of like nineteen homers in fifty games. It's like it's

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kind of insane. And you know, I mean decent contact,

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looks like solid play, discipline with the walks. He actually

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threw in speed. But I don't know, man, I mean,

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he is really coming out of nowhere. He's like, you know,

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a prospect that no one really considered much of. And

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then you know, even I think it was like I

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looked up to see what Itch said on ros Bull

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about Jacob Gonzales and there was very little. And you know,

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Itch usually writes about every player that's worthwhile, so you know,

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there's just the alarm bells of a guy who has

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very little of a write up. I'm like, oh, man, this,

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I don't know. I don't know if there's a great sign.

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So I mean, I could see grabbing him in like

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a fifteen team mix league or deeper, just on the

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off chance that he comes up and he is hot

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and he stays hot because he is I mean, he

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is legitimately hot coming out of the minor leagues. So

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I don't know, grab him, see what happens. He does

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have power and speed. If the minor league numbers are

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to be believed, so I could see grabbing him and

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see what happens. But I don't have a ton of

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faith here in like him continuing this breakout, like in

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a twelve team mix league, like in RCL. I didn't

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even I didn't even look to see if he was available.

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I mean, I you know, I mean, maybe maybe I

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would pick him up if he started hitting, But I

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feel like in a twelve team mix league, it's probably

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a little bit too shallow for him. But yeah, I

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mean it depends on how much you need a middle infielder. Maybe,

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like I could see the flyer, I like, don't get

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me wrong, but I just don't have a ton of

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faith in them.

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Speaker 2: Yep. I think that's fair. And the one thing that

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will be trippy about him is he's going to be

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shortstop eligible when he's coming up, but he's going to

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play a lot of first base for the White Sox,

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so he should pick up first base shortstop eligibility within

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a week or two.

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Speaker 1: Uh so something he think he is Ezekiel Duran exactly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very very strange combination. So the White Sox also

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called up David Sandalin, who they acquired in the twenty

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twenty five or no, just past offseason. Yeah, for uh.

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In the Jordan Hicks trade is where David Sandlin showed

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up and he came out of TRIPAA was looking pretty

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good there. Over twelve innings a point seventy five ERA,

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a two four four FIP with a twelve and a

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half K nine looked really good. In his opening debut

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against the Twins, featured a four pitch mix anchored by

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a ninety seven point seven mile per hour fastball, which

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is bread and butter and for the time being, has

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some good run in that White Sox rotation. Because no

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Schultz went down with another knee injury. There's some tendinitis

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and I think it's Pateller tendon. And so as long

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as Schultz is out, which I think they'll also baby

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Schultz in Chicago because they don't want to wreck one

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of their kind of big prized prospects, Sandlin should get

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some pretty good runs. So what's your interest level in Sandlin? Nah?

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Speaker 1: I didn't really have a ton of interest in Noah Schultz,

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to be honest, because I mean I did when he

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first got called up, but as we started to see him,

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like you know, he obviously a lot of growing pains

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there Sandlan. I don't know. I mean maybe, but the

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command could be you know, like if the command is wonky,

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it's like you're you're asking for trouble. And Sandlin's command

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has been a bit wonky as he's moved up the

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as he's moved up the minor league. So I don't know.

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As a streamer, I guess in like a fifteen team

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mix league or deeper. Sure, I don't know. I don't

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even know if I'm streaming him necessarily in a twelve

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team mix, but you know, it depends on the matchup.

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I guess possibly he did look he looked decent in

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his first start, better than actually better than I was expecting,

467
00:28:22,279 --> 00:28:24,720
you know, to be honest, But I don't know. I'm

468
00:28:25,279 --> 00:28:28,160
I don't really have a strong feel on whether or not,

469
00:28:28,599 --> 00:28:32,799
like he is very good other than his numbers on

470
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,039
the page, Like I haven't really seen have you seen

471
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,720
him like I have, Like I mean, his velocity looks

472
00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:41,079
like he throws like ninety eight, Like he looks like, yeah,

473
00:28:41,079 --> 00:28:43,440
it looks like he's like it looks like he can

474
00:28:43,559 --> 00:28:47,640
throw hard. But other than the fastball, nothing else is

475
00:28:47,799 --> 00:28:52,599
really looking great. I mean, it's like and it's you know,

476
00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:54,960
I mean, the White Sox are decent this year, so

477
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:57,000
I'm not gonna just be like just because he's a

478
00:28:57,039 --> 00:29:01,279
White Sox pitcher that means I'm out, because, like, you know,

479
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:05,559
Davis Martin looks amazing and Sean Burke looks solid. But yeah,

480
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,440
I don't know, I'm not really into the sandline. Possibly

481
00:29:09,519 --> 00:29:11,160
as a streamer, I don't know, do you have do

482
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,279
you have a better feel on him?

483
00:29:13,079 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 2: I think it's a solid arm. It's gonna be a

484
00:29:15,480 --> 00:29:17,559
It's a tough start. He gets a two start this week,

485
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,279
but it's at Minnesota at Philadelphia, which is two hitter sparks,

486
00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,559
so that scares me. And then I think he would

487
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:28,880
then next go maybe in the Atlantis series. So it's

488
00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:32,279
a tough kind of introduction where that first start against

489
00:29:32,279 --> 00:29:36,000
the Twins was probably the one to stream, but probably

490
00:29:36,079 --> 00:29:38,559
more of a bullpen arm honestly going forward that we

491
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,839
could see him move into some sort of high leverage

492
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:45,039
spot for the White Sox. Certainly an ale only play

493
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:48,519
you have to partly, but fifteen teamer, I don't think

494
00:29:48,559 --> 00:29:52,079
I'm streaming yet, but maybe we'll see where the starts

495
00:29:52,119 --> 00:29:56,480
settle going forward after this week. All right, the White

496
00:29:56,519 --> 00:29:59,880
Sox also called up Riku Nishiga because I just brought

497
00:29:59,880 --> 00:30:02,720
the because I don't think there's too much fancy value here.

498
00:30:03,079 --> 00:30:07,839
It's a it's a right field utility in utility infielder

499
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,519
possibly where. This dude's just a blast to watch. I

500
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:14,400
don't know, did you see Nashida play yet? That He's

501
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,400
five foot six one point fifty with a cannon arm.

502
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:21,519
Just a lot of fun to be able to see

503
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:25,079
him play, lots of enthusiasm. I mean, he did pick

504
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,920
up fifteen stolen bases in forty four games before getting

505
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,960
called up with a one twenty nine WRC plus across

506
00:30:31,079 --> 00:30:34,240
two levels, So maybe an ale only play. But anything

507
00:30:34,359 --> 00:30:37,440
deeper or shallower than that that you might be looking

508
00:30:37,519 --> 00:30:39,519
to pick up Nashida if you're desperate for speed.

509
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,519
Speaker 1: No, I don't think so, but I he is. I

510
00:30:43,599 --> 00:30:46,039
mean I saw him for a guy at home plate.

511
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,279
I saw that highlight and I, uh, yeah, I've seen

512
00:30:50,359 --> 00:30:54,440
him bad a couple of times. He looks like he

513
00:30:54,559 --> 00:30:57,960
looks like a you know, a slap and run kind

514
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:03,119
of guy, which is fine, you know, I think for speed, Like,

515
00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:06,079
if you're really desperate for steals, I could see a

516
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:09,240
flyer on him for like a fifteen team mix league

517
00:31:09,359 --> 00:31:13,880
for you know, steals, but it's gonna be a daily

518
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,720
league because otherwise, I mean, he's gonna be in a platoon.

519
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:22,599
So I don't think he's as valuable as like even

520
00:31:22,759 --> 00:31:25,759
Jacob Gonzalez, who I was like, you know ify on,

521
00:31:26,039 --> 00:31:29,839
so I you know, totally different skill sets. Obviously Nashida

522
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:34,160
is a steals guy. In Gonzalez, well we were to

523
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,160
talk about Gonzalez, but yeah, so Nashida's like straight steals,

524
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,319
which is fine if you have a need for that,

525
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:43,400
but in a fifteen team mix league, I was saying,

526
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:46,000
you know, daily, because like, I don't think he's gonna

527
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:49,200
be worthwhile enough to just set him in your lineup

528
00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:51,720
in a weekly league. Like I don't think at the

529
00:31:51,799 --> 00:31:53,799
end of the week you're gonna be happy with what

530
00:31:54,039 --> 00:31:58,200
you get from Nashida for fantasy for like you know,

531
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,720
maybe you get like one run, two steals, and like

532
00:32:03,519 --> 00:32:06,400
three hits or something like maybe. I mean that sounds

533
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,000
like a good week. So it's like, that's that's hard

534
00:32:09,119 --> 00:32:11,200
the roster in a weekly league. If you're in a

535
00:32:11,279 --> 00:32:13,759
daily league and you need steals, you throw him in.

536
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,319
If he gets the steal, great, If he doesn't, you

537
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:18,079
pull him out of the lineup and you put someone

538
00:32:18,119 --> 00:32:20,559
else in there, Like there's more room in the maneuver

539
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,799
with daily but with a weekly Yeah, don't. I don't

540
00:32:24,839 --> 00:32:26,680
see going crazy for Nishida.

541
00:32:27,079 --> 00:32:28,759
Speaker 2: Okay, I think that's fair. I think he's on the

542
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:32,559
all watch list in terms of actual viewing baseball, but

543
00:32:32,960 --> 00:32:35,880
maybe not for our fantasy realm. Next call up we

544
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,960
had is in Sacramento, where the A's brought up one

545
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,680
of their top arms, Gates Jump, who was picked in

546
00:32:41,759 --> 00:32:45,599
twenty twenty four out of LSU. Great, big fastball and

547
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,039
a nasty slider, a little bit of a location and

548
00:32:49,599 --> 00:32:52,359
control issues you know in triple A before the call up,

549
00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:55,519
a four fifty ERA across thirty eight innings with a

550
00:32:55,559 --> 00:32:58,640
four to twenty seven FIP came with a thirty three

551
00:32:58,759 --> 00:33:01,799
point one percent rate, but also an eleven zero point

552
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:06,039
eight percent walk rate. The debut at home against the

553
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:09,920
Mariners was okay. I would say four earned over five innings,

554
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,279
but did get you five strikeouts. So is Gage Jump

555
00:33:13,359 --> 00:33:16,799
someone you might be targeting this weekend in fab dollars

556
00:33:17,319 --> 00:33:19,559
with your fab dollars if you need some strikeouts.

557
00:33:22,119 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I'm desperate, But guess you have check clarity. Yeah,

558
00:33:26,799 --> 00:33:33,200
because I'm Jack Flaherty. But you know, not not without

559
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:37,599
a little arm twisting. I think. I mean, you summed

560
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:39,799
up sort of the best and the worst of them

561
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:42,920
basically right there. When you recat his numbers, I think

562
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:47,400
there's like some real serious strikeout potential, but also there's

563
00:33:47,519 --> 00:33:50,039
really gonna be there. There could be blow ups in

564
00:33:50,559 --> 00:33:54,319
bing bong and also with the walks. So you have

565
00:33:54,559 --> 00:33:57,599
walks and a hitter at one of the best hitters

566
00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:01,720
parks in baseball, and walks lead to a disaster. So

567
00:34:02,039 --> 00:34:04,880
I would be careful. I would start him probably on

568
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:09,159
the road, and you know, I like the strikeouts, so

569
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:13,199
you know, potentially he could you know, he might have

570
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,119
a run or two with some away starts, But I

571
00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,800
would be pretty hard pressed to start him at home,

572
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,119
I think. But I mean, yeah, I mean, you never know,

573
00:34:24,519 --> 00:34:29,000
like with strikeouts, he might be able to overcome bang bong,

574
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:31,920
But I'm not one hundred percent confident in that.

575
00:34:32,599 --> 00:34:34,360
Speaker 2: Yep, I think I'm right there with you. I mean,

576
00:34:34,599 --> 00:34:36,280
I'm jumping the gun a little bit. But when we

577
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:39,079
get to our pickups at the end of the pod.

578
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,679
Gauge Jump is actually one of my suggestions because it

579
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,360
is two road starts. It's not the easiest. It's against

580
00:34:45,679 --> 00:34:48,920
at the Cubs and at the Astros, But I mean,

581
00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:51,480
I think if you're looking for somebody who could pop

582
00:34:51,559 --> 00:34:54,280
twenty k's in a week, Gauge Jump is probably one

583
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:56,280
of the names to look at this upcoming week.

584
00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:01,559
Speaker 1: Last I have in our our league, not that I'm

585
00:35:01,599 --> 00:35:04,599
doing good in that league either, but in our RCL league,

586
00:35:04,679 --> 00:35:09,559
I actually have Gagee Jump for his for his road starts,

587
00:35:09,639 --> 00:35:12,679
so we'll see. I mean, that's also a daily league though,

588
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,440
so if he's had in the if he's banned his

589
00:35:15,599 --> 00:35:18,920
first road start, I might just move on before he

590
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,239
gets to the second one. But yeah, I mean road starts.

591
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:24,599
I'm I'm I'm interested in seeing the road start, so

592
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:25,360
we'll say.

593
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's totally fair. Okay. Last call up

594
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,280
we have is in Los Angeles with the Dodgers, where

595
00:35:31,679 --> 00:35:34,239
Ryan Ward is finally getting his chance with the big

596
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,639
league club coming up as ta Oscar Hernandez also going

597
00:35:37,679 --> 00:35:41,039
down with a hamstring injury. Key k Hernandez also went down,

598
00:35:41,039 --> 00:35:44,400
which is bringing up Alex Freeland. Ward and Freeland both

599
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:48,719
homered this afternoon for the Dodgers. So Ward is twenty eight.

600
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:53,480
Was crazy last year at twenty twenty five at Triple

601
00:35:53,599 --> 00:35:57,159
A thirty six homers, sixteen storm bases, two ninety three

602
00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:01,280
eighty five fifty seven slash line one two WRC plus.

603
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,800
Never got the call up. Wasn't dealt at the deadline either.

604
00:36:05,480 --> 00:36:07,760
Was a little bit more muted at Triple A this

605
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,960
year before the call up, with six homers and six

606
00:36:10,079 --> 00:36:13,000
dolen bases in forty seven games with a two fifty

607
00:36:13,079 --> 00:36:18,239
four three seventy nine four eighteen slash line. Currently looks

608
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,079
like he's going to be a bench piece right now

609
00:36:20,119 --> 00:36:22,719
for the Dodgers. But it's a pretty solid bat. So

610
00:36:23,039 --> 00:36:26,159
any interest here in Ryan Ward for the Dodgers.

611
00:36:27,119 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: Almost zero interest. They go, he saw the I mean

612
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,000
I saw the home run today on Sunday, and I mean,

613
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:37,960
h he looked good. I mean everyone looks good on

614
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:40,199
a home run, really, but I mean, you know, he

615
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:42,960
looked good. I you know, I have real Uh you know,

616
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,440
I've said I think I've said this before many times.

617
00:36:46,039 --> 00:36:49,079
I've said this many times before with like guys in

618
00:36:49,199 --> 00:36:51,639
the minor leagues. If you have a guy who's like

619
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,360
you know, have a guy who has like thirty six homers,

620
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:58,199
sixteen steals and hits two ninety and he's twenty seven.

621
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,639
All that really tells me is like he's either he's

622
00:37:01,679 --> 00:37:04,760
a quad a player and the team is like, you know,

623
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,239
I mean, he's good, but he's good for the minor leagues.

624
00:37:08,719 --> 00:37:12,519
I don't know, Like that doesn't Usually it doesn't bode

625
00:37:12,599 --> 00:37:14,960
well when a guy is that good in the minor

626
00:37:15,079 --> 00:37:17,639
leagues because like, if a guy is good in the

627
00:37:17,719 --> 00:37:21,280
minor leagues, he's good for like a month or two

628
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,679
and then he gets called up. He doesn't stay in

629
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:28,119
the minor leagues for five years hitting thirty five homers

630
00:37:28,199 --> 00:37:32,320
every year, Like there's like there's a problem usually when

631
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:35,639
that when that is uh, when that's in the guy's profile. So,

632
00:37:36,559 --> 00:37:38,880
I mean, I don't know. We'll see what We'll see

633
00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,480
how much playing time he gets. I'm interested in an

634
00:37:41,639 --> 00:37:44,760
NL only, but in an NL only, you know, everyone

635
00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:48,239
in the NL is interesting. So I don't know, we'll

636
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:50,719
see if you know, if he gets hot, if he

637
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,760
comes up and he's like he gets playing time and

638
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:56,679
he hits a few homers, I mean I would be

639
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,280
fine picking him up in any league if he if

640
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,280
he's hot, but as of right now, I don't know.

641
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:06,159
I think we'll see, We'll see how far this goes.

642
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,159
I have major question marks though.

643
00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I also just bring it up because first,

644
00:38:11,679 --> 00:38:14,039
especially and only is like I think he will be

645
00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:17,280
a hot commodity pick up because it's a good week

646
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,840
for Dodgers hitters. Seven games coming up, four of them

647
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,719
at Arizona and then three at home against the Angels,

648
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:26,920
So that's a it could be a bonanza offensively, and

649
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:28,880
if Ryan Ward gets into a couple of those games,

650
00:38:29,159 --> 00:38:31,840
you don't know what you might get in in l only.

651
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,400
But something to watch for daily leagues too, I think,

652
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:38,480
especially those RcLs are out there. Or I mean, we've

653
00:38:38,519 --> 00:38:41,480
also got RAS Slam bidding coming up for our last

654
00:38:42,119 --> 00:38:45,079
final fab run of RAS Slam leagues out there, so

655
00:38:45,559 --> 00:38:48,079
get that word out there as I've been trying to

656
00:38:48,199 --> 00:38:51,000
toy all day with what the levels of the last

657
00:38:51,039 --> 00:38:54,000
bids can be. So something to keep in mind. Let's

658
00:38:54,039 --> 00:38:55,960
get back into some of those hot and cold players

659
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,480
that we've got throughout May in terms of the player

660
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:00,679
raider and what we've seen over the last couple weeks.

661
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,360
Because this first guy, he won't show up really great

662
00:39:03,440 --> 00:39:06,880
in the May Player Raider, but he only entered the

663
00:39:07,159 --> 00:39:11,360
rotation on May eighth and was getting stretched out from

664
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,800
his bullpen roll. I'm talking about Cubs pitcher Ben Brown.

665
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:17,840
He's been incredible over his five starts since entering the

666
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:21,480
rotation one seventy three ERA one seventy six to fIF

667
00:39:22,159 --> 00:39:24,320
a ten k per nine with just two and a

668
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:27,880
half walks per nine over twenty six innings. Has only

669
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,440
picked up one win for you, But it started with

670
00:39:30,519 --> 00:39:33,039
a couple of four innings starts and now he's regularly

671
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:36,840
going six seven innings. So what have you seen in

672
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,119
Ben Brown over these last five starts that gives you

673
00:39:39,199 --> 00:39:40,000
hope for the rest of the year.

674
00:39:42,159 --> 00:39:45,320
Speaker 1: So, I, you know, I I'm obviously I'm a bit

675
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,559
of you know, I have to look up guys stats.

676
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:52,119
I don't have a photographic memory when it comes to

677
00:39:52,199 --> 00:39:55,760
every single player. So I hit the I hit then

678
00:39:56,400 --> 00:40:01,159
I hit show minor league numbers for Ben Brown, and wow,

679
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,800
he's been in the minor leagues a long time. Wow,

680
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:10,079
I did not remember that. Okay, he's been in the

681
00:40:10,159 --> 00:40:14,760
minor leagues for like ten years. Oh my god. So

682
00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:19,800
and he's still only twenty six. Yeah, but you know,

683
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,639
I mean, okay, so what I've seen so far, I think,

684
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,960
you know, I think he's worthwhile in every league. His

685
00:40:26,119 --> 00:40:30,079
velocity is up. Uh, he's started throwing his uh I

686
00:40:30,199 --> 00:40:32,760
believe it's a sinker. He's throwing his sinker a lot

687
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,239
more like up to twenty percent on the sinker when

688
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,480
he didn't really throw it at all. And you know,

689
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,519
all his pitches are suddenly like he's found he's found

690
00:40:43,599 --> 00:40:46,320
a pitch mix that is working for him. Like his uh,

691
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,679
his walks have never really well, I mean, at least

692
00:40:50,199 --> 00:40:53,639
not in recent times. His walks haven't been terrible. So

693
00:40:54,039 --> 00:40:56,079
you know, at the uh, at the point where he

694
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,760
is right now, I think the Cubs are seeing. You know,

695
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:03,079
what everyone else should be seeing is like this guys

696
00:41:03,320 --> 00:41:07,000
seems to be emerging from like as someone who we

697
00:41:07,119 --> 00:41:12,039
thought was like a just okay middle reliever to potentially

698
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,920
like here is what we we drafted or excuse me,

699
00:41:16,119 --> 00:41:20,760
traded for you know, five six years ago now, and

700
00:41:21,119 --> 00:41:23,239
we saw in the minor leagues when he was there

701
00:41:23,719 --> 00:41:25,840
in the minor leagues, like you know, three or four

702
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,000
years ago. It's finally, it finally seems like it's clicking

703
00:41:29,119 --> 00:41:32,679
for him, So I would I would grab Bet Brown

704
00:41:32,880 --> 00:41:36,239
if he's available, I would grab him. I would also

705
00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:39,280
I would trade for him. I think he's, you know,

706
00:41:39,519 --> 00:41:42,440
possibly breaking out, and you want to be on the

707
00:41:42,559 --> 00:41:44,920
forefront of the guy if he's breaking out. You want

708
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,559
to be there before he actually does completely break out.

709
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:54,000
So you know, it's like his numbers, potentially his EARRA

710
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,320
because it's so low, one ninety two. I mean, it

711
00:41:57,440 --> 00:42:01,639
might make it impossible to trade because his owner is

712
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,800
probably being like, yeah, he's a some two year a.

713
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,519
Of course he's good, but he's actually I mean I

714
00:42:07,559 --> 00:42:10,880
wouldn't say he's that good, but he is. Actually he

715
00:42:11,039 --> 00:42:15,400
looks like a number two to three at worse. And

716
00:42:15,639 --> 00:42:17,639
I you know, a month ago, I would have been like,

717
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,400
he's a middle reliever who I don't really care about. So,

718
00:42:21,679 --> 00:42:23,480
you know, going from a middle reliever who I don't

719
00:42:23,519 --> 00:42:26,079
care about too like a number two or three, that's

720
00:42:26,119 --> 00:42:28,599
a huge jump. So yeah, Ben Brown looks great.

721
00:42:29,119 --> 00:42:31,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it totally stunk up on all of us because

722
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:33,840
when I was doing my like depth chart updates for

723
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:38,360
Baseball Perspectus on the Cubs that like Ben Brown I

724
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:40,480
had written off because he looked like he was slated

725
00:42:40,519 --> 00:42:43,679
for middle relief. They were putting him in high leverage situations,

726
00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:46,440
but once they had a couple of injuries, he slotted

727
00:42:46,519 --> 00:42:49,679
in right to that rotation where honestly, he might still

728
00:42:49,719 --> 00:42:52,639
be available in some shallower leagues. There was one ten

729
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:54,519
team league that I have where he didn't get picked

730
00:42:54,559 --> 00:42:57,519
up till Friday, and so like if you are in

731
00:42:57,599 --> 00:43:00,679
a super shower league, I think Ben Brown is worthy

732
00:43:01,119 --> 00:43:04,599
of being rostered in every league at this point. If

733
00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:07,199
there is a buying window, now is the time, that's

734
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,199
for sure. The other guy who's looked amazing, also pretty young,

735
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:14,559
is Rokie Sasaki, who in May I never thought I'd

736
00:43:14,599 --> 00:43:16,760
be saying this, but it was a great May twenty

737
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,400
eight and a third innings for him with a three

738
00:43:18,519 --> 00:43:22,400
eighteen er and a one whip, a strikeout rate of

739
00:43:22,519 --> 00:43:25,440
twenty four point six percent. But here's the big number

740
00:43:25,599 --> 00:43:28,440
that's really helped Roki Sasaki. In May, the walk rate

741
00:43:28,559 --> 00:43:31,599
has been five point three percent. He's actually been able

742
00:43:31,679 --> 00:43:35,840
to keep his command on the pitches, where before, I

743
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,480
mean he was non competitive for the first month of

744
00:43:39,519 --> 00:43:41,599
the season. The walk rate in the first month the

745
00:43:41,639 --> 00:43:44,480
season was twelve percent. That was never going to play

746
00:43:44,559 --> 00:43:47,800
as a starter. So, uh, this is a guy who

747
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:51,960
obviously people have known the hype story coming out of Japan.

748
00:43:52,119 --> 00:43:55,159
They were really big into him last year and then

749
00:43:55,519 --> 00:43:58,079
a little bit even into the preseason when it looked

750
00:43:58,079 --> 00:44:01,239
like he might be the closer you know, early offseason

751
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,440
for a sickos drafting and holding back in like November

752
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,960
and December. What are you thinking about rookie Sasaki the

753
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,599
rest of the year, Because I think there is a

754
00:44:09,639 --> 00:44:11,840
little bit more of a buying window here because the

755
00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:15,960
overall stat line looks a lot worse than Ben Brown

756
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:20,280
because of that poor April. And if your owner of

757
00:44:20,480 --> 00:44:24,679
rookie Sasaki in your league still remembers the control issues,

758
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:26,880
they might not be fully aware of how good he

759
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,800
truly has been over the last month, right.

760
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:32,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, no completely. I actually, I you know, I actually

761
00:44:32,199 --> 00:44:33,840
even look to see if I could pick him up

762
00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:36,280
in our RCL league to see if he was available,

763
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:39,320
because like you know, he was so bad for April

764
00:44:39,519 --> 00:44:42,880
and and so so bad that I think he was

765
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,840
probably available on waivers in most leagues after that April.

766
00:44:47,239 --> 00:44:50,159
So it just is, it depends on when someone's picked

767
00:44:50,199 --> 00:44:52,519
him up in May, if they've actually picked him up.

768
00:44:52,679 --> 00:44:55,360
But if they have, then you know, good for them,

769
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,440
because I you know, I think you you brought up

770
00:44:58,519 --> 00:45:00,840
the uh you know, the five percent walk, right, you know,

771
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:04,880
if the guy is like if he's walking under two

772
00:45:05,119 --> 00:45:08,719
per nine, there's like I mean, you know, then that's

773
00:45:08,800 --> 00:45:10,880
and that's what he did in May, Like that's a

774
00:45:11,079 --> 00:45:15,159
legitimate change to what is the what the problem was before,

775
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:19,440
because like the k's are not gonna be like incredibly elite.

776
00:45:19,679 --> 00:45:23,039
He's gonna probably be around like a nine or a

777
00:45:23,199 --> 00:45:27,000
twenty uh you know, twenty twenty two percent K rate?

778
00:45:27,280 --> 00:45:30,840
Uh nine ish? Maybe under nine, like eight and a half,

779
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:34,119
I excuse you, like eight point seven maybe. But if

780
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:39,119
his if his walks are terrible, then he's unusable because

781
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:43,360
like you can't have that strikeout rate with those walks

782
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:46,159
if they're bad. But if he has fixed his command,

783
00:45:46,800 --> 00:45:50,679
and you know, like coming into the States, he was

784
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,840
always considered a good command guy. So there was like

785
00:45:54,039 --> 00:45:56,960
it was a little mind boggling why his command had

786
00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:59,719
gone so bad. But maybe, you know, I think some

787
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:02,239
people will speculate it was the ball size. I don't

788
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:06,639
know why, but he's he seems like he's fixed the issue.

789
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:11,320
And if the issue of command is fixed, then Rokie's fixed,

790
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,559
you know, as far as that goes. I mean, I

791
00:46:13,599 --> 00:46:16,079
don't I don't think he's suddenly going to be an ace,

792
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,000
but he's a usable starter for like, you know, any

793
00:46:20,159 --> 00:46:22,880
league in the twelve team mixed league. I would say

794
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,039
he looks like, you know, at a number four starter,

795
00:46:26,239 --> 00:46:29,159
which is, you know, own a ble roster ball, like

796
00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:31,440
you got it, Like I wouldn't I went out a

797
00:46:31,519 --> 00:46:36,719
problem rostering Rokie Hockey right now, and I've never said

798
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,800
that before. I will say though, I mean I wouldn't

799
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,440
be surprised if you know, at the trade deadline, so

800
00:46:44,559 --> 00:46:46,360
you you you may only get like what is it,

801
00:46:46,519 --> 00:46:50,159
June now, June July? You may only get two months,

802
00:46:50,360 --> 00:46:52,360
which is fine. I mean, you know, if you if

803
00:46:52,400 --> 00:46:54,760
you can get two months for free, why not take it.

804
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:58,159
But I mean, at some point, I think the Dodgers

805
00:46:58,199 --> 00:47:01,400
are going to trade for a starter and Sazaki is

806
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:03,840
gonna move to the pen, because I mean, I don't

807
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:07,840
see why they wouldn't have Sazaki in the pen heading

808
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:10,920
into the playoffs like they did last year, because you know,

809
00:47:11,119 --> 00:47:13,360
I think at a certain point they have to start

810
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:15,719
setting up their rotation for the playoffs. I don't know

811
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:19,480
when that point will be, but I would assume Suzaki

812
00:47:19,639 --> 00:47:22,400
is not gonna be in the rotation for the entire year.

813
00:47:22,599 --> 00:47:24,519
At some point, I think he's probably gonna move to

814
00:47:24,559 --> 00:47:27,519
the pen. So you know, we'll see about and all that.

815
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,400
That's you know, that's down the road for now, though.

816
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,800
I mean, Suzaki looks solid. I don't think he looks

817
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,079
as good as Ben Brown, but he looks good.

818
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I totally agree, and I think he

819
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,280
can be added everywhere as well. And the other thing too,

820
00:47:41,400 --> 00:47:44,760
is I mean two months is so far away when

821
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:47,760
you're talking pitchers in baseball that you know, two months

822
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,960
from now, when Susaki is in the Dodgers are getting

823
00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,840
towards the trade deadline, you know, maybe somebody else in

824
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,519
that rotation goes down with an injury and Sasaki stays

825
00:47:56,559 --> 00:48:00,440
in there. So certainly get in there now. Okay, let's

826
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,719
talk about some hitters that have been hot throughout May,

827
00:48:02,880 --> 00:48:08,760
because let's start in cornering field, because I don't know

828
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:10,719
what's going down at the corner store. I don't know

829
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:13,079
if somebody went in and snapped and swapped out all

830
00:48:13,199 --> 00:48:16,119
the snacks and replaced them the regular brownies with the

831
00:48:16,199 --> 00:48:20,199
wacky brownies, and nobody noticed this season because the corners

832
00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:23,719
have been bananas. If you look at the year to

833
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,800
date player Raider, of course, just like we all predicted,

834
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,440
Ben Rice is the number one first baseman. You look

835
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:32,320
in the past thirty days for the number first basin,

836
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:37,599
it's Casey Schmidt of the San Francisco Giants, who played

837
00:48:37,679 --> 00:48:40,880
such poor first base that Matt Chapman chewed him out

838
00:48:41,039 --> 00:48:43,360
for not raising his glove high enough when Matt Chapman

839
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:44,199
was throwing over there.

840
00:48:44,639 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 1: Actually, you know what, that's actually a good point. Schmid

841
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,480
should every time Chapman grounds out to third base, Schmid

842
00:48:51,519 --> 00:48:55,239
should be like, oh, man, I don't know, I don't know, man,

843
00:48:55,679 --> 00:48:59,639
you should be hitting the ball better. Yeah.

844
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 2: And then we got Liam Hicks up there in the

845
00:49:02,079 --> 00:49:05,039
top six for the season long. If you're in the

846
00:49:05,159 --> 00:49:08,159
month of May of the past thirty days, your top

847
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:12,400
ten also contains Spencer Steer. Ezekiel Duran is in there.

848
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:16,480
Munataka Murakami has obviously been king of first base this season.

849
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:20,400
On the third base side, it's even stranger. We've got

850
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:24,719
a season long player Raider that again includes Casey Schmidt

851
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,400
as the fifth overall third baseman, just like we all predicted.

852
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:32,559
We've got McGonagall up there obviously, but Colson Montgomery is

853
00:49:32,679 --> 00:49:36,000
up there. Max Munsey with his eyesight fixed, is up there,

854
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:40,000
old man. Noan Arnado is in the top twelve. Currently

855
00:49:40,079 --> 00:49:42,679
if you're looking just the past month, Casey Schmidt again

856
00:49:42,800 --> 00:49:45,559
is the number one, Zach Gelloff is up in the

857
00:49:45,639 --> 00:49:49,519
top five, Ernie Clement is sixth. What is going on

858
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:53,000
with corners this year? Because I mean, sure we still

859
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:55,559
have some stalwarts up there, like your Jose Ramirez and

860
00:49:55,639 --> 00:49:59,599
your junior Kmenaro and Bryce Harper and Nick Kurtz. Although

861
00:50:00,079 --> 00:50:02,320
especially if you're not in an opp league, maybe Nick

862
00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,159
Kurtz isn't holding up to what he was doing and

863
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:08,519
promised for you at first base. So what has been

864
00:50:08,599 --> 00:50:11,639
happening at corner infield all season in twenty twenty six?

865
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,000
Can you explain it? Great?

866
00:50:13,519 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: No, No, I can't. It's just so bizarre, Like you

867
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:21,440
look at the first baseman for the year and it's

868
00:50:21,639 --> 00:50:25,400
like it it looks like it's just from outer space.

869
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,639
None of it makes any sense at all. I mean,

870
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,239
it's good that Nick Kurtz has finally gotten hot. He

871
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,480
had a good May. He came in third for first

872
00:50:37,559 --> 00:50:40,599
basement in May, so he's actually he picked up things

873
00:50:40,599 --> 00:50:43,400
a little bit in May. For a while he was struggling.

874
00:50:43,599 --> 00:50:46,599
So he's finally moved into He's now seventh on the

875
00:50:46,639 --> 00:50:49,840
player Raider for first baseman on the year, So that's

876
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,719
good to see. But other than him, I look at

877
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,840
that first baseman, I'm like, what is what is this? Dude?

878
00:51:00,159 --> 00:51:03,320
I mean, I had hopes for south Stewart, Like, don't

879
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,480
get me wrong, but I didn't expect this. I didn't

880
00:51:07,639 --> 00:51:10,360
I didn't expect him to be this good and uh,

881
00:51:10,400 --> 00:51:12,440
and he's actually he's fallen off of it in May.

882
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,719
He was much better in April. But Ben Rice as

883
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,920
the number one first baseman, Like I was, like, I

884
00:51:21,119 --> 00:51:24,599
was pretty iffy on the Ben Rice play in drafts

885
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,519
when you were when people were drafting him as a catcher.

886
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:31,000
And here he is as the number one first baseman.

887
00:51:31,519 --> 00:51:35,440
And it's not particularly close either. Like it's like he's

888
00:51:36,079 --> 00:51:40,079
by far the number one first baseman. He's actually he's

889
00:51:40,159 --> 00:51:43,320
on the top of the player raider in general. He's

890
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,639
he's the number one guy overall. That might change by

891
00:51:47,679 --> 00:51:49,960
the time people listen to this because James Wood hit

892
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:53,000
a home run, so James Wood might move to the top.

893
00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,840
But yeah, Ben Rice, I mean god, I really, honestly

894
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:00,800
I thought Ben Rice was gonna be He's me struggle.

895
00:52:01,119 --> 00:52:03,559
He was a struggle hit lefties, Like I was kind

896
00:52:03,599 --> 00:52:06,599
of convinced that he wasn't gonna and if he didn't

897
00:52:06,599 --> 00:52:08,840
struggle to hit him, I didn't. I didn't. I wasn't

898
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:10,960
sure Boone was gonna play him against him. And then

899
00:52:11,519 --> 00:52:13,920
on the other side of the coin, the guys who were,

900
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:19,840
you know, struggling, like Pete Alonso, Oh my god, Vinnie Pascatino, like,

901
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:28,199
oh my god, like Vinnie p has killed me. I

902
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:32,599
mean in so many leagues, it's just been absolutely brutal.

903
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,519
I was convinced Vinnie Pascatino is gonna break out after

904
00:52:36,679 --> 00:52:40,440
his second half last year. But as my as my

905
00:52:40,559 --> 00:52:43,880
other podcast host bet Don will say, he only really

906
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:48,920
had a good August, and I'm starting to believe that now.

907
00:52:50,039 --> 00:52:54,840
I really was convinced to Tyler Soderestrum. But I will say, like,

908
00:52:55,079 --> 00:52:58,320
you know, Sacramano is gonna get hot, so I'm I'm

909
00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:02,079
buying soda Strum. I think I think there's still could

910
00:53:02,119 --> 00:53:06,920
be something there Pascatino. I mean, it depends on what

911
00:53:07,079 --> 00:53:10,400
you can get him for, but I can't imagine he's

912
00:53:10,400 --> 00:53:14,039
gonna be worse than this. So the fact that, like,

913
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,000
you know, he's had such a terrible you know, first

914
00:53:17,079 --> 00:53:20,760
two months actually in a twelve team mix league, I've

915
00:53:21,159 --> 00:53:24,880
started benching Pascatino. I'm not even starting him anymore. He's

916
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:29,320
been so miserable. And that's like, that's a weekly league.

917
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:32,639
So I'm like, just I'm basically benching one of my

918
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,800
top hitters. I think I'm benching him this week for

919
00:53:37,039 --> 00:53:40,159
like Colt Emerson or something, and that actually worked out,

920
00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:43,840
like I think Emerson hit a home run yesterday or something,

921
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:47,559
so anyway on Saturday. So yeah, So so there's that.

922
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:53,519
And also flat Junior, what happened there? Man, Like it's

923
00:53:53,599 --> 00:53:58,039
just been so miserable, Like I saw the end for

924
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:02,199
Freddie Freeman coming a mile away for like, you know,

925
00:54:02,519 --> 00:54:05,960
years now. But I mean the fact that he's he's

926
00:54:06,199 --> 00:54:09,119
right next to Vlad Junior on the Player Raider for

927
00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:14,079
the year as far as first baseman go, it's I mean,

928
00:54:14,119 --> 00:54:17,960
it's not great man Blad Junior is currently he's at

929
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,800
he's the twentieth first baseman, and I think he went

930
00:54:21,880 --> 00:54:25,119
oh for five today, and I honestly I wouldn't at

931
00:54:25,159 --> 00:54:28,719
this point. I would just take Vlad hitting twenty homers

932
00:54:29,199 --> 00:54:33,199
and three fifteen or better for average. But it's like, I,

933
00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:39,119
I mean, god, like, this is awful. This is really miserable. Yes,

934
00:54:40,320 --> 00:54:45,639
just a bitch fast, it's lots of hasn't been much

935
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:48,519
better either. Let me tell you well in.

936
00:54:49,000 --> 00:54:52,119
Speaker 2: Two of the top five third basemen drafted have been

937
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,559
so awful they're not even like on the Player Raider

938
00:54:54,639 --> 00:54:57,400
to find them. I'm Austin Riley's been better, but like,

939
00:54:57,840 --> 00:54:59,960
what is wrong with Manny Machado? And what do you

940
00:55:00,079 --> 00:55:03,239
you doing with Riley and Machado because they've been ice

941
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:05,519
ice cold as well, because you brought that up. Your

942
00:55:05,559 --> 00:55:09,440
TGFBI squad does feature Manny Machado also dragging you down

943
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:14,000
with VP. So that's solid corners, I know, Like.

944
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:19,440
Speaker 1: You know Hennio Suarez who homerd today on Sunday, hopefully

945
00:55:19,519 --> 00:55:23,199
he gets hot. He's very low on the play Raider

946
00:55:23,239 --> 00:55:26,079
and I have I still have hope for him. Uh

947
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:29,440
and he's been you know, he's been bad, but he's

948
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:33,320
also he missed like a month of the season, so

949
00:55:33,559 --> 00:55:37,360
it's like almost understandable. But like Machado, it's like he

950
00:55:37,519 --> 00:55:42,880
plays day in and day out is just terrible. It's

951
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:47,280
like over four day after day after day, like he's

952
00:55:47,360 --> 00:55:51,039
doing nothing, nothing at all. And it's like such a

953
00:55:51,599 --> 00:55:54,119
shock because like he was one of the guys who

954
00:55:54,159 --> 00:55:58,239
I felt like was the most reliable when it came

955
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,320
to like stats, Like it wasn't like he was gonna

956
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:04,440
put up video game numbers, but you figure like twenty

957
00:56:04,519 --> 00:56:11,119
seven homers to thirty homers, ten steals to seventy five average,

958
00:56:11,199 --> 00:56:15,760
like that was the expectation. But man, it's just I

959
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,760
mean to talk about how awful it's been. And this

960
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:21,360
is like this. If people are listening to this in

961
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:23,679
their car, they might want to pull over if they

962
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:26,239
have Manny Machado because this is going to enrage people.

963
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:30,719
But right now on the player Raider, Brady House, who

964
00:56:30,880 --> 00:56:36,440
was sent down weeks ago, is above Manny Machado. Ooh

965
00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:45,480
oh nah that hurts, oh man. Austin Riley was the

966
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:48,400
Austin Riley was the other one. So I you know,

967
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:52,599
I think with Austin Riley, I think he's this guy.

968
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:56,280
Now Unfortunately, I don't think he's I don't think he's

969
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,519
gonna getting back to that other guy who he was like,

970
00:56:59,719 --> 00:57:02,000
you know, so three or four years ago. I at

971
00:57:02,079 --> 00:57:05,440
this point, we've seen so much from Austin Riley and uh,

972
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,199
you know, brooks Lee hit two homers today, So I

973
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,880
imagine he's gonna move in front of Austin Riley on

974
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:15,400
the playwraiders for a third basement. So that gives you

975
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:17,519
an idea where you're at with Austin Riley. I mean,

976
00:57:17,880 --> 00:57:20,679
right now, as of the recording of those Josh Jones

977
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,079
in front of Boston Riley, Aaronado's in front of him.

978
00:57:24,199 --> 00:57:27,199
I mean it's I mean, third base is not a

979
00:57:27,239 --> 00:57:30,800
good position. The fact that Austin Riley is not doing

980
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:35,119
well at it doesn't help. I I've sort of given

981
00:57:35,239 --> 00:57:38,280
up hope on Austin Riley getting to the point where

982
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,519
he was like years ago. And now I think if

983
00:57:41,559 --> 00:57:44,280
you get like, you know, maybe a two thirty average

984
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:48,800
and solid counting stats and like you know, maybe twenty

985
00:57:48,920 --> 00:57:52,480
four to twenty six homers and you know, he doesn't

986
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:54,880
give you any speed. But if you get like maybe

987
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,679
a two thirty average to forty, like you know, it's

988
00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:01,280
like okay, I mean that's I think at that at

989
00:58:01,320 --> 00:58:05,119
this point that's what and hopefully runs an RBIs so

990
00:58:05,480 --> 00:58:07,679
you know, because it is a good lineup, So you know,

991
00:58:07,880 --> 00:58:10,920
I wouldn't be I wouldn't be expecting a huge bounce

992
00:58:11,000 --> 00:58:13,960
back about Austin Riley if like, if I could trade him,

993
00:58:14,239 --> 00:58:17,079
I would. I don't think. I don't think anyone's really

994
00:58:17,239 --> 00:58:20,000
buying Austin Riley, but you know that's where I would be.

995
00:58:20,239 --> 00:58:24,880
That's where I would be thinking. Mikel Garcia has also

996
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:28,400
been very awful, and now he's injured. I think it's hamstring.

997
00:58:29,199 --> 00:58:34,079
So yeah, I mean, you know, Bobashett is having one

998
00:58:34,119 --> 00:58:37,239
of his off years. It's just bad. I mean, third

999
00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,360
base is really bad. Like I said, I think I said,

1000
00:58:40,440 --> 00:58:43,760
like three or four weeks ago, to trade Alex Bregman

1001
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:45,719
if you can get anything for him, because I think

1002
00:58:46,199 --> 00:58:49,239
his sort of like similar to Austin Riley, and like

1003
00:58:49,360 --> 00:58:52,719
his name value tells people something that I don't think

1004
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:55,960
is the actual case. Like Alex Bregman is not that

1005
00:58:56,159 --> 00:58:59,360
good anymore. Like he's you know, he had that insane

1006
00:58:59,519 --> 00:59:02,440
year with like you know that when it was the

1007
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,760
bouncy ball at like you know, twenty nineteen or something

1008
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:10,920
but I Alex Bragman hasn't really been that amazing other

1009
00:59:11,039 --> 00:59:14,119
than spurts here and there for a couple of years now,

1010
00:59:14,400 --> 00:59:17,440
and you know, it doesn't look like he's really taking

1011
00:59:17,559 --> 00:59:20,880
well to Wrigley. It's I don't know I would be

1012
00:59:21,000 --> 00:59:24,119
selling Alex Bregman based on name value if you can

1013
00:59:24,159 --> 00:59:26,199
get anything. I don't know if you can get anything,

1014
00:59:26,239 --> 00:59:28,760
to be honest, because he's been really bad. You know,

1015
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,840
I was talking about how terrible Manny Machata is. Machada

1016
00:59:31,960 --> 00:59:34,960
is actually above Bragman on the Player Raider. So yeah,

1017
00:59:35,519 --> 00:59:38,440
there you go with that. That's nut. Okay.

1018
00:59:39,039 --> 00:59:41,719
Speaker 2: Well, yes, if you are out there struggling at Corner

1019
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:44,239
and Field, I think we commiserate with you because it

1020
00:59:44,360 --> 00:59:46,880
has been a bloodbath. It has been tough all year.

1021
00:59:47,800 --> 00:59:50,000
With that, you want to get even darker. You want

1022
00:59:50,039 --> 00:59:52,199
to get into Sagnoff, you want to do some sames

1023
00:59:52,239 --> 00:59:55,280
and got no face because it has been quite the

1024
00:59:55,360 --> 00:59:58,119
tumultuous week for Bullpen since we last talked. I think

1025
00:59:58,159 --> 01:00:00,800
we probably cursed it last week because we were on

1026
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:04,000
here last week saying, eh, things look stabilized a little bit.

1027
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:07,800
In the meantime, it looks how many bullet points. We've

1028
01:00:07,840 --> 01:00:10,159
got lined up, about a fifth of the league is

1029
01:00:10,239 --> 01:00:14,000
in some sort of tumult in terms of save chances. First,

1030
01:00:14,039 --> 01:00:17,360
we're gonna start in Milwaukee, because this is not a

1031
01:00:17,599 --> 01:00:21,639
case of player performance. Well, I guess some sort of

1032
01:00:21,719 --> 01:00:26,280
performance in terms of the gesticulation costing abner Y Rebay.

1033
01:00:26,440 --> 01:00:30,920
He made a strikeout against the Cardinals and went immediately

1034
01:00:31,119 --> 01:00:36,440
to the nWo suck it chop at his crotch, which,

1035
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,519
to be honest, I also maybe I'm just so inundated

1036
01:00:39,559 --> 01:00:43,159
it as a millennial, an older millennial, where I was like,

1037
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:45,599
that's offensive. I've seen it so many times in my life.

1038
01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:51,079
But I think you also see where Rebey crossed the edge.

1039
01:00:51,119 --> 01:00:53,079
I think he did like three or four times. You

1040
01:00:53,239 --> 01:00:55,920
just you can't do more than two pumps. Is that

1041
01:00:56,000 --> 01:00:58,360
with the key and peel sketches, it's you get a

1042
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:01,840
two pump limit. So he crossed that threshold, got suspended

1043
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:04,960
for a game, got on Pat Murphy's bad side. Your

1044
01:01:05,079 --> 01:01:08,199
bait had been kind of splitting saves there in Milwaukee.

1045
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:12,199
Since then, they've just gone straight to Trevor McGill. Is

1046
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:14,760
this the first instance where you've seen any sort of

1047
01:01:15,119 --> 01:01:18,639
crotch related celebration maybe cost somebody the closer role.

1048
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 1: Oh man, I you know what I love. I love

1049
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:27,280
everything about this Mickyel's situation and Abner Euriba, like this

1050
01:01:27,519 --> 01:01:30,800
is just so goddamn funny. The fact that the fact

1051
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:34,320
that he lost a rebay lost a closer role because

1052
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:41,239
he crotch chopped. I mean, it's just fantastic. It's like

1053
01:01:41,360 --> 01:01:45,599
the best thing I've ever heard. Oh man, I think

1054
01:01:45,679 --> 01:01:51,639
the last like job, last time someone lost a job

1055
01:01:51,800 --> 01:01:54,519
due to a crotch grabbing this, I think rose and

1056
01:01:54,719 --> 01:01:58,679
bar after singing the national anthem, like, I think she

1057
01:01:58,800 --> 01:02:01,519
grabbed her crouch and fit and lost a job. There,

1058
01:02:02,159 --> 01:02:06,039
I you know, grabbing a crotch and losing a job.

1059
01:02:06,639 --> 01:02:09,280
I mean it depends, Like if it's not your crotch,

1060
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:14,320
I can understand it. I don't know otherwise, I'm not

1061
01:02:14,480 --> 01:02:18,960
sure if there's other crotch incidents that I could think

1062
01:02:19,039 --> 01:02:23,920
of where someone gestured towards their crotch and lost the job.

1063
01:02:25,639 --> 01:02:28,400
I don't know. It's just so great though, It's just

1064
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:33,360
it's fantastic. I mean, and it even gets more fantastic.

1065
01:02:33,480 --> 01:02:36,960
But just for the fact that a rebae did that

1066
01:02:37,639 --> 01:02:44,159
crotch chop on a ABS challenge, so you weren't even

1067
01:02:44,239 --> 01:02:48,639
sure if it was a strike, Like he started chopping

1068
01:02:48,800 --> 01:02:52,159
his crotch, and the and the umpaddn't even they haven't

1069
01:02:52,199 --> 01:02:54,400
even decided if it was a strike. It ended up

1070
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:57,079
being a strike, but it was very borderline. I mean,

1071
01:02:57,119 --> 01:03:00,440
it was so close to being a ball. And also

1072
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,559
like the fact that it was a six run game.

1073
01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,920
I mean it was the eighth inning of a six

1074
01:03:07,079 --> 01:03:12,159
run game. I mean, I love, I do kind of love,

1075
01:03:12,400 --> 01:03:16,239
like how much of a head case baseball players are?

1076
01:03:16,760 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 2: This is?

1077
01:03:18,239 --> 01:03:21,159
Speaker 1: I mean it is great. Sometimes it goes over the edge,

1078
01:03:21,199 --> 01:03:24,079
but a lot of times it's it's fantastic. Like these

1079
01:03:24,159 --> 01:03:27,360
guys are just like complete like head cases. You're like,

1080
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:32,840
what are you doing, man, six run game? You could

1081
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:36,119
you go to the dugout maybe and crouch in the crotch,

1082
01:03:36,199 --> 01:03:38,320
chop in the corner, like you don't have to do

1083
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:44,280
it on the mound at the other dugout. Ah Man.

1084
01:03:44,840 --> 01:03:48,199
So anyway, yeah, I guess McGill is the closer now.

1085
01:03:51,039 --> 01:03:53,199
Speaker 2: And then we go analysis is a raft. Don't even

1086
01:03:53,239 --> 01:03:58,800
even get into the numbers. Let's move on to our

1087
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,840
next one. We're gonna go to the Washington Nationals, who uh,

1088
01:04:03,199 --> 01:04:05,599
we talked about this situation last week. We anointed Gus

1089
01:04:05,719 --> 01:04:08,840
Varland as the closer. Clayton Peter comes back and picks

1090
01:04:08,920 --> 01:04:11,679
up two saves this weekend. So is Clayton Peter the

1091
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:13,119
one to own now in Washington?

1092
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:17,199
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I think he is the problem. I think

1093
01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:22,039
with Drew Paterra, who actually sounds like a wrestler. Speaking

1094
01:04:22,079 --> 01:04:27,360
of wrestlers, the Nats manager, Drew Butterra, I kind of

1095
01:04:27,639 --> 01:04:31,800
feel like the issue with him is like he he

1096
01:04:31,960 --> 01:04:35,400
sends a guy out there like Beeter, for instance, and

1097
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:39,239
you know he gets to save on Saturday and Sunday. Uh,

1098
01:04:39,440 --> 01:04:42,400
And now Beeter is gonna be, you know, too tired

1099
01:04:42,519 --> 01:04:45,039
to go in the next game because he's worked back

1100
01:04:45,079 --> 01:04:48,599
to back days. So now you know, BITTERO will go

1101
01:04:48,719 --> 01:04:51,599
to Varland and then he'll be like, you know, Varlin

1102
01:04:51,639 --> 01:04:53,199
will pitch well and be like you know what, I

1103
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:56,360
think Varlin's the closer now, and then that and then

1104
01:04:56,480 --> 01:05:00,480
that just perpetuates itself where Varlin then for for a

1105
01:05:00,559 --> 01:05:04,400
couple of days and then Patia's like, well, I can't

1106
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:06,800
throw him. I think I'm gonna throw love Letter or

1107
01:05:06,960 --> 01:05:09,760
love Ladies. So then Love lady is the closer, so

1108
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:11,880
I don't I don't know if I'd put a lot

1109
01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:15,519
of money on Beeter being the closer, but I would

1110
01:05:15,559 --> 01:05:18,320
say if I had to choose one, I would go

1111
01:05:18,480 --> 01:05:19,119
Clinton Beeter.

1112
01:05:19,599 --> 01:05:23,840
Speaker 2: Okay, all right? In Detroit we have Kenlee Jansen went

1113
01:05:24,000 --> 01:05:27,840
down with a strained groin, and so in his stead

1114
01:05:28,599 --> 01:05:31,519
we've got Kyle Finnigan and Drew Anderson battling it out

1115
01:05:31,559 --> 01:05:35,199
for saves. Neither of kind of wrapped themselves in glory

1116
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:38,079
this weekend against the White Sox. On Friday, both of

1117
01:05:38,159 --> 01:05:42,440
them blue saves, with Drew Anderson taking the loss. In extras. Today,

1118
01:05:42,559 --> 01:05:46,719
Drew Anderson blew another save. He entered in the seventh

1119
01:05:46,960 --> 01:05:49,840
with a one run lead against the White Sox. This

1120
01:05:50,039 --> 01:05:52,239
is also a Detroit team that is twenty two and

1121
01:05:52,400 --> 01:05:55,320
thirty eight, so keep that in mind as they're going

1122
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:59,199
out there spending fab bucks on Anderson and Finnegan this weekend.

1123
01:05:59,599 --> 01:06:01,039
Do you have a favorite between the two?

1124
01:06:02,559 --> 01:06:05,039
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean I actually I kind of liked Drew

1125
01:06:05,199 --> 01:06:09,800
Anderson before I got thrust into the closer role. Like

1126
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:12,360
I liked him just like I wanted him to be

1127
01:06:12,599 --> 01:06:15,440
like a starter. I don't know what happened there, but

1128
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:19,559
it looks like they're gonna try him as like a reliever,

1129
01:06:20,880 --> 01:06:24,679
as a high leverage reliever. So I don't know. I

1130
01:06:24,719 --> 01:06:28,559
don't like Anderson in that role, so I'm I'm going Finnegan,

1131
01:06:28,800 --> 01:06:32,079
but I don't, you know, I don't if Finnigan at

1132
01:06:32,159 --> 01:06:35,679
least has like, you know, some closer experience, So I

1133
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:41,599
would say Finnigan. Unfortunately, Finnigan's numbers look awful. I mean

1134
01:06:41,679 --> 01:06:47,360
they're just like they're bad, like five k per nine,

1135
01:06:48,639 --> 01:06:52,760
six plus walk rate, six plus walk per nine. I

1136
01:06:52,840 --> 01:06:56,679
mean it is awful, like incredibly bad. So I don't

1137
01:06:56,719 --> 01:07:01,000
trust Finnegan either. And you mentioned that the Tigers record,

1138
01:07:01,199 --> 01:07:03,960
so I don't know, maybe just like you know, skip

1139
01:07:04,039 --> 01:07:07,000
it all together, like you do with like, you know,

1140
01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:11,239
other terrible teams. I would say Push came in the shop.

1141
01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:15,719
Speaker 2: I'd say, Finnigan, Okay, let's go and talk about the

1142
01:07:15,840 --> 01:07:20,000
situation in Toronto, because this is it's also very instructive.

1143
01:07:20,039 --> 01:07:22,199
If you go to Roster Resource and Fangrafts and just

1144
01:07:22,320 --> 01:07:25,400
look at the page there. They put colors on there

1145
01:07:25,559 --> 01:07:30,800
for hold saves, wins, losses, and blown saves in a bullpen,

1146
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:33,400
and it is the colors are all across the board

1147
01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:36,480
in the Blue Jays because Louis Varland has picked up

1148
01:07:36,559 --> 01:07:39,400
one save in the past week, Tyler Rodgers has picked

1149
01:07:39,480 --> 01:07:41,760
up one save, Brandon Fisher has picked up one save.

1150
01:07:42,239 --> 01:07:45,000
Jeff Hoffman came in and looked good and got two wins,

1151
01:07:45,079 --> 01:07:49,199
but then on Saturday completely melted down in Jeff Hoffman fashion,

1152
01:07:49,599 --> 01:07:52,760
loaded the bases for the Orioles to allow them to

1153
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,880
come all the way back from a five run lead,

1154
01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:59,280
I believe, And so people were starting to pick up

1155
01:07:59,320 --> 01:08:01,519
Jeff Hoffman. He get in some steam, but then kind

1156
01:08:01,519 --> 01:08:02,840
of return to his old ways.

1157
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:03,559
Speaker 1: Uh.

1158
01:08:03,880 --> 01:08:07,119
Speaker 2: Louis Varlin has been fantastic as always, and I think

1159
01:08:07,159 --> 01:08:11,920
it's been continually used in higher leverage situations than the rest,

1160
01:08:12,039 --> 01:08:15,000
with Tyler Rodgers kind of right behind him. So are

1161
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you buying into Jeff Hoffman working his way back into

1162
01:08:17,600 --> 01:08:21,079
the closer role in Toronto? Or is Louis Varlin still

1163
01:08:21,439 --> 01:08:22,359
the main man for you?

1164
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Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I you know, I think Uh, I think

1165
01:08:26,960 --> 01:08:30,199
what you d call it, John Schneider, the Blue Jays

1166
01:08:30,279 --> 01:08:32,680
manager has to have a screw loose to even try

1167
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,600
Hoffman in the role. I wouldn't. I don't know what

1168
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:39,079
I mean unless he's just like, I can't use Hoffman

1169
01:08:39,159 --> 01:08:41,319
in any other role, so I have to try and

1170
01:08:41,439 --> 01:08:45,520
make him the closer still, because like Varlin looks incredible,

1171
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:50,239
Like Varlin, he's got it. Varlin's got an zero point

1172
01:08:50,399 --> 01:08:55,479
two nine ERA and a twelve point two kber nine.

1173
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:59,439
Like what else is there the scene? Man? Like Farlin's

1174
01:08:59,479 --> 01:09:04,760
basically having like that sort of breakout closer like what

1175
01:09:04,880 --> 01:09:07,680
we saw years ago from like Josh Hater, and then

1176
01:09:07,720 --> 01:09:10,079
we saw from Mason Miller, and then we saw from

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01:09:10,159 --> 01:09:12,720
Devin Williams, like you know, back when Devin will was

1178
01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:15,119
on the Brewers obviously. But yeah, I mean, you know,

1179
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Varlin's having a breakout, Like I would just go at Varland,

1180
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:21,720
but yeah, I don't know, I wouldn't pick up anyone

1181
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:23,439
else though if I was gone for saves.

1182
01:09:23,760 --> 01:09:26,960
Speaker 2: Okay, I think that's very fair. Let's talk about the

1183
01:09:27,079 --> 01:09:29,720
Houston Astros. Who I mean, they've started to look a

1184
01:09:29,760 --> 01:09:32,279
little bit better. They're four games back in the Al West.

1185
01:09:33,039 --> 01:09:38,319
They've had Josh Hater rehabbing all throughout May actually between

1186
01:09:38,439 --> 01:09:40,880
Triple A and Double A. He was going to go

1187
01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:42,840
through a big test this past week where he's going

1188
01:09:42,920 --> 01:09:45,680
to do back to back nights on Wednesday and Thursday

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to pitch. Let's just say they didn't go so hot.

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So he threw two innings on Wednesday and Thursday between

1191
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,640
the two. Well, it was only one in two thirds innings,

1192
01:09:56,680 --> 01:09:59,239
so that tells you how it went. Gave up five

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01:09:59,399 --> 01:10:03,359
total runs, three earned runs, two homers, two walks, no

1194
01:10:03,640 --> 01:10:06,880
strikeouts in those twelve total batters faced, So it looks

1195
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,800
like he might not be the sharpest coming back from

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01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:14,159
that injury. He's been dealing with a strained biceps sore

1197
01:10:14,279 --> 01:10:17,439
biceps which is also kind of a precursor to Tommy

1198
01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:20,960
John surgery. So lots of kind of woes that Jason

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01:10:21,239 --> 01:10:24,640
Josh Hater has been working his way through. But they

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01:10:24,720 --> 01:10:27,039
do need him in Houston. It's still a foreheaded monster.

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According to Roster Resource for saves with Brian King, Brian Obrau,

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01:10:32,199 --> 01:10:35,680
and Yo Delo Santos Nate Pearson, all of them have

1203
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:39,920
been pitching pretty mediocrely except for Innio Delo Santos, who

1204
01:10:40,039 --> 01:10:43,079
picked up a save this past week. So what are

1205
01:10:43,119 --> 01:10:45,039
you doing in Houston for saves?

1206
01:10:45,880 --> 01:10:46,000
Speaker 3: Uh?

1207
01:10:46,279 --> 01:10:49,399
Speaker 1: You know, I think if I push kin of shove,

1208
01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:55,640
I think I'd probably go Brian King. You know, he's

1209
01:10:55,680 --> 01:11:01,520
gotten the most saves, I believe, but it's barely a

1210
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:06,680
recommendation a brain who's been better of of of late.

1211
01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:10,640
But like you mentioned that, all these guys have gotten

1212
01:11:11,199 --> 01:11:15,399
some for you know, like Dela Santos has gone saves.

1213
01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:19,600
Pearson's there, So they're they're not committing to anyone, So

1214
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:22,920
I don't I don't claim to know who the closers

1215
01:11:23,319 --> 01:11:25,399
is in Houston. I don't think there is one. I

1216
01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:28,479
think they're just going with whoever happens to be up

1217
01:11:28,520 --> 01:11:34,239
in the ninth inning until Josh Hater returns, and I

1218
01:11:34,279 --> 01:11:36,760
don't know when that's gonna be. I mean, I think

1219
01:11:37,479 --> 01:11:40,960
this is feeling like, you know, I feel like Josh

1220
01:11:41,039 --> 01:11:43,960
Hater is, Like, it doesn't it doesn't feel like it's

1221
01:11:44,000 --> 01:11:45,119
heading in the right direction.

1222
01:11:46,039 --> 01:11:48,880
Speaker 2: No, it really doesn't, especially like he's always had issues

1223
01:11:48,920 --> 01:11:51,159
with those back to back days and doing it on

1224
01:11:51,319 --> 01:11:54,399
rehab and failing. Yeah, it doesn't feel great. I mean,

1225
01:11:54,399 --> 01:11:56,600
if you've hold on to him this long, you kind

1226
01:11:56,640 --> 01:11:59,640
of have to roll with Hater. But if he fails,

1227
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,479
I don't feel bad about cutting bait early on him.

1228
01:12:02,479 --> 01:12:06,199
I think, Okay, next one we have is in La

1229
01:12:06,399 --> 01:12:09,079
where Kyle Hurt picked up a save this past week.

1230
01:12:09,199 --> 01:12:11,640
You know, Tara Scott's been looking a little bit shaky,

1231
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:14,199
blew a save last night Saturday night, while Kyle Hurt

1232
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:17,560
picked up the hold in that. What do you think

1233
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:19,439
about Kyle Hurt? Is it somebody to throw a dart

1234
01:12:19,479 --> 01:12:22,159
at considering it is a little bit of an open

1235
01:12:22,199 --> 01:12:27,039
bullpen situation there for the Dodgers until Edwin Diaz returns.

1236
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:32,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, Kyle Hurts looked great. You know, eighteen innings

1237
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:36,720
so far, ten and a half camper, nine, no walks,

1238
01:12:37,039 --> 01:12:40,560
one ear I would go. I would go Kyle Hurt

1239
01:12:40,600 --> 01:12:44,399
in any league where I was chasing saves. I wouldn't necessarily,

1240
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:47,479
you know, I don't necessarily think he's the closer, but

1241
01:12:48,159 --> 01:12:51,199
so far he hasn't been you know, it hasn't been

1242
01:12:51,319 --> 01:12:54,720
bad where like you could roster him and get like

1243
01:12:54,880 --> 01:12:58,880
good middle reliever ratios in some CA's and not like

1244
01:12:59,039 --> 01:13:02,319
regret it even though you may not get every save.

1245
01:13:02,680 --> 01:13:05,760
So I would grab Kyle Hurt, even though I think

1246
01:13:06,119 --> 01:13:10,199
probably Tanner Scott is still like more or less the guy,

1247
01:13:10,479 --> 01:13:13,039
even though I mean Dave Roberts has said he's not

1248
01:13:13,399 --> 01:13:16,920
choosing a closer. In the time that Edwin's out. But

1249
01:13:17,319 --> 01:13:19,720
you know, Tanner Scott's been pretty good, like you mentioned

1250
01:13:19,800 --> 01:13:23,640
the Saturday Nights game. But I think you know, Tanner

1251
01:13:23,680 --> 01:13:26,039
Scott for the most part has been solid, So I

1252
01:13:26,079 --> 01:13:29,600
would go Tanner Scott for absolute saves. Kyle Hurt could

1253
01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:32,640
get a few and looks good just in general. Maybe

1254
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:34,640
he gets like a vulture win here or there, so

1255
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,279
I would pick up Kyle Hert anyway.

1256
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:39,439
Speaker 2: Yep, I think I like it too, especially if you're

1257
01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:41,680
in a league where like Alex Vessio's rostered. It's kind

1258
01:13:41,680 --> 01:13:44,680
of like right handed Alex Vessio where hopefully you get

1259
01:13:44,720 --> 01:13:49,840
good ratios, hopefully get some pretty sterling whip in Ura,

1260
01:13:50,039 --> 01:13:53,319
but then pick up a win or save here or there.

1261
01:13:53,479 --> 01:13:56,560
With Kyle Hurt last one we have. I mean, it

1262
01:13:56,600 --> 01:13:58,640
feels like you have to talk about the Minnesota Twins

1263
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:01,319
bullpen every week because it's mess. But we have a

1264
01:14:01,399 --> 01:14:05,479
new contender for the closer who's actually been performing well

1265
01:14:05,520 --> 01:14:09,159
over the past month. You interest Gomez, a former Tampa

1266
01:14:09,239 --> 01:14:13,439
Bay Ray who actually was with the Rays through April

1267
01:14:13,880 --> 01:14:16,800
then got cut. Since he's been with Minnesota in May,

1268
01:14:17,239 --> 01:14:19,800
he's put up a point eight seven yarra A two

1269
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:23,279
two nine FIP and eleven point three K nine has

1270
01:14:23,359 --> 01:14:25,640
picked up five holes and two saves.

1271
01:14:26,319 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: Uh.

1272
01:14:27,079 --> 01:14:29,720
Speaker 2: Is he the man to chase in Minnesota? Now?

1273
01:14:30,439 --> 01:14:35,359
Speaker 1: Hmmm, Yeah, I would say he's been I want to

1274
01:14:35,399 --> 01:14:39,600
say he's like the first Twins reliever who I can

1275
01:14:40,000 --> 01:14:44,840
I can understand picking him up and not be not

1276
01:14:45,079 --> 01:14:48,920
like WinCE or Grimace. I think I think Gomez is

1277
01:14:49,119 --> 01:14:52,880
probably the first guy where I don't I don't know

1278
01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:55,479
if he's actually gonna get every saved because you know,

1279
01:14:56,640 --> 01:14:59,479
Derek Shelton doesn't seem like he wants to commit to

1280
01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:02,479
a close for whatever reason. I mean, it doesn't really

1281
01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:05,399
make any sense. I don't see why he's trying to

1282
01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,880
make it more difficult for himself. But anyway, I think

1283
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:11,239
Gomez is the first guy where I could see actually

1284
01:15:11,399 --> 01:15:15,880
rostering him and being fine with, you know, getting k's

1285
01:15:16,199 --> 01:15:19,239
and ratios from him without worrying about if I get

1286
01:15:19,319 --> 01:15:23,239
every single save, whereas like any of the other guys,

1287
01:15:23,760 --> 01:15:25,640
I don't really want to mess around with the other

1288
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:28,840
guys in that bullpen. That is so Yeah, I would

1289
01:15:28,880 --> 01:15:31,680
say you can grab Gomez. I think he's been fine.

1290
01:15:32,560 --> 01:15:35,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, I totally agree and It's kind of strange too,

1291
01:15:35,399 --> 01:15:37,760
because he's got a really good fastball and a really

1292
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:40,439
good slider. The Rays were having him throw more cutters

1293
01:15:40,479 --> 01:15:42,439
and sinkers, and then the Twins were just like, just

1294
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:45,720
throw your crazy good fastball slider and guess what, it's working.

1295
01:15:45,880 --> 01:15:48,319
So I totally agree. I think Gomez could be a

1296
01:15:48,359 --> 01:15:50,520
little bit of a hidden gem there in Minnesota. Finally,

1297
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,279
again with the caveats that you laid out, Okay, we're

1298
01:15:54,319 --> 01:15:56,600
finally at the end. Are you going to pick up

1299
01:15:56,680 --> 01:15:58,880
for waiver wire ads on the hitting side?

1300
01:16:00,399 --> 01:16:03,239
Speaker 1: Okay? So at the top of the seven day player

1301
01:16:03,359 --> 01:16:09,000
raider is Leoti Tavers, So that's a shocker. I guess

1302
01:16:09,039 --> 01:16:13,800
I'm picking him up. Then after him we have Isaiah Kiner, Fileffel,

1303
01:16:14,720 --> 01:16:24,000
Sam Antoci and tacci and Antonocci, Jack Peterson, Evan Carter, Colton, Cowser, Blaze, Alexander.

1304
01:16:24,319 --> 01:16:27,920
It sounds like the Oreos had some good hitting this

1305
01:16:28,079 --> 01:16:33,399
past week. Anyway, Moving on, Curtis Mead, who keeps this up?

1306
01:16:33,600 --> 01:16:36,359
We might actually have to talk about him in general

1307
01:16:36,439 --> 01:16:40,359
at some point. Anyway, Continuing on, Nick Allen has been

1308
01:16:40,479 --> 01:16:45,840
hot for the Astros, playing some shorts up. Ahmed Rosario playing,

1309
01:16:46,439 --> 01:16:49,640
you know, platooning out on the Yankee side. But he's

1310
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:54,920
been good. He's been hot. Spencer Horwitz, Ernie Clemet, Nathaniel

1311
01:16:55,159 --> 01:16:58,279
Lowe has been hot. I don't know where he's he's

1312
01:16:58,520 --> 01:17:01,239
rostered at fifty percent. So yeah, he should be available

1313
01:17:01,279 --> 01:17:06,159
in some leagues anyway. Moving on, Anthony Volpe actually been hot.

1314
01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:10,119
Trent Grisham, so the Yankees obviously have been hot. They

1315
01:17:10,159 --> 01:17:14,479
were in Sacramento, so it's not that surprising. Let's see

1316
01:17:14,560 --> 01:17:17,960
brooks Lee, who we mentioned earlier in the show. Cam

1317
01:17:18,079 --> 01:17:24,880
Smith has been hot, Vaughan Grisham, and finally a Wade Meckler.

1318
01:17:25,359 --> 01:17:34,520
Speaker 2: Yeah they Wade love it. The card community rejoices. Okay,

1319
01:17:34,640 --> 01:17:37,479
Well from the pitching side, Well, first, the three kind

1320
01:17:37,520 --> 01:17:40,680
of teams that have the easiest pitching schedules next week,

1321
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:42,640
I would say are the Mets. They have six games

1322
01:17:42,680 --> 01:17:46,000
on the road, three at Seattle, three at San Diego, Texas,

1323
01:17:46,680 --> 01:17:51,000
six games at in total, three at Saint Louis, three

1324
01:17:51,319 --> 01:17:54,079
at home against Cleveland. And then the Rays have six games,

1325
01:17:54,800 --> 01:17:58,399
three at Detroit which is looked terrible, and then three

1326
01:17:58,560 --> 01:18:01,640
at Miami. So those are the if you're looking at

1327
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,880
just kind of rotations to focus on. Those would be

1328
01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:06,920
the three I'd be looking at. In terms of two

1329
01:18:07,039 --> 01:18:11,520
start pitchers. You gotta hold your nose on all these guys,

1330
01:18:11,640 --> 01:18:14,079
but I think if you need two starts, Aaron Nola

1331
01:18:14,199 --> 01:18:16,840
is probably the best one available. He's got two starts

1332
01:18:16,920 --> 01:18:19,760
on the road or no at home against the Padres

1333
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:23,159
and the White Sox. The Mike Burrows has two at

1334
01:18:23,199 --> 01:18:26,720
home against the Pirates and the Athletics, Gage Jump, who

1335
01:18:26,720 --> 01:18:30,560
I mentioned previously at Chicago Cubs and at Houston. A

1336
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,439
couple of one start guys who have some good matchups.

1337
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:36,039
Maybe Jared Jones, if he got dropped, has a second

1338
01:18:36,119 --> 01:18:39,199
turn against Houston at home. We have Dustin May who's

1339
01:18:39,279 --> 01:18:42,800
been really good, really sharp lately at home against Texas,

1340
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:45,920
and Matthew Libertor who's been striking dudes out out of

1341
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:49,039
nowhere against Cincinnati at home. So that's going to wrap

1342
01:18:49,159 --> 01:18:51,399
us up for this week on the ras Ball Fantasy

1343
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:55,359
Baseball Podcast. Thanks for checking us out, Thanks for joining us.

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01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:59,079
You can find us on ras ball at Blue Sky

1345
01:19:00,119 --> 01:19:03,800
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1346
01:19:04,000 --> 01:19:06,800
You can find me on Blue Sky at m cool seven.

1347
01:19:07,319 --> 01:19:09,600
And thanks Gray for letting me fill in here for

1348
01:19:09,800 --> 01:19:12,119
beat On for the next couple of weeks. Should have

1349
01:19:13,039 --> 01:19:16,319
beat On next or back next week. That these two

1350
01:19:16,359 --> 01:19:18,800
weeks will end my little bit of a run here.

1351
01:19:19,039 --> 01:19:20,920
I appreciate you letting me come on. It's been a

1352
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:21,359
fun time.

1353
01:19:22,279 --> 01:19:24,159
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, I mean thanks for being on.

1354
01:19:24,399 --> 01:19:28,239
No wait wait, thanks for having me no, thanks for

1355
01:19:28,720 --> 01:19:30,680
filling in for bet On anytime.

1356
01:19:30,960 --> 01:19:32,720
Speaker 2: And with that we're gonna wrap it up for this week.

1357
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:33,920
Good luck everybody.