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Speaker 4: I'm mad, man, I'm mad. Bro, I'm mad, you know,
Speaker 4: I hate to uh And he's lead the second week
Speaker 4: in a round. I'm starting off a little bit fired up.
Speaker 4: I'm a little fired up, but like you know, so,
Speaker 4: I'm in Los Angeles, so I'm happy the Dodgers got
Speaker 4: to Reek Scooble, right, Like, it's cool. I mean, I've
Speaker 4: already I've been to a World See game. Though, I've
Speaker 4: already gone to a World Series parade. I don't need
Speaker 4: to go to another one. I'm fine. I've done it.
Speaker 4: I'm fine. I honestly, I don't have to go again.
Speaker 4: It's okay. I'm not I'm not selfish. Let someone else
Speaker 4: have the glory. I'm good with it. So the fact
Speaker 4: that the Dodgers got to Rescooble, you would think I'd
Speaker 4: be like, Wow, that's great, but it's really kind of ridiculous. Man,
Speaker 4: Like what's going on? What's going on with major League
Speaker 4: Baseball that no one can meet the demand? Like the
Speaker 4: Dodgers' prospects Are they really that good? I don't think so.
Speaker 4: It seems to me according to even taking Rasboll out
Speaker 4: of the equation, according to the MLB prospects, the pipeline there,
Speaker 4: MLB pipeline, their prospects thing they have, Uh, the guy
Speaker 4: who went to the Angels for Soriano above the top
Speaker 4: guy who Hope, the guy the best guy who went
Speaker 4: to the Tigers for schoobl So it's like, what what
Speaker 4: are we doing?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 4: Like? Also the fact that Tarik's Schooble. So I'm out
Speaker 4: at Uh, I'm not at at dinner on Saturday night
Speaker 4: because you know, Gray's got a life. Okay, So I'm
Speaker 4: out a dinner and I get this notification that to
Speaker 4: Reschooble gets sent to the Dodgers, and I'm like, it's Saturday, man,
Speaker 4: It's Saturday night. I mean it's not just not just
Speaker 4: because I'm out, but also I mean, yes, I mean
Speaker 4: that has something to do with why I was a
Speaker 4: little annoyed. I was a little annoyed because I was
Speaker 4: out a dinner. But even even if I was home
Speaker 4: watching TV doing nothing, watching the pan Am bombing of
Speaker 4: one oh three or whatever I'm watching on Netflix. Right,
Speaker 4: even if I'm there on the couch with Ted watching TV,
Speaker 4: I'd still be a little annoyed if this happened on
Speaker 4: Saturday night, because like, why not wait until the last
Speaker 4: minute or at least Monday? Why not wait until to
Speaker 4: see maybe you could get more? Like, Okay, the Dodgers
Speaker 4: offered us this, right, they offered us like a thirty
Speaker 4: year old prospect in River Ryan Brady Smith who no
Speaker 4: one seems really now and the here Hope, who's the
Speaker 4: prize of that trade? Okay, fine, all right, so Hope's
Speaker 4: supposed to be good. But still, let's see you have
Speaker 4: two more days. Why not at least let it play
Speaker 4: out a little bit and see if you can get
Speaker 4: something else instead, like they do they send a treschooble,
Speaker 4: the actually the prize of MLB trade deadline? Do they
Speaker 4: send them two days early and not even wait to
Speaker 4: see if they can get anything better?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 4: What is why? Like what is going on?
Speaker 5: Man?
Speaker 4: Like? Why why are they doing it on Saturday? I
Speaker 4: just don't get it. I really don't, like I don't
Speaker 4: want to be I don't want to be wearing a
Speaker 4: tinfoil hat here, right, But it does really seem like
Speaker 4: MLB wants to do a lockout next year, and the
Speaker 4: rest of the owners are like, this is good for us.
Speaker 4: Let's let the Dodgers win again. This is great. I
Speaker 4: like it. You know, if I'm a billionaire and I
Speaker 4: own the you know, the Marlins or whatever teams are
Speaker 4: not going for it as usual. Are the Orioles. We'll
Speaker 4: get to the Orioles in a bit. But if I'm
Speaker 4: a billionaire and I see the Dodgers going for a threepeat,
Speaker 4: I'm like, Okay. First of all, you gotta pay Pat
Speaker 4: Ryan to even say th repeat, so that's money. I
Speaker 4: don't I don't wantn't want to deal with those legal replications.
Speaker 4: And then you have, on top of it all, you
Speaker 4: have the dog who are gonna go for a three peat.
Speaker 4: And then all the other teams are gonna be like, see,
Speaker 4: we need a salary cap. Man. Then we told you,
Speaker 4: we told you we need a salary cap. Even though
Speaker 4: it's during Schooble, who could have been treated anywhere, he
Speaker 4: couldn't he could have went to any team, anyone could
Speaker 4: have had him instead the Dodgers get them. Really, come on, man, like,
Speaker 4: don't make me into a conspiracy lunatic please.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Great, So we'll talk to everybody next week. Have fun.
Speaker 3: That was that was our show. Good stuff?
Speaker 1: No great, I mean it is what it is. It's
Speaker 1: the Dodgers are the team. They're they're loaded everywhere. I
Speaker 1: would agree that they you know, it would have felt
Speaker 1: better if if they had waited till last second to
Speaker 1: kind of make this trade, and you'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: nobody else wanted to add, you know, the best pitcher
Speaker 1: in baseball to their lineup. Okay, I'm I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess if that's how it goes, then so be it.
Speaker 1: But you know, maybe this was the best offer that
Speaker 1: came in. It makes me a little sick that if
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of one one like we'll say
Speaker 1: top twenty five and then one top one hundred ish
Speaker 1: prospect gets the best pitcher in baseball.
Speaker 3: I'm wondering why there weren't more teams in it. But
Speaker 3: you never know.
Speaker 1: Maybe Detroit really likes say your hope. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: plenty of reason to like him. The numbers are obviously outstanding,
Speaker 1: but it does feel a little late, but trades haven't
Speaker 1: been like we used to see you six top prospects
Speaker 1: traded for one guy on a rental for you know,
Speaker 1: two months. I don't feel like we get that anymore.
Speaker 4: Right, No, no, you're right, But I mean, like Mason
Speaker 4: Miller got traded for a top ten prospect, you know,
Speaker 4: other other big names get traded for other like big prospects.
Speaker 4: I don't know, man, I feel like this is this
Speaker 4: feels light, and maybe it has a lot to do
Speaker 4: with the fact that it was Saturday and they didn't
Speaker 4: even like hold out to see what they could get
Speaker 4: on like by Monday. But I just don't understand why
Speaker 4: you wouldn't, like why you wouldn't hold out, Like even
Speaker 4: if you have a deal on the table from the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: you then go to every other team and you're like,
Speaker 4: you really want the Dodgers to get Scooba, I mean,
Speaker 4: because they're gonna get them. I mean, you know what,
Speaker 4: I'm just saying, they're gonna get him if you don't
Speaker 4: like pony up a better prospect. And I feel like
Speaker 4: they could have been that that deal could have been
Speaker 4: met like someone else. I mean, I know the Padres
Speaker 4: don't necessarily have any other prospects because the aj Preller
Speaker 4: has given away everyone, even though even though somehow they
Speaker 4: still ended up getting mis and Robbie Ray today, which
Speaker 4: we'll talk about a little bit. But I mean the
Speaker 4: fact that you know, there's I don't know, like the Yankees,
Speaker 4: I mean they they couldn't pony up some guys for
Speaker 4: schoobl or I don't know, I mean the Red Sox, anyone,
Speaker 4: any team. And when I say any team, I'm going
Speaker 4: through my I'm going through my roll decks in my
Speaker 4: head of all the teams that are actually attempting to win,
Speaker 4: and it's like four teams. So that is an issue.
Speaker 4: I will I will admit it's a bit of an
Speaker 4: issue that you have teams like the Brewers who are,
Speaker 4: like you know, probably the favorite outside of the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: which is basically that's basically what the odds now are.
Speaker 4: It's like the Dodgers are the favorite to win everything.
Speaker 4: Who else is there? So the who else is there?
Speaker 4: The Brewers, I mean, I guess they don't want to
Speaker 4: touch Jesus made, which you know, I mean, I mean fair,
Speaker 4: But like Scooble and Mesiroski, you put those guys together,
Speaker 4: and it's like, I mean, I know that the Brewers
Speaker 4: don't want the Brewers like want to hold on to
Speaker 4: their prospects, but like Scooble can make I mean Scooble
Speaker 4: coming in after MESIASKI in a three game playoff to
Speaker 4: get to the to get to the to get to
Speaker 4: the four game playoffs. I mean it's like you have,
Speaker 4: or you have or even like a seven game series
Speaker 4: you have, like you know, Scooball and Meserrowski going four
Speaker 4: times total, Like that's huge. I mean, like, don't you
Speaker 4: want to win? I mean, I know Jesus Jesu's Maid
Speaker 4: is supposed to be incredible, but it's like I'm ponying up.
Speaker 4: I'm I'm giving whatever it takes to get Scooble if
Speaker 4: I know he's on the table, and I feel like
Speaker 4: no one else, no other teams did that, Like no
Speaker 4: other teams were like, We're gonna give you whatever it
Speaker 4: takes to get schoo Ball. I mean, unless unless they're
Speaker 4: I'm wrong, but I mean, it doesn't it obviously isn't.
Speaker 4: That wasn't the case because you know they didn't the
Speaker 4: Tigers didn't get whatever it took. I mean they got
Speaker 4: they got. I mean, you know, one guy, really, I
Speaker 4: don't know what rever Ryan. I honestly have a major Also.
Speaker 4: I mean, this goes back to what I've been saying
Speaker 4: for years, but I have major questions about any Dodgers
Speaker 4: prospect because I really think that they're paying off their
Speaker 4: prospect people. They're paying off prospect writers to make their
Speaker 4: prospects seem better. I don't. I gotta Actually, I'm gonna
Speaker 4: I'm gonna do a sting operation and have the itch.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get the itch on the phone and We're
Speaker 4: gonna do a sting operation. I'm gonna pretend like I'm
Speaker 4: a Dodgers guy. I'm gonna call up Itch and I'm
Speaker 4: gonna be like, hey, I'm I'm calling here from the Dodgers,
Speaker 4: and I'm I'm wondering if you could boost up some
Speaker 4: of our prospects. I give you. I give you a
Speaker 4: couple of hundred every every prospect writer I think knows
Speaker 4: the Dodgers the front office in some way. I think
Speaker 4: I think the front office is paying off people. It's like,
Speaker 4: come on, man, this is not real. How did the
Speaker 4: Dodgers get Scooball. It's ridiculous anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think they reverse like inflated andy pies.
Speaker 2: They're like, no, he's terrible, you don't want him, you know,
Speaker 2: he's he's he's boring, like maybe he's a backup outfielder
Speaker 2: for us at some point, like then that's what he is,
Speaker 2: and then like boosted everybody else up and just hiding
Speaker 2: pies behind all the other all the other guys that
Speaker 2: they wanted to.
Speaker 4: Train, like man, serious, seriously, like absolute crack pots. I
Speaker 4: mean it's crazy, I mean it, you know, I mean
Speaker 4: in fairness though, I mean the Dodgers prospects, like you know,
Speaker 4: I mean they have, you know, some of them have
Speaker 4: turned out, like Miguel Fargus looks good this year, finally
Speaker 4: after like four years of Vargas looks good and the
Speaker 4: guys the NAT's goot, actually, I don't even know those
Speaker 4: are Padre guys, don't. I think that's it. I think
Speaker 4: Vargas is the only guy that's actually worth anyway, scooball
Speaker 4: going to the Dodgers from a fantasy standpoint, He's good.
Speaker 4: He's good. That's it, you know. I mean stadium is
Speaker 4: a little bit worse, but it's not gonna matter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's been better on the road this year.
Speaker 3: For what it's worth.
Speaker 1: That's not for the career, but for this year he
Speaker 1: has been I will say I'll just say this up
Speaker 1: and I've said it before, I do worry when people
Speaker 1: go from one league to the other. That being said,
Speaker 1: Triak Schoobles the best picture in baseball. I'm not concerned
Speaker 1: about him. So congratulations. Also, you know, if if you're
Speaker 1: out of your leagues and now you're bored of baseball
Speaker 1: because the Dodgers are set up with maybe the greatest
Speaker 1: rotation we've ever.
Speaker 3: Seen, then I hope that you're in the rass ball.
Speaker 4: So actually, no, wait before you say that, before you
Speaker 4: plug that. The Dodgers actually just got They just got better.
Speaker 4: The Dodgers actually got better while we were on this.
Speaker 4: We're recording this Monday, right after the trade deadline, and
Speaker 4: the Dodgers just actually got better. They optioned Sheian to
Speaker 4: the Miners, So not only did they get Scooble, but
Speaker 4: they also got rid of Emichian. So you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: really like a double whammy of positivity there for the Dodgers. Anyway,
Speaker 4: go ahead, sorry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, nothing like interrupting the plugging of site
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Speaker 3: Gray, I appreciate it.
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Speaker 3: Gray, the Dodgers get to reak school ball.
Speaker 1: I'm praying that I can somehow manage to get him
Speaker 1: for my you L only team, because it's just getting
Speaker 1: it's getting destroyed at this point.
Speaker 4: I actually, uh so uh Itch is uh itches, it
Speaker 4: is chasing me in the ale. Only and I saw
Speaker 4: today he had to drop to Reek school ball, so
Speaker 4: I said, I sent the message to him. It was
Speaker 4: I just I just screenshot uh th reak schoolball. Uh
Speaker 4: Itch drops to Reek schoolball. I just screenshot that and
Speaker 4: sent it to like a terrible person. I actually I know.
Speaker 4: Only I was. I'm trying to figure out how I
Speaker 4: can get to Reak schoolball. I don't think I'm gonna
Speaker 4: be ill to though. I think I think I I'm
Speaker 4: gonna try, Like everyone should ob me.
Speaker 1: No, don't everybody, please don't try. You should just let
Speaker 1: me have him.
Speaker 4: I have out of out of one hundred dollars, I
Speaker 4: still have like ninety eight dollars, like because we have
Speaker 4: zero dollar bids. So it's like, why bother unless, like
Speaker 4: you know, some people do bother to spend money. But
Speaker 4: I held on to ninety eight of the hundred, so
Speaker 4: I think. But I think someone else has one hundred.
Speaker 4: So I'm like, I'm gonna I'm gonna lose. I think
Speaker 4: I'm gonna lose Scuba by like a dollar or something.
Speaker 4: I just feel like it. I know it's gonna happen. Anyway,
Speaker 4: go ahead.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the person who hasn't spent any money is I mean,
Speaker 1: he's in first place Gray, he's leading, he's leading, hitting
Speaker 1: by like ten points across the board by him everybody,
Speaker 1: and he's about to get scuball to add to his
Speaker 1: pitching staff, which was, you know, not good, it was,
Speaker 1: it was really bad pitching staff. But he's about to
Speaker 1: askuable because he has one hundred dollars of of fab left,
Speaker 1: which I can't you know, I'm not I'm not spending
Speaker 1: all of my FAB, but I can't even imagine not
Speaker 1: spending it leads a couple of bucks here or there,
Speaker 1: like you have a one hundred dollars left.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's in first place. Good for him, hopefully,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 1: He lost half his roster, like I'm losing half my
Speaker 1: roster and it'll be a little fairer.
Speaker 4: I almost feel like to actually make this a more
Speaker 4: of a strategy conversation versus us just talking about Yeah,
Speaker 4: I think there I think there's actually something to people.
Speaker 4: Well now it's too late, obviously, we're in August talking
Speaker 4: about this, but I think there actually might be something
Speaker 4: to like, if you're if you don't hold your full
Speaker 4: amount like there's really no point in holding that as
Speaker 4: much as like I held ninety eight dollars, like I
Speaker 4: could have spent thirty or forty dollars along the way, Like,
Speaker 4: there's no point if you're not going to be the
Speaker 4: top guy or or or woman on the UH with
Speaker 4: for FAB. If you're not gonna have the most FAB dollars,
Speaker 4: there's no point in uh in keeping as much as
Speaker 4: I have. So I don't know, keep keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: I guess, Yeah, obviously, drop full budget on Tree scooble.
Speaker 1: If you have zero dollar pickups you and if you
Speaker 1: don't in an only league, spend it, because what are
Speaker 1: you going to pick up in an only league that's
Speaker 1: gonna help you more than Tree Schoobluh Layne.
Speaker 4: Thomas, Now.
Speaker 3: He's on my pickups lists. Great, he's on our note slits,
Speaker 3: But no, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think so while we're with Detroit, we might
Speaker 1: as well give them a little positive news here.
Speaker 3: Max Clark was called up ninety.
Speaker 1: Games, eleven home runs, one stone bases hit two seventy six,
Speaker 1: three eighty six, four point thirty four at Triple A.
Speaker 3: He has three games in the majors.
Speaker 1: He's hitting five hundred and fifteen plate appearances with a
Speaker 1: home run in that in that mix and three walks.
Speaker 3: Max fuck looks pretty good here.
Speaker 4: Gray, Yeah, no, he does. And also the fact that
Speaker 4: he has a lot of speed. Uh, you know, because
Speaker 4: speed transfers from one level to the next. Obviously they don't.
Speaker 4: They don't take away guy's cleats when he gets promoted
Speaker 4: to the major leagues. So I mean the fact that
Speaker 4: he has speed, I think he's gonna be worthwhile in uh,
Speaker 4: in just about every league. I actually I've been on
Speaker 4: him pretty aggressively in all my uh in all my leagues,
Speaker 4: twelve team mix leagues and uh and Shallower. I think
Speaker 4: if you're if you're looking for a guy who could
Speaker 4: make a difference, uh, there's probably I mean maybe by
Speaker 4: the Cardinals, uh bias comes up, But I feel like
Speaker 4: Clark's gonna be even better than him. Yeah, So anyway,
Speaker 4: I would I would say grab Clark because if he's
Speaker 4: got you know, right now, he's I think they're batting
Speaker 4: him like seventh, which is really stupid. So hopefully he
Speaker 4: moves to the top of the lineup. He makes great contact,
Speaker 4: he has a little bit of pop, has amazing speed,
Speaker 4: definitely a difference maker in every league, so I would
Speaker 4: grab him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the only guys I can think of that might
Speaker 1: be then maybe we see along the way is Leo
Speaker 1: Debrees and Jesus Made and that would be like a
Speaker 1: September call up at best, I think. And that's really
Speaker 1: about it that I can think of from you know
Speaker 1: who we would see this year. Like you said, Jess
Speaker 1: Bias are from U Saint Louis Uh.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 1: It's not Jess, it's Joshua Bias m from Saint Louis Us.
Speaker 3: Obviously he'd be.
Speaker 4: On that list who's made Joshua Bias Yeah, yes.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you. And maybe Walker Jenkins maybe we
Speaker 1: can see him. So those are those are probably the
Speaker 1: four guys I would look at. But take you know what,
Speaker 1: while you have the opportunity to pay at Clark, if
Speaker 1: you do have that opportunity, why wait for somebody else.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's pretty much what I was about to say too,
Speaker 4: Like if you're if you're like you know at this point,
Speaker 4: if if these guys could really make a difference on
Speaker 4: your team, the guy who's up now is going to
Speaker 4: make the biggest difference, because, like you know, it's not
Speaker 4: like if you get Joshua Bias or uh Jyeshu's made
Speaker 4: or any or Jenkins or whoever in September. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, at that point it may not matter anyway.
Speaker 4: Like the difference a guy can make in September. It's
Speaker 4: like pick up, you know, Eli White, who's hot for
Speaker 4: versus like, you know, random rookie call up or something.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I would, I would grab Jack, I would
Speaker 4: grab Max Clark everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, let's talk about the highest rated person on the
Speaker 1: never mind, that's that's not where we're going. Great, I
Speaker 1: had the wrong note here. I am sorry, but we're
Speaker 1: just going to keep keep going with it. Houston, it's
Speaker 1: a Dalton Marshaw Toronto gets Spencer arra Getty. This is
Speaker 1: a veteran's trade, which is usually pretty rare in this situation.
Speaker 3: But any thoughts on this one?
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I you know, I was actually I was,
Speaker 4: you know, I was doing the write up for the
Speaker 4: trade deadline, all the different moves, and I think this
Speaker 4: was like the only one that really felt like a
Speaker 4: veteran's trade, like so few. Maybe you know, it depends
Speaker 4: on how you feel about like Connor Norby or something.
Speaker 4: But yeah, for the most part, like varsh for Araghetti
Speaker 4: was like the only real big like you know, veterans
Speaker 4: move players anyway, that doesn't mean anything, I guess, but
Speaker 4: you know, it was just curious, curious, he says, well,
Speaker 4: he scratches his chin. Uh So anyway, So varshow finally
Speaker 4: feels that Astro's gap in their outfield that they've been
Speaker 4: struggling to fill for it feels like years since Billy Hatcher. No.
Speaker 4: So uh and var Show is good. I mean, I
Speaker 4: actually I wrote a sleeper post about him in the preseason,
Speaker 4: so I actually I really like var Show. His biggest
Speaker 4: issue is probably staying healthy. But he's good power speed,
Speaker 4: doesn't really strike out much. K rate's actually down a
Speaker 4: considerable amount this year. Uh So, as long as he's healthy,
Speaker 4: he's good. As for Spencer Raghetty is like, I mean,
Speaker 4: he's he's fine if he's healthy, and for a streamer
Speaker 4: in a deeper league, he's fine if he's healthy. But
Speaker 4: he's not even healthy now, so it's whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it's it's gonna be a little bit weird.
Speaker 1: He was really good at home, and he's kind of
Speaker 1: always been really good at home and not got good
Speaker 1: at all on the road, so a lot of pictures
Speaker 1: are that way. I don't think it necessarily means he's
Speaker 1: gonna just fall apart and be useless, but it's kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting thing because Houston's left field's a little interesting.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that completely translates in Toronto, but
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not totally concerned with it. Freddy Peralta
Speaker 1: heading over to Tampa Bay, New York. It's Aiden Smith,
Speaker 1: Gary Gill and a million petre four nine nine era
Speaker 1: A one four eight whip. But if there's any team
Speaker 1: that can fix a picture, it might be Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4: Uh. Yeah, No, Freddie Perlta probably uh in only two months,
Speaker 4: we'll figure out a way to challenge Cam Schlittler for
Speaker 4: the al Cy Young because because of what the Rays
Speaker 4: do to him. I mean, there's the Rays will fix
Speaker 4: Freddy Peralta that you can guarantee. I Actually, I feel
Speaker 4: like the it would be a fascinating uh experiment, like uh,
Speaker 4: you know, like a uh somewhat of a shock maybe
Speaker 4: to some people, but it would be like, uh, Freddy
Speaker 4: Peralta gets traded to the Rays and the Mets, all
Speaker 4: the Mets ask back is there the rays pitching coach.
Speaker 4: Then see then we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Let's see.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be fascinating, that would be a big yeah.
Speaker 4: I don't think, uh, you know, I don't think Freddy
Speaker 4: Peralta is like uh, I mean, I don't think he's
Speaker 4: unusable on the rays because the rays are you know,
Speaker 4: like joke. But the rays do fix people. I mean
Speaker 4: they made Griffin Jacks look great. So I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't think he's unusable, but I do. I mean, coming
Speaker 4: into this year, I had serious problems with Freddy Peralta.
Speaker 4: I still have a lot of issues, Like his walks
Speaker 4: are up, his k's are way down, Like it's not
Speaker 4: just a matter of being unlucky and being on the Mets.
Speaker 4: I think there's bigger issues. But the rays. I mean,
Speaker 4: you know, it's like he had he sort of had
Speaker 4: these issues when he was on the Brewers and he
Speaker 4: was like a three seven to five ish era guy.
Speaker 4: So I think Freddy Perolta can get back to three
Speaker 4: seven five and he's currently at like five, so he
Speaker 4: can be better. But I don't think he's like, I
Speaker 4: don't think he's suddenly gonna be an ace. I mean,
Speaker 4: for two months, anything can happen. But I you know,
Speaker 4: I think Freddy Parolta brings you know, solid innings, which
Speaker 4: helps the Rays in for real baseball, and I think
Speaker 4: he's gonna be, like, you know, maybe at best a
Speaker 4: number four fantasy starter, where I still I don't think,
Speaker 4: you know, unless he's completely fixed, which I guess is possible.
Speaker 4: But I mean he's got real issues under the hood
Speaker 4: that I really I mean, we joke, but I kind
Speaker 4: of think I don't know if the Rays can really
Speaker 4: fix everything that's wrong here. I mean maybe maybe, maybe,
Speaker 4: maybe I'm wrong, Like, you know, the stuff still looks
Speaker 4: fine as far as like velocity and stuff, so I
Speaker 4: mean it's possible, but I mean there he does look
Speaker 4: pretty bad as of right now going to the Rays,
Speaker 4: so we'll see. I mean, you know, it'd be quite
Speaker 4: the feather in the Ray's cap if they are able
Speaker 4: to fix them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it would be incredible. And he's
Speaker 1: it'd be one thing if you're like, oh, he's he's
Speaker 1: gotten it together over the seats and it's actually getting
Speaker 1: like Waterson worst by start. You know, if we're just
Speaker 1: looking at it, it looks it feels like there's a
Speaker 1: mechanical issue somewhere that maybe the Rays have kind of
Speaker 1: been scouting and see what they can fix. And there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of luck here too. I mean, he
Speaker 1: only has a sixty eight and a half percent left
Speaker 1: on base. He's a career seventy five percent, is a
Speaker 1: three thirteen Babbitt, He's career two seventy one. So I'm
Speaker 1: not saying this all luck driven, because he's just not
Speaker 1: been as as good as he has before. But there's
Speaker 1: definitely an element of luck here. So you know, again,
Speaker 1: maybe just getting to Tampa Bay helps some of that.
Speaker 1: But I'm with you, it's not like he's going to
Speaker 1: turn into, you know, top fifteen pitcher Freddie Perrault overnight,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia gets Luisa Rise and Caleb Killian while the Giants
Speaker 1: get Ramon Marquez and Marty Gare.
Speaker 3: What are your thoughts here? Killian gonna just fall into
Speaker 3: the bullpen.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily think he's going to be in the
Speaker 1: running for closer at least immediately, And of course their
Speaker 1: eyes should slot in somewhere near the top of the lineup.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, unlike past years when the Phillies would
Speaker 4: make a deadline trade at least this year they have Duran,
Speaker 4: so there's no chance Killian gets saved or even is
Speaker 4: within sneezing distance of the ninth inning. I wouldn't think they.
Speaker 4: Thankfully the Phillies don't need Caleb Killian. They traded it
Speaker 4: for a guy who, thankfully they do not need, because
Speaker 4: Killians has got some issues. I actually, I think the
Speaker 4: Arise thing is a pretty solid trade for real baseball
Speaker 4: and for fantasy. I can't, like, I can you know,
Speaker 4: I guess there's a few guys, but he's like one
Speaker 4: of those guys that's like, I mean, wherever he goes,
Speaker 4: it's you're getting Luisa Rise, like you're not. You're getting
Speaker 4: a better player no matter where he goes. Maybe Fenway,
Speaker 4: but very but other than that, I can't imagine a
Speaker 4: Rise ever going anywhere where. It's like shockingly different version
Speaker 4: of the guy who you who you think you have.
Speaker 4: It's like, you know, very little power, a little speed,
Speaker 4: a little, very little, but a little and you know,
Speaker 4: good average. That's that's a Rise.
Speaker 1: Yeah, somehow less speed than Josh Naylor. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: say out to everybody, somehow you have less steels than
Speaker 1: Josh Naylor. Somehow in this world we live.
Speaker 3: In, No, I like a rise.
Speaker 1: I don't know if he sluts in you know, one
Speaker 1: through five in that lineup, but he should be somewhere
Speaker 1: at the top.
Speaker 3: And like you said, he's just can he give you
Speaker 3: what he gives you?
Speaker 1: The biggest difference is probably where he what lineup Spotty
Speaker 1: sits in in regards to what you get from him.
Speaker 3: Rest of the season, Luis Garcia r.
Speaker 1: Goes to the Yankees, which hurts hurts my NL only team.
Speaker 1: Thanks thanks again? Uh back going back in the trade
Speaker 1: Jovanni CRUs Jake Bird, Jack Severt, and Ben Grabil. We'll
Speaker 1: just group the Yankees in here. They're also getting Helio
Speaker 1: Ramos and Henry lelan Llane and Caden Kent.
Speaker 4: So Henrylaine, I wonder if he's related to Jack m'laine.
Speaker 4: Caden Kent is related to Jack Kent. He's uh, he's
Speaker 4: his son, Okay, not Clark Kent No, not Clark Kent No,
Speaker 4: and not Kent University either. Uh. Lou got you got you,
Speaker 4: Louis Garcia Junior, man, I mean, talk about a perfect
Speaker 4: park for a guy. I can't imagine a better park
Speaker 4: for Luis Garcia Junior. It's really like, I'm not a
Speaker 4: Yankee homer by any stretch of the imagination, but that's
Speaker 4: a that's a perfect situation for him, like going to
Speaker 4: that park, sitting in the middle of that lineup, and
Speaker 4: then even like Aaron Judge, you assume he's gonna return
Speaker 4: at some point, right, I mean he is gonna he
Speaker 4: is gonna come back, right, I don't know. Maybe, but
Speaker 4: Aaron Judge comes back, then Luis Garcia Junior could potentially
Speaker 4: sit in the three hole behind him Aaron Judge being
Speaker 4: a two hole and Ben Rice moving up to one,
Speaker 4: or maybe Louis Garcia Junior moves down to clean up
Speaker 4: Cody Bellinger returns. I mean, there could be he might
Speaker 4: move from the three hole. He's not He's not gonna
Speaker 4: move very far. And that's a fantastic spot for him.
Speaker 4: Like there's I can't imagine a better spot for Louis
Speaker 4: Garcia Junior. So I'm I mean, I'm a fan of
Speaker 4: him as it is, but I think like his value
Speaker 4: has gone, has his values basically as high as it's
Speaker 4: ever gonna be. Going to Yankee Stadium and and the
Speaker 4: Yankees lineup really like you know, the nets weren't bad.
Speaker 4: Don't get me wrong. The That's lineup, that is, their
Speaker 4: pitching had some issues, but the Net's lineup was really
Speaker 4: solid actually, But Louis Garcia Junior in a also it
Speaker 4: will be a solid lineup right now. It's obviously a
Speaker 4: little iffy without Judge, but it's it's good enough for
Speaker 4: him considering the park upgrade. So yeah, I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: an absolute fan of this. Uh Louis Garcia Junior and
Speaker 4: uh Helio Ramos. I mean, you know, the one thing
Speaker 4: that really sticks with me with Ramos is like he
Speaker 4: was the first guy, the first righty to hit a
Speaker 4: home run into McCovey Cove, which is, you know, obviously
Speaker 4: for lefties it's a lot easier. For rightys, it's incredibly,
Speaker 4: incredibly difficult. The fact that he Helio Ramos hit a
Speaker 4: home run into McCovey Cove shows you the kind of
Speaker 4: power he has. So I and he's a righty, which
Speaker 4: the Yankees don't have. The Yankees decided not to have
Speaker 4: rightys this year. So the fact that Hilio Ramos is
Speaker 4: a righty, he will sit also somewhere in the middle
Speaker 4: of that lineup. I'm assuming even when Judge returns, like,
Speaker 4: you know, you figure Spencer Jones is gonna be bye bye,
Speaker 4: you know, Trent Grisham hopefully moves out of the leadoff
Speaker 4: spot when Judge returns. Hilio Ramos stays in like the
Speaker 4: four or five spot in the lineup, And I like
Speaker 4: it for him too. I think it's a solid move
Speaker 4: for Hiliyo Ramos, and you know him even more so
Speaker 4: than Luis Garcia Junior. I mean, Ramos was really in
Speaker 4: a terrible lineup in an awful park. So now he's
Speaker 4: going to a better lineup, not not great, but better
Speaker 4: and and will continue to get better when jud returns,
Speaker 4: hopefully knock on wood and a much better park. So yeah,
Speaker 4: hili Oramos is also I think a pretty decent sized
Speaker 4: uptick in fantasy value. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's also the possibility that the Yankees, I
Speaker 1: don't know, demote or maybe just wave Trent Grisham at
Speaker 1: some point, because how what does he have that allows
Speaker 1: him to sit at the top of that lineup?
Speaker 3: Gray, Like this.
Speaker 1: Is getting absolutely absurd, Like he is a two to
Speaker 1: eleven hitter. Yes, he takes a walk, but he's just
Speaker 1: barely over three hundred on base It's not like he's
Speaker 1: a three point fifty on bass, four hundred on base
Speaker 1: like walk type of guy. He's sitting like one eighty
Speaker 1: in the leadoff spot. Gray, Like, what what does.
Speaker 3: Trent Grisham have on? I don't I don't even know
Speaker 3: who you needed on at this point.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think cash Man. I think Cashman's pulling the
Speaker 4: strings there. I don't think Boone really has anything to say.
Speaker 4: I I also I feel like Grisham is hopefully I
Speaker 4: mean again hopefully that he's Grisham's out of the leadoff spot,
Speaker 4: hopefully once Judge, and once Judge returns, and if not Judge,
Speaker 4: at least Bellinger Judge M. Bellinger will return at some point.
Speaker 4: Hopefully Grisham gets pumped out of there. It would be ridiculous.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm not sure
Speaker 4: right right now because of the lineup been so depleted,
Speaker 4: I don't even know, Like who do you move up there? Really?
Speaker 4: I mean I could see Ramos used to hit lead
Speaker 4: off for the Giants, So I mean I would put
Speaker 4: Ramos probably lead off, ben Rice second, Louis lu Gaja third,
Speaker 4: and then maybe Jazz and then maybe Grisham or Caballero.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean I would probably move Grisham out
Speaker 4: of leadoff spot too, but it's a little bit more
Speaker 4: iffy without Cody and Judge there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I.
Speaker 1: Would probably just move Grisham off the roster. But that's
Speaker 1: that's me great. I'm you know, I think outside the box.
Speaker 3: A little bit.
Speaker 4: There.
Speaker 1: Moving over to Cleveland, they get Joe Adell, they they
Speaker 1: give up Jacob Kozart Gray.
Speaker 3: This is Adele still has a year of control.
Speaker 1: I'm man so baffled by what what is happening here
Speaker 1: at this trade deadline? Like, can you make any sense
Speaker 1: of of this?
Speaker 4: No? No, the best I have, the best I have
Speaker 4: in my in my right up. I you know, I
Speaker 4: say that the Angels just really they they missed having
Speaker 4: Zach Cozart and they wanted to, you know, they wanted
Speaker 4: to get a coz Art back. So that's that's all.
Speaker 4: I really, that's the only reason I can imagine you
Speaker 4: trade Joe Adell for Jacob Cozart, a guy, by the way,
Speaker 4: who's completely made up Jacob. I mean, it's like, I
Speaker 4: feel like you could have been like, oh yeah, Joe
Speaker 4: Adell got You could have said to the Angels. I'll
Speaker 4: trade you Joe Adell for beat On.
Speaker 3: We'll take we were finally.
Speaker 4: To learn how to do a podcast.
Speaker 3: I mean we spiked Joe Adell's created long enough. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we can let him go.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I mean, I you know, I think
Speaker 4: Joe Adell was actually one of my top buys for
Speaker 4: the second half of the season. He was, he was
Speaker 4: definitely he was definitely struggling a bit this year. But
Speaker 4: I mean still, I mean, because the Angels incredibly, they
Speaker 4: promote people when they're like twelve, So Joe Adell is
Speaker 4: still only twenty seven years old. So I mean, I
Speaker 4: still think, I still think very highly of Joe Adell.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's still like a guy who I would
Speaker 4: be buying in on. Angels Stadium is actually one of
Speaker 4: the worst stadiums in baseball they hit at, so I mean,
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say progressive is great, but it's you know,
Speaker 4: it's got to be better than Angel Stadium. Adele hits
Speaker 4: the ball incredible hard. He doesn't really have strikeout issues
Speaker 4: like he had. He makes contact, So I yeah, I
Speaker 4: still like Joe Adell a lot. I'm not really sure
Speaker 4: why the Angels got If you're gonna if you're the Angels,
Speaker 4: you're gonna get rid of anyone. It's like there's guys
Speaker 4: on that FROs turn to get rid of. Joe Adell
Speaker 4: was not the guy, but you know they did it.
Speaker 4: So I mean, the the lineup isn't that much better
Speaker 4: for Joe Adell. It's better, definitely better because the Angels
Speaker 4: were really bad. But yeah, I mean it's a little
Speaker 4: bit better, Parks a little bit better. But I think
Speaker 4: it's really a matter of whether or not Joe Adell
Speaker 4: being great. It's gonna be It's gonna matter of whether
Speaker 4: or not, like you know, everything's clicking for Joe Adell,
Speaker 4: and I don't think any environment really is gonna matter. Maybe,
Speaker 4: you know, maybe the Guardians are a smart organization. Maybe
Speaker 4: they can help him when it comes to like you know,
Speaker 4: he goes is into a slump or something, maybe they
Speaker 4: can help him with that, where the Angels I think
Speaker 4: are completely rudderless. So yeah, I mean, maybe this is
Speaker 4: a good place for Joe Adell beyond like you know,
Speaker 4: the Tangibles. But I I do I like Jo Adell
Speaker 4: in general. I think he's probably he's still he's still
Speaker 4: a bie in my mind. I like I like that
Speaker 4: he's you know anything, any whenever you get out of
Speaker 4: Anaheim as a person who's been you, if you can
Speaker 4: get out Anaheim, it's a positive.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I'm surprised they didn't trade zach Netto
Speaker 1: for like a yo yo and a ball in a
Speaker 1: cup with a string attached.
Speaker 4: So you know, it is it is what it is,
Speaker 4: good for, good for The absolutely nutty thing is well,
Speaker 4: we haven't talked about yet, but I mean the Angels
Speaker 4: I think got a decent return for Jose Siriano, Like,
Speaker 4: I mean, the Jay's even tried. They probably they probably
Speaker 4: could have gotten a lot cheaper anyway. Uh yeah, Joe
Speaker 4: Dell's decent. The Guardians also got who Nate Nate Lowe
Speaker 4: not not Nate low Nate Lowe, Uh Nate Lowe is.
Speaker 4: Actually it's sad to say that this is uh, this
Speaker 4: was supposed to be Josh Bell. I mean, that's that's
Speaker 4: really the random first baseman who goes to a new
Speaker 4: team and sucks. That's Josh Bell's music. Man. You got
Speaker 4: you gotta let Josh Bell go with that. Uh So yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean Nate Lowe is, I mean, he's fine for
Speaker 4: what he is. He's gonna be he'll be uh, you know,
Speaker 4: he's gonna be a platoon guy. Uh occasionally out out
Speaker 4: for I guess Manzardo. He'll be I mean in for
Speaker 4: in for Manzardo, or he'll be in for Chase the
Speaker 4: latter maybe. I mean, I don't know. He's he'll get
Speaker 4: he'll get some of bad, but he's a platoon guy,
Speaker 4: so it's you know, he's fine. I wouldn't I wouldn't,
Speaker 4: you know, break the bank in an AL only league
Speaker 4: to get Nate Low. I mean, if you really are struggling,
Speaker 4: I mean, you know AL only or NL only or
Speaker 4: tough leagues to find guys off of waivers. So if
Speaker 4: you're really struggling, I mean I would bid on Nate
Speaker 4: Low in an AL only if I really need a
Speaker 4: corner man. But I wouldn't expect much with this move.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna get that many at bats.
Speaker 1: Yeah, since you brought that up grade, let's let's run
Speaker 1: back real quick. Let's I meant to ask you on
Speaker 1: each guy you know. Let's start with Freddy Peralta. He
Speaker 1: moves you know to the AL What are you spending
Speaker 1: on him in an AL only.
Speaker 4: Uh Freddy Parolta would probably be out of a hundred.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's all this is depending on how badly
Speaker 4: you need a guy, Like if you really need a pitcher,
Speaker 4: but Freddy Perolta al only assume one hundred dollars, I mean,
Speaker 4: i'd probably go to like, i'd probably go to twenty one,
Speaker 4: between seventeen and twenty one probably if I are you
Speaker 4: just doing this because we're in an AL only an
Speaker 4: NL lay together, just are you trying to get my
Speaker 4: bids out of me? Yeah, I would say seventeen to
Speaker 4: twenty one for Freddy Peralta. But it's really dependent on
Speaker 4: how much you need a guy, And that's out of
Speaker 4: one hundred. If you only have, say sixty, you gotta
Speaker 4: you know, you gotta pro rate that back a little bit.
Speaker 4: You can't like it, I mean, you know. But it's
Speaker 4: also like it's a matter of whether or not you
Speaker 4: have zero dollar bids. If you have zero dollar bids,
Speaker 4: then you can bid a little bit more. And also
Speaker 4: if you're like, you know, if you're an AL only
Speaker 4: an NL only and you're like at the trade deadline,
Speaker 4: this is really the last time you're gonna be able
Speaker 4: to get guys like it's not like other guys are
Speaker 4: really coming into the league necessarily, like outside of like
Speaker 4: rookie call ups, and those guys are probably rostered. So yeah,
Speaker 4: seventeen to twenty one for Freddy Parolta, I'll say roughly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fine with me.
Speaker 1: I would say I would even go up to thirty
Speaker 1: if you're sitting on one hundred and you're just kind
Speaker 1: of like spreading the money around. Obviously, if there's something
Speaker 1: you need, specifically drop your money on what you need.
Speaker 3: But let's move on to.
Speaker 1: Luis Garcia Junior. He's the next one who traded, and
Speaker 1: we can move size. We can also add Ilio Ramos
Speaker 1: into that evaluation.
Speaker 4: Uh, Louis Garcia Junior, I would probably break the bank.
Speaker 4: I mean you have to assume, like unlike Freddy Peralta,
Speaker 4: who's a you know, a pitcher, so you only have
Speaker 4: nine spots. I mean you probably need a picture and
Speaker 4: in a al only but if you but you definitely
Speaker 4: could use a utility guy, I mean Louis Garcia juniors
Speaker 4: at worse, a utility guy in a lineup for any
Speaker 4: team al only. Wise, I'd probably go to I mean,
Speaker 4: I think you break the bank really like It depends on,
Speaker 4: you know, kind of how how much you need to
Speaker 4: spread money around. Like if you need Freddy Perlta and
Speaker 4: Louis Garcia Junior, then you have to sort of balance it.
Speaker 4: But I'd probably go to like eighty eighty seven out
Speaker 4: of one hundred for Louis Garcia Junior. I mean, I
Speaker 4: just I would put it all down. Really, I mean,
Speaker 4: that's that he would be the guy, right, I mean,
Speaker 4: because I don't think anyone else really moved to the
Speaker 4: AL that's gonna be better than that.
Speaker 3: No, there's nobody better.
Speaker 1: There is a lot more movement to the Alan the NL.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think it's kind of if you
Speaker 1: want Freddy Perlter, you want Louis Garcia Junior, you drop
Speaker 1: all of your money and hope that you get them.
Speaker 1: I think the other way to go about it is,
Speaker 1: you know, you can make those beds and see if
Speaker 1: you get those guys. But then maybe you spread that,
Speaker 1: you know, say, again you have one hundred, maybe it's
Speaker 1: forty dollars, thirty dollars, ten, ten, ten on some of
Speaker 1: the other guys and kind of round out your roster.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, totally, no, I agree. I'm also kind of
Speaker 4: annoyed that the deadlines on Monday, because all these leagues
Speaker 4: are like weekly leagues, so you're losing an extra week
Speaker 4: of these guys, you know, because these you're not gonna
Speaker 4: be like get them in your lineup for this week
Speaker 4: and then Helio Ramos, I'd probably go to like sixty
Speaker 4: something sixty seven ish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you should regularly start and let you
Speaker 1: be a solid lineup at least once it's healthy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I have no problem, no problem spending up
Speaker 3: there either.
Speaker 1: Great, let's go ahead and move on to Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: where they get Liam Hicks. Seattle gets Brady Taylor, Jacob
Speaker 1: Christine and Santana Liam Hicks.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's.
Speaker 1: Great, and I think I put their team down wrong,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. It's definitely my I was reading it
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you put the wrong name in here.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I actually I feel like this is like, I mean,
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's like confirmation biased because I
Speaker 4: just assume the Rays are gonna make the smartest moves
Speaker 4: in the league, and it's just me just assuming that.
Speaker 4: So that's why I look at this as like such
Speaker 4: a great move. But I feel like this is the
Speaker 4: best move pound for pound, of any that anyone made
Speaker 4: throughout the whole deadline, Like for what the Rays need,
Speaker 4: Liam Hicks is a great contact hitter. The Rays love
Speaker 4: guys who make contact. They had a hole at catcher,
Speaker 4: like Liam Hicks should be on the Yankees, Like I
Speaker 4: don't know what the Yankees are doing, like they're the
Speaker 4: Yankees are asleep at the wheel to not get Liam Hicks,
Speaker 4: Like he's really good and he's also like you know,
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I mean, I don't know, man, I
Speaker 4: don't think he's necessarily like you know, I don't think
Speaker 4: he's amazing for fantasy necessarily, and I don't think like
Speaker 4: his value has like skyrocketed with his move. But I think,
Speaker 4: pound for pound, I feel like this might be the
Speaker 4: best move that any team made, you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: Scooble's a great move. Obviously it's Treik Scooble, but for
Speaker 4: like what a team can spend and what they actually got,
Speaker 4: it feels like a really good move. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: like it for real baseball, for fantasy, it feels like whatever.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I think he is what he is.
Speaker 4: I think he's solid. I think he'll be fine on
Speaker 4: the Rays a little bit better, probably a little bit
Speaker 4: better lineup, and the park's probably about neutral of a change.
Speaker 3: You know, I think I think we.
Speaker 1: Need to see who Liam Hicks agent is, because he
Speaker 1: clearly has some good contract negotiating skills that he can
Speaker 1: never be traded.
Speaker 4: To a state.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have pay in compacts in he just doesn't.
Speaker 4: He doesn't go there, Gray because there like we uh
Speaker 4: and this week we have our sponsor H and R Block. Yeah, no,
Speaker 4: you're right, Yeah, it's that's a good point.
Speaker 3: No, no taxes never, never for Liam Hicks.
Speaker 1: I'm actually shocked by I mean, when be even trade
Speaker 1: Liam Hicks Like that feels weird, like he's a cost
Speaker 1: controlled petcher who's useful.
Speaker 3: Like it feels like a really weird, weird trade.
Speaker 4: But trade though it doesn't make sense, right, I.
Speaker 3: Really don't understand.
Speaker 4: I don't either. I don't understand some of these Some
Speaker 4: of these trades are like why why did you do that?
Speaker 4: I don't I don't get it. But I think it's
Speaker 4: a great trade for the Rays.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, next trade, Gray Seattle gets Taylor Ward sends
Speaker 1: back Alex hop Harrison kraling In brock More I really
Speaker 1: want to say, alex oh Hop, But that's that's for
Speaker 1: later on the show.
Speaker 5: That's that's too bad that the Angels didn't get Alex Hop,
Speaker 5: just like the uniform guy could have just putt masking
Speaker 5: tape over the ow, like.
Speaker 4: Oh there you go, man, You're you're good. Oh yeah.
Speaker 4: Taylor Ward is like, I mean, he's he's really struggled
Speaker 4: to find power this year. I I kind of feel
Speaker 4: like it's probably a situation of an injury or something like,
Speaker 4: I feel like there's something going on there injury wise.
Speaker 4: I could like his power is so dramatically down, his
Speaker 4: heart hit is down, his fly balls are down. I
Speaker 4: don't know, maybe you know, there's maybe it's a swing
Speaker 4: adjustment thing. I don't know. The launch angle's down, but
Speaker 4: it's still over fifteen. His power shouldn't be this far down,
Speaker 4: and his power's not gonna be helped by going to Seattle.
Speaker 4: So I don't think this is necessarily a great move
Speaker 4: for Taylor Ward. I don't think. I don't think it's
Speaker 4: like it's the end of his value completely. Like, I
Speaker 4: don't think he's become unusable in mixed leagues. Probably a
Speaker 4: bit of a struggle for a twelve team mix league,
Speaker 4: if he's now like hitting at the bottom or towards
Speaker 4: the bottom of the Mariner's lineup, the stadium's terrible. The
Speaker 4: bottom of the Mariner's lineup isn't great. So I mean,
Speaker 4: in a twelve team mix league, this might have put
Speaker 4: a little bit of a kabash on Taylor Ward's fantasy value.
Speaker 4: But for the most part, he's probably the same player
Speaker 4: as he was for you know, for the first four
Speaker 4: months of the season, which is like, you know, very
Speaker 4: very light pop, not really much speed, and struggling a
Speaker 4: bit on average. You know, he was really his value
Speaker 4: was really coming from runs, and those are kind of
Speaker 4: I think those are going to be out the window.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, as of the recording of this,
Speaker 4: we don't know how the new lineup is going to
Speaker 4: shake out. But I wouldn't be surprised if he's hitting
Speaker 4: towards the bottom of the Mariners lineup. So yeah, it
Speaker 4: may not be great for him, and he hasn't been
Speaker 4: good anyway, so yeah, I don't know. In a twelve
Speaker 4: team mix league, I could see looking elsewhere. In a
Speaker 4: fifteen team you're kind of stuck, I think, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I would agree with that. I mean in twelve team,
Speaker 1: maybe somebody shoot on him. But I really don't think
Speaker 1: every team needs to be owning Taylor Ward. He's he's
Speaker 1: been terrible and really like he's just not swinging the
Speaker 1: bad hard like he's a He's at less than three
Speaker 1: percent fast swing rate.
Speaker 4: Gray.
Speaker 3: He was seven point two last year, eight point four
Speaker 3: the year before. So either I think he has hit
Speaker 3: a huge age wall or he's hurt.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's injured. I think it sounds injury wise, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it sounds injury related. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I agreed over to the White Sox, who added just
Speaker 1: a bunch of people. They got Luis Castillo. They also
Speaker 1: got Jose or Keaty from Pittsburgh, Uascar Braza band from
Speaker 1: the Mets, uh, and then they also got Joey Park Gray.
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of pieces going back across. I think
Speaker 1: the only real interesting ones for us would be what
Speaker 1: happened in the Louis Castillo trade. They sent back sar
Speaker 1: Anthony Domingez, Nolan Jones, and Boston Smith, and I u's
Speaker 1: interesting to us very loosely when I talk about those
Speaker 1: three players.
Speaker 4: Oh man, I mean if I was Boston Smith, I
Speaker 4: would be like sar Ay Domingez and Nolan Jones. You
Speaker 4: guys go ahead of me. I don't whatever you guys have.
Speaker 4: I don't want I want to be separate from you. Man.
Speaker 4: I don't want to catch what you guys got. Oh man,
Speaker 4: Nolan Jones, Wow, Nolan Jones and uh. I think actually
Speaker 4: the White Sox also got Breton Doyle, didn't they? I
Speaker 4: think they did?
Speaker 3: Oh, yes they did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the White Sox got Breton Doyle and uh, Seattle
Speaker 4: got Nolan Jones. I mean the Rockies are just out
Speaker 4: there like they're just like sprinkling garbage around the league.
Speaker 4: They're just like, here you go, here's here's Victor vonnik Man.
Speaker 4: Here that take that guy.
Speaker 1: Bro I'm gonna ruin a bunch of really talented players
Speaker 1: by putting them in weird altitudes for their whole career
Speaker 1: and then shipping them out.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, the Rockies. Rockies are doing their own little experiment.
Speaker 4: I think Luis Castillia is totally broke. I would not
Speaker 4: go anywhere near him on the White Sox. You know,
Speaker 4: his k's are way down, he's got an over five array.
Speaker 4: I would I would stay away. Joey Bart is not
Speaker 4: not interesting to me outside of Ale only, he should
Speaker 4: he actually might be the White Sox starting catcher because
Speaker 4: of the injury to Kyle Teel. So I mean that
Speaker 4: still doesn't it still doesn't make Joey Bart really interesting.
Speaker 4: But I mean he for al only. You do what
Speaker 4: you have to do. So I could see Joey Bart
Speaker 4: in an ale only but outside of that, I don't
Speaker 4: want him. I don't want any of these guys really.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that's that's a fair fair statement there.
Speaker 3: Let's move on.
Speaker 1: Sampeio gets Marcelo Mayor, Boston gets Eric Miller.
Speaker 4: I mean Marcelo Mayor, I feel like, so he brings
Speaker 4: up some feelings in me because I'm like, so are
Speaker 4: people lying? Because I feel like there is a moment
Speaker 4: where it was like the Red Sox are like, oh no,
Speaker 4: he's He's found. He's a foundation piece, man, He's I
Speaker 4: gotta we gotta build around Marcelo Mayor, him and Rom
Speaker 4: and Anthony. We're building around those guys. Like what, how
Speaker 4: do you just drop Marcelo Mayor for Eric Miller? What?
Speaker 4: How does that happen? How do you trade him for
Speaker 4: Eric Miller? When you're like saying, what a like a
Speaker 4: future piece he's gonna be for like the future of
Speaker 4: your franchise. I don't get it, man, Marcelo Mayors, that's
Speaker 4: a confusing one to me. For fantasy, he's he's been
Speaker 4: injured for a while. Uh, he's not. He's not playing,
Speaker 4: so it's irrelevant for now. I would ignore him even
Speaker 4: and now only may I don't know, drop a dollar
Speaker 4: for him to see if he comes back this year.
Speaker 4: But I don't even know if he's coming back. I
Speaker 4: think he's more for the Giants, like looking ahead to
Speaker 4: the future, which you know, and we'll see on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, it does not make sense to me.
Speaker 1: It's all great feels like giving up on a young
Speaker 1: like you said, top prospect for them very very quickly.
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray moves to San Diego. They can't do nothing obviously.
Speaker 1: Also the Padres Casey Mize engaged workmen. How do you
Speaker 1: have anybody left in the miners to move and make
Speaker 1: anything happen.
Speaker 4: Actually, a J Preller sent Fernando Tatis junior Junior's rights,
Speaker 4: Robbie whatever. Whatever kids the the current players have, that's
Speaker 4: those guys will eventually they'll be after they're born. We'll
Speaker 4: see you know, Yeah, you know, I like Robbie Ray
Speaker 4: to a certain extent. I mean, the Giants Park is
Speaker 4: a good park, so it's not like going to Peco
Speaker 4: is going to help him like that tremendously, But it's
Speaker 4: you know, Robbie Ray always manages to be better for
Speaker 4: like the statue you need, then he has any right
Speaker 4: to be Like right now, he's got a three point
Speaker 4: zero eight ERA. He's really not that good this year,
Speaker 4: but he's still able to, you know, have the decent
Speaker 4: ratio of the decent era. So I mean that could change, obviously,
Speaker 4: I mean, regression could happen because the underlying stats aren't great.
Speaker 4: But he's you know, he goes out, he gives you
Speaker 4: six plus innings and usually keeps teams in the game,
Speaker 4: so I mean he's fine. I don't think his value
Speaker 4: changes though with this move.
Speaker 3: All right, And what about Casey Mice, Oh.
Speaker 4: Casey Mice, I like to a lot. I think this
Speaker 4: is actually I kind of like both of these moves
Speaker 4: by the Padres for them for real baseball. But I
Speaker 4: don't think like k America again is like a good park,
Speaker 4: so I mean pet Go is a good park too,
Speaker 4: so but Casey Miz actually I mean, he looks super
Speaker 4: legit under the surface. I think I think we could
Speaker 4: actually be seeing Casey Mies a bit of a breakout here.
Speaker 4: I like him a lot. I think, you know, I
Speaker 4: think he could potentially be a solid number two like
Speaker 4: his His numbers look good. It's just a matter of
Speaker 4: him staying on the field, being healthy. But I do
Speaker 4: I like Casey Mice a lot. I think this is
Speaker 4: a good move for him as well, you know, and
Speaker 4: the fact they gave up Manny Machado junior junior. Yeah,
Speaker 4: we'll see in twenty forty, you know.
Speaker 1: Well, classic classic loose for I mean Preller deals being
Speaker 1: made over there in San Diego. Laye Thomas and Bailey
Speaker 1: Falter go over to Atlanta Royals Gay Lucas Braun and
Speaker 1: Carter Houlton.
Speaker 3: Layane Thomas just slots in the outfield for for Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And knowing Atlanta, he's gonna become an all star.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's probably gonna be He's probably gonna be fantastic.
Speaker 4: I you know, I think he'll It depends on like
Speaker 4: what you Strempsky, I guess if I guess if he
Speaker 4: platoons with your Strempsky, his value is takes a little
Speaker 4: bit of a hit. Casey my is. Actually I think
Speaker 4: Casey Miz outside Treek Scooble was obviously the biggest name
Speaker 4: to go to the NL. I think Casey Mies was
Speaker 4: probably the second biggest, right I believe, or Gousman, maybe
Speaker 4: Gasman or Mize.
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, we're talking name. It's probably Gasman.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, uh, yeah, I mean I like both
Speaker 4: of I like both, uh uh, Casey Mize and Galasman.
Speaker 4: But for n now only, I'd probably have Casey Mies
Speaker 4: above Gosman if I were doing my my bidding, I
Speaker 4: think you probably can get Casey Mice for a little
Speaker 4: bit cheaper than Kausman, who we haven't talked about yet.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Lane Thomas's platoon with Stremsky. We can move
Speaker 4: on to Gasman.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Uh, let's move on. Then let's talk
Speaker 1: about Gasman. He goes to the Cubs along with Braxton Garrett. Uh,
Speaker 1: going back to nothing.
Speaker 3: We really have to worry about for this year, so
Speaker 3: we'll leave that for a different time. Let's talk about
Speaker 3: the starters on the cups before moved to the bullpen.
Speaker 4: Here. Uh, I would say, you know, I would say, Gossman,
Speaker 4: He's another one where I think his uh, I think
Speaker 4: he's probably a bit underrated as far as like because
Speaker 4: his uh, his ear ray looks a little bit of
Speaker 4: wonky this year, but he's actually pitching pretty well. I mean,
Speaker 4: I think it's you know, maybe a little bit off
Speaker 4: from like he was, I say, probably a three and
Speaker 4: a half earra guy coming into this year. I probably
Speaker 4: put him more at like a three seven, but he's
Speaker 4: still I mean, that's still solid, and his era is
Speaker 4: over it's at four point thirty eight. So I mean,
Speaker 4: I think Gossman is probably a little bit underrated, even
Speaker 4: though like he's well known. Uh So it's surprising to
Speaker 4: say he's underrated, but I think he probably is because
Speaker 4: his e ray is a little bit inflated. So I
Speaker 4: would say I like Goussman. I mean, you know, I
Speaker 4: like myes as well, though I would put I would
Speaker 4: go for Miz above Gousman. Obviously, I think this for
Speaker 4: NL only. I mean, uh, but I would, honestly I'd
Speaker 4: go for you. I would take either of them, you know,
Speaker 4: push came the shove, I would you know, I'd probably
Speaker 4: just drop as much as I felt like I needed,
Speaker 4: say over over sixty probably on either of them, because
Speaker 4: you know, there's not gonna be guys coming into the
Speaker 4: league that good the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I agree, spend what you need to right now.
Speaker 1: Anybody, anything that happens from here on out is just
Speaker 1: going to be you know, a random call up here
Speaker 1: or there, and like you said, any truly meaningful call
Speaker 1: up will probably be owned in any any good holy league.
Speaker 1: So spend your money while you can't hear. Grab Casey
Speaker 1: miz if he's available.
Speaker 3: He's he's been this season, and like you said, this
Speaker 3: could be the startup of his breakout over in Chicago.
Speaker 3: I have to back to Chicago. I have to talk
Speaker 3: about this for a second. Gray and another. You know,
Speaker 3: obviously the Cubs have to make a completely questionable trade.
Speaker 1: That I hate because it wouldn't be it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a Cubs fandom if it didn't happen. But Moist spell
Speaker 1: Steros are number one prospect, a top ten prospect last
Speaker 1: season at this time, Gray gets traded for Ryan Zephyr John.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was actually that was the other one from
Speaker 4: the I mean, the the Adele trade is definitely questionable,
Speaker 4: But I have to say this Zephyr John trade by
Speaker 4: the Angels. Really isn't that bad?
Speaker 3: I mean, no, they did a good job here. That's
Speaker 3: I don't know, that's terrible.
Speaker 4: I don't know why the Cubs did this.
Speaker 3: I hate this so so much great. I can't even
Speaker 3: begin to fathom.
Speaker 1: Like, if he went to any other team, I'd be
Speaker 1: really really worried he's begin gonna become like a Preennial
Speaker 1: All Star, borderline Hall of Famer. But the fact that
Speaker 1: he went to the Angels, I'm just gonna feel bad
Speaker 1: about it for everybody.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel funny myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and for Moyses because he's not gonna be
Speaker 4: good now because he's gonna be on the Angels. Unfortunately,
Speaker 4: he ruined his own career. Poor guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: All he can say is, you know, follow the Adele path,
Speaker 1: go to Driveline, don't don't go to the Angels.
Speaker 3: Don't follow the Angels, don't.
Speaker 4: I wonder how good is uh? Is Maguire any good?
Speaker 4: Mark's kid?
Speaker 3: I don't know? Actually?
Speaker 4: Okay, Also, the Cub's got Clay Homes, not a not
Speaker 4: a league switch. But I think that's you know, I mean,
Speaker 4: Meco City Field is a solid place to pitch, so
Speaker 4: the fact that he leaves there could take a little
Speaker 4: bit of a hit. I think Clay Holmes is, you know,
Speaker 4: a vet. He knows his way around well enough where
Speaker 4: he could He's probably gonna be fine with the move.
Speaker 4: I think he's also, uh, you know, riglarly if the
Speaker 4: wind's blowing in. I mean, it's a great place to play,
Speaker 4: a great place to pitch too. So it's not like
Speaker 4: it's a you know, it's not like it's a the
Speaker 4: end of the world for Clay Holmes. He still has
Speaker 4: to get healthy, obviously, but I don't think he's that
Speaker 4: far away from getting back out there in the majors.
Speaker 4: So yeah, I like, I mean, I think the Cubs
Speaker 4: did pretty good. To be honest, Zephyr John thing is
Speaker 4: obviously questionable, but Galsman and Clay Holmes are solid additions.
Speaker 3: I mean, what's what's the number one prospect for a
Speaker 3: career three ninety four? You're a one two seven reliever.
Speaker 3: I mean, why, you know, it's not It's fine, it's
Speaker 3: no big deal.
Speaker 1: It's not like I'm just gonna angrily chew my lipoff
Speaker 1: as we communicate this next one. I looked up Mason
Speaker 1: Guire's numbers. He's he's not good, so Bill concerns there.
Speaker 1: But yes, if boy says Bostaios becomes Hall of Famer,
Speaker 1: I will I will hate myself great, not actually myself.
Speaker 1: I'll hate the Combs organization as I as I pretty
Speaker 1: much do already. I love trading for a bunch of
Speaker 1: injured players and trading way top prospects.
Speaker 3: It's it's really fun.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it already a little bit. It's been
Speaker 1: brought up Toronto Andtsea Soriato. Any any thoughts here, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Mean, you know, it's like I think the the Angels are,
Speaker 4: pound for pound, the pretty terrible uh develop and teams.
Speaker 4: I mean they they they're bad at developing, like I
Speaker 4: said with Joe Adell, So I think the fact that
Speaker 4: Sriana leaves there, maybe they can maybe they can sort
Speaker 4: something out as far as his command goes, because like
Speaker 4: Soriano's really like his last sort of the last final
Speaker 4: boss for him to beat is the command. If he
Speaker 4: can get his command in order, he looks like he
Speaker 4: could be you know, he looks like he could be
Speaker 4: really solid. So I kind of I like this move
Speaker 4: for the Jays, Like moving forward. I think they're you know,
Speaker 4: he could be good for them. He's also under control too,
Speaker 4: for like I think a year or two. So yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean it's a solid move for the Jays, and
Speaker 4: Soriano's value could get better. I mean the park, I
Speaker 4: mean the division in the park. It's like sriana wasn't
Speaker 4: a good park, so I'm not gonna say like the
Speaker 4: park gets better, but I think he I think he
Speaker 4: could be better just to get out of Anaheim, So
Speaker 4: I mean, I think also, but I also feel like
Speaker 4: just neutrally, Soriano is not as good as he's been
Speaker 4: this year, so it could be a bit of a push.
Speaker 4: It could be like, you know, he he regresses a
Speaker 4: little bit just because that's just who he is, and
Speaker 4: he also gets better because of the Jays, and it
Speaker 4: just ends up being a bit of a push and
Speaker 4: he ends up with like, you know, a three point
Speaker 4: sixty array type guy with a nine plus k per nine,
Speaker 4: which is good. I don't mind. O was a Siriano
Speaker 4: and I think I think this could be a good
Speaker 4: move for him, but it's it's hard. It's hard to
Speaker 4: say because his big issue is command, so it's a
Speaker 4: matter of how quickly he can fix that, or how
Speaker 4: quickly the Jays can fix him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I will say.
Speaker 1: You know, they've they've had a couple of fishing prospects
Speaker 1: been okay come up even though most of the rotation
Speaker 1: is like sixty five years old at this point. So
Speaker 1: maybe they can find something in his delivery that that
Speaker 1: just cleans it up, or or just you know, how
Speaker 1: he approaches the batters. I feel like it's really just
Speaker 1: he gets behind more than he's necessarily completely lost on
Speaker 1: control out there. It's not he's not a command picture
Speaker 1: by any means, but it doesn't look like it's he's lost.
Speaker 3: Like he was when he first came up.
Speaker 1: So it could just be like a an attack kind
Speaker 1: of mental approach that he needs to get ahead early.
Speaker 4: Wait till the Jays find out like the Jays did
Speaker 4: this move and Josh Smith they got Josh Smith too,
Speaker 4: and like, wait till the Jays find out that there's
Speaker 4: not gonna be a twenty twenty seventh season. They're gonna
Speaker 4: be like, oh man, we got all these we got
Speaker 4: all these guys for next year.
Speaker 3: Why did someone tell us, Hey, anything can happen in
Speaker 3: the A L grade. I mean everybody except for the Royals,
Speaker 3: A's and Angels are still in it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's fair.
Speaker 3: Boston who is still in it?
Speaker 1: Uh? They get Atlee Rushman and Jake Rogers and as
Speaker 1: well as Eli Waite.
Speaker 3: Who was a member of my ely team.
Speaker 4: Bitch this So this is a fun This is really
Speaker 4: frustrating for me because I really feel like the the O's, well,
Speaker 4: Adelaie Rushman isn't necessarily like the most exciting name for fantasy.
Speaker 4: I know, I know he's not. I don't. I don't
Speaker 4: like him for fantasy necessarily, but for real baseball. The
Speaker 4: fact that the uh, the O's just gave up him,
Speaker 4: Like I I don't get this move at all, man.
Speaker 4: I mean, the O's are like in the perennials sort
Speaker 4: of like the O's are basically like, oh, we're in
Speaker 4: year fifteen of our rebuild. Like, guys, like enough of
Speaker 4: the rebuilder, y, Like this rebuild ain't happening, man, it's
Speaker 4: not happening you. It's like, what are you doing? Why
Speaker 4: are you You're tearing down a rebuild that you're in
Speaker 4: the middle of, Like you all you had to do
Speaker 4: was add pitching. They could have added Gousman. They could
Speaker 4: have added who else they could add a school ball?
Speaker 4: I mean, anyone could add schoolball, Like they could have
Speaker 4: added Freddy Baralta. They could have at least tried. The
Speaker 4: Oreos are like two and a half games out of
Speaker 4: a playoff spot as of the recording of this, and
Speaker 4: they just decided to tear it all down and start again.
Speaker 4: Like how many times are they gonna start again? It
Speaker 4: just doesn't make any sense, man, I this, These Oreos
Speaker 4: are really frustrating me today. I don't get it. I
Speaker 4: don't understand it at all. It just makes euro sense.
Speaker 2: Why.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know they have Bisello and you know,
Speaker 4: like Adelaie rushman Is, you know, catchers, so they could
Speaker 4: fix they could they could have went with Bassello as
Speaker 4: catcher and Adelaide becomes uh, you know, uh tradable then.
Speaker 4: But it's like you, I mean, you could have just
Speaker 4: put Besello at d H and Adelaie a catcher and
Speaker 4: and got a pitcher, get Jose Soriano, Like what are
Speaker 4: you doing? It's like, oh man, they've they've needed pitching.
Speaker 4: The Oreos have needed pitching for literally five years. They
Speaker 4: keep going like hey, yeah, man, we we you know,
Speaker 4: we got uh we got Trevor Rodgers. You know, we
Speaker 4: had uh, Chris Bassett pretty good, right, I mean Chris
Speaker 4: Bassett's good. No, man, I don't know. Man, the Oreos
Speaker 4: really are frustrating anyway, Adelaie Rushman. So he goes to
Speaker 4: the Red Sox, which is you know, I mean, I
Speaker 4: don't love him in general, but it's a good move
Speaker 4: for him because of Fenway and you know, of the
Speaker 4: Green Monster. He's a bit of a you know, he
Speaker 4: could his average goes up, say, fifteen twenty points in
Speaker 4: that stadium. He's a he's gonna be a seventeen homer
Speaker 4: to seventy hitter in Fenway, which is fine. I mean,
Speaker 4: it's good. So yeah, I don't I don't hate him.
Speaker 4: I just think he's probably a little bit overrated as
Speaker 4: far as fantasy goes. But yeah, I mean he's a
Speaker 4: you know, a solid enough hitter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's fine. There's nothing wrong with him.
Speaker 4: It's fun.
Speaker 1: You're getting with Ao only and he was already in
Speaker 1: Ale at least there's nothing really to do. It is
Speaker 1: weird that they're rebuilding. They're kind of silly in like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, night me move, as I like to think
Speaker 1: of it. You know, night Me makes a lot of
Speaker 1: plans for for next day me and the next day me.
Speaker 1: He does not ever fall through with those plans, like,
Speaker 1: you know, waking up at five am to go to
Speaker 1: the gym.
Speaker 3: That me thinks that's a great idea. Morning me does not.
Speaker 1: They're constantly in knight Me mode because they're just making
Speaker 1: plans and never never go in with them.
Speaker 4: Over there, Namey is still thinking Kobe Mayo is gonna
Speaker 4: pan out. Needs to move off of Kobe Mayo. Man,
Speaker 4: you're terrible. You're a terrible drafting team. Man, you can't up.
Speaker 4: Needs to figure out what the hell Dylan Beaver's is doing.
Speaker 4: This's that.
Speaker 1: Man?
Speaker 4: I mean if needs to figure out Coulton Kowser, Like,
Speaker 4: what are you guys doing? Bro? It's awful, It's terrible.
Speaker 3: If we ship them and them all to Tampa Bay,
Speaker 3: would they immediately be good?
Speaker 1: Gray?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm just saying, yeah, you know they would.
Speaker 4: Actually Kobe Mayo would just become like you would become
Speaker 4: like a lefty, only he would only hit lefties. That
Speaker 4: It would be like it would be like, uh, you know,
Speaker 4: he would he would he would probably get like two
Speaker 4: hundred and fifty at bats a year, and he'd be
Speaker 4: good those two hundred and fifty at bats, and it
Speaker 4: would be totally frustrating for fantasy because you'd be like, no,
Speaker 4: he should get he should get every day at bats.
Speaker 4: And then you're like, well, actually, now no, we remember
Speaker 4: what that looks like.
Speaker 3: That's okay, U what is what is daily daily?
Speaker 2: Him in?
Speaker 1: And now yeah, let's let's betis up grade a few guys.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Milwaukee does a little bit of action.
Speaker 1: They get Dustin May, they get Jojo Romero, and then
Speaker 1: in a separate deal, they get Antonio sends a telea
Speaker 1: anything here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, Milwaukee fixes guys. So Dustin
Speaker 4: May is probably gonna be uh, he's probably gonna become
Speaker 4: the uh he's gonna be like he'll be a runner
Speaker 4: up to Mizerowski for NL. I yeah, I mean I
Speaker 4: don't think Dustin May is I mean, you know, like
Speaker 4: I mean we joke about the Brewers fixing guys. I
Speaker 4: mean Dustin May is kind of broke. I mean he's
Speaker 4: not he's not doing great. I mean he's like, I
Speaker 4: don't know, he seems like he needs a lot of fixing.
Speaker 4: So we'll see. I would probably say, a streamer still
Speaker 4: at best for most mixed leagues. Uh, you know, and
Speaker 4: now only you do what you gotta do. But he's
Speaker 4: already rostered in NL only, so it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if this doesn't work out, the only place left
Speaker 1: that he can go is is Tampa Bay, greg because
Speaker 1: he's already been with the Dodgers.
Speaker 3: He's already been Boston and Saint Louis. These are all
Speaker 3: teams that have resurrected pitchers.
Speaker 1: Like if he can't get it going and he you know,
Speaker 1: this time around, it may like Tim Bay maybe the
Speaker 1: last resort. But yeah, not a whole lot here in
Speaker 1: regards to what happens in those bullpens.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to bring those up. Since we're going
Speaker 3: through all.
Speaker 1: The trades, Uh, I guess in uh, in full transparency
Speaker 1: of the trade, we have to talk. Victor Vondnick did
Speaker 1: get traded, tra we have to you know obviously. So yeah,
Speaker 1: Jeff often gets traded. Victor Vondick goes for another failed
Speaker 1: prospect in Connor Norby all fun deals here done a
Speaker 1: trade deadline day, Tyler Maley goes to Atlanta.
Speaker 3: Any thoughts on this one?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: No, I mean, you know, Maley Tyler. Uh, Malee was
Speaker 4: in uh probably the best one of the best parks
Speaker 4: in baseball, and he was a five plus era guy.
Speaker 4: So I mean, the Braves just create guys out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: So uh, you know, Martin Perez shouldn't be as good
Speaker 4: as he is and you see what's going on there.
Speaker 4: So I won't I won't count out Maley, but I
Speaker 4: would not be interested in the mixed league. Now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Mainley only likes bounty ball years. Gray, That's that's
Speaker 1: the only time he can pitch. Put him in these
Speaker 1: these non bouncy ball years. For some reason, the Earra
Speaker 1: just spikes on him. Dean Kramer goes to Minnesota. You
Speaker 1: already mentioned Jeff Hoffen. Uh nothing nothing.
Speaker 3: Really here, right, No, no, nothing, nothing nothing.
Speaker 1: Now Brooks really goes to the Braves. James Ataie on
Speaker 1: to the Blue Jays. Uh, he got dfad and then
Speaker 1: traded for money. A j mintor goes to Minnesota. You know,
Speaker 1: he may get a random saved just because it's Minnesota.
Speaker 1: But that's that's about it.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, Yeah, maybe I wouldn't. I wouldn't be picking
Speaker 4: him up and even only but yeah, he could get
Speaker 4: a random save.
Speaker 3: I'm sure yeah, I actually don't mind picking him up.
Speaker 1: If you just if nothing on wire looks good, you
Speaker 1: get a random save and Anji Mincher is always good,
Speaker 1: So I don't mind that as a you know, I
Speaker 1: don't have anybody else in an only league play, but
Speaker 1: that's probably what it is. The Dodgers get Chris Bubick,
Speaker 1: then a bunch of catchers got traded. Logan ho Hop
Speaker 1: goes to the Rangers, Bo Naylor goes to Milwaukee, and
Speaker 1: Ben brough bet goes to the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: Not a whole lot there, uh, And also Hunter Fiducia
Speaker 4: went to the Dodgers. One of the biggest moves of
Speaker 4: the day. I actually I saw Dalton Rushing just went
Speaker 4: to the AL so yeah, I think that. Yeah, then
Speaker 4: the Dodgers. The Dodgers went out and got some defensive
Speaker 4: specialists because they they yeah, they're waiting on Will Smith
Speaker 4: and Russians at the Rushing is on the IL. So yeah.
Speaker 4: But Bubic, Chris Bubick is like another one that's like
Speaker 4: what I mean anyone could have. I mean, he's he's injured,
Speaker 4: so you know, the Dodgers probably just won him, like
Speaker 4: in as a sixth inning guy in like the playoffs,
Speaker 4: which is nuts. But that's basically all the Dodgers need
Speaker 4: Chris bubicch to be. But I mean, you know, like
Speaker 4: any team could have had I mean, he's a great arm.
Speaker 4: Like it's like, you know, obviously it's an injured arm,
Speaker 4: but I mean any team could have had him. Well anyway, Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about a lot of the closer stuff
Speaker 1: after we were going through the show. Great, the last
Speaker 1: one to bring up here is Luke Weaver. He's setting
Speaker 1: off to Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh also gets Kirby Yates. So how
Speaker 1: do you see that bullpin shaking out? Is it now
Speaker 1: Luke Weaver's job?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think so. Actually I was really
Speaker 4: you know, and we we started on a down now
Speaker 4: with scooball ruining uh baseball with the Dodgers, But you know,
Speaker 4: this is actually this feels like a good positive upbeat
Speaker 4: ending because like I really I like that the Pirates
Speaker 4: got someone. I mean, we're not gonna do anything really
Speaker 4: in the playoffs, but it's nice to see the Pirates
Speaker 4: actually try. I mean, you know, it's uh, it's it's positive.
Speaker 4: It's a positive thing. Good for the Pirates going out
Speaker 4: and getting Luke Weaver. He's not he's not gonna answer
Speaker 4: all the problems. I mean, Ryan O'Hearn is out for
Speaker 4: two months. There's other issues now with the Pirates. Uh,
Speaker 4: Paul Skiing's no longer pitch as well. That's a that's
Speaker 4: a problem. But Luke Weaver, good for the Pirates going
Speaker 4: out and getting someone. I I appreciate it. I appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Yes, good for them.
Speaker 1: They did something, even if it's you know, just tell
Speaker 1: the fans they did something. They did do something, grant
Speaker 1: good for them. You have the you have any way
Speaker 1: or wire bats for the people.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, so many, so many Okay, so mentioned
Speaker 4: him earlier. Spencer Jones has been hot. Has been playing
Speaker 4: Yankees outfielder Eduardo Valenzia catcher for the Tigers. He's actually
Speaker 4: been hot and he's also dhing, so that's always good
Speaker 4: when you get a catcher who can d h. Claybor
Speaker 4: Torres has been hot, hitting at the top of the
Speaker 4: Tigers lineup, which I think is kind of nuts when
Speaker 4: you have Max Clark up, but you know what, whatever,
Speaker 4: Griffin Conine has been hitting, Jack Peterson hitting well hot,
Speaker 4: Kyle Manzarto, Cole Young Seattle second basement very been very
Speaker 4: hot hitting at the top of the Mariners lineup as well.
Speaker 4: Tyrone Taylor, who I we didn't really mention him, but
Speaker 4: he got traded. He actually has been hot as well.
Speaker 4: I don't we'll see what his playing time right is
Speaker 4: like in his new team. Uh. Willie Cashtro is hot,
Speaker 4: but you know it's kind of like when the Rockies
Speaker 4: are home, then he's good. If the Rockies are away,
Speaker 4: then he's not. So you know, if the Rockies are home,
Speaker 4: Willie Castro anyway, Uh, ty Franz has been hot going
Speaker 4: on like a month. I think he's been hot for
Speaker 4: a while. Mike Yastremsky mentioned him earlier with Lane Thomas
Speaker 4: Yawshremsky has been hot. Lawrence Butler has been hot.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know that's also the A's playing in bing Bong,
Speaker 4: so there's that.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Andrew benin Tendi has been hot. And finally John Rave,
Speaker 4: the Royals outfielder who's was called up recently. He's been
Speaker 4: hot and he's on my ale only first place team.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 3: Congratulations.
Speaker 1: Great like those names you're throwing out there streamers, Jake
Speaker 1: Bennett versus the a's David Peterson versus Toronto.
Speaker 3: Shane Rowan.
Speaker 1: I don't know actually he's gonna get the start or not,
Speaker 1: but it would be versus Pittsburgh, I believe, or versus Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Brady Singer has been really good lately.
Speaker 1: Actually he's versus the A's at home and then at Washington,
Speaker 1: Christian Scott at Cleveland, god Zach.
Speaker 3: Thornton at Pittsburgh. And then it's getting a little it
Speaker 3: gets a little little.
Speaker 4: Rough round here.
Speaker 3: But I'll throw a few more names out if you're
Speaker 3: looking deeper. Anthony Kay versus Cleveland, Brandon Young versus the Angels.
Speaker 1: You always throw anybody versus the Angels, Colinraad at Kansas City.
Speaker 3: And that's about as good as I can do.
Speaker 1: Gray, I don't, I don't really want to recommend a
Speaker 1: lot more than that, Oh, Hobby or Sad at Kansas
Speaker 1: City isn't isn't the worst idea. But this is a
Speaker 1: This is a dangerous time of year here in August
Speaker 1: to be starting. It's the hottest days, and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: a lot of teams are pushing for the playoff push
Speaker 1: we need to get to you know, we needed to
Speaker 1: like half the teams eliminated, like the old days where
Speaker 1: you know everybody's just kind of cashing it in.
Speaker 3: For the next year, we get some some good easy
Speaker 3: streamers in.
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Speaker 1: May your allow us be perfect, May you start chasing
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Speaker 3: See you great lads.